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LOCAL TRAFFIC "ACCIDENTS

No Fatalities Reported

In the Colony of Hong Kong, including the Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. during the. week eaded at $ am. on Saturday last. there were altogether 51 traffic accidents. as the result of which 28 persons were injured. Of the persons injured. 15 were pedestrians who were either walking or running across the road and were struck by vehic les. One tramcar passenger and three bus passengers were injured while alighting from 2 moving tramear and moving motor buses; respectively. One motor driver sustained injuries when his Car mounted the footpath and collided with a drain pipe.

Two bicycle riders and two mo- tor drivers were injured as the result of collisions between vehicles. One motor driver received injuries when his car overturned.

Of the 51 accidents, 18 were collisions between vehicles; 22 were collisions between vehicle and pe- destrians, and 11 accidents were due to other causes.

THE CHINA, MAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936

Orville Knapp (inset), youthful orchestra leader and brother of Evelyn Knapp, the film star, was trapped in this wreckage of the plane he was flying near Beverly, Massachusetts, and strangled before rescuers could extricate him. Knapp had just completed a successful landing and decided to try another hop, which proved fatal.

WATCHMAN FOUND LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

DEAD

Foul Play Suspected

D. M. Xavier, of No. 80 Cainer The s.s. Bangalore is expected | Road. was involved in motor here from Shanghai at 6 am on accident at 8 a.m. to-day when. Friday.

The body of Mohamed Khan, aa while driving his motor-cycle No. Indian Police watchman at the 612 in Caine Road near Peel Street

The sa Shirala

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A CLERGYMAN'S CAR AND HIS CONSCIENCE

"I have failed in the standard of conduct I have. laid down for myself, and I can only ask for the full penalty for the offence," wrote the Rev. Harold Paige Hudson, of Lanark-mansions,

site of the new Queen Mary's a Chinese youth, Chan Tak ming. Singapore, .Port Swettenham, Hospital, was found in a hollow aged 17, ron across the road from Penang. Rangoon and Calcutta on Maida Hill, London, to the Ox- by the side of the road near the the left and suddenly went back. Saturday next at 10.30 am. Chinese Cemetery. early this He was knocked down and receiv-1

- morning by

passersby.

some Chinese ed injuries to the face. teeth and "Retreat" was played by the

jaw and was taken to the Govern-band and drums of the 2nd Bat-1 The deceased had apparently ment Civil Hospital, but his in-talion, the East Lancashire Re- been strangled, as he had a rope juries are not serious. Mr. Xavier giment at Shamshuipo, yesterday round his neck, while there were sustained a slight cut to the side evening before a large gathering also bruises and marks about the jof the face.

lof spectators. The band, which body showing that he had also

been beaten.

ford magistrates.

He was accused of leaving his car in Ship-street, Oxford, for two hours 50 min.. The fall penalty is £2, but the Bench fined Mr. Hadson only 30s.

FATALITY IN HARBOUR

CORONER'S COURT

SEQUEL

ENQUIRIES INTO DEATH

OF COOLTE

There was a sequel to a recent fatality in the harbour at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when an inquest was held into the jcircumstances surrounding the death of Lau Kau, coolie, aged 32, of the Public Works Department, { who was drowned on August 9, when the Butterfield and Swire) motor vessel Yunnan fouled the telegraph cable, throwing deceased, who was

on a sampan, into the barbour.

Mr. E. Eimsworth, sitting as the Coroner, was assisted by Mr. J.j R. G. Wyatt, of the Harbour De- partment

Mr. J. A. Fraser, the Crown Solicitor, appeared on behalf of the P. W. D., and Mr. D. B. Evans watched the 'proceedings on behalf; of Captain Wilson, of the Yannan.

The jury was comprised of Messrs. E A. dos Remedios (Fore-) man), Leung Po Shan and Yeung, Hor.

Master's Story

Captain David Wilson, master of the Yunnan, stated that the ship was going about two kaots when she was entering Kowloon Point He saw a launch inform-i ng him, by her signal, that she was at work laying down cables. She was sighted first at a distancei of about 600 yards, broad on the port bow.

Noticing a ferry coming · from Hong Kong, he paid all his atten- tion to her, and blew one short blast, which meant that the ferry: should keep out of his course,

Any vessel crossing from port

other vessel's way, he added, and he had the right of way on that occasion.

was under Bandmaster AB SOCIAL CREDITS to starboard must keep out of the

Several motor accidents have been Yule. formed ap at one end of He was last seen to leave the reported to the Police as having road. and the drums, under Drum- hospital site at 1 am. to-day when occurred yesterday. Chan Tai. a Major E. Quilter, formed at the leaving duty. The body, when female, was knocked down by other end. found, was clothed in a pair of lorry No. 3284 in Queen -shorts, and lacked a turban.

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The ferry replied with two 'short blasts, indicating "stand -on” across his bow, which he acknow- ledged by two short blasis to avoid a collision.

No Indication Calgary, Alberta.

By that time he had got very Mfr. Aberhart, the Social Credit close to the sampan, It was show-{ Premier of Alberta, has been con-ing a small red dag, which, up to! The Police are still pursuing ceived when he was knocked down

ducting a high-pressure campaign that time, had been very indis investigations. iato the

man's by car No. 4490 in Prince Edward Mr. R. Shim, local Manager of throughout the province pushing tinct.

Road.

the Underwriters Savings Bank the distribution

his new There was nothing on the sampan and Asia Life Insurance Co., left "velocity dollar." This is a certito indicate the fact that she was The RMS. Empress of Canada for Shanghai by the Scharnhorst ficate with the nominal value of laying a cable. is due here from Shanghai on Fri-resterday.

oze dollar.

A red flag, to him, signified that day at 7 a.m. and will sail at 6|

If the original holder of this there was dangerous cargo. p.m. the same day for Manila.

A thief at Quarry Bay, enter-scrip dollar retains it for longer board, er that divers were work- ing No. 11. Stanley Terrace, made than a week he must add a lding, or that work was being done The ss. Behar is due here from off with an automatic pistol, 50 stamp, and at the end of every on a buoy. Singapore at 10 p.m. on Saturday rounds of ammunition, and a succeeding week whoever holds it He stated that the red flag that

Kodak camera. ext

The pistol, a 33 must fx another. At the end of a he saw on the sampan was only in Northern Africa" was the title!

calibre Webley-Scott, is valued at year, when the last holder may re-half the size of the one on exhibit Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 $30, and the camera at $35. of a talk by Mr. Erling Bache, a

deem it without final payment, the in court. hours ending at 10 3.37: to-day Danish writer, oefore the Hoag

Treasury will have sold 52 1d At this stage the inquest was The "total Kong Rotary Club yesterday. He was 0.02 inch.

Another huge haul of heroin was stamps for every “velocity dollar.” adjourned until the Yunnan re- described

More than 500,000 of the new turns to port, on Thursday, Sep inches. yesterday when five men and

woman were charged with the Dormal dollar bills but without possession of 133.890 pills. Appertraits, have been stocked in the pearing before Mr. S. F. Balfour, provincial Treasury for & 'fort- the accused were Lam Kwan 33, right, but only a small portion of Cheung San 46, Li Tang 24. Tam the issue is now being put into Chơi 48, widow, and Liu Sin 20. circulation.

Danish Journalist's Address

"A Glimpse of the Slave Trade

since

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a desert trip, for the January 1 has been 66.28 inches, described at the Central Magistracy dollar bonds, which look like the tember 15, at 2.30 p.m.

purpose of buying Bedouin boy's and girls who were quite unper-

against an average of 70.26

turbed at entering a live of ser- AGED WOMAN'S

Titude.

*......

Mr. C. Champkin, in thanking

Mr. Bache, said it was difficult to

avoid such conditions when deal-j

DEATH

ing with a backward people like Starved Because She

the Africans; but it was a bene-

ficent slavery which would con-!

tinue while the natives were still

unable to assert themselves and

Was Blind

Birmingham.

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The men were committed for trial

Real Test Coming

workers are

at the next Criminal Sessions, Highway relief while the woman, whose case was being presented with the scrip in taken summarily, was sentenced to part payment, and the real testi three months hard labour. Mr. M.will come when workers attempt

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BLACKMAIL CHARGE

Evangelistic Work

With "Mrs. Z

Robert William Munro, aged 41,

Only a limited number of busi-dock at Cheltenham last month concerns in Alberta have while a woman, referred, "to as] publicly agreed to accept

|“Mrs. Z,” was giving evidence. "velocity" dollars. The majority

Munro was committed for trial

win the freedom that was It was etated at an inquest here J. Abbot, Assistant Crown Solicito make purchases with these bills a manservant, of Woodstock-road, the recently that a 76-year-old woman tor, appeared for the prosecution, at urban places of basiness, Bedford Park, W., collapsed in the right of every man Mr. W. N. lost interest in life when she lost and Mr. C. Y. Kwan for the last Thomas Tam, President, was in her sight, and starved to death. the chair and the following guests]

The woman, Mrs. Eliza M. A. were welcomed:-Rotarian N. S. Mills, died at her home in Grant- Guzder, Bombay: F. C. Rash Mun-street, Edgbaston. Her husband roe, New Zealand; Stephen Ward, told the coroner that for three Bermuda; L. C. R. MacDonald and weeks or more before her death P. S. Widdup, Shanghai.

she refused all food or drink. She

Only Sips

A DEFICIT IN F.M.S.

of them are small stores with a 01 a charge of attempting to restricted trade. The only muni- blackmail "Mrs. Z." He pleaded cipality that has agreed to take not guilty and was allowed bail.

The woman's evidence was that $1,000,000 Dollars Off lief appropriation is Edmonton, work During the past six months, scrip as part of the provincial re-

Munro assisted her in evangelistic The Surplus

Kuala Lumpur-For the first

where the amount will be limited

the first issue.

Calgary is flatly opposed to ac-

Attack On Premier

said: "I don't want to leave you, ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY TO but I cannot live without my sight: BE RATIFIED IN OCTOBER God give me my sight or take me,"

Eva Mand Mills, -a

to $85,000 roughly £17,000 of while living with her mother near daughter,

Cheltenham, she received several Cairo, To-day-The Minister of said that her mother deliberately

er of refused food that she might not time this year FMCS expenditure cepting scrip instead of cash for took notes of a conversation in

letters and telegrams from him. Transport. Nekrachi Pasha,

Constable Baker said that he was a member of the London de live.

for me month has exceeded the relief purposes though some of the which Munro said, to “Mrs. Z.” “I legation, stated yesterday that

revenue. The months up to Junel councillors are mentbers of the Parliament would be called for an

Dr. C. H. Heaton said that forleach yielded a surplus of $2,000,000 Social Credit Party

want the flat or the caravan, and, extraordinary session in October to three weeks before her death the or more, but in June there was a

you will have to support me. If ratify the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. woman took only sips of concen-

deficit of more than $1,000,000.

A sensation has been caused by have got all your letters Here. you don't, I will expose you. It would meet before the English trated foods. He felt that it was The total general surplus, there- Parliament met at the end of Octo not deliberate starvation, but sim-fore, has now dropped to about an attack on Mr. Aberhart as an intend to have the settling up to-

ply that she had no taste for food) $70,000,000.

unreasonable dictator by the So-night." The reason for the deficit is that cial Credit member for Edmonton, "Mrs. "Z" who explained that not the energy to take food. He did expenditure is always high in June, Mr. S. A. G. Barnes, and by the she had a caravan at Watford and due to interest payments and ao launching of a Douglas Social a flat in London, denied there was zot think forcible feeding right at¦ on, and revenue is low. The re- Credit Party. Major Douglas, the any truth in the suggestion made BM.S. Lowestoft, a sloop, is her age. expected to arrive in the Colony Returning a verdict in accordspective figures last June were originator of the Social Credit doc-against her.

135,922,312 and $4,829,930,

trine, was adviser to the Albertan, some time to-day from the North ance with the medical evidence,

The total revenue for the first Government for some time, but a

ber-Trans-Ocean Service.

LOWESTOFT DUE TO-DAY-

and did not want to eat. She had,

on her routine cruise. It will be the coroner said the doctor had half of 1935 was $34,195,731 and dispute arose about his visit to Al-surance from Major Douglas that recalled that she sustained a severe made it clear that Mrs. Mills did the expenditure was $24919,908.berts and he resigned. buffetting up North during the not deliberately starve herself be- Last year the figures were

She will lead the Alberta Social typhoon which just missed Shang- cause she was blind, but that in 30,190,807 and $25,095,801 by a former organiser for Mr. been ousted

The new party has been formed Creditors when Mr. Aberhart has hai and which made for Tsingtao. her weakened state she had a dis-The surplus so far this year. Aberhart and two Social Credit Mr. Aberhart is holding nightly Fortunately, she was not badly taste for food, and this led to star therefore, in 89,275,323. The total members of the Dominion Parlia meetings in proxincial centres de damaged

vation

surplus last year was $11.244.321 ment. They claim to have an as-nouncing his opponents.

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