1937-05-15 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1937.

BACK TO THE MINE THEORY

Explosion Which Hit H.M.S. Hunter

London, To-day.

The state of tension aroused by earlier reports that the destroyer H.M.S. Hunter, on which an ex- plosion occurred on Thursday, had been torpedoed, has dissipated with publication of an official Ad- miralty statement.

Preliminary investigations carried out on the wrecked destroyer at Almeria by British and Span- ish naval officers, says the announcement, suggest as was first assumed to be probable, that Hunter struck a floating mine.

TOLEDO ATTACK

HEADWAY

Government Troops Command City

Valencia, To-day.

FUSILIER FINED

King's Park Offence Sequel

The plea that Thomas Morgan, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, was un- der the influence of drugs and al-

It is reported here that the Gov-cohol was put forward by Mr. D. B. ernment troops operating against Evans when the charge of assaulting Toledo are now entrenched on a a woman in King's Park on April mountain situated 2,000 feet above 24 was continued at the Kowloon

the city and commanding it from Magistracy yesterday.

the south.

Mr. E. Himsworth held that volun Government troops are also re-tarily induced mental aberration

ported to be only a mile and a half from Toledo on the other side.

Reuter:

200LB. BITES

Dentist's Evidence Of ·

Teeth Pressure

were no excuse for actions commit-

ted while so aberrated. As Mor- gan's army record was very good, a fine of $60 was imposed....

Detective Inspector A. E. Carey prosecuted.

The woman, Leung Lok, 26, said she had gone to the Sun Sun Hotel in the early hours of April 24, and met Morgan. About 5.30 or 6 a.m. they went to her flat in Cheung Lok Street, and then a little later, IT IS NOT LIKELY THAT FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE often as high as 2001b, while that normal, though rather happy, and The pressure of a man's "bite" is to King's Park. He appeared to be MADE AVAILABLE UNTIL THE VESSEL GOES INTO DRY of a boy way be 165lb. DOCK FOR REPAIRS. FULL EXAMINATION OF THE DAM-the evidence of a well-known dental bottle of beer.

in her company had drunk only one AGE WILL BE MADE IN GIBRALTAR, WHERE THE DESTROY- ER WILL BE TOWED.

surgeon,

At King's Park he began to throt- Mr. Maxwell Stephens, at Westminster County Court.

tle her, and she lost consciousness. Mr. Alexander Frederick Gray, When she recovered, she made her of Conduit-street, W., claimed £25 way back to her flat, here the from Mr. H. W. and Mr. A. R. Wil-police found her. dey, dentists, of Poland-street, W.,

Police Sergeant W. N. Winslade,

Meanwhile, in reply to an al- leged Republican statement over the wireless, attributing the ex- plosion to insurgent action, an insurgent communique declared there was no nationalist warship in the vicinity of the accident.

“This fact, and the fact that Republican vessels were close to

GIRLS' FEAR OF COLOURED MEN

Suggested As An Attraction

This was

in respect of dentures suppplied of Mongkok Police Station, describ- which were alleged to be unsatis-ed how Morgan went into the charge factory.

room saying he had killed a woman.

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Mr. Arthur Reginald Wildey said He appeared to be sober but was that he and his brother had carried very agitated. on business as dentists for more

the scene and immediately ren- Questions about English girls than 32 years without complaint of dered assistance, confirm well-who live in physical fear of colour-this sort. In addition to work for

ed men were put to the police by the L.C.C. and for hospitals, they Aislaby, Whitby, Yorks, in preparation founded suspicions that this is a

Plant is being assembled at Nest new instance of a dastardly Re-the Common Serjeant, Mr. Cecil had, during the war, Army con- for a search for oil publican manoeuvre which has Whiteley, K.C., at the Old Bailey.tracts to make 10,000 dentures for been employed on previous occa- Mr. Whitley sentenced a colour-soldiers. sions."

ed man, Arthur Cox, 49, of Morn- Judge Dumas gave judgment for The communique concludes byington-crescent, N.W., to four years' Mr. Gray. stating that such attacks are "de- penal servitude for living on the signed to creat confusion and pro-immoral earnings of two white wo- voke international intervention."— men, Reuter,

BERLIN STATEMENT

Berlin, To-day. "The report is so stupid that of- ficial rectification is superfluous.

“It is a well-known fact that a torpedo does not pass right through a ship but explodes on striking the ship's side.

*There is no doubt that the com- mander of H.M.S. Hunter and the British Admiralty have not for a moment entertained or could even have considered such a theory."

FRENCH REPORT

Four Singapore flying boats of No. 210 Flying Boat Squadron left Pem broke Dock on a flight to Malta and back.

Eighteen members of the crew of the Chichester City Council is consider new Hull disposing of the war souvenir tank as Cameo were rescued when the vessel steam trawler Kingston sank after a collision off Hull.

Insp. Benton said Cox was a na-scrap metal. tive of Barbados. In 1984 he was sentenced to two years' imprison- 'ment at the Old Bailey for living on the earnings of a woman.

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Since his release in 1936 he had done no work. He associated with

girls of a certain type and got physical fear of him. money from them through their

Mr. Whiteley: What is the reason. for the attraction of a man like this for young girls?

Inap. Benton: I cannot under- stand it, but lots of girls, especial- ly from the country, go to: cafes frequented by coloured men. They are frightened of them, and the physical fear seems to be an at- traction.

So runs a statement issued by the semi-official. German news agency in reply to a report publish- Mr. Whiteley: Are there many of ed by a French news agency to the these men in the West End?--I effect that Hunter was hit by a tor-should say hundreds. They gather pedo “fired from a German des-in cafes and seem to do no honest troyer."

The French report reads:

work.

Sentencing Cox, the Common Ser- According to latest reports, jeant said that he could not under-·| there are two explanations of the destruction

stand why of Hunter. According

a person of his physi- authorised version the que had been reported unfit for a

flogging.

to thek a mine.

ship

"It is a more generally believed, however, that the ship was torpe- doed by a German destroyer. We are publishing this news with reserve.”—Trans-Ocean,

A sheet of flame, described by all passers-by as "a miniature Vesuvius,”

startled residents in Skene-street, Aber deen, when an explosion occurred in a fuse-box,`and a heavy manhole cover was blown many feet into the air Automatic traffic signals were put out of action, No one was injured.

A piece of wreckage, thought to be long to the German U-boat 49, sunk in the Bay of Biscayin 1917, Was washed up at Torquay.

No TT. car race will be held in the Isle of Man this year.

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