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European In Court On Traffic Charge.
A European, George Forder, appeared at Kowloon yesterday on a charge of dangerous driving, driving without due care and caution and failing to stop after an accident.
Defendant, who is on bail of $1,000, denied the allegations through his solicitor, Mr. P. J. Griffiths.
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It was alleged by the pro-.] son remaining. Forder asked him secution that three pedestrians to drive him home and said he were knocked down by a car had his car a distance away. which mounted the pavement young boy came up and Forder, near Gun Club Hill in Char sald Gunner Gregory, chased the
youth up a flight of steps. tham Road on June 20.
Defendant sald
he had been suffering-from-high fever and had been confined to bed for several days. The first day he got out of bed he attended to some busi- ness in Hong Kong. Returning to Kowloon, while driving home, he suffered a black-out due to his weakened condition. This. he said, was the direct cause of the accident.
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Forder admitted that he was the driver of the car involved in the accident, , according-to-Inspec- tor Fife. The Inspector took the defendant to the Kowloon Hospit al for an examination and there
was no sign of Intoxication found in the test.
Forder sald he had been · driv- ing Kince 1012. He had been driv- ing both in the United Kingdom and the Continent and later in 1928 when he held ⚫ driving ilcence. In all these years 5t driving he had never been in- volved in any traffic accident nor had he been prosecuted for n traffe offence.
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A. G. Freebairn, Superintendent of the Government quarry, said he was sitting next to the driver on a lorry proceeding towards the Ferry along Chatham Road. When near Gun Club Hill Barracks he hoticed an on-coming ear sudden-
On June 24, he said, he ly mount the pavement, swerve veloped fever and had a tempera- back to the road and carry on towards Hunghom. He realisedure of 101. On the following day he consulted Dr. Lad Kwal-to. that three persons had been The theremometer registered 104 knocked down And he turned degrees and a blood test revented round and noted the number of two days later that he had been
He alighted and gave
suffering from ir.fluenza' and the car. first aid to the injured persons, bronchs is. He had been confinest to assisted by two soldiers of the bed until the day of the accident. Royal Artillery, He requested That moning he want neross to permission and telephoned to the attend to some business and suf- Police to report the accident, in fered exhaustion and felt faint. forming them of the number of He returned to Kowloon and the ferry trip gave him a chance to rest and he felt better after the short recess. He felt confident and capable when he border his car and sat behind the wheel,
Felt Dizzy
the car.
About 45 minutes later, jos e was returning to the quarry and passing through the same road, he noticed a blue car which he identified as the vehicle involved in the accident.
He drove along Chatham Rond The story of the accident was corrhprated by Gunner R, Algar end before reaching Gun Club and Gunner F. E. Gregory. on he saw some bersons walk- He drove The above Trust will con-guard duty at the time. Gunnering on the road side. sider applications for a scholar-Algar sald that while he was at-on and did not know what hap- ship of the approximate value tending the injured persons, Formed until he heard some shout- der come up to him about 10 ing. He seemed to have lost con- of the tuition fees for the com- minutes after the accident and in. He was feeling dizzy, ing 1049-30 Session at the Uni- the course of a conversation ask- "I did not realise that I had versity of Hong Kong. Such ed for
these drink of water. Accord- knocked
down," people scholarship, may be renewed ing to Gunner Algar, Forder smel Forder arided.
on He continuert of liquor. after one year.
for a short No Sign Of Intoxication
distance and glopped and walked injured man Gunner Gregory odded
that lying close to the gutter. He wng when the crowd had 'dispersed, | being attender la by a soldier. the defendant was the only per- "Then I did
remember mnything. It was perhaps due to the shock, I don't remember making for water,"
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Dr. Lu! Kwai-to, who nitended Forder on June 26, sold that when defendant, Forder he examined had a temperature of 103 degrees, Forder was suffering from in fluenza and bronchitis., Dr. Lu såld it was possible for
a person who had been suffering from in-
Mose control fluenza to
of his faculties and it was more likely for Forder to lose his control be- cause of his age. The mental and physical exluustion that morning could have the effect of causing
momentary black-out. After the Court had paid n visit to the scene of the accident July aujatened to
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Shengking Captain Fined
Mr. D. Brotchie, master of the ss. Shengking. was fined $100 at the Marine Court yes- terday on A summonses of having anchored within A cable area on June 30.
A foreign. representative of and Swire pleaded Butterfield guilty on behalf of the defendant, who is absent from the Colony,
Three Chinese were Obed a total sum of $400 for unlawfully boarding the LST Frederic Clover, which brought military equipment recently for the reinforcements,
One of them, who had a provi- ous conviction for conveying liquor to a ship, was fined $200, The others, each fined $100, in- cluded a tallyman of the Chinese Seamen's Union.
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Two harbour collisions, in- volving a Kowloon Godown tugboat, a trading junk, and two sampana, were reported yesterday to the Marine Office. negligible and Dotnage was
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority na Authorfiles"
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THREE ERRORS IN ONE I paying no ultention to East's GENERALLY A mistake in high-low 9-5, decred away from play is an error in only one re- leading into the now established spect. Sometimes it is wrong in spade Q. He selected the worst the two ways, as either of two rea- possible card in his hand, Bons should have been sufficient heart J. Snuth won it with dum- for the player to do otherwise.
my's A and led the Q. It made On rare occasions you will see a no difference whether East cov-
cred play which is wrong in
cred or not, as the spade Q re- mained for
South a re-entry. were three ways, as there
diamond when East tirely separate reasons for differ- discarded a ent action. When that happens played low, then brought forth the 'cost to the offender's side is the heart 9, on which East fu- likely to be, several tricks, per- titely put the K, South
ruming. haps as many as the number of Top clubs cleafed that sult and reasons, for doing differently, pos- the spade Q was used to re-enter
tricks.
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but it came at two tables of a dupli- rate, in which some North play- ers gambled at 3-No Trumps and made it
when spade leads set up the 4. and two top clubs made that sult break. In the club con- tracts, one declarer was set three tricks and the other made ab overtrick by the grace of one of the worst defensive acts you wil see in a long time.
An errant West started his de- fence against the
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(Dealer: East. North-South vulnerable).
Why should North profer club contract South's 4-card spade suit for with the K and A, and then, trumps over his 5-card bearis?
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