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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY

MACLAREN IN HONGKONG.

BRITISH WORLD-FLIERS SUDDEN ARRIVAL.

-SPORTING CHANCE" TO BEAT AMERICANS' TIME.

Just after "is puni. yesterday this men, stalwart and sunburned, ig weather stated khaki shirts and shorts, and whose Lushaven cheriss" and unkomp hair tight, the tale of arduous travel walked off Blake, Pier' and along the Praga to the Hongkong Club.

They were the thres British airmen who are Bying” pouzd the arid Squadron · Leader Mustaren. Flying "Offieči· Monderirith, and the mechanig,

Sergeant Andrews.

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"Unt aliout mid-day posterday nobody in Hongking Kow that the Coling was

His offer to accoinmodate the airtuea

at Government House was gratefully declined, because it fund already been arranged that Squadron Lendor Mac Laren and his compeitions should be the guests of the Fast Surrey Regiment.

LEADER,ASTERY:KWED.

I am not sure how long we shall stay in Hongkong," said Squadron Leader Maclacon to the Bidy Perss representa tive, adding that it was possible that they might start on their next "lap" to Foochow at 10a.m. to-day, but more

likely that they would stay over until to

mer raw morning.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS: BRYDEE NI HỒNDER THE PULJNE JUDGE (42. JUSTICE DYKU BALL)]. ARMED ROBBER ARRESTED AFTER

EIGHT MONTES,, ·

A man named Ki Kun"(alias Kwok Hung was indicted yesterday on three charges of robbery,

1st. 1924

SERIOUS MOTOR-CAR

DISASTER.

ONE PASSENGER KILLED: FOUR

INJURED.

Somewhere about eleven o'clock, ou Sunday night a motor-ear,, which contain: fil a quarty of six Chinese, 'met with disaster at the little bridge close to the Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, prosecuting for the golf links al Deep Water Bay. It is not Crown, said that the robbery took place clear how the accident happened, but fon August with at 30. Tai Nara Street. evidently through some misjudgement by Shamshup, Cheung Ring Wan, a the chauffeur the ear was driven into the cigarette and aderat water shop-keeper, iron rails which were carrical away by wits about to close his shop when four the force of the impact and the car with men dropped in and on the pretext of its passengers somersaulted into the shal- buying cigarettes and minerals they de-low stream below, a drop of about ten layed hita. They took their time in feet and was suashed to pieces, The drinking and chatted with the shop cries of the injured attracted the rentrão-, keeper.

Su Munn to receive the intrepid aviators, i the outset of the journey from Ha- and placed them inside an empty cubicle, I the, injured until the moter ambulance

At about this time" a cable was recrived i. from Ila phong by the Asiafie Petroleum!

Leader MacLarei would arrive at about! a pun.

The weather was good for flying at

phong." he continues, but for the last Company to the feet thit the Squadron miles it was very had, with low hang ing chiuds and very bumpy conditions.

Our

overage altitude during the fight was about 2.000 feet." By entry of the Company a repres

Sergonet Andrews, the mechanic, told sentative of the Dady Teras went out fa', our representative that the British air on of the Company's launch which men had “met“ their American rivals Tarrived at the projected huding place at but had been unable to hail them in

about 2.15 pont This was the same | way.

surfel of water, clones to Stongeutker's | It happened like this" he explained Island, where the Ninerican semplares «After leaving Akyab, we had to des alighted, on "their arrival in Hongkong.

cend for a while in a little bay about 150 miles to the east of the latter place. and it was while we were resting on the water there that we saw the three 1.8. seaplanes pass us about rine on ten miles further to sea. They could not see us. or could we make our presence known But we should have dearly *; loved to be able to give them a cheer."

- A large nåmger of small craft, includ ing à polies Brunch with the C.S.P. and his family on board. Ead gathered at the spot, anal all eyes were urbed towards the southern horizon, over whiel it was expected that the aeroplam would

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A PRETTY LANDI

The watchers "realized early that they were in fir a long wait, for just befor

proter boat este out with a

to them.

THE REST OF THE JOCESSY.

Bergeant described an exciting "Pisode during the airmea's dash across country from Bangkok to Vinh,

"At one stage of the journey!" he

arrived and removed them to hospital. injured are stated to be in a serious

De man was killed and some of the,

When the finished they put tor's men from the Golf Club, and later their hands in their pockets as if to pay, Mr. A. C. Tinson of the Hongkong and but instead of of producing coins they Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., cane by in acar" produced two daggers and two revolvers and seeing what had happened inmedi and threatening the shopkeeper and his ately proceded to Aberdeen Polier Station and brought back Sub-Inspector two fokis they tied them up, gagged them. Wat:. The helpers did all they would for They then entered the cubicle of the chief tenant of the floor-a licensed hawker named Wong Shiu Chau who to- condition. gether with his wife was bound with wire and gagged with tea cups. The robbers were in the cubicle for nearly two hours and made a systematic search, taking away everything they considered of value. Wong Shiu Chau missed #212 in money and a gold watch and chain and his wife, whose name was Li Yak Tsan, missed some gold jewellery, The shop-keeper found when he freed himself that he had got off lightly, and was only short of

11 from the till."

VELS IN THE STREET.

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The car belonged to 3. A. Razack, but was out, it is said, without his per mission. The chauffeur was, but shghtly injured. He was taken with the others to the,, Government Civil Hospital, but was not long detained and yesterday he could not be found.

At late hour last night it was ascor tained that the patients were progressing satisfactorily.

ANOTHER UPSET.

There was another motor-var accident the same afternoon tear the Dairy Farm. in swerving suddenly to avoid running over a Chinese pedestrian who had un expectedly moved from one side of the road to the other, the er overturned, None, throwing all the beeupants out. the party were Chinese ladies. The ear however, were seriously injured. Two of belonged to the Eastern Garage,

CORRESPONDENCE.

It was some time in April that defend ant was first seen by Wong Shin Chau in the streets, but he lost sight of him on that occasion. He again saw him on May 19th, and immediately the caught sight of him he dropped the chow- bowl from which he was eating and took to his heels. A policeman was fetched AN OLD TIMER'S" ADVICE by Wong Shiu Chan and the man was caught and placed under, arrest. mus bine prolable waverath said, "we found ourselves hemned if made, the following statement:

Sin. It was refreshing" to read the" speed, it was divided that the fers could

toll me to go aut commit a robbery and to follow them. We drank mineral water transparently honest impressions of the not be expected until pm.

and they produced daggers and tied up writer who so frankly avows himself to earliest.

the shopkeeper and the man his wife. ben Griffin in your Monday's issue-a refreshing as it is to read the cricket They committed robbery and went away.averages and the boxing reports in one's

'fnether enkle, sent frean Haiphong to the APC, paying that Maclaren had left at 10 a.. Reckoning up the danes ?" and the

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all sides by mutans, hul the utmost difficulty in getting out.

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I could not alight because if he had, we 'should 'dever have risen-again, owing to I was about 315 when the machhar, the buggy nature of the soil. was first espied, far away to the south

12: Numbers of elephants and bison were ward at an altitude of about 2,000 feet.

weaning about, and you should have Been She was coming along at a grent parr.

the gallop when they spotted our Wong Shiu Chau was able to recognise A Bare was inardiately lighted on

munching !!

the man who had been a foki in a neigh the each at Stonecutty's bland. and

The agroplane by the way, is not a bouring shop and had bushy eyebrows. the airmen picked it up at once. achine is one wide graceful relslams but ananiphihan" dying. They shopkeeper, also recognised defend boat. It has a large ball in the centro ant as one of the men who had helped "over the "island, arris, the bay as the body, and two little floats under to the him up and who had gone with the The waiting fan thes, mel, then just rack wing Ou Lach sing of the big others to the "other" cubicle. This was Tringing tar mainiol, banked and same hut a whers which can be lowered, rather important; said Mr. Nihill, as the to a stamtill in the prettiest mamer

if necessary, to allow the aviators to shopkeeper had never seen the man be possible in the rather choppy water.

descend on land. The machine is a 1fore, but the light had been on all the Li.. the Caverner. accomparted by oglindor Viękers Valture of 50 hors time the men were, drinking mineral "the Hon. Sir Claud Severn, drew up in power.

waters and the shopkeeper had plenty of further mishaps, the time to observe their appearance. He Grunted thus return close to the machings when

fritish airmen Think that they have identified him at a parade at the police the latter had been towed to her boy.

The three aviators were taken on board | spurting citure of waking, up for the station although different clothes were the A.P..launch Gretchen, and "Sir time already lost, and of eventually compat in the man. Reginald Stubbs crime, or board to wel-pleting their world flight in quicker time

than their American rivals, ee them almost it

OJICA.

SUPREME COURT.”

FOR ME. JUSTICE GUMPERTZ, ATING

CHIEF JUSTICE.I

have hern at the bottom of the Canton River.

The plaintiffs alleged that the Tai Sang" suddenly began to swing to star IN ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.

board and the engines were reversed so STEAMSHIP COMPANIES AT LAW, that the awung right eross the course of the Apney," The "Apoey" ported ber A case was beard yesterday in which | keln and also went astern. The vessels the failing Steamship Co., Ltd, owners collides and went on the mud. It ap of the steamship "Apoey," sued, the Indo-

peared to plaintiff that it was trouble China Steam Navigation Co. for dummes with the steering go that caused the arising out of a collision which occurred Tai Sang" to swing on she did." If on July 14th, 1925, "on the Canton River that was the position then those on the between the steaners Tai Sang" atida Sang should have opped the

Apory,"

engines and kept them stopped.

Commander Hake, R.N., sat with the Judge as Assessori

Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., instructed by Messri. Deacons, was for the plaintiff company and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., instructed by Messrs Hastings, Dennys A Bomley) was for defendants.

TO. A GRIFFIN,

[TO THE EDITOR or TuZHONGKONG DAILY PIES"}·

I stood aside and did not take any old School magazine "twenty and thirty

and forty years on. When R. L.S.'s oli money."

man said to the young man, Ah yes. I thought just the same whop I was your age," the young man very rightly retort ed. And when I am your age I shall is more we are both right." (I quote think just the same as you do; and whe from memory). If the the White Man's Burden and other Kiplingese ideas give a feeling of increased responsibility (am! it is undoubtedly true that the Jongkong shop-assistant is in a way a bigger nu, than a society leader in Tooting) that is all to the good. it will keep a man straight and will do, no harın provided that a beatby public opinion prevents mere swelling of it degenerating into head and rudeness.

But the pulle opinion is essential. And it in here that the Gridin (if I may say so) goes off the lines. Frankly he would like the "natives" (as i am sure le call them) excluded from his pave sepent. Anglo-Indians in the old days used to say exactly the satae." Well, I don't know if your Grifin has been following the O'Dwyer rase; he has almost cer tainly not been, to Indian lately or he would know that it is not a case of ex- peetation merely within earshot there. If our local population I will not say admires, but anyhow tolerates us it is solely heenuse that anti-Prussian tradi- tion that so used cur friends from Indin ten years ago.

- Prisoner was found guilty and tented to ten years imprisonment with I strokes of the cat,"

LOCAL MOTOR PROSECUTIONS FOUR CASES AT KOWLOON,

Four motor prosecutions were dealt with by Mr. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,

If he were my son I would tell your Griffin to learn the language and not to. This will drop the cold bath habit. almost certainly cure that Great White

OLD-TIMER.

Mr. . Earnshaw, manager of the Kai Tack Motor Bus Co., was charged with recklessly and negilently driving a motor Ruj feeling Yours, etc., ear in Nathan Road at midnight on the 14th instant. Defendant said he was travelling at 3 miles an hour, but was net driving recklessly, as he had com- nete control of the car. Defendant was food 5.

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Dr. K. W. I, medical officer in charge of the Kwong Wah Hospital, was charged with driving car No. 1166 on the wrong

SHOT IN A SHAMEEN HOTEL. "ACCIDENT TO PORTUGUESE CONSUL-GENERAL.

There was a difference of opinion he tween the parties on the question of the side of the road, between the junctions Yesterday's Canton Guzelte states that time The plaintiff said it was 10 o'glock of Salisbury and Nathan Roads at 10 p.m. the Victoria Hotel at Shameen, Canton, when the Tai Sang passed the on the 15th instant. Defendant stated the setting for the dastardly outrage oa Appetit, defendants said that it that the car was his, that nobody else the occasions of a dinner to the Governor- drove it. On the night. in question was General of Indo-China was on Saturday

was at nine o'clock and that they had at home playing mah-jongg His Wor the scene of an accident to Senhor De got half afle ahead of the Apoey" ship asked where the ear wiss, and de- Horta, the Portuguese Consul General. M Potter said there was only one

The plaintiff's ease

was that this was fendant said it was in the hospital pre- It is stated that he was cleaning a pistol, nises. The hospital gates were locked when the latter went of inflicting a point in the case unely whether the impossible here.the Tai Sang

a faster ship timn the "Appes" and it and he hail the keys, An Indian unwound just below the heart. The injury "Tai Sang" could justify what she ad 2uittedly did. That was that she went would have been impossible for that ships stable said he saw the car twice on the is not serious, but necessitated Senhor

"Apoey" war the over as misunderstanding somewhere, hispital for treatment astern across the course of the Apocy," said that the Defendants sight in qustion. temarking that there Da forta's removal to the Feeper Hos The place of the collision was just above taking ship but plaintiffs said that the Worship dismissed the case. Amberat Foint. At the time it was flood-Tai Sang was, Defendanta would be tile and daylight. The Apoey" first in an excellent position to check what saw the Tai Sang four miles astern plaintifs said the speed of the "Apney" was beruse she was a chi Indo-China and apparently following the course on the left bank of the river, both ships vessel, being originally the "Sur Sang"

Capt. Fraser of the Apoeg" was now going towards Canton. The plantiff said that when three lengths ahend, the Tai in England ill. said Mr. Putter, but the "Sang" began to swing to starboard neruss chief officce would give evidence. the course of the Apocy." The defen dants said if the plantill's chief officer had done earlier what he did eventually events would have been different. thought that when, the Court had all the facts they would he satisfied that if the ellef officer of the "Apoey had not done what he did the Tai Rang" would

He

A driver employed by the Kai Trek Motore Bus Company was fined $5 for HONGKONG AND WEMBLEY. carrying three passengers in excess of

SIR ROBERT HOTUNG'rs the number allowed, is Worship asked

GUARANTEE. whether the various fies companies were. paying the fines lupused on the drivers, und said that if he found out that they were, he would in fature inflict the maxi mum penalty.

On account of the Apney" having to

Jusjector Thompson of the Sanitary said shortly, he asked for permission to

Department was charged with leaving all the officers hefore opening fully.

Donald Needham, Chief Oficer, and lorry unattended in Wessung Street Thomas E. Crombic. Chief Engineer, of The summons was dismissed and another the Apory gave ovidence bearing out had been taken out against the garage concerned, but there was no appearance Counsel's opening statement.

The case was adjourned until Thursday.and the caso was adjourned for a week.

At the meeting of the members of the Chinese Committee of the British Empite Exhibition, hold at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Hongkong, yesterday, the Hon. Mr. R. II. Kotewall said that he was glad to announce that Sir Robert Ho Tung had signifed his willingness to guarantee the sum of $10,000 to complets the total of $50,000 required for the sub- scription of the Chinese merchants..

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