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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAR 11 16th, 1928,

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MEN.

AIR

DIARY OF EVENTS.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEKS DAYS.

138 WITH MORE THAN £100,000 A YEAR.

R.A.F. OFFICER KILLED.

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652 MILLIONAIRES"

There are 362 millionaires, in Great Britain and. Northern Ireland. The latest Blue-book of the Inland Revenue Department gives this as the number of super taxpayers who have incomes of" £30,000 a year or more.

Out of the total of 562 there are 199 persons who have incomes of more than £100,000 a year. Their total income is £27,539,459, so that the average income of the group. is nearly £200,000.

The numbers of the very rich are no increasing. In the year 1923 indeed, there were 100 men with £103,000 a year, and their total is- come was 9,173,000.

PARACHUTE

AND

TRAGEDY OF AERIAL MANŒUVRES,

FOLKESTONE Feb. 17th. A collision during maneuver in midair, at Capel, near Folkestone. this afternoon, between two single stater. Glebe machines of the th Squadron, Royal Air Force, stationed at Hawkinge, resulted in the death of ons pilot and the nar-

row.

escape of another

The collision occurred at a height of about 1800 feet," and both aero- planes crazed to earth out of control. One caught fire and was barat to a cinder, the other wa badly summated

Pilot Officer Eric James Watson

Annual Inspection by B.E. the Governor of the St. John's Am bulance. Brigade at 3.13 p.

Addies to VAD, A., 6.30 pm, at Cathedral Ball, by Miss Beswick, H.K. Electric Co., Ltd., 39th Urdinary yearly meeting P. kud 0. Building at 12 noon; Extraordinary General Meeting at 12.10 p.m. 2.

Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hate! Satgy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, Bp.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 pa

Queen's Theatre My Best Girl." World Theatre : The Under- standing Heart

Star Theatre: The Sap.”

Principal MailsInward: Europs rid Saer (agpore), letters and papers, dated Feb: 0th. Outward Europe vid Marseilles (Kathnțir), 10.30 am; Shanghai and Europe. rží Siberia (Sinkiang), 3. p.m.

Saturday.

St. Patrick's Day.

Yachting Tai Yat" Cups (racing yachts).

"Second Extra Race Meeting H.E.

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DES WAGONS LITH, Paxine.:

"It is shown that the total received terrible injuries from Jockey Club Happy Valley KING

national income, also, is not increas-trich he died in less than an hour.

Cricket: Kewloon CC. 1st XI. ing The figures for the last five The other pilot Flying Officer Army: C.S.O.C. let XI. ». Craigen- years are: 1923, £3,010,601,003; 1914, Leonard A. Walsh, escaped uningower; H.K.C.C. Ist XI. v. RGA £2,912,820,737, 1023, £2,070,451,25; jured. He Jumped from his University 2nd XI. v. Royal" En- 1920, £2,944,449,780; 1927 (Budget machine and was carried some dis gincers; H.K.C.C. 2nd XI. r. estimate), $2,000,000,000.00

tance away by his parachute. Recreio; C.8.0.0. £nd XI. £

Pilot Oficer Watson also jumped...Can clear of his plane, but evidently

Tes Dances H. Hotel and

he jumped too late for the Hotel Savoy, 430 p.m. King. Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. - Lane, parachute to become effective,

Cheer 20 dance 1.30 p.m. Queen's Theatre: My Best Girl World Theatre: The Under standing Heart,

How the rich pay is also shown in the Blue-book A £150,000-a- year man has to spend nearly half his income-Us. r in the £on income and super tax. Super-tax Horrified Spectators, Orawford's Restaurant, 6.50-5.30 payers as a whole-all those receiv

People in the town had been. ing more than 22,000 a year-con- watching the manoeuvring planes tribute £68,000,000 a year to the and were horrifed when they saw State, and the death duties amount the collision The machines crash- distance #apart in a to 40 per cent in the case of aed soITY £2,000,000 estate.

meadow close to the main Folke- Figures showing the numbers of stone Dover road those in the fire, higher ranks of any prebus? landaisicly, in | soper-taxpayersvore as follows-ume ad and no trace airman of one of the of the machines, while the other plane was burning fiercely and was un- approachable, Lying just clear of the roaring mass, however, was Pilot Office Wateon. Pe

Incotes

£30,000 £40,000

$40,000-£30,000 £50,000 £75,000 £70,000-£100,000 £100,000 and aver

Number -382-

300

308

110

138

"These figures have been almost constant for the last four years. The number of £100,000-a-year in comes was 138 in 1923, 132 in 1824, 140 in 1825, and 138 in 1928. 201

What the super-taxpayers have contributed to the State in the last four years is shown below:-

1921

1995

1920

1927

*£61,748,753 - £62,069,313 £67,823,008" £00,295,811

Ten millionaires, three of whom left more than £3,000,000 each, died in the last financial year, and £6,018,478 duty was paid on their estates:

At the other end of the scale 1,

1,239 people died in England owing Their more than they: owned. debts were £3,811,011, and their property was worth £8,138,910.

Out of 110,578 estates that became liable to estate daty in 1928-27. the largest class consists of those who Jeft between £100 and £1,000. There numbered 27,108, "There were 97,098 who left between £1,000 and

£5,000.

Altogether out of the total of 110,578 estates only 13,172 were worth more than £8,000.

ARMED BOY MOTORIST.

His parachute was wrapped round him. The rescuers made an improvised stretcher, with a piece of the wreckage, and carried the dying man to the roadside, where he was placed in an ambulance and taken to the Royal Victoria Hos pital, Folkestone. He died almost immediately after being admitted. The exact cause of the collision is unknown. The machines were carrying out acrial evolutions us usual, when apparently the wings of one fouled the wings of the other. At once the machines became un- manageable and nose dived to the ground. It was all over in a moment

Flying Officer Valeh was carried over a mile from the scene of the elifis into the sem

Caught In Wirez. V

Star Theatrer The Sap."

Sunday.

4th Sunday in Lent.

In the Cathedral at Evensong, the Rev. HY Koop, MA, on “God in the form of a man.

In St Peter's at Matins the Rev. N. Evans, MA, on Christ, the sonics of fargiveness.

Scottish Company (H.K.D.C.) triangular shoot *. 2nd Scots Guards and 2nd K.0.5.B.

Fanling

Hunt Meet of bounds at Wan Ha, Chinese Territory, 8.30

m..

Yachting: Club r. Ladies.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel And Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5

p.m.; Lane. Crawford's Restaurant, 4.20-1.33 p

Queen's Theatre:th Heaven." World Theatre:

Tambling River." Star

Theatre. Batchelor,

Cheer 10 music, 7.30 pm. Monday.

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St. Peter's Young Men Debate "Labour devices increase Inzinėm.** Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel SATO 1.30 p.m.; King PALACE HOTEL. Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.50-5.30 Thu: F. No, 3. Tel, Lă: "FAL&UM,“ p.m

7th Heaven." Queen's Theatre: World Theatre: Tumbling Star Theatre:" The Small

Mr. T. Sayer, who lives close to the field in which the machines orashed, said: "I heard a crash, and on looking up I saw the two machines loss, together. They then. nose-dived and from one of the River. machines I saw the pilot jump out, His parachute, opened almost at Batchelor.!! once, and he was carried over me, and I thought he was going out into the sea. Then I saw that the tele- graph wires which run along the XI. side of the road had caught his parachute, and stopped him going over the cliffs

The other officer did not jump CAR ADVENTURES OF A LAU until too late and his parachute did FROM "VANCOUVER not open. His machine fell and burst into flame Bullets appear- William Jeffrey Brailsford Elking-ed to be exploding in the fire ton, a 19-year-old public schoolboy, who was arrested at Christchurch, Hampshire, after a chase by the police and civilians was remanded at Marylebone Police Court

Elkington was described er of Cheltenham-road, Bournemouth Ile was accused of stealing a motor- car value 2240 from Clifton Court, Maida Vale, belonging to Vera H. Abrahams.

A workman said that he saw the first officer jump, but that the other did not do to until the machine was about 100ft. from the ground, and then it was too late. I do not think he jumped," he esid, until his machine had barst into fames

The 9th Squadron has been sin gularly free from accidents, the last one happening over a year ago

He was further accused of having. This is the sixth death as a TO in his possession at Christchurch a salt of RAF, crashte to be report five chambered revolver and three ed this year. The R.A.F. death-roll. cartridges without a fire-arma certi- in 2027 was 45, and in 1926 it was 85, foste

"Can you tell me anything about him 2 0 Qua

Detective sorgt, Bowton rund that Elkington first toured round Lon- don in this car and then drove to B.8.A Air Rifes, and Miniature the bungalow of his uncle Dr. The officer replied that on Janu- Rifles 22 Calibre, Repeating and

Blunt at Colchester."

Gary 3rd Elkington was discharged ¿Automatic;

The loaded revolver, had cheen under the Probation of Offenders SPORTING CARTRIDGES of all taken from has uncle's garage. Act at the West London Court, for descriptions

In an effort to escape he drove stealing another car. He was then Agents for W W GREENEB into a cul-de-sac and then aban charged with a young woman and |Kan. BraungHAMA

doned the car. He was caught. In another man the car was found the loaded HONG KONG SPORTING ARMR revolver.

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These are extraordinary pro ceedings,said the magistrate, (Continued at foot of next column

He was born in Vancouver After the death of his parents seven years later he was teken in hand by re

atives, and eventually sent to a college fu

Tuesday,

Hockey: HK Hockey Club End

HL.K.S.HA at King's Park. p.m.ES LATE Entries close at noon for Fanting Hunt Steeplechase on Saturday, March 31st.

Annual Meeting of Victoria Recreation Club, 6 p.m.

Ordinary Yearly Meeting Hong Kat Kong and Whampoa Doek Co.

Queen's Building (noon). Tez Dances: HK Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; Kang Lane. Edward Hotel, Bp.m. Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 pm

Queen's Theatre: 7th Heaven." World Theatre: A Society Scandal

Star Theatre: Girl" ANA

The Midnight

Mim, Wednesday,

Hockey H.H Hockey Club 1st XI. Qusen's Regiment U.S.B.C. ground, B.16 p.m.

Fanting Hunt Meet Mr. da Suza'e Bungalow, 24*

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