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WAR DECLARED ON GRASSHOPPERS.

SENTRIES POSTED AT THE BORDER.

HIGH WALLS" AND TRENCHEST

[British United Prosa.)

Paris-War has been declared by the Algerian Government on grass hoppers which abound in such cnormous bands as to appear like clouds in the skies. To kill of the plugue it has decided to encourage

their

AVIATION IN

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Berlin.—While the number, of deaths and injuries in German aviation has shown a slight actual increase in the last three years, in proportion to the mileage flow and number of passengers carried there has been a marked decrease in these casualties,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY

COMMUNIST ATTACK

ON MR. COOK.

RESENTMENT AT HIS PRAISE

OF THE PRINCE, ›

The

DEFIANT REPLY.

Communist Party have launched an attack on Mr. A. J. Cock, the miners' secretary, for is words in praise of the Prince of Wales at the Mansion House lunch recently.

They have sent him the following telegram!-

RECTOR'S GRIM HEIRLOOM.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S HEAD IN A CHEST.

SECRET DRAWER.

27, 1929.

PALMING OFF THE PALM.

MAN'S GALLANTRY LEADS TO

HIS ARREST.

CASE DISMISSED.

An amusing incident at the Caté Royal (Regent Street, W.), was dis. elesed at Marlborough Street Police Court when Maurice Bradford, aged twenty-three, accountant, of Montague Street, W.C.. was acquit ted of a charge of stealing and re- ceiving a palm, worth ss., from the | vestibule of the enfé.

The head of Oliver Cromwell-or what is reputed to be the head of England's Lord Protector is lying in a century-old oaken chest in a secret drawer of a Suffolk rector's study. Its owner is the Rev. Police Constable Halland said that Horace Ricardo Wilkinson, rector he saw Bradford walking away from of Woodbridge, a picturesque old- the Glasshouse Street entrance to world town 'ten miles from here. the Café Royal with a palm in his Mr. Wilkinson was hard at work hand. He asked Bradford where he in the workshop of his beautiful had got the palm, and he replied:. "The political bureau of the house on the outskirts of Wood" It was given to me. cain observes that your treacheryhim the head of the Protector, and there. He readily assented to show to the workers' cause and identi- while he planed a piece of timber fication with Mondism reached a farther stage at yesterday's ban be related the romantic way in quet in your fawning adulation which it came into the possession of of "the typical representative of

his great-grandfather, Dr. Wilkin. the class which battens on the son, more than:100 years ago, workers,

Communist Party of Great Bri-bridge when a reporter called rested. destruction by trapping

Statistics just published by the Lufthansa, which is the only aviation company of consequence them, burning the eggs or eating operating in this-country, show them. Roasted grasshoppers have that in 1920 there were 39 passen- always been one of the finest degers and pilots injured and six tiencies of the desert and its killed; in 1997 the totals were or borders, and the market places and 13 respectively, and last year Thus 1927 throughout Algeria and Morocco they were 30 and ten.

showed an increase of two casual- swarm with grasshopper vendors who peddle their Wares, The natives cat hundreds of tons of

grasshoppers annually but even by putting them on the table at every meal could

never ent

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their way through the clouds as fast as the grasshoppers reproduce, So the Government has votel credits to fight the plague in other ways.

Two Players Annually. Algeria is plagued every mer with two migrating insects, the Morroccan grasshoppers which hop westward to their deaths and the pilgrim crickets which cheep their way northward towards water from the Sahara and Hog gar. Last year 52,000 acres of

ties over the previous year, while the 1993 figure was the same as that of 1997.

Measured in other terms, how. eyer, a noteworthy decrease in the last three years is seen. In 1026 there were 5.81 casualties for each million kilometers down; in 1927 this total was reduced to 4.12 and last year to 3.00. Based on each million passenger-kilometers, flown there were 2.05 casualties in 1920, 1.20 the year following, and 1.02 in 1923 and for each thousand passengers transported the casual- 0.51, 0.30 and 0.24 respectively. ties in these three years totalled

"Such nauseating slavishness will touse nothing but disgust for you in the eyes of all honest workers.

"We challenge you to give the names of the alleged Communists who were reduced to tears by the Prince's moving appeal. This bilder-dash will deceive no one. We brand it as a contemptible lie."

Heckled at Bradford. ' This attack was followed up when Communists heckled Mr. Cook at a meeting at Bradford. He ex- hibited during his Apeech one of the posters appealing for relief for the miners, signed by the Prince,

A man in the audience asked: "Does Mr. Cook think that the interest of the Prince of Wales is an honest interest, and does he not think he was treading a slippery slope in praising royalty" that royalty had in the past always Mr. Cook replied that it was true

been the last rallying ground of the aristocracy, but, he added: "I assure you that the present royalty have more sense. "I don't want to bring in the Throne," he continued. apart from the Throne.

Red Silk Ocvering.

He was ar

"Highest Character." the palm, carefully wrapped and The police constable produced the tied up, and when the string and wrapping were removed the palm was found to be badly damaged and! almost worthless.

Mr. Francis Peregrine, defending, He described how, after the Res-then asked a smartly-dressed young toration, the head was impaled on

woman at the back of the court ta Westrainster Hall for twenty-five stand up. She did ao, and was re- years. One windy night it blew cognised by the constable as Brad down, and was picked up by a ford's companion outside the café. sentry. It passed through various hands until Dr. Wilkinson received it from a patient.

Here the rector broke off in his narrative to show the head.

He led the reporter into his study, and going down on his knees, open- ed a door of a large cabinet. He unlocked a secret drawer in a chest and drew out a heavy oak box. He unlocked this box with another

Mr. Peregrine: You have taken this man's finger-prints and made investigation at Scotland Yard, and you find he is a professional man of the highest character?

Police Constable Holland agreed that was so.

Mr. Peregrine then explained that. Bradford and the young woman had been dining well at the café, and as a "little boisterous by-play" the key and removed a large black young woman pulled the plant, and cloth. Then he carefully drew aside it came out in her hand. She was the red silk covering, and there was apprehensive as to the consequences head of the great Cromwell, most of her act, and she had quickly romantic figure in England's his-lipped it into Bradford's hand and

"Hold it!" said:

tory.

Multi-motored Aeroplanes. Growing use of multimotored 'planes, in place, of the single engined

has craft,

contributed greatly to the proportional de- Grease in accidents, according to "a Kufthansa bulletin. In the last three 20,000.00 Kilometers were arred Approximately by one motored 'planes and a little Trench Warfare.

more than 7,000,000 kilometers by The Government has decided to the larger ships, a ratio of less than three to one. Fatalities in establish scouts along the usual the single-engined planes in the cricket and grasshopper highways. same period totalled 25 and in the "I would rather discuss the Prince my claim and how it came into my

fertile farmland was destroyed by

the pests.

These scouts will report the com-

larger craft only four, a ratio of more than six to one. ing of bands of the pests, in suffi Motor trouble was responsible tient time to allow the digging of for 52 of the casualties in these trenches too wide for even the

three years, weather conditions for longest jump. The pits are filled mishaps in landing for

30, structural defects for eight, with oil and after tons of grass-faulty operation for six, hoppers have jumped into the pits "other enuses" for six. the oil is to be burned.

seven, and

MOTHER'S ILLUSION, IN MAKING A WILE.

High walls have also been built, so steep that no grasshopper can elimb or jump over; Every day hoses will pour crude oil on the milling millions at the foot of the JUDGE DECIDES IN FAVOUR wall and set them on fire. Flame

OF ELDER DAUGHTER. throwers," relics of the world war are also used by men who walk 'through the infested areas apread ing fames.

Children Mobilised Against

Invaders."

Kiners' Fund Gift.

The rector picked up the head as tenderly as if it had been the bend of one of his own ancestors. He driven through the top of the skull, pointed to the iron tipped spike

and showed the hole over the eye where Cromwell's famour wart had bean.

"I have the documents to prove

greatgrandfather's possession," Mr. Wilkinson said. It will never go out of the possession of my family."

"Not even to the State?" he was asked.

No," he said, decidedly. "I think I can look after the bend of this great man better than the State did when it was in their charge."

In 1998 the Prince of Wales did the most daring thing ever knows. to have been done by royalty. He gave a donation to the Minare Re- lief Fund. He was nos instructed by either the Tory Party or any one else. I know that personally." Air. Cook declared that the Prince's speech at Christmas did DISOBEDIENCE IN A SHIP. the miners a lot of good by reveal- ing the conditions under which they lived,

"Can the Prince cure the evil?" he asked, and replied: "No, be cause he is a prince; but I honestly believe in his sincerity, and 1 gave him thanks as a miner would any judgment in the Probate Court in Lord Merrivale gave a reserved

one else for making that appeal the case in which two sisters dis-

It is the first time in the history of the world that a prince has given puted the will of Mrs. Margaretta Ann Belliss, cf=what for?"

their mother; his signature to a poster appealing Milford-on-Sea, who died at the

A voice: "Charity." age of ninety-three.

Children arc dismissed from school and sent into the fields, to gher eggs of the insects which are then burned. But the natives prefer infallible methods handed of £12,000. She made two wills down by their ancestors. They oue in 1922 and another in 1997. stretch long strips of white cloth

Mrs. Belliss was the widow of the founder of Messrs. Belliss and Mercom, a Birmingham engineer ing ärm, and received an income

Mr. Cook repeated that the Prince had helped in revealing the facts as to the conditions of the miners.

**The Prince,”

a

QUARTERMASTER FINED FOR

REFUSING TO WORK.

"Orders on board ship must be obered," said Mr. Tassell, magis trate at Tower Bridge Court, after hearing evidence on a summons un- der the Merchant Shipping Act against Dewey Noe: Vernieux, quartermaster of the steamship Canonean, of Liverpool for unlaw- fully and continually disobeying the lawful commands of the chief officer.

Reported. Sick.

Summons for Mesara. Furness

Cook, "has shown himself to be

declared Mr. | Mr. Peregrin, supporting the

Her younger daughter, Mra great man and a daring maa."!

Ethel Poison,

01

on the ground and the insecta pre Theodors attracted by the cloth, gathering Evesham-road, Cheltenham, pro- on it. They are then carried to a, pounded the 1927 will, but this huge honfire nearby, roasted, and

was disputed by the elder daugh- eaten as long as the appetite holds

tur, Mr. Mary Elizabeth Hodson, of Bradbourne Hall, Ashbourne,

out.

It

Governor General Pierre Bordes Derbyshire, who intervened. is personally supervising the at-

was stated during the hearing of tack this year, concentrating the

the case that only £2,124 was in- government's efforts in those

volved.

gions which suffered

year.

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most last The Government hopes to have Algeria definitely rid of this

Footing of Equality.

Lord Merrivale gave judgment

£60,000 DIAMOND "FOR ENGLAND.

BUYING SYNDICATE TO BE FORMED.

"THE MOON."

Withy, said that Vernieux was a British subject, and was signed on as, quartermaster in the Canonean. He reported himself sick later and was seen by a doctor. While at sea, he asked

be taken off the wheel, as he was again suffering, and when the ship arrived at Hamburg five days later a doctor was called to him.

H

The doctor told him that be was unfit to work, and advised him to keep on board. He refused to do Altriagham, Cheshire.-The old this, had asked the captain for catastrophic plague within five in favour of Mrs. Hodson, against est jeweller and diamond mounter money and shore leave. Both were years by systematically destroying the 1927 will, and pointed out that in the world, who for more than refused, and Vernieux then gave the eggs and insects at the repro-unted by a desire in both willasixty years has carried on a jewel do no mors work.

Mrs. Belliss was apparently

written notice of his intention to duction period.

put the sistera on & footing of ery and antique business in Al-

Mr. Tassell, the magistrate, said equality.

tringham, is planning a coup, that there was no justification for The 1927 will contained an ax which be said to a representative, Vernieux refusing to work, and planatory clause to the effect that would cause a sensation throughout ordered him to forfeit six days she desired to place on record that the diamond market of the world,

pay, 39 Mrs. Hodson had received more

FOR BLIND MUSICIANS.

INTERNATIONAL BRAILLE

CONFERENCE.

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Gnancial assistance during her lifetime than Mrs. Polson and gave that as the reason for making the new will.

He is Mr. Eustace G. Parker, a little man of unbounded energy, despite the fact that he is more than eighty years of age. forming a syndicate to purchase One of the witnesses had pointed the world-famous diamond, The out that Mrs. Bellias often stated Moon, in order to place it on the

SALVATION ARMY AT LAW.

·

ALLEGED SWINDLE BY RIVAL

He was taken by surprise, and took it, and at that moment the policeman arrived on the scene.. shield the young woman, with the Bradford was dazed, and tried to

result that he was arrested."

THE COASTAL SERVICE,

APPOINTMENT AND CHANGES.

Captain W. Lumsden, from re- serve, has gone master, Tatung,

Captain J. Legge, of the Tatung, has gone master, Woosung.

Mr. J. R. Forster, from reserve, has gone chief officer, Kian.

Captain F. Gibbs, of the Liang- chow, is ou reserve,

Captain F. W. Potter, of the Newchwang, has gone master, Liangehow."

Captain P. J. Green, from re- serve, bas gone marter, New chwang.

king, is on reserve.

Captain C. Miller, of the Sheng-

Ngankin, has gone master, Sheng-

Captain A. E. Edwardes, of the.

king.

sung, is on Home leave.

Captain J. Oudney, of the Woo-

Mr. A. W. Buchanan. from re- serve, has gone second officer, Yun-

can.

Mr. W. D. Cashel, second officer, Fatshan, is on reserve.

Mr. J. M. MeWilliams, second officer, Sunning, is on reserve.

Mr. R. W. T. Forster, second officer, Chenan, has gone accond officer, Sunning.

Mr. J. G. Grant, from reserve, has gone second officer, Chenan

Mr. D. G. Evans, third engineer officer, Yingehew, has gone second engineer officer, Tatung.

Mr. H. McDonald, second en- gineer officer, Tatung, has gone second engineer officer, Shansi,

Mr. J. C. Campbell, second en- gineér officer, Shansi, has gone second engineer officer, Liangchow. Mr. L A. McFarlane, second en- gineer officer, Anhui," has

Rona acting chief engineer officer, Chin

hua

Mr. W. S. Smith, second en- |gineer officer, Liangchow, has gone

second engineer, officer, Anhui.

Mr. J. Johnston, chief engineer officer, Tungchow, is on reserve.

Mr. M. W. W. McNeil, extra chief engineer officer, Liangchow, has gone chief engineer officer, Tangchow.

Mr. W. T. Rochester, second officer, Focksung, has gone second officer, Hosang.

Mr. H. A. P. Meik, second

officer, Hosang, is on reservs.

Mr. A. F. Cooke, third angineer, ausang. Hopsang, has gone third officer, Mr. O. A. N. Baker, third officer,

is on reserve,

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States, Great Britain, those received by Mrs. Hodsoning the ex-Sultan Moulay Hafid of having served for some time in that Mauerw. C. Kirkland, third off Goods have left the Godowns, and exception of Oplum, Trosorn and Yain

totalled $29,308.

Morocco.

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cer, Fookaang," has gone third Goods rosining undelivered after the ablas are being low of the Hong

This

OF GERMAN BRANCH. Paris. Blind

that "Mary (the intervener) had English diamond market. musicians will

£20,000 more money than Ethel," jewel, the fifth largest and most have more music to play as a re-

but, it sult of the International Braille the benefits received by Mrs. Pol weighs 183 carats, and has belong. tion Army is taking action against appeared on the facts that beautiful diamond in the world, The German brand of the Salva Conference which has just been

a man named Harfensteller, who, held bere. Representatives of the 500 amounted to £30,000, while ed to many wealthy people, includ United Germany, Italy and, France par-

organisation, retired and decided to Lord Merrivale came to the con- It is a beautiful pare yellow in ticipated in the sessions.

set up a "competitive" Salvation

...officer, Plans were made at the confer clusion that there was an entirely colour, about the size of a half Army.

belief and illusory

that this crown piece, and is valued at more He named it The Salvation ence to create a single system illusory belief caused Mrs. Belliss than £80,000. whereby music in Braille - print.

Messenger, and his salvation troops Mr. Parker has received a letter

wore almost the saine dress as those will be identical all over the to make the new will.

from a friend in Nuremberg, who of the Salvation Army. He had is connected with a syndicate in little success, so he altered the possession of the famous stone, name of his "Army," it is alleged offering to sell him the diamond to the German Salvation Army " and gave out that bis headquarters "I am trying to bring together a number of prominent business men were in the same street as those of to form a syndicate to buy the tbe real! Salvation Army. diamond," said Mr. Parker II am successful, a meeting, will be arranged in London between the present owners and my friends. The diamond will be brought, to the meeting under epecial guard from the Continent."

IGNORANCE PLEA SUCCEEDS.

world. At the present time wide- ly divergent methods are used ja different countries making it often impossible for a blind violinist in the United States to utilise the music of a new French composer.

The idea was initiated by the Mrs Edith Bagnell, aged thirty American Braille Press Co

Follow ever, Mrs. Mary Rispoli, aged ing two years of negotiations it thirty-one, and John Arthur Price, was finally arranged to hold the aged twenty-four, carriage atter conference in Paris at the Head- dant, were bound over at the Old quarters of the European Braille Bailey on a charge of the mans. Press. The United States was re-laughter of Annie Lilian Yates by presented by Mr. W. L. Rodenberg, the use of an instrument,

of the Illinois School for the. Their plea was that they were Blind, and Mr. George Dupes, in ignorant of the danger of their act. charge of the A

American music de Mr. Justice MacKinnon, in bind- id that cases of ing them over, that character varied in gravity. -

partment at the... Press in Paris.

The trade carried on by Mrr Parker not only govers the whole of England, but has extended to the Connen die Lotted Sinus

and even the Argentine.

Naturally, it is said, hundreds of donors mistook his "employees for members of the Salvation Army. The "business" flourished, since his collectors are alleged to have received 35 per cent. of the "profits" and Harfensteller the rest.

When the Salvation Army dis- covered what was happening, Har fensteller, it is reported, actually. offered negotiate ”! Wit the "zale of the business.

tred

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RATS STOP TRAFFIC.

FOLLOWED BY HUNDREDS OF MICE.

Hundreds of rats followed by ́s. colony of mice stopped the traffo for ten minutes on the main road near Egremont, Cumberland, cently.

re-

Fant

in the Godowns, where they cluding date of arrival, will be subject to will be examined on the 31st instant, at 10a.m.,

by Messrs Goddard & Douglas.

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Hoog Kong, 25th May, 1929. (784B-

A motor-cyclist ran into the head Many instances are on record of of the procession and, with another large migrations of rats, and Vis motorist, watched the saimals count Castlerosse, in the Lon-

Log,

in the Sunday from a distance. No sooner had doner's the black hordes vanished than Express, recently, recalled an oc stores of scurrying mice disappear-casion when, as a boy, he was "With them l'ed towards the mountains bicruingizard encoun "(Continued at four of rest column)tered a horde of rats.

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