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BANK NOTE CASE. KOWLOON BYEWASH

COMPLAINANT IN THE

WITNESS-BOX.

LENGTHY CROSS EXAMINA.

When

TION.

the Criminal Sessions trial

of Kong Sta Tik and Leo Arthur

RESERVOIR.

OFFICIAL INSPECTION-

YESTERDAY.

MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE

DESCRIBED.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1931.

BOOKS and READERS

In The Two Lone Ships (Hut Guimaraes up a charge of obtaining An offciat inspection of the Kowchinson, 10s. 8d.), Georg Kopp, 87,000 by means of a trick was 10-loon Byewaah Reservoir was held Wireless operator of the Gooben, camed before the Puiano Judgo (Mryesterday afternoon by members Justice Lindell) and the jury yes of the P.W.D. and other Govern- Lerday, Wong To Po, assistant ment officials. The party was as seditor of the Taun Wan Yat Pao corted by Captain B. Montague Ede. Chairman of the Hong Kong and complainant in the Was subjected to a lengthy cross-exami Excavation, Pile Driving and Con nationstruction Co., Ltd. who were in Mr. Hin Shing Lo, instructed by charge of the construction of the

Mr. J. M. Hall, is defending the Arst accused, while Mr. Loo D'Almada, jar, instructed by Mr. D. B. Evans, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mastery is appearing for Guin

Zaraca.

During the evidence of the wit iness, which, lasted the whole day, Guillierome Guimaraes, brother of

dam,

Members of the party included

tells a story of the Goeben and Brosian which, in spite of its rhetoric and a curtain bombast, will prove of absorbing interest to than to those who like those in many readers, but to mane more FMB Ladefatigable, sucountered these ships while bombarding Cape Bon on the afternoon of August 3, 101430

The Gorman counterpart of the

GRAPHIC STORY OF GOEBEN AND BRESLAU.

TWO PLANES

ROADWAYS.

CROYDON TRAMCARS HELD UP

London, August 27 Thero wore three aeroplane, accidents within twenty-four hours at Croydon Acro- drome, two machines coming down yesterday in adjoining roadway's

tton for and causing some traffic dislocation.

Just before eight o'clock in the morning the French Air Union freighter Normandie, with nails and other freight, arrived over the Borodrome in a thick fog, with

actual aeroplanes and the theory of flight until chapter vi is reach ed. As the book is people who already hold an "A" licence, it is rather surprising to find the elements of flight deal with at all. The earlier chapters blems of maps and charte, magne visibility of about a hundred yards go somewhat deeply into the pro- tism and compasses, elementary The pilot was unable to som the meteorology, instrumenta, and boundary of the landing ground crosscountry dying Then conse the aeroplano and next the ou

•pleno crashed' through an and the tension and uncertainty experigine, while the concluding chap, iron fence and dropped to cost in tors explain the rules of the air Stafford Road, Wallington, stop- steamed on either quarter of the The book is profusely illustrated, lands, C.B., C.M., D.8.0 Hoa Gochen within easy gun range but not always very appositely, front. Mr. W. Southorn, C.M.C., the on the memor the tiernoon 14 The photograph of a Hawk Moth Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, the described, and the entry of the in fight in one superfluity.

Gooben into Messina, her adven Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Hon Mr.turous voyage to the liardanell Always keep up your flying WE. L. Shenton, Hon. Comdr. the action between E.M B. Glouce speed and you will never be hurt,

writes Captain CD. Barnard in G. F. Holo, R.N, (retired) Hon.tor and Breslau, the secret coaling the first hrst chapter of Barnard Sir Shou-son Chow, Hon. Dr. in the Euean, and her final escapon Learning to Fly (Sampson Law

are graphically" remunted, as

It is comforting, but perhaps a and he puts the sentence in italics. little too optimistin. Later on he explains that a bad landing my hurt you. Nevertheless this book is a very useful one, and shoud be of pront assistance to the e

Hundreds of volunteers rendered rye pilot The great reputation assistance to the Aerodrome Salvage of the butcher, he was the pilot Corps, and the machine was pushed of the Duchess of Bedford on her great fights, will increase the sale and hoisted up the steep bank to of the book and carry conviction the aerodrome. The plane was so Moore By Purchase As Colonel little damaged that the engines Moore-Brabazon writes in the forego

HE Major General J. W. Bandi. onced in the British ships as they and deal with the licence taping just a few feet short of a house

At that time of the morning the road is usually crowded with people going to work, and it is surprising that nobody was hurt

Immediately alter its descent a

batruction, and for about an hour the Croydon-Sutton tramway" ser vico was held up, while other tradic was diverted..

the second accused, who is also in W. Tso, Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr.The opening chaptors recaling and Copp. x 172, 168, net), i tram-car pulled up in front of the

plicated in the case and who has surrendered himself to the police, yas brought into Court. Complain- fant identified him as the man who received the money through the first accused.

Complainant's Story. Wong To Fo said that after his negotiations for the purchase of $10,000 worth of forged uotes for

EW. Carpenter, Mr. C. W. Bishop, Mr. R. M. Henderson, Captain B, Montaguo Ede, Mr Grey and members of the construe tion company..

The dam proper is reached from the Taipa Road by a concrete road cat through the hill side. It winds its way up to and over the dam, where it is ten feet wide, and con-

if they had ccurred yesterday, tlm extraordinary incidents and un- less chase Those who took part in the hunt will be unable to withhold profound admiration for the resourcefulness and courage of the German Admiral Sanchon, and renewed astonishment will be fait at the escape of the Gechen through a bottle-neck, without be ing brought to action by any ship of the great comhmed Fleets of England and France

certainty of that blind and fruit-

$7,000, he secured the money from tinues on its way for about a mile rattle Known Incidents.

e

Film Plane'a Orash,

word: "This particular volume were set going and it taxied over combines great knowledge with the aerodrome under its own power. wonderful simplicity of explana ion. It may be added that the numerous diagrams are a great help to the verbal instructions, Perhaps, they are partly reapons ble for the rather high price of the

book."

BOOK FOR YACHTSMEN.

In the afternoon a small light aeroplane, a Klemm, belonging to British Air Transport fell on Purley-way, a busy by-pass for Croydon. Half the road was ab- structed, and special traffic arrange- ments had to be made.

his father in-law, and proceeded to where it ends at the filter station 6, Caine Hond, with the first accus and underground service reservoir;

later chapters, which deal ed and Pang, who described him at Bhek Lai Pui, both of which with the career of these two re self as a broker in forged notes. were constructed by the Hong Kong markable and subsequent y Tur There they saw Guilherme Guim. Excavation, Pile Driving and Con- kish, ships, in the Sea of› Mar -aracs, and the 87,000; was handed

mora and the Black Son, recount over to the first accused, who retain structio Co.

incidents not generally known.. -ed $1,500 and gave the "remainder

The scenery along the road and and they will be found to be of to the European. After that the

absorbing interest. The bombard. second accused walked in, and, the country that the road passesment of Sevastopol and other Rus stating that he was a police inspec. through is of remarkable beauty, tar. took the European away. At Pine trees and hills are the main this juncture Pang suggested to witness and first accused that they attractions until one come upon the had better clear out as the police new dam. Here a remarkable sight inspector might come back to arrest meets the eye. The white columns them.

Mr. Hin Shing Lo, in cross of the dam loom ap 118 feet, above examination, put it to the witness the valley, with the overflow splash that he was engaged in the deal aot for himself but on behalf of his ng over the side and down into the Government in the early months that any other book exists from day night to a Farman machine of

futurs father-in-law. Witness deni-valloy. ind this and said that he borrowed the 87,000 from his father-in-law telling him that he needed the money for business. The largest aum he had previously borrowed From his father-in-law was 3500,

Rich or Poor?

Mr. Lo He advanced you $7,000 without any questions within 24 hours of your request 7-Yes,

The Overlow.

sing ports took place, before the Russian Ambassador had left Con stantinople, or war had been off. cially declared. Apart from the | military exploits of the Turkish the most part by Germans, great Fleet, commanded and manned for

interest attaches to the story of the vacillation of the Turkish and their indignation at the, sal zure by the Admiralty of their two ships completing in British yards. This incident coupled with the wooden gun left by the British in the Trukish battleship Messudle, after re-arming in England, seems to have weighed more than a little in Turkey's declaration of war The use of the fez for headgear was a source of unfailing divor sion to the German craws.

DOWN CHANNEL By RT. Meed to rise properly at the take-off,

The machine, a three-seater, fail Mullen. London: Geo. Allen and crashed through a fence on to and Unwin. Pp. xxxvi. 418. Bs. 6d. net.

the roadway. The pilot (Mr. W F. Anderson) and his two passen Arthur Ransome in his biographi borough Pictures, Ltd., were not in- "I do not believe," writes Mrgers, film photographers of Gains. cal foreword to this new edition jured. of a rare and much-prized work, An accident happened on Wednes which a man can learn so much of the French Air Union in landing good manners in the presence of at the nerodrome. It crashed from the zoo, and good manners aro

a height of about thirty feet, and among the surest signs of the good was considerably damaged, the cabin seaman. The chief interest of being pushed up through the wings. the present edition lies in the plo ture Mr. Ransome is able to give mandie nor the Farman was the

Neither in the case of the Nor us of the personality of this nau pilot, or crew injured, and no tigal stockbroker und most profer dainage was done to the goods on sional of amateur sailors. Of the the former. The French Air Union man's courage, of his supremo care

announces that both aeroplanes will for the minutest details of sea-be in service to-day.

In addition to the dam, an over. flow channel, 12 feet wide and 600 feet long, is constructed to lead off the overflow waters from the old Shek Lai Pui reservoir into the reservoir at the Byewash. This overflow channel is 100 feet higher at its intake than at its outlet, and Perhaps the inost: instructive manship, "of his -resource in emer, 160 195

Do you know this minn makes a beautiful and valuable na Court Yes,

He is accountant in the same

dition to the system of water con- newspaper office and has worked servation and supply in Kowloon there longer than you -Yes.

And you have borrowed' money

as planned by the efficient and pro from him on several occasionsgressive unit of the Department of Public Works, the result of whose

Yes.

matter in the book centres on the gancy, and of the profound in vicissitudea of the Gooben's fuel timacy with the sea in all its problem. When Cardiff coal was moods that he gained in over forty exhausted, steaming with Asiatic years of cruising his own legs suff- con became troublesome. Cosling ciently inform us From that ct ship from vessels unsuited for dis the tiny three-ton Leo in which, in charging coal was a complex pro 1850, he gained his first grueling blom. The extraordinary vulner

experience to that of the Persoun ability of oil tanke ashore is dra at whose tiller with singlitar fitness, he died in 1891 on a voyage sisk, and the burning of the town, with material of interest and value struction of the tanks nt Novoros

to France, his writing is packed aaa result.of a short bombard to all yachtsmen. Of himself ho went from the sea.The Germans says little. One can gather over the career of their two isolating aspects of yachting, his deep may be excused" little bombast contempt or the social and sport dediterranean ships, for it was almost religious Pervous in pitting hip akiil against every vagary of

So you are poor mann, Mr. afforts has added a much to thematically exemplified by the dr Wongi

Witness (in an offended tone): Why do you say that?

Mr. Lo: Are you a "rich_man then?

Mr. Justice Lindsell: Don't pro voke him too far

Mr. Lo (to witness) Very well you are a rich man then, thank

you

safety and convenience of the people of Hong Kong,

The work on the dam was started in July, 1920, and was complete on May, 1931. The dam is situated. 270 feet above sea level and has

a capacity of 188,000,000 gallons as remarkable as it was creditable The length is 50 feet at the bottom to all concerned," The case was adjourned until this and 355-feet at the top with a width morning when the witness will be of 94 feet at the hottom and 9 feet cross-examined by Mr. Leo D'Al- . 10 inches at the top. Bixteen arches imada.

of 12 feet. span provide for the overflow. The depth of the founda tion at the seal in the middle of the

CHINA HOLLYWOOD dam if 30 feat.

IN PEIPING.

The Constructors.

COMMERCIAL FLYING,

wind and water, but of his human ity his logs. give little hint. This brief biography reveals hím 8110. dyed-in-the-wool Conservativa of:a: highly pugnacious sort, with stroug A COMPLETE COURSE FOR TI COR-views about the evils of trade un

MESCIAL FLYING LICENCE. Bylonism and compulsory education. W. Lawrence Hope und Non fundamentalist in religion, sal man W. Kennedy London a hearty hater of mechanical pIÐ- John Hamilton, Lid. Pp. xii, pulsion whether at sen or on 348, £1, 18, net land. There would, one feels, have Much credit for the construction

In order to qualify for a "been as litte latitude for liberal: of the dam must be given to the licence, which entitles a pilot to view in the cockpit of Orian or Hong Kong Excavation, Pile Driv ing and Construction Co., who were carry passingers and goods for hire Procyon sa for slack seamanship. or reward the said pilot must Perhaps it was natural that, a PLANS FOR OLD CAPITALong the pioneers in the Colony earn a very great deal beyond the man so much at odds with the in the use of modern equipment for mere piluting of an acroplane tendencies of his time should have the transporting of materials and supplies used in the construction of Captain Lawrence Hope, the wel found his greatest zest in taking known crosscountry pilot and up the old and unchanging chat the project.

King's Cup winner, and Mr. Ken lenge that nature offers At any nedy have eet themselves to help rate, the light this adition throws him to pass his examination. Un on McMullen's character addi like most instructional books en greatly to the interest

ying, this book does not deal with diaries.

SIR ROBERT HOʻTUNG'S

Peiping, Sept. 15,-To make Peiping a second. Hollywood is

Sand, was transported in the com- among the proposals made by pro pany's junke from the benches at minent business men here as the Haani Wan, transhipped by truck means of restoring prosperity: to.

up the Taipo Rond to the anlonding. China's former capital. T

Sir Robert Ho Tung, one of station, and thence across the valley Hong Kong's leading estizens and to the blockyard and concreting ultimillionaira, arrived bera lower by aerial cable, Stone WAS last Sunday to study the screen quarried at the site and crushed. hy field in North China. In addition stone crushers of high capacity. to his many other enterprises, h is a director of the United China Moving Picture Company, and be in anid to be very favourably im- pressed with the prospect of mak ing Feining a cinema contro oving

The concreting tower, 190 ft. Ligh, made of steel, had a huge concrete. mixing plant, at its base, from

WAR ON GANGDOM.

which batches of concrete were OVER A HUNDRED ARRESTS hoisted to the mouth of the chute fastened to the top of the tower.

to its wonderful climate, where, arThis chute, a modern introduction.

IN NEW YORK

the autumn and winter particular into the field of reinforced concrete New York, August ly, the sky is often cloudless for work, was an ingenious and flexible weeks on enda konyagis arrangement of cables, pulleys and against the underworld

Meanwhile police headquarters. have flashed & general order for the most thorough round up of underir- ables, for which virtually the entire force has been mobilised. More

25 War than a hundred arrests were made.

One of the victims of the Brool

on Bandaynight, when outrage on throo Italians were lined up against

Biaughter house wall and

The Hong Kong magnate tins weights, which enabled the concrete ing on all fronts. More than 20,000 already decided to establish ato bo sent from the one central people thronged Madison Squar school here at once to train seroon mixing plant and placed at any Garden last night at & me actors and actresses, in connection part of the dam with ease and dis which called for a cessation of with his picture company and patch. It weighed 12 tons plus the lerances. They roared appr

DAY HIYOZty students, and weight of four men ponmanantly sien one of the sneaketa. others have applied for the entstationed thereon, and its radivg in that this city was no longer, a safncidentally into his henchmen e range trance examinations: for, the new cluded the full length, breadth and pine

to live and blamed of fire after he had lined up two their height of the dam

school:

with ballots, has been identified: the leader of the murderers. He red was shot down when he stepped a

of his intended victims H

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