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A DOG COMES TO COURT.

AIREDALE PARADED BEFORE MR. JUSTICE

McCARDIE.

GIRL DANCER'S CLAIM.

At the request of Mr. Justice McCardie, an

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931.

at the time of the alleged attack Describing the alleged attack" in in January, 1999, Miss Sibley was January, Miss Sibley said that hor 13 your of age. She was now 10. Alsatian dog was being led by n The bite did not draw blood, pro-woman, friend as she herself was bably becausó——Miedl-Sibley-was--drawing-or-aledgo, Dr. Copeman's wearing Russian Boots. The incid-dog attacked them by jumping a ent had hampered her in her cares her friend and biting her clothes......... er as a professional dancer.

I was bending down to pick up my dog's lead," said Miss Sib- bly, when Dr. Copeman's dog sprang on my back and knocked me It then bit my right log When I got up I found that I could not stand on my left leg."

Cross-examined, Mies Sibley said It was at this stage of the evi-that, as one time, she was engaged dence that Mr. Justice MoCardie & a London restaurant as a danco The girl, Marie Esmen Dorothy said that he must see the dog. hostess, She did not receive 1 Sibley, of Prince Arthur-rand, The dog, on being led into court, salary and had to depend upon Hampstead, N.W.. aued Dr. Swagged its tail and appeared to be

looking anxiously for ita master. what her partner chose to give her. Monckton Copethan, her next-door The usher patted it on the back as In some weeks she earned £s and it was taken in front of the judge in other weeks considerably less for his inspection..

than £4...

Jumped on her Back. Miss Bibloy said that the dog had, attacked her twice" previously. On the first occasion it bit a girl down. Airedalo torrick which was alleged to have bitten friend's coat and was driven off by a girl was paraded in front of him workmen. On another day the deg jumped on her back and bit in the King's Bench. Afterwards hor shoulder. it me in court,.

neighbour, for damages.

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It was my intention to-day to more than one component; und if present some more hints to begin.yqu don't olona the lone, mildew or on the subject I treated last is bound to form on it. It shows weck, as to the proper way to handle its presence on the lens in the form. the camera, etc. In the meantime palled "claws" and they will keep enthusiast who wishes to be known, given their way." I have received a request from anfon branching in all directions i

Caniora lenses must be cleaned at if the enquiry is referred to at all in print, a Amatour." He seeks least once a month. If they are advice as to the best way of loft alone for a long time the claws cleaning the lens without damaging

will farm. At first is is easy to re- move them, but if they are left it." This is a subject of much im

alone for any length of time they portanés, especially at the present! time, when we have weather condit into the glass and cannot be re- tions which not only damage, the moved in the ordinary way. In such leather covering of cameras buff ap event the lens has to be sent to also their most vital part-the the manufacturers to be cleaned, lenses. I therefore propose to deal and the process is very costly." with with it for the benefit of all

At times it is difficult to dateer. amateurs, or anybody who owns amildow on the lens. You may point camera but know little about 1 the lens to the light and be satis The beginner perhaps would neved, after looking through, that think of cleaning the lens. I

the glass is quito clean, but the might strike him as

mildow may be there. You wilḥob. unnecessary since the lens glasses are embedded serve it if you look at the lens in tight fitting cases which to an sideways. Hold the lens in your appearances exclude dirt. It is a

hand and look at it in a slanting mistake to assume this, "as dus way and from all angles. which is the lesser of two evils, How to Remedy. -

Do not wash your lens with.

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as you will shortly see, will get through the most tight hitting glass frame to the face of the watch or water or INVEN soap; you will oven into the working parts of the ruin it. Avoid rubbing it with a watch thongh they be encased in close fitting backs.

coarse cloth as you will. scratch the In the case of the camera, dust enters much mor lens. The slightest scratch on the easily into the interior of either the face of the lens ruins it and the box or the folding type.

pictures which you get cut of it will show you what you have done, On no account must the lens be

Camera. Mildew.

Dealing first with the welfare of moistened or tenched with the the camera before proceeding to fingers.

discuss the lens, I must advise own Different methods are adopted by cre to give the article periodical camera owners (including prefvs- sttention. In the damp and changsionals) for cleaning their lensus... ing weather which we have in Hong Some wipe it with soft cloth or Kong, it is usual to find, especially cotton wool. They also use benzine in the cheaper grades of cameras or spirits of wine in the cleaning which are covered with artificial 48, or indeed drop the long in a leather, a whito deposit in the form bath of such liquid.

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of mildew when the camera is put The continued use of benzine or away for some time. This deposit gther chemicala is sometimes in- sometimes aries from the chemical jurious to the lens mounts if not properties present in the lonther to the lens itsoli. Scme of the lens. covering, or it may be due to the mounts are enamelled and the en pasto sed in fixing it to the amel peele away in course of time-

Climate also affects the under the action of the chemical. leather covering and helps to hasten Some of the lens components, ex- the appearance of the deposit. pecially the back components of the In cameras which have been eu-wider aperture lenses such as the cicaed 112 cuses and then stored 4.5, sro comonted together, and a away, this mildew will take plus chemical bath does much damage all the same. In fact the enclosing to the coment. I will deal with of the camera in a case, leather of this at a later date when I will cardboard, often helps the milder have something interesting to say to extend rapidly until deteriorn on the subject of mildew affecting tion sets in eventually as almost to the cemented lens.

ruin the camera. Hence a little

attention will obviate much heart Boy and the Mirror, burning later,

Proper Treatment.

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Have you ever seen a small boy (or girl) playing with a mirror. If so, you will have observed that Wipe the camera with n solt he breathea into the glass and is cloth until all the mildew is amused by the film of mcisture moved. It is best to wipe it with which forms on it. He wipes the a small piece of rag first which glass and goes on repeating the must be thrown away. Then wipe process. If you had examined the it for the second time with an mirror after the lad had finished other piece sprinkled with "a tew with it you would have found it drops of Three-in-One" oil. This clean and glistening, provided will assist the removal of the whitecourse he had used the wiping ma deposit and also act as a future terial as much as he did, the breath preventative to some extent, Fining.

ally wipe it once more with a clean Here the amatour has the idea for piece of cloth.

lens cleaning. Let the profession-

Mildew on the outside and points als also try it both on their own of the bellows must also be removed.

lenars and those they clean for Use a soft brush for this purpos, others. It is the best method in After the clean up, give the camera existence and the least costly. Per-

a little eiring, if possible placing haps some person might object on

it in the sunlight for a while, wip the ground of bygiene!

it again and put by preferably on Use a piece of soft, dry linen for) the shelf of your wardrobe, wherwiping the lens. Old linen," suen you will see it occasionally, instand as discarded handkerchiefs, are the of putting it back, into the ease most suitable, and they must be which perhaps some (would consig porfectly clean: Wipe the lens with to a dark corner of a cupboard. a gentle rotary motion.

Dust which enters the interior of

cameras has to be removed. Some Local Exhibition. times it leaves the interior to settle

down on the film when tho came w The space allotted to me prema is loaded and shows its presence in to be up. Before I close, I must the negatives and printa. Use a draw the attention of beginners and soft brush with a long handle whica amateurs to the exhibition, to be will take the bristles to the fur held by the Hong Ксля

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thest part. If you are cleaning the University Amatour Photogra inside of the bellows or the interior | phic Club, Extries close 1311 of the box the proper way is to Monday and anybody can send point the opening downwards whits in pictures for competition or ex“ brushing as the dust will then fa 1hibition. There are two sectiona. The "A" section is for those who do the picture from the exposure to the finished print. Section” “B” is for those who do the exposure We now come to the most im-themselves but have the remainder portant thing. The lens is to the of the work done by some other camera what the eye is to the hu person. The actual exhibition, to man body, and everything must be which entranco will be free, will dona to protect it from blindness open at the Union Assembly Hall We are approaching the seasca on the first Monday in January and when damp, which in its turn brings continue during the week. Begin on mildew, is the greatest enemy ters and amateurs should not miss of the lens. Some books will tell the exhibition and the instruction you not to take the lens out of it affords..

your camera. Do not believe it. As I understand that there will Unless you take the lens out you be no issus of the Daily Press. on cannot clean it as mildow affecte | Saturday, (Boxing Day), my next the inside of the lens more than instalment will appear on the fol- the outside and some lenses have lowing Monday,

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