1932.
HONG
KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1
-Melbourne Cup:
LEGLESS WONDER IN GRUESOME MURDER. DIVORCE LAWS OF FASTEST DERBY RUN
HONG KONG,
FAMOUS SWIMMER TO GIVE EXHIBITIONS..
TO SWIM ACROSS, CHANNEL
AND BACK,
Drinking. poking and eating under water rounds well nigh im possible but it can be done and those who doubt the truth of this statement are recommended to get their tickets for the performances at the King's Thantre on Wadner day, when Zimmy the legloss swim mer, who is known the world over for his perforainees in and under the water will show Hong Kong how to smoke a cigar drink soda water
and cat under water!
Zimmy, arrived in the Colony From Manila on the .. Asama Maru yesterday and a Daily Press representative saw him at his hotel in the afternoon when he was shown some pictures and records of his "performances.
I
There are some people who are under the impression that Zimmy was born without any legs but this is not the case.
When he was a boy "of night, he sold newspapers in the United States and one day, in his auxiety to get rid of the laat copy, he got into the way of a tram-car: Poopla shouted to him but it was too late and so serious were the in- juries to his legs that they had to be amputated.
Cannot Sink,
EX-SOLDIERS ON CAPITAL
CHARGE.
As Contral Magistracy yesterday, tour Chinese were charged with the murder of youth named Tsang Tai-kai of Main Street, Shaukiwan. The defendants all Boro the sur- name of Cheung. They all ́osmet from the city of Ng Wall and all claimed to have been soldiers in the Chinese Army.
RIGA.
DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
Paris, Feb. 15.-The easy divores facilities which have given Riga the title of "Rebo of the North," ara anding disfavour in the eyes of the French Government, according to a story printed in this Paris morn- ing paper Le Matin to day.
According to Za Matin, the It was explained that the body French Minister has drawn the at of the lad was found at a spot botantion of the Latvian Covernment low Victoria Gap with a doop out to its anomalous situation created
IN HONG KONG,
-¿Continued· from Fäge"6.)
Betting.
Winner. Placo.
3
Amos (Eco).. Gold Ring (Tung). 78 Army Had (Dalina). 225
Dee (Clark)
B19 10 Maple Loaf (Soares)
Doctor's Mandate.
(Caplan)
4
12 108
3
0
3
4
1
**D
19
$
60
Mulrose (Corbett)
(T. L Wong) 329
Powhatan (Hi11) Poplar Hawk Devon (Fung) Bowery Bar
(MoCann) in the throat Before the gruesome by granting divorces to French Indiana (Rotho)
Snappy Eve (Hoard) discovery was made, it is alleged anticaals, which are not valid in Mous Talismaz that a man, one of the defendants, France. It was suggested that this Cebu (Noronha)
(Noodt) went up to the parents of the Lad application of the Latvian civil Thu Cadwall (Butler) and and that unless they paid over code might be regarded as an in- Esculado (Carroll) the sum of $10,000, the boy would be fringement of French sovereignty. Gold Mine
Kate (Stanton)..... put to death,
A case in point was quoted as. The police formally brought thevidence. A young Freach "lawyer Golden Star (Li) charge against the defendants ye had married a Dutch woman in
Weybridge (Chang)... 214 terday and asked for a short re Dusseldof, while he was attached
Just Imagina maad. They are investigating the
(Ip Kui Ying) to lie Inter-Allied Commission on Why Worry (Charles) faster thoroughly na it is believed
White Heather that this is connected with the case
occupied territory. Shortly altor.
(Benham) Iwards the woman returned to Hol-Cabinet Hall (Pan).. in which the body of another man land and fruitlossly tried to secure Tommy Boy (G. Roza) was discovered, under yery similar as Kowloon City, circumstances,
our time last week.
APPEAL ALLOWED BY
FULL COURT,
JUDGMENT IN SUMMARY.
COURT CASE,
Leave to appeal against a Judg ment of the Puisne Judge was granted by the Full Court yester- day when the hearing of an appli- [cation on behalf of the Ip Tuen firm was resumed before. the Chief Justice (Sig Joseph Komp) and the. Puišue Judge (Mr. Justice Lind-
It was the turning point is Zimmy's life. When he was per fectly 'normal, he could not swim a stroke but some time after his ac cident, some friends invited him out to watch them swim. He went and one of the more playful onos soll).
fr
A divorce.
Eventually she travelled to Riga
where she was granted a divorce alter & month's residence there. Under French taw, however, the Frenok lawyer is still married to her.
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS. BY THE HOX. MR. B.
WOLFE, CM.G., 1.0.P.]
no
D. C.
Chinese Company." Training Course-Part H.-Thera will be Part I. of Training Course to-day.
Defendu Class.-There, will be no defendu class to-morrow.
Training Course-Part I.-There will be no Part I. of Training Course on Thursday.
in the crowd pushed him into the The application arose out of water. It was then that Zimmy (judgment for plaintiffs in su action discovered that, he could not sink!in which the Wong Kwai Kes frm He explained to our representative claimed 80s for goods sold and that ever since then he had dis- delivered to the Ip Tuan Arm. covered that the heaviest part of Mr. R. CH. Lim appeared for a man's body when he is in water the appellant and Mr. Leo DNCOs. Class on Friday. ara bis legs. "They are dead Almada, jar., for the respondent. weight," he explained.
In spite of his great handicap, Zimny holds some records of which any man might be proud. One of thom, is the endurance record of 100 hours and 15 ages. Ziramy said tha ha had been offered a prize in Manila to "bent this record, and
added, "I'll get back there HR WOOD I have Anished giving exhibi- tions here and do it too, I figure
I'll do 110 hours this time," An- ..ther record Zimmy holds in staying under water for a minutes 17 seconds. He also swam the Golden Gate, San Francisco, in 52 minutes and among his other feats
After hearing arguments, their Lordships granted the appeal and ordered that the case bo heard de hun, and that any witness who could not be called should have his evidence rend from the judge's
notes,
NOOK.. Class.-There will he no
(Harriman)
The Lion (Liang)...... Wembly Stag (Frost) 84 Venus (Botelho) ......
"
དྡྷིཝིཙྩཊྛཱདྷཱཧི, མྷིམནྣཱ,།ཝཎ ཨཡསི རཱཐཀྐཝཙྩ བྷཱུབྷཱུཉྙཱུ བྷ॰
Mr. Chan Tin Son's Woodland
Stag
(Mir. Quincey) 1 Mosara. Kong Bros." Evening
SU (Mr. Li) g Mr. Rain's Raindrop
(Mr., G." Roza). 3 Won by four length many longths between second and third:
Time: 2 mins. 4.3 acca. Pari-mutuel:
Winner: 80.80.
Place: 5.20; $530; 96.90.
Batting.
Winner. Place.
(Quincey) 2,327
4
Woodland Stag Calamity Jane
Kilroa (Tung) Evening Stan (L4) 301 St Mority (Clark).... 54 The Raindrop
Charles) 30.
JIF
+4
(G. Roza 78 Moon Star (Proulx) 47
8-Hong Kong Derby. Mr. Dunbar's Liberty Bay
2,38€
188 903 1,117
- 174
207 149.
(Mr. Hill) 1
Mossrs. Waang and E's Wild
Life ...................
(Mr. Tung) P
Mr. Ho Kom Tong's Princess
Hall
(Mr Dalina) 3
Won by two longthe; two lengths between accond and third.. Time: 3 mins 4.4 secs. Pari-mutuol
Winner: $8.90.
Places: 86.10; $11.30; 310:30
Betting.
2
2
1
Winner. Place, Princess Hall (Dallas) 204 Liberty Bay (Hill)-3,477 Flying Tourist
073
3,014.
(Noods) 276
DEK
3
40
Lunar Star (Chang) 219
478
1
Tontine (Weng)
53
ΤΑΥ
3
Wild Life (Tung)..... 194
423
White Jade Star
(Quincey) 38
D3
Deveron (Clark)....... Blug Star (D. 8. Lá 370 Darkest Evo (Heard) 31 Ajax (Charles). .......................'
-Chater Cup,
74
243
(79
74
13
48
(Mr. Hill) 1
4.-Victoria Stakes,
Mr. Dunbar's Cyclamen Bay
(Mr. MqCann) 1 Mr. Dynasty's King's Bounty
(Mr. Chang) Mr. Chan Tin Son's Apollo
(Mr. Freat) 3 Won by a neck; a head between second and third,
Time: miu. 39 Rees.
Pari-mutuol
Winner: $135.10. Places: 87.90; $5.40; 36.40.
Betting,
B-Garrison Cup,
Mr. H. 6. Chau's Racing Boy
(Mr. Chang) Messrs. Shirt and Lobel's Tango Messrs. Grist and Beck's Mon
Mr. Dunbar's Gleneagles
Mr. Li Tao Fong's Gold Key
(Mr. Tùng) 2
Mr. Eve's Boxing Eve
(Mr. Charlca) 3
Won by two lengths; three longths
Time: 2 ming, 32.2' secs.
Pari-mutuel
Winner: $8.40.
Places: $3.70.; "89.90; 80:50.
12 Betting.
Winner. Place. Orlando (Fung) 19 Ka
Sadko (Dallas) Adam (Heard) ....... Cyclamen Bay
Eros (Noodt) Apollo (Frost) .1,139 King's Bounty
584 35
Winner. Place
471
between second and third..
124
(McCann) 87 ទន
129
51
1,200
(Chang)...1,108 Paul Pry (Tung).... Herodom (Rothe) Chovalrous (Charles) g The Plover
1,346
Royal Flush
D 9
34
(Corbett) ទ
18
15
...(Ip Kui Ying)
40
Wisdom Stag
(Quincey) 438 The Tiger
(Harriman) 32 Boxing Eve (Charles) 747 King' Service
837
69
1,309
1
(Chang) 332 Valorous (Heard) 142 Gleneagles (Hill).......159 Fortund 'Bay
(McCann) 50 Lobster Bay (Botalho) wonderful Stag Gold Key (Tang) 16
(Frog) 74 Crown Prince
*(Benham) 6 10-Challenge Cup,
513 208
3,047
2
104 28 424
181
18
485
33
107
Mrs. Dunbar's Sitting Bull
(Mr. Hill 1 Mr. Eve's Coronation Eve
(Mr. Heard) z
71
190
Mr. Dynasty's King's Justice
28
4
(Mr. Chang) 3
302
2,404
38 90
30
134
(Mr. Noodt) 2
golian Stag (Mr. Frost) 3 Won by two lengths; four lengths between second and third." Time: 2 mins. 9.2 socs. Pari-mutuel
Indian Company. Inspection Parade. All ranks of the Indian Company will parade at Central Police Station on Thursday for a general inspection of eqnip-t ment, etc, by the Company Con- mandor Fall i at 5.30 p.m. sharp, under Sub-Inspector R. J. Hunt. Dress Blue uniform, cap with white cover, belt, truncheon, whistle, armlet and badge, Pocket OPIUM ON LAUNCH. Policeman and note-book to be Those not in possession of uniform will attend in multi. NoFi Fa (Wong) member may be absent from this Sonny Boy (Leo)...... parade without leave from the Scrappit (Proulx)... Company Commander. The Equip Hosordy (Tung)...... ment Officer, will make it a point Good Day (G. Roza) 280 * of being present. Recruite will Racing Boy (Chang): 2,496 attend..
Bay of Bellingham II
(Carrol!)
COXSWAIN GETS TWELVE MONTHS.
VESSEL ORDERED TO BE CONFISCATED.
Winner: 38.50. Places: 26:50; $14.20; 88.00. Betting.
Winner. Placc.
414
*
are
Tango. (Noodt) Mongolian Stag
Yiying Squad. Race Duty-Members who The case against Chan Kam- detailed for duty at the Races will is a dive off a platdorm 157 feet saing, coxswain of the launch Walarade at Central Police Station on high. To do this Zimmy. had to Shing Ton, who was originally the following days: February climb up a ladder" first, and this charged before Mr. J. A. Fraser, 23, 24 and 27 at 19 hours.
without legs!
+
nt Kowloon Magistracy, with pbs. Session of
tuels of opium, which was hidden under the stern
360
Reserve Emergency Unit
of the launch, was concluded yea Rifes. All members of the Com terday. The defendant was sen-pany in possession of service rifles, artenced to twelve months' imprison- other than
(Front) 225 410 6.Mongolian Stakes.
Messrs. Lowcock & Lee's Bistre
(Mr. Quincey) 1 (Mr. Tung)
Mr. LT.F.'s Gold Bar
な Squad-leaders and Mesars. Grist and Bock's Echo
(Mr. Clark) 3 Won by four longtha; a neck be tween second and third. Time: 1 min.49.1 secs. Pari-mutual:***
Non-Stop Dover to Calais.
Zimmy is
making Dow rangements to do what has not yhtinent and the launch ordered to be members of the Sniper Section confiscaled. The other defendant, should return them to the 0. 1/4 been, achieved by any man before the chief engineer, was discharged Co., as soon as possible.
Notice.-All members of the and that is a non-stop swim from at a previous hearing. Mr. F. X Dover to Calais and back. This D'Almada, who appeared for de Company are hereby informed that
Winner: $18.70. fondant and the owners of the they must send in two copies of legless wonder is very confident of launch, applied for a re-hearing their photograph (Pasport size) for Places: $8.00; $38.80; $10.30. being able to do it and staten. that of the case.
attachment to the DOW Arms
Betting. Licences. if weather conditions ara favourable
All those who have not Two witnesses, members of the
Winner. Place. he will be able to do it in between
crow, stated that they knew no yet done so, are requested to do Gold Bar (Tung) ... 94 60 to 70 hours, otherwise it may thing about the opium being on the 80 43 soon as possible.
Lucky Prince take considerably longer. Arrange aquch. They also stated that they Special Duty-Emergency Unit
(G.. Rom) ments have already been completed had seen the defendant leave the duty will be carried out in accord. Helvellyn (Caplan).... with Capu Burgess, the Channel ship in their company.
ance with the orders already issued. | City of Bhanghai
(8gd.) D. L. KING,.. veteran, to guide him, and Zimmy
(Li) 302 The defendant was found guilty expeals to have about two months' a breach of the Ordinance in
D.S.P. (H.). Buchanan (Soares)... 132 training before attempting this that he had not exercised reason-
Bistro. (Quincey)...... 637 1,362 swim in the last week of August or able caution in soring that the
Public Money (Lee). Mun Kab Poo the Arat week in September. launch was not carrying spiam, It was stated that the chief on gineer was the principal factor in the smuggling but this man and already heen discharged.
Not in the least depremod by the fact that he has no lege, Zimmy is a very cheerful personality, has massive shoulders and weighs 137 pounds, but the strength of his huge arms can well be guaged by the act that he can do a sorios of press upa" on two fingers and two thumbs without the slightest effort. Ho showed our representa- tive this feat a few times.
The question of confiscation of the launch will come before Mr. Fraser at Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday
is to be balanésd.
RETRENCHMENT IN THE F.M.S.
ANOTHER HEAVY CUT EXPECTED.
DIFFICULTY OF BALANCING
"THE RUDGET.
128
80
169
29
50
898
234
Won by two lengths; five lengths between second and third.
Time: 3 mins, 30.2 seca
Pari-mutuel:—
1
Winner: 87.50.
Places: 10; 85.10; 85.10. Betting.
Winner. Plače. Mike (Stanton) ........ 22 173 Bag and Baggage.
Coronation Eve
...
(Reidy) 161 240
(Heard)...1,401 1,855
70
Tiana (McCann) Duke of Milan
(Francis) 18. King's Justies
(Chang) 131
Sitting Bull (Hill).....2,680
144
60
200
3,201
11- Black Rock" Stakes, Mr. Chun Tin Son's Workable
(Mr. Frost) 1 Mr. Dynasty's King's Parade
(Mr. Chang).2 Messrs. Mackie and Grayburn'a
Don ... (Mr. Clark) 3 Won by short head; the same be
tween second and third
Tima 2 mins. '39 socs.
Pari-mutuel :----
3
Winner: 875.10.
22
..... (Proulx) 34 Ghost Train (Noodt) Gea Geo (Fung) ...... | Arry Awk_(Chang)... 101
Espy (Ip Kui Ying). Mausio (Noronha)...6 Diplodocus (Dallan). 00 Lucky Bird (Pan) Gamester (Heard) Mistletou (Harriman)
48.
88
100
10
181
Don (Clark)
Places: 992.10; $23.00; $12.80.
Betting
Winner. Place. Meredian Star (Li)...2,079 14 Aircraft (Pan)
259
8,308
625
861
114
California (Rothe) ...
58 .105
16
175
Myrtle Leaf (Wong). 19 Beauty Spot
34
07
(I Kui Ying) 13
51
34
Punch (Harriman)....
73 ...
116
17
24
Iloilo (Boarea)
10
58
Horovego (Linng)....
5
24 King's Forade
20
44
49
113
4
8
(Chang) 143 Toby (Liang) Workable Stag
265
4
11
| Micheal Gur.
770
204
3
10
(Benham) Loch Ness (Corbett). Trico A. Roza)' \..... Talla. (Fawostb),
12
14
10.
Television (Stanton). Kaur (Charles)
18.
103
(Butler) Festival Eye (Heard) 201 Chateau Buy
(a)(Močann) 130 Powerful King
Mouche (Carroll)
254
182
(Q. Bona)
Whoopee (Butler).... Jimmy (Rother The probability of further drastic Lotus Loaf (Ontroll) retrenchment in F.M.8. Inances is Movie Star (McCann) 49 foreshadowed in the following Juniter (Wong).... 53. message sent by a Kmia Lampur Erbe (Clark)
378 Much Ado (Frost) 174 Kuala Lumpur, Feb 15-It is Prospero (Botelho)...
Zimmy's activities are, nat con- fined to the water. He drives a
Far-reaching proposals for for- ear and plays golf but when he ther economy in the F.M6. nd- ia driving off in golf he has to sit minia ation ars to be considered, or a chair in order to get a proper The xt meeting of the Tederal awing. What in left of his lower Cound will not be held under limbs are very short and in getting March 14, and it is believed that on correspondent:--- from place to place, Zimmy official announcement will be made teas a roller skate on his right before then.
leg as this is slightly shorter It was estimated last November
J
shorter than the left one." He is s❘ that the 1909 Budget would be bad, married man with two children, anced by a very antrow margm, but Mrs. Zimmy being at present in apparently, the intensity, of the “Manila""bue" she will shortly-come trade depression is upsetting the here to join her husband, the loglesschloulations made at that time- wonder.
Straits Times.
un trongly rumoured in mla White Label
Laumpair that
A new retrenciament committee it to be appointed.
"A heavy cut in the expenditure of the 1.M.8 Government for
⠀ "1932 must be made it the Budget
(Continued on previous column.› Until Then (Cleland)
བྷུཝཊྛཱཙུཉྩ ཙཀྐཾa ཙྪཱཌ བློ བཊྛ བ ་ྗ ཐཱབ
287 (Frost) 108
(Corbett)
.1
Navy Hall (Dallas), 124, The Shoveller
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