1932-11-16 — Page 7

FROM THE FLEET

BOXING

I learn from various sources, that the forthcoming Buxing Competi tions this season; for the Flest, will be keenly contested.

BUILDING 'COM. PLETELY GUTTED

ANOTHER FIRE AT YAUMATI

Yet another fire broke out during

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932.

HONG KONG

SEQUEL TO PRAYA | FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN RADIO EXHIBITION

"DR. RADIO" TO PERFORM CEREMONY

FRACAS

CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST COOLJE

Before Mr. Wynne Jones at Con-

The first of these competitions the early hours of yesterday morn tral Magistracy, Lo Chong was

CAPT. SUMMERS' SEVEN. TIETH BIRTHDAY

TO-DAY IN GLOUCESTER BUILDING

will be for novices and amateurs of in at Yaumati, when the entire charged with the murder of one the Colony, na far as residence in At. 17 a.m. to-day the opening

all weights. The Novices Com-

building situnte' at 81 Reclamation petition will be a battle for in

WAN completely gutted. dividual honours, while the Ama Street, teur Competition is to be an inter- Fortunately there was no loss of team competition, each team repré-life or personal injury. senting their respective ships. The outbreak had its origin in Judging from the 8th Flotilla Destroyers' Tourney

the ground flour of the building recently, H.M.S. Verity should prove A where Д Chinese medicine shop, great asset in supplying an excel the Pak Fak Tong had its head.

lent team from the 8th D.F., while nt the same time .M.9. Hermes mast not be forgotten, as her boys did very

welt against Shanghai during her stay there.

This will be an opportunity for both teams to prove themselves, However we shall see: there may be others equally good, but they have yet to show their mettle. ·

These competitions have been

quarters,

It is believed that an oven which was used to dry herbs set the premises ablaze, the stair. case acting as a flue for the flames, which soon spread to the upper floure.

Last Wednesday's Victim. A victim of the fire at 972, Can-

Tong Tsat, who died in Gavorsment Civil Hospital on October 28, four days after he had been admitted there with a fractured skull follow. ing a fracas in Connaught Road

West

ceremony of the Hong Kong Hadio and Refrigerator Exhibition will take place on the eighth floor of the Gloucester Building.

Captain E. H. Summers, prcb- ably the oldest. English resident in

concerned, yesterday celebrated his reventieth year and incidentally his fifty-fifth year in Hong Kong.

Captain Summers ocmes of old

The Exhibition will be officially Somerset stock, his father having been a doctor in Taunton. He first opened by means of wireless. in the porson of "Dr. Radio," who will When the Court sut yeaterday arrived in Hong Kong as an up- there was another man in the dock prenties in a 300-ton windjammer,bo stationed in the main lobby. with La Choag, but on representa-carrying coal from Sunderland to The various radio exhibits will be the balcony facing tions of Mr. J. A. Fraser, who ap- Macao, the voyage round the Cape displayed on

Des Vaux Road, while the entire peared for the Crown, the charge taking over three months. against this man was dropped on

Reading Room will be taken up the ground of there being not suf.

with all classes of the most modern types of refrigerators. ficient evidence against him.

Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the commanded diofence.

For some time afterwards, on ne count of frequent piracies in the Canton Delta. Captain Summers Chinese gunboat which burnt and destroyed the their pirate junks and razed villages to the ground,

Ho then joined the Hong Kong. Canton and Macto Steamboat Co.

Wireless Programme. From 11 am, till 7 p.m. a can- tinuous wireless programme will be specially broadcast from station Z.B.W., when the various types of radio, sets will be tuned in in turn.

arranged to take place on December on Rond, on Wednesday morning some vegetables from baskets which his last ship being the s.s. Hankow After 7 p.m., if atmosphoric condi- .

13 approx. The professionals of the Flect are beginning to get up en their tors, itching to be on the enyas again, Oh! Boy how they love it!

inst, Wong Cheng, ngod 40 who was admitted to Kowloon Hospital

suffering from severe injuries

caused by a fall in attempting to excupe down a drain pipe, died on Monday..

There certainly seeme to be a Inck of enterprise on the part of the Joext buxing fraternity. för what greater opportunity could our promoters wish for with the to go into commission. American Flect present? Could they not present a card for the boxing fans, with American lads from the U.S.S. Houston and the championa el our own fleet to top

the bill?

It is understood, that the H.K.B.A. cannot meet the terms

asked by the more central thoatres, for staging their boxing pro grammars! Is it to in wondered at when they miss such opportunities. in produce a magnetic programme Perhaps it is due to a lack of the Go Get 'Em" spirit, or are there gonuine difficulties that prove too

Naval Appointments. London, Oct. 10.-Lieut. Comdr. J. Griggs to Eagle, October 1; P. L. Jamisori (F/O., RAF) to Hermes for 403 fight

Licut

(Sept. 2).

October

Mr. Fraser in outlining the case against the accused said that on October 23, the murdered man, who was fairly old, was seen to take

were being unloaded from a ship by a number of coolies on to Con- naught Road. The old man was thereupon assaulted by a number of coolies and in the course of that assault, the defendant was alleged to have struok him one bloy with a bamboo pole, on the head, from

which the old man died.

The man who was discharged by

afterwards

which, later on, was burnt and sunktions are favourable, a series of alongside the wharf in Hong Kong lort-wave-station reception tests. will be made in an endeavour to forward the claims of the respectivo sets.

Captain Summera

joined the Hong Kong and Kow loon Wharf and Godown Company, in which concern he was craft superintendent for over twenty odd years, retiring ultimately in 1924. With his wife, he settled down in Golders Green, London, but after so many years in the East, the Eng. lish climate drove him back to Hong Kong, where he now lives in his residence overlooking Kai Tack Aerodrome, where he tends his large flower and vegetable garden and his chickens.

Captain Summers is stili hale and hearty and keeps in touch with

The balcony will be illuminated, and the various exhibitors' stands will be divided by: strings of coloured electric lights,

Object of Exhibition. The object of the exhibition is to cable the general public to view

types under one roof, to compare the radios and refrigerators of all the advantages of euch, and to realise the rapid strides that have been made in radio and refrigera tion during recent years,

The following is a list of the exhibitors:-

the Court was pointed out to a policeman who was called to the scene. He was detained and taken to the Central Police Station and the injured man was taken to the Government Civil Hospital The next morning the arrested man 10. Comdr. C. I was charged with causing the in-1 Health-Caldwell, D.3.0. to Tamarjured man grievous bodily harm, (Nov. 1); L-Camdr. F. B. Tours, He was detained on that charge, his many friends and “old-timera " to Kent, as Flag Lieut.-Comdr. to A few days later, the present dein Hong Kong and South China.

He is fortunate in having all his Vice-Admiral Sir F. Dreyer (Jan. fradant, Io Chong Was pointed out 21, 1903); Commd. Engr. C. W. by a man who claimed to have soen family in Hong Kong, with the ax

the assault and who know the deception of Frank, who was apprenson Music Co., Ltd., Moutric & Co., Baker, to Kent (Nov. 6).

fendant and he was arrested. ticed as an engineer at Taikoo dtd., Reiss, Massey & Co. Ltd., Mr. Fraser said that when the Docks and was killed in Frano in The General Electric Co. of China, defendant was charged with causing 1917, while & Sapper in the Aus Ltd., Ideal Radio Services, Shewan, the old man gicivons bodily baru, tralian Expeditionary Force. His Tomes & Co., Electric Service Cor

New Naval Attaché.

Radios.

Radio Services, Ltd., The Ander

London, Oct. 20.-The Admiralty great an obstruction to proge announces the appointment of Cap However the eagerness is very keontain J. G. P.. Vivian as Navalhis answer to the charge via "I other two sons, C. H. Summers, of}poration, A. W. V. Turner & Co.,

Attache to His Majesty's Missions in Japan and China, with head- quarters at Tokyo, to date from January next, He will succeed Capt. M. G. B. Legge, D.§.0.

throughout the Fleet and it is hoped we shall see more boxing programmes this soon.

SOCIAL

have nothing to say. I struck him twice with a pole because he had taken my things."

After evidenes in support of Mr.

Taikoo oko, and A. W. Bummers Sincere Co., Ltd.. Asia Electric are still in Hong Kong, while his Co., Rudolf Wolff & Kew, Ltd.,

Siemens Chino Co. daughter is Mrs R. F. Forbes.

We associate ourselves with his many friends in wishing Captain life in the Colony, where he has seen so many changes and where he is now probably the oldest resident from the Homeland.

A notable event has been arrang. Capt. Vivian formerly commanded Fraser's opening had b:en given, Summers many more year of active

ed for Saturday next, November 19, when the Fleet will entertain the boys from the U.S.S. Houston and U.S.S. Isoll, ni the R.N. Canteen, They are to be given dinner with an impromptu "smoker" to fol- low,

What could be better to strength. en the existing boud of friend ship between two English-speaking navies7 Wherever our boys travel and make contact with the Ameri- can sailors, they are always made most welcome, and treated with every mark of friendship.

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However our fellows will un doubtedly give them just as enthusiastic a welcome, and thereby further camiont a bond which is so obviously growing.

GRATITUDE

the Dauntless on the America and West Indies station. During the war he served in the cruiser Venus and the battleship Iron Duke. Ho was squadron mavigator and war staff officer with Admiral Sir Fred. erick Field in the Hood during the Special Service Squadron cruise round the world in 1923-4.

The "Father" of the Navy, London, Oct. 20-The death is announced to-day of Captain James Henry Hunter, at the age of 08. Capt. Hunter was the oldest officer

the case was adjourned.

QUARREL IN FURNITURIZ SHOP

FOKI SENT TO GAOL

A furniture shop in Kowloon gave the impression that a riótous mob had passed that way after a. quarrel.

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Wong Yat Cho appeared as com- plainant at the Kowloon magistracy

POPPY DAY FUND

FURTHER ACKNOWLADO-

.MENT.

The Secretary of Earl Haig's Fund, Hong Kong, Mr. F. G. Maunder, asks us to say that the following helpers old poppies in addition to those whose names have already been mentioned:

CIVIL SERVICE AND HAPPY VALLET Convenors: Mesars. J. Doakin

AREA

of any executive rank in the Navy before Mr. Butters yesterday charg and was regarded as "the Fathering the foki of another furniture

and B.. E. Maughan. He entered the shop with assault and wounding. of the Navy."

Dotective-Sergeant Goodwin, said Navy in 1848 and was the first man to enter Sevastopol during the that complainant asked defendant Crumenn War. In 1864 while fight to engage a small boy to work for ing in the Straits of Shimonoseki, him, but when the boy had been

Refrigerators, Anderson Meyer, & Co., Ltd., Shewan, Tomes & Co. Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd.

GIRL FALLS OVER BALCONY

WOMAN ALSO INJURED..

Serious injuries were suffered by married woman and mui tsai on Wednesday whan the girl fell from an upper Goor into the street on top of a group of persons who were sitting on the edge of the pave

ment.

Collectors: Mesdames S. E. The report made to the Police, Alderman, Fariar, Allen, the stated that Chan: Fuk, aged 16, the Misses Mona Shand, Peggy Hamar, mut trai, was collecting clothes Nancy Karrison, Alms Walker, Marie Launard, Marie Souza, Betty from a bamboo pole of the verandab Longbottom, Dora Taruer Ins of the second floor of 80, Becond

Deakin, Vician Hollidge, Poggy

It is definitely known, that the when his osptain and commander brought out from the country, com- Tulebin, Alice Anderson, Dorothy Street when she overbalanced and

were killed, Captain Hunter, then plainant said he had already en a lieutenant, immediately took gaged one himself. command of the ship, bombarded

men in the Fleet, thoroughly: appro- ciate the conecasion of the enter prising proprictors, of the Oriental Cinema, to the Serviceman in uniform, in allowing them to any part of the house at half price, and captain and devoted several years

to the laying of submarine cables. they deserve all the patronage which we are sure they will receive.

HOME NEWS

(Special Airmail Service)

Falmouth for China. London, Oct 23 The now sloop Falmouth will commission to day at Devonport with a full complement for service on the Chua Station. on which she will take over the duties of despatch vessel in succes. sion to the Peterafold, which was wrecked last Armistice Day. Come mander John-Creswell, late of the Staff College will command-her. The Falmouth in the first of the four sloops of the 1930 programme "(Cvatínued "on-next-column.).

Ecclesial, Masters John Deakin, dropped into the street, landing on Cecil Morley Derek Farrar, Mac top of Chan So, aged 38, residing Bayer, Fred Morley.

at D4, Third Street.

أحد

Chan Bo was sitting with other women outside 85, Second Street,

Amount Collected: 8001.33. QUARRY BAY Convenor:-Mr. J. Rueil Collectors: The Misses Ena HOSS

A heated quarrel ensued as a re- the forts and took off 73 guus. Hesult of which chairs were thrown rotired in 1873 with the rank of about and ended with the defendant

hitting complainant on the

Sentence of six weeks, was passed,

WARSHIPS IN PORT,

The following warships were in port yesterday-

Basin. Tamar,

East Wall-Bridgewater. North Arm.-Suffolk Wait Wall Kent, Bruce... Dock.---Tarantula, Oswald, Osirin No.. Buoy Hermes. No. 2, Duoy. Medway und

marinos.

No. 3 Buoy.Devonshire Foreign Warkhips.

IS. cruisen Houston U.S. armod yacht Isabel, U.S. gunboat Fulton, French river gunboat Argus. Portuguese cruiser Adamastor.

with a file.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE

INVITATION FROM ABBOT OF YU YUNG SHAN MONASTERY

Klown, Jean Summer Margaret chatting when the accident occur- Manro, Phixin Stalker. Elisste red.

one Ellen Weir, Annie Weir, yy Both were removed to the Govern Thurwell, Aileen Thurwell. Prima Civil Hospital in an unco rose Wilson, Vérita Gray,

Amount Collected 8133.897. Bug O-Mi Pat Mitchell. CHEUNG CHAD:-Mrs. Franklin.. UNIVERSITY ARRA: rard."

Ger.

* TOTAL CLOSE UPON 87,000+0 Previously acknowledged $8,503.00 Passengers of Empress of

The Abbot of the Fu Yong Shan Monastery, Taun Wan has extended a cordial invitation to the Officers Canada and members of the Brigade to be Mr. W. Wooding present at a unique ceremony to Hotel Coil the held on Sunday. -Novembar 20-1 Mr. D.S. Scott

fram about 10 o'clock in the after Mr. Oliver

Mr. B. Jarvis" town.

Mr. C. Black Anonymous “open Anonymous

The Monastery will profidh "8

Mr. A. Morris, the Assant Com missioner of the Brigade, informs withnt thin-particular ceremony has only occurred twins in the history of the Kyanglang-Pro- vince.

The invitation is extended to the European community 'alad.

solous condition.

HE. THE GOVERNOR

EXPECTED TO RETURN TO-MORROW.

943.01 01.08

His Excellency the Governor is 25,00 500 expected to arrive in the Peninsular 10:00 & Oriental Eteam-Navigation. Com.. ∙10:00

pany's 8.2 Ranpura og Thursday, 6.00

November 17, and to land at 6.00 1.00 Queen's Pier at about 9 a.m.

Further, contributions may sent to Messrs. Thomson & Co., Chartered Accountants, York Build- ing, Hong Kong.

The landing will be unofficial, but Hs: Hedey will be

present.

Ordlinkry dress.

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