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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Taught London

To Dance

Now Faces Poverty After £5,000 A Year

Stories of two men who had achieved fame were told at. London Bankruptcy" Buildings..

One became known through his study of the work of other people's hands, writes a Home Correspondent,

Both estimated their abilities at about £3,000, both expressed to me their determination to re- store thele fortunes, yet stories were as much in contrast as the roads they had taken to

success.

their

One was Mr. Santos Casani, the man who taught London to dance, Inventor of the Charles- ton and Yale Blues; the other

was, Lt. Col. Vladimir Whitfield Mansfield, handwriting

expert. whose aid, has been sought in some notable trials.

Mr. Casan said to

me at the

JULES JEANNENEY, Presi dent for the French 'Senate, who for the present is consi- dered to have great chances to canvass most votes at the pre- sidential elections in France on April 16.

RATHER BE

Kills Within Range Of

Mile

POWER OF NEW GERMAN BOMB

Nazi Germany has perfected a bomb which "killed every human being within the range" of a QUST- ter of a mile and knocked people unconscious for half a mile", when used in the Spanish Insurgente attack Barcelona, according to reports from the U.S. War Department.

This department has investi- although gated the reports, and the extent of the havoc. reported wrought by the explosive was not specifically ascertained, there were "indications" that Germany does have a new and powerful bomb.

Major-Gen. H. H. Arnold., chief or the U. 8. Army Air Corps, revealed the reports to the U."8.

GAMBLER THAN Senate military affairs committee

conclusion of his public examina-A "PUPPET” tion: "I suppose I lived at the

rate of £5,000 a year during the height of my success.

when he testified on the pending i $358,000,000 Army expansion bill.

"We get so many reports from abroad that it is rather difficult to determine which one you wil

The als Ex-Official's Excuse accept 100 per cent, and which

take I made was in not saving for a rainy day.

"But I have not done with suc-

To Judge

ress..yet. I have just appeared Reports that registration of game! And bling, houses in the Western district!

In my third, and best, film

"LET· DOWN"

Larger

one you accept with a grain of salt." Major Gen. Arteld stated. FURTHER INVESTIGATION "Further Investigation indicated

I have other plans. too. After is to be enforced and that some of that the Germans did have some 17 years at the top. of the prothe

establishments will kind of bomb loaded with com- tesston... I have still plenty to absorb smaller establishments is pressed air. carbon and some form show the dancing world." • "

forcing gambling in Shanghal to of oil, which combination Was seek another avenue of activity. | supposed to provide a terrific. After his first meeting of credi Tan Ying, a former minor official detonating effect when this bomb tors, Lt. Col. Mansfield said: "My of the former Shanghai City Gov-hit the ground, and in proof of that undoing has been a property dealernament has been sentenced to six we received pictures showing halves which I guaraleed, and which months' imprisonment by the First of buildings torn away in Bar- had nothing to do with my hand- Special District because he had celona.. Apparently. they just writing business.

[been directing a branch Wah Wel wiped. away half a building | was let down, and have been. gambling house in the Settlement everywhere this thing exploded. paying ever since. I'm deter in his home at 1254 Bubbling Well' "But we have not been able to mined that my creditors shall be Road.

get any more information on it." When the police visited his home paid every penny I owe."

Mr. Lester P. Barlow, armaments Mr. Caiani, who appeared be- jhe and a friend were arrested and consultant for the Glenn L. Martin fore Mr. Registrar Kean, agreed 156 gambling lottery tickets seized Aircraft Company, said in reference with Mr. C. T. Newman, the As- He explained to the judge that to the above, that liquid' oxygen sistant Official Receiver, that his in order to avoid going over to the bomb, reported to have been used liabilities were £3,402, and there "puppet" administration and be- by Germany. could "clean the seas was no prospect of a dividend becoming a traitor he had chosen of everything that floats." ing paid, since his only assets gambling as a profession.

of £197 were absorbed by, pre- ferential claims.

Mr. Casani sald he came to Bigland from Italy in 1915 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. and in 1921 started the "Casani School of Dancing"

at Knights- ·

bridge, S.W.

FREE SPENDER

"Nothing could live under

a

A gambler is better than a pup- barrage of liquid oxygen bombs,” pet official anyway, he said. His Barlow said. “I have motion pictures friend was acquitted,

to prove it. I'll show the Military Affairs Committee pictures of a mountainside that suddenly appears

M.P. STOPPED AT BRUSSELS SPROUTS

In a discussion in the Commons

to pour down like Niagara. Not a rock will fly. It will just crumble." TOO DANGEROUS

Mr. Barlow said he and his The school became very suc- on publicity, Mr. Bull Con, associates have been experimenting cessful, and in 1925 he moved to Enfield) sald Americans would be with the explosive for 20 years. larger premises in Regent impressed if they were told that Asked why the Uinted States has street, W;

there were more bathroomy in not adopted the weapon, he said some of our hotels.

that there had "been no need" and "They do not take kindly to that the experiment is 'too dan- such things as greens, cabbage. gerous." and Brussels sprouts efther." he said.

not true made

Mr. Newman: ไร It that on occasions you much as £150 a night-for per

sonel appearances?

Mr. Casani: Yes.

Mr. Barlow said damage by the robe was due to the "tremendous In January 1933 Mr. Caseni and The Speaker: May I remind the expansion speed of the Ingredients, another person formed Casanl's House we are talking about broad- carbon, liquid oxygen and mag- Lid, with a nominal capital of casting and the Press, and not nestum," £10,000, to carry on

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social Brusse's sprouts?

Liquid oxygen, he declared, is

club. The company carried on Mr. Bull: A right, Sir, I will not explosive in its own right, business as Casani's Club until stop at Brussels sprouts. August 1937, when it went into

voluntary liquidation...

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Mr. Newman; You have always FREED FROM PRISON

been a very free spender, and as

a result have no accumulated

capital, have you?

TO REJOIN NAVY

Frederick Alfred Button Bayers.

Mr. Casani: I'm sorry, but I'm the 21-years-old sailor of HL MS. afraid that la 80.

Forester who killed his father in

but only when mixed with the carbon. A lump of dunked carbon the size of your fist would blow a house to emithereens"

"COWBOY EARL"

FOR LORDS

a fight, was released from Horfeld Twenty-four-years-old Lord Ez-

Orphan Girl sol, Bristol.

Gets £2,089

A four-year-old giri, Joyce ̈ Radcliffe, is the only bene- ficlary under a House of Lords judgment given recently. Joyce will receive £2,089,

had

mont, the Cowboy Eari," is leav

The fight occurred after Sayera ing his Canadian ranch abortly to been called, home by his visit England and take his seat in mother to protect his sisters.

He was sentenced last July to nine months' imprisonment in the second division for manslaughter.

the House of Lords.

His decision was announced. by Lady Egmont's sister. Miss Ella Moodle.

...

When he takes his seat he will

a wild hörse.

Just before one of the hearings be the only member of the House of the case his fiancee, attractive who can rope a steer or break in fair-haired Miss Phyllis Davey, off The Court was asked to decide Wyke Regis, near Weymouth, knelt whether an employer was ilable in prayer between, the public ben- was 15, he succeeded to the title for damages in a case. where theches in the Bristol Police Court.

Brought up on a ranch until he

when his father, also a Canadian,

driver of a motor-coach was kill- In addition to members of his was killed in a car crash in 1933. ed by, another coach belonging | family, Sayers was met at the to his employer.

prison gates by his fellow-seamen | -- The Court of Appeal, reversing in H.M.S. Forester. He is to return a decision of Mr. Justice Hawke to the Navy, and wil, it is expected

at Liverpool Assizes, had held rejoin his old ship.

U.S. PREPARES TERRIFIC WELCOME"

GENERAL

WEIDMANN AND ACCOMPLIES IN ANGRY SCENE

Argument In Dock Over Dancer's Bag-

-

Eugen Weidmann, the 30-year- old German who insists that he six is responsible for all the murders committed at the Villa La Voulele, at La Celle, St. Cloud. and his three alleged accomplices. Roger Milon, Jean Blanc and were at logger- Colette Tricot, heads recently, the fourth day of the trial at the Seine et Olse Assizes in Versailles.

Weldmann is charged with, only four of the six murders imputed to the "killer" gang. Blanc and Colette Tricot are charged with receiving objects which were the proceeds of the murders. and Million is charged with two of the murders and with alding and abetting in two cases.

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"The kernel of the case now being reached," declared Weldmann's counsel, when the Court sought to deter- mine the object of the. $350- ciation formed by the four accused.

The foreman of the jury brought the matter to a head when he questioned Million about the funds which MiHon and Weldmann estab- were striving to raise to 1sh a beauty parlour" at the Villa La Voulzie

IN "PRISONERS

GERMANY" Million said that Weidmann and himself thought of the idea when they were, fellow, prisoners in Germany: · He and Blanc were in prison for illegal traf- Weld- Acking in exchanges, and mann, he understood, was detain“ ed for some political offence. Million and Weldmann became close friends and met again in Para

Milion. continually gesticula- ting and interrupting counsel. declared that he and Weldmann got into touch with Blanc, who advanced the sum of £80. to start the business, Million him- self advanced about £30, but Weldmann contributed no funds. It was the social aspect of the scheme which apparently led to Weldmann's chance acquaintance with Misa Jean de Koven, the American dancer,-who--was --- the frst of the victims.

"

Police" Inspr. Chaliler, who in-

vestigated the disappearance

ac-

Mias de Koven, gave a terse count, of how he got on to the track of the gang,

Mrs. Suckheim, the dancer's aunt, he said, received a letter, the handwriting of which reveal- ed that the writer either was German or had lived for a long time in Germany.

FOOT ITCH ATHLETE'S FOOT

No 23 at 60% of the adult population of the Unhad State or being attacked by the de

According to the Government Hasith Buletin

Farbe known as Athlete's Foot

Usually the disease, marta between the low Little watery blisters form and the skin cračka and pretty After while the Riching becornes 25- tend you that as though you would like to

scratch off all LOW MEAL.

Beware of It Spreading

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