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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

INTERNATIONAL WEMBLEY.

PROPOSED EXHIBITION

IN 1930.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1926.

“SIX MONTHS. TO LIVE."

TOWN'S S.O.S.

PATIENT RECOVERS AND

REFUSES TO PAY.

of

£100,000 WANTED,

Sidmouth, the little 'South Devon resort, is threatened with destruction by the sea on the one) Although those rosponsible for At Harrogate County Court on hand, and with bankruptcy on the liquidation of the British Em- December 18, Dr. J. N. Todd, the other unless pire Exhibition and the sale of Loods Road, Harrogate, med Mr. Partington comes to the rescue..

new Mrs. Wembley have received a certain R. 9. Wigin, retired solicitor, number of inquiries and sugges Park Drive, Harrogate, for £14 the town had to construct a wall To protect itself from erosion tions, there has not yet been any 14s. for professional services, which already involves a burden really comprehensive tangible The defence was an allegation of of 39. 2d. In the £ on the offer. Wembley's future is still incompetence and negligence.

ratopayors. an open question.

Plaintiff (for whom Mr. J. It will probably remain so for Lomas-Walker appeared) said he made in the defences by recent Such sorious bronchos have been some time, as no data is fixed for was called in on March 7, 1991; gales that a further sum the termination of the period and found that the defendant had 100,000 is necessary if the within which offers will be enter- high blood pressure and was in a town's safety is to be guaranteed. tained for purchase by private condition which made it possible treaty, and after which, according there was an internal growth. He head for every man, woman and This expenditure means £18 a to the original arrangement, the thon considered that he had child at Sidmouth. liquidators are to proceed to malo slight jaundice, and found, augar,

The town's borrowing powers by public auction.

which he sald was not a symptom In the meantime a proposal is that could be treated lightly. He are all but exhausted, and at undar discussion which

cannot afford the £700 which it! may feared there might be cancer, and would cost to obtain an Act. of obviate this messure. Some of called into consultation Mr. Parliament enlarging them. the first inquiries for preliminary Herbert Frankling, surgeon, of information, after the announce Harrogate. At the request of a ment of sale, came from Ameri- the defendant's family, Mr. L. N. can sources, and though these Braithwaite, of Leeds, was also

was something serious inquiries were only tentative, consulted. Both agreed there

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they wore prompted by the pos- sibility of another exhibition at Wembley at some future date.

SCRIP FOR GUARANTORS. "

In what is described as its appalling used," Sidmouth is State assistance, which the making an urgent appeal for County Council is backing,

Sidmouth, formerly a place of Mr. R. C. Davies, of Leeds, for the defence, suggested to plaintiff century was a borough governed great importance, in the 13th that he had mado four wrong by a portroove. Long before that diagnosos, and plaintiff admitted period it had an important fishery Briefly, the proposal. now un-it was possible he said the patient and a good harbour. der discussion is based on thin hud not more than six months to following ideas:

live. When he called in Mr.

.

That Wembley be nulised for Frankling, he thought it probable MARRIAGE ROMANCE. the purposes of an Anglo-Ameri- there would be an operation. He can Exhibition-or of an oxhibi-leaned to the opinion that they tion of still wider international defendant was suffering from scope-in or about 1930.

cancer..

HUSBAND WHO TURNED OUT A MILLIONAIRE.

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That for the purpose of keep- Mr. Davies: And we now ing Wembley in being there be know it was really a very acute hookkeeper won the hand of the How & poor but honest" formed a limited liability com- bilious attack? -Plaintiff: Å pany comprised of the guaran-very severo form of toxemia. daughter of a banker, Was tors of the British Empire Ex- Mr. Herbert Frankling said his spurned by the rich father as an hibition.

examination of the defendant

"insolent young "upstart," be- That those guarantors receive was entirely negative, and he came a multi-millionaire and acrip to the amounts they may came to the conclusion that the bank from failure, is the moving returned to Buve his papa-in-law's bo called upon to pay up, in ac-symptoms described to him could cordance with their obligations, on explained in two ways, picture, that is being told about atory, worthy of a moving to meet the outstanding liabilities eit by the presence of A of the late exhibition..

malignant growth, of which there Mr. Waite Phillips, American By this scheme no further was no direct evidence, or by capital would be required from some.grave ups t of the chemistry

Four months ago Mr. Phillips the guarantor-shareholders, into whose possession would pass opinion supported the fear of the Oklahoma, for £5,000,000, thereby of the body. The balance of his sold his interest in the Waite Phillips Company, of Tulsa, the freehold (about 136 acres of existence of some hiddon growth. increasing his wealth to £8,000,- the Exhibition grounds, with the A note he made at the time was 000, which, he says, is enough to existing Exhibition buildings. It that the patient was of a bad

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SALE PROSPECT,

be alightly

,

it be

oil magnato.

Eighteen years before this Mr. Phillips, having by dint of hard work and self-denial saved $400, the next fellow," and proposed to considered himself "as good as the daughter of bis employer, Mr. Knoxville, Iowa. J. B. Elliott, a banker, of

The banker was staggered by his presumption, and refused, his consent.

is suggested, too, that, assuming colour. by which be took it he enable him to retire on. agreement of America and' of had appeared to other countries that might parti- jaundicad... cipate, those countries would be Mr. Davies: Would prepared to pay at once for the satisfactory to change one's mind buildings or sites required, thus and give three different diagnoses giving the strip the guarantors within a week? would receive an immediatel Mr. Frankling: It would be monetary value.

satisfactory if the first two were wrong and the last were right. Such a scheme implies, of After all, one has to change one's course, that the guarantors are opinion in trying to work out a WIRELESS TELEGRAPH SERVICES, which offer spoedy and prepared to forgo any possible knotty problem such as Mr. effichant means of communication, are established between HONGKONG off-setting sum that might be re- Wigin undoubtedly presented: and SHIPS at SEA, FRENCH INDO-CHINA, the PROVINCE of YI'Nalised by the sale of Wembley. What was the matter with of all objections, her family NAN and MACAO.

All existing indications, how-him?-Unquestionably he had a Full particulars may be obtained on application to the RADIO COUNTER

the MAIN HALL of the G.P.O., and at the RADIO TELE-Ver, are that the liquidation of grave upset of the chemistry of GRAPH OFFICE, 3rd. floor, GOVERNMENT. BUILDING.

Wembley in that way offors only the body. The RADIO TELEGRAPH OFFICE is always open for the recep- a very problematical prospect, to I call that a bad billous tion and transmission of Radio Telegrams and for reporting vessels

sang WAGLAN and GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSES.

Firms or personas, who have placed standing orders with the Radio Teleryph Office for advices of vessels passing the WAGLAN and GAF ROCK LIGHTHOUSES are requested to send rovised lists of vessels of which they are the owners, or agents, to the Officer-in-Chargo, as early as

possible.

RADIO TELEGRAPH CODE ADDRESSES FOR THE YEAR 1926 should be registered at the Radio Telegraph Office, 3rd. Floor, Government

Adding without delay, Forma may be obtained on application.

is articles forwarded by letter post to Great Britain

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Hable to confiscation by the Customs. Such article should be forwarded by parcel post only.

Radio Trafic with Canton is suspended until further notice. Interport Radio Telegrams are subject to delay. Kansages in Code must have name of Codo used fncluded in text.

INWARD MAILS.

From

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put it at the best, of realising any substantial amount.

£2,100,000 is the total amount

for which the Wembley guarantors are liable, of which £1,100,000 falls upon the Government.

attack?Very well. I think you aro putting it too lightly.

Evidence was also given by Mr.

J.

Braithwaite and Dr. Garrad (who treated the defendant after April 18), and Dr. Hitchcock,

As already announced, the radiologist. guarantors have been called upon

The evidence for the defence.

When his daughter married the intrepid young clerk in spite

disowned hor, and Mr. Phillips found himself out of a job.

He left Knoxville in time for the Oklahoma oil bocm; before men in the State. long he became one of the richest)

Not till a month ago, says the story from Iowa, did he return to

he

Knoxville. When

he did

roturn stabilised Mr. Elliott's bank, thereby saving the fortune of the banker's. family.

PLAN TO ROB SHIP.

to pay 15s. in the as their was that on March 7 the plaintiff. are minimum Jiability,

auditors having reported that the following day jaundice, and on now full of clemency.

the diagnosed blood pressure, the him," says the once storn parent, "I always knew he had it in

deficiency Wembley will "not bo March 10, cancer. Mrs. Wigin less than £1,157,689. The loss said he told her he could put his may be more. If it exceed - £2,-"finger on the very spot, and that! 100,000, then, to meet that excess, he did not think her husband) any aum roolised by the sale of could live more than six months. February 1. Womblay might be called upon

FIFTY COOLIES ATTEMPT Mr. Robert Wigia, junior, a

TO ROB STEAMER. February 1. before that sum could be claimed solicitor, said that on March 10 February 1 by the guarantors as a-set-off to the plaintiff, after coming from The first organized attempt of February 1 their remaining liabilitios. This, the patient's room, sat for some wholesale theft of foodstuffs Talamba

February 1. Van Cloon

it should be understood, is only time with his head in his band, since the rise in the price of rice February 1. Fontainebleau

a speculative consideration; but and then exclaimed: "Wasting! came to the attention of the February 2.

it is a consideration that would Wasting! "Wasting!" Asked if Shanghai police recently, when Glenfalloch

February 2. naturally by taken into account he meant cancer, he said "Yes, I, they arrested 24 coolies who had Angkor

February 1.

in connection with the scheme am afraid so."

been trapped below the hatch outlined above,

The defendant said that at the covers of the str. Pres. Perce

Kwangse, February 4. Tarda

February

BEST USE FOR WEMBLEY. first consultation the plaintiff while moored at the Hongkow, Ono factor influencing those gave him a Greek quotation, and and Shanghai Wharf. OUTWARD MAILS.

who favour the scheme of a told him to cat slops. (Laughter).} Discovered while in the hold of for"

future exhibition is the realise-Ho himself was always confident the ship by the vigilance of a Pros, Jackson Mon, Feb. 1, 3.10 p.m. tion that Wembley, as it stands, he had not cancer.

watchman and the chief officer, Sinking Mon, Feb. 1, p.mis essentially an exhibition site. His Honour said he could not who telophoned for the police, Pres. Adams.... Mon., Feb. 1. 6 p.m. New Mathildi... Mon. Feb. 1, p.m. Ils vast ground were laid out for find any trace of incompetence or after fastening down the batches,

the purposes of an exhibition, and negligence on the part of plaintiff. the

men could pirt пр no Tues., Feb. 2, the buildings, substantial and on- The law did not require that a resistance and all who could not

am during though they be, are man' should be always right, escape were taken into custody. Registration...46 essentially exhibition buildings. because that was impossible. As, Letters 10.30 In an interview published in The to the

About 6 a.m, according to the (Duo Thursday Island, 14th Feb.

somewhat dramatic story of the watchman, a gang of Haiching Tuas., Feb, 2, Noon. Daily Chronicle recently Mr. exclamation "I foar cancer," was 50 or 60 coolies walked on board J. H. Thomus, M.P., one of it imprudent, or was it lack of ship, as if to begin work, and re- the liquidators, humself said, professional skill and com-"moved the batch covers, carrying Fontainebleau........Tues., Feb. 2. In my judgment the best use petence? There was no founda- out their design. They descended Registration...11.45 am. for Wombley would be as a site tion for the allegations, and he into the hold, and while no one Letters 12.30 p.m. for future exhibitions. I have no gave judgment for the plaintiff was looking opened bage of rice (Duo Marseilles, 5th March). Sámarang Maru Tues., Feb, 2, 1.30 a. doubt that it would be more for £14 14k., with special costs.

1.30 a.m. valuable for this purpose than Alipore Tuca, Feb. 2, 2.30 p.m. for any other." Yuensang....Tu108., Fab. 2, 3.30 p.m. Parcela .....2nd, & p.m. Manila, Sandakan, Australia

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and prepared to remove such as they might. Fortunately the stovedoro camo on the wharf and the watchman informed him that cent political dovolopments, as of the soheme to embrace any, or bie gang were at work already, to marked by the Treaty of Locarno all, countries.

which he replied that they word ato particularly favourable to the Tho Locarno Trouty has not. He informed the oblef holding, within the next few already given some reality, at officer, who ordered: the crew to years, of an international oxhibi- least, to the phrase. "The Un-fasten down the hatch covers. tion. At the moment it is an ited States of Europe." Wom- The police came on tho Anglo-American exhibition that bley might afford the opportunity soane and took into custody those is suggested at any rate as the for a joint enterprise of both the who had not orawled out through baals of "the scheme. But this United States of America and port holes or cargo doors-in all would not exclude an extension The United States of Europe." 24.

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