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CANADIAN

PACIFIC

A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE

by the

S.S. "EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA"

21,850 Tons Gross, Length 615 Feet.

LEAVING HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 13th, 1928.

via Shanghai, Chinwangtao (for Poking. Boppu, Kobe," Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Frane'sco. Balboa, Panama, through the Panama Canal to Cristobal, Colon Havana.

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Arriving NEW YORK,

APRIL 12th, 1928.

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arriving SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL, 22nd 1928.

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10th February

22nd February

SHANGHA), JAPAN PORTS and VLADIVOSTOCK,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, · TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928.

DOCTORS AND A CAT.

CRUELTY CHARGES FOLLOW

MODERN BRIDGĘ- BUILDING.

MOUNTED INFANTRY.

WAS

DINNER AT VOLUNTEER ·.

· “SCENE" IN A HOSPITAL

NEW METHODS IN GERMANY.

· HEADQUARTERS. At Tower Bridge Folice Court: before Mr. Tassell, Dr. George days it is not so much the cost of fantry Company of the Hongkong In the building of bridges nova- Members of the Mounted In- Dunluce Eccles and Dr. Kenneth the bridgework itself which is de Volunteer Defence Corps and their Noel Purkis, both attached to

torminative of the entire expendi-friends were at dinner at the Bermondsey Hospital, Lower-roud, ture. On the contrary, the erecVolunteer Headquarters on Friday Rotherhithe, were summoned for tion of the bridge, the fitting to-when thirty members and guests cruelly ill-treating a cat at the gather of the various parts, con-vere present. After dinner the hospital.

stitutes a most decisive factor. health of the guests was proposed Mr. Gordon Jones, prosecuting, Consequently, not only the con- by Major Dowbiggin and said that his suggestion was that tractors themselves, but also the the doctors, coming home early one State and the municipal and other replied to by Lt. Col. Bird and Dr. morning, had attacked the cat be- public authorities are closely con-

Pierce Grove, who-represented the i cause I stole some sandwiches, cerned in restricting the costs of

Fanling Hunt. -

Lt, L. C. Macnamara then pre- and because, it scratched one of the erection; their mutual efforts them they killed it. ·

sented Staft-Sergeant Shadbolt, are aimed at introducing methods Olive Ray, housemaid at the hos which may serve to reduce those A. V. C., with a silver cigarette pital, said she found the

mess costs. Nor can it be denied that box, suitably inscribed, on behalf rooni in disorder when she went in essential improvements have been of all the members of the Mounted one morging last mouth. A castor affected in the contrivances used Infantry Company in appreciation was broken off the table, a saucer for erecting bridges, or that our of his work with the ponies. The was broken, the tongs and poker engineers continue to make every nonies are under the special care were bent, and there were blood endeavour to simplify and cheapen of Staff-Sergeant Shadbolt and the stains in several parts of the room, still further the process of bridge

The cat, a ginger one, she said, was originally given to the Matron, A noticeable case is the absolute- but her dog bit it. It disappeared, y new method adopted in removing and when it returned it was moody an old structure and building a re and lame, and, in her opinion, cently completed and highly in- should have been destroyed had it not got better.

building.

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Northern Elb, the broad main arma concert organized by C. S. M. Dr. Robert Hartley, Medical of which here, above Hamburg, is Charles and "Sergeant Potts, Mr. Superintendent of the hospital, a very large river.

"ACHILLES" Fleming being at the piano. The said that he had known the ginger To obtain satisfactory results, varions items were much appreet- cat for over three years. In con- the erecting contrivances and the sted. sequence of what he was told he erecting process must be adapted | inspected the mess room and asked to the circumstances of the situa- the staff for an explanation, Dr. tion. In the case just referred to, Purkis, volunteered one, and, said | which 'concerned a three-span that he and another man, whom he bridge of large dimensions, two later said was Dr. Eccles, went to tower slewing cranes were employ- the mess room, at an.

As compared with the usual A phite ed. of sandwiches on the table had manual process, the advantages of been disturbed and some were on this novel crans were considérable, the floor. As the cat seemed wild, an essential saving of easts being

KANTENOR On Saturday morning. La Chi- they thought it best to kill it and effected. The number of labourers

"EXOTOR" student of St. Paul's hing, a after it had attacked Dr. Eccles was reduced by 16. which, meant a

DAENEAS" for trial they killed as mercifully as they saving of 130 marks per day,, In College, was committed

"SARPEDON" 18th April on a could. The cat's body was found addition a saving was made in the at the Criminal Sessions in the shrubbery Inter-

material handled. About 6 marke charge of manslaughter of Ho Sidney Bennett, an inspector of per ton was saved in the breaking wong-hoi, another student of the the RIS.P.C.A said that he sawup of the old bridge and 5 marks same College.

It is alleged that the deceased hoth defendants in the presence one. The two cranes combined en-Youth: died as a consequence of a per ton in contructing the new abled 60 tons of ironwork to be low inflicted by the defendant on (Wilness) asked # Dr. Eccles fitted together per day. Hence, in the deceased in the course of a

of Dr. Hartley, and Dr. Purkis made and signed a statement.

show him his injured hand, and

Ho

to

he

| removing 3,200 tons of structure

arrel at the South China

and erecting 5.400 tons of new Athletic Association on Christmas material may be estimated at 47,000 material, the total saving on Day.

Mr. R.-E. Lindsell indicated that

on

did so.

Captain Piesie, veterinary surge on, safe that the cat had a fras marks, being 27,000 murks, plus bail would be reduced to $500 in tured shoulder blade and a num-20,000 marks. This illustrates theonds. Previously defendant had ber of braises, No single one of asential benefits accruing to the granted bail in the sum of the injuries would have caused public authorities in whose

ser$500 in cash and $500 bonds. death, which was dre to-heart ice the cranes are пxed.

Mr. Turner stated that in view failure from shock.

The cranes in question were his Worship's statement Both the doctors denied that specially constructed for the build-Friday that a jury was unlikely to there was. ny unneccessary ing of the Elb bridges, but a

convict on the evidence, he (Mr. cruelty, and said that the cat ap-modification of

Turner) thought the proper carriages peared to be mad, and they thought would make them serviceable for course would be to discharge the that, in the best interests of the erecting other bridges.

defendant and he asked Mr. Lind patients. It should be destroyed,

sell to make a note to that effect. There had been a recent ense in

His Worship made the note. which a cat had attacked a patient. Mir, Tassell dismissed the sum

monses.

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crane

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of the bridge. The

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