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EUROPEAN'S BODY FOUND.

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE IN SINGAPORE.

RIVER DISCOVERY.

Singapore, Juno 16, Mystery surrounds the death of a European named Mr. Frederick Crawley, whose body was found floating in the Singapore River this morning.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

HONGKONG RADIO SCHEME,

THURSDAY, JUNE 21; 1928.

HONGKONG POLICE CHANGES.

MR. MURPHY NOW ACTING A.S.P.

CLIENT AND BROKERS.

BIG TRANSACTIONS ON CHANGE.

(Continued from Page 1.) Mr. King asked our representa educating of the public with regard four and five valve sets, using tive to suggest to people having to listening."There, is in Ilong-high frequency amplification, that kong a changing population, as they should work on an indoor

Mr. William Clifford Gaunt, of poople were always coming and aerial and thus avoid atmospherics Inspector T. Murphy, will be pleased ing very large financial intereats The friends of Chief Detective Yorks, who was described as hav- Wood Lawn, Apperley Bridge, going. Nearly everyone who had and get far better results and to learn that, as from the 12th of in a number of textile and other "Hatened In" at Home found that

this month, he has been promoted companies, and who carried on educational talks, religious ser- purer music. vices and such like items wore He went on to say, dealing with to the rink of Acting Assistant business in the Midlands and the most interesting and provided aerials used by listeners, that Superintendent of Police as well na considerable amount of pleasure in single wire not exceeding 100 feet Acting Director Criminal Investi- North recently made an applica

tion through counsel before Mr. in length was all that was requiration.

sion. Justice Eve in the Chancery Divi

odd moments,

Teaching Possibilities.

point of view, Mr. King said, he From the purely Government thought the establishment of the station would form a great asset

ed. The erection of "bird cages" Mr. T. Murphy' returned from was totally unnecessary, and was Home leave a few months ago wher unsightly. Every Borial mast he took over the reins from C. D. I. switch and a lightning arrester. ried on during Mr. Murphy's ab- must be fitted with an carthing Reynolds, now on leave, who car sence from the Colony. All those who have had occasion to come in

Cont of Set.

The discovery was made by a

behalf, asked for

Mr. Gaver, K.C., on Mr. Gaunt's marine police patrol at 7.40 a.m. near the Merbau Bridge, which

ley, Wilfred Dawson, and William an injunction to restrain Messrs. Wilfred Bent- spans the river between Tank Road

Cooper, stock and share brokers, and Havelock Road, near the

of Huddersfield und Leeds, from United Engineers' works. It is be as a means of teaching the Chin The transmitter being used is a contact with Mr. Murphy during selling or disposing of certain lieved that the body had been in ose. In broadcasting one could Marconi standard telegraph-tele-his tenure of office as C. D. 1. have shares belonging to Mr. Gaunt and the water about four hours, and afford to employ the very best ex-phone transmitter, A

proper found him to ba a most courteous held by the defendants as security It was identified by documents ponents of any particular subject broadcasting set, continued Mr. and obliging official. found in the pockets.

for money owing by him to them. There was a deep gash on the be talking merely to one or two, he was prepared to advise the Go-so ably handied many criminal ants had for a good many years

because such a teacher would not King, would cost about £5,000, and

Acting Inspector Lanie, who have

Mr. Gover said that the defend. back of the head, and the deceas- but he would be talking to thou bought once it was proved that the takes over the post left vacant by tensive operations as brokers and ernment that such a net could be ed's hands were bound in front of sands t

cases during the past two years, acted for Mr. Gaunt in his ex- one time. him by a leather belt around the worth

leence fees justifled it. while, wrists. It is not yet possible to very best men," he added. getting

The licence fee was only $5, oaid C. D. 1. Murphy, and assumed duties aay whether the head wound was King emphasised the value of teach-Mr. King, and he urged that people this morning.

as acting Chief Detective, Inspector caused by a sharp lustrument oring the Chinese to speak English by using listening-in sots should be by striking something when the broadcasting.

honest with themselves and take unfortunate "man fell in the river,

but a postmortem examination has established; the fact that death was due to drowning..

Theory of Suicide,

sey

la

the Mr.

in other matters. On April 30 last they served a notice on. Mr. Gaunt requiring him to pay the amount of amounting to £197,953, and saying his indebtedness,

Until a studio could be obtained, out the licences, as it was, only by staff include the transference of that unless he did so they would

Dance Music.

The test programmes had been

Other changes in the detective Sub-Inspector Andrew from the the Larceny Squad to the Murder Squad and the promotion of Lance Sergeant Plattery to the Larceny

RETURNED BANISHEE'S

THEFT.

ti

GETS ELEVEN-MONTH

SENTENCE.

Mr. Gaunt's one anxiety was to recover his stocks and shares and to pay back what he owed prompt- ly, but he disputed, the balance of

£100,000 on Account,

He was willing, in exchange for his stocks and shares which would. be transferred to him, to pay

direct to the defendants £100,000 on

account, and pay the disputed resi- due into Court,

Sir Herbert Cunliffe, K.C., for the defendants, said that in that case they would be without se- curity for interest on the large amount of £200,000 and costs,

with their present tests. The pub- be built up: No other fee would lie did not perhaps understand what be charged, except $5 for the test concerts really meant and they licence. If everyone owning a set might be inclined to ask why such paid his fee, there would be ne Squad. The body was, clad in khakl coat in lot of texts should be given. The need for money from elsewhere, Inspector P. Grant is confirmed in indebtedness, and said that in the and trousers, with no shirt, and publie had to remember that the but if, at some future date,, the the substantive rank of Chief In-aggregate various items came to there was no belt--a faet which stall had to be trained in broadcast Present hopes were realised, it spector of Police, with effect from £114,000. glyes colour to the theory of aui-ing, and people must also be patient might be necessary slightly to in- 27th March this year. eide. At present, however, the us there were no spares or dupli-crease that fee to extend the scope police are unable to advance any cates available for the transmitter or operations: suggestions as to the manner in a present. They were using a which Mr. Grawley met his death.

transmitter that was made up en- The deceased, who was 53 years tirely in their own workshops. of age and who wore a glass eye. The Government would most like broadcast during several evenings WAR a well-known character of ly expend the sum of $6,000 too far, continued Mr. King, and the Singapore. He was a native of obtain a studio and when that op results obtained had been excel Latvia, though he had been awayportunity arrived a room would be fent. He said he hoped to make a front his country for so long that prepared. possibly in the G.P.Ofeature of broadcasting dance his Continental origin was not

building.

music on Saturday nights so that if desired. public places could be linked up

At the Kowloon Magistracy, this private houses could receive and charged, before Mr. W. Schofield, day or two the defendants would Mr.. Gover said that within a or small clubs and morning, a returned banishee was

have their own private'dances. with lureeny of a leather basket have in their hunds from the sale

money, Mr. King expressed the tion order.

containing several articles of cloth-of certain shares a sum of £29,000, Reverting to the question of ing and with disobeying a deporta- for which credit ought to be given. The 'defendants said that the sum as between the public and myself, hope that it might be possible t is representing the Government."

was not more than £24,000. fa future date, if support

The defendant, who pleaded Sir Herbert said that the de- Reverting to the subject of pro-sufficient, to employ a studio man guilty to both charges, was stated fendants could not consent to be He claimed to have seen server said he hoped to be able to get men but, he added, the radio Lasraph, Tai Nam Street and picked up animation. What they were an- posed educational talks, Mr. King who was trained to broadcasting, to have gone into the rear of No.ing left in a state of suspended in the Boer War and the Great bers of the public who had had necessity, while broadcasting was pant and arrested. War and to have lived in British advantage of having been inland innot, and if expenses could not be

commercial the basket. He was seen by an e-xious about was when they were department was

to get their money. Colonies since 1891. He and un-China to tell their experiences carried, then it would be the broad-dant was sentenced to three month's to-morrow. My friend's anxiety

noticeable. He recently made an Mr. King said they hope to application for naturalisation as a secure the help of all the radis British subject, but this was turn-organisations in Hongkong. ed down by the Government, and hope we shall all get together so the letter found in his pocket was the official means of communication that the radio societies may become, one he had written asking for re- consideration of the mutter,

War Service.

doubtedly lived in South Africa through the transmitter.

at one time, but for the last twenty years he has lived off and on in

Singapore. For some years past

he had been unemployed, and liv-

Programme Expenses. Ultimately when

the licenea]

easting that would have to go,

Wes

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On the first charge, the defen- The results so far obtained, anidrd labour, and a further eight

months on the second count. Mr. King, were entirely due to way the technical members of hia (Mr. King'a) staff, had worked in

work in their own time.

A

ed in a Japanese hotel in Wilkie money began to come in, he would their own time. Until November, roping along the bottom of Rond. What his means of sub-suggest to the Government that distence were is not known, but he possibly sixty or seventy per cent. when additional staff members coal mine are just two examples appeared to have enough money, to of the total Beence money should were expected to arrive, his staff of "outside broadchsts" in England keep him without doing regular be hamlet over to a Committee of would have to continue to do the in recent years. work. He was frequently to be "found in the seamen's bars in the Tanjong Pagar district, where he was a familiar character and oe casionally a source of trouble to

the police.

the radie organisations who could usefully expend it in paying for programme expenses. They had to

very carefully with the program-

Mr. Gover-This afternoon

Dr

to get his money is not greater than ours to get our shares.

Sir Herbert Cunliffe welcomed the suggestion that Mr. Gaunt should give £100,000 at once, and genting. Mr. Gaunt could have upon his second mortgagee con- the shares transferred subject to

Court would then be £78,000 ins tead of £98,000.

the balance being paid into Court, In connexion with relaying from plus a sum" sufficient to answer Relaying Possibilities, · ·

England, the short wave station interest and costs. He was con- 5SW is now regularly received intent to treat £4,000 of the £21,000 It is presumed that the relay-Hongkong and there seems me side of the scheme, because, ing from London proposed will be reason why, given favourable re- however difficult it might be to pro carried out on the same lines as caption, programmes received from

no as a sum to answer Interest and costs, and the balance paid into It is said that the deceased's

duce local programmes, and how-in England, America and else-England should not be relayed to hands were bound in such a way

ever difficult it might be for the where. In recent years there has other listeners in the Colony, not that he could have done it himself, great diflenity was the question of what are known as

engineers to transmit, another been a considerable expansion in possessing short wave sets, by the Gaunt making the payments men- Mr. Justice Eve said that'on Mr. but the matter will be fully in-copyright. Mr. King added that broadcasts."

"outside Government station. vestigated by the Coroner in dure

tioned by Mr. Gover this week, been

Owing to the difference in time, there would be no order on the niet very Microphones and the necessary programmes from Home are not motion except helpfully by the local music stores amplifiers are installed near the received until the early hour of should be costs in the etion.

that the costs who had offered to lend a con-ringside at a boxing match, the the morning, although the mid- Linuous supply of new CURIOUS INCIDENT IN Besides greatly helping the broad-in front of some important speaker Hangkang from about seven

records, finishing point of a race track, or day transmission is received in ANOTHER PICTURE YAUMATI.

cast programmes,

this would at a dinner or other, function. eight o'clock at night.

FOR U.S. stimulate business,

It servis The microphone is connected by possible, however, that in the nearTHE MOULIN ROUGE 40 YEARS Questioned with regard to the station and by this means it is grampe will be broadcast from a land line to the broadcasting future an almost continuous pro- YOUTH THROWS STONES AT proposed relaying of programmes, possible to broadcast almost any the short wave station in England

SOLDIERS

Mr. King said that at the moment event. The nightingale singing and so make Home concerts avail-Lautrec's masterpiece, the "Tablo this was entirely in the experi-n the woods, the sound of tulisable all over the Empire. mental stage and was one of the

course.

had

A young Chinese was sentenced points that called for patience.

to six weeks' hard

W.

labour by Me. Although programnica were receiv Schofield ni the Kowlooned quite clearly during some parts Magistracy this morning for of the 24 hours, even supposing throwing stones into a house in they were well received during Templa Street,

the whole of that time, the art

It appeared from the evidence of receiving on a short wave and that two military men were pay re-transmitting on a long wave was ing a visit to a house in Temple not by any means simple, as there Street at 11pm. on Tuesday and were sitting just inside the front to be dealt with. It was possible! were numerous technical points door. Without any apparent rea- but extremely difficult to get such son defendant threw stones into re-transmission clear and equal to the premises, hitting one of the local broadcasting, soldiers and two girls. He was chased and arrested.

The defendant denied the, charge but his Worship found the evid ence sufficiently substantiated to register a conviction,

Technical Points,

SCHOOLBOY DROWNED. telephone poles for the aerial, but

BATHING TRAGEDY INSIDE NULLAH DAM.

gard to the transmission itself. Asked for particulars with re- Mr King replied that at the moment the transmitter had not a very long range as they were using its range could be increased, In the ordinary way the whole of the Colony should be covered. The pro Krumnes could be received with a one-valve receiver on telephones, or one valve and two singes

A school boy named Chan Fung-of low frequency amplification for yun, fifteen years of age, lost his loud speakers. This latter may life by drowning yesterday when not be absolutely necessary, but I he got out of his depth whilst advise it so that any renelion is swimming inside the dam of used and overloading and 'forcing nullah at Smithfield, Kennedy of the set is obviated." Town, near the opium factory,

The boy was apparently swim-

Mr. King continued that the.

ming alone, and when his body was worst thing anyone could do war! eventually retrieved, life was ex-to try and force a set, as it in-j tinct. The remains were sent to volved reactions, and the Public Mortuary.

נ'

always

brought in distortion although loud tones wore obtained. It To facilitate the early detection should be avoided if possible ba of mild cases of smallpox Kingston cause it was a source of oscilla Town Council has decided to make tion which annoyed other listen- chicken pox compulsorily notifiable ers and was totally unnecessary for a period of one month,

in a Colony like Hongkong,

©1922 BY NES, BEKVICK

The newlywed leaves on a cloudy morning for the

station half a block away.

to

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What is considered to be Toulouse

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Thus the Tate Gallery has missed the chance of acquiring one of the most important paintings of the modern French school. There is nothing of its kind more command- ing in that section at Milbank. It is more complete thun Manet's "La Servante de Bocks," and holds ita own in the sheer art of painting, as an historial document, with the sume artist'a • "Concert Tuileries" of the Lane colloction.

The scene is a corner of the old Moulin

Place Rouge. In the Blanche, about 1890, and the people represented include the painter him. self and his intimate friends: Tapie da Celeyran (Lautrec's first cousin), Maurice Guibert, Soscau, the photoghapher, who became a pianist, La Macarona, and, most famous of all, La Gouluc, the bril liant danscuse. This extraordin- ary creature's nickname was given to hor because, in the early days of the Moulin Rouge, she used to go among the tables and drink up all the "heel-taps" left in the glasses.

Lautrec, who was the only son of the Comte de Toulouse-Lautres Monfa, had the misfortune to fl and break a leg in his thirteenth year, and some months Inter the other leg also was broken, with the result that their growth was for ever arrested. His body grow normally, but the lower linibs were grotesquely short, and he could not walk without pain.

Throughout his brief life-he died at the age of 37-Lautrec re- sented this cruel deformity, and there can be little doubt that it affected to a great extent his mind and led to the moral and physical delinquencies which wrecked his manhood.

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