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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1928.

ENGLISHMAN ROBBED £100,000 DOCKS BLAZE,

AT DEAUVILLE,

"WELL-KNOWN IN BOXING WORLD."

SIX WORKMEN INJURED BY FALLING ROOF,

Berlin, Aug. 14 -

Paris, Aug. 14. -

TYPISTS LIFE NOT A HAPPY ONE.

STRAIN, AND NOISE LEAD TO SICKNESS.

Damage estimated at about Typists are specially affected by Two men, one said to be a stock-£100,000 was done by fire yester-health, according to an article broker of New York City, and the day to the Wilhelmsburg Docks, in the August issue of "Industrial other a French-Canadian, are re-whitch form a part of the port of Welfare,"

In one large office the average ported to be in gaol at Lisieux on Hamburg.

The dre, which, It is thought, number of days lost through sick- charge of having stolen 30,000 francs (1260) from "a titled Eng-was caused by incendiarism, spreadiness was ten for each woman typist, ajas compared with 7.2 for each lishman, very well known in the with extreme rapidity over boxing world," staying at Deauville, cotton warehouse, and owing to the woman clerk.

As the result of a preliminary The men are said to have been extreme heat a store of 600 steel arrested in an attempt to get out bottles of ammonia blew up. Six Investigation. the Industrial Wel- of France, having eluded the Denu-workmen were ecriously injured fare Society has formed thes ville police, who arrived at the sta by the crash of a roof caused. by general conclusions as to the cause of abnormal sickness among tion about one minute after the the explosion.

Sheds containing of and typists:—— train had left last Sunday after-

turpentine op a canal near by' fell' The robbery took place on Sun-a prey to the flames and the canal day morning at 6:30 o'clock in the soon appeared to be a sheet of firo. rooms of the Englishman at the: Hotel Royale, where he had been escorted by the two men from the casino. They saw the Englishman to bed and then left.

noor.

Gambling Plaques.

High speed and great con- contration.

Monotony.

Noise of the typewriters. Cramped position.

Faulty ventilation and healing of rooms.

Defects of eyesight.

Output Measured.

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18th Sept. M'ler, London, B'dam & Hamburg "The sickness referred to," states i "SARPEDON" 3rd Oct. &les, O'lanca Londen, B'dom & G'sgow' 15th Oct. Me, London, B'dam'& Fiamborg

tors..

Apart from the seriousness of the damage, the fire is a matter of interest owing to the standpoint which the Hamburg insurance com- pantes take up tonight. Notwith- The hotel staff report that they landing the totally inadequate fire saw the Canadian leave the hotel engines bolonging to the district for the second time an hour later, of Wilhelmsburg, the excellently- He was questioned by the hotel de-equipped Hamburg brigades were the article, "Is particularly of the tective on Sunday afternoon, and not called out, as Wilhelmsburg be-neuraathenic type, and this in- is believed to have left Deauville longs to Prussia, and Prussia is on dicates the importance of con- with the American while the police ery bad terms with the Free centration and speeding up as fac-

State of Hamburg. were Investigating the case.

The insurance firms maintain "Schemes of measuring the Indi- that no compensation will be grant-vidual output of Typists have been have harmful physical The Englishman, it is said, haded if it is proved that the absence found to much money upon him. In his of the Hamburg fire brigades allow-effects. The mere fact that a rooms at the lotel Royale he reed the fire to reach such grave pro-girl's output is being measured is in itself sufficient to cause strain portions. maved

and worry and to make her serious- two gambling plaques of

ly ill," 10,000 francs each from his coat and placed them in a writing desk under the eyes of the two men. where he stayed at the Hotel

These plaques and loose cash, amounting to 10,000 francs, were taken. Other money-four packets of banknotes amounting to 10,000 francs each were placed in a dressing-table drawer during the Canadian'a absence from the room. These were untouched,

Suggestions for relieving the

Scribe. He was watched at Deau-physical and mental strain are:- ville the whole time he was there.

At the Normandie Hotel," where the men had been staying, the police found that their bill, unpaid for three weeks, was paid in full on Sunday morning.

The victim of this ingenious and The two suspects came to Paris rather ingenuous robbery is said from America on March 16 and to have been, Sir Claude Champion a de Creepigny-whose name in an- had been at Deauville about month. The American is said to other version appears as "Lord des have been in trouble at Paris, Crepalgne)"

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