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QUEEN'S

Commenting To-Morrow.

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DAYS

Just

Imagine!

100

favorites of stage and screen in one picturel Including Janet Gaynor Charles Farrall Will Rogers Edmund lowe Marjorie White-

Walter Catlett Victor McLagien

Richard Keeno

El Brendel

Frank Richardsốh)

William Collier, 5r.

Ann Porinington

Tom Patricola

David Rollins

Warner Baxter

Dixie Loo

-J. Harold Murray-

Paul Page

Frank-Albertion

Sharon Lynn "Whispering" jack Smith James J. Corbett

George Macfarlan George Olsen

and his

Music

Talking Musical Movietone

50

dancing beauties]

10

big song hits by 10

big songwriters!

Gilbert and Baer Conrad, Mitchell. and Gottler James F. Hanley James Brockman Manny Klauber Henry Stoddard

and Joseph McCarthy

Directed by BENJAMIN STOLOFF!

MRS. MOTONO. Massage. Hand and Electric 31b, Wyndham Street.

SHAMEEN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JULY 5 1830.

TRIBUTE TO SHOP ASSISTANTS.

MISERY ON ST. KILDA.

MUMMY'S HAND DRAMA.

GIRL ON HOOK OF PLANS OF A ROAD

ENGINE.

BODY CARRIED FOR THREE MILES TO STATION.

MIDNIGHT MYSTERY,

Somerset police are trying to clear up the mystery of the death of Miss May Hooper, aged 20, an assistant at a drapery establish- ment in Bath, living with her parents In St. James's-parade, whose body was found impaled on the hook of the drawbar of the mid-night mail train..

The dead girl was carried three miles on the line in front of the engine before she was found.

A strange feature of the case is a midnight expedition which she made, without the knowledge of her parents, to a spot called

her home.

"LOST"

MINISTRIES BLAMED FOR SEASIDE DELAY.

BEXHILL PERTURBED.

COURTESY IN SALE TIME "ARMAGEDDONS.”

PRAISE BY DUKE.

SHIRTS

and

PLIGHT OF THE THIRTY-FIVE GIRL'S DEATH AND CURSE PYJAMAS

INHABITANTS.

PEOPLE TO LEAVE.

the

ON A CURIO.

EASTERN MEMENTO..

Behind the discovery of the

Delay in putting in hand the The Duke of York' paid a tributs In order to ascertain the actual work of taking up tramlines and to shop assistants in a speech at the conditions which have compelled the body of a naval officer's daughter reconstructing certain roads until annual meeting of the Early Clos-35 inhabitants of St. Klida,

iles the ing Association at the Hotel Metro- lonely Island 50 miles west of the in a tidal pond at Emsworth, near pole.

Outer Hebrides, to appeal to the Havant, Hampshire. Government to transfer them to strange story of the hand of a the mainland, I have paid a visit to mummy to which a curse is said the island, writes a Morning Post to have been attached. representative.

the start of the holiday season has caused considerable uneasiness am ong people of Bexhill-on-Sen who cater for summer visitors and also among traders..

The local Town Council lays the charge of delay or dilatoriness at the doors of two Government "De- partments, whose approval necessary before the work could be put in hand..

was

Referring to the Shop Hours Act, “under which greater opportunities for recreation and rest have been provided for a class who badly need it," he said:

"Think for a moment of the shop assistants and what they are called on to do..

.

When the steamer arrived the The girl, Miss Daala Coopper men rushed down the hillside to the (30), was the orphan daughter of jetty and met us with a babble of the late Engineer-Captain. A. Coopper and Mrs. Coopper, who died within three months of cach Gaelic and English.

other two years ago,

1 learned that one of the reasons

com-

The procedure of submitting "They must be unfallingly cour- why the people want to leave the Candy's Bridge, three miles from plans for the approval of the Min-teous and good-tempered under the island is that there are now only}

What she was doing there is aistry of Transport before the Min most trying circumstances; always eight able-bodied men left

These men have to do all the mystery which the coroner wili istry of Health could be approached ready to answer questions with, im-

for sanction to a loan was adopted perturbable good humour; and al-heavy work which is necessary for investigate.

by the Council. The record of hapways willing to help the most the existence of the little No Head Wounds... Search by the police and rail penings since then may be sum-capricious and difficult customer. officials in the early hours of the marised as follows: morning led them to the belief that the girl had fallen in front of the train just below Candy's Bridge. Nothing was known of the affair until the mall arrived at Bath Station at 1 a.m.

Last January delay was attribut- ed to the fact that the Ministry of Transport had lost the plans, sub- mitted "some months before."

On February 11 approval was re

to

Mr. Pascoe, of Brislington, Bris-ceived from the Ministry of Trans- tol. and Mr. Harry Tons, Bath, [port. remoyed the body from the engine.

In February application was They found no head wounds.

The girl's shoes, one of which made for sanction for the lean had the heel ripped off, were later the Ministry of Henith. found on the engine at Temple Meads Station. Bristol. She had no money or jewellery on her.

Her hat and gloves were found in a cutting on the line Candy's Bridge.

near

May Was Quite Happy." The police have been trying to

On March 17 that Ministry re parted that the Ministry of Trans- port was being consulted.

The Council were informed on April 3 that sanction would be granted on or about April 10.

Almost Superhuman.

The family at one time had in their possession a mummy's hand, which the

had girl's father brought home from the East.

The mother looked upon this hand with suspicion, and one day munity.

They must pluck the wool from she exclaimed: "It is a curse; do the sheep-they do not shear-they away with it!" do the weaving, attend to the crops, The hand disappeared, and build the stone dykes and houses about three years ago, when work- and keep them in repair, catch sen men were clearing the banks of birds, which are salted and stored the mill pond, the hand was found

body was discovered. in an Armageddon such as a re- for food for the winter, and per- close to the spot where the girl's mnant sale or at a busy season such form many other tasks.

"No matter how tired they may feel they must never be lacking in tact and politeness,

"The exercise of these qualities

If

as Christmas, seems to me to be This work is too much for them,

After the death of her parents, almost superhuman, and I, personal- and some of them have made up Miss Coopper, who was deeply dis ly, have the greatest possible res- their minds that they will go to the tressed by her double bereave pect and admiration for the shop mainland as soon as possible. ment, endeavoured to become assistant.

they do, the remainder of the is secretary, and was in training for landers will be faced with starvaa post when she broke down, tion, hence the general desire that all should go."

"Therefore, I feel that many of those who are apt to resent the limitations placed on their hours of

There is no medical service on St. shopping have never realised the position or thought the matter out.

Kilda beyond what Nurse Barclay, сал give. She "If the public are to have good a noble woman, service it is obvious that they can tends the ailing islanders and al- find what the girl's movements A further letter on May 7 report-be supplied only by a well-trained leviates their suffering as far as she were two hours before the tragedy.ed that unforeseen circumstances

Mr. Wilfred Hooper, the girl's had prevented the recommendation and efficient personnel, efficient in is capable, but in serious cases a In the summer father, who is a Great Western from reaching the Ministry of mind and bedy. Such efficiency doctor has to come from the main- Railway goods train guard, said Health, but that it would be put cannot be acquired unless mind and land. Except

body are afforded reasonable hours months, this is impossible owing for rest and recreation."

to the fact that the rough seas make that he was at a loss to under-before that Ministry on May 9.

the tiny harbour.unapproachable. stand where his daughter had been. "May was quite happy." he said, "and had been to work as usual. She came back home after she had been for a walk and her mother thinks that she came in at 11.15 p.m."

On May 26 sanction arrived, and the work started.

No Trace of Loss.

Good Will In Industry.

The Duke mentioned that the an- nual report for 1930 was prefaced

r

Poverty.

It was only in the early spring that the Lighthouse Commissioners At the Ministry of Transport with a few words he uttered in steamer made a futile effort to land it was stated that "The Depart-public some weeks ago, when he

a

After mental treatment in an institution she returned to Erns worth, and went to live with her aunt, Miss Alice Mears, in a bungalow facing the harbour oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Horace

Lover.

one

Missed from Bedroom.

The girl shared a bedroom with her aunt, who on awakening early

that morning, found

the not girl was in bed, although a bolster was placed in such position as to give the impression that the bed was occupied.

It was then discovered that Mr. сар were a doctor on the island after a call, Lover's overcoat and

trawler.

Hundreds and hundreds of Silk Shirts ..... Shirts with collars attached and with separate collars. Patterned Shirts, Pastel Coloured Shirts, White Shirts.

$3.00 up.

A tremendous stock of underpriced shirts. Yes, we HAVE your size! PYJAMAS

Many qualities, many colours. All sizes.

Apparently she did not go to bed. nient is unable to discover that said, "Our main purpose, tard and for help sent ashore by a fishing missing and that the bedroom TAJMAHAL SILK

When Mr. Hooper went home in the early hours of the morning the bed was not disturbed.

WATER-POLO LEAGUE.

CHINESE ATHLETIC EASILY DEFEAT ARTILLERY.

the matter."

window was wide open. any planes forwarded in connexion it, is to remind both masters and with Bexhill were lost by the men that relationships in industry

Search was made and Mr. Lover The earning power of the 19- Ministry, or that there was any jure first of all human and social."" avoidable delay in

Flanders has dwindled to such an saw his cap floating on the tidal considering "That is not a new sentiment,"extent that they have not the money waters of the Mill Pond. The the Duke continued, "but it is the to purchase sufficient food to keep police carried out dragging opera- One factor, it is stated, which fundamental principle on which in their bodies properly nourished [tions and some hours later th made consideration of the case dif-dustry must be built up if it is to during a rigorous winter.

body of Miss Coopper, was re- feult was that some of the roads prosper.

As a result their vitality is low covered. were taken over by the County "Sympathy and confidence be and it was explained to me that this It was then found that the poc- Council from Bexhill Council ontween manager and operative, em-was the probable cause of the recent kets of Mr. Lover's overcoat, April 1. Delay, therefore, eccurred The Chinese Athletir men bent the in making necessary adjustments. ployer and employed, are essential epidemic of influenza which swept which she was wearing, had been

to the commercial prosperity of a the island. Royal Artillery in first division water-

casier An official of the Ministry of nation..

Formerly the islanders exported a much polo last night in fashion than the three to one score Health stated that the application

"All propoganda work and all quantities of fulmar oil, but this for some time feared that she had indiented. It took the Service men was one of perhaps 60 or 70 ap achievements won, have been based trade has practically ceased

past three or four weeks she had all their time to hold their speedy plications for loans from different on the important truth that the the only export now is tweed, the an internal complaint, and for the opponents, who generally beat them

parts of the country. Each case, interest of the employer cannot he sale of which forms their principal rafused to take any food, even the ball and were generally too clever. whether for a large amount or dissociated from those of his em source of income. The teams were:

The islanders expressed to me Chinese Athletic-Chan Sik-pui, small amount, had to be considered ployees, and vice versa. This ap

When her parents were alive. Fung Kwok-wa,

Chan Sin-lok, Ngon its own merits.

plies just as much to the relation- their willingness and desire to Kam-chuen, Tam Chi-keung, Choy

This, of course, is the routine ships between the general public leave; even the older people feel Miss Coopper lived with them in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Chak-lan, Kwok Fung-shun.

which constitutes part of the work and those who are called upon to that they must bow to the inevit-Southsea,

Hythe and In Italy. of the Health Department.

serve it."

to

Royal Artillery-Ribbands, Dan- gerfiek, Olver, Cavanagh, Lewis, Forrester, Gray.

The Chinese rattled on two goals in the first half after a bombardment at the goal, fierce and forceful enough but wild and inaccurate. Their first tally was from an effective if dull piece of team work. Just into the second half the Artillery gained the score. It followed the penalising of the Chinese goalkeeper for push- inm of from the wall Immediately afterwards the Chinese replied y with another goal.

Final scores.-Chinese Athletic, 3 goals; Royal Artillery, 1.

Second Division Comedy.

were

The second divison game between the 12th Heavy Battery and the Uni versity was like a Keystone comic. Both teams were vigorous and en- thusiastic enough, but their energy was ineffective. The ironiral side of the game was that two goals wer scored by the opposite side against their own team. The Battery opened the scoring first when the opposing goalkeeper took the ball beek behind the posts preparatory to throwing out. The game would have proceeded with the incident unnatical, only Mr. Wey- man called the ball up-

minute or so after a Battery back equalised the scores by striking out at the ball and sending it into the goal. The first kaif finished one all, but the Varsity get one of their wild shots managed into the net midway in the second Self Final half.

scores. University Heavy Battery, 1.

Konts

The teams were:

2

Lo

University-Tan Peng-list, Meng-choon, K. 1. Ip, S. T. Cheong, C. Figueiredo, F. F. Lee, S. F. Chan Battery-Moore, Leadbeater, Hes keth, Hayward, Trice, Breeds, Wilson. Mr. Weyman refereed both games.

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Joke Hongkong Telegraph.

TO WHOM ALL WAL ENQUIRIES SHOULD

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HONGKONG ELECTRIC TEAM FOR TO-DAY.

The following will represent Hong- kong Electric Recreation Club in their second division lawn bowls match against the Kowloon C.C. to-day:

W. Stoker, T. P. Saunderson, B. J. Clarke and W. It. B. Muskett (Skip); A. Tarbuck, G. T. Padgett, D. S. Hill, F. F. Duckworth (Skip); E. Thomp Bon, V. Sorby, H. Hatch, A. F. Paal (Skip). Reserves, R. W. Smith and H. B. Jones.

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and

filled with stones.

It is stated that the girl had

milk.

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