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VERANDAH FALLS ON WATERFRONT.

TWO CHINESE STRUCK BUT NARROWLY ESCAPE.

ATTACK ON FORMER

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EX-EMPLOYEES ON SERIOUS CHARGES.

A considerable hubbub was Eight men were brought before. Kowloon Magistrate on set up, shortly before 5.80 yes-the terday evening, by the collapse remand yesterday afternoon on of a portion of the verandah of charges of burglary, assault and No. 144, Connaught Road Central, in some cases of receiving stolen a corner building situated at the property, instead of the original junction of Cleverly Street and and more serious count of armed

robbery. the central waterfront.

The men, including one who "building Д Signalled 15 collapse" in the preliminary re-described himself as being only 15 port sent over the telephone to years of age, were alleged by the Police and Fire Headquarters, it prosecution to have broken into a attracted a considerable number hut in the Shamshuipo District of the personnel of the two. De during the night of July 1 and, armed with iron bars, committed partments to the scene...

an assault on two occupants. It was found that the corner They later decamped, taking with section of the verandah structure

them clothing and money to the at the angle of the building value of about $50, The two occupied by the East Asia Hotel victims were removed to Hospital had become partially detached suffering from numerous injuries. from the main structure, the two It was stated to the Police that; topmost sections having collapsed some of the men had formerly been and their debris being strewn employed by the complainant who over the roadway,

accordingly had them pointed out The arrest of the The tram-lines were blocked, and arrested. and for a time trams ceased run remainder followed, part of the ning while firemen got to work stolen property being found in with picks and shovels, clearing their possession.

u passage to enable resumption of traffic.

Detective Sergeant Meadows indicated to his Worship that it: The mishap, which occurred at was the belief of the Police that a point directly opposite the Po the first four defendants had Tak Wharf, is traced to the direct engaged the others to assist them work of the preceding night's to attack the complainants but storm. Exposed to the wind, and that the hired men had not been with the support sockets being reliable and had stolen a quantity apparently loosened by the atof clothing.

tendant heavy downpour of rain, His Worship, in convicting the the collapse of this part of the first four defendants, and the boy building was presaged by a pre-of burglary, intimated that, in the liminary fall of bricks which case of the former fokia of the came down at intermittent in complainant they had to take their share of the burglary, but in pasa- tervals.

Hearing the clatter of falling ing sentence he would take into missiles, the people belonging to consideration the fact that the the

burglary was not a burglary in' the provisions shop next door

ordinary sense of the word. The made a bolt, they say, into theürst four men were also convicted rear portion of their premises, of assault. Another man was con- with the natural desire to get victed of receiving stolen proper- as far as possible out of range. ty, while two of the men

Five minutes later, they say,discharged on account of insuffl- they heard a rumble, and discient evidence against them. covered that the corner verandahs of the two topmost stories had

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The first four men were cach given five months' hard labour on the two charges on which they were convicted while the boy In falling, the debris missed was given four months, he having

for After only a few months an East-bound tram which had three previous convictions

larceny. The receiver was sen-residence in Hongkong, Peter inta corner just turned

tenced to six months" hard labour, Dalziel, the 12-year-old son of the Cleverly Street.

he having a previous conviction Chief Officer of the Haiyang, died No casualties were caused, and for wounding in 1917, after which at Kowloon on Thursday, it would appear that ample warn he served a term of banishment. ing had been received by people) using this very busy part of the waterfront from the preliminary shower of bricks.

MORE FOSSILS.

MR. ROY ANDREWS IN PEKING AGAIN.

A popular member of the recent ly formed Kowloon Dock troop of Boy Scouts, Peter was an Austra- lian and already popular with his; fellows. His troop mates were well represented at his funeral at] the Happy Valley cemetery yester- day morning.

Funeral of Late Mrs. F. H. W. Haynes.

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Two fokis belonging to a re- freshment stall situated just round the corner In Cleverly Street, are stated to have had a narrow escape. They were caught under the fall of debris, but by

Peking July 25.

Many mourners attended the pressing back closely against the Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, funeral of the late Mrs. Magdalene wall, escaped the full weight of who returned to Peking yesterday Haynes, wife of Mr. F. H. W. the falling material. They were evening for another brief visit, Haynes, of Zetland Hall, caretaker seen by the shop people next door reports that he left his expedition of the Masonic Hall. She finally emerging from the heap, hard at work on a fossil deposit buried at Happy Valley yesterday shaking the earth from their near the Outer Mongolian border, afternoon. Father R. S. Brockes bodies, quite unscathed.

which had yielded very successful was the officiating priest. Collectively, it was but a small results, some very fine material Among the many wreaths pile of earth and other material having been discovered at a place were those by the Armament that after the collapse was heap where there were a number of Artificers of the R.A.0.C., the ed up by the shovels of the fire-shovel-toothed mastodons, traces Chinese Clerical and Workshop men to one side of the roadway of which had been found in 1928, Employes of that Corps and the Spectators, however, continued to evidently originally trapped in a United Service Masonic Lodge.

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stay for some considerable time after the start of the operations. clustered thickly on a near-by water tank and on the decks and awnings of river-steamers.

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Many representatives of R.A.0.C., of which Mr. Haynes had been a member, were present, situated at the Tit Hang Village, and others who were at the

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