1930-08-08 — Page 7

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930.

TO PAY MEDICAL EXPENSES.

HORRIBLE DEATH

MYSTERY ILLNESS AT RACES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CALL FOR DRINK REFORMS.

ESCAPED.

SALE OF CHILD IN ORDER TO STOWAWAYS JUST ESCAPE TWENTY PEOPLE POISONED

RAISE FUNDS.

AN UNUSUAL CASE.

A somewhat unusan! deviation.

women

were

from the general type of kidnape ping cases was revented before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when two charged by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs in connexion with the kidnapping of a baby which had been brought to the Colony by its mother with the specific intention of disposing of the child for a monetary con- sideration to defray the costs, of medical treatment' which the

country.

ON A LINER

ALMOST TRAPPED..

AT SALISBURY.

COLLAPSE ON COURSE,

Two young men who stowed While a crowd of 10,000 people away in the Aberdeen and was attending the Bibury Race Commonwealth liner Larga Bay Meeting, Salisbury, nearly 20 people when she left Fremantle (Western were taken seriously ill, apparent- Australia), for Southampton, only having been poisoned after cat- June. 12, narrowly escaped with ing a luncheon on the course, which

included shell fish. their lives. They are:

· James Duncan Forrest, aged 28, of 18, Canal-street, Aber- deen, whose wife and two chil-

dren live in Colchester.

Francis Briggs, aved 22, of 27, Cumberland-road, Plaistow. If the boilermaker aboard the baby's father was receiving in the liner (Mr. W. J. B. Pollock) had failed to nolice a hand clutching at the side of a steel doorway, the Mr. John Barrow; of the S.C.A., two men would have been trapped prosecuted and related that the in pitch darkness in a little hell mother of the child, n young over the boilers, without food or woman from the country, had a water. husband seriously ill, and, in order Their desperate effort to go to obtain sufficient funds for his tack to their own people and their medical expenses, she had arrived own country after cight niorths in the Colony with her eight search for work in Western Aus- months' old child which she wish-tralia would have ended in a very ed to sell. After being introducca horrible det forum high; but to the defendants, it was arranged for the flash of an electric torch that, the child should be sold by picking out the hand clinging at them on behalf of the mother. the side of the small doorway in The child was taken away by the the darkness 'tween decks. As it first defendant and although the was, they had been without water mother indicated her desire to for a day and a half and were in witness the transaction, she was the last stage of exhaustion. not permitted to do so, the second defendant intimating that she would stand guarantor for the purchaser. After awaiting the return of the first defendant for several hours the woman reported the matter to the police and de fendants

subsequently arrested.

The case was put over until this afternoon,

were

WOMEN DOWN THE

AGES.

MR. BALDWIN ON

THEIR WORK,

A tribute to women's selfless work for the suffering was paid by Mr. Stanley Baldwin when he opened the new Marine Curie Hos. pital in Fitzjohn's-avenue, flamp stead.

There was another stowaway on board, but he was discovered n day out from Fremantle, and was put ashore at Colombo to be sent back to Australia.

Forrest and Briggs well knew the same fate awaited them if they were found before the ship reach- ed Colombo. They hoped to re- main undetected until after Port Said. Then, whatever measurea were taken to deal with them they would be carried back to England.

He Forrest had been a segman, knew something of the complex interior of a ship: but he did not reckon with an oil-burning vessel.

12 Days on Two Lonves. He and his companion, without a penny in their pockets, slipped on beard at Fremantle, went to the boat deck and climbed down the steel ladders in a ventilator lead- ing to the bailers. At the foot of

room.

the ladders a narrow steel door gives entrance to a small store- Through a grating in the The hospital is the first hospital flour they got into a dark, tunnel- organised in. England by like space over the boilers.. medical women for the radium They had two loaves of bread

und some biscuits. Without hav suffering Women from cancer and allied diseases. ing experienced them for just a few minutes, it is impossible to under imagine the conditions

treatment of

It is staffed entirely by women

Four or five people collapsed on the course, and rolled in agony on the ground. Dr. G. Kemp, the course doctor, was overwhelmed with urgent cases.

The first who complained was

Lady Allerton, who, shortly before 3.45, became violently ill,

The motor-ambulance, which is always kept on the course, was im- mediately summoned, but before Lady Allerton could be moved into it two other persona were overcome, and the three were rushed to Salis- bury. Infirmary

together. They were in great pain.

Calls for Ambulance. When the ambulance reached the hospital there were urgent tele- phone calls from the course asking for it to return immediately, as other people had been taken ill.

Eventually the ambulance made two or three journeys to Salisbury Infirmary and took eight people

there.

As person after person in the af- fected enclosure was taken ill, there'

VARIANTERARUAMARINE BREASURERENCJI OBILAZ

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT

Interesting Pictures To-Morrow.

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will contain a most interesting sel- ection of topical pictures, pro- minent amongst which will be a series of excellent photo- graphs showing the magnificent interior appointments of the new luxury liner, Empress of Japan.

Other illustrations will in- 'clude views of Canton, groups of Ambulance Brigade stuff and nurses, a picture of the new. Avro dual purpose aeroplane which will shortly be seen in Hongkong, and a photograph of H.M. submarine Odin, which, with others of the "O" class, is due here on Monday from Home.

UTAN

and was designed by Miss Eliza which these two men managed to beth Scott, the architect of the exist for 12 days. The heat was new Shakespeare Memorial Theaterrific, and the air thick with oil tre, who presented Mr. Baldwin fumes. with a silver key with which hef opened the hospital.

The only other entrance to the were signs of a panic, and people store-room is an emergency door rushed to the doctors--many out Mr. Baldwin, who was accom-leading to the stewards wash of sheer imagination. panied by his wife, said that

A considerable number of people aroom, which, fortunately for the politician's whole life was spent stowaways, had been left unlock-were mildy ill, but it is not thought in controversy. They saw alled. That allowed them to creep that this was poisoning.

Lady Allerton.

kinds of motives, some fine many mean, and never lived to see fill two ting with water. Within

and out when nobody was about and

the result of any of their work. two hours it would be almost too Lord Allerton told the News "It is, therefore, like coming to hot to drink, but it kept them Chronicle that Lady Allerton and wash in one of the purer and alive.

he had lunch on the course.

is carried on here."

Back to Eve.

LORD BALFOUR ASKS FOR NEW CONTROL.

TAVERN PRACTICES:

Lord Balfour of Burleigh, giv- ing evidence before the Royal Commission on Licensing, declar- ed that private enterprise was not a suitable method of carrying on the liquor trade.

Points from Lord Balfour's evi-

dence were:

The liquor trade is practically the only trade whose expansion does not form part of, or contri- bute to, the welfare of the nation. As opposed to the brewer the re- taller is in a position of depen- denee and almost complete help lessness.

The tenant has the work, the worry an the risk, and the brew er has the profits.

The tenant who improves hist house and his business is liable to have his rent raised until he is squeezed out altogether.

The aim of the brewers is em- phatically not to create places of general refreshment, but beer- shops.

Dregs from Glasses,

Lord Balfour said it was still the practice in a very large num- ber of public houses to re-use without any kind of sterilisation- glass dregs and other leavings.

The objectionable practice," he said, "is that of shaking out glass dregs over the sink. It might be supposed that nothing much would be left in the glasses, but obser

BERLIN POLICE IN

A BRAWL.

TAKE POSSESSION OF ROOM.

IN. AN INN.

NIGHT ON THE SPREE.

A public house in Schmockwitz on the Spree was the scene of a furious brawl between the mem- bers of a Berlin police sports club and another association "both of which had decided to spend a cheerful evening there.

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According to the account of the three outraged Innkeeper the hundred policemen arrived at 8 o'clock in the evening to take possession of a room to which thay believed they had a right but had to be informed that another club calling itself the "Union for Human Rights" had pre-engaged this room and they must be satis- fied with a smaller one.

bers of the police club met the other The innkeeper states that niem- association on its arrival by steam- er and accompanied it from the quay to the room with stones and insults.

Violent Attack.

No sooner bad the Union for Human Rights settled down for. the evening than the police who were refused an entrance forced their way in and, in spite of the pacific behaviour of the room's inmates who were anxious to avoid a disturbance, attacked them so violently that they were forced to defend themselves.

that upon the intervention of his The innkeeper further related vation has convinced me that it is common for an inch or more to wife and himself the former was be left and this is collected by knocked down and he was thrown means of a waste pipe: Substantial out, of his own door. Eventually, leavings are most frequent during the local police force, which res he said, his son-in-law, called in the rush hour and when treat-tored temporary order. ing is going on."

Referring to what he called an- other undesirable practice, Lord Balfour said, "It is obvious that the border line between what is legitimate and what is illegitimate in the matter of tipping must be particularly easy to overstep in the relations between the licensee and the police.

"Casch have come to my know- ledge where the police have been in receipt of regular payments. by licensees,"

Later, Lord Balfour remarked, "We must get rid of the habit of perpendicular drinking. It is in- dulged in in the bad houses with bars, and unfortunately it is pro- fitable because lots of beer is gold."

He was far from regarding the Carlisle experiment as necessarily final. "I feel," he said, "that direct State management is not the most perfect method of adminis tration, and I think something half way between State manage- ment and unlimited private enter. prise ought to be devised."

Southend Scenes:

The Rev. Frank H. Chambers, of Southend-on-Sea, critised the be- haviour of day trippers in South- end.

"The women who arrive about noon are not all sober, but man; go immediately to public-houses and remain there drinking until 2.30 p.m.

The conduct of these women often becomes disgusting."

sweeter streams of English life Just before reaching Colombo "Lady Allerton is progressing to have a glimpse of such work as the emergency dour was locked, favourably. A curious thing is cutting off their only means of that, so far as I know, I had the getting water. They held on in same lunch as my wife, without the terrible heat, and under condi-any ill effects." tions immediately worse than Lady Allerton, who married Lord Mr. Baldwin, referring

en- Allerton in 1926, is the daughter to those experienced by the women who had taken up radioloxinecrs who work in shifts of four of the late Mr. J. R. Hatfield, of gical work, said that they too hours.

Thorp Arch Hall, Yorkshire. Lord formed part of the body of women On the evening of the day after Allerton is a nephew of the Right stretching back from Nurse Cavell leaving Colombo Mr. Pollock was Hor.. Sir Stanley Jackson, Governor to Joan of Arc and even further making an inspection, as the mon- back to Eve.

Or- Geneva

"Eve has been made to bear the "ains of the whole world," he said, "because the man she lived with was not mun enough to face her and own he was wrong.

The Hand on The Door.

.

EXCHANGE RATES.

of Bengal, who was formerly chair- Faris soon promised rough weather. He man of the Unionist Party had previously noticed that the ganisation, and in earlier days won Berlia small steel door into the store-fame as a cricketer. room was open and it was his in- The Duke of Gloucester, who rode tention to close it,

in the Members' Welter Plate, finishing fifth of six runners ̧` re- "If Eve was the first woman I

turned to London after the races, May with infinite regret

He was astonished to see af and attended a dinner at the Cafe that Adam was the first cad." (Laugh hand grasping the side of the Royal. ter.).

opening. When he flashed his Miss Chadburn, chairman of the torch through the doorway the 'committee of management, said sight which met his eyes appalled that cancer was at its beginning

A man, entirely naked, sweat

him.

à localised disease and could be streaking the dirt on his body, a cured.

of beard on fortnight's growth-

"If only we could treat them all his face, was hanging to the door- at an early stage," she said, "weway gasping for breath,

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should no longer have the terrible The second stowaway, naked, The following extracts proportion of one in every seven filthy, unshaver and exhausted from the Hongkong Telegraph for of our population dying from like his comrade, was lying inside the week ended August 7th, 1909.

cancer.

A congratulatory, telegram from Mme. Curie, the discoverer of radium, was read by the French Ambassador.

on the floor.

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Both men were carried out and The rate of the dollar os demand iced water and tea did a great deal was 18 8.7/8d. ** to revive them.

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But for Forrest's hand being The appointment of. Mr. R. M visible the door would have been Dyer bs Chief Manager of the closed, cutting off what little air Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. The village of Low Moor, on the supply there was, and the two Ltd. was announced. outskirts of Clitheroe, is for sale, men would have paid for the ven- Two hundred cottages, nine shops, ture with their lives.

a farm, and the school are included,

A proposal was submitted to the Since then they spent the days Foreign Ministry in Peking that as well as the mill, which is one of on the small deck beneath the Heugchow, near Macao, should he the oldest and largest in Lancashire. after bridge, in the clean wind declared a free port. The house of the owner, which and the sunshine, scraping paint! atands in a factory yard, is also off iron posts.

being sold, together with 30 acres

of land on the banks of the River

A

1.

The policeman's club embarked on its steamer at three o'clock in the morning, but ten minutes later the ship returned and the club launched a second attack upon the the fun. Cups and saucers were used 113 missiles. The police force, which had been previously called in, had to be summoned once more, but before it arrived the assailants were safe on board their departing ship.

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