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RUBBISH DUMPED IN HARBOUR.?

FIVE LORRY MEN FINED THIS MORNING.

DEFENCE REJECTED.

The story" of five Chinese who

were brought before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hele, at the Marine Court this morning on the charge of dumping rubbish in the harbour without a permit from the Harbour Master, was not believed by his Worship who said that he was con- vinced that they were guilty on the evidence given by the prosecution.

ARRESTS ON NIGHT OF FESTIVAL.

SEDITIOUS MATTER IN SPECIAL BOOKS.

OFFERED FOR SALE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

LAST JOURNEY OF R101 VICTIMS.

(Continued from Page 1.) and Allonne have rendered, and of all the arragements made in con- nexion with the terrible disaster.

The remains of the victim's will reach London in the small hours Monday night, seventeen Chinese Inter be removed to an appropriate As a result of arrests made on of the morning and will be taken to Westminster Mortuary. They will Including eleven boys whose and central building in London to ranged from 10 years to 15 were lie in state, prior to burial near brought before Mr. Lindsoll at the Central Police Court this morning Cardington, Bedfordshire, the place and with the exception of the from which they set out on their first three, charged with distri- tragic journey and where so many buting literature which had not of them had their homes, been passed by the Secretariat for Mr. William Shaw, an overseer Chinese Affairs. The first these of the Public Works Department, defendants were accused of being who prosecuted, stated that at about in possession of seditions" litern 2:15 pm. yesterday, he found a ture.

motor lorry in Victoria Street. Taking the charges against the One of the defendants was the dri-mall boys first his Woranin asked ver of this lorry and the other four is the Police alleged that they were the attendants. Witness knew the , pamphlets to be alleged that he saw them dumping seditious. rubbish over the embankment into the harbour.

.

Burial on Saturday.

PAYING THE PRICE FROM £3 TO £800

WEEK

OF PEACE.

BRITISH OFFICERS ON THE THE VALUE OF HAVING AN

INDIAN FRONTIER.

DAILY RISKS RUN.

Two thousand pounds of edu- cation

Drops to a ten-rupee jezail Strike hard who cares shoot straight who can,

man.

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ENGLISH ACCENT.

DOROTHY MACKAIL,

on one

1930-

Misa Dorothy Mackaill, the screen actress, arrived in Lon-1 don at the end of last month... Eleven years ago she was a 16- year-old chorus girl in London The odds are on the cheaper earning £3 a week. Now she is

a film star earning £800 a week.

Like Miss Amy Johnson, the FRONTIER ARITHMETIC."

famous England-Australia lone At the Memorial Service to be

Once again has two thousand flying girl, her home town is Hull, held in St. Paul's Cathedral on Fri-pounds of education fallen to a

She was cheered by an admir- day the Prince of Wales will repre- ten-rupee jezail, or more probably ing crowd as she stepped out of sent the King and many other in these days to a stolen service the train at Victoria a red-lipp be present. members of the Royal Families will rifle, writes Lt.-General Sir George ed, blonde-haired girl, with a Mac-Munn in the Morning Post. chinchilla fur coat slung over her Captain Ashcroft promising arm, an adoring mother young officer of the 2/9th Jats side, a male admirer on the other. "What a thrill it is coming bus been practically murdered out- side Bannu, on the edge of Waziris- home." she said to an interview tan, by a lad probably of the Hathier. Mr. Albert de Courville gave Khel section of the Wazirs. me my first part in London at £3 the chorus of Jos It would appear that certain of a week in both within and without the for the United States. To-day I border, and had been stirred by have seen him again, for the first. that following the service, the thought better of it. Political in- from Hollywood.

The Air Ministry announces the North-West Frontier,

the disturbing situation, all along time since I left. He Wa8

had turning from Deauville and I ford on Saturday morning. bodies will be entrained for Bed-fluence had apparently, prevailed.. coffins will be carried in procession name of Fazal Qadir had promised answering to the through the streets of London, and to bring in his conscientious ob there will be another procession at Cardington, where they will be injectors: Many of them were men terred at St. Mary's Chuchyard.

licensed to carry arms for their Own protection against outer raiders.

Later:

Detective Sergeant O'Donovan The victims of the R.101 disaster replied that the boys were merely will lie in state at Westminster Hall. The French Air Minister, Memorial Service at St. Paul's on Friday.

Continuing, Mr. Shaw said he charged with distributing pan. Laurent Eynac will attend the these Wazirs, who have villages Bells' and shortly afterwards I left

stopped them from doing so and took the lorry and the five defen- dants to the No. 7 Police Station. A portion of the earth, which the de- fendants were dumping into the harbour when he saw them, still remained on the lorry.

phlets not passed by the S.C.A.

In reply to the charge they said they did not know the contents of the books which had not been given to them to distribute. They had bought them to sell.

..

His Worship:-Don't you tell Witness concluded his evidence les like that or I will not let you by saying that notices were dis-p. played in conspicuous places in that

Detective Sergeant O'Donovan vicinity on the water front. remark-informed his Worship that the ing that the defendants could not | occasion was the Moon Cake have failed to see them, as one of Festival. Literature was special- the notices was within a yard of ly printed for the event us was the lorry.

One of the defendants informed his Worship that the rubbish'on the lorry was intended to be taken away by a junk which had been hired for the purpose. When the lorry arrived at Victoria Street, the junk was not there, and they then thought of taking the rubbish down to Wanchai..

He said that they had seen the notices prohibiting the dumping of rubblish and stated that they had never intended to do such a thing. He alleged that, whilst turning lack Mr. Shaw stopped them and took them to the No. 7 Police Sia- tion He said that when the lorry was taken to the Station it was still full of earth.

Arrival in England.

The

Later.

the custom among the Chinese, but the festival "books in the present case were printed with communist

The R.101 victims were brought propaganła duced.

intro home together aboard HMS. Temp. His Worship:-You don't think at 9.30 p.m.

est, the destroyer arriving at Dover that

boys) were employed?

they (the

Detective Sergeant, O'Donovan: -No, I think the books were bought in a shop. In fact, we have located one of the shops in Hongkong.

His Worship remarked that it seemed a very unusual thing. I would have been different if there had been one or two boys but they were so many of them.

and a Mullah

The talking films gave me my

Miss Mockaill puffed ut a cign- rette, and, continued: chance. An English accent, and a slight gift for acting go a long way In Hollywood now. Ronnie Colman is my greatest friend, and. he has infinite charm. I would The civil authorities, or rather, rather "play with him or Clive as they are called on the border Brook than anyone else. the "political" authorities, had call-Everyone in Hollywood is try cd in for a while, lest worse befall, ing to cultivate an English ac the licensed arms right and cent. I am sure my English up- judicious step., giving, too, some bringing has been largely re- indication that the border folk were sponsible for what little success I

have attained.

Rain was falling, like a benedic-still in hand. tion. The coffins were lying on the deck in long rows. covered with Union Jacks and wreaths from Franec.

Wire-

have been a hit of a ind, had under Fazal, Qadir. who appears to

taken to bring in his men and their

of eight airmen and soldiers and colours flying and the like. Now Each was borne on the shoulders arms and surrender them, if he was allowed to do so in style, with laid in the purple-lined carriages frontier bravaodes have faces to of the special train bound for Lon-save, and it often pays to meet don-Reuter and British lesa,

them half way, and apparently the political officer agreed to meet him Scenes at Victoria..

at a rendezvous and proceed; with the business. London, Oct. 8.

Some 300 infantry and 100 armed Although it was hearly half police had gone out to carry out His Worship remarked that Mr. Three older men also pleaded past оле this

morning when the arrangement, when someone let Shaw had actually sworn on cath that they had bought the books the special train arrived at Vic-un off, Ashcroft was murdered that he saw four of the defendants to sell during the festival and on toria, the crowd which had begun scrimmage that ensued 21 Govern- from behind, and in a general dumping. It was a case of the the Police accepting the plea each to collect hours before had swollen word of the.accused against the was fined $5. The men, it was to an enormous size despite the ment troops and police and 45 word of the prosecution, but his stated, were all arrested on Mon-air and the cold to do homage and 70 of the latter captured.

Wazira were killed and wounded, Worship was convinced in his own day night between 7.30 p.m. and the airship victims. mind that the word of the prosecu-10 p.m. in various parts of the tion was the one to be believed. He Central District.

In answer to his Worship, de- fendant denied that the side boards of the lorry were down.

After warning the boys that they would be severely whipped if they were arrested again his Worship discharged them with a caution.

therefore found, them all guilty. The charge against, the three Defendants were fined $10 each. nien accused of possession of seditious literature was adjourned until next Monday.

ANOTHER LANDMARK TO GO.

HOTEL WHERE A "WHITEBAIT DINNER" WAS HELD.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Previous Day.

123.826 25.035 20.416

Helsingfors. Athens

Paris.. The old Brunswick Hotel, Black- Geneva wall, one the most famous land-Berlin.. marks of the Port of London, is to s

Oslo. be demolished by the Por of Lon- don Authority, and in a few weeks Buenos Aires time will be a nautical, reminis- Shanghai. cence, says a writer in a Home New York. paper.

Amsterdam

Built in the early years of the Stockholm. Nineteenth Century, it was famous Vienna..

Madrid

as the rendezvous of the passengers Bucharest and officers of departing East In-

Montevideo diamen, and later of the Cabinet Hongkong for their annual "whitebait dinner" Brussels before this was held at Greenwich. Milan Its enormous bay windows com- Copenhagen, manded a magnificent view of the Prague. busy Bugsby's and Blackwall Lisbon Reaches, and an Astronomer-Royal

Rio. had added his personal quota to its attractions by having cut into its Eastern window the accurate merdian of Greenwich.

Even the Duke of Clarence, later William IV., is said to have pre-

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The tremendous crush was re- losses and number of prisoners From the very fact of the tribal probably there has never been such clash was unpremeditated and there presentative of all classes and taken it is pretty obvious that a a crowd gathered at a London sta- tion before except on the occasion

was no general treachery. of the hurried homecoming of the Prince of Wales when the King was ill.

The crowd lined the entrance to the station while a group of rela- tives and others, headed by Yesterday. Prime Minister, Miss Ishbel Mac- the 123,826 Donald and twelve blue-uniformed men with caps inscribed "R.101," 20.425 who were members of the relief 193% Crew, waited on the platform as 37 slowly the long train pulled in.

18.16

375

375

39% 1/7 4,05 15/16

30.9/16

1/7

4.85%

12.04

18.03

34.445 47.45

12.05

18.09

34.445 47.25

818 39%

1/3 9/16

34,835. 92.796

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163 M

108.25 4.27/32

1/514

Bombay Yokohama Silver (spot and

.2/0.7/10

forward).16.7/16

from

should ever have been asked to I do not think Greta Garbo

act in a talking film. Eighty per

the beach 18 miles away cent. of what is told about her is true. We both live quietly" on Hollywood and we Greta likes to be alone: she is a are friends.

mystery woman. Despite her suc- cess in the talking films I think they are apt to give a wrong impression concerning her won. derful personality.

Now I am home to enjoy myself and meet my old friends.

FUGITIVE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA.

BAIL ISSUE SETTLED BY SON'S WITHDRAWAL.

When the case in which Wong Lives in Their Hands,

Sai-cheung, formerly of Sydney, is accused of stealing $100 from his At any rate it is on a par with employees in Australia, again came the purposeless come and go of before Mr. Lindsell at the Central carry their lives in their hands at stated that no reply had been re- frontier outrage. Our officers Police Court this morning, it was:

victims to the need for confidence, the fugitive's sons had dropped out Bannu and all along the frontier, ceived from New South Wales but their own sympathy for the men and the question of bail did not |

personal vanity of a frontier lad who murder them, and the crude now arise.

Mr. T. Murphy, assistant direc- who wants to swagger among his tor of Criminal Intelligence, in- fellows as one who has shot a formed his Worship that he had not It was a train of darkness ex-sahib or upset his own chief's ap-received a reply to his cable sent cept for the lighted first coach in plecart by unseemly and untimely on Monday. which three survivors, who were behaviour. able to leave hospital, were travel-

Mr. Murphy added that the fugi

That is likely enough the story tive had definitely waived. all

ling.

of our losing again a promising formalities. The Police were ask- In dead silence, the forty-seven young officer. And we shall doing for a week's. remand. The $18 collins were placed on twenty-four well to remember that these lads next ship sailing for Australia 1/4 9/16

Air Force tenders which slowly are the salt of the earth, carrying. would not be leaving until the 19th. 34.825

left the station for the. Mortuary on all our frontiers, the Soudan,

The accused, in answer to the 92.796 through a great silent throng. Irak, India. Palestine, a great mis- Bench, intimated that he was pre-

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sion of progress and uplift, their pared to waive all formalities and 163%

lives in their hands all the while, to return to Australia. 108.95 4.13/16 1/5.25/32

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Premier's Tribute.

London. Det. 7.

I was once in the little church

His Worship remanded him for in Kohut, the next station to Bannu, one week. Reference to R101 was made by come from peaceful and distant with a new chaplain who had just Mr. Ramsay MacDonald

in

When the King and Queen went 16.9/16 address to the Labour Party Con-his church, and we looked at the the Duchess of York and to see anMadras. Together we went round to Glamis Castle, Angus, to visit -British Wireleza.

ference at Llandudno. He allud-tablets on the wall. ed to humanity's inherent quality

ferred its less formal society to PUBLIC SCHOOL "MEN." forbears to the

that of the Court and the poet Pea cock has sung of its famous dishes "dressed many ways, of sea and river fist," of its quails and vension and wines from "Champagne. Madeira's island, and the rocks of

Rhine."

Then all stood up--all who had strength to stand-

And pouring down, of Maras-

chino, fit

Libations to the gods by wine

and wit,

iron rouda

own abode,

In steam-winged chariots and on

Sought the great city and their

(Continued from Page 6.)

and honestly but never again rising to the eminence they held at the age of eighteen. It is no wonder If they look back rather wistfully to their schooldays.

Another type, happily becoming extinct, is the old boy who feels

that by virtue of his public educa-

Reas

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PILOTS FIGHT FOR LIFE IN THE CLOUDS.

CLIMB.

MOUNTAINEERING RECORD

An

of pioneering, that had driven our them! Where have I come to?"

"Good God!" he cried. Look at of Glamia" was used for toasting. uncharted

the health of their youngest VENOMOUT SNAKE IN WOMAN'S VERY RISKY and untrodden lands. "At

And well might he exclaim. grandchild. The lion is a 16th we are in the air. We shall con-

last Every ane was in memory of some century silver gift goblet mould- quer the air as we conquered the young oficer who had lost his life haunches, and the design arises ed in the shape of a lion on its desert and the sea" (Cheers). He from treacherous outrage warmly tributed the. Government hands of men to whom at the from the Strathmore family name and people of France

he was of Lyon. It must first be raised- and finally the honour they were

for their often enough more than a bene- to pledge the health of the Earl wonderful, friendly helpfulness, factor.

ESTABLISHED. of Strathmore. The last time the

The bite of a rattlesnake has showing our dead-Reuter.

goblet was used was to celebrate sent an airman, Mr. H. Wiggins, Fitzgerald, has just accomplished

Englishwoman, Miss.. The Frontier Type.

the birth of Princess Elizabeth.

to hospital at Scott City, Kansas, a remarkable mountaineering feat For eighty years, since the

after a fight between the two 500 by crossing for the first time the British as heirs-al-law to the Sikhs and to whom "At home" days for the convicts came to administer the border at ments they give them.

at unexpected mo- feet above the ground. The rep Grands-Jorasses chain without a He is at first greatly concerned with Dartmoor Prison. For two tion the world owes him a living. are the latest feature of

tile showed itself when life at the foot of the

Mr. halt, says a Geneva message. tribal hills, has But though the cost to us in Wiggins was riding casually above the dignity of whatever post he is on Saturday and Sunday evenings been given to all and any who cared the tablets in Bannu and Kohat,

hours uplift, kindliness, and assistance valuable lives is great, as witness the clouds.

Miss Fitzgerald, who was ac- companied by the guides, Bozon offered; he will only accept what he the prisoners are being allowed to to takt. Schools; hospitals, mis- yet nevertheless the Pax Britannica airman said:

Describing his experience the and Couttet, set out froin Les- the later phrases referring to the considers a "gentleman's job"; he receive visitors. These are not

chaux Hut soon after three a.m., London and Blackwall railway, will refuse to work under someone relatives or friends in the ordinary sions, games, and riches have does percolate and spread, and the I was horrified and jumped back and arrived at the Young Point whose opening in 1841 had brought whom he considers an "outsider."

way, but members of the Tavistock we cultivate fresh noses for those To make it easier Congress and me. I flung my hands, before my difficult and perilous, the latter

been brought to them. Even do sacrifices are not in vain...

as the snake reared its head at at 9.30. The descent proved most If he has no money of his own, an increased clientele to the hotel.

branch of Toe H and of the Ply But by the Sixties its romantic this unhappy by-product of public mouth Rotary Club, who are taking wives whom they in their jealousy Soviet have now joined in, and it face, but the snake leaped at me part of it being actually accom Jure had departed and fashionable living on loans, grudgingly doled being conducted at this, and other police, in the militia the young men hot-air telegram at the wrong dancing.

school education usually ends by part in an experiment which is de-nose.

fa not much to say that when kind-I forgot the joystick and the plished in moonlight," In the ranks of the army, in the ly folk like Mr. Lansbury send a machine. began diving and When dusk fell" the party was emigrants awaiting passages to put to him by former schoolboys. I prisons throughout the country of the tribes and clans can take moment, some British officer's life

still at an altitude of over 11,000 do think, however, that since the The visitors, naturally, have to their place. Who so debonuir as a goes out on the wind, because a board, but the snake coiled and it would be spend the night.

feet, and the guides decided that war this type is very rare.

I tried to throw the thing over- observe a certain number of rulea frontier orderely? Who so attrae- puff has been given to some ill-struck me twice before I could Fitzgerald to spend the night.ex. and regulations, and five prisoners tive to take out shooting At the meeting in London of the

are allotted to each "guest" this skirmish with on the mountain

or to winded pirn Board of The Morning Post, Ltd. Sir Percy E. Bates, Bart., G.B.E., his Presidential Address before tu individual "host." It is found that bred perhaps of Macedon, yet vain.

Prof. W. L. Gerrard will deliver arrangement allowing for 20 side?

And again may we day with Mr. get my hands on it. Then I posed to the extreme cold. They accordingly continued, and ret succeeded in throwing it out.__ Kipling-- minutes' informal chat with the Vice-Chairman of the Board, was Hongkong University

Handsome, jaunty, and faithful,

"Ascrimmage in a Border during this exciting battle, and

The areoplane dropped rapidly gained the Leschaux Hut at 1.80

next morning. elected, Chairman in place of the Society to-day at 5.15 p.m., in the the prisoners, who greatly appre-spitfire, irresponsible, lovable, and

Station,

Miss Fitzgerald and the guides late Duke of Northumberland, and Unión Assembly Hall. All mem- elate these breaks in the prison incontinently faithless when least

"A canter down some

when Mr..Wiggins recovered from Major J.,S. Courtauld, M.P., M.C., bers of the Hongkong University routine, generally do most of the expected. Such is the material

defile. was elected Vice-Chairman, in place Medical Society

thousand pounds are cordially in-talking. The idea is to bring the with which the Ashcrofts of our of Sir Percy Bates."

"human touch" into prison life as frontier service spend their lives,

education far as possible.

Drops to a ten-tupee jezail."

diners were replaced by hungry

Australia...

vited.

Medical

Two

dark

of

his fright, it was racing down-arrived back at Chamonix safely.. ward completely out. of control.

He recovered in time to bring unconscious suffering from the it down in a field without serious snake's bite. It is expected that damage, but he was found nearly he will recover.