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THE HONGKONG

PECULIAR. FATALITY AT WANCHAI

INQUIRY INTO COOLIE'S DEATH.

TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1930.

TOURIST LINER COMING.

“MALOLO” NOT OPEN FOR INSPECTION.

A fatality, brought about by a The Matson Navigation Com- peculiar circumstance, was rela- pany, owners of the Cruise Ship ted at the Central Police Court Malolo, have learned from experi- yesterday afternoon, when aence in handling Tourist Cruises Coroner's Inquiry was opened by that their passengers do not Mr. Williams into the death of Kan appreciate having hugo crowds of Ming, a coolie, on September 22 visitors from shore going over the last.

ship while in port. Consequently, Revenue Officer Pearse said he they have decided this year that was proceeding from Wanchal to the vessel will not be thrown open his office on the morning in questo the public. Neither will they tion, in his car. The car came out permit any peddlars to do busi- from Tin Lok Lane and, türaingness on board.

cooded for a distance of about 20

out

FLIGHTS IN PROGRESS

TO AUSTRALIA:

KINGSFORD SMITH ALSO SETS FORTH,

London, Oct. 9.

The noted Australian fller, Wing Commander Kingsford Smith, has left Heston, Middlesex, on a flight in a light aeroplane to Australia.

Router.

Chabot and Pickthorne.

Constantinople, Oct. 9. Flying Officer Chabot and Major! Pickthorne, who are flying to Australia, had a mishap on ro- starting. Their machine buried its nose in the mud, but was extricat ed, and they have proceeded.

Flt. Lt, H

Into Hennessey Road, had pro- Any persons, however, having yards along the tramlines, when legitimate business on board the Revenue Ofcer Grimmitt who Malolo or wishing to visit friends was with him, shouted "Look on board or those persons interest-

ed in travel can secure a pass Flight Lieutenant C. W. Hill, to take from the General Agent of the also on an Australian flight, suc- That caused witness notice of an iron bar coming with Robert Dollar Company permit-cessfully took off four hours later. Both machines are making for in his view four feet above the ting them on board." ground and projecting over his The B.8. Malolo, which is the Aleppo.-Reuter, left mudguard. He tried to slew pride of the Matson Fleet, will round to avoid it, but by that time arrive at Hongkong on the morn- a tram, which was approaching ing of October 26th from Shang- from the opposite direction. had hai and will sail at 5.00 p.m. on out from Lympne nerodrome on come up and was level with the October 28th, for Manila, and October 5 in a Math machine for to beat car. Witness jammed on his foot- thence on her Round-the-Pacific Australia, to visit his parents in Hinkler's time. Flight brake and applied his handbrake Cruise. She has a large crowd Queensland. He hoped

very Bert as well, this having the effect of of tourists for whom

car one-and-a-half enjoyable shore programme has Lieutenant Hill was the hero of a stopping the yards after the application of the been arranged at Hongkong under dramatic escape from a Turkish the guidance of the American prison camp during the war after brakes.

feigning madness. Express Company.

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The operation of this palatial crise vessel throughout the Orient has been placed in the care of the Dollar Steamship Line.

ren-

Out to Beat Hinkler. Flight Lieutenant I started

Flying Officer Chabot and Major Pickthorne, alternately piloting a night, hope to reach Australia in Puss Moth machine by day and a week from starting. They left Croydon on October 6.

Kingsford Smith.

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An Iron Ear, Witness explained that he had hed a momentary glimpse of a hand eart parked against the pavement in front of the godown on his left aide as he emerged from Tin Lok Lane. His whole

Fifteen families have been centred attention was otherwise

The attempt by Kingsford Smith er the approaching tram on the dered homeless by a terrible firel look-out for passengers who might that destroyed the village of Pra-Jis the more interesting in view of Savoy. The flames a recent statement attributed to be getting out of the tram and lognan, in possibly stepping in his path. spread with such rapidity that him, that he had decided not to Almost on the instant the ear thirty cottages and buildings were set out on the flight to Australia.

The attempt to make Paris a is now learnt that this plan has came to a standstill, after the fully ablaze before the outbreak (The reason given was feared loss: hasty application of the brakes, could be mastered by the fire of nerve after his operation for centre of film industry by the crea- aroused anything but enthusiasm witness felt a bump as if the car brigades summoned from all the appendicitis, which he had to tion of a second Hollywood at in some of the countries concerned a check who insist that films should be communes. It was undergo soon after completing the Joinville has met with had struck something, Alighting,neighbouring he found an iron bar, half an inch only with the greatest difficulty trans-Atlantic flight to America. from Germany. The project, for produced not only in their

Captain Barnard, it was recently which Paramount are responsible, language but also their own terri- thick and forty feet long, on the that the firemen succeeded in sav

all tory. Thus Germany has just roadway. Lying near it were twoing two houses from the ravages reported, was to accompany Kings was to make talk films in coolies, one of whom appeared to of the fire. All the rest of the ford Smith on an attempt at a languages, for distribution in the decided to limit the number of talk be in lifeless condition.

village was totally destroyed. record flight to Australia.

different countries of Europe. It filma made abroad.

The injured men were carried into the godown. Revenue Officer Grimmitt telephoned for an am- bulance, while witness rendered first-aid. One of the men, after a short while, was able to sit up, apparently hot very seriously in- jured.

Witness, who said that he had been driving almost every day for the last seven years, explained that he was going very slowly prior to the accident. It appear ed to him that the man carrying the bar in front forgot for the moment the extra length project- ing out, with the consequence that, although he successfully dodged the car, the end of the bar was struck by the car and both coolies were thrown down. Neither of the coolies was struck by the car itself,

The Verdict.

Dr. G. H. Thomas, Medical Om- cer at the Government Civil Hos- pital, said the decensed died after admission on the afternoon of the. same day, without regaining con. sciousness. At a post-mortem ex- amination, witness discovered fracture on one side of the skull, the extending four inches from temple to the base of the skull. It was a fracture or crack which could have been caused, witness said; by a heavy, bluntish instru- ment.

After further evidence, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."

ENGLISH RAILWAY'S

ELECTRIFICATION. EXTENSION REQUIRES BIG EQUIPMENT ORDER.

London, Oct. 9.. The Southern Railway Company has placed orders; amounting to nearly £500,000 with two British firms, for electrical equipment re- quired for trains to be employed in connexion with an extension to Reigate, Brighton and Worthing of the complete electrified system.

-British Wireless.

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