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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931.

·SEQUEL TO MOTOR SMASH.

REMARKABLE COURTAULD-RESCUE PICTURES.

DRIVER OF CAR CHARGED THIS MORNING.

RECEIVES CAUTION.

In connexion with a recent motor. accident at Stubbs Hrunds, when a Chinese passenger was killed and the driver committed suicide, Mr. Ta Hon-nam, the driver of the vehicle concerned, was sumamanent before Mr. Schofield at the Central for allow Poller Churt

to-day

ing vehicle to be driven by a person who was not in possesison of an appropriate driver's licence, - r the defendant, Mr. Appearing for fishing La said that in view of an inquent having resulted from the zureident, he thought it desirable to place a few furts before the Court, On July 1. M. Lo continued, his elfont drove a party of gentlemati friends to Repuh Bay, On and fly the return to lawn, Wong Ka-eleg who was one of the party, asked! Mr. Tai to be allowed to drive the car, and was permitted to do so after having informed Mr. Tas that he had a driver's thence.

Wong drove well for some dis. tance. Then all of a sudden the and ear seened to go all wrong

there was an accident, in which Lau Hing-un, one of the men in the party, lost his life. Wone, it would b showa, afterwards committed swickle.

held,

Although an inquest was aid Mr. Le, the exact range of the disaster could not be determin- red, but in fairness to the faffles plier in doing their last fa clear up the affair, an ophion as for the probable cause was exprenant.

Nobody to Blome

All these facts were plared be

inquest. for the Coroner at the There was evidence to shaw that the man driving at the time if the Decident, Wong Ka-ebre, had driven on many previous devastoin, und there was evidence to show also that before he was allowed to drive the car on this perasion. Tai Hon

num did nak him if he possesed a proper Berne. There was evidence to show that Wong was able to manage the car for some consider- able distance to the satisfaction of the passengers before it came to grief. in

In fairness to his ellent, the jury expressed the view

bud Wong Ka-cher

that as been Tai's

friend, the latter could not very well have asked for or insisted that Wong should show him his licence. The verdict eventually returned by

the

jury was that death in the case of Lau Bing-lun was due to an accident and that nobody was to Time for the wider thing.

said the arta amaunted to a piest

i guilty to a technical pence

Mr.

Augustine Courtauld, heavily bearded, immediately aflar amerging. Mr. Rymill, the rasquera to just climbing out.

Courtauld's station is shown above just an it was when Mr. Court wuld entered it in December last.

050

The ice-cap slation, as rescuers found it, with Mr. Courtauld still in the tent buried in the snow, from which he had been unable to emerge for over six works. Only the flagstaff and the ventilator shaft worn still showing above the surface.

FRENCH PREMIER'S

The

PEACE OFFER.

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Continued from Page t

Wrench

representatives

RECKLESS TAXI DRIVER.

FINED FOR EXCESSIVE SPEED.

A taxi-driver was sumpioned ber fore Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning for reckless driving.

EDGAR WALLACE

IN COURT,

LIBEL ACTION OVER

A PLAY.

London, July 9. The man whoan literary output |

million words per year, who

with

are likely to be the Premier M. Lusal, the Foreign Secretary M. Briand, and the Finance Minister, M. Plandin. After reciting these details, Mr.

Inspector Alexander, prosecuting. is a Brium, Italy and Japan will Laket the Magistrate to advise

be representeil, and the said à Hongkong Hotel Dus was pro- has written, 136 novels, and, who his client as to how to plead and to jaiso take a lenient view at the can, American Secretary of State Mr. ceeding down Lower Albert Road,

on behalf in the direction of Garden Road, fills in his spare time with politics,. After hearing Inspector Alexan- Stimson. will attend

when it stopped at a post between editing a Sunday newspaper and der on the matter. Mr. Schofield of the United States,

The British Ministers participat-the PW.1. offices and Volunteer helping his wife to conduct a rae- fing will include Mr. Henderson Headquarters to drop passengers. and the Chanelor of the Ex-Alady got out of the bus and ing stable, entertained the High

crossed in front of the vehicle to Court today

revelations chequer, Mr. Snowden,

Po over to the other side of the

about his literary methods and road. A that moment a taxi, dri-. ven by the defendant, had evertakenį output. Horiin messagese indicate that the bus, travelling at a speld ex-

hour. the devision to hold a Conference timated at 25 miles an

Ministers in London has had a had to swerve to me side of the ofert J] Germany, road to avoid the Indy. fussuring where the Banks opened after a¦ No doubt, observed Inspector two lays holiday.

Alexandur, both parties were at Drs. Bruening and turtins are fault-the lady

crosse xpected to leave for Paris to the

the road without looking and the taxi-driver in travelling at an

Mr. Lo the said that his client liad suffered a great shock from the accident and hind spent a few days

He menfié - the bed.

lion which Tai had tresit. consideral ed from the, police.

His Worship observed that as the defendant had suffered suivient punishment already, he would only administer a caution.

ART TREASURES STOLEN.

THIEVES STEAL VALUABLE PAINTINGS.

morrow.

Reassuring Effect.

having

He is Mr. Edgar Wallace, and

against Lewis Goldflim, who alleg- brought an action for likel that one of Mr. Wallace's plays had been copied from a book writ- ten by the defendant.

tween

Mr. Wallace's counsel assert that En London, the Foreign Excessive speed. Had there been their client wrote his play months tw before the other book was publish. change Market prevented apedestrians instead of 13:4, 271 steadier appearance and marks accident might have occurred. The e, and that there is no more re- appreciated slightly. The announce fact must be impressed on the taxi- semblanes between them tlum be- Macbeth and Charley's ment of my change in the Bank driver that in passing a stations Aunt. A masterpiece by Van Dyck, rule caused a note of confidence, bus he must inke great care and most important of all, drive slowly. said to be worth 200,000 marks ami which was reflected, in the stronger fi representing "Christ on the Wagposition on the Stock Markets at to Calvary," as well as a painting the close, -British Winters.

Frankfurt, July 11,

by the Dutch master Antonis

Palumedesz. valued nt 40,000

After Mr. G. W. May, an over-

seer in the P.W.D. had given evi PERSHING'S CENSURES. dener supporting the police case. nis Worship found the defendant

marks, were stolen by thieves who POSEIDON SURVIVORS guilty and imposed a fine

broke into the villa of the well-

known industrialist Herr Caspar.

Early this year, the same villa

IN HONGKONG.

had alrendy received the visit of

Continued from Page 1.1

twinkle

burglars who went off with a num- her of valuable paintings and it is therefore believed that both bur- of the shoulders and a glaries were the work of the in his eyes, when our representa- same gang of specialists who, intive returned. the meantime, have succeeded in smuggling their booty out of the country.

NORWEGIAN CLAIM

TO GREENLAND.

DECREE VALIDATING

POSSESSION..

Whiting for Shore Lenve

When our representative

shore.

$15.

THRILLING FILM

"CITY STREETS" AT

KING'S.

THE

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course of the War, which is saỳ- ing much.

RADIO BROADCAST

VARIETY AND CONCERT.

ITEMS TO-NIGHT.

Today's radio programme to bo broadcast by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 365 metres:

3.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme, 7.00-10.30 $1,375. European Pro. gramme of H, M. V, and Victor Re cords kindly supplied by Mesara, S. Moutrie and Co.

7.00 pm. Stock Quotations, Mall Nallen, etc.

7.03-7.15 p.m. Operatle.

Lohengrin-Prelude Act III.

(Wagner).

Symphony Orchestra,' 9805, Barcarolle" (Offenbach) (from Tales of Hoffman"). Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo

(Mascagni).

Now Light Symphony Orch,

7.16-7.45 p.ni.

Suite from the Music Te "Lo Bourgeois Gentilhomma” (Itchard Strauss).

B2177.

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, M101, 8.00 pm. (Local Time and Wen- ther Report).

1.45-8.30 p.m. Variety.

Sung-Fancy Our Meeting.

Lilian Davies (Soprano). 82797. Orchestral-Running Between the.

Rain-Drops,

Hert Lown and His Hotel Biltmore Orchestra, 22064. Chorus-Sea Songs-Sailing-Larboard Watch Rucked in the Cradle of the Deep-Life on the Ocean Wave-Asleep In the Deep-Nancy Lee-Anchared.

Nautien Male Chorus, Chorus-Down South (Middleton).

xin Melodista. CITM. Orchestral-Dear Lave-Selection.

New Mayfair Orchestra. C1792. Sung-Because I Love You, Song-In a Little Spanish Town.

Melville Ghlean (Baritone). 2421. Hawaiian Orchestra-Kanc's Blues. Hawaiian Orchestru-Hula Girl,

Kane's Hawaiians, 20701. 8.30-9.15 p.m. Selection of Ethel- bert Nevin's Music.

A Day in Venice-(a) Dawn (b) Gondoliers (e) Venetian Love Song (4) Good Night,

(n)

Victur Selon Group. 9478. Water Scenes-Narcissus (b) Country Dance (c) A Shepherd's Tale (d) Lullaby.

Victor Salon Orchestru. 9470. (a) My Desire (b) Mighty Lak'

n Rose.

Lewis James (Tenor), Olive Kline (Soprano) and Victor Salon Group. (a) At Twilight (b) O That We Two

Were Maying (c) At Rest. Wilfred Glenn (Bass) and Victor Salon Group. 9480. (a) Little Boy Blue (b) The Night

Has a Thousand Eyes (c) The Woodpecker.

The Victor Salon Orchestra. (a) In Winter 1 Get Up at Night (b) Every Night (c) Beat Upon Mine, Little Heart (4) The Life Lesson.

Edna Kellogg (Soprano) and Victor Salon Orchestra. 9481, (a) Barchatta (b) Serenade (c) 'Twas a Lover and His Lass, Eliet Shaw (Baritone) and Victor Salon Orchestru. The Rosary, Robert Simmons (Tendr) and Victor Salon Orchestra. 0482.

9.15-10.13 p.m. A Concert,

Pine Solo-Concerto in E Minor

{Mediner). Piana Solo-Suggestion Diabolique

(Prokofief).

Benno Moiseivitch. E530. Song In The Gloaming (Orred-Harrison).

Song Jock O'Hazeidean.

Mary Garden (Soprano). 725-1. Violin Solo-The Maides With

Flaxen Hair (Debussy-Hartmann). Violin Solo-En Bateau (Debussy).

Fritz Kreisler. 1368. Fong-Ay, Ay, Ay (Perez-Freire), Song-1 Kins Your Hand, Madam

(Erwin).

George Metaxa (Tenor). 32944. Piano Solo-Murmuring Zephyra

(Jensen-Niemann).

Pine Solo-Spring Song (Mendelssohn).

Rudolph Ganz. 1508 Song-Arcady in Ever Young

(Monckton).

Song The Pipes of Pan (Monckton),

Winnie Melville (Soprano), B3285. Violla Solo-La Serenata

(Angel's Serenade) (Braga). Violin Solo-Ganzonetta (D'Ambrosio).

Marjorie Havward, B2634. Song-Flower of the Desert (Lohr). Song-The Arrow and the Song

(Bulfo),

Percy Heming (Baritone), B2763. 10.13-10.28 p.m. Organ Solos. Berceuse Do Jocelyn (Godard). Melody in F (Rubinstein).

Edward O'Henry. B3601. Evening Song (Bairstow). La Nuit (lert).

Harry Goss-Custard. C1326. 10.28 p.m. "Rugby Mid-day Press News.

10.30 pan. Cluse, Down,

COMPRADORES' ASSN. NEW OFFICIALS ELECTED

FOR COMING YEAR..

Many of the American troops | fighting at the Front were half- starved because supplies could In "City Streets," shown for the ot be got to them, and the whole httack was checked. At this time first time at the King's Theatre Clemenceau visited Pershing and, yesterday, the whole range of lat

as was his practice, went up Ler day American slang appears the Front in Fee for himself. He left have been struck, but one is told was an alarmed by what he saw them a little later, they were all that this is perfectly natural to that he urged Fach to take action waiting for the signal to go the production which is meant to and on October 3 Foch sent Way- The word passed round give a true portrayal of the gund to proffer help, but this offer that the skipper was about, and racketeering problem confronting served merely to confirm Per- shing's suspicions, and at last, on everybody was on tip-toes. Three all large American cities.

Certainly, one is successfully in- October 21, Clemenceau proposed of them confided à fear that if

strange atmos to Foch that he should ask for they didn't get to the Island very phere in which all things seem to Parahing's recall.

troduced into Copenhagan, July 11. quickly they would INN their The conflict between Denmark chance of booking scuts for "plan be possible, beside the facts de and Norway over the sovereigntyder, and another syns gazing in-monstrated of how booze-runners

Foch, Anding that the Americans tently at the Queen's Theatre ndare able to have matters much

cient and up-to-the minute police vercoming their difficulties, wiec

ly ignored this proposal, and in force. did

At Coopor as the hard-boiled the event the American Army possession of the disputed terri-ucceed in obtaining anything westerner with a natural broke throgh, triumphantly

pre- tory

after

the Norwegian flag had new, or anything at all, about the

disposition to. racketeering; Sedan. bean hoisted there recently by a disaster, tying insight into the Wynne Gibson, as the repentant General Pershing says truly

expedition.

other gratifying The Cabinet was summoned im-characters of our "ratings."

racketeering beauty who socks to hat if the United States had been save him from himself and the in a postion to put 500,000 men, mediately for a special meeting to

consequences of her own actions; properly organised and equipped, Paul Lakas, as the domineering in the fold in the Summer of 1917, Beer Baron; William Boyd, as a the War would have been over Th confirmed

Guy Hib- that year, and ono cannot but bee na

all act with hink that if General Pershing. great ability. The production is had a little more faith in the quite entertaining after its own honesty of his Allies the War fashion, and should appeal vastly tight have been won more speedi- to those who delight in thrill. ly and with",less; loss, |--

of eastern Greenland had been akortisement, and repenting the their own way in spite of an eff had learned their lesson and were

gravated by a

from Oslo, King Haakon title very softly to himself. announcing that signed a decree taking formul

Our

representative

consider the position arising from

the Norwegian decree. According

WEATHER REPORT.

френимин

not

to the official, communique it was decided not to take any cognisance of the Norwegian offort to The Royal Observatory reports establish an accomplished fact that pressure is highest to the but to adhere to an earlier decision east of the Bonins and lowest over to submit the fanue to The Hague

Tongking. Court.

and

to

Tho

annual election took place the Chinese Compradores' Association in China Building on Wednesday afternoon, when Messrs. Wong Sic-ki and Fung Pak-lok were elected Chairman and vice-Chairman respectively, Mosers. Kwok Chan and Harry H. Sling as Treasurers, Mr. Leung Fat-tin as Secretary and the following gentlemen to form an had Executive Committee for the year: Mesars. Ho Ki Yu Ta wing. Tam Pak-shiu, Fung Heung- chuen, Yung Koon-man, Mok Tat-huen, Ho Loung" Ho Iu, Lo Kung-luk and Chan, Fei-yu, :-

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