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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ. London's

Investment bankers and brokers in securities and commodities.".

Daily New York and London Stock Exchange Service. Commodity Futures on the principal American markets,

Members of:

Now York Cotton Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade.

Commodity Exchange, Inc.

(Silver, Rubber, Silk, Copper, Hides and Tin).

Correspondents for Hayden, Stone & Co.

Cable Address: Swanstock. Asla Life Building, 14, Queen's Road,

Telephones 27253, 27270.

Hongkong.

NEW PRICES

OF

BRUNSWICK RECORDS.

$2.00

(Loss 10% Discount for Cash}

ALL THE LATEST DANCE TUNES.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

9,Ice House Street.

FH

MENU

TIFFIN $1.25.

1. Cold Consomme,

2. Mock Turtle Soup.

3. Fish Duglere.

Tel. 24648.

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL

13, Queen's Road Central. Telephone No. 26634-26635.

4. Chicken Saute, Hungarien,

5. Spanish Omelette.

6. Tournedos a la Ráchel.

7. Cold Corn Ox-tongue.

8. Charlotte Russo.

9. Fruit

10. Tea.

11. Coffee.

MENU

DINNER $1.50.

1. Crab Meat Cocktail.

2. Consomme Madrilene.

3. Fish a la Orly. Tomato Sauce,

4. Victoria Cutlet.

Biggest Hold-up

ALL TRAMS STOP:

THOUSANDS STRANDED

London, June 19. Thousands of people were hold up last night all over London and Greater London by the biggest tram stoppage ever known.

Shortly after 10 o'clock a fallure of the electric current brought the whole of the London County Council tram service to a stand- still,

Trama suddenly stopped and the Ights went out.

At intervals of 100yds, trams were lined up from Wimbledon to Clapham and Tooting to Wandsworth, Brixton, Mitcham and Streatham.

The stoppage was complete over most of South London from 10.10 until 10.35, when the engineers succeeded in getting current through again.

Hundreds Walk

MONDAY, JULY 10, 1933.

18 POLICEMEN IN A MAZE

"LOST" BURGLAR HUNT

· FUGITIVÉ'S CANAL BATH

The Swan Inn at Ash Vale, known affectionately to hundreds of thousands of Army men all over the world as "Tupper'a," was the acene of an unrehearsed comedy when a would-be burglar and his pursuers became involved in an overgrown maze attached to the | Inn.

In the cool bar, which has so often resounded to the trol of military foot, the proprietor related told what happened, while faded brown photographs of "Tup- per," with his luxarlant fringe of the walls. snowy whisker beamed down from

prietor's wife saw an

About half-past cleven the pro man hanging, around the Inn and unknown

called her husband, who shouted and gave chate, while the tele- phoned to the police. The bur glar ran violently into a gate and dived into the dark wators of the Basingstoke canal.

He clambored out as speedily as possible, and ran down an alley behind hedge, the inn proprietor trying to head him off. The bur

More difficulty was experienced in North London, where the curglar, still dripping, then retreated rent failure was intermittent, and into the maze, with the object of after 11 o'clock many cars had baffling his purauer. In this he not resumed service.

was entirely successful the only drawback being that he also bafil- ated himself, and could not find his

way out.

the

Inquiries wore flashed in to Council's groat power station Greenwich from all points on the system..

By eleven o'clock most of the trams were running again, the traffic islocation was very great.

'ARMED WITH A BOTTLE.

The maze is a natural one form- buted of light hedges, now so over- grown as to form virtual tunnels. To follow the burglar into it alone was a dangerous course, as he was armed with a pint bottle.

In some outlying districts, how ever, "derelict" trama, empty and in darkness, were standing at intervals along the roads late last night.

Hundreds of people who had waited for late cars resigned themselves to walking.

Sprints to Stations

Here are some of the exciting scents during the great hold-up:" Crowds stampeded for buses, and there was a rush for taxis.

Suburban dwellers left trams and sprinted for railway stations. In the Kingsway the suddenly darkened tramcars in the already dlm tunnel heightened the strange-

Passing motorists were stopped and illuminated the maze with their headlights. Policemen to the number of eighteen arrived from near-by police stations, and surrounded the maze, in which the burglar could be heard crashing round through' the undergrowth, as he explored every avenue.

The police then closed on the centre. Or, at least, that was the idea. Unfortunately, the police- men also became lost, and the affair began to look like a re- hearsal for the Aldershot Tattoo. Awe-struck, the non-combatants stood round in the cerie glare of the headlights while wild shouts arose from the eighteen benighted policemen as they mulled round in the labyrinth. It was some hours. before they could be extricated. The Underground traffe multi-by which time it was discovered

ness.

Passengers were asked to keep their seats while inquiries were

made.

5. Iced Asparagus & Mayonnaise.plied to many times the normal that the burglar had escaped. •

6. Roast Capón & Ham.

7. Mango Ice Cream.

THE

8. Cheese.

9. Fruit.

10. Tea.

11. Coffee.

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AFTER-DINNER DANCE

Every Thursday & Saturday-Orchestra Daily.

CABLES "RUNNYMEDE”

during the hold-up.

Streets were lined with people waiting to get home.

Power Station Breakdown?

An official of the L.C.C.tram service stated just before 11 p.m.:

Inventor Of

Reports have come through Stiff Collars

from districts all over London stating that the current has failed. It is impossible to discover the reason for the failure at present..

"As far as we know no damage has been done."

The stoppage is believed to have been caused by a breakdown at the Greenwich power station,

Sufferings In The Desert

130 PEOPLE DIE FROM THIRST

Nairobi.

One hundred and thirty men, women and children have died from

A WOMAN!

When men curse the inventor of stiff collars, they are cursing a woman-though doubtless few them know it.

of

She was an American, Mrg. Han- nah Montague, the wife of a black- smith.

She washed her husband's shirts and in doing so noticed that the collar was nearly always more dir- ty than the shirt itself.

So, with a sudden inspiration, she cut off the collars and put bands round the necks.

Then she starched the collars. They stayed clean longer.

Mr. Montague туда agrenbly surprised. He told his friends. That was a century ago. A tablet on a house in Troy, New the York, still bears witness to memory of the inventor of stif collars.-Reuter.

thirst in the desert areas of Italian KEENER STUDENTS Transjuba.

The victims of this terrible. tragedy are natives who had decided to leave their homes in Italian Somaliland to return to the British Flag under which they had former- ly. lived.

ONE EFFECT OF THE

DEPRESSION

Evanston, Illinois.

The American college student has

It appears that a section of the benefitted by the depression. He is Somalia, living in the Kismayu arca studying harder says the President of Italian Somaliland, who before of Northwestern University, the war were British aubjects,

He believes that student life has

decided to settle in the northern |been. battered to a marked degree frontier district of Kenya.

the last two years,

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A large numbor left with their

Loafers havo decreased in, num- families and cattle,⠀⠀ travelling ber. The University has taken on across the country in the direction a business-like attitudo. ⠀ of the Tana River,

In general students seem to be Some of them reached British | less reckless and more considerato. territory, where they reported that, he says. They are acquiring habits while crossing Italian country, the of industry and thrift, that will be party had divided.

of advantage after graduation. A search party for the remain- The quality of incoming freshmen der was immediately organised and Inst September was the highest we eventually some survivors werd have "over had. Indications": "aro found. They were in a state of that the entering class in Sopter- collapse but were able to relate the bor will be equally high," he added. tragie fate of their companions, "The greatest drop. In attendance. 180 of whom had succumbed after has boon, in our courses in com She party and lost its way in the

'fun' but of water.

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