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EXPLOSION ON SHIP

MILAGROS SINKS NEAR MANILA.

OFFICER BADLY BURNED

Manila, Dec. 0. Twenty-three men, members of the crew of the m. v. Milagros, escaped a terrible death at sea yesterday when they succeeded in getting clear of the burning Vessel which was carrying a quantity of highly inflammable cargo...

The Milagros caught firo as a result of an explosion In her engine room and she sank of Maricaban Island, Bauan, Batan- gas, at 11.30 a.m. yesterday.

The members of the crew abun- doned the ship when the flames leaped from the engine room, as her cargo was in Imminent danger of exploding. They landed at Marlcaban Island and later pro- ceeded to Bauan. They arrived in Manila at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The steamer avas enroute from Negros to Manila, carrying a cargo of 70-cans of Gasanol. The precise cause of the explosion is not known to Captain Manuel Mascunanan, master, or to the members of the crew. The shock of an explosion in the engine room was felt and fire broke out in that section of the ship immediately. Duo to the Inflammable cargo aboard the entire ship was soon in flames.

OFFICER BURNED.

Vicente Ferrer, second engineer of the ill-fated vessel who was in the engine room at the time of the explosion, was seriously burned

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933.

Shown above is the nuptial group of the first Parsas wedding to ba porförmed in Shanghai. Tha ceremony took place at the Masonic Hall and united Miss Maia E. Commissariat and Mr. Rustom C Umrigar, who are pictured above surrounded by members of their families.,

MAJOR TO PAY 'BUS

DRIVER £200 ·

SLANDER SUIT VERDICT: A KENSINGTON

SCENE

WOR

complete

An old Public School boy and past 'bus stops and starting with driver of a London omnibus sued a jerk. The police naked other a Major who had been one of his passengers if there were any com-

There passengers in a slander actionplaints. before Mr. Justice Charles and afsilence, common fury in the King's Bench Major Menzies's defence was Division. He was nwarded £200) that the words he used were words damages,

requesting an inquiry about the driving of the 'bus.

The plaintiff was Mr. Humphrey Holl Evans, of Bramham-gardens,

and was rushed to Manila vester-Kensington, 26 years of age, who day afternoon for treatment.:

The loss is placed at P65,000, was educated at Felsted, and the The ship was valued at P40,000 defendant was Major F. A. and the cargo at P25,000,

support of his claim.

The driver then gave evidence

Protest by the Judge

mean they were upset literally or in their nerves?-Literally, and in the other sense, too.

:

"Taking The Rlak" Mrs. Sadie Scott told the Court she took the risk of going all the way from the Ritz to her home at Richmond in the 'bus."

Mr. Justico Charles-And here you are to-day, (Laughter).

Another witness was asked-| Did you sce a lady precipitated on to the knee of Major Monzica?

"No," he replied, and his Lord. ship expressed his astonishment with an "Oh!"

"Was the lady atanding?"Yes, Major doing sitting down" in- "Then what on earth was the inquired Mr. Justice Charles.

nonsense

Counsel pointed out that the Major did give his scut up to a lady.

At the close of the plaintiff's Menzies, of Piccadilly, The

At this stage, Mr. Justice case Mr. Morris submitted that the The action arose out of an in- Charles was Milagros was of 221 gross dissident h Kensington on November arrangement between the parties, there was no evidence of malice.

Informed that, by occasion was privileged and that placement and had a net tonnage of 30 tons. She was 36 feet in 6, 1932. The plaintiff had joined the witnesses in the action were

Mr. Justice Charles-Do you length and seven feet in breadth. the London Passenger Transport being kept out of Court,

mean that a man who is atupid She was registered September 4,

Board under a scheme whereby "Let all the witnesses come back enough to make a serious charge men intended for administrative Into Court," said his Lordship. and may say any

is 1928,

posts received a course of instruc;}"I will not tolerato an arrange-always to be protected by saying

lon in the shops and later secured ment made behind my back in my he did it to protect people w experience as a conductor and as Court. I have never heard any-[didn't want protecting? I suppose a driver.

thing like it in all my experience. a man who is. frightened when no- He had been driving for about It is a matter for my discretion." body else is frightened is entitled five weeks when he was in charge Mr. J. W. Morris (for the de-to say the driver is drunk? of an omnibus on the route befendant)-I never occurred to me,j Major F. A. Menzios, in tween Victoria and Kensington | my Lord---

evidence, said that the busin High-street.

Mr. Justice Charles-This is a question was being very violently Mr. R. C. Vaughan, for the matter of very grave importance, driven, so that a lady who had just plaintiff, stated that Major I hope it won't occur again. got up was thrown into his lap. Menzies. who was a passenger, A police officer, who gave He gave the lady his seat.

An- evidence that Mr. Evans was quite other lady had her head banged wanted to alight just when policeman was waving the driver sober when examined, said that a against the side of the bus.

"Odd" over a crossing. The bus went to Mr. Israel, a passenger, said to the next stop and the Major got in him: "I have never heard such rot ad to the conductor about the No one complained about the to a caring rage." He complain-as this man is complaining about speed at which the 'bus was being driving. driven and observed: "The driver's drunk."

AN ELECTRON FURNACE

APPROACHING HEAT OF SUN

Temperatures as great as 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit are being pro duced at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, at a cost for the actual work of about one twentieth of a penny a time,

If any type of container were available which would atand auch great heat, it would be possible at reach very little greator cost to the temperature of the sun's sur face, which, it is estimated, must be not less degrees.

The laboratory's present results In economical "auper-heating" are being achieved with what is known as an electron furnace.

than about 11,000

Mr. Justice Charles-They were willing to go on in this "madly Refusing to be mollified the driven "bus," wasn't there a play Major rushed off, fetched a police called "The Case of the Frightened man, who stopped the bus and Lady," and can that, with the ordered the driver to atop down, alteration of one word, be appli- It was 12.30 mid-day and Major cable to this case? Menzies told the policeman that the driver was drunk.

When two police officers declared that he was perfectly sober the This is a beam of fast-moving | Major said, "I agree." electrons from an X-ray tube con centrated with mathematical pre-

Major Menzies then complained clalon on an area little larger than that the plaintiff had been driving

a pin's head. The energy of the benm is so great that niall teat samples can be hented to these very high temperatures within two minutes.

In the laboratory the furnace, which is little more than a foot in length, fs.being used for studying the effect of heat on the structuro

Mr. Morris-Is your Lordship implying that the Major was frightened?

Mr. Justice Charles-No one else seems to have been upset at all.

Mr. Morris-There were, but they had got off previously.

Mr. Justice Charles--Do you

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his

Mr. Justice Charles-But nobody you think it funny or odd that seems to have complained. Don't

people who had their heads banged didn't complain ?—I don't know what you mean by odd, my Lord.

Major Menzies said he became slightly indignant with what he called the bullying of women,

Mr. Justice Charles-Who by?— By the man who caused them to be flung on to the side of the 'bus,

Mr. Justice Charles--They didn't seem to mind or complain. What business was It of yours?

Major Menzies said he told the policeman: "I think you ought to fook at that driver. He is driving as though ho la tight." After- wards he agreed the driver was "stone cold" sober and said so.

A

Major Munzies agreed in cross- examination that, if an officer and gentleman had wrongly charged bus driver with being drunk, the first thing he would do on dis- covering his mistake would be to apologies. But he insisted that he did not any the driver was drunk. Such a thought had not entered his

head..

Mr. Justice Charles-What is Is Excellency the Governor, has! His Excellency the Governor_has the good of saying it didn't enter appointed Mr. A. D. Brawn to be an nominated Mr. Benjamin Wong Tape your head when, according to your Inspector of English Schools, rice as a member of the Court of the own evidence, you said: "Is he Mr. Gaslon Pacros de Martin, M.B.E., University of Hongkong for a period tight?"I was saying that as I | M.A., retired.

of three years.

might have said, "Is he dotty 7" or "Is he mad?" from the way he was driving.

lie waa not using the word "tight" in relation to drink.

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Creatore's Band. Vocal Dust Madama Bulterny

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p... A rémny of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Grill Room. the progtamno between 5 and 6 p.m. Should recoption provo satisfactory, will bo substituted by a relay from Daventry.

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'SUNDAY'S PROGRAMME,

Church Morning Service.

10-11 am.. Relay of St. Joseph's

Church Morning Service.

11-12.15 am. Relay of St. Paul's

1 p.m. Local Time and Weather

Report.

4,80-7.80 p.m. Programme.

12.16-2.30 am. European Recorded Programma,

Chinese Recorded

7.30-10 p.m. European Programme. 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report, etc,

7.30-9 p.m. Erogramme of Library. Records. Orchestral-Bolero (Ravel).

William - Mengelberg and his Concert Orchestra. Piano Solos.

(a) Etude in D Flat (Llazt), Piano Solos.

(b) In The Night (Rehimann)

Harold Bauer,

Songs.

(a) The Lass With The Delicate

Air (Arne). (b) By The Waters on linne-

tonka (Lieurance).

Alavia Bennet,

Lener-String Quartet

Quartet in G Major (Mozart).

Songs..

(a) Les Doux Serenades

(Leoncavallo).

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(b), Si vous asses Compris

(Denza). Enrico Caruso, Violin Solos.

(a) Capriso Viennale reisler). (b) Humoresque (Drorak-

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relator. Symphonique Sulto "Scheherezado" (Rimsky-Korsakow) Leopard Sunni and tho Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

9-10 p.m. From the Studio,

Proffessor N. A.“ Tonoff and his "Rose Komm Tango Band" vocal and accordian solos by S. T. Foronda. 1. Adios Muchachos--Tango. 2. A Waltz of Long Ago.

J. To Volz-Tango.

4. The Gay Jo's Waltz.

5. Clavel del alro Tango.

6. Collette Waltz

7. Amor Criolo Tango.

Interval.

6. Bagdad Sulle by M. King.

a. The Royal Guard.

b. The Garden Beautiful,

c. Hail, Hall, O Calliph the Great.

9. Sally Selections by Jerome Kern, 10 p.m.Close Down. (Should reception prove satisfac- tory, the programme from 6-6

n.m. may be replaced by a relay from. Daventry).

It is notifled that Mr. J. T. Bagram, Honorary Consul-General for Slam at Hongkong, resumed charge of the Siamese Consulate-General, on 30th November..

{ly disregarded the obvious or proper thing to do if he thought

The Government Gazette contains In our reference to "Viyella" in our the text of the agreement between lenderette column 'yesterday, it was The mystery of a phantom the British, Indian and French stated that this material is manu- motorist who regularly sounds his Governments regarding deportations factured by Courtauld's. In point of horn at the bend of a road in the from French and British territories. fact Messrs. Wm. Hollins and Co., of

An incident hills outside Melbourne has been This provides that French subjects of Nottingham are the manufacturers. Questioned about his failure to cleared up. The bend is sharp, Indo-China deported from Hongkong

express his regret, the Major said causing drivers to sound warnings Haiphong.

must be deported either to Salgon or

The health bulletin of Eastern ports he did not give the Incident an as they approach. Lately such

for the week ended December 2 shows other thought until he received warnings have been, promptly re-

¡the following cases of infectious the writ. plied to apparently from a

In order that a complete list may diseases.-Plague: Colombo 1 caso. "I looked upon it as just an he had any reason to complain, dor car be maintained for record travelling in the opposite direc-it is requested that those ladies' and cases, Madras 01 cases, Chittagong life," he added.

purposes, Cholera; Bombay 4 cases, Calcutta 10 ordinary incident of London traffic he could have gone to the front of tion. Drivers pulled close in to gentlemen resident in Hongkong, care. Small-pex; Baghdad 1 case,

the bus and soon for himself that. avold.collision, only to find on

Mr. Justice Charles-You said a the plaintiff was sober. other than those now. serving in s Basseing 4 cases, Bombay 3 cases, mon was tight and just dimissed it rounding the turn that there was Majesty's Forces, who have had any Calcutta 9 cases. Madras 14 cases, from your mind?--Yes,

According to the Major the no other car in sight. The driver decoration conferred upon them by Negapatam 8 cases, Ilangoon 2 casos,

other passengers did not complain The defendant was being further because they preferred their of a service regularly using the His Majesty the King, will inform the Halphong 4-cases, road was so puzzled that one day

Chief Clerk, Colonial Secretariat, Meningills: Macao 1 case, Hongkong cross-examined when Mr. Justice lunches to their lives, unless this has already been done, cASCE.

Charles observed: Try to answer he stopped to investigate, where within 14 days."

"The fact that they might have. the question like a man of elemon- upon a lyre-bird flow up from its

gono to Kingdom-come before get- hiding place in some bushes. It

A young Chinese girl singer, with taty Intelligence and not like ating their lunches does not seem had been playing a joke on the Lottie

Under the direction of Madamo oprano voles of wonderful quality, stupid person.

Gordon

to have occurred to them as it did (the Australia range and a natural trill Miss Elvie Mr. Vaughan (cross-examining) to him," added his Lordship. motorists, its uncanny gift of planiste-composer) the Howloon Music Yuen, has been discovered in Kowloon-You got no thanks for being the mimicry enabling it to reproduce Club will hold its opening afternoon Madame Lottle Gordon, and has self-appointed protector of these favour of the omnibus driver, The fury returned a verdict in perfectly the four musical notes Concert on Tuesday week December been awarded the first "Empire Link" people should think they were awarding him £200 damages, and of the service driver's horn.

19 at the Afelle Hotel Kowloon, first Hongkong Scholarship. Madame Gor-all cordially cursing me for delay judgment was entered accordingly. floor from 5-89 to 7 p.n, Madame don, la conjunction with the above ing them on their way to their with costs.. Gordon will play some of her Austra- musle clubs, will take Miss Yuen's lunch. Han and Chinese compositions and volos in hand, and she will recolvo frea Summing up Mr. Justice Charlos

Mr. R. G. Vaughan. will be specially basisfod by - Carl training in English and Australian

(Messrs.. enrickson (Tenor), Miss Elvia Yuen songs and Italian, opera together, said Major Menzies seemed to bo Langlole, Harding and Co.)- ap- (Soprano) and Miss Jacqueline with talkie training. Miss Yuen is on "interfering sort of fellow who peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Fermanders: (Elocationiste'... «Ad- also: a talented ... planiste andae, not himself up as a protector of J. WV. Morris (Musses. Proston and mission will be in aid of Club funds, companist,

bullied women.” He had reckless. 'Foster) was for the defendant,

It is notified that Mr. H. A. Taylor, "FIC, resumed duty as Assistant Superintendent and Monopoly Analyst, Imports and Exports Department on - 20th November,

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