1936-04-27 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1936.

Englishman Who Cheats Death Celebrates

His 28th Lucky

FLUNG OVER

CLIFF: FOUGHT

AN OCTOPUS

Banbury, Apr. 15. SITTING in his home here a tall vigorous man told to-day the story of how at the age of 36 he has cluded death more times than any man living.

Here are a few of the adventures which he'

has survived.

Flung over a precipice.

Collided with two lorries, while driving a small car. Fought an octopus.

Escaped from a man-eating leppard,

The man whom death passed by is Mr. G. Hamilton Snowball, of 41. North-bar, Banbury.. Oxfordshire.

"My most recent brush with death occurred st month, when the eur 1 war driving went out of ea Trol and plunged słowa a mountalusife in Africa," Mr. Snowball said. "I hung on to the wheel unti I was knocked apronselous,

"When I canie round I was lying in a dried, river bed. Apart from a head wound 1 was an Heratched. A few yards from me was the car completely wrecked, that was my 28th escape from! denth.

"When bathing off Past Sudan 1 solid a abark voming after me

I beat him by the heark by three

yards,

“In the Laws Archipelago my wart | jegat overturned and i fattad myself swimming with sharks all 1#

me.

But they missed me.

Leopard Escape

"th, the same trip J wonded! leopard pounced on me and struck me down. My native bays saw it standing over me. They fled, and their action distracted the leopard's

attention.

"It turned and them."

Escape

Anne Balfour

Delights At Helena May

THURSDAY'S CONCERT

By "Orpheus"

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RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From ZW. on n wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):

p.m.

Hongkong Hotel Dange Orchestra,

7.25 p.m. Cinemin Organ Selos. want 10 be snappy; Ninette Maud), A Japanese Sunset (Deps pen); Famous Tauber Melodies,

7.45 pm. A Recital by Richard

The alteration of the time of! commencement of last Thurs. day's concert-the last of the 7 p.m. Musical Comedy.

Vocal Gems-The Blue Mazurkoj series--to 9.15 p.m., as was sug The Desert Song: Selection--Words gested in the account of the pre-and Music; Vocal Gems--Bitter Sweel, vious concert which appeared in these columns, was a decided change for the better. There were at least three times As many people as at some of the Crooks (Tenor). previous concerts and although 1. Song Divine: 2. Neapolitan even then the audience was hot Love Song (Herbert); 3. The Rosary large it

was certainly most ap-(Nevin); 4. Love everlasting (Friml). Hp.m. Time Signal, Weather Ré- preciative and enthusiastic,

port, Stock Quotations and Announen- meals.

8.03 .. A Relay from Po Hing Theatre (Chinese),

12.

On this occasion the concert fook the form of a song recital by Madame Ante Balfour and

11 p.m. <lose Down 1 her sincere thanks and con-

8.05-10 p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z.E.K. on 1 fre- gratulations must be accorded,quency of 650 kilogycles. If the progranime lacked 270! 8.05 p.m.

Carroll Gibbons und dernity it certainly showed his Boy Friends. rare faste and contained many

1. It's an Old Southern Custom: The work at the great National Méaumont inquisite songs. Madame Bal-Smoke gets in your eyes; 4.

According to the Moonlight; 3

You've America to its residents lus progressed so far that four has a light, lyrical mezzo- got to admit; 6. Let's fall in love; besales the bend of Washington, now the head of soprano voice well-trained and love is love, anywhere. Jeferson has been out in the park. The picture above of beautiful, clear tone. She Lucienne Boyer (Soprano).

8,25 p.m.

Four Songs by Mlle. sang every song in a perfectly 1. Ne dis Pax Toujours; 2. La jeffortless manner and, however Barque D'yves; 3, Landerirette; 4.

Ballide. goo! this may be in one way. 8.38 p.m. Light Orchestral Selec- it can. of course. be taken to tions. extrepies, No matter what she was March of the Toys ("Babes in"

the reamined charmingly Toyland") (Herbert): A World of penging

deure all the time, Never once did (Roinance; Love Tales (arr. Hall). Ishe sing below mezzo-forte and very 9p.m. Daventry News Bulletin.

blom rise above it. This calm. 9.15 p.m. A Violin Recital by effortless style in a programme of Fritz Kreisler.

gives an fora of this gigantie work.

The Queen Mary 80,773 Tons

London, Apr. 20.

The gross tonnage of the new liner Queen Mary was ¦announced officially to-day

as 80,773.

HUSBAND SENT TO GAOL

WOUNDS WIFE IN QUARREL

|

songs which should undoubtedly have 1 This Meditation. (Massenet]; Charged with wounding his wife, made great demands on any singer 2. Tambourin· Chinois, Op, 3 (Krejs- Heong Kang, 23, was sentenced to was rather inclined to give the whole for); i. Rondine (On a theme by six months hard intour by Mr. E. recital a feeling of sameness, and was Beethoven (Kreisler); 4. Fair Rose- Hinsworth at the Kowloon Magis somewhat disappointing. This is not tracy this morning.

be unthly critical, but mary (Kreisler). merely to inlicate the heights which, in the writer's opinion, this the artist might have attained.

mennt to

According to Lloyd's Register

Det. Sgt. Ellis, prosecuting, stated | the gross tonnage of the French that the wife had spent eight days her Normandie is estimated at in hospital. Defendant had been gut 80,000, but an official of the had no money. A. quarrel started at of work for eight months, and they after French line in London this after their home in 377 Reclamation Street, on said that her tonnage was resulting in the wife being hurt. about 82,000, having been recent-They hart a child who had been set Snowball was attacked by a black increased during alterations. to the wife's mother in Canton The Normandie remains the ship, though the Queen Mary is

heaviest and longest longer on the water-line.

misicans who, by virtue ran

A few works afterwards.

Mr.!

numba snake, then tung from a crashed lorry into a river infesteil with crocodiles.

Home again in Britain he was - involved in a car collision with two!

world's

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN

BRIEF

torries when the entire upper part GIVE A MAN......... A THRER OF PLEARGRE The P. and O. liner Chitral is due

of his car was torn Ľ. He was -unseratohed

IN 118 HEART, AND HE WILL BE GLAD | here from Singapore at 10 aun. on TO SHARE IT WITH THE FIRST PERSON Wednesday. --19 MANETS:--Hazlitt,

or

haps only half

In the whole Colony there are per # dozen first-class of their training, experience and extensive repertoires, are individually, expable of giving a successful recint, and in this group of course must be included the Cathedral organist and Mr. Harry Ore. A recital is an ambitious under- toking for any artist, but on the inger the deniand is greatest of all, There must of

tone necessity he colour, there must be versatility, inuance, rubata and above all a sense of dynamics. If these are lacking then monotony must inevitably resufi. Perhaps one should rather say that Madame Balfour set herself & taskj that was rather to great for-her- capabilities, Another singer player with her to share the pro- gramme (and there are plenty to be ...found!) and the pleasure of hearing A lecture on "Unemployment," her

would have been enhanced under the auspices of the Law and tremendously. As it was, group At to-morrow's weekly title of the Commerce Society, will be delivered followed group without any feeling Rotary Club, the spruker will be by Rev. K. M, Dow on Friday. May of contrast or climax and there was In 1918, when he was an appren- Pesti.

Rotarian Laszlo Schwartz, of Bude 1, ut 8.30 p.m. in the Unlun Assembly little change of mood.

His subject will be "Two Itoom of the University. All in- tired engineer at Cinteshiend, a Happy Bed-fellowa-Commercialisinterested are welcome.

Of the programme itself the Old piece of metal penetrated his eye, jandi Art."

English songs were well chosen- which had to be removed, In the

At the Kowloon Magistracy. this little gems in fact. Here n broader hospital it was discovered that the Chang Fungeshon, 52 years, au-

requested metal had missed piercing the brain employed, was fined $25. in default. morning, inspector F. T. J. Portallion treatment of "Fain would I change E. Himsworth to that note" (Hume) would have made by one-thousandth of an inch. one month's hard labour, by Mr. W. grant another remand in the case of the difference. In these songs Schofield, at the Central Magistracy Chung Yuen-kam, alias Chung icwing thietion was not good-the prulosign-

of the secondary this morning, on a charge of stealing shing. charged with assaulting instance, the diphthongs was dix- the Tylan Leung Chiu, 36, and Pan So. 20, at turbing-but in the French graup a quantity of serap fron Falling into the sen fully-clothed Reservoir. Sergeant Dall stated Canton Road, near the Mongkok there was an improvement in every and mußled in a heavy winter over- defendant had tasken up a pipe about Theatre, on April 17.

Inspector way. In these the singer WAS coat was another of his adven-three feet long. The pipe was worth Portallion explained that one of the obviously more at home. If only she

complainants was not yet out ol hnd let herself go more! hospital. One week's further re- mand was granted.

"Since then," he said.

"One case of each of Typhold and The heavy rains 027 Saturday Chicken-pox were reported to the have beaten on an octopus į morning registered 1.02 inches at, the local Health authorities on Friday. while pearl-diving. survived | Observatory. Yesterday's threatened} four head-on motor crashes, and storm did not materialise, suffered 12

bouts of severe malarla in five years."

⚫tures.

Fell Oft Ship

"

rope

The rock he had dislodged was smashed to pieces on the bench 350 feet below.

As a schoolboy, Mr. Snowball

$5.

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vowel, for

9.30 p.m. Dance Musje, 10 p.m. Big Ben..Close Down,

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Transmission 1

(G.S.N., 0,5.D.)

1:16 pm. Big Heis. The IL.B.C. france

Orehetra, 1:48 .m. Henn-by-Williams, the inmate ..............._citaracter inwremionist.——---- 1.50 p.m. The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. 1.55 p.m. Talk:-"We Live and Legen." 3.10 p.m. The I.B.C. Empire Orchestra, Greenwich Tiene flignal «1 2.15 m. 2,65 p.m. The News and Announceinente. 5.15 pm. Clər down.

Transmission 2

(0.84, 8.5,0., G.S.D.)

7 p., Big Hen. Light Orchestral Musle. 3.10

Talki "Prominent Norihcountry- men in the Mouth,**

7,23 p.m. The Wynford Reynolda" Detet,

with Hilda Bentle Greenwich Time Signal at 8 pm.

Ge Up the River. Being No. 4 in the series of dentures of Sark and Jill. K50 p.m. Light Orchestral Music,

p.m. The News and Announcements. 5.24 pan. The B... Dance Orchestra. 9.43 p.m.

Close down.

Transmission 3

M.15 p.m. "Jark and

(0.8.0., 6.9.E.)

10 p.m. Ben, A Recital of English

Bangs of Nering, Old and New.

10.30 nm. Spring Cleanh." A dutie

Fi

31 p.m. ortak Recitat

11.30 p.m. Remillarg.

11.45 .. Symphony Mazale. 11:35 p.m.

12

The News and Annoncements, x.m. Frank

zmna પતt.t. George Hackford (Percumadin). Greenwich Time Bignal at 12.00 a.m. } .m. Close dewn.

her only slight fault being that she As was anld at the commoncement

and there was an air at intimney an charm about the whole recital which showed that bath performers had a number of friends and admirers. of others could have been improved. Every item was applauded and at the conclusion of the recital the audience To maintain interest for ony refused to movo until Madame

"While going over the battleship Sentence of one month's hard labour

The Scarlatti aria ('Ģia il sole dal Lion, after her return from the was imposed upon Chan Kau, a 20-

gange) was the first item in which Battle of Jutland," he said, "year old house coolie, when he admitted

Admitting the theft of a quantity there was a feeling of life and one tripped over a rail of

and the theft of $5 from his employer, Mr. of Canadian pine-tree branches, Li had hopes that from here the pro- pitched over the sile.

J. J. Basto, of 20 Kent Road, by Mr. Wing, 19, was ordered to pay a fine gramme would grow in emotional E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- of $7. or, in default, undergo three interest. The Gluck song, top, was "A seaman, prodding in the tracy this morning. Inspector W. R. weeks' imprisonment, by Mr. B. Hims-nier and fresh and beautifully sung. water with a boathook, hitched it Chester-Woods sal defendant hat worth at the Kowloon

Magistracy The two great songs, “An die Musik been in the employ of the complainant this morning Defendant In my overcoat."

was (Schubert) and Verborgenheit" for 12 months, at a wage of 29 per charged with stealing them from 19 (Wolf), were, frankly beyond the month.

His Worship ordered $5 Stafford Rond, the home of Mrs. G. H. Shortly afterwards, while cliff-ends to be made, or in default a White, on April 50. Inspector W. Ringer's powers, These songs require I was inclined to be too self-effacing. climbing, a rock gave way beneath further two weeks imprisonment Chester-Woods, prosecuting, stated ing phrases need sustained tone, good the audience was very encouraging

breadth of treatment and their soar-¡ him and Mr. Snowball slithered 30

would have to be served.

that the value of the branches was breath control and power. A feeling feet down the sheer face of the

about $3, though he could not estimate of rabato in the last song in the pro- eliff until he clutched at a smalli

Arrested by an Indian constable, | the damage done to the tree.

gramme--"Bescheidene Liebe" (Wolf) tree.

Gurdit Singh, at about 3.30 a.m. on

Ahowed how much the Interpretation April 20 inside the back yard of No.

A 62-year-old unemployed man, Village Road, Wu Sau, unemployed, Yami On, was fined $50, or, in default, aged 45 years, who appeared on re- one month's hard labour, by Mr. Mac- mind before Mr. W. Schofield, at the fadyen at the Rowlaon Magistracy length of time in a series of short Balfour sang again. She added a de- Central Magistrney this morning on this morning when he admitted hav- songs strung together however good lightful little song of Purcell's, was cut off by the tide at Tyre and fined $50, in default six weeks' Chang Street, second floor. Ils Tong, technique. The sones chosen were in a charge of loitering, was convicted ing kept a sly brothel at No. 102 Nan they are individually demands superb mouth and was rescued by fisher-bard labour. The constable snid de- 24

themselves beyond reproach; unemployed, admitted a similar tendant was standing near the buck offence at No. 110 Woosung Street, perhaps the interpretative powers of door, which was open. He found in first floor, and was fined $75 with the effectively stimulated if a song cycle The singer might have been, more defendant's purae two keys, which de- alternative of one month's hard of. Buy.

Schumann Brahms, fendunt throw away in Po Shin labour. The usual order was made Schubert or even perhaps a group of Street on the way to the station, but against the houses concerned in each songs by Debussy, Faure, etc. had they were recovered.

case Sub-Inspector T. Collins pro-been substituted. At nay rate it was secuted. Yuen Mingaugalian Mak Leang,

in gallant effort and one which waS

much appreciated. Fung Kai, alia Tai, and Ng With

two previous convictions

Sincere singers are none tos numer- "Slowly he supped his teeth before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon was sentenced to six weeks hard ous and it was

Kwal, widow, appeared on remand against him Ho Nr. 33, unemployed, farther and farther upwards Magistracy to-day, charged with hav- labour when he admitted the theft pleasure to hear this one. She de- until nearly my whole arm was ing robbed Chan Lal-heung of two of four wooden planks from No. 76ghted all those who were present ut in his fawn.

gold rings, a pair of ear-rings, a Portland Street, ground floor, before the recital and it is hoped that we "But my luck still held. My fountain pen, a compass and $500 in Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon shall hear her again before long.

Hongkong screams brought his keepers Push-charge of receiving the fountain pen 27, unemployed, charged with the parlat and it was a pity she did not banknotes. A. further Magistracy this morning.. Li Ming, Mr. Gelin, Walton was the accorn- ing out and they beat him off.”. was preferred against first defendant, theft of a cotton. quilt, a

a blankot

kot have greater opportunity of showing Mr. Snowball hopes that he won't ing the stolen compass was preferred the same address, was remanded for played sympathetically

while an additional charge of veeely-nnd four places of clothing from her evident skill and ability, She look death in the face again for against second defendant. Ali defen- 24 hours. Inspector Shammon stated correctly and her light touch suited some time. He has decided to dants were remanded for one week, that the lock on the door had the singor admirably. A's contrast settle down to a quiet life in this Detective-Sub-Inspector R. Cunning apparently been forced by one of and climax were undoubtedly needed, peaceful little town.

she-night have taken more on herself-

men.

Bitten by Bear

"A few months later I tried to make friends with a cireus bear on the Town Moor, Newcastle, when he suddenly turned vicious and seized my arm

hum was present for the police.

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