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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936.

BRITISH

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The Flying STANDARD "Tons" and "Twelves" offer a new and most up-to-date type of light car in construction and design. They incorporate many qualities, of a highly interesting and exclusive nature Performance fatures in type tests and in every day service have been found unusually Food Roomnes e a special characteristic feature

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Telephone: 59101.

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Winchester Castle Captain Censured

"THIS

IS MY DEATH

WARRANT”

“I HAVE just heard my death warrant. Nothing

further to say.'

Captain John Holman Kerbey, master of the 20,000- ton Union Castle luxury liner Winchester Castle when she ran ashore in fog and rain at Portland Bill on Febru- ary 16, rapped out this single sentence after he had been. | censured recently.

Another drama of the sea had closed. Only a few minutes earlier Captain Korboy had listened to the findings of the Court of Inquiry at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George-street, Westminster,

In dry, unemotional tones, the chairman, Mr. John Harris, i pronounced sentence: "The court, finds that the stranding of the Winchester Castle was due to the failure of the master to navigate the vessel with proper and sea manlike care.. "The court finds the master, Captain John Holman Kerbey, Inj default, but having regard to his long service and excellent record and to the fact that he is now retired u prasion, the court dues Bet suspend his certificate,

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TO PAY 158

houses

vouer,

rehistues huts out ones: Ja t pay to the solicitor of the Brare! of

1150 on grount of the es perise of this investigation.

For more than forty year Captain Kerley sailed During twenty-nine of the bus was a etmmander.

When lust be set the Winchester Castle on her homésend course from

Capetown there Buttered al bey masthenel the ng of the commodare of the Valert acties teet Tam ffer Arst time.

ABOUT, TO RETIRE

was to have been. Captain Kerbey's last voyage but me before retirement. He had been awitied the onk of commodage,

So the brillant eneve of Captain! John Bottan Kerbey ended in .10 rom the shadows of Whitehall,

SAVED FROM CANNIBALS

Port of Spain

(Trin.), July 10. TWO Australians and

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negro who were cap- tured by cannibals in the Amazon country have ar- rived here in an 18ft. boat.

The Australians, Fred and Bill Selling, who are brothers, and Marcus Howard, the black, were cruising up the great river when their boat was wrecked.

When the cannibals emu along the three men prepared themselves for death.. but were saved by the intervention of a German chief of un Indfar tribe.

In their report the court stated) They were allowed to go, and that they also considered that the given a canoe. However, this was Chief Indio offfeer, Mr. Haslam, wrecked, and the men then al- "lid not render the assistance which one would have ex-country, journey to Ciudad Bolivar that tempted the tremendous cross- pected from a competent officer of Mr. Haslam's experience."

mtster

CONVICT BECOMES NATION'S HERO.

in. Venezuela.

They lived on turtles' eggs, and underwent all manner of hardships | until they reached Bolivar,

There, they got work and saved money to purchase the boat in which they have sailed here.

Painted Nails

Banned

WAR on painted finger-unt

has been opened by business firms in Britain.

Employment agencies have been

Rome, Fidly 8. SUN-TANNED, sixty-five-year- old Albert Prasso, adventurer, and one-time millionaire, kissed given instructions that for certain his wife and two-year-old girl girls need apply

jobs "no coloured finger-nailed as he heard the news to-day that he had risen from convict to national hero.

Apart from the Aesthetic aspect of this fashion there, is a. danger of poisoning from cheap foreign cosmetics. The Ministry of Health Inquiring into reported cases of poisoning, both from finger-nail -varnish and cheap enamel, as well

Bs from lipstick.

Prasso was the first man to find; platinum in Abyssinia, and he is now hailed as the greatest benefactor of Italy's Abyssinian Empire.

ARRESTED AS SPY

ary

While in Vienna he married nuburn-j The medical profession are sup-| haired, blue-eyed Frau Eldersch. He porting the inquiry into this mat-, brought her to Italy last year; wan at fter. once arrested on suspicion of spying for the Negus.

Prasso ная Hent island penal settlement.

lonely African War Foretold

In Poem of 1740's

When the Abyssinian war ended, í Frasso's knowledge gained new value. It is now at the service of! Italy-and, in exchange, he has his freedom.

London, July 10.

London, July 1. Discovery of a description in poetry of the Italian thrust into Ethiopia is recorded in a letter to The Times. ASIATIC LEAGUE IDEA writer of the letter, discovered Mr. Alexander Inglis, the SPURNED BY SIAMESE this poetical allusion to the con-

flict in the works. hot of a mo dern poet, but among those of a DISQUIETING reports that writer who passed on in 1748.

Siam intended to swim fence- So the description becomes proph forward in the orbit of Japaneey, and in the section devoted to have been given their quietus James Thomson, the reader finds:

summer in "The Scusons," written by by a statement by the Foreign Minister, Luang Pradit Mannd- harm, to the Bangkok Times, A wild expanse of tifolens und and copies. of which have now reach- el this country.

But come, my Muse, the desert-

barrior burst,

ky:

Aud, swifter than the toiling caravan, Shoot o'er the vale of Seniär; ardent

climb

Luang Pradit was credited by car- tain Japaneso newspapers on what appeared to be

The Nubian mountains, and the greret oficial Japanese authority with a wish to leave the.

bounda League of Nations in favour of a of jealonia Abyssinia boldly pierca, purely Aslatie Longue under the Thou art no Ruffin, reka beneath, the auspices of Japan.

In his statement to the Bangkok Of social commerce coment to rob Times, Luang Pradit denied the re

their wealth; marks attributed to him. He regards Na hely Fury tho, blaspheming the iden

of an Asiatic League as a

"Heavon, "dream,"

he sald.. Siam, he con- With consecrated steel to stab their tinued, desires peace. The League of Nations may not have been always and through the land, yoi red from successful but it has nehloved some- civil wounds, thing towards the international co-To operation for which he himself stands. I

spread the purple tyranny of

Rome.

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