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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,

1936.

CORONATION CENSUS TO FIND

"I Never Intended To 1,500,000 HOMES

Scuttle The

Ship"

-Skipper Orsborne

SKIPPER GEORGE BLACK ORSBORNE, of the Grimsby trawler Girl Pat, in the witness-box for four hours at the Old Bailey, declared that at no time did he intend to scuttle the vessel.

He described how at Georgetown, when the ship arrived, he sold the story of the trip to newspaper in- terests for £5,000.

He was sharing the money with the four members of his crew and they were receiving £5 a week.

Jumes Oraborne, the skipper's brother, deniết?""Funtastic” suggestions that the object of the trip might have been pearl or treasure hunting.

tation of the Governor.

On June 23, the King's birthday, George Orsborne, who is 38, and James (31), are charged they attended a reception at the invi before Mr. Justice Singleton with stealing the Girl Pat. They plead not guilty.

Mr. Tom Moore, managing director of the company owning the Girl Pat,

ARRESTED

He offered to take the ship back to England, but got no answer.

Within 100 Miles

of London

"BOOK EARLY" Check on Prices

By MONTAGUE SMITH

GIGANTIC CENSUS OF ALL POSSIBLE

A SCCOMMODATIONS IN IN IND

IN TOWNS WITHIN 100-MILES RADIUS, FOR CORONATION VISITORS NEXT MAY IS TO BE UNDERTAKEN IMMEDIATELY BY THE HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS ASSO- CIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Trimmed with the Landon Sun-

This huge survey will remove the fears of people who nower a Republican supporter can- Later he went to the police station and earlier emphatically denied sug- and he and his brother were arrested have thought that they will either be unable to get rooms vanses gesting to Captain Oraborne that the They were kept in prison without bail ship should be thrown away to get until August 14, when they sailed

back to England under arrest, the insurance money.

Captain Orsborné, continuing his evidence the previous day, maid that when they set out from Dakar they had about 24 hours' stores and water for eight days.

AT DEVIL'S ISLE

first

It took 10 days to reach the other side of the Atlantic. They sighted land at Devil's Island.

Their boat had then no food on her and they got supplies from Devil's Island for

month.

As Uney approached Georgetown on

At no time had he any intention of depriving the owners permanently of the Girl Pat.

or will have to pay exorbitant prices.

The secretary of the association told me "We invite all proprietors of hotels, licensed and unlicensed, board-

Mr. Scott, cross-examining: Hading houses, lodging houses, flats, and private houses

you made much money on this voy- ac?-None whatever.

He had sold the story of the Girl Pat for £5,000 to a newspaper com- pany.

The Judge: I want the name of the person to whom the witness says he sold the story.

Orsborne replied that the negotin- lions were through Mr. King, a

the evening of June 18 an aeroplane Georgetown solicitor. A contrnet wus new over and dropped a message nsk-algned. ing if they were the Girl Int

He algnalled back that they were. They nnchored that night outside the three-mile limit.

There was nothing to prevent them sailing away that night. They still had enough off to go about 50 miles and had made five sulls.

£5 TO WIFE

All he had had no for was £40, lie had sent £5 to his wife,

are the

Mr. Scott: What share

other men to have in this £6,000-1 gave the other four £1,000 each,

Have you not been making regular

Next morning the Pomeroon (@remittances to, Harris and Stephens river parsenger boat, he explained) ever since they got home ?-No. The approached them while they were solicitors have. still outside the three-mile limit.

As she did so he asked for a Lloyd's agent, but got no reply. He took up bls anchor and made straight for the barbour.

Mr. Scott: How much have they been paying to you every week?- Five pounds,

You don't suggest they are paying that out of their own pocket?-No. "The Pomeroon," Orthorne added, They are paying it out of the £5,- "tried to come alongside, which was 1000.

So, although you would not tell us very dangerous. There were 30 or 40 armed black policemen or soldiers on that clearly they have received the

money on your behalft-Yes. board her.

Mr. Scott: Did you tell a news- paper man you were known as Dare- Devil Dod?--No.

"Sho smashed the ship's side in as The voyage covered about 8,000 they tried to board. As we got close antics. to harbour our oll ran out and we! hakes for a tow and they towed us in. I went ashore and later that day made a statement to the police.

"We were arrested on landing and released the next day at one o'clock."

The Judge: Are you known, es 1 ant known as that?--I don't know. Dod.

Mr. Scoll: Did you say you spent many hours nailing up boards onr the front of the ship tö "aller its ap="

SENT TO PRISON crance?---No.

IN FRANCE

From A. Special Correspondent

London, Nov. 1.

behalf

on

of

N appeal is to be made by the

Office Foreign William Warren, 70-year-old British

was sentenced to five! subject who yeare imprisonment yesterday at Avesnes. Nord Department, France. Warren was accused of swiridling a farmer named Brichant of £250 by means of a confidence trick.

The British Consul in Lille brought evkience to show that Warren was in Cairo at the time of the crime. To- day he sent a full report of the ease to the Foreign Offfee with Warren's solicitor.

"ONE TRIP LIKE THAT”

You are saying definitely that Mr. Moore told you to throw that ship away7-He said so in his own words.

What were the plainest words he used? He wanted us to make the biggest trip she could possibly make. Orsborne told the judge he was re- ferring to the Gipsy Love.

Do not all fishing-ship owners want that? She could only make one trip like that,

Orsborne said Mr. Moore offered him 15 per cent of the value of the

ship.

Mr. Scott: £645, for taking a ship out?Yes, if she did not come back.

Did you ever intend to scuttle the i Girl Pat?-No, I never did.

What did you take it out for?-1 had not made up my mind,

I understand that the case will James Orsborne, questioned by Mr. | probably be taken up with the Public Scolt. denied they were to sit for Prosecutor in Paris, after examina-pearls or hunt for treasure on a coral) tion in London by the Consular de-island.

1 The trial was adjourned. partment of the Foreign Ofee.

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"When we have completed this census in a few weeks, we shall be able to supply all applicants with par- ticulars of where they can stay for the Coronation.

Jailed Again

Amiens, Nov. 10.

WARREN, alias "Bludger Bill," world's

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richest "cos man," brought from a French convict prison, where he is now serving his second term of five years' penal servitude in France, stood to-day in Avesnes Court and listened unmoved while. French magistrates sen-

"People who offer rooms at what we consider extrava- gant charges will not be included in our lists. It is the aim of all members of our association and kindred bodies to prevent profiteering of any kind, in rooms for the Coronation.

"Applicants for rooms for one or two nights before and after Coronation Day on May 12, however, stand little chance of obtaining tenced him on a fresh charge for them. The demand is very great and many hotels and boarding-a further five years' imprison- houses will accept advance bookings only for a minimum of fivement and £30 fmc. days,"

Six months ago Warren stood be- So far the association is conducting the census without charge. fore the court in nearby Amiens, and-

listened with the same impassivity OFFICIAL GUESTS

while sentence of five years was pro-

No applicant need be afraid of being unable to secure accom-nounced for a confidence trick. modation. In London's most luxurious hotels there will be many Bluff, honest-looking Australlon- official visitors, guests of the Government, for whom accommodation born William Warren is now nearly will be provided. These include reigning monarchs and their suites, and Ministers and officials who will be arriving for the Imperial Conference, which is almost coincident with the Coronation,

For these guests the association has been informed that the Government will require for a considerable time 900 bedrooms. These will be allocated on a quota basis among ---London's best-hotels.- ~Tho... hotels generally rated as firatų.... class in London number 27, and provide among them 12,000 bedrooms.

There are, according to the association, whose president is Mr. G. Reeves-Smith, of the Savoy Hotel, a further 5,000 good, holela in. London, providing 250,000 rooms, and smaller hotels and boarding- houses which norinally offer another 250,000 rooms, RESORTS AID

Additional accommodation at seaside resorts and ather towns within quick travelling distance of London could, it is calculated, easily provide for at least another 1,000,000 visitors.

The Office of Works announced that it is useless for members of the public to apply to the department for seats, and no such applications can be considered.

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He is reputed to have "curned" at one time £20,000 a year. A single awindle of £23,000 on a Hull ship- Sir Walter Cockerline, awner, brought him his first five years in a French prison in 1923. Prisons of half a dozen other countries have also held-William-Warren:

LAUREL ASKS

FOR DIVORCE

THE matrimonial troubles of Stan

the

Laurel, the mournful member of the "Laurel and Hardy" im team, are before

Los Angeles court again. Laurel has begun a divorce suit in answer to the action by s second wife, formerly Mrs, Virginia Ruth Rogers, for separate main- tenance.

He alleges that she is selfish and Six new members have been added to the Executive Committee obstinate, that she meddled in his of the Privy Council which is making arrangements for the Corona-business affairs, and falsely accused him of associating with other women. tion, the London Gazelle announced.

They are: Major the Hon. Alexander Hardinge, the King's Pri- Opposing his wife's demand for vato Secretury; Brigadier-General Sir Hill Child, Master of the monthly alimony of £250, Laurei stat- Household at Buckingham Palaeo; Col. Sir Donald Banka, Permanented that he received no regular salary but was paid £13,000 a picture. He Secretary to the Air Ministry; Sir Archibald Carter, Permanent declared that his wife had an assured Secretary of the Admiralty: Major Ulick, Alexander, Keeper of the income of 134 a month from a £10,000 Privy Purse; Lt. Col. T. E. G. Nugent, Comptroller of the Lord annuity which he had taken out for Chamberlain's Department

MR. ROCKEFELLER, {

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New York, Nov. 8. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun... whose New York residence since 1012) has been an eight-storey house which i he built next door to his father's four-storey home in Fifty-fourth: Street, west of Fifth-nvenue, follow the example of thousands of other wealthy Americans and make his elty home in a flat.

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He has slaned a long-term lease on

a fiat consisting of 10 rooms on the 16th and 10th floors of a building at Corner Park-avenue, New York's: most fashionable residential) thoroughfare.

His house, together with the ad- joining one purchased by his father 40 years ago, may be demolished to make way for more modern structure in a neighbourhood where the Rockefellers have important holdings.

Whether Mr. Rockefeller Intends to move his art treasures to the flat is not yet known. The house he is vacating cost £40,000 to build and i

£20,000 to decorate.

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