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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937.

For Mistake MACKINTOSH'S LTD.

Boy

Doctor Takes Blame

That Killed A Little

NOT UP TO MARK'

Oxford, Mar. 1.

A DOCTOR took full blame for the death of a four-year-old

boy when an inquest was held here to day. Michinel, the little son of Mr., A. J. Stroud, of Wickwood Farm, Shellingford, was brought to Radcliffe Infirmary with kidney trouble. It Was decided to operate.

Dr. Thomas Wigram Lloyd in- Jected what

thought WAS

tirpselectan into the ehlid's arm for the preliminary X-ray exam- Inallon. But It proved to have been methylated ether, and in two hours the boy was drad.

"It is very difficult to understand how I canie to make this mistake," sald Dr. Lloyd. "It was possibly due to a temporary mental lapse and the subconscious state of my mind."

TWO MONTHS SICK

He added that he had recently.had two months' sick leave and was "not

quite up to the mark." He had been

LAUGHTON

£20,000

TAX PROTEST

Gets Nothing Out Of Hollywood

New York, Mar. 1.

practising nearly three years and had CHARLES LAUGHTON

not had a previous accident.

It was explained that the

ether,

filed a petition before which was to be used for cleaning the Board of Tax Appeals the skin for the infection, was in an in Washington to-day pro-

unlabelled bottle on a tray near the doctor. The uroselectan was mean-

near by,

П

testing that the commis-

while being warmed on Lable sioner erred in computing Dr. Lloyd admitted it was an ob- he had underpaid his tax vious precaution to smell the contents by £16,000 in 1936 and £4,600 of an unlabelled bottle before using in 1934. it, and expressed his profound regret

accident. for the

Laughton does screen work in good part-but he gets nothing out

verdict of Hollywood because he cannot resist

Riddle of Zaharoff Millions

THAT has become of the Arst husband, the Duke of Marchena. W

She has two daughters. £10,000,000 which Sir Basil Zaharoff, the "Prince Countesa d'Ostrorog.

Co-heiress with her is the sister, of Armaments Salesmen," was reputed to be worth at "The money I got in Hollywood the time of his death in I have not been able to keep," ho ald. "Thank God I have simple tastes and do not live expensively. "The film world has destroyed my 31ustons.

The jury returned a "Death by misadventure," and added that more care should have been of it. laken in the preparation for the in- jection. They suggested that in future all bottles should be properly labelled.

JOLLY LIFE

November?

Publication of his will revented that he left estate in England valued

The amount of money left by Sir Basil in Great Britain came as a surprise to Anancial experts, who thought that his holdings in this country were much greater. For many years he had made his

at £103,103, and in a statement in home on the Continent, and the Paris one of Sir Bnall's two step-greater portion of his investments

DRUNKEN BRAWL "I know the public have the im-daughters declared that his property were in foreign countries.

IN KOWLOON

POLICE SERGEANT

ASSAULTED

pression that we film people are in France was, worth only £100,000. carning oodles and oodles and rolling

in diamonds and champagne.

"I am not anyway. But i have a

jolly life, and I like my icb."

He went away from the telephone a moment. When he came back he said:

A drunken brawi outside the Palace my front door. There's a mon here Hotel carly this morning had its

now

sequel at the Kowloon Magis-America. tracy when two bobler atten- from the cruise

fore Mr. K. M. A. Barnett.

Ferry,

Serving

Iner

them,

Egyptian Lad Troublesone-

SENT TO HOUSE

OF DETENTION.

French law does not compel publication of the value of a per- son's estate, so it is possible that the extent

Sir Basil's forlane in that country will never be known to any but those directly concern. cd.

CO-HEIRESSES

Probate in England has been Walford, granted to Mrs. Christine of Kensington Palace-gardens, W. who is described in the will as Sir Basil's "adopted daughter."

Detective-Sergeant F. E. Russell, His Worship committed defendant prosecuting, sald Yousef had appeared to the House of Detention.

with his left hand and swinging ́THIS WORLD, AFTER ALL OUR SCIENCE around and grabbing the man who AND SCIENCES, 15 STILL A MIRACLE, had first hit him (second defendant) WONDERFUL, INSCRUTABLE, MAGICAL AND MORE, TO WHOMSOEVER WILL THINK OF IT.-Carlyle,

with his right.

WATERBOAT CO. MEETING

REUNION IN

·VIENNA

REUNION-Here is Princess Mary, as she visited her exiled brother, the Duke of Windsor, right, in Vienna.. At left is Princess Mary's husband, the Eail of Harewood. This was the first meeting of the former King with any of his family since he abdicated, It was reported they discussed Ed- ward's. Anancial affairs.

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E RADIO BROADCAST

Studio-Empress of Britain

Dance Orchestra

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

Radio Programme Broadcast by. Z.B.W, on wavelengths of 355 metres (845 k.c's.) 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c's.).

4-7 pm Chinese Programme,

p. Seng Memories. "Let's have a Chorus". .Columbia Vocal Gem

Melodies of

Hoon B, Opera-Com-

Programme.

L

"I was just answering the bell at

EFFECT OF US tempting me to go back to

pany; Hermann Lohr-Vocal Gems, SHIPPING STRIKE Columbia Light Opera Company;

Welsh Memories....The Maestros. "I'm afraid, in the circumstances,

The effect of the Americat.

shipping 7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- Empress of Britain were charged be-he's going to find it rather dimcult.

American boxers know a way out

strike on Hongkong was mentioned tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- They of the tax problem. John Henry

this morning by the Hon. Mr. Stanleykel Report. were Robert John Williams, aged 30, Lewis and Small Montana insisted Mrs. Walford is the wife of Mr meeting of the Union Waterboat Co..and Orchestra (Sir Walford Davies) H. Dodwell (chairman) at the annual 7.35 Solemn Melody for Organ charged with (a) belving In on income tax being paid for them Leopold Walford, a shipowner, uf (b) before they entered the ring in this St. Mary Axe, E.C. She is a daugh- drunken and disorderly manner,

Ltd.

played by the Halle Orchestra, Con- assaulting, resisting and obstructing country.

Iter of the late Lady Zaharoff by her port and accounts, Mr. Dodwell said: Harold Dawber (organ).

In moving the adoption of the reducted by Sir Hamilton Harty. Lance-Sergeant Whitley in the execu- tion of his duty, and (e) damaging

The nett profit for the year, after 7.40 From the Studio. "From The Sergt. Whitly's uniform; and Thomas

before the Court before when he was once with our schedule, is $33,874.14 Rall."

providing for depreciation in accord- Hook of Holland to Hongkong by

A Talk by Professor 21, charged with assaulting Whitley

committed to the House of Detention. and is $8,576.10 less than the previous

Forster. evidence, Sergt. Whitley

p.m. Time

ime and Weather. After being an inmate there, he had year. The decrease is mainly due to that about one o'clock this

the increased cost of running repairs, 9.03 Orchestre Mascotte. morning, in answer to a telephone

been released, "and" was taken care of our docking and paint bilis, owing to Lysistrata (Lincke): Ball-Sirens message, he went down to the Palace

by the Mohammedan Mosque, He higher cost of materials being some (Lchur); Over the waves (Rosas, Hotel, where a number of people

had behaved very badly and the $6,300 more than the previous year, arr. Hohne): Amorettentanze (Gung', were drinking. There was some dis-

Licences and Mosque had to turn him out. Yousef crease of $800, due to increased

fccs show an in-arr. Hohne); The last letter (Reggov); survey

Ights (Zeller, arr. Hohne); turbance, and in order to prevent any

continually stole food, had a very bad government fees and the necessity for further trouble, he turned everyone

dreams

Koje

kojo Ho Teuk!). out Into the street. They collected

temper, and caused the Mosque employing the servieds of an outside

8.25 D.In. From the Studio. Gilbert and Sullivan. Opera Ex- into two groups, and witness caution-

A 16-year-old Egyptian youth, guardians a lot of trouble. He had surveyor during the absence of our ed them and told them to go away Helmy Yousef, was charged before entered the Colony by stowing away

superintendent on leave.

cerpts by Eva Turner (Soprano), quietly. He then walked off, where- Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis- from Singapore, and the police were as a result of decreased rental, but Warner (Tenor) O'Neil Stor at den Office expenses are down some $800 Helen Lockhart (Contralto), Edgar upon they began to fight among them- selves. Walking back, to tracy this morning with being communicating with that port with a the discount and gratuity figure is (Bass), with E. O'Nell Shaw at the witness told them to be quiet.

vagrant in the. Colony. Defendant, who had the charge explained to him view to seeing if defendant was $1,300 higher as a result of our prin- plano. Suddenly he felt a blow on the in Arable, pleaded guilty.

known there..

cipal supporters taking more water back of his neck, and his truncheon,

and

Quartettes "Haddon Hall" which he had been holding behind

ea rebereby qualifying for an increas-

When the Budding Bloom of May; him, was snatched from his grasp.

Actual water sales are approxi-The Rose of Persia"-Joy and The force of the blow sent him up

mately the same as the previous year, Sorrow; Baritone Solo-"Iolanthe"- against the first defendant wh

who, mis-

but

in the ordinary course of events Wher. Britain really ruled the waves, understanding his intentions, struck

they would have shown a material Quartetto "Mikado" Brightly him.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF The two men struggled, witness

Increase. The recent unfortunate dawns our Wedding Day;

Day: Soprano catching hold of the seaman's collar

strike on the Pacific Coast has affected Solo The Yeomen of the Guard" A wedding has been arranged be- us, as it has done many another local "Tis done! I am a Bride: Contralto tween Mr. Jose Maria Noronha, re-enterprise dependent on shipping for Solo. "The Yeomen of the Guard alding at No. 37, Ashley Road, and Its revenue, but in spite of the fact Were I thy

Bride: Qu

Quartette The Miss Alfreda Mary Eileen Dixon, of that the Pacific liners have only re- Ycomen of the Guard Strange

Ad- CALL FOR HELP

No. 38, Hankow. Road.

cently resumed calling here, sales venture; Quartetto The Gondollers" Witness also recovered his

this year are well up to average, and A Regular Royal Queen; Tenor truncheon from second defendant, the

Lam Hon-ling, a nine-year-old boy, Mr. H. E. Stone, general manager the current month bids

bids fair to be the

GondollersTake a pair SoloThe coid having been attached to his wrist was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital of the Hongkong and China Gas Co.,best on record for a number of years. of Spariding Eyes: Quartetto "The all the time. Just then, Delective yesterday after he had been knocked and the Colombo Gas and Water Co., HEAVY REPAIRS AHEAD Gondollers The Cachuca. Sergeant Hutchinson came up, and down by a motor lorry driven by and Mrs. Stone will be leaving for The figure it is proposed to transfer 8.55 p.m. London-News and An- witness called upon him for help. Yam Tok-mul in Canton Road. Colombo on Sunday, March 28 by the to general repairs fund may appear nouncements. Sergt. Hutchinson thereupon seized

93. Scharnhorst.

heavy, but three of our vessels are

9.15 p.m. London Palladium Or- the second defendant, whlie witness

due for lond line surveys in 1937 and chestra. tumed his attention to the first man. Members of the Chinese Company

A 20-year-old man, Ching Yuc- the Increase in the cost of

I hear you calling me (Marshall, ship- The struggle was renewed, the police of the Hongkong Police Reserve will

materials

Wood); Bird of Lave omeer telling defendant he was give a farewell tea party to Dr. S. w.fun, was admitted to the Kowloon building ma

makes it essentist arr. Haydn

Divine (Haydn Wood); Kiss me again arresting him and asking him to come Tso, Honorary Commissioner, and Hospital yesterday with severe in- for additional provision to be made

Our fleet has always been kept up

(Victor Herbert); Sunset (Matt). quietly,

Mr. T. O. Tso, Officer Commanding juries received when he jumped from Ou

9.30 From the Studio. Defendant resisted so fiercely that at the Gloucester Hotel, to-day at the second four of the Wo Pinyin a high state of efficiency and I am

Ozo and His Boy Friends, with In an alleged attempt sure shareholders will agree with the Doreen Ma (Vocal). witness, fearing he would be over-

to commit suicide.

consulting committee that this policy Vocal Rainbow must be continued if we are to give powered, struck him a glancing blow

the River; Described as a doctor, a 34-year- over the side of the head with his

dive Ensemblo-Organ Grinder's Swing: customers our

the high standard of Vocal Copper coloured man; Medley truncheon. This quietened him, and old man named Pun Man, of No. 11.

Wong Choi, aged 30, unemployed, he went to the station without any Tal Kee Street, was injured yesterday pen from the pocket of a man named

was accused of stealing a fountain service they have come to expect in confessin. Without a word of

from us. further trouble.

stepped off the steamer Ab-ngan, a merchant, in Con- when he

Lady Adding to the net

of warning: You; Vocal-When profit the sur

sum meets a Gentleman down South; in the night Kutsang on to a wharf. He was re- Witness tunic was torn in

moves on to a woven men naught Road Central near Cleverly $2,723.30 carried forward from last Plano SoloSeleried: Vocal-No and whistle bad disappeared.

Street yesterday, when he was tion

account, there remains for appropria- greis; Medley-Moonlight and sha Willams admitted being drunk, but Hospital for treatment.

the sum of brought before Mr. Keen at the Cen-

$30,607,50 with which

dows; You're on my wind all day; dented

any blows had been struck by him, declaring

tral Magistracy this morning. Sub-it is proposed to deal as follows: The Shelk. that

he it

Sentence of six months' bord la Inspector W. Armitt said Ll caught had hit

Transter to Special Repairs Fund, out, Sergt. Whitley

10 p.m. Big Ben. A Recital by would have been bour was passed on Ip Kwok-lam,

of defendant, and

$15,000; a district

Transfer to Staff Leave & Paul Robeson (Bass). 7 marked. He had come to

Contingenes

Account, $2,000 pay a Go down, Moses .... (Burleigh); I peared on remand before Mr. K. Keen

The pen

pen was worth $3. Wong was struggling with another man. At at the Central Magistracy, this morn sentenced to three months hard 38,813 shares, $17,405.85; carry for- dem bel per poter so zve bells (arr. Burleigh); Love the time he had not noticed this man Ing on a charge of larceny of a

a col- labour.

ward to next

· Mr. R. K:Valentino seconded and The Bom "Sanders of the River");

Docdunt, $2,131.05. Was & police officer, and it was not lecting tin containing $6.30 from a

Emperor; Lone the proposal until he had been hit with the girl student selling roses for the Seeing

Lonely Road WOB

agreed to

toun- (from

"Song

Freedom"). truncheon that he realised the fact.

animously.. Diocesan Flower Day along Calne Seeing a large assorament

tempting goods displayed outside the

19.17 p.m. inWorld Inspector K. W. Andrew, prosecut Road on Saturday. Lance-Sergeant Wing Coffee Company No. 119 Des H. Dodwell (chairman). Messrs.

Those present were the Hon. Mr. S. talk by H. V. Hodson. ing, sald that both men had good Matches, sakd

defendant had no Voeux Road Central, Chan Chol ged M. T. Johnson, AL Shields and K. RM.S. Empress of Britain Dance

10.82 D. From the Studio... records, and tho Assistant Chlef criminal

21, unemployed, walked past yester Watanabe (directors), and Messrs. U, Orchestra directed by George Jay, Engineer was present to testify to

iday picked this. Disciplinary action would

packet of Quaker Sze-wing, S. Howell and R. K An application for extension of oats and walked away with it. He Valentine (shareholders). be

11.15 p.m. Close Down taken against them, on board the time in which to register a mortgage was later stopped by

watch Empress of Britain.

on Inland Lot No. 2270,- owned by man": in Taking

these facts into considera- the Hongkong Trust Company, was being

Andor huving tion, His Worship fined Williams $10, minds before the Chief Justice, Sir stolen the

HARBOUR RESOUR valued at 45 conte ar 14 days' hard labour, for drunken- Atholl MacGregor at the Supreme ness, $20

While the 0.40 "She" fetry from 14 or

Magistracy days' concurrent: for Court this morning by. Mr. H. Ci contratto decom Mr K. Keen at su assaulting Sergi. Whitley, and order. Wachsbedar kirig that the delay ordered to either jumped or fell overboards, ille morning, Kowloon was in mid-stream: this Chan was given, asento by Mr, R. A

of one morning third-class passenger ed him to pay damage to the sergeant's uniformgor, sormed-10 be attributable to zomo be sent to the country. He und three managed to keep afoat until rescued undergo a further four days in gaol, other person, His Lordship, granted previous convictions. Sub-Inspector and was little the worse for the Terry was fined 103

the usual period of 14 days extensión. | W; Armitt prosecuted

Immersion.

his

3.15 p.m.

boarding-house in

panion's aid when he say that F aged 29, unemployed, when he up-watchman took Wong into custody:dividend of 45 cents per than

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transfer of a 13-year-old mul-zeal, Yu Saw-chun, to the Secretariat for: Chinese Affairs,

5.

Mr. H. W. Fraser, Inspector of NOMINAL

Mul-Tsai, said the girl's mistress FINES IN

died In September last. First delen- dant, the sister-in-law of deceased, _____ MUI-TSAI CASE

then took charge of the girl. In As both defendants had been in of the first woman, then took the girl

February, second defendant, relative /

_TYPEWRITING AND COPYING | the Colony for several years, Mr. Into her house She was very well

OFFICE

Gestetner

K. M. A Barnett refused to mice treated, and was regarded ar Ignorance of the regulations 5 daughter, being well-clothed and sent excuse when firing two women for to school AS PLEASA breach of the symul-trat regulations

this morning

Muls

The all women as Chan As the offence was merely techni

How, and Cheũng cal, HaWorship imposed a fine of $30 on the first woman, and $20 ON

Woman,

with felling to report the the second,