1937-12-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1937.

Court May Soon Decide

Selassie's Status

ROYAL REFUGEE OR ETHIOPIA'S EMPEROR?

By A Special Correspondent

Is Haile Selassic still Emperor of Abyssinia? Or is he just a royal refugee from the country that Italy has conquered?

Is he a wealthy man or is he penniless, with no prospects of raising money from anywhere?

These questions of international significance may be decided by the High Court as a result of a writ issued on Friday.

The writ has been taken out by Mr. Leo Y. Chertok, 36-years-old square-jawed American Jew, who took a prominent part in a plan to leave a large part of Abys- sinia to a group of international financiers about two years ago.

HE IS SUING FOR 223,000 Mr. Chertok abandoned his plan in October last year, and on a visit to London he was quoted as saying that he wouid relinquish all claims to the mineral and other rights in the 15,000 square mites of Ethiopian territory he haught for £1,000,000 in 1935.

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It was stated that he was giving up the concession because it likely to cause international com- plications.

His estimate of the cost of daing so was £500,000, which he said he would have got from "banker's com- mission."

Now he alleges that Halle Selassie owes him £23,000 for cash advanced and commission. Mr. Chertok's solicitor, Mr. J. M. Isaacs, whose offices are in Shell- Mex House, Victoria Embankment,; London, will serve the writ 10-

morrow.

DEFENCE, OR-

And when it is served. Haile Selassie can do one of two things:

Refuse to defend the action, which means that Mr. Chertok will get judgment by default; or Enter an appearance through his solicitor and defend the action in the, High Court,

English law says that no court in this country has jurisdiction over a) sovereign.

Went On

Route March-

For A Bet

Because his regiment was always "sneered at" by the infantry, and told they could not stand up to heavy march. ing, Gunner Patrick Bushnell,

he'd aged 19, decided that "show 'em."

He wagered an infantry man 10s that he would march from Oxford, where he was stationed, to the Murbit Arch, distance of about 60 miles.

He set out carrying an Ariny pack heavily weighted with lead blocks and after tramping for nine hours collapsed on the road.

He had covered rather less than balf the 40 miles-but be wasn't down-hearted.

"Although I have lost the bet to

I walk all the way to London," he told the Sunday Chronicle, "I think I

If Haile Selassie decides to make huve shown that artillerymen this a preliminary issue, it will bestand up to murching." Jeft to the court to decide whether i

Mr. Chertok can continue with his

HE IS SATISFIED

can

claim, or, in other words, the court "We are not a marching regiment, will have to decide it Haile Selassie, We wear trecchies and spurs, which I still Emperor of Abyssinia.

Taxi Drivers Strike

In New York

are not as easy as infantry uniformi to march in, and I bet one of the in- fantry I would walk to Marble Arch with a pack, and set out from head- quarters one Friday night at 7.30.

"It was about four-o'clock the next! morning when 1 hd to be assisted near the High Wycombe police sta- ! tion.

They Play The Ancient Way

Fish Answer

These Kirghiz players treat their primitive and self-made Instruments with the same respect as a muestro of the western violla.

PATIENTS SAVED FROM

HIGHER FEES

SURGEON CLEARED BY COURT WHEN Mr. Justice Tucker in the King's Bench Division recently exonerated Harley-street specialist Horace Powell Winsbury-White from any negligence in an operation performed four years ago, he saved all patients of surgeons from the risk of higher fees.

Phone

PROFESSOR PROVES THAT THEY CAN HEAR

Fish answer to the tele-. phone.

This is proved by Pro- fessor Y. Frolov. distin- guished Russian follower of

the great Pavlov, in his book, "Fish who Answer the Telephone," published by Kegan Paul (price 6s.).

the

Professor Frolov solved mystery of whether or not fish can hear with the ald of Pavlov's famous "conditioned reflex" principle.

The basis of his experiments was

an ordinary telephone receiver sub- merged in n tank.

"In order to register the move- ments of the fish we had to suspend the Ash In the aquarium by a thread drown through its mouth and one of the gills and tied lightly about the body

Il's movements were

not hampered.

EVERY TWIST RECORDED

"The thread was in turn connected with something which worked" much as a fisherman's float. Every twist and turn and dart of the fish would be shown by the movements of this float, which in turn connected with a registering apparatus similar to that employed for automatic writing. "We decided that we must have proof that the fish distinguished be- iween our various sound signals, that It answered them with certain move- ments which could leave no doubt as to the fact that it indeed answered them and was not being influenced by any other considerations.

"We set ourselves the difficult task of making fish answer the telephone." Fish are sensitive to electric shocks; they shudder us at a blow; and the professor's next object was to record the behaviour of his specimens under this stimulus.

EXCITED FISH

"Every time we passed the current the Ash became violent

As soon as we shut off the current the fish became calm again and the pointer returned to the normal position.

"We had sull to investigate the effect of sounds from the submerged telephone. We were greatly, excited when we came to perform the ex- periment.. . Proof seemed to within our grasp.

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Mr. Winsbury-White had been sued for damages by Mr. Arthur William Morris, sixty-one-year-old commercial traveller, of Arundel-gardens, Good- mayes, Essex. Mr. Morris's case was that a drainage tube was left in his body for four months-after-the operation and as a result his health had been ruined. New York, Dec. 21. Taxi drivers belonging to the Com-

The operation was performed in had said that he did not hold himself mittee for Industrial Organization Before I set uut I had done a day's | St. Paul's Hospital, Endel-street, responsible for things done to his and numbering 4,300 went on strike work. I have never done any march-W.C., of which Mr. Winsbury-White, patient in his absence, to-day. New York City is served by ing before and I am not an athlete. is hon, surgeon and where Mr. Mor- 12,000 taxis with a corps of drivers However, I did quite well and I am ris was a private patient.

Mr. Justice Tucker, giving Judything good or something bad, food In cross- ment with costs for Mr. Winsbury or danger. numbering 18,400-Haras.

satisfied."

examination, Mr. Winsbury-White White yesterday, said: "There is not

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SHANG

DARK

Undoubtedly

BEER AT ITS BEST

the slightest foundation for any suggestion that Mr. Winsbury-White in any way failed in his duty to Mr.

Morris."

AFTER-CARE PROBLEM Back In his Harley-sircet home Mr. Winsbury-White told me: "The whale of the medical profession was watching this case. The physician, Ilke the surgeon, must leave a cer- tain amount of the after-care of the patient to the staff of the hospital -people in whom, as a rule, he has the greatest confidence.

"If the case had gone against me It would have meant that a surgeon would have limited the number of his patients in private beds of has pitals,

*That would most likely have meant an Increase in the charges for operations to compensate tho

"We knew that in general the fish remained calm If there was nothing to disturb it, especially when there was no noise of any kind. And In our tests we realised that the fish- reacted to sound only at the first noise. When a sound was repeated the fish got used to it and paid no attention.

"A noise must mean either some-

NO REPLY

"We ran down on the telephone and then gave the current. At first, the telephone call was low toned and the fish did not answer. But it was affected by the shock.

"After we had repeated the ex- periment about 40 times we observed that the fish moved several seconds before the current was applled.

It had come to know what the sound in the telephone meant, that it heralded the unpleasantness of the electric shock. That meant that the fish had heard the call from the sub- tuerged telephone.

"That was a real triumph," says Professor Frolov. "The fact that Ash are sensitive to the delicate waves of sound was established by us."

surgeon for the extra work, in- DYING OFFICER IN volved in looking after the par -tient and the risk of an action for

negligence,"

MINESWEEPER

Mr. Winsbury-White expressed his Thought To Be Seasick sympathy for Mr. Morris"the victim of this nost unfortunate mis- adventure."

- Mr. Morris left the court on the arm of his devoted wife. He said the costs of the case would amount

his

How a young naval officer, who was taken and died on board ship, was thought by companions to be suffering from seasickness was told at an inquest at Portsmouth on Lieut. George Edward Williamson, 24, to £1,500.

Lieut. Williamson was found dead He added: "Where the money is in the new motor mintsweeper No. 1 to come from I don't know. I shall during har passage from Greenwich not be able to go for a holiday though to Portsmouth. It was stated that a

have

I feel the need of one, I shall post mortem examination revealed

to return to my work Im-carbon monoxide poisoning. mediately, and hope for the best."

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

The minesweeper was being de livered by J. I. Thornycroft and Co.

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