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COULD YOU Counsel's Challenge In Bets

Case

Could

you pick six porn 16 a

thy's racing?

Counsel threw out this challenge | to the jury during the liverge, of a case at the Old Bailey recently,

A retired inspector of the Benest poliec and a pasinan head bolt of care i alleged betting swindle a wiert the public

offered 106 10 were

gainst pleking a busing bosse mak race

They said that after several losing bets they won-but were not paid.

Harold Johnson,

thirty- seven, evinpany dirtelor, pleaded not Kuilty

mamber of to obtaining

aged

postal orders by false pretences with intent to defraud,

Mr.L.. Ʌ. ·Barne (procating)

wald that Johnson

il

business calle th

Dally Sports Avenendang stating that the as teeth

coming feel

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mud ine

vestors. 100 to 1 if they aged art losing horses were sent out. Those circulars also gave a bel of aule.. one, that leflers must be the marke not later than the tune of the first race.

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"HEADS I WIN" Mr. Byrne alleged that the de were so framed that so far as the promoter was concerned it was case of "fouds 1 win, tails you Rise." Mr. Graham Brooks (defending) Invited the jury to try picking six losers.

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JANUARY

11, 1938.

SPOT SIX LOSERS?

MODERN GUNS: ANCIENT WALL

WALL FELL DOWN-This ancient Chinese wall about the city of Taiyuan was formerly belleved a formidable barrier against Invading hordes. But when the inhabitants refused to surrender to the Japanese, recently, the attacker turned their big-guns on it and presently found easy access to the city, as shown.

"Get a morning paper when he THE

retire during the adjournment," he suld, "and see if you can pick out six losers in the racing at Munches- ter to-day. Bear in mind that each) horse has to be in a different race, must not be in the first three, and. if you pick a horse that does not run you lose your money,

Johnson, who Rave evidence, denied in cross-examination though the rules made it dilleult

has

nings in cash,

BISLEY PLANS FOR 1938

that

N.R.A. MEETING IN JULY

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

"Might Become Serious Danger

Politically," says Sheriff

the

the

Science

Versus Criminal

SA

Bringing About the Downfall of the

Wrongdoer

m.

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RADIO

HENRY COTTON Anglespike

GOLF SHOES designed for golfers

BROADCAST by a golfer.

London Pride' and Other Relays from London

ROTARY SPEECH

Radio Programme Broadenst by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 k.e's 0.52 m.c's, per second.

Confronted with minute particles: of coul dust taken from an old wound in his hand, a German miner who

6.00-7.00 Chinese Programinė. had denied that he was in the Ruhr

7.00 Dance Music.

Henda I district when a murder was com-

Fox-Trois-Let's Put Our 10 thel

Gold Diggers of nitted recently, confessed erint. Unknown to him, he had Together (olm carried this tiny Indelible clue which 1937); With Plenty Of Money and damning evidence You (im 'Gald Diggers of 1937').. was to become

Roy Fox and His Orchestra: Sweet In British crime annals too, par-Leilani (from Waikiki Wedding'); ticularly since the development of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down Billy Cotton and His Band; 1 police laboratories, seemingly insigni- trant clues have frequently led to Saw A Ship A-Sailing...Brion Law-

rance and His Orchestra.

Stock Quot- the wrongdner's undoing.

7.15 Closing local One of the most recent examples was the case of Leslie George Stone,tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- the 24-years-old sandpit labourer, ket Report, who murdered Ruby Keen In "ian br." Jane" at Leighton Buzzard, Berifondshire.

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7.29 London Relay-All Kinds of l'eople-1:

My Mentories of die Tsar Nicholas A talk by 11 at his Coronation' Colonel E. St. C. Pemberton.

7.35 Variety.

And Laugh- Vorol--Look Up

1. A piece of silk thread about an inch long from the girl's dress, and grains of som similar to tent at the scene of the crime found in the accused man clothing, became ImportantMedley: Film Waltz Songs-Medley Instru- links in the prosecution's chain of Gracie Fields with Organ Ac-

the companiment: Vocal and Levrience which led Stone to

mental-Blaze Away (Kennedy and Holzmat); Many Happy Returns Of CANDLE GREASE CLUE-

The. Day (Dubin and Butke)... Eddle Come farmase tound in a prisoners

ubmitted tu tests at the Peabody (Vocal) playing various in- i pot set wi

and struments; Comedian-You Can't Go Cauca City Police laboratory

Miller: bed in a burgim's conviction and Away Like That (Miller); Weening 11 WTE: compared with Willow (Miller)...... Mix grease left on, the carpet of the Novelty-Blazin' The Trial (Samuels, huse which had been entered, and Whiteup and Powell); Twilight On bath "exhibits" were proved to be The Trail (im The Trail of the ....The Hill Billies, Lonesome Pine') identical with wax from a candle at

B.00 Local Time Signal, Weather the thief's logings.

Report and Announcements.

sentence,

8.03 Variety continued.

Vocal--A Place In Your Heart (Sum Coslow): The Very Thought Of You (Ray Noble)....Sam Caslow

Band- (Tenor); Piano-Accordeon

Produced

It sounds simple enough, but be- fore arriving at their decision the experts tested no fewer than 17 can: dles of different makes and prices and all were found to vary in com-: position.

Chips of enamel left on u damaged Au Revoir (J, G. Gilbert); A Waltz Was Born in Vienna (Crooker and gate after it had been hit by a eur

motorist's Loewe)....London Plano-Accordeon for people to win they "ore the It would be tactful and considerate į perhaps in some other nation,

8.15 London Relay London stamp of dishonesty."

if the Duke of Windsor was allowed Press persists in making copy of proved the falsity of

involved +r 122 accident.

Pride. An insurance broker sald that he become a private citizen, and was him, and attributing an importance, denial, also at Cardiff, that he had Band,

Chemical tests at the laboratory

A Programme in praise of London a number of bets with the asse-not made "copy" of by the Press, said which I should not have thought he he

Sheriff would himself desire, to what he had proved beyund a doubt that ciation. He lost about £2, then M. Watter Robertson, won £5. As he hoped to effect an Substitute of Lanarkshire, in Glas done and to everything he says and

written by D. F. Altken. insurance deal with Johnson he call-gow, when speaking recently at the does. It appears to me that, being, enamel was similar to that on the compiled from the tributes of visitors ed to see him and was paid his win-annual dinner of the Glasgow and a person who seeks obscurity, le car. Result, the driver admitted the through the centuries. Devised and

West of Scotland District of the In-should be allowed to obtain obscure collision.

The fate of a shopbreaker at Hast- by Pascoe Thornton..

8.55 A Short Concert by Claudia theity."

ings depended upon a spider's well. stitute of Journalists, held, in Grosvenor Restaurant, Glasgow,

He had to confess, however, said He suggested that the intruder had Mazlo (Seprano) and Casals (Cello). La Boheme-Yes, They Call Me It was within the bounds of Sheriff Robertson, that in the great entered by a certain window, but an

the Duke sibility, he added, that

Moment might in the future become a very majority of cases the Press of this observant detective noticed the web Mimi (Puccinl); Cavalleria Rusticana

...Claudia Muzio; country did not abuse

great across the panes, searched his in--Mother, you Know the story (Mas-

the cagni (Schubert); was It dis- formant's fal, and there

Le Cygne Musical serious danger politically.

Apres Un Reve (Saint-Saens); Sheriff Robertson said that when power it had in its hands.

TELL-TALE TEETH MARKS Charles Beaux, having booked him- charged its duties, which were dil-missing property.

cult and dangerous duties at times, choice and

Casols. A boy's footprint in an unbalted (Faure): Chanson Villageoise (Pop- self on a liner of his

tray of shurtbread was the principal per-Op. 62, No. 2)....C

0.15 London Relay-Robb Wilton Jabelled his destination Paris, arrived with tact and discretion, and, indeed, at Greenock, he hoped he would be with wisdom and capacity.

When our country passed fecently evidence against a youth found guilty unnoticed. Poor Bedaux got out at

Hereford, and robber at Winches-Court of Not-So-Common, Please!

Written by Rubb Wilton on an ori- Greenock, and took a motor car, and through a somewhat trying dynastic of breaking into a grocery store at as Mr. Muddlecombe, J. P. In "The he was chased 150 miles by a journ-crisis, which, with the standing luck ter who was careless enough to leave

Empire, had alist, who ran him down" at Car- of the British

term of im-ed by Max Kester. rewarded with

0.30 London Relay-The News isle. He refused to answer all the solved to our immense advantage, the his teeth-marks in a piece of cheese ginnt Idea by Barry Bernard Present-

certain eminent Press of this country, differing from

omprisonment and a flogging. questions about a

9.50 Beethoven-Symphony No. 4 Scientifle examination of four sli- "Bisley"Camp person, now known as the Duke of the Press across the water, displayedl;

Windsor

-a-discretion, and a good feeling and very hairs returned venerable "old In E Flat, Op. 60. "Now I would like to say this. Ilis good taste, which could not have lag to yet another "stretch" at Dur-Felix-Weingartner-cond. the Lan

10.13 Songs by hold its 75th annual meeting at Bis-Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor been excelled, and which entitled itham Quarter Sessions, and tiny den Philharmonic Orchestra. ley camp from Monday, July 4 to has chosen to abdicate the highest to the grateful tribute and admira- pieces of glass falling unnoticed into

Aidn' (Verdi)-Heavenly Saturday, July 16, on which day the position in the world to become a ton of everyone who knew what was the turn-ups of a shopbreaker's trou- (Tenor).

fully going on as well as they did, and Anal of the King's Prize will take private citizen. Whether he

realises he is a private cliizen or not, realised how trying and diffleul; it sers at Plymouth were silent testim- place in the afternoon.

had gained entry by cutting out a-Your tiny hand is frozen.

10.28 Light Variety Concert. would say nothing whatever about it. The prize distribution will follow cannot say, but if he does not, it is was for the Press of this country toy to the fact that it was he who devine Alda: La Boheme' (Puccini)

pane of glass. not the fault of the Press.

Orchestra-Pucho Digo (Pesenti); In several murder trials the slen- venture to suggest humbly that it

Vocal I'm In The Mood For Love derest of clues have become import- O Cara Mia (Brondiszki, arr. Pager) ant factors in establishing the erim-A. J. Pesenti and 1lis Orchestra: inal's guilt.

Patrick Mahon, the Crumbles mur- (McHugh, Fields); I Wished On The Parker)....Lanny derer, little thought that a cloakroom Moon (Rainger,

Sydney ticket would lead to his downfall; nor Russ; Orchestra-Rise And Shine

Kyte and His did William Podmore, convicted of Selection. the Southampton garage crime, re- Piccadilly Hotel Band: Vocal-Swing alise that a chance remark made to film Publie Nuisance No. 1: Me a fellow-prisoner while he was "- And My Dog (film 'Public Nuisance side" for another offence would as-No. 1')....Frances Day (Soprano); sume such importance at his trial on Orchestra-What's Yours?-A Con- vivial Medley. (arr. Debroy Somers) the capital charge.

Debroy Somers Band (with Vocul Chorus).

11.00 Close Down.

ARMY'S NEW TYPE OF TARGET

་

The National Rifle Association will

ning Deer range.

+

been

soon after the last shot is fired.

But having distinguished itself in The National Smallbore meeting would perhaps be a tactful and con- will take place during the first week of Bisley, July 1 to 9, on the Russiderate thing if Ilis Royal Highness a way no other Press would have was allowed to be a private citizen, done, and no other Press did, they exhibit the and not made 'copy' of by every-might be content and The meetings of the Army, Royal Uning he does und everything he says same fact in this matter in the future. Ex-Treasurer P. J. Dollan, Glas- Navy and Royal Marine Rifle Asso-und everywhere he goes being re- clations will occupy Bisley ranges

"It is quite within the bounds of gow, said he felt that the Duke of during the week immediately pro-ported in the paper. (Hear, hear.) ceeding the Imperial meeting, known possibility that the young gentleman Windsor should be given the same might in the future become a very kindness and the same tenderness of The Territorial Army will hold its serious danger politically, in this or treatment as was shown to him in his hour of defeat and humiliation. meeting from July 3 and for the

He should be left to live his life in first three

of the Imperial days

his own way. meeting.

us the "Services" week,

The Royal Farce Rifle Association hold its central meeting on will Bisley ranges during the week be-

ginning May 30.

The rifle allowed for the use at

the N.ILA. mecting will be the same,

B.B.C. AND SURNAME PRONUNCIATION COMMITTEE TO DECIDE Pronunciation of surnames is the)

as for 1037. The Australian heavy next subject for the B.B.C. Advisory

committee met

7. it considered a

barrel S.M.LE. elfe, wed by the Committee on Spoken English, of Australian rifle team at the Coro- which Mr. Bernard Shaw is chair-

the When nation meeting this year, and with man. which they won the Empire and again on Dec. Kolapore matches, may only be used proposal that the B.B.C. should issue of about 500 English

by bona Aide Australian competi- booklet giving recommended pro-

tors..

P. 14 RIFLES FOR SALE

The Government has now released

nunciations surnames.

Mr. Shaw and his colleagues have

no intention of dictating the pro-

for sale 2,000 pattern 1914 rines nunciation of names to their owners.

known as the "P. 14"-which type may be used in all competitions open to the 5.1. (b) rifle-i.e., rifle fited with sling and peepalght, both of which can be used as an aid to ae-

N.R.A. Council hopes shortly

to be able to provide spare barrels

of

f private manufacture, and of Gav-

ernment specification. for sale to

Here are some of the names viewed:

Beauchamp, Belisha, Cockburn, Cholmondeley. Greenhalgh, Houston, Ponsonby..

Poullett, Pole-Chrew,

I'rideaux,

Powell,

Waddell,

Whewell.

-

Though

it Win Impossible, in private owners of "P. 14" rifles who the case of a given name, to arrive new barrels, at a price within at a pronunciation neceptable to all require

owners, the committee reach of all. The NRA has stil

or year at modest charge,

was

Lady Astor's Niece

Sings In Night Club To Forget Tragedy

New York.

Adelaide Moffet, beautiful twenty-one-year-old daughter of a millionaire, and a niece by marriage of Lady Astor, began a career as a night club singer in New York

recently.

FOUR YEARS WITH ABORIGINES

Jussi Bjorling

Alda..

Old Soldier Successor To Capt. Westlake

Captain (Quarter-Master) Henry Westlake of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, is retiring in a few weeks and his place will be taken,

it was learned from Headquarters this morning, by Mr. T. Parkinson, at

She used another name but her present Regimental Sergeant Major ol

Mr. James A. Moffett, the Corps. father, Standard Oll executive and former Capt. Westlake joined the Corps in

New

Deal housing commissioner, recognised her voice over the radio.

1922 as Sergeant Major and in 1930 Sydney.

Miss Moffett, who married David was promoted Honorary Lieutenant Dr. Donald Thomson, the young

from Melbourne (Kinky) Brooks, nephew of Lady and Quarter-Master, receiving his en-janthropologist

who lived with the Astor, who was killed peeldentally last promotion in 1936. He expects for when he fell from a window of a to leave for Home at the end of Aborigines in North Australia on hand a number of "P. 14" rifles, deavoured to find the most general University.

four years us one of them, is leav. New York skyscraper last year, has February. which can be hired either by the day usage.

វ័ន says he Ing for England. He

laken up a career to forget that

Mr. T, Parkinson is in the Harbour The dates an which the various will be taken la oll N.R.A. Indivi-most discouraged by the Federal tragedy and to earn a living.

"Stories of my giving my salary to Department of the Government but Government's fullure to realise its competitions and matches take place duni competitions,

to the natives. He would charity are untrue," she said. "I'm has been connected with the Volun- The squaddlug for individual com-duties will be the same as for 1937. There;

never think of returning to Aus-not rich. In fact, I need money very teers for some years and prior to that will be no competition in 1938 con- petitions will be in pairs under simi

much. The only favourite charity I spent a long period In the Regular current with the first stage of the inr conditions as for 1937. In inditralla.

He describes the decision to per-have is myself. I belleve charity Army. King's Prize on the same lines us the vidual squadded events apmunition 1037 Coronation competitions. will be drawn from central depots on init watering places to pearlers at begins and ends at home. I hope the presentation of detachable Arnhem Land and the building of this job will lead to a way of making vouchers forming part of the com- nying boat base at Groote Eylandt,niving."

the largest island in the Gult petition leket,

shock the world.

of

reserves,

N.R.A. TARGETS UNCHANGED Although the Army Rifle Assoclo

CITY FORGETS $2 DEPOSIT tlon is introducing a new type of The competitions for 1838 will be Carpentaria, both nalive

Marlins Ferry, torget for its 1930 competitions, the generally on similar lines to former as outrages against humanity which

The city of Martins Ferry forgol for N.I.A. will make no change from the years.

If the natives there, he kuld, came 1937 targets. The RN., R.M. and The oficial programme book will

In a New York bank. Recently the R.A.F. will atrnost certainly conform be ready for issue early in the New into contact with whites they were 37 years that it carried an account to the N.R.A. targets.

Year. Individual entries for the bound to perish and the finest re- Two sighting shots, compulsary, squadded events will close on June moining tribes of Aborigines would bank asked the city to close out the

thus disappear..

old account. It amounted to $2. and Included in the entrance, fee, | 20.

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