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COULD YOU

Counsel's In Bets

Case

Could you pick six losers in a they's racing?

Counsel threw out this challenge to the Jury during the hearing of a che at the Oki Balley recently.

A retired Inspector of the Bengal police and a postman had told of on alleged betting windle in which the

offered 100 to pubile WITC against pleking a losing horse in six

rices.

one

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

Harald Johnson. aged thirty- seven, company director, pleaded not guilty to obtaining "number postal orders by false pretences with intent to defraud.

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business called

the

ot

Mr. L. A. Byrne (prosecu'ing] sald that Johnson conducted

Express Dally Sports Association. Circulars stating that the association paid In- vestors 100 to I if they named six losing horses were sent out. These circulars also gave a Hst of rulesome one, that letters must be postmarked not later than the set time of the first race.

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"HEADS I WIN"

Mr. Byrne alleged that the rules. were so framed that so far as the promoter was concerned it was a case of "Heads I win, tails you lose." Mr. Graham Brooks (defending) invited the jury try pleking six

JUSTIN.

Challenge

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 Talyunn was formerly believed a formidable barrier against invading hordes. But when the inhabitants refused to surrender to the Japanese, recently, the attackers turned their big guns on it and presently found casy access to the city, as shown.

THE

"Get a morning paper when you retire during the adjournment," he said, "and see if you can pick out six losers in the racing at Manches ter lo-day. Bear in mind that each horse has to be in a different racey | 46: must not be in the first three, and If you pick a horse that does not run you lose your money."

Johnson,

nings in cash.

who Have evidence,

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BISLEY PLANS FOR 1938

N.R.A. MEETING IN JULY ARMY'S NEW TYPE OF TARGET

DUKE

OF

WINDSOR

"Might Become Serious Danger Politically," says Sheriff

Science Versus Criminal

Bringing About the Downfall of the

Wrongdoer

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HENRY COTTON Anglespike

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BROADCAST by a golfer.

'London Pride' and Other Relays from 'London

ROTARY SPEECH

Radio Programme Broadcast hy Z.B.W. on Frequencien of 445 .c's. 2.62 m.c's. per second.

H.K.T.

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Confronted with minute particles of soul dust laken from tit ola wound lu his band, a Germish miner who had denied that he won in the Rubr

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special district when a murder was cum-Service from St. John's Cathedral.

to the mitted recently, confersed etime. Unknown to him, he had carried this tiny indelible cite which evidence damning

was to become

12.30 Regluald Foort at the Cine- tia Organ.

Keep Smiling! (Fourt); The A.B.C. March (Foort and Ferring); Broad- In British crime anals too, par-way Melody of 1930-Selection; The ticularly since the development of Duilee laboratories; seemingly Insigni-

gainst him.

Singing Marine-Selection.

12.92 New Symphony Orchestra.

Bent cles have frequently led to 'Le Cld' Ballet Music-(Massenet);

the wrongloer's undoing.

(a) Castiliane: (b) Aubade; (e) An- One of the most recent examples dalouse; d) Aragomise; (e) Madri- was the case of Lestle George Stone,lene; (1) Navarroise.

the 24-years-ok sandpit labourer, who murdered RubyKeen in "lovers" lane" at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

A piece of silk thread about an fhch long from the girl's dress, and grains of and similar to that at the scene of the crime found in the accused

1.00 Time and Weather.

1.03 Alfredo Campoil and His Or chestra and Les Allen (Baritone).

Canzonetla (D'Ambrosio): Cavo-

A

in (Raff)...Orchestra; Dear Little Boy Of Mine (Brennan and Ball) Les Allen accomp. by Sidney Torel Because (from Two Love

man's clothing, became important | 10PR-Gader: Why? (from "Two

to

links in the prosecution's chain of Love Sonnets-Gade)....Orchestra: evidence which led Stone

thetadlo Requests

(Les Allen's Mast Alien woffold,

Appreciated! Songs)....Les CANDLE GREASE CLUE

necomp. by Sidney Torch (Organ); Candie preuse tound in a prizoner The Knave Of Diamonds (Steele)

Orchestre; Serenade Espagnole pocket was rubmited to tests at the Cardiff City Police Intratory and (Chaminade, arr. Kreisler); Guitarre, resuited m'a burlar'a conviction and Op. 45, No. 2 (Moszkowski. Sarusate)

Alfredo Campoli (Violin). was compared with i sentence. It

on the carpet of the 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press: grease loft Hutse wineb had been entered, and Weather and Announcements.

both "exhibit:" were proved in be 1.40 Relay of Rotary Tim Specch identical with was from a candle at from the Roof Garden of the Cong the thief's lodgings.

11. Subject: 'My It sounds simple enough, but bekan Hotel. Speaker: T. B. Wilson, Trip to the fore arriving at their decision the Hoover'. experts tested no fewer than 17-can- dies of different makes and prices, and all were found to vary in com- position.

2.15 Close Down. 6.00-7.00 Chinese Programme, 7.60 Dance Muste.

Claps of enamel left on a damaged?; 01101sLet's Put Our Heads

involved In

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....

7.15

Vocal and Instru-

denied in cross-examination that

(nim 'Gold Diggers of though the rules made it difculti for people to win they "bore the

It would be tactful and considerate, perhos a zome other nation. if the gate after it had been hit by a car 1937): Will Pienty Of Money and motorist's You (flm 'Gold Diggers of 1937)..

..Roy Fox and

and Ills stamp of dishonesty."

If the Duke of Windsor was showed Press persists in making copy of proved the falsity of

Orchestra; Sweet eeldent. Leilani (from Waikiki Wedding'); An insurance broker sold that he to become a private citizen, and was him, and attributing an importance, denial, also at Cardiff, that he had had a number of bets with the asso- not made "copy" of hy the Press, sant which I should not have though he en

doubt that the elation. Sie lost about £2, then Mr. Walter J. Robertson, Sherif- would hingelf desire, to what he has Chemical tests at the laboratory The Merry-Go-Round Brake Down Billy Cotton and His Band: 1 won £5. As he hoped to effect an Substitute of Lanarkshire, in Gas- done and to everything he says and proved beyond a

It, appears to me that, being camel was similar to that on the Saw A Ship A-Sailing... Brian Law- insurance deal with Johnson be call gow, when speaking recently at the dues.

collision. ed to see him and was pakl his win-jannual dinner of the Glasgow and a person who seeks obscurity, he car Result, the driver admitted the ranee and His Orchestra.

Closing Incal

Stock Quotü. The fate of a shopbreaker at Hast-tions and Hongkong Exchange Mur- West of Scotland District of the In- should be allowed to obtain obseur-

theity." stitute of Journalists, held in

ings depended upon a spider's webb,ket Report.

7.24 London Relay-All Kinds of He had to confess, however, said He suggested that the intruder had Grosvenor Restaurant, Glasgow.

It was within the bonus of pus-

the Duke Sheriff Robertson, that in the great entered by a certain window, but an People-1:

'My Memories of the Tsar Nicholas sibility, he added, that

Coronation might in the future become a very majority of cases the Press of this observar detective noticed the web

great across the pones, searched his

at his

A talk by country did not abuse the

Was de Colonel E. Si, C. Pemberton. serious danger politically,

Sheriff Robertson said that when power it had in its hands. It dis- formant's flat, and there

7.35 Variety. TELL TALE TEETH MARKS Charles Bedaus, having booked hin- charged its duties, which were diffi-missing property.

Vocal-Look Up And Laugh- choice and cult and dangerous duties at times,

in A boy's footprint an unbaked self on it

a liner of bis inbelled his destination Paris, arrived with tact and discretion, and, ingeed,

tray of shortbread was the principal Medley; Film Waltz Songs-Medicy.

compartment: Greenock, he hoped he would be with wisdom and capacity.

evidence against a youth found guilty Gracie Fields with Organ Ac- When our country passed recently of breaking into a grocery store at mental--Blaze Away (Kennedy and unnoticed. Pour Bedaux got out t Greenock, and took a motor cor, and through a somewhat trying dynustic Hereford, and robber at Winches Holzmann): Many Happy Returns Of .Eddle he was chaseci 150 miles by a journ- crisis, which, with the standing fuck ter who was careless enough to leave The Day (Dubin and Burke)... alist, who ran him down" at Car- of the British Empire, had his teeth-marks in a piece of cheese Peabody (Vocal) playing various in- He refused to answer all the solved to our immense advantage, the was rewarded with a term of instruments, Comedian-You Can't Go isic.

rt: Weeping questions about a certain eminent Press of this country, differing from prisonmen: and a forging.

Away Like That Miller); examination of four sil-Willow (Miller)..... Scientific

.Max Miller; person, now known as the Duke of the Press across the water, displayed Bisley-Camp-| Windsor

a-discretim,-md-4-good feeling und-very-hairy-returned-a-venerable_"old.. Novelty--Blazin'?

n-Ties Trial-(Samuels.- "Now I would like to say this. Is good taste, which could not having to yet another "stretch" at Dur-Whiteus and Powell); Twilight On The National Rifle Association will

Quarter Sessions, and tiny The Trail (Alm The Trail of the hold its 75th annual meeting at Bis-Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor been exerlied, and which entitled

the highest to the grateful tribute and admira-pieces of glass falling unnoticed into Lotusome Pine)....

...The Hill Billies. ley eamp from Monday, July 4 to has chosen to abdicate

Hion of everyone who knew what was the turn-ups of a shopbreaker's trou-

B.00

Tine Local Saturday, July 10, on which day the position in the world to become a

Signal, Weather Report and Anal of the King's Prize will take private citizen. Whether he fully colu on as well as they did, and sers at Pismouth were silent testim

Announcements. realises he is a private citizen or not, realised how trying and difficult ony to the fact that it was he who 8.03 Variety continued. place in the afternoon.

was for the Preis of this country to and gained entry by cutting out ni

Hour Heart Voun--A Place. In The prize distribution will follow I cannot say, but if he does not, it is

not the fault of the Press. I would say nothing whatever about it.

pane of glass.

(Sam Corlow): The Very Thought soon after the last shot is fired.

venture to suggest humbly that

In several murder trinks the sten Of You (Ray Noble)....Sam Coslow The National Smallbore meeting would perhaps be a tactful and con-

Plano-Accordeon (Tenor);

Band- will take place during the first week siderate thing if His Royal Highness

derust of clues have become import- of Bisley, July 4 to D. on the Run-was allowed to be a private citizen, done, and no other Press did, they at factors in establishing the erim- Att Revoir (3. G. Gilbert); A Waltz Was Born In Vienna (Crooker and and not

made copy of by every-might be content and exhibit the inal's quilt.

Patrick Malion, the Crumbles inur-

Loewe)....London Piano-Accordeon The meetings of the Army, Itoyatning he does and everything he says same tac. in this matter in the future.derer, little thought that a cloakroom Loew Navy and Royal Marine Bille Asse- und everywhere he goes being re- Ex-Treasurer P. J. Dullan, Glas- ticket would lead to his downfall: nov Band.

R.15 London Relay 'London clations will occupy Bisley ranges ported in the paper. (Hear, hear.)

Pride during the week Immediately pro- "It is quite, within the bounds of ow, taid he felt that the Duke of did William Podmore, convicted of

A Programme in praise of London ceeding the Imperial meeting, known possibility that the young gentleman Windsor should be given the same the Southampton garage crime, re- kindness and the same tenderness of alise that a chance remark matte to treatinent as was shown to him in a fellow-prisoner while he was-in-compiled from the tributes of visitors his hour of defeat and humiliation. side" for another offence would as- through the centuries. Devised and He should be left to live his life in sume such importance at his trial on written by D. F. Alken. Produred

by Pancoe Thornton. the capital charge.

ning Beer range.

as the "Services" week.

night in the future become a very The Territorial Army will hold its serious danger politically, in this or meeting from July 3 and for Ve Brst three days of the Imperial meeting.

The Royal Force Rifle Association will hold a central inceting un Bisley ranges during the week be- ginning May 30.

The rifle allowed for the use all

B.B.C. AND SURNAME PRONUNCIATION

COMMITTEE TO DECIDE

the N.R.A. meeting will be the same! Pronunciation of surnames is the

as for 1937. The Australian, heavy next subject for the B.B.C. Advisory barrel S.M.LE. rifle,

used by the Committee on Spoken English, of Australian rifle team at the Coro- which Mr. Bernard Shaw Is chide- the committee met nation meeting this year, and with man. When

they won the Empire and again on Dec. 7 it considered a Kolapore matches, my only be used proposal that the B.B.C. should issue

which

by bona Nde Australian compett- a booklet giving recommended pro-

Jors.

nunciations surnames.

of about 500 English

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But having distinguished itself in way no other Press would have

his own way.

Lady Astor's Niece Sings In Night Club To Forget Tragedy

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

recently.

beautiful Adelaide Moffet,

P. 14 RIFLES FOR SALE

Me

Shaw and his colleagues have The Government has how releused no intention of dictaling the pre- for sale 2,000 pattern 1914 rilles nunciation of names to their owners.

Here are some of the names known as the "P. 14"--which type

viewed: may be used in all competitions open to the S.R. (b) rifle-1.e., rifte Atted with sling and peepsight, both of which can be used as an ald to ae- curacy,

The N.I.A. Council hopes shortly

of

to be able to provide spare barrels private manufacture, and of Gov-

Beauchamp, Belish, Cockburn. Cholmondeley.

Greenhalgh, Houston, Ponsonby,

usage.

Poullelt.

Pole-Cartw.

1

Prideaux.

Powell,

Waddell,

Waugh,

was

in

en

FOUR YEARS WITH ABORIGINES

8.55 A Short Concert by Claudia Muzio (Soprano) and Casals ('Cello). La Boheme-Yes, They Call Me Mimi (Puccini): Cavalleria Rusticana Mother, you Know the story (Mus- cagni)....Claudia Muzio Moment Musical (Schubert); Le Cygne

Apres (Saint-Saens);

Un Reve (Faure); Chanson Villageoise (Pop- per-Op. 62, No.

Wilton

9.15 London Rob

as Mr. Muddlecombe, J. P. In "The Court of Not-So-Common, Picare!

Written by Robb Wilton on an orl- ginal idea by Barry Bernard Present- ed by Max Kester.

"Aida

0.30 London Relay-The News D.30 Beethoven-Symphony No. 4 In B Flat. Op. 60.

Felix Weingartner cond. the Lon. don Philharmonic Orchestra,

10.18 Song by. Jural Bjorling (Tenor).

(Verdi)Heavenly Aidn, She used another name but her devine Alda: 'La Boheme' (Puccinl)

James A. Mosfelt, Your tiny hand is frozen, father, Mr. Standard Oll executive and former 10.28 Light Variety Concert

commissioner, New Deal housing Whewell.

Orchestra Pucho Digo (Pesenti); recognised her voice over the radio. O Cara Mia (Broadszki, arr. Pager) It Though ernment

Sydney. speci"cation, for sale

impossible,

Miss Moffett, who married David A. J. Pesenti and His Orchestra: private owners of "P. 14" rifles who the case of a given name, to arrive

Dr. Donald Thomson, the young

from Melbourne (Kinity) Brooks, nephew of Lady Vocal-I'm In The Mood For Love require new barrels, at a price within pronunciation acceptable to all

owners. the

anthropologist committee

the Astor, who was killed accidentally Mellugh, Fields); I Wished On The with who lived University,

Moon (Rainger, Parker). reach of all. The N.R.A. has still its

..Lanny for when he fell from a window of a on hand a number of "P, 14" rifles, deavoured to find the most general Aborigines in North Australin which can be hired either by the day

four years as one of them, is leay- New York skyscraper last year, has Ross; Orchestra-Rise And Shine

to forget that Selection....Sydney Kvie and His ing for England. He anys he in Laken up a career

Pieendly Hotel Band; Vocal Swing or year at a modest charge.

The dale on which the various will be taken in all N.R.A. indivi- most discouraged by the Federal tragedy and to earn a living.

Stories of my giving my salary to (ln Public Nuisance No. 1'): Mo competitions and matches take place dual competitions.

Government's failure to realise its will be the same as for 1937. There The squadding for individtml com-dulies to the natives. He would charity are untrue," she said. "I'm And My Dog (film Public Nuisance will be no competition in 1938 con-petitions will be in pairs under siml-never think of returning to Aus- not rich. In fact, I need money very No. ....Frances Day (Soprano); much. The only favourite charity Orchestra-What's Yours? Con- current with the first stage of the far conditions as for 1037. In indtralin.

He describes the decision to per-have is myself. I believe charity vivial Medley (ur. Debroy Somers)

(Continued on Page 4.) King's Prize on the same lies as the vidunt squidled events ammunition 1037 Coronation competitions. will be drawn from central deputs on mit 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 formlug part of the coma fying boat base at Groote Eylandt, largest island in the Gulf of Although the Army Rife Associa pelitlen ticket. tion in Introducing

The competitions for 1030 will be Carpentaria, both native reservce. A new type of target for its 1038 competitions, the generally on similar finca to formers outrages against humanity which

shock the world. NILA, will make no change from the years. 1937 targeta, The R.N., R.M. and The official programme book willi R.A.F. will almost certainly conform be ready for issue carly in the New to the NRA, targets.

Year. Individunt entries for the Two sighting shola, compulsory, squadded events will close on June and Included in the entrance fee, 20.

N.R.A. TARGETS UNCHANGED

the

living."

CITY FORGETS $2 DEPOSIT

Marlin Ferry.

If the natives thery, he said, camo The city of Martina Ferry forgot or into contact with whites they were 37 years that it carried an account bound to perish and the finest re- in a New York bank. Recently the maining tribes of Aborigines would bank asked the city to close out the Uus disappear.-

ald account. It amounted to $2,

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