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KING THE DAMNED

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HELEN VINSON

Troula and Balague

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1938,

STOP PRESS

Fair Weather For Test

London, Aug. 24.

An Air Ministry weather forecast

issued at 5 am. to-day. predlets fine bright weather for the continued

Test Match between England and Australia, which enter ita fourth day to day.

No rain is forecast-Reuter.

SIBERIAN MAIL

. DAMAGED Several bags of a large consign- ment of English, mall received In Hongkong via, Siberia this moming were badly damaged by water.

Mystery at present surrounds the circumstances surrounding the in- client.

The mall was brought to Hongkong from Shanghat by the Blue Funnel Tiner Acneas. It was presumably taken to Shanghai from Dairen by a Japanese ship.

GANGSTER'S FORMER "MANAGER" ACCUSES TAMMANY'S J. J. HINES

New York, Aug. 23.

Evidence of alleged payments by a gangster to James

J. Hines, who is facing life imprisonment if charges of bribery and illegal gambling operations are proved against him, was given during the continuation of the

trial of the former Tammany leader to-day.

George Weinberg, former "business manager" for "Dutch" Schultz, the New York racketeer who was "bumped off" two years ago, accused Hines of accepting $500 a week as a "political fixer" for the Schultz gang.

Weinberg caused a sensation in Court by adding: "I myself paid Hines $500 in front of his (Hines') home." The witness declared that at a meeting attended by "Dutch" Schultz and Hines, it was agreed to pay the Tanımany leader $1,000 down and $500 a week.

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"After that meeting I saw Illnes every week and paid him the $500 each time," Weinberg, declared.

Hines, in return for the money. police raids promised the gang protection froin bantes," that is, gambling dives in the Horiem "policy

the gamblers bet on numbers, such negro district of New York in which as the numbers printed on certain pages in newspapers, telephone books or race tickets,

"Dutch" Schultz demanded 60 per cen!, of the profits in the multi-million dollar racket, added Welberg, Jor the protection of his gang and Jimmy

"An official of Messrs. Butterfeld and

Swire, agents for the Blue Funnel line, said: The mail was received in a damaged condition aboard the Acneas in Shanghai, The Acuéas Hines." bad a Shanghai, celly smooth voyage from

Resuming his testimony after the Post lunch adjournment, Weinberg alleged mall that a magistrate, whom he named, con-Lagreed to take care of any pola e been raids and fix the arrests."

The We

An efflctal of the

General said: "Several bags of onlee were received in

u damaged dition and in some cases it has dimcult to read the addresses. mail was damaged by water.

The witness described Schultz as a are si awaliing a report.

prodigious spender who took as much The mail was despatched from Lon-3 $18,000 to $20,000 a week from don on August 4.

the racket for his personal expenses, chiefly entertainment-Reuter,

CHOLERA OUTBREAK

to

The number of new cases cholera in Hongkong continues average between four and five a day. During the past 24 hours another

Ilve notifications were made to the health authorities, bringing the total tu 361. There were also two cases of dysentery and one of measles.

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KILLED AS

HE TOOK SNAPSHOT.

Crianlarich (Perthshire). 13ile Mr. John Foster Wood. of Luxen-grove, Denton. near Manchester, was taking a photo- graph on a rock high above the Falls of Falloch, near Crianla- rich, his wife at his side, he alipped and fell into the swirling watera below.

Tourists standing on lower ledges ran down to the water-edge, Wood had disappeared.

but

Dry Weather Record Now Likely Here

Rainfall 22 Inches Below Average

2

With the year's rainfall inches below average, the prospects of 1038 being Hongkong's driest your since 1931 are now considerably in

used. To date only 42.10 inches of rain have been recordest,

Neither does there appear to be any immediate telihood of rain, the local forecast being: East and north- cast winds, moderate; fale generally. day was 87 degrees, and the minimum The maximum temperature yester- last night 79. This morning the temperature was 85, with humidity at 76 per cent.

The Royal Observatory weather report issued this morning stated that pressure remains highest over the Pacific to the east of Japan, and the trough is stationary Indo-China

between the Western Carolines. The typhoon appears to be situated about 500 miles south- east of Formosa.. recurving north- eastward.

and

TWO WOMEN TREE THIEVES TAKEN

Charged with possession of 10 pine 1 ment Plantation yesterday, o 48-year- trees valued at $90 at the DB Govern- old widow, Chian Yuk-ying was fined $180 or three months' hard labour, Police with grappling-irons:

when she appeared before Mr. K. M. searched in vain for the body, tracy this morning. A further sen

A. Barnett at the. Kowloon Mogis- is possible that it has been carried tence of one month was imposed on by the fast-flowing River Folloch defendant for trespassing on Govern- into Loch Lomond some milesnent property.

away.

While a husband was taking his with a similar offence in respect of Another woman, Li Tai, 45, charged wife's photograph at Glengarff Glen, nine pine trees valued at $65, was Co. Antrim, some weeks ago she Aned $130 or three months. Another stepped backwards over a precipice month's Imprisonment was imposed and was killed.

for trespassing.

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