1938-09-12 — Page 7

THE

TELEGRAPH, HONGKONG

MONDAY,

SEPTEMBER 12, 1938.

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VICKERS' BOW ST.

Story of Scheme To Photograph Prints for Russia

An alleged attempt to obtain documents calculated to be of use to an enemy brought into the dock at Bow Street recetly a man who was stated to have said that he was "in the secret service of three countries.”

The man, Robinson Walker (48), described as a cloth merchant, of Brentwood Road, Romford (Essex), faced two charges under the Official Secrets Act.

It was stated that he was employed from June, 1937, to June, 1938, by Vickers Armstrong, who are engaged on the manu- facture of fuse-setters under a War Office contract,

Walker was remanded, Sir Rollu Graham Campbell, the magistrale, admitting him to ball in two sure- tles, one of £100 and the other of

£50.

"OBTAINED A PLAN"

The charges against Walker were: That he, on July 20, 1938, at Hudson Road, Bexley Heath, Kent. for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, did obtain a plan of the main caslug of a fuse-setting machine, which is calculated to be directly or in- directly useful to an enemy.

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EMPIRE NEWS

WINTRY WEATHER IN KENYA

CHARGE

UFS

His Majesty King George VI, wearing the uniform of a British admiral, signs the Golden Book at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, during the recent State visit he and Queen Elizabeth made to the French capital. The King has just paid homage to the Unknown Soldier of France, where he placed a wreath

A French guard, left, watches the King on the tomb.

FIVE GIRLS AND NURSE DROWNED

ON BATHING BEACH

SECRETS:

Nairobi. Nairobi has just been experi- Thai ie, on July 21, 1938, en- deavoured to persunde one St. John encing the coldest weather of Frederick Burch, for a purpose which there is any record in its prejudicial to the safety or terests of the State, to communie-history. Thick over-coats and ate with him (Walker) a doetiment gloves have been the order of calculated to be directly or in- the day both in the morning and directly useful to an enemy. evening and this within 100

Five girls and their nurse were drowned in a hole in Mr. Vincent Evans, prosecuting, miles of the Equator.

record the sea bed while bathing off the coast of France recently, said that Walker got into conversa="

For the first time on tion with Mr. Burch, un inspector at natural lee has been discovered and on a beach on the Solway Firth six girls and two Vickers Armstrong at Crayford, as here, a thin coating having formed school-teachers were engulfed when the sands suddenly

opened. In this case one girl was drowned.

Mr. Burch was going home from his work.

"Walker told him he was in the Secret Service of three countries, that he had been to Italy and to Shorts of Rochester, and could he

supply Walker with drawings of fuse

setters," said Mr. Evans.

"He would photograph them and return them the following morning

TOLD HIS EMPLOYERS "He promised to pay Burch ten shillings to £1 for each drawing."

Mr. Burch reported the mutter and later acted on the instructions of his employers, who communicated with the police.

on the water of a bird bath in a

resident's garden.

Nairobi is nearly 5,000 feet above sea-level."

Although so near the Equator. The French girls were aged between 13 and 15. and were bathing at low tide on the Ile de Re, near La Rochelle, when people at a distance saw first one and then another vanish. The nurse, fully clothed, was seen to run to them, plunge in and also disappear.

Tea Planting Legislation-Ab to amend the Tea Ordinance, 1934, the extension of the period following Restriction Scheme for a further five years, will, if passed, more than treble the permissible planting area. INDIA

of operation of the International Tea

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Calcutta, The Maharaja Hiraj of Darbhanga, who last year purchased in London £15,000 a diamond necklace

At a subsequent meeting, Walker for said that he had only to take the

The hole was between two rocks, and so far the bodies of only two of the children have been recovered. They were among a hundred children undergoing tuberculosis treatment at a sana- torium on the island.

rescue her two-year-old The children on the Solway Firth effort to

The mother was hauled were only knee-deep in the water daughter, one moment and out of their depths to safety by a clothes rope. the next, the tide swirling in as the sand caved,

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Elsie Carisle and Jack 12.30 Hylion's Orchestra.

My

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A laundry mark consisting of the letter "R" inside a circle and the worn by Marie Antoinette, has Nettie Turner (11), of Broad figures "19" and a tabs on which is plan to the Russian Trade Delegation succeeded in convincing the Customs Street, Glasgow, was drowned, and embroidered the name "L. L. Savile Soloist's Delight (Godfrey). Sousa authorities that it is not subject to the others were saved largely by the are the only clues to the identity of duty,

efforts of one of the teachers, Miss a middle-aged man who crashed to

over ກາ 80ft. clif Janie McGill, of Killingside School, his death Glasgow, who swam backwards and Ramsgate. forwards until she had got three ashore.

and to the research laboratories.

Still acting on instructions, Mr. Burch later left the works with two plans and met. Walker. They went together to Mr. Burch's home.

When Mr. Burch said that he was very nervous, Walker said that he also was "windy" at first, but he had been doing the business for 15 years and did not worry much about it.

Walker added that the Russians did not trust him as he had falled on three previous occasions.

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1.49 Band of Marche Heroique De Szabady Guards. (Massenet, arr. Dan Godfrey); The Medley: Intro-Chorale from "The White Man: Semper Fideils-March

across the Sea"-March; Hands "King Cotton"-March; "The In- When the necklace was brought

vincible Eagle-March: "El Capitan from Europe the Maharaja was re- quested at Bombay to pay half the

In full view of thousands of holi-March; "Sabre and Spurs-March;

"Her Majesty the Queen" from "A cost is duty. For nearly a year the

scen to day makers the man was Maburaja has contested the assess-

1.57 The Royal Command Concert ment on the ground that the neck- Frank Balley (21), of Mawdsley climb off the promenade railings at the King's Court." lace was not intended as a gift nor Street, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, the edge of the cl

Held At The Albert Hall, London, On Thee would it be worn. He purchased it missing white bathing at Blackpool.

A Somerset inquest recently re- Empire Day, May 24th, 1938.

10 Heart-Ensing Mirth (Purcell--- to add to his collection of antique is also believed to have stumbled in-

man friend vealed that the hot weather killed a

Isobel Baillie, Elsie a hole. He and a to a Jewellery.

Suodaby, Astra This contention has now been linked hands to try to reach a girl girl who was of good muscular Davica) mend and Chorus. officially endorsed and the Maharaja who had got out of her depth. The development, had no sign of disease,

Massed Chuirs, conducted by Sir has received back

his cheque for other man fell into a deep hole and and who had not had a day's illness, The Cloud-Cap't Towers (Stevens) Hugh Allen, G.C.V.O Y Dore Glas £7.500.

disappeared before managing to get apart from whooping cough

(Welsh Folk Song)... Margaret Pondicherry Unrest Following clear. When he secured the girl it child.

Medical evidence showed that heat Rees and Welsh Chorus. Twankydil- Robert the political and industrial troubles was seen that Balley had vanished. in Pondicherry, M. Bonbain has

When a dinghy in which he was exhaustion had paralysed the sympa-lo (English Folk Song)..

caused Easton and English Chorus. England been appointed Governor of French

thetic nervous system and શ being towed in the harbour by

(Parry)... Mary Jarred and Massed India in place of M. Crocicchia.

Jerusalem Choirs.

(Porry) Cholers Deaths.-Or 9,000

Anthem Choira. The girl was Miss Marjorie Knott

Massed

National the painter broke, Bertram

Massed Choles, (Final verse) of Nelson (25), clerk, of Wolverhampton Road, two blueprints handed to him by Mr from cholera in the week ending Seat (34), lorry driver.

2.15 Close Down. the July 30, the deaths numbered 4,000. Avenue, Fortamouth, was drowned. Birmingham, who died by the road-

the side at Dulverton. Earlier in

6.0 For The Children. Scullion jumped into Mrs. Asked to explain his possession of! Tea Consumption. Mr. R. N. W.

The Birthday Of The Nursery them, he said: "I gut those to have! Jodrell, speaking at a meeting of Forth and Clyde canal near Twechar, day she had spent three hours

Rhymes (M. Carr and Scutt Wood) The Corona Babes with Scott a look at for a few seconds because the South India Planters Associa- Dumbartonshire, recently in a vain horseback.

Wood & His Orchestru. An Animal Alphabet (A Guessing Game For Tiny Tots) Descriptive. Noah's (Kester) (Containing the Names of the Animals)

George Baker with Orchestra. From the Studio-Serial Story-"Seeing The Six" Arc "Now We Empire." (Fraser-Simson-Poems by A, Milne): The Emperor's Rhyme; Furry Mimi Crawford (Soprano) Bar: Sneezles; The Friend Plano,

When he had shown good results, however, there would be no limit to the money they would pay him.

Mr. Evans said that Walker was arrested as he left the house.

In an attache case were found the in British India notified persons motor cabin cruiser Alled with water heart failure.

Burch,

as suffering and

I want to see if I can improve upon|tion, stated that in four years the them."

annual consumption of tea in India When the question of ball was had expanded from 60,000,000 to

100,000,000lb. being discussed Inspector

Buckell

said that Walker was living with his wife and two children at Rom- ford.

He had no means and no passport, although he did not think it would be very difficult for him to leave the country,

Lee Tracy, Timid Tough Guy, In London

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An R.A.F. apprentice of 16 who ran away from home Sons Ltd., following the death, in and, with another apprentice as companion, attempted Mr. Tata, who is 35, is the son of to fly off in a stolen 'plane, did so because his mother, the the late Mr. R. D. Tain, and has been wife of a naval lieutenant, was living with another man. in sole charge of the Aviation De-

This explanation was given at the London Sessions recently partment, and also on the boards of

aged 18, and Peter Leonard the various other Tala concerns. when Gerald Ernest Nicholson,

Hauser, aged 16, pleaded guilty to charges of breaking into a He la a keen pilot.

hangar at Warlingham, Surrey, and stealing the machine, a Percival Vega Gull, belonging to Mr. Richard Exton Gardner.

Hauser was bound over for two

i condi- 11 CONSTERNATION years and put on probation,

tion being that he should live where Consternation has been caused by directed. His father went surely for Les Tracy, 40-years-old Olm star, the unprecedented terms of a lakem. In the meantime he will be

are given by a director of one of the handed over to an whose roles as a "tough guy"

glanced commercial broadcasting stations. known to every filmgoer,

the Nor-It contained criticism of the national meekly round him

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Parliamentary action is urged, Waterloo and, clinging to the arm of his 26-years-old wife, whom he and it is believed that steps will be married three weeks ago, he stepped taken to deal with the matter,

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A slight, dapper figure, with a thin, nervous face, Lee Tracy wore the light blue suit and grey trilby of the typical American tourist.

Its his first visit to England. and ho la to take

Auckland,

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escort for dis- charge from the I.A.F. Nicholson's is to be recommend- discharge, also, cd, it was stated.

"CHILDISH"

was post- Sentence on Nicholson poned until the next sessions.

Mr. Guest said that Nicholson was His father astonishingly childish. was managing clerk to a well-known firm of solicitors at Maldenhead.

Mr. D. Curtis Bennett said Hauser had an exemplary character. Ite Sydney. asked Det. Sergt. Wolff: His father One of the best known winter was away on service abroad for five the place of sports resorts in Austraila, the chalet years?-I understand so. Raymond Maxey in the lending on the slopes of Mt Kosclusko,

Did Hauser run away because hir part of the entertainment "hoofer" In "Idiot's Delight" at the Apollo 308ft, Now South Wales, was des- mother was living with another

troyed by fire recently. It cost

Yes Theatre on Aug 30, when Raymond £20,000 to bulia. Mussey go to play Abe Lincoln in Robert Sberwood's play in. Now York.

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7.12 Closing local Stock Quota-

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'Including Howard tions, Jacobs, Lucienne Boyer, Sam Browne and The London Plano Accordeon Bland.

Dream Time (Davis and Coats); Napoleon 1. and it is thought that Hawaiian Parade (Harry Owens) The money

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The Kiss Of Romance (From 'Con-

Hauser's father said that what the The guests and staff, who num- detective had said was true, and bered 80 and included many women, when he got home from service narrowly escaped death. Driven out abroad he had to divorce his wife. patlie · attractive of the chalet. Hla wife's 'a'

into a blizzard,, clad Mr. Vernon Gattle, prosecuting, brunette, was formerly Mrs. Helen only in their night clothes and ruch said the boys succeeded in getting the Thomas a Los Angeles insurance blankets as they could snatch, they plane off the ground but it crashed

spent the remainder of the night in into a hedge and was wrecked, Ac-Many

cording to the boys, they intended to ve never married until now be abed.

Later they. fought their way By to France and had in the posses ~cause I've been too bury " Tricy

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I Love The Moon (P. Rubens); From

Land Of The Sky-Blue Water?

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