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No. 15T01

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K+AITEL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938. BOKA+

AIR FRANCE

PLANE

IN

DOGS,

CATS

USED

RACE WITH TIME, WINS

·U.S. DECORATIONS FOR BRITISH NAVAL OFFICERS

The American Ambassador in London, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, acting on behalf of President Roos

American gunboat velt, recently decorated British naval officers for their assistance to survivors of the Panaz, which was bombed and sunk by Japanese planes near Nanking last December, Mr. Kennedy is seen shaking hands with Mr. Christopher Holt, who received the Distinguished Service Medal. on behalf of his father, Rear-Adml. R. V. Holt, now serving as Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse. Other officers decorated were, left to right: Vice-Admi. L. J. E. Crabbe (Navy Cross), Capt. G. E. M. O'Donnell (Distinguished Service Medal), LL-Cmdr. 11. D. Barlow (Navy Cross),

Taipan Gives

In

Club Libel

Alleging that an attack had

been made on his reputation through the alleged posting of his name at the Hongkong Jockey Club in Happy Valley, Mr. T. H. Brayfield, well-known local Talpan of Meaurs. Carmichael and Clarko, marine surveyors, instituted a claim for unstipulat- ed damages for alleged libel in the Supreme Court this morning.

The court was crowded by European spectators, who in- cluded many prominent talpans į and a large number of ladies.

A special Jury was empanelled. It comprinod Messrs. J. Flerning, (fore- mun) R. M. McLay, C. Chumpkin, T. B. Wilson, Lo Yuk-tong, E. H. Geure and L, Dunbar.

Two King's Counsellors, Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, in- structed by Messrs. Johnston, Stokes and Master, appeured for the Jockey Club. Mr. C. Macnamara, In- structed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, represented Mr. Brayfield.

When the Jury

T.

Butlin was allows culled, Mr. S.

stand down when it was pointed out by Mr. Eldon Potter that he was an official of the Club. The name of Mr. V. Sorby

was also called, but without

hout result case for the plaintiff.

Opening

Mr.

the

Macnamara said the action was one of libel-an attack had bee

great

of

Britain To Act

Evidence

Claim

FINANCIAL AID FOR CHINA SAID NEAR

LONDON, Dec. 15.

The British Government is considering the possibility of grunting financial aid to China in order to counteract the Japanese economic drive.

This information was published in the Financial Times this morning on the authority of its Lobby Correspondent, who adds that the British move is contemplated as an answer to Japan's abrogation of the Open Door policy and Nine- Power Treaty.--Rcuter,

U.S. To Make Big Loan To China, Reported

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.1.

Stricken

A

English Woman Aboard

FOR FOOD

THE MYSTERY of the dis- appearance of several dogs in the vicinity of Hollywood Road Is belleved to have been didnred up as a result of a polico meuł on an unilcensed eating-house in Kau Kul Fong Road.

The ing sight,

raid revealed auscal-

Ол the tables in the eating room were several dishes of cooled dogs' flesh.

Further investigation brought to light the carcases of several dogs, bollers containing cooked dogs' flesh, and a doad cat that had just been scraped.

Tied

up in the kitchen was a live dog.

Arbing out of the raid, which was made in response to a com- plaint. a Chinese named Wong Kwong was charged at the Central Magistracy this inorn- ing with keeping an unlicensed eating-house.

He was remanded for 24 hours in police custody.

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CONDOR PLANE ON SECRET TRIP TO HONGKONG

A

CONDOR MONOPLANE left Berlin secretly two days ago and is now on the way to Hongkong, via Manila, according to a revelation made at Kai Tak this afternoon.

The German Consul has sought permission for the plane to land at Kai Tak, probably in twe days' time.

No

the news of

plane's departure has been sent from

Mercy Mission Europe, and this is the first

To Boy King

Italian Air Route King of Annam. To South America.

intimation that it is making the journey.

The plane is travelling by easy stages, and should land here on

DRAMATIC FLIGHT AGAINST

WHILE AN AIR FRANCE Saturday. TIME, WITH AN ENG-

It was revealed by Kal Tak airport plane was speeding to Hongkong] with a stricken English lady oficials that permission for the plane LISH WOMAN PAS-

to land here has been granted.. aboard suffering from acute Little or nothing is known of the SENGER, SUFFERING

peritonitis, another French plane reasons behind the fight, although It AGONY FROM ACUTE

was rushing to dense jungle 250 is believed to be linked with the miles inland from Saigon on a recent crush of the plane which APPENDICITIS, WAS

achieved a record flight from Berlin second errand of mercy.

to Tokyo, and then came to grief in COMPLETED BY: THE

In his case the victim was the boy Manila Bay on its homeward journey. AIR FRANCE PASSEN-

He met with an accident some dis- GER PLANE, VILLE DE

tance from his capital, whilst hunt- BEGREUTH, PILOTED

An 5.0.5. was flashed to Salgon Rome, Dec. 14. and a special plane, carrying a sur- BY CAPTAIN M. DU-|

The President of the Italian Air-reon, nurcing sisters and medicall FOUR, WHEN THE Ways Company has informed Signor supplies, was immediately despatched

Mussolini that the company will to the scene of the accident. MACHINE LANDED AT thortly open a regular air service be- The young King will be conveyed ween Italy and South America to Salgon in the plane. says n KAI TAK A FEW MIN- Trans-Ocean.

Trans-Occan message. |UTES AFTER HALF PAST TWELVE TO-DAY.

An ambulance, requested by radio from the plane, stood waiting and ready at the airport.

Within two minutes of the machine coming to a standstill the patient was | rushed to the Kowloon Hos- pital, where an immediate

FRANCE WILL AID BRITAIN WITH ALL HER POWER

PARIS, Dec. 14.

"I DECLARE in the name of the French Government operation was found to be that all land, sea and air forces would spontaneously and

immediately be utilised to defend Great Britain in The principal figure in this case of unprovoked aggression.” drama of the air WAS Miss

necessary.

M. Paul Bonnet, the French Sanders, a young, flame-hended English lady from Yunnan, who Foreign Minister made

this

3

BRITISH TRADE SHRINKS

BIG IMPORTS AND EXPORT LOSSES

London, Dec. 14. Overseas trade returns for Novem.... ber show imports valued at £78,028,- 400 as against £70,034,856 in the preceding month, and E07,288,371 in November of last year.

Exports at £42,023,223. compare with £47,550,000 In October, and £45,183,109

in November of 1037.

figures for TC- exports were £5,113,912 for Novem- ber.. £5,445.983 for October, and £5,300,640 for November 1037.-- British Wireless.

Jewels Stolen In Hotel Robbery

Unknown thieves entered a room at Marble Hall Hotel in Kowloon

afternoon,

during the absence of the occupant, Mr. S.

The stolen jewellery is valued at $25.

made the trip deliberately from striking declaration when he ad- Cost Of New U.S.Marble

dressed

the Foreign Affairs Battleship A Record Hon

Committee to-day.

Simultaneously, it is

rumoured,

Washington, Dec. 14.

the Chinese city to Hongkong in order to undergo an operation for appendicitis.

Other robbery cases reported to the It is learned that President Roose-

an unofficial Na-police included the theft of $320 from velt is studying Realising that an operation would though not confirmed, that Herr

recom- the Jacket of Wu Nang, stall-holder be necessary, Miss Sanders set oft via Hitler has personally sent his Ad-tional Defence Committee Hanol, and during the first stage of Jutant, Captain Fritz Weidemann to mendation, calling for the construc- at the Western Market. The money the journey had no idea her condition Paris, and that Captain Weidemann tion of one of the largest and most was extracted from his jacket while has arrived secretly with Herr, powerful super-dreadnoughts in his was hanging on the wall of the

stall. tory. Bui at Hanoi, where she trans-Hitler's answer whether Germany

Tentative plans give the vessel at shipped to the Air France plane, would aid Italy in the event of an slightly under 45,000 tons, with an the trouble became serious and her | Italo-French war.

approximate length of 710 fest, and condition rapidly worsened.

M. Bonniet sold that Signor Musso-armed with twelve 16-inch guns it will, cost nearly $100,000,000. lini had disavowed responsibility for It is authoritatively stated

had become scule.

PLANE ALL OUT

that

For four and a quarter hours from the anti-French demonstrations, which President Roosevelt has: decided to However, the deal cannot be con- the time the air laer left Hanoi until the "French Government now dis ask for funds for at least two battle-1

| politics."—United Press. summated until President Roosevelt i landed at Kai Tak, she suffered,gards, approves of the project.

agony, and when she was lifted on a

IT IS RELIABLY REPORTED that the Export and Import Bank are planning to loan China $25,000,000, presumably for made on Mr. Brayfield's reputation. motor-trucks and motor fuel.

Mr. Brayfield was a man who had been in the Colony for number of years; he was principal the firm of Carmichael and Clarke, maritic

and, from a social surveyors, point of view, he was a Justice of the Peace and a keen racing man.

Not only did he keep ponies for racing at the Jockey Club but he

Wounded Men

Stagger Into H.K.

超感 merely Italian

BRITAIN'S ASSURANCE

press

It is understood that the credit will stretcher from the machine this morn-

REGARDING TUNIS not be extended directly to the Ching, and placed into the waiting Kow- nese Government, but to Chinese pri-loon Fire Brigade ambulance, her

London, Dec. 14. face was contorted with; pain." vate interests through a bank.

Asked in the House of Commons ANOTHER FOUR WOUND-linked at least indirectly with the European and six Chinese passengers, regard an attack by Italy on any

In The impression prevails that it is

company with two other to give an assurance Britain would also had a private stable and was an ED Chinese soldiers staggered purchase of Chinese silver and it is she had been moed through the sky French possessions as an unfriendly The plaintiff in case was across the Hongkong frontier suggested that silver should be used at 100 miles an hour, the pilot putting act; Mr. Chamberlain replied that an

expert on horse breeding.

this

-

person. It means that one would ing to reach British territory. not pay up one's bills,

Plane Plants Boom

posted at the Jockey Club as a de- yosterday afternoon.

for payment or security credits.

the plane all out in his endeavours to undertaking in respect of the status It is understood that the plans are land the patient in Hongkong as quo in the Mediterranean was › cm- faulter, said Mr. Macnamara.

They received their wounds on

now being drafted to submit to Pre quickly as possible, "Being classed as a defaulter is a Deceraber 1-fourteen days ago.

bodied in the Anglo-Italian agree serious suparalon an the honour of a

Since then they have been attempt-sident Roosevelt-United Press.

During the journey, her fellow ment, and would certainly be applied passengers, which included Mr. S.S. to Turils, and any action contrary to Geddart, a Briton, and Mr. Croswell, that agreement would be a matter an American, did everything possible great concem to the Government. to ease her pain.

The Government, however, could An indication of the unstinting not contemplate the possibility of

an attack as efforts of the pilot to get the such patient to Hongkong as quickly as Reuter, possible, is revealed by the fact| that the way: at Fort Bayard oe- cupied only 28- mkiuten.

Ther

Their festering wounds, received "It is not suggested in

this case from Japanese machine guns and, in that Mr. Brayfield could not pay, one case, shrapnel, have received no since the account in question was be attention. tween $130 and $140 of which he paid up all but the $9.10 which is the less. subject of dispute,

Many days they have been food-

They were unbelievable pictures of misery and dejection when they final "All through this case, the jury wilt hear references to malico and Ily crossed the border after untold will point out now that this did not privations mean ordinary spitefulness but, in But now their worries are over.

Ambulances Immediately..brough! the legal sense, unjustifiable use of certain words by one person about them into the Kowloon Hospital where they were washed and their another. S

wounds were dressed.

"Fe Lordship will direct you on

The four men state they belonged

Pasadena, Cal. Los Angeles county's youngest in- dustry, that of airplane manufactur- ing, is getting out of the infant class. Three major concerns in one month received new contracts for #32,- 600,000 worth of planes,"

59 CHICKENS IN CRATE

the question of privilege whether the to the ill-fated 163rd Division, They Man Fined $10 for Cruelty to Birds

posting of Mr. Brayfield was a pri- were wounded in fighting in the vildged action of not; then we shall sheklung “aros,

have to consider the extent of the

malice and we can still succeed if wo

ts.A

**

Th

can show malice in the publication they put his name on the board.

we do not have to show that the defaulter. defendants were actually spiteful but i'vrne correspondance between the that they made the publication about the plaintify when it was not justified Parties met out, then Encino

On March 19, Mr. Brayfield wrote This you? deig kéne thin has 149to the Judy Chak 10 the "fect: that

the facts of the onse

he had received his bill for the pro- may know, that he disputed the vious month and found that it con- cll-fnd yell with their eyes open; *(Confined on" Pape·14)-

suggested..

into the air again, and the race against time continued at 180 miles an hour,

ships in 1939, but he has not decided on the development of super-war- ships.

ÖMelal quarters. Indicate that the navy budget estimates may exceed $700,000,000.—United Press,

Create A Problem Unhappy Lovers

Zagreb, Dec. 14. Unhappy lovers who choso.suicide

as the method for ending their worries are causing a problem to the trustees of St Stephen's Cathedral. -

During the past few weeks, seven: men and women have leapt to their death from the two Gothic towers of the Cathedral.

The authorities, perturbed at the wave of self-murder by unhappy lovers, has decided to próhibit pubile access to the southern Tower.-- Trans-Ocean.

LATEST

Two Imperial Mail

1

Planes Land

Imperisi Airways planes, with air mail despaíchód from London on Docesuber.... 8. landed at Kai Tak Airport at 2.10 and 3.25 pm.

See Back Page For Further Late News

Which the plane landed at Hong- LOWEST FORM OF THEFT

kong, which had received a radio

| message asking for preparations to be made to receive Miss Sanders, the

Kowloon Fire Brigade ambulance was

waiting at the slideld, while every...|

Hospital, whence the woman rushed.

A man who admitted to packing 153 chickens in three small thing was in readiness at the Kowloon baskets appeared in Central Court this morning.

**' He was fined $10,

Inspector W. A. Russell, who prosecuted,; sald, that it ap- peared inconceivable that the baskets could hold more than thirty chickeng***

The birds were so tightly packed together that two of them had died..

One of the baskets, contained 69 birds.

1

WAS

Miss Sander's mother and Mr. Skinn were also nt Kal Tak to receive the plane, and: Uliey accompanied her to the, ambulance %, të i tha| hospital. However, they refused to reveal theiri kentilles, neithegirwould they divulge any. I information about

·Miss Sanders.

Magistrate Orders Cane For Youth

“I THINK SNATCHING from old women to the lowest and most disgusting “form of theft.” Elt

old

* With this remark, Mr R. AŬD. Forrest ordered unemployed youth, Mak Ming, eighteen strokes

this morning, *** MERRY

Mak, in addition, will be imprisoned for He was convicted of solitikang year-old woman while she