1939-03-20 — Page 2

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPHTM

March 20, 1939.

INJURED WORKMEN'S £8,500 Unknown Perils From She Has 2 'Planes

Chemicals

"THIS case. is rather like the Croydon typhoid case in as much as we now know much that we didn't know before," said Mr. H. J. Wallington, K.C., in the King's Bench Division recently when a settlement involving the payment of £8,500 damages to two workmen in a chemical factory was mentioned to Mr. Justice Lewis.

And A "Rolls"

Salisbury. Fifty-six-years-old Mrs. Margaret Hollands, of Quarley, Andover, who owns two neroplanes and a Rolls- Royce car, was charged with her son Franels at Salisbury recently with the theft of a tarpaulin used to cover one of her planes,

She was fined £4, with ds. 3. costs, and her son was Aned £1 She was allowed a month in which

to pay.

Plaintiffs were Eric Laurence Lee and Sydney Ste- phen Radford, employees of the Leyton Manufacturinging in ten neres of grounds, Mrs. Company, Limited, of Hainault Road, Leytonstone.

Mr. Cartwright Sharp, K.C., for the workmen, said there was not now any doubt that, owing to vapours arising from certain chemicals, very grave personal injuries had been inflicted on the plaintiffs. The point in the case was whether that was due to the negligence of the company.

"Radford in a terrible state," he added, "and Lee is suing by his next friend as he is incapable of managing his own affairs."

UNABLE TO WORK AGAIN

Mr. Sharp said Lee would receive £3,500 and Radford £5,000, clear of all costs. Lee would probably never be able to do any work again,

The workmen's chse was that though steps were taken to protect the men from the vapours they were Insulcient.

The chemicals manufactured form- ed a new industry in this country. and the company maintained they now knew inore

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her lamp-lit bungalow, stand-

Hollands told how she came to own

the 'plunes and ear.

"

"I brought the aeroplane as Junk for my son to study seronautics and the Rolls, which formerly belonged to Sir William Whiteley, and origin- ally cost £5,000, I picked up for £15 three years ago.

PLANNED HIRE SERVICE

"I intendert starting a hire service with the ear but I found it was im- practicable. I kept it, hoping it might be useful in a fin or for breaking up.

"My son, who is 22 years of age, has a life ambition to be- FURTHER question was

come an air pilot but unfortun- ately he has a weak heart and asked in the House of

has been forbidden to work. Commons recently regarding the "All the same he is studying aero- interference by Japan with nautics and when 1 was offered an cheaply, I old Avro machine very bought it for him. British trade in the Far East:

Mir. Moreing asked the Prime "The other machines is a Bristol the Minister whether he is aware that fighter which belonged to a friend of dangers than they could have known British firm in Tsingtao have com-my son. He could not afford to pay to His Majesty's Consul, hongor fees and I offered to house plained General that the Japanese naval the machine. mission has signified that permits to import dyed cloth inta Tsingtao will be refused unless accompanied by a certißente that the goods are of Japanese manufacture; and what action he bus taken in the matter?

earlier.

about

Mr. Wallington, for the company. said before they began the manufac ture they made exhaustive inquiries in America and Germany through the Home Office. They were so satis fied with the results of those in quiries that they thought there was no danger at all.

Mr. Butler: Yes, Sir, and my Noble Friend is waiting a full report on

Mr. Justice Lewis, approving the settlement, said it did seem as if the the matter. defendants had a good defence, An employer could only do what was reasonable, and they had taken the precautions in regard to what danger was known.

Queen Approves Crinolines

Crinolines have been approved by the Queen for wear by debutantes t Court presentations this year,

She wore one herself recently, and gave the fashion a big lift. Now they have been chosen an the equals of

Mr. Morcing: Is my right hon. Friend aware that these restrictions are being applied not only to Imports into China but also to exports; and may have an opportunity of dis- eussing the matter with him?

Mr. Butler: I shall be very glad to

LEFT PENNILESS

"I was brought up luxuriously and any husband was a famous musician some years ago. He was known pro- fessionally as 'Herr Frischer.'

travelled with him on four round-the-world tours, and he was earning thousands a year. He lived up to it, and when he found his resources at an end he Look his life. I was left pennl- less.

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Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's Foreign Minister, chatting with, newspapermen as he arrived in New York for a week of conference with Administration leaders in Washington. The tall, suave Brazilion, a good friend of the United States ever since his term as Ambassador in Washington, said there was little. likelihood of totalitarianism in Brazil.

Royal Yacht To Be Hospital Ship

The King's

Film Life Of

Cice his death 1 have been trying Wish Revealed Lord Kitchener

to live by doing needlework. had written berging letters.

"In the police court it was said I I have

discuss the matter with my hun-only written one-three years ago. A HIGH OFFICIAL of the Admir-

Friend.

Cows Betray Fugitive

nie.

"She mistook my genuine appeal jand informed the police."

FAITH HEALING

nily revealed recently that the WAR OFFICE records of the sink- I wrote to n titled woman in London

Ting of HALS. Hampshire, in who knew my husband at the height King had sald that in the event of which Lord Kitchener lost his life, of his career and asked her to assist war, the Royat, Yecht would become will be made public for the first time

available as a hospital ship.

in a film of the life of Kitchener of Khartoum which Herbert Wilcox is Therefore the new yacht, for

to produce. which provision is made in the es-

"The full deals of the sinking of timates Just published, would be the Hampshire will come out in the A ship of the highest standing.

film," Mr. Wilcox said when he left Southampton in the liner-Normandie Although the estimates show on his way to Hollywood to and an gross total of £163,000,001, and are actor for the leading role. the largest ever presented in peace.

WORLD-FAMOUS time, it is almost certain that they! will be even higher next year, the "I am hoping to bring back with me an English actor who is world- famous, but who has never made a im in England," he said. He would not deny that he was referring to Ronald Colman.

El Reno, Okla.

BRISBANE, Australia. Ronald Aubur Chapman, 20, formal, straight Court. dresses for would like to berate the curiosity of wearing, with

and feathers, the female sex in general and that rains

A "faith healer" helped an El Reno They are established as a fashion of cows in particular. He had woman place $93 in currency In a which will last perhaps for years, escaped from the Rockhampton Jail bandage on her injured knee, assert- Mme. Handley-Seymour has made and had concealed himself in ang that the money would cure the two Court designs with crinolina hollow log when a herd of cows, ailment, When the bandage was re- skirts as wide as the most advanced gathering around in semi-circle, moved. the $93 was missing. Paris models,

attracted the attention of a constable. woman sought the police.

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It was also stated that there is a shortage of young offcers and that the Admiralty were looking for other methods to increase the number.

PROMOTION SCHEME

Sir Robert Vansittart. Chief Dip- lomatic Adviser to the Government, has written the book, and the film They hoped shortly to publish will be made at Denham with the scheme dealing with the Naval Re-full co-operation of the War Office, and the Volunteer Reserve, the Admiralty and members of Kil- which-would-offer-promotion--not choner's family-

serve

only from warrant rank, but also I will deal with Kitchener's life direct from the lower deck.

from the Sudan days to the great The Navy will have under con- war. Queen Victoria will appear for struction during 1939 two hundred three minutes, and this part will ships of various kinds.

probably be played by Anna Neagle.

Freed:

Scarlet Pimpernel Freed:

"Lost

Everything'

Somewhere in Sussex.

THE Scarlet Pimpernel of the Spanish war, Captain Edwin Chris- topher Lance, D.S.O., who for the last eighteen months had lived in a prison under the daily threat of the execution squad, arrived secretly in England recently,

Captain Lance was accused by the during air raids, we were taken for Spanish Republicans of having smug- cruise round the Mediterranean. gled out of the country more than

100 men and women of noble birth each occasion for espionage, the last "I was arrested three times, on wealth, or political hostility.

ime in Madrid in 1937. I owe my

"I was regarded as the most dan-lescape entirely Mr. Stevenson, gerous man in the country," he said, who saw Dr. Negrin, the Prime "I had two crime sheets. No. 1 ac-Minister, on several occasions to cused me of being a spy, No. 2 of plead for me." being an accomplice.

"At the moment I am the most Ignorant man in Europe. I do not know what has been happening for the last year and a bolt, When I crossed the French border with the British Minister in Barcelona, Mr. Ralph Stevenson. I had to ask him

The Little

Dog Laughed .......

who was King of England now. SKIPPER is only a puppy, but

"I have lost everything I had ex- when he was taken to a cept my gold signet-ring. My father wedding at Ramsgate, Kent, gave it to me on my twenty-first

ì

birthday, and I have hidden it in recently and was tied up in the nuny places, including my mouth church perch and expected to und between my toes.

waft outside until the service "Towards the end of last week was over, his doggie soul revolt- when things were getting bad, therejed.. were 2,000 of us imprisoned in a former monastery near Figueras, El His tail twitched angrily; his little Callel. Before that there had been black nose quivered with Indigna- only 300,

tion; and then he lifted up his voice Seven others were packed with in prolest me In my tiny cell. Before that I was in the Uruguay, the prison ship the rector, the Rev. R. W. Bansall, Insido the Holy Trinity Church, in Barcelona port. Once or twice, paused in the service and asked:

"Will the owner of the dog barking

POLICE STATION QUIET utaldo please bring him into the

church so thint the service may not Raymond, N. II. be disturbed?" Peace, it's wonderful, Oscar Little- Bride and bridegroom—Misa Joan field was so annoyed when firemen Brimley and Mr. I. N. Haslewood— disturbed his slumber to quell a blaze walted while a young woman blush- In his col that he whistled for hisingly rose, went outside and returned dog and trekked to the police station, with the puppy in lier arms demanded a bed and Anished his The service was finished without night's rest there.

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