1939-03-20 — Page 26

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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.

Plaintiffs were Eric Laurence Lee and Sydney Ste- phen Radford, employees of the Leyton Manufacturing 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.

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"Rutford is in a terrible state," he added, "and Lee is sung by his next friend' as he is incapable of mannging his own affairs."

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UNABLE TO WORK AGAIN Mr. Sharp sald Lee would receive £3,500 and Radford - £5,000, clear of costs. Leg would probably never be able to do any work again.

The workmen's case was that A FURTHER question was though steps were taken to protect asked in the House of the men from the vapours. they were Commons recently regarding the interference by Japan with

kisufficient.

And A "Rolls"

Sallsbury,

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

one of her 'planes.

She was fined £4, with 6s, 3d. costs, and her son was fined £1, She was allowed a month, in which to pay.

In her amp-lit bungalow, stand- Mrs. Hollands told how she came to own the planes and "car.

in ten nures of grounds,

"I brought the aeroplane as junk for my son to study neronautics and the Rolls, which formerly belonged, to Sir William Whiteley, and origins ally cost £5,000, I pleked up for £15 three year's Dgo.

PLANNED HIRE SERVICE

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

LEFT PENNILESS

"My son, who is 22 years of age, has a fe ambition to be- come an air pilot but unfortun- ately he has a weak heart and has been forbidden to work. "All the same he is studying aero- ties and when I was offered an

ehouply, 11 old Avro machine very The chemleats manufactured form- British trade in the Far East: ed a new industry In this country,

The other machines is a Bristol and the company maintained that! Mr. Morelog asked the Prime bought it for him. they now knew more

the Minister whether he is aware that a fighter which belonged to a friend of about

He could not afford to pay dangers than they could have known British firm in Tsingtao have com- my son.

plained His Majesty's Consul-hungar fees and I offered to house earlier.

Mr. Wallington, for the company,

General that the Japanese naval the machine. said before they began the manufac-mission has signified that permits to ture they made exhaustive inquirica Import dyed cloth into Tsingtao will in America and Germany through the be refused unless accompanied by a Home Offier. They were so natis-certificate that the goods are of

manufacture; and ded with the results of those in Japanese

what quiries that they thought there was action he bas taken in the matter? no danger at all.

Me. Butler: Yes, Sir, and my Noble Mr. Justice Lewis, approving the Friend is awaiting a full report on settlement, said it did seem as if the the matter, defendants and a good defence. An Mr. Morelog: Is my right hon. employer could only do what was Friend aware that these restrictions reasonable, and they had taken the are being applied not only to imports precautions in regard to what danger into China but also to exports; and was known.

may I have an opportunity of dis- cussing the matter with him?

Mr. Buller: I shall be very glad to discuss the malice with my hon. Friend.

Queen Approves Crinolines

Crinolines have been approved by the Queen for wear by debutantes at Court presentations this year.

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

Cows Betray Fugitive

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Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's Foreign Minister, chatting with newspapermen as he arrived in New York for a week of conterence with Administration leaders in Washington. The tall, suave Brazilian, 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

Swice his death I have been trying Wish Revealed Lord Kitchener

to live by doing needlework,

"In the police court it was sald I had written begging letters. I have only written one-three years ago,

I wrote to a titled woman in London

of his career and asked her to assist

16.

She mistook my genuine appeal and informed the police."

HIGH OFFICIAL of the Admir-

Wing of ILDES.

alty revealed recently that the WAR OFFICE records of the sink- Hampshire, In who knew my husband at the height King had said that in the event of lost his life, war, the Royal Yacht would become will be made publle for the first time available as a hospital slip.

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.

Blin," Mr. Wilcox said when he left Southampton in the liner Normandie Although the estimates show on his way to Hollywood to find an gross total of £153,066,681, and are factor for the lending role. the largest ever presented in peace time, it is almost certain that they will be even higher next year, the| official added.

FAITH HEALING

El Reno, Oklu.

A "faith healer" helped an El Reno

BRISBANE, Australia. Auburn Chapman. 20. formal, straight Court dresses for would like to berate the curiosity of wearing with trains and feathers; the female sex in general and that they are established 113 11 fashion of COWS in particular. He had woman place $99 In currency, In which will last perhaps for years. escaped from the Rockhampton fall bandage on her injured knee, assert- Mme. Handley-Seymour has made and had concealed himself in ing that the money would cure the two Court designs with crinoline hollow log when a herd of cows, allment. When the bandage was re- skirts as wide as the most advanced gathering around in a senu-circle, moved, the $93 was missing. The Paris models,

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

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"I am hoping to bring back with me an English actor who is world- famous, but who has never made a It was also stated that there is Alm in England," he said. He would shortage of young ofcers and that the Admiralty were looking for other

methods to increase the number.

PROMOTION SCHEME

not deny that he was referring to Ronald Colman.

Sir Robert Vansittart, Chief Dip- tomatic Adviser to the Government, has written the book, and the Alm will be made at Denham with the

They hoped shortly to publish scheme-dealing-with-the-Nuvol-Re-run-co-operation of the War Office, serve and the Volunteer Reserve, the Admiralty and members of Kit- which would offer promotion not chener's family.

only from warrant rank, but alsoj 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 1930 two hundred three minutes, and this part will ships of various kinds.

probably be played by Anna Neagle.

Scarlet Pimpernel Freed:

Everything'

"Lost

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

time in Madrid in 1937, I owe my

"I was regarded as the most dan-lescupe entirely to Mr. Stevenson, gerolit 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 kaif. 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 had ex- when he was taken to a cept my gold slanet-ring. My father wedding at Ramagate, Kent, gave it to me on my twenty-first;

birthday, and I have hidden it in recently and was tied up in tho many places, including my mouth church porch and expected to wait outside until the service

and between my toes.

"Towards the end of last week. Was over, his doggie soul revolt- when things were getting bad, there ed. were 2,000 of us imprisoned in a

former monastery near Figueras, El Ilis tali twitched angrily; his tile Collel. Before that there had been black nose quivered with indigna- only 300.

tlon; and then ho lifted up his voleo Seven others were packed with in protest. me in my tiny cell. Before that I was in the Uruguay, the prison ship the rector, the Rev. R. W. Bancall, Inside 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 outside please bring him into the

church so that the service may not Raymond, N. H. be disturbed?" Perec, it's wonderful, Oscar Lille- Bride and bridegroom-Miss Joan feld was so annoyed when firemen Brimley and Mr. R. N. Haslowood disturbed his slumber queil a blaze waited white a young woman blush- In his cot that he whistled for hisingly rose, went outside and returned dog and trekked to the police station, with the puppy in her arms. demanded a bed and finished his The service was finished without night's rest thero.

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