1939-03-29 — Page 4

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Alleged Intoxication While Driving Car

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SUBPOENAED WITNESS GIVES EVIDENCE

Says Defendant Not Incapable

G. Hargreave, of Imperial Mearing of the summonses against A. Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., charged with driving a car while under the influence of liquor, and driving without due care and caution, was continued before Mr. It. Edwards in the Central Magistracy yesterday.

Hargreave is alleged to have driven at the time of his admission. That his car while under the induence of had been done by another doctor.

Cross-examined by Mr. Nigel, liquor along Bonham Road on Febru- ary 22 last, and to have swerved near witness said he went to the ward King's College, thus colliding with a where Hargreave was, in response to motor cycle driven by Woo Kam-tal. a telephone message. He could not Traffic Inspector S. C. Saunders say definitely who sent the message prosecuted, and Mr. F. G. Nigel was as he did not ask, but he thought at for the defence, Mr. Alfred Y. S. Hon the time that it was the Police. There Indications Buggesting held a watching brief on behalf of were

Hargreave was suffering from shock. He spoke to Hargreave, who was talking much more than he, and he complained of feeling hungry.

Woo.

Mrs. A. M. Kirk, residing at the French Hostel, Causeway Bay, who was

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subpoenaed by the defence, stated that shortly after 1 p.m. on Further questioned, witness February 22 she was driving along that Hargreave found no difficulty in nor wes his speech Bonham Road when she noticed the enunciation, remuins of an accident between a blurred when witness saw him. call Morris car a motor cyclé. Trame Sergeant J. Harris testified the wreckage She stopped and got out of her car, to having examined but as she was approaching the scene and found a Morris Minor two-seater of the accident lurgreave came to No. 3543 on the left hand bend just King's College, and moter- wards her and asked for a handker-post chief to bind up his wrist, which was eyele No. 155 lying on the right skle in front. The front wheel of the car bleeding profusely.

At the same time, she saw a pro-was resting on that of the motor- strate for lying near the wreckage. cycle. The left front mudguard of and thinking that he was more in the car was badly dented and there

attention, of

she asked was also a large dent on the bonnet. walt. There were a The lower part of the windscreen need

orgreave to us and a big ear nearby, and she was shattered, and there was blood went over to the latter to ask the on the steering wheel. The hand- persons inside, rome of whom were brake was on, and the ignition turned The motor-cycle sustained damage man lying there to the hospital, as foreigners, if they would take the off. her own car was too small. She re- on the front mudguard and the lamp ceived

response. Meanwhile, protector. There were two irregular her for askid marks, mensuring two feel und Hargreave again asked handkerchief to bind up his wrist. three feet respectively, and these in- must have She told him she knew nothing oflented that the first-old but would take him to the swerved from the wrong side of the

rond back to the right side. Queen Mary Hospital.

no

Bude and Curt

car

He saw Hargreave about 3 p.m. the Isame day, and noticed he was under bul not the influence of alcohol

this trunk.

was adjourned to afternoon.

Continuing, Mrs. Kirk said: On the way to the hospital, I was rather rude and eurt to Hargreave for I was my self excited and mery at the refusal to the big vur of the persons in Farley

assidance. I any

usked

The case

Hargreave what his name was, and, REPUBLICAN LEADERS

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on being told, I inquired if he was

of the 1.C.1. He replied yes tunet I

Ile re- told him, "I am Kirk's ma. plied how strange, and then asked te to call on his wife sometime. I didn't know he was even said I

(Continued from Page 1) Early this after toon, a provisional The theft of $6 from a 78-year-old married unit then told him to keep administrative committee was form bestgar named Wong Kan at Port-quiet as I wanted to give all my at-el by Falgamists, who had remained hand Street, Mongkok, brought Sin

tention to the road, having been in concealed in the city from the out- Yiu, 30, unemployed, before Mr. E. the Colony for only three weeks. My break of the hostilities. Hinsworth at the Kowloon Magis remarks to him were curt, and he

aikuitional answered me just as quickly. tracy yesterday. Sin was

led

Questioned by Mr. Nigel, Mrs. Kirk ly charged with possession of

to six suid that she thought both of them chisel. He was sentenced

on the first were excited at the time. months hard labour

Mr. Nigel: Apart from being excit charge and to one month on the second, the terms to run concurrent-ed, was there anything to show that

Hargreave

in was

any ly.

irrational? Not to me.

Did he have any difficulty in words?I didn't enunciating his

were speaking notice. In fact we

each very quickly and snubbing at other.

Was his speech In any way thlek or blurred?-No.

Wong was sleeping in the street when he felt someone touching his girdle. He tried to get up, but was pushed down again. When be finally got up, he saw three men, who ran away. He raised the alarm, and pursued the men, and the defendant -was-arrested by a pedestrian..

way

Did he seem to be depressed, morbid?-1-didn't look-at-him. I kept my eyes on the road.

The $5.taken from Wong was not retovered. His Worship ordered that $2 be given to the old man as com-help was pensation from the Peo Box.

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When he approached your car for he staggering-I didn't notice.

While Nationalist urmy engineers are feverishly engaged in building bridges across the emergency Manzanares, the population to-day set to work removing burbed-wire entanglements and barricades in or fler to speed up the entry of Geuotal Franco's troops.

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While the Nationalists ching into Madrid, the offensive is continuing on the other fronts. In the Cordoba sector, Nationallets column met no resistance in occupy- Ink Adamuz.

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From what you saw of him, did be

The centre of the city shows strike you as a man who had taken algns of having been affected by the alcohol and was unable to look after Nationalist bombardments, but the his own ear? He was obviously outside fortifications present upset and excited by the sansh, and | terrible spectacle, entire blocks

houses having disappeared.

so was I.

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Was there anything in his actient The greatest damage was caused in or speech to suggest to you that he the

quarter, where had been drinking alcohol?—I have seasrely a house remains inhabitable. never been in coniact with intoxicat- cd men so I can't give any opinion,

200,000 MARCH IN but I did not notice any effects of alcohol on him.

Was he incapable?-Certainly not. His moventenis were those of a normal inan, I think.

Right up to the time you left him he was able to look after himself?-

An army of 200,000 Nationalists marched into Madrid this afternoon, Senor Serano Suner, dicclared Nationalist Minister of the Interior in a broadcast from Burgos.

On arriving at the hospital he seem-¡ been

Madrid, he continued, was to have the grave of Fascism, but

hos been

ed upset, and I asked him if he need- instead it had become the grave of ed any assistance. He said no. Just: Communism. "Victory

then I saw Sister Fraser and called achieved, despite those nations who out to her, Sister Fraser thought I speak hypocritically of peace, but was in the accident too, as I was for who harbour thoughts of war in their

hearts." more excited than Hargreave.

Spain desires to live in peace, hu declared, but is determined to de- fend her liberties at all cost. The

In reply to Inspector Saunders, Mrs. Kirk said that what she told a Police officer after the accident was that Hargreave was upset and ex-world must realise the importance of cited as she was.

Men and Alcohol

Inspector Saunders: Do you re- member the Palice ofleer asking you if you could say anything about whether Hargreave's condition and

he had been drinking, and you repli- ed you were unable to?-He asked me if I smelt his breath, and I tried to make a joke out of it by saying

nowadays smelt that most mes alcohol.

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You didn't say Hargreave had been drinking?----No.

If other witnesses say his breath stolt of alcohol how can you explain that you didn't notice?-As I said Just now, most men smell of alcohol nowadays.

Dro-

Spain in the International scherne.— Trana-Decan.

PRIME MINISTER'S HINT: 'HALT HITLER' PLANS

(Continued from Page 1.)

than one government involved, and decision is not solely a decision of His Majesty's Government."Reutër.

DEFENCE PARLEYS

the

IN WELLINGTON

London, Mar. 28. Inspector Saunders expressed his

Making a written reply to a ques- disagreement, und then asked: Was

tion asked on March 24 regarding the jhe Incapable of driving a car

perly? That's strange you should proposed Pacific Conference, in which nsk. Of course, he was incapable representatives of Great Britain, New because his wrist was out of acilon. Zealand and Australia will parti- But apart from the wrist I can ex- cipate, the Prime Minister in press no opinion on that. Ile was House of Commons to-day said that the Government was satisfied that only upset.

After Mr. C. 11. Douglas, of the the composition of the United King- P.W.D., had produced plans of the dom delegation was suitable for the

bo discussed. necident, Dr. T. K. Lien, of the question

Licut-Commander Fletcher asked testified Queen Mary Hospital,

con- having examined Hargreave one and if the Prime Minister had not

admission.sidered, that events, which and hours afteTM his Hargreave's face, said witness, was transpired since the conference was dushed, his eyes red, his pulse rather summoned, rendered it of far greater rupid, and his breath smelt strongly importance than originally contem- of alcohol. He was unusually talka-plated, and from that point of view, tive and happy, a fact which struck would he conalder strengthening re- witness as rather strange in view of presentation so as to make it one of the circumstances which led to his first-class importance. admijlon.

half.

He could not say

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to

The Primo Minister replied: "The

if Hargreaves matter has been carefully considered, was in a condition to drive a car and I am satisfied we have the right properly, as he did not examine him! composition." Reuter

March 29, 1939.

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without During the course of his conversa war in Europe?" he sail, tion he casually produced a pack of touching or seeing the slip of paper. playing cards.

"There won't. Germany and Italy "Pick one." he challenged.

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All of which was very mystifying, but may have been explained by the breast fact that Nathaniel Copeland is really I gasped, and patted my packet, to make sure he hadn't "Argus", a telepathist who has been glimpsed the lease I'd just signed for demonstrating on the stage since he a new flat.

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In Australia, his name is an house- bolled reporters were gathering.

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