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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1927.
OUR $50 PRIZES
ber but who simply stays away Result of Eighth New
Puzzle..
ONLY ONE WINNER AGAIN.
PRAPS PRAPS NOT!
because "he doesn't feel like it" or finds it is not at the time conven-
What next? At Los Angeles, ient to attend, is better out of
Cal., recently a baseball player met the Corps than in it. And if, fur-
a golfer and played à match of 18 thor, he la of the kind of per-
holes on the Los Angeles" links son who jibs at taking his medi-
against a golfer, the game ending cine (l.e., refuses to pay the fine
"all square" on the Tant green- The "China Mail" has plesaure unless it was at the "nineteenth inposed by hie Commanding in announcing the result of the hole." The baseballer batted from Officer) he certainly should be eighth Cross-Word Puzzle of the tees and fairways, knocked the ball compelled to leave. The Volun-new series. This has been won by off the ground from the "rough" teer always has a course of action only one competitor with a fully and bunkers, and used his baseball before him if he honestly finds correct solution. The winner is:-club like a billiard-cue on the
The cannot perform what he has
undertaken to perform as a mem- Mr. Fred E. Sliva,
ber of the Corps-he can resign.
But the adoption of police court
tactics will not solve the difficulty
c/o Shewan, Tomes & Co, Hong Kong.
greens. It is now clearly up to some cricketer to prove that he can outdo that baseballer, and bring low the haughty crests of the super-swanking golf-fiends,
Adolphe Menjou, Satan in D. W.
of the slack Volunteer. It will In accordance with the rules a only antagonise him, other Volun- cheque for $50 will be sent to the teers, and no doubt many who winner four daya hence under re- Griffith's Paramount picture, "Sor- are potential Volunteers. An-gistered cover, together with the rows of Satan," has ridden in the other point deserving of comment congratulations of the "China automobile presented to the King' whilst we are dealing with the Mall."
of Bulgaria by Germany's ex-Kal-
unfortunate subject is the use of The correct solutions are as ser. Inasmuch as Satan is repre-
follows:-
Across.
the word "inefficient" by the
sented as a. modern man, Mr. officials of the Corps. If a man
Griffith decided that his car must does not attend the necessary 1, OBOLIZE; 6. UMBRERE; 11, be something very much out of the tion was previously agreed on number of parades he may be TOTAAL ARE 14% NATA, the auto marts of New York, the ordinary. After a search through the material point so that the charged with
KRAAL; 19, STAGE; 21, IDE; 22 not, attending them, that is to say, with dis- SKIVE; 24, LATERAL; 26, NOI-King's toya beautifully appointed jury should be, and were in fact, obedience to his senior officer's SOME; 28, ERE: 29, IN: 88. NE; Car with special Zeppelin motor, deliberately misled, and says command, but hardly with "in- UNKLE; 40, ATE; 42, PAS; 46, vory Inlay was discovered at a 31, NOD; 32, SAC; 36, R.E.S.; 38, upholstered in satin, silver and that the witness has himself filed efficiency." The use of the word PAL: 47. V.A.; 49. M.R.; 50, HEN: store.room on Seventh-avenue. towards ex-active Service men 52, EBONITE; 56, LEONINE; 67, While the licence plates still bear an affidavit since the trial saying (and at times by non-Service ABEAR; 68, EVE: 59, DOMAL; 60, an Imperial crest, it is not that of that he never intended that his men) simply because they do not STANK; 62, TOURS: 65. C.T.U.: former owner. answer should imply that the attend parades naturally rank-66, R.C.N.; 68, UNSHELL; 69, bullet did come from Sacco's re-happy term should be found for
les, and a more accurate and BATSMEN. volver, but that it could come this particular branch of lack of from such a weapon. None of the discipline.
other bullets was accounted for.,
They were fired from a different
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Hong Kong, Thursday, June 30, 1927.
CORRESPONDENCE.
"Airing a grievance" is a com- Down.
mon enough expression. Now the expressive American talks of "air- 2, BY; 3, LIAGE; 4. ICTERIC; 5. Ing a performance when it is ZEA: 7, MAR; 8, BRASIER; 9,"broadcasted" or "broadcast," as REAKS; 10, RE; 13, ISLET; 14. some connervative orthographists NATES; 16, L.LL.; 16, KEN; 17, have it. LIONS: 18, HEEDS; 20, TAR; 23, see in American papers such head- is not uncommon to V.M.O.; 25, AN; 27, ON; 38, ALT; inge as "Yale Dinner to Be Aired 84, E.N.E., 36, ALE; 37, ERA: 39, during Week," meaning that an SPEAK; 40, ALOES: 41, EVIR-account of the function is to be dis- ATE; 42, PRODUCT; 43, SHIMS; Beminated by wireless. 44. ANDLE: 48, ABB; 48: AT: 49, we shall have this in Hong Kong Probably ME: 51, ENA: 53. NATCH: 54, shortly! EEK; 65, LET; 56, NORNS; 61, many new words on to the language, But wireless is grafting NUL; 69, ORA; 64, UN; 67, S.E. and with some people anything is good that comes from the United Statea. We may thank "the pic-
ures" largely for that.
LORRY ACCIDENT.
LADY KNOCKED DOWN IN KOWLOON.
+
LOCAL MARTINETS.
the view that the jury based their
To the Editor of the "China Mail"} verdict on the issue of identifica-seeking for
Sir,-Hong Kong has been a slogan and has tion, said that it rested on the found it from an unexpected prisoners' consciousness of guilt. quarter-"Damn the Volunteers." The prisoners were first charged refer, Sir, to the series of with being suspicious characters, of the Corps on the charge of in- prosecutions of British members
The play was "Julius Caesar," and any consciousness of guilt efficiency. What a atigma on the
and no expense had been spared In the production. But the effect of which they displayed is consider- good name of the Volunteers in
Mrs. Daniels was, knocked down when the trick dagger refused to the assassination scene was spolled ed to be accounted for by the fear butes paid by successivo Govern- by a Military lorry driven by work, and as Brutus frantically
public! What a denial of the tri- TO DIE OR NOT TO DIE?
of arrest and deportation during ors and General Officers Com- Sergt. W. Moore, R.A.S.C., as she jabbed the unfortunate Caesar with the anti-Communist campaign of manding at past annual inspec- was crossing Nathan Road, Kow- the obdurate weapon a man in the Since 1921 the names of Sacco 1919-20. Sacco and Vanzettitions of the Corps!
loon, at 4 p.m., yesterday. She gallery remarked, in a calm, in- and Vanzetti have cropped up in were on the official list of political centage of the Volunteers are mati police station where she re- What if an infinitely small per- head and was taken to the Yau-
was injured about the legs and terested voice:-
Lumme, but 'e's tough"" the newspapers so often that suspects. It has been said that deemed inefficient because they these two Italians have become the murder charge was framed to missed a certain number of drills fused to go to hospital, preferring known all over the world. But rid the country of them because can-be "dealt with by the Volun
in twelve months. Surely they
to receive private treatment at} her own home. for the most part the public has sufficient evidence to secure their teer authorities themselves in pri only a vague idea who they are. deportation was not available. vate instead of having their Sacco an Vanzetti were con- This opinion is based on the names dragged through the mud victed in 1921 of the murder, at affidavits of two former Govern-ly to be looked askance at by in a Police Court, and subsequent South Braintree, Massachusetts, ment officers. The necessity for a their very office staffs and coolies?
There's a limit-to-all things," of Farmenter, the paymaster of a new trial is urged on the ground Why, undo at one stroke the While driving his motor cycle says Ichabod the flapper's husband. shoe factory, and his guard that fresh evidence has recently
work of at least two years?
and side car along May Road yes. "I don't mind washing the dishes. terday Berardelli.
I ask in all seriousness: For Andrews collided with a nullah don't mind mending my own clothes.
afternoon. Sub-Inspector I don't mind feeding the cat." The sentence of come to light in the confession God's sake what is the Governwall near the junction of Magazine But I'll be durned if I'll wear pink death which was passed on them and statements of a young man ment coming to? roused a storm of protest among already convicted of murder and Communists abroad as well as in jawaiting a new trial. In the con- America. Petitions for their re-fession, which is naturally sus- prieve were sent in from time to pect, he says that he was one of time, and more than one 24-the gang concerned in the hold- hours strike was organised as a up and that Sacco and Vanzetti gesture of protest. Some time were not members of it. Evident-
AMAZED.
Yours, etc.,
Hong Kong, June 30, 1927.
CINEMA LOSSES.
MAN WHO “BORROWED" A CONCERN.
ago Reuter informed us that an ly this confession is considered to RETURN OF $1,000 CLAIMED.
MOTOR MISHAP.
INSPECTOR AND DETECTIVE
HURT.
"Vat does honesty mean?" asked Cohen.
"Vell" replied Isaace. It's diicult to explain. But if I cashed a cheque for fifty pounds, and got sixty pounds in mistake, and gave my partner five pounds, that would be honesty."
I
Gap. The cycle was damaged to ribbons on my nightshirts to fool the extent of $100. The Inspector the baby." suffered cuts to his legs and sprain-
ed a hand, while a Chinese detec An old farmer, who was com- tive who was riding in the sidecar plaining terribly of a recent bad was bruised in the left leg and cut harvest, met the minister of the in the right wrist.
STEALING CHARGE FAILS,
The three "boys", of the Navy,
parish, and, as usual, held forth on the common topic. "Ah, yes, John," said the worthy minister, "You bave good cause to complain, but you must remember that God cares for all, and that even the birds of
The and Air Force Institute the air are provided of s
tattles."
"Fat boat's tat?"
"Helvetia's"
application by Sacco and Vanzetti carry some weight, for a second for a new trial had been refused, cable from Boston to-day. states On the grounds that he was of money belonging to the in-
who are charged with the theft said John significantly, "Aff, má and the execution would take that Celestino Madeiros, the man misled as to the proceeds to be stitute, were yesterday after. A party were cruising about the place in the week beginning July concerned, has also been granted theatre at Hungitom, Ng Shun- noon discharged by Mr.W coast of Skeye in a yacht named the made out running a Chinese 10 unless a reprieve was granted a respite of thirty days. either by the President or the further details are cabled from day claimed $1,000 from Tam Magistrate's decision were the acen crossing the
Until fat at the Summary Court yester-tracy. The grounds for the suddenly another yacht was dimly Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- "Helvetia." A fog came down and Governor of the State. However, Boston it is impossible to tell whe-Fung shek as money paid for a omission on the part of the pro- bows. A voice from the stranger according to a cable received ther Sacco and Vanzetti will yet
consideration which failed. from Boston today, the Governor be sent to the chair, but one can- the Mee Chiu Chinese theatre had been stolen and the casual
The Theatre in question was secution to prove that money was heard hailing- of Massachusetts has now grant- not help feeling-without going which the plaintiff said he was manner in which all money land boatman in reply.
"Ta "Helvetis!" roared a High- ed a 30-day respite. Whether this into the grounds for their conishing concern, as much as $200 N.A. A.F. Institute. The finding angry retort from the strange
given to understand was a flour were kept in the bar at the.
"Ta h-l wi ye, yersel," came the means that Sacco and Vanzetti viction that men who have lived being taken in a day with a good was the result of a statement yacht. will yet be released it is impos- under the shadow of imminent picture. On this assurance, plain-
made by Police Sergeant sible to judge. There seems to be death for six years deserve to be liff paid $1,200 for a four days' Barnacle that there was no pro- a large element of doubt in the released as
One hundred tona, of Sumatran trial of the theatre. and obtained Per till in use at the Institute, leaf is annually flung away in the having suffered a good picture which cost $100, and the money was kept in an form of unfinished cigarettes by case, for according to Mr. Felix enough to expiate any crime. Plaintiff soon lost $200, as on the open container from which sums nervous young men on the point of first day he only collected $16.50, could be taken out without the proposing. This figure, however, is on the second day $17.40, third knowledge of the management.
Frankfurter, of Boston, who has
written a book on the subject, the
evidence of identification, which Volunteers in Court.
were set
A DISHONEST COOK-BOY
more than balanced by the 140 tons
of tobacco amoked by phlegmatic young women while boing proposed
to.
A lady bought a pot of black cur
suld
the little
day $11.50, and the fourth day only $5. was the main issue at the trial, It is to be generally regretted
Plaintiff aues for the return of was inconsistent, untrustworthy, that the Government, through tract which is alleged to bear the Yuk-tong, of No. 27. Kennedy Road rant jam at a large store, and re-
$1,000 of his money under a con- A cook-boy employed by Mr. Lo and prejudiced: The defence the Adjutant of the Hong Kong signature of the defendant. This was charged before Major marked to her small daughter that called eye-witnesses slightly more Volunteer Defence Corps, has is disputed by the defendant who Willson this morning with the laro lam was very nice, but had a numerous than the prosecution found it necessary to bring cer- this and other documents are cake dish. 20 pairs of Ivory Chop-girl, on the label it says Branches
maintains that the signatures to ceny of two silver bowls, a silver lot of atalks in it. did, who were as well circum-tain members of the force into forgeries.
Well, mummie, stanced to observe the assailants open court before a police magis- After evidence for the plaintiff party of his employer, and worth
sticks and a Mah Jongg set, the pro- everywhere." and who said that the prisoners trate to air what is a domestic had been given, including that of altogether $169. were not the men they saw. The matter. The members
a Chinese handwriting expert charge.it en kerralla
The Accused: admitted than inge of St. Paul's, the famous publicist, who went on a prisoners themselves pleaded an a number of parades to attend were genuine, the case was ad- the thefts had been going on since
were who held that the signatures
lecture tour to America; brought According to Sergeant. Razeskwy back this clerical gem: alibi, strongly supported by wit within the year. They failed to journed until Monday, week, June 4, the accused taking the on the lobby lounge beside a digal-
attend this number, and were
A nesses. After the date of the subsequently fined $25 each by the plaintiff and Mr. D. McCallum
man quite tipsy sagged duwa Mr. C. A. S. Rues appeared for things one at a time. murder the two men pursued the Commandant for in- for the defendant.
The Magistrate passed sentencehishs fine hotel ha
fled clergyman.began their normal manner of life, and efficiency." This fine they did not
of six wecka jafl,^\\
And it very comfortable, no claim was made that any of procedure strikes us as hardly of originally to Lord Nelson and nothing new under the sun, ex- The clergyman's face set severe-
pay, hence the summonses. The ses chest which belonged It really seems that there is asked the boozy one gentally.
Whatja say to having a drink?" the $16,000 taken from the vic- the right kind to adopt in the which until recently was owned by claims the "Daily Mail's gossip ly."No thank you, I never touch time ever found its way into their circumstances and, if anything a Sydney resident was placed on writer. My suggestion about drass the vile: stuff. pockets. Expert évidence was seems to be rather high handed. board HM.S. "Renowa for trans- ing men by contract was anticipated Shay exclaimed called on the question whether which a Volunteer is asked to at other Nelson relics, it was be kept chap. xilva. He bad his hair cut colla
the other. In the first place the parades port to England, where, with the years ago by Dickens in "Pickwich" "whatje giving me? You gotchs one of the six bullets found in the tend in the course of a year do not scribed Viscount Nelson. Duke of contracted for his clothes on the In the "Victory." The chest is in un principle vunce a fortnight, and victime came from Sacco's re- amount to an unreasonably large Bronte" and is marked No. 1. It economic principle three sulta
Mrs. volver, Mr. Frankfurter condividual, we think, whatever his chests owned by Nelson, and is bo- Who was he? He was the mar
number.ru Anyi, crdinary in- is the missing one of a series of year and send back the old "uns dagi tends that the evidence of the business engagements, should be ing taken to England at the request who, according to Mr. Samuel expert witness for the prosect able to fill the quota. In the of the Admiralty,
Weller, killed himself on principle man like
mu
ackwards now
HammondYou can have nice, I shall not wear
Oh thank It's the one my young. me in the bert