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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1928,
ALLEGED ROBBER. THE UNLUCKY, ONE.
MONEY AND BOND LOST
IN STREET.
PEPPER THROWN.
PRISON FOR CHINESE ROBBER.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
The ice cream season tried hard to gat an innings to-day,
Pilot (to nervous passenger):
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A Chinese charged with having! The Criminal Sessions opened attacked a man in Connaught Road this morning before His Honour West and assisting in robbing him Mr. Justice Wood in the Supreme "Don't worry, air; this aeroplane is of $1,500 in money and two bundles Court when Tang Fat was arraign the safest on earth!" of Canton National Bonds, appear intent to rob. The alleged offence ed on a charge of assault with
A greyhound trainer ed before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood was committed on November 25 dismissed for giving a dog port at the Criminal Sessions this morninst at 9, Shanghai Street.
wine. Apparently the animal saw ing.
chased the wrong
Prisoner pleaded not guilty."
Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr.
Mr. Fitzroy, conducting the case two harca and Somerset Fitzroy prosecuted' for for the Crown, said that on that one. the Crown.
day three men called at the house.
has been
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"Reginald, I thought I told you
Mr. Fitzroy said the incident oc-There was a knock on the door and curred on November 30 last year two came in with an iron bucket not to play with your soldiers on when the attacked man was taking in which were pliere, hammers, Sunday!"
ate. They said they had come to "That's all right, mummy. On the money and securities to the 8.5.sce to the electrical fittings and to Sunday I call them the Salvation "Charles Hardouin" which was to change some wires. Two entered. Army."
Manager of Accident Insurance
convey them to Canton.
and then let in the third, who was When outside 26 Connaught Road the man before the Court. Да West he was suddenly attacked by soon as he came in be grasped the three men.
One man knocked himnmah, and upon two other women Co.: "So you're positive that her
room remonstrating, they accident was faked?"" down and the other two committed in the the robbery. One of them thrust were threatened with daggers.
Investigator: "Sure! She said she caught her heel in the hem of i her dresa."
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some pepper in his face which was Amah's Call For 'Help. no doubt intended for his eyes.
The amah was suddenly released They then ran away and their by one of the men, and she im
The Stranger: "What's that big victim gave chase. During the mediately enbolted the door and hunt two of the men disappeared rushed into Shanghai Street, building?"
His Guide: "That's a prison." and the prisoner was eventually ar-shouting for help. The three men
"Tremendous! One could get rested. With the exception of brief alan rushed out and turned in the periods when rounding corners the direction of Jordan Road.
"People do. It takes nome of prisoner was kept in sight all the amah then went upstairs again to!
see what had happened to the them years to find the way out." time, until he was caught.
other occupants of the floor.
The case is proceeding.
The lost in it."
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When the bucket which the men were carrying was examined by the Six-year-old Billy was exasperat- police, went on Mr. Fitzroy, it was, ed with the almost continuous found to contain, in adddition to squalling of his baby brothes. "I came from IN PYGMIES' HANDS. the hammers and pliers, wood and bet. I know why he
wire gage and walnuts which, said heaven," Billy mused, "They put counsel, were apparently to be him out." used as 'gags.
BRITISH OFFICER'S BRANDING ORDEAL..
The three men were chased by
a constable, and the one in cus-
Two Irishmen, one accompanied
tody was eventually caught after by his wife, met on the street. Said Pat to Mike: "Let me present my During my exploration of the throwing away a dagger,
(writes Lieut.- After evidence bad, been given wife." Brazilian jungles
"No, thank ye." replied Mike. East. And he has given practical Commander Reginald Smith in the by witnesses corraborating Mr. testimony to the fact that sport is "Sunday Graphic") my two com- Fitzroy's statement the prisoner "Gi got one of me own."
panions and I were unwittingly said he had been falsely accused.
She (dreamily): "Ob, George, do always a great healer of inter-lured into the jungle fastness of an He asserted that he was stopped by
the constable who afterwards pick-you remember, it was on jast such national differences and pre-unknown tribe of pygmy Indians.
judices. A true sportsman will, Fierce, savage, hairy little crea-jed up the dagger.
The jury returned a unanimous tures, they stood not more than five invariably cheer a good loser as feet high and numbered about a verdict of "guilty" without retir- well as a plucky winner, heedless hundred.
ing,
a night as this that we met!"
George (married to her): "Yes, rotten night, ain't it."
E
It so happened that the travelling pianist was passing the hall in an English country town, in which he Intended giving a performance that evening. He thought he would go
by GIRL'S ADVENTURES. in and see that everything was
these
. On first meeting them we had endeavoured to make friends giving them presents but were accepted in zullen and dis- trustful Bilence.
ready.
We were alone, and. although The prisoner, who admitted a of whether he is a countryman of well armed, a fight to us would ne previous conviction, was sentenced
as the to four years' hard labour. his or not. This esprit de corps doubt have proved fatal,
deadly blow pipe and poisoned dart) in the ring and around the ring were their weapons. must ever bring people of differ- ent nations closer together. Meeting on the common ground of sport participated in for sport's
Their village or "maloca" was WED, ADRIFT, SHOT, STOWED remarked to the caretaker. "Plano's sake, they must discover other situated in the heart of the jungle, attributes in each other that and consisted of sixty or seventy small palm leaf huts shaped like were not appreciated before. Thus beehives and built in a circle. The Adventures and perils that be-of books. We can easily have her is the cause of the commonweal chief or witch doctor having given long to the frontiers of civilisation ready for to-night, though."
been crowded into a few Then he raised his voice, and of nations furthered. And so long mained within its seclusion
us an empty hut to live in, we re-have
and brief years by an Abergavenny girl
some "ron rations" we carried.
AWAY.
"I'm playing here to-night," he
all right, I suppose?"
"Well, yes," replied the other alowly; "but she's in the cellar full.
as the British Empire can produce formulated plans of escape. who has just reached England shouted:
"Alien, where's the works o' that Shortly before dark we wero from Brazil as a stowaway, dis-
planner?" sportsmen of the calibre of Cor-brought some food, but after care guised as a man.
Alice's voice floated gently back Violet May Hulbert, aged 22 (by poral Donald Duncan, who is fully smelling it in an attempt to always willing to pay a tribute to define its composition we resorted to her marriage, now Mrs. Teixerio), from the kitchen-
daughter of a railway platelayer, "Ain't they out in the garden?” Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1928, "the other fellow," so will the
Drum's Renting.
was married in Cardiff at the age!
Dentist's Wife: "We must give thorny way of diplomats be made
An hour after dark a drum began of 18 to a Portuguese, who des
She saya: the maid a little treat of some sort to beat from the opposite circle of troyed her in Brazil. smoother in discussions of inter-huts, and shadowy forms from all
"He left me penniless and friend- on her birthday.” national moment.
round moved over to the source of less in a country where I did not the noise. Someone started to play know the language. I obtained
WONDERFUL."
tariffs,
Citizens' Duty,
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vamp.
The
Dontist: All right. I'll extract
Hubby: "I miss the old spittoon since it's gone."
Wifey: "You missed it before-e that's why it's gone."
Old Lady (stopping "double- deck" has in the pouring main): "Any sitting room?"
Cheerful Conductor: "No, ma'am? but there's bath upstairs."
Amid the spate of mental
a bamboo flute, then another joined work in a laundry, but the heat and some of her teeth free then." in, and still more, tending to create the food upset me, and I had to
The "Arkansas Gazette" thinks pabulim in yesterday's cables,
a noisy, discordant and monotonous enter a hospital on two occasions.
"Then I was workless. For days that the stress laid on keeping one's ranging from the Indian loan, the
Very rarely does an independent Wild dancing and singing follow-I lived on bananas. I was there eye on one's ball is probably the American Senate. and the Pan-American Conference, witness come forward in a traffe. Our hearts began to quake as during a state of war, and was best proof of the Scottish origin of
the chief of the horde escorted us shot twice in the legs while I had golf. banishments of Trotsky & Co., a prosecution in the local Police into the middle of the assembly, to climb trees for safety. new Soviet Ambassador to Italy, Courts. In this connection yester-where, after a littl preliminary house in which I lived was des speech-making, I was fed forward troyed. I had to carry a revolver and so forth, it is indeed cheering day's case, following an incident in by the wife of the chief and made and a razor. Pedder Street, gave a little encour- to sit down.
At Paranagus. to find that the world's purveyor
agement. The gentleman who Anxiously my companions watch- of news-Reuter-does at times
ed, assuring me they would inter- "In a wine shop at Paranagua I testified to what he saw-which vene if necessary, Farcing me to heard English spoken behind provide a picture worthy of a gift did not concern himself was mere- lie flat on the ground, the old hag, partition. There also I saw at edged frame. No more interest-by doing his duty as a citizen. But after opening my shirt front, sud-vessel in dock flying the Union ing pen-story ins.come over the how many others are sufficiently denly began stubbing me in the Jack, so I determined to chance my chest with a long, sharp fishbone, arm. Dressed as a male member wires for some time than the ac- conscientious to come forward and Jumping up, I commenced to ex-of the crew I stowed in the fo'c'slo count of the interview with Cor-bear testimony when they have not postulate, but the chief came for-for 17 days,
Si Smith, fresh from the country, wurd and pointing to a tattooed "At last I was brought before poral Donald Duncan, of the Royal personally suffered danger or irria-design on his hairy cheat, made the captain, to whom I told my went to the theatre on his first trip Marines, who made a name for tion? The apathy of the Chinese, signs that. I was to be so branded, plight. He treated me Lindly and to the alty. The trombone player The situation was delicate the brought me to Southampton.** rendered a long and intricate solo. himself in China for his boxing for instance, has become proverbial.
The very small number who serve Pygmies threatening. My.com- The ship on which she returned: Si watched with mouth open! sud- prowess. Opening with a sly tilt in the Police Reserve-in ratio to panions, appreciating that it would was the Siras. At Las Palmas, the denly he slapped his knee and said at the Americans, who have made the population is eloquent proof beweer to submit to the ceremony, women provided her with clothing with glee: "Huh, you can't fool
Crged me to stick 'it; so for five and subscribed £22.. boxing the most popular sport in of what has been aptly termed the agonising minutes I lay while with "maskee spirit" Many self-rca-fhbone and charcoal the old hag Shanghai, at which "they think
pecting Chinese are reluctant even tattooed a grotesque design_on_mỹ mobody in the world can beat to be observers of some serious chest, them," Donald pays them the crime because there is an intuition What little amusement my com- graceful compliment of being which tells them to avoid the Courte panions got from watching me There are, or there should be, some thay themselves were in turn sub- being branded was short-lived, for "good sports" and of "treating non-Chinese residents who are will-jected to the torture. As every him well" in his various appearing to sacrifice some of their time man, woman and child was so-tat- ances in the ring. His allusion to in assisting to find the truth. We tooed I gathered we were now mem- the absence of barracking will be do not suggest a vindictive cam-bers of the tribe. But the worst
Woman has invaded yet another. appreciated by sportsmen
Yester had yet to come. paign against, motorists. of
haunt long sacred to men.. day's traffic
Given a Wife! case is referred to
One MYSTERY & ACTION. every nationality, whilst a smila merely because it provided the ex- We were each 'given A wife! young woman, good looking, ele- And, as discretion overcame our gant, a cigarette in her mouth, and will be raised by his allusion to aception which proves the rule in amazement, we forced a smile and the midday newspaper in her leader in a Shanghai paper on the Hong Kong. Whenever one comes accepted them. Then followed an hands, eat in the famous tiled subject of his second fight with across a fellow citizen who makes exhausting dance by the whole tribe smokingroom of the Law Society, a nuisance of himself by flouting in the sweltering sun, after which in Chancery Lane, London, one of an American. The happiest the basic principles of law and the we thankfully retired to the privacy the finest rooms of its kind. She "Pleasure Buyers,” the film new touch of all, of course, is his men rudiments of public etiquette, in-of our hut. Our wives" followed, was alone and undisturbed among showing at the Queen's Theatre, is who ono' all, will like for a variety of tion of Major-General Duncan's dividual steps should be taken in and, squatting just outside, lit a the 200 grave solicitors
crowded the luncheon room at the reasons. It is a mystery picture the interests of peace and good fire and prepared some food. congratulations and his whispered
"Namesakes."
In his own naive way Corporal Donald Duncan may be said to have done more for International concord, particularly in regard to our American cousins, than tomes
FAIR AND BRAVE!
ALONE AMONG 200 GRAVE SOLICITORS.
me. I know he don't swaHerit every time!"
"I have always maintained," de- clared Charles, "that no two people on earth think alike.”.
"You'll change your mind," said hia fiancee, “when you look over our wedding presents."
GRIPPING FILM AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE
order; by doing so, a good example dancing took place. Intoxicating says the "Daily Express."
At night another wild orgy of luncheon-hour on October 14 last, and has to do with the solution of
DEPOSIT RECEIPT STOLEN.
Is set before the Chinese who plead wine was plentiful, and we pre-
She was a solicitor, a member of the problem of who killed a certed ignorance.
tended to drink it freely. Most of the Law Society, and the daughter man. But it is a flm out of the the company soon became drunk, of a prominent city solicitor, also usual run, is full of dramatic force, including our "wives." The night a member. There has been for and the story is cleverly and logi wore on and one by one they crawl- some time a special room for cally told. Moreover, the ending is ed away to their huts, and when woman members of the Law far from the prosale; the audience we get back into our own, our Society, is held until the last flicker. Irene "wives" wers sleeping heavily. It is a small room downstairs Rich and Clive Brook star in the of Notes between diplomats. His A Chinese shopkeeper of No. Some Half-hour later, when all excellent in its way no doubt, but piece. A love story runs through Impressions of the Americans in Stanley Street has reported to the was quiet, we stole silently eat and in spirit a mere annexe of the it and this does. Its share to Palice that whilst he was on a visit down to our canoe. The moon had building. Woman solicitors have Shanghal must go far to give & yesterday to the Yuk Po shop of just disappeared. We paddled usually assembled here since they heighten the mystery whilst giving stimulus to international sport in Des Voeux Road Central, his pocket for our lives. Two days later have been admitted into the pro the whole a delightful.air of sus pense. A good picture full of ac as picked and a deposit receipt we reached the main river in a stata fessional te
Month for $6,400 was stolen.de
The revolt has now come. of physical colapse.
that and other centres in the Far