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SOVIET LEADERS.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930.
Rumours of Deep Dissensions.
BANDIT CHIEF ARRESTED.
MISCREANTS WHO INFEST THE WATERWAYS.
SMART CAPTURE.
Moscow, May 27. Colour is lent to the rumours of
Tientsin, May 29.
A Chinese arrested in Reclamation Street in possession of six po piuj lottery tickets was at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day fined $25 with deep dissensions between Stalin the option of three weeks hard and War Commissary Voroshiloff labour.
by the latter's failure to appear et Leningrad at the Red Army Fifty-five Shantung men
hare Congress where Voroshiloff was been recruited on the strength of riginally scheduled to speak. the Police Force from to-day, Mr. Instead, the Chairman read a chief who was arrested by detectives W. la Bart Sparrow, A.S.P., inspeet-etter from the War Commissary last evening on board of one of the ed them at the Water Police Station regretting his inability to appear native beats plying between Tien-
"owing to circumstances which I have no control."
overtsin and Paoting because three full-
at noon,
Li Hsiang.
a notorious
bandit
Mr. B. McBacon, accountant at
This is believed to have been loaded modern pistols with. 100 the Malacca branch of the Hong ban on further public appear cartridges were found in his posses- Kong and Shanghai Bank, has gone ance of Voroshiloff whose candid sion together with six third-class
of Stalin's on transfer to Penang, and Mr. criticism
policy tickets from Tientsin for Paoting E. A. Partridge, from the Northern culminated last week in a sensa will be tried and shot to-morrow. Settlement, has succeeded him
tional speech at the Moscow party in Malacca.
conference!
The three pistols were cleverly Voroshiloff is generally thought concealed in two big biscult boxes "You must make your money in to be the most powerful man in and it is believed that the bandits an honest way" was the advice given Russia next to the autocratie intended to rob the passengers on by Mr.Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Stalin, whose unpopularity has Magistracy this morning to
been growing apace an
but whose the boat after its departure; but elderly Chinese, whom he cautioned iron will and ruthless tactics thus fortunately he was arrested before
far have kept him in the saddle. the bont left Tientsin. on a charge of hawking without aVoroshiloff is head of the Red lleenee..
-
Army and is sald to be immense. Owing to the hard times, bandits Leung Pak-chi, a tallor, of 19 Many observers in Moscow have waterways between Tientsin and y popular with the soldiers and pirates are very rife on the Peking Road. has reported to the said that eventually he will turn Fasting at the present moment and Water Police Station the loss of that Red Army
against the
purse, containing $45 in money, and powers that he and oust Stalin the Chinese boatmen have applied a gold bangle, which he alleges was once and for all-EX. taken from his cont pocket whilst
to the authorities for armed protec- awaiting the arrival of the 7 o'clock
tion.-A.N.A. train at the Kowloon Station this morning.
Railway
WIFE TAKES LIFE. YOUNG NEWLY WEDS After Gambling with Her Enter Monasteries After
Husband's Money.
Shanghai, May 27. Afraid to tell her husband that
Hearing Sermon.
Bangkok, May 29:
A quiet but pretty wedding was aolemnized at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd Singapore, on Tues- day, June 3. the Rev. M. Bonamy officiating, the contracting parties) being Dr. Carlos da Reza, of Hong she squandered much of his hard China Mail was assigned the task Kong, and Miss Esther Mosbergen, earned money on the gambling
One of the strangest cases in of interviewing a leading official. bergen, J.F., and Mrs. Mosbergen, a blacksmith living in the French report published in the Srikrung second daughter of Mr. W. F. Mos- tables, Mrs. Fong Fuh-tsien, wife of matrimonial annals was related in a But he might as well have inter- of Singapore. Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Concession at Shanghai, committed to-day of a bride and bridegroom viewed the office coolie. Official- Clarke were sponsors. The re-suicide by swallowing oplum.
dom was as silent as the Sphinx.ception was held at the home of the Officialdom had nothing to say at
bride's parents.
It
to call
who relinquished the social world for a great life in the Kingdom of the Church immediately after their marriage was solemnized.
He had
In a letter addressed to her hus. band, Mrs. Fong explained that she the moment. Officialdom was not
could not muster the courage to tell In a report made at the Water him she had lost heavily at gambling, prepared to give the slightest in- Police Station last night, Mak Lin. so heavily in fact that she had The young people were very much Formation as to whether a leak in licensed driver of China Motor Bus plunged herself deeply into debt. In love with each other, and their the harbour pipe line had or had the vehicle from the Star Ferry tow no way out other than to end into novicehood and nunkood re- No. 454, atated that he was driving Because of her predicament, she sudden change of mind in plunging not been detected. If a leak had ward Kowloon Tong, heen discovered officialdom was
on the No. 7 her own life.
She asked her hus spectively set the district of Kung route. In Nathan Road, at
band to try and forget all about the Nam Von, the
Changvad Rajapuri, not prepared to state to the Chine Feking Road, a Kowloon Meter Bus wanted to, he might marry again,
stopping place at the junction of trouble she had caused and if he alive with amazement. All would Mail representative whether it was Co.'s bus suddenly bumped into the
have gone according to their original After she had completed writing intention, had not it been for a ser- of a mi..or or serious nature. Ob rear of his vehicle. A dent of one the letter, Mra.
Fong swallowed mon preached by a Lord Abbot of viously officialdom resented the inch in diameter was caused, but some raw oplum and then lay down the district's monastery, at the end fact that anything had leaked out
no person was injured.
on her bed to die. She was found of the marriage ceremony, at all and was firmly determined
there half an hour later by her hus- It was on May 18 that the incident Captain A. L. Snagge (Com band on his return from work, but took place, Nai Chang had been in that nothing more would leak out modore, 2nd Class) has been a physician. She died a few moments
was then too late when given a fair and frank op king, in succession to Captain inter-Ex..
love with Nangsao Jang. portunity to explain to the pub. H. J. S. Brownrigg, D.S.O., A.D.C., lic through the Press exactly who was promoted to flag ranken what the trouble--if. any-was.
May 15. Captain Sangge now holds. This, of course, is diametrically of the R.N. Barracks, Chatham, and the past of Commodore in command opposed to the attitude of official-was previously chief executive officer dom during the water famine of of the cruiser Cumberland an, the last year.
In law it is said: "Every man Then it could not China Station. In the War he took shall be rend enough communiques to the Belgian coast and at Gallipoll, and
innocent purt in the bombardments
until he on the proven guilty." Mra, Leonor Montalto de Jesus Press "for the favour of inser-early in 1918 became Naval Attache teresting theme to Ed. Laemmie's
This forms and family tender their sinceretion." Then it could not ap-at Washington.
the unusually in- thanks to all relatives and friends
production "The 13th Juror" at the Star Theatre to-day, with Francis . Bushman and Anna 0. Nilsson in the leading parts,
Featured in this film are two murder trials, in the first of which
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
for their kind expressions of sym-preciate sufficiently the mighty pathy in their recent bereavement, assistance given by the Press-led also for floral tributes sent and
attendance at the funeral.
pointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to the
London Welsh Cause a Surprise.
by the China Mail-in urging the SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY community not to waste water. Even when the water famine was Hong Kong. Wednesday, June 11, 1930, a spectre of the past and the de iberations of the Water Supply No Leakage of News. Emergency Committee were no longer necessary a few kind words were penned to the China Mail for
In yesterday's issue we com- mented
the crisis.
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STAR THEATRE.
The 13th Juror."
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asked his parents to arrange the
marriage. The two parties, being neighbours, come to a happy settle- ment and everything was set for the final ceremony.
That afternoon guests were Invited. It was a merry party, none attending suspecting for a The marriage ceremony was moment what fate had in store. duly performed in front of the invited guests.
A sermon was to be preached by Phra Mutta.
Bride and bridegroom heard the sermon side by side opposite the dais on which the priest preached.
Suddenly, Nal Chang rose and entered his room. He sent for a
counsel for the defence convinces Priestly rebe, had his hair shaved the jury of a man's innocence,
and reappeared dressed as a mem- while in the later Assize Counsel ber of the Church. Ile requested submits to the Judge that the man the priest to perform the ordination Is guilty of the murder of a boss-ceremony, which was complied with in self-defence. A thrilling elimex
immediately. Without much ado, Nangsao Jang, too, entered her
enaues.
Walter Pidgeon, Martha Mattox, room. She reappeared dressed as
on the failure of the its assistance to officialdom during Harlequins were defeated in the dny Bracy and George Slegmanna nun and the ordination rites were Royal Observatory to supply the China Mai with any news regard-
In view of the unfortunate ex-
support the cast.
tained in the programme.
A Scenic and a Comedy are con-
Other cinema notices will be found an page 11.
four seasons of the Middlesex seven- After being successful in the first, a-side
rugger competition, the concluding rounds of this year's campaign at Twickenham.
The defeat of Harlequins by the ing the typhoon or the hoisting perience of the representative of London Welsh in the semi-final was of No. 4 signal. To-day we are the China Mail yesterday in seek- somewhat of a surprise. constrained to switch on to an ing to assist officialdom to do its ful combination, which included Not only had the holders a power- other Department bent on keeping obvious duty to the public, we are four Internationals In H. L. Price, the public-through the natural reluctantly constrained to doubt Colin Laird, J. E. Hutton, and medium of the Press-in the dark the sincerity of its appreciation of P. W. P. Brook, but they led until when news of vital Interest is our efforts last year.
We do re- Then W. C. Powell, the Welsh available.
sent being hindered in our legi-International, kicked a fine penalty There may or there may not be 'timate work of giving the public goal to give his team the honours. a leak in the barbour pipe line, but news when we feel that there is
The London Welsh, who were re-
Tokyo, May 30. officialdom has apparently made news available. Officialdom can Powell, M. .Evans, R. Jones, and on one occasion, heroic service presented by. A. H. Jones,, W. C. After 18 years of honourable, up its mind that there shall he not have matters its own way all W. A. V. Thomas. W. T. Lewis, and with the Imperial Police, the force no leakage of news concerning it. the time. Officialdom must, there-E. L. Francis, had previously met designated to guard the Emperor If a leak had been discovered fore, revise" its attitude to the and overcome Blackheath I. after a and his palaces, Yasushi Sano, 43, surely the first duty of the Water Press forthwith!
desperate duel, and they had to meet has decided to turn vagabond--but Blackheath . in the final, for the a vagabond with a purpose. latter dismissed Bart's in the semi- Except for the fact that he will Anal.
Authority toward the public
should have been to issue a com- munique to the Press. If there had
been merely a rumour of a leak
News in Brief
near the end.
JAPANESE FENCER,
Effort to Emulate Quixote.
performed then and there amidst the bewilderment of the entire household.
Novice Chang quietly explained that the sermon was ao touching that he saw the truth and decided that the greater life was in the Church. He now resides at Wat
Chong Lom, while Nun Jang lives at Wat Kung Nam Von-Bangkok Dally, Mail.
Ten Years Ago
(From the "China Mall,” June 11, 1920.]
To-day's dollar is worth 37. 814d.
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seek out friendly human opponents During Mr. McCallum's regime The "Heathens" had a good and not windmills to fight, Sane in the eighties, the question of team, consisting of J. A. N. Giles, may win the title of a Japanese disposal of the Colony's refuse A. F. Hamilton-Smythe, Sir T. G.Don Quixote. Being an expert in Was thoroughly gone into by him H.M.S. Thracian left yesterday Devitt, C. C. Bishop, J. T. Kemp, the ancient art of Shinai (fencing as the then Superintendent of the having been discovered it should afternoon and arrived at Amoy this M. S. Bonaventura, and A. G./ with bamboo swords) he' intends to Sanitary Department. That ener
still have been the duty of the morning. Water Authority toward the
H.M.S. Herines left yesterday
public to have issued an official evening for Wel-hal-wei,-according genius of Powell, and they won by expert at Shinal and matching his commendations to
to an official notification....
Cridlan, but the Welsh were always wander throughout the country, setic officer after studying the the superior side, chiefly through the stepping wherever he finds another subject carefully made certain re- the. Govern- denial in order to re-assure the
two tries to all, **
skill with the opponent for the ment on his return, and a proposal community particularly on the
The competition, was a
general betterment of the manly was then made for reclaiming the great art.. Ysland, and that whether or not In yesterday's leading article it success.
foreshore at Taikoktsui by durap- The organisation of the
Having saved sufficient money to ling the city refuse there but it the available water supply is suf- that it was the Government Tele-Cargill, and his colleagues was ex- has placed no limit on the time of insalubrity. The Sanitary Board
was not perhaps rande quite clear original promoter, Dr. J. Russell- icient or otherwise. Neither of phone Exchange and not the Tele-cellenti
pay bis way, the former policeman was not adopted on account, of its these alternative steps was taken phone Company's Exchange that in There a larger attendance out his course, other than a visit the question before embarking on hia wanderings for has he mapped might do well to go further into In order to give officialdom annoyal Observatory was only estimated that over £1,000 will be For the rest of the time he will A refuse destructor is the only lefaldomar formed us that the telephone at the than in previous seasone, and it is to the graves of his ancestors, this scheme. opportunity to take the public available to the Governor, the available for the charitise for which wander from city to city and vll satisfactory method of disposing into its confidence through other Colonial Secretary, and shipping this excellent porting event was lage to village, stopping wherever the products of scavenging in the means, a representative of the offices
Instituted.
gd he finds a worthy opponent,
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