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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1930.
· BRAVE WOMAN.
A cargo coolie named Leung Wai (46) was yesterday taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering Frustrates an Armed
from severe Injuries to his head and back caused through accidentally falling into a hold of the 5.8. Taihing.
1
Robbery.
A THREAT TO SHOOT.
A daring attempt at armed rob.
aone in
MARKET COLLAPSE. Timber Support Gives Way.
NO CASUALTIES.
no one
The Police yesterday received a
At about 6.30 pm. yesterday, a report from a Chinese married wo-bery in broad daylight was made part of the roof of the Saivingpun man named Tong Wing-shi, of 25, by two Chinese in Shaukiwan yes- Market, West Point, suddenly col- Caine Road, that at about 9.85 p.m..terday afternoon.
lapsed. There was a big fall of she was walking in Queen's Road The story of the affair was told debris, but fortunately Central, near the Central Theatre, to the Police by the principal was injured. when a thief approached her from tenant of 26, Talfoo, Street a The alarm was sent through behind and snatched her hand bag.| married woman named Li Sut to the Central Fire Station which contained money and jewellery | ping.
and a rescue party of six worth $481. The thief escaped. According to her the only permen, under Sub-Officer Bucker- the house at the time lidge, was sent out. They found A Chinese woman named Ho Sat besides herself were three other that the portion of the roof which (29), of 10, Hüller Street, was women and three children. She came down measured 30 feet by yesterday transferred to the Gov- was asleep in her cubicle when 20 feet, on the First Street side ernment Civil Hospital from the she was awakened at about 2.20 of the market. The collapse was eastern branch of the Tung Wahlp.m. by, a knock on the door. due to some old timber support- Hospital, Sookumpoo, suffering from She got out of bed and inquiring the roof giving way." the effects of an overdose of Chineseed who was there. A male voice Three pork-dealers" stalls: medicine oil ("Yec Yau"). She is plied: "I have come from Sal situated immediately underneath alleged to have drunk the stuff in an Xing, and I have a letter for Najwere completely wrecked. It is attempt to commit suicide. The Tai-cheung."
stated that the fokis of these woman's condition is considered As the caller had given her stalls heard the timber cracking. serious.
husband's name, the woman felt and immediately vacated the confident and opened the door. A places. They had just got clear man entered and handed a letter when the roof came down. GAMBLING ON SHIPS.to her.
The Police and firemen Im- Revolver Produced.
nediately undertook the task Then suddenly another man of shifting the debris and carried Cantonese Unlucky to made his appearance. He produce on the work until a late hour but
Be Caught.
ed a revolver immediately on en-no one was found burled under- tering the house and threatened neath.
The market building is very old,
་་
The evils of gambling on board to shoot the woman if she gave ships, in that they often cause the alarm, Both men made dating back to 1874, and as there fights between passengers, were quite clear that they wanted to is a possibility of the collapse en- commented on by Sub-Inspector rob the place,
dangering the rest of the build-
A. J. W. Dorling at the Kowloon In spite of the armed man's ing shorings were put up by the
CRYSTAL CAVES.
To Be Latest Tourist Attraction.
Magistracy, this morning, when a threat, the woman called out P.W.D. Cantonese was fined $25 or three "Robbers, save life." The alarm weeks hard labour, on being con- was taken up by an amah and a victed of being the keeper of a servant girl, who shouted from a common gaming huuse on board back window. This so scared the the steamer Selatan.
two would-be robbers that they The Sub-Inspector pointed out immediately bolted. Nothing was that defendant was the only Can- stolen. one. Making money as an end in tonese, there being 40 Fukienese, itself is not worth while nor
who indulged in the game. They SECRET wandering about the world-and Indo-China. The money pick- were passengers from Singapore unless it is with someone you ed up comprised Hong Kong, love-nor self-denial, or making Straits, Chinese, and Indo-China plans for the future-that is the coinage.
most unworth-while thing of all, and the supreme thing which a real disaster in one's life teaches one never to do again.
WINE DUTY.
Alleged Evasion of the Law.
AGREEMENT WITH KARAKHAN.
Manila, June 6. Another scenic attraction of major importance, second only to the majestic Mountain Mayon has been made accessible to (Continued from Page 1.)
tourists and sightseers in the sentative of Feng Yu-hslang ap-Bicol provinces. proached Chiang Kai-shek offering A series of crystal caverns of to surrender, and expressing will-immense proportions and bril-
attack ingness to
the Shansi liantly fantastic beauty are now troops, providing the Government made available to visitors by. the. pay $8,000,000 for expenses and opening of rail service of the reorganise the Kueminchun into Manila Railroad between Pamp- Afteen divisions reserving Chihli, lona and Libmanan in the pro- Shansi and Honan as their garri vince of Camarines Sur South-
ern Luzon.
son areas.
To make plans is to lay up future pain and disappointment|
A seaman, for oneself; life invariably cheats
a mistress and n spinster of a cargo junk, were all the makers of plans, and Fate charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte-
Chiang Kai-shek refused, dev
While the existence of these | laughs last. It is high time that Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy manding that Feng first attack caves has been known for some Shansi as n demonstration of his time, it was only recently that the fallacy, of the value of this morning, on four counts' con-
sincerity-Reuter.
they were investigated and re- optimism was exploded. Blessed Cerning the possession of 408 gallons of spirits of wine; and 24
ported by J. W. Willey electrical are they who expect nothing, for gallons of Chinese wine,
engineer of the Manila Railroad only they can appreciate the in- on which, it was alleged, duty had terviewed by Reuter, stated that to James King Steele, executive A Northern representative, in-stationed at Naga According finite kindness of life's small mercies..
been evaded.
an all
Location of Capital.
Peking, Yesterday.
The other two charges handed the location of the capital was one secretary of the Philippine in for the prosecution by Mr. H. of the questions to be discussed Tourist Association, to whom Mr. It probably sounds hopelessly Allan Taylor, Government Mono-after the retirement of Chiang Willey brought photographs and sentimental and old-fashioned and poly Analyst, dealt with the pos of Shanghai could not remain in one main gallery approximately Kai-shek. In any case, the control diagrams the caves consist of not at all clever, but when you alleged adulteration of wire on session of 205 falde labels, and
the hands of Chiang's present one quarter of a mile long, two get down to rock-bottom there is board the craft.
political friends.
side galleries more than two only one thing in life fundamen-
The Northerners would not agree hundred feet long which have to the suggestion that Chiang Kai-separate openings leading to the shek should hand over his armies surface, and numerous small gal- only one thing worth having, only
Intact to nominated subordinates, leries, grottoes, passages and one thing which can afford last.
Ball was granted In the sum of/which would mean merely that they pockets containing many, very ing satisfaction,
would awalt a favourable moment to beautiful and interesting lime- whether you $1,000 each.
renew the civil war.-Reuter.
rtone formations. happen to be a peer or a plumber, duchess or daily help, and that is
The interior of the cavern is friendship.
-numerous clusters
Hong Kong, Friday, June 13, 1930. tally worth while because there is
HAPPINESS.
A small group of men, mostly business men; gathered round the har of a certain local institution
R.O. Powell made the arrest. His Worship ndjourned the case to Saturday, June 21, at 10.30.
LAUNCH COOK.
A Denial.
Nanking, Yesterday. filled with It is officially denied that Mar-and groups of stalactite and shal Chiang Kai-shck is contem-jetalagmite incrustations of car, plating a retirement,
bonate of lime formed by con- It is stated that he is going by tant drippings through thou- aeroplane to Hankow to-day to sands of years of water. per direct operations against the colating through the limestone. Kwangsi troops.-Reuter.
These have taken quaint and freakish shapes and amazing colourings, producing forms re-
Kiungsi Evacuated.
recently, discussed the formula be so ashamed of admitting so
It is amazing why we should all Charged with Theft of for happiness. One man said that simple a thing, because at heart
Rope. for him it was "bears" and most people know it to be true- "stage" and that inevitable desire, though most people are too self- Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the the stabilisation of the dollar, conscious and civilised into arti-Lo Fuk (25), a cook on board No. Another said that all he required ficiality to admit it...
Shanghai, Yesterday, 8 Police launch, was charged with The local authorities have resembling totem poles, Gothic to to be perfectly happy was to
stealing 20 fathoms of Manila rope ceived This is the one fundamentally from the launch and a cottor jacket capital of
news that Nanchang, thewers, frozen cascades, stone spend every day in bathing at worth while thing. And then from Chu Kwai, assistant cook, evacuated by Government troops, gardens, cathedral naves, giant
Klangsi, is being curtains and draperies, coral. Stanley. A third, a very factious there is trying to help other with stealing $5 from Tsang Fük. General Chang Fat-kwal's present stalactites joining stalagmites,
He was also charged as ballce While it is believed that it fa arches, double indivídual, said he did not believe people to happiness and to alle coxswain.
columns of that happiness was an ideal that viate their pain, but it is doubtful Wong Wah, a steersman on a junk, ultimate goal, where he can cut invested potholes,
objective, with Kluklong as his Buddha temples, Tufa domes, could be realised. "Not in the if one can do this unless there is and Tang Sum, master's son on the the Government's communications others of similar type.
.and many In one East," added a fourth, and the the peace of human affection in anne craft, were both charged with between Nanking and Hankow, it of the inner reaches is a curtain whole company was unanimous in
unlawfully receiving One cannot give out These two men were on ball of $75 Kai-shek, during his advance from cathedral chimes
the rope la pointed out that Marshal Chiang (of stalactites that ring like the assertion that happiness was friendship and peace if one has each.
when set in Canton, made, this his stepping off vibration. only to be found in one's own them not within oneself, not even peared for the prosecution and Hangehow and then Shanghai and scientific interest to geologista Detective-Sergeant Kellett. ap- ground for his movement to The "Libmanan Caves" are of country.
with the beat intentions in the Intimated that the Police opposed to Nanking-Reuter.
oneself."
The fact to be considered is that world, for it is true, as A. 5. ball for the first accused, La Fuk.
the pursuit of happiness concerns every man and woman just as much as the rise and fall of shares, for the desire to achieve happiness is at the root of all our actions travel, love, and gain. “Getting on" for its own sake is absolutely not worth while. That
Neill always insists, "be happy and you will be good." The tragedy of Hong Kong is thất it is a place of acquaintances,
News in Brief
His Worship fixed the hearing for Wednesday at 11 a.m.
FATHER DYING.
After Fighting His Two Sons,
',
as well as spectacular interest to tourists. They are. reached. from Libmanan by a ride down thebeautiful palm fringed Libmanan river in motor boat or motor banca, then a walk of two Alometres up the gradual slopes on the left bank. The main entrance to the caves is about 100 metres above the river landing-Manila Bulletin.
100,000 MASONS. At International Peace Ceremony. SPECTACULAR & IMPRESSIVE is the lesson each of us comes to
Toronto, Yesterday learn after the bitterness of expe
One of the most spectacular Boloed by his own two sons in and Impressive fraternal func periences Happiness is the only A Chinese who stole a chicken for an argument over a piece of land, lons in the history of Canada. thing worth striving and strug-
his own consumption this morning Pangasinan, is dying in the pro- Convention, has been meeting Mr W. Cameron Forbes, of
was at the Luis Ferrér, of San Carlos- namely, the International Masonic Kowloon Magistracy. gling for real happiness, not just sentenced to three weeks Burd vincial hospital here to-night here for five days. It is attend Boston for the post of Am SET It appears that the fathered by 100,000 members of the basador to Japan. Reuter a
mortgaged a piece of land belong Mystic Shrine (to which only
being amused; that real happi- ness which is the essence of satis
no real satisfaction:
notified yesterday...
One cases of typhoid fever was
labour.
Dagupan, June 5.
DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
Washington, Yesterday, Present Hoover has nominat
The annual general meeting of ing to one of the sons, Victoriano Knights Templar or 22nd degree American Service. the Hong Kong Women's Guild, and Ferrer and there was an argu- Masons are allowed to belong). Ministering Children's League will ment over it. The father is representing 1,000,000 Americans. A newspaper offered a prize for held at the Helena Mey Instituto said to have attacked Victoriano The proceedings culminated in the bent answer to "How do you
day June 16, at 10.30 az reith bolo, Another son, the dedication of the internation- keep your husband at home
brother al Peace Memorial on the shore of One of the answers received was
Domingo cornered
Lake Ontario after speeches hat is follow:
und" been, broadcasts by the Prime * “For thirty-two-
Minister Mr Mackenzie King, the troubled with the problem of Keep
ate?Mr H. L. ing my husband at hom sentatives of the problem when I had
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They stay in