MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1930.
QUEER STORY.
ARMY OFFICERS.
THE
CHINA MAIL,
UNWELCOME VISITOR WAR ON DRINKERS.
MAIL BAG THEFT:
CATTLE MERCHANT AND HIS MONEY.
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
INDIAN T.F.
IN
SENT TO PRISON.
PRESIDENT'S RUTHLESS
RUSSIANS AND CHINESE.
OFFICIAL APPROVAL..
Chineseound Under European's Bungalow.
CAMPAIGN,
A HAUL OF FORTY THOUSAND GUILDERS.
JAIL FOR INDIAN. -
Tientsin, Jund 19.
The Secretary
Simla, May 30.
State of
has
On Wednesday about 8 pm., a
1
Lu's story was that Ragotsky and another Russian came to his house in Lao Si-Kai and discussed with him the question of the sale of some cattle. Saying the extent of the proposed transaction was
permanent adjutant or
adminis-
́LONG SENTENCES."
It is virtually certain that contine
In Police Court, Kuala mmpur, on June 18 before Mt
'Singapore, June 17. Washington, June 7. Hoover Administration law The sensational theft from a Chinesd cattle merchant named Lu approved of the proposal that Bri- G;\H. Nash, a Chinese answering officials are the ground- sealed mall. bag containing 40,000 | Wen-itul, with the assistance of a tish Officers of the Indian Army toe name of Wong Futt Heng work for what may be most ruilders which accurred in May. constable, took a Russian named may be employed with battalions was charged with having been found ruthless and heavy-handed ary of last year had a sequefiernoon Station in the Rue de France, Tien- (other than battalions of the Uni-/under the house of Mr. J. L. Sima flaw enforcement campaign of the District Courhran, named Krish- Ragolaky to the French Police of the Indian Territorial Force
Prohibition era. tsin, and th re charged him with versity Training Corps and urban at Federal Hill on the night of May
rámy, till recently a mall officer having stolen from him the sum of units), when embodied for training 31, with intent to commit an torney-General Mitobell be in the General Post Office, was $400 in notes,
or service. The total number of offence, or to inault, or to annoy Generalissimo of dry-law.enforce charged with theft. officers so employed, excluding the occupier. The alternative charge In the meantime he is seeking money was missing while being ment by July 1; perhaps sooner. It will be recalled that the
From the-General trative Commandants, shall not preferred was that without a satis from the Supreme Court a ruling transferred
will be factory excuse the necused, wilfully that liquor buyers can be punish Post Office to the steamship Ab exceed 84 These officers seconded and when not actually
fed by jail sentences and fines, Ung bound for Djambl. trespassed. territoria! beyond employed with their
and the Prohibition bureau in The money was being rent by Mr. II. Doel, Court Chief Inspec- New York has inaugurated an the Overseas Chinese Bank to attached to force units, will be
their branch at. Djambi. regular units of the Indian Army tor, who prosecuted, called evidence attempt to punish flask-toters,
Seals Intact, as the cxigencies of service, may to the effect that the boy employed The indications are that these
Several employees of the Post demand from time to time,
in the house was walking in the steps are being taken at Mitchell's The conditions of service intermediary in the British officers seconded for duty compourid, his employers having behest to legalize more drastic en-Office gave evidence, with
forcement than has ever before counts of handling the parcel until it was finally put in a transaction. When he left the with the Indian Territorial Force gone to the Club, when he saw been attempted. room, gald Lu, he left $400 in notes will be as follows:-
Chinese.sitting in a squatting posi- The Supreme Court heard ar-separate bag, enclosed in another In his desk but when he returnel (a). A-three years..tour of duty.tion under the house. On the boy guments in two prosecutions of bag which also contained the or the money had disappeared although (b). In the event of an officer approaching the man, the latter rose Farrar of Boston was charged the accused for despatch by the liquor-buyers: In one, James E. dinary parcels and delivered it to the three men were still there.
being found unsuitable for duty their with a territorial battalion, he will and began to run away but was with buying liquor without a per- Alting. The French police had
mit. He made an ordinary buy doubts us to the truth of Lu's story be returned to duty with his re- caught. and investigations tend to show that gular unit. the affair arose out of a false money
his competence alone, Lu 'went out of the room to consult his uncle in connection with the affair, leaving in the room the two Russians and a Chinese who was supposed to be acting as an
for
•
ac-
The third officer of the Alling A lady living next door telephoned from a bootlegger. In the other, gaye evidence that be delivered (e) A Company Commander the police and a European and a Alfred E. Norris, New York the bag, with the seals intact to
was charged
• scheme of a sort that is often played seconded for duty with a territorial police constable arrived and took the broker,
with the Postmaster at Djambl. in Tientsin. It is believed that Lubattalion will receive the regimental accused away.
conspiring to transport liquor, an Mohamed. Tahir, a Malay clerk Wen-hui gave the two Russians and pay and allowances of his regular The accused and that he went to offence punishable by long at the Djambi Post Office, said the Chinese intermediary the sum appointment in extent of his com- the house in question to look for a Federal prison sentences, as a re- that the seals were examined be- of $400 on their promising to make manding A territorial battalion friend. The cook of the house had sult of admitted telephone orders fore the bag was opened.
When the bag was opened he it into $800 as they said they had during the period of its embodi- previously had a fight with him and to a Philadelphia bootlegger for
found only one parcel instead of discovered a method of duplicating ments for training or service com on this occasion slapped him. and shipments of liquor. each note. He then quickly repent- mind. Pay will be admissible in then raised an alarm. The police In both cases, lower federal two. ed of his action and as they refused lieu of his staff pay as a Company Arrived later and took him into courts quashed the prosecutions On examining the bag, he found to return the money he lodged the Commander.
custody.
Jon the ground that purchase of that the seam had been ripped complaint with the police. "Nat, (d). A Company Officer will re- His Worship convicted the as-liquor is not illegal, and the up- open..
WAR hardly his daring to tell the true story of the cerve
The tampering regimental pay and cused, who admitted three previous peals were brought solely on the except during transaction, he, charged Ragotsky allowances
noticeable. the convictions against him. He was Government's initiative. perfod of embodiment when he will sentenced to undergo three months'
The Government contends that with theft.
$75. receive staff pay as a Company rigorous imprisonment.
Malay decisions should be made to de Ali bin Mamok, Serang of the Commander. -
fine the Government's attitude, steam launch Mercury, said that but concedes that there is some the accused came on board to evidence indicating that Congress deliver the mall bags.
La Wen-hui, Ragotsky and his Ruggian accomplice, and the, alleged Chinese Intermediary a man named Fu-jung, were all arrested by, the French Police and yesterday they were sent to the Chinese yamen pending the complete unravelling of the affair.-P. & T. Times.,,
MEN'S. WEAR.
TRADE CHANGES IN THIRT
YEARS.
(a). Staff pay when available is admissible to an officer officiating in a higher appointment when at- tached to a regular unit during the non-training period,.
(f). No leave, will be granted to fan officer while the annual training with of the territoriul battalion which he is employed is in pro-
MARRIAGE A LA MODE.
Recently there was opened in Regent Street the largest shop for men in the British Empire. This "new building of Austin Reed's has According to
спе of
the
Thus
"A
Mall.
SMALL FIRE.
EARLY MORNING ALARM.
At about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, an alarm was given to the Central Fire Station that a fire had broken out in a yard imme diately behind the Republic Motor Car Co. and China Motor Supply Co., in Des Voeux Road Central.
did not intend to punish buyers The accused took one bag down. of beverage liquor.
the hold alleging that he wanted
A much stronger argument is to examine the bag. made in the Norris case, arrange Some days later, witness met ments for transportation being the accused on board when the alleged to constitute conspiracy. latter gave him. 876 with the re The liquor was shipped by ex- quest to keep silent regarding press, labelled as ink, olive oil any inquiries. and other similar commodities.
The entire crew received simi-
The New York arrests of flask Inr amounts toters in a cabaret were made. The accused Cime on board under the Volstead Act provision with a rain coat which witness forbidding possession of liquor, later saw lying over a parcel punishable by fines and jail sen- Accused admitted that the mail: tences of up to one year. There bag came fato his possession in
taken five years to complete and brighter. Sunday papers, members to appliances were immediate is no question of the legality of the usual routine manner but he cost £300,000; and it is claimed of the peorage are now concentra ly despatched to the scene, when the arrests, but there is consider dented the allegation against him. that it will enable the modern manting on the useful and economical it was found that a small fire had able chance that no jury ob. The judge convicted the accus. -to dress with greater attention to wedding present
originated amongst some rubbish tainable in New York will coned and sentenced him to two in the yard. The blaze was put vict, and the New York City years' rigorous imprisonment.-- out with extinguishera.
officials have already made it Ex As the show rooms in question plain they will not co-operate in
duchess has given a bride a set of saucepans; "an earl has given her a hearth-brush, and another titled friend has given her a patent egg-had cars and certain supplies of such enforcement. My Coal output for the week ended boller.")
petrol, the machines were remov- Attorney-General Mitchell has May 10 war 4,986,600 tons, by adas a precautionary measure, another weapon he can use if he 237,800 workers compared with by orders of the Superintendent desires against open drinking in 5,118,800 tons and 941,500 workers- of the Fire Brigade.
public place's after his depart. In the preceding week. The actual damage was insigni.ment takes over from the
his comfort and a larger economy, of his time than has hitherto been possible.
Some of its features are tactil tles for ordering goods by wireless from mid-ocean; a barber shop.Omy friends about to marry capable of serving two hundred Tell me soon and tell me true thousand customers a year; a ballWhat you wish the post to carry- room carner where men can choose As a gift from me to you. dress clothes; a Red Lacquer Room For your added information for tropical outåtting, with a
I should also like to stato series, of panels of Empire, by Mr. That the note of ostentation Fred Taylor, R.I a Louis XIV, Ia distinctly out of date. Salon in panelled mahogany for shirts; · bathrooms and dressing Toom; and a theatre box-office.** The opening of the bullding coincides with the celebration of Mr. Austin Reed's thirtieth year of
Dukes deliver Woolworth dishes,
While the Duchess finds her
scope
1
confined to kindest wishes With a bar of kitchen soap:
ficant.
A. Nurse's Dilemma And How She Found The Way Out.
Treasury complete rule of en- forcement. He can padlock not only speak-cnsies, but all restaur- ants, nightclubs and hotels which serve ginger-ale, empty glasses and cracked-ice for patrons who bring their own liquor. The Supreme Court has twice upheld such injunctions and Mitchell's preliminary moves above recount- that nursing profession not long ago for harassing the liquor drinkers and she spoke from long years of as well as the purveyors in a large keep going, despite the long hours personal experience. Yet nurses
they have to work, the exacting
remain
“No, woman should nurse after forty, it is, too hard
business in Londen. He began in From the peerage, feeling pleasant, alife," said a member of the ed indicates an Intention to go in
1900 with a small shop in the City,
These are now the gifts
pass,:
**
and he has seen and taken part And the more expensive present it many, interesting developments Marks the merely middle-class The whole art ofdistribution, for example, has grown up in recent, So the silver bowl or kettle,
---LUCION
way...
The Prohibition Transfer Bil,
services they have to perform passed by the House several How do they do it Here is the months ago, is likely to be taken evidence of Nurse WJ. Lyons, and up soon in the Senate and that sho is but one of thousands of preponderatingly dry body will professional nurses all over the pass it quickly according to all in world who take Dr. Williams' Pink dications. The Senate bill pro Pills when they get run down and vides the transfer and is to be need the tonic help which le so the House Bill provides for effec come effective July 1, although abundantly given by this, the most famous of all bload and nerve re- tiveness one month after the act storative remedies.
is signed by President Hoover Ex
CLAIM TO $200,000.
years," he said "in an, interview Or the fat and fulsome cheque, with a representative of The Is a blunder that might settle Observer. "To-day there are care- Like a millstone round your fully organised selling forces and necka
certain principles of alesmanship By a margin nice and widish are studied and worked out, and il avoid sub vulgar ramps young men now entering the retall Would you rather have a ple dish foxtile trades can attend specials
Or a two-bob book of stamps? classes arranged by the London County Council with the London Employers' Association, offer them selves for examination, and if sues
"I had fost colour and strength," cessful, get a certificate. There home from abroad and others often says Nurs Lyons, who resides at was nothing like that thirty years want to do a whole lot of shopping No. 187 Broadway, Chicago Falls. ago, or even twenty years ago." without spending half, the day Mass., U.S.A. "I had severe head-|
Speedier Methoda.
over it. Well, here a man can visit aches and nervous spella, could. "Perhaps the greatest change in his hatter, his hosier, his shirt- not get restful sleep and was tired recent years is that which is seen maker, his shoemaker, and his and listless all the time. I WHA in shop fittings. You remember, tallor, all under one roof, and well short of breath and lost weight no doubt, the old step ladders, within an hour. which men used laboriously to climb, bringing down bundles and "One of the most interesting de Williams Pink Pills. They gave packets of goods just as they had velopments that is taking place in me back my health. My blood Judgment in favour come from the manufacturers, or men's wear is what we call the was built up, I regained my tiffs Oon Tung Hoon the wholesalers, and then untying new tailoring. It meets the de-strength and my colour returned. Hoi, was given the them, the customer having to stand mand for a more efficient and I can certainly recommend Dr. Court to-day by and walt all the time. All that speedier method of buying clothes, Williams Pink Pills to build up the there wer has been changed. The effort to-To consequence very largely of system."
The New Tailoring..
day is to speed up business and to the rendous conditions of modern
My condition alarmed my friefids, Nothing helped me until I took Dr
JUDGMENT GIVEN IN FAVOUR OF PLAINTIFFS,
to the $2
you fast Seng, who died
The
save the customer's time.
life there is a very definite change w
ht Street, for example, in
want to select tide
can wate
ude of the public to Pills, blame.
housand
Sore ma
Afty years
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