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An accident involving the loss of three lives occurred during the week on Gloucester House building. The fatality was the result of the slipping of a derrick which was hoist. ing a steel beam. The accident is fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL, which also draws attention to the fact that it was fully 45 minutes before an ambulance arrived on the scene.
As a result, it is stated, of speculation in Shanghai, the Industrial and Commercial Bank closed its doors, "until further notice." Enquiries by an OVERLAND CHINA MAIL representative, elicited the information that the bank, together with many others, has been badly hit by the unprecedented fall in the value of the dollar.
A raid was made during the week on a Hong Kong vernacular paper, and a quantity of literature scized. This is the second time within a year that the premises have been raided. The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL gives complete details of the incident.
Sidelights upon Chinese theatrical fipance were shown. In the course of a case in which a local actor was sued for alleged debt in the Summary Court. The case is fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
The visit of a tennis team from Meiji University, who played a series of exhibition games with local net stars, was of special interest to local sportsmen. The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL contains a full report of the matches. Local sport is fully dealt with in the current issue.
It is a
BENEDICTINES
•
IN FRANCE.
www.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BACK MURDER OF A
MONGOL DEALER.
A.T.T. Liqueur for the Five Men Break Into
American Market.
The Benedictine monks, long exiled from France, have returned to the ruins of their beautiful ab- bey, and, coincident with their ar rival, the holders of their old secret formulae have announced that, after months of effort, they have succeeded in producing a re- fined kind of the famous Benedic tine liqueur which can comply with the American prohibition
laws.
The new liqueur, termed Arome Benedictine, has but 6 per cent. alcohol, which: la about half the alcoholic content of a light wine, but it has all the aroma of a stiff drink. The makers believe that it will solve the problem of circum-i venting the law, for it has all the colour, appearance and perfume of a real liqueur without its after effects.
This Arome la now being gen- erally advertised, and homebound tourists are approached by efficient salesmen who are disposing of many cases, shipped along with the tourists as baggage; likewise, the export of the new product to America has started, a perfectly legal step since it complies with the law.
just as the monks did.
House.
TRAGEDY AT TIENTSIN.
Tientsin, June 16. A well-known local pony-dealer, a Mongolian named Socart Daheeff (Su-Keh-La-Ta in Chinese), wna murdered on Saturday night by a band of men whose object is not yet clear but who, it has been sug gested, may have been prompted feud among local pony-
by 1 dealers,
It is understood that Daheeff had sold his stock of ponies and was about to make another journey to Mongolia in order to get a fresh supply of animals. Other dealers
PRIEST SENT TO PRISON.
Sikh Attacked While Asleep.
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930.
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There was an unusually large attendance of members of the local Sikh Community at the "Perak Ataizes at Ipoh, when Nassa Singh, Chenderiang, was brought up for a priest attached to the Gurduwara.. NEW COLOURS AND DESIGNS
trial on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to one Inder Singh.
His erime was alleged to be a particularly brutal one committed when his victim
and was
asleep. who had lost his leg as the result Inder Singh, the complainant,
1
Was
of the attack told the Court that he was lying asleep on a charpoy in a friend's house. He had no work st the time and was lodging there. He was awakened from his sleep by a sharp pain in his leg.
Long-Bladed Knife.
As soon as he opened his eyes he are stated not to have been so suc-noticed his assailant who was holdi
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cessful in disposing of their ponies He got up from the charpoy and as and some ill-feeling had sprung up soon as he was erect he was Telled and it is thought that this, may by a blow on his head. He lay on have had something to do with the the ground unconscious and the next thing he know was that he was in tragic affair on Saturday night.
Shot Through The Heart.
hospital and that he had lost a leg.
He alleged, as a motive for the The deceased man lived in attack, the fact that he had made an Race Course Road,, not House No. 2, San Ho L, Tung Lo, enemy of the accused by reporting 1, Pottinger St.
far from him to the temple authorities. His
The Benedictine monks, who found the recipe, and once made all the Benedictine, Chartreuse and
Dr. R. J. Hoch's Veterinary Hos-allegations were that the accused Celestine which France and the pital, where he had a dairy, and who was a priest had certain bad world drank, in the stills which party of five men get over the low
it appears, that about 10.30 p.m. a habita kept up the costs of their abbeys, wall into the yard. Three remain-pened to be outside the house in the A tailor, another lodger, who hop. no longer make the liqueur,
ed there while the other two en-jungle near by, actually saw the With the separation of churchtered the house. The shorter of accused and state, their abbeys and stills these two had his face painted and
strike Inder Singh, were seized, and the famous abbey black and carried a revolver.
when he came Dut from at Fecamp, where most of the A Russian woman employed by lin
the jungle the accused snw liqueur was made, was sold to a Daheeft came to the entrance and ning he passed a woman who was and fled.. While run- stock company which still exploits the shorter man struck her in the washing at a stand pipe. This the product and even goes so far face and she fell down. as to put a crass on the bottle, then came out of an inner room Singh, the owner of the house where Daheeff woman who was the wife of Biahen
The recent French law which and the shorter man fired one shot the outrage was perpetrated, and
at him with his revolver. allowed the religious orders to re- fell dead,
Daheef the tailor wore the principal wit bullet passing nesses who identified the accused at turn, permitted the Benedictines to come back to the ruins of Saint intruders had entered the com-evidence for the prosecution after
through
heart. As the the trial. Several Punjabia gave Wandrille in the Seine valley. There they will attempt to find pound the dogs kept on the pre-which the accused made his defence. living space amid the walls of the mises barked loudly and the alarm He told the Court that the case had 14th century cloister, over which
had already been given.
been falsely brought against him. Several policeman from No. 5 The complainant was ivy has grown in profusion.
angry with Suburban Police Station near-by him because he had upbraided the band of miscreants escaped over Bishen Singh's wife. He denied rushed to the house but the whole complainant for his behaviour with the wall firing on the police as they having cut the complainant's leg. aped away. The police returned The Court found the fire but no one was hit and no guilty and sentenced him to four
years* *rigorous imprisonment.- It Is stated that there were two Pinang Gazette.
Sixty monks have come home since early May, and their Gre gorian chant sounds from the cloister, while each evening the old chimes toll out the Angelus.
The monks will not be able to
return to their liqueur making. however, for the stock company brought from the state the ex-
clusive manufacturing rights. For the present the monks will grow eider for which that part of Nor- mandy is famous.
his
the
arrests were made.
the accused
and several Chinese in the house BOULOGNE MURDER. at the time of the affair. Nothing
was stolen.
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FIRE BRIGADE FIGHTS AMMONIA GAS.
TWELVE WOMEN TRAPPED.
MR. J. H. WHITLEY.
ACCEPTS CHAIRMANSHIP OF B. B. C.
London, June 5,
Mr. J. H. Whitley, a former Speaker in the House of Commons, bas, accepted the Chairmanship of the British Broadcasting Corpora tion on the condition that his new appointment does not disturb his work with the Indian Labour Com- mission.
The deceased, who was 39 years | of age, leaves a widow and three children. An inquest will be held by the Chinese authorities this (Monday) morning.-P. & T. Times.
STUDENTS' UNION.
NOW NON-EXISTENT IN SHANGHAI,
!
Shanghai, June 8.
written to the
Finis has been
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SEQUEL TO NEIGHBOURS QUARREL.
Boulogne, June 7. The discovery of a gold wristlet watch may lead to the solution of a murder mystery which has baffled the English and French police since February, 1927.
The body of an English nurse, Miss Daniels, was then discovered) at a lonely spot near Boulogne, Her watch was missing.
A neighbours' quarrel between Mesdames Pilven and Prudhomme resulted in the former telling the a watch which was "stolen from the police that Madame Prudhomme had; Englishwoman."
The Labour Commission as pro-resolution-passing, slogan-shouting visionally arranged, visits Ceylon, and politically ambitious Shanghai Burma, and Calcutta
this winter, Students' Federation. The federa- after which it will proceed to
The police searched Madame Ootacamund to write the report.
tion has abruptly ceased to exist, Prudhomme's house and found a following strong pressure brought watch similar to Miss Daniels', to bear by the Nanking Government They arrested Madame Prudhomme. and the Central Kuomintang.
Later it was proved that the The federation held sway in the wrist watch found by the police In International Settlement and at-Madame Prudhomme's house did not tempted to participate in all public belong to Miss Daniela. affairs, whether or not they con- M. Prudhomme, who has been arrested on a charge of stealing a For instance, if a foreign-driven blcycle, will be confronted with his vehicle accidentally injured or killed wife, who has been charged with a Chinese, the federation was quick stealing vegetables.
When Your Child Is Feverish
Remember This English Mother's Experience and Administer Baby's Own Tablets.
cerned the federation.
The health of babies and little to pass resolutions, demanding the The late Miss. May Daniels, a children subject to rapid punishment of the foreigner and the nurse employed at the Chiswick and changes. and careful mothers payment of a large sum to his rela-Ealing Isolation Hospital, visited, tion, gas under pressure escaped should not delay at the first sign tires, even if it was proved that the Brighton with Miss McCarthy, an- and spread rapidly all over the of feverishness, with chills and victim was at fault. building and down the road. flushes.
other nurse at the hospital, carly in In many such cases a All the workers managed to prompt dese
When the proposal was made to October, 1826. The two women de- of Baby's Own sell the S. M. Electricity Depart-cided to make their escape from the build- Tablets, the children's friend, ment, the federation lost no time in Boulogne for a few hours. After cross the Channel to ing with the exception of 12 wo has averted serious illness. Remarkable Accident in men on the first floor, and these example take the case of little solutions, shouting slogans and dis- turn journey, Miss Daniels went to For rejecting the proposal, passing re-reaching Boulogne Quay for the re Shanghai,
were got out by the firemen with five-year-old John Talbot, of Hall tributing literature bearing on the the waiting room. the aid of ladders. None of them fax, England, explained in his matter.... wae hurt, but it was found neces- mother's letter as follows: And always the voice of the until February 26, 1927, when her Nothing more was heard of her sary to rush one woman to hos- "I am convinced that Baby e federation was raised, in connection brother-in-law, Mr. Lloyd, who lives pital in the rescue van.
Owa. Tablets warded off a fever with the May 30 incident of 1925. at Bourne, was informed by a news With the arrival of the rescue or other serious disease in its The foreign police were pictured as agency Ivan, which carries special gas-firat stage, and my child was assassine lurking in dark alleyways, answering to the description of Miss that a decomposed - body The escape of ammoula gas from masks, the firemen were able to saved from a long illness," says anxious to pounce upon and murder Daniels had been found in a wood refrigerating machinery at the enter the building, which was pre- Mrs. Talbot. "John was taken harmless Chinese, W Ewo Cold Storage Company, gas-maske were of little
viously impossible as the ordinary suddenly with feverishness. Becoming more ambitious, the
at Wimereux, near Boulogne. use His whole body became like a federation began to take a band in Shanghai recently caused a hurri against ammonia. Valves were furnace. He vomited food, was matters concerning the Nanking ed call for the Fire Brigade, who shut down, and the machinery, terribly restless all night, and did Government. Some of their actions rescued workers by means of lad brought to a standstill, thus stop-nothing but ery. He could hard were regarded as not favourable to ders and finally, wearing gas
ping further leakage of gas. ly raise his head. I had heard the present Government. The re The Condition of the atmosphere of wonderful cures by Baby's cult was that the Nanklag Govern- masks, managed to shut off the may be gauged from the result on Own Tablets and gave him two ment took action plant Thanks to a strong wind the vanish of the scaling ladders Tablets which acted easily on his In compliance with an order by most) the gas was poor dissipat This was turned to jelly by the peacefully to sleep On waking bers of the federation ceased to be used to each valves on the roof. bowels, after which he went the Chinese Government themen- ed, although the pungent atmos chemical Action of the gas.. Hoses he took food and mended rapid active politically, and at the same phere was clearly to be noticed for were laid on with spraying nozzles ly
The reason for the leak of gas
Baby was crack which developed in the cylinder head of the With the machinery In
in order to absorb some of the ammonia in the air in the bulld ing, and this had a beneficial easor effect,alded by the strong wind
pers that was blowing
time the federation was declared Tablets, the famous dissolved. On Friday the documenta stomach and records ware handed over to the are ob- local Kuomintang, and the federa
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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or game 6-Laughing
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15-Vary fleshy
18-Musical nota 19-italian for Rome 21-Assisted 22-Not alssed 24-Greek long E -25-Mineral spring
26-French for barn 28-Before
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vehicle.
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equal 5-Hastened
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10-To enare
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patricia
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by
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25-Boy's name, (short) 27-Female sheep 20-Entire
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