WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930.
ROUND THE WORLD. FATE OF PRIESTS.
ADVENTUROUS AUSTRIANS
ARRIVE.
STILL IN HANDS OF BANDITS.
AMBITIOUS PROGRAMMÉ -
The Chida Mo was yesterday favoured with a visit from Mrs. J. Betty Starck, and Austrian, lady, who, together with her hitsband, is making a tour of the world.
The travellers left Vicntia in 1925, to make a tour of the world on horseback, and, laye since visiten Serbia, Greece, Kurdistan. Persia, Russia. Inding Burma, and the FMLS. They arrived here a couple of days ago from Saigon
aboard the as. Halvard,
NO RANSOMS.
Peking, Yesterday, interest in the fate of Father P. Latfan and Pather J. Lincham, of the St. Columbani's Mission, at Hanyang, who have been in the hands of bandits since April 26, has been reawakened by a Chinese report from Ichang that the cap- tives had been released.
Investigation disproved the re. port, but representatives of St. Columban's Mission are at the pre- sent time in chang endeavouring Mis. Starek, in an interview, to negotiate for their release.
the told the China Mait that Itinerary from now on included a trip to Shanghai. from there to Peking. and across the Behring Strait to Alaska. The travellers had already come, nerdss from Rast sin to Kashgar, and had a most hazardous trip through China. in the coarse of which it had been necessary to sell their horses.
The polley of St. Columban's Mission, like that of other missions in China, is not to pay any run- som as it is feared that such a pre- redent once set would make the lives of the missionaries doubly in- sueure.
Some weeks ago an intermediary visited the priests' captors and re- turned with the demand for $200.- In spite of numerous warnings.00) as ransom, also supplies of Further the intrepid pair, as shown by the arms and ammunition. diary kept by the lady. had negotiations followed hat have traversed some of the supposedly since broken down.
It was first reported that the most dangerous areas in China. "No- thing happened to us at all," said two priests had been shot down Mrs. Starek. smilingly. "Elthough when captured at Sletnochen. but we were never quite certain what this was found to be untrue. Both priests are Irish, one from Limerick „to expect."
Nanchang Threatened.
Our globe-trotting friends pro-and the other from Cork.} duced a book to show that, most of the newspapermen in the Far East had wished them God Luek,” on their venture, and accordingly the China Mail staff followed a good example.
Peking, Yesterday. Bandits are reported to have looted and partially destroyed Ki An, in north Kiangsi, and are again threatening Nanchang, the
Our good wishes go with the capital of Kiangsi Province. on their travels.
MASTER & MAN.
ALLEGED INCITEMENT TO STRIKE.
KNITTING FACTORY CASE.
The Chinese master of the Lam Lung Knitting Factory, 171 Tai Nam Street, was this morning charged before Mr. 1. R. Butters, with having assaulted Cheng Chun,
September 28, u loki, on
pleaded not guilty.
A number of missionaries from Nanchang are leaving for Kiu- kiang,
A. British Note.
Peking. Yesterday. It is understood that the British
Reuter.
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THE
BRAZIL'S REVOLT.
REBEL PORTS, CLOSED. BY GOVERNMENT.
MOVE AGAINST SHIPS.
Rugby, Yesterday, Information has 'bech received in London from Rio de Janeiro that the Brazilian Government has de- clared closed all ports held by the insurgents, including Pernambuco, and are anxious that no ships should call there.-British Wire- Jeas Service.
London, Yesterday. Despatches from correspondents at New York, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro give conilieting ne- counts of the progress of the re volation in Brazil.
is officially announced at Rio de Janeiro that the Federal forces have everywhere been successfu! and have cleared the rebels from the State of Minas Gernes, and are How attempting to encircle them;" but news from Buenos Aires and New York declares that the rebels are advancing on the capital, after Itaperuna, in Minas occupying Gerses and are also moving on Sao the Federals, Paulo after routing with heavy loas, in a five hours" battle near the Sao Paulo-Parena frontier-Reuter.
R.101 DISASTER.
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HONOUR FOR FRENCH AIR MINISTER.
TIMELY RECOGNITION.
Parls, Yesterday.
It is offcially announced that the Prince of Wales received the French Air Minister, M. Laurent
CHINA MAIL.
SHADOWS BEFORE
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Q.
NOTICE TO HOLDERS 'OF
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL. Entertainments. * To-day- Queen's Theatr "Sunny Side Up."
To-day-- Central'
on Parade." Paramount World. Theatre, 15th till FRIDAY, December Noah's Ark."
To-day - Star "Quality Street",
To-day-Majestic "Broadway Bables."
S.
Sports
Theatre
ARMS LICENCES.
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ROM WEDNESDAY, October
19th inclusive the Polite Revolvar Theatre. Range at Bowen "Road will be OPEN every WEDNESDAY and between, the Theatre; FRIDAY evening
hours of 5.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m., to to enable licencé. holders Sea Special Sports Diary on page, qualify for renewal of their Licences on January 1st, 1931. In order to avoid congestion on the Range Licensees requiring in- struction should attend FRIDAYS only.
Home Mails.' October 17-Inward from Europe via via Negapatam, (Karmala) Siberia (Hakone Maru); Outward (Torukuni for Europe via Siberia Maru) 16.30 am. (Karmala) 3.30 m. via Marseilles (Hakone Maru)
C p.m.
Lammerts Anetian. October 17-At Sales Room, large quantity of valuable household furniture, 2.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous To-morrow-Guild of Martha and Mary "At Home," St. John' Cathedral Hall. 5-7 p.m.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police. October, 14, 19:30.
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G.
R.
NOTICE:
IS REQUESTED that nli
To-morrow-Lecture by Prof. LI Civil Associations and Indivi-
Foster, University Arts Assen.
duals, who wish to place wreaths October 20-Bridge and Mab on the Cenotaph at the conclusion
of
ARMISTICE Jong Drive in aid of H.K.W.G. & the Service on M.C.L. funds, Peak Club, 3.30 p.m.DAY, will kindly inform the un- October 21-Lee Theatre; "The dersigned, in writing, before Oc- Royal Navy Ashare and Afloat," 9tober 22nd, so that accommoda- tion may be arranged within the October 21-Public lecture at Police barrier.
Father Helena May Institute by Finn, 5.30 p.m.
p.mt.
VERGIL'S BIRTH.
BI-MILLENARY CELEBRATED
TO-DAY.
Two thousand years ago, Octo- ber 15, B.C. 70, there was born of the world's rear Mantua
(Sd.) E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police. Hong Kong. October. 14, 1930.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ENTRIES-Ninth Extra Meeting, 1930.
CLASSIFICATION of
Entries for the Bonham Handi-
Legation has sent a strong Note to Eynat, at St. James's Palace, and supreme poets, Publius Vergilius T PONIES will not be com- Nanking regarding the brutal mur-
This great man's closing of entries. der, by Communist bandits, of Miss Knight Grand Cross of the Bri- Maro, commonly known as Vergil pleted before the time fixed for the Owners are requested to enter Harrison and Miss Nettleton.tish Empire, to mark His Majesty's or Virgil.
satisfaction with his assistance character and life were as beauti
ful and scrapulously clean and for class handicaps in the usual following the R101 catastrophe.
at polished as his writings. Like our manner. The British Government is present considering the most suit-own Milton and Tennyson, whom able manner of recognising the he influenced greatly. Vergil lived cap and Caine Handicap will be ac- to write. That was his mission, cepted irrespective of the letters services rendered by the local au-
He was a good man, a loyal friend, denoting Class under which they thorities and population-Reuter.
pure in character, greatly beloved, are made. honoured when living, revered and lamented when dead. After his death his fame grew steadily, and during the Middle Ages both the
RED MENACE.
SHIPS FIRED ON ALONG YANGTSZE.
Shanghai, Yesterday. According to reports from Han- Hekow the Communist mehace along. the Yangtsze continues unabated.
NEW AIR ROUTES.
Cheng told the Court that the During the past few days several R.A.F. EXPEDITION IN WEST poot and his writings were regard-
defendant was his master, and that Japanese steamers, including two on the day in question he (Cheng)gunboats, were fired on between received a letter from his brother Hankow and Ichang, by Com-
AFRICA:
Rugby. Yesterday,
to return to the country. He asked munists from the river banks.
A Royal Air Force expedition Relief from the present situa. permission to leave, and the de- fendant refused, at the same time tion is presaged by the decision left Khartoum to-day on a tour he assaulted him by punching him of the National Government to of hitherto unexpected areas in a few blows in the chest. He said launch a large scale campaign for West Africa. New air routes will that a foki naw the fight, but whe-the suppression of the Com- be investigated during the five British Wireless ther that fok! would come to Court munists, especially those along weeks' tour. to give evidence was hard to say, the valley of the Yangtsze. This Service. because he was afraid of the defen-has hitherto dant.
been impossible
- owing to the civil war.-Reuter.
Interposing, Folice Sergeant H.
G. Baker told the Magistrate that
the complainant at first accused the
defendant and another man of hav-
NORTHERN WAR.
ing pushed him over the verandah. SHANSI FORCES CONTINUE TO
A detective made enquiries Into
the matter, and found out that the complainant jumped over the ver andah himself, fracturing his ankle. 1
WITHDRAW..
Peking, Yesterday.
The Shansi forces continue to
DAY IN JAIL
SENTENCE ON A DUTCH CAPTAIN.
The Hague, Yesterday.
former Captain Borren,
comTM
the rald by Venezuelan
ed as almost sacred...
Waen Vergil's first poems, ten pastorals called Eclogues, were published every one in Augustan
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
By Order,
Hong Kong, 15th October, 1930.
MOTOR ACCIDENT
$10 YEARS.
Rome who read them recognised WARDER'S CAR KILLS BOY OF that a great poet, sounding a fresh note and master of the Latin tongue, had arisen..
laurente.
of
DASH ACROSS STREET.
In the golden literary age
A fatal motor accident was re- Rome-the age of Lucretius, Catul- lus, Horace, Livy. Tacitus, etc ported to the Polid by Warder Vergil Was the acknowledged Connell yesterday.ording to But despite the favour his statements it appears that he of the great Augustus and the
was returning to his home at No. respect and adulation of all the 6g Wong-net-chbag Rójj at 7 p.m. cultured people of the Roman He was driving a lite ear and
country-bred poet
when he arrived at Queen's Road longed for green pastures and East, just near Tal Wong Street, a frequently escaped to his country Chinese lad dashed across the retreat. And so it is not surpris street.
world,
the
ing to learn that his next publica-
The boy was knocked down and tion, one which placed him at the sustained serious head injury. He withdraw to passes on the Provin- mander of the troops at Curacao, head of Roman poeta, was "The was promptly removed to the Gov- The Manchurians has been sentenced by the Mill-Georgics" which deals with counernment Civil Hospital and died Continuing, complainant said cial border. that he was chased out to the ver- have now occupied the Railway tary High Court of Justice to one try life and the art of husbandry there at 10.80 last night.
Augustus then asked Vergil to The unfortunate lad's identity andah on the first floor by the de- as far as Sin Lo, only waiting for day's imprisonment in connection write something in an imperial has not as yet been established. fendant, of whom he was not the withdrawal of the last Shan-with
result, *The Aeneid," which afraid. Cheng called out "save si unit to occupy Shihchiachuang, filibusters on June 6, 1929, when strain. The poet complied and the His age was given as 10 years old.
describes in noble Janguage and life" because he wanted help. He the famous pass on the Shansi was of opinion that the defendant frontier, and it is expected that
and adventures of Acneas, the would kill him. Cheng denied hav- they will shortly control as far as
majestic, imagery the wanderings ing jumped over the verandah him the Yellow River.-Reuter,
mythical founder of Rome, is one BREACH OF REGULATIONS OF of the greatest of all poems.
SALE. self and said that he was pushed
Vergil was busy furbishing this over. He was detained in the hos pital for two weeks.
Asked if he had anything to say, defendant replied: that the com- plainant had been enticing other fokia to strike. Since then six out
of seven had. left.
At this stage. Sergeant Baker said that they would call witnesses
living opposite the factory..
The case was remanded till to- morrow.
WILFUL DAMAGE.
JW
IRON HOOKS, WRENCHED FROM BUILDING.
A case of wilful damage was brought to the notice of Mr. H. R. Butters at, the Kowloon Court this morning when a Chinees workman was charged with the larceny of several iron hooks.
Dotective-Sargeant W. G. Hum- phreys informed his Worship that the accused was employed in a bull- ding site adjoining the new Wing Lock Building opposite the Star Theatre, Yesterday, the accused: went to the latter place and wrench- ed the iron hooks from the walls. Hohad caused a considerable amount of expanse and troublo
His Worship sentenced the man to six weeks hard labouriel
the defence forces were taken un- awares and the Governor and other officials were carried off and subsequently released. Reuter.
Unique Christening at Banff
was witnessed recently at the Banff Springs Hotel when Hida Banff Rocky Morutain Goat, 36- hour-old Stony Indian papoose (inset) was christened in the court ramed, at the hotel in the presence of around 500 gruenta and with A. H. Devenish, manager of the hotel, sid Mrs Devenish, unting/ws/God? father and Godmother,Fl. Left us Rocky Mountain Goat, Deyanlık, holding pap
Noah Becky Mountain Gouty moth-
SKIMMED MILK.
mighty epic when he was seized To-day Heung Kan, of 32, Hai- with a violent sickness, and, feel- phong Road was summoned before ing that his hour was come, gave Mr. H. R. Butters with having ex- orders that the unpolished mss posed for sale at his shop, should be burned. Fortunately machine-skimmed tins of milk, the Augustus' forbade such.
tins not bearing the words in Eng- trophic act, and to-day the master-ish and Chinese: This Is skim- piece thus saved from the flames
catas
is one of the six greatest poems in med milk. Children under the age of one year should not be fed on the world.
"it."
he Defendant pleaded that bought his stock from the Siu Yick shop, Hong Kong. The tins were marked with that phrase in English, but not in Chinese.
A fine of $25 was imposed
As his great admirer, Tennyson, aays of him: teked Roman Vergil, thou that singest-
Illon's lotty temples robed. In fire, lon falling, Rome arising,
wars, and flial faith, and Dido's
Landscape-lover, lord of language
more than he that sang the Works
and Days," All the chosen, coin, of, fancy
flashing out from many a golden
phrate; ***
CAFE PAVILION.
SUMMONS IN CONNECTION WITH
BAKEHOUSE./.
Thea that aingest wheat and woode tilth and vineyard, Live' and horse
Contravention of the by-laws and herd; giftfrgIESKEY
governing bakehouses, formed the All the charm of all the Muses
often flowering in a lonely word: gist of a summons taken out by Sanitary Inspector .. Gellatly on Now thy Forum roark no longer,
fallon every purple Caesar's demerJohn Videro, owner of the Cafe Pavilion bakery, 96, Nathan The thine ocean roll of rhythm
Aound for over of Imperial Rome Road. Now slid Rome of slaves hath parish'd and the Rome of freemen holds her
place, FORTRESS
from out the Northern Island
The Bummons was mentioned ba for Mr. H. R Butters at the Kow loon Magistracy this morning Senior Sanitary Inspector
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vsündar'd once from All the human Taylor for the prosecution, suld
Malaga Bagel that he understood that a solici~||
aalute Thee, Mantovano,
tor would appear for the defen- that loved thee since my day bedah
Wielder of the statellest measureHis Worship adjourned the hear
ever moulded by the lips of man. ing for 24 hours.
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