FRIDAY JULY 3, 1931,
YANGTSZE TRADE CRIPPLED
Little Cargo Reaching Hankow.
TROOP MOVEMENTS.
Hankow, June 19.
Just when, after almost six months of comparative peace, it looked as if business along the Kinhan Railway were looking up, the wholesnic commandeering of milway stock for troop: move ments to the South has inflicted a blow on trade from which it will take months to recover.
It is still possible to get cargo down the line, by paying for the hire of a railway car from the militarist who is holding it for the moment. But the uncertain ty as to how long the cargo will take on its journey to Hankow, and also whether or not the truck
THE CHINA MAIL.
PICTURES SOLD TO FIGHTER PLANES. WIFE WHO WILL NOT
PAY THE RATES.
Louis Wain's Appeal from Asylum,
TRAGEDY OF A GENIUS.
Five "Faireys" for Belgium.
GREAT PERFORMANCES.
Rugby, Yesterday,
The first five of a large number
of of Fairey Firefly fighter aeroplanes
1
RETURN HOME,
Can a Man Be Retried
for Same Offence?
A MOOT POINT.
remain side the wells for a "We have had to sell some night by getting five shop guar-jour pictures to pay the rates. The
The question as to whether or I will be delivered next week to re- not a person acquitted and dis aidees; that is to say. by being outlook is almost hopeless. I am Government, for whose Air Force one magistrate could be recharg
| Presentatives of the
Belgian charged of an alleged offence by sponsored by five merchants afraid that the old home that Louis they have been ordered. whose good name is well known leved so much will have to go-but, in the district. If he is unable he must not know."
to get these guarantees or, in
is now 11
Was
They are capable of astonishing performances, and during the con- structors' test this week one of them dived at a speed of 884 miles
to
ed with a similar offence and tried before another magistrate, was a moot point before Mr. G. C. This pathetic admission
Dodd, the Singapore Criminal some cases, to prove his bona made to me by Miss Claire Waln, an hour, and climbed
District Judge, when a Chinese fides in another fashion satisfac-one of the greatest living black-metres in 542 seconds..
6,000 woman charged her husband tory to the city defence council, and-white artists-the genius who
with failing to maintain her. Captain Staniland, the chief the Chinese is politely escorted made, the world laugh and ery with Company, also conducted further woman, was represented by Mr. The complainant, Lee Jec, who test pilot of the Fairey Aviation was described as a very poor to the city gate at sundown and his immortal lightning sketches of successful tests yesterday, of told that he must find his night's cats-whe
the C. H. Withers Payne and the ac hopeless long-daitance Fairey Napier macused husband, Ang Tian-cho. lodging elsewhere. In no circum-patient in a London County Coun- chine which will shortly be handed was represented by Mr. A. V. L. stances is he allowed to remain. [cil mental home, writes a Daily over to the Air Ministry.
Davies. This giant monoplane is built to Express Special Representative.
When the case was called, Mr. carry more than 1,000 gallons of Davies said that he had a pre-
· Louis' one The merchant volunteers them-
whenever his petrol in the wings, which have liminary objection *to make It is hoped against the proceedings. Refer- will be stopped en route and selves are in most parts a worthy
"Save the old a span of 82 feet. home." He thinks he may even the new machine will attempt to Code annotated by Mr.
that, within the next few weeks, ring to the Criminal Procedure taken over by another general body of men. They have re-
B, A. not in the original bargain displaced the cut-throat hirelings of yet be able to come out fit and break the world's long distance Mallal, Mr. Davies said that Ang a few years ago, who often found well, but they know that he never non-stop flight record of 4,012 Tian-cho, was tried before Mr. courages many ventures of his
it more to their advantage to will.
miles-British Wireless Service. C. H. Whitton, the Singapore description:
Fourth Police Magistrate, on May 14 on the charge of failing to maintain his wife and he was Exemption of Playing.ing that there were not sufficient discharged, the magistrate hold. Fields.
Business, it may be said, is at a standstill, since much of the trade done along this line is in material which is perishable or deteriorates rapidly, and it is not worth the trader's while to take the chance of longing 'part or all of his shipment.
From the point of view of Ho- nan, where a vigorous provincial Government appears to have set about the task of restoring order, this condition is particularly dis- appointing. For many years the province has been so ravaged by bandits and deserted troops that trade to any extent at all has only been carried on precariously for all concerned. “Any sign of å resolute determination to sup- press the bandit pest would have received the enthusiastic sup port of the
native merchant classes. For long now these
classes have carried on business
For Hearth and Home.
ers, sisters, visit him, is
side with the bandits than do. He has lost everything-the for-
their duty in defending the tune he made out of drawing cats, the many friend's he stood by and úgainst town.
their attacks. helped in their hard-up days They are well equipped with everything but his priceless gift to rifles and ammunition: often sketch and paint. better equipped than the bandits. Louis. Wain's greatest solace in And they have also the assistance his asylum captivity is to draw. of a rabble of the poorer inhabit. Even noy, at seventy years of age, unts who can come to their aid he is still painting pictures of cater in moments of stress armed with yes, pictures which make his at-
A New Talent;'
LAND TAX,
A CLIMB DOWN.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Government having decided
grounds for a conviction on the uncorroborated evidence of the wife alone of cruelty and there- fore the accused was entitled to an, acquittal,
Cruelty Alleged. ·
spears and scythes-formid-lendants roar with merriment, and to accept the Liberal Party's pro- able band of pikemen when they would still make his name famous, posal for exemption of all playing
In reply to his Honour, Mr. are defending their homes and if he were a young and unknown fields from the land tax, when the Davies said that in the previous stances, then, the towns often womenfolk. "In the circum-artist.
exemption clause comes before the case the wife had alleged that House of Commons. this afternoon she was compelled to leave her prefer to be left to their own de- People who have seen
the Chancellor of the Exchequer,husband's house owing to his vices by the military.
these Mr. Philip Snowden, will move a cruelty and he had failed to ment garrisons are not discours when he was at the height of his embodies the Liberal proposals.
Govern-asylum, sketches, and knew his art
Government
which maintain her since then. amendment aged, but in a city weil organised fame and a quarter of a centary
Mr. Withers Payne held that within Rself, they are not asked ago, say that his real genius is stage of the Finance Bill, which affect his ease.
At to-night's session, the report the previous acquittal could not It was a con- only now showing itself. the country districts, where disorder, has revealed a talent for reading of the Bill will be taken ago was no answer to the charge tax proposals, tinuing offence and what he said Louis, in his old age and mental will be concluded, and the third was that an acquittal' a month farms are scattered and waller painting pictures of nature studies to-morrow-British. Wireless Ser- of not maintaining his wife now. villages are few. These bave no-charming scenes defences against the bandits save graphed their beauty on his brain
which, photo-vice.
The offence with which the ac- cused was now charged was sub vice. Upon news that handits of misfortune after misfortune. a well-developed intelligence ser-before it gave way under the stress
sequent to his acquittal. Coun- are approaching, all who can do
sel said that on the facts as they These masterpieces are produced
are the accused had committed an offence.
for.
It is different., however, with
so flock into the nearest walled out of the crudest materials-the city, with families. cattle and cheapest of paints, the commonest implements.. There they shelter of drawing paper. He draws on until the bandits have moved on,paints on every-thing on which he taking a share in the defence of lean produce a picture. Sometimes the city if need be. When the It is on the lid of a cardboard box, district is safe again, they re-sometimes
embodies the land
GERMAN FLEET.
Visit of a British.
Admiral.
against obstacles which in any country other than China would have been regarded as insuper- able. Only the native trader's extraordinary powers of recovery from plage and looting have made any sort of business at all possible. And it is thus doubly hard on him that. at a time when he may be able to get a little of turn to their homes, often to find ordinary notepaper or the back holm to-day in eommand of the vided his mother, his sister and
it "ja Д piece of Admiral Rushton leaves Stock them, burnt and looted the of a handbill-and he creates a cruisers Dorsetshire and Norfolie able to take away either stolen few things they have been unpleture of great beauty..
his own back, trouble should have broken out in Canton and that troops should have been withdrawn from his protection to meet the Communist menace,
The merchants also suffered from the raving bands through
Sacred Trust. the dislocation of means of
Every fortnight two of his communication between cities, sisters go to see their brother in when bands are about. Thus the home, and every time the old they have welcomed the garri artist sees them he asks about his soning of cities at intervals house, and pleads with them not along roads likely to be raided by to let it go. the bandits.
FIRST SINCE 1914.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Producing a copy of the in- formation sworn by the wife and on which a summons was issued, Mr. Davies read the portion read- ing, "I am quite willing to return and, live with my husband pro-
his second wife leave the house."
Mr. Davies. said that if she
wanted to return to her husband
is
he was quite willing to maintain
of
un-
her "but this lady won't." She had not shown any reason why she should not return to her hus-
WAS
on an unofficial visit to the German It is six years since Louis Wainfleet at. Kiel. or wantonly destroyed. The only went into a mental home, and in salvation for this class is the these brief years his name
The informality of the visit There is no doubt but that the military, and until an ordered fame are almost forgotten.
and due to the desire on the part Government's success in the last campaign has cleaned up the
both Governments to avoid No one seems to remember him, necessary expente/ war against Marshal Feng Yu-robbers there seem little chance now, except a very few faithful hsiang and General Yen Hsi-chan of their benefitting from the im- friends, and his three devoted the rank of
Admiral Rushton, who then. had restored the people's waning con- proved situation.
Commander, fidence. Up to that victory the
sisters one hopeless invalid-present as an executive officer of province had largely been in the Communications Hampered. who are struggling against odds to the light cruiser Southampton dur. "grey" zone. Part of it still is
keep his home intact.
ing the last visit of the British in the "grey" zone, but the great
Navy to Kiel, in 1914, shortly er area has been under the more
before the ontbreak of war. ordered rule of generals appoint
British Wireless Service.. ed by Nanking. These Generals have in the main proved their capabilities by definitely curbing the bandits, extending road building, and keeping their sol- diers under control. The popula tion has been given a breathing space of which it has taken ad- vantage. Confidence in a regime which has brought about this very welcome condition has rap- idly grown. And while it would he idle to pretend that there are not abuses of examples of ill rule, there is nevertheless a general feeling of optimism, a belief that the dawn of better days has
come,
Self-Defence Organised, Due credit must be given to the Government for this state of affairs. The large part played
The presence of These women regard it as
GERMANRIPPER."
Duesseldorf, Yesterday. Peter Kuerten, the self-con-
these troops,, who are of a better sacred trust to keep Louis old fessed "Ripper" murderer, was and more disciplined class than home intact during his lifetime, guillotined here this morning those of the days of the "grey" although they know quite well that Reuter.
Generale, is often enough to he will never live in it again.
•
frighten the bandits off the main I spent an afternoon in Louis' talised in thousands of Louie' highways.
house in Brondesbury, and heard sketches. From conversations. with from one of his sisters, Mies Claire
band and live with him. In fact a room had been kept vacant for her. In her husband's house and the room was still vacant,
"Assaulted in Offence." When a wife is forced to leave by cruelty she cannot be expect. ed to go back," Mr. Withers Payne replied. "She has been to his office and she was assaulted.” 1. "La wife can go to her hus- band's office she can very well go: home," Mr. Davies remarked.
"I can get an appeal against the previous acquittal," Mr. Withers Payne informed. Davies's reply.
"It is too late now," was Mr.
Mr. Withers Payne said that One of the sisters picked up a the wife was a very poor woman several foreigners who have been Wain a clever artist herself the dozen or so of her brother's asylum and he could get an appeal by living in the interior of the pro- tragic story of the famous artists's pictures, and sighed, "Poor Louis moving the Supreme Court. vince and are now on their way decline,
only his talent, left!? Louis fell off an omnibus in the
to various holiday resorts for the We sat in a room In which there
་་
Mr. Davies said that the cor-
peal and since the wife was a rect procedure was to get an ap
hot weather, it has been gather were three hundred cats bronzo early days of the war, and sustain ed that there is still a feeling cats silver cats, china cats, wooden ed, concussion of the brain. This poor woman he would not object that war is not far off. There is cats, cats of the past and cats of was the beginning of his misforto his learned friend's "applica an impression that, though Shth the future. ($) Yu-san may.be-loyal to Nanking
tunes. Then he lost his savings in tion for an extension of time. for the moment, his support is fortune of futurist, cats just before
Louis stood to make a new a company,ATIONA
His Honour adjourned the Misfortune followed misfortune case which was put down for a conditional. It is freely reported the war broke out, but the ahip with tragic swiftnens. He always fortnight for mention."," by the merchant himself must that he has already received. a carrying his models to England had his annual to rely on to re- not, however, be overlooked. very large sum of money from for them to be put on the market, plenish his dwindling income, but
Taught by years of bitter experi- the Government, and this may be was torpedoed by the Germans. the war stopped the paper supply, POISONED HOUNDS. ence, towns in the province have enough to keep him quiet while
Collapse
learnt to organise their own de General Chiang Kai-shek is busy pors delighted to send him cats
He loved cats, and his worship, and Laula Waja's annual censed, centre its Communists in own merchant volunteer corpa sl. and its own counell of defence. There is talk, however, of a to Louis from the tomb of Rameses for a whole week he never took off I was shown a cat which came Finally, his brain gave way, and The cities are still walled with secret conference held at Kian- the Second, and another cat, which his clothes. He spent the whole of mighty ramparts built hundreds chow in south-western Shansi of years ago. The defences are which was attended by most of Louts had longed for years to this time writing writing rub adequate against bandits insup the Generals who once served possess, came from the interior of bish as his sister told me. Then plied with artillery. The cities with Marshal Feng and General The man who sent it to him opent and he had to go to a mental are impregnable to everything Yen Hashan. This is a dif- but treachery, and the inhabit ferent conference from that held two years in his search for it. ants have taken steps to see that between ex-Kuominchun com- Clever Kit treachery cannot nullify their manders and the delegates from Louis Wain war only other precautions Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, in when he started drawing cate * Many, towns have during the the same province, at which the sisters gave him & black-and-
ars been sacked by problem of money was nain
subject
repor
Bion:
Indla
celled'
Police Inquiry into a Mystery of Strychnine.
DONE BY OBJECTOR?
• he could be restrained no longer, ev
What is suspected to be malicionie home poisoning of hounds is cecupying Mr Ramsay MacDonald, before the attention of the East Grinstead he became Prime Minister, in police. terested himself in, the, unhappy
Two Toxhounds belonging to the light of Louis Wain's three Eridge Hunt and an otterhous
fond was raised, and the Crowhurst
found were isters received:
dead recently and an exam
that they had died from fre: poisoning
two dead Tokes
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