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In the Colony Without a Valid Passport.
POSSESSION OF A PISTOL.
THE
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A PARSON AND A VILLAGE IDIOT.
A Collar That Was Desired.
Evidence was heard by Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police: Court this morning.in the case in which George Arthur De Houx De! Fastree, a motor engineer of France, is charged with possession
We were talking of idiots and the of an automatic pistol, and with antipathy they arouse in soma peo- being in the Colony without valid pie. I said that I was almost al- ways frightened of them, even in Mr. L. H. V. Booth, Assistant cases when I knew them to be harm- Director of Criminal Intelligence, less. The Vicar got up and knock- prosecuted, and Mr. Leo D'Almada ed out his pipe on the edge of his (junior), was for the defence."
mantelpiece.
passport.
By L. A. G. Strong.
few seconds. it was limp. and dead. Then he dropped it, looked dully at his bleeding hands, and slouched away,
"After that, reason with myself how I would, I could not be at ease with him. The scene had made a great impression on me; I saw it over and scarcely ace a cat, much less Sam, over again. I could
my nerves and I became really terri without remembering. It got on
Capt. Guy R. Bass, Secretary and "Yes," he said, fishing for his Chief Police Officer of the Kulang pouch and starting to fill the pipe Municipal Council administering again. the International Settlement of Idiots of every kind filled me with "I used to be that way too, Kulangsa, Amoy, gave evidence in' repulsion. regard to the validity of the pass the sight of them, much less having this, and his manner
I could not even bear fied of Sam. He was quick to notice port. He said that he knew
the' to
towards me talk to. them. defendant as George Houx for, as you know, I don't mind them at into the ditch when I passed him. But now, changed. He would sidle furtively about four and a half years in' al." Amoy. Defeldant did, during his
To everyone else, from the Squire time there, apply for avise to the feeling 7"
"How did you manage to get over downwards, he would bellow a greet- come to Hong Kong. On or about The Vicar laughed. October 13 or 14 of last year, wit- "In the most curious
ing, but when he met me he was mum. His vacant gaze would focus ness was sitting and talking with he replied.
matner," on me, and, though I assured myself H.B.M':. Consul (Mr. Grant Jones) rules of conventional psychology I swear he was looking at my neck. "In fact, by all the that it must be only fancy, I could in the latter's office, when a card ought to be forty times was brought in bearing the name Still, things don't always work out was, becoming an obsession with me; worse. I told myself the affair with the cat George Houx. Witness withdrew according to the text-books. to the verandah and stayed there.!
still, no amount of reasoning seem- "It was one particular idiot who ed any use, and He heard the defendant ask for a'cured me.
I grew more and At the time I was more uneasy, vise. The Consul said, "But what vicar of a little parish in Devon, on, "This being so, you can judge my nationality are you?" Houx's re- the borders of the moorland. ply was, "I am an unacknowledged the churches in Devon
All consternation when, after locking up French subject."
are either the church one dark October eve- down in a valley or up on a hilltop. ning, I found Sam lurking in the Replying to Counsel for the de Mine was on a hilltop, with a little lane outside the lich-gate. fence, Capt. Bass said that it was narrow laneway leading up to it. obviously waiting for
He was his intention not to be observed by It was a regular test of piety in bad soon as I appeared he rose from the me. Аб because the election has gone the defendant and it was possible weather, against them. That would be to that defendant did not know that neither here nor
can tell you; but that's hedge and shuffled into the road. ing too optimistic a view of thing he (witness) was on the verandah. idiot of whom I am speaking lived hilltop for me to see him.
there. The There was just light enough on the Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 12, 1932. And, if the Matin's recent dis- Answering further
Be- questions, in the village. closures of an amazing Hitler witness said the Consul's closing-Sam Pengelly.
He was called Sam tween the high hedges he would be document entitled "Secret Instruc- remarks to Houx
I conceived a invisible, and so I resolved at once were that he horror of him the first time I saw tions" are not simply election pro-could not grant a vise, and advised him, and though everyone told me Once past him, I made no doubt of to try and get past him in the open. paganda to discredit the Hitler Houx to see the French Consul. he was harmless I found it almost my ability to run for it if necessary. xroup and wreck its chances at the Mr. d'Almada-You did not impossible to belleve them. Не polls, then there is trouble ahead think it your duty to stay in the had the usual vacant face, plus a made pass him.
***Good evening, Sam,' I said, and By a comfortable majority Mar- which will require not alone tact room.
Then my heart ahal Von Hindenburg, the Grandbrder to cope with and overcome and diplomacy but courage of high
wide, slobbering mouth and huge jumped, for he suddenly stretched Witness-No.
red hands, and his arms his long arms and barred my way. Old Man of the Land of the Black so that, as Dr. Bruning has said, Bass said that from previous con- frankly afraid of the fellow. Yet village, and we were quite alone. I Replying to his Worship, Capt. were long like an ape's. I WAS "It was a good half-mile to the Eagle, has been re-elected Presi- "Germany may live.".
versations he had with Houx, he he had never been known to harm dent of the German Realm, and the dressed to. the leaders of National born in France, had evaded mili-he bit his mother.
The instructions, which are ad-came to the conclusion that he was anyone except on one occasion when den anger that
remember, even in my fear, a sud- new President of the Reich. And Socialist shock troops, state:--
this dangerous creature should be at large and a so the dream of a Third Realm of
tery duty, and was consequently "He never tried it again. Mrs. sort of triumph that I had judged the "Dritte Reich," as it has been
disowned.
Pengelly wasn't one you'd take him correctly. The hearing was adjourned to liberties with at any
I pushed forward time of the termed, which so many, within and
Thursday afternoon.
as hardily as I could, day, and she well knew how to
"Sam! How dare you! without Germany, thought immin-
handle her Sam.
Let She shut him out me pass this instant.' ent, has been postponed for some
in the yard, and wouldn't give him
"The bluff almost succeeded. For time to come, and may, if the
any dinner. "Thee has tried to a moment he wavered, and with eat me,' she said. 'Very well, then, little enough dignity I scurried world is really on the way to re-
I be thy dinner. Eat me, if thee past; but his great hands shot out covery, never come true at all.
want dinner.' But Sam wouldn't and held me. The decision in favour of Hinden-
Discussing Acan marriage try it on, and when she'd starved "'Na, na,' burg is not surprising. It reflects
customs, Archdeacon Owen, a well-all the fight out of him, she lammed Gimme.' known Kenya cleric, has declared him with a broom handle and kept the sound commonsense of the
"At his touch I turned almost mad that in response to a request from him on short rations for a week. with repulsion. majority, who realised that life in
native Christiana, the wording of That about cured him of any can-
I've learned to use the Third Realm was impossible,
my hands, and I hit him with all The "Secret Instructions" go on changed from "With this ring I had.
the marriage ceremony has been nibalistic tendencies he may have my might, once, and once and who appreciated the fact that, to state that the shock troopa com- thee wed" to "With these cattle I couldn't get over my fear. Reason feeling as if the earth had crashed I knew all about it, but I The next Instant I was on my back, again. as it has been said, "a fantastic can be transported within 48 hours
prise 520,000 men, all of whom thee wed."
has very little to do with these up and struck me. flight across chaos could not be to any part of Germany either by
antipathies.
Na, "Soon after I came to the parish Gimme, now."
I must, I must, then. sustained." That is precisely, the rall or motor coach.
there was an sort of life Hitler indicated for
incident which in- "It was the same crooning, Booth- Germans.
creased the feelings I had about ing tone he had used to the cat. Ho They are not having
The Vicar took a reminiscent pull him. One blazing hot day a cat was kneeling on my arms and his any of it, at any rate, for the pre-
at his pipe and chuckled.
fell into an "About half an hour afterwards near the vicarage garden and went my throat,
old disused brick-plt great red hands were fumbling at sent, The result of the election
The document gives other parti-there was the most tremendous sen- mad from thirst.
We held a con- would seem to indicate that the culars about rapid mobilisation sation at the village inn. The door sultation as to the best means of alone, unhurt, fingering my
"A minute later I was standing, elimax of the National Secialist and outlines how post offices, tele- was pushed open, and in strutted putting the poor beast out of its My shirt was torn and my collar neck. phones, and telegraphe will be Sam Pengelly, proud as a peacock, misery, and the gardener had just had disappeared." movement in Germany has been seized, and orders the occupation wearing my collar. passed, at least from the spiritual of all town halls. Orders are also
hobbled off home to fetch his shot- "I heard from his mother after-gun when Sam came forward and
(Continued at foot of Column 5) point of view.
given for a pioneer corpa to des-wards that the poor fellow had been peered into the pit.
He called onge Dr. Bruning, in one of his final troy all railway lines leading to fascinated by it for a long time, and or twice to the cat, and then look- election speeches on behalf of military garrisons.
had pestered her with requests to ed about him.
Ten Years Ago. Hindenburg, declared that, if Ger-
On the ground was In addition to being sent to buy him one like it at Tavistock a ladder which someone had brought many was to live, Germans must "Nazi" leaders the orders are stat- market.
Since she wouldn't take to rescue the animal, not realising
(From the "Chins Mall" of return Hindenburg. In one sened to apply to those members of him seriously, in despair he had re-that it was mad.
April 12, 1922.1 tence he accurately expressed how the palice force and the Army who course to the more direct expedient perly knew what he was about Sam Before we pro matters stood, and there appears are illiated to or sympathetic to- of taking it forcibly from my neck. seized this ladder and lowered it to be little doubt that the German wards the "Nazi" cause,
That, you see, was the explanation into the pit; then, shaking off our
The of the glances which had so much hands, he climbed down. people appreciated fully the truth
Hong Kong Government alarmed me. He was afraid at first)
seems to be terring afraid that its "The cat retreated and crouched wall-meant intentions' would only that I would be very angry within a corner, its eyes regular slits of do barm if it, attempted to reform him; but I made up two or three of fire. Crooning to it, Sam advance the slavery system that obtains in my old collars in a parcel and gave ed slowly, his great hands open. It the Colony. Mr. Winston Chur- them to him myself. After that was an extraordinary sight. For cbill, however, has stated in Parlia
of what Dr. Bruning said..
But, perhaps, the chief fact,
of Hindenburg, is that they failed
which has defeated the opponents
"In case Hither does not succeed in being elected Pre- sident of the German Repub. lic, all shock troop chiefa are to order their men to remain qulet and avoid provoking members parties." The document proceeds;-
"In the course of 1932 Hitler will certainly assume power; if not legally, then methods of force will have to be employ. ed."
of the opposition
"All these men, who in 1930 and 1931 have had machine gun training, are to join their regional groups."
News in Brief.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board
to tell the German people what will be held at 4.15 p.m. today. they would do and in what way they would improve the situation.
Lowest open air
"WITH THESE CATTLE="
New Marriage Words For Natives.
(Continued from last Column.)
he babbled. 'Na.
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he became almost embarrassing in some seconds the two mad things ment that both he and Sir Reginald his devotion to me, following me eyed each other, then-I can't say Stubbs are determined to put an temperature everywhere about the place, anxious whether the cat sprang first or Sam end, to the system. Nothing, has At any rate, what they did say yesterday was 68. Humidity at to do anything that I might ask there was a sudden fash of move actually been done as yet, except was nebulous and unconvincing. 10 am, was 93 and at 4 p.m. 99. It was decidedly unsatisfying.
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him. He proved quite teachable ment and Sam's hands were round that the Governor has
And it was all these things, be-.
up to a point, and finally I promoted the cat's neck. The beast struggled instructed to issue a proclamation Bean cause they themselves had no clear metal cigarette case,
We are in receipt of an attractive him to doing all sorts of odd jobs frantically, gashing 'Sam's hands that the system "as It exists in cut conception of what they would Graeco-Egyptian Tobacco and Coffee friends, and after a while I found murmuring endearments, and in a pleed in Hong Kong.
from the about the church. We became great and wriste, but he held it fast, China" will not in future be recog do and how they would do it. Store, Pedder, Street.
Hindenburg's decision, which he case takes the form of a leather of him had gone. He was just like This handy to my surprise that all my old fear took after much thought-there bound volume, and is well finished in a child a rather backward child of was a time when he felt his years brown and gold. and had no desire for the fray and
about Ave or six"
The Vicar stretched out his feet
the responsibility it meant he An after dinner musicale will be and looked meditatively uy at the must shoulder-will be counted to held at the Helena May Institute on celling.
.
Him as among the great services Friday, commencing at. 9 p.m. An "I've always been grateful for he has rendered his people and the excellent programme has been ar that litle encounter outside the Fatherland.
ranged, and the Concert promises to church" he said, "for it cured ma
Of course, it is not to be ex-be the finest et given at the In- of my fear, and It's always a good pected that the Hitler and other
stitute. Leading local artister will thing to be pured of any Zear." opposition. groups are done with,
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