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KISS ME, MY FOOL 17 ROBORT ARMSTRO: JEAN ARTI
China Mail.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1932.
GOOD MARATHON FIGURES.
McNab-Robertson Wins at A.A.A. Championships
SECOND BEST IN ENGLAND.
CANTON CHOLERA ON DARING ROBBERY AT
THE WANE.
TAI PO.
Government's Prompt Three Chinese Rob Foki
of $212.
Measures.
VICTIMS BOUND.
Stopping a moter lorry, driven by
Mr. Ho Lok, Commissioner of Public Safety for Canton, stated; London, Yesterday.
yesterday that cholera was on the D. McNab-Robertson
(Mary wane.
a shop foki, Nagi Yau, 88, accora- Hill Harriers) to-day came very
In spite of prompt measures en panied by a coolie, three Chinese, near to breaking H. Green's Eng-forced by the Government in lish record for the Marathon respect of restrictions. prohibiting Posing as searchers for contraband, when he clocked 2 hours 34 min- the sale of cut fruit, unboiled be-robbed the driver of $212. utes 32.8/5 seconds for the 25-verages, and ice cream, the cholera The foki, an employee of the Miles distance at the Amateur apread to Hong Kong, 16 cases Athletic Association Champion-being treated at the Tung Wah Was driving to the Tal Po market ships at the White City Stadium. Hospital on Tuesday last.
to buy pigs. Proceeding along Tai
It was only on June 27 that Paovo Nurmi broke Green's re- cord by covering the distance in 12 hours, 22 minutes, 4 seconds, | clipping off 7 minutes 25.2/5 seconds from the world record!- Reuter.
THEFT FROM POLICE SERGEANT.
Returned Banishee Jailed.
MR. JOHN LEE.
Former Member of Police Force.
OLD CHINA HAND.
Shan Hing Lung Co., pig dealers,
8
at about 4.40 a.m. this Green's figures are 5 minutes The Commissioner expressed the Po Road
One, waving an 3.1/5 seconds better than the hope that the Government would ing in the road. Mary Hill Harrier's effort, but encourage vaccination, or carry out morning, near the three-and-one-half McNab-Robertson's time stands free vaccination
mile post, he saw three men stand- for the poor as the second best in the British classes, so as to check the spread electric torch ordered him to halt. Isles.
Explaining that they were search- of the epidemic.
ing for contraband, they ordered him and his companion to come off the lorry. Upon alighting, pointed knife and a quanity of wire was produced.
Binding their victima with the wire under threat of the knife, they robbed the foki of his jacket con- taining $212 ($100 in big money and $100 in ten cent pieces). The There passed away in the Matilda money was the property of his Hospital, Mount Kellett yesterday master. His purse, containing $12;
taken. morning, one of the oldest British was also
Throwing the residents of the China Coast; in two behind some bushes at the side the person of Mr. John Lee, at the of the road, the trio of robbers then
direction age of 89 years. He joined the disappeared in the Tsang On, a returned banishee. Heng Keng Police Force in 1864, Shum Shui Po. was sentenced to ten months' hard rising to the rank of Inspector, and
latterly custodian Tabour by Mr. W. Schofield" in the was
of the YEN, QUO AND KOO Central Police Court this morning, Colony's recreation grounde, retir- for the theft of $2.40 from Sering from that port in 1928. geant Bowers, of the Shoukiwan・ Mr. Lee
was born on Decem Police Station. At the time of the ber 27, 1843, in Lincolnshire, Eng- theft, Sergeant Bowers was stay-[land. He went to sea at an early ing with Mr. and Mrs. J. Polson age, and in 1863 came to China as at their residence at Stanley Ter-a sailor in a barque of the British
Nanking, Yesterday. race, Taikoo. Inspector Stimson Borneo Co. bound at Shanghai.
The Nanking Central Political prosecuted
He arrived in Shanghai just before
Council, in conjunction with the having In the early hours of yesterday Christmas,
taken eight
Executive Yuan, to-day announced morning, Mr. Polson was awaken-months on the voyage. The sail-
the promotion of Messrs. W. W. ed by a noise. He found the deling vessel was then trading along fendant crouching at the foot of the coast of China to Manila and Yen (Minister to U.S.A.) and Quo Tal-chi (Minister to Great Britain) bia bed, in front of a settee. De- Bangkok. fendant had gained entrance by
HONOURED.
Ambassadorships Awarded.
of
as Ambassadorė. Official circles! climbing up the rear drainpipe, On August 10, 1864, Mr. Lee, consider the appointment of Mr. through a verandah, through the joined the Hong Kong Police, re-Wellington Koo as Ambassador to sitting room and into the bedroom, maining in the force until 1889. France a matter of time.
The thief was taken to Shauki- Then he was employed by a local The promotions were made fol- wan Police Station where he ad-Arm dealing in sugar, which firm lowing the three veteran Chinese mitted the theft.
was absorbed by the China Sugar officials' meritorious services to the Refining Co.
STUDENT RIOTS IN NANKING.
Many Arrested.
Nanking, Yesterday,
The Government is taking dras-
Іп 1817 he joined Police again, and Wiss moted to laspector,
Nanking Government in connection with their handling of the Sino-: the Japanese negotiations both in pro Shanghai and Geneva, The trio retiring will represent Nanking in the
in 1892, on pension. In 1915 League of Nations Convention in he was appointed custodian of the September when the Lytton Com- recreation grounds of Hong Kong.mission's report will be submitted
Mr. Lee, was married in Hong for the Powers' consideration.
Nanking believes that owing to
tic steps to curb the student riots. Kong, and had a son who served in Troops early this morning forcibly England and France during the the delays during the League Com- He died in Canton six years mission's tour in Manchuria, their entered the Central University and war. arrested the students responsible ago while in the Asiatic Petroleum report may not be ready for Geneva until September and on this ac- for the attack on the University's Co.
[count the League Assembly, may chancellor.
Deceased had been to England have to be postponed until Novem The students have been ordered only twice since he came out; ber-Reuter. to leave the University panding its the first time on the occasion of the re-organisation and the faculty Jubilee of Queen Victoris, and the have been relieved of their posts second time in 1523. He was an active and energetic man, spending
-Reuter..
GENEVA APPOINTMENT. ..: Geneva, To-day.
COMMUNIST WARS.
Nanking, Yesterday. his leisure time in poultry keeping Reports of Government victories and gardening.
in the anti-Communist campaign Mr. Lee's parents died very old, are still coming in, the latest Mr. Harold Beresford Butler, also his many brothers and sisters: success being the capture of Ho Deputy Director of the Inter-he was one of the youngest of his shan, in West Anhul. The Govern- national Labour Office, has been family, -
ment troops are now besieging the elected Director is succession to The burial took place yesterday Communist headquarters at Hochiu,{ the late Mr. Albert Thomas, by 21 evening in the Roman Catholic the capitulation of which is momen- votes out of 24.-Reuter.
tarily expected, Reuter.
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