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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1933.
SCOTS FOR
SCOTTISH
REGIMENT Recruiting Figures Rising.
year.
was
9,000 WANTED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story.
HIGH
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CLOSING
U.S. FACES
INCREASED
RUM - RUNNING
Action Will Be Temporary.
JAPANESE DUMPING
The Green Island Cement Com. London. pany's works at Hok U, Hunghom,
National Election Effect.
AIR SMUGGLING NEXT.
Washington,
MISSED my
TIDE
By Eden Phillpotts.
new
steamer at "Me and my brother was born in Georgetown on Demerara George-town, you must know, of a River and shipped in a tramp for white father and an octoroon The effect of vigorous pro- have closed temporarily, as a direct
Recently addressing the House Trinidad, where there was a mother. There ain't much of the paganda is reflected in the re-result of Japanese dumping cement Appropriations Committee, Com-chance of overtaking the pas-tar-brush in me, though Billy show- cruiting figures for the present in the Colony.. The step has been mandant Rear-Admiral HG. senger boat. She had a start, et more of it. I went to the sea at The authorities set out taken owing to lack of storage Hamlet predicted that the next but would be at Port of Spain for ten years old, but he was a land to obtain 30,000 recruits by the space at the works, which in turn two years will see greater rum forty-eight hours. Thus it bird and hadn't no use for a ship. end of March next. Towards that was due to a falling off in sales smuggling into the United came about I fell in with old We both got on very well and was number 21.000 have been attest owing to the demand for cheap States and said that the Coast Skipper Benny Blake, and spent out in the world before our parents ed leaving 9,000 to be recruited. Japanese cement.
Guard has already noted an in- some invigorating hours in his died. By that time, at five and A year ago the disparity be The Company is now selling its crease in illicit activities since company. He had followed the twenty, I had a master's ticket and tween establishment and strength cement at $2.90 per bag, as compar- the Presidential election last sea for fifty-five years and en-commanded a coasting ship as traded about 10,000, but as the ed with $3.25, and $6 per cask as November. More foreign vessels joyed various experiences; but along the Guianas-British, Dutch excess of recruits over wastage compared with $5.25 formerly, in are hovering off the North At- there is one little narrative and French; and Billy had drifted! is expected to be about 3,000 the order to counter the Japanese com-lantic Coast than at any time always remember with enter into French country and got a nice
With the new reduction since May 3, 1930, he said. tainment. shortage next year will have petition.
bit of can-growing ground, inland been reduced to 7,000. A great in prices for cement, the Company,
Rear-Admiral Hamlet added It brings back Benny's grizzled from. Sinnamarie. Twas A feature of the campaign has been it is understood, has secured many that rum-running, syndicates are face and his cocked eye, under its settlement then, for this happened the encouragement given to the more orders, and they anticipate under the impression that law white eyebrow, his sing-song voice, nearly half a century agone, though county regiments to recruit that the auspension of work will enforcement will be less rigid and his healthy enjoyment of the quite a busy little hole nowadays; their ranks from their home only be temporary.
and added that legalization of tale. And since the yarn went into but then the port weren't much. county.
Island Cement Com-beer of low alcholic content will my note-book straight from Benny's more than a bit of a pler up in the Scotland this year is recruiting pany; however, has ample supplies have no effect whatever on the lips, his story of the high tide may river-mouth and fifty ramshackle its regiments wholly from that of cement to meet the immediate de smuggling of distilled spirits still retain a little of the weather houses and stores dumped round it. country. Hitherto Scots 12- mand, and more cement will be into the United States from the bitten veteran, who told it on the Up country they was opening out giments have called upon Eng-from the godowns.
na bags are taken "3
sea.
bridge of his cargo boat while wo pretty brisk, and Billy had got a lot land for about 400 of their year-
The first effect of the national plodded north through a rough blue of ground cleared and plenty of election has undoubtedly caused sea. It followed another of tak cane. He was saving money, and resumption of smuggling activi-ing time by the forelock and seizing had a wife, and four kiddies by the ties on a far greater scale than an unexpected opportunity-and my time he was six and twenty,
"We met now and again, ;for my has been attempted in the past comment reminded Captain Blake of few years, said Rear-Admiral his earlier adventure.
tub, the Firefly, traded up and down, Hamlet.
"There is a tide in the affairs of and he'd come to the port to see me the coastguard will therefore be literally.
Rear-Admiral Hamlet said that men." I quoted, and he admitted it sometimes, and now and again I'd go up country to him, twenty miles called upon for more rigid patrol
"There may be sure enough. Iinland, and have a look at his place than heretofore, and added that remember one such tide mighty and his family. A little light rail-
ly intake of 3,000.
It is hoped soon to be able to. rise the height standard of re- giments belonging to the Brigade of Guards to six feet. be done to stem the stream of
This will
The Green
manufactured
USE OF CEMENTS IN STRUCTURES.
applicants as soon as the present Interesting Lecture By
vacancies are filled. The height; for the Grenadiers and Cold- stream is now ft. 11in, That
1
Prof. Redmond.
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for the Scots Guards is half ani A most interesting survey of the in the last fiscal year smuggling well, and, taken at the flood, it led way, that started from the wharf- inch lower, while the Irish and origin, manufacture and use of was controlled to a far greater not to fortune exactly, though it head, ran you up, and his land was Welsh Guards take men of ft. building cements, ancient and mo- extent than during any previous helped in that direction for me and but two miles from the terminus, so 10in.-Reuter.
my brother, Billy. 'Twas I took he got his cane down the country: dern, was contained in a paper read period. by Professor F. A. Redmond, B.Sc., He predicted that as the Coast that tide, and when I tell about it, jeasy enough, for he didn't make D.I.C., F.G.S.. at the Institution of Guard increases its efficiency, I can always see, out of the tail of sugar-he sent all his stuff. to Engineers and Shipbuilders of rum-runners will take to the air.my eye, that nobody believes--yet) Cayenne for that. Hong Kong yesterday.
The Commandant said some of true as gospel is the yarn. The historical background of the the largest rum syndicates aban- subject was also dealt with in andoned the contact-boat smuggl- exploration of the principal exam- ing last year in favour of using ples of ancient architecture, the tankers and steamers of "osten- lecturer declaring that cement sibly reputable steamship com-j such as we know it, was unknown panies."-Reuter, to the ancients, who found a way of doing without it.
HUNTING BY MOTOR AND BICYCLE.
Many Clubs Hit By Depression.
EXPENSES RISING.
News In Brief.
London. Strong complaints have been made lately by Masters of Hounds of the behaviour of those who come by car and cycle to which a| hunt. The former, it is alleged.! circle round and round the hunt Dance is to take place at Inne, and the fumes of their cars des- Crawford's Restaurant this evening. troy the scent. The latter are
SMALL FEBRUARY SESSIONS.
The Dockyard Recreation Club Manslaughter Case For
Chief Justice.
"And there came a time when I found Billy terrible excited and above himself, for the chap on thej LONDON LEADS IN of yellow fever, and his ground was next lot to his had dropped sudden
DANCING.
Trigonometry Required For Ballroom Grace.
AUSTRALIAN'S - VIEW,
London,
to be sold at auction in she weeks from that date. "Twas a very fine.
niece, twice as big and twice as fat
as my brother's, and he was death on getting it if he had to mortgage the shirt on his back. Well, I be lieved in him, and knew no amarter Įman was earning his living in them parts, and I promised he should
Trigonometry, centrifugal force, have my savings on top of his own and the fawa of motion are three if they'd help him to bid high subjects which - Mr. "Johnny" enough. For I was a bachelor then, O'Laughlin of Melbourne, Australia, and ever remained so,, along of no
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
"The
A A
blamed for pressing too close to Ten cases of small-pox, three The February sessions list is has studied to perfect his knowledge the hounds with the result that cases of enteric fever and one case comparatively small, there being of modern ballroom dancing.
He is making the 25,000 mile trip the fox, rather than face a line of meningitis were notified to the only four cases for hearing, Last of bicycles, takes to cover and is Health Authorities.
month about 15 cases occupied the to London and back in alt for the
examination of the Imperial Society To-morrow's, story will be ignominiously dug out, and
attention of the Judges.
Devil's good day's hunting is spoiled. A To-night an All-Bunks Dance,will The February Sessions open at of Dance Teachers. With his wife,
Ape," by Barnard Stacey. little advice to the ignorant and be held in the Garrison Lecture Hail, the Supreme Court on Monday, he holds the professional "all round" a few well chosen words of re-proceeds from which will be devot- February 27, when Chan Chi, will dancing championship of Australia. buke to the persistent offendered to Area Welfare Funds.
{be arraigned before the Chief "London certainly leads the world and will probably cure this trouble.
Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., on alio dancing to-day," he said on his feeling for the married state and One hunt, however, has adopt- A Concert and Dramatic Enter-charge of the manslaughter of arrival here. "What London dances never having struck a female as ed n system of charging a half-tainment will be held in St. fellow-worker at the Kennedy Town to-day, New York, Paris, and Berlin seemed exactly a head and shoulders crown "cap" to all those who Andrew's Church Hall on Monday, abattoiṛ.
will dance to-morrow, Back home above the rest of her sex. And follow the hunt by car other than February 20, commencing at 9.15
The four other cases which comin Australia we are only third-Billy was properly grateful, and farmers whose land is hunted p.m.
plete the list will be heard by the raters compared with you here, reckoned, that, if only the matter] .over. The money goes to the
"What it is that makes English didn't get wind too far, he'd jurt Puisne Judge, Mr. Justice Wood.. funds of the hunt and this indi- The marriage recently took place] Slu Yau-cheung is charged on two dancing the best is hard to say. Ibout land the estate with what he cates the straitened position in in London of Mr. Edwin Sewell, for- counts of possession of an imple think it is the all-round excellence could offer. which many hunts now find merly of Lane, Crawford's and Miss ment for forgery.' Leung Yau-chol of your movements and style."
"So it stood, and I was glad to be If Mr. O'Laughlin passes
his themselves.
Gladys Heard, well-known locally as is charged with a breach of the de- Americans and wealthy foreign-Ja tennis player.
portation ordinance.
examination he will be the frat making for Sinnamarie. again at the ers can no longer afford to come!
Three Chinese, Foo Fung-ling. Australian to become's Fellow and a time of the sale, and hoped to hear to this country to hunt and taxa- The usual dinner dance will take Wong Kan-chun and Chan Ah-yau, Grand Member of the Imperial So-the good news that my brother had tion and the depression had badly place at the Repulse Bay Hotel on must answer to charges of wound-ciety of Dance Teachers the most got the property. But that hap hit the richer supporters. On the Saturday the 18th instant and the ing with Intent, aiding and abet-coveted title for dancers. Beuter, pened on the voyage down to fill me other hand, while the hunt re- Management advises that the poputing and being accessories to the venue has fallen, the expenses|lar Revellers Dance Orchestra 'will same offence. are rising. Farmers too are be in attendance. badly hit and forced to claim for]
damages and poultry losses which The annual prize distribution of In normal times they would not the Chung Nan College will take trouble about,
place at the King's Theatre am Some hunts are still in a for- Sunday morning at 10 am. This tunate position. One well-known will be followed by a concert "by Surrey hunt is so well establish- the staff and students. Professor ed that it can afford to discour-W. Brown, M.A., of the Hong Kong age strangers by charging them University has consented to dis- a three guinea "cap" while it tribute the prizes
avoids, the car and bicycle brigade by keeping the place and date of its meets secret.-Reu- 'ter..
TO BUY AN ISLAND FROM
FRANCE →
Mexico City.
· The last case on the list is one in which Wong Lam and Wong Chai are charged with robbery,
EUROPEANS FINED IN TRAFFIC COURT
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GERMAN MUSIC.
Delightful Concert Yesterday,
with fear, for a man went with me from Surinam in Dutch Guiana-a| fat, nolay Hollander-and long be fore I knew anything about his business I hated the chap, because he was vain and a boaster and won- |dered how anybody in his right| mind could take to the sea for a lily- The charm of German music was ing. He was my only passenger, appreciated to the fall by the large and not until we ran into a calm 10 crowd which packed the Helena miles from our port did I hear what| May Institute yesterday afternoon, brought him, to Sinmmarie. Then Six artistes combined in giving one he cussed the Firefly, an though summonses for driving his car of the most novel and pleasant was her fault the wind had given In Wyndham Street, which is concerts of the season. They were out, and explained he was due to a closed to vehicular traffic, and for pan von Winterfeldt, Frau ale up country for a bit of land. driving a demonstration car in Ammann, Mesdames Arnold, Evelle, He'd got wind of the estate next my Garden Road without a regula-Banger and Mathieson.
brother's lot, and he meant to have Dr. and Mr. Edmond Meraler tion plate number fixed to the arrived in Hong Kong from Shang-front of the vehicle. hai by the .a. President Adams to-day.
Personal Pars.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Mr. Holmes explained he drove up Wyndham Street to On Lan Street to park bla/car, There
Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Feach was much a stream of traffic out
Preside the King's Theatre on the night In question, that he took Ithe short cut...
A resolution was introduced in were also passengers on the the Senate recently to buyjaident Adams from Shanghai. Clipperton Island from France,
raising the money by popular Mr. W. Wagner, the German Con subscription:
Bul General at Canton, accompanied Clipperton Island is a dot injby Mrs. Wagner "returned from the Pacific, valuable only because] visit to Manila to day, by the of its guano deposits and pos-President Jadarson,
sibly as a Nayal base. Its owner-
ship
was disputed because Franch claimi of priority?
WEATHE
Nort
Regarding the regulation num her plater he said that he
demonstration car at
park and dur
the rear
It.
OWLOON SCHOOLOY'S TRAGIC There'll only be same local mon-
DEATH
Beng Caned
zuned by a master Man Boys
peda
grela and niggers up there,” he said, and it's going cheap as dirt no doubt. But I've got advice that the ground's 'worth a lot more than it will fetch, and a bargain's what I'm out for. Nobody knows I'm, com- ing, so shall just pop in and analch up the
for a mon
#tood stil;
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