WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933.
WHY PIRATES
ESCAPED
DESTROYER
Two-Hour Delay In Notification.
DR. W. H. FOWLER
RECEIVES THE C. V. 0.
-
One-Armed Radiologist Honoured By King.
London. To-day. Dr. William Hope Fowler, the CHIEF OFFICER RECOVERING well-known radiologist
whose right arm was amputated last A two-hour delay in the delivery June because it had been affect of the S. O. S. message from the ed by work he was doing in the course of x-ray research was re- pirated Danish steamer, Gustav Die-ceived by H.M. the King at drichien, removed and chance there Buckingham Palace yesterday.
The honour of Commander of might have been of apprehending the Royal Victorian Order was the marauders, according to a state- conferred upon him. ment made to the "China Mail" by an officer of the Naval Intelligence Office, this morning.
The message from the steamer was received in Hong Kong by the Radio Office, at 7.30 a.m. yesterday, was given to but no notification the Naval Authorities until 9.30
Dr. Fowler, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.E.. is consulting radiologist to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, ales at Perth He was and the Bangour Hospital. born in 1876 and during the Great War was a member of the War Ofice
ja memad X-Ray Commission.
Hi publications include numerous heart and he has written in various works on radium, radiology and tho medical periodicals.-British Wireless Service.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEW YORK MARKET|To-Day's Short Story.
INCONCLUSIVE.
Rally Expected When Reports Improve.
In-
AN
EXPERIMENT WITH BLOOD
F.
OF course, it is possible that
he was a little mad
But I will tell you the story.
WM.
POWELL. LTD.
By L. C. S. Abson.
9, Queen's Road Central — Ice House Street Corner,
New York, To-day Very little business was transacted on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday only
"I may claim," he continuel, “te 91,000 shares being dealt with.
know a great deal about blood- In their daily report, Mesars. E. A. Pierce and Company state:
We were sitting, this strange old more, in fact, than any other man
made an I once
experi- "The market action is inconclusive.man and I, outside a little old inn alive! we think, however, that the so- called technical position has im near Cannes, on the top of a cliff ment with blood."
He glanced at me again as if to news should start a brisk rally." proved substantially and any good overlooking a view of enchanting
There was a particularly see what effect his words had made. beauty.
I was still mildly surprised, Не Industriale, rails and utilities fine sunset over the Esterels. From show a slight improvement, but professional point of view, I con-
sidered the effect sufficiently re-laughed his rather disagreeable
little laugh. bonds declined 47 to 75.00,
markable to justify the perilous showed the greatest
procedure of addressing a stranger. I was more astonished than I had dustrials
I took to strength, moving up 1.23 to 51.39. But he was English. I knew, as I'allowed my face to show. Utilities and rails rose .78 and 69 had heard him question the inn- examining him as he sat gazing respectively.-Reuter.
keeper a few minutes before. So, 'straight in front of him at the aun setting gradually without turning towards him, I great red
He was murmured, "A fine colour-effect, is lower in a crimson sky. it not?-almost like a great smear extremely thin, almost emaciated, of blood across the sky"-a remark and must have been at least sixty- Fis face was clean-shaven, which, directly I had made it, I re- five. gretted as disgustingly emotional in and so deadwhite in appearance, in
spite of the pale reflection cold speech and to a stranger.
Out of the corner of my eye I spreading over everything, that the to me that was surprised to see the stranger disturbing fancy came stiffen, as if I had said a thing this experiment of which he spoke which startled him.
had been made upon his own person, New York.
"Blood?" he said in a low voice. and in some way had drained his Douglas Fairbanks arrived
re"Blood? Oh! Yes, indeed, Blood!" own face of blood. His eyes were pale cently from a trip around the
In He laughed a high-pitched, and protruded slightly; the hair of disappoint-nervous giggle. 'expressed their willingness to co- Music lovers of the Colony will be world with a tale
Then, turning to below his hat was white. He seemed District glad to hear that the Schneider ments.
me with a serious face, he said: uniformly without colour. His thin operate. The Canton
En route to Hollywood (Califor Commissioner is preparing to in-Trio, who gave a successful concert)
"You will-pardon me, but blood is hands grasped the head of a knob- in the Helena May institute last nia) to spend Christmas with his a thing which I never like to hear bly stick. Somehow-it may have) vestigate immediately.
Besides, I had been been his pallidness-I found him) The Danish Consul in Hong night, are giving another concert on wife, Mary Pickford, the actor re-mentioned. Kong, when interviewed, said that March 13 at 9.15 p.m, prior to their lated a series of misadventures, He
vaguely unpleasant, thinking" entered a rolf tournament in Japan This was astonishing! Here was He was insistent. he had not yet seen any of the departure for Manila.
and was "badly defeated".
something unusual for a chance!
"A discovery-with blood," he re- ship's company and could therefore
sought to enter Manchuria to hunt conversation; but I expressed mild peated.
"Two discoveries, to be make no statement.
precise.. I will tell you of the first. for long-haired tiger but the Japan- surprise.
Or possiblyș”
a.m.
It is stated that if the message had been delivered immediately it have been possible to make a cap- ture, since H. M. Destroyer, Wis- hart, was on piracy patrol in the n'bighbourhood of the outrage, at the time.
The Chinese authorities at Can ton have been notified and have
Danish Government.
left
-
SCHNEIDER TRIO SECOND CONCERT.
Harpsichord To Be Played.
ORIENT DEFEATS FAIRBANKS.
Many Disappointments
On World Tour..
ese refused permission.
He
The venue of the concert has not The matter been arranged as yet, but it is prob- would first be referred to the alle that it will be given in the
Hong Kong Hotel.
an instrument Gustav
The harpsichord,
He and his party turned to Thi Diedrichsen The
for the Schneider bet to hunt for apanda, an animal- Bong Kong last night for Swatow. Specially built
Mr. Nielson Out of Danger. Trio will be played, and selections resembling a small bear, but trou- in connee from the works of Baroch will ble between China and Thibet end- Police Investigations
the programme. The ed that hope. Crossing the Malay tion with the piracy aboard the feature Danish vessel Gustav Diedrichsen harpsichord has six pedals and two a few hours out of Hong Kong on keyboards and is like a concert her journey to Swatow on Sunday piano.
night. are proceeding.
It
Mr. R. A. D. Nielson, the Chief Officer of the ship, who was shot in the chest, is now a patient in thej Kowloon Hospital where he is re- ported to be progressing well. was while he had charge of the bridge that Mr. Nielson was shot. down, when he tried to raise the alarm just prior to the attack.
Chief Detective Inspector Shan- mon stated this morning that there
QUIETENING THE WAVES.
New Oil Projectile Invented.
Oslo.
NOT GUILTY.-
Wounding Case Verdict.
After
for retiring
twenty
now
He turned a questioning gaze on me with those quick, protuberant] eyes, now glowing distressingly red with the sun. I assured him that:
my time was to spare, and that I was there merely to enjoy the sum mer evening.
"Yes, it
"Enjoy?" He smiled.
Peninsula by plane, they entered Indo-China, bagged a few tigers, but saw no elephants, the principal object of the trip.
And once when he shot at a por-minutes, a Criminal Sessions jury is possible you may enjoy my story. cupine, Fairbanks said, be killed a this morning returned a verdict of But in any case, I owe it to you as deer.-Reuter.
not guilty against Foo Fung-ling, an explanation. who was charged with wounding "You must know then, that I am: with intent and wounding, Sum a doctor. Or, rather, I WAS. a Hang-chuen of Kowloon City, doctor, I had a practice in England The case which was heard before in Surrey. I have not practiced the Puione.Judge," Mr. Justice for many years. Wood, was conducted on behalf of¡ Crown Solicitor.
SHARKS CAPTURED BY NEW METHOD.
"I was a clever young man as a
The Oslo "Handele og Sjoefarts Australian Rides Theme Crown by Mr. H. K. Holmes, the student there is no call for me to
was nothing further to report, and tidende" Police were perusing statements grunn
passengers throughout, plied
taken from yesterday.
G. B. SHAW REFUSES TO TALK
Recalls Hong Kong Talk In Peiping.
that Baya
3
Pors-i
To Exhaustion.
Brisbane.
RETURN TICKET
TO MARS.
Professor Piccard's Estimate.
BALLOON “ROOF" REACHED.
architect has ap- for a patent for new projectile filled with oil for
Leaping on to each shark's back NO calming waves and heavy sens.] The inventor says he has been and hooking his feet around the body, then riding it skilfully as it working on the projectile for ten frantically dashed up and down the or eleven years. Various me enclosed area till it gave up the thods, he says, have been advan-fight through sheer exhaustion, Mr. tageously employed for the quie-Roy Wilson captured three sharks tening of waves by pouring oil in the Sandgate Baths. over the sea, but they have all
The sharks, were of the shovel- suffered from the defect that if nosed variety, and ranged from 6ft the ship is unable to move, owing to 9ft in length. They entered the to engine trouble for instance, men's bathe on Sandgate Pier fol- Pelping. the oil drifts away and is of little lowing a very high tide. Annoyed by requests for inter- use.
This variety of shark is quite views, during his recent visit, With the new invention a pro-harmless unless cornered.-Beuter. George Bernard Shaw's patience jectile is shot the proper dis- Anapped and he said impatiently: tance in the direction from which i
"People must think I am just a the waves are coming so that the FATHER'S BUSINESS damned old fool!
oil has exerted its greatest ef- BEST FOR GIRLS. The aituation here is ultra-fect on the waves by the time dellente.
they approach the ship.
Vocational Director's "Probably I have talked too much
One of the chief paints about already, but I wanted to oblige.the new projectile is the method Look at all the trouble I have by which the oil is liberated. As
appeared and asked for
"Naturally I felt extremely sorry. The present situation is far from a joke.
soon as the projectile strikes the
FLYING COWBOYS
FOR NEBRASKA.
Advice.
Philadelphia.
Washington, District of
Columbia.
be modest; I am old now. I was brilliant, and I worked hard. was especially fascinated by study of the blood, and haematic
I
the
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "The Chemise of Margarita Pareja," by Lafcadia Hearn.
Professor Auguste Piccard of research occupied all the time I
that could spare from the normal curri-] stratosphere fame, believes men may fly to other planets in'culum, rocket planes in the future but
"It was while I was still at college, that they will not be able to come in my final year, that I married. Young men are often foolish, es- back.
He estimates that it would take pecially brilliant young men. My 20 tons of explosives to shoot a bride was younger and more. foolish; one-ton rocket plane away from the even than I. She was barely nine- “pull" of the earth's gravitation teen. But we were old in other and get it well started on its way things. I was twenty-six. to another planet, and ten more married hastily-you understand tons would be needed to act as a me, sir?"
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A CHARMING AND ALLURING
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"THE BLUE DANUBE”
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MARTELL'S BRANDIES
V.S.O. P.
My
CORDON BLEU,
more
stirred up already.
"In Hong Kong I refused to water the difference in the resis
"Stay in father's shop, young braking force when the rocket re-,
earth. Carrying
He seemed unnecessarily insistent speak, but hundreds of students tance of the water to the revor woman," is the advice of Mrs. turned to
lution of its two halves one of Woodhouse, vocational director or much weight would be impracticable over this dubious episode, and while The gave another unpleasant laugh, words, so I told them they should which is ribbed and the other the North Carolina College for Wo. for rocket planes, he said. study revolutionary thought any smooth causes the projectile to men, to Co-eds of Temple Univer-which Professor Plecard made his as if to make quite sure that I had!
Study of the cosmic rays, for he threw me a knowing little glance, body who didn't was a fossil.
I began to "This created such a commotion Unscrew; the two halves separate aity.
and the oll is released. Reuter. Advising girls to avoid the over-two famous balloon flights into the grasped his meaning. that when students arranged to
crowded professione, Mrs. Wood- stratosphere, may help unlock tre wish I had not been so ready an welcome me in Shanghai police
house urged them to take over small mendous energy in atoms, he ox audience to such confessions. now became vague dialike secretly arrested a hundred the
business established by their plained, and use of this energy
He looked positively red in night before my arrival.
might overcome the difficulties of actual. fathers, where possible, and makė a
sending rocket planes on "round the last remaining light. I sup career of their developments.
pose I did, too. "Too few women," he said, ""have trips" to other planets.
"There is no limit to the heights "It was fortunate that I had V.V.E.S.O.P. taken advantage of these oppor-which racket planes may reach money.
What promised to be a tunities, heretofore enjoyed almost exclusively by the sons of a family." above the earth," Professor Pie brilliant career would otherwise As In card said, but he predicted that bal- have had a very poor start, lopns and aeroplanes will not rise most marriages, romance died very much further than the ten-mile young. I was absorbed in my work. THREE STAR helght be reached last summer, I passed out of my college with a owing to practical difficulties of result as excellent as had been anti- construction-Reuter.
cipated, and it apemed that Fortune gave me all her encouragement, for I found myself with; the means to purchase a small yet profitable
excellent opportunities of pursuing
I do not desire Ranchers Adopt Planes
to annoy or embarrass any parties, and believe my best course hence- forth is to shut up."-
CHINESE STABBED IN CITY.
Serious Throat
Wound.
For Travel.
Omaha, Nebraska. The picturesque cowboy and his bronco are yielding to the nero-
plane out on Nebraska's prairien.
The operator of one the largest ranches in north-western" Nebraska has adopted the plane au the regulari means of travel for himself and his
men..
--Reuter,
INSUFFICIENT SCHOOLS' MEDICAL STAFF
Saintury Board Meeting
A negative reply to Dr. LI Shu-GRADUATES" "ASSOC. MEETING practice in Surrey, which gave me In the last year he said he and fan's question as to whether it has A Chincée male, Leung Sing-ko, his modern. "cowboys" have flown been the practice that all registered On the occasion of the annual my own researches. To these. I 44, described as a No. 1 coolis, was about 05,000 miles on ranch busin-schools in the Colony were periodi-general meeting of the Hong Kong gave my fullest energion.
"A child, was born six months removed to the Government Civiles.
cally inspected and the pupils University Graduates' Association, Hospital yesterday, suffering from Another Nebraskan who runs a examined by Government Medical the Vice Chancellor, Sir William after our marriage and my wife a stab wound in the throat, allegedly large ranch in North Central Neb-|Oficers, was given by Mr. T. Hornell, a "at home" to the men was contented enough, Beyond the My obvious pleasure she derived from inflicted. by a compstalot during a raska has flown about 32,000 miles Megarty, the President of the Sani-bars yesterday afternoon
over prairies in the past six months tary. Board, at yesterday's meeting Following tea rapo of the Hon. the prospect of being one day the quarrel
Hok-nang). Wile of a famous – man, as I would The alleged assailant, Wong Chau, as he and his men swept graxing of the Board.
tall-bor the rok po intarest in my is now in Police custody pending In- lands and spotted, harda in vestigations.
the bad, but the vagunt, notiona,
(Continued pn Paté 10.)
use
days of time". Reuter-
covered areas. The The victim's condition is con-plane, he said, sured “dayı kidered to be serious.
farther, Mr. Megarry and of the Hot
of Schools was the the body for
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