SATURDAY, MARCH 11 1933.
BEAUTIFYING ST. EARTHQUAKE
PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
Loud Speakers For The Choir.
£400,000 SPENT ON RESTORATION.
London.
Recently, £400.000 was spent on the restoration of the outer fabric
Wren.
The authorities have been
·TREMOR ROCKS.
LIGHTHOUSE
New Light On Origin Of S. A. Shocks.
SHIP SHAKEN VIOLENTLY,
Lucia, Zululand.
de-
the complete, renovation of the interior has been put in motion by Canon Alexander.
the
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8,32 a.m.
there was
a severe.
were
CHINESE DOCTOR
ROBBED
THE CHINA MAIL.
Fake-Patient Assists In Daring Ruse.
DR. WONG FINALLY OUTWITS KIDNAPPERS
on a bed apparently ill.
to drive to Shatin.
To-Day's Short Story.
THE PATIENT
a tram curved the bend
Ant
By Miles Mander.
"What is it?" he asked somewhat
impatiently.
The man beneath him held his cheek again. "Mr. T-Topping?"
a more residential quarter of the Suburb it, emitted a series [he ejaculated in semiquery. metallic squeals such as trams are
Laburnum Rond.
was not
of
at
go.
It was only
Three men and a boy, all arm- Durban. ed with automatic pistols, robbed The most authentic informa- and attempted to kidnap Dr. B. C. of St. Paul's Cathedral, one of the tion as to where an earthquake Wong, of 2, Stafford Road. Kow. nation's most beautiful buildings first struck the Natal and Zulu- loon Tong, at seven o'clock. Inst and a worthy monument to one of land border and shook practically night
wont to do on these occasions. It "Yes, I'm Mr. Topping-but I I'm just off the greatest architects in the his-the whole of the Union, has Dr. Wong was
at his office at was gaining speed again when a can't see you to-day, tory of the world, Sir Christopher reached Cape Town from St. 166, Nathan Road, when a Chin-man was seen to spring from the for the holiday."
"But I have an abscess, y-you-you ese boy entered and begged that footboard of the running vehicle
please attend to it b-before you | Д and forthwtih stumble with Mr. Murphy, head light-keeper, the doctor accompany him at once bating for more than 20 years the of St. Lucia Lighthouse, relates to the house of a relative who was clumsiness that spoke of some
"Very surry-ny assistant has best means to make the utmost of happenings which
preoccupation. He picked him- throw im seriously fl.
gone--everything's put away, I'm Wren's life work, and, sitwe the
portant new light on the subject,! The doctor agreed immediately self up, and avoiding, providen-just closing the house till Tuesday." | completion of the repairs to the
and almost clear up the question and offered to take the boy with tially, collision with a passing How adamant he was. fabric in 1930, a new scheme for as to the exact spot where the him in his car,
motorcar, hurried to the pave-
"But you don't understand-the tremors came in from seaward.! Proceeding to 199, Nam Cheung ment. It could be noticed that
In his report he states that at Street, near the beginning of the passers-by turned a glance in his pain is unbearable-can't you give
me any relief?" Taipo Road at Sham Shui Po, the direction why,
The dentist's face visibly angered, The cleaning has already trans-earth tremor which lasted for doctor was led to a room on the once apparent; until it was seen He fixed the man with a look of formed the nave out of all recogni|two minutes, causing the light first floor. where a man was lying that his right check was very red}{rritable compliance. tion and the amazing beauty of house tower to shake violently.
and swollen to some prominence in that moment that he realised the Wren's work is being fully appre
The doctor bent over the man to As he lifted his bowler hat to severity of the swollen gum. He All the gas cylinders which' clated for the first time in detail. When the whole interior has been are connected up by means of examine him and as he did so, mop the head-band with a hand-turned into the house.
a shiny this man together with two others kerchief, he displayed strong steel piping encased in
"Come in." The patient entered. thoroughly, but judiciously, Pe
"I can only give you temporary at- novated, it will be possible to see copper were pitched about in all who had been sitting near the bed, pate and bald but for the beads the perfection of the great archi-directions causing a leakage of seized him, and threatening him of perspiration which surmount-tention now," he said. "You'll have
with automatic pistols, stole $75 ed it.
to return on Tuesday and have the tect's technique, and to envisage Kas. In some instances the piping in money from him and also hisi This was a nervous man, an un-tooth extracted." the beauty which would have been was straightened out.
gold Waltham watch valued at $30. decided man; the quick movements
The suffering man murmured"nis) The lighthouse clock stopped London's if his plans for
Then by means of threats they of his head and eyes denoted that.
acquiescence. He stood there awk- rebuilding of the capital after the 8.30 am, and has not gone took Dr. Weng down to his car in as they turned to scan
the row of wardly, gazing at the other's back as The shocks were of such Great Fire had only been followed, since.
which lined he fiddled with his instruments. At| Other works at present in hand great violence that the lenses at the street below, and ordered him semi-detached, houses
length the latter spoke. “Sit down,"| the top of the tower include the construction of
The wit of Dr. Wong saved him. And it was while he was thut he said across his shoulder. The the crypt in the thrown two inches out of align- He kept his engine aceret stair to
switched off hesitating that the town hall clock man obeyed, and wondered at the nillar of the Great West Door, font whilst the mechanism for and pressed the self-starter. The struck one. Here was the needed curtly "beside manner." He clutch-
producing the flash was put out starter made a noise but as
was reminder, He had no option now. ed the red plush arms of the tilting) of adjustment. return with dignity Almost all the crockery in the not start.
to be expected the car engine did it was one o'clock and it was Satur-chair. His musclea tautened
The doctor to gain time day-Monday was Bank
Holiday nervously. against the tide of the enormous living quarters was smashed asked one of the men to crank the The risk of two more days of like crowds in the body of the and anything loose in the way of The man did so. He crank pain was unthinkable. It would Cathedral.
tools were jerked off the ed and cranked, but nothing hap drive him off his head. He there- Loudspeakers will also โด in benches and tables.
fare busied himself sincerely with stalled to enable the chair to hear After turning off the gas and'
Hell At last the kidnappers came to the finding of the house, the whole service, after years of seeing that all was secure in the the conclusion that in order to most ran. unfruitful experiment and two lighthouse, Mr. Murphy turned start the car they would have to One hundred and yes, one hun- his attention to the water su let the doctor get out and crank.dred and sixty-two-ah, there it Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the ply. Here he found that the They ordered Dr. Wong to crank was, brass plate and all.
Re push- contemporary water in the underground tank and the doctor was only too gladed the little iron gate and hurried With his tiny mirror in his hand he] Presently the dentist turned. British architects, has designed had been so shaken that it rose to obey them. Keeping the engine up the tiny gravel path across beautiful lamps of a style in keep-17 inches and ran out of the still switched off he cranked.
a advanced. The patient's hend fell] weedy garden where sweet william backwards automatically into ing with the interior for the west, overflow,
Soon a crowd gathered to watch vied with mignonette. front, and these will be installed
And there cushioned socket and his mouth A stroll round the surround proceedings. Awaiting his chance it was again, "John Topping, Dental Shortly. They were originally de- ing country, which is extremely till a sufficient crowd had gather-Surgeon."
opened. Surgeon! Surgeont signed some twenty years ago but, hilly, and of hard sand formation ed Dr. Wong suddenly dropped the Why in goudncas did he call himself There was no question of geurch- considered of covered with grass and low crank and ran away down Nama surgeon? In any case...Willoing round for faults. The fault was greater immediate importauce, bush, revealed fissures several Cheung Street shouting "Save life," Hinde, the tailor, had recommended there, patent and swollen. In a few I in likely that other improve-hundred yards in length- and and reported the matter to the him, and old Willie was an awful acconds the infrror came out again. ments will follow and it is most averaging about four inches in police at Sham Shuf Po.
coward at the dentist's. Why, the "A nasty gum," the dentist mur cheering to know that the authori-, width. In places the fissures, The police hurried to the scene whole town knew how, on
mured in soliloqay and then con- ties are spending public money were eight feet in depth, but the and found the car which had been memorable occasion, Willie had to tinued louder, "I can do nothing t
ansand was even then running back abandoned by the men public into the crevices.
who ap-be strapped into the chair before alleviate the pain. It's too inflamed.
When the dentist could extract
The tooth must come out." parently could not drive.
a tooth. After the first tremor, there inst seen the robbers had been run-Yes, Willie ought to know. But
The trembling man stared up at was a lull for a brief space, to be ning across Taipo Road.
him. "Oh," he interjected, surgeons were surgeons-doctors followed by 17 tremors, more or
"But nurse has gone," went on All reserves of police were im-who cut-performed operation......... Hless violent. There were
fur mediately turned out and all roads) At that moment the door opened the surgeon, "I have no assistance. ther slight shocks on the follow in the New Territory were watch-and he was confronted by the I'm alone in the house. I enn't give ing day, but no damage was done. ed.
Identist, Hé was in the act of you an anesthetic," Had the lighthouse been built
fastening his gloves, and they were gesture with his hands, so there we on rock, the Lighthouse Engineer
There was A black felt hat turned are."
Fume Anality Mr. and Mrs. D. Wilson arrived brown. considers that it would have in Hong Kong, yesterday, from down in front shaded a pair of about this gesture. He threw his been very badly damaged or per- Kobe, in the 8.8. Corfu. haps demolished.
allow processions on prest 42. casions to instead of having to struggle
centuries of inconvenience,"
greatest
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our
other work was
with such discrimination object which the British holds so dear.-Reuter.
POVERTY A
CRIMINAL
תנו
OFFENCE
Prosperity Enforced By Law.
TONGA ISLAND DECREES.
Auckland.
car.
pened.
The earth tremors apparently Mr. C. E. Martin travelled from travelled from south-east to Shanghai to Hong Kong by the 8.8. north-west, which means that Corfu.
they came in direct from the.
ocean at this spot This tallies with the experience of those in
one
MONDAY'S STORY.
Monday's story will he "The Wickedness" of "Wang. HI," by Rolf Bennett.
the
be made a
AL
piercing eyes and added to the mirror on to the marble tray and, hollowness beneath the cheekbones. resting his clenched fists on his hips As he stood on the top step his the two men faced each other. bulk and presence were overawing length the patient spoke. [1o the man on the bottom one.
"Can't you inject some stuff into the gum?" he asked.
Poverty is "practically a cit. the motor ship "Gujarat," which FRENCH WOMAN SPY
minal offence" on beautiful vessel was to the south-east of Pacific island of Tonga, 1,500 St. Lucian and reported that the miles north-west of Auckland. ship shook violently for the space!
There is a "compulsory pros of two minutes at almost the
perity law" in force un the is-same moment that the tremorj
DECORATED
"What, a local anaesthetic? No. sir, it would be ineffective, the jaw is too inflamed." They were both silent for a moment. "Eut if you feel you can't put with it till Tuesday you'd better let me snip It] out without an anesthetic. You won't feel it much. It will all be
without an answer, “unus now. what-is it to be?
land and it is regarded as "was felt by those in the light Crossed Pyrenees With Jeink her own life in a dangerous over in a second." The offer Atared
most serious offence to break it. house.
Broken Leg.
"MOST DARING AGENT."
London.
service,
Her first assignment was to go into Spain, with £40 in her bag, and pass as a German spy.
The Prime Minister of Tenga, St. Lucia lighthouse is perch- 'Tugi, who is also Prince Consorted on the sandhills 371 feet above
The pause continued while the of Queen Salpte Tubou, explained sea level, the iron tower being 30
patient was making up his mind. how the system worked, when feet high. The lighthouse is
Snip it out without an aesthetic! | "I got into the confidence of one Tear the tooth out of 'ils raw and he visited Auckland on his way to situated 90 miles to the north of inke his son to Newington ColDurban.
of the chief people in the enemy' bloody gum! No, not not brave The first woman in France to be camp" she said in re-telling her enough for that. The silence in the lege, Sydney. The Prince Con- This is the first recorded in-decorated for espionage appears on war experiences, "and for months, house grew louder until the ticking sort himself was also educated stance of earthquake damage to the intest list of those awarded posing as a spy for him, I sent all of the golden mantel clock was all there,
the mechanism of a lighthouses with the Legion of Honour. She his information into France. He says that the "compulsory on the South African coast.
that could be heard. It must have. was praised for "extraordinary "Then came prosperity law" lays down that
a moment when ticked ten times before the patient. In view of the severity of the services to her country" for she had to cross over the Pyrenees to cringing in breathless ngony, be- when any male Tongan reaches shocks felt by those in the "Gu-was one of the most daring agents find out the secret way in which thought himself of Wille Hinde. the age of 16 he shall receive farat" and at the lighthouse, a in the French Secret Service dur-German spica were getting into He thought of Willie eight and a quarter acres of land disturbance of the sea-bed is ing the war.
Hinde the France. It was mid-winter and I tailor, of Wille Hinde the coward. from the State.. Eight acres of within the range of possibility She is Mrs. R. Crompton, the was fil this bush, and he must plant it and might be worth the investi- French widow of an Englishman,
If Willle could be strapped into the "I had to pass as an insurance against starvagation of a passing vessel, or and she is the last person in the bound mountains with a broken solution.
over the ice-chair so could he. There was the tion. The other quarter of an survey ship equipped with the world you would take for a spy. Her leg. Only my faithful little doy. "Mr. Topping he said at last.
a building plot in the latest Rounding appliances. acre is
whimsical ` mouth finds village, and he has to build him-Reuter..
much to followed me, and I had to take as "I'm an awful coward. · I couldn't smile at and bar blue eyes are mer-guide a smuggler who was going, ait still on my own--] know I Įry. She is small and quiet, unusual-Into France...
couldn't. My nerves are in a terri·| ly attractive, and beautifully drea “And when I got there they ble condition. Couldn't you! "We are a law-abiding people," ed. again, preferably to a member of the Prime Minister says.
arrested me for a German spy "couldn't you tie me in the chaf♪--- the dead man's family,
"We At one time though she was just Mrs. Crompton served almost strap me down? It's got to come That is why the Prince Con every forty years,
have averaged one murder to Marthe Richard, the "leak" in the until the end of the war, when she out somehow. It's hell, it's---"-
***Tuh!** German intelligence service. While married her English-husband| sort is able to say -- with
The dentist laughed. smile- that "even if we had no there is a lot of petty theft.
"Some people will say that employed as a German spy she
"But It was a long time before "Ridiculous," he said. "What d'you money we would still be able to
Passed all her information on to the British authorities would allow take me for?". "That is not really true. What France and was never once me to set my foot in England,” she "I now it's rather drastic. I'm Ure." Only one person in 100 happens - โร la unable to read and write, as have quarrels over property, and that relatives
suspected"
remarked, "because I had always frightfully sorry to make all this education is free and compulsory they often take it without noti
She was a young girl in her my Secret Servics record against fuss, but, you see
"Impossible," the other inter for all children between the ages fication.
early twenties when she walked in. me.” of six, and 16.
"Sometimes these cases come
jba, to the slice of the Counter Empion- Now, since Mr. Crompton's death
But be persisted: Actually, he says that the before the Courts that I Service and asked to be given four years ago, the widow similar case; a man 1 know quite Treasury has a surplus of £140, the aggrieved person likes to som work apy Overcome with lives alone with the grandson well had to be bound down before be -000 despite the fall in the volume sider himself modern red, ghe grief at the death of her first hus- the faithful dog that what with could be touched, 17 don't mind, of trade in Copra, their main exter
bånd, & Frenchman, the wanted to her over the Pyrenees--Reuter":"
self a home on it..
When a man dies, the land report. verts to the Crown and is allotted;
A
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