MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933.
CASTLE PEAK ASSAULT
Accused Leaves His Ilat Behind.
150 KILLED
IN CALIFORNIA ·
Hau Wang-shing appeared be- fore Mr. Justice Wood at the Supreme Court, this morning. NO charged with assault committed on the person of Wong Lee-sien.
The assistant Attorney General. Mr. J. A. Fraser, stated that the crime was committed at Yuen Shuj Hang a village at the foot of Castle Prak Hill.
Wong Lee-sten was caretaker at A religion house in the village. He was having a meal at two o'clock in the morning when two) men entered the house. One of them having a towel round his head pointed something at Wong.
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4,000 slightly hurt in the earth- quake which wrecked such frightful havoc in Southern California, according to the latest official estimates.
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THE PEARLY BEACH
By Lord Dunsany.
A storm of protest has been W couldn't remember, any of seemed barely troubling to ru us at the club, who it was and he said, 'You want to go to raised here by the proposals of that first invented the twopenny Carrapaccas beach; that's where the Municipality to impose taxos stamp on cheques. There were you want to go. And he gave me on pianos, balconies, and maids eight or nine of us there, and the latitude and longitude. Pearls and to increase the taxes for not one of us could put a name to be had for the gathering there," almost all their services. Taxes to him. Of course, a lạt of us he said.
I ask-
on motor-cars, motor buses and knew, but we'd all forgotten it. "And I asked him what he bicycles are also to be increased. And that started us talking of meant, why he spoke to me.
Motorists and landlords have the tricks memory plays.
fed him all kinds of things. · But Some
all he would say was 'You go to joined in this outery motorists said memory didn't matter. 80 pointing out that many people much; some said it was looking Carrappas beach, not even giving have had to put away their cars forward that mattered most in it the same name the second time.". "Well, I jotted the latitude and】 owing to the high taxation and business, or even watching close-
longitude down on my shirt cuff;
as I
Five thousand American blue- Wong saw that it was only anJackets were guarding the ruins the crisis and landlords pointingly what was going on around you both shirt cuffs, to be quite sure;} to the rapidly falling rents and now. And at that Jorkens step and I thought the thing over a lot. iron bar and not a revolver and of Long Beach and neighbouring the demand of tenants for still ped in. No, memory was the grappled with the man. Then smaller cities.
thing, he said; he could have And the first thing I saw someone behind struck him with a There was no looting, despite further reductions.
the fact that bank and store; The Municipality claim that made more by a good, steady thought things over was that' the sharp instrument.
the increased taxation is needed memory than by any amount of man was perfectly genuine; be had |probably had this secret for years, In the meantime the villagers fronts were wide open.
Virtual martial law will reto balance their budget for 1933 looking into the future. had been aroused and the men rau
main in effect indefinitely. until-to make up for losses due to "I don't see how that could be," and then one day he had had a drop away.
stockbroker who had just 100 much and had blurted the thing Wong then went upstairs and the streets are cleared and owners the handing over of the electrici, said a found a police whistle which heland
representatives ty supply to private exploitation, bought Jafies at 62 on pretty good out. You may say what you like ican check their losses and care, the cessation of compulsory information that they would go to against drink, but you don't find a blew.
weighing of commodities enter. 75. As a matter of fact, they fellman to tell you a thing like that, ¡just because he's sorry for you for The Police Inspector at Ping for their property.
Cook By Bonfires,
ing the town on Municipal scales, to 5914. Shan did not reach the scene until
But Jorkens stuck to his point. losing a pearl, when he's sober. The highways entering and and the reduction in the yield of
And mind you, the Car- 4 a.m., when he found defendant's '
beaches. or whatever hat inside the fence about 50 yards leaving Long Beach were guard-taxes owing to the crisis.--Rea-"With a good all-round memory."
he said, "I could have made mil-appes lions."
from the house.
النيه
insurance
ed as an extra precaution.
There was no gas, forcing the Defendant WOR arrested
cook meagre meals February 10 on the main road at citizenry 10 Ping Shan. When charged he over community bon-fires fed with stated that he had gone to the wreckage. house but did not enter
ter.
News In Brief.
In addition breadlines were feed- Li Him was this morning sentenc to ing thousands.
vd to imprisonment with hard labour Fears over the safety of the way for a period of two years,
at the
There were two witnesses prove that the hat belonged to de-
But how?" said the stockbroker. gaid "Well, it was this way." Jorkens. I had a rather nico pearl in a tie-pin. And things weren't quite going the way I lik Ted: Anuncially, I mean. Well, to ent a long story short. I decided
fendant. He had admitted thin- ter system were expressed, as there Supreme Court. before Mr. Justice to pop my pearl. I remember wait- were many breaks and in many in-¡Woud, on a charge of a breach of a stances water pipes and sewers | deportation order. wer paralled.
sel in the Police Court.
The case is proceeding.
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14 COUNTERFEIT COINS.
Chinese Gaoled For 3 Months.
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The financial situation was bað A Chinese concubine was yester- beenuse the banks were elised, day found wandering in Queen's Mr. D. W. Pontius, president of Road West, suffering from the the Pacific Electric Company, es- effects of opium poisoning which she timated the damage at Long Beach administered
herself after to unofficially a $25,000,000.
quarrel with a number one wife. The hall of records in Los Ange. She was taken to the Government he was condemned, but the rest of Civil Hospital
moder Chinese Recreation Club's ground
etttt, a(4ཧཱ་ཧཱ་53+344{£#----་
1
An unknown Chinese coolie living at an annumbered matshed near the Peak Tramway Station was severely injured when a barrel of earth rolled
he called them were there.
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "The Two Herns." by T. F. Powys.
ing till it was dark one winter's evening, so as to get to the pawn- shep decently unobserved. And The Iwent in and unserewed the pearl way East,
longitude 11.9
the and
3
long latitude
For tendering a false 10 cent piece downtown Los Angeles was survey-i
the ed by engineers and reported safe.
Dictator Named. Charles Henderson, former wild the west sherif of Silver Bow county, months hard labour by Mr. Wynne. Montana, was named virtual dieta down the hillside, crushing his left against a wall, a man I had never once. In fact, I was married in Jones at the Central Magistracy or of
Sik
Wie
sentenced
to
there
tall Was a
its pin, and saw it do more. a lot South, and I started one day put the financial position on a from London. heading for Aden. sound basis again; but 1 came out Did I tell you all this was in Lon- little what you call ruefully, and don? No place like it for starting I suppose my face must have shown on journeys. There are streets it, and I was sticking back what that seem to lead straight towards was left of my cold pin into my Africa. But that's imagination, a tie. Funny how anyone could have thing I don't much indulge in, be
oticed all that. but I've noticed cause you
never know where it that when people are a little bit leads you.
rank they sometimes de Anyway,i-onion-and-came-again-to-Aden Well, started from
man leaning
had a very curious romance there
the fool.
He was rushed to the Gov-een before in my life, and he Aden. Well, well, that's all gone vernment Civil Hospital in an
un-Jouked at me in a lazy sort of way, now. He asked the legislature for a conscious condition. Evidence by a Chinese constable
(not troubling to move his hend, "So I came to Aden and began was given, in which he stated that $500,000 food fund.
only his eyes, and even then he looking about. What I was looking Manoeuvres of the Pacific Beet
Siu Yau Cheung was this morning. the herused had approached an old
for was three sailors; I fancied we week in order charged before Mr. Justice Wood, Chinese hawker and had first tende, were postponed a
Inould do it with that; and one off
work.
in possession of an implement for The death list throughout the forgery. His Honour postponed the damare zone mounted to 156. More hearing of the case until Monday hawker accepted. The constable than 1,000 injured were in hospi-March 17, to enable defence Counsel detained the man and took him to fals, while the total number of in-o be briefed. the Wanchai Police Station where jured was estimated at 4,000.
this morning.
Long Beach, heading emergency council.
ed a 10 veni mere which the hawker that sailors might assist in relief at the Supreme Court, with being THE "DECADENCE" OF OXFORD those queer small boats with green!
refused,
The accused then handed over went pince genuine 5
which
the
he was searched and was found to:
be in possession of 14 counterfeit | coins in a paper package.
His Worship passed the above sentence after hearing the evidence.
LESSON SERMON.
First Church of Christ, Scientist-Hong Kong.
Known Dead.
(Continued from Page 6.)
keels. Sails, of course. Well, I found two aallors-just the men, Li was looking for. One was named (2) There WGS a dearth of Bill and the other The Portugee,| Heads of Colleges, and consequent-(though both looked English to me. ly the disappearance of discipline, so far as I could tell. And they A very comprehensive and attrac-The Jowells and the Liddells dis could get another man who was a Los Angeles.
tive guide book, entitled "A Guide to appeared in the nineties, and their half-wit, who they said would do The known toil of the Southern Hong Kong." has just been compiled places were taken by successors very well. The beauty of that was
and published by Mrs. Garlington and imitators whom it would California earthquake follows: ----
be that only two had to be in it. I Long Beach: Stanley Taylor, of the California Directory Associa-palite to describe as mediocrities told them at once it was something Fred B. Cole, Mrs. Millie Herman, tion. Containing several illustra-At Balliol the descent from Jowett to do with treasure, and they said Mrs. Pearl Miller, Charles
B. tions of local views, the booklet also was perhaps the most disastrous, that the third hand could be left Wright, Frank L. McCarthy, Ho-passeBSES a variety of interesting and 1 understand that at present on board when the rest of us went ward T. Kennedy, Helen Leverick, black and white sketches of native my old College is a hot-bed of ashore, and would be quite happy 1 Mrs. August Lantz, Mrs. Leona C.life.
Bolshevism. It is no doubt to the singing a song that he sang. dearth of leading Heads that the never knew what his name was; indiscipline, carelessness of dress, Bill and the Portugee used just to and the vulgarity of the Union shout at him and he would always
Eller, A. E. Summers, F. G. Bryner, Dorothy
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Spindler.
Personal Pars.
I
"Matter" was the subject of Dwight Cormish, Mrs. Margaret The forthcoming marriage is an-resolution are ascribable. I refuse answer. His home was Aden. the Lesson-Sermon in all Dary, Ted Davis. Donald Slauson,nounced, of Edward Francis Ney. to listen to the graver scandals never learned where the other two! Churches of Christ, Scientist, on 1. W. Wilhoit, Ramon A. Cignilino, |Lieutenant, of the U.S.S. Asheville, that are alleged by malicious came from. Well, I told Bill the Sunday, March 19.
Mrs. John A. Rogers, Mrs. Phoche und Mary Ellen Croughan, who is on tongues against modern under-latitude and the longitude, and we The Golden Text was: “O Lord Birchard, Norman Barrett, Lyle her way to Hong Kong in the 88. graduates.
slipped out in a tiny ship one morn-i our God, other lords beside thee Pette, Mary J. Seelig. Warren President Jefferson.
(3) No one but A sand-blinding from Aden, sailing towards In- have bad dominion over us: but Bailey, Emil Johnson, Torrence
partisan can ignore the fact that dia. And it was a long, long time CAUSED there is a confederacy of interna-before we came to Carrappas beach, tionalists which at this moment is or whatever it was. And day after remarkably successful In muddy-day the sky was the same blistering Nice, ing the wells of truth, under the blue, ull sunset flamed In
by thee only will we make men- Roberts, Clayton Steeves, Mrs. £70,000,000 DAMAGE tion of thy name" (Isa. 26: 13.). J. W. Mitchell.
Among the citations which James Brodies, Mrs. Cornelia M. comprised the Lesson-Sermon Chittenden, Pauline B. Saunders,
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was the following from the Bible: Dorothy Searle, C. P. Wertz- More than £70,000,000 a year patronage of the polyglot League faces, gazing back over the stern, "And he was teaching in one of baugher, George E. Calder, Jack could be saved by the complete of Nations, assisted by some of and there came every evening be- the synagogues on the sabbath. Freeman, Tony Giggilomo, Tom Kextermination of all rats in the doctrinaires of the London hind us the same outburst of stars, And, behold, there was a women Kigarashi, Dixiana Parks, Mrs. France, according to estimates School of Economics, and, last but and all the way the half-wit eang which had a spirit of infirmity | James Mundy, Edward Rogos, published hero.
not least, the B.B.C. The manage- the same song; only the sea alter- eighteen years, and was bowed C. E. Ceitzler, Thomas Murray, It is asserted that one couplement of this latter organisation is ed. And at last we got there, an together, and could in no wise lift Abner Stephens, Creil Adrian, of rats produces 68 offspring a at present attracting the attention Bill had promised we would, a tiny up herself.
And when Jesus J. C. Reed, Crombie, Mrs. Whar-year and that their total progeny of Parliament and the Press, and bay with a white beach shining,
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rington, Mrs. B. W. Simpson, Mar- Artesia: George Stone, Steven to devise any proper form of con- then and I swam ashore with Bill The Lesson-Sermon also in- garet Simpson, Emil Johnston, Green.
trol-I am not now alluding to the and the Portuges, and the half- cluded the following passages Don Dillon, Mrs. D. Hepler, Four
Camp-functions of amusement or educa- wit sat on the deck singing his from the Christian Science text- unidentified men,
tion, which I leave to others with song. All that the drunken man book," science and Health with! Huntington Park:-Alice G. An- Key to the Scriptures," by Mary thony, Mrs. Clarence Greenmayer, Montebello:-Flora Weedon.
hardly humour. But, with regard to poll-I Baker Eddy: "If sickness is true II. Looba, J. A. McLaughlin,} Hermosa Beach:-MTB. Allcetica, the B.B.C. authorities have drunken, when I or the idea of Truth, you cannot Dorothy Martyne, Albert Olson, May Moore.
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chill and Lord Lloyd prevented and they had made him quick to did, when he spoke of the sick," of U.S.S. Marblehead.
Paccośma:-William O. John. from speaking about India? Why notice things and quick to feel for whom Satan hath bound," and Watts: Frank W. Tobias, Al- Los Angeles:Irene Henricksen, are the mischievous and absurd other people, and perfectly truth- find a sovereign antidote for bert Revaa, Forest Brinkerhoff, Mrs. Luella Alcrum, Antonio antics of the League of Nations in ful; you know the old proverb. error in the life-giving power of Francisco Navarriete, Mrs. Ellen Ducharme, Died of heart attacks; the Far East heralded throughout Probably, too, the drinka brightened his memory, Truth acting on human belief, a Elcoat, Mra. Krochninger, John Hattle Paterson, Dorothy Cudley, the world with such insistence? d power. which opens the prison Doe Elcoat, One unidentified man. Margaret Wood, D. W. Smythe, The mere names of the gentlemen leven to tiny details lice doors to such as are bound, andị Santa Ana:-Earl Adamson, Jack William Carlson, Robert McMit- who occupy the ear of millions so latitude and longitude. I shall sets the captive "Tree physically Ellison, Mrs. Jack Ellison. chell, Thomas Neal and Matthew often are sumcient to proclaim never forget the peculiar crunch and morally," (P. 495: 6.)
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