TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933.
Successful First Attempt
(Continued from Page 1)
JAPANESE TO BE
SENT BACK
THE CHINA MAIL
To-Day's Short Story.
MRS.
Entered Colony Without BELLBROW'S
LIONS
*
Passport.
CONSUL GUARANTEES HIS RETURN
By Stacy Aumonier,
M BROW is the kind of awe have never met anyone who has
Everest was visible from its crest | the world's highest mountain,” a far down its gleaming aides, and photographic record of a strip all the Himalayas for many miles country which could only be obtain-
RS. POULTENEY - BEEL,markably talented violinist, though. stood out clearly defined in crystal thirty miles in length of mountain grandeur. The airman breatheded with the help - of the airplane, Shikanosuke Iwai, a Japanese woman who drips with refine-heard her play. She certainly with difficulty, for he had no and possibly, with the help of the fisherman from Singapore, pleaded ment. Everything else had been knows something about music, and! oxygen, but he did not complain infra-red process of photography guilty to entering the Colony with squeezed out of her. Even her can talk shiveringly about every of the gold. After his return he and the peculiarly clear atmosphere out a valid passport, before. Mr. hair, which once was red, has ancient and modern composer of said that with a machine of 400 which are hoped for examples of the Wynne-Jones at the Central Magle-been dried to a rusty grey. Her note, in addition to many compos horse-power there would be no longest range photography ever, tracy, this morning,
narrow face le pinched and blood-ers without note. But do not ima- difficulty in flying over the top of achieved.
Detective Sergeant Mottram said less; the lines of her figure blur-gine that her discriminations are Everest.
Survey of Nepal.
the accused was found wandering in red by shapeless and colourless confined to music. She shivers Personnel of Expedition.
A survey of Nepal covering most the Wanchal District at 3.30 am. materials, as though she resent about architecture, sculpture, One of the greatest dangers that
Heled any suggestion of organic painting and literature. She dis- faced the fliers was the uncertain-of the country by ground methods on the morning of -April 1. ty of the weather conditions owing markably high standard.
has recently been carried to a re-seemed to be in difficulties and was functioning, as though blood itself sects tone poems, eulogises dis- taken by a Chinese sergeant to the were not quite "nice." The voice cords, subdivides futurisgi into Tokio Hotel. The sergeant left in high pitched, toneless, ice-cold, even distinct planes, considers Iwai there to go for help, and re- She speaks with dead monotony, allid admiration for Bach when Synge too sensational, professes a turned, to find the accused asleep in without enthusinem. And yet
in the sudden gales which spring. up in the atmosphere around the) high peaks. It was considered un-} desirable to make the attempt when the wind was over 50 and under 15 miles per hour, as in the latter; casc a vacuum, might be created which would pull down the agro- planes.
However, the terrific south-
ern slopes of the Mount Ever. est range are practically in- accessible to the plane-tabler or theodolite observér on the ground.
barrier between
from to-morrow..
is
A
a public motor car outside the hotel. one can hardly describe Mrs. performed. In an empty church, is Sergeant Mottram said the Japan- Beelbrow as a woman who has coldly, contemptuous of the Renais- ese Consul had been consulted, and not had enthusiasms. Lionssance, dislikes Dickens, Scott, Zola | Even those who live within sight was willing to send the accused back lions have been the determining and Tolstol (in spite of the later By of the Himalayas find it difficult to to Japan on a Japanese ship a week passion of Mrs. Beelbrow's life, being a Russian and a Ilon).
A life amidst lions can hardly be cises a curious induence over her the way, everything Russian exer The expedition was financed by realize the enormous length of the His Worship remanded the accus-called an apathetic life, you-Russian and Chinese. Lady Houston and led by Air Con-range and are likely at times to fored for 10 days pending his de- might say,
Things modore P. F. M. Fellowes. Other get that many of the peaks, which
I would like to have known Mra. Japanese she condemns as bour. members of the party are the Mar- compared with Everest are insigni- parture.
Beelbrow when she.
geois. She is enormously refined, WAR quite quis of Clydesdale (first pilot),]ficant, exceed 20,000 feet.
a sybarite of aesthetic values. She Flight-Lieut. D. F. Mcintyre (se- This enormous
young, although the condition is
cond pilot). Lieut.
now-that quite indeterminate age
marmeset, a Borzoi, five chows.. Blacker !Chief Observer) Mr. The expeditions' abjective is its
which aesthetic women sometimes
two smoke-grey Persian cats, a Hughes and Mr. Shepherd-Reu-|greatest and most manifcent
arrive at too soon and forsake too parakeet, and some baby crocodiles early. She might easily be in the sunk tank in the conservatory. early thirties: on the other band, that we would speak. They ere not But it is, of the lions she keeps! she might be in the late forties; even Inter, ever earlier-she is so
real lions, of course. Real lions! POLICE COURT REVELATIONS refined, rou see. You can imagine are peculiarly commonplace-remi- her doing nothing so, vulgar as
Iniscent of Landseer and the Zoolo- visiting the Royal Academy gical Gardens. Graaf Reinet.
Mrs. Beelbrow's A graphic story of the burial-of reading a popular magazine. Aa
crowns during the Anglo-Boer war dear!
has no children, but she keeps She Col. L. V. S. two worlds stretches 1.200 miles. STRANGE STORY OF dimalt to visualise
TREASURE
ter.
Unique Pictures.
The records the planes, will bring back will be unique.
feature, and should be able to pro-
[duce, besides photographs, a map Buried Money Hoard
of the southern face of Everest such as could be compiled only
They should be the first compre-[with the help of aerial photo- hensive pictures of the summit of graphy-Reuter.
Disappears.
or
BRUTAL MURDER OF JEWISH EMIGRATION £1,000 in sovereigns and half for the cinema, or a revue-ph, my
BEGGAR
Police Suspect Wai-Chow Mendicants.
CRIME COMMITTED FOR $3 OR $4
INTO PALESTINE.
Refugees From German Persecution.
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
and of the strange disappearance! It is only her eyes which some- To-morrow's story will be of the money was told in the times give you an inkling of a reat- "By Decree of the High Magistrate's Court by Michael Pre-less soul. They aer almost green Ones," by Coutts Brisbane. torius, (68), a coloured man. with a tiny grey pupil. She some
He stated that the money was times smiles
with her lips, but lions roar in drawing-rooms and London, To-day. made by transport riding and add-]never with her eyes, which are al-concert halls. They are most in- The Colonial Secretary, Sir Philip ed to the accumulated savings of ways roaming-searching-lions, digenous to the soll of Central or Cunliffe Lister, when asked yester- his grandfather and mother, It She was a Miss Poulteney (you Eastern Europe. She Imports them day in the House of Commons whe-was buried 35 years ago at a spot know, the Hull shipping people), from Rusala, Bohemia, Hungary, ther, in view of the measures taken named Kaapse Kloof in Graaft and she married Beelbrow the Austria, or Czechoslovakia. No A frightened cry at 2 a.m. yester against the Jews in Germany, re- Reinet mountains, in two tina, a stockbroker, God knows why! You other breeds are any good. Nelther day morning at an un-numbered strictions on emigration into peculiarly-shaped stone being fixed can seldom and Beelbrow. Some must they be popular in the gener- ganger's hut at the 61⁄2 milestone Palestine would be relaxed for the to mark the place,
times you may observe him stand-ally accepted sense. If you say of the Kowloon and Canton rail- benefit of refugees, said that the Having always had sufficient ing against the wall at one of to Mrs. Beelbrow, "I heard Kreis-] way line, led to the discovery of a matter was within the jurisdiction money to live on, he left the hoard those overpowering receptions shefler play the Bach chazhonne“ very brutal murder, the victim being of a higher commissioner, to whom 'untouched until the depression gives. He is tubby, genial and ne-finely last night." she shivers and representations could be made. became, nevere and he was strand-gative. He smiles at his wife-says, "Ah! but have you heard Do A railway employee living near- There would, however, be no ques-ed in East London. Then he came busily occupied with lions-and Borch play the slow movement of by, heard the ery and on entering tion of departing from the principle to Graaff-Reinet to dig it up, but mutters
the Sezhklaki sonata?" the hut discovered Chan Shing, that emigration into Palestine must could not locate the spot and 40 “Wonderful woman, my wife- 40-year-old mendicunt, lying in bed be governed by the economic enlisted, the nid of two other wonderful! um-m." with two severe wounds ob either absorptive capacity of that coun-coloured men, one of whom was Bide of his neck and numerous try.-British Wireless Service. ather wounds on his face and left) band. The Shatia Police were im- mediately notified.
Chinese mendicant.
The Police have issued the fol
lowing description of two men wanted on suspicion in connection with
ANNIVERSARY OF "CHOPSTICKS."
+
the murder:- Sang, 30 Delightful Features In
mendicant-songster, smokes opium and is a native of Wal Chow; Li} Sze, 40, mendicant, also a nativel
of Wai Chow.
News In Brief.
April Issue.
..
said to be a witch doctor,
They discovered the hiding place and found the peculiar stone.
Digging was deferred for a few days, and when Pretorius went! again to the mountain he found the hole ransacked and the treasure
gone, but there were watermelon
peels lying about and the footprints of two people.'
He laid a charge with the police The second anniversary number against his two assistants.
The
You weakly reply, "No." name of De Borch seems familiar, re- bat. you had never heard of him as on a violinist.--
And then he retires to the freshment-rcom and whits people. Everyone will tell you She leans backwards and regards | that Mrs. Beelbrow was once a re-you through half-closed eyes. Upon her face there creeps an expres- sion of genuine sympathy. There is an almost imperceptible shrug of (the shoulders, and she turns away. You mutter "Damn!" and also re- pair to the refreshment-room,
DEATH OF MRS.
NORAH J. HOLMES
Many Attend Funeral.
where Mr. Beelbrow waits on you, (The refreshments are very good.) He says:
this
The Police suspect the two ac-jof that informative and entertain The magistrate remarked that the
The death of Mrs. Norah J. "Have you seen my wife? She's a cused of having murdered the de-ing journal, "Chopsticks," has just case might have been most interest Holmes, wife of Mr. Thomas Holmes wonderful woman-wonderful--- ceased as they knew he had $3 or been published and provides an in-jing but he thought the police had of Messrs. Palmer and Turner, oc-um-m!" $4 on his person. When found, teresting comparison with the "in-brought the prosecution too early. Curred at the French Hospital, on We should, mention that Chan Shing was devoid of any be- fant" that made its first appearance It might have been better if they had Sunday, after a brief illness.“ um-m of Mr. Beelbrow is a cur longings, his purse being missing. in the Colony in 1981, Few journals watched the accused for some time. The funeral took place at the ious kind of low hour that he af of its type have enjoyed the suc-He could not say the complainants' Protestant Cemetery, last evening. fixes at the end of every statement. cess of "Chopsticks."
story was untrue, but he could not Tho chief mourners were Mr. It seems to deliberately contradict Within the pages
of the April conceive of a jury convicting the Holmes and his daughter.
Just what he has said. It is like a issue are to be found many features, accused on the evidence-Reuter.
The Rev. E. G. Powell read the genteel "I don't think!"' both fact and fiction. Another
service, Norak, George, Miss Capell und by of genuine lions, famous opera It is said that in the old days Wreaths were sent by-Dad and Mrs. Beelbrow used to make a hob family, Mrs. L. Band, Miss Dawson, singers and painters. There is Miss A. H. Ismail, Mrs. Stubbings, full length of her by Sargent in and Mrs. E, Bloor, Mr, and trait, too, if somewhat merciless. Eileen; Miss Townsend, Miss Wood, the billiard-room; a very good por Mrs. Willam Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. It is characteristic of her that it H. Graye, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur should now be in the billard-room Hopkins and Edith, Mr. and Mrs. room that is only used on the S. J. Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. Jnight of a great crush to deposit Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. V. T. Low, hats and coats that are, crowded
scene laid in
Mra. Daledo of No. 11 Sugar bright story from the pen of Joyce N. RHODESIA'S LOSS Street, Wanchai, in her report to Annesley, with the the Police, stated that her daugh-Hong Kong, makes delightful rend- OF POPULATION, ter Olga Xavier, aged 15, has been ing, while the social notes are of missing from home since 9 p.m. on outstanding merit.
Serious Decline Shown March 28,
In 1932
EXODUS OF EUROPEANS
Livingstone.
from leg injuries.'
"Head Hunting for a Hobby" from the pen of Mr. E. C. Chan, a Chan Kam, while riding his push former graduate of the Hong Kong bicycle in Nathan Road last night, University, gives, an interesting in- knocked down a Chinese boy near sight into the racial peculiarities of Argylle Street. The boy was eent the natives of Formosa. Another to the Kowloon Hospital suffering travel article is contributed by Miss Official statistics point to a Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell," Mr. and out of the cloak-room. Sargent is E. Tamartey, under the nom de serious decline in the European Mrs. Pang Yun-tin, Mr. and Mrs. nase. If you mention the portrait plume of “Globe Trotter," and deals population of Northern Rhodesin D. W. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. - J- to her she says: ada A British passport issued to with the delights of Kashmir during the past year, reliable com- H. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Sul- "Ahl but have you seen the pas George Henry Gilbert- at Sydney Fashions, bridge, Industry and putations placing the present num-livan and family, Mr. and Mrs.tel of me by Spiltz?" New South Wales, on June 8, 1932, humour all find their alche in the ber at about 9,000 as compared with CJ Tebbutt,
The pastel by Splitz is in was found in the Wanchaf District issue.
* 13,846 when the census of 1931 wash, Mr. L. W. Amps, Colonel LG place of honour in the drawing last night by an Indian guard, and The pictorial side of the journal taken.
Bird, Messrs. L Cole, P. A. Com rooms is now at the Central Police Station has not been neglected. Among the The total immigration figures for delro, A. Fook, Frank Grose, The day came when Mrs, - Beel- awaiting its claim for ownership, many illustrations are views of the the last three years have been; 1930, Kwan Lee, A J. Linge, Lt, Col brow tired of genuino lions."
beautiful gardens of Government 3,651, 1981,‹1,702- 1982, 615, Last M. H. Logan, Messrs. H. S. Me- They were a little disillusioning, A collection of painting execut House, which under the expert year's figures, however, have to be Kay, F. Normington, A. Rit too business-like, and too fond ed in many countries will be shown direction of Lady Peel, have taken seyerely discounted, for it is known chic, Dr, J, Skinn, Taof Pa-tin,eing waited on by Mr. Boelbrow to the public nest Wednesday, when on a new atmosphere out that ever 100 were almost Imme G. L. Wilson and Wong Eze, in the refreshment room.” And so the exhibition of Misa Hilda Tre-{ ́ funis, noted - English Artist, will
be officially oponed by the Hon. SCHNEIDER TRIO FAREWELL Mr. W. T. Southorn at the Glouces
ter Building,"
diately repatriated, while the; rajli Java China Japan-Lijn, WAY Agures show a great excess of of Yorkshiremen in Hong departures over arrivals..
The exodi
Patrons of the Hong Kong Hotel a Chinese Restaurant are Informed An exhibition of photographs is that no dinnor will be served thei being held by the Wah Yan Amateur on Wednesday next owing Photographic Club, in the Scout|reservation of the Roof Room" of the Wah Yan College. The premises by Professor Schi exhibition will remain open until to: a farewell : concert to be morrow and comprises two hundred the Schneider Trio commencin photographs, including enlargements 9:15 pm.
and contact, printa - Visitors care The afternoon. -admitted Hetweet, the hours of - bjfunction as usual in the Rồo
a.m. and 6 p,MERCY
den on that dat
mus
Society she
Kong
will make my own lions,
~~ Ladies". Committee and Guild of continues, tliough the Unión: Church, Union Church
Union Church Choir, pr
abroad tak
two of the
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