MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1933.
MACAO GOVERNOR BRITAIN'S
ENTERTAINED
Function At Repulse Bay Hotel.
DEPARTURE FOR PORTUGAL
The Governor of Macao, Lt. Col.
A. J. Bernardes de Miranda, was
PROGRESS
IN INDIA
French Missionary's View.
TROUBLESOME FUTURE.
entertained at a luncheon party Father given by Mr. Lo Wing-kit, at the
* Marseilles. Lhande, a prominent
GHOST IN TOWER
OF LONDON
Sentry Deserted Post
For Guardroom.
WHITE SPECTRAL FIGURE
61
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story,
AT THE
WORLD'S
EDGE
By R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Once again a ghost has appeared wharf of a little Chinese ing my glance, he shuffled and
X7E had stopped alongside the 1 looked at him keenly, and, meet- within the Tower of London to a sentry keeping his post at night. the Malay States have a knack Not a very attractive animal, I
mining village. The Chinese in turned away. Repulse Bay Hotel, on Friday, the member, of the Jesuit organisation military authorities have had of settling down on unheard of thought to myself. Probably a beach
to take notice of it
out-of-the-way corners, but this comber who wants a passage to fact, the sentry's adventure was the dreariest spot I had ever Port Dickson, But how on earth did
Although only a few be get here? struck.
eve of his departure for Portugal, and a well-known preacher of
take part.
J. Mendonca (Chief Justice, Supreme Court). Lieut. V. Correira
Madame
If one wishes to establish
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was
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owner:
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be The Man Who Belonged To Me," by Giovanni Papini.
where he is to attend an Imperial Notre Dame in Paris, had some has caused more stir among the hundred yards from the sea the As we sat studying each other, Conference in which the Governore striking comments, to make of all Portuguese colonies will Britain's part in the development Tower's populace--not a small one place was completely shut out there was a dull splash close to the Among those present were the of India when he landed here on thrm the daily exercise of a Scot from sight. A sluggish, mud-wharf. A couple of crocodiles were
tish officer under arrest Governor, his wife, daughter and his return from a five-months' tourThe Guardsman who saw the cept for a small channel in mid-among the refuse that the Malays coloured river-mouth, which, ex-disporting themselves impudently son, Mr. and Mrs. Dias Costa of the Catholic Missions in that spectre was on bis lonely task no stream, receded at low tide into had thrown from the launch. (Colonial Treasurer), Dr. and Mrs comtry.
far distant from the Bloody Tower. a mangrove awamp, a tiny wharf The man beside me shuddered In India," he declared, "His surroundings were of the almost falling to pieces, and a violently and, jumping down from (Director of Naval Yard), Lieut. great unhappy feeling weighs on gloomiest. As he was the only row of fragile Chinese huts built his seat, began to walk up and down
witness of what occurred, his own on piles that was all.
the narrow decki D'Oliveira Soares (Harbour Mas-the population-375,000,000 men
one ever visited the place. Once
Suddenly he started to speak. (Commander, live under the oppression of super-story must be taken. ter), Capt. Britto
He was standing motionless, de-ja year the Chinese
"It's two years now," he said, Harbour Pollee), all from Macao, stition, under the terror of their Mr. and Mrs. Mok Kon-sang, Mr. gods. There is no spirit of cum voutly hoping that his two hours brought his report down to Port two years of hell, and it's killing spell of duty would soon come to Dickson, and with that the Gove. You're the first white man I've H. S. Mok, managing director of fidence among them.
an end. Suddenly a white spectral ernment
satisfied. The seen for twenty-four months. You Canton Municipal Bank, Mr. and Mrs. Lo Wing-sik, who have just comparison with the French system gure appeared, as if from no- Malays, the lawful owners of the can do what you like with me after- returned from their honeymoon, of colonisation, we are inferior from where, and seemed to float towards land, would not live in such a wards, but you'll listen to me now, Mr. and Mrs. Lo Hum-cheung, Mrs. purely material point of view, but him. As it did so, he saw to his hole. If five or six hundred Chin- won't you?" -
The perspiration was pouring off} Mok Sik-yim, Mr. Lee C. Solomon.to our credit, we have the entire amazement that it was the figurelese could make a living there,
his brow, and fear, cringing änd Miss Margaret Pau (daughter of antidence of our people, which is of a headless woman.
well, they were welcome to it: Confronted by such an appari-) the Compradore of the Chartered the result of our moral work.
retion, the sentry fied, making his the first one that had been made by
I had finished my inspection-loathsome, was written in every he
of his face. In my opinion, we Bank, Yokohama). Misses Suzan
Rotanproach England in her colonisation way to the safety of the guard a white man for over five years
"My name's—well, you: don't need and Betty Lo. Santos (wife of the Acting Gor, methods, with the Inek of using room, greatly unnerved. Whether and was lying back in a long chair | the strong psychological factor of or not he used his bayonet seems under the awning of the diminutive ernor of Macao), Mr. and Mrs. Christianity, and it is owing to this uncertain. J. A. E. da Silva, Messrs. Lo Wing-that I think they will fail in their
Government launch preparatory to The military authorities have cheong and Lo Wing-tsun.
great undertaking.
maintained a strict reticence. It is starting back for Port Dickson. My In the evening the Governor and, ** I have discavered (nt France recognised that there is always a | Malay crew were anxious to get un- party were the guests of Mr. Leis only known in India through her possibility of a particularly impres- der steam as soon as possible. The Hum-chung at the Hong Kong missionaries. Without mixing in slonable man concluding that he
place with its silent, mournful-look- Hotel. The guests were the same polities, we neeomplish a moral has seen a ghost in such surround-Ahmat, the head engineer, said, “Al-
ing Chinese depressed them, and, as} as at the luncheon, and included work there which is highly French. ings as those of the Tower of Lon the Portuguese Consul, Mr. Botel-We are loved. Personally I wish don, at midnight or thereabouts..
tah had overlooked this spot when he ho and Mr. LI Chai-tong, in addi-that the British shudi rosnain in
The
made the earth beautiful.” usual punishment of a tion.
that great country in order to main soldier for leaving his post is not,
Certainly no other race but tain peace among the various races, as a rule, resorted to in such cases, Chinese would have lived there, band with a ship's engine as God which are always fighting agdust but he is called upon for explana. The overpowering heat of the ever made. You can look at me now, June another.
But the future of tion. In this instance that pro-afternoon sun, he rotten, fetid but I'm not kidding you. Ten years India seems very dark and trouble cedure was adopted.
stench from the river, the A Vision of Anne Boleyn
ago I got a job or the coasters out (dismal surroundings, all seem-
here. I was twenty-four then and The Tower, as might be expect-jed to smell of death. What
I did well, ed, is not lacking in ghost stories. compensations could induce a man to you bet I jumped at it. very The most circumstantial of these is support life in such a place as this? Loo, and saved a bit. But that's all
the appearance of
by the way. Well one day in Singa- Queen Anne As if in answer to my silent quest pore I ran into a man called Zimmer- Boleyn to a young soldier of the
....a voice halled me from the edge mann-a big, blue-eyed, soft-mouth- '60th Rifles, in circumstances which of the wharf. were corroborated-but not the ghost
ed brute with a tongue that would by the late Field-Marshal Lord thing as a bottle of whisky on was on a spree at the time, and he "Say, mate, have you get suen a have wrung tears from a stone. I Grenfell, who was at the time aboard?"
filled me up with drink and-talk. It The King's. House of to-day was
Perhaps 1 had fallen asleep. At was the drink that did it, for I knew anciently the Lieutenant's Lodg- any rate I had not seen anyone ap-from the begluning that the man was jings, and a little room there is proach, and the sound of a white a liar. At any rate I chucked my pointed out as that in which Anne man's voice in a place like this made (ship and went into business with Boleyn passed her last night me jump. Before I could reply he him. He had a marine store in the Canberra, Saturday. earth. Beneath its window had scrambled on board and taken a Chinese quarter, and he swore his A meeting of the Australian night a sentry was probably commence in August. Al-Loan Council will soon be necessary prostrate and unconscious on the
found lying Beat on the rail beside me."
profits were over £1200 - a year. ready 30 members of the Coalition in order to review the progress made ground.
He was a short, sandy-haired little There's no need to tell you the thing| fellow, with shifty, bloodshot eyes was a fraud, and but for a woman party have approved the idea. No
by the various Slate Governmenta
When he recovered he said that that darted from alde to side inces. I'd ha' been back at my ship in a members of the Ministry or mem-towards Budget equilibrium and also a figure in white had approached santly. There was at least seven month's time. I was a fool, but she bere of the Opposition have yet to examine the prospects for next him; that be challenged, but the days' growth on his face, and a very was soft and coaxing-pretty, too, been approached.
year and make preliminary arrange-figure came on; that he charged it dirty khaki suit, many sizes too with eyes that just seemed to eat Those who are responsible for the ments for financing next year's pro- with his bayonet, and meeting with large for him, sat on his skin and into your hear. presentation of the iden declare that
gramme of unemployment rellef no resistance he fell in a dead bones like a farmer's overcoat on s
"She was a Ches-chee, of course, two motives underlie their scheme, work.
faint, in which condition visiting scraggy scarecrow.
although her skin was as white as The first is that a State lottery
It is expected that the Federal rounds had found him.
Ahmat brought up a glass and wax, but I hadn't married her a week This story was corroborated by signed to the man to help himself, before I discovered she'd a temper two comrades, who gave evidence Without speaking he took the bottle like the seven devil. Still, I belt-
R
STATE LOTTERY FOR NEW ZEALAND.
Matter For Next Session Of Parliament.
MANY APPROVE MOVE.
Wellington, N.Z.
There is 3 growing body of
NOTIC
(J!]
I think that, at present, the Gandhi movement JN
the de. line. Įmuch." --Reuter.
Grundbits Just
AUSTRALIAN LOAN COUNCIL.
opinion in Parliamentary circles in Meeting Necessary To
favour of a State lottery, and, while
no steps in this direction are medit:
ated at the moment, the subject is
one that is likely to be brought
directly before the Government early in the next session, which will
Review Finances.
M
(Reuter's Special Service.)
would do much to increase the re- Government will propose a confer- venue of the Government, and the second is that it would divert much one be held at Canberra at the
of the money-estimated at some thing like £250,000-which is sent annually out of New Zealand for lottery tickets. It has been ascer tained that within the last month --over £20,000 hus been sent from New Zealand to the free city “of
end of May.
U.S. NAVÁL MEN ENTERTAINED.
Danzig for lottery tickets, while Medway Petty Officers
there is a huge sum sent weekly to Tattersalla In Tasmania. Much money has also been sent to Ireland for sweepstako tickets.
Hosts At Dinner.
Chief and Petty Officers of the D. S. S. Black Hawk and attendant
An investigation has been made U. S. destroyers now in harbour, into the New South Wales system were on Saturday night entertain-- of State lottery, which has proved led to a dinner at the King's so popular there, and when the mat Restaurant by the Chief and Pelty ter is placed before the Govern Ofcers of H.M.S. Medway.
Young Heutenant in the regiment.
before the court-martial. The court-martial, Imagination for ghosts, the man with being drunk. facquitted..
on
one
;1.
דיי
to know that, but I'm white all right. I was a decent engineer once--yes, trained on the Clyde-and as cool'a
ed her once or twice, and when we and, half filling his glass, sent a lacking dash of soda into it and drank it were alone 1 could manage her all charged down at a gulp. Then, drawing his right. He was hand across his mouth, he waved a
"Then one fine day the police turabled in on us, I knew nothing fean arm towards the mine.
"Do you wonder now that a man trouble-selling 'chandu glap' to the I swear I didn't. Oplùm was the drinks?" he said at last,
Other sentries stationed later on the same spot declared that the phantom also appeared to them selves, and the post became of such jevil repute that men tried to avoid HIL.
LIMITING RUBBER PRODUCTION. Dutch Minister Favours Restriction Plan.
(Reuter's Special Service,)--
London, Saturday.
Chinese. Zimmermann got eighteen months, and although I was as in- nocent as you are they landed me with sixty days. You can guess
what that did for me-two months breaking stones in Singapore gaol afde by side with all the drunk- en Tamils, and Chinese cut-throats..
But
GREAT LADIES OF THE
The girl stuck to me when I came! WHITE HOUSE
out. I'll say that, for her. (Continued from Page 6.)
what could I do? I couldn't go back. ment, in a few months' time, full After the dinner, which was given we are, all going--we are all
to my ship. I couldn't go home, and details of the necessary machinery in return to a similar function to the
one way and another we sank pret- will accompany the proposal. The Medway on her recent visit to Mani-going, the dying man told her,
ity low only reason for delaying presenta ls, the company settled to a very en reassuringly,
According to the Amsterdam "What's that got to do with this tion until the next session of Far-joyable evening, Chief Stoker Petty Mrs, Lincoln is connected with correspondent of the "Financial
place, you say 2 Hament" is recognition that an Officer Crawford being responsible the conservatory at the White Times M. De Graaf, DutchWell, I'm coming to that. One effort must be made to conclude the for a musical entertainment.louse and the little schoolmarm Minister for the Colonies has day when things were about their present session, as Its continuance The arrangements, were in the with its library, the first Mrs. Roo-leaued a declaration stating that worst I fell in with Ah Wee, the is having a disturbing effect on the hands of Chief Engine Room Arti-sevelt in connected with every place he considers the compulsory re bose of this mud heap, and he told whole business of the countryficer Pearce and Electrical Artificer in it which suggests modern com-striction of rubber production me I could make a fortune with a
Many aubsidiary reasons have Herret.
been prepared as arguments” In favour of a State lottery. One of
these is that it would take money
away from book-makers, and divert
News In Brief
{fort.
desirable in every respect, as soon store on the mine Opfum for the
• Made It Home, ⠀ as a workable and efficient plan cocties. That was the touch. The She found it a five-roomed fal” is available,
old shark wouldn't' taks the risk with the rent given over to omites: Such a plan, he states, should himself, but he put me on to She lumed" It into a habitable also cover native production and right people and paid me a good nu dwelling which should earn her be accepted by the British Gov-monthly for the stuff tinued success of art unions, which Hong Kong Telegraph, and Mrs.
Mr, Alfred Hicks, editor of the the undring gratitude of ita, future ernment: are, it is claimed, nothing more of Hicks were passengers for Europe 01 all the stories of the White
(occupants, less than lotteries, is also advanc aboard the s.. Hakusan Maru, -ed as another argument in favour
House, the one I like bast is told of Mrs
Larding.
it into taxable channels. The con
of the State taking over the buil -near-Reuter.
The exhibition of pictures Mias Hilda Trefusis, whi been attracting so many "the Gloucester Building,
continued until this evenin that another Jopportunti
At to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club a member will delive |what he terms`a_vocational addré
on "Living by one's wits!
The Rt. Ronald Hall, ing Victoria, preached to
at the Farter- held in St John's Catisedra
freet Albas, come to the
Sang BSIt wasn't much of
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wife;
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