SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933.
MR. W. L. COWLING'S DISASTROUS
DEATH
Apprentice Officer On S.S. Somali.
MANY ATTEND FUNERAL
Mr. William Laurie Cowling, who was put ashore from the British India steamer Somali last Tuesday, and sent to the Kowloon Hospital
officer on the 3.5. Somali, and his
death has come as a great shock to his shipmates, for his condition was not considered specially serious when he went to hospital.
Cowling who was only 18 was making his first trip to the East in the Somali, having previously been an apprentice in the Hain line. He leaves a father and mother in Glamorgan, Wales, for whom much sympathy will be felt.
BLAZE AT
SOUTHEND
50 Injured In Pleasure Fair Fire.
WILD CAT ESCAPES
were.
MRS. H. LANGLEY HONOURED
Order Conferred By HE. The Governor.
AMBULANCE AND NURSING WORK
THE
CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story,
THE
THIRD
MEDAL
By Alfred Tressider-Sheppard.
Mrs. H. Langles, District Secre- DIPPO CERLONE won his cles of Palermo. As it rumbled by tary of the Hong Kong St. John I first medal at a fundaco on he saw a vision of shawled women, f. A great fire broke out at the Kur-Ambulance Brigade, was last even- the Corleone road, Capponi was men in black coats and silk hate, an goal, Southend's famous pleasure ing invested with the Insignia of "sleeping for himself," as the old peasant, his scarf-bound head,} ground, on May 20. while 1,000 Serving Sister of the Venerable Sicilians say, at a table outside like a ship's figure carfed in oak, auffering from an attack of pneu- people were enjoying themselves Order of St. John of Jerusalem the inn. There he sat in hot nodding forward with the jolting of monia, succumbed to his illness yes- among the side shows
by His Excellency, the Governor, sunshine, his swatbed legs the bus And in another corner terday.
Fifty
injured. Sir William Peel, in the presence stretched at length. his gun prop-was the face that he was seeking. people The deceased was an apprentice Seventy-five of the 250 sideshows of a large gathering of guests, at ped against the sunbaked wall, Or one like it. Pippo wondered
were destroyed
Mountain Lodge. among them B
his mouth. fy-catching, the tassel for a moment whether long brooding miniature Zoo called "Back to Airs. Langley was singled out of his scarlet cap just nodding bad played tricks at last with his Nature," in which were monkeys, for voluntary service rendered for with his snores. The old rageal, two eyes. And he had not seen lizards and snakes. These were
the well-being of the community waking like a peevish child whose very clearly. But it might be Ban- burned to death.
In connection with ambulance and slumber has been broken, found dello. The lad might have been
himself a captive. The fire consumed an island site nursing work.
rash enough to come down from his about an acre in area which was
Amongst those present were the But the second medal told a brisk-haunts into the City streets. used as a fair ground.
Hon. Mr, R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Dr.jer tale. Scowling mountains look- Cerlone stopped under the shadow The material damage done was A. F. Wellington, the Hon. Mr. ed down on a piece of smart fight of a house to think. A second bus not exceptionally great consider-T. N. Chau, Drs. Ma Luk, H. eling when Pippo shot Roven!. He lumbering along not far behind the were first decided him. He entered it, ing the size of the Kursaal, and the Arculli, F. Ruttonjee, Koshing, and two other carbinieri fact that almost every structure W. B. A. Moore, Lai Po-chuen, Ip watching the outlaw's body as. It and from his corner watched the inside its boundaries is built of Kam-wa, Leung Chum-ba, T. P. leapt in the drellest way, like a land-tail-board of the vehicle in front, Woo S. F. Lee, Messrs. Fung Ji-ed fish-trying to follow his soul, noting each passenger who dis- At last his man dropped chuek, Chan Lim-pak, Fung Kong- Perhaps, for Roveni was sufficiently mounted. un, Kwok Siu-lau, Tang Shui-kin, devout. In a prayer-book, taken off into the road. Cerlone followed Ip Lan-cheen. Leung Fat-yue, Hofterwards from his pocket, a bunch cautiously.
His quary wore the blue hooded. of sarcred grass-plucked on a holy Li Yau-tsun, Kwok Chan, Shum Pak-ming, Ng Wab, ight-marked the chapter, "De cloak of Sicily, excellent for con- The carabinere, keep- Kon-sang,
Preparatione ad Bonam Mortem." cealment. U Kai-chueng. They were watching for this good ing behind a little cart bright with The Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie
J. D. Bush, I. B. Trevor, A. J. Ral-death when Luigi Bandello broke saints and angels and the wars of represented Messrs. Mackinnon. In the roar of the huge blaze the sten, Wong Kwong-tin, blok Ying- through the yellow spurge, growing Norman Kings, dogged him steadily Mackenzie & Co., others present screams and cries of the animals kwai, Lum Sing-yu, Fan Shui-nam.almost neck-high, and fired and along the Street of Liberty. being Messrs. T. G. S. Alexander, in the miniature 200 were drown-Chan Man-kai, E. M. Raymond, broke away uncaptured. C. Black, E. Hay Edie A. McKellared.
That some gesture seemed to fit in with Airplanes circled overhead Leung Shi-sang, Chak Tai-kwong, spit of lead meant six weeks in hos- his memory, and now improbability (members of the Company's staff)adding the noise of their engines Mesdames Dovey, Moore, Chakipital for Pippo, and be waited to be told him to give up Captain W.
F. Cotching R.N.B to the terror of the fire.
Tai-kwong, Ralston, Misses Lopes, revenged.
the pursuit. But he followed. Purser D. P. Tyrer and Assistant Mr. Robeon Foster, the owner Y. Langley, Fox, Hung, Fan, Molly Purser A. S. Pullinger of the P.
The third medal! He wished he and O. Kaiser-1-Hind; Captain C.
could see that handsome face of Luigi, the fair curly head, the straight, clear-cut features telling of Greek ancestors in old Syracuse, again at close quarters. They were in his dreams by night, his thoughts
wood.
But while it raged
for more A large attendance was present than two hours the flames, which at the funeral which took place at leapt up 100 feet high, could be the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Val-sen reflected in the portholes of a Kom-tong, ley. The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave liner three miles out at sea. >officiated.
Screams of the Animals.
of the miniature zoo, issued. R. Mill, Chief Officer E. J. Daniel, warning after the fire to members. Chief Engineer F. Wiles, Second of the Kursaal staff that his wild We asked that Engineer Hurley and Apprentice cat had escaped.
anybody who saw it to destroy it at Padua; Mr. W. E. Kirby, Secretary sight, and make no attempt to cap-
A. Burnell of the ex-P. and
0.
Mok
Chan and Alice Kwok.
FISH SMOTHERED. IN WATER,
Of Lake Of Tunis.
of, and representing, the China ture it, as it is a dangerous 80 Tons Dead On Shores Consta Officers Guild; Mr. L. Mc. animal when cornered. Williams of the s.s, Fatshan, and others. The Deputy Shipping Master was also represented.
YACHTSMEN REACH
Mr. Foster called at the police station and warned the police of the escape of the wild cat.
Tunis.
by day; yet still the two medals
MONDAY'S STORY.
Now
lacked their comrade. One eve ning his chance came unexpectedly.
He had been at the range under ward Palermo, hurried towards the
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The shores of the lake offellegrino and had made good prac-cloaked man; they stopped a second,|
tice. "Shoot as straight when you land she turned and walked on with QUALITY
(oxygen
The wreaths sent included those
The station is equipped with a Tunis are strewn with 80 tons meet Bandello," has officer had said, him, laughing and chatting. They from the P. and O. and Messrs. humane killer," said a police off-lof dead fish which Mackinnon, Mackenzie, and from cial, "and the moment we receive "smothered" in the water.
were raising his head from the score were quite close now to Sfer- A BETTER the Officers of the F. and O. and information of the whereabouts
sheet on the wooden table, "and racavallo. To their right Monte Experts declare that the fish B. I. ship.
of the cat a man will be sent to were
you'll win your third medal, Cer Pellegrino, rising into a violet sky suffered by lack of destroy it."
lone." The next shot had, missed powdered with stars, shut off the The
air was full of burning When the water fell to an un-should be no miss, when his time lowing at a cautious distance, reach
the bull by half an inch, but there sea: Man and girl, with, Pippe foly material, which floated out over the jusually low level and the oxygen He strolled, afterwards pasted the broad village street, sea two and three miles away. content became a third below the English Gardens. The buzz of
Rifle Range Explosions. normal, the fish made a frenzied approval from the onlookers-his On the balconies of the houses, The fire broke out. It is believed, rush toward land.
comrades, a few idlers, a muleteer at the thresholds, the villagers on the doorsteps, on rickety chairs resting his belled and gaily-harness-smoked The low level of the lake, and ed beasts at the foot of the zig-zag penned in corrala of rough boulders or 'gossiped. Pigs were the consequent lack of oxygen mountain path--still tickled his es was due to insufficient water teem
KEELUNG.
Taimoshan Makes Good Progress.
+
The yacht, Taimoshan, carrying five British naval officers, which Jeft Hong Kong on. May 31 arrival at Keelung, Formosa on June 5.
Strong bead winds were encoun- tered, between Swatow and Amey the best day's nalling being about
180 miles.
The yachtamen left Keelung for Yokohama on June 8 or 9, and are endeavouring to reach England via the Panama Canal,
as the result of a fuse in the big joy-wheel; It quickly spread ta the many hooths and stalls about the joy-wheel.
Not one
reached the shores alive.
Police drove the crowd from the gates of the Kursaal, and inter. the rush a visiter was injured.
Then the flames got a hold on the marB of wooden building and crackle could be heard in the around the joy-wheel, and the roar centre of the town. Every available fireman was rush- ed to the scene.
to
They fought desperately confine the fire to the island site.
46
came.
He thought again of Ban-gainst the walls. Fige, dogs, fowis being let in from the sea-Reudello, and, with a sudden jump of rooted and nosed and acratched At the the heart, saw the man he wanted. among offal in the street.
far end of Sferracavallo the long A bus, huge and unwieldy, was
street twists suddenly and runs blundering through the street. It
downhill to the sea. was now nearly dark, and a splut
Cerlone turned this corner with tering oil lamp lighted the interior. There were half a dozen passengers; interested in their own concerns to caution. The two seemed too much that strange mixture of caste and centuries seep in these street vehlbeed him, and the hard road was
"BIBLE MEETING ’
DISCOVERY.
Communists Hit On New Ruse.
Cologne.
police
Suspicious Meinberg
A slight breeze was blowing raided a "Bible study" meeting the flames towards the big dance and discovered that Bibles were hall, in which 200 people were conspicuous by their absence. dancing.
INFLATION MONEY BURNT.
Instead of Bibles the raiders Famous Collection From flames caught found, after a careful search of
in which hun the people attending and in the of cartridges meeting room, a quantity of literature said to be of a revolu-
It was revealed that the "Bible
German Crash.
Focesneck, Thuringia
strewn with wind-blown sand ́that deadened his footsteps. But he drew back suddenly against a wall as they stopped at a cottage door. A showed him clearly enough the face rueh of light as the door opened jof. Luigi Bandello.
The door closed on them abruptly, leaving Pippo in a quandary. What now? He lifted his plumed hat, and ran his fingers dublously through his thick, close-cut hair. Ten years' labourious work Bandello was in that house. The third medal was in that house.
The adventurers aboard are.- Lieutenant R. E. D. Ryder of H. M. S. Olympus, 4th Submarine Flotil la; Lieutenant P. C. Francis of H. Suddenly the M. S. Otus; Surg.-Lieutenant C. the rifle ranges Ommanney-Davis, of H. M. S. dreds of rounds Bridgewater; Lieut.-Commander M.
were stored. "Sherwood, of H. M. S. Hermes and
The explosions scattered the peo- tionary character. Lieutenant G. S. Salt, of H. M. Sple on the edge of the crowd. Oswald,
Those nearest tried to turn. They meeting" was, in reality, a has been reduced to naught by a How to get It? That W found a wall of people immediate- gathering of Lippe communists. disastrous fire which has de: the question-and а dificult Pandemonium Many of them. have been ar-stroyed one of the largest colone. To Inock, and enter, and
rested. Reuter.
lections of "emergency money" attempt arrest single-handed, might in existence.
be like thrusting one's · hand] The notes, which dated back into a nest of wasps.. Besides, to remove a box of rifies from a shoot-were collected by Herr Fickert allios spring up in Sicilly like [to the inflation days in Germany, help the Mafiori and their friends, Electric bulbs, bursting in the ing gallery.
from more than 2,000 German Jason's men in the quiet and empty heat, started popping among the The rifles dropped on his ribs towns. They were reduced to a field. Pippo remembered an arrest
This increased the alarm and fractured them, and he had to mass of charred paper and 10, in a busy Palermo street; in among the crowd and hampered the be taken to Southend Hospital large vans were needed to trans- second, sober shopkeepers, law-abid-|
The showroom which was being port the remains to the rubbish ing householders, had had strange
LADY GAME IS POOR HOUSEWIFE.
Wife Of N. 5. W. Governor "Confesses."
Sydney, N.S.W. While opening the new club
ly behind them.
broke out.
The firemen were so hampered for the moment that they had to turn their hose on the crowd to drive them back.
stalla.
rooms of the Housewives' Pro-work of the fremen.
་
gressive Association, Lady Game Manfully they stuck to their bullt to take Al Capone's armour-heap-Reuter.
said she was glad to hear that work, and within an hour of the ed ear, which has been bought by one of the club's activities outbreak they had succeeded in Captain Morehouse, owner of the *Was teaching girls cooking confining the flames to the area of Kursaal was destroyed.
and dressmaking and the art of one acre, on which the joy-wheel running. a home;
was situated.
Chief Danger Over Captain de Forest Morehouse, "I am entirely uneducated in Meanwhile, traffic within a mile owner of the Kursaal, stated when "that respect,” said the Governor's of the Kursaal had been com- the chief danger was passed:--
·wife, “but I will make sure that pletely blocked..
“It is impossible to estimate the my daughter Hosemary will Soon the crowd round the gates extent of the damage but we know learn those things that I have bad swollen to 16,000 people. Bo that the jor-wheel, the coal mine, missed.
alarmed were the police that a the rifle range and a show of "When the Governor and I were company of soldiers was rushed animals called 'Back to Nature
many other booths."
ARCTIC CITY OF 600,000.
“Mushroom " Growth Of Murmansk.
accidents with shutters, with stalls, with chairs on overhanging · bal- confes--accidents very hampering |to the carabinieri, A falze step⠀⠀
here, and half the village might be in arms against hich. But if he) went away to bring help his man might vanish,...
He waited some time and then [crept cautionsly towards the col- |tage. Through a chink below the biind he peered into the lighted Moscow
room. The population of Murmansk, An old woman, yellow and wrink visiting a certain district in New over from Shoe-burynes to deal have been burned out as well in the extreme north of Europe led, sat spinning the yarn. South Wales, we stayed at a bome with the situation.
He nearly 200 miles inside the could hear the whirr of running where the daughter of the house There were 1,000 cars in the car But the extent of the damage Arctic circle, has now reached wheels in the late silence of the did all the cooking, besides mak-park. Volunteers were called to gives no true idea of the horror of 60,000, according to the Tass street. In another chair near her ing special cakes and savories clear them.
the fire while it lasted. MA
•for a party,
agency... She even cleaned Stallholders on the edges of the As the firemen fought the flames
* -under the light of a flickering oil- blazing area fought like madmen to volunteers and police searched rapidity during the past few Luigi. Her face was young, dimp
It has grown with enormous lamp-at the girl who had", met, "Yet she always looked so at- try to salvage the goods in their through the blazing stalls for years, for when the last census led, softly rounded; long lashes, tractive, when entertaining her stalls, with hammers, batchets and members of the public or stall was taken in 1928 Murmansk lover downcast eyes, brushed chocs parent's guests. I will feel places of wood,
holders who might be trapped in had a population of about 8,000. that had caught the rich tones of proud if I can bring up my Only one man was injured in the the grounds,
At that time there were only sunshine from the golden valley. daughter to do the same"-Reu- fire itself. He was Albert Ayre, The fire was subdued in two 28,000 inhabitants in the whole
whe was assisting, a' showman to hours.
Murman region--Reuter:
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