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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1933.
THE CHINA MAIL
CHINESE HOSPITALS GUNMEN PARTITION LATE MR. RODGERS. To-Day's Short Story.
Community Service
A CAPITAL
Sofia Gangsters Reach Agreement
RESIDENTS HEAVILY ARMED
Large Gathering At Funeral.
SERVICE AT ROMAN CATHOLIC
· CEMETERY··
Brotherhood
The funeral of the late Mr. Her- Sofie bert Austin Rodgers, Accountant NOR
By H. Manhood.
being
Described.
MR. LO'S ROTARY ADDRESS
Mr. M. K. Lo gave an interesting talk at the Rotary Club tin, Glou-
the appearance of cester Building, yesterday, on "An
the canted signboard by the equipped with more teeth than is Aspect of Chinese Community Ser-
Gunmen of the two opposing of the Hong Kong Land Investment a full minute he stared at had
of Rosemary Cottage, aual. His nose, which seemed to vices, Chinese Hospitals." Mr. Lo groups of Macedonian revolu- and Agency Co., Ltd, took place at gate is a past chairman of the Tung tionaries, between whom there the Roman Catholic Cemetery Fes-scratching dubiously at his palm, have bean cruelly pinched while yet Wah, Kwong Wah and Tung Wah has long been a political vendet-terday, in the presence of a very his thick lips shaping the tipsy plastic, formed the contre-piece of Eastern Hospitals.
ta, have agreed to divide Sofia large gathering of friends.
lettered words "Teas Minerals a pair of tea scales, of which his The speaker said that in addition between them.
The pall-bearers were Messrs. J. Provided." First peering over large, misty blue eyes were the to the extensive medical work, the
These opposing groups are Brennan, A. Nicol, B. Naess, H. the hedge, he tapped a waistcoat dishes: The balance was not quite Tung Wah Hospital performed a composed of the followers of Dreyer, B. C. Field and G. G. pocket as if to reassure himself true, the left dish being slightly great variety of duties of a public, Ivan Mihaloff, often called the Woods.
and entered the garden, careful lower than the right. philanthropic and charitable na "Uncrowned King of Macedonia,” The Rev. Father L. M. Boss! of y relatching the gate behind His hands were perhaps the mast ture, of which Europeans could and the followers of M. Proto- ficiated at the graveside:
him, blushing ripely as he cross interesting physical feature, these The gathering at the graveside ed to the bench farthest removed aptly illustrating- the scareely have any conception.
gueroff. The Tung Wah Hospital—rau- They have reached this new Included-the-Hon-Mr-D.-W. Trat- from my own perch. He sat natural compensation. They were about a dozen Chinese vernacular agreement in order that each man, Colonial Secretary, Hon. Mr. down with all the cautiousness finely shaped but sadly neglected, schools with over 1,000 pupils and side may have a zone in which A. E. Wood, Secretary for Chinese of an aboriginal encountering a cars and agnails seeming to in- settled local disputes of a commer to walk without constant danger Affairs, Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, rustic bench for the first time. dicate that he had employed them cial nature, chiefly referred to the of meeting men of the other side Chairman of the Hong Kong Land Removing his cap he dabbed his against stone in the absence of tools. Hospital by the Secretary for Chin--for if members of the oppos-Investment Co., Ltd. Rev. G. T. face with a new, blue-bordered They were abnormally sensitive and ese Affairs. It investigated cases ing factions meet, shooting is Waldegrave, and Messrs. D. V handkerchief and crossed his active, sometimes wrestling: to-
Steavenson, R. H. Douglas, B. Glegs, immediately of kidnapped children, and pursued inevitable.
uncrossing ether or exploring a surface, but lengthy enquiries with a view to The most recent shooting af-Field, G. G. Wood, E. H. Williams, them, obviously thinking that he more often fluttering in seeming restoring the kidnapped to their fray in the streets took place one. A. Fraser, T. E. Pearce, D. Wil would thus be better prepared imitation of the wing tremblings of families; undertook the payment of evening recently in the densely son, H. Dreyer. N. L. Smith, A. for flight were he accused of the chaffinch confined to the cage gratuities to dependents on behalf crowded main street of the capi-Nicol, S. Hampton Ross, T. C. Ttrespassing. He had the hyper hanging from the trellised arch of European Companies at the re-tal. Hundreds of people fled ter-Beck, F. R. Forsyth, S. T. Butlin, E-sensitive air
of an exhibition
quest of the S. C. A.; carried out rified or threw themselves on C. Hall A. F. Gladstone, W. R. Wil-rabbit; a dock rat in Arcadia, so the removal of ancient graves; their faces while a hail of bullets kinson, E. J. Ainslie, Fook Lung, to speak. For a tense space be dealt with cases of survivors from were fired at random by anybody Cheung Cheung. Leung Leung, studied my feet, comparing them Wong Kwok-king, R. Shannon, L. S. with his own, reluctantly decid wrecks; and looked after destítutes who was carrying arms.
· and returned destitute emigrants. The police, by mistake riddled Greenhill, C. Young, B.. Naessing that I was harmless. Having a car in which the director of Brennan, J. McLellan, and others. paled up his tight trouser legs, the Italian Bank was trying to, Family wreaths included those all unconsciously exposing two escape from the scene with his from the father and from the sis-pale cutlets of flesh above the daughter and a woman friend.ter Mrs. C. More, who is on her concertina'd socks, he relaxed
Singapore, and from with a double puff of relief. Only the chauffeur was wounded. way from
NEW BUS SERVICE.
Two Lines Now Run To Repulse Bay.
to
FACILITIES FOR BATHERS.
Two bue services now run Kepluse Bay Hotel, In addition to the service operated by the Hong Kong Hotel Garage, which has been permitted to retain this omnibus service in spite of the franchise, the China Motor Bus Company' have now started an
hourly service from Blake Pier.
The buses run from 7 am to 12
midnight, and from Repulse Bay at
"Eve."
law of
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "Ingel," by Aino Kallas.
above the bench. It was as though
Although it is now illegal to Others floral tributes were sent Face and demeanour alike aug he were expressing with his hands carry firearms, hundreds of people parade the streets daily by Mr. and Mrs. S. Berg. Mr. and gested that he had weathered about all those thoughts that could not be with loaded revolvers in their Mrs. R. Baker, Rev. C. and Mrs. thirty years, with roses very few put into words.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Butlin, and far between. He was stockily He did not at first notice the bird. Mme Chiffon, Mr. and Mr. Le built and curiously saliew, as though
pockets.---Reuter.
$255 SALARY
CLAIM.
要
D'Almada and family, Mr. and Mrs. he had grown up in darkness. He fall of seed busks at last drew his W. S. Drake, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. appeared to have dressed in the attention to the cage. The chamach was buddied in the caked sand, dark
were Lo, Store creases Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs L. S. Green-visible in his shoddy "ready panting laboriously, working it bill, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrop, Mr.mades"; the knot of his tie slipped wings In an enfeebled way as and Mrs. F. Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. so that it resembled a cleft twig though trying to recall their pur- his waistcoat. His pose, troubled perhaps by dreams A. Hyde-Lay, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, tucked Into
Gloucester Building and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. I.boots were new, with solidly curving of past fights between the balanced
Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Johnsoles, uncomfortable, even to the green and blue of earth and sky son, Mr. and Mrs. Kirby. Mr. and eye. Hair fringed his small but of April moments when it had come
Sued,
Before the Puiane Judge, Mr. R. Mrs. H. M. Marshall, and Derek, prominent ears like dead grass near to perfecting its hurried lyric. 7.30 .m. to 12.30 a.m. The fare E. Lindsell, this afternoon at the Mr. and Mrs. D. G. McAvoy, Me about mushrooms, while his mouth Chance no other name fits the way-
is 40 cents, and the route is known Supreme Court, Mr. Cipriano Cladio and Mrs. F. T. Fortallion, Mr. and as No. 6,
The schedule of the is claiming from Messrs. Schmidt Mrs. Norman J. Perrin, Mr. and Hong Kong Hotel
buses remains und Company of the Gloucester Mrs. Hampton Ross, Mr. and Mrs. unchanged.
Building, the sum of $255 being J. H. Seth, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Stan- For the benefit -of Chinese salary for three months in lieu of ton, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. S. Thomp- bathers visiting the beaches at notice, under a service of agree-son, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Williamson, North Point, the China Motor Bus ment.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilkinson, Mr. Company run a half-hourly service The plaintiff's claim is that he and Mrs. J. F. Wright. from Blake Pier to Taikoo Dock entered into an agreement of ser- Sir Robert Ho Tung. Hon. Mr. (East Gate), every afternoon and vice in writing with the defendants J. J. Paterson, Messrs. Au Lam, evening. On Saturday and Sun-on December 1, 1932, for a period of T. C. T. Beck, T. H. G. Brayfield, day afternoons a 15 minutes service one year at a monthly salary of $85. J. Brennan, W. Brackenridge, Chan ja run, the fare being ten cents.
UNUSUAL CLAIM
FAILS.
$20,000 Insurance Involved.
SUNDAY CONCERTS TO RECOMMENCE.
Peninsula Hotel Entertainment.
FIRST 1933 CONCERT ON SUNDAY.
farer 20 well-chirruped ・・ un- musically, but with good intention. The bird turned its cracked beady
eyes towards him and uttered a sla-
gle tarnished thread of sound. He took the reproach to heart. Climb- ing upon the bench he peered into the cage with physician-like solemnity. The setting-sun-like wrinkle over his right eye deepened with his understanding. Sucking Jin his cheeks, he emitted seductive noises, whispering words of cheer. But the finch had no reason to as-
The agreement stipulated that Tak-man, W. C. Chan, Cheung three months' notice had to be Cheung. Chow Yat-sun, S. M An innovation that last year at-sociata kindness with the human given, according to the plaintiff's Churn, A. H. Compton, F. H. Crap tracted hundreds of people to the voice. Its only response was to statement of claim.
neli, H. B. L. Dowbiggin, R. Mspacious and comfortable Lounge of flutter its wings despairingly. The plaintiff further claims that Drake, B. C. Field, Fok Pak-yuen, the Peninsula Hotel, and which Exhausted, it subsided again into) the defendant firm wrongfully Fook Lung, S. Gidley, P.K. afforded congenial entertainment on the fouled sand, heart pumping terminated the agreement on April Geravleff, A. F. Gladstone, G. S. Sunday evenings, is to be re-intro sluggishly. Trellis and wires were 30, by a letter dated March 31, Graver, E. A. Griffiths, P. Grant, duced next Sunday, with an opening imagined in the cage; the finch
Mr. Peter H. Sin is appearing for A. S. Gubbay, H. Hallgren, Symphonic Concert..
might have been the last pawn in the plaintiff.
Hancock, W. W. Hirst, Ho Kee, H.j The programme for the occasion, in intricate game. Rong Sling, Leung Leung, A. I comprising an interesting selection Perhaps the same thought" pe
NEW COMMODORE FOR TAMAR.
The application by Mr. Leo D.Almada e Castro for leave to pre-
Mackichan, A. McKirdy, H. C. of variable. Instrumental musle by: sume the death of Yap Chee-meow!
Macnamara, T. A. Mitchell, A popular composers, will be rendaredcurred to Chance. His self-con- by drowning in the Pearl River on
Murdoch, B. Naces, P. L. Newman, by the massed bands of The Hong sciousness gave way to a jaunty September 6 last, was yesterday re-
TE. Pearce, M. Peres, W. Pitten-Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. concern. Skipping from the bench fused by the Chief Justice, Mr. J.
drigh, J. E. Potter, P. C. Potts, under the conductorship of Mr. Ale poked in the grass and among R. Wood in the Supreme Court.
HH. H. Priestley, S. A. Rumjahn, Gellman, the accomplished band the flower-beds, collecting a geeding The application was made on be
bunch of weeds with which ha để- Capt. F. Elliott.
J. Santos, F. Schaer, E. V. Searle, leader. half of the widow of Yap Chee-"
Harold- Seth, D. V. Steaverison
cage, inviting the There will be no-fee for admis-corated the meow, in order to obtain the in-
Captain Frank Elliott, O.B.E., R. Shannon, M. FL. Turner, C. J. Bion, but a minimum charge of $1.00 chaffinch to the feast with a cheer- ful "Come on, old, sportie, dinner's surance money of Straits $20,000 former Chief of Staff to Rear Waddell, Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, will be zaade for refreshments.
Admiral R. G. H. Henderson, C.B., G. G. Wood, Wong Yee-cheung. The concert will commence at 8.45 served. The bird hopped close, on the Aircraft Carrier Courageous, Į
Wong Lam-kam, Wong Lan-chip, p.m. prompt, and early attendance pecking blindly, recently discovering China Underwriters, Ltd., who
is expected to arrive in Hong Kong Wong Kwok-king, H. M. Watson, is suggested for preferential seating the succulent greenery, falling to were the interveners, did not ask!
sccommodation, His Lordship to make any order for on July 12 by the P. and O. ... Young.
|Rajputana, when he will relieve Cap-
for which the deceased was insured
for.
costs.
Mr. Eldon Potter K.G, appeared for the interveners.
STOLEN CHEQUE.
Four Chinese Charged
In Police Court.
Directors and Staff of the Hong
tain H. R. Marrack, D.S.C., as Com-Kong Land Investment & Agency MR. LI WEN-KAMS; chafinch - when Mistress: Biscott
modore on H.M.S. Tamar.
$604.85 CLAIMED ··ON: PROMISSORY NOTE
{Co, Ltd, also from the Lifts Staff, Staff of Gloucester Building, Lift Operators of the Gloucester Build- ing, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, Deacons, General Electric Co., Ltd.
¡Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Boyal Hong Hong Golf Club, Ho Sal-hung this morning claim. Mercantile Bank of India, Meners.
DEATH
Secretary To Chinese Chamber Of Commerce,
with pathetic eagerness, Chanos watching: with tingling enthusiasm.
He was still waiting upon the li
came down the path to inquire bis| wants. Warned by her ponderous
tread, he sat down hurriedly. She stood before him, drying her spongy
red hands on her spron. He asked for tea, with a mite of cake,”". Mr. Li Wen-kam. Secretary of grateful for her friendly manner. ed $604,85, alleged due an a pro- Percy, Smith, Seth & Fleming, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Watching, ber depart he resend his The theft of cheque for missory note From the King Hong Kong and Kowloon Dock and died at his residence, 218 Fook study of the bird, dropping again, to
Wah Street, Shamshulpo, on Mon his seat as she returned with a high | $366.73 on the American Express Shing Cheung Kwong Kee Co. Godown Co, Ltd., Bank Line, be Co., and two American G$10 bank rinters and Lithographers and British Legion, Committee and day morning. The deceased had plled tray. With deft surety be notes from Mrs. Florence Yim, af from Lau-Ting-hol, spinster: Wong members, Hong Kong Cricket suffered a long illness since Janu-distributed chins over a little fron 851 Laichikok Road, resulted in four emo and Lau Kwok-chung, part- Club, Union Trading Co, and Lane ary and passed away after an at table. Chance looked at her side Chinese being charged before Mr.ers in the defendant firm, before Crawford Ltd. Wynne-Jones at the Central Police the Pulsne Judge, Mr. R. E, Lind-
Court this morning.
Kwan Shuk 81k, an accountant and Ko Hi, a shop coolle, are charged with the theft of the cheque
Jaeil at the Supreme Courti
TIRED
BEING DIVORCED.
Little Rock, Arkansas,
LINCOLN PRIVATE
PASSES.
Funeral To-morrow.
Private John Cartwright of "B"
and bank notes at Kowloon on June) -21-Yu Kai Kwong, an assistent
at the Grand Theatre, is charged) with uttering the cheque and bank Mr. Cook has asked the Chan- Company, 1st Battalion Lincola- notes, while Tang Fo, a house boy, cery Court to stop his wife from shira Regiment, at Shumshulpo is charged with having obtened sueing him for divorce, and then Camp, died shortly after midnight money by false means, with forged putting him to the expense of re-last night suffering from acute ap documents.
the Chase Bank and Mr. PY
marrying her AMORT
pendicitis.
een service in Shanghal
tack of heart trouble. MAG WAYS, A Scratching, at his palm
Mr. Li joined the Chinese Cham-Smiling at the puffing teapot be ber of Commerce two years ago, risked a remarka having formerly been associated *"Eclise me- mentioning it, lady, with Messrs, Tong Lee Hong and but that's a mighty fine birdin other commercial firms. was yourd" in the cage.” He jerked
56 years of age, and leaves three, thumb over his shoulder, 270 Ele sons and over daughters..
WEATHER REPORT
Mr. D. M. Biggar, Manager of "On two occasions when dip Cartwright had served with Royal Ob
vorces have been granted, the the regiment for seven years, and Plaintiff and defendant within had
short time have remarried," said his answer to his wife's dis vorce 'suit---Reuter
Netland, of the American He Company were present in Court.
The bearing was adjournal unth this afternoon.
Mistress Blacott balanced her head and stroked her overflowing {hipa, “ “You're
Mister, that you area. He
all':n "bad little chapana chai
now. A little
Hed
The IL£.8.3
The funeral will take place to- te proceed to Manja Las
row morning paning the Moulsen serve he
the Gavita
In Mazda until Bapt
San Pao4 10.)
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