THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933.
SHANGHAI EURASIAN CONSERVATIVES
DESTITUTE
Arrived Here III And Penniless.
COMMITTED TO - HOUSE
OF DETENTION
James A. Roberts, Eurasian, a British subject, who was charg- ed at the Central Magistracy this morning with vagrancy,
tion, by Mr. Wynne-Jones.
-rival in
ENDORSE INDIAN
WHITE PAPER
Lord Lloyd's Attack Is Unsuccessful.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL HECKLED
THE CHINA MA
PAINTER COMMENDED To-Day's Short Story.
BY MAGISTRATE
Effected Arrest Of Bag-Snatcher.
COOLIE GAOLED
INGEL
By Aino Kallas.
Mr. W. Schofield commended, a TNGEL, the wet nurse from the tapes and laces squandered on Chinese painter at the Central Sorve, sat with a child in her its attire, it was wrapped in a Police Court this morning for lap on the steps. The Sorve coverlet of silk and linen swaddl- London, To-day. bringing about the arrest of a coal stocking-cap was askew over one Ing-banda, a masterpiece of knitt- Nearly 1,000 members of the coolle who attempted to steal ear, the many coloured tasseling, a cap of finest laes hid the thin committed to the House of Deten- Central Council of the Conservative handbag from a lady e nodded at each movement of growth of hair on its head. A fall The complainant, Mrs Mynekeel her head - a preposterous, consciousness of all this comfort Party in London, yesterday discuss- Sergeant Mottram said that the ed the constitutional reform pro-Stone Nullah Street yesterday when hour of exuberant, overflowing head; knowing that its slightest Antiulo, of Macao, was walking in coquettish cap invented in some and care dwelt in its eight-month defendant arrived in Hong Kong on posals of the White Paper on India. a man, who has not yet been arrest merriment. The frock in the desire would be satisfied, there "May 17 from Shanghai. He bad; A resolution opposing the'ed; bumped into her and snatched Sorve fashion reached in heavy was no need for it to cry or fret. travelled in company with another policy was proposed by Lord her handbag. She raised an alarm folds to her armpits, hiding the Especially was the nurse its undis- Eurasian, named Harding, as a deck Lloyd and supported by Mr. and the man dropped the bag and shape of her body beneath its puted property, existing solely for passenger on the Szechuen. On ar Winston Churchill and Lord ran away.
running side by side over a back-otherwise. It knew that the nurse clumsy lines, white and red lines its needs, a being of no importance ground of solemn black
would not cry out though gripped bosomed woman of gentle, plensing strength of its tiny hand;
Ingel was a powerfully-built, high-by the hair, even with the full
to showing in their modelling an ad- though it plunged the four new her open features nurse would not dare to move mixture of blood from the island teeth into her breast. Swedes. She sat fuert, her head The nurse removed the child drooping somewhat, her eyes half closed, almost asleep from the carefully from her breast to her mingled effects of the sunshine and lap, fastening her white garment the child suckling evenly at her with a metal clasp. A slight shi- breast. A kind of vegetative peace ver passed through her limbs as emanated from her, as from a large, though the wind had breathed on beautiful plant, whose leaves hang her. Ferhaps she had slumbered In the oppressive heat. P
and a bee had stung her in her Smoothly, slowly, Estonian sleep, perhaps a cloud had passed
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Hong Kong they parted Carson. It was defeated by 838 The defendant, who was nearby company, and on May 22, the defen votes to 356 and the Government picked it up and attempted to make dant presented himself at the police attitude was endorsed. "
off with it when he was stopped by station as a destitute. Being I he Mr. Stanley Baldwin strongly Tong Chong, the painter, who was sent to the Government Civil defended the Government's.ac-handed him over to the police.
was distion. He said that the policy re- The defendant was sentenced Hospital from where he -charged last Tuesday.
aulted from the work of all the six months' hard labour. The police asked for the defen-political parties, but argued that 'dant to be committed to the House the Conservatives must bear the of Detention while the police ar- major responsibility. ranged for him to be sent back to Shanghai.
Questioned by Sergeant Mottram said that he understood the defen- dant's father was a native of Wales and a bank clerk. His mother was Eurasian: and the defendant. he
$47,100 ESTATE. Probate Of Will Of Late Miss I. M. C. Armstrong.
The men on the spot had, however, been consulted. throughout, and the White Paper had been meticulously prepared and had the sup port of the entire Cabinet. It had the unanimous support
FORGED GUILDER
NOTES.
Two Men Charged. Charged with uttering two forg-
countenance,
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "Robbery Without Violence". by Peter Cheyney.
the
said, claimed to have been born in of the Government of India, in- ed 10 guilder bank notes, a Chinese, strength flowed from her into a over the sun. She awoke to com- Hong Kong.
cluding the Commander-in-Chief, Ngai Mak Kan, appeared before child of alien blood. Her blood plete consciousness, the soul re- Defendant said that be had seen and of the responsible members afr. W. Schofield at the Central coursed in the child's veins, form- turning to her eyes, hitherto empty his birth certificate three years ago of the Services, who had had Magistracy this morning. but could not produce it now,
ing new cells, new nerves, sinews. of all thought. It years of experience in India.
Kong San Kwong, a boarding muscles. It owed to the child's, was in the name of Rope, which was Lord Lloyd vigorously assailed house runner; was also charged brain, his real name. He had, however, the policy, which, he said, pro-with aiding and abetting the rat which no thought as yet had left its to the soft membranes on been known Roberts ever since he vided inadequate safeguards for defendant. was two years of age.
mark. She allowed her healthy! the welfare of the security, peace Sergeant' Donovan said that the blood, the whole of her unused funds and contentment of the Indian two defendants met the complain-of strength to flow into the delicate people.
ant, Ngai Tick Wo, when they offshoot of another race, the blood came ashore in a sampan from the of which had become thin in the Tjisondari. The first defendant course of generations. enquired if the complainant wan Not one bitter thought, no accusa- going to Java, and offered him some tion, "none of the instinctive hatred Dutch money in exchange for of the slave, mingled with the milk
Her employers had departed on Hong Kong currency. The com-with which she nurtured the child. a week's visit to a neighbouring plainant agreed, and the defendant She Was as peaceful and fruit parish. One could observe it from gave him two 10 guilder notes and giving as the earth itself, which all that occurred around her; the 3 guilders in silver money in ex-recks not for whom its fruit grows. valet jording it everywhere and |change for $40.
whether for master or for slave, playing the master, scolding. the Later in the evening, an attempt-No thought of whom she might be servants and flirting with the ing to change the guilders, the bringing up, perhaps a new tyrant housemaid. The old gardener was complainant discovered that they for her race, lived in her. It never engaged in clipping the hawthorn were forged notes. He informed occurred to her that, the tiny hand hedge to a level wall of green, but the police and had the defendants might at one time be lifted to strike. paused every now and then in hiz arrested.
The child hardly awoke for its work to take snuff. Even the. Ang
lda Maude Caldwell Armstrong. librarian, formerly of No. 1, Fair- view, Robinson Road, who died oa March 23, 1932, left local estate value at $47,100.
Probate of the will of the de- ceased was granted to John Hen- nessey Seth, accountant.
Probate of the will of Wan Fung- pingulate of To Yuen Siu To Tuen Village, in Kwong Tung, who died
go
Mr. Churchill who was con- stantly interrupted despite appeals for order, declared that the policy would not - through Parliament without the most strenuous resistance and searching criticism, and examination by those who thought it fraught with grave danger.
British Wireless Service.
STUPID CHILDREN MAY BE DEAF.
on November 13, 1932, leaving Why Some Are Slow
$77,100, was granted to Chan Wong Shi-ying, married woman.
Letters of administration to the. estate of Fung Kwan-fung, retired
chant.
In Learning.
Washington. trader, formerly of Cheung Sha Discovery of a kind of deafness Wan Road, Shamshuipo, who died in children that explains why intestate leaving $19,100, were some of them are slow in learn- granted to Fung Kwan-tai, mer-ing to talk or seem below normal intelligence has been reported to Letters of administration to the the American Neurological So estate of Chin Jim-chun, merchant, ciety. late of No. 723 King Street, Seat- tle, U. S. A. who died intestate on April 5 leaving $13,000, were grant ed to Chan Mai-shi, widow.
TRIED TO BRIBE POLICEMAN,
Hawker Fined.
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Evidence was given by Mr. Li meal, suckling with closed eyes the drooped at half-mast, a sign of the Hing Put, of the Netherlands-Ind-meal offered it. Gravely calm, it absence of the family. The very sche Bank, who said that two notes was as sure of its right to possess garden seemed to have regained. ita were forgeries. They had discre- as a monarch, like all children for freedom, the bees were humming, pencies in colour and printing, and whom the lack of food is an un- twice as loudly, the songbirds knew the material of the paper was dif-known experience. Its tiny, rosy no fear. ferent to the genuine notes.
The hearing was adjourned.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. F. E. Glendinning
features were almost hidden among
GIRL WIFE AS GANG
LEADER.
Moravian, Boys Held By Infatuation.
Prague.
LOOK AT THESE PRICES! $3.75, $5.75, $9.75, $12.75, $14.75, AT POWELL'S BOOT AND SHOE
SALE
NOW PROCEEDING
This is the first especial shoe sale held and 1s rendered necessary in order to find fxture space for our new “W”' shoe stock.
All oddments and surplus-stock have therefore been marked down, amounting to 250 pairs. They are in all sizes from 4 to 11.
The small sizes will fit a good size boy as well as small men.
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THE GENTLEMEN'S HOUSE, 9, Queen's Road Central,
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SUNDAY
MORNING JULY 2, 11. ^
THE MIRACLES OF GOA
The unique and highly interesting "picture taken by the Rey Father Le Teller S.J. ·
DEPICTING THE 1932 EXPOSITION
OF THE BODY OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. With an interesting and descriptive talk by". JEAN ARMSTRONG.
Under the kind patronage and in the presence of His Lordship Rev. H. Valtorta, Bishop of Hong Kong.
ADVANCE. BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S,
Front Stalls $1.00. Back Stalls 50 Cts. Children admitted to Dress Circle, 80 Cts.
"RICKSHAW BRAND
CELEBRATED { Ingel could not understand the CEYLON
strange feeling of faintness below her heart. As though something gnawed there with little, sharp teeth. And as though a hole grew there, an increasing emptiness. but resembled both.. Some Instinct,
It was neither hunger nor thirst,
The defect was described "regional deafness." Children with his kind of deafness appar enly have normal hearing, but The death occurred at the War
an uncertain desire, seemed to actually cannot hear some of the Memorial Hospital yesterday. of
awake in her being. A sense of sounds used in ordinary conver-Mrs. Florence Edith Glendinning.
drought and weakness, possessed sation.
wife of Mr. W. S. Glendinning
her whole body, awakening a wish A beautiful young peasant wo to run quickly to the spring and This deafness, it was reported, Outside Superintendent of the may slow up their progress. in Hong Kong Tramways Ltd,
man has been found to be the there dip her head, her month, tem school and arouse ungrounded
She is survived by her husband, inspiration behind a skilful gangples and neck in its leg water. fears in parents that their child her son, Mr. Lyal Glendinning, and of robbers, la mentally, sub-normal,
her daughters, the Misses Kathleen The district around Bedihost, ont cessing and was as hunger The sense of emptiness grow with- People, with this defect most and Mavis Glendinning.
in Moravia, has suffered from. Yu, aged 31, yesterday afternoon often are deaf to sounds of high- Mrs, Glendinning who was born the activities of a clever gang of that consumed not only her body for hawking without a license.er frequencies used in conversa in October, 1912, and had spent
but every thought. in Bydney, Australia, was married burglare for some time.
V-Something, had been taken from Complete mystery surrounded the Foliceman a bribe at $.75 to let " and "TH. In pronouncing Colony. When arrested the, hawker offered tion, such as the sounds of nearly twenty-one years in the their sudden raids until suspi.her from both body and soul, al
A Sikh Policeman arrested Lam
him go.
words, with these sounds they!
6.30 p.m.
cion fell on a labourer's house, most as though an arm had been
This morning at the Central either pass over them altogetThe funeral takes place this for large parcels were alleged to hacked off, or an eye pierced, so $4.00, or four days, for hawking Sometimes they may learn to Police Court, the hawker was fined her or substitute something else afternoon, passing the monument without a license, and $25.00, or two produce the sounds, which they do not hear themselves, by imi- weeks, for attempted bribery.
tating the movement of the lips of others.
Personal Pars.
TEA
SOLD BY ALL COMPRADORES
at be often sent at night from this helpless and painful was her state cottage to a neighbouring town. of mind. Seine tiny portion of Police surrounded the house and her was missing. And now the D made a searcha
whose of her being yearned: to- They are stated to have found wards this missing part, drawn that the gang was composed of strongly to it. She sat dramovably five boys, all under the age of 17. In her place, and yet it seemed as pe Their leader was the labourer's though she ran and - ran, seeking beautiful young wife, the tiny, lost portion of her being: The boys, who were infatuat. It availed nothing that she was
LATE MR. 11 WEN-KAM
Funeral Held Yesterday
The funeral of Mr. Li Wen-kam,
The possibility that a child may have this kind of deafness, Mrs. William Gray, arrived in is slow in learning to talk This should be considered. if the child Hong Kong to-day on the "Pre- sident, Taft" Mrs. Gray, operator type of deafness differs from or late secretary of the Chinese Chamed with her, carried out the thefts replete with food, warm, and com- of the Gray'a Yellow Lantern Shops
dinary deafness in that people ber of Commerce, took place yester and gave the booty to the girl fortable. The feeling of emptiness in the Orient, is here on a business suffering from it may hear some day afternoon at the Chinese Per wife. It was afterwards sold refused to respond to these. She
sounds better than formal manent Cemetery, in Aberdeen in another town-Reuter
trip,
Reuter.
A large number of relatives and friends followed the funeral. The chief mourners were the wife of the
Mrs. WLL Barker, and son, ATTEMPT TO STEAL sed and his three sons and ve Master William Barker arrived in the Colony to-day on the "President Taft Mrs. Barker came here
from the United States to join her
husband who is connected with the Standard Oil Company of New Tork
DINOSAUR EGG.
Chinese Treasure Taken To Safe.
Hamilton, New York Mr. O. G. Steen, Oriental General | A dinosaur egg from China Manager of the Dollar Steamship Valped at $5,000 has been locked Lines, and the American Mail Line,up in the University safe, secure arrived to-day on the "President from thieves who tried to steal it Taft, Mr. Steen Ja arriving in from its museum case.
2 Hong Kong in consequence of the The Head of the Department of transfer of the es. President Part Geology discovered that the screws from the Seattle-Manila service, holding the glass in, the case had American Mail Line, to the New been removed, but that the Intend York-Manila rvice for the ing lifter of the huge nast Dollar Steamsh
The had become alarmed and led bet ackson will replace the he could carry off)
News In Brief.
was ill in spite of them. Her sen sen had become unnaturally, shar pened; it seemed to her that she heard the piping of a child from the phore at Borye; its very there in every sound, aron The rat special shoe sale by in the mournful chirrup of the of the deceased, Mr. Li Jawson Powell's Ltd, is now being held at rainbird, in the murmur of the
Wreaths were sent from the their show rooms in Queen's Road family, and from the Staff and Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
daughters, and the younger brother
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