THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933.
SHROFF EMBEZZLES AUSTRALIA'S -
$1,310
Collected Garage Accounts.
3 MONTHS' SENTENCE
Wong Man Yu, late clerk and shroff of the On Man Garage, Wan- chai, was charged at the Central Police Court this morning with the misappropriation of
gum of $1,810.10, money collected by him on behalf of the firm.
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PREHISTORIC
MONSTERS
Museum Party Find Ancient Remains.
FOSSILS FROM MARSHY
DEATH TRAP
Sydney, N.S.W.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GAMBLING WITH To-Day's Short Story.
VEGETABLES
Central Market As Gambling Den.
CARROTS AND TURNIPS AS
COUNTERS
SPLIT-SECOND DECISIONS
THE LUCK OF WHITE HEATHER
By Louis Golding.
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F between You must understand
you had to choose buiten snakes still have tretis d that these As a sequel to a police raid yester metal or grabbing a live electric considered, bad form in the guild of day morning on the ground floor of cable, which would you do?” ask-snake charmers to play about with the Central Market, 11 Chinese led my morning newspaper calmly innocuous snakes. You might as
well play about with baby rabbits. Ghosts of Australia's prehistoricPolice Court this morning charged
Ashmongers appeared at the Centrala breakfast or two ago.
A young man from Yorkshire, I The wooden booth was absolutely past are being unearthed in a bare, with gambling.
learned, was hardening fics in a crammed. The doorway seemed one He pleaded guilty and was set-swampy patch at Cully Springs, Wu Fuk Hing was charged with Sheffield workshop when he slipped. bydra 'maan of heads, trunks, limbs. tenced to three months' nard labour.near Brewarrina, New South Wales, operating a "pi kau" outfit and also, A pot of molten metal hissed behind The desert bagpipes wailed, the
Detective Sergeant Nollath said that the money was embezzled by where once monstrous creatures be-together with the other ten defen him. The live wire dangled in flutes shrilled, the snakes dipped
dants, with gambling.
front of nim. Always a youth of and swayed. the defendant between Marcu 6 and came bogged in the treacherous soil:
After evidence of arrest had been quick decisions, he seized the wire- Suddenly, before even the word May 22 this year. As clerk and The first week's activities of the given, the first charge against Wu and hung unconscious from it, the "Fire!" was uttered, the crackle: shroff at the garage he received as Australian Museum' party, led by Fuk Hing was dismissed; but all 200-volt charge locking his clenched of it was in our ears, the glare în much as 3500 in a week in cash re-
our eyes, the hot breath of it on Director of the Museum the 11 defendants were convicted on hand round it. the
the gambling charge and fined $2 The current was switched off, the our cheeks. The whole back of ceipts from automobile storage pay- |(Dr. Anderson) have yielded
teach.
young man was caught, as he fell,¦, the booth was a mass of roaring fossils which so far have been It was stated that 40 men were oxygen was administered to him, flame. A week before the Dragon Boat found to include leg, teeth, gambling when the raid took place. and he survives to go on hardening
vertebrac bones of Pieces of carrot
and turnip were files for many a long day, I trust. used as counters, representing ten
Snake-Charmers' Booth. the defendant to collect them before a diprotodon, the teeth and nearly and five cents respectively.
Now the young man was the Festival date, and to hand the complete jaw of a giant wombat,
aware, apparently, that the cable money to him. The day before this and the teeth of a hzard or goanna
was alive. If he had been, would he date the defendant. absconded (Megalaria), which in life appeare form the manager that he had cal to have been fully 17ft. long. lected the money.
ments and petrol and oil sales. His salary was $25 per month
Festival, the manager, noticing foot, and several outstanding accounts, told
to Canton whence he wrote to in-
Several bird bones which
have! Mr. Lui placed the matter in the been unearthed probably are the hands of Messrs. Lo and Lo, and the relics of extinct forms of life.
· defendant was arrested on a warrant in Canton.
KHAKI RETURNS
SOUTH AFRICA.
The party, after pitcoing tenta on the site, 14 miles south-east of Brewarrins, sank eight shafts, and linked them with communication
not
MARQUIS PASSES have had the amazing courage to
THROUGH
Constance Bennett's
Husband.
snatch at It-or would he have dithered for just that split second which would have meant his hideous and instant annihilation in the pot of molten metal?
these moments of
Immediately there was a demon scramble for the door. The musicians threw aside their in- struments. The snakes were con- vulsed out of their hypnotism. They were spitting within a foot or two of my face.
This was my dilemma. Was I to hurt myself into the insane crowd, and stand the risk of being burned: for trampled to death, or both? Was I to stand my ground in the teeth I don't know. He doesn't know of the slithering snakes, in the hope You can't recreate in cold blood that the spiritual snake charmer unspeakable would resume control over them? I TAKING TRAVEL FICTURES dilemma, and presume to say you might then get out of the booth would act this way or that way. It through the curtained door behind TOfound at a depth of roughly 51⁄2 ft.
Is the subconscious will to survive him. I paused a split second. I in a fairly compact layer of dry! The Marquis Henry James Le which makes these desperate de beheld the eyes and the demeanour clay, contrasting with the almost Bailly de la Falaise, present hus-cialone for us, out of a reservoir of of the snake charmer. In that frac İglue-like surface, which imposed band of Constance Bennett, the wisdom too deep for our conscious tion of time I knew he was a man.
heavy labour on the digging party well-known film star, and a form-mind to plumb, with an instan- could entrust my life to him.'
The first discovery, made by Dr.,er Husband of Gloria Swanson, Laneous
appraisement of proba- Anderson, who himself was wield- passed through the Colony, this bilities which our conscious mind is ing a spade, caused an excited pause, week,
far too sluggish to achieve.
Field Grey Uniforms Prove Unserviceable.
Pretoria.
trenches. Most of the bones were
was resumed.
IN JAVA
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Russia's Red Dawn," by
R. H. Bruce Lockhart,
A moment later, in a brilliant|
in operations. It was a fine, big; Arriving from Manila on the I remember a dilemma I was The khaki uniform, abolished in bone-of an ox!
8.8. Empress_of_Russia_en_Monday, involved in in Cairo in which I, too, South Africa in 1921, is to return.
The distinction between the bones the Marquis left on the same liner, had to make a lightning decision, South African troops will, in the of existing animals such as this and yesterday evening, for Hollywood. It was the time of the Ramadan, the space of the next year, discard the prehistoric remains is quickly made Together with Mr. William H. month-long Moslem festival, when present field grey uniforms and re-by trained eyes, and so the digging Green and Mr. Gaston Glass, the the bellevers fast all day and feast turn to drab or khaki.
Marquis has been engaged in tak all night. A small city of wooden It is explained that the drab Dr. Anderson returned to Sydney, ing a series of travel pictures in fair booths had been put up on the uniform has been adopted by prac leaving the remainder of the party technicolour, in Java. These will outskirts of the greater city. In tically all the troops of the world on the spot, with the understanding shortly be released by a private the bootha were fortune-tellers, dan- because of its service ability and that he will go back in the event company operated by the Marquis. cers, conjurers. It was in a booth succession of lightning movements, that it is cheaper and more lasting of important developments.
of snake charmers, sitting with my he had caught the snakes beneath than the field grey at present in:
face a foot or two away from the their heads, he had thrust use.----Reuter.
snakes curving to the charmers their neads into. his ribbed instruments.
basket, their bodies writhed down- between his slightly relaxed fingers, he had pulled the cord which shut
Those who were not too insane. to near followed him.
ON
PICKPOCKET DOUGLAS WHARF.
Caught By Watchman.
A watchman on the Douglas Wharf yesterday saw a Chinese put
He is very appreaintive of the' fact that the Yoemans brothers, of Gilguin Station, though they havel disposed of land around the patch,
have held that particular portion for scientific investigation.-Reuter.!
CONSTABLE LOSES HIS REVOLVER,
Fined $50 In Court.
CONSTABLE FINED,
Convicted On Charge Of Misconduct.
Au Cheong Kit, a Chinese con- stable, was fined $100, in default] two months' hard labour at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of misconduct as a police| officer.
·WHY HITLER IS IN their basket to. He called out.
POWER
Most Able Leader Since Stresemann Died.
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I have a vivid memory of a razor- edge moment in which my friend Mr. Neville Whymant, the celebrat- ed Orientalist; was involved. It his hand into the pocket of Lam Sun,
"Hitler, after capturing the happened in Tokio, at the time The man was alleged to have mass of the German people by of the great Japanese earthquake. a passenger on the Svale, and steal
extorted $15 from a his purse. Li Kwai, the watchman, Tsang Shim, a Chinsee con- man by threatening to arrest her once more a nation amongst na-days was enhanced by the fact that Chinese wo-giving them the sense of being The horror of those infernal. few immediately ran up and arrested the stable, on a charge of-losing, by for carrying opium.
neglect, his police revolver and
tions, has now captured the great plague started raging, while the Mr. T. P. K. Kemble, was coun- and immensely, efficient bureau-earthquake shocks were going on
thief.
At Central Police Court this six rounds of ammunition, was sel for the defendant. morning the thief, Wong Sun Ting, 'fined $50, in default one month's!) was sentenced to four months' hard hard labour at the Central Police labour.
Court this morning,
The constable was also charg-
JUNK CAPSIZES.
cracy of Germany, and he has. An order went 'round to the won its loyalty, not merely de foreign survivors' that they must jure, but de facto," writes Mr collect in a certain factory shed Clifford Sharp (sometime editor which had withstood the earthquake. the Morning Post. editor of the New Statesman) in There they were to be inoculated. It was a grave responsibility to collect The war-ignorant youth of a group of people in one place, but Germany have found a leader the shed had survived so far, and A junk capsized yesterday after-who will let them wear uniforms, might still survive.
jed, as bailee, with fraudulent Crew Rescued By Police
conversion of the revolver to his CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON? own use. This was withdrawn
at the request of the police. (Continued from Page 1). The defendant was charged as
Launch.
a result of losing his revolver noon in West Lamma Channel and if not cartridge belts. War-wise Dr. Whymant bared his arm. The State Department at Wash while asleep at the Aberdeen the occupants, including the junk German patroits of all classes The surgeon stood over him with a ington denies a. report that was Police Station on July 11.
Helmaster, his wife and their three langages believe that they have needle. In that moment a fierce current in London that Mr. Cardell said that the revolver was stolen children, were thrown into the found a leader who will be firm themor, the premonition of imme- Hull, the chief American delegate, from him.
refused to approve of the pro- | fessor's expenses.
Professor Moley says that be will pay out of his own pocket any expenses not properly chargeable to the United States Government. He adds that the American Em- bassy in London ordered the aero- plane to, meet him at Cork and it made the fruitless trip there be- fore he had time to cancel the order.-Reuter.
BOCK
$300 CLAIM AWARDED.
Advertising Firm
Sued.
Judgment for $300 was awarded
in favour of To Pat San, trading
water. They managed to cling to enough to save Germany's dig-diate shocks, went through the place.
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the wreckage, however, and were nity and yet pacific enough to Immediately there was a rush to the CEYLON
rescued by No. 2. Police Launch and avoid war, and finally the Official narrow factory yard. brought to Kowloon,
CAPT. WILSON'S DEATH.
World believes that it has now got an abler chief than any it has known at least since Strese- mann died. So Hitler rules: quite unchallenged and quite, ir- respective of what 'the conse- Well-Known On China quences of that fact may be.
Coast.
"Berlin has always, even [through its troubles, enjoyed the repatation (amongst connofs- Captain Wilson. master ofseurs in such matters) of pos
as the Piu Ying Printing Company, the s.s. Anjou and a well-known sessing the gayest night life of
"Stop" cried the surgeon. "On your lives, stop!"
In staccato, machine-gun-like words he informed them that a huge chimney over-hung the yard. They had just noticed there was a large fare in it. If the imminent shock was really severe it would come down on the yard and annihilate everybody in IË If
it was not severe, it might hold. On the other hand, the roof of by the Pulane Judge, Mr. R. Efigure in China coastal shipping. any city in Europe. But now It the factory itself was rather flimsy. SOUTHAMPTON'S NEW
Lindsell, in the Supreme Court this passed away yesterday.
seems almost gay in the day time If it came down it would be mo- morning. The defendant in the The deceased who was 70 too.
pleasant, but it would not be fatal action was the International Ad-years of age, was a half-brother] And well it may bel Can It was up to them to choom. (Continued from Pere 1).
vertising Service, of the Asia Life of Captain W. Anderson, of the London, can Paris say as much
Wild Panic.. "Realising the vital need for ef-dant firm was present in Court. twice pirated in 1982.
Building. No member of the defen- s.q. Helikon, the ship which was as Berlin can? Have either of There was another tremor as he ficiency in our ports and in all other The plaintiff, represented by Mr.
them,“ during the last decade; spoke. In a wild panic, a group requirements of our merchant navy C. Y. Kwan, claimed the sum of afternoon, passing the Monument they can trust for anything save his ground or to go after them was The funeral will take place this found a national leader whom rushed out into the yard. To stay I look upon the opening of this $300 for goods sold and delivered, at 5 p.m. largest graving dock in the world as and also costs of the action.
for the more stolid virtues of Dr. Whymarts dilemma. It is ex- good augury for the future of Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for
super-experienced inertia ?!! tremely 'dificult to suppress the instinct to run when an earthquake $3,000 OPIUM FINE
progress. He stayed. The *shocks continued four, secgads. It Teang Wai; a Chinese, was re- Arrested with 50 taels of opium seemed like four days.- The ground manded at the Central Police Court in her possession on the Tai Hing billowed like a beaten carpet.". The this morning on a charge of having Wharf, Hot Cho Lin, 's Chinese roof came roaring down like a flock taken part in a robbery on April 5, woman, was fined $3,000, in de of harples. But he survives to tell Mr. H. V. Booth, an Assistant at 91 Connaught Road, together fault nine months' hard labour, at the tale. Others do not. WEATHER FORECAST- Director of Criminal Investigation with two others who have not been the Central Polles Court this morn- *** ****
| (Political); and an official Justice of arrested, and stealing $200 and 4 inginkan
4. It would be a little less ghoulish; Fair to showery weather, with the Peace, accompanied by his wife quantity of property belonging to It was stated that the defendant I think, to recall a spli moderate easterly winds, is the and two children returned to the Chan Chung-Chiến. He was “Also was carrying a bucket of onfons episodes with a less murderon, con- forecast issued to-day by the Royal Colony yesterday by the F, and 0. charged
with
using personal and that the oplum was concealed sequence. My mind bad Observatory,
4. Ranchi
In a false bottom of the bucket.
(Continued on Page 11.)
Southampton."
The Queen christened the dock by pouring on it the contents ́ of a Jar of Empire wine from a silver
· cup-British Wireless Service.
the defendant firm,
Personal Pars.
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