TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933.
MILITARY AWARDS FOREIGN
PRESENTED
Long Service And Good Conduct Medals.
CEREMONY AT MURRAY AND WHITFIELD BARRACKS
The presentation of Long Ser- vice and Good Conduct medals to men of the Hong Kong Garrison took place this morning.
FACTORIES
EX-SHIP'S OFFICER IN TROUBLE
IN BRITAIN Drunk And Disorderly
Tariffs Bring Work For Unemployed.
250 NEW UNDERTAKINGS
London.
On Wharf.
UNABLE TO PAY FINE
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story.
The Case Of Mr. Ryalstone
By a Novelist Who Writes Under the Pseudonym of “Ex- PRIVATE X.”.
rett. C. B., C. M. G.. C. B. E.. D. S. tendency of foreign firms to bring It was stated that he was found [repellent in his round pale face:remarked that it was a rotten day.
At Murray Barracks.
John Manners, an unemployed WAS aware of having seen ing me out of half-closed eyes. And! ship's officer, was charged at the
hiro once or twice before, but suddenly something in the man's Central Police Court this morning I did not know his name. He expression made me aware that be One of the most significant with being drunk and disorderly was short and grey and elderly wanted to talk and bad been casting wharf at 6.30 and looked rather mouse-like in about in his mind for some way of developments in industry in Bri- on the Kongmoon
last evening.
his dark worsted lounge suit. breaking the ice. So, I straighten- . Defendant pleaded guilty. H. E.. Major General 0. C. Bor-tain în recent years has been the
There was nothing attractive nor ed myself a little In my chair and their factories to this country in on the wharf in a helpless state. He indeed he seemed to me almost He smiled then, as if the pestilent O., G. O. C. British Troops in
refused to leave the wharf and the entirely lacking in personality, weather were something to.smile China, Hong Kong, made the pre-order to escape the tariffs on
European constable on duty WAS It was a dark diemal Sunday about, and agreed with me. Barracks, their goods. To this extent the obliged to take him to the Police afternoon with a mist of rain on the
"The man," he added in a thin sentations at Murray
a tariff system Station.
Club windows. Outside a mortuary penetrating, voice, "who can devise Hong Kong, and at Whitfield Bar-advocates of
might claim that their policy had] The defendant on being asked there is nothing drearier nor more some means of amusement on a wet racks, Kowloon.
been successful.
why he had allowed the incident deserted than a London club on a Sunday afternoon in London ought even if tariffs
to occur, shrugged his shouldere wet Sunday afternoon. We were to be given a state pension. This Among the officers present at were not bringing £30,000,000 and replied, "I don't know anything the only two in the great smoking- evening I shall go to Queen's Hall Murray Barracks were Lt. Col. G. of revenue into the Exchequer about it."
room and abared the hearth, sitting Just now I am merely watching the T. Rnines, D. S. O., Officer Com every year.
On being fined $15, the defen-one on
either side. I had taken clock and wondering how soon I can. manding 1st Battalion the South
pile of Sunday honestly tell myself that it's tea- dant said that he could not pay at possession of Since this country adopted a Wales Borderers, Capt. C. C. Fow-
"You staying here?" I asked. kes, M. C., Staff Captain, (S. W. B.), tariff system in the autumn of present. "I can't live here for four papers and, having skimmed their time."
He nodded. Lieut. C. P. G. de Winton (S. W. B.), 1931, over 250 new undertakinga months without work," he said. contents, was dropping them one by I was one beside my chair. My companion
"Yes, I always do when I come I was reading a novel from the Club Lieut. 1. G. Moon (S. W. B.), Lieut. have been established here by, or This won't help me either.
(S.W.B.), Lieut. with the assistance of, foreign hoping to get a job but now Stocker
shall probably lose it."
library or rather skipping it, for up."..
"So do I," I remarked. "It's H. W Tyler, (S.W.B.), Cap Concerns.
How the unemployed have Mr. Wynne-Jones, the Magis.I heard him flick over bunches of tain J. A. Chapel, M. B. (R. A.
I know. But it's like anywhere M. C.). Lt. Col. E. R. Macpherson, benefited by this is shown by the trate, said that he would allow the the leaves with his thumb, as one about as comfortable as any place a wet Sunday. There'a O. B. E., (R. A. O. C.) and Capt.fact that these undertakings are defendant one month in which to shuffling a pack of cards.
I suppose I wore an air of som-else. now employing nearly 11,000 pay the fine. P. S. Cannon (A. E. C.).
British workmen and when the The defendant replied that he nolence similar to nis. The quiet-nothing to do but read."
He picked up the book he had been the recip factories are fully occupied it is was not sure if he could pay the mess about us, the heat of the fire,
estimated that the number will fine inside that time. "I have had and the general atmosphere of Sun-glancing through and held it so that
with its attendant I could read its title. day afternoon rise to over 17,000. In the last only one temporary berth since I
"You know this, of course?". he boredom were all conducive to ́1st Bn. South Wales Borderers:-six months alone, 57 such new arrived bere," he said.
asked. drowsiness. By nature I am a Corporal J. T. Reeve.
undertakings have been estab “I'll give you one month to pay gregarious animal and I would have [lished, employing over 1,500 the fine and if you can't pay, come been glad to risk an experiment in people.
back and Ace me again.
conversation. But there was the Some of the concerns represent keep out of trouble," said
the chance that my vis-a-vis might be new industries so far as Britain Magistrate.
one of those absurdly "sticky" in- dividuals who resent the conversa- tional overtures of strangers, even
fellow clubmen. His dimness of personality and-it seemed to me then the unlikelihood of our being able to find common ground, held
A. J.
The following were
Jenis-
Private C. Capps.
Royal Artillery:-
Battalion Quarter-master
Ser
geant A. Clarke.
Royal Army Service Corps:- Staff Sergeant J. T. Hain.
Royal Army Medical Corps:-
Staff-Sergeant W. Good Burn. Corporal T. F. Mayer. Royal Army Ordnance Corps: Armourer Staff Sergeant Gould.
Army Educational Corps:- Warrant Officer, CI. 1, F. Creighton.
lis concerned, and a small number! of alien workmen have been
allowed to come here temporarily
to instruct British workmen in the manufacture of the goods.) The great majority of the under-1 takings are situated in the Lon- Didon area, only a dozen or so hav-
ing been set up in the Midlands) jand the Northern areas, where
new industries are so badly need-| E. ed to absorb some of the work- jers who can never hope to regain employment in their own indus- tries.-Reuter.
Whitẞeld Barracks Ceremony. Following the presentation at Murray Barracks, H. E. the G. G. C. left with his staff for Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon, where the se cond presentation of Long Service and Good Conduct medals
place.
took
FIVE PROBATES GRANTED
Now
MORE DANGEROUS when those strangers happen to be
DRIVING
$25 Fine For Driver Of Private Car.
TWO OTHER DRIVERS
CONVICTED
00
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Fear," by Guy de Mau- passant.
I nodded and smiled. It TERA
me silent. With some men I might Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. have considered it worth while to Hyde." risk a snub, but not with him.
"I've read it at least half a dozen
Presently. I heard him lay aside times before," he continued, "and his book on the little round table Tve a particular reason for being at his elbow, and within a minute interested in it. Of course, dual- For driving in a dangerous man- or two I had dropped the last of the personality is a well-known scientific ner in lower Albert Road, near the Sunday papers on the pile baxide phenomenon. You believe it pos
I looked at him as 1-leaned back.
sible, I suppose?"
I answered that I supposed I did,
ΜΟΣ course, the man's body
Boy Scout's Association club-house, my chair. Man Ping Nam, driver of private car No. 104, was fined $25 at the He was right in my line of vision and added:
and I could not help gazing at him Central Magistracy this morning.
The defendant pleaded guilty.
without moving my chair or slewing It was shown in evidence that he reversed at a blind corner, on the
A City Case.
Li. Cal. J. . Thom. D. S. O. R. $28,000 Estate Of Local wrong side of the road.
A. Commanding the H. K. Sing apore Brigade, Royal Artillery, was among the officers who attended.
The following were the ier ts:-
Havildar Ujagur Singh. Gunner Zaman Khan.
Havildar-Major Moosa Khan.
my head to an uncomfortable angle. changing with his personality is an He too was leaning back, and watch-attractive piece of romanticism, but it puts the story right outside the pale of the prohabilities. The whole
GERMAN STUDENTS thing is allegorical"
ON WORLD TOUR
Broadcast Of German Folk-Songs To-Night.
He let his head sing a little as a sign of assent.
"Of course, of course. And yet mind controls matter and even
shapes it. You can often tell a
Merchant.
Yung Hoi, driver of a public car, Probate in the estate of Mak Chiwas fined $30 at the Central Magis- tracy this morning, for. reckless recip (or Chee) Ping alias Mak Kee driving in Wing Lok Lane. Ser-
Shuen, merchant, late of 26 Holly- wood Road who died on May 6, 1933, geant Clarke describing the incident 2zid that the defendant drove B. K.. Singapore Brigade, R. A.: leaving $28.100 has been granted to through the narrow lane at 30 mph.
man's mental capacity, and even his [profession, by "his outward appear- Chan Shi, widow.
causing the pedestrians to scatter on Frobate in the local estate of both sides.
Twelve German student members ance. And our scientists are only Kwong King Yuet (or Ut), alias į
Changed His Mind.
of the Nerother Students Associa-just begining to understand the Kwong Yue Sau, retired grocer, de-į Prosecuting a lorry driver, Chiu tion arrived in Hong Kong on Sun-human mind. Fifty years agó a Iceased, who died at Lung Fan
Kwong, for dangerous driving on day in the course of a tour round the case of dual personality would have been lodged in the nearest mad- Village, Kwangtung on January the the approach to Dairy Farm Hill world.
house. But while 1933. leaving $14,300, has been at Fokfulum, Traffic Sergeant Clarke
denying the The party is under the leader- Warrant Officer II (Q. M. S.) J.granted to Kwong Wong Shi, alias said that the defendant suddenly ship of Mr. Robert Oelbermann, literal possibility of Dr. Jekyll physically AB well Wong Mun-tong, widow,
stopped and without giving any who served as an officer with the 23
Mr. Letters of administration in the warning swerved across the road to Bonn Hussars during the Great and back into Dr. Jekyll again,
mentally. 'into
Hyde, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment:-estate of Wong Yau-cheung, gentle the right hand side. "He had ap- War.
Corporal A. C. Baumber.
it begs a question which I man, late of No. 110 Nam Cheungparently changed his mind and wish- Their tour, which commenced in should like to ask of somebody who Street. Shamshuipo, Hong Konged to turn back from where be 1931, has taken them through understands these things." who died on March 24, 1927, leaving came," said the officer.
South America, the United States, $20,900, have been granted to Wong
The defendant pleaded guilty and Japan, Manchukuo' and China. was fined $25.
Havildar Mir Dad,
Senior Havildar Fazal Din.
Royal Engineers:—
Holden.
RUSSIAN WITHOUT
PASSPORT.
Chun-shing, merchant.
Wong King-cheung, late of No. 9 Koon Lan San Kal, Canton, who
Former Stowaway To died on December 28, 1932, left local
Be Deported.
HIS SECOND OFFENCE.
estates valued at $10,000.
Probate in the above estate - has been granted to Wong Cho Yee (or Cho Yee).
A Russian, Zinowig A. Binkin, died on January 28, 1933, at 24 Dor
Fanling.
News In Brief.
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He edged his chair nearer to mine, THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD.
leaned forward, and spoke very earnestly,
After a short stay in Hong Kong they will proceed to Canton and Manila, and thence back to Ger- many, via the Dutch East Indies.
“Would you consider: it possible,” The purpose of the world tour 1,120 is purely educational, and with he asked, "for two men, strangers
CHINA, MAIL"OFFICE, 34, WYNDHAM STREET.
this this objective, several thousand who have never met leading INDECENT ASSAULT | HOUSE-BOY THIEF
feet of cinematic records have deparate and concurrent existences, to have personalities so, interwoven
ON CHINESE GIRL. been taken.
SENTENCED.
European Solicitor Prosecutes Servant.
The Frence Sloop Altair, of tons; arrived in the Colony Leung Kam-chuen (or Chun) who morning from Swatow.
Chlu Tan, a Chinese, groom, was Two full length films, depicting that they are in effect one and the aged 20, who was charged at the Po Road, Canton, left local estate sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital the adventures of the tourists in same men. What I am trying to Coal Coolie Convicted. Central Police Court this morn-valued at $9,700.
yesterday suffering from severe South. and North America and convey is just the opposite to the ing with entering the Colony with Letters of administration have head injuries which he received Japan, have already been sent back idea of a dual personality. If two out a passport, was sentenced to been granted to Lai Siu Shuk, con- when he was thrown from a horse at to Germany to be screened at the separate beings can dwell con- ONE YEAR'S HARD LABOUR.
SYSTEMATIC THEFTS. leading Universities and schools. securtively in the one man, is it pos
A Chinese coal coolie, Wan On Sunday night the party gave sible for two men to share the same
Chiu, was sentenced to one · Mr. H. J. Armstrong, of 2 Thorpe Gun Practice will be carried out a performance of the famous Ger personality?"
I laughed gently and remarked year's hard labour at the Cen- Manor, May Road, charged his ..religious musicale. The August 31, 1933, between the hours Dance of Death" of the German that it was a good conundrum. He tra Magistracy this morning house-boy, Fun Fat Tong at the of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the vicinity Club, and before they leave Hong smiled, but only faintly.
"I could tell you," he said, "why a charge of indecent assault Central Police Court this morning of the Eastern approaches to the Kong will give several other per-
formances.
that question has been vexing me on a Chinese, girl, War, Yung, with stealing a pair of cuff links, {two""_blankets and a quantity of Bat Lamma Channel.
Members of the party are for some time. The truth is that I aged 15, at 24, Cross Street, clothing, and with pawning the pro- The Hong Kong Women's Guild Mensra B. Oelbermann (leader), am very seriously worried. I don't second floor.
perty for $5.
found at the Y.M.C.A, on Satur CHINESE WEDDING
one month's hard labour and' or- dered to be deported:
cubine,
Detective Sergeant · Mottram | said that the defendant was
day. He was immediately recog nised as a stowaway who arrived in the Colony on a Jardine Mathe- son Company's steamer in July,
YESTERDAY.
Mr. Tsan Wei-chean And
from Mount Davis on Thursday,man
1931, and who had then been Miss M. Tong Yue-hing. sentenced to two: months' impri-1
and Ministering Children's League, H. Elediger, K. Yath, W Hart know if you would care to hear? I The defendant pleaded guilty, The accused pleaded guilty. sonment, and, deported, "
A pretty Chinese wedding took will hold a Ladies' Bridge and Whist mann, R. Rumpelt, W. Kaiser, H. think I can promise not to bore you. It was stated that about 2,am. Mr. Armstrong said, that the de- "His only papers," said Ser-place yesterday at the Hotel Cecil. Drive at the Police Recreation Club, Grumann, H. Pohl, K Mohri, R.You will probably think that I am Jon July 22, the girl's mother and fendant had been in his employ for mad, and if you suspect me of pur brother were aroused from their four months first as a coolie and geant Mottram, "are two old when Miss Millie Tong Yue-hing, Happy Valley, on August 22, at 3.30 Ritter and R. Lohmann, Soviet seaman's discharge papers daughter of the late Mr. Tong Lai- pim. An admission fee of $1.00 is Arrangements have been made posely romancing you will be pay sleep on hearing the girl scream-later as a house-boy. "It was by which are valueless. He knows cheun, became the wife of Mr. Tsan being charged.
for members of the party to give, a ing me a sort of compliment, for I ing. They rushed to her assist the greatest of fortune," said Bir. very well that he is not allowed Wel-chean,
recital of German and other folk have never in my life been credited
{tickets, otherwise. I should not have in the Colony, and I am instruct. The bridesmaid was Miss Christie An art exhibition by the Hong songs from the studio of ZBW this with an Imagination. For a long ance and the defendant pasault Armstrong, "that found the pawn-
while I have been yearning to feling her....* ed to ask for a term of impri- Pong, while Miss Gloria Tean and Kong Fine Arts Academy was evening between 8.30 and 9.15 p.. somebody and haven't dared; and The parents did not report the been able to. Snd out who was doing Bonment to be imposed." Master Tee Sin-fel were Gower gir. opened last night at their premises
"matter to the police at the time, the stealing.”. Systematic stealing Just now some Instinct assured me Binkin said, that he was on his and page boy respectively and on the first floor,,, ét. "Gearza's WEATHER FORECAST
[but decided to deal with him had been going on^over" a "long that you would be a gympathetic lin "way; to Singapore. He had Mr. Tong Slü-yuen was best man, Building The Work consists
themselves.
period, he said, and there worked there before, he said, After a reception at the Hotel chiefly of head studies, mainly of Fair to showery weather, with
The next day he disappeared several other things missing, "He has not a ghost of a Cecil, the happy comple left for their Chinese types, including a splendid moderate south winds, is forecasted I think I can at least promise to and a report was made to the which no trace could be found, chance of landing there," said honeymoon, which is being spent in full-length study of a young girl by by the Royal Observatory in the be that, I assured him.
police, who arrested him two days A septence two months Hard Sergeant Mottram,
Mr L. Tatz.
weather report issued this morning.
(Continued of
Labour" was imposed.
Manila and North: China?
on Pige 10)
were