WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933.
S. W. B. OFFICER FINED UNMUZZLED DOGS ON
THE PEAK -
Dog Vaccinated Against Rabies.
SUMMONS AGAINST MR. PRIOR ADJOURNED
A summons against Mr. J. T.
Prior of No. 26, The Peak, for
dog was adjourned for one week) at the Central Police Court this
AMERICAN
LADIES' TENNIS
TOURNEY OPENS
Helen Jacobs Plays
In Shorts.
HELEN WILLS-MOODY'S FINE RECOVERY
New York, To-day.
THE CHINA MAIL.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS" To-Lay's Short Story,
ASSOCIATION
Monthly Meeting
COAL DUMP, BUSES AND TAXI-CABS
FEAR
By Guy De Maupassant.
FTER dinner we gathered on mysterious influences are at work.
The monthly meeting of the Kow-j A deck. The Mediterranean)in the face of perils which he does,
Joon
Residents' Association Was
neid in St. Andrew's Church Hall on Jay without a ripple, its surface not understand. True fear has in shot with the silver radiance of it something of the memory of fan Monday evening.
There were present Mr. C. E. the full moon. The great ship tastic terrors of long ago. Now a No surprises featured the open-Terry (President), Mr. L. D'Almada glided along, sending up to the man who believes in ghosts, and failing to have a muzzle on his ing day of the American Nationale Castro (Vice-President), M. J. R. star-strewn sky a snaky column thinks he sees a spectre in the In our wake night, is bound to experience fear (Secretary, Women's Lawn Tennis Champion-Shaw
and the Rev. of black smoke. W. W. Rogers, Messra, F, H. foamed and whirled a white all its devastating horror. morning, after Mr. Prior had stat ships at Forest Hills yesterday.
"About ten years ago I myself Crapnell H. F. Bunje,
w.streak of water, ploughed up by ed that his dog had been vac
All the British Wightman Cup Goldenberg, Li Chor
Chi, C. the swift passage of the vessel, had this feeling in broad daylight, cinated against rabies.
team proved successful, Dorothy. Hall, H. F. Un, R. Pestonji, churned' by the screw, and emit and last winter it came upon re Mr. Prior pleaded guilty and Round being the only one to drop a D. W. Munton, T. B. Wilson, B. ting such brilliant flashes of again, one December night. Yet I -remarked-that-under-the-circum=| set. Helen Jacobs-the-American- Wyle and Lt. Col. E. D. Matthew brightness that it seemed like have often run risks and had death stances he thought the usual fine Wightman Cup player and the
holder of the title, won her firstceived from Messrs. R. P. Phillips, and boiling.'.......
Apologies for absence were re. liquid moonlight, all bubbling hanging over me, and I have seen should not be imposed.
a lot of fighting. He said that vaccination was match without the loss of a game. and E. Cock,
Six or seven of us stood there "I have been left for dead by brigands.. I have been sentenced Helen Jacobs made history. the only constructive remedy
Among matters discussed was the in silent admiration, when against rabies of which he knew,
she played in white
question of the supply of small taxi- turned towards the distant shores to be hanged as a rebel in America. shorts, It was the first time and that it had been spoken of]
cabs at Kowloon Point and, after of Africa, whither we were bound and flung into the sea from the very highly by Dr. J. H. Mont-
that a woman had appeared no
discussion, it was decided to write The Captain, who had joined us deck of a ship off the coast of attired on the Forest Hills gomery at the Council Meetings.
to the D.S.P., Kowloon, and request and was smoking a cigar, resumed China Each time I gave myself courts. "It has not been approved in
Helen Wills-Moody, who is at the Star Ferry stand, irrespective
that small taxi-cabs be stationed at a conversation begun at the dinner up for lost, and accepted the situa Hong Kong," he said, "but is
tion without emotion, even without table. tempting to regain the title she
"Yes, I knew what fear was that regret. known to be used in other coun|last won in 1931, won her initin of whether the reduction in rates |
"But fear is very different for the large taxi-caba became day. My ship lay for six hours
spiked on a rock with the seas thing. I felt a first hint of it in with reference to offensive smells breaking over her. operative or not.
Luckily, to Africa. And yet the North, is its real home; the sun disperses it like
tries.
match for the loss of three games.
The Magistrate. Mr. Wynnes- She showed no trace of her recent, Jones, asked if Mr. Prior WES suggesting that the dog was im-disposition, which kept her from playing in the Wightman Cup ser-
game.
mune from rabies because it hadies, and played a most sprightly/to write to the Colonial Secretary by an English: collier,"
been vaccinated.
very
8-2.
Our
eyes
a fog. This is an interesting point.
of
all
one
at Cheung Sha Wan, it was decided wards evening we were picked up deprecating the dumping of rubbish; A man, who had not yet spoken, With Orientals, life is of no ac Mr. Prior replied that he
He was tall, count; they are fatalists, one and; could not speak authoritatively
The following were the results: on the foreshore there and, at the now broke silence.
The clear Eastern nights same time, requestion a definite al-tanned complexion and grave as- Betty Nuthall (Britain heat Jane
foster none of those sinister fore- but knew that the chances Sharp (U.S.A.) 6-3, 6-3.
for the pect, the type of man whom location of responsibility
instinctively Assumes to have bodings which haunt the minds of against contracting rabies after Dorothy Round (Britain) bert collection of harbour refuse and such a vaccination was
Eugenie Sampion (U.S.A.) 4-6, 6-1, stricter supervision over the dis-travelled through vast tracts of those who dwell in cold countries. Junexplored countries amid ever In the East there is such a thing high.
Freda James (Britain) -beat Jean
posal of all rubbish. Mr. Wynne-Jones remarked Burritt (Canada) 6-3, 6-3.
No replies having been received threatening dangers; whose steady as panic, but fear is unknown.
in their depths some- that he did not think he could Helen Wills-Moody (U.S.A.) beat to the Association's letters to the eyes retain
thing of the strange lands through take the responsibility as he Eather Bartosh (U.S.A.) 6-1, 6-2, Kowloon Motor Bus Co. with re would then be encouraging own-beat Eunice (Britain) beat Norma bus service, it was decided to write!
Helen Jacobs (U.S.A. and holder) ference to complaints regarding the which he has wandered, and who courageous through and
Teubele (USA) 6
16-1, 6-2.
(Britain) Margaret Scriven Mr. Prior said that. it was a
Smith (U.S.A.)
SA) 6-0, 6-1. question for, the police to decide, Joam Ridley (Britain) beat Helen as they were prosecuting in the Jones (U.S.A.) 6-1, 6-2.
Mrs. Mirchel (Britain) beat Barbara Mr. Wynne-Jones adjourned Stoddard (U.S.A.) 6-1, 6-3.
Sarah Palfrey (U.S.A.) beat the summons, remarking that he Flarence Lebouillier (U.S.A.) 6-0, 1-5 copies of letters sent to the Police would address some authority
ers to avoid muzzling by vaccinat- ing their dogs.
case.
оп
the question of vaccinating dogs.
Borderers' Officer Fined *Mrs. K. Lund, of 8 Peak Mansions. and Lieutenant A. G. Martin, of Mount Austin Barracks, both of whom pleaded guilty to a charge of allowing their dogs to be at large without muzzles, were each fined $8 by Mr. Wynne-Jones.
Not Mr. Young's Dog
A summons again Mr. R. Young,
of 11 The Peak, for not having a
muzzle on his dog at Mount Kellet Rond, was dismissed.
Mr. Young pleaded not guilty and
Clure
Dean
Heeley
(U.S.A.) 6-0, 6-0,
in the D.S.P. Kowloon, on this beat matter, enclosing copies of the respondence, with a request for his assistance.
BOTANICAL GARDENS
TERRACE.
Open To Public Yesterday.
NEW IMPROVEMENTS.
With reference to the question of islands In Nathan Road,
traffe
through.
you
"You Bay, Captain, that knew what fear was. I don't be- lieve it. You are mistaken both as to the term you used and the sensation
A you experienced. [Brave man has never any fear in the presence of imminent danger. and the Automobile Association were read. As, at the date of meeting, He may be excited, agitated and anxious, but as for fear, that is no information had been forthcom ing from the Police, it was decided quite another thing."
to have the matter over for further discussion at the next meeting.
The Captain laughed.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Greatest Actor The World Has Ever Known," by Pierre Frondaie.
"Well, this is what happened to me over there in Africa. I was crossing the vast sandhills south of Ouargla, one of the strangest "Stuff and nonsensel I tell you tracts of country in the world. I was in a blue funk.”.......
You all know what the smooth The president reported fully re-deliberate tones:
The bronze-faced man replied in level sands of a sea benen are'} garding the public meeting and de- putation to the Colonial Secretary
The Coal Dump.
Allow me to explain.
in the matter of the Kowloon coal and the bravest of men !dump.
fear is a perience
The Assocision decided to
can
[like, running on and on intermin- Fearably. Now picture in your mindaj
ex-the ocean itself turned to sand in dreadful the middle of a hurricane, Imagine The lower terrace of the write to Government deploring the thing; it is an appalling sensation, a tempest without sound and with Botanical Gardens, Caine Road, use of this land as a coal damp and as if one's soul were disintegrat-billows of yellow sand that never con- move. To the height of mountains which has been in the hands of requesting that serious considera-ing: it is a torturing pang, workmen for many months, was tion be given to its use for a pur- vulsing mind and heart; a horror, they rise, these irregular waves of yesterday re-opened to the public. pose more in keeping with the am- of which the mere remembrance all shapes and sizes, surging like evokes a shudder pf anguish. But the ungovernable waters of ocean, evidence was
Work on the underground filter-jenities of Kowloon. constable.
beds has now been completed and A member of the committee re- a brave man is not subject to it but vaster and streaked like water-
that land on the Kowloon at the prospect of a hostile attack, ed silk. The constable said that he chased the area around the spot where ported the dog along Mount Kellet Road the old fountain stood has as-City Road near Sung Wong Toi had or confronted with certain death, the devastating, southern sun beat been allocated to the S.P.C.A, for a or any familiar form of danger. straight down upon that raging and the dog nad stopped at No. sumed an entirely new aspect.
It comes upon him in certain ab-sea, lying there without sound or 111 The Peak. He saw the house- A new multi-jet fountain, with new dogs' home,
normal conditions, when It was also reported that the road
certain motion. boy come out and open the door, an ornamental centre-piece in whereupon the dog walked in. He the top basin and four big life-between Shantin and Fanling was asked the boy whom the dog belong-like frogs. each projecting alin a very bad state and the Associa ed to, and the litter wrote down stream from the lower basin, is tion decided to write to the Director
given by an Indian
Mr. Young's name and address.
in its place.
Mr. Young said that he was in The filter-beds
the house
have
of Public Works requesting that been repairs be effected in-this area as the time of the incident. covered over with a pattern of soon as possible. He heard an altercation between his patches of turf and sandy walks, house-boy and an Indian constable so that their presence under- and came downstairs to In-ground is completely concealed.
EL
At one end of the terrace vestigate.
Continuing, Mr. Young said that small pavilion has been erected, there were four black and white which was much appreciated by terriers similar to his dog in the number of children who visited neighbourhood, and that his chil- the Gardens yesterday. dren's amah was ready to state that the dog was in the nursery between 7 and 7.30 p.m.
FAILING TO RENEW
ARMS LICENSES.
HELPING BRITISH
FISHERMEN.
Quota Regulations For Foreign Fish.
London, To-day.
CHINESE BOY'S BODY FOUND.
Death Believed To Be From Drowning.
..
And the pitiless rays of
"A journey across these 'steeps of golden dust is one
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“Our., party - . consisted of my The body of a Chinese boy, aged friend and myself, with an escort about 14, was found in a stream at of sight spahis, four camels and Sui Tong Bay, in the Sheung Shiu district of the New Terrorities. and 'fatigue, parched with thirst að |-- CELEBRATED:
The body is reported to have the burning desert itself, we rode marks on the throat and was sent in silence. Suddenly one of our An order for the regulation of postmortem examination.
to the Kowloon Mortuary for amen attered a cry; everyone halt- ed, and we remained rooted to the landings of foreign fish in the It was at first suspected that the not, surprised by a phenomenon United Kingdom has been made by boy had been murdered, but a later which, though familiar to travel- the Board of Trade, under Section report states that the police believe lers. in those God-forsaken parts. One of the Seafishing Industry Act that he was drowned.
has never been explained. From 1933.
Section One of the Act empowers Mr. G. P. Lammert, was
fined the Board to regulate landings from $25 at the Central Police Court this outside the United Kingdom. morning for failing to renew the Under the Order quotas are Douglas Gifford, charged with license for his automatic pistol.
allotted to foreign countries and a simple larceny, will come, before the Inspector James said that the license will be required to land fish Chief Justice, Mr. J. B. Wood for defendant had been warned and other than fish brought direct to the trial at the Criminal Sessions which At Angmagaalit, on August 7 that the police had considerable registered in the British Empire..
United Kingdom by a fishing vessel commence on August 21. P a special Aretic dinner was given difficulty in locating
He himself, was ready to state on - oath that the dog was actually in his
room and that it came downstairs: with him. Mr. Young repeated this
· statement in the witness box and the summons was dismissed.
LINDBERGHS ON LAST LAP
(Continued from Pape 1)
now would permit distances to be
covered in a few hours which he
Two Owners Fined.
owners who
himself had previously taken months FIRE AT MONGKOK.
to accomplish with dog sledges. The
explorer paid a special tribute to
•
News In Brief.
Fish from any Dominion will not A Chinese woman, Ho San Yuk, be liable to quota, but a license will attempted to commit suicide by
somewhere near at hand, but in a direction difficult to determine, came the roll of a drum, the mys terious, drum of the sandhills. 'Ita beating was distinct, now loud. now soft, now dying away, now ru auming its weird tattoo, a
"The Arabs looked at one an- ather in horror, and one of them said in his own tongue; "Death is upon us."
"And as he spoke my comrade.
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Mr. Lam Ming Fan, of 102 be required for fish sent as cargo jumping off the Mongkok ferry- my friend, who was almost like a the bold fights made by the Lind-Argyle Street. Hemuntin, was also from a Dominion, although not for boat Man Kit, while on the journey brother to me, fell headlong from Eagle With Sword And berghs in Greenland territories. M. fined $25 for failing to renew the direct landings from any Dominion's from Hong Kong at 9 o'clock last his horse, struck down by sun- Rasmussen said that Arctic flights license for his shot-gun.
finishing boats-British Wireless night." She was rescued and taken stroke. Service.
to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
"For two hours, while I laboured
A claim for $200 due on a in vain to save his life, that phan-
Berlin Chinese promissory note dated The Hong Kong Women's Guild tom drum filled my eare with it The eagle on the Prussian cost ternative claim of the sum from September 22, 1981, and an al- and Ministering Children's League, monotonous, intermittent and will hold a Ladies' Bridge and Whist baffing throbbing. And I felt of arms will in future be equip- the guarantor of the note, was Drive at the Police Recreation fear, ghastly fear, glide into my ped with a sword and thunder-made, this morning," when Chan Club, Happy Valley, on August 22, bones as 1 gazed at the body of bolt, instead of orb and sceptre Pang-sam sued Yuen Cheong and, at 3.80 pm. An admission fee of the man I loved, there in that sun-
alternatively, Ng Chung-aze, be $1.00 is being charged. baked hollow, between four and as hitherto, according to an an-fore the Fulane Judgé, Mr. R. E.
hilis, six hundred miles from the nouncement by Cast, Goering. Lindsell in the Summary Court. nearest French settlement, with the Prussian Premier. Mr. C Y. Kwan is appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr. J. M. echoing in our ear
Mrs. Lindbergh.
Colonel Lindbergh replied that it
would be easy to fly over inland
ice if a first rate machine were avail-
Premises Damaged,
But No Casualties.
Fire broke out in a second-hand |
able. He in tarn complimented shop in Keelung Street, Shum Shul
BREWERY OPENS TO-DAY.
Ceremony At Sham Tseng.
M. Rasmussen as an explorer, on his Po, at about 2.48 a.m. this morning. The official opening of the new
· long: voyages and great achieve- Fire engines from Kowloon and Erewery of the Hong Kong Brew-
ments.
A Chinese boy, Ng Pong Fun,
| Mongkok were immediately rushedjers and Distillers, Limited, at Sham who fainted in the street at Yan- that rapid, mysterious drumming The sword will be a symbol wall of Lyson and Hall, is for the The chances of a regular com- to the scene, and the fire was ex Toong (between 12 and 13 mile mati yostreday, repaired severe in- mercial flying route in Greenland tinguished within: half-an-hour stones on Castle Peak Road) will furies to his eyes when a bottle of "That day 1 knew what fear not of war, but of "peace and first defendant. 15 stil in the air, but the ease with The shop, however, was severely take place at 4.30 p.m. to-day. Chinese medicine was poured was I realised it even more pro-security," while the thunderbolt The second defendant. Ng which Colonel Lindbergh has flown damaged. No casualties are report-: Gars will be available at the Star over his face. He was taken to foundly on another occasion." over these territories augurs welled. The cause of the fire is being Ferry Kowloon, for holders of the Kowloon Hospital for-treat- The Captain interrupted him: for such a route-Reuter,
Investigated by the police.
special tickets fasued by the Com- ment. BARY
(Continual en Paga 10).
will be a warning that "he will Chung-sze, is appearing in per
be struck by lightning who seeks son. We
to violate our land” Beuter The case is proceeding.