TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933.
OPIUM TRAFFIC TO Divorced Her Prince
MANCHUKUO
Alleged Facilities By British Officials.
ASSURANCES GIVEN BY
FOREIGN SECRETARY
London, To-day.
Allegations that opium was being transported from Persia to Manchuria
largely in
British
ships, and that the authorities in British ports and Dependencies!
facilitated the
en roule were mads by Mr. Rhys-Davies in a question in the
Commons, yesterday.
traffic
House of
Sir
The Foreign Secretary. John Simon. replied that as far
as was ascertainable, the sugges tion was unfounded.
He pointed out that
Japanese
Assembly
the Sino- the f'ommittee, Ri
had Longue of the adopted the recommendation of the to the ap- Government in regard plication to Manchuria and Jehol! of the provisions of the interna tional oplam
regarding Advisory and the
Com- mitter of the League had recom. mended that applications for ex-¡ 11 Manepuko opium and be -hel al dangerous dipas granted anless the applicant pro- import cer -atisfactory duced a
the %4 !rarr!43「si" xi1h ribeate in Cenexa Oraum Convention of 1925,1 which declared that goods should' not be imported into Manchukuo; contrary to the;
for any purpose
vention.
concluded
Sir John Simon Ping assurans that the action
of the authorities in Britain and
British Dependencies would
Ma Murray blonde screen siren, who won her reculum from Prince David Midivan cinset of the Gear. gian brothers, in divores suit at Los Angeles The actress waited Mir- mony and jerrin, rty, einums ruther Thun enruge in a bitter fogal del
YAUMATI BLAZE THIS MORNING
Tenement Building Gutted.
NO CASUALTIES
THE CHINA MAIL.
STRIKE SETTLED | To-day's Short Story.
Bank Site Coolies Resume Work.
SATISFIED AND CONTENTED
The entire contingent of 270 Shanghai workmen employed on the
THE
HAIR
By A. J. Alan.
"What about fifteen bob?"
site of the new Hong Kong and I'm going to give you an account or some years before, but couldn't Shanghai Bank Building, who went,
of certain occurances. I say in the least what part of the aut on strike yesterday in protest shan't attempt to explain them, world it came from. against the introduction of the European system of checking-in because they're quite beyond me.
I offered him ten, ant he took it at the works, returned to work this When you've beard all the facts, morning.
some of you may be able to offer very quickly, and then I had to You must forgive sprint back to the station to caten A China Mail representative was suggestions.
En-me for 'going into a certain my train. When I got home I took informed by the Construction
the box up into my workshop and When you gineers, Messra. Logan and Ampa, umount of detail.
It that the men have been convinced don't understand what you're had a proper look at it.
extremely primitive RA regards of the necessity of adopting the talking about it's so difficult to
work, and had evidently been made European system and are quite know what to leave out.
Also, agreeable and contented. They This business began in the dark by hand, and not on a lathe.
there had been something engraved came from their quarters at Ma Tau
broad-on the lid, but it had been taken off Kok, Kowloon, on the Company's launch this morning and commenced
with a file.
work promptly at 7 o'clock.
BLASTING THE OLD
Bank
BANK VAULTS
Royal Engineers At
Work On Site
GELIGNITE BEING USED
IN DEMOLITION
ages, before there was any casting. In fact. in 1921.
Was
I'd been staying the week-end
Next job was to get the lid off with a friend of mine who lives
any damage to it. without doing about 15 miles out of Bristol.
I was a good deal more than hand There was another man stopping tight, and
no ordinary methods there, too, who lived al Dawlish.
were any good. I stood it lid down. Well,
the Monday morn- wards for a week in a dish of Jing our host drove 118 Into
glycerine as a start, and then made Bristol in time for the
two brass collars, one for the box Dawlish
to catch his train,
on
man
the week I bolted the collars on, fixed the box in the vice and tried
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Man Who Gave Good Advice," by Maurice Baring.
which left a good deal earlier than and one for the lid. At the end of the London one. Of course, if old Einstein had done his job properly.tapping the lid round with a ham- we could both have gone by the
mer-but it wouldn't start. Then same train. As it was, I had over
I tried it the other way and it went Talking of half an hour to wait.
at once. That explained why no The Royal Engineers have been
Einstein. wouldn't be almost
It experi. given the opportunity of
worth while dying young so as to one had ever been able to unscrew menting in blasting at the site of
hear what Euclid says to him when the Bong Kong and Shanghai Bark they meet-wherever it is? building, where the work of de-
There was a funny little old sort molishing the reinforced concrete of curiosity shop in one of the vaults. is being carried out in pretreets I went down, and I stopped paration for the rebuilding of the to look in the window. Right at the back, on a shelf, was a round Artual blasting commenced three brass box, not unlike a powder-box days ago and gelignite is being used shape, and it rather took my A four-storey tenement build-1e destroy the thick underground fancy. I don't know why-perhaps it-it had a left-handed thread on it was because I'd never seen any-it. Rather a dirty trick-especial- with their international obligations, ing. 152 Temple Street. Yaumati, wall. The vaults extend over was completely gutted by Gre large area of the old Bank site.
thing quite like it before. Thatly to go and do it all those years and the league recommendations.
which brake out at 4.15 this Excavation of the site was to must be why some women buy some before. Bruter
have commenced yesterday,
hut hats. morning.
Well, here it was, unscrewing: The fire is believed to have owing to the strike of the Shang- Anyway, the shop window was so very sweetly, and I began to feel originated in a kitchen on the hai workmen has
had to be post-dirty that you could hardly ace excited, wondering what I was go- ground floor. occupied by a fur-poned for a day or two.
through it, so I went inside to haveling to find. It might go off bang. ¡niture shop. The flames spread | The demolition of the Bank buil-a closer look. An incredibly old or jump out and hit me in the face..
six weeks.
jman came out of the back regions | However, nothing exciting happen- rapidly and within a short time ding has occupied only the upper floors which were un- Begun in 1880, the building look and told me all he knew about the led when the lid came off. In fact, tenanted, were involved.
to complete, and box, which wasn't very much. It the box only seemed to be half-full]
was fairly heavy, made of brasa, of dust, but at the bottom was
of hair. When round. four inches high, and about curled-up plait
There straightened out, it was about nine three inches in diameter. was something inside it. which we inches long and nearly as thick an
pencil. could hear when we shook it, but a
4 short I unplaited
continued to be strictly in accord!
TAILORING WITHOUT A FIT.
Camera Used To Take Measurements.
Helsingfors
A Swedish frm of tailors is em ploying a camera as tailor's assist
ant.
over two years
The occupants of the first was opened in 1883. floor, an opium divan, were able
to escape before the flames be- came dangerous.
The
Kowloon Fire
Brigade
within
A photograph full-tace and in turned out in full force, and prafile is taken of the client. The with the assistance of a fire- two photographs are then projected font from Hong Kong, the fire] life-size on to a specially squared was under control screen so that the talior has a life- minutes.
Iz model of his client continually
the client Defore
him. And saved innumerable Attings.
Д
BRITISH CRUISER'S FAST RUN.
H.M.S. Achilles Averages 28 Knots. 20
London. To-day. The extent of the damage has
The Admiralty slate that the The not yet been ascertained. building was constructed with average speed maintained by the wooden floors and a wooden stair-new British cruiser, "Achilles", on it possible to check all measure way provided access to the up-her 30-Hour voyage from Gibral- ments, but the tailor is also put In per floors. The furniture on the tar to Portland, last week, works a position to spot Any physical ground floor fell an easy prey to out to 26.1 knots. ar a “tummy." the flames and most of the dam-i Decalartty much Alongs at a crooked shoulder-Reu ter
Not only does this method make
H.M.S. Achilles in a 7,000-tons
no one had ever been able to get the length, and found it consisted of lid off. He'd bought it from a sail-some hundreds of very fine haire, but in such a filthy state (I shoved them
that under the microscope) there was nothing much to be seen.
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REMEMBER LAST NIGHT THE WONDERFUL TIME WE HAD.
DANCING
IN
ROXY
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Right Opposite The Hong Kong Hotel
"RICKSHAW BRAND
CELEBRATED
So I thought I'd clean them. You CEYLON
may an
well know the process- first of all a bath of dilute hydroch-] loric acid to get the grease off, then a solution of washing soda to re- move the acid. Then a washing in distillod
■ bath
of water, then
The King of the Belgians, an alcohol to get rid of any traces of age was done before assistance cruiser of the Leander class, built enthusiastic mountain climber, has water, and a final rinsing in ether could be obtained.
at the Birkenhead yard of Messrs.
Just as I took it out of the ether Mr. G. C. Moss. officer-in-Cammell Laird, and commissioned qualified as a climber of the first to top off with.
rank by making a perilous solitary
me down to the tele- NEW LIGHT ON LOST charge of the Kowloon Fire Bri-in October.
ascent of Monte Capelio, a peak they called gade directed operations until She has 72,000 horse-power, but over 7,400 feet in height.
phone, so I shoved it down on the STUDS.
the arrival of Fire Superinten-her run home from Gibraltar was Monte Capello is one of the most first clean thing which came handy. dent. H. T. Brooks from Hong made on 3/6 of her power. The difficult peaks in the district and namely, a piece of white cardboard,
speed she maintained is believed one which visitors rarely surmount. and went
Novel Slippers For Careless Men.
London.
A house slipper for men with a little electric bulb and battery in-
the geniously fitted into
heel is among the novelties at the Interna- tional Shoe and Leather Fxtr ip London.
Kong on board the fire-boat.
ship of her type.
downstairs. When I
to exceed any before achieved for In the lower stages of the de-examined the plait later on, the only MARKET STALLS IN long distance steaming by a war-jacent, which is the most difficult thing of interest that came to light!
FIRE OUTBREAK.
part, King Albert was accompanied was the fact that the hairs had all The maximum speed of the by four Turin climbers. The Apparently belonged to several dif- British Wireless Service. "Achilles" is put at 82.6 knots.-guides are most impressed by his ferent women. feat-Reuter.
Chemical Extinguisher Subdues Blaze.
A stail in the Kun Chuen Market, The switch which lights the bulb Kowloon, caught fire at 2.25 this in worked by the wearer by throw-morning when a cooking. stove ing his weight over to the left. overturned, the fames spreading to
It has been devised for the man two stalls nearby.
who is always losing his collar studs
The first was put out by a police
and other trifles," it is explained. constable, with the aid of chemi "If he is wearing this slipper hecal fire extinguisher, before much
can obtain & light in dark corpers
by pressing on the left of his heels damage was done,
Fire engines from Mongkok and
and can find his stud without using Kowloon Stations turned out, but
Inaumerable matches, as
bad language."-Reuter.
well
FARES ACCORDING
TO INCOME.
28 Įwere not required.
New System To Operate Throughuut Soviet.
REVISION ON CLASS BASIS
Riga.
BAG SNATCHERS
AT NICE
Well-Dressed Bandit · Operates From Car.
Cannes, Bag snatchers have appeared in Cannen and already several · · cases. Rallway, omnibus and tramcar have been reported to the polics. fares throughout the U.S.S.Rare Recently, while walking on La to be revised on a class banis, says Croisette Promenade, a Swiss lady & report from Moscow
lost her bag containing 000 francs
Each traveller is to pay accord- and her passport. ⠀ ing to his earnings. When he ap The attack took place. In the- plies for his ticket he will have to orthodox fashion. A car contufn- produce a "labour card" showing ing two men suddenly stopped bo his income..
side her and one of them who was Citizens earning more than £10]wearing a dinner Jacket Jumped out. (at par) a month will be charged snatched her big and re-entered one shilling for a tram rida any, the car, which drove of quieldy in where in Moscow. Those with In-the direction of Nion, The polica comes under £10, will pay only one-are investigating the cases, fifth of the present fare-Reuter. ter.
She Fought Until Husband Died
Handcuffed and held by a member of the posam that kumad down and killed ber; husband; Mrs: Marvia Barime d'enown baing taken to Jal at Adel, Lowe, She fought side by side with her gangster sponés motil bo yas sinin by the posse's machine ged fire, sThe couple wan dasarted. by other, members of the notorions: Missouri gang of which the dand
• mao wasilandar;
The colours ranged] from jet black, through brown, red, and gold. ' right up to pure white. None of the hair was dyed, which proved how very old it was. showed it to one or two рео- ple, but they didn't seem very |enthusiastic, so I put it, and its box in a little corner cup- board, we have, and forgot all about It
"
Then the first strange coincidence | happened.
Ahout ten days latera pal of mine called Matthews came into thẻ. club with a bandage across his fore- hend. People naturally, naked him what was the matter, and he said he didn't know, and what's more him [doctor: didn't know." He'd suddenly flopped down on his drawingroom floor, in the middle of tes, and lain like a'log: His wife was in a fearful stew," of course, and telephoned for the doctor, However, Matthews came round at the end of about five minutes, the sat up and "askoð what had hit him. When the doctor |blew in a few minutes later he was [pretty will allʻright again éxcept for a good deal of pain in his fore- head. The doctor couldn't find anything the matter except a red |mark which was beginning to show on the skin just where the pain was. [** Well this mark got clearer" and
clearer, until it looked just like `n} blow from a stick. Next day} {t} wan: Just about the same, arcept |that a big bruise (had 'come, op all
round the mark. After, that it"got] gradually better, Matthewa took ¿Continued on Page 101
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