MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933.
FOREIGNERS MAY
LEAVE FUKIEN
Consuls Advised Of Blockade.
NO PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT
SERVICE
Shanghai, To-day.
In a statement to pressmen, Mr. | Tang Yu-Jen. Permanent Secretary of the Nonking Foreign Ministry, to-day stated that all hopes of set- tling the Fukien revolt by peaceful means had been shattered. How- ever, he believed that the revolt would easily enllapse a serious differences among the rchels were evident.
Mr. Tan -lated that the Nan king Foreign Office had urged the Foreign diplomatic #uthorities con cerned to advise their respective nationals in Pukien to evneunte in order that tie blockade of Fukien port of he effectively carried out.
However, the Japanese diplonia. Fre author felt it difficult audi too expensive 10 exacuate the i
Rumoren. Japanese (Mizens, cluding 40001 2018m. Parmansaris, residing in Pukien trading ports.
in
Mr Tang and that negociations. with the Japanese on this matter!
Kit
Central
News Agency
Border Situation Quiet.
---
Hangchow, To-day
Afte
• series of a ra Fuksien the Nunkin
in
air force
last Friday morning, the situatio
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Enrico Caruso, Jr., son of the Inta Metropolitan Ópera siar, who ha been signed by a Hollywood studio to sing a leading role in a Spanish musical comedy film production. he proves he inherited part of his Father's talent he may star in musi- n' features produced in English
MRS. H. J. HUNTER IMPROVING
No Statement Given To Police Yet.
THE CHINA MAIL.
KENT GOING HOME To-day's Short Story,
Sir
FOR REFIT
Admiral To Transfer
Flag To Suffolk,
CORNWALL RETURNING TO
pare on
CHINA FLEET
I PAGLIACCI
ton.
By R. H. Mottram.
Wan 10
INEVER. the lawyer, and much against rebuilding where this
young Dormer, from the bridge fell in." H.M.S. Kent, flying the flag of Bank, had to go over to Seaton "Fell in, did it-all of its own the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral about some property of which accord 7"
Frederick Charles Dreyer, they were trustees. Their busi "Well, no. There WVILA reRBOD | K.C.B., C.B.E., will sail for Singsness kept them late enough to enough. But this is the tale as I
January 9, accompanied lose the last train to Easthampheard it when I was little. by the Cruiser Suffolk.
steak and "In those days there So they had a The Keul, which is expected to tankard meal at the Old Ship and theatre in Seaton. In the summer arrive at Singapore on or about went off to a performance of "leveniaga people went to tea-gardens fanuary 14, will go to the Naval Pagliacci." Ginever knew it by or beer-houses. In the winter, the Pase for drydocking.
classes-there The Com-heart; Dormer thought it was middle mander-in-Chief will transfer his not so good as the "Messiah," been any aristocracy in Seaton, the Bag to the Suffolk on January 31 out it filled in a vacant end of air don't suit 'em-sat, on their
On completion of her docking an empty evening in a
rather money-bags, I suppose. The poorer the Kent will proceed to Penang, dour town where people appar-sort went to the same beer-houses. !where thy will await the arrival of ently went to bed or to sea when But these last had a respite. Once [w Cruiser Cornwall, which has it was dark. Returning, both a year & travelling
re commissioned for service humming, to the Old Ship. Gine-pitch Its tent and park its caravans with the China Fleet.
Iver said:
on that fiat piece behind the jetty.
Twen
has never
circus would
On the arrival of the latter ship: "Now Dormer, just one before we suppose you can't remember at Penang, the Kent will proceed turn in!"
an
circus? Ah! Barnum or Sauger. the United Kingdom, via porta, Dormer's opinion about drink yes, but there used in those days to Emall travelling for refit and re-commissioning for was that most other people should be innumerable further service on the China Stalbe teetotallers, but the raw Easi affairs, generally finding their per tion.
Coast
01 Port Seatou
cut sonnel in the Showman's family, U.S. Flagship Leaves.
one or two hangers-on who through his scruples. That air, like with The U. S. S. Augusts, fiying the no other on earth, which gives the groomed the half-dozen horses, andį Bag of Admiral F. B. Upham, Com favour to the herrings and the emtended the mangy monkey, ahd mander-in-Chief of the
show else United berlike glow to the complexions of whatever
the
might to call posSEKA. You got a fair idea of it States Asiatic Fleet, accompanied that coast, constrains man by the Yacht Isabel left Hous for hot spirits or old ale. Dormer in the Opera to-night, substituting Kong on Saturday for Manila. had the latter, while Ginever sipped the English public's love of animals)
HMS. Suffolk and ymberland, hot rum and water. Ginever sat for the Italian love of drama. But of the Fifth Cruiser dron, left recounting the various "Heddas" one element is constant-the clown.
Hong Kong this morning on exer and "Canios" that he remembered rises and are expected bárk this
rather to the empty smoke-room Iweek-end.
than to Dormer, who, pipe in mouth and tankard in hand, prowled along
H.M.S. Medway, Depot Ship
HOPE OF-HOUSE-BOY'S ARREST the Fourth Submarine Flotilla. the the row of prints that surmounted
Bruce. Submarine Tender. and the the wainscot, and stopped before af The condition of Mrs. H. J. Hun-Submarines Odin. Otus. Olympus, hithograph entitled "The New Sus on the Fuken-heklang border ister of 56A Nathan Road, who w Persens. Pandora and Proteus, left pension Bridge."
attacked and badly wounded by Hong Kong to-day on exercises and to-day!" her house-buy. Tong Wing-kwok.jare expected back on or about Fri- on Thursday afternoon last, con day. !Invex to show Improvement, The French Cruiser Primaumel though she is still very weak. I expected to arrive on or about Was stated by the Matron of the Saturday from Formosa and Shang- Kowloon Hospital this morning.
generally quiet, though full of pose | xibilities
A rumour eirculating here yes- terday, that fighting had brokenl ous in the northern Fakien border districts, has been proved untrue.
Central News Agency.
ANOTHER FLEET FOR BLOCKADE,
Foreign Ships Advised To Suspend Services.
Nanking, To-day.
Seen at the Central Police Station Inavector thus morning, Detert ve Shannon said that, although the as- sailant of Mrs. Hunter had not yet; been apprehended. the Police held every hope of his eventual arrest, N the Canton authorities are Co operating with the local Police.
He considered that it was doubt- ful if the fugitive was still in the
The Nanking Ministry of Com Colony, as he had had time to cross advised foreign the border before the Police were munications shipping interests to suspend their informed of the affair.
thai
“ት
AIR DEFENCE IN THE SOUTH,
New Taxes For More Aeroplanes.
Canton.
Air defence societies will be formed in the different counties in
services to Fukien, following similar | No statement has set been takes Kuangtung consequent on an order
notice tested to the Chinese ship- from Mrs. Hunter. She was visit ping firms
by the Provincial Party and govern This to indicative of at the Hospital yesterday, but meat for the enlarging of national Nanking's determination to streng as she was in a feverish condition defence worka. then its naval blockade of the Fu the Palice did not ask any questions. kien pori.
"In any case", said the officer. “
give
ne-
Under the scheme each county la| no required to purchase at least one A Nanking fleet under the leader. statement from her so ship of the cruiser Chungshan has more assistance to the Poll than plane. In order to raise the carried out a partial blockade of what we already know. so that wejeessary money each household mutl Fukien porta for a few days.
An-Bre in no hurry to hear what Mrs.contribute one month's rent other feet now concentrating
Hunter has to way." out-
de Wowing Harbour is expected Scan to mail for Fukieri waters.- Contrai News Agency.
EUGENE CHEN AND
STATE OF "PREVENTION"
IN SPAIN
(Continued from Page 1).
while
shops must subscribe an nmoant (equal to two per cent, of their re-
gistered capital.--Reuter.
of
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Wood Of The Dead." by Algernon Blackwood.
"I can't remember passing that to-day!"
That historic figure who probably Ginever got up to look, adjusting began as B vegetation god in his glasses.
Greece, centuries before Christ, "No, you didn't pass that to-day still dragged out his endless expia-
eighty tion until, in the red-nosed come
dian of the music-hall and Charlie Chaplin of the Cluema, he passed through his final transmogrification just and ceased to be recognisable.
tail |
-uor any one years!"
these
"Replaced?" "Yes, under peculiar circum stances. R used In stand where the railroad crosses the of the estuary; it carried Lho Easthampton Road, of course.” "Which now has to go round by Grilling 7"
"Yea But sentiment
FRANCE
PRAISES
"Well, the particular show that came to Seaton in those days was called Winter's World Renowned right Circus and Hippodrome. It seem
to have been the usual thing-Old was very Winter, proprietor and singmastes, his sons acrobats and riders, old Mother Winter sitting on the caab box, the Winter girls snake charm- ers and equestriannes, and all the rest-publicity, band, ecurie, comic relief, odd jobs-all done by Signor
PRINCE Puffo, the clown.
"Independent And Strong."
WELL-FITTED TO RULE BRITISH EMPIRE
Paris.
"Poffo was, of course, a poor lout who had drifted into the job, God knows why, and kept it. God knows how, with that extraordinary humility
serviceableness of those days, so completely lost now. His name was Boatwright.
and
"No one remembers what he look ed like without his paint and his degrading clothes, his pimple of a The Prince of Wales, "strong, hat, his strut Rad raucous back- permanent finance committee the Cortes. In spite of what is independent and sure of himself," chat, for no one ever saw him in 'private life." He had none. Dur- Âx soon as it opens, the Par said in this connection,"added is warmly eulogised in the new ing the day he walked the streets in liament will have to take up the Senor Barrios.-"I cannot hand in Paris daily paper. "Le Jour.“ Reported Seeking Loan "uestion of the budget and examine the resignation of the Cabluet
JAPAN.
For Fukien.
Shanghai, To-day.
A report from diplomatic sources states that Mr. Eugene Chen secretly negotiating with e Japan use for a big loan with the trunk! motor road lines system of Fukien as security,
Mr. Eugene Chen sailed for Amoy last Friday and thence for an un-l known destination and it in believed that his trip is in connection with this purpose Central News Agency
LOITERING WITH INTENT.
Two Unemployed Men Sentenced.
Arrested by the police outside 131 Bonham Strand at 1.40 a.m. yester day, two unemployed Chinese, Chan Tak and Leung Ying, were charged before Mr. Balfour at the Contral Police Court this morning with lol- tering.
Detective Sergeant Fowlie said -that when arrested one of the men **was standing on the shoulders of the other, One of them had a knife in his possession, and it was aus- pected that they were there for an unlawful purpose. They failed to give a usilafactory account of them- selves.
Sentence of one month's hard. labour was imposed on each.
Jong
дв
several extraordinary credit items the Cortes is not constituted.”— which were not approved by the itavas.
Catching the Trade Winds
Here's K-plotura to warm the codde of an old shit's hourt, Vit la tha French barque, Pere Pierre, pictured from the deck of a liner na tha ailed the high sous from St. Milla with every hit of canvas unfurled
·It is a cura might these days, reminiscent of the old mailing days
gone forever,
costume, with drum and panpipesį "The Prince, with the physical for advertisement. From dusk on-
wards he was in the ring--they | resistance of an athlete, endow didn't stop at twice nightly then- ed with extremely keen intellecuntil there was no more audience tual faculties and possessing an who would pay to see him providing unshakeable moral stability," the foll to every turn. The others had their allotted parts, even the says the paper, "is master of animals. Pullo's part war to himself as he will one day be imitate all of them unsuccessfully— master of half the globe.
to fall off the horses-catch his "What one likes about him in chin on the tight repe-tie himself that, besides being the heir to annke. And, at any moment, if the into knots like a travesty of the vast Tmpire, he is a man-strong, audience were too slow, at coming independent and sure of himself." in or too impatient with a "turn." The newspaper speaks of the Old Winter, the tyrant of the ring, Prince's accomplishment as an would call to him: nirman, rider. and sportsman "'"Now, Signor Puffo, show the generally, and reminds its readers Indies and gentlemen your At that he is "above all, the man this he would go down on all fours. who, destined one day to direct thereby exposing the fact that the the greatest Empire in the seat of his baggy trousers was world, is silently, watching his marked as a target. Winter, or destiny approaching him. o anybody else would ämite him there,
The task he will undertake a crying:
super-human. Not only becausej ***How's that, "Puffo?' and he the British Empire covers half would respond:
the inhabited world, but also be "'Quite the Uperzudic, me- Lord)] cause the almost fanatical devo a meaningless tag that caught on tion of the British to the Crown and was the mot of the period
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IMPORTANT !!!
A GRAND DANCE
GIVEN BY THE
SHIP'S COMPANY
OF
H.M.S. BERWICK
BY KIND PERMISSION OF
CAPTAIN C. G. SEDGWICK
AT
HOTEL CECIL TUESDAY, DEC. 5.
Ladies are cordially invited FREE. Gents, admission $1.00. by ticket only
(Refreshments included).
AUGMENTED DANCE BAND
OF H.M.S. BERWICK IN ATTENDANCE.
SPECIAL LATE FERRY LEAVES FOR KOWLOON
AFTER DANCE.
DANCING 8.30 PM-1 A.M.
Tickets obtainable at
Hotel Cecil Enquiry Office, R.N. Canteen, and
Dance Secretary H.M.S. Berwick.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
ANNOUNCES A
FREE LECTURE
ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ENTITLAD:
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS,”"
BY
PETER V. ROSS, C.S.B. OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetta.
IN THE
ROOF GARDEN, HONG KONG HOTEL
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8th, 1933, AT 5.45 P.M.
A CORDIAL INVITATION IS EXTENDED TO ALL,
"RICKSHAW BRAND
bas made the King, about char-between Bot. Codlins and Dixie's [ CELEBRATED ters and constitutions, the ultim- Land.
jate arbiter, the one ruler, the "That is how Puffc Boatwright CEYLON
Sovereign through
through."
and used to keep the warmth in his Body! ng on thong bitter nights when the The beginnings of the Prince's wind whistled through the tent and [undéralanding, and sympathy the tan flew and the crowd roured with, pouples of other racesat. bint. Vesti la Giubbat I should so necessary in the future ruler think he wanted two Glubbas-one of a congregation of peoples” srajto put over his, anatomy, starved attributed to the months, hinto suppleness-one to hide his |spent in France in the home' of features, that betrayed the humani- the Marquis de Breteuil after ty of which his fellow humana made the completion of his naval such monstrous sport. training, Reuter
(Continued on Pane 10).
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