FRIDAY, JANUARY 19
BIAS BAY PIRATES
AGAIN ACTIVE
Known Leader Caught At Shaukiwan.
GAOLED FOR ONE YEAR AS
RETURNED BANISHEE
Gangs from Bias Bay, the well-known pirate stronghold, are again reported to be active, with the approach of the Chinese New Year, and the arrest of an ex- banishee and well-known pirate) at Shaukiwan two days ago has caused the Police to keep a very close look-out for other members of the gang.
Information was recently re- ceived of the departure from Bias Bay of several pirate gangs heading for Canton and Macao, with the obvious intention of raid- ing ships visiting Hong Kong and the southern coast ports.
The present state of affairs in Fukien has resulted in the lower part of the Province being de nuded of troops, one check on the activities of the pirates thus be ing removed.
The informacion received, how- ever, is not considered serious enough to warrant more than the issue of
a general warning to ships visiting the Colony.
Known Pirate Arrested
The receipt of the information was followed by the smart ur- rest at Shaukiwan of an ex- banisher named Wong Tin,
3
cargo-bont muster, and a well. known figure to the police, who
1934,
Austria's Dictator.
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the diminutive Dictator of Aus- tris, arriving for the League of Nations meeting at Geneva.
was convicted in April, 1931. of AUSTRO-GERMAN
attempted piracy in connection
with the 8.8. Hang Sang and the: 8.8. Soochow off Pedro Blanen Point. The conviction, however,
was quashed at the Supreme
RIFT
THE CHINA MAIL
BRITISH STEAMER Today's Short Story.
LOST IN GALE
Entire Crew Perish.
مجيد
NINE BODIES; WASHED ASHORE
London, To-day,
HONOUR
AMONG
THIEVES
OU take it from me that
By Peter Cheyney.
E was a curious feller, was
You can take honour amony Alonzo, an' also 'o ad an idea that
thieves somebody is a-goin to it might be worth is while to know get hurt. Don't I know it? If I just what was goin' on, because 'adn't tried to make a bit on the neither of the three fellers liked side in the last job I pulled I 'im particularly, an' Phelpy Trim- shouldn't 'ave got pinched at all. mett 'ated 'im liked 'ell.
the feller I was workin' with, an' some 'spider keys out of 'Is pocket I tried to make a bit extra over "So 'e took a chance. 'E pulled he found out an' shopped me an' tries 'em on the door, an three minubes 'e 'ad. It open that's all.
in
an'
Ten men, forming the officers and crew of the London' steam- ship Oakford,879 tons, lost their lives after their vessel had been driven aground by high seas and strong wind in Wednesday night's fierce gale. Lifeboats went to the Oakford's aid, but could not approach until {next morning.
Apparently the men aboard, feat ing that the vessel was breaking up, took to one of the ship's boats "If you're a crook you've got to slipped up the stairs. Luckily for r'im, there was nobody else in the during the night. It is assumed be a good crook an' no nonsense. that the boat capsized, for nine always say that a crook 'as rot to l'ouse and the three ad left the door bodies were yesterday washed l'ave a greater sense of honour than of the room they was in slightly!
ja legitimate citizen.
Alonzo, "-standin”, outside, "Did you ever 'ear of a faller could 'ear everything.
"Trimmett was talkin'. named Alonzo Ferrers? You didn't. Well, let me tell you that ?e was the ""Listen,' 'e said.' *Directly ra greatest crook that ever used a pair been in the place for a month I of rubber gloves, an' I always old knew. that I couldn't do the job. im up as bein' a good reason as to The bracelet I was after was kept why there ought to be fair dealin' in a strong-room with a steel door. between crooks. Yes, I'll tell you
| ashore.—British Wireless Service,
WORLD'S LARGEST GRAVING DOCK.
King George V Dock Opened.
INCREASING TRADE OF
SOUTHAMPTON.
London, To-day.
about it.
*
*
apen,
got a job as butler there four months ago, but, I knew that I couldn't open that strong-room door, anyway.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Dressing Up," by W. R. Burnett.
"One night, not so many years ago, Alonzo was walkin' along Ox-! ford-atreet, when, just in front of The King George V Graving Dock'im, a BKW Phelpy Trimmett. is the largest in the world, 1,200 Now, Phelpy was lookin' as smug feet long, 135 feet wide, and 59 feet and respectable as anythin', an' deep from cope to floor.
Alonzo, 'oo was a'wise bird, wonder It holds 200,000 tons of water and ed what the game was, because 'e Can accommodate a vessel of 100.000 knew that Phelny was a first-class tons, if one so huge is ever built.
burglar 'oo never took any trouble! -- The King opened Southampton's over 'is personal appearance unless new dock scheme last July. Yester-it was worth while.
"But just as I was goin' to give day the Chairman of the Southern "So, Alonzo, 'oa was wearin' the thing up I noticed Railway, which is responsible for dinner-jacket an' lookin' like twenty
somethin'. I noticed Alonzo about the Dollfuss Threatens To this great development of the Port thousand a year, goes after Phelpy Ferrers hangia
of Southampton stated that under just to see what is little game was, place. I asked myself why s every head of their business at an' It wasn't long before 'e got an-should be down in a deserted part Southampton the Southern Railway other surprise. Out of a side of the country takin' photographs | would show increased figures for turnin' comes Jack the Rattler-thelofa duke's country "ouse, an I 1938 over the previous year.-Bri-feller 'oo pulled the Manville Dia-jdidn't 'ave to ask myself long. 'E tish Wireless Service.
mond. job, an' with 'Im little was after that bracelet, an", let me Freddy Jacquard, the MAR
with tell you, 'e can get it! There's no one eye an" no system of thievin' at (strong-room door ever made that alle just done anythin' that came could stand up against Alonzo Fer- j'is way.
|rora. "As usual, 'e 'was spyin' out "Alonzo knows that those threathe land; photographin' the fellers 'ate each other like poison, and generally plannin' the job. an, therefore, where sees em go" Then I got an idea. A lovely off together 4 knows that there's {{den, I've got it in for Ferrers an" some particularly dirty work stoot so 'aye you, Jack, an' no 'ave you, "Presently the three of em: tarn Fraddy. We all want to get back
Use Force.
NAZI BOMB EXPORTS
Vienna, To-day.
Court on a point of law, and Wong Tin. after serving his term of im- prisonment as a returned ban- ishee, was Яent out of the Colony.
The Police are convinced that his visit was in connection with Hopes that the visit of Signor|
Intended piracy, but they Suvich, the Italian Under-Secre- have not been able to arrest any tary for Foreign Affairs, who ar- other members of his gang, who rived here yesterday morning and are believed to have made a hasty who had a long cordial conver- exit from the Colony.
sation with Chancellor Dollfuss,
an
A rumour was current a few would coincide with the declara- days ago of the visit to Shauki-tton of Austro-German pence,
wan nt a strange cargo-boat were shattered by a speech made from Bins Bay with a load of by Dr. Dollfuss, in which he de- pigs. The vessel, however, madejclared that Austria was at the A sudden departure the same end of its patience. night.
Wong Tin, was charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-| tran Police Court this morning as a returned banishee.
His criminal record showed
He was determined to re- store order with all force, not counting the cost, since their restrained methods were misunderstood. They had proof that German
WHITE STAR AND CUNARD MERGER.
Agreement Almost Completed.
NORTH ATLANTIC ASSETS ONLY INVOLVED.
London, To-day. Speaking at the Inauguration of the King George V Graving Dock at Southampton yesterday, Lord) Essendon, Chairman of the White Star Lino, referred to the agro-
that he was imprisoned in 1925 materials for bombing attacks ment between the Cunard and White
1929.
for possession of arms, and ban had come across the frontier, but conclusion of certain formalities be
Star Lines which pow awaits the ished for ten years in February, he hoped that the reasonable fore coming into operation.
He was again arrested elements of the Nazi camp would, and convicted in April. 1931, in the long run, that their method with twelve others in connection was wrong. with an attempted piracy and' once more banished.
He pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to one year's hard labour.
STERILISATION OF
UNFIT.
Recommendations By Committee.
London, To-day, Among the principal recommen. dations of the report of the depart mental committee on the sterilisa tion of the unfit published last night| are that, subject to safeguards, voluntary sterilisation. should be legalised in the case of a person who' is mentally defective or who has auffered from mental disorder, a person who suffers from or is be lieved to be the career of grave physical disability, which has been shown to be transmissible, and person who is belleved to be likely to transmit mental disorder or de- fect-British Wireless Service,
BRITISH BOXING
TITLE.
Mizler Beats Cuthbert On Points,
London, To-day. Harry Mizler (London) La the new British lightweight boxing champion, se pardon Last night at the Albert Hall he outpolated Johnny Cuthbert (Shef field), the holder, over 15 rounds ----- Reuter
Cuthbert won his title from. Al Foreman in April of last year, and has been besten, twich on the Con- tinent in recent months,
Reuter.
FAILURE OF TULSA TRUST COMPANY.
off into a side turnin' an' ge-ints or 'im some'ow, an' 'ere's the way a 'ouse.
Alonzo watches an' sees (we can do it. the light go up in one of the first- floor rooms.
'I'm butler down at the oust an' they trust me, and I'm on the (spot. It's a stons ginger that Fer-
rers is goin' to come down an", get, that bracelet pretty soon. Now 'e'a
three of us ought to be able to l'andle, 'im...
REGIMENTAL CAMP a pretty tough customer, but the
MOVEMENTS.
Sun Wai Changes Next Month.
'My idea is this. You two tel-j lers come down an: stay somewhere In the village, just so as to keep an eye open. Then, directly Ferrers
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NOTHING LIKE IT EVER AGAIN !!
AT
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OWING to the mildness of the
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FOR LONDON
Tel. 22170.
BRITISH POST OFFICE
£11,000,000 Surplus.
RECORD YEAR TO MARCH LAST
London, To-day. The Postmaster-General, Sir
He said it was intended that the North Atlantic assets of the two Companies should be transferred to a new Company, but in every other respect the two Companies would talion maintain their separate entities,
He hoped and believed that both Regiment will return from their for a day or two before e pulis 25 Bankers And Oil Menampton would benefit from these king Barracks at Shamshuipo,
Companies and the Port of South-Camp at Sun Wal to occupy Nan the job off. E'll wait for a dark Elderly Digger's Find
night.
In South Africa. "Wanted."
***When's comes along to do the arrangementa, - British
Wireless while at the same time the lat job we'll all be waitin' for 'im. Bervice.
Battalion The Lincolnshire Rerl We'll let 'im get the strong-room
London, To-day. Tulsa, Oklahoma, To-day.
ment will proceed to Sun Wal to open an get the bracelet. We'll let Press messages from South Warrants have been issued for
earry out their annual training.
Im get out of the 'ouse, and when Africa state that a pure white, |the arrest of 25 oil men and bank-
The journey will be made one gets into the grounds we'll grab flawless, diamond, weighing 726 Kingsley Wood, at Belfast yester- jers In connection with the failure
foot, the march being scheduled to im. We'll ave a car standin' by, carats, found by an elderly digger day said he was about to present (in March, 1938, of the Exchange H.M.S. Berwick which left Foo- take about. eight hours.
an' you two can take 'im orf an' named Jonker at Elandsfontein, Trust Company.
chow at 1 o'clock yesteray after- An advance party, consisting of keep. 'Im in Jacquard's "ouse in Cam-which is 20 miles from Pretoria,
to Parliament the commercial ac- Allegations of embezzlement are noon, is expected to arrive in one Company of the Lincolnshires, berwell. in the charge.-Reuter.
Hong Kong late this evening. Heave Shamshuipe to-morrow..
The first picture of Prep Secretary of Stafa”: Willinen t Attorney General Homer 8. Como
Roper; and Bacretary of Labour, Mi
BERWICK EXPECTED TO-NIGHT
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President Roosevelt And His Cabinet.
(Continuich on, Duan 101.
has been bought by Sir Ernést Op-counts of his Department for the penheimer, Chairman of the Dia year ended March last, which mond Corporation, and is being sent would show there had been to London, S Bapak me achieved a pet surplus, after The reported price is £70,000,- charging interest on capital, of, A second stone, weighing 237 over £11,000,000 over the previ❤ carats, which was found near the ous year, which was a record in same spot a few days ago, has al the history of the British Post
Office been bought by Sir Ernest Oppen-
Sir Kingsley remarked that heimer,
Elandsfontela is three miles from there were doubtless many ad-.. the point where the famous Cullinan mirable ways in which the sur- Diamond, weighing 8,025 carats and the point of helping trade, and [plus could be utilised, but from the largest in the world, was found business and of mitigating un
| in 1905,--British Wireless Service,
EGYPTIAN SCOUT HONOURED
Rescued Boy From Flooded Nile.
HIGHEST AWARD FOR.
GALLANTRY:
employment, relief of the burden. of general taxation, to which this sum in effect contributed, was no doubt rightly regarded at pre-. sent as of paramount importance.
-British Wireless Service.
Khidr from drowning In the Nile.. They were bathing when Khidr got cramp and lost his head. #Tan? Immediately want to the rescue'kl- though the Nile was almost in fall flood at the time and the current was reaching a speed of between 19 and 20 mils an hour, den-Powell, the Chief After four or five attempta hin bestowed the Bronze managed to drag Khidr to the bank foz and began artificial respiration; al- the Boy, Beout moves though almost exhausted himself. Alk patrol leader of
long time Khidr showed no
sarver
won; this: honour by his untily finally
rasuing a boy /^mamedi cover