THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934.
THE AUSTRIAN GAMBLER
POSITION
Sir John Simon On British Attitude.
APPEAL TO LEAGUE
London, To-day.
The circumstances in which the joint Anglo-French-Italian 31- nouncement regarding the attitude
CLAIMS POLICE
INTIMIDATION
1
Case Adjourned For More Witnesses.
MAH JONGG ENTHUSIAST DISMISSED
Point.
THE CHINA MAILA
GODOWN COMPANY'S T-day's Short Story.
$907,993 PROFIT Working's Show Less
Than 1932.
$7 DIVIDEND AND 'BONUS
of $307,993.91 is shown in the re- S
COUNTRY BORN
By Eric Linklater.
A profit on the working of 1933 QIOMETIMES when it was by request, as restaurant orchestras growing late in the club complacently put it-he told his port and balance sheet of the Hong bar little O'Driscoll's voice would famous and shameless story of the At the Central Police Court Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Go-be heard in the richness of its fabulous Duchess of Kilkenny and of those countries towards Austria
This figure native brogue. At ordinary the mythical Major O'Gorman, was issued, last Saturday were re-this morning, Tong Yuk-shing, down Company, Ltd. ferred to by the Foreign Secretary, who was charged with keeping a represents a decrease of $216,523.01 times he spoke like ordinary "Sure, and is it a man ye are at all,
gaming house at the on the working profits of 1932. Sir John Simon, in reply to a House commen
mortals who have been educated] Major O'Gorman?" the Duchess West A dividend of 80 per share, plus in the ordinary English way, and asks at a critical stage of the hia- of Commons question, yesterday. Kam Ling Restaurant.
claimed that he was bonus of $1 per share, absorbing during business hours-he was tory; and there was the inherited The policy of the British Govern. ment regarding the independence of frightened into making a state-in all $560,000 out of the net profit in the Bombay office of the West wealth of all histrionic disdain in
for the year of $574,593.17, has been of India Bank-his sentences O'Driscoll's voice as he put the ques-] Austria. Sir John Simon said, was ment at the Police Station.
This was denied by the police recommended by the Directors. were sedulously clipped and his tion to his other hand. And when clearly stated in the aidememoire
Mr. Frank Austin and Mr. Allen intonation was as smooth as a the atory reached its appointed end handed to the Austrian Minister in and the Magistrate. Mr. E. W.
Case Cameron retire by rotation from the pebble.
a roar of laughter swelled and London, and was referred to in the Hamilton, adjourned the
But with one peg over the spread through the room, and shook House of Commons on February 13. until to-morrow at noon for fur Board, but will offer themselves for
ither witnesses..
re-election at the annual meeting of statutory eight a rhythin would the echoing glasses before it died On the following day, the French
Case Dismissed
shareholders which will be held at creep into his voice and a luxuriance away to chuckling ripples of mirth Ambassador in London suggested
room on into his syntax such as are familiar and the comparative silence of that the French and Italian Govern Yu Seng, another Chinese, Messrs. Jardine's board
to students of the Irish theatre.general talk. ments should join with the British who was charged with gambling March 2, at noon.
Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and There was almost certainly 1 in making a declaration on the same in the same room with the first lines, and Sir John Simon subse defendant. pleaded not guilty and Fleming and Messrs. Linstead and literary quality in the accent which quently informed those Governments stated that he was participating Davis will offer themselves for re-fell on him like a flame (will-c
election as the Company's auditors. the-wisp or pentecostal) that the British Government was in a game of Mah jongg only.
hour when well-behaved people have disposed to join in any statement
dressed for dinner, and the others are coming to the conclusion that! after another short one a steak at Green's would suit them better than anything else.
substantially the same as the one he
had himself made.
The joint statement was one of general principles and was specially limited by the words. "In accordance with relevant treaties."
further question In reply (4) a regarding the Government's At- tllude towards the appeal which
the Austrian Government had an- nounced its intention of making to the League of Nations, Sir John Simon said that they would re- frain from making any pronounce- ment in advance the subject of the dispute to which the appeal related-British Wireless Servico-
ANGLO-JAP TRADE
AGREEMENT.
Solution To Import Problems Urged.
London, To-day.
Taui Wan, a Chinese detective. I said that there were four per- FOG CAUSES DELAY sons sitting at a table, but could not say whether they were play- ing mah jongg or not.
The case against Ya Seng was then dismissed.
Bail Estreated
who
KRM-
Sixteen other Chinese were also charged with bling failed to appear in Court and their bail of $5 each estreated.
was
IN ARRIVALS.
Chitral Held Up This Morning.
com-
at that
And yet with a name like Jerry O'Driscoll can anyone blame a man
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Climax." by G. B. Lancaster.
But India is an unchancy land
for encouraging the gentle growth where you may drink cheerfully! SEA TRAFFIC STATIONERY.
of an Irish accent? It lent point to with a man one week and write let- A very heavy fog, which his stories, apparent subtlety to his ters of condolence to his widow the pletely enveloped Hong Kong and repartee, and a warmth to all his next, and on the Tuesday following the dinner, which was on a Sunday, the surrounding islands early this jokes.
O'Driscoll went to hospital, where O'Driscoll played inside-right for the morning, was responsible for
several the Gymkhana hockey XI with the the Civil Surgeon removed, or eva- ships, including the P. and O. liner, characteristic dash and brilliance of cuated, or did whatever was appro
Chitral, which arrived this an Irish forward, and on the day priate to, an abscess in his liver.
Jerry took his anaesthetic badly, they defeated the Poona team in the
LOCAL NEWS delay in the arrivals of
BREVITIES
8.2.
afternoon.
At about 5 o'clock this morning final of the Presidency Cup Tourna- and he had to be given more chloro- The Ordinary Yearly Meeting of ships were heard sounding their ment it was his goal, cleverly taken form and ether than a doctor eares the Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. fog horns and most of the sea traf- from a short corner, that won the to give. The operation was succes- ful, but there was anxiety in the will be held on Wednesday, March fie in and about Hong Kong became match five minutes from time.
There was a dinner afterwards-hospital after it, and a nurse was 14, and not on March 4 as stated in{stationery.
hilarious dinner--and O'Driscoll continually inside the barrier of tall yesterday's editions.
The fog eventually cleared slowly from about 8.15 a.m., and by about sang "The Wearing of the Green" blue screens which surrounded the A Memorial Service in honour 9.45 a.m. visibility was good.
and The Old Sidecar," and then-little man's bed.
He was very wenk when the of His Inte Majesty, King Albert
chloroform wore off, and when
of Belgium, will be held at St. NEURALIA ARRIVES
(Joseph's Church, Garden Road, at Dr. E. I. Burgin, the Parlia11 a.m. to-morrow. mentary Secretary to the Board of
Trade, was yesterday questioned Ladies' prizes for the Gay whether any joint action was being Nineties Ball next taken with
the to
Saturday are
IN HONG KONG.
Sails To-morrow.
H.M. Troopship Neuralia, carry-
Holland. The Dutch being exhibited in the lounge of East Indios. and the British Įthe Hong Kong Hotel. The gentle-ing details from Shanghai and the Colonies. with reference
men's prizes consial of eight North, arrived in port shortly after-| Japanese imports into those coun-bottles of Black Label whisky and noon to-day. She is expected to tries.
a portable gramophone.
sail for the United Kingdom vla He said that the Government de-
Singapore to-morrow morning.
Members of the staff of the BERWICK BACK FROM COCOA CONFERENCE Supreme Court conveyed their re-
EXERCISES.
MEMORIAL SERVICE Manderson, who lived with him, and
FOR DR. WU.
Shanghai Tribute Next Wednesday.
HONG KONG SERVICE ON 'MARCH 3.
who had been waiting at the hospi- tal most of the morning, tried to see him about mid-day he was told un-
easy things about saline injections and the danger of collapse. But thel saline did its work and later, when Manderson asked him how he felt, he said:
"Not half as bad as I did the dinner, It is reported from authoritative morning after the hockey
tem.
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ired that the question of Japanese Pleading not guilty to a charge In Hong Kong she will embark a circles in Shanghai that a memorial old man," and grinned fecbly be- competition in Europe and elsewhere of breaking the glass of a street number of time-expired men from service for the late Dr. C. C. Wu.neath the ice-pack balanced on his should, if possible, be dealt with by lamp in Kennedy Road, Tong Shu-the Lincolnshire and Borderers Re- the well-known Chinese diplomat, head, a direct agreement between the Bri-hoi a student of Wah Yan College, giments, a detachment of 150 men will be held in the new Chinese At night Jerry seemed stronger, tish and Japanese industrialists. was fined $25 by Mr. S. Balfour at from the Argyll and Sutherland Y.M.C.A. building, Boulvard def and in the morning he was cheerful Discussions to this end. be said. the Central Magistracy this morn-Highlandera, besides details from Montigny, next Wednesday. Afand comparatively comfortable. were now proceeding in London.-Ing.
other units stationed in the Colony large gathering of people at the But the following night his British Wireless Service,
service is expected.
perature ran
up suddenly, his Mr. Sun Fo will be present at breathing grew heavy and fast, and SPAIN HAS OWN the service.
his face was flushed and puffy. The memorial service for Dr. Wu What the doctors feared had hap- in Hong Kong will be held on pened, and pneumonia had set in. March 3, at the Chinese General
They telephoned to Manderson at Chamber of Commerce.
four o'clock in the morning, and when he arrived Jerry was breath- ing quickly from the mouth of a glass funnel with a length of rubber DESPERATE GANGS IN MADRID tubing connected to an oxygen cylin- der.
ADVOCATED.
Britain's Plan To Aid Trinidad Growers.
Londen, To-day.
gret at the impending departure of the Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, at e presentation made to him yes- terday afternoon on their behalf by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Registrar.
at
G
He was taken to
British Ships Tribute.
CHINESE BUYING SILVER
(Continued from Page 1)
"Wheat: Sentiment, is growing bearish and a new incentive is need-
There was liquidation:
"And what are ye doin' here at this time o' night?" said Jerry ex-| citedly, his eyes bright with fever,
"It's nearly breakfast-time, old
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ISTANBUL POLICE HAUL
H.M.S. Berwick of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron returned to port A Chinese, Foo Yik Keng, living this morning from her exercises.
West, was In the House of Commons, yester- at 570 Queen's Road
Owing to the funeral of the late knocked down by a motor-lorry in King of Belgium. all H.M. ships in day. the Under-Secretary for the
the harbour flew the Belgium en-| Colonles. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Belchers Street yesterday said that the Government consider [P.m., and received injuries to his sign at half mast.
have nothing on Spain's practics! steps face and legs.
To-day, being the anniversary ofjed.
professional mourners, whose Civil Hospital. the birthday of George Washington, "Cotton:
blackmailing activities are cocon producers in Trinidad was to The lorry failed to stop after theft is usual for all British Ships in for March. The market was quiet fellow," said Manderson pacífically. | press on arrangements for a general accident, and no report was made the harbour to be dressed, but in though there was constant European "The devil it is," said Jerry. attracting much attention in conference of all countries substan- to the police.
view of the late King of the Bel-interest and domestic and spinner"I've never seen such a rotten bon- the Madrid newspapers. gian's funeral, the order has been buying on a broader scale. Senti- dobast, as this since I came to
These people, who hire out single raid. ' superimposed.
ment was mixed."-Reuter.
since I came to India," he shouted; their services at funerals, have
ed that the most which they could take to assist the the Government
tially Interested in the production of cocon.-British Wireless Service.
HITLER GUEST AT BRITISH EMBASSY. Satisfactory Progress Claimed.
London, To-day. Chancellor Hitler, who conferred on Tuesday with the Lord of the
A debate will be held at the Y.M.C.A. this evening, on "that a University training does not suit- ably equip an individual for com mercial life." The motion will be proposed by two members of the the com-
Y.M.C.A. engaged in
mercial field, while the negative. side will be taken by two members (of the staff of the Hong Kong Uni-
versity.
Charged with stealing a fountain Privy Seal, Captain Anthony Eden,pen from Wong Chi-keung, a stu-} who is now in Berlin in connection dent, Lau Kan, appeared before with his tour to discuss Disarma-Mr. S. Balfour at the Central Ma- ment problems with the heads of gistracy this morning together the Government European Powers, with Leong Tong, who was charge was the guest at a luncheon givenjed with aiding and abetting. Wong, at the British Embassy.
who had a previous conviction Later Disarmament conversations | was remanded, and Lay, who were rosumed, and press reports pleaded not guilty was sentenced state that, in view of the satisfac- to three weeks' imprisonment. Lory progress made, Captain Eden
has decided to postpana kis depar» ] · The Amateur Dramatic. Company ture for Rome until, to-morrow, gave another first-class performance British. Wireless Service;
STEALING FISH
of Ten Minuta Alibi at the Royal Navy Canteen Theatre last night. Mrs. Evans, the only lady in the Appearing before Mr. S. Bal- cast, was excellent, while Gerald four at the Central Magistracy this Nigel excelled his former perfor morning, Chan Ki, a carrying ances in the role of the murderer. coolie was sentenced to two weeks' Philip, Bayly Jones and Kenneth imprisonment for stealing a fiab Kemble, the "educated policeman", * valued. #2 from a basket outside provide the best entertainment"in kỹ the Central Maricel yesterday, really well done play.
Sentenced to Jail in Majorca
and acquittad, Mr. and Mr.
who were charged with Inslšents „Palma, Majoren, are onde more in the tel
with unreasonable defiance; or
Istanbul.
The Istanbul police seized more than 80 lbs. of raw oplum and 35 lbs. of hashish when they raided a small sailing vessel which was an- chored in the Bosporus. This haul is one of the largest that has ever been made in a
All the crew were arrested and
a search is being made for their confederates ashore.
tried to shout, for his voice broke been a long established institu- and he whispered, “O God!" very tion in Spain.
Police are now keeping a sharp low, and then be semed to sleep a But in these days of progress look-out for drug amugglers. It little.
Manderson tiptoed out and sat in their trade is rapidly declining is becoming increasingly difficult for drug traffickers to carry on the waiting-room at the end of the and the professional mourners, their trade without being caught, ward. Across the verands the becoming desperate, now turn up-Reuter.
blackness of the night and the unasked
brightness of the stars were fading!
together; the sky was growing pale
I
Formidable gangs of them at
at the first distant threat of dawn. tach themselves to funeral pro-
He rang
up O'Driscoll's Burrs cession as they pass through Sahib, and Atkinson and another the street, walling loudly.
man or two who were his friends, Sometimes the relatives, of
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SCOTTISH CUP DRAW.
¡Continued from Pape 1).
Celtic, the holders, will visit
•
win, while Motherwell, Analista.
In
more because of loneliness than for the dead person pay them for St Mirren where they should anything they could do. They said their services. they would come down to the hospi- tal very soon. - - -
Sometimes they object.
last year, should also qualify for that case, the mourners threaten the Semi-Final when they en- Gradually the sky lightened, and to wreck the funeral, unless counter Albion Rovers, this sea
son's giant-killers."... grey that would turn in a minute money,
is forthcoming.
| St, Johnstone will meet Queen
to saffron took the place of dark generally is.
But sometimes the relatives of the South and may be forced ness. Manderson watched the day. coming with something of that and their friends show fight, to a home draw, in which case feeling with which one waited for One such case led to disgraceful they will probably lose the replay... | dawn - in- France during the war scenes in a Madrid street re
Pleading guilty to a charge of years. There was something like cently. fear and something like hope In his].
Threats turned to blows, and stenting an electric lamp, valued waiting. He thought at times at a free fight started round the at 50 cents, from the front of with the sun strength would come coffin." even' the bearers Joining studio in Queen's Road West, Wan perananya Tak, an unemployed coolie was to Jerry and that If he lived for one day he might live for another.
Continued en Paga 18)7:
Order was only restored by the sentenced to 2 weeks imprisonment arriyal of "a policeBou by Mr. B. Balfour at the Centr
Magistracy this morning,
tor: