SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1934.
SEASICK
"PIRATES
ARRESTED
Three Men Steal
Luxury Yacht.
MAD ESCAPADE AT CAPE TOWN |
Cape Town.
Three cowed and seasick *pirates" were arrested on the high scas, 40 miles off Cape Town. by, a posse of armed Docks Police, who set off aboard a tug to bring back the £3,500 luxury yacht Bol- lowe'en stolen from the Docks in the dead of night.
The three men-a Lithuanian, a Frenchman and, a South African- were lodged in gaol and it is under- stood that they will have to face a charge framed on the lines of that preferred against car thieves; the theft of the motor yacht Hallowe'en yor altérnatively using the yacht without the owner'a permission.
The mind escapade of the three young men was planned when they first read accounts of the building of the Hallowe'en, £3,500 Bermuda ketch-rigged yacht. Knowing that the owner intended
a
to make a long voyage in the yacht.
Government Tank Moves Against
The new Fascist Mayor of Vienna, Herr Schmitz (left)- ple- tured with other government officials as he inspected the Heimwehr guard at City Hall, after the Socialist Mayor, Karl Seitz, had been arrested.
Short Story.
Extradited From Bohemia
-
By 0. Henry.
Me Medora chose the Vorte and thereby furnishes us with our little story.
ROM near the village of Har
mony, at the foot of the Green Mountains, came as Medora Martin to New York with Professor Angelini praised her her colour-bon and easel.
sketches excessively. Once when Miss Medonesembled the rose she had made a nest study of a which the innal frosts had horse-chestnut tree in the park he spared the longest of all her sister declared she would become a blossoms. In Harmony, when she second Rosa Bonheur. Again--n started alone to the wicked city to great artist has his moodshe study art, they said she was would say cruel and cutting mad, reckless. headstrong girl. In things. For example, Medora New York, when the first took her had spent an afternoon patiently seat at West boarding house sketching the status and the archi- table, the boarders asked: "Who tecture at Columbus Circle. Tosa- is the nice-looking,old maid???! E Ing it aside with a sneer, the pro- Medora took heart, cheap, hall fessor informed her that Glotte bedroom, and two art lessons had once drawn a perfect circle week from Professor Angelini, with one sweep of his hand. retired barber who had studied his One day it rained, the weekly re- profession in a Harlem dancingmittance from Harmony was over- academy. There was no one to due, Medora had a headache, the set her right, for here in the big professor had tried to borrow two city they do it unto all of us. How dollars from her, her art dealer many of us are badly shaved daily had sent back all her water-colours and taught the two-step imperfect unsold, and-Mr. Binkley asked ly by ex-pupils of Bastien Le Page her out to dinner. and Gerome? The most pathetic
the three men imagined that she H.M.S. CORNFLOWER LOCAL NEWS eight in New York-except the
would be stocked with fuel, water
and food as soon as she was finish-
ed.
The yacht was stolen in the dead of night and despite an intensive search by two air taxia the next! day the yacht could not be traced. Eventually the steamer Port Victor,
raced
HANDED OVER.
H.K. Naval Defence Force Inspected.
TO-DAY'S CEREMONY
and
BREVITIES
manners of the rush-hour crowds - the dreary march of the hope- less army of Mediocrity.
and
Here Are is no benignant god- There will be a Dinner Dance dess, but a Circe who turns her at Repulse Bay Hotel to-day and a wooers into mewing Toms Tea Dance to-morrow at 4.30 p.m. Tabbies who linger about the doorsteps of her abode, unmindful
Cathedral
of
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "When I Shut My Door," by A. P. Garland.
In A
Was
no
In response to a wireless request from the Port Captain's depart- The H.M.S. Cornflower was offi-
The monthly meeting of the of the flying brickbats and boot- ment for all shipping to keep a look-clally handed over to the Colonial Chinese General -Chamber
jacks of the critics. Some of us
Mr. Binkley was the gay boy of out for the yacht, reported sight- Government for use by the
Kong Naval Defence Force 8 nesday at 3 pm, at the Chamber's so;" but most of us prefer to re-
Hong Commerce will be held next Wed-creep back to our native villages the Ing the yacht.
boarding-house. He to the skim-milk of "I told you forty-nine, and owned a fish-stall The tug, T. S. McEwen,
drill ship by Commodore Frank building.
main in the cold courtyard of our after six o'clock he wore an even- out by
down-town market. But a piece of praise-worthy Elliott, O.B.E, at 11.30 a.m. to-day. navigation.
The Cornflower paid off at 8
mistress's temple, snatching the "Dead reckoning brought her to o'clock this morning, and on Thurs held to-morrow at 3.30 p.m. at the table d'hote.
A Thanksgiving Service will be scraps that fall from her divine connected with the beaux arts. ing suit and whooped things up the position quoted in the
Port day the Senior Naval Officer, Capt. Roman Catholic
E. H. G. Benson went aboard and honour of the Canonization of the last of the fruitless service. And accomplished habitue of the inner Victor's wireless message; and a
in But some of us grow weary a dian." He was supposed to Be an The young men said he was an "In- few minutes later the crew espled thanked the Captain, Officers
Church's beloved founder, St. John then there are two fates open to circles of Bohemia. It was a faint glint of light almost dead men for their services while on the Bosco.
China Station, wishing them God-|
us. We can get a job driving a secret that he had once loaned 10 speed, and a pleasant journey home.
grocer's
wagon, or
we can get dollars to a young man who bad Blck And Sorry Sallors
The R.M.S. Empress of Canada, swallowed Accompanied by a guard of Royal
up in the Vortex of Forty miles off shore, steaming Marines and the Marine Band of which arrived at Vancouver on Bohemia. The latter sounds good Often has one
had a drawing printed in "Puck." with doused navigation lights, the the H.M.S. Cumberland the Commo. Wednesday, is due to leave that but the former really pans ou entree into the charmed circle while thus obtained his tug came on the Hallowe'en lurch dore went aboard at 11.30 a.m., and, Port on April 7 and is expected to better. For when the grocer hays the other obtained both his entree ing in a fair sea. Her cabin lights after inspecting the cadets of the arrive in the Colony on April 27, jus off we can rent a dress-sult and were on, but her decks were bare Hong Kong Naval Defence Force,
the capitalised system. of of crew.
The Concert Party from H.M.S. humour describes who were paraded on the quarter-
it best-Get A hail of "Ahoy!" brought no deck he handed the vessel over to
Eagle will provide variety pro-Bohemia on the Run. reply; and only after the tug's the Colonial Government, and the gramme of entertainment at the siren had been sounded did threef Colonial colours were hoisted
European Y.M.CA. in Kowloon on figures come up from the hatchway 11.45 am,
Monday evening, commencing at 9: o'clock.
ahead.
to stand blinking in the ray of the.
searchlight.
That was at 9.30 p.m. It was not "BOTANY BAY” until midnight that the tug was
ready to tow Hallowe'en back to
Table
Bay. First Det.-Head
across by lifeboat
to arreat the
PORTUGAL
at
Charged with taking part in an FOR armed robbery at 67 Lockhart
Constable Lubbe and his men went Communist Labour Build New City.
COLONISATION IN AFRICA
three men and bring them back to the tug. Then a tow-rope had to be taken out and a "prize crew" put| aboard. At 4.20 a.m. prisoners and capturers were back at the Docks.
Sick and sorry for themselves,
Road on January 2, Wong Yung, unemployed was committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessiona
and roast.
The other boarders enviously re- garded Medora as she left at Mr. Binkley's side at the nine o'clock. She was as sweet as a cluster of dried autumn' grasses in her pale blue-oh-er-that very thin stoff
OPEN AIR EASTER-in her pale blue Comstockized
SERVICE
On S. C. A. A. Ground On Monday
silk waist and box-pleated volle skirt, with a soft pink glow on her thin cheeks and the tiniest bit of rouge powder on her face, with her. handkerchief and room key in her brown walrus, pebble-grafo hand- bag.
Toby Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the
Central Magistracy on Thursday.
An Open-Air, Morning Service, And Mr. Binkley looked impos. the Arst of its kind to be pro-ing and dashing with his red face The "Writera' Ramble Around moted in the Colony, will be held and grey moustache, and his tight. the World" party, which is being at the South China Athletic Field, dress-coat, that made the back,pf personally conducted by Miss Caroline Hill, on Monday morning his neck roll up just like a suc- Melita O'Hara, a prominent at 8 o'clock. Portuguese Communists are to American journalist, sportswoman
cessful novelisťs. Mr. S. C. Leung, acting general They drove in a cab to the Cafe)
Lisbon.
the three men admitted to the police he employed that they had planned to make for hundreds of men who were arrest-this morning by the NY.K. Haer Y.M.C.A.. Shanghai will be the ing part of Broadway, which as as colonisers. The and traveller, will leave the Colony secretary of the National Chinese Terrence just off the most glitter-
recent Hakone Maru for Europe.
South America and to beach the ed for their part in the Hallowe'en, there. They had been riding are to be sent to a concen
principal speaker at the Service. everyone knows, is one of the shocked when the adventure wasitration camp well under way to find their englas Africa, to lay the foundation of a petition from certain Resident and yan will say the prayers and read Bohemian resorts in the city.
in Angloa, West
Mr. Wat Lok-hing will be the most In connection with the recent Chairman, and the Rev. Lee, Kau patronised, jealously
popular and widely stop. The service tank had run new city.
exclusive dry of petrol, and they knew no
Landlords in the Colony regarding the scriptures.get thing about the reserve tank. They the mouth of the River Cunene. Government has decided that as a Church, under the able leader-Green Mountains, after her escort.
The camp is to be established at the chargen for excess water, the
Down between the rows of little The choir from St. Paul's tables trippad Medora, of the were foodless, but for the remains Native labour will be employed to temporary. measure of rellef a re-ship of Mr. Andrew Chan, and the Thrice in a lifetime may woman of a lost and one pound of butter help the convicts. Town planning bate of 10 per cent, shall be grant Chiness which they had brought. they were not experienced, small with them.
And experta and architects are to sailed on all new bills for excess Band, under the direction of Mr. trippeth to the altar, once when Y.M.C.A.Ambulance walk upon clouds-once when she boat sailors-Router.
water issued on or after to Y. Lee, will be in attendance, School teachers, doctors, mis-morrow slonaries and administrative of ficials will be appointed from
An attractive souvenir pro Portugal, and the wives and chil-gramme is being issued for the St. dren of the prisoners will be al-John Ambulance Annual Charity lowed to accompany the expedi. Ball which is to be Keld on Satur
There was a table set, with three day, April 7, at the Hong Kong Mendelssohn's Oratorio: "Elljah" neighbour in her hand.
The Easter Choral Service from or four about it. A waiter buzzed A water supply on modern lines, Hotel at 9 p.m. under the dietin will be rendered at the Hong Kong around it like a bee, and aliver and factories for canning dah and guished patronage of HE the Union Church at 6 p.m. to-morrow, and glass shone upon it. And, fruit, are included in the plans, It Governor and Lady Peel, with the Mr. G. E. Longyear acting as preliminary to the meal, it hoped to grow wheat, fruit and Hon. Sir William Shenton as Pre Organist and Choir Master. Mrs. prehistorie granits strata heralded vegetables for export-Reuter. nident.
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head of the
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Karlsbad Prison.
last Baturday,
book
Easter Choral ervice At Union Church
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