WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
CASE AT SESSIONS
Two Of Three Plead Guilty.
Charged with attempted robbery at No.-60, Wanchai Road on March 3. Cheung Po-hung and Fong Kwai pleaded guilty and Yo Chung not guilty before the Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. A. D. A. McGregor at the Criminal Sessions at the Su preme Court this morning.
Cheung und Yu face further charges of unlawful possession of arms and ammunition, and a wea-} pon and ammunition, respectively.
The first two accused were ar- rested by Detective Sergeant Fit ches in the act of entering the house, Yu being captured in the street. Cheung had in his posses- sions a revolver and ammunition and Yu carried, a tear gas pistol with cartridges..
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After hearing the evidence of the Detective Sergeant Fitches,
adjourned until this
case
was
afternoon.
THREE DEPORTEES RETURN.
All Plead Guilty At Sessions.
Three Chinese pleaded guilty to charges of breach of deporta tion ordinances at the Criminal: Sessions this morning before the
the Hon. Mr.. Chief Justice. A. D. A. McGregor Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Attorney General, pen. secuted, and the prisoners were not represented.
A Bow From Nazi Dictator
With apparent humility Chancellor Adolf Hitler bows luw over the hand of President Paul von [findenburg during celebration that marked "War Heroes' Day" in Berlin. Hitler, former army corporal, is the real ruler of Germany, while the Field Marshal-President has been relegated to the position of figurehead.
THE
Commons Cheer Speech
(Continued from Page 1.
Details Of Budget. storing in full, from July 1 next, the Mok Kau. alias Ho Yau, was sentenced to two years' had lajuts made in 1931 in the allowances
verted into 2 per cent, conver-
sion loan or conversion bonds. The net reduction in the nominal total of deadweight debt on the year was £21,500,000.
CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story;"
ANCIENT LIGHTS
ROM Southwater, where he left the train, the road led due west. That he knew; for the rest he trusted to luck, being one of those born walkers who dislike asking the way. He had that instinct,, and as a rule it served him well.
By Algernon
Blackwood.
Keeping a sharp eye for the stile, he pounded along,, while the wind toased the cloak ngainst his face). and made 'waves across the blue puddles in the yellow road. The trees showed their under leaves of white. The bracken and the high new grass bent all one way. Great life was in the day, high spirits and dancing everywhere. And for ja Croydon surveyor's clerk “justj out of an office this was like a holiday at the sea.
"A mile or so due west along the sandy road till you come to a stile on the right; then, across the fields.
It was a day for high adventure, You't see the red house straight and his heart rose up to meet the before you." He glanced at the mood of nature. His umbrella) postcard's, instructions once again, with the silver ring ought to have been a sword, and his brown shoes and once again he tried to de- cipher the scratched-out sentence -without success. It had been so elaborately inked, over that no word was legible. Inked-out sen- tences in a letter were always en- ticing. He wondered what it was that had to be so very carefully obliterated.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be **The Judgment of Paris,” by Leonard Merrick.
took him
sur-
The afternoon was boisterous,
should have been, top-boots with with a tearing, shouting wind that
spurs upon the heels. Where did blew from the seg, across the the enchanted
the castle and Sussex weald. Musalve clouds princess with the hair of sunny with rounded, piled-up edges, xold? His horse..
The stile came auddenly into cannoned across gaping spaces of
view and nipped adventure in the blue sky. Far away the line of bud. Everyday clothes Downs swept the horizon, like an prisoner again. He was a arriving wave. Chanctonbury Ring veyor's clerk, middle-aged, earning rode their crest-a scudding ship, three pounds a week, coming from hull down before the wind.
Croydon to see about client's WAR DEBT POLICY
He took his hat off and walked proposed alterations in a wood- Turning to the prospects for the rapidly, breathing great draughts something to ensure a better view future, Mr. Chamberlain said that of air with delight and exhilara- from the dining-room window. neither last year nor the year before tion. The road was deserted; no Across the fields, perhaps a mile had he made provision either for the horsemen, bicycles, or motors; not away, he saw the red house gleam- reduction in tax on private cars payment of the war debt to America even a tradesman's cart; no single ing in the sunshine; and resting horse-power or for the receipt of war debts or walker. But anyhow he would on the stile a moment to get his breath he noticed a copse of oak Mo Cheung, angther niner! with a previous record. dating from January 1 text, with a corres-reparations by Britain, and in the peter have asked the way.
and hornbeam on the right. absence of any farther development
"Aho," he told himself, "so that must be the wood he wants to cúti
view. I'll ave a look at it." There were boards up, of course, but there was an inviting little path as well, "I'm not a trespasser." he said;; "it's part of my business, this Is.", He scrambled awkwardly over the
hour for returning to the Colony to unemployed, and in restoring from on March 24, after being deport the same date, half of the pay cuts ed for 10 years en April 5, 1929 also made in 1931. "Defendant had a previous racoro,
having been convicted twice be fore for the safe offence, the last time being in 1929.
The Chancellor also proposed
from 1 to 15/- per
a
back to 1924, was sentenced to ponding reduction for motor-cycles. he proposed to follow the same line two years' hard labour. He re- He announced the re-adjustment this year. He said that the fixed turned to the Colony on March 30, after having been deported on of the preference on Colonial sugar debt charge would stand at July 10, 1933.
third successive
000,000.
£224,"CURVES ARE BETTER down to improve the
THAN ANGLES”:
Among the items of expenditure he mentioned that the continued de-
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and new duties on patent leather and The third prisoner, Lo Kwai hydro-carbon oil. was sentenced to 18 months' hard This was the
cline in unemployment enabled Mae West's Advice labour for returning to the Col-{ ony on March 30, having been year in which Mr. Chumberlain had saving, compared with last year, of
To Girls banished for 10 years on March presented the Budget. 11, 1933.
R.A.F. FLYING BOATS AGAIN DELAYED.
Not Taking Off To-day For Hong Kong
£10.688,000. Provision had to be
gate and entered the copne. A
the field again."
He recalled that in 1932, many made for such measures as a slum dark clouds still hang around the clearance campaign, better market-HOW TO HOLD YOUR MAN little round would bring him tó
Last year, although the ing for agriculture products, and horizon. outlook was distinctly brighter, there improvements in a rural water sup-| was no settled feeling that they had pilies.
During the last year, evidence
was justified in expecting a larger
on
Hollywood. But the moment he passed Mae Westthe "I'm no Angel" among the trees the wind ceased stillness dropped reached fine weather. To-day, how- But, taking a reasonable optimis-film star-gives this advice to girls shouting and a
upon the world. So dense was the fever, the atmosphere was completely the view of the course of trade, he on how to "get your man."
come brighter.
"Circulate a bit." Staying at growth that the sunshine
through only in isolated patches. of yield from all the most important home is no use; improvement had continued to accu-Fources of revenue.
"Turn on all the attractions in The air was close. He mopped his a small but dis-
forehead and put his green felt Owing to continued adverse malete. There was
the book; weather conditions the flight of tine! rise in wholesale prices, rates of COLONIAL SUGAR PREFERENCE short-term interest had achieved new
"The surest way to lose him lahat on, but a low branch knocked he the three Supermarine-South low records, and the position of long-
it off again at once, and as Dealing with the preference
to nag him.
swung ampton machines of the 205th term loans bad improved to such an colonial sugar he said that. in
stooped an astic twig back and stung his face. Flying Squadron. R.A.F., has extent that stocks, such as the old 2%
with agreement
Sir Philip Consols, Betually stond higher to-day been further postponed.
Cunliffe - Lister, the Colonial "The machines will not take than before the War.
Industrial production had very Secretary, he had proposed a new "A curve will go farther than an edges of the little path; glades off for Hong Kong to-day. much improved and equilibrium
an had scheme which would benefit to the angle in adding one's charm-and opened elther side; ferns Squadron-Leader CR. Keary, been restored in the country's balance Colonies of about the same value your health and happiness.” curved about in damp corners, and O.C., at the R.A.F. Base, Kai of payments. Statistics, of such things
"The best way to hold a man is the smell of earth and foliage was Tak, told the China Mail this as retail trade, consumption of elec-an those they had been receiving,!
cooler tricity, transport, iron and steel pro-but which would permit the traffic in your arms," she says laughingly. rich and sweet. It was Tuorning.
enchanting little duction and house, building. In every in sugar to flow freely, either to Mae West by the way, does not here. What an case showed a revival of activity.
The three machines, under the
command of Group-Captain S. W.
Smith, left Singapore on April 2,
in Manila on Monday, April 9, and
and Icos Sur.
There are thirteen men
Personal Pars.
"Asla to-day.
1.
Let him think he is right when
he is wrong
"Be feminine;
4
There were flowers along both
Al this. combined with the substan- Canada or Britain, in accordance smoke: "It would make a woman of wood, he thought, turning - down tial surplus with which the financial with the normal demands of trade, my type seem hard," she explains.
This they expected to |yeur had ended, had established in the
CHEAPNESS OF INTEREST
300,000 tons
accom-
Wak
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
Lorry Driver Leaves Victim In Road. WEEK'S FORMAL REMAND
+
circumspectly
a small, green glade, where, the sunshine flickered like silver and have visited Bornes and the men's minds a new spirit of hope and plish by the reduction of the
wings. How it danced and flatter- Philippine Islands. They arrived confidence.
general preference on all colonial
ed and moved about! He put a Certain unpleasant facts, how-sugar to the old rate of 3 shillings
dark blue flower in his buttonhole. left on Sunday last for Salomaguejever, still had to be reckoned with and nine
Again his hat, caught by an oak pence per hundred- before their troubles were ended. weight, and by replacing the
branch as he rose, was knocked aboard Improvement in the country's posi- quota. A preference, which
from his head, falling across his the three machines..and one of the tion was due almost entirely to the given on a limited but varied
eyes. And this time he did not objects of the trip is to enable expansion of the home market, and amount, by the new quota, pre-
put it on again. Swinging his Group-Captain' Smith to inspect the export trade, although better, was ference of 3. shillings per hundred-
umbrella he walked on with un- R.A.F. Base here.
still far behind the figures reach-weight upon a fixed amount of ed only a few years ago.
covered head, whistling rather loudly as he went. But the thick per annum. This Great Britain had now regained schedule would be over a period
ness of the trees hardly encour~ her place as the first exporting of three years.
A charge of manslaughter was aged whistling, and something of Tam Chuen, his gaiety and high spirits seemed Mr. C. D. Culbertson returned to country, but the channels through
Regarding the reduction in the preferred against the Colony by the 3.8. Empress of which trade formerly flowed so tax on horsepower, the Chancellor alias Tam Kwong, a motor-lorry to leave him. He suddenly found
freely were still diminished.
said that the motorcar industry driver, before Mr. E. W. Hamilton himself treading had in recent years increased its at the Central Police Court this and with cauton. The stillness in The forthcoming wedding of Mr.
production phenomenally, bot that morning in connection with the the wood was so peculiar.
death of Chiú. Tong, a Augusto A. Mattis, a clerk at the The Chancellor said that 'twelve British manufacturers were finding
woman, There was a rustle among the Mercantile Bank of India, of No. 68, months ago he had to report a de some difculty in meeting with the aged 50, who was knocked down ferns and leaves and something the path, ten · yards. Parkes Street, Kowloon, and Miss ficit of £12,000,000, This year he competition overseas, because for- and killed on March 20, last, shot across
ahead, stopped abruptly an instant Celeste C. Souza, a clerk at Maison 'estimated that the real surplus was eign, horsepower, with relation to Queen's Road West. Lucille, of 92, Parkes Street, Kow- about £39,000,000.
size and weight of cars, was -less Two further charges of failing with head cocked, sideways to loon, la announced."
In analysing the year's accounts than those in Britain-British Wire to stop after the accident took stare, then dived again beneath the Mr. Chamberlain drew attention to leas Service..
place and failing to report the ac underbrush with the speed of a Among the passengers who are the extraordinary cheapness of in-
eldent to the police were also shadow. He started like a fright expected this morning by the .8. terast on Treasury bills, which, ho
mado against the defendant, ened child, laughing the next Tilsadane are His Excellency, Dr.(said, worked out on an average over
Applying for a week's formal re-second that a mere pheasant could W. J. R. Thorbecke, the Nether the whole year of only 12 shillings
mand, Traffic Inspector Nicol said have made him jump lands Minister to Chins, who is and sixpence per cent. The whole returning from a short furlough amount of Treasury billa in savings In Holland, and Jhr. J. A. de Jonge certificate, together at their lowast and Jkvr. Á. J. de Jonge, the son point, was over £1,200,000,000, but and daughter, respectively, of the the interest amount to little more little village of Marhoss in the lorry by the characters on the side self-then realised that he was CO- Governor General of Netherlands, than £15,000,000 of 1% par cent. Rhoen except doctors. It is a vil- of the vehicle, but the number ing in the wrong direction and India, who are on a visit to their During the year 240,000,000 of age of death. Influenza has al was not noticed,
had somehow got tarned round. brother, Jhr. B. C. de Jongs of the 4 per cent. Treasury bonds and ready killed 21 of the tiny populs. The defendant, who pleaded not For the road should be behind local office of the Java-China- £24,000,000 of 5% per cant. Unlied tion. Five have, died in a day-and gulity, was remmanded in police him, not in front. Japan-Line.
Kingdom "dollar bonds were" con- still the epidemic goes on. —Bleuter, custody for one week.
VILLAGE OF DEATH
IN GERMANY.
that the defendant, after knocking In the distance he heard wheels down the woman, turned out hie upon the road, and wondered why Berlin.lightai and drove away. A number the sound was so pleasant., "Good
No one may enter or leave the of witnesses recognised the motor old butcher's cart.” he said to him-
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