MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934.
Claim For $81,188 By Mr.
Croucher
(Continued from Page 9).
particularly 80, neither was he glad to get rid of Mr. Mok's lia- bility. He also said that he was quite satisfied with Mr. Mok's
In the witness box Mr. Croucher margin on holdings. stated that he had bought the|
Mr. Jenkin: "Mr. Woo was 4,000 Watson and Company shares man of high reputation
on the stock market, doesn't it Всега
for Mr. Mok at $16.50, and, had strange that he should want to Bubsequently bought 1,000 new borrow $69,500 from you at 12 per
at cent?" Waison and Company shares
$10. The shares had
been not
Mr. Croucher: "A lot of people taken up by Mr. Mok, and he had do that sort of thing. Mr. Woo carried them at $14.00 and $13.50, would have had to pay the month's respectively. A dividend of $3,200 interest as that was my had been shares.
received on the
he not asked you to?"
Mr. Croucher: "No."
agree.
oldment with Mr. Mok."
Mr. Jenkin: "Would you have On June 1, Mr. Woo had tele-written that letter to Mr. Woo had phoned and asked him about the ahare market, and spoke about the
Mr. Jenkin: "It will be proved shares of Messrs. Watson and Co.,
that when Mr. Woo died he had Mr. Croucher said that after the transfer to the 5,000 shares, Mr. in his possession well over $1.000,- Woo had agreed to sell the shares 000 in cash, why should he have
to send him If they improved, if note to take asked you them up at the June settlement.
Trial Balance Sheet.
A trial balance sheet was pro duced showing that at the end of May the Watson shares were against the account of Mr. Mok. and at the end of June they had been transferred to Mr. Woo, ledger account showed that
shares were carried against Woo on May 25.
A
the
Mr.
A drop in the price of Watson and Company's shares had taken place shortly after the death of Mr. Woo, partly on account of his, death, ("the death of a
large
a letter
plastering him with a liability of
$69.500."
4 Mr. Croucher! "I think hol wanted a record that the sharesi were his."
The case is proceeding.
SIR WILLIAM PEEL
RETURNS.
After Brief Holiday In Japan.
His Excellency the Governor,
THE CHINA MAIL.
Honour-Slayer Rejoices
After Acquittal.
Happily embracing his wife, Helen (left),"whose testi-¡ after be kill been sequitted of sixying” Patrolman mony sided him, and his sister, Carmina, Ignacio Joseph Misischin, with whom his wife had confessed Cuevas is pictured in Queens County Court shortly intimacy:
LITERARY NOTES:
100
TRUTH IS NOT
SOBER"
New Collection Of Short Stories
YORKSHIRE SETTING
There is
80
Problem Of War In Europe
Sir Philip Gibbs's New Novel
4
CAREER OF IBN SAUD
FOREIGN LEGION TRILOGY
Story Of "Five Years Of Hell"
JOINT AUTHORS NEW. VOLUME
Soldier, Diplomat And Family Man,
ARABIA'S ́ ́“STRONG - MAN" PORTRAYED
Lord of Arabia. By EL C. Arm-
strong. (Barker, 9a.).
Mr. Barker's "Grey Wolf." study of the career of Mustapha
The Soulless Legion. By Ex-Le- Kemal, showed him to be a care- gionnaire 1384 and W, Jul; observer and a, vigorous, pre- Blackledge. (Denis Archer, senter of the modern dictatorial 7s. 6d.)
ruler. In Ibn Sand, King of Ara- This is the third of trilogy deal-bia, he has found another subject ing with life in the Foreign Le-fapt to the vivid fashion of his zion, In the United States, the pen.
RICHMAL CROMPTON Ry mother need have no qualmaarid domain.
AGAIN
New Novel Covers Eventful Week
Christmas.
an
authors tell us, there is a body It is a subject not novel, for called the Friends of the Foreign] Mr. H. St. John Philby, Mr. Ken- ¡Legion. "The object of these neth Williams, and others have re-
friends is to influence all
and cently made us acquainted with Jaundry with the notion that the the character of the man who now Legion is a humanly conducted rules, over the greater part of desert fored, and one to which Arabia and with the nature of his It is perhaps the in sending her unemployed son." subtlest tribute to Ibn Saud and So the authors have determined to the greatness of his achievement to tell the other side of the story that writers so diverse have sees -the story of "five years of hell." in him a modern portent. So far from being the fine dashing Arising almost literally out of fellows of romance, the Legion-nothingness, he has imposed aries, It appears, are the human uneasy order upon a volatile, ur- Miss Richmal Crompton can wreckage that finds its last re-stable people. Ruling by virtue write about children as well as fuge in this soulless desert force." of the strength of his own right "Bodden, inhuman hand and the swift aptitude of his Sir Philip Gibbs's new novel any living author, and mercifully, They are
can own mind, he leaves in the thought "The Cross of Peace" is published there are several of them among brutee," "Nothing but rats "Truth In. Not Sober" by Winifred
by Hutchinsons. The author says the odd collection of paying guests be bred in a sewer," and here we of all those who have witnessed Holtby. (Collins, 78. 6d.).
who came to Cheday Place one have the rodents' roll-call, for the his career the question: What will of it: "I have dramatised the Miss Winifred Holtby was born problem which, above all others, is
Legion is a sewer all right, a come in Arabia when he is gone?
In Mr. The pleasant old house belonged here presented.
Armstrong's book Tha in Yorkshire and she never allows the haunting thought of all minds
of "The bravest of soldiers and the Said is portrayed in a series you to forget it.
to Itobert Daton, whose wife de- in Europe to-day. Is it possible much Yorkshire to avoid another
termined that he should spend a biggest of fools," the troops come sharp snapshot chapters: soldier, TAK between stock holder often upsets the mar Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G.. schac and plain speaking in "Truth France and Germany before the few last weeks there before he on parade, and if "ex-Legionnaire, diplomatist, family man, a charac
1384" has not inspired a plece of ter ultimately seen in the round collection of ruin of the last war has been re- sold the place, ket," said Mr. Croucher) and part- K.B.E., and Lady Peel, arrived Is Not Sober," a
short stories. divided into
As the Eatons were very poor, literature, he has at least given us through being seen in Innumer- four ly on account of a cholera epide; hack from Japan' on Saturday
paired?
A book readable Celia though that the only way to reason to think twice before de-able facets. mic in Canton.
morning on the s.s. Empress of parts. Satiric. Exotic. Bucolic, and
"This novel of mine is a story make this possible was to fill the fciding that the Legion would make from end to end. Cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin. Canada.
Domestic, that the book acts as I of French and Germans and of Mr. Croucher stated that during; His Excellency disembarked good clean wind on mental coh-what has been happening in their house with visitors and make a happy alternative to Chamber-
Han's January lambs. November 1931 he had contracted
the launch "Britannia,"webs.
"Escape Three to purchase 4.000 while the liner was anchored for with Mr. Mok Watson and Company shares for quarantine examination in Kow-is one of the best stories in the
AUSTRALIA'S BOOKS the February settlement day. On loon Bay, and was met by His book. the February settlement day his Excellency the Officer Adminis A Yorkshire woman-decides that client had failed to take up the tering the Government. Sir life, even in Yorkshire, is unbear- sharea, and a new contract
was Thomas Southorn, Lady able, and so she turns on the gas made, carrying the shares for Southorn, Captain R. F. Walter. tap and puts her head in the oven. further period, the difference A.D.C., and Mr. J. G. Pilcher, the Unfortunately, she forgot to put and another shilling in the slot. payable by Mr. Mok being $3-private secretary, 506.50. This amount was paid. His Excellency, accompanied the supply gave out, and there was
Cheday Place were the Paynters, The King has consented to On the May settlement day. Mr. by Lady Peel attended the Race not another shilling in the house.
At that moment the gaN
whose three delightful children write an inscription in his own' un the Meeting at Happy Valley on Blak had failed to take
arrived shares, and a verbal agreement Saturday afternoon.
to collect the shillings,,
provide most of the humour, and hand in the first of the 40 books ficent piece of handwork on vel- told her that the cost of living had} In "I Was a German" ; (John poor Bidney Lattimer, Miss Kim-of remembrance which are to, "bellum, is bound in Australian mor- ' gone down, and handed back three Lane, 58.) Ernst Toller, the Ger-ball's pretty secretary, who ran kept in the Melbourne Shrine ofjocco, and is ready to be sent to Remembrance and which will con- the King. If it is not brought shillings and sixpence, the exact man dramatist, tells the story of away with the chauffeur.
Miss Crompton gives her char-tain the names of 120,000 men back by Frince George it, will price of a first shingle and wave life. It is a moving and passion-
an eventful week, and and women of Victorian birth or reach Melbourne in time' for the at Hoster's hairdressing establish- ate book, dealing with the old acters
dedication of the Shrine in No- theme of idealistic youth plunged "Cheday Place" is one of her best domicile who served in the war,
The book, which is a magni-Ivember. books, WOS A different woman, into the cold bath of disillusion. "comely and smart. and attrac-| To that point, it 18 a story that Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C.ltive," and she looked forward to could be widely matched, but Tol- Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector General of her husband's retum from work ler was one of those who urgent- Police.
for the first time in fifteen years.
was made to carry them indefinite-i Jy at the usual interest of 1 per cent. per month.
"Good Investment.” Questioned by Mr. Jenkin as to whether he disliked the continuat of the wharen carrying forward Mr. Croucher said-that-it wona good investment: he received per cent per annum, and bad
good marginal covering.
12
"
Mr. Jenkin: "Do you agree with me that on the May Bettle-
מנוּ,
POLICE RESERVE.
Orders for the Current Week.
Summer Uniform, Summer Uniform will be taken ment day your books show no re- into general wear as from Monday, cord that Mr. Mok concluded his April 23rd, 1934. transaction?"
Mr. Croucher: Yes.
Those members who are not in possession of White) Uniform will communicate with
Mr. Jenkin: "There is nothing their Company Equipment Officer at
In your bonks showing that Mr. once.
Mok's Bability was transferred to Mr. Woo?"
Mr. Croucher:
80,"
Chinese Company.
į Leave. Inspector (R) Chow U
ment.
She
minde na far as I know, I may,
1
-
them pay.
Miss The first to arrive was and Sixpence" account a little for recent happen- Nettleton. She had a mania for
inge in Germany. It is very fair, metus aithe "sights" in I believe to both sides."
man,
WHY KEATS GAVE UP SURGERY
Critical Biography Published.
PASSIONATE LIFE STORY.
Success.
German Dramatist's
ly wanted to know why life should turn to dust and aches in the way it did; and one may say without exaggeration
that the steps he took to get this question answered belong already to his- tory,
Discharged as unfit for further service after thirteen months in the army, he found himself drawn
"I don't think Ting has been appointed Acting O."Keats," by B. Ifor Evans. Duck irresistibly to the forces of revelt.
*****¡C. Chinese Company as from Satur- worth. (28.).
His association with Kurt Eia- ner, his fights and hairbreadth |
Asked by Mr. Jenkin if he was' day. April 28th to Wednesday, May The life of Keats and his pre escapes, hfe long imprisonment; glad to get Mr. Woo's business, '2nd, 1934 during the absence on mature death are an old story by all is here act down in
a book Mr. Croucher said that he was not leave for Mr. Tao Teun On, Assis-this time, but it bears retelling, which the student of, modern
tant Superintendent of Police (Re- and Professor Evans has written Europe cannot afford to neglect
ORNATE RUINS IN RHODESIA
Similar To Indian Architecture.
OLD FORTRESS UNEARTHED
(serve) 0. C. Chinese Company,
workmanlike little blography The Introduction is dated "The with some interesting critical mat-day my books were burnt in Ger- Allter in his new book.
many." The dedication is to "My
Indian Company. Training Course-Part II. recruits of the Indian Company re-
John Kean was born in 1795. nephew Harry, who shot himself siding at Hong Kong will attend His father was head stableman at the age of 18 years in 1928," Chinese Company's Headquarters, at the Swan, and Hoop, Finsbury
and from
17. Queen's Road Central on Thura- Pavement, and he married the for poetry. Together they read day, May 3rd at 17.30 hours for in-daughter of the owner of the inn. the "Faerie Queene," struction.
He died from a fall from his that momént, poetry became the Emergency Unit Reserve. borse when John was only nine, most important thing in Keats' Riot Drill. A Riot Drill will be and his three sons and daughter life. carried out by members of the were left to "the impetuous, un- Emergency Unit Reserve on Friday, tidy affection" of their mother, In spite of this be passed his Ruins of the Zimbabwe type May 4th. Members will fall in at who then married a stable-keeper, medical examinations creditably, have been discovered near Daisy No. 2 Police Station at 17.30 hours, from whom she soon separated. and was appointed a dresser field in the Gwelo district.
Dress-optional.
Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
These ruins, which occur on the farm Belmont, are situated on the top of a koppie and`are reached byị a gradual macent.
The ruins are more ornate in appearance than the familiar difference is the red "coment", Zimbabwe, and another point of work which characterises them.
1934.
:
His Last Operation.
At
John was an impétuous, pugna-| Guy's, cious boy, Not at all a languish- Sgd. C. CHAMPKIN,
"My last operation," he said, Acting D.S.P. (R).ing, poetical little beast. with long "was the opening of a man's tem- Hong Kong, Monday, April 30th, hair, but a fiery pocket Hercules. poral artery. I did it with the ut who seemed destined for the mort nicety, but, reflecting on Army,
what passed, through my mind at He took a fiendish delight in the time, my dexterity seemed a fighting, knocking his brothers miracle, and I never took up tha about with great vigour if - zo lancet again.” other opponent was available. Leigh Hunt was the first # rea! The change in his character man of letters Keata know, and
TRAGIC END TO YOUNG GIRL
The walls are of a substantial Found With Fractured
Skull On Footpath.
breadth, and parts are still in a fair state of preservation.
A local resident, who spent
many years in India, saye the ruina
Miss Chan Shing sep, aged 20,
came suddenly. His mother died Hunt encouraged him to struggle
of consumption when he was only on for a year or two, on his small fifteen.
private means in the hope that by When sha died he hid himself in that tias poetry would bring In
are very similar in type to those was found unconscious on the foot-anook under his master's desk enough for him to live on, but in that country. By comparison path opposite No. 40, Western and gave way to uncontrollable his' health and, circumstances with Zimbabwe they are small Street, West Point, at 11 pm. on griefees.
never allowed this? comprising only what has boen Saturday. Her Injuries included a Fortunately for him, he found Various reasons have been given described as the "fortress” and a fractured skull from which, she died some consolation in the friendship for Keats' early death.ta faw other, ruins.
before reaching Hospital of Charles Cowdan Clarica who Actually walking tour in Scat- Nevertheless, they are of much✨ Miss Chan "was', clad "only in her was eight years older than hime land, in which he often gols wat: Interest both from ao archaeologi-night-attire when found, and it fa sulf and the son of his head, through, did, as much as anything| cal and a tourist point of view. surmised that she fell from the master.
elas to make him a prey to trans- The ruins are only a couple of second floor, where the Uved with: Clarke was largely responsible sumption, the disease Trom which hours run from Gwelo-Beuter. relatives.
for making Kests an enthusiast, his mother and brother, diedirond
the neighbourhood.
Mrs. Stephenson Pollitt, a spl-
OF REMEMBRANCE.
"FEMALE PIPINGS
IN EDEN"
Peter Davies will publish "Fem-
Ethel Smyth. This embodies es- says by the composer on a number lof important subjects, -
ritualist humbug, brought her eut King George To Write ale Ploings in Eden," by Dame len young nephew. Brian Mal- lard, who was reading for the Church.
The most attractive people at
Inscription.
-
Melbourne, Apr. 6.
It's the fines
Hlavour!"
Capstan
for quality!