AUSTIN AND HARE BEATEN
AGAINST
Assassin's-Target
PETITION
Gallant Struggle In Face Of France's Best.
FR. AUSSEM'S COMBACK IN PARIS
Paris, To-day. The possibility of Bunny Austin and C. E. Hare. his 19-year-old. partner, representing Britain in the Davis Cup doubles was raised yes- terday after their magnificent play against Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon. France's No. 1 pair, in the quarter finals of the French Lawn Tennis Doubles Champion ship at Auteuil.
The British pair lost, but not until 53 games in five sets had) been played.
Britain's leading pair. Fred Perry and Pat Hughes. were beaten in straight sets in the Third Round by R. Meet and L. Hecht, the Czechoslovakians.
Brugnon was also engaged in an
Mrs. other match when he and Howard lost to Jnck Crawford and Margaret Scriven, the holders, in the Mixed Doubles.
at
Following the attempt on the life of Mme. Magda Lupescu, favourite of King Carol of Rumania, near her villa Sinain, where Premier Duca was
it in assassinated recently, ported that pressure is being brought to bear upon the king to send her out of Rumania and to attempt
reconciliation with Princess Helene, his divorced wife.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURS DAY, MAY 31, 1934.
To-day's Short Story.
FERRY COY. DEATH IN Yaumati Gate Receipts SPRING
To Be Investigated
By H. E. Bates.
CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE MEETING Wfor the word time to look movement, more beautiful than in
7E had walked up the wood like assurance and a grace of
at the young foxes. It was love all other young woodland creatures. A petition with regard to thely April weather, windless and A rabbit scuttled away nolsily Yaumati Ferry Company's 'sys sunny in the wood under the among the dead wood and under tem of conducting their gate re-leafless oak trees and the alen-growth as we came to a standstill. ceipts, was heard at the Chinese der grey ashlings. The old hazels I stooped and looked between the General Chamber of Commerce's were yellow with catkins, and undergrowth at the fox-burrows: monthly meeting. yesterday the primroses made drifty yel-the wind was blowing
low distances wherever we turn-scent towards them and the mound
afternoon.
our
it was revealed that a person who ed to look; the bluebells were was deserted. Irene moved her buys a third-class ticket is not given darkly budded and the first pur-feet and cracked an ash twis, and the one cent change for his five centple orchids had unfolded and a young rabbit made off wildly! piece, and that a 10 cent piece at the first oxlips. The riding ran from under a tangle of old honey- the Yaumati ferry gates is only through the wood from east to suckle wood. valued ut 9 cents.
west, smooth and green and wide I looked at her quickly and she Mr. Gock Chin, Manager of the enough for ten horses to canter smiled. She had never yet seen a Wing On Company, was appointed abreast; it was flooded with sun-fox-cub or even an old fox. As we by the Chamber's Executive Com-light and out of the shelter of had come up through the wood she mittee to interview the Yaumati the trees we could feel the west had gathered anemones, and ber Ferry directors in regard to the wind very soft on our faces, blow hands were full of them and she ing straight from the corner of had put a dark violet in her mouth. Mr. Chan Ping-au, general secrethe wood where the foxes were. tary of the Chamber, read a letter At the end of the riding we stood She smiled with her lips closed, i same time. The air from the Fenghua, Chikiang Pro- still and listened. We had walk stem at the vince. Kuomintang, to the effect ed up slowly and quietly, without that a trade mark exhibition will be speaking. To the right of us stood $25,000,000 LOAN FOR held in that city from June 23 to an old ehooting-hut built of straw
COLONY.
For Public Works And
Other Purposes.
matter.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be The Ethics Of Pig," by 0. Henry.
Kathleen Stammera faltered
June 26, and requested that mer and hurdles, and on the left was a against Fraulein Aussem. 1931
chants in Hong Kong should send long mound of earth burrowed Wimbledon champion who is tak
their trade marks and descriptions with fox-holes, and bare except for ing part in her fret tournament
to the exhibition. The purpose of young nettles and a clump or two for eighteen months, and it now
the exhibition is for the prevention of elder. On the far side of the remains for Margaret Scriven, who
of false trade descriptions, it was mound was a pond, the trees grow- will meet the German champion $9,000,000 ALREADY TAKEN,{stated.
ing down to the edge of it, making — to retain her title and provide
Three new members, the Pacific the water black with the motion- Britain with her only win in four
Manufacturing Company, lesa reflections of their thick sucking the sweetness of the veilet . In moving the first reading of Rubber
was elusively fragrant with the tournaments. Helen Jacoba and An Ordinance to make provi-the South China Perfumery and trunks und branches. Mme. Mathien are engaged in the sion for a loan of $25.000.000 for Medicine Store, and the National A day or two before I had come scent of the flowers she was hold- other semi-final,
the carrying out of certain pub-Lacquer Manufacturing Company, upon ten or twelve-fox-cubs playing and of the thousand of prim- Mme. Mathieu and Miss Eliza-tic works, for the redemption of were welcomed to the Chamber byling in and out of the bushes of roses lying everywhere like pools
east wind had been of yellow and green. beth Ryan, who are favoured in certain inscribed stock and for Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, the Chair-elder. An
I moved 'cautiously forward for the women's doubles, were given a other purposes," the Hon. the man.
blowing and they had not scented fright before they entered the Col. Treasurer stated that the The Chamber's annual meeting me. They were pretty, amusing, a pace or two until I was level with Semi-Final Round.
public will be invited to subscribe will be held next Wednesday after impish things, a little lighter in the shooting-hut. A young fox Scores As cabled by Reuter
to this loan in about two weeks.noon at the Chamber's premises.
colour than earth, their soft hair came suddenly up from a burrow
Wire:
MEN'S DOUBLES-QUARTER FINALS
J. Boralen and J. Brugnon (France)
beat B. W. Austin and C. E. Hare (Britain) 4-6, 6-3, 7-9, Gud. (~2
WOMEN'S SINGLES--QUARTER
FINALS
Fr. Aussem Germany) beat Miss K. Stammers (Britain) 6-4, 6-2.
MIXED DOUBLES QUARTER FINALS
3. A. Crawford and Miss M. Scriven beat 3. Brugnon and Mra. Howard 6-4, 2-6, 6-0.
WOMEN'S DOUBLES QUARTER FINALS
Mme. Mathieu and Miss Ryan beat Miss McAlpine and Miss Yorke (Bri tain) 8-10, 6-3, 6-3.
cocked,
The loan has been domiciled at the Among those present were Mr. ruffled in the wind like the feathers and gazed at me as though puzzled, Hong Kong Oßce of the Chartered Wong Kwong Tin (Chairman), Mr. of birds. Sometimes they trotted head sideways and ears
trotted noiselessly Bank and only $34,000,000 will be Lui Yam Shuen (Treasurer), Mr. down to the edge of the pool and and another issued in the first instance. The Chan Ping Au (Secretary), Dr. Lee and looked at the water, and some-over the brow of the mound to
roamed oft into the wards the pool. rest will be issued as and when re-Ping Sum, Messrs. Jackman To, times they
Irene came up behind me and I quired. It was indicated that al-Wong Yiu Tung, Tang Shiu Kin, wood itself. through the dark ready $3,000,000 has been taken up. Lau King Ching. Chan Tat Sam. green stretches of dog's mercury to pointed out the cub, drawing down leaving $5,000,000 for the public. Wong Mau Lum, Cheung Chi Men, where the tide of primroses began. her head so that her line of sight| Amortisation is provided by an-Mok Lin. Chow Shing Chee, Kwan Wherever they went they moved should be level with mine. Her nual drawings of 1/25th of the Wan Pak, Li Sing Kui, Chu Ping quite soundlessly, with a fine, fox-hair brushed my cheek. We stood amount issued. The whole of the Tung, Cheng Ming Yue, Yung Koon iesue will be paid in 25 years,
Yla Man, Chang Kan Ting, Lee Bonds will be in amounts of $1,000, Yat, Kwok Yau Ting, Mak Hon P, BARITONE FORSAKES $5,000 and $10,000, and will bear in-Yeung Shuen Po, Chan Chung Chi, terest at the rate of 3 per cent. Chan Kim Tong and many others. per annum.
FRENCH SURTAX "LA FEMME CHIC"
ON IMPORTS
Check On Defaulting
Countries.
TOKIO CITY BONDS AFFECTED
Parls, To-day.
POPULAR.
Bookseller Employees Charged.
Chamber Employee Has Same Treatment
Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, in a state- ment to the China Mail this morning |said "We have received complaints
OPERA
Robert Ringling To
Join Circus
Sarasota, Florida.
motionless and the fox was motion- less too, has eyes impish and bright and filled with a wise mistrust of
us. He watched us for a minute, and then without baste turned tail and vanished down the burrow
again.
"You saw him?" I whispered. She nodded.
"You see they are timid," I said.
From the Aria to the arena is a "If we could skirt the wood and
in writing with regard to the prac-long fump but Mr. Robert E. Ring- come up on the far side of the pond. tice of the Ynumati Ferry Company, ling, Chicago baritone, has made we should see them better."
(and in order to satisfy ourscives wej sent an employee of the Chamber of
بنا
circus,
"Shall we go then?" she whisper-
Mr. Ringling, a son of one of theed.
There was a gate at the end of Yu Kwok-chu and Yung Siu-kan, Commerce to buy a cent third-class original seven Ringling 'brothers, employees of the Kelly and Walsh ticket. He tendered a 5 cent pieces forsaking the opera for the the riding, and we had only to climb it and walk across a piece of ¡Ltd., were charged before Mr.jand received a 4 cent ticket and no
He will replace his uncle, Mr. pasture land and skirt a corner of It is understood that the Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the Central change. On asking for his change
John Ringling, the last of the the wood. French Government is contem-Police Court this morning, with it was refused."
I was moving towards the gate; seven brothers, when the combined
faint plating a Bill imposing a surtax the theft of a magazine. "La
cireus of the Ringling Brothers, when suddenly I heard a on imports from countries which Femme Chic," valued at $2.60, and
Barnum and Bailey opens in New cough and a second later a voice defaulted on loans. The pro- for receiving the stolen magazine,
saying: York 800n. reeds would be devoted to paying respectively.
off arrears to French bond- Mr. A. S. Abbott, Manager of
the Store, in evidence, said that,
holders,
STEEL SPRINGS IN PILLOW.
hidden in a drawer.
He then went
CHILD COULD NOT BEAR TO LIVE.
Set Himself On Fire After Disappointment.
Mr. John Ringling's retirement from active participation in the circus has been occasioned by ill. health-Reuter.
SCREEN VERSION OF "THE DOVER ROAD"
Seven English Players Secure Roles
"I should hardly do that if I were you. You were quite right. They are very timid to-day."
We turned at once and looked to- wards the shooting-hut. The voice was very quiet and dignified, and had about it also something tre-
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BOYS DISGUISED AS COW
Tobacco
mulous and faded, as though it be- New Ruse To Smuggle longed to someone very old. We stood still for one momeat. I could see gothing, and suddenly he voice spoke again.
Belgrade.
"That's queer lookng cow," ↑ customs official as
Manager: K. N. WAN
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EMPIRE WORK IN PICTURES
Big Commercial Art Sale In London
London.
Scenes from the working life of heall Dominions and Colonies are
"Come in, won't you? There's plenty of room. I shant eat you." said
We walked towards the shooting-watched an ungainly dun animal shown in pictures now on sale in
London...
It is understood that Far East- yesterday morning another coolie ern bonds are especially concern-of the store, who had been in- ed, particularly Tokio City bonds. girueted to keep an eye on other Trade circles hold the opinion employees, reported the theft to that the Bill will encounter oppo- his stenographer.
Cairo. sition in Parliament, as it will
to the coolies' headquarters in he Little Kamel, Mohamed wanted entail international complications... building, where Yung is a new suit for a religious festi- raising the question of treaty lodged, and found the magazine val. But his mother was too rights. Reuter.
poor to buy him one. Yang dented any knowledge of Kamel bore his disappoint- the contents of the parcel in which ment for a time.
Then he saw the magazine was rolled up.
hut, 'glancing at each other rapidly lumbering along with a herd. Yu, who had been employed by friends in new suits.
Seven former celebrities of the every second or two, until we stood He walked towards it. The dun The Government are disposing Kamel ran the book store for over a year, was bound over by the Magistrate in soaked his clothes in petrol, and English stage are playing the in the doorway. The sunlight made cow tried to shamble away, but was of the Empire Marketing Board's original coloured designs. It is leading roles in the screen ver- ja sum of $50, to be of good beset himself on fire. -
He was badly burned before sion of "The Dover Road," the an angle of light across the dry too slow.
earth floor, and beyond the sun-The customs official prodded it. the largest sale of commercial art his mother could get the flames play which had such a long and light on a rough seat of split The cow wobbled, then fell over ever held and is at the 'Imperial out, and had to be taken to hospi- successful run at the Haymarket back of the hut-an old man was and out crawled two boys who had Institute.
Theatre in London. tal-Reuter.
hazel sticks running along the evolved this “disguise" to smuggle They are Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Reginald Owen, sitting, with a double-barrel sport- tobacco-Reuter, Billie Burke, Phyllis Barry, Wang gun across his knees. It was ter Armitage, and Alan Mow-difficult to believe that he had ever ARMED GUARDS FOR Mark Gertler, Keith Honderzen
German Scientist's Invention.
PROMOTES HEALTHY SLEEP
London.
Shall we rest our heads on steel! pillows in 2000 A.D.7.
Dr. H. Dekker, n well-known German scientist thinks 40.
In an article in "Die Umschau"
he declares that all known varieties |·
ton
haviour for a period of six months, while Yung was discharged.
BANISHEE WHO FORGOT.
Steals Singlet From C.R.C.
Was
of bedding materials are unhygienic,
"I had forgotten that I "Feathers, wool, hair, straw, cat-
and kapok down," he says, banished before," said Chan Kwai, "cannot be adequately cleaned or unemployed, before Mr. Q, A.A.}
MacFadyon at the Central Polico disinfected."
They are a peril to mankind, Court this morning, when be "wan mccording to Dr. Dekker.
charged with stealing a singlet After a series of experiments, he from the Chinese Recreation Club, has produced a pillow made of steel and for returning to the Colony springs fitted into wood frame}]from banishment yesterday.
all his little
into the kitchen,
KILLED BY MOTOR TYRE BURST.
Valve Penetrates Man's Temple,
Hollywood.
...
bray,
Misa Burke, though an Ameri- can star, began her stage career
spoken to us.
He seemed at once voiceless and spiritless. He looked incredibly
in London, Miss Wynyard and old, and he sat as immobile as
COAL TRAIN.
Preventing Organised Attacks In Moravia
Among the artists represented ara Gregory Brown, Austin Cooper, Charles Dixon, Clive Gardiner,
Paul Henry, Fred Herrick, E. McKnight Kauffer, J. Keating,
Leighton, MacDonald · Gill,
John and Paul Nash, Prank Calle
bould, Charles Paine, Charles Pears, Tom Purvis, George Shering. Pragne, ham, Kenneth Shoosmith, Fred Tay-
Mr. Brook are co-starred in the mountain, the skin of his long. picture. This will be their first sunken face the colour of a dead appearance together since "Ca- corn-husk and more transparent, Helsingfors.valcade."-Reuter.
so that the veins shone softly!
All coal trains in. South Momvis lor, Horace Taylor, and Norman through it like a fragie net work of are to carry armed guards and Wilkinson-Renter. lavender threads, so faint in colour specially trained police dogs in
A chauffeur was changing & tyre in a service station at Jakime| vara, near, Viborg,
ASSASSIN AGED FIGHT
Cairo
that the dead whining yellowness of future.
the flesh itself was hardly broken! The railway authorities have trains, are to be made shorter in There was a loud report.
He was dressed' in an old pepper-taken this precaution in view of order to increase their spoed and Mechanics rushed to che apot A thick linen pillow-case preventa
Sentences of two months and and found the man lying on the Dallberate murder has been and-salt sporting jacket with the growing frequenty of or make it harder for the robbers to
committed by an 8-year-old Egyp breeches to match, and coarse ganised attacks on trains carrying jump on board o the springs from pressing into the six months hard labour were im- ground dead.
Ponych Banda of as thány mà 40 robbers head.
posed for the two charges, son- The inner tube had burst than boy. During quarrel with green stockings that hung loosely coal. Beveral household authorities are tences to rúa concurrently. causing the metal valve to fly out his schoolfriends baran home, on his thin legs like moss on an old The tracks are to be heavily have been attacking train and now conducting "sleep" experimenta
stick; ha looked as if he had long tenced at the points where the at- overpowering the train staffe.— Accused, was
in with terrific force and penetrate fetched a dagger, and then stabbb November, 1924.
his temple,Reuter,
(Continued on Pass 10. tacks are: namlly - made, and the-Reuter,
- with these pillows--
banished
one of the boys to death.