BALLOON GOES UP 17 MILES
Automatic Instruments Tried Out.
SOVIET SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Moscow.
More than 200 stratosphere bal- loons have been sent up in recent months by the Scientific Research Institute of acrology at Leningrad --without passengers.
They were equipped with auto- for recording pressure
matic instruments
the temperature,
humidity of the air.
and
On reaching a height of more than 10 miles the balloon burst, lowing the instruments to float down by parachute. One of them' went up to 17 miles before burst-) ing.
One of the chief results of the discovery Institute's work is the
that the formation of clunds takes place up to a height of eight miles the be considered -which may border between the lower and up-1 per layers of the air cover of the globe.
It has also been established that!
strato- strong winds blow in the
yeason
Bart Acosta
Coincidentally with the open- ing of the trans-Atlantic flying Sabelli and by Cesare
who George Pond, Bert Acosta, flew to Europe with Admiral Byrd in the Amerien, was starting to serve a three-month sentence on an intoxication charge at Mineola, L. 1, where he is shown.
sphere and there is an insignifi- DENMARK LEARNING cant amount of humidity.-Reuter.
STORM DEVASTATION IN AMERICA
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The resolution proceeds that hav ing regard to the peculiar import-1 ance presented by the study and
First Security.
ENGLISH.
Cheap Trips To Britain Arranged.
SCHOOLS FOR FARM WORKERS
Copenhagen.
A "learn English" movement has been launched with great in Denmark.
75 schools Already
success
for furm
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1934.
ARMED ROBBER ON MURDER CHARGE
48 Hours Remand · Granted.
SHAMSHUIPO INCIDENT
To-day's Short Story.
DUSK BELOW HELVELLYN
By Antony Marsden.
ON
Dunmail Raise I left the cleft was empty when I glanced into
no wind!"
་
A sequel to the armed robbery at Shamshuipo on June 6 when a Chin- cairn that marks the top of the yet he must have been where I now eac woman was killed, took place at pass, and began to climb. the saw him-nt the far end of it, be- tween two ten-foot walls of vertical the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-steep mountain.
aged 42, There is awe in great hills, be- rock, with a sheep-hook across his ing when Chung Chak, Chinese pastry maker, was formally cause the centuries have not altered knees. He stood up and beckoned
for me.
"Sit here, lad--out of t I thought, resting charged with the murder of Wong them. Sze Mui, the Chinese woman. breath: We Cockneys have
He was of that Norse type which among the The defendant, on the application jabiding city: I shall go home next of the police, was remanded for 48 week and find new landmarks. But lingers unmistakably
here......A thousand years ago, Cumbrian fells-gaunt, big-boned, hours in police custody.
when the last King of Cumberland yellow-haired, with eyes of a pecu- It will be recalled that four men took part in an armed robbery at fell fighting below this spot, the liarly bright blue. "I-I wasn't ex No. 1 Wong Chok Street, Shamshui-Saxon victore must have wiped the pecting you," I said foolishly. And p. on June 6, gaining admittance sweat from their eyes and leaned he nodded.
on their hacked swords and stared to the flat on the second floor on the
down this same valley. And the hill where I stood seemed thronged with pretence of renting a cubicle.
The deceased, Wong Sze Mui, who hurrying ghosts-those loyal few was the owner of the flat was as who snatched King Dunmail's crown saulted by one of the men with a from the massacre and fled up here pair of scissors, and, managing to with it through the summer dusk free herself from his grasp ran out to hurt it into a tarn.
I must make haste! on to the verandah. When she no- I pressed on. ticed that she was being followed myself if I meant to climb to the she jumped over the verandah rail-tarn and spend some time by it and The ings and fell to the road, breaking get down again before dark.
sun was westering, Helvellyn's flanks her spine.
who turning violet; a little breeze stir- Another woman, Chan Sze, lived in the same flat, was taken to red the grasses......In about half abdo-an hour 1 crossed a desolate auddle hospital suffering from an men wound, inflicted by the pair of between two peaks and saw the tarn
down below.
scissors.
All four men were later arrested.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
COMMENCING ON MONDAY
"RIPTIDE"
The serial story of the Melro Goldwyn Mayer screen play by Edmund Goulding, which is coming shortly to the Queen's Theaire.
May.
It's lonely, this spot" He leaned against the rock wall, and, with a kind of truculent courtesy-: don't know how else to describe it-motioned me towards the elab It lay in a shallow crater of grass
on which he had been seated. Still and rock, jet-black under the moun-rather taken aback, I held out my tain. I skirted the crater's rím till I could see beyond the tarn down a long, empty pass into Patterdale. In a short while I came what I took
to be a ruined sheepfold.
A V-shaped gash ran deep into at the solid rock of the fell
whose mouth, some
a
across twenty feet
sandwiches. He declined.
"Nay, I don't trouble food much
On
"The blue eyes stared at mel fixedly......My first surprise past. I felt certain misgivings: not account of anything he had said- there is a blunt directness about There will be a Dinner Dance
ške Cumbrian folk which sounds solution of certain problems to which werkers have been established by
rudeness to strangers-but because' attention was drawn at the begin voluntary workers in country dis-Repulse Bay Hotel to-night, and
lay a rough barrier of fallen stones
I remembered I had forty pounds ning of the general discussion, the tricts. They are attended by hus-Tea Dance to-morrow at 4.30 p.m. from where its two sides converged. Commission takes the following de-dreds of students who are learning
The R. M. S. Empress of Asia is as though a wall had once closed it. <lsions.
English because England is the best
due here from Manila on Wednes-I took my seat on them and had in my breast-pocket, and because my market for Danish farm produce. SECURITY COMMITTEE
Had there been been some stare. Cheap trips to Great Britain are day at 7 a.m. and will berth at the unwrapped the remnant of my sand-gold watchchain seemed to be the Kowloon wharf. She will leave on wiches when a gruff voice spoke befocus-point of that fixed, meditant Since the earlier work of the Con-
and hind me:
slight emphasis in his last remark: "You've a long step down t pass, I don't trauble food much"... ference has enabled certain veginal being organised in addition to these
Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghai,
if you're going on into Patterdle?" And then I realised, quite suddenly, security agreements to be concluded language classes. Plans have al-Friday at noon for Victoria
I sprang up, startled out of my The Women's Auxiliary of the wits. The light was good enough; that in giving up his place he had Society for the Protection of Chil- I could have sworn that the deep interposed himself between me and dren acknowledges with grateful thanks the following donations:-
In Europe during the past year, the ready been drawn up for chartering Nagasaki. Kobe and Yokohama.
General Commission appoint
Le
special
2
such conduel
studies as 12 may
in ship to take 1,000 students on a decides 10
committee visit to London, Glasgow and Leith. preliminary-Reuter,
consider
appropriate in order to facilitate! .
the conclusion of
further agree-1.
ments of the same nature which CRUIKSHANK LEADS Mrs. Maughan fin memory of Mrs.
may be negotiated outside the Con-
ference.
would be for the General Commission to determine the
lationship of any
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re-Tommy Armour (U..S.
A.) of these agree- ments to the general convention. "Wiffy" Cox (U. s.
A.) The General Commission also de-
714-75146
724-82-154
P. W. Carr), $5; D. S. and G. M. in memory of Nre. Carr), $5; Mra. Middleton Smith, $100; Mr. C.
PIRATE GANG IN HONG KONG.
1. Cheng, $3; Anon, 550; Mr. A. M. Police Anticipate New
Bowes-Smith, $25.
Personal Pars
Oufrage.
been
retreat.
I could 1 said, as casually as manage: "But I'm not crossing to Patterdale; I'm with a party on the other road-"
"On t' Raise?" he nodded quietly. "That's a good step down, too."
my un! His manner increased easiness. His eyes had shifted and were staring straight into mine-a Information has
received little mockingly, I fancied, as though from Police Headquarters that he guessed at my thoughts. I said gang of some 15 men, reputed to be firmly: "It's none so far-and a pirates, recently left Chinese terri-pleasant walk if you know how to Bias take care of yourself!" He made The name of Dr Helene Lill tory from the Mirs Bay or
in no comment on that, and I went 75+73-148
Canaval, of 180, The Peak, has been Bay area, and are asld to be
medical Hong Kong for the purpose of com-on: "I came to take a look at, the added to the Register of
tarn--" 744-74-148 74+74-143 Practitioners in the Colony, it is mitting a piracy,
notified in the current issue of the Government Gazette.
cides to appoint a special commit-Leo Dieged (U. S. A.) 76-71=347: tee to study the question of guar-J. Bliss (U. S. A.) 744-731471 antees of execution and to resume Joe Kirkwood (U. S. the work relating to supervision.
Secondly, air force.
The General
in- Commission
A.) Macdonald Smith-(U.
S. 'A.)
30, and to report to it as early as possible on the solution it recom-T. mende.
..
Among the passengers who ar rived on the B.. President Jeffer- son from Manila yesterday was Mr. Chen Kung-po, Chinese Minis-
The accuracy of the information received is uncertain. No further details are available,
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY.
Forward Silver Rises.
Д
"What for?" he asked bluntly. "Well, since you're interested-- because I've been hearing an old tale about Dunmail Raise: how king's crown was chucked into this tarn after some great battle, and how the ghosts of his old soldiers are supposed to fish it out once a year-
stracts its air committee to resume H. Cufel (U. S. A.)
76+73-149 of the ques-Laffoon (U. S. A.) forthwith the study tions mentionell under its resoin-Zelleaton (U. S. A.) '. 76473149 78471=149 Luther (U. S. A.) tion of July 23, 1932.
Professor K. H. Digby has been Elm (U. Thirdly, trade in, and manufac-George Von
S. A.)
74--76150 appointed to be a member of the Nurses Board during the absence ture of, arm6.
The General Commission re- Al Espinosa (U.S.
from the Colony of Professer R. E. 76+74-150 A.) quests its special committee to re-
the Olin Dutra (U. S. A.) 76+74—150 Tottenham, with effect from May 18 work forthwith in
last. sume its
fellow'B I began to resent the light of the statement made by the M. Dutra (U. S. A.) 74+77151
scrutiny; no doubt he was honest May Densmore Shute (U.. United States delegation on
S. A.)
78+-73-151
The local dollar remained steady, enough-the idea of footpads in a place like this was a trifle ridiculous, Bri- P. Perkins
opening on demand to-day at 1/5. tain)
78+-74-162
Spot silver remained unaltered, and, anyhow, he was no tramp, that Jack Westland (U. 6.
77+76-153 ter of Industries of the Republic losing yesterday at 194, while was obvious; a fellside shepherd, I to forward silver advanced 1/16, supposed. But what the devil did these A.)
of China who is on his way The resolution adds that
it matter to him why I'd walked committees will work on parallel Gus Moreland (U. S.
Shanghai. He is accompanied by closing yesterday at 19 15/16. A.)
The London on New York cross up to the tern? lines co-ordinated by the Bureau
his Secretary, Mr. Jolsen Ho.
rate, which closed on Thursday at I thought: that settles you! Commission leaving it to the Bur-Walter Hagen (U. S.
A-)
Mr. C. B. R. Sargent, Headmas--U.S.$6.07%, closed yesterday at You've asked and you're answered. eau to take the necessary step at
ter of the Diocesan Boys' School, £-U.S.$5.06, while the New York Make what you can of it-I'll bet returned to the Colony on the s.s, on London rate, which closed at you never heard of Dunmail....... 82-4-82164 President Jefferson yesterday after U.S.35.08% on Thursday, closed After a short pause he remarked:
a visit to Manila. He was heard at £U.S.$5.06% yesterday. 85 79+-164 on the wireless last night.
Parallel Progress.
4
77+76-153
76+79-155
83+72-155
,
a proper time to ensure that when Lawson Little (U. 8.
A.) the. President Convenes the -com- mission it will have before It, as George Marston (U.
8. A.) far as possible. a complete draft
Johnny Fischer (U. S. convention.
A.) Finally, the resolution requests
The qualifying Hmit was 155.
Mr. A. R. Sutherland, Inspector the President, Mr. Arthur Hender- to the varioua
of English Schools, who received son, to submit Governments, the U. S, S. R. pro
past dificulties had been due the Imperial Service Order in the posal to declare, the Conference a permanent instituto under the title largely to the absence of a great recent King's Birthday Honour list,
of Peace Conference.
DELEGATES TRIBUTED
SIR SAMUEL HOARE AND EARL OF DERBY
FULLY ACQUITTED
(Continued from page 1.)
other
"Aye, that's right. They still
do."
"Do what?"
"Fish crown up. I've seen 'em at it, many's the time,"
"You've seen them? But that's only an old tale, that's”
"You don't hold wi' it, then?" Power whose presence was es returned to the Colony yesterday
"I should think not! I” sential.
from Manila on the a.. President
"Then what t' hell d'you come upi Ever since Germany's with-Jefferson. Mr. Sutherland was ac-Chamber of Commerce and
bodies.
for?" He relaxed, crossing leisure- In submitting the resolution, Mr.j
of companied by his wife,
The advice, both of Sir Samuely towards the tumbled stones of Barthou paid warm tributes to the drawal in October, the cause
international de-Disarmament and United States and British
Among the passengers on the s.8. Hoare and of the Earl of Derby, the wall, and sat down (but he still
Chamber of the re-understanding had suffered fram
kept between me and the open fell- legates, and, referring to
President Hayes which arrived was sought by the
the the that incident.
side, I noticed). His tone, though cent heated exchanges with
Mr. Norman Davis, praised the (yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Commerce and was given in
[rough, was more friendly; a note of British Foreign Secretary Sir John
The Committee have unanimously
banter came into it; there was a Simon, said that when any differ-ne spirit and breadth of view Greek. Mr. Creek is a geologist of manner described in the report. ence divided France and England, with which the French and British Cambridge, England, and is on his "We talk frankly and then reach had endeavoured to reconcile their way to Singapore from where he come to the conclusion that the ad- gleam of humour in the frosty stare
differences, and described the com-will go to Sarawak, Borneo, on a vice given at no time took the form of his disquieting eyes.
of pressure, or intimidation; or in from London, likely? That's far- an agreement."
distinet visit to Sarawak öll fields. Eden, the promise resolution as
terference of any kind. What was ther nor. I've been-nor want to. Captain Anthony British delegate thanked the Unit-contribution to peace in Europe
A quiet wedding was solemnised called pressure was no more than I've heard tell London folks has dug| theirselves holes, so's they can ed States delegate, Mr. Norman which had changed the atmosphere
at St. John's Cathedral on Thurs-advice or persuasion.”
The Committee therefore unani- Davis, and K. Barthou, whose from despair to real hope,
The General Commision, will day when Mr. Frederick A. " Firth joint and willing collaboration had
"Yes, that's true made it possible to reach an agree-meet again on Monday to set up was married to Mrs. Eileen Gibb. mously report that no breach of the scuttle to and fro like rats from
committees recom-The Very Rev. Dean Swann offeint-privilege has been committed by Sir one end of town till the other."
(Continued on Page 18.) ment," and "said the agreement the various
-Bridah Wireless Service. would facilitate the return of Ger-mended in the resolution,-British ed. Mr. E. G. Dale acted as best Samuel Hoare or the Earl of Derby. mang to Geneva, adding that the Wireless Service,
man..
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