COL DI LANA ON PRATAS
Salvage Attempt To-day.
HENRY KESWICK'S ARRIVAL
An attempt to refont the alien
CORRESPONDENCE.
·FREE PORT STATUS
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE- 22, 1934.
TRAFFIC CASES To-day's Short Story.
Worn Tyre Costs European $5.
LORRY DRIVERS IN TROUBLE
Mr. A: Vannini, of No. 203 Wen-
To the Editor, "Chiin Mail.") Sir,-With reference to recent chai Road, was fined $5 by Mr. E.
THE CANDLE
By
Jasper Smythe.
Thank you, thank
you!"
an-
motor vessel. Col de Lana, which columns on protective tariffs went aground on the North side of the free port status of this Colony, motor lorry, No. 2588, to be driven handa. Once his wife had used must run!" Pratas Island on Wednesday night I confess I am still unable to see any with a badly worn tyre, in Lower his gloves as bedsocks.
objection to assistance being ren-Albert Road on June 5. dered to those local products 011
articles and correspondence in your w. Hamilton at the Central Magis-P. C. BRAY rubbed his hands
and tracy this morning, for allowing his together. They were good awered Werner, "Is that a buat I
Excessive Speed
Those And be trotted off, leaving P.c.
at about 10 p.m., will be made to
hands had won the heavy-weight Bray atanding there, rubbing his
day.
It was stated that the canvas on wrestling championship of the hands. Life was good!
Two weeks later P.c. Bray walk- The tugboat, Henry Keswick, left which duty is already levied, by the off-side front tyre showed Force. He gazed down at them
with a benign smirk like somejed slowly up the street, giving each Hong Kong at 6.45 p.m. yesterday allowing them a substantial advant through.
western Buddha, sniffing the shop-door handle a rattle to make. with salvage gear, and is expected age in duty charges over imported)
while at the keen air of the certain it was locked. Hie zeal was to reach the stranded ship to-day af articles. Why should not the Gov- noon. when an attempt to refloat the crament maintain the present duties A fine of $10 was imposed on Ng spring evening. Life was good! terrific, for only two days before the vessel immediately will be made. on Hong Kong manufactured cigars, Sheung, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at Feeling a light touch on his arm people at beadquarters had compli The Col de Lana, which is owned cigarettes, beer, and Chinese wine, the Central Police Court this morn-le moved ponderously to one side mented him on his ability. Before by the Navigation General Geroli-while increasing the dulles by, say, ing, for driving his car with a speed of the doorway he was occupying, his eyes there loomed a vision of mich, of Trieste, Italy, was оп 450 per cent. on the same goods im-of 30 miles per hour, from Ming and out came a little man of some stripes, which he pursued as the Yuen to the Hong Kong Electric. nifty years-a man little all over. knights of ancient time followed voyage from Tsingtao to Singapore ported into the Colony!
His eyes, his head, his paunch, his the vision of the Holy Grail. Life and Europe. She was under char-j The point is that the machinery
feet, and the hand he was thrusting was good! ter to the Lloyd Trestíno, and car-for the collection of duly already
three summonses ries a cargo of beans and ground-exists in the case of such articles. Appearing on nuts from North China.
What objection to this proposal can for overloading, Lau Kam-hung, In answer to $.0.S. signals the be offered by those who advocate driver of lorry No. 1422, was fined Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamer.the maintenance of the free port $17, in default three weeks" impri-ner!" Kamo Maru, proceeded to the Italian status of this Colony? Why should sonment, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at "Early to-night, Sir!". ship and stood by until yesterday. our Government not make this slight the Central Magistracy this morn- The Kamo Maru arrived in port gesture to proclaim its readiness to ing. this morning at 9 o'clock.
་
Lorry Overloaded
into a glove, all were little.
As he came out of the doorway "Good evening, constable." of the fried fish shop, he thought hel "Why, good evening, Mr. Wer-could see someone looking out of rumbled the póliceman. Werner's. The head WILE with. drawn and P.c. Bray moved quickly "Yes, yes! My girls are on short up the street to Investigate. At the time now. Who buys furs in the side of tife door he paused to listen; Mak Kau, driver of lorry No. summer? Trade's very bad, con-he was too smart to stand in the: The sa. Hilda, another vessel industries which contribute to the 3998, was also fined $25 on a simi-atable, very bad," replied the little doorway itself. Was that a rustle? He crept up the six stairs to the tiny chartered by the Lloyd Trestino Colony's revenue? was due at the Hong Kong from the south yesterday, but diverted her
course to assist the Col. de Lana,
No information is available con- cerning the position of the Italian
encourage at least those of our local
Yours, etc..
PREFERENCE.
ship, but it is learned that she is FORGED DOCUMENT]
not in any immediate danger.
PIRACY
(Continued from Page 1)
BRITISH MINISTER'S THANKS
-Peking, To-day.
CHARGE.
Alleged Swindle On
Bank Of China.
$20,000 STATED INVOLVED
Wong Mel-ming, alias Wong Eng- Before leaving for Wel-hai-Wei lang, was charged before Mr. Q. A. this morning, the British Minister A. MacFadyen at the Central Police to China, Sir Alexander Cadogan Court this morning, with uttering instructed Mr. G. R. Turrall, of the a forged document in the form of British Legation, to convey thanks to warrant or order for the payment General Han Fu-chu for the release of money with intent to defraud the of the piracy captives.
Mr. Turral and Lieut. Duric, who left here for Tainan on
Tuesday night, are Peking-Reuter,
Bank of China of $2,000,
and
ilar summons.
For overtaking a moving vehicle in Garden Road, Fong Chung-kai was fined $10,
Overcrowded Car
man with a sigh,
"Better have a fire, Mr. Werner! Ea-ha. They're all the rage now. air."
"That would be one way. con- stable."
.
·TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Trousers And Boots," by N. Gubsky.
"There were three people on the "But would your furs burn, air?” front sent and the one in the mid-asked the policeman, seeking to pro- dle was extremely fat, Your Wor-long this casis, in his monotonous ship", said Sergeant Paton in pro-day.
I should think so. "Burn! secuting Mui Wing, when he was summoned before Mr. E. W. Hamll-you were to drop one match, con-ball-with his boots squeaking loud- He tried Werner'a door-handle ton at the Central Magistracy this stable, one match in the preserving y
It was locked, morning, for not having full control fluid nothing could stop it. The with his huge hand.
people who live in the flat above the so he stooped to shine his bullseye jof his car.
workshop would be roasted alive be- through the letter box. fore the brigade could get round On the floor above Werner stood the corner.
petrified. The letter-box below! "I had some trouble in effecting rattled. He stood in an agony of insurance," he added irrelevantly, indecision. What could he give as "Well, now," said the constable reason for his presence at pust "Who would ever have thought that. eleven? And in the dark! sir? I'll keep a special eye on your heavy feet began to ascend the shops for you, siri"
A fine of $5 was imposed.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
The R.M.S. Empress of Canada Dewar charged with making a false entry will sail from here for Manila at
in certain books and papers, porting to show that the money had midnight to-day, Instead of 8 p.m.
as previously advised.
returning
ROSS IMPROVES
Chefoo, To-day,
to
Mr. Ross, the officer who, wounded in the Shuntien piracy,
pur-
been paid to a fictitious person.
Inspector J. Murphy said that a colleitor would prosecute for the Bank, and asked for a week's mand, which was granted.
has passed a good night. His tembezzled $20,000. perature and pulsa are almost nor- mal.-Reuter,
re-
The s.a. Takáda left Singapore for Hong Kong yesterday afternoon. Wednesday and is due here on morning:
It was alleged that accused em- He came back to
No case of notifiable diseases the Colony on his own accord and
was reported in the Colony health gave himself to the police.
bulletin during the 24 hours ending June 20,
SHEER INSOLENCE.”
Magistrate Censures Car Driver.
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stairs again and he grew desperate, FUNERAL OF LATE MR. Į
clenching and unclenching his fiste, while his heart raced madly.
He
I
SOONDERAM
Former School Master And Hotel Employee.
HINDU CEMETERY CEREMONY
BORDERERS SENT FOR TRIAL.
Highway Robbery Alleged.
“UNDER INFLUENCE OF DRINK”
Then he remembered the little room they used to store very valu- |able furn-but now empty.
alipped in quietly pushing the door shut behind him. He leaned against It until the catch clicked, breathing. as heavily as a runner after a race.
The three South. Wales Border- There was a large attendance aters, Privates Booth, Roberts and He could hear the feet stop and the "It is the most groan case of im-door-knob rattle, he heard the ater the funeral yesterday at the Hindu Horley, who are facing charges of REPORT OF AIR SEARCH
pertinence I have heard, sheer in-torous breathing of the policeman Cemetery of the late Mr. Ramasamy highway robbery and assaulting a London, To-day.
Bolence. If you think your master as he tried to peer through the key-Soonderato, who died at his resid-public vehicle driver, Lo King, on Further information from Ad-
is so important, I think he had bet hole; then, years after, the feet ence in Wanchai on Wednesday at June 18, near Repulse Bay wore An order for the confiscation of ter pay your fine", said Mr. E. W. went on up the stairs.
the age of 72 years, miral Sir Frederic Dreyer, Com-
committed to stand their trial at WYATT FIT FOR TEST
Born in Hong Kong, he became the next criminal sessions by Mr. mander-in-Chief, China Station, re-
60 bags of salt and 24 bags of suger, Hamilton at the Central Magistracy He glanced instinctively at his garding the rescue of the five Eng-
found unclaimed on board the .. this morning, in imposing a fine of watch; the luminous dial showed master of the Wanchal Government Q. A. A. Macfayden at the Central (Continued from page 1.) Hahmen and one Chinese official
Then he remen-School, which post be held for 21 Magistracy yesterday. Tai Lee by Inspector Stimson, was $50, in default one month's hard half-past eleven,
Mr. MacFadyen asked the defen- captured by pirates from the 5.4. The regretted absence of Lar-made this morning at the Central labour, on Lai Sheung-yan, driver bered: the door he had just closed years. He later joined the staff of Shuntion, shows that on Wedresday wood from the team has created a Magistracy by Mr. E. W. Hamilton. of private are No. 2100, when he was fastened with a spring catch, the Hong Kong Hotel, but retired dants whether they had any state- some time ago after a period of 25 ment to make, and Booth and Hor- morning aircraft from H.M.S. agle, great difficulty, and the last min-
was summoned for falling, to obey He was locked in1 with the concurrence of the Chin-ute search for
For I. I. D. Certificates of the the direction of a police officer..
ley replied in the negative. Bo- a fast bowler re-
He looked at the window: the years of unbroken service. ese authorities, carried out a search sulted in Gover, a young Surrey Societ International de Place- Sergeant Paton, in evidence, sald bars stood black against the faint Among those present at the berts, however, said "All three of in the neighbourhood of the posi-player as yet unknown to internamente. Dasie, Switzerland, (Local that at 10.05 a.m. on June 12, he light from the street lamp down, at funeral were Mr. J. H. Taggart us, were in a state of drunkenness tion of which the captives had been tional cricket, being invited to at-Agents, Measra. A. Gocke & Co.) saw the accused's car parked in Ice the corner. Something cold trickled (Managing Director of the Hong when the incident occurred. Be- to-day's official quotation in Basle, House Street, in front of the Matas-down his nose: he put his hand to Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.), ing under the influence of liquor, Mr. P. H. Suckling (General we hardly knew what we were excluding dividendo accrued, is 69. bura Hotel, and told him to remove his face to find his forehead wet Q. Od.
the car
The defendant, however, with sweat. He did not dare to Manager), and F. C. Barry (Secre- doing." replied that he must wait for his switch the light on till the police-tary), Messrs. R. M. Omar, U.
man had returned from his explora-Omar, A. O. Madar, S. Rafeek, A. HEALTHY RISE IN SILVER NOW half a mile from the sea. On fur the young Essex amateur, who male, both pleaded guilty, before Mr. Sergeant Paton returned 85tion.
Minute after minute sped Curreem, Sepher, Ismail, D. Rum-
ADVOCATED ther investigation from the air, a topped the bowling averages in E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon minutes later and still found the by, but no steps were heard. The Jahn and many other members of
(each innings. Farnes was consi- Magistracy this morning, to a car in the same place, and again tenant upstairs had been touched by the Indian community.
(Continued from Page 1) sampan, bearing a white flag, wasdered to be the best amateur fast
Wreaths were sent by Mr. and observed in a position five miles to bowler last season, and he is liv-taels of raw opium.
charge of having possession of 105 he was told that he, must wait for P. Bray's zeal and was determined
"We want a healthy rise in Mrs. J: H. Taggart, Mr. and Mrs. silver prices, but not a sensation- the eastward of
A fine of his master. of groups
to force, a drink on him. In this ing up to his promise this year.
A. A Abbas, Mr. and Mr. S. R. Aal one like Last Summer, when junka,
$1,000, in default three months' Accused said that he did remove he was disappointed. Bowes, of Yorkshire, is likely to hard Inbour and $2,000 in his car, but came back for his mas- The man waiting so quietly be Curreem, Mr. F. C. Barry, Mr. Pspeculation swept the markets," This sampan proved to contain Mr. Nicholl, the Shanghai insurance assist the shock attack
Australia, though Nicholls, who 1pectively, was imposed.
against default six months' hard labour res-ter when he encountered Sergeant low grew sick with apprehension. H. Suckling, HLM. H. Esmail, Simon he said. "When it goes up, we man, and the Chinese official, Malso a very ane bataman, is likely
Paton for the second time.
He thought of a candle candles Yan, Kalushiya Bros, the Hong want it to stay there." Sun Fung-ling, who had been seut
to be first choice. It was proved
burning inexorably down to the pool Kong Hotel, the Hong Kong Hotel of preservative in which it was Management, President, Committee stood. (He had not allowed for the and Members of the Indian Recres
ition Club and others. fact that he had left it in 藕 draught). Now he regretted the Impulss that had brought him here;
taken nland.
MR. NICHOLL'S SAMPAN
During this search, fire was open-
ed on one of the aircraft from
tend Lord's as the lith mRE,
FARNES TO BEAR BRUNT
The brunt of the attack in the
a group of junks in a creek about last match was borne by K. Farnes,
the
Yeung Kin, female, and Li Kan, master.
with letters for the purpose of open in Australia in the last series that ed, was sentenced to three months' Lo Fuk, a 24-year-old unemploy- ing negotiations with the British and Chinese authorities at Tainanfu. the men from "dewa under" are hard labour by Mr. E. I. Wynne far from comfortable when facing Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy These two captives were rescued by Bowes, and, although he was acthis morning for stealing one rat- float planes which landed near the
cused of bowling short to intim-tan basket containing eight pieces Bampan and took them to H.MS.
date the Eagle.
been taken by them.
NATIVE BANKERS
SUED.
Claim.
thorities state that he is too good Taut Chak Shing, an 18-year-old
atteman, leading zu-of clothing, valued at $9.50, from Overseas-Chinese Bank hadn't he enough money for a bowler to need to frighten a man taxi cleaner, of No. 1 Pakhoi] before getting him out.
Street.
VERITY CERTAIN
JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFFS
any
conceivable luxury, without this? He decided to call for assistance when the policeman returned. but when it came to the point he lost his
B. J. HEEZ MOORE LAID TO REST.
A.P.C. Employee Dies In His Bath.
He refused to disclose the amount
United Press, per S.C. Gold Bar Co. purchased, which is unofficially eat!-
mated at 65,000,000 ounces. The stabilisation fund, he said, had pur- chased until Tuesday, after which, purchases begun out of the Trea- cury's general fund. =
He said that the volume of the purchases would depend on the mar
ket.
"If we are' obferred ressonable prices we will buy”, - he added...... United Press, par 8.C. Gold Bar Co. POLITICAL PARLEYS IN CANTON
JUNKS OPEN FIRE. Meanwhile, heavy fire had been opened from the ground, abreast of group of junks, on other aircraft:
Vérity's all-round play in the A fine of $100, in default, two
The funeral took place yesterday ment to investigate, in spite of the fact that no offensive action had last series of Tests and his form months' hard labour, was imposed Judgment with cost was granted! The feet passed by pausing
with the ball this season
make on Keung Tam, an earth coolie, of by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice second halfway down the last flight afternoon of the late Mr. B. J. de him a certain inclusion as the slow of the Fung Hing Contractors MacGregor, at the Supreme Court while Pc. Bray pinched out a halte Hees Moore, for many years with One of the aircraft · WAS hit
Matahed, Sassoon Road, by. Mr. E. yesterday afternoon, to the Overburnt cigarette and pushed it under the Asiatic Petroleum Company, through the main plane, and it was bowler in the side,
England is well provided with W. Hamilton at the Central Magis- seas-Chinese Banking Corporation the Bap of his tunic pocket. Then who died in his bath at the Afrile
(Continued From Page 1) necessary to return dre. The
General Pal Haung-hai hai bean pirate junk then started to put to howlers, in addition to the forego tracy this morning, for being in pos Ltd., who sued the Mesars Wing the feet went on, and he was alone. Hotel yesterday morning from heart Wernar groped for the light failure. The "Bev, H. W. Baine
invited by the – Kuomintang vabar- Bea, and anchored in shoal water, ling there being Hammond, Leyland session of a Vickers machine gun Yue firm of native bankers, and Chu which made it impossible for a des-and Gearz, who have all proved belt and 117 rounds of ammunis- Wai-yue, managing partner, for switch, found it and pressed it officiated.
their worth in Tests, troyer to approach her, Aircraft
tion at Main Street, Shaukiwan, U.S.$20,000 and two sums of £5,000 down without result. Not working! Proaldent, were Mesurs A. 1. us to come to Canton to streng He felt for his matches, carefully Burneler, R. Lee, W. A Butterfield, then their stand against Nanking, were therefore sent to drop à 'warn- It is not expected that many
each. ing bomb near this junk with mee changes will be made in the vic weeks imprisonment was imposed breach by the defendants of three
The claim was for damages for opened the box and struck one. A. C. Beck, W. X Hunt, 7 The National Gevement is re A fine of $30, in default three
His hand shook so much that the Atkins, N. 8. EIE, W. 1, Roberts, presented by General Chiang Pehr sages in Chinese threatening the use torious Australian team. of force unless the prisoners were. They only alteration likely. In the on Chan Hung, unemployed, by Mr. contracta, in writing, dated January lighted match touched the unused E. J. K. Walker, D. A Barradas, cheat, who has been busy conver
port of the critten) authorities. aurrendered.
were replacement of L. Darling by E. H.Q. A. A. MacFadyen, at the Central 25, January 27 and February 5 this matches in the open bat: Thery Lag Wing-took C. C. Chan and ting the military hire in their sup JAPANESE SENT TO TIENTSIN | Bromley.
Police Court this morning, for the year, for the sale and delivery of was a hiss, and a fiame a foot high others. theft of 12 pieces of clothing in a the money by plainties to the der made him drop the box hastily Wreaths were sent by Mr. W. H. Accounts Departmen These measures were: successful,
w of the gineering Depart and the remaining four European Ar. Yamamoto, the Japanese hou, rattan baskes from the Pervants fendants. The action was beard The matches barat fiercely for Ba priemers were released in tage was sent in a Junk to Tanteln quarters of No. 8. Calle Road, The Bond, Texel, and rent out p pan and embarked in H.M.B. Whitby pirates to arrange terms. No second floor, and for the theft of Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., Instruct shed.
„The rescued officers rap
that
re ort has yet been received of his clock, and, a incicat from the first of by
British Wire Service, floor,
blinded by the aud
En