THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934.
ENJOYABLE SWIMMING ON LOK FAUT-day's Short Story.
RAIN FAILS TO
MAR MOUNTAIN
HOLIDAY TRIP
Local Vacationists Return Home ENTHUSIASTIC REPORTS
Although continual rain and mists spoiled the camp at 1.ok FAU, a mountain about 80 miles: out of Cantun, the local campers, including Mr. and Mrs. D. Orr, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Price and child, and Mrs. Lanchester, all! appear to have enjoyed their the
six
weeks holiday up in clouds. The party left Hong Kong on July 23 and arrived at Lok Fau the next day leaving
ол
August 31 for Hong
Kong and arriving back on the same day.
During their six weeks vacation only two
free weeks were from rain. but the eumpers made full цве of short spells of sunny weather. This year's weather was the worst experienced for many years.
Dragon Fool, the biggest swimming pool an Lok Fau, is about 60 feet long and has a depth of 19 feel at the deepest part. Mrs. Lan- chester is seen witting in the fore-ground.-(Photo by Mr. D. Orr)."
the few KWANGTUNG BUDGET
before
DEFICIT
High Cost Of Military
Maintenance
NEW TAXES NEXT MONTH
SIX MONTHS GAOL
FOR UNEMPLOYED
WITH REVOLVER
Heavy Sentence In View Of Armed Robberies
ACCUSED LIES TO POLICE
The Turtle-Back
By Alexander
College
FF the Casquets. the Channel Poole, and found her very useful
O steamer behaved like a buck for fishing, plenic partles, and run- ing broncho: the climax of aning over to France. thoroughly uncomfortable cross- (ing.
"Last Saturday my mechanic put in a hard day overhauling her: 1 An hour later-a chastened man gave him a holiday on Sunday, I entered, the-salle-a-manager of "The weather was so fine that I a Guernsey hotel and .difdently decided to run over to Sark and test surveyed the guests. Freddy Main- the engine. I filled up the fuel waring-at a corner table-beckon-tank and started.. ¡ed hospitably.
"The engine ran sweetly, I let her "Come and join me, I'm just out and shaped a course past Herm beginning. Waiter! another chair, for Little Sark. I passed the Cou land," he added, glancing at my pee and was half-way round the pale face, "bring a corpse reviver."island when I ran into a nasty patch "Feel better?" he Inquired; a of sex fog. It was foolish to carry few minutes later.
on so I stopped and waited for it ito clear.
I nodded.
"Ground stopped heaving?" Haatily I changed the subject. "How long have you been Guernsey 7"
"About two months." "How's the turtle-back?"
"I wish you'd stop calling
cabin Diesel-engined
cruiser
turtle-back he protested.
1
"The silence was death-like. was bored atift with' inaction,
suddenly somewhere in whon
In -the mist-I heard a marvellous contralto voice singing. I listened entraned; a puff of wind dispersed a the fog, and the song abruptly) a ceased.
"Why the past tense, is she sold?" of a slate-coloured motor-launch-
"No."
"Wrecked?"
"Leaning on the steering-wheel
almost dead ahead-was a tall dark-; haired girl in a short-sleeved jump-
"I dunno. Freddy attacked his fer and trousers. dinner. "I'll tell you afterwards.".
"The launch was a strongly-bullt
We ordered coffee on the Lawn, flush-decked craft. with beautiful and found a seat remote from the lines; worthy of the lovely passen- scenery worshippers.
ger, I thought. She looked fast "About the turtle-back?" Iland sat the water like a duck.”
RIVER JOURNEY The party which left this one went by boat to Canton and then by road to the foot of the mountain. Mr. Orr said that they were to have gone the same way, but they received a wire only
(From Our Own Correspondent! a day or two ahead to say that they would have to go up by train.
Canton, Saturday,
o Mun-sing a 32-year-old un-prompted. Leaving on a morning train from
Both national and provincial re employed, Was 'thia morning "I brought my Diesel-engined Kowloon, they alighted at Shek Lun venues collected in Kwangtung for charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- cabin cruiser," corrected Freddy. and took a boat up the East River the month of July are exceeded by fadyen at the Central Magistracy "from her winter quarters to Tung Pok. from where they tra-expenditures for the same period, for being in possession of a re- velled
long boats, like
according to official figures made volver at the Yuen On Wharf. dragon boats, for miles Aver
public to-day, the flooded fields. Cuming to an old
vacant Chinese tea house, they had a short spell before their two-hour hike to the Wai Shun Tei Monastery, where they stayed for the night. Special mention of the kind hospitality of the Chinese monks was made.
618.78.
820,17.
"Must require a lot of practice!" Freddy ignored the interruption.
President Paul von Hindenburg, of Germany, who died last month, seen following his favourite recrea- tion, shooting, on his estate.
Prisoner's
Temper
Bashes Head
on
Hand Rail
"I started up and drew alongside. BECAUSE PLEA NOT
at'Please continue,! I begged.
Sub-Inspector Cunningham, who MISTAKEN ZEAL The figures are as follows: asked for a heavy penalty to be National revenues, $7,797,434.53. imposed on accused in view of the National expenditures, $8,010,- recent armed robbery cases, said Nanking Pursues Wrong
that accused was arrested early
Policies Provincial revenues, 34,081,183.78 on Saturday morning. When ask- Provincial expenditures, $4,836,-ed by « Chinese revenue-officer
SUPPORT FOR SOUTHWEST what he had concealed in his
URGED BY MR. HU From national expenditures the waist accused said that it was a; During their stay at the monas-i tery they found that it had been maintenance of the military, aerial, piece of iron.
Sentence of six months' hard
[From Our Own Correspondent] built in 739 A.D., a fact which is and naval services as well as the mentioned in a book written by Dr.Yin Tong Military academy, the labour was imposed on accused. F. W. A. Bourne about the holiday monthly sum is $5,157,135.09.
collected in which he spent there in 1895. He national revenues was probably the founder of the Kwangtung are expended here a
first of the camps.
MOUNTAIN HIKES
military contributions and expenditure.
All
other
The camp
was reached after For publicity purposes a monthly
is appropriated | long and tedions climb next morn-sum of $8,050,00 ing. Many pleasant walks were from national and provincial re
This sum does not include organised, the highest peak,. F venues. Wang Ting, being the most popular the maintenance of three official
of all.
Several new taxes are to be col-
aome 400 feet above the camp it the Three-Year Plan. took at least two or three hours to reach it. Swimming was another lected next month and will cover of the popular recreations, swim-the present deficits in provincial ming pools being found on many of and national finance. the hilla, the biggest being about
a depth of at return
WOMAN WEAVES AS HOBBY
Daughter of Pulitzer Prize Winner
Madison, Wis.
""Can't my auction pipe's choked."
""How perfectly foul! I sym-
pathised.
те:
'Rotten!'
GRANTED
CONSTABLE FOUND GUILTY OF GROSS
NEGLIGENCE
Remand Home Escape Sequel
MAXIMUM FINE IMPOSED
Found guilty on a charge of gross negligence, while on duty, in allowing to boys to escape (they have not yet been located) from the Juvenile Remand Home, Causeway Bay, on August 29, the maximum fine of $250, was this morning imposed on Wong Chun-kuen, P.C. No. 570, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy.
Mr. Hin-Shing Lo, instructed to appear for defendant by Mr. J. M. Hall, pleaded that there was evidence of negligence, but that there was no evidence of gross or culpable negligence, or criminal intent on the part of his client.
Mr. Lo said that although ac- jcused did not carry out the in- structions of his superiors, and that although the law required care and caution It did not re- He quire the utmost caution. submitted that the boys at the Home were very well treated and that accused had no antici- pation that any would escape.
Prison Sentence Auked Recalling accused's record as a constable, Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, said that if the case had been proved, he would ask for a sentence of imprisonment, without the op.
tion of. a fine. Mr. King said that
five days prior to the incident in question, accused was brought before him and was dealt with After being sentenced to two departmentally for mis-conduct. "The girl looked disdainfully at months' hard labour with the In this instance the accused had option of paying a fine of $180, allowed the boys freedom to play "Why were you singing "What'il for being found with 6 taels of around the Home, while he was I do?" I asked.
opium in his possession, Tiu found sound asleep.
It will be recalled that some time "What else could I sing? I've no Sang, a 51-year-old yarn_dealer,, tools."
asked Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones to after 7.80 p.m. on August 29, two When boys, Mak Shiu and Tam Wal, who "I had a kit and offered my ser.reconsider his decision. vices. She was no novice, said that he was refused he immediately were serving sentences, asked de- it was no use playing with a red-started to strike his head, vio-fendant to let them out of the room hot engine-but I could give her a lently on the hand rall of the to go to the lavatory, which was Canton, Saturday. tow. I threw a line aboard and dock, sustaining a cut over the also on the same floor. Defendant Being an important political cen- started to tow her to Guernsey. left eye and injuries to the let them out. His duty and orders were to lock the door after them tre second only to Nanking, Can-The fog came on thicker than ever: mouth.
the lavatory, Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for and escort them to ton la visited by, many representa-I stopped, hauled in my line, and
the defence, and after the evidence wait there, and bring them back. tives of Northern military rulers, drifted back to her.
of the prosecution, which stated and lock them up again. Just as The latest arrivals are agents of
that the police raided the place and they went to the lavatory, a fire General Yen Hal-shan, of Shansi,
found the defendant in the room engine passed outalde, and several General Wang Chia-lich, of Kwel-
attention where the raw oplum was found, of the boys had their chow, and General Ho Chien, of
Bald that the defendant could not attracted by it. They went out on Hunan.
be charged with possession just be the verandah, and defendant's at- cause he was found in the same tention was also attracted,
the fire engine had passed, the boys room.
Defendant then stated that the returned to their rooms.
Escape Discovered
In addition there are here numer aus executive members of various!
In a special "loom room" in public organizations in northern
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Accident," by D. Wilson MacArthur.
After
newspapers. Chinese newspapers This peak is 1,160 feet above sea and news agencies are subsidised | level, and, although it was only to herald the various projects of her colonial home, Mrs. John cities, which are in close connec "To pass the time more profitably jopium belonged to Wong Yan, and
Main, carries on her hobby of tion with the South-west regime. I hunted out a heavy adjustable that Wong had gone outside the At 8 p.m. another constable, No. weaving colonial designs in These are the bodies which circus spinner and suggested that I might place. When question by Mr. da 633, came to relieve the defendant. covers, bags and scarfs. late manifestoes in support of the disconnect things a bit. The girl Silva he said that Wong had gone on the first floor there was a She is the daughter of the late South-west and in opposition to said she'd better get out of the way, to another shop to get more oplum. register which the relieving con- Frederick Jackson Turner,, an au-Nanking.
and climbed aboard my boat.
The police gave Tiu the oppor-stable and the man whom he re- thority on American history, It is learned that these repre- "Be careful what you do with tunity of finding. Wong, but he Heves were required to sign and 60 feet long with
wet to the skin in a who received a Pulitzer history sentatives have been asked to give that weapon!' she cautioned, as she refused to do so.
atate the number of boys taken over lenst 19 feet. The surrounding rainstorm; for when it rained up at prize. Mrs. Main has a large their opinion on the current politi-made herself comfortable on my Un looking up his record it was and handed over. The defendant rocks provided many excellent diy-Lok Fan it came down in torrents. loom made at the mountain cal situation in view of the coming cushions.
found that he had been gooled in had already signed the number na ing platforms.
The Hong Kong party were the school at Berea, Ky.
Fifth National Congress of the "I wasn't standing any nonsense 1926 for keeping an opium divan, 41 in the book, and when No. 633 Kuomintang. If northern from a crocked motor engine: hop-and had jumped a bail of $1,000 for counted the number of boys he generals support Canton, a stronger ped' aboard the launch, disconnect- being found with opium in his wet and foggy weather came cards, across the fields as the floods had| COLLECTIVE FARMS attitude will be adopted towarded the injection valve, and gave possession in 1932.
Nanking concerning, the agenda of the pipe a hearty whack with the When sentence was passed, the the Congress.
jdefendant asked, the magistrate to All the delegates have visited spanner. Then I kicked it.
"That should have done the reconsider his decision, and when he Mr. Hu Han-min at Hong Kong-trick."
was refused he immediately started The former President of the Legis- "It did! The water fairly spout-to strike his head violently on the lative Yuan, it is reported, urgeded through the opening; the launch hand rail of the dock. Police off- Collective farms are beginning all the northern leaders to realise sank so quickly I barely had time cers stopped him and he was taken the mistaken stand of Nanking and to scramble aboard my boat." from the court bleeding freely from to go in for owning aeroplanes.
In the cool of the evening games last to leave, the Canton party leav-
were played, as reading was aing on August 30. On their return
a strain on the eyes. When the journey they were able to walk
chess, and other Indoor games were subsided. They walked to Tung played. Often a party would leave Pok, returning to Kowloon by the the camp in warm sunshine and same way as they came.
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A report from Zaporozhye to support the policies of the tells of the arrival of an aero-South west. plane for the collective farms of the Kantzer Machine-Tractor | Station. Money for the plane was collected among the farms.
NATIONAL HERO.
Some 500 farmers took part in Nanking Honours Late the meeting which received the aeroplane, and the best shock- workers were given rides.
SWEEPING PROPOSALS BY
CANTON
Mr. Lin Chi-Mien'
REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
"What did the girl say?"
cut over the left eye and the "Nothing. Just bit her ilp and mouth. stared straight at me. Then the wind came.
"While I was busy boat sinking FOUND WITH LADY'S
HANDBAG
we drifted a long way to the east-
ward. I started up and headed for
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CAR ACCIDENT IN NATHAN ROAD
European Woman Knocked Down
Mr. Lyen, of No. 1, Kennedy Road, reported last night that while driving his car in Nathan
Road, at 11.30 p.m., he acciden bally knocked down Miss Brown of No. 61, Nullah Road.
Miss Brown was admitted to
the Bee du Nez. We soon lost the Unemployed Fined $250 the Kowloon Hospital suffering
sbelter of the Island and caught it
properly.
"It was already blowing kalf
A
For Possession
from alight Injuries to the chin and back of the head,
INDECENT ASSAULT
ON WOMAN..
Unemployed Given Gaol Sentence
Convicted on a '
of inde-
gale and hardening every minute: A fine of $250, in default three Canton, Saturday, I wondered whether we should months hard labour, was imposed Extolling the merits of Mr. Lin make Guernsey. We drove through on. Yu Yoa, unemployed, by Mr. Chi-mien, late member of the Cen-an enormous wave which-thanks]Q. A: A. Macfadyen at the Central
turtle-back tral Executive Committee and the to the (Continued from Page 1)
how--didn't|Magistráty this morning, for befug Southwest Political Council, who swamp us: this decided me to put in illegal possession of a lady's Such terms are directly at yar-did arduous work during the nd-back under the lee of Sack and wait handbag, containing some Wing On lance with the policies now par- tional revolution, and who passed for the wind to moderate. I told and Company receipts, two watch sued by the National Government. away in Canton one month ago, the the girl; she nodded, and I went crystals, and three pieces of jade,
the gold attached to which had ap- cent assault on a woman, In Severe punishment of those res-Central Executive Committee of about. ponsible for the loss of the North-Kuomintang in Nanking has In- "We ran along coast until Iparently been extracted.
Queen's Road Central at about 10 eastern province means the im-structed the National Government spotted a little bay-shut in by Sub-Inspector Cunningham pro- o'clock this morning, Tang Yang peachment and removal of Marto grant $20,000 to his family and steep cliffs with a sizeable cave secuted.
po, a 20-year-old unemployed, was sentenced to two months hard shal Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman has ordered the Party History Com above high-water mark............ I ran of the Military Affairs Commis-pilation Commission to record his the boat up on the beach and help-
$2,000 FINED IMPOSED Bebour, by Mrs. Hamilton, t
Past the Central Magistracy. sion, and Mr. Wang Ching well dcis in the Party History, accorded the girl sahore,
"We explored the cave and found President of the Legislative Yuaning to a resolution passed at the
Appearing on remand, Wong Slu, Sub-Inspector Mist stated that and concurrently Foreign Minis meeting of the Standing Committee. It dry and roomy, with a hard a heroin-pill dealer, who was charg while complainant was walking ter.
“A telegram : addressed to Chair- sandy floor. Then it began to rained with being in Illegal possession along Queen's Road Central ae- These two officials are working man Lia Yuen-ka! and Mayor Liu hurried down to the boat for of 7,069 heroin pills at the Empress cused came from behind and put hard to convene the Fifth Con- Chiwen by Mr Tal Chi-tao-out tarpaulin and cushions, with which Hotel last week was this morning als arms around the woman's gress and are preparing resolu- lining the decision of the Central we soon made ourselves comfort fined $2,000, in default two months waist Complainant raised an tions based on their present po-Executive Committee, was received able.
hard labour, by Mr. E. W. Hamil olarm, and accused was caught bere yesterday Central Press.
ton at the Central Magistracy, by an Indian constable.
Hafer.
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