THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934.
RED DRIVE END IN SIGHT AS BOMBING PLANES
Tu-day's Short Story.
ACCIDENT
By D. Wilson MacArthur
ST of the passengers on the boy's hand. She looked tired, the upper deck. had noticed her smile wistful.
MOST
him. They smiled.
It was
Somewhere, astern of Marchio- ncas of Lorne, in the fog, a batter. genuine pleasure just to watch ed old 3,000-tons tramp clattered him
-the stalwart, erect little through the Cumbrae Heads, by to the figure. in spotless white, strong the grace of God keeping
channel-way. Rust-eaten, grimy, little hands grasping the rail as
and disreputable, she vibrated from he stood staring with puckered stem to stern with the clanking serious eyes into the grey opaque uproar of her superannuated blanket of fog.
engines, and the Greek fling she flew They looked, too, at the tall quiet-streamed out in a ten-knot breeze mannered young woman beside him, she made for herself *8 she one hand clutching the back of his shouldered through the fog. coal, but so gently that he should Below, in the smoky gloom of a not suffer the indignity of knowing cabin reeking with tobacco and himself hell. Her eyes, staring alcohol, the muster and mate with him into the fog, were anxious argued. and sad. Marchioness of Lorne was
into
Captain John MacRobert was a feeling her way with infinite cau- heavily-built man in the late thir- tion out from Rothesay the ties, of immense physique grown Firth of Clyde, bound for Gourock flabby. There still lingered in the to catch the Glasgow train; but the swollen, sullen face something of fog was impenetrable, moving infery autocratic power, and a, flash, aluggish solid banks that sent out now and again, of keen forcefulness; writhing tentacles clammily over but the great shoulders dropped the decks. An anxious master over the table as he fingered a half stood on the exposed bridgo, shift-empty whisky glass.
ing from fout to foot and straining "Huish, the mate, small and his old experienced eyes,, while he shrivelled and old, was busy at the kept his hand upon the telegraph. moment in cursing the captain in a A passenger, looking down with steady stream of invective, without admiration at the sturdy figure of enthusiasm, although the glare the boy, conjecturing casually that growing in MacRobert's eyes roused the sad-eyed mother must be a him to more passionate efforts. recent widow, remarked lightly:
"Well, sonnio! Not feeling frighten-
ed, eh?"
The boy looked up. Hig eyee were wide with astonishment.
"Frightened?" he repeated, wrinkling his brows. "No. Ought I to be frightened?" You're not frightened, are you, mummle?"
"No, Ronnie. Of course I'm not frightened," she replied. with affectionate reassurance,
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The boy looked up again.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Bargain," by Tomlin- son Wright.
"Pull_yerself together, you dirty devil." he shrilled. "Ain't you got a wife and kid waitin'. for you?
"I couldn't be frightened-could And near two year since you been
I. mummie? My dad's a sea cap-'ome." tam. He wouldn't be afraid of fog.
MacRobert eyed him levelly, and
Herr. Karl Vaugoin, former head of the Christian Soefallst party, which put the late Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss at the head of, the Aur- trian government, was mentioned as a possible successor to Dr. Dali- fuas a Chancellor.
GAMBLERS CAUGHT IN WYNDHAM ST.
12 Carpenters Play "Sam Kung"
COMMUNISTS NOW
ON DEFENSIVE.. HARRASSED POSITIONS
IN HUNAN
GENERAL RETREAT TO WEST
Canton, To-day.
While Communist remnants are still roving in Southern Hunan, a report from the Third Independent Division of the First Group Army | stationed on the Kwangtung-Huna u borders reported last night that all is quiet in the frontier regions.
A telegraphic report from General Ho Chien, Commander-in- Chief of the West Route Anti-Communist forces, stated that his forces are fighting the Reds at Kweiyang and Chihing. Southern Hunan. In all engagements, Gen eral Ho claimed that the enemy was on the defensive.
According to another report, bombing planes of the Nanking Air Force assisted in the campaign and killed over 100 Reds in an aerial bombardment on September 7,
ENTER ATTACK
CHINESE PLAYWRIGHT TO LECTURE IN COLONY
"Stage And Screen Play" Subject At United Photoplay Stadio
Mr. Lo Min-pak, Chiness writer and playwright who arrived in the Colony from Tientsin yer- terday, will give a lecture at the United Photoplay studio on the subject of "Stage and Screen Play."
Mr. Lo, who has recently been appointed Professor of Literature to the Sun Yat Sen University, will leave for Can- ton within the next few days.
Scale Adjustment On Income
OPIUM SMUGGLED
INTO COLONY ON CHINESE GUNBOAT
Revenue Officers
Handicapped
STIFF FINES IMPOSED TO
:
CHECK PRACTICE
"We are greatly handicapped. when they bring opium into the Colony on gunboats, because we are not allowed to board and search them.
We have to wait on shore for them," said Revenue Officer Humphreys when prosecuting Lo
NEW BETTING BILLYlu Ming, a 24-year-old seaman of the Chinese gunboat 8.8. Hoi Shui, AMENDMENT
and Lai Tong, a 31-year-old stoker of the same vessel, before Mr. J. B. H. Lee at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, for being found with 45 taels and 10 taels of raw opium,
He stated that he was waiting in Tung Chau Street, which is on
General Ho declared in another message that being defeated RESOLUTION BEFORE COUNCIL respectively, in their possession,
by the provincial troops the Reds are retreating towards Hsintien and Ningyuan, farther West. The Reds are being surrounded by the Government forces and are said to have exhausted their am- munition.
SOLDIERS' BURDEN LIGHTER
Lesson Of British Army Exercises
ON THURSDAY
'A scale determining the duty to the Shamehulpo seafront, when he be paid on every bet made on any saw the two men coming ashore,
Kwangsi-Hunan borders with Ordinance, 1934, will be submitted bananas, and the other, with par.
He then
The 19th. and 45th. Kwangsi totalisator Or parl-mutuel
have reached Įdivisiona
the thorised under the Betting Duty the first with a large bunch of Chuenhsien as their base of as a resolution by the Hon, Colonial cels of sweet-ments. operation. General Pei Hsung-Treasurer, Mr. Edwin Taylor, at
searched them and found that in hsi; Second-in-Command of the the Legislative Council Meeting, to Fourth Group Army, is expected be held on Thursday at 2.30 p.m.
the bunch of bananas was a paper to reach Nanning to-day after re- The scale will be calculated on parcel containing the opium, and maining here for three months the gross receipts from the sale of, After a brief stay in the Kwang-tickets at such a
amongst the parcels, carried by the totalisator or si provincial capital, General Fail pari-mutuel for any year ending second defendant, he found the will proceed to Kweilin to direct March 31, under the following rest of the opium. [operations.
The gunboat Recent exercises at Aldershot
In view of the successes of the, does not exceed $8,000,000 and p.m. and is now lying off Sham- heading: 1 per cent, if the total arrived from Canton at about 9.30 were designed with a view to em- Government forces over the Reds, ploying the tactician more than the Kwangtung provincial troops per cent. for every additional
jahuipo. A fine of $30, in default three the strategist. The technique of are garrisoning the border sim- $1,000,000 Lhereon. weeks' hard labour, was imposed on disposing and manoeuvring col ply to prevent the enemy from R. E. Lindsell, will move the first been instructed by the Superinten The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. R.O. Humphreys said that he had one, while four were fined $2, in lectively the component parts of moving southward. Most of the default three days' imprisonment. the modern fighting machine in Cantonese troops are located at reading of a bill to make provision dant to ask the Magistrate to take The rest were fined $3.
large scale exercises up to the Lienhsien, northern Kwangtung, for the financing and carrying out
A. Police raid, led by Sergeant Shepherd, on the third floor of No. 34 Wyndham Street last night, re- Bulted in 12. Chinese carpenters being brought before Mr. Q. A. A.. Macfadyen at the Central Magis- tracy, and charged with gambling by playing "Sam Kung".
INCREASED MOBILITY
The sum of $5.39 picked up from time of contact with the enemy If the Reds attempt to go of a scheme for a new Government a serious view of the matter. the floor, was ordered to be de- belongs to the art of general weat towards Kwelchow, the House and for the development of Fines of $1,350, in default 6 ship. Exercises framed for the Kwangsi troops will intercept the City of Victoria; and a bill to months' imprisonment, and $300, in posited in the poor box.
training of the higher command them at the Kwangsi-Hunan-amend the Empire Preference Or- default 2 months' imprisonment,
Kweichow borders, it is reported.dinance, 1932.
HORSE TAGS USED IN BOSTON
If this was his ship he'd go full the fingers clutching the glass speed ahead. It would be quite tightened so suddenly, and with such safe. My dad-can do anything!" strength, that the coarse ware
"That's the spirit, sonnie!" the crumpled. He stared in amazement Forerunner Of "Ticket" passenger applauded. "So your at his cut hand, at the whisky spilled on the table, at the frag-
dad's at sea?"
For Motorists
Boston.
are to come.
Meanwhile subordinate com-
manders have had practice in the 11 YEARS TO REACH tactical handling of their unita and some interesting but minor operations of war have been staged.
Perhaps the supreme lesson of} the Great War was the necessity
DECISION
Lengthy Legal Case In Japan
ALLEGED FORGED DOCUMENT
Unemployed's Ruse To Get $5
respectively, were imposed,
ROOSEVELT CABINET
HONOURS
Holders Of Twenty-One Honorary Degrees
Washington.
"Yes. He's the captain of a great ments of glass stained with blood. liner. He carries thousands and "Hell, yes," he muttered, then Tags, such as those which police for increased mobility. It is only thousands of passengers. Every-suddenly flared up.
hand to operators of misparked by accelerated movement that It has taken the Appeal Court of). Lai Kwai-cheung, unemployed, body says he's the finest captain in "Who're you calling a dirty devil, automobiles, were used here as far superior numbers can be brought Japan If years to deliver a deci- was charged before Mr. E. W. the world. He never has any you slab-faced Cockney 7" ho roar-back as 1858.
to the decisive point on the bat-sion in a case in which the Railway Hamilton at the Central Magis- wrecks, or accidents, or anything."ed, starting to his feet. Hulsh Time-yellowed police chronicles tlefield.. In some respects we Ministry sued the Kobe Shimatani tracy this morning, with at- The bright face darkened, and he watched him with hanging jaw, reveal that, in that year Daniel J. are mindful of the past and are Kisen K.K. for Y18,000 damages, tempting to obtain money by President Roosevelt and his added, with a algh, "But I don't see dully.
Coburn, then police chief, irked anxiously striving to correct arising out of a fire on board the means
of a forged document "brain trust have scored a high him very often. It's ages since he's
"You," he replied, with indiffer by traffic congestion on Gilby what a costly experience has defendants' steamer.
from the Kwong Sul Cheung tally of honorary degrees at Ame- been home. Isn't it, mummie? But ence. The foghorn boomed again. Street, directed his officers to put shown to be a blunder of the first The Railway Ministry alleged Import and Export Firm, No. 64. rican universities this year. Mr. perhaps he'll be home soon. It'll MacRobert pressed a hand to his warnings in horse-drawn carriages magnitude.
carelessness. The Koba. District Des Voeux Road Central, and Roosevelt himself received an LLD, be great, won't it-if he comes for eyes.
left standing by the curb. If these
Reference is particularly to Court gave judgment for plaintift, with attempted larceny by a from Yale University after the ad- lightening the foot soldier's bur and defendants' appealed. trick.
That!
Journment of Congress, and made. to-morrow."
It was stated that defendant the event on occasion for a spirit- complaints would
It was his personal lug was 11 years ago. lodged den. against offenders.
gage which so seriously reduced, Osaka Appeal Court confirmed the went to the complainants oned defence of the "New Deal" his mobility in the late War, and Kobe Court's decision, but reduced Sunday, bearing a letter from a when in contact with the enemy the damages to Y.9,000,
Shanghai firm to collect $5 from Secretary of State Hull set a re- cord for 1934 with five honorary the local firm.
On the application of Sergeant law degrees, from Notre Dame, Mary, Fraser, the case was remanded Columbia, William and until Thursday morning, George Washington and Williams universities, and he was closely followed by Secretary of the In- terior Ickes, who received four de- grees.
my birthday. I mean. I'm nine) "Damn this fog! Horn's fair proved ineffective, he stipulated,
splitting my head!"
Passenger and mother exchanged smiling glances. Then she caught
AN OBLIGATION OF DANGEROUS
POSSIBILITIES
be
STRICT RULES FOR TEACHERS
New Nanking Decree
offered him a sacrifice to the machine gunners.
The economic load of the, sol-
Recently, the
$10,000,000 LOAN. SOUGHT
He stood as it immersed in thought. It was borne in upon him that the ship was doing her full ten knots, with no look-out posted, with To watch except from the bridge, and fog about. He had been too intent upon his own misery. He
dier is one-third of his own drended the thought of reaching
weight, or 351b. to 40lb. Twenty port. He dreaded the inevitable
years ago the foot soldier was For meeting with his wife, his son. He Lady teachers, and girl students condemned to carry in action no
Nearly two in Nanking must not crop their less than 61lb. This figure occa dreaded going home.
Just three years ago he hair or powder their faces in fu-alonally rose to 100lb, thus limit- years! The German Charge D'Affaires, had been master of a majestic ocean ture, says the latest order lasued ing the infantryman's radius of in England. Prince Otto von Bis-liner, a popular young skipper with by Mr. Shih Ying, the Mayor of action to a few miles, marck, called at the Foreign Office his first command; and he had lost Nanking. yesterday afternoon, and handed in her.
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GERMAN MAKES OBSERVATIONS TO FOREIGN OFFICE
London, To-day.
a memorandum containing the ob- judgment, perhaps a little too much must be made in future of home-
servations of the German Govern-
ment on the proposals for an East-
ern Pact of mutual guarantee.
It is understood that a similar
action has been taken by the Ger man representatives in Paris, Rome, and Moscow, Service.
A ally, a trifling error of As regards their clothing, these
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produced materials, according to the Mayor's latest decree.
A FLOATING ICE FACTORY
Experiments To Be Made In Tropical Seas
Georges Claude, the inventor who
lamps from the thermal energy of Chung Ping, a 19-year-old un- tion by his father, who chased him the sea, will shortly leave Dunkirk employed, was bound over in a sum to the ferry where he was, caught for Brazilian waters in the Tunisie,
Boy Who Wanted To Spend
British Wireless His Life In School Robs Father was successful in lighting electric
RISE IN SILVER HURTFUL TO CHINA SAYS MR, LI MING
(Continued from Page 1).
Salt Store Houses
In China
CANTON'S STAND
(Continued from Page 1.)
It is learned that prior to tho
Other scores
were: Attorney-
The Ministry of Finance is to meeting of the Fifth National Con- General Cummings, 8 degrees; raise a loan of $10,000,000 from gress Nanking leaders will call a Postmaster-General Farley, 3; Sec- Chinese banks for the construction Fifth Plenary Session of the Cen- retary of Labour Perkins, 2; Sacre- of salt store houses in the various tral Executive Committee to dis-tary of Agriculture Wallace, 2; salt districts in the country, accuse draft resolutions to be 'aub-Secretary of War Dorn, 1; Secre- cording to a report from Nanking. mitted to the Congress. The ses tary of Commerce Roper, 1.
The store houses will be built at sion will take place as soon as Mr.
Yochow, Changsha, Hengyang, Han Sun Fo, President of the Legislative kow, Hsintl, Kluklang, Hukou, Ta-Yuan, returns to Nanking from
tung and Wuhu......
Honolulu..
BOND MARKET STRENGTHENED
New York, To-day-The Trea-
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES's re-financing plan is expected
United
to be easily absorbed and reflects "I will accept that explanation, Convicted on a charge of steal- the Government expectation of re- a married newed strength in the Bond mar- of $100 for a period of 12 months by a constable, it was found that hi 10,000 ton "Boating ice factory." but you must see that the dog does ing a handbag from by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the he had already spent $21.38 of the This floating ice. plant is the out-no get out again," said Mr. B. T. woman, Chan Yat-ming, of No. 489 ket. United Fress, per S. E. Levy Kowloon Magistracy this morning Hong Kong money.
come of the Inventor's researches Wynne Jones when Mrs. D. W. Queen's Road Central, Cheng Tung-and Company, for stealing H.K.$122.50 and $3.20 S. L. Rozeskwy stated that when over a long period in he Caribbean Fletcher of No. 1 Knight Street, yee, unemployed, was this morning
·U.S. BANK CLEARINGS UP in Chinese currency from his in the Charge Room of the Water Ses. The ship contains a turbine who was charged with allowing her sentenced to six months' hard la- father Chung Shing, of No. 20 Police Station the father expressed and all the material necessary for dog to wander in Knight Street bour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at The United States is proceeding Nullah Road.
New York, To-day. his wish for his son to he severely utilizing commercially the differ without a muzzle at 8.80 p.m. on the Central Magistracy. along legitimate and normal lines
Staten bank clearings totalled Sub-Inspector Rozeakwy stated punished for the deed. But before ence of sea water temperatures. August 18, pleaded that they had
Sentence of three months", hård U.S.82,418,480,099 last week, as in. her silver polley. It is expected that at 6 pm on September 9 the Mr. Wynne Jones he changed his "A tube 2,500 feet long will be only just taken the house and the that some foreign quarters circu- defendant told his mother that he mind and asked for his son to be lowered through the well in the dog over that morning and were labour was imposed on Lam Yen, against U.S.$2,292,544,109 for the Par date lated numerous, rumours in an ef was going to Canton, and left, the dealt with easily as it was his first ship's bottom. Gold water from the moving their furniture in when the unemployed by Mr. E. W Hamil previous week United Frese per
fort to be cloud and make ineffec. house. Shortly after be had left offence.
1960hzine lower depths of the sea tive the latest monetary move by his mother noticed that her hus.The son then said that he had pumped to the surface,
band's money-box had been broken been at school in Canton where he temperature of the water is about The spokesman said that no such into and all the money out; a letter had graduated, but could not find 16 degrees action was taken or is contem- | was found lying near the box, a job anywhere, so he came down plated. As far as it is known The father was informed and the to see his father and asked him to vapour "there is not shadow of truth in police notified. disperg 1 send him back to school, but his water will
the United States. But
the
report he declared United The next day the defendant was father refused him so he stole the Press, per 3. E, Lary and Company, seen on the Kowloon Railway Sta- money to go back to Canton.
of the
will be dog, ran out of the gate. ton at the Central Magistracy, this SB Levy, and Company,
H.M.S. Rainbow, and H.M.S. Or pheus, two vessels of the 4th Sub- marine Flotilia, left Weihelwel for
Hong Kong, this morning.
nitary Board @today?
morning, for the theft of a radia: tor cap, from private car No. 418, outside the University yesterday. Mr. Wong Ching-chten was the complainant in the case.
US: STEEL PRODUCTION
New York To-day-The United States Steel Institute reports pro- The sa. Bencleuch left Singapore duction at 20,9 as rapacity, as mount Yesterday and is a due here on pared with 18.4 per cent, last week.