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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1937.
THREE PEAK RESIDENTS SUMMONED FOR MAKING TOO MUCH NOISE
MAN AND WOMAN
To-day's Short Story.
IN BOAT BRAWL THE
All Over 20 Cents To
Buy Opium:
·
For striking his sister-in-law Li
Ab Mul, a 51-year-old bontkeeper;
BARGAIN
By Tomlinson
Wright:
INDIANS WITHOUT PASSPORTS
To Be Deported Back
To India
George Kebart, a Hindu,
It was stated that Kebart came
to the Colony from Macao, where
and. was the opening day of Ash-Cotton Exchange, sent him over for Hari Singh, a Sikh, were charged with a sampan rowlock, because she Ibridge Cricket Week, and a a spell to the land of his dreams. before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the refused to give him twenty cents promising young amateur, who young Rodney soon got the polson Central Magistracy this morning to buy opium, Kwok Ho. a 45-year- had seemed to be settling down out of his system. He came back with entering the Colony without a old unemployed was fined $25, in so nicely, had just thrown away several weeks before his time and valid passport.
To the tune of settled down chastely to play sound. default one month's imprisonment, his wicket. by Mr. J. R. II. Lee at the Kow-"Less Than The Dust," he came stuff for Eastshire.
Here it was, in the county of his he was dismissed from the Munici- striding pinkly back into the loon Magistracy this morning.
birth, that he met Robina Drake. pal Bank last month, and since then Sub-Inspector Watt stated that pavilion. the defendant had been obtaining "Bad luck, old boy," said a rather He was felding just in front of he has been without employment.
the ladies pavilion at Eastchester Singh, a former watchman, came money from the woman for a long familiar member.
"Bad luck be handed!" said the that afternoon, and a lofty pull for to the Colony in 1930, and was re- time, but on this occasion he was refused, so he picked up the row. disgruntled young man. "It's that alx sent him backing on to the rails cently dismissed by his employers. Іп a conscientious endeavour to Both defendants gave themselves lock which was lying nearby and confounded band."
He took instead a up to the Police as destitutes. struck her on the head, she imme! He passed on into the dressing-take a catch.
that landed Both defendants were remanded diately picked up a pole and struck room, followed by several, pazzled backward somersault him under the left eye, cutting him glances. A stout member peeping him, physically and metaphorically, to the Detention House, pending ar
rangements to send them back to out of the pavilion bar was by no at Robina's feet. rather badly.
He had
India. means baffled, however. repentedly heard hard things sald
LI A Mui, the complainant was bound over in a sum of $25 for, a period of six months.
"BOURGEOIS" TYPE OF SPORT
Soviet To Compete In Future
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A less well-bred giri would "Come about the band by players at cric-doubtless have murmured,
up and see me sometime?" Robina ket festivals.
"I wonder if all music upsets merely implied by an upward sweep him." he remarked, "or If it is just of her long lashes that twenty that he dislikes that particular years of life had offered several far tune?"
EARTH COOLIE ROBBED
Gaoled For Theft
less pleasurable surprises. It fol- Two Young Unemployed "Why should he?" inquired his lowed that, shortly after close of companion, a small inquisitive man, play, her two-seater developed ar- "Because, my dear sir, it may be buretter trouble just round the back associated with some painful episode of the pavilion. Moscow. [in his past. With AR unhappy The Soviet has decided to take love affair, perhaps, his old a new step and champion teams!
nanna's knee.
Heretofore the Soviet
has!
they were called, for being "pro-i ducts of working class teams were vited.
capitalism." Only member.
CF
w
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The
Was House That Dark" by Dewan Sharar.
In the case of from European countries are to R. S. V..P. Masters, a certain tung be invited to compete with So-always took him back to one of the vict athletes.
bleaker steppes of Russia,"
"You mean the Masters who ignored all "bourgeois" teams, as played for Eastshire?"
stout "I do," acknowledged the
"His is a most algni- ficant atory, Illustrating the
exclaimed gay." But now Soviet sport is ad-with which this cricket festival emerging fresh and spruce from a vanced enough to want to try its music may be exploited by the un-shower and a change, "can I help
scrupulous."
at all?" metal against more skilled mater
Few people are aware (he said) "Do you know anything about ial. The Czechoslovakian cham- pion soccer team will be the first that in his Varsity days Rodney carburetters?" she asked him.
Masters was that unusual combina- "Well," he said pointedly, "I know invited.
in-i
case "I
<
Rodney
Two young unemployed таль
Chan Wah and Wong Yau, · were,
charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-
fadyen at the Central Magistracy this morning, with the theft of a përse containing 32.80, the proper-
-The late President Paul von Hindenburg, seen at the start of .hta military career in 1866.
WHAT HAPPENS TO RADIO WAVES
ty of So Sam, an earth coolle, at Tracked 100 Miles Above the Prays yesterday.
Evidence showed that Chan. Wah
did, the actual purse. extracting|
side.
on one
The Earth
HOW MUI TSAIS ARE WARNINGS
UNTRACEABLE
Change Of Address Not Reported
"This is one of the many hun- dreds of mul-tsais of whom we have lost trace owing to their
UNHEEDED
COMPLAINANTS
NOT DIVULGED
IN THE COURT
change of address," said Inspec 9.15 P.M. To 1.50-A‚M.
tor Fraser, of the S. C. A, when prosecuting Mak Shi, of No. 69 Southwall Road, at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, for failing to report her change of address.
Nuisance
HEARING ON FRIDAY
"This case would
not have
He also stated that the defen- dant lived in No. 4 Morrison Hill appeared before Your Worship, |Road until two years ago when all had the defendants paid some re-
trace of her was lost.
gard to two previous Police Mr. J. B. H. Lee imposed a fine (warnings,” said Mr. T. H. King, of
of $10.
LICENSE FOR SALE
OF FRUIT
Sub-Committee Formed To Review Position
Deputy Inspector-General Police, who appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy this morning for the prosecution
SUMMONS against three Calony residents, Messrs. G. W. Sewell, H. ``C.
on
1
Meeke and A. L. Sullivan, of No. 1286, The Peak, for committing a nuisance by making or permit- ting a noise to be made, calcu- lated to disturb, or interfere with public tranquillity, between sun- A motion that a sub-committee set and 6 am, on August 31.
Mr. D. B. Evans, of Messrs. comprising Dr. J. M. Gray, Medical Johnson, Stokes and Maater, plead-
SANITARY BOARD MEETING
Officer of Health; Mr. L. C. F. Beled not guilty on behalf of defen- lamy and Dr. Li Shu-fan, be form dants, and asked for a day to be ed to go into the question of the fixed for hearing the case. licencing of the sale of fruit, other
Mr. King said that the evidence
than in the markets, was carried at in the case will be that on the oc- yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary casion in question the noise began
Board, on the proposition of Mr. Mat 9.15 p.m. and was continued at K. Lo, seconded by Dr. Li Shu-fan. various intervals until 1.50 a.m. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, Head of next morning. He added that the the Sanitary Department presid-case would not have been brought
from complainant's pocket, while FILMED FOR OLYMPIA SHOW ed, and others present were Hon. to court had the defendants paid
Mr. R. M. Henderson (vice-Pres attention to two police warnings. Wong Yau acted as accomplice by
Mr. Evans asked for the names jostling the complainant
A year's progress in the swiftly dent). Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith (Se-
cretary for Chinese Affairs), Dr. of the complainants, in order that developing science of radio Was Chan Wah, who is 17 years old, epitomised at the largest British J. M. Gray (Medical Officer of he may subpoena them for the
Health), Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, hearing. and who had one previous police exhibition of its kind ever held at Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. L. C. F. Bel- conviction, was sentenced to four Olympia. Sets on the 300 stands amy, Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, think he was called upon to dis- Mr. King replied that he did not months' hard labour, while Wong ranged from the world's smallest Mr. C. J. Ros (Secretary), and close the names of the complainants. (assistant The hearing was fixed for Friday
Imorning.
also on a cricket "Blue" and a world enough not to tinker about with was sentenced to two months' hard portable to £150 radio-gramophones. Mr. Im Ping-tsoung
Sport moguls here are
Little did they dream the contact-breaker." considering the question of whe- reformer, ther or not they should hire Bri- who saw him in action at Fenner's
Bolshevism.
Whereupon they both laughed,
However, there were destined to
tish coaches to help along Soviet or Lord's that in an hour or two's and each privately docided that life sport. Offers from several Bri- time this orphan lad would be pas-would never be quite the same tish coaches are said to have slonately denouncing all enemies of again. been received already.
But boys will be boys, and when be snags. For one thing, Rodney The authoritics state. "We are
of the had only about a couple of hundred not interested in making records, his Uncle Hardcastle, one Our aim is to attract as many cannfest men on the Manchester a year apart from what his Uncle people as possible into sport and improve its quality.
Therefore
wa will probably invite some for- eign experts to come here and help us."
WIRELESS JANGLE
DEMONSTRATION
B.B.C. Gives Lesson In Consideration
EMPIRE'S BIGGEST TELESCOPE
Canada's Monster At Dunlap
MEMORIAL TO MINER
Toronto.
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labour.
FIRE AT WEDDING PARTY
They Saved The Cake
With Cinders On It
It was in flamer.
The Magic Circle of Radio, other- wise the Radio Research Board, which deals in the higher mysteries of the science, made its first experi- ment in showmanship. Its work, usually expounded in Blue Books, was explained simply to the public in an exhibit called the "Radio Weather House."
Skycraper Storeys
and
Baw
Far away in the skyscraper
Here, through talking-filme Hardcastle was very concerned at
Mr. Arthur Pilcher and his bride demonstrations, the visitor the moment about his piece-goods.
Then there was Sutton Wester-arranged to hold their wedding what happens to wireless waves a ham. A poisonous son of a share-reception in the parish hall in the hundred miles or more above the pusher this, whom Robina had met little Kentish village of East Lang-earth and how this affects broad- its other and don, near Deal. at some drag-hunt or
casting. The exhibit earned who had pursued her with the re- Everything was ready in the hall. name because the atmosphere may of many be likened to a house lentlessness of the born hunter ever The couple left the church. aince.
The wedding party turned to-storeys. The ground floor is the There could be no doubt, too, that wards the parish hall.
ordinary weather layer, and the old man Drake was strongly pro
home of our friends the anti- Westerham. Unless Rodney was The villagers ran into the hall to cyclone and the deep depression. The first floor is the stratosphere very much mistaken, the pair were salvage the feast..
They rescued the cake, covered which the balloonist. strives to When the new Dunlap Obser- engaged in dark financial dealings
reach; the next the ozonosphere A novel method was adopted by vatory is opened at Richmond which might well lead to a mortgage with einders.
The wedding breakfast took place which he cannot visit. the B.B.C. last month to emphasize Hill, north of Toronto, shortly. with Robina callously unloaded on their appeal to the listening public it will contain what is claimed to the market to prevent a foreclosure. in a barn. to be more considerate with the use be the biggest felescope in the "Angel-face, don't be so Edwar-
dian" laughed the girl, to whom he SHOTGUN EPISODE IN WANCHAL storeys is the ionosphore, the home of loud-speakers, out of doors and British Empire. near open windows,
The observatory is being given confided his fears one evening.!
of the Aurora Borealis, and where, Two electrical records of a to the University of Toronto by "Do I look the sort to be bought
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Jowing to the action of the sun's speech and a popular dance band Mrs. D. A. Dunlap as a memorial (and sold like so much kine?"
rays, radio waves are turned back were played together at the micro-to her late husband, a prominent] "Not quite like so much kine,
Pushing the gun through a hole to earth. instead of flying off into phone to illustrate the effect to two Canadian mining man.
perhaps," he admitted, "but what different programmes heard at the The dome and building are worries me is, they might put the in the door, he fired it, without. space. The radio weather of these over however, injuring his wife or any upper storey settles how good dis- practically completed and part of pity-you-poor-old-father stuff
other occupant of the floor. tant listening will be and how bad "A good many people are forced the telescope is now being put in on you."
At this point the radio went over He was arrested immediately by fading. Experts of the Radio to listen to confused things of this position. An English telescope
Research Board are the explorers of kind, because their neighbours on firm has had charge of the main to the Volga Boatman's Song, and a district watchman.
It is understood that Mamura the upper afr. They are mapping one side want one programme and reflector which will soon be in-with twisted features Rodney hast- those on the other want another," stalled.
ened across to silence the thing. brought the shotgun from Sham-these distant regions, and the know- *eald the announcer after the brief| The weight of the telescope. "Leave it on," demurred Robina shuipo to Jaffe Road, and it is still ledge so obtained is invaluable in
and its 74-inch reflector is about rather like it."
ja mystery how he was able to carry the development of radio communi. "No" he said, almost fiercely. it through the streets unobserved. cations. "May we appeal once more to lis. 50 tons and the weight of the
"Anything-anything-but that!”. It is understood that the pri teners, especially in towns, about steel dome about 80 tons.
24 The dome is carried on loud speakers working near open
"You seem to fell very strongly soner will be charged to-morrow. canted rollers of 27 inch dia- about the tune, Masters," remarked windows and out of doors."
meter, mounted in ball bearings a smooth voice from the doorway. and running on a rail. Sixteen "I wonder why?" pairs of lateral roller bearings on Rodney glowered round at the the inner and outer edge of the Westerham pest. rail keep the dome in position. "Because it has painful memories Two segmental platforms, the for me," he grated. "It gets all in lower one at the base of the among me and makes me want to opening and the upper one at the bowl like a wolf." back sixteen feet higher, are fix-"A Russian wolf, no doubt?" ed inside the dome.
smiled Westerham.
same time,
demonstration.
B.B.C. OFFICIAL SHOCKED
Stockingless Typist Causes Furore
A pair of highly placed, eyebrows
rose in horror at Broadcasting GAVE AWAY MONEY
House the other day.
A sight had, shocked an official.. The result was the issue of this memorandum to the staff:
"However hot the weather.) female staff may not come to Broadcasting
stockings."
House' without
IN STREETS
Drunken Donor Hauled
To Court
(Continued on Page 10) MORRO CASTLE RADIO OFFICER UNDER ARREST
GERMAN COTTON DEBTS
(Continued from Page 1).
Visitors saw by talking film how that super electric pencil, the cathode ray oscillograph, has been used to explore the radio roof of the world. Working models show- ed how fading takes place and how the heights of the reflecting regions sre measured: Another model showed how the cathode ray oscillo liquidation of overdue accounts in
graph has been embodied in a "col- sterling by 12 monthly instalments and interest on the balance overduelision preventer for use during
It was further stated that the
fogs at bea. The visitor was taken delegation had no doubt that these to the chart room of s.s. Olympia instalment payments could only be and to see the indications to a ship made from current and future which is heading for a collision and Port business, and the German re-to one which is not. presentatives declared it absolutely essential that, Immediately after signing, the agreement, delivery of Yarn to Germany should be recom- menordet "British Wireless Service;
Personal Pars
BRIDE OF 74 -DANCES
JIC
At the age of 78, Mr. H. Collett, of Oxford, has marrieds third time. His bride, formerly Mrs.
(Continued from Page 1) Besides the Second Radio Omi- cer, civil warrants were served A man charged at Bow Street on the First Officer, and other The offender had taken advantage Police Court with being drunk members of the crew to ensure of a notice issued to the staff last and disorderly was said to have their appearance before the Jury year that "in view of the extreme tried to give away 108. notes in following the complaint that the The forthcoming wedding is an-Harriet Bateman, has also been ly hot weather female staff may the street. He had £3 108. on Ward Line was signing on some nounced of Mr William Alfred married twice before, and is a year then her husband. She Fear appropriate dress him Well, here's your oppor of the Morro Castle's crew for Thomson, articled clerk, of 19 On older
But she should have known that, tunity, said Mr. Dummett, the another boat due to sail from Lan Street, to Miss Ethel Smith, of danond a lg at the wedding recep dashitall, sir, there are limits. Magistrate. Pay fine of 10s. New York yesterday, Reuter. 16 Sum: Chun Street, Tal Hang. tion.
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