MALAY SEAMAN IN TROUBLE
Disorderly Conduct At Sailors' Home
COMMITTED TO GAOL FOR
THREE DAYS
Sentence of three days' hard labour was this morning imposed on, Charles Moslem. a Malayan un- employed seaman, by Mr. D. M MacDougall at the Central Magis- traey, for acting in a disorderly manner at the Seamen's Institute on Saturday.
Accuser, who was stranded here
with 17 other seiman of the sis. Neil Seamore, was also charge with damaging a police cell, "bul thia was withdrawn.
Mr. H. Watts, manager of the" Soldiers' and,Sailors' Home, in evi-. dence, stated that accused was abusing people inside the building on Saturday "night, niul an hour later he was abusing the Indinn guard outaide. He had enused
the trouble in good deal of Institute...
COUNTERFEIT COIN FROM CANTON Dollars And 10-Cent Pieces
POSSESSOR SENTENCED TO TWO MONTHS' GAOL
Charged with uttering a counter. feit dollar, and with possessing four counterfeit dollars and one counter- feit ten-cent piece, Kam Cheung, 32- year unemployed, was sentenced to iwo months' hard Inbour by Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy this morning.
Detective-Sergeant Goodwin stated that after having tea at a tea house
at No. 13, Elgin Street, accused
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935
Her Execilency Concha Esp.na Tagle (centre), Ambassadress Extraordinary and Ministress, Plenipotentiary of Spain to Peru, Joins the lengthening roll of women serving their countries, as diplomats. She is seen in New York, on her way to assume her post. Mrs. Ituth Bryan Owen (left) in the United States Minister to Denmark, and Mase. Kollantay (right) is the Soviet Minister to Norway.
GREEN PINE TREES
CUT DOWN
Government Timber Carried Off
GAOL SENTENCES FOR TWO
CHINESE THIEVES
Prosecuting Kong Shing, a
£3,000,000 STEEL WORKS
Great New Industrial Undertaking
INAUGURAL OUTPUT
A steam of molten metal and a 32-dazzling tongue of flame marked the
To-day's Short Story,
VAGABOND LOAFER
Guy Gilpatric
1935
LONG the Cros the-fisher- The gyples, of course, were en men were hauling in their tirely too quaint. If they had had nets. Children in berets and motorcars and camping trailers smocks were playing marbles on and V-necked sweaters and khaki the hard white sand. Just be pants, like American gypsies, their yond the Customs guard's shanty presence would have been support a party of gypsies were tetherable. But they had wagons which ing their horses to the wagon you felt had been built in Moldavia wheels for the night. In front or Wallachia or some other strange, of the little church the cure was romantic place; wagons painted stalking like a black-robed sen-green and red and yellow, with little tinel, his forefinger between the mirrors set in the sides in patterns [pages of his breviary and his eyes of stars and crescents and Maltese on the sun as it sank redly be crosses. The women wore the gay hind the shoulder of Cap d'An-peplums of their tribe, and the tibes
bearded, men had red sashes around the waists of their baggy corduroys, And not all of them were as dirty as all gypsies should be.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
"To-morrow's story will be
"Freight Train"
One of the men, in particular, was almost ncat He was smooth-
It was the grandest sunset I had ever seen--a spectacle so gorgeous that, perversely enough, my plea sure in beholding it was marred by a sense of my inability to convoy ita gorgeousness to anyone else. No writer, I felt, could even hope to describe it and no painter, even if he succeeded in putting it down on canvas, would risk his reputation by exhibiting the result. For any picture of this sunset would look like all the pictures of sunsets ever lithographed on calendara, painted on panels or hand-organs, or stain- od on the Indian birch-bark souvenirs of Rockaway Beach, LI. shaven and darkly handsome. Al- As matter of fact, it was only the though slight of build and younger than most of his "fellows, he was sounds and smells of Cros-de- Cagnes which gave substance to the evidently the boss. Thus, while the them, chopped wood and scene, and saved it from senti- rest of mental unreality. The children watered the hornes, he stood aloof were too pretty, the curve of the with his hands in his pockets, houses beyond the beach too per-smoking a cigarette and supervis fect, the cure too picturesque, to being the job. When at length the convincing in any mere picture or progress of things was ordered to his liking, he yawned, atrolled down the description of themselves.
beach in my direction, and paused to consider the sunset. I heard |him humming to himself, and, just as I was beginning to realise that his song was not a wild Gitano lola. he raised his voice and broke into the words:
"Come on an' snuggle up, snuggle-
uggle-uggle-up
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
To Daddy...."
1.
At'suh a time and in such a place this drivel was exceedingly, strange
HONG KONG.
DOLLAR
DIRECTORY
NOW ON
SALE
China Mail Bldg.
PRICE $1.00
THE
COLONY'S
BEST
DOLLAR
VALUE
3A, Wyndham Street
tendered a dollar for payment, and, year-old unemployed, and Ip Samg, opening, last month of a new de- when told that it was bad, he asked a 36-year-old unemployed, for tres velopment in the British iron and The m.v. "Cingalese Prince, the cashier to keep it until he repassing on No. 19A Government steel Industry,
from New York, sailed from Los turned. Two detectives, who were plantation and with having green The occasion was the production Angeles on January 30 and is ex- having tea in the same tea house, pine trees in their possession. Mr. of the first steel at the new workspected here on March 1. heard what took place and searched K. W. Forrow, Assistant-Supervisor of Messrs. Stewarts and. Lloyds defendant, when the other counter of the Botanical and Forestry De Ltd.. tube makers. These works While delivering goods yesterday, feit coins were discovered....
partment, asked Mr. A. W. G. H. which cover 230 acres at Corby, Mok Sung, a shop feki, was bitten and vastly funny. I laughed, and THE HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO. Accused stated that he bought the Grantham at the Kowloon Magis-Northamptonshire, have been erect by a dog, owned by Chun King-fo, at the sound of my laubter he stop counterfeit dollar in Canton at the tracy this morning to take a very fed in the record time of two years, of No. 18 Daven Road. He was ped his song and wheeled toward me rate of a duliar, Canton currency, serious view of the case as extensive and will be the means of keeping in taken to the Kowloon Hospital for in embarrassment. And then I was for each.
damage had been done in the plan-Britain hundreds of thousands of treatment... tation, over 50 trees having been pounds' worth of trade which has
"Excuse me," I said. "I really felled within the last two weeks. hitherto gone to the Continent. Convicted on a charge of stealing didn't mean to laugh. Only ---- Mr. Forrow stated that when the Full commercial production has four pounds of brasa turnings from thought you were a gypsy." defendants were arrested on the not yet started, but when it does, the Taikoo Dockyard, Lui Nam, "a
"Okay, "Bud" he grinned. "I plantation at 8 o'clock yesterday in a month or two, there will be coolie, was fined $20, In default one morning each had a big piece of 2,500 men employed..
month's hard labour, by Mr. W. guess I didn't know I was singing} trunk in his possession and also a The steel is to be made by the Schofield at the Central Magistracy out loud. And, anyway, I thought
you was a Frenchman." chopper or saw.
"basic Bessemer" process, which this morning.
"No," I said, "I'm not a French- Sentences totalling two months' was invented. In the past century
I'm from New York; and imprisonment were imposed on Kong by two Englishmen, Thomas and For the theft of a telegraph man. Shing, while Ip Sang, who had a Gilchrist. For many years the prochain, valued at $5, the property of you are too, or I miss my guess."
"Yair," he said. "N'Yawk, that's previous conviction on his record, ceas remained practically undevelop the Talkbo Dockard, Lam Piu, a
SNATCHER FOILED
BY WIDOW
Thief Flees After Struggle
SIX MONTHS WITH BIRCHING FOR UNEMPLOYED
Six months' hard labour, and six was sentenced to one month's imed in this country, but, Belgian, coolie, was this morning fined $25, me, Mac. A Hunerd-'n-Eighty-Foist strokes of the birch, or two months' prisonment on the first charge and French and German steel-maker in default one month's hard labour, Street 'n the Bronx. I uster be a further Imprisonment, was impos-aix weeks' imprisonment on the quickly adopted it.
by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central kike, but I'm a Bohemian now
Ziguener, à Gitano, a gypsy... Kohn Beneath the land surrounding the Magistracy,
is my name-Irving Benjamin Kohn Corby works there is estimated to
Glad to meetcher."
od by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the second, terms to run consecutively. Central Magistracy this morning
GERMAN DRUGS HURRIED ·
TO CEYLON BY AIR
on Chan Kwal, unemployed, charg ed with attempting to steal the hand-bay of a Chinese widow, Ng Sau-chan and, alternatively," with; assaulting her in Des Voeux Road Central, near Wing Wo Street. A consignment of German drugs It was alleged that at 4 o'clock for the treatment of malaria was this morning, while complainant despatched by aeroplane from Ber- was walking along Des Vouex Road in to Ceylon in fulfillment of a huge Central, accused came up from be-cabled order. These are required hind and trid to snatch her hand-for 'fighting the malaria epidemic bag.
Complainant struggled with now raging in Ceylon." accused and both fell on the road. Accused, got up and fled, with] FORTH AND TAY BRIDGES police constable No. 28 in pursuit.
PROJECTED Running up Wing Wo Street, he made for Queen's Road, where he
ore.
be some 460,000,000 tons of Iron The .. Shirala will leave Amoy for the Colony on Wednesday and is due to arrive here on Thursday afternoon.
An entirely new town is being built to acommodate the workers, the whole enterprise, costing about $3,000,000.
WALKED FROM EDINBURGH TO LONDON AT 70
[
ran into the arms of Indian con stable No. 447, who arrested him. bridge at a cost of 2,100,000, said now he said; to walk back, as he had on Saturday, and is expected to bughouse on Welfare Island, sud|
Wo shook hands, lighted fresh cigarettes, and sprawled back upon our elbows in the sand. Mr. Kohn, due to my unexpected presence, The ... Tanda left Mojl on seemed somewhat ill at ease. He Saturday and is due to arrive here gulped once or twice, and smiled Jon Wednesday" afternoon.
foolishly,...
know, I was just thinking to Tre R. M. S. Empress of Russia myself that that there is pretty is expected, to leave Shanghai for dam fine," he said, waving his hand A sprightly looking Scotsman of the Colony at 12.30 p.m. to-mor- toward the sun-dyed sea. "In fact, yair, by heck, all of it is" and he 70 told the Bow Street Police Court row.
increased the scope of his gesture Magistrate that he had walked all
The R. M. S. Empress of Brito Include the entire universe. the way from Edinburgh to look for tain, which is on a round-the-"Sometimes I'm afraid I'll wake up At Dundee, Lord Provost Buist, work, and arrived in London a fort
world cruise, arrived in Colombo in Bellevue Hospital, or in the after outlining a scheme for a Tay night ago, It was his intention that bridges on the Forth and Tay "well-to-do" sieger in Scotland to arrive in the Colony via Penang hear 'em tell me it ain't real. I bet could be built together. Lord look after him. He was discharged on March 23.
and the magistrate asked the Court Provost Sir W. J. Thompson, Edinburgh, is anderstood to be op missionary to inquire into his story.
PICKPOCKET AT SOCCER MATCH
Chinese Detective Loses Fountain Pen
posed to the two schemes going for-
ward as one: The Lord Frovost in
his negotiations through the Minis- try of Transport, has the support Sentence of one year's imprison-of Edinburgh business men,d- ment followed by two years' police}
supervision, was passed on Chan TWO FATALITIES IN LOCAL FIRE Shing, alias Chan Sing, alías Chan | Hop, allas Chan Fuk, a 41-year-old unemployed, who appeared before
(Continued from Page, f.)
GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY FOR NANKING
An unemployed Polish seaman, Tomasz Paluch, was sentenced to six weeks hard labour by Mr. E, Wynne-Jones at the Central Magia tracy this morning, for ontering the Colony without a valid passport.
I've told myself a million times it's real. But I can't believe it yet.” He stamped his heal into the sand, and drew so fiercel on his cigarette that each puff dragged the fra quarter-inch along the white paper. "Oh, it's real, all right," I assured him "At least, I guess it in. I was just sort of wondering about it
Tair," he nodded, “It doen make you wonder, don't it?"" Then, smiling to himself and lowering: his valce, "Why, say, lissen, Buddy, lemme tellyer something.....
The Nanking Government intends A Chinese masseur, Chan Sam, to publish a directory of all Govern was sentenced to six weeks' hard myself when you started to sing. ment employees, from members of labour by Mr. E. L. Wynne-Jones at the Central Government down to the Central Magistracy this morn officials of halen administrations. Iting, for the theft of a tweed over Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham at the Government. Civil Hospital by an is expected to be issued some time cost from Cheung Pun, of No. 12, Kowloon Magistracy this morning ambulance from Kennedy Town, in March. Thereafter a monthly Kwong Hon Terrace. charged with stealing a fountain which arrived before the Fire supplement will keep the informa-
pen from the person of Muk Wah, Brigade reached the scene, :4
tion up to date. 9)
CUSHIONS FOR BUCKS
a Chinese detective, at the Club de Six are-engines and two fire Recreio Football ground, King's floats were in operation The out. „Park, on Saturday afternoon. break started on the top floor and OS: MAGISTRATES
40-HOUR WEEK IN ITALY
the flames spread to four other ad |jacent buildings which were used as ......... godowns. The upper floors were at 200,204 Italian unemployed have severely damaged. The cause of the found work since the 'Introduction fire la at present unknown,
TRIED TO PROVE THE EARTH FLAT
Kohn
This is what he told me: When Irving Benjamin graduated from the New York High School of Commerce, where he hadn't wanted to go In the Arst place, he Was seventeen years old. On grad- uation Kohn yere
tised 'to be'.
Mr. William Edgell, who There is now so much business years tried to prove that the earth the words & Bon
the police courts in Bucking was flat, has died at the age of 18, after his own name on hire, and the sittings are in order to study the night skies sign; and, acording to ming so protracted that the be never went to bed, but slept in in the window, he Blash Standing Joint Commit a chair. He contended that the The Bone To Celeb
tou consider viding Polo-Stars, was 5,000 miles away; Indi
raten and that the sun was 10. milòd fi Awaz Below)
• of the 40-hour labour week in Italy, Mr. H. T. Brooks, - Superinten- count Bocording to the latest statistics, dent of the Fire Brigade Depart
Of this total, 162,000 peopl were ment, aastated by Officers, King and absorbed by Industry,
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