THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, HET 25
1935
MAN ON PAROLE RUNS LOOSE CLERK ROBBED OF SILVERWARE
CURIOUS TALE IN COURT
Pleading guilty to charges of
Nathan breaking into No. 728
Road on Sunday evening. and stealing a quantity of silverware. to the value of about $90, belang- ing to Tang Kan-wah, a clerk and not reporting while under?
for six police supervision months. Wong Sing. alias Wong at a 28-year-old unemployed, was sentenced to 12 months" hard labour by Mr. E. I Wynne Jones
at the Kowloon Magistracy this! morning.
of
Detective Sergeant Allen, the Mong Kok Tsui Police Sta- tion. stated that defendant en- breaking tered the place by through the root door and then breaking into
the complainant's bedroom. From where he stole
the silverware.
was
་
received the On information
by defendant
arrested Chinese detective at his home at No. 3 Fife Street.
As a result of the search made of the house. Leung O, the 20- year-old concubine of the defen- dant. was also charged with re ceiving the
(it was property found
bed). She under her
was dis- pleaded innocence and charged.
After having sentence passed on him the defendant said that; he had applied for a hawker's license but it had been refused him. He asked that his conen hine should be allowed a license!
W**
Kay Francis, movie star, carne back from her European janat so sim that none of her clothes ft her, she told reporters as she snapped setting loose a pigean carrying ship photoe ashōre She did -not buy any Paris clothes, having found that set the Hollywood designers world's fashions.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Hong Kong rainfall for the 24
ARDUOUS STRUGGLE Today's Short Story-
FORESEEN
(Continued from Page 1)
Eleventh-Hour Hopes
BRITISH AND FRENCH VIEWPOINTS
THE HARE
By Rearden Conner
THE hare ran out of the ceased to sing and grew cold and
Tmeation with great sweeps alimet still, hike a pebble It
of its hind legs. It leaped into raised up on its haunches and the pasture field and gambolled rifted its ears erect. Then it Geneva, To-day. around on the fresh wet grass.looked around warily, sniffing the Failing an eleventh-hour sur It was a very young hare. This keen ale.
A mân and a Woman were prise in the shape of the ap was its first excursion into the
They were pointment of the fifth arbitra-wide" world, and it throbbed coming towards it.
walking, slowly, some yards tor, it is generally assumed that with curiosity. the meeting of the League Coun
The morning was young too apart. staring hard at the ground. cil will be convened for July 31-Te rays of the sun had little The woman had a red handker It is learned that no agreement warmth as yet, but the dew
chief tied over her hair. Her has yet been reached between Paris and London regarding the sparked under them so that the limbs were hidden by a wide canvas course to be adopted by the whole field shimmered like finely apron. She was wearing big boots, spun glass. The drenched award probably those cast off by her man Council
The French Government still stretched away and away in front The man was a huge, braway fel hope to confine the discussion to of the hare like a vast sea before low with shins clad in leggings, the question of the frontier inci-ja tiny coracle.
It dashed from tuft to tuft. dent and possibly by the appoint-j ment of a fifth arbitrator, to secure nibbling at the blades of grass like a fresh postponement of the main child running from one plate of delicacies to another. Its ears issue until the end of Angust.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be
· “Under The Skin.”
It is gathered, however, that twitched with excitement. It cane- Britain would be prepared to ed around a group of thistics as stage a frank discussion of the though inviting them to join in whole question and let the Abraits fun. It was late summer, and
The grass swished around his sinian appeal take its naturst the ground was dotted bere and course under Article XV of the there with mushrooms. The hare boots with a harsh, squeaky sound. Covenant. The British viewpoint reared up in pretended fright each This was due to his will have the support of the Little time it came upon the white but-dragging his feet along as though his iron-shod Foots were too heavy Entente. the Balkan Entent and tom.
for him. Each of these people most of the members of the Coun-)
carried a basket. Every time the cil-Renter
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A message from London states was, in fact, its first experience as though its proud purple bead that the Government was heckled of fear of any sort. It found it a annoyed him. yesterday in the House of Com-, sickening sensation.
mons over its policy with regard
to the supply of arms. Sir Samuel Hoare replied that he was hoping
to make a statement very shorty POLITICAL and mentioned that France had prohibited the
export of
materials to Italy and Abyssinia.
to hawk while he was in prison. hours ending at 10 am to-day was As regards the second charge he5 inch. The total since January pleaded that when he went to the has been +104 inches, against a
-Fenter. police station'
to report he had average of 49.75 inches.
-QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT heard people speaking about him
Rev. T. W. Douglas James, KA,
London, To-day. so he did not go back.
At question time in the House defendant's who has spent 25 years in South Upon looking, at record card Mr. Wynne Jones re- China as a missionary of the Pres-of Commons yesterday the For- to eign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare. marked on its being one of the byterian Church, en route worst records he had ever seen. England to assume office as For repeated his promise to make
eign Missions Secretary in Lon-statement shortly on the whole subject of the supply of arms to Italy and Abyssinia, and it is
LOCAL ESTATE
Former Taipan Of Jardine's Leaves
$1,400,800
don.
The King's Theatre management generally expected. he will do so notifies changes in its programme.within the next day or two.
a
Its beart
RUMOURS
The hare gazed at him and felt jits blood run cold.” He towered up above it as a tree towers over 2 |human being. The man and wo- man produced the same effect on the hare as a house and a haystack would produce on a small boy if
CONTINUE they were suddenly given the
Mr. Wang's Future Undecided
RETURN OF MR. HU ADVOCATED
power of movement. It realised jat once that the man would not hesitate to send that huge boot of his cashing into its ribs if he were given the chance.
The hare turned and lolloped away. Its ears now lay fist on its back. Its brain was as tense as a tightened spring, waiting for the cries of pursuit which its heritage suggested would follow There is a movement on foot its discovery. But no shout came.
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day.
"Born to be Bad will be shown He stated that he was not in in Nanking to oust Mr. Wang The man and woman were too in- from to-day until Saturday, while position to say what action had Ching-wei from his position as lent on their search. It hid un The Mystery of Edwin Drood" been taken by Belgium, Czechoslo, President of the Executive der a ditch until they had passed will be screened on Sunday and rakia and other countries, but ac Yuan and concurrently Minister into the next field and the last Monday.
cording to his information France of Foreign Affairs. Those who rumble of their voices had died Ihad prohibited the export of war wish Mr. Wang to resign his away. Local estate to the value of The following unclaimed tele material to Italy and Abyssinia, posts have circulated reports Once more it hopped out into the $1,400,800 has been left by the
Tele- while the Swedish Government had that Mr. Hu Han-nin will return field. Now it was a little braver.} lett Join the umfries, graph Co. Ltd.'s office:-Thelma az yet received no applications for to Nanking to succeed Mr. Man was a great lumbering crea- late Mr. John Johnstone, of Hal-grams are lying at E. E.
¡Wang-
ture, slow of movement, easy" "to Scotland, and former taipan of Benn. Pres Folk, from Penang: export licences.
Marion Davies, the HK Club, The President of the Board ofį Messrs. Jardine. Matheson &
While Mr. Hu is considering outwit as long as one kept clear of Co. Ltd. Mr. Johnstone, who from Folkestone; and Philip Gold-Trade, Mr.
Walter Runciman, this question, as previously re- the vicious boots attached to the was very well-known in the Bar 20 HK Hotel, from Singapore. stated that no licence whatever had ported, he has given no' indication monster.
been issued for the export of as of an early departure for Nanking The sun was strengthening now. Sentence of 12 months! hard to either. Italy or Ethiopia during from Geneva, It is not certain It felt the rays warm upon its at Stoke House, Seven Stoke,
labour was imposed ca Chan the past four months. Worcestershire, on March 13.
whether there is sincerity in back Vapour was drifting up Tong. a 45-year-old unemployed 1935. A petition by the Hon
There had not, at any time since arging the return of Mr. Hu or from the wet grass. It discovered who appeared before Mr. E the signing of the treaty of 1930 whether the movement is but a ja new game of chasing those wisps Mr. John Johnstone Paterson
the Kowloon between the United Kingdom, smoke screen for the Nanking of vapour only to find them dis- for grant of probate of the will Wynne Jones at
Magistracy this
morning on a Ethiopia, France and Italy, been political strategists and codicil has been allowed-
to achieve appearing into thin air just when of having unlawful any difference in treatment given other objectives.
it reached them? Then cows be Mr. Charles Herbert White charge ley Kew, merchant, late of No. possession of one tear gas pistol, to Italy and Ethiopia, except 10. Lower Castle. Boad, Hong in the shape of a pencil, and 47 arises from the provisions of the That Mr. Wang is really not so gan to amble into the field through
ja ZED. Kong, who died on September rounds of ammunition in Sikung treaty itself, that the importation ill is indicated by the fact that The hare was not instinctively
East as an amateur rider, died;
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and
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of arms and munitions of war and he was fit enough to take afraid of them as had been the aircraft into Ethiopia is subject to Douglas passenger plane from
case with the human beings. But $16,000 Probate of the will has Unmanifested unclaimed the production of an export licence Shanghai to Tsingtao. There is been granted to Helen Kew cargo consisting of 300 packets of issued by the country of export some difference of opinion in it was awed by their vastness. It widow, and Arthur James Kew matches and 50 catties of sugar, after presentation to its author. Nanking as to who should be the
Local estate to the value of found by Sergeant A E. Haynes ties of an authorisation by the next President of the Executive ed them with wide open eyes. They moved ponderously along, $1,800 has been left by Mr. on the ss. Stanley yesterday, and Ethiopian Government. for import Yuan
swishing their tails and shaking Henry John Howard, late of 450 catties of rice and 320 packets into Ethiopia.
their heads. Occasionally they No. 10. Essex Crestent, Kow.jof matches, found by Sergeant According to the newspapers the opinion that Mr. Hu will not dropped dung without passing in loon Tong, who died at the Headridge on the Hai Ning, were such authorisation by the Abys-go to the capital aless his view their walk. Their hooves made the "FREED FROM THE Canton Sanitorium Hospital ordered to be confiscated by Mr. simian Government has not been on external and internal problems Tung Shan, Canton, on April-26Q A. A. Macfadyen at the Central forthcoming in the case of orders can be put into effect Mr. His same harsh noise in the grass as
1935. Probate of the will has Police Court this morning. been granted to Lily Mary How- ard, widow.
BRITISH AIR MAIL
Civilian leaders here are.
which some British firms, are un-platform is said to represent that {derstood to have received for de of the South-west leaders. Wong Tong, a 20-year old mason,livery to Abyssinia-British Wire was this morning charged before less Service. ... Mr. QA A. Macfadyen at the Central Police Court with amault- ing Tong Mui, a married woLDEN, İS
Huge Increase During No 1, Robinson Road, on Thes
June Quarter
London, To-day."
day. His Worship bound over, the Itwo parties in a bond-of-$50 20 "Treep the peace for one year and The weight of letter airmails ordered Wong Tong to pay $10 as carried from Britain on the Em compensation or serve two weeks' "pire services in the June quarter imprisonment.
was 82 per cent greater than in the same quarter last year and 54 per cent greater than the European services...
About 1,120,000 more letters were sent by air from Britain than in the same quarter of 1934.
British Wireless: Service!,
THE MOSCOW WAY
Moscow,
To-day, —
cow Bank clerks who
zied 400,000 ron
past three year to death heré
WHIST DRIVE AT KOWLOON DOCKS
List Of Winners
HOSTILITY TO REICH
Front Fighters Disciplined
· CHINA MAIL " SPECIAL
had the man's boots.-
JEWS?
Action By Reich Watering Resorts
The leading cow one straight towards the bare. It grew fright- ened at once. Its ears dropped down, and it began to run. The cow saw it and stopped in the walk
"Freed from the Jews" is Bad face. Then it realised that this
Durckheim, popular watering was a creature of no consequence, shook its head in disdain, and place in the Palatinate.
Red placards announcing the went.cn abead
DANCER'S TRAGIC with a stupid look on its placid
DEATH
Killed Trying To Save Mother
Kaiserslautern
This
A young bull saw the hare and fact were, plastered recently on the ran a little way after it, slowly and doors of the thermal establish Miss Glayds Allison, 34, of heavily. The bull was shaping in meat in the bathing park, Ferncroft road, North Finchley, front of the cows, pretending to the two hotels of the resort London N 2 professional be angry. It tossed its head and nounced that henceforth no Erfurt. To-day dancer, was burned to death in sorted as though the hare were a would cross their thresholds. The National Socialist Geman
an attempt to save her mother, huge creature endangering the Front Fighter League, formerly who was cleaning her dancing herd. The hare was terrified, far known as the Steel Helmets, has costumes with petrol.
more so than it had been at the TWO TYPHOONS IN PACIFIC been forbidden by the State po- Miss Allison heard a shout approach of
Tan like a lice here to wear any badges or and found the petrol alight streak-
At the monthly Kowloon Docks uniform and clothing of any kind She ran to take the bucket of RC Whist Drive held Tues, to denote -membership of
day night Mrs. McCluskey cETL League, or to hold any off the Brat prize while Mrx Vmestings or to exhib Ramsay won second,
The Lex
prize for the hidden number was
won, by. Mrs. Th
For the gentleme
highest
in public
petrol away and her, clothing canghts firet
quest on her daug
the in-
HERMIT, BUT NO ASCETIC
Good But heit Repast
Woodstock.
Gabriel Woodward, 59, a her finit, of Bladon Heath, near Woodstock pleaded guilty at Woodstocks court recently to
keeper's house. He was re stealing food from a game
manded for seven days. This is what he ate during the absence of the gamekeeper's wife: Two pounds of loin of lamb, a cool-" ed rabbit, half a loaf of bread, and half a rice pudding
"I was hungry," he told the magistrates.
bare, with
other,
same tim
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