AERIAL
DEFENCE OF
CANTON
Special Equipment Ordered
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES TOUR IN EUROPE-
Affer inspecting armament works in Europe including those in Great Britain Lieut-General! 1am Sze ching: Commandant of the Canton Gendarmerie and Chairman of the Air Defence Committee. arrived here: this morning aboard the Italian liner
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1935
FORMER PRESIDENT
OF GERMANY
Death Anniversary To Be Honoured
*** CHINA MAIL.” SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day.
Flags on all State and municî- † pal buildings are to be boisted at (half-mast on August 2, the first janniversary of the death of Pre- sident Field Marshal von Hinden- berg, according to an order issued by the Home Minister at the in-
LJ. Siedle, who it is hoped will be fit for the final Test at the Oral, in August 17, gives a chance very stigation of Reichsfuehrer Hitler. early in his innings of 13 în the second Test at Trent Bridge.
Conte Verde. He is due to To-day's Short Story. leave for Canton to-day-
There were several junior officers accompanying Generali Lam on his European tour. They will submit a report to General Chen Chi-tang. Com mander-in-Chief of the Kwang- tung armies on what they saw in Europe.
LIFE SENTENCE
TE walked slowly, almost Here.
By Margaret A. Watson
drink this there now,
DR. R. W. BROCK
At the Tannenberg memorial, commemorating Field Marshal von Hindenbury's most famOUS- victory in East Prussia, the Gen- eral commanding the 1st me Corps, accompanied by a guard Appreciation By Lady of honour, will deposit "one wreath each on behalf of Herz Hitler and the army on the late Field Marshal's tomb.
Southorn
IRREPARABLE LOSS CAUSED BY HIS DEATH
an
In addition all garrisons will hold rollcalls and memorial ser- Oregat Lam and H-dressing his feet as a matter or he that your Fa
vices on the anniversary of Ger his staff do not speak any for does when fatigue has "sapped-not life, not life.
Lady Southor. who together many's tragic loss-Trans-Gegan eign language, afd. while abroad his energy and muscles must be With a shock that slowed, his with Sir Thomas Sonthorn-was an Service. were assisted by Chinese stud flogged to move." He was not steps. he began to see and hear intimate friend of the late DT: ents who acted as interpreters tired, but his body sagged in again, with the acute perception Reginald Walter Brock, whose
It is learned that they have weakness from the numbness of of a man whose brain clears from tragic death in an aeroplane acci- - ordered some modern anti-air- his brain. His eyes were blind an anathetic. Colour and sound dent was announced last evening,
DR. MUELLER ON PAROLE craft *ums. three-pounders to everything about him yet and shape stood out so vividly that writes as follows:- howitzers, sound-detectors and vividly aware of something else it seemed as though his. every
The news of the tragic death of (Continued from Page 1). other instruments for the aerial He might have been walking in sense must grasp them. fearful Dr. R. W. Brock, the eminent defence of Canton. The Chin his sleep for all the knowledge lest the eye alone should miss a Canadian geologist, in aero- troops who had turned bandits fr ese officers were much impress-that he had of where he went little glory, or the ear let fall a plane accident.
comes to hised on the bus in which the two ed by the military machines in and with that seventh sense note of this new harmony. The friends with a shock of irreparable foreigners were travelling. hitting
ach of the European countries that comes to those whose body phrase sprang all unbidden to his las
the engine twice. and or the efficiency of their is dissociated from the mind he mind: "This, then, is to live. Apart from his distinguished "GOBI EXPRESS LOOTED
crossed the street and found his The irony of it made him grind career as a scientist, Dr. Brock The bus called the "Gobi Ex- was a man of wide outside in-press." was looted of everything As Chairman of the Air De way among the crowd.
A few looked after him, half- fence Committee. General Lam.
terests and sympathies. Contact of value, and the bandits carried has secured new ideas concern. startled by his face, arrested by a
with him spelt inspiration, ex-off Mr. Jones, Dr. Mueller, the ing this work. Other passive signal that they could not read-
bilaration-broad horizons opened | Russian chauffeur and a Chinese were and then forgot him: their affairs
out His visits to Hong Kong. servant to the means of air defence
hills near when he was carrying out the Paochang, at about noon. studied during his visits to flowed quickly back to cover the London. Paris.
The chaufear and the servant geological survey, left an ineradic-
armies.
Rome.
Berlin.
and disturbance, just as water pours in haste to fill the gap made for a Officers of the Gendarmerie meat by a chance-fung stone.
He saw, and heard nothing. It Corps and Air Defence Commit-
was as though a curtain hung be -tee left Canton yesterday after-
and the world. noon in order to welcome Gen-ween his senses. eral Lam as soon as the Contes eye. resting on faces. on the Verde docked at Kowloon wharf blue of sea and gold of leaves that this morning.
ARMED ROBBERY Woman's Terrifying Experience
$1800 ONLY PART OF LOOT
his teeth-ix months!
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Sunlight. And Shadow." by Elsa Godfrey.
able mark, and those of us who managed to escape at 6 pm the were fortunate enough to pick up same day and returned
the threads of friendship again in Paochang, where they made a re- his beautiful home on the shore of part of the affair.
the Pacife, found an ideal wel-1 Five hundred gendarmes. were come from him and from Mrs. then on the trail of the kidnap- Brock and their sons.
Ders, who were believed to be stil in the Pacchang hills.
He reached his hotel, and had delighted him along the pro-through the swing door passed
A happy atmosphere of perfect menade that very morning, saw from sun to shade. The loneliness
family life, of kinship with the only the doctor's room, a little cold of crowded places caught him and and frigid in its dignity. His he could have cried aloud. He had world of books and art and ear, catching the wash of waves a mad impulse to catch a fellow scierce, of active sympathies with along the pebbled shore. heard creature by the arm to force their every form of social work for the commonweal; all this was to be only that well-modulated voice, too two paths into contact for a while found in the home of the Brocks. carefully precise perhaps for ease. "Just half an hour-you can spare
Magic Humour
DR. MUELLER RELEASED A telephone message from Kai-†'
been released and was travelling a stated that Dr. Mueller had
Sy car to Kalgan.
Mr. Gareth Jones was still in the hands of the bandits
The British Embassy had made! representations to the Foreign Office, Nanking, and the Military
He dared not let his mind ·re-¡that? Not much surely from a peat the words, and yet they rang lifetime--but from six months- ja chorus in his head until he felt you
the difference?" How Ard to this was added the magic that the passers-by must hear it would they look? Nine out of ten torch of humour. One could His-Council. Peiping, concerning Mr. too. What had the doctor said? (be knew would be afraid. He ten spellbound to Dr. Brock's] Jozes.
lifetime?
A shock?
DEE
A band of robbers consisting of Yes, best remember it, and in the pulled himself together, and turn-stories of his adventures in the Mr. Chin Teh-chan, the Chair- six men armed with revolvers et- agony forestall perhaps a future ing from the lift he made his way wild. He was an intrepid moun- man of the Charhar, Provincial tered No. 24, Wang Chow Village, pain. "Six months.” His hands to the lounge where tea wastaineer and he had a rare feeling Government, who was then visit! New Territories, at about one and feet-were cold "now as they served. No solitude just yet. for mountain and forest creatures,ing Peiping. stated that he had} e'clock this morning and decamped had been then--an hour ago was He scanned the faces gathered who made friends with him in a telegraphed to the magistrates at with money and jewellery to the it? Or only half-or half an friendly groups: bere a cup remarkable way,
Kurusis and Paochang to exert
waice of $2,200.
lifted, there the smoke-curls Fearless, whether in the pursuit all possible efforts to secure the spiralling from cigarettes. And of his profession or in the War.release of Mr. Jones and. De "My dear doctor," he had tried all the time the band played lazily where he won great distinction, or Mueller, who were believed to be stated that about one o'clock this to say. a little unforeseen. Hea tune that he loved
in the championship of right still in the hills to the north-east morning she was asleep with four would have made a joke, but the
He had never doubted his own against wrong, Dr. Brock stands of Paochang,
SERVANTS' STORY girls, when she was aroused by the words refused to come. That part courage, but he knew now that he out as one of those who leave the The chauffeur and servant wb. noise caused by somebody trying was still a blur, but he recalled the could have wept, and still be na-world much poorer for his passing- to enter the room through the sky- voice. 30 carefully precise ashamed. A desperate need for To his family the deep sorrow of were with Dr. Mueller and Mr. light. She woke up and saw six "Steady man, take it easy now comfort shook him out of lethargy. his friends goes out in fullest mea-Gareth Jones had arrived in Kal-
In a report to the Police, Tsoil Ying, aged 18. a maid servant,
men in the room. One of themĮ lifted" the mosquito net, pointed a revolver at "ber and demanded the! keys of the safe. She told him that she did not have them.
Premises Ransacked
MAN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE
By Fear Of Police Proceedings
PLATE ROBBERY CHARGE
Two London Men On Trial
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gan yesterday.
They stated that they were kid- napped at Kwanmakow, 15 miles north-east of Paochang.
Dr. Mueller telephoned from Paochang announcing his release- Captain Miller, Assistant Military Attache, left for Kalgan yester- day afternoon.-Reuter
There, at a corner table, sat a girl(sure. jalone, though the table was set for two. Yet she was not lonely in her solitude. He knew that with certainty from the deep content upon her face, the upward curve The robbers switched on all the
of a mouth that in repose seemed! lights and two left the room while
almost to smile. Instinctively he the other four made a thorough
moved towards her, took a table at: search of the place for nearly a
her side. Watching her, the need: quarter of an hour. After that William Wood, 2 30-year-old to tell her grew upon him like a they left the room, but one De carpenter, of May-street, Filham, fever. He saw her hands, strong, clair, a joiner, of Adam-street, £377. turned and continued the search who was found gassed, was stated steady hands, and knew that they and Frank Maytin, an aero me It was alleged that Sinclair for another 15 minutes. After beat the inquest at Hammersmith could still the secret trembling of chanic, of Gt Portland-street: had a jemmy or which were left the servant heard someone in recently to have feared police pro-his own. He saw her large, in-were remanded. at Reigate re-found bits the cockloft
ceedings after knocking a man troubled eyes, and knew that she cently charged with breaking into which might have come from an
at Sir Alfred's The property stolen consisted in down with his motor-cycle.
could mend a little of his broken the house of Sir Alfred Tritton, inner door part of $1,800 in Hong Kong Cur- The coroner said the dead man peace. He craved her sure, un Bart, at Upper Gatton Park, and sidence. rency, two pearl pendants, a wall bad left a letter, reading:
baffled poise
clock, a gold bangle valued at $160, “I am sorry it has come to gone.
· and two gold and rattan bangies.
The men were dressed in black
and were round about 30-years of
age
·
now that his was
Two London men, Larry Sin-stealing silver plate valued at
of wood and paint
this. I am in a fix. Best way The band played alluringly The Weather During
out Don't worry about the now the long lilt and measure of body."
the tango almost stirred his feet,
7
A verdict of suicide while of
350 arrests have yet been made. uncound mind, was recorded.
Brazilian Training Ship
Arrives At Portsmouth
July
The mean temperature for the as yesterday it would have set From July 1 to 9 the weather them dancing. He watched in was for the most part cloudy month was 81.9 degrees, which is misery the couples take the floor and showery. On the 10th the normal A maximum temperature The girl was watching, too; her weather cleared, and continued of 91.2 degrees was recorded on the 20th, and a minimum of 75.1 eyes shone, and he could see her mainly sunny until the 22nd. breathing quicken. She did not A typhoon, which was moving degrees on the 27th The mean 26 per move, and yet her body seemed to slowly northward to the east of relative Humidity" was flow in mute, obedience to the Formos, caused a spell of sultry cent, as against a normal of 83
the per cent. enticing rhythm of the band. He weather from the 19th to
fourth succe saw her sway involuntarily with 22nd, temperature riking above For the
90 degrees on four days in suc-month, sunshine "She's a born dancer" came the cession. This typhoon sabsequent amounting to 158 hours
they curved west, and moved across 54 hours less than
South China, causing a spell of a maximum wind cool wet weather from the 23rd 58 mph. was recorded to the 27th The
Po days during the passa were brilliantly fine,
ring to sion scross South the approach of an This crossed Swatow and
London, To-day HRH the officers, who have been in London every curve of tune. Prince of Wales has sent a mes-Jon the invitation of the Brazilian sage to the Commander of the Ambassador, have been entertained pleasurable thought, and
by the Port of London Authority "But what's the use?"" Brazilian Naval Training Ship and the Ibero American Institute
You like music?« Almirante Saldanha, which is on and the Ambassador. af alm-
(Continued on Page 10) a visit to Portsmorth, expressing cheon, at which the First Lord of regret at being prevented by pres the Admiralty and the Lord Chan sure of engagements before his cellor were among the guests depar on holiday from meeting The Almirante Saldanha the officers and cadets in person specially built for the~ Brasilían and wishing them an enjoyable Government by Mesra. Armstr
Vickers for training Com
and four other British Wireless
The monthly whist dzi tombola of the Sergeants' of the Royal Welch Fusilie be held tomOTTON
Doo of the 30t the month
While this
18.30 pm, at Murray Barracks to the north of Hong
soon.
The total rainfall. was 22.21 inches.
inches great
to midnight
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