TRAGEDY IN BERLIN
FOREMAN
BURIED ALIVE
IN TUNNEL
Underneath Giant Crane
TAPPING SIGNALS CEASE
* CHINA MAIL *** SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day-
After feverish work, continuing uninterruptedly for over 20 hours, salvage squads have not yet been able to reach the workers buried by the collapse of the underground failway tunnel on Tuesday.
The issuance of a marriage license at Ashland, Kentucky. revealed the romance of Mr. K.
Owing to the fact that the. James Lin, san of the Pre- disaster occurred at the dinner
hour. just when the shifts were being changed, it is not known. how many workers are impri-, soned or whether they are still alive.
One foreman named Domke is, known to be buried under a giant crane which fell into the tunnel when the supports gave way. Signals were tapped by him to a late hour last night; and then ceased.
the
sident of China, and Viola Brown. clerk in a Columbus, Ohio, store. Lin attends the Ohio State Czi- versity there.
NON-STOP REVUE
Excellent Show “At The King's
2 HOURS PACKED WITH
ENTERTAINMENT -
day. eastern
THE CHINA MAIL, THEIRSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935
IMPORTANT LAW
RULING BY HIGH
COURT IN LEIPZIG!
Photographs And Originals
QUESTION OF FORGERY
→ DECIDED
CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
To-day's Short Story:
FO-DAY
NOW I'VE
GOT YOU
By Lucian Cary
THE shantyboat in the bayon, with a shade. The shotgun on well out of sight of the the wall was cleaned and oiled barges going down the river and and loaded. the roving government mag). Outside, a November rain came boat. was bigger than most lashing through the blackness ofį Ishanty boats. But the real dif- a cold night, borne on furious ¡ference was inside..
(^gusts of wind... Within, the cabin The store in the cabin was not was warm and light and sung. Leipzig To-day. A judicial decision of far- rusted relic of a junk-heap, The two men who sat on either reaching significance for the bat new kitchen stove. The side of the lamp reading news- future has just been pronounc-
banks had springs and mat-papers, with a jug of corn whisky ed by the Reich's Supreme esses and grey blankets and between them, were plainly not Court here.
sheets. The oil lamp on the table river loafers. And they were not HS 3 powerful reading-lamp, duck hunters, relaxing after a cold wer day on the sandbars. There was no relaxation in them. They were not so much reading the newspapers as dombing them, down one column and up the next.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
A certain debtor, pressed from!. all sides to
pay what he owedzi forged receipts with which he in- tended to prove that the debtsj in question had long been paid. į Instead of using the originals. | however, the forger had photo- Mr. L. W. B. Teeling will speak zraphs made. which he submitted at the Kowloon Cricket Club at first to the creditors and then to 6.15 p.m. to-morrow. All mem- the Court when sued.
bers are cordially invited.
+
They looked so much alike, as they read, that a casual observer might well have taken them for twin brothers. Indeed, casual ob- The trick was
servers, not knowing there” were discovered.
two of them, had more than once Iwhereupon the accused pleaded in! Mr. O'Neil Gordan, assistant This defence that he had not used manager of the Socony-Vacuum
mistaken one for the other. This the forgeries themselves but only Corporation, Union Buildings, erested was an important part of jerror, on which their partnership: įcopies, and consequently, accord- ports that some time between 6
ing to the existing law, could not p.m. on Tuesday and 7.30 am. yes-either of them to be seen in two enabled be punished.
terday some ope stole from the office one table fan and ornaments
places at once.
to the value of $29.
4]
JUDGMENT PASSED
The Supreme Court admitted f
that technically the defense was Masaharu Nampo, a Japanese sound. but passed judgment de merchant, was this morning fined
the
their-stock-in-trade.' It
Talbot threw down his paper.j "They haven't got it" he said. {“They probably won't have it for ja week. We're safe."
Brownie went on reading dili-
The military pioneers, who hadj made heroic efforts throughout the
We offer a hearty welcome to spite this, pointing out that the $15 by Mr. Q. A. A Macfadyen at gently. There was one striking night by the light of giant search- lights.
Non-Stop technique of photography was the Central Magistracy for enter difference in their appearance were relieved yesterday Professor • Doorlay's morning by a further detachment Revue, which opened its local sea-now so perfected that the photos ing the Colony without a
valid Brownie had a scar across his left an exact picture of the passport, Richard Franklin Hed-cheek, as if someone had slashed reinforced to 500. The steel son at the King's Theatre vester- gave girders, which had been bent like day to crowded and most apprecia-¡documents in question, with all tick-a clerk and native of Manila.him across the face with a keen matches by the subsiderice, had to
tive audiences. It is the best en-details and peculiarities in per was fined $10 for a similar offence blade. Talbot had no scar be cut apart with oxyacetylene tertainment value for one's woonerfect exactitude, so that their use
Mr. J. Ambold, of No. 114 breath
Brownie suddenly drew in his burners, and the debris has now that we have seen in many a long was virtually equivalent to been removed from
use of the original forgeries.
sharply. Talbot Waterloo Road, has lost a bicycle his head, instantly alert
turned He side of the tunnel.
It is also one of the few shows
|valued at $20 which was left out-was the harder and stronger of LAW NEEDS REVISION that lives up to its name, and its
side No. 47 Hillwood Road between the two. This, however, has led to a new advance publicity. It is
Reich's Supreme Court's p.m. and 430 pm. yesterday. **Listen to this." Brownie menace. Indicated by a long crack stop" in every sense of the word even added that the existing law.
said. He read alond: portion of the street, giving rise ing rapidity. a vigorous kaleidos-similar deceptions arising from avoided payment of the bus fare, vember, 16 The will of Arthur in the asphalt of the remaining turn following turn with bewilder-needed revision so as to prevent
Admitting that he deliberately "South Granby, New York, No- to the fear of a further landslide cope of elaborate settings, beautism, whereby unscrupulous per Tai Po Road, Chan Chi-suen, a thropist, leaves a hundered thou- the use of television or sound while travelling on bas No. 788 in Wakefield Hadley, local philan occurring and filling up the exca-ful dresses and original and
sous might broadcast to a wide Chinese student from Java, was sand dollars to John Cutter, in vations already made. This part colourful dance sequences. of the street must therefore bej In a show where every memberments, with the object of inducing hard labour, by Mr. E L Wynne great wrong. The will does not public pictures of forged docu-fined $25, in default one menth's order, the will says, to right a shored up before the digging can of the big cast works at top speed credalous people to subscribe to Jones at the Kowloon Police Court state what wrong is meant bat be proceeded with.
Soon after the news of the acci-haps invidious to mention indivi- bogus enterprises-Trans-Ocean;
NEW MENACE
*поп-
.
The
from beginning to end it is per-
Service.
these
CORRESPONDENCE
Charity
every
dent the American Ambassador dual items. But some of put the Embassy, which is in close definitely deserve a special word. proximity to the scene of the dis-The solo dancers were in aster, at the disposal of the au-case excellent, whether they were thorities. and it is being used as doing a bearing Russian dance, a first-aid station.
swinging a wicked hip and cast- anet in a Spanish number, or A message from Munich, states performing prodigies in an 'Apache that Herr Hitler, telegraphed Dr. Dance, which the two performers Goebbels as follows: "Sincerely, "put over" with every semblance mourning the tummel collapse, I de-of ferocity. sire you to convey to the members
. HITLER'S MESSAGE
Chinese Juggler
[8]
To The Editor, "China Mail"]
this morning.
Unclaimed telegram for hinalex from Kobe;- Paints Lam 15 Lee Tung St)
old residents recall that Cutter was indicted, charged with grand Fan- larceny, on the testimony, of Had- (Wahley, seventeen years ago. The in from dictment was subsequently quash- Shanghai; Hawhowl from Kobeyed Catter, who had lived here Greatwood, Palm Court, Nathan only a few weeks left inmediate- Road. from Hakonemiyanoshita; ly. His present whereabouts are and Lopez Care, Kingtheatre from unknown The will authorises Kobe are lying at the Great the executors to spead five thou Sir. As gathered from the Northern Telegraph Company sand dollars to find Cutter." newspapers and magazines, the (Limited).'. world's situation, both economical-
Talbot shrugged his shoulders. "I don't see any way to do anything
Brownie got up and walked, to a window and tried to look out. Then he turned and faced Talbot. "Tm the man they're looking for" he said." Tm John Cutter:" Talbot lit a cigarette. "Could you prove it?”
bis on
CATHEDRAL
Programme For Next Tuesday
An organ recital will be given
Lime at St John's Cathedral next
"My signature would prove it, Brownie said.
of the families of the unfortunates The acrobatics (dancing againly and politically, seems to be ever ORGAN RECITAL AT about that," he said. stricken by the disaster my pro- included). were remarkable, more entangled day by day. found sympathy. I hardly dare Chinese member, besides some mar-to-morrow is creating such an an- The uncertainty of the day of hope that perhaps it will still be vellous juggling with plates, per- possible by the excavation work forming the most incredible things that it would be very thoughtless xiety in practically all vocations going on to rescue some of those while hanging from the ceiling not to exercise any precaution buried by the subsidence of the his hair; while the "strong man" earthworks. Please give the un-balancing amazing contrivances, misery and disgrace being fallen with a view to preventing more happy families from me as a first festooned
with girls, payment
30,000 Reichsmarks. shoulders also gave one a great |
upon this poor humanity. (Signed) Adolf Hitler."Trans thrill. And there was a cowboy! Appeals for help and funds have Tuesday at 5.30pm, by the Ocean Service.
so frequently been made by the organist. Mr. Lindsay A Lafford, changes a good deal in severteen "A man's signature often who did most remarkable things various local charitable institutions FRC.O (CHM) LBAM years, Talbot replied.
Nor does one forget the girls, think that we are not at the foot Richards (contralto).
that it would be inconceivable to A.R.CM assisted by Mrs. D. M. thoroughly doing their bit in eof so-called "hard-times".
Brownie got out paper and pen semble dancing and always looking
and began to The programme will include
write. He wrote At the moment, it would not be items by Norman Cocker, Percy He passed the sheet across to Tal-
John T. Cutter a (Continued on Page 7)
dozen times. necessary to give a detailed as Whitlock, Saint-Saens, Karg-Elert, count of the various causes of un-Borowski, Toccata and Fague in easiness that is being experienced D. minor (by request), and Songs ¡in order to bring forward the sab by Bohm and Beats Stretton. ject in a most appreciable manner
A collection will be taken for as it is presumed that the readers the Organ Fund: are, by now, little more
or Jess acquainted with the situation, but
FRANCE EMPHATICALLY
IN SUPPORT
(Continued from page 1)
deficit is £8.350,000 and the public debt amounts to £1,771,-) 000,000. Liquid cash in the Bank of Italy; and in the Mint, or hold- ings abroad, amounts to £11,783- 000 The metal coverage, minus
with a lassO..
RELIEF FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
Canton Action:
Canton, To-day.
The Southwest Political Council i
la few helpful suggestions, touch- ITALY CERTAIN
ing upon that benign part of human
foreign obligations, amounts to at its regular meeting on Tuesday heart would, nevertheless, pTO ATTEND THE
36.2 per cent.
PREMIER'S HOMECOMING
passed a resolution that officials of beneficial. its subordinate organs be ordered
London, To-day to make personal donations for could be heard from time to time If an equal response to appeals The Prime Minister, Mr. Stan-relief of the refugees in the flood- ley Baldwin, reached London yes- ed areas of this province in about the same way as that terday afternoon from Aix-les- The donations to be made will Jubilee, no sooner will the local made" during the King's Silver Bains at the same time, as the be in proportion to the salaries Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. received-Central Press.
charitable institutions Neville Chamberlain, who has also
expand their humanitarian work than returned from a holiday abroad, eign Office yesterday morning, and those depending on them will re-
COUNCIL MEETING
(Continued from Page 1) Signor Alfieri As State Secretary
Soon after the Fremier's arrival in Sir Herbert Samuel had an inter-ceive the kind of help they should COUNT CIANO'S SUCCESSOR Downing Street the Foreign view last night
get
sort of a Charity Box
office or firm under
Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, the LLOYD GEORGE IN LONDON Will there be any difficulty to Minister for League Affairs, MZ. Among other visitors yesterday. Eden, and other leading Ministers who saw Sir Samuel Hoare or Mr. each and were in consultation with him pre-Eden, or both were Mr. Lloyd the super ion of paratory to the meeting of the George, Lord Cecil and Mr. Win- erson so that ever Cabinet called for 10 o'clock this ston Churchill
morning to hear a report on
the
breakdown of the
talks in Paris on the Ital
Sir Austin' Chamberlain
the Foreign Office
The Common
who took
emplo
fbot:
-"What about the T Talbot asked. He noticed that the sig natures were free, without any hesitation. Talbot knew a good deal about handwriting. He was ja singularly expert penman. He
had made his living by his r manship. A
That's the way I always signal ed it in those days,” Brownie said,
"My name is John Trueman Cut-
ter
Talbot got up and stretched himself on his bank... From be lay the light of the oil fall on Brownie's faces His+owa face was in the shadow,
"Did you have that scar those days, Brownie Talbot
fed
student
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