CATHOLIC ACTION CONGRESS

Eight Days Meeting At Shanghai OPENING BY APOSTOLIC

DELEGATE TO CHINA

The Catholic Action Congress, which is to be held at Shanghaij

from September 8 to Sep-

UNREST AT PESHAWAR

FRONTIER

HOSTILITIES

BREAK OUT

GANDAR ROAD

ATTACK.

tember 16 inclusive. wil 40 Mohmands Killed And Many Wounded

be attended by more than 20 Bis- hops in addition to prominent Catholic lay men and women from all parts of China.

The first session will be open- ed on September 8 by an inaugur His Excellency al address by

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1935

SHARE ALLOTMENT To-day's Short Story.

NOT FILED

Extension Allowed

St. Francis Hotel

JORKENS

RETIRES

By Lord Dunsany

CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT A MEMBER of our dub had felt that he must contradict

PLEADED IN EXCUSE, “a

"It is not so easy for anyone to msde a little coup on the Stock Exchange: nothing very find gold just now,” said Terbut.

"There's no difficulty in that At the Supreme Court this much, but enough to bring the morning, the. Paisne Judge, Mr. conversation round to invest said Jorkens, away among shadows ments, transactions, and such.that bowed and trembled before Justice R. E. Lindsell, granted an

application for one week's exten And so we got to talking of the the fire.

whole art of making money; “Can you find it?" said Terbut, sion until September 4 within until one of us suddenly intro- from the table where most of us which to file an allotment of shares duced the theme of leaving that still lingered late after lunch and game, of giving it up altogether, outside was the darkening sky of from towns on such money as retiring, and living far away a forbidding December.

of the St. Francis Hotel (1933) Ltd.

Mr. Hin Shing Le, instructed by Mr. C. E. Lowe, made the applica- Ition

*

ne had made.

Terbut

·TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "An Old Lady's Sacrifice.” by Gilbert Anstruther;

OUTLAW CHIEF SHOT DEAD FOR RANSOM MONEY

"Plenty of it," said Jorkens. "Where?" answered Peshawar, To-day. Archbishop Mario Zanin. Apas There has been a recrudescence Counsel' said that the allotment For those who care to know the rather naturally.

Billiards “If you've got a good map,” be- tolic Delegate to China.

of the Con-¡of the periodical trouble on the of shares should have been filed by general feeling of the The programme

the manager of the hotel at the Club upon such topics as this. Igan Jorkens. gress is a very full one. Among frontier in consequence of a hos-time of the issue last year of 3.000 may say that the consensus of the 12 addresses to be delivered tile Mohmand lashkar assembling $10 preferential shares. but not opinion was very soon evident, and that it cannot be done; will be the following: The Rise,

with the intention of attacking long afterwards he was given it held of Catholic Action in China, The Pope and Catholic Action. Pea- the. Gandar road, near Peshawar, notice, and the new manager. in that you cannot deliberately turn the process of taking over, had ap from acquiring gold, where it is sant Federation in China. Sedi on the border.

parently forgotten to file the allot-at all plentiful and you have the ca! Work and Catholic Action At least 40 Mohmands were ment

power to acquire it. The Co-operative Movement in killed and large numbers wound- Counsel said that no discredit. The issue was slightly confused China, School Legislation

and ed in the week-end fighting with had so far been levelled against his at first by several members saying Catholic Schools, Catholic Jour the British on the Gandar road. firm and asked that an extension that they had retired from busi- nalism in

China, Catholic Boy During the skirmish one. Bri-should be granted,

ness themselves:, the personal his- Scouts, Catholic Female Youth, tish officer was wounded and In reply to a question by Histories of the commercial careers

·Freedom of Belief and the New five Indians killed.

Lordship as to why the previous of members of the Billiards Club

And Terbut almost ran to AÐ Chinese Constitution. The Mis. The troops advance was great-manager had not filed the allot-will not interest the general pub-atlas that there was lying about, sion of Catholic Intellectuals. ly assisted by Air Force action ments, which he had had nine bic, so let it suffice to say that old and had it in Jorkens's band be The Introduction of Neo-Scholas against the hostile lashkars. months in which to do so, counsel age. bankruptcy, depreciation of fore there was time for the con- tic Philosophy in China. Chinese The Mohmand leader. Faqir said he had apparently forgotten stocks, or general commercial de-versation to take any other turn. Christian Art

Alingarh, is now trying to raise the matter."

pression, are four factors that And Jorkens opened it with per There will be discussions on reinforcements among the Upper His Lordship granted an exten-jamong them accounted for every fect composure. and turned such varied subjects as the. or Mohmands.

sion until September 4.

pages to India. ganisation of Catholic Action in The outlaw chief of the lashkar)

It is the turning away from. "It's on China, practical questions of the which caused the recent trouble.

an island in a lake gold while it is still to be had in said Jorkens. "The island's bare- Social apostolate school ques named Chamnai, was shot dead:

handfuls that, in our opinion, as ly an acre, a quarter-mile out from tions, the Catholic Press in China, last night near Shabkadar by an questions relating Catholic unknown Mohmand, who imme-

to Youth, the Women's Catholic diately went to Action Association

Commissioner at Charsadda and On the afternoon of the eighth claimed the 3,000 rupees reward day there will be a solemn Eu- advertised. charistic Procession. and a Re- FIREBRANDS GOʻNORTH view of the Eucharistic Crusa- Champai committed several ders. at Zikawei

the Assistant

INTERPORT TENNIS TIENTSIN DECLINE

INVITATION

case.

soon as it crystallised cannot be the shore. done by any man.

We thought he was asleep in his chair

Shanghai, August 25. Shanghai tennis fans are in store for another treat, al-He said it so finally, so judicial murders before he took refuge though they will not have they that, even though he confirmed pleasure of seeing Tientsin the opinion of all of us. Terbat

On the ninth day there will be with Haji of Turangzai, a notor- a pilgrimage to the Shrine of ions trans-border agitator.

It is

stars in action in the proposed

Jan September 28 and 29.

the

It's heaped with nug- gets. Big ones; the lake's an old. "That is so." said Jorkena sud-crater nearly a mile across; and I denly.

imagine that all that gold must have been thrown up by volcanoes. The nuggets are big as flints, the kind that you see in fintheaps gathered up from a farm. There was probably a pool of it once, all molten, a mile or so down, a lake perhaps: and the volcano shot it I should up, a fountain of gold. have liked to have seen it going up. They say that granite has often been shot up like that."

CALIFORNIAN CASE OF LYNCHING

Our Lady of Zose, where all the understood that the leading out-Triangular Interport encounter!

firebrands have members of the Congress will laws and

gone join in a Solemn Act of Conse-north to consult with Haji of

Tientsin's inability to send a cration of China to the Blessed, Turangzai and it is thought that

team has caused disappoint-1 Virgin Mary.

the hostile lashkar may be

eonment, but the Association has The number of Chinese Catho-templating sueing for peace.

arranged for Jiro Yamagishi lics now exceeds 3,000,000, and Reuter.

and H. Nishimura, Japanese Davis Cup representatives, and J. Kinoshita and M. Tsukada. ranking Japanese stars, to per- form in exhibition matches on! SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER September 2 when they will! stop over for a day en ́route home from Europeand Java

is increasing by over 60,000 each

year.

TIGER DOG"

KILLED

Fearsome Animal

Shot Dead

AMERICA'S WARNING

TO MOSCOW

(Continued from Page 1)

Tentative plans call for one singles and

The Russian public knows noth-respectively. ing about the United States pro- test note, 'adds the paper's cor- 7 FT. LONG WITH 10-INCH HEAD respondent. the Soviet press hav-matches. Play is

Sydney.

ing hitherto maintained a

doubles

White Man First

· Victim

Yreka, Calif. California recently entered the this year, with a white man as the "lynching belt" for the first time

victim.

"Did you mention the name of the lake?" said Terbat

"Umboodwa," said Jorkens. "Could you show it us on the map?" continued. Terbut.

**The

"Yes," replied Jorkens. actual name's not marked, but there, where there's no sign ofį water, it's just there, by my finger."

"No sign of water? repeated Terbut.

. two

to start

"No." Jorkens continued, “the A mob of 75 masked men took Government don't allow it to ap at 3.30.

Jiro p.m. - when

C. L. Johnson, the confessed mur plete silence in this connection. Yamagishi and H. Nishimura derer of the chief of police of a pear on any map.

1935 Davis Coppers, will clash in

small town near here, from his pri singles. This An earlier message from Ber-will be followed by a dou-son cell and hanged him to a tree has been shot at-Brayton, Newlin states that the United States bles between the Davis Cup on the outskirts of the city.

protest note to the Soviet Union stars and Lewis Carson and

A wild dog with a head: 10in "long and a body seven feet long

South Wales.

Trans-Ocean Service.

GERMAN PRESS COMMENT

The lynchers dispersed as soon

man was dead.

It is believed to be the dreaded termed "the unusual procedure in "Stick" Duf. The other dou-as it became apparent that the Tallong Tiger, a wild dog which international relations" is

bles will see J. Kinoshita and! dealt has terrorised the sheep farming with in the Diplomatishe Politis- Tsukada, the Japanese ten- districts of Brayton, Tallong, and che Korrespondent, which de nis players who are now. tour- Marulan for more than five years clares that, both as regards the ing Java, in action against Gor- sharpness of the tone and decidon Lum and "Molly" Bena- At first glance the dead animal sive phraseology, it represents a vitch. resembles a tiger for it has long step which is generally only re- fawn-coloured hair and sharp sorted to when all other means of claws. When living it stood St coming to an understanding have Sir, high.

trap:

Sharp Claws

"

failed

CONTROL YUAN SCANDAL

Vice-Chairman Takes Responsibility

Nanking, to-day.

"Is it there at all?" asked Terbut

"Certainly," said Jorkens. Tve seen-it**

've seen it?" said Terbut. “Yes,” said Jorkena.

“A bit difficult wasn't it?” said Terbut**If the Government wouldn't let it be marked on the

STONE CRASHES IN map, they can hardly have been

OXFORD-STREET

Shoppers Stampede

very keen on your going there."

"They weren't so particular in those days," said Jorkens.

And what made them grow more so?" went on the "tenacious

7 Terbut.

It was shot by Mr. J.R Cres-

There were cries of alarm in From the fact that the United

"You see," said Jorkens, reflec wick, of Brayton, manager of the States

Oxford-street, when a huge stone Government „decided to Locksley station, after being hand in such a sharp note, it can

was seen falling from a crane into tively, "I was the only one that the street Shoppers ran for ever came back from it caught in a dinge (wild dog) trap be deduced that such is actually He found it snarling and strug the case, the journal continues.

safety, heedless of the traffic.

"The only one?" Terbut mat- The stone was being lifted by a

tered. zling to break the steel bars of the and, after exhausting all other Taking responsibility for the crane to the top of a building in "I think so," said Jockens.

methods. Washington was finally recent scandal in which a member the course of erection between And then we got the rather The dog's death will be a relief compelled to take action of such of the Control Yuan attempted to Oxford-circus and Poland-street. peculiar tale of how Jorkens went to local farmers, for it is estimata far-reaching character as to con-influence the court in a case ed to have killed 300 sheep.

of When the stone had nearly reach to Umboodwa.com embezzlement, the Vice Chairman ed the top of the building it ap at a club they had in the hills. TENSION REVEALED · of the Control Yuan, Mr. Tingjparently broke. With the declaration in the note Wei-fen, has tendered his resigna-

No one was injured the only Some of them asked me to dine that an infringement has been tion to the Central Executive Coun-"casualty" being a woman

who there once or twice.” made of the Treaty which was cil-Reuter.

fainted from shock

"What were you doing in India, Jarkens?" asked one of us.

In the week before its death it

is known to have killed 10 sheep

on the Locksley farm alone.

Killed 300 Sheep

stitute almost na ultimatum.

The dog's reputation was so ter-the basis of the establishment of rible that mothers refused to allow diplomatic relations between the their children to go out of doors two countries, as well as a threat for days after its appearance in to rupture these relations, the the neighbourhood had been re- Government not only reveals the ported

tension between Washington and Moscow, but also leaves no doubt

BERLIN'S COUNTER-MOVE

(Continued from Page 1)

He was not permitted to fetch

as to its determination not to al-

low the United States to be used

“I first heard of it,” said he,

“Just looking round,” said Jorkens; "taking a look at the lie of the land

Man Who Was Not Paid

For Helping To Carry Coffinter

"That all?" said Terbut. “That and one thing and an- other," said Jorkens. “And 1) happened to come to the Termi

as a field of operation for the Mr. J. Anderson, of Messrs.board, and, on hearing a shout, and upon the hills above me was plans for a world revolution. J. Anderson and Company, the defendant went to help. After this club, among a few houses, white like patches of snow. 1 These plans, continues the semi-undertakers, appeared as the the coffin had been put on board his luggage from his hotel nor call official organ, were openly pro- complainant against a 33-year wazes: Two coolies, were then they used to play pretty high

the ship, he went to get his dined there once or twice. Well, at a flat on the way through claimed at a recent congress in old coolie. Chan Hoi-tai, who each Bucharest. His wife, however, Moscow, where the responsible was charged with disorderly And was permitted to bring the neces-authorities maintained, putting it conduct on the Kowloon Go-defe sities of the journey to the station. mildly, benevolent non-interfer-down Wharf at the Kowloon gaged He is alleged to have engaged in ence, thus showing they valne. Police Court this morning The man pro-Nazi activities in Eumania: the Komintern's plans for agita defendant was discharged

tion higher than the guarantees the evidence was not sufficien

The launch picnic organised by they have given for international to convict him. St. Andrew's Club for next Satur-good conduct.

day will leave Police Pier, Kowloon, That explains the United States

at 3,30 p.m. as usual, and not at action, the journal concludes. — 8.15 p.m. as previousl

Ocean Service.

Inspector Simpson that two coolies were m loading a coffin on shipThey could not

ts by Mr. those days. I don't give you the who refused to pay asked me not to me

name of the club, Because they as he had-not Defendant

en-

10 cents and

Cansed le which necessita

work

Zone.

happened that night - I'll tell you, but TT suppress rames. right when I was there a young fellow got up from one those tables ring lost 2250. Lost it indone

white and said Umboodwe

to

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