ALLEGED MURDER
Five Accused Again Remanded
Ho Wah. Ho fau. Pun Tak, Lau Cheung and Pun Kam Choi. appeared before Mr. W. Schofield this morning charged | with the murder of a Chinese male at Lak Lam Village in the Ting Kwan District on May 18 They were remanded till Tues- day.
Mr. WJ Lockhart Smith. acting Crown Solicitor. appear- ed for the prosecution, and the afternoons of next Tuesday, Thursday and Friday were re- served for the hearing.
Hung. Ko and Hung Yu ap- peared before Mr. W. Schofield on Thursday last charged with the same crime, and the case then was remanded for a week.
The murder was alleged to: have taken place in a village which was within the jurisdic- tion of the Provincial Govern- ment of Kwangtung.
CHIMPANZEE THAT
LIKES FAGS
Cigarette Addict At London Zoo
ing
FORBIDDEN LUXURY
the
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935
An set from the Tropical Express Revue Company's production at the King's Theatre.
FOREIGN OFFICE
ACTIVITY
(Continued from page 1)
Mr. Eden is preparing a report of the tripartite conversations. It is, understood that the British and French Governments still consider
To-day's Short Story.
An Old Lady's Sacrifice
By Gilbert Anstruther
the You noticed
pigeons not come. And the next day they first: not the old lady. did not come. And the rest...
FIRE OUTBREAK IN BEAUTY SPOT
Long Hose Dragged Through Wood
PEATY SOIL DANGER
Chrislehurst.
Firemen dragged 4,0002t of nose to the National Trust beauty spot of Pett's Wood, near Chisle- hurst, when fire broke out in the wood last month. The hose: lengths were dragged across bracken and heath, down gullies and across ditches. The main road was closed "to traffic for a time.
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The fire was confined to a small part of the wood, but it was fear- ed that it might spread. Supt. Mansfield. of the Chislehurst Bri- gade, said that the soil was peat. which would smoulder for a long! time unless checked. After the fire.had been put out it was de-1. cided to play the hoses continu- ously for a considerable time.
V. C. RESIGNS HIS
COMMISSION :
Act Of Heroism Recalled
It was announced in a recent the proposals which Italy rejected Every day for many years Mother Meldrum wondered: "London Gazette" that Capt. T. in Paris worthy of further con- Mother Meldrum stood on that Then she began to worry. The B. Manfe V.C, of the Royal sideration and that should be laid spot just outside the Botanical pigeons still fluttered round her. Regiment of Artillery, had re-
Gardens. before the Council
And every day she Bat she fed them listlessly. She signed his commission. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who, in-fed her pigeons.
Capt. Maufe won the VC on They were felt suddenly older, weary. Much tended to remain in France tilpart of her life. She had of the life had gone out of her August 2, 1917, at Feuchy, near Among the problems with September 18. is now expected to named them. She knew each eres. There was a dead, flat feel Arras, for most conspicuous which the London Zoo is faced in return to England next Wednesday, one by name And it seemed ing in her stomach. There was bravery and initiative. Under the usual mid-season task of try--Renter.
they knew her.
something left. She still had her intense artillery fire, he repair- to prevent visitors to
Beside her was a small case.birds, of course. But always she ed. unaided. the telephone line monkey house from giving the HMS. COLOMBO FOR BERBERA Sometimes people bought her pea-was thinking of the young couple between the forward and rear animais dangerous toys is to stop
nuts. But so long as she made She knew they could not have positions, thereby enabling his British sufficient for her meagre needs been married. From scraps of battery to open fire immediate obtaining cigarettes. Before she cruiser Colombo will arrive at she was content The pigeons conversation as they passed herly on the enemy. came to the Zoo she was allowed Berbera to-morrow to watch events were her friends; a young man she had learnt that that was to smoke, and now, whenever she-Beuter."
and a young woman her old life's months off...
SKELETONS FOUND. sees anyone with a cigarette she
interest.
-Would you like some pea
AT DEAL 'does her best to persuade 'the
And so Mother Meldrum fed nuta?” „ smoker to let her have it Shej
her birds and watched the stares at the cigarette and jumps|
Supposed Relics Of about making excited noises, andj
pageant of life. There was not! much that she did not see.
Long-Ago Plague although she often succeeds in a member of the Foreign Relations getting a smoke no one knows Committee of the United States o'clock
does that Senate, had an interview "yester- than *she
the black-faced, chimpanzee from Aden to-day-The
better
SENATOR POPE IN LONDON
London. To-day. Senator Pope. of Idaho, whe is
A gun boomed. It was, one!
Mother Meldrum gazed down cigarettes are forbidden. If the day with the Foreign Secretary-the street. Soor
now the lun- keeper appears while she is smok-Sir Samuel Hoare.
|cheon-hour crowd would be pour-
if a
·CAME 87 MILES TO ADMIT DEBT
Ready To Walk Back
RAILWAY FARE PAID FROM POOR BOX
recently after
vice.
radiant in their
were
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "They have Ears," by Martin Mills.
poor...
"
were
CYCLIST KILLED BY BOTTLE
A
KONG KONG
EVERY YEAR, thousands. of people decide to visit the Far East! Why not induce them to make Hong Kong their objec tive?
The Hong Kong Travel Association, sponsored by the Hong Kong Govern- ment, has been organised to conduct overseas publi- city campaign with this object în view.
In many Far Eastern Ports, there are people who do not yet realise that a Winter Holi- day in Hong Kong would prove both pleasurable and beneficial to health.
In order to organise effective publicity, funds are needed, and firms whose prosperity is directly associated with the Colony are invited to send subscriptions to
THE HONG KONG TRAVEL ASSOCIATION Post Office Building.
Hong Kong.
New York Stock Market
bushels.
The magazine Standard Statis- tics reports:
Cotton: We expect an
provement in the domestic and
export demand and would advise purchases after the quotations |are adjusted to the new loan rates.
Wheat The Chicago market is free to reflect the excellent statistical position. We advise purchases.
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"Copper: Producers are thor- "Wheat:-Buyers were indiffer-oughly sold out. Consumers are Skeletons
found by lent and bullish World statistics well covered and, while an ultim- workmen. excavating in Bui- were disregarded. Uncertainty ate advance--appears to be cer wark Road, North Deal. Kent, regarding the situation in Wintain, only a sidewise movement ing she begins to upbraid him, Senator Pope is in London iring into the gardens. They would
last month.
They were nearly nipeg is curtailing purchases. is likely in the immediate future. We would prefer accumulations and she never begs for a cigarette an entirely private capacity, and come again to-day, the couple she
3ft below the surface and are Total sales: 22.907,000 bushels. keeper is near. Jack, the he was received by the Foreign waited for. They would come as
believed to be of great age.
"Com:-Liquidation of Sep-on declines
"Flash:-Average Mother Meldrum looked up sud- The Mayor of Deal told a Press tember options and the switching
daily pro- largest chimpanzee, say's the Secretary at the request of the they had come every day for deals. She disliked the way in representative that there was a of September to December opduction of petroleum for the
Daily Telegraph." is allowed to American Embassy as R dis-months. They were so very much which the question had been put story, banded collect supplies of his anmmer tinguished American travelling in in love, so very
down from tions were features of the market week ending August 24 was es- We feel that decreasing timated" at 2,689,000 barrels, weakness, for it happens to be Europe. There was no com-new-found happiness. And thought reflected ill-disguised patron generation to generation, that to-day.
age The tone used gave the im- hundreds of years ago a plague prices. Total sales: 5,420,000 vious week.
hedge pressure should help against 2,709,000 barrels the pre- ice-cream. He seems to eat count munication of any kind received they had never even spoken to. less ices without ill-effect
from him or given to him. her, Mother Meldrum found con-ling to scatter a few coins to the and its victims were buried any pression of a momentary unbend-desolated the neighbourhood
The Edison Electric Institute } The Foreign Secretary also saw tentment, in their obvious happi-
Mr. Stanley Brace, the Australian fness, as a
where
*Cotton:The market to-day estimates weekly electricity pro- mother would in the High Commissioner. and Mr.happiness of her child.
Her eyes lighted for an instant.
was dull, with bayers on side duction at 1,840,000,000 kwh, m She saw first the girl with the Frank Walters, one of the Under;
lines pending an extension of increase of 116 per cent over the She saw them coming up the Secretaries-General of the League hill from the direction of the red hair. Old eyes searched
the crop movement. We except corresponding period of last year. the Government Bureau estimate The following telegram was re- of Nations, who is on a visit to wharves. They were, arm-in-armang. But the glow she sought had vanished from the girl's eyes.
to be around 12,250,000, bales, ceived last night: London-British Wireless Ser-lost in a conversation that hadi
And in its place was a stubborn Evidence that a broken bottle nothing ta đến t connection
defiance. There was an aggres-caused death within a few min- whatever, with the rest of the sive rigidity in her bearing. She utes was given at an inquest at MR. EDEN LEAVING ON MONDAY world. The boy
was young smiled up a trifle stily at the man Tealby on Thomas Rowett, farm COMMODITY PRICES and
eager. He would conquer London, To-day.
labourer, West Torrington, Lines the world Already in his im by her side. The Minister for League of
agination he had done so. There The old woman's gaze shifted While carrying a scythe on the Thomas Gallimore appeared Nations Affairs.
The following quotations have Mr. Anthony was
a lightness in his tread, slowly to the man. His clothes way to the barvest field he fell off
been received by Reuter. at Clerkenwell County Court Eden, who received visits at the buoyancy in the squareness of his were a little too perfectly cut his cycle on to his lunch basket,
travelling 87 Foreign Office yesterday from shoulders. And his eyes
And everything about him seemed containing a bottle which was
Prev. Yesterday miles from Leamington Spa to the Spanish Ambassador and the the eyes of one who is glimpsing to breathe that same precision broken, and a main artery was
Closing Closing. admit that he owed £1 1s. 5d Latvian Minister, will probably an eternity of ecstasy.
He was fair. His eyes were blue severed by the glass.
New York Cotton:- and would pay when he could.
Geneva. travel on. Monday to
A verdict of accidental death October They came on, up the hill. A and small, narrow-set. His studied He said that he came by where he will be the British re boy, and a girl who was beautiful elegance lent him an air of smug cheap excursion on Sunday, had presentative on the League Conn- because her..hair was red, and "been sleeping out, and would cil, whien is meeting on Wednesthe buds were bursting, and she
(Continued on Page 10) walk back. "I have no money day.
was standing at the threshold of left." he explained.
Mr. Eden will report at this an adventure that made ther "You will get into trouble meeting on the breakdown of the future seem like a long. Tosy with the police if you have no Three Power talks in Paris, and dream So many had trod the money." said Mr. Registrar it is anticipated that the Italian path before them. But never Friend, who, after making an member, Baron Aloisi, will have had anyone trodden it like they order for 4s a month againstja case to present on behalf of Never had anyone been so madly, Gallimore, gave him 10s from Italy. No arrangements have so ridiculously happy. the charity box.
far been made for Mr. Eden
As a boy and a girl they were All candidates who took part in¦Accountants" and Executives" Cor-May break his journey in Paris. insignificant. The city was fall the Second Accountanta Inter-poration, London
Chicago Wheat:- of them They were two of a mediate Examination of the Inter- The Council of this Corporation September million” more." Bpt to Mother national Institute of Accountants has extended its Awards and December Meldrum they were different held locally in June, 1935 passed Prizes for successful local candid. May, The French Cabinet met yes- They were the other part of her with honours, according to the reates, which include free tuition Chicago Corn terday and is reported to have life her dreams. She was happort of Mr. M. Sinclair, Char-covering fees, all necessary text September discussed fully the international pe merely because these two tered and International Account-books, etc, and will be available December situation, after an exhaustive young folk were happy.
ant, Chairman of the Board of at the School of Accountancy and May A count of the Paris Conference
And then, one day, they did Examiners.
Commerce - Cash Prizes of Winnipeg Wheat: was contributed by Premier La-1.
"also" "August Mr. Tso Chak Chon, local ac-$15.15.00 and £7.7.0d. are KILLED BY TRAM countant and student of the available for 1st and 2nd Places in October
MIRROR
December School of Accountancy and Com-the Final examination. merce, took first place in the Inter Those desirous of qualifying New York. Sugar----- mediate examination, « whilst his for the awards should apply for Professors from all parts of clude, besides 3. Laval, M. Her- France, and from Algiers, are riot and M Paul Boncour.
classmates, Messrs. Fau Ka Lin, Registration before September 3,: attending a special holiday The Italian Cabinet also
Young Kong Low of Messrs. Jołm 1935 thus making themselves Sept course under the direction of yesterday at Bolzano where Sig was recorded at an inquest at and Alfred W. F Fong passed Course leading to the Jime 1936
A verdict of accidental death Manners and Co. Paz Es Ping eligible for the Special 9-Month Dec. Prot A. A. Cock, Director of nor Mussolini has gone in con- Stepney on Herbert Newton with honours. Education at Southampton nection with the autumn military 29, a motor driver, of Spring-As the sta University College
[manoeuvres. British Wireless gardena, Preston, Lancashire
PROFESSORS FROM
FRANCE
Learn In England
IDEALS AND OBJECTIVES OF BRITISH PARTIES
FRENCH DELEGATES
to
The French delegates to the Jassembly of the League on Sep- [tember 9 were appointed, and in-
The general title of the (Service. course is “Fingland" "To-day."
met
Unusual Fatality
Newton was on the back of
a lorry when he leaned over to
and there will be lectures on the the actual working of the speak to the dr ideals, objectives and policies of British constitution.
car was passing in the
the principal English political A programme of excursions direction and parties.
There will be a series deat
been arranged to place
terest, and the visitors
with the social services of Eng-see the Tidworth Tattoo land, and another dealing with Portsmouth Navy Week.
ation and
self-assurance.
was recorded, the coroner war-December ing cyclists against carrying dan- January (1936) 10.54 gerous articles.
March May July
10.69 10.55
10.61
10.50 10.50 10.58 10.54 $10,603 10.55
Spot..
Local Boys' Successes In
Accountancy Examination
of the "Institute sho
räised: "The
and Cotz their courses
sternati
10:58 10.53 11:05 10,95
New York Rubber; September December
March
1178 1181 11.99 12.01
12.05 12.08 12.191 12.22 12.328
12.35:
88. 89%
8744
898
90%
73
704
563%
57%
Silk:The price structure vulnerable and we do not advise purchases.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Latest Quotations
ugust 29. The following quotatiưng WEIR 200
Peived by Renter:
Last
close $10.20 11.00
NYLondon 1973% 4974 497%
N.Y. Cotton
Oct
pe May
10.69
10.65
8534
85
10.60
10.57 10.58
848
83%
N.Y. Rubber 835%.
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11.99
11.94
Sept
88%
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90%
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5635
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89%
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2.66 2.40 266 2341 STOCKS
24101 Con Gas N.Y. 25%
Share General Motors 42%
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