ITALIAN REGULATIONS
AGAINST FRANCE
FIRST STEP IN COUNTER SANCTIONS
Rome, To-day.
THE CHINA KAHL ~THURSDAY, NOVEMBET 14, 1935
JEAN BATTENS Today's Short Story
FLIGHT
Mollison's Record
Well Besten
NO LIFE PROTECTING APPARATUS CARRIED
THE BLUE
I
SAPPHIRE
By David Elbey
MUSIC FROM “LOVEME FORENT
Boheme
Grace Moors
George Thill
LX 159-Your Thy Hand Is Frozen
DX 302-Rigoletto Quartet
DON'T think,"
said the olive tints of peridot and the man, "that I have this lighter greens of crysophzazi one. After all, you know, it's these were nothing to him intrin- a little bizarre. There's some-sically but as a riot of colour—--- Port Natal, To-day. Miss Jean Batten's speed for thing rather queer about it, and magnificent! And the mames!
DX 60%-La the ocean fight of 1700 miles not quite in modern taste. No. What a song, they sang, these averaged about 130 miles
You can put it away. I take chalcedonies and wards and rubies. DB 538 She also beat Jim Molthe emerald solitaire.”
Did ever you hear cadences such DB 155.-1 Bacio So the deep blue sapphire with as felspar and beryl, zircon and lison's record of 82 hours 3 minutes from Lympe to Ports chased oriental gold setting tarquoise, amrite and lapis lazuli? MRIZT-II Bacio $ It is not clear why the regu-Natal Miss Batten's time be-rent back into its red lacquer Little Robinson, half dreaming in lations apply only to France, ing 61 hours 15 minutes. box with the Shantung lining, and his bed at night, would whisper the but the fact that a British im-Reuter.
at night time, when the fashion-magic names over to himself until
What is regarded as the first step in Italy's] "counter-sanctions" policy was taken yesterday when new regulations were issued laying down that no credit will be allowed for exports to France or her colonies, which must pay for them hour in advance. BODIKER & CO.
SUED FOR $68,500
BY YING WAH CO.
Hearing Re-opened In
Supreme Court
MR. BRYDEN RECALLED TO THE WITNESS BOX
an
Italian bank apparently indi-land on Tuesday with the inten- To look at Robinson. he was with the treasure caravans
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IRISH FREE STATE ACTION
of
porter of lemon oil from Italy An earlier message said that able jewellery store closed. little he could almost hear the tinkle of was refused further credit until Miss Jean Batten, the young New Robinson locked it up in the big camel bells, and see the long rows he had opened a credit with an Zealand airwoman, who left Eng-safe.
|of patient animals as they plodded
cates their extension to Britain tion of making a new record for just one of a hundred or so simi-Genghis Khan across the Gobi De-
It is believed that Italy will a fight across the South Atlanticar jewellery salesmer who stand sert!” meet the ban on her exports by from Senegal to Brazil, landed day-long behind the counters of- Oh yes! Jewels did something to an embargo on imports from yesterday afternoon at Villa Can-pensive jewellers all over the little Robinson. Not so much the the countries enforcing sanceros Rio de Oro, and took off al-world. You may see his like in diamonds which he sold, now and tions.
Imost immediately for Dakar. Bond-street, in the Rue de la Paix. then, to the richest clients, for he ANOTHER RECORD ATTEMPT. in Fifth-avenue: quiet, well man held them cold things from the Dakar, To-day: The New hered. fanitlessly dressed and Kaffe country, and lacking. the After a week's adjournment
Zealand airwoman Miss Jean Eat- seemingly rather blase; though romance which furked in hidden the hearing re-opened before His
ten, who reached Chies near here actually nothing bored little Robin-ruby fires and sapphires blue as Honour the Chief Justice. Sir
London. To-day.The Irish in two hops from London, left son. It was his shyness which Eastern nights. These, and the Atholl MacGregor, in the Su- Free State Senate passed a bill there at 5.30 am. in an attempt gave you that impression. Until emeralds and opals and moonstones preme Court this morning. of
The started to display jewels. Then and alamandines whereof each) the case in which the Ying Wah last night authorising sanctions to create a new solo record for
even the wealthiest of the many name was a little clash of cymbals, Co. of Canton, is suing Messrs. against Italy. It will become law the 2,000-mile South
to-day-British Wireless Service crossing to Port Natal, Brazil addle-pates who visited the store were in his blood. But of all the Bodiker & Co. for $68.500 as
She is carrying no life protectia could sense the fascination which gems in the store where he served -damages for conversion.
you have sold the goods for £6-apparatus. The present record is gems had for him. How he loved there was one which stood apart Mr. Eldon Potter. KC instructed 200 and you fix exchange the held by the Spaniard Compo, in them! The boney gold of topez. The blue sapphire with the Orien by Mr. E.SC. Brooks, of Messrs same day in order to avoid Ex-161⁄2 hours. .” Hastings and Co., appeared for change risks in meeting your bill
the rose-pink of tourmaline, the tal gold setting. For this wond- Port Natal, later: Miss Jean the plaintiff firm, and the defen- of exchange?"—"You could, but Batten arrived at 445 p.m. local
rous stone of flashing blue he had were represented by Mr. it is very unusual. In a narrow time, breaking the record solo
a passion little short of idolatry. LOCAL NEWS
No Leo D'Almada, jnra on the instruc- sense I see your point."
Because it was ́expensive.2. flight by about 195 minutes. tions of Mr. J.-T. Prior, of Messrs. In re-examination, Mr. Potter Port Natal," later:
BREVITIES The New Wilkinson and Grist.
isuggested to the witness that if Zealand airwoman Miss Jean Bat- The case for the plaintiffs is the defendants were sending ten has flown the South Atlantic that the defendants wrongfully con-home goods on account of. the from Dakar in the record time of
dants
Atlantic
verted half of the wolfram ore plaintiff, they really ought not to 14 hours 15 minutes-Renter which they pledged with them as use their own exchange contracts security or a loan of $97,440. It at all, unless the plaintiff con- was agreed in writing that the de sented. The ordinary way woula fendants should store the goods in be to go into the market that day their godown - for three months, and fix the exchange. To this pending the return of the loan. It the witness agreed.
That is if
is alleged that the defendants took · Mr. "D'Almada: advantage of the plaintiff's pro-¡you are liable at the other end.” perty, gambled in exchange, and Mr. Potter: "Who is liable?”
retained the difference.
The defence was that before the {money, was actually advanced, the written contract was substituted by an oral agreement, by which
...
ATLANTIC AIR
SERVICE
PLANS NOW WELL UNDER WAY
| It' was-not so dear for what it was. the Five hundred guineas was For the first time in the history store price, but little Robinson of the Colony a vernacular news three-difty with a little bargaining.
knew that you could buy it for} paper came out yesterday morning with a poster featuring the latest Compared to the solitaire emerald Yet he shuddered every day for and important news of the day. The for instance, it was but a bibelot. joumal is the Tai Kacang Po, a 5-cent daily newspaper which was fear that one more discerning than
the rest might come along and de-i established about 24 years ago. The firm which owns the paper prive him of that which he prized became a limited concern early more than anything in the world.
yet was not his to prize. this year.
How the sapphire had come to Mr. D'Almada: "I put it to the
Josef Gafrek, a Russian sales-the store Robinson never knew. witness that Bodiker's are liable.”|
Ottawa, To-day. Incorrect. Assumption”
Plans are now well under way man, was this morning fined $25 He was too shy to ask, probably. for the inauguration of an air by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the and, anyway, what difference did Little Robinson - had Mr. Potter: "Mr. Bryden, the service across the North Atlan Central Police Court for not it make? they had the right to convert the assumption on which your evi- tie between Ireland and New notifying the Police of his de- been there close on ten years new, -*dence is given-and if the assump-foundland, and a conference parture from and arrival in the and on the very first day he was tion were correct I should not will be held at Ottawa, to where Colony, and a further $10 for not called on to display it. By now it have a word to say the assump- British and Irish representa-informing the Police of his change was part of him, so that when he went home at night or left the At the commencement of pro tion is that the plaintiffs, having tives are hastening. The for- of address.
store at week-ends he felt that a ceedings this morning, Mr instructed Bodiker to consign on mer include the Director-Gen D'Almada stated that yesterday his account to Hamburg, that eral of the Post Office and the It is observed that small packets Portion of himself was left behind. ↑ the defendants had put in a 3 entitles them to do what they Director-General of Civil Avia, are frequently posted which do shut in the red lacquer box and
not conform to the few simple: At a previous hearing financing of it; to make use of It is announced that after rules relating to the small packet when he went to bed he dreamed | the plaintiff's goods for the some experience has been had service. Such packets cause much about his treasure, and the dream His Lordship to reserve his cross pose of drawing a bill and change with the flying of mails, passen trouble to the Post Office and was always the same. examination of Mr. C. M. Bryden,
You gers will ultimately be carried, sometimes mach annoyance to the From deep sleep he would wake to find himself standing on a small CA of Messrs Lowe, Binghamg it to $68,500 locally.
the very near addresses. Full information re- may take it that we repudiate it it is hoped, in as a matter of law."
future. Reuter.
garding the service can be obtain ed at any post office or from the Hong Kong Fostal Guide.
goods.
Pleadings Amended
plication to amend their pleadings.
D'Almada had asked permission of
and Matthews, until a later date, -sa Mr. Bryden was recalled to the
witness-box this frorning.
At the request of the defending]
a
please with regard to the tion
"Against the loan a zav of $56,000 is repaid; against the overdraft they also get a credit|
MEMEL-LAND
counsel Mr. Bryden reiterated. for $68,500, and that 18 producedAZ DISPUTE:
statement he made at a previous
by drawing a bill against the hearing concerning the transaction
That is the between the parties. From this plaintiff's goods. statement he had deduced that transaction you are treating as the defendants were accountable to tantamount to a sale?" the plaintiffs for $68,000..
Bodiker and Co. were shipping
Witness:
vale."
"Yes, an agency
Witness: "A realisation.”.
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Des Voeux Road, Central.
despite such tremendous odds, have already succeeded in exptur-- ing four enemy tanks as well as some armoured cars equipped with
transport of troops. The Italian- Losses are said to be heavy.
ITALIANS ANNIHILACCAD
· On: the northerza front. Abys-
Arms Consignmentssinian detachments are said to
For Ethiopia
MEDICAL SUPPLIES IN LARGE QUANTITIES
crescent-shaped bridge which span-ITALIANS DENY red a little pond in a garden, milk- white with moonlight: The stars
REVERSES IN THE overhead were thick, and... massed
AREA OF DAGABUR machine guns and serving for the Two members of the Kowloon low that it seemed you had but Fire Brigade, Shin Lee-kuen and to stretch out your hand to pluck In the pool fish stirred and swirled, splashing drill gaged in a practice
their ripples on to great water lin. the compound opposite
Hlies which clustered on its sur-
have attacked and annihilated an Station the Fire
yesterday
face, and from a tall cypress came
Italian
advance guard which was morning, missed their footing on
entrenched in the mountains. "A Realisation?
the the ladder of one of the appli- the song of a nightingale. In the distance he could hear the silver the goods at Ying Wah's account
Some 30,000 troops under Sultan and risk, which he fook to mean,| Mr. Potter: "That is to say that Lithuanian Deputy, M. Morchestrances, and fell to the ground a
Mohammed Jijou have been "de- spatched to the Danskil region in coupled with the accounts sales, it is a realisation at once of the by the Governor of the Meme distance of some fifteen feet chimes of temple bells, and later, that Eodiker and Company were possible value of the goods.” territory to form the Directorium They were taken to hospital suf-when the night breeze began to
Addis Ababa: With the removal order to reinforce the army of fering from head and face in-rustle the cypress top would come has naturally aroused the
smaid whom he knew in his dream of the arms embargo by various the Abyssinian Crown Prince and shipping as agents in order that
juries. they might be able to protect their "It is a matter for the judge, strongest opposition in the Ger
to be the Spirit of the place, walk-countries, arms and medical suP-Eas Kabade and to check the but would you as a businessman man United Party. "The party principals by fixing exchange."
Four summonses dealing with ing toward him across the crescent plies are arriving in considerable Italian advance. The total Abys- Sold In Europe
say you could divorce that from leaders refuse to conduct any Mr.D'Almada: The ship- the plaintiffs' plea that a realisation negotiations with M. Borchestra employers of mui-teai failing to bed, henna-toed, vente en quantities. Some 5,000 quick-firing sinian forces in Danakil are stat ment was for sale at optional of their goods would not concern and have addressed a letter to report change of their addresses feet, herms-toed, were cased in rides of the latest model and con-ed to number 120,000
came before Mr. W. Schofield a little wooden clogs, her robes, siderable medical stores have ar 40,000 men left here for Jijiga ou Ying Wah? The basis of your the Governor informing him the Central Police Court rester stiff with silken brocade, seemed rived, and half a million gas-masks Tuesday. Witness "The ore was not evidence is that what Messrs their attitude. Trans-Ocean Ser
day. Inspector T. O'Connor pro-shot with silver and moonbeams; are expected shortlyck
black was her hair and piled high sold when the ship sailed from Bodiker get for the goods goes to vice.
seented:
An interesting item in the latest Rome: Signer Mussolini's _con- British Government
above her forehead, and when ensignment is 180 huge cases conversation with the British Ambas Hong Kong, but was eventually the owners?" "Yes."
"Your position is that you can-
Lan Wah-fun, aged 25, of No. Hittle Robinson locked in her eyes taiming the material for eight repair sador, Sir Eric Drum Watching sold in Europe in the name of the
not divorce the sterling bill and
115 Fuk Wing Street, Mongkok, he knew great happiness and co-shops for rides and machine guns, third within plaintiffs."
"Does it follow from that that its realisation into dollars" at that
London, To-day second floor, last evening report tent and love. Then she would and four mobile field-repair shops, no concrete
to the police that he come near to him and lay a hand which will be erected at selected politi the proceeds of the sale are the time from the whole transaction." Witness: “Not under the cir
Developments in the political ed
cumstances.”
situation in Memel, where the was held up in Sai Tee Street at on his, and they would lean over Governor has nominated one of about 4 pm by two robbers, one the bridge together and watch the Pots under the supervision
European engineers. the five Lithuanian members in of. Whom was armed with a refish disport themselves and be the recently-elected diet, in which volver. After going through his would see on the fast finger of her A further consignment has
expedited in view of German Memellanders hold 24 pockets, and taking $17 the rob hand the bine
threat to cut the seats to four New Directory, ar being closely watched by the Br tish Government as one of the|| sisziatories of the Memel Statuti The Statute provider that. fha
ctory, should enjoy, the con
the Diet and the rest
of M Borchertui
ports.
- amount to which the plaintiffs are entitled?"Yes, the proceeds
were already converted into dok The case is proceeding.
Mr. D'Almada Another-point on which you base this agency of yours is that Bodiker and Co. charged 2 per cent, comm
Yes, that is what took it to
“SILVERHAZEL
TRAGEDY
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The U.S.S. Balmer led at the
Could it have meant any other until ** kind of commission ?”......“Yer
Mr. D'Almada:
that the account and
meant to cover such things
netrance and freight,
Wah were not concerne anything else, would you smade a similar
would not have been ma
searching
ut which
„Diet Ir
British Wireless
bers escaped.
WEATHER REPORT
hire
Abyssinian
FOUR ENEMY TA
JURED
ROME CONVERSATION ·
that the
the
fortnigh
dekled
ding: to
the
dor
PAINFALL OF COLORE
which the goods
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