SHANGHAI
INTERPORTERS
SAY FAREWELL
Wonderful Time In Hong Kong
DONALD LEACH SAYS "GOOD-BYE"
“It was a wonderful game and we thoroughly enjoyed it," said Donald Leach, the Shang- hai Interport captain, when in- terviewed by the China Mail ont 'board the RLS. Empress ar Asia this morning just before her departure for Shanghai
With the exception of E P.. Humphreys E Booth and Pat! Madar, all the members of the Shanghai team were passengers an the "Empress," returning to the Northern port after a week's stay in the Colony.
Booth will be learing for Home by the F. and O. a.s. Rawalpindi to-morrow while Humphreys and Madar
the remaining in
Colony.
are
It was a "double farewell"
•
day
for cricket enthusiasts. for in addition to bidding the Shanghail
Senor Manuel Quezon, above; first" President, of the new Philip pines Commonwealth, the inaugura tion ceremonies, of which, taking place to-day are being attended by the Vice-President, the Minister for War and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, together with a large party of Senators and Congrega-
(Photo by: "D'Asis Studio.)
team "farewell and bon voyage," BODIKER & CO.
there was another ceremony on the
Text Wharf where the-sus.-Ranchi- was berthed. for on board the -2 and 0. liner was G. R. M Ricketts who was bound for Home The Ranchi also sailed at noon.
Good Wicket
ACCUSED OF
+
DISHONESTY
Strange Letters Read In Court
STRONG CROSS-EXAMINATION
OF DEFENDANT..
.
THE SUBTLE CRIME
Always.
mission
one, his pless
subtle planning was aki of a musician who witn zuphony of his own tion superbly orchestra
Crime in itself-bald stripped of subtiety, went before the deed was conK He enjoyed obstacles, contr mesks to surmount thenin
He relished a tang" of "danger
hilltop
ment. Neither
concerned bad "been
Nor had the exe
housands of dollars in
of their derrise" been se-
without astute" min –
In a New York savings bank
He preferred a woman of brains under his arinal name. likewise who might fight infatuation with yawn only to himself, was a sub- ber reason. Of course in the long stantial sum which, augmented sy ram no woman actually utiliand her the proceeds of the venture that brains in love. But be Hked a
the
long run for his money: Lateralw engaged him, world guarantee
VEZDANENT DEresidence ly. Sheply to rob and slay: was
Riviers jobvious, stupid, and unist ing
To play a part was a por to the art of crime.
Yes, undoubtedly life was as full of promise as the stil, hot beauty of this priceless summer's day.) And awaiting him, in a white
In that Chicago case the wOLTR aching with "the consent of the had had a husband who was
{ house set high among Connectient's arated from her and hard pills, was a Mand Maller Buttering Ying Wah Ca
Mr. Potter asked witness to They had actually put the fellowi
with anticipation Not a Mand explain letter which stated on trial for her murder and Mailer to full the pictorial joveli- that Chan Ham-on (of the Ying tempted to prove robbery s04 26-
ness of Whittier's poem, but wind- Wah Co.) was suspicious and they venge as motives. It would have would have to put up a fight been amusing if the pour devu ciently blushing and shy to answer (his æxihetic demands. Ugly old witness replied that he thought had swung But the jury had ac-
never his victims.† quitted on the ground of insun. Wimen were
He Iced them to possess a certain jetant eridenes-
samount of beauty.
he was a senzaĆ TURNE
300
pat
Driving between fields, ou pas
“he ne course of a short
*Snake ----Bat-Not A Cheat” terview, Leach told the China Maz
Counsel then asked why it was
In the case of the San FrancUECO that the wicket on which the
that if this man with whom he widow with her social prominence, Interport match was played was
was dealing was so smart, he had it had been necessary to give the eat pink clover and resilient "very good" on the first day and ""
the transaction into thing an appearance of accident shining grass, he snifted the frage also in the morning of the second! An accusation to the effect writing. Witness answered that He fattered himself that through. knee of bonday and felt its friendly warmth through his blue and third days Asked what it that Messrs. Bodiker & Co. had although Chan Ham-on was sinart out the entire period of his ser- was like on Monday and Tuesday been guilty of dishonesty of the it did not follow that he was a ¡vice" as "her chanteur no one had serge: szikil. Anyone ... passing the ➡ small inconspicuous roadster would afternoons, he smilingly remarked worst kind, was made by Mr. Cheat
suspected their "attachment”
scarcely be able to recall what the “I wish I had the same wicket to Elion Potter, K.C., during a
Mr. Potter: "Since Chan Ham- There had never been any suspicion bowl-on-every match.”
rigorous cross-examination of
that he was surling. He had not Lesch went on
to say that he Mr. G. Bodiker, when the case was suspicious concerning the, that the gaping wound on her head driver actually looked like, except was glad Sam Kerment had made in which the latter's firm is be shipment of the goods to Ham-was caused by anything but a
was al- frightful accident; or that when the sort of face one remembers. It ****-&-pity be did not getrees of Canton, for $68,500, as dam-
tence stating that the are was to sat at the wheel, he had stepped and colouring which one passes tury in the Interport."
ages for conversion was, re- The "Shanghai
were sumed before His Honour the be kept in Hong Kong, why did from the car at the top of a hul without notice. The sort one sees duplicated innumerable times in a unanimous regarding the success Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac-you not make out another con of their stay in the Colony. E. C. Gregor, in the Supreme Court tract instead of leaving it Baker, the manager, said that they this morning.
such a good show here, though "iting sued by the Ying Wah Coburg, and since there
ready another contract in exis-be made sure that only, a carcass was of that indeterminate feature
teasi
VCI-
bal have already stated GAY SCENES AT had had a wonderful time, while The remark was prompted that it was a mistake Mr. Pot "Carnera" Williams said he enjoy when Mr. Potter disclosed that ter added that it was something ed the fast bowling joke on the Bodiker & Co.'s Canton office more than a mistake! Press
PHILIPPINES
INAUGURATION
(Continued from Pane 1) :
crowd.
Neither did his clothes of the way he wore them in any way chise! him from the masses. Even This speech held no identifying accent. One could not say "Kew Yak
"Middle
"South" or "Canada" All this
He however, added that had communicated with their Several times Mr. Potter hadi: he would be putting in a lot of Hong Kong office instructing occasion to remind witness that practice between now and the next them to make out a telegram to this was a very serious case, and time they came down in order, not the effect that 34 shillings had the charges being made aganist In his subsequent address Me was by no means accident. He had to disappoint us again!
beer offered for a quantity of him, rightly or wrongly, as His Dern compared the Philippines' carefully cultivated his univer- would decide were desire for freedom from the Unit-sably. The man's charm for wo- Shanghai War Cy
wolfram ore, whereas the cor- Lordship
lay in unfoldment - of his ed States to the Gnited States' men rect offer was 35 shillings.
Portions Of Letter Read desire for freedom Levin Britain, chaneler personality. Here also In answer to another question After President Rooseveles pro- rested his safety from detection. the latter's answer was, "I will witness' admitted that he had aet
Immediately the gong request- *ing visitors to go ashore
sounded, the Shanghai team gave
Shanghai
ex-
When Mr. Potter put this to Mr. Bodiker in the witness-box
very, grave.
clamation had been read by the No one ever suspected him of
their war cry and then escorted leave it to my Lord”
ed on behalf of the Ying Wan Governor-General, the oath was being anything but a pleasant, their friends down the gangway.
administered to Senor Manuel kw-voiced fellow of some thirty- The case, which has now oc- Co. He could be described as a Gathered on the wharf were a (large number of cricket
cupied the court for several broker. Mr. Potter: "A broker Quezon, the President-elect, by odd years and middle height, with the Chief Justier of the Supreme drab-toned hair, ever of much the thusiasts and on the call of Tom days, is being handled by Mr. is an agent.”
Eldon Potter, KC., instructed Mr Potter then read to the Court, accompanied by the azing sime lack of colour and skin the Hayward, the Hong Kong captain, by Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, of court. certain portions of a let ef 19 salvoes. Mr. Osmens and clarity of a non-drinker's. Indeed three cheers were accorded Messrs. Hastings & Co., for the ter from Bodikker and Co. stat the members-clact similarly took the fact of his taste for milk and plaintiffs, and Mr. Leo D'Alma-ing, when they were informed the oath, whereupon Mr. Dem at water rather than cocktails and G. B. Paliott was in great foria da, jar instructed by Mr. J. T. that Ying Wah bad decided to nine o'clock declared the Philip highballs had three months ago on Commonwealth an ocean finer rated in the re- Prior, of Messrs. Walkinson & take action against them, that pire Islands
gard of Miss Edwina Williamsoi wharf cooliea were getting ready {Grist, is for the defendants. they hoped the case would be Government, established sooner had he got on to the deck that they deposited a quantity Hong Kong courts for if it was
The case for the plaintiffs is outside the jurisdiction of the This was followed by Mr Que Seated at the same table the zon's inaugural address — his frat little lady had first noticed bin than he was seen with a big wooden of wolfram ore with the defen heard in Canton it would be
The day was now given over to when the dining-room steward]
placed before each of them a pint
"and refused to go on beerd till the
to take down the gangway and 16:
mallet in his hand, shaping a dants against a loan, with in easier to handle. When counsel words as President.. though he was going to throw structions that the ore was to asked why it would be easier to troop reviews, parades and official bottle of frothy creamy liquid. down to his friends on the wharf be kept in Mesars Bodiker's go handle, witness replied that the calls by the newly elected Two Hong Kong supporters showdown until such time as it could translation was not quite accur (bers of the Government
Kong.
The case is proceeding.
LOCAL ESTATE
She had flashed and he had lifted. his glass in a sort of toast. Sage- how their mutual taste constituted ja bond. The acquaintance," calti- vated through three meals a day
ed a keen sense of humour by im-be redeemed. It is alleged that ate mediately taking out two toy tin the defendants, despite the helmets and downing them, at the agreement, shipped some of the azme time producing toy rifles! ore to Europe.
The Shanghal team, who were. On the other hand, the de Appearing on remand before! Mir Arthur Bayley Worthington (for to Miss Edwins the luxury of gathered on the deck, then gave fence is pleading that, subse- Mr. EL Wynne-Jones at the Bramwell, retired ship's officer, breakfasting in bed was unknown) three cheers and a tiger for Hongquent to the agreement which Kowloor Magistracy yesterday, inte of the St. Francis Hotel and quiet hours aide by side on deck. Che had his chair blaced next stated that the ore was to be Wong Yu, aged 43 who was Hong Kong, who died intestate at Among those who were on kept in the Colony, a verbal charged with having attempted to that address on February, 1, 1934, to hers), had ripened on her part a tentative, futtering friend- board to see the visitors off were agreement was made which snatch a purse from Mrs. 0. Glis at the age of 56 years, left local Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hayward, cancelled the original one.
ter lady last Friday, was dis-estate to the value of $2,900.
(Confinned on Page 11) INFANT PRINCES CHRISTENING
November 20 At Palace
When
Lang. Official Administrator.
Heavy Fines Follow
Successful Opium Raid
Kr. 1. E. Pearce, Messrs. A K Not Afraid Of Defaulting charged-owing to the absence of Letters of -Adminstration, have Mackenzie, T. A. Pearce, Fat It was on the subject of this the complainant who has left heen granted to Mr. E. P. H. Madar, B. Booth, P. Humoral contract that Mr. Potter the Colony- phreys, A. H. Mader:=F :D.
anidressed his remarks to Mul Pereira, A. P. Minu. EC. Bodiker this morning. cher, Frank Goodwin, F. Ba questioned as to what he would kett. It C. C. Garthwaite and Lt have done if he had had to de- JAP. Wulems.
Fault as a result of the ship- iment of the wolfram ore to Hamburg, – witness - answered that he had not had any reason to fear that-Me Potter put it to him that although a firm may freeem to be as safe as the Bank
of England, it could still default:
yone could default.
Potter put it to
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into
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