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To-day's Complete Short Story.
SCARLET
BEADS
killed.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936
By Iona Chrystal
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Molly Pritz, aged 7, was ad« The "Incognitos" Concert Party! mitted to the Kowloon Hospital will give a farewell performance yesterday as the result of injuries in the St. John Ambulance Head- received when she fell off a bus quarters (Tai Hang Road)
to-day, beginning at in Austin Road.
8.30 ¡p.m. There will be no charge Professor F. A. Redmond was for admission. as the concert is
A lecture on "French Law and
are
THEY hung, a single string choking. They were romance-red of scarlet beads, on the roles of emperors, glowing eastern London. To-day. rail above the trays of glass and sunsets, exotic Bowers, scarlet bitten on the left leg by a dog at for the benefit of Service men and The Armament Budget attracted "silver jewellery" in the great conts and beating drums. the University cricket ground on Brigade members.
He was treated at the an unusually large and animated department store. They were It was a scarlet rose that Frank Sunday.
A Dinner Dance will be held at crowd, and the Distinguished exceptionally large and round, had given her before he went away. Government Civil Hospital and
went away and was the dog, was Strangers Gallery of the House of and the glass was so finely cut before he
sent to Kennedy Repulse Bay Hotel to-day at Frank, who had.
$.30 p.. Commons and the Diplomatic Gal that the gleaming facets of lery were full, including many reach bead, scintillating in the always said, "Don't let them Tewn for observation. presentatives of the Dominions. electric light, gave an effect of trample on you, darling. Don't
be weak. You'd let the whole A dog belonging to Mr. A. Mr. Neville Chamberlain opened almost uncanny brilliance. world walk over you rather than Brearley of No. 17 Peak Road bit Lawyers" will be delivered by Mr. H. C. Macnamara, RÀ. LL.B., on bis Budget speech amid cheers, at They flashed a dazzling scarlet: complain. That's not strength, Chan Chui-kwong. the son of to-morrow at 8:30 pm. in the they melted tantalisingly into that's weakness!" And then she female servant, yesterday. The The most remarkable and as the deepest of liquid crimsons had married Tom and discovered boy was treated at the Govern-Union Assembly Room of the
University. All interested tonishing fact was the surplus of They burned, they sparkled, that life was a strange grey thing ment Civil Hospital and the dos cordially invited by the Law and nearly £3,000,000, compared to his they danced, making splendidistend of
scarlet roses-sent to Kennedy Town. estimate of only £500,000. con-mock of the vulgar white card She was glad that Frank could not 6d." that look into her life now. She mew eidering that whereas he estimat-with its "only is.
Fok Po-chuen, a 46-year-old
Father G. Byrne, S.J., will give from what he would say. "Start again.widow, was summoned before Mr.
start again while you're still young. w. Schofield at the Central Magis an unprofessional talk before the Leave Tom and go back to your tracy this morning. charged with Hong Kong University Medical So- heart you haven't strength enough keeping an unregistered mui tsci, ciety at 5.50 p. in the Union As- even for that. And you'll be freeg Nai, aged 12 years, at No. 24 serably Room on Wednesday, April -fr to take life in your two Fat Hing Street on April 2. De 29, and not to-day as previously
announced. • **The
Fatal Flash."
hands, and wrest a little happiness fendant pleaded not guilty and an- other adventure of Dixon
from it. instead of being, slowly said that she paid the girl 50
A concert will be given by mem- strangled, by it.
cents a month as wages. The case bers of the Wing On Orchestra at Hawke.
With trembling fingers she was adjourned til May 12.
St. Stephen's Girls' College од lecunted out the money in her
Saturday next at 8.30 p.m.
ed supplementary
estimates
shamefacedly of dangled $4,000,000, he had provided them.
£14,000,- wonder-
1 $172 of nearly 000. "That was а ful demonstration of the revenue's! buoyancy. The country bad every; reason to congratulate itself that! up to the present it had taken comfortably in its stride new and unexpected demands
its re
sources.
On
Mr. Chamberlain drew the con- clusion that there was a general increase in the country's wealth and expansion of trade activity.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
The Blonde Saleswoman turned to the Brunette,
"Look she murmured through Half-closed Tips. "Portrait of
typing. You won't break Tom's
-
-
Yes, she would have just The s.x. Bangalore is due here tough brit for two chops for Tom's from Shanghai at 6 3.7. next
She laid one and sixpence Friday.
itea
small silver on the counter.
rex Mouse Struck by Lightning ***, she said.
heartedness.
Commerce Society to attend.
The three Street Sleepers' Shelter | Society's shelters were closed on
National Debt Reduced
I'll take that red necklace,"
the 18th instant, when a hot meal; The R.M.S. of Empress of Asia, was given to all the inmates. It He revealed that the exchange
From the monent it was in her which left Vancouver on Satur-is hoped that the shelters will be equalisation fund still continued to The Brunete turned a shingled hand Hessler felt a strange light-day last, is due in Hong Kong on re-opened on December. show a profit. During the year head. At the end of the counter the national debt had been reduced l
She bought the the morning of Thursday. May 7, drub, fair indred little woman
for Manila the Fifty Indians from Punjab, by £4,500,000 while the floating was standing, nerously clutching cups and hurried home. For and will leave
India, who have been recruited Her faded she entered without the feel-sume evening. debt was reduced by £1,500,000, a shudigy, Black purse.
for the Indian contingent of the X increased provision would he blue eyes were fixed steadily one of shame that always seized
She threw The RMS. Empress of Japan, Hong Kong Police Force, were made for redemption of the debt, the scarlet heels, and they held her on the doorstep.
on the table and went which left Shangbai at 3.30 this sworn in yesterday. The figure for the debt service an expression half of fear, half of her pare
imijately to the mirror. As morning. is due in Hong Kong atj Fish fastened on the beads, the 8 am. on Friday and will leave The financial statement circulat-i Bessie was contemplating one of
The monthly meeting of the) ed as the Chancellor test shows the most daring pets of her existour came into her checks, and for Manila at 5.30 pm. the same Catholic Women's League (Ser
She was nsidering spending and now they were part
her eyes sparkled. Yes, they were day.
vices branch) will be held at the, total estimated expenditure for
Maryknoll Convent, Austin Road, (Continued on Page 11.)
We have been requested by the on Friday, at 5 p.m. Newcomers to management of the Queen's Thea- the Colony are cordially invited. tre to inform those desiring to see
The Australian and New
would remain at £224,000,000.
supply of services including the
army,
lexultation.
ing 1s. 61.
: necklace for! herself! Of course it was sheer
navy and air force, that, wickedness. Sue Xnew that.
amounts to £557.000.000. compare Moover it was absurd. And yet. LEAVE TAKING AT "Captain Blood" that, owing to
ed with £512,000,000 spent last show, standing theres it did year.
int See[2]
The Chancellor announced that Bessie's
utterly absurd. SPORTS CLUB
lad lost 7328
their
Southorn Feted
Zea- the length (12.000 ft.) of the film, land Association will wind up its the show times have been altered winter activitiea this evening with and the main picture will be pre- the Association's rooms, Glouces-| to 230, 5.05, 7.20 and 9.30 p.ma social and dance to be held in
ter Building beginning at 9 p.m.
ceded by only one short. reel
he had decided to set aside a habitual expression of resigned further £20,000,000 this year for loopelessness, The spirit of car Sir Thomas And Lady supplementary estimates for the nival-that was what those heads! Defence Services, in addition tojumbodied, the spirit of everything! the estimates already published, reckless and free and beautiful.
HE. the Governor, his A.D.C.
Mr. Leo. D'Almada, Jon, bas For new defence expenditure for They might here been diamonds "FRITIFF" PARTIES RECALLED
and Private Secretary wil be at been assigned the defence of fire 1936 and 1937 there would be for suddenly gone gay in riot of
They awoke Members of the Sports Club tending, the St. Ambularce Bri- Chinese who will appear at the the Royal Air Force. £10,000,000.sumer madness. while the sum required for the dreams that had long since died. took the opportunity to bid fare- gade Dinner Dance rext Friday Criminal Sessions
next, charged with the murder by army and navy was uncertain, but Bessie's eyes shone and a fragment well to Sir
of the beauty that had been hers Southors, who were the guests
Thomas and Lady night at the Hong Kong Hotel. would probably be about the same.
strangulation of a widow on the [returned for one flecting moment.
The Ladies Sewing Bee will ground floor. of 202, Cheungsha- Expenditure for 1936, including They were no longer a string of
of honour at a cocktail party
mect at 10"
to-day supplementary estimates would be beads in a bargain store.
given at the Club yesterday, on at the Matshed Church Sham-uary 31 last.
wan Road, on the night of Jan- They
The accused were pearly £798,000,000.
were all that was Samboyant and their impending departure from shuipo.
[committed from the Kowloon Ma- beautiful, gloriously out of reach the Colony.
gistracy.
Increases In Revenue Against the large increase, of of the grey fingers--the grey
A large number of people at- expenditure Mr. Chamberlain ex-fingers of monotony that were tended and in the course of a work, well, does not the poet sayi pected substantial increase in always at her throat, stifling, short speech Mr. Lam Ming-fan, *revenue. His estimates from
and
Excise
was
Customs $314,000,000, being an increase of The only crumb for the
£248,000,000, an increase £10,000,000.
£180.
in
од Monday
The Street Sleepers Shelter "Pop and the world pops with
Society beg to acknowledge with the president, recalled the fact
you
grateful thanks the following that Sir Thomas was their first
Lime and you juice "alone." tax Honorary Member and that he "Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a donations: Per S. C. M. Post in £10,500,000 compared with last payer was an increase of chil-had done much to put the club in far cry to The Gambia but we are memory of the late Mr. E. Mow year, while it was estimated that dren's allowance from £50 to £60-the position
it enjoyed today. not going to be entirely off the Fung $22Mr. R. Hancock in income tax
be Also an increase of taxation free Lady Southorn, Mr. Lam said, map as the lady who lived reverbe would
memory of the late Mr. E. Mow of for married persons from £170 to was formerly a member
of the Kensington was said to be by the Fung $5, bringing the total up the
$3,389.72. now defunct ladies' section and lady who lived in Mayfair. The It is anticipated that an in- An interesting measure to help she, too, had always been a good Gambia may be to Hong Kong as creased revenue of over $10,000, the distressed areas will be the friend of the Club.
He wished Kensington is to Mayfair but it is 600 would be obtained from heer, formation of a company with no-them the best of luck in their new already on the Tourist map for tobacco, oil, silk imports and thejminal capital of £1,000,000 to fin-
home in Gambia Ottawa duties, the total inland re-lance small businesses there. veque being £420,000,000. The The Chancellor concluded at 5: total revence from all sources on p.m. the basis of present taxation, was nearly £776,000,000, leaving а
Labour Criticism
Sir Thomas Replies
we noticed that at least three Cruise ships called there this In rising to reply Sir Thomas spring. So when you are next said in part:
lin England suffering from those "On behalf of my wife and my-mythical warm spring days just Major Atlee, Leader of the Oself I should like to thank you all book a berth on a ship to The prospective deficit of over 221-position, described the Budget as
very much indeed for assembling | Gambia-only eight days-and 000,000.
one which ultimately leads to The Chancellor foreshadowed war."
in such large numbers and for come to us in Bathurst and bring legal changes to prevent tax eva- Labour could not accept that giving us this opportunity to fore-us the latest news of Hong Kong. .cion, dealing particularly with position.
gather with our friends in this From what little I know of the those who transfer property They were told by Mr. Cham-happy informal farewell party of climate you are assured of the abroad retaining control thertof, berlain that as trade was on the which we shall carry away the warmest of welcomes in while themselves living in Britain, up grade and everything was go- happiest recollection.
every
sense of the word. * Struggle For Existence
Sorry To Leave and so-called one-man companies, ing well, this would be thrown
"Gatherings "Ever since I opened the Sports
like this аге which should produce an addi-away on artnaments.
Club in tional £2,000,000 this year or A.- He criticised the increased tea
December 1928 I have fraught with sadness as well as We are very sorry to 000,000 in a full year. Likewise so duty, and declared that it would watched its progress with keen in-pleasure.
terest. called educational trusts, which cause no enthusiasm anywhere.
It was one of the first leave Hong Kong and our many these partinga were leading to wholesale evasion, The Budget did not mark the efforts at an International Social friends bere bat
its Clab in Hong Kong and as such are inevitable,
would be legislated for..
Government's success, but The Chancellor announced that complete failure to deal
he proposed to
cover the deficit foreign affairs.
out of the year's revenue.
Grave Outlook
+
-Rearmament Finance
1
with
I have been very anxious for its "We wish you all good fortune i
to join with us in success. But, as you know, it and ask you has had a struggle for existence drinking to the prosperity of the
Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liber and only the keen enthusiasm of Sports Club." (Applause.) Dealing with the problem of al) declared that the financial out-a few Chinese and European sup- Lady. Southor in reply to in-. rearmament finance he said that look was graver than since 1931, porters enabled the Club to turn [sistent calls made a short speech it was inequitable that the whole the year of the Depression, and the corner and achieve its present thanking the speakers for their cost should fall on the revenue 1914.
renewed prosperity. We greatly kind references to herself and for
holidays.
for the next five years. Unless an: Three, years ago the Chancellor regret the absence to-day of two their good wishes.
disarmament were of the Exchequer described his of the keenest of those supporters, Mr. Mitchel, Mr. Priestley, Mr. agreement on reached the cost of defence would Budget as one of great expecta- our two, gallant majors, Major Chau and Mr. Ho Kom-tong also rise swiftly to a peak and would tions.
|Manners and Major Duclos. We spoke in praise of Sir Thomas' not descend to the old levels. In This was the Budget. of shat- hope they are both enjoying their Southorn and of Lady Sonthorn's future years, part of this expendi-tered hopes.
welfare work in the Colony. ture might properly be met out of Mr. James Maxton, (Indepen- "For myself I shall look back! a loan.
dent Labour) criticised the tea with the happiest memories on our | DIAMOND WEDDING REUNION He announced an increase of 3d duty, and regretted that no provi-Fritiff" parties at the Sports income tax in the pound with an sion had been made for social ser-Club where I have had the plea- Six sons and six daughters from increase of two pence a pound on vices, although there had been sure of meeting so many of my different parts of England re- Chinese and European friends in cently attended the diamond wed- tes, while he proposed to take over provision for armaments. £5,000,000 from the road fund for The House of Commons agreed happy association; and if at times (ding celebration of Mr. and Mrs. making the estimated surplus of to the Budget resolutions and ad- we went back to our offices rather George Boucher, of South Moltaat, 2500,000.
journed-Reuter.
more inclined to sleep than to Devo
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