P. I. SUGAR MAGNATE IN COLONY
Enjoyable Holiday In Japan
SUGAR EXPORT ANXIETIES
IN ISLANDS
CAR DRIVER IN
TROUBLE
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936
ALLÈGED THEFT OF CHEMICALS
TWO ACCUSED MEN REMANDED
To-day's Complete Short Story Over And
Done With
Juxin
do
By Marjorie Warby
Jill's small face flushed. "Please don't think too badly of me, Charles dear. Honestly, I'm sitting "Pretty good imitation of one."!
the one magnificent diamond.
Charles ignored it.
"What's wrong?" "Nothing."
he'd be working late? Well, you'd some reason for! chucking that chap."
"We'll leave Bill Lorimer out of it, if you don't mind.”
Sequel To Garden Road Accident
Stanley Lee, of "On Low,*; BAIL OF $500 EACH Conduit Road, driver of private
I'm awfully sorry, Charles, car No. 2975, was this
but I can't marry you." morn- Tam Fook, a storekeeper, and said Jill. looking nervously into Among the passengers who aring summoned before Mr. W. Lee Hau, an accountant, both em-the handsome, unimaginative not a heartless flirt-" rived in the Colony this morning Schofield at the Central Magis-ployed at Imperial from the North was Mr. Rafael tracy with driving his
Chemical In-face of the car dustries (China) Limited's of the Philip without due care and caution on down
Go-opposite. Alunan, President
at Great George Street.
growled Charles, "I don't say you What on pine Sugar Association
earth and April 15 near Garden Road. sgain appeared before 31r. W. mean?" exploded Charles.
you weren't justified in throwing over former Secretary of the Philip Mr. P. Hodgson, for the defen- Schofield at the
that wild fool, Bill Lorimer- Central Magis- pine Treasury, who, together with dant, said that a civil case was tracy, charged in connection with I'm so sorry" Tentatively abe a lovely lady, didn't you.
"I can't marry you after all. caught him at a restaurant with his wife and six children, will pending between his client
when and the theft of 50 bags of sulphate held out her platinum ring with he'd told you spend a fortnight's holiday here another party involved in the ac-of ammonia on May 2. before returning to the Islands. jcident. Defendant was alleged to Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared Interviewed, Mr. Alunan said have run into another car, but for the complainant firm while that he and his family had spent only if his driving was a danger Mr. F. E. Nash appeared for the their first long holiday in Japan, to the public should the case be first defendant and Mr. J. T. "What have I done?" persisted although they had frequently taken up by the Police.
"But Arthur Stobart-you'd no-) Prior for the second defendant.
Charles, flushed and angry. "Hang thing against him, so far as Ive passed through on the way to Inspector Alexander said that America,
Inspector Logan was at the bot- The case was formally remand-it. Jill this is rather a facer!? heard. And you've nothing! The Japanese were very cordialitom of Garden Road that day and ed for a weak. ball being allowed
"I know. I'm frightfully sorry.jagainst me, therefore I'm just not to him
I feel terribly mean. and his family and al-saw a taxi forced to draw up.. the defendants at $500 each.
It isn't any going to listen to this nonsense. thing you've looked, or done, or though several attempts were as the signal was against him. After the case Mr. H. 3. Arm-Isaid, made to obtain his views on the Defendant's car, which was some strong asked His Worship to give don't mind about it too much.”
anything. Please Japanese-Philippine situation, he distance behind, then came up some indication of the time soli- "But I do mind," retorted the always evaded any such
citors should attend the Court in man. "I mind very much indeed. views he had left politics Mr. Hodgson contended that the mornings. Mr. Nash, he said, Nice fool I shall look! Just when! behind and was then a busi-the taxi had stopped suddenly had been in
Court He stated and that his client could not pull o'clock, while
before 10 I was going to sign the contract ness man on holiday.
His Worship was for buying the house." that while he was in Japan and up quickly enough.
bust in Chambers with the "I know. That's what made me The summons was adjourned
Juvenile Court.
screw up my courage to break-it | mag for a week.
Mr. W. Schofield said that he off."
"But what have I done?" had been sitting in the Juvenile
inter and hit the taxi twice.
when conversing with several pro-} minent Japanese business nutes, he never had occasion -notice any
to
unfriendliness which DIRECTOR SHOT
might have been caused by recent events in the Islands.
Mr. Alunan said that the newly
formed Senate of the Philip pine islands were working shoulder to shoulder and very optimistic regard- ing the Success of the new! Commonwealth. adding that the Filipinos were very lucky to have
were
IN HOTEL
Man Who Broke A German Attack
10-10
TO-MORROW'S STORY
+
To-morrow's story will be "Out Of The Depths," by Gloria M. Sims.
·Court for nearly 18 months and "Oh, Charles. I keep telling you A little natural windiness because rarely came to the big Court till it isn't anything you've done! It's the wedding day's drawing near. 10.30, and sometimes later.
just me. My feeling have chang That's all that's wrong with you, ed."
my dear. Get your hat and well! keen enough six breeze along to the house agent's
"You months ago."
Jill made
were
{together.”
little helpless ges-
W
Jill stood her ground.
He agreed with Mr. Armstrong that solicitors who came up about) 11 o'clock would be in time.
This morning Mr. W. Schofield,
"Charles, I'm serious about this. sat in the big Court until about ture with her hands. 10.45.
"I can't help it.
I'm sorry." I'm not going to marry you." "Sorry! Is there anyone else?”
Charles blustered. Said he re- "No-oh, no!"
fused to release her. He was man like the Manuel Quezon at, it is not your fault-just stress
"But there soon will be" ob-determined to sign the contract of business, more than I can RADIO HOCKEY served Charles gloomily. be for the house.
the helm.
NOTE LEFT FOR WIFE
"If anything happens to me
stand."
was:
CHAMPIONS
WALK-OVER FROM C.B.A.
Mr. Alunan said that his pre sent worry, if he could term it a
This note, written to his wife worry, was their sugar export to by Mr. James Walter Melhuish, America. At present they were.C., of Kidderminster, sélling all their Jugar to the read by Mr. Ingleby Oddie at a United States, but when their ex- Paddington inquest last month.. perimental Commonwealth had Mr. Melhuish was found shot; succeeded, as they all hope it will in an hotel in the West End of to them by the C.B.A., the winners there would probably be tariff London.
walls and such like obstacles to
A verdict of suicide while of trade. He said he felt sure that unsound mind was recorded.
Thanks to a walk-over conceded i
of the "B" Division of the Mamak! Hockey Tournament, the Radio
the third chap you've jilted in as MAGY years. You're evidently making a hobby of it."
£402,000,000 IN SAVINGS
the President of the United States Mr. Alexis Jacob. of High pions of the 1935-6 competition.
Sports Club are undisputed cham Big Increase In Post
Under Pressure
Office Banking
THRIFTY BRITONS
Un- "I won't be thrown over. derstand that? You can't play fast and loose with me!"
"Are you mad?. Do you want ja house on your hands when you:
aren't going to be married?"
"But what have I done?" de- manded Charles for the third time.
Jill gritted her teeth and clen- ched her hands. Said in a low
isibilant tone:
that
would call a conference. between bury Hill, N., a co-director with
"Charles, if you ask me the responsible parties
The China Mail was next Mr. Melhuish in F. R. Simpson
told by a
again I shall sercam. I'm not en- that asturen.
and Co. (Steel Works). of Old-member of the CB.A. team
joying this interview any more Mr. Alunan politely declined to bury, Birmingham, stated that they did not think it was right to
than you. Can't you understand discuss the question of a possible Mr. Melhuish was in receipt of pect a Club to turn out for hoc- The balance due to 10,000,000—and go?" protectorate of the Philippine a salary of £1,200 a year.
key in the summer, and it was depositors in the Post Office "I refuse to leave this house Islands under the United Starex
because of this that the C.B.A. Savings Bank is approximately until I am given a more adequate Government, and stated that any Coroner: Had he been over- are unable to field a team. thus £402,000,000, according to .a reason for your unwarrantable be- of his ideas or statements might worked lately? He had been forcing them to. concede the statement issued last month. be misconstrued by persons in the rather under pressure.
points in the play-off for the title. Islands and outside, because of Mr. Jacob said that when he Only one game now remains to his close relationship with the left Birmingham to attend a be played, and that is the Cham- Prezident of the Islands.
board meeting in London. Mr. Pions Rest fixture. The date for Melhuish complained of feeling this game will be announced queer in his head; he "kind of due course.
THREE YEARS IN ARCTIC
Cambridge Graduates' Expedition
·lost himself.”
Mr. Jacob added that Mr. Melhuish joined the Worcester- shire Regiment early in the war, and on one occasion in France he was instrumental: with his company in breaking up a German attack
He was
in the battle of the Somme.
A group of Cambridge graduates recently sailed from Southampton
He lay between life andi in an expedition to the Canadian
death for weeks, and was sub- Aretic. They will be away three! and a half years, in the course ofsequently deaf in one ear. He was for a time an observer in! which they will have communica- the R.F.C., and left with the tion with the outside world only rank of captain.
two or three times.
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NEW £100,000 BRIDGE
Improving London Dock Approaches
ROAD TRAFFIC DELAY TO BE AVOIDED
מ!
haviour."
Jill sighed.
In addition, £169,000,000 of Government stock is held
"I wanted to spare your feelings, through the bank by depositors but if you must have it-you bore and others.
me to distraction."
He stiffened. Jill's words were Deposits in January and a knock-out blow to his vanity. February showed increases of which was considerable. about 500,000 in numbers andį Jill-to say that to him! Jill. £2,500,000 in amount, com-who wasn't even pretty when one pared with those months last came to consider her dispassion- year.
Average Of £4/10s.
ately, apart from that queer charm
of hers. Jill, who, when all was said and done, was only the daugh- The average deposit to dateter of a retired dairyman in spite this year is £4 9s. 8d.. compared of her streamline, her delicate with £4 11s. 6d. for the whole hands and feet.
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London Docks. The 000 in 1934. otherwise. and his Proaches to
Ito say that he bored her to dis- Ministry of Transport has made a camp sites, which Mr. Thomas said Mr. Jacob."He was a grant from the Road Fundoing the special Jubilee safe, died on the spot.
Sales of home safes, includ-traction! Charles' love for Manning, the leader, has located splendid, honourable. upright wards the cost
of a new bridge reached the record total of 'He picked up the ring which recently. They will also explore man."
over the entrance to Millwall 440,000 last year, over £1,000,- had lain on the table between them. the unknown west coast of Bafin: Dr. Fairlie, police surgeon,
Dock, in West Ferry-road, Poplar 000 being deposited in them. Island, the longest piece of un-stated that Mr. Melhuish had The work, which is to be carried charted coast line in the Northern middle-car disease which out by the London County Coun-l
cause headaches in cil, will cost £102,500.
Hemisphere.
would 3,500 Miles In Open Boat close proximity to where he West Ferry-road is at present! The members of the expedition was wounded during the war, carried over the dock entrance by are Mr. G. W. Rowley, Mr. R. J. O. He shot himself in the head a swing bridge, the normal load Eray, Mr. Baird and Mr. Pilking-with an automatic pistol on which is restricted to 18 tons.
ten. They will travel at least Recording his verdict, Mr. This bridge spans the entrance | 3,500 miles in an open 30ft whale Oddie said that the man's men- lock. When vessels are passing boat, the only type of craft which tal distress might have been in through it has to be kept open, can be used in these shallow and some way the result of the old causing considerable often ice-bound waters.
road traffic.
war wound.
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She needn't think he would tell her to keep it, as that fool Lorimer had done. Not an expensive ring like that-why it was insured for fifty pounds. He pocketed the jewel and stood up.
(Continued on Pase 11)
full production.
Three For Royal Air Force
Expansion Scheme PRODUCTION SPEEDED UP Dog teams will be used for the
The Two-Year expansion inland travel over some 8,000 to
Bascule Type
During the next 12 months the scheme, which was to bring the 12.000 miles, most of which will be
The new structure, which will British aircraft industry will be
first line strength of the RAF. covered in winter, as in the
The actual hours of transmis- be of the bascule type, will accom-producing, ou an average, five new the end of March, 1937, will be up to about 2,000 aeroplanes by warmer months vast areas become sion from ZBW during Aprimodate a 25ft carriageway, and aeroplanes every working day. mere marshes and mudfields.
fulilled. The newer programme, į
the dog"beams are driven,
ese programmes. were
totalled 265.75, of which 174 were two footpaths. This will remove Of these, at least three will be which is to bring the total to - Learning Use Of Dog Whip devoted to European programmes the loading restriction, which has Boyal Air Force machines, and A member of the expedition said and 91.75 to Chinese programmes, long hampered the heavy indus-two commercial or civil. These about 2,450, will not be completed that most of the part would have the respective percentages for the tries of the Millwall district. to spend this summer learning to month being 65.48 and 34.52. In:
are minimum estimates, and will for another year. To reduce the time during which probably be exceeded. wield the long whips with which addition 13 European and Chin- the bridge will have to be opened.
During the four years of the The number of engines will be war the industry produced 55,093 broadcast for shipping, a site has been much greater, Tor" many of the aeroplanes and 41,034 aero en- "These animals,” he added, "will by ZEK. Altogether 323 new chosen on the east side of the machines have two or more en-zines. No doubt this rate could were issued during the existing bridge clear of the engines. The figures given do not be surpassed, if necessary, despite carded the usual practice of tak-mouth and 47 licences ing Eskimo guides and porters.
include the "Flying, Flea," or the fact that modern machines are The selection of this site will "serial scooter" class, many of more complicated than those of "We will build our own igloos
necessitate the construction of which are being made privately. the war period, of great weight, (snow huts). Each summer food ships. Otherwise we will depend curved approaches, bet these will will be delivered at four points by entirely on the seals and will geese have a width of 50ft to allow long high-performance. R.A.F. types, engine power has increased on an
During the summer, certain new and much higher quality. the Hudson's " Bay Company's we will, shoot."
loads to pass in safety."
be our only help. We have dia- licences
newed.
were re-trance lock
now undergoing tests, will be in average five-fold per machine.
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