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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1937.
The STORY of
by FRANK C. PAPE
"THE CROWN JEWELS
Charlie Chase Comedy "Manhattan Monkey
Business"
And:
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**World Congress Of Catholics"
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COLONEL BLOOD'S THEFT IN 1671
IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES IT THE CROWN JEWELS WERE KEPT IN THE TOWER OF LONDON. IN THE TWO STORIES ABOVE THE BASEMENT OF THE MARTIN TOWER (WHERE THE JEWELS LAY WITHIN AN IRON SAFE). LIVED THE CUSTODIAN-AN OLD MAN:NAMED TALBOT EDWARDS . - MR. EDWARDS-WAS ALLOWED TO TAKE VISITORS INTO THE TREASURE
CHAMBER TO VIEW THE REGALIA.
MOST BURGLARS 'WOULD HAVE ́BEEN DISCOURAGED BY THE MAS --- LIVE-WALLS OF THE TOWER,THE-
· DEEP MOAT, AND A BATTALION. OF THE KING'S GUARDS, BUT TO COLONEL BLOOD
SUCH OBSTACLES MERELY ADDED ZEST. TO ENTERPRISE AND HE DETERMINED TO STEAL THE CROWN JEWELS!
BLOOD'S OBSERVATIONS. SHOWED HIM THAT FRIENDS OF THOSE LIVING WITHIN THE TOWER MIGHT PASS TO AND FRO WITHI
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ADASTEDE TODAMANGADHOUSED?
AILEEN MARSON EMLYN WILLIAMS HARTLEY POWER ACAUMONT BRITISH PICTURE: "Cracked by MAURICE ELVEY
SUNDAY
CHARLIE RUGGLES · . MARY BOLAND
SO HE DISGUISED HIMSELF AS A PARSON AND MADE-FRIENDS WITH THE OLD CUSTODIAN
AND HIS FAMILY.
LOWFLYING PLANES IN
KOWLOON
RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION TAKE ACTION IN MATTER
The monthly meeting of the Gen-Į
for Apologies
and Miss
The mosquito nuisance in Ków- eral Committee of the Kowloon Reloon City and adjacent areas was sidents' Association was held on discussed at length. On this sub- Tuesday evening in St. Andrew's'ject a letter from Government wa
read. It was decided that a series Church Hall.
Those present were: Mr. B. Wylie of questions should be prepared by (President), Mr. F. C. Mow Fung the Markets and Sanitation sub- to: Dr. Basto (Vice-President), Mr. R. Baldwin committee and sent
W. J.with the request that he put them (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. Rattey, B. W. Bradbury, C. Eto the next meeting of the Urban Terry, Mrs. E. W. Gardiner, and Council.
Increase In Burglaries Rev. J. R. Higgs.
The increasing number of bur- absence were received from Hon. Mr. L. D'Almada, Messrs. R. P.glaries in Kowloon and the appar· Phillips, T. B. Wilson, H. Gittins, C. fent ease with which thieves are B. Mow able to pledge stolen goods with M. Manners
pawnbrokers are occupying the at- Fung.
Correspondence referring to retention of the Association. In this on connection legal advice has been on "islands" flector lights
to orders bend in the secured with reference Waterloo Road, the
made by magistrates in such cases. General Committee feels The that residents whose goods may In view of the reply from the have been stolen and subsequently Hon, Director of Air Services, it pawned by the thief should, in all was decided to write to the Officer such cases, avail themselves of the Commanding R.A.F. Kai Tak and provisions, of the Pawnbrokers Or- the Civil Aviation Company draw-dinance which entitle them to make ing their attention to the nuisance application to the magistrate for and danger caused by low-flying the return of such goods without aeroplanes over certain districts in payment to the pawnbroker.
The Association has donated $50 Kowloon.
With reference to the alleged to the Children's Playgrounds As-
the un-sociation nuisance caused by
storage of ce: loading, and
in ment Kai Yan
road near Tsun Wan village, and the new road through Customs Pass was read and approved.
Chatham Road Park certain premises in It was reported that the Regula- Road, the Hon. Secretions in connection with Chatham tary was instructed to forward to Road Park drawn up by the Asso- the original complainants copy of ciation and submitted to the Pr a letter received by the Association lice Department in October, 1936, from the Urban Council.
have now been gazetted.
The Markets and Sanitation sub- was requested to in- The Markets and Sanitation sub-committee committee.reported having con-vestigate conditions-existing in an sidered Government's reply on the alleged Beggar Settlement in re- subject of a Leprosarium, regard-sidential Kowloon, ing such as satisfactory. Informa-
Leprosy Report
tion gained by the return of ques-
tionnaires on the subject of Leprosy Among the passengers who Par was being tabulated in the form rived in the Colony this morning of a report, which it recommend. A. Kirkbride. Mr. Lung Moy Wing, ed be sent to Government, and pub-in the s.s. Cathay from Shanghai, lished in the, Press.
were:—Mr. Alan Ferguson, Miss D.
A letter from the Traffic Board, Holloway, Mr. Kan Yen Chan; Mr. concerning proposed alterations in P.. H. King, Miss E. King, Mrs. J.
"WIVES ENVER KNOW" certain bus routes in Kowloon was Mrs. P. M. Morris, Mrs. M. J. G.
referred to, the Bus Services sub-Mullins, Mrs. J. K. Panoff, Mr. A.
Shewaram, Mr. M. G. Van Øyen. committee.