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IN A SUBMARINE.
LANDLUBBER'S VISIT...
[UY A CORRESPONDENT.]'
"THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26г, 1932.
EXCHANGE CONTRACT
ACTION.
THE BROKERS MAY BE RE-CALLED.
The hearing of the exchange contract In view of the large number of sub- marines at present in port, the following action brought by the Bank of Canton account of a laudlabber's exploration of gainst the British Chinese Trading Co. British subinarine will doubtless inter-owned, by one Chin Tin Cho, was
tianell yesterday. est many readers,
ALLEGED FRAUD ONʻA
JEWELLER,
PASTE SUBSTITUTED FOR
+1
GENUINE PEARLS.
The Puisne Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood) day.
to the plaintiff'ı! Two well dressed Chinese -called and Made the acquaintaner, the other day gave his ruling as
se some loose pearls. The
•of a '' C.P‚Á‚" "P.O." in the Royal application for production of documenti asked to Navy--not sure which he was, but in the which was discussed at the end of the master, of the shop showed them u tay Army the same markings on the plumage previous day's sitting The Judge said fall. Themes examined the pearls and indicate Corporal. The outcome (after that, as to Mr. Jenkin's request for pro selected. three, worth 9500, which they "one or two" in the Naval Canteen) wasdaction, he had looked into the matter put aside. Then one of the men asked striting an invitation to go down a submarine and could find no way of compelling de the shop master
for sale
RECENT BOMB OUTRAGES
A
IN CANTON.
FOREIGN DOCTOR UNDER-
ARREST.
Dr. Low Yuk Lin, Commissioner of
young fellows now swarming our streets they were not in defendant's possession. parted without buying any, declaring various places on the night of October
1
own clients.
Mr. Alabaster:
We have been looking for the letters Mr. Jenkin wants and cannot find them,
man and two girls, and in wounding seriously nine other persous. The homb in this case is said to have been thrown by a young man, dressed in European clothes and accompanied by a boy.
According to the story of a jeweller in Queen's Road West, paste pearls were Foreign Affairs in Canton, is engaged in con-abstituted for real ones by a simple making inquiries into the. antecedents of tek practised by two allers on "Mora Dr. M. de Colbert, who has been serving recently as a physician at the Min Kua (Republic) Hospital at Canton, but was arrested on the 19th inst. ns à suspect in connection with a series of bomb outrages in the city. Dr. Colbert claints to be of German nationality, bat is not recognised as a German by the Cantón German community. For a time and, being willing always to look at life fendants to produce the doenuents at materials. The master thinks that while Dr. de Colbert was with the Red Cross he went to get these, the visitors b Corps of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Northern from the other fellow's angle, the offer this, stage.
Mr. Alabaster said they were prepared stituted three false pearls for those they Expeditionary Army. He has a wile nad -of guidance was gladly acceptal Ope half the world does not know how the to produce the cable, asian act of graer, had selected. When the master return three children in Canton, living in the! other halt tiyes, and it can only be con- and without admitting its relevaney.ed, the bargaining for the pearls was hospital quarters.
In all six bombe were thrown in chided that it is merely because the fine With regard to the other documents, resumed, but eventually the visitors de
In re-examination, the defendant sal thus the price was too high. Replacing 19th. One thrown at a Chinese news do not spend a preat part of their lives actually in the sabiaarines that they are at Xavier, his manager, had two the praxis, the shopkeeper's suspicion paper Ofer in Tri-chat-po o'clock letter books of his own, and, when the was aroused by the "feel" of them and in the evening lid considerable damage the building nad to surrounding as healthy as they are,
frm olowej) flown. Xavier took away those closer examination showed that they to Dae has heard it said-it is probably a mis inaccurate and seimifie geb. letter looks and correspondener from his, were paste imitations. The master resh-" property resulting in the death of one]
edeout after the mei, and overtook them. They took the charge of theft very celly eralisation, based on too short an estima.
to be tion of the period required to develop
searched in order to establish their in new types has the smaller stature of
and declared themselves frady
Other outrages took place at Lancashire people is due to hardships and
Only to the shop and submitted to a thorough Oriental Hotel, the Western Hotel, and privations, during the Industrial Revolu- Mr. Jenkin: I must protest against nocence. They returned with the mater
* statement being made like that.
search in which several pf the shop is the Hotel Asia, all along the Bund. In tion, Sabinares have not long been
the witness can make it.
room and left before the explosion part of the rvironment of the human
The Judge: Mr. Alabaster is entitled took part. but no pearls could be lond, almigst every case, a young woman took The shop master, in the circumstances. Sccurred. She carried only a small bag family when they have, a speial type
to make a statement, surely.
had no option but to allow the men to, with her, and was sometimes accompanied of the genus bono rany Be expected to
Mr. Jenkin: No. He refuses to pro
thepart. They then manfested grens by an attendant. No serious damage was evalve, to live in them, a creature duer but he cannot say the letters do not
ploded "at Sing Kee, 3, thy Bund. able of alling itself up in a ball like a
without allowing me to look dignation and created a scene, which done to the hotels. One bomb which ex- exist sow-bux "or desmumodating itself to con-through the books and challenge the drew a crowd to whom they denounced wounded four persons while another the shop keeper for this foolish accu- boinh near East Brulge injured"a bolt |
woman and a girl, fined spiers like an internal parasite. statement.
Internal parasite" sounds horrid, The defendant's clerk next gave misation againsi respectable citizens." perimps, "hut "living" in a submarine must dence and a great many accounts were! The shop master, however, is convinced be the nearest modern equivalent of given by him of conversations and deal that the men passed the pearls" to a con- Joanh, trips in the many of the figs between Chin Tin Cho and the federate who made off with then. He whale. A submarine has an outer tissue brokers already called, The clerk said he bas communicated with the police and and framework of tanks, filled either with definitely told one exchange broker that all the pawnshops and jewellers shops air or water, according as the vessel is Xavier had no power to make a contract have been circularised and told to be on to swim above or below the surface: The It was objected that these statements the watch. inhabitants dwell in sort of long. had not been put to the brokers in cross- tubular digestive tract"
runs examination, when ky gave evidence down the creature's centre. The spinal that they had never seen Chin Tin Cho with the madeyer. column is just above one's heal; it, also, binly dealt runs the whole length of the creature Xavier has plenty of swivel joints ald operates the firs ydroplanes) by which the mechanien! Esh rises or dives,
which
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The Judge asked MreJenkin to inquire whether the brokers were still available to be recaled, if required,
The bearing then concluded for the
The creature receives it's Jonahs by a convenient orifice in its back: its, mouth day. ilces not absorb things-only expls them
and nasty things, too, if one happens to
come your way. The secreting gland" THE "SUI YICK." "PIRACY.
PRISONMENT IMPOSED.
iga chamber just behind the unse of the SENTENCES OF TEN YEARS' IM. submarine, where share torp/dors are kent. Creeping amidships, the guide imlicates space into which as office roll-
The Sui Fi piracy case concluded.
top disk simply would not go, and reafter a hearing of two and a half days mirks, "Eight of us sleep ibere." A shortly' fore two o'clock yesterday tube, one foot in diameter sprouts through afternoon, the mid-day adjournment the centre of one bunk space; the occupant being dispensed with. has to put one leg on each side of it and
All four prisoners were found "guilty" wake up and re-wind himself if he wants and were each sentenced by the Chief to turn over. The disposition of the Justice to ten years' imprisonment,
others is four on four shelves that almost touch; one on the mess table and two on the floor.
SPORT.
CRICKET
HỒNG KÔNG CC. 2. ". CBC. The following side will represent the Hongkong Cricket Cnb 2nd XI. r. Chinese Recreation Club at Causeway lay on Saturday, the ath jest, at 2.15 p.m, sharp-J. D. Crawford, W. W. Mackenzie, G. H. Piercy, W. Galloway, DE. G. Nicholson, H. Spicer, H. E. Hollands, D. B. Peat, M. M. Watson, J.
Humphreys, F. H. Pentycross.
mai
WORLD THEATRE.
the
THE CANTON LOAN. GOVERNMENT NOTE "CIRCULATION LIMITED
The Tonton Times of the 24th, inst. says:
The Provincial Assembly of Kwang- tung, through its spreial cumamittee, will begin to-day auditing the note circu lation of the Provincial Bank of Kwang- tung, the financial agency and special depository of the Cantor Government. This action, and the establishment of a commission of assemblymen and répro- sentative eilings to supervise Govern- ment expenditure from the proceeds of the proposed 52000,000 7 per ment of Kwangtung are some of the bonds of 1928 of the Provincial Govern conditions on which the Assembly ap proved of the issue on October 20th.
crat.
A generally reported, the issue of this bond will be undertaken by the. Corporation at Angin-French-China
London whose agent, Mr. G. Brander, I now on his way home to arrange for this, which will be done through the Liverpool and Martins Banks." The re- A Kiss in Time," the picture that is venac of the wine and tobacco taxes bas now being shown at the above theatre, been designated as sechrity for the loan, is one that should not be missed. Dainty and any shortage will be met by the Wanda Hawley takes the role of the Bureau of Finance of the Canton Gov- lover, and Chunky Walter Heira, ten years, first payment of principal romantic young lady looking for a cave ernment. The term, of the loan will be Impersonates the Correspondence School beginning first half of the fifth year. Dectective. The story runs as follows: This loan will be available within 30 Moore, a writer, whom she does not shall be made, the balance coming within Sheila Albion, an artist, piques Brain days, when first instalment of £500,000, know, when she tells a publisher she will six months, another £300,000, 60 days not illustrate Moore's story because its after signing and confirmation of the No self-respecting girl, agreement. The purpose of the loan is plot is absurd. Electricity is derived from the sub she argues, would kiss a man she had to improve the present "Government purchase bullion for the marine's nervous system. The floor of net only four hours before. Moore sets Mint, to
ant to kiss her within four hours after coinage of silver, and to create a reserve
Robert Codman Ames, a for the Government banknotes. What about ventilation?" A supply every section of this central tract is paved meeting ber
her bondholders through the Anglo-French of fresh air is passed through. twice a with accumulators three-bindred-and Bostonina of the Bostonians, is
Hure. His gentle kiss on her brew does Corporation will nominate an auditor day; "Any fans at night"
thirty-three in all, each weighing a
Ames sets Bertle and an assayer to supervise the expen- not appeal to her. "Temperature?" Ninety to 120 degrees hundredweight and a half. Their square Ballast, an embryo Sherlock Holmes, to diture of the loan proceeds to
Moore poses as abutcher, that it will be devoted to the purposes according to circumstances,
lids and sunken iron handles form a watch her. regular pattern of parquetry on the floor niets Sheila and induces her to go with agreed to. Materials for the mint im him to see an orchard. His amatory provement and bullion are to be bought through banka The next section of the central tract is throughout the interior. The moment the advances are repulsed with scom until from England and occupied by the officers; they have two submarine is to dive, the central oil-fuel he risks his life to rescue a child in an specially designated
explosion of gasoline. Before te wins It is stated in the Canton Times that thirds of the width: the other third forms
and the the kiss-and the girl, incidentally-the the £2,000,000 currency reform or im- engine chamber is silenced agangway fast the officers' quarters and
dynamos in the next chunder operate, two of them are pursued by her fiancé pravement loan recently concluded be thetween Mr. G. L Brander. of the Anglo- Corporation and the contains a few trifles like the wireless set drawing their power supply from the and the amateur Sherlock from
orchard to a private dining-room, in French-China
Canton authorities did not come to and much of the principal operating
accumulators. When the vessel comes to
hotel.
British official notice until an agreement Within a foot or two, at either
was deposited the other day with the are quarters of the cres so privacy, the surface again, the oil engines resume
Canton British Consulate General for and re-charge the accumulators.
record. eved for officers, is only relative op a submarine. "Have you a private chapel
Je!
gear.
and,
None
What a
**DISORDERLY SOLDIERS AND
The.
asaure
KWANGTUNG PROVINCIAL
BANK.
CANTON CINEMAS, It is good for a taxpayer and will spur
That things are not so settled 'In on board1" one felt inclined to ask, only him to activity in the cause of the the question would probably sound too "LO.N." to visit a submarine. They Canton as those in power would have us Billy, to the dweller in this strange place, must cos inore, per cubic foot, than any believe may be gathered from the repent ed disturbances which take place in the Gangs of For the next compartment was arranged other craft, for their interior is a be local cinemas and theatres.
Cathedral, in wildering medley of taps, tubes, dials, soldiers, we are informed, fore their PROPOSED INCREASE OF CAPITAL. like the choir stalls of a
best seats, often molesting any women It is reported in the Canton Times on miniature; two long rows of stalls facing switchboards, indicators, all packed away into these plaers and occupy the
Even when the reputed authority of General Chen one another, and each with its miserere closely together-almost as the organs of patrols who may be there. Beat too small for any mork to sleep on the human frame. Glapsing into a tiny their regiments and names are known Ching Ming that some twenty million cupboard,... amidships, something was and reported to the military authorities, dollars will be available from the during service time.
no steps appear to be taken to re £2,000,000 for strengthening the position It turned out to be the engine room, observed to move. It uncurled itself and primand or punish the culprits. Consular of the Provincial Bank About fifteen dedicated" only to the modern god of proved to be the submarine's wireless protests seem to be entirely ignored. million dollars may be used as reserve One theatre, in particular, has now been for the Bark The Bank will be spood. The "late" were steps to climb operator, with ear pieces complete. Such closed for more than fifteen months and reorganized as a semi-Government, bank a total capital of thirty million an oiler; the chair stalls, are the wonders of wireless that the young bas. on at least two occasions, been with
man was spending pleasant Sunday seriously damaged by armed rowdies, dollars, the Government and the publiq operation, pop up and down after the afternoon picking up Mr. Lloyd George's but, although the place is foreign-owned, each taking fifteen million dollars in anner of internal combustion engine speech at Manchester from a wireless there has been no effective intervention, shares, In order to further strengthen station in Oxfordshire! Dreadful thought, If the present party in power want to the Bank, a man well versed in western The works of a couple of deren motor car that the whole world should be encircled convince their European. neighbours that methods of banking will be appointed as were here set out in two precisely similar with the gibes at Lord Cladstone and the they are in earnest as to the pacification manager, while the assistant manager rows. And behind that was the electrical story of the man fumbling with the piece of the province and that they are cap-will be appointed by the General Cham- motive plant; for, when a subauarine of string. If all the interstices of bound-able of putting into effect the various ber of Commerce. A superintendent will less, spice are to be filled with their projects for which they are seeking also be appointed by the Government. dives, she cannot sparo any air for fuel: orations it ought to be an incentive to capital they cannot do better than begin Brunch Offices will be established in engines and works on electricity. ⠀ politicices to speak only the words of by establishing order in their capital Hongkong, Shanghai and the Straite
sobernes and wisdom,
city.
Settlements.
on
with
(Continued as foot of next column.)
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