A young Chinese concubine yes- terday pleaded
not guilty to a charge of theft of- 85,740 and a came before. Mr. Wynne-Jones at
when the quantity of jewellery
the Kowloon Magistracy. Page 12. The Malayan Interport hockey eleven again emerged triumph-
contest by defeating Macao yester-" ALIST DIVORCED
day by an only goal, Page 9. Discussion as to the forthcoming Decree of divorce was granted by visit
Chinese of the overseas Lord Pitman in the Court of Hockey team of Singapore who are Session, Edinburgh, yesterday in due in the Colony on April 18 was the undefended action by Annita heard at a meeting of the Hong Lindsay Sinclair, or Hallaran, 250 Kong Hockey. Associaton Jasc Ferry Road, Edinburgh. against night."
Page 10. Lieutenant-Commander. Charles
The European Y.M.C.A. Swim- Francis George Thomas Hallaran, ming season commences next R.N., retired, a former Irish Rugby month with a swimming gala and
were done to the fuselage and the plane was not able to tion, and they suffered merciless EX-RUGBY INTERNATION- ant from their second Interport
mutilation Vested! flogging and dozen away more than
European interests, from which Feople after which twenty-four British capital and administration hours were spent on repair work. could not be excluded, blocked the
Fifty of the original 110 cast- aways are still on the ice floe and passing of measures to eliminate mediaeval that terrible relle of re still in peril of the ice crack-
days ing-Transocean Kuo Min.
THE TA FJORD
DISASTER
Damage Estimated at Kr. 450,000
FORMER HONG KONG MAN CAUTIONED Alice Rose Eliza Bunting, 19,
Internationalist. formerly employed at the Kathe-
The parties were married in Ed- rine-street Post Office, East Ham,inburgh in February, 1924, and was summoned at East Ham yester- there are no children. day on charges of stealing £442
» According to the pursuer, the and two sums of £2 belonging to
defender admitted in November, the Postmaster-General.
1932, that he had been unfaithful. She pleaded guilty to taking £4 He subsequently sent her an hotel
but not the rest of the money.
the work. Owing to an irregular-
Oslo, April 9.
bill, showing that he had spent caused The damage
when A Mr. G. Fraser, prosecuting, said the night of December 10, 1932. huge crag crashed into the Tal the post office changed hands on with another woman in a London Fjord, on Saturday, near Alle- Dec. 8 last, and the new sub-post-hotel. sund, sending gigantic waves in- master (MF. King) took over the
Evidence was given by the par- and for half a mile, and drown-bustness after an audit. Mr. King suer, a hotel reception clerk, and ing 40 people, is estimated at knew nothing about the business, an Edinburgh woman, a friend of 450,000 kroner. excluding the and Bunting was retained to do the pursuer... damage to forests and felds.
In granting decree as craved The rock which crashed down ity in the form of the returns ren- Lord Pitman said there was no Fas 1,200 feet high and 600 feet dered to the authorities, an audit identification of the defender at vide, while the Flord is only 3,800 was ordered and a" deficiency of the London hotel, but there was feet wide, though yery deep.
£448 discovered. When Inter- no identification of the defender The whole shore where the viewed Bunting made a statement at the London hotel, but there was disaster- occurred was shaven implicating a Mr. Cyril Decks, to identification of his "handwriting clean. Every tree and building whom she was engaged, but the and proof that he had sent the disappeared.--Reuter.
authorities had not been able to hotel bill to the pursuer. find anything to justify proceedings against him.
WALL STREET'S
"PAWN"
Scathing Attacks on Gen. Johnson
which
he
is described
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28
寇
Deeks, who was cautioned; sald he was a musician, and came home from Hong Kong last September.
TREATY
4
CHINESE POTTERY
dance on May 12.
Page 10.
HIDDEN TREASURES
STOLEN
(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press") (By Telegraph, Copyright, graphic Massages Ordinance, Received, 3pril 9, 7.30 p.m.)
Tela- 1894-
Vienna, April. 9. Hidden treasures belonging to former generations of the Haps- burg family have been stolen from the famous "Hayden Windmill. Transocean Kuo Min.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The engagement is announced between Miss Doris May Chee- tham, of Shanghai and Lieutenant Edward Ashley Brown, Royal Marines, of HMS. Berwick.
Five
cases of meningitis, two each.
of small pox and
Presided over by a carved wood He said he had been engaged to figure of Kwanyin, holding a fly Bunting since November, and had whisk, there has been arranged occasionally taken charge of the in the basement gallery of Messrs. cases post office when she went to lunch, Bluett, 48. Davies Street, what typhoid (one Imported), and one on the principle of "a pride of case of diphtheria were reported He had never taken any money,
Bunting declined to make any lions may be called a "peace" to the local Health authorities on statement or give evidence, and of early Chinese pottery, porcelain, Friday. Washington, April 9. she was remanded in custody for bronzes, and other works of art,
Mr. J. W. Morris, popular pas- The setting has been modernized In order to counter the scath- a week.
with good taste, and it is interest- senger agent of the Dollar Steam-. ing attacks on the National Rés
ing to observe that these early ship Lines and American Mail covery Administration, in one of ADMIRAL'S HIT AT NAVAL wares, with their pare lines and Line, Hong Kong, will be arriving. the "President Grant”... due placid surfaces, go perfectly with on pawn of Wall Street," General
an, architectural treatment which here on April 20th. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Johnson, the administrator,
Morris are returning to Hong depends upon proportion in the re- has circularised · N.R.A. agents Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, M.P..lation of planes. The association Kong after a six months' vacation throughout the country ordering speaking at the Constitutional is as Happy as that of Ming with in the United States, "mmediate steps to be taken in Club, Loadon, yesterday, said that the Morris or blue-and-white with bringing violators of the Codes the Washington Treaty had con- Whistler interior.
A General Meeting of the Bri- tish Legion will be held at 5.15 nto Federal courta; "with a view tributed nothing towards peace, This is a comparatively small ex-
fining and even imprisoning nothing towards security, and-al-hibtion of fewer than 100 objecta, p.m. on Monday, April 16, in the trailsgressors.—Reuter.
though this had been challenged but everything in it is more or Board Room of Messrs. Jardine -nothing towards economy be-less worth while. An early thrill Matheson & Co., Ltd., in order to cause it forced them to scrap five is the uncatalogued bronze Vase, receive the report and accounts splendid capital ships,
of the Chou dynasty, unusually for the two years ended 31st-De- When the Treaty came up for elegant in its trumpet form for a cember, 1933, and to elect Officers, revision in 1936 40 of the nation's period that was remarkable rather destroyers would be due for scrap for massive dignity, perfect in the while driving "Carin ping. That was seriously reflected proportion of one part to another,
HH Muller, a resident of the in the manoeuvres that had just discreetly decorated, and beauti- Nathan Road on Sunday Mr. taken place in the Atlantic. The fully patinated. There is a collet- new ones could stick it, but the old tion of Wet pottery figures, also Peninsula Hotel ran into a Chin
ese, Au Kuen-yee; who WAS ones had to go back to harbour,unusual in type, including a "Bad-knocked down, receiving injuries He had recently made a plea in died and caparisoned horse," which necessitated his removal to the House of Commons for the "Bactrian camel," a most noble the Government Civil Hospital. Washington, April 9, building of another flotilla, What "Cygnet, and a semi-humorous The latter was discharged from President Roosevelt, on his re-better way could be found for re-figure of a "Man with a bird perch hospital yesterday morning, de turn from his holiday, will find Beving unemployment than bullded on his right hand." Among the himself faced with another motoring nine vessels which were ab- older wares the "Oviform "Ja"Yung Foo Cheung, a married (66), with a band of bird design. coolie of No. 48 Hau Woo Street, ndustry crisis, which is develop-solutely necessary?
painted with masterly breadth: West Point attempted to commit ing at Detroit, where 18,000 too! nd die makers have agreed to
and "Wine Vase" (1), on which the suicide on Sunday by hanging strike on Thursday unless their
dark green glaze is covered almost himself from a tree below Vic- demanda for a 20 per cent, wage
entirely with metallic iridescence, toria Road After swinging in the Increase are met.Reuter.":
may be specially noted. In cases air for about a minute he was The Chancellor of the Exchequer there are collections of Chun, cela- cut down by a. passer-by whose was twitted about his Budget plakis ; don, Ying Ching, and other wares attention was attracted by his when he addressed a mass meeting of the Sung period, among which groans, He was taken to the at Newcastle last night,
Nos 19 21, 23, 35, 36, 37. Government Civil Hospital where discharged yesterday Lord Runciman, who presided, 47, and 49 may be named for their he referred to the considerable sur beautiful quality.
U. S. MOTOR INDUSTRY
Another Threat to
Strike
takings considerable capital has to be spent before the harvest is reaped and a return on capital obtained.
HIS
**BUNDLE OF STICKS
étc.
morning.