THE STORY OF A DESTITUTE
ADVENTURES IN MANCHURIA
GOLD AND SILVER PROSPECTING
An active little man with shrewd, eyes penking through be-rimmed spectacles such is Enrico Carosi, aged 41, whose interesting por- souality came within the attention of Pressmen to-day.
Born in Italy, but now a naturalised "British subject, his case as a destitute” arriving in the Colony without any tangible means of subsistence, has received pathetic consideration from the authorities. For Carosi..has gone through many vicissitudes, includ- ing unpleasant experiencea in the Manchurian War.
"I was in Hollar when it hap- pened," he told a Telegraph re- porter. "I have seen sigets which I should like to forgat-aights of a bitter enmily between races, of Chinese soldiers captured and deprived of their footgear, their feet in consequence frozen by the bitter cold, and their amputation in hundreds."
"have seen” he continued, "aeroplanes dropping their missiles of death and destruction, a factory where girls and women worked to provide the necessary comiorts for the troops being destroyed and their inmates wiped out."
Out of these experiences; Carosi has "carried away two distinct reactions; a strong aversion for the Japanese such as he saw them in Manchuria, a sympathetic ling for the Manchuria nighter, content to put up wita untäinkable dia- comforts while Gghting a losing battle.
TWICE ROBBED.
Chinese is not untempered. Robbed But Carosi's sympathy for the in Manenu city by evil-doera and Buffering three fractured ribs, he survived the experience only to meet with a similar one when, flee ing from Manchuria and the war. he went to Soochow City.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933.
H. M. submarine Rainhow, which aminad hera yasterday from England.
She replaces the ill-fated Poseidon.
SIDELIGHTS ON NEWSPAPERS
WHY SO MANY ARE HAWKED
Replying to a query raised by
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE
CHARITABLE CALLS
HEAVY
GIFTS TO CHIEF JUSTICE
FROM HIS LEGAL FRIENDS
His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Josepn Horsford Kemp, KL C.B.E., was tas thorning the re cipient of a silver salver - from. personal friends connected with the Bar in Hongkong, and a silver eigar box from personal | friends ho has made among the solicitors of the Colony,
The former presentation was made by the Attorney General, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., 0.8.E., and the saiver bore - ú suitable inscription and the signatures of the 16 members of the Bar. Replying, Sir Joseph said that although he had only
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Daphnis et Chloe--Suite No. 2
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Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by Serge Koussevitzky. 7143/4. 7.19-7.30 p.m.
Local Stock Quotations, Closing Selected London and New York Stock Quotations, etc.
7.30-8.10 p.m. A Concert
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been Chief Justica, lor a short Reports (Local Time and Weather
period he had been, fortunate in having such a high standard of excellence in the presentation of cases before him, a thing which had made his task easter and picasant. He thanked them, all for their kindness.
The cigar box from his solicitor friends was inscribed on the lid inscription: "Presented to His Honour Sir Joseph, Kemp, Chief Justice and former Attorney Gen- cral of the Colony of Hongkong,' as a mark of the esteem and res- pect by his friends the solicitors of Hongkong:-March 1933.”
The presentation was made by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton. President of the Hongkong Law Society.
The annual report of the Society Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central of St. George, Hongkong, states: Police Court this morning, Sub--The general funds show a bal-"J.H.K." and on the front was the Inspector Carey said that Chinese auce of $4,054.52, a reduction of favoured the hawking of news $18.06 as compared with the year papers in the Colony, became 1981. Once again the charitable there were more Chinese papera calls on the Society's funds have here than in Canton. The Hong-been very heavy as a reusit of kong small newspapers", said the which no less a sum than $1,853.68 inspector, "can say what they like was expended under this heading. about Canton officials and the off. The sum of $715.99 was transfer- cials of China, while in Canton red from the Entertainment Fund they regard it 'os hazardous."
to help to meet this outlay.
His Worship said he could not understand why the sellers made a better profit here in spite o having to pay for their licences The Hongkong, newspapers prob
had more interesting reading matter, he remarked.
Apector Carey said he thought
ment Fund.
ANOTHER GIFT.
"ToHis Honour Sir Joseph Hors-
Instrumental Trio-Happy Days
(Strelczki). Instrumental Trio-Herd Girl's
Dream (Labitzky). Song-The Gypsy and the Bird
Neapolitan Trio. 19872. (Oxenford-Benedict). Song Parla! Valse (Arditi).
Madame Amelita Galli-Curci (Soprano). 1207. Violin Solo-(a) The Bee (Schobert)
(b) Waltz in D Flat (Chopin). Violin Solo-Caprice (Ogürew).
Alexander Schmidt. 20614. Song- On Wings of Song
(Mendelssohn),
Song (a) Thou'rt Like Unto a
Flower (McFarren-Schumann) (b) Faith in Spring (Baum-Schubert), Darwin Bowen (Boy Soprano), 20804. Plano Solo-Fairy Tale (Meitner).
Piano
(Pro Suggestion Diabolique
Benno Moisoivitch. 1449, Song Tavern Song (Watson-Fisher), Song The Green-Eyed Dragon
(Newman-Charles). Renald Werrenrath (Baritone). 1264. Band-Boobing Joe (arr. Sharp).
4.10-8.50 p.m. Variety. Band-Country Gardens (arr. Sharp), Mayfair Band. 20642, Vocal Quartet My Isle of Golden
Dreams,
Vocal Quartet-Lonesome That's
All. · National Cavaliers. 22347.
Met Mine.
The 1932 ball was unavoidably cancelled at a cost of $904.64, and the ball which was held on "St. This afternoon His Honour re- George's Day resulted in a loss ceived from the members of the of $543.09, both of which items staff of the various departments were met out of the Entertain-of the Registry of the Supreme Court, as a memento of the years On St, George's Day, a wreath they had sport together, an the number of small newspapers was laid at the Cenotaph. At illuminated address bearing the in Hongkong was treble that of night the Society held a ball at Chinese Characters for "long life? Canton.
the Peninsula Hotel. Unfortunate-and "everlasting health.” "Is this going to be a weekly the weather turned warm and con. On the inside was the following Wynne-Jones as he sat at the so-jthe support it should have done.ing: habit of yours?" queried Br.sequently the ball did not receive inscription. in old English letter. Orchestral-And Then Your Lips licitors' table dealing with two On Armistice Day, a wreath of girls and 18 boys," whose ages Flanders poppies was laid at the ford Kemp, Kt., K.C., C.B.E., Chief
Orchestral-You're Simply Deliah.
Bert Lown and His Hotel Biltmore ranged from 6 to 16, all charged Cenotaph. The annual golf match Justice of the Supreme Court of Vocal Gems-Rose Marie,
Orchestra. 22682. with hawking newspapers 'without against St. Andrew's Society was Hongkong. On the occasion. of Vocal Gems-No No Nanette,
licence.
played at Fanling on 20th Novem-your departure from Hongkong, Victor Light Oneri Commany, 35756. officer in charge of the cases, said this Society.
Replying Sub-Inspector Carey, ber, 1932, resulting in a win for we, the undersigned, past and pre- Guitar Sole-Fandanguills (Torroba).
sent members of the staff of the
Andrea Segovia. 1487. they were acting under ordera The raids would be made once a port the deaths of Messrs. A. G. Hongkong, desire to express our SongJunter.
Your Committee regret to re-Registry of the Supreme Court of Sang-My Sim. week."
Franklyn Baur (Tenor). 22050. Coppin and George Grimble. Dur-deep appreciation of the unfailing
8.50-9 When asked why they hawked, ing the year 48 new members were courtesy sympathy and kindness Sakuntala Overture (Goldmark). was not much but which was very the juvenile delinquents all plead-elected to the Society, but about which you have displayed to all Victor Symphony Orchestra. 22535/0. necessary to me, since I'am nowed poverty. "Mo faan silk" ("Nollie same left entirely destitute."
number resigned, or who have had the honour of ser-
9-9.10 p.m. From the Sladin. rice to eat") was the general were struck off on account of pro-ving under you. We desire to take A programme by the Y.M.C.A.
longed absence from the Colony. this opportunity of wishing you Male Voice Choir. dealt with by his Worship in three pared with 576" last year. The well-earned retirement Supreme
Most of the offenders, who were The active list is now 536 as com long life and all happiness in your 1. (a) Rolling Down to Rio (E.
(German), lots, were cautioned, while others accounts have been audited by Mr. Court, Hongkong. 18th March 1933.
(b) O'er Moor and Mountain were fined $1 or two strokes with S, Jarvis to whom the thanks of
(Stohr). the cane.
The address also contains the
2. Song In the Silver Moonbeams One woman, carrying the Society are due.
names of all members of the Staffs.
(Cyril Scott): a baby on her back, told Mr.
The presentation was made in
Mrs. W. Robson (Soprano), Wynne-Jones that her husband fused, at first, to was a street. coolic and did not papers.
the Chief Justice chambers by the a. (a) An Evening Lallob hawk news- earn
(W, Shaw), One lad was given two Registrar, Mr. T. M. Hazelrigg, enough money. She had strokes and his motor bus fare who, in the course of a short ad-
(b) Oft in the Stilly Night caned her son because he had re-paid to Au Tau, his native village! dress, recalled the heartly co-opera-
(arr. R. Baldwin). tion and good feeling which had al- 4. Song-Rider of the Forest ways existed between the Chief:
Mra W. Robson
"I was with a German when it happened," he recounted. "Armed bandits raided the Central Hotel "Where we were staying, and they stule all the money I had, which
Yet surely not entirely destitute. | reply. Curiosity aroused by a number of neat packages slung over Carosi's shoulder prompted a question, and for the first time, the Pressman had an inkling of Carosi's calling and the quest which had led him through his adventures.
"There is gold and silver in those," he said, tapping signicant ly the bags. They are still in the form of ores, and Carost's descrip- tion of himself as a "mining ea- gineer could be better acumed as a "prospector",
Yat something more than a crav- ing for sudden wealth natural to most of us, surely must have urged this man into making those arduous. journeys occupying many years, one of which took the form of a solitary walk of many hundred miles between Harbin and Manchull
city,
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THE WANDERLUST.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
THELESS' MEN AND WOMEN: Whilst working at Taikoo Docks KNOW OF ONE ANOTHER THE HAP-Yesterday Blok Tam, a woman coolic, PIER THEY ARE.-George Meredith, dislocated her knee and was taken to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.
Two cases of small-pox and twe of meningitis were reported to the health authorities on Wednesday.
The R.A.O.C. Ladies' Club is hold. ing a dance at the Garrison Lecture Hall next Friday, 24th inst., at 9 p.m. Carosi has that restless feeling, Tickets are $1 for gentlemen; ladies: the wanderlust, You could see it by courtesy.
"An Old Hongkong Resident.”—You have failed to comply with the rule which requires correspondents" to forward their name and address, not necessarily for publication,
The wedding will shartly take place between Dr. Gerald Vister Alexander
in the staccato jerks that are a
The three-leafed emblem of Ireland Griffith, of 2, Thorpe Manor, May peculiar feature of his gait; in the is flourishing here at last, and among Road, and Miss Frances Barbara Mac easy balancing of his precious the decorations at the Paninsula Hotel Fadyen, 4, Basilea, Lyttleton Road. knapsacks as of a man accustomed to-night, when St. Patrick's Ball is
An exhibition of sketches and Blanche Mary
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(Bullock).
Justice and the staffs of every de 6. Soldiers' Chorus ("Faust" Prano).
partment since he became associated with the Supreme Court nearly twenty years ago. On behalf of the staffe he wished Hia Honour every happiness in retirement and hoped he would sometimes remem- ber those with whom he had worked: in Hongkong.
Sir Joseph suitably replied.
BATCH OF MOTOR MISHAPS
SEVERAL REPORTED
YESTERDAY.
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9.30-10.10 p.m. Irish Selections. Band-The Shamrock (Arr.
Myddleton).
The Reg. Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards conducted by Cant. G.
Miller Col. 9240 Song The Mountains of Mourne
(Arr. Collision). Song A Letter from Mary of Mourne
(David Buchan).
Edgar Coyle (Bart) Col, „20092, Organ Solo Orosi
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Sydney Custard on the Gaumont Palace Cinema. Organ H.M.V. C244 Duet Come Silver Moon (London- derry Air) (Dowdon art. Besley). Dora Labbette, Hebert Eisdell and the J, B. Squire Celeste Octet Col. 0612. Orchestral-Irish Rhapsody
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Praties Grow (Liddle). John McCormack (Tenor), with plans Accompaniment by E. Schneider Vic. 1553.
to shouldering heavy loads for being held, the locally-grown product! days on a long journey; in his wi have a place of honour with the pastels by Mise
A number of motor accidenta spirited. allusions to the in-plant from the native soll. Over 40 Grambe is to be held on the eighth various parts of the Colony yester- were reported to the police from. ternal conditions of the Man people are expected to attend the floor of Gloucester Building on Thurs- churia he had left behind. Ad- Ball. A feature of the arrangements day and Friday, March 23 and 24, day, but fortunately none was of versity has
is the buffet supper, which proved from 11.30 am to 6 pm. not daunted him, auch a success. last year.
a serious nature, although one of Finances, do not seem to worry
the victims suffered a fractured him. The loss of his money for An excellent booklet giving in- retiring
Mrs. E. R. Hallifax, wife of the leg. him is but a mere încident in a formation of
Secretary for Chinese The most serious of the mishaps journey that never seems to touch to visitors to the Colony has been shortly, and the Ladies' Section of the the Public Works Department varied nature of use Affairs, will be leaving the Colony occurred in Chatham Road, near the horizon. He was grateful, of compiled by Mr. Garlington and
Royal
Hongkong Golf Club, with course, for a sympathetic considera issued by the California Directory which Mrs. Hallifax has been closely Store, where Ngo Sheung, licensed tion which has permitted him
Association. It is entitled a "Guide associated will bid her farewell at motor lorry driver, knocked down Lew days' sojourn in the House of being a guide to the Colony ite scope inite place at Fanling on Tuesday who suddenly ran across the road to Hongkong, but in addition to the annual prize-giving, which a man named Leung Sik-keang Detention while other plans are being made. At least, as an under-1 Swalow and Fuochow, There are kindly promised to present the prizes. In front of the lorry. He had his the above Irish Programme are kindly
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there will also be a putting comment. petition
Minor injuries werd, received by Whereto next? The Pressman There is nothing new in the story
10.10-1030 p.m. From the Studio. Hawaiian Selections by the Brothers hailed after him as he trudged off of the war-wracked here who re#Divorce in the Family" is the Chinese woman who fell whilst in the direction of the "House", turns to everyday life' find the old current, release at the Queen's. Pre- attempting to alight from a mov- Lun and Ming He Yuk.
10.30 p.m. Rugby Press News. He flung the answer back over who saw "The Man from Yesterday."Vous attempts to reproduce this ing bus in Nathan Road near
10.33 .. Close Down his shoulder, "To India and then, released at the King's Theatre yes- successful, and a further angle to was carrying a baby on her back, day, be replaced by a relay from
modern complex have been fairly Shantung Street. The woman, who
The Studio Progamme may, on any Tibet."
terday, witnessed the repetition of an what can easily be an over-worked Tibet, Tibet.... the land of the old theme. Nevertheless an attempt theme, is furnished with 6, rather was hurt about the face, but not England, it reception of the latter long-horned Yak, the land of cernible in the course of the story, picture which does not moralise or
to treat it in a different way, dis marked degree of reality in this sufficiently serious to necessitate happens to be good.
her removal to hospital. The baby, llamas and myslid shrines and a can be appreciated. Clive Brook, make a hero of any of the three in- fortunately, was not injured. mysterious people.
Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer dividuals, but in a quiet way pictures From Kowloon City comes the Daventry transmitting on a wave. The ultimate destination, it have the main parts and they give the probabilities conceived within report of a man Cheng Sung, aged length of 25.28 metres (11.866 k/c),
a convincing performance.
There is entertainment 28, receiving concussion as a re- and G.S.C., Daventry, transmitting on value in this picture.
sult of jumping and falling from 3120 metres (9,585 k/c),
The Culwick Choir Sword of Erin. only by the performance of super- Song, a masseuse, was detained at "He is probably too lazy to re- a moving bus in Sai Kung Road, buman endeavours, it is hardly a Police Headquarters following the member; he is the laziest man
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The Leslie Bridgewater, Quintet | Period. Fantasy, Old Irish. Bridgewater. point for your average, traveller recent raids en massage shops, Lun Hongkong, commented Inanector in Pokfulam Road by a public
5.80
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Landa. accustomed to the comforts of Man, employed as an amah at 84, Shannon, at the Central Police Court motor car. Wong Chol received
Dav Irish Programme.
Mr. Vernon Bartlett Hotel Orchestra. steamer and rail journey. But the Queen's Road Central, took four this morning, before Mr. Wynne injuries to his leg and face and tre Irish Rhapsody.
The New Light Symphony Orches
6.80 p.m. Vaudeville. A Special taxence of travelling is in the mest- bianketa, a quilt and a fur-lined
Victor Herbert. a mendicant denied ined Jones, when
Vaudeville Performance for the Aus Club Programme. ing with the unexpected. In any to the total value of $213. The having been previously convicted. Is
cost,
John McCormack The Garden where tralasian Zone by Irish Artists. was taken to the Government Civil event, Carol will be only following Wynne-Jones at the Central Police other elderly male mendicant
woman was brought before Mr. wan remanded for 24 hours. An-Hospital for attention.
the Proties grow.
ATT. Liddle. The Harp that once through Tara's the footsteps of many other great Court this morning, when she plead- fined $6 or seven days. He stated The forthcoming marriage lich-
Hails
Balfe. adventurers, who are finding themed guilty to theft and was sentenced he came from Sunning. A similar nounced between Mr. William Stanter
Sidney Gustard Trish Melody, selves being pushed more and to six weekor hard labour. Dotectivo-fins was imposed on a third beggar, Brewer, of Wellington Barracks,
Dora Lebette Danny Boy. more into a narrow compass nerty w1K 'THCOVETed at defendant's thing out of it: be had $2.34 when Cheesman,
Sergeant. Macdonald stated the pro-He was apparently making a
Albert Sammons Irish Real. Molly Food Victoria, and Miss Phyllis Avis
L Eastern Terrace, i
on the Shore,
Grainger. premises in Keswick Street.
arrested," said Inspector Shannon." Dragon Road, Causeway Bay.
Peter Dawson Fiddler of Dooney.
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