1927-07-02 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927.

HOW HE DIED,

JAMES WHITE TAKES TWO POISONS.

STOCK EXCHANGE TRUST,

London, July 1.

Inquest on James White.

FORMOSA SECRETS.

WOOING BY GIFTS OF FIREWOOD.

A LAND OF MYSTERY.

Formosa is still

on island of

LUXURY TAXES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NANKING EDICT CAUSES A SENSATION.

Shanghai, June 30.

MODERN GIRL'S.

SHELTERING UNDER

MISUSED WORDS. 1

Forty years hence, when the

|ROUSED BY BURGLAR

BLOODHOUND CHASE IN EARLY MORNING.

Lady Loder, of Leonardalee, A sensation has been created by Sapper of to-day looks back upon aroused by a noise outside her bed- Lower Beading, near Horsham, was the Director of the Surtax Re- her youthful folly, she will be

room. She looked out and saw a unsound mind was returned at the civilised world, but some part of tising that, in accordance with in author, who has just returned to Lady Louer immediately raised the

A verdict of suicide while of mystery to the majority of the venue Department to-day adver most remorseful, in the opinion of man on the landing.

Dr. Inazo Nitobe, the Japanese He ran into the bathroom, and The that mystery was explained in a structions from the Ministry of Japan after serving for three years alarm, telephoning for the police medical evidence indicated that he paper read before the Royal Geo- Finance at Nanking, in addition as the representative of his coun- and ringing the fire alarm to rause took prussic acid which did not graphical Society by Mr. E. II. do to the existing surtax of two and try, in the secretariat of the her servants. kill him and later the large dose Bunsen, his Majesty's Consular a half per cent. agreed upon with League of Nations. of chloroform from which he died. Servicc, Japan, Speaking of the reservations by the Washington The "modern girl," as Dr. Nitobe The Stock Exchange has con-successive attempts to subdue the Conference, he will collect a fur-views her, is, he says, "an attitude aiderably steadied. The leading island, he said that the Chinese ther two and a half per cent. on of mind," boat shown in the mis- Later two men, who were found members have conferred and have had maintained a special force on all imports classified as luxuries, use of words. "They take shelter on the estate about a mile and a arrarged to form a trust for the the frontier of the hill territory, as from July 4.

under an approved vocabulary to half from the house, were detained. gradual Hauidation of any large chiefly in order to protect the cam blocks of shares that may be thrown phor, cutters

suit their own convenience." working in that on the market in the event of a vicinity. The Japanese sought to trustee being appointed for the reorganise and extend this system Beeckum Trust.-Reuter.

and built, principally in the north ern part of the island, defences to a total length of 359 miles.

The late Mr. James White, who was a Rochdale man, was born in 1878, and besides his connection With the Beecham Trust, mention

at Park Street, Mayfair.]

Some

He Illustrates by quoting an American girl's approval of the mer-growing divorce rate as a proof of the liberation of womenkind.

Surely she could not mean that American girls are forced into marriage from which they can be "liberated," ́ América is the last place where a girl may

When the Horsham police were notified they rushed bloodhounds from Chichester to Leonardalee..

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”

Entertainments.

July 2-Queen's Theatre; "The

be married against her will. Whole Town's Talking."

"East

This makes the total duty on imported luxuries ten per cent. ad valorem, which British chants are constrained to pay otherwise they cannot obtain de- livery of imported cargo. 120 miles of these consisted of wire Meanwhile the Nanking Goy. fencing, but this proved of littlo ernment has agreed to the Fin- ed above, was chairman of George practical use; the savages crept ance Ministry's memorial on likin, Edwardes (Daly's Theatre) Ltd., through it, dug under it, or even and has instructed the Ministry and a director of the Tvre invest-jumped over it. Some portions of to abolish likin and institute a new That girl and I use different July 2-World Theatre; "Pri-) ment Trust Fund. His home was the line were electrified, but with schedule of import duties, on a

vocabularies. To her liberty soners of the Storm." little practical result; this method

means cence; service means July 2-Star Theatre; was expensive, and the savages dis-basis of 30 per cent. for imported

serving oneself or the pander-Lynne." luxuries, and twelve and a half covered that by driving dogs

ing to pleasure: sacrifice means July 2-Tea Dance Cafe Res- other animals against the wires per cent, on all other commodities,

the sacrifice of others for one-taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m. they could short-circuit the current effective as from August 1, but

self.

July 2-Isako's Circus, New Ro- and rob them of their mysterious not including tobacco, on which

Next to their wrong use of clamation Ground, Praya East, potency.

an excise duty of 50 per cent. is

worda is their mistaken idea of Wanchai 9.15 p.m. Matinee: 4 p.m. already imposed, and wines and

personality. It is generally ac July 2-Second promenade Con- spirits, which apparently are also

cepted that the development of cert, Lee Gardens, 9.30 p.m. heavily taxed.-Reuter.

personality is the highest aim of July 3 Return engagement of the individual. The modern girl the Wilbur Players at Star Theatre, looks upon this truth as the in- Kowloon. dulging of the satisfaction of one's senses without regard for the welfare of others.

"POOR" PRINCES.

TALK OF EARNING THEIR LIVING.

or

Though it fa difficult to get Japanese to go to Formosa at all, police service In the savage dis triets attracts an adequate supply of recruits, as is offers certain ad- vantages. The duties of the police

Miss Ira Hellberg, a Swedish writer, has been visiting the family of the German ex-Crown in the savage territory, the lec-

Prince at Oels (Moravia), and turer stated, are remarkable: thoy GIRL STEEPLEJACK. writes an unintentionally amus, include the functions of those of

ing account of her experiences. schoolmasters, postmusters, judges,

In the library of the castle she civil engineers, physicians, sur-

CHIMNEY.

had a conversation with the three geons, carpenters. telephone lines- SMOKING AT TOP OF 150FT.

of the ex-Crown men bridge builders, assessors, Prince, one of whom said to her, commission agents without the

young sens

commission), fortune tellers, After climbing to the top of a strolling 150ft. chimney in Clarence Road,

in telling of his travels: "We can ginzlers,

astronomers,

SURPRISE GARDENS.

A CLUB OF SURREPTITIOUS SEED-SOWERS.

Sports.

July 2- First Night Swimming Fete of the season af V.R.C., 9 p.m. July 2-Weekly sailing race for Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, 3

p.mm,

Meetings.

July 2-Adjourned mecting of China Coast Officers' Guild and Marine Engineers' Guild of China, (H.K. Branches) 7 pm..

July 7-Annual meeting of the Hong Kong Radio Saciely. "South

no longer travel as princes; we players, arbitrators, blacksmiths, Leeds, Miss Vera Tomlinson. have not enough money for that." and agriculturists. They have to

Miss Hellberg asked whether it: administer the Emperor's govern- aged 19, sat on the 7in. coping London club materialise neglected China Morning Post" Bldg., 5.80 was true that one of them was ment and to wield his authority; to and smoked a-cigarette. about to get married. They all construct waterworks, to instruct She is a daughter of Mr.

a we do, in and supervise sanitation; to act William Tomlinson, laughed. "How .could

p.m.

If the hopes of a curious new gardens and unused waste patches of land in London will soon be

Lammert Auctions. local come gay with flowers.

Membership of this club is at furniture at Sales Room, 2.30 p.m

July 6--Valuable household

July G-Valunbic household

Miscellaneous.

that?" one of them said. "First as foresters, gymnastic instructors, steeplejack, and her climb was present confined to the staff of a of all, we have got to earn our and veta.; in fact, to do at the inspired by the report that re-City branch of a well-known bank. furniture, No. 178, Kowloon Tong,

shortest of notice anything that is cently another girl had ascended The intentions are that each mem- 2.15 pm. living."

required of them by the primitive a 145ft. chimney, "Grandfather had a different peoples among whom they dwell.

ber will buy or obtain from his own and stricter education than wel Marriage among the Taalisen Mr. Tomlinson and his work-garden a weekly supply of seed and

July 2-Theosophical Society's have had," said one of them. Paiwans is a matter of individual men have been re-pointing the distribute it to the best possible Bathing

Picnic Party leaves "He did not have such a good choice, and not of family arrange chimney. and fixing a lightning advantage..

Already nocturnal visits have pm.

Queen's Pier for Picnic Bay at 4 time as we.. We were knocked' ment. The proposal can come conductor, and the girl made use about a little, but it is no longer from either party, but it is more of their ladders and gear. She been made to neglected from gar

July 3-Wah Yan Old Boy's as it was in his time."

usually the man who makes it. has been climbing chimneys and dene in the suburbs, several of the Union holde ping pong social, 3

members having taken in handp.m. Then the ex-Crown Princess After taking steps to acquaint the church spires for a long time.

third party, of came into the room. "I have al-lady. through a

July 4-American Community "at! She was in no way troubled gardens which they consider to be

Ablat on the neighbourhoods home" to friends at the Hong Kong ways been with.my children." what his intentions are, the suitor yesterday by her climb, which where they reside, Seeds of wild Hotel Roof Garden, 4-6.30 p.m. said she. "Each must be a retakes a bundle of fire-wood by she accomplished wearing an flowers are being collected with a man and stand on his own feet. of the house where she lives. If ordinary dress and high-heeled view to brightening Fallway My sons must learn to earn their the bundle is taken inside the own living. They must have no house, it is a sign that he may Mr Thomas Tomlinson, Misstrict railway between Ealing and illusions that the privileges of continue his suit; if left in situ, Vera's grandfather, was a Acton has been subjected to a the old time will be brought back it is an indication that his advances steeplejack in Leeds most of his sprinkling. by a revolution.'

are rejected. The man continues life, and two of his sons followed Members are pledged not to re- In view of the fact that the to bring fire-wood, never entering his craft. Miss Tomlinson has move wild flowers from beauty Hohenzollerns have lately been the house, but always leaving it three young brothers who have don, but to add to their number by spots they may visit outside Lon- the lady started climbing already. paid millions by the Prussian beside the door. If

should change her mind, it is

sowing seeds, Government and are the largest etiquette for her to decline to ac- climbed more than 2,000 chim- attention.

Churchyards are: Her father claims to have among the places noted down for landowners in Germany, their cent further supplies. If all goes chatter about making, both ends well, she will one evening invite neys in England, Wales, and meet and earning their own liv-the suitor to enter, and such an Scotland. ing seems a trifle exaggerated.

11

BLACKMAIL.

THE EFFECT OF HEAVY SENTENCES.

night and leaves it outside the door

L

is

shoes.

About a month ago a fifteen- years-old Canterbury girl, Miss Dorothy Baker, climbed to the top of the chimney stack of the Canterbury

electricity works.

which is 145ft. high.

A BRITISH EARL.

A

em-

bankments, and already the Dis-

TAX DEMANDS.

MAN WHO WENT ON A WORLD TOUR

At his bankruptcy examination at Wolverhampton Thomas Dean said that having made more than £14,000 out of operations in steel he showed his bank book to the Inland Revenue authorities, who consequently lodged a claim for

WORKING AS DECORATOR IN £12.000.

NEW YORK.

CHURCH NOTICES,

A CHARGE

OF ONE DOLLAR 13 MADE FOR ALL NOTICE UNDER THIS HEADING

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL," HONG KONG

July 3rd 1927.

3rd Sunday After Trinity. Holy Communion (8 a.m.) Children's Service (10 a.m.) Matins (11 a.m.)

Preacher: Rev. W. R. Cannell, Holy Communion (12 noon). Evensong (6 p.m.) Preacher: Rev. E. A. Rigden, R.N.

Thursday 7th, Holy Communion at 7.45 8.m.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST.

invitation constitutes a binding en- gagement. The standard of moral ity as between the sexes is prob- ably as high as any in the world. Whereas mothers-in-law in Japan are proverbial for their harshness, among the savages they treat their daughters-in-law kindly. Bache- Jors and old maids are rare, but it is no special disgrace to A The sentences passed by the woman to remain unmarried. Mar- Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, rlage among blood-relations

Men usually marry at the Old Bailey on a gang of uncommon. blackmailers who had extorted when about 28 years of age: girls They are from 14 and upwards.

The claim, he said, drove him £10,754 from an ex-Army officer, not a long-lived race as a rule, an

completely off his head. He with- are likely to help to stop a crime a man of 65 is considered to have

drew the money and with some of which is all too prevalent in the attained patriarchal age.

New York The fifth Earl of it he paid legal debts. He travel country at the present time.

One of the most intelligent Effingham sat in his shirt sleeves in led through France, Belgium, Ger- 5.30 o'clock. Lord Hewart sentenced the Japanese Mr. de Bunsen met was his office on the ninth Aoor of many, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, } 'ringleader to penal servitude for a railway foreman from Kyushu New York skyscraper smoking & Portugal, South Africa, Australia, open-

Zealand, Tasmania and life and the others to from 15 to He seemed to know and extra-pipe and pounding out on a type-Ret

writer an estimate for an interior 8 years' penal servitude.

ordinary amount concerning

#. America. "These sentences,"

Europe and

decorating job. Thus the reporters Canada, and got rid of £3.000. G.

found him when they arrived to ask

The Official Receiver: The ques- famous criminal barrister, "com-

Wells's "The Outline of History," him if he intended to abandon his tion you have to answer is, how you got rid of this, money? Did ledge, and many historical per- take his place in the House of Press loyally observed the re- Ronages had become to him, from Lords,

pose of finding work?--I went quest to maintain the anonymity the cinema. living beings. It was All I know is," he informed there as a madman.

said

a

Macdonnell Rond, below Bowen Road Tram Station, Sunday Service 11.15 a.m. Subject: "God." Wednesday Evening Meeting at

Reading Room at above address,

Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 12 Nann

Monday and Thurade 5 to 7 m. The Public is cordially invited) to attend the servic and visit thei

bined with the fact that the Was the main source of his know" profession of interior decorator to you go to these places for the pur-Reading Racin

of the prosecutor, will do much strange to hear him speak of Robin them, "that the Earl of Effingham is It was stated that through the

to break up the gangs which are Hood. Friar Tuck, and Little dead and that my lawyer has cabled activity of the Official Receiver the operating in the West of London | John."

and elsewhere. If the law could

only be amended so as to preserve

the anonymity of a prosecutor,

A BIG PICNIC.

then blackmailing in this country EXCURSION INTO CENTRAL

would be speedily stamped out.

"The threat of publicity is the

greatest weapon in the hands of

AUSTRALIA.

that he is writing me particulars, claim, of the tax authorities for

I shall continue my business here £12,000 had been whittled down to until I have to go to London,"

Mr. Gordon Howard, first cousin

£900.

"I wish I had known that be-

of the late earl, who died this fore," sadly exclaimed Dean, whose month, has been in New York five public examination was closed. years. He is a cousin of the Bri- tish Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard,

Adelaide: The South Austra- and is 54 years of age. In 1024;

a blackmailer, and no one who lian, Vicorian and Commonwealth being then a widower, he married

They are confident that the

an American woman, Mrs. Made-

£261,072 CHEQUE.

JUDGE WHO HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A THING.

WESLEYAN METHODIST

CHURCH.

Queen's Road East, Wanchai, (opposite Naval Hospital).

10,15 a.m. and 6 p.m. Holy Com

Sunday: July 3rd:-Services)

munion at close of evening service. Preacher: Rev. J. C. Knight An- stey.

Subjects:-Morning:

"Peter"~~] just "Peter"! Evening: "Take care what you listen to."

Sailors & Soldiera Home, Ar- senal Street.

Sunday: 8 pm. Bible Class con- Two cheques for more than a ducted by Mr. A. J. May

has any knowledge of the pre- Railway authorities are jointly leine Keleher. valence of this class of crime, organising a rail and motor-car which is eating into the heart of excursion in Central Australia in society like a canker, will think July. the sentences one wit too severe."

Another lawyer said: massive beauty of the scenery will PRIMATE'S BEARD. "There are people-men and eventually promote a large tourist women-who for years have been traffic and they are also anxious compiling a dossier of all the to demonstrate the possibilities foolish and wealthy people in of the country, thue encouraging London, and by their organised settlers when the trans-continent- gunge trap and bleed them white, al railway is completed. Blackmail is as highly organised The trip, which extends beyond vannides, with a pair of scissors, master apon the value of the shares as the white slave traffic. It is Alice Springs, will occupy about attempted to cut the beard of Arch- In the Gordon Steam Shipping Com- no defence for a blackmaller to 16 days and will cover over 3,000 bishop Chrysostomos, the Greek pany, Limited.

BARBER WITH, A PAIR OF SCISSORS.

A hairdresser, Constantine Cara

quarter of a million pounds cach Sunday: 8.15 p.m. Chaplain's were mentioned in the Chancery Hour. Division before Mr. Justice Russell. Thursday: 8 p.m.. Fellowship

The court was asked on behalf of Meeting.. Mrs. Florence Campbell Gordon, widow and residency legates of Mr. Charles Wood Gordon, the ship- owner, to vary the finding of a

Saturday: 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting.

NOTICE.

attempt to prove that the allega miles from Adelaide and back. Orthodox Primate, while entering| a voluntary liquidation two of CHINA COAST OFFICERS' GUILD

and MARINE ENGINEERS' GUILD

*** OF CHINA HONG KONG BRANCHES.

**URGENT:

tion on which he blackmails i8 A minimum of 60 passengers is the Piraeus. The Archbishop beat Gordon's brothers, who were direc- the church of St. Constantine, in the liquidator's cheques to Mr. true, and yet many of the vic- required before the trip is under- off the man, receiving only slight tors, were for £258,408 and £261,072. tims who are blackmailed for taken, but it is believed that many Infuries in the face and hands. Mr. Manning, K.C, for the their alleged performance of from all parts of Australia will The affront was organised by a widow, said that he held several of acts which would bring them desire to make the journey, nd, few fanatie followers of the old these huge cheques and would hand within the law think it is. The as the party is likely to number Jullan Calendar, which was abolish some of them up to his lordship to Adjourned Meeting this (Saturday) police do not charge a man who, 80, including officials, motor ed in the Greek Church in 1929 in look at. (Laughter); although guilty of an offence, drivers, and cooks, it will be easily The Archbishop had supported the the largest reverently): Well, well, favour of the Gregorian Calendar. -- Mr. Justice. Russell. (receiying comes forward as a prosecutor of the largest which has ever pro change. The offender wat helped I have never seen such a thing be a blackmailer!

ceeded into the Interior.

in his attempt by a number of nuna. fore... (Laughter)

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