1928-12-22 — Page 1

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China Mail

No. 26,060

AFTER 10 YEARS

"DEAD" GIRL RESTORED TO PARENTS

A MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER

Lost in Local Race Course Catastrophe in 1918

KIDNAPPED AND THEN EDUCATED IN AMERICA

BLISHED

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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928. PRICE $3,00 Per Month. THE KING GRÁDUALLY SAVED FROM PAUPER CONSULS WARNED BY

IMPROVING

‘AIR OF CONFIDENCE'

NO AFTERNOON BULLETIN: "QUIET DAY"

was

GRAVE

WAI SHEUNG

ENGLISHMAN PROVIDES COFFIN AND PAYS FOR GRAVE.

BODY COMING TO HONG KONG

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'RIVER IS MINED!”

YANG SEN AND ALLY AGAINST

CHUNG KING..

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Manager:

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FIO. (London).

IS THAT SO?

Thoughts Terse, Perverse--and Worse.

If it is true that "gentlemen pre. fer blondes." then the, dark girls do not have all the fun of the fair.

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Cinema poster:

In one or two respects, the narrative reads like one of the many that the doctors are satisfied with lead shell which is enclosed in an- tish vogel, necessitating the dos-1's," perhaps!

"Why Salllors

Too many

"Hippo Charges a Train." Yes; but how much?

Birmingham: Boxing," says a That city always did headline. think it could knock out anybody.

A young Mayoress says that ahe is quite tired of speaking in public.

"In public," you notice.

A FAVOURABLE COURSE

London, Yesterday, 8. p.m.

London, Yesterday, At Chungking (the Treaty port A British Wireless message

At Keswick (in the North of highest up the Yangtze, 1,400 states:

England) the body of Wat Sheung,malles from the sea), the local Gen-

A Peking correspondent speaks No bulletin

Issued tids the murdered bride of Chang Yi- erals have issued a notification to Poignant and full of pathos, a story is told below of how the afternoon regarding the King, it miao, has been exhumed by Mr. the Consular Body to the effect of the "famine belt" in China....

This is the belt, evidently, that no further Walter Swinburne, who saved the that the River waters have been daughter of a Chinese resident was presumed to have perished ten being intimated that years ago in the terrible Race Course catastrophe and then to have would be given out until this even-body from a pauper's grave by pro- mined. This is the outcome of an- you take in a couple of holds.

Ing. This is regarded as an in-viding a plain oak coffin and pay other outbreak of war earlier this week, in which danger threatened found her parents after being educated and brought up by a foster-dication that the King continues, ing for a grave.

to make good if slow progress and The coffin has been placed in a an A.P.C. installation and a Bri- father in another continent I

Sir William Horwood says that. other oak coffin and sent to Birken- patch of H.M.S. "Tern" to the

the policewoman's uniform is m head to-day for shipment to Hong scene.

prevention of crime. Most: The favourable turn in His Kong in view of reinterment-Reu It now transpires, states a Royal

Weekly Wellerism-"I am an ex-people think it a crime in itself. Majesty's condition, coming as it'

ter.

Naval communique, that General ceptionally well-balanced man,” as Yang Sen is on the attacking side the wire-walker said.. has done on the eve of Christmas- tide, has relieved public anxiety

(as indicated in yesterday's "China and created a more cheerful out-

Mail"). He is on the side of Gen- look generally.

eral Liu Hsiang (whom he has fought several times during the dally, last two years) and; so far, Liu Hsiang has been successful against A Turf writer tells us that the Lo Tau-chow, who bars the way up-river (westward) to Chungking, but has met with reverses.

at Home concerning men who served in the War, were officially post-

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ed missing or dead, and then restored after a long interval to their kin. Loss of memory, generally from shell shock, was responsible in most of those cases.

Not so in this. The poor girl was terrified and in dire fear for her life. She was kidnapped, taken out of Hong Kong, sold to a mer- chant who bore the same surname as herself, sent to school in America, and then promised in marriage to a young student, before she forced a crisis to secure a passage back to China.

IN FEAR FOR HER LIFE

By a Special Correspondent of the

Fong Tong Keng}

ately he encountered his, wife out- side No. 2 Police Station, Wanchai, she having left the house again to seek him and the daughter.

Just before the fifth race (that is, the first after the tiffin interval) on the second day of the Hong 'Kong Jockey Club's annual four days' race meeting at Happy Val- ley, when turfites were still talk ing about a sensational Derby but she was nowhere to be seen. which had been run a little earlier,

A relative told them that night that he had positively extricated Miss Chan, she being on top of him, and had then crawled out after her,

Big Reward Offered Now, of course, it is known that. a catastrophe occurred, the official estimate of deaths in which was the little girl ran as fast as her legs placed at over 600. As a matter would carry her away from the ' of fact,

more than 2,000 names awful scene. Before she had got. were recorded at a memorial ser, out of the race track a man came up vice organised by a Chinese mer to her, took her by the hand.and chant prince who was one of many said he would escort her home. bereaved.

Town.

the course of events.

The Counsellors of State, ap- painted by the King during his ill- ness, held a Privy Council at Buck- ingham Palace, H.M. the Queen presiding.

The Prince of Wales, Duke of York, the Prime Minister, Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor were the other counsel lors present together with the Home Secretary (Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks). –

SHIPPING FEES

NEW SCALÈ FOR SURVEY AND INSPECTION

OLD SCHEDULE RESCINDED

New regulations under the Mer chant Shipping Ordinance (No: 10 of 1899)-to come into force on New Year's Day-are announced in the "Gazette" and part 1 of Table

A certain number of matters XMAS MAIL AT 5 P.M. arising out of the adjournment of Parliament was settled apart from routine business.

Quiet Day

The bulletin issued to-night states that the King has had a quiet day. The local and general condition is still very slow, though taking a favourable course. Signed: Hewett, Rigby Dawson of Penn..

́· Air of Confidence

Reuter states:-

The

and

has

The kidnapper and his victim: To-night for the first time since Prior to 1919, a row of matshed boarded a tram, going to Kenedy the King's illness developed serious- There the girl stayed, ly an air of confidence is noticeable booths several hundred feet long

of one, two or three storeys several days, under surveillance, not at the palace, was erected for the public at the daring to protest because the man

King progress the bly meeting.

It stood in a fine had threatened to kill her. From been making has been very slow more or less parallel to that part Kennedy Town, they went to Macao and it must be some little time of the course extending from the and then to Canton where, after before complete confidence can be paddock to near the six furlongs several months, the rogue sald her felt, but the anxiety of the past post. Frank Haytor's pitch is be- to a Mr. Chan, who was in business fortnight is now allayed consider- hind the old site. The Royal Hong in San Francisco, and had returned Ably. Kong Golf Club's house (which to. China for a visit.

was burned down) was between

the stands and the Monument.

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Gramophone Record.

Meanwhile the distracted parents, assuming that the only explanation By special permission of H.M. the For some reason or other, the was that their child had lost her King the Columbia Graphophone row of over 20 stands suddenly way and suspecting foul play Company is issuing for private cir collapsed like the proverbial pack of reported to the Police; and to this culation a gramophone record of cards, first quivering in the middle, day her photo is still in the Police His Majesty's last public utterance before his illness-his speech at the swaying to one side, falling down records. towards that end, and then bring-

opening of the new Tyne Bridge. The record will be preserved in the ing down the other half as well,

British Museum. Feats of Heroism

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Never Gave Up Hope: Her portrait was also published widely in advertisements, and the Police of Canton and Macao werd

So soon as a few heads show- ed through the palm roofing and a communicated with. A handsome.

few who were not pinned down reward was offered for nows of her, had clambered out, smoke began

to filter through, followed very

shortly afterwards by flames belch ing skyward.

dead or alive.

COURT HOLIDAYS

Except

TO-MORROW

The P. and O. B.B. "Kalyan," which is bringing the Christ- mas mail from Home (and also, incidentally, a number of brides-to-be) has been delayed on account of bad weather and will not arrive until 5 pim. to- The vessel leaves at 4 p.m. on Monday,

morrow,

C in the Schedule is rescinded. The new regulations in Ret 1 deal with survey fees and other fees, covering, inter alia:

For a passenger certificate. For a certificate for obtaining

a plying licence.

The Hankow Club

"Queer but Quaint."-Headline in

Strange but strange.

previous geperation betted, more heavily than the present. Our elders and bettors!

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At Hankow, on the Mid-Yang- taze, police of the Special Ad- "The Litry Editor, the 'Sunday ministrative District No. 3 (the Herald. Address on envelope con- ex-British Concession) continue taining a hopeful author's contribu to guard the Hankow Club against tion.. Even to look at the

the threat of illegal interference manuscript within seemed like tak by the Hankow Wine Tax Bureau, ing a mean advantage. officinis of which still insist on examining the stock of wines in the Club,

"Henry Ford believes in reincar

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At Tchang, which is above Han-nation," we read.....With the ac- kow but outside the zone of hos-cent on the "car"? tilities, the boycott of British ship-

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According to an evening paper. the "irting" handkerchief has made its appearance in the ball- room.. .. More of our girls" hankie-panky tricks!

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"I saw Mr. Bernard Shaw take a flying leap into a Kensington- hound bus the other day," says 2 gossip-writer.

Apparent-

ly Mr. Bernard Shaw had seen the xosulp first.

The optician goes into business "on apec."

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"No 13th Brides,” says a head- line. Yes: It's unlucky to marry. more than twelve women.

It took a dozen men to produce a song and dance show.

Marriage," Many hands make a “light "work!"*

ping, instigated by the local Anti- "No Fight Until Japanese Boycott Society, con-screams а headline....It isn't usual to begin the scrapping before the ceremony..

tinues.

LOCAL PRISONS

FINGER PRINTS AND MEASUREMENTS

REMISSIONS EARNED

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*Local prison rules have been further amended.

Rule 239 has been rescinded and

For a certificate for obtaining substituted by the following: an emigration licence.

Measurement of tonnage.

For lead-line certificate.

In dry dock for bottom cert!- ficate,

Inspection of Crew Spaces... Inspection of markings.

Inspection of lights and sound

signals.

Inspection of life-savig appli

ances.

Dr. Voronoff has grafted a gland to a famous racehorse. And this ls not the only grafting that goes on in connection with rasing.

"A million homes wanted." There now! And there's no end of a fuss)

if you have just one in Hong Kong

and one in Kowloon.

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"There are twins in nearly every street in Tooting," says a news

Describing 0

D riverside club, a

lawn ....So

writer says: "The shaded slopes down to the river." do the members on a fine day.

"Why can't women have medals ?"" asks an indignant feminist.. Because they are content with claans, of course!

is announced,

At the Chelsea Arts Club Ball, it women Tay wear "what they please.".. So they will, being contrary, wear what pleases them!

**Such measurements, finger. prints, marks, and particulars of any kind, shall be taken, on ad- mission or at any other time, as

"All motor buses stop at the the Superintendent shall direct." paper, They ought to spell it

Genuine Military Hospital, 2nd to rule 928 is added the following: "Two-ting" now..

Floor, Pinn's Arcade, 39, Adderley- "Upon the release of any pri-

street. Why?"--Advertisement soner by reason of remission

"The best men have something Not "why?" but how?" earned by him, his sentence or feminine about them," remarks cumulative sentences, as the case Lady Neishi Yes: and that

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"Change the word 'East' into

may be. shall be deemed to have little something feminine is alwin in eight moves, making a

expired."

TOKYO SCANDALS

ONE-THIRD OF MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY INVOLVED

ALLEGED CORRUPTION

Tokyo, Yesterday.

ways about them!

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Giving notice of his forthcoming marriage to the registrar at Los Angeles, Mr. John Barrymore said he had been married and divorced twice before.....Why not call him "Mr. Marrymore

simple dictionary word each time.-- Answer: East, fast, fact, fate, fare, fire, fine, wine, wind.”...... And still we haven't done it.

"The harvest mouse is only 21⁄44 ins., long, of which 2 ine. are tafl." "Daily Express," ..... It should

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be classed with the serpents.

По

"As an ornamental stone 1 (the

Of an unseaworthy ship. Prior to re-registry. Prior to change of name. Prior to transfer to foreign_flag. Examination of plans and survey of marine boilera.

Miscellaneous surveys and in-j public and general spections, such as for huil (design) And, in spite of all this, the pur-holidaye, the offices of the Supreme and details) and equipments; boil- chaser managed to take her to Court will be open from 10 a.m. toers, machinery, etc.; test and in- America, passing through Hong 1 p.m. during the Christmas Vaca- spection of steel and other Owing to recent revelations of A well-known society woman A number of cooked food atalla Kong, where emigrants, especially tion which lasts from Dec. 24 to materials when certificates of test various scandals involving more rests at her country cottage during ander the rows of stands. was the of the fair sex, are invariably Jan. 1, both days inclusive, except are not produced; examination of than one-third of the members of the week-end.....A kind of diamond) was highly esteemed dur cause. In about ten minutes, all searchingly questioned.

ing as to holding of Criminal Sea plans of ships, machinery, etc. to the Municipal Assembly, the Home cottage loaf? the stands were ablaze,

Miss Chan tells me that she wassions.

be constructed outside the Colony. Minister has ordered the dissolution Hundreds of rescuers besieged so frightened that she, studiously

Surveys outside the Colony. of that body. the burning structure. A military committed to memory the lies with

Overtime chargea. relief cordon was thrown around which she was primed. She had Gramophone" raffle has been won (ie., surveyors, under subpoena, at Attendance at local proceedings by Colonel John Ward, M.P., who had a taste of the brutality of her with ticket No. 342, in the name 850 per day). was 'then here on War service. kidnapper who had passed her off as

Reduced fees for certain yachts, Many feats of heroism were por-his daughter; and she did not then formed, but many race-goers lost know the kind intentions" of her their lives, the majority in the foster father. fire, and the remainder from in- juries through being crushed."- persevered; never giving up hope.

The present row of "public" He went up-country on the faintest come "Americanised" and had be- stands, of reinforced concrets, cut-rumour and made enquiries every-foster-father, to

came engaged, at the Instance of her side the paddock gate, used only where. Ile even went to the extent Mul

For a few years, Mr. Chan Fai

Miss de Coular's "Commonwealth

of Arthur Manuel Tamagniri Barboza."

a student ramed

IN BANKRUPTCY PUBLIC EXAMINATION AND

DIVIDEND

at the annual meeting, was subse- of paying for information period Objections were raised when she ed as follow quently built, following a prolongically, from women go-betweens who broached the question of coming ed inquiry into the disaster. I make a living in the trade in back. Obstacles were placed in her Queen's road East, merchant:

think Mr. Justice Wood (the children, Pulene Judge now on leave) and a special jury officiated, at the th queat.

Relative's Testimony On the "first floor" of No. 11 stand, known as the Cheung Lee booth, with lighted stoves beneath and another booth on top, were Mr. Chan Fai, the well-known property broker and dealer, his wife, and his eldest daughter, Miss. Chan Kam Joy, then nine years old. ››

"Amoriconised"

same date and time.

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ing the early times of the Roam Empire." .......The Roar Empire will have been formed of those nomadic tribes so well known in history.

"Why is the White House painted "white?"—General knowledge",' ques-

From, a novel.. "As she entered

the Seiyukai (Government) and

As the persons arrested or under her eyes swept the room.” suspicion include members of both Out of date. They have vacuum

jcleaners 'now, Minseito (Opposition) parties, It is not considered likely that the posi Hon of the Government will be

"A publisher's dilemna is invari-tion.... Dead easy to make it. affected by the scandals,

able."-"The Bodleian." Being, white, of course. The election of a new Assembly apparently, whether or not he should will take place within the next read his proofs to see three months, and will be the first words like "dilemma" have been election of a Tokyo Municipal spelt right. Assembly to be held under the recently passed law of universal manhood suffrage.-Beuter.

ÅLLEGED BRIBERY.

The case in which a Chinese con-

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whether

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"Man without vity is worst than' dead"Indian patent medicine nd- vertisement in Prieska paper, mark- ed "copyright reserved." ..... A

"A remand was granted in the sentence like that ought to be copy-

right.

A well-known novelist's 'hobby' is gardening......Well, people who live by fiction ought to cultivate their plots,

Bankruptcy notices have appear-

Chung Kam-ching, No. 259,

case of ——, charged with being in way, the Mr. Chan of San Francisco public examination at 10.30 am. on

unlawful possession of seventy-one Indignantly refusing to hear of her Jan. 8. in the Supreme Court.

pears valued at £7,000. Liverpool Then came the property boom fa réturning to the worthless scamp Hau, Pak-yan, alias Ah Hau, stable is charged with accept paper. Yet they continue to which Mr. Chan amassed a large who had posed as her father.

motor fitter: public examination on ing a bribe from a woman haw-advise us to "Eat More Fruit" fortune. Out of his profits he set

Tearful Reunion aside an appreciable sum for fur-

ker was adjourned at the re- Miss Chan, how 10 years of age, Fung Shu-kal, clerk: first divid-quest of the defence, at the Central ther investigation.

"Another type of microphone" The colony started off with sought the intervention and assist-end of 10 per cent. declared, pay-Magistracy this morning. Notices were inserted, via the ance of a body of benevolent Amer-able as from Dec. 27.

which has been successfully develop high ideals, but disputes arose. medium of friends Mr. Chan had fean ladies. Facilities were placed

Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro ed consists of two metal sheets The land was not cultivated by some (senior) appeared for Mr. C. A. 8. come to know, in Chinese papers in her way and she called from San circulating in Malaya, the Dutch Francisco last month.

Calo, Yesterday M. Gade, the Russ, defending solicitor, who, it separated by a distance of only of the settlers, and the scheme Norwegian Minister to Brazil, has was explained, was engaged, three or four miles.""Popular gradually failed, the colony being Indies, Australia, Canada, Central Not having been allowed by her retired. He will be succeeded by in Chambers, at the Supreme Court experimenters who own farms in low deals, in fact.

[Wireless," ****. Most suited to America, South America, New foster father to communicate with 2. Michelet, the Norwegian Minis Mr. W. Kent, Assistant Superin the great open spaces. In the contusion, pressed by the Zealand and South Africa, and also the man who had advertised on boter to China and Japan, Reuter,"

tendant of Police, is prosecuting. | structure above and threatened by in the USA, where there are about half of her father, Miss Chan was

ing

"When American etars come to the fire below, Mrs. Chan escaped 180,000 Chinese, of whom 25,000 or unable either to obtain her parents

The defendant was formally re Taipo has again been honoured this country the Press representa Rio de Janeiro, Yesterday-Mr. with savere injuries to her spines so are in the state of California. address in Hong Kong or to procure H. Hoover has arrived here. Reumanded by Mr. R. E. Lindsell until by the presence in the Harbour of tives of their companies are oblige but she managed to, reach home. This year Mia Chan saw one of help. Nothing daunted, she appear-ter's American Service,

one of. H.Me latest type Cruisersing enough to try and teach we poor Mr. Chan was pulled out by a these advertisements, to the effected at her parents' house fu Kowloon

H.M.S. "Cumberland."....She did scribes how to get on with our soldier, his face bleeding from cuts that her parents were still seeking the day after arrival and I, who

not spend a great deal of time at JobsArthur C., Findon in the and his body salao injured. He her, and she immediately com- had taken a mall part in the hunt

anchor on account of the two Filot "Sunday Dispatch - Evlichtky) ↑ walked almidesly up and downmunicated with Mr. Chan's friend, for her, was having tiffin there.

Fire files from the Anepheles they do not succeed if the course Wong-nel-chong and other roads, She had been sent to school, had Needless to say, there was a tearful, The closing rate of the dollar on

Maternity Home getting aboard includes an attempt to teach me hoping to meet his family. Ukim studied English and Chinese, be- but very, very happy reunion.

demand, to-day was 2/0 8/16.

with their convoy of followers, poor scribes Engliab..

-TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

next Saturday at 10 a.m.

MARSHAL CADORINA

Rome, Yesterday, The death is announced of Mar. shal Cadorina-Beuter

disbanded.

Ideals and