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SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA

There was at the time a good deal of talk as to the inadequacy of the lifeboats, rafts, lifebelts and All this seemed other devices. so elementary and, so far as the equipment of so up-to-date a

a

formulating of convention, which is the conference's chief object in meeting-will be await- ed with deep interest by the public generally.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929.

Smiles From Court

A PERT AND DARING WOMAN FELON. ÅRGUES WITH LOGIC:

The Old Lady: Yes, I confess

I was in the wrong, but it was only for a few minutes.

The accused person in the dock giggled, probably thinking that the Magistrate would impose some severe form of punishment for such a cruel deed. Nothing, however, happened!

The accused was then asked to explain her extraordinary beḥa-

The Rev. T. K. Cheyne, M.A., D.D., of Oxford, in his introduc- tion to the Book of Isaiah (1894),

Was it Sherlock Holmes or Nick, viour. gives the following translation of Carter, the fiction detectives, who "It is all a silly mistake, and Isaiah 16.13, 14: This is the word said that a woman crook is more these two people made mountains which Yahwe spake concerning daring than man and possesses a out of a molehill. Why, I want Moab heretofore. And now more fertile brain in planning a to fetch a friend, and when I Yahwe hath spoken, saying, coup?

found that I had entered the Within three years, as the years However, the truth of this was wrong house I at once witïdrew. of an hireling, shall the glory of borne out this morning when It was then this silly young Moab be disgraced, with all the Leung Hing, a young woman of woman came out and picked up a great multitude, but the remnant twenty-two summers, was charg- quarrel with me," was the excuse in a very little while will I bringed at the Kowloon Magistracy be-offered. unto honour.

Only one case of small-pox was notified yesterday.

The Dance which took place at the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club on Wednesday, April 10, realised $800 net for the Miners' Fund.

Theatre-goers are advised that all seats have been sold for "The Fanatics" which is being played to-night at the Star Theatre by the English Comedy Company.

fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, for attempted burglary.

Now Leung Hing showed a cer- tain amount of finesse in her at-

tempt to bring off the "crib." She did not bungle things as her male confederates would have done by operating at night.

No, she was no possum, and those who worked at nights were bound to throw suspicions on themselves, as she thought.

Some Stunning Questions? ›

She was pert, and notwith- standing the fact that the inter- preter told her to "shut up," she continued to ramble on.

"You see the injustice of it all. she cried out. They are two, and I am alone. I will ask your Wor- ship to bear this in mind: The young lady said that she was asleep, and if that was so, how could she have heard me coming in," she asked with a smack of her tongue.

Leung Hing, therefore, made radical departure. She first of all marked down a house and then carried out her plan in the morn-

The Magistrate: (dispassion- ing. Precisely at 7.15 am. yes- According to a report made to terday, she presented herself at ately) She must have woke up the Police by Mr. Basto, of No. No. 158 Tung Choi-street. She when you made that noise. It 10, Queen's-road Central, $500 in knew very well that the old lady is quite simple. Have you any- money has been stolen from his of the house would be away, and thing more to say? safe at the office some time be- that the only person in the house tween March 28 and yesterday. was a young woman.

It is reported that the matter of the theft of a gold wrist watch from Mr. L. Jeeves, living at the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, has been cleared up satisfactorily No resident or staff of the Y.M.C.A., was involved.

Locked In

a creaking sound.

was

The Accused: I have said all

what I wanted to say. I atole no- thing, and it was I who suggest-

די

LADY GROSVENOR

DEATH OF ONE OF THE "SOULS"

BRILLIANT WOMAN

The heroine of this story founded calling in the Police. things as she expected, but what The Magistrate: All right, you she never expected to find was are convicted. One month's hard that the old lady of the house labour. Next case. could be so cruel as to lock the

in. That young woman exactly the position, because A veteran of the screen. Kate ed with a Chinese padlock.

Leung Hing found the door lock- Price's career is dotted with not-

Nothing daunted, Leung Hing able achievements in characteri-wrenched the feeble lock off, and sation. Not the least among these then quietly stole into the house. is her latest role, that of Mrs. She then opened a door leading to McQuade, the sympathetic, self- vessel as the "Titanic" (which un-reliant soul who protects the "de- the middle cubicle, but there was questionably was in most respects sert flower" in a First National The young woman who was the finest passenger vessel in the offering of that name, starring locked in was at the time in the The Countess Grosvenor,

Colleen Moore. The picture, with world at the time) it seemed al- Lloyd Hughes heading the sup-cubicle. She was not, however, minster, died at Saighton Grange, arms of Morpheus in the front mother of the Duke of West- most absurd to discuss

such porting cast, will be shown at the points, But the inquiry after Majestic Theatre to-day and to- tightly embraced, for she heard near Chester, last month, aged 73, the creaking sound and demanded Lady Grosvenor was a sur-

vivor of a to know who was there

more spacious age. the disaster certainly pointed to

Silence reigned. Thinking that Birth, beauty, brains, and charm the fact that the equipment is

a ghost could not be about indistinguished her in an illustrious inadequate for the large number

broad daylight, the young lady world. She made two brilliant of passengers carried. The pre-

came out to investigate, and sure- marriages; she had a host of ly enough, she found Leung Hing friends and numerous interests sent conference, therefore, it is

standing outside the middle and accomplishments. to be hoped, will not forget to

cubicle, looking quite embarrass- keep in mind that it is often the "elementary" points that need

morrow.

A MEETING

SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN AND

SIGNOR MUSSOLINI

was

ed.

She was one of the group. of witty people who in the 'eighties and nineties were nicknamed the "Souls." They included Lord

Balfour, the late Lord Curzon, Ribblesdale, and other brilliant Lady Oxford and Asquith, Lady

men and women.

and

He

His son, Mr. Percy

STATEMENT IN COMMONS

London, Yesterday.

The Mythical Yee Koo Sir Austen Chamberlain, asked most emphasising as, after all, to give the substance of his con-

"Why are you here and what neglect of such matters is prac-versations with Signor Mussolini do you want," asked the surprised tically fatal. It is very probable at Florence, said: "Having decid- inmate. "I came here to look for ed, for personal reasons, to spend Yee Koo, who used to work with that one or more of the delegates Easter week at Florence I asked me at a knitting factory, suavely

As Lady Sibell Lumley, the of the seventeen countries repre- His Majesty's Ambassador to in- replied the intruder.

"But how did you come in. The sister of the present Lord Scar- Hong Kong, Thursday, April 16, 1929,sented will have several new form Signor Mussolini of my in-

suggestions to make some per- it would give me to

tention and to say what pleasure door was locked and the key is brough and of Lady Zetland and see him with the old lady, who went to the Dowager Lady Bradford, she haps of an interesting and noval again if, as I thought possible, market to buy food?" demanded married Lord Grosvenor in 1874. to be in the the young woman. The intruder Her children by this marriage are Quite recently, in this column, character-but it is to be hoped he himself were

replied, "Why, my good sister, the Duke of Westminster, Lady we observed with pleasure that that in the discussion of such neighbourhood.

Signor Mussolini, who your door was ajar, and since I Beauchamp, and Lady Shaftes- Lord Grosvenor died in 1884. spending a few days at Forli, was have been to this house often bury. the much anticipated conference things the other and more ordin- on the very important question of ary things, such as the life-saving good enough to motor over to enough, I thought that there was

Three years later Lady Grosvenor The inmate was not satisfied. married Mr. George Wyndham, "Safety of Life at Sea" was prac-equipment being really adequate, see me. This was the fifth occano necessity to kneck."

Such sion on which we have met, in- tically certain to be held soon in will not be overlooked.

cluding our first meeting at Rome She examined the door and found Irish Secretary in Lord Balfour's

sportsman London. It was announced, in equipment should be based not on in 1924, and I welcomed it as giv- that the lock had been wrenched Government, fact, that preparations were fair- a possible occasiona! mishap but ing me another opportunity for off from its socket. Without ban-litterateur, and held by many to ly well advanced and that there on a disaster involving, as in the such exchange of views with him tering words further with the in-have been the handsomest man

case of the "Titanic" and the as I have with other Foreign truder, she seized hold of her, in the House of Commons.

and just at the same time the old died in 1913. Ministers at Geneva. was a possibility of a representa-

"Vestris," every soul.on board,

No, special importance was at-lady came back from the market. Wyndham, was killed early in tive gathering of a truly inter-

She took in the situation at a the war. though, luckily, all on board tached to the meeting and no

Lady Grosvenor had marked national character. Since then

these vessels were not lost.

subjects were proposed for dis- glance, and straightaway ran off

(Yes, they literary taste and a keen interest the preliminary arrangements

cussion at it but, as was natural, to fetch the Police.

were among her hobbies.. She Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Pre- we passed in review the general always do that when they are in in politics. Music and gardening have been completed with the re-

painted skilfully on dress mater- sult that the conference-the first sident of the Board of Trade, wel-European situation as well as the trouble).

Prepared for the Haul

ials and designed many of her of its kind since 1914--has now comed the conference in the name tries which are, happily, of a most At the Police Station, Leungwn dresses. She could claim to actually materialised and is at the of the Government, and had a cordial character. It will not be Hing was searched (by a female be the inventor of the collarless present moment meeting daily very pleasing duty to perform at forgotten that Great Britain and searcher, of course) and she was Italy are guarantors of the found to have gone to the house

She had been for some years within the magnificent building in the outset in announcing a mes Treaty of Locarno and have this quite prepared. Circled around her Whitehall, London, which houses sage from the King who wished common interest in the mainten-waist, was a big piece of cloth, a great-grandmother, her grand-

success. Within the the conference the Foreign Office.

ance of peace and promotion of This, according to the opinion of daughter Lady Ursula Filmer- The funeral, service was held next few days we should probably Philip did well to emphasise the good relations among all gigna- the Inspector Stimson, was for Sankey having two children. learn, through Renter's Agency fact that to-day, more than at tories of that treaty. British racking the stolen goods away.

Wireless Service.

Whether it was in accordance at Chester Cathedral, and and the British Official Wireless any other time, wireless tele-

with the law of gravity or of aver-memo al service at St. Paul's age (better ask the Police), Leung Church, Knightsbridge, service, how matters are shaping graphy is probably the most.im-

Hing was brought before in regard to a new conven- portant element in the safety of

Kowloon Magistrate in due tion to replace that which was life at sea." To-day it not only

course this morning.

The young woman first of all. practically rendered abortive, ensures the greater safety of the

told her story, and in reply to the quietly to the heckler.

"It does not matter what you owing to the intervention of the ship which carries it but it makes

Magistrate she admitted, with a Great: War.

her a potential saviour of her

blush like a naughty girl, that say. Two blacks cannot make a

white." she was in fact locked in by her The last conference, it sister ships. This was another

"Oh," said the candidate. "Are Arising out of the Federal Re-mother-in-law. will be remembered,

of Sir Philip's reflections as to the was

serve Board's decisions in rela- Now mothers-in-law in the you sure of that?"

Heckler: "Yes; sure enough." called owing to the urgent very important part wireless has tion to the Stock Market, Mr. Reid East have a peculiar way of act-

Candidate: "Well, it's evident necessity for something being played, still plays and is destined (Minois) introduced a resolutioning toward their songs wives, and done towards making life yet even more than ever to play. in the House of Representatives although the Magistrate was my friend doesn't keep poultry."

The heckler suddenly remem- demanding a widespread investi very surprised that a grown up bered a pressing engagement else more safe at sea than it evidently Undoubtedly, the public gen-gation into the Board's activities young woman should be treated where.

Sir

relations between our two coun-

RESERVE BOARD RIGHT TO RESTRICT CREDIT QUERIES

ENQUIRY DEMANDED

Washington, Yesterday.

the

gown.

The candidate was submitting

was in view of the appalling diserally will expect that the confer and policies during the past ten like a naughty child, the specta- aster in the Atlantic when the ence will have something parti- years. He also demanded that tors in Court, who were all Chin- "Titanic," on her maiden voyage cularly interesting on this point Messrs, J. P. Morgan, A. Mellon, ese, took it as a matter of course.

A man went to his doctor and Owen D. Young, Roy A. Young, Pity to Wake Her! from England to the United to discuss, guaranteeing, as much and other leaders of finance he The old lady also admitted that requested treatment for his ankle. States, went down after striking as can possibly be guaranteed, summoned as witnesses.

she had locked her daughter-in-After careful examination the an iceberg. On that occasion even more certainty of safety at Mr. Loring Black (New York) law in, but added that she was doctor inquired: "How long have

"Two weeks, sir, some 1,600 lives were lost and, sea through new radio devices, challenged the Board's right to only away for a few minutes. The you been going about like this?"

restrict credit for speculative pur-young woman was fast asleep and as almost invariably happens on The conference has a high mis- poses. He roundly condemned the she thought it was a pity to wake Why, man, your aulde is such occasions, quite a variety of sion and a noble duty and one that Board for its arbitrary actions her up. marvel Why didn't you come

Mr. Whyte-Smith: Don't you to me before?

"Wel, doctor, every time I say reasons were forthcoming to acis truly international. Its discus and declared that the extension in

securities sold on the Stock Mar- think it was a dangerous thing to count in some measure for a sion, deliberations and recom-ket merely represented American do locking a young woman in the anything is wrong with me my catastrophe which seemed to mendations the last-mentioned business expansion Reater's house in this way? What will she wife declares I'll have to give up

do in case of fire? most people well nigh impossible, of which is to be embodied in the American Service.

smoking.

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