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and yet no one seriously reviews the position in the true interests of China and calls a halt to civil

war.

MAIL.

PEAK STRANGERS.

Found in Servants' Quarters.

EUROPEAN'S DISCOVERY.

Accused said that he there to visit a friend.

MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930.

MUI-TSAI CASE.

Four Months.

WEDDINGS. Ceremony in St. Andrew's

Mistress Fined $100 Or

Church.

CHUNGLIM

S

ASSAULT ADMITTED.

·

The wedding took place at St. On Saturday Mr. R. E, Lindsell At the Central Magistracy this morning, a Chinese was charged Andrew's Church, Kowloon, imposed a fine of $100 on a Chinese before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with on Saturday afternoon (the Rev.woman for ill-treating a mul tani trespassing in the servants' quar-W. W. Rogers officiating), of by assaulting her on various osca- ters at 8; Peak Mansions, occupied Miss Helen Lim, eldest daughter sions.

The accused admitted assaulting by Mr. R. S. Blaisse, of the Java-lof Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lim, of

one occasion, stating China-Japan Lijn.

Kowloon, and Mr. George Y. C. the girl on

because the girl had went Chung, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs, that it was

Chung Pak-kun, of Tientsin. thrown away some rice bowls, but Inspector Logan told the Magis-" The bride, who was given away denied that the girl was a mui tsai.,

Action was taken against accused trate that accused was found in by her father, was dressed in a the servants' quarters by Mr. pretty creation of white lace and as the result of information received Blaisse at 11.35 a.m. yesterday. georgette, with embroidered veil from neighbours of the accused, who Accused had gone there to amoke surmounted by a coronet of live on the first floor of 143 Wanchai oplum, and actually there were orange blossom, and carried Road.

E three strangers in the place when sheaf of Arum Illies.

Examination of the girl by Dr. Mr. Blaisse visited the servants' She was attended by three G. H. Thomas resulted in the Anding quarters. Two of them got away. bridesmaids, the Misses Florence of an abrasion on the right side of Mr. Blaisse actually caught the Lim, Julia Lim, and Rose Lee; the face, ten cane marks on the right accused smoking oplum.

two flower girls, the Misses June thigh, nine on the left, eight on the The Inspector added that pre-Lim and Gloria Woo; and two lower part of the right limb, three viously Mr. Blaisse had found pages, Masters A. and J. Lim. on the left, and one each on the chest The marks could not strangers in the servants' quar-The bridesmaids and flower girls and back. ters, and had warned his servants all wore dresses of white geor- have been inflicted on less than two not to admit anyone.

gette and tulle, whilst the former occasions, and not on the same day. Mr. Lindsoll imposed a fine of carried bouquets of white gladio. All were inflicted within

Ins and the latter baskets of white three days of the examination. carnations. The pages wore

According to the girl she was. costumes of white satin.

beaten on one occasion for eating Mrs. J. A. Lim, the bride's some scorched rice, and again for mother, wore the picturesque cutting a bit of her hair. Pre- Chinese ceremonial costume. viously, sho had been kindly treated.

The duties of hest man were treated. carried out by Mr. Mok Hing-fni, His Worship decided that even if and those of groomsman by Mr. he could not find, on the evidence, Allee Heng.

that the girl was a mui tsal, he After the ceremony a reception could convict the accused of assault, A coolie employed at the Hong was held at the South China Kong Club was to-day charged be-Restaurant when the usual toasts fore- Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham were honoured by a large gather- with the theft of two pounds of ing of friends.

$5.

THEFT OF BUTTER.

Dairy Farm Foki's Smart Capture.

MAN CAUGHT RED-HANDED.

butter from the Dairy Farm lorry, outside the Club yesterday morni ing.

FERNANDO-GARCIA,

made deliveries to the Club early Saturday, each morning. For the past two Florencia

two or

ROUND THE CINEMAS

College Production at the Queen's.

A FOOTBALL MATCH.

the honour of being regarded as

According to Sub-Inspector | A pretty wedding was solemnised}" the Central Government. Vast McWalter, the Dairy Farm lorry in the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on

when Miss areas of country are being laid

Carmen Lisola Garcia eldest to waste by bandit corps, thou.

or three days the delivery man daughter of Mr. Francisco Maria sunds (if not indeed millions) of had butter stolen from the lorry, Garcia, of Hong Kong, became the Much humour and entertain- people have been brought to the so yesterday morning he decided bride of Mr. Florentino Santos Ferment are derived from Metre- verge of starvation, the trade of to keep watch and, for this pur-nando, youngest son of Mr. Cirneo Goldwyn-Mayer's all-talking. col the nation is being paralysed pose, brought a foki along with Fernando, of Tondo, Manila, Philip lege production "So This Is Col

him. Whilst the delivery man pine Islands.

|lege," which opened a three entered the Club, his foki watch- The ceremony was performed by days' run at the Queen's Theatre ed the lorry from a hiding place the Rev. Father G. M. Spada, and yesterday, good houses being a a little distance away.

the bride, who was given away by feature at all performances. The foki saw the accused, who her father, looked charming in a

Naturally, as the title tells, had been washing the Club en creation of white satin and silk lace, "So This Is College" gives a vivid Foreigners can only look on trance, pour the water into the made up in Victorian style. She depiction of the brighter side of with dismay. They are powerless drain from a bucket and then ap carried a bouquet of Honolulu college life in America, filmed at to influence the course of events, of butter, and drop them into the

proach the lorry, take two packets creeper and maidenhair forni

the University of Southern Cali- The bridesmaids, Misses Albertinafornia. Girls, campus capers, leading to the greater destruc- bucket. Accused was about to Garcia, Celeste Gill, and. Millie sophomores and freshmen, all tion and the speedier rétrogres walk away when he (tho faki) Remedios, wore dresses of peach combine to make a really lively sion of China, through the acti-rushed up from his hiding place coloured Celancee, with crinoline pic show, with not a dull moment in vities of the Reds, the bandits,

ture hats to match. They carried it., Accused's story was that he bouquets of gladiol and maiden-The two leading men,. Elliot and the pirates. It is deplorable found the two packets of butter hair fern.

Nugent and Robert Montgomery, that there is no.leader stronglying on the ground behind the The flower girl, the Misses Mari-are splendid, being capably sup- enough to rise up and call a eurac placed them in his bucket.

larry, so he picked them up and zinha Luz, Maggie Chan, and Aida ported by Sally Starr, the "star"

Suffiad, were dressed in apricot hit of the film. on the civil war and all that it The Magistrate told the accus-coloured Celanese trimmed with blue An excellent filmisation of a entails and, instead, call upon the ed that even then he was guilty rosettes. They carried baskets of people to unite their forces of larceny as it should have been cream carnations.

obvious to him that the butter Mr. Daniel Z. Romualdez, Hong Kong, Monday, May 19, 1930. against the Reds, the bandits, and had fallen out of the lorry and be

the pirates. If the immense should have replaced them.

Accused was fined $10 masses are too illiterate to regard

or 14 days' hard labour, the desperate deeds of the Rede Es other than the hand of Fate,

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RED MENACE.

and seized him

J.

TWO STOWAWAYS.

Punished,

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT.

of

Manila, acted as best man, and the groomsmen were Messrs. C. F. Roza, B.M., B.S., and N. P. Karanja,

B.M., B.S.

college football match, between U.S.C. and Stanford University is screened, and, under the cap-

able direction of the producer, Sam Wood, it is very realistic 28 thousands of campus people throng to cheer their respective

Later, a reception was held at 37 sides. Jordan Road, Kowloon, after which

Cliff Edwards, better known

the happy pair left for Canton and as "Ukelele Ike," makes a decided Macao, the bride's travelling dress hit, as the songsters, six numbers with crinoline picture hat to match college men. being of peach coloured Celanese being rendered very well, by the

TURNS, TURTLE.

Lorry Driven by a Eurasian.

From all parts of South-West surely amongst the growing army China, as well as from Provinces of thinkers in China there are further North, reports are grow some to whom the country can, Young Russians Smartly ing more alarming daily of the look to save it in time from the activities of the Reds. In a tale-destruction that must surely over- gram from our Swatow corres-take it at the hands of her in- pondent to-day it is stated that ternal foes of law and order. It It was revealed at the Kowloon the districts along the borders of is idle to prate of patriotism and Magistracy this morning, when the Kwangtung, Fukien, and Kwangsi (pride of nation so long as the pre- two Russian lads, both aged 16, and are seriously threatened by a sent orgy is permitted to become Eugin Novikoff, made an appear- named Alexander Jan Polevey and

W. J. Simpson, a nineteen-year- Red Mob under a couple of notori-worse with the rise of every ance before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith old Burnelan, employed as a filing station attendant in Jordan Road, ous leaders, who have organised dawn in every province of the on charges of being stowaways on

the President Adams from Shang- was at the Kowloon Magistracy this them according to Communist country.

hal on May 17, that the first defend-morning before Mr. T. S. Whyte- military ideas and styled them The only civil war worth while ant was cautioned on April 30 this Smith charged with driving a motor. the 4th Army Corps of the Red at the moment is the civil war year, in connection with the theft and with doing no without the per. lorry without an appropriate licence, Army.

on the Reds, the bandits and the of a car, when he was employed as a

the

Kowloon,

It is a film worth while seeing.

The re-assembling of the U.S. |Congress, Britain's 2,100 herse- power, all-metal flying boat, and the end of the Autumn racing at Maryland, are outstanding in the Fox Movietone News reel which precedes the film.

"SANDOW" AT THE STAR.

#

an added attraction to the film, as Patrons of the Star Theatre have

"Sandow the Pocket Hercules," is It is not unnatural that whilst pirates; and it is time, indeed atter at Messrs. Alex Ross and Co., mission of the owner, a Chinese.

Defendant pleaded guilty to both giving fine exhibition of " war lorda of China have that that fact were realised by

strength. He is an amateur well The lads, who both stood in the offences again broken out in civil war, China's Icaders, military or poll-dock, pleaded gulity, Sergeant Traffic Sub-Inspector Nicol' said known in the Colony, who has made Koretaky acting as Interpreter thinking only of personal profit tical.

that yesterday the complainant took an intensive study of physical cul- again.

his lorry to the station for a re-fill ture at Home. His performances, and personal pride, the Reds, the

His Worship said that Polavoy had of oil, and also to pump up a spare in which he is assisted by a young bandits, and the pirates should

been most extraordinary in his tyre. Defendant inquired of the lady, are worth witnessing, parti- consider that another harvest

conduct about things, eceing that complainant, if he could take the cularly that in which he lies on a time has arrived for them. It has

he was so well cared for by the local motor lorry out for a run, as he bed of nails and has a sledge ham- Russian community, who on the oc-needed some practico in driving a mer striking a boulder on his cften been advanced by Chinese A Chinese living at 25, Chung Lok casion of his first offence, sponsored he held only a learner's licence. Ap-chest. students as a proved theory that, Street, was nearly deprived of bis his return to Shangbai on the Asama parently the owner did not hear the

sleep last night, when he discovered Maru! when China and her rights are at 10.30 that his camp-bed had been

defendant speaking but when he saw Nothing was known of the second him driving away in Jordan Road, threatened by foreign Powers, all stolen. The thief was caught, and defendant, who appeared to be the toward Nathan Road, he shouted to her war lords and her political on his appearance at the Kowloon more serious of the ante, to co him to "stop" but defendant task no

Magistracy this morning he wasi

News in Brief

When

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China (Mail," May 19, 1920.]

To-day's dollar Is worth 4/*.

leaders sink their differences and fined $10, with the alternative of two had stolen a passage, which was de

His Worship remarked that they notice.

defendant reached the unite their forces to resist the weeks hard labour.

frauding. A fine of $50 or one Junction of Cox's Road, he swerved foreigners.

month's hard labour was imposed on to the right to avoid a lady walking Polevoy, while Novikoff was fined the street, and the lorry turned; 83⁄41⁄2d $30 with the alternative of three turtle twice, and was damaged to weeks' hard labour.

the extent of 8250, 1

To be consistent with that theory, however, these war lords and political leaders must be ex- pected to do likewise when their

· AN OPIUM CARRIER ·

Being an bplum carrier for a friend at the Hotel Nathan, a Chinese, stated to be a private ne Nam boarding house, Connaught Road, Hong Kong, was at the Kow-

His Worship: fined the defendant We are told that the Hong Kong $15, on both counts $5 on the first Government now feels more indul end $10 on the other-and remarked gent toward local aviation, and is

own country and their own watchman employed at the Sai-THEFT FROM KOWLOON DOCK, that the question of compensation prepared to waive Its old-fashioned

nationals are threatened within their borders and upon their own waters by Communists, bandits, and pirates. Revolting massacres, rapine, tortures, and loofing on a wholesale scale have been report ed from various parts of the

country, and yet

war lords are dying at each other's throats in a thirst for supremacy and for

A could be dealt with in another Court, and useless restrictions on behalf. A young Chinese, employed at

"FLU" EPIDEMIC.

The China Mail is informed from

of the secrecy of our obiolete for- tifications,

$180 with the alternative of one of copper nails, was at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning fined the Kowloon Dock, who stole 2 lb. month's hard labour for being in loon Magistracy this morning the possession of 1.7 taels of non ordered & strokes by Mr Whyte Government prepared oplant. Smith Me an authoritative source that during is to be feared, die hard. It has

Det, Sergt. Humphreys sald that MH Marriott, D.C.M., stated the last two weeks a great number

he

the accused was arrested Just as that the nails were the remains of of persons have had Influenza. In but to travel to Hong old crap at prosent being taken fact, there appears to be an epidemie, tor Ferry from How off a prisons launch under repairs and the hospitals are almost full

at the dry dód cums

with patients.

The Crown Agent system will, it

been criticised on all hands but, archaic though it be, the system

le still much is evidence. Our strongest objection is that it is con ducive to private enterprise.