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1930, at the Victoria Hospital, Hong Kong, to Mr. and Mr. G. A. Harriman, a son (Johr.);

WIND

CORRESPONDENCE.

GOVERNMENT SALARIES.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1930.

ROBBERY SEQUEL.

PRISONER'S SUICIDE IN A CELL.

ANOTHER SENSATION,

"YOU DIRTY LITTLE

HOME WRECKER.” ♥

Outburst from Mrs. Jack Diamond.

CHORUS GIRL ARRESTED.

[To the Editor of "China Mail.") Sir-With all this discussion going on in re the. raising of More sensation has to be record. more funds for the purpose of in-ed in connection with the attempt- creasing the salaries of (in mosted armed robbery at 203; Lalchikok cases already undoubtedly over Road, ground floor, early on Sunday paid) men in the employment of morning the Government, I am tempted to | The robbery was frustrated by Įtion with the murderous attack inmates of the house on Jack Diamond, whose condi- make the following comments.

the woman

New York, Yesterday. The police activities in connec-

As is pretty generally accepted, who raised the alarm and, after tion has improved, have led to the a Government employee has al stabbing one of them, the robbers arrest of Marion Straswick, a lotted to him and for which he dreamped without stealing any-young red headed Ziegfeld chorus beauty, who was on intimate pays. 6 per cent. (or it may may thing.

Then, as reported in the terms with Jack. be 7 per cent.) of his salary in

The police discovered her hid- the way of rent, a resident with Ching Mail yesterday, the C.ID. heavy furniture (i.c.) suns, undertook a comb-out on both the ling in a bundle of clothes in a cup- crockery, silver, glassware, etc.) island and. the mainland through-board in the flat belonging to a which the average man in com-out Sunday. The search in Kow-friend.

Marion was confronted at the not loon resulted in the arrest of a han mercial employment could possibly obtain much under $250 named Au Yik, whilst the comb-out Police Station with Mrs. Diamond, to $300 per mensem. I quote on the island led to a Chinese de-who shriekel, "You dirty little particularly the houses on the tective visiting a tallor's workshop home wrecker."

on the first floor of 60, Wellington An unsigned note delivered at Peak and on Broadwood Rowl.

He arrested a suspect the hospital where, Jack lies re In other words, a Government Street. employee drawing, say, $700 per and then, whilst he was interrogat-quested that he received the mensom, pays for his rent on the ing the other people on the pre-best possible attention, and en basis of approximately $50 per mises, his captive seized a pair of closing $3,000,

a sewing machine

Another Sensation. mensem: whereas a Senior in a com- scissors 'from mercial office drawing the same pay and stabbed him in the stomach.

Chicago, Yesterday. would have to pay $250 per men- He then broke loose from his cap

Following the shooting of Jack tor, dushed to the verandah, and Diamond, there was another gang- On the top of this, the man in affected his escape by leaping into land sensation, when police yeater comercial employment has to pay the street. He had a wonderful es day Filter buic of "Scarface! cape from injury and has so far. Capone, in the suburb of rates and taxes, water rates, etc.

Daca the Government employee succeeded in evading capture. have to pay any rates and taxes on the house, furnished, which he has supplied to him at the nominal ent quoted above?. Does he pay any Water Rutes? If so, an what basis, respectively? If not; why

More especially since the mand. Au Yik was taken to the LURE OF A BLONDE. business man is expected. Shamshuipo Police Station and willy milly, to raise more funds there locked up in a cell.

sem.

not?

poor

For the increasing of the staffs in

Takes Own Life,

The "other man, Au Yik, was yea terday formally charged before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy and remanded for 48 hours After the re- in Police custody.

Chicago, but found that "Scarfaca" had flown

They arrested. 29 men and one woman.--Beuter's American Ser-

vice.

MILLIONAIRE SHOT DEAD IN Then the man took it into his

the several Government Depart-head to end his life and thus add- ments on an increased senle ofed further sensation to an affair

grateful Colony which has to pay and for the purpose of the which had its beginning in a rob

Yours, etc.,

OLD TIMER.

Hong Kong, October 14.

HARBOUR RACES.

PARIS.

"1

"I know that my love affair will

# young

His body luy on a bed and was A beautiful covered by a sheet. Polish blonde. Helen Kiscelow, was lying by his side,. clasping a revolver, and with a bullet through her head.

the piper for a tune not called and erection of more of these palatial bery attempt, the features of which end fatally. Helen carries death not wanted by it-when, that is, residences for the housing of such were no more extraordinary than with her, but I cannot break away similar roh- from the web of fascination that thase, which attend

she has thrown round me." increased taxation is involved, increased staffa on increased pay.

Here's a point for the Retrench-beries.

These were At about 12.30 p.m., yesterday, a

the last words Budget framera and Budget ment Committee. if the matter speech makers are ever unpopu-comes within their scope-or for any little over two hours after the re-spoken to his friends by Manuel Argentine other Committee or Department mand, Au Yik was found hanging Guerrero, tar, with never the ghost of a

within whose scope the question from a cross-bar in the cell, with a millionaire, who was found shot

strip of blanket round his neck. dead in a Paris flat recently. chance of having a statue to comes,

It was torn off the blanket which is them unveiled in Statue Square

asually suplied to prisoners in cells. in remembrance of all the wind

When taken down there was still they expended-wasted might be

Every a spark of life in the man. elfort was made to revive him, but an unnecessarily harsh word-in

he died within a few minutes. raising the wind for the adminis- tration of the Colony for three hundred and sixty-five days. And (To the Editor of the "China Blail".) Sir, May 1, as an international there is the further task so ad-

long distance swimmer, be allowed mirably performed that of in- to make what I consider to be a sane ducing in the poor unofficial ny- eritielam of the letter which ap- man sufficient energy in this peared in your issue of Monday, | humidity-ridden Colony to let off no less an amount of wind in showing the Government schemes for raising the wind more super- ior than were ever conceived in

of

October 13?

or a "breaker of long distance re-

ence of long distance races,

NAGEUR.

The couple first met in London two years ago; **

Mlle. Kincelow, who was two years Guerrero's 'senior, had lived previously in the Argentine, and already shot them- selves in despair because of her fickle conduet. -

HAUL OF HEROIN. COURT SEQUEL TO BIG SEIZURE two men ha

OF DRUGS.

POWDER FOUND IN TINS.

She went back to the Argentine with her latest lover and lived with him for some months. Even- In Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court tually, however, Guerrero was

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other tins of preserves. All were reized...

I do not wish to make any com- ment on the question of "playing fair" which your correspondent. Ims raised, but I would like to point out this morning there was a seque urged to break with the girl, whom to the big seizure of heroin by ho could not marry, and as a first that any awimmer, be he n "novice" Revenue Officers on Thursday, step to this he was pursuaded to the brain of a Government Ser-cords," is equally liable to the effects when Mr. H. A. Taylor, acting go to Paris and occupy himsel

Superintendent of Imports and with business for his family and vant of exalted degree.

of cramp..fatigue, etc. Moreover, But for the Budget there is no I would like to say that in my experi. Exports, made application for the his friends.

confiscation of the drug.

He did so, and was happy, when Taylor suddenly Helen Kiscelow rep Giving ovidence, Mr. in what direction ranging from one thousand saying

said that at about 10 a.m. on Oc-peared on the scene. would surplus wind

go. All to five thousand metres, com- tober 8, accompanied by Revenue Guerrero's friends saw at once

1 boat kinds of quixotic schemes petitors always had

Officers, he carried out a search that he had fallen again under the of some description, for the puron board the Italian motor ship charm of the beautiful Fole, and for the betterment

poses of guiding them and to be at Ilda tied to the A24 baby in the urged him to leave France, to Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1930. mankind and womenkind in this hand in case of emergency.

harbour. They found on board travel, to do anything to break Colony might be suggested and

Your, etc.,

certain cases of cargo, some con- the chain which once more bound taining common sheet glass and him to her. AND WIND! laboured all for the sake of emit-

ting wind that must have an out- Hong Kong, October 14, let. True is it that the Budget "Satisfied"-Letter must be ac-

No Mark of Origin. On subsequent examination the to raise the wind. A good deal provides such an outlet for a bare companied by name and address of

four weeks, but its sponsors correspondent, not necessarily for cases were found to contain 424 of wind has already been expend- ed in the Legislative Council in never let the wind blowers down. publication: Ed. China Mail. the matter of rasing the wind for In season and out of season Supplementary Vates are the year 1931, and a great deal more will be expended before the thoughtfully created by the offi- clal fairy wand, provoking still

papers showing that the cases inevitable adoption of the Budget

contained heroin. He asked for with the aid of an Official major-more scope for the emission of

confiscation of the drug as no one. USE OF LEISURE. had come forward to claim the ity. Outside the sacred cham-wind in raising the wind, thua

enrgo. Under section 3, sub-sec- DR. JACKS ON PLEASURES. OF ber still more wind has been let saving the "know ails" from the

A Chinese was to-day charged tion 2b of the Dangerous Drugs: CREATIVE SKILL. off-some by people with the pre-peril of an involuntary eruption

through sheer inability to let off before Mr. H. R. Butters by In- Ordinance, 1923, the cases tension to expert knowledge of

hot air. All of which goeth to spector R. H. E. Marks, with the talning the heroin were contrary Jarceny of a pair of bangles from to the laws of the Colony because. high finance and some by persons

show that there le not the slight-child. He pleaded guilty to the they did not bear marks relating one thing; the leisure of the idle poor is another. I know not which of lower degrees of financial men-

to contents, and there was no est reason for despondency. The charge. P

of the two is the more dangerous tality but no less keen on thrust-

It sometimes takes a lot of wind

But he moraly shrugged his shoulders and said: "That, I am afraid, is impossible, but I will do my best."

It is now thought that the kilogrammes of heroin in powder young Argentine millionaire In- form, contained in flat tins. All formed Helen Klacolow of his dé- the cases were consigned from termination to break with her. HAND.Trieste, the glass to Shanghai and The girl apparently shot the young the tins to Dalny, There was man and then turned the revolver THIEF STEALS BANGLES FROM nothing on the ship's manifest or on herself.

CLUTCHING

BABY.

SALUTARY SENTENCE.

con-

"The leisure of the idle rich is

Jing their own pet theories down more damming the Budget the According to Inspector Marks, licence from the country of export to society and the more demoralia-

things at the Yaumati Market yes

the throats of the rest of the more forceful the wind raised a Chinese woman was buying community. But in spite of the thereby out of the mouths of currents and cross-currents the babes and sucklings in the domain authorities will be able to raise of high-and low-finance! the wind by those means they themselves most favour, even if

News in Brief.

P

The Magistrate made the con- fiscation order.:

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ing to its possessor." So sald Dr. L. P. Jacks in an address on "Leisure."...

"If you ask what kind of ready. made pleasures are most sought

terday afternoon, Sho had her child strapped on her back: The woman felt a tug and on turning round saw the accused snatch two bangles. He dropped a Jade bangle. TRANSPORTER FROM MAST TO after to relieve boredom a She raised the alarm, and a District Watchman chased the accused and caught him; the other bangle was found in accused's hand.

AIRSHIP. DEVICE.

SHED.

London, Sept. 10.

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stimulate tired senses, there are tour which cover most of the ground-sex enticement, gambling. it jeopardises the very last

Admitting frankly that he had

Messrs Vickers Armstrong's in one or other of its innumerable breath of their own wind in doing been "instructed" to go out to look

building

moving forms, outward display, and sight- 35 Not that they are any bet for victims of the time honoured Mr. Butters passed sentence of Ltd., are ter financiers than the conimon "bank note trick, a Chinese, who one year's hard labour, with 24 pyramid of steel 86 feet high de- seeing. The most promising line signed to transport Great Britain's of attack on the problem of leisure, was yesterday charged before Mr. strokes of the birch.

the mo fry outside snug and secure billets E. F. Willame with conspiracy to

largest airships from the mooring especially as connected with dox, 14 maat to the shede... not the line of moral exhortation. in the Government Service: if defraud a woman of a pair of ear.

"Ir. I had to write a motto over The structure will be used at Challenged they would probably, rings, a bangle, and $10 in money, Lindsell yesterday. Expert evidence

it in three words-skill, recreation, with their proverbial modesty, by practising the trick on her, was on Chinese calligraphy was given by Cardington, and work upon it will the portals of leisure I should do

sentenced to four months hard Mr. Li Pak-yuen, B.Sc., of the be begun at once.

It is the first of its kind in Great beauty-and I would call the whole disclaim any excessive knowledge labour.

University of Peking, and M.Sc. of the University of California, who Britain and the largest in the house the House of joy. I would money or arithmetic or mathe

Chan Kwang-cheung, who is spoke about a document produced by world make it clear and sedulously fastil matics beyond that that comes to stated to have returned to Hong the Fafence purporting to be a clean It will be fited with a cater into the young that the pleasures then as a matter of form and Keng from the country to face & discharge from all his obligations, pillar movement at the base, and which result from external excite routine.

charge against him of alleged mia-Witness said that the signature the wing will be used to pull down ment are far inferior to those. The Colony cannot get on with appropriation of over $40,000 from "Lam Fak-hing" on this document the airship from the level of the which result from creative skill, the Kwong Cheung Hing Loong Kes was different from that on other mopring mast to the height of the and that bought pleasures are hard- out à Budget," and it is the duty of arm of pig dealere, of which he documents shown to him, and not in airship shed, standartasewly worth having in comparison to the authorities to compile, that was a partner and accountant made the same band. The case was again There is a similar but smaller those which arise in the exercise “of

cealed transporter In Canada. Budget and submit it to an un- and her appearance before Mr. R. E. adjourned.

the creative faculty,