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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931.

TENNIS RACKETS DISPUTE.

"Tadpole" Contests Suppliers' Claim.

4 OUT OF 5 DEFECTIVE.

LOST ITALIAN AIRMAN.

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

by mail, met with success; and as porter in the Hotel Victor Em- the system of the snowball or the manuel III. in Parle. To tell the chain-lotter: was made use of thou- truth, I was not only hall porter but sands of coples wore in circulation.gerant and telephone operator at For five months I carried on the the same time. As a preparation work alone; every fortnight for my raid to Rome it was not bril- Anti-Fascist Who Flewwould send six hundred letters fant. I had, however, between the

Over Rome.

bakers" bills and the guests' receipia, enough time to prepare

my "let- ters" and to study the map of the Tyrrhenian.

LAST DOCUMENT.

signed "National Alliance" with the request addressed to each recipient to make six copies and to send them ito six different addresses.

Unhappily, in Decaribor, during {a short voyago which I had been ob

lged to undertake abroad, the police In the Summary Court yesterday, The young Italian poet Lauro de arrested the two friends who, dur- „Tout Tak-po. well-known Os Busie, who flew over Rome on Ing my absence, had assumed the "Tadpole" of the Hong Kong Saturday, October 3, to drop anti-task of mailing my letters. They Cricket Club, was the defendant in Fascist leaflets, has not been heard were subjected, to torture and con- a claim for $408 brought against of since his exploit, and it is assum-demned to fifteen years' prison. him by Messrs. Mamak & Co., ed that he perished on the return Mario Vinciguerra, one of the best sports dealers, of Peking Road, light. Before he set out for Romo writers of Italy and a literary and he left a document entitled "The art cricit, was exposed a whole story of my death," from which we night entirely naked on a balcony take the following passages:—

of the Police Department in Roma; this was in December and Vinel guerra was ill. After this ho was so severely beaten that as a result

Kowloon.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall was for Sundar Singh, of the plaintiff com- pany, whilst Tadople" was repre- sented by Mr. Horace Lo.

The rest of my preparations is the most interesting side of the story; they must, unfortunately, re- main secret. În May.1 carried out my first fight alone, in a Farman machine, near Versalles. But when I learnt that my secret had been discovered by Fascists I had to disappear in order to hide under another name in England.

On July 13 I left Cannes in un English biplane, 'carrying with me 175 pounds of tracts. As I had "The Story of My Death."

to my credit only five hours of To-morrow, at three o'clck, in a

flight I left alone so as not to risk The claim was for payment for meadow of the Cote d'Azur, I have

the life of a friend. Unfortunate- two dozen tennis racket frames an appointment with Pegasus, he became deaf in one ear. Lastly an accident prevented the re- Bold and delivered to the defendant. Pegasus-that is the name of my of all, he was locked up in a celi alisation of my plan. I had to land

Mr. Lo told the Pulsne Judge (neroplane-has រា russel

body six feet by six, where there was not in Corsica and escape, abandoning (Mr. R. E. Lindsell) that the de- and white wings; although he is as even a chair to sit down, and every my 'plane in a field. fendant admitted the order and re-strong as eighty horses he le as morning his bed was removed. ceipt of the rackets, but declared slim ng & swallow. He grows

As a consequence of the protests of that, they were defective, united drunk with petrol and leaps through

in foreign Government and of emin for the purpose for which they were the sky like his brother of old, but ent British and American political ordered. and unmerchantable. if he wishes, in the night, he can

Vinciguerra's condi. personages, The defence was that the rackets glide through the air like a phan-tions were improved, and those of should be returned to the plaintiffs. Į tom. I found him in the Her-his companion Rendi well. Mr. Rendall'a argument was that cynian Forest, and his old master is Mussolint even went so far as to the contract of sale had been com- going to bring him to me on the offer them their liberty, on condi- pleted and the goods had passed shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, betion that they would sign a letter from the seller to the buyer. Helleving in perfect sincerity that hoof loyal submission to the regime, _quotes_authorities to show that the is to serve the idle pleasures of a but they refused.

defendant should make payment, young Briton. My bad accent At the moment when my friends but was entitled to claim damages did not siken his suspicions. I

arrested I

the from plaintiffs after doing so. * hope he will pardon my subterfuge point of crossing the frontler

And yet we are not going in chase to

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return

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Mr. lan Henry Macreight gave evidence as to the alleged defects of chimeras, but to bear a message first impulse was to hurry to in the rackets. He bought a of liberty to a people in chains be Rome to share their fate, but I "Special Selected Tadople" racket | yond the sea. To drop my images realised that the duty of a soldier frame from the defendant at the twhich I had to employ in order to is not to surrender to the enemy H.K.C.C, and after having it leave in a discreet vagueness the but to conduct the battle to the end. strung took it to Canton. He play- origins of my 'plane), we are going It was then that I decided to go to ed with it two days later, and after to Rome to spread through the air Rome, not to surender but to carry two or three games in the first set these words of liberty, which have, on the work of the National Alliance it cracked near the shoulder. for seven years, been forbidden like by throwing from the air half a The racket was returned by wit- a crime. And with reason, for if million letters, and afterwards pors and replaced by another of the they had been allowed they would either to fall fighting or to return same make. This also cracked in have shaken the Fascist tyranny Into my base and prepare new attacks. about the same place after a few a few hours.

The Preparations. The price of the racket games. which broke was $22 or $23.

Mr. Kendall: What kind of racket did you expect to get for $237-1 didn't expect it to break in the first Act.

All the regimen of the earth, even) The sky of Rome has never been the Afghan or the Turk, allow their violated by anti-Fascist 'planes. subjects a modicum of liberty.shall be the first, I said to myself; 1 Fasciam alone, in self-defence, is must get to work to prepare the ex- obliged to annihilate thought. pedition. The affair was not easy, But it would be wrong to think because for a poet like myself it is that Italy is hoodwinked. The even difcult to make one's living. proof that she is for the larger partį I began by getting work as hall anti-Fascist is given us by the re-l gime itself, by the fear it betrays, by the ferocity with which it punishes the slightest manifestation of free thought. The regimes that feel strong have no need to take refuge in such measures.

His Lordship: You can't expect a very good racket for that price.

"Tudople," in evidence, said that the rackets, which Mr. Macreight spoke about, were from two dozen which he had received from the plaintiffs. Previously he had had a few of the same kind and found that three were defective. When he gave his order for the lot im question, he stipulated that they must be better quality, He had sold five of these, and four of them had broken. The fifth was sent to Singapore, and he had heard no- thing from the buyer. Mr. Mac-steps to be taken as soon as Fascism Farlane had had two of the rackets falls. As Fascism acems to have And they broke near the neck.

The case was adjourned to De- cember 15,

Torture for Prisoner.

In June, 1930, I began to lasue a sort of bi-monthly bulletin of a strictly constitutional character, in which I set forth the necessity for all men of order to agree on the

adopted the motto "After me the

deluge," the initiative was most op- portune. .In fact the bulletin, sent

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The President and Committee of the H.K.W.G. & M.C.L. desire to ex- press publicly their grateful thanks to Mrs. R. M. H. Marsden for having run the Military Branch and for having done so much for the Guild and League during her short stay in the Colony,

On Wednesday, November 4, a Bridge and mahjong tea was held at the Helena May Institute by the Military Branch of the Ministering Children's League.

STOP PRESS

Tokyo, To-day.

The situation westward of Mukden continues acute. It is generally believed that a serious clash between Chin- ese and Japanese is inevit- able shortly unless the Chin- ese voluntarily withdraw and disperse their troops concentrated at Chinchow, The situation in North Manchuria appears to have quictened.

Mokyo, To-day.

Ja, nose operations against badits between the S.M.R. ann Taitscho, it is reported, have been highly successful. Japanese detachments converge ed from four points and hem- med in the main body of the bandita, who were bombed by Aircraft and shelled by artillery with very heavy loss of life. The bandits were findly routed and the, rem- nants fed across the Liao River.

Peking, To-day. The Chinesc Publicity Bureau reports severe Sino- Japanese fighting near Chen- dung. The participants in- clude part of Chang Hal- pong's army, several thousand Johol troops from Lupet and Tuchuan, and part of the aor- tillery stationed on the Tao- nan-Solun railway, Flacea westward of Chentung and Tailai have fallen into a state of confused fighting. The Bureau adds that the Japan- ese, fearing that their rear might be cut, are gending large numbers southward from Taltsihar, while Japanese from Tungliao and Changwu are proceeding to Chentung.-Reu- ter.

Mrs. Danby. Booby won by Mrs. Murdoch.

A raffle was also organised which was drawn at the conclusion of the Bridge and mahjong. Altogether $759 was collected. The organisers wish to thank those who so kindly gave prizes for the raffle and for Bridge and mahjong; those who gave cakes, cigarettes, and sweets and helped during the afternoon; and those who came to play. List of Prize Winners & Donors. Mahjong-First prize presented Contract. First prize presented by It-Colonel and Mrs. L. C. Ben- by H. E. Major General J. W. Sandl-nett, won by Miss Chan. Second lands C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., won by prize - won by Mrs. Mathieson. | Mrs. Creasy, Second prize won by Booby won by Mrs. Ho Leung.

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