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ment also for the floral tributes garded as contemptible.

and attendance at the Funeral of It is only to be expected that Rev. Sr. Enrica Adamoli (Canos-in Japanese circles the letter stan Institute).

The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 26, 1932.

Mr. Stimson's Letter.

should be described as a "grave

ROUND THE POLICE COURTS.

Bank Shroff On Trial-Robbery And Theft.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.

A

HARD WOMAN

HER SOLDIERLY LYING

IN-STATE.

"She Wor Towf.”

By T. Thompson.

Chan Cheung-nam, a shroff of the Mercantile Bank, appeared be- fore Mr. Wynne-Jones yesterday afternoon on charges of conspiracy to rob $6,828.85, and of theft from the person of, the complainant, a Mrs. Greenhalgh wiped her, Ah said "Thank yo' hoo said retired Chinese merchant from steaming hands and gently open-Stop thi mouth or Ah'll stop it America, of $6,825. Detective-led the door. of the bedroom. for thee, an' hoo'd goo whoam Sergeant D. C. W: Fitches prosezut-"Han yo nearly finished?" she in a reet frap." ed, whilst Mr. A. E. Hall was for whispered. "Come in an нее

case.

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Russian Pilgrim.

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Rev. Sr. Enrica

Adamoli.

the defendant.

"It would ha' bin nice," said After hearing evi- how it looks," answered Mrs. Mrs. Greenhalgh,, "if a few child- dence his Wc.ship adjourned the Randal. "Ah've done th' best er had a come to see her. It Ah con for her." "It looks like puts a proper finish on a job o' # Jittle chapel," said Mrs. this sooart if there's a chilt wi' Cook Commended.

Greenhalgh; "hoo'd ha' looked a bunch o' flowers. Rounds it off Appearing before Mr. Schofield for nowt better. Hoo liked things like. But hoo seemed to ha' no on a charge of the theft of two plain and no fuss." "That's what love for childer. Yo' never did hair ornaments, valued at $50, Ah thowt," said Mrs. Randal; see her pattin' one on th' head, or from a Chinese woman in Queen's "hoo were a hard woman." cuttin' it a butty." Road West, an unemployed seaman "Hoo wor that," said Mrs. "Hoo stopped up two neets was sentenced to six months hard Greenhalgh; "Ah've mopped th' an' a day wi' Bill Wood's child labour with 20 strokes of the stairs fro top to bottom." "We when it wor bad," said Mrs. birch. A Chinese, employed as a all han to do eawr bit at times Randal "He, towd me 'Yon couk aboard the a.. Paul Beau, like these," said Mrs. Randal.woman's made o' cast-iron, hoo's was commended by the Maglatrate "They'n collected six an' ten-moan human but eawr little for his action in having brought pence hawpenny fro th' neigh-Rachel wouldn't a bin here but a criminal to justice and protect- hours," said Mrs. Greenhalgh; for her." Hoo could be that ing a woman.

"flowers are middlin' chep just gentle it looks impossible for now."

"Ah reckon they are," them greight gaunt honds to said Mrs. Randal. Stephen Rovensky, a young Rus-

have so gentle a touch." The tiny room at the top of

They sian, who previously came to Hong the cottage, stairs was almost said Mrs. Greenhalgh, "Do yo worn't allus gentle," Kong on pilgrimage then to oppressive with the fragrance of remember that Sunday morning Palestina, was brought before Mr. lies. The two women had when thoose three Irishmen Wynne-Jones charged with enter-cleaned the place through, and coom striding up an' down this ing the Colony without a valid Mrs. Randal had arranged the street wanting to feight th' best passport.

scantily furnished bedroom to mon in it? It seems they'd bin. her own conception of what was havin" a bit of a do th' neet be-. Watchman's Lapse.

fitting. The curtained window fore. Hoo just went out to 'em, Mr. Wynne-Jones imposed a fine spared little of the dying light slapped one across th chops, an' and weighted with sincerity of Gulam Mohamed,

of $25 or three weeks' dall on of the day, and in the gloom the jowed t'other two their yeds., a watchman, chamber seemed strangely An they took it like sugar The Rev. Mother Superior and purpose, it can only finally be who, pleaded guilty to the posses beautiful. The small dressing candy"

regarded as one of those many aion of a quantity of tobacco on table held two brass candlesticks her staff desire to thank the Rev.,

"What Ah says about her is," Fathers and Sisters and friends gestures which, by their familiar- which duty had not been paid. flanked with old-fashioned jugs said Mrs. Roe, "an if Ah cannot for the many kind expressions of ity to-day, are coming to be re-]

containing flowers. It did look say summat good about onybody sympathy in their recent bereave-,

LAID TO REST. something like an altar. The Ah keeps mi thrap shut, an two women stood in silhouette there's a lot o' foosk in these beside the bed. Mrs. Randal days as like to toot about an' find lifted the napkin. "Th' neigh out wrong if they can, but Ah'm bours'll want to see her in thnoan one o' that sooart, thank morning," she said. "Hoo looks God, an' if Ah'm wi onybody as mistake" and "calculated to do We regret to learn of the death like hoo's allus looked," said is Ah keeps 'em, in their place. more harm than good." Indeed, from heart failure, of the Mrs. Greenhalgh; "proud, an for once a lie's started yo never we expect descriptions, general-sian Institute).

Rev, Sr. Enrica Adamoli (Canos- hard, an' full of pluck." "There know where it'll get to before it. which occur wor nowt as, freetened her," finishes. Them's my principles ly speaking, are of a less polite red at the Canossa Hospital on said Mrs. Randal. There wor anyó con tals' 'em or leave 'em. nature in the Japanese press as Wednesday night.

not that," said Mrs. Greenhalgh. Ah mun get back now an' put th a..whole. What reception, the The funeral took place yesterday They closed the door behind kettle on." European press gives the letter and was attended by a large num-stairs.

at the Roman Catholic. Cemetery, them and went softly down the Mrs. Randal pointed to the So many notes and so many will be disclosed shortly.

"Ah reckon as yo'll be bed. "If hoo'd known as Mrs. But ber of friends and the staff from here, again first thing in th' Roe wor here, hoo'd ha' turned pronouncements have been made it will surprise us if the recep- all the different institution.

morning," said Mrs. Greenhalgh. her back on th' lot of us." in regard to this, that and antion is as remarkable as it has A., in the absence of Bishop H. body'll ha' to be here. Hoo Greenhalgh, Hoo'll be on the The Very Rev. Father Spada "Aye," said Mrs. Randal; "some- "Tatlin' Matty," said Mrs. other Power's attitude to the been in the United States.

doesn't seem to have a soul be front row at th buryin', but greatly to be deplored events in

It is said to be an "open side, assisted by the Rev. Fathers longing to her. But hop's left when summat wants doin' Mrs. the Fur East, that it will not secret" that Mr. Stimson is dis of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. everything as hoo wanted it. Roe's not theer." surprise us, if, after the ripples, appointed at the failure of the

Among those present to pay Money for this an' money for "Dosta think," asked... Mrs. caused by the latest stone

their respecs to the

deceased that, Hoo's. left th' pay for what Randal, as we should put one o' (in Powers-Britain and France are were noticed: the Salesian we've been doing this afternoon, the flowers in her hond?" Japan it may be referred to as especially Indicted-to support Fathers, Fathers of the French hoo wor that feeared of being “Naw,” said Mrs. Greenhalgh, a "brick") cast by the hand of vigorously his defence of the Procuration, Spanish Fathers, Jesult hehowdened to anybody when Hoo wor happiest when hoo had Mr. Stimson, have rippled to the Nine Power Treaty. That is all Christian Brothers, the Sisters of it in flowers," said Mrs. Green-rag to tee up s-cut finger, or a Fathers, Maryknoll Fathers, the hoo wor gone." "Ah shall spend th ryin'-pon in her hond, or a shore and there spent them-'

very well

from Mr. Stimson's St. Paul's Institution, Sisters of the halgh. "An' me too," said Mrs. basin o' gruel, or a fistful o' selves, the declaration, and its point of view, but the Nine Precious Blood, Maryknoll Sisters, Randal: "we can be independent reight hard wark. Hoo wor, a implications, will be forgotten Power Treaty, in and with which Sisters of the Immaculate Concep too."

hard woman, and hoo'd thank ue and things go on, not just as Mr. Stimson is so deeply inter-Italian Consul, Dr. Pfister, Hon came early and spread news we put her away wi'out ony fass, tion the pupils of the Convent, the The next morning Mrs. Randal noan for, ony mec-mawin. If they were before but from bad ested and concerned, is not, in Mr. Braga, Mr. F. X. D'Almada e papers on the stairs, and made that'll suit her."

our opinion, so important a fac- Castro, Mr. Gonella, Mr. Vanninin gangway with them round the Mra. Randal lifted the napkin. What is wanted to-day, and tor as the League Council and Mr. Mose.

bed. As soon as it was decently They're not folk as onybody not at some indefinite date in a the authority of the League, Mr. and Mrs. Vannini, Mr. and pay their tribute. Mrs. Green said, "but God knows just what Wreaths were sent by Dr. Pister, time the neighbours came in to con take to straight away, she vague future, is concerted action which Britain has pledged her- Mrs. De Diorgi, Dr. Ma Luk halgh and Mrs. Randal received He's doin' when He dots one here by the Powers of the world, be self to support. There seems to Wong, Ma and Koh, Mr. U. Gonella, them, as was their due, having an one theer just wheer they signatories to this pact, us more at stake, in so far as and the staff of the Canossa, said Mrs. Mee, her being a hard trouble knocked on her door

done the work. "It wor'strange," they're wanted Everybody's treaty, covenant or what else, to the League is concerned, than Hospital. substitute for a war of 'aggres- sion, which has in it a potential axillary treaty however threat to civilisation, a peace, a

important such a treaty may be to any one individual Power. If cessation of hostilities, a confer the United States, supported, the

"Ah remember," said Mrs. ence at which Right shall

Kenyon, "when Jack Benson.fell pre

League, as vigorously 88 Mr. vail over, Might,

drunk out of the back of his trap Stimson would have liked, and Mr. Stimson's letter to Sena wants Britain, and France to sup HMS.

and split his nose, fro' top to tip Berwick arrived from hoo wor theer afore the doctor, tor Borah has been described as port his defence of the Nine is now lying at the No. 6 buoy in into summat like a nose when he Shanghai at 6.46 this, morning and an had it washed and plastered "one of the most important pro- Power Treaty, the greater would the Naval anchorage.

come. He says, “Did it, make nouncements of United States' policy in the past ten years, sults of League action By be, and would have been, the re

you sick?" an' she just grinned 2/4.15/16. A highly successful fancy dress at him scornful. He says, also as "masterly," "a slashing keeping aloof from this body, West Wing lounge of the Y..C.. an she said, Td be quare.If ‘Ah carnival dance was held in the new You've got guts in you, woman, rebuttal of Mr. Yoshizawa's which owes so much of its exist building last night. Dance music hadn't.""

A Chinese was charged before feeble contention," and even as once to an United States Prasi, was provided by Mr G. W. They dribbled in at intervals having been a member of the sup

Magistrate Wood on Saturday with: a "challenge to the Powers." It dent and United States opinion 3. C. M. Grenham, Secretary of the turned resolutely towards the cently declared to be an unlawful True's "Cheero" orchestra. Mr. and gazed at tile proud face Tek Coolies Guild which was ro may be all these and more. It of that day, the Government, on Social Committee, fulfilled the duties célling, ha solldierly lying in society by the Government in con- may also be, as is hinted in a behalf of which Mr. Stimson has of Master of Ceremonies. cable published this morning, & made an "important, pronounce

state. There was no call, fon; sequence of itą participa In the tearg and there were few shed, strike, The idefendant wa rrest- "lever to induce closer co-opera- ment of policy, is making less Kong Auxiliary of the British and handkerchief and essayed a in his possession

The annual meeting of the Hong Mrg Wren did pull out a soiled ed in the street on Frid tion with the United States Lu effectiv eague authority and Foreign Bible Society will be held whimper. She was sternly re Guild, His story the Far East by holding out ember asing its work for civil the Helena May Institute buked by Mrs. Randal Bhe was that he wa threats of naval building

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