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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932.

Medical Observation

OR NOT? ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF GERMAN COUNSELLOR

Assailant's Motive.

for "Wanderer."

CHARGE OF LOITERING.

A GOOD ACTRESS.

But Not Convincing Enough for a Magistrate

Supported by another woman, and appearing to be on the verge of Moscow, Yesterday, Thought be "silly," an elderly

Herr von

collapse, a Chinese woman, who had Chinese man, who pleaded guilty Counsellor at the German Em-without a licence, appeared at the

Twardowski, the

been arrested last night for hawking before Mr. Wynne-Jones in, the bassy in Moscow, upon whose Central Police Court this morning life an attempt was made on

Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

on a charge of loltering in Chu Saturday, is speedily recovering. She made great play for the Magis- Loong Street, was remanded for onej The Soviet say that his trate, Mr. J. A. Fraser, but he was

ed

Reuter.

not to be deceived, and fined her $4.

Police at Yaumati charge room Station when taken there. She also, át first, refused to find bail, but later changed her mind and | went out and got it.

week for medical observation.

assailant, Stern, belongs to а Detective-Sergeant Fitches said

group of Terrorists, acting under Divisional Inspector Clark said that early on Sunday morning, two the orders of certain foreigners, that she was one of those people detectives on patrol in Chu Loong and allege that Stern has con- who gave a tremendous amount of Street saw the accused standing on fessed that the motive for his trouble. When arrested she lay a-box attempting to get up to open crime was to bring about strain-down, and again lay down in the in window. When taken to the

Russo-German relations. Police Station, he stated that he had returned home to his place in Jervola Street, and the door was locked, so he was wandering about to find a place to sleep. Yesterday he refused to sign a statement made by him in answer to the charge, and made several attempts to jump out of a window overlooking Hollywood Read. "I don't think he is in his right senses," added the Sergeant.

TWO-SIDED.

Coin That Made The Best Of Both Worlds.,

STATE AID ON LOVE,

But It's Rather Expensive.

A "Blue Book" on the love-life of

A French coin, which is both Im- perial and Republican has been shown to surprised officials at a branch of the Hungarian National bull frogs is one reason why Mr. Harrison, a United States Senator Bank

He proposed the suspension of such publications and read the fol- lowing title of recent bulletins:

LORD DARLING AND THE PRESS,

The coin was a French 20-frane from Mississippi, made an attack in Among the host of admirers who piece, one side showing Napoleon's the Senate upon the expenditure of will sympathise with Lord Darling head with the inscription, "I. Napo- $4,000,000 a year for Government in his unfortunate accident will be leor Emperour," and the other side bulletins. many Pressmen who have had ex-bearing, the cock, the symbol of the perience of his constant friendliness Republic, with the inscription, "Re-

publique Francaise." towards the members of their pro- fession, says "Peterborough" in the Daily Telegraph. Here is one in- stance out of many:

One morning, in the course hearing of a rather complicated change one side of the Republican case, he became greatly annoyed by perial - Republican"

mould, Consequently a few "Im- coins were the persistent coughing of some per- son in court. Lord Darling is very) short-sighted.

of

After throwing several severe glances about the court an effort to detect the culprit, he at

length called the usher and directed him, angrily and audibly, to "put that man out.”

Only ten such pieces are known to exist. They were struck at the beginning of Napoleon's reign,}; when the French Mint forget toj

struck,

.How to dress for sun baths.

The love-life of bull frogs. Children's-rompers.

Housing in family develop- ments.

And

"In the last bulletin," said Sena- The coin, which is known to pos-tor Harrison "they tell you which sesa enormous value owing to its room to use for love-making. rarity, will be offered to a French when I was a boy we never dressed

for dun batha” ccllection.

PRISONER OBJECTS TO TRIAL BY JURY,

MODERN MEDIAEVAL WARFARE.

Manchuria

one of the

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"He is a reporter, your lordship,"

There was a startling interrup- replied the usher. Whereupon Lord Darling's expression at once chang- tion at Blackburn Quarter Sea-very few, regions in the world. military aracnuls still ed. Picking up the tin of throat sions, when a prisoner raised heat-where pastilles he always had on the ed objections to the jury, system.hoard accumulations of mediaeval serve them out Bench, he handed It to the usher, "I am going to object to the lot," weapons-and saying, "Ohli Then give him one he said, and, when asked for rea-in time of trouble. The sort of these."

sons; said: "I don't want to be of weapons introduced into China' tried by these people at all."

in the seventeenth century "by the The Recorder (Mr. J. E. Portuguese, who themselves had dis. Thorpe): Is that a formal objec-carded them for generations, seem tion to trial by jury?-I don't be- to the Celestial mind to be as de- lieve in being tried by a jury at sirable as ever, provided their edges are kept sharp. The ancient fire- There is no objection to this arms still go of with a terrifying Jury In particular? To all the bang much louder than most of the modern rifles and pistola-and the

KITOPLANES FOR CHILDREN.

Flying model airplanes from kites is the latest amusement of children and grown-ups in the public parks at Cologne.

all.

As many as five model airplanes, lot. each with a wing stretch of four or The Recorder told the prisoner bark, in Chinese warfare, has al- five feet, are attached by a simple that older and wiser heads than ways been more important than the "release catch" to a large box kite. his had decided that this was the bite. When I visited Teitsihar When the kite with its load is form by which he should be tried, (writes "B.") the Military Gov. well up in the air all the flyer" has and he could not accept his objecernor, Jow Shu Me, was accounted to do is to give the string a flick and tion.

to have a collection of ancient wea

KILLED BY A COCONUT.

a jerk and the "catch" opens. Away The prisoner, Walter Bufter pons, all shined up and sharpened, go the airplanes with the children worth (89), labourer, who refused that many a museum would pay a after them.

to put his case before the jury, big price for. A thousand of these was sentenced to two years' hard quaint trophies fell into the ‹ hands labour for receiving stolen pro- of the Russians during the sporadic perty.

fighting along the Manchu Siberian From a tree 75 feet high a dry'

Border a couple of years coconut fell on the head of Mr. M. ⠀' NEW ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN. ago, and are now in the Part Fernando, father of Mr, 'M. E.

War Museum at Leningrad. Fernando, of St. Aloysius' College, Tests of a new anti-aircraft gun They include arquebuses and Galle, while Mr. Paul Fernando was carried out at Toulon are report culverines, ancient lances, fal-, going towards the sea beach fromed to have been successful chions, and catapults,・・ From a his residence at. Hena, Beruwala, It is claimed that the new Manchurian officer were taken a He fell unconscious and was Im- weapon is capable of bringing | rusty pistol weighing about 4ib, and mediately removed to the Kalutars down an airplane dying at a | a sword of a type in use in Europs Hospital, but died shortly after height of 39,875 ft-British Unit in the fourteen-hundreds ----Man- Ceylon Observer.

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