1932-11-04 — Page 7

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1932.

Romance Of Royalty Thrills Sweden

Prince George And Princess Ingrid

NATIONS ARE WATCHING

When the Prince of Wales and Prince George arrived at Stockholm all the city went to the station meet them,

to

All Stockholm watched with deep- est interest the meeting between Prince George and Princess Ingrid.;

'As they chatted, and while the Prince of Wales -moved among! the royal group, the young Prin- CeRs was laughing at almost every remark Prince George was making.

Until the King led the Prince The rumour had spread through towards the station entrance the the country that Prince George and eyes of the crowd were trained on the "beautiful young princess may the obviously happy Prince and

Princess. soon become engaged,

Rumour has spread the story that As the King preceded the Prince at a royal family gathering the of Wales towards the royal cars watched King of Sweden would announce to outside, the crowd still the family first, and to the world' Prince George and Princess Ingrid, afterwards, the news of the betro- who followed. thal of the princess to Prince George.

All Stockholm would have dearly liked to know what they were saying Whatever it was The report has spread so widely to one another. that Sweden had begun to accept both evidently enjoyed it.

The The brilliant sun shone down on the engagement as a fact. rumour persists.

the group as they entered the care, and cheers rolled out along the beautiful streeta as the royal party drove slowly to the palace.

King Gustav and all the members of the Swedish royal family in the capital met the Princes as they stepped from the train from Mal-

mo.

The King grasped the band of the Prince of Wales as he jumped from his compartment, followed by Prince George, who, after greating the King, strolled over to Prinecas Ingrid.

SETTING THE FASHION. The Prince of Wales had not been in Stockholm ten minutes before his sturdy originality, had set the city talking of new fashions. For he wore a silk hat, all that goes with it, and a blue striped shirt.

Union Jacks were hanging all over For a few minutes the handsome the town. Some of the newspapers young couple were together, and have printed columns in English were crowded with every eye in the vast throng watch-and the streets

WATCHED BY CROWN.

ed the warm handshake and the people anxious to catch a glimpse

of the visitors. happy exchange of smiles..

WAR ON JAPAN

MAINTAINED AS

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Canton Leaders Firm For Resistance.

PREPARE FOR CONFERENCE.

Canton, To-day,

MANY ATHLETES WITH AMERICAN SQUADRON HERE.

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were no last minute rush. It was in fact one of the quietest troop de- Dartures Hong Kong has ever wit- juessed.

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

THE

The following programme will

CHINA MAIL.

CASEY'S

BANKING

ACCOUNT

Įbe broadcast to-day from the Hong VOU have nover heard tell.

by C. L. Hales.

on a wavelength of 355 metros his banking account? (345 K.C.b);-

Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.WY have you, of Jim Casey and Micky Freely and Tim Sullivan from

12.30 p.m. European Recorded Programme.

1 pm.-Local Time & Weather Report.

what was the to-do about it "

"No," says you, being. English.

One day two thieves of the world,

Coldoon, saw him on the watch.

"There's that thief, Jim Casey," said Micky, for they knew him, but, didn't know about his fortune, "watch-

you, Tim?"

Well, when Casey came into hising, for chance to rob that bank. I fortune, and the same was a good vote we do it afore him. What, say: 1.30 p.m.-Rugby Mid-Day Press Muldrinagh Bank. They gave him fifty pounds, he put it in the

News.

2 p.m.-Close Down. -5-7. p.m.-Chinese Programme.

6-6.15 p.m.--Chinese Children's Programme.

7-10.30 p.m. gramme.

European

&

7 p.m.-Closing Stock change Quotations,

7.3-8 p.m. Variety. Old-Time Medley

Vesta Victoria

Pro-

take the lat from under his nose."

Tim sayı, "I'm your min... We'llj

a cheque-book and made him write "No, we won't," says Micky, who his name in a hook, which was as was much more elever in his intellects than Tim. "He hits hard, does Casey. much us he could do in the way We'll take it at night, when he's not of writing.

about."

"Take care of it," he said to So they planned to break in that the man who took over his money. very night. They came over from Ex'd be ruined entirely if you last Coldson in the pitch of dark and

it. Whore will you put it?" and he gave a squint or two about the place.

"Oh, we'll look after it all right. Vesta Victoria & Chorus DX290. There's the safe. It goes in there for the night, and comes out here Vocal Gem8—

under the counter in the day-tiras, į Just for an airing."

Leslie Stuart Memories

Band~~

Layton & Johnstone DX30.

Golliwog's Cake Walk Dance of the Tumblers

B.B.C. Wireless Military Band

9744. Vocal Gems

The New Moon

The Columbia Light Opera Co.

0831. Selections-

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The Desert Song

Debroy Somer's Band 3200. lana Solo-

The Match Parade You Can't Stop Me From

Loving You DB639. Song---

Faithfully Yours

Moonlight Saving Time

Ruth Etting DB571, Hawaiian Masic-

Aloha Oe-Naleu O. Hawaii

The Royal Hawalian's, 5229. 8 p.m. Local Time & Weather Report etr.

8.3-8.30 p.m. (Approx:) The Studio.

From,

A Pianoforte Recital by Mr.

Programme.

Ore.

I.

2.

a) Poem Op. 32

In addition to the Argyll bat- talion, there were 218 other details -

on board the vessel, en route from! England to Shanghai. These in- The forthcoming Third Plen-cluded 173 officers and men, of the Regiment, 56 of the ary Session of the Kuomintang Quech's Central Executive Committee is R.A.SC. 11 of the R.A.O.C., three being given much attention here, R.A.M.C. men, one M.P.S.C. and though no definite stand on the three of the R.E. agenda has yet been taken by

Shortly after 9.30 this morning

Intermezzo (Brahms)

(b) Valse Op. 38 (Scriabin)

(Interval)

Transcribed (H. Ore)

3.

Two Portuguese,Songs

4.

Shepherd's Hey (Grainger) 8.30-8.45 p.m.-

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Which it all seemed reasonable to Caney. So he put the cheque- book in his pocket, and the same book he took to be a proof that he had the money in the bank, for the knew no more than you or me

what the cheque-book. was for.

"I know what's it for," says

you.

So do I now, but I didn't then; till Casey afterwards told me.'

"How could he tell you," says you, "if he didn't know him- self?"

Why, that was after what happened what I'm telling you

about.

broke into that bank and started on found nothing in the way of money. Then they went to the safe but could make nothing of it. Safes ain't easy to tackle.

the drawer under the counter and

"That's why they're sate," says

you.

But they'd have managed it if they'd run Tim's hend, which wan that thick, against it.

"No, they wouldn't have," says you, being always contradictory. "It would have taken more than Tim's head to have opened that safe."

Well, we can let that pass. However, as they were about to kick that safe allly, who should look in but Casey? He had got up when his wife woke him up to his duty, and come down to look after his money.

"You thieves," said he, "leave my for money alone, or it'll be worse

you.

"Come on, Tim," says Micky, and to spite Casey he adds: "We've got it all now. And if Casey wants any let him take them bank notes in that drawer. There's hundreds of pounds, there."

Casey was mighty anxious about his fortune. So was his wife, and

Sure enough, in the drawer they snid words to that effect. "You

had left open was a pile of cheques old gossoon," she says, "how do which were used up and all the you know they'll keep it safe? money out of them. But Caney You know what thieves Shaugh- doesn't know it nessy and his kin are. going to look after it?" nessy was the manager bank.

Ain't you Shaugh- of the

"What doesn't he know?" says

you.

Why, that the money's gone from tham So ho desperately Krabs the "Perhaps I'd better," said Casey, cheques,, and as the others run he

runs out, too. The two ahead run on a bit perplexed.

"You had better," says his wife,way, toward Coldoon; and he runs the

They get away other way.

with "Else I see my new, gown still in their lot, which was nothing, but the shop, and the money gone." Carey runs bang into that interfering For he had promised her a new fellow Constable Leary, who graby gown against the time he should start. in and spend his fortune.

"If you take my advice you'll keep a good eye on that money," went on Mrs. Casey.

"So I will," says Casey, and he started right away.

him. cheques and all.

"What's this" says Leary

"Let me go," says Casey. "It's my

own money.

"With interest, too, I reckon," says

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's short story will be "The Tree Worship. pers," by Frank Watts.

Poet & Peasant (Suppe)

He went down to the bank and Percy Pitt and Augmented hung around for the rest of the day. Symphony Orch. 9760. And the day after, and the day after Pique Dame Overture (Suppe)

that, he stayed outside the bank, And The Bournemouth Municipal

keeping his weather-eye open.

same eye kept more fixed on Orchestra 9496. the inside than the outside of the 8.45-10.27 p.m.-A Programme of bank, for it was there he expected the bad weather. He'd go there first Library and kindly loaned by a thing in

window-sill by the door and take a Committee Member.

looks in

in at the door to see what they a case badly."

the members of the Southwest visitors were asked to leave the ship Classical Records from Z.B.W.'s in the morning and lean on the Leary, eyeing the bunch of cheques.

Executive Committee of the and promptly at 9.55 the gangway The G.O.C.'s. flag C.E.C. It is learned that the was drawn in. Kuornintang leaders here adhere was hoisted and there was a stir on steadfastly to their previously the deck as the ship moved off.

Pipes are Cheered.. advocated prolonged resistance to

The band of the Lincolnshire Re-" Japanese aggression and effec- tive suppression of Communists, giment which had been playing Many of the Party leaders in selections of the quay, struck up Canton strenuously oppose the Lyt-Auld Lang Syne, while the band of ton Report which will be discussed the Argyll's on deck played the same strain, A wild air by the pipe in Geneva on November 12, but by the time the third plenary session band, from the bow of the vessel, opens in Nanking on December 15 was the signal for cheers, which lasted until the ship was turning it is felt that action on the Report will have been taken and that the her nose to the entrance of the Third Plenary Session will be too late to discuss the merits of the thing.

Nevertheless, members of the Southwest Executive Committee In Canton delegation to

hárbour.

Officers Aboard. The officers of the Argyll Regi- ment who left this morning were:---

Lt. Col. N. C. Bennett, M.C., Officer Commanding, Major

O.B.E.,

"Come along to the station. We want

1. Egmont Overture (Beethoven) wur to.

were up And he left the pig and Thinking as how he'd got his money The New Light Symphony Orch. the garden for the time to look after all right, and perhaps a bit over, themselves, which the same they were Casey goes quietly, grimming, to him- well able to do, considering he never self how the police would be sold. gave theni much of his attention. But

2. Song "Batti, Battl, O Bel Masetto" (from Don Giovanni)

(Mozart)

.

3. Concerto in B Flat Major (Brahms Op. 33)

Arthur Rubinstein (Plagist)

Symphony with the London Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.

4. Polonaise No. 2 (Liszt · arr.

Muller-Berghaus)

And he left the bit of a job he had But they locked him up and took the cheques away, and he swore he'd have nt Father Murphy's, "For," says he, the

them up for theft, sergeant and all. "I make more money hy looking after The next morning he was taken be- what I've got."

fore the magistrate, Mr. Connell. "And a mighty sensible thing,

"Hello, Casey," said Mr. Connell, too," you'll say,

"what do you want?" I don't, says you, being English and contrary. Anyhow, Casey hung around where

top Now

I said he did, most of every day.

"I want to be let go, and my money,

"Formulate the charge," said the magistrate to the sergeant.

"Burglary," your worship. Berlin State Opera Orchestra Sometimes he went to the bank, fa

Tear things might hap there, that

"Twas Freely and Sulivan that conducted by Leo Bloch

But that was shouldn't.

mainly at

Hurgled. I only got my own," said 5. Songs (a) Standchen Op. 27. night-time, for he'd go there on the

Jim. (Strauss)

night when to minded: He kept The manager of the bank, who had Elizabeth Schumann (Soprano) with a big shuilefagh under his arm. spoke a word about the cheques.

the third G. L. Campbell, M.C., Capt. R) Morgen Op. 27, (Strauss) good watch on that bank. did Casey been sent for, went into the box and

the Central Executive Committee. Moir, D.S.O., M.C., Capt. Maclean, will not be deterred from raising M.C., Capt., R. C. B. Anderson, M.C., opposition against recommendations Lieute. G. L. Neilson, E. A. F. Mac- of the Report which would place Pherson, D. R. Stevenson, R. M. Manchuria under international Keith-Murray, S. C. McKay, M.C., tutelage and the predominant con- J. H. G. Black, J. C. Church, F. C, C. for the personnel of the Graham, J. A. Maitland and the Canton, who are also members of Padre of the Battalion, the Rev. M. plenary session has not yet been McCloud, M.A., C.F.

so

decided, but it is learned, that!

several members of the C.E.C. will)

be able to proceed to Nanking, while

and political posts have to remain

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··said· all. cancelled. "What!" sald his worship. you bring Casey here for taking no- thing?!?

Casey was raighty chopfallen when he heard he hadn't got his money in them cheques.

Those thieves, Freely and Sullivan,| have got mine," said he thinking

pean Programmes are Colum feared murdered or kidnapped, ac-those two Coldoon fellews had got the bia and are kindly supplied by cording to a report from the Water lot.

"Pish, tush," Bald Mr. Connell. Messrs. Anderson, Music. Co.)Police Station.

Ho Cho-nuf, mistress of a pas-"You're discharged."

"That's wrong," says you, being senger junk, reported to the Police

English and fond of the law. "He'd done something wrong anyway." the Government, Hon. Mr. Wilfrid Mr. Allan Cameron, Oriental that at 9 p.m. last night, her craft

Well, we can let that pass. T. Southern, C.M.G., accompanied Manager of the Canadian Pacific was tied alongside another pas by Mrs. Southern and Lt. Richard Steamships, Ltd, left for Shanghai ger junk in the Yaumati anchor- They shoved Casey out of court, and age. The other boat on which were he went home in a mighty angry con- A number of wives and children' son, A.D.C., made an official and ports on board the C.P.S. liner Mul, 40, and her daughter Wondition, and told his wife that the for-

tune was all gone. of officers of the United States inspection at the Civil Air Port, Empress of Asia, which left for Sze-vah, 20, was engaged by two "You grest omadhaun she says: Asiatic Fleet, part of which is at Kai Tack, Kowloon City, yesterday Vancouver yesterday.

men who wanted to go to Cheung "It's easy to get it back."

"How says he present on a visit to the Colony, afternoon.

Sha Wan

"You must watch the bank until After about an hour they falled you think they've got enough money in and then you can get in and

Casey grew

arrived here on board the Ameri At the conclusion of the inspec- Mr. P. S. Grant, of the stal of

you

can Mail liner, s.s. President Madi-tion, Mr. A. V. Harvey, Hong Kong Messra. Butterfeld & Swire, was to return, "and Ho Cho-mui, becomes hopeful when he saw and Miss C. Carver; Mrs. A. A. Pilot, Far East Aviation Co., Ltd., press of Asia which left for Van ng suspicious reported the matter take

to, the Police Investigations were

son. They are: Mrs. W. J. Carver Manager and Chief Demonstration alsó a passenger. on the liner Em- Corwin and her two children took one of the planes, an AW16, couver via Shanghai and Japan commenced and resulted fr the find- the idea. Twas the bank's fault, any- (Nancy and Carol); Mrs. L. S. aloft and stunted high overhead. ports yesterday.

ing of the abandoned junk but the way, for losing his money, so it was only fair he should help himself to Dodson, Master Robert and Miss Later, H.E the O.A.G. and Mrs.

two women were missing."

gat book his Sarah Dodson; Mrs. J. C. Thom, Southern were taken for a flight Mt. Tam Woon Tong general Miss Margaret Thom; Mrs. P. G. In the Cutty Sark amphibien over manager of the Lin Tal The Scottish Company of the Jim started hanging around the bank Wrenn, Mise Peggy Wrenn: Mrs. Kowloon and the surrounding die Mutual Fine and Marine Hong Kong Volunteer Defence M. H. Carver; Mrs. A. M. tricts.

Insurance Co. Ltd., was, Corps why hold their Hallowe'en Kowalzyk; Mrs. F. Maginnis; Mrs. It is understood that this is the passenger on board the CP.S. Restion Dinter at Volunteer Head Eleanor first occasion that either His Ex- Empress of Aeth which left the quarters to-night. The function J.A. Upahun, Miss Upahan.

cellency or his wife has flown. Colony yesterday for Vancouver.

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again, and for the next few days he watched people going in and out. He kuow the business of most of the Mul- dragh folk and what they were worth, (Continued on Page 10.)

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