1932-11-15 — Page 7

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1932.

Exciting Air Drama

American Flyer's Adventure.

SECOND IN BRIEF.. PERIOD

ly to earth from his flaming pursuit ship.

While engaged in acrobatic man oeuvres about five miles south of

CHARITY BALL AT

HOTEL CECIL..

-

Protection Of Children Society Function,

With a view to raising further.

THE CHINA AIL.

RADIO

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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will funda for the Hong Kong Society be broadcast to-day from the Hong

for the Protection of Children,

The Executive Committee of this ball, of which the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton is the Chairman and the Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o and the Hon.

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press News, etc. 2 p.m.--Close Down. 5-7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 7-16.30 p.m.-European programme.

7 p.m.-Stock Quotations, etc,

bia records.

THE DAY OF THE

SORTIE

with Я

By C. G. Learoyd.

CAPTAIN DIGBY MAITLAND of course, quits Absurd for 16 mon four or five which is accomplishing so much in Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. weather, assisted in all probabi- enough food to last

We resolved the succour of the Colony's poor on a wavelength of 365 metres lity by a-faw bullets. Never be through the winter. Ichildren.-a-charity ball will be held (845 K.C/s) ---

fore had the snows been known therefore to wait three weeks in on the December 2, from 9.15 p.m., Mania, Nov. 12,

12.30 p. European programme of to come so early on those north case, the weather should change west Indian hills, nor have they which, humorously enough, would An unusual and exciting drama 2am. at the Hotel Cecil, under Columbia records.

1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-since- and that was fifty years bring him to the date when he had the distinguished patronage of H.E. was enacted at Fort. Stotaenburg the Officer Administering the Gov-port

been warned officially to expect the ngo. P.I., when Lieutenant Ford L. Fair,

Caught while engaged in a re-advent of snow), and then, sally forth to dislodge the holders of the U. S. Army (AC) parachuted safeernment, the Hon. Mr. W. T.

Southorn.

connoitring expedition Gurkha officer and twenty men, he pass or perish in the attempt. The bad been forced to fall back on the odds were heavily on the latter, Ho Colum-half-formed fort of Jondola, a two would leave the Subadar behind Jondola could be. roomed shanty with a loopholed with four men. stone wall around It. He had only easily defended, and they would be

fuel.

The one possible pasa was early summer. dominated by fanatical hillmen, who draw lots to determine who remain- firmly believed that their chances of

During those three weeks Mait- happiness in the next world were in and strengthened the defences of direct proportion to the number of) unbelievers they killed in this, but the fort; made out his returns of were quite astute enuigh to realise stores and Ammunition In triplla that if the snows held they would be cate; and wrote his report.

In the evenings he wrote to his able to prevent these intruders

wife, expressing all his thoughts from getting back."

and hopes for her and the boy, who

2.5-9 p.m.-A programme of 7.5-7.45 pm-A Concert.

Angeles, at a height of 3,500 feet, Mr. T. N. Chau are the Vice-chair-utting the Clock Back (arr. Squire) two months' supplies and very little relieved when the snows melted in

the tiny little fighting plane of the

men, is preparing an excellent pro-. army flier was enveloped in sheet of flame and although the ramme in order to make the func pilot side-slipped to within

1,000.

J. H. Squire Celeste Octet DX68.

Love's Old Sweet Peng

tlon enjoyable. The Ilon. Sir Shou-Vocal Doet- feet of the ground in an effort to son Chow has kindly consented to extinguish the flames, it became open the hali necessary for him to "bail out."

man.

A cover charge of $5 each will in- clude supper. supplied by the! While it sometimes happens, es Management of the Hotel Cecil. pecially in the hazardous work of military dying, that a pilot is fore-Tickets for the function may be had from the Hotel Cecil or from the ed to take to his parachute to save Ticket Committee headed by Mr. his life, it is not often that the Peter H. Sin, Fedder Building and necessity occura twice to the same Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, Ka Wa

Bank, Ltd. Lt. Fair has the unusual disting

As almost all the proceeds derived! tion of twice qualifying for the from this Ball will be given to the famous "caterpillar club" within the Hong Kong Society for the Protec-|

tion of Children, the cost of the While no official report has been supper which constitutes the major issued by the authorities at Clark item of expenses, being borne by the Field regarding the cause of the Management of the Hotel, in ad- trouble with Lt. Fair's plane, it is dition to their allowing the free use believed to have been caused by of their newly-decorated dining hall, combustion in the carburettor while it is hoped that the pubile will take the ship was in an unusual attitude the opportunity to enjoy the dancing of flight, during the acrobatic and to contribute, to the deserving manoeuvre being performed by the cause sponsored by, the Society. pilot:-U.P.

Just four months.

ARMED CHINESE-

INVESTIGATED,

Remanded In Custody For 48 Hours.

DAGGER-MEN SET UPON TRAVELLER.

Beaten Victim Found

At Roadside..

Ho Pak-hi, 53, was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital yester- Two Chinese, named Chan Po-day morning suffering from in- Jin an unemployed man, and Lijuries received after an attack by

a rattan chair maker, ap- robbers. Fuk,

· The victim was found lying un- peared this morning before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magis conscious near Lock Ha Village and was rushed to hospital where K tracy, to answer to churges of uns

was found he had sustained a very deep cut on the forehead, cuts on

lawful pussension of two daggers, a coil of wire, a packet of pepper and 32 paels of raw opium.

Sgt. Kennedy who was in charge of the case, asked His Worship to grant a remand for 48 hours, pend- ing further investigations.

The remand, in custody, was granted.

ST. JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE

Monastery Ceremony

his hands and body.

When He regained his senses.he said that at about 10 a.m. yester day while he was walking back to Cheung Chen Yuen he was at- facked by some men who were armed with daggers.

COMMANDER'S NEW

YACHT COMING. Replaces Petersfield Lost Last Year. ›

·

The Abbot of the Fu Yung Shau The Commander-in-Chief'a new Monastery, Tsun Wan, has extend-yacht, H.M.S. Falmouth, is expect ed a cordial invitation to the Off-ed to arrive in Hong Kong on cers and members of the Brigade, about February 13, next year, to to be present at a unique ceremony to be held on Sunday November replace H.M.S. Feterafleld, which 20th, from about 10 o'clock in the foundered after running aground'

forenoon.

In a fog last year."

The Falmouth is a new sloop

This particular ceremony has under the command of Commander only occurred twice. In the history

J. Creswells jag

of the Kwong Tung Province. The Imitation is extonded to the Euro- pean community.

The Monastery will "Sik Teal".

provide

CHEUNG CHAU NOTES,

ANTI FASCIST PARTY, FORMED BY GENERAL LI

(Continued from Page 1.)

It was alleged in this news- A special series of Evangelis paper that General Li, General tic services were held in the Feng-Yu-halang Messrs. Chen Chapel of the New Territories Chia-yu, Cheng Chin, Hau Chen, Mission, three Missions being Sek Too-pei, Fong Ting-ying invited to participate in the and Chu Yuan-shan are together effort, which aroused great. In in the anti-Chiang organiention terest General L, it is unders'dod, sup Recent visitors to the Island parts the movement financially, include Dr. and Mrs. Todd, of and the Whampoa Military Aca Canton, and members of the demy graduates play an import- Blind Mission-who have now re-ant role in its propagandizing. turned to their duties..

Song—

ed.

The men

must

(Bingham & Malloy) Moon-Enchanted Dowdon & Betly; Dora, Labbette & Hubert Eisdell

9805. Violin Solo-

The Phantom. Melody (Ketelbey) Algerian Scene (Ketelboy)

Albert Sandler 9868.

Rall On, Thou Dark and Deep

Twice had Captain Maitland re- Blue Ocean (Dale & Petric)

connoitred down the pasa, a painful-would, when he grew up, "come to Simon the Cellarer

the regiment.” This journal was (Bellamy & Hatton)

ly tardy process. because of the soft

written in a schoolboy's copy-book," Norman Allin (Bass) 9807. enow, only to be met with a well-

carefully sealed down In an enve- Piano Solo-

directed fire a long way before he lope, and handed to Budri Nor for Echoes of Vienna (Sauer)

got to the crucial passage in the

personal delivery. Voices of Spring (Strauss).

The second time had been Anta Dorfmann DX328. gorge.

The last entry was headed; "The 1.45-8 p.m.-Selections by Layton &at night, a floundering affair which Johnstone.

had found the enemy awake and 28rd Day-THE DAY OF THE The Clouds Will Soon Roll By alert. Each time he had had SORTIE. It is two hours before dawn and in ten minutes we start DB920. casualties, losing in all seven men.

Then had followed messages, Night Shall be Filled With Musle Had there been no snow, he could 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-have got back by one of the other too Intimate for eyes other than these for which they were intended. port.

passes, which were now drifts of

Budri Nar held Jondolu through- 8.3-9 pm- Orchestral & Band twenty feet or more, or tried to

out the winter. The nature of the) Music.

"Second Serennte (Toselli, arr. Geehl) stalk round and cut off his ad-country favoured the defender, and

versaries, who, rather than take the he was not seriously attacked. Tarantelle for Flute and Clarinet

(Saint-Saens)

risk of their bodies falling into the the early eumimer he was relleved, H. G. Amers and the Eastbourne hands of the unfaithful, would have and later a detachment of his own

Municipal Band 9750, withdrawn. So there was no alter-¡ The Jolly Robbers-

regiment erected a cairn to the native but to retire to Jondola and Overture (Suppe) The B.B.C. Wireless Military Band watch the snow getting deeper, and DX298. deeper. Even Subudar Budri Nar, jan experienced officer, born and bred in the mountains, could make no suggestions.

Just Another Love Affair

Dream Sweetheart

DB898

Wedgwood Blue (Ketelbey) The Clock and the Dresden Figures

(Ketelbey)

Albert Ketelbey's Concert Orch.

DX27.

The Mill on the Rock-

Overture!

(Reissiger, arr. Winterbottom)

Once the sun came out at mid-day for a brief half-hour, and Maitland seized the occasion to hellograph còn-

The B.B.C. Wireless Military Bandtinuously, "All well; don't worry!"

DX250, The Merry Brothers (Gennin) Echoes of the Valley (Gennin) Sir Dan Godfrey conducting the

Bournemouth Municipal Orch.

9821. Hyde Park Suite (Jalowicz)

Reg. Band of II. M. Grenadier

Guards DX221. The Bronze Horze-Overture ›

(Auber)

Sir Dan Godfrey conducting the

Bournemouth Municipal Orch.

DX69. 9-9,30 p.m. From the Studle. 1. Songe

(a) Vale (Kennedy- Russell) (b) Over the Mountains

(Rodger Quilter)

Mr.

J. S. Logan (Soprano) accompanied by Miss Laba Pecker

2. Piano Solo..

Arabesque (Claude Debussy)-

Miar Barbara Balean.

8. Song

(a)orimushaw)

Songs my Mother Sang (b) An Eriskay Love Lilt

(Kennedy-Fraser) „Mrs:::J: S. Logan (Soprano);"

accompanied by Miss Luba Pecker

E

Laro Solos

(b) La: Flusque Lunta ·

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

1.

To-morrow's short story,

will be "The Whisper," by Brandon Fleming.

In

in the hope that it might be picked memory of Captain Digby Maitland up down the valley and passed back and the men who fell with him. "In he had been to headquarters, where a young the mess, where wife and a small boy of four would affectionately known as "Old Dig," be waiting for him. Any thought it was felt that his conduct was in of relief be knew to be absolutely accordance with the tradition of the

regiments. out of the question. The Govern- Gurkha

His Bon ment of India was powerful, but eventually became Colonel of the slow in action. Next year, or the father's regiment, and his most year after, they would send up alvalued possession was a copy-book, punitive expedition, push the going yellow at the edges;"

The Colonel saw to it that "Old Pathans back a little further, re- build Jondola and. provision it so Dig" was not forgotten by his that this sort of thing should not grandson. When young Dig was Joccur again. "b

six he was well-versed in all the Meanwhile Maitland had to face details of the story as they had been told him so frequently by some very stern realities.

his father. At night in bed he would troon Nepali songs, eples full of exaggeration and embellish- ment, concerning the valorous deed of his now almost legendary Wong Cheung, 49, who was ad-grandaire. He was as much a mitted to the Kowloon Hospital suf-Gurkha in speech and ways as he fering from injuries received dur

was English, and when he was ing the fire at Mong Kok on Sun-sent home to school to have every day, died at 5.55 am. yesterday shred of what appeared un-English Inforning

torn from him, he still kept this legend as a private and cherished background.

News in Brief.

It was,

(a) Le File Aux Cheveux de Lin The birthday of the founder of (Debussy)

the Sikh religion, Siri Guru Nanik On his fourteenth birthday his Dev Ji, was celebrated by the local father sent him a pocket-bool with Sikh community at the Hong Kong a mica facing, en losing a photo- and Kowloon temples yesterday, graph" of the scairn at: Jondela. the religious rites being followed Under it he had written one-line by a programme of sport and ens from Clifton Chapel" tertainment.

Miss Barbara. Biléan, 9.30-10.30 pmA programme Columbia

Variety.

80g

Spring is Hero Again Gettin' Sentimental:

Marlon Harris (Comedienne) DE851 Descriptive Sketch

RE "The frontier-grave is far away" This was carried in blar breast The Full Court yesterday dis pocket all through the years of his missed an appeal made by Mr. public school life and never shown It Im't. Cricket

Duncan McNeill; instructed by to a soul; an inspiration in Bergen Clapham & Dwyer DB845. Messrs. A. E. Hall and Co., on be moments of stress and a promise Piano Solom

half of the King Kuk Wo firm of of glorious and exciting times, to Cabin in the Cotton

Haiphong, and partners of the come and Oh! That Kiss Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends firm, against a judgment: given by When young Dig: had been in

DB899.

the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph year at the Royal Military College' Kemp In: 1980

Song

I Know of Two Bright Eyes: Elly Mavournem

Heddle Nash (Tenor) DB868. General Lihas declared that Organ Solo yun The typhoon which threaten- unless the present administration To Have and Hold You in my Arm ed the locality fortunately did is overthrown, the Chinese Gove For You, Just you my Baby months' imprisonmen not reach here, and ideal weather ernment will inevitably become has been experienced. Fascist, his agent says.

Extensive additions to house (From Our Own Correspondent.) *No.124 are now nearing com

Sentence of six. labour and 20 stroke with an additional term Terance Casey DB896h birch, was

a relative gave him as a twenty- first birthday present the first pre- hard mium of life insurance policy. birch, It was very ldud of him, and the of three supposed that in the remote future unfit for it would come in useful, but at by Mr. present it was a bit of a nuisance Sóngun

AMEN Schofield at the

Police He had to fill up some dreary Laughing Cavaller

Mycoon Court yesterday on an unem fornie, and waste a morning of his London Girl Raymond Newell (Baritone) DR902. ployed Chinese charged with all too brief holiday in London on

snatching a bangle from a four a medical examination. M Humorous

Musical Infinenza

year old child in Shaukiwan The “Atishoo" Opera Go, DB882. Rio Rita If You're in Love,

Walls

Poodle Pad in Canton, To-day pletion and will add greatly to The fear that General Chiang the comfort of the inhabitants. will establish himself as a Fascist **Building, operations are also take dictator and usurp the power of Vocal Duet

ing place in the village, where the Kuomintang, has stirred the several new stone houses are Canton leaders into opposing the under construction.

Central Government's plan to re- MB EH. Smyth is expected organise the country on Fascist|| to arrive in the Island from Home, lines

THE KERK Day, and Geoffrez

Duet

Edith

EARL Got Her Off my Hands

Leven Pounds of Heaven

Chick Endor

where he has been for the past. At a meeting of the Southwest few years. He will take up restern Politient Council held den in his old cottage, No. 12, day in Canton, the plan

and is assured of a hearty welly opposed General

come on his return.

tong presided, others

Poppy aid of the Armis Messrs, Kwan So tice Day Fund were sold, Mrs. yoe, Au Fong-po, Yim Branklin being in

Wan-kor-and:

yestar,

caing

Gwyther

The local Rotary Club has re printed the princi address at

the Rotary Internati tion at Seattle which was del

Fon the

Farrell

inte

blems

as a bright April morning, 1 he wondered how long this akes Would he be in

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