1932-11-25 — Page 7

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.

POLICE SEIZE

SECRET RADIO

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

SOUTH AFRICAN M.P. RADIO THE

IN HONG KONG.

STATION HERE Gold Mines Supporting

Code Messages Sent To Nanking Daily.

OPERATED FOR A GROUP."

A Police raid carried out on the top floor of 59, Pok- fulam Road on Wednesday morning, led to the discovery of a wireless station, fitted with a complete short wave transmitting and receiving set,

The Country.

PLIGHT OF FARMERS.

Mr. R. H. Henderson, a member of the Parliament of the Union of South Africa, arrived in the Colony: this morning on a pleasure trip, around the world. He is staying inị Hong Kong for a few days.

When seen by the China Mail this! morning, he declined to be inter- viewed, but stated that South Africa shared with the rest of the world, the effect of the economic depres-

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

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Fanfare Martinique Fanfare-Dreams That Don't Grow

Old

The Masqueraders CB464.; Song--

Cuban Love Song

Baby's Birthday Party Tan Centa a Dance

Billy Mayerl DB445, Fox Trot-

Living in Clover Goodnight, Vienna

New Mayfair Orch. 24004.

RED

SECOND

A DEFINITE

By Wallace Irwin.

1

"They start everything," mused¡makes me sympathise with that sort Judge Brinkerhoff.

of thing? She put the fire of am-

a

"Yes, but there's motive behind the click."

"Eve did," I accused, but the bition Inte Harry at about the right judge had other things on his mind, time. He was twenty-two, and "Sports writers," he said, "write hdan't accumulated anything more lot of nonsense about golf pay-than some loose change, and the chology, as though golf had a cor-rather nice touring car that he Ruth Etting (Comedienne) MR507, nor on paychology. People click drove up and down the Coast, try. Piano Solo

into decisione. They don't paying to sell electric-light novelties. chologise."

"Harry, being the impulsive | kind, was for marrying her right| away, but Flo had to work for her "I'm. But you can decide twice keep, and she knew the value of in the time it takes to pull a trig money. Her idea was for him to Vocal Duetn

ger." The judge with clasped look around for a better job; she'd Was That the Human Thing to Dothands comforted his full waist keep on with the doughnuts until Can't We Talk it Over

cost. "The girl down there who they had enough ahead to be sure I'm Just clicked into a long drive re of the farniture and fixings. minds me a little of another one; telling you this to show you why

to New York. she was about nineteen, too, longHarry come legged and vital-young enough to didn't cost him anything, practical- think that she could take life aly, because he found a passenger: the her willing to pay expenses for her own stride.. I..only saw once, but that was enough to tell driva across the Continerit.

Flo's idea-get there me how, female she was, in spite of was her independence.

nothing and use the car on a sales-

Layton & Johnstone DB801. 7.30.8 p.m.Musical Comedy. Selection The Love Parade

Jack Payne & His B.B.C. Dance

Orchestra DX29.

A Chinese, Yeung Chi-hing, sion. alias Yeung Wah-lan, was taken "We would be far worse off than into custody and the apparatus the rest of the world if it was not seized. He was alleged to be for the gold mining he said. "That agent for an unidentified group. is carrying us through. Gold is

The accused was charged in booming as never before, but even] the Central Police Court this so, the industry cannot absorb the morning before Mr. Wynne-terrific number of unemployed that he pleaded guilty abound the country." Jones, when and was fined the maximum "The farmers are feeling the We penalty of $1,000, with the alter- pinch more than anyone else. native of ten months' hard la- can produce our fruit, wool and Vocal Duet- bour.

maize, but the cost of getting it to Mr. D. W. Waterton, Inspector the market is killing trade. of Wireless and Telegraph, who Government is helping the farmer was present in Court, explained by giving a bonus on exports, but! that the short wave set could that cannot last very long. even transmit to England. Un-poses too great a strain der favourable conditions the finances of the country:" short wave was powerful, and ae- Mr. Henderson, who is the mem-i

for the cording to a statement made by ber

Hospital Division, the defendant to him, he (defen- Johannesburg, is Chairman of R. H. dant) had been in continual com- Henderson, Ltd., drapers and mer- munication by code with Nan-chants. He is accompanied by his

king.

daughter.

LANCASHIRE.

The

It im-

on the

Mr. W. M. Thompson, A.S.P., prosecuting on behalf of the PRINCE OF WALES IN Police, said he had been instruct- ed by the Post Master-General to nsk His Worship to impose the heaviest pennity possible within These His Worship's power. wireless telegraph stations in private houses, he said, were ex- tremely hard to detect.

Hard To Detect.

Hearty Welcome In Industrial Areas.

London, To-day, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales re- turned to London last night after; At present in the Colony there having spent two extremely busy were only 15 Europeans with good days in visiting different institu- credentials who wore allowed to tions designed to ameliorate the have transmitting sets. Mr. lot of the unemployed in Lanca- Thompson added that within 1shire industrial areas.

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It

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That

for

· “Independence. Hum. That's monahip circuit that had been pro- DX209.just a barricade they build up. Flo mised him in the East"

Wohlker-that was her name-she just had to turn a pair of big black eyes on you and it was all over but the wedding. Like that girl down there"

The Maid of the Mountains

Columbia Light Opera Co. DX81. 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- 8.3-8.40 p.m.-Instrumental, -

port." Orchestral

Brandenburg Concerto No. 8 in G

(For Strings) (Bach)

Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the British Symphony Orch: LX173.

Violin Solei

Zapateado (Sarasate) Liebesleid (Kreisler)

"The girl dows there's "blonde," I said

•

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's short story will be "The Reaper" by Stephen Black..

The judge tightened his grip on)

"Flo Wohlker was a decided brunette. A very decided brunettè," said the judge. "I don't suppose she ever saw a golf course. She his awelling front and seemed to be Efrem Zimbalist 9050. got her exercise passing dough- dreaming out the case of Harry

nuts over a Los Angeles lunch and Flor counter, and that's where she met Harry Wynne and fixed his life for him. It was one of those crash love affairs-ah, my old bones, what

Plano Solo-

Voices of Spring (Strauss) Echoes of Vienna (Sauer)

Ania Dortoiann DX328. Octet-

Nocturne in E Flat

(Chopin, arr. Willoughby) Liebestraun (Liszt, arr. Willoughby)

3.

H. Squire Celeste Octet DX882. All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by MORAYS Anderson Music Co.

8:40-10.27 p.m.-A programme of Classical Musle from Z.B.W.'s Library.

degree of dial setting a number of During yesterday, he had a long Orchestral and Bride-Overture

sets could be working, thus adding conversation with eight men from to the difficulty of detection. One the miners' rescue station who did had to live next door to the house gallant work during the recent before one could hear the tapper, colliery disaster near Wigan, ques- Mr. Thompson, outlining the [tioning them at length about their cuse, said that the raid was carri- (experiences and about the work in ed out at 11.40 a.m. on Wednesday.mines generally.

The defendant and another man Before leaving Barrington for yesterday, he visited were found. In the front room of London

The Barte

(Smetana)

J

State Opern Orchestra, Berlin Midsummer Night's Dream- Overture Mendelssohn) Midsummer Night's Dream--

Scherzo (Mendelssohn)

San Francisco Symphony Orch.

conducted by Alfred Hertz. Concerto in A Minor

(Schumann, Op. 54)

:

Alfred Cortet and London Symphony

Orchestra conducted Landon Ronald.

1st Movement-

Allegro affettuoso

by

Sir

Rantino grazioso

3rd Movement

Allegra V virace.

the house was fitted an ordinary Smithelea, and opened in Widnes, wireless receiving set of the an Unemployed Club, erected by cabinet type. At the top of the the men themselves. Wherever he stairs leading to the roof a small went he received a most enthusias cubicle had been constructed. The tic reception-British Wireless 2nd door was unlocked by the defen- Service. dant who produced the key. The room held a table on which was a complete short wave transmitting and receiving get. On the floor in the corner were a number of bat teries already connected up. A lead from the aerial on the roof came into the room, and there were two plugs, one of which gave direct connection with the cabinet set in

WALLER FREED ON BRIBERY .COUNT.

Police Officer Found "Not Guilty."

After a hearing which has lasted the front room. The tapper was four days, the Waller bribery case

also in the cubicle.

Messages In Code,

Orchestral.

Peer Gynt Suite No. '1

(Grieg

New

Op. 46) Queen's Hall Light Orch." conducted by Georg Schneevolgt. Symphony No. 4, in F Minor (Tschaikowsky, Op. 86) Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conducted by-Leopold Stokowski. 1st Movement

Andante sostenuto-Moderato

anima

con

Andantins in modo di canzona

2nd Movement-

Was brought to a close at the Criminal Sessions before the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, yesterday 3rd: Movement Mr. Waterton of the Wireless afternoon when the jury, after a Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato, Department, tested the sets and short retirement, returned a un-4th Movement-- found them to be in working order.animous verdict of "Not Guilty.”

The case has aroused a great deal

Allegro con fuoco. 10.27

10.30 pmClose Down

"So he got East," I prompted.

"And in about six months it was! time for him to start back again: He'd promised Flo he'd came and marry her in November, and here it was October. Young and crazy about a girl-we have lots of cases DULL WEATHER AHEAD. like that to deal with in the cri-

Monsoon Over Coast.

minal courts. I suppose he was a little jealous, too, thinking of what those dark eyes were doing over the lunch counter when other ad-:

An anti-cyclone of considerable mirers came drifting, in. And Flo intensity has developed over wasn't much of a letter-writer,| Mongolia, and the monsoon may be Loneliness in New York had given expected to be re-established along Harry time to brood, and he'd had the coast and over the northern some hard luck. trying to hold on China Sea during the next 24 hours. to one job after another. Maybe

Forecast:-Moderate N..E. winds, he was morbid, Anyhow, he was)

at itching to get beak and see Flo and freshening considerably fine first, cloudy with mist or light rain settle something..

"Some later; colder.

young fellows, under these conditions, would have stay- On enquiry at the Royal Observed in New York and drifted into tory, the China Mail was informed that the unsettled weather condi-the bread. line. But. Harry got a tiens were due to a break in the different reaction. A cousin of his Although heavy rain is in Hollywood had offered him a not likely, the disturbed. condi- small position around the movie lot, tions are likely to prevail for a day This would be open for him in November. He still had one: aaset his car. He thought at first of selling it for the fare to California. Then Flo's Idea drifted back into hia mind; why not put an adver- tisement in the papers, asking for While engaged in painting the a gentleman willing to pay ex- third floor of 3, Tit Hàng. Street, apenses in return for an automobile Chinese painter, fell and sustained trip to the Pacific Coast severe injuries. He was sent to the Government Civil Hospital.

monsoon..

jor two.

News in Brief.

Driver Basant Ram, of B. Troop, Hong Kong Mule Corps, jumped

"At that time Harry was crowd. ed into a boarding house room in one of those streets you'll find In New York; long rows of cheap buildings backed against the homes

of of publie interest and the central New Rugby Mid-day Press into the harbour from the Star of multimillionaires. Qut of hla

Ferry launch Golden Star. He was windowHarry, could see the ser rescued by a seaman on the ferry, vants entrance. of the James L.

In the table and in the drawers were found A large pile messages, in code which the defen-ifigure has been Acting Sub-Inspec dant informed the prosecution, he tor Herbert Waller, arraigned of a Mr. L. R. Andrewes, assistant Wong Tal, and taken to the Water Hofstaller, mansion, and one Mon- had both sent and received. The charge of receiving from a man Crown Solicitor in Hong Kong, re- Folice Station, from where he was day afternoon, out of this very defendant, said Mr. Thompson, was named Ho Hong-sang, the sum of turned to the Colony per the 8.a. subsequently sent to the Military wealthy neighbourhood, a well- not the only one, to use this set 350 as a bribe at Taipo Market on Empress of Russia, this morning. Hospital. and he was more or less the wire-October 2, with a view to omitting less operator for a group of a prosecution in respect di an people.. A code, book and code inoffence under the Opium Ordinance. dicator ware also produced.

The case for the Crown was con-

Mr. Thompson emphasised that ducted by Mr. J. A. Fraser, Aasis the defendant had a licence for the tant Attorney General, and Mr. receiving ast, but had used that as Duncan McNeill, Instructed by Mr. a clonk to set up his aerial for G. K. Hall-Brutton, defended. transmitting purpose.

His Worship said he must neces sarily take a serious view of the case and imposed, the maximum penalty. He ordered all the ap. paratus confiscated.

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Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Green return- ed to the Colony this morning from Shanghai on the a.. President Flayes. Mr. Green le connected with

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