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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933.

DARING ARMED ROBBERY.

Accountant Threatened With Knife.

$650 FROM SAFE.

FEWER ACCIDENTS IN LONDON.

New Scheme Evolved

THOROUGH INFORMATION,

Lendon, To-day.

•

A daring armed robbery took As a sequel to the conferences be- place In the early hours of htis tween the Ministry of Transport morning, when a Chinese account-and the various road-users or- ant was robbed of a large sum of ganisations a new scheme has been

evolved whereby money from his safe.

in hoped it Lam Chik San, accountant of the eventually to lessen the number of Tal Yuen Furniture shops of 478 accidents on the roads. Queen's Road West, reported to the This system provides for. the col- polles that at 3 a.m. this morning, lection of much fuller information he was awakened by the entry of regarding all accidents than four Chinese. into his bedroom. hitherto has beon available. One of the robbers who was arm-All letails regarding every ed with a knife threatened Lamjaccident including the state while the three others bound and of the weather and the road, gaged him, taking the keys of his the age and sex of the driver, safe from his girdle.

the length of his or her driving ex- The robbers then rifled the gufe perlence, the age of the car, the of ita contents which amounted to condition of the tyres, and the em- $650.

ployment of a dimming device on! headlamps will be collated and! a view to possible) alterations of traffic regulations. British Wireless Service.

Police investigating.

*** anglysed with

WORLD TOUR IN 83 DAYS.

American Tourist Talks To Rotary.

The Hong Kong Rotary Club held ther first meeting of the year yes. terday at Gloucester Building, when thirteen new members were welcom

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

A.O.F.C. Quotations.

New York, Yusterday. Dow Jones Averages.

Lust To-day's Changes Aver. Aver.

26.59 1 down 27,830 .26 down 17.73 .01 down Mesurs. E. A. Pierce & Co. Res

ed, and an address was given by 30 Industrials 59.93 59.29 .64 down Mr. E. M. Ayers, of Zanesville, U. S. 20 Rails .....25.00 A., who, accompanied by Mr. Bur 20 Utilities ..27.00 ton Preston, another American, is 40 Bonda ....77.74 making a world tour which they hope to complete within 83 days, port: The market is positively without any definite trend, indeci Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'e presided.

were sive and colourless. There is noj New members welcomed Rotarians 1. Mori, H. S. Mok, T. great pressure and little, if any,

It is difficult i Yamamoto, W. Hong Sling, A. E. buying demand. Gerondal, G. W. Greene, Wallace not impossible, to recommend a de- Harper, Randanne Vazeilio, Dr. finite stand either side. Business Bruno Haho, C. M. Manners, S. C. done: 490,000 shares. Wong, A. Brearley and D. Jenkins.

DEATH OF CHINESE ARCHITECT.

Partner In Firm Of Clark And Iu.

MANY AT FUNERAL

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THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story,

RADIO A PSYCHIC

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W.

on n wavelength of 855 metres (845 K.C.'8)

STORY OF THE |SUPERNATURAL

4.30-7 p.m.-Chinese programime. 6-6.15 p.m.Children's Concert. 7-10.30 p.m.-European programme. 7 p.m. Selected London & New York Stock Quotations, etc. 7.15-7.45

The 3rd Instalment of a series of recordings of "The Trint of Vivienne Ware" by courtesy of the Management of the King's Theatre and the Fox Film Cor.1 poration.

8 pm (Local Time & Weather Re-

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7.46-9 m. Band-

Iolanthe (Sullivan)—Selection Pirates of Penzance-Selection

(Sullivan)

Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards

C1308. Songs

(n) Old Comrades (Teike) (b) Boys

of the Old Brigade (Barri) Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) C2045. Orchestral....

Old Time Songs

Jack Hylton & His Orch. C1081. Band

IL.M.S. Pinafore-Selection

(SuBivon)

Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards

C1283. Choras

Songs of Good Cheer (arr. Byng)

Light Opera Male Chorus C2161.

Band--

A Musical Switch (arr. Alford)

Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards

C1580,

Seng-

Little Grey Home in the Weat

(Bardley-Wilmot-Lohr)

Mary Lewis (Soprano), 1140.

Chorus-

Stephen Foster Melodies

Nat Shilkret & the Salon Group C1657,

,

Bond-

Patience--Selection (Sullivan)

Band of M. Coldstream Guards C1274.

Song-

The Foral Dance (Moss)

9-10.30 p.m.-Dance Music. Fox Trot

Sometime in Summertime

Len K

at

By Stephen Leacock.

a

I wondered now that it had never CANNOT expect that any of my readers will believe the occurred to me that a man whose] story which I am about to nar-hair at fifty-five was already streak- rate.

Looking hack upon it, Iled with grey must have passed

Yet through some terrible ordeal. scarcely believe it myself.

Presently Annerly spoke again. my narrative is so extraordinary

"Last night I saw Q," he said. and throws such light upon the

"Good heavens!" I ejaculated. nature of our communications with beings of another world that I did not in the least know who feel I am not entitled to with- was, but it struck me with a thrill of Indescribable terror that Anner- hold it from the public.

In my own quiet) I had gone over to visit Annerly ly had seen Q.

Saturday, and measured existence such hia rooms. It was October 31. I remember the date thing had never happened.

"Yes," said Annerly "I saw Q as o precisely because it was my pay day, and I had received six. Bover-plainly as if he were standing here. eigns and ten shillings. I remem-But perhaps I had better tell you ber the sum so exactly because I something of my past relationship had put the money into my pocket, with Q, and you will understand and I remember into which pocket exactly what the present situation I had put it because I had no money is."

Annerly seated himself in a chair] In any other pocket. My mind is perfectly. clear on all these points. on the other side of the fire from Annerly and I sat smoking for me, lighted a pipe, and continued:

"When first I knew Q he lived not very far from a small town In the super-south of England, which I will call

some time.

Then quite suddenly

"Do you believe in the

natural?" he asked.

X, and was betrothed to a beautiful

will

I started as if I had been struck and accomplished girl, whom At the moment when Annerly Bame M." spoke of the supernatural I had Annerly had hardly begun to been thinking of something entirely speak before I found myself listen-

ing with riveted attention. different.

realised that it was no ordinary ex-

The fact that he should speak of it at the very instant when I was thinking of something else struck me as at least a very singular co- Incidence.

For a moment I could only stare. "What I mean is," said Annerly, "do you believe in phantasms, of the dead?"

"Phantasms?" I repeated. "Yes, phantasma, or, if you pre-

1.

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's 'short story will be "The Easter Egg.” by Saki.

fer the word, phanograms, or, any perience that he was about to nar You will, phanogrammatical rate. I more than suspected that

Peter Dawson (Basa-Baritone) C1813. manifestations, or, more simply and M were not the real names psychophantasmal phenomena *** of his unfortunate acquaintances, I looked at Annerly with a keener but were in reality two letters of sense of intetest than I had ever the alphabet selected almost at ran- felt in him before. I felt that he dom to disguise the names of bis was about to deal with events and friends. I was still pondering over experiences of which in the two or the ingenuity of the thing when

Annerly went on:

Reisman & His Orchestra That's Living!

Waring's Pennsylvanians 22914. Snuggled on Your Shoulder

How Can You Say You Love. Ma

Jack Denny & His Orchestra 22915, three months that I had known him

he had never seen fit to speak.

Live, Laugh and Love

Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orch.

The River and Me

22064.

Keep a Sing in Your Soul

Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra 22014.

Don Azpiazu & His Havana Casino Orchestra 22923.

Last To-day's

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Just Once for All Time

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Anaconda Copper Mining 7.3%

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Auburn ..

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Borden Co.

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The do-Gillette Safety

Mr. Iu Tak-chung, B.Sc., the popu General Foods lar architect and partner in the firm General Motors of Messrs. Clark and Iu. coased had suffered from high blood Internat. Harvester

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Liggett & Myers "3""

Many of the deceased's. closest Loew's Inc. friends attended the funeral service Mantcome

at Wing Pit Ting in Pokfulum.

tgomery Ward

Biscuit Pacific Gas & Electric

Among those present were Messrs. J. Caer Clark, Pan In-tat. Pennsylvania Railway

M. K. Lo, H. J: Pearce, the Hon.

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Mr. T N. Chau, and Messrs. Li Tse-Standard Oil Co. of NJ, 30% fong, Wong Kwong-tin, Li Koon-Socony-Vacuum Corp. 7% chun, W, N, Thomas Tam. Tam Union Carbide & Carton 26% Woon-tong, Kan Tung-po, Luf Wei- United Stater Steel

The remains were buried at the Chinese Permanent Cemetery in Aberdeen. Numerous wreaths were! gent.

MR. H. IU LAID TO REST.

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UNION CHURCH FANCING DRESS. Successful Function

Last Night.

The annual fancy dress social of the. Kowloon Union Church. Young Peoples' Society wsa held at the

Falling in Love Again Two Hearts

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friends he had a favourite dog. CEYLON

which, if necessary, I might name] Z, and which followed him in and out of X on his daily walk."

"In and out of X" I repeated in astonishment. “Yes," said Annerly, "in and out."

My senses were now fully alert. at 5.30 p.m. in muftl at Volunteer That Z should have followed Q out Headquarters to receive Camp pay, of X, I could readily understand, No pay will be disbursed after that but that he should first have follow- date and Platoon Commanders are led him in seemed to pass the bounds

man in of comprehension. Johnny Hamp & His Oreh. 2238. asked to see that every their Platoon turns up.. Fox Trot

"Well," said Annerly, “Q and Company Dance. Owing to Chin-Miss M were to be married. Every- The wedding de New Year the Company Dance thing was arranged. has been postponed from Saturday, was to take place on the last day of 28th January to Saturday, 4th the year. Exactly six months and February at 9.15 p.m. at Mesars. four days before the appointed day Lane, Crawford, Ltd. Full parti- (I remember the date because the Paul Whiteman & His Orch. 22013, culars are being circularised to all coincidence struck me as peculiar at

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With All my Heart

You Didn't Have to Toll Mo

The Troubadoura 22631. Stepping into Love Collinstone

Leo Reisman & His Orch.

Just a Gigolo I'm Alone Because I Love You

Leo Reisman & His Orch. 22606. Fox Trot

Mama Ines Lady, Play Your Mandolin

Havana Orchestra 22597, Fox Trol-

There's a Tear for Every Smile in

Hollywood You Darlin'

Blue Stoels & His Orch. 22436. There's a Blue Note in my Love Song Paul Whiteman. & His Orch. One Little Quarrel

The High Hatters 22879. Kinda Like You' Drums in my Heart

Many Mourners Pay Union Church hall last night and Walt

Last Respects...

was attended by a large gathering including members of the St. An- The funeral of Mr. Ho lu, late drew's Club compradore of the Mercantile Bank

Leo Reisman & His Orch. 22915,

Til Miss You in the Evening Kies Me Goodnight

George Olsen & His Music 22935. 10.30 pm Rugby Mid-day Press

News. 10.35 pm-Close Downl

All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by

A fancy dress parade judged by in Hong Kong for the last 19 years, Misa M. White and Miss P. McCaw who died on Sunday, took place was held during the evening, the this morning, the cortege, headed winners being Mr. R. Wong and by a band, leaving 6 McDonnell Miss Ruth Ingram, Other prizegern. S. Houtzie & Co. Road, at 10.30. n.m. tagg

The Studio programme, may on any were won by Mr. A. Mitchell and day, between 5.30 %.15 p.m. be re

placed by a relay from England, reception of the latter happens to be good.

The cortege was followed by, a Mr. R. Wong.

lengthy procession of the deceased's relatives and mourners, reaching the Yat Pit Ting, Pokfulam at $12.30 p.m.

At the latter place.. many paid their last respects after which the remains were interred in the Chin-

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER WEDS.

Distinguished Gathering At

Reception.

News In Brief.

Mr. J. T. Bagram (Consul-Gen-

members of the Company who are the time) Q came to me late in the He had asked to give these support in order evening in great distress. to make the dance as successful as just had, he said, a premonition of usual.

bla own death. That evening, while Machine Gun Competition. This sitting with Miss M on the will be held at Fanling on Sunday, verandah of her house, he had dis 115th January and Platoon Com tinctly seen a projection of the dog

manders are asked to warn their R pase along the road,” teams in readlocss for that date. "Stop a moment," I said. "Did' Particulars of this Competition you not say that the dog's name was should be submitted by Platoon Z?" Commanders on Friday, January 6 after the pay parade.

0. C. Machine Gun Company,

Hong Kong Volunteer. Defence

Corps.

Personal Pars.

Annerly frowned slightly, ""Quite so,” be, repiled. --"Z, or, more correctly, Z R, since Q was In the habit, perhaps from motives of affection, of calling him R as well as 2. Well, then, the projection, or phanogram, of the dog passed in front of them so plainly that Miss M aware that she could have be lieved that it was the dog himself. Opposite the house the phantasm stopped for a moment and wagged its ta Then it passed on, and quite uddenly disappeared around the corner of a 'stone wall, ns "if | Mr. R. Feinsot, proprietor of hidden by the bricks. What made The Little Shop, returned to Hong the thing still more mysterious was Kong on board the liner President that Miss M's mother, who is partially blind, had only partially Coolidge yesterday,

seen the dog."

Mr. E. Hamilton left the Colony on Sunday for Shanghai travelling per the s.s. Conte Verde.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Sullivan were Annerly paused a moment. Then eral for Slam in Hong Kong) is the among the passengers who left he went on... recipient of the 3rd Class of the Hong Kong for Shanghai on NowThis singular pecurrence was ese Cemetery. Many floral tributes distinguished gathering of Order of the Crown of Slam. Years Day aboard the 8.5. Conta Interpreted of Q, no doubt correct.

Verde

hly, to indicate his own approaching Deceased was a nephew of Sir local residents was present at

death. I did what I could to re-

were sent.

tong, O.B.E.

Robert Ho Ting and Mr. Ho Kom. Gloucester Building yesterday The return of notifiable diseases and Mrs. Walter E. Pepys move this feeling, but it was impos

afternoon at the wedding reception for the three days ended. January following the marriage of Miss 2 gives the following: smallpox were among the passengers disamsible to do so, and he presently Julia Eu, third daughter of Mr. En 2 cases; enteric fever 1 case; barking from the President wrung my hand and left, me, firmly Coolidge which mrived from convinced that he would not live till Tong-sen, the multi-millionaire of meningitis 2 cases."

Manila, en route to America morning " Singapore, and Mr. Percy Pak Shu-VA kwan, son of Mr. Pak Kung-nam of The opening ceremony of the new

Good heavens!" exclaimed, Canton. The bridegroom is the Chu Kinng Iron Bridge, connecting Mr. and Mrs. H, Heitmeyer, who and he died that night 7" grundson of Mr. Kwok Siu-lau, the Canton and Honam, which was to were recently married at the Re"No, he did not, said Annerly Inexplicable well knows local merchants have taken place on New Year's gistry Office Supreme Court requietly, that is the

Mr. Kwok an executed the duty Day has been postponed to Febru- turned to the Colony, from their part of Th

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of best man, while Miss Lilion Euary 1, owing to a section of the honeymoon, Manila aboard the was bridesmaid. As

"work being incomplete.

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