1933-04-10 — Page 6

For the BEST “SHANDY"

mix Whitbreads Ale with

WATSON'S Ginger Beer.

COOLING and

Refreshing, yet Gently stimulating

There is nothing like it!

Whitbreads.

GRAY'S YELLOW LANTERN SHOPS

Marke

For Finest Lingerie Linens

Peking Carpets, & Costume Jewellery.

Hong Kong:

Alex Bldg.,

Tel. 24566.

Hong Kong Hotel, Tel. 27424.

Curios: --

Kowloon :-

Gloucester Arcade.

Arcade, Peninsula Hotel

COMING TO CENTRAL.

KARLOFF

THE UNCANNY in

THE MUMMY

i

EXCELSIOR RESTAURANT

22, Des Voeux Road Central (Opp. Government Radio Office). Excellent English Food and Special

RUSSIAN and INDIAN dishes. Tiffins $1.25.

Dinners Afternoon Tea and Delicious Icecreams, Renowned Russian Chef- European Manager.

MAN LOONG.

PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.

+

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER Beri Quality — Prompt attention to Exporters. Offen:-- 2, Dundas Street, Kowloon. Tel 57088. Factory:--1, Godown, Praya, Dundas Street, Mòngkul.

IN THE LONG RUN

Gas for cooking shows the greatest all-round economy.

ECONOMY

in time, in labour and in cost.

HIGHLY EFFICIENT

all-enamel Gas Cookers may be purchased for cash or on easy terms (one or two years) or a hired Cooker can be had for a monthly of $110,

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO, LTD,

Central Showroom:Cloucester Entlding Kowloon Showroom : ---244, Nathan Road. Offices :-West Point ---- Telephone: 28181.

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITEAWAYS

SPECIAL FOR EASTER

SOAP

EASTER EGGS

Fine quality Toilet Soap done up in the Shape of an Egg. Each one nicely packed in Cellaphane Paper. A distinct Novelty that makes a useful and acceptable Easter Gift.

庸

SPECIAL

PRICE

FOR

EASTER

1.00

for 4

TOILET DEPARTMENT.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The China Mail Hong Kong, Monday, April 10, 1933.

Hitler and Poland.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

Insulting The Red Hackle.

A recent paragraph about the| famous Red Hackle of the Black Watch has brought a hitherto un- published story of Ireland during the Sinn Eein rays.

In the autumn of 1920 there-ar [rived in Dublin a young marrier. Black Watch officer wearing a khaki bonnet complete with Red Hackle, doublet, tartan trews, and white spats.

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1935,

BURIED TREASURE IN TOWER OF LONDON

FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR

A REGICIDE'S HOARD

(By Walter G. Bell.)

London.

Why seek out Cocos Island if the to work." thrill of a buried treasure hunt is

By the Irish he was mistaken for wanted? That small dry spot in a the new Commander-in-Chief of the very big wet ocean is a long way off, Black and Tans, daily expected in and a treasure hunt is offered much place of General Crozier, who had nearer to hand. just retired.

The place! None other than the

Crowds besieged the officer's Tower of London.

And when you thit out, de not hotel, booing and threatening when-

that just the place where you would ever he or his wife appeared.

Months later he discovered the expect buried treasure to lie?-the reason for this outburst. Then he strong fortress which has kept was vastly excited-not about the guard over London for all the cen- danger he had run by going about turies since the Conqueror himself unguarded, but because of the insult came.

Here I tell a story which is noti the Sinn Feiners had proffered to the Red Hackle in mistaking an fiction, but plain truth, All the Icharacters are historical. I think I have fixed the spot where treasure Was buried pretty closely--the "signs," as anyone weaving a yarn would say.

officer of the Black Watch for a Black and Tan.

Naturalist Politicians.

Jant having given them full authority

"So 007.

guide demanda a candle, and down into the cellars he goes, inquiring whether they were 'the same that Barkstéed al- ways had.

We went into several little cellars, and then went out a-doors to view, and to the Cole- Harbour, but none did answer so well to the marks which was given to him to find it by as one arched vault. Where we set to it,

to digging we went to almost eight o'clock at night, but could find nothing. But, however, our guides do not seem nt all dis- couraged, they being confident that the money is there they look for."

Elasive Gold

The place was securely locked

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, whose It begins with John Barkstead. against disturbance, and on Novem interest in natural history has been He was Colonel John among Oliver ber 1 the search was renewed. For disclosed by his discovery of a grey Cromwell's troops, but his fighting all under the arches, as it was now three hours they "dug a great deal

a

The late

water wagtail in St. James's Park, days need not trouble us. What is: has chosen a hobby in which several of more concern is that he was most confidently directed." But again the search was fruitless, and politicians have found delight and regicide. recreation.

You may read his signature on they "went away a second time like Viscount Grey of Fallodon is, of the original warrant for King fools."

That did not end the search, or course, the best-known ornithologist Charles L's death, now lying in among the politicians, but in the the library of the House of Lords. the story; but it is necessary to cor- have been published frequently. inin has two colleagues with whom his life was secure and reward cer studies all are vastly indebted, led

While the great Protector lived rect one's bearings here. present Government Mr. Chamber-

H. B. Wheatley, to whose Pepysian The rights of the issue, on any

notes and experi-tain. Barkatend was Lieutenant of teet of predominant nationality he can compare

the Tower of London, next in rank inquirers astray by to be of the inhabitants, seem

Sir Hilton Young, the Minister of and power to the Constable. Actual-added to the Diary. with Poland; and, in any

Health, Is not only an expert in the ly the Lieutenant was the chief' In this he explained that the Cole- case, Germany, as a signatory to identification of birds, but is a gaoler, and the many pickings of Harbour which Pepys mentione in the Locarno treaties and a mem- ber of the League Council, has

ences,

consummate imitator of their cries. that office came, his way.

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the

Regicide's Fate

a footnote he

connection with the treasure hunt ("Cole-Harbour" occurs in many old

ipledged herself not to seek a re-Prime Minister's son, spends much Barkslead sensed danger in those/towns) was the ancient house, or vision of these boundaries by of his leisure studying bird life new times which followed Oliver Precinet, of Cold-Harbour in Upper "This is less Hitler's hour of force. If Hitlerism means to through field glasses, and he has a Cromwell's death. He fled to Hal-Thames-street, near by the Tower, triumph than his hour of trial" denounce that pledge along with considerable amount of skilfully-land, taking care before he left to ever which last century the City of as the London "Spectator" just the League, the peace treaty, and tabulated data of their habits. He bury his private heard of £7,000 London Brewery built. The ale- ly wrote last month. The truth the Locarne treaties, then the added greatly to his knowledge when below ground within the Tower.. house wherein Pepys mentions that is daily becoming more apparent worst fears of the moment may he was in Canada last year for the All Germany is palpably under a be justified. A German attack on Imperial, Conference. dictatorship based upon force-Polard would open another greylį

of armed bands of young men, war. If the League of Nations

authorised as police but behav is to survive, surely it must Your Daily Smile. ing as the instruments of an challenge at once this incipient! organisation formed to exert conflict. The sanction for the And Some is Canned. power for its own ends.

"Some music is intoxicating," It is established boundaries on the becoming evident that either eastern side of Germany does observes a writer, Hitlerism must be remodelled to not proceed solely from

*

That is the only part of the story for which I cannot vouch. Why will be revealed.

He Barkstead's fate was tragic. was betrayed while in Holland, with; This fellow regleides, John Okey and

Miles Corbet, and all three seized by Sir George Downing, then

were

the King's Head in Tower-street, he sheltered has been assumed to be

where once he had "a dirty dinner."

Both sites were, in fact, out- side the Tower and the Lieuten- ant's authority to explore would not be needed.

When the Royal Mint was within

King Charles II.'s Ambassador to the Tower and coins were struck the Dutch-a most high-handed pro- there, the straight way from the ceeding. Sir George who built and Byward Tower past Traitors Gate was known as Water-lane or Mint- gave his name to Downing-street, i of Whitehall, was

street. The public had free access a dirty fellow,

there, only the inner word being and this was his dirtiest action.

The three regicides went to the locked for security. About the cur- gallows at Tyburn, and were there tain wall where the Bell Tower corner, ramshackle hanged and quartered on April 19, makes the

fit with the patriotic promises of the Versailles treaty. In Do Be Thankful! its leader-notably the awaken- October, 1926, the.. chief Bad enough when your wife ing of all Germany to a new self-Ministera of Great Britain, won't mend your clothes. But just respect-or it will become the France, Italy, Germany, and Bel-think how much more you'd hate it deadliest danger, if not to the glum met at Locarno. There if she insisted on making 'em. peace of Europe, then at least to they were joined by representa- Germany herself. At present the tives of Poland and Czecho-Pedestrians' Motto. Brown Shirts are pursuing the slovakia, and the seven Powers Life the survival of the fit-1602. Samuel Pepys, who at Aldgate tenements and shops clustered, and very excesses which, according signed a protocol to guarantee test. to Hitler's professions, his move-the peace of Europe and to

*

*

*

+

*

Jazz a song at twilight,

So long.

*

*

watched them go by "they all look-there were two taverns.

The Duke of Wellington, when ed very cheerful," he says charac- Constable of Tower, cleared these terised Downing as

"A perfidious rogue, though the away, at the time when he also action is good and service to the empiled the water moat. King, yet he cannot with any con- science do it.”

-1

ment was organised to combat assist in forwarding disarma- Those Evening Broadcasts. The great mass of the German ment. The protocol announced people, however monarchist their the drafting of five treaties and tendency, traditionally resent op-conventions. In the first the The Angler's Farewell. pression, and the desire for five elder Powers agreed to a popular self-government, sought treaty guaranteeing the main- anew under the republican Con- tenance of existing frontiers in Soliloquy. stitution, is in Germany no new the west, and undertaking that ataybe there's no ice on the Lake by his Council that the Dutch mob political passion. However the they would in no case attack or form, and the expression may invade each other or go to war of Geneva; and if there was the would tear him in pleces. Charles vary from British ideas, the root with each other, and that if any League of Nations wouldn't cut it, drily observed that he would ven- of the thing is as deep there as of the contracting parties should

**

When Downing's second Embassy was proposed, Charles was warned

(Continued on Page 11.)

ACCIDENTS DURING THE WEEK-END.

Chinese Bitten By Dog.

¡ture him."

Months passed, and the burial

Lin Fook, male, was admitted to in Britain, Hitlerism is on pre- flagrantly violate this agreement Slips That Pass in the Night, of Barkstead's hoard within the the Kowloon Hospital, yesterday, suf- sent showing its enemy. What the others would immediately "Ultimatum to 'China.

Tower of London became whis-fering from dog-bite, inflicted by a ever may be said. for Hitler's come to the help of the party (By Our Own Correspondent)."

pered abroad."

chow dog at: Ma-tau-kok Road. -~ professions of the need to stamp attacked. Any dispute is to be

Digging The Cellar out treasonable Communism, the settled by arbitration, and after

The dog which in the property of present attitude of bands of ratification the treaties were to

·A„visitor from Chicago was shot

Whispers reached Charles's ear. Inspektor A. T. Braley, of the Sani- Brown Shirts towards the popu- come into force as soon as Gerin Berlin, The Germans stem to make search for the hidden money, the Dog's Home for observation.

and wounded on the day he arrived The upshot was a determination to tary. Department, has been sent to lace generally, and particularly many should become a member beat us hollow at giving visitors (of which, when found, the discover]

the campaign of persecution of the League of Nations. The

So Home-like.

Still looks for ovations,

Yeung Chul, male, was admitted

ers were to have £2,000, Montagu to the Kowloon Hospital, yesterday, Lord Sandwich, £2,000—he was suffering from Injuries to his left Pepys's "My Lord," at the head of wrist, sustained when a large plece the Navy Board and the King of fron fell on him while working at would take the balance.

the Kwong Fook Loong Shipyard."

The Diary is the chief authority [for the search, but the story: has;

been muddled by lack of knowledge

against Jews, must seem an out- Locarno treaty, in fact, paved the atmosphere of home. rage even to Germans who de- the way for Germany's entering sired a bold and assertive Gos the League Council, which hap-We've got a hen and we call her

A. CAN'T SHE CACKLE! ernment. There Is arising a pened in the following year. The doubt whether Hitler can con- four other Locarno treaties were 'Con she's never laid an egg but she

League of Nations, trol the whirlwind he has let arbitration conventions between loose. Certainly Captain Goer Germany and Belgium, France, ing, the Nazi head of the Prus-Poland, and Czechoslovakin

of the topography of the Tower" of sian police, seems to be inter-respectively, binding each party

London at the time. On October preting the new regime as one to refer "all disputes of every

29, six months after John" Bark- of terrorism. The disregard kind" to arbitration or the

stend's end at Tyburn, there came to of the Hitlerites for the flague Court, and expressly re-

An artificial lake is being built Pepys a mystifying letter from Lord Constitution under which Ger-nouncing war. At the same time at an altitude of 7000 feet in Swiss Sandwich, to whom he hurried, and many seeks to regain her place France entered into treaties mountains to provide power for a ing him jamong European nations bodès separately with Poland and hydroelectric plant.

ill for the new Chancellor's Czechoslovakia, each treaty

Facts You Did Not Know.

respect for Germany's neigh-stipulating that in the event of When rainbows are seen from hours or the treaties she has either party suffering from a sirplanes in light they appear in made with them. Most people in failure of the undertakings ar the form of a circle with the nha Britain, France, or Poland are riyed at with Germany, the other dow of the plane in the centre. coming to-day to believe that should immediately lend to that

LAUNCH MISSING.

Sent To Tow Aberdeen Fishing Boats.

Yeung Ma Sheung, accountant, of the Kong Ching Steam Launch Com-

Up in his chamber, and all pany, of 70, Connaught Road, report alone and he did acquaint meted to the Police that, at sbout 4.80 with his business; which was that, on Saturday, an unknown per- an old acquaintance, Mr. Wade (inson telephoned to the Company, and Axe-yard), had discovered to him hired a launch to tow seven fishing - £7,000 hid in the Tower and boats from Aberdeen to Lima Island, that the King's warrant runs for in Chinese territory

me on my Lord's part, to demand. The steam launch Kwong Tung. leave of the Lieutenant of the having on board a crew of 10, wa Tower to make search

Ar sent, and has not yet returned,

Hitler would welcome a quarrel party ald and assistance "if such The British Roads Federation which would serve as excuse for a failure la accompanied by un-has been organized, to unify all denunciation of the Polish boun-provoked recourse to-armis. In commercial interests concerned dary or the Versailles tresty, view of esa Locarno sties;with highway construction, and

ndon comes Anxiety for the security of the Europes

trafkenissey Adalam met ons lord's letter" In due course,

"Polish Corridor is mounting feel

sense of swiftly

crisis Articles

out the Polish and the

titude of

A tool has been invented for the secret, and one Evett, his boring Holes In the ground for set with labourera be:

Ling out plants, squeezing the ban-mattock Joined e Edie Miting the earth from the hole. sembled at the Tow

my

FUNERALA

The funeral of the late Ronald Stevens will take place to-day,

the Monument at 5.80 nm