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SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1933.

RECONSTRUCTING CLUES

New Discovery Assists

Criminal Detection.

SUCCESS OF MODELLING PROCESS

Correspondence.

THE KAILAN MINES.

[To the Editor, "China Mall"] Sir. Reports have been in cir culation during the Inst few days

Mines Area.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BEER CONSUMPTION To-Day's Short Story.

IN VICTORIA

Many Reasons For Severe Slump.

PROHIBITIONISTS' CLAIM

Melbourne (Victoria).

PLEA OF INSANITY

By 'Horton Giddy.

[R. JUSTICE TRELISSICK was confused, and hid his confusion

MR.

Vienna. regarding the activities of the Hotelkeepers in Victoria are

sat at his desk with his in a cold reserve. Now, as a lover, Mining Administration, yearning for the golden (plus head in his hands.. The pains he was inarticulate, Agonised, he A new terror for murderers Kailan and thieves, a system which amongst others being a report that froth) days of 1933, when the in his head seemed to have a watched Sylvia beat her wings for a makes perishable clues eternal, the export of coal from the Admin-beur consumption per head was curious rhythm like the negroid while against the bars of his im music Sylvia adored, The pains prisoned soul, until she tired and has been perfected by Vienna's istration's Mines has virtually ceas-nearly twice what it is to-day.

The big drop is attributed shot through from front to fluttered away. Jealousy ate into "Scotland Yard," A

ed on account of the troubles in the *culptor

mostly to the depression. Even back, and at the back they 'ham- his mind: he strode softly behind and a painter carry it out.

This system is called "Model- This is not strictly correct, and the Licensing Board, in its report mered at the enclosing skull as her, waiting for infidelity.

Now it had come: be recognised fing." It makes it possible for the General Manager has authorised on the severe slump in the liquor if for release. a truncated limb, a hole in a us to make a statement to the effect trade; declares that no trade in

On Tuesday the Harley-street, even welcomed it as the end of

had told him he was over his vigil, and yet he would not be safe, or a bite in cheese or bread, that the mines are working normally, Australia has suffered to a great-man to be modelled with such fidelity Whilst it is true that traffic between er degree than the hotel trade, working. "Riding for a fall" the lieve it. His wife, his possession:

mines and Chinwangtao is but there are other causes. that the original may safely be the

fellow said, and the stupid horay no other man could take what was Pride and jealousy warred dispensed with.

temporarily suspended, the General Liquor defence interests point phrase had Irritated him,, coming his. "Modelling" has just played Manager assures the maintenance of to the tremendous excise duties from the fat little doctor. Over- with logic. The machinery of his an important part

when had he not over- brain, worn with incessant work, in the con-regular shipments via the port of imposed by the Federal Govern working

ment, 6 p.m. closing, and the worked? The busiest junior on the whirred and jolted: the pains ran viction of a man within a fort- Tongku!

}withdrawal of licences on Common Law side before the war, from front to back, and hammered night of an arm being found

wholesale scale since then, as the busiest silk after; now the bus at the skull.

The Arst November fog drifted in reasons for forcing up the price, icat judge on the King's Bench. and thus tremendously affecting why not? He was the youngest: his from the Temple. The windows of ¡liquor sales.

old colleagues fell Ill, but he was lighted rooms shone yellow, foot- Prohibitionist while admit-never ill and the work bore down steps on the stone flags below ting that the depression has on his broad gaunt shoulders. sounded muffled. Sir James Trelis- sick sat in the dark; the books lessened beer consumption, main-There was no time to be in. tain that, as a result of inten- Well, he could stand it. He was against the black cak panelling

not an glittered faintly in the firelight. sive anti-liquor educational cam-not yet sixty. There was paigns, people are growing wiser ounce of fat on his huge apare and realise that other things in frame, though he had always work- were more important than ed toe hard to take exercise. His beer drinking.

body was young; well, mature, not Since the 1930 no-licence cam-yet nid. But hie brain was tired: paign there had been a gradual where if used to gallop et full speed decline in the quantity of drink it had now to be spurred; soon it) consumed per head. Reuter.

would have to be flugged into action

Yours, etc.,

floating in the Danube at Hain-The Kailan Mining Administration, burg (Austria) and a human Per pro. Dodwell & Co., Ltd.,

Agents. foot further

Hong Kong, April 21. Hungary.

downstream

in

Plaster, formerly used to take casts, was unmalleable and hardened quickly.

Often. too, RE-APPOINTMENT OF

COUNCIL MEMBERS

in-

the "clue" or the cast was jured in taking the plaster away, especially with such objects as brend or human skin.

The modelling process is car- ried out with three substances known as Negocoll, Hominit and Celerit.

Cast Impressions.

Dr. T'so And Mr. Braga¦life

To Continue Service.

CONSULAR CHANGES

Necoll is a brownish powder, The appointments of the Hon. which when warmed and mois Mr. J. P. Braga and the Hon. Dr. tened can be smeared over a S. W. Tro. O.RE., LL.D., to be un- WRECK RECALLED BY

limb or other object, on which it official members of the Legislative forms, when cooled, a substance Council for a further period of of rubberlike consistency.

four years with effect from Janu-

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MONDAY'S STORY.

Monday's story will "The Shadow," by Val Guest.

to overcome the grey inertia which

In the clerk's room down the pas- was beginning to follow the pains in his head.

Įsage old clerk and young clerk lick- The pains had come more freed their lips over the story: Lady quently, grown in intensity, during Trelissick and the wild young Irish

soldier. the past few weeks. They came

In his room, Sir James pushed generally when he was worried.

When removed, it retains with ary 17, have been approved by His] £30,000 Collection Lost They came when he thought about back his chai" roughly and stood up.

uncanny infallibility the im-Majesty the King. pression of the object (owing to

Among the other appointments

Off New Zealand.

From the malleable Negocoll absence on leave of Mr. V. M.New Zealand In 1928, with a grasp of other men, striding past the smoking-room.

Grayburn.

He would go to the club. Sylvia Sylvia, its malleable nature it is in no announced in the Gazette is that

His wife was thirty years younger was away; a long week-end at her] way injured in removal). The of Mr. 1. N. Murphy to act as s

Sydney, N.S. Wales.

than he. They had been married mother's in Kent. Negocoll layer, for instance, can Member of the Court of the Uni-

At the club he told the man to The loss of the steamer two years. He had plucked the be pulled off a hand like a glove.versity of Hong Kong during the Manuka off the South Island of bright jewel of her beauty from the put the car away. He went into

layer, the cast itself is moulded

He wanted companionship, but collection of contemporary Bri- the whisperers, confident that his from Hominit or Celerit or Notification is also given that tish art valued at £30,000 is re- love,

never before given, would when an acquaintance spoke to him combination of both substances Mr. B. C. K. Hawkins resumed duty called by the death of Mr. E. bridge the gap of years. He was he looked coldly through the man which can take fine impressions. 28 District Officer (South) on Murray Fuller, the art collector sure of the Bre within him. It had 50 that he stuttered nervously and but which possess the necessary April 18.

jand connoisseur, in Melbourne. warmed his oratory and how it escaped. durability.

The man sank on to a settee be- Hominit can be had? Consular appointments announe-[ After having held exhibitions burnt him with the intensity of his in various shades, so that

side a friend. "Queer devil, that' brown skin, for instance, or theled are those of Mr. E. H. Lind- in Sydney and Melbourne that love.

Trelissick," he said, quist to act as Swedish Consul year, Mr. Fuller shipped the bulk

"Yea-clever chap, though." "Brilliant. But his eyes---there's something old about them."

be faithfully reproduced.

a

But he had failed. As an nd.

colour of cheese or leather can General for Hong Kong with re- of the collection to New Zealand vocate he could be eloquent and

Grim Museum.

sidence in Shanghai and Mr. P. V.jon the Manuka. The vessel ran lucid, but in his human contacts he Botelho to take charge of the Por-uground in a fog, fortunately Attached to the workshop is al grim museum

with models ofuguese Consulate-General during without loss of life, but the col- sue the absence on leave of Mr. C. Alection was lost. Mr. Fuller had some of the most notable cesses achieved through use of da Roza, acting Consul-General for the utmost difficulty in recover-

the modelling process.

One of Portugal.

the most notorious of these was the cuse of Frau Katherine Fell-

ner.

murdered in the Vienna 50,000 PEOPLE WANT

"Whipsnade," Lainzer Tiergar-

Len.

There is a cast of the victim as found, with five bullet wounds in head and neck, and scorching

on the chin where an attempt

had been made to burn the body;

TO LEAVE HOME.

Mr. Thomas' Warning To Emigrants.

London.

jing some of the pictures that did come ashore in that remote spot. Some had actually been buried in the dense bush.

A water-colour painter of ability, Mr. Füller was born in New Zealand in 1892, and had His early

exhibited in London.

"I suppose you get that way if you sentence some poor devil to

VOCAL RECITAL IN death every other week."

COLONY

"Yes.

there'll be another to- morrow, I suppose."

"How do you mean? Oh! the Reddick murder trial. He sums up

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MISS LYDIA MICHEL

a clear case."

"I don't know that I agree.: Carmichael

to seems be going death is an incalculable loss to

strong on the insanity plea."

"That won't count for much with | New Zealand art. All the lead- A vocal recital will be given by Trelissick. Now, if dear old Boyd jing galleries in the Dominion Miss Lydia. Michel at the Hong bad been the judge.. .. Do you have examples of modern work Kong Hotel Roof Garden on Thurs- remember the Paul Strauss case? which he introduced.-Reuter.

day next.

Sir James Trellasick lighted af

£1,250,000 SPENT ON

in

and one of the face, as it would During the past four years have been in life, reconstructed there have

never been fewer by the workshop sculptor. than 50,000 people waiting to

A dentist recognised Frau emigrate,

declared Mr. J. R. Fellner's dental plate, after a Thomas, the Dominions Secre-; year, from police photographs, tary, in the House of Commons and when brought to the work-recently. He was speaking on a shop, also recognised the re-Home and Empire Settlement Queensland Destruction constructed face. -

Campaign Continues.

Reuter.

DESIRABILITY OF WAR,

Bill introduced by Mrs. Ward, Conservative M.P. for Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.

Mr. Thomas said that be

DINGO PEST,

Miss Michel is a pupil of three

2 corner

#

of the foremost teachers of voice cigar, collected a pile of papers and the world, Professor Iffert, barricaded himself behind them in armchair. He stared at among whose many pupils were Elisabeth Rethberg, star of the the print, but it meant nothing to Metropolitan Opera Company; Lill him. The rumbling in his head was worse to-night than ever before. Lahman, under whom Miss Michel He forced himself to read. studied chiefly repertoire; and the eminent Italian baritone Mattia when he became aware that two He had been there nearly an hour Brisbane.

Battistini. Altogether £1,250,000 has been

men sitting near him had spoken would not be a party at the mo-spent in Queensland in efforts to

Miss Michel appeared in various his name. He looked over the top of ment, under conditions which destroy the dingo pest according musical centres of Europe with his paper. The men were young: existed in the Dominions, to ad- to an official statement which great success. The Berliner Taga their sleek heads showed over the vise people to go out.

announces a destruction campaign tilatt praised her voice-quality and backs of their chairs. He could not He said the pioneering spirit on similar lines as that of last the forcefulness of her interprets see their faces. "War as a means a of settling was still here, and that there year. A bonus of 2 a scalp, in tions. international disputes," was the sub-1

One man interrupted the other. were men and women in this to be paid by the Government. ject of a debate held by under-

The Deutsche Prager Zeitung "You spoke of Trelissick Just now. country ready to take the chance graduates and other members of the and risk their all if they could be on destruction, more than 20,000 with the beauty of her voice and what I say you know his wife? In addition to the money spent stated that she captivated Prague Well, there's no better example of Hong Kong University Union, at given the opportunity.

miles of dog-proof fencing has her temperamental and exciting In-Can't be much more than half his terpretations. She received sim. age, and damned good-looking, too." lar praise from other critics, .. The programmes selected is follows:

University Debate

the Union Assembly Room, last But until other parts of the been erected by landowners.

night,

The principal speakers

Messrs. Lo Kwee-seong and

were

Empire were prosperous, he re- Reuter.. marked, we could not hope to Lim

Teng-lim. Mesars. Fung Tin-yau and|

deal successfully with the emi- BEST-KNOWN BRIDE A Kwik Khek-ghiang, were commend- gration problem.

If the

́Ottawa - agreement

FILM STAR

Peggy Hopkins Joyce Makes Debat In Hollywood

Hollywood.

Part L

1. Murmuring Brook ...Schubert 2..Secret

.Bchubert Schubert

3. Restless Love

4. Sapphic Ode:

-ed by the Chairman at the close of tended to make them more pros the debate. 27 voters declared perous and resulted in their be- against war and 19 were in favouring able to take our people in of its employment.

anything like the proportionį they did before the war, that would be the beat justification Miss Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who, for the Ottawa policy. - Reuter, having married four millionaires, is|kd

Lone of the world's best-known

brides, is to become a film star

QUEEN'S COLLEGE OLD BOYS.

Association Dinner

To-night.

6. Feinsliebchen

6. Dream in the Twilight

What about it?" said the other, "They get on, don't they?”

"Get on? My dear fellow, where have you been living? There's the making, of a first-class bust-up in that menage,,

"How do you know?!!

I've the best possible evidence-- Brahms my own eyes. He lowered his Brahms voice, but not so low that Tralissick could not hear every word.” “I WAS Richard Strauss over in Brussels, this week-end. The Lover's Pledge ba

Lady Trellasick and Maurice Dermot | Richard Strauss were staying there together in my

hotel." Part IL

WARNING CRY CAME TOO‘LATE She has arrived here, to take part)

In "International House," a new Sydney, film, and she may make others, A crow in a cage cried warning About marriage, Miss Joyce says The annual dinner of the when raiding police leaped a fence that she will certainly marry again, 9, Three Scottish Folksongs Queen's College Old Boys' Associa-at Darlinghurst, but the warning "If the right man comes along. tion will be held this evening, I came too late.

She has come to Hollywood, frum

"Mald of Inverness."-" “The bonniest boy was Jonny,” “Faithfu", Jomy.”;",

the Great Hall of the College, They arrested the Chiness owner, Paris, bringing with her 7 trunks,

The President of the Association of the bird on an S.P. betting and 15 bags filled with new gowns, for this year is Mr. A. el Arculll, charge,

In contrast to the mannish attire and Mr. W. Kay (headmaster) and When the Defectives searched the Introduced by Marlens' | Dietrich,

- Mr. H. Kế Woo act as Vice-Presi- place they alleged that evidence (of Miu Joyce declares her wardrobe is

»denta,

1100 bets was found. Reuter,

strictly feminine"-Beuter,

Beethoven

So It had come. Trellasick 8. Aria from. "Samson and Dalila" stiffened, as if to resist pain. But, Saint-Saene, oddly the ache in his head ceased. He no longer felt tired, only a little breathless. The disordered ma- chinery which had farred behind his forehead awept into smooth motion like a dynamo. He got up and walked out of the smoking-room, The two young men did, not see him 80%

10. German Folksongs:

Komm, Heber Malz

O, dullaba, Aengell, Wenn halt frahafateh, Graetzli

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