1933-04-27 — Page 7

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933.

CRICKET STARTS IN ENGLAND

West Indies Draw In First Game.

TO PLAY THREE TESTS

SINGING SCOUTS IN COLONY

Interesting Travels Of German Party. STAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE

THE CHINA MAIL.

FINDING MISSING To-Day Short Story.

GIRL

Broadcasting Aid Invoked.

Z. B. W. ASSIST IN SEARCH.

ESCAPE

FROM THE VALLEY

By Lord Dunsany.

Inspector's Daughter Found In WHEN I arrived at the Club "We were talking

Bowen Road.

London, To-day. Dressed in corduroy shorts and

of earth- The West Indies cricket leggings and with open-necked

they were all talking of quakes," he said. "Have you ever team under the captaincy of shirts showing the result of exten-

earthquakes, those sudden been in one, Jorkens?" G. C. Grant, the former sive travel, five German singing į Z.B.W., the Hong Kong Broadcast-dooms that so strangely over- "Well, yes," said Jorkens, "yes, Cambridge Blue, opened Scouts with rucksacks on their backs ing station, sent out its first 3.0.S., throw cities one shudder of I've been in an earthquake.” their English tour on Tues- arrived in Hong Kong yesterday yesterday, in connection with the Earth and the work of ages is! And we all bent forward to watch day at Pelsham against Mr. morning by the Norwegian steamer disappearance of Hannah Lane, over. But it was not of the ruin the duel between him and Terbut, Scott's XI.

Sandviken from Shanghai.

14-year-old daughter of Divisional of whole towns that they told; a duel that was distinctly unfair, The game a two-day one Under the command of Rudolph Inspector Lane, Kowloon.

one man had never seen that; as Jorkens had no reason to guess ended in a draw yesterday the Schafer, Hane Jansen, Hubert The little girl was in

trouble they rather told of changes in that his word would be doubted, home team scoring 226 for 9 de-Giffels, Hans Spech and Richard over her school work, and when flittle rooms, of Chaos running in and that the more tremendous his clared against Martindale, who Becker left Krefeld, in the Lower sent to school on Tuesday, played suddenly upon respectable neat-earthquake the greater the triumph took 4 for 39, and the West In-Rhine early in May last year, truant. She did not return home ness, of gentility or domesticity of Terbut, as it might appear to dians replying with 145 for 7. travelling overland through Holland. on Tuesday evening, and her par- or tawdriness coming suddenly hasty or biased opinion.

The West Indies will play They arrived in London a month enta, becoming anxious, caused in- check by jowl with the ancient "Yes, I've been in an earth- England in three Tests at later and were feted by the London quiries to be set on foot regarding powers, till the leaves of the as- quake," said Jorkens. "The ground Lord's, Trent Bridge and the Boy Scouts Division, later, leaving her whereabota. 、,..

pidistras shivered with forces gave a kind of a shiver that you Oval. The first two Tests are for Southampton, where they board- At 8 p.m., yesterday, the girl that had also rocked the hills, could not be sure of: a cart an limited to three days, but the ed a Nordeutscher Lloyd vessel for having not yet been found. Z.B.W. They were telling of curtain- loading near by, or a door Blam- Oval game will be played to a New York

was asked to co-operate. A des rods gone wildly awry, of pic-ming, might have done it, or a tree finish if necessary.

From New York the Scouts'cription of Hannah Lane was tires swinging sideways, of the falling Afty yards away; I had The West Indies will meet the travelled overland, paying their own broadcasted, and soon afterwards work of the housemaid and the the iden at once that it might be Club Cricket Conference XI at way and living in tents and cooking telephone messages began tó ar-dreams of the architect going an earthquake, but until I saw a Catford on Wednesday. This their own food wherever they could rive at the various police stations down to the dust together. And tile roll down a red cottage-roof will be their second game of the Arriving in Philadelphia they were from people who thought that they suddenly at the end of a tale of and fall on the grass beside me I 37 matches they are to play on met by a delagation of American had seen Hannah.

a rocking city somebody said, could not be certain. And then a tour. Reuter.

Scouts. Here their singing so en- She was eventually found wan-"You wait till Jorkens comes in, cleft in a cliff far off, sheer smooth chanted the city, that they were dering on Bowen Road, by Inspec-and you'll hear of worse earth-black rocks no more than a yard asked to broadcast over the radio. lor Carey, at 10 p.m., yesterday. quakes than any you ever saw." apart, came softly. together like

The greatest ambition of their

And this after a tale of an earth- this." And Jorkens lifted his two tour was fulfilled when they came ACCIDENTS AT A.P.C.quake that had ruined a people, hands, pointing upwards before his without any effort on their part. face, about an inch from each other, I didn't think, this entirely fair and moved them gently inwards un- to Jorkens, and I don't now. What, til they touched.

CRUISERS LEAVE ON MAY 1.

Summer Cruise To Wei-hai-wei.

WARSHIP MOVEMENTS.

for Tsingtao.

to Washington, and were invited by President Hoover to the White House.

There their fame as a band of singers had already preceeded them,

INSTALLATION.

Two Chinese Injured.

made it a great deal worse

Was

that I know that Jorkens was then on the stairs. We had arrived at

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be **The Inspiration of Mr. Budd," by Dorothy L. Sayers.

and they were invited to broadcast) Cheng Nin-tal, a four-year-old the Club-together, but he takes a over the Radio from the White Chinese boy residing in a junk off bit longer over the stairs than 1 House, the broadcast being relayed the A.P.C. Installation at North do. And before I had time to make to Germany. H. M. Ships Hermes and Wishart

Paint, was very seriously injured! Leaving Washington after a stay

any effective protest Jorkens was in sailed this morning at 9.30 a.m., of three weeks, the Scouts travelled yesterday afternoon when he was the room. He made himself com-

accidentally caught in to Medicine, Wisconsin, via Pitts belting and sustained

a machine-fortable in the armchair he prefers, On May 1, H. M. Ships Cumber-burg, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago thigh.

a fractured and at first he did little but land and Berwick will leave for

He WAS rushed to the breathe; but when we saw that this Weihaiwel: H. M. S. Whitehall will

and Milwaukee.

Government Civil Hospital in a serie no longer presented any consider-

"That was all," said Jorkens. Ball for Swatow and Weihalweli motor car and from there travelled

At Medicine they bought a Ford Gus condition,

Was it possible that Jorkens had and H. M. Ships Wild Swan

A few hours later another Chin in with his question, for, though it the stairs, and had so triumphant- able difeulty to him Terbut broke heard what was said as he came up Verity will proceed to Amoy and

a distance of over 8,000 miles ese, Fu Hau, working in the tim Welhalwei; 1. M. S. Curacon will traversed vast prairies, the desert right index finger caught in some is not the man to let a thing like ed thus simply and grandly by it, through the United States. They factory at the Installation had his first remark about Jerkens, Terbut all unconscious of any trap, walk- was someone else who made the 'ly vindicated himself? Or had he, sail for Shanghai and Hankow, where she will relieve the Caradoc. Angeles and the Rocky Mountains, Government Civil Hospital for or proving some theory he has he went? In any case he was vin- between Salt Lake City and Los machinery and had to be sent to the that drop while there is any chance stepping upon it and crushing it as The Caradoc will then proceed to Hong Kong to refit.

From Los Angeles they travelled The U.S. Canopus and submarines North to San Francisco. Portland

and

'S' 37, 39 and 41, also, will sail for

land Seattle.

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treatment.

Personal Pars.

13

about Jorkens's veracity. Exactly Idicated. what the theory is don't know, the North on May 1.

They left the United States after}

beyond that it is unjust to Jorkens,

"Well," said Terbut, with the air

On May

of one regretting the loss of the 5. H. M. S. Vindictive eight months of travel and arrived

arising, as I suppose, but of some of the one tale he could have be- Mr. and Mrs. J. T. R. Ryder were unaccountable Jealously, Terbut will sail for Singapore and the in Shanghai after a short stay in United Kingdom. The Folkestone Japan, during which they touched also passengers for the Colony by never having travelled much believed, "you

¡the Empress of Asia.

General M. A. Cohen arrived in in Hong Kong for about a week be the Colony yesterday by the Em fore going on to the Dutch East press of Asin from the North. Indies.

will all for the North.

་་

ROBBERS SCARED BY SHOUTS.

Householder Injured.

at Yokohama and Osaka.

Scout Rudolf Schafer told

the

China Mail they intended staying

BRITAIN'S NEW TRADE AGREEMENT

(Continued from Page 1)

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Mr. and Mrs. J. McDonald were passengers from the North, arriving yesterday by the Empress of Asia.

yond Paris.

VOCAL RECITAL AT HK. HOTEL.

Miss Lydia Michel

lows:-

.

story."

never told us? that

"No." said Jorkens, "it was an experience so terrible that I haven't,

lked to talk of it."

And Terbut for once seemed left without any comment.

'about the same size as the field, a cottage and a potato patch, were Schubert, about all there was on the level Schubert base of the valley from which Schubert.

"You see," said Jorkens, begin- ning slowly, but warming to it as] The went on, "we were in a circular A during attempt at a midnight

The programme for Miss Lydia valley, obviously the crater of some robbery at an un-numbered house

Mr. D. H. Hazell was a passenger Michel's vocal recital at the Hong ancient volcano, but extinct before at Ho Sheung Keung of Sam Tong

on the s.8. Pres. Coolidge, which left Kong Hotel roof garden, commenc- ever man appeared on the planet. Village, early yesterday morning,

Hong Kong yesterday for San Fran-[ing at 9.15 this evening, is as fol-A little field and a lake, or pond, If the Danish market is flooded cisco. was folled by the timely arrival of with cheap textiles from other Bome neighbours aroused by the countries the two Governments will

Part. 1. shouts, "Save life."

The forthcoming marriage has 1. Murmuring Brook discuss proposals which Denmark been announced At 12.30 am. yesterday morning may wish to make for the purpose Yip, stenographer, of 137, Des 5. Restless Love

of Phoon Seck 2. Secret Kwok Ying, a concubine, was arous of preserving or restoring an eco-Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong. 5. Feinsliebchen

Sapphic Ode

Brahms. green alopes led steeply up to the ed from her sleep by her husband nomic level of prices, no charge be and Wong Shook Syn, of 5, Shel- Dream in the Twilight

Brahma, cliffs, which were sheer all round, who pointed out a beam of lighting made before July, 1935,

lof black basalt, At their lowest from a forch, carried by

ley Street, Hong Kong.

Richard Strauss point the cliffs were a hundred feet, The United Kingdom undertakes |

7. The Lover's Pledge. Import duty reductions on certain Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cunningham |

Richard Strauss, and a pass led through them from in attempting to goods. Bacon and hams are to be were pasengers for Shanghai by the 8. Aria from "Samson and Dalila" other slope outside. But I'll tell

Part II.

the top of the green slope to an- creep out of the mosquito netting kept free from all import duty. was struck on the head with

Im... Tatsuta Maru which left the

Saint-Saens, 'you how it was that I came to bel

Beethoven, 1 there. The Mediterranean

known Chinese.

Her husband

chopper and badly injured.

an un-

a The existing rate of import duty Colony yesterday morning.

Mr. 9. Three Beottish Folkrongs

He managed, however to make not to be exceeded in regard to Cunningham is the United States his escape and rouse the neighbours.tain other goods.

butter, eggs, tinned cream, and cer-Consul General at Shanghai. Meanwhile the robbers had made good their escape.

of

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Not less than 80 per cent. Denmark's imports of coal, répre been announced, of Li Shou Chun,

The forthcoming marriage bas 19 senting an increase of 1,500,000 teacher, of the Shu Man School, re- ROBBER DROPS BOX tons annually, will be obtained from siding at 328, Shanghai Street,

OF MONEY.

Arrested After Theft Of $135.

Britain and the United Kingdom. Yaumati, and Tsang Shou Taun,

"Maid of Inverness,"

"The bonniest boy was Jonny." "Faithfu" Jonny."

German Folksongs

Komm, lieber Mai

O, du jlabs Aengeli. Wann i halt frahafsteh, Gssetzl.

At the plans, Mr. Harry Ore." Booking is at the Hong Kong

Music Co.

A proportion of Denmark's cake mid-wife, of 95, Tung Choi Street, office and the Anderson imports, approximately 70 per cent. Kowloop. will also be maintained.

As the result of conversations, a substantial increase in Denmark's] jpurchases of United Kingdom fron Denmark

A Chinese female, Lam Yee, 50, and stoel is anticipated.

News In Brief

The Hong Kong Musical Society was the victim of a highway rob-has been guaranteed that in any

zake us to draw the special atten- bery at No. 116 Temple Street yes- compulsory scheme her quots of tion of members to the vocal recit terday evening, when two men at British imports of bacon, butter, al of Lydia Michel at the Hong beless Kong Hotel, Roof Garden to-night

9.15 p.m.

off

SPLIT IN GERMANY'S

CABINET

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'full of islands; and I got to know some of them pretty well; and of course they got to know me. Well when I got into a certain amount) of trouble one day over a girl, they [all- started, saying, It's Yorkens again," pronouncing it with₫ Y, know how talk spreads. And, of course it had to like that. You

be exaggerated a bit by every tell- er. Well, I thought the best thing to do was to go to some other is- land, one that would be out of the way of all talk, for I was getting tired of it. So away I went, and I got to an island that seemed just the thing. But one evening na I tacked her by means of throwing eggs,

This is a purely "national" Gov- was walking round the coast I saw fish will not red pepper in her eyes and making than 62 per cent of the total for

ernment, of the kind for which the this queer steep hill rising up from |parties of the Right-the Nazis the sea something like half a milel with 扑 tin-box containing eign supplies." She has also been $137.50.

Drand Nationalists--have professed away, and I asked some fishermen, guaranteed certain minimum quotas By arrangement between They were, however, unsuccess if restrictions are imposed on in Hahn, Consul-General for Germany to be working for years, provided, drying their nets on the beach, to ful in their attempt. Ah Kan, who ports of butter, eggs, and fish. in Hong Kong, and the Manage of course, that neither party could tell me something about It. And

ment of the Hong Kong Hotel, Miss obtain sole power

they said nobody went there, which Lydia Michel the talented vocalist,

The Inclusion of Herr Baldte the wasn't true, because I saw a small will give a recital in the Roof leader of the Nationalist Stahlhelm boat with a sail drawn up on Ita Garden of that establishment to ex-soldiers' organization, is a sym- beach, and, true or not, I wanted night at 9.15 pm. The usual dinner bol, like that of Herr von Papan, to go there: not much idle chatter, dance, therefore, will not take and the joint parades of the Stahl-I thought, on an island that only helm and the Nazi Brown Army of ran to one small boat. Not that place.

the restoration of the National had anything to be afraid of from and Paul Appletres.

They first became acquainted interday, by members of the Chinose quickly.

His Excellency the Governor, yes new Government to be formed so what girls are and the trouble they're apt to make, Very well. So I gave « foberman one of their. an orchard, Reuter,//

Knitting Mills Association, con- Herr Hugenberg, the Nationalist Absurd silver coins, and he rowed sisting mostly of manufacturers leader, gained his desire to com

me across to the island. with factories In Kowloon, The bine the Ministries of Economic was no mlataking the way petition naked for time to carry, out Affairs; and lure, and impath led up from the beach thr Addis, Medway; Capt. O., M. Black- Cloudy with probably some rain the various newly promulgated anti-pose, as a sort of economic dieta- stunted flax and myrtle on a man, D.6.0., Folkestone, Comdr. | and moderate" East winder is fore-fire regulations in koffing-factor) tory

ified" poli

elling that rose to perhaps five hun latie, requirements of roet, and there the black cliffs be-

was carrying the box, dropped it at This Treaty will operate for three Tung Shan Lane and was arrested years-British Wireless Service. in Nathan Road as he was about to 'board a No. 4. Bus.

The other Chinese is still at large.

A

NAVAL OFFICERS DUE

ON NALDERA!

The following officers are taking Passage in the sa. Naldera, which is

dus in Hong Kong on May 8

Capt. A. Poland, D.S.O., appoint-

ed to the Medway; Comdr/CHT.

WELL MATCHED

Berlin.. The engagement has been ‚'an-

nounced in Berlin of Eva Peartree petition was presented to the Harzburg Front which enabled the anyone's chatter, but you know

WEATHER FORECAST

3. M. Howson Witch; and Lieut. casted in to-day's report; fasued in order that their business may not the Comdr. G. C, P. Menzies, Medway, from the Royal Observatory

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