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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933.

EUROPEAN

DESERTS SHIP

IN HONG KONG Alleges Brutality By Captain.

CLAMS CANADIAN NATIONALITY

John McCormack, 31, un- -employed, appeared before Mr. J. 9. Maclaren, J.P., in the Police Court this morning on charges of entering the Colony without a passport and with being in the Colony, apparent- "ly a vagrant. Det-Sergt. C. Mottram, of the Passport. Office, read a statement made by the defendant, who stat-

SAILORS' EXAMPLE TO PARROTS.

Feathered Cargo Calls

For Restraint.

TAP CHINA MAIL

THE LONELIEST MAN To-Day's Short Story.

IN THE WORLD

Grim Sojourn On. Arctic Island.

DANGER FROM MONOTONY.

London.

+

THE VICTIM

By Perceval

Gibbon.

Melbourne, Victoria.- When the freighter City of Corinth left New York for Aus- tralia-the mate called the sailors together and said that in no cir Travel takes men to stranger, and was actually evad-man, of course, was gone.

OBB was crossing the boule-cigarette still unlighted. The other cumstances must they swear places and adventure keeps them when passing under the bridge. there. The stay-at-homes taiking a taxicab at the moment "Hullo, Savinien," said Gobb. Old salts scratched their heads of those on the edge of the world when he sighted the little comedy "You know, you've been robbed, and wondered what it was all as "lonely" men.

which he made haste to interrupt. [don't you? I just caught this fel And some about, especially when they heard times the "lonely" men

Upon the juat

further pavement low as he was bolting." See what mysterious squawka coming from laugh.

Savinien, whom we once believed you've lost, wen't you?" a tarpaulin-covered package.

There is a man who is a trap-

in as a poet, had stopped in the "Lost!!! Savinien stared, a' little! Some of them removed the per and trader, living on a tiny shelter of a-shop-door, an un-stupidly. Cobb thought, and sud- covering and found a cage con-Jisland in the Arctic Ocean at the talning two big blue macaws mouth of the Mackenzie river,

lighted cigarette between his denly smiled. He was bulky to the which could not utter a word.

lips, and was prospecting his vast point of grotesqueness, with a huge northern Canada. His only com for a match.

person with gentle little alaps white torpid face and a hypochon ed that he was a member of the Victoria Docks, they possessed there only once a year; and he the great expanse of his back waistcoat, from pocket to pocket,

When the birds arrived at pany are Eskimos; a ship calls

The current of driac stoop of the shoulders, and crew of the Norwegian ship Vika well-chosen and refined English spends his winters "denned up!

the pavement rippled by him; the hand that travelled over his Ing II.

vocabulary, in which they had like a bear.. He was engaged at Dunkirk, and been carefully tutored

He is Mr. G. E. Gwas half turned to it, so that he looked as if it had been shaped out -the ship came to Hong Kong, calling ship's officers.

by the Craig and people who know of and his search were in a land of of dough.

him call him the loneliest man in privacy, and the

situation was at Hamburg and Cape Town, dur-

"Well ?" sald Cobb Impatiently. ing which voyage he was harshly birds which came from South says, written in a letter to his from either side. The one,

The mate explained that the the world. But this is what he favourable to the two inconspicu-stilling the thief's whimpering pro- jous men who approached him tests with a quick grip of the hand treated by the Captain

America, were consigned to the brother:

that held him, After her stay in Hong Kong, the Adelaide Zoo, and he did not de- "I am fit and happy.

with an air of hurry, ran against still smiling as though he were ship went to Canton.

"My watch," murmured Savinlen. At that port. sire visitors to be shocked by bad defendant complained of the food to language.-Reuter.

life suits me to a "T."

him at the instant when he was the Captain, who then allegedly

gards grub, that is one thing exploring his upper waistcoat Fleased and relieved to be the victim

pocket, staggered and caught at assaulted him.

the company prides itself

of a theft. "But let him go.” -fresh eggs, grape fruit, or-

of him with mumbled apologies; the Cobb "I'll hand him over

"Let him gal. Oh, no" sald to the

(

On the ship's re

turn to thia port. the Norwegian |

Consul held un inquiry into the BRITAIN'S

alleged brutality of the Captain, and

found that the Captain was not at

fault.

The ship then sailed, and

the defendant, deserted.

John McCormack claimed to be of Canadian nationality, but is in: possession of no documents to prove this. He claimed that all his papers were burnt at New York, Last year.

His Worship registered a convle- tion on the first charge. and com- mitted defendant to the House, of Detention on the second charge.

NEW TRADE

AGREEMENTS

(Continued from Page 1.)

Mr. W. Runciman Criticised.

London.

As a sequel to the criticism against Mr. Walter Runciman. Pre- sident of the Board of Trade, for omitting to consult the industries!

FAMOUS MUSICIAN concerned before concluding trade

TO RETIRE

Parson Who Mastered 600 Instruments.

WEIRD COLLECTION

agreements, the Paper-Makers As- sociation of Great Britain and Ire- land has sent a letter to him asking! him to postpone entering any com- mitment on behalf of the United Kingdom for the reduction of duties on imported foreign papers until the Association has been given an opportunity of discussing with him; A parson who once possessed the probable effect on the industry. 600 musical instruments and 'could The letter refers play nearly every one of them, in that the treaties which are being about to retire.

London.

During his undergraduate days he taught himself to master every one of the six hundred which came,

into his possession.

Four hundred of these instru- ments are now in the Fine Arts

Idoubtful."-Reuter,

to rumours

FATNESS IS JUST FEAR.

Museum at Boston, U.S.A. but he Mental Cure Thought

is taking the remainder with him

into retirement.

Canon Galpin said to an Inter- viewer; "I suppose

my

I have had

Possible.

The

As re-

anges, appies, potatoes, turnips other, with the sure and suave police and we'll get the watch out of

carrots, and every variety of canned goods are among items arm between the two bodies, withdraw it and was making off. shipped up by the one boat! which calls here each

"HI" shouted Cobb, as the taxi mer. I honestly believe we live with a rush.

sum shaved past him, and came across better here than 90 per cent. what he was shouting at-and

People stopped to see of the people outside. "What group of them, momentarily block gets you is the deadly mono-ing the pavement, made it easy for tony of the long, long winter the lanky Cobb to bowl the fleeing twilight, January and Febru-pickpocket against the wall and lay ary especially. Then the mind secure hands on him. gets to a pretty low ebb. as, with blizzard after blizzard, Cobb, who always forgot his French "You come along with me," said and the temperature often at when he was excited.

movement of an expert, slid an

He was

him.

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be "The Bed of Death," by A. E. Sullivan.

Savinien.

"The watch is nothing," said "Let him go before there arrives an agent, or it will be

He came

a pace nearer as he

con.

50 or 60 below zero, it is im-. The thief, helpless under the grip too late." possible to go outside. I've on the nape of his neck, whined and worked out. Д kind philosophy of my own. just "den up" till the comes back."-Reuter.

of stammered,

a rat or a spoke, and nodded at Cobb I man, white-faced, pale-eyed, with a fldentially, as though there were sun sagging uncertain: mouth

reasons for his request which he "M'sieur!" he whimpered. "But could not explain before the on-

I have got nothing!: It is a mistake. The other man—”

Cobb thrust him at the end of a

lookers.

CLERGYMAN BLESSES long arm to where Savinien stood, "It is necessary.

"

TENNIS COURTS.

Vicar Defends Sunday

* Recreation.

Sydney, N.S. Wales.

Sunday-Reuter.

courts

"But-". began Cobb. "Let him go," urged Savinien, Afterwards, I Twill explain to you." He put his ahapeless soft hand on Cobb's arm which held the thief. "Let him

THE POPE MAY MAKE seriou

A PILGRIMAGE.

60-Year-Old Tradition May Be Broken,

"You are serious?" demanded Cobb. "He's to go, is he? With your watch? All right?":

B

110

are

negotiated with Norway and Swe A ceremony, stated to be unpre- He is Canon Francis William den contain provisions for the re- cedented in the history of the

He let go the scraggy neck which Galpin, Rector of Faulkbourne, duction of existing duties "to le-Anglican Church of the North

he held in the fork of his hand. Essex. Throughout his long life-vels at which any degree of pre-Const, was performed by the Rev.

They were by this time ringed he is 75 next birthday he has col-tection for the industry of the altar boy, he blessed tennis courts

Arthur Frost. lected weird instruments dating United Kingdom would be very in the Church of England grounds

Attended by an PAPAL TRAIN' CONSTRUCTION, was not less expert with crowds about by spectators, but the thief back to the Middle Ages.

then with pockets. He was at Coraki, before the Mayor

Vatican City. sooner loose than he seemed to formally declared the courts open four or five white and gold car through and beyond them like s In a special train composed of merge into the folk about, to pass for play.

riages emblazoned with the pa- vapour. The new courts are to be opened pal arms the Pope may leave the fled. Savinien

Heads turned, feet shuf for Sunday play, to which Mr. Vatican during the Holy Year derously like a battleship in narrow came about pon- Frost is not averse, so long as iti is of a friendly nature and does on a pilgrimage to the shrine of waters, but the thief was gone. not interfere with divine worship, St. Francis at Assisi

"Tiens!" ejaculated someone, and To condemn Sunday play, the

Workk is being pressed for-there was laughter. Church would have to condemn al ward in the railway yards at Savinien's arm insinuated itself Budapest. nearly every possible kind of

Dr. Mihaly Balinit,

form of recreation, such as novel Florence to complete the papal through Cobb'e elbow. a leading reading and the like, Mr. Frost train in time for the inaugura and wind instrument. Psycho-analyst here, is experi-said, all who visited the stringed

"Let us go where we can sit tion of the Vatican railway sta- down," said the poet. "You They are mostly English, dating menting with a mental cure for were pledged to attend service on tion shortly. The train will, it puzzled-not? But I will explain back to 1518. I picked them up in

fatness. travels, and while abroad He declares: "Fatness is the found some interesting Chinese reaction of certain weak people instruments, and weird things against the dangers of the world, which are played by the African a sub-conscious attempt to defend natives.

themselves with an armour "I find little difficulty in picking

fat." up the hundreds of different kinds According to Dr. Balint, there of stringed and wind instruments are many psychological causes of They all run on certain definite fatness, apart from the physiolo lines, I have always been absorb.gical causes, such as the weak- ed in the sound-producing side of ness of certain glanda. He de Instruments. I like to hear them clares that very sensitive peo- A motor car will enter Venice shrines," he said wistfully to upon a chair, rested both fat hands speak and not to see them locked ple, suffering from sub-conscious under its own power for the first pilgrims during the 1925 holy upon the head of his stick, and up in a glass case. That is what fears and irritations, build up a time in history when one drives year. I alone am unable to do smiled ruefully across the table at so often happens to old lastru-wall of fat to protect them from across, the new bridge to the ments."--Reuter,

their environment and that if mainland at the end of this But a rumour is current that he

00, Cobb. A tinge of blue had coma the Doctor can locate the com-month.

out around his lips plex, make it conscious and thus crosses the lagoon and the Grand with Italy and the specially holy is terrible,"

The bridge, which may regard the reconciliation discomposes me. As you see. It "Even to walk," he gasped, "that cure it, the patient immediately Canal, is one of the longest in character of this Holy Year 86 begins to loose weight. Europe, It has just been com-motives for breaking the 60- Dr. Balint only, resorts to pleted, after two years' work year-old Vatican tradition of psychological methods, when the That first motor car will carry usual physical causes are absent the Mayor of Venice, Bignor It he leaves the Vatican in the of thimble. When he was a little

self-confinement The psychological method entails Atvera, who will declare the papal train the pore will pro matered from his exertions, he laid long and tedious work. Some-bridge open to traffic, times, he says, a particular sub Thus, after centuries of his Cassino, the abbey founded by glass held between his thumb and bably go to SA Assist or to Monte his arm on the table, with the little London: Conscious fear takes two years tory as "Queen of the Beas," St, Bendict in A. D. 529, which is forefinger, and rem

to locate,Reuter

Venice will lose something of her the mother church of the Bene-titude

in this at taland isolationReuter,

KING'S VOICE FOR POSTERITY.

Record Will Keep For 5,000 Years..

A matrix of the King's Empire speech on Christmas Day has been presented to the British Museum by the Gramophone Company

With this matrix it will be pos sible to obtain records of the King's voice for the next 15,000 years."

The matrix is made of pickelled copper, and is placed in a hermeti cally sealed brass container Reuter

WEATHER FORECAST

GIFTS FOR THE BENEFIT. OF THE NATION

of

London. Among the gifts which

the Chancellor of the the benent of Great

FIRST MOTOR CAR FOR VENICE..

New Bridge Opening Shortly.

Venice.

fis understood, be composed of a you all that." sleeping car, a sitting room, "It wasn't a bet, was It?" asked throne room, a chapel and a din Cobb. ing car.

The poet laughed gently. "That The Pope has never been quite possibility alarms you?" he suggest reconciled, physically, to being ed. "But it was not a bet; it is the "prisquer of the Vatican, more vital than that. I will tell and be would dearly love to visit you when we sit down." some of the holy places outside. At Savinien's slow pace they came Political considerations have so atlant to small marble-topped far prevented him from doing so, under a striped awning. Savinien, "You are at liberty to visit the with loud gasps, let himself down

Take it easy counselled Cobb, Cobb with beer, Bavinien with An aproned walter served them

treacly liquer in a glass the size

dictine Order

Officials at the Vatican adopt why a cautions attitude towards the the report.

too much

Gof

THE WALKING DIRECTORY"There will be

for the Pope

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