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MONDAY, MAY 15, 1933.

SAFE-BREAKER

CONVICTED

Sequel To Daring $1,700!

Robbery.

JACKO IS

FEATHERED

DYNAMITE

Bird Who Rules The 'Playground.”

FIGHTS ALL-COMERS.

Sydney, N. S. Wales.

SPLENDID DANCING

AT PENINSULA

Don And Sally Prove Popular Pair.

MANY GUESTS · ATTEND SATURDAY'S GALA.

THE CHINA MAIL.

On Saturday evening, the Rose:

To-Day's Short Story. THE MAGNOLIA STREET WANDERER

By Louis

Golding.

With 18 knock-outs to bis credit Room of the Peninsula Hotel was THE dark city of Doomington His mind was not in Magnolia-

TH was where be lived. He street, nor at the Hat and Cap

Cohen

SIX MONTHS' GAOL TERM

Sentence of six months' hard la- bour, was this morning imposed by Mr. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy, on Hoi Rin, who, together with three other unknown Chinese, "Rattling Jacko," the fighting koo-filled to capacity and a large num

and had broken into No. 228 Queen's kaburra of Canley Vale, near Sydney ber of people were compelled to over-was the sort of obscure little Jew works of Messrs.

Do I make that stafe- Road East on the night of April is seeking further contenders for flow into the spacious Roof Garden you saw but did not look at. He Montague. and had robbed the safe of $1,700, the "feather-weight" title, which hel for accommodation for the debut might speak but you did not ment purely on a posteriori grounds? Detective Sergeant Fitches who has held against all comers--not ex of Don and Sally, dancera extra-listen to him. Why should you? Would Hyman himself have declar-

He lived with his mother ined any such disturbing thing?2) prosecuted, said that on the night cepting mapokes and parrots-for ordinary.

Magnolia-street. His mother was doubt it! of April 6, one of the fokis of a the past three years.

This pair is definitely the beat to

Mrs. Lipshin did not occupy her-] wine shop on the ground floor of When Mr. Wilkinson, of "The have appeared in Hong Kong and not notable, except for the excel-

lence of her cooking. -

self with the question.. Her No. 228 Queen's Road East, return-Payground," Canley Vale, picked up the renewed and enthusiastic ap

His first name wad Hyman.

domestic labours achieved, the ed and found another foki of 16"Jacko." il Nourished and nearly plause with which each of their years of age vomitting badly. The dead, a little more three years ago, dances were received was good There was no reason why it should brought forth her Pentateuch, with

The family, name was

its Yiddish version interleaved, and Polka were sent for and the young he had no idea that he was handling proof of the excellent standard of not be.. foki was found to be auffering feathered dynamite.

He did not resent it. If bent her black wig towards the dog- Lipshia. their artistry,

A butcher's skewer from an unknown drug, adminis- But it wasn't long before "Jacko" They switched from the polish-some entirely gratesque destiny had eared pages.

him Porphyrogenitos held in her frail but efficient tered by the shop's cook who was began to reveal his fighting traits, ed ball room dancing to the aeroba. named

hour beyond missing.

adagio, and there were strange happenings tic

and from this Ebenenzer Andritsaena he would fingers pursued

hour the awful eloquence A glance in the office revealed at "The Playground." There have to the fast

have taken no steps in the matter. and syncopated the safe door open and $1,700 in been strange happenings ever since, one-step with the greatest case and He had been educated at the Her voice did not cease from its cash missing. A duplicate key was Whenever he observes another as a finale they teamed with those Aubrey-street School, not far away, single intonation, hour beyond hour, found, and inquiries resulted ip hird aloft, "Jackie" soars to a near-old favourites, Sands and Dawn, In where he had achieved no formid- until the Friday evening candles||

His history was

flickered in their sockets and she by tree and sends out his challenge, a delicious number for which Milable distinction," The accused later volunteered to the stranger, who is thereupon dred Dawn had unexpectedly learnt bad, his drawing was scarcely bet-made ready for bed, at length, Information as to the whereabouts lured into an aerial combat.

acrobatic tricks, perfectly ter; in geography he was top of stumping off in her loose slippers."

He knew where Jute 'the class. of the three other accused, but ex-l

Hyman sat snoring in the corner,

tradition was impossible as

Regardless of the size of the other executed, and for,which she is to be

came from and whether Cotopaxi under the shelf where the samover, the sincerely congratulated. spot mentioned is Infested with pi-bird "Jacko" will never miss

Don and Sally are a great ac-was a mountain or an isthmus, and so reverently brought over from opportunity for a fight, and he has

His feeble lower The whereabouts Russle, stood. never lost a battle yet.

quisition to the most select ball where it was.

of Cedar Falls in Ohio did not de-jaw dropped fowards his chest room in Hong Kong and they are

Were there dreams, then, be- celve him, but he lost ground, as I sure to have a continuous and up have suggested, in the Wars of the precedented success.

the arrest of Hot Hin.

rates.

the

MAN OVERBOARD

Sampan Rescues Ferry Passenger.

Wheeling, diving, coaring, "Jae ko" more often than not so flusters his opponent in the first few whirl wind minutes of the fight that the

some

They will perform nightly in the Rose Room and for Wednesday, a

Roscs..

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be "Mechanical Justice,"

by Alexander Kuprin.

What

He was not elected, therefore, to rest is easy.

Rendering the other bird sense special dinner dance is announced any scholarship at secondary school and extending to 1 am. at which it is which might have enabled him to Ching Chuen, a Chinese male less, he catches him in beak

the famous Hollywood continue his researches into the pro- passenger of the 8.9. Kwong Chau, claws, and returns with him to "The rumoured

He became an · · invoice.j had a narrow escape from drown-Playground" where, under the kind-stars, Wheeler and Woolsey, will be ducts of Sfax and the situation of.

ly attention of Mr. Wilkinson, the present. Altogether a most enjoy- Filicudi.

clerk in Messrs. Cohen and Mon- ing when he accidentally fell over-

sick bird is soon restored to health. able night may be anticipated. board last night while the ship was

Noted among the large crowd on tague's Hat and Cap Works, where yond that sallow brow, behind the Let him try to leave, and "Jacko"

the remained for the next 20 years leaden waters of his eyes? proceeding through Lycemun Pass.

Burgess, Comdr. Drum of his existence-uneventful exist dreams shall Hyman Lipshin dream His cries were heard by a sam.is immediately on his tall--he holds pan man who rescued and brought his captives.

in a Magnolia-street kitchen at the Fed regularly, the newcomer soon!mond, Lt. Comdr. Yates, Lt. Comdr. ence.

Messra. Cohen and Montague heart of the dark city of Dooming- him in to Hong Kong.

learns to appreciate the comforts of Le Cras, Dr. Corbett, R.N., Mr. and

repair home ton? "The Playground," and to-day 18 Mrs. R. Bigazzi, Comm. A. Bianconi, allowed

before his mother lit "Come then, Rymele!" his mother birde that were "just passing that Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Barnes, Mr. and well

Friday evening candies said, clawing at his shoulder. He way" are in residence with "Jacko." Mrs. A. 1. Burate, Gen. M. A. the -Reuter.

Cohen, Major V. E. Duclos, Mrs. on eve of the Sabbath, followed her as obediently at the C. E. Haygood, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie, nor did they expect pagan dues age of 30 as at the age of three. Mr. M. E. Politi, Comdr. and Mrs. from him in the matter of invoice!

News In Brief.

men

A whist drive for service will be held in the west lounge of the Y.M.C.A., Kowloon to-night at 8.45.

Mr. D. M. Maynard will be the speaker at to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club, his subject being

"An Amateur Dude Wrangler."

The Government Gazette contains an order that the prison ward at the Kowloon Hospital is to be set apart) for the purpose of a prison.

AMERICANS BRUSH UP BEER SLANG. Schooners And Seidels

For Suds.

New Year.

Saturday were:—

Capt.

the

bim

to

"I come, mutterel, little mother,"

Dream? Dream? What folly!

Invoice-clerk take to dreaming?

G. B. McCormick, Lt, and Mrs. J. D. clerking on the holy day that he said. Murphy, Mr. F. Reck, Mr. W. follows. The festivala, too, re- Robertson, Mrs. Austen-Hofer, Mr.mained inviolate; for though Mr. No room for dreams in Doomington. A Stokkink, Mr. and Mrs. G. True, Montague was a scion of the ancient What would Mr. Cohen say about it Mr. S. K. Helberg, Mr. and Mrs. V. Norman aristocracy Mr. Coben was Limpson, Mr. and Mrs. Lautenberg, aware of the escro-sanctitude of to Mr. Montague should their third Mr. Kopelman, Mr. Mathies, Miss the Feast of Weeks and the Feast Rather more, I should fancy than L. R., Mackay, Sq. I.dr. and Mrs. G. of Tabernacles: ":",

the old greybeards in the synagogue Malley, Mr. R. T. A. Tatterson, Mr. Hyman Lipshin drew a dim might have said should they hear K. E. Jones, Mr. R. Johanessen, pleasure out of the white Friday that young Hyman Lipabin was Americans are brushing up on Miss 1. Warnes, Mr. B. Jones, Mr. evening cloths, the serried cand-possessed of any such maindy. their beer slang now that light E. Joseph, Mr. D. P. Stilby, Mr. H. leaticks, the brimful wine-beaker For they did not take much beer has been legalized. Here Komor, Mr. G. Kinsey, Mr. A. Kidd, out of the long hours of holy in-notice of him where be are a few from pre-prohibition Mr. I. Lewis, Mr. T. C. T. Lloyd, vocation at the little synagogue sat in his praying-shawl, at a Mr. Marshall, Lt. and Mrs. A. Hround the corner. I said his plea- corner of the beach against the wo- days:

Suds slang term for any Musson, Maj. Mullany. Mr. W. G. sure was dim, not because any other men's partition. He was not meri-

he Pretty, Lt. H. Prior, Capt. C. Ten-pleasures experienced were torious in kind of beer. a future

the fervour of his re- Seidel-a drinking vessel nack, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Pinguet, crimson, but because he lived dimly.ligious transports, nor, on the other named from the Australian Mrs. A. R. Pinguet, Miss Plaquet,

band, an object of suspicion for liquid measure, about 3/4 of a Mr. and Mrs. de la Prade, Mr. and

any laxity in ceremonial observance. pint.

Mrs. Gaubert, Mr. Ramsey, Mr.

It was true he carried his hand-

The sale by Public Auction of No.

26 Des Vœux Road Central, which was advertised to take place on May 17, is now postponed to date to be notified later.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. D. M. MacDougall to be District Officer in the Southern. District of the New Territories and also to be a Magistrate with effect from May 11, 1988.

Was

Wal Kit, the Chinese house-boy of Inspector Dorling of Yaumati! Police Station,

yesterday afternoon admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, suffering from a badly lacerated right forearm, as a re- sult of pushing his arm through a window while cleaning it.

Chu Chues, 17, an electrician, who was employed by Messrs. W. C. Jack & Co., and who plead- ed guilty to larceny of a quantity of Insulated wire on Saturday last, was this morning bound over by Mr. Wynne-Jones on one aurety of $50 to be of good behaviour for one year.

Wong Chan-pong, who was this

morning charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis

Schooner-a large, tall beer W. J. Riddiford, Lieut. C. Ravenhill,

NATIVE KILLS FIVE kerchief on the Sabbath not round

WIVES

Terrible Crime To Ensure Silence.

8 CHILDREN SPEARED

Nairobi,

his waist, but in his pocket. That was to be deplored. But no man) had ever seen him ascend a tram- car opon the Sabbath. The beard- ed gentlemen greeted him courte- ously. They called him, honori-) ficially, Reb Hyman.

Now what I ask you, can have ex- plained the mystery of the pocket atlas? Why Mr. Lipshin should

glass.

Mr. C. S. Royston, Lt. J. C Richardson, Mr. Russell, Mr. and Stein-an earthenware C

Mrs. R. R. Roxburgh, Mr. stone mug holding about a

A. B. Raworth, Mr. H. Shel- pint.

Searle, iton, Mr. A.

Mr. J. A tall one-vernacular for stein,

G. Skinner, Mr. L. G. Scott, Mr. or sometimes for

L Stark, Mr. R. M. Aubrey, Mr. schooner.

Collar or head-the inevit-G. E. Hall Brutton, Mr. Bartlett, able cap of foam on the beer, Mr. J. R. Broumer, Capt. H. Boxer, Mr. M. Bergaust, Major and Mrs. Bung starter-instrument for putting a keo of beer on Mr. D. Clark, Mr. H. Cooper, Lt.

Brasier Creagh, Mr. F. S. Coote

A terrible story is told from find a pocket atlas an object worthy Lap.-Reuter.

E. O. Carrey, Lt. Comdr. Chichester, Uganda, where to ensure their of his attention at all is mystifying. Mr. P. Doo, Mr. W. S. Donald, Mr. silence, a Mohammedan native but why he should secrete it in his E. 8. Deacon, Mr. R. A. Fawcett, killed his five wives, speared his prayer-book on no less a day than Mr. J. Gamble, Mr. J. M. Grant, eight children, and then com- the feast of the New Year is surely Mr. R. Gerrard, Mr. J. F. Haynes. The trouble arose over the tion. Most regrettable-oh! most

Įmitted suicide by "hanging..

problem beyond all human, solu-

death of a woman who, it is regrettable. The thing alid from WOMAN ROBBED.

stated, was killed by this his prayer-book on to the door, open Mohammedan pendelea

st ́a map of Polynesia. The beadle The man forced his five wives picked it up not more than two to cut the woman's body- into yards away from the Holy Ark small pieces.Net Www There was a gasp of horror, * tale plumpness about that once Chan Sum, a Chinese widow, In But when police Inquiries be- beardy whistle of dismay, Hyman have compared him with Grandi, but while walking in Queen's Road Cen- complete silence was athletic body. His Nazi admirers a report to the Police stated, that Ban the murderers thought that Lipshin blushed all round his ears seized the atlai, thrust it in his

CHANCELLOR HITLER'S BLUDGEON

(Continued from Page 8.)-

There is nothing ascetic' about| Herr Goering. He has lived on ex- citement, and to-day there le a tell-

Money-Changing Trick Employed.

tracy with larceny of a fountain it is hard to see any resemblance tral at 13.45 a.m. yesterday, an un-means of safety the best and a long way down his neck. Ho

pen from No. 191, Des Voeux Road between the jerky, erratic volubility known Chinese approached and }. Therefore he killed his wives pocket, and glued his eyes on to his Central, was bound over on one of the German airman, and the con-asked her to change a bundle of and all the children. tied their wayer-book. Burety of $100 to be of good be- trolled phlegm of the bearded banknotes for him as he was bodies together and tried to burn No explanation was asked for or

them.

forthcoming." It was also in haviour for one year,

Italian whose six months in London stranger in town.

He then started cycling from credible that quite soon everyone have earned him the nickname off. She agreed and left him... some "the silent Ambassador.” -

jewellery and money totalling $114 the scene of the crime, but ceased to believe it. It was held to when his machine broke down he be a sort of autumnal hallucination:| INDIAN CONSTABLE RUN OVER The truth is that Goering has as security. She then left for a

badan dan strunk deep at the well of enjoyment money-changer's shop hundred walked a short distance and then If it had happened at all, it had While Indian Police Constable of life, and for that reason his reign yards away but on opening the committed suicide-Reuter happened, eight years ago, 567 was patrolling his beat early is likely to be short.

bundle found it to contain, waste

this morning in Wing Lok Street, The "stayers" in the Naxi Party paper. public motor car No. 596 ran into are men like Alfred Rosenberg, Ellen ·Chan Sum returned to the spot him and knocked him down. Adolf Hitler himself, and even but the stranger had disappeared.

He was admitted to the Govern-Joseph Goebbels-men who neither ment Civil Hospital suffering from drink nor smoke, and who purme shock and multipla zbraníons.

WEATHER FORECAST

their ambition with method” and fanatical self-discipline. Herr Goer ing's candle burns too swiftly,

Unless all the signs

The weather will keep fair with those violent, and othe

moderate Eart

port lasued

vatory-thi

ARISTOCRACY IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.

BALLOON D'EASSAL

Twelve years. Then

uncla of ficti

A toy balloon

Threat or

child here at Chu

been 1,000 mil

The

will go down to history: se ona

Baro

Two Cop

Italy's

rom 600.

inda, stater the re-figures whom

the Roy

In the first heat of

then discard

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