1933-06-03 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933.

Correspondence.

**POLITICS IN CHINA”,

TTo The Editor "China Mail"

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845) K.Ç.'s):-

BURIED FAITHLESS

WIFE ALIVE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story,

WHAT JORKENS

ATROCIOUS CRIME AT HAS TO PUT

UP WITH

MARTINEZ.

EIGHT FILIPINOS CHARGED.

Martinez, California.

Th

By Lord Dunsany,

say that amongst all those kens, but it may interest my readers that haye read any of the to hear that it was beld at the Eight Filipinos have been ar-I have recorded none have felt ball was unique among modern sub- tales of Mr. Jorkens's travels that Billiards Club that the bonzoline Wea-rested here on a charge of bury- any doubts of any of them would stitutes, in being better than the ing a young woman alive in albe absurd: such doubts have been old genuine article. It was as we

Sir, I am most pleased to in- form the House that the Sino-

12.30 p.m.--European programme Japanese armistice was sigted yes of Columbia & Regal records. terday." These few words in 1 pm Local Time- & which Sir John Simon announced to their Report.

the House of Commons that a Truce:

had at last been signed between Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy cult as the punishment for un-/What has impressed me very member who ought to have known 1.15 p.m.A relay of the Hong ceremony prescribed by their felt and even expressed But had decided that, that some young

China and Japan on May 31, were of the Management (During the received amid general cheers and intervals recorded musle will be

broadcast from the Studio).

2.15 p.m.-Close Down. Dance Programme To-night.

those cheers have no doubt echoed around the World by now. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the cause of the fighting were, everyone is intensely glad that the actual loss of life and devastation gramme. of property have ceased, at rate for the time being.

may

But a little black cloud to mar one's hopefulness quickly appeats on the horizon and that little black cloud appears in the form of that wily old fox, Feng Yu-hsiang coupled with the south-west Political Council's assurance of its unquali-| fied support to his unti-Japanese. campaign.

Feng is, we are told, organising, an army of 150,000 men for the sole; purpose of waking war on Japan and be solemnly declares that he will never recognise any truce reach- ed by the Nanking command, yet the next day he issues a declaration of, loyalty to Nanking.

But Nanking signed the truce so how can he be loyal to Nanking and| fight the Japanese at the same time. when Nanking has ordianed that the fighting must cease?

7-11.30 p.m.- European gramme.

Of course,

faithful wives.

considerably is the fair-minded better, sceing Jorkens near him as attitude taken up by the general he looked up, suddenly blurted out: Authorities said others would public, an attitude that may be "Have you ever seen a unicorn. be arrested and charged with summarised as a firm determina-Jorkena?" participation in the horrible tion not to disbelieve a man's Of course, it was not the way to 4-7 p.m.-Chinese recorded pro-denth of a 26-year-old Filipinousual, but to await the final ver- the implication was obvious. And

story merely because it is un-speak to an elder man. pro-girl, whose body was exhumed dict of science when science shall Jorkens saw in a moment that the from a hidden grave on an island have arrived at the point at young fellow did not believe in the 7-7.35 p.m.-Orchestral.

in the San Joaquin River.

¡which it is able to pronounce on existence of unicorns at all. In any Four Ways, Suits (Erie Coates)

Buch matters Regal Cinema Orchestra conduc-.

By the light of flaming torches, Then, should the verdict betime of life in which one believes with certainty, case, he had not yet passed that ed by Emanuel Starkey 9756-7. investigators reported, the young against Jorkens, and not till then, nothing that the ages have handed expectant will a sporting public turn upon down to us until we have been able him that scornful disbelief that to test it for ourselves. into her they are far too fair-minded to

"I deprecate that hard-and-fast) over show without good and sufficient line between fabulous animals and

proofs.

those that you all chance to have

The Seasons Ballet

(Glazounov, Op. 67). Alexandre Glazounov & Orch.

LX29-30.

Dance of the Flowers (Delibes)

Lucerne Kursaal Orch. LX30. 7.35-9.25 p.m.-Variety.

an

wife, who was mother, was thrown grave and earth shovelled her living body.

She had been accused of un- I myself meanwhile am careful to seen," said Jorkena. "What does it faithfulness to her sick husband record nothing he tells me against amount to, practically, but a line; 8 p.(Local Time & Weather when brought before a meeting which anyone in the Billiards Club drawn round Regent's Park? That's Report).

Song-

Mother of Pearl-~

Ev'ry Woman Thinks She

Wants to Wander Mother of Pearl-The Interview Alice Delysin (Soprano) DB1075. Piano Solo

I Guess I'll Have to Change my

Vocal Duet-

My Silent Love Hello Gorgeous

Mr. T. V. Soong declares In America that there is no chaus in China "except where the Japanese invasion and Japanese intrigue” hame made it." Well, now the Japan- ese "invasion and Japanese intrigue" have ceased, so who is creating Organ Solo- chaos now?

Feng and the South west Politi-

Layton & Johnstone DB926.

Song-Hits (1932)—Medley

Reginald Foort DB762.

The Girl Across the Way Love and Kisses

cal Council obviously, because Nan- Vocal Duet- king decrees that the fighting shall] cease and Feng decrees otherwise, i yet Feng is loyal to Nanking, the de-facto Government of Chinal

of the cult earlier the same night. or elsewhere has been able to bring all it is really. Everything inside Her husband, who has since any proof that would definitely rule that line is an animal you readily died, was ready enough to for-it out in a court of law. And it believe in. Everything outside it in given her but the women mem-would be interesting to see for how fabulous. It means you believe in bers of the cult demanded her long in such a court arguments that an unimal if you have seen it in the death.

may be lightly advanced

Was

more to

MONDAY'S STORY.

Monday's story will be "The Optimist," by Michael Kent,

Oh,

She was bound and gagged, against the exact truth of any one police say, and carried by car to of his tales would stand up against bourers the island where two Filipino la- ridicule of counsel. But the sport- Plan

were roused from bed ng attitude that the public have to dig her grave,

While men adopted towards him is Let's Put Out the Lights

Garroll Gibbons DB1013. members of the cult held torches, Jorkens than a verdict in any court

women hurled her into the grave, of law. And into her face they threw a Curiously enough, it is in the Zoo, otherwise not. However full purse containing $130 which she Billiards Club itself, the source of history is of accounts of the uni husband's brother. Then earth sporting attitude was accused of stealing from her all these stories, that the most un-corn and the most detailed descrip- is often shown tions, still you go off to Regent's was shovelled over her living to Jorkens. For instance, only the Park on a Sunday, and if there is body till she suffocated.

other day one of our members was not one there waiting for your bun The alleged leader of the cult unnecessarily rude to him, though you disbelieve in the unicorn. which has a large membership with only a single word. I need well, I was like that myself till 1 has confessed to the crime, re-hardly say it

Terbut, The saw one." ports the local State Prosecu-word was not in itself a rude one, "You saw one?" said the young.

but was somehow all the more in-fellow who had started the topic. "It was justice." he is report-sidious for that. Also it was really "I'll tell you," said Jorkens." Wild Violets-Don't Say Goodbye fed as saying in explanation, "our single word, and not a short sen- "I was camped once

by the justice! She was an unfaithful tence, as is often the case when a Northern Guaso Nyero, or rather I wife."

writer.aays to you, "I will tell it to was camped two hundred and fifty The story of her death

was you in one word."

yards from it, а distance that brought to authorities by a Fili-

Rut I will tell the story.

Just makes all the difference, They Can't Make a Vule Out of pino who had quarrelled with the We were discussing billiards, for two hundred yards fa cult leader. The suspects were which ie not a thing we often de all that the mosquito flies from his larrested and questioned and fin-in the Billiards Club. There is, I home. Of course he has a good Norman Long DB1090.fally pointed out the grave of the suppose, some sort of feeling that if many homes, that's the trouble; but, 8.25-9 p.m.-

unfortunate young wife.

anyone talks of billiards there his as he prefers a river frontage, it's The Rose-

imagination or his experience can a very good thing to camp that far Reu- provide him with nothing better; from a river. Not that it amounts billiards being, as it were, bedrock to much, for 'Africa can always get in the Billiards Club. in just the you some other way. But there it same way at the Atheneum, al-was. though the bird is inseparable from "Well, I was collecting heads for

Mr. Flotsam & Mr. Jetsam 5012. cutor. Orchestral

Wild Violets-You, Just You Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy

Hotel Orpheans 'CB515, Humorous Song-

Oi!

The Five Year Plan

I have closely studied politics In China for more than twenty years so when Feng Yu-heiang's croops up as it has in the present situation | 1 look up my records to brush up my memory of Feng's history and this is just a little bit of it, suficient however to show the South-west political Council that they are back- ing the wrong horse. Indeed 1 will; go further than that and say they are backing an exceedingly doubt-) Lul starter. He may carry

their money, but even if he does, you can lay heavy odda to a tin kettle that i he won't try, even if he does start,| ed by Capt. George Miller 9221.

English Selection

(Arr. Myddleton)

H.M. Grenadier Guards conduct~!

So the Quintette-

which I very much doubt. South-west Political Council will Songs of Old Erin

(arr. Francis)

certainly lose not only their money but also a good deal of "facę." My records show that in 1924 when' Wu Pel-fu drove Chang Tso-lin's forces out of China proper beyond the Great Wall back into Manchuria, Feng who was left in Peking to look after things there in Wu Pei-fu's absence, turned traitor and smote Wu Pei-fu, his own ally in the back so that Wu Pei-fu, caught between Chang Teo-in forces and Feng's

The Maestros DB232. The Leek- Welsh Airs (Arr. Myddleton)

H. M. Grenadier Guards condt, by Capt. George Miller 9272. Trooping the Colour Desoriptive Sketch

Regimental Band of HM.

Grenadier Guards DX44.

women

Four Filipino among those in custody. ter.

-

were

►

PETROL FROM COAL the club's presiding goddess, one a museum, and had been at it for

TAR.

New Development In British Industry.

BIG PROGRESS MADE.

London.

is be

Considerable progress 9-9.30 p.m.--Schumann's Quintet ing made not only in solving in E Flat Op. 44 for Piano-some of the outstanding problems

had to flee by sea to the Yangtee, forte and Strings played by Ossip of the low temperature carboni

and that was more or less the end

of Wu Pei-fu politically.

And traitor Feng is the man the

South west Political Council

Gabrilowitsch and the Flonzaleysation of coal, but also in the

Quartet.

conversion of tar into oil and motor, spirit, according to the Latest report of the Fuel Re

(This suite is from Z.B.W.'s

are Library).

backing. My advice to them, and

9.30-11.30 p.m-A relay of the search Board.

Orch.

seldom if ever orders an owl for some time, with a white hunter and one's lunch, But we were discuss-eighty natives, trekking through ing billiards to-day, and debating Africa; and I was beginning to get whether bonzoline balls or the old pretty tired of it. I was sitting by ivory kind were the better.

one of our camp fires after supper, | I will not record the discussion, with the white hunter beside me, for it has nothing to do with Jor-and I was gazing into the glow of the smouldering logs and watching | the fire-dies gliding backwards and forwards, and thinking all the whilej of the lights of London. And the more the fire-flies slowly grew into]

BEGGAR RECEIVES

£10,000.

Grateful Government's multitudes, and the more the fire

Repayment.

REVOLUTION` VICTIM,

Belgrade.

glowed, the more I longed for Lon- don. In that mood I asked the hunter what we should do next day; and, whatever he suggested going! after, I pointed out I had shot it already. Which was perfectly true. "And winds came out of the

it is given unasked but in the Hong Kong Hotel Dance

The new development regard- Michael Nikiforovitch Bardi- friendliest spirit as a near neigh from the 1st Floor by Courtesy of ing carbonisation has been due gin-bot long ago a beggar, on forest, or over the plains, and softly bour, is to keep out of complications the Management. (During the In-to the use of brick retorts in- the streets of Moscow--is a rich played with the smoke going up with Mr. Feng Yu-hsiang and con-tervals recorded music will centrate their entire efforts on broadcast from the Studio).

be stead of cast iron retorts, and

from our logs of cedar, and the with a medium coking coal aernment is paying him £10,000. glow of the fire, and every now and man to-day. A greateful go visions changed and changed in the eliminating Bolshevism in China, like Chiang Kai-shek

10.30 p.m.-Rugby Press News. throughput" of 10 tons per day is so wisely.

had been maintained giving also prosperous that he was in a new suggestion, till I said petulant- During the war, Bardigin was then the hunter would make some doing in Central China.

(All records in the above Euro- yield of coke containing approxi-position to make large grants to ly: Find me something I haven't pean Programmes, except where mately nine per cent of volatile the Serbian Bellef Fund. Ha otherwise stated, are kindly sup-matter, and suitable for use as also advanced money to a Ser- shot yet." plied by Messrs. The Anderson domestic fuel in ordinary blan mission in Russia Music Co.)

L. CASSEL

HONG KONG HERIOT CLUB.

June Day Dinner.

Local Herlotonians, who founded

· years ago, gathered together last

the Hong Kong Heriot Club five

́their annual June Day dinner, in

1629.

11.30 p.m.-Close Down,

EMBEZZLEMENT

REPORTED.

$50,000 Missing.*

The

"And he said: "Very well, I'wilL" | -"'What is it?" I said

"And he wouldn't say." "I kept on asking him, but he wouldn't tell me. The man whose

grates.

Trails have been carried out to ruined him, Reduced to abject Bolshevist revolution see how far the brick retort is poverty, he begged for bread in suitable for producting a satis- Moscow. Then he fled to Fo factory lump smokeless fuel,

job it was, the nakari wa called him, from "small

land. "Through- From Poland he made his way and we sat on long with little cold came and put more logs on the fire, puts" of up to six tons per day to France. He still had in his winds on our backs and the warmth were attained and good smoke possession a receipt for 300,000 on our hands and feet, but still he less fuels had been produced. gold roubles which he had lent

coal

Attention has been given to to the Serbian delegates in Mas would not say. Why not?" I ask- night at the Gloucester to celebrate POLICE SEARCH FOR CASHIER the possible preparation of sow at the end of the war. Buted him at lest. Because you'd

lubricating oils from coal tar he despaired of recovering the aren't you?"

think me mad, be said. Well,

· commemoration of George, Herlot, Ma Kwok-leung, an employee of a and hydrogenation products. Amoney as the Serbian existed no my insinuation was true and I asked. Partly who founded the well known. Edin-local banking institution is being yield, small up to the present, of loager burgh educational institution in sought by the Police in connection an oil which behaved like a good

partly; it was the product" of with the embezzlement of $50,000 lubricating oil, has been produc- the Yngoaias legation in Paris had come over me, and Africa was He presented this receipt at some, unreasonable, irritation that Last night's function, which was missing since Wednesday lasted by the action of aluminum There he was advanced enough responsible for both. well attended, was carried out in The suspect is said to be a well-chloride on certain substances money to travel to Belgrade to "Next day he moved our camp to the usual traditional manner beft-connected young man who was em- obtained from light olla The put his case before the courts.the edge of the river, and we wait ting to the occasion and was ployed in the capacity of cashler, suggestion that a lubricating oil He was given £3,000 imed there a long time; I don't rema heartily enjoyed by those present. On Wednesday afternoon $50,000, could be obtained by blending a mediately. The case has since bar how long, quite a fortnight; and

The toast of the evening "The in $500 bills, was missing. Plous Memory of George Herlot" The detective branch are working with another oil, not having Appeal and final appeal and how to find me this new beast that I had partially hydrogenated taroll been examined by the courts of all the while he stuck to his promise was proposed by Mr. 2. Kinghera, on the case information se lubricating properties, is being Bardigin is to be paid a further never shot. president of the Club; caived yesterday from the

followed up.-Reuter

|sum of £7,000,--Beater

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