TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1933.
FRENCHMAN CANNOT LI CHI-CHUN IN
he
OBTAIN PASSPORT
Magistrate Comments
On Procedure.
AGOSTINI DEPORTED AND FINED $50
of the defendant, when he entered the plea of guilty.
"The defendant came to Hong Kong in 1930 with the passport he now has, and stayed here several months before proceeding to Can- ton. He has been through long Kong several times and has never been questioned regarding his passport," explained Mr. Kwan. He
also stated that the Frenchman has unsuccessfully tried to get a new passport from his country.
NEUTRAL AREA
Holds Tangshan-Lutai Railway.
QUESTION IN COMMONS
London, to-day..
wangtao and Shanhaikuan were ea dangered, therefore no special mea- sures of protection had been taken. -Router.
$1,000 CLAIMED BY KNITTING CO.
Dispute Over Sale Of Singlets.
1
$500 PAID INTO COURT
THE CHINA MAIL.
Before the Pulsne Judge, Mr. K. E. Lindsell at the Supreme Court
To-Day's Short Story..
A SIMPLE TALE
By H. A. Manhood.
crab had chosen to:
the
CAME upon the cottage turned boat lay in the bleached] I "It is a peculiar fact that this
one grass fringing the beach, its seams The activities of General Li Chi-this morning, the Chung Wo Kait- quite unexpectedly, as
It gaping hungrily, despite the efforts man is a French subject, ret
cannot receive protection chun in the neutral area in Northting Co., of No. 12 Fuk Tsun Street, might a picture in a book. from his own country" stat-China formed the subject of ques-Mongkok, claimed $1,000 and costs was set in the curve of the bay of countless spiders to stitch them for goods sold and delivered to Li like an uncut and solitary gem together; a name was visible on the Wynne-Jones ed Mr.
at the tions in the House of Commons,
Yik-chan, trading as Yik Chan, of in a crescent brooch. Approach gunwale in letters so worn as to etern до more than the idle Central Police Court this
way yesterday. The Under-Secretary No. 97; Wing Lok Street.
was possible either by
anal)—“Michae morning, when Pierre Henri Agos-
for Foreign Affairs, Captain The plaintiffs waived a sum of of the beach, or along a blackberry-scribblings of a tini pleaded guilty of entering the
were draped be! Anthony Eden said that he under $83.20, the original claim being beaded path which had split on Stan-Port Anne," a reposeful com Colony without a valid passport.
$1,083.20, in order to bring the reaching the crumbling garden walls bination. Nets Mr. Agostini, 27-year-old stood that steps were being taken claim into the Summary Court of to branch the crumbling garden tween four bearded piles, forming amphitheatre in which two walls Frenchman, was fined $50.00 and to regularize the position arising Jurisdiction,
to branch the crumbling an crdered to leave the Colony.
Mr. G. S. Ford appeared for the garden walls to branch on either butterflies pirouetted before an in- The authorities are quite right out of General Li's occupation of the
bent bows laid string by string, amarkable calceolaria bloomed before about the invalidity of the pass-short stretch of railway between plaintiff, while Mr. M. A. da Silva side and unite again, as would two attentive audience of fies. A re-
appeared for the defendant." port which Mr. Agostini produced Tangshan and Lutai.
Mr. da Silva in declaring his divergence suggesting that perhaps the one window that could be said to here. said Mr. C. Y. Kwan, counsel Captain Eden said he was not ease, said that his client admitted half of the few wayfarers had lacked view the sea with all attention, a desire to pass mass of yellow bubbles rising waist aware that there were foreigners in one half of the claim for a sum of either courage or that area and that Peitalho, Chin-$500, which had already been paid the cockle-roofed porch: Three tall high, suggesting that a huge and
Into Court The other half of the chimneys projected from the roof wonderful claim for $500 was disputed by like the legs can upturned stool, a sun itself. by the whitewashed wall. counsel, who submitted that the tiny wisp of smoke wavering above An oar had been clamped to a corbel
and bird-sown cats so that the blade jutted in goods supplied in respect of this one of them
the tall manner of an accusing finger, and sum were a consignment to be sold sprouting from another, on commission.
stems nodding a if marking the upon it was burnt the single, almost
a divine waltz. The threatening, word, "Ten" Mr. Ford said he did not acknow.rhythm of ledge that the goods supplied were alates seemed to have ripened in on consignment and said he would sympathy with the few apples yet bring evidence to prove it.
clinging to the two trees crouched Lo Shiu-pan, said he was the together at the rear. A great iron Accountant and Shroff of the plain-X supported the blind and flaking itia arm.
side wall; rusty tears had dropped He had first come into contact from its two lowermost points with with the defendants, when two of such persistency as to make it seem his firm's canvassers had submit-jes though the X was fitted with ted sample singlets to the defen- stilts and simply propped against
single poppy and a I opened the wicket, and the gate- dant, who had consequently placed the wall. A an order with them,
clump of mallow, St. John's-wort keeper, an almond-white cat curled The first conviction against an
flowering currant shrubs in a mouldering lobster pot, awoke On January 8 of this year, the and employee of the China Motor Bus defendants placed their first or-sheltered as best they could behind and stared intently, as through a A total of 1,040 catties of pine Company, the new operators of the der for 50 dozens singlets for a the breached walls, the poppy lead- barely open door, sinking again into I had crossed the wood, amounting to over half a ton,
aum of $550, a cheque for $500 ing a futile prayer against the wind sleep before stolen from the Government Hong Kong Bus services, was re-
of clotted sunlight and smelt faintly Plantations at Aberdeen yesterday. corded this morning at the Central having already been paid into that never ceased to rake them with cobbled yard. The kitchen was full
Court.
It could not be said that the cot- of eucalyptus and new bread: Describing it as the worse case on Police Court.
Later during February and record for some years, Mr. G.
Chan Woon To, a driver mploy-March, further orders amounting tage faced the sea; rather did it Blue flames licked each other's Twemlow, of the Forestry Depart-
an earth couliefed by the China Motor Bus Com-to another 50 dozen were placed look sideways at it, a little patronis-wounds in the gate. A scorched ment, prosecuted
with witness's firm by the defen-ingly, it seemed, perhaps because it blanket was spread over the table, dant.
was aware that it was beyond the and a thin little woman with high An up-rolled sleeves was working back- Witness called round in person reach of the highest tide.
wards and forwards, goffering a Ito collect the amounts due on the
petticoat. So energetically had she separate orders, but was put off from time to time.
been handling the iron that her blouse had escaped from her waist band, and was rippling petal-wise above the black lily of her skirt, Her thin hair was drawn tightly
FORESTRY THEFTS Half A Ton Of Pine Wood Stolen.
was
THREE COOLIES FINED
BUS DRIVER FINED FOR SPEEDING
Dangerous Driving Charge.
CHINA MOTOR BUS COMPANY EMPLOYEE
for possession of the pine wood and pany, was prosecuted by Inspector trespassing on Government pro-Woods for dangerous driving in perty.
The defendant and another man Caine Eoad on June 20. were seen by the Forestry guard in Inspector Woods said that he was by the act of sawing the wood of the
a passenger in the bus driven
The hearing is proceeding.
HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH A CLOCK.
Constable Assaulted By Thief.
scalding sand.
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TO-MORROW'S STORY.
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Peninsula.
DAILY DANCES AT REPULSE
BAY HOTEL
nape, a parting running over like s path across a grey moorland. Her
were puckered as if the tasto of a bitter medicine yet lingered in her mouth. She started as I knocked with the luck-stone hanging from A new programme of social
the lintel, turning, her blue-grey functions is to be provided by The eyes hard with astonishment. 1 Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, offered explanation. Ltd., at the Península and Repulse Bay Hotels, until further notice.
Government Plantation. They were the defendant. The defendant chased and caught. One fell down the hill and had to be taken to the drove from Seymour Road to Lower treatment. This man. Albert Road at an average speed hospital for who is also charged, was unable to of 25 miles per hour. When at the appear in Court.
bottom of Lower Albert Road he Mr. Twemlow said the wood was spoke to the defendant this Was valued at $20 as firewood, but it was his first chance to speak to the driv- worth $200 to the Department, jer without distracting his attention They were fine old trees and pro- but the latter took no heed and con- bably taken from the plantation at inued at a high speed.
BITES POLICEMAN IN Pakshawan, he said.
"The bus, remarked Inspector The defendant was fined $200, in Woods, "was bouncing about all}
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
"Milk?" she echoed soberly. Re- default, three months' hard labour. over the place."
Policeman No. 293 was struck on 20 Catties Stolen.
The defendant said that he had.
the head with a heavy clock by a At the Peninsula, commencing placing her iron upon an upturned Cheng Tai, unemployed, was ar been a bus driver in Kowloon.
hurried across basin, she
to the fine of $20, Mr. thief suspect, who tried to escape from Thursday July 6, 1933 there dresser and lifted the saucer capping rested on the Government planta-
In imposing lon above the New Catch Water Sehofield pointed out to the defen-as they neared the Police Station, will be dinner dances on Tuesdays, a great jug, stroking her Ups Thursdays and Saturdays in the at- thoughtfully. "Yes, I've enough at Aberdeen with 20 catties in his dant that this was the minimum yesterday morning.
Not satisfied with his first attractive fan-cooled Roof Garden, and to possession.
be for speeding in Hong Kong.
spare. An egg and some tempt, the accused started biting and on Mondays, Wednesday and vinegar? Why, yes, I can manage the Policeman in his second effort Fridays, also in the Roof Garden, that to....If you'll just be stepping to make a getaway.
concert music will be rendered this way and taking a seat...." When they finally arrived at the during and after Dinner. These She unlatched a door and led the Police Station two charges were facilities with the Sunday way into a brooding parlour. "You booked against the accused instead symphonic conceret provide enter-must be excusing the litter-the of one. He was charged with theft ininment for every evening of the house is so small, we've hardly room and assaulting an officer.
week.
for our souls." She seemed to
Questioned, the defendant suid, that he could not return to the country, and the Magistrate, in ordering the defendant to be bound over in a sum of $50 remarked," lf you stay here you must behave your- Belf."
43 Cattles of Pine Wood. Tsui Kai Shing, an earth coolle was also arrested at the Govern- ment Plantation, Aberdeen, with 43 catties of pine wood. He was fined $20 or three week's hard labour.
DIVING MISHAP. Fatality At Laichikok Beach,
INDIAN DRIVER IN COURT
Negligent Driving Charged.
SEQUEL TO FATAL CAR ACCIDENT
Wong Sin-san, the accused, plead-
At the Repulse Bay Hotel dally, settle her soul more firmly, ka ond jed guilty to both charges, this morn-on week days, there will be tea might dispose a child in a cradle. jing at the Central Police Court dances from 5,30 p.m. to 7 p.m. With nervous haste she swept a Sentence of six weeks imprisonment after which snacks and meals a la folded suit and a foot-square Bible was imposed for larceny, and a fine carte will be available. Later in from a horsehair armchair, dusted Arising out of the fatal motor-of $75.00, or six weeks, for assault the evenings there will be Dinner the, seat with her apron, and re- car accident yesterday in which a child was killed, Doost Mahamed, an Indian driver of Public Vehicle 631,
appeared before Mr. Schofield at the WOMAN'S ORDEAL ON Central Court this morning. The
charges against the defendant were. jof negligent driving and of having linefficient brakes on his car.
A fatal dive was made by Chan
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared on Ma-sung, a young student, at the behalf of the defendant. Ching Mo Athletic Association, Inspector Alexander asked for a Laichikok beach, yesterday after-week's remand, with bail of $500.-
Mr. Rendall asked for a reduction
noon,
Police, with the assistance bathers, recovered the body.
News In Brief.
RAILWAY TRACK,
Dances from 9.p.m. till midnight, arranged the antimacassar: "T At all these dances one of the not be keeping you many minutes,” will be in attendance. Hong Kong Hotel Dance Bands she said, and went from the room, her skirts caressing divers chair On Sundays at Repulse Bay, con- legs, causing them to smile faintly cert music will be played from through the film of dust. 12:30 p.m. till 215 p.m., and there will be a Tea Dance from 4.30 to
6.30 p.
A LEAP TO DEATH.
Man Who Tried To Escape Arrest.
It was Impossible not to feel
Injured And Helpless
chilled in that room. Gazing at the Between Rails.
rock-crystal crucifix propped upon the mantel, it was not difficult to Cape Towne.
Imagine that I sat in a relic-strewn chapel A quaint little harmonium Falling from the Rhodesian
drowsed in ene corner; had I Chan dived from a height of 10 of the bail.
Įmall train to Cape Town in the
squeezed a hymn from it, the naine fect into the water where the The Magistrate asked Inspector early hours of the morning, a
less Methodist parson guarding the depth was only five feet. He did Alexander if the charges against the young woman passenger lay in-
doorway, Lord Nelson, the Prodigal not rise after the dive,
defendant were likely to become Jured between two sets of rails)
Son, Florence Nightingale, and : the of more serious. Inspector Alexander for two hours before she was
A verdict of “accidental death host of hour-glass and barrel-shaped replied that he could not answer this rescued. She lay unnoticed
while attempting to escape from nonentities staring from their question at the moment,
inches from the rails while trains custody," was returned by the jury wormy frames would have opened Mr. Rendall said that the bail thundered up and down. could be increased if more serious Her plight was first observed by at an inquiry held at Central their mouths and sung Instily. charges were preferred later in the the driver of a train from WeLing- death of a Chinese, who jumped terrifying I counted thirty-three into the Their concentrated gate was vaguely Magistracy yesterday, The forthcoming marriage is hearing. The defendant's father ton at seven o'clock in the morning. announced of Joseph Thomas Ste-lived in Hong Kong and belonged to He pulled up and the guard and over a retaining wall in attempt to pairs of eyes and the single one of wart Smith of, the Chinese National the Patan group "who hang to some passengers jumped out and escape after he had been arrested. Lord Nelson centred upon me, and Mr. Wynne-Jones acted as was almost moved to declare my in- Railways, (Canton Kowloon Line), gether", sald Mr. Rendall, found the woman covered in blood and Catherine Sullivan, of Tung He asked if he might know the and with her clothes almost tora Coroner, sasisted by a jury com- nocence. The arms of the horse- Shan, Canton.
number of witnesses for the pro-from her. She was conscious and prising Messrs. A. McKeller (fore hair chair were like prickly leaves to secution.
leald she fell from the platform of man), A. F. Paul and B. C. Randall, the touch, as fortunate peculiarity, since by maintaining a firm grip I Letters of administration to the Inspector Alexander said that the the train shortly after five o'clock. Jnr.
was able to view the remaining estate of Wong Foo, alias Wong number was not fixed. There were, She lay between the rails while
furnishings without-awa, The vast (3 Cheung, Tak, trader of Toronto, however, three eye-witnesses, and trains went past without seeing
number of shells disposed about the Canada, and later of Lam Lung the Police were trying to obtain the her. She was powerless to move. Tong Village, Tol-Shan, who died evidence of the passengers who were An improvised stretcher was Fair weather generally with local room led me to suppose that a feast intestate on November 18, 1982, in the car at the time of the ac made with cushions from the com- showers and moderate South-West of shellish had taken place there at
ar at the time Jeaving - $6,000, ' were granted to cident.dev
ed to Cape Town. She was taken to winds, is forecasted in the report an early date, the debris being only Wang Sze Toshi, widow of the de- The defendant was remanded for a city nursing home," where she re-issued from the Royal Observatory Partially removed. ceased
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lone week on bail of $500.
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