1933-07-11 — Page 7

3

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BUS-DRIVER FINED BRITAIN'S ROVING TELEPHONE ACROSS To-Day's Short Story.

Disobeyed Traffic Signals.

EUROPEAN LADY DRIVER

OBSTRUCTED

Mrs. L. J. Barker, appeared as a witness against Ng Ting, a China; Motor-Bus driver who was moned at

drove past the

constable

-מנס

PREMIER

THE DESERT

Mr. MacDonald Faces Iraq To Palestine Line MIGGLES

Fire Of Criticism.

RESENTS THE ATTACK

London.

TG-

Progressing.

PIPE-LINE READY IN 1935.

eight, including the

By Bret Harte.

gate. It was securely locked. "Miggles! O Miggles!" No answer.

The driver got down and tried the

Always Fresh and Cool..... Even the most strenuous games in the hottest weather do not worry her. She is in splendid physical trim, the centre of attrae- The radiantly healthy woman is kept in that condition by a plentiful, rich and pure blood-stream. Weak, ailing, listless wo 'men' are always anaemie. Their blood is thin, scanty and impure. In consequence they are mora

Baghdad. W were We had not spoken Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has in re-

Good progress

is now being the Central Magistracy cent months come in for a good deal made on the pipe-line and the during the passage of the last this morning for disobeying a traf-of criticism in some sections of the telephone cable which are being six miles, since the jolting of the

"Migg-elle! Yoo Miggles!" con- e signal at the corner of Arbuth-press and elsewhere because of his laid across the desert from Iraq heavy vehicle over the rougher-

ing road had spolled the Judge's tinued the driver, with rising wrath. det Road and Caine Road, The de- repeated excursions abroad to at-to Palestine.

The pipe-line must be finished last poetical quotation. The tall man "Migglesy!" joined in the express fendant, who pleaded guilty, was tend international conferences and

persuasively. “O Miggy1 fined $15-

to discuss matters with foreign by 1935, when the Haifa end beside the Judge was asleep, his man, It was stated that the defendant Statesmen. When he returned from and the Kirkuk end are expect arm passed through the swaying Mig!"

But no reply came from the ap- one read sarcastic Jed to meet "somewhere in the strap and his head resting upon it red light signalAmerica causing Mrs. Barker, who was ap-

ferences to "the distinguished desert." The telephone, it is altogether a limp, helpless-looking parently insensate Miggles. The proaching in the opposite direction visitor to this country," and ad- anticipated, should be completed object, as if he had hanged himself Judge, who had finally got the win- in her car, to pull up suddenly.

monition that he would do well to by the end of this year.

and been cut down too late. The dow down, put his head out and Mrs. Barker then informed the leave foreign affairs alone and de-] The pipe-line is being con- French lady on the back seat was propounded a series of questions, on duty that she would vote himself to solving urgent home structed by the Iraq Petroleum asleep, too, yet in a half-conscious which if answered categorically Be willing to appear as a witness problems such as unemployment. Company: the telephone line is propriety of attitude, shown even in would have undoubtedly elucidated against the defendant if action

While no doubt this view appeals a joint project of the British and the disposition of the handkerchief the whole mystery, but which the tion, the envy of less fortunate women.

which she held to her forehead, and the driver evaded by replying that were taken.

to some people, it is obvious that in, the Iraq Government. these days, with the League of The project of the Haifa which partially veiled her face. The "if we didn't want to sit in the Nations, the Disarmament Con- Baghdad railway, it is expected, lady from Virginia City, travelling coach all night, we had better rise ference and all the other Inter-was one of the subjects dis- with her husband, bad long since up and sing out for Miggles." national pow-wows that are con- cussed by King Feisal in Lon-lost all individuality in a wild con stantly being held, it is essential 'don in June. Other subjects of fusion of ribbons, veils, furs, and that the head of the Government, discussion are likely to be mod-shawls. There was no sound but should go abroad from time to time fications of the Iraq Railway and the rattling of wheels and the dash of rain upon the roof. Suddenly in order to come into personal con-port directorates. Lact with the Statesmen of other! The railways, it is said here, dimly aware of voices. The driver the stage stopped, and we became. nations. In the recent debate both are to be put under a Board, and Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Ansten the Port under a Trust, on both was evidently in the midst of an Not content with having passed a Chamberlain defended the Prime of which Britain will be repre- the road-a colloquy of which such exciting colloquy, with some one in stationary tram, he stopped his car Minister against his

critics, the Bented. Both the railways and! and returned to assault one of the Liberal Leader declaring that Mr. the port still owe

¡fragmenta the British passengers, stated Inspector Alex- 'MacDonald deserved the thanks of Government considerable sums of “twenty feet of water." "can't pass,” So we rose up and called on ander in prosecuting Li Fook, a the nation for his mission to money.-Reuter.

distinguishable Miggles in chorus; then separately. were occasionally above the storm. Then came a lull And public vehicle driver, at the Central America.

when we had finished 8 and a Magistracy this morning.

mysterious voice from the Hibernian fellow-passenger from road shouted the parting adjura- the roof called for "Maygella!” The defendant was summoned line of attack was shown at question

whereat we all laughed. While we were laughing, the-driver cried

our infinite:

DRIVER ANNOYS

PASSENGERS.

Fined $10 For Passing Stationary Tram.

That Mr. MacDonald resents this

U.S. COURT,

✓

SJ

"Try Miggles'e.”

for passing a stationary tram, and time the recently when he gave an CHINESE PUZZLE INtion also with falling to notify his unusually sharp contradiction to re- change of address.

ports that he was proposing to re- Pleading guilty, he said that one trun to Geneva to

"save the Dis-

of the passengers struck him in armament Conference," declaring American Flag Flown

remarked Cabinet-Reuter.

the face with a newspaper and he that the matter had not been con- returned to demand an explanation.sidered either by himself or by the

Inspector Alexander that the passengers were walting to board the tram.

A fine of $10 was imposed on each count.

INDIAN DRIVER REMANDED.

·Sequel To Fatal Accident On July 3.

BALCONY COLLAPSE

Upside Down.

"bridge

gone,"

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Moses Montefiore," by Sh. An-Sky.

We caught a glimpse of our "Shoo!" leaders as the vehicle slowly turned,

We listened. To

"Extraordinary dd skunk!**

of a horseman vanishing through amazement the chorus of "Miles the rain, and we were evidently on was repeated from the other side our way to Miggles's,

of the wall, even to the final and Who and were was Miggles? The supplemental "Maygells.” New York. Judge, our authority, did not re- "Extraordinary echo," said the The love of Fong Eng, owner member the name, and he knew the Judge. of a chop suey restaurant, for country thoroughly. The Washoe his adopted America led him to traveller thought Miggles must keep roared the driver, contemptuously. fly the Stars and Stripes above an hotel. We only knew that weCome out of that, Miggles, and his doorway at the feast of the were stopped by high water in front show yourself! Be a man, Miggles! Coming of the Great Dragun. and rear, and that Miggles was our Don't hide in the dark; I wouldn't Next day he was arrested. He rock of refuge. A ten minutes if I were you, Miggles," continued At the resumed hearing of the in-had been flying the flag upside splashing through a tangled by-road, Yuba Bill, now dancing about in an quest into the balcony collapse at down in violation of the United scarcely wide enough for the stage, excess of fury. No. 15 Yuk Sau Street, held at the States Penal Code.

and we drew up before a barred

Construction Foremen Give Evidence.

Miggles"

"Miggles!" continued the voice, Central Magistracy yesterday, Loit "We Chinese read backwards. and boarded gate in a wide stone" Chues, a cement concrete foreman, We do not consider it a disgrace," wall or fence about eight feet high. My good man! Mr. Myghail!" engaged by the contractor, was in He explained to the magistrate Evidently Miggles's, and evidently said, the. Judge, the witness-box. Li Cheuk, a fore- His explanation was accepted. Miggles did not keep an hotel.

softening the Appearing on remand charges of man employed by the owner of the-Reuter. negligents driving and having in-building, Mr. Kwok Wai-sam, also efficient brakes on his car. Doost gave evidence.

Mahamed, Indian driver of a It was stated that the men who public vehicle, was remanded until poured the cement were not avail- Friday at the Central Magistracy able at the moment as they worked in gangs and moved about on joba this morning.

The charges arise out of a fatal from Macao to Canton, only DC- accident which occurred at Saiwan- casionally visiting Hong Kong. iho on July 3, when a Chinese girl, Mr. W. Schofield acted as Coroner,

assisted by a special jury comprisi Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared ing Messrs. R. A. Rodgers (fore!

man), Colbourne Little, and Li for the defendant.

Koon-chun.

was killed.

P.W.D. LORRY DRIVER FINED.

Dangerous Driving

For driving in a dangerous man- ner at Whitfield, North Point, Chan Chuen Yip, a P. W. D. lorry-driver was fined $30 by Mr. Schofield at. the Central Court this morning.

Chief Inspector Marks said that

MASS PROSECUTION IN ZULULAND, ́

270 Natives Sentenced

To Gaol.

Umzinto, Zululand.

OIL INDUSTRY IN FRANCE. Nationalisation Scheme Rejected By Senate.

Paris.

asperities of the name as much as possible. "Consider the inhos. pitality of refusing shelter from the inclemency of the weather to help- less females. Really, my dear six——" But 8 auccession of "Mirgles," ending in a. burst of

laughter, drowned his voice.

Yuba Bill hesitated no longer. Taking a heavy stone from the road, he, battered down the gate, and with the expresaman entered the en- "France is not an oil-produc-closure. We followed." Nobody was As a sequel to a tribal fight in the ing country,” the "Revue. Petroll- to be seen. In the gathering dark- Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K. C. (Instruct-Umtwalumi Valley 298 natives were fere" points out, discussing the ness all that we could distinguish

charged before jed by Mr. P. E. Nash, of Messrstrate and all except 28 were con- passed by the Chamber but turn- the rose-bushes that scattered over the local magis Socialist proposal, which was was that we were in a garden-from Woo and Nash, appeared for the

victed, (contractors, Messrs. Wang Tak andi

Varying fines were imposed down by the Senate, to nation-us a minute spray from their drip- Co., Mr. H. J. Armstrong of Mesars.j

jed, ranging from £2.108. to £17.10s.jalise the oil industry in France. ping leaves-and before a long, Deacons, for the architect, Mr. A, with the alternative of from two It should not be forgotten, rambling wooded building. 3. Lane, and Mr. M. K. Lo, of months to six months hard labour. the newspaper continues, that "Do you know this Miggies?" Mesari, Lo and Lo, for the owner of

Only a few could pay their fines, France was supplied with oil dur- asked the Judge of Yuba BiIL- (the house.

The local gaols were thus suddenly ing the last war by foreign com "No, nor don't want to," said Bilij over-crowded and most of the pri-panies. Is it likely that these shortly, who felt the Pioneer Stage soners will have to be transferred same foreign companies, if they Company insulted in his person by

are turned out of France now, the contumacious Miggles. will come to the help at a future "But, my dear sir, expostulated date of the Government which the Judge, as he thought of the

barred' gate.

"BOUNDARY" BAR IN BRITAIN.

the defendant overtook a tram on Maidenhead Hotel Under

the wrong side of the road, and ig- hored the signal to top which Inspector Marks gave from his car.

J OPIUM IN HIS

BOOTS.

AN OBSERVANT OFFICER

Two Laws.

RAW GOLD STOLEN has expelled them?

"If passed, the measure would

"Lookee, here," said Yuba-Bill, Gold-Smith's Theft.

endanger the employment of with fine irony, "hadn't you better 100,000 persons in France and go back and sit in the coach till yer the incomes of thousands of oil Introduced? I'm going in," and he Convicted at the Central Police stockholders. The off industry pushed open the door of the build- London Court this morning for the theft of must organise to defend its ing Talking of drinks, there is a$200.00 worth of raw gold, Chan vital interesta." strange rule in operation at an Yu-wai, employee in a gold-emith

Reuter.

A long room, lighted only by the hotel near Maidenhead.

embers of a fire that was dying on The hotel stands in two coun-imprisonment

shop, was sentenced to two months"

THEFT OF SILK.

the large hearth at its further ex- Itles. One half of it is in Berk Several months ago the gold was

tremity The walls curiously paperáð, and the flickering firelight, bringing New Ruse Adopted By hire and the other half is in given to him by his master to make Youth Gaoled.

out its grotesque pattern; somebody Buckinghamshire. Smuggler.

lear-rings with. When arrested this Now drinks can be served in morning the accused could only pro

sitting in a large armchair by the Buckinghamshire until 10.30 at duce a small amount of the gold, morning sentenced, at the Central crowded together Into the

Hul Bai-yam, age 19, was this fireplace. All this we saw as wel room, night, but in Berkshire they valued at $17.10, can only be served until ten

Police Court, to six weeks Imprison after the driver and expressman. Wearing a pair of boots many o'clock. The long bar of the hotel

ment, for the theft of 4% yards of

"Hello," be you Miggies in said Yabs Bill to the solitary occupent sizes too large for him, Wong Ching, runs across the boundary line, Chinese attempted to smuggle 80 and the boundary is marked by

The youth stole the silk from a The gure neither spoke nor taels of raw opium under the soles a nail in the counter. So at 10

store at 78 Queen's Road, where he stirred Yubs Bill walked wrath- of his feet, as he walked off the o'clock, each evening all the

was employed remodelling the shop folly toward it and turned the eye Fung On Wharf yesterday morning, drinkers have to move across

The cloth was found concealed on his of his coach-lantern upon its face. He was detected, however, by a from one side of the nail in the

person.

* It was a man's face, prematurely old {and" wrinkled; with very large eyes, Chinese Revenue Officer who stopped (counter to the other side!- him and examined, his over-sized (Heuter,

Helsingfors.

in which there was that expression footwear, with the result that he

rying towels

of perfectly gratuitous solemnity hairdressers Among the passengera arriving which I had sometimes seen in an and razors, from Australia on the Taiping to owl's. The large eyes wandered pers - and field and daughter, Mr. Stambeld from Bill's face to the lantern, and spades, marched is a clerk at the Supreme Court luminous object, without further re- and scavengers day were Mr. aid Mm. B. L. Stain finally dad their gaze on that

AARON ME

#Byrne, B. 1. And Bill restrained himself with an Dolan, 8, J were among effort.

kppeared at the Central Magistracy

NOVEL CARNIVAL IN RUSSIA.

Cleanliness Parade.

Washerwomen and bars of flourishing clas

Yesterday morning charged with OPIUM-CARRIER FINED $2,400.com aris possession of opfum, ""

carving : kilves":

He was fined $900, in default five A $2,400.00 fine, in default six shouldering their

months" "hard labour.

WEATHER FORECAST

Kharkoff -- in e

novel carn-The rities Rev

months' imprisonment was imposed through the stre fon-Chan - Kan, youthful oplum Soviet Ruska dur carrier, by Mr. Wynne-Jones this valʼorgemised by morning.

The diject of the carnival, Moderate, and fair to showery, District Watchman No. 119 found reported here, was to with south-east winds, "is the 20 tins of opium secreted on the de- the Inhabitants" of the tow weather forcast fasued by the Royal fendant by means of heavy rubber necessity of per Observatory this morning?

menara! cleanliness Finger

banda

Personal Pars.

arrived

compition

Bigglel. Be you deaf? You Aust

lain't dumb anyhow, you know?* and the su 75% Yuba Bill shook the insensate figure

by the shoulder,

(Continued on Page 10).

SUSCEPTIBLE TO HOT WEATHER CONDITIONS.

* « ** |

Both men and women who feel the heat unduly should try.. course of Dr. Williams' Pink Prin This world-famous, Blood- making, nerve-restoring tonie rapidly replenishes the reserves of physical and nervons energy, strengthens the digestive organs, re- stores appetite, and in fact, raritalises the whole system.

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills

PROVED EFFICACIOUS BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

:

DEPRESSION,

are an accepted specific for snaemia. (blood impoverishment) and the group of ailments resulting therefrom which includes: NERVE TROUBLES,

PHYSICAL WEAKNESS, FALLOR, DYSPEPSIA NEURITIS, PREMATURE AGE, CHLOROSIS,

EMACIATION, POOR APPETITE,

NEURALGIA,

RHEUMATISM,

INSOMNIA

HEADACHES,

WOMEN'S AILMENTS, SCIATICA.

After Malaria and other debilitating illnesses,

Dr. Williams, Pink Pills are a rapid restorative,

DR. WILLIAMS" PINK PILLS

IDEAL TONIC FOR HOT COUNTRIES,

MAN LOONG. PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS,

NEW-SEASON PRESERVED GINGER Best Quailty - Prompt attention to Exportern." Offen: -2, -Dundas Street, Kowloon, Tel: 67088 Factory-2, Godown, Prays, Dundas Street, Mongiei.

"I LIKE A BOY WITH SENSE WHO ORDERS

H.B. BEER"

SAYS FANNY

"Not that I drink, but I like a glass sometimes like everyone does and when I do, I like something good

and what I say is a lady can drink beer and be a lady, if you know what

mean.

DRINK H.B. BEER REGULARLY

IT'S GOOD FOR YOU.

THE HONG KONG BREWERS & DISTILLERS, LTD,

BUTTON BUILDING, 7” DUDDELL STEKET, HONG-KONGS

Tel. 25146

Now Maturing,. Ready