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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1933.

Famous Figures At The Conference

German, Rumanian And Austrian Leaders

(From Our London Correspondent.)

Dr. Hjalmar Schacht

(GERMANY.}

Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss

(AUSTRIA)

Although not the official leader Engelbert Dollfuss, for the past

and

DAVIS CUP FINAL

AUSTRALIA

AND BRITAIN

THE

ALL SQUARE

CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

The Elixir Of

The Reverend

By Alphonse Daudet.

Father Gaucher

*CIP this, my friend. It would summoned the Fathers to matins,.

Austin's Inspired Spell make a dumb, mán elo-jonly the painful parody of almond-

Against Crawford.

PERRY DEFEATS NERVOUS McGRATH

London. To-day,

The results were:

montre Canons, two leagues from painfully conscious of his tarnish- on your Mill. The finest of the much-ed cross and moth-eaten mitre. Zone vaunted chartreuses is but small "The sisters wept as the monks Wimble-beer in comparison. This Elixir filed past, but the coarse, lusty has a history, too piquant, you may banner-bearers sneered at their think, for the lips of a reverend miserable plight. Monks, like star- churchman, but, M. Daudet, even lings, grow lean when there's not saints have their off-days.”

enough to go round, so, no longer Then leaning back in his arm-able to keep body and soul to-] chair, in the soug dinning-room of gether, there seemed no alternative the Parsonage, hung with dainty but to quit the Convent and wander

J. Crawford (Australia) beat H. W. Austin 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3.

F. J. Perry. (Britain) beat V. McGrath 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.

'quent,"

"said the Minister of wood castanets, .. ¡Graveson, as he poured out drop "Ob, poverty-stricken Fathers! by drop, in measured cadence, a│I can vividly recall your piteous thimbleful of the most exquisite procession on Corpus Christl Day. nectar that ever gladdened the Your threadbare cloaks, your pale inner man.

faces and dejected men, your "It is the Elixir of Father Gau-frames emaciated with the hermit| cher, the glory, the stimulant divine fare of citrons and water-melons. Jack Crawford and. Fred Perry of our Heaven-blessed Provence, It And your worthy Abbe, the last of of the German delegation. Dr. year Chancellor of Austria, is now won their singles matches yesterday is made at the Convent of the Pre- the train, his head bent, all too Schacht, the President of the 40.

He was born in a village in to place Australia and Britain' Reichsbank, is its most important member.

Lower Austria, the son of peasants, level terms in the European He does not belong to the Nazi and sent from a village school to Final of the Davies Cup at Party, but is on intimate terms the universities of Vienna

don. with Herr Hitler and is his chief Berlin, where he studied economics. adviser on financial, matters.

He fought with gallantry on the He is, of course, thoroughly at Italian front in the war as lieuten- home in the atmosphere of con-jant of a machine-gun company. ferences, knows all the leading! After the war he organised the British financiers, and, although Austrian farmers into a Peasants His delegation includes in Count League, of which he became The doubles match between curtains and with pictures of the forth into the world in search of von Schwerin Krosigk a former Secretary. His championship of Hughes and Perry and probably Passion, the Abbe commenced the new pastures.. Oxford Rhodes scholar, speaks the peasants and his expert know-Crawford and Quist will be play story of the Elixir, apocryhall in English more fluently than any of ledge of agricultural problems leded to-day, and on this match parts, and spiced here and there his colleagues.

to his appointment as director of may depend the ultimate result with a dash of profanity in the

Agricultural Chamber

Rain delayed the commence style of. Erasmus most financiers Schacht the Like

And Charles ment of the tie for 90 minutes d'Assouci, shuns publicity. He is a Schles-Lower Austria.

Не supported the Christian and once it was commenced

"Twenty years wiger with Danish blood on his

ago the Canons: nor Austin mother's side. Hence his Christian Socialist movement of the late Dr. neither Crawford

of Premontre, or the White Fathers Seipel, and three years ago was took any risks.

as we call them in Provence, had appointed Minister of Agriculture,

Excitement ran high as the No fallen on evil days. The convent Shortly before Dr. Schacht's

although without a seat in Parlia- ranking players of both countries was tumbling about their ears. birth his parents were living in the

opened what promised to be on The outer walls and the Tower of was being discussed by the Chap- "One day, when the situation ment United States. He was therefore

In May, 1932, he succeeded Dr. of the most thrilling Finals seen in St. Pacume were crumbling inter, word was brought given the middle name of Greeley, Buresch as Chancellor. and in England for many years, and as a pieces. after the famous American March of this year astonished his result the umpire had to appeal for

that Brother Gaucher could dis- "Grass grew in the cloisters, the close an infallible specific for journalist-politician, who founded friends by the firmness with which quietness during the rallies, pillars were cracking, the saints poverty and woe, and was waiting

he decided to reform the Austrian Crawford volleyed well and fore-were wasting away in their niches. outside for an audience. Dr. Schacht likes London and Constitution; and peading this re-ed the fight at every point. Austin Not a window, not a door, was in- comes here frequently. He has a form to govern without Parliament played with extraordinary dash, tact. The wind frore the Rhone you, was the cow-herd at the Co- daughter here. She is married to Since then he has taken drastic his strokes being executed Herr von Scherpenberg, of the measures to avert a

with swept through the courtyards and vent, if the term could be applied Nazi cout more apeed than in former the chapels, as it sweeps across to one whose duty consisted in d'etat in Austria, and has openly matches. He was getting back all the waste of Camargue, extinguish-tending two emaciated cows Dr. Schacht is & strong. self-denounced the movement for an Crawford's cleverly disguised short ing the tapers, breaking the leaded they cropped the scanty herbage reliant, man. He plays neither Anschluss, or union with Germany. ones and played with the greatest panes, and spattering the holy growing in the chinks of the flag golf nor bridge. He is a first-class Although governing by semi-confidence.

water. But the most depressing stones of the establishment. feature of all was the silent clock had been brought up by a roving, tower, tenantless 4.5 $ deserted dove-cote. No silver convent-bell called herself his aunt.

Half-witted woman of Baux, - who

TAMG,

the "Tribun..**

German Embassy.

of

shot, but does not care particular dictatorial methods, he denies that He twice foot-faulted, but

ly for shooting. When he is not he is a dictator, and declares that! rarely has he played with such working, he likes to go to his coun- he is against both dictatorship and try estate forty miles north of the restoration of the monarchy. Berlin. He is a devotee of the Dollfuss is under five feet in -open-air life, and he breeds prize height, handsome, vivacious, but piga.

*

M. Nicholas Titulescu

(RUMANIA-)

M. Nicholas Titulescu Is one of) the ablest statesmen in Europe.

He is now Foreign Minister of Rumania, but whether his nominal post was that of Rumanian Minis- 'ter in London or Paris, or perman-; ent delegate to the League of Nations, he has practically direct- ed his country's foreign policy for the past fifteen years.

amazing dash, revealing very different form to that he displayed at Wimbledon. Playing against an inspired op- shy. His peasant followers la ponent Crawford dropped the first Austris regard him as the national set at 6-4, but, speeding up his hero.

game in the second, he level terms at 6-2. Austin failed to regain his lost brilliance and the Australian took the lead with an- other 6-2 set. ·

Correspondence.

CHEAPER TAXIS

¡To The Editor "China Mail."1

Sir, With the recent reduction

in the price of petrol and the cost.

He is 49 years old, but looks of tyres and spares, could the taxis younger. He speaks English, companies authorities be persuaded French, German, and Italian as the original charge of 40 cents for fluently as his native tongue. the first mile and let us have smaller

M. Tutulescu took a degree into get to reduce their fares back to international law at the University and cheaper taxis in Hongkong

of Paris, has studied finance, and. introduced the income-tax

Rumania.

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He belongs to one of the richest

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came on

Austin strove desperately hard to stage

FRENCH CONSUL'S " AT HOME.” Local Observance of National Day,

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Murder In Studio C," by David Evans:"

the Prior

"Brother Gaucher, I must tell

89

He

"When he was twelve years old the monks took him into the Con- vent. He was despised as a brain-]

less clod, fit only to drive cattle. and capable, intellectually, only of mumbling the Paternoster in his

native patois, Though physically

robust, he never rebelled against his superiors, and klased the rod of contempt with the exemplary French residents in Hong Kong, meekness of a Christian. Some-

a comeback against the Consular and Diplomatic officials re- times, however, he saw visions and Wimbledon champion in the fourth presentatives of

Perry won in straight sets against the nervous 17-year- old McGrath. The young Aus- tralian's play was loose and unsteady. Perry was force- ful both in his volleying and ground shots.

toast

the Navy, Army dreamt dreams. One of Brother

Was

set, but he was beaten 6-3 to give and Air Force, were this morning Gaucher's visions will be a diver- Australia first blood in the

en-present at the residence of the Con-sion,' thought the Chapter, so he counter.

sul General for France, No. 13 Peak was ushered in.. Road, when in "At Home"

"An outburst of derisive merri-) given in commemoration of the fallment greeted his entrance, so of the Bastille, on July 14, 1789, grotesque were his unwieldy bulk,

The French Consul General, M. bis uncouth gestures, his clownish || Dufaure de la Prade proposed the galt. In making obeisance he of "The King", the Chief nearly tripped himself up back- Justice, the Hon. Mr. J. R. Wood, wards, But the clown had the responding with the toast, "The Pre- sense of humour, as, fumbling with

his beads, he naively remarked: sident of France."

"May it please your Reverencer): It's an old saying, but it's a true make the most noise. saying, that the emptiest vessels I've been turning over and over my clod of a pate, and at last drops out, & treasure. You know my old Aunt Begon who took care of me when

The failure of McGrath's fore- hand cost him a match in which poor tennis was played, both play- ers committing numerous mistakes.

Rumanian families, and is married NEW COMMODORE -Reuter.

to

a beautiful and vivacious

woman who was among the most popular hostesses in London when her husband was Minister here.

He is one of the founders of the Little Entente, and with Dr. Benes, -the Foreign Minister of Czechin- slovakia, led the attack of the Little Powers on the Four-Power Pact.

:

TAKES OVER

Official Naval Ceremonial.

CAPTAIN FRANK ELLIOTT

H.M.S. Tarantula this morning

Tall, ulim, Mongol-looking, and a broke Commodore Frank Eikott's

Two Foreigners Remanded.

MAN WITH A BAD RECORD

Tricked Woman Of $60 Money Order.

case

Colony on Wednesday by the P. and ther I shall commit you or not,"

He was former Chief of Staff to

CARS LEFT OUTSIDE THEATRE.

Two Europeans Fined.

I was a youngster? Peace to her Mr. M. A. Milentz, owner of car soul, poor body! But the old hussy No. 1744, living at No. 7. Felix Villa could eing a comic song after a alp was, fined 85 at the Central Court of her Elixir! Well, the body was this morning for causing obstruc- falways on the tramp, and knew the tion outside the Queen's Theatre on taste of every stimulating herb on June 27 at 11 pm by leaving his the mountain-side better than the car in the lane beside the Theatre. most wide-awake old, Corsican

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brilliant debater, M- Titulescu is broad pendant at 8 am, which was After being sentenced to three one of the wittiest as well as one met with a salute of 11 guns from month's imprisonment in 1929, 12 Pleading guilty, the defendant blackbird. And she knew how to of the shrewdest figures in Euro-H.M.S. Tamar, the Tarantula return-months in 1930, and nine months in said that he did not notice the sign keep a good thing to herself. pean diplomacy,

turning a similar salute at 8.08 a.m. 1981, Douglas Gifford, are 38, was prohibiting cars to be parked in Well, after many a year of wander could not be found yesterday after. It is proposed to build an entire-

This evening at sunset, Coin-charged at the Central Police the lane. modore R. R. Marrack's broad pen-Court this morning for, theft. of

ing, picking, tasting, and mixing, Mr. L. B. Gutierrez, of No. 7 Ro- she lighted, on a concoction of the swim in a large pool near the new hospital on the slopes of dant on ILM.S. Tamar will be money by means of a trick, the binson Road was also Ened 85 for choicest piquancy. Although it's South Face Hallway tunnel, Kow-High West, near Sassoon Boad to PASSPORTS DOUBTED atruck, Commodore Elliott's broad same offence for which he has pre- leaving his car, No. 2482, unattend many a year since I helped her loon Tong

take the place of the present

· BY POLICE.

pendant will be transferred from¡viously been convicted.

ed opposite King's Theatre, Queen's cull the herbs, I think that under Reporting it as a case of suspect- the Tarantula to the Tamar, to “You have a shocking record Ipad. morrów morning at 8 a.m.

remand. "the

the guidance of St. Augustine, with ed drowning, Chan Yu Ching told Government Civil Hospital. Captain Frank Elliott, O.B.E., the til, Tuesday afternoon, July, 18, at

the permission of our good Father the police that one of their party, The site has an area of over ten Abbe, and by taking pains," I could Pan On Chin, aged 14, living at 99 acres and at a height of 500 feet new Commodore, arrived in the 2.30 p.m. In order to consider when

Elixir. I should know the taste of when they left the pool to dress uninterrupted view of the south, recover the secret of the wondrous Woosung Street, could not be found above sea level it commands an [0. a.s. Rajputana.

anid, Mr. Wynne-Jones, Eugeny P. Sbitsky, of Poland, age

On July 12 the accused was at

it again. You would only have to: The boys dived into the pool in 29, and Victor R. Borovaky, of Man- Rear-Admiral R.G.H. Henderson, on the General. Fost Omice and saw a

bottle it and sell it at a fancy price search of their comrade but no south-east and south-west churia, age, 23, were charged this H.M. Aircraft Carrier Courageous, Chiness, woman, Ho Luk cash Stiff Sentences Imposed. louis. Then you might hold your. The police have dredged the pool 300 beds and will take the shape of to All your coffers with golden trace of his body be found... It will have accommodation for morning at the Central Magistracy and was appolated to his present money-order for $60.00, which she with entering the Colony on invalid post when the late Commodore had just received from her hus- A $3,000 fine, in default seven Brothers of Le Trappe and the described mall, reservoir be the letter "," with the main wings

my heads as high as the

he haughty but without result. The pool is passports. The defendants were re- Wyndham Lawrie was invalided band. Gifford asked her to let him months hard labour, was imposed Grande, Chartreuse longing to the Waterworks Defacing south and north. There manded for one week on bail of $50 home on May 6 last.

see the notes in order to check the on Chung Po, age 40, this morning The Chapter leapt to their feet partment.

will also be extensive detached Caramodore H. R. Marrack, D.S.C., numbers, and upon receiving the at the Central Police Court. The Prior threw his arm zound

buildings for the increased staff. The defendants, produced pass B.N., has been acting Commodore, money he disappeared.

A smart Chinese female serrcher, Gaucher's neck." The Canons

When completed the hospital v ports which were vissed by the Bri-pending the arrival of Captain F. tish Consulate in the Philippine Elliott.

stopped her on the Tung On Wharf, grasped his hands. The Treasur

PICKPOCKET / GAOLED

stand in the path of the south- and found 100 taels of opiam coner's gratitude was unbounded-nt Islands. The local Police are going This morning the heads of various

west winds cealed on her, AS

during the summer. to communicate with the British Naval Departments made their of

Me klased - the tattered hem of the Lam Kong, age 21, was this morn- The same searcher found - 115 Brother' sackcloth gown. The fng: sentenced by Mr. Wrane danes months, s Consulate in Manila to find out if ficial call on the new Commodore. Chan Wan Wo, an employee of taels of opium on Cheung excitement having sabaided and to six months imprisonment, for the It is understood that the new their passports were made out for To-morrow morning, Commodore the Sun HL Knitting, Factory, Kow, Kiu, age 42, who was ordered by deliberations rearmed, the Chapter theft of a fountain pen taken from hospital will be ready within thres Hong Konggek Elliott will make official call on HE, loon was severely scalded yesterday Mr. Schofeld to pay a fine of $3,000 decided unanimously to hand over the pocket of Chow Chuk-wat, as years, and that when completed, Borovsky was in the Colony last the Governor Sir William Peel when a large vat of boiling water in default eight months hard the cows, to Brother Thrasybulus, they were, walking along Connaught the present hospital will be demo year with the three, young men who KC.M.G, ZB.E. and on HE the turned over on him. He was taken labour.

Bromwich leaving Brother Gaucher tres to Hond yesterday de started out to treck around the|G.O.C., Major-General 0. C. Borrett, to the Kwong Wah Hospital for The two cases were prosecuted pursue the quest of the Elixir.

fished, except for a portion, which world with a wheel-barrow.

District Wat No. 120 w will house, accident and mino C.MG CBEL DSA, LT

Revenue Officer B. O, Grimmite. (Continued in Page 10.)-

the theft and ma

each.

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FACTORY ACCIDENT

treatment