1933-07-19 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIE.

To-Day's Short Story.

·CHARGE

NEW YORK

TO WELCOME

POST LANDS AT IRKUTSK

PUBLIC MISCHIEF

AIR ARMADA

440,000 Italians To Fete Compatriots.

LEAVE CHICAGO TO-DAY

New York. To-day. A great welcome is being prepar ed here for the Italian Air Armada, which is due to leave Chicago for New York at 8 a.m. to-day.

The

Round The World Flight.

RECORD IN SIGHT

Irkutsk, To-day.

American

Wiley Post, the flyer, landed here at 3.35 p.m.. (local time) yesterday, after completing the hop from Novosibirsk in 6 hours, 40 minutes.

a

only

In his attempt to establish United States Navy dirigible. "Ma-new record for a round-the-world

" will meet

them along the flight, Post plans to make con.

three more landings before reach Toute.

A crowded programme awaits ing New York, from

where he

Tsang Pui Discharged. By Court.

ORIGINAL INFORMER

NOT CAUGHT

Remarking that the police had failed to produce evidence of guil- Ity knowledge, Mr. E.. I. Wynne- Jones at the Central Magistracy this morning discharged Tsang Pui, an umbrella repairer, on A charge of "effecting a public mis- chief by causing officers of the Dis- trict Watch Force to devote time.

days, 15 hours, 50 minutes, in secuted.

1715

Mr. George Robey is a man of several hobbies. Chief among them is the making of violins. His study of these has provided him with the theme of to-day's Short Story.

By George Robey.

"See!" he added; reaching up for a violin that rested beside two old brass candlesticks, there is one that for your own eyes you can see. It. say. Antonio Stradivari, 1727, and it is a so nasty, villain feedle that [I will sell to you for thirty snilling. “Ah, monsieur, what for do you HAVE a violin to sell," said bring me a feedle with the label?

beeg 'ow d'you call- the shabby little man, as he Now a of false allegations, thereby tem-an the old antique dealer's coun- There is another one; smaller it is. and services on the investigations put down a rather battered case bassoon--would so better be. See! |porarily depriving the public of the ter: "Would you care to see it?" but with the same size label. Thirty the flyers, who are led by Gen-started last Saturday morning. He services of the Officers and render- Pierre Dubois, who had been shilling I sell you for; thirty shill- eral Balbo, Italian Air Ministers, will touch in at Kharborovsk, Fairing one Chow Moning liable to sus-polishing up a Cloisonne vaseling for either of those two in the the first official function being a banks and Edmonton.

picion, accusation and arrest.” when the shop door chattered corner up. All have the labels, dinner given by Admiral Sterling, Flying solo in the same plane in This is the first case of its kind

jopen, laid aside his duster and monsieur-all at thirty shilling! which will be attended by the which he and Harold Gatty es-heard in the Colony.

moved rather grudgingly up the "But it is that you wish to sell Governor of New York State and tablished the present record of 8 Detective Sergeant Elston pro-counter to where the little man and not to buy, yes? Let me open and see if it is the feedle that I say 1931, Post is making excellent time The defendant pleaded not guilty.

Everybody wanted to sell some-Mon Dieu! what a case, my frien'! despite a forced landing at Koenis- stating that he acted on the infor- thing: nobody wanted to buy any-So-how you call-banged! Now, berg on Sunday, owing to bad mation of another man..

thing. He'd violins in number, bric-is it? Yes? No! Mon Dieu, it is The Magistrate pointed out that brac in plenty, and it seemed to the worse than terrible! The bridge the responsibility rested with the him, in his present state of despon-break, a peg there is missed, and it police to check their source of in-dency, that they would remain with has the bad labell Tch! My formation. They had not done so him until he died. If only he could frien'!" in this case. Otherwise the origin-buy

some priceless piece from "But take it out; you haven't seen informer would have

someone who was ignorant of its lit properly," said the little caught, which would have made value! But such fortune, he knew,, with his temper rising. "You don't matters very different.

came but few times in an antique judge a violin because its bridge is was no evidence of the dealer's life; and for a long time broken, or because it has a peg miss- defendant having a really guilty past it had cluded him unkindly. ing. Look at it!" mind and on that point he have to discharge the man.

BEHIND THE VEIL IN BAGDAD.

the Mayor of New York City.

The Italian population of New York, numbering 440,- 000 people, are en fete. and tense excitement reigns as they await the arrival of their compatriots.

The flyers arrived at Chicago un Saturday evening after flying from Italy via Amsterdam, Londonderry, Reykjavik (Iceland). Cartwright:

weather.

He made a fast Atlantic cross ing, his first stop after leaving New York being Berlin.-Reuter,

+

(Labrador), Shediac (New Bruns-CONSTABLE HELD ON

wick) and Montreal.

On their return flight, General Balho plans to stay for a short while) in New York before flying over the Atlantic via the Azores, with an in- termediate stop in Spain.-Reuter.

LINDBERGHS MAP

AIR ROUTE

Four-Hour Flight Over Labrador.

FOG DELAYS HOP TO GREENLAND

'Cartwright, Labrador, To-day.

over

Coonel Charles Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh, made a four-hour aerial mapping expedition

northern Labrador, yesterday, in con nection with the proposed northeim air mail and pas- senger service between England, Canada and the United States.

Fog is at present holding op their proposed flight to Greenland.

The object of the Lindbergns

BRIBERY CHARGE

Said To Have Freed Woman For $15.

AN OPIUM ARREST

There

been

would

istood..

man,

"What sort of a feedle is it?" he

"No, my frien'; I look enough. I asked doubtfully.

look until it give me the-how d'you "It is a Stradivari," the little man call-stomach pain. But I give you answered, as he released a catch of twenty-five shilling because your the case.

face it look, so sad, and you have a "Tch! A Stradivari" the old scar from 'ow you fight in my Frenchman repeated. "And how France-yes?"

Hung Shing-kit, a Chinese police Education Department (know you it's a Stradivari?"

constable, was charged

at

the

Central Police this morning with

misconduct as a police officer.

Mr. L H. C. Calthrop, A.S.P. prosecuted, and Mr. T. P. K. Kemble was counsel for the de- fendant.

Steps In.

PREPARING FOR NEW AGE

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be The Major Has Án. Idea,” by Peter Cheyney.

The little

man shook his head. "You don't know a violin when you see It," he said.

"The label is inside," said the shabby little man, as he released the other catch of the case. "And you can see it was made in 1715."

"Tch! The label is inside,” the| Baghdad. Down through the centuries the old man repeated, with a click of his women of the East have been veiled, tongue. "Monsieur, what for do It was stated that the defendant aloof, mysterious......You would you make fun with me, huh?"

"You don't believe me?" said the arrested Chinese woman, Yeung have said that the crude' modes of He, in Queen's Road West on July western cities could never have little man coldly, as he snatched up

the clasps of the case and made a The old Frenchman shrugged his 13 for possession of opium. On corrupted them. But the Ministry

shoulders-lifted them, it seemed, the way to Central Police Station of Education here has issued a cir-esture to depart. they were met by a relative of the cular to women teachers in Iraq Frenchman said. "I believe too fabby ears.

"But yes. monsieur," the old until they nearly touched his big

"Tch!" arrested woman, and it is alleged warning them that in future theywell It is the practice, so dis- "A pity" the little man went on that following a conversation the must be more discreet. And here gusted, to put in these cheap, nasty wearily. "And I've to burry now constable allowed the woman to go are some of the things they Are

feedles a copy of the label free on receiving $15.

famous maker use. The woman later reported the matter to the police and at Au identification parade the defendant was picked out by the woman.

The defenant was remanded on

forbidden to do;-

Attend parties held in caborêts; Use face-powder; Make-up their lips; Use eye-Black.

The Ministry says that by using

bail of $500 until Friday after- the adornments of make-up, women

flight, which commenced on July 9, noon.

is to eurvey for the Pan-American

Airways the beat route for the pro-

posed plane route. They will searchi

;

the to meet a friend...I wonder might I leave it with you for the time? I shall be back this way early this evening."

SHIPPING OFFICIAL

PASSES.

Mr. G. E. Ellams.

"Certainly certainly, my frien". So safe it be here. See!. I put it the counter under, then again I have not the stomach pain!"

"Wait!" said the little man. "I've

teachers "set a bad example to the young girls under their tutelage."

a key to the case; it had better be The Ministry also points out that.

The death occurred at the Canossa locked." the parents of the girls have en- Hospital yesterday, after an illness "Tch! Tch! That

vil'afn for possible landing grounds and SILENT ROTARIANS. rusted the bringing up of their of over two mouths, of Mr. George feedle such love should have!" Children to the teachers and it is Ernest Ellams, secretary of the Dubois exclaimed in despair. "My may continue their flight, later, to

the teachers' duty to see that they Hong Kong. Canton and Iceland and Dermark.--Reuter.

Macao frien', a glass case for it you should are brought up in a decent man-Steamship Co., Ltd.

have! See! Here is one so beauti- ner-Reuter.

Mr. Ellama, who was 44 years of full The birds. I can out take and age, was formerly of Singapore. sell you for five...but you go—yes? He went to England towards the You come back this evening soon- end of the Great War to join the yes? Good-day, monsleur, good-

Armistice day!" Artists Rifles, but the was signed before he got to France. He then joined the shipping firm

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CHELTENHAM

FLYER" TO BE

No Tiffins In The Summer?

It was suggested at the Rotary

ACCELERATED Club tiffin yesterday held at Glou-

Faster Service On Britain's fron Road.

71.35 MILES PER HOUR

Even the "Cheltenham

London.

Flyer,"

| cester Building that the tiffins should be discontinued during the heat of the summer months.

OLDEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

122 Wives and 112 Children,

Jerusalem.

Pierre Dubois put the case under

The chairman, Mr. T. B. Wilson

of Messra. Alfred Halts, of Liver-the counter, and when he had done remarked that the question of a

pool. Thirteen years ago he came so, struck the palms of his hands "Ladies' Day" would be consider-

to Hong Kong as assistant secretary slantwise, as if to rid himself of its ed, when

to the Hong Kong, Canton and dust and dishonour.. But its pre- members could invite

The oldest man in the world, Macao Steamship Co., Ltd. their lady friends.

who claims to be

and sence, even there, seemed to offend 150 years of Guests welcomed, at the tiffin age, has come to Beirut, in Syria. Arnold, secretary, acted in that was at work on

during the absence of the Mr. J.him, and more than once when he rubbing up the The fastest train in the world, is/were Messra. G. R. Payne and H. R. His last visit was made in 1830.post. He was made secretary of the Cloisonne vase he threw down his

Wilkenson (London),

He is Badik Agha, from Company in 1932. He was a keen duster and delivered a kick at the Apologies for absence were re-Turkey, who says that he was tennis player and golfer, and a rac- case to relieve his feelings. To- ceived from Rotarians R. H. Kote-born six years before the French ing enthusiast. Of a cheerful dis-wards the end of the morning, how- wall, A. E. Gerondal and Rev. E. G. Révolution. He has had 122 position, he will be greatly missed ever, he had, through dint of hard Powell.

wives and 112 children. The Cheltenham Flyer will be

His by the staff of the Steamship Com taboar on an old copper kettle, so accelerated by five minutes. Jenve A brief paper on "The Rotary descendents number more than pany, with whom he was extremely changed his mood, as to forget it. ing Cheltenham at 2:40 p.m.., tea Club through the eyes of the Press|1,000.

popular,

But shortly after he had his lunch minutes later than at present, and Representatives,"

Badik Agha still remembers Mr. Elliams was unmarried, but he was reminded of it more effective- due at Paddington, the London ter. Messrs. S. Haroon (H.K. Daily vividly one of his early wives, leaves a sister in Liverpool and a ly than he would have been had he minus, at & p.m. instead of 4,55 p.m. Press) and J. R. Luke (S. C. who bore him fifteen sons. She brother.

going to complete its journeys more quickly when the summer service on the Great Western Railway is introduced on July 17.

"

compiled by

The running time between Swin Post), was read by Mr. Haroon, died soon after the American The foneral takes place to-day, don and Paddington will remain at and a vote of thanks was voiced Civil War.

65 minutes for the seventy-seven by the secretary, Mr. M. F. Key.

and a quarter miles, thus still re- maining the world's fastest steam

train with an average of 71.35

miles per hour.

The Cornish Riviera Express will

Personal Pars.

run "non-atop" from Paddington to Mr. Trinidad E. Lacayo. haying Flymouth, via the new by-pass rail returned from vacation, has resumed roads at Westbury and Frome, als duties as Honorary Consul for 1:22634 miles in 8 hours, 57 minutes. Nicaragua, and has been appointed This is ten minutes quicker than Honorary Consul for the Republic at present and three minutes of Mexico and San Salvador at quicker than last summer's, ser-Hong Kong. The offices of these vice, and brings Plymouth, for the Consulates are at No. 11 Lock Road, first time in history, under a four Kowloon

hours' journey from Paddington.

Other West of England expresses not booked to call at Westbury and

passing the Monument at 5.30 p.m.

"She was a worthy mate," he declares.

Women nowadays CAPT. A. M. SINCLAIR have no stamina."-Reuter.

PRISONER EATS HANDCUFFS

Claims Ostrich

Digestion.

Warsaw

Funeral Yesterday.

received a gift of a thousand violine of the same kind.

In the midst of his making a re-i pair to the handle of a Queen Anne teapot the shop door was flung open to admit a burly man who breathed Jaw and cunning.

"Man been in here with a fiddle?”. he rapped out,

נ'

The funeral took place yesterday | "Detective!" said Pierre to him- at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, himself." He knew them; there was Happy Valley, of the late Captain always the tilting back of the Arthur Munro Sinclair, for many bowler hat; the quick, incisive lip years' in 'the "service of the Indo- movement with the stub of a Ching Steam Navigation Com-cigarette; the toecaps to the shoes, pany,

Det the throw of the shoulders. They'd Josef Wyrobek, aged 40, of Captain Sinclair passed away at worried him before:"anyone might Warsaw enjoys a peculiar diet, the Kowwloon Hospital on Monday have" thought that he wIE” AN While he was resisting arrest, at the age of 472 426 Vas habitual__"fence." handcuffs were put on him, but The Rev. Father Rosal officiated He hesitated. Had the shabby he promptly broke these and and among those present were Capt. Uttle man had any ulterior motive in swallowed them.

D. Skinner, Marine Superintendent leaving the violin with him? Could Hocfel When taxed by the judge, he of Jardine, Matheson, and Co., Mr. It be possible that, after all, it the Torbay express, which will Twenty one wooden statues, boasted of his "ostrich" diger E. Kirby, representing the China wasn't the? No, it couldn't be. cover the 1994 miles from Pad some of them eight feet high, are tion, and claimed that before the Colat Officers Guild,, Capt. LA T. And retou dington to Torquay in 210 minutes being used as beehives by a war he used to swallow coins and Johnson, Cart 1, Chalmers, Mestre, “Ah, monsieur, say it is not that (five minutes quicker than last farmer in the village of Hostel, watches, e

VAGO Fuchanan, McDonald, J. Lyour come to tell me a man as year) and the 178% miles from Pad-Bohemia. Some of the statuen He was sent to prison for n McPherson, J. M. McWilliams, H. d'you' coll-squeeze dington to Exeter in 170 minutes were erected by monks in the month in which to digest the R. Stewart, Stewart, D. D. de great artist???. Renter.

seventeenth centurReuter handcuffs.-Beuter.

18flva, and G. Collina

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