TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933.
KULING MEETING OPENS TO-DAY
(Continued from Page 1).
THE CONFERENCE AGENDA.
Soong Will Outline
-World Situation.
Shanghai, to-day,
the Cabinet Ministers.
with the Powers.
The Kuling Conference will last News for a week or so.-Central Agency,
COMMUNISTS AT NORTH FUKIEN.
Repulsed At Yenping.
19TH ROUTE ARMY GUARD KUTIEN
NEW LINES OF
CONFLICT ARE
SEEN IN EUROPE
France Backs Italy. In Austria Policy..
war.
DALADIER INSPECTS FORTIFICATIONS
President Paul von Hin- denhurg revived talk of re- storing the German mon- archy when in accepting a gift he made reference to his "Kaiser the King and Lord."
Paris.
THE CHINA MAIL.
EUROPEANS FINED IN To-Day's Short Story.
TRAFFIC COURT
License-Discs Not Displayed.
MANY MOTORISTS `CONVICTED
Four motorists, Lt. J. C. Róbert
their cars.
THE TEA-LEAF
WES
Six
that
Was
By Edgar Jepson
Hand Robert Eustace.
about
he
the
It had been the habit of both men
TO-MORROW'S STORY
must
To-morrow's story will be "The Eye of Osiris." by Jack Hulick,
son, of the South Wales Borderers, ARTHUR KELSTERN and night I told him-it was no business Mr. H. F. Phillips, of the Hong Hugh Willoughtor met injof mine; but I never did give a Conflicting currents of clashing the P.W.D. and Mr. H. Sling, were street, St. James's, and rather be was a fool to meddle and had Kong Hotel, Mr. C. H. Douglas, of the Turkish bath in Duke-tinker's curse for his temper-that European Mr. H. H. Kung, Governor of the France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Court this morning for failing to Turkish bath they parted. Both made him furious, of course;
interests, affecting fined $3 each at the Central Police more than a year later in that much better leave them alone. It Central Bank, left here by air res-Great Britain, have come to the attach their new license-discs terday morning for Kuling to par-
to of them were bad-tempered men, would have it that Willoughton was ticipate the coming conference with surface, only a few weeks after the
Kelstern cantankerous and Wilja dirty hound and a low blackguard signing of Mussolini's four-power, Mr. R. A. Carroll, of 13 Bowen difficult to decide which was the mildest things he said of him.
Disobeying Signala, loughton violent. It was, indeed, at least those were At his departure, Mr. Kung is peace pact at Rome.
Road, pleaded guilty to disobeying worse-fempered; and when I He took immense trouble to injure Bued a brief statement to the press) Premier Daladier inspected the traffic signal at the junction of found that they had suddenly Willoughton. At his clubs, the
French fortifications along the cast-Arbuthnot Road and Calne Road become on the nature of the Kuling Con-!
friends, I gave
that Athenaeum, the Devonshire and the jern frontier after proclaiming that
and was fined $10. ference which, he said, would at first, France was resolved to guarantee 2071, was also fined $10 for a simi-
friendship three months. It Savile, be would display considerable Leung Kan-yue, driver of car No. lasted nearly a year.
ingenuity in bringing the converza- hear Mr. T. V. Soong'a report on Austria's independence of Germany.lar offence at the same spot.
When they did quarrel they declare that he was a scoundrel of tion round to him; then he would the results of his trip abroad and Chancellor Hitler told a crowd
Traffic Sergeant Windade sald Ruth. Willoughton fell in love with the meanest type.
quarrelled about Kelstern's daughter his views on the world situation. of 200,000 that Germany with that as he approached the junction ner and she with him, and they be After this, he added, the conference out wanting a new conflict would with the signal in his favour, the came engaged to be married.
not renounce her claims to the defendant passed in his car against months later, in, spite of the fact would proceed to devise plans for Saar basin, whose political fate the red signal.
to have a Turkish bath, at the baths in Duke-street, at four in the after- economic and financial co-operation is a problem left by the world Mr. R. K. Craner, who was repre-in love with one another, the en-in every month. To that habit they that they were plainly very much noon on the second and last Tuesday sented in Court, pleaded guilty to gagement was broken off. Neither stuck. The fact that they two summonses, for driving with of them gave any reason for break-meet on those Tuesdays did not out an appropriate license, and for ing it off. My belief
cause either of them to change his disobeying a traffic signal at Holly-Willoughton had given Ruth a taste our of taking his Turkish bath by wood Road,
of his infernal temper and got as have given them no more than a
the twenty minutes Traffe Sergeant Britain said that good as he gave,
which would he was about to ascend the slope to Not that Ruth was at all a Kel- They continued to take it, as they
passing glimpse of the Central Police Station
one another. on stern to look at. Like the members always had, simultaneously. August 16, when the defendant of most France Aligns With Austria. drove up the slope before him, pass and the followers of Canute, one driving his Austin Seven No. 3594, families, descendants of the Vikinga of the old Lincolnshire
ing almost under the traffic
con- Kelstern is very like another Kel- France has openly aligned her table'a baton to do so.
stern, self
fair-headed, He stopped the defendant in the with light blue eyes and with Italy in expressing Police Compound and found that he bridge to the nose."
clear-skinned, determination to see that Aus had only a learner's license and had taken after her mother;
Д good tria's independence is maintained
But Ruth had intact
she come to be tested for his full license.dark, with a straight nose, dark- against Foochow, To-day.
German Nazi
A fine of $5 was imposed for not brown hair, and as kissable lips as aggression. In view of the failure of main-
Premier Edouard Daladier told obeying the traffic signal.
having a license and $10 for dia-i lever I saw. taining their foot-ground at Yen-the United Press that France ping, the "Reds" under the
com-would insist on the independence La Wing-lok, driver of car
Unlawful Parking.
She was a proud, self-sufficing. mand of Pang Teh Huai are turn of Austria, as well as that of the 3677, was fined $10 for leaving his that cantankerous old brute Kel- that Turkish bath, and there parted high-spirited girl with a temper of the breaking off of the engagement It was about three months after No her own. She needed it to live with that they met for the last time at ing their eyes on north Fukien. Balkan states.
They appear to be aiming at Ku
M. Daladier's statement, made as Wellington Street and Wyndhara the fact that he always would try
car unattended at the corner ofistern.
Oddly enough, in spite of for good. tien, situated to the north-east of De departed from Paris to inspect Yenping, but the success of their fortifications on the German fron-
Street. Traffic Sergeant McInnis to bully her, she was fond of him; about six weeks; there was a grey- Kelstern had been looking ill for next venture is problematical astier, come shortly after accounts
prosecuted.
and I will say for him that he wasness and a drawn look to his face; the Nineteenth Route Army Head-from Italy said an Austro-Italian
very fond of her. Probably she was and he was losing weight. On the quarters have massed adequate trade agreement was about to be
the only creature in the world forces at the front lines, in co concluded which would involve the
whom he was really fond.
second Tuesday in October he ar- operation with the Air Force, which support of Italian arms to guarant
He was rived at the bath punctually at four, an expert in the application has helped considerably to dispellee Austrian territorial integrity.
scientific discoveries to industry; thermos flask full of a very deli- of bringing with him, as was his habit, the "Red" menace.
The attitude of. France and Italy
Lyeemoon Barracks and she worked with him in his cate China tea. If he thought that Meanwhile in order to streng- has been provoked by the Nazi at Ex-Employee.
laboratory. He paid her dve hun-ho was not perspiring freely enough then their hand in controlling the titude towards Austria, bent on
dred a year, so that she must, have he would drink it in situation, the Military Headquar-converting that country to HI+. BOUND OVER IN $50.
been uncommonly good.
the hottesti tera have appointed the famous lerism, and hoping for an Austro-
He took the breaking-off of the enough, he would drink it after his room; if he did perspire freely Nineteenth Route Army general, German union-United Press. Ong Chao Wen, as Garrison Com-Developments Are Closely Watched was bound over in a sum of $50 jilted her. Buth took it hard, too; minutes later.
Lam Ting-kai, a Chinese coolie, would have it that Willoughton had
engagement very hard Indeed.
He bath. Berlin. for one year at the Central Police!
Willoughton arrived about two The hints of two leaders regard- Station for being in possession warmth; her lips grew less kissable
her warm colouring lost some of its undressing and went into the bath Kelstern finished Ing the restoration of the pre-war of a thermometer, the property and set in monarchy and the Reich's claim to of Gunner R. Wickens of 12th ton's temper grew worse than ever; about the same time; Kelstern went thinner line. Willoughton. They stayed in the hot room a couple of minutes before Willough-i the Saar Basin on the French Battery R.A., at Lyeemoon Bar- border were generally regarded in racks.
he was like a bear with a perpetually into the hottest room about a minute Germany to-day as handwriting on The defendant, a former em-
Bore head. the wall, indicating likely develop.ployee at the Barracks, was seen furious with
Kelstern did his best to keep Ruth into it he sent for his thermos flask, after Willoughton. Before he went ments in the near future.
by one of the soldiers leaving the
Willoughton. Оде
which he had left in the dressing- President Paul von Hindenburg compound with the thermometer said he
room, and took it into the hottest was thinking, of his in his hand.
He was stopped
room with him "Kaiser the King and Lord" when and when questioned said that he accepted a gift from East he had picked it up. Prussia of a forest estate adjour- The Magistrate warned him fing his home at Neudeck
to keep away from the barracks Hitler told a crowd of 200,000 in future. The terrible havoc wrought by that Germany, without wanting a the wide-spread flooding of the new war or proposing to annex Yellow River in Kiangsu, Honan, anything foreign, would not re- Shangtung, and Hopel is revealed nounce her claims to the rich in- In a statement made by Mr. Ting dustrial region of the Saar. Wel-fan, member of the Central The fate of the Saar Valley, an Government Council.
jarea of 738 square miles with a He states that the whole flooded population of approximately 300,- area covered about 50 districts and 1000, is to be determined by a that the flood sufferers run into the plebiscite in 1985. The exclusive number of 16,000,000.
mander of Foochow Central News Agency.
FLOOD HAVOC IN CENTRAL CHINA.
50 Districts Inundated By Yellow River.
16,000,000 AFFECTED
Nanking, To-day.
conservancy
rights of exploitation of its coal
lof the CHINESE
YOUTHFUL
PILOT OFF AGAIN.
Sun Tung-kang Plans Flight Through China.
about 2,000,000 tons each of iron
and steel.-United Press.
COOLIE FINDS " THERMOMETER.
ATTACK ON MISS DA CRUZ,
→
Accused Under Medical Observation.
REMAND GRANTED
ARMY OFFICER'S WEDDING
Lt. G. D. H. Flowerdew And Miss S. M. Bishop.
KOWLOON CEREMONY
:
of
As it happened, they were the only two people in the hottest room; and they had not been in it two minutes before the four men in the hot room: heard them quarrelling.
loughton a dirty hound and a low They heard Kelstern 'call Wil-
blackguard, among other things, and declare he would do him in yet. Willoughton told him to go to the The wedding took place yesterday devil twice. Kelstern went qu abug-| afternoon at St. Andrew's Church, ing him, and presently Willoughton. Kowloon, of Miss Sheila Mary fairly shouted: "Oh, shut up, you Bishop, daughter of the late Dr. T. old fool! Or I'll make your" R. Bishop and Mrs. Bishop, to Lieu- Kelatern did not shut up. About tenant George Daugias Hugh two minutes later, Willoughton came
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COLLISION WITH TREE.
Burst Tyre Causes Car Crash,
TWO PASSENGERS HURT
SOVIET COAL IN FRANCE.
Campaign To Capture British Market.
Rouen.
The police were called in: Willough when a motor- car get out of con- Posters are now being displayed »
The sum of $4,000,000 voted by mines were given to France by the Before Mr. Butters at the Flowerdew, RA, son of Mr. S. P. out of the hottest room, scowling, the Government was only assigned Versailles treaty as compensation Kowloon Magistracy yesterday a Flowerdew, MICE. and Mrs. walked through the hot room into -for emergency relief of the sufferers, ifor destruction of mines in man named Chiu Ho was charged Flowerdew. The Rev. Lewis Bryan, the shampooing room, and put him-
and a sum far greater than this northern France during the world in connection with the assault S.C.F. officiated.
Belf into the hands of one of the would be required for repairing WAT
upon, Miss S. da Cruz at Lafchi- dykes and
The bride who was given away by shampooers. Two or three minutes general
The treaty provided that for 15 kok on Saturday afternoon.
Lt. Col. M. Carrington-Syken M.C. after that a man of the name of works
on the Yellow River-Cen-years the region would be governed Miss da Cruz and her brother BA, was prettily attired a dress Helston went into the hottest room trai News Agency.
by a commission of five appointed were both present in Court of white satin with cowl collar and and fairly yelled. Kelstern was yearly by the League of Nations. Mies da Cruz tarried her right full silk organdia sleeves sewn with lying back on a conch, with the blood
Strenuous efforts are being made The plebiscite is to determine arm in a sling, while her brother pearls. Her train and veil were of still flowing from a wound over his aged 28, and Kwek Chow Wan, ducers to capture part of the exten Two Chinese, Chan Tin Chiu, here on behalf of Soviet coal pro whether it will have a continuance hat his head and neck bandaged Limerick lace, and she carried heart, rule in semi-autonomous, Detective Sergeant Goodwin, bouquet of white gladioli and Hono
aged 8, who were passengers in sive British anthracite trade with form, union with France or union who prosecuted, asked for a re- Julu creeper.
There was a devil of a hullabaloo the car, were injured yesterday France. with Germany. The district has mand, stating that the accused! She was attended by the Misses ton was arrested. Of course he last trol and collided with a tree on the on the quayside depicting a typical averaged more than 12,000,000 was under medical observation. Gama Fleetwood, Pamela May his temper and, protesting furiously Castle Peak Road. They were Russian coal-miner holding aloft metric tons of coal a year and
A remand until Saturday was Carrington-Sykes and Barbara Car that he had had nothing whatever taken to the Kowloon Hospital for a large piece of anthracite. Below granted accordingly.
rington-Sykes as brides-maids, who to do with the crime, abused the treatment. wore dresses of white crepe-de-china police.
Is the legend:- with wreaths of amall coloured After examining the room and the Le Garden Street, said that the Donetz Basin is the equal of the The driver, Kwan Wai, living at "Soviet anthracite from the flowers and carried posies of pink] dead body the detective-inspector in tyre on the off front wheel of the best British anthracite." Beater.
fatte charge of the case came to the con-car, No. 4085, punctured, causing flight, is starting on a Nation-wide: The highest temperature recorded
Lieut. 3. E Sker, R. A., was "best clusion that Kelstern had been stab the car to swerve and collide with Aight from Taipan, his native city, in Hongkong during the month of
man
bed as he was drinking his tea, the tres. to-day. He is trying to reach August was 91 degrees, and the
Mr. Rupert Baldwin, A. T. CL. The thermos flask lay on the floor Shanghai via Pangfu and Nanking minimum 78,
presided at the organ.
and some of the tea had evidently to-day, and his next hop to Che mom was the same
Although the maxi- "Hennessy Road is not a place to ber of friends gathered at the Royal tea in the flask must have been care After the ceremony, a large numbeen spilt, for some ten-leaves-the kleng Province will be made to August igst year was slightly cooler, at the Central Police Court this customary toasts were honoured maid who filled it-lay on the floor last summer, test your lorry," said Mr. Schofield Artillery Mess, Kowloon, where the lessly strained off the leaves by the morrow.
From Hangchow he will continue being 74
the minimum temperature recorded morning when he imposed a fire of The happy couple later left for about the mouth of the empty flask. In order to confound souvenir Governor of the Philippins Irlanda, his fight to Hupel, Honan and
$20 on a Chinese lorry driver, Chan their honeymoon, Mrs. Flowerdew's it looked as if the murderer had hunters, a restaurant has been who is returning to Manila. Shensi provinces,
It is estimated that he will be months' hard labour, yesterday at
Cheung Yau was sentenced to 12 nessy Road.
Kam-shing, for speeding in Hen-going-away dress being of navy blue taken advantage of Kelstera's drink opened here in which there are no able to complete his whole fight the Kowloon Magistracy, for being ed, and the defendant, who pleaded. The bridegroom is in the 12th prevented him from seeing what be out of the table. Wooden ladley Are ver from Yokohama Bar Collion Trafic Sergeant Tyler prosecut she wore a small navy, hat to tone tak rather blocked his vielen and The food I placed in holes cut rived to-day on the Prezident Hoo and white check crepe-de-ching and ing his tea to atab him while the knives, no forks and no plates, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Collion, ar within a morth-Central News in possession of a revolver without guilty, offered the excuse that he Battery, R, and is a keen sports would be at Agency.
permit,
was texting the lorry.
chained to the table for conveying is the Director and Manager of food to the mouth-Baute
the Micro Electric Company.
Tainan, Today,
Mr. Sun Tung-kang, known for
his Berlin-Nanking long-distance
News In Brief.
LORRY DRIVER FINED.
"Testing" The Lorry In Hennessey Road,
roses.
man.
(Continued on Page 10).
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