1933-09-13 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.

MUI-TSAI CASES

IN COURT

No Wages Received For 8 Months.

WOMAN FINED; GIRL

TO BE PAID

Ho Chuen Cho, a Chinese woman living at 9 Main Street. Aplickau,

A registered mul-txai.

The defendant pleaded guilty Baid that she could not afford pay the wages.

the

NEW YORK

BOOTLEGGERS

GROW BOLD Liquor Hawked In Crowded Streets.

PRICES REACH LOW RECORD

New York.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CARELESS BLASTING To-Day's Short Story.

AT TYTAM

Police Officer Struck By Flying Stone.

CONTRACTOR FINED $250

IN THE PINCERS

T about half-past seven.

A

Suddenly a terrible blow fell upon O'Fell.

Tan Ling, a Chinese contractor, was fined $250 at the Central Police: Court this morning for failing to Liquor is virtually being hawk-take effective precautions when O'Fell got the letter. was fined $10 and ordered to pay a jed on the streets of New York blasting near the Tytam Reservoir Fum of $52.85 to Wong Mak Hi. City.

At six he had arrived home at on August 23.

his Hampstead house, as usual;Į aged 16, by Mr. Schofield at

Bootleggers, having fallen on

Traffic-Sergeant Baker said that dined at half-past; kissed his Central Police Court this morning. the new beer, have taken to the granite while driving his motor cycle out his

evil times through the sale of he was struck by a large piece of children good-night at seven; got for failing to pay wages to the girl. (methods of modern business in combination on Island Road. The easiest chair, produced a sensa- cagars, cushioned his Jan effort to sell their wares. rock cut his wrist and he lost con- tional novel. and winds through rising wet senti-The stone came from the place where With caution thrown to the trol of the machine for a moment. toment and the eurtailment of the defendant was building the new

The handwriting on the envelope, enforcement in this area. the catchwater for the reservoir. Jstirring the deepa of a recollection Sub-Inspector Fraser said

that bootlegger has grown open in his In imposing the fine Mr. Scho-which had fifteen years piled on top the defendant was warned by thef

efforts to garner more business, field, the Magistrate, warned the of it. sent a vague thrill of pain

in the mid-town area nightly, defendant and said that an accident along his nerves. wages to be paid to the S. C. A. on bootlegger agents stand in the of this kind, could easily result in liam Kent" stabbed his memory and The name "Wil- three occasions within 12 months.

hurt him. A sum of

Bah! Perhaps he was $52.85 was due to

only peering for trouble. He jerk- mul-tani, calculated

at $1.50

ed open the envelope, tugged out the letter, turned first to the end. was signed "William Kent."

When O'Fell saw that name, fear] clutched at his heart with its grasp cold as ice and rigid as frost. The letter ran as follows:

month.

the

theatre crowds handing out cards, a charge of manslaughter. 'extolling the quality of their wares and the attractiveness of per the prices, which to-day are the lowest they have been since pro-

The Magistrate ordered the fut,hibition. wagen to be paid to the S. C

A on

A month ago cards were slip- bebolf of the girl, and warned the Ped surreptitiously under apart. ment house doors with the boot- legger willing to take a chance! on arrest. With that chance re- moved he has moved openly into

defendant

CHINA STATION APPOINTMENTS. Latest Admiralty Announcements.

Recent Admiralty appointmenta

Kent Lieut. E. C. F. Nicolay to Med- way (September 2).

Unregistered Mul-Trai. For keeping an unregistered mul- teni at 33 Belchers' Street. West the public streets with little include:-- Point, Lf Yuel Kwał, a widow, was either the Federal or local Gov-Kent, J. H. Crawford to Cornflower, chance of being molested by Sub-Licuts. Viscount Kelburn Laj fined $50 by Mr. Schofield at the ernment,

R. H. Hodgkinson to Folkestone and Central Police Court this morning. The New Yorker to-day will-C. P. Mae N. Hart to Sandwich

Sub-Inspector Fraser Mid that ing to take chances with his! (September 2). the mul-tsai Au Cheong, aged 18. eyesight and his stomach can Midshipmen J. C. Carver. M. C. made a complaint to the police of procure a bottle having been bullied by her

of gin for 60 Giles and P. K. Horsey to mis- centa and a pint of so-called rycl

(September 2). treks. Subsequent enquires show-whiskey for the same amount. ed that the girl had been bought The

shady drug for $100

store and had been with the (chemist) defendant for six years.

competitor

Sub-Lient. Viscount Kelburn of the (bootlegger has been joined by the eldest son of the Eighth Earl the many legitimate establishments;

of Glasgow and is 23 years of age. con-which make offers of medicali

whiskey al U.S. $2.76 a Sub-Inspector Fraser

pint.! said that "guaranteed" Government stock,) the girl was well fed and cared for with the privilege of buying a and was willing to return to her case at a discount-Reuter. mistress.

No wages had been paid, price given for the girl being aldered as wages.

FLYING ROUND CHINA.

Mr. Chen Hops Off For Tsinan.

Nanking Today.

Mr. Chen Wen-Jin. Director of the Aviation Bureau of the Chinese Navy, who has completed the first

سبيع

NEW INDUCEMENT TO PAY TAXES Titles For £1 And Upward.

News In Brief.

The Gala Night of "Cavalcade" will take place to-night at the King's Theatre, when the film will be shown in Hong Kong for the first time,

Mr. J. C. Bollard, of 499 The Peak, was fined $8 at the Central: Police Court this morning for fail ing to keep a muzzle on his dog at Stubbs Road.

"SUPER PATRIOT" FOR FA❘ Mr. S. T. Williamson, Honorary

place at the Central

Jiddah (Arabia).

Agent for New Zealand and Aus- From the desert Kingdom of New Zealand and Australian films trala, advises that a showing of section of his around-the-nation that massive puritan King, Ibn Theatre, on

Saudleh-Arabia, over which rules will take flight, from Shanghai to Nanking,

opped off for Tsinan, capital of Saud, comes a new idea for wor-11 4.m.

Sunday morning at Shantung Province, yesterday morn ried Chancellors of Exchequers.

ing amid an enthusiastic send-off at ' the Nanking Aerodrome.

PEKING ROUNDS UP REACTIONARIES.

38 Arrests In Series

Of City Raids.

Peking, To-day,

"constructive. A Chinese woman, Tang Muh

They are trying to raise money in Arabia for State enterprises."

aged 22, living at 8 Cross Street, was knocked down by a motor-lorry

It

By E J. Beeston,

thing less than that can help me in these final momente. Before you judge me harshly, remember what I have suffered, and the dark into which I shall have passed as you read this. I was not afraid then, when we. schemed to- gether; but I confess that now I am a man mortally afraid.

My written admission is intend- ed for the eyes of the police, and to them It is addressed. Coward that I am, I could not bring my self to send it while still a living man. It forms part of a cor respondence which I have hand- ed to my minister, the Rev. T. John Andrews, of Furze Bank, in this evenue. I have instructed. him to open the packet after my death, so that even he shall know nothing of my guilt until then- until he has forwarded my shame ful story to the authorities.

I have nothing more to add. Do not course

a man who finds himself unable to face the un- known without unburdening his conscience of a deed which has embittered the closing years of his life.

WILLIAM KENT.

My dear O'Fell,-You will be be surprised to hear from me after all these years. I write in very tragic circumstances. By the time you receive this cam- munication it is probable that

O'Fell had started to read with a. life for me

will have ended. i quaking heart. He finished in a have been a dying man for two storm of fury. years.

comp-

For almost two unendurable years I have contemplated that lawless action which was mitted by myself, and you, and Lennill. It has been present phantom by my bedside, mocking my physical agony.

An over-

Our crime cannot sit so lightly upon your soul that you have for- gotten it. No word from me can

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Escape," by E. H. Lacon Waison.

"The pitiful ear! The puling,

be necessary to recall it to you. cringing hound!" he burst out,

Until

An

went

We fled to America together, you jumping to his feet. "Ten times and I; Lennill

to South damned coward Africa for good. The law may face a music he started himself! A

to leave others toj And him there; I can do more faul, a filthy trick” than furnish justice with his name.

After this discharge, the blood accident of which had rushed to his head ebbed chance made me acquainted with pretty quickly, and O'Fell began to your business and residence In realise that coolness was London, quite recently, I had no here, not wrath. With an effort he needed idea what had become Not without a bitter struggle did letter again, took a few turns up of you fought down excitement, read the I decide to send you this line say-and down his carpet. And contem- ing what I am doing. It may be plation revealed the fact that he was wrong of me to warn you.

I have put down in writing the as even a nightmare could scare him, In about as unpleasant a situation entire story of our crime. No-with. For the thing which he and his two associates had done was a punished offence; and although it is true that fifteen years are fifteen years, yet a crime unexplated never grows old and faded in the eight of the law.

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"My soul! They can hard me out! a couple of years in gaol for that!" he muttered.

Bad enough; and even anticipa- tion of its Hikelihood oozed a clammy perspiration on his palms and lined forehead. But that would not be all. He had created for himself a

Mr. Chen's object is mainly. Every Arab has been asked to Burrows Street, Wanchai, yester exhibiting the plane in which he le undertaking his flight, to show his contribute an amount equivalent day afternoon and was taken to the countrymen the feasibility of pro-

¡lo 2-1/2d. moting un aeroplane manufacturing.

But in order to

Government Civil Hospital in a industry at home-Central News rather more substantial returns,

encourage serious condition. Agency.

the semi-official journal "Sawt Al-Hedua suggests that titles Sacred Heart College will be cele-was exhibited here at the first and children, whom he adored, had A reversible waistcoat, the position; he was respected;, "his¦ The eleventh anniversary of the latest fad in masculine attire, friends were many. And his wife should be conferred for large brated on Saturday and Sunday, international men's style show their happiness founded upon him--- individull collections.

Thus, any Arab who collects when the staff and students will be The garment, by its ability to And he was that.

September 16 and 17 at 7.30 p.m.,[recently: £1 should be given the title of "At Home" to friends at the School be turned at will, reminded one demeanour of the past had been sure rock that they thought he was. "Patriot": £1-100 would earn Play-ground, Nathan Road. him the title, "Active Patriot”;į

That mis- "Great Patriot"; and £4

of the old "diekey" reversible made by circumstance, not disposi shirtfront. VAR "Super-Patriot."

A Filipino seaman, Amat Kinkar-

tion. He had genuinely regretted If anyone could raise as much of the "Prince Castle" into the No. double-breasted and white in He kept making a half-dash for

di aged 25, fell from the second decked on one alde, and on the other deep in time.

It was black and single breast it, and with relief had seen it sink as a fiver he might earn the The local gendarmerie has made Reconstruction."-Reuter.

title of "Fighter for National Kowloon Docks yesterday afternoon, The exhibits included several the address on 2 hold, while the vessel was at the colour,int,

the door, with Intent to go round to sustaining · internal injurica. He from England, among them olive Kent. But each time he checked the the letter, and see was taken to the Kowloon Hospital whipcord raincoats "with" raglan Impulse. In the first place, the for treatment.

sleeves and all-round belts riding writer was probably beyond reach breaches of shopperd's grey plaid of expostulation. Or, in any case, It is announced that the Hong and some white tennis shorts, he Kent would certainly refuse to Kong Philharmonic Society have de- One of the most interesting see him. Then, again, the mischief Appointment Of Mr. production All, who are in- of mercerised cotton or wool, of the packet containing the vital cided to stage The Pirates of English exhibits was a collection was half done, since the minister Penzance" in the spring as their of abbreviated swimming trunks named in the letter was in receipt Liu Sung-chi. terested should communicate with They were blue in colour, had communication for the police.

the Hon. Secretary, 98, Waterloo no legs and were in fact, little "He is the man I want to get hold Road, Kowloon..

more an' waistbands Reuter, of, and not Kent,” morned O'Fell,

holding his aching head. --

Bot to Approach him would be worse than useless. I know his sort! Ha har

a series of raids in the past few days on several places in the city where secret political organisa- tions were suspected to be in exletence, with the result that a large number of reactionaries were arrested.

Thirty-eight, bellaved to be ring- leaders, are being escorted to Yanking for trial-Central News Agency.

CHARHAR POSITION STILL UNSETTLED.

Recalcitrant Troops Holding Out.

CHINESE MINISTER TO GERMANY.

Nanking, To-day The Nanking Executive Yuan has approved the appointment of Mr.

The Vice Chairman and Commit- of Foreign Affairs, as Chinese Missionary Association, will be "At Liu Sung-cht, formerly vice-Minister toe of the Victoria Diocesan and Minister to Germany. The numer. Home" to members and friends at ous diplomatic ppats he has held in- ja tea at the Cathedral Hall on Mon clude those of Minister Plenipoten day, September 18, to welcome Mrs. tiary to Portugual and Spain,--. Rz O. Hall, wife of the Blahop of Central News Agency,

Hong Kong.

WET PAINT-TOUCH HEREI

Peking, To-day. The situation in Charhar, remaine certain, as the former anti- haness, allled forces under Feng in-wu and Chi Hang-chang still use to come to terms with the Just to satisfy that irresistible

Sharon, Pennsylvania. rhar Government concerning human urgo, local business reorganisation,dengan man has placed a big deub by are establishing their pos) paint at the botton of a sign. Around Tashihkow, defined his freshly beautified stora fro part of Chi Hung-chang's troops The wign Bayage I vou mu bean disarmed by General tão touch this paint, touch/bera? d-tangCentral News Agency, Renter

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SHANGHAI TRUNKben doing his best to make Kent

MURDER

Accused Brothers Pass Through Hong Kong.

The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Bound was held yesterday afternoon in the Board room with dion and Jose dos Remedios

The brothers (Patricios Mr. T. Megar

aldent In, accused in the Shangha).

were the

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Reme

uiterip miserable with some bideour doctrina of eternal punishment."

reflection showed him that! rether Just.

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