1933-09-23 — Page 7

LORD SNOWDEN DENIES STORY

OF INTRIGUE

Reply To Commander Kenworthy.

"UNMITIGATED LIE"

Viscount Snowden has issued a strong dental to a statement made by Lieut. Commander Kenworthy in) an interview regarding his forth- coming autobiography.

Viscount Snowden. Mr Ramsay MacDonald. and Mr. Arthur Henderson are the central figures Lieutenant- in the story told by Commander Kenworthy, who was

Centrali former Labour M.P. for Holl.

According worthy, the have

CORRESPONDENCE,

PICNIC FOR BLIND GIRLS.

To The Editor “China Mail.")

Blind Home Pokfulam.

The picnic consists of a motor ride to

Shekko, when the girls, about 60 in number, are given tea and a present, and supper on their return to the Home.

CAUGHT CROCODILE To-Day's Short Story.

WITH HANDS

Thrilling Fight In

Central Africa.

DUTCHMAN'S COURAGE

THE ORCHARD

By Constantin

Fedin.

Sir--The St. Peter's Group of An unusual method of dealing the Victoria Diocesan

Missionary with a crocodile was that adopted HE spring foods always co-stand motionless, awed by the

THE Gronewalt, the story of incided with the blossoming sacrament of spring. Association, has in the past six by Ben

The orchard was in blossom... whose adventure in Central Africa of the orchard, anals- years organised, with the

About this time of the year an is told in "Safari Sam".

The orchard began on the hill

towards the old lady used formerly to come from tance of generous friends, a sum- Ben,

strongly-built and sloped gently & huge,

Her mer plenic for the girls of the Dutchman, was bathing with other river bank, where there was a town to live in the country.

men in the river at Palla Camp-fence and a row of willow trees country house, surrounded by a wide According to Mr. Gordon e-which looked as if they had been veranda, stood almost at the top of peace, whose book "Safari S is trimmed.

the hill, and from a wooden watch- Through their thick foliage gleam-tower that was built on the roof published by Hodder and Stough- ton at 10s. 6d., the white men haded the sacerdotal brocade of the one could see alike the river, the them Was awaste-land behind the orchard and blazed away with rifles and the water, while above natives howled and beaten on tina shining line of the river perhaps, the crosses of the suburban mona- to frighten away the crocodiles, or perhaps of the sky or the air-stery.

The lady had long lost the use of As a rule. Mr. Makepeace states, of something dazzling and ethereal. It has been decided to follow the

a bath-chair. In the morning she crocodiles will not approach a Higher up the river began another her legs and was wheeled about in group of men bathing together, but orchard, then a third, a fourth,

to On the other side spread a small would be wheeled out on it is not a fixed rule. "A strav crocodile sometimes forgets about meadow cut by a shallow gully, its veranis and would remain there all of Queensberry's sides gay and curly with Tarlarian day, looking around with calm, oh-

servant eyes. Rules, so you've always got to be maple.

Her son, the owner of the orchard ready for a surprise blow below That is all there was to that cor- the belt, as it were," he says. ner of the world: behind it nothing|—a silent, quiet man-very rarely Ben Groenewalt kept on going but barren ground with patchén of came to see his mother; and when out into the stream beyond where wormwood and feather-grass, with he did he took Silanty, the gardener, immortelle bushes, corn-flowers and with him, and went for a stroll round it was thought to be safe.

the convolvulus along Mr. Makepeace adds:

orebard the orchard, stopping now by a bed Suddenly be aclled to use from | hedges.

of strawberries, new by some won-

the water.

to Commander Ken- same plan this year, the picnic to Labour Party would take place on Saturday October 14. been forced to a change of The committee organising the leadership early in 1931 if they plenic would gratefully welcome the Marquess

There were the loan of cars or donations. had not been in office signs and symbols then that offers and gifts may be sent to Mrs. F. E. E. Booker c/o St. John's National Government was Bir, "but will give MacDonald his

Cathedral. due: at that time he was unfavour-

in the

able to the iden. However, the in trigues were there, and, whatever their foundation or precise origin, there was another avent which had

important results."

conceived

the Mr. MacDonald idea that he should go to India us

Commander Viceroy, continued.

Kenworthy

"Naturally, if Mr. MacDonald's idea had been carried ut certain! steps would have been nervesary to hold the party and the Governinent;

would have to together, and there be no split ver the choice RUETERNOF.

"Sounding Snowden"

of a

"I think it will be conceded that, in our case, there was only one man who could possibly hold the party together, and that was Mr. Arthur! Henderson Eather Mr Snow-

Thank you for kindly permitting this letter to be published in your paper.

D. BOOKER.

Hon Sec.

St. Peter's Group.

V. D. M. A.

COMING CHARITY BAZAAR

Children's Hospital And Orphanage.

OPENING ON OCTOBER 6 BY LADY POLLOCK

Chin- Blood

A veil of whitish dust covered the Look over there," he shouted. waste, and two or three deep-rutted We all looked at the water tracks ran in different directions, from which we had just emerged. twisting and turning rather

with horror.

ab.

s

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Smuggler," by Aino Kallas

the

I saw a crocodile nosing its way|surdly. between Groenewalt and the

That year the river spread almost sandbank. We were all paralysed as far as the fence, and the willows stood heavy with excessive moisture, Suddenly he called to use from dressed in a glossy, youthful foliage, derful apple-tree of which the gar ing anything. Groenewalt called The wattle fence had sprouted indener had an inspiring tale to tell, a places and the old, bare stumps of now by the hot-house, where Silanty noise," he said calmly, "or you'll trees were curly with fragrant young grew hyacinths and roses.

shoots. The muddy-yellow flood

The friendship between the gentle-

te us again. "Don't make

frighten it away."

We were all thunderstruck, waters purred like a cut and caressman and the gardener was of long

Ben's brother tried to dash for ed the slopes of the hill. his rifte, but Ben called to him reassuringly. "Keep quiet," he said.

to

They respected one another, it seemed, for being men of few words! and incapable of changing their de cisions. With each the thought was welded with the action, and both did things firmly, thoroughly, and aen- sibly.

įstanding: ever since the former be- The whole of the hillside put ongan work on the orchard, hired a a spotted shawl of white, rosy healthy, willing and tireless moujik Rawers. Bright as the sun was the Silanty and built a strong roomy hut Carried it to Land

line of cherry-trees that girded the for him next to the big house. Ben swan quietly towards the orchard, concealing the hedge. crocodile. He dived and came up Bunches of pale-pink flowers den might have been the choler.

The Annual Bazaar of the next to the crocodile. The story covered every bough, every twig The party had a time to loose, anf

smothered every tree in their soft continue": heenese Slaters of the Precious Mr. MacDonald might have

Then he stood up and, bracing embrace. Everything seemed mude ViertRY at any time, so we will be held on October 6, 7 and

shallow Henderson, at the Precious Blood's build himself firmly on the approached Henderson.

nominated, but, ing, Yuen Chow Street, Shumsher- was willing to be

Sinden pon, to raise funds in aid of the only

that on condition

Children's Hospital, Clinic and Or was prepared to support him

"So we

sound Snowder. phanage. Lady Pollock, the Patro. had to

the opening A smut number of the more senior news, will perform private members, including myself, ceremony on Friday, October 6, at were invited to make the approach, i and Mr Snowden's attitude was al!

3.30 p.m.

The Bazaar Committee is as fol- first charming, as he thought that lows:---Patroness, Lady Pollock; the invitation had come to himself. Hon. President. Mr. Ngan Shing

more sorry kwan; Hon. Vice President, Mr. Honestly. I never fell for a colleague and friend as when H. C. H. Lim; Chairman, Mr. Simon the Truth # om.

"I believe it was from that hour that he began to hate the party in which he had spent so many years and which he had done so much to

create."

Never Wanted To Be Prime

Minister

Tse Yan: Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Tse

Yung-kwong; Hon. Secretary. Mr.

bed, seized the astonished croco dile round the middle. With a Herculean effort. he lifted the creature out of the water..

We then witnessed the

grizoment struggle ever staged

BEACH GALA AT REPULSE BAY.

M.C.L. Fete To Be Held

Next Wednesday,

When the young orchard took root, ' neither the workman nor the em Iployer wasted any words, but walk-i led from plant to plant, screwed up their eyes at the merry whiteness

of the flowers that covered the (branches, and cast sidelong glances

at each other.

"Ought to be all right?" asserted the employer.

"No reason why it shouldn't"

Both were then young and strong,

in an African river. The crowo- dile thrashed about madly with its tail and its paws scratched; and tore at ita captor, who main- The Beach Gala of the Minister- Lained a relentless grip.

ing Children's League at Repuiko las! After a few minutes' desperate Bay, unavoidably postponed struggle, Groenewall walked to Wednesday on account of the incle. the bank with his captive croco ment weather, will be held on Wed-guardedly agreed the workman. dile, and put it down under aloesday next, arrangements remain- tree about a dozen yards; froming as originally adverticed. the river. He held it down while Buses will leave Blake Pier every we procured ropes and wagon quarter of an hour between 1.80 chains, and with these we trussed and 3 p.m., special rates being stretching their broad shoulders up the crocodile.

charged to passengers having tic-wider and wider every springtime. Mr. Makepeace embellishes hiskets for the Gala.

how, when the crocodile was being already amazing tale by describing:

W. C. Chan: Committee Members, Mra. Fung Keong, the Misses Helen Lo, Florence 1. Chan, Adele Lee and Duicie Chan, Dr. Y. Y. Tang and Messrs. W. K. Chan, Lau Pak- wa, W. M. Chan and S. F. Kwan.

Thanks to the kind assistance of Dr. H. H. McElney, Dr. Y. Y. Tank "The thing is an unmitigated and Dr. H. D. Matthews, who have chained up Groenewalt "rode it like FUNERAL OF LATE

been regularly visiting the Chil- dren's Hospital and Clinic, in spite with a grip on land, fought like a

jockey, thought the creature, MR, F. C. E. RENDALL "The only foundation for it is that Kenworthy came to see me to of the many calls on their services. thing possessed,"

Viscount Snowden said:

lie."

ask if I would join in an intrigue the Hospital and Clinic have com- The crocodile struggled for

buried itself in the

Cremation After Service At Cemetery.

and each was laying the foundation

of his life in that orchard.

The trees took root smartly and began to rine with one accord,

Boll.

The roots of apple-tross, pear- trees and cherry-trees became inter- twined and knotted, while the gar- dener's life clung to them and to gether with them grew into the

He lived like a bear, In winter) he slept. Snow-drifts formed along against MacDonald, and flatly pleted another your of good work hours in the chains and ropes and

the fence and the orchard was safe. told him I should do no such thing. for the poor of the Kowloon Peain-it almost

from men, beasts, ar snow-storms. "As to my wanting to be Prime! sula

ground in its efforts to get away, The funeral of the late Mr. Silanty's wife kept the stove going. During the year ending June 30. (but eventually it tried itself out F. C. E. Rendall took place last from morn till nightfall, while he Minister-] have never had the slightest ambition or desire to be 1933, 875 in-patients and 1649 out-and died.

evening at Happy Valley, the local ent or lay on the stove and awaited patients were dealt with. The Prime Minister.

"We then flung it back into the Bench and Bar being fully repre-spring. "If I had been asked either to be average number of out-patients is water."

Bented.

Slowly, heavily did he roll fróm: leader of the Labour Party or 'now maintained at 'over 50 per Ben Groenewalt's comment од After a service held at the Pro- the stove as far as the table, like aj Prime Minister I should have re-day.

event was:

testant cemetery, at which the Rev. granite' rock, moss-covered, silent fused."

The Hospital has been recovering "It could not do me any harm N. V. Halward officiated, the re-and cold. Commander Kenworthy said that supplies of milk foods and medi- because a crocodile can't turn its mains were taken to the Japaness But when the sweet smelling he was not at liberty to divulge thecines from the Hong Kong Society head round unless the rest of its crematorium and there cremated, springtime. came, the granite found names of the other members of thej for the 'Protection of Children, body turns with it."

Amongst those present were Mr.Jan unsuspected .glow inside and, party who were invited to approach which has also provided the ser

F. H. Loseby of Mesars, Russ & Co. warming up, gradually took up the Lord (then Mr.) Snowden. He vices of Mrs. Perry, an Inspector

(chief mourner), Mr. T. Mshape that left it with the last ray of the same Society and a trained

Chief Justice (His Honour Mr. The bear awoke with the or J. R. Wood) who has failed on a chafd....... short holiday, the Attorney Gen- That spring Silanty was worried. į Col. G. K. Hall-Brutton, Mesars. big house to be locked up and nail- FX d'Almada, 8nr., 1. A.led up, sold what was left of the Fraser, W. J. Lockhart-Smith, D. J, apples, and went without saying: A Guide and Scout Concert will Lewis, D. IL Blake, M. K. Lo, A. el where he was going or for how long. Arculll, Hia Shing Lo, H., K From his wife and heighbours the Holmes, D. L. Strellet, II. K. Hung, gardener learnt that all the gentry and villages were in rebellion; but he did not like to talk of it all and told his woman to hold her tongue.

said:

"Without their permission I can- nurse, but the general upkeep of not do so. All I can say is that the Hospital and Clinic and the en- they were influential members and tire support of the orphans are still

GUIDE AND SCOUT, who represented the of autumn sun.

CONCERT.

represented all sectiona of the very heavy burden on the Six Excellent Programme eral, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Lt.- in the autumn, the boss ordered the

Party.

ters, whose sole 'source of income "This interview, however, was in the proceeds of the yearly between Mr. Snowden and myself. Eazaur and the sale of their knitt-

1 bearded him if his den alone, asted and embroidered articles,

It is hoped that the coming

For 'To-Night.

the others could not be present.

"There was no question of ask-Bazaar will be successful, in order be held this evening at St. Paul's ing Mr. Snowden to be leader of that the good work of the sisters Girls' College, Kennedy Road, at 1. T. Prior, F. E. Nash, F. and merchants had fled, that towns the Party. Our intention was to secure his support for. Mr. Hender- may be continued. For the bazaar, which excellent entertainment fare d'Almada, inr. Les d'Almads, inr, CY. Kwan, Peter Bin, F. H. Cole,

A. Akbar, members of the staff of

Bon.

were not asked by Mr. Henderson

various stalls, providing

many is to be provided.

Once we were assured of his kinds of amusements and articles

knew we could make useful to patrons, will be arrang-jar. G. W. True's Cheero 'Band H. A. de B. Botelho, K. K. WORK When the roads Improved strange support, we Henderson leader.

ed, while sonyenir tickets at the Misses Stella and Helen Ho, the Russ & Co., and members of the people came Into the orchard, tore "Mr. Henderson's -attitude

A well-known classical dancers, and Hong Kong Indian Moneylenders down the board with the owner's throughout was perfectly correct. and $1 each have been issued,

name and told Silanty, to come to There was no question of his being cheerful response from the public Mr. E. F. Belk, of local club-swing Association,

town for orders. ing fame, are all included in the Wrentha) were sent by Mr. and a party to these negotiations. We is confidently expected.

programme and should of themselves Mr Chow Hin Fan, Mr. and Mrs right, so to speak Soviet orchard B."I was thinkding myself it __im't Masure the success of the concert C. T. Chan, Mr. and Mrs. WE with a private owner's name-plate

Other items of the programme Hillyer, Mr. and Mrs. FH, Losaby, wild Blanty, Faldas was the boar consist of Scout songs and dances Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Mitchell, Mr. Ana amiling into lo brande and Chinese plays, all of these be- and Mrs. N. I Farrin, Mr. and Mrs, ing performed by members of the Hampden Ross, Mr and Mrs. */ 2nd Hong Kong Company Girl Haunni -"Beth," "Mr. and Mrs 0 Guides and the 10th Hong Kong W. Wpe, and Mr. and Mrs. A. V Troops Boy Scoute

Young

to approach Mr. Snowden

"Viscount Snowden says that this].

+ is all a lie. People must judge: for]

themselves as between Enowden and myself." AN

Mr. 3. R. Glynés Baid?

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