1933-10-02 — Page 7

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933.

CHEER O CLUB US. PLANES

DONATIONS

Subscriptions Total $8,250 Already.

$35,000 REQUIRED

TO ATTEMPT

OCEAN FLIGHT

From San Diego To Honolulu.

12 NEW TYPE MACHINES

Bahia Honda, C. Z.

As a result of the recent meet- ing held at Government House, a public subscription list for dona.

The United States Navy having tions to the cost of providing new already broken the distance record promises for the Cheer & Club, has for a single fight of airplanes in best started, and the donatione formation, now intends to conduct data total $8,250.

a formation flight from San Diego to Honolulu sometime during the building cannot be erected far less coming winter. than $30,000 and a further $5,000:

It is estimated that

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEW RIVAL FOR "CAVALCADE"

"Bitter Sweet" Expected To Earn £500,000.

£75,000 PRODUCTION

film had

Noel

Londati.

To-Day's Short Story.

THE

STOLEN

PAPERS

By Karel Capek.

cven

ANOTHER BIG NIGHT TO-NIGHT

AT THE

CAFE

DE LUXE

4

CHINA

EMPORIUM LTD.

A big event in the film world took ing the telephone at garri-colonel Vrzal.

T three o'clock in the morn- "I bet it was," said Lieutenant- time in history a British talking whirr: "This is Colonel Hampl, the colonel. place this month. For the first

son headquarters gave a sudden "Well, it can't be helped," sighed night" in London and New York

"My wife's simultaneous +

"first of the General Staff. Send two stouter than I am. Anyway, the Imilitary policemen to me at next night my wife suggested we Bitter Sweet" which cost £75,000 Vrzal; he's in the Intelligence macaroni-tin and keep it in the

Coward's once. And tell Licut. colonel should put the papers into

Department; yea, of course; oh, pantry during the night. I'll lock The planes that will be used in Sweet" will rival

Rccounts, "Bitter

that's nothing to do with you; the pantry for the night, and look this flight, which will be the lonx-box-office appeal. It is expected to Yee, now, at this very moment. see, we've got one of those shock-

"Cavalcade" in

tell him to come here at once. after the key, said my wife. You have eat formation flight over water. are earn something like £500,000 thus: Yes, by car. But be quick about ingly fat, servant-girls who're al

the new navy scout planes that re-

Suitable

will be required for equipment.

The following donations been received to date:--

H. E. The Governor

Hong Kong and Shanghai

Banking Corporation

His Honour, Mr. J K Word

and Mrs. Wood

Sir H. E. Pollock

Mr. and Mrs, G.-G. N. Tingoat The Hon. Mr D W. Tratman Mr. and Mrs. H 1 Priestley Mr. H. R. Stuart... Mr. and Mrs D. Jenkin

The following

received to date

CHINESE

$ 250 cently flew here from Norfolk, Vir-

ginia, to be ready for a dash 10 7,000 Cuba in the event they were need-

ed there.

230

New Type Planes.

230 The planes are of a new type de-

The film was

to make.

From

a!}

British rights

£200,000

United States

it for Heaven's sake,"

Australian

Other Dominione and

Continent

140,000 50,000

75,000

More sweet than bilter, it seems. 150 veloped by the Navy. Six of the "Cavalcade."

Wynyard In Noel other

And, like Diana

this

ways asleep. Nobody's, `going to And the speaker rang off.

look for it in the pantry, are they? An hour later Lieutenant-colonel said my wife. Very well, then. I ¡Vrzal was on the spot. It was a thought it was a good idea." long way out, somewhere in the garden suburb. He was received by or single windows?" Lieutenant "Has your pantry got double

middle-aged gentleman with a colonel Vrzal interrupted him. 10 planes are here at Bahia Honda but Coward vintage will probably lift a

very worried fook and in mufti, or. "Confound it all," burst forth the 100 it was said by officials to-day that few British film star to world-wide rather, in shirt and trousers.

colonel, "I never thought of that. 106 12 will probably take part in the fame.

"I say. I'm in a devil of a mess. Single windows! I completely for- 56 formation flight.

Just aft She is golden-haired Miss Anna confounded, blasted, damned, retten, and blast the confounded thing!"

down, will you? It's a got to look at the windows. Dama The fight from, Norfolk is near Neagle who appeared (but had little rickening business. A hell of a fix ly 5000 land miles and the flight to de) with Jack Buchanan in

"Well, go on," the lieutenant- from San Diego to Honolulu will"Good Night, Vienna."-Reuter. be 2,228 nautical miles. The fight

$10

Le

500

dolatron

I

SECTION

Tang Shin Kin

Ng Wah

Ho Kam Tong

Leung Put You

500

T. N Chan

500

Mok Kan Sang

500

Kwok Siu Lan

300

C. Ah Ying

ኒብነ

from Norfolk was less hazardous

berause there were landing places LINK WITH CHINA'

en route.

The forthcoming flight will be the first large scale forma. tion venture since the United States army completed its world Alight in 1924. Four planes started and two cam- pleted the trip.

Rodgers' Flight.

IMPERIAL DAYS

Funeral Of General Chan Kwing-mind.

ELDEST SON DIES ON DAY OF FUNERAL

SCOUTS AND GUIDES in to Honolulu. None of them Chan Kwing-ming, one-lime

ENTERTAINED

Chief Scout's Party At Mountain Lodge.

NEARLY 500 GUESTS

Mountain Lodge was the

Canton,

·

to be in. I can tell you. Well, it's colonel urged him. like this: The day before yesterday "That's about all there la to tell. me some papers and said: Hampl, heard the servant-girl screaming the thief of the General Staff gave At two in the morning my wife. you'd better work on this at home, down below. She went to ask what The fewer people who know about was the matter, and Mary yelled it the better. Mum's the word in out, There's a burglar in the pantry. the office. Now then, of you go. My wife ran for the key and to, take a few days leave and do the fetch me. I rushed down into the job at home. But keep your wits pantry with a pistol, and damn about you. All right."

and blast it all!--the window in the: "What papers were they 7" l-pantry had been opened with a quired Lieutenant-colonel Vrzal.

thingumabob, a crowbar, and

the tin box with the papers was gone.

"Aha!"

In 1925 the Navy started three

Colonel Hampl hesitated. planes on a fight from San Fran-! The funeral of the late General

"Well," he said, "as a matter of And the burglar was gone, too. Civil fact, they were from Section C." That's the lot," said the colonel, competed the flight. The flight wasjand Military Governor of

observed Lieutenant-with a sigh, under the direction of Commander took place on Saturday afternoon. colonel Vrzal and began to look ex- John Rodgers and his plane with The deceased being the recognised, coedingly grave. its crew was forced down off

"Go on." one lender of the Chikungtang (which'

"Well, now, look here," said the of the Hawaiian Islands and float originated from a conservative scc was busy on the job all day. But crestfalien colonel. "Yesterday I tion of the Kuomintang) the funeral' rites were marked by the appearance of goodness was to do with the then I wondered what in the name of the old Republican five-bar flag damned thing st and the Chikungtang party ensign putting it into a drawer. I haven't which is also seldom seen.

night. No 480

ed nine days before the men were *1*Az' 4],

The first fight from the moin. land to Hawaii was made by Army sene. Lieutenants L. J. Maitland and A. on Saturday afternoo!), al apa F. Beggenberger in 1927. sant ceremony, when His Fx ebony, The Governor. Sır M

Cole,

Chief of Hong Kong, Peel, Chel nearly 500 Boy Scouts Guides to ten and games

An

Perl,

entertrayed

and Gat

The troops attending werkz - Guides: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. Hong Kong Companies at. 2nd. 3rd, 5th and 6th Kuwiem

Com

9th Kowloon; Cubs: 14, 8th ARC

Puck.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Undertaker," by A. M. Pushkin.

Vrzal drum-f

Lieutenant-colonel

"And did anybody know you'd

Among the chief mourners were got a safe. And if anyone knew med on the table with his fingers. WARSHIPS DUE IN two sons and five daughters, includ. the devil to pay. Well, for the first got these papers at home?"

HONG KONG

Destroyers Delayed By Inclement Weather.

the wife of the deceased and their that it was in my hands there'd be

ing Miss May Chan.

night I shoved it in my bed under the talented locul pianist,

the mattress, and by the morning Several Canton officials and other was crumpled all out of shape, prominent eltizens followed in the

as if an elephant had been trampl- ing on iL"

procession.

CATHEDRAL FUND. Donations Now Total $3,163.94.

Among the hundreds of wreaths; and messages of condolence sent Un account of inclement weather were those from Marshal L Chai- pames: Seuss 1st Hong Konk Sea conditions prevailing op North, Biosum, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Seouts 1. 1st H.K. .41 Joseph's Full Leader Keppel, and 2nd, 4th, ath, 78, 10. 12th, 14th, Destroyers

the Mr. Chan Chick ya (former Cl 15th, 17th Hong Kong: 1st, 5th and Wren will not arrive in Hong Kong retired Hang Rong merchant). Lam Veteran. Wilri eild, Lazernor of Canton und well known 9th Kowloon Parks, and the Peak are expected to-morrow morning.

To-day, as previously announced, but Fu (former Canton Garrison Com- The following donations

Imander, Gaston Wong

to St. HMS. Berwick H. E. the Chief Scout and Lady Cruiser Squadron, which has comstaff), Chan Ming-shu, Yung Kwel K. A.

Keung John's Cathedral Restoration Fund of the Fifth Nineteenth Route Army chief-of-have been received:- Poel were escorted to the parade by pleted his summer cruise up North, chung, Ho Kwong. Leung Hung-kal, Capt. The Hong Kong Commissioner and is expected to arrive on or about former Canton Divisional Comman

and Mrs. J. de H. Deputy Camp Chief Rev. G.

Voisey Waldegrave) and the Rev. N. Y.

der, Ip Lan-chuen, Chow Lu, Canton Mr. D. 1. Luard Halward M.C., Assistant Comnira-

South-west Political Council mem Miss Sybil M. Swift sioner. The Guides were under the Shanghai

from ber; Wu Chi-hui, Nanking Kuomin- Mias J. W. Buckwell charge of Mra. Anderson.

tang Committee member: Li Yew- Miss B. M. Bicheno from hon, former Kwangsi Governor, J. D. B.

Leung Pui-yu, Ho Wing and two Previously 6 wreaths from Japanese Nationalist

leaders at Tokyo, and others. Futher Breavement

T. Wednesday.

Other arrivals scheduled are:- H.M.S. Bruer, October 13

H.M.S. Eagle. October 27

In welcoming the Scouts and Japanese Cruise; Guides, Sir William remarked

H.M.S. Falmouth, November humorously that a Scout promised from Japanese Cruise: to do one good turn u day and he was going to perform his good deed by not inflicting a speech upon the parade. He reminded them of the need for service and to live unsel fish lives.

His Excellency congratulated the parade on their smart turnout, and expressed the hope that all present would have a good time that after noon, and would come again next year. (Applause),

Tea and Games.

H.M.S. Medway and submarines, November 9 from Japanese Cruise;

H.M.S. Sandwich, November from Nanking.

16

The occasion was further sadden. ed by the news that Chan Ting-ha, the eldest son of the deceased, who H.M.S. Kent, November 20 from had only arrived a few days pre- Japanese Cruise;

viously from Shanghai to attend his,

H.M.S. Cornflower, December from Chinwingtao;

H.M.S. Cumberland, December from Shanghai; and

-H.M.S. Bridgewater, January from Shanghai. [ADD TYPHOON

The unhappy colonel shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know. My dear fellow, the dirty crooks." But then be re- membered what Lieutenant-colonel Vrzal's particular job was, and was: what I mean to say is, they're jelly envered with confusion.

"That ja

smart fellows," he corrected him- wolf feebly. "But I never told a soul, I give you my word I didn't. Why," he added triumphantly, "no- body could have known I put the papers Into the macaroni tin."

"And where were you when you put them in the tin?" asked the lieutenant-colonel casually,

"Here, at this table.*

25

30

20

20

10

had the tin right in front of me."

20

"Whereabouts was the tin then?" "Let's see now," reflected the colonel. "I was sifting here and I

The hieutenant-colonel Jeaned

10 against the table and 'gazed acknowledged 3,028.94 dreamily out of the window. In the dewy daybreak the outlines. of aj $3,103,94 grey and red ville stood out op-1

posite,

BUS PASSENGER WITHOUT TICKET.

2 father's funeral, had died of dysen-Thought He Could Use

tery a few hours earlier

At the

18 Yeung Wo Hospital.

The young man, who was only 17,

Brother's "Season."

"Who lives there?" he asked wearily.

The colonel banged his fiat on the table.

"God damn it all, I never thought, of that! Let's see now, there's a Jew living there, a bank manager

or something. Confound the thing,

9 had not been well since his arrival fined $8 at the Central Police me that we've got a clue.";

Ng Leung-tak, a shop fok!,, was now I see it all. Vazal, it strikes

evasively,

His condition became critical and the Court this morning for travelling I'd like to have a look at that A plenic tea followed, during Rainfall in the Colony during the removed him to the Young Wo Hos a ticket.

family early on Saturday morning on a bus at Garden Road without pantry," said the Heutenant-colonel which the Scouters, Cubbers and 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day pital, where the beat of medical at- Guide officers were introduced to amounted to 0.28 inch, it is stated tention proved unavailing. H.E. the Lady Peol. After tea all in a weather report issued by te troops, packs and companies induig Royal Observatory.

ed in their own games. In which Sir William and Lady Peel took a keen interest.

At the close of the afternoon the parade resumed formation and the Commissioner thanked His Excel-

lency and Lady Peel and called upon

the Scouts and Guides to show their appreciation of the afternoon's en-; tertainment, which was responded to with a will.

LOCAL DOLLAR UNCHANGED. Forward Silver Advances

The dollar shows no opening to-day at 1/4%

change,

Total rainfall since January 1 amounted to 53.35 inches, against an average of 70.16 inches,

To the health of my dera guests."

SHIP'S WATCHMAN.

LOSES CHICKEN.

Thief Fined $20.

FEAST OF THE HOLY ROSARY. Yesterday's Ceremony In Kowloon.

The Feast of our Lady of the Holy Rosary was observed, with much ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Kowloon, yester day:

A fine of $20, in default one Bishop Henry Valtorta presided month's hard labour, was imposed on

a Chinese named Chan Bik at the over the Solemn Pontiacal Mass,

Pleading guilty he said that his "Come along, then. This way, brother, who whe away in 'Canton,, this way,” said the colonel, leading owhed a season ticket and the de- him eagerly. "Here it is. The box fendant thought that in his was on that top shelf. Mary," brother's absence he could use St. bellowed the colonel, what a

which was refused, flo When accosted by the inspector on staring at? Go to the attic or else the bus he offered to pay the fare, into the cellar.”

SAVED FROM GAOL BY DOG.

Animal Reproaches Complainant.

Central Police Court this morning the principal of the series of early Mr. Crantz was sentenced to a for, stealing a chicken from Kasum morning masses at the Church, at Khan, an Indian watchman on board which a beautiful programme of the "Fook On" "yesterday, music was rendered.

-

It was slated that, the watchman Unfortunately rain cut short the saw the accused leaving the hip procession of the statue of the Vir with, the chicken in his hand. Ha, gin, headed by Boy Scouts and Spot allver at 18 7/16, registered called to him to stop but the man ran tower giris, and followed by hun no change on Saturday, but for away! He gave chast and taught dreds of the faith including many ward advanced 1/16, to 18 9/16. him,"

visitors from Hong Kong,

The cross rate, London on New Accused declared that be thought A sermon and Bent "York, la £-G$4.75 and New York on the chicken, which was lying on the brought, the day's celebration to a London &-G84.76.

deak, did not belong to anyʊDA;

Oakland, California. month in gol, on charges of sstank and battery brought against him by Two days later the landlady his Jandlady..

ought to have Crants relea He belice dog Indig death" she said

to looks at me kë

stand-it, any longer, bonference was beid, the ates opened, and Crims wES" "Go home to your do"-Ha

Are you"

The fleutenant-colonel took his gloves and swung himself up to the window, which was rather

"Prised open with s

be

auld, inspecting the window."" ATLA window "Transe's"made of"

though. Any schoolboy could split [itempat£?*AN, MEMORA

The

"Confound the thing!"

mean by making such rotten colonel was taken aback, “ found the people," what...": "do" dÓW NA PISTE 2-6)

Outside, in front of the gratin

inquired

"To that the military police 7 top soldiers were in attendance.

sutenant-colonel." Vrzal: {right:01′′) “inst Have

the way, If I were you tay at home until

agreed thi

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