1933-10-04 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933.

RICKSHA COOLIE ASSAULTED

Broker Admits Being "A Little Drowsy."

FINED AND BOUND OVER

Mr. John Castillo, broker, was brought before Mr Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning. charged with assaulting Two Kau. ʼn riekaba puller * Queen's Rand Fast yesterday

The defendant employed rom:

plant 71 Chater Read and

at the end 2) the Arney.

it

was alleged, instead of paying his fare struck the complainant on the

head with his umbrelin.

Inspector Dick said that the de- fendant, when brought to the sta- tion, was slightly under the fluence of liquor.

in

CHINA'S

FINANCIAL

DIFFICULTIES

Result Of Japanese Invasion.

$100,000,000 CUSTOMS TREASURY LOAN

CHINA HIGHWAY SYSTEM

Reported Appointment Of American Expert.

FUNDS FOR BUILDING OF 22,000 MILES

Albany, NY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

THE BAD

LANDS

more

By John Metcalfe.

TT is now perhaps fifteen years the wings of wandering breezes.j ago that Brent Ormerod. At the back, the look of the land is It is reported in reliable circles seeking the rest and change of somehow strangely forbidding, and Nanking, To-day. here that Col. Frederick Stuart scene that should help him to it is wiser to keep to the shore and How difficult is the financial Greene, commissioner of public slay the demon neurosis, arrived the plight in which the Central Govern-works for the State of New York, in Todd towards the close of a Salterton,

neighbouring villages. for instance, ment finds itself was revealed in has been asked by the Government mid-October day.

has been found quite safe and normal. detailed memorandum submitted to of China to supervise the construc A decrepit fly bore him to the There are long stretches of sand the Execuilve Yuan yesterday by tion of an elaborate. system of one hotel, where his rooms were dunes to the west, and by their side Mr. T V. Suong, the Finance Min-highways. ister, relative to his proposal for

duly engaged, and it is this vision nine-hole golf course. Here, って、 The report, which was carried in of himself Bilting in the appalling the time of Brent's visit, stood an the flotation of $100,000,000 worth one of the local daily papers, was vehicle that makes him think it was old and crumbling tower, an enig of Customs Treasury Notes, which to the effect that the Nanking Gov-October or thereabouts, for he dismatic structure which he found in- will be secured on the increased ernment had arranged to provideftinctly remembers the determined teresting from its sheer futility. customs rates recently promulgat-ample funds for the construction of settling down of the dusk that Behind it an inexplicable rond seem- ed and will carry a monthly inter-22.000 miles of modern durable forced him to drive when he would cd to lead with great decision mort roads and that Col. Greene had have preferred to follow his lug-uncomfortably to nowhere... Todd, the been asked to help in producing gage on foot.

he thought, was in many ways a upset the plans for a complete road sys-

tem as well as to oversee the work

Defendant expressed his regretest of 5 per cent.

and said that he was a Bttle d ́owsy He said that the balance of and did not know what he was donational budget had been ing.

since the Japanese invasion of de- hoi, which necessitated the appro priation by the

He was fed $5 for the assault and bound over in a sum of $50 for six months, bring also ordered to pay $2 compensation plainant

The

THIEF ON BOARD DOLLAR LINER

Passenger Loses Two Bank Drafts,

FILIPINO SENTENCED TO SIX WEEKS' GAOL

Delapin Fryne, a Filipiziz sales-

fear at the Central ♪ be

Central Govern-

Col. Greene declined to com. men on the report and this was taken in most quarters to that he had received

The atmosphere,

santly.

He decided immediately that five ice spot, but he detected in it a o'clock was an

unsuitable time to tendency to grow on one unplea- arrive in Todd.

He came to this conclusion at the AN it were, was not receptive. There was a certain repellent quali-end of the ninth day, for it was

he became aware of al ty about the frore autumn air, and then that [something peculiarly ahocking in peculiar uneasiness, an indescriba- the way in which desultory little ble malaise.

This feeling Col. Greene is a well known road winds would spring up in darkening

of disquiet he at engineer streets to send the fallen

first found himself quite unable to: leaves

mesh

such an invitation from Nan- king.

ment Treasury of heavy amounts to meet the extraordinary military ex- penses. Solely on this score, the Central Government's Intal expen diture in the period from March to! July was $49,000,000 higher than and poneral construction the normal estimate of $38,000,000 and has been responsible, in a great scurrying about in hateful, furtive explain or analyse. His nerves he hud thought greatly improved since) measure, for the existing system of whirlpools.

he had left Kensington, and his!

40 each month.

dif.

ransi

the

highways in New York. He was Dinner, too, at the hotel hardly general health was good. He de-

appointed commissioner of brought the consolation he had cided, however, Thighways in New York in 1919 and, counted on,

The meal itself was more exercise was necessary, and so that perhaps yet jexcept for a brief period during unexceptionable, and the room

which he was associated with a pri- cheerful and sufficiently well filled sand dunes to the queer tower and he walked along the links and the vate engineering company In the for that tine of year, yet one the inexplicable road that lay be. construction of piers, he has been in trivial circumstance was enough to hind it three times a day instead of jchange of the state's roada.

send him upstairs with his temper twice.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Nobody's House." by A. M. Burrage.

Moreover, the financial pomi- tion WRN rendered more flcult by the fact that, during and after the campaign of re- sistance to the Japanese inva- sion in the North, revenues in the war-affected areas derably fell off. The Finance Minister also said 1 At present. Col. Greene is engaged ruffled and his nerves on edge. man, Was charged before Ms. Bal-that during his stay in Shanghai on a state highway project that will They had put him to a table with a

Court recently, he had consulted with the st approximately G$40,000.000, one-eyed man, and that night thei This morning with unlawfully re-leading bankers in regard to

Thalf the amount being provided blank eye haunted all his dreams. ceiving two bank dratts, an

$200 proposed Customs Treasury Loon by the Federal Government us an But for the first cach, on the Nederlandsche Indie Happily the bankers, who had com-

eight or nine Junemployment rehef measure.

days at Todd The Handelsbank, Hong Kong, the plete confidence

things went fairly It was said in the officer of the welf with him. in the Govery-

He took frequent an ment's ability to maintain ife creif such an invitation were extended made a point of coming back to the property of Rwan Sheng Hav,

Governor, Mr. Albert Lehman, that, cold baths and regular exercise and artist, resulting at the Lah Kwai dit, were willing to give mare- Hong Boarding Hease. Hong Kong, served support to the flotation of leave hul attaches refused to con- to bed was usually to drop imme- by China, Col. Greene might obtain notel so physically tired that to get 1 charged the Loan which would be fully re with oddaning $15 trom No Yakpald in a period of twelve and

frm the report. In other offres.diately into sleep. He wrote back Chi, a salesman of the Leong Sing half years from

however, it was pointed out that the to his sister Joan, at Kensington, Jade Shop, 48 Queen's Road Den-News Agency.

building of 22,000 miles of good that his nerves were already much he would become conscious, as he His discomfort rapidly increased. trai. by pretending that one of the

roads would require the services of improved and that only another set out for his walk, of a strange drafts was his property, with sugen-

lan engineer for

years.fortnight seemed needed to com-sinking United Press.

at his ing it without authority

¡plete the cure. "Altogether a peculiar

moral disturbance which highly satisfactory week."

difficult Lo Those who have been to Todd re- These

describe. sensations attained their member it as a quiet, secretive maximum when he had reached his watering-place, couched watchfully goal upon the dunes, and he suffer- in a fold of a long range of lowed then what something seemed to bills along the Norfolk coast. It tell him was very bear the pangs, has been pronounced "restful" by of spiritual dissolution. those in high authority, for time there has a way of passing dreamily some faint hint of the meaning of It was on the eleventh day that. As if the days, too, were being blown past like the lazy clouds on mind. For the first time he asked these peculiar symptoms crossed his

Accused w

W

Central

The WATCHMAN ASLEEP

name of Bong Yack Lean, and with uttering the draft

The defendant pleaded guilty to the second charge but not guilty to the remaining three

ON DUTY.

Caught Ten Times By Inspector.

FINED $20.

Kwan Shong Fay. The complain. | ant, stated in evidence that he lost! the two drafts while on he "PreRI dent Coalubre." on Octuber 1. the Kater Singh, a private watchman day before the ship arrived in employed by the Paris Silk Store, Hong Kong. Be reported the loss Queen's Road Central, was

fined

is the Captain and a general active $20 by Mr. Schofield at the Central was issued on board notifying the Magistracy this morning for being

loss of the draft.

Sleep while on duty.

issued. "je rase

neem, a

İ

several

BLASTING WITHOUT PROPER CARE,

Large Stone Blown 200 Yards.

OFFENDER FINED $250

Yu Kee, a contractor, was nined tral Police Court this morning for $250 by Mr. Schofield at the Cen. failing to take proper precautions while blasting at Morrison Hill, Happy Valley, on September 23.

Sergeant Dambrowsky said that

On his arrival at Hong Kong he Serpeant Wynyard said that he immediately reported the loss. re- had found the defendant asleep on questing the Bank to stop payment (hine ocasions since the summons at 4.30 p.m., as a large number of of the drafte. The same day he was was called to the Bank where he hopeless one," he said. was shown the two dratte, one of i The defendant pleaded guilty which had been endorsed with the and said that he had been on duty name of the drawer, Hong Yicker a long stretch without sleep." Lean, his father-in-law.

The accused was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to ix werks hard labour on each, the sentences to run concurrently.

NANCHANG OFFICERS

ARRIVE.

MOON FESTIVAL

Chinese Celebrate

Occasion To-day.

To-day in the old Chinese calen- dar in August 15, and in every

Chinese home throughout China the Chinese are celebrating the C. Johnson And A. D. Festival, one of the most important holidays, during the year. During

Blue On Way To London-the past few days moon cakes have

W. E. HARGRAVE NOW

IN HONG KONG

Mr. Clifford Johnson, Chief Off- cer, and Mr. A. D. Blue, Second Officer, of the .a. Nanchang, arriv ed from Shanghai this morning by the Blue Funnel liner a... Philoe- tetes.

It will be recalled that Messrs. Johnson, Blue with Mr. W. E. Har-1 grave, Second Offear, were taken captive when the 8.8. Nanchang while at Newchwang Bar on March A, wes boarded by pirates.

After five months of captivity in Manchuria, during which they were in the hands of several bandit chiefs, their release was finally se cured on September 7, by Captain Obata, of the Japanese Gender- merie of Newchwang, who brought them to Panahan, A British des- troyer task them to Shanghai' from Panshan

been exchanged among Chinese families.

BERWICK ARRIVES FROM NORTH.

Suffolk Leaves For

Exercises,

Was

very

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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES COMMENCING FRIDAY, 6th OCT.

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GRACIOUSLY PATRONISED BY THEIR MAJESTIC THE KING AND QUEEN.

66

COMPANIONS”

"THE GOOD heart and of a

himself why it was that of all the many rambles he had taken in Todd;

since his arrival each one seemed Jinevitably to bring him to the same place-the yellow sand dunes with the mysterious looking tower in the background.

in Something

the bland foolishness of the structure; seemed to have magnetised him, and unaccountable excitement

people were returning from the (races ut Happy Valley, a large

piece of granite was blown from H. M. S. Suffolk, of the Fifth in the

Hill to Morrison Gap Cruiser Squadron, left Hong Kong which the sight of it invariably Rond, # distance of 200 yards. this morning for exercises at Tolo produced, he had found himself en- scene of the Harbour and is expected to return dowing it with almost human char-

Morrison

that the

When he visited the bidating ho found Usual protection cover had not been placed over the stone.

The defendant said that his fok! had placed the cover but that it had jbeen blown off by the explosion.

to port on Friday.

H.M.S. Berwick, also of the Fifth

Cruiser Squadron, arrived in Hong Kong at 9.15 this morning from the North.

|acteristica.

With its white nightcap dome and its sides of pale yellow stucco it might seem at one moment to be gomething extravagantly ridiculous, a figure of fun at which one should laugh and point. Then, as likely as

CHEER-O CLUB FUND LINCOLNS PRIVATE not, its character would change a

Donations Now Total

$9,280.

The following donations to the Cheer-O Club Fund have been re Hong celved:-

Most of the schools in children a holiday to gather at the Kong are closed to-day to allow the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C.,

and Mrs. Alabaster traditional family feast.

Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood Mr. Hang, Shing Mr. L. G. Bird Mr. P. C. Potte

The tradition of the Moon Fes- tival has a long history, starting from the Han dynasty.

DOLLFUSS' INJURIES NOT DANGEROUS

(Contínued from Page 1)."

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. telegraphed to Dr. Dollfuse as follows, "Much shocked to hear of the attack on Your Excellency. Please accept my warmest sympathy, and my wishes for a speedy re- covery."

Sir John Simon's mesenge,

Mr. and Mrs. R. Pestonji Mr. and. Mra. B. C. Randall Mr. Chi Yu-mah

Mr. and Mra. 3. Litton ..... Previously, acknowledged

Total to date.

SENTENCED.

Shumshuipo Court Martial Verdict.

little, and it would take on the abashed and crestfallen look of a. jester whose best joke has fallen deadly flat, while finally, perhaps, it

would develop with startling rapid. ity into a jovial old gentleman laughing madly at Ormerod from Pte. James Johnson of the Lin-the middle" distance out of infinite colnshire Regiment was sentenced Ïfunds of merriment, $100 to 42 days' detention, at a recent Now Brent was well aware of the 100 Court Martial *t Shumshuipo dangers of an obsession such as 500 Camp, for failing to obey an order this, and he immediately resolved, to 100 to attend a defaulters' parade and rob the tower of its unwholesome 50 using insubordinate language to a fascination by simply walking

superior officer.

straight up to it, past" it, and on- con-wards along the road that stretch-

ed behind it.

60

10

The verdict has received firmation, by the G.O.C.

10

10

..8,860

.9,280

CATHEDRAL FUND. Donations Now Total $3,295.

THEFT OF BRASS FROM TAIKOO.

* ་

It was on the morning of one of the last October, days that he set out from the hotel with this inten- tion in his mind. He reached the dunes at about ten, and plodded with some difficulty across them in the direction of the tower, he neared it his accustomed sensations bé-; came painfully apparent, and pre- sently increased to such a pitch A fine of $25, in default one that it was all he could do to con- month's hard labour, was imposed tinue on his way,

Dockyard Coolie Fined $25.

He remembered being struck

The following donations to St. on Tsui Heung,' a coollé employed. read, "Greatly distressed to hear John's Cathedral Restoration Fund Mr. W. E. Hargrave arrived in of the infamous attempt on have been received: the Colony on September 27, and is Your Excellency's life, and I am staying in the Colony for a short much relieved to see the later re- A. B period of leave.

port that your injuries are A. H. Cobb, Manila. Messrs. Johnson and Blue will light. Please accept my most Mrs. Edgar Davidson.'. resume their journey to London at eincere congratulation on your Previously acknowledge 5 o'clock this evening by the escape." British Wireless Ser Philoctetes.

['vice."

Total to date

at Taikoo Docks by Mr. Schofeld, again with the peculiar character 4t the Central Magistracy this of the winding road that stretched morning for stealing four pounds of before him' into a hazy distance 10 brass plates from the dock pre here everything seemed to melt 10 mises.

and swim in abadowy, vaguenean,

50 The accused attempted to con-n his left the gate stood open," to 8,225 coal the plates by tying them to his bis right the grotesque form of the

legs, but was stopped at the dock tower threatened. .$8,295 'Exit;

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