1933-10-19 — Page 7

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1933.

CANTON POPULACE

INDIGNANT

Officials Seek To Avoid Sino-Japanese Clash.

SEQUEL TO KIDNAPPING

Canton, To-day. While the Canton authorities are

working for a satisfactory setile- ment of the case of the kidnapping

THE CHINA MAIL.

ACID-THROWING FOUR KILLED WHEN

WITH INTENT

Hawker Charged At Criminal Sessions.

ASSAULT ADMITTED

Before the Pulsne Judge. Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Criminal Sessions this morning. Ng Wah. a

BOILER BURSTS

Father Loses Three Children.

TRAGEDY IN YUGO-SLAVIA

To-Day's Short Story.

THE

GHOST

SHIP

--

Belgrade

F

AIRFIELD is a little village

eight!

By Richard Middleton.

Still, I must admit that the thing

WIN

Four people were killed. 12 lying near the Portsmouth I'm going to tell you about

queer cven for our part of the injured and marine critical'y

Rond about half-way between.

world, where three packs of ghost- hawker, entered a plea of not guilty others less seriously

injured

London and the sea.

Strangers hounds hunt regularly during the engine to a charge of throwing corrosive when the boiler of an

black-smuth's great- thrashing machine who find it by accident now and season, old with intent to do grievous working a ton police are taking precaution is harm to Ching Yuen-yna brat at Gaja, near Kovin, Yugo- then, call it a pretty, old-fashion-grandfather is busy all night shee-

Chinese female, but admitted a slavia.

harge of assault.

of a Chinese naturalised Korean in Canton by the Japanese, the Can-

any possible measures against trouble as a consequence of the po pular indignation.

All patriotic societies in the city will not permit unauthorised par. sons to enter after nightfall.

1

Gither and Woo Lai-tin.

cipnl Government Their conversations is not known

Mr. Ken Chia-hou, Inspector of In opening the case for the Lawn, Foreign Affaire for South Western Mr. Holmes said the accused was

4121 to llong Kong carrying

busmess collecting China, proceeded for the second time, yesterday, in broken pieces of old silver and otď tłown connection with some "important gold teeth, which he melted business,”

Central News Agency, und sold back to the gold and silver

[smithis.

Heavy piece of the binler' 100

and wer hurle

yards sun'hr pices were found 200 yards away.

horses.

a lamb. Once when he had a bad

ing the dead gentlemen's ed place; we, who live in it and Now that's a thing that wouldn't The machine was about to:

Acall it home, don't find anything happen in London, because of their off to Another farm. Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown Soli-move

it, but we interfering ways, but bincksmith be of the big crowd of children had gather-very pretty about

ed to see the machine moved Hur, appeared on behalf

should be sorry to live anywhere as up aloft and sleeps as quiet as Crown

Suddenly there was a terrific The following jury wer empanel- Pak-shing again call-

(forexplosion. A child playing 100 else. Our minds have taken the head he shouted down to them t ed on the Japanese Consul yester lea: Messrs. 1. N. Murray

At morning he found an old guinen left day on behalf of the Canton Muni- man, G. Rozario, E. Lugering, Ear's away was killed instantly shape of the inn and the church in make so much amuse, and in the

all events

feel com-lon the anvi we never

as an apology. He were bart y realded by steam and fortable out of Fairfield. The result of G. Wilkinson, S. A. Sweet, G. F. Other children rear the engine and the green, I suppose.

wents it un h watch-chain now. 'Foiling water.

Of course the Cockneys, with their But I must get on with my story; rasty houses and their noise-ridden it I start uɩh you about the queer streets, can call us rustles if they happenings at Fairfield I'll DeVer of they

all stop. choose,

but for that Fairfield IN

better place 11 ati came of the great storm in Most of the victims

were live 10

in

London. than

Doc the spring of '97, the year that we children. One mani lost three for says that when he goes to Lon-had two great storms. This was childron and another is critically den hit mind is bruised with the he first one, and I remember it very weight of the houses, and he was well, because I found in the morning a Cockney burn. He had to live that it had lifted the thatch of my 'there himself when he was a little pigsty into the widow's garden us chap, but he knows better now, clean as a boy's kit. When I ln x- You gentlemen may laugh—perhapsd over the hedge, widow~T ni same of you come from London way Lumport's widow. that was-was but it seems to me that a witness prodding for her nasturtiums with like that is worth a gallon of argu-

dalay-grubber. After 1 kru ments.

་

The complainant in the case was injured. ANGLO-PORTUGUESE' formerly his mistress. In May tast The owner of the machine has

'accused told the complainant that been arrested. Reuter TREATY SIGNED.

business was bad and they murt each of them fend for themselves. Accused carried on with his own trade, while the complainant began leading an irregular life, to which he objected.

British Shipping Freed From Discrimination.

FURTHER PROTECTION FOR PORTUGUESE WINES.

London. Te day.

An Anglo-Purtuguese agreement

AUSTRALIAN RICE FOR BRITAIN

They lived together at 380 Queen's One Firm Wants 5,000 ' Road West until September 8 when

Tons A Year. they had their first quarrel.

At that time the accused WAN

was concluded on the fober 14 regard-uking nitric acid for the purpose of BIGGER PRODUCTION POSSIBLE ang the quest of flag discrimina testing the gold which came into his

Lion in Portuguese porta

By this agres ment Portogal un dertaker to abolish all forms of dis crimination against British vessels

In Portugal hate her ako facent

hands and be threatened to blind her if she earned on with her vietos life.

That day the accused obtamed u

Dull?

it Well, you might find

I've dull. but 1 assure you that hetened to all the London yarns you |

solutely nothing to the tungs that have spun to night, and they're ab

at Fairfield. It's becauRO Sydney. happen Following a record rice crop in of our way of thinking nun nunding | ¡Australia, a large surplus quan- our own business. fity of rice has already been sold Londoners

If war of your wer set down on the

1

TO-MORROW'S STORY

l'o-morrow's stopy wil be The Man With The Eye. g ass, by Peter Chz, ngy,

1r a littl

I went

is- supply of avid from a galdsmith and for export) a considerable amount of a Saturday night when the watched her lands, Madeira ports, Santo Antao VR carrying it in his right hand having 'em bought in England herste of the lads who died in the down to the Fox and Gap:8 1› Toll]

Toution

a! Islands

The Crown's case is that the

Zealand.

Rice

Marketing ail

Putous

some.

WMX keep tryst who lie an the This is the attsfactory post-churenyard he couldn't help being the breast pocket the next day when be (Cape Verde

And interfering. and Azores by July 1 1934, and in the met the complainant un Queen's Roud ion of the

Board. which operates for the!! the ghosts would 'Australia's Pastugas: Cobies by July 1, 1936. West.

rier growers.

when? whew it was quieter. But In return the Government of the

Board has received 35,500 ton just let them come and go and

Australia United Kingoog puarantee to con- prisoner, in the course of a guar- of which

consumes don't make any fess, and in conse. 1tque until June 30, 1911, the pre- red with: Ching Yuen-ying, tank the

25,000 tons,

quence Fairbent IR the gnosticst United battle of arid from his pocket and H The

The remaining 10,500 tons go her, injuring her Ivingdom 19 deg riptions of wine as threw it over

a headless man sitting on the edge "Port" and "Madeira" under One An- right forehead and ere, the right chiefly to Great Britain and Now in all England. Why I've seen of the well in broad daylight, and Treaty cheek and the upper part of her Rio-Port.zmer: Corimercial

Rice fetches a higher price in the children playing about his foot Tireless Service. Jeft arm and the right wrist.

Australia than overseas, and as if he were thur, Tather: or 1944.

T complainant WAN slightly der the Board's scheme of mars my word for it, spirits know when hikhuused, while her right eye, keting, export sales reduce the they are well off as much as human which at first was thought would average

to the rice beings. be blind, was recovering

The arcused said that he told his But the Ottawa agreement has mistress to return to his home. She opened up new possibilities of a refused and a quarrel ensued dur- market in the United Kingdom ing which they caught hold of each by reason of the Id. per pound and fell over the complainant be-(29.6.88. per lan) preferences iny underneath.

given on Empire rice.

HOUSE ROBBERY AT WANCHAI Unemployed Chinese Sent To Prison.

WOMAN RECEIVER ALSO GAOLED.

His right hand breast pocket

farmers.

returns

One British Arm has stated was torn and the bottle of acid fell that it is willing to take 5,000 Sentence of four months' hard out, the liquid pouring over the tons a year from Australia, if a babour was imposed on an unem- complainant. It was purely acct continuity of supply played Chinese, Cheung Kam Chuen, dental.

guaranteed.

CAR

This development is causing, įgrowers Lo consider whether

at the Central Police Court this When he saw what had happened avrning, for straling a wooden box he asked the complainant to 40- Australia's rice production should ntaining several articles of cloth company him back to ohis home, be extended, and rice grown ex-

ang. three places of jude and three but she refused. She however, pressly for export.-Reuter.

imitation pearls of a total value of agreed to make a report and AC- $56, from 66 Third Street. Wanchai, companied him to a police station. at October 15.

Lau Yung. * prostitute, was sen ienced to three months' hard labour for receiving the stolen property.

Both defendants pleaded guilty. Inspector Hourihan said that most of the property had been pawned by the women and it had only been pox. alble to recover a portion of it.

OWNER WANTED FOR GREASE PUMP.

Stolen From Car.

A fine of $50, in default ond

that

Mr. V. C. Branson, Assistant CHEER-O CLUB FUND

Donations Now Total $20,079.83.

Government Analyst, stated when bottle was sent to him he found that three drops of nitric acid still in it.

He tested the fuld by putting a drop on the skin of the underpart

The follow.ng donations to

<eived

landlord what she had end të mos andl. rd he laughed, being a mar ried man and at case with the sex. "Coine to that,” he said. “ch · temp-. est has blowed somthin into my Ge'd. A kitad of a ship i think it would be."

sen al

I was surpris d at that until he explalund that it was inly a ghost- step and would do na hu. to the We argued tha 1 Lad turnips.

the Take en blown up from

Portsmouth, and then we talked of something else. There

two stater down at the parsonage and a hig tree in. Lumley's mend ›w. I was rare storm

'WARE BLUE-EYED BRUNETTES

were

I reckon the wind had blown our ghosts all over England. They were coming back for days after- wards with foundered horses and na footsore as possible, and they were Comprise 75 Per Cent.so glad to get back to Fairfield that!

Of Missing Women.

BLONDES LIKE HOME

U

Hollywood.

blue-eyed

some of them walked up the street rying like little children, Squire said that his great-grandfather's great-grandfather hadn't looked so dead-beat since the battle of Nase- by, and he's an educated man.

What with one thing and another, Ix your wife

should think it was a week before brunette 7

we got straight again, and then ons If no, keep a close watch on her afternoon I met the landlord on the This not the concs straight from green, and he had a worried face, the Los Angeles Police Department, "I wish you'd come and have a look for according to their records more at that ship in my field," he said to 75 per cent, of all "missing" [me: "It seems to me it's leaning real hard on the turnips. I can't bear women answer to this description.

And, conversely, if your spouse thinking what the missus will say

to be a blonde, you can when she sees it." the happens

I walked down the lane with him, lessen your vigil, for according to

on the 1,000.00 that a blonde wanders from home. the middle of his field, but such a You get an even break with a red ship as no man had seen headed wife, for this type strikes water for three hundreds years, let 1,000.00

250.00 a happy medium between the other alone in the middle of a turnip-field. It was all painted black and covered 200.00 two 100,00 These interesting facts were un-with carvings, and there 50.00 covered recently while a search was great bay window in the stern, for 25,00 being made through various police til the world like the Squire's draw- 10.00 files in search of authentic materical ing-room. There was a crowd of 10.00 for "Bureau of Missing Persons," a little black cannon on deck and look-j 5.00 screen mystery drama revealing the ing out of her port-holes, and sho never-ending world-wide hunt of was anchored at each and to the 100.00 the police to find the 100,000 personsard ground. I have seen the won- 100.00 who mysteriously disappear, in the dert of the world' on picture-post- cards, but I have never seen any- 100.00 United States each year.--Reuter.

thing to equal that. 17,129.88

of his forearm, and withle 16 seheer Club Fund have been re the same authority, it is very seldom and sure enough there was a ship in ronde the skin was burned.

He further tested a strength and found it to be 90 per cent of that

of commercial nitric acid.

The trial is proceeding.

News In Brief.

Hong Kong Jockey Clubs .. Hong Kong Telephone Co..

Lid. Anonymous

A, S. Watson and Co., Ltd. Mr. Fang Kong-un Pentreath and Co. Mr. R. A. C. North Mr. W. A. Stewart

month's hard jabour, was imposed H. M. S. Suffolk, which left Mr. S. S. Cook

by Mr. Balfour at the Central Ma Hong Kong on Monday, returned Mr. J. D. Kinnaird gistracy this morning on Lauto port this morning. Kwan-chi, an unemployed Chinese,

is not known.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. R.

Show:

for stealing grease pump from a Fire broke out in a shop at Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Shields motor-car. The identity of the car Taipo Old Market village last night Mr. R. G. Shewan

at 11.38 p.m. The building, which Previously acknowledged When accused was searched by awan one of two floors, was seriously constable in Queen's Road Central damaged, involving considerabic loss the pump was found in his pocket of property, but no lives. The manufacturer's mark on the

pump is 'Alumite Lubricator."

Personal Pars.

The Scottish Company of the Vo- lunteers are carrying out a route march in Kowloon this evening, starting at 5.45 p.m. from the Star Ferry. The Company will march

The Very Rev. A. Swann, Bean of to Kowloon Docks, where refrash-

St. John's Cathedral, returned from ments will be served.

Home yesterday by the Comorin

-$20,079,83 MOSQUITO

Total to date

BODY FOUND AT KAM TIN.

Nobody Reported As Missing.

was a

"She seems very solid for a ghost-

"PLAGUE","" I said, seeing the landlord

DANGER.

bothered,

"I should say it's a betwixt and between," he answered, puzzling it]

Hull Authorities, Takeover, "but it's going to spoil a mat-

Drastic Steps.

ter of fifty turnips, and missus she'll want it moved," We went up to her and touched the side, and it was Hull, Yorkshire. (as hard as a real ship, "Now The mosquito "plague" has been there folks in England: would call The body of a Chinese woman, causing much discomfort in the that very curious," he said.

Now I don't know much about} Chan Wal-lam, a vaccinator of badly decomposed, was found in a docks district of Hull Mr. J. M. Dalziel, of the Hong the Sanitary Department, pleaded ravine near Kam Tin village in the Larvae believed to be those of ships, but I should think that ghost- Kong Telephone Company, with not guilty, at the Central Magie New Territories by the police yes mosquitoes have also been found in ship weighed a solid two hundred Mrs. Daltiel, returned to the Colony, tracy this morning, to a charge of terday, afternoon, and taken to the water-lank on the top of a build-tons, and it seemed to me that she Ing in the centre of the city, and had come to stay, so that I felt sorry a married by the Comorin yesterday, roz

obtaining by false pretences the Kowloon Public Merlüary. sum of $20 at 21 Kp Sing Street, Nobody has been reported miss close watch is being kept by the elty for landlord, who was Mr. C. A. Grimes, Chief Draughts between September 1,1882 and Oc-ing from the neighbourhood, and authorities to make sure that the man."All the horses in Fairfield He was remanded the police are unable to state d authorities to make sure that won't move her out of my tusniper man of the P.W.D., returned from teber 1,1932. Home leave Fosterday with. Mrs for 48 hours at the request of the foul play bas taken place until : Drastic measures are being taken he said, frowning at her.

(Continued on Page 10). Grimes.

Police,

after a post mortem examination, to destroy the insects-Reuter,

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