MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1933.
ILLEGAL THEATRE INTERPORT
AT WANCHAI Amateurs Turned Professionals. PROPRIETOR OF TROUPE FINED $50
A trupe of ten Chinese amateur actors, including two women, which,
| CRICKET GAME |
THE CHINA MAIL.
FOOD CONTROL FOR To-day's Short Story.
CHINA?
POSTPONED Plan To Keep Prices At
Services May Be Robbed Of Their Fixture.
WICKET UNDER WATER
Normal Levels.
AGENCIES IN MAIN CITIES
Shanghai, To-day,
of
A Life For A Lamp
In accordance with the resolu- Today's play in the first Inter-ons adopted at the Foodstuff Con between delegates from betweenference encounter port crickel and fadesi a blacksmith, a boilermaker Hong Kong and Malaya was aban eight food-producing provinces and a house-boy, were procated at doned following the hoisting of the Chan, which was recently held at
Nanchang, the Nanking Govern! the Central Police Court this mor No. 1 typhoon signal at 10.20 u.m.
ment is seriously considering the listened mg or using the third floor at 131
The incessant rain has left the possibility of organising foodstuf most fellers. Johnston Road, Wanchas purpose without a license.
el
for
the
u wicket under water.
I
public entertainment Harry Owen Hughes said he did not know what arrangements were defendant, Chung Has the first
being made regarding the match, whe was in charge of the true whether it would be commenced to pleaded guilty. He said that they morrow or not. had been granted permission to dis
It is, however, thought that, weather permitting, the game will commence to-morrow or on Wednesday, and that Malaya's fixture against the United Ser- vices on Friday will be cancell- ed or postponed to a later date.
At Saying-
play their sign-board
When they pun three years upo moved the theatre to Wanchai they appled to the Secretariat for Chin- rse Affairs and were told! verbally that they could varry on
prosecut. that the do.
Sub-Inspector Elston. ang, said in
On Saturday Hong Kong will meet Shanghai, and on Friday weak fendants were dokyard employees. Shanghai will engage Malaya.
Ku They operated the Sing Sing
Play will commence al 11 .m. fur which
each day, with the exception of the! they had received permission three, first day against Shanghai when years ago, but they had now devo loped into professionals and required to be keensed
Sze Amateur Theatre,
were
Their activities were kept under observation for ten day and it was Frotated that fall performatters were
held each work, with a large atten- dance mostly made up of worpen.
The theatre was suited last night und 132 adults and a number children
sealed found
The stage benches before a stage. contained painted scenery and furni
of
on
;
start will be made at 11.45
Thei account of Armistice Day.
taken! Incheon interval will be from 12.30 to 1.15, pad stumps vill! be drawn at 5 p.m.
R. N. Hamilton decided to omit R. B. Lewis from his side, and the teams for to-day's play were follow :-
Various
Lo more
of the
me
By Peter Cheyney.
He was buyin' drinks' From the narrative of CHARLES comes in.
Hex-night watchman, for everybody and doin' himself ¡well. Manhattan Docks.
I didn't like the look of him much.
"Olsen told me to keep clear! THERE'S always stories where
Luy. He was a -big-t stories than time racketeer in the days when
in racket
believe was a racket,
of these guys 'control agencies in
"Ef you're one food-
Kept an Eye on Him. you 2 head that believes in romance producing provinces with
"Apparently this guy's main office at Shanghai.
can't do better than hang around!
stunt was dope-runnin'; Olsen This organisation will be mainly Manhattan Docks ef you wanna told me that nobody ever knew of the nature of a commercial en- get stories.
how they got the stuff off the terprise backed up with a capital| "The boats come in an' go out: bouts-but they got it all right. of $2,000,000. Its object is to re an' every boat carries a load of This feller did all the business ulate the supply and demand of tragedies an' comedies-but the where he sold the real stuff. As foodstuffs. thue keeping market comedies don't matter much. with the Bowery an' Chinatown. prices of food products at normal There ain't so many of them well he used to water cocaine Jevels.
"My strangest story? Yeah down, too, with boracic powder It is learned that this suggested-I got one. Who ain't But and sell that to the smart guys organisation will at first establish this story is a real good 'un. It who liked to look for new thrills
agencies at Kiukiang, Changsha, happened when I was a junior on Broadway.
twelve years
ago.
You know 'em! Wuhu and Wusih, all of which are watchman
"I watched out for this feller. centros. Central when I was doin't the midnight He sort of interested me. I like rice distributing News Agency.
Ito four a.m. stretch.
sittin' back and watchin' things "I'll tell it to you, an' yoy kin quietly. Bein' a night-watch- I sup- judge for yourself. I reckon it's man gets you that way. good.
pose it's walkin' about by your-
RUBBER GROWERS
PROTEST.
Restriction Unpopular In D. E. Indies.
"It sounds funny for a guy to self most of the night-think- be a junior night-watch when in." he's forty-three, but that's how
TO-MORROW'S STORY
old I was when this happened.
"The night-watch in charge He was a feller named Ullsen.
To-morrow's story will be London, To-day, was a Norwegian. I guess, on' a
"Charles He was a re-!
Waterton." by correspondent good feller, too.
Edith Sitwell.
The Amsterdam
Hong Kong: -H. Owen Hughes H.K.! cc (enptain) E. R. Duckit (R.K of the Financial Times states that gular guy.
i. E. C Fincher (K.C.C.), T. Athe Algemeen Handelsblad reports! "Our job was patrollin' round
BRCCL. P. V. Willia
na No. 1 Dock, an' also keepin' Army), that a campaign to influence Army). A Hamilton ture, and the actors were dressed in C. C. Garthwaite
The third defen Remond fancy costumes dant, the boilermaker, said that he (K.C.Č.), A. R. had the part as the King's daugh. B. S. Dunkley H.K.C.C.).
ing as soldiers.
Sub-Inspector Elston
affair was a swindle.
sald
that
the police suggested that the whole
The services,
to
of the defendants were obtained on the pretence of teaching them net, while tickets for the perform * were sold behind their backs.
The Magistrate discharged nine
isce Army), T. M. 4.,live rubber growers gainst restric eye on
F. Goodwin ton is apparently proceeding Mau LR.C.. and the Dutch East Indies.
The campaign, it is stated, Maja N. Hamilton (captain),
with.
LEWIS TO PLAY FOR KOWLOON C. C.
Singapore Player To Remain In Colony
an
fn:
the surrounding neigh- "An' it was easy for me In bourhood. We was supposed keep an eye on him. Everybody! used to see me handin' ito tip off anything funny to the was
in Customs men. At this time around the place, and 'as my beat
fer, while the twn women were act-it. Alvis, P. Burn, V. Crom, B. G. probably based on political mo- there was a lot of smugglin' of often took me around the streets the restriction Is one sort an' another goin' on. alongside the No. 4 Dock neigh- Tickets, costing 50 Gibson, B. S. Gill, W. Q. Jankless, R.tives, and if
"An' Manhattan was а bit bourhood, a district "where the cents. were issued and were good Morgan, C. A. Speldewind», Eu Chow¦adopted, passive resistance in na-1
Teik, and G. Wini«.
tive quarters should be reckoned
funny in those days. y'know. feller used to operate-his name fi four perfornuinces
Lots of strange guys hangin' was Tony, he was an Irish- Well-informed Datch rubber cir
Fellers who'd jaround.
come Italian, if you please!-nobody eles are still confident that these back from the
war and who ever took any notice of ma. matters will be settled at the con-wasn't very pertickler about bein' "An' what a feller he was for
Commis- 'ference of Governmental
You oughta seen quick with a shottin' rod. They swell dames. isioners in Batavia on November
was up to anything, and was they some of the dames who used to to the lousy speak- 22.-Reuter.
They was the sort of come down Lough? guys who'd use manhole covers ensies around there to meet Mr. Tons - They used to look to play draughts with.
me like a million "One night Olisen and
dollars, and he a speak-easy just. oe treated 'em just like dirt. Olsen [went to : A Police Dance will be held an Mangrove Court-a place not half said he used to do a bit of binck- Friday evening next at Lane, Craw-so nice as it sounds and whilst mail
we was there some swell ford's Restaurant.
of the defendants, but imposed a fine! of $50 on Chung Hau,
DANZIG EDITOR
ARRESTED.
2. B. Lewis, the Malaya Inter- port slow La medium-paced bow- lor, in remaining in Hong Kong after the series, and will assist the Kowloon Cricket Club in their bid for the League Championship.
Kowloon, who are strong baiting and weak in bowling, have not had a good slow howler since Put Mader left them, and will
Appeal Made To Wrong welcome the Straits player's mor.
Authority.
Views
POSTAL SERVICE IN N. "CHINA.
Chinese Authorities Resume Control.
Peking. To-day.
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News In Brief.
of the A Hong Kong branch Royal Army Medical Corps Associa tion is to be inaugurated on Monday next.
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U.S. CONSULAR CHANGES. Appointments In Far Eastern Posts.
"I used to wonder about some of them women. They looked as if they'd been pretty nice at some time or other-before they Some- met Tony I mean.
Moscow, To-dny. Following the suspension ofj two Danzig newspapers on Satur- day, Three
prominent Danzig Journalists, the managers of both
Washington. how they made me think of my papers and the editor of one of
The State Department has an-own girl--she got a job with them have been arrested on the
In some travellin' show way back ground that they appealed dir-
Yeung Ning, unemployed, was bounced a number of changes this morning at the Central Mavis- 'the consular service, several of them fifteen years ago when she was eet to the High Commissioner for Danzig. M. Rosting, against the Following arrangements with the tracy bound over in the sum of $50 affecting posts in China and Man-jeighteen years, an' we ain't never! seen her to speak to since--an' stealing 20 cents from a churia. suppression of the newspapers Japanese, the Chinese authorities for
La!! in Tank Lane, Mr. Hassell Dick, consul at Port I hoped that wherever she was instead of to the Senate.
are gradually resuming full juris cigarette The suppression of papers fiction over the whole ex-war zone Chased by a police reservist, he was Elisabeth, South Africa, has been she'd never run into a guy like flowed the publication of a speech in Hopei Province.
finally arrested by a district watch-transferred to Amoy and Mr. Lynn Tony
His Dope Scheme. Franklin who is now consul at Amoy made by Herr Greiner, Vice-Presi With the exception of Kupelkowman.
"One night Olsen and me got. has been transferred to Barcelona. dent of the Senate, in which he in-and Shanhaikwan, the Chinese pos- structed that the Banzig police must tal service at Haifengkow, Lengkow, Pleading guilty to stealing silk Mr. Richard Boyce, consul in an evenin' off, an' we went to a It was a good Afterwards, reckon. Malanyu and other important point goods valued at $10 from the Barcelona, will go to Yokohama to Broadway show. inside the Great Wall has resumed. Lakoomal Silk Store at 46 Queen's succeed Mr. Charles Devault who is show, I
Lam transferred to Paris.
some cop, who was a friend of &ut the Chinese post offices at the Road Central, a shop coolic,
to two Mr. Culver Chamberlain, consul at Olsen's," put us on to a speak- above-mentioned points have note Kam, was sentenced been instructed to handle mail from weeks' hard labour at the Central Harbin, is to be stationed at Han-casy near the Forties', an' we
kow.-United Press. Manebukuo-Central News Agency. Police Court this morning.
the
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LOCAL ESTATES.
Former Java Merchant Leaves $10,200.
L Wai-his, alias Lie Wie-hlan, late of Tung Chau Village, Kwong- tung and formerly of Batavia. Dutch East Indies, left local estate valued at $10,200.
A petition by Li See-lang, student, for letters of administra- tion to the above estate, have been granted:
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Katharine Mabel, Wodehouse, Jate of Yunnan Road: Tientsin, who died on July 22, 1082 at 72, North Gate, Marylebone, London, left local estate aworn under $5,700.
A petition by John Bentley, mer- cantile assistant, for letters of ad- 'ministration have been granted.""
Tampico Under Water After Hurricane
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"Apparently he had a good scheme for gettin' hold" of the dope. It seems that it used to be floated off the big bosta by by people aboard who was in his pay. They used to drop it over- board in a floating box with a small motor propeller, an' wphen small motor propeller, an' when the box was driven in to, the dockside somebody picked it up.]. I got to hear that Tony WAS expectin' a big cargo an' that hel didn't quite know how to get it: landed, so I thought that I might give him a hand,
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