TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1933.
10,000 TROOPS
CONCENTRATE
Kidnaped Candidate
ON FRONTIER
Tsai Ting-kai Flies To Changenow.
CANTON SENDS TROOPS TO
EAST RIVER
Amar To das
While tentor i centrod om the grave situation in Northern Fukien erilis
in the
Kwangtung border
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also moving rapidly as a result of strained relations between the two Provinces
Over 10,000 men of the 19th
Route
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Chang Yon
han
under Generals and sin Kwang- concentrating
at: when
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Wuping. a frontier town the southern Fukien horden
Considerable significance also attached to General Tsai'
Jang Tiny kai's 19Ponce at chow, a vily in southern Fukjen General Tra flew to t'hangcheas
Vesterday from Fray Jew ing.
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Simultaneously with this now in southern military movement Fukien, the fantan Command is also sending additional fares to East Riv The Fourth D
Cantonese sion of
towards the
Army
the Second
is moving
frontier Towns of eastern Rwanr
tany
Central Now- Agenc
FUKIEN CUSTOMS
REVENUE.
Seizure By Rebel Government.
1100,000 COLLECTION PER MONTH EXPECTED
Tize
Foot how Thes
rete Government anteu Bo that arrangement- have been coul
ec with the Custoty and
Willis Staton, of Pikesville, Ky... who was kidnaped by four marked mea while campaigning as inde
A Circuit pendent candidate for Court judgeship. His family sent *back aches from the ruins of bear the scene of the kidnaping to a chemist for analysis on the sup position that the kidnaped man may have been put to death by burning
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CANNOT TRAVEL IN Today's Short Story,
A VEHICLE
Strange Plight Of
Ex-R.A.F. Pilot.
RESULT OF CRASH.
Vryburg.
An ex R.A.F. pilot who cannot
The Wood The Dead
ONE
Of
By Algernon Blackwood.
NE summer in my wander- ings with a knapsack. I was travel in any kind of vehicle be jexuse of the intense head pains at luncheon in the room of a way-sunshine and the branches danced
the grass
perfume with
Through the open window came the scents of the blossoming fruit trees; the orchard was drenched in
breezo: in the the
suffers and the profuse side inn in the western country, lazily
yellow daisies, and the red roses bleeding at his nose, is on a long when the door opened and there below fairly shone with white and bike from Lourenco Marques to entered an old rustic, who cross-climbing in profusion over the can-
penetrating the sweetly
odour of South West Africa, a distance of ed close to my end of the tablement mingled their
crow and sal himself down very quiet-
the sea. bout 1.200 miles as the
ly in the seat by the bow win
It was a place to dawdle in, to le ¡ties.
The hiker is a Frenchman, down. We exchanged glances. or and dream away a whole afternoon, to the chorus of birds who was formerly a pilot in the properly spanking nods, for at watching the sleepy butterflies and
actually Royal Air Force during the war the moment I did not Jami who subsequently served in raise my eyes to his face. so con-which seemed to All every corner of The South African Air Force. cerned was 1 with the important the sky.
Indeed, I was already debating in He was involved in an aero business of satisfying an appe-
whether to Hinger and
listening
plane crash about two years ago.tite gained by traning twelve my mind
enjoy it all instend of taking the
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obtain work
South
it Was one
to Somerset
hilla, strenuous pathway over the
rustic in the settle! when the old
turned his face
His voice had a quiet dreamy!
as a result of which he lost his males over a dificult country.
WAIT! rain o seven -ight. An operation and hos The fine Ipital treatment for year restor jo'clock, which had since risen in a
be kind of luminous mist about the opposite suddenly Jed his sight, but whenever
gets into a vehicle of any kind tree Laps, now Munted far overhead towards me for the first time and
suffers agonising pains and in a deep blue sky, and the day was began to speak. As nose bleeds severely.
settling down into a blaze of golden aight.
of those days note in it that was quite in harmony Anxious to
and North with the day and the scene, but it West peculiar darienthal. Africa where an aerodrome is Devon, when the orchards shine and Bounded far away. I thought, almost where the ahadows were being constructed, this ex-officer the meadows scent to add a radiance as though it came to me from out- eternal tissue of 'decided to walk from Lourenco1of their own, so brilliantly soft are The colourings of grass and foliage. Reuter.
the
floor. garden Marron
The inn-keeper's daughter, a lit the modes. with a simple country velmess, presently entered with a foaming pewter mug. inquired after out again. my welfare, and went Apparently she had not noticed the Told man sitting in the settin by the had he, for his bow window, nor part. so much as ance turned hir head in our direction.
and sohn:
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1 Tuesday
thei
the programine :
Ar Jane.
Debussy
2
Mi Barbara Rolan
Over
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Custom surpluses of the Fosenfe, Amoy and Sande custom-tumes call of them etgan Fokin t "People's ment"
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2.1.
the
Board Ferman
Alexander Mrs. TG, S Vlth Se..
Alleg
Puken liat The handing
Governej PIAN
The arrangements have besett af- Jective stere November 18, and the roll Governcient experts to obtain more at $400.000 a month from This Fee
Central News Agency
: FRENCH BIRTHRATE
FALLING.
Great Decrease In Deaths.
SECOND QUARTER FIGURES
Paris
French
2.
Under ordinary circumstances
side.
Weaving dreams
their upon
TO-MORROW'S STORY
**The
To-morrow's story will be Pauline Sinner." by
Smith.
should probably have given noMoreover, there was no trace in it thought to this other occupunt ofut the rough quality one might na- the room; but the fact that it was turally have expected, and, now that predicted, the As was
for my I saw the full face of the speaker to be reserved į supposed show
the first ime, I noted with: birthrate continues
private use, and the singular thing for as exemplified that he sat looking aimlessly out of something like a start Polima įstendy decrease.
1.
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Mr. E. U. Schruter
Vivaldi Debu
NO EVACUATIONS Selected
Mr. A. Hyde-Lav
FROM AMOY. · Piane Sudo
Warning Excludes
Foreign Settlement.
Amay. Today
That diplomat corps have j not been officially warned by the Naalong for runn
evacuat
1:
Emausmyten shar, Mamm
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chotron
Miss Barbara Balean
a The Sun Whose Rays
from The Mikador
foreign exidetsiz from here beltered that the Nanking Foreign Office's advice is intended for those! Pet
foreigners who are reading in the wterior of Fukien
it any communication of this no- Pe 1+ FANCIved in Amoy it will cer tainly not apply to Rulangan. thei local barengan settlement-Central |
News Agency.
HOTEL EMPLOYEE'S
ESCAPADE.
Borrows Motor-Cycle Without Consent.
FINED $50
Mr. A. G. Fallu, employed at the Repulse Bay Hotel, appeared before Mr. E. W Hamilton at the Central Police Court this morning charged with driving a motorcycle without an appropriate license on November 19, and also with driving a motor- cycle without the permission of the
Owner.
Sergeant Meinnes said that too) cycle belonged to Mr. Rose of the Repulse Bay Hotel.
A fine of $25 was imposed on each acount.
WEALTHY THIEF CAUGHT.
Stole 3 lbs. Of Butter.
Johnnesburg.
A man who informed the court that he was worth £16.000 was ****found guilty of the theft of three Ibs. of butter. He is William Gluckman (48) a retired Johan-j
He was nesburg doctor. tenced to pay a fine of £10 or 14. days for what the magistrate de scribed as a "most despicable potty theft."
men-
Notice of appeal was given.- Reuter.
PARAKE
that
the
the figures just published for April the window, with no attempt to deep, gentie eyes seemed far more
This year's figure,
me in conversation. drew in keeping with the timbre of the May and June, 17.11. does not compare favour-my eyes more than once somewhat voice than with the rough and very the of him and I ROOD|Countried TEKE
appearance Fanly with the 185.508 for the corfeuriously
His voice act caught myself wondering why he clothes and manner. responding period last year. * Con
however, is the sat there so silently. and always pleasant waves of sound in motion | A hopeful sign. f Minuri
in the death rate, with averted head.
towards me, and the actual words, y real decrease
He was, I saw, a rather bent old 1 remember rightly, were: which has fallen from 173,519 in
"Lou are a stranger in thest he second three months Inst year man in rustic dress, and the skin
150,624 this year The result of his face was wrinkled like that parts?" or "Is not this part of the that April. May and
June 1938 of an apple; corduroy trousers were country strange to you?" of hirtha
There was no "air," nor any out- oveenught up with a string below the a baluner deaths of 24,187 as compared with knee, and he wore a sort of brown ward and visible sign of the defer- fustian jacket that was very much ence usually paid by real country! 11,989 in 1932.
Infantile mortality is steadily faded. His thin hand rested upon folk to the town-bred visitor, but
no hat He wore stouith stick. the decrease, only 11,944 babies of
In its place a gentleness, almost a under one year dying in April, May and carried nune, and I noticed that sweetness. of polite sympathy that and June 1933 as compared with his head, covered with silvery hair was far more of a compliment than
gave the either WAN finely shaped and 15,435 in 1932.
1 answered that i was wandering Marriages show a slight increase impression of something noble.
Though ratker piqued by his on foot through a part of the coun- (89,988 ne compared with 89,344)
decrease studied disregard of my presence. 1| divorces
try that was wholly new to me, and #nd
slight 2 (5,466 ns compared with 5,877)ame to the conclusion that he pre-that I was surprised not to fad u probably had something to do with pince of such idyllic loveliness mark- the little hostel and had a perfected upon my map. right to use this room with free- "I have lived, here all my life," and I finished my luncheon he said, with a high, “and am never without breaking the silence and tired of coming back to it again."
took the settle opposite to
"Then you no longer live in the immediate neighbourhood?"
he "I have
moved,"
Bawered in briefly, adaing after a pause which his eyes seemed to wander wistfully to the wealth of blossoms beyond the window; "but I am almost sorry, for nowhere else have' I found the sunshine le so warmly, the flowers smell as sweetly, or the winds and streams minke Suchi tender music.
Arthur Sulliva | Puch Me Louely Caravan
Eric Coates At Night Mrs. T. G. S. Alexander
Solo
Meditation -
Thai
The Canzoneliu
| Reuter,
Massenet Ambrosto
WEATHER REPORT
Mr. E. 0. Schroter AT THE PIANO Mrs. A. Hyde-Lay and
Mrs. G. W. True
doin.
Fair, with moderate north-easter-then
lly winds, is the forecast issued by smoke a pipe before going on my
The Royal Observatory to-day.
way.
Soviet Envoy En Route in imperial Suite
Owing to last minute bookings at Cherbourg, Franos, Maxim Litvinoy, Boviet Foreign Minister, en route to the United States to confer an U. B. diplomatic recognition with President Roosvalt, was obliged to dis card his proletarian principles and accept the only available accommodation left on the linar Beranguria which happened to be the Imperial suite, usually reserved for royalty. - The suits, consists of two bed. rooms, breakfast room, salom and private verandak, Interior views of which are shown abora. Below, the 68. Berengaria; inset, Comunione Litvinov,
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His voice died away in a thin, stream of sound that lost itself in! the rustle of the rose-leaves climb- ing in at the window, for he return- ed his head away from me as hel spoke and looked out into the gar- den. But it was impossible to con- ceal my surprise, and I raised my eyes in frank astonishment on hear-i ing so poetic an utterance from such a figure of a man, though at the same time realising that it was not In the least inappropriate, and that, in fact, no other sort of expression could have properly been expected: from him,
"I am sure you are right," I un-i swered at length, when it was clear he had ceased speaking; "for there is something of enchantment here of real fairy-like enchantment that makes me think of the visions! of childhood days, before one knew anything of-of="
I had been oddly drawn into his vein of speech, some inner force compelling me. But here the spell passed and. I could not cateli the thoughts that had a moment before opened a long, vista before my inner vision..
To tell you the truth," I con- cluded Tamely, "the place fascinates me and I am in two minds about going further
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