1933-12-08 — Page 9

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933.

PEACE OFFER TO BRITAIN AS AN

FUKIEN

Nanking Concessions To The South?

PUNITIVE EXPEDITION SUSPENDED

Shanghai, To-day

AIR POWER Inferiority Cannot Be Continued.

INTERNATIONALISATION NOT

FAVOURED

London, To-day.

of

MRS. HUNTER'S

ASSAILANT

Charged In Juvenile Court To-day.

THE

CHINA MAIL:

To-day's Short Story.

Guidothe Gimlet Of Ghent

Week's Remand Granted

Toog Wing-kwok. the young FT WES

arrested in houw-boy, who was

in the flood-tide of

By Stephen Leacock.

Lik

They had never seen another.

had never seen Guido. They had

keard

one another speak.

been together.j never

I chivalry. Knighthood was, in Guido had never seen oude leglde The question of the Internation- Chinese Territory and brought back the pud. The prospects of the political m

to Hong Kong on Wednesday night' The sun was slowly setting in ever luation and the Fukien revolt have aliuntion of civil and military avia.

in connection with the assault on the cast, rising and falling occa-They had brightened with announcement that ilan was raised th the House the punitive expedition against the Lords, last night, by Lord Allen of Mrs. H. J. Hunter, at 56A, Nathan sionally as it subsided, and illum-They did not know one another.

Yet they loved.. rebels is to be suspended pending Hurtwood, whe urged the Govern Road, on November 30, was formalinating with its dying beams the

Their love had sprung into being the plenary session of the Central ment to consider taking further in charged before Mr. E. 1. Wynne towers of the grim castle of

suddenly and romantically, with all scheduled to tintive

at the resumeḍ Disarma: Jones in the Juvenile Court held at Buggensberg.

is love's Executive Council,

to secure total

The Kowloon Magistracy this morn meet in Nanking on December 20. Iment Conference

Isolde the Stender stood upon in the mystic charm which naval

iH. Meanwhile the four peace dele-jaholition of military and

Years before Guido had seen the! gates from Nanking, Messrs. Chang aviation on the line of the British

embattled turret of the castle. Her greatest happiness. arms were outstretched to the empty

name of Isolde the Slender painted: Chao-tsun, Huang Lu-yi draft convention, and internation Chi. Ma

air, and her face, upturned- as if in

on n fence. and Chen Shao-ying, are due herejalisation of civil aviation.

colloquy with heaven, was distraught The Air Minister, Lord London from the capital this morning en

with yearning. the discussion. route to the South. They are derry replying on

to aid that Britain could not accept ing by

the continuance of her present in morrow.

The Clean Press says that the feriority in the air, and if parity Sub-Inspector Noseskwy, the accused breast. carry & favourable could not be secured by reductions was remanded for one week.

converse propost- response from General Chinng Kai-sewhere then a

would shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wri and tion must follow and they other members of the Government have no option but to begin to build

with In connection made by the South-Western Politi- forte

The President Pierre

delegates will

he

The accused was charged under the Juvenile Offences Act, as claimed to be under the age of 16.

According to the provisions of the Act. the proceedings were not open to the public.

On the application

He had turned pale, fallen into swoon and started at once for

Anon she murmured "Guido"-Jerusalem. of Detective and bewhiles a deep sign rent her

Sylph-hike and ethereal beauty, she scarcely breathe.

of

On the very same day Isolde in

streets passing through the in her Ghent had seen the coat-of-arms of secmed to Guido hanging on a clothes-line.

She had fallen back into the arms jof her tire-women more dead than

the proposals upwards whilst continuing their e HOTEL RESIDENT in fact, she hardly did.

to NOTIC an international

cal Council for solving the Fukion agreement in fixing he parity at the revolt and satisfying Southern se lowest level to which other natione pirations.

The paper states that concessionai on the part of Nanklag will include

shortening of the perind of political'

would suhe pik

He emphasised that this was

in no sense a new policy.

The government had adhered to

Intelage and formation at a coal the poley they had put forward at tion government,

including

members of the Kuuminlang

ter.

IN FUKIEN.

Navy Sufficient For Protection.

MISSING

Disappearance Of English Visitor.

LEFT HONG KONG HOTEL A WEEK AGO

spectacles.

Willowy and slender in form, shejalive. WAB as graceful as a meridian of longitude. Her body seemed almost toe frail for motion, while her fen- Itures were of a mould so delicate as to preclude all thought of Intellec- tual operation.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be The Man Who Was To- morrow," by Erie Ambrose,

flowing She was begirl with kirtle of deep blue. bebound with' a non-Geneva, namely that of parity for

1belt bebuckled with a silvern clasp, present Reuthe great Powers who at

Isolde would wander forth from Bessed air armaments, combined

Mr. R. A. Wright, of room 224, while about her waist a stomacher

in the ruffled the castle at earliest morn, with the ¡with their reduction from their pre-Hong Kong Hotel, has been missing of print lace ended

On her farthingale at her throat.

name of Guido on her lips. She hat she bore sugar-loaf JAPANESE REMAINnt strength both in quantity and since Friday last.

to the trees. told his name

Sho quality pending examination of the Mr. Wright is an Englishman, 30 head

an extingulaher and whispered It to the flowers. She fficult and complicated question of

years of nge, 6 feet 6 inches in shaped ke

pointing hackward

at an angle of breathed it to the birds. Quite a internationalisation of civil aviation height and of medium build.

lot of them knew it. At times she with a view to the abshtion of nir When last seen he was dressed 45 degrees,

"Guido." she murmured. "Guido." would ride her palfrey along the armaments of every kud 15, really in a grey suit, striped shirt, brown

And erstwhile she would wring sands of the sea and call "Guido" practicable sution of that problemn shoes and felt bat and was wearing

distraught and to the waves. At other times she uld be produced.

her hands as one

would tell it to the grass or even to; Lord Londonderry said that the Mr. Wright, who originally came mutter. "He cometh not.” Covernme did not think that the from England, is said to have come

The sun sank and night fell, a stick of cordwood or a ton of coal. Guido and Isolde, though they establishment of an internationalised here from Colombo. He registered enwrapping in shadow the frowning jair force at the disposn! of at the Hong Kong Hotel on Novem-castle of Buggensberg and the an- had never met, cherished each the While foreign residents in the League of Nations WAX either aber 10, and last Friday evening cient city of Ghent at its foot. And features of the other. Beneath his interior of Fukien have complied practicable or a desirable policy and asked for his bill, at the same time the darkness gathered, the win cont of mail Guido carried a minia- with the advice of the Chinese that they were convinced that its making some inquiries about trains dows of the castle shone out with ture of Isolde, carven on ivory. He Government to evacuate the dan-adoption would by no means neces for Canton.

fiery red, for it was Yuletide and it had found it at the bottom of the xer zones, the Japanese nothari sarily be followed by the happy re- The same night he returned to was wassnil in all the Great Hall of castle crag, between the castle and ties declinedi

the sults which is advocates anticipated the Hotel and asked to have another the castle, and this night the Marthe old town of Ghent at its foot.

How did he know that Around that it is tem expensive toj-British Wireless Service.

day added to his bill. He was not

grave of Buggensberg made him e evacuate the numerous Japanest

aren again and the bill, amounting fast and celebrated the betrothal Isolde? and Formosans,

to over $290.00, is still unpaid. of Isolde, his daughter, with Tan-

MORE GUNBOATS ORDERED

FROM TOKYO

Peking. To day

OF OXFORD.

the

Colonel Shibayama. Military! NEW CHANCELLOR Attache of the Japanese Lega-j tion. stated that, in view of the present developments in Fukien, the Japanese Government has ordered more gunboats to pro ceed to Fukien.

Lord Irwin Installed.

London. To-day. Lord Irwin, a former Viceroy of The presence of a strong nevai squadron in Fukien waters was. India was this afternoon installed he thought. sufficient to secure as Chancellor of Oxford Univer protection to Japanese residentsjsity. with the there, at least for the time being.jmonis!.

Central News Agency,

traditional

cere-

It is said that Mr. Wright

the Been yesterday at

Was

Gloucester

red the Tenspot.

And to the feast he had bidden'

it was

There was no need for him to ask.) His heart had spoken.

The eye of love cannot be de-

And Isolde? She, too, cherished

Building, and the police notified. sil hin llege lords and vassals-ceived.

Mr. Wright's luggage, which in Hubert the Husky, Edward the Ear- cludes a trunk and a radio set, retained at the hotel.

iwix. Rallo the Rumbotile and many beneath her stomacher a miniature of Guido the Gimlet. She had ft of others.

In the meantime the Lady Isolde travelling chapman in whose pack. and she had discovered it, and had paid istood

the battlements upon

its price in pearls. How had she mourned for the absent Guido.

The love of Guide and Isolde was known that he it was, that is, that of that pure and almost divine type, it was he? Because of the Coat of Arms emblazoned beneath the found only in the Middle Ages.

miniature. The same heraldic de. Isign that had first shaken her to

the heart.

1.

SHIPPING WAR ENDED

(Continued from Page 1).

Heads of Rouses. Doctors, Proc- The new rates will become effer- tore and the Public Orator met the tive for sailings after January PEACE DELEGATION | Chancellor at the great gate 1934 and will be communicated to of the Old Schools and escorted the public in Europe and America hum to the Sheldonian Theatre on December 23, 1933. Latin for

The Hon. Sir where. after the unual

All other outstanding mulae and a speech by the Public were satisfactorily disposed of and C.M.G., unoffelal member Orator. Lord Irwin was admitted the conference closed in complete Legislative Council, returned to the field of buckwheat.

Chancellor.-British Wireless harmony.--Reuter and British Wire-Colony yesterday on the 6.8. Preel-

dent Van Buren.

COMING.

Chang Chi To Meet Hu Han-min Here.

Nanking. To-day- Mr. Chung Chi, landing member; of the peace delegation to the South, made a slatement to the press be-

fur Shanghat, Hong

fore his departure and thence for

Kong, last night. He stated that he would call on Mr. HuHan-min in Hong Kong first and then proceed to Canton to discuss the general situation with the South-western leaders.

He said that the Central Govern ment really hoped that certain all- important problems, even those in volving constitutional changes. would be settled through the IB- strumentality of the Kuomintang af its fourth Plenary Session. The Central Government regarded thes problems with an open mind.-Cen- tral News Agency.

RUSSIAN TIMBER IN CHINA.

Distribution Yard At Tientsin Planned.

Tientsin, To-day. According to the local Soviet Consulate the Soviet Government's Far Eastern Trade Bureau is plan- ning to establish a big timber yard) at Tientsin which will be the sole) agency..for the dumping of surplus Russian wood on the market of the East, particularly on China.

There are ample transport' falll- ties for the transportation of. Bus- sian timber to China from Biberia via Vladivostok.

A alte near the Russian Consulate building might be selected for the proposed timberyard. Contral News Agency.

a.

|Service

less Service.

matters

Personal Pars.

Shop-son

Air Heroes Became too Popular for Il Duce?

BALBO OST

GIKIRAY PODO GENERAY BAXDOTA PREMIER ZAJESLIKT” Reports from Rome to the effect that Premier Benito Mussollal is planning one af kis periodical Cabinet shakeups indicate that the eclipse of General Italo Balbo since his triumphant retura, to, the Eternal City following his mass fight to Chicago was but the prelude to his elimination 'an n' soefender for the place oi honor in the Italian spotlight, Decorated and landad by J-Dogs, for bis wir schirrmanta, Balbe la said u, have become too popular to plass the Ellackshirt chief. He is to lose his post of Air Minister in the shakeup'. Bimilar treatment wax meted out to the late General Francesco de Pinedo, who lost his life while attempting bo win back 1) Duce's favor by making a flight Crom New, York to Bagdad:

Sleeping or waking It was ever |before her eyes: A lion, proper, Chow, quartered in a field of gules, and a of the dog, improper, three-quarters in a

And if the love of Isolde burned thus purely for Guido, the love of Guido burned for Isolde with a flame no less pure.

No sooner had love entered Guido's heart than he had deter mined to do some great feat ol. emprise or adventure, some high achievement of derring-do whica should make him worthy to woo her.. He placed himself under a vow that he would eat nothing, save only food, and drink nothing, save only! liquor, till such season as he should; have performed his feat.

For this cause he had it once set out for Jerusalem to kill & Saracen for her. He killed ono, quite ́s large one. Still under his vow, he set out again at once to the very confines of Pannonia, determined to kill a Turk for her. From Pannonia he passed into the Highlands of Britain, where he led her a Caledonian.

Every year and every month Guido performed for Isolde same new achievement of emprise.

And in the meantime Isolde waited.

It was not that suitors were lack

ing Isolde the Blender had suitoraj in plenty ready to do her lightest

heat.

Feats of arms were done daily for her sake. To win, her love sultors were willing to vow them selves to perdition. For Isolde's sake, Otto the Otter had cast him- self into the sea. Conrad the Cocoanut had burled himself from the highest baltiement of the castle hand first into the mud, Hugo, the Hopeless had hanged himself by the waistband to a hickory tree and had] refused all efforts to dislodge. him. For her sake, Siegfried the Stincep tible had swallowed sulphuric acid. `{Continued on Pass 10).

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