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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934.

THE CHINA MATAM

To-day's 'Short Story, y

BELGIUM'S

Catholic Party Speaker.

OBITUARY

UNPATRIOTIC

OFFICIALS

General Sir E. Barrow Passes.

AS

Reinstatement Issue

Causes Crisis.

BELGIAN FRONTIER DEFENCES INADEQUATE?

Brussels, To-day.

The intervention of King Albert of Belgium has apparently Jed to a solution of the acute political crisis over the question of the reinstatement of 74 Goy. ernment officials who were din. missed for alleged unpatriotie conduct in war time. •

After a five-hour meeting, the Cabinet announced that the Gov-) ernment had unanimously agreed to the suggestion of the King for 'the appointment of a Commission of three Magistrates to investi- gate the cases of these officials, thereby averting the threatened resignation of the Cabinet, which is divided on the question of re- instatement.

The Flemish Catholic Minis ters, upon whom the Premier. Comte de Brocqueville, depends for a majority, have insisted on reinstatement.

The ex-Service Ministers are firmly opposed to reinstatement.

The situation is compli- cated by rumours, which are officially denied, in re- gard to the lack of defence on the Belgian frontier and that the Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Paul Hymans, In his recent conversations in Paris, favoured the tolera.

tion of Germany's claim to increase her armed forces.—— Reuter.

Madrid, Spain. Miss Maria Roan Urraca, one of the leading members of the Catholic Party in Spain, making a speech during a recent meeting here prior to the elections between the Communists and Monarchists. Seven persons were killed in riots which took place throughout the nation.

REICHSBANK AND FOREIGN. LOANS.

Discrimination Against British Creditors.

NO REPLY YET RECEIVED TV) RECENT PROTEST

London, To-day.

|FORMER C. O. OF HONG KONG

REGIMENT

London, To-day.

BURGLARS

By John Dwynn.

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General Sir Edmund Barrow, AS he swung over the dark She had no time for young men who G.C.B... G.C.S.L, late of the In- and unknown, depths. below, could not take her to the pictures dian Army who from 1892 to his hands gripping the edges of and buy her a feed occasionally, 1895 raised and commanded the the skylight, the thought came She said frankly that John was Hong Kong Regiment, died to- to him that he had forgotten his back number until he could do her day, at the age of 81-Reuter electric torch..

jas handsomely as Herb, who follow- Entering the Army from Sand-

·Hia half-checiced impulse to fcelled greyhounds, and always could pro- hurst in 1871, General Barrow his hip pocket lost him his hold and duce a note from his pocket. served in the Afghan War from he thudded to the floor. It was a "You better get a girl who gets| 1878-79 and in the Egyptian War in six-feet drop. He lay there shaken a kick out of twopenny bus rides. 1882, being decorated In both can his senses on edge. The deadened They give me a pain in the neck," paigns. In 1897-98 he was with the noises of the traffic. In the street she had told him when he last asked Tirah Expedition, and was again

came to him in little waves. That her to "go out.","u decorated and mentioned in ces was the reassuring all. Evidently The taunt hurt, not because he. patches. In 1900, he was Chief of the noise of his fall had disturbed was in love with Madge, but because Staff to the China Expeditionary

he was made aware of 'the shamo-'

no one.

*

Force, where still further honours He could see nothing clearly ex-fulness, of poverty for the first time. were accorded him. From that!

cept the rectangular piece of starry Previously he had accepted it as a year he held many Important postesky above his head-the-open sky-condition, uncomfortable at times, in the Indian Army, and in 1911-12 Hght through which he had dropped. but no disgrace. waa A.D.C., General to His Majesty There was a glimmer of metal and Stubbs pondered about how he the King.

polished woodwork about him as he could make money, naked his old 'got on his hands and knees and man, his few friends. He Even SIR Wm. LAWRENCE searched the darkness.

asked Herb, who advised "the dogs.”) "So far, so good,” said John After losing five consecutive ahil- Stubbs, burglar.

ings on Herb's tips over a period He was not troubled with nerves. of five weeks, he was told, airily: His first time out in his new. pro- "You can't do much good without a fession had given him no tremor, no bit of capital.” John doubted it. thought of failure. He had worked

Prominent British Horticulturist.

London. To-day.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Walcher At Number 6" by Herbert Shaw.

the

The death occurred to-day of the whole plan out laboriously and Sir William Matthew Trevor he was as satisfied that he could Lawrence, F.8.A., J.P., V.M.H carry it through an he was confident| Senior Almoner of St. Bartholo- that he could make a perfect dove- No reply has yet been received mew's Hospital, London at the tail joint. from the German Government to the age of 63," - Reuter.

Stubbs had been apprenticed t^i Prominent as a horticulturist, Sir carpentry, but his master, hit by He began to wander about recent protest by the United King- dom Government against the action William Lawrence was Treasurer of the slump, had turned him off. A streets of London at night, bis handa of German Reichsbank in varying by the Royal Horticultural Society from victim of circumstance, Stubbs had in his pockets, collar turned up, his During the war he been out of work for his nineteenth neck muffled. It was a fair step unilateral action the existing agroe-1924 to 1929. ment with British and other bolders held several posts and was Secretary and twentieth birthdays.

from the lodging where he lived It was not boredom,, nor panle, with his old man, the newsvendor, of German long and medium-term of the Prisoners of War Informa-

the BADEN POWELL'S British creditors.

loans, and in discriminating against tion Bureau from 1914-15, when he nor

pictures, nor dreadful back of King's Cross, to Piccadilly. joined the Admiralty War Staff. Eterature which had made him take

Sometimes be had a few pennies The United Kingdom Government In 1916 he was transferred to the up a life of crime. It was Badge to rattle, after having helped his old have notified other Powers specially War Office (Intelligence).

iman with a newspaper rush--Irish interested in the matter; including

Sweep results or something. Stubbs used to walk slowly along the shop- ping streets, his honest, homely }facé in a puzzled frown. How did Įpeople make enough money to bur things, 'food, clothes, drink, girla, cars?

ILLNESS

Successful Operation Performed.

LOOKING FORWARD TO WORLD TOUR

London, To-day. Lord Baden Powell, the Chief Scout, underwent an internal operation in King » Edward VII's Hospital for Officers yesterday.

The operation was successful and the patient is going on very antisfactorily.

He will remain in hospital for about six weeks and all his en-i

cancelled.

the United States, of the action they

have taken and have exchanged OBSCENE PICTURES

views.

The Answer of the German [Government is awaited with interest in London where, it is hoped, there will be no further delay-British). Wireless Service.

CIGARETTE THIEF GAOLED,

Stole Through Hole Cut In Shop Door.

AND BOOKS.

Vendor Fined $50 And

Cautioned.

were

preferred

Two charges against Mak Yau, who was brought; before Mr. S. Balfour at the Cen- tral Police Station this morning,

NEW YORK CITY'S

ARMY

Standing Force Of 5,000 Men.

J

One night a fire engins prased {him in Oxford-street and turned WALL STREET GUARDIANS down a alde street. Stubbɛ follow: fed the running orowd. The fire New York,

was nothing much, a bit of emnože New York city has 3, afanding from a small window, over the staff for selling obscene.pictures, and army of 5,000 men. Alle dead-entrance to Bussings, the jewellers. exposing obscene books for sale, at shots, are equipped with six-shoot Stubbs knew the gay front windows Aberdeen Street,

ers shotguns, tear gas bombs and of the shop, but he had never ́soen Defendant was arrested when he other weapons, and are strictly dis- the lowly back entrance before. Sentence of two months' hard la sold some of the pictures to

a ciplined.

Bussings, under the Influence of gagements for the next two bour was imposed upon Wong Sin, Chinese constable yesterday, and a They are the bank guards of the the latest and Oxford Bussing, had months have, therefore, been an ex-seaman, by Mr. 8. Balfour at raid was made on his stall. A Wall street district where between broken out in chromium plating and the Central Magistracy this morn-number of books of an Indecent U.S.$25,000,000,000 and U.S.830,- crystal. The whole interior had He is, however, looking for-ing, for stealing 20 packages and nature were found.

000,000,000 worth of money and been converted from drab mahogany ward to a Mediterranean cruise two tina of cigarettes from 108 Den) Sentence of $50 was imposed securities are locked in the vaults to clasn black-and-white '--with: at Easter, when he will visit the Voeux Road, Central, last evening, upon the first charge, while on the of the great banks and trust com-chromium trimmings-"simplicity, Scouts and Guides of Gibraltar. It was stated that defendant cul|second charge he was cautioned. panies.

modernity, elegance." France, Malta, Algiers and Por-ja hole, jus big enough to admit his Detective Inspector Carey pro-

They drill, practice shooting and

But the outward shape of the tugal, and to a world tour which hand, in the door with a knife. secuted.

bivouac under ground, in subter building kept· Its old-fashioned and гапель headquarters, equipped unlovely lines and would do so until with target ranges where they are the oldest and closest Bussing had constantly practicing hitting the decided that business was good. bulls eye.

Jenough to countenance rebuilding. Most of them are former mem- The shop had been added to at bers of the New York' police force, various times in the last 50 years. marines, army and Navy, and they as the business grew, but the back, are ready for any emergency, especially, revealed the fact that the The National City, Chase oldest Bussing had not been an open- National, First National and other handed patron of architecture, Be big banks, all have their under had never added another room un- ground headquarters for their res-less it had 'been absolutely necessary, pective guards.

-- and then he had drawn the plan of The banks' vaults are doubly for-it on a piece of wrapping paper and tified against Invasion. Besides given it to the builder.

he hopes to start in June, Lord

Baden Powell is 77. -

British

Wireles Service,

SIR JOHN SIMON

LEAVES ROME.

Further Talk With Mussolini.

London, To-day. Sir John Simon had A further talk with Signor Mussolini last evening.

According to present arrangements the British Foreign Secretary will leave Rome to-day. He will reach Paris to-morrow morning and will proceed immediately to London by aeroplane, arriving during the afternoon.--British Wireless · Ber-

vica,

FIRST HONG KONG DIVORCE CASE.

Respondent Now In Shanghai,

MEMBER OF WELL-KNOWN *LOCAL" "FAMILY

The Arst petition under the new Divorce Ordinance, which came in- to force in the Colony in Novam ber, has been filed by Mrs. Dorothy Soares, wife of Mr. Alfredo Maria de Lourdes Soarén, barrinstar-stv law. Mesare, Lo and Lo are acting for Mrs. Boures, who is at pr In Singapore."

(a) Mrs,” Sparei

Woman The coupleEA some 31

In Peace-or-War Turmoil

PREMIER. HUSSOLINI

the guards, some of them, when The result was a'curious flat lodge tampered with are automatically over part of the third floor Stubbs flooded while others throw off had seen a fireman run out on this secret poison gases. One vault, it ledge and get through the sky-light. is said, is so constructed that it An agile man could reach that ledge would scald a bank robber with hat without difficulty" there ware prac- steam if he should manage to gain tically stairs for him to climb, on. entry to it at night

WO

There are 14,000 men and men in Wall street holding pistol permits.----Reuter,

SPEEDING DRIVERS

FINED

The thought stuck in Stubba's mind. Every time he passed Buss- Ings he saw how easy it would be Ito get into the place. Somehow be knew dimly that this idea could be linked up with his big problem-- how to make money, take

in style, and show Herb, the rat. where to get off.

After cimalderable rumination Two With Good Records, stubbe got the two ideas together.

he would rob Bossings. Being a For speeding at 85 m.ph. 11 man of straightforward purpose, he Connaught Road West, La Chi Yin, acted within a week He had no

motor-lorry driver, was fined $15, 1ded what he would ;dó by Mr. Hamliton the Central booty; that fenity') Police Court this morning, on plead« coms -

ing guilty

would get a

ith the

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