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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1934.
New Streamline Train Visits Boulder Dam.
REFORMS FOR
SOUTH AFRICA'S
DEFENCES
£340,000 To Be Spent On Improvements
MECHANISED ARTILLERY
EXPERIMENT
Cape Town.
Further details of his ambi- tious plans to modernise and re- volutionise South Africa's mili- tary defences were given at Mr. O. Pirow, Minister of Defence, in the House of Assembly. Only lack of money, he indicated, had prevented these reforms being] put into force long ago.
The defence vote appropriated £170,000 for the artillery. ma- chine gun and aircraft replace- ment funds, and a further £170,- 000 will be asked for in the main) estimates, this year. For coastal defence £175.000 will be needed, largely to bring coastal artillery up to date. A battery of artă- lery will be mechanised-as an experiment at a cost of £18,- 0001
A sum of £79,000 is being set aside for 'trench-mortars and
machine guns, Mr. Pirow's ob-
Las Vegas, Nevada. A unique scene at the site of the Boulder Dam project here, when the stre amlined train of the Union Pacific Railroad visited here and was run through one of the giant pipe sections being used in the construction of the power plant at the dam. The pipe is 30 feet high, a nd weighs 20 tons per 22-foot see. tion or five tons more than the andre train weight.
ject being to create twelve rural PRESIDENT
regiments of the active citizen force, each regiment to consist of one headquarters company and one support company com- prising two platoons of machine guns and one platoon of trench mortars.
About £90.000 will be spent on building or buying aircraft. There will be one general pur- pose squadron in addition to 1 squadron of high-speed bombing fighters formidable weapons
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ROOSEVELT 'SENT BY GOD"
Greek Dignitary's Tribute
WORLD'S FUTURE LIES IN. AMERICA
Augusta, Georgia.
with a cruising speed of 200 President Roosevelt "is a man
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story.
BITTER WATERS
By Luigi Pirandello.
VERY few people that morn-Pardon the question, VERY that moon
are you mar
grounds. The month was Sep- "No. Why?" said the youth, tember, and the senson was near-with a painful crumpling of his face ing its end. Leaves were falling that passed for a smile. from the high plane trees, and "Oh-er-nothing! Just an idea- the autumn air had a sting to it in the air. But cheer up, if you
On two separate beaches sat, two aren't married you'll be cured." men, each before
a little table. "Perhaps you suffer from liver?" One, an anemic youth with a pale said the youth quick-wittedly, smil- -in fact, yellow-face, looked Ling painfully as before. pitiably thin in his smart grey suit, No, no," said the fet man newly pressed, that hung on his seriously. "I used to have a liver, bony limbs in a sort of zigzag. The then I'd a wife. Now God bei other was a huge man in the fifties. thanked my wife's left me, so I'm
His suit of string-coloured linen cured She left me in this very was bunched and wrinkled, except place: Since then I have drunk where his colossal fatness stretched these waters for thirteen years con- it to bursting-point. Perched onsecutively, out of gratitude.. his bald hend вя A shapeless panama.
Each was holding a glass, filled with the nauseous water from the spring.
MONDAY'S STORY
Ex-
Monday's story will be "Lost Mines," by Douglas Newton.
The enormous man's eyelids drooped on his eyes; he seemed to be stunned by the frightful añores! AS he had emitted in the night; he had
the round, satiated face of a Father-cuse my asking, at what, hour yes- Abbot. The thin young man seem-terday did you arrive?" ed cold, and from time to time "At night." shivered.
PRINCE GEORGE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL
South African Chief's Suggestion
"Ah, I thought so. If you'd ar rived in the day you'd already have heard of me."
Neither was in a hurry to drink -ench, seemed looking to the other for a lead. At last they rafaed "I have heard of you?"
"Yes. I'm A
personage here. I'm famous. In the cafes, in the pensions and hotels, at the chemists, man on the piazza, everyone talks of me.) eh? I know it, and like it-in fact, that's Where are you stay- why I come.
CONFERENCE FOLLOWS VISIT their glasses simultaneously, and hipped-and their faces contracted in the same grimace. Ladysmith, (Natal).
"Liver, eh?" said the "fat Native chiefs in the Klip River suddenly. "Hepatic district gathered at a special con- ference presided. over by Major
C. L. R. Harries, District Native:
and express pleasure at Prince
Chiefa Mbekwa was of the opin-
colic,
PROCEEDINGS.
miles an hour, carrying four or sent by God to help His people Commissioner, to voice their thanks LONG FIRM FRAUD five hundred-weight of bombs as near divinity as a temporal and liberally equipped with ma-ruler can possibly be.' chine guns. There is a prospect Thus has Archbiship Anthena-George's visit. of much of this money being gora, the highest dignitary of spent in South Africa. Reuter, the Greek Orthodox Church in ion that the Prince should be re- the Western Hemisphere, dequested to reside in South Africa, preferably an Governor-General, by scribed America's President.
"Not only" is the President which means closer contact would "the right man in the right be established between the Natives place, but in the right country and the King.
MYSTERIOUS GAS ATTACKS
Countryside Terrorised In Virginia
Fincastle, Virginia.
Lizarraga Conducts Own Defence.
ingt
guests will tell you my story. Well
Oh, at the Pension Suisse? Very well. At luncheon to-day the
now, if you'll allow me, I'll cut in first, and tell it to you myself.”
Heaving his great bulk with diff- culty from his beach and holding his glass very carefully, he crossed laboriously over to the thin youth Jose Lizarraga, Wong Sau-mo and and let himself down heavily, on the Nicholas Levitsky, who are charged bench beside him..
man. "Bernardo Cambié.
as well" the Archbishop said. "We natives rarely see a direct with conspiracy to defraud persons) "My name's Camble," began the
Here visiting Greek congrega-representative of our King, and the by pretending that they were carry-fat tlons throughout the country, he appointment of one of the King'sing on a genuine business, and also They call me "Fat Bernardo," be- added that: "I say this because sons in the capacity of Governor-jon 18 other counts, were again because I'm fat. Have a sip. I'll aip America has a great mission in General of South Africa would fore Mr. Hamilton at the Central too." A series of stealthy attacks with the world. Through President bring joy to the hearts of the Magistracy yesterday afternoon. They sipped, their faces contract- gas on widely
scattered homes in Roosevelt new ideas will be im-Native people,” said the aged chief. this section-made by a person posed in the rest of the world.-Reuter. whose idenity is a mystery-is The world must look to America baffling officers of two counties. for future progress
of civilien- The "gasser" has released
ation, not to Europe. Europe is too nauseating gas in at least six old to have new ideas and the homes, caused illness to several per-old standards will not do.". Bous and given the residents of this Reuter.
mountainous section
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cate of
"nerves" during the past month or
nuru.
LOCAL ESTATE.
Chinese In America Leaves $51,000.
Letters of Administration for
A woman is believed to be linked POLICEMEN MUST BE the local estate amounting to $51,
with the series of attacks. Investi- gators have found the Imprint of a woman's foot in two instances. But that is all that the officers know about the strange attacks.
Even the motive and the exact nature of the
used gns mysteries.
In his latest
are
sought to trap him by converging| from two directions.
"HE-MEN"
No Wondering Round In Shirt Sleeves
New York.
000, of the late Chiu Ying, who died on February 11 at Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi,!
U. S. A., have been granted to Mr.
|C.-E. L. Grist
Lin Yuk Man, former adviser to
A spirited defence by Lizarraga, ing In the usual grimace, which, who is conducting his own case since however, turned Into a smile; "they the withdrawal of his council, Mr. looked at each other affectionately. R. H. Cole, at the last hearing, fen- "You're very young,” said the fat tured yesterday's proceedings. man, “and very livery. Now the The hearing was adjourned until story I'll tell you will be a better Monday afternoon.
OPERA COMPANY IN COLONY.
Chinese Historical Plays A Success.
medicine than this filthy water, which taste horrible but doesn't do good. If it did good-but no, as you're taking the cure you'd better have faith in it.......
"To continue. From my youth up the word 'marriage' has always] turned my stomach. When I hear that word I begin to-Yes, sirl And If I see a honeymoon couple or hear that a friend'is to be married
The Mei Sit Fong Opera Com-the same effect. It's cause and
Lee
effect.
tiny flat. There was a girl.
the First Group Army of the pany now appearing at the No matter how hot it gets in Kwong Tung Government, Canton, Theatre have fully justified, their
"You'll have heard, of course. next summer, the died on November 29,1988 leaving appearances in Hong Kong and are about the cholera outbreak in Naples New York attack, the gasser; released gas in a home in Carvin's traffic policemen will not be al-local estate valued at $6,800, Let-playing to crowded houses at each about, the year you were born? Cove, and then vanished without allowed to perform their duties in ters of Administration have been performance.
Well, my father, who was in busi- trace as officers of two counties their shirt sleeves, according to granted to Lin Chan Shi, his wi- This talented company, directness, with his usual luck found him-
the new Police Commissioner, dow.
from Pelping, in the only troupe of air in Naples that very year. John F. O'Ryan.
Probate of the will of Hule Seats kind ever brought to Hong Kong was there, too, living with my father Other traps have been set and. The men will "have to stand Tay, late of County of Cook, Illinois, and all are recommended to see and mother. I had a good post, and officers have hidden at different like he-men and take it-and USA, who died on November 25, their splendid acting of Chinese His-though I lived at home I rented a points on nights when it was anti- like it" he stated. "The appear-1982, leaving local estate valued at torical Plays,
ance of the Washington police $4,100 has been granted to Hule cipated further attacks would occur, but the perpetrators of the crime on a summer's day is positively a Gaan Tai, his son, at 23 Connaught always eluded capture.
disgrace to the Capital and Road West. Dr. S. F. Driver of Troutville,
there'll be none of that here," be Probate for the will of Yan Wo, who investigated one of the recent
added.
who died on October 7, 1988, at 160| The Washington police are al-Ki Lung Street, Shumshulpo, leav attacks, was quoted by Boteourt towed to direct traffic without ng local estate valued at $13.700, Letter Left For Husband County officers as saying he was their coats on in the hot wea has been granted to Yan Man Shi, convinced chlorine gas was used inther. In New York last that instance.-Reuter.
{mer, when Police Commissioner | Bolan was in charge, the traffic| "cops" were permitted to do the same.-Eculer.
HOLLYWOOD GOES
PRUDENT.
:
Reckless Spending Days Are Over
Hollywood.
Film stars are saving up. They have learned a lesson from the past few years and the days of reckless spending are over.
Bum-his widow.
RIVAL “BULLDOG DRUMMONDS.”
Hollywood v. Elstree
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WOMAN'S SUICIDE IN HOTEL.
"Carlotta. Carlotta, was her iname. Her father was a usurer; an unfrocked priest. Carlotta had escaped from home because of quar- rels with her rascally family. She has was then. beemed a nice little thing, and per-
"Excuse my asking, but are you Leaving a letter for her husband|railgious? Just more or less? Well, in which she stated her intention the same as me. But my mother. of taking her life, Chan Hing-hing, on the contrary, was tremendously age 26, was found suffering from religious, and when the cholera
Room No. 301 at the Stag Hotel, had been sent on purpose for me- last night.
to punish, mej, and she demanded| that I should marry this girl.
LOCAL NEWS iso and oplum poisoning in epidemic broke out she thought it
BREVITIES
She died within ten minutes of The Offices of the Consulado de reaching the Government Civil Portugal have been removed to Ica Hospital House Street, Hong Kong Stock Ex- change Buliding, 8th floor.
ST. JOHN BRIGADE AMBULANCE DONATIONS
"I assure you I'd never have done It, never-it Carlotta hadn't taken the cholers and been about to die. I rushed for a priest, and married to save her soul, And then what happened? Why, a miracle, She seemed dead, but she recovered.
"Have another wip, ↑ The Hon. "Treasurer of the. St.
Fortunately, though Carlotta nec John Ambulance Brigade acknow-covered her rascally family-father, Hollywood's subject is "Bull- Kay Francis, who gave up her dog, Drummond Strikes Back. One case of small-pox and two appreplattor the peceipt of the fol- Fortichately, and unfortunately, A
ledges with grateful thanks and mother and three brothers-all died. "show place" home more than a with Bonald Colman and Loretta cases of meningitis were reported lowing donations towards Brigade the sole survivor: Carlotta became year ago and moved into a mo-Young,
by the Medical Officer of Health dur-Fonds? >
London. Hollywood and Elstree are
There will be a Dinner Dance John Barrymore, long referr-both filming sequels to Sapper's at Repulse Bay Hotel to-night, and ed to as a lavish spender, is un- famous novel, "Bulldog Drum Tea Dance to-morrow at 4.80 derstood to be quitely buying up mond." property in Beverly Hills,
Hon. Cal. Treasurer andr
dest seven-roomed cottage in B. L. P.'s story is "The Returning the 24 hours ended April 26. Tang Chin (Es Tapan) Hollywood. She is investing the of Bulldog Drummond," with savings resulting from this Ralph Richardson and Joyce change, od wujudan 21 | Kennedy,
Kichard Barthelmets har Se The two films should, prove an come a heavy investor in real es-interesting comparison. tate: Reuter
ter.
fall in the Colony, during the Taylor Fila
ending at 10-am, to-day Mr. M. Baymond
MOP E Kwok
"
rich; she iqbarited some forty thon- $190.00 and lire, the fruit of her father's hoble profession. Not only was she 100.00 now á wife, but a wife with money, 30.00 Results she changed character from
200,00
total rainfall eines ver, Wong King K'au (Fanling);, 20.00 one day to another. was 4.68 inches against
of 10.72 Inche
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