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MONDAY, MAY 7, 1934.

CLAIM THAT WAS

SPLIT IN TWO

Dismissed Owing To

One Transaction.

SALE OF FISHING JUNKS

In dismissing claims of $680 and $1,000 by Wong Tin and The Ling Hoi Fishing Company respectively of No. 515. Queen's Road West, against Matsunaza Tomio and Mat- sunaza and Company, at the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Justice P. Jacks. Puiane Judge, ruled that the two cases should be taken as une, and that there were no grounds for splitting the action into two sections

in order to bring them within Sec- tion 10 of the Jurisdiction Ordin-

ance.

Mr. F. H. Loseby represented both plaintiffs and Mr. F. E. Nash ap peared for the defence.

Opening his case Mr. Loseby, sald} that the actions had arisen out ofj one transaction, Tomio had ap- proached the plaintiff, stating that he had four fishing junks for dis- posal in Formosa, and that he would sell them to plaintiff on the condi- tion that of any profit made by plain-

tiff he was to receive 20 per cent.

It was also agreed that Tomlo

would give plaintiffs the opportunity!

to inspect the junks in Formosa, and! that, if the junks were satisfactory, he would be paid for any expenses incurred. These expenees, in the event of a sale, were to be repaid to the plaintiff.

Defendant,

having insufficient

Trapped As Spies

Confession of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Switz, Americans held in Paris spy Investigation, led to arrests of (top to bottom) Col. Dumoulin, Mme. Aubry and M. Aubry. Police said they found plans of forta and speci fications of secret French muni tions in Damonlin's home. Aubry

is a famous chemist.

MIXED BLESSINGS

OF SCIENCE

Requirement Is For More Not Less.

MAKES LIFE HAPPIER

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-day's Short Story.

WHICH OF TWO?

By Peter Fleming.

7HO am I?" he said aloud. tendant on a dried-up pond: a white W There was no wind. The horse standing in the shade of The view that science has so far given humanity blessings of a rather question died slowly in the great tree: a phalanx of larches, mixed variety was emphasized at the bright still air. He felt embar-their feathery spearheads a marvel annual dinner of the Institute of rassed, as if he had made a bad of immobility: rabbits: 盘 wood- Metals at the Trocadero Restaurant joke.

pigeon; burnished corn-stooks, their]

by Dr. Harold Moore, the president. At any rate, I'm not dumb, he short shadows flung back like cowls. The applications of science, he thought defiantly. He had lost his...It was a scene whose chief anid, had undoubtedly made the far memory.

grace lay beneath it, iri familiarity, happier and more secure, but social He passed his hand over his face, in security, in the charm of wonted organisation had failed to give ade-Clean-shaven.......Beyond that it things. Yet for him it was strange, quite consideration to the secondary told him nothing. The bump at the almost unearthly. His feeling for effects of scientific progress. Ap-back of his skull throbbed with an it had the wild, favading novelty plied science had reached one of its unassuming persistence that had the of love at first sight. culminating points in motor trans-force of irony. He wanted to He said aloud: "This is my cup port, and yet motor-cars now killed swear, but the unnatural achons of of tea, all right"; and sat down com more people than earthquakes did. his late soliloquy gelded the implacently on the end of a sleeper.

"What is wanted," declared Dr. pulse of its spontaneity.

Who am I? Moore, "is not less science, but far Along the top of the railway em- Between the all-important ques- more, together with a close co-or bankment, his immediate horizon, tion and his brain a sense of divine dination of scientific activities with the heat-haze jigged along the disorientation danced, impalpable other and at least equally important metals, (I must have fallen out of jaspects of life."

a train, he thought. Or jumped.

Sir William Larke, president of Or been thrown.......) The tele- the Institute of Fuel, appealed to graph wires hummed a soothing, im- scientists to use terse and intelligi-personal tune to an imperceptible ble English for the communication breeze. A bullfinch, very magnifi- of their results.

cent against the blue sky', sat on the nearest pole and sang.

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I never knew the name of that bird, he told himself: that is not

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will he "Pelya Goes Red,” by Horton Giddy.

one of the things I hadë forgotten. and irritating, like the heat-faze. He rose tentativelf to his feet. He admired he even felt Inclined The bullfinch flew away, expressing to worship the lush yet tenuous In its switchback flight-a_brisk and serenity around him; and this im- pulse got in his way. He wanted to bourgeois fatalism.

It's very pretty, he thought. His think things out, but the main issue He scram of his predicament was obscured, by bead was hurting less. bled awkwardly up the embankment fta setting. He wasike a man who Davao, May 1.

had been told to make his will in Dr. Paul Clyde of the University and looked round him.

The countryalde was flat but gay, the Taj Mahal. He found it hard of Kentucky, left for Manila to-day on the 8.8. Bohol to continue his chequered in bright, explicit colours, to concentrate. study of the Far Eastern question. To look at it gave him great plea- With an effort, he drew his eyes! He left after having obtained sure. Whoever I was, he decided, down from the thriftless bounty of The journey was made to

the I didn't see much of this sort of the landscape and looked at his thing. His eyes travelled over it shoes. They were old and black. mosa, and the junks being satisfac-To-morrow's Rotary Club tin first-hand information

They had A certain humdrum tory $1,000 was paid, but the junks will be held in the Hong Kong Japanese situation in Davao,

Dr. Clyde has written ten hooks slowly and with relish. Hotel. Mr. M. A. Cooper, B. Com..

Square, solid little fields: hedges cogency. They had played their were not delivered.

of and is now engaged in writing one

sum-part in his life, wherever it had Mr. Nash stated that three men wil speak on "The Children

on the Orient and Japan. Follow-thick and rounded with the went to Formosa, his client, a fok! Hong Kong."

ing a few days' stay in Manila hemer's vegetation: cattle humbly at- been. They were his. Possessions

money to go to Formosa, was stated to have borrowed the money from one of the partners of the plaintiff firm.

For-

of the plaintiff firm, and an outsider.

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the

He further stated that the two; A total of 3,262 vaccinations were/will proceed to China and Japan. actions applied to only one transac-performed by the St. John Ambu-He is a personal friend of tion, and that the on transaction lance Brigade during the week end- Japanese consul in Manila, having

the latter had been split in two in order to ing May 3, making a total of 162,872 known bring it within the Jurisdiction Or-for the year. dinance.

University.

at

Stanford

His Lordship agreed with Mr. The rainfall for Hong Kong for Nash that there was only one tran- the 24 hours ending 10 o'clock this EGGS AS MONEY IN

saction, and that he had no option

but to dismiss both claims.

SILVER EXPERT IN COLONY

(Continued from page 1.)

have said. I have been sent to make a very thorough Investiga- tion of the matter.

8.11

morning was 0.22 inches, bringing the total since January 1 to inches, against an average of 12.84 inches.

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His pockets contained a pencil, a To the Editor, "China Mail.")

packet of cheap cigarettes (but no Sir, I hope that I am not en-matches), a folded copy of a daily Chen Ling, of No. 23 Tai Yeung

croaching on your valuable space, paper, four pound notes, and some loose change. Never were personal Street, was removed to the Govern-

Prague. but my experience in ment Civil Hospital. yesterday, suf-

He took off his coat. The tab Eggs are being used as currency foreign countries during the late effects more impersonal. fering from minor injuries sustain in the Liptovsky district of Slova. World War made me become

vinced that need of further know. under the collar was newer than the "The reports in America haved, after being knocked down by a kia. been very conflicting, and, as bicycle in Gloucester Road.

Because of the shortage of money ledge of one another's customs, coat, but blank. He had not even among his customers a newsagent would be of great educational value, a tailor's name with which to run Chum Chum-po, a Chinese woman, tobacconist announced one day that

Thorefore, sir, I am anxious to down his identity. He was wearing

B was admitted to the Kowloon Hos-he would accept eggs in payment for establish

correspondence with a second-hand suit,

He sat down again on the sleeper from goods.. pital yesterday, suffering

some of your readers as pen friends. "I am very sorry that this is all minor injuries, sustained after be

I believe that about this world, to and picked up the newspaper. Some- Customers flocked to him from fessor, "but you will see that when ing knocked down by a bicycle in miles round, and other shopkeepers, which we belong, one cannot know thing at the back of his mind at-

seeing that he was doing a brisk too much, and, should any of your tached great importance to it.

told him that the month [numerous readers care to write me, trade, were quick to follow suit. be The consecration of the Chapel

in Portugal: that a business man The country people, who seldom will be only too pleased to give August: that there was a revolution

re in the basement of the Bishop's have any money are delighted with them any knowledge I can in had been seen wearing white ducks: the Treasury in America, and that House will take place on Thurs-this form of barter and the shop-ference to the customs of our pethat a British film company

myday, May 10, at 6 p.m.

of this It is keepers are pleased because, for they ple, the flora and fauna tended

that the Chapel should have no difficulty in finding a good country, which is unique the world going to produce "Cymbeline" on serve not only as a centre for Dr. market for eggo.-Reuter.

over and also I would, if they cared Salisbury Plain: that youth must be Professor Rogers arrived in Reichelt's work but also 1.5 A

to, exchange photos of our excellent given a chance: that the police were Shanghai ou April 10, and has church for the Scandinavian com-

cities with them, and other copies looking for a chartered accountant most decorated soldier of his rank man minister, insisted on her de- spent most of his time in China inmunity.

lof general knowledge that I am sure who had murdered his wife: that in the United States Army, has/cision to resign. the seaside WAS

When she married a year ago the would be of interest to both parties. the exodus to

I am able to say," said the Pro-

Bulkley Street.

I am sent to work on a problem of this kind my reports have to

made direct to the Secretary of

I can make no statement on own account."

CANTON HEADQUARTERS.

that City he is spending a few

days in South China, with his Sentence of two months hard headquarters in Canton.

Personal Pars

Mr. R. R. Roxburgh, Represents-

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WOMAN MINISTER'S DETERMINATION

Refusal To Withdraw Recent Resignation.

Glasgow.

Women worshippers wept silent- In Partick Congregational San Antonio (Texas).

Church, Glasgow, when the Bev. Colonel Gordon Johnston, the Vera Kenmure, Scotland's first wo-

In closing, I would like to state greater, if anything than ever; that died in San Antonio from injuries congregation asked her to carry on He ar-labour was imposed on Cheng Ham,tive for Messra, Thornycroft and that I read the China Mall in our a young clerk had been left a for-received in a polo match, He was her ministry, but on the arrival of rived in Hong Kong this morning a mat maker of 34 years of age, by Co., Ltd., in Hong Kong and Shang-Melbourne Free Library, one of the tune by his employer: and that 59, by boat from Canton, having flown Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central hal, arrived yesterday by the s.s. finest libraries and museums to the skirts were going to be shorter. from Hankow to Canton by the Magistracy this morning, for being President McKinley. new Eurasian Air Services.

in possession of a pair of jade han-)

Trusting sir that you will insert Incidentally Professor Rogers gles, two pairs of gold earings, and Mr. S. Howard, of Messrs, this letter in your valuable paper. and his secretary, Mr. E. Arnold, one woollen cardigan jacket, to the Thornycroft & Co., Ltd., accom were the first passengers to pay total value of $94, at Centre Street, panied by Mrs. S. Howard, return for a flight from Hankow to Can- near Connaught Road yesterday.

ed to the Colony on the President McKinley.

ton by the new line, and were disappointed when their attempts to keep their tickets as souvenirs) failed.

Professor Rogers, who spent many years investigating Ameri can monetary problems, is one of the President's advisors on the

· American Money Policy. He will leave for Canton this afternoon.

LOCAL GAMBLING RAI

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CENTENARIAN LANDS Robert Young, Chief Accountant

BACHELORHOOD

Would Not Marry If He Lived Again.

of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, returned to the Colony from Manila, on the s.s. President Pierce to-day.

Mrs. R. H. E. Marks, wife of Chief Inspector Marks of the Hong Kong Police Force, was among the passengers, who sailed for Home an the P. and O, sis. Naldera.

St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Dan Eyre, an Englishman and a bachelor, remarked on sele-| brating his 103rd, birthday that I Miss M. C. Nogulero, proprietress|

I am,

Yours respectfully,

S. L. WILLMOTT. March 18, 1934. 12 Mason St., Preston N19, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

ART EXHIBITION AT KOMOR'S.

Closing To-morrow.

and a mother,

a child there were several who can During the World War he won tended that she could not efficiently 'He found himself devouring, all this information, and its trimming renown by rescuing the famous carry out the duties of a minister with a certain desperation. In some "lost battalion" of Major Whittle-

She resigned but was requested to corner of his scoured mind there sey in the Argonne,

|reconsider her decision. At her first Ingered the ghost of a conviction

They had been cut off by the public appearance since the birth of that this paper was Important. Like

|her baby, she said that her resigua- the cigarettes, the pencil, and the Germans from the American lines, tion would take effect at the end of money, It had some relevance to his but Colonel Johnston led them out March instead of at the end of May. previous existence: but he believed of the dug-outs and rejoined the "I am still aware of the oppos!- It was a more immediate relevance

tion and hostility which makes hon. than theirs some special, circum-main army,

Two days later he sent the same est co-operation impossible and pre- stantial significance, just beyond the reach of his groping thoughts. man, back to the lines, in spite of Vents me from continuing a success- He was sure he had carried it unlike the gruelling time they had had.ful ministry," she said.

" felt that if they were babled":

The general assembly of the the other things. for some reason

outside routine. As a link with his they would go to places completely Church of Scotland and the Congre- unattainable past, his instincts pin-in view of what they had been Rational Union of Scotland will con- ned their faith to it, and to it alone, through," he said in reply to critica, sider the question of women and

When he had glanced through it."They slept 48 hours, being fed the ministry shortly.

The Congregational" "Union will he glanced through it again. As with thick soup from time to time

have to decide whether a woman can Some very fue works of art have tried to make his mind a blank-to while they were barely awake. * ́ possibly be the minister of a church, he were starting to live his life of the Hotel Splendid, Marseilles, been on view at the showrooms of put aside the rabble of preconcep "Then they went back into the ja wife and a mother at the same. Fines of $50 and $80 were imposed over again he would not indulge in arrived this morning on the 15. Pre Messrs. Komor and Komor during tions that bayed on the vanished fight and made a fine job of it. 3 time. on Lo Kwong and Li Teung, respec- matrimony.

sident Pierce, on a short visit and the past week.

heels of his identity. He leant back still feel that this was the best. tively, by Mr. Q. A.... As¡MacFadyen He gave no reason for this point will stay at the Peninsula Hotel The exhibition, which is for one on, the tenuous framework of his possible treatment for themanth, yog at the Central Police Court this of view.

week only, opened on Tuesday last instincts; but them alone he had Colonel Johnston received the War... Japan and China, also morning, for keeping a gambling Born in Northamptonshire in Mr. George M. Icard, President Entrance is free, and there is no some hops of threading this laby. Congressional, Medal of Honour, decorated him. place on the first floor of the West-1881, he went to Galana, Minois, and Manager of one of the largest obligation, to buy, so all for whom rinth in which his memory was lost. Distinguished Service Medal, Dis- Once, in Texas in 1916, he and arn Market last Saturday. Twelve as a youth, moving to Hastings in mines in the Philippines, was a pas- works of art have an appeal should He read the paper three times over tinguished Berrics Cross Order of his star resigned their commis others were fined $8 each for gum-[1857.

senger-an board the .s. President take the opportunity of visiting His conviction of his pertinence the Purple Heart, and Silver Star, sions because troops under them bling at the same pláës.

He set up as a general merchant, Pierce, which arrived here this Messrs. Komor and Komer's show was not shaken. It crystalled in He mentioned three times were made to pass twice in review and subsequently became Mayor morning from Manila. He is on rooms before, to-morrow. The ples a vague ballet that Home fond in for herolum in action,

before a New York Benator and H.M.S, Whiteball- arrived yester- and a member of the Slate Legisla- route to California on an extended tures are on view from 9 am, to 6 the news directly affected blin

France made him an Officer of Mexican Army dice. Later he day at 9.30 am from Shanghai, ture-Reuter

i vaɑation.

(Continued on Papa 30,13 the Legion of Honour after the was reinstated