1934-05-14 — Page 9

MONDAY, MAY 14, 1934.

GAS EXPLOSION

(Continued from page 1.)

The China Motor Bus service to West Point, which passes the rear of the Gas Company's installation,

was also held up, the bus being ob- liged to made a de-tour from West Point.

Large numbers

gave assis-

tance at the scene of the fire, Police, Emergency Units, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Sanitary Department Inspec lors, and P.W.D, Officials ren- dering valuable service.

the

Four flats at the end of Darley Terrace were very badly butted. and during the morning floors caved in. destroying all hope of an immediate search for missing occupants,

30 FT. OF PLATE TORN OUT BY BLAST.

It is nut possible yet to state the exact size of the rent in the side of the gasometer, but from an ex- amination this afternoon it is cs-1 timated that some 30 feet of

inch plate were torn out.

The flames struck the buildings in Darley Terrace with such velo- eity that one woman was hurled 50 One house feet along the road.

on the corner of Yu On Terrace, 150 yards from the damaged gaso- nieter, was caught by the clouds of flaming gas and the eastern sidel

the burnt out, while a house on

street was of Po Tuck corner

lightly damaged.

The exact cause of the fire is

not yet known.

Mr. G. B. Witchell of Messrs. Bailey and Company, who is con- ducting repairs, discovered a piece! of 'Hinged dress material on

the

top of the damaged gasomete and made the suggestion that some- thing in one of the adacent houses: had caught fire, been picked up by the occupants with the plece of rng, and thrown from the building

THE CHINA MAIL.

SINO-AUSTRALIAN

RELATIONS

French Duce?

Steady Improvement

Pierre Tartunger

Deputy Pierre Taittinger, French World War hero and pre- sident of the Young French Patriotic League, Les Jeunenses Patriotes, as he addressed 700 re- eruita to his new order in Paris.

TRIANGLE ACTION

IN COURT

Pretty Problem For Puisne Judge.

SECURITY RETURN CLAIMED

For $500 paid as a guarantee

In Past Years.

MR. GOCK YOUNG ON -VISIT

To-day's Short Story.

MARY

ANSELL

*

By Martin

Armstrong.

Her face WES

Bur-

The steady growth of improv-MARY BRAKEFIELD, wife forts, though strangera put her age ed Sino-Australian relations is of Samuel Brakefield, land- down at over fifty. stressed in a statement made by lord of the Golden Lion, Nether Pale an bony: the eyes, too, pale and weary and red-rimmed; and the Mr. W. Gock Young, Chairman of hinton, made her way along the corners of her mouth had a bitter the Society of Chinese Residents accustomed hedge-bordered road downward droop that on rare occa in Australia, in Sydney, and a that led to the foot of the downs. sions vanished suddenly and

prisingly into a charming, wistful director of the Wing On Cora-From the road end the coarse

It was the beginning of October, pany, Ltd., who is now in Hong grass of the downs rose in Kong on a business visit after 20 single abrupt slope to the fat and the hedges between which she walked had kindled from the dusty years' residence in Australia. summit, which was enclosed by a

green of summer inte long lines of Mr. Gock Young states:- great rampart rising nobly from scarlet and yellow flame that danced and flickered against the sagging in, Australia 1 have arrived home of The face of this ancient earthwork grey sky in the breeze that flowed extended business visit. The bitter was so steep that he'who climbed it through them. All her life she had anti-Chinese spirit which charac-could do so only on his knees, pulling known that road, and the downs that terised Australian thought for so himself up with his hands by the rose at the end of it, and, beyond long has lost its vehemence just as strong tufted grass that clothed it them, the wide plains of the sea in China time and experience have like a shaggy für. Every Thursday taught us that no nation ran stadd Mary Brakefield took the same walk, by itself, and that international and always alone. She was a quiet, good-will in casential for commor kindly, respectable cial expansion and cultural well-otherwise eccentric, and her husband being.

and the neighbours, though they! prithemselves never took a walk except wool when some definite object required.

"After twenty years' experience its broad ditch.

"My mission is to enquire, marily, into the wheat and

woman,

not

trade, in which the Australian peo-had long since grown so accustomed

ple are vitally interested. Since to this weekly stroll of hers that

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Waltz," by Dorothy Parker.

left home, China has had many pro-they had ceased to regard it into which the downs dropped--a blems to face. We Chinese abroad strange, even when the weather was sheer fall of eight hundred feet-in have had our anxious days and so stormy that is was incredible that scooped precipices. of white or rosy

chalk. weeks when the cables were describ anyone should walk out, much less

For she was a native of Nether- ing things indescribable and en-climb the bare downs, for mere plex-

hinton and had never been further mities that endangered the common-sure. wealth. Some of those problems re-

On winter evenings, when, look.enst of it than Bournemouth, fur- main, but their solution is in sight.ing from their cottage windows into ther weat that Sidmouth, or further She came north than Dorchester. "Down in Australia, we have, in a stormy twilight, the villagers saw

Her father had of poor parents. Sydney, the Society of Chinese Re- lonely figure struggling against

farm labourer and her mother been sidents in Australia, of which or wind and rain down the long village the daughter of a labourer, and it ganisation I was honored with the street, they would say without aur-i office of Chairman. It allows no prise: "It'll only be Mrs. Brakefield had been thought a great plece of narrow political beliefs to divide coming back from her walk."

luck for her to marry the landlord of the Golden Lion. Chinese thought, but stands for all She was a spare, neat woman of that is broadest and best in the an-

cient and modern spirit of China.

"Our Society in Sydney set out

She walked on at a brisk pace,

right nor left nori looking neither even ahead of her: she walked, in- deed, not at all as if walking for!

striking the gasomete: and causing against the employment of his son, the damage. The nearest houses Lam Chung-wai Lai Lam, of No. three years ago, to tell Australla PRETTY WEDDING AT the mere sake of it, but as one on to the gasometer are within 30 561, Shanghai Street, Mongkok, the truth about China, and tireless

fceb,

CAVE IN ON DAUGHTER.

Kowloon, sued the Manufacturers' indeed were our members in their

The

from

was

CATHEDRAL

MAK TAM.

DEAN SWANN OFFICIATES

an errand, and when she reached the end of the road she began at once, MOTHER WATCHES BUILDING Representatives, Ltd., of No. 7, attempts to let Australians know

Morrison Gap Rond, before the why-and whence-China

without a pause or a glance about; her, 'to climb the down by a sheep Weeping bitterly, a Chinese wo-Puiane Judge, Mr. Justice P. Jacks, headed in her national endeavours. man watched the four floors of at the Supreme Court this morning. Those whom we

track this wavered steeply up it. contracted-and

Under the stress of the climb her un end fat in Darick Terrace cave|

defendants claimed in many who were contracted by our

third A in under the pressure of water demnity

party.contacts-now have

pace became gradually slower and more know- from the Fire Brigade hoses. Augusto Vannini, on the grounds ledge of Chinese ambitions, and A pretty wedding was solemnised slower; half way up she paused,

She told a "China Mall" repre- that he, and not they, had received the ever-growing nucleus guaran-on Saturday afternoon, at St. John's breathless, and turned to sentative that her daughter, aged the deposit.

tees at no distant date an Aus-Cathedral, when Miss Tam So-chun, with unseeing eyes the variegated 16, who had only recently come to Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for tralian sentiment from which anti-of the staff of the Chun Tak Girls' fields below her and, beyond them,

employed as a servant in that fat the defendants, and was in the building.

DEATH AT MAH JONGG.

Burvey

Hong Kong from the country, was the plaintiffs, Mr. Peter Sin for Chinese propaganda will be School, and daughter of Mr. Tam-the village thatches crouching under

and Mr. A. elleliminated.

Yik-kin, a former diplomat during the yellowing cime and the gaunt Arculli represented the thirdl

"To-day Australians realise that the Ching Dynasty, and Mrs Tam grey fragment of Evesdon Castle, party.

China is not an aggressive nation, Yik-kin, was married to Mr. Mak which Cromwell had blown up. Mr. Loseby explained that the that she

As soon as she had breath enough, has no ambition

for Chun-poy, B.Sc., son of Mr. and Mrs she continued her climb, and then, Another story from another defendants were the proprietors of world-conquest, that the troubles Mak Yan-nau, of Canton, The Very when she was almost at the top and homeless Chinese was to the effect David's Cafe, Hankow Road, Kow-for which she suffers have been Rev. Dean Swann officiated.

had reached the earthwork, vanished that four occupants on the third loon, and that on or about Septem-forced upon her. Twenty years

The bride was given away by her along the long line of the ditch and floor of the second end flat in Dar ber 15, 1933, the plaintiff had paid ago, when I went to Australia the brother, Mr. Tam Yan-yeuk.

in half a minute reappeared, clam- ley Terrace were seated at a game the Defendants $500 tu Guarantee Australian people held the most: Miss Mak Wong-hing was brides- bering on her hands and knees up of mah Jongg at the time of the the employment of Lam Chung-peculiar ideas of the Chinese in- maid, while Mr. Mak Cheung-yce the steep rampart. Soon she had explosion. They received the full wai, who had been engaged as stitutions. To-day, with better force of the explosion, and were shroff at the cafe.

knowledge of our people, they are performed the duties of the beat crawled to the top, and stood for a

man. Mr. Frederick On November 24 Lam had re-sympathetic with China in her as-A.R.CO., IT.C.I., was at the organ. a minute vertical object breaking Mason, moment silhouetted against the sky, killed immediately.

The conflagration was not with signed his position as shroff, and pirations. out its bathos, the third house in the plaintiff claims the return of "Personally, I believe that the A reception was held at the Kam the long horizontal lines of down and

devastated Darley Terrace his deposit,

new China in destined to go far in Ling Restaurant in the evening, earthworks. was better off than most, and the

The defendants claim that the concert of humun endeavour, after which, the couple left for their appeared. ground floor suffered more dam-Augusto Vannini owes the money and that a regenerated China will honeymoon in South Chine. age from water than from

fire. on the ground that they had not ensure her citizens at home and On the wall, drenched with water, received the deposit and that, at abroad that sympathy, that free- and surrounded by fallen beams, that time, they were not the pro-dom of action to which they are was the old family clock, still tick-prietors of the cafe.

justly entitled.” ing away and still showing the Mr. Lately maintained that

the

correct time!

the

there was no doubt that somebody owed his client the money, and GRAVE DANGER Darley Terrace, the road which that the question must be decided caught the first full blast of the between the defendant and flames, was still amouldering late third party,

Mr. Sin agreed that judgment this Afternoon. The first three houses are now merely shattered. must be given againet some per roofless shells, but others of the son, and stated that his clients did six gutted buildings still retained not received the money. remnanta of floors and window-

frames.

There is grave danger, mc- cording to the Fire Brigade,

at the walls of the first house will collapse at any time, and people are quently being kept well away from the locality.

conse

The case is proceeding.

RUSH TO WEST POINT

As soon as news, of the explosion. reached town, taxis, public cars, buses, and tram cars were in great demand by curious Chinese. The crowds at the scene of the disaster were, The houses in Clarence Terrace, however, kept under admirable con which are some 40 feet below trol by the Police, only firemen and Darley Terrace, are not damaged members of the St. John Ambulance as badly, some of them still retain Brigade being allowed within the their roofs, although those nearest Police cordon.

in.

C.P.R. AGENT ARRIVES

Then again she dis-

I

The grassy ares inside the 'ram part sloped slightly upwards to the aleer edge, so that from where she

The forthcoming wedding of Mr.stood she saw nothing of the sea, but John William Groesch, Chief Engineer, only the grey, laden sky. But she of Pittsburg Road, Seattle, Washing did not want to see the sea, for sha Lon, USA and Miss Mildred van mew that to-day-it-would-be-not

Andadale Nichols of Midland, Michl- gan, U.S.A, is announced.

CHINESE HIT BY GOLF BALL

Mr. G. E. Costello of the Cana- dian Pacific Steamship Co. arrived; yesterday from Shanghai. Mr. Cos- tello, who is well-known in

Hong Kong, will succeed the late Mr. Ed-

A Chinese named Leung Hon was ward Stone as General Passenger admitted to the Government, Civil Agent.

Hospital yesterday, suffering from in- Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Costello are juries to his eye, after being struck residing at the Repulse Bay Hotel. [up by a golf ball on the Race Course.

Scope of Museum Theft of China Jewels will be Determined in A Year

have begun the colossal task of open-

tat.

:

RONSON ALL THE NEWEST

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8-YEAR-OLD ALLEGED KIDNAPPED

On the application of Inspector

As it had been eighteen years ago to-day, blue and lustrous as an iris- petal and, near the sbore, paler and so clear that the ribs of chalky rock at the bottom were as visible as if

Falling from an alley wall while seen through a flawless, pale blue

to the Government Civil Hospital | was granted in the case of Chan Fo- crystalbat leaden-grey, desolate, sleeping, Hong Chi was removed Murphy, a week's formal remand chilling to the beart.

So she did not go towards the last evening, suffering from fatal, a boatman, who was charged cliff-edge, but followed the base of juries to his head and body. before. Mr. Q.A.A. MacFidyen at the rampart until it bent inwards

at right-ankles and crossed the hill-

years ago.

The Rev. J. R. Higgs, Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, preached in St. John's Cathedral at Matine

The P, and O. a.s. Eawalpindi left the Central Police Court this morn- - . top. There she stopped, and in the Singapore for Hong Kong at noon ing, for kidnapping an eight-year- bend, as if in the corner of a roof-on Saturday with outward English old child, Leung Kam-mun, from less room, sat down. For a while malls, and is dus here on Wednesday the child's father, Leung Yu, man- ter of a cargo bost, No. 3499A, on she sat motionless, self-absorbed; at noon. then leaned back against the alope

April 18. Faf the turf wall; turned on her left Shanghai. which were moved here from Peking side, and closed her eyes.

And soon she knew that he was Procuratora.from the highest Na-last year when the Japanese theat-

Fines of $150 each were imposed She felt no human first appearance in the pulpit of jon Lee Hung and Ho Chang by tonal Government court at Nanking ened to bombard the northern capi- there, the Jim Ansell of eighteen venterday morning. It was his

touch, no warmth, and his volca had the Cathedral, since his arrival in Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen- Special precautions were taken,

the Colony.

tral Police Court this morning, for the damaged gasomster have fallen The sight of a dead body next to ing and examining 10,000 cases of smoking being strictly forbidden. no sound, but he was present to her

importing unmanifested wolfram The interiors of most of the Western Market caused con- jewels and antiques from Peking's The treasures are widely reported to and she could speak to him, not A Chinese woman, Chol Chun- fram Canton on board the -5.4. Tin these houses, although severely siderable excitement, while the clang Forbidden City, several million dol- be worths $100,000,000 gold, but no with her lips, not aloud for there damaged by fire and water, still of ambulance bells, all lent to the ten-lars worth of which it is charged accurate value can be put upon them, was no need to speak aloud--but in kwai was taken to the Kwong Wah Yat, yesterday. remain, including most of the sion that was in the air.

Yih Pel-chi, whose whereabouts her heart, with a speech much more Hospital yesterday, suffering from

head and body injuries sustained cuted. floors and part of the furniture. The trams were held up at St. president of the National Museum, are a mystery, is charged with steal-real, much more close, than the cold, when she was trampled upon by a

The houses in Po Tuck Street, Peter's Church, and passengers were

audible speech she excahnged with

Preaching in St. Andrew's: The examination is expected to re-ing diamonds, rubles and pearls her husband and neighbours and horse in Shumchun. Chinese terri which is behind Darley · Terrace, forced to walk from there to the Gas quire more than a year...........

from no less than 150 Imperial

tory,

Church, 'Kowloon, yesterday morn« were not soverly damaged, one on Company's "works. This precaut When the first of the treasures crowns dating back a thousand the tourists that came to the inn.

ing, Rev. H. A. Wittenbach, of the the corner was burning slightly, tionary measure was in operation for were removed by the examiners, the years. - Twenty cause of crown And in that unworldly, spiritual:

Three Chinese, Lui Pin, Cheung Church Missionary Society, Can- but most of the other escaped over an hour,

vaults resembled an Aladdin's cave jewels and several cases of classical speech he answered her. With her Tim and Les Kwaf ware admitted ton, described to, the congregation. with little damage. Many people The Colony's gas supply was of glittering jewels. Special cor- fans dating back to China's days of eyes, and all her senses cloend and to the Government Civil Hospital the Christian development of the In this street, and in other more not out off entirely, low pre dops of police were required to con- Imperial treatmens are known to his visible absence shut out and yesterday, duffering, from injuries rural areas of the Diocese of Vic- distant streets, were scorched by sure being maintained through trol the huge crowd outside the have disappeared Yil it is forgotten, she lay in his arms, folt |sustained in, a premature explo-toria, and the work that, in bolng the flames.

out. A full supply was allowed storage building trying to catch a charged, sold them to Paking curio her body wrapped, sath and sound, sion at the function of Shako and done in villages between Hong (Continued at Foot of Nest Col.) 'shortly after 2.80 p.m.

glimpse of the wondrous, treasures dealers --Asiociated-Freas.

(Continued on Page 30.

Inland Roads.

Kong and Canton.

ware stolen by Yih Fel-chi, former

Revenue Officer Grimmit prose-