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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934,

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ESCAPED PRISONER

DROWNED.

Found In Stream In New Territories.

WOUNDS IN HEAD AND BACK

Li You, the prisoner who es- caped from police custody at Sha Tau Kok on Tuesday eve- ning, was found drowned in a stream near Wukautin, New Territories, at 10.30 p.m. yes. terday.

Allied nations who now refuse to repay U.8.812,000,000,000 in war loans chiained from United States, gained U.S.$198,- 000,000,000 worth of colonies and possessions in the conflict, it is revealed by Mr. J. Reuben Clark, Jr., former Under-secretary of State. France,' be says, came out of the war with her population undiminished and wealth unim. paired as the result of added fer- ritories.

AUSTRIAN TURMOIL

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WORLD TRADE FAIR Te-day's Short Story.

IN ITALY

Eastern Exhibits

Included.

Again this year,, from September

6 to 21, the Levan International Trade Fair will be held in Bari, and already active preparations are in progress to ensure its re- newed success.

CRAB-APPLE

HARVEST

THE

.

By George R. Preedy.

THE old woman pushed her [devastated country, the constant truck through the soldiers massacres. His fine eyes were in- gathered on the outskirts of the flamed by smoke and wine, but his complexion, despite the rigours of As is well known, this interna-ruined village. Corded to the military life, was clear and smooth tional Trade exhibition is organiz-truck was a large rudely-made above his blue uniform.

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ed with a view to bringing together box in the shape of a coffin. The "My husband was a carpenter, in a practical way all products soldiers were amazed. for it was he made his own coffin when wood and manufactures suitable for the

was cheap," requirements of Southern Italy amusing that anyone should

The soldiers, yawning, heavy- and of the eastern markets, as think of burying their dead when headed, stared, there was some. well as all typical products of the corpses

the old were as common in thing monstrous about East.

hag, so powerful, so gaunt, with Silesia as hedgerow berries. Exhibits are to be grouped into:

great worn hands, lean chaps rough They began to gather round the with silver hairs, dried saliva st the following Sections: Agricul- the

ture Foodstuffs - Machinery and rude bier, offering to 'challenge, to the corners of her lips, and A electrical engineering-Chemistry-interfere. The beldame was plainly glance direct, vigorous, perhaps Furniture and furnishing-Building-glad to pause at her task. She crazy, Apparel, textiles, etc.-Artistic in-

"Very likely," auggested a ser- on the hand-cart geant, embittered. by a shattered stopped, rested dustrica-Transports and travel-

and wiped with the ragged ends of hand roughly bandaged (even the Shipping and fishing industries.

There will also be a so-called her tattered shawl the dirty sweat victors lacked almost everything), "Business Section" in which, in from her face. She was greatly jspecially equipped offices, will be fatigued; had she not been as Thoused all the services which can strong 18

draught-mare facilitate the negotiation of bust-she would have been dead of starva- ness, the rapid transmission and tion, plague or fright; long since. reception of formation and the Some of the soldiers jected. settlement of accounts,

"Where are you going, ma belle? Another feature of the Fair Is Where did you get the coffin? Crazy the Trade Office, which for nhag, did you see the bonfire in the

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TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Elsa's Piano," by Fritiof Nilsson,

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ed that Chancellor Dollfuss, wound-whole year assists exhibitors in churchyard last night after the

a com-bomb had made a hole? Plenty of "the barridan has some concealed fed by a revolver shot, was carried every possible way from

ma foil..And fire money or good stuff in that box; I to the drawing room. He just had mercial and economie point of coffins there, strength for a brief conversation view, and facilitates their business yellow akulls Inside. Mon Dieu! have heard of such dirty trick, vielle with Major Fey, and murmured, relations in Italy and other coun. They seemed glad of a little foller" The warmth by the way they grinned at

cornet again languidly) tries. "Take care of my family please."

Special Negotiation Days

approached the hand-cart; he sneer-] are us." He then received the Last Sacra-

also to be held in connection with Swinging his arms across his led at the thought of any booty ment.

At a Cabinet meeting yesterday the forthcoming Exhibition. These chest cuirassier added through blue being left in Klatz; why, it was a afternoon. without Dr. Dollfuss, are described as actual business lips: "You have a damned early wonder that the old woman

for the winter in this infernal country!") alive herself. The loungers grinned Major Fey decided, after consult-appointments arranged

The old woman had a little re-to see him retreat, for the odour of ing the President, Dr. Wilhelm purpose of ensuring a meeting be- Miklas, to refuse to negotiate with tween prospective buyers and covered her breath. Only a slight decay had struck disgust into even It is assumed by the police that the rebels. Furthermore, he des-sellers of goode exhibited at the trembling of her strong jaw showed his nostrils, no longer sensitive.

second battallon of Fair. Last year such meetings her age and her exhaustion,

"Parbleu, you have kept the car- he fell into the creek at a place patched a

"It is my husband-my man-herlon long enough, ma fille," he said, where the bank was washed away,roups to storm the Chancellery if were well attended and led to con- striking his head on a stone,

is dead of famine; I am taking him holding his nose. be insurrectionaries had not sur-siderable concrete results. rendered in the meantime.

"May His Holy Name be blessed," : Exhibitors and visitors' to Bari to the little cemetery which the Deceased was suffering from a head wound, and from a wound inį A letter from Major Fey an- for this Fair are granted by the nuns keep on the hill. He used to murmured the ancient creature. was Italian State Railways a reduction work for them and they always "Had I not to get up strength in the small of the back, supposed to nounced that Dr. Dollfuss

my old body to do all as it should have been caused when the con-wounded and would agree to any of 70 per cent. on the fare for one promised to give him a burying." stable fired at him after his es-successor approved by the President return journey to Bari from any "How did you make the coffinte done? It is not easy in these if bloodshed could be avoided. part of Italy, and 50 per cent for asked a alim cornet. He was young LI, while under arrest for steal- The President; however, refused six. journeys to any place in Italy, enough ing a cow, made a dash for free-to parley with the rebels and en-the first being to Bari.

cape.

dom at 7.30 p.m..on Tuesday.

POLICE PRISONER

SHOT IN LEG.

Desperate Escape Attempt.

A desperate struggle to escape

from police custody resulted in Tang Yam being admitted to the Goverp-

Other dowed Dr. Schuschnigg with full considerable facilities are offered powers-Reuter.

by Italian Steamship and Air Services, and also by many foreign| railways and steamship companies.

AFFIRMATION NOT NEGATION,

to be depressed by the

CZECHOSLOVAKIAN WOMAN FINED. “

+

Failed To Register On Arrival

times."

"Get on!" shrugged the cornet. As the old woman bent to her tak he threw a late, loosened wild

rose that he had been tormenting in his fingers on to the massive deal box. The others thought hé mock- ed, but his face expressed only weariness; it was near the end of the campaign, everything pleasant had long since been destroyed, all supplies were wanting.... When Mrs. Elizabeth Vrana, 29-year had anyone last taste a glass of old Czechoslovakian, was fined $10 good wine, or a plate of fresh meat? by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the And a pretty; Kvely girl would mend their nets and dispose of Central Magistracy this morning, have been worth her weight In some of their marine products for failing to register with the old.

Stock Commission Head PRATAS ISLAND DEVELOPMENT

Outlines Policy.

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SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

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(Hy Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra ment Civil Hospital yesterday, suf-phic Messages Ordinance, 1894. to the villagers. The village eld- local authorities after her arrival Along the road to Cracow by the

ers asked the fishermen to leave,, there. but they refused.

fering from bullet wounds, in the ankle and calf.

ceived July 26, 12.31 p.m.)

Washington, To-day. The Chairman of the Stock Ex- Tang, who was arrested for soli- citing, in attempting to escape as-change Control Commission, Mr.

head.

Bide of the Vistula the old woman

Then the island authorities sent Sub-Inspector Nolloth stated that trudged, pushing and pulling her defendant came to the Colony burden. The sky was milky blue, a wireless report to the provincial | government here, and an official jfrom Canton on June 12 and rethe clouds curdled into heavy of the fishery bureau was gistered at the Repulse Bay Hotel, flower-like forms; half-rotted rushes Defendant, pleading guilty, said bent in the flow of the river. The

Bent

NULLAH OUTRAGE

Three Dates Fixed For Hearing.

old creature was nearing the end of her endurance. She was so old,

so ill-fed, and then the anxiety, eh, it was nearly too much for a miser-

able ancient woman.

saulted the detective who was es. Joseph P. Kennedy, in a speech corting him, striking him on the] here, yesterday, said:

"We want the securities busi-there and succeeded in inducing To save himself from fur- ther onslaughta the detective fired, nens, which is most important in the Japanese to leave the Island. that she overlooked the matter. hitting his prisoner on the leg.

its effect on the country, on a for- The official reported that East ward and broad scale. We shall Pratas Jeland is rich in seaweed, INDIAN POLICEMAN not sit as a prosecutor but shall oysters, clams, and agricultural seek, the establishment of positive products. Based on his report, AT FAULT.

standards, We believe in affirma- the Provincial Department of Re-

"Surely she would never reach tion, not negation.--United Fress, construction is drawing up a plan

the convent on the hill. Eh. Contradictory Evidence por S. E. Levy and Company, to develop the island which is four

but she would, after all these weeks mlles long and one mile wide.

was she to fall now! And getting Against Dog Owner.

NAVAL CONFERENCE It is learned that the develop

away from those ruffians, too, that ment of this Island is by govern- Three dates were set aside by was luck. V. 'God must be look- Mrs. S. Sanchez, of No. 292 CONVERSATIONS, Prince Edward Road, was brought

ment appropriations and private Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central ing after a wretched old woman. capital and that the venture will Magistracy this morning for the May His Holy Name be blessed!"* before Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at Britain To Meet Italy be on a commercial basle.

hearing of the case of: Ng Laf- She crossed herself. the Kowloon Magistracy this]

yuen, who was charged with the But her body and limbs ached, a morning, for allowing her dog to

murder of Michael Pine on June bitter fuld soured her mouth, an wander unmuzzled in Prince Ed-

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acrid fim dimmed her eyes, her The dates are August 8, 7 and heart beat heavily, with reluctance, 18. The case, which is a com-jin & bosom which felt empty.

mittal one, will be heard in the She leant straining against the [afternoons.

hand-cart

ward Road at 6.10 p.m. on July 1.

And Japan.

London, To-day.

KONGMOON GOLD RUSH

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Mr. A. E. Hall to representing

Mr. Sanchez pleaded not guilty In the House of Commons yester- and said that the dog. which was day Mr. Stanly Baldwin, questioned only a three months old pup, just as to the present position of the poked its head out of the gate naval conversations, preparatory to! There has already been a gold when the Indian constable came. the conference in 1985, said that the rush, and the people in Yan Ping the prisoner.

In his evidence the constable preliminary conversations had al-are 'already digging gold from the contradicted his own statements on ready taken place with the repre-mine, Digging is going on day three occasion so Mr. Wynne Jones sentatives of the United States and and night. said that he could not take the French Governments.

Money changers In Yan Plug evidence.

Similar conversations with repre-and Hok Shan are said to have The defendant was discharged. sentatives of the Italian Government exhausted their cash, because the

INDIAN BOY BITTEN would probably be undertaken in gold diggers sold the ores, for sile Shamsher Singh, nine-year-old September, and with representatives ver coins. Each digger makes from Indian boy, of No. 374 Lockhart of the Japanese Government In Octo- $10 to 31,000 a day. Road, was admitted to the Govern-ber-British Wireless Service. ment Civil Hospital yesterday, auf fering from a dog bite.

EMPIRE SWIMMING The dog, which has been sent to POOL AT WEMBLEY. Kennedy Town for observation, is stated to belong to Kartar Singh

FRANCOIS COTY PASSES

Paris, To-day.

M. Francola Cots, the millionaire perfume manufacturer and paper proprietor died here day Reuter

AIRPORT PROJECT

IN HUNAN. $600,000 For Spacious Landing Fields.

She proceeded with great pain along the road to Cracow, She reached the small orchard below the cemetery, she looked up at the lone-| ly chapel of the convent (the soldiers had respected the nuns, it was difficult to know why), and she thought: "I cannot go any further." Her rough hands untled the

motted cords of the rude coffin o

the truck, and alowly she lifted the Further exploitation by Indi

lid," after glancing round furtively,Į viduals will be stopped when the Under orders of General Chiang and a sprightly young girl, white gendarmes arrive there to-morrow. Kai-shek. General Ho Chien, and plump as a pet rabbit, sat up; They left to-day by towboats Chairman of Hanan has ordered to her dainty nostrils she held a escorted... by armed launches, that two spacious airfields" be cloth soaked in vinegar to deaden Future exploitation will be under bullt impiediately a Hengchow the smell of the dead rats at her taken by the military authorities and Pingchow In sonth Honan, feet. She got out stiffly and yawn- The cost for the construction of ed. The fresh air was delicious. each airfield is placed at $300,000 Ever aluce the soldiers had entered artificial wave producing machinery, which is to be barne equally by Elats she had lived in ✯ cupboa H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester The Duke said that he was greatly the various districts in southern hidden from greedy and yesterday opened the great Empire Impressed by the size and dignity of Hunan. Work on both fold boran eyes

imming pool at Wemble

the building Br Wireless Ser- on June 15 and will be completed still

Duke Of Gloucester At Opening.

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