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THE CHINA - MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1934.--

INEXPERIENCED YOUTH'S ASSAY INTO THE

OLD MAN AND HIS FAMILY ATTACKED

FIVE-YEAR U.S. NAVAL

AIR EXPANSION

Construction Of Up To 2,100 Planes Contemplated

Washington, To-day, The construction of up to 2,100 Navy aeroplanes, authorised by Congress, is contemplated in the new five-year naval air

expan. sion programmu now being drafte ed by Representative Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House of Re presentative Naval Affairs Com- mittee, with the co-operation of the Navy Department.-Reuter,

DEPLORABLE

CONDITIONS

IN HAINAN

STABBED IN BACK

ROBBERS

PILLAGE

DWELLING

REMAIN ONE HOUR ON PREMISES.

KEY INCIDENT .

Li Yuk-kee, a 61-year-old brick- maker, of Sing Lung Brickworks. Tak Heung Village, and his two

wives, daughter, and fold, were the

vletims of a savage attack at about. BETTER SANITATION 7 p.m. Tast night, when five men

NEEDED,'

FINANCE PROBLEM

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

broke into their home, bound,: gagged, asaulted, and robbed them.

af property valued at $89.90.

Li reported that when lying in bed five men burst into the house. One of them caught him round the That Hainan Island offers room throat, while the others searched for emigration and needs further his body. Four of them later developments was the gist of au ransacked the house, while ono address delivered yesterday at the held him on the bed. weekly memorial service by Mr. One of the men told him to sit Woo Kai-yin. a member of the down, and, on refusing, he was Kwangtung Provincial Govern-struck on the head with a blunt in- ment, who recently made an in-

strument. His arms and lega spection trip to the Island at the in-

were then bound, and a water structions of the First Group bucket placed

over his head to Army and the provincial authori-

prevent him shouting. ties.

The death of the 9th Duke of Marlborough (lower) transfers the British title to the Marquis of Blandford. (abore with wife); non of the Duke by Mrs. Jacques Balsan, nce Consuelo Vanderbilt (lower). The American duchess had the marriage annulled by the Reman Catholic Rota 25 years later on the ground that she was coerced into wedding the impoverished tillchokler by her mother, and wed a Frenchman.

INQUEST ON

SKIPPER OF

S.S. YUET ON

DISMISSAL FROM JOB REVEALED.

MOTIVE FOR SUICIDE

FRENCH ARMY DESERTER

Expulsion Order From Colony.

S

To-day's Short Story

A

BUSINESS WORLD

THE KEY ON By F. W.

A RING

Brooke.

NTHONY DUNN handed to a cigarette. He listened to the the lynx-eyed hotel clerk his voice of Winnipeg, and revolved In last dollar-bill, and received in his mind the question: Which was exchange ten cents and a key. at- it to be?

tached to a ring about the size Six months' hard labour followed of a soup-plate.

by a spree was of no use to any With a superb air of non-chalance man. He was willing to swear that

ACCEPTS FULL

RESPONSIBILITY

FOR ALL DEBTS DEPOSIT PLACED IN FADING FIRM.

Did Not Understand New Receipt.

$1,300 TO BECOME CHINESE MANAGER

he pocketed the dime, banished a that poker game had been crooked. Appearing before the Pulsne. tip-hungry porter with a wave of His savings from a winter's work Judge, Mr. P. Jacks, at the Su one bronzed, toll-scarred hand, and, at the Hollow Creek Lumber Cont-preme Court this morning, on picking up his battered suit-case, pany vanished in a few hours. A behalf of Cheung Chin-shiu, a 23- year-old Chinese student, in a

turned away.

mug's game!

As he trudged up the stairs his It was fortunate, he told himself; claim for $1,000 against the thoughts centred on that key, swing-that the winter had gone; fortunate, Italian Store. La Donna, of No. ing on its ring like a circus-clown on too, that at Gopherville he had the 31, Des Voeux Road Central, Mr. a trapeze.

reputation for being a worker. It H. L. Dennys said that the plain- Life was like that. You worked was quite easy to get there; the tiffs had been deliberately per like a nigger and lived like a dog C.P.R. carried many passengera suaded into making a deposit in until you could afford to snatch a unknowingly. Once there, he knew a fading business, and was made brief lick at life's buttery side. he had but to stroll, down Main- to sign an agreement as Chin But the key was handed to you on street and some grain farmer would ese manager in order to prevent an enormous ring. And when the say: "Lo, Anthony. Back agin, him getting his money back. money was exhausted you meekly (huh?................ You fixed up yet?" It Mr. Peter Sin appeared for Mr. handed back the key, and went away might even happen that. Shella's Henrico San Martino, the 'manager and repeated the gruelling process father would be the one to put that of the Italian Store La Donna.. until you had saved sufficient to hire question,

The original claim was for $1,850, another key on a ring.

But you And yet. That letter from being made up in the sum of $1,800 always had to pay in advance; you Helen......very disturbing... Ho stated to have been paid as a deposit never got more than you paid for: had received the letter the day be in the defendant's firm, and $50 as and never, never, were you able to fore being paid off at the Camp Balary for the month of May. The alip the key in your pocket and He took it from his pocket and re-aum of $350 is now waived in order sneak, unseen, through the doorway, freshed his memory.

to bring an action under the Sum- The ring of necessity prevented

"Isn't it strange that mary Jurisdiction Court, that. Life was just one long. key- father should have told me that

Mr. Dennys said that the plaintiff on-a-ring business. Oh, what the he needed a reliable man?

was a young schoolboy with no Anthony were only in England, business experience. He paid over he said, he would do splendidly!' $1,300 to become the Chinese mana-

Entering his, ninety-cent twelve- by-ten home for a night, he switch- ed on the light, then hung his mackinaw on the back of the door, covering a card, headed; Rules for Visitors.

And there were even rules to the

game, he told himself bitterly. Was it worth while sitting-in?

· WIFE STABBED Of the 13 counties in Hainan Island, 11 are connected by dirt While they were searching the rouds, Mr. Woo said, and there is house, the men found Li's two wives; also a highway encircling the Is-his daughter and a foki. They ask land. Brigadier-General Chened the first wife for the keys, and, Hon-kwong, in command of a mo-when she refused to hand them over, del brigade, is maintaining peace they stabbed her in the back. Sho and order throughout the Island. then told them where the keys werc. According to Mr. Woo, lack of After remaining in the house for irrigation has laid waste many over an hour the men decamped in

That prior to his death he was the Central Magistracy this strom that was Winnipeg. lands causing Hainan to depend on an unknown direction... The second, rice frem Saigon and Bangkok wife then broke loose, unbound the known to have told some of his morning, with entering the Col-

Some rice farmers can sell their others, enabling the alarm to products, but they have to eat In-given.

Having deserted the French army stationed at Saigon, Guy de Vardnzan, 23 years, was charged He flung up the window and before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at peered down into the seething mael.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

Tomorrow's story will be "Knucklebone Cay," by The of "A Modern Author

Sinbad."

you should be a little short of ready cask I am sure keer of the defendant's business, but never managed anything. "And the would cable the fare. Just store went very quickly”, added Mr. letter would do......

Denny's, (Continued on Page 10)

REMONETISATION

OF SILVER.

Deliberately Persuaded, The plaintiff, continued Mr. Dennys, had been deliberately per- suaded into making a deposit in a fading business, and, to prevent him

Senator Wheeler On getting his money back. he Monetary Situation.

WES

made to sign an agreement as a Chinese manager of a Company that was not on the Register of Com- SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

panies.

A Company, added Mr. Spokane, To-day.Dennys, that Was using the word

: Senator Wheeler, in a speech at "limited",- while “not entitled to do Spokane, asserted that ultimately so. This matter had since been the mints must be opened for the brought to the notice of the Regis- free and unlimited coinage of silver tar of Companies, he said.

ony without a passportas de be sub-officers that he was going to

Detective Sergeant Mottram be dismissed from the ship, was stated that accused came to the dian corn, carrots, and sweet The men are described as alf revealed in evidence given by Colony last Saturday by the 8.8. potatoes. Such conditions are de- having an American style haircut.

Mr. J. A. Johnson, Chief Officer Prosper, after deserting the plorable. Mr. Woo said.

The first is about. 35, short and

Fifth Infantry stationed at Sai- Finance in Hainan is in bad stout, wearing a white jacket and of the 8.8. Yuen On, at the in-

gon. Accused was born in Pol-

if "we are going to have a metallic. The defendant, in evidence, said shape," Mr. Woo went on. "Re-black trousers, with no shoes orjquiry commenced this afternoon tier, Central Francel

Winnipeg. The hub of the West, base for our money at all." He that he left school when he was 18, venues amount to about $1,500,- socks.

at the Central Magistracy, into Accused pleaded guilty and ask-A city of smooth-tongued land sales- further stated that the United having studied at the Chung Ying 000 a year. In consequence, there

Second, about 28. Black jacket, the circumstances surrounding ed to be deported to Shanghai. men and weary grain farmers; of States would recapture the world School, Wanchal. He worked in the are many miscellenous and minor white trousers.

Mr. Hamilton refused the re-wide-eyed immigrants and plausible markets surrendered by Japanese Store from June 1 to June 28 when taxes. There is also a tax on #

The other three are less clearly the death of Captain Jorgen quest and an expulsion order to scroungers of Chinese cafes and and Chinese exporters.

he decided to leave. He asked for marriage license, and some of the described.

Bruhn, Master of the s.s. Yuet send accused back to Salzon was bohunk clothing-store proprietors, "In my opinion we are faced by the return of his deposit money, but minor taxes are collected directly Four of them spoke Punti dialect. On, who was found dead with a made.

with their olly smiles, restless hands, the situation where we are going to was given a new receipt instead, (Continued at Foot of Col. } land one spoke Hakka.

gun wound in his head on the]

and everlasting "Yessir boys?" have to remonetise silver," he said. handing in the original one.. morning of July 20, while the

the great gold Grain. A city found- tion of silver means little. "There said that he understood the receipt Winnipeg. A llving monument to The Senator added that nationalisa- Further questioned, defendant

Cocomalt is not a powdered choco-

late, not malted milk, not cocoa, but

a scientific food-concentrate of high nutritive value

Cocomalt

DELICIOUS HOT OR COLD

Cocomalt

"Mamma Too!"

HE KNOWS SHE LIKES IT

CHILD will take what its mother puts in its

A hand with perfect confidence because it has

never been given food that wasn't good.

Rich; smooth and delightfől, this chocolate flavour!" food drink tempts youngsters se milk alone never could. And it's a treat to grown-ups, too!

Obtainable from.

THE ASIA COY

68 Des Voeu

ship was anchored at the Tai- koo Dockyard.

Mr. E. W. Hamilton sat as Coro ner, supported by Mesare. A. D. Coppin (foroman), Chan Ping and Wiu-tong..

BIRCH FOR BAG SNATCHER

Kwong Wah Nurse Victimised.

Mr. Johnson stated that the Cap- CANTON BANKERS PETITION tain was very popular with the crew, and that prior to his death his man- ner was cheerful Apart from

sired.

CLARIFIED

(Continued. from Page 1)

ed on grain; a city that lived for will be some inflation because pre- that he received for his deposit grain. Grain, pumped into its sent silver holders must convert into money, but not the second receipt. vitals, kept it wriggling, lika oxygen cash and inflation will amount to He was also unaware that the agres- into a dying man. A Winnipeg this extent," he asserted-United ment which he signed was, not in without grain was inconceivable, Press, per 8. E. Levy and Company connection with a new partnership,

Winnipeg. The Mecca of the

but accepting full responsibility for U.S. SILVER STATEMENT. Kwan Hung, a 80-year-old. uvem-"hired hand." A place one turned

debts of the La Donna Store He Dr. L. D. Pringle, Medical Officer

thought that he was to be a partner in charge of the Mortuary, testified ployed, was sentenced to four to, instinctively, when jobs petered

In an Import and export firm on the that he performed a post mortem months hard labour, and twelve out, as the Londoner turns in the examination on deceased the next strokes, by Mr. E, I, Wynne Jones direction of home at the end of the

After, the Treasury will issue third floor of On Lok Yuen Building. day, and found that apart from a at the Kowloon Magistraty this day's work; a place to relax; a place

only sufficient paper to cover the If this agreement had gone through cost of the metal, thus moderate- he would have had to put up more alight degeneration of the heart his morning, for snatching a handbag where one could command. (given health was normal. He added that containing $4.70 from Miss Fung the money) instead of being.com

ing sufficient reserves to permit

Protest Lodged. death was due to a gunshot wound Shui-hoo, a nurse of the Kwong Wah manded; a place where one couldly expanding currency while add-money, through the head and laceration of Hospital, at 10.18 p.m. in. Nathan wear a collar and tie, and tease in-double expansion when and if de

credibly pretty waitresses. -

Mr. Sin protested against the line the brain. In his opinion the Road last night. Only $2.20 was

Yet it reminded" Anthony Dunn wound was self-inflicted.

recovered,

Mr. Morgenthau, apparently is of crosFoxamination employed by too strongly of England. For peo attempting to placate silver ad- Mr. Dennys which he considered ple were continually arriving from vocates and simultaneously to was a direct allegation of fraud on or departing for that country. And keep the bond market stable. the part of the defendant. Anthony Dunn did not particularly United Press, per 8. E. Levy and (Continued From“ Page 1)

wish to be reminded of England. The Provincial Department of To Anthony Dunn England spelt

Company. what he was told regarding his Finance Introduced this measure at Helen Helen and a safe berth; her Additional Certificates pending dismissal there was no rea- the time, of the banknots eriais, father wedging him into his factory, son for suleide..

when the paper money was worth like a gardener making room in his The case is proceeding.

To Be Issued... only 90 cents to the dollar. The overcrowded greenhouse for panic is now over, and the Chinese neighbour's pot of geranium cut-

In answer to His Lordship, the banks se

see no reason to continue this tinge. A poky suburban flat. A

Washington, To-day plaintiff said that he gave back the restriction.

seat on the 8.88 bus; and a morn Mr. Morgenthau states that as deposit receipt and received a new Because of this ruling, the banks ing paper opened at the Stock Ex-soon as the U.S.$80,000,000 Issue of receipt because he was to enter into here have not received deposits for change page, along with all the certificates is completed, the Govern a new firm as a partner. a long time, Depositors take out other four-pounds-a-week million- ment will issue additional certificates His Lordship. "You gave back a their 10 per cent every month and aires. Calling the boss "Bir."""" It as rapidly as the silver is purchased. perfectly good realyt for one that In consultation with the appro turn it over to the Shameen, banks, would be like, carrying a three- At present, the Treasury will you did not understand ******* priate authorities, plan the prin- No further money is placed with the bushel sack of wheat along a nine issue only sufficient certificates of Plaintif Yes, I hope you believe cipal air routes and aerodromes Chinese banks, because in case of inch plank.

US$1.29 to cover the cost of the My friend explained to me that On the other hand, there was this remainder of the metal held in the the receipt was in connection with place where a man, who could turn form of bullion and carried on the a new partnership", his hand to anything on the prairie books at cost price--United Press, The hearing was adjourned until and be still on his legs after sixteen per 8. E. Levy and Company, 20

Pre Wednesday. plan will encourage local author-by the headmasters of schools for hours, was accorded the same respect tien to o provide serodromes, and educationa

G-TRAGEDE

COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT IN BRITAIN

(Continued from Page 1)

in the country, having regard to peed only 10 per cent, can be with the present and the future needs, drawn at one time,

The Chamber hopes that the

authorities for this

hist the dutlei

consider

Wireless Bervic

Col

SPECIAL TO CHINA MATL.......

BI PIMCORTATION OF SILVER

WTCOINS INTO CHIN)

who had been,

(Continued from Pase 1).

топет

unn-rolled

His Lordship replied that he had, not allowed himself to be influenced In this direction and was satisfied

that the plaintiff was not an infant although comparatively inexpert- lenced.

rnoon,

of the Hong

Into De