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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934,

SHANGHAI-CANTON AIR SERVICE RESUMPTION STILL UNCERTAIN

ru-day's Short Story.

CONTRARY MARY

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By H. A. Manhood

NAVAL OFFICER'S

WIFE CAUTIONED ON

TRAFFIC SUMMONS

"Motorists Should Know The Streets"

MOTOR CYCLIST CAUTIONED

"I found a kitten in a snare, USK was settling like grape-

bloom on a ripered earth too." he said. "But I knew you wouldn't want that. A merry

Summoned for driving her car, when I heard a familiar plunging little thing, wild as whisky. and cursing and knew that Con- gave it to old Teago Flip of Mai-No. 1957, on a road closed to traf- Fond of animals he fie on September 1, Mrs. Skyrme, stable Winterway was breaking [denbrook. through my hedge on his way to is. He looked like a kitten in a wife of Lieutenant-Commander F.

wire himself once I told him to H. E. Skyrme R. N, was visit me. In five years he had call it Mary, but he only grinned morning cautioned by Mr. E. W. only once used the gate and that That was his wife's name. She lumilton at the Central Magiu- was when he carried a summons was drowned. A rum story."

tracy.

this

Alexander Traffic, Inspector "New to me."

down in connection with revolver prac-1

"Well, well! But then you'msaid that defendant came a newcomer with only five years from Hospital Road and turned tice on a Sabbath. Official entry

Happened into Eastern Street. on official business, but better the history back of ye.

Mrs. Skyrme pleaded not guilty, was no traffic hedge for a friendly call. A nice ten years ago, this did. It look- thought, if one examines it. ed like murder, first off simple saying that there

can't-help-it murder. I thought sign at the top of the street until so meself when they told me she came down to the bottom.

Mr. Hamilton commented that Energe-muturists should read traffle Come to the hut, he poked his they'd found the body in a back-

IA- mo- head inside, winking humorously water of Maidenbrook.

characteristic of the man.

in greeting, stamping lustily on tic and sturdy as a, lighthouse gulations and that it is the the mal in claborate pretence of ***

boot-cleaning, barely escaping a

pot of jam dislodged from the The jum shelf over his head. replaced, be produced with air of casualness an excellent pair of cock pheasants from under his cupe. holding them under the table among the apples, logs and potatoes.

"Run 'em down on me bike," he explained solemnly: "Thought you'd like 'em."

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will he "The Pilgrimage of Harilal," by Roland Wild.

urist's business to know the Extreets-

Not Full Control

Mr. G. W. K. Crawford, driver Juf motor-cycle No. 65, was also cautioned for failing to have full control of his machine, by letting both his hands off the handlebars, September 4, in Yee Wo

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she'd been, with a rare old prick-jon ly tongue, an ex-midwife with no Street. troubles of her own, born to rule Mr. F. R. Rack, driver of pri- us surely as a bell is made to ring. vite car No. 2687, was cautioned was her maiden on a summons for leaving his car Mary Must name and, it was true enough. unattended

for

hour

car

half an "Good work! Cider or perry?" No pleasure in her, anyway, that outside the Asiatic Building, He preferred two-year cider to I could see, and when I heard the Leung Chi-gun, driver of three-year perry, emptying the news I just naturally thought No. 3169, ond Chan Chun, driver of car 1298, were both fined $15 that Teago had lost patience.

for

driving dangerous mug in one grateful gulp.

"Mild little chap he was then, each A contented sighing and shrug- ging and then the plump walnut much the same as now, damp and around the bend below Wongnel- nose twitched inquiringly: "Nice weak-whiskered in the face and chong Gap. smelling tobacco." I pushed the nervous as a trout.

It seems only the other days that Jackie Coogan was toddling around in Chaplin pictures, but here he is grown up and preparing to wed Toby Wing, cinema actress, necording to Hollywood reports. The two are here shown,

LOCAL OFFICER'S PROMOTION

Lt.-Col. Willcox Bound For Catterick

TO COMMAND 1ST. BN. EAST LANCS.

SHE WAS A GREAT OPIUM SMOKER'

Prisoner Who Could Not

Do Without It

BROADCAST REPORTS

ARE REFUTED TWO AMERICAN PLANES ON ORDER DELAYED EXTENSION CONTEMPLATED

From Our Own Correspondent!

Canton, To-day.

"We hava no news as to when the Shanghai-Canton air service will be resumed," an official of the China Travel Service, agents of the China National Aviation Corporation, stated this morning.

"There are repeated vernacular press reports stating that this service will be resumed soon,” he continued. "Even the local broad- casting station has made three announcements to this effect, but this is not true. A Nanking official news agency at Hong Kong stated that our service will be resumed in October 1. We wish this were true,"

SIR ERNEST WILD PASSES

Presiding Judge At Old Bailey

RECORDER OF LONDON

London, To-day.

It is learned that the China National Aviation Corporation has placed an order for two- Douglas Dolphin amphibian planes from the Douglas Air- craft Factory, but the labour disputes and strikes in the Unit- ed States have delayed the de- livery of these two machines. Vernacular press reports stating these two planes have arrived at Shanghai are incorrect.

As the exact date for the re- newal of this service, is uncer- Sir Ernest Wild, Kt., Recorder of tain, the South-West Aviation London, High Steward of South-Corporation is planning to extend wark, and presiding Judge at the its service from Canton to Foo- Old Bailey since 1922, died yester-chow via Swatow and Amoy. day at the age of 65.-British. Wire-This company is maintaining air less Service.

services between Canton and Educated at Norwich School, Str Nanning, and between Canton Ernest enjoyed a brilliant career aand Pakhoi via Mowming and Jésus College, Cambridge. Winning

Hoihow. "She was a great opium smoker," the Winchester Reading Prize, he said Hung Cht, who was charged graduated a B.A. with Honours in Hig tory, and LLR. with Honours in Law. with passing opium to a prisoner Entering the legal profession he was STAR FERRY SEAMAN The command of the 1st Battalion in police custody and sentenced to called to the Bar of the Middle Templo

ASSAULTED of the East Lancashire Regiment, six weeks' hard labour by Mr. E. 1. in 1893, and received his LL.M. in

1897. In imposing the fine Mr. Hamil-stationed at Catterick Camp, has Wynne Jones at the Kowloon His first political aspirations were tin across and he stuffed a huge his mother hadn't been able to

manifested in 1904, when he contested pipe: "Nicely out of the way; agree with his father whether ton

Sub-Inspector McWalters stated Norwich, a seat he contested again in this hut of yours." he mused, and they'd have a boy or a girl, and dangerous bend in the Colony to been given to Bt. Licut, Col. H. B. Magistracy this morning.

D. Willcox, D.S.O., M.C., at present settled back with fine apprecia-Teago sort of suffered from the attempt passing other care.

Immense misunderstanding. Anyway, mud- A fine of $10 was imposed on second in command of the 2nd Bat-that a woman prisoner, who had 1906. He also contested West Ham in

For assaulting Chung Chi, a 27- prisonment for having opium in her he represented Holborn on the London

County Council. stationed in Hong Kong.

year-old seaman employed by the and stately in the half-light, dle or not, there was Teago, born Cheung Loi, driver of motor van talion East Lancashire Regiment, been sentenced to six weeks' im-1910 and 1911, while from 1907 to 1910

Parliamentary Ambition there was a nobleness in his re- bedazedly with a hedgehog of a No. 2982, for speeding from No.

Lieut. Col. Willcox has been in possession, was on her way to the moral reminiscence should flow He farmed a bit of land with all

2nd Lieutenant in the Worcesters. when the defendant handed her a Guildhall Court of Record from 1897 pier at 5.50 p.m. yesterday, Hong

tary ambition by representing the from him.

were fined $25 are stall fokis, Appointed Adjutant at the our paper parcel. A constable opened to 1922, and achieved his Parliamen-Chung and Yu Ying, both of whom

December. 1918 to 1922.

tion of the comforts.

They said Most Dangerons Bend

anid that that is the most

$25 For Rushing Gate After Bell Rung

pose, and it was fitting that mind and a stutter on his tongue. 7 Police Station to the Ko Shing the army since 1911, entering as a police van to be taken to Laichikok He was a Judge of the Norwich Star Ferry Company, on the ferry

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

his heart, as you might say, and made lavender water in his spare time, just for the sweet fun of the thing.

"'Twas me and Dunrobin had to be taking him along for in- quiry. Excitable man, this Dun-1

Theatre.

BOY'S

FREE RUS break of war. he was later pro-the parcel and found a Chinese cake Upton Division of West Ham from each, by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at RIDES

The K. M. S. Empress of Japan. robin, very! Well, him and me. Ticket Not Worth While

which is expected here at to-day from Shanghai, w

p.m. we find old Teago singing to him-

for Manila to-morrow at 4 a.m.

sail self in his cracked old way--it

sounded like someone bouncing a roll of barbed wire-and slinging

Thinks Mother

moted to Lieutenant, acting-Cap-inside, he broke the cake and found tain, and then Captain. He joined 5 candareens of prepared opium the East Lancs with the rank of concealed inside. Major in 1927, being promoted to

his present rank two years later.

During the war he saw service

on many fronts, including France,

Personal Pars

He was also Inspector of the Metro-the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-

Jing. politan Special Constabulary.

Sir Ernest, in his position as pre In giving evidence, Chung Chi siding judge, has conducted many stated that he was on duty at the

famous trials

Spenser's Faerle

the Star Ferry Company, stated that he heard a noise and went over to

A prominent Freemason, he was a third-class gate when the bell was Past Senior Grand Deacon of the rung, so he closed the gate. At Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Richards of Grand Lodge of England, 1928. He that moment the two defendants also served Hong Kong, accompanied by their was also an Honorary Freeman of the came along and tried to push it "It is only a schoolboy's prank, Belgium, Egypt, and

He was son, Master W. G. Richards, ar- City of Norwich, in 1952.

Sir Ernest's chief recreation was open, one of them lifting the bolt golf, while his interest in early Eng-of the gate, upon which the com- The R.M.S. Empress of Canada his wife's gear out of an upper he only lives a little way from the with the Home Forces,

President Harrison from lish poetry is well-known, particularly plainant went over and pushed arrived in Vancouver last Wednes-window as if he meant making a echool and jumps on the bus when wounded three times and mention- rived in the Colony on board the

Dunrobin' ordered he is in a hurry. His mother doesjed in despatches on four occasions. 8.8.

He took part in the expeditions Shanghai to-day. Mr. Richards is through his interesting little publica- them from it. As they were being day. She will sail for Hong Kong scarecrow. next Saturday, and is due to arrive him to stop and come down at not think it worth while buying a

once, but Teago didn't seem to ticket for the short distance," said to Mesopotamia and Iraq in 1921 attached to the Robert Dollar Co. tion "Lectures on here on October 12.

hear. He just went on tipping Sub-Inspector W. Mair when pro-and 1922. One' ease of diphtheria. three things out, and a box happened secuting Billy Benndicte, a 17-year- E. I. cases of typhoid fever, and one to catch Dunrobin on the ear. old student, before. Mr.

reported The fat was properly in the fire Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Mag- case of meningitis were

Before I could stop himistracy this morning for riding on in the Colony during the 24 hours then.

Dunrobin bounced upstairs and bus No. 129 without paying his ended September 12.

clumped old Teago silly, lugging fare. Pleading guilty to a charge of him down by the scruff of his. As the defendant did not appear, court his bail of $20 was having stolen a quantity of brass neck. Resisting arrest he called in from the workshops of the Kow-it, and it meant we had to carry estreated. loon Dockyard, Leung Tai-hon and old Tengo to the station because

to two his legs weren't working. Ma Nam were sentenced

For days after that there EUROPEAN IN ROAD months' and six weeks' hard labour. respectively, by Mr. E. I. Wynne was no getting any sense out of Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy Teago. this morning.

"Hurt and muddled he was and small blame to him. He slept a

ACCIDENT

Sentence of three months' hard lot but wouldn't eat. At the in- Hit Between Eyes By labour was this morning imposed quest he only nodded dreamy-like

on Ching Kim-hung, unemployed, as if 'twas all child's play. The

by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the same in court until he saw the

Iron Bar

He was

AMERICAN GOLF

(Continued from Page 1.)

Queen, Books I and II, and his book, pushed away they struck Chung, the Lamp of Destiny. He has been who admitted that he fought back. Lt. J. E. Root and Lt. C. K. responsible also for several articles and Mr. W. H. Large, inspector of Youngkin, of the U.S. Navy Medi- poems. cal Corps, arrived in Hong Kong to-day on board the s.8. President Mrs. Alice M. Brown, a resident the third-class entrance where he Harrison, to join the Asiatic Fleet. of Canton, returned to the Colony caught hold of the second defendant from a pleasure trip to Manila on and took him up to the Water Mr. Stuart B. Dunlap, General the a.s. President Jackson to-day, Police station. T. Torrance, British Walker Cup. captain, was eliminated in the Fifth Manager of the Metro-Goldwyn- Round by Edmund Riggs of New Mayer of China, Shanghai, arrived York, after being all square on the in the Colony on board the 8.3. President Harrison to-day, accom- ninth.

In his progress to the Semi-Final panied by Mr. J. C. Goltz, director yesterday Lawson Little defeated of the same Company In the Dutch Harry Gandy in the Fifth Round East Indies. and Willie Turnsea in the Quarter- final.

GOLF STARTING ' TIMES

+

Mr. Victor Hansen, field super- visor of the Overseas Motor Ser- vice Corp., New York, arrived in Hong Kong on business, on board the s.s. President Jackson to-day.

Mr. E. J. Hergenhan, district re- Fanling Pairings On presentative of the Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria, U.S.A., Sunday

arrived here on a business trip on board the s.s. President Jackson to-day.

OLD COURSE

9.28 a.m. R. A. Rodgers C. J. Stel-

fingwerff L. R. Billinghurst R. C.

Webb

9.32

9.86 9.40

9.44

Mr. C. G. Smith, Sales Manager of the Associated Advertisers Ltd., Hong Kong, returned to the Colony from a business trip to Manila on G. Marseille A. H. Harbord the President Jackson to-day. E W. G. Malcolm J. F. Ardron

Central Magistracy, for the theft calendar on the wall. Then he. Mr. F. J. Anslow was involved of a radiator cap from private car remembered something. I could in a motor-cycle accident while pro- parked in see him counting away on his coeding along Queen's Road at No. 3993 while it was

fingers. muttering to himself. jabout 7 p.m. yesterday. Elgin Street.

Something about a cow called passing the new Hong Kong and

The following are the Royal Hong The South China Athletic Asso-Cosy and five shillings paid away Shanghai Bank site when he was ciation in Canton is said to have for service of a bull. Calf due struck between the eyes by the end

ling on Sunday: obtained permission from the Can-sec. and he felt he'd wasted of an iron bar which was being Kong Golf Club starting times for Fan- ton Government to issue 50,000 time enough. Up he hops in a carried across the road by two cash sweep tickets of $5 each to be hurry and looks for his cap and coolies.

He was thrown from his machine the room went blue. The supe drawn on the Extra Meeting of the rintendent rumbles up with blood and received body Injuries, includ- ing a lacerated thigh. He was Hong Kong Jockey Club on Novem

over taken to the Government Civil Hos- ber 17. The first prize will be in his eye: 'Well?' he snape.

"Old Teago looked him about $100,000.

meekly: 'Got to go now, Oxlade.pital and detained, later undergo- (He'd known him as a boy.) ing an x-ray examination for his Leave 'ee to finish rest your head injury. GERMAN OFFERS SPURNED selves. Job of calving back

along."

"It looked as if there might be another death right away, but the super's buttons saved him. One or two.or us tried to make old Teago sit down again but he

Mr. Gilbert Harriman, the well-ber of the crew standing on the visitors at a recent luncheon of the They further asked for a re-bumbled so loudly that all the sumption of yarn supplies for the magistrates stood up and the known local amateur jockey and rail about to jump into the life Saltbarn (Yorkshire) Rotary Club. new business to be done at six chairman demanded an explana broker, is progressing favourably bout. Price pulled a gun and In the course of a speech, he said months' credit, lastead, of the ustion Hot-as-pepper-old Teago after his recent operation. It in told him: You are a dead man that London Impressed him with its not expected, however, that he will you jump" The man did not vastness and the admirable manner ual 80 days' credit. British Wire-clumped to the bench.

Jump Reuter.

in which the traffic was controlled. (Continued on Page 11.) ride again this Autumn. less Service,

(Continued from Pagò.11..

if the British Empire would In crease its takings of German hos lery and gloves.·.·

GILBERT HARRIMAN PROGRESSING

A. B. Raworth J. B. Mackie

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SKIPPER DENOUNCED

(Continued from Page 1.)

Mr. A. A. R. (Tony) Botelho, the local jockey and a member of the firm of Botelho Bros., returned from Ja business trip to the Philippines on board the President Jackson to- [day.

Mr. B. Wong Tape, who is on a He added that he saw a mem-visit to England, was amongst the

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