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HELENA MAY SEASON.

FOR CONCERTS

Opening On October 25 With Big Programme

"HONG KONG SINGERS" TAKING PART

A

The Helena May Institute Win- 'ter Concert Seasom is opening on

Thursday, October 25, with programme of unique interest. Practically the entire programmeļ will be sustained by "The Hong| Kong Singers," a newly-formed | body of vocalists under the con- ductorship of Mr. J. Anderson Millar, L.RA.M.

"The Hong Kong Singers" in- clude some of the best-known singers in the Colony. Mesdames Snowdon-Jones, Bowes-Smith, An- derson Millar, K. Valentine, D. .) Valentine, Lockhart, and Hooper comprise the ladies' voiers, while the males are represented by Messrs. Anniss, Griggs, Luard) Kerr, Dormer, Barrow, King, San- ders, Heywobi, and Peckham,

Prof. George Claude, the cele brated French chemist, is bound for Brazil to make a now attempt to útilise the energy of waves in generating power. Three previous plants, established on land, have broken down. A ship will be used for this experiment. Prol. Claude is seen at the switch of the machinery with which he hopes to put to work the giant waves such as those pictured.

HITCH-HIKING IN HANDCUFFS.

American Youth Has Bright Idea

The first half of the programine consists of a number of Madrigals} of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The English madrigals of that period constitute Britain's) finest School of national compusi- tion, but their popularity waned during the seventeenth century and remained in practical oblivion for a long time. The tradition of mad- rigal singing was. however, kept live by a few enthusiasts, and in the nineteenth century there was n

Paris, Tenn. Hitch-hiking may be revolu- considerable revival of interest.

tionised by the idea of Wilson' At present the Mudrigal enjoys a measure of popularity in England Jennings of this town, who such as it has not known for 300 years. The compusers represented in October 25 are Morley. Dewland,

ANGLO-POLISH TRADE

Negotiations Again Resumed

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934

Today's Short Story.

STOWAW AY

THE

By Claire D. Pollexfen

SCHOOL MISTRESS

DROWNED

}

Kowloon Tong Tragedy

On Holiday

One tragedy is reported to have occurred during China's National Day yesterday. While bathing in à pool at

Was

ACTIVITIES OF

INSULL GROUP

NOW REVEALED

Stocks Written-Up At Inflated Prices

MONSTER DISCREPANCIES

THE man Bradlow awoke in And, after all, it was only for the terror convinced that some-time being. Presently he would one was waving a crimson light| crawl out and declare himself. Kowloon Tong at 6 p.m. last night But not yet-not until it was too Lo Pui Yuen, a school mistress of

Chicago, To-day. to and fro before his eyes. He late for them to do anything else No. 42, Wyndham Street,

Evidence that within a few could not immediately under-but accept his presence stoically drowned. Her body was later taken weeks of the formation of the stand the uneasy motion of his and sign him on as an extra hand. to the Kowloon Public Mortuary. Corporation Securities Company, surroundings, the queer slap- He breakfasted off his remaining] thadding sound that repeated it- cigarette, thinking about the ad. self so monotonously, nor the venture which had brought him to thia plight. It had not turned out dankly offensive smell that foul-entirely as he had intended ed the atmosphere around him. yet he had got away with what he

And then, in a flash, he remem-wanted. bered. His fears left him. He

the

FRENCH OUTCRY one of the Insull companies, stock was purchased by the company (Continued from Page 1)

for U.S.$16,407,000 and written Firstly, the Premier, M. Gaston up to U.S.$45,500,000, was given Doumergue, may hand over the

Tentatively he touched then laughed as he sat up and look leathern belt he wore round

Foreign Ministry to M. Edouard at the trial of the former United hillerriot, who is at present a Minis-States "Utilities King," Mr. Sam- ed about with a sigh of satisfaction waist. It was a deep, strongly.ter without portfolio, or to another and relief. He knew where he was constructed belt -in the chain locker of a sailing able pockets arranged on the in-

with innumer-minister, and keep the Cabinet in-uel Insoll, and his associates, yes-

terday. ship-the sailing ship he had clamide. bered aboard in the grey twilight;

of the foggy dawn. That uneasy shifting of the deck meant they were moving-probably they were right out of London river by now.

That slupping sound was the sound of water waves hitting up against the old lady's limbers as she thrust her clumsy bows into them. That stench WES the malodorous Thames mud oozing sluggishly out from between the monstrous mass of chain links..

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Making of a New Yorker," by O. Henry,

tact.

Secondly, M. Henri Cheron, Mini- jster of Justice, and M. Albert Sar. Mr. Van Lamont, former con- raut, Minister of Interior, who troller of the Balsey Stuart Com- were recently bitterly attacked pany, the issuing house which lowing to the shortcoming of the

judiciary and the police may be acted for the company, gave evidence that 557,000 shares in dropped-Reuter.

the Middle-West Utilities Com- pany were purchased for U.S.$13,000,000 and written up Įto U.S.$30,000,000.

SHARP DECLINE IN US. CAR PRODUCTION

New York, To-day. He also testified that at the pro-time the Company was selling

Bradlow's long sensitive fingers The September automobile

was per

What he had dreamed were a lan-eased the clasp, opened one of the duction in the United Sintes. exits stock to investors at U.S.$75 thorn's rays were nothing but the pockets, and brought out some tiny cluding the Ford output,

share, purchases were London, To-day.

lanting beam

object-a magnificent diamond, 113,316 units, as against 186,231 in being made on of the rising sun Trade negotiations between Po-

behalf of the island and the United Kingdom were;

atriking intermittently through the gouged from its delicate setting in August und 137,890 in September company,

on the market, at hawse holes as the old ship rose frantic haste. Its facets caught carrying a large sign with him resumed yesterday at the Board of

last year-United Press, per S. E. prices ranging from U.S.380 to and dipped to the swell.

the brightness of the sun's rays levy and Company.

TS.$100 a share. Reuter. en route from Memphis to San Trade when Colonel Conville re- Diego, Cal., reading:

ceived the Polish delegation under

Bradlow grinned. He was vast-and sent back myriads of respon "Don't be afraid to offer me ajthe leadership of Monsieur Soko:

ly relieved to know they were under ve gleams, green and blue, orange ride. You may handcuff me." lowaki.

way, gutting steadily away from and scarlet with swiftly changing He has the handcuffs ready. gramme is devoted to that particu-and offers to let his benefactors (the various subjects covered by the Safety, yes. His

A general survey was made of the land-out to san, out to safety.streaks of fiery yellow..

quarters were Bradlow Angered it thoughtfully, negotiations, and rangements pretty evil, of course, but they estimated its worth to himself, were made for the resumption of were much to be preferred to the and returned it to its pocket, detained discussions, Kritish quarters from which he had escap-wrapped in a piece torn from his

Farmer, Bateson, and Gobbons. The second part of the

urly beautiful cycle of Songs bhold the key until he is let out. Brahms known as the "Liebeslie- der

Songs of Love). Every one

of the eighteen numbers is in waltzi time: all of them are short, only three exceeding two pages in length.

An interesting feature of this}

work is that the accompaniment is

ADMISSIBILITY OF

EVIDENCE

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Mr. Lim asserted that if the jury

Wireless Service.

NEW TERRITORIES EXCITEMENT

ed.

DUKE OF KENT'S FIRST PUBLIC FUNCTION

bandkerchief. And from the next section of his belt he took more jewels, deep-hued, precious. Col lectors would have handled such things reverently and with awe. but Bradlow contented himself- by examinnig them critically-ap- praising them-and he put them Its council, in which 47'affliated back. He had no love for jewels associations are represented, speakeļas jewels, or for flawless stones as Fraser argued that Mrs. An attempted armed robbery at for 60,000 firms and companies, and objects of beauty, but only for Fairbarn could not conclusively any an un-numbered hut in Wu Shek is the largest Chamber of Com-¡what they represented-the_luxu-

arranged as a piano duct, and at did decide that one of the children the concert the accompanists will thrown into the nullah was Michael be Mrs. Griggs and Col Kuhne, Pine, then

their declafon against the evidence.

D.$.0,

During the concert, Col. Kuhne, D.S.O. will play several piano solos.

EUROPE'S AFFECT ON WALL STREET

Might Lead To Flight

Capital To U.S.

RICHBERG'S SPEECH CAUSES APPREHENSION

Of

Mr.

WAS

Armed Robbers Flee At Sound Of Whistles

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world, he said.

Service.

that either one of the two children Village, Sheung Shui, New Terri-merce in any Capital city in theries they would bring. Michael Pine, and for all she knew, she saw thrown over was not tories, failed last night.

This, he reflected, was the big- Chan Hung Shing, a vegetable The Duke expressed the hope that gest coup he had ever pulled of. not knowing that there were other gardner and the owner of the the completion of its new head-It would rank him among the great- children in the nullah at the time, hut, told the police that he quarters would mark a further ad-est jewel thieves in history; he left one of them might have been thought one of the men had a revance along the path of useful a conscious thrill of pride as the Michael Pine.

volver, but all had fled when po-public service, British Wireless Idea passed through his mind. Mr. Lim replied that if Mr. lice whistles were blown. Fraser saw fit to speculate to that extent, he would go further and refer to the evidence of Mary Fine,, which although not given in the SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

trial, showed that the last two (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra children, as noticed by Mrs. Fair- phic Messages Ordinance, 1895, Re-barn, were two girls, herself and ceived October 11, 10.53 a.m.)

Fay Bromley. This rejected any boy, he said. supposition of one of them being a

New York, To-day. Wall Street expects temporary market unsettlement due to the Marseilles tragedy, although ob- servers point out that continued European unrest might lead to a flight of capital to the United States, thereby stimulating an advance.

Favourable market factor. yesterday were the increased electricity production and the re- duced crude oil production.

The case is proceeding,

Ever since he had left the re- formatory he had longed to shine! as a star of the underworld.

They would be hunting for him. naw. Yes, even now while he lay

...tarting the hue and cry after him, sending the human bloodhounds to

LOCAL news brevITIES there in the chain locker, they were

The typhoon of the China Seat The R.M.S. Empress of Japan track him down. has filled up.

leaves Vancouver a week on Satur- day and is due here on The s.s. Bungalore left Shanghai | November 9. on Tuesday and is due here to-} morrow at 6 a.m.

To be sure, this fleeing the cour Friday, try, cringing beneath the foredeck of a sailing ship was not part of his original scheme. He hau meant certainly to leave the coun- The R.M.S. Empress of Canada arrived in Shanghai yesterday, and ment had died down, and he had try, but not until the frat excite- Pleading that he had gone to le due here to-morrow at 3 p. meant to leave in very different Stonecutters Island to get a job as She will sail at midnight for

circumstances. Luxurious condi an earth coolie, Wu Fung-chap, a Manila. BRITISH SYMPATHY

tions with dreams of wealth and: 35-year-old coolle, was fined $10, in Among the many callers at the default 14 days' imprisonment, by

freedom in the immediate future- The RMS. Empress of Russia from the disposal of the stonea. Ritz Hotel yesterday morning to Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kow-left Vancouver on Saturday, and is

this was the outcome

BITTER FEELING IN YUGOSLAVIA

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2

This..

An unfavourable factor was that Mr. Donald R. Richberg express sympathy with Queen Marie loon Magistracy this morning for due here on Wednesday, October 24. of the accident. The unfortunate stated that it was impossible to of Roumania were H.R.H. the Duke trespassing on military land. She will all for Manila the next affair of the woman-lady's maid

day.

!

Convicted on a charge of stealing)

or whoever she was--who had come

contemplate a balanced Budget in

of Kent (Prince George) and H.R.H. America due to the necessity of Duke of Connaught. continued relief expenditures A personal message of sympathy a jade bangle from the hand of a

Bo inopportunely into the reem Liu Cheung, an earth coolie, was while he was at work. "to prevent revolution."-United has been sent to the widowed Queen child in Des Voeux West, Wong admitted to the Government Civil Press, per S. E. Levy and Co.

Marie by H.R.H, the

Bradlow was not heartloss. He Prince of Ping, a 22-year-old unemployed, was Hospital late on Tuesday night, squirmed now when he recalled the Wales, while the following telegram sentenced to six months" hard suffering from injuries to his head details of last night's affair. The STERLING DECLINE FORECAST siavian Minister for Foreign Af-of the birch, by Mr. E. W. Hamil inflicted by another Chinese male lonely country house to which he has been addressed to the Yugo-labour, in addition to four strokes and hands, alleged to have been dimly lit dressing-room in that

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We are informed that until the comsumption of rubber is improved | no attempt will be made to push the price above 74.

The belief is held in Great Bri-1 tain that America may lose her do minating position in the warld market for medium priced cotton, us importers are reluctant to pay increasing prices.

PETROLEUM PRODUCTION

DECREASES

Now York, To-day.

¡fairs:

"His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom has re- ceived with consternation the news of the assassination of His Majesty the King of Yugo-

Blavia, and desire to express their abhorrence of this crime, and their deep sympathy with the Government and people of Yugoslavia in their great na- tional loss."-British Wireless Service.

NEW YORK RAILROAD'S HEAVY LOSS

ton at the Central Magistracy this on Island Road.

had gained access so cunningly, so morning.

cleverly. The intense silence. An unknown Chinese male, resid-The comfortable knowledge that all Sentence of three months' harding at the Luk Kwok Hotel, was the servants were below stairs Jabour was imposed on Fung Yun removed to the Government Civil busy over their supper

and

and So Wal, two unemployed men, Hospital on Tuesday night in an then, just as he had nearly finished by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the unconscious condition, suffering the job and was within an ace of Central Magistracy this morning from poisoning, sald to have been getting away without anyone so for the theft of a purse, containing self administered. : HK$2.48 and $7 in Singapore money, the property of Chan Ngo,

much as suspecting his presence in

the house, the woman had appear-

Sentenced of 12 months' hard ed. a Penang-returned Chinese, on labour each was imposed on, Chan Tuesday.

Soft-footed as a cat, she had Kam-wah and Yeung Tal, two come silently through the silk cur banishees, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton tains of the doorway dividing the

A fine of $200 was imposed on at the Central Magistracy this bedroom from the dressing-room Lee Chol, a foreman of the Sze Hop morning, for returning to the For a pregnant moment she had Building Contractors, by Mr. E. W. Colony from banishment. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy

stared wide-eyed, immovable, at the sight of this man, the lower In an attempt to evade, arrest half of his face concealed by a

then being caught stealing dark handkerchief, who beat over

New York, To-day-The New this morning, for cutting and re The daily average petroleum proYork Central Railroad report a moving stones from crown land at after duction in the United States last net loss of U.S.3870,960 in August, Hundred Foot Road. near Ngau chickens, an unknown Chinese male her mistress'e jewel-box week was 2,380,000 barrels, as com as against a net income of U.S. Mok Street, without the permission jumped into a nullah on Tuesday as the truth flashed upon her, she pared with 2,402,000 barrels in the $1,105,342 in August last year of the Public Works Department. night, sustaining bodying injuries had opened her mouth to scream. previous week United Press, per United Press, per S. E. Levy and Mr. W. E. Hollands, Land Bailiff, for which he was taken to the Kow

Company.

prosecuted.

loon Hospital for treatment.

5. E. Levy and Company.

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