1934-10-20 — Page 9

WORLD NEEDS TO LOOK BACK

Return To Good Old · Way Urged

ABOLITION OF ECONOMIC ISOLATION AND NATIONALISM

General 'Smuts On Leading Problems

was

London, To-day. The freedom of Dundee conferred upon General Smuts..

In the curse of his address in reply held that the best hope for the world as that in years to come, we should return to the good old way to enrich ourselves, not at ex- pense of others, but by enriching others also. Barbed wire entangle ment should, be taken down and "No-Mans Land", which was being built up round, every country, should be done away, with.

in so called economie isolation and economic nationalism he saw only the doom of trade, the doom of goud relationships in the world, and the door, of much that dear to all-British Wireless Ser- vice.

was

ENGLAND'S TASTE FOR SWEETS

£50,000,000 Worth Every Year

Edwin V. Morgan (above),. ex-Ambassador to Brazil, Capt. Alfred G. Howe (left), U. 8. N., and Rear Admiral Clark Wood.. ward. V. 8, N., were among the American officials named in the Scnnte Probe as having helped America's largest submarine- get ordera from

builder abroad.

LOCAL ORDINANCE AMENDMENT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1934

DEATH SENTENCE BUT Today's Short Story

NO BODY

Keen Discussion On Murder Case

JUDGEMENT BASED ON

"CONESSION"

Men Like

Demi-Gods

PHE

By Louis Golding

DHEW! It's hot! Demme, can lay your shirt on, it I wasn't

it's hot! What a day I've going back home. Keen discussion has been caused'

But I don't care if it's as It wasn't a good fight, for Bendy by a case heard at the Old Bailey had! last month in which a father was hot as Arabia or if it rains cats was much too spry for the young found guilty of the murder of his and dogs, I'm not going to miss giant. The way young Caunt bore son although the boy's body has to-day's great fight between Ben down on Bendy you'd have thought not been found and the only evi-Caunt and Bendigo, though the he was going to eat him then and dence that he is dead was provided deuce knows hey've put me to a there. But he had about as much chance of sailing him as you have In the father's own statements. bother to get here.

They're playing off the rubber of picking up a trout from a moun- The father is Thomas Joseph Davidson, a 34-year-old poultry to-day they've had two bouts al-tain stream in your fist. I didn't breeder, who pleaded not guilty, ready, and I've been present at like the way Caunt held himself, and he was sentenced to death by both. It's ten long years ago, in either. Like a sack of flour. And Mr. Justice Atkinson for the mur-July, 1836. since they fought the he's never learned since then to hold first be on the meadow behind himself any better. As for, old! der of his 8-year-old son, John

Appleby House. Do you know it? Bendy-there's a bronze statue over Desmond Davidson.

That old coaching-house well-nigh in Rome that looks just like him. mid-way between Birmingham and Bendy's a boxer and Caunt's A Nottingham. To tell the truth they slogger; It's the old, old difference did have a little set-to with the between art and brute force. gloves a year before that. But I'm ver- all that he was good for, or Ben pretty sure old Bendy didn't. show

Caunt wouldn't have been so ready

It was alleged that "ke"drowned hia son and placed the body in burning refuse dump at Stockley, Yiewsley, Middlesex.

It is highly probable that there will be an appeal against the dict. The jury recommended Da- vidson to mercy.

After sentence had been passed to take him on with the bare knuc-

kles. there was considerable discussion Yes, yes, It's bare knuckles now among legal authorities.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will 'be' "The Essay," by Donald Gilchrist.

Although such a case is unique and a fight to the death! I'm no believer in this modern trumpery of at the Old Bailey, there are re

It was Bendy, of course, who cords at other places of several padded gloves. Are you?

And yet Ben Caunt was such a tapped the ruby first. Caunt went cases at various times of persons Goliath to Bendy's David that in with a hefty half-round to the being chared with murder while

the body has never been found. doubtless he was pretty sure of head. Bendy ducked... Artd before

himself. Ben Count stood & feet you could say Jack Robinson there Judges have, however, been loath 22 inches in his stockings and was Bendy's left hard as a sledge- to uphold verdicts of guilty in such Bendy wasn't quite 5 feet 10 inches. hammer on poor Caunt's smeller. cases, expecially where the prose There was a matter of three stone But the way Caunt took the blow Child Of Tender Agecution has been based on a "con-between them in their weights, and (and I can tell you it was' enough

fession" by the accused person. May Now Testify

five years in their ages. And with to floor an ox) made me feel that Legal authorities pointed out fighting lads of the do-or-die kind, if that young man wasn't destined that in the case of Davidson, no An Ordinance known as the Eone saw him with the child at the every pound counts, and every to wear the belt some' day, or at] dence Amendment Ordinance, where-time the murder was supposed to by the evidence of a child of ten have been committed, and that he Napoleon spoke of us as a nation der age may be received in Court, declared on oath that his "confes of shopkeepers. Napoleon, how-through not given on oath, ever, was biassed about England and passed by the Legislative Council probably meant the remark unkind- on October 18.

"IMPULSE OF MOMENT"

TRADE

Londen.

ly. But the fact is that we might

was sion" was untrue.

The Evidence Ordinance of 1889

as well be termed a nation of sweet is now amended by the insertion-of- shopkeepers

the following new action:

"Where; in any proceeding against any person for an offence,

There are 250,000 sweet shops in Great Britain to-day, and candy must surely rank with roast beef inny child of tender years who is building the modern Briton,

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT WESTMINSTER

Tribute To French Statesman

London, To-day.

month. So they got going.

least put up a demmed good fight

myself, at that time. I'd just gone

I haq't heard of the young men for it, I was a Dutchman.

And I wasn't. For. he not only down to Appleby House to witness put up a fight for that belt. He a cocking-match. But when I heard won it, and that was only three that two game lada were going to years later, too.

But he had a lot to learn in the meanwhile. The way Bendigo play- ed ring of roses round him that day: In the meadow behind Appleby

step into the ring next day, you

AIR AMBULANCE IN House was enough to make a cow

WAR

Tested During Tactics

At Colchester***

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT

sneeze All Caunt wanted do was to get hold of Bendy and squeeze him in his arms as if he was a long

tendered as a witness does not in the opinion of the court understand Unless it is only the women who the nature of an oath, the evidence

lost wife, and then throw him. eat sweets? Is it they who buy of that child may be received, The memorial service for the

But Bendy was too quick for any such bugging games. The moment £50,000,000 worth of confectionery though not given upon oath, if, in great French statesman, M. Ray-

Caunt had bis fingers or him, down a year? Is it they who make-pos the opinion of the court, the childmond Poincare, will be held at West-

to the ground he slithered, like an sible the direct employment of is possessed of sufficient intelligence minster Catherdral this morning. 74,000 people, of whom 24,650 are to justify the reception of the evl His Majesty the King will be re-

eel. You should have seen the dis- Aeroplane, ambulance work in the gust on Caunt's face when he went men? aaks & friendly correspondence, and understands the duty of presented by the Earl of Granard, dent of the Daily Telegraph." speaking the truth; and the provi- Master of Horse. The Lord Chan-field was demonstrated during the puffing and grunting back to his Assuming that sweet, eating ssions of section 29 of this Ordinance celler will represent the Govern- military manoeuvres last month in second's knee, with the claret drip- The scheme ping steadily from his nostrils on mainly a feminine perquisite, then shall extend to the evidence of the ment, and the Speaker of the House the Colchester area.

it is permissible to call the seventh child, though not given on of Commons will attend. The was put forward by Col E. to his huge chin.

vision, not only of Olympia but gistrates Ordinance, 1932: ambrusia, too. Something that Mr.

oath,

+

It was almost as comical as the annual Chocolate and Confectionery but otherwise taken and reduced Prime Minister will be represented Cowell, D.S.O., and arranged in Exhibition, now on. view at the into writing in accordance with the by his Private Secretary, and other conjunction with the War Office, the grin on Bendy's face, each time he Empire Hall, Olympia, a women's provisions of section 76 of the Ma- Ministers represented will be Mr. British Red Cross Society and the went down bo turf. He's a rare

Stanley Baldwin; the Secretaries of R.A.S.C.

comic blade, is our old Bendy. And State for Foreign Affairs, War, and Fit-Lt. H. M. Schofield, Assis- tarnation good fighter, too. (Yes, Air, and the First Lord of Admir-tant County Director for Surrey to you're right, I'm sporting Rendy's alty British Wireless Service.

the British Red Cross. Society, colours to-day, and I don't care who organized the establishment of an knows it). So it went on for ten Air Collecting Station (Advance rounds, fifteen rounds, twenty Dressing Station) and equipment of rounds. At last, at the end of the the aircraft. This was standard twenty-second, the poor young S.T. 10 Monospar monoplane with giant could stand it no longer. spécial stretcher platform and a Showing his teeth he went roaring detachable forward walkway and de across the ring to Bandy's corner. tachable door.

"Wilt thou stand up and foight The Air Ambulance Detachment fair, thou damned hound?” bawled.

H. J. Norton; chairman of the ex- hibition committee, said may have a significant bearing on this point.

"Our products," said Mr. Norton, "are usually sold on the impulse of the moment. Confectionery is not sold as the result of a special ex- pedition, such as made for tobacco or to the public house."

"Impulse of the moment"

The exhibition is of the stuff that

DASTARDLY CRIME

(Continued from Page 1.)

NAVAL TALKS OPEN ON · TUESDAY.

(Continued from Page. 1.)

During the talks in the summer

•

..

Could there be a more diplomatic “The assassination is not only very full exchanges of views took included the pilot, Flt. Lt. W. G. Caunt. I was there. I saw what description of wilful femininity wicked. It is the most stupid of place between the British and Pudrey, a licensed-ground-engineer, happened then quite clearly. Bendy spotaneously darting off for a

political crimes. How seldom in United States representatives, and and a mechanic. The crew of the closed that right eye of his in a way quarter of a pound of toffee?

history, from the assassination of it is felt that the opportunity aeroplane carried out all the loading Caunt didn't know how to fle Stuff Of Dreams-

Julius Caeser to the assassination should be taken of hearing the and unloading.

winked. Yes, I suppose it was very statement of the Japanese attitude. In less than two minutes one lying provoking of Bendy. Perhaps be dreams are made of. Grape-fruit Dr. Englbert Dollfuss, has a politi- towards the questions under and two sitting casualties were load even intended to provoke Caunt in- lollies (happy combination of the cal assassination accomplished its view before resuming the Anglo-ed into the machine. The first to doing exactly what he then did;} old and new), fudge in aluminium intended result.

American talks.

return trip from Newton, to Friday for he knew time hadn't been call- Both Britain and the United Field (R.A.F. emergency landing ed yet and be knew he was, as safe States would be content to see the ground), south of Colchester, total as th cliffs of Dover Washington Treaty continued and distance 24 miles, octupled 21 Bendy winked, I say! With a "It was inevitable when this to have the London Agreement, minutes from the time of taking off roar loud enough to loosen the Who could resist a chocolate baby shocking news first reached the ear which expires in 1986, replaced by to the return landing, including the stakes out of the ground, Caunt in a cradle, chocolate twins in a cut, of the public that men should re- new one-British Wireless Ser-disembarkation of the casualties lifted his arm and with the back coater barrows loaded with fruits, mind themselves of the murder at vice. punts filled with chocolate? Or a Sarajevo 20 years ago, and should new kind of bar, compound of choco-ask themselves whether this was late, cream, eggs, butter and water

some portend of a new and grave. biscuits, and intended for consumptrouble in Europe. •I cannot-too

finish cartons, "non-blooming choco late," "Turkish" delight as sturdily

British as acid drops, "orange milk

chocolate toffee," a marzipan boat.

A REMINDER GIVEN

tion #tween whiles"(between strongly insist that the two cases breakfast and lunch)?

do not provide a parallel, but a con-

trast. Then this event instantly

The window displays. are -8 Juscious galaxy of colour that, despite their modernity, yet retain provoked a fierce quarrel between a something of the traditionalism of great state and small one in which

KING AND QUEEN VISIT AERODROME

CASH REGISTER COMPANY "SHOW RECOVERY

Two subsequent trips, each with of it sent both Bendy and his three casualties, took twenty second wallowing on the ground. minubes each.

"Foul!" came the cry. Foul!?? The forces co-operating were And foul. It was it ever one was units of the Guards I Brigade.

known in the ring before, Sundry iteras, such as rifles, wore First game in the rubber to used as splints, and, in addition to willain Thompson of Nottingham, (Continued From Page, 1) the casualties personal equipment christened Abednego, known to all

was carried.

the world as Bendigo. Ben Caunt Another visitor to Mildenhall

was certain that it wasn't flsts that yesterday, was Lord Londonderry,

had beaten him, so much na gulle. the generic sweetshop. And while other states.rapidly revenged them- Secretary of State for Air, who

And Ben Caunt was right. Fist the women visitors stand entranced selves on neither side. Nothing of also flew to the aerodrome and

talked with the competitors...

against fist, there wasn't a pair of before these edible rainbows their that sort can happen now.

"The influence, and counsel ́ ́of The latest weather, reports ·in-| men companions can-If they wish every statesman in Europe will, Idicate favourable conditions for tional Cash Register Company, up against Ben's

New York, To-day-The Na-mawleys in the kingdom fit to net ---maintain male prestige in con- templation of the large and strange trust, be used to discount any such the start of the race. Some clouds for the nine months ended Sep And I suppose the second mill * machines from which the modern remote possibility. Then there are forecast, but competitors are tember 30. showed a net profit between them showed how right he were armed and hostile nations likely to have the assistance of fol- of U.S.$1,229,751, os against a was At least that's what a num Five hundred thousand tons of straining at the leash and ready to lowing winds on the first stage, loss of $841,301 for the corres her of my friends in the sugar a year! As the excellent leap at one another's throats. Now both on the great circle course and ponding period of last year. maintain. For my part I've said luncheon given by the Manufactur- we have had the bitter experience on the southern route along the United Press, per 8: E. Levy and before, and I say again, fet

Company

Ma Less than half the battle. The head ing Confectioners Alliance proceed-of four years of war, and when we Mediterranean.

counts more. And that's where the

baby from Hucknall Tor

You'll see if I'm

sweet emerges.

..

the

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hours ended. October 18.3 cluded-British Wireless Service. Sørvice.

A chocolate, plesse," Ikaid.

With regret the waitress Inform-

·ed me that there, were done.

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