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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 29, 1934

COUSIN OF LORD WOMAN BEATEN

TO DEATH IN NEW

TERRITORIES

Mrs. Lane Arrives In Colony

To-day's Short Story.

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Crown Attempt To Prove Revenge Motive

Eater Of Lions' Hearts

Mrs. E. Lane, who recently rived in Hong Kong to join her

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husband, Commander B. Lane, R.N. MURDER TRIAL AT SESSIONS DETRUS JAARSVELD had affluent member of the famos

a cousin of Mowbray, Mrs. Lane, who has travelled ex-

once killed a man. In that clustered half a dozen brown, bee- tensively, is a keen lingulat, and brutal attack on a woman, who embryo from which the city of

Revenge, in the form of a mining camp which formed the hive-like native huts. horsewoman. Anti-aircraft protection for iter accomplishment it is interest-istered on him a severe beating this man in a primitively con- chance directed Petrus Jaarsveld's

In the light of her two days previously had admin-Johannesburg developed he killed

Not blind fate along, nor purblind] the Atlantic and Pacific coasts ing to note that she has had horses with an iron hoe head and the structed boxing-ring, with the footsteps to this haveu of isolation of the United States, the Pannsent from Australia for her use top of a ma Canal, Hawaii and the Philip during her stay at Hong Kong.

broom handle, were hard knuckles of his rights hand set amid the tropical splendours of pines is provided in a programm:

facts which the Crown sought to encased in a leather glove. And Central, Africa Old beliefs, 'cold being drawn up by Maj. Gen.]

prove in the charge of murder at that time Petrus Jaarsveld reasoning William F. Hase, chief of erast]

against Tse Sam, a Chinese coolie, was nineteen years of age.

`and long searchings artillery, and the general staff of

for the death of his master's]

benight him heré, for here he came the army.

wife, Lam Wah, at the Kau believed, made him for the rest of lone white man aided by a dozen This unfortunate tragedy, some to amasa new wealth. Here ho, a Sheung Heung plantation. near hilfe shun the society of, men and native servants, came to wash gold Sheung Shui in the New Terri-neck instead the companionship of ore from the bed of the stream that tories, on the night of August 25. strange, wild places. Though true curved sinuously beside the jungle's

The case, which is the last one up to a point, this was not the sole borderline of trees. on the calendar of the Criminal reason, however, for actually the tions to the S.P.C.A. Fund:

The following are the latest dona-Sessions for the month of Octo-virus of adventure and lone-roving was sixty-nine years old, an enor At this time Petrus Jaarsveld her, was heard before the Chief lay in his blood. By destiny's demous man, standing six foot three Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Patell Previously acknowledged $1,304.10 Justice, Mr. A. D. A. Macgregor eree it was predetermined that he in his bare

50.00 at the Supreme Court, this morn-jahould be a soldier of fortune, his upright as a popular tree.

foef, straight and Winkie

80.00 ing. Mr. J. A. Fraser. Assistant battlefield the vast continent of appearance was wild and grotesque. canal zone, one at Fort Shafter. Lane, Crawford Limited

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Attorney-General, prosecuted Africa, from the Cape to Cairo. Hawaii. and one at Fort Mills in

and Mr. Thomas Tam, instruct-i the Philippines, at the entrance of

D. Drummond, Esq.

20.00 ed by Mr. C. E. R. Sanderson, was Manila Bay. All are sadly in need

for the defence. Carmen of equipment, he said.

Military authorities said that.) adequate protection from invasion by air makes necessary the expan sion of the present skeletonised, an- ti-aircraft regiments and the addi tion of guns and equipment costing $33,000,000,

Gen. Hase said there are, now eight such regiments, Tour in the United States; two, in the Panama

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Searchlight units of 800,000,000. .candlepower, with power plants) and' means of locating aircraft be fore the lights are turned on.

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"To-morrow's story will he "The Scourge.'

by Robert Ormsby.

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He knew Africa from end to end, its great mountain peaks, its de- The jury empanelled comprised serts and rivers and waterfalls. Its Messrs E. C. Frederick, (fore-mighty jungles were as clear to him 10.00 man), V. Anderson. F. A as the palm of his hand. He under- Joseph, W. C. G. Knowles. H. C. stood the great continent's every Liang, A. R. Minu and J. A. dos pulse beat. By profession he was Remedios.

Outlining the facts, Mr. Fraser part of his life he sought fortune hair in a long tangled mane, his a prospector, and for the greater He wore his grizzled, reddish-brown said that the accused was one of by exploring and tapping riches beard, bushy, and unkempt, spread the five or six workmen on the from the mineral resources of the spade-like across his chest. To his 10.00 plantation. On rainy days it was jand. 10.00 the custom to play cards as a 10.00 past-time.

But fifty years later Petrus Jaar-half man, half god.

native followers he was Enigma, 10,00 The deceased woman,

sveld was still hot on the trial of feared and loved him. So brave a They both he said. 10.00 had a very bad temper which she fortune, and so he came one day to man as he they had never known pitch his camp on the uplands of nor ever heard tell of even in their Uganda. The bed of a ribbon of water separated his new feared neither man nor beast nor across which gurgled a trickling they called him, believing that he stream legends. "Eater of Lions" Hearts"

On August 21. it rained and the that formed the fringe of the jun-brave indeed he was, brave as the quarters from a border-line of trees the devils of the jungle. Ay, and workmen were gathered in a matsh: gle. In ed on the plantation.

hundred king of the wild, and as stern as tress proposed a game of cards, bur bell-tent was the only symbol of ci-he had the tenderness of a woman, The mis square miles the white cone of his he was just. For one thing alone Continued on Page 7).. vilisation.

Near the tent, like poor relations terrier with a black ear and kidney- this thing a dog-a small white fox- basking in the reflected glory of an shaped black spots upon his

One afternoon his native servants

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was accustomed to vent on thei 10.00 employees; while her husband was 10.00 also not exempt from her outbursts.

Terrific Beating

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CATHOLIC CHURCH OPPRESSED

Priests Ordered Out Of Mexican State

CANTON BUSINESS TAX REDUCTION.

Only Affects Home Product Concerns

Canton, Saturday.

an area af a

flanks

BRANCH COURTS IN watched Petrus Jaarsveld vade

SOUTH-WEST

Three Established By Political Council

Canton, Saturday,

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across the shallow stream, his gun in the erook of, his arm, the little white dog splashing, the water be Mexico City.

side him. He was going into the The Mexican state of Guerrera tries, the Provincial Department of In order to promote home indus-

jungle to shoot a wild pig for the have struck another blow at the Finance has decided to reduce the

next day's food, he would return.at Catholle church, ordering all priests business tax on

sunset. They stood, chattering like to leave the state within, 72 hours businesses.

For the convenience of the people monkeys, upon the further bank of home product bringing suits at law, the Southwest the stream as they watched him under penalty of severe action if The reductions are as follows. Political Council as tecided to pass, the terrier sniffing at his heels. they disobey,

Rate for hand-made necessaries, feoirts in Swatow, Kingshan, and Testablish three branch-highi judicial! The federal chamber of deputies from 5/1000 to 2/1000. recently voted to expel all Catholic) Necessarios roade by machinery,

Hop-pe. archbishops and bishops from from 10/1000 to 4/1000,

According to the Council, the chief faintest rustle of a leaf, to every Mexico as a step "toward solving Hand-made seini-laxuries, from Ive been appointed nirendy. They were part of a language that he judges of these three branch courts snap of a twig. All these sounds the Catholic question permanently.”[5/1000 to 4/1000,

Semi-luxuries nude by innehinery,Central Pruss

will be inaugurated on November 15, understood. The little dog, run- ning ahead of his master, disappear- ed among the thick undergrowth which covered the ground. From Fetrus Jaarsveld's lips came a soft whistle like the call of a bird, and] a moment later the terrier came to.

Ho Thong and Co., of 48 A Bonham This action was requested by Presi- Strand. West, owners, characterers dent Abelardo Rodriguez-Age-from 10/10 to 8/1000). or agents of the steamer Peng; Capt. G. M. Gregory, master

Heng ciated Press.

of the Hong Peng, and Tay Ting- swee, compradore of the steamer, for allowing the discharge of 745 bales of tobacco from the steamer on September 80 into. a harbour vessel or vessels not under the con-

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Chinese Collapses And Dies In Queen's Rd.

His

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Man and dog continued on their

trol of the licensee of a general) New York. Saturday-Mesars derived from the acid residue of bonded warehouse or his servant, Dow Jones has predicted December oil is being developed by the Central yesterday at about 6.20 p.m. and again he trotted off on soft was again adjourned by Mr. E. W.15 Treasury financing, possibly Azov Black Sea Institute of a Chinese was noticed by a party of

While walking in Queen's Road way. But the terrier did not long remain close to his master. Again Hamilton at the Central Magistracy involving II.S $2,500,000,000. this morning sine die for a written United Press, per S. E. Levy and The liquid will be equal in footpath. With a knife wound over

Microbiology and Epidemology. British soldiers to collapse on the soft, low whistle.

padded feet, to be recalled by that a Judgment by the Magistrate.

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Then the thing happened, the peared for the defendants, submit- without permission from the Im-will prove an inexpensive sub The Police were summoned, but no

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The little dog dis ted that under Section 4 of the Or-ports and Exports Department, but stitute for more expensive dis- weapon could be found. The body

appeared into the bank of thick, dense follage. Petrus Jaarsveld take delivery of dutiable tobacco Section 5.

dinance, a honded warehouse could this section was contradicted by infectants some of which are now was taken to the Public Mortuary gave his gentle birdeall, and in that

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In the blinding agony of his rage Petrus Jaarsveld did not stop to aim his gun. Instead, he swung the weapon high into the air and brought the butt down with a re- verberating thud on the head of the great jungle beast. The leopard, taken by surprise and half- stunned, leapt into the air with a cry of pain, dropped its gray and made a wild rush into the bush (

Petrus Jaarsveld knelt down commands will have our best at- beside his pet. The little dog was tention.

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