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ALLEGED ASSAULT CASE

· First Accused Takes Full Blame

"AN ACT OF REVENGE"

"I took along the poison 80 that if I killed him I would be able to take my own life," stated Ho Lam-sang in the Suprenie Court this morning where he and two other men; Pun Fong and Kwan Yu, alias Kwan Ng, are ap- pearing on charges of assaulting. Mr. Ma. Tau-nam, proprietor of the Empress Hotel, with intent to rob. The three accused have ploaded "not guilty.”

The case is being heard before! His Honour the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A, MacGregor, and the follow- ing jury were empanelled: Messrs. B. G. Butler, (foreman) Wong, Tat, D. L. Allen, H. Heitmeyer, A. A.j Oluck, Yung Hók Ming, and O. W. 0. May.

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attor- ney-General, instructed by Mr. T. P. 'K. Kemble, of Mesara. Wilkinson

and Grist, is for the Crown.

Waiting for a ferry to carry him to Ellis Island, the New York im- migration station for hearing, John Bmlaske, allen destroyer of the anti-Roosevelt painting at Tarry- town, New York; exhibit, ponders on the strange outcome: His arrest resulted in deportation order as Samiuske is In Amerien legally,

CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935

MASTER OF MAGIC To-day's Short Story.

Carter the Great Thrills Hammered

Large Audience

STUPENDOUS PRODUCTION

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didn't seem possible to, day, he felt that it was even pos- Carter the Great proved a stupan- Joseph Entwistle that he sible that she would leave him if he dous success at the King's Theatre might be losing his fair, his couldn't give her everything she last night, the first of his seven-day "nose" for the market that had wanted-and a bit over.

put him where he was, and yet Strangely, even after nearly season in the Colony.

The theatre was almost filled to ... everything he touched thirty years of disillusion, of nag- ging and squabbling, Joseph still capacity and the audience, though nowadays went wrong.

He got up wearily, slammed the loved Emmie, still wanted her. He slow to respond to his amazing cun-

that sort of man; alwaya: ning, was a very appreciative one. sheaf of papers with their dis was

Not the least asset of Carter is heartening figures on the table, and wanting the thing he could not have. This clear voice and good humour. went across to the window. He The programme, little short of 2%ooked down on the seething figures Suddenly he thought of Benjamin, hours, was riever allowed to drag and in the street, men and boys, hurry-his young brother Benjamin, who was never devoid of that spark ofing to and fro, into the House and had wanted to marry Emmie. He shrugged, and for the first time for! humour which stamps the first-class back to their offices.

He would miss it if he had to give thirty years felt sorry for what be showman.

The "sawing" of one of his atten-it up now; all the bustle and ex-had done. dants in half provided a big thrill, eltement, the thrill of the crowded three local ladies providing the House, the click. of the tape ma- Berlin to find Benjamin running board of timid umpires, while the chines, the moneyed "smell of the life. It was his whole existence,

TO-MORROW'S STORY torture cell of spikes in which an- other attendant was apparently im- his hobby and his love-except for

Emmie.

To-morrow's story will be paled on'72 sharp steel spikes caused

"Unfinished At the thought of his wife, he

Portrait of frowned and sighed. Emmia, would Venetia Jones," by Inez another genuine thrill

The mental telepathy of Evelyn not be content to live on the income

Holden.

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Maxwell was an eye-opener, mem-

He had come home from a year ini

bers of the audience being told their they would have if he retired now,

before it was too late. To many round with Emmie, pretty then, ex- innermost thoughts, their names,

women it would have spelled con-citing and full of go. Just the kind and their possessions with the greatest accuracy, The blind-folded tentment, but Emmie was different; of wife Joseph needed, and he had From calmly set out to get her-and suc- girl, in one case, told a gentleman she was never satisfied. that ne was holding up a Canadian something she had said the other ceeded. In a stormy interview Ben- To the Editor "China Mail") 31 note, and proceeded to give him Sir-The consecration of Arch- the numbers on that note!

The first acsused went into the box and maintained that there was only one man concerned in the at-i tack and that was himself. He said that on the night in question he and the other two accused had. tea in the Tak On tea housy. He attempted to persuade the other two deacon Mok, as Assistant Bishop of The best advice I can give readers to assist him in the assault, The the Diocese, in Hong Kong Cathe is to book early, secure a scat close second defendant agreed to assist dral this evening is

a matter of to the aisle of the orchestra stalls,

tle, which firat provides you with

It is thirteen hundred years any drink you may like to mention,

STABILISATION DEVELOPMENTS

The Pressure Of Devaluation

jamin had told Joseph what he thought of him, and flung out of the house, raving about revenge.. He had never Been Benjamin again.

A discreet knock on the door in- interrupted. Joseph's thoughts.

over thirty years, came in which his bald head bent thoughtfully over a slip of paper.

when reminded by Ho Lam-sang of great significance for the Christian and test, Carter's inexhaustible bot France. Likely To Resist Henry Bates, authorised clerk for past favours, The third accused, Church in South China; however, declined, saying that it was an old grudge and should not be since the first Christian missionary and then, when smashed to pieces on brought up again,

came to China (The Nestorian the stage, reveals a guinea-pig!

Bagdad). Bishop, Alopen, from

In short, Carter the Great has The same year the Irish missionaries produced a show which will live long reached the shores of Northern Eng-in the memories of local residenta. land. The Christian Church of through both countries. has gone many visissitudes in the last thir-1 tean hundred years.

to leave, which he did.

In the very early days of Hong| Kong the first Colonial Chaplain,]

a new

-X.Y.Z.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The s.8. Naldera left Shanghai on Tuesday and is due to arrive here to-morrow morning.

BRITISH ECONOMISTS SCEPTICAL

Messrs. 5. E. Levy and Company have received the following special wire from Washington:-, ..

"Springfield Mines are down an- other 5s., sir," he said, hesitatingly, as if loath to bring bad news.

Joseph grunted. "Ring up and "Ask tell Mr. Samson," he said. him what he wants to do and say

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Movements Outlined They left the tea house and pro ceeded towards No. 40 High Street, he continued. On the way Kwan Yu left them and went home to his

It is believed that the recent dis-I'll.speak to him if he wishes." house to sleep. When they arrived

location in exchange brought about

Bates appeared as though he near the house of Ma Tau-nam the second accused left in order to in-

by the "gold clause" case will be the wished to say something. ter a latrine. At this moment Ma Dr. Stanton, opened a school for

cause of argument for prompt

"What is it?" asked Joseph. Tau-nam's car appeared and he Chinese boys at St. Paul's College

stabilisation developments and ar

"If I may say so, sir," Bates (first accused) ran inside the door with a view to establishing a Chinese

increased certainty of M. Laval, the aaswered slowly. "I don't presume way and hid. When the plaintiff en-Christian ministry. A few years

French Foreign Minister, and: Pre-to know better than yourself, but I ter the door he struck at him. He

mier Flandin opening discussions would suggest to Mr. Samson. If it later the Bishopric of Hong Kong) produced a knife, but could not use was established for the conversion

with London.

were my place to advise him, that it because Ma Tau-nam caught hold of China and Japan.

The e.s. Takada will leave Hong France is likely to resist the he should get out as quickly as of his wrist, When he heard a The consecration of

Kong for Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, pressure of devaluation insisting possible." Д Chinese police whistle he dropped the knife Christian as Bishop marks

Kobe, and Osáka on or about 6 a.m.on stabilisation at present parities

"Why?" snapped Joseph, and the and ran down the stairs. At the stage in this process, and symbolizes on Friday.

by an increase in world gold old man Rushed.. same time he saw the second accused the fact that the Chinese Church

values. British economists are "Well, I-I hardly know, sir," he entering the door. Ho called to him has come of age.

The body of a newly-born Chinese sceptical regarding the validity of faltered, "it's just a feeling." It is also significant that on the child, found in Laichikok Road last this agrument, as they consider

Joseph was silent a moment, look- Cross-examined by Mr. Fraser, same day three other priests are evening with Its legs severed, was that the difference in the price of who asked the reason why he had taken two knives to commit the as-glican Communion. In York Minis-tuary.

being consecrated Bishop in the An-taken to the Kowloon Public Mor-gold between gold-standard couning at the old man beneath his tries and non-gold-standard coun-eyebrows. "You're probably right," sault, he answered that he thought fer the Vicar of Portsea is being

tries is so wide that it cannot be he muttered at last. "That's how 1 that Ma Tau-nam would be armed consecrated Bishop of Ribon, in St.

overcome quickly, by increased gold made my money; I had just that While working on a staging on values. with a gun and "could protect my-Paul's Cathedral the Vicar of St. board the R.M.S. Empress of Japan M. Laval is expected to contend down until now. I'm losing It, I "feeling once, and it never let me John the Divine, Kennington, is be- yesterday, Wong Shing, a fitter, fell that the legalisation of German rethink. Much more Cotton Wool For Corn ing consecrated Bishop of Bloemfon from a height of 12 feet, sustaining armament and equality rank be this, and I shall have to pack up, Mr. Fraser next asked the reason tein, in Calcutta the Rev. G. A. West, body injuries for which he was sent conditional upon Germany's adhe-before I'm forced to." for the wad of cotton wool. Accusedlan S.P.G.. missionary in Burma, is to the Kowloon Hospital for treat-sion to the Rome. and Locarno He slumped into his chair again, explained that he was often troubled being consecrated Bishop of Ran-ment.

while Bates stared with open by a corn on his foot and so he car-goon.

Japanese trade reporta indicate mouth." "Oh, air," he whispered. rled the cotton wool with him.

It is one hundred and fifty years' Appearing before Mr. E. W that for an improvement in Sino- Joseph laughed, unpleasantly. Mr. Fraser "If you did not since Samuel Seabury was conse-Hamilton at strike him with the knife how do crated in Aberdeen as the first tracy this morning charged, with that Japan adopta

the Kowloon Magis-Japanese relations it is essential "All right," he said, "don't worry, a conciliatory It won't be this week, or next. If you explain the wounds on his wrist Bishop in the United States. stealing clothing from two attitude towards Occidentals. anything good comes along just and the cuts in his clothing?" Since that time the Anglican different people on January 1 and Mr. Lloyd George's new deal" one or two good big anips. Bates-

Accused "I think the cuts in the Communion has spread throughout 17, Yam Yan, 29, unemployed, was programme has made no great pro I'll be on my feet again." clothes look more as if they had been the world, and there are how over sentenced to six months' hard gress, and it is the general feeling Bates nodded as he went out. inflicted by a pair of scissors or torn three hundred Dioceses and 375 labour.

that the solution of Central Euro "I'll keep my eyes and ears open, on a nail"

pean questions and stabilisation sir," he said slowly. i

self better with two knives."

Bishops.

pacts.

of things like

He said that he did not know In China there are twelve Dio- For stealing a pair of leather will cause the launching of real Left alone, Joseph pulled some that Ma Tau-nam was in the habit ceses organised as a Province with shoes from Kwok Kan-aing, a recovery-United Press, per S. E. papers towards him. "One or two of carrying large sums of money a presiding Bishop.

student passenger, aboard the 8.8. Levy and Company. with him. The only reason why The consecration of Archdeacon 'Takada, which was lying alongside he went to the house was to re- Mok will be taken by Bishop Norris No. 4, Wharf, Kowloon, yesterday,

venge his grandfather.

of Peking, who is Chairman of the Ma Ngai-tsoi, 30, was sentenced to He said that he had formerly House of Bishops of the Chinese six weeks' hard labour by Mr. E. been employed by the steam laun-Church. He will be naslated by W. Hamilton at the Kowloon dry at Mong Kok, had left there Bishop Ding, Aselatant Bishop of Magistracy this morning. on account of some difference he the neighbouring Diocese of Fukien,}

had had with the manager. He Bishop Curtis, Bishop of Cheklang, Cheung Kwok-ki, a “boy" em- had not had any employment in and Bishop Nichols who was recent-ployed at 172 Repulse Bay, was ad-

good big snips," he repeated, "I wonder...."

HOCKEY SELECTORS For half an hour he pored over

DIFFICULT TASK

(Continued from Page 4)

The Reserves

Hong Kong since May 1938. On ly consecrated Assistant Bishop at mitted to the Government Civil| In the selection of the Interport

the night in question he had Shanghai.

acuffle with the chauffeur.

papers, reports and cables. Pushed some on one side, went over others again, more alowly, weeding and sorting, until at last he had only a single file in front of him. He paused, drew in his breath. He pressed the buzzer,

Hospital yesterday, "suffering from team, the most important Item When Bates came in response, little under one dollar in money I would like to extend a cordial, burns to his face.

"Reserves" should not be forgotten. Joseph, Entwistle was striding up in his possession. He suggested invitation to your readers to share

In this respect, should Miss Wal- and down the office, waving a bundle that this must have been last when in the service at the Cathedral at The Annual Service of the Hong ker bo selected as the left-back then of papers. his jacket had come off during the 5.30 p.m. to-night. The service will Kong University Christian Associa- my reserve back would be Miss

cried excitedly, be in Mandarin and the sermon in tion for the presentation of Bibles Helbling, while Miss L, Woolley "Bates," he "Knew Nothing Of Proprietor Cantonese. The preacher is the to the 1934 University graduates could fill the half-back position "have you ever known me to gain without any question. In the even-ble in the whole of my career "on Kwan Yu, alias Kwan Ng, stat- Rev. P. Jenkins who has worked will be held on Sunday at 9.80 am:)

́ ́tuality__ of Miss Remedios being the Stock Exchange?"*": ed that he, had come from Canton with Archdeacon Mok for the last at St. Stephen's Church, Pokfulam and had found employment in the thirty years in Canton.

Road A sertion will also be given selected as the left winger, my sug Why, no, sir, I've always looked Lai Wah restaurant of which Ma

on Entwistles as one of the sound- RONALD by

Rey, Lawrence Russell All gostion for a reserve forward Tau-nam was part proprietor.

mpers and friends are cordially Miss P. Gittin

est and steadiest of Arms," | n-To-day's teams are: Joseph nodded; he breathed quick- There were two kinds of walters it belonged to Ma Tau-nàm where-invited to attend.

Whites: Mrs. R. Rose (St. Any and his face was damp and white, -in this restaurant. The first kind upon the first accused scolded him

drew's) A. Fowler (Ladies) and Bates," he said clow dressed in European clothes and for not having told him' earlier,

B. Helbling (Hong Kong, Ladies) B.

had admittance to the owner's

Final Statement

rooms. The second kind, of which

In his Anul statement

to the

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he was one, were not allowed this Jury the first accused sald! The privilege and had to dress in reason why I assaulted, Chinese clothes Thus, he ex nam was that I wanted plained he knew nothing of the the swindle on my private affairs of Ma Tau-nam.

"say that one day took

Bacond

did not otel (and | The third.

Palta misgivings

members

PACIFIC AVIATION SERVICE Pope (Hong Kong Ladies) Wonging to have the bigg

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Woolley (St. Andrew spiludios) Re:S.

Lodles) and PBittens

Bates

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BOTTLE ASSAULT- BY COOLIE

Broken Neck Of Weapon Produced In Court

ACCUSED REMANDED

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