1935-01-28 — Page 9

PREFERRED CIVIL GAOL

Soldier Pleads Guilty To Get It Over With

'THEFT CHARGED IN BARRACKS.

Stating that he would rather plead guilty and get the ̈ ̈çašo - finished with, Pte. Arthur Edward Clinton, aged 36,′ of “C” Company of the East Lancashire Regiment, and a native of Bolton, Lancashire: England, "appeared before Mr. E W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis tracy, this morning of the charge; of stealing and the alternative charge of receiving, a camera, ba Tonging to R.Q.M.S. Shaith, of the same Regiment, on December 20, from the Lo Wu Cump. Sheun;t), Shui,

Detective-Inspector 'Cunningham, | of the Yaumati· Police Station. asked for a week's formal remand | in Military custody, which Mr. Hamilton was about to grant "when the defendant spoke up and asked if he could go to the civil prison instead of the military one..

Mr. Hamilton stated that if the defendant wished to go to a civil prison he could do so, and he added that he did not wish to take the defendant's plea of guilty, at was just in order to finish the case

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1935

STREAMLINE RAIL CARS DEFECTIVE

Temporarily Withdrawn In Netherlands

INVESTIGATION INTO MOTOR FAILURES

Today's Short Story.

THE TWO MARIAS

By Jeremiah

"Pride

At the beginning of last summer S

UMMER or winter the hour spectacled faces over the dial and was never altered in the pic-point out how it was regulated by the Netherlands railways put 40 turesque little town, for time waterpower, Enough to make any- streamlined Diesel electric express there was regulated by the one smile! Did not the sun rise and trains, running at 87 miles an hour, chimes of Maria Jesus and Maria set, the river ebb and flow? Did inta service on the lines Amsterdam- Juan. A

not the birds sing and the flowers Utrecht-Arnhem, The Hague Nobody was left to say who had bloom? Well, then! It was, natural Utrecht-Arnhem,

Utrecht given these names to the two old for Maria Jesus to chime the hour bells, or how they had been placed and the half-hour, and for Maria After about two months' service in a tower so high, nor even exactly Juan to strike the quarter and the metor defects were discovered, and the principle on which they worked. three-quarters and to repeat the almost all the Diesel trains were The elaborate diagrams had been hour exactly ten seconds after Marla withdrawn and replaced by the taken from the church at the time Jesus. usual steam trains)",

of the terrible floods and placed in

Hertogenbosch."

די

In all probability the defecta were safety-nobody knew where by the caused by a culmination of vibra priest who had perished--a martyr. tions in the motors. It has been Did he not himself hold up the

"Johns Hopkins University's ex-noted that the defects appeared, statue of the Blessed Virgin in front pert on radium, Dr. Edmund Kelly. above, will advise Dr. A. R. Dafoe, obstetrician of the Dionne quintu-, plets on the treatments which must be resumed to remove a tumour. from the leg of Marie, one of the famous five. This is the purpose of the Daloe visit to Baltimore,

SANITARY BOARD ·

quickly, he told the defendant Agenda For To-morrow's

that he was an innocent maṁ until he had been proven guilty.

The defendant was remandad un Friday in civil gaol custody,

CLOTH REPAIRER PAWNS COATS.

“Needed Money To Make

Forced Trip

takon.

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TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Master Mariner," by Ivar Bellas

after the trains had covered dis of the rushing torrent in order that tances of from 12,000 to 20,000 the town might be delivered from miles.

its implacable, onemy? The Diesel trains also have not Yest everybody knew that. They been so smooth-running as had been! hoped for and the temperature in knew, too, that after all hope had the carriages proved to be too high, been abandoned and the people floo- Daring the summer nights, when so that many complaints were made ink, Our Lady interceded, and God the people could not 'sleep for the by the public. Measures to remedy accepted one blameless life in place heat, they would say, "Go to the these inconveniences are being of many wicked. But the hidden Marie Jesus and take Maria · Juan treasures of the church were never with thee. Is it not enough to A decision as to the date on found.

strike twelve once, without repeat- which the services will be fully re-) Luis Blasco could describe the ing it?" But the two old bells con sumed has not been taken so far, chart that once hung over the dial, tinued-hour after hour-Maria the because the investigations into the which set out in Latin how many Jesus sharp and cracked and the Fan, causes of the defects of the motora turns for a Fiesta and how many for alow, dull flathers of Maria Juan sad-

the Passing-bell. Luis was old, very dening the air after her. fol-have not been complated.

The management of the railways old; his son was old,, and his grand- (a) Whether or not the subject has declared, however, that the ser- son now oiled the coga without over. There were many houses clustered He would smile a round the church. The Town Coun of hygiene is included in the sylla-vices will not be resumed on a large much interest.. bus of all the English and Verna. scale, unless the utmost possible little, certainly, when the great men cil had been warned that the tower cular Schools?

accuracy as to the working of the came, and after having made their of the two Marias was not safe.... long calculations the would put their but then neither was the Cathe (b) What are the names of the motors is secured. English and Chinese text-books in general use? ·

Meeting

"At to-morrow's meeting of Sanitary Board Dr. Li Shu pursuant to notice, will ask the lowing questions;—

(c). (1) Are all of such, text-

Charged with the unlawful pawn-books in use recommended or p-SMALL-POX RAGING. ing of two overcoats valued at $90, proved by the Director of Educa Kwoon Fo; a cloth repairer was tion? (2) If the answer is in the fined $50, in defnuli one month negative, will he atate the reason? hard labour, by Mr. E. 1. Wynne- (d) In what grade of the Eng- Jones at the Central Magistracylish and Vernacular schools is the this morning.

subject of hygiene first taught and. Sergeant Baldwin appeared for the prosecution, and stated that de-how long is the course?

(e) (1) Does the Director of fendant was given two coats to re Education consider the text-books in pair by Ho Wing, a tailor, on Janu use adequate and satisfactory? (2)

The next day complainant received a letter from the defen-If not, will he state how and when dant, stating that as he (defen-will the situation be remedied? dant) had been ordered to leave

MAORIS' NATURAL KITCHEN

Cooking Facilities At Rotorua

THIN EARTH-CRUST OVER VOLCANIC FIRES

* *

dral, nor the. Dalbade, nor even the solid-looking tower of the Jacobina, to say nothing of the three spires of Our Lady of Sorrows. The money needed was colossal: small wonder that many a struggling tradesman cursed the industry of the fifteenth-century builders that now threatened taxes and still more taxes. The architect pleaded lives were involved, the council sat and solemnly talked. They spoke sadly of pulling down. But the Fancy being able to take your cost! They discussed, almost heat- kettle to your backyard. to be boiled edly, the restoration... Worsel without the necessity of lighting It would be like throwing water into any fires 1-

the sea. Well, nothing, was done, Whakarewarewa to give it Ita full and the bells continued to mark the name, is nearly two miles but of passing hours, and the folk to sleep, Quarantine Service, Wuhan Rotorua, in North Island, New Zea-or not to sleep, as they were able. Regular Returns which will be Station, yesterday issued land, and here are to be seen some Itabled are:-

general warning to the public to of the most wonderful · · geysers; | It was Whit Sunday morning, and

IN HANKOW

Vaccination Warning To Inhabitants

DREAD DISEASE CLAIMS

BRITISH BOY'S LIFETM

Hankow, January 21 An application for the registra- The spread of the dread small- the Colony by the Government, hetion of H.K.D.F. Lot No. 20, Dia-pox has reached such an alarm had pawned the coats to obtain mond Hill, as a dairy will be con-jing stage here that the National

jsidered. some money to do xa; The pawn tickets were also enclosed.

ary 18.

which

day.

CAMERA MUDDLE

Theft Charge Remanded To Find Owner

1985.

..

Complainant redeemed the coats

(a) Rat Return for the weeks beware of the disease and to be but, unlike many others, they do not Maria Rebelles went to confess be were pawned for $16.80. Defendant was arrested on Satur-ending January 5 and January 12, vaccinated.

play at regular intervals.

fore the sun had risen high enough 1935.

According to the Quarantine It is a weird place, and scarcely s to pierce the gloom of the narrow (b) Health Bulletin of Eastern Service, a total of 19 cases of site one would choose for a village, streets. Ports from the Hon. the Director of small-pox have been reported be- but the Maoria live there within a "My father," said the tremulomaly, Medical and Sanitary Services for tween January 1 and 19, two stone's throw of all this volcanic "I still sin in my heart. Gabriel is the weeks ending January 5 and 12, cases terminating fatally. It is action. It is just a crust of dried for me the sun, moon, and stars. Is estimated that at least 60 cases lavd exuding steam from every there pardon or peace for, such as (e), Health Return from the were not reported.

This is pore.

I?? Longue of Nations, Eastern Bureau,jagainst, ́ 9 cases only from! In places the very sulphur of "My child, if thy sin be, great, for the weeks ending December 22 January to June in 1988. A which it is partly 'composed is still greater is God's forgiveness. Seek Lee Leung, a watchman of the and 29, 1934.

-British youth,. named Robert burning hot. From

or comfort in the mystery of His love a dozen Lee Theatre, Ng Chiu, manager of Kong for the week ending January small-pox-Chekiat Agency.

(d) Mortality Return for Hong Russell Shawyer, died recently of more holes in the rock great quan- and there thou shalt find peace. an electric blub shop, and Ng Kuen,

tities of steam and boiling water And Marla went out into the sun- are continually belching forth. light with peace in har, heart, and In other places there are porridge the flower she bore at her breast was pota, pools of hailing mud through not more innocent than her eyes. which the steam is continually

unemployed, were charged before

Mr. W. Schofield at the Central

6. 1995.

Magistracy this morning, with MACAO HOCKEY WIN

ing in possession of ́an Agfa fold-

ing camera, valued at about. 860;

in Percival Street,

The first defendunt. said that it{

was given to him' by the second de-

fendant, who stated that "he re-

OVER SIGNALS

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10 MISSING IN-MOHAWK COLLISION

(Continued from Page 1).

The accident is said to have oc-

escaping. Here there are gurgling ...” Gabriel Mateo saw her from the holes that may at any time, burst open window where he wasntill forth; there pools that petrify all making the cakes ordered for the that is placed within...

great Fiesta. For days and nights he had been making and baking these cakes, and now without even

ceived it from the third defendant. The game on the whole was not curred through the sudden fallure The third defendant said that he no uneven as the score denotes, the of the steering-gear of the Mohawk CONSOLIDATED TAX hearing the vituperations of his

picked it up in Salwanho.

Signals often missing chances; and which suddenly veered across the On the application of Detective having hard luck on several occa- Talisman's bows, An official in- Sergeant Fitches, the case was reous. Once May ran down the quiry is now being held in New manded until to-morrow to find right-wing and went very

the right owner,

BANISHEE RETURNS TO COLLECT DEBT

near York

scoring, while on another occasion Addis, the centre-forward, shot just wide from the circle's edge."

Martin, the Signal's right-back and captain, played an outstand- ing game, clearing and spoiling in great styles.

Marsh was another player to

REBEL HEAD ABSCONDS

(Continued from Page, 1).

ON ALCOHOL

wife he left the shop and went across into the sunlight to greet Manchurian Liquorsey love token of the south.....

Maria,

s, who wore the Illy of the val

Affected

that he had imperfiled his soul to|| buy for her.

Peiping, January 19. Half-an-hour later he, also, went The Customs Administration to confess.

at Tientsin has issued a circular "Father, he faltered, "know

to all Customs outposts "at" dif- that I am a great sinner. Maris is ferent passes along the Great for me all beauty and all roodness. But Given Gaol Sentence shine, executing numerous magni- other company of National Guards, ginning from January 1, alcohol other than she. Even when I look With the arrival however, of and Wall instructing them that, be. There is no room in my heart, for ficant aaves. The goals that pass-armed with bombe and tear gas, the imported from Manchuria should at Our Blessed Lady, I see my little Six months hard labour was imed him were all good, shots, ho company of "Square Dealers" sud-be subject to both import tax and Marta............. There can be no pardon posed on Lam Cheuk, unemployed, Angelo scored Macao's opening (denly surrendered.

consolidated tax simultaneously, or peace for such as L for a breach of the Deportation Or-goal, Ramalho followed up with Colonel Roy, Commander of the G Sabah M“My son). Did not Our Lord take dinance when he appeared before two more, and after the Interval National Guards, disarmed the whole CANTON IN GRIP OF COLD SPELL on the mortal Besh that he might Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Cen-brought Macao's total up to five company, placing them all under

endure and conquer? Peace be with tral Magistracy this morning...

Defendant pleaded that he re turned to get some money which he loaned to a clansman employed on the s.8. Lai Ming. He had been

DEPRESSION HITS

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technical arremtasi

Ong man was wounded}"

(Continued From Page 1). thee God's ways are not our WRYKJOLLA, Bo will Ho@give thee Fur merchants complain that the strength. cold-weather does not help them for 30-Gabriel went back and made people buy, fure

with somet like peace art: while old priest

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Nanking January 21.

THo

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