1935-02-18 — Page 9

SOUTH ARMY

NOT WELCOME

IN KWEICHOW

Canton And Nanking

At Variance

NO CO-OPERATION APPEARS TO BE POSSIBLE

From Our Own Correspondent) Canton, Yesterday,

An open disagreement arose, to day between Canton and Nanking over the expedition to Kwelchow, following Instructions from Gen- eral Ho Ying-ching, Minister of War, stating that the Communists can be suppressed by the Nanking and Szechuen forces without much difficulty and that its unnecessary. for Kwangtung und Kwangsl troop to go to Kwelchow.

Mr. Hsiao Fu-chen, spokesman of the South-west Political Council, stated in an interview that notwithstanding General Ho's order, the expeditionary will continue their march to the West. although the War Minis- ter's decision had the approval of General Chiang Kai-shek. Chairman of the Military Affairs : Commission.

"If Canton und Nanking can. not co-operate in suppressing the Red hordes, there is no other pos. sibility of collaboration." Mr

Hsiao continued." "There are many Nanking troops in North- ern Kweichow, yet they are not uned to pursuing Communists."

JAPANESE POLICY

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY" FEBRUARY 18

Remember how just a few years ago the fair ones startled Well, here are us by donning wide py,uman for resort wear? two illustrations of how the 'jamus ensembles have developed ance that time. Mrs. Allan A. Ryan, JP,“ert), and Mrs; aksel C. P. Wichfield, socialites, wear these costuities at Palm Beach, Fla.,

Mr. Hsiao also expressed his HONG KONG'S NEW] · CAR ROAD ROUND

opposition to the new pro-Japan

policy of the Nanking Govern KING'S COUNSEL

ment, saying that an enemy can-

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not be treated as a friend. The MR. H. G. SHELDON TO surrender of Manchuria. he said, i

dashes to the ground all hopes

of internal unity and co-opera-||

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tion, while externally there is BARRISTER AND SPORTSMAN | much misgiving and unrest."

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BERLIN

To Have 150 Bridges

BY-PASS FOR IMPORTANT CENTRES

A new motor road is to be con-

To-day's Short Story.

ON NEW LINES

EORGE SLIMP,

By A., P. Garland

a plimp, peated the gesture, though, if I re-

Galeck, bald-hended man of member rightly, thirty-five auits sixty, was really Chungby and and nine pairs of jodhpurs have Slimp, merchant tailors, of been supplied to his order since Savile-row, a household phrase then.

in most of the noted clubs around "The situation is both delicate the Pall Mall area. Indeed, it was and difficult. I dare not use the reckoned that on the occasion of law for collecting overdue a theatrical first night, an Eton-accounts: my other clients would Harrow cricket match, a fash-stampede. Yut sending an ordin ionable divorce case, or an exclu-lary statement has no more rosult sive bankruptcy, two-fifths of with some of them than if I sent the males prominent in the show them a birthday card.

were encased in clothes bearing

the Chugby and Slimp label. [Yet George himself was not con-

tent.

"I have," he once told a friend, "a large and growing list of illus- Erlous deotors. Charming people

one and all. But I regret to add that many of them will not realise that sordid cash is, or should be," an Important component of our transactions. Thus, when I send'

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Mrs. Biggin's Fur Coat, by Bessie Le Pla.

"I wish I could discover a meäne:

in a bill to some of them they take of inducing such people to break no notice of it, except to come in their lifelong habit of never pay- and order more clothes. Anying their tailor. It would mean a jorder, except a postal order, seems fuller, richer life for me."

to satisfy them:

At last a paragraph in an austere "For example, Lord Huffey de Sunday newspaper gave him the Huffey made his last, payment to idea he sought. The paragraph me in 1927, when he backed a gift-read as follows:

ed animal named Call Boy to win It is announced that in Turkey' the Derby, Evidently paralysed a certain tax-collector has been by this liberality, he has never re-sending out his demand notes in verse. The result is that only one man in his district has failed to pay up.

MAJOR CASSEL PASSES

CONTRIBUTOR TO "CRITIC"

George stared awe-stricken at the words. Could it be true? Had a use been found for poetry `at last? To induce procrastinating clients to pay up? If so, wasn't there a hint in it for him? Hel thought the matter over.

A few days later the. Hon. Gussic 'Darb received a letter bearing the chastely printed heading of Chughy and Slimp. Beneath it was this:"

Information has been received of According to Nanking reports, News was received in the Colony, only, some Communist remnants on Saturday, it is understood, that structed right round Berlin to act the death of Major L. Cassel, O.B.E.

Honoured Sir, we beg to state' remain in Northern Kweichow. Mr. H. G. Sheldon, the well-known as a by-pass for traffic to other im-who died yesterday at Mount Ver while their main force is located Hong Kong barrister. has been portant centres. It will be about non, Northwood, North London. *

That your account up to date is Major Cassel came to the Colony

£118-6-8. 125 miles long, and will be 15 to in Southern Szechuen and North- created a K.C.

The matter very humbly we men ern Yunnan. There are several Mr. Sheldon has been a resident 20 miles from the centre of the in October 1914 and served as Pro

vost Marshall and press censor duration, Nanking divisions in Kweichow. of the Colony for the past eight city. which are deemed. sufficient to years, having, originally come out Potsdam and Kaputh to the ing the period of the war.

We merely draw your attention. In 1922 Major Cassel negotiated Now Gusale had nearly won maintain peace and order in that from. Home, in 1926. He baв for South-west, Konigswusterhausen to province. The Nanking Govern- some years been doing much of the south-east, and. Frobnau to the for the "Cassel Concession" to work prize at Eton for a poem, and ho ment desires to take full control the leading work at the local Bar, north-west will be included within the mines and railways in Kwang-had-written lave-verses to a spright of Kweichow and does not wish perhaps the most famous of the its radius. att de bona tung, but, following the change in ly damsel of the Russian Ballet, so the presence of other troops eases in which he was engaged be- In the construction of the high- the Cantonese Government, the pro- that he was somewhat of a purist there. th

... on the subject of prosody, 'ing that of Cheng Kwok-yau, the way about 150 bridges will have to ject fell through. It is learned from reliable wealthy young Chinese from be built, mainly as viaducts half a Failing in health, and after many result, the foregoing doggerel sources that the Communists are Malaya who was. convicted of mile long to cross the underground months in hospital, Major Cassel pained him mightily,

Haly an hour after receiving it! still a potent force on the Yun, auborning, the murder of a rival in tallway lines, roads and canals left the Colony in November of last nan-Szechuen borders. Several love,

which radiate from Berlin. A year.

he was in the inner sanctum of towns in Northern Yunnan have Mr. Sheldon, who take a keen in-special problem is provided by the He was a keen writer, having been Chugby and Slimp's.

associated with the "Critic" from its been occupied by the Red marau 'terest in nearly all forms of sport lakes which surround the capital,

"Look here, Slimp," said he ders, and fierce fighting is raging is a Steward of the Hong Kong

foundation; he continued to contri- abruptly. "About that tripe you'va. bute for a time under 'Its present, just sent me--" in the northern districts. The Jockey Club and often officiates A: outlaws expect to enter Western referee at local boxing contesta. «

management, Szechuen via Southern Yurinan.

SUN TRAP TO DO MAN'S WORK

American Device For Using Solar Heat

EMPLOYED FOR COOKING

NEW TERRITORIES MURDER CHARGE

Shopkeeper Killed In Armed Raid

ACCUSED IN HOSPITAL

PROBING SECRETS OF SPACE

Giant Mount Wilson Telescope

ASTRONOMERS PROMISE YET GREATER WONDERS

Whan the wonderful new Mount

RAID ON GAMBLING SCHOOL

Three Keepers Fined $50 Each

Wilson telecope, with its 200-inch Thirty-three men and a woman,

"I'm sorry, Mr. Darb," said said George, "If you thought it imper- tinent on our part, but".

"Impertinent my elbow!" was the nobleman's reply.

"It's post- tively criminal. The rotten thing won't scan. Listen here,"

He repeated the verse dramati cally, giving each word its correct accont..

Isn't It poisonous, Slimp?" he naked.

was

mirror, comes into use, the moon charged with gambling, on the "Somehow," replied George, It! A device for making the sun 27-year-old. andmployed

The charge against Wong Fat, a will appear to be twenty-four miles third floor of No. 176 Queen's Road does not run as smoothly as it

seaman, from the earth, and we shall be West last night, were this morn-ought."

"Not" by yards," said Gusste. do a part of man's work was of murdering Wong Fuk, a shop- able to pick out some of its smallest ing fined by Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones "Look at the niatus in the second shown to the American Associa-

Iine between "account' and 'up to tion for the Advancement of keeper, at Chak Iu Wu Village, Sai geographical details. The new at the Central Magistracy.

cost £1,00,000-and} Ko Ho, a 29-year-old married

date"." Science at the beginning of its Kung, New Territories, last Wed-glant will winter meeting in Pittsburgh.

nesday evening, was mentioned be-marks an epoch, as well as setting woman, Teang Chik and Leung

George could not tell a hiatus fore Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at the a limit to the possible size of the Cheung, charged with keeping a It is a solar heat collector, which in twenty minutes deve Central Magistracy this morning. telescope. For it is not regarded gambling house, were fined $50 from a Hottentot, but he nodded re.

It will be remembered that five as practicable to make a mirror each Bail of $8 each deposited pentantly.

I'm sorry, sir," said he lops temperatures in éxcess of

more than 200 inches in diameter. by nine of the defendants who done in rather a hurry 400deg. Fahrenheit, The Invenor six men armed with chopper

Already, however, and long be- failed to appear was estreated"No excuss at all, man," said the tor is the Secretary of the Smith-raided Wong Fuk's shop, and that sonian Institution, Dr. C. G. Ab.Wong Fuk, who offered a spirited fore the giant is ready to be while the rest were fined $2 each other. "Your first line of trochecs) brought Into use, new methods of bot. The device can be used for resistance, was killed. ordinary cooking purposes; Dr. On the application of Inspector star-gazing are under discussion Abbot has been using it on N. Elston, who said that ac- which will give astronomers resulte Mount Wilson, California,, for the cused is at present in hospital, auf equal to those obtainable with a generation of steam for power. fering from bolls, the case was re- 3,000-inch mirror! An important! job will be found for the photo- It is hoped that ultimately it manded.

electric cell. This will pick up can be made to drive large steam engines at a practicable cost

CABMAN'S FUNERAL be magnified in the same way as a light from the stars, which can The apparatus employs a num ber of small mirrors fixed at

may have a giant streen onto which radio signal. Thus the observatory right angles to the earth's axis

Rising prices for catches to The tailor proved an apt pupil, and mounted on a frame which

will be projected an enlargement of wards the latter part of laat and Gussie grew so absorbed in his will turn on an axle parallel to

whatever is picked up by the tele-year failed to save 1984 from be congenial task that over half an the earth's axis. There are a Mr. Jonah Spree, of Rochester, ope

ing one of the blackest in the his hour had passed before he looked number of tubes filled with black Kent, who recently died, was a cab

Then we should get as close to tory of the Scottish herring fish- at his watch, defen oil and protected from loss of man for more than 50 years, and it the secrets of Mere as an aviatoring industry. Good lord!" said he then, "I've heat by double vacuum jackets. was his wish that a horse-drawnying over ita mysterious surface.

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Wish For Horses Could Not Be Gratified

These transmit the collected heat bearse should carry him to his last

to a reservoir of pil, and into resting-place.

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this reservoir ovens are inserted But when he was buried on for growing purposes or a tubu Thursday his coffin had to be car-l lar boiler for generating ateam.ried in a motor-hearse. The neces

sary horses, it is stated, could not Zoo, and

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fine of $150,9% in "defa thro be hired there.". months' imprison

was imposed by

Chol a 26-year-old sart

Mr. Spree drove a cab from the

Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham Upon age of 14 until a few years ago.

was charged at the

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He was Rochester's last

He once" drove the

Prince George, stationed

the-Thrush at-Chatham.

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