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QUESTIONS ON

PEPPER POOL

IN COMMONS

Full Enquiry Needed For Public's Sake

JOINT STOCK BANKS SAID TO BE INVOLVED

Capetown, To-day. Mr. David Grenfell further asked whether Captain Duff Cooper was satisfied that the inquiry would be pursued as far'ns necessary to allay“ public upinion-in the City and the general publle who were greatly concerned by the character of the transaction.

He also asked whether he was aware that the shareholders i Messrs. James Shakespeare allege! that the firms business was intend ed to be confined to tin and hug. not extended to pepper.

Captain Du that all enquiries would be made by the offeint receiver. Mr. Grenfell further asked whether it was the case that a number of figures in joint stock banking were involved:

Cooper repeated

in the dames shakespeare scandal.

The speaker intervened here, 'ani no answer was given.-Reutr.

MR. R. MCKENNA IS SURPRISED Only Mere Shareholder In Shakespeare Firm

Capetowa. To-day.

McKenna, Mr. Reginald Chancellor of the Exchequer, was very surprised that his name had been mentioned in, connection with

THE CHINA-MAIL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935.

her

oged 57, turned over Mr. Oliver Cromwell Grinnell, U.S.$1,000,000 lithographing business in New York to employees and retired to devote herself to her favourite pastimes, fishing and reading. She prides herself on having caught the first broadbill swordfish landed by a woman on the Atlantic coast,

"GENERAL" YEH

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RECEIVES CHECK

AND RETREATS

Cream Of Red Army At Fengtien

OUT NUMBERED BY 5 TO 1

CORRESPONDENCE

The Balinese Dancers

1T the Editor, "China Mall"]

a short

sensan

To-day's Short Story.

Mrs. Biggin's By Bessie

Fur Coat

Le Pla

S Mrs. Biggin unlocked her her every bit she put into her triumphantly above all, others.ed at her threadbare battle-green She'd, never be cold no more. jacket with the nipped-in waist, Even if she fell on hard times she'd had in mind a day such as and couldn't afford to keep a this, when she could draw out 'her good fire, she'd never be cold no savings and prove to them all that more. Her wrinkled acquiline she wasn't so soft as she looked. face and gaunt body fierce and Mra. Igga iri particular would be tense with pride, she passed her took, aback proper, for she'd made bony fingers down the front of so aure that she'd be round to bor- her new

eoney-seal coat. She row that old black coat she let out! turned back the front flap and for funerals that she'd hung it out pinched the lining to test the in the yard-to take the smell "of thickness of the silk. Them camphor off it, she supposed. there Children of Israel,' she told herself, must have felt, summat Mrs. Biggin amiled grimly. like this when, at last, after all the last minute, when she hearse them weary years, they passed was at the door, she would step into the Promised Land.

across to Mrs. 'Iggs's and ask her Sighing happily, she took off the to give a look to the fire. My, but And coat and carried it into the darken-ahe wouldn't ' half staro! ed front room, at the foot of the wasn't it grand to think that at last mind, stairs calling out, from force of she could eat what she'd a habit. You all right, Abra'm?”

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As she ate her supper of bread

and cheese and pickled onions, she

told herself that she could never, with Abra'm ever have put up

during these last few months of his | --- illness if she hadn't had this secret:

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TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be' "He Was Clever," by Michael Kent.

of

to hug. As she'd fed him with a and get up and go to bed just, when To-morrow, though, Sir, I wish to particularly call the spoon, and washed him, and read she pleased? attention of the public of Hong Kong him the newspaper, and got up in she must be up middling early, for to the Balinese dancers who, headed the night to make him a cup of tea, there was all them relations by Ratu Idia and Dewi Ratna, open she'd been able to ignore his queru-Abram's coming back from the at the Queen's lousness and spiteful remarks be cemetery, and they'd expect a good Theatre on Wednesday, the 6th of cause her mind had been took up tuck-in, for all they knew she was From Our Own Correspondent]

March, under the management of with wondering whether to have poor.

And she was up middling early! Canton, To-day.

beaver or squirrel or coney-seal or Mr. L. van Sant.

Though the funeral was hot until Five realments of Rwangtung) the popper pool, when he arrived troops succceded in retaking Shao

The principals Ratu Idja and 'musquash. here on holiday yesterday.

Kai, in Southern Kinngsi, from the Dewi Rutna are great exponents of And them years when she's two o'clock, by eleven she was wash- tle said he was merely a share-Communists under "General" Ych the art of dancing traditional with slaved at the washtub, for all he'd ed and dressed and had everything has retreated the population of the island of been earning good money, and he'slu. readiness, the ham and tongue bread-and-butter cut, and on the speare ami concerned neither with farther North to Fengtien, accord-Bali, one of the gems of the Nether- snubbed her and nagged and grudged served out, the mustard mixed, the dresser the cakes and "fancies" all the flotation nor the management. Ing to reports teaching here last land Indian archipelago; their per- formances are reputed to be per-

ready to put on to the table. [night.

If further pressed by the Kwang-fection indeed, They are assisted tong

Communist by a group of dancers whose per troops, the

are likewise of formances remnants will escape to Western' Fukien where they will join up with highest standard.

The music is provided by a some of their comrades. Although Communist defeats in Kiangsi und gamelan orchestra which is one of celebrated in the best to be found in the Nether Two Battalions Meet Fukien were duly

Nanking and elsewhere, it appearsland Indies. STIRRING FAREWELL SCENES that Red remnants are still to be

holder in the firm of Jumes Shake-

-Reuter,

THE GORDONS AT GIBRALTAR

WITNESSED

Gibraltar.

Chien-ying, who

the

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Straits papers as well as Java

found in the mountainous region papera have been most eulogistic

RUSSIAN PERFUMES OF TO-DAY

Truly Dainty Soviet. Nomenclature

“100,000th TRACTOR" AND ***FIVE-YEAR PLAN”

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Everything looked very nice, shej thought. Them cups and saucers were as pretty as ever. Them little garlands of rosebuds had caught her. eye as soon as she'd seen 'em, nearly forty-five years - ago. Abra'm had been all for the old willow pattern, being fond of blue and gold. She could see him now, standing in the about these wonderful perform-Russia is the country of surprises open-air market, his hands dug deep of these two provinces.

The Communist detachments led ances and I would recommend but few of our readers will be pre-down into his trouser-pockets, his by Yeh Chien-ying represent the those in Hong Kong who are artis- pared for the news that an "elegant cap aslant on his mop of dark curis, Another page was added to the cream of the Red armies, the tically inclined and desire to luxury scent shop" was recently A handsome chap in them days, with history of the Gordon Highland-soldiers being mostly graduates acquaint themselves with a form opened on the Gorki Boulevard, dark, glowing eyes, and a laugh ers when the 1st and 2nd Batta of the Soviet Central Academy at of culture of another country to Moscow. The scents there supplied so loud and gay that you had to And she'd often lions met in Gibraltar last month. Juichin, of which Yeh is the Presi- attend a performance; I can assure are said to be as subtle and expen- laugh back, even if you felt right The 2nd Battalion is garrisoned dent. There are

about 100,000 everybody that they will not be givens any that could be found in mad with him.

Bond Street or the Rue de la Paix. felt mad with him, for even when But the names are certainly differ- he'd been courting her he'd been

Among them are "Heroes of masterful and not let her have

And jealous! the North," "Bulwark of the So-mind of her own. viet," "Stratosphere," "White Sea Never would she forget the night Canal," "Five-year Plan," "Ice he punched poor Archie Baxter on hreaker Krassin," "The 100,000th the nose, and all because he'd sent Tractor," while one extra large and her a valentine! expensive bottle of scene bears the

Somersetshire.

(Netherland Consul General). erit. MAMAK TOURNEY DINNER

(Continued from Page 41.

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here. The 1st Battalion arrived Nanking troops in Northern and disappointed: M. J. QUIST. under the command of Lt-Col-Centrul Kiangsi as against. 20,000 J. H. Hamilton. They had come Red soldiers under Yeh. from Palestine in the troopship Three Nanking divisions in South-western Fukien are engaged The 1st Battalion was played in suppressing the Red marauders. up from the ship by a band of Last week a gang of Reds were drums and pipes of the 2nd Bat-driven into Yewping, in Eastern talion. On the Alameda parade Kwangtung, and looted the town.

name "Ilyitch Lenin" The idea, of E loved me then." said Mrs. ground the rest of the 2nd was Lieut.-General Huang Jen-huan, drawn up, under the command of commanding officer of the first and particularly in regard to the the glamorous vamp who owes Biggin to herself. "E tired later,

Kwangtung independent division, tournament which bore his name, something of her calculated charm but he loved me flerce at first."

Repressing a sigh, she banked up to a good drenching of "Five-year General Sir Jan Hamilton has returned from Swatow to Mei-He spoke also of the work done by Plan" or "100,000th Tractor will be the fire with cinders and dumped colonel of the regiment, arrived haien to direct the campaign for the retiring members of the execu-

a little difficult to get home to the her shoes down in the hearth to with the Governor of Gibraltar. rounding up the Reds.

tive and said it would be very dif Gen, Sir Charles Harington.

¡Average English reader, even though warm. ficult to replace them. After the massed bands had play-

Mr E.-W. Hamilton; addressing he be an enthusiast for the type of those present with his usual elo- fiction which is fond of featuring

“beautiful Russian øples,” quence, heartily thanked Mr. Mamak for his open, hospitality

Lt. Col. G. T. Burney.

ed the National Anthem, Sir Ian

THE ABYSSINIAN

QUESTION

addressed the men.

Sir Ian Hamilton's Welcome

Sir Ian said that it was only

by a rare combination of good-Conversations Begin

will and events that the colonel of

a British line regiment could get].'

the whole of it together. In ad-

ficers of the Gordons who would

At Addis Ababa

London. To-day.

tions had begun in

and referred to the difficulties CITROEN CO. FINANCE

which the Tournament had had to face, especially regardng the with- drawal of the Shield. Mr. Hamll- ton then proposed a toast to Mr.

was excellently,

£2,666,000 Needed For Full Operations

She had promised herself two rounds of dripping toast for her dinner, but somehow she didn't feel peckish. She took down her blackl

que from the peg on the wall and

the

fammed it to her head with two shiny jet spears. She fetched her] fur coat from the front room and laid it carefully across the back of the soft. dition to the War Office they had] In the House of Commons yester Mamak, and this

And then, because there was nowt else to do, she sat down to thank Sir Charles Harringtoniday Sir John. Simon said that the responded to.

Paris.by the fire and began to remember for that meeting. Sir Charles British Minister at Addis Ababa

Though 2,800 fresh hands things which she hadn't thought of had commanded the regiment had from the beginning given his of the visitors, thanked

The Rev. J. R. Higgs, on behalf

Mr. were taken on at the Citroen for years..... How good he had been three times at Aldershot, in good offices to promote an amicable Mamak for the excellent dinner he works last month, the "Informato her when her baby had died.......... Constantinople, and at Chanak on settlement of the present difficul- had provided and remarked that tion" learns that there can be no and how he'd always hated the Dardanelles, where their dis-ties between Italy and Ethiopia. regretted very much that he had question of restarting the "end-town and longed to get back to the cipline at a critical time was an The Foreign Secretary added that only assisted the Tournament in a less band" until the financial pro-country, where he could have a gar- unforgettable episode in their he understood that the conversa- very small way, but hoped, how blems of the undertaking have den and she a bit of run for fowls history.

Sir Charles Harington said that between the Italian Minister and able to do more.

Addis Ababa over, that in future he would be been solved.

....and how at their wedding M. Michelin, it appears, estim-breakfast, they had held hands un- he was greatly thrilled by the the Ethiopian Government.-Bri- The following were the guests ates that 200,000,000 franca der the table, and they'd both been meeting of the two battallons, '

tish Wireless Service. and-referred-to-ipany-former-of-

present: Mr. E. W Hamilton, (£2,666,000 at current rate) will too shy to say a word....and how. J.P., (President) Major M. H. A. be necessary for a renewal of when they were alone at last, he had COAL Campbell, O.B.E. (Vice-President) normal operations. Of that, 54 taken her into his arms, and pro- Commander A. E. Phillips, MLB., Ch. 000.000 francs (£720 000) would mised to be good to her, always and B. (Vice-President), Mr. A. A. Dand, suffice to keep the plant going at to love her for evermore, (Vice-President), Mr. O. E. White, reduced speed for three months. The one o'clock buzzer went, but (Chairman), Mr. P. J. Barlow Deliveries of materials are now she did not hear it. There was a (Hon. Secretary), Mr. N. A. E. being made only against cash knock at the door, but she paid ac London, to-day. Mackay, (Hon. Treasurer), Mr. A down without discount. Pay- heed. Someone tapped her on the 1st Battalion went on board, and. At a luncheon in connection with F. (Asst. Secretary). Let the same paper, was made poseljust sat there, her hands twisted ment of one week's wages, says arm, but she took no notice. She to the strains of "Auld Lang the opening yesterday of the Bri-Jeffers, Lieut. G. D. H. Flowerdew, Syne," the troopship resumed her tish Industries Fair, the President Capt, G. W. P. Kimm, Major H. Jble by a bank advance of 10.000 together on her lap, her eyes shut to 000 francs (8188,000) on the 80-squeeze back the tears, forgetting of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter M. McIntyre, Llaut CC. Garth curity of the assets.

the years when Abra'm had nagged Runciman, said that it was hoped walte, Lieut. Metcalfe, Rev. R that to-morrow would see the initial- Higgs, Mr. H. 8. Kumar, Mr.. K. S.

For having seven mers of prepared and stinted and abused, remember- ing of a new agreement, with Foland Ploneer and Mr. 6. 8. Mamak opium in his possession in. Egalamsing only the times when he'd been which would bring an increase in

Those who are leaving "are— tion Street,;} Lo Bu9-year-old good to her, when he'd treated her Lieut. Flowerdew and Lieut. Jer, Junk foki, was fined' 350, in default one gentle and, loved her fierce, Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish ex- the demand for Britian, ander

nment when he appear. But at length sho roused herself. *(Executives) and Mr Barlow P plorer, will be celebrating his pecially Welsh, coal to the extent of

before AW: G. H/Granthasi tons: British (Secretary) and Mr Austen (Aust, as the Kowloon, Magistracy this mora- seventieth birthday if, anniversary about ** 1,000,000 to-day in Pelping":

Wireless Service.

have been delighted to be pre- ANGLO-POLISH

sent.

T

At the conclusion of the cere

mony both battalions marched to

AGREEMENT

the Somersetshire After stir- Culmination To-morrow

ring. farewell scenes, in which

Sir Ian Hamilton took part, the

homeward voyage, th

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