1935-04-08 — Page 9

AMMUNITION FOUND IN BAGGAGE

Man Returning From America Charged

BOUND OVER IN $100

Wong Kam Chuen, 48, un- employed, was this morning charged with being in possession of Grounds, of ammunition on the Ping On Wharf, Connaught Road Central, yesterday,

The police stated that defen- dant arrived in the Colony "on Saturday by the General Lee on his way to the interior. Among his baggage on the wharf were two large boxes and at the bot-" tom of one the six rounds and a holster were discovered. No re- volver was found but the Holster bore marks of having had a re- volver in it recently.

The defendant said that he did not know that the ammuni- tion was in the box and that he had picked up the holster in

The man who saved the eyesight of the King of Blam lost his left eye. He is Dr. John M. Wheeler, foremost New York eye specialist, and he is recovering from operation for the removal of his left eye because of a tumour.:::

America and thought he could ARCHAEOLOGIST

make use of the leather.

The defendant was bound over in $100 for one year and the am-1 munition was ordered to be con- .fiscated.

THEATRE MANAGER SUMMONED

IN COLONY

(Continued from Page. 1).

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1835

WORLD'S RECORDS

FOR STEAM

British Train Sets New Marks

108 MILES PER HOUR WITH 213 TONS

To-day's Short Story.

Covered All Night

AIN was drumming steadily

By Allan Vaughan Elston

Over the camp stove Mary Ryan]

Ron the tent roof. Above its warmed a pot of tea. The trout,

Hurtling down the east coast of England, LN.ER. Newcastle on

monotone. Mary Ryan, waiting fried hours ago, for supper, were for her husband to return from stone cold; nevertheless they'd make Tyna to King's Cross express last Timberline Lake, could barely a grand feast for George when he months established new world hear the rifflings of the creek came in. She set out bread and speed records.

It was past midnight.

butter and jam and cheese. She for the tenth time that she wasn't to walt

Yet Mary Ryan, assured herself made a salad. Then she sat down

At one point 108 miles all hour was achieved the locomotive record,

A Marvel Of Speed

on in the least bit worried. She moved After an hour, her tension grew.

to the tent flap looked out. Through Her ears were now painfully alert the night, she could see no further to catch a hall from without. None Over the 12 miles between than the car to whose root a fly of came. Nothing came but the steady Corby and Tallington, Lincoln-canvas stretched. Beyond it she drumming of rain, shire, the express averaged 100.8 could smell the dripping wilderness m.p.hby far the greatest dis tance covered at such a speed the history of steam trains.

in

It is understood that he L.N.E.R.

directors are considering a plazı

The starlosa mountains were there, unseen: She could feel them

She shivered, not so much from the cold as from a sense that some dark, damp mystery hovered near." Coming back into the tent she

for a service of extra-fast trains turned the flame of the oil stove from London to certain provincial Higher

TO MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story" will be Matter Of Minutes," by Stuart Macrae.

lowns to supplement ordinary ex- "No, he hasn't fallen over a cliff presses. A start will probably be and ho len't drowned. Stop being made next year.

a silly fool. Mary Ryan."

She produced her compact mirror, On this present expedition Mr. The previous world's rail record George, she reflected, could take powdered her nose, touched rouge Gristwald is being accompanied by-which was unofficial was 102 woods. Hadn't they camped here confidence of her own eyes remind- care of himself, in or out of the to her cheeks. This, the steady Mr. Harkness and his cousin. miles per hour, reached by the in the upper Shoshones for three ed her, was the first time in ten

Mr. Lawrence Gristwald is at pre-Great Western Railway engine City sent en route to Nanking where he ef Truro, between Plymouth and could have happened, she thought, to wait up for George Ryan.

Aummers now? The worst that married years that she had ever had jhopes to obtain permits from the Paddington on May 9, 1904. was that George had fished at the At half-past two she thought she Government to lead an expedition The world records followed a lake until after dark, then, coming heard him coming. At any rate from Chungking into Hunnan. He striking performance by the trait home, had lost his bearings and was will later join the other two. at on a run from King's Cross to standing pat, until dawn.

some shuffle of sound came to her which surely was neither rain nor riffles, Her feeling was that some one was tramping down the brushy trail just back of camp. She went to the tent flap, peered out, saw nothing, heard now only the raiz..

¡Shanghai.

Newcastle sarlier in the day.

Elderly Drivers

Alleged False Report Regarding Sale Of Seats

Mr. Gristwald can be distinguish- Chan Wai, the manager of the Po Hing Theatre, Nathan Road, ed by a reddish brown pointed

beard and moustache, and wears a On both outward. and return was summoned before Mr. E. I.

men Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Pair of glasses. He fa- just over journeys the drivers were

6 feet tall und is very well built. Magistracy this morning for He said this morning that he did

lover 60 years of age.

Here are some facts and figures making a false statement to the' Government regarding the sales not know when he would be leaving about the trip::

of the seats at the Theatre-on the night of March 16.

Mr. Peter Sin appeared for the defence, and entered a plea of not guilty,

+

the Colony,

SHANGHAI REPORT An Associated Press message from Shanghai last Friday stated:

The plans of a group of young

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Engine: Pacific class locomotive Papyrus, built seven years ago, named after a Derby winner, and standard...

ALLEGED ATTACK WITH KNIFE

Woman Taken To Hospital

HAWKER CHARGED AND REMANDED

Sho returned to the canvas arm- chair and sat down. And in a few minutes ake again heard what might have been a step outside. This time the sound struck her na a clink, as though someone had kick- ed against a can and set it rolling..

"George!""}

Thiere was no answer. Yet she

seemed to hear an awkward retreat. Possibly one of those "half-tame heart was prowling about. Mary

Train: Half the usual weight; Detective-Sub-Inspector G. B. Americans to seek the rare giant six coaches weighing 218 tona, Charged with causing bodily Whitcroft of the Treasury, who punda in the wilds of the Szechuen Distance: 268.2 miles each way harm to Leung Hai, a woman is in charge of the prosecution, Tibet border ended to-day as WI-The Crew: (Outward) Henry aged 21, Lau Yue; an unlicensed asked, Mr. Wynne Jones to ad- liam H. Harkness, of New York, the Guttridge, aged 64, Layton-road, hawker, appeared before. Mr. Journ the case until the end of leader, was located by the United Kentish Town, N.W., driver, Arthu Q, A. A. MacFadyen this morn- the month as one of his wit. States marshal and announced he Wightman, aged 85, of Oldfield-ing at the Central Police Court Ryan wasn't in the least afraid of nesses had left the Colony and was going back home without fur-road, Stoke Newington, N. fireman. Complainant had been living them. would be returning on about ther delay.

(Return) William Bparshott, aged with the defendant for Home At three o'clock she noticed April 26.

was 61, driver: Robert Weison, froman-time but as he was not now able George's grey coat was on his cot. The case was adjourned to

Log Of The Journey

to support her she had left him. There was a button missing. For May 1

Ostword "Return Road yesterday an argument one on. She took the cost, sat down The two meeting in Hollywood something to do she decided to sew Peak speed 88,6 m.ph. 108 mph took place, during which he is and spread it on her lap. Reaching Round journey average 68.77 m.p.h. said to have struck her with a to her left she opened a small camp Looking jeded. Harkness 'WOS [Britain's fastest regalar train, hawker's knife, causing a serious chest in which there was a wicker hailed before the district attorney the G.W.R. Cheltenham Flyer, does wound across the face,

sewing basket. In the basket was

· APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL

Money-Lender Four Days Too Late

The search for Harkness started yesterday for the second time in two weeks. He was found at a local hotel, where he had re- gistered under an assumed name.

LOOKS JADED

and explained that he had been mere Swindon-Paddington (77 miles) | As the complainant is still in a heap of George's socks in need of ly trying to "forget" his bitter disap-averaging 71.3-m.p.h. L.N.E.R. Lon- the hospital and will not be able darning capab pointment over failure to obtain a don-Leeds experimental train in to leave till Friday, the case was A gruff volce almost surprised a permit from the National govern December averaged 73.4 m.p.h. and remanded till 10 a.m. on that scream from Mary Ryan, de m ment at Nanking for the panda ex pedition.

reached 100 m.p.h.

Return 4hr.

Outward An application brought by Fuja In view of the fact that the Scheduled time 4hr. Singh, defendant appellant, American authorities had under- Actual tinio 3h. 56m 8h. 51m. money-tender of No. 1 Shatin Gap taken to search for him twice re- Road, against the judgment deli cently, Harkness was

(The Flying Scotsman. fastest ordered to LN,E.R. train, takes 6hr. 6min. for vered by the Puisne Judge, Mr. Rreport every three days at the at- the trip.

day,

KONGO MARUIN HONG KONG

"Hold right still, sister,” it said. Just m

`mind yer" business" an' I'll mind mine."

· Looking up" from her sewing, Mary Ryan saw that a man had stepped quietly into the tent. His face, seen under a dripping hat brim, "was haggard and unshaven. There was a heavy, black revolver The Kokusan Kisen Kaishnor in his hand. The menace of it, as

New Motorship On Maiden Voyage

ye

E. Lindsell, in a case in which torney's office. He said he would About 30 people took part in this Kartar Singh was awarded $890 leave for the United States at the historic run the majority of them on two promissory notes, and in earliest opportunity. technical experts who sat in a dyna terest on $90 for the last five and Harkness youthful companion, mometer car immediately behind Tokyo, who are running a freight well as the man's look of wild

SPLIT UP

six months at the rate of 2 per Legrand Gristwald, said yesterday the engine. cent. per month, was dismissed by that he was also leaving soon.

service from New York to Shang- desperation, shocked Mary Ryan to His Honour, the Chief Justice, Mr.

They were engrossed intricate hai, recently decided to extend the verge of petrifaction. calculations and sending instruc- their service to the Colony, employ For a moment he said nothing A. D. A. Macgregor, in the Su-. preme Court this morning.

wald, cousin of Legrand, made by means of

Harkness and Lawrence Gristions to the men on the footplate Ing, new motor vessels capable of more Then he came forward and| Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jur., In- successful expedition to the island

loud-speaker attaining a high speed, and con- sat down. His gun still menaced. installation structed by Mr. F. G. Nigil, ap- of Komodo in the Dutch East Indies)

sequently, the tav. Kongo Maru, "Keep outa my way an' I'll keep peared for the appellant.

a year ago and from there took the homeward run.

The big thrill was reserved for, which is on her maiden voyage to outs yours," he said finally."Come In dismissing the appeal His four giant lizards or "dragons" to

Hong Kong, arrived in port this daylight, I'll be pullin out with the Lordship' said that judgment in 2008 in America. Last November]

morning.VRO A Speed Dash this action was delivered on Fe they arrived in Manila with four

"He is going to try a speed dash bruary 22, 1935. Application for companions, and announced they just after Grantham," said one of leave to appeal must be made were on their way to bag alive a the experts in the dynamome within seven days, and application giant panda, the rare bear-like car.

in this case was made 11 days beast for which - Kermit and Col The train roared on.. after the time prescribed, In his Theodore Roosevelt sought in vain of people on footbridge and plat opinion no sufficient cause had several years ago.

been shown for asking the Court to exercise its authority for an ex- tension, therefore the application must fail.

DANCE TEAM AT HOTEL

John And Harriet Griffith

A special attraction has

arranged for the Hor Roof Garden this

sensational dance

riet Griffith will sp Dances from

These taler large

den

HEALTH RETURNS

OF US. ARMY.

Home And Hawaii Give Best Results

PANANA, THE WORST

We

forms waved and were gone in flash;"";

Then Corby was res

hundred and i aix”” anii voice through

But apart from an occasional jolt. there was no discom

M Bparshott, gri

than usual, but no more was grudging in his praise of the train he had driven

She's spice train," he said frð

The continental United States and the territory of Hawall are the the footplate, runs ver

healthleat places for the a Caucasian soldiers and Panami been the unhealthiest," accord

data submitted to the Hou Representatives Subcommitte Appropriation

and might do better

The local agents for the Kokusan] "At first sight of him, Mary Ryan isen Kaisha of Tokyo are the had almost screamed. She did scream Nippon Yusen-Kaisha, and they now, for she saw that he was wear

the ing George Ryan's clothes

have made arrangements for public to view the new vesse tween 4 and 6 p.m-to-day

As the vessel In moored to a buoy in the Central Fairway, motor launches will leave Blake Pler and hip every half hour, commenc- from 8.80/p.m.sk

m.v Kongo Karu leaves to orrow at noon for: Los

Panama Canal Zone and New

Now she stared in a growing hor at the hat, cream-coloured corduroy outing sult and knee boots

which her husband had set forth imberline Lake. This intruder now wore them. Worse, there were stains of blood on the front of the

Where The

no good

ELLEN TERRY'S TO wouldn't

BE HONOURED

Birthday To Be Made Annual Event

WOMAN DOCTOR SPEAKS ON

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