1935-04-11 — Page 9

CLAIM AGAINST CONTRACTORS

Case Revolves Round Closed Thomson Rd. Branch

P.W.D. WITNESS DECLARES CHOPS IDENTICAL

A well-known firm of Chinese contractors; Messrs. Sang Lee & "Co., of No. 2 and No. 8, Tin Lok Lane, Hong Kong, were the de- fendunts in an action brought for settlement before His Hon- our, the Pulsné Judge, Mr. R. E. Linduell, in the Supreme Court this morning. The case was one in which. Lee Yun Wo, of No.]

278, Hennessy Road, claimed the " Mra, Laura E Richards of

sum of $284.95, being goods sold and delivered to the defendant. firm.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C Ini structed by Mr: J. T, Prior of 'Wil-} kinson & Grist, appeared

on be half of the claimants. Mr. Duri can MeNiell, instructed by Mr. D. L. Strellett of G. K. Hall Brutton | & Co, represented the principle branch of the defendants, and Mr.

Elder Potter, K.C., Instructed by

Mr. D. L. Dennys of Dennyé & Co., was for the second branch of) Messrs. Sung Lee & Co.

· Gardiner,' de', 'has written a book

a year every year since, she ·"was' nine, One of them," "Captain January," is one of the 50 best- zellers of the last 50 years. has just observed her 85th birth- day with a book about her father, Samuel Gridley Howe, pioneer educator of the blind, and her mother, Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

PURGING OFFICIAL CORRUPTION

SCHOOLBOY

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935

COMMENDED

BY MAGISTRATE

Bag-Snatcher Caught In Jordan Road

EUROPEAN LADY VICTIMISED

Short StörT.

POSSESSION

OF ANGELA

BRADSHAW

By John Collier

THERE was a young woman. "But cannot she be certified for "Mr. Silva, I would like to con

the daughter of a retired setting fire to my curtains?" asked gratulate you on your effort. Thank

colonel, resident in one of Lon-her mother,

Not unless I find symptoms of you." said Mr. E. 1. Wynne Jones don's most select suburbs, and when the story of how Mul Lok, engaged to be married to Mr. Insanity," sold the specialist. “You 85-year-old unemployed, was Angus Fairfax, a solicitor who can, of course, charge her with caught, after snatching a hand-bag niade money every year. The arson.

from Mra, E. Green, of No. 27 name of this young women was "What? And have her go to pri Jordan Road, by Mr. F. H. Silva, Angela Bradshaw She wore a son?" cried her mother. "Think of

a student at La Salle College, in jumper, had an Aberdeen terrier, the-disgrace!

Parkes Street, last evening, was and when snakeskin shoes were “I could undertake her defence, related in the Kowloon Magistracy in fashion she wore snake-skin free of charge, and doubtless get her this morning.

shoes. Angus Fairfax was as off with a caution," said Mr. Fair

The defondant pleaded not guilty ordinary as herself, and pleasant fax. to the charge, stating that he heard and ordinary were all thecir-There would still be the news- a police whistle and ran on to the cumstances of their days

Baid the Colonel, shaking papers," pavement where he was caught by Nevertheless, one day in Septem- his head. "At the same time, it ght by ber this young woman developed seems extraordinary that nothing

three Portuguese men,

TO-MORROW'S STORY To-morrow's story will be "Two Schools," by Grosvenor Reeves.

In outlining the case. Detective symptoms of a most distressing can be done about it." Saying Sergeant Franklin, of the Yaumati malady she put a match to the this, he gave the eminent alienist Police Station, stated that at about curtains of the drawing-room, and his cheque and a look. The allenist 7.15 p.ni, yesterday Mrs. Green was kicked, bit, and swore like a trooper shrugged his shoulders and de- about to enter the doorway to her when restrained,

parted, flat when her bag, which contained'

Everyone thought she had lost money and articles to the value of her reason, and no one was more $37.30, was snatched from under distressed than her fance A cele her left arm..

The defendant was brated alienist was called In he chased by complainant and a sea found her in a collected frame of man of the Hong Kong Water mind. He made a number of little Police, who was nearby, and, after tests, such as are usual in those running into Parkes Street, he was examinations, and could find none of caught by three Portuguese boys. the usual symptoms of dementia.

Sentence of four months' hard When he had done, however, she labour, with 12 strokes of the birch burst into a peal of coarse laughter, was passed. Should the defendant and, calling him a damned old fool, tremely well-turned) and recited a not be able to have the birch an she reminded him of one or two string of doggerel vorses, celebrat With a view to supervising the additional two months imprison- points he had overlooked. Nowing the occasion in great detail, and

these points were

abcasting scorn on her parents" and “I don't know if learned counsel administration of local government will be imposed.

struse ones, and most unlikely to be her fiance. They were very scur represents one and the same firm, "ments and purging it of corrup

known to a young girl who had never rilous, or I would reproduce them

hera. studied psycho-analysia, Ma

STEPS

Mr. Sheldon, in his opening, | " NANKING TAKES said that with one exception the goods, for the sale of which the claim is being made, were delivered to a branch of Sang Lee & Cur in Thomson Rond. The Thomson Itoad branch is now closed and the j plaintiffs are now suing the de- fendants as they are the same firm..

Mr. Shel'on continued,

Mr. Peter and Mr. McNiell roau and stated that they were in no way connected with one another.

"Same Firm"

Seven Control Areas To Be Established

Nanking,

tion the Central Political Council at a meeting last week decided upon the creation of seven Con- trol · Areas in the country and announced the appointment of Beven Supervising Commissioners for the respective areas. -* Mr. Sheldon: "I will prove by Mr. Ting Chao-wu was documents from the Hong Kong pointed Supervising Commission Electric Co. and the Hong Kong er for the Liangau Area, Mr Telephone Co., that they, are the Miao Pei-chen for the Anhwei- same firm.

•

+

AP-

CONVICTIONS ARE

REMEMBERED

extremely

Angela immediately put her feet the table (her legs were ex-

The alienist was greatly shocked During the next few days, she and surprised, but he was forced to played some other tricks, all of them admit that while auch knowledge troublesome and undignified: above was most abnormal, and while the all, she rhymed away like the prin term she had applied to him was cipal boy in a panto. A whole string indicative of the extreme of folly, of doctors were called in they all he did not feel that she could be said her misbehaviour was not due certified on these grounds alone. to insanity."

ALLEGED ASSAULT

Her parents then tried a few quacks, who, powerless to certify, were also impotent to cure. In the end they went to a seedy Madame

St. John Brigade Man who claimed to see into the soul.

The Victim

Denied Before Arrival Of Finger-Print Official

Sentence of three months' im Kiangai Area, Mr. Chen Chao-prisonment was imposed on the Mr. R. C. B. Clark, of the Public ying for the Chekiang-Fuklen Chi, a 36-year-old unemployed who Works Department, was called to Area, Mr. Kao I-han for the appeared on Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones give evidence by Mr. Sheldon. He Hupeh-Hunan Area, Mr. Fang at the Kowloon Magistracy this recognised the chops used by the Chia-hui for the Shantung-Hanan morning for receiving a brass tap défendants as being identical with Area, Mr. Chow Li-sheng for the stolen from the ss. Kum Sang, on those used by Sang Lee & Co. Hopel Area and Mr. Tai Huai- Sunday...

After a lengthy and difficult sheng-for the Kansu-Ningbola-The defendant was brought to Before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen ed of a devil. Two guineas." cross-examination by Mr. Potter, Chinghal Area. P

[Court on Tuesday, but he denied fat the Central Police Court this They asked her to exercise the Mr. Clark agreed that Mr. Yu Yak The seven Commissioners are the previous convictions which had morning. Yu Chi, unemployed was intrusive fiend, but that was ten, Kwai, Manager of the firm at No. all members of the Control Yuan been entered on his record card charged with assaulting Young Sul, so they said they would think the 2 Tin Lok Lane, had made an ap and the offices will be under and so was remanded to this morn of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, matter over, and took Angela, home plication to the Hong Kong Govthe direct jurisdiction of the ing. Upon the appearance of Ser- at a vaccination post at the junction in a taxi. ma ernment to fulfil certain contracta Yuan-Chekiai Agency.

which were not completed when the Thomson Road firm was dissolved. He further admitted that Mr. Yu. had stated when he had made the application that he was in no way connected with the Thomson Road branch. This was on the records of the Hon. Mr. R.

M. Henderson, Director of Public Works.

If the Thomson Road branch-and

DUMPING FOREIGN COAL IN CHINA

Ministry Of Industry To Take Action

The whole thing, in perfectly clear, said this unprepossessing old woman. Your daughter is possess

along."

geant Moran, of the Finger-Print of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen On the way, she said to them Office, defendant remembered the Street yesterday.)

with a smlie, "If you had had the convictions.

The case was remanded for 48 decency to ask me, I could have told He told the police that he was hours, so that further enquiries may you that that was the trouble", all [Hong Kong-born, but upon being be made. Cross-examined by Mr. Wynne Jones It was found that he was not locally born, and ke was there fork recommended for banishment.

CHINESE-ITALIAN RELATIONS

AMERICAN'S GIFT TO International Cultural

Society Formed

BRITAIN

£100,000 A Year On Good Causes

When they had finished rating her for allowing them to go to so much expense unnecessarily, they naked her how she knew.

"In the simplest way," she said, "I see him very frequently.", ***When?” asked the colonel. "Where?" cried her mother,

"What is he like?", cried her fiance.

Nauking.. the branch at No. 2 Tin Lok Lane As a means were identical, Mr. Potter sub-heavy dumping of foreign coal of checking the mited, then Mr. Yu would not need on the Chinese market and to re- ed to have made an application to lieve the depression in the carry, on the contracts. He would native coal industry, it is learned be obliged to do so.

that the Ministry of Industry is planning to control the "trans- A tall, snowy-haired American portation and sale of Chinese business® man is distributing coal-Chekiai Agency.

£100,000 a year on good causes- China, will be officially formed room, and it is there that I see him, in Britain.

There sometime this month.

between eleven at night and seven in the morning.” *???

The case is proceeding.

POLICE CORPS FOR NORTH CHINA

5,000 Men Sent Into Demilitarised Zone

PEACE PRESERVATION DUTY

Taintien

1

Nanking. “He is young and not at all bad- The Sino-Italian Cultural So-looking", replied Angels, and he ciety, promoted by Dr. Wang talks most amusingly. He general- Shih-chieh, Mr Tai Chi-tao, Drly appears to me when I am alone: Chu Chia-hus and a number of am seldom alone but in my bed- prominent Italian residents in

founder of the Pilgrim Trust,

Mr. Harkness, a Boots-American, Cheklai Agency.

He is Edward 8. Harkness, sixty- The organisation of the Society."What does he say?" cried her EXPULSION OF REDS year-old railway magnate and has been approved by the Italian father, grasping his malaoca.

Ambassador, Signor Lojacono. Is he black?" cried her mother. FROM KUOMINTANG

What does he he

How do Commemoration Service

you know It is not a she-devil?" In Canton

cried her fianco

d

Canton, to-day.

"י

established this £2,000,000 fund as

a thanksgiving for Britain's sacri Ifices, during the war.

The fund helps youth organise- tions and such efforts as Baby Week, the open-air nursery schools, univer-

KWEICHOW FINANCE

COMMISSIONER

Mr. Wang Cheng-yin

"He expresses himself rather coarsely, but I believe sincerely, replied Angela. – “1. someti find

He is not black. He is not a she- devil. **But how does he appear.1" asked bermother":

To-morrow will be the 8th anal- sity settlements, and the National Post May Be Offered To the things he says quite beautiful. versary of the expulsion of the Com- Council of Social Service. The New Peace Preservation munists from the Kuomintang. A Last year 24,000 was granted for Corps for the Demilitarised Zone, service in tommemoration will which consists of 5,000 men, was held in the Chungahan Memorial Nearly £200,000 has been spent.

be summer camps.

Nanking

dispatched to the Zone in the Hall at 9 s.m. It will be attended on preserving national artistle and In response to a summons from "Frequently I find him beside me

latter part of last week by Party members and representa- natural treasures,

The Corps is divided into two tives of the various government detachments of 2,500 men. One organs, public bodies and schools. detachment will be stationed in It will be recalled that the Com TESTING BUREAU TO

the Luantung Area under the munists voluntarily entered the command of General Chang Yen Kuomintang in 1924 and they were tion, and the other in the Chih-expelled on April 12, 1927, when it sien-Mijun Area, with General was discovered that they were fur Chang Ching-yu as commander thering their sims under the cloak The two detachments were con of the Party Central Press, centrated at Tangshan and Tung-ran

chow respectively

while await

ing orders to proceed. PREMIER FLIES TO PARIS

The irregular units in the

Zone under Chao Lat and Ldule/Continued from Page

Tao-chow have been ordered to Before leaving the

move out of the Zone

ther training, while, how

bandit-suppression

troops und

Yutien ware

pending the z

unita Cheki

Agend

dati

BE ABOLISHED

Resolution Passed In Canton

when I have got into bed," said Angela, with the greatest com sure in the world

General Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Cheng-yin, formerly Com missioner of Finance of the Cho klang Provincial Government, in have always asked you to tends to fg to. Kwelyang very me order a wider bed for shortly to see the Generalissimo: observed her mother to the

It is reported that Mr. Wang This hend may be offered the post

Com- once said

missioner of Finance of the there is no bed wide Kwelchow Provincial

Govern

ment Cheki Agenc

Ска

g'day?

he Southwest

DED

NOTICE!

FROM SUNDAY

14th APRIL, 1935

PRICES OF ADMISSION at the

CENTRAL

THEATRE

will be

REDUCED

the following scale:

(TO ALL SHOWS)

Dress Circle

Back Stalls Front Stalls

(Prices Include Tax)"

During the Past Month

$1.10

Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., have pre- sented to you at the Central Theatre no- thing but the best in screen entertainment and will continue to do so; and at the MOST POPULAR PRICES The following Is a few of the pictures to be shown from 14th April

"RUGGLES OF RED GAP"

JEW SUSS "ALIA

**** LIVES QE A BENGAL LANCER"

"SWEET ADELINE”. "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935" "MAN OF ARANZ

LEE THEATRE

OTEL 206020

SHOWING TO DAY

Daily at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM,

HIS

to do w

with as he desires

IS SHE WOMAN OR WAX?

THE MYSTERY OF THE

WAX

MUSEUM

ALL IN GORGEOUS

TECHNICOLOR

NEXT CHANGE

SATURDAY & SUNDAY 13TH & 14TH APIL

Janet

GAYNOR

Charles

FARRELL

CHANGE OF HEART

DUNN ROGERS

PRICES40 CTS, 80 CT83 and 20/CTS.

BAGGAGE TRANSFERS

Telephone

Fand Secure PROVIDENT

RTGAGE