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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1935

KAREN WERDA Today's Short Story.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ST. JOHN BRIGADE"

FINALE FOR SILAS

By HE

Bates

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To the Editor “China Mail”|||

been After my Uncle Silas died I warden gate. I sue that the mate Sir-My attention has directed to the leader in a contem-walked thmagh the fields one and the fence, rain-green and 'pat porary on May 11 entitled "Ambu-afternoon to look for the last terped with prints of orange funsus time at the little house by the for as long as I could remember. lance Work". As Director of Ame

pice-spimer where he had lived had been neatly repaired and paint- bulance in this Colony some of the for seventy years. It was softed white. The effect was curiously comments embodied in that article autumn weather, the sunlight as sepulchral cannot be permitted to pass uncha mellow and still as Silas's cow- But it did not trouble-me. It lenged, calculated as they are to slip wine.

was only when. I saw "beyond- the; As I went up the lane to the fence the stump of a Sawn-down convey a wrong impression upon the. reading public as well as to stultify house I looked unconsciously for the apple tree, and then another, and the usefulness of the Order of St.) old signs of things: smoke rising John. It is implied that work)

from the chimney; the old suminer bird-scares, age-green hate which lies. outside our province is being undertaken.

LITTLE more than a year nothing. And then, coming to the

sticks and inside-cut amèrel'as and twirling shuttlecocks: scarecrow's It should be unnecessary to refute made up of odd legs. of Silas's un- such an implication. The leader] which has confused the functions de pants and bell-bottomed trousers

of:-

(a) The Order of St. John

sets forth the voluntary duties of a Brigade.

and the housekeeper's ancient hat and chemises; the ladder in the late apple trees; the bonfire filling, the

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(b) The St Jahr Ambulance garden and the spinner and the then another of a cherry tree, and

Association and

felds with smoke that hung in beyond that a wide empty space (c) The St John Ambulance sweet-smelling clouds under the where the gooseberry bushes had

Brigade.

pines and the golden cherry leaves been, and beyond that another public I listened for the cluck of Silas's white fence in place of the old wild bens and the grunting and rooting elderberry hedge, that I began to The activities of the Brigade of the solitary sow he had always grow perturbed and finally sugry could and would be extended if ade-kept in the black sty under the And for some minutas I stood there were elderberries of the garden, end on the grass outside helpless, star- But it was very quiet oddlying at the white fences the empty silent everywhere. I could hear garden, the sawn-off tree-trunks, the newly white-painted windows until suddenly I could bear it ne

quate financial assistance forthcoming, e.g.

(a) A Road Service

(b)

(c)

First Aid Dressing Stations

An Ambulance Transport

Service.

It is not generally knowi

that

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this office not later than five St. John ambulances for ser Now is your

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vice in the Colony and in the Newį. what you can do in this line and i The writers of the six best will Territory. win tickets for the Queen's Theatre each receive two dress-circle tickets! to see the rollicking farce "The for the Queen's Theatre. Captain Hates the Sea" *

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In the above picture are Victor

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BANKRUPTCY COURT

FIRM BRANCHES ALLEGED

MANAGING PARTNER ACCUSED OF FORGERY

SOLDIERS ·

Six Factories To Be Established

SZECHUEN AFFAIRS

Chengtu No Longer Fears Red Attack

WILL SHORTLY AGAIN BE GOVERNMENT SEAT

Chungking.

longer.

I opened the gate and slammed it shut again and walked up the path to the front door. It was shut- and painted white! The saintly effect of that repeated whiteness was too much. I hammered the door with my stick. I was pretty well worked up, ready for anything, with enough scorching frony ready my lips to have burnt the paint off that-door..

And then, waiting there, furious, I saw something else.. The old

I went

Four of these ambulances are ru and maintained by Government and the want of more general sup

Mr. Teng Min-cha, Chief Secre- port makes it well nigh impassible tary of the Szechuen Provincial for this Organisation to maintain Government, declared at a press

ambulance service adequate to airs to the Government Build-sweet pink and white double roses

¡¡interview here last week that re- the needs of the Colony.

ings at Chengtu having been that had grown on either side of The New Territory activities: come under the aegis of the St. Provincial

completed, the removal of the the door for countless years had Government from been sawn down too...

The anger John Ambulance Association-not here to its former seat will be went out of me at once. Brigade. The Brigade and Associa-effected in the near future listless. And there I stood, feeling tion are distinct and it is possible Preparations for the removal are pretty idiotic and as dumb for a local Brigade to have no direct under way and are expected to brick, the irony evaporated with the connection with the local Associa-be completed shortly. In accordance with a joint petition except through London.

janger, my whole spirit fat. tion from the Ministries of War status of the Association

General Lir Hisang, Chairman Then the door opened. And in- will be of the Szechuen Provincial Gov-stantly my anger rose up again, but and Industry and the General Mi-clarised if I quote from a letter lernment, who had been indis-not bitterly. It was a sweet anger, tary Academy, the National Govern received from the Headquarters of posed recently due to strain of precise, juicy. ment recently authorized the appro-the Association, Clerkenwell

My mouth was work, has now fully recovered watering as though after" a priation of a sum of $300,000" from: "I am very grateful to you for and, after a brief period of rest, sweet apple. the general reserve of the National including a fuller-report for, as will resume his duties. Eudget for the current fiscal year. for the establishment of several factories for disabled soldiers and civilians.

Nanking.

Six such factories will be es- tablished at first in the provinces of Kiangsi, Human, Honan. Hupeh.] The trial of an issue to decide amount to be spent on each has Anbwei and Shensi, and the initial whether the Tung Lok Tung been fixed Fook. Tung Woo and Tung Chan Agency).

at $20,000------(Chekiai firms are branches of the Tung

Tak firm, now bankrupt.

was

The

sour-

A young woman had opened the

And she was dressed in She seemed to me like a white fence;

you point out, the summary can- Referring to the Bed, situation door. not give an adequate conception in northern Szechuen, Mr. Teng white. of the magnitude and variety of said that the Communists under paling out of the the work

Hau Shang-chien are now being straight up and straight down, "The reports which you furnish enveloped by a combined force of straight and white whichever way I from time to time do give one the Central Government and the booked at her. Her face was white some idea of the tremendous Szechuen Provincial troops and too; a pasty, town-white. She was activity pursued under the ban-that their final destruction is knitting. She carried the white ter of St. John and I think you now only a matter of time. The wool and the white bone needles in know how greatly it is appreciat-defences of Chengto have now her hards

ed. The objects of the Associa-been considerably strengthened "Good afternoon." I said. tion are wide and permit of these with the arrival of Government spoke nicely, sweetly, as though I continued before His Honour the

various activities (ie the New reinforcements and the fear of a wanted to sell her an insurance po Chief Justice. Mr. A D. A

Territory Centres) to be carried Bed incursion. which Macgregor, in the Supreme Court witness was that the marks had been The explanation offered by the

once licy or sewing machine. out under its aegis."

menaced the city, is now de "Good afternoon.". this morning.

It must not be forgotten that the finitely over-Chekiai Agency. was prim; a white, blameless-life Fer voice caused by his finger rubbing across existing St. John New Territories At a previous hearing it was the ink before it had properly dried. Medical Benevolent Branch is the

kind of voice, decently distant, half divulged that when a Bailiff of Mr. Jenkin asserted that the reason result of amalgamation between the

afraid the Court went to the four firms was he (witness) had chopped the New Territories Medical Benev FAMILY SAVED FROM concerned to collect the books, he receipts covering a period of several lent Branch, inaugurated by Sir WES told that there were

30 months at the same time, so com- Elly and Lawrence Kadoorie, Pro- books. They were found later,

|mitting forgery. however, in the offices of Russ

fessor Gerrard, Dr. Arthur Woo.! & Co.. solicitors.

Mr. Jenkin went on to say that Messrs. J. E. and F. A. Joseph anı! the capital of the Tung Fook firm E. M. Raymond and the St. John Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., instructed, by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, represents was 35,000 which was just enough Ambulance Association, which at Arculli Bros. petitioning credit carry on business

FIRE Mirror Crashes And Wakens House

"I was wondering.” I said. " you would allow me to take some notes about the house and garden.Į They have historic associations.”

She looked more scared than ever. Her prim eyes were full of the fear that I was about to burst in and The crash of a falling plateglass take the spoons and help myself to that time operated in other New mirror awakened a family of four the food in the pantry- tors, while Mr. D. McNeill, instruct by Mr. Jenkin, witness said that he when there was little other medical Moundfeld-road, Stoke Newington, represent the Nanweald Tele- Answering a further question put] Territory areas and at a period when fire broke out in a house in ed by Mr. F. H. Loseby, of Messrs had never, on

Then I said: "I am a reporter. I Russ and Co., is appearing for the ever, loaned sums of money to the

any pretext what-relief available to the villagers. Tùng Lok Tung Foak Tung Woo

From the earliest days of the to escape.

during the night, and enabled them graph Order hospital work has been one Mr. Rule, the occupier, aroused ful

The change in her was wonder- ALLEGED CO-BETWEEN of the predominant features of the his wife and two

She softened at once. She The Tung Chan, Tung Woo and Order of St. John and the first re-they were safely in the street re- of her white overall

sons and after put the white knitting in the pocket Tang Fook, firms, Mr. Jenkin coc-corded Hospital was established at turned to telephone the fire bri- little of her fear remained

But still a Kam Tsan-tung, managing part ner of the Tung Fook was the first tinned, had found that they were Jerusalem for the relief

of gade

"Tm afraid I can't tell you witness to take the stand to-day able to obtain any further sup- pilgrims proceding to worship zi

mach," she said. "We have only Questioned by Mr. McNeill be stated plies of leather (the commodity in the Holy Sepulchre."

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Grim Discovery By Police

In Local Boarding

an isolated example

"He was a terrible old man, who In concluding, I would like to lived here before us,” she said. disillusion all on the score of “I know,” I saidake finance.

This Organisation, during the

not received one single cent from

whole period of its existence, has House

"Did you know him?"" she said.. "Everybody knew him.” "We found hundreds of empty bottles in the cellar," she said. "He

Mr. Jenkin, cross-examining, ask- ed what the usual procedure was The gruesome discovery of the Since that day he had not been seen. public funds. We are left to our must have done nothing but drink when a chop had been applied to a dead body of a Chinese male, Growing suspicious, as the door own devices and so long as we "He didn't I said. "He drank receipt. Was the ink dried or did the paper absorb the finid quickly? named Ngo Hung-thuen, was made of the deceased's room was al- have the sympathy and support of himself to death Witness stated that the time ocen by the police this morning when the police authorities, who went although expansion may be delay-

She was speechless. ways locked, the manager informed) the charitable we shall garry On

"It was the cellar I wanted to pied paying out money after a chop they forced open the door of a room down to the boarding house this ed

see," I said. "It is the cellar which had been used was suficient to peron the second floor of the Man morning and forced open the door. Thanking you for the favour of is historic." mit the ink to dry. A blotter Kok Boarding House at No. 158, The dead body has been removed publication.

She hesitated, therefore was seldom used,

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to the public mortuary, but the I have the honour to be,

“In what way Historic 2290 Counsel: "Then how is it that oneAccording to the manager of the cause of death is not yet known

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wara school teach receipt has been stained by a chop boarding house, the deceased, who The police, however, suspect that

Tours faithfully.

before alleged to have been stamped three is said to be native of Foochow the man committed suicide by

beard of months later

booked the room on Friday last taking poison

ALFRED MORRIS,

Director of Ambulance.

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