POLICE REWARD OF $100 OFFERED
Two Robberies In N.T.
Village On May 11 -
INFORMATION SOUGHT
The Police have offered a reward of $100 for information leading to the arrest of the men responsible for the two robberies which occur- red in the village of Ting Kong. New Territories, in the early hours. of Saturday, May 11.
Cheung Yung 3
45-year-old
widow, residing in an unnumbered bouse in Ting Kong village, Sheung Shui.
New Territories, reported | that at 2 am on that day. three men forced their way into her house and decamped with $13.
Another robbery took place in the same district, half an hour later. when the house belonging to a mar- ried woman named Leung L
aged 38, was broken into by three men who made good their escape with HK$45 and $260 in. Canton
currency.
FOREIGN OFFICE
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New First Counsellor
Appointed
Friends of Amadro Barrettz, Italian Consti in the Dominican. Republic, have appealed to Premier Mussolini to effect his
release from a military prison, where he is, held on a charge of conspiring to assassinate Pres: Rafael Trujillo (above).
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LEGISLATIVE
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1935
RESEARCH SHIP
HOME AGAIN “
Discovery F's 20 Months In Antarctic
Londoo, To-day.
To-day's Short Story-
THE EARTH WAS GOOD
By Ursula Bloom
saved. He had his case, and the
THE casa was very small The British Royal research ship I It stood on the edge of the great sea reaching to his very door "Discovery II now lies in St Pontine marshes, a mere hut. He had, he believed, everything in Katherines Dock, London, after 20 with a fat roof over four - mud life. months of oceanographical search in the Antarctic.
walls, through which the blazing "Take me to Napoli," begged sun penetrated in summer, and Carmena. She had that whim. She The main purpose of the voyage the wind pierced in winter wanted to see the great city, and; was to study the habits and dis- Guiseppi had built the cast with what better time than on beri tribution of whales and a report his own hands, here close to the honeymoon? The economist 'in has been prepared for the, Colonial sea itself, from which he drew Guiseppi shirked spending his little Office on this subject.
his living. Guiseppi with his all like that, but then he told hìn- The teeming marine life of the small sturdy body and his hungry self that was folly! Why save for Antarctic was studied and records dark eyes, and his hands for ever an indefinite future? Why not taken of sea depths. The greatest busy with the nets. Inside you (spead now? If Carmens, wanted an depth, recorded was 2,000 metres, could hear the wind in the excursion *to Napoli, then near South Sandwich Island-Eri-sedges and the break of the should have it. tish Wireless Service.
waves of the Tyrrhenian sex on. the shore.
HONG KONG HERIOT CLUB
Founder's Day Dinner Well Attended
...
4
At first Guiseppi did not care. He had been born here: his
father had been a fisherman before him. He was used to the sea with jits harvest, and the marshes zid- died with malaria and fever. He jnever thought of earth as being useful; he only thought of the sea
TO-MORROW'S STORY
.
To-morrow's story will be -“Fulfilment.”.
Lionel by Roberts.
she
They were married one brilliant
In commemoration of the birth of as giving them life and food. His day when the fetid heat was rising life was measured in terms of the from the swamps and the seas sigh- George Heriot, founder of George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, the fish that he caught, clict and sarde.
ed softly against the beach. did a man want?. He members of the Hong Kong Heriat what else
Carmens wore a sprig of pink! PROGRAMME Club held their annual Founder's loved the sea which stirred along oleander in her hair and another Day dinner at the Gloucester Hotel the beach, and the soft wind tha tucked into the bosom of her frock. touched the coarse marsh grasses They went to Napoli by train, sit- (Continued from Page 1!
last night:
The Hong Kong Herior Club, much the same way as it touched ting bol upright side by side on the hard boards of the third-class car- forthwith. The full details will which was founded in 1927, has in the waves. be forthcoming at a
conference creased in membership during the! He was satisfied.
riage Guiseppi's eyes-
grew with the press to-night.
jeight tears it has been in existence
bright and Carmenia's heart beat Then be met Carmena. Carmena fast. They had little idea what It was indicated that the and last night's function proved to) Following the transfer of Mr. emergency measures
would not be one of the largest and most en-was of fisherfolk, too, smally made, they were going to see, but they
with dark pools of eyes and thick believed it would be good. Wu Sung-kao. First Counsellor be final but that the President Joyable gatherings in its history. of the Ministry of Foreign would possibly seek the broaden-
For the first time Guiseppi saw. Affairs, as Director of the De ing of the constitutional powers partment of International Affairs for support of the New Deal of the Ministry. Dr. Jefferson D. Reuter H. Lamb. Counsellor of the
Xanking
Ministry, will be promoted First MODIFIELD N.R.A. TO
Counsellor to succeed. Mr. Wu.
Mr. Chow Yi-tung, Assistant, Director of the Department of International Affairs of the
BE ESTABLISHED
Ministry, has been appointed (Continued from Page 1)
will phasised that no
First Secretary of the Chinese
false hopes Legation in Belgium, and accompany the new Minister to should be entertained that the
Government would undertake any Brussells-Chekiai Agency.
way to legalise the codes" or seek their enforcement through Feder- al activity. Legislative authority will be sought immediately to re- vive the Federal Alcoholic
Con- {trol Administration, the Electric Home and Farm Authority, the For Szechuan-Hankow Petroleum Administrative Board,
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The toast of the evening "The black hair which he loved to unplait Immortal Memory was proposed by and play with. We will be mar-earth! Mr. J. R. Kinghorn, President of the ried, carissima," he said.
Club, while Mr. J. E W. Howie pro- posed the toast of the "Auld Gal lants and Major W. J. E. Macken
zie "The Old School”
The following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year:
President. Mr. J. R. Kinghorn. Past President, Mr. D. A. Purves. Vice-President, Mr. J. W.
(Howie
Secretary, Mr. A. N. Braude. Treasurer,, Mr. D. S. Bobb.
CHINESE FILMS
IN PARIS
Lauded By Cinema Critics
They came to the flashing white- He believed his cup to be full of ness of a city built in terraces up happiness, for he had a little money
EUROPEAN FINED
Postman Bitten By Dog
the side of a hill They Jaw
streets lead ng down to blue waters, and Vesuv opposite frowning 'dark- ly. There was an air of luxury and of comfort about the place. Here was money. Guiseppi, quick to appreciate the difference, real ised that bere people did not think in centesimi, but in "Mr. R. Ashby, of Messrs. Dod-lire. Men did not go hungry be well and Co. Ltd, was this morn cause the sea had not yielded suff- ing fined $10 by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-cient harvest; they were not fever- fadyen at the Central Magistracy ridden. Carmena did not know why for allowing his two dogs to be her young husband was so thought- aboard in Shouson Hill Road with-ful, and so quiet; she saw gay life oạt muzzle or leash on May 23. He and pretty frocks; she was only new fashions was also ordered to pay $3 to a concerned with the postman who had been bitten by that she saw about her. But for the first time Guiseppi realised the one of the dogs.
Mr. Ashby said that, owing to a tremendous advantage these people MISS BUTTERFLY WU PRAISED recent burglary at his house, the had over his people.
dogs were let loose in the com- The survey of the route of the LABOUR APPROPRIATION
pound, which was well fenced. On project Szechuan-Hankow Rail-
The three Chinese films, "The the day in question they must way is now in progress, accord-While admitting that the seven Two Sisters." The Orchid" and have got out of the yard by
N. E. A Labour Boards must be The Spring Silkworm" in all of chance." ing to
dropped, the President asked for which Miss Butterfly Wu the Ministry of Railways.
The information states that supplementary appropriation of beautiful Chinese movie star now the route of the line originally $600,000 for the Labour Depart-visiting Paris plays the leading proposed would have encounteredent to enable it to carry on its role, were much appreciated by He added the French cinema world when many mountains, and work would mediation activities.
Railway
information
Nanking.
from the
made as to which route will be adopted-Chekiai Agency,
jand the Central Statistical. Board, (all of which were outlawed by the IN. B. A. decision.
'cover the functions of
Paris.
EUROPEAN LADY CAUTIONED
They went up Vesuv.
There were vines propped along wires, and bearing great bunches or purple grapes. There was wheat growing. Here was food actually harvested from the soil itself, fruit of the earth, and all his life he had been used to the barren waste of marshes, to the lament of the sea yielding a haphazard living for a poor pescatori.
He filang himself down on the hot soil, and let it crumble between his fingers.
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HONG KONG.
DOLLAR
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AT ALL
BOOKSTALLS
have been very difficult to carry significantly that the Wagner Lashown, here recently. on Now the Ministry is con- (bour Bill—if established, would The Chinese students invited Dog Breaks Away From templating a change of the route create new tribunals which could the leading
French cinema
Her During Walk and is making a survey along
other critics, deputies of the Chamber, the Yangtze River. As soon as boards. This is generally regard-diplomats, artists and university
"How now, care?" asked Car- Mrs. D. G. McAvory was. this the survey of the new route ised as endorsement by the admin-professors to a tea party, which morning cautioned by Mr. Q. A. Abunch of grapes, munching them! meza as she sat there, eating aj completed a decision will be istration of the Wagner Bill.
was followed by the presentation Macfadyen at the He said that he expected the Fe of "The Orchid" The audience Court, when summoned for allowing
Central Police out of her hand. troleum Administrative Board to declared the film to be a great
She did not understand. “I her dog on Craigmen Path without only we had these chances. If only be legalised by some general oil success. legislation-Reuter
Miss Butterfly Wu shone here a muzzle or a lead
we had this. If only we had the jas an accomplished movie star.
Mrs McAvory said that the dog. earth," he said restlessly, and he She left Paris with Mr. K. Y seeing another dog in the company laid his swarthy cheek close to the Chow, of the star Motion Picture of a coolie, had broken away from dry roughness of it. He amelt the Company, for London last month her. In the mix-up the coolie re-smell of it, a far sweeter smell than
Chekisi Agency.
.ceived an abrasion en his face that of wet nets: he mouthed the He was sent to hospital, but it was grapes growing among the grasses;
certain whether the scratch was little hot grapes, a fragrant wildness THE HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO.
PARTY SPLIT RESPONSIBLE
FOR DOWNFALL
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maintenance of democratic institu tions, and it would put the Govern- ment in a position to smash' specu-
SOLICITOR WALKS OUT OF COURT
Accused Of "Talking Newspaper Eyewash"
Mr. A. C. Castle, solicitor, repre-
defending a motorists who
CHINESE CONSULATE FOR ANNAM
lation in the franc and protect the seating the Automobile Association, Preparations Started For franc from injury.
The empowering bill, which de-summoned at Hampstead -Policej imanded full powers until October Court recently for exceeding the
Establishment
Nanking,
31 in order to "prevent the devalua limit, suggested that it was difficult! In view of the impending rati- tion of the currency and to enable to keep one's eyes on the road and
caused by a dog bite or not.
LOCAL HEALTH REPORT
Diphtheria Victims
fication by the Chinese and the Two cases of diphtheria
which the earth of ber great bounty gave freely.
What more should a man want? Ee went home welling with a deep, dark dissatisfaction. His-fm- Jagination had been fired with desire to work with earth and not with water. His imagination was whet- ted with walking among cypreSIES
(one and cedars, treading on flowers and the Government to take the appre- on the speedometer at the same French Governments respective-imported), which proved fatal, the shoots of young wheat. He had priate measures for reorganising the time.
ly of the recently concluded Sino-one case of scarlet fever, four smelt pleanders and orange blos Mr. W. Ewart Price (the Clerk) French-Annam Commercial Tres cases of meningitis with two soms, fusing together into one ex 'nation's- finances, reviving economic
activity, and preventing injury to -Don't talk
a lot of newspaper ty, it is learned that prepara deaths, and 49 deaths from quisite aroma, and Guiseppi had the public credit," had shortly be eyewash.
tions have been started by the tuberculosis occurred in the Col-realised that here, with the hard. fore the Chamber sitting just scrap- Mr. Castle—I do not propose to Ministry of the Foreign Affairsi ed through the Parliamentary Fin- be insulted in this court by the for the establishment of a num-yesterday, one case of meningitis dry earth, was health and pros
jony during the week ended ance Committee "by a majority, of [Cleric
ber of Chinese Consulates in was reported to the local health Palusti Pontine men must suffer.
perity and happiness. But in the one---Trans-Ocean Service.
Mr. Price-You have wasted a AnnaM.
authorities. lot of time.
According to information from Mr. Candle-I shall take as much the Ministry, two Consulates will time as 1'like until I am pulled up first be opened, one at Saigon by the Bench. I am here to look and the other at Haiphong, in after the interests of my clients, order to take care of the interests In commemoration of the famous and I expect fustice I will not be of the overseas Chinese there- battle between the Red Army and interrupted by a clerk. It is not Chekiai Agency.
WAR BATTLE. PANORAMA
the White Guards under Baron the first time I have been insulted Wrangel, near Porekop and Chon- by him.
gar Crimes, en enormnoga pe
is to be created on the scene of the and left the Court.
“historie» battle: The
Panorama”, as it will Bere
be done upon a large caIVE mehes high and 150 metres
“HONOURED ARTIST
He then gathered up his papers
The Pr
The Nankin is due to
bere st: noOTE:
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Later:
"Napoli has gone to the head of Guiseppi,” said the older men in the village, when they watched him disconsolate with his nets.
"We have so little, he argued.
It is enough o
That was a hard year, and the
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