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SERIOUS ASSAULT

CASE

CHINESE WOMAN

INJURED

ALLEGED ATTACK. BY

·HUSBAND WITH CHOPPER

A very serious case ci assault and causing grievous hodily Harm Was brought before Mr. ELI Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma- istracy This morning, when Wong Hap. 36-year-old odd job geolie, appeared on a charge of) assaulting Mig wife. Në Shing, with a chopper, caasing danger- ous-wounds on the head and hands, at their home at No. 123 Fu King Street, at 7 am on May

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.

Detective Inspector Dorling, of

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935

A woman holds the key to the mystery which Edmand Lowe, "as'a braing “sierth, and Victor McLagles, as a brawny “tick,"

libet out to selye, with mirthfni results, in their newest, co-festar- ed Fox Films picture, ~The Great Hotel Nurder,” coming to the King's Theatre.

the Yaumati Police Station stat- LITERARY NOTES

ed that the assault was the

sult of an argument about the THE DEVIL WANTED

wife going away with another!

man

On the day previous to the ¦

incident defendant had found the

woman living with the other

TO BE FAMOUS

mar, and had brought her home. Sin Makes The World

Next morning at 7 o'clock bel woke up and saw her dressing in ber best clothes, and in answer. to his questions, she said that she was going across the bour.

ARGUMENT IN KITCHEN

har-1

chell

Go Round

KALATONG THE

BRAVE

Novel of Filipino

•Life

NEW SETTING FOR A WRITER

A War Prisoner's IAN HAY RETURNS TO

TALES WRITTEN BY

A CROFTER

Great Examples Of The Short Story

“STRANGERS COME HOME”

Story

"Novel Of War And Captivity"

EXCITING MEMOIRS

HIS OLD VEIN

"David And Destiny"

STORY OF A MUSICIAN WHO ROSE

All Ian Hay's old admirers wil be glad that in his latest book he has gone back to the style' and

the the last chapter after passing. his through struggles vicissitudes and. the doubts

and

The Philippine Islands have hitherto been almost entirely ne glected by writers. Stevensom wrote of Samoa, Conrad of Ma-

The author of an exceedingly manner of his early days. "David lava: Miss Pearl Buck har de

entertaining story, "Idle War-and Destiny.” like “A Man's Man.” {scribed the life of the Chinese

If Robert Macdonald Douglas is riors," by Bertram Ratelife, was "Pip." "The Right Stuff”"*. and "A pensant with an insight almost

a new writer, he will not long re-taken prisoner early in 1914, Knighton Wheels." is a romance amourting to genius. and Miss

main. -unknown His Strangers and wounded too badly se at about a hero who wins his lady in Beatrice Grimshaw bas develor-

until nearly ed a nice. If somewhat superfi-Come Home (Maciehose, 78. 6) tempt escape ciai, vein of romance in News a collection of some of the best end of the war, and these, short stories which have been memoirs, are described or Guinea Only the Philippines,

jacket as a novel of war

The chief difference between the or some reason, have remained printed for a long time. till now practically virgin soil the Roads" is a perfect example

One in particular, "A Woman of captivity?"

new book and the old ones is that It is interesting to compare David Gow is not like his pre indeed, for most people they con-

of the short story."

this story with "Black Mousdecessors, a man of action, but an stitute as much a terra incognitais episode of a woman, forced ter" that masterly study by artist. He is a Scottish ragamuf- as the kingdom of Prester John

of life in fin with a passion for music, whom And yet, 38

Mr. T Inglis a storm to take shelter in a young Hungarian ROMANCE OF COAL or out in the preface lonely crofter's hut, is told with French fort The conditions

we first meet as a caddy in a police- were very parallel, the social and court, where he has been hailed to his new novel, "The Half Way economy of language and

while whom we take leave as a serious- mountainous hinter work of Prosper Merrimee. It is dinarily land of Luzon, the largest of the usual, and it grips the attention."Black Monastery" gave us (minded young musician

mt pro- a primitive but But in the very last sentence comes tragic picture of gradual disin mise who has

Cincidentally and body, mind

and accidentally) made a fortune by “A DERBYSHIRE TRAGEDY" highly developed culture extera masterly touch which makes it tegration in

The ending is so spirit, in this book a strong and ding back at least two thousand a great story.

composing Scottish

comic song Mr. F. C. Boden, who made Fears, with a mythology, whose expected, and yet so credible balanced personality has produc") and singing them on the New York

rariety stage.

Behind The Scenes

Of Miners' Lives

Sun, the pagan tribes which in-simplicity.of style which recall the spiritual developments extraer for stealing golf balls and

habit the

islands, possess

RTEIT-|

and

simizz.

Kel

last minutes of the book.

long

something of a “hir" with "Miner" childlike fancies are entirely in that it requires only three words ed an utterly different effect

The pain was there, the cruak SPANISH WRITER'S SAVAGE

has gone, back to the pits for his keeping with the unsophisticated to illuminate like a fash

ity (but not very much), and the From the caddy-master's shop to SATIRE ON TO-DAY

jnew novel, MA Derbyshire and often faery-like beauty of thing which has gone before.

Mr. Douglas is a crofter in Instupidity; the gradual fading of the concert platform is Tragedy (Dent, 7s. 6d.).

the tropic landscape.

verness-shire, and most of these hope, and the surprising mani journey, and perhaps the, author "The Seven Pillars," a novel

He takes us intimately behind)

A Heroic Figure

stories conceza Scotland and the festations of sex repressed. But pushes David along it a little too by Senor Fernandez Florez (Mac- the scenes of the miner's life. Wel Against this naturally drama“ The argument then started and millan, 75. 6). has been trans spend a bitter winter night on the tic background stands out in Scottish. Some deal with barrack all these things are dominated by fast for credibility. Still, he is

Sir P. Chalmers Mit- noisy screens and a nothing hour bold relief the naively heroic life, like "Atkinson," an unforget the triumphs of unconquerable attractive figure, and so, is the a little while later, when the lated by

in the tire-pits. We look into the gure of the young Ifugao, Kala table picture of a "raw recruity courage, crowned by a success eccentric public school minde mas woman went into the kitchen to

the tex, who first bafriends him and A few are merely character sker ful and exciting escape in Senor Florez's theme 13. It's engine house, and we accompany 1948, He Who Kills Alone"

makes his rising fortune possible. wash her bands, the defendant

sin that makes the world followed and the argument con

the men in the hard dirty work the Taker of Ten Heads "Heches extraordinarily vivid

A great deal more

And the two girls between whom round He has inverted all Uto (about the garis.'

We go to the Who Says Three at Once" Kalaue to life.

LOVE STORY OF MONGOLIA The defendant is then tinued.

will be heard of Mr. Douglas if be

David avers before the right a splendid pit. boliem whither a engeful of tone is no mere figment of the

can continue to write stories like

choice is rather arbitrarily made alleged to have picked the chopplas and developed

thesis in defence of laiserz faire. Įmen have been hurted in disaster; author's imagination; the story

these.

"Love Triumphant", By Joan for him are built to the old lan The Devil it seems, was tired and we get to know the ins and of his life and deeds, as told in „Although she. received ** several

Conquest, (Werner Laurie. Ts.:

Hay specification, but with modern cuts on her head the skall was fort being a nobody. Look where outs of the tur-office and the Red the latter part of The Half

he would, he could find no man Cross room.

[Way Sun,” was taken from one

HINGS6dd) is a breathless. highly emo- upholstery and Attings. tunately unharmed. Her hands

Engdish Ian Hay's best quality in all this there is a great au-

who had personally known him and wrists were also cut hadir. woman who regarded his name

lovers in Mongolia Miss Con waiter, however, is still his power a mildthenticity. as anything more than

Mr. Roden grills. it and was written by Mr. Moore amid

quest has crowded enough material of detailed and humorous descrip- into us; we realise something of the actual scenes where he had

for three novels into the book, and tion of events. Easily the best loved and fought and perished.

the local colour is interesting and thing in this book is the account It was a story well worth the

of how David, arriving in New |vigorously applied chronicling, and we can under

York simply as accompanist to a music-hall singer, pulls the show

per up and assaulted his wife.

The tendons of her left hand were severed

He added that the injuries cn. her hands were caused when she! tried to defend herself.

In answer to Mr. Wynne Jones, Inspector Dorling said that there) were no actual witnesses. In the assault, as all the people were sleeping at the time and were not

for

vath.

Devil And Saint

the price of coal

his herp to the Achilles of

EVERYDAY

IN ENGLAND

Age Of Production

LAST OF SERIES OF FOUR FINE WORKS

We follow the miners to their And then he met the hermit (homes. We learn what they talk Acrario, ving on a rag-out-fabout over tea and dinner, tow stand the author's comparison of sfde a Spanish city. From Acre they take their de case at an Horner, even if that comparison

to the Devil received his due fan and their excitement at a foot-

cried ball match..

strikes us as somewhat excessiva The last volame is now pa "Get thee behind wier

in its enthusiasm. Fearless, hon-blished (Batsford, 8s. 6d) of the Altogether."this is, as they say, Acracio; and the Devil was so

to those who have earned his and C. H. B. Quennell. called "A One of the

[lieved in him that he was ready tumalism în writing.

little saint

tional romance of

two

25

workers have given their atten- together when it seems destined to tion to the things that were occa-flop" and becomes a New York ring the attention and mould-idol Ian Hay lows the theatre, ing the lives of common people he knows America, and can write history rather than made it have house. It is an accomplishment

W. A. D.

awakened nntil complainant cried! Pleased to fad someune who be a "slice of life," a triumph of ourable, and loyal to the death fine series of books by Marjorie Those who, so to speak, suffered American as well as Mr. Wode-

on helpynne Jones then asked for grant anything to this feable characters is fer ever girding at loyalty. Kalatons is a genuinely History of Everyday Things in been given the attention they few Englishmen acquire.

the ass-produced rubbish that noble 35 well as picturesque England." a very detailed medical report to

What Acracio asked was no! people rend. Anyone who likes be given him, so that he may de- cided, whether to commit the de-small thing. Remove from the that fare will not like this Here! Sins. Fenuine article with no frills world the Seven Deadly fendant to sessions..

he said.

it. on it. a book that gives you some Then indeed did desolation come thing to think about and assists times he world; and the book powerfully in the process. of upon the ends with Acracio himself join-thinking,

POLICE. RESERVE

Orders For The Current Week

Order by Mr. D. Burlingham, Inspector General of Police.

Chinese Company

•

and the Devil did

ag the tall of a starving, disi!- lusioned procession, headed for the Devil's meantain, wailing:,

his final fate gure, and our emotions with an sense of irreparable loss. we Teel, was a man.

This Jast of the deserved; and those who influen- stirs four, devoted to "the are of pro-iced history in other tavs han anxty duction." covers the years 1851-by the sword are put on record.

This, 1934.

Lister, Pasteur, Joseph. Lyons. Among his

This gleaning of the QuenellsWilliam Morris, road-house, primitive descendants in after through the fields of history has cables, motor-cars, de Lesseps,) may well become a been extraordinarily caluable. Lindbergh: these are the names mytan Heroes of lesser calibre Such lordly growths as dynasties one finds scattered through this than Kalatong bare similarly "at and dominions every historian volume. The Quennells have Prices tained apotheosis

might be relied upon to gather; done a work of which any bis- but these patient and ingenious torian might be proud.

Coloured Atmosphere Only second in interest to the

ainu. Give us back our sins KATHLEEN NORRIS'Stive itself is the richly co

Sin As Motive Power

The book is divided into two parts. The first draws a pic- know it and Training Course-Part II-Anture of life as we

Florez permits himself excursions

recruits of the Chinese Company

Senor

who have not yet passed Part some krand ironic

of Training Course will attend among the wicked who flourish at the Chinese Company Head-like green bay trees. It is not a world: gluttony and quarters on Tuesday, June 18th. pleasant

struction.

NEW WORK

"False Morning"

TALE OF NEWSPAPER LIFE

IN SAN FRANCISCO

Those who have read Kathleen

her

loured atmosphere through which it moves the brown-thatched villages with the blue smoke of the cooking fires climbing thinly above the encircling jungle, and the terraced rice fields ghttering in the bright sun; the half-naked warriors and dark-eyed, dark- haired women, the padgy, laugh- ing children,

Fascinating, too, are the con. enter tinual glimpses afforded us of

at 17:30 hours for instruction. lust and anger and avarice wear! Norris's previous works under-

Morse Signalling Class-Alfall its crowns Military glory stand the engaging and members of the Morse Signalling pride of birth and many autaining method which she fol-native ritual and belief, such as Class will attend at the Chinese other fetish is laughed at, but is flows.

the taking of the omens before a Company Headquarters on Friday, shown nevertheless impregnably

She writes in a witty, yet hu-battle, or such queer taboos as June 21st. at 17.30 hours for in-lodged in the estimation of men. man, way that cannot fail to that which dictates that a man Part Two deals with the world give a few hours pleasure to of Kambulo must not speak to as it was after the Devil, had anybody reading Indian Company

novels. another of eggs in the presence chained up sin. With no glut This is especially on with "False of his mother or sister, but only Training Course-Part II-Antony to stimulate the great food Morning" a well-told story of of "soft stones.“ On occasion recruits of the Indian Company markets, no greed to lure invest-newspaper life in San Francisco. these beliefs are introduced with will artend 3. Cliff Road, Kowloonments into industry, no envy to. Antoinette Taft lands a job on dramatic effect, as when Kala on Tuesday, June 18th for in-stir men to emalous endeavours, the "Call" as ariety editor. She tong refuses to obey the omin ne lust to call for the services finds herself in love with Law-ous warning of the "ichu" bird. Flying Squad-

of the luxury trades that live rence Bellamy, editor of the and goes unhesitatingly to his Instructional Patrol-The in-apon women: with all these and "Journal of Commerce

& Busi-death. The deliberate: simplici. structional patrol for members of the other sins gone, life became ness." who is already married. ty of the author's style and dic- the Flying Squad will take place an animal affair of mere exis-1 This love leads to indiscreet tion is well fitted to the epic on Friday, June 21st. All memence, and the world cried out and compromising adventures character of the story. The bêrs will fall in at Central Police for the Devil to save it.

but. realizing that neither peace Half Way Sun” successfully Station at 1715 hours. Dress Personally, one reader will not of mind nor happiness can resnit strikes a new and distinctive White Uniform, and Cap with take Senor Florez's parable serious-from her affection for him, An-note in literature. White Cover-

ly. He will assume that he has used toinette decides to cut herself this form merely to hold our in- adrift

struction.

5

Emergency Unit Reserve StrengthConstables B407 L vials of indignation and con-ske, hopefully awaits his retur W. Tipple and R423 B. W tempt upon the world about him to her, with results that neither Simmons have been taken on the He has a savagely ironical per she nor the reader can antici strength of the Emergency Unit and here it has produced a book pate Reserve, as from 11th. June, 1935 of great force and imaginative

terest while he discharges the Later, however, he is free and DELIGHTFUL SHORT

-Revolver Practice Revolverpower practice will be carried out by members of the Emergency Unit Reserve on Friday, June 21st, at the Bowen Road Revolver Range under Sub Inspector Ritchie. Thei Van will leave Queen's Pier 17.20 hours sharp.

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