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CHEUNG CHAU NOTES

"Season" Now In

Full Swing

IMPROVEMENTS TO PATES

Cheung Chau Yesterday. The "season" here is now in

full swing- Considerable im- provements have lately

been

made in the paths and cement steps in certain places, many of them having been regraded. The diving boat is now in posi- tion.

It has been announced that the annual meeting of the CCRIA. will be held on August & to be followed by the meeting of the House-Owners Association.

The adult Bible class, under the direction of the Rev. J. A.. Kemp will begin next Sunday.' The Sunday School was fully or ganised on July 7. The service! was conducted by the Rev. E. S. dito- Burke who outlined the culties of attainment in modern life and emphasised the need for seeking the "secret place of thei Must High."

A process discovered by Dr. Erastus M. Hodson, the New York biochemist, and Hauptmann trial" witness, enables the police for the first time

develop

ingerprints from doth and other surfaces beyond the range of the old powder-dusting system. The THEW method employs • silver

mitrite

LOCAL NEWS · BREVITIES ·

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 23 1935

ANGLO GERMAN

AGREEMENT

ARRANGED

(Continged from Page 1)

RATIOS ABANDONED

Sir Bolton Eyres-Mansell statTM

ed that it was unfortunately ne-

To-day's Short Story-

The Wedding

Present

By Colin Howard

ATHLEEN O'NEIL was at child, and, faith, Edésoon

Kher ironing

when her yerself than any colisen in Bally. cessary to abandon the principle grown son, Dan. came in with sadare, Mrs. O'Neil assured her.

Left to herself, Mrs. O'Neil for ratios in an effort to secure his arm about the waist of Sally

and more new agreements, because some Dugdale, and said outright that plied her iron more countries felt it wounding to he was going to marry the girl slowly, until at length the more their national pride. He added: Sally herself was shy, yet proud, ment died from it with its heat that they had to have a system of with a face the colour of a wild and she leaned upon the table with programines.

rose, and twice as pretty, and the her eyes fixed on the wall before They would not ask the naval held to Dan's hand as though she her. So many memories. seemed Powers what their ultimate meant never to let go of Mrs to be passing before her vision, strength was going to be, but O'Neil stood an instant with the and the figure of Dan was what size navy did they propose iron upraised in her hands Then every memory. to have in way. 1942. Then she set it down plump upon the

i

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Bushveld Gangsters.” by C. T. Stoneham,

Dan as a tiny, pink, whimper- they could by agreement accom-table, so that its shape remained ing bundle. Dar walking his first. modate those various naval brown on the ironing-blanket for few glorious paces before subsid- strengths so as to provide ade- ever-more, and took the girl in bering on to the floor in an irrespon- quate defence, yet making it ex-arms and kissed her. And Dansible heap, to be picked up and Dan, full of import- ceedingly, unlikely for any coun-stood by and fairly beamed with exulted over. try to attack with any chance of pleasure to see it:

ance, going to school for the first ultimate success, they would "And when, now, did the pair of time. Dan being besten by his achieve something of enormous ye think to get married?" asked father for some offence of neglect,| advantage to the taxpayers of the the old woman.

and finding ber out to comfort her Dan vowed that they meant to and dry her tears as though it world and contribute very great-į

to general pacification

wait not a day longer than need was she who had been beaten. Coming to the question of the be, and it was plain that Sally was agreement with Germany, the First of the same way of thinking. Yesterday the Rev. F. J. Wiens

Lord compared the task of trying "We have it all planned out!" gave ai of Shanghang. Swatow

to secure international agreement declared Dan. triumphantly. "We stirring address based on John 12.

with the putting together of a jig-¦shall take O'Flaherty's wee cottage. vii: "Because that by reason of

saw puzzle in which the pieces were and it empty and dust-gathering him Lazarus) many... believed'

continually altering in shape. size these twelve months, and live there on Jesus." dealing with the sub-

and colour. Until recently it had just midway between yourself and jeat of influence, and illustrated

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 proved almost impossible to set any Sally's mother by examples in Scripture and in

"And what has Mrs. Dugdale to the history of the Church in all hours ending at 10 am. to-day was two pieces together. For this res-

Mrs O'Neil ages of the Saints, of whom the 0.02 inch. The total since Jantary son the Admiralty welcomed the say to all this?

And now-Dan engaged to be .1 has been 39.27 inches, against an proposal of a great country like wanted to know." alove might be said. The ser

average of 48.77 inches.

Germany, to fix their ratio-forever "Och. and what could she be married! Well, well, it was a sad sice next Sunday is in the hands)

at a point in relation to our own saying, and me bringing the son moment in some ways, maybe, but of the Ret. A. E. Gallimore.

Tam Lim, an unemployed, was which we could view without undue of perself into the family proud one. in others. the To-day Miss Moritz of

it make a mother feel she'd done three anxiety.

answered Sally, softly. Home for the Blind held a display this morning sentenced to

BENEFIT TO WORLD

"But she couldn't be as pleased her job well to bring her son up and sale of knitted and other weeks' hard labour for the theft

The general agreement which as I am?” said Mrs. ONeil to marrying point, and a fine girl cents. of of a singlet, valued at 50 goods made by the inmates

"Mrs. O'Neil are ye sure ye're the like of Sally Dugdale ready Corres-from Messrs. Sincere & Company, they hoped to arrive at would not the Home Our Own

Limited. yesterday.

been very good at all unless Ger- not angry with me for taling Dan and glad to be wedding him? pondent

many had been in it. He claimed away from ye?” The Royal Engineers Old Com-that the Government did benefit "He's got to be taken some day, nightly whist drive and tombola world when it closed with will be held in Wellington Bar- German offer. racks, in the open air, at 9 pm next Monday.

ROAD SAFETY IN rades Association's usual fort- not to Britain alone but to thei

BRITAIN

Intensive Campaign

Launched

Britain a copy.

Building, Queen's Road Central

the

With the object of obtaining agreement on building programmes they had been having bilateral

CHURCH WAR

Didn't

Great doings there'd be at the marriage. Quiet it would be, with: only just Sally and Dan, and Mrs. Dugdale and herself, widows both, there, but that wouldn't stop them making a fine ballyhoo of it! There wouldn't be overmuch in

of the way

presents either.

IN GERMANY

INTENSIFIED but

(Continued from Page 1j ·

Mr. C. K. S. Smith was fined $5 conversations with a good many

Present! Of course, she must by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central countries. The conversations were London. To-day.

be giving the pair of them a pre- The Post Office started yester Magistracy this morning for lear-not conferences at which they could

sent, and a handsome one it would day on the enormous task of dising his car No. TS16 unattended settle anything, but were to pate

the tributing to every house in Great between 445 pm and 4.57 p.m. on the way to a conference which they HITLER YOUTH THREATENED have to be. But where in

This restrictive measure was world was it to come from? - of the "highway July 1, in front of the Asia Life hoped might be held at the end of round necessary: because certain i

She had a matter of three religious bodies, above all/Roman

pounds saved, but that wasn't Catholic, were encroaching on a sphere reserved by the State for anywhere near enough--she want-j

ed to do the thing properly. She couldn't expect to take the money A later message states that the she'd need at the tiny shop where 5fth prosecution of members of she sold sweets to the children, the Roman Catholic orders for

code” containing a simple sum- mary of rules for observance in

For the theft of 65 cents from the the interest of road safety. The distribution of 15.0000,000 copies Person of Yeang Tim, a 13-year- o: the code, which is expected to old newspaper seller, Wong Ping require five days for completion, Wo. aged 25, was this morning is part of the intensive efforts sentenced to three months' hard of the Minister of Transport to labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen reduce the number of road ac-jat the Central Police Court cidents, and other features of

CLEAR RECORD

Imperial Airways Report

this year-British Wireless Ser- vice.

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RUMOURED CABINET DECISION

21 of the Coven ut, under which Abyssinis appealed, but the peal cannot be sidetracked indef- Hitely

violation of the laws restricting and matcher and cigarettes and such-like. A later message states that the the transfer of foreign currencies headache-powders and

She made just enough to keep reason for the suspension is given to other countries took place yes herself, so that she wouldn't have this week's campaign are: the Owing to the postponed arrival

as the urgent need to procurei terday before the Berlin rapid, www.34 for of Mr. Arthur Rubinstein his tour of a broadcasting

money to make payments abroad. trials cour. The two accused to be worrying Dan, thank God. the release of road-safety

pro-Pianoforte Recital to be given in The decision is entirely at variance) were the 52-year-old, procurator But there wasn't anything left} paginda talk, the display of the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong with the hitherto adamant offcial Martin Utsch and the 47-year-old over for buying wedding presenta As the days passed and the 200.000 posters in London, and ajEotel will now take place

policy of maintaining a high no- provincial Superior Rudolf Wilm- broadcast address at the end of Monday instead of to-morrow

mínal Hira value.

sen, both belonging to the order wedding drew near and yet nearer, the week by the Minister of previously announced.

Considered in conjunction with of the Missionaries of the Sacred Mts. O'Neil grew more and more worried. She longed to give Dani Transport himself--British Wire-

the Duce's recent warlike pro-Heart of Jesus. Fleading guilty to a charge of nouncement, the step is taken to

Sums amounting to 200,000 and his Sally something | THE less Service:

stealing a bicycle from a garage at imply that the Government regards French

a real! francs were involved, something that would be No. 12 Duke Street, Chan Kong, the situation as extremely serious 165,000 having been transferred possession to them.

"And then, little more thani 24-year-old unemployed, was and intends to pursue its course to Raband in New Guinea and tenced to six week's hard labour by to the end, whatever it costs the 25,000 to Rome during the year week before the wedding, the saw ¡Mr. E. L Wynne Jones' at the Kow-

1932

[her way, and marvelled that she loon Magistracy this morning.

DRASTIC PUNISHMENT had not seen it before. Of course! After several hours' delibera-The grandfather-clock! Tang Wing, an unemployed, was A later message states that tion the court declared its verdict The grandfather clock had this morning sentenced to three Italy has abandoned all pretence last evening. Utsch being found stood in the corner by the door weeks" hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A of being on the gold standard-guilty of repeated breaches of since the first day of her married Macfadyen at the Central Police Since 1927 the Treasury has the currencies law and sentenced life. Terribly old, it was Her Court for receiving four packets struggled to fulfil the law main-so four years' penal servitude husband had brought it with him, Per 100,000 miles flown during of printers" types, knowing same taining 40 per cent. cover inter-and a 75,000 marks fine, while and it had been in his own family last year on the services of Im-to have been stolen from Wongnally, despite the fact that she wilmsen was convicted in four for years. It oughta't to go out perial Airways and on certain Loong Shing, printers, of No. 23 was virtually off gold interna-crses and sentenced ⠀⠀ fo-three of the family now, she supposed, foreign services, the Under-Secre-Aberdeen Street.

tionally, inasmuch as the exports years penale servitude and abut surely it was all for the best, of currency were strictly. tary for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon,

con-20,000 marks fine Both lose all although, sure, she'd grieve to

lose 3/1 stated yesterday that he was un- Charged with indecent assault on trolled.

civil rights for five years, part with it. able to give figurēs in respect of an 11-year-old girl while she was The decision, which was taken Dollar bonds zmoarting in For, of course, she couldn't just the other services, but in the asleep, Wong Leung, memployed, at a secret meeting of the Convalde to $33,000 were confiscated give them the clock as it stood. case of Imperial Airways there was sentenced to two months hard cil after the Bourses closed last while the Missionary Society of That wouldn't be a proper present were no fatal accidents in 1934 tabour when be appeared on re-night, is the first blow to Italy's he Sacred Heart was made reat all. In any case, Dan" would George Cleric, acquainted M. Laval points to the recent declaration during flights on regular sex-mand before Mr. W. Schofield at finances from the projected Abyssponsible for the payment of re-recognise it She could take it with the outcome of the British made to Signor Massolini“ and vices, totalling 2,315,000 miles—the Central Magistracy this mor-sinian campaign, for which the stitution of 38,500 marks-Trans into Stigo, though, and sell it Cabinet's decision on the Italo- pledges his word as Ambassador British Wireless Service,

country's excessive « purchases Orean Services. abroad meant aherry recent Over 500 yards of telegraph wire gold drain on the Treasury Re WAR VETERANS AT connecting premises Nos. 229, cent endeavours to raise private Cheung Sha Wan Road, 134, Nan credits abroad having failed, COLOGNE

Chang Street, 45, Fule Wing Street, Italy found herself heavily in ar- and 115, Apliu Street, were cut and rears with exchange she had Visitors Make Trip To stolen between 1 pan on July 20, guaranteed, but the suspension

Oberwesel

NO ACCIDENT DURING 1934

London, To-day.

· CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Cologne,

The British Legim reached here last nigh been conducted from Frankfurt-on-Ma of the Reich war Oberlindober, and

From Fran

Rhine

(Continued from Page 11

"THIS UNJUST WAR” A message from Durban states that Brigadier-General J. R. Royston has announced his intention of offering his services to the Emperor of Ethiopia, proposing tɔ raise a brigade to participate in “this unjust war" Renter.

FRANCE IN QUANDARY

Paris, To-day,

U.S. TO RETAIN LEGATION" "A="message" from Washington states that the State Department hag-revealed that it intends main- taining a Legation at Addis Ababa regardless of what might happen. in Abyssinia Beuteros

JAPANESE STATEMENT

Bome, To-day. semi-herally announced here that the Japanese Ambassa- dor. Mr. Sugimura, speaking to a representative of the Tribuna,

It is

The British Ambassador, Sir declared that he adheres in all

They'd give her a lot of money Abyssinian dispute yesterday

for it, very likely she'd be able is reported that Britain.

HOUSEWIVES PREPARE FOR to buy something magnificent with favour of the whole pr

HOTTEST DAY

(Continued from Page 1)

the money Dan would miss the thrashed ont be }dock and he'd realise what she'd Com done with it, but that couldn't be Fä helped

So the very

set with both

O'Neil ahut up the shop and watch- ed out for

driving inko Chee Creek leads to town with

forced rust her đời

and 9 am and July 22, reports of the note cover means that the aquatic resorts early in the even Mr. A. C. Jefferys, engineer of the now has about £93,000,000 avail-

order to enjoy the Hong Kong Telephone Company able for exchange operations, The wire is valued at $12.20.

To-day. Sentence of three months hard

having labour, was imposed on Wong Kam,

$5-year-old unemployed, who sp-1 peared before Mr. E. I Wynne Kowloon Magistracy

this:

charge of

cap, which

private car

Beuter.

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

Aboard business

day at

PPEAL HELD BE age from: Gene

the approach take her when the Council is sched

League, quarte

what he then said coincided

with the views of the Im- panese Government, that

Japan is disintar-

mars added that Ja- use, cerisin econo- but no

Sin

the

ble to hold up