1935-08-15 — Page 9

PRISON BREAK AT LAI CHI KOK

Bloodstained Jacket Found On Hillside

MAN THOUGHT INJURED IN

SCALING WALL

A successful bid for freedom from the Lai Chi Kok male pri- son was made by Wong-Sing, alias Wong Yat. prisoner Na 19763. shortly after 10 am. yesterday.

All police stations were time!

esespe diately informed of the

and detectives were sent out to scour the neighbouring hill-side for the convict, "who fled in the direction of the Shing Mun water- works.

TRAGEDY OF JEALOUSY

Men Kills Wife And Then

Commits Suicide

An inquest was ", held recently at Flax Bourton, near Bristol, an William Beavis Raines, 36, and his wife, Sarah May Raines, 31. of Bishop's-lane. Cleeve., who... were found at their home with their throats cut.

Thomas Griffin, builder's labourer, said that he had been lodging with the Raines family. The husband became jealous and picked quarrels only a week after witncas arrived in the house.

A verdict was returned, that -Raines killed his wife and that be then committed suicide "dur- ing a fit of temporary insanity.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

While searching the district the police discovered the Com

The ss. Santhia will leave for vict's jacket. which was covered with blood, on the road between Singapore to-morrow at 2 p Castle Peak and Tai Po Road.. It

ww Theosophical

Society's is believed that the man injured The himself when he scaled the wall study class meets at 6 p.m. to-day.Į surrounding the prison.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935

OBITUARY

Viscount Bridgeman Of Leigh

CHAIRMAN OF B.B.C.

London, To-day.

To-day's Short Story

Photograph

By Zoe Keane

The death has occurred of Vis-M Bushing pat, dabbed a saw her in the romantic atmos-

ARIAN" gave her hair a for advertisements, and he first

count Bridgeman of Leigh Chair

man of the British Broadcasting face, and stepped back to view the good looking couple

last smudge of powder on her phere of a butcher's shop. Corporation and a former First

But

Lord of the Admiralty Reuter the effect, for it was very im- nothing of their surroundings, for William Clive Bridgeman, lat Vis. Portant. In the old days she their glances met and held He count, was born on December 31, 1864, had taken her appearance for forgot his business and likewise and was educated at Eston, where he granted and listened while his manners when he hurried after was Captain of the Oppidians, and at other people praised the effect; her They had to meet somehow, Trinity. Cambridge, where he was but that was ten years ago be- he would have reasoned, and he classical scholar. He had * long fore she was married.

knew nobody to introduce him.

Parliamentary career, several times

1924-29.

πιοπτής

two

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Case Of Bess Bern- ard," by Edna Roughley.

contesting seats in the Unionist Then she was the life of every So they met and continued to interests, his first success being for party and could have married Tony meet, and none "realised that the Oswestry Division of Shropshire. Grainger, the well-known squatter Marian had lost her heart to a which he represented from 1906 to bachelor and the hope of every dark-eyed stranger until they mar 1929.

Following

Parliamentary match-making mamma. Instead ried quietly and left the town and Secretaryships (Labour and The she had listened to the dictates of the news behind them... Board of Trade) he became Secretary her heart and had surprised every- of Mines, 1990-22, and Home Secretary one by suddenly marrying Jim

He was elected an Elder Brother of Trinity House in 1998 and Ness, the lovable scallywag son of Fellow of Eton College in 1919. ja parson. He was really a misfit Viscount Bridgeman retired from in his family, but had tried to politics m 1999 and became please his parents by bending his Chairman of the

British Broad-faculties to the various Careers casting Corporation only

He died armapped out for him at different few his home in the country after three times. Inevitably be at length weeks of illness. After resigning: broke away from the home in- from the House of Commons he prefluence and earned his own liveli- at sided in 1932 over a commission of

hood as best he might, while be Ten years ago. And then for made important re- atienquiry which

commendations regarding the re-studied drawing when he had Marian began a haphazard” exist- rganisation of the Post Office, and money enough, and gradually badence which often spelled poverty, in 1933 he became Governor of the occasional black and white sketches but never remorse for what she British Broadcasting Corporation, succeeding the late Mr. J. T. Whitley accepted, for that was his particu-had done, because through it all as Chairman last March.

lar fine, and he had more than an Jim remained kind and true, and A Keen cricketer and “Old Bide,” he was ordinary flair for the work.

the happy ardent boy she had] President of the Marylebone Cricket When he met Marian May beloved from the beginning. Club in 1951...

were born to them: children ĮHarzy, mamed after Jim's father,

and, two years later, Myra

The escaped prisoner had been The Civil Service Cricket Club is sentenced to 12 months hard la-bolding a Whist Drive at S.45 p.m. bour by Fr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones to-day.

at the Kowloon Magistracy on

July 25 for breaking into house The Badminton Club meets No. 28 Nathan Road, and for the Sailors and Soldiers Home failing to report while under po-18.30 pm to-day. lice supervision.

ABYSSINIAN

A Toc H dinner meeting wil take place this evening at 7.30 the Peninsula Hotel.

at

PROTEST TO

The Badminton Tournament of THE LEAGUE the St. Andrew's Club will be con-

tinued this evening at 9 o'clock

(Continued from Page 1}

LEAGUE INACTIVITY

The Japanese gunboat Saga is "Does this constitute real neu-¡due back from training exercises. trality, dictated by justice? Will to-morrow and will sail for Can- the League Council remain in-fton next Saturday. active. in view

of a

situation

which is steadily growing graver7j A concert of members of the Will it permit this unequal strux- Hong Kong Commercial Institute gle to continue between two mem-lis announced to take place at 9.30 ber States, one of which is power-lam on Sunday at the Queen's ful and able to employ all means of Theatre. preparing an attack.. while the

ago.

His heir is his son, Major the Hon. Was earning a living by travelling Robert Clive Bridgeman. Brigade Major. 17th Infantry Brigade, since!

1032,

BIG OPIUM HAUL

Stiff Sentences On Married Woman

Ho Sia, a married woman, this

£733,000 CASINO LOAN

À

Iwo

Then eight years after their marriage came swift tragedy. Jim, hurrying home to Marian, with a toy apiece for the "kids,” was knocked down by a car and English Finance Group killed by another, which speeded

MONTE CARLO MEETS

BAD DAYS

Monte Carlo.

after. Neither of the drivers stopped, the darkness 'swallowed them up, and Marian was left bereft and almost penniless.

She heard nothing either from

A largely attended meeting her parents or Jim's, and when

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other, which is weak and peaceful Bathing picnic launches will and respects its international leave the Police Pier on Saturday morning appeared before Mr. W. of Casino shareholders was held she awoke from the stupor which obligations, has no possibility of as follows: YMCA, 3 p.m.; Kow-Schofield at the Central Magis recently at Monte Carlo to con- followed the tragedy, a kindly land- organising the defence of its terri-loon Tong Anglican Church. 3.15 tracy charged with possession of sider the directors' proposals to lady managed to get her a posi tion as a waitress, so she decided tory from threatened aggression? p.m.: St. Andrew's Club, 3.30 pm 163.4 tahils of prepared opium issue a new loan

"Will the League of Nations

valued at $1,960.80 and with pos- It was decided by a very large to struggle on without seeking re- Both children were Council assume the responsibility The Concert Party of the 2nd session of so tails of raw opium majority to issue, on a date not latives aid before the world of having per En. the East Lancashire Regiment valued at $180 and 232 tails of yet announced a loan of not then at school and her friendly mitted, without intervention, pre- are giving an entertainment at 9.30 decimated raw opium valued at more than 55,000,000£. (appro- landlady kept a motherly eye upon parations to be made for the whole this evening at the EuropeRD $464-

ximately £733,000), divided into them when she was at work sale slaughter of a nation which is V.M.CA.. Kowloon.

Revenne Officer A. Grimmitt, debentures of 750%. each; or of threatening nobody?”

who prosecuted, said that the de-10 sterling, which would form Ko Kwan-kin, a 4-year-old fendant was arrested at No. 79 two distinct loans, and which A message from Paris states Chinese female. was knocked Queen's Road Central, second might be divided into tenths that no official information is down and killed by the 11.56 amoor, at about 7 pm yesterday, 75f. or £1 each forthcoming concerning the result train yesterday at the 11 mile-when the exhibits were found in

MEETING TO-DAY

of yesterday's conference between stone. The body was taken her possession. Mr. Anthony Eden and M. Laval, the Public Mortuary. but it appears certain that no fur-

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But now we pass on, another two years and return to Marian as she regarded her reflection in the mir

or Her appearance was really

important, for the night before she Council Objects ·

had left her job and she knew it Existing shareholders are to was vital that she get another as He said that the premises were be given the preference in sub-soon as possible, and her prospects evidently an opium depot and scribing on terms not yet dis seemed black, enough in the dark ther Anglo-French meeting will The MLS. Empress of Russia that they had been trying to locate closed. and these debentures days of the depression. She knew take place before the arrival of the will leave at 6.30 pm-to-day for them for some days.

may, at some future date also she could get her old job again if Italian delegation, since both Mr. Manila and will arrive in Horg

yet not decided. be transform-she fell in with the manager's Eden and M. Laval seem agreed Kong, on her return voyage, on

able into ordinary shares. It views, but that was precisely why that an exchange of views cannot Wednesday next, sailing on Fri-

saman, and he and his friends is understood that the arrange she had left. Her prettiness had practically completed with an of his type, and his attentions had English group of financiers lately become so marked and were through the Paris firm of Dan-so distasteful to her, that she had left suddenly.. She realised too,

Others Involved? The accused's husband was a.

lead to any tangible results as long day of next week for Vancouver had evidently brought the opium/ments for the issue have been the inevitable elect upon a man

not

as the exact scope and character via ports. of the Italian demands is known.

Mrs. G. Rapp, of No. 9. Camer- It will thus be necessary to on Road, Kowloon, was fined $10 await the first meeting between M. by Mr. E. I.. Wynne-Jones at the Laval and Baron Aloisi, which is Kowloon Magistracy this mora scheduled to take place to-day. ing for allowing her dog to

According to reliable informa-umuzzled in Nathan Road near tion Mr. Eden pointed out in his Cameron Road on August 3. talk with M. Laval yesterday that

into, the Colony. Five or sir

BOK Grimmitt said that it was

opium carrying belts were also found on the premises.

jiel Dreyfus and Cont possible that the decimated raw The approval of Prince Louis that she could hope for no refer- opium which could be made into fore the issue can be made. The

of Monaco will be necessary. be ence from him a tea

This morning she had run her made in the Colony. brick form very easily, was being National Council, which strong-eye down the Positions Vacant

This kind

ly opposes the directors' scheme, column of the newspaper, but as of brick opium was much easier is holding a private session to waitress work was the only thing to carry and could be turned into consider what further steps it she was experienced in, she turned

it

only one advertisement she thought likely to suit her, and she hurried in her preparations for applying for the job.

the forthcoming negotiations Cheung Sang, pleading guilty to

a cement brick by merely dipping is to take in opposition to the to Situations Vacant. There was must be based not only on the possession of 40 sticks of ́dyna- three-Power Treaty of 1906 but mite and two fuses, was this mor-

existing Casino management. also on the Notes exchanged bening fined $75, in default-6 weeks to the charges. was fined $3,500, The accused, who pleaded guilty tween England and Italy in Sep- hard labour, when he appeared be- in default 9- months" imprison-] tember 1925. in which England fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cenment, on the first charge, and recognised Italy's claim to the tral Magistracy. extension of her sphere of econo

mic influence in Abyssinis, while Chan Cho-chak, of 482 Prince Italy gave England. assurances Edward Eoad, charged yesterday that she would respect the Bri-tefore Mr. Wynne-Jones, at the tish interest in Lake Tana and Kowloon Magistracy, with being in

sinia protested but did not press ment the matter

$1,500, in default 3 months' im- prisonment, - on the second, the] sentences.to run consecutively.

juries to the body.

NEW-AMERICAN LINER

Half Queen Mary's Size

A new 30.000-ton liner, the

Lightly kissing her sleeping children she sought Mr. Peters. her landlady, NG

“Oh, Mra. Peters, will you see the kiddies off to school for me?]

I have to be early to-day

Something nervous in her man-

Mr. Gaylar, of the Hong Kong the Blue Nile. France had sub-possession of a quantity of unre Tramways, reports that · termicar sequently given her tacit consent gistered poisons, was fined $1,000, No. 30 yesterday knocked down to this agreement, while Abys in default six months imprison Wong Nan-man, aged 14, who was largest and fastest ever built in her struck Mrs. Peters, and she Inspector Chester Woods later admitted to the Government the United States, will probably eyed her shrewdly, but her tone prosecuted and Mr. P. H. Sin ap- Civil Hospital suffering from in- be running between New York was kindly

“Not lost your job have you, It appears now that England peared for the defence

and Europe in 1937.

m'dear2 she said: This forecast was made re- is willing to support. Italy's de-

“Oh, no no.” I have some extra mands for economic expansion in Charged with the theft of 14 Captain H. H, Fanthan, of the cently by Mr. James Mahool,

work to do.” Abyssinia, but will oppose any clocks, valued at $40, Wong Tim. Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.. re- general passenger, traffic, man- territorial aspirations. It seems unemployed, was sentenced to ports that at 8 pm yesterday, ager of the Roosevelt Interns certain at any rate that M. Laval two months hard labour by Me while driving car No. 3868 along tional Mercantile Marine Co, will be confronted with a highly E. L Wynne-Jones at the Kow-Chatham Road at a point near when he landed at Plymouth delicate task in the role of me loon Magistracy this morning. Bulkeley Street, he knocked down diator, when the three Power.con-Eleven of the clocks were pawned

a Chinese named Chan Kwan, who "When I left New York, ference formally opens to-mer for $8.10, two were recovered was later admitted to the Kowloon added, it was reckoned that zow afternoon.”.

from defendant's friends, but the Hospital to be treated for injuries 18,000 more

travelled to Ear other one could not be traced a to his right leg.

read

CALL TO COLOURS

Among those who

A message from Rome states the friend, to whom - defendant} that the last effectives of the presented the clock, had left for 1911, 1913 and 1914 classes have his village. The clocks were or- Hong Kong by the RMS

press of Russia wer now been called up by a decree dered to be given back to com KH Digby with

published in the Italian Military Dlainaut.

Gazette.

The majority of these classes were the only

alre

milies de

¡Digby. Sir William

McDonnell,

* Many, Visitors

to due to

mers

Marian lied, a trife Somehow she felt she could Mrs Péters the real She would try

BONG KONG

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In many Far Eastern Ports, there are people who do not yet realise that a Winter Holi- day in Hong Kong would prove both pleasurable and beneficial to health.

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