1935-10-11 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935

The above group was taken on the occasion when the Chairman and members of May Hall, Hong Kong University gave a welcome party to their new Warde Mr. A. B. Reynolds, BÁ., on October I last y A. R. Reynolds is seated in the cen tre; on his right is Mr. K. L. Leong (Chairman) and on his left is Mr. 3. T. Choo (Hon Secretary).

To-day's Short Story

Out Of The

Pan Frying

By Tanjong

was not super had converted a good deal of those DEMBURY

stitious Friday the 13th same liquid assets into liquid re- had no special significance for freshment. That and dicing for him beyond the fact that it was the honour of paying for it were the day on which the monthly the two staple recreations in Mai- north bond steamer, the bast paa Bat in spite of the depreda- on which he intended to travel.]tions made by the calls of thirst to China and safety, put in at and amusement there still remain- Maipua: He could, of course,(ed a healthy sum of the share- have secured a more comfort-holders” money on which Pembury! Jable and direct passage from hoped to live comfortably for a Brisbane, but there were rea-time in China. When that was sons, very cogent reasons, gone. maybe he would float an which urged him to take the other company,-

first craft going anywhere away · It was an attractive

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES ATONEMENT AFTER from Brisbane, and the amy- but like the late company is died

Tsang Wong-cheung. aged 15.) The U.S. S. destroyers Stewart.. was admitted to the Government Isabel and J. D. Ford left for Civil Hospital. suffering from in- Bangkok at noon yesterday. juries to his face and body which he sustained when he fell off a

tram car searching

An

*claimed telegram for

22 YEARS

*£5,000 Gift By

Murderer

A police picket was A. A. A. from Sydneypo is lying FOR DAUGHTER OF HIS VICTIM

the car and the lad. at the Eastern who had raw opium in his posses-graph Co. Ltd. sion, tried to jump off the car.

was able to

Messrs.

Extension

Tele-

where chanced to be. New in infancy, for on Friday, the Guinea

13th. Pembury was arrested.

It was not his fault that the Two passengers disembarked at company of which he had lately Msipiza from the China- bees chaimin, secretary, and bound

steamer. One WES treasurer, but by no means sole the trader's agent, the other shareholder, should have come to was a stranger, a handsome giant an abrupt enday. It was doomed of a fellow with a pleasant face.

from its inception, and where was Without hesitation this man strode Vienna the profit in flogging a dead horse up to Pembury with a friendly Twenty-two years ago two when there was profit to be hand out stretched. "You'll be The RMS. Empress of Russia men began quarrelling while made from the hooves and hide. Maurice Pembury?" he asked. Mr. D. W. Tratman. who has is due here from Manila at 8 am drinking in an inn at Miskolcz The hooves and hide in this case

"That's my name, admitted were the remaining liquid assets Fembury, "but I don't seem to re- been__a__patient at the Victoria next Wednesday, and will sail for Hungary. Hospital is now convalescent and Shanghai at 6 am. next Friday. They were Heinrich Kadar, a or the company.

member you. That was six weeks ago, and he attend the opening

young locksmith. and his best

"No you wouldn't. I'm Sergeant F. Alegre, Consul-friend. Sandor Bogar.

had been in the not very entertain-Terry Damn, of the police, and I'm General for Panama, E. C. Traeup, Kadar stabbed his friend to ling town of Maipua for nearly 3 here to take you back to Brisbane." of the Eastern Telegraph Com-death.

fortnight. during which time he He managed to escape arrest As a fitting conclusion to the pany and M. A. R. de Souza, of Armistice Day ceremonies, the the Union Insurance Society, were and fled to the United States. Armistice singers will render this morning fined $4 each, by Mr. He was sentenced to five years' Elgar's "For the Fallen" and W. Schofield at the Central Mag-imprisonment for manslaughter

cars in his absence. Brahms "Requiem" in the Cathe-istracy for parking their

in dral at 9.15 pm

Monday, near the richshaw OF November 11.

of the new Hong Kong and Shang- hai Bank premises yesterday.

Lan Tin. a coolie. died soon after admission to the Govern ment Civil Hospital, as the result of a fractured skull, when he ac cidentally fell off lorry, No. 690 in Des Voeux Road. West. yesterday.

A lady's handbag. containing money. which was found on board! the ferr Solar Star yesterday has been brought to the Central Police Station.

A Chinese female. Lee Kwan, 46 years. was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital suffering from a simple fracture to the left arm due to a fall from a railway car

riage at the KCR. station yes terday...

FRAUD ON WIFE

stand

Cheque Received

ROYAL NEWS REEL OPERATOR

That seemed to cover all neces- sary explanation: Pembury re- All right, sergeant, then we may cognised Nemesis, and replied.

as well have a drink.”

Over the third whisky Pembury said "How are we going back.

Connaught Road, to the east of Now the Miskolcz police have Duke Of York Tries there's no boat for three weeks

Pedder's Street.

ALLEGED CHILD "MURDER

Mother Remanded To

Holloway

London

Annie Elizabeth Blackman, aged 21, living at Beaconsfield-road. Friern Barnet, was remanded at

Highgate recently, accused of the murder of her newly born child.

Inspector Ambrose said he ar rested the woman at the Well-

received a cheque for £5,000 from Connecticut (U.S.A-), and a letter from Kadar in which he begs the police to hand over the money to his victim's daughter. who at the time of her father's death was a baby. ·

"I have worked hard for the money," wrote Kadar, "and. I hope to atone with this gift for the deed which I have repent- jed deeply ever since."

The girl has not yet been traced."

ཁ་

A DISAPPOINTING

BOOK

house Hospital, Barnet. Blackman Undistinguished Short

was the mother of a child aged

Stories

His Hand

SUCCESSFUL VENTURE

London

now."

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"The Mariposa will be along in four days* time." was the reply. “She's a dirty little, tub, but she's

snug.

“I know." nodded Pembury, “I The Duke of York turned came here in her. In the mean- newsreel cameraman at his time, I suppose you're keeping mg camp of public schoolboys and in close custody working lads at Southwold] recently

Dunn gave z grunt of laughter, “Now why should I be doing Two film cars with cameras that?" he asked. "You're not a on the roofs followed the Duke criminal. you're only an abscond-} as he was watching boys ating bankrupt” „ play on the sports ground. This information came almost! Walking over, the Duke spoke as a shock to Pembury. So they to, one of the operators.

(hadn't found out about the miss- "I have my own cine-camera," ing money? Not yet, but, once he said, “and I am very in-back in Brisbane, discovery and terested in these."

its consequences would be inevit 17 months. This child had

The mechanism was explainable been with its mother at the hos

Jed to him.

“And what's more, Dunn con- pital, and was now in court in A somewhat undistinguished. "Panning" Round

tinued, “not a soul here knows me charge of a police matron. The collection of American short "I'd like to have a shot at nor may business and I'm not tell- mother was very fond of this stories make up the "0. Henry making a film," said the Duke; ing 'em. I'm just an old friend child, and wished to be allowed Memorial Award" volume The and he climbed on to the roof dropped in to see how you're go- to take it to Holloway Prison with first prize story idealises; in the of the car beside the camera-ing on.” her. Blackman was a country-born usual way, a buck-negro escapman. girl with no friends in London.ing from gaol murderer The Duke focused the lenses, damn, Ianghed Pembury. "There's The magistrates granted the with the heart of a child, and switched on the camera motor, not one of them here on his proper mother's request and the police all that. The third prize goes got his speed running correctly side of the prison bars. What are application that, owing to the to a story which begins: this, it was explained, was they saying about me in Bris

"Horizontally wakeful amid miver important because of the sound bane 27 sal widths, practising laughter and arrangements and then, with mirth, satire, the end of all of Rome his eye glued to the view finder, dering why the devil you got the "Not much," they're "just won" remembrance, much warmth volcanic, panned" round following the wind up and bolted" the streets of Paris, the plains of runners in a race dy

Pembury didn't wonder, he knew Jericha, much gliding as of reptile in He took several shots, ex-why.de bank for deposits withdrawn by EDUCATIONAL USEd so on for another half-Standing On The Roof

zbstraction.”

posing in all about 500ft... OF CINEMA Proposal To L.C.C. Committee

Husband Used Her Bank Account

AN UNUSUAL CASE ·

London

women's poor state of health, she The Chief Registrar of Friendly should be taken to Holloway Pri- Societies. In his report for last son in a motor-car instead of aand, yes, of Babylon, clenched teeth, year, refers to an unusual case police van. which came before him--a claim

by a woman against a

savings

forgery. The woman married a clerk who, although she did not know it was unemployed. He paid her £12 a month for, 18 months, and then she discovered that her bank account was being reduced. by her husband's forged with- drawls.

A

London The cinema is becoming more “She refrained," says the Chief and more a part of elementary Registrar, from informing the education.

“Not that it would matter a

When, four days later, they em- barked on the Mariposa, her cap

dozen lines. This may be The Duke then climbed to the tan showed no surprise at seeing pretty, but I defy even the roof of the other film car. prize-awarder to know what it

his late passenger in the company "Let's make a film of those of a policeman, such events were means. One asks, therefore fellows playing over there," he why only the third prize? said, pointing to the far end of common in the islands. As long Why not the first? Or none? the field with the Duke prisoner and guard were on Why, indeed, at all?

SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC

bank for reasons which do her Experiment in the use of the!

The acting Medical Officer of credit as a wife, but it is neces: cinema in the class-room is Health for Chelmsford recently sary for me to consider what the ladvocated in the report which effect to her action may be in was submitted to the LCC reported 74 cases of scarlet fever

law.""

Education Committee recently

hospital.

standing on the roof, the drove over.

such obviously friendly terms the why and wherefore did not con-

This time the Duke required cern him [no instruction. He made about

They spent the first day lolling 200ft of another film.

in the shade of the deckhouse The Duke has his own pro-drinking long drinks, smoking and jector and theatre. The films ramning late into the night, for it will be sent on to him.

was too hot to face the airless discomfort of the cabin. They? awoke next morning to find the little vessel threading the chamels The husband-who was later

The sum of £300 included inf Traffic was held up for an hour William Wilson, of Falkland, between a maze of small islands so convicted-promised his wife not to repeat his methods, but twice the programme for this pur when a runaway horse jumped Fife, died from injuries received massed together that they remind pose, it is stated, will only suf-through a shop window in New-when a 25-gallon petrol tank ex-ed one of a disintegrated jig-saw fice for the purchase of two or ington Butts, Southwark

Two Solutions

broke that promise.

by the General Purposes Sub- committee.

Projectors Need

The bank contended that the three projectors. woman was not entitled to be re- As these will not be adequate credited because she had received for the conduct of an experi-1 the money as a monthly allowancement of real value the Sub- from her husband.

committee propose that,

at

The Chief Registrar held that 43,000 included in the pro- was not likely that the bank could gramme for visits to cinemas trace its money into the hands of 2500 shall be diverted to the the wife, and in his award direct purchase of projectors.

ed that her account should be 'ers. dited with the sums fraudulently withdrawn up to the time when she discovered what was happen- ing and failed to tell the bank.

CAR IN HARBOUR

CUTTER MYSTERY:

HORSE THROUGH WINDOW

- PETROL TANK TRAGEDY-

Double

Canton. To-day

Iploded.

י'

Tenth In Canton

puzzle, and on one occasion they skirted the land so closely that Pembury remarked "Twelve strokes might take a desperate]

ashore here." and Dunn glanced at him with suspicion, “You haven't got that in your Celebra-cession passes in the morning mind, have you?" he asked. tions of the Double Tenth con- and at night.

Tm not such a damned fool" tinned to-day, although the The bus traffic has been in-replied Pembury. "See those efforts to bring prosperity to terrupted by the procession, and points sticking above the water? trade failed to achieve its pur-public vehicles have to make They're not reefs, you know, if pose. Most of the big firms detours. Fares for rickshaws you watch closely you'll see they're were closed yesterday and fail and motor cars have been rais-moving with us. The cutter Altair, with Lt-CoLed to reap any profits by possi-led by 50 to 80 per cent. Noel Meredith Vibart. Deputy ble rush business.

The rocession. Assistant Quartermaster-General Those who benefited by the thro

theprin celebrations were the buses, will

hired motor cars,

hotels and tow- ound its way The Kowloon-Canton streefs- and drew steamers are also be of pe – Mány from colding rooms in are very hich the pro-(Corresp

at the War Office and three cam- panions aboard is still missing. “

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