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BREAKING INTO AN INN

Three Men Charged In London

CIGARETTES AND CASH STOLEN

recently

At the Guildhall before Mr. Alderman Pollitzer, William Henry Johnson, aged 32, & French polisher, of Bast- wick-street. EC, George Leo- nard Gardner, aged 41, labourer, of St. John's-road, Dalston, and Edward Barton aged 25, a motor driver, of no charged * settled address, were

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with being concerned together! in breaking and entering the!

Falcon- Falcon public-house,

square, E.C., and stealing a quantity of cigarettes, and cash.

Detective-sergeant

William

Brett of the City Police said: **At 3 am to-day I went to the

*Falcon

square,

públic-house,

Falcon-

where I saw 27 plate- glass windows smashed.

Bottles Smashed

"A large number of bottles! which had contained wines and:

spirits were smashed

-floor and on the pavement out-

.on

the

side. A wooden partition of an inner office was barred and

THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936

Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Fredric March are here pictured in a touching scene from 20th Century's production of Victor Hugo's immortal classic “Les Miserables," released through United Artists kud, now showing at the King's Theatre.

OBITUARY

To-day's Short Story

several files of papers were also Well-Known Eastern The Letters Of

burned and charred."

The detective added that hei

had told the three men

that

they would be charged with

breaking and entering the pub

Merchant

*CHINA MAIL" SPECİAL

Hamburg. To-day.

The news of the death on the

Jemima

By LouisTM Golding

SECRET WING

FOR PLANE

Watchman Attacked

At Airport

VALIABLE INFORMATION SOUGHT BY INTRUDERS

Mr. I Green, aged 65, of Parrock-street, Gravesend, a

watchman at Gravesend air! port, was attacked early one day flast month by two men in a

bargar at the alport.

His face and one aan were

injured.

Mr. Green came on duty at 16.30. He found the hangar

open and the men inside.

He closed with one, but the other struck him on the head with an iron bar

Mr. Green managed to stag- ger to the airport offices for assistance and then collapsed.

He was taken to Gravesend Hospital, but was later allowed: to go home There Was $720 trace of the intruders.

Secrets In., Hangar

An official said that the com- pany had world patents on form of wing construction. This had aroused the interest of the Air Ministry and experts.

The company had also advanced ideas of fuselage con- struction.

There were being embodied in

a machine which they were at

in to

and the official believed that

intruders broke examine the machine.

Squadron-leader F. W. H. Ler-

lic-house by forcing a fanlight, high seas of the Secretary of the JAMA WYNN lived in the lifted her eyes towards the present building in the hangar

pariour for 2 weekly con-mantelpiece. "and with stealing cigarettes and "Far Eastern Association of Ham-sideration of five shillings. She There was no second letter the

cash, and that in all probability burg and Bremen," Dr. F. W came to live in the parlour some for Jemima

"Rum they would be further charged Hobr, causes sincere regrets in years ago, declaring that her

bloke, Wym!” Her later with setting fire to the export circies here: Dr. Mohr, name was Jemima Bloggs, but face fall. She moved less alert will said that knowledge of the and maliciously who was returning from a visit seeing that as she and John ly to her room. The months new type of wing constraction premises

fixto the Far East when he succum was soon going to be married went by, but no evening did she would be very valuable from a

bed to heart failure shortly be she might as well be Wynn forget to inquire. "Letter for military point of view. fore the vessel reached Singapore, straightways, to be prepared Jemima?" Her hail was generally recognised as

damaging the stock and

tures.

The men made no reply. A-remand was ordered, heing refused..

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

eyes moved

Mr. Lerwill. who retired re-

от

an like: Jemima Wym (strictly mechanically to the mantelpiece cently from the BAF. and is authority on Far Eastern affairs, Bloggs) went out and did was-and dropped again emptily. now commmerted with the com- and had many friends in China (hing and came in such evening "Rum bloke, Wynn!" she mar-rany, added: "There is no ob and Japan.

with a face like a soap-sud. I mured. Then the utterance of ject in breaking into the han During the World War he took remember a letter arriving for the name seemed to cause her gar for any other purpose than part in the defence of Tsingtao. Jemima during the first week of a dismay and to dim her eyes to see this new. wing.

"There was no money After the War he was appointed her residence, a letter which curiously, so that the word, no].

equipment in the hangar.” Patrons are kindly requested to Secretary-General of the Far East bore a Spanish stamp and was more crossed her lips.

under his addresed in an uncouth but mas note that the postpored perform-Association, which ance of "Lady Precious Stream" direction became the leading or-culine hand. It awaited her on will take place in the University ganisation of the Hanseatic ex-the kitchen mantelpiece. Great Hall to-night, commencing Port and shipping firms trading at 8.45 p.m. sharp.

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"A letter for you, Jemima 1” to the Far East.

we said Dr. E. W. Mohr had attained "Lawks amussy!" she ex- Five cases of diphtheria, two of the age of 51-Trans-Ocean Ser-claimed rapturously, tearing open the envelope. "He's а enteric fever and two of cerebro- rice.

comin' of! He's a comin' of!” spinal fever were reported to the

she chanted. Health authorities in the 24 hours' ended on Thursday.

..

The . Tilawa is expected herei from Singapore on Tuesday next

The RMS. Empress of Asia! left Shanghai yesterday for Naga- saki, Kobe, Yokohama, Victoria and Vancouver.

STRIKE RISKS BY WORKMEN

"Desperate Course"

Its Dangers

―n.com

"Who's coming?" we asked inquisitively...

MONDAY'S STORY

by Hugh

Monday's story will be "The Snow,” Walpole.

BOY KICKED BY FOREMAN

£18 Awarded-As Damages

Judge Barnard Lailey, in the Basingstoke Court recently,

A year passed. The postman awarded £18 damages to a 15-

came rarely enough, but never year-old boy who complained of "Wynn'” Hugging her letter for Jemime. She was still a being assaulted by a works fore- she swayed towards the parlour. maiden lady with a married man & For the next week her face was name Not a whisper was heard

The man was Stanley Edgar

a radiance During the week of Wynn. She did her washing Alsop, foreman at the Allied after and the following week a with a mechanical efficiency, but Brick and Tile Co., at Ramsdale, mist began slightly to obscure the lyric delight once occasion-Basingstoke, and he was sued Reserved judgment was deer content Each evening as ed in her by a bed-sheet or a by Raymond Sidney Foster, livered by Mr. Justice Johnston she came into the kitchen she blouse seemed to have passed through his father, Joseph Fos in the High Court, Dublin, lasti month, dismissing with costs an action brought against the

The following are the revised hours of the French Consulate Open from 9 am to 12.30 pm- Great Northern Railway Com- and from 2.30 pm to 4.30 p

pany (Ireland) Ltd. by William Fegan, a cleaner, of Dublin; A dinner dance will be held at John Lamb, a cleaner; John Repulse Bay Hotel to-day at 8.30 Lunch, a fireman, of Belfast, fire- tea dance to-morrow and Thomas Coleman, 2 pm, and a

wili be at. 4.30 pm. There

aman, of Dundalk half-hourly bus service to-mor- row afternoon.

SOLDIERS FOR TRIAL

Chauffeur Tells Of Gagging

was

away:

ter, of Chater Ley, Basingstoke.

The boy said that, he One morning the postman as- tonished us with a letter for wheeling a barrow load of overturned. Jemima It bore an English bricks when it stamp, and the postmark, in Alsop kicked him at the base of the spire He was incapacitat- fact, was of our own town. The handwriting was again uncouth, ed for a month. but the bold, virile lines we re Assault Admitted

Alsop admitted the assanit The alleged hold-up of a membered on her first letter

and produced a pair of rubber The plaintiffs claimed a de-chauffeur

described at were wholly absent.

boots he was wearing at the claration that on Jan. 29, 1933, Uxbridge last month, when, Pte

She came in that evening time. He said that Foster had they were employees of the de William Gillespie Kenny, 1st and asked her automatic ques been careless before and it was

the Batt the Argyll and Sutherland; Three years' hard labour was fendants, and entitled to

|carelessness; that made hím the sentence passed by Mr. Jus- benefit of an agreement of Highlanders, and Pte. Alfred tion: "Letter for Jemima?

"Yes, Jemimal! we said, upset the hawwow. Lloyd, 2nd Batt, the Cameron-Look at the mantelpiece!" She tice R. E. Lindsell, Acting Chief February, 1922.

In cross-examination Mr. Justice Johnston said ians (Scottish Rifles), both aged gave a start, blushed, and admitted he had been repri Justice, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday afternoon on Sze To- that the agreement of 1933 21 were committed for trial.

They were charged with pugnaciously retreated with the manded by his employers. wai, aged 23, unemployed, who after the strike, amended the

The men being concerned with two other next evening another letter ar was found "Guilty" by the jury agreement of 1922

of men in robbing Andrew Kirk rived for Jemima Another fol- TWO WORKMEN on a charge of being in posses-took the desperate course sion of a forged $50 note of the going on strike, with all the at- Murray, after using personallowed in a few weeks. All the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- tendant risks, including the violence to him and showing envelopes were addressed in the ing Corporation, a forged 20-very real one of losing their him a revolver. Avem piastre note, and a forged 5-pias-Seniority on their being taken Murray said that he entered tre note of the Banque de l'Indo-back when a settlement had his rooms over a

been effected

chine

It is announced in the Govern ment Gazette that letters will be accepted at Hong Kong for trans- mission by the Chinese domestic air mail services from Calton" to destinations in Chins at the rate.

JUDGE'S FAREWELL

letter from the kitchen..

The

same handwriting, but they were letters, anyhow. Never a garage st

week passed without the arrival Harefield at 1 am on Dec. 5 of at least three letters for when he was grabbed by some Jemima mer inside They forced him or to the bed, tied his wrists

I remember that one evening

KILLED

Accident On Southern Railway

be

Two men working on the per-

between

a patron gave me the magnit manent way of the Southern Rail- and legs together and gagged cent stum of threepence. I reway at Cooksbridge,

paired forthwith to the nearest Lewes and Plumpton, were run

Judge. Sir Mordaunt Snagge him with - two handkerchiefs

said good-bye to Marylebone They took about 3 from his stationer to extend my aequain down and kiled recently by an Count Court last month West-rockets and a gold watch from tance with a gentleman burglar alectic train of $1 per half-ounce mit Tminster County Court.

charge is inclusive of the regular postage.

The names of 2681

which have been "dnly ente

the Register for 1936

Government

The following appoin

are priblished in the Gover Garrette

sent] Gazette: S

This wrist

of much refinement. I found The train was the 8.27 am somewhat to my surprise from Seaford, carrying paraen- Jemima completing a purchase. Sex bound for mid-Suss On seeing enter she turned There were severni that she was someone else, ang to safety,

Appointments on sen med pretended the line at the time some jumped

etc., to be, provisionally, and enbject to then went to the door with a jug Nurses Registration Ordinance, are notified in the Government His Majesty's pleasure, a member halfconcealing shaile.

of the Legislative Council during sence from the Colorry of

Dr. Arthan

The Hon. Sir Heary Edw Pollock Kt, KC, to be,

ty's pleasure, an Unoficial

OFFICE BOY TO DIRECTOR simmally and subject to His Maje

Mr. C. R. Robinson, who in 1881 ber of the Legislative Council for

from Jankari enter)

a further period of four yeux, effe

January 17;

Victor Cecil Branson, 24 with effect

Broznelow - Ashe AECS, DIC R

TAMA sumed duty as Government Anaz

boy and rose

DTM&H (Lond.), on an

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