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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936

PERRY KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS IN TENNIS EXHIBITION

Takes Terrific Drive On Head

North Dr. K L Reichelt, of the Tao It is learned that the Fons

Shan Christian Institute. Geruan Lloyd has already receiv- ! will give a public lerture on "Aed sockings for the passenger ser- Trip to the Sacred Mountains in vice to Europe for 1997, all ships North China." at the Manuk being nearly booked up to the end Lodge of the Theosophical of this year. « Society, Hong Kong Club Annex.

A small fire broke out yesterday Ib Chater Road, at 6 p.m. to-day..

afternoon at the National Lacquer The St. Andrew's Club Amateur and Paint Company at Shaukiwani Dramatic section are producing caused by the over-heating of oils, set ire to зоте wood- Three one-act Plays at St. An-which

The fire was vextinguished drew's Church Hall at 9.15 pm. work to-day. There will be instru-by fokis before the arrival of the

the amount of; **** mental music in between acts by Fire Brigade and

a quartette of local artistes. The damage done was very small prices of adminission are $1.501 (reserved) and $1, inclusive

tax.

of

The following forthcoming wed- dings are announced: Mr. Ellis Meyer Joseph, broker, residing at 4 Felix Villas. and Miss Fanny Salti, living al Courtland, Kennedy Road:

Charles Mr. Engelberth Dworjak, engineer, of,

Canton and Miss 20 Shameen. Olga Kaupmans, residing at 2 "Peking Road, Kowloon.

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24. hours ending at 10 am, to-day WILS 0.02 inch. The total since! January 1 is 4.59 inches, against an average of 8.45 inches.

MAN WITH NO COUNTRY

Two Nationalities Lost

Budapest, To-day. Fred Perry, the Wimbledon champion, was struck on the head with a terrific drive during an exhibition lawn tennis match here yesterday and was rendered unconscious, falling like a stone. He was loudly cheered when he resumed. but his play was de- finitely affected and he lost the matsh in three sets-Reuter.

LIONS KILL IN REVENGE

Terror In South Africa

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The Broken record.

226.—The Lady in red

Muchacha.

butler's band was shak- When peace had been declared Tins to violently that he Jack returned to London, to find could hardly read the grubby himself in the ranks of the unem- note which had been handed in ploved. For many a weary day he at the door. And it was cer- had trumped the streets in search C tainly a letter calculated to of work, but without success.

And then one day he had run upset any man's nerve.

€ across the Colonel, who, on lean- It began without any courtesy. ing of the plight of the man to

Wizit the blazes do you mean whom he owed his life, had taken C by taking Phyllis away? Send her him back to. Dilbury with him as back at once. And it's high time his butler and general factotum. you were paying up the money you Jack had thoroughly justified the ŁOWE WE. It's ty pounds now.confidence which the old Colonel

and unless you come round and had placed in him. Honest as the C 204-Samoan love song settle to-night I'll see the Colonel kday, courteous and obliging, con- first thing in the morning, and then scientious in everything he did, he C 225-Who's Who at Whipsnade.. įthere'll be hell to pay. You'll have was a man who could be trusted

the sinets to trump again, you implicitly. blighter."

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's Story will be *The Man Behind The Hold-Up,” another adven- ture of Dixon Hawke,

The letter was signed “D. P.."] MANY NATIVES LOST

but the typed heading was Richard, Lusaka. (Northern Rhodesia): Pilgrim. Commission Agent. In A gang of native workmen re-ort. Pilgrim was a "bookie." cently kept watch for a number of "Sor Phyllis By God, no!

Gregory muttered as he crushed up lions who were believed to be seek the note and glanced at the big ball ing revenge for the death of one lock. It was getting on for ten. of their cubs, killed by a member and it was Gregory's custom to of the gang near the village of take up the Colonel's night-cap Vambe. on the Mambwa-Natal precisely as the rock struck the was a passion for betting. He had But he had one weakness that

been plunging heavily, and was The mother of the cub had been "I could go and return within | The problem of a man who has seen at the spot where it was half an hour." he murmured, "but wing Dick Pilgrim £50. in Siberia, is opening a photo- lost two nationalities came before killed. That same night the native that might be cutting things just

under the title Mr. Powell at Bow-street police workmen had been forced to leave too fine." graphic business "Camera Exchange Service,"

Mr. N. A. Tonoff, M.A.. well- known in the Colony as a violinist and teacher of music. and former- ly owner of one of the leading: professional photographic studios

STRANGE LONDON CASE

at

court last month.

No. 1. Middle Road, Kowloon (behind European Y.M.C.A.).

The s.s. Naldera is due from Shanghai at 6 3.1.

morrow.

"INFATUATED BY MUSIC"

road.

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Plodding through the rain, Gre- their shelters to keep a night-long Then, seized with a sudden in-pory thought of Phyllis, his daugh- Sidney Collett, aged 43, a guide, guard round camp fires. tions piration, he reached up and pushed ter. She was, indeed, "his only

back the hands of the clock half an joy, all he had in life. born in England, was charged as were closing in on them

to- Act

1912

and

Victims Ambushed Later in the day a native woman?

hour.

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For some tirae she had been ser- a naturalised "American with fail All night they waited

The Colonel will be too engross-ving us a maid under Dick Pil here ing to register under the Aliens watched. With the dawn the in his books to notice. So long grim's deaf old housekeeper, Betsy,

tions disappeared.

es I go in when the clock strikes but Gregory had formed the suspi Collett told the mag rate that

it'll be all right.

cion that Pilgrim was not the kind The went to the United States in

Quickly opening the front door, of man in whose company to leave During the war be enlisted was walking alone on the road Gregory found that it was mining an innocent girl. in the American Red Cross and nearby. Screams were heard. Por-heavily, so he turned back and put Only that day he had sent her off was given a soldier's naturalisations of her body were afterwards his rubbers on over his house shoes to Dorset, and the five-pound note tion certificate. Recently he went found left by the lions who had Then silently he stole through the he had in his pocket was all the to Scotland Yard for an identity seized her.

garden and turned down Ivy Lane. money he had left after paying ber certificate and learned that he was

Jack Gregory was an old soldier who bad rejoined the colours on the outbreak of war. He had been a private in Colonel Ramsay's regi- lite when he was severely wounded ment, and had saved his officer's

Suicide Of Youth Who Was "Never Normal”

LIVED IN A WORLD OF FANTASY

Evidence that he lived in world of fantasy" was given

A little later a native man was regarded in England as an alien. ambushed and mauled to death.

Nationality Lost

His fate did not deter a member A police officer said that al- of the original road gang going of though Collett was naturalised in alone to search for wild honey, the United States he had now lorry driver passing along the last his American nationality road later heard him calling from by reason of his having since a tree. A lion was below, he said, 4 resided in his country of ori-hiding in the undergrowth:

at gin for a period of two years or The lorry driver was defence- the inquest at Camberwell re-:more.

less. He rushed on to get help. cently on Cyril William Knight Mr. Powell said that, although But the man in the tree was never aged 21, who was found gassed at Collect had lost his American na-seen or heard of again. his home in Lordship-lane. East tionality, he was still regarded in

Dulwich He was

at the Wheat Commission.

William Koight said

clerk this country as an alien until he had taken steps to regain his Bri- that his tish status.

SOO was passionately fond of He dismissed the charge under

music and belonged

to amateur the Probation of Offenders Act on

orchestral societies. He added:

"Music was his life.

he became moody and

felt

the understanding that Collett Latterly would at once apply to the proper depressed authorities.

he rather overdoing his orchestral work, for he devoted three or four nights a week to it.

at times. and we

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"He alternated between fits of moodiness and exaltation.

“I AM HIS MOTHER”

If we

very self-

By Ex-Soldier

“NO YIDDISH

HERE"

ALLEGED ASSAULT

IN GAOL

Prisoner Remanded

expenses.

Dick Pilgrim's cottage stood in a lane off the main street of Dilbury, and when Gregory pushed the bell answered the door. knob it was Pilgrim himself who

"Oh! It's you,

"he snarled. Damn good job, too. Leave your wet things in the porch."

Gregory followed the bookie into his room. It had evidently been a good day at the races, for a cash- box crammed with bank notes lay open on the table.

"Well; what have you got to Lau Fong aged 19, prisoner barked the bookie, as Gre No. 25261 at Victoria Gaol, apgory fumbled in his pocket for the peared before Mr. W. Schofield at five-pound note. the Central Magistracy this mor- jning charged with wounding

Slanging Match At fellow prisoner, Toi Tong,

Meeting

FASCIST SPEAKER ARRESTED

"You must give me time----” ahe begun. оп **Time!"" thundered Pilgrim. February 18, at the Lai Chi-kok|"You'll damn well be doing time prison, which resulted in the if you don't look out. What have ¡death of Tsoi Tong on April 2. you got there?”*

I will be recalled that at an

It's only five pounds." Gregory inquest held by Mr. S. F. Balfour answered. "It's all I've got at the

the Central Magistracy

moment." on

jat

Relur Alister Houston, aged April 3, it was revealed that the

Pilgrim snatched at the note. "Not a side?" he sneered, as 132, a political agent. of Petherton- deceased died from infection of

he turned it over before tossing it could get him up to his beloved Woman's Claim Denied. Highbury, who was arrested this wound.

into the box and making a note of while speaking at a Fascist meet- music-room he was quite happy.

Mr. T, Murphy, for the Police, the number-D.49,663 in his cash ing in Finsbury-square, was at Old-

"But that's not what I street last month remanded on bail asked for a week's remand, which book.

to talk to

you about. for a week on a charge of using in. was granted, saying that the case want

would be transferred to the Kow- Where's Phyllis?” sulting words and behaviour.

"Gone, to the country," Grégory Insptr. George Clark said that loon Magistracy.

answered. "I sent her to her about 300 people attended the

unt's.

**Whereabouts 7**

"At times he was critical of his music. He worried after a performance as to whether he had given of his best.”

Letter Left Behind

Mr. Knight said he had no idea that his son contemplated suicide. When he was found with his head;

in the gas oven a letter containing several pages was by his side.

Ambitious For Success

music, said that he was very am bitious to make a success of his He was complete

musical career.

MAINTENANCE CHARGE HEARING

Mrs. Annie Arundell, aged 80meeting

When someone inter- ITALIAN LEGATION of Felgatemews, Hammersmith, rupted Houston, he retorted. "No. claimed at West London police-Yiddish stuff here with your d-d

Shortly

court last month that a man who Jewisla ignorance. Later he said. Mr. Bianconi Leavingswered Gregory stubbornly. ""Look was summoned for her mainten-{"You did Jews. If you were wise ance was one of her 14 children. you'd keep away from Blackshirt omnibus conductor, denied this.

man, Charles Arundell, anreetings."

A man who made a statement at

On account of some unavoidable

I'm not telling you that."" an-

here, Mr. Pilgrim, my girl's a good girl."

**Rot! She's like all the rest of The Philip Howard King, a friend,

them. Give her fine dresses and associated with Knight in his The woman said that, with Ed-the police-station, added the officer, delay in the arrival of his succes jewellery and

"I sent back the bracelet and the ward Arundell, who was also sum-had asked that his name and adsor, due from Harbin, the Italian

oned, and was represented by a dress should not be disclosed as he Consul General in Hong Kong and pendant," Gregory reminded him.

Canton, Mr. A. Bianconi, had to! **I know you did. They're in the postpone his departure from Hong box there. But, see here." solicitor, the man in court enlisted feared victimisation. in 1914. She did not see either

grim came from behind the table The new Consul, Mr. Maffei, and thrust his face into Gregory's. home for their raceful until it was disturbed by

someone calling him a liar. After has announced his arrival "What I want to know is this is enable them that the thing becaine a sort of towards the end of this month, that girl coming back to her job or

lang match," he added. and it is expected that Mr.is she not?" Mrs. Arundell explained that Gering the remand, Mr. F. O. Bianconi will be able to travel Gregory had been keeping his jshe had

not registered them at Langley said, "There has been home via Siberia immediately temper well under control, but it

blazed up now. youth's room, busts of Mozart and birth for fear that they would be some question of victimising some after his arrival. Beethoves, and signed photographs Vaccinated, and she therefore went one.

ly wrapped up in his music and particularly fond of pleasure.

Disturbed

of them again until after the war. Houston said his meeting was Kong.

"I should say he was never nor when they came mal," added Mr. King. "He was birth certificates to

unusual character-extremely

to secure work sensitive and highly strung.

F. John Facey, the Coroner's officer, said he found in the dead

The

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Pil-

**Never!" he cried, "Not when In this jurisdiction there is before a magistrate and made a going to be no baiting-whether of FINED FOR CUTTING The ugly leer spread on Pilgrim's

ju man like you is about." of prominent composers.

declaration. She had not seen Jews, of Communists, of Fascists, room gave the impression of bethem since.

or of any other group of men.

face, and he held up his hands like ing occupied by one more or less

two claws. Every individual who observes the infatuated by music.

The man said that he first came law is entitled to-and vill receive to know Mrs. Arundell after the full protection from this Court

Abnormal Condition

Suited His Purpose

CHURCH ROOF ABLAZE

DOWN TREES

Especially Planted Near Reservoir

"You blasted fool," he cried,

thrusting his face still closer to Gre- igory's.. "I'll have her yet, in spite

of you. I'l

But he did not finish the sen- Chan Kwai, unemployed, was

The old soldier's fighting) tence. this morning fined $50, in default fury swept over him. He launched six months' imprisonment, by Mr-himself at Pilgrim, and, seizing him Rev. J. N. Sykes, vicar of Holy W. Schofield at the Central Magis-by the throat, hurled him back- Trinity, Stepney, finding the roof tracy for cutting down two grow-wards into the fireplace. of his church on fire, called the ing trees at No. 4 Reservoir. There was a fearful clash of fire- brigade, who cut away about 20ft Quarry Bay.

irons, the smashing of an ornamen of roofing and extinguished the

Sub Inspector O'Connor said tal screen, and then deadly quiet- blaze:

that the trees had been especial-ness.

For a second Gregory, stood still ly planted to keep the earth and

in horror, and then suddenly there CAMBRIDGE BOATS COLLIDE" Zirt from falling into the re-

servoir which supplies water to door bell Gregory's quick impulse came a shrill ringing of the electric VALUE OF BECKENHAM Mr. E. A. Totman, of Cains Col-the Docks and the Sugar Refinery was to escape. He knew that there lege, Cambridge, was injured in a Though the actual cost of the was a back exit, and, moving swift- value of the collision betwem Caius and Jesus trees was not much, the cutting is, he was soon outside and on the borough of Beckenham, Kent, has boats. Four of the Jesus crew of them caused the sand and earth road to Ivy Lodge. increased by £15,000 to £766,677, had to swim to the bank

to go into the water below,

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Dr. Reymond Moore, police sur-war, when he paid her to make and from the police."

about his birth geon, said Knight obviously suffer-the declaration

distinctly abnormal “It suited my purpose, but I did ed from a mental condition. Apparently he not believe that this. woman was and my mother," he said. “I met was very critical of himself had an inferiority complex, alter Edward Arundell after the war nating between exaltation and am-and presumed he was my brother." bition. It was a characteristic case "I am satisfied you are her son,”. of dementia praecox.

said the magistrate, who ordered "He red, I think," added Dr. Ardell to pay S. 3d a week Moore, "at times in a world of towards the woman's maintenance.

order fantasy characteristic of this form A similar

was made in respect of Edward Arundell, of mental disorder."

Recording a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, the Coron- er said that he did not propose) to make public Knight's last writ ings. They indicated a fixed and definite intention to take his life.

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