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BOY WANTED ADVENTURE

Runs Away Again. To Brighton

WALKED 50 MILES AND

SLEPT IN HEDGE

one

Brighton.

For the second time within a week Frederick Johnstone. aged 9, morning was found early asleep on Brighton beach last month. after running away from home to find adventure on the high seas.

The boy, who lives in Carolina、 road. Green-láne. Norbury. Lon- don. S.W., was found on the beach here the previous Wednesday in similar circumstances, after hav- ing been missing for three days.

Later he again

vanished from

his home in Norbury, and AAS then found by a fisherman lying! asleep with a book of sea thrillers! clasped in his hand. He Was taken to the police-station. where be said that with a few pence only.

The mysterious disappearance of the skeleton seen above is one of the many interesting "tarts” at Grubel's Eden Theatre, Kow- 1000.

ST. TERESA'S CHURCH

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES STEEL COULSON'S

Chan Ying, unemployed, was set-} The YMC.A. Launch Pienic tenced to six months' imprisonment advertised for to-thørrow, will not by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Cen- take place. |tral Magistracy this morning for the theft of $158.40 from the per- son of Ma Ting, an amah, in Con- naught Road Central yesterday,

BILLIARDS

Leagues To Start Next Week

The RMS. Empress of Russia will arrive from Manila next Wed-FIXTURES FOR FIRST WEEK nesday morning and will leave at

soon on Friday for Victoria and The fixtures for the Steel Coul-

Hor yui, aged 15, was removed Vancouver, via Shanghai, Kobe son Snooker and Billiards Leagues HONG

have now been drawn up and the different competitions will soon be in full swing.

to the Government Civil Hospital and Yokohama yesterday suffering from injuries. received when he Was knocked The decoration of the main hall down by private car No 439 in of the Chinese Young Men's Chris- The Snooker League will com-i Des Vouex Road Central

tian Association for the forthcom-mence on next Thursday when five ing Mass Marriage has been un-games will be played while the Yeto Matjumine, a Japanese lad, dertaken by the Wing On Com-Billiards tournament will aged 6, was removed to the Gov-pany. Limited. ernment Civil Hospital yesterday į suffering from concussion when he

fell from the cockloft of No 10 WIDOW'S APPEAL

Hennessy Road His condition is

1

fair.

:

TO THIEF

Five cases of enteric Séver and

to the local Health authorities

24 hours during the

ended on Wednesday.

Return Of Stolen

Concert Of Religious two of diphtheria were reported

An

Music

event which should pro-1

he had left home vide a real treat for music-lovers THE EARLY BIRD'

will take place at St. Teresa's

"I took a train to Morden and Church on Wednesday next at 6 FEEDS LONDON

from there walked all the way

Brighton. On Monday night slept in a hedge at the roadside.

to pm.. when the Rev. Fr. Rigantí |

and the Little Flower Choir, under (the directorship of Maestro E.

"I wanted to go to sea and go Gualdi, will give a concert of clas-

round the world rayself, to find sical and religious music.

out whether the adventure stories

I had read were

The programme will include or

Nicknames Of The Freight Expresses

Cross Asked

EX-OFFICER REMANDED

mence the following week.

com

The following are the fixtures of the first week's games:—

C. & 2.0.

Snooker League (OCTOBER 1)

Engineers Catholic Union C. v Artillery

Naval Police -p Garrison Sergt. Civil Service ✓ Signals Fusiliers

v. Dockyard Club

+

Billiards League (October 6) Dockyard Club v Catholic Union Fusiliers

v Engineers

A widow's appeal to a thief to Civil Service. return a gold cross made up of

her late husband's jewellery had

a

พ

Garrison Sergt.

sequel at Marylebone last month. PRESIDENT OF SPAIN

George Day, aged 40, qualified | (accountant and ex-Naval officer, of

no. fixed address, pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain by false pre- tences £25 from Miss Maggie

RESIGNS?

(Continued from Page 1)·

true." From gan-solos and selected items from NOW OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED King, secretary to Mrs. Knight, of will officially not take cognisance

Morden to Brighton is 50 miles.

row

sea.

cross

the masterpieces of Palestrina,

No. 20. Hanover-terrace. Eegent's of the matter, but Senor del Vayo. Most people have heard of the Park Rossini. Groce. Pergolesi. Perosi

the Foreign Minister, is expected Royal Scot Silver Link, Torbay Plan To Row To Dover Pagella etc.

Det. Sergt. Rowe said that on to refer to the matter to-day. The boy added that be wanted to The Rev. Fr. Riganti is already Limited, but few have heard of August 6 jewellery valued `at

CONSUL RESIGNS $1,500 WAS stolen from Mrs. get to Dover, which he had heard well known, to music-lovers of the Britain's "dawn, expresses"-the

Stuttgart: The Spanish Consul was a good place to start from. colony, as are also several of the Spud. Flying Pig, Early Riser Knight's house. Amongst it was for Waerttemberg, Hohenzollern, It was believed that he intended to other artists, such as Mr. G. D.Biscuit.

the gold

Because of its Baden. Rhein Palatinate and the there from Brighton. but Aquino. who is often heard, over These are the nicknames given great sentimental value she issued Saar, Senor Louis Fernandes Kor-

by railwaymen to the

express an

appeal in the Press for the tero, whose headquarters are in failed to drag a boat down to the the local wireless station.

Tickets at $1 reserved and 50 goods trains which speed through thief to return it to her.

Stuttgart, has notified the Regions!: Letter Received

Governor that he has resigned from He repeated the story of his cents unreserved can be obtained the night, bringing food to Lon- desire to emulate the feats of the at the Tsang Fook Piano Co., Ltd., don's eight millions.

Mrs. Knight received a

sympathy letter office, as he is not in crew of the schooner Girl Pat, and and at the Rectory of St. Teresa's

Friendly names-the Farmer's signed "Negotiator," offering to with the Government's increasing to travel. but always before the Church.

Boy, the Early Bird, the Feeder-get the cross returned for a cer-Communistic tendencies. ---- Trans- have been used by railwaymen fortain sum of money. Ultimately an Ocean Service. mast.

years to describe those thunder-appointment in Regent's Park was ing freighters which race across made, and her secretary, Miss sleeping England with a roar and King, met Day. He said if he re- a shriek Now, for the first time,ceived 25 he would be able to get they have received the blessing of the cross back. At another meet- cfficial recognition.

ing later Day was arrested.

All the proceeds will be devoted His mother was sent for, and to charity. while waiting for her to take him!

home he sat in the police station DARING DAYLIGHT with a book about pirates. He re- fused to give any interviewsN.

THEFT

Three Months' Gaol For Unemployed

Lozoya Occupied

MADRID'S MAIN RESERVOIR

IN DANGER

When his mother arrived shë hurried him away, and, in reply to

In a prosaically titled handbook, |

Sergt. Rowe added that Day had Burgos: Broadcasts state that questions, called out. "He is no

"Guide to Economical Transport." come down in the world. While a the insurgents have completely bero." "She would say no more.

just issued by the Great Western Naval officer he was wounded at occupied Lozoya, where Madrid's When he ran away a week be-! Found guilty of the theft of two Railway, this romance of the rails the Battle of Jutland. fore the boy took

main water reservoir is situated. is told in a dull-looking table) out a rowing telephoto lens valued at $400 from

Day, who pleaded that an empty The whole garrison of Lorida,İ Messrs Schmidt and Co., To Kambeaded “Express Vacuum and AC-stomach and unemployment forced halfway

between Huesca and boarding a steamer in the Chain, unemplored, was this morning celerated "E" Freight Trains." him to do something, was remand-Saragossa, has joined the insur nel, but, becoming tired, returned sentenced to three months' hard

ed, the magistrate suggesting that gents. to the beach.

the Court missionary might see him.

boat alone, with the intention of

A LONG SEARCH REWARDED

Holy Child Discovered In Tibet

Kalimpong.--Somewhere in Eas- tern Asia is the future ruler millions--the reincarnated Dalaij Lama, ruler of Tibet.

abour by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy. He was also; recommended for banishment.

Detective-sergeant Mann said

The "Mopper Up"

How much more fascinating to know that your goods are coming to the London market by the Mup

that the defendant slipped about per Up rather than proceeding by noon yesterday into the shop and an Accelerated "E" Freight Train. Railwaymen all over the coun- pocketed the articles. Mr. E. A. Genvich. the complainant. saw try have combined their individual him The defendant ran out of wits in devising these names.

the shop down Chater Road and was caught in Ice House Street.

SNAKES

"Houdinis” Of The Reptile House

the

PUBLIC HOUSE PUZZLE

Two Landlords Sell ·

Under Same Sign

Toledo: Fierce fighting was! still proceeding at Alcazar last evening. The indications are that the defenders will be able to Hold out for at least several days,

5-LB. NUGGET OF

PLATINUM

Madrid: It is semi-officially at- j'bounced that the Governmenti troops have almost reached Tala-|

Take the "B.B.C.” That is the

vera, as a result of the insur- railwayman's nickname for the

gents' falling back after the flood-

2.10 am to Wolverhampton, which

ing of part of the neighbouring An unusual licensing dispute countryside. Reuter's Bulletin passes through Easingstoke, Birmarose at Windsor recently. Licens Service. SOME VANISHINGingham and Crewe. The "Bacca" ed premises in Datchet-road were brings London's smokes from Eris-recently demolished and rebuilt, tol, and the "Sparagras"-pure the tenant, Mr. F. Lanham, mov- Cockney-take Asparagus during ing into a hut near, where he has

season from Worcester to since carried on the business. Crewe.

The brewers, Courage and Co., The Meat, the Hardware, the applied for the temporary trans- Cocoa, the Bacon explain them-fer of the licence to a new tenant, Every morning since they came selves, but it must have been sheer Mr. A. Brazier, who will take over few pride in achievement which bred the new premises. Mr. Lanham weeks ago one of the painted tree such names as the Tre Pol and opposed the transfer.

A platinum nugget | weighing 5.16 lb. has been found | takes from Malays has been re- Pen Flier, Northern Flash, Search-

In granting the application of by prospectors in the Kasynsk gold ported missing..

light, Moonraker, Racer, Flying the brewers the chairman, Mr. Afield, in the Ural mountains. non-Skipper.

|Bambfyeld, said that Mr. Lanham Though the purity of the nug. would be able to carry on his buzi-get is not yet known, its maximum, but no thicker than a sicut pencil}. The 10.30 p. takes the biscuit cess at the hut until September 10, value, if no impurities exist, could They can flatten themselves into a from Reading, the Feeder connects when the temporary transfer be as much as £5,000. thin wedge like folded paper. Dalai

several important services, and the would come up for confirmation. I The entire world output of plati One was found on the roof of Leek refers good-naturedly to its he lost he would have to close the num amounts to about 20,500 lb. the Reptile House; another moved destination, Llanelly. The Magic hut

yearly.

Well-informed travellers tell that a two-years' search by monks and soothsayers has been successful- that the holy child into whose body! the soul of the dying Dalai Lama passed has been found.

the London Zoo 2

These ***Houdinis" are renomous and about 4ft in length,

Takes The Biscuit

The whereabouts of the infant 1 are being kept secret It is pro- bable that no

announcement will be made until the return from ex- ile of the Tashai Lama--a return which a British political officer now in Lhasa bopes to facilitate.

Ngawang Lossang Thusten Gyatsho, the thirteenth Lama, died in December, 1933, *aged 60.

When the Lama dies the Tibetans into a cage next door but one to Carpet is not from Arabia, but Mr. A. L. Lane, who represent- believe that his spirit passes to the bis official home. A third wan-Kidderminster,

bringing fineled Mr. Lanham, said to the Bench: body of a child, born at the modered into the service passage in weaves to London's floors.

"You will now have the unusual ment the Lama dies.

the centre of the building, while a That is how signaler have re-position of two landlords selling fourth "passed through” two ferred to them when they spoke to under the same sign from Aif- heavy doors and found his way one another on the telephone--ferent premises." into an outer service passage. and how the G.W.R. zów names

RADIOLYMPIA RECORD

Total Exhibit Sold For £26,830

Model Inmates

them officially.

During the day, when the These expresses deserve their HERON RAIDS GARDEN PONDS keepers are on duty, the snakes names. They are as fast as pas-

2.

Found By Soviet

Prospectors

Moscow:

LAST TRAM IN

PARIS

"Goes West" With Full Honours

Paris: The last tram in Paris

the first electric tran along this line (Gare de l'Est-Montrouge) in 1918.

are model inmates of the Reptile senger trains, and as punctual, A heron has raided ornamental has "gone west.” |House, and as they sleep by night One of them does 200 miles non-ponds in the residential district of It was driven on its last journey it is thought that they carry out stop every night at 70 miles an Lowestoft and taken gold fish and by the same tram-driver, who took they disappearing trick when they hour.

jother valuable fish awake at dawn. It was announced at Radiolym- The cage in which they are pia last month that in the first housed has no cracks or conveni- jest ventilation holes and the three days of the exhibition the total attendance passed the 30,000 keepers have decided that the only: mark easily a record.

possible solution of the mystery One of the manufacturers sold must be connected with the sliding not merely the receiving sets he door of the cage. They have displayed but also the entire stand therefore scaled up the door with This was the Marcond stand, which surgical tape.

is built up with various types of radio transmitting apparatus. (15) included- ships transmitters, direc-

WEDDING PARTY'S ESCAPE

Artist Knew His Job

Modam buses will în · fature] serve the route...

The tram's last home-coming The Ministry of Transport has Two were mounted on posts at wine and sandwiches by the pas

was crithrated with a banquet of objected to two painted signs out the roadside. They had not been! side a cafe at Petworth, Susser. It there long before

a Ministry of engers, who were served by three

jimiformed messengers, from is stated that they distracted the Transport official visited the shop Paris newspaper. attention of drivers "from a 30- and said they would have to be mile-an-hour signi 12 yards away, moved

STEAMER RAMS JETTY

*

Mr. Clande Mancaster, the Sur- One of the signs has now been When avoiding a car containing sex artist, printed the signs to moved, and lettering which, the The North Pier jetty at Black- e wedding party a double decker help the proprietress of the cafe, Ministry thought, might make mo-pool was nearly cut in two wher

tion finders, and giant transmit ting valves.

All these things were bought bus crashed into a house in Pall Miss Bicketts.

for £26,230.

Mall, Leigh

torists tam to see the other side the pleasure steamer Queen of the Thas been removed from the other. Bay crashed into it head-on.

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