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THE CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1936.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES US. BASEBALL

Acting Traffic Sub-Inspector A. A bix haul of jewellery and R. Brittain, in charge of the Traffic money was made by a thief who Office in Kowloon, has been tem-climbed up a drain pipe, and en- porarily transferred to the Hong tered the house of Mr. Howard! Kong Traffic Office, in place of O'Donovan of the American Con-i Acting Inspector S. C. Saunders, sulate-General at No. 409 who is ill. Traffic Sergeant Peak, in the early hours of Satur- Serim is in charge of the Traffic day morning. The articles. stolen Police in Kowloon due to this included a white gold ring set change.

RESULTS

JIMMY FOXX HITS TWO HOMERS

The BUT BOSTON SHARE SPOILS

New York, To-day.

The following were the results with three pearls and four imita-jof the major League Baseball tion emeralds, valued at $85; ajmatches played yesterday?----- platinum wedding ring set with Au Mok-tong, aged 14. was ad- diamonds all round, and scroll

American League mitted to the Kowloon Hospital

work valued at $292; an Elgin) yesterday as the result of injuries lady's wrist watch, valued at $65; New York received when the was knocked

and about $75 in money, the total down by Car. No. 4106 in Castle value of the haul being $517.

Peak Road.

Suffering from a fractured skull sustained through an accident at the quarry at Shing Mun, Shing!

POLICE RESERVE

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Crosetti hit 'a' homer. Washington

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Detroit Cleveland

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Chung-chi, a coolie, was admitted Orders For The Current Jimmy Foxx hit a homer. to the Kowloon Hospital pester- day.

Norihisa Tominaga, a Japanese, King, Inspector General of Police axed 18. Was this morning charged before Mr. S. F. Balfour

at the Central Magistracy with

Chinese Company.

Tsun Leave.-Mr. Tso

entering the Colony without a ASP. (R) has been granted one

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“SOLLY” JOEL'S SON TO MARRY

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Engagement Announced

Mr. Dudley J. B. Joel, Conser- vative MP for Dudley, youngest son of the late Mr. S. B. ("Solly"). Joel, has become engaged, it was announced last mouth, to Mrs. Esme Ritchie. only daughter of the late Mr. J. M. Oldham and of Mr Violet Oldham, of Opmidale. Ascot, Berka

The marriage will take place shortly.

Mr. Joel is à farmer in SaFolk, and

underwriter.

an insuranCE

He is 31 years old.

SWISS POLICE

ACTION

Three Alleged German Spies Arrested

Geneva.-Three met accused of

WOMAN HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE

Where Colonel's Cheques Went

PLANE TRIPS AND CAR RIDE TO LONDON

Liverpool-A woman who ap peared at Liverpool Police-court last month was stated to have ad- mitted that she had:-

Called on a lieutenant-colonel at Guernsey and pretended that| she wanted to buy his house. While in the smokervom she stole a book of cheques. With one of the cheques she bought a motor-car;

Introduced herself to a man; at Cardiff as the fiancee of a re- lative of his. Afterwards she bought frocks and underwear and paid with a bad cheque. The woman, Mrs. Phyllis Ward, 3being German spies were arrested aged 30, was charged with at last month by the comter-espion tempting to obtain goods valued age department of the Swiss Feat £524 from Messrs. George Hen- deral police. Two are Germans, Lees, Liverpool, and ziso ob- the third is Swis

taining by fraud credit amounting They were stated to have been to 29 15s from David Charles members of a chain of German Price, a Liverpool taxi driver. agents in Switzerland who main-

Week

Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H

Philadelphia

Johnson hit a homer.

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Boston

Brooklyn New York

Whitehead hit a homer.

5 9 Jimmy Fox hit a homer.

National League

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Boston

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Thompson hit a homer. Philadelphia

tained contact

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and

Passeau

passport on September, 21. The case was adjourned for 24 houral months leave of absence, as from for enquiries.

Three cases (one imported) ofį enteric fever and one of diphtheria,

were reported to the local Health authorities during the 48 hours ended yesterday.

Boston

25th September, 1936,

(R) Appointment. - Inspector

O. C.) Chow U Ting will act as Chinese Company during Mr. Tso' Tsun On's leave of absence.

Drill Parade.--A Drill Parade Philadelphia will take place at No. 2 Police Station on Wednesday, October 7th at 17:30 hours under Sub-In- The & Corfu, with the out-

All men, except Pittsburgh ward English Mails, is expected spector Hunt.

Dress Cincinnatti here from Singapore on Wednes-recruits should attend.

Mufti. day morning at 9 o'clock.

:

Arnovich bomers.

Chicago

Ladian Company Training Course-Part IL-St Louis

THREE YEARS' The undermentioned members!

OVERTIME

HE GOT TO WORK

EARLY

1200

Every day in those 30 years he

has arrived at his police station

45 minutes before time

Last month be retired.

And hvaledictory

will attend Indian Company Head- quarters on Tuesday, September 29th at 17.30 hours for Part II of

Training Course:

Constables R236 M. S. Dillon,

hit

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-Beuter.

NEW BRITISH FILMS

London

"As You Like It," the Shake Training Course-Part IL- The undermentioned. members Speare film with Elisabeth Berg ner as Rosalind, opened in Lon-

will attend Indian Company don at the Carlton Theatre, on Headquarters on Wednesday, Sep Thursday, September 3. remarktember 30th at 17,30 hours for

The film took eight months

tol

was: calculate ha I have Part III of Training Course make at Elstree, and is stated to worked a total of three year's Lance Sergeant R241 Sultan

have cost £150,000. It was prD": voluntary unpaid overtime through Khan, Constables R210 Abdullah always getting to work early.” Shah. R225 Kasim Ali, R293 Jaf-

far Mohamed, R214 Channani

duced and directed by Paul Czia

iner.

between German

spies working in France and the

"Big Deals"

Mr. J. Tillery, prosecuting, said

headquarters of the German intel-Ward professed to be a Canadian ligence service. The duty of ranch owner who engaged in big

deals. She stayed in hotels for this chain was to pass Im quests for information from Ber-a week at a time without paying! lin to France and to relay inform her bill, and made large pur- ation from France back to Berlin. Chases for which she paid with

stolen cheques. Every possible precaution was taken to ensure that no single She engaged Price to drive her member of the organisation, apart about Liverpool for four hours. from the chief, who is one of the Starting at one o'clock in the Price drove her to arrested men, had any knowledge morning.

of any save two of his immediate London. When they arrived there: colleagues.

Ward left him and got into a pri

Among the papers seized by the rate motor-car, saying she was police have been found instruc-{going to Hendon Aerodrome to tions to obtain information on the arrange for a flight to Guernsey roads behind the French frontier, and also to Rome.

STOLEN CAR FOUND

R201 S. I. Bux, R213 S. B. Hussian, "As You Like It” In the mechanisation of the French Later she met him by appoint-

For

Abraham R210 Abdullah Shah, R256 Sher. 30 years

Weybridge, where she Army and its new tanks and the meat at Sheer has been a policeman in Ahmed Khan, R226 A. R. Razack,

potentialities of the section of en-found a Liverpool detective wait- Philadelphia.

and R225 Kasim Ali.

ing for her. gineers.

The detective was acting on in- formation from Isle of Man police. It was alleged that. Ward Sew from the Isle of Man to Liverpool| jand left her hotel bill unpaid.

Mr. Price asked her for his farei Half Submerged In she confessed that all the money

she had was a half-penny. The treatment was suggest-|

River

Mr. Tilley added that in a long ed by Sir James Barrie.

statement to Det.-Sgt. Riley Ward There was another interesting A smail car which had been left admitted offences all over first night for cinemagoers, last one night in a parking-ground in

the month, when

country. Alexander Korda's Fort-william. Inverness-shire, was film of Wells' short-story fantasy, found the following day standing The Man Who Could Work Mir-upright and half submerged, in Riot Drill-A Riot Drill will be acles,” was shown at the Leices the middle of the River Nevis. The carried out by members of the ter-square Theatre.

headlights were turned on. Emergency Unit Reserve on Fri- This film, under the direction

Mr. Angus Kennedy, the owner] day, October 2nd. All members of Lothar Mendes, took over 8 of the car, said it must have fallen A mit-up in postage stamps, will parade outside Queens Pier Fear to produce. The special ef-about 10ft from the road to the scandal, sent the press on a hunt at 1720 hours. Dress Optional fects employed for the miracle-water's edge and anther 4ft inte

working are the product of a staff the river. It must have been Job For New Barbers of 200 workmen at Denham, under travelling at a high speed. the direction of Ned Mann.

RELIGIOUS POET

HONOURED!

Mistake In Soviet Stamp

Moscow.

regarded as little short of

recently to pin blame on the res-

ponsible post office official.

The affair was caused by thej

Singh, R226 A. Razack. R256. Sher Ahmed Khan, R263 R. Salim, R236 M. S. Dillon and R262 Omar Has

sea.

Emergency Unit Reserve

(SGD.), C. CHAMPKIN,

D. S. P. (R). Hong Kong, Monday, September wrong caption affixed to a stamp 28th 1926. commemorating the 100th anniver

sary of the

birth of Nicolal;

Dobroliuboff, famed in Russia asi

2 revolutionary journalist and critic

But the stamp was issued carry- ing the name of Alexander Dobroliuboff, a mystical religious poet detested by Communists.

TUBE STATION THRILL

Train Stopped To Save Child

To save a little girl from danger

POLITENESS PAYS

$50 For A "Good Morning"

DEATH FOLLOWS

WARNING

Child's Fatal Fall

Over Balcony

she

There was no trace of the occa-i pants. It was thought improba

Ward was committed for trial.

HAIRY BEARDS DOOMED

In Russia

ble that they could have escaped The bearded, hairy Bolshevik injury or drowning, as the river-world famous in cartoon and was in spate.

HURRYING. TO WEDDING

So Bench Halved The Penalty!

story-will soon be gone, for an army of 15,690 new barbers, to be trained before the end of nert year, is to be sent the length and breadth of Russia in search of unkempt heads and tangled whiskers.

This

army will operate in 2,327 bair-dressing shops, which will have a total capacity of j8,508 chairs.

It was stated at the inquest`atį St Pancras last month on Rosina ¡Violet Acton, aged 4, that "Because he had always given fell nearly 30 feet from the bal me an agreeable "good morning,"cony of her home at Beaconsfield Sir John Foster Fraser, of the Buildings, East-street, Islington, Old House, Princes Risborough, five minutes after being warned bequeathed £50 to William Mab by her mother not to play there married this morning," said Jack bering is to be opened.

Journalist,

-I am in a hurry; I am getting

An advanced school of bar-

The campaign is stated to be beft, cloakroom. attendant of the She had twice been saved from Ernest Nibell, refreshment cater part of the general Soviet drive Constitutional Club, Northumber-falling over before.

er, of Shirley-road, Goydon, when

towards better living condi- Mr. G. F. Lenaire, superinten-a policeman stopped him for passions. land-avenue.

lecturer dent of the buildings, said that ing traffic lights when they were £41,951) there were 1,200 children there against him.

been At but in 16 years there had

Croydon later Nihell was only one previous accident, and fined 10s. Mr. F. Allen, chairman that not fatal. The verdict was of the Beach, pointing out that the SUGGESTIONS OF

traveller, a. train was suddenly.stopped at Regent's Park Tube Station last and author, Sir John left

(z.p. £34,109).

month.

The child alighted, but the auto- matic doors closed before her mother had got out...

FROM THE ALTAR TO HIS FOOTBALL TEAM

accidental death.

usual penalty was 20s.

the

Picturesque Remark

When the train started the child! along the platform by its side. Passengers

Sama should to her to

Lee, who plays for stand back, but she continued run-¡Swinton Rugby League team, was He went ning and was rapidly approaching married last month. the tunnel wall when the guard straight from the altar to take his applied the emergency brake. place in the team for their match

against Batley.

PITY THE MAN WHO PLAY THE ORGAN

Dr. Harvey Grace knows all about church organists. Ele in himself the organist of. Chichester. Cathedral

His bride watched the match. She wore the club colours.

ENCONSCIOUS MAN ON RAILWAY

SUICIDE

Leap From Bedroom Window

About The Police Force it was suggested at an in-

quest at St. Pancras last month that Frederick John Graham, Summonses brought by Sidney missed but the Bench refused aged 63, a commercial traveller, Herbert Harding, a clerk, of costs against the police.

of Cotesbach-road, Hackney, Valliers Wood-road, Sidcup, accus-At the last bearing Mr. W. threw himself from a bed-room ing Police-constables F. A. John Chitty, for Harding, asked for window because he had busi son, L. B. Adams, H. A. J. Chan-|permission' to--withdraw the sun-

ness: worries. bers, and ASC Winwood, of monses. He added that he was assaulting him on July 24, were told the police had taken strong Mrs. Mary Graham said that Albert George Peterson, a pan withdrawn at Bromley last month exception to his remark that in her husband had been suffering He drew this picture of aftryman in the service of Mr. R

certain circumstances members of from neurasthenia One morn church organist in speech at She Rankin, H.P. for Kirkdale, Liver The summonses were issued the public were entitled to kicking he woke up about five am

saying that his head was bad.. field recently: os porte pool, was found unconscious with fortnight before, when Harding policemen out of their houses?

“His siary is ridiculously small, head and leg injuries beside the was charged with assaulting one He had used that remark more He got up, and, before she His legal status is non-existent railway line between Foxfield and of the policemen. He had ordered or less, as picturesque figure of could stop him, jumped out of He is liable to demisel by an in- Millom Camberland. It is be the man sad his comrades out of speech. It was not to be taken as the window and D cumbent for any cause of for no lieved that he had fallen from a his house. The charge was disa matter of law.

train. cause at all."

Averdict of suicide while of funsound mind was recorded.

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