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When the first chill of Antemn strikes the air, this sheer gray wool frock, worn by June Travis, the screen actress, will be a wel- come addition to the wardrobe. The unusual belt is fashioned from dress material and black patent leather.

ANOTHER HEROIN CASE

Lady Who Went Sight Seeing

CHIEF JUSTICE'S COMMENT

Pleas of not guilty were return- ed by three women, Ng Wai-chan, Kam Watching and Lo Chun, who were charged before His Honour the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl Mac-i Gregor, at the Criminal Sessions this morning with the possession of 103,750 heroin pills at No. 99c. | Leighton Hill Road, on September 9 Izst

Originally seven people were charged with the offence, but two were discharged ́ ́at the Lower Court while two of them pleaded w guilty, these being Li Sin-kui- and Chan Sam

Mr. M. J. Abbott: prosecuted, while Mr. Leo d'Almada jur. în- structed by Mr. M. A. da Silva,

THE CHIRA MAIL":FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936-

A ̈acate from "The New Adventures of Tarzan" which will be shown on Sunday at the: King's Theatre.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

was for the three accused. The AN APPEAL TO

jury comprised Messrs. J. E. Juppi (foreman), G. A. White, W. Wang,] Ho Hung-pong, A. P. Souza. R. A.! da Silva and J. Gomes.

In addressing the jury. Mr. Ab bott said that at about 10 am. on the day in question, Mr. H. A. Tay- ior, Government Monopoly Analyst, Officer together with Revenue |Grimmitt and a party of officers, went to the premises. and in reply

BOTH SIDES

Exchange Of Hostages

Urged

BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S GOOD OFFICES

London, To-day.

YMCA CONCERT

Successful Ladies' Night

VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT-

MUCH ENJOYED

In spite of several changes in the programme, the Social -Com- mittee of the European YMCA | and in partienlar Messrs. J. C. M. Į Grenham and R A. Bates are tol be congratulated on an excellent concert programme for the "first Ladies' Night of the MERSON, which took place last night in the West Lounge.

There was a large gathering! for dinner, including Mr. P. S [Cassidy, Chairman of the Board of Directore of the Y.M.C.A. and | many others.

The outstanding performers on the programme were Anne Win- ter, Soprano, în selections, and were Mr. G. (Gus) D'Aquino, accom- Four cases of diphtheria reported to the local Health an-panied by Mr. A. Gualdi, who re- thorities during the 24 hours end-jceived a long ovation and was re- jed yesterday.

peatedly encored for a Spanish song, which was one of his best Mr. William J. Carroll, principal | performances in the Colony to of the firm of Carroll Brothers, date. Mr. -A'Aquino was called returned to the Colony this morn-lin at the last moment to fill a gap ing by the sa President Jefferson. in the programme caused by the

| non-appearance of Dr. E. Talbot,

TOSTS

A Dinner Dance will be held at who was suffering from a chill. the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow | Mrs. Muriel Portallion, contral- at 9 p.m. and a Tea Dance. on Sun-to, also delighted with four songs to their knock for admittance; Ng An appeal of the British Gov day next at 5 p.m. A half-hourly bus from Tschaikowsky, Lally, Meal Wai-chan opened the door. En-Jernment for an agreement between service will run on Sunday after-and Jacob Bond, while Mr. Vic Labrum kept the audience well- tering the premises, Mr. Grimmitt the contending parties in the noon.

amused with one of his favour- Inoticed 3 strong characteristic Spanish civil war for the exchange.

The Hong Kong Travel Associa-lites, “Tura Erbert's Face to the saw of hostages has been conveyed to smell of opium and he also Kam Wai-bing at the rear of the both sides. Mr. Ogilvie Forbes,tion acknowledge with thanks the Wall!"

Messrs. Jack Grenham and W. house. As soon as the latter saw British Charge d'Affaires in Ma-receipt of the following subscrip- him, Mr. Grimmitt said. she tried drid. has communicated the con- tion: Mr. Eu Tong Sen $100.00. C. Simpson kept the house in

Secretary's

of laughter with z new to run away through climbing the tents of the Foreign

the A reminder may be given that, farce, a discourse on shell-fish, back verandah, but he caught ber telegram of October 20 to up and took her into custody. Minister of State. Senar del Vayo.partly in order to raise much need-while an added attraction was a

The British Ambassador. Sir Henry ed funds, the Hong Kong Branch Tap Ensemble with five charm Chilton, has been in touch with of the Boy Scouts Association is ing dancers in Miss Kathleen When asked who was the prin- the Marquis Merry del Val, repre-organising a Grand Camp Fire Glover, Miss Kathleen Moir, Miss cipal tenant, a woman, who

was sentative of the Junta at Hendaye Display. The display will be held Maureen Moir, Miss Mary Sleep now not in the dock, claimed that and former Spanish Ambassador in on Saturday, November 7. on the and Miss Iss Lammert

to Hong Kong Cricket Club ground, Last but by no means least she was in charge but added that London, who has undertaken The annual At Home and distri-

the rent was paid by a Shanghai bring the matter urgently to thelby kind permission of the Com-was Mr. Rupert Baldwin, who bution of prizes will be held at man whom she did not know. Mr. attention of General Franco andsmittee, from 6.30 p.m. 8.30 gave two delightful pianofore

Club the Craigengower Cricket

Abbott then said that the hands of his associates.

am Tickets at $5, $2, $1 and 50 solos. Secre-cents can be obtained from any

CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB

Prize-Giving And Presentation

on Sunday next, when a tea dance will take place from 6 to 8 pm Members and their friends

function.

Are

Charge Denied

the three accused were examined Mr. Oswald Scott, First

to

and found to be stained, while on tary at the British Embassy at member of the Association or from TWO MINISTERS

the Scout Headquarters, Lower Albert the premises were paraphernalia Madrid, who has been with cordially invited to attend the for a heroin pill factory. The Ambassador at Hendaye since the Road. It is hoped that the public three accused were then taken to latter moved from the Embassy's will support this: effort, the first The prizes will be distributed the Police Station and charged, and summer quarters at San Sebastian. of its kind to be held in Hong by Mrs. D. K. Kharas, at the con" they made the following state has now gone to Madrid to Join Kons, and those who buy tickets. clusion of which a

the British Charge d'Affaires. Mr. can be assured of witnessing a presentation 2004 *---- will be made to Mr. and Mrs. D. Ng Wai-chan: "I know nothing Ogilvie Forbes.-British Wireless really good show.

K. Kharas to mark their retire-about this. I came to visit a re- Service. ment from the Colony and as token of appreciation of their Kam Wai-hing: "I visited a re- long association with the club, lative

a. period of 28

extending over years..

•

lative the day before yesterday."

Lo Chun: "The pills are mine.”

not

be

Mr. and Mrs. Kharas will

Mr. Abbott concluded by saying 103.750 leaving for India by the a Corfu that in addition to the

cake on Saturday, October 31

MASKED BALL AT

THE GLOUCESTER

To Help Charitable Institution

pills, enough pink paste to another 35,000 pills and enough crude heroin for a further 33,000 pills were found.

GERMAN VISIT

TO AUSTRIA NAZI OFFICIAL'S

TRIP

Commander C. D. Arbuthnot, of E M. S. Tamar, was this morn- ing fined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy for

No. 3827 leaving his car attended in Wong Nei-cheong Road on October 10.

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was killed when she ran into car

RESIGN

Bulgarian Cabinet Split

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Sofia, To-day. The Railway Minister and the Minister of Education tendered their written resignations to the Premier on Thursday. The resig nations were accepted: These two

Lee Shun, a seven year-old girl, Ministers, who belong to M. Zan- koff's People's Social Party, ex- No 3177 driven by Lan. Yne-yan plained their step as a protest

the

Govern- -present Road #gainst at 11.20 am, at Belcher's

ment's failure

keep its promise, made in the beginning of

to

The Premier had an audience

TO-DAY'S SCOOP!

Historical Flight of the

PHILIPPINE CLIPPER

A Special Newsreel of the arrival of

Philippine Clipper at Hong Kong

TO-DAY will be shown on the

Screens of the

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA

Theatres TO-DAY at all evening

performances from 5.15

p.m.

onwards.

THE HONG KONG AMUSEMENT PARK

ANNOUNCES

A FANCY SKATING CONTEST

OPEN TO ALL

PRIZES TO BE GIVEN ON

OCTOBER 24th

SATURDAY NIGHT

CONTEST STARTS AT 9:30 PM -

All those who wish to compete in this contest to deter- mine the best skater should enter their names at the Office of the Hong Kong Amusement Park in 'Wanchai between the hours of 11 am, and 1 pm, and in the evenings from 7 pm--to 9 pm*

Judges will be selected by the competitors.

ย

GAMES – SKILL

to

The Hong Kong Amusement Park wish announce that they will open to the public free shows. On the open platform, you will see conjurers, magicians, acrobats, tumblers, jugglers and dancers. At Grubef's Eden Theatre you will see an hour's performance that Miss HEDVIG will give

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL After Mr. Taylor and Mr. Grim-

Berlin, To-day. mitt had given their evidence the

The chief of the foreign er-yesterday. Police interpreter went into the ganisation of the National-So-

will thrill and astound you. As a result of a Police raid yes-July, to hold general elections. box and produced the statements cialist Party. Regional-leader} made by the accused when charg Bohle, accompanied by his private terday, 25 medicants were arrest led.

secretary, Dr. Ehrich, leaves here ed for begging outside the Diary with the King after this, and it Sight-Seeing Tour A Fancy Dress "Bal Masque” is Ng Wai-chan then went into the this morning for Vienna, where Farm, Wyndham Street, They were was then officially declared that being held at the Gloucester Hotel box, where she stated she had come he will stay as the guest of the all remanded for 24 hours when the Cabinet would not resign, but

before Mr..K. Keen this morning on Friday, November 6, the Dri-from Caston to visit her aunt and German Minister at the German charged at the Central Magistracy merely fill the two vacant posts.→→

Legation

mary purpose being to raise funds also to go sight-seeing. She said Herr Bohle will visit the Ger-

Ger POLICE OFFICER

IMPERSONATED

Trans-Ocean Service.

U. S. DIPLOMAT STARRED

Tokyo-Mr. Erie Roy Dickover, First Secretary and "Charge Affaires at the United States

for the Society of St. Vincent de that she saw her aunt and a man Paul

making the pills and asked what man colony in Vienna, and Will some of the Eong Kong they were for and was told that dress them to-morrow, when the Harvest Thanksgiving will bej society ladies' volunteer to act 25 they were anti-opium pills. Out partners at this "Bal Masque" for of sheer curiosity she handled the celebrated. those not fortunate enough to have paste but did not help to make any

Immediately afterwards Herr Ex-Constable Sentenced Bohle will leave for Venice and

To Imprisonment their own and who present a dance pils. ticket?

Cross-examined by Mr. Abbott, then proceed to Florence and

Li Fai, an odd job coolie, was Volunteer partners are invited to witness said as regards her sight finally to Rome, where he will in-

Home.this morning sentenced to four send their names to the Organis seeing tour, she went for tram augurate a "German ing Social Secretary, Masked Ball rides, visited a number of places which he will place in the care of months imprisonment by. Mr. Lendant left and after a while c/o Gloucester Hotel. Distinctive and also a street where a lot of the local National-Socialist Party K. Keen at the Central Magis- the complainant became suspi

issued rosettes will then be

to cloth was put up for sale, but she group.Trans-Ocean Service them

BENEFACTIONS FOR OXFORD

Lord Nuffield's Fine Gifts Eulogised

London, To-day.

did not know the names of the ¡places.

· LATE MR. HIPS FUNERAL Mr. Abbott: And you call that a

sight-seeing tour?

¡Embassy here, was stabbed in the arm by a burglar who entered his home recently. He was not serî- ously injured.

tracy for impersonating a police cious and found that he had officer, "to another two months' lost 60 cents. He ran after de- for the theft of. 60 cents fromifendent who was about to enter the person of Chan Chik-fana latrine in Wellington Street. Detective - sergeant Bentley When arrested by a constable said that the complainant was defendant had the money on standing in Kaa Yau-fong when him

(Continued from Page 1). His Lordship: Doesn't the average sund age lady call going to a sale sight-departing for Shanghai.. It is also seeing?..

likely that Mr. Sun will visit his the defendant came up to him Defendant was formerly Evidence was then given by native village in the Purple Valley and, saying he was a police policeman, but had been dis- |Kam-Wai-hing, in the course of of the Ching. Shan District. man, searched him. The de missed five years ago.

which she denied taking part in

.

PUGNO POLITICS...

the manufacture of the pills. The Me Wu said that Mr. Sun will hearing was then adjourned for definitely not take part in any

In a speech in London last eve-the tiffin interval

'ning the Minister of Health refer- red to the gift by Lord Nadeld of

£1,250,000 to Oxford University

for the development of the Uni- versity's medical school and the

MOTOR-CAR OFFENCES

EL G. Noblett was this Nofeld Institute for Medical Bening fined $50 by Mr. Wo search. Sir Kingsley Wood said field at the Central Magistra

it was impossible to overestimate driving car No. 4457 în c all that it would mean, not only to Road East at the rate of 35 research but to many improyo-lan hour on October 14- ments in the health or the nation: Mrs H P. Z. Swinbor The potentialities of a post- fined $10 by Mr. W graduate school such,

now made pozaïble at

-British

Le Center Mägistrac

|ing car No 109-at!

speed in controlle

Garden Read on October 15

her interpretation of national dances: “The world's most famous flucionista, Professor Grubel, will entertain you at this performance too, with hair-raising and dexterous Illusions. Think of seeing a young and beautiful girl sawed in halves, and seeing someone out of the audience decapitated, in other words, you will see this world- famous Ulusionist ent a person's head of. You can also see a lady put in a box that has been tied with large ropes and sealed, and then disappear into thin Cafe: There will also be many other Hems on the programmė.

The Chinese Theatre consisting of 20 actors and 12 fine actresses ----^ will entertain you with a very repertoire of plays and dramNAN,

“From Saturday the Park will be open to the public from-noon to 6 pm. "for (an"-admission of 2:10. cents and as an added inducement this price Inel FREE ADMISSION TO THE Z00. The skating -will be open to the public as well as the ponies for those who care for horse-back riding-- Come with the chil- dren. Every ticket-hölder will receive a Free

"NACET BLADES 50

Nacel blades are est

wountes

political meetings or discussions Amusement Park Attraction shed

while our this visit to the South

He came down with the sole pur- pose of attending the funeral of the labe Kuomintang leader.

The Hong Kong Anasement For may the newly reopened Park is continuing its season with Chine Accompanying Mr. Sun, besides added attract

Varbara Me Lin Xut-) Chairman of the two Kong public. Th

Chen Lih-fu, men- from

deal KuomintangiMH 12 noon

tive member of of adr Set Excamination perun

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staying at

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theatre is proving a most ting place, sa, many fañouS and comedies of the Chin-

sz being prodsend

about 20-actors and a

in

cause of their high quality and low Don't gamble on blades Buy

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