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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY ₤1, 1989.

BRENDA'S CUT

CUT PRICE PARTY-£3,670 GANGSTER

British Firm Told Of-

ANOTHER FAKED DEBT IN DRUG FRAUD CASE

NEW

LONDON, DEC. 28. EVIDENCE OF

THE

FAKED ACCOUNTS OF MCKES- SON AND ROBBINS INC., THE FIRM IN THE UNITED STATE CASE, £3,600,000 DRUG FRAUD CÁME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DAILY EXPRESS YESTER-

DAY.

The Anchor Chemical Co., Ltd.,

Champagne Was 'Non-Vintage'

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29.

ARMOURY FOUND IN CAVE

Another robber cave was dis- covered by the Kowloon Police

· BRENDA FRAZIER, NEW YORK'S SEVEN-yesterday afternoon in the vicinity TEEN-YEAR-OLD DEBÜTANTE OF THE SEA- of the railway bridge near Kow- SON, HAD TO BE CONTENT WITH A “CỤT-loon Tong. Four. revolvers and a PRICE" DEBUT PARTY WHICH BEGAN AT quantity MID-NIGHT YESTERDAY AND ENDED AT found. DAWN TO-DAY. AND COST THREE THOU- SAND POUNDS.

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of ammunition were

In consequence of the number of SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY daring robberies which have occur-

The bank, which is the executor |

manufacturing chemists, of Clay-of the £2,000,000 left to Brenda by CHINESE PLAY

ton, Manchester, have received from her grandmother, told Mrs. Fre- the United States Securities and derick Watriss, formerly of Canter- isbury, Kent Brenda's mother, that Exchange Commission, which conducting the examination of the the £10,000 she proposed to spend

on the party was too much. U.S. firm's affairs, this letter:-

DELIGHTS

red in Kowloon recently, the police, under Detective Inspector A. E. Carey, have made several raids on brothels in an effort to trace the gangsters.

Inspector

On Monday night, Carey with a party of Chinese de- tectives raided a brothel in Canton three Road, where they found suspects.

So. Mrs. Watriss economised by LONDON AUDIENCE R

"The available books and records of McKesson and Robbins Inc.. in-serving non-vintage champagne and dicate that on November 30, 1938, cutting the guest list. you were indebted to the corpora- tion in the amount of 16,576dols. (£3,315 sterling)..

'NO RECORD'

HERE IS THE BILL

While Brenda slept to-day

and Mrs. Watriss studied telegrams "This, obligation, it appears, arose congratulating her on her beautiful out of a sale or sales to you of nier-daughter, bank officials studied the chandise made through a W. W. bill for the "cut-price" party. This Smith and Co. There is no record is it:-

at hand with respect to the trans-Use of ballroom, foyer, and

palm court action."

for de- Breakages

Champagne

The commission asked tails of any transaction between the

.£1,200 £200

£300

[one bottle among three people]

· company and the corporation.

Mr. T. H. Hewlett, chairman and Whisky and soft drinks [In-

cluding Miss Frazier's Anchor managing director of the

favourite mixture of soda- Chemical Company, Ltd., said last

pop and milk] night: "We have carefully sear-

Music by two orchestras We have never ched our books.

Fifteen private detectives [in- with or had any communication

cluding hire of evening transactions with any firm named

clothes for them] McKesson and Robbins Inc. or with any firm named W. W. Smith and Decorations

Tips Co."

Cockburn and Co., Glasgow whole-Social secretary

Incidentals sale chemists, denied at the week- end having any dealings with the Gowns and accessories for Miss Frazier and her U.S. firm, whose books showed

mother `debt of £3,069 owing by Cockburn's.

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London, December 21. Londoners first sipped the delicate delights of "Lady Precious Stream" when it was privately presented at the Chinese Embassy, and after- it wards, as will be remembered, ran for an almost indefinite period at a West End theatre.

Later three other men were ar- rested in a house in Tai Kok-tsui.

After the police had completed their inquiries, the suspects led the where the ré- police to the cave volvers and ammunition were found.

The men will be charged On Sun- Kowloon this morning. day night, in the cause of Chimese medical relief, the Chinese Embassy again presented a play by the same author, S. I. Hsiung. Perhaps there will be a similar sequel.

There was no doubt, at least, that this play, "The Western Chamber," enchanted the small Anglo-Chinese audience.

BRITISH RECORD RECRUITING

at

London, To-day. Record recruiting returns con- Of course, it lent itself particularly well to such intimate tinue to be made for the Territor- presentation these Chinese play-ial Army, wrights have no more use for scen-

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· Figures for January 1 shew that £70ery than Shakespeare had, and, in-strength has reached 204,009 - of- The revised esta- £200 deed, they take even greater liber-ficers and men.

blishment is 224,039. £200 ties than he did with time and space. £500 Master Chang, the student, saves

During the month of December, after £100 the family of his beloved Ying Ying 6,882 recruits enlisted and

from a bandit and thereafter woos allowing for officers and men who Ying Ying with chequered fortune completed their service, there was until, when he has gained almost the a net gain of 8,819. highest place "in the highest amination," the marriage is happily arranged.

£200

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All was done with tact, delicacy, and poetry, and whatever the diffi- culties of the situation everyone carefully preserved face. One Chi- nese and distinctly unwestern cus- tom was observed that of making the leading lady and the second lead change parts for

one act. Maisie Darell and Joan Redman did either part with grace and humour.

now

The Territorial Army is

the Regular Army- larger than the position it held as a territorial before the War.-British force

Wireless.

BALDWIN FUND

London, To-day. Earl Baldwin's refugee fund is now over $350,000.-Reuter."

Prisoner Puts Governor's House In Order

Paris, December 29.

A white Russian who some months ago was convicted of working in Paris without an official licence was sent to the Sante Prison,

There it was found that he was

a skilled cabinet-maker, and "the officials told him to get to

work repairing the Governor's dining:

room.

Having completed his two months' imprisonment, he was released, but six months later he was sent back for another offence.

Released again, he was convicted for a third offence: This time, on his return to the prison, he was put to work repairing the office.

Now, having for the fourth time been imprisoned, he is at work on the hall. An official told me:

"It is usual to give prisoners at the Sante tasks of this kind. But it is certainly unusual, that one man This time ho was given the task should do so much to improve the of repairing the salon of the Gov-interior of the Governor'e. residence ernor's residence.

and other buildings,”

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