1941-09-29 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WHAT IS IT? IT'S BEEF A LA'MODE!

WHERE'S THE ICE CREAM ON IT?

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YOU CAN HAVE IT! I DON'T HAVE TO EAT IT! S'LONG!

WONG LANE IS GOING HOME

MARINE COURT PUZZLE

When is a motor-boat not a motor-boat?.

THE SOUL OF Wong Lane was sad. Wong was a kindly little Chinese laundryman. He settled in the Isle of Man many years ago, when he saw- the promise of quick prosperity in the thousands of holidaymakers who went there each summer.

Wong prospered. He made the long journey equipped with mechanical means to the Land of the Lotus Flower and brought back a bride.

children,

First Exhumation

This problem cropped up in the Marine Court this morning, when a Chinese woman was charged with having an unlicenced junk

of propulsion.

Attempts prove that the craft was a junk or a motor-boat fail- Wong had numerous

ed the Magistrate, Commander J. Jolly, ruling that he was unable and he was very happy. Just be- fore-the-present -wan-Wong-took-+

Sze Wong Lane, the widow, who to accept the view one way or the all his family to China for a holi- her husband's body should be ex was a motor-boat.

spoke no English, petitioned that other Hecauld not, he said, accept the charge that the craft day. He was proud of his ances-humed so that Wong Lane could

The boat, however, had not tors.

go back to the land of almond been licenced according to regula- blossoms and be at peace with histions and it was revealed that the fathers.

orginal licence had been trans- ferred.

With Ancestors

Then, on February 9 this year, Wong dled. He was buried in Manx sell, and many people- not only the Chinese community -missed the kindly jittle man. But the soul of Wong Lane

grieved, for according to Chinese tradition, their dead must lie with the bodies of their ancestors If the soul of the departed is to rest in eternal peace.

And so in secret, Manxland's first exhumation WBS carried out. A Liverpool undertaker's assistant, who is also a plumber, caldered the coffin into a metal chell, and Wong Lane began the first part of his journey home to China.

Accused said she installed the engine some 10 days ago.

out

Commander Jolly pointed that the primary means of propul- sion of the craft was sails. It was a sailing craft with an auxiliary motor and more specific regula- tions were required to cover such craft. Because of the danger of a tor-

Accused

the was cautioned, pedo hitting the ship, the coffin is

instructing Magistrate

that the to be buried temporarily 60ft.

original licence be sent to the down in the catacombs at Liver-Principal Surveyor of Ships with pocl till after the war. Then the a view to seeing whether he was So the Manx Consistory Court coffin will resume its voyage to prepared to put an endorsement held two special sittings to cbn-China, sider a precedent for the remark-

able case of Wong Lane, the de- The soul of Wong Lane is happy parted laundryman.

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POSSESSION OF NEOPROMIN

Leung Kungo-mo, 52, cigarette manufacturer, was fined $100 by Mr. G. T. Lowry, at the Central Magistracy, this morning, for un- lawful possession of 24 boxes of neopromin at the Jardines' Wharf, Connaught Road Central, on Sep- tember 10. Y

Mr. Alfred Y. Hon pleaded guilty on behalf of défendant, and said that his cilent brought the medicine from Shanghai for a friend, who is a dentist in Hong Kong.

The neopromin was ordered to: be confiscated.

CONSTABLE'S FACE SLAPPED

For assaulting an Indian con- stable Tam Pun-sin, 31, shop foki, was fined $5 by Major, A. N. Mac fadyen at Kowloon this morning. On Saturday, a quarrel occurred over the price of a purchase by |complainent and accused was al- leged to have slapped the constablé Ton his face..

Charged with stealing a wrist watch, a blanket, a fountain pen, and $88 in. cash, from his nephew on Saturday, Ho Kai, 35, seamun, was placed on a $10. hond to be of good behaviour for six months bý Mr. H. C. Macnamara at Kowloon this morning: ma-

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