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In the opinion of an eminent practitioner of the art, the detec- tive story la on ita last legs. According to this authority, all the situations have been worked over and over and for lack of ways of killing, violent deaths will cease to beguile us any more. These are perhaps rather hard sayings but they apply to only a very limited species in the genus of detective action, to puzzles and not to those spirited tales of horror, mystery and "pursuit which have been all too loosely described as detective Action. The gangs will be still with LIS and the master minds, which from the small back room of cafes in foreign capitals, seek nothing less than the mastery of the world. It is more than likely that the kind of satisfaction which is to become rarer is that select pleasure at the murder in his own Ubrary of, some elderly, very un- pleasant and very rich person, killed too soon for him to have ТЕБ

EB British Municipal Council, aroused' any feeling of common Tientsio, has decided to stab humanity, and leaving behind him lish a scholarship in the Tientsin no regrets but merely a puzzle. Grammar School to be known as the These murderers are an -favour- *** Dickinson Scholarship" in memoryed crew and if they were to meet of the late J. M. Dickinsou, Esquire. in a congress in Albert Hall they The Council desires that friends would make an even more un and acquaintences wishing to con- tribute to the scholarship fund should be given an opportunity to do

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the murderers themselves who to all appearances are such a pleasant lot of people that only uncanny skill can ever induce us to even think harshly of them. Bovine policemen, young men with a fair

for detection and the like need leave us no more for the very simple reason that the means of murdering is running short.

Experts are agreed on the point that nothing short of murder will command any very" great interest. Perhaps the War and the roads have cheapened human lives to such an extent that it is rather creditable of us even to take any notice whatever of murder. Fer- hapa detective stories deserve the Zate but the lovers of same sensation who go to bookstores for gore and get it are not in any way threatened. It may, there- fore, be reasonably asked of the lovers of puzzles, who despise their cruder brethren, that they shall put their intellectual detachment to test. The possibilities are still many for intricacy in devising Stories in milder form of crime, in the field hitherto left to the writers of girls school, books on such themes as who tampered with the hockey stick and how spitefully.

If the day is over for murder- ing with hate and greed in the library or the ornamental garden, it will be more than a kindness to the next generation to bring them up to seek their mysteries in a less blood-thirsty manner. We must explain how abnormal we are and must recover the tradition that a theft of jewellery is well worth, following closely through. In the meantime, however. the real world will remain and Scot land Yard will take од & glamour. In detective Action the police are never allowed to get their man too quickly; sometimes they are not even allowed to get

new

I WAS TORTURED BY

CHINESE BANDITS

But My Heart Is Still In China

(From A Correspondent)

Listen to the amazing story of Mr. Leslie Hansard Gabb, who was captured and tortured by bandits in China in 1929. His clothes were wrenched away from him ;. ¦ his ¦ wrists were bound behind his back and his arms pulled upwards. tearing the muscles of his right shoulder..". He was stabbed six times in the thigh. He...but am going too fast.

25, 1935.

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HIGH-HANDED SWORDS AND NOISE TO

SCARE THE DEVILS

ACTION

Of Chinese Police

Shanghai, Apr. 24.

An ugly incident occurred yes- terday aftercoon when a French polleqman asked a party of seven. Chinese constables who were en- tering the French Concession

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Ways Of Fangcheng People

(From Our Special Correspondent)

which had been overrun by Con- from the Chinese territory in a forry to produce the requisite

Canton. Apr. 24. to oust the evil spirits but failed munists. Here it was that he fell. pass.

Uncanny and mysterious sounds to dislodge-them. These gentle- Into the hands of bandits. But I shall let him tell that in his own policeman and carried him over

The constables seized the French which puzzled foreign residents men made the most awe-inspiring in Tungshan suburb and frighten-sound in true Fangcheng style, forceful way ; ....

the bridge into Chinese territoryed their children were to-day as they were specially engaged "There was," he began, "a terri-where he was disarmed and sev- traced to a house of death. ble anti-foreign feeling in the air.erely beaten before being releas- When I got to Changteh I lived on ed He is now in hospital. | 4 motor house-boat with my staff The French authorities have and servants. For a time all was made representations concerning well-I made my social contacts the affair and it is reported that, with the Chinese, and things began a 'satisfactory settlement has now to look up.

Been reached.--- Reuter, 1.

Mr. Gabb is short, stout, and 89. He has keen, sharp eyes and-I really feel justified in saying --

"Then, towards the end of March, the gift of the gab."You would a rebellion broke dut. Some of the forgive me the pun if you heard military leaders in the South-West him speak for ten minutes. 101 China declared themselves in- listened to him for three hours.dependent of the Nanking central words and phrases, deep-throated government. Changteh. outside and emphatle, followed one another which

motor-boat lay, was garrisoned by a general who threw in his lot with the rebels. A punitive expedition He paced the floor of the room, was ordered by the Nanking Gov- drawing at his pipe at regular in-ernment, and they enrolled in their tervals, and between the draws he ranks all kinds of irregular soldiery

a long, steady stream, like the how of cll from a jar. It seems to be an old Chinese custom.

ran the river where my

painted for me on the broad can--bandits, Communists, desperadoes

full of colour. realism and atmos- vas of the Orient a word picture. of all kinds.

phere..

Mr. Gabb 14 â

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TRAPPED IN A CELLAR For a long time my boat lay great-great-in the middle of the river, and we grandson of Luke Hansard, origina-were bombarded every night. The tor of the Parliamentary reports. general who held Changteh shut He is numbered among the very the gates after surrounding the city few European members of the with barbed wire, and I was left "Ko-Lao-Hui," the famous Chinese outside! I couldn't stick it for secret society.

long, and so I went ashore, amidst And he has been cowboy, tram-a lot of gunfire, and took refuge 2 sheep in a Chinese Communist club out- guard. "roustabout" on station, sevilion in a club, insur-side Changteh. On the first night ance agent, and headmaster of ar was there the walls of my room pioneer school for the sona of were peppered with shots. Chinese gentlernen.

He has weighed coal at the Shanghai, waterworks, milked cows, and worked in a barber's shop.

"A few days later, on a Sunday evening. I was having supper when I heard fearful sounds of scream ing. I looked out of the window. and saw a terrible horde of wild- looking bandit soldiers rushing down the street, killing and firing indiscriminately.

HEAVY DEFEAT OF REDS

Planes Bombing Stronghold

queer

from that town, the rative home Servants employed by mission- of the deceased. arles swore that they saw

Fangcheng people have a spec- figures dashing about in the al way to drive away the devils. house waving swords, strik-

However, the rattling of swords ing gongs, and blowing horts.

and the noise from the striking which created unearthly noises of gongs and blowing' of horns that were never heard in Canton scared not the devils but the before. All these fantastic figures children in the neighbourhood. and sounds were seen and heard only at right.

The truth is that these Agures were wizards fighting valiantly to drive out the devils who caused the chronic illness of a 28-year- old lady. The devils stuck to their guns and refused to yield any ground.

Then General Chen Taal Tong, Commander-in-Chief of the First Group Army, mobilized an army of surgeons to the rescue of the other sick lady, who was none Kwelyang. Apr. 23, than his niece. Further government auccesses n spite of the doctors, army against the Reds have been re-surgeons, wizards and $50,000 ex- corded, according to official des-pended on medicine. the patient patches received which state that passed away. the Communists have 1000 men in a battle at Shengrun used their most effective

The wizards claimed that they The casualties amongst the Gov- ernment troops amounted to less than a hundred.

lost

over

Meanwhile the "Governmenters": assisted by eight bombing planes attacked the Red concentration

on the Kwelchow-Yuncan border and inflicted more than two thou- sand casualties. The battle 13 progressing. Beuter..

YOUNG WOMEN

THE TROUBLE BEGINS Altogether he has spent about thirty-five years of his lie to China. He first went there in 1890, at the age of fourteen, on "I was caught like a rat in a a saking ship. A wealthy Chinese trap; then remembered that there Jump Moving Train merchant wanted to adopt him, was a coal-cellar, and I rushed to but he had regretfully to return to it. Unfortunately, however, the dis- England. Not unth 1898, after spending several years in New Zealand, did he set eyes on China again:

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

efforts

The local dollar registered un- other advance of id. on opening yesterday morning, the official rate being 25. 24d. The business rate early on was 25, 24d, sellers and 2s 3d. buyers. The market was very steady.

Mr. Cheng Jih Tung husband Into fame of the lady, sprang when he petitioned to the South- west Political Council last sum- mer to separate men from" wo- men in public places. The idea was so sweeping that it was re-.. garded more as a publicity stunt than as a reform measure, `.

A de-luxe funeral is being pre- pared for Mrs. Cheng at the sug- gestion of her beloved father, Mr. Chen Wei Chow (elder brother of...

and General Chep Tsai Tong), Director of the Salt Transporta- tion Bureau,

Meanwhile the most elaborate prayers are being offered by nuns, monks and taoists for the spiri- tual comfort of the departed lady.

"

NEWS SUMMARY

A tribute was paid to Dr. R. M. Gibson of the Nethersole Hospital by the Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso at the annual meeting of the Alice Memo- rial and Amulated Hospitals which. was held in the Board Room of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday.

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Reporting & loss for the year totalling some $30,000, at the an- An informal party in honour of nual meeting of the Hong Kong Dr. T.Z. Koo, Vice-Chairman of Engineering and Construction Co. the World's Student Christian Ltd., yesterday, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Shanghai, April 23. Federation, is to be held at the Braga attributed this to the Zeen- Just as the Nanking express Chinese YM.C.A, 380 Bonham roof was so small that I couldn't

ness of competition coupled with climb very far inside. I thrust from Shanghai was nearing Chen-Road, to-night at 8 o'clock. All the unabated trade depression. myself in and stuck fast-couldn'tlu Station at 8 o'clock on Monday interested are welcome.

Page 1. move an inch!

morning, two young women Jump-

tance between the coal and the

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A full programme of home. foot- ball matches is down for decision this week-end and our soccer cox- respondient again picks the likely winners. His forecasts appear on

Page 10.

Commission Report is given in this Another chapter from the Trade

issue. It appears - on-

· Pare "2.

This time, however, his routs crew deeper and he remained there

"Suddenly the door of the cellar ed off while the train was still Th forthcoming marriage is an-

Meeting in the semi-final of the for 28 years. He married; he join opened and I saw two men, wear-running at speed.

nounced of "Mr. William Arthur oper' tennis singles championship ed the "Ko-Lao-Hut": ne absorbed ing red turbans; each of them had One of the fool-hardy girls was Molyneux, a missionary residing at last evening, Sirdar Rumjahn beat five Chinese dialects; he embarked an electric torch in one hand and killed instantaneously while the Phillip's House, Howloon, and Miss his cousin (and partner in the on a series of professions, and all

a bayonet in the other. As they other was knocked unconscious in Dorothy Laura Lendon, also * doublés) "HD" by three straight the time ne closely followed the climbed over the coal towards me the impact of her fall and serious missionary of Lewes, Sussex, Eng- sets.

Page 10. political situation of the country.

called out in Chinese, Don't ly injured. The train was im- land, who is at present en route- Early lu 1927, when he was em shoot! But they rushed at me, medtately brought to a standstill to the Colony by the RM8. Ran- played by the Asiatic Petroleum: dragged me out like a sack of Bour and the women taken in all haste pura. Company; he was sent to Eankow.

end up to the room above, which | to the Railway Hospital for treat-

Three where drastic Communist activities was filled with a seething mass of ment. There the extreme case of

cases of small-pox (all took place not long after the

- well-savages!

the one and the death of the other fatal), seven of diptheria (three Repubilean party of the South got signet ring was wrenched off-I derlying cause of their folly was re- of cerebro-spinal fever (one death), “My clothes were torn away. My was confrmed. There also the un-deaths) one of paratyphoid, three help from Soviet Russia. All the felt as if my finger would go with vealed as an effort to keep tryst two of rabies and 61 deaths from British people living in Hankow it. I was put against the wall, sur with their lovers with whom they tuberculoels were reported for the great danger from the rounded by the bandits, many of had fled from their native province week ended on April 20. mobs. The women and children

whom were armed only with spears" of Honan agamist the wishes of were sent to Shanghai; but, owing Two men seized my arms and their parents. to his knowledge of Chinese and bound my wrists. Then they pull-

One case of enteric fever and one his connection with the "Ko-Lao-

Investigations made by officers of puerperal fever were reported for Hul," Mr. Gabb could still walked my arms up behind my head of the Chenja Bureau of Public the 24 hours ended on April 23.

tearing the muscles of my right Safety, identified the woman who In intolerable had been killed as shuidh Slao-mei. ...I wanted to die.

| aged 21, and the injured girl as Dal Blac-met who is only seven- (To be Continued),

teen.

were in

about the streets with impunity. shoulder, I was

In 1928, returning from a holiday *n Japan, he was sent to revive trade in the province of Bunan,

NATIVE PRODUCTS

Exhibition in Peiping.

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]

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AMERICA'S SILVER POLICY

Press View In China

It was learned that both women

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Press" (Copyright).} .,

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That her husband had forced her into becoming a prostitute for 13 years while in America was the story told, in the witness boar, by Yu Sze Mul, concubine of a Chi- nese, who was accused of having procured two men to stab her.

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"ANTI-ILLITERACY Movement In Peiping (Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Fresa" (Copyright.) -

had resided in Quinsan District for'] [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily the past year having eloped with their sweethearts all the way from

Kovno, Apr. 23. distant. Homan, Just recently, how-

The threat to bring the matter ever, to disturb their "happiness, of Lithuania's violation of the their relatives had located them in Memel Statute before the League Shanghai and were about to bring Council is contained in the Note them home. Unwilling to go, the recently addressed to the Lithuan Welcoming the arrival of the two women who had been partners fan Government by the British American Economie Mission, then so many adventures, schemed French and Italian Governments official "Central Dally News" another and told their sweethearts as guarantors of the Memel cor- Illiteracy Movement sponsored by opines that the foremost COT- to meet them at a certain place vention, sccording to a statement the Peiping Branch of the China, national trade is stabilisation of track. In due course to the delight tan news agency on Tuesday, alderation for promotion of inter-utside Chenju near the railway issued by a semi-official Lithuan- Cultural Reconstruction Associa

tion was begun yesterday,The

Narking, Aprli 24.

Pelping, April 17. The Publicity Week of the Auti-

Peiping, April 17. Thousands of local residents nocked to Talmiso in this city to view the native products exhibi- him at all. In real life the Police the Peiping Municipal Government tion held under the auspices of are sometimes baffled but they are which was formally opened yester- currency exchange. The paper of their relations, the two women The Note is stated to be couch-programme for the week includes says that China is most severely obediently made ready to returned in emphatic terms admonish-speeches to be delivered at the A total of 13,000 specimen hit by the American sliver pured to take the Nanking train strictly observe the autonomous schools, and broadcast through the ; country and arranging the Lithuanian Government weekly memorial service, at various articles, including manufacturer chasing polley and "unless our goods, medicine and agricultural friends devise concrete measures

now, at any rate, to have the satisfaction of knowing that when they do not score an instantaneous success they will no more be

day morning.

to the

on Monday morning. Their cou- rights of Memel territory, adding Felping and Hopei Provincial

mocked by the triumphs of the products, are neatly catalogued to solve this fundamental problem try cousins, less used to the ways that in case of the Lithuanian Broadcasting Stations by such pro- print and paper heroes whose and displayed on shelves in four al gestures and expressions of of the city, permitted the arrange-Government's failure to heed the minent personis an General Ho":

exploits, however much they are

different buildings. enjoyed by the private citizen, are

The exhibition will last for one never read with any rellah by members of the Police College.

month, following which prizes wili. Just as Mickey Mouse makes the be awarded to the best exhibits.-- ordinary individual lock compara-China United Press (by mail),

GENERALISSIMO ONAN IMPORTANT VISIT

FORMOSA EARTHQUAKE LATEST FIGURES

Beuter. friendship will be without result,ments to rest in their hands and warning the Powers would be Ying Chin, Acting Chairman of the accordinly the plans were made compelled to submit the matter Felping Branch of the Military with the cognizance of the lovers for the attention of the League Affairs Commission and Mr Yn Chis Chi, Secretary-General of the Just as the train in which they Council- were travelling inland was nearing Transocean Kuo Hin.

Pelping Political Affairs Readjust- the trysting place, the two young

ment Committee ladies pretended to have busi- ress in another" compartment and immediately made ready to get off the train. Their determination and courage was equal to the fear- ful business and they jumped, but Lord Tweedmouth, aged 61, who with the sad result already told.had a distinguished career as a It is reported that the sweetheart | soldier in the South African, and of one of the girls is already in the European wars, and was formerly custody of the railway police The Lord in waiting to the King, died outcome of his arrest is not yet in a nursing home to-day.

British Wirclen

tively small, so does the motly army of eccentric professors, doctors and monocled young men, make people think that any criminal can be caught almost

Tokyo, Apr. 24 immediately. after the crime has

Latest figures of the Formosan been committed. If history were

"earthquake show that the deaths 'read instead of action, with its General, Chiang Kai Shek ar- were 3.185, seriously injured 9.216 careful loading of the dice, the rived in Blan from Bankow at and slightly injured 1415 truth would stand out much more coon to consult the authorities The number of collapsed houses clearly that after all it is not such there on an allegedly important was 15,29%, partly demolished 15,- an easy task to bring all criminals ("affair.”

457 and damaged houses: 4,816 ——— to book

Reuter

Reister

Nanking, Apr, 24.

LORD TWEEDMOUTH DEAD

London, April 23.

Ameeting of representatives: from various walks of life and students of colleges and middle schools also be called on the morn- Lng of April 29, when a speech will be delivered by Mayor Zuan Lang.. During the week, the various book- stores here are selling their books at half-price and special are being inued by

China United Press