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TWEED BAY DR. RAJCHMANN

OPERATION

MACHINE-GUN DEFENCE MANOEUVRES

LANDING PARTY BY "ENEMY”

The necessity of maintaining in Hongkong an efficiently trained machine gun beach defonco nyatem

The night was an admirable one for testing the powers of absorva-

VISITING CHIANG

KAI SHEK

THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9,

TAIT'S MANILA CARNIVAL

ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR Shanghal, Nov. D. Mr. Rajchmann, the Leaguo

Toit's Manila Carnival Show has technical advisor, and a number of exports attached to the National arrived, and for the last two days Economic Council aro proecoding 50000s of great activity have been

nolleed at Kowloon, to Nanchang in response to

Marahul Chiang Kai-shek's invita-

The show will open on time to- tion. They have been asked tonight, the position boing the same draw up plans for the rehabilita a last year; on the vacant ground tion of the districts recovered from by the side of the Peninsula Hotel, the Reds in Kiangal.-Central Newa.

Kowloon,

a go

The slogon of the organisation, which is "Fun for all and all for was demonstrated last evening at the alarm sounded and the men Fan" seems to be a very apt one, Tweed Bay, when manoeuvres rushed for their gun positions. In us they have in their Carnival such were carried out under the eyes of the meantime the Nos. 4 had ro- a choice of selection of different His Excelloney the G.O.C., Major leased their 8.0.S. faro and dash-forms of amusement that it seems General O. C. Borratt and mented to the telephone.

Impossible for anyone attending bors of the General StafT.

not to find something. that just nulla thoir taste,, though most who do attend cannot resist having

at everything. Five different riding devices have been lined up. The "Dod- gom" will probably be the most popular, though a new ride called the "Why" looka as though one should get a lot of fun out of There is also a "Caterpillar," "Big Wheel" and "Merry-go-round". The "Hawaiiun" Cabaret show should prove to be a big drawing card. Captain Charlos Bathe's "Monkeyland" should also be well patronlied, but then, performing monkeys, always do draw. big crowds,

TARGET "MISSING" The objective of the teams was tion of the participants. It was a model cutter, 32 feet long andi pitch black under a atarlit sky four feet high with allhouettes of with a small vigibility even with men overlooking the side which night glasses.

was towed at about five knots at It was noticeable however, that 800 yards. The darkness of the Naval officers present found it night afide it impossible for the difficulty in picking up the target fre controller to distinguish the with night glasses, and this points target even with glasses to the necesalty of training mill- tary personnel in the proper usa of this means of detection,

A rocket was called for. With swish I went up to Illuminate the water for yards dround, Still Just before sundown

the "enemy" were Invisible and machine gun teams drawn from Verey lights were resorted to at the South Wales Borderers and the regular intervala. Still there was Machine Gun Company of the II.K.V.D.C., took up position on the no sign of the target,

1933.

LA GUARDIA MYSTERY OF A KEY to the box sa far as the know. He

TRIUMPHS

NEW YORK

(Continued from Page 1

[had never had ́occasión' to have jono eut personally,

DERHAM'S DUTIES. ›

INDO-CHINA IN TIN SCHEME

REPORTED JOINING IN JANUARY

London, Nov. 8.

Indo-China hos signed An

International Fin

gromunt officially to join the Restriction Schome on A flat rate from January 1, 1934..

to him. He agreed that it was Cross-oxamined by Mr. Strellett, part of the instructions for the safe witness said he sent Pto. Derham COMPLETE CONQUEST IN custody of secret und conddontini to Shamshiuge on Monday, August documents that carbon should be 28th to tako Army forms and maps not to Set Tipple, Instructor of the destroyed by Aro. Hu could say that these instructions were 1st Class candidates. On Aug carried out by McArdell, but ho 20th he sent him again to bring did seo churred paper in the grate, back the papera of the Int Clash When the papers were handed to candidates which he was to collect him witness put them in hie box. from Sgt. Tipple. 11e checked, them over in the miern-

On Wednesday he was sent to

further ing and found there were some bring back

The announcemont is made by August 30th was the last day tho Amstordam correspondent of mistakes in the typing. Now York, Nov. 8.

witness sent Pte. Dorhamn to the the Financial Times.-Kouter. The final figures of the Mayoral election in New York allowed that over two million voters went to the poll despite the intimidation

TAMMANY TAKES DEFEAT WELL

La Guardia McKeo

O'Brien ...

|

A COPY POSSIBLE.

pupera,

"In my opinion it would have Cams before the beginning of October. No duties took him to buon possible for coples to bu takon the Camp during that time. The while McArdoll was typing the only things in the black box were MR. W. H. DONALD. confidential papers and two, kaya. Owing to the mistakes, the Army On the night of August 14th ho

papora," added witness,

campaign.

La Guardia had a majority over and Empire and Mathematiund the key in his pocket, and it papers had to be typed again by was there until the papers were 250,000 the figures boing:

858,500

the two sorgt-instructors. They sont to the printers. On the night 604,000

avere thon checked by Capt. Cannon, of August 18th the papers wore 680,000 sealed in an envelope and given to unseated in the box. He agreed Mr. La Guardia followed up him to take to the printers that there was a box of old koya in the his triumph over Tammany Hall, afternoon. When they were re-Gonoral Room. He had only tried the first disturbance of ita rule colved back in the office the sents one of them to see if they would of New York for many years, were intact. Witness took them nt. He could not say if any of with a promise to give the people off McArdell's table. Acting on in the others would it, a civic administration free from structions From Capt, Cannon wit- graft, from sinecuros and from ness opened the papers and inspect. wantofulness.

ALL-ROUND VICTORY.

The Democrats also falled in unother of their cherished objects, namely, control of the New York State Assembly, in which they font ten seats of New York City's representation.

-USE OF KEYS.

LIKELY TO GO TO

NANCHANG

Shanghai, Nov. 9.

Mr. W. H. Donold, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lang's British ad- with Mr. T. V. Soong in connec tion, it it believed with Marshal' | Chang Hauch-liang's position.

vlaer, has had sovoral conversationa

od them. He checked the 'papers Answerinjr Lioul, Hope, witness Mr. Donald is preparing to go over, checked some errors and lock- eald McArdell bad always done his to Nanchang by air to see Marshal

them in his box. On Saturday work satisfactorily and he had Chinig Kai-shek.-Central News. morning he uponed the box and never had cause to suspect him. took them to Capt. Cannon fer lls He was extremely surprised to inspection. The errors were inked hear he had been arrested, en- in by Capt. Cannon, the paperspecially when he had been sealed up and taken to the printors rested on the present charges. that evening by witness personally. It was, however, quite possible for Some day the following wook tho him to triplicate the copies of the papers came back from the printers. papers.

PAPERS SEALED.

ever

-

HIGHEST - LEVEL

SINCE 1914

Mr. Bernard Deutsch, tho well- known Jewish lender, and a fol- "Chandu," a great illusion full lower of Mr. La Guardia, was

Lieut. Hope: Do you permit DOLLAR RATE SOARS of mystery, Is presented by Prelected President of the City

W./0, Sonter said that the papers jany one to as the kept of your

IN LONDON festor Reymondo.

Board of Aldermen, while the re- came back from the printers intor box?--Witness: I permit my Sgt. markable revolt against. Tammany a sealed package, the seals of Instructors to use them.

London, Nov, 8. Have you also resulted in a majority for which were intact. After show-

allowed Guardin's borough and judicialing them to Cape. Cannon ho lock- MeArdell to have the keys?—1 In London to-day the Foreign candidates.

think there were two occasions, Exchange Markat dollar rato ruso ed them up, with the seals still All of them were elected with intact. He broke the seals when One occasion I recollect was) to 4.04, which is lis highest level the exception of Mr. Pecora, the the papers were sent to the out. when I left my keys behind one since 'August 1914.. attorney who has charge of the stations, From August 25 until day and sent McArdell to the Sonate Banking Investigation, who September 15 the papers were in house to bring them back for Later the rate cased tọ 4.92%.

--British Wirelcas. was third in a three-cornered fight the box. for the post of District Attorney for New York City.

Quite a now thing in the Circus line is the Filipino Circus, Thin is their first visit here. Perform ing Flens, introduced by Tom Tong, a clever Chinese showman, with a heavy American accent; n Molor-drome", in which some

motor-cycling halveraising

Is

Then came the order to change right of Tweed Bench with uns position to the rocks below Tweed paralleled and heavily sand-Point which gave the target range bagged and trained on D'Aguilar at 400 yards. A similar procedura Point with a range of 800 yards followed as that carried out on the Their right of are was given a beach. This time there was no the point whore D'Agullar Point dimenity in pleking up the target met the water and the left of arc and the fire controller, laying on the small headland to the left of

just before the objective reached the centre of arc, gave the order the beach.

The countryside ro- ALARM SOUNDED.

"Open-Firo". The Noa. 1, 2 and 3 of the gun vorbrated with the rattle of the teams, all trained men, then guns as they sent bursts of bullets "retired for the night" within easy with deadly effect onto the target, call should the alarm be given of They followed its courao until the approach of the "enemy." The passed behind the headland. The Nas. 4 on each gun, untrained belts of ammunition, were inter presented, and the big free net men, acted as beach watchore.spersed with tracer bullets whose presented by reckless Eddie Their duty was, at the first in-phosphorescent glare gave the Phillimore in his "Globe of dication of the arrival of enemy gunners an idea of the position of Death". boats offshore to sound the alarm, the "enemy". aend up an 8.0.8. and telephone a The manoeuvres were brought warning to the troops.

to a clone shortly after 8 p.m. and About ten minutes after men the party returned to the clifftop had turned in the low whistle of again.

cornful sound here.

me.

WAS When the duplicate key Do you know if he had your) —— produced, witness sald he racog-[koys for a whole day at one time? hised it as the kay which opened —I cannot recollect that. the box. He had seen the key, which he bolloved to be the same

wanted.

сап-

KEY EXPERT.

some

Wax

to the Education Offer' to collect GOOD LOSER.

from a pigeon hola sheets and found a small key at Mr. O'Brion, the retiring Mayor,

he side of the sheets. He hind Those are the chlef shows in the proved. a good losor. Ïle am as opened the box on one of the Li Chuan, koyamith, of 470, been to the same pigeon hole Carnival, so gives good weather phasised that it had been a clean tables in the schoolroom. When Lochart Rond, sald he was former thirteen days previous but had ast the show should have a very auc-nght and that Tammany Hall had he

to go to the ly employed in the Dockyard as noticed the key on that occasion. taken ita frst defeat good the Library on September naturedly despite the fact that it 23rd he could only find one mental worker and for he the past He tried the key in the lock of 15 years had been a keysmith the black box and found it opened stands to lose thousands. of key which did not fit the

He was shown the key and stated the box. He placed the köy on municipal jobs.

fdential part of the Library he wanted to opon. He went back that it had been made by mould the table and left it there. The and was certainly over a year old. following morning he remembered to the box and searched again for the key and then saw a keyHe arrived at that conclusion by the key and reported the matter to on the corner of the table near the the colour and the dirt adhering W/O. Senior.

The key Senior he went to look for the key box, recognising it as the one for to the filing marka on it.

but could not find it. Derham which he was looking. He had had not been used often. no idea how the key got in that;

was cleaning the room and when place as he was always very care-

asked if he had seen the key, ful to lock up all confidential keys. Set. Clutton, of the A.E.C., produced It from a shelf. There was no omein) duplleate key said on Thursday last he went

Performers in Talt's Manila Carnival opaning to-morrow in Kowloon,

GRAND OPENING TO-NIGHT

TAIT'S MANILA

CARNIVAL

-FOLLOW THE CROWD --THEY'RE ALL GOING!

NEXT TO PENINSULA HOTEL

OPEN AT

5 p.m.

BIGGEST

"The Tammany Tiger, like. all cats has many lvea. Tukumany will continue all the same." declared a pro- minent Tammany official to- day.-Reuter..

CLAIM AGAINST

BANK

EVIDENCE GIVEN OF A "SECRET WORD"

A claim against a Chinese bank arising from a draft was continu- ed before the Pulsne Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Supremo Court to-day,

Wong Wing (Vin) Lee, alias Wong Fook, claimed from the Eu Yan Sang firm, as payers of a draft (Pun character) for $700.

Mr. M.. A. da Silva represented plaintiff and Mr. M. K. Lo appear- ed for defendunt, Mr. F. H. Losoby represented a third party who were, guarantors of the draft.

Mr. Silva made an application to be permitted to bring evidence of a Chinese banking custom.

Objection was made by Mr. Lo. and Mr. Losoby, who submitted that the evidence was irrelevant and He Lordship said he would' con- sider the application Inter,

Wong Sik Yung, alias wong Kin Sau who was called by Mr. Lo, gave evidence that he worked for plaintiff In Siam and brought his children back to China for him when he returned. Witness took out n draft for $700 in Stam and agreed upon a secret word to be used to effect payment in Hong- kong. Witness, who still retained charge of the draft, lost it in May, 1932, and informed the bank who advertised for its recovery. It was not forthcoming however, and as witness know the secret word, payment was made to him a month later.

Mr. Lo Plaintiff has said that the first time you met him in Hongkong, you confessed that you had atolen the money by means of the draft. Is that true?

Witness: No.

The case is proceeding. THE CHEER O CLUB

LATEST DONATION TO

· BUILDING FUND

The following further contribu tions to the Cheer O Club Building Fund have been received. Staff, Aslatic Petroleum

Co., (8.C.), Ltd.

G. V. Grimth..

50,00

10.00

Previously

acknowled❤

god

82,578,23

Total

.$82,608.23

DISCOVERY OF KEY.

Accompanied by

The case is proceeding.

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