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SITUATION IN MESOPOTAMZI.
London August 9th A War. Office communique" regarding Mesopotamia says that there is title change in the situation. Bakubah ares as far as the neighbourhood of Khanikin is still in revolt. Defences hava boca estab- Lahed at the Bakubah railway bridge. A column has been wat to clear up the situa tion. The British post at Bakiya,, 25 miles south of Neifri, has been invested. We
SKAMEN ATTACKED,
PETZER ÜBER 19.
YAUMATI HIGHWAY ROBBERT:
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
TRAVELLING TRADER
MURDERED.
The adjourned Criminal Sessions opened this morning, at the Supreme Court, before the Acting Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz.
At the Magistracy this morning, Inspector Caygill charged a Chinese Touth before Magistrate Hutchison, with being cancerned with eleven others, not in custody, in a highway
Lung. Tai, chax Chan Hon, alias robbery committed upon two Chinese Leung Ng Chan being indicted with members of the crew of the Dutch the murder of Lau Trun, a travel. motor ship"Gromingen,” in Gascoineling trader. Road, Yaumati, at 10 pim, on Satur day.
The defendant pleaded "not guilty."
The Inspector said that the case was one for the Criminal Seasons as. pepper had been used to bind the victims, but la view of the fact that
of Bagdad on the Middle Ruphrates the the vessel was leaving port to armoured car section, which was fired on morrow, and it was doubtful if it en route from Felujah, succeeded in reach-would return to Hongkong, be would ing Bagdad The Bagdad-Fellajah rail- ask the Magistrate to deal with it. Tay was tampered with, but not seriously. railway Hills to Bagdad will be secured at both ends by lines of block houses.
faces.
was hired by some one to take part in a fight He did not know. that a robbery was to take place. Yesterday he took the police all over Ysimati to find the man, but the search proved fruitless.
The Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C.), prosecuted, and prisoner was defended by Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. F. E Nash)
►
The following composed the jury Messrs. M. T. Johnstone, F. A Chopard, W.H. Whitely. C.Edgcumbe 1. Oliphant, Chan Kue and S. Green- field.
Outlining the facts of the case, the Attorney General stated that he was The Magistrate agreed.
putting the case to the jury under a Outlining the case, the Inspector dificulty inasmuch as a certain part said that the complainants were of the evidence he had proposed to Defences are in course of construction walking along Gascoine Road at 10 call was being objected to by the around Bagdad. The operations are on p.m. on Saturday, returning to the defence. He was therefore, not going siderably impeded owing to the beat, and Kowloon Docks to rejoin their ship, to refer to that part of the evidence, the unusual lowness of the river has ren when they were suddenly jostled by although it meant that he would not dered communications and supply of a crowd of modles. At the same be able to cover the whole ground of vises by water most difficult
time, pepper was thrown in their the case. Motives for murder were BOMBAY," August 20th.
When someone abstracted considerable. In some cases "people Captain W. Wrigley, Political Officer, Captain J. Bradfield, Commandant of the $20 from the first complainant's understood and sympathised with the Lavies, Mr. Buchanan, Irrigation Officer, pocket, the latter raised as alarm wurderer though the case had been and two British N.C.O.. xero, billed at of "save Fife and the rowdies proved against him, such as a Shahraban on August 15th by Arabs. The made of. A district watchman who murder as a result of a wrong cfficers; with their Levies, offered & gallant was attracted to the scene by the done to some near relative resistance against overwhelming numbers, helding out for three days until their cries of the complainant, arrested There were other cases in which the ammunition was exhausted. The Arab the defendant. The defendant, when motive was totally inadequate, and Levies were loyal to the end and died fight questioned br, witness, said that he although the jury must be on guard ing side by side with the British,
against motive, it was not obligatory LONDON, August 20th.
on the Crown to prove such if they The India Office arounces that it will
were satisfied from the evidence that receive applications from the Indian Army
the prisoner was guilty of the murder Reserve of Officers for temporary service with Indian infantry expeditionary forces
then there would be no necessity for proving a motive. Prisoner and The announcement, apparently, is the outcome of the serious situation in Mes
The complainant, who described deceased were both travelling traders potamia
himself as the No. 1 Chinese engineer class of person who travelled up of the s.s. Gromingen," said that and down the West River, on without his identification papers, steamers, carrying out orders for the country which were stolen, he would lose his persons residing in
conveying remittances to job, as he would not be allowed to aud LONDON, August 18th. A message from Warsaw describing the land in Java without them: In the relatives sent from abroad." The two Polish counterattack says that the Foles, course of his evidence the witness men travelled between Hongkong afer allowing the Bolsheviks to approach said that
the robbers decimped and a village called Lung Chu on the outer forts, counter-attacked
on both
when a Cantonese arshed with a the Kongmoon steamers. Both were wings, one from Irangorod in the direction revolver amived and arrested the registered as traders under the Sze of Brest-Litovsk under Gen. Pilsudski, the
Yat steamship Co. There were second from Novogeorgievsk, developing defendant. northwards along the Narew; meanwhile a Inspectracaygill explained that altogether five traders in that district third attack was launched along the the Cantonese was the district who were more or less in terms of Warsey-Dazzig
vaibeay in the direction of ƒ watchman
friendly rivalry. Deceased had only Maisra. General Filandaki repulsed the The complainant said that he was been in business two months and enemy on the whole line between the
that the defendant
or four years. was prisoner, three and the Narew to & dept
of between forty one of the highwaymen. He Deceased left a shop in Des Yout His rapidly reached on the right bank of the in the assault on witness and amongst other things be fiad a sum lower Nares, and cleared. The forts at the confluence of the
the Narew were his friend. Witorss saw the defen of $200 in one, which was a remit ire-taken, re-establisking "
a natural line of dant's-face clearly in front of him tance to a person in the country. nearing. the end defence for Warsaw. The Poles, attacking before the pepper was thrown in his When
Gilman
be Street. --- along the Warsaw Danzig line advanced eyes.
The beyond Echenow, south of Maiawa,
The oiler who was with complainant received a stab wound on the back Bolsheviks
retreated. hurriedly
gave corroborative evidence and and was found some time later by Loszcy, August 2018. The Poles are now busily engaged in colecting isolated Bolshevik detasamente left high and dry after the subsidence of the main flood
THE POLISH SITUATION.
the Wiprs
KISTE -
to eighty kilometres. objectives were had taken a prominent part Road Central, with two baskets and
and
It is believed that the broken Bolshevik forees mumber 100,000.
of.
stated that the defendant was one of the Police leaning against a lamp the men who had assaulted him. · post. Previous to this he had left the After hearing further evidence, the two baskets at another shop and Magistrate decided to convict, and prisoner bimself left his baskets there asked if there were anything known although it was not a rule of his to about the defendant.
do 60. The people of the shop expressed surprise and prisoner gave as a reason for leaving his baskets The Magistrale said he had that the other shop was being washed yet he said that Warsaw is completely out doubt as to what sentence he had that day. Deceased appeared to have been determined and very faith- of danger as the total armed manpower of power to impose on the defendant. the Bolsheviks is an unknown quantity for
The Poles, by their advance towards Brest-Litovak, seem to threaten the main Belsherik forces; nevertheless it cannot
The Inspector proved a previous conviction for laresay. 1
the moment. There seems a possibility of The Inspector that he had fui in his duty, for, after receiving the total annihilation of the Bolterik looked up the ordinance before. com the stab he walked, bleeding profusely; army actually engaged, but the military log to Court, had had found that the to the shop with the dagger in hand situation is so delicately balanced that a Magistrate has power to give defen- and gave instructions about the single false step may completely, change dant the maximum sentence of baskets and his money. He then the outlook.
twelve months and the birch went downstairs and collapsed.: WARSAW, Augum 20th
The Magistrate said he had better From there the Police took him to An official review of the situation en make sure, and reserved sentence hospital. As a consequence of inform firms the defeat of the Bolshevik desigts o
ustil to-morrow morning. *ation Inspector Murphy went to the Warsaw, and describes the Bolsheviks The Inspector asked that a serious shipping company's office, locked up fleeing in paric. The official communiqué enumerates the captures of prisoners and view be taken of the case, and a the register and obtained prisoner's material in the hurriedly abandoned camps. severe sentence inflicted.
LONDON, Angur 20th.
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photograph. He then went down to The Magistrate promised that he the Kongmoon wizarves and showed A telegram from Minsk, dated August would do alt he could. 17thy safe that at the Fence Conference the Soviet represent
representatives:
"informed the Pole that they were eager
:the photograph to the Police
chers. About 6.30pm prisoner arrived and a detective noticed the
for peace and did not desire to interfere STRAITS GOVERNOR'S SIGH. resemblance to the photograph and with the integrity of Poland
THE OLYMPIC GAMES;
ANTWERP, August 20th.
in the Grates Roman, wrestling foals middleweights-Johansson (Sweden), “heat Biat (Holland) in 7mins, 298ces.
WHEN HE WAS EDITOR:
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ask him his surname. Prisoner sald ** Chan” and on being asked if he was sure replied Yes." He denied that his name was Lung-Tai“ To Inspector Murphy prisoner made. the same statement but subsequently "admitted that the "name" and the H.E. the Governor of the Straits photograph were Ela: It was known Iz the heavyweights, Lindfors (Finland) Sett
ents, Sir Laurence Guillemard, that Chinese bad several individual beat Ahlgren (Sweden) in 47mida. 38secs.
K.C.B has been pleased to acknow. names but they could not have two 1. In the Olympic Games in the final of the
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bird at the request, of was that of another travelling trader. Britain) had an easy win-Time-10mins 22, Priya Hut.
the editorial committee, by Dr. G. H. At the station prisoner made the The final of the 200 metres fat re05 WS
raod was Macalisteria Bru
following statement "Decessed can- Too by Woodring (America).
In the course of his letter his not arrest the murderer, deceased did. Paddock (Americs) and Edward (Greas Excellency Rays - Te myself, have not know him. He knew only me 1 Britain) are end and third, reason how the gys of contributing to a never had a fight with him. He tively Times
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