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Mme. Manes the morganatic wife of the late King Alexander of Greece, has given birth to a daughter.
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SENTENCED,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
lawful commands of the officer in
FURIOUS DRIVING.
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Peking, May 10-At the Cabinet Government decided to announce the Council of May 7, the Chinese following three articles and ratify the same, subject to the approval of foreign Powers
1. Any dying machine, which en ters and leaves the territory of China, shall comply with the pas senger and goods transportation tarif provided by China. In view of the fettered by the arrangements with the foreign Powers, transportation by fying machines shall not be subject to the restriction of treaties with other countries.
Praved guilty of having taken part In mutinous assault upon the first.
Furious and reckless driving in mate of the 55. Lee Sang" eleven Chinese seamen were sentenced to Des Voeux Road Central on the imprisonment with hard labour at morning of Sunday, May 8 was the Marine Court this morning. alleged against Lai Kwan, driver of Together with the vessel's boats motor car No. 218 before Magistrate wain, Chan Wai, the men were | Lindsell this morning. charged with having disobeyed the Traffic Inspector Garrod said that charge of the ship and unlawfully about 10 o'cock on the morning in assaulted William W. Hopkin, the question he and Sergt. Alexander first mate. All of them denied the were going on their rounds on the fact that China's traffic duties are poilce motor cycle when the defendant charge.
When the hearing of the case passed them opposite the Breezy was commenced before the Marine Gamage going from East to West, ab (Lieutenant Conway (a very high speed. In the car was Magistrate
On Saturday lasta brass band playing big druns and Hake RNR) the first mate related, in the comets The witness called out to course of his evidence, that on the defendant to stop, but he either the date in question the boatswain did not hear or did not want to hear, reported that the crew' would not
or when he went down to as he continued to tear along the road order them on deck the accused at 2 miles an hour.
The Magistrate: How can you be pizned him in the forecastle doorway and assaulted him from behind with so exact? such severity that he was still under- The Lospector: We timed him going hospital treatment for his in-with our speedometer. We chased hire at 27 miles an hour, and did not In reply to the Magistrate the catch him until we reached the furies.
boatswain, who gave evidence when Western marker. We pulled him up The Swedish Board School Teachers the hearing was resumed this mort 200 yards past the market, to be crew, he approached the first mate!
The defendant admitted speeding favour of the English Language as for a spell of an hour or two and the and said that he was taking the band Congress has adopted a resolution ing, said that, at the urging of the compulsory subject.
request was refused, the officer insisting that the men must turn out, to Shektongchui. The whole party Witness then went back to the fore- went in four motor cars. The other castle to explains the position and three had gone ahead, and he was was followed by the first mate. speeding to catch them up.
A fine of $25 was imposed. When he saw that the latter was
A victim of sleeping for, Isy Mitchell. aged fifteen. of Boreham, Wiltshire, has been asleep for six
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In all the battlefields where British Empire tops fought 617.000 graves have been definitely identified. located and registere
All Paris was touched a month ago by the story of two young girls where parents had been killed in the war and who, having hef theit erploe-weeks. ment in a factory through illness, raagtogether.one Sunday afternoon into the River Seine but were rescued. A newspaper opener & sabscription for then which is said to have reached 2). The statement - now nade in the Eclair that the girls are excellent. tick on the gezenas pable in several winners who have place the same provincial towns.
Prince in Padded Cells.
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The estimated amount of rates per head of population in England and Wales for the current financial year 3 1. id... states Dr: Addison in Parliamentary
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Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield provient of the Briere and Beibi
being assaulted he went his Hopital at a diner the
assistance and called the men away. Man-ion Hots tied but when
Most of the accused gave recently the Prince of Waist visited
Following the reduction in the the hospital be insiste en shaking retail price of milk to 10. a quart the straight-out denial of the charge but bands with every patient in the in London and Provincial Master Dairy-one man informed the Court that although he himself was lying on stiration. I pointed at." said Sirmen's Association decided on a further his bunk at the time and took no
that some of them are reduction to Ed on May 1. Charles
part in the assault he saw "one" "of perided cells, but the Palace replied.
his comrades assault the first mate I want to shake bands with every During drainage work at Baldock, with both bands. sly here. He went into the padded Hertfordshire. portions of a mam cells and shook hot with the inmoth's tusk in two sections, measuring nates: Afterwards the resident phy sician told me that to that day onari there
WAN a pricuspoed iqrovement in the cedits of the patients who ha esperican the; Royal touch.
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altogether 16in. and weighing 12lb. were found 11ft. below the ground in gravelsolon top of chalk." 11
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Accidental Death was the verdict at Middlesbrough on Noah Stephen- son Wilton-street, who was believed to have been bamed to death through his pipe setting light to his clothes.. after he had fallen from his chair:
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The Magistrate found that no offence had been proved against the boatswain whom he accordingly dis- charged. The remainder of the men were pronounced guilty on both counts and sentences totalling three months imprisonment with hard labour were imposed.
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"THE CONSTABLE IS LYING."
MAGISTRATES REMARKS.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED" """SQUEEZE,"
I bare distrusted him for some little time. He certainly must be taken off the track duty. I will not listen to him in another truck case after this," said Magistrate, Lindsell yesterday about Indian constable B232 who had brought two Chinese before the Court, the one charged with having driven a truck without a
and the licence,
.other with having offered the constable a bribe not to arrest him
Five Chinese educatiales perts. under Dr Yer are investi- ating the different school systems ¿f
A bullet fired in an amateur target England with a view to their adoption in China. They are making a thorough practice at St. Martin, near Montreal, study of British educational methods passed through the arm of Felix
With no witnesses to sapport his In bost-cases a ten-shop keeper to from the elementary schools to the Dumont, the body of Leopold Vali- universities for comparison with other quette and the head of Ferdinand statement, an Indian described by whom coal was being delivered on the national systems. The necessity for Gravel killing the two. All were the police as an ex ship's watchman, day in question, disputed the const- and self-styled an eye specialist, told; able's evidence. Dealing with the providing facilities for the education *pectators.
an unusual story to Magistrate Orme first case, he maintained that the uf Chinese students and for helping I dated my husband to hit me," this morning to explain the possession mad who held the track licence WAS
with the party. them to appreciate British educa said a woman to the Tottenham of 600 taels of raw opium.
Mr.Longinotto said that his client tional methods has been persistently Crged. The stated British magistrates, so he struck me in the
passage, kicked me on the tairway, was in a very unfortunate position as lying; defendant is discharged. Dow Chambers of Coramerce bas
Educational Fund and tore my lino." The magistrates he was unable to produce evidence established an
were undecided whether she wanted which would convince the Magistrate of his innocence and secure, his in
for Shanghai.
promoting a doctor or a house repairer.
acquittal. He admitted possession British interests by means of educa- tion. Seventy per cent of the fard will be devoted to the education of Chinese students on British lines. All the British Chamber of Commerce in China and Hongkong are co-operate ing, and the British Government is
to be asked to contribute.
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Giving evidence in the bribery case, the constable said that the defendant borrowed 50 cents from a of the opium, but not unlawfully customer and offered it to bim with Having seized the drug somewhere the request that he should not arrest he was taking it to the Central Police the previous defendant. Station to secure the reward when he was stopped
At Newcastle Tommy Barns, the boxer, was granted a licence for the Forth Hotel a well-known public- house, where it was stated he proposed to reside as tenant. The magistrate's officer. clerk said Burns should make a good chucker-out.
2. Any fying machine, which enters and leaves the territory of China, is prohibited trom transport- mag mails, except fer direct trans
and foreign post-offies, In view of portation between Chinese pest-offices the fact that many foreign post offices have of late been established in various parts of China, free trans 3. Any tying-machine belonging portation of mails shall be prohibited. to Treaty Powers, which enters and leaves the territory of China, shall observe not only international wire less contracts but also China's wire less regulations. In view of the fact that foreign vessels are employing wireless freely in the domain of China, fring-cachines are to be re- stricted in the use of wireless.
STORM SELF-RECORDER.
AIRCRAFT WIRELESS STATION.
CROYDON TERMINAL AERODROME.
What experts say is the finest and most powerful aircraft wireless station in the world has now been completed by the Marconi Company at the tèr minal aerodrome at Croydon and is to be taken over by the Air Ministry.
Apart from its routine Installation for airway signalling, the station coutairs a number of improvements and new devices, which are of a secret nature and would be of extreme value in war: The assumption having been made for instance, that an enemy would make it his business to bomb such an important aerodrome. at the first opportunity, the station has been so arranged that it can be operated from more than one spot. Thus, even in the event of a direct hit at ope con rol point, another could Some very long-range commanica- take over the running of the station. Lion, not only with telegraphy but also in talepbony, is expected be- tween this new station and aeroplanes and, airships in flight. When, for example, the airship R36-known commercially as GFAAF-makes forthcoming test flights which will, it is said, take her as far Mediterranean, there should be a chance "lor, experiments which may- prove most interesting.
the
An improved device is the thunder- The tea-shop keeper said that he storma detector. By this a thunder- storm is made to signal its where by the revenue, had heard the conversation between abouts and movements by the He admitted having obthe constable and the truck coolies influence it has upon special equip- structed the revenue officer in the The constable struck the defendant, meat at the wireless station. It is search, but this was for no other and demanded $5 from him. Later possible, in fact, by direction-finding reason than that he did not wish the he reduced the "squeeze" to $3. instruments to trace from moment. revence officer to have a share in Ultimately one of the coolies borrowed to moment the position and rate of Twins, boy and girl, were born on the reward. Unfortunately, the One of the most remarkable Bronze the Red Star liner Kroonland" short-witness he had hoped to call 50 cents from the witness's brother travel of a storm, and such informa tion is naturally of extreme value to Age hoards recently discovered in after the steamer left Antwerp for was now in Wuchow, and it to pay the constable.
his The Magistrate believed the witness's pilots of the "air expresses," enabling Great Britain has been given to the New York. Although the parents are was
In the circumstances, story and discharged the defendant. them to avoid zopes of violent Welsh National Aneury It will be Czecho-Slovakians, the children hay attendance. shown to the public as soon as the new building at Cardiff is ready. It ing been born on a ship under the Counsel said that he would put his Inspector Ellis was instructed to put atmospheric disturbance.
Chent at the mercy of the Court, and the constable on report.
Bronze Age Hoard.
American flag are of American nation.
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secure impossible to
ask the Magistrate to deal with him leniently.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $6,000 or. in default, six months' hard labour. The drug was confis cared.
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Petroleum Company. left for Home Mr. F. F. Bunje, of the Asiatic
has been exhibited to members of the Society of Antiquaries in London,
Asking for a separation order at among whom it aroused much interest Brentwood, Mrs. Will said her has The hoard was found in Wales. band. Walter Willis, an ex-chief stoker The feature of it, which consists of in the Navy, got up early one morning, bronze implements and ornaments, nailed up the door of her room, and is the fact that is incicdes an iron went off leaving her imprisoned for sickle of exactly the same shape as hours. Willis said his wife was a The latest report with regard to
the so-called "Assassination Corps were Mr. Haddon, of the Standard two or three bronze sickles found near contentious woman, and he could not it. This is taken to prove that it live with her. He was ordered to dates from the time of transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age. Izon Pay weekly.
had evidently been discovered, but
the metal workers of that day were
not fully acquainted with its properties and therefore modelled this historic sickle on their bronze implements.
Homeless Charles.
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Provisional protection has just been hadges on their coat collars. This For the first time an American (EH).are taken delivery of within obtained by two Plymouth men for fact should contribute greatly to the dreadnongit has been ordered to THIRTY DAYS from May 15th, 1921, an invention which they claim will possible chance of their being Eastern waters. The ship in question and the charges due in respect thereof enable the crew of a submarine to identified. It is also reported that is the USS Florida which will paid, they will be sold by Public escape in the event of the vessel being the gang is under the leadership of a prevented from rising after being Russian, and that parties of three take the place of the "Huron" as Auction
have left for Peking, Tientsin, Han- flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. She submerged, provided the depth of how, Ichang, Tainaniu, Tsingtao, carries 12 in. 50 calibre guns, and has 3589- The plight of the ex-Emperor water is not too great. One of the Hongkong, and Amoy, presumably a displacement of 21,325 tous, Charles at Lucerne should warn all inventors is a civil engineer and the on business. who imagined that the Steinamanger (other is a seafaring man. adventure might paye a way which
Contrary to reports emanating 4439- News has been received of the throneless Kings and Kaisers could In a Salvation Army hat in West- safely tread Charles himself is an minster an official noticed a small death of Mr. William McLeish of from Canton it is learned that the Tientsin, which occurred at Knares river at Wuchów, far from being in a amishle person who believes in his attach case which was of considerable borough Place, London, on May 3. state of food, is quite normal for the Lot
divine right. But the worst of weight. No owner for it could be Mr. McLeish, who wts in his time of the year. At that City on 4467- weaklings who mean well is that they found on the premises, and it was seventieth year, was the elder son of Saturday the water guage showed are usually made use of by stronger taken to Rochester-row police station, Capt. James McLeish. In July 1886 31 feet Above Wuchow the river out to China from is said to be slightly below its normal people who intend ill The hungry where it was opened. The contents he came bodyguard of intriguing courtiers proved to be coins to the total value Dulwich College to join the Naval Auranding the ex-Emperor will con of £9.148. 8d.-one shilling in silver College at the East Arsenal, height.
where he acted as Instructor fr tinue scheming his restoration at any and 2,324 new pennies.
Boxer fourteen years, tatil the
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB - cost so long as it is paid by other people. There is the danger. West- Death was probably caused by Rebellion of 1900. He was one of the An Armed robbery occurred at en democracy is bound to protest excitement, said a doctor at the founders of the Feking and Tientsin No. 29, Shankiwan Road early yester THE THIRD GYMKHANA is fixed against these restless retinues with inquest at Brighton on Francis Wiliam Times, which he bought in 1901 day morning Four-men entered the for SATURDAY, June 4th, 1921. which exiled Kings surround them- Holman, 67, the husband, who died Mr. McLeish was appolated Secretary house, and after termorising the in- Draft Programmes and Entry Formi to the Tientsin British Municipal selves Constantine, still in Athens, suddenly while seeking reconciliation Council 1903, and baid that post mam mates, stole, a quantity of clothing may be obtained at the Bees Course, ozet similarly surrounded by bad with his wife after 17 years' separation. May. 1914, when he retired After and some money vained at $163. They Hongtong Club, and Causeway Bay advisers, should study the meaning There were added the doctor, signs tour through the Baat be proceeded all get away, but later the police arrest-1 of homeless Charles tacrying on suffer- of old tubercular disease and a rupture to England, settling down in South ed two men with some of the booty
in their possession of the blood-vessels of the image, Kensington, ance at a Swiss hotel,
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