WE NESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928-
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VOLCANOES.
CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LOCAL DEATH SENTENCE
ETNA
APPEAL
To the Editor of the " China Mali.""]
colls waiting for the procession to the Scaffold, that I appeal to the Public for support in the reprieve of this man. This murder trial appeared to me as a most extraor dinarily sad case and with the verdict of the Jary, it had an ex- traordinary conclusion.
HAM AVID THE THE CHINA MAIL.
The terrible calamity in Italy has drawn attention alow to volcanoes and their devastating 'Sir,~It is at times when Public | At the Marine Court, this morn-propensities. Why does a yolcano Opinion is a necessity and I am In before Commander C Werupt? The drator or basin form-writing as a matter of investigation Beckwith RN, the case against ed by a volcano starts with the over the Murder Trial at the Captain J. Watson, master of 5.8. opening of a Basure in the earth's Supreme Court on Monday and "Gordistan" came up for hearing, surface communicating by a pipe especially now, when the defen having been remanded from Monké passage with very deeply-dant is a condemned man in the day to allow defendant's solicitor scated molten matter and steam Mr. H. Macnamara of Messrs. Whether the molten matter thus Deacon, Harston and Shenton) naturally tapped' is only a local, time to prepare his defence.
though vast, accumulation, or is The master of the 5.5. "Gorjistan" universally distributed at a given (owned by Mr. H. M. H. Nemazee) depth below the earth's crust, and was charged on two counts: (1) at how many miles from the Unlawfully failing, on arrival in surface, is not known... If port on June 13, to furnish the Har seems to be certain that the great bour Master with such information pressure of the crust of the earth ais required in accordance with (from five to twenty-five miles have a serious comparison before Section 22, subsection 2 of Ordin-thick) must prevent the heated us. In the same Sessions held, a ance 10 of 1899; and (2) with carry-matter below it from becoming Chinese constable stood charged ing 77 passengers without a pas either liquid or gascous, whether the with the manslaughter of his wife, Benger certificate,
heat of that mass be due to the In his defence, he told the After the Court had opened, Mr. cracking of the earth's crust and the Court that he had no inj Macnamara asked the Magistrate to friction of the moving surfaces as give a ruling whether passengers the crust cools and shrinks; or is to mentioned in Table K, A. referred be accounted for by the original only to passengers for Hongkong high temperature of the entire mass or included passengers passing of the terrestrial globe.... through, Commender Beckwith sald
According to Sir E. Ray passengers included all passen-Lankester, it is only, when the
First of all before going to any length with regard to this trial, we
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CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
LLEGED GANG ROBBER
CHARGED.
At the Criminal Sessions, this morning, before Me Justice Gompertz, Pulsna fudge, and a jury) NEW YORK, June 20.3
Lam Chuca was arraigned on two The United States Circuit Court counts; namely (1) robbery by two of Appeal has confirmed the or more, contrary to section 31 of forfeiture of the British schooner the Larceny Ordinance of 1865
Henry L. Marshall he first and (2) belag in possession of arts alleged ram-runner seized outside the 3-mile limit in August of 1921. ad ammunition, contrary.sto section 4 of the Arms and Am- munition Ordinance of 1900.
The Court found that the vessel was not loaded, that it was without a permit and that it did not produce a manifest within a month of reaching the coast..
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Criminal Sessions was charged to
The prisoner, at the April
gether with Wu Kwong-cheung "with the murder if Loung Sam-mui at 46 Praye, Kennedy Town an February 9, last. The Chief Justice ordered that the prisoners should be tried separately. Wa Kwong- Cheung was found guilty and has since paid the penalty. Lam Cheun was found not guilty of murder, but detained in custody to answer the two charges mentioned above. Mr. J. H. Kemp K.C., C.B.E, Attorney-General, appeared for the Crown and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Instructed by Messrs. Hastings, Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, conducted the defence. Inspector W. Kent was to charge of the case. The particulars of the alleged offences are that defendant (1) on February 9 last robbed Chan Chun- VALUABLE NEW SERUM Hul Sui-klog of a gold hair-press, ho of a piece of cloth and robbed
BERLIN, June 19 The Reichstag has adopted a bill ty concluded at Rapallo last year to the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine, White Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Far East.
tention of seriously (which proyed fatally injuring his wife" and "he had only kicked her with the hope.extending the Russo-German trea of getting her off the place and preventing a disturbance in her continued asking for money from him. The wife was seriously hurt and died in hospital läter. The constable,
gers.
gigantic pressure is relieved by the Mr. Macnamara then informed cracking or fissuring of the closed
aware of the the Court that his client would case called "the crust of the earth' situation, gave himself up after plead guilty on both counts, but that the enclosed deep-lying matter returning from the hospital. Such asked that he might be heard in of immensely high temperature a death came directly following evidence to prove that he had com-liquefies, or even vaporizes, and the fatal kick. It was much to the mitted breaches of the law through rushes into the upleading fissure. belief that the constable Fad not ignorance,
Steam and gas thus" set free." the savage intention of ending his R. L. Rocha, Assistant Boarding drive everything before them, wife's life for nothing and his Officer, in giving evidence said:carrying solid masses along with action was one of heated temper On June 13 at 2.55 p.m. I was on them, tearing, rending, shaking which it was not in his power to duty in the harbour and boarded the foundations of the hills," and control at the moment. He stood the .s. Gorjiatan" at No. 2 buoy issuing in terrific. Jets from the for the charge and was sentenced in Heung Hun Bay. The 3rd officer earth's surface, as through a safety to naterm of five years' imprison- handed me the Table K. A. as I valve, into the astonished worldment. went on board the ship..
were
I looked at the report and found that only three European passengers were included on this report I saw a number of Chinese passengers on deck. I asked for the master and was told that he was not on board. I then saw the Chief Officer and told him that I wanted the report filled up properly 38. there
no Chinese passengers given in it. The Chief Officer took the report from me and went onto the bridge. He returned later and took me to the compradore. The compradore did not know how many Chinese passengers there were. I then counted them myself and found 67 men and women and 20 children, I got the report filled up and left the.chip.
above. Often in a few hours they Coming to the murder trial, choks their own path by the circumstances are more or the destruction they produce and less identical; the father the falling in of the walls of their, if he Was solely held, briefly-opened channels. Then responsible for his son's there is a lull of hours, days, or even centuries, and after that again, a movement of the crust, a "giving" of the blockage of the deep, vertical pipe, and a renewed rush and jet of expanding gas and liquefying rock.
fissures
death, and he also to end his own, had an object, which to him was the only cause to drown' his sorrows. He was troubled on account of the unfaithfulness of his wife, and a husband, if he really
cares for: the home will never The general scheme of this know where his mind is, if his process and its relations to the wife is forfeiting her important stricture and properties of the responsibilities. The husband was outer crust and inner mass of the unsuccessful in his attempt to end globe is still a matter of discussion, his life together with his son and theory, and verification; but what after being rescued they were ever conclusions geologists may admitted to hospital. As to what reach on these matters, the main the Chief Justice remarked during fact
of importance in that his summing up, that, even if two steam and gases. Issue from men were to commit suicide to THE MASTER'S EVIDENCE.
these
with ́ ́enormous "gether, if one man died and the Captain John Watson, in the witness box, stated: I left Swatow velocity and pressure, and that "a other man survived, he was guilty vent” of this kind, once establish- of murder, if must be borne ja on June 12, bound for Hongkong.ed, continues, as a nule, to serve mind that in this case, the child I reached here at 2.55 p.m., on June intermittently for conturies, and, was brought out of the water alite 13... I had a number of Chinese indeed, for vast periods to which and did not die until three hours passengers on board for Singapore we can assign no definite limits. after Whether or not he died us to be transhipped at Hongkong. Thad received a cable from the The solid matter ejected be the result of the immersion, it charterers (Kuen Sang S.S. Co.) comes piled up around the vent as was found that the child was at Singapore, saying that a pound, its outline: taking the dead after his mother (who my passenger certificate had been graceful catenary curves of rest was an inmate at the hospital at the extended for one trip.
and adjustment to which are due time) had been carrying him. As A copy of the cable was handed the great beauty of volcanic cones, the defence put it, the mother was to the magistrate and read: Ex The aper of the cone is blown alleged to have hugged her child tract of cables to Rangoon re away at intervals by the violent too closely and this resulted in
Gorjistan's license.
blasts issuing from the vent, and stopping his breath The gentic- Chiphwat Rangoon, Tongkin we have formed the crater, varying men of the Jury probably looked Gordistan's license Hongkong in the area enclosed by its margin upon the case asa sympathetic one, Government wired extend one and in the depth and appearance as it was nothing like an ordinary trip," 11.30 am., 19/5/23." -
of the cup so preduced. At a rate murder trial, and while they may 4.Susan Pebang, Tongkin depending on the amount of solid have in their thoughts of the two license had extended and tele matter rejected by the crater, the men who desperately end their graphed Penang from Hong-mound will grow in the course of lives and one died and the survivor kong Government. Otherwise time to be a mountain, and oftere la to be guilty of murder; but I put ask Captain
it that until a person is dead when wire Nemazce secondary craters or temporary Singapore. Kuensang", 1.15 p.m. openings.connected at some depth recovered from the water, then the 25/5/23.
with the main passage leading to survivor would be guilty of murder The number of passengers the central vent, will form on the and not after. The child in this was not filled in by me as I left sides of the mound or mountaincase was still-living-even-at-the that to the compradore, going. Sometimes the old crater will hospital and after it had gone to his ashore to enter the ship at the
cease to grow in consequence of mother when death took place and Harbour Office.
the blocking, of its central vent the father was not in custody of it As a result of replies made by and the formation of one or more united support for the reprieve of | ́ 1 dpnéal) toy the Public for their Captain Watson to questions from subsidiary vents, the activity of the Bench, Commander Beckwith which may blast away or smother the condemned man, for the made some strong comment as to the cup-like edge of the first consideration of the Governor in
Councils the manner in which the s.s. | crater.
Yours etc., "Gorilstan," had been run.
After telling Captain Watson Such a history has been that of
"SUPPORTER", that it was not the place of the Vesuvius. In gedigic ages-perhaps
Hongkong, June 20. Harbour Department to gather in some thousands of centuries ago formation as Mr. Rocha had been Vesuvius was probably a perfect. forced to do in the case of counting cone some 7,000ft, high, rising by the Chinese passengers, Com a characteristically accelerated up mander Beckwith added: "There growth from a circle of ten miles is too much of this leaving matters
· to the compradore. ".
**
Vestrvini.
Mr. Oswald, coroner, held an inquest on Misa. Bery! Western, daughter of Colonel John Sutton
or more in diameter to its delicate Western. Evidence showed that central peak, hollowed out at the the young lady had taken her life summit by a small crater a'couple with an automatic pistol, near the of hundred yards across. Is anniversary of the loss of her eruptions at that time were neither fiancé, a young naval officer, who excessive nor violent. The came was killed in the disaster to Sab a period of greatly increased marine H 42 off Gibraltar, onergy-the steam-jet blew with such violence that it shattered and dispersed the cone, lowering the Comman-mountain to 3,700ft. in height,
In fairness to Captain Watson It should be mentioned that a repre- sentative of the Charterers was on board the vessel and, for the first nine months that Captain Watson was in command, a European purser had been carried. THE FINDING,
In giving judgment,
der Beckwith said:
sy
their fluid state, and in their pro- truncating it and Jeaving a gress, overwhelmed numerous
I dismiss the 2nd. charge as I portionately widened crater of a vineyards. In 1811, loud detona
consider the telegram sent by the charterers to yon at Singapore mis- leading to you. It is also untrue as no such permission had been given officially ANNA
mile and a half in diameter And tions from the great crater, gave then the mountain reposed for intimation that a column of lava bad long centuries
Etna.
ascended to near the gummit of the mountain. The was followed by „This volcano is 10,874 feet above a violent shock, when a stream of fine you $25 on the first charges clével! The auterior of the crater, lava broke out from the side of the for not making it your business to incrusted with various coloured cone, at no great distance from its see that the necessary report korupcencesuf ammopia, sulphid, apex; other openings succeeded required by the Harbour Office and martial vitriolic salts, to the lower and lower down, but in the was correctly, filled up
Moja danth of about 100 yards. The paipe line, giving rise to the belief- De bottom of the crafer is plain and that the pressure and Intense heat Mr. H. Groom Johnson, whose tolerably hard @ „Hitherto 60 enme, of the Internal colums of lava had estate has been proved at £14,128, Bogs of Etna have bich rec wrote in his will: "Bearing in in history. Among the mind the words used by me with markable oner of later".
all my worldly goods I thee,endów. town?! 1222391171819
when on Sept. 29, 1885, I marled: The cruption of 179.
I now redeem that pledge and 13 WES
give whatsoever and wheresoever, lava
to which may be entitled to my
dear wife
reitinthe mountains, rom, top
An opinion that
rerü is not justifled by terrible, events. The
based on the fact that the anG beds of lava are of greater ma fitudo, and also the masse basalt, than before.
of
as
CURING RHEUMATICS.
FOUND.
cases...
14 pieces of clothing, a cloth, a towel, a wrapper, a leather suit NEW YORK, June 19.0 and $73.50 is money (2) on The New York University Medio the same date being in possession al College announces the discovery of one revolver, 14 rounds of am- a successful anti-rheumaticnition and 5 empty cartridge serum consisting of streptococcus Before. the Attorney-General viridine.
opened the case for the Crown, Counsel for the defendant raised the question as to the legality of the present proceedings Mr. Joakin argued that as the prisoner had been acquitted on the charge of murder, he could hot legally be arraigned on a lesser charge in Connection with the same crime.
PLAGUE.
CARRIED BY SIBERIAN
MARMOTS.
Shanghai, June 20. Manchurian Plague Bureau, claims Dr. Wa Lien-teh, head of the to have discovered that pneumonic plague is carried by Siberian marmots in Manchuria. --Reuter.
SOVIET RUSSIA,
JAPAN APPOINTS
DELEGATE.
Tokyo, June 19. The Cabinet to-day decided to appoint Mr. Kawakami, former Minister to Warsaw, the repre sentative to negotiate with M. Joffe, the Soviet envoy.Reuter
CHINA AND RUSSIA.
DR. C. T. WANG DISGRUNTLED.
PEKING, June 19,
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support of his argument; but the quoted various authorities in Fulene Judge ruled against him, saying that the present trial was entirely separate from the previous one though the evidence for the Crown might proceed along similar fines.
The Jurors were Mesara, H. L. Edwin, A. A. Tavares, D. Mc Kenzie, AE Ablong, M. E. Meunier, G. Mc Leod and J. D. Kinnaird
The evidence produced - wÁN practically the same as that given at the former trial, at
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