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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1924.
INQUESTS.
INDIAN CONSTABLE FOUND DROWNED,
JURY'S SEVERE CENSURE
At the Central Magistracy yesterday. Mr. B. E. Lindsell (Coroner) and the following jury: Mr. L. A. Tobias, Mr. M. E. "Melinier and Mr. R. L. D. Naronha held enquiries into the death of Wong Wong and Akbar Khan..
In the first case a verdict of death from "natural causes" was -returned after medical evidence
had been given.
The second enquiry concerned. the denth, on July 26, of Akbar Khan, an Indian constable employ- ed on special guard duty on the 3.8. "On Lee.".
Mr. Lindscil informed the jury .that it appeared that on that date, the deceased and. some of his comrades bathed from R sampan, and
Akbar that Khan who jumped into the sea, was caught by the tide and drowned. The necessity for the enquiry arose because no efforts seemed to have been made by the personnel of the "On, Lee" towards
rescue.
Lieut. Comdr. F. C. Hunot, RN.,
at present acting Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria-Morty-
LAWN BOWLS;
THE INTERPORTS.
SHANGHAI FIXTURES.
de
The Hongkong Interport tenra is. to arrive in Shanghai on: September 1, and the team from Hankow on the 3rd, All possible arrangements are being made by the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Associa tion to entertain the visitors during their stay. The programme follows:
[BONOKONG MATCHES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHINA'S WARS.
FIGHTING POSSIBLE NEAR SHANGHAI.
MUTINY AT WOOSUNG.
(Reuter's Service.)
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
MIRACLE OF BEAUTY, London, July 14.-Everybody is talking about-the-new Liverpool Cathedral, to be consecrated on July 19, in the presence of the King and Queen and a dignified assembly of some half a hundred archbishops and bishops.
This monumental piece of art and of religious faith was designed by a Mr. Gilea youth of twenty-oue. Gilbert Scott, R.A., was no olther than that when in a London architect's office. he conceived the ambitious idea of entering the com- petition, in 1901, for a design for It the new Liverpool Cathedral. was a prize the nation's cleverest architects were after.
SHANGHAI, August 27. It is reported that General Lu's soldiers at Woosung mutinied to day, declaring they did not want to fight. It is also reported that mutiny has broken out at Wusth, but it is not possible to confirm these and other numerous rumours Tuesday September 2, ♥. at present afloat. It is understood Shanghai Lawn Bowls Chub.
Wednesday, September 8, Inter-that Chik Sten-yuan's troops are concentrating at Iseng near Wush port game against Shanghai.
and that Lu Yung-hslang's troops. Yong-are concentrating at Changhing on The firm which employed him
the other side of the Taihu lake.
were competitors. Young Scott, Tuchun Chi Haleh-yuan controls saying nothing to anybody, worked the Nanking Shanghal line to within forty miles from Shanghal. He rose carly in the morning and, out his designs in his spare time. Nevertheless, one ordinary pasubsorbed in his task, was perhaps senger train from Nanking got on occasion late at the office." through to-day and European
GREATEST GOTHIC BUILDING, officials are endeavouring fo
And he was successful. arrange to get some trains through judges, who were the late Mr..
but in each direction daily; G. F. Bodley, RA, and Mr. nothing is guaranteed, everything Norman Shaw, R.A. declared that depending upon military, dever. Scott's plans were original and topments.
monumental in conception, in- formed with close acquaintance of detail, and feasible of execution.
Thursday, September 4. v. szepoo Lawn Bowls Club.
Saturday, September 6. Inter- port. Hongkong v. Hankow..
Monday, September 8, v. Junior Golf Club.
HANKOW MATCHEN,
Thursday, September 4... Shanghai Recreation Club..
Friday, September 5. Interport, Hankow v. Shanghai to be played on the Recreation Club's green.
Saturday, September. 6. Inter pt. Hankow, v. Hongkong, to be played on the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club green..
Monday, September 8, v. Yang- 1szepon L. B, C,
Tuesday, September 9, v. Shang-
ary, testified that on July 29 huhai L.B.C. examined the dead body of an Wednesday, September 19, v. Indian male which was identified,
Janior Golf Club!
Two of the interport games,
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This young man will have had the honour of treating the greatest. modern Gothic building in the world. It is singular coincidence that another young man also created in Liverpool what Mr. in his presence as that of Akbar |
Norman Show declared to be the Khan. It was in an advanced Hankow v Hongkong and Shang.. state of decomposition, which hai v. Hongkong will be played Mr. Chicherin has been in greatest modern classical building made diagnosis of the cause of on the Bowls Club-green.terviewed-in-regard-to-Russian in-urope, St. George's Hall The "death difficult. Witness was, and that between Shanghai and claims for compensation for architect of that building, Harvey Injury and loss of Lonsdale Elmes, was only twenty- however, of opinion that death. Hankow will be played at the personal was due to drowning.
Recreation Club. All other property as a result of "foreign three when in 1835 he won; among
in Russia. He eighty-six competitors, the award Gothic, but an original adaptation Sergt. H. W. Fraser, in the wit-matches will be played on the intervention" ness-box, said that on July 28 he grond of the Club the visitors are emphasised the importance of such for the plans of St. George's Hall. of pure Gothic to the needs and claims in any future negotiations Elmnes, unhappily, died before he the temperament of the twentieth was in charge of the police guardinerting. on the s.. "Tai Lee;" which had
saw the completion of the building In the match with Hongkong, of the Soviet with Britain or other
century. In arrived at Pakkai, on the West the following players have been foreign powers, which participated that gave him fame,
for its consequences. River, from Hongkong. Some selected to represent Shanghai- Gustoms officers called him to a. MeMurdo (skip), C. W. Porter, wharf where he saw, in the water, A. McAllister and S. C. Young. the body of an Indian dressed in Reserves: J. Robertson and J. khaki shorts, Witness had the Tomlinson. body taken on board the "Tal
For the Haukow match. Shang- hui will be represented by E. Č
HONGKONG TEAM.
The following will represent Hongkong:
Lec. and it was brought to Hong-Aitkenhead, G. L. Campbell, G. kong on July 29.
B. Stormes, and A. McGregor. Sergt. D. Reid, officer-in-chief Reserves: A. A. Malcolm and H. of the police guard of the "On Vitch. Lee," giving evidence, stated that on July 26, the vessel was lying in the stream at Pakkai. There was no rule preventing the guards from going for a swim when off duty. A number of Indians came up to witness and reported that Akbar Khan had disappeared in the river. Witness went along the bank, but he understood that the tragedy had occurred half an hour. earlier, so nothing more could be done.
An Indian constable gave evi- dence as to having joined another constable, and the deceased in swimming from a sampan which was lying alongside the "On Log." As always, there was a strong current running. Deceased sud- denly disappeared when he was about 20 yards away from wit- ness. Witness did not go to his assistance or to look for him, being too tired at the time to go far from the ship. He and the other constable returned to the "On Lee," changed their wet
clothes for dry ones, and then looked from the shore.
Severe Censures.
W. Wotherspoon (Trikoo R.C.) A. S. Mill (Civil Service 0.0.) J. Clark (Police R.C.)
. Atkinson (Kowloon D.R.C.) A. Gourlay (Kowloon D. R.C.) U. Gmar (Indian R. C Reserve: J. Maclachlan (Taikoo
R.C.)
1.
-TENNIS LEAGUE.
K.C.C. DEFEATED.
The U.S.R.C. met the K.C.C. in the re-play for the Tennis League Championship yesterday afternoon and beat them by 56 gaines to 43.
The match, in accordance with unangements, was played on the Hongkong Cricket Club ground and: attracted a fair number of specta-· for.
For the victorious ten, Col Russell Brown and Capt. Dods played very fine tennis, and out of the 33 games they secured 24.
Mr. Lindsell, So you thought Commander Grace and Lieut.- more of changing your clothes Commander Worthington secured than you did of your dying or 16 out of 33 and Col. Montague possibly dead companion ?-We Bates, partnered by Major Hatters- ley Smith, also secured the game did look from the bank.
number,
For the K.C.C. Hyde and Fincher played well and came off
REPARATIONS
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, August 27. It is stated that the Reparations Commission has invited the New
Mr. Scott's grandfather, Sir
The Seven Lamps of Gilbert Scott, was styled "the Architecture" Ruskin 'asserted that destroyer of churches" by those the greatest glory of a building is who disliked his work as a "re-mot in, its stonce, but in the. storer." The architect of the Liverpool_Catherbal is being acclaimed as the creator of a new Gothic Renaissance.
PERFECT WONK..
golden stain of time, in the life which it achieves when it has been hallowed by the deeds of men, and its pillars rise out of the shadows of suffering and death.
THE GOLDEN BOOK.
York lawyer Seymour Lewis to
The cathedral which this brilliant young architect has planned is the accept the appointment of per-only great Anglican cathedral to be manent Agent General for Re-built in England for seven conturies
A new cathedral can hardly parations. Mr. Lewis was formerly for Truro is small and West claim this quality, and yet the Under Secretary to the Treasury inster is Roman Catholic)." It builling at Liverpool has already | at Washington during the Wilson
will be inferior in size to only two gathered a share of mentories and and Harding administrations.
Its north-east tran- cathedrals in Europe--St. Peter's traditions. Meanwhile, Mr. Owen Young acts as Agent-General and hopes to have the office machinery working
within three months.
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at Ronte, and the Cathedral of Hepte, for example, is a memoriul Seville. "It is to be half as large of the Great War, and on ogain, as York Minster or St, cenotaph enclosed in glass is Paul's, Qur largest English Golden Book of the dead that might ☀ cathedrals.
have been illuminated by the monka Internally the cathedral is a of old, so finely is it wrought, con- miracle of beauty. The fabric as staining the names of 40,000 mea whole night have been more con of the Liverpool Diocese who fell plete, and the present interior less in the tragic conflict, that wasted satisfying, had not the committee Europe. adopted the policy of spending their available money on making each In the Scottish League, the section perfect, with all its equip Rangers defeated Queen's Purkment, furnishings, decorations and by 3 goals to 1.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, August 27.
WHY BACKS ACHE. The Kidneys Beldom to Blama
The great window behind the choir, one of the largest in the world, for it is seventy-six feet in height and forty-four feet wide, directly associates the cathedral with Liverpool's chief industry.” “A worthy memorial to a great ship- owner, the late Mr. Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line.
Most of the windows, too, are! memorials great men and women of history. One of these is dedicated to a pour woman named carvinge, rather than on pushing on Kitty Wilkinson, Catherine of with the outward walls. An op Liverpool," who, in the early part posite method was adopted" with of the nineteenth century, nursed Westminster Cathedral, in the the people through a cholera building of which the external epidemic. No saint botter deserved completion was made the first con- a window in a cathedral. Her sideration. At Liverpool the practical Christianity began the building, up to date, comprising establishment of public baths and the choir, two transepte, chapter wash-houses, and Liverpool's early house (given by the Freemasons), and efficient system of these won choir aisles, vestries and lady due to her initiative. chapel and a portion of the great central space above which the tower is to be erected, is finished.
One of the main purposes of the architect in designing the building has been the creation of a Gothic cathedral equal in beauty to any of Mr. Lindsell: After you had
the older cathedrals, but meeting changed your clothes.
The Trouble Due to Blood Impurities. the needs of a population' which has At this point the witness re-
There is more nonsense talked about multiplied many times since they WINDOWS OF MEMORY. turned a sequence of conflicting successful with 21 games out of 33 backache than any other trouble. Home were built. For that reason it will Here also is a window to Mary answers, but eventually asserted whilst Green and Lay obtained 17 people bave been frightened into the that he got on the sampan to go out of 33. The weak spot in the belief that svory backachu moans dedly when completed accommodate a Rogers, heroine of the wreck of the and change his clothes, fully con team was the play of Krebs and kidney trouble 4s a matter of medical congregation of 8,000 people on Channel steamer "Stella, which
The choir foundered off the Casqueta in 1809;| vinced that his comrade was dead, Abraham, who only managed to fact not one backache is twenty te ceremoniat occasions.
snything to do with the Kidneys. Most and transepts now ready will seat and another to Grace Darling, The Chinese "boy" of the Chief Recture five games.
backaches, some from sheer weskaars 1,200. For small services the lady Elizabeth Fry, the prisoners Officer of the "On Lee," gave evi-33 game, the U.B.R.C. were 3 seed something to improve your
At the end of the first series of and kidney drugs can't help that Yon chapel, which was the first portion friend Josephins Butler: Char-
blood dence, telling how he went to his games up; this advantage they in- and build you up, and tast is exactly of the building to be built, has for lotte de la Tremville, that Countess master and said "Indian man o creased to ten games at the end of what Dr. Williams Pink Pills will do some time been in regular use of Derby who defended Lathom swim, full down." A number of the second series, and finally they rheumatism; some are the symptoms teristic of the cathedral, which in War: Mrs. Gladstone: Christin's Some back ches are really muscular Solidity is the prevailing charac House heroically during the Civil divergent answers made by the came out victorious by 13 games. of such ailments se influenza, indigestion, built of native red sandstone. It Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Brown- -witness gave rise to an exclama"!
The U.S.R.C. have now to meet constipation and Iver troncla. In gives the impression that every. ing; Annie Clough, sister of a tion from Mr. Lindsell to the jury, the Indians and the winners of this wins most back obey the blood thing has been worked out of one Inverpool poet and the first Prin- "Gentlemen, this witness is lying match will be the champions of thews or irregularity of the blood
Mr. FE. A. Martin, Chief Art League.
supply. To get rid of the trouble take titanic block of stone. There is cipal of Newnham--the memorial Officer on the s.s. "On Lee," stated The detailed results were satonic like Dr. Willame Pink Fills to none of the restlessness shown in windows to these all bring to the enrich the blood and bring strength to in evidence that as soon as he follows:-
aching banks and weak nerven In De many Gothic churches in which new cathedral that hallowed in- heard of the loss of an Indian, he Montagne Bales and Hattersley Williams' Pink Pills you are trying so flying buttresses and all sorts of fluence of the older buildings which reported to the captain, who Staith lost to Green and Lay, 5-8: new unproven remedy, but one which Pupports and ornaments seem to be have long been washed by passing decided that nothing could be lost to Fincher and Hyde. 2-8 has enjoyed world-wide publlo confidence stuck on. Even the magnificent waves of generations of humanity.
* The Liverpool, Cathedral even in} done so long after the fatality. hent Krabu and Abraham, 9.2.over five-and-thirty years. You inreredos is carved out of warm red
get them from chemists everywhere, Witness admitted that a boat. Grace and Worthington lost to or post free, $1.00 per bottle, On/ for sandstone, lined with gilding, and is its unfinished state importe to the could have been lowered, but re-Green and Lay, 4-7: lost to Fincher boities, from the Wiliams Medicine bas-reliefs in this, by the way, are to that inspired by the surprise apart of the fabric. The centrel beholder same great emotion similar marked that there was no one to and Hyde, 3-8: beat Krebs and Co, o Klanges Road, Bhanghalan
representations of the Crucifixion view of a mountain whose crown of do it. The crew had gone ashore Abraham, 9-2.
and the Last Supper, for ten,
Answering the Captain Super intendent of Police, who watched the enquiry for the police, witness denied, that an Indian policeman reported the fatality to him, or
Bussell Brown and Döds best Green and Lay: 7-4; beat Fincher and Hyde, 7-4; bent Krebs and Abraham, 10-1.2.0/
pointed out the spot where deceas drowning," and added the follow
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The Captain Superintendent of Police, addressing the Coroner censure should be given asked that the facts might be Indian police constables on board, placed before the Harb
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'and made no attempt to save him,
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The jury returned a verdict of 20 130
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