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RIOTS TRIAL.
CHINESE PHYSICIAN'S EVIDENCE.
TRUTH AT LAST.
Students Not Shot
In The
Back.
During the Mixed Court trial of alleged rioters in Shanghai a Chinese physician gave evidence that the students were not shot, in the back.
"Shanghai.
A Chinese physician's testi- mony that the student rioters kill ed at the Louza station on May 30 were not shot in the back, and the
tions to the Louza police station.
I rather feared what would take place, and suddenly heard the shooting.
The police seemed to
LONG HOURS.
Osaka and Bombay Conditions.
INDIA'S LEAD.
NO NIGHT WORK FOR OHILDREN.
BANDIT'S ORDEAL.
ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE: PRISONER'S STATEMENT.
"A Robber And a Thief But No Murderer."
Admitting that he is "a robber, a thief and a criminal," America's "Dick Turpin" stoutly denies that he is also a murderer.
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· America's master-criminal, thief?and-a' criminal I am," said (Reuter's Service,)
Gerald Chapman, will learn soon Chapman smilingly, "but no mur- whether he is to be hanged for derer." When the police officer the murder of a Connecticut was shot down, he added he was London, June 15. In the House of Commons, reply-policeman or spend the rest of his miles away from New York, and be inside the entrance, and aping to Mr. J. S. Wardlaw Milne life in prison in expiation of the he. produced witnesses to sub- admission of a missionary who peared to come out to meet the (Conservative) with regard to con many daring highway robberies stantiate his alibi. The presence ditions of labour in Japanese cotton which have made his name a of his expensive motor-car near saw the shooting that under the throng."
Asked what would have hap-mills at Osaka compared with mills household word in New York, the scene of the tragedy he ex- circumstanees the police action.
out-pened if the police had not then at Bombay, Lord Winterton, Under and earned him the soubriquet, of plained by the fact that his asso- was inevitable, were the. standing incidents in the hearing opened fire the witness replied: Secretary of State for India, said the "Dick Turpin of America."ciates used it in his absence, and week Chapman, calm, the burglar's. tools and nitro- 19
"I am used to Chinese crowds; he liad been informed that the students charged with participation in the riots in and at first this one appeared to legal maximum working hours the International Mixed. Court be simply the grinning look under the Japanese fuctory act before Mr. Jacobs, American sees. They appeared to be a lot were twelve & day but this need of boys who never expected to run not be strictly adhered to in muto Assessor; and Magistrate Kwan.
Forty six students were into so serious a matter. I think factories employing only scheduled to appear, but 27 for- the students started out without operatives over fifteen years of feited bail ranging from $10 to ever dreaming of so serious anagu. Women usually worked be- ending. If the police had tween 10 and 12 hours a day and $100.
hesitated a moment they would were employed at night. have been trampled down un- questionably.
Dr, O. Fischer watched the fase on hehalf of the Chinese Commissioner of Foreign Affairs. Mr. E. T. Maitland, police prose- cutor, conducted. the case against the accused, one of whom was de- fended by the Chinese lawyer, Mr. Ho Fei. In the afternoon Dr. H. C. Mei was called in to defend some of the students.
Cross-examined by the Chinese lawyer as to what nationality he was the witness replied that he was born in England, but that in Szechwan he was called a China- man. After the shooting oc- curred he rendered assistance to the wounded. The surging mass were yelling so much that he only heard the sound of the shots.
Witness in answer to a ques- tion put to him replied by asking the Chinese lawyer if he realised what the students were doing at the time when "they were yelling and screaming and rushing at the police station from three direc- tions. in a mixed mob."
The evidence was most import- ant in correcting statements which have been made repeatedly not only by agitators-but even by the Peking Government in notes directed to the Legations.
Dr. H. C. Chen, a Chinese physician attached to the Woo- sung Road police hospital, con- tradicted the unsupported state ments which have been circulated
Asked if he would have shot. throughout China and in foreign!. countries that the students were he replied to the Magistrate that shot in the back. Dr. Chen he would have hated to as a mis- examined seven of the slain men sionary, but that as an officer of when they were brought into the the law there was no option. If "hospital after the riots of Satur. it had been a foreign crowd at
day and Monday.
Dr. Chen said one of the victims was wounded in the left scapule, the second in the chest, a third in; the right side, a fourth in the right neck, fifth in the
EL shoulder, a sixth in the chest and left shoulder-blade. and the seventh in the left eye and skull, The Chinese physician added that any wounds which might have been received in the backs of other wounded men might easily have been received while turning around to beckon the rioters to
come on.
Mr. Harry Westridge, a Sze- chwan missionary attached to the China Inland Mission, who has lived for 15 years in China, in giving the evidence, upheld the nécessity of the shooting. Near the Town Hall the mob were striking the foreign police with their fists, and witness particu larly noticed how forbearing the police were in endeavouring to maintain order. When they were being overwhelmed and had to - protect their lives he saw
Sikir policeman draw his baton, while the foreign officers drew their canes.
one
home we would have got the same. I believe that the students were looking for trouble, and not the police."
Witness told the court that some of the older students he saw in the street appeared" to be the leaders, and that one man who ran along the side streets shout ing and waving a flag appeared to be acting as a warner and a collector of the crowd.
Inspector Everson then elabor- ated the evidence he gave at the inquest, describing how the mob had "made a blind rush at the gates."
When the mob were within six feet of the police he gave the order to fire. The crowd in the opinion of the witness were by no means composed all of students, and by the look of most of them they appeared to be loafers.
The afternoon session was oc- cupied until 6.15 in hearing the evidence of the other foreign police who drove the crowd back to Wing On's and were then attacked near the Town Hall. was adjourned, bail The case being granted to all the accused.
The amendment act of 1921 re- ducing the legal maximum for women to eleven hours daily and prohibiting night work of women was not being enforced at present.
The legal maxima in Tadin were sixty hours a week, eleven daily
Night for adults and six daily for children under fifteen years of age. work for women was prohibited."
RAILWAY MAGNATE.
LOSS TO THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
(Reuter's American Service.)
NEW YORK, June 15. The death has occurred of Mr.
of the Southern Pacific Railroad Julius Kruttschnitt, ex-Chairman
Company.
GERALD CHAPMAN UNDER
Mr. Krutischnitt, who was born in New Orleans in 1854, was con nected with railways all his life, being resident engineer in charge of construction as far back as 1878 and rising to be General Manager of the Southern Pacific Company's Atlantic lines in 1885, ultimately becoming director and chairman of the whole concern. He was also a watchfully alert, and constantly director of the Western Union whispering advice to his counsel,
concerns.] Telegraph Company and similar has been facing a jury of hard- headed farmers in the Court House at Hartford, Connecticut, A large force of police has been necessary to repel hundreds of men and women who fought to get into the court. "A robber, a
MEXICO'S DIGNITY
(Reuter's American Service.).
Washington, June 15. Although the statement of Presi- dent. Calles, like that of Mr. kellogg, was directed to the Press and the staternents' were therefore not an exchange between the two governments, some officials astrashed at Mr. Calles using the words
are
GULF OF YALU.
APPROACH TO YALU RIVER.
TALUTAO ISLAND-LIGHT
ESTABLISHED.
Notice is given that the light on Talutao Island, approach to te Valu River, was exhibited for the first time, at sunset on June 4,
1925.
"insults" and "threats against the sovereignty of Mexico," although it is recalled that Mr. Kellogg's statement was uncom monly blunt. Behind Mr. Kellogg's statement lies a wealth of informa tion in regard to the conduct of "I noticed, continued Mr.
The light-tower, which is round,. Mexican affairs, including the built of steel, and painted white, Wesinidge, "that when the police had their backs turned to any of London, June 15-The conseizure of American property by is situated on the small island at
anticipations of the selled agrarians. the attackers the mob seemed to durable.
Crowds Budget duty aro reflected in the gather more courage. from the side street began to flow indo returns for last month, the into Nanking Road. The side of imports of silk goods totalling the tram car held up in the fourteen million yards, as vicinity assisted the police in their manoeuvres to make a more hurried return to the station. The crowd ran on the other side of the
tram in an endeavour to intercept the police, and were by this time rushing forward from all direc-
one.--Reuter.
con:
the castern end of Talutao Island, and is 28 feet in height from base to lantern vane.
a
The illuminating apparatus. is London, June 15.-The sugges Dioptric, of the Fourth Order, and trasted with eight and a half ton of a conference with the Peking the character of the light is group- showing two white illious for April Goods" noder overnment and representatives of flashing. the category of the McKenna duties, the provinces interested in foreign lightning flashes every 10 seconds. totalled, trade, is made by Sir Jplan Jordan The light is elevated 248, féet excluding motor cars,
1,000,000, compared with £586,-in a letter to the Times," wherein above high water and should be
he cites past examples of successful visible, in clear weather at Anglo-Chinese co-operation as an distance of 22 nautical miles. indication of the prospects of re- Approximate position --
Latitude 39° 44′ 40′′ N. Brussels, Juno 15.In an effort conciling conflicting interests and
Longitude 123° 44′ 50′′ E. to solve the crisis which has declaims.--Renter.
British Admiralty Chart No. 1256. Au American from Texas was 'Gool
Geneva, June 15.--General prived the country of a Cubities for Habibullah, the Persian delegate, early three months, the King Tondon, June 15,-The proceeds withdrew from the anas conference summoned a conference of the of the sale of Duiilop debentures asked by an English sportsuan, Is owing to the adoption of articles Catholic leaders Vaudevyvere, the, have been principally devoted to dealing with the supervision of the Socialist Vandervelde and the redeeming higher interest-bearing there good shooting here?"
shooting? You bet! I've seen six maturing, shortly Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman Liberal Masson. He urged the debentures which Persia considers derogatory subordination of party consider holders of which have first option men shot in the saloon in one after- to her sovereign rights and dignity. tions to the need of forming on the new issue.-Reuter.
A schoolmaster picked up u pouny --Reuter.
stable government.--Reuter.
in the playground. Later, when all the scholars had assembled, lie asked: "Has any boy lost a : penng?"
After a short pause a small boy held up his hand.
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|| MORE MAYA RUINS FOUND Explora tions on the site of the ancient city of Comalcalco in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, have disclosed ruins of Maya Indian temples, pyramids effigies, and inscriptions that rank the city among the greatest of the old Maya empire.
GTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
JACKIE COOGAN AS STAR ULOWN
1
"As the hero of a cireus, Jackie Coogan, a bareback riding down, is the envy of all small boys this week in his picture, Circus Days," show. ing for last time to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
Incidentally, Jackie got just as much fin out of his role as any real boy, given a similar opportunity, might be expected to enjoy.
Ho has the role of Toby Tyler, who runs away from the farm of an overbearing uncle and obtains a job" as a circus penant salesman.
Toby's big chance comes wher Tounnett, tiny equestrianne stor. sprains her ankle. Ha substitutes för her. To the surprise of every; one, including himself, he makes n great hit, though not in the way he meant.
Ta bocomes the star clown of the show, his fortune is made, and little. Jeannette looks “upou ndiniring eyes, turvate
with
noon..
"Please, sir, I did,'
Ali, Tom Jones; and where did you lose it?"
"Please, sir, where you found
it !
OPTICAL ILLUSION.
New York Wortil; U.S.A..
glycerine found by the police- were common property and could not be laid specially at his door. Chapman's big card. played with the finesse of a master-gambler, was candour, and he emphasised that he had become so renowned owing to his various exploits that hundreds of crimes had been un- The justly attributed to him. Public Prosecutor, Mr. Hugh Afcorn, attacked Chapman mérci- lessly in long hours of cross- .witness examination, but the
answered all questions with an educated drawl and an easy smile. He told a fascinating tale of rob- beries, rum-running, shootings, 8 escapes from prison, the conver- sion of stolen goods, and life in the underworld generally, but denied the murder with the same apparent earnestness and frank- ness with which he admitted the other crimes.
A ONE-MAN ARCADIA.
FAIRY GODFATHER OF SUSSEX VILLAGE.
Telscombe, the capital village of the wild" and rolling downs, owes Its happiness, its prosperity and its very isolated beauty to the efforts of one man. It is, indeed, the
One-Man Arcadia.
Mr. Ambrose Gerham, bachelor, gentleman farmer, keen sportsman, rider to hounds and, above all, lover of children, is the embodi ment of the fairly godfather and the hall-fellow well-mct. Nothing happens in Telscombe unless Mr. Gorhamn is behind it. Few people come to Telscombe who are not made welcome by Mr. Gorham,
Mr. Gorham renovates the church; Mr. Gorham educates the the children; Mr. Gorham has
the children taught to dance beautiful measures of the country. side; Mr. Gorham has the hedges trimmed the fences painted white, the cottages kept in fepair, the labes kept sound, and neat; Mr.. Gorham employs practically the entire male population of the little village, and there is a wonderful content existing,
But his most notable achieves when he ment, surely, decided to preserve Telscombe just as it is a typical village of the Downs, set deep between the wind swept hills, its houses and cottages clustered about the 12th century church. A
was
There is no shop in Telscombe, but the village is well served. There is no policeman, there is no public house, though the institute possesses a licence; there are no lunatics or paupera. ¿
Such is the pride of Mr. Gorham in these facts that some years ago he had a Christmas card designed setting forth the village virtues,
Telscombe is a good place to live in. Mr. Gotham has made it his hobby, and he has achieved the making people happy.
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