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DEFENCE IN POSSESSION CASER
FOR TOOTHACHET
has been formally. notified of the
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the
inch. in length.
Mr. Selwyn Peabody, employed A remarkable Improvement in as a clerk by a Johannesburg. firm,type of small arme ammunition has At the continued hearing yes existence of a considerable fortune been made with the development terday of charges of possession left him by a great-unclo M of a new 30-calibre bullet which of explosives brought against Mohammed Rajah Salleh, a clerk Canber Penbody, Inte of Leyte, in wil be adopted by the United unplayed in the Ordnance Depart
the Philippines.
States Army as the now service The ment, it was
fortune was..it seems, butlet. mentioned that
The outstanding features amongst the chemicals found on ault of trade with the Cocoa in maximum range from 8,500 to amassed many years ago as the re- of the now bullet are the increase him was a bottle of chloroform.
The absence of three bottles of Oconn groups (as well as China sen of fire.
Keeling atoll and other Indian 5500 yards and increasd accuracy chloroform from the China Distrade)." pensary as to the whereabouts of
According to information obtain which no definite information could Peabody will probably inherit a bullet, when loaded in the case, The amount which Mr.Selwyned at the War Department, the new be given when the police made on£15,000, and he proposes to leave has almost the same appearance, guiries, was also referred to in the within the next few weeks for as the medel now in use course of the case:
The "Mr. X." whose name
Singapore and Leyte, and after service, except as regards that mentioned at the last hearing vaal Sunday Times."
waswanda for London" says the "Trans-colour of the metal jacket which being the man whose information
is composed of 80 per cent. copper and preliminary negotiations had Peabody is that a fortnight ago he cupro-nicke
The story related by Mr. Selwyn and 10 per cent, tin in place of the led to the defendant's arrest was
Jacket stated at yesterday's hearing to be solicitors that he had been
was notified by a Arm of London hitherto.
employed
breeding. Campaigns of com-
ba- w police informer.
Examination of the uncovered munity education on vaccinationsiderable part in the supposed ceed to Leyte to view and deal with vice, and that it has a mpered base Another man who played a con that he would either have to pro- the one at present used in the sox queathed a considerable sum; and bullet reveals that it is longer than benefits and care of food, the lat- negotiations for the purchase of certain Axed property in the neigh-one-quarter, of un fer with particular reference. to explosives gave evidence yesterday bourhood (as well as to comply This tapering base is accountable avoiding typhold, have been stating that he was represented with details of the will), or ha for a greater range: The weight. waged' with a degree of success strike picket at Shumchun.
to the defendant aa the chief
would have to delegate these under of the new bullets increased and experiments carried out with There was considerable differ
takings to a legal representative to 172: grains; the weight of the a view to bringing preventive ence between the version of wit great-unelo left London (which he
Mr. Peabody states that his old ballet la 150 grains. measures up to date.
The new bullet. is known as the communication with other ports how the talk about "poison water worked his passage on a barque degree indicates the angle. of the "
(solicitor for the defence) as to
The China., He had been robbed of slope of the base, an important Mr. Arcuit put it to considerable gum when a young witness that he told the defendant bank official engaged in a transfer innovation. The bullet is fred at he had toothache and that the of cash from a branch office to the old model by the use of a more defendant replied that he had elty. and the matter reflected on
the same muzzle velocity as the formula which the chemist had him to the extent that he resigned highly developed burning powder. prepared for him for toothache.
his position: only to find that he The price charred for the bottle could not secure another
Travels Close to Ground Lindselt the Magistrate, this, have him was drawn attention to by Mr rankled, and greatly embittered as the 1919 fat base bullet" was This The present service bullet, known tng been $600 It was rather a
selected from among millions of large amount, the Magistrate com eventually entered into substantial during the World War. The new He thereupon went to sea, and rounds of ammunition produced mented.
contract with one of the Ross's bullet. derives. Its increased super- fendant was supposed to be some many years
Mr. Arcul replied that de descendants of the old sailor who iority through minor technical thing of an expert in these things settled
ago discovered and changes, though it is of the same and the mixture required consider able skill to prepare:
The accuracy of fire of the new a cable relay station, end it was bullet is said to be as great ac ́a analyst, gave evidence of the Emden battle was fought in the old bullet is at a distance of 500 Mr, E. R. Dovey, the Government among them that the Sydney range of 1,000 yards as that of the nature of the liquids and powders late war. which had been found Referring Having amassed a considerable by authorities as particularly valu- yards. The new bullet is regarded tos one bottle he said it contained sum, Mr. Canham Peabody made *able for rifte and for long range 15 ozs of pure chloroform, coming number of judicious dil and rail machine gun barrages, because it macy Ordinance.
never communicated with his great creasing its effectiveness. Another contained. Flyosan (a nephew in South Africa-Indeed,
Credit for the development of small bottle two ozs. of chloroform. instances symbolic of the attitude A fourth bottle contained a mix-pened to visit Durban, and witness-
In 1913 Mr. Selwyn Peabody hap given to the Frankford Arsenal. this new type of ammunition in of many people to measures which ture of potassium chlorate and sul-ed an accident in the centre of the That plant is able to supply the may entail inconvenience but phide of arsenic. which have been framed with the
This was a highly explosive mixed down an elderly man and passed'
town. A reckless motoriat knock-new type of bullet on a quantity basla by mass production methods. ture, and could be 'exploded either on without rendering assistance. And is public interest at heart?
by a fuse or by detonation.. ItMr. Peabody helped the victim to
Constantness and that of Mr, el Arculated) some forty years ago and degree boat-tail bullet."
on health questions has been pos- sible as a result of the League of Nations' Health Bureau. Lack in some quarters of appreciation of elementary hygienic laws is perhaps the most acute difficulty with which our medical pfficers hare, had to contend and even in Garters where responsibilities of citizenship should be realised and shouldered our medical officers have not always had the support they should. To take very recent instances, it has been necessary to prosecute owners of dogs for not observing, the very necessary LOCAL MEDICAL PROGRESS. regulations: with regard
to muzzling. The result of non-
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islands are now utilised largely as
on. Cocos Island! The type...
One of the basic rules for observance is that children have under, the restrictions "of the Phar-road investments: in America, But travela closer to earth, thus in
[ successful development of a tropic community is that progressive-
been bitten and two deaths from rabies are reported from the
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health measures shall keep pace western district. Are not these innocuous quid and another he did not know of his existence.
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with the growth of demand in that respect. If in Hongkong there is not that cohesion in the departments concerned with pubic health that one would like to see, the results of the devoted it not time that the general body would probably explode if a bottle his feet and took him to his hotel forgotten the little act of kindnesя
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of citizens realised more clearly their responsibility to the com- munity in matters affecting the public health, giving considerably more assistance to that body of men who are working to the end! that tropic life may in the future be no longer regarded one whit less healthy than more temperate zones? With a record behind him of twenty-five years hard work, often in the face of apathy if not at times hostility, we feel sure that Dr. Pearse's answer to such, a question, if it were put to him, would be that, it is by such closer co-operation between the publie and medical officers that the best hope for the future lies.
LOCAL WILLS.
ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. D. K. BLAIR.
of it was dropped.
Mr. King: Have you had a mixture like this in your hands be similar to the mixture found in fore? Yes. Ita composition is bombs.
the Fern Villa...
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He made several inquiries there. done in 1913 in the Durban streets. after and learned that the injured "My great-uncle spoke to me namesake of his, indeed, he uiti his rubber interests but Enst, man, who recovered rapidly, was a then," said Mr. Peabody, "of mately established the amazing but declared that fever and shift Mr. Lindsell: The same as the coincidence that they were related, ing markets made life not worth famous race-course bomba? and that the convalescent was living. He showed me with some
Mr. King: I am not alleging actually his great-uncle!
pride, and perhaps a little bitter that this man made the race-course,
ness, the tattoo marks" made bombs.
his arms, when he was before the mast; tattooing done in the South Sens.
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"His chief quarrel with London was that, as he put it, it is inclined
that, he added, is why I went out, to kick a man when down, and
into the world.
"I bear no love for my family aald' the old man, "and I shall never Mr. Lindsell: No, of course not, go back to London.. My experi- It was stated that the mixture ences thers were awful. But you was similar to the bombs found in have been very kind to a lonely old the boarding House (mentioned in man, and I shall not forget you."" weeks ago),, Mr. Dovey adding that addresses and so on, and fually left a case at the Magistracy" some He then took various: details,
those also contained nitro-glycerine. for the East. He corresponded
In other tina and packets were with his great-nephew for a while, Mr. Peabody, who is not unduly elated at his good fortune, is un- found powdered arsenic, potas- but ultimately dropped that.
Shown three formulae, Mr. Dovey arrived of the fact that he had not private Income" sium chlorate and magnesium.
Then, a fortnight. ago, proof married, and possesses a
said they were for the preparation of Bengal lights. Questioned about the price of the chemicals Mr. Dovey said the potassium chlorate and the arsenic would pro- bably sell at about 75 cents a pound, 18. to 2a. Being the figure at Home. Forty dollars for a bottle of the
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HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP.
small
There have been many arguments "danced for three hours without mixture would give a handsome pro-about the world's greatest men stopping with the wife of his prin At. It was an artificial price, the Any good judge must put George cipal general" (this we take to be a world's record), "and never pray- mixture not being worth more than Washington high on the list. What ad, and consistently avoided parti two dollars.
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labours of our medical men yet provide a record of individual achievement of which they have reason to be proud. Progress in measures for the public health during the last quarter of a cen- tury has been considerable and no ene has been more closely asso- dated with such work than Dr. W. W. Pearse who is to-night to be the guest of past and present members of the Sanitary Board and Department and the Heads of other Departments, on the occa- sion of his approaching depar- ture after twenty-five years of directing local health measures. Hongkong, had none too good a name as regards living conditions when the position of Assistant MOH. devolved upon Dr. Pearse. Conditions had been such that only a few years previously five thousand persons died here in one, year as a result of a plague visita- tion, the housing conditions and general sanitation of the City being deplorably bad at the time of the outbreak, inviting peati-
next Tuesday.
The hearing was adjourned' until other hero is there whom we could sipating in Communion." Whereat the Sons of the Revolution were | have taken seriously after such a lence. So thorough have been the
naturally annoyed, and declared story aa that about the cherry-tree that young America ought to be measures taken in recent years
and the little hatchet and "I can't bred up to believe in "the grandeur that Hongkong has been entirely
PROPERTY AUCTION...
tella He, pa'? Even Washington of the first Frosident of the Re- free from plague since the autumn
public." has been damaged by it.. Nos. 15 and 17. Possession
A boy is, however, not of 1923 although prior to that
Street (about 1,084 square feet, natural man is apt to smile at his the greatness of Washington if he less, but more, likely to believe In time a hundred or more cases had
annual Crown rental $15) were sacred name, and use it profanely. is not also asked to believe that the occurred in the course of each Probate has also been granted sold at the China. Auction Rooms We know very wall that the hero was a pinater saint. The Year Whilst it would be taking of the will of the late Mr. Tsui yesterday after some brisk bid cherry-tree tale..is a fond thing morality of Mr. Hughes is a great a too definite view of such figures Ping-nam of the Kwong Tak ding.
vainly. Invented by the imbecility deal too moral for us. To the stern. Cheong Shipbuilding Co. who to hold that plague has perman- died in 1924. He left $498,800 went to $40,000, at which figure of the Father of his Country to tell squire of the eighteenth century for Starting at $30,000, bidding of a blographer, but the inability virtue which condemns a Virginian ently been stamped out in Hong which is divided among members Mr. Cheong Shiu became the pure a le remains one of the world's doing what all the other Virginian kong, the measures which are of his family." pal
chaser.
jeste. Why Mr. Rupert Hughes, aquires were doing then we make being taken locally to ensure solid The late Mr. John Kintrea
who is an American novelist, felt no claim. In the course of nature flooring (particularly of eating Grant, of Cragor Sanatorium,
this duty to protest against the Washington owned slaves, played Colorado houses and other places where U.S.A.; formerly of the Hong- Brigade are reminded that a pre-school-book tradition" does not He was a man, not a miracle. It Members of St. John Ambulance faith in the "spotless saint of cards, used strong drink, and swore. Springs, Colorado, food is stored), also, to eliminate kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-iminary parade will be held sppear. The little hatchet is pro- is far better, that school-books hollow walls, ceilings and rat poration, left 219,891 (personal to-morrow morning on the Sookum bably in the American school should present, the greatest of runs, have doubtless played a con-estate in Great Britain).
poo Recreation Ground at 9.15. a.m. books; but American children must rational herces as the real men they siderable part in keeping the
be very different from ours (re-were. But it is even more impor The annual reunion of the disease so effectively in check Victorian Diocesan Association (a daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert narratives of the little hatchet Juded into the belief that what The christening of the infant marks a Home paper) if they take tant that people should not be de Again, in the anti-malaria field Hongkong body in London) is to W. Looker, of The Grove, Great favour to heart, 3till, we admire scandal can find to say about a much has been accomplished. The take place on June 2 at Victory Daddow, Chelmsford, and formerly the courage of Mr. Hughes. His great man is all that matters. By work is rendered difficult by rea- when the chairman will be Bit Church, Essex, on April 11, the developed. He was moved to de-with a wart on his nose, but do not Houss, Leicester-square, W.C.2. of Hongkong, took place at Sandon sense of the appropriate seems less all means let Cromwell be painted Bon of continued" development in Frederick Lugard, former Rev. Kenneth Best oficiating. The clare George Washington pro- let us suppose the wart the impor building but land has been drain Coveémor of Hongkong, and among child was named Gillian Stella, and fane, irreligious, and pleasure-lov-tant thing. The school of historic ed and a good deal of personal the speakers will be Sir Claud the god-parents were Colodeling man, a great card-player, slave criticism to which Mr. Hughes be supervision of land put in with a H.E. the Chinese Minister, and the Admiral II. L. d'Estoteville plan curser Immoral" Mr. man is a here to his valet, and that Severa, late Colonial Secretary E. H. D. C. Whitmore, Rear owner, whisky distiller, and cham longe is that which insists that no view to reducing to a minimum Rev C. B. Shann, Warden of St. Ekipwirth, Mrs. E., J. Coles, and Hughes would not call him, but was what the valet thinks must be the possibilities of mosquito. John's Hall Hongkong University Miss K Foster."
bound to remark that Washington right.
Probate "of the will of the late Mr. D. K. Blair (secretary to the Chamber of Commerce) has been Mr. C. A. da Reza of Hongkong, granted in the Supreme Court to joint executor with deceased's widow, Mr. Blafr died at. Home on February 15 this year, leaving $180,800. The will was made in Hongkong in 1919 and it divides the estate among members of the family and his widow.
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