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SHOOTING TRAGEDY NOT TOO YOUNG.
East Surrey's Colonel Killed
· LIEUTENANT BLAMED,
BOY BIRCHED FOR HAVING OPIUM.
MAN FINED $1,000 OR JAIL,
A Chinese man and a youth Gibraltar, April 7. were this morning charged be- Lieut. Colonel J. S. FitzGerald.fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell with the Commanding the Second East unlawful possession of 12 taels of Both Surrey's. has been shot dead by non-Government, opium. Lieutenant A. C. Duffield, of the pleaded "ruilty." sama Regiment.-Reuter.
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Chief Preventative Offeer Clark said the boy was arrested In Connaught Road West with the opium tied round his waist." and he At the inquest on Lieut. pointed out the man as the per- Colonel FitzGerald. the Adjutant son who had given him the drug gave evidence that Liedt. Duffield to carry. Having got the prin- entered the orderly room to see cipal the C.P.O. said he would Lieut-Col. FitzGerald, who said: like to withdraw the charge "He has shot me-arrest him." against the boy.
All the witnesses were brother: officers. They testified that there was no feeling of ill-will On the contrary Lieut. Duffield had lately been complimented on his good work.
TERRIBLE INJURIES.
.. WOMAN KILLED WITH CHOPPERS
MYSTERY OF THE MOTIVE.
wong Wah Hospital at 4.30 A Chinese woman died at the pm, yesterday as the result of having been brutally, assaulted with choppers by two men,
In her dying depositions to the police the woman said the, two man came to her hut in the Chuking village, Kowloon City, at 10.80 p.m., the previous night and gained admittance by saying they were friends of her husband When informed that the husband was not in the men elected to wait. She set cups of tea before them and after sitting about for a little time the men suddenly jumped up and tackled her. One got hold of her by the throat while the other attempted to put a rope round her neck. She whereupon struggled violently the men picked up choppers and hacked her with them until she lost consciousness.
Magistrate: Why? He had possession of the drug.
Q.P.O. Clark: Yes, but he is only 14 years of age.
Remarking that the boy was not too young to realize that he The inquest was adjourned-was doing wrong, the Magistrate Reater.
passed sentence on both accused The man was fined $1,000 or six Lt. Col. James Stephens Fitzmonths jail, and the boy was Gerald was born on Aug. 30, 1878, ordered to receive. 10 strokes of On Feb. 17, 1900, he
was ap-the birch. pointed 2nd Lt. in the Royal Irish Regiment, promotion coming as follows: Lieut. on March 20 PROPELLER LASSOED interior of the hat did not appear.
The Colonels Career.
1902: Captain on March 3, 1908; Major on Sept. 1, 1915; Lt.-Coll
on Oct. 13, 1924",
From 1906 to 1999, he was an adjutant in the Royal Irish Regf- ment.
As a Major, he was transferred
JARDINE'S BOAT DELAYED TO-DAY.
DIVERS TO RESCUE.
The
Indo-China Navigation
to the East Surrey Regt. on Aug. | Company. vessel "Namsang,"
12, 1922.
which was due to leave Hong
A graduate of the Staff College, Kong this morning at 7 a.m. for
The woman gave descriptions of both men one of whom she said she had seen before.
The motive of the attack was evidently not robbery as the
to have been ransacked!
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The band of the 1st Carherori- Lt. Col. FitzGerald held three Amoy and Japan has been delay- staff appointments after the war, ed from so doing by the lans rendered selections so ably Deputy Assistant Adjutant Gen "aseoing" of the ship's propeller, at the beginning of the 9.20 erul Irish Command D.AA.G..a rope from the ship's side hav-performance at the Queen's last War Office; and DA.A. and Quar- ing wound its way round the night that the audience was loath ter Master Gereral. Southern propeller..
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length of the pictorial pro- gramme, however, the Band was not able to respond to the insist- ent demands for encores when the curtain fell.
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Diving operations are being Transferred Together. carried out to release the rope Lieut. Austin Christopher and it is expected that the vessel Duffield was born on Oct. 17, 1900. will leave later in the day or to-
On July 16, 1920, he received morrow. his first appointment as a 2nd Lt.
in the Leinster Regiment. Exact-
Tjisondari, President Pierce. President Polk, President Taft, ly two years later, he was pro-
and on Empress of Russia. Queenmoon, Saart rucken, Mausang, Achilies.moted Lieut.
Aug. 12, Kendal Canile, Tatma, Hawaii Maru, Malucca Maru, Kotsu Maru, 1922, he was transferred to the Korea Maru, Carmarthenshire, Antenor Yuensang, Namsang. East Surrey Regt (the same, date Chenan, Sunning, Chaksang, Chengtu, Anhalt, Tean.
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A Chinese passenger from Canton was arrested yesterday when counterfeit notes to the value of $5,000 was found in hist Revenue Officers possession. searched passengers' luggage on board the s.s. "Sai On" on her arrival in port at 2.30 p.m., and now at Rawalpindi in the "dud" notes were found in two caddies of tea carried by the Larrested man. Besides these and an umbrella he had no other per- sonal property. The forgeries which were all $10 notes of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank were carefully concealed among the tea leaves in several neatly tied bundles.
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Inspector Blackman this morn- ing charged a Chinese before Mr. General Metzinger R. E. Lindsell with the theft of a roll of cloth from the Yu Kay piece goods shop Queen's Road East.
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Beyond stating that his riame was Tae Man-sing and that he was a native of Hot Ping the of No. 104, arrested mar refused to make a
statement to the police."
Accused said that a man paid | him five cents to carry the cloth. Being a street coclie' who had to work hard to earn 30 or 40 cents a day five cents for such an easy job was not to be turned down,
DOG BITES LADY.
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Mrs. Perry, a resident of the Kowloon Hotel, was yesterday bitten by a spaniel dog owned by her husband. She was attended
A foki of the shop said, he ac- to by a doctor and the dog wES tually saw the accused crouching taken to the Mataukat Depot for
ir front of a pile of rolls of cloth observation.
at the entrance of the shop. When
he thought he was sure that he
was not being watched accused
took a roll of cloth from the mid-i
dle of the pile and placing on his
Opening with topical world! happenings recorded by Gaumont Graphic and an excellent Pathe comedy "Starvation Blues," the film entertainment amply com- bensated the audience for their loss in regard to the Band.
The big picture is "The Coast Of Folly" in which Gloria. Swan- son plays the part of the lovely and high spirited daughter who comes into the heritage of her mother's misstep and is almost wrecked on the coast of folly association in a through, her sensation-mongering Press with a wealthy and popular member of the masculine set.
Gloria Swanson plays the dual part of mother and daughter in As the an amazingly clever way, daughter she is such a lovable and irresponsible bit of feminity that she wins the hearts of all and as the mother who intervenes at the great risk of taking the blame for an odious situation and the scandal attached to it, ahe is tragically convincing.
Happily, both mother and daughter and the two with whom their lives are inseparably bound, come to a safe harbour, far from the coast of folly.
This programme until Saturday night.
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shoulder walked away. Witness Bookbinders. raised the alarm and accused took 2:30 p.m. to his heels. When witness had 8.30 p.m. almost caught up to him accused dropped the cloth and dashed into 'a alde lape right into the arms. of a detective,
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Sentence of three weeks' jail} was passed.
As he was being led below the prisoner yelled defiance at the shop foki, whereupon the Magis- trate recalled the man and gave him an additional week in jail in which to cool downęt
KAILAN MINES", OUTPUT.
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending March 19, amount ed to 90,652 tons, and the sales dur- Ing, the period to 99,426 tons
Enocked down by a motor GET in Morrison Hill Road yesterday,,
Chinese woman received in Juries to her head and arm She be taken to the hospital
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