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CHARGE AGAINST
"JOCK" GARDEN.
HOW IT AROSE. GARDEN ACQUITTED OF SERIOUS CHARGE.
"JOKING INTERVIEW."
Sydney, Yesterday.
A MILLIONAIRE'S FRAUDS.
OVER 30 YEARS. DEFRAUDING THE INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT.
BLUFFING THE REVENUE.
SOVIET AND THE LEAGUE.
MOSCOW'S VIEWS.
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***NO REAL DISARMAMENT.”
Sir Walter Herbert Cockerline,
Moscow, Yesterday. "Jock" Garden has been ac- the Hull shipowner, who was for M. Litvinoff has cabled to the quitted of the charge of inciting many years a member of the Hull League of Nations Russia's re- to murder.
Corporation, appeared before the fusal to participate in the second Garden declared in the dock Hull Stipendiary Magistrate to an-session of the special commission that the charge was absurd, and awer the summons issued at the for the control and manufacture said that it arose out of a joking instance of the Inland Revenue De-of arms on the ground that the interview. He wanted to put the partment, and relating to £107,000 Soviet's proposals for general dis Press off the scent because state-income tax from 1911 to 1925, re-armament are not to be consider- menta in the Press had often lates the "Manchester Guardian." ed by the Preparatory Disarma- stopped a settlement of disputes. The offence alleged was that con-ment Commission next session The cooks' dispute, for a settle- ment of which he had worked trary to the Perjury Act (1911), which has postponed them fur- night and day, was actually set- section 5, he did between April 6, ther.
1911, and April 5, 1925, "unlawful Further, M. Litvinoff alleges tled on the day of his arrest-ly, knowingly and wilfully make, that the League has given no re-
Reuter.
NAVAL PACT.
FORGED CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED IN U. S.
LONDON'S EXPOSURE.
London, Yesterday.
4
The delay in publishing the terms
These
otherwise than on oath, certain aults towards real disarmament. statements false in material parti-Reuter. culars" in certain returns required!
under certain general Acts of Par- ADMIRAL WALDECK. liament. Sir Walter's address, was given in the summons as Har- ford House, Filey-road, Scar- borough.
Counsel for the prosecution were Mr. C. J. Sakkeld Green and Mr. A. G. Tribe, and Dr. T. C. Jackson, Bolicitor, appeared for the defence.
+
BACK TO 1897.
have been lost to the Revenue during the fourteen years covered by the summons had the fraud not
been found out and the money paid was £107,106.
"It is thought by some people to
JAPAN'S PRISONER FOR SIX YEARS.
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Berlin, Yesterday. Vice-Admiral Alfred Meyer Wal- deck, who defended Klaochow in 1914 and was held prisoner by the Japanese till 1920, has died at Badkissinden, aged sixty.four- Reuter.
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of the Anglo-French naval.com- An objection by Dr. Jackson promise, which has prompted that the summons was bad be fertile brains to all manner of cause it did not contain detailed speculation, has now led to the particulara was overruled. appearance in the United States of forged documents purporting to be
Mr. Salkeld Green, opening the secret correspondence between M. Briand and Sir Austen Chamber-case, said he would show that there had been on the part of Sir lain.
* course of documents allege that Walter Cockerline
1897, Britain has promised France naval fraud extending back to Assistance in the Pacific and a every return for tax purposes dur division of the Mediterranean inte ing those thirty years having been HELD UP BY MONSOON: PUTS Zones with a view to guarding wrong. The amount which would. British Interests at Gibraltar and French interests at Tangier.
Co-operation of the respective Air Forces is also suggested.
It is officially stated In London that no communication has passed be a grand thing to defraud the been damaged in a collision during between Sir Austen Chamberlain Revenue," said Mr. Salkeld Green, and M. Briand even remotely in "but in my submission It is a the sense suggested.
mean, contemptible crime compar- "Deliberate Fabrication." able with picking pockets. The "A deliberate fabrication," the only difference, is that it is the clumsiest forgery" are terms appli- public pocket which is being pick- ed by a high authority interviewed
He alleged that Sir Walter by Reuter to a copy of the document Cockerline had once before been concerning the Anglo-French Naval guilty of tax fraude, but was not Agreement, which has now been re-prosecuted. This was not a case ceived in London, where its publica of a man driven by pressure of tion is deeply regretted.
want or business difficulties to Authoritative circles fully recog-commit fraud, but of a nise its pernicious effect, serving steadily increasing in wealth. will be screened at the Queen's further to militate against the suc-
Sir Walter started life in a hum-Theatre on Sunday and Monday cess of the
"straightforward ble way, and it was of the greatest next, according to a special adver Anglo-French Naval Compromise, possible credit to him that he had tisement in this issue, Bebe Daniels against which it of course aimed." risen by his own endeavours to ac and Chester Conklin, both well It is understood that the British cumulate a fortune of over a mil-known in the field of comedy, make Government has cabled Instructing Hon. He had been Sheriff of Hull, an excellent team and contribute the Embassy at Washington cate- and had received a knighthood. the majority of the many laughs the gorically to deny he authenticity of That made it all the sadder that picture contains. Bebe Danfels ap- the document--Reuter.
behind all that public estimation pears as Ginette, a pretty Mont- was a history of fraud on Revenue martre waitress, whose greatest||||AT THE for thirty years.
COST OF BASE.
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BEBE DANIELS.
"A KISS IN A TAXI" COMING HERE.
Appearing together for the first time in "A Kiss in a Taxi," which
worry in life is to escape the at- tentions of ardent suitora. Trouble- occurs, however, when the brunette The "system" went on quietly falls in love with a young man who until certain information came to is seemingly indifferent to her en- the Inland Revenue from the Ad-couragement. From this point, a miralty. Sir Walter had an Ad-number of extremely amusing in- miralty account going back to cidents take place leading to a Singapore, Yesterday. 1916, and no information as to it, hilarious climax before Babe and The British Government's reply said Mr. Green, was furnished by her lover are finally brought to- to the Colony's recent protest Sir Walter until September, 1924. gether. Cheater Conklin gives ex- (against the inclusion of the cost of Mr. Green said that he gather-cellent support, adding many new the garrison recoverable fromed the defence would be that the and original stunts in his own in- Colonial funds in the items connect-statements were not made know-imitable manner,
ed with the Naval Bose has bean Ingly and wilfully. Possibly the tabled in the Legislative Council. defence might also suggest that Sir
The Colony's contention has been Walter's bookkeeper, a man nam-
that the Base was a required part ed Dean, was responsible. Dean a fraud had been committed when of the scheme of Empire defence must have known of the whole of doctored accounts had been sub- generally, and not for the defence the fraud on the super-tax, but in mitted to the Revenue, that it was of the Colony, "
his subordinate position Dean was fraud to omit from the returns all Britain's reply suggests that all dominated by a man of stronger mention of bank interest, and that over the personality. There was therefore, it was a frand to withhold from military axpenditure Initial formation of the Singapore no criminality in Dean's case, the accountants whose accounts Base should be borne by the Army The prosecution did not intend were used to deceive the Revenue votes, and all other military ex-that the big man, the man respon- the books necessary for the ac penditure should be paid by the sible and the man who got the counts to carry out their duties.
benefit, should shelter behind the Mr. Green told the magistratej Colony as the full-ordinary cost of man who got no benefit from a that he estimated the hearing of the garrison, including the cost of fraud of this kind
the case would occupy three days. any military personnel added to the
Right back to 1909 Sir Walter's Referring to the probability garrison as the new defences were attention had been repeatedly of an adjoumment, he said manned, and also the cost of manindraws to Inaccuracies and mis- that he understood there was a taining the old and new defences takes in his accounts. "He knew possibility of Bir Walter Cocker Finally the percentage of the re- that he had bluffed the Revenue line's attendance being, required as venue to be contributed by the areage). He thought that the Ad- a witness. In a case at Bow-street Colony should remain at twenty, miralis matters were the only ones Folice Court. This is the case in The unofficial Councillors, in a known to the Revenue, and he which a man has been remanded letter to the press, complain that, thought he could bluff them into on an extradition warrant charg- because the base is situated at the belief that there was nothing ing him with obtai money, by Singapore owing to its strategical else," said air. Salkeld Green who false pretences in
the al position, it is inequitable that the alleged that Sir Walter's "omia- legation being that Colony should pay more than the stons from his returns were dell-bers of a gang other Colonies and Dominions berate.
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