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KOREAN GIRL'S THE COURSE OF TRUE STRANGE STORY
BY FOREIGNERS
EXTRA RACE CLAIMS SHE WAS KIDNAPPED
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No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclo- sure.
SERVANT STILL MISSING.
LOVE!
STORMY ROMANCE OF A BANK CLERK
A FATHER'S OBJECTION.
Whether love shall triumph, or A strange story, says the Shang- hal Times, of an alleged parental affection and discipline kidnapping of a Korean girl, stat- shall prevail, may depend on the ed to be the owner of a cafe, and influence of the decision to be her female aervant, was being in-rendered by Magistrate I. T. Morris vestigated by the Japanese Con- in the British Police Court, Shang- cular police and the police of the hat, in the case in which a youthful International Settlement. The Portuguese named Carlos M. Mar- girl claims she was kidnapped ques, a British subject and employes early on the night of February of the Hong Kong and Shanghai 27, by two foreigners as she was Banking Corporation, is charged and walking with her servant on Yalu with assault by Mr. "A” a Euro- penn, as the aftermath of a love After being missing for approx-affair between the complainant's imately two weeks, during which daughter aged "alxteen years and a the Japanese and local police con-week" and the accused. ducted a search, the girl, who is Humour, fury and pathos charac- the proceedings which 20 years old, returned to the re-terised staurant, which is on Yalu Road, has commenced. The father of and told the story of the assert the girl was furiously Indignant, ed kidnapping. She appeared to and her mother was sobbing for the major part, while the accused, who Members can obtain, upon ap-be suffering from a shock.
From Japanese sources it was betrayed no emotions, appeared to plication to the Secretary, badges,
the girl told embe hardly concerned. (limited to two) for the free ad- learned that
The action, however, being a mission to the Members' Enclosure ployees of the restaurant that
and after being forced into a motor criminal one, the defendant stood in of wives, lady relatives
the foreigners, she and the dock. friends. Names must be stated car by
the servant were taken to an Waxing furiously indignant, Mr. YOUNG ENGLISHMAN, (employed) when applying.
On no pretext will children balsolated foreign dwelling, after "A", the complainant, who was born Willing to sceks other employment. lent Refe. Salary nn object. Please permitted in elther Enclosure dur-several hours of driving through in Shanghai 45 years ago and has
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had been abducted and that the abductors were planning to sell
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the streets. They were placed in been brought up there, stated to separate rooms, she said, and the Court that he had three daugh-| given poor Chinese food and little ters and one son. He professed to water.
have seen the accused but thrice, in On March 6; according to the all his life. story, the servant was taken from
The "Vanishing" Man. the house. The girl asserts that | "I first met him," he stated, she made her escape through "roughly six months ago at the ruse, but that when she emerged] Hazelwood cafe in North Szechuan from the house she did not have rond one noon while I was passing that way. I did not see. him well. her bearings.
She further says that she met enough then, but I recognise him) a foreign woman who sympathis
I knew my daughter was in- ed with her and took her to the side and I went in to see who she restaurant on Yalu Road. The
was with. When I saw this man, police of the Japanese Consulate ex-I asked her. Who is this you are pressed the belief that the two in company with?" While I was asking her this question, the man disappeared entirely-he vanished." Mr. Wing: Was it with your sanction that your daughter was in company with this individual 7—— Most decidedly not; that is why I went in to see who she was with.
Q: What was the situation about your daughter?-She had been away from home for about two months.
Q: Why is it to Hong Kong Bank that you went?-I had heard that this man was employed there. When I went there and asked him for the whereabouts of my daughter he Mr. Noah Puckett came te denied all knowledge of her,
"It stunned me for a few mo shoot him. I certainly was excited. Shanghai as
B member of the
Q: Did he write you a letter?ments. From loss of blood I sank I only asked for a "machine" in a while I order to retaliate in the event that drew of the world-touring liner, President Fillmore, of the Dollar Yes, he did it after a lot of coaxing to the floor but after
managed to pick myself up again I was attacked by. this man. Steamship Company.. The Frest on my purt.
The letter was dated February 13, and stagger. In the street a lady dent Fillmore has aalled for the and stated that the accused did not in a motor
car drove me to the gouth on the continuation of her trip around this mundane sphere. know the whereabouts of the com- General Hospital where I lost con- Mr. Putkett was not aboard plainant's daughter and that ho sciousness for a couple of hours as far as I know. I do not remember did not wish to see her again. when the vessel soiled. He had
on my head being Q: Did, anything else happen at the wounds OOKING for RESERVED three good reasons for not continu- Particular coaching in pronunciation. B SEATS to witness the Semi-ing the journey.
Mr. Puckett that interview?-Ho promised then stitched, nur anything of the kind,
"An Old Boxer" at Final matches of the Open Cham-is sailing for the United States on that he would have nothing else to because I was unconscious."
Denying that he had a weapon of examinations. No. 16, Wyndham pionship Singles and Doubles will the next vessel of the Dollar do with her, and.I naturally believed
on bia person at the open at Messrs. Moutrie & Co. on Line. He is sailing as a guest of him. Learning, however, later that MONDAY, April 7. Subject to the company, which tende to prove he knew more about this case, I any kind weather conditiers the following that even big concerns with world-want in the afternoon of the same moment, the complainant with the wide connections do not overlook day and asked him to tell me more gesture of a "Bantam cock" sald, dates have been arranged:-
the welfare of their employees. about it. I said, "If you will only "I am an old boxer! Even at my tell me where is my daughter I will present age I am more than a match Here's the story:
A few hours before the vessel drop all the rest," and he said that for this man.
He stated that after recovering sailed a message flashed through he would go to his friends and find
consciousness in the hospital he the ether to the Fillmore, address-out and tell me låter.
went to the British Consulate-Gen- ed to Mr. Puckett. It read:
eral where, the consul advised him "A son. Congratulations.” Mr. Puckett was proud and of the Hong Kong Bank and ex-as to the steps to take.
"Since the day that I received the happy. The commander of the plained to him the circumstances
and per- and he said to this man (pointing injury, my daughter has not lived vessel heard the news
to the accused) to go out and help with me. She is not living with
After I am most decidedly will- sonally congratulated him
Came another message for the mc. A moment later I saw him me now."
take his hat and the next thing ing to take my daughter back if elated Mr. Puckett, as follows:
he had disappeared, she comes back," he concluded with "Another son. More congratula. knew was tions."
while I was obliged to stand at the a dramatic gesture.
Cross-examined by Mr. Harris, Mr. Puckett was astounded, but counter, wondering." his happiness knew no bounds. Complainant further stated that complainant stated that he had Noah Puckett his daughter to struck his daughter with a cape GENERAL Just think of it! T MEETING will be held in the the father of twins! It was crent on datang failed to return home only once, and denied that he and enables traders to communicate direct Hong Kong Cricket Club Pavilion derful news. and Mr. Puckett pac- that he did not know where she ever threatened her with a knife at
on TUESDAY, 16th April, 1980, ated the deck with his head high in was.
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"Disappears" Again.
"I therefore went to Mr. Beatty,
Came the third He next saw the accused the fol the atmosphere. massage, and with it news of lowing morning at 186 Boone Road. third son. Triplets!
"It was a small room on the top Mr. Puckett nearly collapsed, of the building, and had been lock- but recovered and whooped him-ed from the inside. I knocked at self hoarse. Other members of the door for one solid hour."
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ISMAIL HAKKI
Hated War Leader Returns to Turkey
RÁIDS RECALLED.
The birthday of his daughter was not correctly known to the com- plainant, and although he proffered to produce the birthday certificate.
Much intereft has been aroused which would show that his daughter was sixteen years and one week old, by the unexpected arrival in Stam the defence attorney ridiculed the boul of Ismail Hakk! Pasha, the complainant's accuracy of the day lame, whose very name fills with on which the latter's daughter was hatred many of those who suffered born.
hardship during the Great War. He was at that time Under Secretary
Mr. Harris in making the Magis-
trate for an adjournment of the proceedings announced that he re- served the cross-examination of the complainant,
of the War Office and Director of Supplies Equipment and Transport. In this capacity he impounded with- out distinction anything on which he could lay, hands. Merchants lived in perpetual fear of seeing their, shops emptied, for his requisi- tione extended even to garments for women and children.
He announced that his ellent and the girl were very anxious to get married, and because of the opposi- tion of the girl's mother, the Danish Consul had refused to sanction the marrtage because Danish law re-
Sometimes ho blundered. Once ho quired that the parents of the girl requisitioned a motor-car sent by should acquiesce to marriage involv-the Kaiser to Enver Pasha. Another ing Danish subjects on either party. time he offered to Liman von further argument, the Sanders, on the occasion of a visit Magistrate ordered that the accus to the Dardanelles, a chest of six ed be allowed temporary freedom bottles of wine, which happened to on a ball of 3500 and two sureties come from parcels addressed from of $200 each-the latter to be Bri Germany to the General.
On the eve of the signature of the tiah subjects, it was stipulated. The proceedings were adjourned-Armistice of Mudros. Ismail Hakki disappeared. Since that time he has not lived in Turkey, the proceedin
STANDARD TIMES
Sunrise And Sunset In Colony
Mr. Harris; If your daughter says that you threatened her with a knife sha is lying? Yes.
Q: If some other witnesses were. brought to testify to the same effect they would also be lying?-Yes..
Mr. "A" denied the suggestion
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Witness had been getting more that his daughter had been forced
refused a of the 120th Meridian, East of hopped. The Captain heard the and more excited during the sus-to sleep on the floor in his house, Kong for April (Standard time great news. He communicated pense, and as he was sure that his and that she had been with officials of the Company. It daughter was inside the room and bed. Likewise he also denied at first Greenwich) are as follow:
Sunrise Sunset. WAK too much for the offelals. his knocks on the door for about that he had asked for a "machine," They decided that no man who an hour had not drawn a response, meaning thereby a fire-arm, from April has just become the father ofI took my pan-knife from my the American neighbour of the ac triplets "should go on a voyage pocket and made a small hole on cused who was living in room No. around the world. Mr. Puckett the door in order to enable me to 9 at the same address in Boons. will be paid in full for the world just look inside. I saw my daugh- Road Subsequently, however, be girdling trip. He will receive a ter 17ing on a bed, undressed. I admitted that he had asked for It nice bonus, and will be sent home was quite satisfed that she was in order that be could use it for.
Shanghai Times:
there; I did not see anybody else.. defensive purposes in case the. ac- I called to my daughter again, cused should attack him. Mr. Harris and then she replied, "If mother put it to him that had it not been ames I will allow her to come in, for the intervention of Mr. "As" but I don't want you to come for wife, the complainant would have
"Immediately I heard that Margotten possession of, the pistol. ques was in the reom I called out A Daughter Problem. to him and challenged him to meet Referring to the quarrel, Mr. ma as man to man. There was no Harris asked, "You got your daugh answer. I called out again and ter, you could have gone away. Why plasded and pleaded. I wanted him did you plead with him to come to speak and say something In the out?" to which complainant replied menntime my wife and daughter "Mr. Harris what would you have were standing beside me. In the done if your daughter was spelled time I was pushing the door by a man like that I wanted him to ich resulted in meet me as man to man. I would the panel have given him a sound thrashing..
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. Passions have not yet sabalded. The Askham and the Politika recall his activities during the war. It should, however, be said that he succeeded in fceding the Turkish Army ander the most difficult con- ditions.
Like Talaat and Djemal Pasha, he
gress regime, which lasted from 1908 to 1918. It will be remembered symbolises the "Union and Pro--
that the most tragical fate, befol many of those who shared power: with Ismail Hakk! Pasha.
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