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LONDON'S LIGHTER
SIDE.
Town in the Grip of Road Repairs.
⚫SOCIETY DEPARTS.
CHINESE COURT.
THE CONFIRMATION OF SENTENCES.
POLICE APPLICATION,
THE
POLICE. METHODS CRITICISED.
"Form of Third Degree" Alleged.
Police methods when questioning An important application has prisoners in serious cases were an been filed by Mr. R. T. Bryan, Issue at Keighley (Yorkshire) Municipal Advocate, on behalf of Police Court recently.
Fred GI, aged 25, electric motor the Commissioner of Police, in the
CHINA MAIL.
PEOPLE'S LIBERTY.
CASE OF CHINA TIMES REPORTER.
MUNICIPAL CONTENTIONS.
Alleging that the military courts had no right of jurisdiction over civil matters and that if allowed to carry on as they have been carrying
SEQUEL TO RUSSO- JAPANEESE WAR.
Search for Treasure of Russian General.
GOLD IN TEMPLE......
Mukden were the subject of an
London, Aug. 14.
The alleged attempts of certain As usual at this season of the year, when all Society has departed Shanghai Special District Court driver, of Keighley, was remanded on in the past, the liberty of the panese to dig up, parts of a to the country or the Continent, relating to the confirmation of accused of the murder of Mr. Oliver people, both in the International Buddhist temple outside the city of London is once again in the grip sentences imposed by the former Preston, a moneylender, who was Settlement and in Chinese territory, article in the Shuppao on September of the road repairers in fact one International Mixed Court. Mr. found fatally injured in his office. would be seriously menaced, Mr. 23, which, it is sald, makes a very might safely say London is "up." Bryan, who is head of the legal
Mr. C. Mycock, solleitor of Leeds, R. T, Bryan, Municipal Advocate, Almost every day a new "road-up" department, is seeking for the re-who appeared for Gill, applied to the representing the Commissioner of interesting sequel to the Rusao- sign' appears somewhere, and gangs sentencing of prisonera convicted magistrates for the return of £16 or Police, strongly objected in the Japanese War. of navvies, with pneumatic drills and sentenced by the former tri- £17, which he understood had been Shanghai Special District Court to According to this journal, four -and-pick-axes which tear-to-pincer bunal under the system of that found in Gill's possession. The an-application-made-by-the-Shang-woman, accompanied by about a Japanese policemen and a Japanese the perves of Londoners who are court in second, third or more police also had taken possession of hat and Woosung Gendarmerie Com-dozen Chinese workmen, went into unable to get away-begin to at
serious crimes.
£9, which Gill had given to his malasloner's Headquarters for the
a Buddhist temple outside the city The former Mixed Court, was sweetheart, who had come to Keigh-extradition of Woo Sco-tsung of Mukden early on the morning of tack surfaces which, to the ordin ary eye, certainly appear perfect not empowered to impose sen-ley from Whitehaven, where the reporter of the China Times, on the September 15. After their arrival, but which the Minister of Trans-tences of more than five years arrest took place. She had been ground that he is a Communist. A the Japanese took out a map and port, in consultation with the Lon- but, upon the expiration of such given a receipt,
further adjournment was ordered. don and Home Countries Trafie sentences, they could order a pri- [Police - superintendent Blacker
Repealing the Law, Advisory Committee, has scheduled soner to be brought from the said he would be able to prove that for "maintenarce and improve
ment,"
Work is already in progress on Bome thirty-two streets and roads, and on seven more a start was due
ono
gach and pass a further sentence of five years or even several terms of five years each.
the money found on Gill and the money taken from hle sweetheart were taken from Preston.]
Was
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930.
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instructed the Chinese workmen to dig the ground about two yards fact that certain attempts had been
Mr. Bryan drew attention to the from the front of the main hall. made to repeal the law in favour of
Japanese Yield. However, It is said, the Japanesa the military authorities by the policemen spoke in low tones in Case of Convicted Greek,
Alleged Conversation. The application has been made
issuance of secret, orders by the Chinese and they were overheard Mr. Mycock continued: te e made yesterday, and during in connection with the case of "Gill has informed me that before Presidents of the various Yuan in by a young priest, who slipped out the next few weeks many others George Koupoles, a Greek, who he was before the court on Tuesday the military authorities jurisdiction the matter to a branch atation of
Nanking. These secret orders gave through the back door and reported 1, Pottinger St. will added in the list. It is ze was convicted for the murder of a police-sergeant had a remarkable over civilians, but, said counsel, the Public Safety Bureau. A tele andader that vialtors to London, his wife and sentenced to five conversation with him. Gill said who really are more numerous al years' imprisonment by the the officer said to him before he was ence struck fundamentally at the Follce Headquarters and a company
this was wrong. Military interfer-phone message
sent to the this time of the year, complain at Chinese Magistrate. The case, brought before the Herch: "It will liberty, life and property not only of af armed men immediately sent to a situation which makes, for which is the first of its kind, will pay you better to make a clean instance, Regent Street,
of be heard again.
the residents of the International the temple to learn what was the breast of everything. You are an London's most important thorough-
When the Shanghai Special old enough fellow to know the all Settlement but of the people, as & matter. fares, into a 900 yards stretch of District Court came into exist-ference between wilful, murder with
whole, even those living in Chinese The Japanese policeman yielded territory. jangling uproad and dust-laden at fence,
to the Chinese police and agreed to the old system was done malice aforethought and just going mosphere, which dislocates traffie away with and the Court was em- and hitting him
Counsel further contended that withdraw from the temple. Before on the head and accused should be handed over to they were allowed to and takes away all the pleasure of powered to pass life or death sen- putting him out. You knew his the elvil tribunale, such as the temple, however, they
leave the shopping excursions. They ask tences as the case might call for. position in that office where he sat Kiangaa High Court, if the present to tell the truth as to their inten were made why this should happen just at a Koupolos was sentenced to 14 und that he was a trifle deaf. It Court considered that accused had tions and the statements they are time when they are visiting the years by the former Mixed Court will be better for you if you make a committed a crime outside
own. It is because summer suns Assessor, though sentenced only felean breast of it.".
the reported to have made.were to the -when we get them!-and long-to the maximum of five years by
following effect:- drawn-out days are good for road the Chinese Magistrate.-Ex. repair works-and, after all, the only thing worse than Regent, Street "up" in August would be *Regent Street "up" in November or
December..
MUTINY IN MEERUT JAIL.
Doors Of Seven Barracks Broken Open..
The
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"This is a serious matter. It has been laid down time and time again that it is the duty of the police to keep their eyes and ears open and
their mouths shut.
"Gill was asked questions, pres- sure was put on him, and he was almost asked to convict himself out of his own mouth."
Settlement.
to
Mr. Tsang Mink-gee, legal adviser Gendarmerie Commissioner,
the Shanghai and Woosung was present for the military authorities.
Ex.
RED CROSS.
DIAMOND JUBILEE OF BRITISH SOCIETY.
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Attempt to Recover Fortune. Thirty-three years ago, when the Russo-Japanese War was fought in Manchuria, a Russian general and his men were defeated and compelled to retreat to Mukden. Here, in this The remarking of Regent Street]
very temple, the general Burled his , though, probably the biggest of}
personal fortune consisting at the road repairs now being
Mr. Mycock asked that Gill should
recovering them when the war was chests of gold with the intention of dofle. It will take many weeks. One half of the roadway is being
be remanded to Armley jail, Leeds, Meerut, August 29.
over. He prepared a map showing txeafed at a time, and the slowing
where the police regulations would following
where the gold was buried. official com-be carried out to the letter. He did down of traffic is so acute that it munique has been issued to the rot want him to be subjected to a
London, Aug. 8.
However, the Russian general was is nearly as quick to walk from Press by the District Magistrate: mild form of third degree. Gill was day celebrates its diamond jubilee,ese, and the commander of the The British Red Cross Society to- later taken prisoner by the Japan- Piccadilly-circus to Oxford Circus "There was a serious mutiny in to be assumed entirely innocent Originally a war organisation, it Japanese forces treated kindly his as to ride.
the jail this morning at about 8, until he was proved guilty and it owes its origin, to an appeal made prisoner and gave him his daughter Royal Botanic Gardens to Remain. when the doors of no less than was not for any police officer to on August 8, 1870, for the forma in marriage. The latter obtained
Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., seven barracks were broken open. usurp the functions of judge and tion of First Commissioner of Worka, an Order was restored with the use jury.
national aid society to the map from her husband and she nounces that the beauty of the of firearma, and no prisoner is re-
take care of soldiers incapacitated then came to Mukden, seeking the famous Royal Botanic Gardens parted to have been Injured. The
Police Denial
in the Franco-Prussian War. The assistance of the Japanese police In will in no way be destroyed when District Magistrate went down to police denied the allegation, and this and by the end of the War the
Superintendent Blacker said the appeal was immediately successful the recovery of the fortune. the lease expires in 1982, so that the jail at 9 and held a summary was neither the time nor the place personnel had risen to 200.
The woman who accompanied, those who have been bewalling the enquiry into the mutiny.
After them was the wife of the Russian As threatened "extinction" of the result of this enquiry, 13 convicts
4to make it.
the War part of the Society's surprisoner and their intention was to Gardens have been a bit premature were whipped, and cases will be formed the Bench as steps had been women nurses at Netley-the being when nobody would pay atten- Mr. Mycock said he had only in-plus funda was used for training recover the gold in the early morn in their grief. The only difference registered under the Prisons Act taken to have the matter brought gianing of the present Queen Alex-tion to their actions. Unfortunately, will be that the Gardens will be against certain under-trial pri- before the Home Secretary. come public property instead of soners."
andra's Imperial Military Nursing their schemes were frustrated by The Bench, after a lengthy retire Service. Until the end of the the arrival of the Chinese police. ment, ordered that the £3 given by Nineteenth Century Increasing help
that of the Society, and the public will no longer have to pay for ad-
Therefore, the Gardens long skirts are perhaps better lert Gill to bis sweetheart should be
■ .mission.
will be added to in Regent's Park, and the public will be able to en- joy them.
unrecorded!
venturesome! Shetland
WALKED THE EARTH.
of
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was given in time of war to each SEA FRONT ARREST. returned to her; and that Gill should side, irrespective of nationality. Where Are The Donkeys?
be remanded in custody.
and important work was done in In years gone by one of the
The Bench requested that Gill the South African War. After the
DRAMATIC INCIDENT AT festures most amusing to children should be given every facility and Great War broke out the joint com-
BRIGHTON. Forthcoming Theatre Productions. paying a visit to the seaside was privilege to which he was entitled.mittee of the British Red Cross and
The forthcoming productions in the donkeys on the sande. Now They had not the slightest doubt the Order of St. John was official- The story of a the London theatrical world will, these seems to have disappeared, that the police would carry out ly recognised and the gigantic or intuition and a woman's search lies policeman's it is predicted, consist mainly of for at Boscombe's summer carnival everything as they ought to do. ganisation the built up rendered behind two arrests made at Brigh musical plays, and the season will which was held this week, tha
incalculable service in alleviating ton on August 9, be the most expensive prepared for Committee, who wished to intro the West End for many years. It duce new features, thought of the
suffering, transporting the wound- The men arrested, both aged 21, is "estimated that a musical pro brightening effects of
ed, searching for the missing and were charged later with the murder a donkey duction costs from £10,000 to Derby, but although the whole dis- died last month at Howard street, After the War it was felt that such messenger, of Birmingham, After- Mr. William Chapman, 86, who caring for the incurably disabled. of Willian Thomas Andrew, a bark £25,000 to stage, and there are triet was searched, no donkeys North Kensington, claimed to be allowed to lapse and in 1919 a sup- Brimingham in charge of threa likely to be fourteen of such plays could be found. Perhaps the the oldest living scholar
a vast organisation could not be wards they left Brighton for presented in London between Sep modern child has outgrown the de- Pulteney Grammar School. Born at ed authorising the society to pur-
plemental Royal Charter was grant-police officers. tember and Christmas. Even the sire for a slow donkey ride, and Sevenoaks, Kent, he was taken to "straight" pieces are mostly to be requires something more frisky Australia when five years old.
One of the men, who at first re- of an ambitious nature, with ex- and
one peace-time work. The history fused to disclose his identity, is! ceptionally costly casts.
He was 45 years in the Postal of the past ten years is the history said to have admitted afterwards At any ponies, with their pretty shaggi- service, and was a letter carrier of the transition from war to peace that he was Victor Edward Betts. rate it is estimated that about ness, are much more attractive to for 35 years, in which time he conditions. Some of the War-time The other gave his name as Herbert £250,000 will be spent on ductions, excluding the capital the ancient joy of childhood of of six times around the earth. Hetals. A home ambulance service robbed of £900 in Birmingham.
pro- kiddies, and so they have ousted reckoned he walked the equivalent auxiliary hospitals are now con Ridley, of Park Street, Aston.
valescent homes or special hospi-. ink in London's newest theatres. twenty years ago.
Andrew was knocked down and This movement or the part of pro- A Water-Diviner in Hyde Park father formed Chapman's Band, runs a blood transfusion service in unexpected fashion when hundreds was a capable violinist, and his
has been inaugurated. The Society ducers to "serve up" to the public; A water-diviner, Abbe Gabriel the first orchestra in South Aus
The arrests came in dramatic and something of a light nature, tends Lambert, a doctor of divinity in tralia to take part in the perform connection with large hospitals and of holiday-makers were on the front. to show that they have come the University of Toulouse, is pay-ance of, Handel's Messiah. to the conclusion that people ing a visit to London on a water-
Its latest development has been the nowadays do not want to see plays divining mission, and this week be
Initiation this year of a campaign that require any deep thinking. It has been exhibiting his peculiar
against rheumatism. Is the same in the cinema world powera in Hyde Park. Wherever the "all singing, dancing, and talk he walked, on the grass or on the ing" films appear to draw much footpath, he found underground Six-year-old: "Father, may I have a larger audiences than do those, water everywhere. He used a
Warrants had been leaned by the for instance, which illustrate some little gaily-coloured
penny for a poor old
Toulon, August 4.
Birmingham police for the arrests man
Police officers to-day raided at famous book. rather like a fisherman's float on
"Certainly, my boy. Cape Feron a party of about 80 The landlady of a boarding housa
of men named Betts and Ridley. Long Skirt Casualliest the end of a short string, and as Six-year-old: "At the and of the were sun-bathing. The Commis stayed came to Brighton to search
Where is het N
members of the "Nudist" cult wheat Chichester, where the men had There have been a particularly he walked slowly over the grass road, saling ice-cream." large number of dress "casualties" swinging this bobbin to and fro, Six-year-old probably
aloner found himself confronted on ballroom floors, owing to the withextraordinary speed, indicat his politis approach to the delicate had brought to clothes with them golated him out to a policeman and during the 1980 Besson, especially it suddenly bun round and round penny He deserved it it only for with a difficulty, since the party to the two men and saw one of them standing In a crowd., She very long skirts which are now ing that water was below Abbe born politielana, when it comes to practically naked men and womer Earlier in the day the two young
subject Bome of ons wee ones are Considering that to march thirty he was arrested. being work. Exquiebe Traka kave, Lambert was successful in finding getting things they want such as through the streets would create men had driven to Chichester foa been ruined in one avenging water for toe, Country Club at ice-cream, And after all, such little To the Innocent carelessness of a Cannes, and he is now in London sreats, now and then, do them for an awkward situation, he content parken, Hut this? apparently at Lord Glenconners invitation more good than harm. There's little ed himself with taking their motor car with two girl friends. At
for next arrange further work of this kind so long as not too much is taken at For
Harm in ice cream, eaten slowly, and names,
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