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THE
WAR.
(Continued from Pagit.)
General
EARLIER CABLES. THROUGH BRETEK'S ́AGNCY.] HONDURAS DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY.
WASHINGTON, July 22nd. Honduras Las declared war against Germany.
SPEECH BY GENERALSMUTS.
LONDON, July 24th.
The following is the concluding portion of General Smats', speech which appeared Į in yesterday's issue:--
THE INCREASING AMERICAN ARMY.
They were pouring across the Atlantic at the rate of more than a quarter of million a month, and it would not be
the American Army th long before France would be as large as the British and French combined. (Loid cheers.) When it is remembered that Germany at
THE MURDER OF SERGEANT out, while the roof of the Indian quar What do you mean by saying. “I did tars foll down. At 10 pm, on July 17th not see the Police; they were all scatter- Mr. King, A.S. P., and his party arrived.ed? All the Police were afraid and..
The Coroner-Do you know where the ran away. fire started-Witness: I think it raust How did you know they were-scatter- have started in the Chinese quarters, as ed? Because they were nowhere to be the fire there seemed to be the worst.
seen.
GLENDINNING. CORONER'S INQUIRY CONTINUED,
CURIOUS AND PATHETIC LETTERS. At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester Hay, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, in his capacity au Coroner, contined the inquiry into What led you to believe that the Indian the circumstances surrounding the death | had shot himself saw the wound. of Police-Sergeant T. Glendinning, who was murdered at Tai O on July 17th Simultaneously an inquest was held on the body of P.-c. Bhiga Singh (the cor stable who, it is stated, shot Sergeant Glendinning).
H. J. Rowe, A. M. de Soares, and D.. E. The following were the jury-Messrs.
M. de Souza,
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse (acting Cap-
How do you know he shot himself? There was nobody else to do it..
Somebody else...anny have done That is no possible.
Then the station was desertod? Yes, Mr. King-When the Indian went into the charge-room was there anyone else there?-Witness-No.
it?-station at the time you went in He had But you say you saw Lai Lee at the
returned to the village..
You mean the fact that you saw the riffe lying alongside the Body made you arrive at that conclusion?--Yes, that is what led me believe that he had shot himself
Mr. King--Was the mosquito curtain
tain Superintendent of Police), and Mr.tucked round the bed-Witness: I can- T. H. King, A.S.P., were present on not say; I do not know if it was all- behalf of the Police
round.
In our yesterday's report, it was states that, in reply to the Coroner, Sergeant Perkins said: The carest point from which signals could be seen is from
The Coroner Had anyone else
an
opportunity to get inside before you ?......... Witness: The only person who could lavo got inside was Mrs. Glendinning.
Did you see anyone else there ? No, only Mrs. Glendinning and her child.
3fr King Before you went to the station did Sergeant Perkins instruct you to go to Castio Peak and then call you back --Witness: He told me to go of the jury raised as to whether Sergeant to Castle Peak and telephone to Hong- Glendinning's wound was self-inflicted.kong.
As I was going he called Sergeant Parking, recalled, said he back, as the Indians had told him that found no weapons in the roem- There everyone had been murdered. were several old gans locked up in the
the height of her power befor the Ame-Cheung Chow 4 of 5 miles distant! It rigaus came in could not Brike this should have been “the nearest point from paralysing blows, what would be her posis the Cheung Chow side was 4 or 5 miles tion when America's new and incompar distant." able array is fully on the seem 7. We can be confident as regards the end, be it far or near. It is as sure as the rising of the sun to-morrow. (Loud cheers.)
POLITICAL SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Souh
18
acter.
Africa's
Mr. King said he wished to recall Sergeant Perkins on a point which one
General Smuts, referring the politi cal situation in both AITE, and the elements which made for unity and cells. [aprength" _Wers Jar stronge than the spoladic in Buences working in the direlaunch with Sergeant Perkins. gave cor. Sérgenot. Cassin, who was on the tion ul disunion (Cheers.) What our valour has achieved in this we hope roborative evidence. He added that be. our statesmanship wilt
-(Cheers.). peace.
picked up a carbine and found an empty vonpidacies are not going to remam cartridges case in the chamber. After where they ar it was both Africa's strongest wish in the interest of the everything had been taken from the pire and the role of South Africa that station ais Indian brought witness a book, German South-West Africa would remin a part ar terntory (load cheers) which, he said, he had found lying on and I look ibrward to the dy, when the grass outside the station. Inside it hope is not aistant, when Rhodesia also
were two sheets of paper covered with Will come within the Union. cerritories will stretch to the lambesi and Hindustani characters.- Lunche rivers, and in that great terri- tory a great neritage will established 10r rubare generations.
The following letters, addressed to the Captain-Superintendent of Police by the
When did you see Mrs. Glendinning 1-.- Just before Sergeant Porkins recalled
Jue.
And the Sergeant, seut the launch to Castle Peak Yes.
"The Foreman of the jury-Was the bed lying against the wall or in the middle of the room-Witness: from the wall
It was away
Have you ever seen an Indian gard at the station?--Yes, I have acen them. on various occasions, but on the present ocrasion I saw no Indian on guard,
You say you went there at 10a.m. It the Police custom for the Indian to be changed at 10a.m. If you went at 10 am. you must have seen an Indian go on duty through the charge-room, Did you not see anyone on duty I did not pay any attention at all.
You did not see any Indian in uniform at all --I did not pay any attention.
The CoroneIs there a wall or fence round the station?--Yes, there is a wire fence.
Is it usual for anyone to be about the station when you go there?—Yes.
On this tension you say you did not but I did not see him. see anyone? He may have been there,
You say you were there for ten minutes... Did you notice anyone going in nt. allt No, I noticed no-one.
THE SEARCH FOR THE MURDERER-
The Sergeant Interpreter at Tai O station said that on July 3rd he found a
all sum of money missing from the charge-room. The money, which, was in Hongkong ten-cent pieces, was marked by Sergt. Glendinning and himself. Whiles. Sergeant Glendinning was away witnese THE SHOOTING OF THE SERGEANT,
found the money missing. On the 15th Wong Tai Lung, a fishernian, stated: instant Sergeant Glendinning's cook re- I went to the station at 10 o'clock on the ported to the Sergent that his watch was morning of the murder for the renewal missing. When witness arrived at the of a matshed permit I went into the station he noticed that B 18 was locked charge-room, and saw Sergeant Glen-up in the cell. A NEW WORLD TO EMERGE FROM deceased Indian constable, wero rund dinning there; also Lai Lee Lai Lee witness that the Indian had been locked The Sergeant informed, The writer Tija Singh," B 18 told me that the interpreter was not in. Speaking on reconstruction · General
up for stealing, adding that he had Smuts and that from the prexat struggle
"Sir,-The charge against me is a false I was asked to go outside the door, and searched B 18's box and found is would emerge a new world in which now charge. The Chinese boatmen and the wait for the interpreter to come up. certain of the coins which had been
which methods and greater, organiation would interpreter. accused me, and Pe A48 The European Sergeant did not speak marked Later Sergeant Glendinning be necessary than in the fast, but no desired to sound a note of ring con took bribes he took bribes from gamblers.to me in Chinese at all. He was sitting took the Indian on the E-Sang to Hoog! cerning the importance of no submitting He always gave much trouble to the at a tablo, writing, I waited there for kong Witness did not see Sergeant too much to fiovernment conlol-(cheers) or Geverunent agencies. Bureaucratic
Sikhs. He was a bad man. Don't arrest ten minutes. I was standing near the Glendinning after that till the afternig administration, generally, he been fatal the ethera on
STRUGGLE,
P
to industry and commerce a the past, it myself account I have done window and say an Indian go into the of July Tith. Witness added that it was
and be had no reason to think it would
It is goone else's crime; it is
be any different in the future (Hear, only between the European Sergeant and hear.) The vast fabric of British coin-myself. He gave me much trouble, so merce had been built up by private en-
Sir,Don't trouble anyone on my account. I killed the Sergeant myself. Your Honour did not make enquiry and
terprise and resource, and at they wished I killed him. Don't arrest anyone. My to rise to greater heights be udjured best compliments (Fatteh) to all. Do not them not to allow that initive to pass et trouble come to anyone else.": out of their hands. (Hear, kur.) TRUE FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT..
The second letter ran:- "The true function of Government was not so much to control trade as the open ing up and strengthening of the Kopire's great trade communications. This m piro is scattered, not compact, and acut me to the Police Court. P.-c. A48" depended upon ita communiations. He took bribes from the gamblers. He did hoped one result of the war would be what the Chinese said; he took bribes and that the Empire's strategie-communica tions would be safeguarded for ever. Re- did not make any enquiries. That is all, garding: trade communication, let them
ace that raw products were brought at the Do not arrest anyose at all. Greeting to cheapest rates to the great centres of in-all our-Sikhs." dustry (Lear, hear.) Not to much by erecting & Chinese wall as by opening
charge-room from the Indian quarters adjacent to the charge-room. He was dressed in plain clothes. As soon as he entered the charge-room he fired.
the custom to have an armed guard at the station all the while. One man was 8 p.to., and two mon at either gate from on guard during the day from 6 am to pin. to & am. The guards were arred Mr. King When he came out of the with carbines and bayonets, and carried room did he carry a firearm or not the other. Indian Sergeants, also, were twenty rounds of ammunition. Each of Witness: He went into the room carry-given carbine and 20 rounds of ing a carbine, which he was loading.
anunition, which they kept in the roa Where did he-load it Was it when stated that on the 17th instant he was Witness, proceeding with his narrative, be got to the charge-room door or before? coming up to the station as usual when -As he walked in ho loaded the carbine him that B 18 had killed the Sergeant. he met the station coolie, who informed After he fired what did you see then-He went to the pier, got into a sampan
Tthird letter was addressed to his his arms.
up more channels and mow windows sister and was as follows:- would the Empire very soon cover from
the shock of war. (Cheers, War reveal My best compliments to sister. I say en the earn.cas deets or fong distances. to my sister with folded hands and bowed Let the remove these distangs and help head (to her feet) accept my greeting transportation with Government money and advice.
FRENCH ARMY
BILL
DISIPLINE
PARIS, July 24th.
Sister, don't be anxious because my deathness will give you much pain indeed, don't
On hearing the report of the shot Iand went to a junk, where he obtained walked to the door of the charge room ammunition. He ran with these to the four Winchester rifles and 400 rounds of and poeped in. The Bergeant was lying pior. He wrote a message about the across the desk with his head lying on
murder to the Captain Superintendent of He was still sitting in the Len Pan. He told the detective to go Police and sent it by detective P.-c. 2, chair. I did not think at the time that to Castle Peak and telephone, and if he the Sergeant had been shot. As I pooped met any Folice launch to come to. Tai O into the room a second shot was red.
immediately. The detective started in rowing-boat Witness then armed two Mr. King-Who fired that shot -Wit boatmen with rifles and ammunition and
The same Indian.
proceeded up the hill at the back of the Palice station with the intention of slot- What did you see then ?--I saw the ing the Indian if he was seen on the hill
They each of them fired several rounds. the intention of intimidating the man. into the air on the top of the hill with As they could not see him they went down to the village It must then have been about nood. He heard two rep of firearms from the station, but law no-one there. The station was on fire at the time; and they saw smoke ring from the east end of the building. He saw four or five Indians running from Indian Sergeant, B 144, in a boat coming Batsaipo to Tai U. He also saw ab to the junk where witness was. That was about twenty minutes after the murder ad occurred. He also told some vil lagers to ask a local pawn-shop there to fire a rocket.
be anxious, Greeting to my brother and Sergeant bleeding from his left temple. love to sister Taro. Greeting to my I then ran away as fast as I could.
was nearly out of my senses.
A most stringent "Artay Disipline Billrother-in-law and to brother Bapadar has been introduced in the Chamber. 1 Singh Brother-in-law and sister go back provides, inter alia, for the deprivation home soon. Greeting to mother and Jai of rank and from two to five years in prisonnient in the case of Genral officers round guilty of grave mistakes The Bill is not retrospective ANGLO-GERMAN WAR
PRISONERS' AGREEMENT.
LONDON, July 24th.
Four. If anyone says Tipa Singh, B16, bas done injustice' it is not so; there is no injustice. Of course injustice to the woman and child (ie., it would be in- justice if I had killed the woman and child.")
Continuing, Sergeant Cassim said that shortly afterwards an Indian brought
In the House of Lords, Low Newton, replying to. Lerd Devonport, said the Anglo-German Agreement as regards war prisoners was very far-reaching. It in another piece of paper on which were volved the exchange of a very large num-ajao Hindustani characters. There were ber of combatants and the repatriation
fed:
of all civilians so wishing to be repatriat splashes of blood on it. He also found The agreement also deal with the two sheets of paper with Hindustani relief and treatment of prigners. A characters in the pocket of B 18's tunic. speedy ratification of the Treaty
difficult: there were points requiring Witness sent a man to the village to get much consideration, and reservations on the part of Germany might cension de some coolies to bring water to put the day, but the British Government was fire out. About 6.30 p.m. a small hand- doing its utmost to expedite ratification AMERICAN LOAN TO CHINA
WASHINGTON, July, 2416.
The Government has agreed to the Line
pipe was brought from the village, but the fire had already got too big a held, The It continued burning all night Police launch arrived next morning and
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The Coroner-Was any portion of the British, French and Japanese bankers station saved?-Witnes-All the eastern
I
ran
along the verandah of the station.
Did anyone chase you?-The Indian he levelled his carbine at me.
Did he shoot No.
Yes
Did he speak to yout-No. Then you ran through the gate Did you meet anyone?-I met Lai Lee near the boatmen's quarters.
What was Lai Lée doing -I met him running out. He ran, and I ran.
As you ran, you passed along the Indians' room, did you not?--Yes.
Did you see anyone inside 3-I saw some Indiana lying asleep.
Did you see anyone run away1-Yen, but I cannot recognise them.
No.
When you had got over your fright did you see any Indians come out of the station I did not.
Coroner How many Indians are there in the station Winess Eleven, lut on July 17th there were 12. When they came down the will they met fou Indians, one of whom was in uniform. and armed with a rife with ixed bayonet. A witness instructed 145 to watch for and shoot b 18 if he saw him running
Did you see, any Indians run away 1-out of the gal. He did not know as that time whosuers. Glendinning was. dead or not. Witness added that ho examined tile sale ter everything was ovit and found $100 missing. He also round a mattress belonging to B 18, with hole in the middle. He did not notice whether there was a hole in the sheet. The Indians returned later and rescued their rifles, ammunition and clothing from the Sro Taey were put on guard duty, but witness could not say whether they were armed or not.
Where did you go after that I-I re turned to the boat.
The Coroner-On the same night did any police officer ask what had happened
mercury Forty years The details sro not compled, but wing and the chargeroom. The Euro-Witness: I did not see a police officer: oss Sold by all Chemish 850,000,000 is regarded as the approximate and Storckoopers throughout figure,
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pean quarters were completely burned they were all scattered.
Mr Wolfe aujourned the inquiry at 6.15 p.m. till Monday at 2.15 p.m.