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Saturday.
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SAILINGS FOR EUROPE:
RECENT MURDER TRIALS IN ENGLAND,
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22ND, 1924
WEATHER KEPORT!. August 1st at 17,40.—Telegraphic coram nication with Hongkong is interrupted.
Pressum þas decreased slightly at innila and Legaspi, and iners slightly at other report. ing stations: it probably remains lowest over
Hangkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 18 hours, Angust21st, 1.42 inch, Tolal sce January lat, 8.21 inches, against an average of 6215 inches
The forcast for the 24 hours ending at 15 hours, Aug, tad is as follows
FORECAST DISTRICT
The following cable messages are from Indian papers: SEQUEL TO CRUMBLES MURDER
LONDON, July 10th. After spending 3 hours in the witness- hox, during three of which he was sul jected to
severe cross-examination? Patrick Mahon, who is charged at the Lewes Assizes with the warder of Emily Keye, fear Eastbourne, completed his
cloudy, showery. evidence. He frequently broke down and Hongkong to Gap Rock SW, winds, · fresh;, cried loudly, and at the finish he wasin p -state of collapse. "Mahon's evidence wIM practically a recapitulation of his state: ment to the police; but he admitted that he bought a knife and a saw previously to the deceased's death, and not sui sequently, as he had previously affirmed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. and Mahon was sentenced to death.
Mr. Justice Avory, in passing sentence, said: The jury have arrived at the only proper conclusion on the evidenev,, not knowing that you have already served a term of penal servitude for à crinus of violence. There is no question that you deliberately designed the death of this woman.'..
The newspapers publish the life story of Mahou, showing that he belonged to humble bust respectable Liverpool family Mahon, for many years, was a Sunday sehool teacher. He committed his Erst crime in 1911, at the age of 2 when be was bound over on a charge of forging employer's cheque. In the following year he was sentenced to 12 months imprison. ment for forging and uttering, and finally, 16, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for wounding a servant girl who surprised him while he was attempt ing to commit a burglary at a bank. Moe has an attractive personality, and is a good conservationalist and salesman. For years he carried on many affairs with women, with whom he stayed at the most He was a voracious expensive hotels.
in
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MANILA TIENTSIN BAIPHONG THOIHOW NEWCHWANG is SWATON, SHANGHAI & ANTONG BANGKOK SWATOW - STRAITS & CALCUTTA - TSINGTAU vs SWATOW
ANGHAI
SHANGHAI SWATOW MANILA vis AMOY KOBE
-HAIPHONG vis HOIHOW
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"YUENSANG" "CRIPSHING" "MINGSANG
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Saturday, 23rd Aug,, Noo Sunday, Nick Aug. 7. ...Sunday, 24th Aug., 10am
26th Aug., 5,
HANGSANG.Monday,"
LAISANG
“FOOSHING* "LOK ANG
SUISANG
AMYANG"
"LEESANG
"FINBANG
...Tuesday, 28th Ang. Sp
Wednesday, 27th Aug., 10 am. Friday, 20th Aug 10,
Saturday, 30th Aug., 3 pm
Sunday,
...Sanday
Thursday,
31st Aug. 7 ..
31st Aug. 82
4th Sept. 1 pm
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accommodation, All steamere have excellent
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER. Hobgkook Observatory, August 214.
Previous On DateOn Date
at Day at 2 pm. 8 a.m.
MANILA
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HIGH WATER
Days rek
Day South.
reader of French novels, and the life of Landru (the French Blue-heard "), was! Fri. found at the. Crumbles bungalow, where Emily Kaye died. There is a suggestion that he was trying to imitate Laden's: methods.
BYFLEET MURDER CASE;
LONDOS, August 1st.
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The police have discovered at Byfleet two bottles, one containing liquid cor- Wed, 27 m rosive poison and the other containing 241 grains of strychnine crystals, and it is Thur. 28 m stated that these bottles were hidden by Vaquier in a shed behind the Blue Anchor lintel.
"This discovery followed a statensent made by Vaqtier after conviction and disposes completely of his defence that he Jught less than two grains of strychnine, whereas, according to the evidence of Sic Bernard Spillary. Jones (the victim of the murder had taken two grains and It' is now abundantly probably more. clear that Vaquier intended, when he male the statement, to throw suspicion on Mrs. Jones, but further inquiries made at the instance of the Director of Public Prosecutions suggest that there is no foundation for this and that Vaquier had not only himself bought the whole of the poison but that he alone knew of its existence.
SYME INQUIRY REPORT. COMMITTEE AGAINST THE EX-INSPECTOR.
The Committee appointed by the Home Secretary to investigate the drcumstances of the dismissal from the Metropolitan Police of ex-Inspector John Syme, has completed its investigations, and its report is now in the hands of the Home. Secretary.
The Committee has decided against Mr. Syme, and their decision is stated to have been unanimous.
It is likely that the decision may be announced in the House in response to a question addressed to the Home, Secre tary The Committee, which was ap pointed in. May, consisted of Mr. Justice: Talbot, chairman, Judge Parfitt, and Mr Rayner Goddard, K.C., Recorder of Poote.
examine. the ...Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Bremen 6th September
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eth
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The committee was instructed. “To ciremstances connected with the dismissal of Inspector John Syne from the Metropolitan Police Force, to report whether wrong was done to that officer, and if it was to indicate the measure of the" redress due in equity to bim *
The finding of the committee is to the effect that Mr. Syme's grievances are not well founded.
It will be recalled that the fume Secre tary stated that Mr. Syme gave an under- taking to abide by the findings of the These have been cofninumi- committee. eated to him.
FOURTEEN YEARS' ACITATION. This decision is the culmination of nearly fourteen years of agitation on the part of ex-Inspector Syme for the redress of his alleged grievance that he wrongly dismissed from the Force.
was
Syme has had a remarkable history. He began ble as a law clerk in Scotland, subsequently coming to England an joining the Metropolitan Police Force... After serving a period of two years, Juring which time he proved an efficient officer, he obtained a transfer to the executive, branch of the Commissioner's Office at Scotland Yard, crentually being posted to Gerald-road Police Station as an inspector.
Je was later transferred to Fulham, and afterwards reduced in rank and dis- missed the Force for alleged insubording: tion.
He appealed to the Commissioner, but, getting no satisfaction, went with, his complaint to the Home Secretary,
He has since that time endeavoured by various means to get a full inquiry into the circumstances of his dismissal from the Force
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OF KWANGTUNG. : Water'evels in English Feet at 10 AM.
Place of Observation
River
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River Shiucho, N. 3amehui,
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at 11
A weekly service is maintained with Manila by veces with gol passenger accommodation, sailings from both parts avery Saturday! HAIPHONG LINE-Sailings approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at
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is fan fronz March to November betwoon Hong-
TIENTSIN LINEA SUB er vessionally calling at Weihaiwi and Chefoo
Fong and
BANGKOK LINEA weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok rim Swatow by Fire steamers Etted with no-to-date passenger accom modation.
CALCUTTA LINE
3.8.
'LAISANG" will be despatched on
or about
Tuesday, 26th August, 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG
& CALOUTTA.
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, PORT SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIES,
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