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Hsuan Tung, or Mr. Henry Pu Yi, as he prefers to be called, the ex-Emperor of China, who is now
(Asiatic News Service.)
TIENTSIN, June 29th.
'BUS CONDUCTOR AND HIS PASSENGER.
John Robinson, aged 30, was at Westminster Police Court cammit- ted for trial at the Central Following the example of the Criminal Court on the charge of only twenty-one years of age, re- Chinese conservative authorities, the wilful murder of Mrs. Minnie cently described in a graphic inter. who are prohibiting modern Chi- Alice Bonati, wife of sa Italian view with Mr. C. J. Ketchum, the nese women and girls to wear queer waiter, whose dismembered body Daily Express special correspondent and strange costumes, the Japanese was found in a trunk at Charing at Tientsin, the sufferings and con-police chief of the Japanese ConCrees Station on Map 10th The fasion of his country in the present cession at Tientsin has also issued crime is alleged to have been com civil turmoil.
stringent orders forbidding young mitted at offices in Rochester-row, Japanese women and girls, reading Westminster, which Robinson took in North Chins, to uncover their as a house and estate agent." elbows or legs in the streets. "All Japanese females must wear decent dress, when walking in the streets otherwise their fathers or husbands will be held responsible and fined for such offences, reports the Tung Fang Shih Pao.
He sees little hope unless a "Wellington" or a "Napoleon " arises.
Breaks Silence at Last, The young ex-Emperor of Chinx broke his silence on the political and military problems of his country, which he has maintained for more than the two years since he was driven from his bed in the Imperial Falace at Peking by General Feng Yu Hsiang and forced to tako refuge in the British Legation.
He was afterwards brought safely from Peking by his English
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
NO CHANGE
tutor, and he has lived in exile in de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient, in The Compagnie de Commerce & the Japanese concession bere ever their report dated Saigon, July
since.
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I saw him in the brilliard-room 12th, state: Practically no change
Alfred William Harris, of Knatchbull-read, Camberwell, an omnibus conductor, mid that on May 9th, about 8.30, near Kenning- to Church, & passenger with a rather large black trunk entered the
omnibus
1. endeavoured to place the trunk under the staircase," mid Harris, but found it was too large. I then advised him to take it upstairs, and I helped him half- way up with it,"
•
Harris said he had to go inside to
and the man might easily have got collect fares opposite Rochester-row
off while he was doing this When the ommibus stoppert at Victoria the man and the trunk had gone.
in the top storey of an old Chinese to report in our market since our restaurant which has been convert st advices. The position regard
Woman and a Foker, ed for him into a "palace." It is ing Shanghat business remains un- ebanged and only very few sales
Chief-Inspector Cornish, who put situated in the centre of the former have been made on account of the in two statements which Robinson public gardens,
lack of suitable tonnage.
is alleged to have made, was cross- Other markets continue to look examined by Mr. Laurence Vine,
defending Robinson.
"Here the young ex-Emperor re- sides, his windows overlooking a fountain which springs from za cachanting lotus pond amid- an arbour of green foliage and thou- sands of crimson roses-all alone with his Empress,
Typical Scholar,
He is tall and of an athletic build and much older in appearance than he sctually is." He looks a typical
Chinese scholar.
He told me that he spent most
.
The total amount of rice export- ed from January 1st to June 30th, 1927, is 902,052.592 tous against 809,711.684 tens in 1998.
Inspector Cornish agreed that Robinson did not tally with the description issued by Scotland. Yard. He said he knew of the "dead' We quote to-day white Saigon woman's mode of life. rice No. 1,25 per cent. round grain: Do you know that on three dif- Hong Kong $7.50 per pical of 134 ferent occasions and at three differ- lbs. fo.b. Saigon; 138. Od. per ewtent addresses this woman tried to fo.b. Saigon; Ten &.15. per picul of commit suicide by coal-gas poison-
134 ba. Lob. Saigon.
ing? I have not heard of that White Saigon rice No. 2 sifted blaze. of his time studying the Chinese Japan equality: Hong Kong $7.10 classics and English with his English per pical of 134 lbs. Lo.b. Balgon: tutor, and that he devoted hours 12, od per est fab. Saigon to the strenuous exercise of Chinese Yen 7.58 per picul of 134 lbs. fob boxing,
Saigon.
The King sat and talked on - a black silk divan, with black skull cap set at a jaunty angle, and ser- | vants bowed their way in and out of his presence,
***No, no. "I never wish to be emperor again," he remarked with a melancholy note in his voice, as he discussed his own position in China,
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I suppose you have not heard either that she attacked Rolls, with whom she lived, with a poker on more than one occasion! I know they quarrelled, but I did not know that she attacked him with poker.
Detective-Inspector Steele said *What the effect will be I cannot that when he visited the rooms "say, but I believe bís is the last used by Robinson he found that a resolute stand against the Souther- small pane of glass in the window ners-the so-called Nationalists of the inner room was broken. Whether or not he sacceeds in his There was a faint smell of gas. programme depends almost entirely
Mrs. Bonsti's Hat, on the measure of assistance he re- ceives-from-England and Jepas.
Detective-Bergeant Sharpe said that after Robinson had made bis "Japan, I know, will help him, atatement on May 23rd he was left because she realises that her own in the charge of Sergeant Young "A good emperor or king must interests are, threatened, Japan' be the representative and the father never hesitates to help where her
and himself. Robinson said: “I forgot to say what I did with her.
It is no sinecure," he said,
but
a great responsibility to be ad emperor or a king to-day.
:
of his people I am not good own interests are involved, but Eng-hat. I burnt it in the fireplace at enough to be the father of the land also should come to his assist people of China: not strong enough ance. morally or mentally,
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my lodgings. There was nothing "She can help with money and in in her bag but two farthings and If there should come a time again ¦ a military way, for without some
man's photograph, which I
T
Later, said Sergeant Sharpe,
and I am sure that it will come, assistance of this kind Chang Teo destroyed." once when we have a united China- Lin, who has remained in power so Robinson Laid: "There is one that at emperor be called to the long enly. because of the support of throne once more, some one else the Japanese, can scarcely he ex- must go, a greater man than me.",pected to hold out against the com- "What do we see ! Nothing but bined forces of the Bouth which are maladministration, treachery, brib now pressing northward to bring ery, wars. My poor people..
about his downfall.”***
Eace for Feking.
thing. If I had not done this abe would have been a nuisance to me for the rest of my life."
Mr. Vine: I suggest one of you officers made the last statement, alleged to have been made, by Robin-
China is suffering more than anything else to-day from too many I asked the ex-Emperor who can, in a casual way and he agreed rotten generals. I see them every-would-reach Peking first. He was to it, saying, “I suppose so ??f where, fighting, advancing; back quick to reply that in his opinion it Sergeant Sharpe. That was not 50. wards, forwards. Their great armies would not be Chiang Kai Shek, the
Robinson's Denial. what are they for Not for dictator of Nanking, but Feng Yu Chine, but for themselves, strug Haing, the Christina General gling and pushing for their own personal gain.
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I asked the ex-Emperor his opinion of Chang Tax Lia, the now Fekirig dictator
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no evidence at all on the part of The ex-Emperor broke off biase the prosecution, he said, which tence.I feel so badly for my amounted to anything stronger than
An elephant weighing 4 tons people. Il all these armies could what he might be allowed to de
awung violently in mid-air trumpet "I don't think too much of him only be taken out of the hands of scribe as pure medical speculation
CALCUTTA, 1ng and struggling in terror at Mid There is an uneasiness on the of lascars below were engaged in dlesbrough docks, while a group he replied, with a smile. He these treacherous generals and come or conjecture as regards the actual Hyderabad (Sind)
matrimonial trans-shipping the great beast on like all the rest of them, except that under a Napoleon or Wellington, cause of death.
stock exchange. Premium for the last stage of her journey from he seems to have made a deter that I could help.
version of what happened m the the rise in prices then I feel the time would come, He submitted that the caly actual son-in-law are going up and the India to the London Zoo,
Amil community is perturbed over. For a few moments disaster mained stand against the Bolsheviks Meanwhile, as I have said, I afternoon when the woman wether
threatened. Then Minnie ceased "He has been helpful in this way wish to travel abroad. I want to death was that given by Robinzon
The dowry for a good son-in-law her struggling, and was safely land not only to China, but to the whole go to England. I would go to himself, when he said that she went which used to fuctuste between ed on the quay, head foremost, world. His dictatorship is import morzow had I my own way, but I for him, he struck at her, and left 2,000 and 10,000 rupees (2900 to among a mass of steel girders Kat, because it will bring together be misunderstood by my people..
fear that if I did my action would her lying on the floor. £1,000), according to his date and The elephant, which stands eight family connections, has now gone and-a-hall-feet high, had been sent Mr. Boyd (the ma
magistrate) I as one force all the parties in the They might belleve that I was consider there is a case for the jury up to a 20,000 (£2,000), with out to India from the Zoo. The thip North, but it must not be forgotten running away that I was leaving on the charge of wilful murder. Hindu festivals PROMOVEIS
auxiliaries such as presents on in which she returned does not come that it will also consolidate swiftly my country to its fate in the hour Robinson was then cautioned and To arrest this growth and avert pany could not handle auch an chore to London, and as the railway cons when I might help
we shout to say something but a panic the Amis community of mous freight, the elephant way trai Mr. Vine row and ward He only Hyderabad have formed s com shipped to another Briath ship desires to say this, I emphatically mittee to formulate's plan to deal the Manio, to complete her trip to deny murdering that woman. effectively with the problem.
the
all the factions which are now must therefore, wall a httle | divided in the -
and then you may expect my wife and myself in your great country
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