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No. 21,719. XEXITAX0 B HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1928. **** 日式廿月弍年八廿百九仟登英 KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEKS DAYS.
A.M. AM. AM.
43.
(P.M. Į P.M. (PML | PIL
840 8.05 9,10 10,00 12,00 115 215 4.35 8,43
0,30 10,07 | 12,07 1,2%) 9.83 10:19 19.19
134
7.18
4.49
7.23
4.84 ROS
7.35
7.18
Taipo Market
7.30
9.53 10.36 12.38 151
9.48 10.53 12.32 1.47
8.07. 6.16
7.49
811 019
Tanling
10.08 10.46 12,48 |- 2,01{
Shawngahuj
Cap: 7,35
10,10 10,51 12,51 2,06
5.21 6.30 5,28 6.35
7.32. 18.02 8.07
Brumahan....Art, 7,41 | 8.45) 10,15 10.57 12,67 || $,12) 2.55 5.22 8,41 Danion ...AT-1.60 5.38
Canton
6.03
ADE AG A.X.
4.K. 7.1. A.M.
P.M.
...Dop
8.08
11.37 2,18 | 4,43
11.44
8,00 4.48
6.49 3.58
5.201 6.24
11.49 8.10 4.69
0.00
12,00
321
5.09
8.10
12.08 3.36 5.07
8.15
.Dep. 7.57 8.44 11.18
12.19 839 6.20
8.29
Dep, .11 .56 11.26
78.179,03 11,31 11,49
1281 8.51 8.59 12.87 3.57
5.39
6.40 646
1.04
Bramehun...Dep.7.18 8.08 10.34 11.00 Sheungshal Dep.1.25 8.19 10.41
Taaling Dep, 1.80 8.16 10.45
Taipo Markel Dep, 7,40 8.48 10,56 Dep. 7,648,2111.00
Taipo
Shatin
Yutmat Κοπίσου
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
Dept
6.48
Dp2.01
Dap. 7.16
9.10 10.00 1200 134 218339 1.15 0.20 10.07 12.07 9.37
10.00 10.48-12,468,10
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Kowloon
Dep. 8,40
8.058,809.04
Ysamati Shatin
Tapo Market Day, 7.20 Fanling
9.83 1019 12.19 S 248 1034 1233 236
9.58 10,84 12.388,00
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864
5.38 7.85
5.56 7.59 8,078.09 (6,19 8,07
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A.K.
BLOS
5.88
Shum Chun. Der 8.05 10.34 11.09 11.97
Bheungshai..Dep. 8.12 10.41
Fanling Deps 8.16 10.48
8.03 ***
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8.201
11.44
8.05
3.00 3.34 5.35 5.07 5.41
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11/9 8.30
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12.19
3,39
6.34
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Taipo Market Dep. 8.99 10.59
Dep 8FT 11,00
Dep, 8.45 11.1
Dep. 867
12.00 8.21 4.1
Kowloon medry: 2.03 11,51 11.40
11.40 19.7 3.57
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BETS. CLAIM.
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An action by w bookmaker nam Lospas, Jan. 20th,
Duggan again woman, race- spy is very often a brave man, home owner named Nugent came who, for the sake of his country; before the Court of Appeal (Lords encounters very serious personal riak, but în thrar matters you have | Justices Sefytten and Sargant and been doing anthing for your coun- Mr. Justice Eve)... try."
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To-day.
Ash Wednesday. Washington's Birthday. -First Day of Ramthan
Fanling Hunt: Meet Hunters' Arms, 2.30 p.m.
Cricket: HK. University Inter Faculty Match: Arts v. Engineers. Hotel Savoy, 4.30
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. Lane, Crawford's Restaurant. 4.30-6.30
Cafe Regent, 5-6.00 p.m. H.E.C.C. Singles Tennis Tourna- ment begins.
The court dismissed an appeal. by Mr. Duggan from an order of Mr. Justice Clausen, directing him to give particulare of his claim for £1,477 18s 4d.
Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) to Wilfred Thomas McCartney, an underwriter, and George Hansen, a German student, in sentencing them at the Old Bailey yesterday
Mr. Du Parc R.C., for Mr. to ten years' penal servitude and two years' hard labour, to run con- | Duggan, said the whole question currently, for espionage on behalf) was whether particulars sladd be of the Soviet Government of given before the particulars should Russia
be given sixfore the defence was delivered.
The two prinese-McCartney, thickset, broad-shouldered, with a freak complexion and aggressive Jaw; and Hurmet, pale, light, and fair-haired--were obviously abaken by the heavy sentence; and the young German, who throughout the case bad wom an amused bok. went ashen.
Writing Test Mistake. The jury, who were absent only 13 minutes, bad listened to a de, vastating concluding speech by the
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Lord Justice Scrutton: Is it this: The plainant is a bookmaker claiming to recover bets in sub- stance, but it may be be is going to say, "Limay recover them under an agreement, and if I did not report you to somebody you would pay"
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Mr. Du Parcq: I think that is what it comes to. There are let- ters in which it is plain that there are requests not to cause the lady to be warned off,
Attorney-General Sir Douglas Why on earth can't you my so?
Hogg, who, as did the Lord ChiefThe answer is that if we don't Justice in his summing up, laid ay so the order of the judge is stress on the sensatonal incident
right. in the trial when McCartney made a fatal mistake in a handwriting test by spelling the word "com- plete LI
compleat."
This word was apelt the same way in Document No. 18, which the Lord Chief Justice and contained information of the most vibal mod. secret kind and which McCartköy had denied having written.... 14
Attorney-General
"Can you doubt," mid Lord Hewart, that the man" who wrote Exhibit No. 18 is the side men who made the same mistake 'yester- day in the witness-boz?"
The
pointed out that in addition to his own passport McCartney had also a passport in the name of "William Frank Hudson," that no such per- son had been traced, and that the original application for this pass- port was missing from the Pass- port Office.
ENLISTED AT 16.
BRILLIANT ARMY RECORD.
J.
"Half The Stakes."
Mr. Du Pareq declared that the statement of claim incorporated letters from the woman which anid:
I beg you not to report me, but to give to a chance of pay ing your key rúming my two Forse At they win Laball por you half the stakes. We really hope to do well, and I shall pay you every shilling. I can't do more than promise you half the "stakes.
We have only won one" race. You have a Est of all the horses, ...I keep you posted with all stable information. Please do stop all warning off or you will fraish me altogether.
Taking those letters as a sample they showed the kind of agreement alleged.
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Lord Justice Sorutten, giving Judgment, said a claim based on an agreement to pay if the other. party did not
Whe al- report ways viewed by the court with uspicion. He thought Mr. Dug- gan should be required to state what the agreement was and how the amount was arrived at
Before the prisoners were sen tenced Detective Inspector Cos grove, of the Special Branch of
1918 he was wounded and taken Scotland Yard, gave some details of McCartney's remarkable career. prisoner near Cambrai, and while McCartney, said the officer," was returning from a court-martial in bora in Fifeshire and educated at Hanover jumped from the train
He enlisted in and escaped into Holland. & public school, 1915 in the Royal Army Medical It is stated that when the war Corps and obtained a commission ended NeCartney continued his in the Royal Sects that he rein-association with the British Secret quished through illness in 1916. Service and did useful work in Afterwards he was given a commis Turkey. sion in the Essex Regiment. In September 1918 he was taken prisoner, but escaped and subse- quently went to Constantinople' as a railway trafic officer.
He felt the Army in 1918. In 1828 articles under his name ap peared in the Sunday Worker. It the same year he was sentenced to nine monthe imprisonment for at- tempted shop-breaking, and there were three other convictions, two for being drunk and disorderly and one for assaulting the police. In 1921 he was said to have had å fortune of £20,000, part of the proceeds of the business of his father, who was supposed to be part owner of railways and tram waya in Malta. He was married, with no children.
£60,000 Fortuno,
In June 1919. McCartney entered on a business career with every prospect of a brilliant future. His father was a one-third shareholder is the Malta Tramways, which were constructed by his firm, and on his father's death McCartney went to Malta, where he incrensed his holding in the company to a total of about 100,000. He was not n auccessful business man, however, and sold his sharts for half their amiginal value.
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On his return to England he married, and his luxuriously Queen's Theatre: "Lovers" furnished fat in King-street, Ken- World Theatre: Altars of sington, was the scene of many gay Desire." parties. He also entertained Star Theatre: "The Road to lavishly at exclusive restaurants Yesterday and night clubs...
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