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POISON DRUG COMMUNISTS AS
DANGER
EASY PURCHASE OF DEADLY ACID.
LONDON INQUEST DIS CLOSURE
A great deal of poison can be bought in this country without breaking
said the coroner for: We
BONDHOLDERS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14th, 1928.
TRAFFIC IN USED STAMPS
A NICE POINT IN SOCIALIST ETHICS.
SOMERSET HOUSE SEN- TENCES.
THE RUSSIAN LOAN SYSTEM FRAUDS NOW NOT POSSIBLE.
Moscow.
The
recont extension of the Soviet internal loan system has raised a nice point in Communist den Kr. ethick Can a Communist, trained Oswell, in returning an open var to look on money derived from in- forest "na aunearned income and, hastane a symbol of exploitation, tako pro- At from his investments in state
sette diet st. Paddington at the Inquest Hamilton, aged 43
이다.
the wife of a bank cashier, of fans and his deposits in savings.
ove, W
Mm. Hamilton died from the effects can overdose of poitomous ding called dialacetin, and stated to be made in Switzer- land.
banks and what if a Communist holds the lucky number in the for- teries which always go with Rus
in loans and wins A handsome money prize of five or ten thousand
"ronbies t
The drug was prescribed by Mrs. Hamilton's doctor for insomnia. | acute
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These questions aro especially because Communists are
It was stated in court by the doc under a moral obligation to truy tor that each tablet contained 5 es many bonds as they can afford. grain and a half of the poison bar The Communist Party has commit bituric acid, and that four tablets ted itself to the programme of in- would be sufficient to cause death dustrialising the country, and this
I was alay stated that it was demande large amms of new invest- | possible that a a packet of the drug ment capital, which can only be. containing 15 tablets might be realised inside the country. Since bought from some chemists without the wealthy classes in Russia care
docteurs prescription..
Wife's Delusions m Mr. Heary F. T. Handlion, the hushand, was asked if there was any foundation for certain state ments in some letters written by Mrs Hamilton He said he was in financial trouble three or four financiar the bucks were engle
Soren mea who pleated ghity at the Old Bailes to trafficking in or
possessing -- used judicature
stamps at Somerset House, came before the Common Serjeant (Sir Henry Dickens, KC) for sentence, and were dealt with as follows! Robert Forsythe, 48, permanent official in the Probato Register, 15 months in the second division.
THE KING AT A WEDDING, GE
WOMEN FLOCK TO SEE MARQUESS'S BRIDE.
THOUSANDS WAIT FOR HOURS.
LONDON, Feb. 10th.
At the moment yesterday when Lady Mary Kathleen Crichtou, after her wedding, at which the King was present, passed out of the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields as the Marchioner of Hamilton she looked upon a multitude of women, most of whom had waited Bagnatiupanel Daging for many hours to see her leading on the arm of her tall bridegroom
The picture she made was as pretty as the most romantic girl
USING WASTE PRODUCTS OF THE RUHE
PIPELINES TO TOWNS.
COLOGNE
A company was recently formed in Essen with a capital of 23,000,000 marks for the purpose of utilizing waste products, parkicızlarly gan from the Rubur cookeries, and for this purpose hoge pipeh erected eastwest across the Rufr for collecting the waste gar, whilst from each extremity "Hambam and
were
upply pipts
be said to Hamburg, Munich, Drowder, Berlin, Stuttgart, "de
The Arst step towards the fulfil-
• ment of tims, scheme was completed
in all that host could have imagini November last year, when the ed.
Arthur Leste Sibbaid, 36, clerk in the Probate Registry, 10 months in the second divinan William August Langhorne, do, and Frederick L. S. Allen, 25, clerks in Probate Registry, 9 months Lemard Clarke, 23, Lewis Stanley
sach in the second division. She advanced, floating, as it Kapor, 29, and Arthur Thomas secured, in a cloud of shimmering Dowles, 23, solicitors clerks, satin and old lace, a very shyly bound over in their own reces smiling bride. nisances
Forsythe, Sibbald, Langhorne, and Allen were alleged to have re- moved cancelation marks and then
d. the stamps over again, either by selling them to the public or by aubstituting then for unused stamps.
NEW SYSTEM IN USE
whole of the southern portion" of Bochum was supplied with steant from adjacent colliores The re heating from tire superfluous etsam
mainder of the town is now being connected up. Another important step forward in the completion of Many Women Faint
the line to Hanover and the signing People were massed on all sides of the contract whby, Ena town of Trafalgar square, down Dun will obtain its gas supply from the cannon-street, round about the Buhr cockeries. Speaking to the prees the Ober-Burgermeister of Nurse Cavell monument, and all laroyer said that the town would along. St. Martin's place to Char henefit considerably from this ar ing Cross-road. The steps and the rangement, and announced a reduc great portico of the National Galtion in the price of gas of one lery" were also thronged, while plannig per cubic centimetre as people swarmed at windows and from April next
both less numerous and less opulent Ondal Claim @That Trand is" Now | on the tops of tall buildings Frankfort-on-Main, which, so ta
derpy Impossible. than they are in other countries, High officials Sonserset House the Soviet financial authorities have been much perturbed as the count on a wide distribution of the remit of the disclosures made dur bonds among the masses of the ing the hearing of the case. They state, however, that they are now population; and Commurats are satisfied that the "cocker of die supposed to set a good example by honesty (referred to by the Com buying bandstill it hurts," tomon Sergeant below) has been use a familiar phram ir Américandocial said
MINDEN
fed, and he was still there. His war loam selling campaigns. wife helped him through in a cer- The Bourgeois Taint. tain way.
Mr. Oswald Financially At the time I was in the hands of moneylenders. That was paid off by my sister.
She had delusions about your position-She was under the im pression, that I was running about with another woman. She said she had seen me in a motor car with a
None of these things was
Hypnotic Poison. Dr. Anthony M. F. Browne said about a year ago be prescribed for insomma a proprietary drug made abroad called dialscotia, one-half to one tablet to be taken only oc" casionally. The tablets were not poisonous if taken in proper doses
A specially force of police at the door of was paired to control the crowds.sk, ding out on the chur Several women fainted and has jointly with Cologne pur- When the marques and his mar- chased coalfelda from the Rheinsbe chioness drose away slowly through Steal Warks, which Ee on the left the narrow Inner left clear by the bank of the Lower Rhine near crowds, there was tremendous Mars, to ensure their own gas. BED- cheering
olyandependent of the ambitious the Coal Cyndicate fuhr scheme, which in fathered by
no two
Cheers For The King
pass
Two minutes later the King Pay Although, there can be of tum- It may be taken for granted beside Lady Mary Stanley, the ing to good use the waste products that the Probate Registry has now put its house in order, while bride's mother, who was wheeled from the Rohr mines and murelding if an invalid's chair. Then the works, it is yery doubtful af the The obligation to buy bands is
a system of cancellation of stamps cheers roso louder still, and hats present scheme,which amounts not disputed; but, the question of has been evolved which will grond handkerchiefs were delighted more or less to a monopoly, will
vent any similar fraud in the what to do with the interest and
kely waved; be to the general good, us such a premiums remains complex and future. knotty
and has around widespread should also be remembered All about the King Buttered the monopoly will be sole to control that the frauds now exposed eight little bridesmaids-pink the price of gas throughout the were in fact a conspiracy between checked, laughing girls in yellow greater part of Germany discussion in the Party Press
members of the staff and mem- chiffon, their curly beads crowned of Marxisn Some hot-gospellers
bera of the public. It would be with many-coloured chaplets of protest that they will not touch a
impossible if the buyer and seller crocuses, and in their hands postes of stamps were not both in the of tulipe The King tapassed to tropeak of money that is tainted
fraud for it to be perpetrated. see them fitting here and there like by the capitalistic principle of in-
There was passing a "cleaned terest. Their earnings from bonda and savings-banks wil go back to the State or to the general Party funds; and the bolders of this point of view usually express Lp- prehension that the comrades who ara les scrupulous in their atti tuds will become infected with
petty bourgeois ideology."
This, however, seems to be an ex- tremist minority view, if the let- term published on the question are the any gange of public opinion party A number of Communist workers ago that party members,
Mr. Oswald said that the packet: was labpiled poison What, he ask ed, is the effect of barbituric acid 1podbag
Dr
Browne
je: ki is mypublic What would be a poison does of it-I have never heard of a case especially workers, should have the of poisoning. According to
same rights as other citizens in the Fiterature six grains would be a matter of receiving intermat and fatal dose, but I am not quite cer- premiums. They point out that the worken olter lives under difficult With your prescription he could get as many more tablets as the conditions, that his remuneration is usually much smaller than that of the responsible party official.' Each packet contains 22 graias (No Communist, according to the of barbituric acid. Four tablets would be enough to cause death party rules, is supposed to receive
Vikos ?—Yes,
Yes
Can anyone buy these tablets at chemist's --I don't think it comes under the Dangerous Drugs
Can it be bought without a doc
ption?—I cannot my
It ought not be red No
monthly salary frgher than two hundred and twenty-five roubles Very few mamal workers, owever, earn this amount, the averags wage
the
factorie being The about sixty zou party ante adyan
tha members in that they to refain their
Dr. Mary Marshall, house; phy. PREV
nt St. Mary's Hostatal, Mrs. Hamilton in the who attend
they
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funds)
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the Acts
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the chemist.
It would the
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read a letter written
ton and addressed to
ing:
-hearted and.
FRAUD VERY RIFE."
DIAMOND FIELD DRAMA.
"of a merry Asprites, and patted their EX-OFFICER DEAD FRIEND
heads of they passed He Was CHARGED WITH MURDER. casual person stamp under the old system, and charmed, too, by the three pagesat se jebakk
JOHNNESBURG none at all under the new one. who wore long blue trousers and
yellow Bubbles" "shirts (
A grim drama is reported to-day Comparatively few people saw from the Grasfontein diamond dig the King arrive at the church, forgings, the scene of death, tragedies, he entered it by a side door and fortunen red plush armchair was placed for him in front of the foremost pew ou the bride's side, close to the chancel, where four great vases overflowing with dafodils and mimoss were set.
Common Serjeant on an Astounding Position,⠀ The Common Serjennt, before passing sentence, said:
It is an astounding position that I find in an office like this, the office of the Probate Registry at Somerset House, that the canker of dishonesty has bitten deep.
Forsythe has been in the service for years and is a permanent oficial there. Three other men are also in that office They had
Capt. R. A. B. Scott, aged 22, formerly of the Indian Cavalry, was found shot dead, and a digger named M. T. Luby, formerly &nb altern of the 19th Lancers in India, has been arrested on a charge of murder, men h The Queen. At Reception. It appears that the parties had The Queer was not with the been friendly for some time. Re King As she was still suffering cently Luby's wife complained of slightly from a cold, she had de her busband's treatment and went cided not to go to the church but to the hut where Capt and Mrs. direct to the Duke and Duchess of Scott lived: Luby twice visited the Devonshire's house at Carlton hut, but did not find her as she was
access to the necessary papers, gardens: SAW., where the reception hidden beneath a bedutomatic
and they took advantage of their was held On reaching the house Later, he borrowed. an. "position to commit these frauds at the time that the wedding was pistol and while riding in a lorry he The remaining three men are in a in progrese se inspected the won saw Capt. and Mrs Boott walking very different position, to my derfal presents there displayed home. He offered them a lift mind. The tempters are the Primate of All Ireland, Dr. As he was getting into the fores officials and the solicitors clarks are the tempted. This kind of D'Arcy, conducted the service with Capt. Scott was shot twice and died fraud is very rife and has to be the amistance of the Rev. F. Malmost at once. Luby walked away Hamilton, chaplain to the Duke of and was arrested after a long While I have to consider your Abercorn, and the Bev. W. P. G. search. Mrs. Laby has taken refuge. records, I have also the primary McCormick, vican of Bt. Martin's, with the police consideration of the public weal, and the bride promised to obey Mathew Laby, whe is 33, was ar rested after a 12-hours search by I punishment is said to be a The King passed into the vestry álty police, who at length surround- deterrent, this case is one above with the Duke of Abercorn, the ed him. He was in possession of a all others where punishment may bridegroom's father, and signed pistol containing six cartridges out be of importance in patting down the register.
of a total capacity of ten-euter. this kind of crime. Addressing Forsythe, the Common Serjeant continued -
re with
The King and Queen remained for more than an hour" ception. They did not the hundreds of guests there, but recurved and congratulated the bride and bridegroom in a private
You are the prime mover of this, and obviously you started it. For year and a half, you have continued it and you have un-room doubtedly raised an atmosphere Shower Of Moss Betala. and influenced other people in that
The depa
the bride and office I have read your molan
#bridegroom
Bhillknglee Park, Ciddingfo Surrey, which "bas choly statement about getting into the hands of moneylenders, for been lent 'the Earl and cunfess those years of misfortune...1 syn of Winterton for therr pathise with you, deeply. Butel must not let my sympathy get the Was a very charming scene. better of my judgment, y Sibbald had played an active and prominent part and had been the means of bringing the three solici tors' clerks into the matter.
THE EARTHQUAKE.
A CORRECTION.
We are aske
in the Royal Obse
As they descended the grand taircase to the hall gileste stood Esch lids and answered procee upon them, and in the hallathe little bridesmaids
the stooped to king": them and strewed thei rose petals.
CLEAN HANDS CAMP
More than
250,000-1 the United States Un
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MAN ARRESTED AFTER SPEROH FROM A
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