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The famous British comedy star in his latest bit I-
How He Dances-
How He Loves—-
How He Fights --
Dancing master --- taxi driver- baxer-lover- kero faint heart- victor... But above all a ighter with a fighter's beart!
Carl Egemenle
Reginald
DENNY
"On Your Toes
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
The exciting and amusing story of a world champion's "son-ignorant of his father's career-who is a dancing master until a trick of fate sends him into the ring to win the giri of his heart..
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OPENING OF CHUNG JUROR FAINTS AT MURDER
SHAN DISTRICT.
THE NEW HIGHWAY.
PEASANTRY'S SUPPORT FOR THE ENTERPRISE.
Macho, March 20th.
Observers of Chinese affairs will view with satisfaction" the present course in South China. In keeping with the signs of progress was the opening last Sunday of the first section of the Magne-Shekki Trunk Road
TRIAL.
OVERCOME BY. DETAILS OF DEATH WOUND.
NEW START MADE.
A juror Inted at Derby Assires shortly after the resumption of the trial of George Frederick Walter Hayward, thirty-two, a traveller, of the White House, Little Hayfield, accused of the murder of Birs. Amy Gollinson, wife of the licensee of the New Inn, Little Hayfield, on Armistice. Day last year.
VICAR'S, DOUBLE LIFE.
PRISON FOR ILLICIT TRAFFIC, IN DRUGS.
CLOAK OF HYPOCRISY..
'The noxique drugs case concluded at the Old Bailey with the convic tip of the Rev. Francis Bacon. formerly vicar of All Saints' Bux- ton-street, Spitalfields, E.
Bacon's co-defendant, Annie Bot- pon, had pleaded guilty.
Bacon was sentenced to 15 'months' imprisonment 10 the second. división and Bolton to`six months in the second division.........
The accused had been connected with two companies known as Dr. Hannah Brown's Femme Remedios and the Powell jinnufacturing Company, and the case for the prosecution was that drugs had suppies by them to women for an improper purpose.
The enterprise was promoted and conducted by the Chinese agricul
Dr. Roche Lynch, the senior turists of Chung Shan to bring Home Office analyst, was describing their produce to Macgo and an ae the wound in the throat of the knowledgment of their faith in the murdered woman, and was hand present authorities of Macao,
Significant too is the active in. Ling carving knife when a groan terest displayed in the enterprise came hom the jury box, and the by Mr. Tang Shao Yi, the veteran next moment one
of the men Sir Henry Curtia Bennett, for statesman, and Mr. Cheng Tse
collapsed.
Bacon, said, before sentence was Sheung, at one time magistrate of
Witness' Aid.
passed, that at the age of 70 Heung Shan City, and now' manag-
absolutely ruined ing director of the Company, Dr. Lynch stepped from the wit-Bacon was an
man. He had resigned his living, ness-box to attend the juror who and now he would have to appear, was in a dead faint. He was car-before a Consistory Court, and
tost significant of all, however, was the spontaneous expression of respect to the Portuguese by the Chinese peasantry of Chung Shanded into an ante-room, and two in particular to Senhor Tamagnini other doctors were called. Barbosa, Governor of the Colony.
One of the doctors later informed This took the form of a magni- Acent procession included in which My: Justice Hawke that he con- were three lengthy dragons, gar-sidered that it would be unwise for geously decorated and wonderfully the juror to resume his duties. designed the indispensible lion, banners galore and allegorical table- aux and animals. The procession made its way to Government House, where the dragons and the Hon made obeisance to the Governor of jurymen and to swear in za addi- Maeno, who stood on the verandah,tional one. It would, however, b. with the Governor of Hong Kong necessary to discharge the jury by his side.
After the second ceremony at Chin Shan, in Chinese Territory, the visitors were conveyed back to Macno, passing en route the tired. vet happy, members of the proces sion of homage. On the faces off the farming men who had taken part in the procession were smiles of greeting to two old, true friends of the Chinese people. Sir. Cecil Clementi, Governor of Hong Kong. and Sentor Tamagnini Barbosa, Governor of Macao. The smiles seemed to beteken a trust in the dawn of a new era full of hope for peace between Chine and her vid
The Road Described.
friends.
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The judge consulted: with counsel, and then said he had decided to retain the services of the eleven
and begin the case again with the new jury,, '..
This was done, and Sir Henry Maddocks, C., opened the case again for the prosecution.
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there was no doubt what the restat of that would be.
The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.); I hope there is no doubt.
Passing sentence, Sir Ernest said that for Bolton he entertained a good deal of sympathy, Although she had derived a considerable in- come from the trafic, she had been under the domination of others,
and it was in her favour that she cold the truth in the witness-box.
"Jekyll And Ryde.” Then addressing Bacon (who had traded under the name of Howard Barron), Sir Ernest and
tours 13 a very different cast. I am not going for one moment to discount the good, you have done among "boys in regard to emigra tion. It may be, and probably is, the case of a man leading a double life, such a life has been de- scribed by a great novelist as n Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde die:
"I don't say your work in' the. East End was not perfectly honest
THE COUNTRY WE LIVE IN. work, but that is all I know in
your favour. Your conduct during the last ten years' has been despic
It is told of some touriste, passable and deplorable. You have 1ng through the Colony, or maybe concealed your illicit traffic beneath Shanghai (the story is apocryphaly, the cloak of hypocrisy. To make. poor expectant mothers and jeo- This new artery of trade will tag that desiring to partake of the focus your preyed on the agony of over four hundred square miles of of the country, entered a Chinese pardieed their health.
Host contemptible of all, the most fertile region of South restaurant, were relieved of their China. The present production of wraps and parco.s, and presented having been a party to this per the district is already valued at with a uenu. Having looked at it Dicors, traffic, sought to shield %100,000,000 a year and the hope is expressed that developments owinzight way up, they "turned it up: the person of Annie Balton. Final-
site down, searched on the reverse,
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yourself behind a subordinate- in
to the facilities to be provided will be it at arm's length, and finally, you have lied in the witness-hox double and treble the present yield, not to betray their ignorance, public during the last decade."
ne you have been doing to the The road from Macao to Shekki mandéd Some of that pointing will have a length of thirty-five to one of the
Sir Ernest Wild added that he miles passing many important and Chinese. The boy grinned and hoped the case, would be a warming interesting centres, among "them Choi Hang, birthplace of Sun Yat went off. A minute or so later the to a concerned in the pernicious
"Chinese orchestra struck up! Sen.
izema writted in
Nine miles of road has now beer
In a European country ase can completed from the Macao end, and sometimes make out what the menu a broad level highway it is, while suggests, and the faux par of other sections are being rapidly ordering the band instead of the built. What it will mean to the soup is not so easily perpetrated, people of the place can very well be but with an idiomatic language judged by the noteworthy fact that such as we have in China accidents it is a community company financed are bound to happen, even in the by the peasantry of the place.
best regulated of families! Hence Shortage of funds prevents a better it will appeal to many, otherwise roadway, but its need is recognized debarred on account of ignorance and there is the belief that the of the language, to know that part $300,000 $400,000 still needed for of the attractions of the "China" its completion will soon be forthcom- Exhibition will be a Chinese restau- ing. There is a promising opening for rant, with the goods all marked motor cars, trucks and supplies, and in plain prices, and in plain Eng- merchants would do well to inves- liah." tigate the possibilities of an import- ant district.
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It is expected that many will take advantage of this opportunity,
trafic.
Unfrocking Rare,
A reporter who inquired as to what, if any, stepe were likely to be taken by ecclesiastical authori ties with regard to Bacon was told by one of the legal representatives at the Sanctuary, Westminster:
The Rev. Francis Bacon resign" ed his benefice at the beginning of his case, so that there is no question of taking it from him. Unfrocking is rare nowadays, and Mr. Bacon is an elderly man, Bo that further action is unlikely. At any rate, there is no automa- tic action following a conviction for a criminal offence.
and the accommodation being 4,000 IDLE IN ADELAIDE. limited, people are advised to book beforehand.
The old saying that one half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives, but is always try-
CITY CAMPS AND RATIONS
The position has become so acute that many firms and citizens are contributing to a fund independent. of Government assistance.
FOR UNEMPLOYED. ADELAIDE, South Australia. ing to find out, applies just as much Metropolitan local governing out here as in Tooting Bec or bodies are asking the Government Balham, and because we do not for a loan of £200,000 with which Resentment is expressed in Cang-understand fully the Chinese people to start relief works for the un- dian legal circles over what is we get a distorted impression of employed, who now number more described as extraordinary pressure them.
than 4,000. applied from the United Stater to This Exhibition is not to exploit obtain a reprieve for Doris Palmer MacDonald, the 21-years-old New our neighbours, boost Chinese York actress condemned to death, goods, or enrich curio sellers, but with her husband, George Mae aims at the formation of points of Donald, for the murder of Adelard contact: between them and the for with Bouchard, a taxicab driver, near the European community, international boundary in Quebec understanding contes sympathy, and last July, Both were sentenced to
Trom sympathy comes much good. death, but the jury recommended At a time when Canton and ful, as the Government, being short of money, are not proceeding with mercy for the woman.
Hong Kong are knitting together public works, and local taxation is again the ties which were severed the heaviest in Australia. during the unrest a year or so ago, this demonstration of interest is particularly welcomed. His Excel- reney the Governor has signified his approval of the undertaking. by graciously consenting to become a patron.
These efforts are characterised us an attempt to interfere with Cans dian justice. Interest across the border approaches that shown in the Ruth Snyder case, stimulated by the curious coincidence that Doris's real name was Snyder, her mother--now in Chiengo-having placed her in an orphanage, from Each day the Exhibition will be which she was adopted by Dr opened by a distinguished. Chinese Frances Palmer, a wealthy woman and English gentleman; the first physician formerly of Mount Verday this ceremony will be perform non, New York, and in Okla
ed by His Excellency Major-General homa.
0. C. Luard, O.B., C.M.G.. and the Afidavits show that Doris eloped Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow, Kt.; on when 18-and married Frank Allon. Thuraday by the Hon. Sir Henry of New Rochelle, who divorced her. Pollock, KC., and the Hon. Dr. She then married MacDonald, who R. II. Kotewall. C.M.G., and on described himself as an engineer- commander in the United States Friday by the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Navy, but who is in reality an in- Hughes and Dr. S. W. TO; LL.D. ternational crook.
The opening ceremony is at 3 The woman's friends
that pm each day. Programmes will she is mentally deficient, and it is be given away-free, and will con- stated that an appeal for reprieve tarn all the information relate to will be made to the Governor- the Exhibition, and be interesting General Lord Willingdon ng souvenirs of a very enterprising
The execution
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Camps have been established in various parts of the city, where rations are served out.
The general outlook is not hope-
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