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Our London Letter.
THE ROYAL OAK" VERDICT.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
STATIONS
TIME-TABLE,
UP. TRAINS
No. 1 No.4,15 Na | No.11 No.14 (No. 26 [Na. No, 18 No. 36X0,2 Xv,30 AMAX. AIM AM, AM.{FONTĮ 7.1. | P.L. I.X. P.X. [EX.
Kowloon...Dep. 8.40 8.05 8.30 9.10 10.00 12.00 1.15 2.85 8.00, 4,30 5,42 7.30 Yazmati. Dep. 6.49
Shabin
Tripo
M.Dep. 7.01 Dep. 7.15
Talpa Market Dep, Fanling Dep. 7.30 Bheangthal Dep. 733 Art. 7,41 Shamekua Dop.
Canton
9.2010.08 12.08 1s
1.83 10.20 12.20 1.84 9.49 10.93 12.33 1.47 9.53 10.57 12.87 1.51 10.05.10.47 12.47 2,01 9.07 10.1010.58 1232 2.06 8.459,13,10,15 10.58,1953 2.12 8.431.10
4,88 5,80) 7,39 4.506.03 7.50 5,04 61518.03 5,06 619 8.07 5.18 680
11.50
5.38
STATIONS
Na 1 Ja, 5
A.K. AM.
DOWN TRAINS
Na 7 No No.15 Xs, 17 No.1933 No.13 N A, X.
A.X.I.M. AM.
PF.
P.X,
7.M.
8.05
8.90
11.08
11.46 8,05 445 5.56 11.50 8.10 4.50 6.00-
19.01 321 5.00 6.10
12.08 3.38 5.04 615
Canton...Dep.
JA.
Bhamabas Dep.7.18 9,06 10.35 11.09 11.28 3.68 4.89 5.49
Sheangahed Dep. 7.25 8.12 10.41 Fanling Dap. 7.80 8.18 10.47 TaipoMarket Dep, 7.40 8.26 10.57 Talpo ...Dap. 7.44821101 Bhatia ...Dep. 7,578,44 11,14 Dep. 8.11 R66 11.26 Yanal... Kowloon Art, 8.179,02 11,32 11.49
19.20 3.89 6.17 6.28 18.51 8.51 5.99 6.40 19.38 8.57 5.85 0.48 7.04 7.45
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STORY OF GIPSY'S SPELL THREATS.
A story of a woman being made to part with all her savings under threat was told at Yarmouth when Aquila Hewitt, -aged #3, married, of Gorleston, was charged with of LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR REAR-taining Ess by menaces from Flor ence Bodecott between October ADMIRAL COLLARD,
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Mr. Bodecott, a war widow, said that she was receiving a pension of She went to £24. 2d, weckly. Gorleston from London because her nerves were upeet by the air raids. Hewitt, who lived near her, first obtained 30s. by telling her that she would cast a spell over her. and put her to bed where she would be unable to move hand or foot. Hewitt also threatened to separate her from her children.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, April 14th.
The court martial on the officers of the Puyal Oak, Commander Daniel and Captain Dewar, must come into my review of the events of this week, although to be quite frank everyone here seems only too willing to forget the episode. The decision of the court at Gibraltar was exactly what was expected, This is to say, that given the rigid. procedure by which such tribunals are bound to work, and the even
more rigid code of regulations they are called upon to interpret, there could not in either case have been any verdict but that of guilty. Both officers were severely reprimanded and dismissed their ship. The pro- ceedings have been forwarded to the Admiralty in the normal way: and the hope is expressed very freely in the Press that two such able men of proved ability and distin- guished service will soon be given employment again,
She had heard that Hewitt wae a gipsy, and the woman's threats completely terrified her. Hewitt afterwards, demanded other sums ranging from 3 to 6, which the paid from money saved through dress-making. The demands were accompanied by threats to do bodily harm. When her, savings had been drawn out she was induced by Hewitt to pay her be a week done so for two years London to from her pension, and she bad
When Hewitt went to
Attend
funeral she told other people for the first time what was going on, with the result that the police were informed.
Hewitt was remanded.
FRENCH COAL BOOM.
4,250,000 TONS IN 25 DAYS.
PAR18.
of coal were brought to the pithead During February: 4254,412 tons in 25 working days,
The daily average output of the mines in the North of France (the area of the Nerd and Pas de Caldis departments over. which British 18,309 tons above the output of 1918. troops fought in the war) is now In the St. Etienne area, in the south, the daily average output is 774 tons above the pre-war mark, and the cutput of the whole of the mines within the country's pre-war frontiers shows a daily increase of 11.8 per cent. above the pre-war figure.
Badly Managed. Everyone considers that the affair has been badly bungled by the authorities. Rear-Admiral Collard, before the trials were instituted, had already been relieved of his command a penalty which is said to be without parallel in the recent history of the Navy. But there is, precious little sympathy for him. It is evident that he has an inordinate It opinion of his own importance. is alac evident that he could not get on with his Commander and Flag-Captain. They got on each other's nerves, as the phrase goes. Your readers have, of course, had the story of the petty disagreements that went on in the Royal Oak-the Admiral making disperaging remarka The Lorraine coalfield, recovered about his subordinate officers in the after the Armistice, had a further hearing of ship's ratings, and then daily total of 17,963 tons. The cut- a letter from the officers to their put of coke for smelting purposes superior complaining of his conduct. is 343,188 tons a month, nearly What people feel is that these are 100,000 tons a month above the things that could have been dis-monthly average of 1913. posed of without invoking the elaborate procedure of a court mar- tial. They were petty and trivial,
yet the whole world has been in-and was accordingly allocated to the Royal Oak. The rule about sea: vited to hear all the details just as if some tremendous issue affecting time is a sound one, but if its work- the Navy at large were involved. ing becomes inconvenient the Ad
miralty may have to alter it in the general interests of the Navy.
Baseless Rumours. Probably we should have never heard of the toyal Oak incidents but for the wild rumours that were spread abroad. It was being whispered that there was mutiny in ship of the Mediterranean Fleet, In the circumstances the Admiralty did the right thing in deciding to scotch the baseless reports that were current in London. Now that
Royalty On Holiday. One can sympathise with Royal personages in their desire for privacy to get sometimes out of the limelight of publicity and live like ordinary men and women, The Duke and Duchess of York have. just returned to London after their Easter holiday, and it is now
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· Admirals And Stats,
I hear that one outcome of the Royal Oak court martial is a hope among Naval officers that the Ad- miralty may return to the system of allowing, admirals to choose for themselves the principal members of their staffs. In the Royal Oak case, while Admiral Collard was consult ed-about Commander. Daniel and raised no objection to the selection, the Admiralty appointed Captain Dewar who was not well known to the Admiral,
paring for many engagements, in cluding one important one in con nection with the new University College, Hall, where the Duchess is to perform an opening ceremony. While in Yorkshire the Duke, and Duchess will be the guests of Lady Boris Vyner at Studley Royal, near Ripon, formerly the seat of the Marquis of Ripon.
"The English Dumas," English literary life. is the poorer by the death of Mr. Starley Weyman, the novelist who earned for himself the title of the English Dumas." His earlier historical romances were the delight_of_a former generation of readers, and his later work in which he made a more domestic excursion into fiction, Of late years the Admiralty took was also pleasing to those of the upon itself to make such appoint present time. In his particular ments chiefly because of the scarcity branch of fiction he stood out bend of Captains commands, and second- and shoulders above a host of ly because of the rule that such imitators. Who is ever likely to for officers must-serve a minimum at get the thrill that Under the Red ses before they can be promoted Robe or A Gentleman of to the Fing list Captain Dewar Franco, called un? And there are was nearing the top of the list, but also "Queen's Folly and
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