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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th, 1928.
{ENGLÄND'S TRAFFIC
WAR.
RAILWAY FARE REDUC-
TIONS..
MEETING MOTOR COACH COMPETITION.“
EVENING TRIPS FOR BATHERS.
Lospos, August 16th. -The four great-railway companies are embarking on a vigorous policy to recapture passenger traffic which has been lost to suburban omnibuses and to long-distance motar-coaches. Many reduction in fares are announced by the London and North-Eastern Company. They wil chießy affect suburban" tenthe, and will be at omnibus rates." The other companies are going to follow the same plan.
HANGED IN THE STREET.
RIOTS IN FRENCH COLONY.
POISON IN EX.M.P.'S FOOD.
PARIS.
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A dramatic story of colonial in |trigue which culminated in the poi- soning of M. Jean Galmot, the former Deputy to the French Par- liament For French Guiana (South America), and the killing of six people in riots which followed by death, is contained in a report from the Governor of the colony which reached the Ministry for the Colonies a month ago.
Caches between the populace and the police put the colony in a surmoil. The convict settlements of Devil's Island and Cayenne arë in French Guiana, and it was fear ed that if the rioters got the upper band they might release the 9,000 criminals imprisoned
DOUBT OF HOME SECRETARY.
WHY HE REPRIEVED THE BRIGHTON MURDERERS.
SECOND THOUGHTS.
LONDON, August 16th.. An official statement was issued from the Home Office yesterday in explanation of Sir William Joyn sea-Hicks action in reprieving the three Brighton murderers at the cleventh hour on Tuesday, thus po scinding his previous decision of Monday.
The men-Percival Taylor, James Weayer, and George T. Donovan, were to have been executed yester- day.
The statement is as follows: The Governor states that grave Secretary to make any statement "It is unusual for the Home tension had followed the last gen-about capital cases other than the eral election, but was relaxing official notification of his decision, but, as Parliament is not sitting, and as the Brighton murder has ex- cited public interest, the Home Secretary "thinks it desirable to amplify the official statement issued last night (Tuesday) regarding the three prisoners convicted of the
At the same time lower fares are
when M. Galmot was taken being introduced for longer jour-He was one of the notabilities of Rey's where motor-coach competi- the colony, although he was under tion has led to reductions in rail- suspended sentence in connection
with an army rum scandal, way receipts.
Railway traffic receipts for the past three weeks show a reduction of £472,000 compared with last year. Last week the Loadon Midland and Scottish and London and North- Eastern railways had an increase in passenger receipts, but a larger goods decrease. The Southern
showed a small net incresse.
COMPANIES' NEW POLICY.
"The new policy of the four great railway companies is to re duce fares and at the same time increase facilities."
This statement was made by an official of the Railway Companies Association to a Daily Express re- presentative.
"It has been decided," be added, to make sweeping cuts in all the popular centres so that people will be able to travel as cheaply by rail 8s by omnibus or motor-coach. “
The companies have been led to take this drastic step by the tremen dous success of the return-journey- for-single-fare plan, which has been tried in a number of selected centres."
Cheap Ticket Increases. "Cheap-fare passengers have in creased by 9,000,000. More than 20,000,000 cheap tickets were pur- chased in May of this year, LS against 21,000,000 in May 1927. We are successfully meeting road com- petition."
He died of arsenical poisoning after declaring his belief that he had been poisoned by broth given him by his old and trusted cook Adrienne.
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Civil War.
The news of Grinot's death caused civil war, A municipal of cial of Cayenne, named Larose, who was an enemy of Galmot, laughed when the news spread, and was stoned to death by an infuri ated crowd.. While Larose was dying M. Bourgarel, a county coun- cillor, passed on his bicycle. He was dragged from the machine by the mob, which included a large number of women, and killed.
murder.
It is not within the competence of the Home Secretary to retry, a ease.
"The three prisoners have been found guilty by the jury, who had oppertunities of hearing the evid- ence on oath of the witnesses for the prosecution and the defence, and of observing, their demeanour in the witness-box, and the conviction was upheld by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Proper Function.
"The proper function and the When night fell the mob organ-only function of the Home Secre- ised a man-bunt under cover of tary is to decide whether, when a darkness." Finding municipal prisoner has been convicted of mur- councillor named Thabis hiding in der and as a necessary consequence an attic between' two mattresses, sentenced to the only" penalty pre they dragged him out and killed scribed by law for this offence, there him. They went to the home of are any circumstances which would another sown councillor, M. Jubel, justify him in recommending miti- dragged him into the street, and gation of that penalty, or whether hanged him.
Hiding In Prison.
The head of the board school administration, M. Jean Clement, who was also one of Galmot's enemies, was found hiding in a cell in the civil prison, and was also lynched...
the law should be allowed to take ita course.
"In considering this question the Home Secretary is bound by no rules of procedure.
"He takes every relevant circum- stance into consideration, and con- sults with any person who is ja With the small force of gendara position to give him useful in- merie at his disposal, the Gover formation or assistance. Until the nor arrested the Adrienne, last moment it is not too late for and got her into the convict settle him, and it is, indeed, bis duty,
exercise ment disguised as a man.. It was to advise the
of the was restored. not until 24 hours later that order royal prerogative if; in the dis
charge of his anxious responsibi- lity, he thinks the circumstances justify such a course.
There were twelve of us on board, and we set out an hour before mid night from a Bloomsbury hotel to add another chapter to the history of road transport.
In the case of the Brighton murder, the Home Secretary has for many days been giving the most careful consideration to all the git cumstances, and yesterday, upon a
The return-journey-for-single-fare
A whole family-father, mother, further review of the case, felt justified in reconsidering his pre- pian is to be extended, it is under and seventeen-year-old daughter- stood, to Manchester, Birmingham, were quartered in comfortable sleep-vious decision not to interfere with Bradford, Leeds, Bristol, Newing berths at the back. The girl the sentence passed by the court. castle, Hull, and other towns.
Jury's Verdict,
In the north-eastern area of the London and North-Eastern system railway travel will be cheaper than road, and in East Anglia some fares will be reduced to the pre- war level of a penny a mile.
Large cuts are also imminent în South Wales and on the Southern Railway routes.
Return tickets for the single fare will be offered this week by the Southern Railway-which has ready initiated the half-fare scheme within a fifteen-mile radius of its London stations-from centres 'fur. ther afield, such as Leatherhead, Reigate, Redhill, Ashtead, and Merstham
HE V.R.U, are holding their Something Different in large towns on the L.N.E. R. system.
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L.N.ER, Statement. An announcement by the C and N.E. Railway Company states:-
"The reduction of local fares is being made, round a number of Between 250 and 350 new low fares for both single and return journeys are being introduced round each of the centres, which shows the" wide extent of the reductions.".
"South Wales "towns are receiving special attention from the Great Western Railway, but all the im- portant districts on the system will, it is stated, benefit by the policy.
had come from a London hospital, where she had undergone as opera- tion for appendicitis. She is going to recuperate at Blackpool. She thrilled at the prospect of this night journey by read to the North.
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"The Home Secretary thinks it desirable to point out that his re commendation for the exercise of the royal prerogative does not cast any reflection upon the justice of No Thought Of Steep..
the jury's verdict or the decision- Her enthusiasm spread like an of the Court of Criminal Appeal, epidemic. No one thought of sleep-but be has felt just that element of ing, as the night road express slip doubt in this case which, in his ped noiselessly to the Northern opinion, makes it undesirable that Heights. We sat in our bunks the irrevocable penalty, should be looking through the windows at the inflicted. lights of London slowly dimming.
The women retired for the night, but we men gat staring through our port-hole. windows.
We raced on. to St. Albans at thirty miles an hour, dashed through as midnight was chiming, and then the open country again. Lünstable had gone to bed when wo slipped by a lonely policeman blinked at us and waved a “Carry on."
A debonair attendant came along with tea and biscuits. He was one of the three who had put this won der coach on the road. His name was Chirgwin, and his father was the famous music ball artist, the White-eyed Kaffir,”, who used to blacken the whole of his face with the exception of one eye
"There are many precedents for commuting a sentence of death in cases where the Home Secretary hás felt it unsafe to allow the irrero- cable pera.ty to be inflicted."
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Mr. Graham Hooper, who acted for one of the men, described the Home Secretary's statement. "extraordinary," and added, "The last bas dot yet been heard of this case."
None of the three reprieved men, now condemned to penal servitude. for life, will enjoy the privileges öf the "star
class of prisoners, sinco all are disqualified by criminal re- words from being graded as "first offenders."
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A proof of his "evidence" was then sent to the authorities through an intermediary. The blackmail
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London. "Commenting on the case the Daily
Another attempt was made lo Two college boys quarrel as to. 'Express says:
exonerate the same two men by which of them shall take a fair Sensational facts may now be implicating a man who is serving damsel for a joy-ride. They decide disclosed of the desperate attempts Portsmouth. It was said that the by seeing who can put the other's A sentence. of imprisonment at to settle the point in grim fashion made by Brighton gangsters to save
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attack.
Mr. Chirgwin and two others, one a business man and the other A Great Western official said: a chartered accountant, met in an We are meating road competition office near the Stock Exchange one in Devonshire successfully by giv-day in May and talked about the ing 6d. evening trips for bathing conquest of the road by night. The from Exeter to Dawlish and Teign-reart was the car in which we sped mouth, and from Newton Abbot to along the highway. Torquay.
The offer of a double journey
DHA Hand At The Wheel, .......... Mr. Chirgwin left us to take for single fare has been extended, and applies to places-like-Henley hand at the wheel while his com: the lives of the three men whose clothes he wore at the time of his car out of action first.
rade of the night snatched an eleventh-hour reprieve, after being arrest were purchased by-him-with-The stage is cleared and the duel on-Thames, Iver (Buckingham-
hour's rest. We undressed and put condemned to death for the murder money stolen from Mr. Smith (the shire). Landley, Maidenhead, PADE on our sleeping suits, but the of a local retired chemist, was and murdered man) on the night of the begins, the cars butting each other like a couple of wild goats. Time bourne, Reading, and Windsor. worth while; "In some instances the railway panorama of the night intrigued bounced last night.
Detectives went to the prison and, after time the one crashes into the LONDON SELLING AGENTS but it is much more than fare is less than the omnibus fare
We could not resist the Deliberate attempts to fabricate interviewed the man. They were other and the audience shudder that; it is a revelation of the for the same journey,"
temptation to look out of the win evidence to save the prisoners from able to prove conclusively that the for the safety of the daredevil heart of a people as well as
dows at the countryside bathed is the gallows have been unmasked suit had been bought some time be drivers. Bumpers, bolts, screws and a miscellaneous collection of bita fore the crime was committed and pieces pepper the air. With the radiance of our headlights, by the Brighton police.
So we raced along to Lancashire. It has been discovered that a All these false statements were We stopped at Warrington to let wealthy local man, who is in the eliminated from consideration some apparently no regard for personal one passenger catch his connection hands of the blackmail gang that time before the Home Secretary safety, thess enterprising duellista to Manchester, and then on to infests the sea front, and who is made his eleventh-hour decision to continue the fight hot and strong, Liverpool.
said to have paid out £2,000 in reprieve the men; but the Brighton until, after an amazing climax, the Miners and cotton spinners ar kust money in the last two police were working on the ease unlucky one takes the knock-out.. This extraordinary episode, says the Albatros, the first sleepered at us as we dashed past; cand years, was told that he must prove right up to the last moment in case
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