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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
GRETNA GROOM IN
A "RAG."
LABOUR AND RUSSIA.
WIFE SAVES HIM FROM A MR. RAMSAY" MACDONALD
DUCKING.
FACE-SLAPPING AT MILL
POND.
Mr. Hector Graeme Mappin, the nineteen-year-old Cambridge under graduate, and his eighteen-year-old bride figured in a series of amaz ing incidents on their return to
INTERVIEWED.
PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS
CANNOT CONTINUE."
London-Resumption. of full diplomatic relationship with Russia world be one of the first concerns of a Labour government, according to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in a
Herald.
MAY 23, 1929.
ONE MAN DEFIES LASH FOR WHITE
THE YARD."
CHICAGO JIM.
RAID ON CHANNEL MAIL.
Mysterious even to his confederates is "Chicago Jim," a super-criminal who, Scotland Yard believes, is the man behind the alarming series of mail-bag robberies which have curred recently.
Recently a package was found when transferred to the Leviathan
MAN.
TRIAL BY MIXED JURY,
VEXED QUESTION IN SOUTH APRICA,
South
[British United Press,]
Capetown-Under the African law a person ccmmitted for trial has the right to decide whether he will be tried by a jury or by a judge alone. In seven cases their case in the hands of a judge
THE ANDREWS EXPEDITION.
ABANDONMENT OF SCHEME LIKELY.
STILL HAMPERED BY DELAYS,
[British United Press.]"
Pisa. If the Chinese authori- ties have not given ħlm permission to proceed with the Central Asiatic week in June, Dr. Roy Chapmap
Cambridge after their elopement recent interview with the Daily missing from a registered mail-bag out of ten prisoners elect to leave Expedition by the end of the first "Everyone knows," declared the Southampton. This was, it is alone and in these cases two magis Andrews will pack up his equip
and marriage at the Gretna Green smithy.
The bridegroom was kidnapped by fellow-undergraduates from a taxi-cab in which he was riding with
former Labour Prime Minister, "that British engineering and other manufacturing concerne
BATC not
understood, care of Chicago Jim's many successful coups.
Although the police know more
trates are usually called in to act us "" assessors."
Of these who choose this course,
ment and go home. The expedi its anal explorations in Mongolis tion has been really to start for
This bride, was taken to Grantchester merely desirous of obtaining Rus about Chicago Jim than his co the majority are natives or colourince the end of April"
Mill, and told to prepare himself for a ducking. At the last moment be was rescued by his bride and three members of Pembroke College. Mra Mappin showed high spirit and slapped faces right and left, Mr. Mappin, too, gave a good ac."
count of himself."
sinn orders, but are positively leagues, they have been unable to anxious to get them. People are charge him. They know him by coming to realise that the present sight, they have shadowed him for state of affairs cannot continue." weeks without success, and have even interviewed him. But Chiengo Jim has told the police that he is
of his life in Chicago. As for the a. Englishman who has spent most
The 1934 Draft Treaties, Mr. MacDonald said that he was not surprised to hear of the declara tion of the president of the Russian
officers of the
ed me, and it is not uncommon
A semi-official Chinese society to hear these people at their meet> inga declare that the reason is that called the Society for the Freserva they do not get justice from white tion of Cultural Objects presented juries.
LI
certain demands to Dr. "Andrewa
Jury System Condamned.
Last winter. During Dr. Andrews'
started however
Recently an agitation has been absence in Amerion, negotiations for permitting cerning these demands were car One of the undergraduates said, State Bank, M. Piatakov, thatest of his story, he is "a gentle coloured. juries to be empanelled red on by Dr. Welte: Granger, "He duped us by asking us to allow, effective trade relations between
man of independent meïns."
Whenever any
when coloured men are being tried, chief paleontologist of the Ameri him to take his marriage certificate Russia and Great Briain demanded Flying Squad e him in London and this has found expression at can Museum of Natural History. and other things from his pockets.n, resumption of diplomatic re they know that a postal raid is a conference of African People's
Bamanda Accepted. By this subterfuge he delayed the lations. Some business circles here imminent. So they shadow him and Organisation in Capetown this The Chinese society demanded intended ducking, and when the wife are understood to feel that there get to know those who meet him.week. Trial by jury was frankly that the Americans pay all costs of While they are taking all these pre- arrived with her supporters we let
cautions Chicago Jira gets busy in
•f the expedition, take along a Chi- bim off."
another direction, and the raid "It may work well in countriesnese co-director and saveral Chi liberately “draws comes off, for Chicago Jim de- where there is no race prejudice or nese students to Mongolia and
the police. be- lore operating. After the coup he class prejudice" said one speaker, that after the expedition returns, carries on in just the same way and "but not in South Africa where two Chinese students shall be taken. meet the same people because they justice is often dispensed according back to America for two years of bave had nothing to do with the
to eclour or race of the prisoner."study at the New York muscam, The Unseen Leader.
South Africa is the only count all costs to be borne by the try in the world where a man is Americans. not tried by his peers" declared
Motor-Car Chase,
The couple, who had driven from Windermere, had visited the College earlier in the morning, when their
Car
WLA "decorated" with old football boots, shoes, and slippers, and later drove to an hotel for lunch. Undergraduates walted out- side for them until the meal was over, and when Mr. Mappin endea voured to escape by leaving his car in
garage and taking a taxi the undergraduates, who numbered about twelve, took up the chase in motor-curs.
over-
The runaways were soon taken, and when Mr. Mappin alight ed from the taxi he was seized and bundled into his pursuers' car. Mrs. Mappin did her best to frustrate the captors. She jumped on to the run- ning-board, and by hanging over the bonnet and keeping a firm grip on the steering wheel tried to prevent the car being driven off.
She afterwards ran back to her own car, and the undergraduates drove off with Mr. Mappin. They went to Grantchester Mill, where Mr. Mappin was ordered to prepare himself for a ducking. He asked to be allowed to take off his coat, and by other means sought to delay the urdeal being put into operation. Then his wife and three other them.
bers of the College arrived, and the tables were turned. Mappin aimed a blow at the tingleader and Mrs. Mappin rushed in and slapped faces right and left. The kidnap pers retreated and Mr. and Mrs Mappin drove off to Saffron-Walden.
Vulgar Publicity." How the "kidnapping" plot originated was revealed later in the afternoon at an undergraduate's rcoms in the new court of Pembroke College, where the originators cele brated what they claimed to be one of the most effective "rags" for some years. Apparently the cir cumstances of the wedding have not met with the general approval of Mappin's fellow undergraduates,
|
crime.
condemned.
;
Cases of ill treatment of coloured
were more merits in the 1994 draft treaties negotiated with the Soviets by the first Labour government that is usually realized,
"The difference between the Labour party and its critics ap pears to hang on the meaning of words," explained Mr. MacDonald, He stated that Conservatives repre stood for a Government loan to employed inside the Post Office and sent the Labour party as having i The real operators in the gang are Russia. He said this was untrue.
at the chief railway centres. Chi- another. "The Labour party stands for cago Jim secures them their posts covering British exporters to Russia even if he has to go to the extent
of forging references when such a persons were cited and resolutions by extending the facilities of the step is necessary. Yet the members were passed demanding the Govern Export Credits Scheme."
He added that this was made cipal. They are engaged through coloured warders and coloured re- of the gang never see their prin-ment appointment of a whole time clear in the 1824 draft treaty.
coloured inspector of prisons, various agencies and have implicit "As a matter of fact, if Russia inith in the chief they have never were to place orders in Britain on seen. They are paid in accordance the scale indicated by M Piatakov with the value of their information. (Piatakov mentioned £150,000,000 to The rest is left to Chicago Jim. £200,000,000)
that circumstance Both the Post Office detectives and alone would, tead to enhance Scotland Yard, are baffed concern- Russia's credit so that she could ing the methods employed by this probably raise a loan in the ordi- super-crook to secure the booty from nary way," the Labour leader the postal channels of transit. believes,
While the postal department is convinced that the thefts occur in Referring to the alleged obstacle the mail-trains, Scotland Yard is in the way of resumption of rela certain that the missing property tions that the Soviet government has never got so far as the trains allowed or encouraged intrigue cal- It is estimated that Chicago Jim culated to weaken the Empire, Mr.enjoys an income of £3,000 a year incDonald said that this did not from mail-bag robberies in Briain lost. affect the thesis of resumption in the alune, while those who work to his orders make a comfortable like "I have always said," he declar-lihood. In the meantime nothing to make against the Soviets I much he is just a well-educated, normal ed, "that if I have any complainte definite is koown against him, for prefer to be able to make them ly conducted man of considerable through direct diplomatic channels means. because I know that in this way I am most likely to receive a satis factory answer,"
Article 12.
Dr. Granger was not willing to these demands, but accept even when Dr. Andrews returned, he decided to accept them because he was anxious to complete his work in Mongolia
presentatives on prison boards.
But when these demands were But if the coloured man's accepted, the Chinese group pre- grievances are well founded, how sented fresh demands concerning mact mere so must be those of the disposition of the fossils which cative-six millions of whom are the hewers of wood and the drawers may be discovered. They demand- of water for the white race? ed that all foreils be submitted to Chinese group, which would de- cide what fossils might be taken
A Murder Charge.
H
A case which shows the value which is placed here on the black man's life has just been concluded back to America, ned which must at Bethal in the Transvaal, where remain in China. Dr. Andrews. a farmer named Nafte and one of proposed that all duplicate fossils his white employees were tried on be left in China, but that Dr, a charge of murdering a native named Sixpence Temba. This trial Granger be made the foal author was conducted with a jury and ity on which are duplicates. This therefore illustrates the point
allow. which the coloured people are mak- the Chinese declined to ing.
Dr. Andrews thereupon declared he
that Sixpence,
The case for the prosecution was will go home before accepting ach
for some demeanour on
mis- demands. the farm, WIL savagely thrashed by the two men,
An Extortionate Request. A Great Traveller.
was later tied to a tree with one "Puta aut-shell," Dr. "Az- As becomes his station in life leg in the air and one shoulder drewa told this correspondent. Chicago Jim is a great traveller. resting on the ground, was thrash- He expressed the opinion that He is known internationally. When ed again, stamped upon and even-
"The Chineso ask that the Ameri- poibly the misunderstanding of he arrives in Vienna, Paris, Berler, tually pounded with a heavy stone cas pay all the expenses of the the Labour party's position arose or Rome, police are notified, before death put a merciful end to out of Article 12 of the 1934 general for it the place finds his sufferings. A doctor found the expedition, including their own, treaty in which Britain would Chicago Jim debbles with an KL boy's breastbone broken, several take back Chinese students to
arantee the interest on a loan to pert's knowledge in such matters ribs amashed, and his back pine accept & separate treaty dealing Chief Inspector Cooper, of Scotland be issued by Russia if Russia would as bank frauds and safe-breaking. tically a "pulp.' with the claims of British holders of pre-revolution debts.
Should Labour come into power at the general election it is believed that a resumption of negotiations wil benadertaken, on the basis of the 1924 draft, subject to such changes as present day conditions demand.
!
America entirely at American ex- pesc, do all the work on the ex- pedition-because no Chinese are
in the field and give them their equipped to do satisfactory work
pick of everything we find,”
The white employee admitted Yard, who has been investigating that he thrashed the unfortunate before long to make the acquain- he would lose his job if he refused, the series of pastal robberies, hopes native only because he was afraid tance a much more intimate one. and the jury found him guilty of The master criminal is invariably common assault and the judge
There has been much correspon immaculately dressed, is an Become ordered him to be fined £as. plished linguist, with an easy com-
dence in the Chinese and foreign mand of ve languages, and is a
A Raro Case. "
Prees in Peping concerning the Then the employer was put up Chinese and American attitude, frequenter of the most fashionable for trial. It was declared that it and the Chinese group denies that of Continental pleasure resorts, the was he who stamped upon the its demands were, so sweeping. Riviera being one of his favourite native's chest and ribs and after But Dr. Andrews has released to wards threw a heavy stone upon the Press a complete translation" of, This year there have been three him as he lay on the ground. Hethe demands which were presented big mail-bag, robberies. On Febru- admitted that he gave the boy a to him. Atolen in transit from Hull to Lon- servant girl, pleaded that it was in charge of. Dr. Granger, as Dr. ary 10, 54 bankers' packages were thrashing but, like the proverbial
The expedition this year will be a little one." "Afterwards he Andrews will probably remain with don. On February 24 there was only a robbery between Manchester and went away to a picnic and wait only a short while. After a few воде of whom resented the fact
London, and on March 30 thora there informed that the native had months work in Inner Mongolia, that the College bad been mention-grown up families when they martion a registered package contain
Both were over sixty and had was the Levithan theit. In addi- died. 'ed in newspaper interviews,
the party will return to Peping, When Mr. Mappin announced his ried," said Mr. A. E. Robinson, ing jewels worth £5,000 was stolen gentleman guilty of culpable equipment, and leave for home,
The jury found this amiable pack up its antomobiles and other intention of visiting Cambridge with solicitory at North London Police early last month in transit from homicide and he received a sentence his bride, and added that the boys of Mr. Samuel Bloomenfield, a
Court when be appeared on behalf London to Paris.
"HECTIC COURTSHIP" AT hauats.
SIXTY.
£ A NIGHT ON THEATRES, SUPPERS AND TAXICABS."
of Pem would want to give him a lunch, a few of the bolder spirito Stepney, who asked that a main- tailor's presser, of Exmouth-street, resolved on the reg." The or
BRITISH INVESTORS IN AMERICA.
300 BRING AN ACTION FOR
• FALSE DECLARATION..
Five hundred English men and women have brought a suit in the Federal Court in Boston against Peabody, Houghtaling & Co, a well-known investment firm of Bos-
based on the sale of bonds of a New E gland oil-refining company of Fall River, Massachusetts, to
of seven years imprisonment with One plan which Dr. Andrews has ten lashes. Only at rare intervals the United States, from San Fran
in mind is a possible trip unosa do such cases come into the light cisco to New York, in the automo- of day, but when they do they re-
veal the appalling cheapness with biles which have carried the ex- which native life is regarded on the plorer several times into the deep recesses of the Gobi desert of backveld farms of South Africa.
Mongólin
Whilst a human a life can be sacrificed for less than the price of a decent horse it is little wonder that the coloured and native races should begin to agitate for repre- sentation on juries trying · such cases.
ganisers said that they carried it tenance order for 176. ed. made a out to show their disapproval of the year ago and payable to his wife. vulgar publicity that had at Sarah Bloomenfield, of Navarino- tended the runaway wedding.
mansions; Dalston, should be re- "It really was awfully good fundaced. and a ripping rag." declared Mr.
Man's Imprisonment. Mappin when he arrived at his Mr. Robinson, said the couple wife's parents' home. "About a lived together only three months
66 MILES ON: 1 GALLON hundred or so Pembroke men and before the separation order was
OF GAS.. friends of mine turned out to re- nade, and the husband had already ccivo us at Cambridge and they been in prison six weeks for arrears.
WALTER CRITCHLOW, 17780 really did give us a cheery time. He was out of work for some time,
St., WHEATON, ILL. U.S.A., I feel extraordinarily grateful It and was now earning £2.a week.. ton and Chicago The charge is
bas patented a Vapor Moisture Ges Saver and Carbon Eliminator for all was so jolly decent of them."
"They seem to have had a bectie Asked about the millpond incident, courtship for an old couple," said
Among the 500 who joined Autos and Engines that bests any Mr. Mappin said: "I do not want. Mr. Robinson." He spent as much
bringing the wait are a number of ever got to say much about that. It was as £o a night on theatres, suppers, these and other English investors titled persons, army officers, pro- all in the best spirit. They only and taxicabs, and altogether.spent to, the value of 21,000,000. The fessional men, and artists, chased us about two or three miles, more than £100,"held ridiculed this about 10 per cent, of their purchase of guaranteeing the validity of a In the United States the system bonds are now estimated to be worth and I had three car-loads of friends Mrs. Bloomenfield with me.
statement, and declared that she price, and the plaintiffs say that stock company prospectus ja quite "There is no likelihood of my was now living on what her chil- | fraudulent declarations were quade different from the British Bach going back of Pembroke College odron gave her and on borrowed-l to them in contest with real Binto a gate hé ssid, "but whether I shall go money.
bangan of bonds through the investment ing untruthful representations, and into business or do anything else I Mr. Bertrand Watson reduced the firm.
these laws vary greatly from State can't say yet."
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