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PATIENT WITH CHINA AND JAPAN.
"MELANCHOLIA.
DOCTOR'S INSPECTION OF A NURSING HOME.
UNCERTIFIED HOUSE.
TREATY REVISION ·
NEGOTIATIONS.
United Press.)
Foreign Minister, Dr. C. T. Wang, for the proposed revision of the Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty,
Wide Diarences,
The Japanese Minister to China, Mr. K. Yoshizawa. is about to begin References to the bottommest Summonses alleging that Mr.negotiations with the Chinese pit of Hades" and to mental Robert Gowan and Mrs Jessic agony hidden under "a mask of Gowan, of North Side, Clapham Common, aplawfully received for sheer indifference" were made in payment to board in an unlicensed an extraordinary letter written by house certain persons alleged to be by Mr. Emrys Lloyd, aged thirty-funaties were heard at the South Western Police Court recently and five, a solicitor, of Coram-street, adjourned. Bloomsbury, who was found dead. Mr. Edmund O'Connor, defend- from coal gas poisoning in a rooming, said that his clients both, plead
ed not guilty.. which he had engaged in Warwick-
Mr. Gerald Dodson prosecuting street, Pimlico.
said that Mr. and Mrs. Gowan "The letter was read at the in-were summoned in five instances, They carried on a nursing home. quest held by Mr. Ingleby Oddie, which, was a perfectly respectable
and reasonably conducted house.
the Westminster" coroner,
New Act.
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Mr. W. Bellamy, a solicitor, of Walter House, Strand, said that
This matter mine to light," Mr. Lloyd had been an assistant said Mr. Dodson, because they applied to the London County solicitor in his employment since uncil for a certifiente under the last February. He had the highest new Act requiring certification of references from the solicitor in nursing homes. That brought about visit to see whether the certificate whose employment he had been at should be granted. It was admit- Barry Docks, and he lived up to ted that two of the patients at least those references and was highly were persons of feeble intellect."
Mr. Dodson added that Dr. satisfactory. Had he lived he Worth, medical superintendent at would have been a credit to his Springfield Mental Hospital. Toot- profession and a brilliant advo-ing, was sent to inspect the cases, and he expressed the opinion that all five were lunatics. The house was not licensed under the Act.
cate.
The Upper Hand."
The letter, which was written' to Mr. Bellamy, was read by the coroner as follows:
"Dear Mr. Bellamy,-I
am seized with an uncontrollable im pulse that comes to me more or Tess auccessfully, but this time it has got the upper hand.
I often smile and appear light- hearted, but am often hiding a sensation of being at the bottom most pit of Hades..
My appearances in court often agonise me when I may appear to be at ease. The strain of keeping such control has made me preesnt a mask of sheer 'indifference.
Mr. O'Connor said that it was
disputed that the five persons were
lunatics.
A Grievance.
A
Mr.
Yoshizawa will arrive in i Shanghai about July 9 or 10 and| will begin negotiations with the Chinese Foreign Minister at once," it is said. Dr. Wang, according to same unofficial Japanese re- the
memorandum to port, handed Mr. Yoshizawa in Nanking last month outlining roughly the Chi- "nese attitude in the treaty-revision This memorandum con- question. Lains some 20 articles, and is re- ported widely at variance with what the Japanese Minister is prepared to concede.
Unofficial circles in Tokyo are frank in their belief that the nego etiations will be most difficult and protracted, and they are not over. Banguine of success in the first, or even the second effort. Eventually, it is believed, there must be a com- promise between the Chinese and the Japanese viewpoint.
Navigation : Rights.
The principal points of the Chi aese programme, necording to the unofficial information available in First. Japscese re- Mr. Worth, in evidence, said in Tokyo, are: cross-examination by Mr. O'Conner cognition of the Chinese tarif. that the question of a person of un-second, Japan wil agree to the sound mind was one about which abolition of extra-territorial rights there could be a good deal of diver-enjoyed by her nationals resident in China under the old commercial sity of opinion.
treaty all Japanese residing in China shall be subject to Chinese Dr. Worth said, referring to one law, without exception; and third; of the five patients, that he thought the right of navigation on the that it was a type of case he should waters of rivers in China shall be advise to be kept under close super based on the principle of recipro vision
his opinion, this city. patient woman, was suffering No confirmation of the reported from melancholia, and her condi- Chinese programme can be obtain tion was such as the law should haveed, but well-informed sources be- knowledge of.
lieve it substantially correct. connection with the general Chinese attitude towards extra-territorial- ity, there have been repeated remours about a threatened unila- teral announcement on the part of These the Chinese Government. rumours are not taken seriously by diplomats, however,
Dr. Worth said that another patient thought that she heard
The result of my condition is that I am always dissatisfied with the way I do my work, and usually dissatisfied with whatever environ-voices. ment I find myself in.
Mr. O'Connor: Did she tell you
You would not regard that as in sanity in a woman-Ne
"I seized on change of surround-thas she had a grievance because ings and work as a relief which, she could not go out to look at shop
windows 7-Yes. when accomplished, appeared illusive. That is why I changed from South Wales. There I was quite successful as an advocate. made more money, than with you. In seeking the change I did not then realise, as now I do, that what I deeply desire is to escape from myself.
I
Death alone can give this. If there is no hereafter, then it will be the Nirvana of forgetfulness. I hunger for. If there is & hereafter, then I feel that an all-knowing God will redress the unfair balance of my worldly personality and equip me more equitably in the life
to come.
Dr. Worth told Mr. O'Connor that she was suffering fron loss of memory and delusional insanity. He agreed that the loss of memory a person of was not unusual in seventy-five.
Dr. Worth said that he knew Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, who was Я JTIZLIJ of great experience on unacy. He did not know that he had been visiting these particular patients, but he understood that he had visited certain patients at the home at scene, periodi
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
(ORDERS DY HON. MR. 7. H. KING,
"To you
I offer my deepest apologies for what I am about to do. You have been, so kind and considerate that I feel I should" first have given you notice and completely severed my connection with you before carrying out my intention; but the frony of the situation is that before my notice could have expired what now ap pears to me to be immediately and urgently necessary would have be Ping Fai has been taken on the come stupidly unreal and unneces-strength of the Chinese Company
as from June 25,
Bary
"Nerves Punished."
"I have no financial worries. 1 have not been blackmailed, or any is I have an excruciating person thing like that. My only trouble ality which regularly punishes my nerves terribly, so that my heart gives me trouble.
ACTING CAPTAIN SUPERINTEN. DENT OF POLICE]
Chinese Company. Strength.-Constable Ros
Chan
Squad Drill All recruits of the Chinese Company will attend at the Company's Headquarters on for squad dril under 1/Sergeant Tuesday, July 2, at 5.30 p.m. sharp, R43 Tso Chi On: Dress: Mufti.
Indian Company. Squad Drill-All recruits of the "I do not sleep, and my brain Indian Company will attend at becomes temporarily clouded and Central Police Station on Tuesday, incompetent. I have regularly re-July 2, at 5.30 pm eharp, for pressed the desire to purchase for-squad drill under Sergeant Condon. getfulness in intoxication.
Dress Mufti.
PILOT'S ERROR" OF JUDGMENT.
"ROLL" TOO NEAR THE GROUND.
"NORTHOLT CRASH
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INQUEST.
In
Within half-a-mile of the spot where the previous afternoon le was killed while piloting an serop- Jane,
inquest was held at Northolt Aerodrome, Middlesex, on Flying Officer John Walden. Bayes (24), of No. 19 Fighting Squadron, Duxford.
Flying Officer, Bayes was one of the twenty-four selected pilots who were competing in an aerobatic display for the honour of appearing in the R.A.F. annual display at
Hendon on July 13..
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LEO BAISMAN and His OrcLESTRA, No. 21923, 10-inch Walking with Susle-Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain That's You, Baby Fox Trot (from "Fas Modatons
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HOZACE HENT· AND HIS ÜRCHESTRA
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GEORGE CLEAN AND HIS MUSIG No. 21961, 10-tach
Underneath the Russian Moon-Walts Vocal Refrain The One That I Love Loves Me--Fox Trot Vocal Refrain RUDY VALLER AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES
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I Kiss Your Hand, Madame-Fox Trot Focul Refrain Josephita-Fox Trot (from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Tide of Empire") With Yocal Refrain
LED REISMAN AND Hrk ORCHESTRA, Mai 1920, 10-inch
Bye and Bye Sweetheart--Walix' With Facial Refrain My Time is Your Time--Fax Trot With Foeel Refrain
·RUDY VALLÉR AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES
No. 21924, 10-inch Pagan Love Song Waltz (from the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture, "The Pagan") Wish Vocal Refrain
THE TROUBADÓG – This One Girl-For Trot With Focal Refrain
NAT-SHILIRET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA
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I Get the Blues When It Rains-Fox Trot Focal Refrata. The Things That Were Made for Love-Fax Trot
NAT SHILLIT AND THE VICTOR CucUENCIA,
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SCENE ROUND AN AIRPLANE
WRECK.
CORONER AND "WRETCHED SOUVENIR HUNTERS."
RUDDER MISSING.
".
"No Theories."
Burst into.Flames. Squadron Leader Robert Stanley Karl Gunnar. Bergstrom, aged Aitken, commanding the Northolt
thirty-three, of Highgate-road, who
A reference to these wretched station, said: "Two Siskins were taking part in the competitions and was stated to be a political refugee souvenir hunters" was made is the accused at coroner, Mr. J. R. Kemp, at the anticipated was to be a slow roll failing as an alien to comply with the air disaster at Shepperton when
noticed one machine attempt to from Sweden, was perform a evolution which
Marlborough street Police Court of inquest at Shepperton concerning The pilot rolled the machine on its the conditions attached to bis two men lost their lives. back at height of about 400ft. landing in the United Kingdom. The victims were Captain. E. R. When од its back the engine Mr. Herbert Muskett, for the C. Scholefield, the pilot,, who was stopped and he had not sufficient police, said that Bergstrom had attached to the uerodrome of speed, to complete the evolution nor been convicted of different offences Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., of Wey. ̈= ̈ sufficient height to recover himself in Sweden, and only in January bridge, Surrey, and Mr. §.__W....... completely by divng. The aero- plane struck the ground and barst act was sentenced in Paris to four Sherratt, of Byfleet-rood, Wey-
months imprisonment for
bridge. Mr. Sherratt attempted "In this "I have succeeded, but Parade,All ranks of the Indian into flames.
to jump from the airplane when I fear if I live I would slowly de- Company will parade at Police I am of opinion that the offence against the alien laws,
it was Afty to a hundred feet from generate into a sot, as I often have Headquarters on Tuesday, July 9, serident was caused by the officer
the ground and was killed. great dificulty in overcoming the for drill under Sergeant Condon. attempting to perform an evolution desire to raise temporarily my Fall in at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: at too slow a speed for the height spirit
drinking something White uniform, beit and cap, with at which he was flying. It would, by potent.
white cover. No member may be therefore, seem to be an error of "Drug addiction would seem to absent from this parade without judgment on the part of the pilot
John Gerald Russell, Flight be my destiny if I lived to suffer leave from the Company Com-
Lieutenant in the R.A.F. Medical an increase in my emotional dis-mander.
Service, said that after the fire Flying Squad, turbances.------
H348 E. tender had overcome the flames, the To yourself and Mrs Bellamy Strength-Constable
machine WLE my best wishes and kindest regards, Campbell has been taken on the occupant of the and in the hope that you will for strength of the Flying Squad as extricated dead.
The West Middlesex Coroner Dr. give the step I now take.
from June 28, and posted to the
verdict of Crone) recorded "Sometimes, when my eyes have Kowloon Section. been rather puffy, I have noticed The fortnightly patrol of the accidental death. you glance at me curiously, and Hong Kong Section will take place have felt that you considered I had on Thursday, July 4. Fall in at the been drinking the night before. Central Police Station at 3.15 p.m. This never was so. One of my sharp. Dress: Khaki uniform.
The next fortnightly patrol of legacies of war exposure nephritis and kidney weakness. the Kowloos Bection will take place These organs often worked very on Tuesday, July 9: Fall in at the imperfectly, creating a state of Tsimtantsui Fire Brigade Station at puffiness insipient dropsy--which 5.30 p.m. sherp. Dress: Khaki passed off in a day or so.
Was
1.am
of opinion that the state of my kidneys poisoning my blood stream and releasing much valuable albamen has contributed largely to my instability.
Soviet
hope I am not inconveniencing your
by the action I have taken."
Buicide while of A verdict of unsound mind" was recorded.
uniform.
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TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
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Mr.
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Expelled From France." Bergstrom wben arrested by Detective Inspector Clancey was
A policeman said that after the found to be, in possession of a Council of the Working Syndicalist round trying to obtain souvenirs, certificate issued by the General crash crowds of people gathered Revolutionary Movement, Paris, to and when sufficient police arrived. the effect that "Comrade "Berg- they were forced to the road. stroma" had been expelled from
Muller, Percy Maxwell France, and was recommended to superintendent of Vickers Aviation, all good syndicalist anarchist Ltd., who gave evidence, was asked contrades 1. £ good militant whether he had any theory regard" comrade." A letter was also found ing the accident. on him requesting some
Mr. Muller: No, I have no theory England to do all that is neces- at the moment. I may say, on sary to help Comrade Bergstrom in behalf of Vickers, that we view of his anti-militarist past."
daiz. anxious to obtain some Mr. Medd, the magistrate, said There is a rudder missing. We are during the hearing that Bergstrom prepared to pay a large reward for professed to be an anarchist. it. Perhaps some one locally has
Mr. Ernest Williams, defending, it as a souvenir. replied that anarchism was a poli The coroner: One is afraid of tical faith; it was an extreme form these wretched souvenir hunters. of Liberalism.
Mr. Muller added that there had Mr. Mead: I do not think been many stories of Captain Liberalism would thank you for Scholefield stunting. Capt. Schole- that, on the eve of an election. Ifield was one of the finest specta- do not know what Mr. Lloyd. George cular pilote in the world. He wish-- would say to that."
ed to state on behalf of Vickers Mr.. Mead made an order recom- that he did not feel that Captain mending Bergstrom's deportation, Scholefield was responsible for the mmewhigh cocant that he or she is a
The jury
verdict in sup prison until the Home Secretary
could make arrangements for his cach case of "Death by misadven- departure..
ture."
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1.48 p.m. Weather report. Bharpshooters Company.
5.30 to 8.30 p.m.-Programme of Revolver Practice.Members of Chinese music. (Records supplied this Company are reminded of the by Meters, Tuen Shou Teng). revolver praction to be held on
7.43 p.m.-Evening weather Sundas duly 7 at 10 am for porting details ne last week order
(Sg6.) W. KEST. A.8.P., Adjutant, Hong Kong, July 1, 1920.
Victor and H.M.V. fecords plied by E. Mostrie & Co.). 10.30 p.m.-Close down: