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CELE BRATED FILM ACTOR ACCUSED OF MURDER.
Sensational Charge Against - Fatty” Arbuckle. (Reuler's Service. )
San Francisco, September 12,
DEVELOPMENT OF SUGAR-GROWING IN INDIA.
Java Model Recommended.
Simla, September 11. The report of the Committee appointed at the end of 1919 to investigate sugar-growing manufacture in India, just published. emphasises that India produces only a ton of sugar per acre.compar ed with over 4 tons in Java and 441⁄2 tons in Hawaii. An enormous
percentage of the sugar contents of the cane is los: through antiquat
ed methods of production and inefficient milling.
The report recommends the adoption of the Java-system of
The Committee pays high tribute to the assistance given the Government by the Dutch Indies General Syndicate of Sugarį Manufacturers, the Dutch-Indies Research Association of Java, and the sugar industry, whose courtesy and cordiality were unforgettable
RUSSIA'S CATASTROPHE.
-Millions doomed to Starve to Death."
Helsingfors. September 11.
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DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF MILFORD HAVEN,
German Prince who Became British First Sea Lord.
| Renter's Service.)
London, September 11.
From 1902 to 1903 he was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence, subsequently commanding the Atlantic Fleet and then the 3rd- and 4th. Divisions of the Home Fleet From 1912 to 1914 he was First Ses Lord. The Marquis was a Fellow of the Royal Numistnatist Society and of the Royal Geographical Society.
Recentis it was announced that the Marquis would enter commercial life as director of a London company.]
GERMANY'S INTERNAL SITUATION.
Bavaria Temporising.
WO PING MURDER.
Defence Opened
SINGLE" COPY: 13 NTR
SHERWIN-WILIAMS `PAINTS SOPA.
METER
The Clerk to the Judge readļing features was that the murder the paragraph in question and it was committedĝn the hearing of was stated that the line referred over a thousand people and yet, to was "inflicted by a man now with one atresiion—that of an in custody.
old lady who fainted or practically A foki at prisoner's boarding did so there was not a single The defence in the Wo Ping house was re-called and ques member of the audience who murdar trial, in which Young Ko tioned, following which Mr could give evidence of xay is charged with causing the death Jenkin opened the defence. of an actor named Li Sai-fan st.
with his
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THE DEFENCE.
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A sensation has been created by the arrest of the film actor,
The death is announced of the Marquis of Milford Haven
description of what took place in Admiral Lonis Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquis of Milford
the theatre on that night. Connset "Fatty" Arbuckle, who is charged with murder in connection with the death of Virginis Rappe, a film actress, who died after & party Haven, born 1854, was formerly Prince Louis of Battenburg, but in the Wo Ping Theatre on August
Isubmitted that there was a panie 2.3 opened before
and when about twenty policeman in Arbuckle's apartment. The District Attorney states that Arbuckle 1917 he and Prince Henry of Battenbury (now Marquis of Cares-16th
Justice Gampartz this) Counsel prefaved his address went to the theatre with the is charged under the section of the Code which provides that life takan brooke) relingaished their German titles of royalty. He married his Mr.
anjby remarking that he was not idea of getting evidence, with ons in rape or attempted rape is considered murder. The complaint wacousin Princess Victoris, daughter of Princess Alice and grand-morning. Mr. Jenkin. in filed after a post-mortem and the examination of several persons daughter of Queen Victoria.
eloquent and appealing address going to put prisoner in the wit-exception, all they could get was who are alląged to have been attending the party-Arbuckle, who | The Marquis of Milford Haven, eldest son of Prince Alexander to the jury went into the paints nesa-box. In any case in which that of policemen and those coo- was at Los Angeles, returned to California and surrendered. The of Hesse, became a naturalised British subject and entered the Navy of the case one by one. Hea British Judge sat on the Bench, nected with the theatre. Those prisoner declinedīto make a statement.
in 1868, serving in the Egyptian War, (Medal and Khedire's start commenced speaking shortly said Mr. Jeakin in the course of connected with the show counsel after eleven o'clock and continued his speech, and British advocates submitted, had lost a friend and until the adjournment and again advocated British law it was a the star turn and they had an atfer tio. It is not expected that cast iron rule-a role of wh objaze to grind. Mr. Jenkin asked the case will be finished today. everybody was well and judy the jury to get away from the His Lordship said before the proud-that there was only one idea that the police must be right. Court rose at midday on Friday standard of justice. That The police were not infallable he heard addresses from the standard was the same, no matter and their evidence wanted care- Attorney General and Mr. Jenkin what the nationality, no matter fully watching. He asked them as to the putting in of certain what the social status, no matter to picture themselves a Chinese THE AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY.
eridenes. He had had time to what was the wealth of the man detective earning about $13 or $14
that point and bad who was for the moment pat month. A little while ago His Dead as far as Freighters are Concerned," says E. S. Expert. consider
brother facing the Judge on trial for his Excellency went to the Central Police Station and distributed London, September 11. Judge. He had come to the life.
The jury wete bound in per-medals to policemen. Did they mechanically lifting cane loads on to the carrier, and opines that the of the United States are thrown by Mr. James R. Preston, shipbuild.sideration, that the Crown was/formance of the oath which they mean to say that that would not
Sidelights on the present condition of the shipbuilding industry conclusion, after careful' con- present tariff, combined with ocean and railway freights. ampls ling expert connected with the Fuller Construction Company of/not entitled to call that evidence. took when they went into the stir the mind of a Chinese detec
box to pay the same attention to tive who desired to do well for him- protects the Indian sugar industry.
America Interviewed at Liverpool on his arrival from New York. The Attorney General then the ease and to sift the evidence self in the force. Counsel submitted The organisation of the Indian suzar industry on the Java he asserted that the ship construction industry is dead in America addressed the jury on the pink and weigh it up in same way as that the detective got hold of the model. proceeds the report. is essential to progress. Organisation, should take the frem of an Indian Sgar Board composed, firstly building areail-tankers.
as far as freighters are concerned. Practically the only vessels ticket. He proposed to address if the man on trial, instead of an wrong man. If he had known Many large shipbuilding firms have them later, he said, and to submit unknown Chinese, was a man that he had the wrong min it mainly of oficials and, ultimately, of non-officials. An Imperial closed down. Mr. Preston said that regarding general trade to them and give them resson who was very well known. Ifa would have broken his heart." Sugar Research Institute should be established to control research everything was seratebing bottom. Possibly this would continue for coming to the conclusion well-known European were on because everything that he was in the provinces,
the ticket for months, but optimism prevails, especially in the direction of the that
was not trial, counsel submitted, there building
an would be gone. erection of dwelling-houses.
** planted,”—it WAS not put would have been no such occur-Counsel
put it 20 the there by the police to bolster op rences as what happened on jors that ∙it had been their case. Secondly, he intend- Monday morning, when the pink recognised by the police that ed to point out to them, that the ticket was found. This case bad they had the wrong man. prisoner, who apparently Fau
commanded a great deal of atten-put it to them that someone got running away from the direction tion, said counsel, and it would to know that prisoner was not of the theatre after the murder, be impossible for any body to have the right man and it was hoped Berlia, September 11. It is officially announced from Munich that the Bavarian the boarding house a ticke: for the case other than bad appeared ticket it would establish that had amongst bis possessions at failed to hear something about that by introducing the pink Government has not yet reached a final decision in regard to the}"
seat in the front row of in evidence. The jury's duty, prisoner was the man" He pat Berlin decrees. It appears that while the majority of the Bavarian the theatre-s position A well-known Russian writer, interviewed. declared that Dr. Cabinet favours rejection. a compromise has been reached between convenient for the intended mar-mind only that evidence that ad of the pinboticket was done to ms said Mr. Jenkin, was to bear in it to the jury that the "planting“ Nausea had quite a wrong conception of the extent of the misery of the Bavarian delegates and the central Government.
A committee of the Diet which has been considering a com-derer to sit and wait until an been given in the witness box et Brisoner convicted of the the famincestricken peop'è of Russia and the relief necessary to save į them. The famine struck the most fertile parts of Russia, where the promise desires to continue negotiations with Berlin with a view to apportunity arose. As they had before them in that Court. It Wo-ping murder.
beard, the murderer committed might be that they had seen in the Counsel then pat forward Country's supplies are grown. It would never be possible to supply jobtaining further concessions.
the murder from a position about!
press a statement that was suppos arguments against the Attorney food for the twenty to twenty-five million people needing it *
two seats away from the seed to have been make by prisoner General submissions with regard least one-third of whomasere doomed to starve to death.
the ticket for which was found when he was arrested by four to the pink ticket. If prisoner in the prisoner's coat. Thirdly, Chinese constables. I was more only purchased one ticket in his coat right up against thith likely that they had read it, why did he leave in it his coat in bis right thigh, was the mass and having seen it, it might be his box when he went to the revolver and he would not want at the back of their minds, but theatre? If he sought two tickets ito de sitting up against another counsel reminded them that it why didn't he destroy the ticket
spectator. The ticket was for bad been excluded by the rules of that he would not require? The the right-hand ead seat for one law and it was their duty also to party thst went to search of the sofas. He was also goiz exclude it. Counsel referred to prisoner's rooms failed to fad to suggest said the Atomes the conduct of the police in the the ticket, and Counsel submitted General, the possibility that case. A man in A policeman's that when they went there it prisoner bought two tickets, for uniform was in Court treated was not there, the two right-hand end seats exactly the same as any other! Mr. Jenkiz went thoroughly That would give him more room man. They were recognised as into every little point in the for his right arm and for his part and parcel of the administra-evidence and was still addressing pistol. He wanted to explain tion of the law and not of the Court when we went why the ticket that was found in necessity of more integrity than to press. prisoner's box was not used. anyone else. It was well-known may have been that prisoner bad and recognised by authorities, another tisket, and on that other said counsel, and the view ticket he got into the theatre.
could hardly be treated as un- Counsel Inspector Murphy was re-called worthy of attention.
cross-examined at some read a passage from a legal work length by counsel for the defence.-the premier and leading ok Mr. Jenkin put in a copy of a on the law of evidence wh714 local newspaper for August 17 quoted by every judge in the land, Podolsky appears #t the and pointed to a paragraph pur- Mr. Jeckin, described it which Theatre Royal on Saturday.
the police it was often their Lane Crawford's advertise now porting to be a copy of a police stated that owing to the zeal of Page. 4. morning report.
Witness could not say whether custom to hold that all men were sotecan fashions in their ladies' or not it was a copy of the police guilty until they were found department-Page 3. report because he had never geen innocent, but that view was not
Lammert's are selling off Cot- the morning report in question, held by & Court of Justice. They ton Yarn and Glucose on Septem- Mr. Jenkin: The paragraph I could apply is to the Chinese ber 14 and on the day following have marked is not calcolat plain-clothes officer, even more Wire Fails and Steal Bars at the
the prisoner than to a European, that he would Yaumati Godowns-Page 4.
the be carried away in his excess
i * Reputation**
the big view of prospective jurymen of zeal. Another thing that he picture at the Coronet to-day and wished to point out was the com- at the Kowloon Theatre is being mon view held by the public shown "My Husband's other with regard to lawyers. There Wife Page 12. -was-a-common-view that a lawyer - The next V. R. C. Night Swim- Mr. Jenkin submitted that to was a fellow who would get opning Fate will ke place on get a reward in a case it was sad would argue for a fee, and September 16-Page 4.
The Hongkong Hotel Garage necessary to secure & conviction. whose arguments, the spirit with "I make great use of the press which be argued, and the length have now a beautiful showroom in these cases because one is of his arguments, and his zeal was in Pedder Btreet where a fall able to know what goes on, measured by the foe which he line of automotive goods can be
expected to receive. Mr. Jenkinseen-Page 4. remarked counsel.
The starving hordes are fleeing mostly eastaards. Twelve thousand were recently killed at Bugulma through two armies of refugees meeting.
THE ECRNOMIC POSITION IN FRANCE
Soon Become Self-Supporting in Wheat.
Paris. September 10:
Later.
Reported Resignation of Bavarian Anti-Compromise Ministers. A Munich message states that the Premier. Herr von Kahn, and the Minister of Justice, Herr Kathe, who were regarded as the strongest opponents of compromise. mentioned earlier, have resigned.
JAPANESE ALPINIST'S FEAT.
Ascent of Mount Eiger,
Berne, September 11.
The-grape-barvest Mif-in progres--bidding-fair-to-rival:
he fes: which many Alpine climbers have attempted vainly wheat as regards quality and quantity, so the agricultural year on has been accomplished by a young Japanese. Mr. Yukomaki, of the whole is quite satisfactory. Under the circumstances prices of Tog, who, with three guides, ascended Mount Eiger by the easters the chief commodities should soon show a substantial decline.
The Cabinet is contemplating new further measures tending to the arduous climb.
approach. All of the party were in splendid condition at the end of reduce the cost of living and to curb speculation.
Under the Government's auspices a great show is being held in attains an altitude of over 13,000 fr.j
[Mount Eiger, one of the highest peaks of the Bernese Oberland. Paris in order to advertise the most modern methods of wheat) cultivation. At the opening address the Minister of Agriculture! stated that France should soon become self-supporting as regards wheat.
Business is decidedly on the upward trend.
The steady depreciation of German exchange is causing some misgivings as foreboding possibly an acute German crisis. mark is now worth less than one halfpenny.- Horas.
THE-AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN IMBROGLIO.
Ambassadors' Council Sends Note to Hungary.
Paris, September 11.
The
ACCIDENT TO FRENCH EXPRESS.
Many Casualties.
Lyons, September 11.
In the express train accident 25 were killed and 60 injured (see Earlier Cables.
Later.
Thirty-eight were killed in the Strasburg-Lyons express train
derailment.
SAN ANTONIO FLOODS.
Less Serious than Expected.
San Antonio (Tex.), September 12.
The Ambassadors Conference has sent the Hungarian Minister) a: Paris a note stating that the acts of violence committed by Hungarian bands or regular troops in West Hungary directly involve responsibility on the part of the Hungarian Government. Inviting
The floods are not so serious as originally threatened (see Hungary to evacuate Burgenland, the Note, declares that punitive measures will be employed to ensure the execution of the Treaty of Earlier Cables). The dead are now estimated at 39 and the damage Trianon if Hungary persists in ber present attitude.
at $10,000,000.
[Other Telegrams on Pages 2 and 3)
ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FROM GERMANY
Matter to be Referred to Allied Conference.
Paris, September 10. The French Finance Minister and the Chancellor of the Ex-| chequer in Lordon had another informal talk, during which the financial i-sues were regiewed in the friendliest spirit. The whole matter is to be referred to another Allied conference.-Haras.
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE.
EARLIER
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
From Our Own Correspondent.
MALAYAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
Singapore, Sept. 10.
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Witness was than cinaaly ques- tioned with regard to rewards for policemen,"
News in To-day's New Advertisements.
To-Day's Exchange.
A Washington Conference Offer.
(Canton Information Bureau}}
The Inspector replied that a pointed out that such was not the The T. K. K. advise consignees, Cautop: September 10-A conviction counted, but he held case, either with himself or with of cargo of the arrival in port of tention here has been drawn to a that it was not necessary to get other members of the Bar. Coup the Kores Maru—–Page 4. Reater message from Peking conviction to obtain a reward.sel went on to refer to prisoner's said to be based on a Canton 'A police officer who looks for personal appearance and saked Probable Selection of France, British, and Japanese Jurists.
effect that convictions is not fit to be the jury not to judge him by that. In the Malayan Lawn Tennis telegram to the
President dan Yat-sen would police officer," he added..
He did not make his face and the Paris, September 10.
Championship Nakamuro(Japanese), “not agree for Mr. C. C. Wu to Mr. Jentia handed witness fact that it did not appeal to The election of the French jurist Prof. Weiss, Lord Finlay, and beat Khoo Hoo Hye (Chinese) go to the Washington Conference newspaper containing a report them had absolutely nothing to The closing rate of the dollar an the Japanese jurist, Mr. Oda as judges of the International Court of 64.63. It was a brilliant game Government As Mr. Wo is medals at Central Police Station He had heard people say e
as a representative of the Cantrel of the recent distribution of do with the evidence against him demand to-day was 25. 87%d. Justice at The Hagus is considered as assured-Havas.
to which the Chinese drove and Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and pointed out the number of looks guilty just look at his The Weather. placed brilliantly but the Japanese, of the legal Government of which cases in which medsla „were face."/ If that was no," said with wonderful steadiness, prevail President Son is the Chief Ex-awarded for securing convictions. Counsel, then they had only 10 go ed. In the course of the competi. Fecutive, there would be no need
Referring to the paragraph to Victoria Gaol to see 680 tion Nakamura bae beuten the for him to seek the President's purporting to be a copy of the murderers and, of course, that peratur champions of Selangor, Pennng decision regarding an offer that police morning report, His Lord- W25 10% 50. and two senior Singapore Clubs would make him we represents- ship ssid ba did not see how it In the United States national lawn tennis singles championship, amongst others, altogether obtain: tive of an administration which would affect the fury and racze ond round, Shimidzu best the Californian, Allen, by ––3, 6–0. ing 16 sela against two and 104, lacked, constilctional sanctions than the rep of a fellat
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AMERICAN LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP,
Shimidzu's Progress.
Philadelphia, September 11.
THE EVIDENCE
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