Dutch Boy White on a Red Lead
ANDERSEN, MEYER & DO LTO
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
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THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DIFFICULTY.
Hungarian Dissimulation.
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THE FRENCH COAL INDUSTRY.
Revival of the Northern Collieries.
[ Reuter's Service.)
"Paris, September 19. London, September 12. Foreign Office telegrams show that the attitude of the Hungarian ed and flooded by the retreating Germans, are slowly emerging from Northern France's collieries, which were systematically wreck. Government is regards the Burgenland dispute continues to be mass the ruins. The antput in 1913 was over 22,000,000 tons; in 1920 it unsatisfactory. Hungary has replied to the Allies' note suggesting was undar four millions, which latter figure has been already ex- that the work of restoring order shall be entrusted to Hungarian ceeded for the first half of 1921. French collieries managed sub- troops. This is regarded as irrelevant and an abandonment of the previous disavowal of responsibility for the action of irregular bands.stantially to help out British industry during the recent British
miner'a strike-Raras. The Austrians have to-day withdrawn from their zone. Mean- while a state of alarm prevails among the frontier populations, and cattle are being driven inland. It is felt in London that it is nacessary to employ vigorous coercive measures to compel fulfilment of Hungary's obligations.
HOME INDUSTRIES.
Recovery in Iron and Steel, but Coal Quiet.
London, September 12.
The British predaction of pig iron in August was 93,000 tous compared with P9000 tons in July and 386,000 tons in March, before the coal Stopon. - production of steel ingots and castings in Augun was 412,000 95%20ti March
como and
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compared with 117,000 tons in July and Forty-six blast furnaces were operating on with 15 on July 31 and 109 before the coal
the number of idle collieries in the !roduction generally curtailed owing to a lack of foreign trade. Collieries are suspending work rather thao incur heavier loss by selling at still lower prices.
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GERMAN MISSIONARIES.
Appeal to Methodist Conference.
Landon. September 12. The question of German missionaries résuming work abroad was raised at the Methodist Conference at Westminster to-day, when a resoluzów was moved by a German delegate, Herr Bek. urging the Conference to seek ways and meens to open & way for German missionaries to mission fields. The subject was referred to the Conference's business committee.
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BRITISH HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.
Beckett Defects McCormick.
London. September 12.
Ar the Covent Garden. Opera House Joe. Beckett bea: Boz McCor.nick for the heavy-weight championship of Britain, the fatter retiring in the twelfth round.
UNEMPLOYED DISTURBANCES AT LIVERPOOL
Police Charge with Batons.
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London, September 12. In a recrudescence of unemployed disturbances at Liverpool the police charged with batons.
A hundred were arrested, many of whom were sent to prison and hospital.
SOVIET PROCLAIMS MARTIAL LAW.
Thousands of Starving Children for Siberia.
Riga, September 12.
The Soviet has proclaimed martial law at Bessarabia and in the Rumanian frontier zone. Forty-eight thousand hungry, half-naked children from the Volks district are stated to have assembled at Cheliabinsk awaiting departure to Siberia.
MDLLE LENGLEN'S ILLNESS.
Postponement of Match with Mrs. Mallory.
New York, September 12. Owing to the illness of Malle Lenglen, which forced her to default again after playing one set in an exhibition doubles mateb at Brooklyn. the match between Mdlle. Lenglen and Mrs. Mallory has been indefinitely postponed.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN NEW YORK.
Expected to Affect a Million.
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New York. September 12. It is reliably estimated that half a million, including a hundred thousand ex-Service men, will be idle in New York this winter. The city authorities and charitable organisations are devising relief:
ELECTRICIANS' STRIKE CAUSES DILEMMA IN BERLIN.
No Newspapers, Trams, or Electric Light.
Berlin, September 12. Owing to strike of electricians, the Berlin newspapers are unable to appear frame are not running, and the supply of electric light, bas beva sospended..
EXTENSIVE STRIKE AT ROUBAIX.
Lille. September 12.
Metal workers, municipal employees, and co-operative bakers at Roubaix struck to-day in sympathy with the textile workers.
MARK'S LOW RECORD.
London, September 12. German mark touched a fresh low record to-day with 380
BAVARIAN CABINET RESIGNS.
has now.
Beptember 12."
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INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE,
Latin America to Claim Three Seats.
Paris, September 12. Interviewed by the New York Herold, Senhor da Cunha, the Brazilian delegate to the League of Nations, declared that if Mr. Elihu Root declined to be a candidate for the Court of International Justice, Brazil would reserve her vote. He said that Latin Americans would claim three seats on the tribunal.
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GROWTH OF FRENCH AIR PORT.
Le Bourget's Increasing Activity,
Paris. September 12.
The air port at La Bourget is showing increasing activity. Dur ing August 500 airplanes were used in conveying 2,500 passengers and 18 tons of sundry goods.
COMMEMORATION OF THE MARNE. )
September Paris, 12.
Most of the nations notably Great Britain, Japan. Siam, and the Netherlands, were officially represented at the commemoration of the Marae victory in 1914 at Meaux-Hara
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* FIRE CAUSES EXPLOSION IN NOVA SCOTIA. Serious Damage.
Halifax (N.S.), September 12.
A terrific explosion shook the town when the Dartmouth oil tank ble up, following su outbreak of fire. So far oly abe man is reported missing, but the damage. to property is serious.
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EARLIER
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
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PRISONERS.
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MOTOR CASES.
A "Chick" Horn.
WO PING MURDER.
Accused-Acquitted.
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was any misconduct on the part him that the case for the Crown. of the police. It appeared, un-had bean pat very fairly before fortunately, that this statement them and they must use thetrowa was brought out at the Police discretion. Court and as a natural conse With regard to the pink ticket, quence it appeared in the public His Lordship went into the salient The Wo Ping murder trial and-press. No one was to blame for features of the evidence, but ed to-day. Mr. Justice Gompertz's that, but he must ask them to put pointed out to the jury that any summing up took over two hours, it right out of their mind--it was suggestions that he might make His Lordship going minutely into not in the evidence and was not did not prevent them from using every point in the case. The jury before them. His Lordship added their own judgment. It had been ware absent only balf an hour. that he felt it his duty to tall the suggested that the ticket had and their vardick of "not guilty" jury, that had this evidence been been "planted"—that Rome was greeted by to large crowd admitted it might bare been Chinese subordinate bad adopted of Chinese pent with en-entirely destroyed in thusiasm, the acquitted man as he examination,
cross-this means of fabricatingeridence. His Lordship supposed that it left the Court being followed by There was just one other would not have been difficult for hundreds of his fellow-country-matter, said the men, who stood about in the The Attorney General in
Judge man to obtain a ticket and his it would bave, bean possi- streets in the vicinity for some address yesterday remarked Doble for him to have "plantedTM It time after the proceedings had the absence of any explanation. How did the ticket get there?" ended.
It might have appeared to them, There had been no suggestion The prisoner was Yeung Ko His Lordship said, that it was that any of the Europeans had and he was charged with murder- comment on the act that prisoner anything to do with it. It might ing an actor named Li Sai-fan at did rat go into the witness box. have been put in the pocket the Woping Theatre on Aug. 16tb. His Lordship pointed out that it previous to the search or it, may The jury were Mesars R Gray was not put forward as such. It have been put there at the time.- (foremad) C.E. Tavares. V.F.V. was entirely legitimate for pri- Several police officers had been Ribeiro, R. Judah, J.J. Gutier-soner not to go into the witness called and cross-examined as to rez, E.M. Xavier and J. Cut box and he bad a perfect right to the possibility of the ticket stand or fall according to the being missed in the search and it The Attorney General (the case pat forward by the Crown.seemed to His Lordship that the Hon. Mr. J.H. Kemp .C.) cou- It was for the Crows to prove ticket ought to have been found. ducted the case for the Crown [him guilty."
and should bave been found and prisoner was represented by His Lordship congratulated It seemed to him that it would Mr. F.C. Jenkin.
Mr. Jenkin on his able and be very difficult for a police,
hill.
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In summing up. His Lordshipjself-exhausting address in pri- officer to miss it by holding the said the advantage of not goingsoner's defence, but be under jacket ap to the light and ran- on with the caté last night was stood bim το 945 im the ning his hands over it, but His that the jury were now much course of debate that fresher.
if a Lordship thought it possible that' He was pleased that European had been in the dock the police might have missed the they had bað an adjournment the case would have been pre-pocket in their search. because be found on going sented in a very different way. Inspt. Murphy was recalled at through his notes that he would and that evidence had bean this point, because Mr. Jenkin be able to be more concise than 'floog in. His Lordship en-sald His Lordship had omitted an at one time he believed. They tirely disagreed with him on important statement made by had been a careful and attentive those points. Its not only him. jury and had followed all the right but it was the duty of the The Inspector = was had been pat before them. éridence for the two sides which Crown to bring any fresh examined with regard to whether
evidence forward and it was not it was customary to make
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It had been a very long case, for the Crown to keep it back, search just before a trial-sad if said His Lordship, and he proposed He had sat in Here. Courts for the Chinese coonfables know to deal with it more or less in many years, sald-His Lordship,thic-
20 miles an hour. been several minor
think There had might
said house guilty.
that he
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outline. To his view the case bad and he had never before beard it Laspt. Murphy replied that it fallen onder three headings. The suggested that the nationality of was customary to examine the first be would describe as ident-of a man had been treated to his exhibits, in a case before taking fication, the second be would prejudice. His Lordship refer- them to Court, bat it was not describe as the pink ticket and red to the Crippen case in sup-usual to conduct a search with the third he would describe as the port of his remarks and went on the object of getting more clues. pursuit. But before he come to say that they had heard a Ris Lordship apaks for some Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at merced he had one or two great deal about prejudice in this time forther on the pink the Magistracy this morning the preliminary remarks to make. case. They had been told that ticket and then went into the driver of motor car No. 117 was With regard to the gas of proof, every policeman who had not a other evidence in the case; He Shanghai, Sept. 12.
summoned by Sergeant Dixon for something was sa sterday by medal desired to bave one, and concluded a lengthy address by Henry Mancie, alias John Wesley sing "chicken" born, which Mr. Jankin. Tir meaning of presumably those who had selling the jury that if they found Morris, who escaped frous a Superintendent of Police, and for had to bring the case bome to They
not approved by the Captain oons of proof was that the Crown medal desired to possess another the crime brought home to American jail last Wednesday was
that prisoner then they must bring in recaptured at the railway station speeding. Inspector Garrod said the man charged in the dock they could never trust a police a verdict of "guilty," but if they here in a bedraggled condition the C.S.P. bad no objection to the beyond my reasonable doubt. man not to take up à case alfoond that he was not the man after a trip on the brakebeams ofse of any device other than the Strong suspicing, said His Lord-though in his own mind he who actually fired this shot then a train from Nanking.
Klaxon or the ordinary electrical ship, was of no use. They had did not believe that the person he had a right to be soquitted. has not yet been retaken.
horn outside the city, but there to feel satisfied beyond all reason was guilty." His Lordship re- The jury retired and after being was a regulation prohibiting the able doubt that the man standing ferred to the passage from a book absent less than half an hour use of chicken horns within the before them in the dock had had on law read by Mr. Jeakin and announced that they returned BANKRUPTCY CASE.
the crime brought home to him.sid Mr. Jenkin did not read the naanimous verdict of "not Shanghai, Sept. 12-
Sergeant Dixon stated that If they were in any doubt about whole of the passage. His Lord-guilty." An ex-parte motion by the official
defendant passed the cemetery this their duty was to brizg in a ship read the part in question On his own behalf and that of receiver la the bankrutepey case;
In Happy Valley at the rate of verdict of noi guilty. They from where Mr. Jenkin left off the Attorney General and Mr. against Cecil Humphreys alleges
Was The effect of it was that the Jentio His Lordship congratulat that the assignment of his enter-
Lordship police ware apt to regard a man's ed the jury on the great deal of prisss dated June 20, to Messrs. collapses in the neighbourhood but they had to find him conduct from its worst point of interest that they had displayed Cecil Humphreys Ltd, the com recently, and on the day in guilty in fact. His Lordship view but it must be stated that in the case. He would grant pany he bad formed, was fraudu-question a number of women referred to the law in Scotland, the general manner in which the them leave until March, 1927. lent The decision has been re-
were removing debris on the road. telling the jury that there they police KAVA their testimony
The Magistrate pointed out to had a verdict of "ngt proven." was served.
guimpeachable and they defendant that the road was The verdict here of "not guilty" were opright and intelligent osrow and had several sharp covered both those verdicts, His witnesses. A policeman liked to bende, and moreover it was in a Lordship explained. If they succeed in his work, said His Control area. He fined defendant found, as men of good judgment Lordship, and he had no doubt $5 for the first summons and $20 and sound understanding, that professional bias, but every man the case had been brought home was like that in following his oc- and they had no reasonable doubt,jcupation. A man was sometimes Commencing to-morrow at the
The driver of motor car No. 370 then they must bring in a verdict carried away by his professions! Angust records to hand.-Page 3. Kowloon Cricket Club a week of was summoned by Sergeant Smith of guilty. He preferred to put it zeal, but His Lordship was sare Warren and Co. alvertine ti Interport Lawn Bowls will be for driving at an excessive speed this way, instead of putting it as that the jury would apply them-"Empire" Porcelain Suite. - initiated and it only needs fine Defendant pleaded that he was the benefit of the doubt, said His selves, as reasonable men to this Page 2. week for visitors and local players over 10 miles an hour. weather to ensure an enjoyable travelling at a speed of a little Lordship, because there was no question. With this exception of Whiteaway's are selling for indulgence. The crime was either the old fady, it was a fact that all one week, Trunks and Travelling alike.
Sergeant, Smith said on the brought home or else it was not the witnesses were either police Requisites at half price.--Fage 3. The Shanghai team, which was
afternoon of the 3rd inst The prisoner was a stranger men or actors, and it bad been due to arrive to-day, will consist defendant's
#Polly of the Storm Country" car passed of Messrs. J. Shaw, D. McAlister, the Ming Ynea gardens thought it
bimi to them and His Lordship suggested that there was is also on the programme of the
better that that panic in the theatre The Coronet to-day-Page 12. 5. Marks, J. R. Tweedie, H. Pat & speed of 25 miles so bour. was so. He drew their attention jury had to consider in a case of The Kowloon-Canton Railway Landers, A. J. Brown and J. He followed defendant on his to the fact that prisoner might be this kind whether it was easy to time-table is now revised.-Page Keefe, several of whom figured in motor cycle, and when he stopped a man of letters, he might be a get independent witnesses to 4. the previous Shanghai combias the car his own speedometer poor man or he might be a coolie, some forward, as there WAS tion to visit this port a year ago-registered 25 miles an bour.
The K. C. C. will hold another but whatever he was it made no tendency on the part of a crowd Open Air Concert'on-Saturday...-- The Hongkong team has been selected as follows:-Messrs. J. Smith: It is suggested by the trial for his life and they must thing further to do with tha
The Magistrate, to Sergeant difference. He was a man on of this nature not to have soy. Pages 1, 6 & 7. Clark, G, Gerrard, J. Hamilton, owner of the car in a letter sent remember that once his life was matter, so as to avoid the trouble paper on Refrigeration and Ice
Mr. T. G. Stokes will read a J. Ferguson, P. Hadley, W. Rus to me that you got sore taken away it could not be given of coming to Court. The Judge making" at the Engineer's In- nell, and J. McLaughlin.
because his car passed you. back to him. The entertainmens committee were you annoyed!
went on to say that no doubt stitute on September 16.—Page 4. They would remember, said deceased was a very popular man. Butterfield & Swirs advise dis consists of Mesers. D. Harrer. Sergeant Smith gave a negative the Judge, that on Friday last but he thought the actors had consignees of cargo of the serival Farrell, Davidson, Bassa and Bussel, whilst Messrs. Ft. Lapsley swerved to one side to allow the a statement alleged to have been forward way."
reply and said that in fact he the Attorney General mentioned given their evidence in a straight in port of the Ra. Bumsens--- and W. Stanley will discharge car to pass.
Pago.4. made by prisoner to a Chinese His Lordship then went into There is a room to let In the duties of umpire, Mr. C. Bond
When asked by the Magistrate constable. The Attorney General the evidence with regard to the Prince's Building for six months. acting sa scorers
The Interport Match will take defendant said his master was
if bis master weta in Court, had tone his duty in bringing the identification parade. They had Page f
matter forward. The washed it put forward that parade place on the Police Ground on 100 busy and could not-altend.~~~
Powell's havE not easy, said. His Lordship, and was not carried out in a proper peckwear to hand Saturday, whilst the following matches will be played at the
Mr. Lindsell imposed fine of the highest Court in England, bad manner. His Lordship thought The World Thes
stated that the law was not settled the fact that there were three on "Fools- various Clubs KC.C. Wednes
on this point. After considerations men without shoes, one on either and the Gibi day; K.B.C., "Thunday: Taikoo,
he found it his duty suid His side of the prisoner, and that a Friday Civil Service Club,
Lardsbly, to exclude this evil witness in cross-examination said Monday: Police Cich, Tuesday
ence. That did not say that the that prisENDAT WAS, WHATĀDE SHOOS and Craigătigower Club, Wednes
TODE:śhe went to show that
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