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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922.
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World Tour Postponed.
Mr. D. K. Blair, the Secretary of the Hongkong Chamber of Com- merce, forwards us the following correspondence regarding the pro posed world tour of the British trade abip
Letter from the British Trade Ship. Limited, dated sth ruary: in view of the you have displayed in our
"LAST FLING" OF A
GAMBLER.
Camouflaged Suicide of
D.S.O. Colonel.
The opposita of to-day's man- ners sod modes would be a revival of Victorian decorum!
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each covers the wearer's shoulder blades and spinal column, which bave been so frankly revealed during recent seasons that they are now quite boring and display- ing them is beginning to be passa.
i was on that night and what my appointments were.
There was no need for him to have written letters to you that | night ?-Not the slightest.
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Do you believe he won 30,000 EX: S. S. KASHMIR & KITANO MARU.
francs-I do not
Your view is. I expect, tha: hej There was a dramatic collapa-wrote that in his paying-ia book last month of the theory to create sa impression?-ies. murder in connection with th-İsir.
death of Lieut.-Colonel Dyson Detective Inspector Charles Brock Williams, D.S.O., who was Venner said that he had leatoo!] Feb found dead in the office of hishat Colonel Brock WilliamsS WES
benefactor, Major J. A. Wilson, made bankrupt in November last, interest scheme the promoter of boxing matebe, and that his deficiency was £15,- at St. Martin's court Cbaring 173. The aasels were about:£300 Croak
jor £400.
for a world tour of the British trade ship and the correspondence Tou have had with us on the sub-
jeet. we wish to take the earliest opportunity of advising you that our Directors as their last meeting had under consideration the pro gramme for the world tour.
regard to the 30,000 francs said to have been won at the Casino, and had found that that was noti so. On the contrary, the colonel was indebted to the Casino. He as there from April 13 to 1.
Colonel Brock-Williams die! TRIED TO BORROW, he clutched & St. note: some with the police at Boulogne it
In his han. į from gas pois vning.
Witness had communicated
furniture was overturned, cupboards had been searched; and in his bank paying-in book be made an entry that he was paying The Ditreturs have given serious țin a sum of 30,000. There wer consideration to the ecunomic con many signs consistent with th ditus existing throughout the theory of murder with robbery a world at the present time, the the object. Enancial position of many of the After an inquiry that disclosed important manufacturing, „Srms in some strange facts about Inst daya of the country and the very slight colonel's signs existing as the present time however, the jury found that
'committed suicide while of a substantial recovery in trade,
unsound mind,” and taking all these matters into account and in view of their desire! that the world tour shall be cari ried out at a time and in circums į tances which shall be in every
respect the most favourable for the exhibitors on the ship, they have desided that the project shall be postponed for a time. In coming to this decision they are also in fluenced by the recently announced postponement of the British Empire xhibition. It is hoped to despatch the Trade Ship in 1924 instead of
next year.
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On the eve of bis departure, witness said, be asked the manager of the hotel to lend him the several thousand francs, but the lifmanager declined. The colonel ob- hetained 2,990 francs from the Ca- of sino by means of a cheque which had since been returned marked
Iosufficient funds."
He had brought about his own death, said the coroner. by a Bur a' '
"amouflaged suicide."
February this year Colonel Brock- Witness thought that sicce
Williams must have lass "getting: on for £3,000 in batting and gambling.
Tbs coroner referred in his
Major James Arnald Wilson. the friend of the colonel, and a boxing match promoter, said he found out that just a few days summing up to a letter to Colonel before his death the colonel had Brock-Williams from his mother. gain begun to gamble. Witness He said it was a touching letter. bad tried to care him of his She apparently knew all about| passion for gambling.
bis hopeless habits of extrava- gance and gave him good advice
£145 CHEQUE RETURNED.
The Coroner: Ware there and affectionate messages. documents on your desk which
STATE OF DESPAIR. would show him what you had We trust it will not be very long found? Yes.
On April 12 be left his home at Оле was Maidenhead, saying he was going efore we shall be able to approach raturned cheque for £145 in to Woking at Easter.
He got again in the matter when connection with some tickets. £200 from Mr. Lewis, the boxer, by hope we shall be successful in The box office manager had means of a dishonoured cheque, securing your co-operation in the instructions not to issue any and thie appeared to be his last
tickats withou: cash, but the fling.
world tour."
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GENERAL NEWS.
BARON TANAKA'S WOULD BE ASSASSIN.
contain papers
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by the Korean leader in Peking rossinate Baron Tanaka, and it was arranged that if he failed to shout him at the Jetty he would do so at the reception to be given to him by the Japanese community.
The Secretary of the Hongkong colonel persuaded him to let him He never want to Woking but Chamber of Commerce replied have these tickets for a cheque, to Boulogne, and it was obvious It is with regret my Committee and the cheque was returned. It that bis last coup was a failure, was paid into my bank, and when like most of bis coups. His money barn of your decision to postpone I opened my intters the cheque gone, he tried to borrow money Japan Trade Ship until 1521 owing to the was returned "Refer to drawer." from the landlord at the hotel, account of the confession of Kim, present world wide trade depres Since the last djournment and obtained money from the the Korean who was arrested for witness said he found that the casino by his usual method of the murder of Mr. Snyder and the attempted murder of Baron colonel had given a cheque for stumer" cheque.
An understanding has been ar- £200 to well-known boxer, and
He appeared to have gone to Tanaks at the Customs Jeuty. got cash for it.
the office in a state of despair, After participating the "indepec-rived at between the Chinese and shut himself in, written in bis dence riots" of 1919, according to French Police authorities for the (during 1623 and it is hoped that cheque ?Yes, I understand he paying-in book thi- bogus amount the account given of his career, arrest or criminals who bolt from
I am to state that arrangements are at present afoot in this Colony Ito hold sa Industrial Exhibition
the Trade Ship will be in Hongkong at the time when the Local Exhibi tion is running, probably about October."
CHINA'S COPPER CURRENCY.
The Coroner: For a
bogus
got that on the Wednesday of Thursday before his death.
It was from someone called
Lewis Yes.
He had no funds to meet it?-} None whatever.
-SINO-FRENCH AGREEMENT AT
SHANGHAL
AVIATION IN CHINA. ' If the Chinese newspapere sta
of 30,000 franca, laken his last be fled to Mukden from Korea Chinese territory into the French" five-franc note in his hand, turned and then came to Shanghai To Concession or rice versa with a on the gas, and taken out the obtain the money necessary for view to evading arrest. This mica panels so that the gas could his travelling expenses be broke provides that policemen in the into a bank in the former place, French force may effact arrests flood in more readily.
He withdrew the table from the and stole Y.300. He seems to on Chinese territory and Chinese have drifted between Shanghai policemen may do the same fo wall, perhaps to see if t ere were Witness had a letter from the any more tickets in the capboard, and Peking, leading the life of the French Concession, with the The Shanghai Journal of Com-Royal Automobile Club to says sat down with his elbow Tagebud, and during this time help of each other. merce states that at a meeting of that there were three small leaning on the small table. When was engaged by the head of a Exchange Shop Kaspers' Assocbeques for £5 returned.
he became unconscious be sp. Korean secret society in Pekinz ciation it was announced that Do you think the gas taps are reared to have fallen to the floor to assassinate leading Japanese to be believed a very brisk trade the Ministries of Agriculture, likely to have been turned and sustained the wound to his officials. In September, last hein.sotoplanes must be proceeding
Communications accidentally ?-Not a chance, sir. ouflaged suicide...
farmhand. Finance and
It was a sort of cam was sent to Seoul where he flung from day to day. The latest r
two bombs into the government port of such business refer to were discussing the problem of
Did he know that you were The jury might safely infer offices, escaping by the device of Chekiang and Yuklen, which the depreciated copper currency-likely to be in London on the uicide. If they did so they must walking out calmly while every provinces are each aid to have | 13 was rumoured that the Govern- Monday evening?He did not consider, the state of deceased's body wise was in a state of:con- fortered half, a.dožsă' machines.
ment had decided to order the suspension of the minting of new)
mind, and whether the worry and fusion. At various times be the former from abroad and the capper coins, A Birest Union Then the writing of this letter despair of a gambler had unha escaped the police by making factor loosily. In addition t
friends with a Japanese woman reported that German eriacock kan petitioned Gen. Wa.Pei-fa to addressed to you at the office fanced it, step the manufacture of copper looks like a bit of camouflage The jury returned their verdict and posing as ber husband. After are to be, employed to teach
his Seoul adventore he was sent flying currency in Hupeh and Hunen." Yen, sir. He knew exactly where without retiring,
know.
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