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KING EDWARD HOTEL.
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Isl. Contral 373.
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
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The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of
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Na Kowloon 3.
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11, Queen's Eoad Central.
ra ; et 180 Esta, santrally located in the shopping and business districts, larg
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Tel. Central No. 1877,
OFFICER BLACKMAILED.
at
FRIDAY, JUNE
AN UNPURGED RACE.
The Bramback of Modern
WEATHER YEPORT.
June 1d. 11h. 49m.—Pressure has increased considerably at Shanghai and alightly at the majority of other reporting stations.
1 Formosa Channai
20
Echo of Episode în Praace.
An Army captain's amazing The probability in'isaya Profeo story of blackmail under threat or 3. Arthur Thomson in the of exposure for murder, was told Sociological Review) that if ten
a court-martial at Chelsea | biologists were asked what trou- Gradients are shallow over the Barracks recently.
bled them most in their thoughts Philippines and the eastern Captain H.E.T. Lloyd, 1st Bats of modern society, nine would portion of the China Sex. talion London Regiment, plasdød | auswar-the rarity of selection. I A feeble anticyclone is central guilty to charges of fraud, and the la sarly de ya man was sifted by over NE China. Court announced that sentence famine and pastilence and in bis; Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 will be promulgated later.
straggle with wild beasts. with boare ending at 10 am. to-day. The charges read by the Judge farese of Nature, with other tribes.3.75 inch. Total since January Advocate, Mr. T. Sutherland There is still some differential 1st, 12.70 inches, against Graeme, related to the fraudulen death rate in connection with arongs of 23.82 inches. conversion of monays belongin diseases, but, on the whole, mau FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS to the canteen fund and the Qld is conquering the microbe; and
ENDING AT NOON TO-MORNOW. Comrades" Association fund. mere thinning does not spell pro-
District. Forecast. There were also charges of utter-gres. He has conquered the ing forged documents...
wild beasts and the forces of Mr. J. F. Eastwood, who Nature. If modern warfare sifts appeared for the
at all, it is probably in the wrong military prosecutor, said Captain Lloyd direction. As everyone realisee was appointed adjutant of the 1st man has thrown off the yoke. of Battalion London Regiment in Natural Selection, without subsit- March, 1920.
uting for it anything at all ade He had to look after the imprestquate, in the way of rational and account of the battalion, and at social selection. The growth of the end of every month had to social sentiment or kia-sympathy leads him at every second turn to submit to the regimental paymas ter a copy of the pay list of his be kind in the present, at the battalion.
great risk of being cruel to the He was deficient on this future. Thus arises the dilemma.K. Observatory, June 1, 1923. account by over £1,300, and of civilisation, never better stated had covered up the deficiency by than by Herbert Spencer:~ entries in his cash book showing shall take the benefits and evils "The law that each creature he had paid bounties to company of its own nature has been the commanders varying from £55 to £200.
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law under which life has evolved
2 South coast of
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Occasional
& South coast of
China H.K.
between Hainan.
Tain.
1. F. CLAXTON, Director.
NEW ENGLISH ROAD MAPS, Now road maps of England and Wales, on a scale of half an inch Bogus receipts and a banks far. Any arrangements to mile, are being published by pass-book, which was also bogus, which, in a considerable degree, the Ministry of Transport with had been sent to the Command event superiority from profiting the object of acquainting the Paymaster, Mr. Eastwood alleged. b- the rewards of superiority, or public with the results of their re- Referring to the charges of eld inferiority from the evils cent classification of the roails. converting funds of the Old Com-it entails-F arrangements rades' Association, Mr. Eastwood which tend to make it as well said a sum of £117 12s. for dances to be inferior as to be superior waster that we have to face, it and subscriptions amounting tore arrangements diametrically is a necessity imposed by the over £50, were banded opposed to the progress of or very fact of society. Moreover, Captain Lloyd for payment into ganisation and the reaching of civilised man must go on saving. the association's account.
higher life."
lives, eliminating our eliminators, When it came to the audit Capa Professor Carl Pearson puts himself, even if he would, from "Consciously or unconsciously," and in so doing cannot help tain Lloyd suggested that a friend of his should audit the accounts we have suspended the racial saving the weakings along with for the nominal sum of £1 19.
purgation maintained in less the strong. We can neither re- developed communities by Naturverse the development of social The committee agreed, and a balance sheet was produced pur-
al Selection." And what Dr.sentiment por cease in any effort porting to be signed by Lloyd's Trotter sees ao clearly must be of preventive medicine and health Friend. He also said the firm had kept in mind, that just as the promotion. It is a dilemma: and very kindly presented the £1 1s, integration and goodwill of the the only way out is to develop society increase, the more must modes of rational and social
it,
as a donation to the Old Cmthe unit be sheltered from the selection which will sift progres- rades' Association,
This said Mr. Eastwood, was entirely bogus aucit.
BLACKMAIL THREATS
antifting of Natural Selection. Thissively. There is plenty of hard-
As his defence, Captain Llord baoded in a statement, alleging that he had taken the money be cause he had been persistently blackmailed. He stated that he was 30 years of age and had a aife and two children.
is true in animal societary formsness in the clash of modern life. as in mankind. It is much more but there is little systematic selec- than i mere coddling of the tion.
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EXCHANGE.
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SELLING.
He joined the 1st. Londen Re-Demand giment as a private in 1912, was 30 dịa. promoted to sergeant at Malta in 60 dia. 1914, and obtained his commission Shanghai
4 m/ in 1916. He was wounded at T. T. Singapore Ypres and Cambrai,
TT. Japan Whilst in France he was et T/T. India Abbeville, and having had too TT. San Francion:
Demand India many drinks he called at a house York to inquire the way. A girl open. TIT. Java ed the door. Ha bad more drinks, TT. Francs Marks and in the morning found he bad baen robbed of all he possessed.
He arranged to meet the girl} juext day, sad as ba was talking to her a man appeared, said she was his wife, and threatened to report him unless he gave him money.
Captain Lloyd said he had n fight with the man, who fall knocking his head against a wall.
The girl disappeared, and he returned to his camp very fright. ¡ enl.
In September 1921 this girl met him in London, and started to blackmail him.
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501
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..172
Demand. Calcutta
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"I gave Her money." said Saigon Captain Lloyd in his statement, Straita
to buy her silence, especially Shaoghai when she told me that the man Shangbai with whom I bad fought had died hanghai as the result of the fight."
Canada, T.8. A. Japan & Shanghai Shortly afterwards, he added. 9.9..., Japan & Shanghai he received a letter purporting Straits Straits
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to come from some organisation Shanghai
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as they had learned his secrets.
As exposure would bave meant
estrangement from his wife and
For
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child, he had to pay them. To Manila, Sandakan, Australia & New enable him to do so be falsified
the accounts of his battalion.
The total money he paid in this
blackmail was between £700 and Saigon
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moosy back by gambling, but) only made his position worse.
Excepting for the blackmail Bwalow, Amoy & Foochow and gambling he did not use the walow & Amoy ....
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"I am not a swindler or a dia. honest man," he added. "I was in a terrible position, and instead
of taking advice as to how to deal
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