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(Continued from Page 2) three Chinese detectives, one of Street. whom was in Wing Kat After relieving him of his revolver? Sergt. Elston asked him. "For the 60 cents you have taken from the rick sha coolies. "He pulled a dollar note and a five cent piece out of his pocket, handed it to the Ser- geant and told him that was all the money he had and that he had not received anything from the coolies. A ricksha coolie then came up and handed Sergt. Elston 30 cents. In regard to the list containing the numbers, the witness said ho had time not his book on him at the when he wrote down the numbers on the list, intending to enter them later.
A Miserable Affair.
Mr. Jenkin, addressing the Court for the defence, criticised the ac- tion of those responsible for selling a trap for an officer with such high record and who was about to retire as a miserable affair.
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If there had been anything at ali in the suspicions, which were parently aroused in the mind of the Assistant Superintendent he could have had the man observed and not have thrown temptation in his way, and the chances were a hundred to one that he would have reached his retiring age without having heen in possession of money un which charge of this kind, could have laen founded. "I should have imagin de," Mr. Jukingproceded, "that it would have been possible in these
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1923.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
DISARMAMENT PACT.
Paris, August 3.
The temporary mixed commission of the League of Nation's has pproved the draft of the mutual guarantee pact, the preamble of which says that security which is the first condition of disarma- mont must be attained by a general guarantee that the treaty will Le reinforced by supplementary private agreements. Chairman Lobran who pointed out that the pact does not affect the liberty of the signatory states as regards armaments, denied the conclusioa that separate defensive alliances meant a return to the old system of alliances, because the approval of the League of Nations was RECESSARY.
pact.
Lord Robert Cecil expressed faith in the effectiveness of the
A. NATION'S MOURNING.
Washington, August 8."
The body of the nation's late Chief Executive was received To the at the capital ast night with impressive solemnity. strains of "Nearer my God to Thee" the coffin was removed from the train and conveyed to the President's room at the station through a corridor of mourners, and followed by members of the Cabinet. President Coolidge paid his respects to the dead as the coffin reached the head of the aisle of soldiers who stood before the President's room.
The coffin was enshrouded "with a flag and was berne to the plaza and placed on a caisson drawn by six bay horses. The pro- cession escorted by troops. then started for the White House.
As it passed the capitol the great dome whose lights were extinguished, stood out against the moonless sky as if in mourning.
GERMANY'S FINANCES.
Berlin, August 8.
The industrial and commercial banks, are placing at the dia- posal of the Reichsbank foreign currency to the value of fifty million gold marks against dollar, treasury bills. Thus the dollar loan is completely subscribed and the proceeds wili 'be devoted chiefly toward the purchase of foodstuffs and fate. A meeting of the Reichstag party lenders has endorsed the Govorament's plans of vigorous taxation and to check further inflation by means internal loans. Minister of Economics, Herr Becker; interviewed, has denied that the Government intended to abandon the paper
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that they might be brought within the clutches of the criminal law of bribery. That is a comment I feel I should like, if it be not my duty, to make, in view of the time, he great, ingenuity and the mental ac tivity which must have been dis played by the officers concerned in the working out of this apparent- ly succekafal manoucvre."
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Mr. Jenkin asked if it was likely that a man who was retiring to his naliye country, after a record which did him the very greatest credit, wonid, in broad daylight, fully aware of the presence of Sergt. Els ton on the first floor of 103 Des Voeux Road, accept a bribe from a ricksha coulic at a time when the traffic was very busy. Mr. Jenkin thought that it possible that Sergt. the Elston, in the excitement of moment, took the 30 cents from the! rieksha odolie when it was handed to him and later though that it came from the defendant. "Nasty Disgrace" on Police Force. The Magistrats having intimated bis intention of recording a convic tion, Mr. Burlingham said it was with the greatest reluctance that he had taken the action be had;
Some months ago it was brought to his notice that there was squeezing going on and he warned all the senti ior officers of the Indian Police of the seriousness of the offence and that if any, were caught they would be dealt with with the utmost HI verity. He had not suddenly poune ed down upon them without giving them due warning. The defendant had an excellent record in the Police Force, but he had fallen through be ing, one might say, rather too mer cenary. He pressed that a severs penalty be imposed in view of the nasty disgrace brought on the Pol ice Force and in order that an ex- jample might be set to other members
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"The desire to save the Polica Force from what Mr. Burlingham! calls la nasty disgrace, would Fadly appear Lo me to be argument Mr. Burlingham en put forward as the ground for the itaposition of a sentence of imprisonment," Mr. Jenkin said." "That nasty disgrace upon this Po. lice Force would never have hap pened. if these people had not been tion of Mr. Burlingham in order that this money might be passed on to the defendant with the view to framing a charge of bribery.”
Bemarking that it was a very nad. case indeed, the Magistrate said he thought, taking all the facis into goń-| sideration, that the defendant should] be given the option of a Gne. He would have to pay n fine of $250 for go to prison for six works.
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RUSSO-CHINESE RELATIONS.
London, August 8.
A Soviet news agency says that M. Karakhan, before leaving Moscow for China, told a correspondent that his main object was to regulale Ruse-Chinese relations, particularly regarding the Bastern China Railway along which remnants at the White armies were still troublesome. Another purpose of his mission was to Bettle the legal status of the Soviet Government with the citizens of China and the third the creation of conditions for an economic rapprochement between the two countries.
RUSSIAN CROPS THREATENED.
Moscow, August 8. Persistent rain fall is seriously damaging the crops in, the central provinces, threatening the Autumn sowings.
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