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MURDER TRIAL:
PRISONER'S STORY.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1925.
HENDON AERODROME.
PURCHASED BY GOVERNMENT FROM GRAHAME WHITE.
The case for the prosecution closed yesterday, in the trial of Shing Wai-tut, charged before the Chain of Home Defence Stations, Chief Justice, at the Criminal Ses- sions, with the murder of an Indian constable at Ngau Shi-wan on the 8th July last.
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MODERN MARRIAGE
PHILOSOPHY.
VIEWS OF FAMOUS THINKERS.
TREASURE ISLE.
AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO COCOS ISLAND,
Notwithstanding many failures,
to
When Mr. Bernard Shaw wną one more expedition la sked to contribute to "The Book endeavour to unearth the roman- of Marriage" which Count Keysur-tic secret of Cocos Island and re- The Government has purchased)
New York, Dec, 29.
ting, head of the School of Wisdom cover the $70,000,000 treasure the well-known aerodrome
It is reported in Wall Street at Darmstadt, and author of "The known to be buried there. Prisoner's Story,
other extensive properly at Hen that gigantie banking amalgama Travel Diary of a Philosopher," The leader of this new expedi Prisoner was called by Mr. don, including the London Coun of the largest banks, with combined shed by Niels Campmann, Celle) be Lieutenant F. W.,Kealey, the tion is imminent, embracing several has just given to the world (pub-tion to this tiny Pacife island will Zeitlyn. He anid he was a fisher-try Club, from Mr. Grahamej
He had been to Wong Kong White, for £800,000, after long dollars. Mr. McHugh, President resources exceeding a milliard
he went this message in reply:- organizer of the recent Pacific Tau and 'returned to Ngau Shi negotiations arising frum
No man dare write the truth scientific expedition in the steam Wap for the fifth moon festival. plicated aviation transactions
of the Mechanics, and
Metals about marriage while his wife Yacht St. George. and made arrangements to retura during the war. The aerodrome National Bank, admitted that nege-ves, Unless, that is, he hater He will adapt novel methods, will be utilised as one in a chain tiations are progressing with the her, like Strindberg and I don't. Will usc the latest scientific of home defence stations--Reuter, Chase National Bank for amal I shall read the volume with in-devices, and will draw on the most gamation, with total resources ofterest, knowing that it will consist recent scientific discoveries, in nine hundred million dollars, An-chiefly of evasion, but i will not. this way he hopes to succeed other combination forecast would contribute to it."
where others have been defeated, include Mechanics and Metala
There are said to be at least With this intimation Count Key- National Bank, Chatham And
serling ushers in a distinguished three pirate hoards in Cocos, Phoenix National Bank, National
company of professors of ethno-which is. 000 miles west of
Panama. These treasures Bank and possibly the Central medicine and letters, of both sexes and gold, church plate, and graphy and psychiatry, doctors of
made up of coins, bars of silver Union Trust Company. uniting
whem he asked to help him to com- Lotal
to Wong Kong Tau. He was to receive a letter telling him when to to back.
He was in the habit of sellin hig fish to the Kwei Kee at Kow- Inon City. He produced a receipt For fish he had sold there on July
1, July 7, July 8 and 10. On July
DOLLAR LINE CHANGE."
13 he got a letter from Wong Konic MR. W. S. FIELD PROCEEDING Park Bank, Chemical
His Wife's Visit. He went back to complete the
grave. visited him on September 30. His wife told him that the woman
ON HOME LEAVE
A Popular Official.
It is announced, that Mr. W. S. Field, General Passenger Agent Dollar B. S. Lines In Hongkong, of the Admiral Oriental and
President Wilson, due to sail from will proceed on Home leave by ss. Hongkong on January 2.
National
resources of 1.300,000,000 pile a "symphony of marriage," various gems of vast value.
dollars. Reuter's American Ser- rice.
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SANITARY BOARD.
MACAO FISH FOR THE NEW STORE.
are
Hluminating all the spiritu~]; Scientifically Equipped. uspects, and those only, of man and woman in their legalised relation "My party will consist of eight to one another as creatures of dif-picked men," Lieutenant Kealey
said in an interview.. ferent sex, not merely as the mo-scientific side of the expedition "The thers and fathers of the next gone will be directed by L. A. M. Riley, a wellknown botaniet. We shall The result is a book of real im-sail for Cocos portance. A mystic and a vision Christmas, and expect to arrive ary, Count Keyserling desire to there sometime in January.
[ration.
just after
I
A meeting of the Sanitary help mankind to solve the problem intend to make a prolonged stay
Mr. undertaking,
"Nothing is known scientifically The Henpecked.
about the island. Parties have landed there, but the island is The newest and most intriguing covered with thick jungle which
We
Tau telling him to return and hel went back the same day. The let ter he had lost, but he produced the envelope in which it was re- ceived. On getting back to Wong Kong Tau he went to the house of Li Teol-cheang and stayed there until July 28, when work on the graves wan begun. Work finished en August 6 and then he went elsewhere to make a grave for Li Tsoi-cheung. Luring the
Mr. Field who served during) building of the grave he went buck the war with Princess Pat's, has for lime and was told by L Taoi-held his prosent post for the past cheung that he must go to Hong-four and a half years, during Board was held yesterday after or why marriage la so difficult anabout six months. kong for the sale of his houses which time he has proved himself noon. and for bargain money.
Those present were a courteous and popular official. N. L. Smith (Chairman), the Hon. It is pleasing to record that Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C., Dr. there is of Mr. Field
every possibility w. w. Pearse (M. 0. H.), Dr. J. C. Later his wife and son East on the conclusion of his Mr. S. W. Tso, and Mr. G. S. Ken.18pects of the problem are these has never been explored.
returning to the Macgown, Mr. Wong Kwong-lin.} leave, which will be spent in Canadia and the United States and nedy-Skipton, the Secretary, Mr. Presented by Dr. Kretschmer, Pro-hope to make valuable scientific. Li Tai wan at Shum Chun to see will also include a European tour. Davies, the Assistant Secretary fessor of Psychiatry at Tubingen discoveries, and we shall specially him about the sale of his houses..
Under the heading. "The Body in look out for new types of flora. Mr. Harrell, until recently in the was also present. The sun mentioned was $3,500. Shanghai Olice of the Dollar Regarding a minute of the Relation to the Soul in Marringe" "I shall be in charge of the He agreed to sell them and to go to Line, succeeds Mr. Field in the President on the subject of ahe discusses marriage according to treasure hunt.
Cocos is a real Shum Chun to see about them. iogal office, he having arrived her petition from representatives of type, and gives concrete example treasure island, and many people He knew he had to go to. Hong.a few days ago by sa. President the fish market stallholders, Mr. of well and ill-matched pairs well have tried to find the hoards that
Wilson. kong to sign his name before they
Alabaster asked if there were was on in married life, a hundred in lie hidden there, but have failed. could be sold.
any idea that the fish for the new number, whom he has studied with have my own views why they shop would come from Macao." exhaustive thoroughness. Of this failed. I shall adopt novel
The Chairman: That is part of hundred he found that only hir. methods. the scheme. At present it comes teen were a justification of the
"The latest scientific appliances very largely from Macuo. This popular superstition that men and will be used in the search, and I PREMIER'S DETERMINATION. man controls, the ice business at women grow alike, even in ex-shall draw on the most recent dis- Macao, and also has a very large ternals, after many years of living coveries to, selence. What interest in the fresh fish business together. Sixty-three were still methods i shall use I cannot re- There is a prospect of M. Briand which largely comes to Hongkong, the extremes in temperament and veal on August 16, when Li Toi-remodelling the Cabinet if his and he proposed to combine these appearance they had always been, dent that I shall find the treasure.
while the other twenty-four were colleagues refuse to follow him in two. The motion was passed. the adoption of 31. Doumer's finan-Regarding an application for an "indifferent, offering no striking actually on the island. We shall licence for pig signs of having reacted either way. have a difficult task, bat I am Cabinet meeting.
·
Ilia wife also told him that there was a reward offered for the arrest of a man of his name and his son said he had seen the notice. Wit nes said there could be no such thing. In reply to counsel wit- ness said the first time be, lieard about the constable being shot was
cheung told him.
Getting Permits.
Li Taille waited there several
for them to cross the border.
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, Dec. 29,
offensive trade
The Premier in
He
seconding, it was carried,
The remainder of the business was private,
or
.Nevertheless I am confi-
"My party will make a camp.
He went to Shum Chun und saw cial proposals at to-day's importanroasting at No. 171 Reclamation!It is the short, plump, active, so confident that we shall succeed in days while permits were obtained a statement last night mid that street, ground flour, on Kowloon renely-balanced, cheerful pair who all our objects."
he will refuse to quit his post or Inland Lot No. 1143, Section B,grow to look alike, it seems-pro- It cost $10 for a permit for a man. let himself be overthrown by lobby the Chairman said the Standing bably, one imagines, as stoutness and his wife gave Ll Tai $20 and Intrigues. Any ministers who defusal of the licence. Ha proposed people do not attract one another, in England for 14 yours, a pike Committee recommended the re-increases. But as two very lively Claimed to be the largest caught she got them.
On no occasion did cided to resign, will be replaced it should be refused, and Mr. Tso this cheerful type seldom finds the weighing 34b, has been secured he say to Li Tai that he had com- within twenty-four hours.. mittted a crime and was afraid to added: "This is not the time for a
proper mate.
in Frensham Pond, Surrey, by go into British territury.
Ministerial crises, but for work."-
Only eight men of the hundred Mr. L. Kashnor, of Walton-on- Reuter.
were of the domestic tyrant
Thames. The pike moasured four "Sheik" type, which, the P-o-feet in length. In 1911 Major W. fessor assures
H. Booth killed a pike of 371b. in us, when not
the Wye. Another of 371lb. was due to pervous disturbance, is out;
reported from a reservoir neur of date. Four of these had wives who possessed tumour and correspondent) this was rather Loughborough in 1915, but (writes In October they proceeded to are expected to be a series of all- British Territory, four soldiera night sittings for the purpose of
managed them; the other four had a doubtful record. Larger pike accompanying them to the border rushing the passage of the Budget
reduced their wives to pale, resent-have been caught in Ireland, in- and they went over the bridge at before the close of the year. The the City of Baroda, which recently other hand that popular couple of British Isles, a 53lb. piko cought News has reached Hongkong that ful, depressed shadows. On the cluding the record fish for the Lo Wu. When he got over into discussion on the estimates of left Hongkong with a number of British Territory Li Tai called expenditure was opened yesterday Army officers and their families the ecinie papers, the hen-pecked on Lough Conn in 1920 by Mr. YOU NEED FIRE PROTECTION the constable up. She pointed to and was still continuing at six on board, struck a reef somewhere husband and his Xantippe part John Gervin.
him and they seized and beat him o'clock this morning-Reuter.. in the neighbourhood of Borneo, ner, were only once represented}
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Mr. Zeitlyn: Had you anything at all to do with the shooting of! the policeman"-No, I had no- thing to do with it:
His Azrest.
and later he was arrested.
Asked why he made a statement.
All-Night Sittings.
Paris, Dec. 20. The Chamber has begun what
Crisis Averted?
CITY OF BARODA.
STRIKES A REEF.
It is understood that she is able to among the hundred, proceed to Singapore without assistance,
INDIAN POLITICS,
Two Fidelitics,
their surroundings sec and hear," to the Police in which he said a
Paris, Dec. 29.
says the Princess, and advocates a man promised him 3100 to shoot The threatened political crisis,
The individual themes were in- certain amount of reserve as regards the constable and $50 to run over the Finance Minister, M.
spired by the Count according to the private thoughts and actions to. nway, he said he was very con- Doumer's new taxation proposals
qualifications of his helpers. But wards one another. fused at that time. He had been now seems likely to be averted
Uncertainty after reading the Leyden professor, enhances the charm of life. Her beaten, his wife was detained and as the result of the firm attitude
Nieuwenhuis, on the development basis of the perfect home life is his son had been arrested.
of M. Briand declaring that any
Cawnpore, Dec. 29.
of marriage as a social institution, perfect politeness. Cross-examined by the Attorney ministers resigning will be im Patrai will probably become de-marriage ideals, Havelock Ellis on
It is announced that Lalala Rabindranath Tagore on Indian! General na
to the sale of his mediately replaced. According to puty leader of the Swarajist party"Love as an Art": Mrs. Beatrice houses, he said he did not intend the newspapers a basis of agree assembly in succession to Kelkar. Hinkle, the American specialist on most provcative writer of the to return to Ping Shek where hement, among members of the had lived. He sold the houses be-Cabinet is being arranged where-
-Ruuter. cause he owed a lot of money and by the proposed tax on business
he wanted to find a cheaper place turnovers will be replaced by a
to live.
At this stage the case was journed until this morning.
CHINA'S CABINET,
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
Shanghai, Dec. 29.
stamp tax on all sales, while ad-economies of three hundred mil lion franes will be effected and similar amount soeured by stricter control of the assessment declaration, which will allow proportionate reduction on the suggested increased taxation.- Reuter.
After consulting" with General
Tuan Chi-jul Mr. Hsu Shih-ying,
the Prime Minister has appoint-]
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People who are eager to wed are often just honey- moonstruck.
Woman's "Common Sense." Count Keyserling is easily the feminine psychology, on "Marriage twenty-founr. He considers the in the New World"; Professor non-intellectual aristocrat who only Dahlke, the great authority on seeks, a. life-partner of his own Buddhism, on. "Marriage Viewed as standing the most easily satisfied in Shackles"; and Jung and Adler on marriage, and of all nationalities general physchologien, aspects of on earth the Englishman of this the married state, one finda nge-old type tho wisest in his choice. He questions still unsolved, and con-sees marriage as a masculine pro- flicting theorles still warring with blem only. Woman, he thinks, one another. For this reason endowed by nature with more practi- atone, to And a theory of Count cal realism and common-sense and Keyserling himself on "Putting the also more capable of altruism and Problem Properly" coinclding in encrifice, was obviously destined to principle with a view held by make the beat of things as she finds Princess Mechtild Lichowsky, one them. This he argues, should be of the most brilliant women writing easy, as she originally chose the in Germany to-day on "Marriage as man, supporting his view of a Work of Art, gives food for woman's predatory qualities by clt- thought.
(ing. Germany's leading fominine "Sexual Adelity means less in psychologist, Dr. Mathilde vort marriage than fldolity in regard to Kemnitz, who has long pleaded for pulling together as n social and protective associations not for economic entity, Whichover young girls but for adolescent boys. partner breaks up a home for the One missos a Latin point of view in sake of a new passion is more im-a book predominantly German In. moral than Messalian, who remain tone in spite of the foreign col- ed empress by day, wherever ahe laborators, chose to spend her nights," says the Professor Dabike, the Buddhist, Count.
is the only writer who definitely "Let married couples keep strict rejects marriage" as likely to lead regard with regard to what they let to unhappiness.