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KWANGSI GENERAL IN CANTON.
ARRANGING FOR NORTHERN CAMPAIGN.
THEFT FROM GOLF- CLUB.
LADY'S WRIST WATCH STOLEN.
Ji
BOUND OVER.
SAD CASE OF DOROTHEA BRENTNALL
Dorothen Brentnall, convieted in H. M. Police Court Shanghai, on Wednesday on charges of fraud,} was brought before the Magistrate, Mr. G. W. King, on Thursday, for sentence. Asked if there was any- thing she would like to say before] The owner of the watch said that she went to the Club House on
sentence was passed, she answer- March 12th to play a game ofed:-"I am not guilty.
That is golf, and left the watch in a bag fall,"
The loss of a wrist watch belong- ing to Miss Dorothy Jane Tassell, of Mount Davis, from Deep Water A WARM WELCOME. Bay Golf Club, House, resulted in a Chinese, employed at the Club, News is to hand of the arrival being charged with the theft, before In Canton of General Wong Shi-Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central hung, who, in deference to the
Magistracy this morning. wishes of General Li Chai-sum, has made the trip thither from Nan- ning via Wuchow. General Wong was accompanied by his wife and daughter as well as several staff officers, and on the way he was provided with two regiments of the 3rd Army Corps for purposes of protection.
in
When she returned after the game, the ladies' dressing room.
she could not find the watch.
Sergt. F. James said a detective Is there anything else. visited the defendant, as the result
The Magistrate-But I have al- ready decided against you on that.
Defendant-If I am to be 'sen-
Where to?-To England.
admitted he had a wrist watch: of information received; and betenced, I should like to be deported. į which he had given to his mother to keep for him.
The party landed it the Govern- ment wharf at Canton on Saturday Jast and were met by many highed to give evidence. She said her The defendant's mother was call- military and civil officials, the landing-stage being gaily decorated and a military band and guard of honour being in attendance.
After the customary exchange of courtesies, the party motored Ja bridge.
to
son brought the watch to her and informed her that he had bought it. The defendant explained that he found the watch in a gutter under
But do you know anybody there? No, but I can always work.
tence is passed it, is customary,
The Magistrate-Before any sen-|
and perhaps proper, to review the antecedents. I have looked up your history, made inquiries and verified your statements. It seems to me that life has been hard to, Government House, where a ręcep-
Mr. Lindsell asked him, why, if you and you possibly never had. a tion was held in honour of Generale found the watch under a bridge, really fair chance. It is clear that Wong and his staff. It is stated he told his mother he had bought your childhood associations were that General Wong had intimated it.
not conducive to a child's happi- beforehand that he did not wish to.
The defendant replied that heness. Then you were married at make his temporary quarters in a
was afraid of being beaten by his the early age of 16 or 17 to a map Hotel, because, on his previous visit mother if he told her he had picked whom you had seen for only a few to Canton, at the invitation of
months, and he left you. You had
it up.
General Hsu Sung-chi, he stopped Sergt. James remarked that a child and not many years later
In
since the defendant had been ch-you had two more children. gloyed at the Club House, con your very early twenties you were plaints had been received from Col. the mother of three children, with
of nobody to support you.. Matthews, regarding thefts money.
at the Oriental Hotel where an at tempt at assassination was made on him, which resulted in killing three of his bodyguards, winist he himself escaped through the roof. Accordingly, General Wong and his. party were conducted, after the re- son for four ception, to the Kwangs Guild, labour.
here they will stop during their
short so-journ.
It is said that as Kwangsi "has
now proved her loyally to
the
Canton Government by assisting
Up to that time, most people will The defendant was sent to pri-egree that life had dealt very months with hard hardly with you. You then went
to Hongkong and made an effort to. run straight and support those children. There again you were) unfortunate and associated with another man, to whom you are now married, and that husband has been na use to you. You go to Japan and there he gets into trouble and so do you.
SINGAPORE BASE,
General Tang Sung-che to force EFFECT ON LABOUR MARKET.
the abdication of General Chao Heng-teh, and to eater Changsha
London, March, 15.
as acting civil-Governor of Hunan, In the House of Commons, an General Wong's mission to Canton,swering questions, Mr. Amery
was your
Right through your life, with an unfortunate start, it was hopeless for you to have any chance in life 15 to see that the Government said that he had received repre-I do not say that it carries out its part of the compact gentations to the effect that the natural disposition to go wrong, in the next move of the Northern demands for labour for the Naval but your associations have given campaign.
Base at Singapore, was dépleting you very little chance. It is dif- From
a reliable souree it is the supply for rubber plantations,cult to know how to deal with you. learned that Generals Pak Shung-out the Governor had assured him Yours is a case in which I think he, the Chief of the General Staff that the total requirements of the prison would be of ho use at all. of the Kwangsi Army, and Chan Naval Base were insufficient to cannot see that it would do you effect on the any good. I will give you one Ming-shu, who recently, arrived
have any marked from the southern front, have been labour situation of Malaya. The more chance,
You will sign a ordered to proceed to Human with Government of Malaya was closely recognizance to be of good, be- the least possible delay. It is fur-watching the situation with the haviour and you will be bound over ther reported that a part of the local representative of the Ad-
to come up for sentence at any 3rd Army Corps has crossed the,
time within one year. Hunan border and marching to Hengchowfu, which, it is gaid, is ready to receive General Tan Yan kai with open arms.
Another report states that Mong Yan-che, an adherent of Lak Wing- tong, who had given much trouble M7 min Kwangsi, has been captured by General Lau Yat-fook, and sent to Nanning under heavy armed escort It is said that he, with six other of his adherents, have been ordered to be shot.
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ANOTHER SHANGHAI
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ALL OVER A TRIFLE.
The The Jute Factory, Robison Read, Shanghai, provides (says the W. C. Daily News) an instance of how small a matter now can provoke a strike, sections of work- men apparently being quite pre- pared to walk out oven though all their comrades in "the same mill will not join them.
The defendant throughout the cased remained very calm, closely following all the evidence and telling her own story with the
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