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TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1926
SMALL LIMB OF THE LAW
'BOY SERVES SUMMONS ON:
EUROPEAN.
WAR-TIME STORM
RECALLED.
DEATH OF BARON VON. BISSING..
A summons, charging him with
Baron Walter Adolphus von Bis- driving a motor. car without a sing, who, though a naturalised licence, was handed to Mr. C. M. Briton, living in England for Manners of the Hongkong and over 20 years, became a subject of Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com-public suspicion during the war, pany by a small Chinese boy in and was interned, has died at Villa the street.
Carina, San Rome, Italy, aged. 70.
This was revealed at the Kow-
He was half-brother to the Mili loon Magistracy yesterday, after-tary Governor of Belgium, who was noon when Mr. Manners was concerned in the shooting, of fined $3 for driving a car without Nurse Cavell. a Hcence. He said he went out Inte at night and had no idea that ho had left his licence behind until he was stopped by the police,
Mr. Manners asked the Magis- trate what would have happened if he had not appoured in Court.
Baron van Bissing came to Eng land in 1893, became a British subject in 1906, and throughout the war protested his loyalty to this country. His wife was an Englishwoman, and he was living ut Brighton when war broke out.
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Mr. Nihill: A variety of things
Queations were asked in Parlia- might have happened. The casement, and there was a public out- might have been adjourned for cry for his internment. He was week if the police had applied arrested, but released again, and for it
for a long time enjoyed freedom.
"Not Quite Right."
In 1916 he went to live at Bram. ham gardens, South Kensington. Mfr. Manners raid he always Later he was sent to an intern- respected the laws and regulament camp at Islington, where he tions and added that the offence was allowed a separate room, his took place on July 28. Just over
own servants, special food, and a week ago asummons was hand-cammunication with his wife. ed to him by a small Chinese boy
liar.
of about ten years of age. in "I Warned the English." Haiphong Road. He did not When he first came to England know where the boy got it from, he was not well off, and earned a but he thought it was very pecu-living by acting, as correspondent for the Kreuz Zeitung, the organ of the German land-owning class. This work he continued until 1905, when his wife came into a fortune. From that time, he declared, he never had the smallest associa ilon with Germany.
He pointed out that Sub-Inspector. Nicoll knew his place quite well and the fact that a boy" gave him the summons did not seem to be quite right.
Mr. Nihill: I expect the police-
man who served the summons asked the boy if he knew you."
"I broke my wrists more than 40 years ago," he said in 1915. for a man in my position to remain in Germany unless ho, was either an officer or a diplomatist. So 1 came to England to earn my liv- ing.
It was explained that summonses "At that time it was impossible were served by the Court cons- table, Sub-Inspector Nicol saying that he only served summonses when the drivers could not be found.
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Mr. Nihill: Evidently the small boy knew you, but I can't explain how he knew you.
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ing, where a coffin was lying, brought from Norway by Mr. Frank Power, and alleged by him to contain Lord Kitchener's body. Mr. Power's articles in a Sunday paper attacking the Admiralty in connection with Lord Kitchener's fate recently provoked a White Paper repudiating the myths" about the loss of the Hampshire.
WAR IN DAMASCUS,
REBELS DISPERSED
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Beirut, August 16. Five thousand rebels occupying
The coffin from Norway arrived the suburbs of Damascus have. in London on Friday, and was been completely dispersed. The deposited, at an undertaker's life of Lebanon is recovering. where it was seized by Scotland gradually its normal course. It Yard officers and removed to Lam can be considered that the rebel- beth mortuary.
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The proceedings this morning were most secret. Shortly after the coroner arrived, Sir Bernard. Spilsbury drove up, followed later by a Scotland Yard motor-tender containing official photographers and detectives.
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Sir Bernard Spilsbury's examina- tion of the remains, in the pre- sence of the Chief Constable and Detective Superintendent of Seot- land Yard, lasted three-quarters of an hour.
Reuter learns authoritatively that there was a coffin and a shell inside the large case. The shell was covered with copper, but there was to body in it.
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