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of benzine, while the rest of the cargo, in other holds; consisted of kerosene and other oils.
The story of the discovery of the Chinese and of how one of them escaped, after swimming 30 yards, mostly under water, to the shore in Gore Bay, was told in the Cen- tral Police Court at Sydney, when
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1926
MURDER TRIAL.
(Continued from Page 1),
In reply to further questions, witness sald they met Inspector James at the station, and it took them about ten minutes to carry the woman to the station,"
Did you tell my Lord and Jury that when you arrived there, no one was dressing the wound, and instead you saw two women
supporting her?Yea
When you returned to the floor with the basket did you see anyone dressing the wound?--No.
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PEACE IN BALKANS.
VALUE OF NEW CONVENTIONS.
Rugby, Aug. 19.
In a loading article on concilia- tion in the Balkans, the Morning, Post welcomes the Conventions concluded. between' Greece and Jugo-Slavis, and It, expresses bo- lief that all causes of difference between. the two countries will have been removed.
Politically, Greece gains the friendship of her powerful neigh- bour, whilst Jugo-Slavia is rid of the difficulties hitherto attaching. to her use of the little stretch of railway running from Chevgeli, on the southern frontier of Serbia, to Salonika, and gains an extension at that port of a free zone for her, goods.
is INSPECTOR'S EVIDENCE.
Acting Sub-Inspector James was the next witness called for the Crown He said he was called to the charge room shortly after six en Chinese were charged with o'clock, where he saw the prisoner being prohibited immigrants.with the constable, who arrested
To Great Britain, which is The vessel, an oll-tankar, which him. Homst some people outside friend of both parties, and the carries a Chinese 'erew, reached the station carrying the woman in foundation of whose national Sydney on Monday, and at Gam..
basket, and on examining her she on Tuesday the watchman at the appeared to be dead. He sent her policy is the maintenance of peace In Europe, the attainment of the British Imperial Oil Co.'s works back to Wu Pak Street, but his settlement of questions which have saw a rowing boat approaching it first intention was to have her re-long been the aubject of a bitter Securing a light, he went with the moved to the Public Mortuary.
controversy, is necessarily gratify ship's mate to investigate. One
ing. of the Chinese was then in the boat, and another on the ladder which reached to the deck of the Ampullarin.
When it was discovered she was live, witness applied remedies to the wound and wrapped her up warmly. He then made arrange-
ments for her to be sent to the Government Civil Hospital. Wit ness searched the place and found the chisel and a bundle of rags. There was blood on the walls which could be seen faintly in the photo
Plot Discovered. These two were taken, and they said there were 11 stowaways al- together. A search was made, and eight more were found in the for-graphs. ward ballast tank, a partition" separating them from the most in flammable part of the cargo. “
In reply to Mr. Lo, witness said when the woman was brought to the station he. felt her pulse and looked for signs of breathing, but could not find fined any.
The other Chinese, according to statements made to Customs offi- cials, first swam ashore, fully
Mr. Lot-Your conclusion was? clothed, to get the boat, and had rowed back to get the others when-My conclusion was that she was
dead. He is the plot was discovered. missing, but his wet clothes were found in the rowing boat He is believed to have swum under water naked most of the way to the shore. Further investigations, showed that the Chinese had been smok ing in their hiding place, and had lif a fire there to burn letters, which, it was presumed, they did not want to be found on them in Australia......
Oflicera of the ship were thun der-struck when they realised the risk to which the vessel had been exposed.
What made you send the wo man back to the house?---Well, it might haye been very material as regards the position in which the woman was found.
did
Referring to the joint Note sent. to Bulgaria, by Greece, Roumania, and Jugo-Slavin, with the objcet" of achieving a peaceful settlement of the recent Macedonian trouble, the Morning Post expresses, the hope that a wise use of the "Bul- rarian Refugee Loan, which is
guaranteed by the League of Na- lions for the relief of refugees, may serve to deprive the insur get bodies of their pre- text for stirring up strife.
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CHURCH AND STATE.
ARCHBISHOP OF MEXICO APPEALS TO PRESIDENT.
.Mexico City. Aug. 19. On your going to the house, whati
The Archbishop-of-Mexico,-on- you do firat thing?-The first behalf of the entire Catholic thing I did was to request all the denomination, has memorialised inmates to go to the Police Station. President Calles asking for free- Witness then explained that he ex-dom of conscience, instruction and umineghe bed carefully without the press, declaring that the disturbing anything, and also the Episcopate is actuated by the rest of the premises. He then sincerest patriotism and a desire searched for a weapon and found for peace, and requesting Pres. the chisel, Ma
Calles to use his influence to Mr. Neeyes, of the Federal In reply to other questions, wit-persuade Congreas to change the Crown Law Office, prosecuted. ness said he first saw blood in the religious clauses of the Constitu Each of the Chinese, whose ages passage. In the room it was on tion and the penalties for dis- ranged from 26 to 86 years, was the bed boards, on the floor and obedience of the new regulations. sentenced to six months' imprison-underneath the boards. One pool "Simultaneously, a group of ment.
It was stated that they was exactly ten inches from the twenty Mexico City business men would be sent back to China as edge of the bed.
have sent a letter to Pres. Calles quickly as possible."
He re-visited the house in com and the Episcopate, proposing that It is years since the Customs pany with Mr. T.H, King at about they confer to settle the contro- Department caught so many stow-10 o'clock the same morning. troversy-Reuters American Ser aways on one boat. They must witness did nothing but stood by vice. have been carefully hidden, be-while Mr. King carried out his in- cause the vessel was searched investigations. He had already re- Melbourne, and they were not dis-ported to Mr. King the result of his covered.
owt examination.
The case is proceeding.
“SCARAMOUCHE."
GARDEN CITY.
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£12,000 FOR HUNGARY.
LEAGUE COMMISSIONER'S PARTING GIFT.
Budapest, July B. BIG HOUSES AT THE QUEEN'S.
Mr. Jeremiah Smith, the High Commissioner appointed by the "Scaramouche," Rex Ingram's
League of Nations to take charge great film of the French Revolution, Alkaffs are the wealthiest private tion, has presented the honora-
of Hungary's financial reconstruc is at present being shown at the
land-owners in Singapore and they Queen's Theatre, and at yesterday's screenings there were crowdedown large, properties in Batavia rium due to him for his two and houses. This will doubtless be the and Sourabaya. The facts that a half-years' service (some 60,000 dollars) to Hungary, with the monthly income of $135,000 is rule, during to-day and to-morrow derived from rents in Singapore object of adding to the Budget
also.
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The story is so well-known that and Batavia and that the Muni- surplus of it is unnecessary to give an outline cipality annually receives some country, of it, whilst the film itself has also from the Company are eloquent as thing like $300,000, in assessment been seen in Hongkong before. But these are no reasons why to the extent of the Alkaff interests. cinema-patrons should not make a point of seeing the picture again;' indeed, it is one of those great pro-
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RAMON NOVARRO
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LEWIS STONE
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which would have endangered the delightfully clear throughout, and from the Portugueso Mission, and
whole of the British system of war its settings are really all that could that the present building is to be
pensions-a systom described ro bo desired. Many stirring scenes rebuilt during the next five years;
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cently by the British Legion as are depicted, and the interest is well indeed, the necessary prelimi-
the finest in the world. maintained to the very end. The naries, we understand, are about
Speaking at a Unionist fete at three leadings characters are to be taken in hand. The ex Ramon Novarro as Moreau, Alice ponditure of between two and three near Chislehurst, where the motor Warnham, near Horsham, recently, Including the estimate for the Terry as Aline, and Lewis Stone in million dollars on the construction omalbus is still unknown, is proud Major G. C. Tryon M.P., Minister current year, the Ministry of Pense the part of the Marquis la Tour. of an all-steel frame building and of its record of long-living resi- of Pensions, referred to the state- sions, he said, would have spent They are a remarkably talented its furnishing on the most up-to-dents and its centuries-old cotment recently circulated to the on war pensions no less, than trio, and they received fine support date lines, is contemplated, and as tages and fans. from the other characters.
the present hotel is valued roughly at about one million dollars it will be seen that the owners have tn A penny blue Cape of Good view the building of a new hotel Hope stamp dated 1861 and wrong which shall be second to none in ly coloured, realised £57. 10s. at the East.
Harmers.
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of Monmouthshire, who prosecut ed two leaders of an unemployed demonstration two months ago
¡One Chinose case of typhold fever was notlied in Hongkong yesterday:
effect that the Conservative party £725,000,000, 4 sum exceeding the Workers who are still active in had broken their pledges to ex-total of the pre-war national debt clude a gardener, aged eighty Service men. There was, he said, by more than £60,000,000. For aaven, a ploughman, aged eighty. absolutely no truth in such a state-the second time--the first occasion. five, a carpenter, aged seventy- ment. As a matter of fact, the was in 1922 he had the entisfac five, and others more than seventy, present Government had carried tons of announcing, on behalf of The veteran innkeeper comes of out, both in the spirit and the let Conservative Government, that a remarkably long-living family, ter overy Item of the war pen the reduction of pension rates In and has two aunts, ench more than sions policy which they put for accordance with the fall in the cont eighty years of age. Some of the ward at the time of the General of living, which was provided for old couples declare that they have Election. The recent vote in the in the Royal Warrants, would not forgotten their diamond and gol House of Commons on the subject take place. This meant that the den wedding of war, pensions was not, in any Conservative Government had The old forge, 400 years old, sense, a vote against the ex-Sor secured for the pensioners vary was painted up and opened again vice men or against the British much better terms than were con recently as a fruit shop by the Legion as was admitted by the templated by the Royal Warrants, lord of the manor for the sale of spokesman of the Legion in the at a cost to the country of six and his fruit and garden produce, course of the debate It was a half million pounds a year.