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MERCY THAT CAME 'AS A SHOCK.
PRISONER FAINTS ON HEARING LENIENT DECISION.
£5,000,000 COALALOSs.
DESPERATE PLIGHT OF
BRITISH PITS.
Startling new statistics regard- helds will be published by the ing the losses of the British cool- Miner's Federation shortly:
There were a dramatic ending to a case at Marlborough Street Police Court, London, last month, when a man of many convictions' The figures will reveal (snys and adventures was carried in a the Daily Chronicle) that since the fainting condition from the dock beginning હર્ષ this year the 'on being bound over,
collieries of the country have lost the sale of over £5,000,000 on
coul.
Before Mr. Mead was a well groomed prisonor of refined speech and bearing-Paul Mellor (38), The latest figures, which are described as an accountant of no obtained through audits carried fixed abode. Charged on a war-out in each district, will deal with
sant, he pleaded guilty to obtain the financial position to the end ing by false pretences with intent of June, and will reveal heavy to defraud on Christmas Eve, 1923, losses per ton in all the larg a £50 sapphire and diamond areas. An official of the Miner's
brooch. the property of Arthur Federation. said yesterday: Solomon, jewellers, 36 New Bond -Street, London.
There is a glut of coal on the Continent, and the policy of price- cutting has hot helped the tish coalowners at all.
Bri-
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SMUGGLERS STILL BUSY.
HEADQUARTERS IN
BOULOGNE.
that the recent traffic in smuggling. There are further indications
threatens, to assume; proportiona which will have a serious effect upon the revenue, says a London paper.
:
TUESDAY,
SIR ALAN COBHAM'S ESCAPE.
TOO REALISTIC BOMBING SCENE.
STRUCK BY STONES.
SEPTEMBER
13; 1927.
BAITING GOVERNMENT RIVAL BANDS CLASH.
DEPARTMENTS.
THE GAME OF BULL AND PICADOR.
SONGS BY ONE, HYMNS
BY ANOTHER.
While the Hythe Town Band was playing marches, overtures,
·NOVEL FRAUD ALLEGED.
HOW MAN IS SAID TO HAVE OBTAINED SUIT
A novel form of fraud
A references to what is officially and songs on a recent, Sunday alleged, at Leeds Inst termed the popular sport of Go-afternoon in the Grove, one of against Joseph Greenwood vernment Department balting" is Hythe's beauty spots, the Hythe Who was charged with obta contained in the annual report of Salvation Army band 30 yards credit by fraud, the Chief Registrar of Friendly from the bandstand was playing
Mr. C. V. Walker soll prosecuting, said Greenwood
.)
There were several narrow es- capes from disaster to flying men
The sport, remarks the Regis For some time the Salvationed on Miss Agnes Wills, An The smugglers at work on the during a recent week-end at Home. Societies, issued recently at Homem the ba south and east coast, are 'reported Sir Alan J. Cobham almost trar, is a first-rate game when Army have held Sunday after lede-Grove, and asked her i to be bringing off coups which re- come to grief near Stag Lane the departmental bull plays up noon services in the Grove from wanted to buy a house. She 2.30 to 3.80, but the bandstand she did not but to get rid of present the loss of very large Aerodrome, Edgware, last even- properly to the pleador.
was leased to the town band by signed a document which sh sums to the Exchequer.
ing, while flying for a fim, and
The incident calling forth the the corporation. E
lieved to be an application It is known that some of the two officers of the Auxiliary Air comment arose over the funeral This day the town band wished view. It was, however, a bi smugglers have their headquarters Force were slightly injured when expenses of a Post Office savings to give a concert at 3 o'clock. exchange for £50. in Boulogne, and in some of the their machine crashed at Alperton bank depositor." The expenses, The Town Council suggested that
Greenwood took this to which amounted to £25, were paid the Salvation Army should give putable firm of solicitors non can be found who openly earlier in, tho,day
by the savings bank, and sub- their service from 2.30 to 3.30, knew the woman and deposit boast of their illicit trafic. The mishap to Sir Alan Cobham aequently the solleitors who took when the town band should begin with them. He then called Others operate from Dutch ports occured while he the engaked in out letters of administration pro- This, however, did not fall in firm of tailors and asked to
According to Mr. Charles Ord.
Wines and spirits, silks, dyes, playing his part in the film son tested that this expenditure was with the wishes of the town band measured for several suits
Consequently both bands were clothes. manager of the firm, prisoner came
chemicals, cigars and tobaccos titled "The Flight Commander, excessive. **
performing at. the same time. Owing to his rather sh and saccharin are among the scene that was being “shot" A long and somewhat acrid cor- on Christmas Eve, 1923, saying he
The town band opened its appearance, they asked for wanted to buy a brooch for a lady)
articles smuggled. With the ex ception of wines and spirits all Sir Alan is supposed to bomb the respondence took place, says the programme with the march "Ivy-ences, whereupon he laughed - for Christmas. Two cheques,
The losses have become heavier the articles, on which there are main street of a Chinese village report, both before and after the inead," the Salvation Army at said."You can refer to my s grant of administration between the same time playing and sing-tors, who hold my securit post-dated, for £25, it was agreed month by month, which means that heavy duties, are small in bulk The ground charges which repre- the solicitors and the Post Office ng "I Know That My Redeemer They telephoned and receive should be accepted for payment, and they were made out on the bad large, le s ve grown larger and can be easily dealt with, consented the falling bombs, and savings bank, the former seeking Liveth." "During the concluding assurance, and later delivere Swiss Bank, but it transpired that ledge in the industry, that the signments of great value(occupy) which were exploded by electrici- to know under what statutory at prayer by the Salvation Army goods.
lively!
Immediately Greenwood roc ty, were so powerful and Sir Alan thority the latter had acted, and the town band played a bankers are viewing the positioning but little room.
the latter, refraining from giving
them he pawned them. with great concern.
A motor-boat can run a cargo flow so low that a hall of clods
a direct answer that they had The Salvation Army left punc- When arrested at his lodg Pits are closing down, and the the intrinsic value of which runs of earth and stones struck his none.
tually at 3.30, and the town band and charged in respect of one Into thousands of pounds, while registered number of miners un-on this side of the Channel it can
machine.
The Chief Registrar thought was then left in undisturbed pos- he said, "That's all right. employed is now over 250,000.
be easily distributed by means
About a dozen large holes were that the Post Office would have session. The matter was to be about the other auita? I
acouncil them all to be taken into e We ourselves pstimate the actual
of motor-cars.
made in the wings, and the planes been better advised if they had fully thrashed out at
deration." number of unemployed at well
He was remanded for n: over 300,000.
were covered with earth and sand. franky admitted that they had no meeting later in the week.
such authority at the same time Fortunately, no vital part was pointing out that they had only FRENCH WOMAN'S. for further inquiries.
done what the administrator hini it
self must have done and saved
would recommend her for dep tion. the depositar from pauper's funeral.
accused had no account there.
Detective E. Griffey, stated that a letter had been sent through the police from an influential gentle- man to the Magistrate.
The letter was handed to Mr. Mead, who said "This gentleman suggests that he (the prisoner), should be sent to Now Zealand, but it is not a thing I can cognise at all."
TE-
300,00 Miners Idle.
largor. It is common know.
The smugglers are well or know exactly anised. They where to dispose of their cargoes in London-there are many "rier chants" in the East End (and also in the West End) who will can bring handle all that they
across the Channel without ask-
The "Attack.
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.
song.
A
REVOLVER.
SEQUEL TO SCENE IN SOLICITOR'S OFFICE,
young French woman,
certificate.
Defendant That does not me in any way as regards future.
The Magistrate-Will you back voluntarily it I give you chance.
Defendant said she was wi to leave, and the magistrate
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Efforts are being made to cut the men's wages still further, and in Cumberland a company has just Posted notices which will reduce Snow-Sweeper and Teacher.
the men's pay to less in actual Detective Griffey said that ther:money, quite apart from its value,
The Chinese "village" had been At the same time, he derived were eight convictions for crime than what they received before the
ing questions and at prices which, built chiefly of canvas-covered from the correspondence the in Theresa Perrot, was charged on against Mellor, the first in 1917. war.
while they give a handsome return wooden frames in a field adjoin-pression that the solicitors had remand at Bow Street, London, when he was bound over at Dubli
In Durham the situation is se to the smugglers, permit the re-ing the aerodrome. At one end teen indulging in the popular the other day, with being in pos- for obtaining jewellery by false pretences. He had been twice desperate that a deputation of the eelver to make a big profit.
of the "village" Mr. Maurice sport of Government Department session of a revolver without a baiting a first-rate game when sont to prison from Marlborough Durham County Council and the
Elvey, the producer, from a high e departmental bull plays up Street Police Court for similar Durham Miner's Association is to
platform directed the hundreds of properly to the picador.
It was alleged that defendant that, on the understanding created a scene in a solicitor's she would go back to France offences, and had also been sent approach the Government to ask
"Chinese" as they furiously "at-! enced at Ottawa, Canada, on a them to declare the whole county,
The solicitor added that the tacked" the
office after a conversation about would discharge her under. the maintainence of her child probation of offender's act. similar charge, Mellor had alen a necessitous area for the public prisoner was a man of high educa-
Europeana.
form, the street was torn up by and that she produced a revolver. been sent to prison in Switzerland feeding of the children.
an explosion. Dummies which She said the father of the child. and Italy for swindling, and had
As each "attack" was launched had been lying on the ground were was an assistant hotel manager. A Salvation Army representa- tive intimated that they were preseven cameras at different points hurled high into the air, and from Defendant now informed the pared to take the prisoner registered the scenes. There was a short distance the scene appear-court that she bought the revolver amelioration in handi
a short wait, and then the aero-ed extremely realistic. After-Fat Toulon to frighten away bur planes were sighted.
wards three large air transport | glars. Accused was then bound over,
machines flew over the "village." The Magistrate said that in her and on hearing the lenient deci-
A DH9 flew up the main street, They were supposed to be carrying own interests she should go back college. He aspired to a better Mr. Lieek (Magistrate's Clerk)sjon, straightway collapsed. HA
and, at the wave of a handker a detachment of naval ratings, to her own country. The question job at a university, but for the first-IIe does seem to have made an was lifted from the dock and chief from the producers plat-which arrived just in time to with regard to her child could be time his bad character became effort."
protect the Europeans..
gone into by the courts there.. Hel
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Seen twice deported from Canada. known and he was sentenced and
On returning to that country deported. following the first deportation, he
Mr. M. Hellier, for the prisoner. started as a snow-sweeper. Then urged that the prisoner had gone he became a floor-walker, and eventually a teacher at an Ontaria straight since his last conviction.
1etanenteninfl{ »f flt“destf
tion.
carried out.
small colony of
TO-NICHT at 9.30 p.m.
AND ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
.
THE OPENING OF THE LEE THEATRE
FOR EUROPEAN ENTERTAINMENT.
THE
IT'S QUALITY THAT COUNTS
ORIENTAL STROLLING PLAYERS
AND
THE BAND OF
4.
THE 1st BATTALION, THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT,
(By kind permission of Lieut. Col. S.H.J. Thunder, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C. and Officers.)
A NICHT WITH TALENTED ARTISTES & MUSICIANS.
BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S OR AT THE LEE THEATRE
PRICES—$3, $2 and $I. Servicemen in uniform, Half Price.
COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
Thursday, 15th September.
THE LARGEST AND MOST MODERN THEATRE IN THE FAR EAST.
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