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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1918.

TELEGRAMS.

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IMPORTANT ALLIED 'CONFERENCE IN- LONDON..

RESULTS VERY SATISFACTORY.

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THE EGYPTIAN COTTON CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

CROP.

SCHEME TO PURCHASE OUTLINED.

LUXDON, Mar, 18: It is officially stated that a Com- mission will be appointed in order to ucquire the cotton crop. It will he assisted by an Advisory Board, representing the exporters, growers Jane banks...

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE GRESSON STREET MURDERS.

TRIAL FOR MURDER OF: INSPECTOR O'SULLIVAN.

The Criminal Scamions were sumed this morning, before William Rees Davies, K.C., Chief Justice,

Ng Ling alias Kwang Kwang was No further export licences will be charged with the murder of Inspector PARIS, Mar. 18. granted, except for the Commission's Mortimer O'Sullivan at No. 6, L'lemencent (Premier of purchases.

son Street, on January 22. France), Signor Orlando (Premier of. Licenses, already grunted, will be The accused pleaded not guilty. “ Italy) and other French and Italian cancelled, except for cotton held in The Attorney-General appeared on

port ünd sold for export before March | behalf of the Crown and Mr. G. Ist.

Alabaster, instructed by Mr. Agassiz. defended the accused.

Ministers are returned from Lon- don, where an importan: Conference. was hell,

M. Clemenceau expressed himself Tery satisfied with the results..

AMSTERDAM. Mar. 17.

REPORTED ACCEPTANCE OF ALLIED CONDITIONS.

LONDON, Mar. 18.

The Germans are making desperate efforts to prevent Holland from accepting the Entente's terms.

discrimately.

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The Commission will sell on a basis of 48 dollars per kantur fo.b. Alexandria fully good and fair Sukel larides.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, Mar. 17.

The wad struggling with Inspector THE CATHEDRAL ORGAN. O'Sullivan apparently put his hand

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a moment after firing was heard. LAST NIGHT'A OPENING RECITAL One of the constables would tell the jury thas the prisoter made a rush | for the box after several reports had

The Organ Recital, given at Sa been heard. This constable tried to John's Cathedral last night by Mr. retain statements maid by the prisoner occasion of the re-opening of the Organ catch hold of the prisoner and car Desman Fuller, FRCO, LRAM, on the Sir himself would confirm this. As the after extensive renovation provided constable tried to catch hold of the musical feast which it is rarely the prisoner, he (the constable) was soner put his hand into the box and to experience. Amongst these present wounded in the hand; then the pri- good fortune of Hongkong music lovers drew out a revolver. The prisoner were His Excellent the Governor Gres-then ran down the stains to the Major-General Ventris, a C, and the

street whers be was shot, as pre- Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, CM viously described before, the Magis trate. The man, it would be remem-in connection with the rebuilding of the From the various statement unde bered was wounded in the mouth organ we had been lod to expect when shot in the street, and it would something out of the ordinary as a realt fore he got to the street, he was critical must admit, after last night's be important to remember that be of the completed work, and even the moet wounded in the chest, and the bullet demonstrations, that the result." bas The jurymen were:--Mesars. 4. was still there. H. Wilson, B. 31. C. da Cimha, B. General said be suggested that the construction became an

The Attorney Fasad all expectations. The work of urgent Basto, K. E. Greig, J: T. Shaw, whilst shoting was going on in the from falling into such a state that no prisoner got this wound in the cheat necessity in order to save the organ THE DUTCH SHIPING

The British Treasury is preparel J. H. Scott, and J. Mefntyre, to fend 10 millions sterling to meet "Opening the case for the Crown, ing like going on with the shocting laid eight or nine years ago, and, the cubicle, the prisoner was not feel satisfactory repairs would be possible.” QUESTION.

the, financial demands of the on-the Attorney-General said that this and tried to get away, leaving his work has now been completed at a cont The foundations of the scheme were bination, and an equal sun will be was the Gresson Street Murder Case.revolver on the stairs where it was of about $8,000, and none can doubt GERMANS THREATEN BLOCKADE advanced by the Group bank at a The circumstances of the case not was found to have had two chambers improvement effected in the instrument

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subsequently found. The revolver after last night's demonstration of the limited interest, under the guarantee only enused a great deal of excite-discharged. After further describing thus the enthusiasm and the tenacity et the Egyptian Government. ment and feeling at the time, but the subsequent events the Attorney of purpose Mr. Denman Fuller baa dis-

If the American prices rise, the be supposed there had surely beenGeneral said there was The Frankfurter Zeitung threatens sale price will be increased and the sufficient time for that excitement evidence to prove that the prisoner reward. that if the Allies take over the Dutch profits of the increase will be credited and feeling entirely to die down, but was going to ask the jury, on two of the renovated organ is its wonder- to direct played in the project has gained their ships, terima subinarines will block-to the Egyptiun Government.

fired at Inspector O'Sullivan, but he Perhaps the most remarkable feature ade the Dutch const:

he haped that both the jury and him- grounds to say that the prisoner was fal balance, and quite apart from self, would approach the evidence in guilty of the murder. In the first the business aide, both Mr. Blackett the ease, dispassionately, in the cold place they had heard that there was and M. Faller must experience feelings light of reason and not in any heated gang, arined to the teeth, desperate of grout gratification at the result ther and reckless a gang prepared to have schieved. Mr. Fuller especially dead.

deal of evidence one would like to was, regardless of the consequences. Organist of his undoubted talent [Canon Henry Scots Holland val

have had which they would not have The fact that they were desperate naturally desires an instrument on Elitor of the Commonwealth in this case because the lips of the and reckless was shown by the state which he can display his gift to the Regain Professor of Divinity us Oxford men who could have told them best, of their armoury, Tarts and cajolery are used in./and Canon of Cbrist Church since 1910. perhaps, what happened were now unition. They also showed by mutery over the organ in Hongkong) | best advantage and it is doubtfal were found and over 300 rounds of had a fair opportunity of showing his He was Select Preacher to the University closed in death. If there were ally their acts-their murderous attack until yesterday evening. Both organ whether the organist bas ever really of Oxford in 1891-1842 and 1804 to 1996. ups in the evidence in consequence on the police and the wild shooting and organist are worthy of each other. The Dutch reply is expected to Censor of Christ Church 1982.1881; day.

Canon of St. Paul's 1884-1910 and Pre- he hoped they would not try to fill in the house in the street that thes erator, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1888-1910.1 up the gaps by any feeling of were & desperte gang. He would resentment toward the man or by show the jury than the prisoner was any desire to obtain some victim who staying in the house with his brother, bean chosen with great care to enable The programme showed that it had could be pamished for the murder; who was "the man in European cloth-the organist to display every department but that they would only bridge the ing who was shot by Sergeant Mar- of the instrument, and each item was and nothing less. He thought any frequently in the company of his Song and Fague (Wealer), brought out gaps by fair and legitimate inference riott, that the prisoner had been seen zondered to perfection. No. 1, Choral gaps could be bridged over by legiti brother and others. He was going to the marvalioon power of the instrament mute inference. It was not, how-point out that whatever purpose the and proved that the new wind arrange THE SHIPPING PROBLEM. on Christian sympathy at the Cath who had to say and to convict the inference they could draw wid that Passages which called for the use of The Bishop of Vietoria preached ever, for him to say, it was the jury prisoner may have had, the only fairments were perfect in every way. dral on Sunday last and referred to guilty. Perhaps the best thing hetect himself from lawful arrest by presente, in addition to tone and balance. prisoner of the crime if he was found he may have used his arms to pro- suffered nothing from want of wind nearly all couplers simultaneously, the loss the Chinese church had Rus- could do first would be show the jury the police. tained in the death of Pastor Foks the plans of the premises on which that&gung of men like them with brought out the beauty of Swell organ, It was inconceivable Na 2, The Curfew (E. J. Horman), St. Stephen's Church. Hongkong, aribed the plans, indicating, the wese evidence that the prisoner while No. 3, Allegro Appassionato Tsing Shan, the late incumbent of the affair took place.

those arms should not have discussed the perfect toning of the reeds and the and to the sympathy the Cathedral positions in which the varous prople ever contemplated the death of InArthur Barclay), again demonstrated in The Attorney-General then de- the possibility of a police raid. There great beauty of some of the solo stops, church members. He also expressed posed to have been congregation felt with the Chinese concerned in the crime were, sup-spector O'Sullivan but he did suggest carts thegreat power of the organ. By at different that he must have contemplated the this time, it had been amply proved that Mission in the lamented death of said that on January 22 at about ted, that it must have been their items, the critical car was closed and on TIU deep sympathy with the London tirnex..

possibility of a raid and that his the organ was capable of all that has Proceeding, the Attorney-General subsequent act showed, he submit been claimed forit, and for the remaining Mrs. Maclean Gibson.

The Bishop then asked the prica search warrant to search No. 5, was a sudden and simultaneous rendering of the remaining compositions 11 a. party of police went with intention, to resist arrest. There only listened to Mr. Fuller's masterly tical sympathy of his hearers with Gresson, Street, on the first floor. attack on two policemen. That was on the programme. Sterndale Bennett's the sufferers through the foods in officers, and it was with the death tien to resist the police. Then the list and the beautiful liquid tones North China and read the following of one

The party consisted of two European sonte evidence of the men's izten-"Barcarole" was perhaps the gem of telegram from St John Jordan, O'Sullivan, that the prisoner was made a dash for the box where the codeurs which form the theme of the f $500,000 is available for distribution:

of those men, Inspector almost at the same time the prisoner of the solo stops used for the running. Bishop Norris and others:

charged. In addition to the two revolvers were. If the jury thought composition were rendered to perfec Conditions North China country Chinese officers, including Chief police arrest, if the time should ever tion. Out of the Past," showed the European officers, there were nine tut these people intended to resist tion. Although in church, one wanted districte rupidly becoming desper Chinese Detective Sun Tai, who come; if they thought that the pri player to be a composer of a very high to appland. Mr. Fuller's own composi ate. People eating leaves, boek straw, corn cobs. Fuel bores; would be one of the witnesses, and soner made a dash for the revolver order. It was a beautifal composition, roof timbers and fruit trees wed another Chinese constable, No. 40, the fact that he did not himself fire beautifully played. The piece opens instead, animale dead or sold. No who would give most important & single shot would not relieve him with a simple theme, of practically four grain for spring sowing. Robberies evidence as regards the attack on of the guilt of the murder. increasing.

the police in the cubicle at the back. Children abandoned,

notes, given out on a solo stop and sold, drowned. North China Chris- of the house. There were four men that the Attomey-General would calmisato in a crashing climax of Mr. Alabaster, interrupting, said gradually worked upon until the passages tian Flood Reäet appeals Chinese who went into the cubicle, one of have to prove to the jury that there majestic chords, still embodying the Christian give fifty thousand do?-hon was now dead as a result of was no shadow of doubt that there original theme, after which the melody lars and help raise fifty thousand wounds received on the occasion. was a comicon purpose to resist gradually dies away to the first form of more from others. Will you help? Another Chinese constable Desire money collected in March stationed at the entrance of the band. He would also have to prove masterly rendering of Sir Edward Elgar's arrest agreed to in common before the theme and then tapers of ppp. The recital was concluded with a kitchen. if possible. Please wire amount

Three other constables that the prisoner went to the box well-known "Pomp and Circunstance, your station will raise."

would be called who went up to the for the purpose of attacking the very often used as a Military March, an Kecond floor, one of whom would tell police and not for defending himself.it was described on the programme the jury that he found something, The party of police got to the pro-tune.

It is stated that British ships in Dutch ports are

ready to leave ut a moment's notice.

The Daily Mail Correspondent.nt The Hogue understands that Holland bas accepted the Allies conditions.

INTERESTING STATEMENTS.

Loxoox, Mar. 18.

Political interest centres in the debate on the Navy Estimates on

Wednesday.

Sir Eric Geddes Announces me 'Admiralty to meet criticisms. The chief change is expected to be the appointment of Baron Pirrie to con- trol shipbuilding,

-sured for reorganisation within the

"

A detailed statement of the actual amount of tonnage sunk together with the shortcomings of replace

ament a likewise awaited.

The Tince Shipping Correspondent warns the nation; to entertain no lusion that the periodical publica tion of such returna will be at all comfortable for its peace of mind, but there are plentiful signs that the: country is determined to meet the ...most urgent shipbuilding require

mentk.

Sir Thomas Sutherland (formerly Chairman of the P..& O., Co, in a letter to the Timca, says it seems absolutely clear that, Government control of shipping is a distinct failure and urges the freeing of ship. owner and mercantile builders from Admiralty interference.

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CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY.

AN APPEAL BY THE BISHOP, OF VICTORIA.

THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE TROOPS..

THE PROGRAMME.

THE SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,

HONGKONG,

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100 PRIZES of $1,000 to

His lordship: All that is prema The second movement of the piece also YOUR $5 TICKET forms the air of the song "Land of Hope

misei at about 11 a.r. on January. Continuing, the Attorney General and Glory,"

crime.

His

THE ORGAN.

22. They went up the stairs; In In view of all Cinema Theatres search warrant which was for the which connected, the prisoner even might have been expected. A collection spector-O'Sullivan carrying the said that the second ground was one The attendenes was not so large as "FUEL FAMINE AT HOME. baving been put out of bounds during purpose of searching for stolen pro more particularly with the

in aid of the Organ Fund taken the continuance of the present epidemic,perty. Four of the Chinese police The prisoner made a dash for the box daring the recital realised $547.35. a scheme, has been arranged for a were carrying revolvere. All these cinems entertainment to take place four revolvers are accounted for. oice, or probably twice, a week at the Three brought their anns away with Royal Artillery Theatre, which will be wards found in the cubicle. Another them, and one revolver was after

Forces and their friends only, open to members of His Majesty's revolver was found on the stairs. The Attorney General said he men

AMUSEMENT HALLS TO CLOSE

AT 8.30.

LONDON, Mar 18. An order is every moment-espect

and pulled out a revolver. friend, said he had got to show that The present organ was built by he pulled the revolver with the in- Messrs. J. Walker and Sons, and WAS What did the jury think the prisoner extensive repairs became ascessary. tention of attacking the polies erected in 1887. Twenty years later, pulled it out for to belp the police, owing to climatie editions and a did they think? Did he pull it out modicum of care, and in 1900 repairi

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ed of the closing of theatres, music The first performance will take place tiqned that because it was important in self-defence against the people on were arecated, but its not possible labour he replied to the effect that in certainly appeal to lovers of good me hall and cinemas at 0.30 in the on Thursday, 21st instant, when the to realise that five revolvers were the floor with whom he had been to carry out the extensive alterations some of the more intricate work Chinese and they will look forward to the next evening, with the object of economis parts of the Pathe film, The Fatal accounted for and the police only had living, or against his brother? There which have now been effected; Vations were not altogether capable, and he with pleasure ing in fuel.

Ring", will be screened. The lights four, so the other must have belonged was evidence to show that there minor alterations and additions were live in the East, will fully appreciate stands an follow

preferred to do it himself. We who The specification of the orgen Dow Clubs and restaurants will also will be turned down at 8p.. sharp as one of the men in the cubicle could be very little doubt that he made during the succeeding ten years what that actually meant. Mr. Faller GREAT (Comptes 00 to A. 58- Tikely be affected.

When the search party got up to pulled it out to attack the police. Then certain parts of the organ began to has been equally conscientious and we Notes Double Diapason is ft., Opens it is essential that the entertaiment the first floor, Sergeant Clarke and A curious fact was that Inspector develop senous trochle and a careful to not hesitate to say that he fully Diapason 6 ft., Hora Diapason 81. be completed by 10 po Future three Chiness constables passed up O'Sullivan had five bullet wounds, examination only served to accentuste | entertainment when."The Fatal to the second floor and two Chinese four in front and one at the back the fact that almost entire re-construe. deserves the reward of a true musician, Wald Plate :6: ft Dalciana & Sh Ring" will be continued, will take place constables remained up there until Three men were, in the cubicle, one dion would be necessary to restore the and that is an instrument from which principe ft. Hormone Flutes f on Wednesdays and also, if possible, on the shooting began, Sergeant Clarke was struggling with Inspector Of But organ to a state of efficiency, sed when Mre be feel he can get satisfaction, for Fifteenth 3 Mixture 3 ranks Saturdaye, at the mamas hour. coming down a little before the shoot-livan and one with Sergeant Clarke. Blackey of Messe Blackett, and player than to have to exhibit his talent Note:-Bourdon 18 Open Diapasoni

Panne 8, Clario 4 It nothing is more disheartening to a good JWELL ORGAN Compass C to A, o ing took place Inspector O'Sullivan The other non, the prisoner was here to do other work, the Church Body Howden, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, arrived

on an inferior instrument

Theatre-owners are sending

deputation to the Coal Controller.

NO WHEAT AT ODESSA.

AN AMERICAN EXPERT'S OPINION.

LONDON, Mar. 18.

A Chicago American grain expert

is of the opinion that the Germans

will find no wheat at Odeas. All

has been consumed by the refugees and disbanded soldiers.

Your Celeste & ft Frind;

The, charges for admission will be passed into the back of the first floor standing unattended. There appear decided to entrat this gentleman not he wind supply is generated by Stopped Diapason 8 ft. Echo fifteen, twenty-five, and fifty cents, and there were two men sitting there red to be a strong probability that the only with the work of re-construction an electric rotary blower built by ft. Gembora à ft. Mixture 3 ránku. payment being made at the door, and smoking and another man sitting on shot in the buck was fred by the but in addition with the completion of Mr. Denman Fuller, the Cathedral boy 5 Vox Haman s members of H.M. Force only. such payment, will be accepted from a bed. There were also two women accused. He was the man who took the scheme long previovely conce

Mr. Blackett, which in the gift of Double Trumpet 16 Horn 672 and a chuid present. The police then fout a revolver from the box. Whef for bringing the instrument thoroughly matur sod produces considerablyover 00 to 463 Notes:

Chrifto, Tremulant It is hoped that the scheme will be passed into the back cubicle and he ran down stairs and got into the ep to date. The work of

organist; it driven by a 3 bp. Century OHOI Orgas in a well) well supported as it will be run in face there they found three more men street, he had no revolver, but ation has been one of very of an almost certain loss, which loss the bed. One of the men in the room which, he would ask the jury to say to Mr Blackett for

$1,000 onirio feet of wind minats at a Salcional à für Lieblich There was also a black bor on the revolver was found on the stairs dificulty and the greatest

pressure of 9 inches. The whole of the | Gemshorn 4. ft., Harmun Services Entertainment Fund has very was the prisoner was the prisoners revolver. The conscientious way in

repairs and additions made moe 1907 Ficeplo 2ft Carinet #ft, Tre dadly promised to meet. It is natur The Attorney-General then went revolver had three cartridges in it carried ito

up to date have been carried out naderAZ ORACom ally desired that this loss shall be anou to describe what took place, as and two of the chambare had, bean On twa

the supervision and according to the Notcar kiem of. Mis Denman - Fuller, who in Open small as possible,

stated in evidence given at the Brod, and the inference was that one has been in the It is to be added that the proposed Magistracy stating how Inspector of those shots passed arough In Blackettin shirt MELBOURNE, Mar 18 entertainments are mode possible by of the men not to move and then

O'Sullivan was heard to order one specter O'Sullivan's back. Commonwealth aborty as the kindness of the Farbe firm the shooting began. Whilst the

Evidence was then taken similar ope the organizers vary special struggle was going on, the prisoner.

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