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THE CHINA MAIL.
(Reuter's American Service.)
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NEW YORK, August 9, Below will be found the results of the league games played since Friday, August 1. 1
Played on Saturday.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
CANTON FINANCES.
DEFECTIVE TITLES TO LAND SOUGHT.
OLD SCHEME REVIVED.
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(From Our Sproial Correspondent.)
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CHAN DIN.
PRISONER SENT FOR TRIAL
Chan Din, the Indian motor driver lately employed by Mr. J. Arnold, once again appeared on remand at the Central Magistracy, on Saturday afternoon, charged with the murder of his wife on May 27:
To swell the war chest of Dr.
Mr.T. H. Hazlerigg," Acting Sun Yat-sen, the search for defects Pittsburg 7 New York ...... 6 in property deeds will be revived. Crown Solicitor, conducted the Brooklyn...... 9 Chicago....The Canton Mayor hus appointed case for the prosecution, and Mr. Mr. Leo Kee-tong to this commis-Fitzroy (instructed by Messrs. Lee 7sion. The order contravenes one & Russ) appeared for the defence. Issa Khan, motor driver for the of by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, issued just
Philadelphia... 3 St. Louis Philadelphia... 8 St Louis Cincinnati
.... 2 Boston Cincinnati... 19 Boston
AMERICAN LEAGUE. St. Louis...... 12 New York
Detroit
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Prisoner's wife
2 before the Chinese New Year, manager of Standard Oll Co, abolishing the system in considera-stated he had known defendant for tion of an offer on the part of the over four years. They were on people to subunit their deeds for good terme and often exchanged 8 Washington... 3pection and pay a feo of three PRACTICAL SYMPATHY. Philadelphia 12. Cleveland..... 4 cent, on the rule involved and visits. He said Sandi Khan. is a
Boston
7 Chicago.....
give an undertaking to redeem relation of his. Played on Sunday.
$500,000 in military notes for Gen- came to his house at 7 pm. on NATIONAL LEAGUE.
eral Headquarters: In the last six May 18 and complained of having New York ... 10 Chicago 3nights. the Canton property been assaulted and turned out by London, July 8:-A sad story of Brooklyn 2 Pittsburgh
owner's have paid in more than prisoner. She remained in wit- house until May 19. the misfortones of a soldier St. Louis...
$8,000 to the deeds inspection ness's London, July. 7" In cons
Washington...department of Cutton Municipality. Rustom Khan arrived at the house quence of a communication I have badly injured in the war was related Chicago.... 3 Philadelphia. 9 in the form of fées."
about 8 pm. on May 19. Prisoner received from the Director of yesterday at Southwark County Detroit 5 New York..... ?}
Since the offer of the people to came about 9 p.m. the same day Public Prosecutions cannot court, when ithe London County
Cleveland ... 3 Boston
have their deeds examined volun- and Sandi Khan' entered a few accede to the application for the Council applied, for the enforces Played on Monday.
tarily, the Cunton Mayor has not minutes before accused's arrival. case to be withdrawn." said
ceased his constant, tracking He invited them to a meal on the Mr. H. L. Cancellor, the magistrate,ment of a warrant for an
dowy of helpless people for un-night of May 19. Rustom Khan when Lady (Diana) Hamilton ejectment. The tenant, Robert
lawful possession of land. The had his meal first and departed made. her third appearance at Mackey, a discharged cloak-room
exeuse advanced for the revival of before prisoner's arrival. In the the Marylebone Police-court on
this forced inspection is that Saurday, on a charge of stealing attendant, was, it was stated, in
a platonic brooch and aarrears with his rent, and had been gold slave bangle, value unable to pay either this--amoun- 1 los, from a bed room at 104, ting to 16s. 9d. per week, or the Delaware mansions, Maida-vale, arrears in respect of rooms in House, Tabard-street, the property of Doreen Norma Becket
The wife complained Temple Badley. The defendant Borough. was described in the charge-sheet that her husband was so badly as a married woman, of 35 years of disfigured in the war that no one age with no fixed home. She was would employ lib. arrested ata Maidenhead hotel, but nothing relating to the charge was found upon her, and when charged at the Harrow-Road Police-station she declared that the prosecutrix's name was not Temple Bodley.
Mr. Douglas Young, barrister, who appeared at the last hearing for the prosecutrix, stated that he did not know what his position was in view of the magistrate's decision. He was still instructed not to proceed with the charge.
The Magistrate's Clerk: Then the police will proceed.
Judge Sir Thomas Granger I cannot turn these people out The man has a wife and six children to support, and he was so badly wounded in the war that his face was practically blown away. It seems, indeed, very hard that a man who suffers in this way for his
country should be placed under such serious dis- ability of unemployment. It is true the man has been offered 255. weekly, and he is in receipt of a pension of 16s, but how can he possibly maintain his family and > Detective-sergeant Bushnell said pay rent and arrears 'on such a the prosecutrix was present and smalt sum? It is to be deeply was quite willing to give evidence, regretted that because a man has In the result counsel retired been disfigured for his country no frun: the case, and the prosecutrix-employer of labour will take him entered the witness-box. She said into his service. #ste had been known for the last Six years as Doreen Norma Temple Bodley, but her name was Doreen Norma Williams, She was divorced woman. The defendant
September, when she met her at a card party, and since then they had been on visiting temas. On June 16 the defendant telephoned to her asking if she (the defendant) could come and see her, as she Sum of wished to pay back a
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His honour said he would suspend the warrant and reduce the weekly order of 5s. for the payment of arrears of rest to 25 which would be defrayed from the
for these poor people," he added.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
New York ... 5 Chicago.......... New York...... 2 Chicago....... Fitshorg 5 Brooklyn... Cincinnati ... 6 Philadelphia St. Louis 4. Boston
AMERICAN LEAGUE, New York. 9 Detroit.... Cleveland...14 Boston St. Louis
5 Washington... Played on Tuesday.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
...... I New York...... 2 Chicago Pittsburg 8 Brooklyn..... I Cincinnati ... 4 Philadelphia... 3 St. Louis...... 8. Boston
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York......'9 Detroit.... Chicago
5 Philadelphia... Chicago... 6 Philadelphia... St. Louis...... 2 Washington... St. Louis 4 Washington ... Cleveland ... i Boston
Played on Wednesday:
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
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unny property owners have failed course of a conversation with to submit their deeds for scrutiny.prisoner, who complained of his 8" It is argued that many of these, wife having been a bad woman, 5 deeds inust be defective, otherwise witness advised accused not to I their owners. would not object to cause trouble, but to divorce her, their being inspected. According if he did not like her. Accused to the Marge's order, lands held mentioned that he would quarre! Funder defective deeds will be con- no more but to take her back to fisented and sold through the his own quarters. After some Municipal Department of Public drinks prisoner became intoxicated Finance
and commenced abusing his wife. Witness advised prisoner not to use such words, but to go away and leave her alone. Witness went down with prisoner into the street and intended to take him to a As soon as they rope factory.
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BOLSHEVISM..
CAMPAIGN STARTED IN PHILIPPINES.
MURDER IS SLOGAN.
New York...... 5 Chicago... Brooklyn... 5 Pittsburg... 3 | Cincinnati...... 3 Philadelphia... 2 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Boston......... 5 St. Louis
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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I were in the street, prisoner. blew his whistle, which brought a Chinese constable. Prisoner told the constable that witness had detained his wife after Sandi Khan had abducted her and taken her to witness's house. All then proceed- Manila, August 10.
ed to No. 7 Police Station. There Detroit New York Governor-General Wood has re- the same accusation was repeated. | Cleveland, 8 Boston5leased the proposed platform of On being asked by the Officer in St. Louis... 6 Washington... S the Workers Party, recently Charge of No. 7 Police Station as
Played on Thursday:
adopted at Chicago: A
to what had happened, witness
New York. 5 Chicago
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
It states the Filipino workers replied that the woman ...... 3 should rise and kill the owners of there and had been to wit- Brooklyn. 9 Pittsburgh... 6 big estates and turn their pro-ness's house before, Witriess Cincinnatti... 6 Philadelphia.. 3perties into the Communistic was locked up in the cell of the St. Louis...... 6 Boston.account
station for being drunk and AMERICAN LEAGUE.
This platform is supposed to be
Magistrate the next morning. 2ulated among the Scouts, the trial: Both witness's wife and prisoner's 3 of some of whom is now proceed wife went to No. 7 Police Station. 3 ing.
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had been known to her since last poor-box. H'am extremely sorryNew York ...7 Cleveland 5 connected with propaganda cir./incapable and fined $10 by the
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Boston 4 Detroit
Washington... 6 Chicago Philadelphia.. 7 St. Louls Philadelphia.. 2 St. Louis ...
Played on Friday:
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
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phoned to ask if there were any letters for her. The defendant had stayed with her a week before New York... 8 Cincinnatti ... 2
...11 St. Louis....... for about seven days, and there Brooklyn... was a letter for her. She asked Pittsburg ...... Philadelphia... ó
Chicago...10 Boston for it.
7 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Cleveland.....ID New York..... 8 Detroit.......14 Boston Philadelphia... 9 St. Louis
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CHINA AND DOPE.
(Reuter's Service)
14s 6d. which she had stolen from whiness's kitchen dresser. Witness consented, and defend- an arrived at the flat in a taxi.
Did you say to her, "Everything She then asked it she could use
Geleya, August 9. the telephone in
is all right with Gordon Temple the drawing- went there alone, Bodley ?"-What do you mean? FUGIT, and
The Consultative Comintitee of
in leaving the witness the Did you say that don't think
the League of Nations, which is kitchen. Three-quarters of an so.
dealing with opium and other And did she say, hour before, witness said, she had
an: glad?"
drugs, discussed measures to be her platinum broach and No.
adopted. by certain Governments Counsel suggested that witness gold bangle in her bed-room,
whereby consule ugents will bó had a diamond brooch which was next to the drawing never
authorised on..the receipt of tele- She room. Witness heard the defend at the time.
replied, that
graphic advice from their Govern- ant telephone, and she then went she had had it for six years,
ment to deliver import certificates out to the lawn, leaving the defend- and that it was.
The 1st East Surrey Band, un.' for opium and other drugs. antalone. Two minutes later from her "husband that was then," she turned, and the defendant She agreed that at that time she der the conductorship of Band-committee considered these men- was still in the drawing room, but had a number of articles in pawn, master W. F. Bradshaw, will play sures permissible and applicable to on the Kowloon Football Club all Goverments holding conces she joined witness in the kitchen. but denied that the brooch was one
ground at 9p.m. to-night.sions in China to enforce in foreign About three-quarters of an hour of them.
concessions the provisions of the The programme follows:- Later she left the flat, saying she
1 Overture...Tam à Shanter... temporary Chinese, regulation of had to catch the 6:35 train To
Drysdale. Maidenhead.
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The Clerk: Did she give you back the 14s 6d?-She never mentioned it.
The Clerk: But did not you mention it to her?--No, sir. As a matter of fact, she was under the influence of drink. She told me she had been having champagne and lobster for lunch.
The Magistrate: Do you wish me to understand that she was so mach under the influence of drink that she was not in a fit condition to discuss business? No, sir, 1
don't.
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présent
Did you part after a qusrel. on the previous occasion turned her out because she used to come home every night after one o'clock, and, not only that, she brought a man to my flat.
When the police went to your rooms did they find a quantity of hotel property there?-No, sir, they found two towels marked,
Regent Palace Hotel," and a sugar-sifter .marked, "Grand Hotel, Brighton." That was all.
Detective-sergeant Bushnell pro- duced a statement said to have. been made by the defendant after her arrest at Maidenhead, in which she alleged that the prosecutrix was living with Gordon Temple The Clerk: She was rol in Bodley, and caid she very capableNo, sir...
much, doubted if Mrs. Temple Pressed by the magistrate as to
had, a plati why she did not mention the Bodley ever
num bar brooch, but if she had she moncy, witncas replied, "Well, (the defendiant) wished to know because
I knew that Diana
from whom and' when she obtain- Hamilton has been so down 'and
ed it. She then went on to say out, I helped her with money each
that the officer would flad in Mrs. day she was with me." About
Bodley's fat a sliver sugar, bowi Aficen minutes after the defendan. bearing the crest of the Grant had gone witness said she went Hotel, Brighton; a silver teapot, her bed room and missed the marked with the name of an hotel brooch and the bangle. No one. had been to that room but herself which she could not remember; a from the time that she saw the glass and silver salt-sifter marked.
"Canutos;” also, she balleved, a
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BAND CONCERT.
MUSIC FOR KOWLOON.
2 Scenes Espagnoles...Sevillana
Elgar.
3 Selection...I Lombardi..Verdi. 4 Paraphrase....."Ye banks an'
braes."....Kappey.
5 Valse......Triste........Sibelius. 6 Part Songs......... (a)" O wert thou in the cauld blast," (b) "The maybells and the flowers"....Mendelssohn
7 Selection......La Bohéme......
Puccini
8 Grand March... Tannhauser...
Wagner
9(a) Prelude in C sharp minor.....
Rachmaninoff
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(b) Schlummerlied Schumann
The Songs of Harry Lauder... Regimental Marches
The Huntingdon "The lasso Gowrie'
Autherly wind & a
cloudy sky
WATER POLO..
LEAGUE POSITIONS.
pharticles.
TENNIS.
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DAVIS CUP MATCHES.
(Renter's American Service,)
The
Montreal, August 9. Crocker und Wright (Canada) beat Okonoto and Harada (Japan) 7-5, 6-1, 6-3.
In the singles Shinidzu (Japan) beat Wright (Canada) 4-6, 6-3, 6-0, thus eliminating Canada.
Baltimore, August 9. The Australian victory in the doubles (three matches to love) eliminates Mexico..
BRITISH RUGBY TOUR,
Bloemfontein, August 9. The Orange Free State defented the British nigby team by seven points to three.
Sub-Inspector John Moss, No. 7 Police Station, stated that about 12.30 am. on May 20 two Indians and two women came to No. 7 Police Station. Last witness was locked up for being drunk and disorderly.
Prisoner was committed to the next Criminal Sessions (August 18) for trial, on a charge of murder.
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Consignees of Cargo must produce an Import Perinit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Ex- ports, Hongkonse, before Bills of Lading will be countersigned or Delivery Orders issued.
All, broken, chafed and damaged cargo, is to be left in the Godown where it will be examined at 10 am.. 14th August, 1924, Thursday, by Messrs, Anderson & Ashe, Maripe Surveyors.
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KID LEWIS
MEETING OF CREDITORS, London, July 8-The statutory first meeting of the creditors, held order made under, a receiving
£500. In regard to a public-house- at Kentish Town he had lost £800, | having,' 'during 1922, been the licensee of that place for about six months, He had also been a loser during 1922 over a revue entitled: Hullo Sweetie," which was run in All claims must be presented within against Mr. Gershon Mendeloff, partnership in London and the ten days of the steamer's arrival boxer, professionally known as provinces. In that venture he was here, after which they cannot be Kid Lewis, and described as of a loser to the amount of £2,500 - recognised.org pe
Farraday, House, Charleg cross It had been added by the debtor- road, took place yesterday, at that he had been advised to file.
Carey- | his petition, as the Income-tax Bankruptcy - buildings,
authorities had preferred a claim street, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
It was stated by Mr F. T.àgálost hlin for £1,800 in respect of Garton, Official Receiver, that the the years 1921, 1922 and 1923. debtor had stated, at a preliminary Debtor roughly estimated his. examination, that by trade he was liabilities at £3,200, and he valued. a cabinetmaker, but in 1912 he his assete at £20, apart from a clairs. became a professional boxer, for £900.against Fremierland. As and
welter to his fallure, he attributed it to. WIS weight champion of Europe. the fact of having lived beyond his Debtor had admitted that while he means, to lognes by gambling, and... had curaed considerable sums of also to losses in South Africa. - Hongkong, 9th August, 1924..
money at boxing be had lost Replying to Mr. Garton, the- amounts at gambling at curds, and debtor stated that he had received i and for the white Family fasther amounts by way of betting nothing in reference to the reccot M. Leslie Pocock submitted that A.D.P. "g" Cà 93.601ồ 12:6 along the border have been ju Mether always amberlain's anchorse races. He had also lived fight at the Albert Hall. He was...
9 23 4 oren 1nt where the highways Cough Remedy for any ache, colds beyond his means. In partner only being allowed hin expenses, 763 ore so to the frontier, iron gates diloult broathchinland ship with another person he but he was quite satisfied at the
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pagents caught - it is any) Rer the ifttle had gone in
for promoting fact of having won the contest. 92:44 44 -4 196 195 yz glers in motora forcing their way knows it contains narcotics. Bold boxing bouts at Premierland, Assto making any offer to his.
but in that particular ho had creditors, he was not in a position everywhere.
been the loser" of something" like to do that.
jewellery safe; nor could anyone pair of sugar tongs bearing the
The following are the results of
Goals.
SMUGGLING.
ACTION BY CANADA.,
(Resler's American Servicò.) |
No claim will be recognised after the goods have left the Godown and cargo undelivered after 15th August, 1924 will be subject to rent.
No Fre Lasurance whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bill of Lading in exchange tor Delivery Orders immediately.
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else have had access to it except name of another hotel; and various the water polo league to date. herself and the defendant.
Cross-examined by Mr. Leslie towels marked with the names of various West and hotels, several
"P. "W. L. D. F. A. P Pocock, for the defence, witness being marked in red Regent K.B.5, "A"...14 13 0 1.60 727 denied that the defendant tele-Palace Hotel."
K.B.S "B5 8 6 1 36 33 17 In cross-examination, Detective V.R.C. "A"... 9 7 1 1.22 615 sergeant Bushnell said he found at Navy 10 4.5 0 20 328 In order to combat the growing the fat two towels, and a plated | A.D.P. “A”..... 8 4 3. 1 17 10 9 smuggling from the United States, — sugar sifter.
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there was no case to answer; but Surreys"A"
Mr. Cancellor committed the defen-Surreys "B" dant for arial, allowing bail in her own recognisance in £100. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and i reserved her defence.
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