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THE
CHARGE OF CRUELTY,
MISTRESS SENT TO JAIL.
MASTER REMANDED.
CHINA MAIL..
TAR AND FEATHERS.
REVENGE OF JEALOUS WIFE.
the receiving order is not, large, but I do not see how we can pay it, and our position may become. very awkward," said Princess |--Andrew- She-sald—that-the-152
Prince and she had worked New York, July 27-A sensa-every day trying to make the club The case in which Chan Suu- ugen and You Yun were charged tional story of revenge in the form success, but beautiful as the ||with ill-treating, four. Chinese girls of a terrible beating," "followed by accessible as the place was to
grounds were now, and easily! and the latter, in addition, with a cost of tar and feathers, which a Central London, it seemed im uiding and abetting the first defen-wife wrought on a young single possible get the patronage dant, came up for hearing before woman whom the married woman Mr. i. E.. Lindsell at the Control alleged had been receiving atten-
It seems heartbreaking after al! tions from her husband was re- Magistracy yesterday afternooni.
Mr. R. A. U, North, Second Celved in New York yesterday efforts that we should fall in Ette end. Our lives since, our from Frederick, Maryland. Assistant Secretary for ChineĽa
escape from the revolution have Affairs, prosecuted.
"besa orejong-thrill, and we-have- We stuld have been killed when had some unhappy experiences. imprisoned in the Crinet but Jut the loyalty of a sailor with was put in charge of us by the Bulshevist chiefs."
The scene was enacted while the visi!! F woman, aged 20, who was to the neighbourhood, was win. accompanied by two men and two other women, along a lonely country road at midnight Or Thursday.
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Suddenly several motor-cars ap-1 sared, from one of which the married woman, together witù a number of men, jumped out.
f. A. S. Russ represented the two defendants.
Cima Chan-sun, aged 15. stated that she and her parents are living Sho was kidnapped Fat Lin Tan.
wo years ago, taken to and sold in Hongkong to the two defen- She has since been living dants. with them at No. 1, Swatow Lane, first floor. She started as 2
Seiring the young woman, the mai-tsal, but later her mistress wife administered to her a mor wanted her to become a prostitute, ciless beating with a heavy stick, but she was found to be unfit foru: til the girl fell half-unconscious The purpose. Both defendants-ill to the ground. treated her by beating her with a stick, at other times sticking the points of a pair of scissors into her legs on applying a hot tobacco pipe to her face. The male defen- dunt stayed in the house most of las day generally going out from 1 a.m. to 8 a.tu. and from noon to 4 p.m. The last time she was benten was two or three lays before the police arrived. She was placed in a water-jar in the kitchen and covered up with a lid. on the arrival of the police. Tho two defendants ill-treated the other three girls. She showed her arms und legs to a doctor when she was adnuited to hospital for treatinent,
FURTHER EVIDENCE.
Cha Chau-heung, aged 16, leposed that her parents are living it Shaukiwan. She was kidnapped
Thereupon her companions, tore of the girl's clothes. A pot of hot tar was fotched, and the married woman proceeded artistically to decorate the girl's pink skin with coal-black futurlat designs and de- corations.
Having finished this task, says correspondent, the Reuter's
look from a pillow wife then handfuls of feathers, which she sprinkled plentifully upon the tar, to which they stuck.
required.
When the Regent's Park Country Club was languishing for want of members in the early summer, and its fine tennis courts and golf were sadly practice rounds empty, the Prince thought of making membership TORS CX- clusive: "We could have " a dance-floor-put-down-on-this-lawn- and have dance teas in the open," said. The project, however, did not mutecialise.
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PEAK CHURCH. THE Sunday Evening Services will to continued during Sept at 6.30 p.ra. Presbers: Sept. 7th, Rev. 0. B. Shann: J. P. McBe: 48th, Rev. R. J. Northcott,
Riga, July 30,-Russia is in that comes to members of Parliament and sold last year to the defendants/the police have made a number of 14th, Rov. T. B. Powell; lat Rev. Dr.
Struggling violently, the girl, who was entirely nude, managed to escape from her tormentors and fled into the woods, shrieking with fear and pain. Her cries awaken ed the occupant of a near-by house, who, with his wife, search
for and found her. In connection with the assault
arrests, among them being the and was compelled to become married woman, who admitied to the magistrate that she had applied. demanded that their money be re- the decorations to the girl. funded, she was beaten by both It transpires that the sheriff of master and mistress (the two the district had recently ordered defendants). She did not see any the young woman to leave the She was vicinity because she had been re- ne else being beaten.
ceiving the attentions of men at the home of a woman with whom she was staying.
same position to-day as she was in who are protesting against all 1921, just before the foreign Gov-night sittings of the House of prostitute. When the customers comments organised the relief Commons and the length of the which prevented the collapse of the Parliamentary session Bolshevik Government. Famine
It is provided in the findings of then forced Lenin to institute a
the Joint Committee which has been considering a re-arrangement of the session...
new economic policy which per mitted private trade.
Today Moscow has the same appearance as she had in 1921, according to an important British merchant who has arrived in Riga from Moscow,
The entire population is ter- surised by continuous arrests and the sight of a well-dressed man in the streets is rare,
put into a water-jar and covered p at the approach of the police, but afteritards was set free by a
lies Inspector.
The committee proposes that Parliament should meet as now, after the tuna of the year, and sit
Two other girls gave corrobaru- until near the end of July, aud
evidence with regard to that it should be recognised that if tive business could not be conducted by defendants' ill-treatment.
Cheung Wing, District-watch- about that date Parliament should
be adjourned until October or taan, No. 29, said that about
November.
BETTER FOR BUSINESS.
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4 p.m. on August 11 he and Sub-
Inspector C. Eräns went to No.
On
the
PRINCE'S BAD LUCK.
RUSSIAN REFUGEE IN LONDON.
Bid luck has attended the effort
of Prince Andrew of Russia, now
a commoner in business, in his plucky attempts in the commercial world of London.
In the early summer he had sime very promising plans to
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FUNDS.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals Mr. Leung Bat-yu........... Mr. Wong Pak-shan........ Mr. Mok Ching-kong....... Mr. Sun Shing-sam......... Mr. S. W. Teo
100.00
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100,00
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Mr. Lo Cho-shan ............ Mr. Chau Yuzing.......
100,00
100.00
Mr. Chow Fo-sien........
106,00
Total
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Mr. Lo Chung-kue
The above donations were kind- by collected by the Hon. Mr. Chau Sin-ki.
Tak
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The merchant reports that Mr. Hodgson, the British Chargé
100.00 The continuation of the session. Swatow Lane, first floor, to 'Affaires, protested to Krussin,
the brothel. Under stating that it was impassible for into the late summer, the conspect
from the Inspector kin to continue his work as long as initee states, with an exhausted instruction the Cheka continted to arrest House of Commons, is not con- he walked upstairs firs. every visitor to the British Trade ducive to good work and good feeling the floor he saw Legation. Mr. Hodgen informed temper, and the business of Par-winan defendant pull two little develop on more popular lines, Krain that he was afraid to speak liament would be in every way girls into the kitchen and con- the Country Club at Hanover to is tussian friends, knowing more satisfactorily conducted in mence to bundle them into two Gate, Regent's Park, which he has been running for a small and tut at the yonelusion of the taff November and December, when earthern-ware jars,
He went downstairs for the exclusive membership. The Prince members come back refreshed, they would be arrested, and pro- than in the hot weather at the end Inspector and informed him what is popular in London, and his „bably deported from Moscow,
was of thus summer.
had happened. The Inspector pleasant club with its lawns and The merchant said he
Among the advantages which the went up walked into the kitchen hard tennis courts and dance fluor shorked at the immorality which is
and released the two girls. Men, committee expect to auras from then inspected the prostitutes' country club could well be.
He was as near Piccadilly Circus as a everywhere
apparent.
the scheme they recommend are:
One of the girls com- That the length of the autumn licences.
Only about 150 instead of the 500 members Wele sitting would be dependent on the plained of pains on her body and needed
showed nark of-bruises. Ho however, obtained. A receiv amount of work still to be accom- Of the 1.700,088) unemployed in plished before Christmas as far asook her to hospital and the other ing order in bankruptcy
He re made against Prince Andrew on The Moscow district, 47 per cent. could be estimated by the Govern-girls to Po Leung-kuk.
turned to arrest the two defendants the petition of a creditor, and his are women, who, because they are ment in July.
night position is almost as unfortunate je to obtain Government aid, I would secure a definite and about 10 p.m. the same
to Tai as it was when he escaped from had become prostitutes. Moscow, recognised summer recess at the When near the entrance the merchant continued, resembles right time of the year, and Farlia Wong, Street he met the first Russia with his wife and five Jone huge disorderly resort.
ment would sit under more suit defendant; on seeing him she ran children about six years ago,
"The sum of money involved by able conditions in November and but he soon caught her as sho fell down after going a short December than would be the caso
stance. in the summer.
women, and children bathe together
ranked, and indescribable" scenes
take place on the river banks, parks, and boulevards,
While Russia lacks everything, still the warehouses are bursting with manufactured goods which the Guternment institutions are
Was
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Chan Sau-ngan, firat defendant The committee also point out| nable to sell, because the popule that under their chemo the Gov (in witness box), stated that she tion is too impoverished to buy." ernment would no longer be sub-ever ill-treated the four girls as alleged. The first witness fell When permission was asked to ject to the annual temptation to deep whilet attending a fire in the lise the merchant's name in the force through legislation in July
kitchen, accidentally knocked interview he replied that it was and August or even September in against a firebrand in the stove imposible, because a member of order to avoid an autumn sitting and caused the injuries to her face. big fit is still in Moscow. If the The financial year would not be the only beat, the other three wit Bolsheviks knew he had given affected. "The Daily Mail" this interview They recommend that Purlinesses with a feather duster.
First defendant was senteneed to this man would immediately beent should coch session beix months' hard labour. Second arrested.
adjourned on, or if possible before, defendant was acquitted on the Domestic Qecurrences Lenin's body, after lengthy July 31, if it has not by then com charge of ill-treatment on account Leading Articles treatment at the hands of Russia's pleted the business of the session of insufficient evidence.
On the Liner Mishap lending cabalmers and taxider- and that it should meet again in charge of ailing and abetting he Local and Gimperal mists is ready again to be shown the outnuun to finish the business. was remanded until 12.15 p.m. Secial and Perscont The Communists say that Lenin's
Monday, September 8. bail being Crackers... carpe is good for 50 years
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MAKING PESTS PAY.
[By T. C. Bridges.]
collected and destroyed in ODB senson exceeded 1,300 1q118. In
| 1915 the locusts destroyed in Egypt weighed 10,500 tons, rẻ.. presenting 7,966 millions of individual insects,
Rabbits
threatened ruin to Australia and New Zealand 'until
MOROCCO.
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Contrariwise, the latest $1,009 Tigs low temperatures,
This is by no means the first and 7,750,000 skins. In all nearly oral insurrection of the natives, 0.0
more than 6,000,000 frozen rabbits communiqué, referring to the gen Urnelly to Dunke attempt to utilise the most terrible 300 millions of rabbits have been which is imperilling, the Spanish Gambler's Lack of plagues, for about two years ago sold by Now Zealand.
positions, warns the country to pHealth of Colony ufactory was established in Another smart that was at onere for operations on a larger scale our Harbour Tehunesburg where the dead time a pest in New Zealandhan ever. It is announced that
Technica hodies of these insects are turned became eventually a source of con- General Grund, commanding the into fertiliser. The value of the siderable profit. This was the pig, artillery at Ceuta, has
hoen Tertiliser is so well assured that the which was originally turned down recalled. factory recently had an order from by Captain Cook about the year Europe for a hundred tons.
1770. A century later pigs were
If it seems absurd to talk of so plentiful in the flax thickets of insect in terms of tone, it may be the northern island that à hauter mentioned that one flight of could kill fifty in a day and farm locusts which passed over the Roding in the district was impossible. Sen covered an area of 2,000 square Then it was found that the triatlon aniles, and certainly weighed hun of these wild pigs were valuable, dreds of thousands of tons, while and for a good many years they in Cyprus the weight of locust oggs were a source of steady revenne.
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