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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1926

"QUEER PEOPLE? ”

SIR BASIL. THOMSON IN DOCK.

FOLICEMAN'S ALLEGATIONS.

(Reuter Seryico.)

London, January 4. A huge crowd besieged Mark- borough Police Court... on the appearance of Sir Fasil Thomson

GREAT FLOODS.

UNPRECEDENTED SCENES

IN FRANCE.

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FATAL COLLAPSE OF A HOUSE.

(Rouler's Service.)

"Faris, Jan. 4.

The likelihood of continued rain

is causing the utmost anxiety. Already the Oise has beaten all

THE CHINA MAIL.

TO SAVE GREECE. SHANGHAI ENQUIRY. "TUNGCHOW” PIRACY

DEPENDENCE ON ARMED

FORCE.

DICTATORSHIP ESTABLISHED..

(Reuter's Serolos;)

Athens, Jan. 4 The Commander of each bag racks announced that a Dictator ship had been proclaimed and all to answer two summonses-soce records, including the floods of must contribute to the task under accusing him of indecency with a 1910 and 1920, having risen taken by the Army for the The stateinent woman in Hyde Park and the twenty feet. The triangle be- nation's good. other requiring him to show causetween Crei, Beauvais, and Noyon concluded: "On your bayonets only does the establishment of the why his recognisances of 45 is a vast sheet of water.

Trains on the main line te Bel-Dictatorship depend," should not be fogfeited for non- appearance in Court on the daygium are obliged to slow down for many miles, whilst sometimes the floors of the carriages are swamp- 'et,,

tamed in the original summons,

Temptation"

into

SIR H. C. GOLLAN'S FINDINGS.

POLICE, JUSTIFICATION.

PIRATE CHIEF AS HONG-

KONG BOY.

ENQUIRY EVIDENCH.

In the course of his conclusions The cond-in-command of the on the Shanghai affair of May 30 pimple gung which book possession which he enquired as of the Tingohow" mid, aurind Britain's judicial representative.

carrying. "claimed to have been Sir Henry Cowper Gollan. Chief of the boxes of silver dollars it was Justice of Hongkong, remarks as rented at Quem's C'ailege, Hong. kong: this transpired in the course. follows:-

After full and careful considera-of the inquiry at Shanghai into the tion of all the evidence adduced pleonstances of the pitney,

the witnesses, of their Evidence of his conversation with by demennour, and of the inherent this man was given by tho, Chiet probabilities of the respective oficer who, questions on the stories told by them. I am clearlyer of gen pinney provention. of opinion that the evidence given Athens, Jan. 4.

al that if a ship carried by the police witnesses, and sup bollain in weld be h set not to carry General Pangalos made his an-ported by the large body of

Chinese pengers, "The villages in the flooded areasnouncement at a banquet given by independent testimony, is sub are being hurriedly evacuated and Officers of the Republic Guardstantially household goods are being trans- ported on rafts.

water

A policeman gave evidence that after the arrest accused told him that he was Sir Bis: Thomson and if his friends knew about this he would be ruined. Subsequently, I The coding of the the policeman alleged, accused works at Compeigne resulted in a said that if witness overlooked the limited supply of drinking water matter he could leave the police and rationing from barrels... to-morrow. The policeman replied that nécused should not tempt him, adding: "You know how impossible it is for me to let you go. The police is my sole means of existence."

TRAIN ABANDONED.

The rise of the Aisne flooded many streets in Soissons. A train between Chen and Saintlo

was

abandoned after the passengers

Were escaed.

A child was killed and three Recognised At Station.

persons injured as the result of Counsel for the prosecution said the collapse of a house at Caen. that accused at the Folice Station, which caused enormous dimage, where an inspector recognised Some of the estimates amount to him, asked that his name betwenty millios francs.

Be entered as Hugh Thomson. was released on bail of 25 buti The rise of the Mense convert- failed to appear in Court. Subsed the streets in Mezieres into quently he wrote explaining that rushing torrents.

TORRENTS IN STREETS.

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he went to Bow Street by mistake. It is feared that 20,000 workers Accused appeared at Marlborough in the Meuse Valley will be idle Street on December 16 for service for three weeks in consequence of a summons on a woman who of the flooding of the factories. was a young pantomime artiste, who was arrested and fined on December 20

DAMAGE IN HOLLAND.

Amsterdam, Jan. 4. The water has fallen a yard below yesterday's highest level at ¦ Maestricht, NO the trains, to Liege and the northern parts of! Sir Basil Thomson is the third Holland are running, but not for son of the late Archbishop Thom-public traffic.

The case was adjourned. A Varied Career..

Their Majesties this morning

FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

The New Dictator.

that

correct, and Inspector Everson was justified in coming to the conclusion that, if

Incastros,

Finting, of the Court of Enquiry

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Having carfilly reviewed the the crowd had not been fired upon, evidence and the creduces the lives of the police under his above are, the Cork sees command would have been sacri- ground for blaming the conduct of ficed, and the crowd would have like ship's officers or crew, In the gained possession of the Louna light of tha experience which had Police Station: with results that been gained by this incident, it might have been most serious insiders, bever, that greader view of the quantities of arms and are shoat he oxended in fibe ummunition stored there.

in the matter of Chinese purisongors. And it is also to be remembered posible, some rezoad' should be that, a mob had in December 1905-k-jt of the Chinowe passengers to seized and destroyed the Louza whom tickets are sold, and they Police Station, in the face of should be sauebed for arins before

strenuous opposition offered by the ship leaves le port. In the..

frase of ships carrying bullion or tep sein, so might be advisable, at

body of unarmed police. -

Mob Psychology.

A matter that struck me was full events as a temporary mensuré, the rapid change that. according įeitiuer des take no Chinese pussengers. to the evidence, took place in the focus to rainy was aimed guard in state of mind-of the crowd, within addition to the crow.""

# period of about 15 minutes, "The Court is also of the opinion. und without the commission of has the provision of wireless, any acts by the police tending to which it makestands is shortly to irritate the crowd. At one time. Las installed on the China Naziga- the group of students who had on Campany's ships running be- been elected from the chargegen Shanghai and Tientsin, will room, and the others' who had as an additional deterrent to joined them, were being induced rates contemplating a seizure of to move back by a small body of this nature. police. The leading iden in the

"Pically it drew to record its mind of this crowd would then seem to have been to obtain the wnviction that the only satisfactory been detained.

mene is to destroy the pirate bases Then this smaller retreating on shore, without which attacks crowd was stopped by a

much as that on the s.s. "Tungchow" burger crowd with elements of an would be impossibls.' was preparing a programmeunruly character in it, a student based solely on armed forces.

son, of York, and was born viewed the damage at Maestricht, I evoked demonstrations of en-release of the students who had way of dealing with the pirate

1861, Educated at Eton od New College, Oxford, he entered the Colonial Civil Service and went to Fiji and thence to Tonga

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Sir Basil Thomson.

where many of the homelesethusiasm, which were renewed by People are sheltered in the milithe Guard during a parade of the tary barracks at Shertogenbosch. streets in the evening.

In view of the extent of the dis- General Pangalos said that he aster it is remarkable that so far there have been no fatalities, although two, women went insane as a result of their anxiety and distress.

POSITION IN BELGIUM.

Brussels, Jan. 4. Their Majesties to-day paid a very lengthy visit to the inundat- ed regions around Namur and

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WHO IS PANGALOS!

movement to the east was arrest- ed, certain persons developed a high state of excitement which communicated itself to the rest of the crowd, the crowd turned

ROOF ABLAZE.

FOOTBALL STAND

DAMAGED.

YESTERDAY EVENING'S SCENE.

coming from the direction of the Louza Police Station waved to the amalgamated crowd to return in General Pangalos has been Pre-the direction of the Station, the mier since June, when he organ ised a coup d'état in the Army and compelled the resignation of the Michalacopulas Government. He was largely instrumental in the events leading to the deposition of King George II. in 1923, and the worked up to attack the police-6 o'clock yesterday evening when on the police, and finally was treated to a spectacular sight at establishment of a Republic. He presided at the court-martial into the Louza Police Station. The on the Hongkong Football Club men who guarded the approach the roof of the spectators stand 1922, which ordered the execu- evidence of Major Hilton Johnson ground was destroyed by fire. in the Waes area, has become tion of the former Premier, M. throws light on this aspect of about one quarter of its length.

Dinant.

The situation in the Liege, Namur, and Brussels districts has greatly improved, but the position in the low-lying districts, notably

worse.

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Ministers on the charge of re-

Residents at Happy Valley were

Chinese mob paychology. He A fire engine arrived fifteen particularly referred to first, the minutes later, and running down inflammability of the Chinese a hose from the new hydrant at temperament and the rapidity Wong Nei Chong Rond, subdued with which, in the mass, they are the flames and saved the re- capable of passing from a state of mainder of the structure. quiescence to a state of frenzy

Curiously, the fire had its origin

Gounaris, and three other ex- Their Majesties have subscrib-sponsibility for the overwhelming edwo million franes to the defeat of the Greeks by the Turks national fund for the victims of in Asia Minor. the floods, comprising the money There has been much specula- presented to them on the occasion ion recently regarding the posai- of their silver wedding last year,,, bility of the return of King which soon gets beyond their con- in the roof at one end, which besides a personal gift of 100,000 George II. to the throne. francs.

EARLIER NEWS.

Amsterdam, Jan. 4..

The

During his term of office trouble Carose in the Tongan group, and Sir Basil then not 30 years of age found the mantle of Prime Rain is still falling and the Minister cast upon his shoulders. flood-waters are rising.

Some of the exploits of his pre-River Waal, near Wymegen, is at the highest for very many years. decessor in the Premiership, the famous Shirley Baker, he recount Many houses in the Polder neigh ed in an interesting book, "The bourhood of Amsterdam are sub- Diversions of a Prime Minister." merged.

he

was

The viaduct and railway station He was transferred to British at Beugen, north-east of Brabant, New Guinea, where awarded the silver medal of the collapsed under pressure of the Royal Humane Society for saving life at sea.

In 1893 Sir Busil was given charge of the King of Siam when he was being educated in this country.

In 1896 he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple; and in the same year began his long con- nection with crime and eviminals by entering the prison service as deputy governor of Liverpool Prison. He held a similar post at Dartmoor, and was subsequently

TEA DANCES:

CHINESE AMUSEMENT

PARK.

Lee Garden

trol; second the length to which obviously points to some lighted a mob raised to that pitch of fury, material having been thrown on will proceed and the excesses it to it. will commit unless the mob spirit subsides or is quelled.

CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM.

A touch of rheumatism or a twinga Sell your pianos and buy violins. of neuritis, whatever the trouble is, --Sir Henry Wood.

Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieves the pain. Burns and scalds are promptly relieved cuts. and bruises quickly healed In fact no household should be without it. and wellings promptly reduced.

(formerly Is is the nture of the damned Jardine's Hill) at Causeway Bay to me to hear a child playing the has been the scene of successful tea dances during the holidays, a piano,Mr. Justice Eve. rising water.

large number of Europeans avail- Between Flushing and Gogh aing themselves of the opportunity train was derailed owing to the to enjoy the fcor and, at the same síoking of a dyke,

time, enjoy the many sights.

ITALY MOURNING,

DEATH OF THE QUEEN MOTHER.

(Reuter's Service.F

Rome, Jan. 3. Queen-Mother Margherita has passed away.

A feature of this park is the minute care with which "sets" copied en exact lines, have been reproduced of romantic places in Chinese history and mythology. *

Facing the dance hall is a life- size set of figures representing a

· faithful minister who spent a long captivity among the wilds of child and some sheep. Mongolia with a devoted wife,

The. "Goddess of Mercy" stands close governor successively, of North- [A Rome message of December by and there are many

freak ampton, Cardiff, Dartmoor, and 18, which did not reach Hong- erections to be examined. Wormwood Scrubs prisons til kong, stated:- Queen-Mother The next tea dance will be held 1908, when he became inspector Margherita, whose condition at

to-morrow afternoon. of prisons and secretary to the Bordighera, owing to congestion Prison Commissioners.

of the lungs, has given rise

a quiet night, In 1900, while at Northampton,, anxiety, passed he was again sent out to the though the local symptoms are Pacific by the Colonial Office as unchanged and the royal patient's Special Commissioner to negotiate temperature is high.]

to

treaties with two of the native MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. Governments.

In 1913 Sir Basil was appointed The B.L. s. "Benavon" from

THE HOTEL FIRE.

THE FULL STORY WITH PICTURES.

in succession to Sir Melville Middlesbro, Antwerp, London and with pictures will appear in "The Macnaghton, Assistant Commis-Straits left. Singapore for this port aioner of the Metropolitan Police, on Jan. 8, and is due to arrive here Land. 1910 Director of the Los Tes W Special Branch. He retired in 1919. Te B. 6.4.

Among his literary works per Singapore for this port yester haps the most fascinating is his at p.m. and is due here on

"Story of Dartmoor Prison," and at a.m.

he is also the author of South

Sea Yarns," "A Court Intrigue Skene - Papers,”

Indiscretions of Lady People

as well as

re

Asenath,Discovery of the Penal Code of Tong #Solomon Islande,

Savagetributions to **T* Filans," "The "Laws, of

The full story of the hotel fire

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