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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927.

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COMPLAINT BY THE KING EDWARD HOTEL.

THE "COAL "OLE."

Chamber at noon to-day.

“IRENE” ̈ PIRACY

(Oontinued from page 1.)

Asked to speak about the iden- tification of the accured, witness said that he attended a parade at on October 28 A complaint by Mr. J. Witchell Central Station Heonseo of the King Edward Hotel, when out of 80 similarly dressed regarding the Savoy Hotel figured men he picked out Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6 in the business of the Licensing and 7 accused as pirates.

The Magistrate remarked to Board which sat in the Council Mr. Whyte-Smith that the wit Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., prouid-ness had not given particulars ed, supported by the Hon. Mr. J. about all the accused whom he Owen Hughes, Mr. H. B. L. Dow- had identified.

Replying to Mr. Whyte-Smith the biggin, Mr. T. H. King, D.C.I., re- presenting Police interests, Mr. G. witness said that the third accused Grimble, Mr. C. D. Melbourne, and was amongst the pirates who were Major C. Willson, Serretary to the gathered at the stern of the ship when he was taken there by No. 1. The Chairman said that there Third accused had a gun in his hand were no objections to the renewal then, and the witness had also seen of the various licences. The Tsu-him armed and walking in company kinoya and Harunoya Hotels, Praya of Nos. 6 and 7 to and fro outside East, had withdrawn their applica- the witness's cabin many times. tions owing to the premises having This man (No. 3) also took part com-in the conversation which witness been sold, and there was a plaint by the licensee of the King had with No. 1 at the stern of the Edward Hotel regarding the Savoy ship when they threatened to hold

him for ransom. Hotel

Board.

By the Magistrate: He also re- The Chairman asked Mr. Wit- chell to be called and said he un-cognised. Nos. 3 and 7 accused as derstood Mr. Witchell had a com- being amongst the second lot of pirates who visited his cabin at plaint to make,

Mr. Witchell said his complaint the outbreak of the piracy on the referred to the proximity of the morning of October 19. Hotel Savoy's "Coal "Ole" to the entrance of the King Edward Hotel.

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The cordial atmosphere. enger- Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in a speech here, referring to the League of Sig. Tittoni the "Petit Perisien" dered by the flag settlement was Nations and the divergence of view

the Senate's discussion of the Pre- regarding the 1924 Protocol, hoped says it is stated at the Quai d'Or. notably lacking in connection with that the frank exchange of views say that the agreement between Mcious Stones and Iron and Steel The former emerged from the that the League, whilst maintain-roformed only to the question of

Stage considerably zone Committee last September had made all realise Briand and Sig. Tittoni last year s ing its ideals, must keep its imme- capitulations in the French diate activities within the limits of and did not. Involve a modification amended in spite of the Govern

the amendments, whilst as regarde what was possibi at the present of the principle of Italy's renunciament spokesman's refusal to accept He was of opinion that if thetion of any claims in Morocco, the second: Bill the Senate carried Conference agreed in the Treaty of 1912 signa motion adverse to the Govern moment.

of ed between M. Poincare and Sigment by referring the Bill

Select Committee.-Reuter. first Disarmament would end in the limitation

[Sig. Tiltont, President of the (Reuter wired on October 18- Senate, in a statement to the Press, The momentous debate.on the Flag armaments, that in itself would be Tittent. Reuter.

declared that the claims of France Bill opened in the Assembly with In Tangier were never recognised General Hertzog moving resdu members' by anyone, and that Tangler did tions, of which he had given notice,

private appropriating not belong to the French zone or days and providing night Bitlings the Shereefian empire which is sub-thrice weekly as ovidence of the Ject to the Franco-Italian agree- Government's determination, that ment of 1916, He recalled the the Flag Bill and also the "conten- Notes exchanged.,between himself tious Iron and Steel Bill and the and M. Briand, wherein the French Precious Stones Bill will become Government declared that despite law before the end of the year. Anticipations of a stormy period At the inquest on the Sevenoaks the war nothing was altered in re-illustrated by uncompromising par-| railway disaster a verdict was re-gard to the rights enjoyed by Italy tisanship, was displayed in all turned of accidental death, the jury by virtue of her adhesion to the three bills, the most noteworthy adding a rider in which it express-Franco-German Convention of No- being the Iron, Steel, and Diamond ed the opinion that the causes of vember 4, 1911. He claimed that Bills which passed the Assembly last session but were rejected by

EXONERATED.

SEVENOAKS TRAIN DISASTER.

JURY'S FINDING.

London, Yesterday.

d'Almada, jun.: Hejthe derailment had not been prov-this confirmed that Tangier was ex-the Senate. The first seeks to When there was trouble there was shared his cabin with a man named by evidence. They did not con- cluded from the zore of Mroocco cht in South African Metai: a danger of the overflow coming et Tae. The latter was in the sider the class of engine known as in regard to which French rights Industry under Government sus- into the King Edward Hotel and cabin with him when the first two the river type suitable for fast were recognised.]

trafic, owing to its rolling on this He su pirates came in. creating trouble inelde.

By Mr. Whyte-Smith: He had track, and exonerated the driver gested that the entrance might be changed to the other side of the heard that this man Tse had been and fireman from all blame-Reu-

shot by the pirates. block, eg,, in Chater Road.

The Chairman: You get the bene- fit of Des Voeux Rond and you want that of Ice House Street as well?

By the Magistrate: He had not ween Tse since leaving the "Irene." Mr. Lindsell: You believe that he

Mr. Witchell stated that the Ice is dead? No 1 heard that he is in -House Street entrance was only for hospital here in Hong Kong.

Mr. Whyte-Smith informed the

anilors.

ter.

SIR J. MAFFERY.

RETURNING TO THE SOUDAN.

The Chairman said he understood Magistrate that that was so. He

Rugby, Yesterday. that Mr. Witchell also wished to say had brought this out as he thought

Sir John Maffery, Governor-Gen something about the basement, with that Mr. d'Almada might suggest a view to using it for a similar pur- calling this man Tse as a witness. eral of the Soudan, left London to

the "Coal Mr. Whyte-Smith added that this day on his return to Khartoum 'Ole" had been put. Any such man was not present at the identi- British Wireless Service. scheme would have to pass, the Sani-cation parades. tary Department.

pose to that to which

had no The first three accused

Mr. Witchell said he had made questions to ask witness. such application and had been in- formed that the basement was not saritary enough. Since then the Savoy Hotel had had an application granted.

The Chairman was understood to remark that this was after certain alterations had been done.

Mr. Witebell said that the height of the two basements was the same

and he could see no objection to the King Edward Hotel basement being opened for a similar purpose to that of the "Coal 'Ole."

No. 6 told the Magistrate that at the identification parade the witness did not pick them out as a pirate.

e: he Magistrate: That is not t

A TANGLE.

BOY CLAIMED BY TWO PEOPLE.

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MAYOR CLIMBS DOWN.

CHICAGO BOOKS NOT TO BE BURNED.

MR. THOMPSON'S "RIGHTS."

Chicago, Yesterday.

pices; the second 'empowers Gov-i

produc- ernment to regulate the tion of diamonds according to market conditions.]

“MOTHER INDIA.”

CRITICIZED BY NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL

Poona, Oct. 17. "I can ban the books, but

A statement regarding Miss won't," was Mayor Thompson's Katherine Mayo's book "Mother reply to the suit which will be filed in the form of a demurrer India," signed by Dr. MacNicol and before the judge of the circuit Mr. P. O. Philip, Secretaries, and courts in which he maintains that Miss A. B. Van Doren, an honorary the Mayor is entitled to investi-officer, is issued in the name of the gate any public institution and Executive of the National Chris- destroy the books of a library, tian Council of India, Burma and which at the same time he de Ceylon, the only, dissentient mem- clares he has no

intention of ber being Bishop J. W. Robinson, delag. Reuter's American Ser "who does not find that he can as

sent to its terms." vice.

The Lord Bishop of Calcutta and A small Chinese boy has the [A Hamilton (Ontario) cable of unusual experience of

being October 26 reported:in view of Metropolitan of India is the Chair- claimed simultaneously by a man Mayor Thompson's threats to man of the Council.

The statement emphatically re- and a woman. The former says burn all pro-British books in put to the witress, he said he be that the boy was his son, while Chicago's Municipal Library. Mr. pudiates "the suggestion that the fieved he had picked No. 6 out. the woman, an elderly dame, Treleaven, Mayor of Hamilton, book was prompted in the interest. claims that the boy is her nephew telegraphed to Mayor Thompson: of missionay propaganda, Though who was missing from home some if Chicago has no further use grave social evils existed in India. time ago, and she suspects the for the 7,000 volumes presented it was a matter of common know- man of being a kidnapper. The by Queen Victoria and the pro-ledge that strenuous organised ex- minent English citizens after the forts were being made by Indian The Christian. Council, represent- Canada, will be glad to take over

did point you out.

Mr. Whyte-Smith confirmed this

When the accused's question was

Mr. Lindsell: Surely, you must be certain of the man you picked out?

It is that man.

Mr. Whyte-Smith said that it was on police record that No. 6 was dispute between the man

woman started when the woman picked out by this witnesa.

and

The

The Chairman indicated that the

Magistrate (to No. 6): He said met the man walking in Desire in 1871, the city of Hamilton, reformers to get rid of them. Sanitary Board would have to pass any such scheme before it came be- he did pick you out, and it is on Voeux Road West with the boy in the books." A Chicago. taxpayer, ing men and women in close touch fore the Board for consideration. police record that he did.

hla company. According to her, named Bohac, with three children with the people and conversant Mr. Witchell then withdrew. The seventh accused asked what she immediately recognised the attending school, has filed a suit with their daily lives, unhesitating- : Licences Granted. he had stolen from the witness, and lad as her missing nephew and to restrain the Mayor from ly assert that the picture of the Licences were granted as follows: received the reply that the witness claimed him on the spot.

executing his threat to burn the Indian emerging from Miss Mayo's Publican's Licence:-Repulse Bay could not name anything that No. 7an protested, and eventually the pro-British books "because they book is untrue to the facts and un- (P. R. Chichgar); Hong Kong had taken because he (witness) was parties went to No. 7 Police Sta-are public property, purchased by just to the Indian peoples. Hotel (P. I. Newman); King Ed-chased out of the cabin' whilst No. tion and there appealed to the the proceeds of taxation and if Inspector in charge to straighten destroyed. I will be deprived of ward Hotel (J. H. Witchell): 7 searched it.

out the tangle. The woman their use and enjoyment."] Palace Hotel (I. L. Goldenberg);

Chief Officer and Evidence. Kowloon Hotel (H. J. H. White).

The next witness, was Mr. George claimed to the Police that at the Publican's Licence Without Bar: Innes. Chief Officer of the "Irene," time of her nephew's disappear -Cafe Regent (S. E. Green); he said that he had been on the ance, she had made a report to the Lane, Crawford's Restaurant (D. ship for about seven, months, and Shamshuipo Police Station. The Police are now engaged in solving M. Goodall) and Hotel Savoy (A. five years on the China coast. L., Hing Kec).

At about 8.15 a.m., on October the puzzle of the lad's identity.

Hotel Keeper's Adjunct Licence. 19 he was on the bridge when the -Peak Hotel (Miss H. A. Harry); piracy broke out. The ship was

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accused.

"Entirely Untrue." "Sweeping generalisations are en- tirely untrue as a description of India as a whole," the statement adda.

"We can affirm that Indian life does not present the dark and evil REFORM OF LORDS.

aspect suggested by the book. The GOVERNMENT CRITICIZED BY ugly, repulsive, disgusting aspects

MARQUESS OF READING.

emphasised in the book are not pre-: dominant things in Indian society." London, Oct. 19.

"Beauty, culture, kindness, charm, Station Hotel (Mrs. A. B. Sander- then between 16 and 20 miles past bridge all the time they had con- At a meeting of the Cabinet held

discussed the religion, and piety are to be found son Smith); Tokyo Hotel (Mrs. the Ockseu Light and approximate-trol of the ship, and on different torday, Ministers

¡for the Autumn alike in the highest and humblest." Kobayash); Chitose Hotel

Proceeding, the statement adds ly 20 miles from the mainland, occasions the witness saw Nos. 1, 2 Programme Seki); Shokudoraku- Hotel

(I

that if this unsympathetic recital) Suddenly he heard firing below, and and 3 accused there. They carried session of Parliament, which will Nomura); Seuhiro

which are.. deep-seated then two or three men came on the arms all the time, but did not point open on November 8.

Consideration was given as to of evils Miyajima); Metropole Hotel (P. L. bridge. One of them (not in them at him except on one or two

what should be discarded of the enough, but not universal, as the Hing Kee); Chitose Kwan Hotel Court) had a large knife. He did occasions.

large volume of urgent business, Hotel Morita); Empress

not see any firearms on the men. By the Magistrate: He did not Government anticipate disposing book implies, leads to despair for (Ma Tau-nam and Fung Pak- They told him to put his hands up, ses arms on the second and third of several Bills before Christmas, any progress or to the embitterment lau); Tung Shan Hotel (Lo Waland "Sure, I put them up all right!"

the most notable of which will re-jof the relationship between Indians san and Chau Sing-chi); Hotel Asia Then he was told to take the ship By Hr. Whyte-Smith: He saw late to films, the Prayer Book, and and Europeans, or to any weaken- ing in the joint efforts being made (Wong Kong-sau and Teol Kam-to Swatow.

No. 5 accused running around or unemployment insurance,

Rumours of improving the Min-for: the betterment of the people of hang).

After a while two of the pirates the lower bridge. He (witness) Restaurant Keeper's Licence took him to his cabin, where he was always under the control of the istry by reconstructing it have died India, the result will be disastrous, "Yamakawa Hotel (Mrs. J. Yams-handed over to them his revolver pirates from the first. He did not/down since the recent Conservative both to India, and the West."

remarkably little Ministerial cri-

India's future," says the statement, kawa); Cafe Alexandra (K S. and 60 rounds of ammunition, Hove is Now & was one of the Party Conference, which produced "We have faith in India and › in Huise); South China Restaurant then returned to the bridge and was pirates or not but all the same No ticism.

Hitherto no indication has been "and we earnestly desire that East (Huan Sik-yee) Queen's Cafeteria later joined by Capt. Jahnsen, who was very friendly with them.

eradicate the evils in a spirit of love (Yu Man-cho); Ka Ping (Chan altered the ship's course from that By the Magistrate: He did not given of Government's method of and West should copperate to Wing); Wanchai Restaurant: (Mrs. which the witness had set for Swa-talk with any of the pirates, but reforming the House of Lords.

This subject was the text of an and understanding." K. Suya); Bombay Cafe (Khan tow in accordance with instructions one of them brought him two tim

Address by the Marquess of Read- Sahib Malli Khan).

from the piraten.

of cigarettes.

ing at the National Liberal Club. Replying to Mr. Whyte-Smith, The third accused asked witness: The Marquess accused Government which witness" said that at Bins Bay the when the man-of-war passed the of advancing principles "Irone", was fired upon at about "Irene" at 5 p.m., on the 20th who give hereditary legislators perman- RODE ON BUFFERS. Cambridge, Sept. 26.

8.15 p.m., on October 20. He was told you to dip the flag?-The Capent dominanceTime of Ceylon." Cambridge does its spring clean- ing in the autumn, and in every then in his cabin, having left the tain told me to do so, but before I college kitchen and dining-hall bridge at 8-p.m! He beard four shots could get to the stern it was done to-day floors, and pictures, as well altogether. The third shell set fire to by the quartermaster without order. Told by the Magistrate that the as sliver and plate, are being the ship after it had burst the polished by dozens of college aer-steam pipe. After the ship went question had no bearing on the caud, vants in preparation for the new on fire, he went on deck, where he No. 8 said that he just wanted to Then boys, specially selected Alnwick magistrate, in fining a year, which begins officially on joined the Chief Engineer and ak the question. He added in A by the Young Australia: League Novacastrian £1 for riding on the Second Officer. He waited on deck low tone that he wanted to show to be set up as farmers in buffers of the "Flying Scotsman," in It is practically certain that the until the LA came alongalds and that the flag was dipped by the Western Australia, left Stir Pan- addition to 108. for not paying ble University roll will surpass all called out: "Jump." He then all atlip's people themselves.

cras Station for Tilbury recently thre previous recorda. Every college seems to have more freshmen than down a rope Into the water andr. d'Almada, jun.: Is it your in the Australian boat train. They The defendant was detected by a practice to throw up your hands at were drawn from various trades a signalman near Stamford, who saw usual. Gonville and Caius College, kwam to the submarine.

all parts of the country and were him standing out on the buffers as the slightest request? "CA which may be taken as an example,

Mr. Innes, No, but I had to do the first of 50 boys who will go the express flashed past He freshmen in a total roll of 875:

the League's scheme. The ten the train was pulled up in On October 22 he attended an so this time to come out with my out in the next few months under ported the matter by telegraph and The problem of giving each under-

boys will

sall in the Australian umberland Times of Ceylon graduate at least one year in rooms identification parade at Central lifalas pol within the colleges 16 becoming Station when out of 30 men he pickYou were frightened at the time? Commonwealth liner, "Large:Bay.” At Fremantle they will be l'adopt

FOR COUGHS AND COLDS more difficult.sekadar mirked out the first five accused. The Vil sdmit that,

All the other Officers were aloed" by the State, which will look The women's colleges are more two men, who took the witness to con

Yes, no one was after them until they reach ruan

posure to cold and wet results- hood. In the same train was When thangeable washer or ex Inadequate than ever to cope with his cabin to search it were not scared I supp

party of 19 boys, from the Glyde bronchitis start at apes taking Cham the good of women who are undesmongst them. Those who ruled bolder, than the tered by the fact that Cambridge e bridge were led hot In Court Mr.Lindsell: You continued to side district, who were emigrating berlain's Cough, Remedy, Standard For what under the Queensland Boheme over fifty years, and "strongly, recort thas expressed its desire to continus de saw guns in the hands of

could we do? We had our meals They also will belset, up on farms mended for stubborn, weakening as the one university.where, men

coughs." For sale ever bins at least 1-diato when they reach Australia. And things masculine shall pre- 1 and 4 accused.

WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE.

Saturday.

has the great proportion of 120 Chief Officer's Identification

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bey scared all the time?

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