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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 7928.

H.K. VOLUNTEERS.

PREPARING FOR ANNUAL INSPECTION.

SWIMMING SPORTS..

(ORDERS BY LT.-ÇO..... L.. G. BIRD, D.9.0., COMMANDANT.!

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1-ARMS. All rifles and bayonets will be handed into Volunteer store imme diately for the animal inspectisin.

CROWN'S SURPRISE.

CLOSING STAGE OF APPEAL' ACTION.

C. J. CRITICISES POLICE.

PARK SUICIDE.

LONDON ART MASTER'S DELUSION.

NEAR THE GOAL."

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Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"

July

July 29-30-World Theatre; "The Great Gatsby."

LAYTON & JOHNSTONE The People's Favourites

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IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU

July 29-30-Star Theatre; "Let' It Rain,"

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4547

ME AND JANE IN A 'PLANE

I AGREE WITH THE VERDICT.

To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Sor- Sting till a late hour yesterday, Recording a verdict of suicide Damages amounting to £1,500 the Full Court of Appeal (compris while of unsound mind at the in-were awarded to Major Francis rows of Satao."

To-day-World Theatre; "Mark ing Sir Henry Gollan, Chief Justice, quest at Westminster an Gilbert Gordon Small, of Prince of Wales-

of Zorro." and the Puise Julge. Mr. Justice Trocks Williams (48), art master, mansions, Buttersen, S.W., man

To-day-Star Theatre; "Love of Cunningham-place, St. John's-aging director of the Perfecta P. Jatks), reserved Judgment.

Prior to the final addresses, the wood, who was found shat in Green Meter Co., Ltd., in his action Em and Leave "Em"

20-30-Queen's Theatre; Crown sprank a surprise in con- Park, Mr. Ingleby Oddie said that for libel against Sir John Prety-"Paradiso, For Two." fronting the wife of the appellant, williams clearly suffered from de-man Newman, ex-M.P., late chair- 2-SPORTS COMMITTEE. Spurts Committee will meet again Chung Yu-fan who is appealing lusions of persecution- form of man of the company, of Enton-

square, S.W. at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.15 against a conviction by Major C. inaunty that frequently affected

Major Small's case was that he Police Second Willson, 0.8.E.. 1. Monday, August 13, 1928.

introspective people.

had been acquitted of a charge of 4-CORPS BAND.

Magistrate, on a charge of indecent

Mr. John Harker Newman, of being drunk while motoring, but

July 31-Aug. 1-Queen's Theatre; There wilt be no further practice exposure on Konnedy-road on MayRest Harrow," Hutton, Brentwood, although he knew all the facts Sir "The Midnight Roso" (Wed, at 9.15 parades during July. Probationers 2!), with a statement she is alleged said Williams was his brother-in-John Pretzman Newman had Long Tack Sam). will parnde under Bandmaster to have made to the Palice on the law, and served throughout the written to a German shareholder July 31-Aug. 1-World Theatre; A. J. M. Rodrigues for private night of her husband's arrest.

In the course of the summing up war, being discharged with a 70 in the company stating that until "Sparrows"

July 31-1 Aug-Star Theatre; tuition under private arrangements till further notice.

for the Crown by Mr. Somerset per cent. disability pension for the case was decided he (Major

heart disease. Two years ago he Small) should sign no

more Three Faces East" 4-THE BATTERY.

Fitzroy Assistant Attorney-Gen-

Queen's Theatre, to London from Bootle in cheques, while it had been agreed Aug. 1-At Representative to Corps Sports erat, the Chief Justice criticised came Committee Gunner O. Moor has what he described as "a very dan- order to increase his art master that he should not continue to act Long Tack Sam and his company

as managing director even though of workers, 9.20 p.m.

Aug 2-4-Star Theatro; "After been appointed to this Committee gerous departure" from the regula-qualifications.

Then, said witness, Williams met the case was dismissed. tions laid down for identification a The Battery Representative.

Mr. Arthur Charles Stewart, an

Lord Hewart.held that the let-Midnight." 5.-MOUNTED INFANTRY CO. parades.

Aug, 2-4-Queon's Theatre; "The Friday, July 27: Parade al 5.30 Objection Over-Ruled. artist, of Guntergrove, Chelsea, and ters were privileged, but left the

Red Mill" (At 9.15 Long Tack p.m. at Corpa Headquarters for in-! Appellant's wife gave evidence as collaborated with him in writing a question of malice to the jury.

In his summing up Lord Sam):

Aug. 2-4-World Theatre; "Hea- alruction on M.G. Sergt. Watson's to her movements on May 21, of book on anatomy. He worked veryHewart said Sir John had writ.

how she met her husband. and how hard, attending museums and inter- ten of the charge against Major ven on Earth" Section only.

Tuesday, July 31; Parale athe accompanied her home; repeat viewing experts on the subject.

Small as being a "bad business,” Aug. 17-Second Band Concert Police "Not A Man of Affairs." Stable at 5.45 pan for Ridinging her testimony at the

"I have been wondering." said at H.K.V.D.C. Headquarters. School.

Court and kenerally corroborating Williams was also executor for Lord Hewart, "what stigma can'

Land Sales. his mother's estate, but he was not be attached to a gas meter com appellant.

Friday, August 3: Parade at 5.30 p.m. at Corps Headquarters for Instruction on M.G. Sergt. Poll's Section only.

substance

Sports:

July 30-At P.W.D. offices, Cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy, a man of affairs, and became un-pany even though somebody con Crown Lands at Shamshuipo, and she admitted making a statement duly worried. Some of the proper cerned with the company does Prince Edward-rd., Kowloon City, to Det. Sub-Inspector lozeskwy, on ty could not be disposed of, and he get tipay in charge of a motor-3 p.m. Attendance: All ranks must be the evening of May 21.

seemed to be obsessed with the car. If a man has a glass of port

Lammert's Auction. Was 14 abstemious too much on a Saturday night, at the place of parade five minutes Mr. Fitzroy was proceeding to burden. He

July 30-At 6, Observatory- before the time expressed in order. ask about the

of the man, and witness had never heard does that prevent him from sign. villas, Kowloon, household furni- Field Day: There will be a Fieldstatement when Mr. F. C. Jenkin him threaten to take his life. ing cheques on a Monday morn-ture, 10 am. Day on Sunday, August 19, 1928. who was Instructed by Mr. F. H.

Mr. Oddie, reading from a letter, ing?" Members are asked to keep this day Losby, for the defence) argued said: "He speaks about persecution. Stay of Execution Refused.

July 27-At V.R.C., water polo) free. Full details will be issued that that substance could not be was anyone persecuting him?" Mr. If the jury decided that Sir league, 6 p.m.

Newman replied: "No. I think John thought to himself: "While

Aug. 24-H.K.V.D.C.'a swimming 6-ARMOURED CAR COMPANY.{ Considerable argument, followed,

hot 1 will turn this gala at V.R.C. Bath, 9 p.m.

MiscellanosuS, Car Section: Friday, July 27. their Lordships eventually deciding that must have been a pure delu- the iron is Parade at Volumeer Headquarters that Mr. Jenkin's objection could ion." It was also a delusion, that little incident into a useful im

his landlady at the house he stayed plement for my own purpose," July 91-Garrison at 5.30 p.m. for lecture on Carnot be upheld.

Mr. Jenkin emphasised the fact at in Lowestoft was there to they could hold that he acted with Schools' annual prize-giving, in

a wrong motive under an exag- H.K.V.D.C. drill hell, 11 4.m. entrap him."

gerated sense of duty and played a personal game.

later.

1:

pat

Mechanism.

was not men- Monday, July 30: Inspection on that the statement Machine Gun at Corps Headquar- tinned in the opening of the Crown case, otherwise he could have taken tera al 5.30 p.m. Dress: Mufti.

Wednesday, August A run the opportunity, which had now in the Armoured Car will be held passed, of cross-examining Sub- starting from Volunteer Headquar- Inspector Rozeskwy.

Sir Henry Gollan agreed that a ters at 530 p.m. sharp. Dress:

novel-point bath been raised and he Mufti.

Friday, August 8: Parade at would make a note of it. Volunteer Readquarters at 5.30 p.m.)

"in Great Fear," for lecture on Car Mechanism.

Mr. Fitzroy:Dht you say to 7-MACHINE GUN, COMPANY (Sub-Insp. Rozeskwy "At about six Parade will be held in amufti at o'clock my husband took me on the 530 p.m. at Corps Headquarters on back of his eyele to my mother'a at 56. 49, Kennedy-road Friday, July 27, and Friday, August house

where he left me and I couldn't say N.C.Os Class will parade at where he went to.- forget. Hendeparters on both dates at same Did you say this, "At about 9 p.m. time and place, but on August a my husband returned to the house will proceed to Kennedy Road saying he was going to have his Range in the Pard Truck for Tra-motor cycle repaired?"- did not.

Can you suggest any reason why versing and Searching.

they should be written down if you did not make them?-They would Vickers Gun Class of instruction not allow me to speak a word and will be held at Corps Headquarters then, finally, I was taken to another And you did speak there, did you Hot?- WUN in grant fear then,

3.

8-SCOTTISH COMPANY.

at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 30, 1928.

9-PORTUGUESE COMPANY. place.

The Portuguese Company Concert) will be held at the Club de Recreio because my husband had been 80 on Friday. August 3. at 9.15 p.m. often fined for something he had

10-STRENGTH.

done, which is not in accordance in

The following recruit is taken on with the regulations. I was the strength on July 23, 1928, and fear, this time, that he might have posted to No. 2 Platoon; No. 1352 run OVET someone and killed. Pie. S. M. Wost,

him. Therefore I was confused.

The reply taken down by the Chief Justice was: "Perhaps 1 Major II. R. Dowbiggin is have and these things and forgotten transferred from the M. 1. Co. to or perhaps I did not say them at

'all."

1 TRANSFERS AND APPOINT- MENTS.

Corps Headquarters as P.R.I.

'Lieut. N. L. H. Railton is trans-

3928. Officer.

"Remarkable."

Mr. Arthur Charles Stewart, artist, of Chelsea, said. he and Williams had had an interview with their publishers about the book on anatomy, and it was quite satisfae- tory. Williams visited the Ministry of Pensions monthly for a medical

examination.

The coroner read the following letter addresed to Mr. Stewart:

Apologies, please, for my exit now. Se noar gcal, but calumny and worry of sister's illness has done Its work. I cannot even get to the Ministry. Must end here.

The coroner said Williams was evidently a sensitive man with the artistic temperament, who rather exaggerated minor troubles. He

Children's

As a result of quarrels over

money matters a wealthy farmer

The jury awarded Major Small £1,500 damages and judgment was entered accordingly with costs.

near Radom, Poland, killed his Asked to grant a stay of execu-father, his alster, and his brother- tion, Lord Hewart said: "Certain in-law.

The police arrested the ly not. I entirely agree with the murderer, who marrowly pacaped verdict."

being lynched by the local popula It is understood that Sir John tion. Pretyman Newman will appeal against the verdict.

MR. G. B. SHAW.

HIS "MOVIETONE” FILM.

had got it into his head that bene- A "movietone" film of Mr. fiefarles under the will were annoy George Bernard Shaw, taken in ed with him because he could not his Sarrey garden about a month manage it better. He was highly ago, has now come back from strung, and that, coupled with his America, where it had to be deve- heart disease, had produced a state loped. The tall, spare, barehead- of mind that could not be regarded ed, whitebearded figure in plus fours, emerging from behind 'a thick clump of bushes at a bend in a gravel path, advances towards the spectator, halts in front of the camera and immediately begins to speak in natural tones which are well reproduced. Mr. Shaw, who is in bantering mood, after cover-

as normal.

A SUSPECT.

BAYSWATER SHOP MURDER SEQUEL.

A man who stated that he had ing his face for an instant with been detained by the police on aus his band, displays what, he in- picion of having murdered. Mrforms his unseen auditory, is his Edwin Austin Creed, the manager Mussolini expression of authority. of a provision shop in Leinster The rest of his remarks are in terrace, Bayswater, on July 28. similarly jocular strain. 1926, complained at the Marylebone Police-court that his former part- ner, who was the police informant. was persisting in his allegations, although the police were satisfied rallway, Salvador, was derailed and that he had had nothing to do with fell into a ravine. Nine of the men the tragedy.

travelling as passengers were killed,

A staff train on the Guatemala

ferred from The Battery to Corps. In his final address, Mr. Jenkin Keziiguuriers as from June 22nd, arenset the Police officers concerned. and appointed Musketry of " serious lapse of duty" and of "making the identification a farce." 12.—LEAVE.

The Chief Justice asked him: No. 1320 Pte. G. R. Razavet. No. You referred to Mrs. Lea's identi- 2 Platoon, from August 8 to Octo-fication of appellant as miraculous. The applicant said he was now while several others were severely

How would you then describe Mrs. an hotel porter, but was formerly injured. Sabotage is suspected. No. 11 Sgt. C. E. M. Terry, Leppard's identification. Isn't it in partnership with his mother-in-

ber 2, 1928.

No. 2 Platoon, from September 1. remarkable that both Indies should law in an employment agency busi- 1928, to March 31, 1029)

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13-STRUCK OFF.

No. 1898 Pte. L. E. Haynes. No. 7 Plutoon, as from July 20, 1928. R. A. Wolfe Murray, Major,

Adjutant, II.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, August 27, 1928,

NOTICES. Swimming Sports.

identify the same man?

Mr. Jenkia: My answer is that Sub-Insp. Rozeskwy, being the off- cor in charge of the ease, should have had nothing to do with iden- tification.

Mr. Jenkin also submitted that it was inconceivable for a young Chinese, of appellant's circum- staneca to do such a thing for no

"Unfortunate."

By kind permission of the V.R.C. | known reuson. the Corps will hold swimming

The

ness. The man made the allega- tions, as the result of which he (the applicant) was arrested, and detained for three days before he was able to clear himself. man then went to his mother-in- law and told her of his suspicions, and she became alarmed and sold her share in the business to him.

"He then made it so hot for me by what he said about me," added thef applicant, "that I had to sell out my interest in the business for £5. He is still telling my friends that

he knows very well that I com

sports at the V.R.C. Bath on Friday, After Mr. Fitzroy had replied August 24, at 9 am. There will und analysed the evidence for the also be music and dancing after the defence parts of which he described sports,

as improbable, the Chief Justica mitted the murder." remarked that it was unfortunate Admission $1.00.

:

The magistrate advised the ap-| Entrance forms for the various the regulations had not been follow-plicant to take action for slander. events can be obtained at Volunteer ed out to the very laat letter. His

The Applicant: I cannot afford

Headquarters and V.R.C. entries Lordship pointed out that the off- to do that.

cer in charge, although present, free.

The magistrate said he was pro- All entries to be sent into Corp. should not take part in identifica-pared to assist the applicant from D. Lyon, c/o Jardine, Matheson and tion. Observations were also made the poor box, and it was possible Co. not later than August 15.

on the fact that the Superintendent that the public might assist him.

charge. of the

No. 2 Platoen Rifle Club will hold of Police in their August Meeting at the Peak identification had not been called to Range on Sunday, July 20, 1928, give evidence.

`at 9.30`a.m. which it is hoped, will

be as well supported us usual.

Los Angeles. The newspaper “Examiner" states that Miss Mae Murray, the well-known film star, and her husband, Prince Mdivani,

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The main attractions of the even-are the parents of a son born six- The Hong Kong Volunteer De-ing will be the Inter-Company teen months ago." The paper quotes fence Corps to making itself res- Team Race and a Water Folo Prince Malvani as saying that the ponsible for not a few social events match between the Corps and a child was born in Los Angeles, and this year. In addition to its team from the 2nd Batt. King's the secret was kept because of the second Band Concert (which takes Own Scottish Borderers. possible effect that knowledge of her place at Headquarters on August Other features during the sea being a mother might have on Mas 17) a Swimming Gala has been ar son are promised a third Pro-Murray's career. ranged to be held at the Victoria menade Concert at Volunteer Head 2

Recreation Club on Friday, August quarters, the Annual Corps Athle Jacko, a monkey, escaped from 24 at the conclusion of which tic Sports about the middle of Oc- its master, Mr. M. Perce, of Gravel- dancing will take place.

tober, and, possibly lawn bowls street, Leicester, and was at large Continued at foot of next ColumIL) JMRZNES Inter in the year.

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