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London, Yesterday. The unanimous report of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure has been presented to the Home Secretary (Sir Wm., Joynaon Hicks).
DR. DYMOND DEAD
MEDICAL MISSIONARY IN CHAOTUNG
HAD A BRILLIANT CAREER
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Yunnanfu, March 6.
I
The Missionary body and, in fact, the whole foreign community here, has sustained a terrible loss in the death of Dr. F. S. Dymond, son of the Rev. and Mrs. F. J. Dymond, of the United Methodist Mission,
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200 OFFICERS AND MEN ENTERTAINED
PLEASING CEREMONIES
London, Yesterday. Over 200 officers and men of the new cruiser "London" were enter- Dr. Dymond was at Chaotung, to tained to lunch by the City of Lon- the north of the province, and had don Corporation at the Guildhall only been there two months when The Lord Mayor. Sir Kynaston he was taken ill with tonsilitis and, Studd, presented to the ship's com- after only two days! illness, he pass- pany three pieces of silver plate.
away.
"We in the City of London are
It is understood that it tends to reassure the public with regard to the integrity of the police generallyed and that a proper balance is kept between the rights of the individual and the demands of justice. ··
A reliable. forecast of the re-
commendations indicates that little
if any fresh legislation will be in- volved, although an alteration in the Police Standing Orders may be
necessary.
The allegations of "third degree” methods were found to be exagger- (ated and new regulations are sug- gested for the examination of wit-
nisses.
The value of women police is emphasised and an important recom- mendation is that senior officers are
entitled to enter night clubs for inspection similarly as in the case of public houses,
The Commissioners apparently are generally satisfied with the manner in which crime investiga- tion proceeded and by the adoption of their recommendations are of opinion that incidents like the Savidge case will henceforth be guarded against with reasonable
certainty. Reuter.
PRINCE GEORGE.
WHY HE IS LEAVING THE NAVY TEMPORARILY
ON MEDICAL ADVICE
The suddeness of his death came proud to have a man-of-war bear- as a terrible shock to all. One ing our name," he said. sister, is here in, the capital and Sir Charles Wakefield
made a another who was, married to the further presentation of a silk white Rev. Kenneth May last year, is at ensign as a gift from one of Lon- Tongchuan, on the road to Chao“, org Sympathy goes out to the bereaved in their sad loas.
His War Service
don's citizens.
Captain's Reply
Captain H. H. Rogers, M.V.O., Q.B.E., returning thanks, said This is the eighth waship to be
named London."
She is a new
The late Dr. Dymond was born in Chaotung in Nov. 1896, and was educated at Hoe Grammar School, hip and her name has to be made. London's traditions are loyalty, effi- Plymouth. He answered his coun- try's call and joined the Army in ciency, fair dealing and hospital- We will 1915, serving in the Royal Army ty, and those traditions Medical Corps as a private and re-
earry with us, always."
Early in the morning, the Pre- mained on active service until 1919.
On being demobilised, he entered mier (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) motor- Bristol University and studied medied to Gravesend, where the cruiser eine, qualifying as M.B., Ch.B. in lies and had breakfast with the offi- 1926, and then took a six months' cers of the ship. British Wireless
in Tropical Medicine in Service. London, which he completed in Sept., 1926. He then offered his services as a missionary and was sent to Wenchow but,, on being evacuated in 1927, he returned to, KOWLOON ROBBERY England, where he did post-$ graduate work in Bristol General; Hospital.
course
Engaged Recently,
Note: The "London" is another of the post-Washington Treaty 10,000 cruisers.] "
FOUR ARMED MEN RAID A RESTAURANT
VICTIMS - GAGGED ·
The cashier of the Tsung Wong
He returned to China in 1923 to take charge of the hospital and gen- eral medical work in the Chaotung district, under the United Method- Toi restaurant, Nos. 150-152, Tam ist Mission. He left the capital Kung-road, Kowloon City, reported robbery to the Police with a party of missionaries last an armed December and arrived early in last night. It is officially announced that the January burt, before leaving, he had King, acting on the advice, of become engaged to a lady tission- p.m., whilst he medical authority, has aproved that ary. Prince George will now retire from active participation in the work of the Royal Navy.
London, Yesterday.
His Majesty has decided, with the concurrence of the Prime Minis ter, that His Royal Highness will be attached to the Foreign Office in order to gain knowledge of the ad- ministration and work of a depart- ment of the state. Reuter.
one
NEWARK CRASH
HIGHEST DEATH ROLL IN SINGLE AIR ACCIDENT
in the United States.
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He was taken ill on Feb. 27 and died on March 1..
winning
He stated that at about 11.30 was sitting behind the counter talking to other fokis
and four customers, four other men
entered the place.
Dr. Dymond had
They sat at a table and ordered a manner and endeared himself to all meal, which was duly served. On by his frankness and cheerfulness the stroke of midnight, one of the and his sympathy for those needing four newcomers rose from the table his help was boundless. No trouble and approached the counter, where was too great where he could help. he produced a revolver and pointed The Mission has lost a very valu- it at the cashier. able worker and the foreign com- munity has lost a real friend.
LAW YOR JUVENILES
Simultaneously his three compan- icns also approached the counter, a second revolver being brandished by: one of them.
Here
The cashier, restaurant fokis, and Narking, Yesterday.
other customers decided not to offer Juvenile courts for the trial of any resistance and were driven to VICTIMS MAINLY SIGHTSEERS ed all over the country in the near the robbers gagged their victims and minor delinquents will be establish the rear of the premises where they
were herded in the kitchen. future, according to an order by Dr. bound them hands and feet with New York, Yesterday. Wang Chung-hui, the President of The Newark Meadows accident the Judicial Yuan.
wire. (in which 13 persons, were killed and
After relieving their victims of Regulations governing the or-all their personal cash and valu- seriously injured when a ganization of these Juvenile Courts Colonial Airways plane crashed) will be drafted and submitted to ables, the robbers emptied the till has caused the highest death-roll the State Council for approval.It is estimated
of its contents and then decamped. ever known in a single air accident Reuter.
that the robbers haul totalled altogether $112.
PERMANENT COURT
PROPOSED REVISION OF THE PROTOCOL
He and a companion seated be-
WILL U.S. JOIN? side him escaped because the cock pit was slightly higher than the
Geneva, Yesterday, passenger cabin. They were three-years' hard labour and seven
The Committee of Jurists catapulted through the roof, over yeare hard labour, concurrently, animously approved of the proposed the train. Reuter's American Ser- that ia, seven years in all.
revision of the protocol of the vice.
Pun Pui (alias Pun Wai-nam), Permanent Court of International whose plea of guilty to two of four Justice drafted with a view to the
Most of the victims were sight- seers, having their first flight. The pilot says that the machine only rose 100 feet, when the engine fail- ed, and the 'plane crashed, into a stationary goods train.
FORGED TRAMWAY. SCRIP
Chan Fook (alias Chan Shav nam) was found guilty at the Criminal Sessions yesterday in the case concerning the forged scrip for 500 shares in Hong Kong Tram- ways, Ltd. He was sentenced to
M. F. van Cauwelaert, Burgo-counts had been accepted, was also adherence of the United States master of Antwerp, arrived in sentenced by the Puisie Judge (Mr. Reuter London recently and dined at the Justice Wood) to seven years' hard House of Commons.
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Coiners' plant and counterfeit five and ten cent pieces purporting to be Hong Kong currency were ex-.. and Thurlow Hounds jumped the Mr. Chiang Tso-ping, Minister to hibited in the Supreme Court yes- cemetery wall at Newmarket, but Berlin, has been appointed to repre- terday afternoon during the March it was caught and killed when it sent China at the Disarmament Con Criminal Sessions. These were came through a gate at the other ference which is scheduled to take seized at No. 79, Yu Chow-street, place at Geneva în April; and Mr.
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