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TATUNG ROAD
MURDER.
FLIGHT OF THE ALLEGED MURDERER.
MAN STABBED IN A HOUSE,
was
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PAST JOURNALISM.
Lord Hewart and the
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CHARM OF PRESSWORK,
"I doubt very much whether the best journalism of 40 years ago was one whit better than the beat journ- aliam of to-day. I doubt very much whether the ordinary person would prefer the journalism of the past to the journalism of to-day."
the Lord Chief Justice, made this declaration when he was the guest of the Journalists' Board of the Lyceum Club at 138, Piccadilly.
Lord Hewart,
LORD BEAVERBROOK
Two Ex-Ministers to Be Fought.
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Jealous of a rival's amorous at tentions to a former mistress of his. Lachman, assisted by his father, attacked him with a lathi. They were, however, worsted in the encounter and were admitted
FREE TRADE HERETICS.
SPECIAL PRECAUTION. as indoor patients to the hospital at Gunnaur in Budaun District.
Lord Benverbrook, speaking ut
Tientsin, May 2. As, the hospital wards were al-
April 11, voic- May Day passed off quietly ready
and
Nottingham on crowded Lachman
his faith In the us without incident in the native city Tientsin. May 2..
Umedi had to share a bed, Umedi
ed Rurance of Mr. Baldwin, but yesterday. Although numerous At ten o'clock on Wednesday was unconscious when admitted
the intantion of the cases of Communist activities oc- night a Chinese policeman sta-into hospital but revived and be
affirmed
Crusade to work incurred several days before, no- tioned at Tatung Road. First fore the doctor left that night
Empire dependently if necessary for the thing untoward Was report-5, Special Area (ex-German Cances-spoke a few words to him.
ed. Throughout the day policy of Empire Free Trade. Strangled in Red. sion), heard a loud noise proceed. ing from House No. 24 situated The following morning. Umedi
"Our goal is quite clear," he said. additional military and police just within an alley way and he was dead, and an examination re-
"We want Empire Free Trade. We guards were in patrol in the went at once to investigate. vealed that he had been strangled.
belleve that Empire Free Trade can streets in the city and special at- only be attained by means of a tax tention was paid to all pedestrians Nos. 23 and 24 Tatung Road Lachman lay all night beside the
the morning
"I do know something about the upon foreign foodstuffs. We under in the streets. are occupied by Russian War Incorpse and in
Early in the morning, between valids and are both two-storeyed still sitting beside it when the doc
Press of 40 or 50 years ago," he stood Mr. Baldwin to promise us it
*ght and ten o'clock the local On the floor was a Chinese buildings. The constable ter arrived.
said, "and upon my word I cannot returned to power Empire Free succeeded in gaining entrance to bloodstained rope. No. 24 and went upstairs where
In spite of his protestations of in-help thinking that the criticisms one Trade with a tax on foreign food- General Labour Union called a hears to-day are very much the stuffs. He threw out safeguards for meeting in a theatre in the he foutal a man lying on the floor norenee suspicion fell on him
same as the criticisms one used to himself in the form of a referendum. Nansze part of the city at which We agreed. But we understood him about 500 people of the working in one of the rooms. He was un- when it was revealed that he had
hear then." (Laughter.)
that he would plough a glass were present. Muny conscious, was bleeding profusely said to another patient in the hos
"What were those criticisms? It to mean and there was a large wound pital shortly after his admission
was sometimes suggested that newa-straight furrow through the general speeches on the iden of May Day under the armpit.
There were that if his father died those who
BOOTS & SHOES, two other men in the room at the had injured him would surely be papers had a way of taking up toples election-through a referendum, and other things in relation to it which were popular, and dropping, and that he would not look back un-were delivered. A theatrical en. time, Russians named Tagirot hanged.
the same place in the afternoon Leather Sole Canvas Shoes...$ 4.50 and Galabetzky.
Confirming the sentence of death them like hot potatoes when the til he had given us our keystone-a tertainment fixed to take place in
"If I rightly construed Mr. Bald- was cancelled by the intervention Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 6.00 As the Chinese policeman en-sed on him by a magistrate, Mr. public interest waned. The same tax on foreign foodstuffs.
win's intentions the Crusaders will of the authorities.
Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 tered Tagiroff tried to escape. He Justice Young of Allahabad High sort of thing was said of the Press
to-day:This many years ago.
march en in alliance with the Con- In addition to the precaution- Black or Brown Shoes front '.$ 0.00 dashed out into the street but was Court remarked
Less Pomposity. caught outside by a second Chin-crime connotes a state of mind not
"What strikes me more and more servative party. We recall that Mr. ary measures taken in the streets, Black or Brown Bests from.. 5.00. plain-clothes detectives Children's Boots ur Shoes from $2.00) ese constable. Both Tugiroff and uncommon in this country where,
continued Lord Baldwin when he was returned to many
Beat styles, most complete stock were sent to some of the local
of all sizes, Repairing a specialty. Galubetzky were taken to the on occasion, villagers, in order to about readers,"
"B their ingratitude. power in 1924 had authority to safe their enemies
Hewart,'
No work-
WONG SIU WOON First Special Administrative Area implicate Police Station and a police officer capital charge, will go to the (Laughter.) People grumble at the guard the iron and sateel industry. schools and factories.
newspapers, but what would those For one reason or another he failed shop or factory in Tientsin ob 21, Pottinger St. was immediately sent to the house length of killing their to make further investigations latives so that the blame may be grumblers do if they could not get to do so. Many believe it was on served, or was allowed to observe, When he got there he found that thrown upon their enemies and their newspapers? I cannot help account of the hostility of the same Labour Day as a holiday.Peking
thinking a lot of nonsense is said. gentlemen who now oppose Empire and Tientsin Times. the man who had been stabbed they might be hanged."
about the so-called defects of the Free Trade. was dead.
-Press. I prefer to think of its won- derful achievements, its immenso
The name of the dead man is Samson Shamsuddinoff and he is a Tartar. According to the state- ment made by Tagiroff to the Police a party of four had gather-
d in the room upstairs that even-¦ ing, Tagiroff, Galubetzky, the dead man and another Tartar named Sattadinof'.
since.
"
own
on
a
PATIALA STATE.
Serious Allegations Against Ruler.
re-
"An Independent Body." "Who are these enemies in a
variety, and the wealth of ability friendly camp?" asked Lord Beaver.
bestowed upon it."
Compared with the Press of to- day, the Press of 40 or 60 years ago exhibited a certain prolixity, a cer- New Delhi, April 14.
tain pomposity. On the other hand, The Home Minister of Patiala it might be that to-day, in the opin- State has issued the following state-ion of serious persons, newspapers to serious devoted too little space news.
ment:
"The attention of the Government
port, over the signatures of some
doubt it."
A Journalist's Life. Mr. Leonard Rees, who presided, said that there was an old saying that journalism might kill a man," but it did quicken his life while it lasted. (Laughter.) That was the
brook, and answered, "Lord Eustace Perey, a member of the Conservative 'shadow Cabinet, and Mr. Ormaby- Gore, who is on the threshold of the shadow Cabinet and vas a Minia- last Govern- ter in Mr. Baldwin's ment. Are these men to play a part in the next Conservative Adminis- tration? If so we fear that the policy of Empire Free Trade is not safe in their hands.
"We will oppose all of our enemies, We will fight against them. We will contest their right to take part in the next Administration." Lord Cruguders were Conservative independent body with a single object. "We will gladly take our policy from any party or any group ing of parties," he said. "We prom- lae no allegiance to any other pro- gramme. We work with the Con- servatives if we find them a con- venlent instrument. We cease to do so if the weapon fails us."
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Herr von Opel, before the end of the year, intends to attempt a rocket flight from Calais to Dover, which,
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There was some drinking going on and ae cording to Tagiroff, Sattadinoff was drunk and in an ugly mood.
Recalling. that in the days of his For some reason or other he sud. of the Maharaja of Patiala has been denly attacked Shamsuddinoff drawn to certain comments in the youth Parliamentary speeches were with a large knife and inflicted a Press on a pamphlet called "The reported at great length, he observ atal wound under the armpit. Indictment of Patiala, purporting to ed: "I do not know if Parliament; He then drew the knife out of the be a report of an Inquiry Committee is still worth reporting, but Parlia ody of Shamsuddinoff and at-ppointed by the Indian States mentary reports certainly tend to be tempted to cut open his own Peoples' Conference and avowedly shorter and shorter. I wonder if Graiders were not a unit of the min calculates, should take 14% FOOK WENG & CO.]
editors, who get so many letters tomach. Only partially succeed based on ex parte evidence. ing, he got up and rushed from
"It is understood that the said
from their readers, get thousands of the house and has not been seen pamphlet has been widely circulated letters a week rebuking them for not in the country and abroad and that giving sufficient space to speeches Yesterday (Thursday) at mid- the said pamphlet makes very made in Parliament or on the public day an inquest was held by the serious allegations against the per-platform? They might do, but I Chinese authorities at the First sonal honour of the ruler of the Special Área
Administrative State and against his Government. Building and the burial of the "After the publication of the re- body was authorised.
Meanwhile all the police forces public men in British India, His of Tientsin are searching for Highness's Government immediately Sattadinoff. According to the gave attention to the question as to statement of a policeman of the what course it should adopt to Third Special Area about 12 vindicate the honour of His High 'clock on the night of the mur-ness and his Government. Although der he saw
Russian with blood it has hitherto refrained from tak- on his clothing cross over
the ing any notice of the campaign River by the ferry opposite where which has been carried on in a cer- he First Special Area Headquar- tain section of the Press in British ers is situated. When the man India, the allegations contained in anded in the Third Special Area this report are so serious that Hia he stopped him and asked why Highness's Government cannot allow there was blood on his clothes and them to go unchallenged. the man replied that he had hurti "Without further entering into himself and was going to the any controversy in the Press, His Russian, Hospital for treatment. Highness's Government desires to The constable, therefore, allowed state that I proposes to take, at an him to proceed without further ear date, such steps as it may be enquiry.
advised to take for the vindication Yesterday the police of the of the personal honour of the ruler Third Special Area searched all of the State and the reputation of the houses in the Aren occupied his Government. by Russians but no trace of the His Highness's Government hopes wanted man was found. It is stat- that the ex parte verdict of the ed that Sattadinoff was employed Committee, based upon evidence, the is a waiter in a small restaurant situated at No. 32 Foochow Road. -Peking and Tientsin Times.
MURDER IN HOSPITAL.
Son Kills Father For Revenge On Enemy.
Allahabad, April 17. . The desperate measures to which the thirst for rovenge may drive a man are illustrated by the strangulation of his own father in -hospital by a villager named Lach- man in the hope that his enemies might be accused of the murder.
Lachman was the favourite son of his father, Umedi, and they lay on the same bed in hospital, when Lachman committed the crime. He
and his father had been taken to the hospital after a fight in which the father had assisted the son.
was hardly any calling which made secret of its great charm. There such a universal appeal to the com- munity. (Hear, hear.)
"Modern journalism is bright, more intimate, and more friendly than the old," declared Sir John Foster Fraser. Surely a paper could be interesting without being dull. (Heat, hear.)
Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks, K.C., "appeared for the amateur journ
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