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'WOMAN'S ROUGH TREATMENT.

Head Bumped on Railway Track,

ASSAILANT ARRESTED.

MAN KILLED BY TRAM.

Two Minor Accidents Also Reported.

A fatality was among the motor Attacked by a man whilst walk-accidents reported to the Police

authorities yesterday. ing alone the railway track, near

PUTTING A SOCK IN IT.

Scots Fusiliers and Customs.

Southampton.

A frall, diminutive Scotswoman down the paced anxiously up and quayside of Southampton Dock early to-day and scanned the faces the Southern entrance of No. 5 Tsang Yuk-kwok, a motorman of of soldiers lining the deck of the tunnel, a Chinese village woman the Hong Kong Tramway Com- transport Lancashire, which

had was subjected to some very rough pany, Ltd., reported that while brought the Royal Scots Fusiliers treatment yesterday afternoon, at driving a tram, in Queen's Roadhome from Shanghai. about 3.30 o'clock. She was East near the Naval Dockyard, an Suddenly she saw her son. grappled by the throat, and had unknown Chinese male, aged about

"Hullo, Jock," she shouted, "what her head bumped on the iron rail, 50 years, attempted to cross the about your socks? Wear them or after which the assailant is alleg- thoroughfare and was knocked they will charge you duty."

ed to have hit her head with a down. He sustained injuries to The explanation is that each his head from which he died at Fusilier had been presented with

stone.

The attack was lodged while the the Government Civil Hospital a pair of silk socks by the Shang- woman Cheung Sam-kui (28), was after admission.

Thai Citizens' Emergency Com- on her way home to Chik Lai Ping Village. Taipe, from Tsoi Ket Vil- lage, Lam Chuen, by way of the railway track.

A Chinese lady, Miss Lee, re-mittee as a mark of the citizens' ported that while driving her car gratitude for the Fusiliers' pro- in Wong Nei Chung Road, she ac-tection of the International Settle- The assailant ran away, without cidentally knocked down a boy, ment:

Each officer received. a pair of Po-chong (8), near the stealing anything, and hid himself Pun

The lad, silk brocade cushion covers.

Southampton Scots sacrificed na- was observed by a sampan man, who lived at 5, Man Chung Fong, With the aid of another man and sustained injuries to his left leg, tional. prejudice, and cabled to the He was taken to troopship that if the socks were not the woman, the trio sought for the arm and face. culprit, and arrested him.

the French Hospital for treatment.worn, they would be liable to cus- They tied him up until the arrival of

A male, Hau Pui (22), was ad-toms duty. mitted to the Government Civil The troops heeded the warning; the Police from Taipo.

the socks under their The man is now in Police cus- Hospital suffering from abbrasions they wore tody, pending further investiga-to the face, after being knocked heavy army woollen socks.

However, their foresight was un- down by a private car, driven by Chan King-wai, in Connaught necessary for the customs officials Road West.

in the hillside. Apparently he Dragon Motor Garage,

tions.

HOME SCORES 167.

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The following are the results of the "Varsity matches this season:

OXFORD

Lost to Yorkshire by 162 runs. Drew with Leicestershire. Lost to All-India by 8 wickets. Drew with Gloucestershire. Drew with Lancashire,

Lost to South American XI by 10

wickets.

Beat Essex by 2 wickets at Layton. Beat the M. C. C. by 111 runs at

Lord's.

Drew with Surrey at the Oval,

had decided that duty should not be ¡levied.

CAT IN COURT.

Charge of Unlawful Settlement.

Possession.

A tortoiseshell cat, stated to be valued at $1.20, formed the subject a charge of unlawful possession brought against a young unemployed Chinese be fore Mr. Schofield in the Central Police Court this morning.

Sergeant Williams stated that

The hero of the troopship is a London sergeant. The Fusiliers, to their freinds, recalled with pride This great presence of mind when a

stray shell fell into the International;

The sergeant

waa carrying the ration when a fragment. of shell hit his foot.

rum

Severally wounded he nobly re- membered his duty; and the rum ration reached the men intact,

The Battalion has been abroad for 18 years.

FOUR ARRESTED IN BRAWL.

Beat H. D. Leveson-Gower's XI by the defendant was attempting to (Continued from Page 1)

10 wickets.

sell the cat to a woman in Wan-Kwai, rikisha driver; and Chan chai yesterday, and when appre-Yuk, salesman.

CAMBRIDGE.

Lost to Kent by an innings and 111 hended, he tried to walk away They appeared before Mr. Scho-

runs.

Drew with Yorkshire. Beat Essex by 3 wickets.

Beat Middlesex by an innings and

10 runs. Lost to Notts by an innings and 267

rung.

| Lost to Sussex by an innings and

60 runs.

Lost to All-India, by 9 wlcketa., Drew with Sussex at Hove. Drew with Surrey at the Oval.

Beat H. D. Leveson Gower's XI by

6 wickets at Eastbourne. Drew with the M. C. at Lord's.

M. VENIZELOS HAS TYPHOID FEVER.

and leave the cat behind. The field in the Central Police Court this cat was weak, as it had not been morning, charged with having fed for about eight days.

created a disturbance.

His Worship bound the defen- dant over to be of good behaviour for a year.

KIDNAPPER KILLED.

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A Chinese detective, in evidence, stated that when arrested, the fourth defendant handed to witness his wrist watch and asked to be pardoned.

Fourth defendant, on the other hand, alleged that he had been as- saulted by the Police officer. He took his jacket and singlet off in the dock, and there was a slight Chapei policemen. The bandits bruise on his shoulder. The wit- opened fire and a terrific battle ness denied the allegation. ensued. One of the gang was His Worship held that the injury shot dead, and another arrested, might have been caused during the the remaining two robbers escap-brawl. ing across the countryside. Mr. J. C. Fitzhenry, of the Fire Mr. Liu, who was wounded Brigade, replying to bis Workship, Athens, June 17. during the fight, was subsequent-aaid that the second defendant's Owing to an attack of typhoidly released by the Municipal character was very indifferent. fever, Premier Venizelos cannot re- Police.

His Workship imposed a fine" of present Greece at the Lausanne It is anticipated that further $7 or ten days' jail on the first, Conference,. It was announced to-arrests will be made in connec-second and fourth defendants, and day. Foreign Minister Mikalakotion with the affair, and the discharged the third, remarking polns who is already in Lausanne Chinese Police are co-operating that the evidence against him was has been appointed chief of the with the Municipal Authorities not clear. He bound all parties Greek delegation...

in the investigatons."

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