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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1937.

Fage

BROUGHT BACK FROM MALTA

TO FACE TRIAL

Young Naval Gunner And $33 Special Allowance

Provided Receipts On Spur Of The Moment

OF

RECALLED FROM MALTA TO ANSWER CHARGES UTTERING A FORGED RECEIPT WHICH ENABLED HIM TO COLLECT THE SUM OF $33.00 AS SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE, GUNNER ARTHUR SAMUEL WAS THIS MORNING SENTENC- ED AT A NAVAL COURT MARTIAL CONSISTING OF CAPT. J. G. L. DUNDAS (PRESIDENT), CAPT. E. G. N. RUSHBROOKE, COMDR. H. W. NALDER, COMDR. R. A. B. EDWARDS,' AND COMDR. C. WAUCHOPE TO BE SEVERELY REPRIMANDED.

Accused, who was represented a receipt form in the name of the by Paymaster Lt. Comdr. S. A. Jolliffe, pleaded guilty.

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Marble Hall Hotel, where he knew Signal Bos'n Deacon stayed and persuaded the latter to sign it for him. He had no idea that the re-

In a statement read to the court, the accused explained the incident, saying that three days ceipt had been signed in the name prior to his departure. on the of the Proprietor of the hotel. troopship, Dorsetshire, he was He then took the receipt to the informed that as there was no Accountant' Officer of H. M. S. accommodation for him in H.M.S. Tamar and was paid the sum of Tamar he would have to stay $33.00. He did not want to lose the ashore and would receive a sub-allowance to which he was entitled sistence allowance.

and did not realise the gravity of what he had done.

STOPPED AT MALTA

On April 16, he returned to. Tamar to supervise the transfer of his baggage and to say good-bye to his friends. In the Warrant Officers'

When the Dorsetshire arrived at Mess he spoke to the president of Malta, he was informed that he the mess and also to Signal Bos'n would have to return to Hong Kong W. A. Deacon. Whilst he was there to face a court-martial. At the time he remembered his subsistence al- he did not realise what charges he lowance but was told that he would had to face and it was not until he have to produce a receipt for the arrived at Singapore that he amount he had paid before any-membered the incident of the allow- thing could be recovered.

TYPED A RECEIPT

ance.

A new picture of the Duke of Windsor taken at Tours shortly before his marriage. In to-day's news is the announcement that the Rev. Jardine, who performed the religious ceremony, has resigned his living, but it is denied that there is any relation between the two.

Japanese Navy Attache Coming Here

Rear-Admiral T.

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Honda, Naval Attache to the Japanese Embassy, left Shanghai by aeroplane Wednesday last for Foochow on the first leg of a trip through south and central China.

Petroleum Congress

Paris, To-day. Over a thousand delegates from 30 nations will attend the Second World Petroleum Congress to held here to-day.

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Germany will be represented by 14 delegates.-Trans-Ocean,

Accompanied by Lieut.-Comdr. M. Okino, Rear-Admiral Honda will visit Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, and At the meeting of the Rotary Hong Kong, later proceeding to Club to-morrow (June 15), re-

Eng. Hankow by train. He will return Commander H. J. White, R.N., will to Shanghai by ship.

Igive an address entitled "Anti-Gas.”

He asked the court to remember,

As he had only a bare half hour when passing sentence, that he had in which to board the Dorsetshire, suffered tremendously while await- he realised the impossibility of ob-ing trial and that his people at home taining a proper receipt so he typed were in state of doubt as to the rea-

son for his non-arrival. He was, he said, a young officer at the be-

REVEREND ginning of his career and he asked

JARDINE RESIGNS LIVING

London, To-day.

that they would take these matters into consideration.

HIGH PRINCIPLES

In the absence of accused's ship, Lt.-Comdr. Jolliffe gave evidence as to accused's character. He had only known accused for about a week and normally would not have spoken on the character of a man on such short acquaintance. In a case of this description, however, when a man was under such stress, a very

short acquaintance was sufficient to give a very fair insight into a man's character.

A sensation was caused to-day by the announcement that the Rev. Anderson Jar- dine, who officiated at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, has re- Witness had found Samuel to be

· signed from his living - of a man of high principle, and he was St. Paul's, Darlington.

particularly impressed with his The Rev. Jardine said yester-manly hearing. Despite the fact day that his resignation had that he was now standing in the "nothing to do with recent dock, he considered accused an events."

honourable man.

This development follows the ex- cited surprise with which the gen- eral public greeted the news that the Rev. Jardine was to perform a religious ceremony at the wedding of the Duke.

In view of the fact that Samuel had pleaded guilty, the court found the charge proven and sentenced him to be severely reprimanded.

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"FORGED” RECEIPT Signal Bos'n W. A. Deacon, who was charged prior to Samuel, plead- Rumours were current at the time ed guilty to the charge of forging that his action was not authorised by the Church and that his future the receipt and was similarly sen-

would be ruined if he performed the marriage.— Reuter.

tenced.

The evidence was substantially the same in both cases.

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