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Chief Constable Carter: It is said that be forced back the lock with a spoon with which he bad had bis dinner.

The Judge: I don't think much of your lock,

Chief Constable Carter: It was only a single lock and could be prised back easily.

"Edmond asked that the four offences at Bristol might be taken into consideration. He told the

James Henry Edmonds, the man who escaped from the cells at Wind- sor Police Station on September 13th, after be had been committed judge that his life had been one for trial on charges of stealing long punishment. He admitted his jewellery, has been sentenced to

record was bad, but said he had three years penal servitude

tried to obtain honest work. He Windsor Charter Sessions.

He had en brought from Bristol now 75 years of age and a broken man. When only 20 years where he was committed for trial of age he was sentenced to five in the name of Joseph Bean on charges of theft alleged to have years. He was a failure and was

well educated.

Edmond, on being sentenced, said, Edmond had been committed by

My lord, I thank you sincerely."

Ten Diferent Names. the Windsor magistrates to take bis

Edmond has had an amazing trial onharges of stealing jewel- lery from Sir John Hanbury Wil- career of crime. During 48 years. liams at Henry III. Tower, Wind between 1875 and 1923, he was con- sor Castle, and jewellery and other victed on various charges of steni. articles to the value of £1,700, the ing and receiving, the total length property of the Marchioness of of his sentences reaching 43 years. Crewe, at Cowel, L.W.

They ranged from ten years' penal convictions servitude, to which he was sentenced Eighteen previous were proyed by Chick Constable at Cambridge in 1881, td alz Carter. He added that after Ed- maths imprisonment.

mond was committed he escaped He has been known under ten from the police station

different names,'

CHIANG KAI SHEK AND CHANG TSO LIN.

MAKING COMMON. CAUSE AGAINST THE RUSSIANS?

MR. RODNEY GILBERT'S INTERESTING ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION.

Mr. Rodney Gilbert, writing in the North China Daily News, after a careful analysis of the present situation, puts forward the view that Chiang Kai Shek and Chang Two Lin have come to an agreement first to destroy the Russian influence in China and then to unite in a grand anti-foreign campaign... without the help of an alien of any breed. Then he concludes "Chins will revert to type." Mr. Rodney. Gilbert is an exponent of Chinese affairs who commands a wide audience and his opinion is always of interest He writes as follows:

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INTERESTING CHINESE

OPINION.

**WOMEN · ARE HYPNOTISED."

It was only on Monday that we published a case heard at the Kow- loen Magistracy in which a Chinese woman 'was swindled of $135 in cush and of a pair of gold bangles by aplausible Chinese, whom she met casually in the strict, The man told her that he had & bundle of banknotes and asked her to go to

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A money changer for him. This she did leaving 3 "security, the For many weeks past it has been { Sun and Chang Tsung Chang

money and jewellery mentioned persistently

above. Betrayed. rumoured from all

Needless to say she soon points of the Chinese compass that")

Everyone who has been in touch discovered that the bundle was no- chosen elements in the North and with the hourly developments in thing but waste paper.

A similar cose South were uniting under Japanese the local situation must have felt

was reported to guidance to rid China of the Red that neither Sun Chuan Fang's nor the Police yesterday. It is really Kuomintang and its Russian con- Chang Tsung Chang's men have astonishing how credulous the Chi trollers. Letters of various "sorts been given any opportunity to fight.nese women are in view of the fact and of varying degrees of reliability, The ground has been sold from that this old and obvious trick has from Mukden, Peking, Tientsin, under ther and pathetic-looking been played in the Colony time Hankow, Canton and Hanchow have groups of Shantung bandits in both after time. The vernacular papers all conveyed in almost identical the cloth hate of the Kiangsu army give great prominence to such terms the one message that Yang, and the Japanese cups of the Ferg-offences and there have been several Yu Ting, Chang Tso Lin's right tien units, have been left high and editorial warnings against trusting band, and Chiang Kai Shek (alias dry in a sea of strange speech, eus chance acquaintances in the streets Chich Shih) were agreeing upon a toms and manners, with no enemy with anything of value. coalition that depended upon the worth shooting aud 20 friends The latest victim was another elimination of irreconcilables in the worthy of respect. The general Yangtze, like Wu Pei Fu and Sun takes up his quarters in the Majes Chuan Fang, but more particularly tie Hotel, sends bis aides to the upon the complete obliteration of frontiers to distribute the Bags that the Russianized element in the indicate surrender to National Nationalist" Government, at Han-ism," leaves his "White" Russians kow, It was said a month ago that in the lurch, enters into polite told the woman that be had a

Chinese woman. She was walking along Gags Street yesterday at about 3.30 p.m. when a man ap proached her, and in

a furtive manner told her that he had just come off a Wenckow steamer, Ho

social relations with Southerners of bundle of banknotes and did not

Chiang Kai Shek was pledged to create the fair semblance of all breeds, and is prepared to let cuaus belli with the highly Russian- his abandoned cohorts in Chapel ized element in the Kuomintang, bear the brunt of popular abuse. in exchange for a pledge from the North that the Fengtien group

would support. "Nationalism, thereby anti-foreignism, without the

Red taint.

Daily Corroboration.'

As things are developing here, there appears to be daily corrobora tion of these rumoured schemes. In early December, when Sir Miles Lampson (then Mr.. Lampson): went to Hankow to "discover, for himself how absurdly unreasonable the "Nationalists" could be, the chief of the treaty department of the Japanese Foreign Office, Mr. Saburi, also turned up in Hankow and ledged in the same hotel with Mr. Eugene Chen.

But the coolie who serves the tea is not expected to understand the finesse of the game. Hochpolitik in Shanghai involves the discom-

know how to change them into Hong Kong currency. He asked if the woman would oblige him by taking the bundle to a. money changer for him. Producing a wad which was wrapped around by a genuine banknote," he handed it to

fiture of a whole host of honest the woman, but before she was Shantung barbarians, with whomh allowed to depart, he asked for the Occidental must have instinctive security. The woman when told sympathy in contrast to his feeling that she would be given half of for the highly placed gentry who the money, at

once took off her serve out the new red flags.

bangles, rings, and a wrist watch and handed them to the man. Of course, she never saw the man again, and is usual the wad turned out to be only scrap papers.

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Chinese Women Habitually Cautious?

He was told that the Chinese |-

It is worth taking into considera- tion that we have here now a sample manifestation of the spirit of the new North-South coalition Chiang Kai Shek's troops have come to Shanghai against all of Hankow's orders, to establish an anti-Russian

Such credulity appears incredible base. Shantung has reached a com-and our representative made several promise with these cleaners of the private enquiries from Chinese Having talked things ever with nation by virtue of which no one friends as to the psychology of the Nationalists," Mr. Saburi very suffers but the people. The coali- those who allow themselves to be shortly turned up in Mukden, in

tion is magnificently and over-ween duped so easily. concert with General Yang Yu Tingingly anti-foreign, which pleases and from both Hankow and Mukden everyone except the few paltry women, as a rule, are not so stupid came a flood of letters, strangely lovers by fire and lect. The "mufti as to trust a stranger. On the similar in tone, telling how the Kuomintang labourers are given other hand, the women of China] Russian Reds were to be discarded, their fling because it discommodes are as a rule hard to deceive and how Fengtien and, the Cantonese the foreigner and because it is prob. it takes argument back by friend- military were

ably their last. The "White" Rus-ship of many years' standing be ünite against to Marshals Wu and Sun, how com-

sians are naturally betrayed and all fore the average Chinese woman munism was to be deleted from the but cooked for the sacrifice. Why could be induced to part with a "Nationalist programme by virtue should it be otherwise? What other couple of dollars even as a loan.. of Chiang Kai Shek's cleverness in treatment have China's allies ever getting all the Russian servants inte got from her? one conspicuous group, and how North and South were then to unite in a grand anti-foreign campaign, wrecking treaties and repudiating obligations, without the help of a alien of any breed.

Where the Weakness Lies. It must be as clear to foreigners as to Chinese that General Chisug Kai Shek has forced

situation

The Chinese gentlemen, whom our reporter interviewed, agreed it was quite true that women do get victimised in the street in the manner described, but said that the

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to come into bona fide relations faculty. Once they had their will leagues out to the very end of the limb that he proposes to saw off. with the North. The Southern forces on their victims, they could compel The Reds have advocated for China will be, as ever, Southeru. This them to part with anything which Kuomintang family rule, and Chiang means they will tack all ballast they may happen to posses. Kai Shek has permitted all the aear and go careening madly over the and far connections of Sun Yat Sea, landscape like runaway balloons, Liao Chung Kai and Hsa Ch'ien, uprooting homesteads here and to assemble in Hankow and make blowing up there, to the confusion the most of their clan affiliations and detriment of the whole world. under Borodin. Taey constitute the Our would-be

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and Pink will condemn White while Europe is rather poor and the Japanese expert manipulators of White will consign both to eternal general tone of our market is weak Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Mate this situation tell us that it spells contemplation of a cabaret entour with a downward tendency. The thows, Colonial Secretaries of The no immediate relief, but such an age through smoked glasses under paddy supply, though inferior to Gula-Kalumpong, Rubber Estates, ultimate collapse in both North and heavy myoptic disability.

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meeting of the Company will be subdued China. It is surmised (far hand" conceives it, and funny Gov- The total amount of rice export held on April oth when out of the be it from anyone to become orácu.ernments, ruled by consideration for ed from 1st January to 15th March, balance of £131,144.8.10 at credit far in this atmosphere) that Chiang doubtful constituencies which we1027, is 301.382 T. 379 against of Profit and Loss Account for the Kai Shek will, within a few days, cannot be expected to understand, 246,909 T. 055 in 1028,

ended 31st December, 1928, it advertise the clans of the holy dead would do better to keep China out

year We quote to-day white Saigonis proposed to pay a final dividend

in Hankow as heretic, write his new of their agenda and let us alone rice No. 1 25% broken round of 2/8 per share on fully paid Koran like the Caliph Othman, with our own good Admirals and grain, Hong Kong $7.50 per picul shares, 1/3 per share on partly declare common purpose with the Generala. As things are going of 134 lba. f.o.b. Saigon; 20.18/71 paid shares and transfer £20,000 to Northerners in their war upon social China is headed for unspeakable per cwt. fo.b. Saigon; Yen 7.55 Reserve Fund; the dividend to be demoralization, and then proceed turmoil, ruin for her decent traders, per picut of 14 tbs. f.o.b. Saigon. payable on and after 13th April to to more his 4th Canton and 7th bankruptcy for her best foreign White Saigon rice No. 2 afted all shareholders registered on 8th

Kwangsi armies into such positions friends, annihilation for the Red Japan quality Hong Kong $7.10 April, about the Wu-Han cities that the Russians, hydrophobia for the per picul of 134 lbs. Lab. Saigan; After providing for Income Taz, Red apostles will delight in the Soviet's chosen ones and thousands 20.12/- per cwt. f.o.b. Saigon; this will leave a balance of surviving immunity of the Hankow of little green mounds for the non- Yea 7.18 per picul of 134-lbs. fo.b.£44,474.10.4 to be carried forward French Concession and its roomy descript victims. This is what the Saigon. For March/April ship forward to next account.-Bearer hotel...

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