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MR. CHAO HSIN CHU-IN SINGAPORE.

EXPLAINS WHY HE HAS LEFT GENEVA.

:

Mr. Chao Hain Cha, who has, They were confident that their cause heen the spokesman of China's was right in fighting for tarif affairs as Chinese representative autonomy and opposing extrater on the Council of the League of ritoriality unfairly enjoyed by the Nations and who previously, since foreigners in China. the departure from Europe of Dr.

The international press in Ganeva Wellington Koo, acted as Minister was no doubt aware of the Chinese of Chiness Affairs in London, was Nationalist Government's policy a passenger on board the Kateri recently adapted in respect of fur- Maru on his way back to China, and ther increasing the tariff for the passed through Hong Kong dur purpose of balancing its budget. ing the past week-end. Interview- Such policy commanded his hearty ed on board the steamer before sail-support not only for reorganisa- ing from Singapore last week, Mr. tion of "national finance, but also Chu told a Free Press reporter that for restoration of sovereignty and he had given up his posts in his support was justified in that Europe and was returning to be knew it was backed by public Canton where his home was and he opinion in China. was glad at the prospect of shortly seeing his mother again.

His last words to the League, said Mr. Chu, were May the League of Nations prosper and grow."

For the present, he thought, thers was little use in China being repre- sented on the League and there

China and the Naval Conference. would be no necessity for it until Speaking with regard to the the establishment of a government | statement he made recently on the in China which the other Powers reports in Fat Eastern papers that would really recognise. He was the naval conference at Genera going back to work among his might also consider questions re- people.

lating to China, when he said that Approves of the League. the Government and the people of Beferring to his farewell address China would refuse to recognise on the eve of his departure from suy decision affecting China which Europe, Mr. Chu said that he could might be reached at the present or not refrain from expressing his any other conference, Mr. Cha said good wishes to the League and his he considered his statement a very deep impression of the League's important one but he did not think activities towards world peace. He that the danger was very serious bad promised to be a keen supHe took his instructions in making porter of the League provided that the statement from Nanking, and it would fully recognise China's the reason was, as had been publish privileges to which she was entitled ed in the press cables, that the in view of her geographical position Chinese people did not want to and economic and political import accept decisions which were arrived ance. He stated that China's re- at when they were not represented. presentation on the Council should

CHU..

not be in any way interrupted and MORE ABOUT CHAO HSIN that the League should urge the Powers with whom China bad un- equal treaties, in the direction of liberating her from the foreign yoke.

times.

SUPPORTER OF NATION-

ALISTS.

TRUNK MURDER.

FINAL SCENE AT TRIAL,"

UNEMOTIONAL PRISONER.

Writing in the Daily Mail Mr. R. E. Corder thus describes the the Charing Cross Trunk Murder. final scene of what has been called

Found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Alice Banati, whom he met in a chance encounter at Victoria tenced to death by Mr. Justice Station, John Robinson was sen-

Swift at the Old Bailey last even- 108 Mrs Bonati's dismembered body was found in a trunk in the cloakrocz

Charing Station.

Cross

Robinson accepted the dread sentence with the disciplined com- mouth was firm, his hand steady, posure of a soldier on parade. His

and his grey eyes looked unflinch lagly to his front.

Not a quiver was heard in his voice when, asked by the Clerk of Arraigns if he had anything to say why judgment should not be passed upon him, he replied: "No, my lord."

HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.

(ORDERS BY THE HON. MR. D. C. WOLFE, CAPTAIN BUPERINTEN- DENT OF POLICE.]

CHINESE COMPANY.

Strength,

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No. 1 Section.

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Parades.

All ranks of the Chinese Company including recruits will parade at Central Police Station for squad rill and ride excrcises under Sergt. R. J. Hunt at 5.30 p.m. sharp on the following dates:-Thursday, The Tragis "Wife.

August 11th, Tuesday, August 16th. Without emotion the judge pass Dress on both days: Multi; mem ed the sentence of death, the chap-bers of "A"

aquad will bring belt lain intoned the Amen," and and frog. John Robinson, doing a right-about turn, stepped briskly out of the dock, like the efficient sergeant he was.

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Mr. Vine, leading counsel for the defence, asked that Robinson's wife should be allowed to see him before he was taken away, and the judge gave the necessary order.

This young wife who is not a wife was the most pathetic figure She stood by the man she loved to in the Black Trunk murder trial. the last, although she did not know when she went through a form of marriage with him in Dublin that living at Swinton, in Lancashire. be had a wife and four children

Every day during the trial she brought him his menis, a slight, pale, shrinking woman in a modest navy blue costume.

She stood alone outside the court listening in silence to the com court for luncheon and she heard ments of spectators as they loft the

this was the only news she before the jury returned their ver of the progress of the trial. Just

dict she almost collapsed from ex- haustion..

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League Support for China's Claims. He spoke of the proposition he put forward at the fifth Assembly; That proposition was based upon

ROBINSON'S CAREER..." the letter and spirit of Article 19 of the Covenant of the League of Peking for leave of absence and

he married a girl named Mabel Robinson was born at Leigh,. Lancashire, 36 years ago. In 1912 Nations, that the treaty relations failed to receive a reply, has sz-

Vickers, with whom he lived at between China and the foreignnounced that he refuses to accept Powers should be reconsidered and further instructions from Peking,

Blackpool. The couple had a - Test of Nerves.

family. When the war broke out thoroughly revised on account of and now adheres to the Nationalist

This anti-climax was sufficient Robinson was a Government of Nanking.

corporal in the their iaapplicability in modern aequently, China's seat

Con- to test the, strongest nerve,

Territorials, and in September, The recommendation was Council becomes vacant for the that the jury had returned to de-

the Robinson was under the impression 1914, went to Egypt. unanimously passed by that As time being, and none of the other liver their verdict, but not by a

At the end of the war, when he sembly, said Mr. Chu, and at that willing to occupy it.

Chinese Ministers in Europe is tremor or a glance did he betray the Regular Army, and in 1920 was a sergeant, ho transferred to Mr. Chu, the slightest emotion. Assembly there were representa who has not for some considerable

was stationed at The Curragh. tives

of the Powers concerned, time made any secret of his sup-

him there, but later there was a His wife and family lived with Now two years had elapsed and the port of the Nationalist cause in

parting, and Mra. Robinson lost Chinese people had been rather dis China, left for Nanking on July appointed that China's old treaties 11th, in response, it is said, to an

sight of him until she read of the still remained technically unalter order from Nanking to return im- murder trials, but never have learned that the suspect was her O

I have been present at many murder of Mrs. Bonati and then " ed. He was not so unreasonable mediately. a to blame the League for this formerly Charge d'Affaires at the much the master of himself, as was

Mr. Chu, who was seen the prisoner so composed, so húsband., for although the League was still Chinese Legation in London and in its infancy he could not but ad latterly has been Chinese Minister the Black Trunk murderer... mire its fulfilment in many in- in Rome, has in many speeches in seit, with a white silk handker Smartly dressed in a grey lounge stances of the scope of its activities. the League Assembly, the Inter chief displayed in his breast poc

They were expecting from the national Labour Conference, nad ket, his fair hair neatly brushed March 13, after his discharge League an effort in giving timely the League Opium Committee, on his sleek head, he looked, with from the Army, he returned to ON CALCUTTA inspiration to the Powers concern where he nominally represented his regular features and fresh com- Ireland and bigamously married

Bank Billa, on demand... 29 ed in respect of international the Peking Government, passion plexion, a not anhandsome, well- the girl. justice. From his personal obser- ately pleaded in favour of.com.

Zelegraphic Transfer With money he had Bank on demand... vations he had great confidence in plete national independence for set-up, respectable man

saved he bought a greengrocer's ON SHANGHAL the League's impartiality and use-

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remarked a

Bank Bill, fulness.

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Ox Harford-On demand.... appeared with her jewellery a war rant was issued for his arrest.

spot

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the

Chins and the total abolition of the so-called unequal treaties. It is not so long since he startled the League by insisting on making a statement on the subject of the

Wanhaien affair.

detective engaged.

Early in the final stages it was evident that the defence was stak ing everything on a manslaughter

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His Work in China, On his return to China he would continue to advocate the modifies tion of international conditions in his country with a view to avoiding A Favourable Recreation. verdict, Bad very skilfully did wealthy woman, and when he dis- BATSON demand further incidents with foreigners

Mr. Chu once and thereby endangering not only favourite recreation S

ON BANGKOK-On demand once declared that his Mr. Vine build up his line or argu the peace of the Far East, but that still and doing nothing."

sitting The case for the Crowa put for of the world as well.

The ward by Mr. Percival. Clarke was His experience in foreign affairs League would certainly have been that Robinson meant to kill her might be more serviceable for the dull if Mr. Chu had exercised time being at home than abroad. a little more. Mr. Chu has said and did "; and, replying to this He parted from the League not that at the next League Council pregnant sentence, Mr. Vine laid because of any disatisfaction, but meeting and assembly he will re-strong emphasis on the fact that the meeting between Bobinson and because of his sincere desire to present the Nanking Government Mrs. Bonati was a chance encoun- render his humble services

but this will presumably, depend

ter at Victoria" the place of upon which Government has the

chance meetings." It would be understood that he upper hand in China in Septem was no office seeker because he was always been an optimist and it motive was, but he has not told had been lost. Next he put £50

bar next. However, Mr. Chn has

Mr. Clarke, in reply, declared: aking partnership, which began "The prisoner know what the Robinson was told all his money and ended at Newbury races, where voluntarily giving up two posts, important posts, in Europe. Hey happen that he will return,

Berlia into a business agency, but a few would devote his work solely for in which case his long-cherished

·Telling Phrases,

weeks later demanded his money one principle, namely, to increase trip to China will necessarily be

a brief one. While he was at the Mr Justice Built in his sum back. Apparently he was ander China's national prestige and Chinese Legation in London te ming up was almost Biblical in the impression that he could him eliminate international interven. tion.

won many friends in this country, the simple strength of his telling self make money in the same line, Son of a distinguished litterateur, phrases. The story of the case and be next cropped up as the Chinese Patriotism not Anti-

be is an accomplished scholar, is horrid, gruesome, sickening owner of Edwards and Co.,” Foreign.

graduate of Columbia University, he said, but it is at least plain Rochester-row, where the body of He hoped his intention would not New York, and proud of the fact and lucid. The woman met the Mrs. Benati was dismembered. he misinterpreted, as some people that he represents both the classical man, went to his office, died, was Robinson by this time had come had mistaken the Chinese patriotic and modern education in China carved up, and her dismembered to the end of his savings and was movements, as anti-foreign. He He is & trained diplomat, loving body was taken in a trunk to Char cashing worthless cheques. On the wished to make it clear that England, as we have often heard ing Cross Station, providing a day after the murder it is known Chinese patriotiam involved no him saying at his frequent ap moet atrocious and gruesome dis that he passed one for £10 anti-foreignism, but simply a pearances at dinner while in Loucovery." demonstration against inequali- don, only second to his own coun- After dwelling on the nauseating he thought of the trunk orime he ties and it was unjust of the try: In personality and character feeling invoked by the terrible replied. It appears to be a very foreign Fowers concerned to fetter Mr. Chu was a worthy citizen of therapy still insisting upon Chine in this country Since he those treaties which were entered left, we have often wondered whe inte under compulsion by their ther he loves us as much as he did. ignorant officials of old régimex. -China Expren and Telegraph.

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To one man who asked him what

story of the crime, the judge said sordid case, although I have not impressively. There never is read-much about At different adequate motive for murder and places where he lived he created absence of motive by no means the impression that he was a single

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