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CHRISTIE AND BLUHM.

POLICE EVIDENCE.

THE PROSECUTION CON. CLUDED.

The case for the prosecution was concluded before, Major C. Willson

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

LIGHTS OUT IN PARLIA- MENT,

CANDLES ON DESPATCH BOX.

M.P.4 SPEAK BY MATCHLIGHT.

Beuter cables gave at the time | accounts of the scene in the House

at the Central lagistracy on Satur. Lof Commons when the electric lights day when James Christio And Christopher Blubs were charged with criminal conspirhey to defraud, the police reservist. Au Young, who was instructed by the Pobce to pose as a buyer of morphia.

miled. A London paper to hand gives the following amusing descrip tion of the scene and the joker which it inspireil :---

WESTMINSTER

The complete failure of the elve Mr. Alexander Ogilvie, proprictor light in both Houses of Pasha of the Victoria Private Hotel, Vicment plunged the Palace of West- torta Gardens, Kowloon, in the witminster into darkness, for nearly "an nees box, id that Christie arrived | hour. from Swalow by the ss. Hyirun- go on September 7th and went to stay at his hotel liut did not board there. He kept, the room on up to the time of his arrest on November Joh.

Mr. Ogilvie" also gave details of Bluhme stay at the hotel.

Neither of accused. Mr. Ogilvie proceeded, paid his his regularly, and he had to press them for pay mput. Christie had borrowed 827 from him and #17' was still owing..

Armed upstanding acreants on November 16th were Christic $70 15, and Bluhm $35.63.

Replying to Mr. Lensk, witness said that he still hajf us seve in "his hotel Opristie's luggage and clothing Christie had some good clothing and three tranks. Bluma had only a basket, and his property was off big value.

By the Magistrate: The two e- cused had paid a little of their kids. He thought that Christie paid a total of over 800, whils: Bluhm paid only $15 or $90.

Evidence of the accused's arrest at 12.15 p.m., November 16th at No. 10, Nathan Road, Kowloon, was her by Chief Detective In spector, Reynolds,

That morning he handed to Au Yeung three $100

Important debates were in pro gress in both Houses. The Peers were considering the terms of the

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FUNERAL PYRE OF CATTLE HERDS.

POLICE CORDON ROUND A

FOREST AREA.

DEMONSTRATIONS.

LYNDHURST, Nov. 22nd. i Strange sights and experiences meet the wayfarer who to-day ad ventures through the New Forest country. wrics & Daily. Express correspondent.

He gains an inside view of the intensive

campaign

the which Ministry of Agriculture, aided by the mobiliad fores of the Hamp shire Constabulary, is waging against the outbreak of foot and mouth disease which is devastating the farm stock in this beautiful corner of England..

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DRY CHAMPAGNE,

IN GREATER DEMAND AND

DEARER

RESULT OF THREE SEASONS! FAILURE.

JANUARY 3rd, 1928.

(GUNMEN WHO RUN UNIONS.

MEETINGS CONTROLLED BY

ARMED MEN.

NEW CHICAGO INDUSTRY,

NEW YORK. The acquittal at Chicago, by an obviously intimidated jury. of band who was charged with mur "Lefty" Lewis

well-known

der, has exiled attention to a new type of Chicago criminal whose business it is to organise and ex-

associations,

缘

"One of the best-known figures the champagne world tells me, says a writer in the Evening Standard, that less champagne is not, as a matter of fact, twing demanded, in unions and business sjšite of my statement (which he The Public Prosecutor has coined does not refute the other day that significant word to describe these criminals. He calls them "rac- last your 8,000,000 Fewer bottles

keteers. They have formed them- were sold fron Rheims on the selves into a syndicate whose activ French market. The reason for this ties are too strange for fiction.

Lewis is primarily that the largest firms of dealers into a union after, so it was organised rag-and-bone champagne shippers.bre short of alleged, shooting at a public meet the best quality, wine.

ing one dealer who refused to sup- port him and the salary he claimed. I

Witnesses against Lewis had their. houses bombed, and the judge oper- ly complained that the jurymen were being subjected to a reigi of

The demand in European eham- pre-drinking countries és atendi ly increasing for extrasdry, quality the sweeter and declining for quality. It is impossible to

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appointment of the Royal Commiserations in the battle area: Here are a fra of my own >ton on Indian Government and the I came by a devious track to that but first-sinks wine if it is to

terror.

Contons were dispuseing disarma | little old fun, the Sir Waltei te dry wine; almost every defech i Times, quite a number of" trade.

ment." Both sittings pended.

wêre SUS

In the House of Commons Com

mander Kenworthy was attacking the Government and out of the darkness he said, "I am going on with my speech, Mr. Speaker," but such a course was obviously impos sibte, and the Speaker, his" võive coming out of the blackness, and nounced that he would suspend the sitting until the lights reappeared,

Collisions In The Lobbles. Some members groped their way into the lobbies, where they collided with each other in the darkness. About 100 preferred to remain in the House, where they could be heard laughing and joking, but re- mained unseen to each other.

There was a call for candles, since no other alternative means of illumination exists in the House. but these could not at frst be found. Eventually they were brought in. but they inade only a small poet of light in the circumambient dark.

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Minutes passed and then there was a cheer when from the central lobby and two $10 notes, all forged, of appeared the dan figures of the which he had previously noted the Chief Whip, Commander Eyres numbers. After the accused's ar- | Monsell, and Sir Harry Brittain rest in the presence of Au Yeung carrying a larg, brown bag. This and Haynes-who were there, wit contained candles, which were ness searched-Christie and on hita í found the three 8150, forged notes which he (witness) had handed to Ai Yeung,

In connection with the passport charge against Blubu. Mr. King produred a Latvian and a Chinese passport, and after inspecting them, the C.1.1, sak that neither pas port had a vis from a British Consul or other authority as le quired by thẻ Pasaport Ordinance.

Answering questions' with regarıl

placed on the table, some two dozen in all, and for the first time the Serne was revealed.

was

Not a single member possession of an electric torch Several of them struck matches in the earlier part of the darkness. and Ceenmander Kenworthy tried to continue his speech with the aid of

teh held in front of him, but someone immediately blew it out.

Mind The Grease!

When the candles were being lit to Bluhm's passports, the C.D.I. | Mr. Kirkwood, from the darkness of said that Canton passport would not be accepted in Uang Kong un- less it bore the British Cousas Bidmp.

Applicaticus For Rent. The son of the landady of No. 490, Nathan Road, said that the first Hoor of the house was rented. as an oflice toi à Burmese, The witness recognised him as the man with spectacles in the centre of the photograph prodaced." That a had had use of the whole floor for five months. Itis buriness sign was Mah Kay" but the witness did not know the nature of his

the back benches, called out that this was Mass For the corpse of the Government.

Yes, and the Conservatives are supplying the candies." said Sir Larry Beittain.

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Tyrell, within sight of the famous storie marking. the spot wherpa Rufus of England met his death from an arrow shaft.

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can be covered up by sweetening the wine. That being so, and with the years 1922, 1924-3, and 1047 coin plate,

almost ccuplete, failures, the available supply of the

LENIN'S BRAIN.

EXAMINED BY PERLIN

PROFESSOR,"

the

The sow Preda reports a meeting of "responsible party workers," before whom the Bersin Professor Focht read a paper on his examination of Lenin's brain. special Justitute was formed at It appears that two years ago a Moscow for the sole purpose of examination of Lenin's rain by Professie Fecht. Special machinery and instruments. were ordered 'in German

factories and a number of German, scientists were engaged for the work. The present report (fur- ther investigations are being made)

states that

WILS

Lenin's mental life had a much richer material base and much more, developed cells (than the average). Ilis combination ability (Kombinatorskaya Sposobnost) Was much higher : this proked by the greater develop- ment of the joints of the pyrann dal cells the feelings of reality and the checking of impressions were much higher. Ideas and im pressions received in one place were checked and supplemented by a number of ather pyramidal cells and their associates.

Just quality wine has been propor- to wholesale mure all the way brain with brains of ordinary people {

tonately reduced.

in-

the inn yard. A staring red letter A funeral pyre smouldered in

notice informed me there was No

There is not enough of it to go admittance order of the Minis round, and shippers have

of Agricatur," "policeman creased their pries in France to warned me dat, under pains and 50 or 60 runes a bottle wholesale, penalties for refusal, I qust bath with the avowed intention of eut- my" footwens in a brimming bucket | ting down the demand, of disinfectant.

Why It Is Dear.

Appeal To Motorists.

My friend does not consider the All through the forest, an ad- present prives of champagne at all sire, trees and aspon spitées, ware Extortionate. For a bottle of the yellow planneds, which rend:-

best champagne to-day one has to dmouth Footan

disease, pay a wine merchant 12%, or 14s., Motorists are earnestly requested | instead of 6s.. or 78, before the war, to keep off the grass on commens † and the duty is now more than four and unenclosed land in this dis- Į times what it was then-that is, 31s. trict, in order to minimise thefts against 7s. 6d. That the Rheims risk of infection, being carried to eren was devastated and has had to other places. This appeal i, be rebuilt must las taken into con made by the Automobile Associa sideration. tion with the approval of the Ministry of Agricuture and Fisheries.

The

As for the high price of cham pagne in restaurants, this is partly the

palilie's

Ixult own Four houses, part of the villagestauratene cannot make n work ing profit on his food alone, and of Brook, ware cut off from the rest

for this people refuse to pay more of the community by a népiese “Ad-

than a certain.

amount. Also, they and a police mittants. forbidden

try to enforce the orders. The spoiled by being able to choose hundred dishes, thus from abort occupiers of those four houses have paying not for what they get hut had 103 cattle and pigs destroyed, for what they might have hand, for The hamlet has been deprived of

the itasin the cold store room are farm stock to prevent the spead vaal.

got the plague.

Powded servants and high- I was told a killing was in proprie jazzlind (oce smallish estab Aress at Minstead.

Sounds of Rishment pays its band £16.000 a singe shots, at se intervals, echo year) are ther reasons why

A

ed from the forest as I tramped restaurated must charge 100 per along a freshly churned cart track cent. on the gross purchase price through the bracken to meet again for his champagne. a police sentinel by a field gate.

Dead Animals,

Five dead cows sprawled in a row: Men "were dragging behind them the bodies of "young pigs to add to the pik. The larger pics were trailed neross the field from their pens by ropes slung to a pony

cart.

The

OLD BRANDY SWINDLE.

ROOTED BOTTLES.

DANCE CLUB VICTIMS."

In atter to The Daily Mail Mr. Charles E. Stambois draw attention brandy to what he describes as the vintage ramp in certain dance clubs, restaurants and! hotels

EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

According to the New York unions and business associations are now operated as private concerns by " "certain colourful characters " The work of comparing Lenin's

specialities shose

necessitated 14.000 incisions. A syndicate of |racketeers,” anys the Times, is now scientifically plundering at lease IL score of unions and it adds:

Compulsion On Employers. All over the city there are busi- ness men who have been induced, at the point of the gun, to become members of some nv co-oper tive or protective association and have been kept in line by bomb- throwers ausi window-smashers. All sorts of small business" men have almost unanimously joined some association in which they have no interest but fear.

They have paid without ques- tron whatever dues or fines were assessed and have attended meet- ings presided over by armed men whom they have Dever Been before.

Recently the president of a local trade union informed a committee of employers with whom he was dealing that he wished to introduce s successor to them, he himself municipal ap- having acceptedl pointment. The man thus intro- duced proved to be a notorious gun- man and beer-runner who had never which he is now a worked a single day at the crafs of

"boss,"

A

Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna II singfors Lisbon Bucharest

Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama

New York

Reour. Dre. 31st,

.194

31.901

12.07

20.45)*

18.201

31.33

1031

2.7/16

796 47.13/16 2/7 1/10,29/09 4.39.7/39

Grova

25.27)

Mitan Stockhol Oslo Prague

92.491

13.001

18.334

1841

Madrid Athens

23.85

V884

3.29/32

Bombay

1/6 3/32

9/03

Silver (spot)

1

Silver forwardy

28.7/16

Rio

Hong Kon

EVER-GROWING ENGLISH CITIES.

PROGRESSIVE HANDS TURNING VILLAGES

INTO TOWNS.

The Oxford City Cound; have ¦ of a few individual men who, un- decided to promote a Parliamen-assisted, have erected industrial tary Bill for the extension of their owns on barren ground and made boundaries to include the industhem prosper. One of the greatest trial, region created by the motor- examples of this is Cowley, the all. car industry. This movement is a important suburb which has in- definite step towards permanently creased the prosperity of Oxford. encircling Cowley, the ever-grow-

It is Mr. W. R. Morris, the in- motorcar industry, within the Morris Cowley motor-cars, who ing suburb, and centre of the ventor of the Morris Oxford and bounds of Oxford.

saved Cowley Irom stagnation and built the town step by step, un- aided. The population of Cowley is fixed at 2,600 inhabitants, who have been imported by Mr. Morris. motor-bicycle in Cowley the cld When Mr. Morris but his first

bearded farmers smiled.

Cowley is only one of the many English villages that have in re cent years slowly awakened under progressive hand, that have ex- ability will be the cities of the panded into towns, and in all pr future.

They little knew of the genius. among them.

business. Up to the time of the rease ruining its polished surface overt act, although I did rome, in the Cognac district of Charda that were the inspiration of man hamlet without a place or name on

Police raid, the tenant had been three months in arreas with his

rent,

Real Skin Health Follows Use of Cuticura

Bathe daily with, the Soup nod |hot water, anointing irritatiāns, if; any, with the Ointment. Regular use of Cuticure Soap and Olaumenti | aouther and comforts tendef, senal-

live skine and keeps them healthy v and attractive.

Soap, Ointment, Talaum Mold throughout tamoldes Health Depot: Xombery & So 154, 33, Kamer 16. Lesden, 1.AL

gTry the Cutitura Shaving Stick.

MILK

The Food of Life

In the interests of Good Healthy

it is advisable to use

only a well-known and established brand.

Buy always and insist on

-BEAR BRAND

Obtainable everywhere

A. B. MOULDER & CO.

[AP]

The Sign of

THE

ADVERTISING

and PUBLICITY BUREAU

Alexandra Buildings,

"All about were the implements for burning: a heap of coal, fag- gots, straw, and a canister of oil. Imagine how the forest small holders-un and women of little When the candles were lit another their animals must be killed throughout the rountry.

property-feel when they know | Socialist member caused a general cause they have been in touch with" He declares that to expose the way Hugh by saying: This is the first possible infertion. They ate sin in which brandy five or six years failure of the Government Electric-ple, slow-reasoning folk, these New old is sold as 1983 or some other ity Hiil,"

Forest dwellers, and over the vintage, in carefully Booted Candles were guttering in the hol

bottles policy of slaughter they are argu draight on the table, and even on ing themselves into a state of how would be to a real service to with impressive labels, the famous Despatch Tx. till Mies

Meanwhile, these "world-renown- tilier

against

Ministry's genuine shippers of authentic Cog Sheffield, Manchester, and Leeds, ed cities, such as Birmingham, mind, saw the possibility of the

Port Sunlight was oner only Bondheld, with a womans practical inspectors.

nes nue to the firms who not only Police, however, prevent any distil the spirit but own

The Advertising Agency mind, and that have prospered the map until Lord Leverhulme de- and came forward with

order across one man who, standing in

towns of Cogone, and solely through centuries of manual rided to build there a model vil pers, which she pinced beneath the highway, was raving hotly

writes M, Stambuis, labour, are yearly increasing in lage, people it with his employees, ...that supplies. Advertisers the cander.

against

veteritury surgeon

have hundreds of agents who repopulation, and expanding their and transform it into an indus with a Complete Service of

trial centre. The case for the prosecution was in the dim light Ministers and Op.specting a herd of cattle.

gister their names at the post offices absorb all the surrounding villages Many more minutes passed while

fices boundaries until they will finally

The few inhabitants Original Copy, Ideas, and ware swept away by the reme Designs for Posters and As Cugane merchants and shippers,

less incoming tide of progression, and joked. Mr. J. H. Thomas drift.. A broadcast warning was issuedut the only business that they d and towns in the task of making

and their "places were killed hy is to catch British buyers of brand cel in, and Mr. Lansbury jocularly from the B.B.C. station at Bourne as soon as they arrive in the dis

thousand modern young men and proposed that he should take the mouth to-day telling farmers and trict.""

appeared and attractive houses ap-in women. The thatched cottages dis....that checks all insertions. chair or anything else be ean. owners to watch their animals most

peared in their stand.

Foreign and Chinese As pa a cheer greeted the carefully and to communicate, if

Port Sunlight now sudden reappearance of electrse they think anything is wrong, at

area of two hundred and forty

cavers un papers for its Clients, light. It was at first very dis and nee

...that bas an unrivalled ineffectual but later acquired inten-

of Eugland's smallest but mest SUCCESSFUL CONCERT IN AID d cheers, again took the Forest deer. That is a matter sily, and at 6.25 p.m. the Speaker, takon with regard to the New

metern of industrial towns. "OF BUILDING FUND.

Lord the best media for all classes everhuline built the town gnd en of Advertisers, chair and the debate was resumed. which the Ministry at Whitchul|

dowed it with the qirit of is own The cause of the breakdown being will settle," said a senior desper

It is a question for

indomitable will. A successful concert in aid of the at first unknown, the uniformed and tor to me. school building fund, was given on

plain clothes police squads under the gravest, and most careful con

ideration." took an intensive patrol of every Saturday evening, under the aus- pices of St. Stephen's Boys' College, part of the building, which was only One fresh outbreak of the dis ase was known was confirmed to-day in the parish at the Hall of St. Stephen's Girls' discontinued when it

of Brook. College.

that the fault lay outside and not in local failure.

closed, and the necused were re-position leaders faced each other! manded in custody, until to-morrow afternoon.

ST. STEPHEN'S BOYS' COLLEGE.

Two outstanding items were a charming Chinese play presented by the staff and students. of Fairles Girls' School and an English

WAS

Sketch" by the "staff and others" of St... Stephen's. The display of Chinese Boxing by the Ching We Club also much appreciated.

There was quite a good audience and a very pleasant time was spent The programme was as follows:- Chinese Play: Staff and students of

Fairlen Girls' School... Can You Beat It": Mr. 14 Shiu

Chuen and friends. Violin Solo Mr. J. Braga, Ave

Maria-Schubert-Witheinij. Dance, Bolo: Miss Helen Ho English Sketch Staff And others Dance,

Solo:

Miss Daisy Woo. Piano Solo: Miss Braga,

Violin Solo: Mr. J. Braga. Polish

Dance Wieniawski.

Dances: (a) Duet, Miss Stelia Ho and Miss Helen Ho; (b) Solo, Miss Ellen Ford. Chinese Boxing: Ching Woo Club.

MEDIÆVAL SCENE.

Giant Candelabra Used In House Of Lords.

In the House of Lorde the lights failed while Lord Olivier was speak. ing. but he continued in darkness The official report. for six minutes. ers, of course, were unable to take a word of his speech. Then three candles were brought in by the attendants and he continued for another five minutes.

-Warning Broadcast,

England one grand vast city.

Blocks,

No definite decision has yet been vintage brandy that is sold from stone fortress. Sheffield was quies acres, on which has grown up one and Extensive knowledge of

A report which may lead to prosecution has been submitted to Whitehall in connection with the original outbreak.

Hunting in the Camberley dis trict is prohibited, and the meets of the Aldershot draghounds and

eagles are abandoned.

For a little while, an attempt was made to continue the debate. hut. after another five minutes the Lord Chancellor thought it wiser to sus pend the proceedings, and the Α ́ happy ides then occurred to peers, like the M.P.a, nat. waiting the authorities. On each side of for better illumination.

the Throne hang two giant eandela- There were weird scenes at arst, hra, and it was discovered that they in the lobbies, Gradually a supply were fitted with candles, a lower of candles filtered through the build- ring of 20 and a higher ring of 10. ing.

Steps were brought and these were Little groups of M.P.s were met lit, and with the light of 60 candles making their candle-lighted pro- the House of Lords appeared trans-gress down the dark committee cor formed into a strange spectacle of ridors, and police constables were medieval beauty.

likewise helping women visitors to (Continued on next Column) leave the House.

City Of Steel. It is diffcult to imagine that 99 Par Cent. Faked. Sheffield, the gun, efficacious city Mr, Stambuis told a reporter that of steel, was once a small Norman nearly 90 per cent of the so-called settlement fortified by a single bottles in restaurants, hotels and in those far-off days, and her dance clubs in England is faked. natural rich were undiscovered. He continued:

Then the eastle became a pleasant In some cases vintage brandymanor, and all that comprises is mixed with cheap stuff, but Sheffield was frequently passed mostly the glasses-for which 44, from generation to generation as

...that being independent, It was not or 48. 6. is charged-contain a marriage dowry.

Another Triumph,

can place all this know. brandy not more than 10 years old until the seventeenth century that Bournville 18 குசம் at the most.

Another ledge and expérience at the the Humber the triumph for British industry, but watera of th Bordeaux is the real headquar. forests of timber, and the fron, each stone that was used to build free disposal of its Clients, ters of the vintage brandy ramp, caal, and sandstone discovered in a factors in that undeveloped ensuring that the money There are people there making the locality were fully exploited, comer of England tells a story they spend on Advertising fortunes out of labels Often and the future of Sheffield was privation and sell-sacrifice, ex- people in this country pay 10s. planned, the cutlery industry fos perienced by Mr. Cadbury, the will bring them the best for a bottle of brandy that is tered. Sheffield to-day hea idealist who erected and gave life possible return worth only 10s. They pay 10s. for the brandy and £2 for the

to the model village.

bottle.

putation of 600,000 inhabitants, who, like their ancestors, are bet on making her stik greater. The huble on these bottles bear

Crewe is another town, which high-sounding names like Fin might still have been a forgotten Napoléon-whatever that may village sunk in ita owa petty im- n-and any old date is print-portance if it had not been adopt

In the first years. during the struggle to build Bournville and house his factory hands, Mr. Cad bury lived among his workers, cheered them by his presence. He was a dual.

ed on them. The bottles themselves ed years ago by the "London and I taskmaster dility; a ruthless

North-Western Railway Company,

are carefully smeared with niza

working houTE and their valued friend when the and then covered with dirt to give Now Crewe exista as a solid fact working day, was ended." them an appearance of great age.

in the minds of the general public

No better index exists to testify Look At The Label.

instead of merely a name on the to the growth of trade and the There are 26 firma selling gen- map, and as a rival industrial oren general prosperity of England uing vintage brandics and some among the city builders of Eng-than the growth of all those cities. thing like 8,000 fakers, including land. Railways and locomotives are Each small village that rises above the agents who assist the latter.”

the life and soul of the modern itself and each town that becomes The way to know a genuine Crewe, in place of the smug village city is an "industrial triumph. bottle of vintage brandy is to look life that was, and still might have What of the pioneers who built for the labels of the growers and been,

them? They are the inspiration of the bottlers, and if brandy is Wet the remarkable growth of the British industries and the never drunk in a hotel or, a restaurant cities of England, resulting from forgottes figures that add to the the customer should insist оп centuries of co-operation, seems to glory of English history. seeing the bottle opened.

wilt beside the amazing conquests

F. W.

Telephone Central 80

MARTIN'S

PILLS

APIOL & STEEL Jure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.

Chemlata and Stores sell them throughout the world, Proprialor? MARTIN, Chondt, Southa