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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

BRIDEGROOM PILOT'S AIR MURDERED SERVANT.

No. 22:018

捌拾零仟弍萬式第

日玖廿月弍拾忌辰戊

SALVATION ARMY CRISIS.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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STATIONS NO. 39, No.10 No. 18 al Fala Na Ja NeW 6.38

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Kowloor.Dep Zazmati. Dep. 6.191

8.05 8.30 9.08 9.1510,00 12.10 1.15 1.3 1.53 2.45 4,0 5,40 7.88

9.9810.08-14.13

4.38) 1,48 7.44

Bhatia...Dep. 7.01

9.88/10-201230

4.50 6.00 7.55

Taipo

Depy 7.15

95310.33 12.45; 148; **

3.06

Twipa

Macket,Dep

9.5810.87 12.47 153 ---

Fanling Dep. 7,80

-10.10 10.47,12.57) 2,02||

Bheung-

Haku.

5.04 6.13 8.09

5.08 6.17 8.1 3.30 -3.18 6.278.3 3,25 8.94 5.25 8.5 8.27

shaiDep. 7,35 | 9.07|9,43/10,15 10,52 1.03 2,07 - phun. 7.41 8.45 9.11 0.51 10.91 10:38 1.06 2.13 3.05 3.31 3.30 6.39 6.38 8.33 Canton Arr, -12.05- --*5.48

STATIONS

Canton ...Dep.

DOWN TRAINS

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1. No, 11 Xa, 7 Fo. Ng.is No. 17 #0,19 No. 31 Mas Ma, 1280.1 {M} Au! $X AM | AM. AM. T.K. P.M. FX FX FX. IX.

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TalpoMarket Dep. 7,40 8.98

Paling Dep. 7,50 8,16

Tapo

Dep. 7.44 8.31 18.34.11.01 Dep. 7,47 8.44 -

3.95

Shamokas... Dep.7.18 -8.05 10.01/10.3411.37, 11.48 3.094,89 8.47 8.18 6.40 6.50 6.57 11.53 3,1544 5.54 6.23 10.42 8.12 Cheangahul.Dep

13.00 3.25 4.50 5.58 10.47 10.5719.113.31 5.0 8.601

Yazmati... Dep. 811 8.54

11.14 11.98

13,16 3.38 5.04 6.13 12.308,495,176.26

19.434.01 | 5.396.39

Kowloon Arr. 8.17 9,0 11.0 11.9319.0719.49 407 5.85 6.44

7.20 7.89

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TRUSTED "OFFICERS

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Further developments in the state of open warfare which at present exists between General Booth and the High Council of the Salvation Army, can now be revealed"

Adjutant Bubber, a London Sal. vation Army officer, issued a cir: cular to 1,500 Seld officers sug gesting that they send messages of encouragement and affection to General Booth during the present trouble

The High Council discovered this, and 1,500 telegrams ordering the field officers to ignore the appeal ware sent out at once.

·CRASH./

AMAZING STORY OF 4,000 FEET FALL.

*THE FUNNY SIDE,"

GIRL.

YOUNG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH.

RESULT OF JEALOUS QUARREL.

Paris, December 27:-Mr. Dud- ley Watt, a young English pilot, of Brooklands Aerodrome, has related

Frank Hollington aged twenty- an astonishing story of a honey-dive, of Warner Place, Bethnai moon adventure

Green, has been sentenced to death He and his bride were flying, heat the Old Bailey for the murder stated, a small German two-seater of Annie Elizabeth Hatton, aged airplane, which he was taking to seventeen. England for demonstration pur- Posta The tail, he says, dropped off at a spot fifteen miles south of Le Bourget, the Paris aerodrome, while they were 4,500 feet up, and the machine nose-dived, and land- ed in the top branches of a tree thirty feet high

The jury, who were absent for one hour and forty-five minutes, returned a verdict of "Guilty of murder." Hollington received the death sentence unmoved,

Hand Covered By Cloth,

Mr. Justies Humphreys after. wards stated that when the jury. The French air authorities at Le had retired they had sent him the Bourget and the Paris police dis following written question:-"Does claim all knowledge of an accidentit constitute murder if death results Mr. Watt's account was as fol from a blow inflicted without any intention to cause grievous bodily harm or to kill His answer was, No; in such a case the crime is manslaughter."

lous:

Mr. Eustace Fulton, prosecuting, recalled that Annie Hatton was found dead at 11.30 on the might of November 17th by her employ.

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I shall never forget the awful Action Challenged.

sensation of that vibration after The action of the High Council seeing the tail drop off, and realis

We in destroying 20,000 copies of the ing what was in store for us.

War Cry which contained the were about 1,800 feet up, and the General's letter and his offer to the airplane shook as though every High Council, was chalicaged and piece of its mechanism were being the council was warned of its posi-wrenched apart. tion, and gave a guarantee that the "It then swayed in a sickening, era, Mr. and Mrs. Markovitch, when "War Cry" will not be interfered driving side movement, and the they returned to the house. She with in future,

next moment we found ourselves ay face downwards in the kitchen, In the course of the struggle old upside down, strapped tight, and her head covered with a table cloth, and trusted officers of the Army unable to move, and spinning down her hands tied with a child's jer. and her ankles tied together bave been either removed from vertically at a diny pace like a offee, suspended, warned that rush terrife, with an apron.

Girl's Injuries, must have no views, ar transferred and we could hardly catch our

The girl had injuries to the chin to remate positions by the High breath

"I shouted something to my and the cheek bone, and other Council.

Lieut.-Colonel Sam Tucker, who wife, but I do not remember what bruises, and in the opinion of a has been in charge of the Press it was, and in any case she could doctor death was caused by shock MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY

5 TO 7 PM, Bureau in London for years, has not have heard me. Then there arising from the severity of the been removed at the suggestion of WB & fearful crash, and we were blows, which might have been the High Council because he was brought up with a terrible jerk, caused by a fist. Auspected of sympathy for General The machine had struck a tree and Booth. Another officer whose views dived nose first right into the mid- had been well tested beforehand dle of the leafless top branches where it remained transfred--and has been put in his place.

we, too, with it."

CHICAGO'S MOTTO,

A "COFFIN A DAY KEEPS

THE CROOKS AWAY."

Hollington first met the giri when in Victoria Park. He after wards went out with her great deal, and was known to Mr. Mar Lovitch as John Dennis.

When the police went to Holling- ton's home he said, I am John Dennis. I know what you have come for; it is the girl

Mr. Laurence Vine, for the de. fence, submitted at the end of the evidence for the prosecution, that the ease should be left to the jury as one of manslaughter. Mr. Justice Humphreys ruled that there was ample evidence to go to the jury on the murder charge.

"We were stunned for the mo- ment, and could hardly believe that we were still alive and unhurt. When we recovered our senses we began to try to realise what had occurred. We both saw the funny side of the situation, for, when we looked at each other hanging with our feet in the air and trussed up "New York, January 4th like a couple of fowls and unable coffin a day keeps crooks away," declared Police Commissioner Rus to move or do anything to free our

selves, we had to laugh sell, of Chicago, when informed

"Then the gravity of our posi. that Mr. Whalen's" drive of New

tion impressed itself on me, and I York's underworld gangsters was thought I had better do something sending them to Chicago.

The only thing I could do, how There is much anroyance among ever, was to about, and I did we Chicago officials because New York's both of us did in English first crooks are scurrying there for read then in French fuge especially since Mr. Whalen After fifteen minutes of this we man. He went to the house where organised

heard shouts below us, and saw

and men

Hellington, giving evidence, said that on the Wednesday before An- nie Hatton's death she did not turn up when he had arranged to take her to a picture theatre, and the same evening he saw her with a she was employed on the Saturday the "strong

women in peasants evening; I Lost My Temper." squads to terrorise gangsters and make them leave New York alone clothes gesticulating wildly and

"I questioned her about the Chicago now has a murder a day running to and fro, finging their to occupy the time of the police, arms up, and generally behaving young man I had seen her with," and does not want a supplementaly in the typically French way when he said: "She would not tell me the chap's name and I lost my tem- criminal population from New

excited. York.

Some of the men tried to climb per. I was jealous.

I pushed her over. When she Mr. Russell issued his "coffin" the tree to reach us, but after o threat to the new arrivals to-day while long ladders arrived and got up I hit her with my fist on adding: "Chicago has buried were propped against the tree. the chin. She went down in a thirty-three hood-lums who tried Finally, with the help of a dozen crumpled heap and did not get up to argue with our police in the past lusty peasants, our straps were un again. I only struck her one blow. After that, continued Hollington three months, and a couple of hun done and we were taken from our dred more are in hospitals. If the dangerous position and brought he tied the girl up because he was gangsters think New York's police safely, and quite unhurt physical terrified.

ly, to the ground. The amazement are getting too rough, they will And in Chicago what a hard-hitting

copper is like.

Mr. Justice Humphreys, summing of the peasants who had rescued usap,' said that if the jury were satis when we assured them that we were fed that Hollington intended scri- pus injury when he struck the girt Our boys are just getting their uninjured was indescribable.

"We eventually found a taxicab, they could find him guilty of mur target practice into shape. We have stopped using clubs against and, leaving the wreckage of our der. If they thought he intended them long ago, It's guns that machine still perched in the tree," only a light blow they could reduce

the crime to masinughter, we were driven to Paris" count,"

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