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HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.

[ORDERS BY Trox. R. E n. c. WOLFE, INSPECTOR GENERAL" OF 'POLICE]

Chinese Company, Squad Drill--All recruits of the Chinese Company, who has not yet passed part I. of Training Course. will attend at Central Police Station on Thursday, April 10, as 5.30 p.m. sharp for squad drill under P/Sergt. R. J. Hunt. Dress: Mufti.

Police Training School. The class for instruction in police duties and regulations will be held as usual at the Police Training School, Kow- loon, on Tuesday, April 8 at 5.30

p.m.

the

Revolver Practice.--Members of the Chinese Company who have passed Parts I and II. of Train- ing Course, will attend at

Bowen Road Revolver. Range on Wednesday evening, April 0 at 0 p.m. sharp for revolver practice under Musketry Instructor E Car penter,

Training Courac.-Constables Rai Wai Hin Sing and Ros Chan Ping Fai have passed their examination in Part II. of Training "Course (knowledge of police duties and re- gulations) both with credit.

Indian Company. Parade. All ranks of the Indian Company are reminded of the parade to be held at Police Head- quarters under P/Sergt. R. J. Hunt on Tuesday, April 8, at 5.30 p.m. sharp.

Flying Squad.

The weekly instructional patrol of the Kowloon Section will take place on Tuesday, April 8... Fall in at the Trimtsatsui Fire Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: Winter uniform and cap with white cover":

The weekly instructional patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take place on Friday, April 11. Fall in at the Central Police Station at 3.15 p.m. sharp. Dress: Winter uniform and cap with white cover..

Sharpshooters Company. Strength. Constable R409 A. H. Barteam has been taken on the strength. of the Sharpshooters' Company, as from April 3.

General.

INFATUATION FOR A

CRIMINAL

WOMAN LEAVES HUSBAND

IN A LIGHTSHIP.

Extraordinary disclosures of a parried woman's infatuation for a narried man with a criminal re card, and their life together in London after leaving Yarmouth, were made at the Marylebone Po- lice Court last month.

Samuel David Nicholls, aged forty, a chauffeur and parlourman, and a woman, who gave the name of Emmeline Lilian Nicholls, a cook-general, but who was stated by the police to be the wife of a man named David Reid, employed in a lightship off Yarmouth, ap- peared before the magistrate.

They were charged on a warrant with offering themselves ng servants to Mrs. Maybird Constance Tate. the wife of a company director, of. Great Cumberland-place, Marble Arch, with a falso certificate of character bearing the

of Robert Baker of Finsbury Park- road.

name

Detective Sergeant Bowden stat- ed that Nicholls, a married man with three children, bad ten previ

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convictions for offences at Peterborough, Greenwich, Oundle, Norwich, Westminster, Sussex, Brighton, and Southend, one of bis offences being making a false oath in procure a marriage. In August, while he was living at Yarmouth, he obtained, through the influence of his wife, a situation with a firm of carriers in London n't £4 a week

The woman concerned in the pre- sent case obtained the consent of her husband to came to London to find work, her real object being to join Nicholls.

The magistrate asked how the woman came to be mixed up with Nicholls i

-Detective Sergeant Bowden: le man, and he posed as such when First of all she knew him as a sing- they went away together, but she discovered later that he was mar ried. She thinks that he is a good and innocent man. In fact, she seems infatuated with him, and 1 think she is going to obtain divorce and marry him.

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The magistrato fined Nicholls £10 or two months' imprisonment, and bound the woman over to come up for judgment if called on.

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a sum-

Nicholls' wife who lives Clarendon Street, Victoria, was present in court, and on Re-mons for desertion she obtained a nominal order against him for 6d. a week with the custody of her

Revolver Practice.-The weekly revolver practice (voluntary) will take place at the Bowen Road volver Range on Wednesday, April 9, from p.m. to 10.30 pm.

(Sgd.) D. LKING, D.S. P. (R.).

Hong Kong, April 7.

V.C.'S WIFE ACCUSED OF BIGAMY.

HUSBAND REFUSES TO GIVE

EVIDENCE.

Sergeant John Doogan, V.C.,, who won his decoration during the South African War in 1861. was the principal witness recently in a case at Shropshire Assizes in which Maria Roberts (37) was found guilty of having bigamously married him at Welshpool in Sep- tember, 1920. She was bound over to come up for judgment if called upon.

David, Philip Roberts, the lawfu! husband, when asked if he had any objection to give evidence against.. his wife replied: "Yes. I have. She is dy wife. You have no right. to put me up to give evidence ngainst her."

three children, who are now charity homes.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME. BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 335 METRES.

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BED-FELLOWS

SETTLES FOR SLEEP, ALL NEATLY TUCKED UP

BY GLUYAS WILLIAMS (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Imm)

REALIZES SOMETHING IS WRONG, HELL NEVER GET TO SLEEP THIS WAY

İREMEMBERS HE HAD HIM

IN HIS ARMS WHEN MOTHER LIFTED HIM IN TO BED

WHERE COULD HE HAVE GONE TO?..

WELL HE'S GOT TO FIND HIM, THAT'S ALL

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INFATUATED WIFE'S BURIAL.

HUSBAND AND RECTOR AT GRAVESIDE.

This is the saddest funeral I have ever conducted," said the Rev. Vincent T. Macy, rector of Bough- ton Malherbe, Lenham, Keat, after he had officiated at the funeral of Mrs. Hilda Mary Godfrey-Jull, who committed suicide by taking poison while temporarily insane.

There was a scene at the inquest on Mrs. Godfrey Jull when her hus band alleged that his wife was in- fatuated with his young nephew.

The villagers of Lenham flocked to the little churchyard high up on the Kentish Weald to attend the funeral.

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Mr. Macy bad obtained speciäl sanction for her burial to take place under the rites of the Church of England, despite the fact that she had taken her own life.

There were ranged along the graveside the dead woman's father 11 to 11.30 a.m.-Commercial News.

and mother and sister, while stand. 12.30 to 1.30 p.m.-Demonstration frey-Jull, who glanced stonily to- ing a little apart was Mr. God- programme.

wards the head of the grave where stood Mr. Macy, a grave Egure in

1.30 p.m.-Weather report.

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There were those who spoke be fore the funeral of a graveside reconciliation taking place between the clergyman and Mr. Godfrey- Jul; but there was none.

The service was of the briefcit possible character..

the embittered busband and tha There was no handshake between

clergyman or his wife, who wept

couple lived.

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3.30. p.m.-European prehis surplice. gramme of Columbia records supplied by Messrs, Anderson Music Company:- Waldteufel Memories--Fantasia" (arr. Herman Finck). Herman Finck and His Orchestra. "Shenandoah-4 Sea Chanty" (arr. Clive Carey) and Away For Rio-A Sea Chanty" (arr. Clive Carey), Arthur Jordan, Tenor with Piano. Madrigale (Simonetti) 'and

"Czardas" (Monti). Violin during the ceremony. At the close of Solo by Yvonne Curti with

the service Mr. Godfrey-Jull burri- Piano, w

ed away from the churchyard, and "Butterfly. Waltz Song (Ralton) drove to Pope's Hall, the "large The Judge: If you do not want

and "There's Nothing New In country house... where the tragic to give evidence you need not.

Love" (Levy and Maclean), Sergeant Doogan. of Stapley

Organ Solo by Quentin M. Mac- Hill, near Winsterley, Shropshire,

tean, Christie Unit Organ said that he went through a form p.m.-Children's programme. of marriage with the woman at Wel-

0 to p.m.-Recorded programme shpool Registry Office. There was

continued:-- no secrees about it. The woman

"Broadway. Selection

I spoke to Mr. Macy, and naked him whether there had been re- told him her husband was dead and

Mitchell and Conrad), Regal conciliation. He said. "I am sorry he believed she thought he was.

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The health bulletin. of Eastern ports for the week ending March gives the following figures:- Plague.

Cases. Deaths

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Alexandria......

Baghdad

Baarah

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Bombay

Rangoon

Bangkok

Pnom Peab

Saigoa

Cholera,

Calcutta

130

Pnom Penh

Saigon

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Berbera

Bombay

197

114

Calcutta

155

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Cochin

72

Karachi

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Madras

43

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Mr. Macy walked alone back to the vestry, his head erect. The two had not spoken to each other throughout the service."

to say there has not. That is why I omitted the usual address at the Kraveside,

#It is all so tragic," he added,

BORN IN EXPRESS.

BABY.

express the Flying Scotsman, on The baby born in the L.N.E.R. St. Andrew's night has died in New. End. Hospital, Hampstead.

Mary, My Mary" (Bowdon and. Leslie) and "Best Of A⠀ " (Lemeine and Leslic), Hubert Eisdell, Tenor with Orchestra. "Zip Zip" (Byron Brooke) and

Whispering:

Pines" (W. Byrne), Sir Dan Godfrey.con- Edinburgh to London when the The mother was travelling from ducting

Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra.

child was bori near Huntingdon Painting The Clouds With Sun-

Station. There were a doctor and shine" (Burke and Dubin) and

a nurse on the train, and the en "Tip Tor Through The Tulips gine-driver, being informed of what

With Me" (Burke and Dubin),

was happening, kept the express at Layton and Johnstone, Ameri a steady pace. A message dropped can Quettiste, with Piano. at a signal-box was telephoned to "Ballet Egyptien (Luigini), Or. King's Cross, where, on the arrival chestre Symphonique de Paris of the train, an ambulance was in Sous la Direction de Pierre readiness and mother and baby were Chagnos.

taken to a West Norwood nursing home. They were subsequently moved to a Hampstead nursing home, and the child was later sent to New End Hospital.

The Yeomen of the Guard-Voen; Gens", (Gilbert and Sullivan), Columbin Light Opera Com pany, with Orchestra. 7.to 7.30 p.m.-Lesson in Cantonese

by Hev, H. R. Wells. 7.30 to 8 p.m.-Experimental

gramme.....

The birth of the baby was re- gistered, after the Registrar Gen proeral had been consulted, at Hun- tingdon. It was given the names of "James Elner," the last four Jet- ter being the initials of the rail- way company and commemorating the circumstances of the brith

8 p.m. Chinese programme relayed from Ko Shing. Theatre until end of play.

9 p.m.-Evening weather report.

AH THERE HE IS, WAY DOWN AT THE FOOT AND ALMOST FALLING OUT

OF COURSE HE HASN'T GOT HIS WOOFY DOG

MAYBE HE GOT PUSHED UNDER HERE WHILE MOTHER WAS TUCKING HIMIN

NOW HE CAN 60 TO SLEEP IN PEACE AND COMFORT

GULYAS WOLUNTS

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

"Well, skirts had to be longer. "Yes, to be skirts any longer."

"Are you going fishing to-day "Yes, I suppose I've got to draw the line somewhere,”

sprech): "Our dear old friend here Chairman (finishing clogistie

years, is living with us now, and, has lived amongst us for forty

Bs he says, hopes to live amongst ua for many years to come. Gentle ren, I can only add that we are all looking forward to burying him here.

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"Pat," said Mrs. Maloney, "that bye Dinny av ours is getting to he auch a dude, yez soon'll have to buy him a monocle

"A monocle is it?" agreed Pat. "Sure, he'd be too lazy ever to learn to ride it.”

An Irish salesman was trying his band at selling iron window sashes, and in recommending them to the builders he said:

These sashes will last forever- and afterward, if you have no fur- ther use for them, you can sell them for old iron.".

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Horizontal.

1.-Melody, 3. Roles 11.-Th read. 12-Vegetables. 14.-Margin. 15.-Unclothed. 17.-By. 18.-Owning,

13. To scatter. 20.-Game cube. 21-While. 22.-Fathers. 23.-Heup. 24.--Small pits. 26-To embrace. 27-Rural dance 28-Earth. 20.-Spikes. 31.-Strips.

34-Old Teutonic letter. 33-Rounded roofs.

38.-Pronoun, 37.-A number. 39.-Crawled. 30-Moisture. 40.-Upon. 41-Balance. 42.-A fruit. 13. To crave. 45. Bhowered. 47.-Cords. 48.-Locations.

Vertical.

1.-Goragon, 2-To incite, 3. To petition. 4. Exista 6. Middle. 6.-Jabs. 7.-Again. a-To free. Doward.

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10.-Blow.creatures. 11.-Foot lever, 13. Precipitous. 16.-Grock war god. 10.-Mathematical expressions. 20.-Clock faces. 22. Undressed kid. 23.-Works diligently. 25.-Wading bird. 26. To crave deeply. 28.-Smiles self-consciously. 28. To ponder moodily. 20.-Messenger.

31.-Acts

32.--Subjects.

33.Stitched. 35.-Aridifies. 38-Central part. 39-To eat. 41.-Fruit aced. 42.-Lighted.

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