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INDIAN CONSTABLE LAST NIGHT'S RADIO.the Royal Domains, and has called

RUNS AMOK

TURNS MACHINE-GUN ON STATION FORCE.

An Indian constable belonging to the police station at Lokmachów, in the New Territory, turned a his colleagues machine-gum shortly after half-past six last evening,

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By virtue of a special Bill, the | Civil List will be as follows:To the King, 40,000,000 lei (nearly £50,000), a year; the Queen Mother, 20,000,000 lei (nearly £25,000); the Prince of Alba Julia and his mo ther, 7,000,000 lei (nearly £9,600) each. Two of the former Regents, the Patriarch Mgr. Miron Cristea and M. C. Saratseanu, are each to receive a pension of 1,800,000 lie (about £3,000) a year for Mie.

Du attaining the age of nine, the Prince of Alba Julia is to be o listed in the Army, probably in the Mountain Chasseurs Inac cordance with tradition, two days after being gazotted his Royal Highness will be promoted corpor- al, so that in the autumn he will appear in his new uniform..

Besides the nightly programme of gramophone records broadcast from the Studio st Post Office Building fast evening, there were two items which had been specially The Indian constable, it is rearranged for, and the results of both norted, moved the rifles upstairs, numbers were pleasing. when his colleagues tried stop him, but he brought up a

machine gun and tried to fire on them.

The madman then fired the machine-gun from the verandah and, it is alleged, killed: one March, 1904. It had also heen per-third-of the State School curri Indian sergeant and wounded formed in Hong Kong by the several Chinese constables,

to

The first took the form of a play entitled "A Marriage Has Been Arranged." The play is well-known and was successfully produced in London at the Garrick Theatre in

After completing the four primary classes he is now in the culum, the Prince is to enter a military school. French will then A.D.C. some years ago, when Mr.be added to his other studies, as, W. F. Sinclair presented the play so far, he knows only Rumanian

and English. together with two other produc- tions. The play, although an old one, has not been altered in any

An Indian constable, who was on station duty, managed to sneak out of the building, and ran to Taipo to the residenco of Mr. W. B. Sparrow (Assistant Superinten-way, as it has been considered dent, New Territories) and gave better to keep to the original script

him details of the affair.

than endeavour to modernize it.

Last night's dunologue was per- formed by members of the A.D.C.

Mr. Sparrow took a detachment of police from Taipo to Lokma chow, and at 3.30 p.m. Mr.The play is one of the lighter örder, Burlingham (Supt., Kowlooa), took though at times the plasages are aut a large contingent of men serious. from Kowloon. At a p.m. Mr. L H... V. Booth (A.S.P.) took the whole of the emergency squad from Hong Kong Headquarters to the troubled station. They were arm-between the two was naturally ons ed to the teeth, and wore bullet | of a confidential nature. The mem- proof-jackets...

The Police Station at Lokma ebow, which is on a hill, was sur rounded by the Police but up to a late boar last night the madman had not been captured.

UNRELIABLE WITNESS.

SUMMONS AGAINST COXSWAIN

DISMISSED.

It concerned the proposal of marriage from ore Mr. Harrison Crockstead, a millionaire, to Lady Aline.de Vaux. The conversation

bers of the A.D.C. did their lines.

so effectively that one could not help feeling guilty at times that one had been "eavesdropping."

Mr. Harry Ore was aguio in his delightful mood last night and demonstrated, with what ease be could interpret the most difficult piece. The following were the pianoforte solos presented by M. Ore at the Studio-2nd and 3rd Movements of No. 93 (Beethoven); (a) Whims (Schumann); (2) Spring. Holding that he could not con-

Song (Mendelssohn) and (c) Hunt- vict because one of the witnesses ing Song (Mendelssohn); (a) South for the prosecution was very un-China Fantasy (H. Ore) and (b)" reliable, Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., Sleighride (Tachaikovsky)... dismissed the summons at the Marine Court yesterday, which was taken out against Ip Shing, the coxawain of the steam launch Fook Ley, for failing to show a red light whilst ünder way at 3.35 . on July 15.

Defendant returned a ples of "Not Guilty."

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Sergt. Weymes, who prosecuted, said that whilst he was on duty on the morning in question, he noticed defendant's launch crossing the bows of his vessel. He (the de British Typists, it is one of the fendant) had no port light burning largest office girls' clubs in exist at the time. Witness showed the ence. In the City alone there are Magistrate the relative positions of 200,000 typists, the majority of the two vessels at the time and them young girls who live in the streased the fact that placed as they suburbs, and the idea to provide were, he could not have missed them with premises where they seeing the defendant's port light might change after business, rest had there been one on board then. or read, or meet their friends, was He followed the defendant's launch horn.

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