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MR. G. N. ORME LEAVES.

PROBABLY NOT RETURNING..

Among those who sailed for Home to-day by the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus, was Mr. G. N. Orme, the Director of Education, who is pro- ceeding on special Sick Leave. Mr. Orme, who has been in very in- *ifferent health for some time past, has been ordered Home by his medl cal adviser and, we learn, it is ex- tremely probable that he will be in- valided out of the Government ser vice whist Home, and not return to this Colony.

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Mr Geoffrey Norman Orme has been in the Government service of Hongkong for 24 years, as it was! in November, 1901, that he was appointed a Cadet. Born in 1878, he obtained his B.A, degree at Ox-1 ford, and later in life was admitted a Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, After his arrival in Hongkong, Mr. Orme studied Car- tonere at Canton for two years, and it was in April, 1904, that he receiv et dis arst appointment, that of Assistant Secretary to the Sanitary Board. From that time onwards Mr. Orme, like most of the Cadel afficers of the Government, has oc- cupied a variety of posts, among others being, in order of appoint- ment, Acting Assistant Registrar "General, Acting Second Police

Magistrate, Acting A.S.P. Police Magistrate of Now tories, Acting D.S.P.. Assistant Land Officer, of New Territories, Acting District Officer, Bend of the Sanitary Department, attached to Crown Solicitor's Office and later attached

to Attorney General's Offler, District Officer, Acting First Police Magistrate, Acting Director of Education: First Police Magis trate. Patate Duty Commissioner, Oficial Receiver and Registrar of Trade Marks, and, finally, Acting Director of Education in February, 1924. The confirmed appointment of | Director of Education came shortly. afterwards., last summer Mr. and Mrs. Orme went for a health trip to Java, and although Mr. Orme came back much better, he recently fell sick, with a return of malaria fever, and it is on urgent medical advice that he has left for Home.

There were 4 number friends to say "Good-bye" to Mr. and Mrs. Orme at Queen's Pier this morning, and Mr. Orme carries with him the west wishes of a wide elrele.

أعلف گرد

Mr. A. E. Wond is to act as Diree- dor of Education in Mr. Orme's ab-1 sence be unti) a pointment is made.

substantive ap-

IN THE NEWS.

Above is M. Louchour, the French Minister of Finance, who has just resigned.

Okeystone

Here is "Battling" Siki. who has been found murdered in the "Hell's Kitchen" district of New York.

SIKI'S MURDER.

BODY POUND IN STREET.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1925.

MOSUL MATTERS.

SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT,

Geneva, Dec. 15.

Matters appear to be shaping towards a settlement of the obsti- Inately contested Mosul question between Britain and

Turkey. Conferences are proceeding, and, a general rumour bears out the anticipation that the Brussels line will be adopted us the frontier, with possible economic adjust- ments. Reuter,

TURKISH ATROCITIES EXPOSED."

Geneva, Dec. 15.

Further evidence of the atroci ties in Moaul is contained in addi- Lions to General Laidoner's report. The commissioners place the res ponsibility on the shoulders of the Sixty-Second Regiment of Turkish. Infantry.

They depict the horrors of foré- ed, hurried deportations and mas

acres, and relate to incidents of women being. violated and buried alive under stones. They state

hat, at Baljo alone forty men were aken from their families and as- assinated in a remote building * Turkish soldiers who were unsious not to be disturbed dur ng the orgies."

Columns were marched for six

or ten days without fond, several; falling out and being immediately

NARRATIN.

mas-

The Commissioners draw atten- tion to the fact that the Christians) were not ill-treated by the Kurds, who protested to the Turks and refused Turkish orders to were the deportees. whereupon the Turks shot several Kurdish chiefs. A number of Kurdish Moslem chiefs on the frontier ex- pressed desire to be placed

within, the Iraq frontiers, to pro- cure their safety-Render.

THE IRAQ MANDATE.

Geneva, Dec. 15.

It is understood that Sir Austen Chamberlian has assured the

Council that Britain is willing to extend the mandate in Iraq twenty-five years.,

It is pointed out that this period is the maximum. Nothing enuid) prevent frag entering the League earlier. thus shortening the Bri- tish obligation.-Reuter,

COUNTER ALLEGATIONS,

Geneva, Dec. 15. The Turkish delegation as writ- tep to the Secretary-General of the League protesting against accusa- tions of Turkish atrocities, alleged to have been made by Chaldean New York, Dee. 15.

ecclesiastics, as inventions, and The body of "Battling" Siki, of enquiry's report purporting to citing a passage in the commission SEARCHER ASSAULTED, whose murder in a low quarter of show that the British authorities New York is reported in an earlier distributed nineteen hundred rifles telegraci, was found-lying faved ammunition among the AH- downward on the. pavement at four 'clock in the morning by a

syrian tribes-Reuter. policeman who had met and ex-

WOMAN AND HER MONEY

A.

woman

For a Chinese woman who dia small business in supplying vegehanged greetings with the boxer tables to a restaurant, the prospecí

shortly after midnight. Near te of losing some 300 was one which where the body was found a re- was to be warded off at all costs.

volver lay in the gatter. Twn. chambers were Consequently when

empty and it i searcher got huid of this money at thrown away by the

believed that, the weaper was the Wing On wharf yesterday. the when he let

murderer owner of it became almidst frantic. She wrestled with the woman, and, gentler methods failing, used her teeth to some purpose. At length Sergeant McEwen had to come in And, having separated the women, took the offender to the Central

Police Station,

FOOTBALL.

SCOTLAND'S TEAM AGAINST

PORTUGAL

Siki was well-known in the Portugal have been admitted to neighbourhood and it is suggested the International Charity Cup that he had been to one of the have been drawn against Scotland. Compétition this season and they numerous night clubs and had bThe match is to be played on Box- come involved in a dispute which ing Day and the following team was continued into the street, end-has been selected to represent ing in his murder. Siki was last Scotia:-Clark (Police: Summers July knifed at the same spot-(Club) and Orem (Police); Mc- Reuter's American Service.

Greavey (Surreys) Stewart (Club) McKelvie (Kowloon); Brodie (Kowloon) Duncan (Kowloon) and (Club) Forsyth (Club) McBride Key Club. Reserves: Johnston (Club) Forbes (Police, and. W. Stewart (Club, Portugal will be represented by the first eleven of the Club de Recroio,

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At the Central Magistraey, to day, the woman was charged or counts of assaulting a searcher and of attempting to export money"

Until his sensational defeat of from the Colony. Mr. R. E. Lind-icorges Carpentier in the Bufalo ell was informed that the money Velodrome just outside Paris on had already been changed into September 24th, 1925, Bating" Canton subsidiary coins. In spite Sik: was practically an unknown of the shedding of many tears in quantity in the international bos Count, the woman was ordered to ing world. It was while serving Jay a fine of $10 on the first as a soldier in the Senegalese cor charge and 6 on the second ingent of the French Army dur- These amounts were to be deducted ing the war, that Siki took upi

A First Division match is to bo from the sum found on her.

fighting, and he made such rapid played at Kowloon this after- progress and built up such a won-noon, the teanis being the Police dorful record that he was eventual-aud the Royal Artillery. This is ly matched against Carpentier for one of the matches postponed heavyweight championship owing to the absence in camp of title of Europe. Siki very un

the R.A. during November. expectedly won in the sixth round,

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tlon, which will come giving Carpentier the koek-out The final of the Garrison Foot- with a blow that was afterwards ball League finde "A" and "B"

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BRITISH INDUSTRY.

NEW BILL PASSED,

London, Dec. 15.

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HOME FOOTBALL.

Skl

gained notoriety by possessing a pet lion which he took with him on his mang revels in questionable cabarets, and latterly the question of his deponiation from America was raised. After his having been stabbed last July in the "Hell's Kitchen" quarter of New York, he

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shown at this theatro, and, fine instances really beautiful. as that film was, wo can say that| A tremendous amount of money Moscow, Dec. 15. Captain Blood". far and

must have been spent in the pro- Sovan poople were killed and surpassos it. There is much of duction of this picture. It is said In the Cup replay, Grimsby beat created a sensasion by breaking 42 uoriously injured as the result historic interest in the film, that the company which produced Kettering by 8 goals to one-out of hospital clad in his pyjamas of the derailment of a tramcar, especially in relation to the it went into bankruptey. We can Router.

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