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Blue Skies-- Fux Trot With Vocal Refrain Where's That Rainbow?--Fox Trat (from Peggy Ann)

HH Vural Rejrain

GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MURO No. 20455, 30-inch

Ri Rito-Fox Trot (from the Ziegfeld production,

ANG MANA HRth Vocal Refradat

The hinkajou--Fox Trai (from the Ziegfeld production,

Alo Rita) Pith Vocal Refrain

NAT STIKRET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA

No. 20474, 10-inch

Nanker Rose

Fox Trot

Room Wotre KAUN AND HIS ORCHESTRA Tur Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover

Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

JEAN GOLDRETTE AND HIS ORCHESTIA No. 20166, 10-inch

I Know, That You Know--Fox Trot (frðin Ok, Pienac !)

41 Vacol Rebei. NATSHILKIST AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA Like He Loves Me--Medley Fox Trot (from Oh, Please!)

WARING'H PENNSYLVANIANE No. 20137, 10-inch

Hello! Swanee, Hello!-Fox Trot With Voent Chorua Since I Found You-Fox Trot With Focal Hefrain

WARNC'S PENNSYLVANIANB No. 20167, 10-inch

What Does It Matter?-Waltz With Vocui Refrain

NAT SHILKGET AND, THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA Hoosier Sweetheart-Pux Tint With Vocal Refrain

JEAN GULORETTE AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 20171, 10-inch

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INTRINATIONAL NOVELTY ORCHESTRA No. 20451, 10-inch

Dream Tongo Tingo-Fate

Kunsne City Shaffe Yazoo Blues

BENNIE MOTEN'S KANSAS CITY ORCHESTRA

No. 20485, 10-inch

Somebody Else-Fox Trut (from Yours Truly)

With Vocal Refrain

GEORGE DISAN AND HIS Music

Look at the World and Smile

Fox Trot from Yours Truly)

JEAN GOLDGETTE AND 119 ORCHESTRA No. 20172, 10-inefi

Crazy Words-Crazy Tune

Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

I Never Sco Maggie Alone--Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

IRYING AARONSON AND HIS COMMANDERS No. 20173, 10-inch

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The inquest on the Chinese who were killed when making an attack

TUESDAY,

APRIL 19, 1927.

out the

The structural features SINGAPORE SHOOTING. than live trying by criminal force Soviets,"

to overawe public servants in the in the Caso were unprovoked discharge of their duty. Mr. assault by an assembly anxious CLOSING ADDRESSES TO THE Davies had suggested that the to quarrel with anyone. If it had shooting of each individual should not been the unfortunate tram- JURY,

he justified. If an unlawful as way official it would have been

by something else. They were sembly was fired on, and stander mot his death it was an for a row. They attacked accident, unless negligence could police. The police saw them com- on the Kreta Ayer police stationne nown, and there VRS noneing, arms were dealt out, and the at Singapore was concluded on shown in this case. The rules in polico fired in the air. The crowd Saturday, 9th, before the acting such a case were very like those of stopped for a moment, then think- Coroner (Lt.-Colonel J. H. Tyte). the right of privato defence. The ing the police would not fire on crowd had been roused at Happy them, attacked again, and what Valley. They were Interfered was there for the police to do but with when in the spirit to brook | fire. no interference. They cast all restraint to the winds and were The Coroner said the inquiry determined to do in somebody and would be adjourned until 10.16 the have their own way. The only next day, when he would sum up. way they could be resisted was by The acting Coroner (Lt-Col. recourse to firearms and had that J. H. Tyte) gave a lengthy sum- not been done, he submitted thereming up, recounting all the evid- would have been no bloodlessence given at the inquiry. defence as Mr. Davies had said, but they should have had an in- quest into the deaths of a number of policemen,

Solicitor-General's - Address,

wise the

After an absence of nearly two hours the jury returned the follow- ing verdict: That the six deceas ed met their deaths as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted by the police whilst dealing with a dense crowd outside Kreta Ayer Polieë Station.

in! Mr. Talma inquired if the jury were prepared to add any rider in regard to the man whose relatives he represented.

The Foreman: The jury have fally considered the matter and make no recommendation.

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Addressing the Court, Mr. Roland Braddell said that the first thing to do was to express his gratitude to the Consul General for China for being allowed to attend this inquest as his counsel. He, of course, realised that there was no issue between himself and the Government and that he was in no way bound by any verdict which the Court might come to but nevertheless the Consul ap preciated the fact that he had been allowed, through his Counsel, lo attend the inquest and Rue that there was fair play. With regard to himself, said Mr. Braddell, bisi

Mr. G. G. Seth and he thought duty all along had been and still was to see that the facts were put the conduct of the case had con- before the Court. There were insively shown how four verdicts which the Jury could Attorney-General had been

said. "They

allowing Mr. Braddell, Mr. Davis, he return,

would never doubt that the six persons and Mr. Talma to appear in the

Lo who were killed. came their proceedings, not merely to hold death as a result of homicide; watching brief, but to put for that was to say, they had been ward their views of the law, and killed by other mon. The four get at the facts of the case in order that they might go out to the possible verdicts. The first was, justifiable homicide. The second world that, in spite of the pro- that it was culpable homicide paganda that one found directed amounting to murder. The third against Great Britain, they want- that it was culpable homicide noted to see that things were done amounting to murder, and the justly. Mr. Braddell had · been fourth he invited their serious authorised by the Attorney-Gen- attention to this fourth verdict-eral to appear on behalf of per that the jury were entirely open ons who would never, ordinarily, be allowed to appear at proceed- on the question of any culpability ings in the nature of an in- is nowadays bestowed upon child

to welfare-legislation or non enipability, which meant

Ile thought the Court quest. that the that they would find deceased came to their deaths as would be very much obliged to adequate schooling, laws prescrib- a result of gun shot wounds in his friend, Mr. Roland Braddelling the conditions under which fileted by the police while dealing for the great care he had taken children may labour, and a host

view of of other safeguards. in putting forward his with an unlawful assembly. He the facts of the situation, and for Conservation

child's was bound to tell them that in his the very learned law he had laid health is no small item in the own mind that there WIN un-

down. He (Mr. Seth) Was In

children's welfare campaign. doubtedly an unlawful assembly almost complete agreement with

1 everything Mr. Braddel! had said the ailments of the very young, as regards the law on the matter. particularly those illnesses aris- Dealing with the law. Mr. He had practically admitted that,ing from derangement of atomach Braddell quoted the address of

on the facts of the case, there and intestinal functiona, Baby's Lord Chief Justice Tindal in his was a riotous" assembly outside Own Tablets are virtually indis- charge to the Bristol Grand Jury. the police station and he pensable. They allay the pains There was a certain passage which had included that in theof teething almost as if by magic, he thought should be translated form of the verdict which cool feverishness, relieve croup into Chinese and distributed he asked the court to draw. If around the town.....let me the gentlemen of the jury took and calis, expel worms, are easy to i impress on the attention of all that view of the situation; he su those who from idleness, curiosity gested that they would he

mere thoughtlessness, suffer foctly justified in coming to the themselves to form part of a conclusion, not only as to the riotous and disorderly meeting, form of their verdict, but that that they subject themselves un-the police were justified in firing. consciously the danger of There was no doubt about it under punishment for crimes which they our penal code and criminal code have nover contemplated, for that if there was a riotous ag- where many are collected together sembly, which could not be dis- in the prosecution of an illegal persed without force, then the object it is often impossible to police were entitled to use force, discriminate between the active The law was quite different from and unoffending part of the mob."the English law in that respect. Counsel added that this was the Under section 91 of the code, ne. law of England and had been the cepting Mr. Braddell's view that law of England for something like front of the police station, the

there was a riotous assembly

a hundred years.

police were entitled to use all the force necessary to disperse it, and would have been falling in their duty if they had not proceeded to disperse it with force.

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Mr. A. V. L. Davies did not quite agree with Mr. Braddell that all the jury had to do was to find that the deceased mot their deaths from gunshot wounds inflicted by

The Best Evidence. the police when firing upon an un- lawful assembly. He had been

He suggested that the best waiting all the time for some evidence in the case was that of evidence to justify the shooting of persons who were not actually act- the five men, whose relatives heing in the drama, because those represented. He expected the persons who were taking part only Solicitor-General to call some of realised what they were actually the men who had red to identify doing, and what was being done the men as those who had attack to them. It, was the person who ed them. Such evidence would sat in peace and quietness and have been called if it could have saw everything taking place who been called. If the police had was in the best position to tell lined up in front of the station what was happening. He would with fixed bayonets, did they think suggest that the spirit of the the erowd would have rushed on crowd had changed within recent to those bayoneta. Nobody had years and that what was trying to any right to take a life except as be established Was mob rule. a last resource, The police could Take away from him who hus, and have retreated into the station and if he won't give it take it away up the stairs and held the stairs by forre ...."Down with the Im with fixed bayonets until reinforce-perialists." He believed the Bri- ments arrived.

tish were the people who were the rankest Imperialists going, accord- An Unruly Element.

ing to the doctrine of Moscow, and Mr. J. G. Campbell suggested so they found all sorts of litern- to the jury that the unlawful ele- ture, not only here, but wherever ments who came from Happy the British flag flies. So they Yalloy proceeded to do the unlaw found "Down with the British and ful nets. It was unlawful with the British flag" and he Assembly, because there were more supposed, "Up with the flag of the

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