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POLICE NOW STATIONED AT

"THE HYDRANTS.

TWO CASES IN COURT.

The water restrictions have caused a great dent of congestion and obstruction in the vicinity of the street water hydrants, and, as

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.

BOOK SECRET OF

PROPAGANDA. ·

ALSATIAN HOME RULE' SENSATION, -

Paris, Apr. 30.

EFFECT OF THE FLU

EPIDEMIC.

HIGH DEATH-RATE AT HOME- FOR FIRST QUARTER.

A book published at Nancy to-| day will stir up once more Franco- ONLY ONCE EXCEEDED German animosities arising out of the Alsace Lorraine question.

London, May 27,

Its author is M. Jean Dumsor, a With one exception, the death- German by birth, a former promin-rate for the first quarter of 1929 ent advocate of Home Rule for the was the highest recorded for any a result, it has been found advis-reconquered provinces. He was first quarter of the present cen- able to station Sikh policemen at for a time manager of the autono-tutry. all the hydrants during the hours mist

Volksstimme, newspaper

at which water may be, drawn which the French Government re- from the maina

cently clored down.

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M. Dumser lived in Switzerland throughout the war, refusing to gerve in the German army. He re turned to Alsace-Lorraine to be a lender in the autonomy campaign.

Yesterday, Sikh police officiated at only a few of the fountains, but to-day, in view of distur bances which have taken place, and also because of the additional rationing, all the hydrants have But recently M. Dumser "found had to be supervised by the police. salvation," and he now reveals how In the Police Court this morning, that campaign was wholly support

Chinese was charged with ed financially by Gorman agencies, obstruction in Hollywood Road and had its real headquarters in and was fined $3 by Major Willaon.the Fatherland, ar ko de He stated that he was one of a He wrote the book in secret, had huge crowd waiting his turn for it translated secretly into German, the hydrant, and was quite orderly, and had it printed and published but the police stated that instead secretly in Nanoy. of keeping his buckets in line with the others, he kept shifting them "out and along," and, as a result, caused an obstruction in front of a shop in Hollywood Road.

"This tho defendant "most vehemently denied, and he added that his buckets had been kicked in front of the shop by a "big bully."

M. Dumaer and his family re-i

This is due to the influenza epidemic which raged during the early weeks of this year.

The deaths registered,numbered 204,293. This was 67,978 more than lu the corresponding quarter of 1928.

The death-rate was 21 'per thousand, for 11.63. of which it is claimed, influenza was the contri butory cause.

This rate was only exceeded in the first quarter of 1919, when influenza was responsible for a death-rate of 21.8 per thousand. British Wireless,

cently loft Strasbourg for an un- SUICIDE FROM FERRY known destination.

Carriers of German' Money, The volume. is entitled, "The Confessions of a Real Alsace Lorraine Autonomist," its sub-titlo being "Headquarters of the Au tonomist Movement, Berlin and Frankfort."."

LAUNCH,

FIRST-CLASS PASSENGER JUMPS OVERBOARD.

A FASCINATING DRAMAI

IN

a South African diamond mine a native uneartha a magnificent gem-the begining of a startling and fascinating drama!

DIAMOND

HANDCUFFS

be

Supported by

The Star Ferry Company is in A Real Grievance."

a quandary. It was reported last a chief night that a Chinese passenger There

M. Dumser tells how another Was

"water shortage" case in which a Chinese publishing house for autonomist had commited suicide by jumping.

newspapers in Alsace-Lorraine overboard, but no trace can was charged with assaulting a Sith policeman on duty at a was kept going by money coming found of the supposedly missing man and no-one, with the excep- hydrant in Morrison Street. The from influential German circles.

He himself used to go to Ger- tion of one Chinese passenger, saw constable in his evidence stated

the alleged suicide. that on no less than four occasions many to obtain that money. he had to warn the defendant to take his place in the queue and not try to place his buckets into the line out of turn.

Once, in Berlin, the money was given to him by the director of an ultra Pan-German newspaper.

He names a professor of Bonn University who acted na ngent for the handing-over of considerable

On the fourth occasion when he warned the Chinese the latter took up his bamboo carrying-pole sums. and thrust the end, into the stomach of the policeman.

The defendant said he had a real grievance. He had read in the newspapers that every man was entitled to fill only four tine at a time, and he had two large buckets, which were the equivalent of four tins. But other people had as many as a dozen tins and there- fore kept him waiting an uncon- scionably long time for his water. And he had to work for his living. He couldn't hang around the hydrant all day waiting for water!

ly prodded the Indian constable with his bamboo pole, because the Indian kept on kicking his buckets

Secret Rendezvous,

M. Dumser tells how, once, the Bonn professor came to Strasbourg with 190,000 francs. So afraid was ho of his visit becoming known, that he arranged a rendez- vous with M. Dumser at dead of night under a railway bridge.

The Valkastime, of which M. Dumser was director, had a regu- Inr monthly deficit of 40,000 francs

The coxswain of the "Meridian Star" states that on the 8.66 pm, trip from Kowloon, when about a third of the way across the har bour, a Chinese first-class passen- gor suddenly handed him his hat, saying "take this." The Chinese passenger then immediately jump- ed over the side of the ferry and disappeared.

DISPUTE OVER PIG PURCHASES.

DÉFENDANT CLAIMS HE- HAS PAID.

which was always made good from the above-mentioned sources. A sale of pigs formed the oub-

That was one of four such four-ject of an action before inals.

Justice Wood In the Summary

Mr.

Defendant stated that he gent- One chapter of M. Dumser's Court to-day when the Nam Hing book tells-how German money was Loong firm, 81 Chung Ching provided for the campaign of the Street, sued the Fook Tai stoli, autonomist Parliamentary candi- No. 10 Saiyingpun Market, for dates in Alaace-Lorraine at the $235.36. The amount was in res- last two General Elections. pect of goods sold to the defen-

Two of the four successful can-dant

out of the way.

Tanks For Eastern District,"

The following statement has didates were afterwards tried for The managing partner of the been issued by the Director of high treason and convicted. They plaintiff firm said that four deli- Public Worka:

thus lost their seats in Parliaveries of niks were made but no Five additional brick tanks havement, and at subsequent by-elec-payment was received. The de- been ordered, and If possible will tions German money was again fendant produced what he stated be working in about two weeks, forthcoming (ays "the book). were receipts in connexion with The existing Lanka will be All the persons who were on the transaction. operating from 6 am to 10 pm trial, 15 in number, received

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Mr. F. H. Loseby appears for

and these hours will be extended money from Germany while they the plaintiff and Mr. D. L. Strel- obtained. It is hoped that when were in prison. ¿'

es additional water boots are

the extra tanks are completed a

24 hours supply will be maintain, [.. ed at all tanks.

Woman and Priest.

M. Dumser says he was not the Until the tanks in the Eastern jonly person who went to Germany

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"DIAMOND HAND- CUFFS."

A STORY OF THE AFRICAN DIAMOND MINES.

One of the messagers was a wo- man, Mme. Eggemann; another was a priest named Fashunér. M. Dumser arranged for false puss- ports to enable them to cross the frontier,

A good deal of the money, BL. Dumser atates, Wis provided through the agency of a so called "scientific society" in Prassin

The name of the association was obviously a "blind," for its con- stitution frankly admitted that its object was "the support of the Eleanor Boardman, demure idea of revenge among the German heroine of "Bardelys and intensely people, and to work without cessa iation and with all possible means human wife in "The Crowd," again cast in the leading role of to separate Alsace and Lorraine Tillie, girl of the underworld, in from France."

Cosmo- "Diamond Handcuffa,"

Finally, M. Dumder admits that politan's vivid drama of love, he. received 70,000 francs for his diamonds and aceret haunts of a work on behalf of this German great city, which is the feature propaganda in the two provinces. film to-day and to-morrow at thr

Just

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WEATHER FORECAST.

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Queen's Theatre.

diamond's sinister shadow launch-

ing Intrigue, theft, warfare and

deceit. Miss Boardman plays a

war.

The Royal Observatory reports

lett for the defendant. The caso in proceeding.

SMALL SPECULATORS RUINED.

RESERVE BOARD "CAMPAIGN OF FEAR"

New York, May 27. Liquidation bas proceeded steadily and relentlessly all day long on the Stock Exchange. It is computed that thousands of small speculators have been ruin- ed.

Statisticians estimate that the Federal Reserve Board's "cam- paign of fear" has resulted in the deflation of stock values by bil- lions of dollars.

Leading stocks. have declined from 30 to 60 points from the peak in the recent "bull" movement- Reuter's American Service..

STONE THROWING,

COWARDLY TRICK BY CHINESE.

A young Chinese who was seon to throw stones into a house in Temple Strept was fined $5 by Mr. TS. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning,

girl of the underworld, torn be- that weak anticyclonic areas are tween infatuation with a gangster situated over China and South ruler and the true love of a young Manchuria and in the Pacifle to cigar clerk. The desire for the the cast of Japan. Pressure is sinister diamond that runs like a relatively low in an irregular nemesis through the story plunges trough extending from Indo her. into the centre of a ganster China across the Philippines and the Lonchops to the Pacifie, The

His Worship said that if that The picture is literally three typhoon ja situated about 100 sort of thing went on he would plays in one; three episodes in the miles north of Oshima, moving impose more sover penalties. He' Kinister career of the diamond. In N. or N.N.E. The forecast till told defendant it was, a coward- Africa It is mined and a native miner sacrifices his life to stent it noon tomorrow is: East winds, ly thing to throw stones at

moderate; fair. for the woman he loves. In moelety it launches i scandal and breaks

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