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MARSHAL JOFFRE.

KING'S MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY.

"GRAND-PERE" OF FRENCH ARMY.

MIRACLE OF MARNE..

Landon, Jan. 4. The King has sent a message of nympathy to the, President of the French Republle on the death of Marshal Joffre, in the course of which he says: "We shall mourn to tho him who was called

great supremo command of the French army, with whleh for four long years the forces of the British Empire were comrades in arms.

"treasure the memory of my meetings with the Marshal on my several visit to the Front."

Madame Joffre was present at the death-bed, accompanied by her daughter and son-in-law. The Marshal passed away at 8.23 a. on Saturday, eight minules after his principal medical advisor had declared that he would probably live through the day.

QUAKE AT CORINTH.

SOME DAMAGE DONE BUT NO FATALITIES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

Athens, Jan, 4. An earthquake has destroyed a number of houses in Corinth.

The Inhabitants are in a panic, and are remaining in the open air.

No fatalitica are so far report- ed.-Reuter.

PARIS TO SAIGON.

AIR MAIL LINE ON 12

DAYS SERVICE. .

CAR AND RICKSHA COLLISION,

ACTION AGAINST PRISON

OFFICER FAILS.

NO DAMAGE PROVED.

The action recently heard against Principal Printing Officer A. B. Didsbury, Victoria Gaol, for $600 damages, arising out of a collision between Mr. Didsbury's! car and a rleksha, was decided in

Court this

MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931.

POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT

WEEK..

THE FELIX VILLA MURDER.

(Continued from Page 1.)

towards disappeared

Police Reservo Orders by the then Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, GM.G..kitchen Inspector General of Police, state:

General.

the

Marks of Blood. After a few minutes, the wito got up and went to the door and saw the deceased lying in the pass.

Revolver Prucllce. There will be no revolver practice at the Ken-age way. nedy Road Range on Wednesday. January 7th. 1931,

the Sum Justice Jackadeservists at the Police Training gone towards the steps and thon

when Mr.

written judgment, in favour of defendant.

Plaintiff was Mr. B. Kawahara, proprietor and licensee £1 an eating house at No. 19. Peking Road, Kowloon, who was n passenger in the rickshn

Paris, Jan. 3. A Paris to Saigon air lae was opened by the departure at 10.30 this morning of a threo engined monoplane on a journey that is scheduled to take twelve days.junior, defended. Reuter..

He was honoured by Britain with the G.C.B. in 1914 and the Order of Merit in 1919.

Charm of Manner.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall as for pisintiff and Mr. F. X. D'Almada,

Free from all vanity unassuming 198

1930, causing in his bearing, simple in bla tastes.

Mr. Murphy drew his Worship's attention to some blood marks shown in photographs on the stairs Police Training School.

had mentioned that this suggested The weekly classes for Police that the deceased had probably School, Kowloon, will be held as fallen backwards. It was believ usual on Tuesday, January Gth. uted that he was dead when his wife

All members of the emerged from her room. 5.0 p.m. Chinese Company; and of the Fly- ing Squad who have not yet passed Part 2 of Training Course should attend.

Chinese Company.

A State Funeral has been fixed courtzmus, eager to praise and slow the nainti Personal injurina to heon. Whistle, Armiet and Badge,

for Wednesday:

Early in War.

Continuing. Mr. Murphy said the wife gave a minute description of the clothing that the necused was wearing at the time she saw him! through her bedroom door, and she was positive he was the man abe' had seen.

Accused Traced.

Glying judgmont, his Lordship Inspection Parade. All ranks of

Resuming his story, Mr. Murphy Hald:The plaintiff claims that the Chinese Company will parade he has suffered damage from the at Central Police Station on Wed-aid that after the wife had found defendant's negligence in driving nesday, January 14th, 1981 for a her husband lying in the passage, his car, No. 2807, in such a manner generni inspection of Equipment she raised the alarm and the mas- as to collide with great force with etc. by the Company Commander.ter of the house went down. The were then eommunicated publie rickaha No, 489, in which Fail in at 5.30 p.m. siurp. Hiress-police

with. the plaintiff was being driven in Blue Uniform, Cap with White Queen's

Rend East on October 12. Cover: Belt (without Frog), Trun

As a result of a statement made The plaintiff was, "Pocket Policeman" and Note-Book

scene, the

police to blame, scrupulously fair and in consequence, ut to expenses to be carried. Those not in pos- by the woman to the cook when he

I attendance and massagg

session of uniform will attend in arrived on the strictly just, eminently sincere and treatment, and was also prevented mufti. No member may be ab- went to 28. Kennedy Road, where, loyal, Marshal Joffre possessed #fro

from following his occupation.

Rent from this parade without the accused had been employed as charm af manner which none could The plaintiff was unable to state

leave from the Company Comman- No. 1 "boy" for about a month be- how the accident occurred and he der. The Equipment Officer will fore the crime. The accused or resist who approached him.

cupied a room which he normally did not call nuy evidence to prove make it a point of being present.

slept in by himself, but on the night negligence on the part of the de

In question there were two male fendant.

servants, friends of the cook, ahar- ing his room.

in

Onus of Proof.

Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, Marshal of France in title which

When, a month after war had had been in aboyance atrice 1871

aperial been declared, on September 6, the and was revived in his honour in 1916) was born in the Army Order was rend to the French this retreating troops in which General village of Rivesaltes,

Joffre rried "Hall" his voice rang Pyrenees-Orientales, in 1852.

Educated at the Lycee of Per-through the whole of the Army and Beole made of every man a hero. During 30gnan, he entered the

a whole fortnight, day and night. Polytechnique at Paris two year the soldiers of France had been before the war with Prussia, when fighting desperately upon the losing first. that on December 18 the /etc. by the Company Commander, in the morning one of the occupants |

man.

21-

or-

upon

in

Paris,

unk!

the

After recounting the facts as Kiven in evidence, his Lordship aid in enus of this kind the hun of proving negligence is on plaintiff, but he contended defendant's solicitor paid & sunt of $12.60 into Court, "being the amount admitted to be due to the

The defendant and the other ser

Indian Company. Inspection Parade. All ranks of the Indian Company will parade. at Police Headquarters on Wed- nesday, January 14th, 1931 for a vants retired at midnight on De- general inspection of Equipment cember 12, and at about 3 o'clock Fall in at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Dress of the room would tell the Court Winter Uniform, Cap, with White that the defendant got up, ord, out alone. He returned again Cover: Belt (without Frog). Trun-after putting on his clothes, went "Packet Policeman" and Note Those not in Book to be carried. possession of uniform will attend in mufti. No member may be ab- this parade without ent from leave from the Company Comman- The Equipment Office will take it a point of being present.

Flying Squad.

anxious bearts, and faith was plaintiff." and the admission that cheon, Whistle, Armlet and Badge shortly after six o'clock. He then

to

the

men. "now is the time and the of admit it was only fair that der.

went to his room and lay down in his bed.

He was arrested when the police He arrived at about 7 o'clock. was sleeping in the clothes he had one out in, and these correspond- ed with the description given by the deceased's wife.

he was 16. He saw active service aide; the foe was fast marching in comand of a battery during

1870 enst the siege of Paris, went back to school at the end of the war, and its red shadow upon mang, ruin- nd villages: hope was ebbing fast

for then joined a regiment of

a claim anything is due on gineers. He was promoted Cup-2. tain in 1875, and remained in that tattering in doubtful souls: then extence is in admission of the

above

the thundering roar uf

negligence in which the claim is rank for 14 years.

founded. The defendant's solic In 1885 he served in the Indo-cannon came soffre'a bugle call "Eng

Avant! "Now," said he his

tor stated that he had no futention Chinese campaign, and became t

negligence, but his Courbet's right-hand

portunity to save France; let all

client

the plaintiff's ganising the defences of Formosa

not tolvance die where they stand he should pay and Tongking. He was decorated advance wher ran; let all who can- and, in 1889, promoted Major Exhausted and half-dozed by fati

The letter

accompanying this

The weekly instructional patrol In 1892 he began the construction gue, heat, and lack of food and

in' was unfortunate, for

The defendant was taken to the "payment. of the French military road from sleep, the men halted, and then if there was no intention to admit of the Kowloon Section will take

Chief Detective Senegal to the Niger.

went forward. Joffre's name alene negligence, the payment should place on Tuesday. January 6th. No. 7 Police Station where he was

weary, spirits of the raised the

have been made with a denial of Fall in at Tsim-tsa-tsui Fire Bri- examined by und his ability.

I did not believe the gude Station at 5.30 pm. sharp. Inspector Reynolds. march-worn soldiery,

the suspicion of defendant intended to admit negli-ress-Winter Uniform and Capdeposit on his left finger-nall

but I reserved my decision with White Cover,

officers, who found further similar red deposits on two other fingers.

our.

to the Commission on Inventions he was sent to Madagascar where he constructed the harbour and ports of Diego Suarez.

Returning to France he becage Professor at Bente de Guerre, was made Brigadier-Genera! in com- mand of the artillery (1901), and Governor of Lille and General of Division in 1905. In 1909 he was Appointed Commander

Army Amiens Inspector of Military Schools. In 1911 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff, an appointment implying supreme command in time of war,

of

"tirand-pere" of the Army. Distinguished for his simplicity of 'character and life, alertness and clearness of mind, and or- ganising power, he exhibited x combination of intuition and flection, and took a wide outlook. without being obsessed by details. He was remarkable for his sound coramon-sense, and was known by his soldiers as "Grand-pere."

e-

All for France.

Great as was General Joffre by his deeds, he was still greater by what he forhore doing; and great as was his strength, his patience was greater still.

doctor's

gence.

Was

.

(Sgd) D. L. KING,

D. S. P. (B).

on the part of the

Lack of Proof.

aroused

Bloodstains Found.

A certain

U.S. RAILWAYS.

FOUR LARGE SYSTEMS TO COMBINE.

the

New York, Jan. 3. The Presidents of the four principal Further, the plaintiff's claim for

eastern railways, the New York Central (6,031 miles), the Pennsyl damage rests entirely on hi own evidence and a not very co vine-vania (10,527 miles), the Baltimore ing certificate given by a doctor and Ohio (5,202 miles) and the Chesa- who stated that the plaintiff peake and Ohio (2,640 miles) havo showed signs and symptoms of published details of their agreement injuries to the soft tissues at then regard to the consolidation of all buck of the neck." This does not the principal railways in the East, appear serious and the doctor did except New England into their four not appear to think so either, for systems. The plan has been

mitted for the approval of the Inter- he only saw the plaintif once.

State Commerce Commission. Each The doctor was not called to of the four enlarged systems will be state the nature of the injuries, worth $2,000,000,000-Routers Ame how they might have been caused rican Service, and what remedy he recommend

sub-

Capture of Timbuctoo. His name first esme prominently message sank deep in their hearts, before the public in 1894, when he

on the point, though under my The weekly instructional patrol occupied Timbucton, after a long

errora, of the Hongkong Section will take

At about 9 o'clock, the accused ennipaign against the Touaregs.

The love which the French soldier general power to rectify

I could have allowed the defen-place on Friday, January 9th.

was taken to the Bacteriological lie was promoted Lieut.-Colonel, bare doffre and the blind confidence and received the Legion of Hon which he placed in the great chief dant to amend his payment in by Fall in at the Central Police Sta- Institute and there asumined by tion at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Dress Dr. D. Laing, who removed the Winter Uniform and Cap with deposits and found them to be After serving as Secretarywere fully deserved and amply re-adding a denial of liability, This paid. General Joffre, too, loved has been done in Higher Courts

White Cover.

blood. There was also a small and trusted his-men-Never since in similar cases Davis v. Sentt- the day when he entered "Poly-Lewis 1918, W. N. T66) but this

Sharpshooters' Company.

abrasion on the middle finger of On his accused's left hand. technique" in I8G8 did Joffre might have involved an adjourn- I decided to proceed with

aiso Riot Drill. Riot Drill will be trousers, bloodstains were grudge anything to France. His ment.

carried out on Kennedy Road on found. tire and work, his whole mind and the hearing in order that I might

Tuesday, January 6th. at 5.15 p.m.) An exhaustive search was made, heart, were devoted to her servies see for myself whether the exclu and wrapped up in her; his life hesion of the admission would in many times risked and would will any way prejudice the plaintiff's Members will assemble outside but the instrument with which the ingly have laid down for her: hon-case, but in view of the plaintiff's Queen's Pier at 5.10 p.m. with re-fatal injury through the heart was

next contention I do not bellovevolvers and truncheons. Uniform Inflicted, could not be found. The hearing was adjourned. nours he never sought and still less

if possible. proving did miser hold he had any intention of and riches, but never

on the part of the mare lovingly, or more jealously negligence preserve, gold pieces in his clutches defendant, even if he could do so, than General Joffre the lives of his for his second contention

that this ense is governed by the men.

maxim re ipsa loquitur and that it that in "ruling out" the alleged was for the defendant to rebut admission the allegation of negligence, not defendant the plaintiff's ense had eited the case of Byrne v. Bondle for the plaintiff to prove it. He not been prejudiced. in support of this contention, but Scientifle Warrior.

that case does not apply here, for in that case the plaintiff, whilat Order, method and persistency exercising his publle right to use wore the key-notes of his success.

the highway, was injured by a est 18 He was not the dashing soldier,defendant in the exorcise

or in his private right. either in appearance

The Law of the Road, plans of campaign. He disclained chance and was incredulous about

The maxin, en inn From the outbreak of the Great sudden flashes of inspiration. He

does not apply to an accident on a that war belonged to until December, 1916 he was thought

Those who go on a War Commander-in-Chief of the French science and was to be scientifically highway.

highway, or have their property

sostula position conducted. His Iden was to pre- armies, holding

personal damage to their there, through the black period of the pare everything, to leave nothingdjacent, and

chance. Every detail war, which began with the terrible in

property lying beside it, can only defent of the French at Charleroi, studied, every paint made clear. and was followed by, the long His strategy was compounded show a right to recover by affirma- retreal to beyond the Marne. of common sense, of the infinite Live evidence of fault in the person doing the damage. The fact of prevnation

an accident raises no presump- "Miracle of the Marne,"

Lion. A man crossing the road that the plaintiff was incapacitat is knocked down by a cart. Moreed for work. While France and Europe seem-

There is nothing in the plain-! ty to prove this shows no cause of

til's evidence. to connect his in- ed to be in the direct peril, he was

action. The plaintiff must go the one man who remained cool

in the sense that at the critical farther and specify some breach juries with the mishap in Queen's

London, Jan. 4. and unflurried, and he quietly or-

The death has occurred here of Kanised the

a doctor on the day it occurred. "Miracle of the moment, the moment of supreme of duty on the part of the Rond beyond the fact that he saw

of this danger, his nature was quickened defendant--the car was driven too

of the Marne." The full story

am to believe the evi- Mr. Mahomed All, one action into that bold, decisive

dence of the defendant, and I see Indian Moslem delegates to the early period of the war has yet which carried success with it as fast, was on the wrong side of the to be given to the world, and

irresistibly

the mountain read, or swerved, or was not pro-

no reason why I should not, the Round Table Conference. or was over- perly constructed,

plaintiff suffered no injury' at all.

He was one of the famous All .widely different opinions prevail

were closely QB- as to the precise reasons for the torrent sweeps a path for itself landed, hence the accident.

It is possible that the plaintiff's brothers, who it is us much the duty of font German retreat, but nothing. can after the rains,

He has been likened, very

atory is true, that he did suffer in-sociated with Gandhi in his first passengers attempting to cross rob Joffre of his glory as the "lan happily, to Turenne. He had the the road to look out for passing the doctor, that the doctor recom- but were opposed to the present

jury

which necessitated a visit to non-co-operation movement in India, of the Marne.

same sobriety, the same cool. veh

olvil disobedience campaign.-| On his retirement in December: calm temper of mind, the same vehicles as it is the duty of driver mended a course of massage, Reuter

to see that they do not run over 1916, he was appointed the Chief command over himself; of him foot passengers. The pullers of that the plaintif was incapacitat- Forces, and in April. 1917, he was I might be said, as of the rentrickahas have duties whilst usinged for 17 days and lost business sent to Americh with Viviani and ght without anger, to conquer the highway na well as the driver" | donce he gave does not convince |

Marshal, "He was accustomed to

of motor cars. There must bo

It is all very wall for him to' without ambition, to triumph

evidence

from which a jury might me. without vanity."

this. I The British Ambassador will reasonably and properly conclude come hore and Loll tie his story.

that

there was negligence. Lord but I want more than Ilo was a member of the French represent the King at the funeral Justice Blackburn has dealt very want proof before I make another

Marshals Milne Academy, and published a fow Flold

and fully

with this point in the well man pay for all this.. the British Army

So that quite apart from the books dealing with his early ox-Allenby,

both question of negligence I find that In the case before mo porfences in the French Army, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Westor known case of Rylands v. Fletcher.

Alr particularly in Timbuctoo and Womyas, the Navy, and

he has suffered any damage. Madagascar. He was alse respon- · Marabais, Sir Hugh Trenchard. parties, had an equal right to the the plaintiff has not proved that lace, accompanied by an Ameri-} Biblo for some authoritative the Royal Air Force. There will volumes on Mons and the Marne, be detachments of the Guards He was a distinguished mathe with a band, also a detachment of

the Air Force.

this

Technical Adviser to the Allied

others on a special mission.

matician.

British Honours.

comes

WAB

from .that foreseding everything, and that quality of racial courage and en- durance which underlaid every- thing he did. He was southern

ከዳ

hurt

At

ed. I am not antikfied that he or dered a course of manage, neither በጎ

on the evidence, 1 satisfied,

In fact, I

and

as the result of it, but the evi-

INDIAN DELEGATE.

DEATH OF MAHOMED ALI IN LONDON.

CRASH AT TRIPOLI.

CAPTAIN BARNARD COMES TO GRIEF.

Tunis, Jan. 4. Captain Barnard and Lord Love- were I give judgment for the defen-cau mechanic, and flying to Capa

use of the highway both exercising that right. The onus

Town from England, have crash- of proof is on the plaintiff. He dant with coats, and order payed at Tripoll. All wore badly in-

Jured-Reuter has not proved negligence, and mont out to him of the $12.00 had no intention of proving it, ag which he was paid into Court,

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