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TREATY WITH TURKEY.'
"ACCEPTANCE QUITE" ́ ́ IMPOSSIBLE.
LAUSANNE, January 29. Interviewed after perusing the draft Treaty the lealing Tarkih delegate oxpressed surprise at coms of the contente especially the Gosocial clauses. wherein be said Lew elements not discussed by the Commission had bren introduced. It appeared that the Allies intended to open the way to bargaining. The draft Treaty would
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RUHU SITUATION.
EXPULSION OF OFFICIALS.
PARIS, January 29.
Messages from Dacuseldorf state that th Franzo- Belgian authorities have begun to arrest and expel all high officials in the occupied territory who refuse to recognise the occupation authorities,
PARIS, January 29. The Quai D'Orsay announces that a general railway be communicated to Angora bas acceptance in its pre-strike has been declared on the left bank of the Rhine. sent form was regarded ea quito impossible.
PROBLEM OF MOSUL
AUBANKE, January 29. King Husrein has addressed a nose to the conference vigorously protesting against the Turkish claim for Mosul saying that Mosul is undoubtedly an integral part of Irak,
LONDON TO BUDAPEST,
NEW AIR ROUTE ARRANGED.
PRAGUE, January 29. Negotiations have practically been completed be- tween the British and Czicho-Slovak Governments for the establishment of a daily air service between London, Cologne, Prague and Budapest as a section of the routs Eastward.
INDIAN POLITICAL PRISONE IS.
LUCKNOW; January 29.
At a meeting of the Provio al Legislative Council
BERLIN, January 29.
The Fascist demonstrations at Munish yesterday passed off without incident
WINNING AMERICA OVER.
SOVIET CONCESSION BAIT.
PARIS, January 20,
The Chicago Tribune's Moscow correspond at says the Soviet has granted an American o'l company a thirty- Bix year concession of five hundred square miles in North Saghallen for the exploitation of petroleum with the right to bonstruct two ports on the Pacific coast. The Company will pay the Soviet five per cant of the value of production annually. The Soviet receives the right to annul the concesion in the event of the United States taking hostile action against Russis or if after five years the United States has not recognised the Russian Obverament de jure.
LONDON EXOHANG 3 MARKET.
LONDON, January 29, After collapsing to 160,000/180,000 thousand marke
the Governor anpounced amid cheers the release of all closed at 152,000/157,000 Froosh francs closed at political prisoners exo-pt. one who was found guilty of 178/25, Belgian francs at 83/95, lire at 978 and sterling inciting to murder.
RECENT NOVELS.
The Tale of Triona" by Wm. J. Tocke is a well written novel from which we rise with a feeling of dis- appointment. Alexis Triona is the name adopted by John Briggs, a Tyneside product, who finds himself
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EWD COTTON. DIVIDEND.
ip Russia in August, 1914. He 21d-99.71.centa per sbare fa total for helps the British section there on the year of $1.28 per share,) the Eastern front as டி motor nennie, is wounded, and after his dismissal from hospital wanders, a fugitive, through lied Russia. Onl the body of a dead man by the roud- sile he comes across a diary re-
niting extraordinary adventures, Ltd. are in recept of a telegram from hairbreadth escapes, inrid scenes, the General Managers in Shanghai, and the appalling conditions in
Mesara, Jardine; Matheson and Co.
Russia during the tremendous con-faforming them that the nett profite munist upheaval. The dead man's of the Ewc Cotton Milla, Ltd. for the story obsesses John Briggs, and
BANK OF CHINA CASE.
ALLEGED 350 000 EMBEZZLE- MENT.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindeel at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Wong lutze and Yeung. Is tong, two former employees of the Bank of China, were charged with the theft, ambezzlement, forgery, atttering and receiving of nine bank bills: from the Bank.
Mr. G.G.N. Tinson, for the prosecu.. tion, to the Magistrate that the first defendant was employed ass mail clerk at the Bank of China. His doty was to receive all letters that came into the bank. In the case of register- ed letters received he had either to
shortly afterwards, when he anirea year anding 31st December, 1922, take them to the Assistant Manager in England, he publishes it as his amount to Taels 1,700,000, and that or to the Sub-Manager, who signed own experiences under the assumed the Consulting Committee have the postman's receipt for them. The naine of Alexis Triona: for, "who," sanctioned payment of 8% on the says he, "would read a book by one
Jolm Briggs ?" So Jolin Briggs is Preference Shares and Taels 150 per huried and Alesis Triona comes share on the. Ordiosty Shares.
into being. Under these false
colours our Tyneside. mechanic,
ashamned of his humble extraction,
registered packages were afterwarde the defendant banded back to
who was then required to enter
a
a record of the contents of the
book
kept package into for the purpose. The second
enters society, plays the modest hero, him and we leave them as they ured fendant was employed in the cashier's office and he sat close to the appropriates another man's suffer about to embark for Honolulu.
rings, tolls enthralled audiences all As in many of Locke's books the chirr, close to where the various
"Bufiolent for the day was the chiffon thereof."
oops were kept for endorsing drafts.
abont his mythical experiences at contai figure is by no means a hero Between the 13th and 17th of the hands of the Bolsheviks, makça He certainly gets better than he October last, certain letters were money by reproducing them in deserves. The moral of the story received from the Swatow branch print, and finally wins the love of a scoms to he: Bluff your way to rich inexperienced girl when be success and if found out turn on the of the Bank of China, containing nine marries.
"water works and all will be for bills of exchange which were the subject mattor of the prerent charge: So far everything has gone well
given. with the impostor. But when 318. Hewitt a few Locke-isms from These bills were drawn on Chinese
Alexis Triona" wants to go to the book..
badke in Hongkong, The Bank Paris there is, trouble about finss-
of China had no knowledge that the parts, for whereas John Briggs can
bille had bren received in Hongkong easily get one the authorities will
"To talk well is a great gift-to antil some days afterwards when one at iasne them to, imaginary people compel others to talk well is a of the Chinese banke brought in ons Like Alexis Triona. Instead of greater.
of the drafts and asked if the ondore.. owning up like a man, Briggs tella One land is much the same as ment was in order. The clerk baked falschoots about being kept in Eng- another in essentials. To carry on for another endorsement to be made. land of Secret Service Work One life you have to eat and aleep. There out. The Sab Manager was just tis leads to another and he is soon to difference between a hard about to endorse it when he decided meabed in a horrible, web of his boiled egg in Somerset and a herd to call for the may book and found own fabrication,
bailed in Tobolsk. And sleep is that there was no entry in respect of In the meantime Basil Olifant, a sleep whether you are putting up at the date.This was how the thelt nobile character, silent admirer Claridge's or at the Hotel of the
was discovered. of Olivia and good friend to Beautiful Biar, Olifant,
and ** gentle. The Flaming Jewel", by R. W. scholar mon minus an arm Float in Chambers is a real-thriller. here Britain's service, plays a Martha is no time wasted over sodio des like part of self-denial. He doescriptions, characterisation, or clever what be can for both and when the aphorisms. Incident follows anci Mr..0. V, Foale, Superintendent of bold Briggs has been revealed and fent in the most rapid succession the Registration Department, General lisappeara, Olifant suppresses hit and each Adventure becomes more Post Office, gayo ayidence,a to the passion and does highest to comfort thrilling and more imposible dan method of dealing with registered, Olivin Up to this point the plot the preceding one. At least seventy packkara. Ha-produced in Cap ia:excellent. Then there is a fall five per cent of the characters are receipta for the realateral letters UP ing away for when Briggs, socing shady, people, and these are nearly question. & Chipman postman.alen his deceived wife, tries to commit all wiped out in the last fo suicide by moloring over a scop either by mestu embankment Mr Locke saves him Borrible nk bel In quaking miniculously, liv, means of a bon | morasan kat
Evidence was given by Fong Check kong of the Bank's Swatow branch as to the sending of the drafts by re- gistered packaga
deliveripe
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