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號一月五年三十二百九千一类
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'CHINA HOUSE FRAUD TERMS.
́HAYNES' DEBTS.
DISHONEST HONGKONG CHEQUES, (Reuter's, Sørvice to the China rail) »
LONDON," April 30.
A trial lasting nine days has resulted in Enever being sentenced to three years' penal servitude, Bennett to fifteen months in the second division 'and Haynes to six months in the second division:
Inspector Gillard incidentally testified that Haynes had been posted at the Selangor Turf Club for not paying debts amounting to $3,000 and a warrant had been issued in Hongkong last year for debts-which he had attempted to discharge with dis- 'honest cheques.
BA+8=3RA24=1080P,PRICE. $2,00„Pár Month.
AMERICAN PROHIBITION RULING.
SUPREME COURT SURPRISE.
WIDE CONTROL OVER FOREIGN SHIPS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail,)
WASHINGTON, April 30,-*** The Supreme Court has decided that foreign and American steamships are prohibited from bringing into American ports intoxicating liquors under seat intended for the use of passengers on the outward voyages It held, however, that American steamships are not prohibited from hav ing on board intoxicating liquors for leveragy pur- poses in the high seas and in foreign ports.
The latter decision reverses the rulitg of the Attomey-General against serving liquor on the high seas.
WASHINGTON, April 30. The Court-lad declared that an examination of: The Common Sergeant, passing sentence, said the Prohibition Act as a whole showed that it was that this was a very bad fraud, indeed a most per plainly intended to be operative within the ter- sistent one, deliberately thought out and carried to ritorial limits of the United States, except the the bitter end. A great many people, chiefly off-Panama Canal; that it was not intended to apply cers, had been defrauded of money which they to American vessels outside territorial waters; und could ill afford to lose. Frauds of this find were that it was intended to apply to all merchantinen whether foreign er domestic, within territorial too rife. Enever was ir dangerous man.
Referring to Bennett, the Common Sergeant witers. said he was not the initiator of the frauds but at the same time he got £2,700 out of them,,
***THE BITTER END.***
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The Court held that Federal jurisdiction øver
foreign ships ia American territorial waters was Edwin Alexander Enever 50, engineer, of complete. It would be possible, however, for Con- China House, 77, Knightsbridge; Leslie Ernestress to waive the enforcement thereof and permit Haynes, 24, secretary; of 47, Bedford-square; and foreign ships do things American ships were William Henry Beanett, 53, merchant of 127 prevented from doing, but the opinion was express- Crawford Street Marylebone, were charged with ed that foreign nations could not force any such conspiring to cheat and defraud by inducing exemption. persons to invest in the Humphrey and Denman Company; a concern.supposed to be connected with mining interests in China]
HANDS OFF!
FRANCE REFUSES LEAGUE MEDIATION.
DANGEROUS SUGGESTIONS."
PARIS, May 1
Immediately the ruling was announced officials of American and foreign steamship companies Eastily conferred to devise plans for niceting the situation.
LATER
The Secretary of the Treasury announces that the date of the enforcement of the new, regulations - da accordance with the Court's ruling, will be fixed- later, Ships now at sea will not be affected.
AMERICA'S RHINE ARMY,
MAKING SURE OF THE COSTS.
WASHINGTON, April 30,
Those in England and elsewhere advocating the intervention of the League of Nations in the Ruhr question, have the plainest intimation of France's attitude in a speech made by M. Barthough The State Department announces that before
Mr Wadsworthseff Paris be filed with the Amerikes President of the Reparations Commission," "un
In this speech, after paying a tribute to the can-German Claims Commission clain for League, M. Barthou declared the league would$25,000,000 for the cost of maintaining the army of exceed its mandate, or at least compromise its occupation as a precautionary measure in the event work if it yielded to the generous but imprudent of failure of the present negotiations with the Allies and dangerous suggestions inviting it to take up for the collection thereof. questions not within its scope like reparations-and- the Ruhr occupation. Neither France nor Belgium would accept such action:
HOW BRITAIN LOSES TRADE.
ANOTHER LABOUR DISPUTE.
LONDON, April 30. The lock out against 10,000 boiler makers was enforced to-day. Work in the shipyards is jeopar dised. Some yards are at a standstill and a good deal of repair work has been diverted to the Continent. The employers are doing their utmost to minimise the disorganisation by continuing to em- ploy other workers as long as possible, but a thousand trade unionists who are prepared to accept the agreement have bled repudiated by the. boiler. .makörs and automatically rendered idle along with
the boiler-makers. `
BRITAIN'S IDLE SHIPPING. HEAVY DECREASE RECORDED.
LONDON; April 30., Lloyd's List publishes statistics compiled by the Chamber of Shipping showing that the shipping laid up in the United Kingdom on April I was 546,000 tons compared with 732,000 tons on January I, and 1,112,000 tons on July 1, 1922. The latest figure is the lowest since December of 1920 when returns, were first kept
| LAUSANNE CONFERENCE.
RUSSIANS AGAIN PROTEST.
⠀⠀ LAUSANNE, April 30. M. Vorowsky states that the Soviet Government has sent a note to the Italian Government protesting against the exclusion of Russia from the Conference unless she signs the Straits convention, S
IM: Vorowsky is the Soviet representative from Rome. Russia was not invited to the Conference because the Allies and Turkey had agreed to the terms of the draft Straits conventions regarding which Russia had been invited,previously.]
AMERICAN CAPITALISTS' VICTORY.
CHESTER CONCESSION SIGNED.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30:
CHEERED WHEN ARRESTED. IRISH ENVOYS IN AUSTRALIA.
SYDNEY, April 30. Two Irish Republican envoys, Father O'Flannagar and Father O'Kelly, who have been propagandising in Australia, also Mr. Clancy, Vice- President of the Irish National Association, have beeu arrested on a charge of unlawfully engaging in a seditious enterprise:
A crowd of 1,000 people hooted the police and cheercil the envoys. Bail was allowed.
MARKS FURTHER DOWN.
Marks have depreciated to 148,000 and 151,000 under Continental influences.
REBEL TRUCE BEGINS:
DUBLIN STILL DOUBTFUL.
-DUBLIN: April 30.
The absence of news as regards acts of violence and disorder since soon leads to the assumption that the Irregulars have ceased fire under the order that began to operate' at that hour, though Dublin is not yet very confident, regarding this one-sided. truce.
[The Irish rebel'order for general suspension of offensive operations took effect from April 30, noon.]
THREE MILE LIMIT AGAIN..
BRITISH VESSEL SEIZED.
LONDON, April 30.
In the House of Commons Mr Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for. Forciga Affairs, replying, to Mr. C. P. Trevelyan (Labour), said the United States Authorities had seized and still detained a British vessel on the ground that her small- boats had entered the three-mile limit illegally although the vessel kerself remained outside. The British Government had questioned the right of the United States Government to make the seizure and diblomatic correspondence was proceeding.
FRANTIC SIGNALS.”-
LINER'S BOAT DIPS BELOW BIG WAVE.
OVER TEN LIVES LOST, Colonel Clayton Kennedy, on behalf of
CAPETOWN, April 30. Admiral Chester, exchanged signatures of a con-
Latest news indicates that it is practically con vention embodying the Chester concession, with Fevzi Boy, Commissar of Public Works, at Angora tain the Mossamedes missing boat, containing yesterday.
Any ten to thirteen passengers and crew, including two Admiral Chester, acted for an American Englishman, has been lost Dyndicate. The concession, which is valid for 99 Survivors declare that the boat was the last of a years, concems big tabl works The new con- straggling line. A man was seen in the bows signal- pany is subject to all ish taxation and must also ling frantically but unintelligibly. The boat was pay thirty per cent profits, to the Government? It the hidden by a big wave and was not afterwards
torials duty free and employ seen
4Mossamedés: must train Ticks to replace themy
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