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FASCIST TRIUMPH.
MUSSOLINI'S NEW CABINET.
(Reuter's Service.)
Rome, January 6
The Cabinet has been recon- structed solidly Fascist, with the exception of Sgr. Denava, Minis- ter of Public Economy, who belongs to the acetion of the Popular Party loyal to Sgr. Mussolini.
Meanwhile, the, ultra-Fascisti are demanding stronger measures against the Opposition.
Fascisti ir Venice paraded shouting for the appointment of the extreme Fasciat Sgr. Farinacci as Minister of the Interior.:
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ANOTHER BURGLARY.
WELL-KNOWN CURIO STORE ROBBED.
VALUABLE -DOCUMENTS STOLEN.
THIEVES ESCAPE WITH BOOTY WORTH $72,000.
Following the week-end's burglary in Messra: Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co.'s establishment; comes a startling burglary at Messrs. Lock Hing's shop. No. 38, Queen's Road Central--almost back to back to Messrs. Whiteaway's.
As in the previous case, the culprits got away unchallenged, Jewellery to the value of between $6,000 and $7,000 was taken, It appears that a plenary meet-together with a small sum of ing of the Opposition has been convened for January 8.
POUND STERLING.
RESTORING ITS GOLD PARITY.
(Reuter's American Service.)
money, title deeds for property valued at anything up to $50,000, promissory notes (or mortgage deeds) for about $16,000, two cheques and a compradore order, Fortunately, the documents are not easily negotiable.
Tracing the movements of the burglars from cluea left in the
Imprints in the dust lead to a auspicion that the, gang, for there were traces of more than one man having been inside the shop with dirty hands and shoes, went on to the first floor through the main staircase, along the passage-way, and opened the "window into the narrow lane. Going out through the window, they must have used an aperture, octagonal in shape and giving light into the next door shop. As it is almowe possi- bla to walk down the aperture,
In the front of the shop" and close to the cast wall is the shop counter, behind which are two safes, one placed under a large flat show-case, with the other a few feet away, but obscured from view by a sliding door. This sliding door saved the firin from a loss of over $10,000 in money, as the key to the concealed safe was taken away by the burglars.
RABIES,
FIVE CASES NOW REPORTED.
LOOKING FOR CONTACTS.
A case reported from 54, Lynd- hurst. Terrace brings to five the number of dogs reported to have! been suffering from" rabies since the first was notified several months ago...
The dog was actually shot, on December 27, but notification of the dog having suffered from rabies has only just been made.
A coolie who was bitten by, the dog was taken to the Government Civil Hospital at the time, and now that it has been definitely established that the dog' was suffering from rabies enquiries are being made as to whether it bit any other human beings or dogs. The coolie should be in no danger of getting the dread dis- ease of hydrophobia as he was treated at once in accordance with the Pasteur cure.
"Rables cases generally come in about it," said Mr. W. J. Mackenzie, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, when approached by a "China Mali" representative this morning.
On a map which was upon the wall of his office, Mr. Mackenzie five crosses which
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After prising open the exposed safe, the thieves must have gone through the contents very minute. shop, it is presumed that they there was no difficulty in getting dy, as practically everything of clumps; there is nothing unusual¦• discrimination. For seventy must have been in the premises down to the windows on the Value was gone this morning: but for hours. That they were western side of the shop. "One of a stack of books were left behind. Washington, January 6. audacious and in no hurry these windows, having become Two small trinket boxes contain According to information evident from boxes having been stucic fast through the coats of in jewellery deposited with reaching American officials here, removed considerable distances so paint added year after year, was Lock Hing's by friends were taken the visit of Mr. Montagu that their contents could be not bolted, but, nevertheless, it out. One of the boxes was found Norman, a Director of the Bank examined at leisure. They even was protected by stout iron bars on a desk, just inside the main of England, is connected with a took a couple of cloths used to However, the bars proved of no door. The presumption is that the indicated. proposal whereby British Gov-shield the shop windows from the use as two of them were forced gang must have sat at the desk as marked the spots in the town ernment and financial interests sun, possibly, with which to wrap Once through the window, the closely examined the contents living at the time they were shot. out of position by a motor jack. the chair was out of position and where the infected dogs had been would restore the pound sterling up the "swag." to its gold parity in the near
first man must have walked before deciding to take them. The Just as entrance was secured several feet along the top of a other box was even further away, future.
to Messrs. Whiteway's by a peril show case leating against the in the opposite corner and on top ous climb outside windows, so the wall, climbed down some shelves of another show-case. thieves in this case got into Lock and so reached the foor. It is Hing'e shop, containing a stock of surmised that the rat man moved gold and silver ware, curious, ailk, ivory, bronze, ornaments, placing a wooden Loot-rest in away stacks of China dishes, blackwood furniture, etc., valued their place on thehelfte help the conservatively at a minimum of second man down mite the top of $300,000; cost price
the show-care
POSTAL WAGES,
AMERICAN EMPLOYEES
DISAPPOINTED.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Washington, January 6. The Senate has failed to pass the postal pay bill over the Pre- sident's veto. The voting was 55 to 29 in favour, which just lacks the necessary two-thirds majority.
Consequently, the salary in creases of postal employees will now depend on the enactment of the measure to advance pay and postal rates at the same time,
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Station, No. 2 at Seymour Terrace, Ne. 3 at Arsenal Street and No. 4
at Robinson Road.
"No I shouldn't call those
A part of the shop-window was opened, but here the gang only scattered for rabies cases," said took a white China "goddess of Mr. Mackenzie in answer to a foot high knitted" silver belt of all the trouble and if he bit only mercy" image, standing over a question. The first was the cause is also missing and this might have one of the others the thing would been used to tie up the stolen spread, As a matter of fact the Fate was on the side of the mis- creants, as it is the custom of front door of which was locked shelves were not touched; neither Peak was to accompany an Army Inside the establishment, the the dozens of show cases, and the first case) moyed from the goods. All the other silverware in only time that Mr. Scott's dog Chinese shops to permit and en- from the inside and, which was were the thousands of curios in officer to the Hospital in Bowen courage the employees to sleep on entirely dark, the street fight the shop. That none of these was Road." the premises. Two or three years ago, the loss of a few smalling cut off by the wooden shut-remond was probably because of
"We are doing all we can," add- ters outside the shop windows, their bulk. articles, the first in the "firm's the burglars could pick what they
ed Mr. Mackenzie, "and that is to history since its foundation in
From the safe which was opened, keep all suspected dogs under n'anted. 1870-resulted in the whole staff
the thieves also took a bundle of observation and make enquiries as protesting against sleeping in the only a few feet from the entrance near Canton, and some protuissory notification is made of an animal Standing directly opposite and title deeds for some padi belds to possible contacts as soon as shop proper for fear of individual of this well-known store, in a glass notes made out to the firm. In a having been infected." suspicion. Since then the actual show-case." shop itself has been shut off, placed in the lower and larger more important safe, but they Silver articles are drawer they found the key to the locked and barred, with the fokis compartment, but in a smaller could not discover its whereabouts living either in a small portion at division at the top is displayed a and satisfied themselves with pris- the rear of the building or in a large and valuable collection, coming open a drawer in the counter. blackwood godown in the base-prising mostly gold and jade Hers they found about $200 in cagh, ment.
jewellery The fact of the shop being
but they also took the cheques and Every article in this part of the compradore orders, besides & pilea empty from seven o'clock in the show-case was taken, the little of correspondence and business evening the closing hour-till stands and racks being stripped documents. EQUITABLE USE OF THE this morning, greatly facilitated of even the small number tags.
WATERS.
Once inside the shop, the gang (Courtesy of Daily Bulletin.") the thieves in their work.
A small gold chain, which got did not need to get out by the way. Above Messrs. Lock Hing's are wedged in between the bottom of they entered. They inust, have several flats, sub-divided into the compartment and the glass walked straight up to the front MS Fu-hsiang has telegraphed
PEKING, January 6. offices and tenements. Entrance wall, was left behind. As a detail- door, wienched of the padlock asking Tuan Chi-jai where the to rooms upstairs is by the flighted stock sheet is kept, it was inside, opened the door, of stairs, outside the shop and possible to supply full particulars walked out,
and office of co-Director of the North- just beyond the Queen's Theatre. at a moment's notice. Approxi-
West Frontier is to be established. On the first ficor is a wide pas- mately a hundred articles, all morning, one of the blackwood Kublin to Peking to inform Tuan Shortly before opening hour this Ma Fu-hslang has also sent Chou sage giving access to all the ready for sale, must. have been packers employed in the basement. Chi-jui that he is ready to hand rooms. At the further end of the stolen. Of these the most valu- which has direct necess to:Queen's over to Li Ming-chun. passage is a window which over-able is a pair of flying green' Road via & small lane separating locks a very narrow cul-de-sac jade bracelets, priced at $1,500, Lock Hing's building from the has telegraphed to the Govera It is reported that Hu Ching-yi separating Lock Hing's building Nearly all the Jewellery was of Queen's Theatre; happened to passment asserting that Fengtien from the block of shops next door, European design, and this lot is. •. (Continued at foot of next
troops are being moved westward further west.
worth about $6,000:
along the Lunghai Railway, and asking for an explanation of it.
Chang Tso-lin is still at Tientsin. The situation in Peking appears brighter, although there are fresh rumours of impending strife be tween Li Ching-lin and Sun. Yueh
RIO. GRANDE.
U.S. COMMISSIONERS.
(Reuter's Service.)
WASHINGTON, January 6. President Coolidge has designat ed three special Commissioners to arrange with the Mexican Com mission for "the equitable use of the Rio Grande waters below Fort Quitman."
EGYPT'S PROBLEMS.
EXTENSION OF IRRIGATION SCHEME,
POSSIBLE AGREEMENT.
(Reuter's Service.)
$1
CAIRO, January 5 Common ground has been reached and an agreement fal sight between the Government and the residency the question of the extension of the Gezira irriga- tion scheme and the apportionment of the Nile water between Egypt and the Soudan...
Resignations from Wald "are increasing owing to the alleged open republicanism of the majority of the Zaghlulists.
One case of diphtheria, Chinese, was notified yesterday.
FUNERAL OF A PRESIDENT'S “WIDOW.
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the door on his way back from tea at u tea-house. Noticing that the door, instead of being securely locked, was slightly ajar, he peeped ir, timovered what had happened and then called the staff.
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The Police were not-notified-till- more than an hour later, but officers frora the Criminal Intelligence 100 "Department got to work at once. Bome time will be required before the mure of clues is gone through rdany marks having been läft beg hind lie wille and shelves. Until die finger-printe have been photographed and developed it, will not be known if the same gang per petmied both burglacies,
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