WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926.
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A RETROSPECT.
PRIME MINISTER'S REVIEW OF THE YEAR.
PROSPEROUS NEIGHBOURS WANTED.
British Wireless Service.)
Rugby. Jan 26.
SOVIET TERMS.
WHAT MARSHAL CHANG TSO-LIN SIGNED,
RAILWAY SETTLEMENT:
(Reuter's Service,
Peking. Jan. 26, In his speech in london, l'ast According to Russian reports night prior to his departure for the Chang "Tse-lin and Soviet Sebt bord! the Prime Minister agreement was signed ut Mukden Mr. Stanley Baldwin dealt with on Sunday night. The terms the reward of the Government follow- during the past years and! Inid Taperind emphasis on questions of
heal and national repony.
SNOO
The Dawes Pham,
Firstly,Release of M. Ivanoff and others.
COLOURED BRIDE.
MILLIONAIRES DIVORCE
SUIT.
BITTER LAWFIGHT.
America to-day Is seething in anothar • "black" V "white" scandal, which
have may
the gravest effects on the 1,000,000 roloured citizens of the union, who are dally getting more reative under the carous anomalies free- dom brings under the "Stars and Stripes."
one in which
Secondly.Restoration of ner-to
mal trafic..
of the ERA a balameed Badget and sahtised riproney. Por the bioment, Bermon businuss was Anding embarrassed by nut
natural petit stringency, and later.
The CRSE
Leonard Kip. Rhinelander, the heir the Rhinelander millions. amassed by a proud exclusige
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Hi opid Murphe past year had. Thirdly-Cost of Chinese mili-Huguenot family, is petitioning" witnessed a notable advance in very transportation he be paid New York court to annul his the European Aikatio The from Chin's share of the CER.arriage, contragted ast your. flower plan had-achiefed initial preflis.
with Alice Beatrice Jones; a slim 1 was of the greatest; Fourthly-Military transport-dark, and beautiful giri, on the importance because it marked in lation to be, in accordance with ||ground "that she is of negro dua Germany the definite achieverend the Ruthray's regulations.
ent and concealed this from him Fifthly. Compensation for fore the ceremony. damages, and losses to the Rail-
Former Servant, way, through the incident. and Society was scandalised when also other claims to be considered fake news of the marriage leaked >ut, Alice, who says she 14 They were Face to face now withi An earlier Poking message re-twenty-three lived in A Bmw thefr own problem at unempley ported: The Russian Embassy vooden house In New Rochelly: ment. At hoped that this would states that M. Ivanoff has been
nd worked as a domestic servant pass, been use is was realised now released. Is is also stated that a nd a waitress.. that we dit not want poor neigh-satisfactory agreement, regard
I was sold that her parents bars but prosperous, neighbouring the transportation of Chinese were
of British descont. "My if the rammere of Engore was to troops, has been reached between ather," she told interviewers,
Marshal Chang Tso- and the was horn ht Coventry, i Soviet Consul-General at MukLeicestershire, and mother came
Hewan Alford, in England."
progress.
Panditions in France,
J bances conditions. to-day den.] exhibited a sharp contrast, Where
had been a Considerable decline
In the hange Vather of the frane.
and this want giving Wrench in-
ITALY'S, DEBT.
TO-DAY,
durkey a new, though he believe AGREEMENT TO BE SIGNED tempomvey, advantages in many competitive markets. The British had fand in in, steel, and coul what this meant: But their hope was that so far as they were co- cerned the diskwabion would be temporary.
Progress in Italy.
in Maly, the past year had been
TRIUMPH POR VOLFE
Reuter's Seretce:)
London, Jan. 26. The complete agreement reach- one of steady progress and led for the funding of Italy's, debt activity. Generall satisfaction, had to Great Britain will be signed Bron
eansed by her settlement to-morrow.
with America. on liberal terms, of her debt. The hath every hope that the negotiations now proceeding between Italy and Britain would be brought to 'successful use.
Locarno Paet.
VGA
Pechape the culminating point WILS in the appreciation of Britain's political stock abroad. which wis reached Inst month when the Treaty of Bocarno sealed in London." H was only too well aware that the spirit of Locarne had to Se translated into continuous astion; but it was in that spirit that they had sent Lord Cecil to Geneva to take part in The Disarmament
Conference The Government realised the diff calty of that problem, but all were pledged by treaty to attempt with Mincerily and with frankness
it
GUNBOATS ORDER.
AMERICAN PREFERENCE FOR CHINESE,
LOWER BRITISH OFFERS REJECTED,
Heuber's Serpice.)
Shanghai, Jan. 26. Although in excess, of the offers of two well-known British yards here, the 'Lender of the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works (a Chinese Government concern) to build the six new American gun-
QUERY FOR. VOLPI, »
Main Figures Determined.
(British Wireless Service)
Rugby, Jan. 26.
One Mister is married to a negro- hutter employed by a wealthy emily.. and the father was doscribed as a taxi-cab driver and
claims were made that he was a len oddsjob man, though some,
"real estate man."
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROSEMARY DERING)
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"Red" Grango, the groat (green) back, survives the gruelling football schedule inapped out for him in his quest for touchdowns and dollars, he will have Rosemary Doring, Chicago girl as the leading woman in his first vonturo in the Alma,
H.H. HOTEL RESIDENTS:
Jacosry $7.
Mr O Poderson Mr E Aakew Mr N. f. Beale
On both sides the case is being Bought with unusust Bitterness. Allee sat in court and shudderet || Yr W. R. Dockrill
as her husband's lawyer assalled her ancestry and the motives which led to her marriage.
"The alliance." he shouted, was fraudulent and deceptive."
The bride with her face buried Beneath a deep fus collur, Hatened while she was called a "black vampire" The heir to the Rhine- lander. fortune was said to be mentally weak, when she wilfully infatuated him. pursuing him until he was her slave: body and soul he belonged to her."
Your hundred and twenty-six love letters "written by the girl were stacked on the tablen in the of them
The confidence expressed in last feourt, and from
xome
night's communique that encounsel read passionate extracts. agreement as to the terms on Some of these passages were un which the Italian War Debt would printable. From one letter it was be settled was within sight was ought to prove that Alice
had confirmed.in granted to
a brief interview beer unchaste before her marriage. the Press by Count
"Ehave had some sweethearts,"" Volpi at his hotel last night. He she had written. was asked if the figures of settle ment had been determined and Preplied: "As to the principal, yes; and there may be a few changes before we settle definitely."
SEVERE QUAKE.
RECORDED IN SYDNEY AND PERTH.
PROBABLY IN SOLOMON ISLES.
iRenter's Service.}
Perth (West Australia), Jan. 26.
From a huge, pile of documente gathered together at enormous ex berse the parentage and origin of
girl's family was proved.
Sitting Histening to this without tremor on his face Was the bridegroom. He betrayed no emo. tion even when he was character- ised as one on whom no woman ever-smiled until the dark-faced daughters of the New Rochelle taxi-driver met him.
Hia Mentality. The story of this meeting thus described-
was
Remember that this boy is only twenty-two years old, four years younger than the woman. who claims to his wife," said coun-
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Mr.K. Bush # Mr.P. B. Rawls M? T. 8, W, 8mith Mr O. B. Thompson Mr. Wraggon Mr B. Wylle
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A severe earthquake was re-set "Hother died in 1916, corded here at 8.45 a.m. yester- and his father has had the care of
"The boy did not mind the social hoats, whose construction Con-day. It is estimated to have been him. When Leonard was eight station of the girl mor her lack of gress recently authorised, at 2,300 miles away.
years old he developed a physical wealth, but he was of the proud
$164,000 (gold) per vessel, has A Sydney (New South Wales) affliction that made him tongue-Huguenot strain and would not been accepted.
message says that a severe earth-tied, and from which he still have willingly allowed the family The Shanghai Dock and Engin-quake was recorded there at. 10.41 suffers. His mentality became name to be married by marriage eering Comping tendered $107,500 am yesterday. It was estimat-affected.
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with a coloured person. But he "When he was seventeen he was was convinced and so they were
married."
(gold) and the New Engineering fed to be 1.750 miles away, prob treated for mental backwardness.
and Shipbuilding Works tendered ably in the Sclomon Islands. Tl. 184.000,
NOTHING DOING!
LIBERAL SUPPORT NOT TO BE PURCHASED.
LABOUR LEADER'S REPLY.
(British Wireless Service.)
Rugby, Jan. 26. Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) M. P. for Burnley), in a apeech at Burnley yesterday, replied to Mr. Lloyd George's recent speech on the question of a suggested alliance between the Liberal and Labour Parties.
Mr. Henderson said that what- ever happened the Labour Party would not purchase Liberal sup- port by the betrayal of its prin- ciples, the lowering of a ideals, or the mutilation of its pro- gramme.
SHIPPING MISHAP,
DUTCH STEAMER MAKING WATER
PUTS IN AT GIBRALTAR.
(Reuter's Service.)
Gibraltar, Jan. 26: The Dutch steamer "Medan," from Sourabaya bound for New York, has put in here.
The vessel is making water at the rate of aix inches an hour.
"No Trace."
[The Solomon Islands, in the He had money. a motor-ear, and West Pacific, are 500 miles east all that, and he fell into the com- of New Guinen; they are moun-pany of a miserable wretch named tainous and volcanic, with a heavy Carl Kreitler, who took himsel, that Emily Jones married a rainfall. The group forms part about...
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The records showed, said coun-
negro on March 11, 1905, and gave
of the British Empire, as under "When they were motoring near her colour as blask, and that her the Peace Treaty those of the the Jones's home a girl accosted father in last years application They invited her to ride. for a motor licence described him- islands formerly belonging to Ger- him. many were assigned to Australia. She went. They toured about, and self as of the same colour. The area of the group is 17,000 finally Kreitler went away with After all this evidence Mrs. square miles, and the population Grace. When they returned Rhinelander upset the original
Kreitler agreed to 170,000.]
meet Grace plans of her husband's counsel by again. He could not keep the ap conceding that she was of partly pointment, but Rhinelander did, negro parentage. and explained his 'companion's
RADIO WEEK.
INTERNATIONAL TEST IN NEW YORK.
INTERFERENCE DISCOUNTED.
(Reuter's American Service.)
absence.
Mrs. Rhinelander 's counsel, in
Alice, came along then, his reply attacked the bridegroom.
cond Grace Introduced her.
They, mot in October, but on
with extraordinary violence.
He described him as "a stam-
December 23, 1931, she wrote himmering nut" and "an infatuated Baying she was going to stay at imbecile."
Only when medical
the Marie Antoinette Hotel and testimony was introduced to show they reglatered there five days, that he was weak-minded did Then in a series of daily letters, perspiration break out on his face, the lawyer said, the girl fought to and he shivered... regain and retain the love of the The wife's lawyers, said that he youth.
dined and wined with coloured
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New York, Jan. 26.. In spite of interferences, caus- "He was utterly infatuated. He members of the Jones family, ed by 8.0.5. calls from the British did not know black from white.played with a little black niece of steamer Lariatan" (which has He gave her an engagement ring Alice, slept in the bed of her dark- heen abandoned off Halifax, and in 1928, but he refused to marry featured father, and would have which caused al! American her until he became of age.. had to be blind, not insane, to have stations to suspend transmissions Meanwhile she was threatening believed, she was white, anti! 10.80 p.m. and by the earth" to return to her 818 "Tweetheart Rhinelanders mercfiasaly quake which caused fading, laat and we will produce that sweet cross-examined, and was forced night's opening of the third inter-heart in court and she was tell- into contradictions. He said that! rational broadcasting tast is de-ing him of the hundred datas she he never dreamed that she was clared by the Radio Week Com might have made with either man tainted with negro blood, me mitted to have been a greater while he was away, of the Harvard But, later, he said that he had success than the first night of graduate whom she had turned ample opportunity of observing Radio Week Inst. year,
down for him, Finally he became the girl's colour when he lived At least 1,200 listeners are of age, he left Arizone, and I im with her at an hotel in Tew York already known to have heard told want to her before he want some time before they were: music from England.
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