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NOTORIOUS OUTLAW.
Shielded By Indian Clans.
FRONTIER ROUND-UP.
Sequel To Murder Of Lady In 1923.
DEFACED NOTE. ·
Decision of Privy Council.
BANK LOSES.
Contract To Honour Note
Clear.
London, Yesterday.
INDIAN REFORMS.
Departure of The Commission.
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HOPES OF SUCCESS.
Unusual Demonstration At Railway Station.
Peshawar, Yesterday.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Frontier Constabulary The Judicial Committee of the Sir John Simon and hia col-) have carried out an
extensive Privy Council, consisting of Lords leagues of the Statutory Commia- round-up of the leading Orakzai | Buckmaster, Blanesburgh, andĮsion, which is to inquire into the clans for not surrendering Sultan Darling, dismissed the appeal working of Indian reforms, leave Mir, a notorious outlaw who was brought by the Hong Kong and London to-day, and embark on 'the concerned in the murder of Mrs. Shanghai Banking. Corporation P. & O. s.8. "Moultan" at Marseilles Ellis and kidnapping her daugh- against the judgment of the to-morrow. They reach Bombay on ter some years ago.
Supreme Court, Hong Kong, in February 3 and proceed frst to An agreement was made in order to discover the legal posi- Delhi. 1923 whereby the tribes of Tirah tion as regards a bank note whose Last night, Sir John Simon's were pledged not to allow any number was defaced.
legal colleagues bade him farewell. member of the gang concerned on. The respondent, Lo Lee-shi, did Sir Douglas Hogg, Attorney-Gen- the Ellis case to enter their ter-not appear. Lord Buckmaster eral, expressed the desire that suc ritory or, if they did, surrender recalled that the wife of Lo Lee-cess would crown the great work them.
shi hid two $500 notes in a gar- Sir John Simon had undertaken.- Sultan Mir, whose son, Gulak-ment which was washed, dried, British Wireless Service. har, was arrested and executed at and starched. They were redis- Peshawar in 1927, is believed to covered during the ironing. The be living in the Orakzai country notes were mutilated. The Bank Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for under the patronage of an in-paid one, which was fully recon- India, speaking at a luncheon of fluential Mullah, Mahmud Akhunstructed, but refused to pay the the Association of British Cham Zada, who has lately been the other as the number was missing. bers of Commerce, referred to the cause of certain restlessness on Their Lordships, though un-Commission which, headed by Sir
TRADE REVIVAL.
Lord Birkenhead Optimlstle.
Rugby, Yesterday.
the part of the Orakzais.-Reuter, willing to lay down a general John Simon, left London to-day for principle in law, expressed the India to investigate there the sub opinion that the Bank's contract ject of constitutional raforma. to honour the note was sufficiently He said that the members of the evidenced by the mutilated docu-Commission had undertaken a task ment and verbal testimony-which meant that they must spend Reuter.
GOOD GROUND FOR CONFIDENCE.
ENCOURAGING FACTORS.
Loridon, Yesterday,
four months this year and seven months more to studying the material they had collected. He had the highest hopes
"Looking to the future there is WIRELESS PHONES. of the success of the Commia- good ground for confidence" declar- ed Mr. Frederick Goodenough in reviewing Britain's trade prospects at Barclay's Bank annual meeting
He said that both the Industry and trade of Britain were at pre- sent showing indications of a sub- stantial revival which was likely to be more permanent than the earlier
short revivals." He instanced the
SERVICE BETWEEN BELGIUM
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FORMAL OPENING.
Rugby, Yesterday. The wireless telephony service
sion, and added: "I have formed the clear view that the less I intervene from this side the better, unless any matter of real principle, upon which the Commission desire to consult me, may become involved." A Splendid. Send Off. The departure of the Indian Com- mission was attended by an un- usual demonstration. Several hun-
between Cuba, the United States and Britain will be extended to day to Brussels and· ́Antwerp.; recovery of shipbuilding and also Trial tests have given satisfaction dred people were assembled at Vic- the growing mutual understanding and the service will be opened for between capital and labour and said public calla this afternoon. Bri- |that America had an advantage by tish Wireless Service.
having internal tariffa, free trade nbroad and small taxation; in Ger- many also, where following the Dawes scheme, great industrial amalgamations had occurred facl- litating mass production.
These were likely to become chief rivals with each other but Britain, by better organisation of the basic industries and by combination of in tereats should be able to hold her own.
A Bank's Order.
toria Station. Mr. Baldwin, Lord Birkenhead, Viscount Peel (former Secretary for India), Earl Winter- ton, Under-Secretary for India, and Brussels, Yesterday."
a large number of members of Par- The National Bank of Belgium Hament of all parties were present. inaugurated the commercial wire-
Sir John Simon expressed his less telephone service between
thanks for the splendid send-off. Brussels and New York by com- munication with the Federal Re-A great cheer was raised when the serve Bank, in the course of which train moved off, Cabinet Ministers the Governor of the National Bank joining in. There were many In- ordered a million dollars worth of dians in the crowd. gold ingots. Reuter.
Reaching Bombay on February 3 the Commission will proceed to Delhi.
Greeting to America.
Brussels, Yesterday. Mr. Pippens, Minister for. Rail- He deprecated the suggestion of
Staying there a few weeks they ways and Communications, sent a a European Customs Union or a
message to the Belgian Ambas- will observe the work of the Coun Tarif Agreement which, he was ofsador to the United States cordial-cil of State and examine the ad- opinion would chiefly benefit Ger- ty greeting the American people ministrative machinery of the Cen- many, but he advocated devoting and hoping that the establishment tral Government. They will after- our energien towards developing the of telephonic communications ward go to Madras and Lahore, and empire through Inter-imperial fin- would inaugurate closer economic it is understood they will come into ance, and trade.
relations between the two coun-close contact with influential In- Referring to the suggestions that tries. The United States Ambas- dians is an unofficial atmosphere, banks should direct a policy as to sador in Belgium later conversed British Wireless Service. various industries, notably Lanca- with Mr. Kellogg. The experiment was most successful, the voices shire cotton, Mr. Goodenough said being heard with great clarity. that the banks had advanced large Reuter, sums to cotton mills and there was little room for further advances. In many cases it was not the func- tion of the bank to determine the
method of carrying on a particular
interest. That must be left to the people engaged in the industry- Reuter,
"More Permanent."
Rugby, Yesterday, '
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GERMAN CABINET. NEW MINISTER OF DEFENCE
APPOINTED.
WAR ACTIVITIES.
CASTELLANI.
RECOGNITION OF MEDICAL WORK.
KNIGHTED BY THE KING.
Rugby, Yesterday. H.M. the King has conferred the rank of honorary Knight Com- mander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George upon Dr. Castellani, Director of Tropical AP-Medicine at the Ross Institute and in the Hospital of Tropical Discases,
London.
Berlin, Yesterday. Mr. Goodenough, presiding at the General Groener has been general meeting of Barclay's Bank, pointed Minister of Defence said that both industry and trade Buccession to Herr Gesaler. In this country were showing in- Groener, who is 61, was in⠀ Dr. Castellani, who was born in dications of a substantial revival charge of the entire railway opera: Florence, has lived in England for tlons at the outbreak of the War. many years. He is chiefly known at the present moment. Although He
conducted the economic for his part in elucidating the there had heen similar signs of immobilisation of the civilian popula- causes of sleeping afckness, yawe provement at, intervals' during the tion in 1918 and succeeded and other tropical maladies. Bri- last few years, which proved, how-¦ Ludendorff as Quartermaster- tish Wireless Service. ever, to be only temporary, yet on General. each successive revival the duration In 1918 he played a decisive role had been somewhat extended and in the ex-Kaiser's flight to Hol- was only cut short in 1926 by the land of which the Nationalists coal dispute and by labour difficul- have not forgiven him.-Reuter. ties.
DEAN SYMONS.
... DEATH REPORTED IN..
SHANGHAL
COST OF LIVING.
PROGRESSIVE DECREASE AT
HOME.
LESS UNEMPLOYMENT.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Except for the fact that competi- tion and rules of supply and demand must necessarily affect future] values, the continuous process of stabilisation of currencies and world. prices which was taking place-af- forded a reasonable, expectation that the trade. Improvement which this country was now experiencing Dean Symons, occurred this morn-ly unemployed was smaller than might be more permanent.
ing as the result of pneumonia in the previous year. The number of trade disputes causing stoppage
Shanghai, Yesterday.
The death of the Very Reverend
In a survey of the cost of living and of trade disputes during the past year the Ministry of Labour records that in spite of losses in some Important industries, the average number of persons actual-
The recent recovery in the ship- Reuter, and been asso- of work was the lowest over re
building industry seemed to point
(Dean Symona
the way to improved conditions in clated with Holy Trinity Church, corded, many directions. There were also Shanghai, for many years, formerly The average amount of un- signs of a growing understanding as Chaplain and, aines the retire employment among insured per on the part of capital and labour ment of Dean Walker, as dean. He sons was less than in any year that their interests were mutual, was about 60 years old, active, un-since 1920,
Bssuming and generally well liked.The review shows that contem-| and thers was taking place Two of his sons were killed in the poraneously with a general- fm-{ gradual recovery from the upheaval War Much sympathy will be felt provement in employment the cost and exhaustion from the war-Bri-for Mrs. and Mise Symons. In their of lying has progressively de- tish Wireless Service.
bereavement.]
creased British Wireless. Service,
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