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MONDAY, FEBRUARY
PRES. COSGRAVE,
LEAVES NEW YORK FOR ENGLAND.
DE VALERA THERE, TOO.
1928.
PURE WATER.
NEW FILTRATION PLANT INSTALLED.
UP-TO-DATE SYSTEM,
New York, Saturday. President Cosgrave left for Eng
If those who write to the Press Isnd aboard the a.s. Olympic complaining about the purity of without meeting Mr. Do Valera who the water supply were to visit the was in New York at the aume time, Bowen Road filter bed their set Neither was invited to functions at and unwarranted ideas regarding which the other was a guest.
the Government's attitude in the President Cosgrave appeared very matter would receive a decided fatigues after his strenuous trip. shock. No doubt critics would Mr. Du Valem goes to England have to obtain a permit from the next week. Renter.
PWV.D. before visiting the place, but it is well worth the trouble.
On the site of one of the old slow SIMON COMMISSION.sand filter beds has been erected
PARTY ARRIVES AT NEW DELHI.
New Delhi, Yesterday,
The Simon Commission has arriv- ed and was received by Mr. Cun- ningham, private secretary to the Viceroy, and Sir II. Crerar, Home Member.
Forty members of the Indian legislature, we're introduce to the Commissioners, who conversed with them for half an hour.
Sir John Simon told Reuter hel had received 300 telegrams of wel-i come to India. "I have brought my team here very fit and intact"; he said. The Commissioners residing in a hostel alongside that| for the members of the Legislature. -Reuter.
Madras Hartal.
arc
Madras, Yesterday. The Simon Commission boycott, propaganda committee here- has unanimously decided to call a com- plete peaceful hartal day, on the Commission's arrival at Madras.) No meetings or processions will be held so as to avoid any possible; disturbance.Reuter.
Madras Unrest.
Madras, Saturday.
Mr. Venkatarama
Sastri, the
Advocate General, was motoring
home when he was
seriously injured.
mobbed and
Moslems are reported to have. assaulted Hindus last night, but quiet has been restored.
Calcutta Trouble.
Calcutta, Saturday.
The Commissioner of Police, in-1 terviewed by Router, stated that af large percentage of police were in- jured in the encounter with
dents yesterday.
stu-
Hitherto 80 students have been!
them have
arrested, but most of
been released on bail.
NEW RECORD.
LINDBERGH'S 1,000 MILE HOP.
Six Beds.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ST. DAVID'S DAY.
LOCAL SOCIETY'S DINNER ON MARCH 1ST.
WREATH ON CENOTAPH.
POLICE “DECOYS.”
BOARDING HOUSE MANAGER CHARGED,
"MASTER PRINTER.”
The party saw how the alumina and lime were mixed and the de- licate measuring apparatus which governs the supply of the solu tions to the raw water, and then how the water is directed into the filter beds, six in number and ten feet deep, through which it passes The annual dinner of the morning, hearing was resumed of At the Central Magistracy this and is then drawn off, ready for Cymdeithas Dewi Sant, Hong the case, adjourned on Saturday, in use, to the supply chambers. watch as the actual filtration was be held at Lane, Crawford's re-Central is charged with allowing An operation as interesting to Kong, (St. David's Society) will which the manager of the Nanking Boarding House of Connaught Road the cleansing of one of the filter staurant on St. David's Day, rooms in the house to be used for beds. The bed is emptied almost March 1, at 8 p.m. to the level of the sand top and
At 11 o'clock on the same day a
an immoral purpose, compressed air is forced from be wreath will be laid on behalf of neath through the stones, pebbles
the Committee on the Cenotaph. and sand at a sufficient pressure as may have become lodged over
In view of reports in the Chi-
nese press that Tang Chiu, the second police "decoy" had claimed to be a master printer of the Kay Sun printing shop of No. 59,
to agitate such particles of dirt VOTES FOR WOMEN. Queen's Road Central, Mr. D. M
Alumina and Lime Mixing Room,
General View of Plant.
OLD CAMPAIGNERS' REUNION.
Callum, was present in Court this morning to represent the printing shop.
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Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, who de- fended the boarding house ager, subjected. Tang Chiu to a severe cross-examination as to his claim with regard to the Kay Sup printing shop,
London, Yesterday. On the eve of the introduction into Parliament of proposals which are expected to give votes to all women at the age of 21 an first claimed that he was a partner Tang Chiu, in reply to Counsul, at interesting reunion tock place in the printing shop, and later said yesterday of suffragettes who that his father was, a partner. When fought for the women's vote he was eventually confronted in some 15 years ago. Actually the Court with the manager of the anniversary was being celebrated printing shop, Tang Chiu said that | of the first vote being given to he sold his, share in the business to "some" women
ten years ago, the other partners in 1926, and ad- Most of the women who took amitted that he had nothing more to militant part in the suffragette do with the firm now. campaign attended the reunion the shop as his address, Tang Chiu Pressed as to why he had given and cach table was presided over said that there were originally. by a woman who had gone to pri- three shares of the shop held by his son for the cause.
fumily. Two have been sold and Notable figures present includ- the third was being held by his bro ed Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, Mrs. ther jointly with him. He admitted Pethick Lawrence and Mrs. How that he had not attended at the Martyn.-British Wireless Ser-shop for a considerable time. vice.
Money Supplled..
In the course of examination with, regard to the evidence he had given CANADIAN FARMERS. when he went to the hotel he went on Saturday, Tang Chiu said that
BUCKINGHAM PALACE
VISIT.
London, Yesterday.
to the room engaged by the other "decoy," but said that he would want to engage a separate room if; the women came. This he said to the room "boy," who volunteered to get girls for himself and his com- The King and Queen received panion. Money for the purpose of yesterday afternoon at Bucking-the visit to the boarding house was ham Palace a party of 70 Cana- supplied by Inspector Bloor, who dinn farmers who are visiting this gave them each $20. They paid country.
$10 for the girls and the balance) It was noticed with much plea- went for other expenses.
This closed the case for the pro- sure that the Queen was wearing
"BEN HUR.”
a maple leaf given to her on her secution. Girls Not Called. visit to Canada as Duchess of Mr. Brutton Inquired why the. York in 1901. The King express-police were not calling the two ed his delight at learning that girls, and Inspector Bloor replied some of the farmers who came that they could not be produced as from Alberta had met the Prince the Po Leung Kuk had sent them to a new filtration plant capable of the top of the bed.
of Wales, when His Royal High- Macao, by mistake, as undesirables. Mr. Brutton remarked that from ness visited his ranch there. dealing with 3,000,000 gallons a then flushed with water from, the
The bed is British Wireless Service.
his experience in that Court he day. The plant is known as the specially constructed wash water
knew that the police knew that Paterson Rapid Gravity process tenk at the top of the building and
the evidence of a witness was of of Miration.
use to them they would unfailingly St. Thomas, Virgin Islands,
when thoroughly cleansed in this Recently, Mr. A. J. W. Sim-fashion, the wash water being
produce that evidence. The infor. Jan. 31. Winging his way down the coast at the Bowen Road water works, takes it into the harbour, the bed mons, the P.W.D. resident official drawn direct into a nullah which
ence, Counsel added, was that in this FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY AT have been called if their evidence case the two women would of Venezuela aud around the inner and Mr. T. Buckle, representing is ready for use again. One man circle of the Lesser Antilles, Col. the Paterson Engineering Com-
THE QUEEN'S.
would have been of any use to the Charles A. Lindbergh Janded here
pollée. at 4.50 o'clock this afternoon after pany, London, conducted a party tion in not more than ten minutes. which will be screened at the think Mr. Brutton's statement was can perform this cleansing opera-
"Ben-Hur," the $600,000 film Mr. Lindaell said that he did not 1,000 mile flight from Maricay of Pressmen over the plant. In Field, 50 miles from Caraens.
The plant was designed and Queen's Theatre for the last time quite fair as Inspector Bloor had The flight was the longest lie and party saw exactly what happens Engineering Co., to the specifica-grandeur of its spectacle and the was a pity that efforts had not been
the course of a short visit the manufactured by the Paterson to-day after a record run, owes its explained the girls absence. made since his jump from Wash to our water. From the time the
popular success not only to the Mr. Brutton commented that it ington to Mexico City.
To-day's tight marked the turn- conduit enters the Inlet chamber Engineer. Erection was carried Hur and Esther and the other love ence would have been material for raw liquid from the Bowen Road M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., Water likewise to the love story of Ben- until after the case, as their evid tion of Mr. R. M. Henderson, absorbing nature of its action but made to detain the two women here ing of the "goodwill ambassador's course." From now on, until his preparatory to the addition of out under the supervision of motif between mother and sop the defence. return to the United States, he will alumina and lime solutions, to the
Messrs. Paterson's representative which is brought powerfully to the head northward.-- Associated time the purified water reaches
and Messrs. The Hong Kong Ex-fore through the the container reservoir and is cavation, Pile Driving and Con- soparation of Ben-Hur and his that the defence was that the two many years of Proceeding, Counsel intimated pumped to Bowen and Macdonnell struction Co. were the contractors parent by the Romans who con- "decoys" engaged a room in Konds, the liquid was under con- for the reinforced concrete and demned him to the galleys and his boarding house and then tried to in- stant observation.
building work,
womenfolk to a forgotten dungeon, duce one of the servants to get girls This vivid picture shows us Bon- for them, but they were refused, Hur's
escape, the triumphant Then they let out that they chariot race, his romance with expecting their families Esther, and his return to Judaea, Macao, and intimated that if the fired by the hope of the Messianic families arrived that night they kingdom. The outcast mother and would require separate roms. Then sister find the young hero asleep, the first "decoy" went out after the but in scene of infinite pathos evening meal and returned with turn away so as not to contaminate the two girls-whom he and his com- him. Their reunion with the loved panton passed off as their "fami- one after they have been healed by the Saviour, is perhaps the most | exquisite passage In 'film fiction."
Press.
THIRD ATTEMPT.
FAILURE TO BEAT AIR RECORD.
Richmond (Virginia),
Yesterday,
The third attempt of Chamberlin and Roger Williams to establish a new world's endurance record flight has failed, the aeroplane crashing from a height of 40 feet immediately after taking off from Byrd Field. The airmen were un- hurt but the machine was badly damaged.
Officials think the crash was due to the runway' being too short for a machine which carried 460 gal- lons of petrol.-Reuter's American Service.
LA
STEWART CASE.
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT OBTAINED.
Washington, Yesterday.
Stewart, who took his case to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has obtained his release from arrest on a writ of Habeas Corpus. The hearing of the writ to determine whether he will re- tain his liberty is fixed for. Feb ruary 7-Reuter's American Ser- vice,
OLD TIME FLYING.
ORIGINAL WRIGHT BIPLANE ON VIEW.
Dayton (Ohio), Saturday. The original Wright biplane, In which the first successful flight in heavier than air ma- chines was made by Kitty Hawk In North Carolina in 1903 has been shipped to Britain for ex- hibition in the British Museum for an indefinite period. Router.
SCIENTIST DEAD:
Haarlem Yesterday
The death is announced of Prof. Lorentz, the well-known scientist and Nobel prize-winner In 1902 Router's American Service,
Inspection Tanks."
The Defence.
the
were from
lies," and both girls when giving particulars of themselves for re- gistration in the hotel register claimed to be the wives of the two "decoys."-"-
When the police came, the girls
BARBARA WORTH." stuck to their story that they were
the wives of the "decoys." The CAPITAL FILM AT THE
firat man did not say anything, but WORLD.
the other denfod that the girl in his room was his wife, and denounced Showing for the last time to-day her to the police as a prostitute. at the World Theatre is a capital which the case was again adjourn- Evidence was then called, after
ed.
ADMITTED CHARGES.
film of the open spaces, The Win- ning of Barbara Worth," The story is a well-known one, and has to do with the pioneer days of Western America. For the pic- ture a fine cast was collected, in- Three Indians, appeared before. cluding Ronald Colman, the English Major C.- Willson at the Central screen artist, who has made a name Maglatracy this morning as com for himself in America, Vilma plainants in a case in which two Banky, and Gary Cooper. A thrill-Chinese were charged with theft ing incident is the sandstorm, and and housebreaking at No. 176.Wan- the desert scenes are very weil pro- chaf Road. It was stated that pro duced.
perty to the value of $800 was stolen, and only a small quantity. Aworth $30 was recovered after the accused's arrest. Both accused ad- Several problemas quite new to mitted the charges and were acu- me clearly have to be faced. The tenced to three months for theft outstanding one, as far as the de- and 'aix months for housebreaking. velopment of the Cathedral, servo mottake
COMMUNION ATTENDANCE.
vices is concerned, is that of tran- THEFT FROM SINCERE'S sport and can see that it affects
all Church people almost as much Before Major Willson at the as it does myself" says the Very Central Magistracy this morning,: Rev A Swann, the new Dean of Chinese was charged with the St. John's theft of $100 from the accountants.
Attendance at Holy Communion counter et Sincera's -- store-
is the main difficulty under this SaturdayHe admitted the offence head. It is a great pity that the and was sentenced to three mont Church's principal service, should hard labour
be the least accessible. Iam sure
that that fast must be a handicap
to Church lite and work here At
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