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BAD SUMMONS.
European Dog Owners Get Off.
FOUR IN COURT.
Residents' Addresses Wrongly Described.
OPIUM CONVENTION. | GERMAN RELATIONS.
Why Powers Have Not To Terminate Britain's
Ratified.
WORK AT GENEVA.
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Settlement Of International Disputes By Conciliation.
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Three residents of Government Sir A. Chamberlain pressed for Quarters on Leighton Hill were this the ratification of the Opium morning summoned before Major Convention of 1925. C. Willson by Sergeant Kelly with regard to their dogs,
Mr. A. Kirk of the P.W.D., whose address was given on the summons 18 No.. 7, Leighton Hill Rond, was summoned for allowing his dog to be abroad without a muzzle.
He denied the charge. Sergeant Kelly said that about 10 a.m., on March 1. he was on duty in Wongneichong Road when he ob- served a dog without a muzzle. He proceeded up the rond on his motor cycle, and in Leighton Hill- road he met a coolie who told him that the dog belonged to Mr. Kirk. He then went to Mr. Kirk's house and noted its number.
Replying to Mr. Kirk, the Ser- geant said that when he first saw the dog it was on the hill going up to the Government quarters, and he followed it along the road which went by the Church,
Mr. Kirk pointed out to the Magistrate that the road the Ser-
Trade Treaty.
"ANOTHER BASIS."
Minister of Economics Expenses Dissatisfaction.
Berlin, Yesterday.
In the Reichstag the Minister of Economics announced that M.M. Beelaerts and Adatchi Germany would give the earliest respectively announced that the notice to terminate the trade Netherlands and Japan had delay- treaty with Britain in order "to ed ratification owing to the modi-place our relations with England
fon another basis."
Sir Austen Chamberlain, now representing Britain' at Genera.
He previously voiced dissatis- faction regarding Germany's trade relations with Britain and thought that certain measures of the British Government were equivalent to an alteration of the basis on which the trade agree- ment was found.-Reuter.
What London Says.
London, Yesterday. Official circles in London are an- ignorant in regard to the nouncement of the Minister of Economics in the Reichstag, but it is pointed out that the Anglo-j German commercial treaty does not expire until 1930, and 1929 is the carliest date at which notice M. Dan Durand said a ratifica- of termination can be giveri tion bill was now before the Reuter. Canadian Parliament.
fication of their national legisla. tion.
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Herr Stresemann promised
geant referred to was not Leighton ratification immediately Germany BANDIT OUTRAGE. Hill-road, but a private path On received a seat on the central Crown land leading up to the hoard for the control of traffic in Leighton Hill Government quarters, opium.
The Magistrate pointed out, that Sir A. Chamberlain thereupon the road could not be said to be pri-advocated greater care in draw- vate as it was used by all the neo-ing up the proposals for the con- ple living in the Leighton Hill
quarters.
Mr. Kirk said that his contention was that his address was not No. 7, Leighton Hill-road, but No. 7, Leighton Hill. He produced a plan to prove to the Magistrate, that Leighton Hill-road and the path referred to by the Sergeant were two separate thoroughfare.
Sergeant Kelly submitted that in any case the dog was abrand under
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Major Willson agreed with Mr. Kirk that the description of the'; address was wrong and therefore ventions and the Council agreed the summons was bad in form, and to place the question of ratifica must be dismissed.
tion on the convention agenda for the next session.
Mr. W. Russell..
Mr. W. Russell, Government Sur- veyor, was summoned for owing dog without a licence and allowing it abroad without a muzzle.
Models Adopted.
MOTOR BÚS ATTACKED IN MEXICO.
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED.
Mexico City, Yesterday. Five were killed and 10 wounded as the result of a bandit attack on a motor 'bus near Jalaps. The motor 'bus was sailing along merri- ly with 30 passengers laughing and smoking when the bandits appear- ed at the roadside without warn- ing and poured in a volley of rifle and revolver bullets. Two passen- the spot. gera were killed on Three died of wounds. One of those killed was a woman.-Reu- ter's American Service.
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MYSTERIOUS RACE IN S. AMERICA.
New York, Yesterday,
A visit to a mysterious race of
The committee of arbitration and security has adopted models for the draft of a general conven- tion providing for the pacific set- warriors, who are possibly descend- With regard to the second charge,tlement of international disputes ants of South Sea Islanders who Mr. Russell whose address is No. 9, and the procedure for the settle- came to South America centuries Leighton Hill, entered the same ob- ment of such disputes by con- ago, is being described by Mr. jection as Mr. Kirk to the werd
"Road" appearing on the summons, which referred to an entirely differ- ent locality.
Major Willson dismissed this charge, and on Mr. Russell admit-) ting that he did not have a licence for his dog, imposed a fine of $5 on that count.
Mr. A. White.
sum-
Mr. A. White, of No. 5 Leighton Hill appeared to answer a mons similar to Mr. Russell's.
In his casc also, the word "Road" appeared on the summons after the address, and on the same ground as the previous summonses; the Magis- trate dismissed the count of allow- ing the dog to be abroad without a muzzle.
MORE RAIN.
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East winds, moderate, cast, rain, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
The anticyclone is central to
Hyatt Verill of the American- Indian Museum on his return from { his 60th trip to South America.
Verill found the tribe of 350 men and women in an almost impenetra- ble wilderness between Brazil and Bolivia.
None of them weara clothing, and the men have long beards of the
the W. of Vladivostock. The de-type commonly seen in the Solo- mon Islands. They are nature wor- pression now over Tongking la unchanged. Moderate monsoon shippers.-Reuter. may be expected along the SE.
the. coast of China and over northern portion of the North China Sea.
cillation; it also adopted a collec-
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ANOTHER RAIL STRIKE THREATENED.
Calcutta. Yesterday... Following the settlement of the On the charge of not having ative treaty of security which will Bengal-Nagpur Railway strike the licence, Mr. White produced the be called a treaty of mutual as employees of the East Indian Rail- licence in Court, which he said was sistance and also adopted resolu-way workshops at Lillooah are issued in January whilst he was tions for submission to the threatening direct action, the un- living on the Peak.
Assembly relating to "the sub-akilled' demanding double that of
of Sergeant Kelly said that from in- mission
recommendation the skilled's 25 per cent. increase of quiries he made at Mr. White's models for general conventions their present wages. The Com- house he received the impression on conciliation, arbitration and pany's Agent has referred the ques- from the "boy" that the dog did judicial settlement."
tion to the Railway Board, who bave
not have a licence, and that was Non-members as well as mem-concurred in his conclusion that it why he summoned Mr. White.
bers of the League will be asked is impossible to concede to the de- Major Willson dismissed the to consider the models and states mands. Reuter.
summons.
Mrs. Gandall
Mrs. Gandall of No. 8, Morrison Gap Road admitted allowing her
will be advised to adopt this model
for security treatles-Reuter.
On Behalf of Turkey.
Geneva, Yesterday.
and Yugo-Slovia 'and the examina- The Secretary-General of the tion of the dispute over the smuggl dog to be at large in Wongnelchong-League has received a telegraming of machine-gun parta rond on the afternoon of March 1, from Litvinoff proposing that Hungary
and she was fined $4.
RUBBER FIRES.
ANOTHER OUTBREAK AT:
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Herr Walko, the Hungarian For- Turkey be invited to attend the next session of the preparatory eign Minister, previously visited comraission of the Disarmament and lengthily conferred with the Italian delegate, Sig. Scialoja, at Conference-Reuter,
the latter's hotel Italy is in- Pubile Session.
the Geneva, Yesterday, volved in the affair, owing to Eight subjects confronted the allegation that the parts were con- public session of the League Counsigned from Italy.
The discussion in the public cil this morning, the principal being the proposal to reduce the number session of the queation of non- Two hundred tons of rubber, of Council meetings and the ques- ratification of agreements and con- valued at £50,000, have been des- tion of constructing the new ventions, concluded under the troyed by fire at a rubber factory. Secretariat buildings. But Interest auspices of the League of Nations This is the second rubber factory was focussed in a subsequent pri- including the 1925 Opium Conten- that has been burut down in Singa-vate meeting to consider the de- tion, was so protracted that the pore in the past four days. Reu-mands of the "Little Entente," private session was postponed until
namely, Czecho Slovakia, Roumania to-morrow
ter.
SINGAPORE.
Singapore, Yesterday.
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