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JAPAN ALLIANCE.
Renewal Suggested In Tokyo.
THE HONG KONG VISIT.
Making The Singapore Base, No Longer A Menace.
RUBBER PRICES.
FRONTIER TRAGEDY.
Spectacular Nose Dive In Spaniards Rush Customs
New York.
FAR EASTERN SENTIMENT, Colombo And Singapore Reports On Restriction Have Effect.
Barriers.
GIBRALTAR AS REFUGE.
Two People Killed And Several Wounded la Firing,
Gibraltar, Yesterday.
Tokyo, Yesterday.
New York, Yesterday. Emphasising the importance of Rubber prices made a spectacu- the coming visit of the Japanese lar nose dive this morning, after the search at Lalinea of Spaniards The strictness of the customs* combined Beet to Hong Kong the receipt of "Kokumin" hopes that the result Singapore and Colombo announcing tragic consequences. A crowd of] Reuler cablea from returning from Gibraltar led to will be closer friendship not only the growth of sentiment in produc- several thousands, mostly women between the two Navies but also ing circles in favour of the abolition and children, between Great Britain and Japan, of restriction. The market was small quantities of groceries, at- many carrying The paper hopes that it may swamped with selling orders. lead to a revival of the Anglo- futures were sold at the lowest riers. Troops were called out and All tempted to rush the customs bar- Japanese Alliance in the future as levels in the history of the rubber fired. They killed two and wound- it considers that close friendship exchange, but the market recovered several, while the terror- thus engendered would make the el 30 to 70 points before noon on stricken crowd swarmed back to Singapore Base no longer a short covering and buying by strong menace to Japan but, on the con- interests. The collapse of crude
Gibraltar.-Reuter. trary, would serve as a base for rubber was accompanied by a weak- both Anglo-Japanese Navies ifness in prominent rubber shares, ever the occasion demands com- which dropped two to six points. mon action for the preservation Dealers estimate that the Ameri- of peace in the Orient.
can rubber pool formed in 1926 for While the Japanese generally the purpose of stabilising prices. regretted the termination of the and assuring a sufficient supply of Alliance and many would like to crude rubber
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London, Yesterday. -Miss Dora Sectes, living in Lon-
see, it renewed it is doubtful, how- £1,600,000 on 50,000 tons of rub-den, was surprised by the request: ever, if the "Kokumin" represents the general consensus of opinion ber it is believed to have in hand."come at once, your fiance wants
at present regarding its renewal. -Reuter.
OLD FEUD.
GURKHAS AND PATHANS IN ARMS.
Bumbay, Yesterday.
-Reuter's American Service.
STRAITS RUBBER.
Majority For Removal Of Restriction.
to see you," the latter message be. ing from the chief wireless opera- tor of the liner s.s, "Berengaria," at present in mid-Atlantic.
Miss Seeley was conveyed to the Baird Television Headquarters where she participated in the first Singapore, Yesterday,experiment television between a Of the 72 replies to the ques-ship and the ahore.. tionnaire of the Singapore Cham-
Vision at times was very clear ber of Commerce 47 favoured the of the wireless operator who WAS It is learned from Khandala, on removal of the restriction on rub-delighted to see on the screen his the Bombay Poona line, that six ber output conditionally or uncondi- fiancee, whose profile and method workers were killed and 40, includ- tionally. The remainder voted for of hairdressing were easily recog- Ing Gurkha women and childrenthe continuance of the present nisable.-Reuter. sent to hospital as the culmina-scheme with or without modifien- tion of an old dispute between Itions. Pathans and Gurkhae employed on railroad construction.-Reuter..
CLAIM REJECTED.
FRANCE AND RUSSIAN SHIPS.
Colombo, Yesterday. The Chairman of the Ceylon Mer- chants Chamber, addressing the FRENCH COLONIES. had reported to the Government annual meeting, said the Chamber
that it thought it desirable to lift the rubber restriction almost im-
Paris, Yesterday. medintely, adding, "we
The Court of Cassation has re- have been left behind and individual jected the Soviet claim to return Casablanca, Yesterday, effort with any necessary corporate Ropit Company, which
the Russian ships belonging to the The tribute Aitouadrim, compris-action within Ceylon seems the from Odessa when shipping was escaped ing 12,000 persons, has submitted wiser course."-Reuter. unconditionally to French control,
TRIBESMEN SUBMIT UNCONDITIONALLY.
thus enabling penetration of an area so far closed to Europeans.- Havas.
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Ceylon Views.
nationalised without compensation in 1928. They reached Marseilles where the shareholders appointed a provisional manager.
Colombo, Yesterday. Unless defects in the present rub ber restriction scheme can
The Court ruled that French be overcome and an amended scheme law can only recognise the opinion ACROSS AMERICA. can be applied on 3 com- of legal authorities of foreign pulsory equal basis, in all rubber-countries when the latter does not producing countries in the East clash with principles which it con- the Stevenson scheme should be siders are opposed to public, order replaced by a "really comprehen- and equity-Reuter.. sive acheme providing for the ade-
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COUNSEL'S SUBMISSION ON NEW TRIAL
tory Association representing prac- $400,000 MORTGAGE, tically the whole of the rubber in- dustry in European ownership in NOTICE WITHDRAWN Ceylon, which has drawn up a memorandum to the Civil Research Committee suggesting the imposi JUDGMENT RESERVED. tion of a special duty of an equi valent value to be levied on alli The $400,000 mortgage case in rubber exported by all countries which Loo Kwong-lam and Loo producing plantation rubber, the Kwong-hin seek to set aside the proceeds of the duty to be available judgment of Mr. Justice J. R. Wood The Full Court (consisting of for the purchase of rubber in coun- who held that they had fraudulently Sir H. C. Gollan, Sir Peter Grain tries of production so long as the represented themselves as and Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) sat market price is below the pivotal when they were "minora" and that for five minutes this morning price and the rubber purchased is they were not therefore entitled to when an order was made that a utilised as stock to ensure a con- be relieved of the terms of the motion for new trial be dismissed stant and sufficient supply.--Reu-mortgage, concluded before
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In his final submissions, Mr.
Penang, Yesterday. Eldon Potter, K.C. (for the appel- Yue Hong Bank in bankruptcy), The Chamber of Commerce has lants), referred to the interview plaintiffs appellants, and the Tai passed a resolution in favour of the between Mr. Justice Wood and Mr. Hing Wo firm and Tae Chau-tan, continuance of the present rubber Blake regarding the interpreter defendants respondents.
restriction for at least 12 months Leung as a result of which it was The case arose out of a deci- to enable the civil research author-alleged that His Honour altered sion of the Chief Justice that the ities thoroughly to investigate the the part of his judgment referring Court could not wait for a wit-question-Reuter.
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to the conduct of Leung who at that time was engaged by Mr. Blake.
Mr. Potter submitted that, while i he appreciated the motive which MIDDLESBROUGH ELECTIONwhat he did, he (counsel) ought might have Induced the judge to do
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, appearing for
not to be deprived by it of a most substantial the respondents, said that the
argument. If · His¦ notice of motion for a new trial
Honour had restrained his comment Following is the result of the on the behaviour of Leung this had was filed on February 1.. On the Middlesbrough by election, created an important Saturday before the sitting of the by the death of Mr. Trevelyan credibility of Leung's evidence as bearing on the Full Court, plaintiffs filed a notice Thomson: withdrawing notice of motion for
to the deed of release being inter- Mr. Kingsley Griffith (Liberal) preted to the plaintiffs. re-hearing.
10,717.
London, Yesterday."
Mr. Ellis (Labour) 10,628,
Letters had been written to the appellants on behalf of the res pondents asking for taxed costs tive) 8,218.
Mr. Stanley Sadler (Conserva-
Judgment was reserved.
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The Liberals thus retain the seated include those of Mr. Walter
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