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5 BROTHERS LOST. JONES-WHITE BILL. THE ROSSBACHERS.
Recent Disaster In
The Channel.
INQUIRY ORDERED.
Collision Between The "Bacchus” And Greek Ship.
London, Yesterday.
Passed By The Representatives.
."A COMPROMISING.”
Illegal Military Organisation.
TRIAL AT STETTIN.
Construction Fund Doubled In Sentences For Shooting A Comrade
Million Dollars.
Washington, Yesterday.
In 1920.
Berlin, Yesterday.
A Board of Trade inquiry is to The House of Representatives After a three weeks trial be held into the collision, during a has passed the Jones White Ship three ex-members of the illegal for in the English Channel, be- ping Bill which is designed to de- military organisation, "Rossbach tween the Royal Naval Auxiliary velop the privately owned Americorps, have been convicted by vessel "Bacchus" and the Greek can merchant marine combines.” the Stettin Court for shooting steamer "Ioannis Fafalios."
The Jones Bill, which has al- their comrade, Willie Schmidt, in
The Greek steamer was sunk with ready passed the Senate, would 1920, because the latter was sus- the loss of twelve of the crew, of continue the operation of the Ship-pected of informing the Inter- whom five were brothers-British ping Board, the Bill' drafted by Mr. Allied Military Commission where Wireless Service.
Chairman of the House Committee, the Rossbachers hid their arms. which is described as a compro- Ex-Lieutenant Heines was sen- mise, provides inter alia for the tenced to fifteen years' penal ser-
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With
granting of long term foreign mail vitude, ex-Sergeant Ottow to four GARL BRISSON AND LILLIAN HALL-DAVIES
contracts and for the Government years' and a workman, named entering the marine Insurance busi-Froebel, to three years'. Five ness-Reuter.
others were acquitted by the jury. The Construction Fund. after their verdict of "Guilty" Washington, Later. recommended the prisoners to One of the provisions of the Bill mercy, expressing the opinion
that they acted for "love of the' fatherland."--Reuter.
on &T
or seven
STOLEN CHEQUES.
SEVEN MONTHS". "HARD" FOR AUDACIOUS THIEF.
-CARELESS OWNER.
Sentences totalling seven months'
For staying in the servant's increases the construction fund quarters of the Station Hotel being from 125 to 250 million dollars. employed by the management, two It is reported that President Chinese were charged before Mr. Coolidge is opposed to this feature W. Schofield this morning, at the of the bill as passed by the repre- Kowloon Magistracy.
sentatives which enables the Ship- The defendants story was that ping Board to authorise the sale of they were employed as 'substitutes any Government vessel to the second and third boys for a affirmative vote of five few days. They also said that the members whereas the origina) latter had informed the manuge Senate Bill required unanimity. ment of the change.
But the Congressmen who are res- Mr. Smith (complainant' said ponsible for piloting the bill the defendants were for a while through the House of Representa- hard labour were, this morning, imployed as substitutes, but when tives doubt whether it will be passed by Major C. Willson of a the regular servants came back, vetoed at the cost to the Govern-Chinese named Leung Chung-sen their services were no longer re-ment, for the operation would not (21) who pleaded "guilty" to charge quired. It had since come to his exceed ten million dollars yearly.of larceny of two cheques and of notice that the defendants, have Reuter's American Service,
obtaining $100 by false pretences. slept in the servants' quarters after
Two alternate charges of receiving their dismissal. He added that
the stolen cheques were not pra- they were warned to go away, but had taken no notice. Police had been called in but without effect. It was a great nuisance, so he had the couple arrested.
BURMESE TRIANGLE. ceeded with.
EXPEDITION CONTINUES TO
RELEASE SLAVES.
TOTAL ABOLITION.
Rangoon, Yesterday.
The first cheque, dated April 24, was for $371 drawn on the Bank of Canton, whilst the other, on the bank of East Asia, was dated April 25 and was for $1,940.
There had also been small lar- centes, added the complainant.
The cheques were stolen by the His Worship, in imposing a fine
accused from another Chinese who of $5 with the alternative of 7 The expedition under Mr. J. O. had gone to the Hong Kong and days' imprisonment warned the de-T. Barnard, which was despatched Shanghai Bank to pay the cheques A direct service to Yunnan Province has been opened 20th April,fendants against a continuance of to the Burmese "Triangle" early in into his account and had inadver- 1928. The inclusive charge will be 60 cents per word, no charge will such conduct. be collected from the addressee in Yunnan. The service is however liable to interruption owing to atmospheric disturbances and mess- ages are accepted at senders' risk,
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the year to continue the work of tently left them on the counter releasing slaves, has concluded its while he was talking with a friend. THE DUTCH FIRES. task and returned to Myitkyima. Immediately the owner missed The expedition, which released the cheques he communicated with 1,028 slaves, everywhere received the banks concerned and arranged the friendliest treatment. It is be- for payment to be stopped. When Heved that there are now no more the accused went to the banks to slaves left in the Triangle.
cash the cheques they were not ac-
ASSUMING CATASTROPHIC
PROPORTIONS.
NARROW ESCAPES,
M
two
In the course of a Durbar attend- cepted. He then took them to o ed by the Naga Kachin chiefs, the friend at a shop and by represent- Amsterdam, May 5. Commissioner for the Sagaine Divi-ing that the banks were closed, The Drentsche fen fires are assion announced the complete aboli- raised $100 against the suming castastrophic proportions.tion of slavery. He said that cheques. The next day he took back Twenty houses have been destroy-henceforth there was no further the cheques on the pretext of going ed in one village and a man aged right to possess alaves or to receive
to cash them and disappeared. sixty is believed to have been burn-compensation. Any slaves who re-
The police were communicated
ed to death. Eight workmen nar-mained unproduced were declared with and Sergeant Fitches traced rowly escaped death, by swimming free in law. --Router. a canal.
Reuter.
SOVIET'S "REPLY.”
AFGHAN KING'S DISCREET ATTITUDE.
NEW AEROPLANES.
Riga, Yesterday.
SIR WM. GOODMAN.
FORMER FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF HONG KONG.
LINK WITH THE PAST.
London, May 6. The death is announced of the
Justice of
the accused to a lodging house where he was arrested. Inquiries
made led to the recovery of the chequeat in a parcel, which the as- cused had given to one of the ser- yants in the lodging house to keep for him.
THE AUTONOMISTS.
DISORDERLY SCENES AT THE COLMAR TRIAL.
COUNSEL SUSPENDED.
It is reported from Moscow that Hon. Sir William Meigh Goodman, awing to the reluctance of King K.C.. a former Chief Amanullah to participate to-day in Hong Kong, the ceremony of handing over the aeroplanes purchased with sub-in 1847, took his degree at London
[Sir William Goodman was born; scriptions by the people to the "Our University and was called to the Reply to Chamberlain" fund, the bar (Middle Temple). In 1870. Ho
Colmar, Yesterday, Soviet has decided to postpone the became
The disorderly scones which Attorney General of marked the trial of the Alsatian Ceremony till after his Majesty's Honduras in 1888 and Chief Justice Autonomists culminated in the sus departure.-Reuter.
of that Colony in 1886. In 1889 he pension of Maitre Fourrier, one of was transferred to Hong Kong the Counsel for the defence, whe Attorney-General and became Chief applied the word "blunder" to an Justice in 1902, holding the post till action of M. Poincaré in connection HUNDREDS OF SPECTATORS IN 1905 when he retired. Sir William with Alsace.
STAND COLLAPSE.
LUCKY ESCAPE.
TEA-ROOMS BELOW!
Sydney, May 5.
was twice married, In 1874 'to a The Public Prosecutor demanded daughter of Mr. B. B. Breach of legal action against the speaker for Burwash, Surrey and in 1892 to a an offence against the Premier. daughter of Mr. E. J. Smith. Sir The hearing was suspended amid William apent his long retirement tumult. Two hundred spectators at a pony in Guildford, Surrey. He is re- On resumption the Court con- race meeting at the race course at membered by many of the senior aidered that Maitre Fourrier's word; Roseberry were injured in the col-members of the legal profession as gave offence to M. Poincaré, and lapse of the grand stand. The col-x. sound lawyer. He was a keen was a breach of the oath taken by lapse was caused by a large crowd musician and possessed a very barristers never to lack respect for rushing to the stand during a heavy charming singing voice.]
public authorities. The Court sus- pended Maitre Fourrier for a month. He is thus unable to con- tinue pleading the Autonomist: case.
shower.
Numbers had miraculous escapes,
especially the occupants of the tea-
PARTRIDGES,
rooms beneath the stand. Reuter. For the possession of three part- The other Counsel for the Defence ridges which - he was alleged to have sent a letter of protest to Already sentenced in 1925 and have captured during the close the Minister of Justice.-Reuter. 1926 for returning from banish season, a Chinese was this morning ment, a Chinese who was sent away fined $15 by Major Willson
for ten years in 1924 returned a third time and appeared before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning. The Magistrate passed sentence of 12) months hard labour and 20 strokes of the birch,
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
The clearing rate of the dollar on demand, today, was 2/0 6/16,
Premier's Determination,
Paris, Yesterday.
M. Poincare, speaking at Metz, stated that France would never give up an inch of Alsace, for Lorraine nor accept the creation of a neutral or autonomous terri tory, which would generate new conflicte.Havas
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