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GIGANTIC INSURANCE EARL OF BALFOUR'S
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£80,000,000 POLICY,
200,000 EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATE.
"GENERAL MOTORS” SCHEME.
New York, Yesterday.
Over 200,000 of the employees of
··· 80TH BIRTHDAY.
MANY TRIBUTES.
THE BARDOLI DISPUTE.
ANOTHER. ARREST,
WORLD-WIDE FELICITATIONS TO RESIDENT'S MOVE TO RELJEVE
THE EARL.
A PRESENTATION.
London, Yesterday.
TENSION.
SITUATION QUIET.
Madras, Yesterday.
Hundreds of messages have been A telegram from Trichinopoli | the General Motors' Corporation received by the Earl of Balfour on states that the President of the will participate in an £80,000,000 in-[the occasion of his 80th birthday. Railway Strike Committee, Krishna surance policy, which covers death, These include congratulations from Swamy Pillai has been
arrested. sickness and accident insurance. It Their Majesties who telegraphed The situation is quiet and a num- is co-operative, but the Corporation that it was a great pleasure to ber of unskilled workers are re- assumes a substantial part of the send heartiest greetings to an old ported na resuming work in many premium-Reuter's American Ser-friend, the faithful and valued ad- places.
viser of three successive Sover- eigns.
vice.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN POLAND & LITHUANIA.
THE ANTI-WAR PACT.
London, Yesterday.
Bombay. Yesterday. The Resident of Bardoll, named In the afternoon, the Earl of Ramchand Ramad Havrambhatt, Balfour attended in the Speaker's has telegraphed to Sir Leslie Wilson (Governor of Rombay) offering to Courtyard of the House of Com- deposit with the Government the mons where Mr. Baldwin, on be- difference between the old and re- half of 160 Peers and 150 M.Pa.,vised assessments in the hope that presented him with a Rolls-Royce this may relieve the tension and satisfy all parties and with a view to enable the holding of an inves- tigation.
saloon ear-Reuter...
The
The King's Telegram.
British Wireless report
The Bardoli trouble centres on the Land Tax which the Indian officer recommended
Sir Austen Chamberlain stated in
states: the House of Commons this after-
The King and Queen and mem- Settlement noon that the British Minister at Riga had been instructed to urge in-bers of the Royal Family were first should be increased 30 per cent. formally upon the Lithuanian For-to send messages of congratulation Finally, the Government decided to eign Minister the desirability of to the Earl of Balfour to-day on his imit the increase to 22 per cent. xlving effect to the recommenda- 80th. birthday.
tions of the Council of the League: The King's telegram read: "It la
Reuter.
of Nations regarding the differences a great pleasure for the Queen and CHIEF JUDGE TO GO. between Poland and Lithuania and me to send our heartiest greetings
SHANGHAI.
ANOTHER "REPRIMAND."
he understood that similar repre-on his eightieth birthday to an old MR. LOO HING-YUAN'S POST ÎN sentations had been or would be friend like yourself and one who made by the French and German has been the faithful and valued ministers. No reply had yet been adviser to three successiva Sover- received from the British minister eigns. We trust you may con- at Riga.
tinue to be blessed with those
Shanghai, To-day. Sir A, Chamberlain stated that he powers of mind and body which It is understood that as the re- had had no communication from the have long been the delight and ad-sult of a fresh reprimand from the United States up to the present in miration of your many friends." Nationalist Government directing reply to his Note of July 18 accept- Hundreds of other telegrams and him to vacate the office,· Mr. Lu ing the proposed Treaty for the re-written messages reached the Eart Shing-yuen, Chief Judge of the nunciation of war as an instrument of Balfour from all parts of the Provisional Court in the Interna- of national policy. Reuter's Ameri-world. A large number come from tional Settlement of Shanghai, is Jean Service.
America, including some from Gov.resigning. ernment officials in Washington.
Mr. Ha Shih-tseng succeeds him. The Earl of Balfour attended a -Reuter, Cabinet meeting this morning and Loo Hing-yuan, a barrister, the [Note: Known in Hong Kong as received hearty felicitations from Chlef Judge is the fourth brother the Ministera. In the afternoon he in a family of which the eldest was presented with a Rolls-Royce was the late Commendadore Loo motor car, for which members of Lim-loc of Macao, and the plaintifs Parliament of all parties, had sub-la the "Infants Mortgage Case" scribed. The presentation took place two younger brothers.] in the presence of a distinguished
OPIUM HAUL.
UNDER HIS GIRDLE BUT "NOT GUILTY."
$320 OR 3 MONTHS'.
On being searched on board the company of Parliamentarians with- s.s. 'Hop Sang" a Chinese was in the precincts of the House of found to be.in the unlawful pos4 Commons.
PANG PEL.
session of 4 taels of unprepared
The Prime Minister paid an NOTORIOUS "RED" IN HANDS (and non-Government opium.
OF SOLDIERS. feloquent tribute to the great part This morning he appeared before which the Earl of Balfour had play- Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowlooned in the public life of England for
$10,000 FOR HIS ARREST. Magistracy and pleaded "not close on 60 years.
Having ruined the district of
guilty."
Mr. Lloyd George, as
Liberal
The contraband was found hid- den under the defendant's girdle leader, spoke of the affectionate ad-Hoi Fung and Luk Fung and de- by a Chinese detective, just as the miration he had always had for the prived the populace of their 8.3. "Hop Sang" was leaving the Earl of Balfour and Mr. J. H. Clynes, homes, Pang Pei, the notorious Colony for Swatow. Previously in the absence of Mr. Ramany leader of the communists in those she had arrived from Canton. MacDonald, expressed the high es districts, fell into the hands of
The Magistrate, in finding the teem in which the Labour Party defendant "guilty," imposed a fine held him. $820 with the alternative of three months' hard labour, and, in addi. tion, ordered the opium to be con- fiscated.
MUZZLELESS.
ANTIMONY APPEAL DISMISSED.
(Continued from Pape 1.)
the soldiers, says the "Kung Sheung Yat Po."
Before his recent capture, he previously had a few narrow escapes but on this occasion being hard pressed by soldiers, he dis guised himself as a chair coolie. But, however, he was recognised
It is obvious from the correspon-by the villagers and turned over dence that at the time they agreed to the soldiers.
to submit the dispute between plain- It is interesting to note that a
DOG-OWNERS. EACH FINED tiffs and Hallett's to arbitration sum of $10,000 had been issued
FIVE DOLLARS...
the defendants had no knowledge by the population of Hoi Fung of any special purpose for which and Luk Fung for his arrest and This morning, at the Kowloon the ore was to be used, as being treble that amount by the Swatow Magistracy, three cases were within the contemplation of plain- Authorities. It said that this heard before Mr. W. Schofield in-tiffs and Hallett's and that if this communist also played a promin- volving Europeans, all of whom special purpose was considered by ent part during the last uprising were charged with allowing their the arbitrator in making his award of the "Reds" at Canton. dogs abroad without muzzle. the contract the arbitrator dealt
Mr. Curtis, Manager of the with was not in identical terms:
NOT PROVED,
Duro Motor Garage, Kowloon, with the one made between plain of Jan. 29, 1926, is an admission. pleading "guilty," explaining that tiffs and defendants.
I paid little attention to this letter the muzzle had slipped off. A
On the whole I have come to the in the Court below as I did not fine of $5 was imposed.
Captain Vedder, 2nd Lieut. conclusion (said his Lordship) that consider the statement in question had an important bearing on the Tregear, of the 3/15 Punjabis the evidence available points to a
I have however devoted a) material difference in the contract case. Regiment and four Chinese were
considerable amount of thought
each fined $5 for similar offences. between plaintiffs and defendants, and attention to it on this Appeal,
I am
and that on which the arbitrator made his award; and in any case but my opinion remains unchang
of opinion that plaintiffs| ed. In view of the great success of have not discharged the onus of
"Was it really an admission? I the first Promenade Concert held on proving to our satisfaction that have been unable to find anything Friday last at the Volunteer Head- there is evidence from which we directly to the point in the au- quarters, it has been decided to hold can infer that the two contracts thorities, but Halsbury says "The another concert on Friday, August were in identical terms.
value of an admission depends on 17. The Band of the King's Own Scottish Borderers will again por-Mr. Justice Jacks in the Court be made, these are always receivable "In my opinion the judgment of the circumstances in which it was! form, by kind permission of Lt low was right, and this Appeal to affect its weight. Thus a party Col. L. J. Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.0 should be dismissed with costs," against whom it is tendered may
PUISNE JUDGE.
and officers, and there will again be
show that it was made in: Ignor- Vocal Items during the pro- Here is an extract from the ance of the facts, or when his mind gramme. Price of admission will Putane Judge's finding:
was in an abnormal condition'.” ~. be.$1, with sailors and soldiers in
"The point we have to consider· The appeal was, accordingir, dis uniform at half price.
|is whether the respondents' letter missed with costs,
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