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NEW SINO-BELGIAN TREATY.
IN THE MAKING.
TUNNEY TELLS THE PUBLIC SAFETY BILL
WORLD.
LITERARY LIONS.
NEGOTIATIONS PROGRESSING AT LONDON'S BRIGHTEST “BEARDED
GENEVA.
"EQUALITY, ETC."
Brussels, Yesterday.
IN THEIR DEN.”
ONE OF THE ELITE.
London, Aug. 30, Gene Tunney, the world's boxing
FOR INDIA.
AMENDMENTS. ·
EUROPEANS AND BRITISH SUBJECTS AFFECTED.
LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED.
Simla, Yesterday. The Select Committee consider- The Chinese-Belgian conversa- tions at Geneva which aim at]
ing the Public Safety Bill has limit- the conclusion of a provisional champion, whose admiration for ed the life of the bill to five years agreement to supersede the George Bernard Shaw and other and exempted from its scope Euro- who Treaty of 1868 are reliably report- celebrities of the pen has evoked peans and British subjects
have lived in India for five years, ed to have progressed to the ex-
from time to time satirical com- and who have a stake in the coun- tent that a favourable outcome may be shortly expected in the ment, has bearded the literary try or are engaged in business. shape of a new Treaty based on Hons in their den, cables the Lon.; The bill will not affect those who principles of equality and recipro- don correspondent of the "States are merely associated with the
Bolshevist movement grieved may appeal against his re- moval before a tribunal of three at a sessions of judges and the High Court.
city-Reuter.
DISPUTE OVER SALT.
TWO LOCAL DEALERS SUE EACH OTHER.
man."
The 48-
In deference to Tunney's literary aspirations a dinner was given here last night and the guests in- The amended bill is likely to be cluded Arnold Bennett, Gilbert accepted.--Reuter. Frankau, Hugh Walpole, Jeffrey Farnol, Sir John Lavery, Sir H. Curtis Bennett, Lord Decies and ONE DAUGHTER WIFE OF Justice P. Jacks (Pulsne Judge) in Lord Dalzell.,
TO-DAY'S CROSS ACTION.
Cross actions between two firms
of salt dealers were heard by Mr.
the Summary Court this morning. An awkward moment occurred Mr. C. A. S. Ruas appeared for during the toast of the President the Wai Shing firm of merchants, I
LATE SIR G. WILLS.
BISHOP: 3 UNMARRIED.
MILLIONS LEFT TO THEM.
The four daughters No. 303, Des Voeux-road West, who of America, the band perplexedly Bristol.
of the late Sir George Willa, sued the Wing Lee shop of No. 4, playing "OP Man River." Centre-street, for $268.18, alleged! Tunney, in a speech, amazed the Bart., president of the Imperial to be balance due on goods sup company by his fluency, and was Tobacco Company, who has left He £10,000,000, while showing the plled. Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, never at a loss for a word.
modestly asked, "What's boxing?keenest interest in the many Sr., defended.
institutions with Merely the ability to co-ordinate benevolent mind and muscle at the critical which their father was associat- Had I been Д famous ed, have lived very retiring lives, moment. litterateur my welcome would have and have figured little in the pub. jbeen left to posterity."
lic life of Bristol.. Arnold Bennett swelled .the
The Wing Lee shop in turn sued the Wai Shing firm, the same solt citors appearing and the two cases being dealt with together.
Opposed Versions.
Sir George, who died on June
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The Wing Lee shop allege that the Wai Shing firm (plaintiffs in chorus of praise for the boxer, re- 11, settled certain trusts for the the first case) forcibly removed marking that when he told a friend benefit of his daughters, and left $949.50 from their shop. As they he was dining with Tunney his the residuary estate between his THE FIRST OF THE GREAT SUPER FILMS ! admitted owing the Wal Shing firm friend replied, "You are a damned children his son, Sir George
24.03, the Wing Lee shop claimed llar. You are boasting."
24.57, and also for damages
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Vernon Proctor Wills, and his daughters. It is estimated that, after the deduction of legacies and death duty, they will share several million pounds.
"Crashes" Into Society. ged wrongful detention of
A New York message states that The Wai Shing firm said that they Tunney has "crashed" into the bought goods from the Wing Lee New York Social Register, which
The eldest daughter, Miss shop, but denied forcible removal. is the Debrett of America or the
of the New Hilda Proctor Wills (one of the In any case, they said, the Wing Lee Almanach de Gotha shop still owed them $268.18. The World, to whose pages none but the executors), is a woman of high educational attainments and Wing Lee shop said that it was not socially alite are supposed to be ad great capacity. For many years a purchase from them but a forcible mitted. removal of everything from their shop.
BANK'S LUCK.
£176,000 CASINO LOSS IN.'
THREE DAYS.
Deauville-Deauville were Ye cently discussing the loss of 22,000,000 francs (about £176,000) by the Greek Syndicate 'at the Casino here in three days.
It is the first time that a cham-since the death of her mother she has been her father's right hand. plon prize-fighter, who fought his
Upon her devolved the main!!! way from lorry driver and steno-burden of caring for her father grapher to the pinnacle of the box during his long illness, while the ing profession, from which he re-responsibilities of maintaining tired at the zenith of his career, the home at Burwalls, and the has been admitted to the Social country households at Blagdon, Register.
Somerset, in Scotland and in Nor The announcement that the Gov-way, and controlling their staffs, erning Board of that publication have been very heavy. Miss Wills had decided to admit Tunney caus- has been a keen worker as a mem- ad considerable surprise.
ber of the Peter Herve Bene- The fact that he is engaged to volent Institution. be married to Miss Mary Josephine Lauder, daughter of one of Andrew
At-Bristol Cathedral, The second daughter, Alice
of Mari-
On a Monday night M. Zographos, the sad-looking little man who deals Carnegie's partners, and reputed Lilian, is the wife of the Bishop the cards and holds the bank for to be worth $10,000,000 in her own of Bath and Wells. It was when the syndicate, lost 17 times con right, influenced the governing Dr. Wynne Willson went from secutively. A few nights later board to some degree, but it muat the headmastership Lady
Stanley, Lord Derby's
be admitted that Tunney fought borough to Bristol Cathedral as daughter-in-law, won 10 hands con-
his way into society practically un- Dean that he met his wife. She secutively against him.
was much interested in the cathe- M. Zagraphos, however, who looks rided.
The Exclusive Register, dral work, and their many mutual like Charlie Chaplin, always seams about to burst into tears even if he There have been examples in the interests led to marriage.. Is winning, so that his expression past of society women who have Since they have been at Wells did not change.
married so-called "commoners" be- the Bishop's Palace has been re- Gambling goes on regularly until ing struck out of the Social Regis-paired and a vast amount of work 8 o'clock in the morning and to ter. The latest example is that of done to preserve the beautiful old watch the big play it is necessary Irving Berlin and Miss Ellen cathedral, which still retains its to stay up until 8 m., which is when it really begins. It is also Mackay, daughter of Mr. Clarence moat and many mediaeval fea-
H. Mackay, multi-millionaire head tures of note....
Miss Vera Wills, like her sis necessary to pay 50 franes (about)
of the Commercial Cable Company sers, does a good deal of com- £4) merely to watch it,
The marriage caused an Cmittee work in connection with trangement between Miss Mackay benevolent objects in Bristol, and and her father. In its next issue is a most valued member of the the Social Register appeared with Bristol Cripple Children's Society. the name of Mra. Irving Berlin de- The youngest daughter, Miss leted. The Board of Governors Margaret Wills, also shares in had decided that a song-writer, these interests.
BLINDFOLD! TELEPATHY CLAIM IN DIRT.
TRACK DEMONSTRATION.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
MAN AND THREE GIRLS AT MAGISTRACYJ
AGAIN ADJOURNED,
A demonstration of what is even one so famous as Mr. Berlin, claimed to be talepathy was given had no place in the Social Regis
* before about 80,000 people at the ter White City dirt-track race meeting Gene Tunney's friendship with by a Frenchman named Gaston Influentis! and wealthy people, and Overlen
his much-ridiculed attitude of Overion, with his face and eyee standing aloof from the traditional completely covered by a thick mask, associations of the prize-ring, have rode twice, round the track on a
earned him this signal honour." motor-cycle avoiding numerous ob- There are millionaires in the
The case in which a man and three stacles such as benches, barrels, United States to-day who would girls are charged in connection and hurdles which had been placed gladly sacrifice half their fortunes with a highway robbery in the New there after he had been blindfolded. An Independent observer was satis to be listed in the "Social Regis Territories, was again adjourned fied that no one could see through ter distinction granted only to H next: Wednesday afternoon, et
those merited by birth or social in- the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Overien claims that he performs fluence to be included in the rank Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy is prose this feat by the exercise of a sixth of American aristocracy, cuting on behalf of the Crown while! Hence, in the next issue of the Mr. C. A. S. Huse is appearing for sense. During the war, he says, he received a bullet in the brain, when Social Register," on the same the Arst defendant and Mr. Leo Aghting on the Somme, and part of page with the Turnbulla, the d'Almada for the three girls the bullet remains in Tuckermans and the Tappers all When passing his wife on each families of the highest social stand- circuit het waved to her. After ing will appear Mr. and Mrs. In fifty years time Eng wards he said that it was her will James J (Gene) Tunney (nee be the language of the maj power and telepathy that helped Josephine Lauder), Greenwich, the people in the world
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