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AMERICAN LADY AND ON THE INDIAN AN INTERNATIONAL
AMUNDSEN
ROYAL LUNCHEON
MISS BOYD ENTERTAINED BY THE NORWEGIAN KING
HONOURS CONFERRED
Oslo, Yesterday,
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EX-CHIEF AND THREE MULLAHS
CONVICTED OF SEDITION
Simins, Yesterday.
DISPUTE
FALKLAND ISLANDS
THE ARGENTINE AND THEIR OWNERSHIP
CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED
New York, Yesterday. The disputed ownership of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Orkneys which was
King Haakon entertained at A message from Peshawar states luncheon the American lady. Miss that Abdurrahoman ex-Chief of the Boyd, who put the whaler "Hobby" Qazi at Kabul and three other at the disposal of the expedition mullahs who were convicted of the subject of Anglo-Argentine cor- organised to search for Amundsen's sedition, were executed at Kabui respondence exchanged last year. Is plane and personally participated last week. The execution formed a published by the, Buenos Aires in the search.
lively tople on the frontier in view correspondent of the "New York The king paid a tribute to Miss of Abdurrahaman's priestly reputa-Timea." Boyd and conferred upon her the tion and association with Hazrat Cross of the Chevalier and the Sahfb of Shorbazar, who is still in ed against the erection of an Argen- Cross and Order of St. Olav..
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The Prime Minister, M. Mowinckel, the United States Minia- ter and the Norwegian airmen who assisted in the search were present at the luncheon.-Reuter.
Amundsen Relic?
Oslo, Yesterday.
A petrol tank, believed to have belonged to the French aeroplane in which Amundsen was lost, has been brought to Valdersund by a Norwegian fishing boat. The tank, which was somewhat dented, still held thirty litres of petrol.
Two almost legible lines of poncil. Inscribed only "accie 20 X L" were decipherable and are interpreted to mean "accident" fol- lowed by the position when the machine was forced down-Reuter.
A subsequent examination of the pencil writing on the tank, showa it is probably unconnected with the accident to Amundsen's aeroplane, but relates to the mounting of the tank on the machine-Reuter:
JEHÖL TUTUNG
SQUABLE OVER CHOICE OF GENERAL
NANKING V. MANCHURIA
authority-Reuter.
FIRE IN HANKOW
Municipal Police Keep Perfect Control
Hankow, Yesterday.
A large fire broke out on 'Tues- day night at the godowns of the Japanese firm, Nishen Kisen Kaisha....
Fortunately, no damage was done to the Consulate and the municipal police kept perfect control of the crowds.-British Naval Wireless.
THE "EVEREADY "
(Continued from Page 1.)
ference use
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It says that Great Britain protest-
tinian wireless and meteorological atation, in South Georgia. The Argentine replied asserting owner- ship of the islands and explaining inability to. take active control of the Falklands on account of British occupation.
The correspondent declares that the publication of the correspond. ence has an immediate bearing on) the Argentine's attitude towards. the Kellogg Paet, which tacitly re- cognises the British right to pro- tect Jer possessions. Reuter's American Service.
PARIS FATALITY
20 WORKMEN BURIED IN
COLLAPSE
THE CONTRACTOR
at
Paris, Yesterday. Twenty workmen were buried in | In its directions for the ruins of a collapsed six-storey to the Everandy mazda building being constructed lamp and this is the kind that was Vincennes, East of Paris. invented three years ago, by which The bodies of three Italians were time it is obvious that defendant recovered and five others rescued. knew of the Eveready goods. The The foreman says he ascended to only approach to corroboration of the fourth floor and was suddenly the defendant's claim to priority called down by a workman. As he lies however, in a vague atatement reached the road he saw the build- by his printer that we have been ing shake, make almost a quarter printing these labels for him for turn and collapse. The contractor three or four years;" and in a state-attempted suicide by means of a Peking, Yesterday. Reliable foreign authorities con-ment by one of his own witnesses revolver at the polica station. The Brm the fact that owing to the that defendant was making batteries coment is being tested. Reuter. National Government having re- In Nam Chung-street when he first fused to accept any of the three saw him on his return from America, nominees proposed by General which, witness thinks, was in 1923, LONDON-CAPETOWN Chang Hsueh-liang to replace Gen-but this witness admits he knows eral Tang Yu-lin as Tutung of nothing of the electrical business. Jehol, Chang Hauch-liang has de-As regards defendant's evidence I cided to support Tang Yu-lin if cannot regard it as satisfactory. General Fang Chen-wu attacks him.
Labels' Appearance
MURDOCH CRASHES IN THE CONGO
MACHINE DESTROYED
Five Manchurian army corps are
The main evidence in this case is moving to reinforce Tang Yu-lin. the appearance of the labels them-
Capetown, Yesterday. The Manchurian line runs roughly selves. In all three classes of labels,
The airman, Flight Comdr. Mur- along the Upper Luan River in the Electricity, Chung Wah and Canton! vicinity of Fengning, Chengtch and City, the resemblance of the 'doch, who restarted for England on Jehol, while Fang Chen-wu's army Eveready is most striking both in September 12, crashed at Kaffenga, is round Kupelkow and Hsifeng- colour and pattern. The words Can- in the Belgian Congo. kow.
ton City are so printed and colour- The machine was destroyed but
Clash Not Wanted
ed as to be a close imitation of the the aviator was unhurt-Reuter. Apparently, none of General Yen word Eveready as it appears on the! [This is the airman who last Hsi-shan's or General Pei Chung-label of the National Carbon Co. The August flew from London to Cape- hai's troops are moving at present maker of one of those labels must town.]
to support Fang Chen-wu, but it have modelled it on the other, or on
is generally believed that neither some equally close imitation; and
Nanking nor Manchuria desires a must have the deliberate intention TWO OF THE R's. clash and there are still hopes that of deceiving purchasers. The same it will be averted.
According to reports from Tai-la equally true of the Electricity and
Chung Wah labels. If defendant's yuanfu. Yen Hsi-shan recently contention is correct either the Na- dismantled the arsenal erected by tional Carbon Co., have appropriat the late Marshal Chang Tao-lin at ed his design, or there has been an Tientsin and transferred the ma-
amazing indication of telepathy chinery to Taiyuanfu, hence Tai- yuanfu is turning out more and between the two label designers; better munitions than before the and the one supposition seems as downfall of Chang Tao-lin. Reuter. improbable as the other..
A HOME FASHION
GET. MARRIED EARLY"
HABIT
GROWING POPULARITY
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
FOR ADULTS
TURKISH REFORM
Constantinople, Yesterday." The Government has published through the Ministrry of Education a scheme for adult education by which 12,000 specially recruited teachers will teach all men and women on the country over 46 years of age to read and write.-Router.
The Magistrate concluded:- "On these grounds I must register a conviction against defendant on both chargea, with forfeiture of all: batteries and labels seized; and in view of the length of the case-and | THE SCHELDT
the large amount of costs likely.to
be claimed by the prosecution I will
merely make an order for defendant; RESUMPTION OF BELGO-DUTCH
NEGOTIATIONS
That marriage is more popular to pay all costs, without further pen- than ever in Great Britain and alty.
there are more boy and girl wed- Mr. G S. Hugh Jones prosecuted dings are two facts revealed in the and Mr. Hin-shing Lo defended.
The Hague, Yesterday.
It is officially announced that
4.80 p.m. mass of statistics contained in the After they had failed to agree as the Belgian and Dutch Govern- second part of the annual return to coeta, Mr. Hugh Jones sald he ments have agreed freshly to nego- of the Registrar-General... left the matter entirely in the Magistate the settlement of outstanding The marriage rate, 15.7 per 1,000 trate's hands. His Worship awarded questions including the Scheldt in 1927, was the highest recorded $400 but, on the application of Mr. navigation on February 4,
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OCTOBER Klangsu
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Fort Bayard, Holhow, Pakhol and
Haiphong.
Bangkok via Swatow
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
bearing vanarTe-Dame any.
in the past five years, representing Le, reduced the figure to $250, at
an increase of. 28,500 weddings.
which an order was made,
The growth of the "get married
Captain GT. Foxcroft, M.P. for early" habit is evidenced by the fact that 58,000 bridal couples Bath, asks "The Daily Mall" to deny were under the age of 21, while of rumour that he does not intend to the remainder, most of the brides stand for Iris present constituency were under 23 and most of the at the next general election. bridegrooms, were under 24.GA
Belgian and Dutch experts will meet and work out the basis of the resumption of the negotiation- Renter
BURNT TO DEATH
Moscow, Yesterday.
incinerated
Three people were Nearly 2,000 people heard Canon and mine seriously injured in a fire Twenty-four brides were aged E. W. Mogil preach his final sermon at a sugar refinery near Belgorod, in
only 15, while 12 bridegrooms were only sixteen. www
Ninety-seven per cent of the weddings ware; between bachelors
and spinsters on 110 The birth-rate, was: ever recorded. It show стойка от 40.000.
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at Chris Church, Southport, Lan the Veronesh district. ashire before taking up the living horses perished. Reuter, at St. Aldate's, Oxford.) EUROS PUS
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