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THE INTERNATIONAL LOAN OFFERED TO GUILLOTINE FOR 3
DISPUTE
ARBITRATION
YUGOSLAVIA
BY DUTCH BANK
PAN - AMERICAN CONFERENCE BELGRADE MAY ALSO TAKE
MOYES SUCCESSFULLY
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PARAGUAY'S ATTITUDE
Asuncion, Yesterday.
ADVANTAGE
FOR MUNICIPAL WORKS
Belgrade, Yesterday.
concern
WOMEN?
A
QUERY IN PARIS POPULAR FEELING AGAINST CHILD MURDERESSES
MONSTROUS CRIMES
Paris. Will the three women who The Government having accepted It is reported that the Yugo-Slav lie under sentence of death for mur- arbitration, has decided to demobi-Minister of Finance has received, der, passed on them by the Selne lise the reserves who were called to through the Foreign Minister, a Assizes, be guillotined?
statement to the effect that an That question is being asked the colours
Washington, Yesterday." important banking
in everywhere in Paris. The protocol of conciliation, Amsterdam is prepared to offer a They are Josepha Kures, a young adopted by the Pan-American Ar- loan of 65,625,000 Dutch florins. Serbian woman who murdered bitration Conference Committee, The conditions have not yet been little girl in the Bois de Boulogne; which has been submitted to decided upon.
Anne Marie David, a middle-aged woman who choked a neighbour's infant girl who had been left in her charge; and Mme. Vabre, aged 40, who killed her stepson, a 'lad of 15.
The three women 'await their fate at the women's prison of St, Lazare. The woman Vabre is in Cell 18, Mata Hari, the beautiful where spy, was detained during the war until she duced a firing party at Vincennes. The other two women The fact that Parisian jurymen,
Bolivia and Paraguay for approval, The same bank has offered the proposes the creation of a panel Municipality of Belgrade a loan for of nine judges to determine the municipal works-Reuter. causes and responsibilities In con-;
nection with the dispute.
Two members of the panel will UNHAPPY FELLOWS
be appointed by each disputant'
and the remaining five by arbitra-; THE TRUTH NOW TOLD ABOUT
BACHELORS tion.
The Conference panel will be' allowed at least six months to Mr. J. F. Roxburgh, head master study the controversy and suggest of Stowe School, gave five rules for an amicable means of solution. life to the girls of St. Monica's have been placed in Cell 11.
It will deal only with the imme- School, Tadworth, Surrey. diate causes of the present dispute
"I expect some of you wonder who are generally regarded as in- clined to clemency, have sentenced and will not touch upon the larg-why the head mistress naked
HARBIN TRAMS
er problem of boundary relations, bachelor to give away the prizes," all three women without a recom- he sald. "The reason is obvious.mendation. to mercy, is regarded as -Reuter's American Service.
A bachelor is the expert of the significant of the popular feeling other sex. A woman really knows towards the murderesses..
The question is asked whether, In very little of women. She is in a wood, and who cannot see the wood view of the monstrous nature of for the trees. A married man can their crimes, the President of the not see the wood for one tree but Republic, will, for the first time for the man who has an uninterrupted, half a century, decline to exercise view and Can
aex, his power of “reprieve.
BOYCOTTED BY THE PUBLIC
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT
as a
the вее
18 whole
4 bachelor.
Harbin The disgraceful manner But the bachelor is a very unhappy
in which the tram conductors have fellow as a rulo, and that is a fact! UNCLE AND NIECE been treating the public who use which some of you might remem- the tram service reached the limit ber later on."
her.
are
LAW OF SCOTLAND
PROHIBITIONS IN BIBLE
when about half dozen tram Mr. Roxburgh then advised the MARRIAGE NOT VALID BY THE servants beat a young Russian so'girls to try to practise the follow- severely that he had to be taken ing rules: "(1) Practise liking to the hospital. The young man other people. They really had done nothing more than inter-rather nice, most of them," he said,
"This appeal may serve a use- the vene between a lady passenger "Hatred and contempt are
(2) Practise the ful purpose if it makes clear to and a conductor who was insulting enemies of life.
I the community that recent legisla- art of thinking for yourselves. The European population of would suggest that one of the ways tion cannot be extended by infer- Harbin determined to show proof of living a useful and helpful sort ence, and that marriage between of their disgust at the treatment of life and having a good time is an uncle and niece is not valid.” used by Lord of passengers and as the tramwaya to practise the art of disgreeing These words were company refused to listen to the with other people, politely," of Sands in reference to a case bew (3) Practise getting your fore, the Scottish Criminal Appeal European side of the question it course.
The rea- Court at Edinburgh recently wher was decided to boycott the trams. scale of values right. Every telephone subscriber was son why some people smoke fifty counsel were heard in an appeal rung up, some unknown person cigarettes a day is because they for a man and the daughter of a telling him not to use the trama value the pleasure of cigarettes deceased wife's brother, who had for three days, 9, 10 and 11. Stud- rather than a healthy and long life. been convicted and admonished on Counsel for ents of the large schools carried (4) Practise looking for happiness a charge of incest. the news round, and notices were instead of looking for pleasure. the appellants stated that the 1s- posted in the railway offices. Fur-Pleasure is like a sprained'ankle sue raised in the case had never ther, boys and girls stood at the you have it all to yourself, but previously been before the Court. stopping places and warned happiness is like mexalca you can-Such decisions as there were went The charge Europeans not to travel by tram. not have it without giving it to back two centuries.
(5) Practise en-was based on the eighteenth chap-| The result was that on December someone else.
9 not one single European could thusiasm. Get enthusiastic over at ter of Leviticus and the old Sect- be seen in a tramcar and the com-least one subject but not over every tish statute of 1567. pany receipts fell $1.000 a day. subject, because you will only bore Further the organizers decided to people.
The relationship in the case was
ity. Counsel intimated that the
demands the discharge of those "If you practise these five rules," that of uncle and niece by affin- conductors who attacked pass-concluded Mr. Roxburgh, "you may engers and finding that the boy become the master of the central Statute referred to the express pro- cott had been successful, added an-art of all the arts, the art of life."hibition of those relationships for
other day to the boycott.
The tramway company Arc publishing statements in the press every day that they will take all measures to stop such conduct on the part of their servants.
"VARSITY MEN'S FILM leaves
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COL. G. R. RICE
Shanghai, Dec. 18.
bidden by Leviticus, and while it might be legitimate to imply a relationship not expressed in cases
of consanguinity, the rule did not
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Colonel G. R. Rice, O.B.E., Fin-apply to cases of affinity. ancial Adviser to Shaforce, who
In this case the relationship was has been transferred to York,
to-day for
Singapore, broken by the death of the man's where he will remain until the wife, after which there was no re- Scots Guards arrive en route lationship which made intercourse It was now legal for a illegal. DESPERATE TRY FOR "THE
Home from Shanghai, when he LOST PATROL"
will proceed to England with man to marry his deceased wife's was no logical, On Sunday afternoon Col. sister, and there Carabbridge, Undergraduates of them.
Rice bade farewell to about three moral or legal' ground for forbid Cambridge University acted for a
hundred young people who have ding the marriage of a man and film recently. · ·
Mr. Walter Summers, the director been attending The Hut at 95 his deceased wife's niece.
Yu Yuen-road on Sunday after- Counsel for the Crown said that) of "The Lost Patrol." wanted n picture of a "desperate try," and ons. The hut was packed when the position was dificult.
two of the children presented Col. Crown were not desirous of pro- the Christ College Rugby. KV. help-Rice with a Chinese silver tea-set secuting in such cases, except from Bookbinders. ed him to obtain it.
in token of their love and esteem. the point of view of public duty. When, after half an hour, it had Earlier in the day the congregation The question came to be whether been scored to Mr. Summers' satie at the Free Christian Church pre- this was still a crime by the law faction, the
professional actor sented Col. Rico with a copy of of Scotland, and he submitted that 108.mong the group of amateurs was "Shanghai To-day and lust it was
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limping from the "realism" impart evening, at, a reception given by The Court refused the appeal. fed to the scene.
[Mra. Barton Sayer, he was asked to Lord Ormsdale. said that he Mr. Arthur Wood, who acted the accept a handsome piece of black could see no suggestion in Levi- flying three-quarter, was formerly a wood for his home in England, ticus that propinquity made any member of the Rugby XV. at During the past week Col. Rice was difference, whether the relation- Christ's College. He takes the part the guest of the officers of Shaforce ship was one of affinity or consan- of a university graduate in "The at a farewell-function.
guinity. Lost Patrul." Many of the scenes
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Abbas, 1688-1629. Wood playing Rugby was taken.
Sir Basil Peto, M. P. for Barns taple, from whom the Govern. ment Whip was withdrawn leat Sen- A Tamekeeper, John Griffin, om- Alderman S. S. Camplon, of sion, received the customary let ployed by Lady Barber, of Culhain Northampton, who is 82 and the ter of summons to attend the pre Court, near Honley, Oxfordshire, father of Mr. Barnard Campion, ment Session of Fartament, both has been found dead under a fence K.C. the London magistrate, was from the Prime Minister and the with a gunshot wound, believed to married in London recently to Miss Conservative Chief Whip, Com have been caused accidentally. Nedle Cooper, of Northampton. mander Eyres-Mansell.
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