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“FLU" EPIDEMIC IN IMPORTANT FRENCH THE “GAZETTE DU
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Resident of Tunisia.-Havas.
The health authorities, who werd already very busy are further OH, ARE YOU! alarmed by the discovery that a number of cases of influenza have been followed by sleepy sickness. -Reuter's American Service.
BRITISH AVIATION
A NEW LIGHT 'PLANE INVENTED
INTERCHANGEABLE WINGS
London, Jan. 1. A new type of machine has been added to the series of British light aeroplanes, and it marks an 'in- teresting development in the pro- duction of British airclaft.
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police to send up someone "who understood things.” -
The witness was refused én- trance to the house until the arrival
FRANC" SENSATION
DUC INDICTED
ALLEGED TO HAVE RECEIVED FRS. 1,830,000
PUBLIC EXAMINATION
Paris) Yesterday, The Duc Dayen, one of the direc- ters of the "Interpresse, indicted on à charge of swindling and abuse of confidence, interrogated by the examining magistrate in the gazette du Frane case, described his business relations with Madame Hanau.
It is alleged that Dayen fictiti
in Qualy, subscribed for shares various undertakings under her
auspices for the sum of 1,830,000
francs.
Dayen has been left provisional- ly at liberty.Reuter.
ONE OF LANCASHIRE'S "COTTON KINGS”
of Sub-Inspector Logan. After wit- SIR CHAS. MACARA ness had produced the warrant to the Inspector and explained mat- ters, the latter bold witness to carry on with his duty, and together they went to the roof of the servants' quarters where they found the green wild wood.
DIES AT RIPE OLD AGE
London, Yesterday.
Sir Charles Macara, the well-
Replying to Mr. Andrewes, Mr. Curr said that the wood found on the roof was green and of similar known cotton magnate, died to-day
The machine has been designed nature' to the stumps he had found at his home at Altrincham, Che- by Mr. Simmonds, who was former- in the plantation, and must have shire, aged nearly 83.
He was
ly on the technical staff of the con- been cut within a week. Most of recognised all over the world as structors of the well-known Super- the wood on the roof appeared to
one of the "Kings of the cotton marine Southampton Flyingboats, be split wild tree trunks. and has been named the Simmonds
industry." The defendant was away from the Spartan.
house at the time of the search so "Despite his age, he had applied The whole of the first batch of the witness waited for him. When his wisdom and experience since twelve machines has been ordered the defendant came at about 8.45 the war to grappling with the trou- and the first machine will be sent p.m., the witness heard the head bles of Lancashire."
forestman question him. Witness He was Chairman of the Provi- Australia has ordered three for heard the accused admit that the
sional Emergency private owners, one is going to wood found on the roof was his, and South Africa, more are booked for that he had cut it from the hillside mittee set up in 1922.
to America on Thursday.
the United States and the remain- der are for home purchasers.
above the house. Defendant was
then taken into custody.
Questions
The main claim for the new machine is in the method of mak ing all wings interchangeable and also such parta as ailerons, eleva- tors, rudder, tail plece, fin and property was 50 feet all round the fying wires.
house, and most of the 40 odd
Answering Mr. Andrewes, the wit- res said that the area of Cel. Bird's
Cotton Com- From
1892 to 1926 he was Chairman of the Manchester Cotton Employers' Association and, from 1894 to 1914 President of English Federation of Master Cotton Spinners.
Outside his business sphere Sir! Charles Macara was prominently identified with the National Life-
The basis of this construction is stumps the witness gaw were out- boat movement.--British Wireless the use of symmetrical wing sec- aide this circumference. tions, and although it has always
AFGHANISTAN AMANULLAH PAYING LIBERAL
COMPENSATION
London, Jan. 1.
Service.
REPARATIONS
GERMANY PAYING
UP
Berlin, Jan. 1. Mr. Parker Gilbert, the Agent General for Reparations Payments,
the service of the
been considered that they have cer Questioned by Mr. Andrewes as tain disadvantages. compared with to how he knew the boundary of Col. the more usual wing with different Bird's property, Mr. Carr said that! camber top and bottom the de- 50 feet was the usual ares on the signer of the Spartan claims that Peak. Witness admitted, however, the
he has that he had not been to the Land; particular section evolved compares well with those Office to verify his estimate. ' used on other light aircraft.
When defendant was asked if he The engine is the Cirrus mark had any questions to put to Mr. IIT which is a development of the Carr, Mrs. Bird started to ask some type already widely circulated over thing, when the Magistrate remark- says in the Fourth Annuity Year the world.
It maximum speed is ed that he could not allow questions report that Germany has again stated to be 103 miles an hour from her.
made all payments required of her, British Wireless Service.
The defendant repeated his state- namely 1,750,000,000 gold marks, ment that he had only cut boughs loyally and punctually.
The British share is 878,250,000 which overhung the garden.
Mr. Lindsell then said that if the marks, of which 13,000,000 marks is defendant's employer had any ques. (used for the expenses of the British tion to suggest she could put them Army of Occupation in the Rhine-
land Zones. through Mr. Andrewes.
France's share is 1,000,000,000 Mrs. Bird replied that she had no marks of which 50,000,000 marks is It la learned that messages are questions to ask, She explained that devoted to now arriving in London with fair she had been asked to question Mr. French Army on the Rhine. regularity from the British Lega. Carr. She did not understand, the tion at Kabul, but they hardly re- procedure of the Court.
Mr. Parker Gilbert, reporting on fer to the, situation in Afghania-
Germany's financial position gen- tan, but 'mininly relate to plans for
After the head forestman had cor. erally, again draws attention to the evacuation of foreign nationala, roborated Mr. Carr's evidence that the sweeping increases In official which the British Government has defendant admitted that he had cut salaries and pensions, and the con- undertaken.
the wood from a pine plantation out-tinuing drain of the financial Evacuation is not yet complete, side the garden, defendant elected settlement between the Reich and | though efforts have met with great to call the house coolie and assistant the State Communes.
In connection with this latter It is surmised that all serious how he came by the wood. Defen-that the German Government by
house coolie, who, he claimed, know
arrangement, Mr. Gilbert declares fighting between the Government
dant further dented that he had said taking practical steps to protect troops and the rebels has been anything about the pine plantation, its own budget, can save hundreds Buspended owing to the severity of but told the head forestman what he of millions of marks, the wintry conditions,
had told the Court..
He adds: There can be no ques- A message from Peshawar states
The head forestman was emphatic, tion of the ability of the budget that, King Amanullah has reward- that defendant did not say that he of the Reich to provide the full ed his troops at Kabul with two had merely cut overhanging boughs, amount of its standard contribu- months' extra pay for their repulse whereupon the Magistrate gave a re- tion under the experts' plan, name of the rebels, and the King has also and until to-morrow morning for ly 2,500,000,000 gold marks in the increased the pay of his bodyguard the attendance of the defendante year 1923-29) from fourteen to twenty rupees per two witneses. Ball was allowed in It is announced that Sir Josiah month. It also appears that the sum of $60.-
success.
villages have been liberally compen sated for losses due to the robel raids.
Another rebel concentration in improbable before the spring, owing to the severe cold in Kabul,
Two Witnesses
TRANSPORT. BACK.
Germany's Finances
2
Stamp, who was one of the British representatives on, the Dawes Com- misalon, and Lord Revelstoke, who is a director of the Bank of Eng- land, have been appointed to act H.M.'s transport "Neuralia" with as the British representatives on the 2nd Batt. the Suffolk Regt. the Cominittee of Experts which la The Afghan Legation in London (bound for India) and, half of the to go into the problem of repara- to-day stated that all fighting has 1st Batt...the Northampton Regt tions. 4.80 p.m. ceased and that peace negotiations (bound for Malta) both being units 6. p.m.
are now proceeding. It is hoped in the North China Command, ar- that the country will soon. return rived here this morning from 8.80 a.m. to normal.
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Mr. Gilbert Unpopular
Berlin, Yesterday. Mr. Parker Gilbert is in no wise
Shanghai, en route for the des-popular since the publication of his The Legation denies recent re-tinatione mentioned.
annual report 'portraying a rosy porta that a section of the Army
condition in the German economic has revolted, and expresses the
situation; which the newspapers un- opinion that the foreign women and children who have been evacuated by the British R.A.F. machines will probably be able to return to Kabut shortly Reute
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