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KING SITTING UP FOR SOME HOURS
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London, Yesterday.
It was announced from Craigweil House, Bognor, thla evening that, following a restful night, the King had had a good stay and is progress ing satisfactorily.
The sun shone practically all day,{ and the King was able to sit by the To-day open window of his room.
was the first occasion on which His Majesty was able to sit up continu- ously for some hours.
Dr. Howitt came from London and applied the luminous ray treat- ment British Wireless Service.
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New York, Saturday. Mr. Elihu Root sailed on his 84th birthday en route to Geneva to participate la the deliberations of the Committee of jurists to consider amendments to the statute creating the World Court-Reuter's Ameri- can Service.
[A Washington cable of February 8 reported: It is understood that Mr. Elihu Root has been authorised to undertake an unofficial diploma tic mission to seek and secure an understanding among world Powers on the reservations which the United States has made to joining the Hague Court of International Justice. This is interpreted as portending another move to take the United States into the Court.]
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New York, Saturday. The death is announced of Mr. Melville Elijah Stone, ex-General Manager of the Associated Press of America-Reuter's American Service.
{Mr. Stone, who was born in 1848, at Hudson, Illinois was for many years associated with Chi- cago journalism.]
'FLU IN OSAKA
DAILY DEATH TOLL OVER FIFTY
Osaka, Saturday.
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After his first visit to Canton, H.E. the Commander-in-Chief. China Station (Vice-Admiral A, K. Waistell, C.B.) returned to Hong Kong yesterday afternoon on H.M.S. "Petorshield."
The Vice-Admiral's flag, which from was temporarily transferred H.MS. "Kent" to "Petersfield" for the visit, has been re-transferred.
"BIG BUSINESS LEADING AMERICAN BANKER'S APPEAL
BANK" RATE QUESTION
HEAVY DAMAGE IN MACEDONIA
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Athens, Yesterday. Unprecedented damage has been done in East Macedonia by the Joverflowing of the rivers Vardar
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Huge areas have been fooded, cattle drowned and many persons rendered homeless.
No fatalities are recorded, so far. The Minister of Communication has visited the stricken districts to or- Iganise relief, regarding which the Government proposes to organise a subscription of a Pan Hellenic character to be devoted not only to
Irrigation works Macedonia-Reuter.
In
New York.-Addressing a crowd-relief but to temporary anti-flood ed audience in Mr. Rockefeller's works pending the execution of ex- Park-avenue Baptist Church, New tensive York, Mr. Owen D. Young, the chief American expert on the new Reparations Committee and chair- man of the board of directors of the General Electric Company, spoke ou the moral obligation of "Big Busi neas" to do the right thing.
Arrayed in the black gown of a Doctor of Laws, and speaking in grave tones, Mr. Young emphasised what he called the "Moral problem
TOKYO BLAZE
11 HOSPITAL PATIENTS
INCINERATED
SEVEN MISSING
Tokyo, Saturday.
Fire has destroyed the Brain'
of fixing the bank rate" and the Diseases Hospital. Eleven of the incinerated while duty of the directors of great en-patients were terprises to guard the interests of seven are missing. their shareholders and treat their The Military School of Artillery and Engineering was also damaged. employees honestly,
Distressing Scenes "Big Business," he declared, was
Distressing scenes marked the usually just, and "It is not the crooked man in modern business we reatue of the inmates, all of whom were Insane, They fear, but the honest man who does shrieked, laughed and acted hilari not know what he is doing."
lously as the rescuers attempted to Blundering in business conduct he
save them, while the lurid flames condemned as worse than dishonesty it up the darkness of the night.
Mr. Young said he knew no
Main Buildings Gutted matter involving more moral pro- Troops, co-operating with Fire blems than the task of determining Brigades, finally controlled the con- the bank rate. The bank rate, he flagration in the early morning, but explained, affected credit increase or not before the flames, which were diminished the value of money, and fanned by a strong wind, had gutted gave every aged person dependent the main buildings of the hospital upon his savings more or less of and also the military school includ good things to eat. He had nevering the latter's library, in which realised until he was a member of about 100,000 valuable volumes are the Dawes Committee how the reported to have been destroyed.- stability of currency goes into the Reuter. basic things of life. The pur chasing power of the German mark at that time was falling so rapidly that business concerns paid 'wages dally and men handed the money immediately to their wives, who waited outside, so that they might run to the stores and spend it before the paper became worthless.
He welcomed "Big Business" and and big responsibility in the hope and belief that it would make busi- In consequence of the recent, un- usual coldness influenza is prevail-ness right, and said he was pleased ing in Osaka, the daily death toll with the rapid progress being made
in that direction. being over 50,--Reuter.
RADIO
Nanking, Yesterday.
The embargo on radio and wire-
REDS IN JAPAN
THIRTY-FOUR SENT TO
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Osaka, Saturday. The Kobe District Court has
sentenced 84 Communists to impri- two to eight years. Reuter.
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all right and led to a second encore playing a golden rule for amateurs popular soldier dancers being Intro- something to do with roses, I is "Avold places with closed duced very effectively into the mid- think, and quite charming
harmonics." They may come off in dle of it.
We went home at some hour well I was afraid that Mr. Hannibal's the privacy of one's home; they
on the stage. The after midnight, cold but contented, wit would be likely to spoil the at-seldom do mosphere for the violin solo that Beethoven "Romance" which she having gone out in a deserving followed it. But the gentle and played as an encore was a further cause, and found more enjoyment quiet humour of the "Hannibalisma" example of injudicious selection. It than we had ever expected, or even, actually did nothing of the sort. is one of the most difficult pieces perhaps, deserved. We awaited the next item with there are to play satisfactorily. I sympathetic good humour, Saint have known professionals shrink
P. L. J.
Saens' "Rondo Capriccioso" was from embarking In cold blood on to The Royal Tournament will be played with considerable skill. It the doubling stopping of that open held at Olympla, Kensington, W., Is in the first place no light task for ing phrase. Nor did her accompan- from May 28 to June 8 inclusive,
The chief constable of Southend,
an senateur to memorise such's long fet realise the fire that burns In and compleated work at the same Beethoven's vigorous chords. time I hardly feel that Mrs. Balean Mr. Molend followed with two Mr. H. M. Kerslake, bhse, Issued, a 15 doing hereef Justice in her Boottist songs, and this really er warning that focel whist drives for
pieces for the concert cellent concert was brought to a money prises must desse. HER