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PENSIONS
AN EXTENSION.
AFFECTING GOVERNORS OF MANDATED TERRITORIES
MR. J. H. THOMAS' SUPPORT
London, Yesterday.
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LONDON, INDIA AND FAR EAST DUTCH DOCUMENTS AGAIN DE-
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The French Foreign Office again emphasised that the publications are a forgery.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Van Lear Black, the American The German Ambassadora Ormsby Gore, Under-Secretary, for newspaper magnate, who left Croy- London and Paris have been in- the Dominions, moved the second don on Feb. 11 in his Fokker aero-formed by the respectiva Foreign reading of the Bill providing for plane with Dutch pilots, arrived in jOffices, in connection with the lat- an extension of the Civil Service Pretoria to-day.
est allegations published in the Pensiona to Governors of mandat- After he reaches Capetown he in!"Utrechtse Dagblad" that neither ed territories. He said there had tends to return to London by air of the Governments had done any- come into association with the Briand then fly to India and the Farthing to impair the Locarno Pact. tish Empire this new form of de- East.--Reuter. pendency for which Governers had to be provided, and unless there was a change in the statue it would not be possible to pay the same ponsion to a Governor of Manda- tory Territory as was paid to Gov. ernors of Colonies and Protector- ates A small commitee had been set up to go into what was neces- sary to do justice to the Governors of Mandated Territories and they had presented a report. The Bill, in the main, gave effect to recom- mendations of that committee. ·
Mr. J. H. Thomas, who was Colonial Secretary in the Labour Government, supported the Bill. He observed that it remedied a grievance and was long overdue,
The bill was read a second time without a division.-British Wire- less Service
HIS MAJESTY.
NOW WEARING CAP AND OVERCOAT
ENJOYING THE SUNSHINE
London, Yesterday.
It is officially stated at Bogner that the King passed a good day. The sun shone brilliantly through out the day and the King, wear- ing a cap and overcoat, was able to sit at the window and enjoy the genial warmth-British Wireless Service,
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For Formcas Channel it la: N.E. winds, strong.
At 10.55 am, to-day the Ob servatory reported:-The anti- cyclone central over North China-has strengthened. Strong monsoon may be expected along the S. E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea..
KELLOGG PACT
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"RED" OPPOSITION
Copenhagen, Yesterday. The Riksdag has ratified the Kellogg Pact.
Paris, Yesterday.
The Chamber has voted by 570 votes to 12 for the ratification of the Kellogg Pact, the minority being all Communista.
The Hague, Yesterday.
Brussels, Yesterday.
The Count de Broqueville (men- tioned in the Amsterdam interview of Feb. 28) said the minutes were "only another forgery." He deni ed there had ever been any such conference of the Franco-Belgian general staffs.-Reuter..
AMERICAN'S DEATH
SAD SEQUEL TO A FIRE IN SHANGHAI
SEPTIC POISONING
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Shanghai, Yesterday. First Lieut. Clausing died this afternoon from septic poisoning.— Reuter.
[On March 24 Mrs. Clausing, wife of Lieutenant John G. Clausing, of the Fourth Regiment, U. Marine Corps, was burnt to death in a fire which swept the top floor of No. 2 passage 146s, Route des Soeurs, Shanghai. The fire gutted the two top floors of the building and Mrs. Clausing lost her life as she and her husband groped through the terrific blaze and clouds of smoke to find their way to safety. Lieut. Clausing received painful burns but septic poisoning eet in with the sad result cabled yesterday.]
In the Second Chamber there only FAMOUS ART EXPERT two opponents to the adoption of the Bill approving of Holland's adhesion to the Kellogg Pact-Reuter.
U.S. STOCKS
BEDLAM SCENES IN, NEW YORK
FAMOUS PRE-WAR CONTRO-
VERSY RECALLED
CLAIMANT'S DEATH ~
Berlin, Yesterday.
The death has occurred of the art expert, Professor Wilhelm von
At the general meeting to be held 6,000,000 SHARES TAKEN OVER Bode, famous during the pre-War
on Friday, March 22, the Directors will (aubject to audit) recommend that the balance available for dis- tribution be disposed follows:-
To pay a dividend of $2.50 per share on 200,000 old shares.. To pay a dividend of $1.25 per share on 150,000 new shares. To place to reserve -- - To carry forward to
next account
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controversy when he claimed that, the wax bust of "Flora" in the Kaiser New York, Yesterday, Bedlam reigned in the Stock Friedrich Museum was the work of as Market, on the public staging of Da Vinci, though a waistcoat found the wildest bull rampage of the Inside the bust showed it to be the year, six million shares changing work of an English modeller-Reu- handa amid scenes of tumultuous ter confusion. Reuter's American Ser- vice.
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New York, Yesterday. Because tlie Trans-Atlantic Wireless Telephone facilities are so overloaded, the American Tole- phone Telegraph Company - have: decided to spend a vast sum lay- Ing a special telephone cable across the Atlantic.—Reuters: American Service.
SOVIET WAR PACT
|ADHERENCE OF TURKEY NOW
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***Constantinople, Yesterday. - The Turkish Government has ad- hered to the Litvinoff Protocol (the anti-war pact).—Reuter.
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