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WORLD COURT
U. S. A. DRAWS UP A NEW FORMULA
SUBMITTED BY MR. ROOT
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Genova, Yesterday.
Mr. Elihu Root has drawn up a Formula replacing the United States Afth reservation to adher once to the Permanent Court of Jus- tice.
WHAT THE CAMERA TWO RESOLUTIONS
REVEALED
ROMAN CITY
R.A.F. MEN OBTAIN STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHS
WHEN BOADICEA RULED
London; Yesterday.
IN AGENDA OF THE DIOCESAN
CONFERENCE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Two important resolutions are the features in the agenda of the Church of England Diocesan Con- ference, which is to be held in St. John's Cathedral Hall to-morrow and Friday, preceded by Evensong Mr. Root proposes to create ma-
Flying at a height of 2,400 feet, in the Cathedral at 5 p.m. each day. chinery to consider specific cases
the moh of the Royal Air Force have One of the resolutiona, to determine whether the United taken remarkable photographs of the "China Mail" learns, concerns the States really has an interest in any
Roman town buried underneath Church of England Trust Ordin- question to be submitted to the
fields near Norwich. This Roman ance, the draft Bill of which is, to Court for their advisory opinion.
town was known as Daistor and be brought up in the near future. If the signatories of the World thereabouts lived 20,000 Romans in The object is to place the repre- Court and the United States are un-the heyday of the Roman power in sentation of the laity on a new able to agree whether the Court
basis and to vest all property in should be consulted, Mr. Root sug-
It has been observed that only the hands of a Board of Trustees; gests that the United States forth-
stunted crops grow there. Photo-also to link all the C. of E. with resign from the Court.-Rex-graphs from a height show that the Churches in the diocese more effec- ruins He only just beneath the surtively together on the same lines
ter.
SHANGHAI COUNCIL
RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS ANNOUNCED
FIVE BRITISH RETURNED
Shanghai, Yesterday.
The election of nine members of the Shanghai Municipal Council resulted as under:
K. Fukushima
1,166*
T. Funatsu
1,156+
H. E. Arnhold
890*
Brig. Gen. E. B. Macnaghten
857+
C. H. French (American)
790+
G. W. Sheppard
A. D. Bell
775+ 713*
V. G. Lyman (American)
P. W. Massey
* old members.
new members.
672* 651+
The new Council comprises five British, two Americans, and two Japanesc.
The unsuccessful candidates were Mr. W. P. Lambe, Mr. J. E. B. de Courcy (Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation), Captain A. E. N. Howard, and Mr. G. E. Marden.
Mr. G. W. Sheppard, who is one of the new members, is in the firm of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.. --Reuter.
MEXICAN REVOLT
FEDERAL TROOPS REPORTED ROUTED
PRESIDENT SAFE
New York, Yesterday. General Escobar, the rebel 'com. mander, reporta that the rebels have captured Monterey, the capital of the State of Nuevo Leon. The Federal troops were completely de- feated, three Generals, 78 other oficers and 560 other ranks. being captured.
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FINE TO CLOUDY
To-day's weather lagued by the Royal Observa- tory at 11.45 a.m. stated:
report,
An anti-cyclone covers S. E. Mongolia and China.
Fresh monsoon may be ex- pected along the S. E. coast of China and over the China Sea.
Forecast:-N. winds, moder- ate; fine to cloudy.
as at Home, instead of remaining separate entities as now.
The other outstanding resolution concerns the new constitution of the Church of England Diocesan Conference.
S'HAI SENSATION
MRS. CLAUSING'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH
JURY'S VERDICT.
Shanghai, Yesterday, At an inquest here the Jury brought in a verdict that Mrs. face and take, the definite form of Clausing came to her death on the buildings and roads. Two of the night of February 23 through outlines caught by the camera re-causes unknown. "During this semble temples. Calstor and its time a fire of unknown origin oc- environs straggle over about 1,000 curred in her apartment, from the acres but it is believed that by the debris of which her charred re- aid of photographs archaeologists mains were later removed." will be able to go straight to the Her mysterious death has aroused heart of the town. Consequently, the greatest interest, but there is every likelihood that no solution excavations will begin shortly.
Queen Boadicea ruled the people will ever, be reached. who were conquered at Caistor by At the military inquest on Lieut. Romans, and it is thought that one Chasing the verdict was that death line of research may yield the story was due to septicaemia, and it was British Wireless Service. of her fight against the Romans-decided that a post-mortem was not
QUEEN EMMA
TO SPEND A DAY AMONG DUTCH ART
SPECIAL STEAMER ENGAGED
London, Yesterday.
The Dutch Queen-Mother Emma has engaged a special steamer to enable her to visit the exhibition of Dutch art in London. She will leave Rotterdam at 7 pm. and catch the train at Gravesend next morn- ing, returning from London at six o'clock the same evening.
Her Majesty will spent the whole day at the exhibition-Reuter.
necessary.
It will be remembered that Mrs. Causing met her death at a board- ing house in the French Concea sion. Her husband, First, Lleat.
United Clausing of the
States Marines, was severely burned In attempting to save his wife and was taken to hospital, where he died on February 28.-Reuter,
GANDHI
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SALLS FOR BURMA
Calcutta, Yesterday. Gandhi, who after being arrested, a bond refused ball, later signed
Balled and was released. He has Hornsea, East Yorkshire, Council for Burma. The nature of the has received from three young men charges against him has not been a cheque for £30 and an apology made known, but the case will be for damage they caused to, the heard when he returns from his tour promenade during the summer." of Burma. The secretary of the Provincial Nationalist Congress
All was quiet in Mexico City last night. There is no truth in the previous report that President Portes Gil and members of the Government had been imprisoned,
The earlier message from Laredo, Texas, reported that the. Mexican President, Portes Gil, the labour leader Morones and the Mexican Chief of Staff, General Jose Amary, had been imprisoned in Mexico since it opened on January 4, accord- City-Reuter's American Service. ing to the "Daily Mail" of Jan, 14.
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It is announced that at the ex- hibition of artificial slik at Olympia the throneered spolding suit for women will be on view. This suit,
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than ever in the near future. long when they are on Miss 1980 ficial silk displayed is manufactured
Another important innovation is that they brush the ground. that the waist line is to be short. Darker Stockings ened, enabling the waist to be shown. A number of striking new colourd
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