THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY
JUNE 23, 1934.
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COUNT FACES
JOHANESBURG
P:& 0.-British India THEFT CHARGE IN
Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
Socialist Refugee's Lapse.
WANTED TO FLOAT
COMPANY
Johannesburg. Count Engelbert Praschma, who left his estates in Eastern Silesia, owing to the Socialist re- volution in Germany, appeared before Mr. C. H. Bruce Austin at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court charged with the theft of a stamp album containing a col- GULF,lection of which the catalogue value was £1.200, and which the owner valued at £250,
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TAKING CARGO FOR STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA. CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS. AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
He pleaded not guilty, and at the conclusion of the hearing pro- duced his passport issued by the
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLYGerman Reich to establish his
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From Tons Hong Kong
About
1934.
4,000 23rd June
12,000 30th June 6,100 7th July
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull, Bombay, Marseilles & Londen. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwan
Marseilles, Havre, London
Hull
6,300 14th July Sport Penang. Calcutta & Bombay.
Bombay, Marseilla & London,
17,000 14th July 0,700 21st July
17,000 28th July 15,000 11th Aug. 6.000 18th Aug.
17.000 25th Aug 15,000 8th Sept. 7,000 16th Sept.
11,000 22nd Sept. 17,000 6th Oct.
6.000 18th Oct.
16,000 20th Oct. 17,000 3rd Nov, 4,000 10th Nov.
identity as Count Praschma.
He was found guilt, but in view of extenuating circum- stances, was given a suspended sentence. Immediately on leav- ing the court, however, Count Praschma was re-arrested in con- nection with the sale of a motor- car alleged to have been bought on the hire-purchase system.
Giving evidence on the first charge, Edward Beuthin, a Johan. neunt Praschma was introduced nesburg stamp dealer, said that to him in August last year.
"As far as I knew he was en deavouring to form a timber com- &pany," Beuthin added. "He men-
Marseilles, Havre, London Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bull
Marseilles & Londop,
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull
Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1934.
**SHIRALA
8,000 26th June 2.30 p.m. 8,000
8th July 8,000 22nd July
10,000 6th Aug
→ Calls Rangoon
TAKADA
†SIRDHANA
TILAWA
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tioned that he was interested in stamps, and in November I show- ed him a European collection.
"This album's catalogue value
Ernest Thaelmann, former leader of Germany's Communist Party, is seen in this exclusive photograph, taking his morning walk in the prison-yard of Moabit Prison in Berlin, where he has been confined since his arrest in March, 1933. This is the first picture the German authorities have permitted to be made of Thackmann during his 14-month confinement.
CIGARETTE CARDS BANNED.
Teachers Complain In Germany.
Cologne.
PRINCES FLORIN
SOLD
Johnnesburg Rotary Club Souvenir,
FINED WHEN A GUEST
Johannesburg.
was £1.200, and I valued the col- lection at £250. } let him have it on approval, and after few
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said days he
Straid German citizens, will, that he would very much like
after October 1. no longer be ac- to buy it. I told him that any sale would be for cash, and he costed by small boys with the asked whether he could retain German equivalent of "Got a The two-shilling piece, which the collection for a few days.
cigarette picture, mister?" was paid to the Johannesburg For on the complaint of the Rotary Club when Prince George
who schoolteachers, "He said that he did not have that their charges devoted too club's distinguished guest," has protested was fined a shilling "for being the the ready cash but that he was
much time floating a company in December manufacturers have been forbid committee of the club,
to collecting them, been sold for £10 to the service and would then buy the stamps, for £250. In December I found out den to include cards in their pac-
kets-Reuter, that the company was not being floated.
Sentence Suspended,
"I made every effort to find the
ILLEGAL TAXES IN PROVINCES.
Shanghai Petition.
The florin has now been mount- ed and a special case has been made for it. It is being kept and displayed by the committee as a memento of the occasion.
When Prince George attended the Rotary Club luncheon while in Johanncsburg, the Sergeant-nr- Arma. Mr. James Gray, fined him| a shilling "for being distinguish-|
Count and, the collection. 1 wrote several letters to the house) The occupied in Braamfontein, but when I could not get in touch with him. I reported the matter to the police at the end of Febr-
In a petition to National Gov-led." The Prince's Equerry, uary." He had not been paid for! the stamps.
the Shanghal Chinese Major Humphrey Butler, paid the Examined by Count Praschma, Chamber of Commerce urges the fine and was in such a hurry that Beuthin said that he had received abolition of all illegal taxes in the by mistake he gave a florin in- a letter from a firm of Johannes-provinces ao as to give merchants stead of a shilling.--Reuter.
ernment,
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for burg solicitors, saying that they a chance to recover themselves. lat and 2nd class passengers.
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had been instructed by Count, The merchants declare that the Praschma to pay £260 to him resolution for the abolition of
illegal taxes was adopted by the, EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, when the timber company
formed.
National Finance Conference in "This £250, the letter said. was Nanking recently and hope that to be my commissions for raising the resolution as soon as possible. £6,000 in the country," continued] Beuthin. "I tackled Praschma
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7,000 7,000 7,000 20th Sept 7,000
2nd Nov.
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About 900 exhibits of modern on his instructions to show that nothing at present, but according Chinese artista, in both Chinese he would be in a position to pay to the orders he had got, he artists, in both Chinese and Wes- would make £50 profit a month tern style, are being shown at the Count Praschma. cross-exa- from the pop-corn business. All China exhibit at No. 46, Ave. mined, said he was a Silesian He Was sentenced to six v. Emmanuel II Shanghai. The Union S.B. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Count, but he received no money months hard labour, suspended
The exhibition is being well at- He left Ger-for three years on condition that tended daily, a great many because since the war there £250 was repaid to Mr. Beuthinterest centring in several paint- The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and had been a socialist revolution. during that period.--Reuter.
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15,000 12th July 6,000 11th July 17,000 26th July 8,000 27th July
7.000 7,000
5th Ang 7th Aug. 10,000 10th Aug, 15,000
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S'hai., Muji, Kobe & Ouka. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohams Sal, Moji, Kobe. Osaka & Yokoham Shanghai, Hoji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 'Amoy, B'hal,, Moji, Kobe & Onaka."
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** SHANGHAI LIBRARY
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of non-fiction, during May while (1,835 persons" made use of the reading room. The library hai bow 610 subscribers.
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