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Court's Labours
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 2, 1937.
KUWATCHFUL WAITING
Decisions Against
Government
of
IN TOKYO
Tokyo, To-day. Prince Konoye has ac- cepted the Japanese Em- peror's invitation
to form a new cabinet, but nothing so far is known concerning the composi- tion of the latter.
Washington, To-day. The Supreme Court concluded their eight-months session yester
Political parties are maintaining day in handing down a series
a great reserve, which is generally decisions, most of which were un- taken to mean that they are pre- favourable to the Roosevelt Ad- ministration.
pared on principle to with the new ministry.
co-operate
The ex-premier, Mr. Hayashi has just published a declaration
stitution.
ex-
The Court rejected the joint plea of the Government and the Electric Bond and Share Company to review the decision of the Lower Court, in pressing hope that the new cabinet will succeed in overcoming the pre- upholding the registration of the provisions of the Utility Holding vailing violent antagonisms in the spirit of the Japanese national Company Act,
The Court also refused to prevent character, and of the Japanese con- the litigation brought by 19 private
His own resignation, states Mr. utility undertakings, in an effort to curtail the activities of the Tennessee Hayashi, was attributable to the impossibility of reconciliation be Valley authority.
tween the Government and the po- litical parties. Trans-Ocean.
FOREIGNERS DOG UNMUZZLED
The Court further granted a re- view of the gold clause suit brought by Robert A. Taft, who is seeking to compel the Government to con- tinue to pay interest on liberty bonds in gold, payment in gold having been refused by the U.S. Treasury.
-Reuter.
SCHOOL LAND IN CHINA
Executive Yuan's
Decisions
Shanghai, To-day. At the weekly meeting of the Executive Yuan yesterday, it was decided that lands bought by foreign schools in China must be approved by the Chinese Govern- ment. Lands are limited to educa- tional uses or they will be taken back.
The "names of the schools will
A fine of $10 was imposed by Mr. K: Keen this morning on Mr. R. A. Rogers, of No. 531, The Peak, for allowing his dog abroad on Stubbs Road on May 13 without a muzzle or on a lead.
Mrs. Turner, of No. 14 Hill Crest, pleaded not guilty before to a sum- mons-for allowing her dog on the Repulse Bay Beach without a muz- zle on May 24. The case was ad- journed till Monday morning.
TRESPASSERS ON ARMY GROÙND
Ki
Wong Ngan-yee and Lam were this morning fined $100 two
months' imprisonment on
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be legal landlords and no personal pleading guilty, before Mr. W. names or communities are ap- Schofield at the Central Magis- proved. In a case. of a school being suspended, the properties tracy, to trespassing on Gough Bat-
tery, Devil's Peak, on May 18. become subject to the manage-
The men have been in hospital ment of the Chinese Government. The Chinese land laws apply to since then, suffering from injuries kind of property. Our Own caused by a fall in attempting to
evade arrest. Correspondent.
this
Amelia Completes
First Leg OF World Flight
New York, To-day. Amelia Earhart (Mrs. Putnam who set out yesterday on the first stage of her 28,000-mile round the world flight, arrived safely at San Juan in Porto Rico to-day.
Her machine, the so-called "Fly- ing Laboratory," had completed the journey of 1,038 miles în seven hours, 33 minutes. Reuter.
NEW AIR SERVICE DOES NOT START
has
CHICKEN CATCHERS
CAUTIONED
Mak Pui and Mak Hing, brothers, were cautioned by Mr. W. Schofield when charged with trespassing at Belchers Fort
Inspector Mair said the military authorities were not pressing the case but charged the defendants as a warning to others. It appears that they were catching their mother's chickens which had stray-
ed into the fort.
POISON IN "MEDICINE”
Chan Sui-chung, 52, of the Hing Kee Woo Contractors, was admit- ted to the G. C. H. suffering from Shanghai, To-day.
the effects of an unknown poison, The Nanking Government disapproved the Tientsin-Tokyo, air said to have been taken in a herb service of the Hui Tung Company. mixture for fever. Accordingly the service did not
ranged. start yesterday
Our Own Correspondent.
The P. and Q 8.8. Jeypore left
SWATOW-SHANGHAI TELERHONE
A-radio-telephone service be-
Moji for this Fort yesterday at 10 tween Shanghai - and Swatow was p.m., and is due here on the 6th officially inaugurated yesterday instant at 5 p.m.
{morning.