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PARIS HOTEL STRIKE LIKELY TO SPREAD
Paris, To-day.
The Minister of Labour, M. Andie Fevrier, yesterday, issued
BAIL BATTLE RESUMED IN OPIUM CASE
The "Javanese Prince" opium...
a proclamation for final settle- case, in which Charles David Evans, ment of the hotel and restaurant a carpenter, and Wong Yau, aged: strike.
61, are charged with possession of The Minister appealed to em-1,000 taels of prepared, opium and ployees to resume work, since the with committing an act preparatory public interest made it especial to the export of the opium, again ly necessary at a moment when came up before Mr. K. Keen at the large numbers of foreign tour- Central Magistracy this morning.
Mr. J. T. Prior, who is appearing ists were arriving in France.
The six-day week would continue for Wong Yau, told his Worship. for the present, he said, but a five-that his client was now able to day week would be put into opera- raise $10,000 in cash for the bail tion as soon as possible.
of $20,000 fixed at the last hearing. The trade unions, however, ans-
The defendant's brother, Wong wered the appeal by instructing Kwai-ching, was prepared to sign members to
the strike, a bond for the difference. This continue
Asia man was the owner of the which has almost been broken.
The labour union statement calls Hotel which was worth $450,000, the Minister's appeal a "dangerous though mortgaged for $200,000, Gov-while the furniture and fixtures were innovation" and charges the
ernment with a breach of faith.-worth another $200,000, Mr. Prior Trans-Ocean.
Soviet Election Laws To Be
said that he had written to Mr. Thompson, who was in charge of the case, almost a fortnight "ago and ample time was given for him to look into the matter but no re- ply was received.
Mr. Thompson said that the ques- Ition of bail had been brought up
Circulated Abroad twice before and he had been ad-
vised to ask for cash.
Moscow, To-day.
Mr. T. J. Prior stated that the The new Soviet election laws are maximum fine was $5,000 on each not only to be published in the charge, but Mr. Thompson retorted various languages. of the Soviet that there was also sentence of one Union but also in English, French, year's imprisonment. The bail was Czecho-Slovakian, Polish and Yid fixed to ensure defendant's presence dish, states an order to the State fin court, and a year's imprisonment Publishing Company, may be worth more than $20,000, to
The laws in foreign languages, defendant.
says a semi-official announcement,
are to be distributed in the re-
spective countries. Trans-Ocean,"
U.S.S. ASHEVILLE IN
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Starting originally as a result of
a slight engine derangement, the
Fifteen cases.. of dysentery, U.S.S. Asheville, is now laid-up at eleven of which were in Hong Taikoo Docks while complicated Kong, were reported in the Colony repairs are effected to one of the during the week ended July 10. turbines.
Five deaths were reported. Nine It is understood that these re- cases of enteric fever were report-pairs will take the best part of a ed, three being fatal.
month.
Lloyd Friedling
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