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TO-NIGHT'S DINNER
1. Beef Tea
2.
Fried Sole
3. Pork Chop & Mashed Potatoes 4. Oyster Völ au Vent
5. Roast Chicken
6. Fruit Jelly
7.
Cheese & Biscuit
Tea or Coffee
Price 90 cts.
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QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.
INSURGENTS CLAIM BIG AIR SUCCESS
Saragossa, Yesterday.
Extraordinary activity by the National Spanish air force is re- ported here, The Nationalist air- men succeded in shooting down eight enemy planes among them Boeing three Curtiss and five machines.
PRINCESS JULIANA'S TRIP
Amsterdam, Yesterday. Crown Princess Juliana and her
husband, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, left yesterday with their infant daughter, Princess Beatrice, for a fortnight's visit to Germany.
Their first destination will be Berlin, after which they will spend the remainder of their sojourn with the mother of the Prince, Princess Armgard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, in Numerous raids were also car-Reckenwalde.-Trans-Ocean. ried out on the harbour of Bar- celona, the batteries on the Mont- juich railway station of Sagunto and the munitions depots of Bar- celona.
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Other raiding parties dropped a great number of bombs on the Tarragona aerodrome, the muni
CZECH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO
COURTESY CALL MEET NOV. 10
LONDON, YESTERDAY.
THE FORTHCOMING
MR.
VISIT
TO PARIS OF THE PRIME MİN- ISTER,
CHAMBERLAIN, AND THE FOREIGN MINISTER,
· LORD HALIFAX, IS CONSIDER- ED IN POLITICAL CIRCLES TO BE CHIEFLY A COURTESY VISIT.
The personal character of the invitation is considered to be con- firmed by the participation of the wives of the two Ministers.
Nothing is known officially about the programme of discussions during the visit but it is assumed that the opportunity will be ta- ken to bring the attitude of the pro- two
towards the powers blems raised by further rap- proachement with Germany and Italy and towards a final settle- ment of the Spanish question as far as possible into agreement.
It is also considered that the colonial question will be discuss- ed, political circles here express- ing the view that Mr. Chamber- lain desires to take an initiative before German demands are put forward anew.-Trans-Ocean.
ARMISTICE DAY CEREMONY
In connexion with Armistice Day Ceremony special accommodation for three hundred persons is being
Prague, Yesterday.
The Czech papers report that the National Assembly will be convoked for probably November 10, and it is expected that the new President of the Republic will be elected during the first session.
A definite decision regarding this question will probably be reached to-day when represen- tatives of the coalition parties will hold a session which will be over by General presided Syrovy.
At this session, so it is declar- ed, above all the question of who is to be nominated as can- didate for the Presidency will The Government 'be decided.
still insists that the election of a new President must be effect- Trans-Ocean. ed unanimously. -
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE
Before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning, Wong Chiu Ki, aged 40, a shroff, was charged with fraudulently em- bezzling a sum of $229.50 between August 20 and October 27, collected Seven by him on account of the reserved to the north of the Law
Districts Clansmen's Association, Courts. Application for tickets
Defendant was employed should be made before 9th Novem-shroff, but during the Treasurer's ber to the Deputy Assistant Adju-absence, was asked to take over the
tant General, China Command.
STOLE A CAT
cat
Charged with larceny of a Leung Hau Ching, was fined $20 or one month's hard labour by Mr. tions factories in Caragento as R. Edwards at the Central Magis- well as on the air fields in Santracy this morning, Javier and Llobregat. According
Sub Inspector M. J. Flattery said to Nationalist reports the damage | defendant picked the animal up in
was considerable.-Trans-Ocean. Peel Street:
The 'Cutty Sark' which is to the Merchant Service, the equivalent of the Victory to the Royal Navy, was floodlit in honour of the Battle of Trafalgar. She lies alongside H.M.S. Worcester at Greenhithe,
as
a
accounts. When the Treasurer re- him for the turned, and asked money, defendant admitted that he had already spent it.
Sentence of one month's hard labour was imposed, and he was ordered to pay $100 compensation, or serve a further two months'.
⚫ Det.-Inspector Ritchie charge of the case.
was in
SNATCHED FROM WOMAN CARRYING A BABY
of
and
Before Mr.. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon to-day; a sentence six months' imprisonment eight strokes was imposed on snat- he cher, Chan Kwong, 18, when pleaded guilty to snatching an ear- ring from a woman carrying a baby at the time, in Parkes Street on Saturday afternoon.
BRITAIN INCREASES U.S. 'PLANES ORDER
£780,000 Spare Parts
has
-The British Government placed an order totalling £780,000 with the Lockheed Aircraft Cor. poration, of Burbank, California, for spare parts for the 200 re- connaissance.'planes under con- [struction for the R.A.F
This brings
British Tea of the
to about
contract