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AGENES IN HONG KONG:
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 19th, 1928.
THE DONETZ ARRESTS
IN ACCORDANCE WITH
SOVIET LAW
ATTEMPTS DOOMED TO FAILURE.
[TABOOGH REGTER'S. AQENCE.}.
Moscow, March 17th.
M. Chicherin, in conversation with the German Ambassador with regard to the broken Soviet Ger- man commercini negotiations, stated that the arrests were made strictly on the basis of Savies taws which were applicable to everyone living in the Soviet Union. Any attempt to bring pressure on Sorist justice
was doomed. failure.
PEER'S SON TO PAY £1,000, EARLIEST LONDON.
LIBELLOUS ATTACK ON AN ALDERMAN.
MR. JUSTICE ROCHE'S STRICTURES.
Laspas, February 17th. Lord Garioch, son of the Earl of Mar, was sued for libel at Hereford Assizes yesterday by Alderman John Riley, of Ledbury, pr
RECONSTRUCTION BY EXPERTS.
HOW THE ROMANS BUILT IT,
After years of diligent investiga tion the Royal Commdexion an H torical Monuments has definitely arrived at the conclusion that prehistorie London never existed
and that the first city of London was that built by the Romans
Mr. Vachell, K.C., for Mr. Riley, said Lord Garioch admitted writing the letter, which was one of the
Colour has hitherto been lent to most malicious and treacherons a man could write. Mr. Riley, who the belief that a city stood on the had been a magistrate for 50 years site of the London of to-day before and devoted the whole of his time the Roman came to this country his house, Patley Courty to Lord by the discovery of wood piles deep to public work in the county, sold Garioch and there was some trouble in the earth hard by the Thames. about some plants and shrubs It was thought that they formed. which Mr. Riley took away. the sub-structure of pre-Roma
A considerable time later the buildings, such as those which AMERICA REAFFIRMS HER Ledbury Rural Counch complained once stood at Glastonbury and
POLICY.
that Lord Garioch bad closed up a Mears, in Somerset. path through his grounds, Mr. Riley was the chairman of the Highways Committer which dealt with the matter, but refrained from taking ang part in the matter to
THE OPEN DOOR"
[REVIER'S AMERICAN HERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, March 17th. The United States formally in- formed Britain, France, Spain and Itely that it makes "full" reserva- tion of its position? on any decision affecting its rights that may be reached at the Morocco conference in Paris, declaring that the ok standing American policy. in favour of the open door mainz unchanged.
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RUGBY, March 18th.
The King has honoured the West African Frontier Force by approv ing the change of its title to the Royal West African Frontier Force.
WOMEN AT THE BAR.
IS THERE A BOYCOTT?
CHANCE FOR LEGAL POSTS.
Are women barristers boycotted"? Some of them declare that they are having a more uphill fight that women in other professions, as they
Charge Of Theft. Lord Garioch wrote to the council the following letter
Royal Commission have enabled it The latest discoveries of the to reconstruct the complete plan of Roman London: This plan has been painted in water-colours by a French artist, Mons. A Forestier, and is to be hung permanently in the London Museum, Lancaster House, St. James's Palace, S.W.
Walled-Za City. -
ilon of the Romans, pictured a
It is a bird's-eye view of the Loa- cording to the evidence and a cer tain amount of conjecture based on evidence, NE NA
The chairman of your Highways Committee, Mr. J. Riley, has ad- mitted that he committed theft. Then after admitting it he said that he was in ignorance that it was theft. This is the in- dividual whose testimony as to the paths in my woods you, have: the assurance to present to me a thief. a man who says he doer not know what belongs to him to other persons in this unfortu
There have been in
nate village, during my short res sidence here two incendiary fires I say unfortunate, because r
It shows Roman London to have been a completely walled-in city, approached across the Thames from the Surrey side only by the first Loudon Bridge. The positions of each of the gates Lndgate, New- gate, Aldgate, Cripplegate, Bishop- gate and Aldersgate is made
village that has been dominateľ clear, the River Wahrook is for half a century by a morn! point where Cannon-street Bailway shown entering the city at the degenerate is unfortunate.
With what justice could you pro-Station now stands, and the Fleet eeed against any one who has com u seen sweeping round by Black mitted incendiarism when the friars, chairman of the magistrates is a' self-admitted thief.
Mr. Justice Roche asked what were the ages of the parties, and it was stated that Alderman Riley was 79 and Lord Garioch 60.
Mr. Justice Rochs: Lord Garioch is not a youngster then.
DIC prevented by the stringent Lover Of Truth" etiquette of the Bar from adverts-
Subsequently in a letter to Garioch wrote that he
Wonderful Basilica
One of the most remarkable dis coveries made by the Royal Com
ca-the Guildhal of Roman times mission is that the wonderful Basi
the site of which was definitely located near Lendenhal Market two years ago was neary 480ft in ength that is nearly as long as the Law Courte, which have a frontage to the Strand of 500ft.
Dr. RE Mortimer Wheeler,
ing themselves or even of voicing Aldermond all else a keeper and director of the London
their complaints wit
They feel that their claims should be considered when oeronin legal vacancies arise-vacancies which they consider woman could all better than a man. They complain that even when the Home Office Committee on street offences was formed no consideration was given to a woman with legal knowledge, although five women were mada members
£50,000-A-Year Women
In America there are women barristers earning as much £50,000 a year from bankruptcy, as probate and Admiralty work.
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M... who
has spoken in Parliament about chances for women barristers, said to a reporter:
Women would be well suited for legal jobs in connecting with
lover of the hand honesty," and
4.
Meam, who has taken a promin was trying raise the tone of ent part in the search, anticipated this part of the country. Mr. in a leacure to the Royal Society of Riley's sad lapse, which no one re-Arta last night the most important grets more than Lord Garioch, had findings of the Royal Commission, made his official position intoler- The commission's report will prob able and impossible to maintain ably be published at Easter. with justice to the public or with dignity."
Mr. Bosanquet, defending, said Lord Garioch had offered to pay Mr. Riley's costs, have his apology published, pay £50 to the Ledbury Hospital, but the apology had not refused to include the words "un- been accepted because Lord Garioch true statement.
Referring to the question as to whether the wood pies found in the ground in the neighbourhood of Walbrook and the Fleet River were of prehistoric or Roman origin, Dr. Wheeler said that in Roman as in modern times it was the avinm of the river valleys, essential to build upon piles sunk He pointed out that the existing Mr. Justice Roche said the jury Mansion House e built on piles, might think that there was a wide and that the old Bank of England gap between Lord Garioch and now being demolished stood on a person of responsibility or sound veritable forest of piles
companies, and they would make We have not seen Foreign Trade In A.D, 43.
excellent recorders, but their claims do not seem to be consider ed when vacancies arise. They are getting unimportant cases and I suppose they will continue to do to until they break down the prejudice against their sex. The woman ecretary of the Divorce Law Reform Union said:
Women barnisters are having a hand struggle, and many of them have been compelled to do other work, but in a quiet way they are forging ahead. They are doing very well in preparing poor peo- pla's cases, and some of them de- vote their time to giving legal advice to poor people in the even-
CODE TYPEWRITER.
FARMER'S INVENTION USED BY WAR OFFICE.
added. Mr. Justice Roche,
Dr. Wheeler described London as no doubt he does not look being a parasita of London as foolish as he really in He has Bridge. There was no need for a got come here to apologise but has settlement on the site of London, apologised through his advocate. It he explained, until the need arse is in the power of the jury to for a bridge across the lower make him pay for the privilege of Thames because the development not being man enough to say it of Continental trade with Britain himsel
Mr. Riley was awarded 21,000 tribution at the head of the Thamen demanded a convenient mite of dis damages,
GIRL'S TRIUMPH IN CLASSICS:
CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL WON
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Acclaimed by the papers of London, Paris and New York as a picture among pictures! – A story that stirs the heart and fires the imagination.
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A popular cowboy star in a stirring drama of the
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TOM MIX
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"TUMBLING RIVER
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The Comedy of an artist bachelor who pretended ke was a wild nan from the West to win over his sweetheart dad 1–
BARBARA KENT
ANDRE BERANGER-
estuary THE SMALL BACHELOR
That was about the eve of the Homan conqueet of Britain, and it was either then or as an immedi ate result of the conquest in A.D. 43, that the first City of London came into being
Available evidence suggests that the walls which remained the nucleus of the defences of London throughout the Middle Ages were A pretty, bobbed, fair-haired girl built shortly after the destruction undergraduate, -Mim G. A. Nairn, of the first city by Boadicea în A.D. is the first woman ever to be 50-doubtless as a result of the awarded the Chancellor's gold lesson the Romans jearned by that medal for classics at Cambridge, destruction
She is curiously enough, the
Defence Tower Pride of place at the Business daughter of a gold medallist, ber The tower which were alded to Efficiency Exhibition at Holland father, Dr. Nairn, former head the vases of London, a later date Park Hall, Way must be given to School, having won the Chancel defences against the raids of the master of Merchant Taylors were presumably intended as extra au invention which has been in clor's prise in 1800. and tested between the War Office
Saxons who began to invade this and Woolwich Arsenal for 18 It was a tremendous surprise comtry in the 3rd and 4th cen mon that the gapense to me, she said to s Daily, a busies
heard the good news,
when The principal buildings the sites
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No. 54, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
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