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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, Bru AUGUST, to TUESDAY, 21ST AUGUST, 1928, Both Days inclusivo.
By Order of the Beard,
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T500 Shares in this Company, stand. ing in the Name of JOHN MACNAE Deceased, late of '2, GLENCAIRN DRIVE, GLASGOW, have been POLLOKSHIELDA, LOST, and it at the Expiration of One Month from the Date bereof the Following Share Certificates. be ret forthcoming, Other Certificates for the Said Stares will be used by the Company and thereafter No Other will
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the case in the disturbances on the Hunan-Kwangtung border. A number of troops mutinied and immediately joined forces with the irregulars on the hillsides. Between them they were strong enough to set up a form of Government ever several small towns. They attacked and captured Chenchow, a city of some importance and even threaten- ed to invade Kwangtung úpon the grand scale. Fortunately the Kwangtung military authorities took prompt action and defeated, and scattered the
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The open air concert at the Kow- MR. SAKLATVALA'S CLAIM, TRIPLE DEATH SENTENCE. THE HORROR OF AIR' loon Cricket Club which was to have been held last Saturday but was cancelled owing to the unsettled weather will take place next Satur- day evening-weather permitting.
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RESIGNATION FROM FIRM OF TATA.
MEN WHO MURDERED AGED
DRUGGIST.
Percival Leonard Taylor, aged N. Mr. Shapurji Dumbji Saklatvala, painter, James Weaver, aged 91, of St. Albans Villas, Highgate-hawker, and George. Thomas Dono-
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was attacked on the Brighton front, taken to the downs in a motor-car, and robbed.
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He claimed from Mr. Richard Tilden Smith, of Adelaide House, King William-street, City, a de-injuries received on April 14th. Ho the next war. They discussed air claration that by virtue of an agreement signed by Mr. Smith, dated September 18th, 1925, Mr. Smith was bound to pay to him for the maintenance and education of his five children the sum of £500 per annum from January 1st, 1928, until January 1st, 1941.
Mr. Croom-Johnson, EC., for Mr. Saklatvala, anid" that Mr. Saklatvala was formerly dipart- mental manager at £750 a year for Tata. Limited, which carried on a
Lord Rayleigh suggested the making "of preparations in case of Mr. Justice Avory, summing up, London being evacuated, and add- said it was always open to a jury ed: People will say, 'You can- to return a verdict of manslaughter not evacuate London. Leadon will if there was evidence to justify such be evacuated. Possibly masses ot a verdict. It could not be justified people will flock out of London. merely because the jury wished to The only question is whether they avoid the responsibility of returning will flock out trampling on one a verdict of murder.
another, or in an orderly, effective manner.
If they could possibly come to the conclusion that the blows were in-
Gas-proof Buldings. large business with India. Mr.flicted with something soft and not "The principal buildings should Smith had business connections in the nature of a weapon, and it be made gas-proof, and means might be devised of sacking the with the company and was desirous they could conscientiously come to
through the sewers of that Mr. Saklatvala should resign the lion that those who, in London his appointment with Tata, and ficted the injury did not interd on September 18th, 1923, he did
any grievous bodily harm it would resign.
be possible to justify a verdict of manuslaughter..
The agreemen; then sad, on which Mr. Sakatvala sued, was contained in a letter from Mr Smith in which the following oc- curred." You are to tender your In-resignation of the appointment you hold with Tata Limited on my undertaking to ste that your family is provided for to the extent of £500 per annum (to be used for the maintenance and education of your
Yesterday's bad weather prevent- ed. an outdoor game of any sort most people being played and
the Bank Holiday pent
in armchairs with feet up. A few ven- turous spirits braved the elements and embarked upon bathing picnics. Among those that proved very en- joyable, despite the worst that the rain could do, was that arranged IN CANTON.
for the St. Andrews Church Con- RESIDENTS in Canton are suffering gregation to Junk Bay and quite from several minor forms of in a good number turned up. convenience just now. Something cidentally, when they got to their bas gone wrong in their electric destination they found a crowd of about seven other launches anchored light works and parts of the city remain in darkness during the evening hours to the great détri- ment of the business of the res taurant proprietors. Then there has been a shortage of water and the pressure in the water mains has been so inadequate that few people living on the second and third storeys of houses have been
able to secure supplies from the
water taps,
off that very pleasant beach and the
water alive with swimmer.
R.A.S.C. DEPARTURES.
"SHAFORCE" BARRACK OFFICER GOING HOME 7
It is understood that Captain H.
children) for the next fifteen years. This sum I hereby guarantee will be forthcoming as from Janu- ary 1st, 1926, payable to you month- ly I shall also see that the mort gage for £900 on your house, St." Albans-vilias, Highgate-road, is taken over, and you may rest assur ed that these arrangements will be carried out, for which I make my self, my heirs, and executors responsible."
Political Activities,
In September, 1925, some objec tion was being made to take latvala being identified with the
Fogg, OBE., M.C., of the Royal The lack of electric Army Service Corps, will sail for light at night-time is an encourage horne in the course of the next fort-business in London by reason of his political activities. It was anggeat- ment to pick-pockets and other bad night.
ed that he should resign, but he He had made great Captain Fogg is the Officer in declined. characters and a great hindrance to the police so that the city is charge of Barracks in Kowloon and sacrifices for the particular views which he held, and the £750 con- not a particularly pleasant or safe since his arrival with a barrackstituted a very considerable portion place in which to take a stroll staff in April last year he has been of his total income. after night-fall. Martial law has in charge of units of the Shanghai been declared owing to the constant Defence Force, which were in the fear of communist intrigue. This early days quartered at the Penin simply means, of course, that there sula Hotel, military hirings at are extra police pairola and that Kowloon City, and at Shamshuipo anyone is liable to be stopped and Camp. All the hirings baye now Tess. searched in the streets, but these been surrendered and only one unit, necessary precautions do not lead the Queen's Royal Regiment, is now to a feeling of confidence that all left of the criginal Shaforce "give details of his personal expeus. is well.
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"Lieut. C. H. Atkins, M.B.E., who is the Officer in charge of R.A.S.C.
ALPINE SOURCES TO BE SUP. PLEMENTED.
When he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a speech which he made in Hyde Park at the time of the General Strike, arrange ments were made for the payment of the instalments under the agree ment to his wife while he was in
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prison.
In 1928 Mr. Saklatvala was op-
proached by Sir William Bull (on: of the trustees in the deed of settle- ment relied on by the defence) to diture and of his family. He was not told the purpose of this, except that Mr. Smith told him that he was going to India, and that he intended to ace the members of the Tata family there, and would see whether he could arrange with the Tata family for a settlement of some money on Mr. Sakintvala's family..
The hearing was 'adjourned."
INDIAN PURDAH SYSTEM
CRITICISED.
GIRLS DOOMED TO EARLY DEATH.
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In waying this," said
"I know I am Justice Avory, stretching the law in favour of the
accused men."
ers.
The Earl of Halsbury said that it was his duty, late in the war, to consider plans for the bombard. ment of Germany. The recent ac- cident at Hamburg had shown what might be done by an escape of poison gas in a town.
"Taking London, in the triangle between Chalk Farm, Clapham Junction, and the docks," he went The jury were absent for 40 on, the total of phosgene gas minutes before returning a verdict required to produce a lethal at of Murder against all three prison-mosphere over the whole of that area up to a height of forty feet had given the jury an opportunity EAs, for purposes of war, is as out Mr. Justice Avory said that he is under 2,000 tons. Yet phosgene to find them guilty of some crime of date as a blunderbuss." less than murder, but they had had the courage to return what he bely that a concentration of one part lieved to be the true verdict.
He described a new gas so dead-
in ten million parts of air would probably incapacitate a man in &. Prisoners Nearly dollapse.
minute. With this gas only forty When the jury's verdict was an. tons would be needed instead of and Donovan 2,000. Multiply it by ten," ha nounced Weaver almost collapsed, Weaver crossed added, "and you still have some- himself and exclaimed, "Oh, my thing in the nature of 400 tons to God!" while Donovan buried his do the thing ten times over. face in his arms. Taylor received the verdict without flinching.
The judge directed that Taylor should be executed at Pentonville and Weaver and Donovan at Wands worth.
As the men were being led below Weaver collapsed completely, and a woman in court also collapsed.
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Area Of Death.
A bomb filled with this poison gas, dropped in Piccadilly-circus, would kill every man, woman, and child in &a
area from Kegent's Park to the Thames.
My statements are based on the War Office. Manual of Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare,' price. ninepeace. My one suggestion is it THREE EXECUTIONS. should be given away.
If every adult in this country were to read NO INSTANCE IN 40 YEARS."
that, you might have, such a wave of indignation and righteous horror. Three criminals have not been that people would do anything to executed in England for the murder make some agreement which put of the same person for more than these things under" international forty years, though this is the control and prevent their use in second instance in less than eight | warfare. months of three men being aen- Ask any expert, and he will. tenced to death for the murder of agree with me, that at the present moment, London is at the mercy of Last December John Rowlands, any nation, reasonably close, which Edward Rowlands and Daniel Dris- is evilly disposed enough to come coll were sentenced to death at and obliterate it, and that London Cardiff for the murder of David could be absolutely and completely Lewis, a rugby footballer and boxer. obliterated." | Driscoll and Edward Rowlands The Marquis of Salisbury, reply- were hanged in January, but Johning for the Government, agreed Rowlands became insane after the that the horrors depicted by Lord trial and was sent to criminal Halsbury, were not without founda- lunatic asylum.
tion, but there were other dangers. "There are dangers," he said, " of our alarming the public mind, I do not think there even of panie is any occasion for panic or over alarming the public mind. The last word. has not been said in de-. fence."
. There Have been many double executions, "the most notable in re- cent years being those of Mrs. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters in January, 1923, for the murder of Mrs. Thompson's hus bund, and of Browne and Kennedy on May 31st last for the murder. of Constable Gutteridge.
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The communists as an organised force are not likely to give trouble, but a few agitators and agents services for the regula: Garrison
From time to time reports of com-
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Paris is losing one of her most correspondent that groups of-men telegraphed that he hopes to be back
familiar personalities in M. Paul who have been hiding in the moun- by the middle of the present month.
During the last few years Vienna years, for every boy that dies of tuberculosis, six girls, die," states
He is severing himself tainous country on the borders It is to be hoped that he will not has spread greatly, and as a large the Health Officer of the Calcutta to of Buddhism in Ceylon is the from the world of fashion over be delayed and that Dr. CHAO HIS number of new public bathing Corporation in a recent report, dispatch of the first Buddhist mis-which he has held sway for so many of Kwangtung and Hunan were
Cao, the Minister for Foreign establishments have been opened by
Referring to the reason for this sion to England. The mission is years, and is retiring to the coun- pillaging the mall cities
My work is over; I am no longer villages in that neighbourhood. Affairs, will also take up his work the municipality, and ever-growing appalling mortality the Health composed of some of the most distry.
Officer states: "I am convinced tinguished scholars of the Vidyo- again in the Province next week quantities of water are consumed, that it is the retention of the pur daya (Pali) Oriental College, the necessary," he said to a pressman These men are regarded as "munists and are doubtless part of according to programme. The time the day may not be far off when dah system in the densely populat lending institution of its kind in in his beautiful apartment in the ed gullies of a congested city that the East, and its main object is to Avenue Montaigne, where already the rabble which was formerly sup- is not auspicious for the responsible the supplies from the Alpine source dooms so many young girls to an promote the construction of a furniture removers are at work, 88, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR, ported by the agents of the Soviet heads of the Kwangtung Govern at Kaiserbruma in Nether Austria early death from tuberculosis. In Buddhist Vihara (Monastery) in and priceless treasures of art, which less densely populated areas, where London. Stepa in this direction once adorned the rooms, stend in for political purposes, but there is ment to be away from Canton and and another Alpine spring from detached houses with compounds have already been taken by the pur-packing-cases.
"I am leaving a Paris which is are possible, the purdah system chase of a piece of land, the collec little reason to believe that they are the sooner they return the more the Hochschwab, the highest moun-adhered to without ton of funds, and the creation of no longer the Paris I have known. I shall go into the country, where now actuated by any political prin- quickly will the anxiety of the tain in Styria, will no longer seriously affecting the health of the sympathetic atmosphere by means
of meetings, lectures, and other I have bought an old château sur- oipal, however perverted. The public be ́allayed.
rounded by fairy-like gardens. While the capital has always | In a great city, it is difficult forms of propaganda,"
It is felt, however, by the high "Paris has become like a holiday leaders are more probably pro-
been noted for the excellence of it to secure absolute privicy without fessional bandits whose, ranks have
water, Professor Grassberger has shutting out light and air, as Buddhist authorities in Ceylon resort, filled with foreigners of всед recruited from disbanded or
proved that the supplies from the houses in narrow lanes and gullies that something more is necessary if every pationality. The woman of Alps are by no means so wholesome are almost certain to be overlook the message of the Buddha is to be to-day has lost the art of dresing carried sufficiently far. Why the beautifully. She does not pay the defeated armies and by the flotsam
Consequently the renona is one generally believes. It is ed. and jetsam thrown up during the
Yesterday's weather report, fore therefore intended that a further usually situated in the inner por- Presence of these authorised mis- same attention to clothes. She puts water-supply shall not come from tion of the house, ill-lighted and ioners is necessary is the fact that her faith in beauty treatments and
a reember of any other religion the care of the coffeur.
admitted past three years of chaos in China.
The sweater and the sporte cast and remarks, issued by the the mountains, but shall consist of ill-ventilated, but effectually screen-
can only be underground water to be found in ed from observation. They wait their chance to attack Royal Observatory, stated :-
"Another very important factor Buddhist faith as a convert by a have replaced the lovely creations the surroundings of the village of and rob" the peaceful inhabitants Pressure changes are slight since Grammat-Neusiedl, in the South in the aetiology of tuberculosis regular member of the priesthood of the past. Modern clothes are of the country districts and their this morning. The depression has East of Nether Austria. The in among girle and young women is (Sangha). The three priests com-practical, probably because women vestigations of experts show that carly marriage, which subjects imposing the mission are recognized themselves are more practical, go in most favourable opportunity, of partially filled up.
the subterranean water of that mature females to the strain of ro- scholars, and have sufficient for sports, and think more of the Local Forecast:-S.W. winds, place is at least equal to that of peated pregnancies and prolonged knowledge of English for all prae comfort of their dresses than of
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