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LEAGUE OF NATIONS, COUNCIL IN SESSION.
Chinese and Japanese Representatives on Covenants
Committee.
Paris, February 22.
DAY BY DAY.
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All the brothels at Macao closed on the 21st inst. as a protest against a proposed new law to have the inmates subjected to. weekly medical inspections,
They have some philanthropic- interpreters in the charge room at the Central Police: Station. A Chinese woman was brought up there yesterday on the charge of obstructing the street with her waren. She had no money with which to pay for the bail. Equally unthinkable was the idon of going to gaol in |default of payment of this bail, as she was encumbered by the fact that a baby was in her arma. So, their gentle com- passion aroused, the interpreters | clubbed together to subscribe for the amount of the bail. Of this fact the Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell) was informed at the Police Court this morning, and his Worship, who had already imposed a fine of $3, decided to rescind it, and discharged the defendant with only a caution,
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"MUI TSAI" CASE.
Story of a Child's Sale.
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How a Chinese woman could not recoguise her own name, until her husband was brought to identify hor, was shown in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's court this morn- ing. The case was one concerning threo Chinese womon, the first one being charged with abducting unmarried Chinese girl, 3,41; the other two with receiving and harbouring, and with aiding and abetting harbour the girl, respectively. Mr. A.E. Hall, who was called to defend one of the prisoners, had some difficulty in identifying his client, the fact being that he had not seen her before the opening. of the case, but was specialty engaged by her husband to defend her. Eventually the husband was brought into Court and he solved the problem by pointing to the Woman in question.
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Inspector Murphy, who prose- cuted, said that on the 25th December last the first defendant, at one time an inmate of one of the public houses, and formerly a Yesterday's sitting at Paris of the Coursil of the League of tenant on the ваше floor Nations adopted the conclusions of the report by Dr. Wellington
the girl in question, Koo, the Chineso delegate, un appointing members of the Governing who is a mi tai, 16 years
revisited Body, and also approved a report by the Spanish delegato upon the of age,
the Louse composition of the Committee for Examining Amondinents to the and enticed the girl to Yaumati League Covenant. The Council unanimously agreed that members where she was received by the of that committee should have the widest political experience and second and the third defendants Buch standing as would assure that their advice would have great into their houre. She was kept authority with public opinion and with the Assembly of the League under confinement there until the of Nations. Upon this understanding the Council selected sight 6th January, when she was taken members, amongst whom were Mr. Atayma, ropresenting Japan, to No. 50, Reclamamtion Street. and Dr. Wellington Koo, representing China-Vale.
Mr. Balfour to Represent Britain.
Paris, February 23.
The Council of the League of Nations has completed the formation of a committee to deal with amendments to the Covenant. The Committee will consist of eleven membera, Mr. Balfour representing Britain.
U. S. President's Note Respecting Mandates and Cables.
Paris, February 22.
At this house she was kept for a fow days, and on the 10th january' she was sold by all the three defendants to another party. The first defendant received the money, which amounted to $230. The girl had a different version as to this transaction. She said that the money was handed over in the form of a loan and that she was! the security given for its repay- ment.
It is understood that President Wilson's Note, which is the first
On the 13th of January, a man, action initiated by the United States before the Council of the League of Nations, repeats the queations previously asked by who was the master of the girl Britain as regards Mesopotamian oil, and protests against the until she was abducted, recognis allotment of the Yap cable to Japan. Officials at Washington od her at the Hongkong end of Yaumati Ferry, and, point out in this connection that in addition to Britain not replying the to Mr. Colby's note, the United States has not received official without disclosing his presence, drafts of the mandates, which should be sent here before the League followed
Yaumati finally approved them. It is understood, however, that Britain She was at the time accompanied intimated that since the drafts have been submitted to the Loaguo, by her now mistress. At the America's logical course would be to present her case before the latter's house he had the mai-tsai Council. Apparently America's action signifies that, although she arrested and taken to the Police is not a member of the League, she will not submit without a Station. They were protest to infringement of her rights.
FRENCH EXPORTS INCREASE, IMPORTS DECREASE.
Paris, February 23.
LABOUR CONDITIONS IN INDIA.
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followed there later by the woman, who claimed that the girl was given her as security for B loan. Investigations were at once set
afoot by the Police which led to the arrest of the second and third The Cuetoms authorities state that French imports for January defendants, and the case came before the Secretary amounted to Fr. 1,982,000,000 compared with Fr. 2,495,000,000 in up
Chinese Affairs. No January of last year. Exports amounted to Fr. 1,892,000,000 compared for with Fr. 1,009,000,000. Exports of manufactures increased by proceedings could then be taken against these prisoners, owing to Fr. 537,000,000.
the fact that the first of the de- fendante, alleged to be the prime mover in the plot, had not yet been located. When the Police did succeed in tracing her, at Circular Pathway on the 29th instant, the other two prisoners were at once re-arrested, and the The Imporial Legislativo Assembly discussed at length the case came up before the criminal Washington Labour Convention and adopted motions urging the court. Viceroy to ratify the Convention. A motion by Sir Logie Watson to In applying for a remand, fix the age of child labour at eleven instead of twelve was defeated Inspector Murphy stated that the by 40 to 32. The Assembly agreed to initiate legislation giving mui-tsai more or less gave her effect to the Convention, including a 60-hour week,
consent to the business.
Legislative Assembly Favours 60-Hour Week.
Delhi, February 22.
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