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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924.
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
Independence Issue Obscured.
EMPRESS RECORDS. CONFLICTING STORIES.
A WITNESS CAUTIONED. At the Kowloon Magistracy QUICK SILK DELIVERIES.
this morning, arising out of con- Capetown, April 23. Tho N. Y. Journal of Commerce tradictory ovidence" given tha in which & Chinoso was The South African election notes an unusually fast trip made caso campaign has been opened for the by a silk cargo from Yokohama foharged with stealing, various Nationalists by spoochies of the to New York via Vancouver over articice from a coolios' moatshed loader, General Hertzog, and the the Canadian Pacific by rail and in Nam. Cheong Street, Mr. E. W. Capo loader, Mr. Malan: and for steamer. This shipment was that Hamilton had one of the wit dotalnod, saying ha the South African party by which arrived in Vancouver onnGEHNOS General Smuts.
the Empress of Russia, having wished to see him inter. Gon. Hertzog declared that the left Yokohama at 3.40 pan., Mon- republican bogoy had never been day, February 16, and docked at on the Nationalists' programme, Vancouver, 8.15 p.m., Monday, and he would be a fool to pross it February, 25. unless the English wanted it as much as the Dutch. lle wa Vancouver via the Canadian not give defendant permission to closely heckled for this remark Pacific and New York Contral in pawn the articles and added that ablo assortion. Mr. Malan also spoko enigmatically on the subjectwo hours and thirty minutes ho had never seen defendant he- after the steamer docked and the fore. Cross-oxamined by defen- of independence both endeavour-gilk was delivered in New York dant. be said that he did see him':
in a tea housó. ing to convince the electors that the Nationalist policy on this at 1 pm. on March 1..
point coincided with Gon. Smuts's, ---Reuter.
A special train of silk loft,
Defendant ploaded "Not guilty," saying that he had permission from tho owners to pawn the articles.
The witnons said that ho did
Defendant was convicted and- sutonced to three weeks' hard Fabour.
This makes a through time from! Yokohung to New York of thirteen days, twenty-one hours Pretoria, April 23. Gion. Sunits announced the Gov-and twenty minutes, calendar withus ornment's policy and programme.time
which embracos a
His Worship later called tho
and said " In -your- ovilones you said that you never This did not constitute a record saw defendant before and yet number of broad, progressive measures. Il for silk transportation, however, inter when prossed you said you pointed to the Government's past as the fastest time, which has did see him. Is there any reason Accomplishments, including the over been made by any combina-why you should not be charged deatruction of racialism by secur-tion of railway and steamship with perjury?" ing the co-operation, of the linos via any roula, was that
Thoman said that what he Unionists, and charged the muda on silk shipped on the meant to say was that ho had Nationalists with endeavouring to Canadian Pacific Steamer Empress never scon defendant before he shelve the question of secessión of Canada in June last year. The lost the articles. It was yomo temporarily because of their pact-actual timo from Yokohama to days later that ho saw the man with the Labourites. Ile des-Now York was twolvo days, in the ten house.
His Worship: -You will be cribed this pact as an election twonty-one hours mud. forty-ning;
minutes. This was six hours and have to be more careful next timo. fifty-six minutos faster than any
dodge.-- Repter.
EVOT made through any TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
1 time BOER REBEL SENTENCED.Pacific ports.--Japan Haes,
Capetown, April 23. The Buer ex-General Maritz. charged with high treason in eon- nection with the rebellion of 1814, has boon sentenced to three years, imprisonment.
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Miss May Edginton (Mrs.might well pay special tribute to Baily) is one of the most talked a picture that only comes to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth,
of women at the momont, for she Leipzig at fairtime, when special is the writer of "The Fairy Tute," collections of all those animals the play which has been very that have succeeded tho Teddy- suverely criticized since it was bear are ranged in parade for the Missbuyers of shops and bazaars all produced not long ago. Edginton was part-author of that over the world to make their successful piece "Secrets," shown in Hongkong last year. Another woman playwright, whose last production. "The Way Things night round the world aro practi-lappen," has been widely dis eally complete. Lieut. Malcolm Hened. is Miss Clemence Dane, S. Lawton went out yesterday to whose "Bill of Divorcement" was the Standard Oil Co.'s depot at Laichikok, with Mr. J. A. Shaw great a succoss. In this play Miss Haider Wright makes a of the Company, and the spot deep impression by the tenderness where the machines are to land of hor acting in the part of the Was Brlected. This is the stretch
mother. of water between the shore ut Lai-
The Judge sald the lightness of
Arrangements for the landing the sentence was due to accused's in Hongkong of the American sufforings during his years of airmen who are engaged in oxile, while his fellow offonders were released after a short period of imprisonment. -- Reuter.
JAPAN & AMERICA,
Orders have been given by the to the Commodore, R.N. Barracks Devonport, to detail Nuval officori to attend the private meetings of petty officers and men at the port, known as Lowor Duck Benoit Societies. The management of selection. This is the portrait of ench organisations by the men Margareto Steiff, a simple, elderly of the Navy on their own behalf German, who was a drosemakor is in accord with the policy of in a little village,, a cripplo, fond the Board of Admiralty, who of her work and fond of other have intimated that they fully people's children. About the recognise the grant advantagus year 1888, she used the clippings that have accrued to party officers of some thick stuff to make a toy and men by the formation of the for some little neighbour. This societies, which have the foll was the first Teddy-bour. Other support and approval of the children wanted something of the Admiralty so long as they con-1 same kind, and got, then, and fine themselves to their orginali the dressmaker's brother saw the and legitimato objects. The pre- chikok and Stonecutters Island." Leipzing has many spots that possibility of bears and started a sant Orders, no doubt, arise out This water is free of big craft, is sheltered, has the fuel tankere venerated for their associa. house industry. They were not of a memorial rocently drawn up until President at Portsmouth and circulated in The close by, and is easily picked Lions, from Auerbach's Kellor to yet Teddies
the dirty littlo tovorn whore Roosevelt shot grizzlies, and the the Pross. There is reason toi out from the air. Four mooring Schuruan sat and wrote desperate American toy importers in 1904 believe that this memorial was is finding constant expression in aos will be placed there for bogging-leiters, and the conduc- recognised the unlimited poss- not discussed at Devonport, and series of meetings, political, con the machines during their stay tors Boat in the Gewandhausibilities that lay before the first that the distribution to the Press
brought which Nikisch-lovers still-regardnes mircial, student or labour, ai in the Colony.
Lieut. Lawton. took several as sacred to an undying memory. Leipzig. which
being resolutions are adopted similar to those cabled photographs of the place and its The children of a whole generation. yesterday and to-day, of which surroundings, and these, together the dominant note is ono of with meteorological and other intense regret at the threatening data, have been sent to Amoy to injury to the friendly relations of await the arrival thore of the the two countries and most world liors. They are duo in earnost appeal for a re-considera-Hongkong about the end of next tion of l measure which is month.. Lieut Lawten proceeds described as unjust and not re-to Haiphong the nort landing flecting the true wishes of the place)-to-make the nocoRSILTY American people.
arrangements, and bis
THE IMMIGRATION
-PROBLEM.
Tokyo, April 23. vis-a-vis
Japan's stand American inunigration legislation
tom-
A meeting of the League of mission extends to Calcuttea. As Nations Association was attended at present planned, the aviators by Baron Shibusawa and other will fly from here to Haiphong. well-known people this evening, thon Tourane, Saigon, Bangkok, when there was passed a re-Rangoon, Akyab, and Calenttu. solution to appeal its case to The longost "hop" is Saigon to the the League of Nations Union of Bangkok (075 miles) and Brussels, and non-partisan shortest Haiphong to Tourane associations of America, arging (395 miles). The idou is to average the exercise of its influence in 1500 miles, thus doing the journey preventing the BA being put into in easy stugos.
From Calcutta to England the operation. ...The resolution declares that landings will be on terra firma, the Bill is a direct infringement wheels taking the place of the of the Americo-Japan Treaty of present floats on the machines. Commerce and a violation of the From Hull onwards (up the east fundamental principles of the coast of Scotland, the Furoo League
Nations Daily Islands, Icoland, Greonland, and' inf Bulletin.
Labrador, and the Canadian coast to Washington or on to Los An- gelos) the floats will be attached again, for water doscont.
WORLD THEATRE.
If nothing occurs to altor thel programmes, it is very likoly that the British flying-mon will arrive
THE LATEST ATTRACTION. in Hongkong a week earlier than Youth is contrasted with age, the Americans, and their meeting love with hate, and happiness tako place in North China.
with misory, in, the remarkable
story unfolded in "A Chupter in
Hor Life," the new Univockal-|
Jewel production which oponed LONDON'S "NOTORIOUS STATUES."
yesterday at the World Theatry.
The fact that we had practi-
It is a lesson in how to be happy, cally no true marble and very given in dramatic opisodes. Hop-little stone suitable for fine scul penings that tug at one's inter pture was one reason why, with soul, alternated with brilliant a single exception; there was no flashes of whimsical humour that English, school of sculpture of bring laughs through toare, It any importance, said Mr. C. E. can hardly be called a play at all W. Bramohead to the Royal it is really a bit of human life, Goographical Society recently, transferred to the screen as an "The public statnes in London Actuality through the art of author are notorious," he added. and actors;
- A Chapter In Her Life" insou on the novel, "Jowel," by Clara
Louise Burnham and follows the "Mr. Evringham," the millionaire story, in ovory detail, as scenariz- who sooks vainly to buy hap ed and directed by Lole Wober. piness with gold and finds only The story is unique in film plays inisery as a result. Little Jano and the cast adde the final Mercer, hailed as the groatost and in years among child touch.
Chuds Gillingwater, long a actresses, is seen as "Jowel," the stage idol, play, one of the little child whose faith in good greatest rolos in his caroor as works a miracle in regeneration.
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