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THE SHANGHAI TROUBLE.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1925.
HOME CRICKET.
ANXIETY IN FRENCH. CONCESSION.
HANTS, DERBY AND SOMERSET WIN.
London, June 5,
PRISONER'S STRANGE
CLAIM.
STORY OF $500 RENT DEPOSIT.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN."
New York, June 5.
Major Lansdowne, the commander of the dirigible Shenandoal has submitted a detailed plan of operation should it be decided: "to Shanghai, June 5.The spreading Hamshire defénted Northants by
A prisoner from Victoria gol send the Shenandoah in search of Captain Amundsen. The detail of the strike is occasioning, for the 314 runs. Hants acored 264 (Ten-named Wong Chok-obuen appeared have not been published but are said to provide that the Shenandoa first time, anxiety in the French nyson 78) and 276 for hine wickets in the Summary Court yesterday will be based on Spitzbergen with the mooring ship Patoka.The Concession where a thousand stud-declared. Northants scored 148 afternoon as a plaintiff in an action Shenandoah would proceed to Spitzbergen vin Fulham, where it could ents are peacefully meandering and 83, Kennedy taking six for 59. in which he claimed the return of tie up to the mooring mast and refuel. The navy department rette
$600 from Young Chung, his former landlord at 95 Battery Road. rates that no appeals, from Norway or any other official source for Plaintiff was represented by Mr. American aid to Captain Amundsen have been received. Reuter G. R. Haywood and defendant American Service. by Mr. Leo d'Alamada.
Plaintiff's story was that ho was
and wearing conspicuous- mourn-
Ling bands, while the Annamite Dorby beat Worcester by 212 police under French officers heavi-runs, scoring 273 and 254, Jackson ly armed, are patrolling the main made 64 and 82 in the respective thoroughfares,/..
innings... Worcester scored 148 and Many meetings are being held 167,
for which ho paid
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"ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER” land much speech making Somerset beat Glamorgan by 230 a tenant of part of defendant's
indulged in in Chinese
"Warsaw, June 5. ter rang. Somerset scored 149 and 265, premises ritory across the boundary of
Aftar he bod The newspapers keenly comment on the rapprochement of Britishi Bligh being 73 not out in the second $28 a month. the French Concession, but only innings.
Glamorgan scored 108 been there a few months the and French "viewpoints in regard to the guarantee pact which it is petty outbreaks are reported. (Bridges gaven for 52) and 76 defendant asked him to deposit on believed means a vote of nonconfidence in the Versailles Treaty, being great success of Herr Stresemann who secured "another 'scrap of em-(White six for 82),-Reuter.
Sharp distinctions have phasized the favouring of Ameri- can firms, and Homes, although all foreigners are in disfavour and particularly the Japanese and British. Those shops doing business are refusing patronage to British customers when serving Americans,
Shortage of Ready Cash.
AVIATION.
THE GERMAN FLIGHT.
80,
He did amount against rent. paying $500 on defendant's sug-paper in the West and British neutrality in the East"-Reuter. gortion. Later on he left the
Colony and while he was away defendant distrained on his pre-
mises for rent in arrear and had his
CANADIAN DIVORCE BILL.
In the House of Commons, by 112 votes to, 81, the bill introduced goods sold up. He therefore claira. by Mr. Shaw, independent member for Calgary, providing equality! ed the return of the $500., He between men and women in regard to divorce for Infidelity, "was produced u receipt for that amount passed on a third reading-Reuter's American Service.
bearing a chap and signature both
of which he said were defendant's,
Defendant denied the whole story. He said plaintiff was in
AMERICAN WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX.
New York, June 5.
Berlin, June 5-Of nineteen Money exchangers in the streets aeroplanes hitherto completing the are refusing foreign bank notes third stage of the round Germany and with the Chinese banks closed flight Herr Udet piloted the Polte distrained on his goods in order to the United States on June, 1 is 195,166 which is one per cent above stroar with his rent and be Mesars, Dun and Company's index number of wholesale, prices infi the ready cash supply is disap-in the fastest time, covering 000 recover. He denied all knowledge that of May 1, one per cent above that of a year ago, and 60 per cent
miles in 651 minutes. After re of the receipt plaintiff produced
pearing.
Di Pinedo's Flight,
A glaring exception was the pairs today the survivors start on The shop was very like his chep above pre-war rates.—Reuter's American Service,↑ « walkout of the servants of the the fourth lap to-morrow-Reuter but the signature was not his. Be residences of the Consul General,
had bever had the $500. Mr. Cunningham, and the Judge
Addressing the court Mr. of the United States District Perth, West Australia, June 5-d'Alroads commented on the grant Court, Judge Milton Purdy, whose Major Di Pinedo has arrived at improbability of the plaintiff's wives are combining forces for Albany.-Reuter.
household
•
management, The [food controller is preparing to
open a headquarters at the town
story. Was it likely he said that the man would pay such a large sum as $500, some months after going in and with no lease or ögren-
KENT ORDINANCE.
47
MERCHANTS SEEK
ENLIGHTENMENT.
MILD YET EFFICIENT.
Everybody needs laxative ad sistance sometimes. But it shoul
At the end of yesterday's meet-be mild yet efficient, not harsh
ment. The chop was undoubtedly ing of the Chinese General Chamber
hall and is moving in foodstuffs the recent labour troubles, sup defendant's but he had. denied of Commerce, the Chairman (Mr.) Kriping and habit-forming like th
There was an interesting sight |
on Nanking Road when defach-plying funds, and include
ments of American sailors shoulder-
munications
rifles convoyed herds of cows, to the abbatoirs where the Chinese had struck.
of Musicstudent canvassers.
organization.
from
com-
distant
A sinister note developing to-day
French concession
PINKETTES
that tho signature Vas bis. Li Yau-tsun) vaid he would like to old-fashioned pills and liqui, Moreover the onus was on the nuke a few remarks about the Rent purgatives, Pinkettes are laxa ing rifles with bayonets fixed points in China disclosing their plaintiff to prove that it was Ordinance. Many people did not tive perfection; gently but suroli
defendant's signature.
fully understand the monning of Mr. Haywood submitted the standard rent and the applicability is the issue of posters urging to caus on the defendant to prove of the increase of 16% to certain "Assassinate the Foreign Police" that the signature on the receipt tenements allowed by the Govern Many Servants. Loyal.
and "Assassinate the Foreigners was not his and he had not done so. ment. Also many Chinese desired connected with the Law Courts." His Honour Mr. Justice Wood to know what provisions were made they work while you sleep, bring Many loyal Chinese servants are The strike is spreading more said he felt more inclined to believe for the sub-tenants from exploita-ing relief and a sense of renewed sticking with their masters despite swiftly and one eighth of the Chin- the plaintiff than the defendant. tion. He proposed that the Cham- freehness and fitness next mom threats of death involving their ese police have quit. It is antici-He considered the onus to prove her write to the two Chinese Council ing. Of chemists, or post free dependents quartered in Chinese
pated that the entire force will be that the signature was false was on members for enlightenment.| 60 conts, the vial, from Dr. Wil territory, voiced directly by out to-morrow. The shops in the the defendant und he bad not done The assistance of the Chomber's liams' Medicine Co., 60 Kianged
Those foreign firms, hotels and affected are closing-Our Own bis. He therefore gave judgment preciated.
hitherto un-so other than saying that it was not legal adviser would also be ap-Road, Shanghai. institutions which are still fune Correspondent.
PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL for plaintiff on the claim with costs. tioning are doing so with foreign etaffs of volunteer. workers.
The Pinch of Hunger. PIANOFORTE- Society women are filling posi
tions as telephone operators, tak- Shanghai, June 5.-Mail reports ORATORIO.ing charge of post offices and ac on the Japanese mill strike in cepting all forms of employment. Tsingtao last week show that the The situation seemingly has de-Chinese police" were unable to sup- veloped a grim struggle, unattend-press the riots until they had fire ed with outward disorder, to dis. on the strikers. The Shanghai and offer a striking rupt foreigh activities and starve Tsingtao cases and drive them out but it is known parallel but the Chinese Ignored the that a turbulent faction. of Tsingtao incident.
Strike circulars to-day call on students is striving to effect ↑ Idomestics to walk out. Unemploy
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An unconfirmed report says that regards foreigners, the food situa these "elements, are striving to in tion is merely inconvenient, whereas duce Sun Chuan-fang to move his the poorer Chinese are beginning i troops to Shanghai from Hang-tc feel the pinch of hunger and thei
of their chow-Our Own Correspondent. danger is looming, up
looting the provision shops.- Feeter.
the
Red Documents Seized.
LI
Shanghal, June 5.-Among Chamber of Commerce Inactive.
documents seized at
the Shanghai University was a Peking June 5-Hitherto there letter received by Professor Klang has been no sign of any steps Sz-sung from Yu Han-kao whose being taken to carry out the re-i address is given as Yahukant ported decision of the local Cham- Strect, 52. Berlin, mailed from ber of Commerce to institute a boy-
TSANG FOOK PIANO Charlottenburg on April 5 The cott against the countries concern-
COMPANY,
partial text is: "Headquarters of ed in the Shanghai affair. It is Kuomintang: Germany and France, learned that Tuan Chi-jui has tele- are having struggles with the anti- graphed to Chang Tso-lin inviting Kuomintang elements and are try-him to Peking or to send a delegate them. Several, to discuss the situation. The Di- 8. Des Voeux Road Centraling to overcome.
have been members
dismissed. 'plomatic Corps, is meeting to (Entrance Ice House Street.)
These have applied to the central morrow to consider the Waichino- Telephone C. 4648. committee but will be driven out. pu's second protest.-Reuter.
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Please, publish something in Shun Dou against these antis for they are just killing themselves. There are still several hundred
Peking June. 5.-The Peking Chinese students in Germany - Chamber of Commerce last eyen- aminted, but we are trying to get ing after a discussion decided them to join our party, therefore our against a general strike, but party in Germany must not be over-agreed to boycott the goods and looked. I am now editor of a paper banknotes of countries concerned, called Truth so have a weapon to and the withdrawal of deposita fight the antis with. Therefore from their banks, and also decided you must send news to Us to to urge the Government to in- publish. I have now obtained con-vestigate the matter thoroughly.. sent for a branch Kuomintang in The united Chamber of Commerce France and shall proceed to Russia of All China are sending repre- within two months. We will unite sentatives to interview Tuan Chi- with the German and French com-jui and Shen Jui-lin in connection munist students and promote cor- with the matter to-day, and is also dial relations. It has been de sending a delegate to Shanghai. cided that students of the three Reuter, countries, China, Germany and Peking, June 5--The American Russia will start an organization and Chinese staffs of the Y.M.C.A. which will unite the nations of the and other American missionary world in the cause of the revolu- institutions have passed a resolu- tionary party," sa
tion expressing the opinion that the evidence. up to the present shows no ground Other documents reveal that the that firing by the police was Kuomintang radicals are active necessary.-Reuter.
Kuomintang Radicals.
The motion was carried.
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