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· BANKRUPTCY COURT.
ASTONISHING STATEMENT BY YOUNG CHINESE.
MONDAY,
WAR DEBTS:
NEW FRENCH OFFER TO UNITED STATES.
APRIL 26, 1926.
SOMALILAND WAR.
lized and were reinforced, but ware again routed. Six of the Italian colonial troops were killed and 28. wounded, The rebels had 150 killed.
Italian progress in North Itallat Somaliland, in the Nogal territory,
INDIANS IN AFRICA
INDIAN APPROVAL.
Bombay, April 24, South Africa's acquiesence in
ITALIAN OPERATIONS AGAINST TRIBESMEN. An astonishing atatement was made by a Chinese in the Bank-
Washington, April 24.
London, April 25, ruptcy Court on Saturday, when
M. Henri Berenger has intimat- The Italian operations against led to the submission of the Omar the proposal for a round table con during the course of public ex-ed that France is ready to pay the tribesmen in Cyrenaica, Italian Mahmud tribe, amination by the Oficial Receiver $25,000,000 annually, including Somaliland, continue, and accord were carried out with naval sup wholeheartedly welcomed by the The operations forence over the Indian problem is debtor stated that, although his this year, and to graduate hering to Reuter's correspondent at port.It is semi-officially stated Press of all shades of opinion. father was a rich rice merchant, payments to $100,000,000 annually. Rome, have been attended with that the Italian losses were insigni- Even the extremist papers give the he (debtor), had, to pay his Router's American Service, successful results, the Italian Acant. The rebel losses were Indian Government (credit for the
Washington, April 25. casualties being few and the rebels' heavy. The case was that of Leung Cho It is generally understood. that heavy..
part played in the negotiations." kwan, aged 24, of the Compradore's the French offer approximately
The Italians propose to occupy
Mahatma Gandhi, who expressed Two columns Department of Messrs. Sassoon totals $7,000,000,000, Including in Cyrenaica, after a five hour march as far as the frontiers of Abyssinia the Union Government is undoubt- operating in the whole of the Nogal territory relief and thankfulness, considers and Co., Ltd., who was earning terest payments over a period of in territory south of Jabel-ol and British Somaliland, with the edly entitled to safeguard what it a salary of $30 per month. Debtor sixty-two years, which-la lmost a Akhdar, reached Abid, where they object of eradicating anarchy, calls the "Western standard of
mother's expenses.
rupt.
-Router..
in consequence of borrowing large thousand million dollars better routed the rebels after a bayonot which is stated to be rampant life," by just and legitimate means. sums of money had become bank-than M. Caillaux's proposal; but charge, The rebela later remobi-. throughout the country-Reuter.
the American Commissioners are; said to doubt the advisability of aceopting an initial payment of only $25,000,000, compared with the $40,000,000 offered by Caillaux-
In reply to the Oncial Receiver, the debtor said that all his loans were spent in paying for his mother's clothes.
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Paris, April 24. The Ministry of Finance states
The Oficial Receiver: Do you Reuter's American Service. seriously contend that your father,
France and Britain. a rich man, who is already sup porting your family, relies on you. clerk earning $30 a month, to liquidate his wife's debty:
Father's Unknown 'Debts. Deblor: My father has several wives and if he paid the debts of one he would have to pay the debts of all. My mother's debts in all | amounted to over 3,800 taols.
The Official Receiver: If what
that as the British Government has indicated that it attaches keenj interest to the possibility of Mr. Churchill's being able to include the French debt payments in hia budget, the. British and French Governments have begun negotia-] tions with a view to concluding. a temporary arrangement limite] to the lines, which the eventual
you say is correct, would he be agreement seems likely to take. proud of people knowing that he-Reuter. refused to pay his wife's debts?
Debtor: The debts were among clansmen so people wouldn't know about it.
Russia Likely to Settle With
France,
London, April 26, Negotiations quietly conducted)
The Ofeial Receiver (with a fin Paris for some time aiming at glance at the "Press" bench): a settlement of the Russian debt But they may know yet, Mr.to France, seem on the verge of a Leung.
successful outcome.
Linder further examination. A Moscow message says Lit debtor stated that he had berrow-vinoff has stated the conversa) ed $1,500 from an Indian money tions have entered the business lender on the security of shares in stage, and both parties have wo k- a knitting company of which he fed out concrete proposals, which was secretary at the time.
were hitherto widely separated.
A Paris message says the newspapers
trace. gress of the discussions, That which -first- postulated the
The Official Receiver: On what salary?
Debtor: $60 a month.
The Official Receiver:
the
pro-
was two years ago and you are establishment of a debt redemp- now only getting $30 a month,tion fund by mean of contribu Your services seem to be depre- tions of exporters and importers cinting instead of increasing in in both countries, graduated acr
value..
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Unsellable Shares.
cording to the volume of trade;} but France has now requested the Replying to further questions to twenty-five per cent of the value Soviets to pay a lump sum equal debtor admitted that after he pur of Russian bands. The Soviets! chased the shares he could not sell them; but they had cost his father wards this, and on the contrary are unfavourably disposed to- $3,000. The knitting factory had insistently demand credits, but the since closed down and as far as french are of opinion that Rakow- he was aware no dividend had besky is not inclined to risk a failure, Paid. When he pledged the shares like that of London, and is doing he thought they were worth the his utmost to take back a signed $3,000 which he paid for them.
The Official Receiver: If you believed that the shares were worth that, why did you raise only half of that amount on them and at the same time borrow $500. from another Indian money, lender on a promissory note under which you were to pay back $1,000,
Debtor: I could get no one to buy the shares.
The Oficial Receiver: I put it to you that when you contracted these debts amounting in all to $2,000 you had no idea of how the money could possibly be paid back,
Co-Liquidator.
agreement.-Reuter.
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sum and had received
Debtor, Kun Shu-kai, said that he was
an old Queen's College.
THE TRAM S
THE FERRIES
| student; 30 years of age, and had Leung Cho-kwan had gone inta family of two children. His bankruptcy Jointly with another salary a month was $70. clerk in the employ, of Messrs. The Official Receiver: Earning Sassoon and Co., Ltd., and at the the salary that you do, do you con- conclusion of the examination of sider that you were justified in in- Leung, the other clerk was ques-curring liabilities for a friend and #sioned.
for yourself to such amounts?
Debtor: I stood security as the| money lender would not advance without it.
During his examination he said that he had put up $500 na securi- ty for Leung, but had never been paid a cent of his money: At an-;
Debtor also admitted borrowing other time he had signed a note another.eum on an I. O. U. from to an Indian money lender for a another employee of Sussoon's.
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