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Singapore.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928.
| SHARE TRANSACTIONS. PHOSGENE ESCAPE
FIRM ORDERED TO RETURN CLIENT'S "COVER."
Mr. Francis Henry Hembrow, of Trefusin Farm, Bradford-on- Tone, near Taunton, who, accord- ing to his counsel, "succumbed to of... ahare pestering circulars denlera, obtained judgment, be- fore Mr. Justice Avory in the] King's Bench Division recently, In an action which he brought against Messrs. Graham, Marsh and Co., Limited, stock and share
ENQUIRY.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS INTERVENTION?
GERMANY SAYS THAT IT IS OUT OF QUESTION.
dealers, of Kingsway, W.C., for the NO LAW INFRACTION. return of £100 sent, to them as cover for certain shares.
"In order to start the New Year tions Council..
THE RED VIRUS IN FRANCE.
COMMUNISTS EXISTING ON, SOVIET FUNDS.
Paris, Apr. 18. -- The dependence of the French Communist Party on funds from Moscow is acknowledged in a letter circulated among Communists by Boris Souvarine, leader of the Trotsky Communists in France. who was recently, deprived of his office of Secretary to the party.
"The party only continues to the oxygen exist because of cylinders sent from Moscow," he declares.
London, May 23.. It is learned that in consequence The action was not.defended. Mr. E. Hancock said that Mr. of the explosion of poison gas bar Hembrow was, pestered with cirrels at Hamburg, causing the death
In the past four years, says culara from the defendants for some of ten persons and serious illness time before he received a letter last to others, the question of the manu- Souvarine, more than twenty-five Christmas Eve, offering to facture or storage of poison gas in millions (it is not clear whether ho guarantee him against loss if he quantity may be brought up. at the has reckoned in francs or roubles) French "pseudo-Communist" party, would deal in shares through them. next meeting of, the League of Na-have been swallowed up by the It is understood from authorita- "These subventions from Russia," he declares, "are an immediate and with a sucessful transaction," the letter ran, "and to prove how protive German sources that a full en direct factor in the intellectual de- fitable our transactions can be we make you & special offer. We will quiry is already being held regard terioration and moral decline of our
adds: "The party." He try to surmount any scruple you ing the Hamburg disaster, parti- against all loss. We guarantee to breach of the law agreed between members it has. The richer it be may have by guaranteeing you cularly as to whether there has been money the party recgives the les return to you the full amount of Germany and the Allies in 1927 as comes in money, the poorer it be- your deposit should your deal preve regards the manufacture of wea-comes in thought.""
pons of war, also to avoid a recur unsuccessful."
The letter pointed out that big rence of such an accident. profits could be made out of gramophone and tobacco shares.
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more
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Moscow
Souvarine then quotes figures to New York, May 23. justify his satement that the "dis- A statement cnbled to New York proportion between the party's the own resources and external aid is the effect that Mr. Hembrow sent £100 as a was
Works, Hamburg, monstrous." On one occasion, he margin of one shilling a share on Stolzenberg certain shares, but when the value has been shipping forty tons reveals, "Humanite" started a sub- g19 to thescription and managed to collect of the shares dropped the defen-of phosgene dants wrote suggesting that he United States annually, but the 30,000 francs (£240). The total should send another £200, as the President of the Heydon Chemical published by "Humanite"
Corporation, which is mentioned as 800,000 franes (£2,100). margin had been exhausted."
Mr. Hembrow thereupon, asked one of the consignees, said the Com- had made up the difference. For some seven weeks for the return of his £100 on the pany had not purchased phosgene basis of the defendants' offer, but from the Stolzenberg Works for a textile workers have been on strike at Halluin, assisted by Soviet funds. I had not been returucd.
year. Mr. Justice Avery said he was:
Similar gas was now being manu-To-day "Humanite" queles a mos- satisfied that Mr. Hembrow was
Workers' Union. entitled to the return of the £100,factured in Amerlen. The Iley-age purporting to come from the and gave judgment for him, with den Corporation uses it in the Russian Textile
manufacture of pharmaceutical pro-it forwards a fresh sum of 1,000
roubles, and promises costa.
ducts.-Reuter.
more as is needed.
Jehol Consul Warned.
Out of the Question.
Berlin, May 23.
Tokyo, May 23. j
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Semi-officially it is stated that the HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? The Government has instructed League of Nations' intervention in the Japanese Consul at Jehol to the phosgene affair is completely prepare to withdraw Jananese re-out of the question.
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The following are the replies to
sidents to Yinkow or Mukden in It is claimed that the mere fact to-day's questions:--
1. Trans-Persian railway, from the Terminn the event of the situation becoming of storing phosgene doce not con-cuff to the Caspian Bos. 2. In Londen, at dangerous in consequence of the stitute any infraction of the regu-Christ Church, Newruto-street, to inculcate
maintalnes who founded and PELB defent of the Makden forces.-lations as German trade in phos-charity as exefatided by the older genera Reuter.
gene for industrial purposes is in artholomena auf other ancient Landan he
nitals, The Bishop of Shefeld; April 17. 3. Sixty-ala rare. 4. Barrister. . . Bym. Nationalist Centre Endangered.ternationally recognised.
British Government Enquiring. Pay in 11 moll. Le, in minor, 6. He urdered his men to felen night, then turned Peking, May 23.
on the English as they ran in pureull down London, May 23.
Beral Hill. 1. Part of the Malay Archipe The Northerners claim to have advanced south to-Tinchow and
The Foreign Secretary was ask-luco. in the East Indies lure, ten sugar. coffee, creus, apices, rubber, Indigo. B., The Kinhan and to have reached Sauged in Parliament to-day whether art of ornamenting thin sheets of metal hy Lamantering at designs from the back of the yuan and Tsinpu.
Meanwhile the Nationalist and his attention had been called to anet, H. Ballebury, capital of B. Khurdenin the Kuaminehun centre appear to accident at Hamburg, where a tank B. Africa and Sallsbury, city of North Pratector of the Commonwealth, 12. Bartos have advanced northwards to Ho containing Quid for the manufac- Carolina, C.B.A. 10. Twenty-four. 1, Lard W. M, Thackeray for the amusement of chil kien and to be near Jenkiu. Hence ture of poison gas exploded; and que fairy story writter and Suntrust by It appears that there in a distinct whether, in view of the terms of dret, as rublished in 1816,
proposed to make representations possibility of the Nationalist cen- the Treaty of Versailles, it was tre being cut off.-Reuter, ・・
to the German Government on the subject.
position to say whether there were Sir Austen Chamberlain replied any grounds for representations to The Southern Railway are issu- ing during the summer months that He had received no informa-the German Government. He was "period"excursion tickets on tion except what had appeared in taking steps to get further
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