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LONDON, May 12.

Before Mr. Justice Wood, Puisac

Judge, in the Summary Court yesters AERTEX CELLULAR

day afternoon, the case in which Miss Yim Yee Koo sued Yick Lung: Hing Firm, contractors. of. 33 Cochrane Street, Victoria, and Leung Chi Chuen, managing partner of that flem, agreed brokerage, was adjourned until | for $450, "claimed as the balance of

May 25.

An aliens naturalisation bill which is being introduced to the House of Lords by Earl Stanhope has been published. Inter alia the racasure provides that no alien may be appointed to the civil service nor as master, chief officer, or chief engineer of a British merchant vessel: Pleint who was represented by. registered in the United Kingdom, exceptions. being those who performed Mr. Les d'Almada, gave evidence faithful service in the war. Aliens are also debarred from folding pilotage that defendants agreed to pay her som- certificates, exception being made in the case of French nationalsmission of $1,000 if she could secure using the ports of Newhaven and Grimsby Special clauses are them a building contract from Li Pe inserted providing equal powers of naturalisation for the Erith posses Path. The contract was duly com Sung the owner of land in Calder DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. aions, subject to the proviso in the case of the Dominions that the measure plered and on July 12, last year, de-

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RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

LONDON, May 12. It is officially reported that the Ukrainians have occupied Odessa,

"IMPORTANT STIPS" IN IRELAND.

LONDON, May, 12. In the House of Commons, replying to Major O'Neill, Mr. Bonar Law stated that Macready had already taken most important steps to ensure greater co-operation between police and military in Ireland and yesterday made many other suggestions to the Cabinet all of which would be carried Macready believed these changes would have speedy effect. Mr. Law emphasised that the government would take any action which was believed to tend to restore decent conditions in Ireland.'

Out.

COAL. PRICES,

LONDON, May 13.

fendant paid phaintiff $50. The claim. was subsequently reduced to $500, leaving a balance due of $450, the amount of the present claim.

The defence, which was conducted by Mr. C. F. Mason, was a denial of the chim an the ground that the con- tract had not been secured through plaintiff. Defendant asserted that plaint first brought the contract 19 He was subsequently sent for by Li him, but rwo days later, withdrew it.

Po Sung and the contract was arranged between them without the interven tion of plaintif. The $50 paid by him to plaintiff had been given as kum. how as plaintiff continually worried hirm for corumission on the contract.

The case was adjourned until May 25 in order to secure the attendance at Court of Li Po Sung.

DEFENCE CORP3 ELECTIONS..

The election of officers and N. C.O.'s Infantry and Infantry Companies of of the Scottish Company and Light the H.K.V.D.C., last evening re- suited as clows:-

In the House of Commons, Mr. W. Brace moved an adjournment in order to draw attention to the increased-price of domestic coal, which he asked the government not to impose. He approved the reasons for the increase in industrial coal. Sir R. Horne, replying, said the present was the most. convenient season to start the policy of: fermination of coal subsidies. While the miners were not entirely free from blame as regards production, the coal owners were showing a lack of energy owing to the unsettled situation la consequence of the agitation for nationalisation. He did not consider the latter would produce equally good results as private enterprise. American coal, which was unavailable last winter owing to a coal strike, was new entering European markets in considerable quantities and was selling in France for less than British Scottish Company Lieutenant, J. coal. It was impossible to predict what the future export profits would be, H. Gordon: Sergeant. T. W. Hill; Britain on a sound foundation. The motion was defcated by 155 to 49 Simpson, D. J. Purves, and W..]. therefore there was all the more reason to put the coal used in Great Corporals, J. Ralston and J. M. Me- Hurchon; Lance Corporals, A. G.

CAPTURED.. SHIPPING,

LONDON, May 12.

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Alfred Davies, Mr: H. Wilson said excluding the ships captured by the joint British and allied forces, and the ships condemned as to part only of their interest, and the numerous miscellaneous small craft, the total number of ex-enemy mer chantmen over 500 tons hitherto condemned in the British prize courts is 98. With the exception of ships retained by overseas governments, these would run on British government account. The sale of fifteen of these vessels realised a million and a half sterling. The trading results were not yet available.

The House passed the second reading of the finance bill without a division.

Mr. Baldwin, secretary of the Treasury, winding up the debate, disagreed with those who thought the Chancellor was trying to do too much and that we were robbing ourselves now for the benefit of posterity. The knowledge that the British were willingly taxing them selves so heavily this year would have the greatest effect in making the world realise that we were going to set our house in order,

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Mounted Infantry Company: Ser- geant, G. C. Moxon: and Corporal, H. B. L. Dowbiggin.

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Light Infantry and Infantry-Com- panies: Company Commander, G. E. Stewart; Lieutenant, F. C. Hall; Ser geants T. P. M. Bevan and W. H. Edmonds: Corporals. C. A. Grimes, and F. Lobel; Lance-Corporals, P. S. Cassidy, G. H. Haskett, and E. R. Dovey.

LADY ASTOR SCORES IN SUFFRAGE DEBATE,

party's equa: suffrage bill so as to An effort to amend the Isbour withhold the vote to women less than thirty years old, was defeated by Lady Nancy Astor, who kept up a running Bre' of debate in a house of commons' committee meeting considering the measure.

Fear of woman's power in politics was acknowledged by those who op- posed giving women equal voting rights with men.

Lord Wolmer, who submitted the

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The world-wide shortage of locomotives and reling stock which has resulted from five years of warfare is an obstacle of the first magnitude

can be resumed on anything like normal conditions. One of the largest to 13, asserted that a majority of the English engineering firms, whilst war was still proceeding, foresaw that an pussyfoors are women and if that acute shortage of this kind was to be expected when peace came. majority has the right to vote, it might The Directors of this firm methodically laid their plans, and those insist upon prohibition. The male carefully prepared arrangements have now materialised so that at population, which had borne the brunt: present time the Armstrong, Whitworth Company are of war, was not prepared to tolerate making a remarkable bid for the premier position amont locomotive any such impositions, he added. builders throughout the world. The Ammunition Works at Scotswood on Tyneside were allocated for the construction of locomotives. Immediately after the Armistice they commenced their reorganization and within the short space of a year the vast munition plant has been swept away, the new plant-installed, and the first Armstrong, Whitworth locomotivea powerful 0-8-0 type for the North-Eastern Hallway was completed and delivered from their Works.

the

To-day the Scotswood Locamative Works are the largest and best equipped works of it kind in the British Empire. Their present output capacity is over 400 heavy main line engines per year.

Even under present conditions the Company themselves anticipate that by the summer of 1920 their output will have increased to not less than 45 locomotives per week. The following list gives particulars of some of the most interesting and important contracts which Messrs. Armstrongs at the present time have on hand som vi har

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CALLS IT SENTIMENTAL SLOBBER. shour votes for women was a lot of Col. Arthur Lee said all the fussing sentimental slobber, whereupon Lady Astor leaped to the defence of the

women.

“1 am astonished At such speeches," she said." Why are the men, so frightened at women, voters? The men have made such a mess of matters that women are justified in taking, the vote, from them. If the women had the vote there would be

no war

Whether women get the vote they will insist upon reforms, pussyfone!

otherwise.

North Eastern Railway Co....0-8-0 with six wheel tender.or Midland and Gt. Western

Railway of Ireland 060 with six wheel tender. ...Caledonian Railway........................ 440 with six wheel tender. menGt. Southern and Western

Railway (Ireland)450 with six wheel tender. *Dutch: Colonial Government

2 Kadiway mónJ KORKOUTÉKSUD LAY -Leopoldina Railway..

«Trinidad Railway.

Nigerian Railway

DENIED MEN WON THE WAR..

Lady. Astor denied Wolmer's sug- gestion that men won the war. Women also had done their share, she said.

Who lost the peace?" Command- er Kenworthy slyly asked. with six wheel tender,torted.

"You be quiet," Lady Astor 12 With six wheel tender.

4-8-0 with 8 wheel Frederick Bunbary: warned.

* You can't argue with women, Sir

He also scouted the idea of young girls being likely to study politics

tender.

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066 with six wheel tender. Bombay, Baroda and Centra

lodia Bilway so. 23-0 with six wheel tender, Bladzaszk and Southern F.

~· Mahratta Railway 280 with six wheel ten deed

They'll more likely do what Lady Astor confessed she had done,”! Sir Frederick said, Spend a whole afternoon buying a frock which did not

A. Boleron committee meeting "burst Belgian Stain Railways "Vo2,260 with sie wheel tender, 1 into-mith But quickly ended in a

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