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RUER SITUATION.

NEW FRANCO ITALIAN PLAN,

A TWO YEARS' MORATORIUM.

PARIA, Jazonry 21, According to the Boho de Paris M. Poincare and Barthou will to-day discuss a plan combining the French and Italian proposals whereby, Germany if she falls her separation obligations will be granted a two years moratorium wherein ans must raise an internal load of three milliard gold marke whereof five handr a million will be used to stabilise the mark and two and a half milliarde will go to the reparations account. France in return will forgo the product pledges she seized but she. will hold the pledges as long as she is Dat assured of ze ceiving the payments to which she is entitled.

LATER.

M. Poincare and M. Barthon have definitely draw up a moratorium plan which is being submitted to the Reparations Commission forthwith.

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BUSINESS BOYCOTT AGAINST FRANDO. BELGIANS.

BERLIN, Bary 21. Dockor Hermes Minister of Finance, haa, issued an order forbidding the payment of the costoms, coaltar and export dass to any account other than the Garmenn. The Amociation of German icón steal industrialiste has decided that it will hava no business relations with France and Belgium as long as the Rubr occupation. lasta.

A telegram from Munich states that 130 Italiau and Czach workmen believed to be destined for the Rahr to act as strikebraskera mare not allowed to

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THEATRE ROYAL.

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KUME STOŁTION:

PARTIAL STRIKE IN PROGRESS.

ESSEN, January 21.

The postal director arrested yesterday were refona- ed to-day. The railwaymen and postal official met to 02gilder the strike. A decisión haï not yet been aa- nounced but a partial strike his best effected at Dortmnad and Bochum. It is expected that Essen will follow sult. The French declared their ability to carry on inferaational traffic by means of military trains. The Germans at Essen yesterday brought to a standstill a train driven by Frenchmen proceeding to Bochum.

LO. N. MAY DISCUSS REPARATIONS.

LONDON, January 21..

Council of the League of Nations will bring up the It is expected that the non-allied member of the

subject of reparatiore at the next meeting in Paris on January 29.

OFFICIAL GERMAN PROTEST.

BERLIN, January 21, Te Garman Charge d'Affaires in Paris has been in- structed to protest against the arrest of the German mine managers and to demand their immediate release, also to claim full satisfaction.

S:IDT) BE RESIGNINO.

AMERICA'S FOREIGN SECRETARY,

New Yoas, January 21. World gives prominences to a rumour that Mr. Hughes, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is contemplat- ing religning.. Sɔ bar no confirmation his ban faith- coming.

the nttermost, most be the verdict on A YAUMATI ROBBERY. ́the efforts of the Frawley Co.," whom

it is good to see back again.

CRIMINAL TRIAL FOLLOWS.

Some splendid bits of characterisn' tion were given. Miss Florence Roberts as a West Indies servant war,

The January Criminal Bosions were A taste of the Grand Gaign was in particular, very fine. As a believer resumed in the Supreme Court before afforded Theatre patrons on Saturday in spirits, good and bad, she gave the Chief Justice (Sir William Reeg- when the Frawley Company opened just that touch of realiam which was Davier, E.C.) this morning. Only their season and presented John convincing enough to make one one case of robbery was heard, the Willard's three act mystery play "The believe that there were spirita and her two remaining cases on the Cat and the Canary," before a splendid that they were about to desblags calendar having been fixed for besting, hase. There was a distinct touch of Miss Betty Barnicbat also proved to day week at 10.30 am. the serie, and at times the thrills that herself of · sterling - histrionic The prisoners wera Lai, Hoi-chau made the beart jump and the flesh merit and added much to the and Li Fook. They were charged go cold. Right up to the end, the enjoyment of the bimorous with robbery at Yaumati o plot was mystifying and perplexing, situations with which the piece New Year's Day and pleaded "not a tribute to Mr Willard's inventive abounds, Mr. Bernard Nedell as guilty. The following Jury was em ners and knowledge of stagreraft. Paul Jones and with a Harold Lloyd panelled:Mesars W. A. Eustace The incidents which go to make up exterior, made a distinct hit. He (foreman), R. Bass, S. Smyth, R. A. this extravaganza take place within a was extremely. funny with his "on: few hours; commencing at 11.30 in the evening and terminating early the next morning. The title of the play

the other hand" alternative opinions; and in the third act he abared a great deal of the honours of a particularly

Drude, D. D. Drydale, J. F. d'A. Bairos ad 3. C. dos Remedios.

Mr. A. Dyer Ball. (Assistant. Crown Solicitor) said that the robbery oc- curred at 7 pm, on January 1, on No. 7, Port- the second floor o

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is somewhat symbolic and touches exciting series of incidents. Of Mite upon the question of fear whilst the Adele Blood much was expected, atory itself ia concerned with She filled a most difficult role and Street, Yaumati. duplicity and cunningness born with ease and is clearly an actress of men, two of whom he hoped to prove of desire for gain. Old man outstanding charm and ability. What were the prisoners, were concerned in West has decreed that on the in other hands might have been made the robbery. They bound and gagged twentieth

anniversary of his to appear ridiculous, she made a man and four women living on the death his will shall be read to his convincing, and her appeals to others fist and atole a pair of gold mounted surviving relatives in the house which in the belief in her questioned saniy rattan bangles, a pair of earrings, two has remained in the charge of a West were true to the highest compepts of hair ornaments, a woollen, jackit, Indios, servant. There are three dramatic art. As Hendricks sup two suite of clothing, and $14 in

The robbers were not. envelopes, the Erst containing a posed asylum attendant, entering the money. condition, to which all poncerned house and giving details of an aped armed as far as the victims could say. who hear it can agree; the second maniac with cat-like proclivities, thus As the robbers were about to leave, s with the Dame of the role setting the already nerve-tacked wash amali arrived. She would say. beneficiary (who must sleep in visitors in extremis, and later turn that she was dragged into the flat and the rame com in which the old ing out to be a partner in the Custard then three men pushed past her and man died) with a codicil that in the ly happenings that took place, Alden ran down the stairs. -" The con- event of him or her becoming deran Mackey, during the short time he motion caused by the robbers ged in mind, the estate is to pats to was on the stage, played in file attracted the attention of a man another named in the third envelope, and vigorous spirit The came smed Chan Ba and his wife' Incidentally the envelopes have been may be said of the other on the fint floor of No. 9. tampered with and the contents are member of the cast. Miss - H which is corved by a common stair- the knowledge of an unknown party. Barnts and Meears Herbert Light case. Chan Bo opened his door and Annabelle West is congratulated Cordon Davis, and Lester Bybe when the robbere passed asked what the fortunate person entitled to Frawley was on the stage for bat was the matter. They repied the estate, and from thence minute or two, entering sta mest ex.nothing, only a fight," Chna So onward to the fioal unravelment uiting moment, but evidently did not believe them, and decided to of the meaning of the extraordinary citing enough to prevent warm plow, At the end of the street, things that happen, which include welcome being extended to his two of the fugitives turned dowa a murder, a rubbiry, and an attempefipite of the weirdness of it a thun Temple Street and the other two ran muider, the audience is treatal to ware many momente of theer fils and lato Arthur Street, Chan Bo followed Bacoession of thrille to which the most the company is to be congratiated the two who had turned into Temple blass most succumb, Traunexpected on a happy collaboration,

Etat, and who, he would say were ending after some welge me comedy were frequent buists of sppable and

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Itreet where Chan Bo's wife badi with a startling Sanddinness, that preciation. The forel, tribot simply made the audience gaap. It Miss Blood received wat

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