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Internaional Opium Control.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1924.

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LORD INCHCAPE REPORTS LEAN YEAR

SUEZ CANAL DUES.

(Router's Service.)

LONDON, December 10. Lord Inchcape, at the annual

A Router cable to-day unti-

After twenty-four sittings the cipates that a settlement of the case of alleged conspiracy against questions under debate at the the two solicitors clerks em- oplum conference at Geneva are ployed by Messrs. Hastings, meeting of the Peninsular and within measurable distance of Dennys and Bowley, came to an Opental Steamship Company, re attainment. Apparently, however, end at the Magistracy to day viewing the affairs of the company, Reuter only refers to a settlement when Mr. J. R. Wood ordered said the financial results had not. of the minor issues in dispute, as both defendants to be discharged. been derived from working profits, but from the Company's invest- no decision has yet been reached Property, stated in Court to be ments and other sources. with regard to "Central Board of assessed at between $150,000 and mentioned, as examples, Control to supervise the manu-$200,000, was involved and the dividends from allied lines. facture of drugs. One of the most case has caused wide-sprènd in- He asserted that the remarks he surprising results of the debates terest in both legal and real had made at last year's meeting so, far has been the number of estate circles.

applied to-day-namely, with faw.

"

Ho the

On various counts Lo Shu fun exceptions, the earnings on every

pre-war conditions.

Suez Canal Dues.

| critics who profess to believe that Ching showing, genuine enthu siasm to tackle the opium problem. and Cheung Pui-chuen, alias voyage had fallen short of dis-

were accused of bursements. The fact, of course, is that accord- Charles Kent ing to the estimate made by the having conspired together with would elapse before the restoration Lord Inchcape, feared years League of Nations' experts, China Ho Sai-lok (son of Mr. Ho Kom- is actually producing nine-tenths tong) and another not in custody, of the world's total output, and to defraud Wong Tak-yin. who is

Lord Inchcape guardedly fore- there appears. to be but mengre the senior Mr. Ho's concubine.

shadowed a reduction of twenty- This morning, Mr. M. K. Lo five gold centimes a ton on Sues prospect for an early diminution.

Bench. for the Gana! dues which will then be In Persia, too the production of addressed the the poppy is increasing. From a Prosecution and naked leave for seven and a quarter francs com- table compiled by the Indian the withdrawal of a charge of pared with six and a quarter in Government, it appears that in forgery of a promissory note for 19rai He hoped, If traffic continued 1922,23 nearly a quarter of a $10,000. After complimenting to improve, that there would be a million pounds of crude opium M. E. Davidson (for the de-further reduction before long and were brought to the Government fence) on his speech, he replied to that it would eventually reach five warahcuse at Shirnz. In the two backgrounds to the case." franos. following year, the figure exceeded suggested by Mr. Davidson. One 460.000 lbs. The number of chests was that the Crown Law Officers sent to Bushire "in the two years had refused to proceed with: the mentioned were. 1,245 and 1,783, prosecution, and the other." was From these figures it does not that Mr. Ho Kom-tong had. appear that a change of policy in parted with $70,000 to settle a India would affect the attitude of civil action arising out of the Persin, towards the opium trafficri,

Chan Kwing-ming's, blow cannot be far distant." Dr. Sun Yat-sen is still in the North, and while he is away the risk always remains that internal strife will break but in any more than the present con- In a very detailed address Mr. Canton. Indeed the longer Dr. Sun, affect the attitude of China unless defendants, whom he described ference at Geneva is likely to Lo naked His Worship to connect Yat-sen is away the greater does an international board of control as "past masters of conveyancing this risk become. Whatever title is appointed. When the Geneva: and Supreme Court procedure," he fancies to adopt President delegates have consented to this, Reuter's anticipations of settle- of the Republic, Generalissimoment will carry more weight.

of Kwangtung or President of the Kuomintang-his presence འས nominal head of all the factions in Canton Cantonese, Kwangsi, Yunnan and Hunian-ensures at least that the military chiefs will not dispute among themselves for the supreme post. Apart from the remnants of glamour that cling to

COMIC OPERA.

"THE YEOMEN, OF THE GUARD."

DRESS REHEARSAL' HELD."

Every detail, down to the

GERMAN POLITICS.

RESIGNATION OF CABINET ANNOUNCED.

"DATE TO BE FIXED;

(Renter's Service:)

BERLIN, December 10.

with a long chain of circum- The Cabinet has decided to

stantial evidence which, he sub- mitted, would weigh with a Jury- leaving Herr Marx to arrange the resign at the earliest opportunity At the end of Mr. Lo's address, date with President Ebert His Worship remarked that heIt is authoritatively stated the. would not assume summary juris

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diction and convict but would resignation is due to the fact that the elections did not result in the order's defendants to be dis

majority necessary to carry on the charged

Cabinet's policy. When Lo and Kent were

Future Uncertain, first taken into custody" bail in. It is not yet certain to which the sums of $30,000 and $20,000 party will be entrusted the forma were stipulated but after two ortion of a government. It is believed three formal remands, Mr. R. E. the German Nationals will be asked his name as "Father of the minutest item in make-up, at the Lindsell (who first heard the as they hope to form a National reduced the sums to People's Centre Coalition with the Republic," this is Dr. Sun Yat-final dress rehearsal last night of case)

benevolent neutrality of the the Philharmonic's production, nominal amounts. sen's only asset as a political force "The Yeomen of the Guard," was

Democrats. CASE, FOR DEFENCE. in China to-day. Canton he won as it will be at the actual presen- Mr. Davidson, addressing the back with the aid of alien invaders talions which start from Court, yesterday afternoon, and without their nominal to-morrow night-most im- asked why the defendunts allegiance now he would be a mere the artistes by not having to gage. The second defendant portant of all, perhaps, should do. away with the mort- bootless adventurer. While, this waste their voices on BEAUCHAMP On November 1, outward allegiance holds, his pre-empty seats were able

rows of himself completed it and there in the could be no reason why he should at 1, Leinster-garden, wife of tence of ruling Canton is fairly light of that indefinable, in- destroy it. He submitted that Lieut. R. R. Beauchamp, R. secure, but the moment that out. describable "something" which the story of the defence was cor-1 daughter,.

an audience is able to transmit, to rect, and that the mortgage had SCURR-On December 5, 1924,

give a far better account of them been suppressed by complainant,

VIENNA, December 10. at the Victoria Nursing

selves than it is probable "even" Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and

the keenest and most painstaking showed Ho Sai-lok in a different nowise welcomed by the news- The appointment of M. Joffe The evidence of October 22 as Soviet Minister to Austria is in Mrs. F. Seurr, a son, George Norman.

would have otherwise achieved. light.

The opera, as presented last evidence and had not been chal- that his activities are likely to be Mr. Webster had given papers, which express the opinion night, was, for an amateur per lenged. formance, excellent and if the was only natural, had forgotten agitation than legitimate diplomatic Eut Mr. Webster, as directed more towards Communist response of the public is as it things, and no jury would accept affairs. should be (we venture to predict his evidence.

BIRTHS.

MARRIAGES.

BOOTLE — WILBRAHAM

REEVES.-On October 81,

ward allegiance begins to waver his fate is almost surely sealed. Perhaps it would be too much to suggest that the reports which have reached the "China Mail" hold out immediate prospects of the tide turning against Dr. Sun Yat-sen, but there are undoubtedly at Holy Trinity Church, hidden forces at work, and General local patriotic reasons, when it tion of Mr. Webster had asked that it will be, quite apart from Mr. Lo, n his cross-examina- Brompton, Evelyn Caryl Chan Kwing-ming's quiet policy becomes more widely known whether, assuming the evidence Bootie Wilbraham, O.B.E. of consolidating his position at what a very pleasant evening was true, it was not consistent second son of the late Colonel Swatow is certainly significant may be spent at the City Hall with the evidence of the prosecu Arthur Bootle-Wilbraham,

the Society should have the to a point. whilst the performances are on) tion? Undoubtedly it was up double reward of being able to the whole thing. He submitted Ho Sai-lok denied look back on a public service that Ho Sai-lok was prepared to rendered and a financial result swear to anything. which will place them in a strong financial position for the next

DEATHS.

on

AUSTRIAN PRESS FEARS

· JOFFE'S „ AGFIVITIES..

(Reuter's Service.)

"

GENEVA CONFERENCE.

OPIUM DELEGATES MORE HOPEFUL.

W

(Reuter's Service,)

D.L, to Sylvia Joan, only Cautious as he seems to be, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. General Chan Kwing-ming only Hugh Reeves.

needs an opportunity, and any COOPER-HUGHES-On Octo defection from Dr. Sun Yat-sen

GENEVA, December 10. ber 30, at Brompton Oratory,

With progress having been PROSECUTING "CHILDISH.” Capt. George Conroy Cooper, in. Canton, would provide that

made by the two sub-committees son of the late George Cooper opportunity. Whether General production.

The prosecution had no evid- of the Second Opium Conference, and of Mrs. Cooper, to Yvonne Chan-Kwing-ming-would-meet- The acting-and-singing of the ence of their own as to what prospects for its termination by Victoria, youngest daughter with complete success, and if he three principale, Mrs. Collett, happen

November 18. December 20, are more hopeful. of the Inte Thomas Francis Hughes and of Mrs. Hughes, did, how long he could hold Mrs. Douglas Reed and Mr. D. M. Wong Tak-yin expressed no aur- Agreement was reached to-day on Richards in the parts of Elsie, price when asked to sign her the Important question of importe Canton, are of course questions it Phoebe and Fairfax respectively name for someone else.

She and exports by land and sea transit is impossible to answer. But this are worthy of the beat traditions made to inquiries; she simply and transhipment

On the other hand, no agreement BADMAN-On October 29, at

much can be safely said. Once of amateur operatics. The two trotted down to a solicitors' office Oakleigh Park, N.20, Harry Dr. Sun Yat-sen is ousted from ladies look charming in their and signed documents which she has so far been come to respecting Alfred Badman (formerly of Canton, once his

parts into which, quite apart did not understand. Both Ho the establishment of a Central Bangkok), aged 76.

supposed from the excellence of their Sai-lok and Wong Tak-yin denied Board of Control for the manufac CHAPMAN-On October 30, at then he is not merely an adven-(life and charm.

influence there comes to an end, voices, they infuse a wealth of incidents in the interview when ture of drugs.

the agreement, was ---Westham, near Eastbourne,

signed, and Зоверн Clarke

A word of praise is due also to they were lying. Chapman, turer, but he is an adventurer

Mrs., N. Mathieson who takes the It was interesting to note that, SILK STORE" DANCE: formerly of Japan, India, and who has ceased to count. Such Egypt, in his 03rd year.

part of Dame Carruthers. Par-Wong Tak-yin described the sign- claws as he now has will have been ticularly good was her solo anding of the agreement, in hisGUESTS OF MR. SHEWARAM drown, and it will be beyond his the chorus accompaniment in the room, giving minute details, but

ENJOY THEMSELVES. power to cause any further trouble "Screw may twist and the Rack when it was put to her and Lok in a distracted land,

may turn."

that Lau produced a 'cheque, and

A most enjoyable time was spent What is lost through the none someone went and got cash, they too strong voice of Mr. J. S. denied that. They said he had a last night at the Pioneer Silk Store, A Remarkable P. & O. Record. Gillingham is perhaps made up wad of notes.

when Mr. Shewaram threw open Lau said that on November his premises to enable his patrons When Lord Inchcape was in the for by his fine acting in the part Far East the year before last, his of Jack Point, the Jester, but 30 he handed over the money to to indulge in dancing.

him (Mr. Davidson), who handed "To-day, the grand opening sale Once more it seems that Canton notice was called to a letter in the what should be one of the gems it to Wong Tak-sin. The latter commenced and crowds, in search

Allahabad "Pioneer" in which the of the whole evening-"When a will become a pawn in the political writer complained of the irreWoor goes a Wooing-lost con- counted the money and yet, in her game, According to the reporta gularity in delivery of baggage by siderably through this weakness evidence, she suppressed the fact. that have reached the "China the P. & O. steamera. Lord last night. Another gem of the If she had been selling her own Mail," General Chan Kwing-ming Inchcape instituted a weekly re- evening in which Mrs. Brown property, it would have been an is waiting his chance to seize the Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & was an almost perfect blending bristled with incidents unaccept date of the utmost importance port from the Company's Agents, takes part, "Strange Adventure," altogether different matter, but she was not. The whole case city again. From all accounts he Cq, which he has received of voices.

regularly ever since, It shows There were other parts taken able to the prosecution, but the within 12 months, and yet, ahe is not strong enough to drive the that from January 1, 1928 to with the utmost credit by lesser case was simple if the view of the was certain the date was not in Sun Yat-sen faction out, but be October 30 last, 91 steamers principals but more may be appears to have made himself very have arrived in Bombay written about them and those was childish that the defen- this was a grave criminal charge secure in Swatow, whence he can from Europe with 13,254 pas- already" swoop down when the time seems sengers, and the only missing morrow

Hongkong, Thursday, Dec. 11, 1924-

ANOTHER CANTON

CONFLICT?

nientioned on

to

defence were accepted.

of Christmas presents thronged the newly opened premises at Queen's -

Road Central.

May. This ought to be thought The case for the prosecution of when they remembered that

dants tried to double-cross Ha which involved the future liberty Sal-lok. It had to be remem of two men The whole point.

night's showing packages have been 44, out of for after all, although ripe for attack. Portents in China which 19 have been traced and it was a final dress-rehearsal it is bered that the double-crossed Ho was that Ho Sai-lok was trying are notoriously misleading, but as sent to their owners. Since Febru- more than possible, even desir. far as they can be read in the ary 1, 1924, only one packageable, that in view of what is to present instance, they appear to hold-all--has gone astray, and it come too great a strain should is still hoped that they may be not be put on their voices at this indicate that the moment for traced. Considering the quantity stage.

Sat-lok promised to pay back the to transfer the responsibility. whole sum if he were given a On the evidence before them, no short time in which to do soury could convict, and he asked Wong Tak-yin had stated that His Worship to dismiss th she could not remember a certain charges.