MONDAY, APRIL &.1925.
PRINCE IN TROPICS..
VISIT TO TOWN ON SANDBANK.
CHEERING NATIVES.
"Renown" Sails For Sierra Leone.
After visiting Bathurst the capital of the British settlement on the Gambia, the Prince of Wales has sailed for Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
PRINCE'S TRIUMPH.
THE CHINA MAIL.
$85,000 CASE ECHO.
YOUNG CHINESE WARD SUED.
SUIT THAT LASTED 8 YEARS.
One which hardly redounded to the credit of the defendant was how Mr. Eldon Potter E.C, de signated an action which com- this morning and gives Indica- menced in the Supreme Court
FRANCE'S CRISIS.
PREMIER'S FIGHTING
SPEECH.
GENERAL ELECTION THREAT.
A Capital Levy To Be The Chief Plank.
Premier, M. Herriot, is defented in the Chamber of Deputies upon France may shortly be plunged into a general election if the the financial question...
HERRIOT'S CHALLENGE.ped the country's full freedom either in home or in foreign (Reuter's Service.) policy.
M. Herriot then warmly defend restoration of sound finance," ed the Government's policy of the
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by the natives). The country is flat and marshy, but the climate (Reuters Service.) ·
is fairly healthy. There are notion of extending over a consider. railways, and the only metalled ahle period of time. Bathurst, April 5. road connects Bathurst.on St. The "Repulse" with the Prince Mary's Island with British Cumbo Chinese young man who as a The defendant in the case is a
Paris, April 5. of Wales aboard has left for on the mainland across Oyster result of proceedings brought in banquet given in His honour at In a speech at a Democratic Sierra Leone,
Creek. The colony is adminis- the same The Prince of Wales has had, a tered by a governor with an
Straw in the Wind? Fontainebleau and attended by Court some years 3,000 guests, the Premier, M. triumphant tour of the streets of excentive council and a nominated previously benefited to the extent Herriot, declared that rather than dent, was elected for the Senate
Paris, April 6. Bathurst, walking the last hun-legislative council
M. Millerand, the former Presi- dred yards to the quay through a steamers from Liverpool carry Wo-lum, who died intestate in interests who desired to govern first ballot, securing an absolute; Fortnightly of $85,000 as the sale hier of Hobow to the wishes of the wealthy Department of the Seine on the throng of cheering natives. the mails, and communication is 1897.
regular with Bordeaux by way of
the country he would appeal to the majority over the governmental Dakar in French West Africa.
country and let the people fully candidate, M. Four cables connect Bathurst
examine the situation and judge several others, including Social- Autrand, and with Europe and other West
for themselves. African settlements.
ists, There are
not more than fifty Europeans in the Colony, which consists chiefly of Negroes of the Jolah, Man- dingo and Jollof tribes.] '
FOOCHOW. TROUBLE."
(Reuter's Service.)
[Earlier cables stated that the Prince of Wales had arrived at Bathurst, after a voyage of a week, which was necomplished in magnificent weather, Bathurst, as mentioned on page one of this issue, is the capital of the British settlement at the mouth of the Gambia. The colony of Gambia embraces the territory on both.). banks of the River-Gambia ns for as Yarhutendi, about 250 miles inland. It has been continuously in British hands since the founda- tion of a fort, now Fort James, at the mouth of the river in 1661. It became an independent colony in 1843 for a period of 23 years, and again in 1898, when it finally cenvel
be a dependency of Sierra Leone.. The value of the imports and exports is epeh about two student agitators, both of On March 31, the police arrested £1,200,000. The chief products whom are said to have taken an and exports are ground huts.active part in recent disturbances. india-rubber bees wax. hiles. The students accused Admiral Sah kernels, cotton „(woven and dyeik | Chen-ping of blindly obeying the Aerican request to arrest the ringleaders. The American Leka tion states hereanent that they did not ask for arrests but merely for protection.
BOMBAY TRIAL..
"INFORM PROPER QUARTERS."
(Router's 'Service.)
Bombay, April 4. In the Malabar Hill case the prosecution put in other accuseds' statements, most of whom pleaded on alibi and stated they could prove that they were in, Indore at the time of the crime.
For the purpose of fighting the original case for this youth his guardian, the, concubine of the
large sums of money, stated Mr. deceased Ho Wo-lum, borrowed
Potter. It was in respect of this the present claim was made, the plaintiff being the woman from whom the guardian thad borrowed money:
Mr. Potter quoted from state- ments of defence which indicated that it was the case" for the boy: defendant that if the loans were Peking April 4-The latest by payment, also that If they were made they had been discharged telegrams from Foochow indicate made with the object of enabling serious developments in connechim to prosecute litigation the tion with the fish boycott.
her interference: plaintiff had no reason to justify
to
Potter said that the plaintiff was a distant relative of the family. In reply to His Lordship Mr
The woman to whom she had lent the money, the guardian of the boy defendant in the present action,] took out letters of administration in 1913 and it was not until 1921 that the final award was made. The students attempted
Jegal proceedings lasting over that organise a demonstration on April $31,498 the greater part of which, period. The claim was for 1, about five hundred rushing Sah said Mr. Potter, was used for the Chen-ping's'yamen and demanding purpose of fighting the action and instant release of those arrested. repelling attacks brought against When Sah Chen-ping flatly re-the guardian of the boy by the sole meeting outside the fused to comply they held a mass surviving partner of the family Assembly and passed a resolution had attempted to get an account Provincial firm of whose accounts the guardian calling for Sah Chen-ping's re- rendered for the purpose of the signation of the Civil Governor-proper administration of Ho Wo ship. Apprehension is felt in Jum's estate. Foochow as 10 bow the movement will develop.
BANDIT FEARS.
(Reuter's Service.)
It was Mr. Potter's submission that the woman guardian was entirely without means to fight the case for the boy defendant in the previous action and that the son was the person on whom fell the responsibility of repaying the debt incurred on his behalf.
Phanse's statement said that Mumtaz represented that she was being retained-by-Bawla- at the point of the pistol. He had per- sonal reasons for desiring to inform the Maharajah.. Phanse added that Mumtaz was not considered the Maharani at Indore and had not received the family honunks.
Sharma, Finance Secretary of anxiety in missionary circles at F. C. Jenkin for the plaintiff, both London, April 4-There is Mr. Poltter appears with Mr. Indore, who on the night of January the sensational reports 12, telegraphed to Atmaram Singh, Tientsin of bandit outrages in Johnson, Stokes and Master.
from being Instructed by Messrs. the Maharajal's aid-de-camp, re- Shensi and the abduction, of a porting the crime, gave evidence thousand women and girls, many K.C., (instructed by Messrs. Lo that he heard of the affair accident- of whom were drowned while and Lo) apne irs for the defendant. The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, ally, while visiting Bombay.
ficeing. The English mission He proceeded to verify the at Kinztzakwan report, then wired, because he down. A missionary, Mr. Parker burned thought the information would be and his wife, fled to the hills. welcome at lodore. He was asked what he meant by saying in the wire, "Inform the proper quarters." He replied that this referred to persons reported wounded and arrested.
BELGIAN ELECTIONS.
(Reuter's Service.)
BRUSSELS. April 4. record number of electoral lists have been prepared for the general election to Senate and Chamber, being held to-morrow. Communists will contest The every constituency, but the ex- servicemen have completely drop- 'ped out.
The elections, which wete decreed two months before their normal time, owing to the parlia mentary deadlock, will be fought
was
COPRA FIRES,
(Reuter's Service.):
LONDON, April 5.
Moscow, April 5-The Rosta agency announces that in con- formity with the Soviet's demand the Polish Consul at Minsk will be withdrawn-Reuter,
Case proceeding.
MOSCOW'S COFFIN,
COMMON THING OF GLASS AND TIN.
--SUN YAT-SEN'S FAMILY
AFFRONTED.
M. Herriot
M. Herriot; if defeated on the the members of the Left Demo- financial question, will, ask for cratic group oppose the Vatican
This is understood, to mean that |
dissolution of the Chamber of compromise, also the capital levy, According to the newspapers
tion on financial policy, possibly are also opposed. Deputies and will fight the elec- to which the rural radical deputies some form of capital levy..
Not His Fault,
Later.
The new Minister of Finance, M. De Monzie is said not to favour the capital levy but is against M. Herriot, in the course of a vexatious measures to bring in fighting speech, denounced the the arrears of the tax on war audacity of those blaming the profits. Present Government for France's financial difficulties.
He showed that when he took office France's liabilities were 278 foreign war debts. This had crip- milliards of Frances, exclusive of
MANILA TRAGEDY.
YOUNG GIRL SHOT DEAD
SEQUEL. TO DANCE,
ARMY OFFICER SURRENDERS
AUTHORITIES.
The opinion is held that the differences between the view- points of M. De Monzie and M. Herriot may lead to a clash on Tuesday.
IM. Millerand was formerly President of France, but he was compelled to resign owing to his active support of M. Poincare when the latter was Premier. M. Poincare is M. Herriot's chief Vatican compromise refers to the opponent. The allusion to the
condition M. De Monzie forced M. Herriot to accede before he would become Minister of Financé. M. ToHerriot was opposed to an em- bussy at the Vatican but accepted M. De Monzie's plan whereby the. Alsace-Lorraine at the Vatican Charge d'Affaires representing
would take care of the interests of the rest of France.]
(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)
The Capital Levy. ...
"Paria, April 4.
A message from Genoa states that about 2,000 bags of Copra from the Dutch steamer Simaloer the Soviets offered as a perman- The much-heralded coffin which and the German steamer Usamabara
MANILA, April 5. caught fire. The fire has been ent repository for Dr. Sun Yat- extinguished.
Lleut John S. Thompson, U. S. sen's remains has turned out to be Amiy, killed Miss Audrey a thing of plain glass and tin, daughter of Captain Hamiltsa Burleigh, the 16-year-old step- writes the Peking correspondent Calmes, U. S. A. Medical Corps. That M. Herriot, like M. of the "N. C. Daily. News" under
Thompson took the girl for a Poincare, will eventually fall in date April 2 It is stated that it the refusal of the girl to agree to of any increased taxation pro- motor ride after a dance, and upon will not
consequence of the unpopularity Karakhan promised to have a her, three proving fatal.
be used. Comrade marry him he fired five shots at posals is the idea underlying press
comments. coffin made in Moscow like He then ordered the chauffeur of
The present solution proportional representation,
the Ministerial crisis, with compulsory polling Women presided at the first sitting this arrived some tifie ago had only a
Lenin's, which was of bronze and to drive to Fort McKinley, where London, April 4-Mr. Baldwin crystal glass, but the one that he surrendered.
Demonzle's entry into the Minis- not enfranchised, except those morning of the International Air thin coating, of bronze, the re-
try, will probably avert its defeat sentenced by German courts for Commission, whereat twenty-one mainder being of tin with an
on the Vatican question when political and patriotic activity signatories of the Treaty were ordinary glass top cover.
that is debated in the Senate, but sturing the war, number
the anti-clerical quarrels are fad- thousand. Hitherto the campaign delegates, Mr. Baldwin said their College reported these facts to
represented. Welcoming
ing into the background in the has been very quiet, without in-
The Peking Union Medical
face of the gravity of the problem dication of the fate of the present Aviation had been christened in tang party leaders, after examin- work was all in favour of peace. Dr. Sun's family and the Kuomin Catholic Liberal Coalition headed blood, but, judging by the pasting the coffin. As the College had
debt without resort to inflation: by the partyless and seatless
Peking, April 5. M. Theunis.
work of the Commission, they embalmed the body of Dr. Sun Government stating that fighting advantage of the taxpayer.
Hsiao Yao-nan has wired to the Demonzie must not take undue "Le Journal" Insists that would finally earn the world's and had guaranteed its preserva- is occurring at Chinshib, in gratitude as a contribution to tion for something like 150 years world peace. In the evening the under certain conditions, the
Western Hunan.
"Le Martin" does not believe) dinner by the Government, the Moscow to see that it did not delegates were entertained
Hupch has appointed L Chin- the Government will ever carry Under Secretary of the Air Office, defeat his aim. It was then that majority of the militarists in Hupeh to attack the right of property,
College examined the coffin from Defence in Western Hupeh.
shan Commandant of Border out its plan of a capital levy.
"Gaulois" is convinced that: Sir P. Sassoon, presiding-Reuter. the real composition of the desire nentrality as regards a con- and consequently the Cabinet may The telegram adds that the many radicals will refuse directly Moscow product was brought to Aici between. Chao Hengeti and be overthrown.
ten
CABINET RESIGNS,
BRUSSELS, April 5. M. Theunis, the Premier has handed to the King the resignation of the Cabinet as today is fixed for the parliamentary election.
COLLIERY DISASTER. (Router's Service.}
BERLIN, April 4,
BODY IN BUSHES.
the
to
(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.) of managing the colossal floating
CHINA'S STRIFE.
light, as also the fact that it con-Hsiung Keh-wu, and wish to "L'Humanito" is of opinion tained several holes, evidently prevent the defeated troops of that the fall of the Left bloć is caused in transportation, al- either side entering Hupeh. though it is stated that it is by no
means new.
Peking, April 5-It is under-
now certain..
Eleven men are missing, while
The body of a Chinese about 28 two bodies have been recovered years of age was found in some
These revelations have been) from, the pit-shaft of the Stinnes bushes at Lul Kung-lak in the New most painful to the family and colllery-st Karnap, near Essen, Territories by a villager, whoersons close to the deceased following the failure of the wind. reported the discovery to the leader, for in China a coffin is stood that when the Reorganisation Peking, April 5.The Pan Chan ing engine causing the cage, con Sheung Shui police on Saturday. considered to be of supreme Conference ends it will be con- Lamb is reported to be taking a taining seventy miners, to plunge
The man was dressed in Euro importance in attesting the verted fato three branches, namely, trip at the end of the month to to the bottom. The miners in the pean-style clothing, and his identity honour in which the dead are Financial Readjustment and Mill Hangchow, and it is also reported upper storey's were easily rescued, has so far not been established hold, and it is felt that Dr. Suntary Reorganisation Committees that, a representative of the though many were Injured, but the The presence of several stab Yat-sen's memory has already and Provisional Assembly, under Japanese Buddhist Socity has occupants of the bottom storey are wounds on the body which was in auffered by this evidence of dis-the Chairmanship, respectively, of arrived with a view to inviting inaccessible. Later Nine: wore.
* state of sight decomposition, respect. The object of the Liang Shiheyla Kakyong and the Pan Chan Lama to make a Killed and 58 Injured in the lead the polico to for the theory Soylet's generosity has been Tang Yi-Courtesy of the Dally religious tour of Japan. Courtesy vdisaster.
that the man had been murdered. hindered Father than helped. Bulletin.
of the Daily Hallelin."
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