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MEXICO AND U.S. ROLE OF THE PRESS. EXPRESS WRECKED.
Still Some Differences,
Says President.
LAND AND OIL LAWS.
Despite Decreased Revenue Country Meeting Debts.
Mexico City, Yesterday.
In the annual message personal-
Statesmen At Geneva Appreciative.
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Driver Killed Near Tours.
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Tours, Yesterday. The League of Nations Council. The Paris-Bordeaux express ly read at the opening Congress has passed a resolution approving was derailed at midnight near President Calles said that the Press Conference report and here. The driver was killed and Americo-Mexican relations, were proposes to ask the Assembly to the train badly wrecked. It is still marked by some disagree-include in the budget the credit feared that more victims are ment, principally over the land necessary for the inquiries and buried in the debris.-Reuter. and patrol laws, but he hoped other work entailed in the Press A belief is growing that there such differences would be settled Conference report.
was a deliberate attempt to wreck amicably, because Mexico. was Lord Burnham thanked the the Bordeaux express. The rails willing to listen in a Council for the official League re-had been loosened over a distance spirit of justice and equity cognition of the Press as a na-of 24 yards. The engine, tender to any concrete CASEB
pre- tional and international institu- and luggage van were overturned. sented to her. He pointed out tion. Referring to property in Four pullmans left the track and | that despite bad business condi- news he hoped a common rule of the line was torn up for 45 yards. tions and decreased revenue the justice might be established for Sleeping passengers had a rude Mexican Government had faith- all nations.
awakening as the train was tra- fully met her foreign debt obliga- Herr Stresemann, Sir A. Cham-velling at 50 miles an hour, but tions-Reuter's American Ser-berlain and M. Paul Boncour escaped with a shaking-Reuter. spoke appreciatively of the role of
Paris, later; the Press-Reuter.
The Paris-Orleans Company announce that none of the pas sengers in the train wrecked at Tours were injured.
vice.
CHAIWAN MURDER.
FRESH EVIDENCE AT THE
MAGISTRACY.
VICTIM'S VISIT TO WING ON.
to say of what denomination it was as he did not pay much at- tention. Going up to the wit- ness'a dressing table, Mrs. Mackay picked up a pair of scissors and cut the bill through in two and then returned the halves to her handbag.
FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE,
WORK IN PEKING AND SIAM.
Peking and national health work in Supporting a Medical College in
Slam are among the varied activi- ties detailed in the latest Report of the Rockefeller Foundation. Their work during 192 which
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At the resumed hearing of the Chaiwan murder case before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, evidence was given by Wong The accused were informed by Kam-tim, a salesman in the for- the Magistrate that the inference eign ladies' outfitting department of this evidence was that this bill of the Wing On Company. the witness spoke about was one world-wide, led to the disbursement Shown two photographs of the of two forged notes which the of $9,741,474, and furnished a won- late Mrs. Mackay by Mr. Whyte-deceased had. Two halves of one derful record of the fight against
For Smith, the witness, said that he of these notes, his Worship said, disease, many years the recognised them "between 50 and were found in her handbag after yellow fever in Brazil, and the Foundation has helped fighting 60 per cent," The lady of the her death, while of the other, one disease was practically stamped photo was a regular customer of half was picked up on the coolie out, but last year, owing to the re the Wing On Company.
track and the other half was bellion, the fever flared up again. Handed a cash sale bill, the found on the first accused, An important. method of fighting witness said that it was issued by First accused: I picked it up yellow fever in countries where him, but he could not remember at Saiwanho.
water is kept in tanks is both by screening them, and also by put ting small fish into the tanks, which; The third witness was Detec-eat the egge and larvae of the Stegomyin. While quinine is still
the date.The bill, however, bore the date of the 9th day of the 7th moon (August 6). The witness
Arrest of the Accused.
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Kam Wah Street with Sergt. worms is not always so simple as it By the Magistrate: The bill in Loughlin, they entered the ground seems," states the Report. 6.80 a.m. Court did not bear the month but floor of No. 21 together with Foundation in Java reports the in- Thus the representative of the as it had stamped on it two char- C180, and there they arrested the credulity of villagers who could acters meaning "Coupons issued," two accused. Neither of the ac- not understand the idea of magni- the witness was certain that it cused said anything when they fications. Hookworms looked to 2.80 p.m.
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