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DEAD SEA SALTS.

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TERMS OF CONCESSION.

Home Taxpayer Not Expected To Invest:

Rugby, Yesterday.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927.

PARALYSED!

Effect of Strike In Australia.

WATERSIDE MEN'S DECISION.

P. & O. Steamer To Be Tied Up At Sydney.

ASTOUNDED!

Morgan Loan For Japan.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Minister Replies To Yang Yu-ting's

References..

Melbourne, Yesterday.

Peking, Yesterday. A question was asked in the Hopes of a settlement of the Baron Yoshizawa, the Japanese House of Commons, whether, in waterside workers' dispute have Minister to Peking in a statement view of the value of the Dead Sea been disappointed. The waterside to foreign correspondents, såld that aalta concession to the British Em-workers refused to accept the own- he was astounded at General Yang pire, the Government would take ers' terms and a paralysis of ship-Yu-ting's references to the Morgan steps to ensure that the control reping all over Australia appears in-loan. mained in British hands or whether evitable.

Japan was perfectly entitled to

the Government would obtain a con- None of the cargo of the P. & raise money abroad when she con- trolling interest by the purchase of O. vessel "Maloja," which arrived sidered it expedient. shares?

from London this morning, was un- Since the war with Russia she had Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore,. Under- loaded. The vessel will probably spent a tremendous amount of Secretary of State for the Colonies, go to Sydney, where she will be money in Manchuria which had been said that it had been decided in indefinitely tied up.

a very profitable policy for the principle to grant the concession to The Commonwealth lines, the Chinese. two persons based on their joint Tasmania passenger service, and The present Japanese Government option, provided that suitable terms the Patrick Company's inter-state desired still further to develop Man- and conditions were agreed upon cargo service are at present exempt churia economically and hence nego- with them, and that they furnish- from the trouble.

tiations started some time ago be-

ed satisfactory financial guarantees.

At Sydney a number of vessels tween himself and General Yang Negotiations on these points were is laid up.

Yu-ting on behalf of Marshal Chang still proceeding. There was no pro- At Brisbane, Hobart, and Freman-Teo-lin. posal that the Government should the the waterside workers have re- While he was not at liberty to obtain a controlling interest by the fused employment on the terms of give details of these he might say purchase of shares in any conces- the arbitration awards, including that they concerned the construc- sionary company.

overtime work. The waterside tion of certain railway lines. These The procession of getting these workers of Sydney definitely decid-were matters of a purely local char- salts and marketing them made theed not to work overtime. whole business experimental and necessarily speculative, and he did

Another. Chance.

Sydney, Yesterday.

acter. There was absolutely no question of Japanese aggression, tor- ritorial or otherwise.

With regard to the statement by

not think it advisable to ask the The waterside workers here re- tax-payer to invest money-cer-fused to work to-night, thus hold-General Yang Yu-ting that the loan tainly not at this stage in an ing up inter-state and overseas enterprise of this kind.-British steamers.. Wireless Service.

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from America was to be used for extending the railway from Kirin toward the Korean border, Baron Yoshizawa said that he was not aware that this was 80,

In spite of General Yang Yu- ting's stigmatising as a fabrication the Japanese reports that an agree ment with Manchuria was almost

TEAPOT DOME CASE. complete ho (Baron Yoshizawa) hop-

INTERFERENCE WITH A JURY.

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ed that the negotiations with regard to all outstanding matters would be crowned with success.-Router.

[General Yang Yu-ting, in the in-

terview in question, declared that he did not know whether the American bankers' loan to Japan for the South Manchuria Railway had been sign- ed, but he considered it provocative

to the Chinese Government and the Chinese people. They had enough Japanese material to influence Man- churia already without a loan.

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The ratification by Great Britain MR. J. M. G. PEREIRA. other than Canada and Irish Free States. British Wireless Service,

DEMENTED FATHER.

CHARGE OF KILLING SICK

DAUGHTER.·

SETTLEMENT'S DEFENCES. FORMAL EVIDENCE IN COURT.

London, Yesterday.

In the House of Commons, in re-

BURIED ON TUESDAY AT CATHOLIC CEMETERY.

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Has a pretty wife and mother the right to a good time? A story of New York's fast set

CONWAY TEARLE AND ALICE JOYCE

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miralty) said that £7,750,000, the estimated cost of developing the Canton Road was alleged to have

murdored his 15-year-old daughter Messrs. F. M. P. de Graca, P. M. N.

Among Naval Base at Singapore, did

AT THE include the cost of the military and that the girl had been very ill for Shaw, O. Baptista, J. M. de Graca,

in a fit of depression over the fact da Silva, Chov. J. M. Alves, J. air defence of Singapore. He una long time. During the girl's ill-A. Baptista, A. J. C. da Rocha, derstood that the latter was stillness, the father ate and slept litle, v. F. V. Ribeiro, the Superioress, being considered, but anyhow it and then one evening whilst the the Rev. Sister Paul and Sisters of was a question for the War Office the girl and her and the Air Ministry-Reuter.

mother were the Italian Convent and Orphanage,| asleep, the father was alleged to Slaters of the Italian Convent and have cut the girl's throat with razor and then slashed his own many others. throat in an attempt to commit sul Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Floral tributes included those from cide. They were both taken to the Ltd., the Hong Kong Fire Insurance hospital where the girl died soon, Co., Ltd., Canton Insurance Office after admission, but the father re Ltd., staff of Jardine, Matheson and covered. The father was yeater- Co., F. M. P. Graca, K. A. Mason, day charged with wilful murder of J. K. Shaw, Mias C. M. Gonsalves the daughter.

PROHIBITION.

FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM.

$3,000,000 TO BE RAISED.

New York, Yesterday,

J. M. P. da Silva.

Mr. T S Whyte-Smith, Assistant Mrs. E. Antonio, and Mr. and Mrs. A-finanelal campaign for Crown Solicitor, appeared for the $8,000,000 (gold) for a referendum Crown, and, after outlining the on Prohibition was launched by circumstances of the case which the National Association against were already brought out at the the Volstead Act. at at

The rattle of reapers, the buzz Inquest on the girl, suggested that a dinner attended by numerous bankers and the only explanation was that the of the saw, the clang of the anvil business men-Reuter's American ed through worrying about his of a mighty symphony, not only of accused's mind had become derang- and the roar of traffic are all part

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daughter's health, his affection and material, but of spiritual progress, anxiety being the cause of his tem--President Coolidge.. porary Insanity. It was also stated

ed that when the accused was St. Francis Hotel, on the site of examined at the Government the old Astor House Hotel in Des Civil Hospital by Dr. Valentine, Voeux Road Central, was opened the latter found that the accused this morning under the proprie was "out of his mind and violent." torship of Mrs. Cameron, whose Accused became rational only former activities in connection Direct telephonic service between after three or four days in the bos- with the Carlton Hotel, Clar New York and Stockholm has been After the Magistrate had heard memont Hotel and St. George's

pital. He was now Bade. 24 InauguratedReuter's American formal evidence, the case was ad- Hotel are well known to residenta

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New York, Yesterday.

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