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BILLINGSGATE.”

"ONE DAM THING AFTER ANOTHER."

VANISHED BAD LANGUAGE.

A HOME BUDGET.

THE CHINA MAIL,

WHITCHAPEL HOAX. CABINET CHANGES.

SHANGHAI "LIFE.”

THREE SERVANTS ON £400 A YEAR.

20,000 PEOPLE WAIT FOR PRINCE.

PREMATURE REPORTS AT

HOME.

$13,000 A DAY SPENT ON AMUSEMENTS.

POSSIBLE RESHUFFLING.

"STARVING" CLERGY.

The Bishop of London quoted With the Lord Mayor, Viscount idyll" to support his. asaartion that

what he described as "an East End! Ullswater, and Sir Henry Maybury, the Church of England is starving the Director-General of Roads, as its clergy, his principal guests, Mr. J, D.

KEEN. DISAPPOINTMENT, :

PEKING-DRAMAS.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1928.

BOGUS ESTATES.

WARNING BY THE FOREIGN‣ OFFICE.

ALLEGED ESTATES IN U.S.A..

Mounsey, the chairman of the End who, as nót infrequently, was Whitechapel area during the week some of the minor posts, has en- and other theatres, and amusement paying fees to lawyers

was her expenditure out of an in-

A

success.

Twenty thousand people waited on November 30 in Whitechapel. It would be idle to deny that the minimum average of $18,000 on following statement

London, Nov. 30, Shanghai apends daily

The Foreign Office has issued the "There was a curata in the East Rumours had been persistent in the Ministers, affecting not only offices Peking-drama theatres, provincial A Warning to the public against Road to see the Prince of Wales, question of a possible reshuffle of legitimate amusements, cinemas,

"In 1926 the Foreign Office tasued Billingsgate and Leadenhall Mar- courting his vicar's daughter, I kets Committee of the City Corpora- anlled them Jacob and Rachel be- or so that the Prince intended to gaged attention in Ministerial cir resorts. This total represents a claims to certain alleged estates in

which carry Cabinet rank but also tion, gave a bangust to his col- cause for seven yeare this man visit the Mile-end Pavilion, where cles, but there is no foundation for daily average

or other leagues on the committee and other waited or his girl. It was a very a Hebrew musical play had been the suggestion that the Prime cinemas, $8,250 for Peking-drama Webber, Edwards, and Bogardus persons in the hope of establishing guests at the Great Eastern Hotel happy day for me when I could offer running, for eight weeks. An an Minister has already decided to theatres, $530

of $6,220, for the United States, namely, the on November 20.

Viscount Ullswater, proposing these patient people. I married bor 30 that the Prince was going tion of the Government during the amusement resorts.

aliving of $400 and a house to nouncement was spread on Novem-embark upon a partial reconstruc and other theatres, and $3,000 for the civic toast, said it was more them and baptised their first child, there that night. Although in the coming recess.

for provincialestates.

The alleged Webber millions ap than seven centures ago that the "On Sunday I saw a baby trundled citizens of London acquired for along. As bachelors can never re-evening the ewner of the theatre, two of them in the Cabinet-wil reports covering different times of to the long possession of the pre- peared to be fletitious. Any claimi The report that themselves the right of aefecting siat looking at babies, I looked, and Alderman J..W. Rosenthal, get into be created peers in the New Year the year. The total amount is rusent holders and the lapses that These estimates are based upon most inevitably unsuccessful, owing three members of the Government

to the Edwards estate would be al- their own Mayor-when the title then saw that the mother of "Lord Mayor" was bestowed he Rachel.

was communication with St. James's is authoritatively stated to be latively small if one takes into con have occurred in the title, while an did not know. He supposed the locking five years older than when was known thore of any such visit, ing has yet been settled, and it is the spring and fall seasons. When in September, 1917, for soliciting

(Laughter), She

was Palace, and was told that nothing based on no solid grounds, Noth sideration only week-end days and American attorney was disbarred life of the Lord Mayor, like the married her two years ago. name of a certain play, was just had a talk, and then asked her to "One Dam Thing After Another."

a special picture is shown at ad-contributions to finance an investi- (Laughter.)

send me her balance-sheet. This

vanced prices, the daily receipta gation Into the Bogardus estate, amount approximately, to $4,000. knowing there was до chance of Likewise, when artist appears in a native theatre, similar warning in the case of the noted native "It is now necessary to add a the daily receipts are said to be alleged Crawford millions estate. $10,000.

This estate was supposed to be There are 24 cinema theatres in worth about £5,000,000. Various Shanghal with a total seating persons who claim to be descend- capacity of 16,400. Ten of theasants of Andrew Crawford, who died show exclusively foreign pictures, in Ireland, have communicated a considerable number of years ago 1 Japanese pictures, and the reat with the British Consular Office in mostly Chinese pictures. The the hope of establishing a claim. ordinary admission prices of for Official Inquiries have been made eign cinema houses range from 20 into the matter and have falled, cents, small money, to $2 and those to elicit any satisfacory informs- of the houses showing mostly Chin-tion that such an estate exists." sae pictures from 20 cents, small money, to $1.

There are 6 theatres playing Peking dramas with a total seating capacity of 8,200. This does not include Ta Hain Wu. Tal with a capacity of 2,500 as this theatre is frequently closed.

The Lord Mayor, replying,, said come of $410 with a large house:- he would not go quite so far as

Lord Ullswater. in his description}

of his duties, but he would say that Pension

If only some of the people who wor- Rates

ried the Lord Mayor would keep Water

away his life would be a fairly Gas .... smooth and calm one.

The experi-Coal and Coke ences he had already gone through Electricity in his three weeks of office were Income tax

2 s. d.

15 0 0

35 0 0

4 0 0

30 0 0

10 0

10 0 0

14 0 0

40 0 '0

to task by one of the largest of the Cook

26 0 0

City Companies because he had not Nursemaid

to the banquet on November 9, and

he had been severely scolded by a

extraordinary. Ito had been taken Maid

26 0 0

invited the Master and the Wardens Life Insurance, repairs, etc. 8 00

dear old lady of 84 in connection

Total

224 0 0

"That leavca £186 to provide food

with the proposed destruction of for four people and a baby, and Home of tha City churches. all necessaries (Laughter.) A number of dement- family."

of life for the ed people în various lunatic asylume had also written to him, vants were enumerated, and the There was some dissent when ser- asking him to use his best endea- Bishop retorted. "You may think vours to free them, and one de-it is extravagant, but I don't, and lightful Indy had requested the £400 and a house is not enough for Lady Mayoress and himself to help the ordinary elergyman." (Hear, her all they could and send her a hear). cheque for $500. (Laughter).

English clergy were the worst

Responding to the toast of "The paid in the world, and the reason Visitors." Mr. J. M. Gatti, the young "Varsity men did not become chairman of the London County ordained was not because they Council, referred to the good feel-wanted to be rich, but because ing which existed between his they believed they would lose their Council and the City Corporation. self-respect by coming upon charity

Sir Henry Maybury and Mr. almost at once. Ralph Hodder-Williams aiso res- ponded.

The Lord Mayor proposed the health of the chairman, and pre- sented him with a 12-hore gun on

behalf of the committee, of which FRENCH SUBMARINE

he was serving as chairman for the second year in succession.

re-

PLANS LAID DOWN FOR FUTURE.

Į

President Coolidge, presenting to Col Charles A. Lindbergh, the first man to make successfully a solo non-stop fight from the United States to Europe, with the coveted Hubbard medal, awarded by the National Geographic Society. The presentation of the medal, which can be seen in the centre, was made before a crowd of 5,000 in the Washington Auditorium.

A NEW FUEL.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BY NOTABLE PERSONS.

Besides these Peking-drama thea-

At the Mansion House, London, tres, there are 4 provincial theatres on Nov. 30, before Alderman Sir with a total seating capacity of Buckworth Herne-Soame, Bt, of George. Truscott, Sir Charles

1,750. One of these is devoted to Sheen. Yangchow, drama, 1 to Kongpo dale, drama, 1 to Ningpo drama, and 1 Harley, to Cantonese drama.

ear accommodate altogether maximum number of 25,000.

BEAUTIFUL BANKS.

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Cottage, Coalbrook- Salop; Robert George Wake Street, Kennington; and Colonel Edmund

of

The average number of people Octavius Enton, of Highlands Hall; visiting the seven other amusement St. Leonards-on-Sea, attended in resorts is estimated to be 15,000 answer to an adjourned summons per day although the seven places Jan. 1, 1914, and April 12, 1927, which alleged that they, between conspired together, and with other persons, to defraud such persons as might receive prospectuses or The Chairman, responding, said

within half an hour a crowd began quite possible that the changes

pamphlets lasued by the Chalk there was not the slightest need for

to collect outside the theatre. At which rumour says are pending

Fuel, Power Gas, and By-Products anybody to worry about the

eight o'clock many thousands were may, in the end. amount to very companies, In the construction of certain reports appearing in the Corporation Ltd, and to obtain "The great banks and insurance money by falsely pretending that moval of Billingsgate Market to any The French Navy has laid down effect that the Prince would arrive other place. (Cheers.) He paid a

there. At 8.80 a message to the little, tribute to the work of Mr. Pullan marine of 3,000 tons surtate dis- at nine o'clock was received in the man, the First Lord of the Ad-was. the view expressed to a "Dally fuel referred to, and made by those

at Cherbourg an experimental sub-

The statement that Mr. Bridge-tectural trustees of the nation," true, and genuine reports upon the their new buildings, are the archi- prospectuses or pamphlets were (clerk to the committee), Mr. Crosskey, Mr. Howarh, and Mr. which is a reply to the British X1, self "Captain Mascot, the Frisco's Lorda early next year can be posi- official of one of the "Big Five" made. Mr. Percival Clarke prose- placement and 18 knots speed box-office, and someone calling him-miralty will go to the House of Express" representative by a high by whom they purported to be O'Neill (Superintendent of Billings and she is attracting considerable Equerry," made arrangements for atention whatever of leaving the "People are beginning to notice," tor, and Mr. J. P. Valetta appeared gate Market), Billingsgate Market attention. She combines many of box to be prepared. The crowd House of Commons during the pre-he said, "the attractiveness of the for the defence.

tively contradicted. He has no in- banks. was progressing very satisfactorily. the tenets of the Jeune Ecole and outside was getting so large that

cubed on behalf of the City Solici and as to the language question the cruiser schools, who between extra police had to be sent for to say that the rumours now in cirvarious parts of the country. I do engineer, gave evidence at the last (laughter) he had not heard a bad them seem to have ousted

sent Parliament, and his friends buildings which we are erecting in word there for a long time. That French big ship advocates sort of language seemed to

the control it, and a little later further culation have as little substance not think that the general public hearing of tests he had made of the Mr. George. Henry Franklin, an have pletely for the time being. left Billingsgate, and gone to the French are very keen on the idea tar to have been a hoax. The police a like nature have had in the past. to build branches which are both prospectus were not his or anything

telephone messages proved the mat- behind them as other rumours of realise the The House of Commons. (Laughter.)

pains that we take fuel, and said the reports in the of glant submarines, for four years informed the crowd that the Prince The possibility that Lieut. Colonel impressive and suitable to the like his. age one of their principal people was not coming, but the thousands Wilfrid Ashley may go to the Upper towns in which they are built.. designed a submarine liner of no who collected less than 6,000 tona displacement, leave. There was some unruliness, pressed as to whether he will leave kind of bulidings as a branch as 1928 about the case. He had no were reluctant to ed, but here again doubts are ex-before the war of running up any firat approached by the police in House has frequently been discuss- "There was a policy among banks Valetta, Mr. Franklin said he was In cross-examination by Mr which was intended primarily for which was the purpose of transporting troopa tactful handling of the crowd by particularly having regard to the quickly, and would hold a counter the matter, What he told the averted only by the the Miniatry of Transport just yet, long as it could be constructed copies of any reports he made on from the North African Colonies in the police. Inside the theatre the fact that this Department will be and offices. Sixpenny taxicab fares

the event of como to London.

across the Western Mediterranean

This lane audience waited patiently for the heavily engaged with legislation in changed." taxi-cabs to have their meters well realise how very carefully, it ducer made an apology, which was mentioned as likely to be made a

Now all that has police was from his recollection of The first 100 is Franco's main artery, and they arrival of the Prince, until the pro- the coming year. altered, in accordance with the new will have to be protected. Nothing received with s

eventa in 1914. Up to May 1914, scale of 6d. for the first two-thirds has been heard of this project for appointment. When

A third Minister who has been

he made only one test of the fuel. of a mile and Bd. for each one- some time, although the ministry came out of the theatre there was

There was no public test or de-i third of a mile afterwards, are now of Marine announce that they were still a crowd of fully 10,000 waiting the audience

monstration. It was an unsatis- on the streets.

The previous minimum charge very interested in it when it was outside.

Mr. Valetta read an extract from was Od. for the first mile or less, the obvious technical disadvantages brought forward, and, considering as shown on the provisional notice of such a ship for such a purpose,

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Two were killed and two barracks at Monastir,

on the cab. The change over is to it is most doubtful whether she willed when a bomb exploded be made as cabs are presented at ever be laid down. Scotland Yard to be licensed for the ensuing 12 months. Old cabal

may charge the old minimum.

A "Daily Mail" reporter traced) one of the Gd. taxicabs after 40 minutes', vigil in the Strand. Thef carriage department of Scotland. Yard had said that one could be distinguished only by the lack of a printed label on the windscreen, and at last such a taxicab came his way.

The driver was asked to drive to Holborn. He was told to stop just when it appeared that 0-0—6d. was due. He did so, and put out a hand.

"How much?" he was asked. He looked uncomfortable. The bright "So-much on the clock, sir," was missing for once. He was again oaked, "How much?" and said it was just a yard or so short of the ninepence.

He was tundered a sixpence, butĮ only for a second. A twisted, half- pathetic smile appeared that Bug- geated tears. The extra coppers were then counted into his hand and the look of addness gave way to one of semi-satisfaction..

WRONGED WIFE'S MAGNANIMITY.

A deserted wife's appeal to ex- pedite her undefended divorce suit to enable her husband to marry the other woman before the birth of the latter's child is given ⠀ pro- minence in London zewapapers.

The wife pointed out that other- wise it would be impossible to legi- timatise the child as recent legislation enables children born before marriage to be legitimatised only whose the parents are not otherwise married at the time of

The Judge complimented the wife for her consideration for the other woman's child but refused the ap- plication on the ground that it would be open to grave abusés. Leave to appeal was refused,

PROHIBITED ANGUERAGE

that he would remain at the Board new blood into the Government be- a newspaper report of the test, of Trade until the end of this Parfore it enters upon the last fall which said the test was satisfac but it has been generally expected sure of reconstruction and bring pear in Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, colleagues to embark upon a mea-factory test.

liament. While making plain the year's work before the General tory, and he asked witness: "Have in the upon, it is necessary to state that which at the moment it would not

fact that thus far, the changes Election in 1929. wound-quarters have not been decided in the matter is something on newspaper d

which have been hinted at in. some

you ever taken any step of any kind What the Primo Minister will do to contradict what appeared in the Mr. Baldwin has been advised by be profitable to speculate.

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In re-examination Mr. Franklin For China's Products

said he never inspired the news-]

paper report or read it or

authorised anyone to write it. Bo General, Pastoral and

far as the statements which lit

made were concerned they were not Agricultural

true.

ed.

The hearing was, again adjourn

SIR RYRIES'S MEDALS

"OLD BIRD WITH ALL THE IRONMONGERY."

Sir Granville Byrle, High Cord- missioner for Australia, caused much amusement, at the Rotary Club of London luncheon at the Hotel Cecflis on November 80 by repeating a remark he had over- heard at a recent dinner. "I had arrived with my medals, oh,..., he Bald, and was wandering about not seeing anyone I know, when heard, man say to a companion I wonder who the old bird-laṣwith all the Ironmongery.

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