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NO NEWS!
"Italia's" Crew Still Unrescued.
FRENCH HYDROPLANE.
To Be Placed At Amundsen's Disposal To Aid In Search.
Paris, Yesterday.
PRINCE KUNI.
Assassination Attempt in Formosa.
DAGGER THROWN.
Chauffeur Hit; Governor Tenders His Resignation.
"FREE" RUSSIA.
Soviet Again on Warpath.
MORE INTOLERANCE.
Drastic Steps Against Religions Bodies: What is Feared.
Riga, Yesterday.
Tokyo, Yesterday. The French Trans-Atlantic The ban has been lifted on the The Soviet has forbidden religi hydroplane with Major Guilbaud news of the apparent attempt to our communities to organise classes has been officially placed at the assassinate Prince Kuni, the Em-or meetings of women and children disposal of Amundsen for the peror's father-in-law.
for needlework, singing, lectures or It appears the assailant is a "other ostensibly harmless pur search of General-Nobile.
Gullbaud' will leave on Saturday young Korean who threw a dag-poses," and the Government is clos- ger at the car, in which the ing all public reading rooms and for Bergen.-Hayas.
Prince was seated while carrying libraries belonging to religious out Д military inspection in
bodies. Reuter. Formosa.
The "Braganza" Sets Oul
King's Bay, Yesterday,
The steamer "Braganza," which
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The dagger struck the chauf-
has been chartered by the Italian four but did not wound him. Government to go to the aid of the "Italia's" erew, has departed meet the sealer "Hobby" at the end of the Strait of Hinlopen,
The "Braganza" will take aero- planes aboard for North Cape and the airmen will be assisted by dog teams which will set out with food supplies in their search for the three members of the "Italia's" crew who are trying to make their way by land. .
The success of the plans will de- pend on the condition of the ice. -Reater.
TEA PLANTING.
T.U.C. REPORT BLUNDERS AS TO ASSAM.
"NOT A VESTIGE OF TRUTH."
London, Yesterday.
In
"TEMPTATION.”
FRIEND'S JEWELLERY,
Investigation failed to reveal either a motive for the crime or WHY HE PAWNED HIS WIFE'S whether it was instigated. the meantime the Governor of Formosa has submitted his re- signation but the Government has not yet decided whether to accept. Reuter.
PRAYER BOOK.
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SIX WEEKS' JAIL.
For the theft of two head dress bands, and a pair of gold bangles from a Chinese woman, residing at Shanghal-street, à Chinese was this morning sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. Schofield.
The complainant was a friend of, Nor was this the defendant's wife, and it ap in this book. merely a domestic matter of the pears that she placed the jewellery Church of England. Sir William in the charge of defendant's wife reviewed the history of the to look after it. The complainant Prayer Book which, he pointed paid perlodical visits to defendant's all was right. out, was originally set up and house to see that
However, on Tuesday on going to the house, she found that the jewellery was missing. The de- fendant failing to give an appro- priate answer to her inquiries, com- plainant notified the police.
FINE TO CLOUDY.
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E. or variable winds, moderate, The Trade Union Congressmen's reference to the Assam tea plantather forecast until
fine to cloudy, is the official wea- to- tions has evoked a strong pro- test from the Indian Tea Associa- tion. The secretary has written to
the T.U.C. declaring that he under-
morrow.
A trough of low pressure ex- tends from Tongking to S.W.
On searching defendant, there were found three pawn shop ticketa In his pockets which proved to be for the Jewellery. One head 'dress band was pawned for $40, the other
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Defendant said that it was as the result of a sudden temptation that It he pawned them, having no money
directed against Indian controlled was Parliament that abolished at the time. cstates, but even so the Associa-the jurisdiction of the bishops of "I think the defendant is a gam tion does no believe that there is a Rome in these islands. The first blor and did this to raise money vestige of truth-in it. The Secre- and second prayer books of King to pay his debts," said Sergeant tary declares
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worship, doctrines and discipline At present there are 318,537 of the Church had all been settled They could not acres held by former coolies. The by Parliament. Secretary ends by asking what be altered without an Act of steps it is. proposed to take to cor-Parliament. He and his support- rect the errors of the report.-Reu-ers asked Farliament to reject ter.
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"This is a very singular caso,” the new Prayer Book because said Mr. Schofield at the Kowloon they believed it made it easier Magistracy this morning, when a rather than more difficult to Chinese was charged with picking SLATER'S APPEAL. swing back to pre-reformation the pocket and extracting money ideas. There was in the hearts from a person, who was one of a and minds of men a feeling that crowd watching a "alde show" in COMEDY-SUSPENSE -SPICE-ROMANCE ! alterations In the Prayer Book Shanghai-street, yesterday, after- had been made in response to de-noon. mands of Anglo-Catholics.
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London, Yesterday. Oscar Slater is reported to have reservation of the Sacrament was Chinese constable, who arrested de- decided to abandon his appeal, as still the crux of the whole mat-fendant, saw him pick the man's 9 sequel to the ruling of the Highter as it was when the new Pray- pocket, and when the accused saw Court in Edinburgh on the 9ther Book was rejected by the the constable coming towards him instant that he would not be allow-House last December. If they he ran. But the constable caught had reservation this could not him. He was taken to the station, ed to give evidence..
prevent adoration. During the where 84 was found on his person. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who last twenty-five years the num- : Being single handed at the time, for many years has championed ber of churches in which reserva- the constable could not now find Slator's cause, stated in an Inter-tion and adoration were practised the man from whom the money was view that Slater was terribly dis-had grown from thirty to nearly stolen, so that this morning no appointed that he was not allowed seven hundred. That number one appeared as complainant. to give evidence.
would undoubtedly increase when
As no one verified the constable's Sir Arthur expressed the opinion reservation was authorised. statement and as the defendant was almost revised prayer book would not flatly denied it, His Worship said turned by what he had undergone, bring peace in the land. The life that he could not charge the ac- and he (Sir Arthur) was making of the church and the life of the cused on the evidence given. De- every effort to induce Slater to nation were at stake.
that Slater's brain
change his mind regarding the abandonment of the appeal.
"Unreservedly."
A
fendant was accordingly discharg
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Lord Hugh Cecil's Views. Jed. Lord Hugh Cecil (Conserva- tive) declared that the reservи- Meanwhile, Slater's counsel, in- tion of the Sacrament had been terviewed, denied knowledge of his practised for eight hundred years!
and it was untrue to say that re- new decision:
servation had always been follow- Later. led by adoration. He denied that The appeal is to proceed, the ap-there had been a gain in priest- pellant having agreed to leave the craft and said that the progress
The following unclaimed" tele- case unreservedly in the hands of made by the laity in the Church morning, Mr. A. el Arcul mention-
The following Unclaimed Tele of England could not have takened on behalf of Mr. J. M. Remedios,
grams are lying at the office of the his advisers-Reuter
place in the Church of Rome. who was stated to be in hospital, a To-day the real difference, be case in which Harry-Ah Fong is grams are lying in the E. Great Northern Telegraph Com MR. E. PANKHURST, tween the Church of Rome and defendant in a claim brought by Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong pany (Limited) of Denmark:
$285
Diamond, from Galle, Junriryu, from Yokohama. WELL-KNOWN "SUFFRAGETTE" one was a church of authority or,
as we might say; of despotism Remedios, who was for the defence from Bombay, Sub. PRE PASSES AWAY.
and the other was a church of had received no further Instruc The death is announced of Mrs. liberty. The whole body of the tions Emmeline Pankhurst
clergy of this country from the Mr. Marton, who appeared for from Calcutta. [Mrs. Pankhurst, who was the extreme Anglo-Catholic to the the French Store, applied for the widow of "R. M. Pankhurst, LL.D., evangelical were divided in non-case to be taken in Chambers" to-
essentials but in essentials were morrow morning/alie barrister-at-law, Manchester, was the mother of the notorious entirely one Women's.suffragist leaders, Christ abel and Sylvia Pankhurat Barn, Pankhurat was founder, and trea surer of the W.S.P.U., and an ae- tive Suffragist.]
the Church of England was that the French Store 10 that Me Finlayson, Royal Naval Hospital from Osaka;
TODAY'S DOLLAR.
Mr. Arculil said
The application was granted.
London, Yesterday The House
of Lords, have passed the third
The clearing rate of the dollar reading of the Cotton Industry on demand to-day was 2/0 6/16. Bill-Reuter.
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