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TWO MILLIONS FOR DEBT.

HOME REDUCTION.

LARGE AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

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SECURITIES AND CASH.

London, Yesterday.

The Financial Secretary to the

SUPPLY OF BUNKER | RUBBER INDUSTRIES

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TO BE SUPPLIED YEARLY TO U. S. SHIPPING FLEET.

SUCCESSFUL BID.

Washington, Yesterday..

BILL.

BEFORE COMMONS.

PASSED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE.

A NEW CLAUSE.

London, Yesterday.

The Shipping Board has accept- In the House of Commons, the Treasury, Mr. A. M. Samuel, ed the bid of the Gulf Refining Rubber Industries' Bill has pass- stated that in addition to the ori-Company of Pittsburgh to supply ed the Standing Committee and ginal sum of £500,000 announced 10,300,000 barrels of bunker oil

annually for the United States has been ordered to be reported in Februarp for the National Debt Shipping Board Merchant Fleet to the House. reduction fund, £795 had been Corporation at New York, Phila- received. The Elsie Mackay fund delphia, New Orleans, Galveston

A new clause defining the

cerning treatment of information as private, was carried-Reuter.

of £500,000 announced last week and Port Arthur (Texas) for three duties of the collector in the new would be separately constituted. years, beginning on January 1, schedule laying down the form of Apart from these specially ac- 1929, Reuter's American Ser-undertaking by the collector con- cumulating funds the total gifts vice. from individuals received since the outbreak of war amounted to! ¦£1,109,000, of which £625,000 was received in the form of securities and the balance in cash.-British Wireless Service.

"I AM A GAMBLER.'

ROBESMASTER WHO DID NOT

LIKE ACTRESSES.

BOBBED HAIR IDENTIFICATION

"As Kongmoon Is In Chinese ter- ritory, there are a lot of bandits; I don't think I have any chance of getting them back.""

Thus apoke a Chinese named Ho Lung, manager of the Man On Co., No. 117, Pei Ho-street, Shamshui- pa, in the Summary Court this

morning.

GREEK POLITICS. MAJORITY" SYSTEM ADOPTED

BY CABINET.

Athens, Yesterday. The Cabinet has obtained the; President's signature to a decree substituting the "majority" ayatem (equivalent to the British system) for proportional representation.

It is believed the Cabinet would have resigned if the President had not agreed.-Reuter.

Pangals Released.

Later.

HEAT WAVE.

SIX DEATHS IN NEW YORK

CITY..

GIRL IN MELTING ASPHALT.

New York, Yesterday. There have been six deaths in New York City alone as a result of the heat wave under which the Eastern States are sweltering. The

ROMANCE ON A TRAIN!

A LAUGH AND A THRILL IN EVERY MILE,. — AND THERE ARE THREE. THOUSAND OF THEM BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO !

CLAIRE WINDSOR

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LITTLE JOURNEY

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The story of a beauty who went from Frisco to New York to a loveless marriage,- but found real romance on the 10ay!

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temperature in New York at mid-]SEE GLORIA AS A SPITFIRE ITALIAN GIRL,-THE PET day yesterday was 02 in the shade,OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION 1'. and shirt sleeves were the general

Pangals, who was arrested in 1926 wear, even in the low courts. has been released. The cabinet de- All traffic in Chicago street was cided that in view of the dissolution held up pending the release of a of Parliament and the Parliament-girl stuck fast in the melting ary Commission which ordered his asphalt in the centre of the road. detention, the latter was no longer-Reuter's American Service. justifiable-Reuter,

SHOOTING AFFRAY.

His firm was suing a theatrical troupe, the head of which, during the early part of the case, was thought to be a man. Later on, the son of the troupe's former robes- master gave evidence. Asked if he knew the defendant, he replied:- CHAUFFEUR SENTENCED IN "Yes, she is a woman; she has bob- {bed hair,"

40 Years.

The robesmaster himself spoke

SWITZERLAND.

Geneva, Yesterday.

The coloured American chauf

SOLICITOR'S LETTER.

A "PIECE OF HUMBUG" SAYS JUDGE.

A FARCE.

A remarkable letter written by a to having been thus employed for feur, John Coates, has been sent-man to his wife after 25 years of forty years but, he said, he could tenced to a year's imprisonment marriage, in which he stated, "It is not endure netresaes (the troupe and one franc damages. His re-impossible even for social reasons referred to being made up of ac- volver was confiscated. Reuter. for us to live together again," was tresses).

When the Puišne Judge (Mr.) [A telegram of March 26 stated read by Lord Merrivale, President| Justice Jacks) inquired what that Coates; in an altercation, of the Divorce Court, brought him to Hong Kong, he shot dead a servant, while await- said: "I am a gambler in Canton; ing his master.]

I lost a lot of money and owe a lot of money to people in Canton; that is why I came here instead."

Defendant was Shum Chung-wa, | a married woman of No. 334, Port- land-atreet, Kowloon, trading as the Tai Chung Yuen theatrical troupe.

Eight Trunks.

DONETZ.

SIX DEATH SENTENCES

He granted a decree nisi with costs to Mrs. Jessie Christina Young, of Widmore-road, Bromley, Kent, owing to the misconduct of her husband, Mr. Arthur Taylor Young, a solicitor, with Kate Perry. Lord Merrivale said that at the beginning of the present decade the husband, a solicitor, changed his The death sentence on six of thejviowa concerning his wife, to whom accused in the Donetz trial, has he had been married for a quarter

COMMUTED.

Moscow, Yesterday.

SHIP DISASTER.

a separation, and in March this year Mr. Young wrote this letter:

Happiness of Two People,

Mr. L. R. Andrewes, who appear ed. for plaintiffs, said the claim was been commuted to 10 years impri- of a century, and said that he was in love. with another woman. for the return of stage properties sonment. The five others will be There was and chattels valued at $330 and executed.-Reuter $150 damages. The writ had been! taken out in May, but there had been several adjournments because the solicitor for the defence had been ill. Ultimately the solicitor had intimated that he had no fur- ther Instructions. Defendant was' absent from Court when the case came on this morning.,

200

י

· LOST WHEN THE "ANGAMOS” WENT DOWN.

Santiago de Chile, Yesterday. It is officially stated that the The manager gave evidence of death roll in the "Angsmos" disas- biring out eight trunks of stage ter is 209.There were only aix! paraphernalla to defendant for the survivors out of the 215 aboard.-

Reuter's American Service. performance of "Fung Sheung."

"Fung Sheung,"

My Dear Jessle, We have now been separated over four years, and it must be obvious to both. of us by now that it is impos sible, even for social reasons for us to live together again.

The fault was wholly mine, and I sincerely hope that no one has thought otherwise. I always! have been, and always, shall be, sorry for the suffering it has

His Lordship was informed that THE NAVY'S THANKS. given you, but as you must have

this piece was in the nature of an overture.'

As a matter of fact, it is the best known Cantonese cere- monial play, givan, only on aus- picious occasions or at the open- ing of a "season." When H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi)

APPRECIATION OF CHEER 'O Y. M. C. A.

DESTROYERS & "CURLEW."

Wireless messages were received

visited Canton, "Fang Sheung was to-day by the Cheer 'O YM.C.A. for the first piece staged in his honour.

Servicemen from H.M.S; "Curlow"! returned, When the stuff was

there was a shortage of 17 "drop" of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and scence, 80 "set" scenes, 7 costumes; the 8rd Destroyer Flotilla, which

ad 1 helmet. The manager, who left Hong Kong this week.

id seventeen years' experience, The ship's companies valued these articles at $880 but "Curlew," "Keppel" (the flotilla told His Lordship that if they were leader) and the eight destroyers ex:

new they would cost $1,000.

press their warmest thanks to the Cheer 'O (now in the City Hall) and The $150 damages were claimed the lady helpers for what was done because plaintiffs could not let out to make their stay in Hong Kong the complete set to other applic- enjoyable. T ants.

It will be recalled that a special

The Judgment.

inferred. I have another happi- ness.

It would, I think, be foolish and wrong for me to sacrifice the happiness of two people with no

· possible advantage to you or any) ane concerned. Like every one else, you must be impressed, as I have, by the observations of [the name of a Judge was omit- ted by Lord Merrivale] and the general public appearing in the Fresa,

Probably no two cases are ex-

Cases actly alike when seen from the inside.I am enclosing an hotel bill which will, for the arst time as far as I know, put you in pos- session of definite concrete facts, and enable "you, if you think right, to consult your solicitor.

You will understand that I must abstain from any conven- tional conclusion Arthur

Merrivála”, said: Lord

That piece of humbug was to have been the preliminary to a farce which was to have been produced in court, in order to make it appear that this professional man resort- The clearing rate of the dollar ed to an hutel with a prostitute; on demand, to-day was 2/0-3/16. but the farce was not conducted

In giving judgment for plaintiffs, dance and concert was held prior His Lordship made an order for re- to the departure of ten ships re- turn of the articles, or leave to referred to,

cover $830 instead; and: $150 dam-4

ages; and costs

It was stated in evidence that de fendant is in Hong Kong but the missing (goods were in Kongmoon, whence it would be difficult for plaintifs to recover them.

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