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NEW FINANCIAL AN AIR DISASTER IN THE MODERNISATION

ORGANISATION.

IN NEW YORK.

WITH SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL OF $14,000,000,

THE DIRECTORATE..

New York, Yesterday. The formation is announced of a new financial organisation, to engage in general, banking, en- titled the Commercial National Bank and Trust Company, with a capital of $14,000,000.

The President will be Mr. Herbert Howell, the well-known banker, who for many years was with the National Bank of Com

merce.

AMERICA.

7 PEOPLE KILLED. AIR-LINER NOSE-DIVES FROM 30 FEET.

AND CRASHES.

OF AFGHANISTAN.

MANY CHANGES.

PEOPLES' COUNCIL INSTEAD OF STATE COUNCIL.

COMPULSORY. CONSCRIPTION

Moscow, Yesterday.

Salt Lake City, Yesterday, Six persons, including a woman The modernisation of Afghanis- and two children are reported kill-tan is proceeding apace, accord- ed by the crashing of an air liner near Pocatelho, Idaho.

Later.

ing to a telegram from Kabul which states that the Jirga, the All-Afghan. Peoples' Assembly, The death roll numbera seven. has decided to establish a Peoples' The air liner was about to land when it nose dived from a height Council based on direct elections of 30 feet. Reuter's American instead of the existing State Service.

RIGHTISTS' POWER..

NEW SWOPPING OF POSTS AT NANKING.

There will be no public offering of stock, and it is understood that the entire capital stock has been subscribed by the Directors who Include Mr. Robert Lehman' and other bankers, Mr. Walter Chrys¡TO CO-OPERATE WITH CHIANG. ler, motor-car manufacturer, Mr. David Schulte, tobacco magnate,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Council.

The new Council will consist of 150 deputies holding seats for three years.

All titles, ranks and decorn- tions, except the decoration of independence, have been suspend- ed and a new national flag of black, red and green has been substituted for the old black flag. Universal compulsory military

Sydney Kent, General Manager It is reported from Nanking conscription will be introduced, of Famous Players Lasky Cor- that following a series of confer beginning at the age of 17 and poration, and Mr. William Wrigences the members of the National- the period of training will be 8 ley, chewing gum "king."-Ret-Ist Party Central Executive Com-years. ter's American Service.

COTTON INDUSTRY.

A DRASTIC REDUCTION OF CAPITAL.

FROM 7 TO 4 MILLIONS.

mittee have tentatively settled that Officers Going to England. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek shall The War Minister has announc become the chairman of the Execu-ed that besides 200 Afghan tive Council, Mr. Tan Yen-kal officere studying in Soviet chairman of the Examination Coun- Kussia, Italy, France and Ger cil, Dr. Wang Chung-húi chairman many, 20 will be sent to England. of the Judicial Committee, Mr. Ha The Minister of the Interior Han-min chairman of the Legisla- has announced the forthcoming tive Committee, Mr, Chang Ching erection of wireless stations at London, Yesterday, klang chairman of the Supervisory Memen and Hanabad and the con- Committee and Mr. Hu Han-min struction of three railway lines The drastic reduction of capital concurrently chairman of the Gov- by French and German contrac from £7,000,000 to approximately ernment Council Reuter. fors | £4,000,000 was. confirmed in the [Note: These

The King is stated to have ar- Manchester Chancery Court in the would indicate (1) rapprochement ranged for the purchase of 50,000

rifles from France. of Mesers. Crosses and between Chiang Kai-shek and the The Jirga adopted a resolu- Winkworth, cotton spinners, Bol- Moderates or Rightists, and Breton in favour of a general levy to ton-Reuter

sulting check for the Extremists, purchase arms and, amid general (2) re-ascendancy to power in the enthusiasm, declared that Prince Nationalist administration by the Rakhmatulla, the ledest son of Moderates, with a working major-Amanulla, is heir to the Throne. Ity.]

-Reuter.

case

CONTRACTORS' SUIT.

FIVE MONTHS OR FIFTY DAYS

FOR A ́JOET ́.-

LONG DRAWN-OUT CASE.

appointments

MR. H. C. PAGE.

"SOCONY" OFFICIAL ATTACKED

IN YUNNANFU. :

Shanghai, Yesterday.

50,000 PILLS.

OF QUININE AND NOT HEROIN.

FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.

The long drawn-out case in which a contractor alleges he was forced to engage armed Police guards to en- able him to continue work came up

A report from Yunnanfu states again before Mr. Justice P. Jacks that Mr. H. C. Page, manager of (Pulsne Judge) this morning in the the Standard Oll Co., of New A Japanese named Kukimeto, of Summary Court.g

York's, installation there, was as- No. 218, Praya East, appeared be Plaintiff is Tsang Shing, trading saulted on Aug. 80 by a Chinese fore Mr. R., B. Lindsell at the Cen- as Teang Shing Kee of No. 14, Fook with intent to kill. Mr. Page Is, tral Magistracy this morning Sau-lane, who sues the Wing On however, reported to be recovering, charged on remand with the un Lung, No. 29, D'Aguilar-street, for $88180 for balance for work done

in respect of six houses. Defendant counter-claims $1,000.

Mr. Ael Arculli is for plaintiff and Mr. M. K. Lo for defendant..

Book Entries.........

Reuter.

WELL EQUIPPED.

2 HAMMERS,” A BAWKAND A

PAIR OF PINCERS,BAJ

ROBBERY FRUSTRATED

lawful possession of 50,000 heroin pills.

Chief. Preventive Officer Clark, who prosecuted, handed. up the Government Analyst's certificate relating to the pills, and said that in faca of that certificate he would ask for permission to withdraw the charge against the defendant.

Replying to the Magistrate, Mr.

Defendant was cross-examined this morning. He said that he ac cepted plaintiff's offer to work in When arrested at 4.80 am yes H. A. Taylor who was present in July last year but work did not com- terday, a Chinese had in ble pos- Court, asid that the pills were mence until October because ha, de session two hammers; one saw and quinine pills. He (Mr. Taylor) fendant, was doing some concrete a pair of pincers. Before Mr. had never seen quinine in that work which prevented plaintiff, the Walter Schofield, at the Kowloon form before. The pill certainly sub-contractor, from going ahead Court this morning. he admitted closely resembled heroine pills. with his masonry work. Mr. that he had implements for the Mr. Lindsell asked if it did not Arculli therefore asked defendant purpose of breaking into the Ngal look as if the defendant was try- If it was his intention that plain Hing Knitting factory, at No. 34, to palm those quinine pills of tiff should do the masonry work in Kwong Wah-road.

as heroin pills Afty days wherean even defendant Detective-inspector Fallon eald Mr. Taylor, and that he was of himself had said that the period was that a foki of the factory on hea that opinion, especially, in view of ing & suspicious sound from the Mr. Clark's statement as to the five months,

Defendant also admitted that in back premises, went to investigate price the defendant was asking certain books there was no refer the matter. He saw defendant for the pills ence to specifications, time limit or moving against the wall and peep-Defendant said that he did not penalty for exceeding the limit, but ing cautionsly into a number

mean to cheat anyone. The pills there was an entry about plans, windows. The foki rais

given to him by a friend to This Mr. Arcalli asked His Lordship alarm and caught defendant. to make a special not of

STOWAWAYS.

THREE CHINESE ON THE PROGEST. ALBANS

Three Chinese appeared beter Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kow) Court this morning, ona of stowing away on the s

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which

President McKinley

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discharging the defendant,

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oin pills. Enever been turned out

Quinine

with

regard to the

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