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"FOR A FAIR START"

$1,000,000 FUND

MR. JOHN RASKOB'S SPLENDID GENEROSITY

Mr.

IN MEMORY OF SON

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New York, Yesterday.

IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE

LEPROSY TEST

CONDEMNED MAN SUBMITS HIMSELF

REMISSION OF SENTENCE

Riga, Yesterday.

GLOOMY PROSPECTS IN AUSTRALIA

STILL UNCHANGED

COUNCILS OF ACTION APPOINTED

ALL STATES AFFECTED

Melbourne, Yesterday. The strike situation is unchanged John Raskob, campaign Doctor Sniker, belonging to the manager for Governor Smith, is Latvian Institute for the treatment Trade Union officials regard the personally devoting $1,000,000 as & of Leprosy, has been authorised to prospects of a settlement as being Counell of action have trust fund in memory of his son try inoculation upon a criminal, gloomy. who was killed while motoring in named Kirstein, who is awaiting been appointed for each State.-

Reuter, poor execution; July so as "to give some children a fair start in life."- Reuter's American Servico.

DISARMAMENT

BRITISH AND FRENCH NOTES SUMMARISED

AND PUBLISHED

CARVALHO YEO

Dr. Sniker contends' that leprosy is not contagious but curable, and proposes to inject matter from al living leper into Kirstein who has THE COLONIAL TREASURER'S agreed to submit to the experiment for which he has been promised a remission of his death sentence, but will have to remain in prison.- Reuter.

S'HAT P. O. STRIKE

WORKERS' PROMISE TO RESUME

Paris, Yesterday. The "Echo, de Paris" publishes "a summary which is as accurate as possible" of the three notes lead- ing up to the Anglo-French naval) compromise, the British note of EFFECT OF THEIR DEMANDS June 28, the French reply of July 20 and the concluding British noto of July 28. In the first

Shanghai, Yesterday.

EVIDENCE

THE CHEQUE BOOKS

At the continued. Hearing, yester- day afternoon, of the case in which Carvalho Yeo la charged with de- frauding the Hong Kong Treasury, the Hon. Mr. C. McI. Messer, Colonial Treasurer, was called to give evidence..

Cross-examined by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, for the Crown, witness stated that he had held the appoint- After a conference between the ment of Colonial Treasurer since note Britain inti-Nationalist Government, the off-December 1918.

Referring to the stubs of two mates her readiness to accept the cials of the Postal Union, and the informal auggestion of the French Kuomintang delegates, the postal cheque books, Mr. Messer stated that delegate to the Preparatory Dis-workers have agreed to resume they each bad thirty cheques short armament Commission for the work on the morning of Oct. 6, the of the usual six hundred. limitation only of surface ships Government promising to consider January 18 he learned of the money armed with guns exceeding six the demands, also the demand for shortage.

inches

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(under which battleships, the dismissal of Mr. Liu Shu-fan, About ten days before the end of aircraft-carriers, cruisers of over the Chinese Director-General of the year, a book of 200 cheques was 10,000 tons and submarines will be Foats. It will also consider the ordered and, instead, 400 were re- limited). The acceptance is made dissolution of the Postal Em-ceived. Tsang On-wing, the cash- provided the French Government ployees' Association.-Reuter. authorised the formal presentation

of the suggestion to the Commis-

sion.

The British Government in such

an event would withdraw opposition to the French views re-

In garding trained reserves the French army.

French Reply The Qual d'Orsay replied asking Britain to agree as regards 10,000 ton cruisers that the maximum ton- nage be fixed for all Powers, each undertaking not to build beyond a certain tonnage determined by its

rule

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SIAMESE PRINCE DIES

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book derk, told him that he was sixty cheques short. He (witness)

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more, and he did not gather from the .conversation that there were [any cheques missing from any of

the books.

Witness denied that he had sign-

led any of the three cheques which formed the subject of the charge. He had not signed any cheque: drawn in favour of the firms named as payees of these cheques.

Witness also denied that he had signed a chéque in favour of San Cheong & Co. for $73,785.54.

Witness said that during the War a firm named Katz & Co. was Geneva, Yesterday. on the Black List for trading with The death ia announced of the enemy, and their ships were Prince Charoon, the first Siamese being watched. delegate to the League of Nations.

Reuter.

needs during the period covered by FIRST SIAMESE DELEGATE TO the Convention. The same should be applicable to submarines which were divided into two cate gories, above and below 600 tons. Only the former would be limited.

that M. Briand considered

the United States, Japan, and Italy would agree, but if they did not it was essential that Franco-Britlah co-operation should continue with

a view to surmounting the difficul-A ties in some other way.

Britain's Last Note

Britain's last note doubts the

Mr. Hazlerigg:-How many Gov- ernment contractors are there who would be likely to receive at any time any sum of $75,000 and up- ward?-I should say not more than

GOLD SOLD MILLION STERLING'S WORK four:

FOR U.S.A.

The differeNSES between his signature and those purporting to London, Yesterday. be his on the three cheques concem- validity of the distinction between The Bank of England to-day soldjed the case were also discussed. offensive and defensive submarines, gold to the value of over a million The "m's" in the forged, signatures but in the desire for conciliation sterling to (it is reported) Ameri-were more angular at the bottom accepts the French proposals.

The note concludes by recapitu- lating in detail the Hmitation pro- gramme on which the two Powers agreed.

The "Echo de Paris" says it was this recapitulation which was sent to the Governments at Washington, Rome and Tokyo; and was published in the "New York American". on

ca.-Router.

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Antwerp, Yesterday. The strike in the oil depota. herei

than in the case of the genuine signature. There was also some difference in the letter "c"

Mr. Russ, in cross-examination, asked those were the only differ- ences Mr. Messer could point out.

Mr. Messer replied that there were others but added that he was not a handwriting expert.

After evidence was given by Mr.

September 20. The "Echo de Paris" is now complete as the women em- Rodrigues, accountant of the Instone adds that the American State Deployees have also ceased work and Bankdag Corporation, the case was partment on receipt of the proposals have joined the men who went out adjourned until Thursday next at asked whether there ware other on strike three days ago Reuter. 2.15 p.m. clauses in the agreement.

The

above summary of the three notes 600 MEN DISARMED

was then sent to Washington, Roms

and Tokyo in the last week of BY THE JAPANESE GARRISON September-Reuter.

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It la officially reported that Japanese troops (quartered in Shantung since the Tsinan Inci-

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Shanghai, Yesterday.

dent) disarmed 600 Chinese troops Mr. Dudley Law is a little better, found in the Railway zone of Kiao- but his condition is still dangerous: chow. When requested, the Chin-He is Buffering from a terrible head ese laid down their arms without wound.

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It was on Wednesday evening after sunset that the police discover ed two well-known and very popular members of the English community,

Congo, on September 24 with the in- Coblenz, Yesterday Mr. Dudley, Law, director of Henry tention of flying to England by way The German authorities have Frank and Lauder, the Mancheater of the west coast of Africa since the apologised to the Rhineland High plece-goods firm, and Miss Dorothy British athorities had forbidden her Commission for, the Zeppelin's fight Thompson, aged 86, an English to fly alone across dangerous parts over occupied territory. They attri- nurse, who had both been shot by of East Africa and the Soudan. bute the deviation to an error on Lady Balley has flown for 10 days the part of Herr Eckener, the air over West African territory almost ship's constructor-Reuter,

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