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Par's, Yesterday. ' Three aviators, including the famous Captain Coste, left on the first stage of their flight to Hanol to study the establishment of a reef any Italian supervision.. gular air mail beween France and tado-China.

The machine carrying mail, re- presenting 90,000 Francs, was fore. ed to land on the outskirts Faris.

It crashed and was destroyed but the occupants were unhurt.-Reu-, ter.

Le Brix

Tunis, Yesterday.

Le Brix left for Cairo at 10.30.-- Havas,

JEWEL SMUGGLING

LINER'S CHIEF STEWARN PLEADS GUILTY

ILLICIT TRAFFIC

New York, Yesterday.

William Ballyn, the Chief Steward

A GIFT FOR HIS MAJESTY

FROM THE FAIR THE QUEEN SELECTS AN ASH TRAY OF JADE

Rome, Yesterday. The newly erected Sovereign State

PRINCES ALSO PRESENT at the Vatican will have its own Telegraph Office and Telephone Ex-

London, Yesterday. The Queen, the Prince of Wales change, giving the Pope and the Papal authorities communications and Prince George spent two hours with the outside world independent and a half at the British Industries fair at the White City, London, to- The Papal authorities henceforth day, and made an exhaustive inspec- may be put in direct communication tion of the exhibits. One of the first with London, Paris, Berlin, and things which the Queen did on ar- elsewhere, and will also send their rival was to buy a gift for the King, own correspondence by Pontifical. The gift she chose was an ash tray! lorries connecting with the various of jade adorned with two parrots, trains.-Reuter.

FINE TO CLOUDY

The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory at 11.05 a.m. to-day stated:-

The anticyclone is now cen- trak over Koren.

Modérate monsoon may be ex- pacted over the China Sea.

Forecast:-N.E. winds, mo- derate; fine to cloudy.

and she gave orders for it to be nut n her car, so that she could take it straight to the King at! Bognor:

The King will be delighted to have a gift of this kind from the exhibi- tion, said the Queen, for he has n!- ways been keenly interested in the fair and would not miss it on any account if he were well.

Once inside the fair the Queen and the two princes separated, for they naturally wished to see different things.

The Prince of Wales toured the whole exhibition, involving a tramp of more than five miles.

The Prince made particular In- various at

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of the "Berengaris," pleaded guilty COL. FITZMAURICE quiries

before the Federal Court to a conspiracy to smuggle in diamonds.

STEAMER SERVICES

The Assistant United States At-ASSOCIATED WITH "PLANE AND torney stated that Ballyn was ex pected to testify on behalf of the Government at the trial of five others under the same indictment., One of the five is a city policeman.

Federal officials estimate that one million dollars worth of jewels were amuggled into the United States.

It is alleged that a regular system was organisid involving not only seafarers but also the dock police and jewellers, by which the jewela were brought from Amsterdam via Southampton to New York, where they were handed over to the agent who delivered the gems to the wholesale dealers.

The illleit traffic has become so

Lettera and postcards for Europe and the British Isles are for serious that a jewellers' protective warded via Siberia if so superscribed.

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society contemplated appealing to Congress.--Reuter's American Ser-i vice.

PEKING LEGATIONS

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Peking, Yesterday. Some excitement was caused early this afternoon, when the Legation police force, with the ex- ception of three men, struck with out warning.

The men have not made any de- mands, and have not yet given any reasons for striking.

ATLANTIC SCHEME

Dublin, Yesterday. Colonel FitzMaurice, whose re- tirement from the position of head of the Irish Free State Air Force was recently announced, states that he has allled himself to Important American financial interests and is working out a scheme for a Traus- Atlantic steamship service between Halifax and Galway with air ser vice extensions at each end.- Reuter.

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Canadian section, the Prince men- tloned that he intended to endea vour to go again to Canada in the near future.

The Queen afterwards returned to Bognor-British Wireless Ser- vice.

IN AUSTRALIA.

HECKLERS EJECTED FROM CONFERENCE

DELEGATE WITHDRAWS

Sydney, Yesterday. Thirty persistent interrupters have been ejected from the Indus- trial Peace Conference, which has been going on since December under Sir Wallace Bruce, and is similar to the conference initiated by Lord Eleven persons were asphyxiated Melchett in England. The hecklers by an escape of gas at a night ahel-ware particularly virulent against ter. Reuter.

Parls, Yesterday.

Frost Bursts Pipe

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Mr. McDonald, who is represent- ing the northern colllery proprie tors, shouting "This conferenca is The escape of gas which killed tomfoolery while 12,000 miners are the 11 persons was due to a pipe bursting owing to the frost-Reu-

ter,

IDOLATRY IN CHINA

locked out.

Mr. Jeffrey, the Labour Council's delegate, caused a further stir by withdrawing from the conference. His defection, added to the fact It is learned that some days

that the powerful Australian Work- lers Union declined ex initio to ago a deputation of police made

Nanking, Yesterday. participate, has weakened the con- charges against the foreign off- clala, which the Commission for "With a view to exterminating ference which consists of twenty the administration of the Legation superstitious beliefs and idolatry," employers' delegates and seventeen Quarter investigated and found to and preventing "illegal confisca-workers. The conference is the out- be unsubstantiated. They inform- tion of tamples by irresponsible come of the British Financial Mis- ed the deputation to this effect this local authorities," the Minister of sion. Rauter. morning, whereupon the strike the Interior Hsueh Tuk-pi, has

followed.

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ordered the formulation of "re- ALIENS IN CANADA Soldiers from the Legation gulations governing the conversion Guards are doing duty at all the of temples of idolatry into other ENTRY REFUSED TO UNITED Legation Quarter gates leading to wise useful and beneficial public

buildings."Router, the city.-Reuter.

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MEAN THEFT

WELL-DESERVED SENTENCE FOR THIEF

At the District Court, New Terri- tories, on Monday, a Chinese was sentenced to three months" bard labour, for robbery at Shataukok on February 12. The victim of the robbery was a widow named Lam Yea-tnul, 1ng in an unnumbered hut in Ping-chau-lo village.

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WOMAN GAGGED

DASTARDLY THEFT BY:""

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Sze Ting, a married woman living

ad the street door in answer to a knock and admitted three men, one of whom was armed with a danger. The men bound and gagged Sze Ting and then stole money and jewellers to the value of $68.

The woman who admitted the men

sent by the police to search the place for contraband, got her ta admit him. He stole $28 in money and a silver bangle worth $12, on the ground floor of No. 259, Lai had been staying at the house for The police were informed anl the chikok-road, reported to the police only two days prior to the robbery, thief was arrested a couple of days last night that at 11 p.m., a woman and she hit the place after the rob

occupying a cubicle in the flat open-bers did. later