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MADAME HANAU

Walked Out of Hospital to Waiting Car

GAVE HERSELF UP

Paris, Yesterday.

Papers Missing

Paris, Later.

The police are investigating the Loralon, Yesterday.

escape of Madame Hanau. It has Reports published by the West been discovered that she dropped Indian Sugar Commission headed by the from the window with a sheet not Labour Peer, Lord Oliver, and Sir belonging to the hospital and walked Francis Watts on the Mauritius in-

out of the gates and entered a walt- dustry, upon which the Government's policy is

ang private car, which took her to based. recommends single purchasing agency to purchase a place where she called a taxi cab. all sugar for United Kingdom Imperial sugar at £15 per ton elf. and other sagar at market price, and mends that the British preference on Imperial sugar should be raised on soon as possible to four shillings eight pence per cwt. watts. Further, the Commis sion recommends for the Mauritius Government a grant for at least five years equal to the difference between the general cost of production, estím ated at £13 per ton, and an average [selling price.

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NO "RED" FIGHT LEFT IN TROTZKY

EX-LEADER OF REVOLUTION BEGS FOR KINDNESS

LIFE IN DANGER

Berlin, Yesterday. Trotzky's condition in Con- stantinople is much worse. Не has telegraphed to friends in Ger

many and elsewhere that the doctors have not the slightest hope of Baving his life unless he can take a drastic cure in Germany or France. His friends accordingly have ap pealed to the German And other Governments for permisalen for Trotzky to undergo a cure, saying which that he is prepared to pledge absten- the Hanaus tion from political activities, which

dis pledge, they say, is scarcely neces papers

The police sary as Trotzky is completely broken

Ma-down mentally and physically. how

the hour Reuter.

escape

The Minister of Justice's morn- ing mail included a key belonging to a cupboard in the Public Pre secutor's Omce, from papers relating to Investment Trust appeared last night. are investigating dame Hanau spent from the time of her from the hospital until she arriv- ed at the St. Lazare prison.

the Badget, but declares that while Hanau, with four male associates.

there is duty on sugar preferences will be maintained, and adds that the Gov- ernment is not prepared to impose on Great Britain the burden of contribut- ing millions sterling annually to Colonial sugar industries, which would be the case if the, reports were acted upon.--Reuter.

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Ho 1p (19), an earth coolic employed by the Wing On Loong | firm of contractors, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital at 4.20 p.m., yesterday in a grave con- dition suffering from a fractare of the skull. The injury was re- ceived through a quantity of debris falling on him from a height of 70 feet whilst he was engaged with others in demolishing a house at the junction of Garden and Bowen Roads,

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Sze Ngan Chan, a coclie, Mong

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A widow and, Yau Heem, unemployed man of 58 years. were produced be- fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on three separate charges of taking part in the selling of a a sum of Chinese girl (12) for $175 on December 18.

Det.-Sergeant D. Fitches applied for a remand.

The defendants were accordingly remanded for week, ball being granted in the sum $2,000, $500, and $500, respectively.

Mr. Hugh-Jones appeared for the third defendant.

PALESTINE POLICY

May Be Decided by the Government

LAST YEAR'S DISORDERS

Rugby, Yesterday.

The Premier was asked in the House of Commons whether the

Government had recorded the major questions of policy in Palestine as outside the terms of reference of the Committee which has been is- vestigating last year's disorders.

The Premier replied, "The major for the questions of policy are

It was Government to determine. announced in September last that when the report of the Committee had been received the Government would consider along what lines within the

terms of the mandate the future policy of Palestine could be directed. That question the Government will consider, but I cer- tainly am not prepared to say that their conclusions will not be affected by the report of the Committee."

Replying to further questions Mr. MacDonald said that after the Government had studled the report they would consider whether to set up a Royal Commission in connec- tion with the future of Palestine or to give a decision themselves on the Bubject. British Wireless Service.

MUI-TSAI CASE

Mistress Charged with Cruelty

A charge of ill-treating her mul. tsal, named Lai Ngan, by boating her with firewood on March 22, was brought against a married Chinese woman of 105 Woosung Street, at the

this Kowloon Magistracy

morning.

The case was fixed for hearing on Saturday, at 10.30 a.m.

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