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HOME TRAFFIC.

CONGESTION AGGRAVATED BY

COACHES.

Rugby, Yesterday. Draft regulations have been pre- pared by the Transport Minister by which motor coaches will be entire ly excluded from a large area of Central Loudon, - In an extended the Marble area stretching from Arch to the Tower Bridge, and from King's Cross to the River, they will be excluded during certain bours.

The recent increase in the num ber of long distance coaches which

traverse Central London has con- siderably aggravated the traffle congestion. British Wireless Ser

vice.

FLIGHT TO CAPE.

SERVICE 'PLANES TO TRANSPORT TROOPS.

Rugby, Yesterday. Three Vickers-Victoria aeroplanes of the 216th Squadron stationed at Heliopolis will begin a service flight to Cape Town on January 12 The machines are of the same type which evacuated Europeans from Kabul during the troubles in Af- ghanistan last year.

TRANSPORT OF GOLD OPIUM OFFENDERS.

BY AIR.

Cairo to Become the

World's Centre.

BROKERS SCEPTICAL

DRUG TIED AROUND ARM OF ACCUSED.

Two oplum offenders were brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell! this morning at the Central Magis- tracy, Revenue Officer A. W. Grim- mitt prosecuting Pleading guilty: to the unlawful possession of 28 taels of raw opłum,.a Chinese-was fined $600 or,-in; default, three! months' jail. Defendant stated that he was taking the drug to Swatow for somebody. :-R. O, Grimgilt paid that the oplum was tied round the man's legs, when he was arrcated at the Tung On Wharf.

London, Yesterday, Will the new London-Cape Town air route rovolutionise the world's economic geography?

Such is the question being debated in London

In the second case, a Chinese ad- fa consequence of the bid the airmitted being the possessor of 4 taels route is expected to make for the of

prepared contract to transport gold from the Rand mines..

It is argued that the air route can offer a big advantage through the quicker journey by saving the interest charge on gold in transit.. Arising from this idea is the suggestion that Cairo will become the world's centre for gold die- tribution and thus oust the Bank of England from the world's pre- dominance,...

are for

nan-Government

opium, and was fined $400, with the alternative of three months' hard labour. Mr. Grimmitt stated that two tasla of the drug ware tied round each arm of defendant, who was arrested in Connaught Road. Central.

MONEY LEFT.

CHINESE CASHIER'S

ESTATE.

Letters of Administration de bonis non in the estate of So Yung- shang, or Sang, alias Su Yung-sing, a cashier, who died at 108, Kowloon

London bullion brokers the present sceptical. One of them In the course of their flight the In an interview to-night remarked machines will go through troop facetiously, "It is very much in the carrying exercises át three of air." He added that "dealing in Chai. on October 12, 1928, have Where been granted to So Kam-shau (or their halts and this will be the first geld is a very skilful job. occasion on which African nativa is there a rennery in Cairo and Kam-sau) alias So Watching The troops have been transported by where are the Rothschilds and the value of the estate is returned at

Bank?" air.

The machines are each fitted with two Napler-Lion 450 h.p. en-| gines and are each capable of carrying 23 soldiers and their equipment. With a full load they have a cruising speed of about 80 miles an hour and a range of nearly 500 miles. British Wireless Ser- |vice.

Gold Hunger,

$8,700,

On April 24, 1929, probate in the same estate was granted to So Wal- Sir Charles Addis's warning re- po, eldest son of testator, and sole garding the world's gold hunger, in executor. So Wal-po died on De- that the cember 18, 1929, leaving a portion which he pointed out world's credit structure is threa of the estate 'anadministered. So tened with complete collapse unless Li, widow of testator, has since r- the central bank devise in concert nounced all rights. -The estate a means of restoring Ita stability, was valued at $10,900 for original and that the locking up of nearly grant of probate. RED PROPAGANDA. three-fourths of the world's gold

CHINESE FOUND. WITH SEDITIOUS PAPER.

BRITISH PROPAGANDA

in the United States and France"BIG BILL'S" BOAST. seriously menaced the world's credit structure, has focussed at- tention on several new sources of aupply, the existence of which has Detective-Sergeant Kennedy this been reported during the past few days. It is worthy of note that at morning charged a Chinese before a meeting of the Panama Corpora-

world's requirements.”

" ERADICATED."

Chicago, Saturday. Mayor "Bill" Thompson has Mr. R. E. Lindsoll at the Central tion the Chairman stated: We announced that he is standing for Magistracy with the unlawful pos-hope to take a long step towards a fourth term of office at the elec session of a number of seditious assisting in fulfilling the pressing tion in February.

He claims that his previous documents, and asked

for a re- It is also reported that crowds pledges have been fulfilled, or mand of one week, on instructions of American unemployed have "nearly fulfilled."

They include from the C.D.I.

flocked to Nevada, where they are the restoration of Washington as In reply to his Worship Sergeant establishing a mushroom town a hero in public schools, and the Kennedy said that one document, called "Scotti Camp," lured by eradication of "British: propa- which related to Soviet Russia, unauthenticated stories of a gold ganda."-Reuter's American Ser- was found in a basket, which destrike.

vice.

fendant had the key to.. Another Another stampedo is foreshadow- document, relating to the Talkooed when, the winter is over, to Sales of National Mark beef in Dockyard and Sugar Refinery, was | Ontario, near the township of Ban London during the week ended found in a tea cosy.

nockburn, where gold is reported November 15 created a record, His Worship granted the re to have been discovered in com- 5.411 sides being sold, or 57 more mand, also fixed bail at $500, mercial quantities.—Reuter.

than the previous highest.

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