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EXODUS OF MERCHANTS FROM BOMBAY

OVER 1,200 BAD CHARACTERS ROUNDED UP

SITUATION BETTER,-IN SPITE

OF FIGHTS.

LOCAL FORCES MOBILISED

Bombay, Yesterday.

Three persons were killed and 40 injured dur ing to-day's fighting, in addition to 12 injured who have since died, but the situation is generally greatly improved.

ROYAL DUTCH OIL PROFITS.

Net Income of Over Two Million Pounds.

London, Yesterday. The year end reports up to) December 31 of the Royal Dutch [Oil Companies, show a net income of 27,916,648 florins, after payment of dividends carried +forward 'of 2,252,358 forins.

Shell Transport Co. shows a net income, including a balance brought forward, of £2,807,152 after pay- Iment of dividends carried forward,

£198,000-Reuter.

TRAPPED. PASSENGERS

.Phillipar Scenes.

Djibouti, Yesterday. Tragic allegations have been Twelve hundred bad characters have been made by Mr. R. B. M. Myrhead, rounded up and over 20,000 people, mainly Indian spector at Hankow, who was travel- Assistant Customs and River In-

traders, left the city during the last few days in ling home with his wife. consequence of the riots.

Business is at a standstill except for the brisk by the Russian tanker Sovietskaia trade in British-made sun helmets, for which many Neft. He declares that the bulk- Hindus and Moslems are temporarily discarding heads at each end of the corridor their distinguishing fezzes and turbans.

They were landed here from the Andre Lebon after having been rescued

{giving access to the first class {staterooms on D deck were closed

discovered. Many passengers were

The Governor has ordered the mobilisation of almost immediately the fire was the local auxiliary force, also the Bombay Light Horse, composed of non-official Europeans Reuter:

FUNG MURDER CASE:

Hearing Adjourned to Wednesday Next.

SPANISH AIRMAN

OVERDUE

No News Since Landing at Mancay.

trapped inside; some escaped from the port holes but many were burn-

led to death:...

Hok the fire started, and the jspeed with which it travelled are the main problems to be solved, is the general view of preascom- ment on George Philippar dis- aster. The impression left by evi [dence is that the organisation aboard was strangely happy-go-lucky "and careless.

Trapped Behind Doors.

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The News Chronicle, London, in Details regarding the accused's No further news has been re themselves may have been too a leading article, says the sailors family affairs were heard in the Central Police Court yesterday celved of the young Spanish air busy fighting the fire to waken the afternoon, on resumption of the man, Senor Fernando Reiny passengers, but as it was, no one preliminary trial of Cheng Kwok- Loring, whose reported landing at was instructed to look after pas- Yau (20) son of a wealthy Ipoh Moncay, about 540 miles from Hong

sengers. In the event of such......an family, before Mr. Wynne-Jones,

emergency one would have · sup-

on

a charge of instigating the Kong, was received here at 4 p.m. posed that there would have been

| murder of George Fung, allas Fung on Thursday afternoon. Messages automatic regulations to see that

Hin, at Village Road on March 24. have been sent to Moncay from the

Tai Kwal-ching. a. Shanghai

amah, formerly in the employ of Spanish Consulate here, but no re-

Lai Ming-fay and Cheng Kwok-yau, ply has been made. cross-examined at great length by

Mr. G. K. Hall-Brutton, for the de

his final separation from Lai Ming.

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was trapped behind water- tight doors, If it were necessary to close them.

Whether in a new boat the furni- ture and fittings are specially-in- dammable, or whether the fire was

fence, stated that the accused, after USE OF U.S. BANK RESERVES. | drawn through the corridors as

fay, took another woman, Annie Au Into the house.

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New York, Yesterday.

though by a forced draught in/a] question on which the engineers and constructors will have something to

Final Figures

The whole of the afternoon's alt-A committes of bankers and in-say-enter. Adde e ting had been engaged in the dustrialists, headed by Mr. Owen cross-examination of the amah, and D. Young, has been formed to con

Aden, Yesterday. the hearing was adjourned to next sider means of making the funds

The final figures of the survivors Wednesday afternoon.

released by the Federal Reserve of the Georges: Philippar, tragedy Edward Zimmern, who was ex-Bank useful afirmatively in bus issued by the Messageries Mari- pected to give testimony, did not ness.

times total 688 which leaves 84 un- appear, but it is thought that he This announcement is made by accounted for. will be called at the next hearing, the Federal Reserve Bank, which The burnt out liner foundered per pointe oke that the access of bank last night after-drifting: 160 miles The forthcoming marriage Is an- ing reserves in the United States from the spot where the fre nounced of Patrick Hector Peter has reached the three hundred mil-started. She was gutted fore and Brown, mechanical engineer, Mong-lion dollar mark and form the ft. The salvage tug Preserver, Fok Fire Station, and Ethel Amy, basis for theoretical maximum watch went to the scene of the widow, of 843, North Szechuen credito

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