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LADY MOUNTBATTEN PIERPONT MORGAN

WINS ACTION.

Sued Publishers For Libel.

́REFUSES DAMAGES.

BREAKS ANKLE. -

Stepped Into Hole On Own Estate.

RUSH RESCUE TO SUBMARINE.

Gold Salvage Ship Will Help.

FRENCH CRAFT FOUND.

New York, Yesterday. Mr. John Pierpont Morgan, fa-

Cherbourg, Yesterday. mous international financier, frac tured his ankle through stepping in The Brat-class French submarine hole at his Long Island estate. Promethee, which sank during a He is now walking on crutches surface trial yesterday, has been and thus may have to postpone his located in 75 metres of water, north by Lady Louis Mountbatten, in proposed visit to England this of Cape Levi, a few miles from the High Court.

London, Yesterday. A scandalous paragraph in the weekly newspaper "People," re- flecting on an unnamed society woman, has led to a libel action

month-Reuter.

The paragraph stated that a woman, highly connected and JAPANESE TALKIES. immensely rich, associated with

a coloured man to become the talk of the West End. The pair were caught in compromising circumstances, whereupoh she was given the hint from a quar- ter impossible to ignore, to clear out of England for a couple of years.

BERLIN EXHIBITION.

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Cherbourg.

The skipper stated that he was

There are 66 people aboard, and the Italian salvage steamer Artiglio, has left the sunken Egypt off the Ushant, where she has been salvag- ing gold, and is hastening to the scene. Strong currents are expect- Berlin, May 26. Japanese films have been seened to impede rescue operations. in. Europe before, but now the first "I Am Lieutenant du Mesnil, Japanese talkie has

its Commander of the Promethee. My appearance. This by the way, submarine has just sunk." Mr. Norman Birket, K.C., in is due to the happy initiative of

This was the dramatic utterance opening the hearing announced a the "UFA" which once more thus sertlement had been reached. testifies to its interest in matters gasped out to the skipper of the The defendants, Odhams Press cultural and incidentally renders fishing boat "Yette" by one of the and the Editor of "People," apo notable servico to international men he picked up, and was the first:

18 a short of intimation of the tragedy. logised and would pay all costs. understanding. It The plaintiff refused the heavy film trilogy. The first part deals damages which the defendants with life in Japan one thousand fishing when he heard desperate were willing to pay. Counsel years ago, the second, during the added the plaintiff had never met glorious period of the Samurai calls for help, and, climbing up the mast, saw, seven dots in the the man, believed to have been knights, and the third in our own

water. He succeeded in saving all| referred to. — Reuter.

day.

seven men, who wore in the last The reception awarded this film by the Berlin public has been into tears after their ordeal.

Some burst stages of exhaustion. one of sympathetic interest rather than of enthusiasm. Particularly Commander du Mesnil is reported as regards the third, or modern to have declared the catastrophe was instalment; where the contrast be inexplicable. Some mistake must) tween the oldtime spirit of the have been made, for the submarine. race and the matter-of-fact atmos-iwas sailing normaly on the surface, phere of our machine age is not with 10 men on the bridge, when acute enough to hold the essence! suddenly he felt the vessel plunge of real drama yet pronounced, beneath his feet. She disappeared enough to be disturbing. But the in a few seconds, in 160 feet of first two parts are full of poetry water. Á body of 4,000 Anti-Manchukuo and beauty, redolent with the

There were on board a crew of troops and Red Spears have oc- romance of old Japan. cupied Hengtaobotze after a twelve The acting is so dramatic in all 49, and 17 engineers and workmen.

The search for the sunken craft hours engagement with 150 Russian three parts that no titles or sub- defenders, who besides their rifles titles are necessary. Though the was continued throughout the night, had only one cannon and three ma-language is of course incomprehen- and success came in the early mor- chine guns.

sible to all but a very few of the ing-Reuter. Traffic between Imienpo and spectators, the action is thorough- Hallin is interrupted as the railway ly clear, and the spectator is track is destroyed at several points, never for one moment at sea. --Reuter.

That is more than can be said for ΟΣ American many e European talkie these days, when it is seen and heard outside the country of ita production.

CHINESE CAPTURE HENGTAOHOTZE.

Handful of Russian Defenders.

Harbin, Yesterday,

QUEST FOR SOVIET AID DENIED.

· Manchuria War Is Mere Myth.

HOPE LEADS IN KING'S CUP AIR RACE.

(Continued from Page 1.) blue, and fitted with a 120 H. P. Gipsy III. Engine.

IRISH DUTIES BILL PASSED.

(Continued from Page 1.).

Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, Secre- tary for the Dominions, said that before making the House to pass the bill, the Government had satisfied themselves that they had exhauste devery

means of reaching a settlement. He re Nanking, Yesterday."

called the decision of the Imper ial Conference in support of arbi- With reference to the Japan- Each pilot, in order to compete in tration being limited to an Em- ese news agency report from this year's event, had to possess pire Court and said that although Harbin alleging that the Chin- more than 100 hours flying experi-payments were governed by trea- ese Government will ask Soviet ence, and his machine was required ties, the Government were pre- Russia for active support in the to do a minimum of 110 miles hour-pared to submit the question for recovery of Manchuria after ly.

arbitration by such a tribunal. Sino-Soviet diplomatic relations

Light' aeroplanes. figured pro- Mr. Thomas, winding-up the have been resumed, a spokesman minently, but Pusa Moths had debate, said that the Govern- from the Foreign Office formally serious competition in nine Comment's repeated offer to submit denied the report this afternoon.per Swifts, probably the smallest the controversy over the land an-

He characterised the entire machines in world.

nuities to arbitration, by an Im- statement as utterly without At the end of to-day's flying the perial tribunal was conveyed in foundation, including the fact lead was held by W. L. Hope in a writing to Mr. De Valera yester- that the Soviet informed the Fox Moth, Gipsy III., whose time day. If Mr. De Valera accepted Chinese delegate at Moscow, Mr. was 15. hours, 14 minutes, 4T the conditions for an Empire tri- Wang Tseng-shi, that negotia-seconds. The Prince's machine was bunal, then the Government tions between the two countries, second, it's time being 15 hours 28 would not operate the Duty Bill. would be resumed in the autumn. minutes 22 seconda-British Wire-Reuter and British Wireless

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