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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936

HU HAN-MINS MOVEMENTS

Secretary Meets Press

ALL PREVIOUS RUMOURS CLEARED UP

Canton, To-day.

LAW AND JUSTICE IN GERMANY

Minister's Lecture In Poland

** CHINA. MAIL" SPECIAL

Berlin, To-day. The Reich Minister without Portfolio, Dr. Franck, went from Berlin to Warsaw on Monday.

BOXER FUNDS IN CHINA

Conference Held At Nanking

SEVERAL RESOLUTIONS

PASSED

Nanking, To-day. The rumour to the effect that He will deliver a lecture ca

Several minor resolutions were conference Mr. Ha Han-min will remain in Law and Justice in National-So- passed at the fourth Canton for

an indefinite period cialist Germany" at the invitation of the representatives of the dif- was proved to be unfounded, ac-of the Society for the Promotion ferent Boards for administeriny cording to his private secretary, of International Co-operation on the returned Boxer Indemnity Mr. Wang Yeung-chung, who re- Intellectual Fields.Trans-Ocean funds, which was convoked by the vealed the truth in an interview Service.

Executive Yuan yesterday. with the press yesterday.

“Mr. Ho will return to Hong

Kong," declared Mr. Wang, “after

Referring to the proposal that greater porton of the Sino-American and Sino-French Boxer funds should be i

a brief stay of another few days" ROMAN PRIEST vested in domestic productive en-

The secretary also trade an assur- ance that the veteran Kuomintang leader will proceed to the capital to assume his duties shortly, but

the date of his sailing has not yet

been fixed.

SENTENCED

terprises, it was decided that the representatives of the China Foundation for the Promotion of

Alleged Distribution Of Culture and Education and the

Marxist Pamphlets

** CHINA MAIL * SPECIAL

Berlin, To-day. The Catholic Priest Keuter was

China-France Mixed Commission present yesterday should approach their respective Boards to make concrete plans

Other Proposals

Mr. Wang admitted his ignor-! ance of the report that Mr. San Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, will come South to hasten Mr. Hu's departure. This was sentenced here yesterday by the Concerning the proposal sub- also denied by Mr. San himself. People's Court to two years' im-mitted by the Ministry of Educa- The bleak cold winter compell-prisonment, after having been tion that the Sino-British, Sino- ed Mr. Hu to postpone his trip found guilty of having distributed American, Sino-French and Sino- for the north so as to escape the inflammatory Marxist pamphlets Belgian Commissions should in- unfavourable weather, although of the worst description.

crease their appropriations for he has been in high spirits since

One of the pamphlets contained promoting education in China, it his recuperation in Europe-Cena prayer inveighing against the was decided that the Ministry of tra. News Agency.

Government in the approved man-Education should directly ap-

pro-proach various organs for funds.

NOTED SPORTSMAN

PASSES

Once Dublin's Chief Of Police

EX-HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPION

́OF BRITISH ARMY

ner of

•

Marxiest anti-God paganda.—Trans-Ocean Service.

MAN'S DEATH

MYSTERY

Poisoning Case Suspected

· Flymouth.

Another proposal was also sub-j mitted by the Ministry of Educa- tion to the meeting that the Sino- British, Sino-French and Sino- American Boards should make larger grants to the Universities of Yurman and Kwangsi starting! from the next calendar year. It! was decided that special attention should be devoted by the three above-mentioned organs to develop

A post-mortem examination was higher education in the two south- Lieut-colonel Sir Walter Edge to have been made on John Scott. Western provincial universities. worth-Johnstone, who was Dab aged 30, of Kelly Green, Saint Central News Agency. lin's Chief Commissioner of Police Kew Highway, Bodmin, Cornwall; 1915-23, has died. He was knight-who died in hospital here. ed in 1924.

Scott was taken ill with internal A great athlete himself, Sir pains on Boxing Day and was Walter did all he could' to promote brought to Plymouth by ambulance physical fitness in others by writ- the following day. He died eight ing books and instructing classes. hours later and an official at the He played Eugby for Dublin hospital stated that death was due University and Sandhurst He to arsenical poisoning.

£3 PAINTING.

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Lost Masterpiece By Frans Hals

FINDER'S PROFIT OF 100,000 PER CENT.

was amateur heavyweight cham The post-mortem was to have pion of the Army in 1894 and then been carried out by Dr. Eric amateur champion of England and Wordley, a Plymouth pathologist. Ireland

Pending the result the hospital He was amateur sabre champion authorities refused to give szy information.. It was in 1898 and 1900, and won many further

A Brighton man who, some time! trophies for his skill with foils understood, however, that neither ago, bought an "oil painting in and bayonet. He also went in for the Plymouth police nor the Corn-heavy moulded gilt frame" for £3, wall county police suspected foul sold it last month at Christie's for ericket, fishing and shooting.

2,800 guineas--a prefit of nearly 100,000 per cent.

He served in the Army in India. play at the time.

in West Africa and in Ireland. Later he commanded the 4th Bat- tabion Royal Irish Regiment.

He died at his London home in Regent's Park-terrace, N.W.

WATER SUPPLY OF

JERUSALEM

Age-Old Menace Of Drought Removed

Jerusalem.

TANGLED PLEAS

IN COURT

Motorist "Not Guilty," Then “Guilty”

He said that when he bought the picture at an auction, after some strenuous bidding in shilling and half crown advances, he found 1892, it was bought for £30 as on the back a note stating that, in

the work of John Phillip, BA

When he took it to Christie's, When Humphrey E. Wies, of however, Sir Alec Martin recog The Drive, Belmont, was summon-nised it as a little masterpiece by ed at Mortlake recently for ex-Frans Hals, akin in style to one ceeding the speed limit, one soli in the National Gallery of Dublin, citor rose and said "Not guilty," of which Sir Alec is a trustee. It and another said “Guilty." Wiles represents two jolly little Dutch The problem of drought in the at the time was not present, and fisherboys at Scheveningen. Holy City of Jerusalem, which has an adjournment was granted to

Dealers "Play Ostrich” agitated rulers since the time of enable the solicitors to clear up Although" advised that his “And” Pontius Pilate, has been solved by the tangle.

would probably be warmly wel- British engineers.

Immediately one of the solici-comed in the London saleroom, the From to-day water will flow intotors had left the court, Wiles ap buyer decided not to attend the Jerusalem's western reservoir peared and the remaining solicitor sale. He missed some interesting from the head-waters of a coastal acted for him. Previously he had bidding. river named Rasel-Ain.

pleaded "not guilty,” but now baj After Mr. Gordon Hannen, the The water will be brought said "Guilty."

auctioneer, had called for an open- through 31 miles of eighteen-inch Wiles, who was stated to have ing bid of £300, it was: some time steel piping from the springs to driven at 55 miles an hour, was before a call of £100 was made Jerusalem. There are four pump-{fined £5.

The dealers were playing ostrich ing stations with a reservoir at

nanal. Soon they were agog, yet such was their assumed hesitancy that successively £800, $1,700,

each station.

There were delays in the con- struction of the pipeline.

The water has to be pumped to an al- titude of 2,700 feet-Reiter

· HUGE ESTATE OF BLIND EARL

Death Duties Amount

To £1,108,823

23

RESTORATION OF $1,000, $1,200, £1,250,

MEMORY

Secrets Revealed By Drugs

£2,000, £2,200 and £2,500 seemed to be a certain winning post.

-Throughout the course Miss de Casseres, acting for her father, stayed well The Dutch dealers kept spurting, but in the end the Dr. J. Stephen Horsley, Senior representative of Messrs Spink Assistant Medical Officer, Dorset and Son had the final call at Mental Hospital, says in a letter to 2,800gs

Those days aTS-OVEL,

(1845-88).

GENERAL CHANG IN MANKING

the Lancet, that there are drugs There was a time when works which will facilitate not only the by Frane Hals used to be attribut The Earl of Dysart, the blind divulgence of carefully guardeded to that capable British artist, earl, who died in November last secrets but also the restoration of Frank Hall, - RA [left: 22:104,311, on which estate forgotten memories. [duty of £1,008,823 has been -paid. Dr. Horsley has experimented

His bequests included one year's with various drugs and saya. salary for each five years of ser- "The resulting willingness of vice to each person employed by the patient, the release of inhibi Nanking. To-day. General him. To his niece, the Countess tions, and the ability to recall Chang Hsueh-liang arrived bere of Dysart, be left one half of the experience, recent or remote, from Shanghai by his private Boe- residue abacintely. The remain-makes- analysis relatively simple ing plane yesterday. Shortly after |ing" half; he left for the purchase and speedy. lot. reebold - property in England skim obtain

be settled upon the line of heirs levan

the phy-his arrival he exiled on General

of re- Chiang Ka ich he would progress of

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