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Religion In Ethiopia

Important Move By Vatican

Rome, To-day, The Roman Catholic Church Has taken an important step with a view to establishing its authority in Eastern Africa.

A meeting of the Council of Cardinals has decided that all ter- ritory under Italian rule in East Africa is to be divided into five vicarates, whose frontiers will coincide with that of the Italian administrative districts and will be coordinated under a supreme Legateship.

Greek Orthodox Church.

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15,

BANKINGNEUN MARCONI EXECUTIVE,

Storm Delays Start Of

Earheart Flight

Oakland (Calif.), To-day. Miss Amelia Earhart, (Mrs. Putnam), the famous American aviatriz, yesterday postponed the start of her proposed round- the-world fight owing to a violent storm.

off

She will take (Monday) if conditions prove-Reuter

BANISHEES

to-day im

Sentence Passed On Five Men

COMING HERE

Mr. FS. Hayburn Due

On Thursday

-Among the passengers arriving in the Colony by the s.s. Cathay": on Thursday is Mr. F. S. Hayburn, Foreign Envoy to the Marconi group of companies.

This group comprises companies established in all the principal coun- tries of the world, and affiliated or subsidiary to Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., of England. Mr. Hayburn is at present” engag- ed on an important business mis- sion in the Far East, and is ex- pected to remain in the Colony for some little time, and wilt afterwards proceed to Shanghai.

STOP PRESS

TEL. 20022 or 33993

The barbed

fortifica

Mr. Hayburn began his business career in the Telegraph Branch of the British Post Office, and was tions, armed guards and "shoot the first British Government Tele-

Vicars will be entrusted with the task of administering the spiritual

Admitting six previous convic- needs of the Roman Catholic

tions for breaches of the Deporta population in Abyssinia, while tion Ordinance, Ho Wing-hing was those Abyssinians who are members sentenced to three years' imprison- of the Coptic Church will be allow-ment by the Chief Justice, Sir At-graph Engineer in the Orange Free to kill" manslaughter. case ter- ed to continue their adhesion to the holl MacGregor, at the Criminal/State after the South African war.]

Sessions this morning for return-He joined the Marconi Company in minated to-day when Cheng Sik- Hitherto the Roman Catholics in ing from banishment after he had 1904, and has since held various

positions in British and Continental kee, was sentenced to East Africa were subject to abeen banished for life on December

companies of the group. He has Papal Legate for Egypt, Palestine, 13 last-

thus been associated with the de- imprisonment. Arabia, and Trans-Jordan.--Trans-

Fifteen months' hard labour was

velopment of wireless communica- Ocean

imposed on Wong Kan, Lam Yam

In passing sentence His and Kong Ming for similar offention almost from its inception, and has played a prominent part in the ces. They returned to the Colony organisation of the marine services: ship stated that accused should con- COUNTERFEIT COINS before the expiration of a 10-year- He has on various occasions accom-

fterm

years

Lord-

sider himself very lucky that he was

Two unemployed". Chinese from Tse Kam-tong was given 18 panied British delegations to the in- Kongmoon were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment when he ad-ternational conferences which so months' hard labour by the Chief mitted returning to the Colony largely regulate the operation of all not charged with murder as Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at after having been banished for 10. the Criminal Sessions this morning years on July 18 last. for possessing 300 counterfeit 10-

-offence®

be

classes of wireless communication.

had committed, accord- Mr. Hayburn is a director of several companies in the Marconi group, and prior to his appointmenting to his opinion, amounted to de

cent coins and 299 similar coins, WAS THE BUG NON-as Foreign Envoy he was for sever- liberate murder.

respectively.

Both accused, Au Yin-sau and Au Yin-chuen, pleaded guilty." The Crown was represented by Mr. E. H. Williams.

PLEA ALTERED

RESIDENT?

Judge Decides That It Was

Facing a charge of manslaughter found by a woman at the Criminal Sessions this was morning, a 21-year-old painter, was Wong Chuen, pleaded guilty, but his plea was not accepted by the Chief Justice.

Sir Atholl MacGregor remarked that in the interest of the accused, he would not accept the plea, but would enter a plea of not guilty on his (accused's) behalf.

The case will be heard during the next few days. Mr. E. H. Wil- liams, Assistant Attorney General, respresented the Crown.

Ice Breaker Loss Sequel

Moscow, To-day.

al years Managing Director of the Marconi International Marine Com- munication Co., Ltd

Apart from his business activi ties Mr. Hayburn has taken a pro- minent part in local government affairs in England. He is accom- panied on the present occasion by Mrs. Hayburn..

HEROIN PILLS

Accused Gets Three

Years

The question of whether a bug an hotel bed "resident or non-resident" discussed by Mr. Justice Hawke at Liverpool Assizes.

Miss Ada Bircher, of Denton- drive, Wallasey, a young business

claimed damages for. woman, breach of warranty against the Castle Hotel (Bangor) Ltd., Ban-

Three years hard labour was gor, North Wales. She alleged that posed on Lai Ming by the Chief she suffered from bites while stay-Justice at the Criminal Sessions ing at the hotel.

s morning for being in posses Announcing judgment with

sion of 15,800 heroin pills at No. costs for the hotel company, Mrs, Portland Street, on Febr Justice Hawke said: "I have not

Hast been satisfied whether this bug

A Chinese woman, Leung Ho, was resident or non-resident. I who was charged with Lai Ming,feated W. Kershaw and J. Leitch am inclined to say non-resident. was discharged, when she pleaded 3/2. No one has seen his father or not guilty. Mr. M. J. Abbott, AB- W. A. Stewart and J. D. Thomson mother, and if he was not an sistant Crown Solicitor, appeared/defeated E. W. Loveless

only child ters.

this

his brothers and sis

for the CrownL

"It has not been proved to my GAOL FOR FOOTPAD satisfaction that the defendants were harbouring a bug," think it was an accident.

Kowloon Golf Club

Results

“Open. Foursomes" Cat Round)

Dennis and TD. Paton de

Groves 4/3.

FC Barry and C. G. Anderson de- feated W. C. Simpson and JF. Smedley 2/1 “Hong-Foursomes" The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, v. Ko

The events that led up to the sinking of the Russian ice-breaker “Semerka" in the Black Sea, with the loss of the entire crew of 36,

An attack with violence on a 50-1 F. G. Barry and E 0 Mi have now found their sequel in the After Miss Bircher's evidence year-old seamstress, Lau Mai,

Docks.

de-

in feated J. McKelvie, and J. & Leitch +5/3 and will meet the winners: Dairy Farm Co., (J. D. Thomson and T. D.

at the

arrest of a number of employees of that she was bitten at least 40 Bowen Road had its seemorning. Patson) and Wilkingour Heywood and

the Black Sea shipping organisa- times, Mr. Justice Hawke remark Criminal Session

tion

this

ed: I suppose a bug does not when 39-year-old Chan Kwai, ad- Clarke, (EW. Loveless and A. Read) Among the arrested are a num-come within the principle of the mitted assaulting the woman with in the Final ber of prominent personalities, in-dog which is entitled to only one the intent to rob, and was sentenc cluding, the head of the Black Sea bite. shipping cartel, head of the Odessa port administration and two har cher: bour masters.Trans-Ocean

entitle

ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF REVOLVER

For possessing a

five rounds o

Lawful ant

labour by the Ch

Criminal

Session

Mr. M. 7. Abbott Solicitors,

rower

fion

MZ A

led to 15 months hard labour by the C.B.A, BEAT HMS. DUNCAN Miller, for Miss Bir Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac-

The Central my lord. Bugs are not

Gregor.

Mr. EH. Williams, Assistant beat HMS. Attorney General appeared for the in the

Tournament yes

(8)

Crown

HARD LABOUR FOR THEET

Eighteen

was impo