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PROHIBITION LIFTED IN PRAGUE

Prague, To-day.

With lifting of the prohibition of political meetings which

ex-

pired on Sunday and the formal announcement that the commun-

REFRIGERATOR IN MORTUARY

A large refrigerator, to cost $4,000, is to be installed at the mortuary of the Queen Mary Hos- pital. In asking the Finance Com- mittee to vote the Sum, Govern- ment says that tho refrigerator is especially necessary in medico. legal cases.

al elections will be held in rough- FRENCH

ly 2500 communes on May 29, the centre of the political gravity has been shifted to domestic politics.

The agitation for the elections is in full swing.

The Czecho-Slovak National

agree

FRENCH ADMIRAL *AT MACAO

Macao, To-day. The French sloop, Dumont D'Urville, arrived from Hong Kong yesterday morning.

in

Council's appeal to the parties to concentrate the forces and to On board, ⚫ was H.E. Vice- candidates has not had the hoped in joining the list of the

result.

No fewer than 21 party lists have been submitted and the Czechs alone split into 18 groups.

"UNION" SPLIT

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1938.

CROWN CLAIM FOR BREACH OF

BOND

Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant Attorney-General, successsfully claimed for $1,000 against Yip Kai-cheung and Yip Ka-cheung for breach of a surety bond, în the Supreme Court to-day.

Defendants were represented by Mr. C. A. S. Russ.

Mr. Williams stated that defen- dants were sureties in a bond. be- tween the Crown and Li Sang, licensee of the Wei Lam Boarding House. In October last, Li applied to the S.C.A. to become licencee of

chief of the French squadron Admiral, Le Bigot, commander-in-a boarding house under the Asiatic Emigrants Ordinance, 1915, and the Boarding House Ordinance, 1917. China, on an official visit to H.E.

Every applicant for a licence was Dr. Artur Tamagnini Barbosa.

required to enter into a bond with Governor of Macao.

Courtesy salutes were exchanged, two sureties in the sum of $1,000, Lt. Macedo Pinto, A.D.C. to the and the licenceé was to observe all Governor, visited the Dumont rules and regulations. D'Urville and conveyed to the Ad- miral, the respects of the Governor

The "National Union," that is the right wing block formed by the late Premier Kramarcz and other of Macao.

"The National Union," "Czecho-Slovak National Demo-

crats,"

Caseiro Alves.

SIGNED BOND Defendants signed a bond with

mises.

and

Party leaders for the elections in At ten a.m., the French Admiral the applicant on November 2 last, 1935, is in a state of complete dis-landed and inspected a guard of at the S.C.A. Li was given a copy solution, having split into four honour of the Infantry Company, of the Boarding House rules

under the command of Capt. this had been displayed in the pre- groups, namely:

According to the Ordinance, the himself licencee must not absent from the Boarding House without the permission of the S.C.A. Per- mission was frequently asked

On March 16 and seldom refused. last, as the result of information, The Dumont D'Urville left for police were sent but Li Sang had Trans-Hong Kong at six this morning.-left four days earlier.

Our Own Correspondent.

"The National League" and "The Anti-Henlein

Bloc,"

Citizen-

The last named of these groups as its name indicates, has no other programme than to "fight against the Henlein movement.". —

Ocean.

At an official luncheon at Gov- ernment House, the leading civilian and military officials attended.

H.E. the Governor was the guest of honour at the official dinner on board the French sloop, given by H.E. the Admiral.

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When defendants, were asked to pay $1,000 they denied liability. Mr. Williams submitted that the sum was recoverable in whole.

Mr. Russ admitted all facts, but said his two points were that the figure was an arbitrary one fixed without reference to any loss and that the Crown must rely on the act of William II, for the bond came within its scope.

EQUITY NOT INVOLVED

His Lordship said that what was left of this Act was merely pro- cedural. Mr. Russ then asked the Court to interfere as to the rea- sonableness of the penalty and to exercise its jurisdiction in equity." He urged that without loss the Crown could recover no more than nominal damages.

Mr. Williams replied that if equity were to be taken into con- sideration, the Court would be obliged to place some figure. în every section of the Ordinance. It had been laid down that the sure-: ties were liable for the amount fixed.

Mr. Justice Lindsell gave judg- ment with costs, and said the Court could not interfere with the statutory penalty..

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KEELOX RIBBONS & CARBONS.

The ban on German newspapers, which is in force in Czechoslova-

An allotment in t the 1988 Esti- kia, has now been extended to a

mates of $940 for the conveyance number of Austrian dailies, and of patients across the harbour by weeklies.

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ex-

The Austrian papers prohibited ambulance has been almost

hausted in the first four months of include the "Neue Freie Presse", the year as a result of the smallpox the "Reichspost,' the Neues epidemic, and a further vote of $1,- Wiener Journal," the "Das kleine 200 is to be asked of the Finance Volksblatt" and the "Neuigkeits- Committee on Thursday. weltblatt."

The Czech Postal Authorities.

Printed and Published for the Pro-

have been notified that the Czech prietors, The Newspaper Enterprice Mails may not carry the banned Ltd., by GORDON CADE BURNETT, at 8A, papers.-Trans-Ocean.

Wyndham Street; Victoria Hong Kong.