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PARIS PROTEST MEETING

Paris, To-day.

GERMAN GIVEN HONOUR

Berlin, To-day.

At the request of M. Sarraut, In connection with the celebra- Minister of Interior, the Paris La- tions of the 40th anniversary of bour Syndicate will hold its pro- her accession to the throne, Her test meeting to-day not in the open- Majesty, the Queen of Holland, air on the Place des Nations, as has appointed the chairman of the scheduled, but indoors in the "Velo- German-Netherlands Society, State drome d'Hiver", since the Minister Councillor Emil Helfferich, Grand feared that an open-air mass-meet-Officer of the Order of Orange- ing in one of the most densely po-Nassau. pulated areas might cause distur- bances.

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Trans-Ocean.

H.K. AIR MAIL.

London, To-day.

This meeting is convened for the. purpose of protesting · against modification of the 40-hour working | law. The Government is endea- vouring to nip the looming strikes in the bud. In a meeting of the

The Postmaster-General has an- Premier with miners from the nounced that all first-class mai! north of France, he was told tha' (letters, letter-packets and post- these miners would proclaim cards) for Hong Kong will in General Strike if their demands future be despatched by air as a for higher wages were not fulfilled. normal means of transmission. The same threat was convened to There will be two services week- the Premier from textile workers, ly from Britain to Hong Kong, the who declared that they} would service taking seven to nine days strike on September 12th, if their compared with three weeks demand for an increase of wages more by surface transport. Reu- by 12% were not fulfilled. In the ter. Jatter case 40,000 workers would be affected.

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The Marseilles dockworker ques- tion is not yet settled but negotia- tions are continuing, and for the time being the old regulations remain in force.

Trans-Ocean.

DISPENSARY LOSS

or

Chan Kim, aged 24, salesman, and Wong Ming, aged 20, office boy, were this morning remanded for. 72 Shan Wing, aged 6, was yester-hours by Mr. R. Edwards when day admitted to the Queen Mary charged with the theft of a large Fospital suffering from head in-quantity of medicine from the juries. He fell while jumping on

China Dispensary yesterday, and off a moving tramcar in Arsen-

Detective-Sergeant F. Nolan-is in al Street yesterday..

charge of the case.

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