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FALL OF FRANC.

FOREIGN MINISTER'S

RESIGNATION.

FRANCE MUCH PERTURBED.

(THROUGH BETTER'S LOKNOT.].

LONDON, June 18th.

A fresh fall in the French franc yesterday from 166 to 174 to the has seriously disturbed publio opinion in France. This is attributed by correspondents in Paris to a vicious circle in which the inflation of currency leading to a rise in the cost of living will be followed by fresh' inflation.

BEW LOW RECORD.

TER, HONGKONG DAIL

THE BETTING TAX ALL CLAUSES OF BILL APPROVED BY COMMONS

(THROUGH REUTER'A AGKNOT.]"

LONDON, Jane 14th,

The House of Commons has passed all the clauses of the Bill dealing with the betting doty.

(BRITISH WIRELESS KIEVICH]

THE BETTING TURNOVER.

Ruoay, Jane 14th In the course of a debate on the betting tax in the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill supplemented his previous state ment regarding the possible revision of the

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THE RUSSIAN MONEY."

WEDNESDAY, JUNE

THE FIRST TEST#

FOREIGN SECRETARY REPLIERMATOH ABANDONED OWING TO

TO QUESTIONS.

HITISH VIEWPOINT,

Reay, June 14th. Sir Austen Chamberlain replied in the House of Commons to a Jories of quea from Russia tions respecting money sent to this country.

so

·UNCEASING RAIN,

"[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)

THE ENGLISHMAN IN

THE FAR EAST.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE AND THE REWARDS.

LONDON, Juad 14th. There was no play to-day at Nottingham in THE

TorkMatch between England - and Australis, on socount of rain,

Rain fell unceasingly all the morning, But the decision was deferred. The rain did not if, however, and no play was possible all day..

MATCH ABANDONED.

NOTTINGHAM, June 15th. Rain fell overnight, and this morning the

BUSSEX. WORCESTERSHIRE

THE ACTION AGAINST A SHANG- HAI NEWSPAPER,

VERDICT FOR DEFENDANTS. From the Shanghai Mercury of the 12th innt, we learn that many people"

PLEASANTNESS OF LIFE IN were present that morning in H.B.M.

ENGLAND.

{BY PATERFAMILIAR. ]` There must be many a married couple amongst the foreign community in China who, at some time, will have to decide the future caroor of a son.

It is the problem that leads to thi inevitable question: "Shall we bring hins out to China!" Would we, had no known all that we know now, have come out to this part of the world so will {ingly ↑ `

Supreme Court to hear the result of a most impudent attempt on the part of Lealie Ernest Haynes, a dismissed em- ployee, to obtain damages against this paper for wrongful dismissal," Judgo Peter Grain delivered a very full and comprehensive judgment.

Haynes was nom known in Hongkong.

woll-

He said that in conversations which he had had from time to time with the Russian Charge d'Affairs he had clearly stated that anti-British propaganda hera and elsewhere was one of the main ob stacles to any improvement in Anglo-Test match was abandoned. Ho said that originally he estimated, on Russian relations as long as it continu-

LONDON, June 1th By the renewed slump French francs advice given to him, that five per cent. ed. The British Government had always

But for the good work of Roy who batted reached the now low record of 179.20 would yield in a full year about £6,000,000. felt that the necesary conditions of suc

through the Sussex first innings without be compared with yesterday's clone of 172.25 Since then the Treasury had had an oppor cessful negotiations were, Bratly by defeated, the Southern county would hars Belgian francs were 175.19 and 108.68,tunity of Inspecting the actual books of some ceptance of the ordinary rules of inter- respectively.

of the greatest ins of Tart Commission national law by the Soviet Government, made a sorry display agaitint Worcestershire, agents, and the result was that the Govern- and secondly, an ssurance of good faith but though both he and Cox bowlod well, ment now estimated a turnover of all betting in negotiations such as would be provide viitors proved winners by six wickets. The Finance Minister, M. Raoul Paret has to be much nearer £300,000,000 thaned by an observance of casting agros The spores were;;

£200,000,000. That being so it was quite FINANCE MINISTER'S EXPLANATION.

clear they could realise the figure of £8,000,000 with a much lower rate of duty. He had state that policy of His Majesty's Gove Bowley, the Sussex first wicket man In common with many other Englishmen debts in Shanghai, and that many are PARIS, June 15th. M. Peret's resignation followed the therefore, considered whether the rate could sudden drop in the franc, A communiqué be reduced and whether differentiation might states that M. Poret explained that "in / be permitief between the rate charged on a would be served by detailed protests in was left largely to Bowles and Rogers, both that fortunes were made more easily.

reaigned.

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VINANCE MINISTER RESIONE, :

PARIR, June 18th.

the face of the rise of foreign currencies bet which was just made on the telephone and the absence of certain essential aid and the rate which was charged on s, bat

to him necessary to rendor possible a Parliamentary political formation corre sponding with the wishes of public opinion, which demands an effort of con cord to face the common danger.

the Government's purpose to raise at least £8,000,000 by s tax on betting.

Bossex: 119 and 97. Worcester: 194 and B3 (for & wkts).

ments. He had sought in the main to

ernment in its general terms, and had not considered that any useful purpose regard to particular instances.

scored 71 not out in the Bussox total of 119. In the absence of Roos, the Worcester attack

took 4 for 33

MATCHES RAINED GIF,

LONDON, June 15th. No balls were bowled in the Yorkshire «

After a great deal of reflection upon

turned out.

this subject I have come to the conclu sion that, in my own case, the answer 18 in the affirmative." Things have not ont sa I had expected. Wealth has not come as quickly as was hoped, my knowledge of life in the Far East was ail before I came out, but I did think

Somebody, in my presence, had called

Judge Grain, in giving Judgment for the defendants with costs, stated that Harnes admitted that he was "on the rocks" when defendants engaged him, that he had been convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court London; that be owed 4000 in Hongkong, and that he had debts in Malay States and Shanghai, and that he had beef frequently sued for still owing. He also admitted that Truth wrote articles about him calling him “

count of these articles.

scamp," "an unprincipled impecunious comparatively now additions to the county associated with the Fosters. Bowles took

adventurer," and adding that's a more A few days ago, however, just before five for 66, and Rogers four for 20. In Hongkong "a barrea rock." My frat impudent swindle has rarely-been per

second innings Bowles (left-hand medium)

petrated; and, observed his Lordship, on which the Government had the right made by a person who took the trouble to go he left for Geneva, hè had instructed the took 4 for 98, bringing his record for the impressions of the place as we steamed-

Bowley, took four Worcester wickets for into the harbour, were mixed. Delight, he took no action against Truth on se to count, which did not permit him to to the racecourse. But no iteration would British Charge d'Affairs in Moscow to match to B for 68.

On the evidence placed before me," full effectively his entire duty, it seemed bo contemplated which did not fally achieve inform the Soviet Government that His eleven runs in their first innings, and Cox amazement and wonder filled my mind.

stated his Lordship, I have no difficulty in coming to the conclusion, that the defendants had ample causs to dismiss the plaintiff for his conduct He had bean warned about his debts. As early as October 8th, 1924, the Managing Direc tor wrote to the plaintiff,!' It is rather annoying to see persons calling so fre- quently to dun you, when this is not your, official address. It is incumbent upon me to bring those matters to your notice."

MORE INDIAN RIOTING.

MOSLEMS AND BIKHS KILLED.

AND INJURED..

Eight Moslems were killed and 14 injured and nine Bikhs were lajured in riots at Rawalpindi. The grain market was des troyed, and there was much looting It appears that the trouble began between the Moslems and Sikhs owing to the suggested building of a cinoma in the vicinity of

mosque...

Military pickets are now stationed all over the city, which is well under control

- BIMLA, June 15th.

Considerable intercommunal riots co

FRENCH PRESIDENT. PROGRAMME FOR THREE DAYS”.

STAY IN ENGLAND.

RUGBY, June 14th. The programme of the State visit of M. Boumergue, French President, I now officially inued....

Majesty's Government could not pass over in silence the action of the Commis sariat of Finance in giving special authorisation for the transfer to this country of fanda destined for the support of the general strike. The Charge, d'Affaires was to point out that the gen eral strike was an illegal and uncon- stitutional act and one constituting a serious threat to established order and that the special action taken by the Soviet Commisariat of Finance in its favour did not conduce to the friendly settlement which the Soviet Government professed to desired.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Les- der, asked whether the money transmit ted had been transmitted from Soviet sources or resources, or merely was by the sanction of the Finance Commissariat of the Soviet Government.

Sir Austen Chamberlain replied that “what is within our knowledge and was the ground of my protest is that the stipulations of the law in force have been sion of this money in support of an illegal and unconstitutional strike.

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nistches

CANTON AND PEKING. - Canton, visited soon after, astounded otts on the Derbyshire p. Leicestershire me. It was incredible that such a city Lancashire had scored 91 for a wickets could exist in the world in the year against Cambridge, but the match had to be 1909. London had its taxis and motor Abandoned owing to rain.

buses. Aeroplanes could be seen in flight in England. Hongkong, even if it had only three motor-cars, provided rickalias, There wasn't a wheel to be seen in Canton in those days only seventeen years ago.

FRENCH TENNIS. COCHET WINS MEN'S MINGLES

CHAMPIONSHIP."

PARIB, June 14th. In the final of the Men's Open Singles in the French Hardcourt Championships, en Cochet defeated Rene Lacoste in

straight sets, 02, 64, 63.

BOXING.

PHIL SCOTT BEATEN BY SWEDISH CHAMPION,;;

LONDON, June 14th.

Shanghai was a disappointment, but Peking-ah that visit was worth a great deal. There is no other city in the world comparable to Peking. It isn't so much the architecture itself as the setting of the buildings. Who can describo ade quately the Temple of Heavent Who can wander through the Palaces and the

pon, and Phil Scott, the heavyweight of the soul that only art can accom- Both Harry Porzson, the Swedish chamox-Imperial gardens without a stirring champion of the British Isles, are fit-and

In conclusion, Judge Grain, said :-1, therefore, find that so days' notice was a reasonable notice, and that the defendant had also just cause to diamies the plain- tiff for misconduct, and give judgment for the defendants with costs..

well for to-night's fight for the European plish? Then the fayatery and the history fabs, entertable verandabs. We live on Heavyweight Championship. It is over of the palaces and the inmates who a higher social plane than if we were in London

·curred at Pindi last night. Much damago James's Falcon, where he will receive Ad- I waived in order to permit the transmie twenty.rounds at the Holland Park Hachemed and intrigued. There remains/England, We should be lucky to be able:

was done to property, and a number of fatalities were reported. Detalls are not avaliable.

The polles and military finally got the situation under control, and the District Magistrate has prohibited meetings and the carrying of clubs..

LORD WILLINGDON. CHINESE MINISTER. CONGRAT- ULATES CANADA.

VICTORIA, B.C. June 18th. Dr. Wang Chin Chun, Chinese Allnister of Communication has arrived, and In an Interview declared Canada was to be con gratulated on the appointment of Lord Willingdon as Governor General.

Lord Willingdon was well received and made a favourable impression wherever he had gono in China. He was a scholar, a gentleman, and a statesman of the finest type.

FRONTIER INCIDENT. D'OISY FIRED ON BY SOVIET

·GUARD.

WARSAW June 14th, When Follatier D'Oisy was crossing the

Poland-Soviet frontier for Moscow, the

On disembarking at Dover on Tuesday, June sind, the President will be received by the Prince of Wales and will be presented with an Address from the town of Dover, On arrival at Victoria Station, where he will be received by His Majesty the King, he will drive to Buckingham Palace where he will a received by H.M., the Queen. Later in the afternoon, the President will visit the Cenotaph and the grave of the Un. known Warrior at Westminister Abbey, and will also pay visits to members of the Royal family. Subsequently, he will go to St dresses from the London County Council and the City of Westminister and will hold receptions of the personnel of the French Embassy, the French colony and Chamber of Commerce. In the ersting there will be

Slate banquet at Buckingham Palace, On Wednesday, the President will go, by

Sir Alfred Mond (Conservative) ask- motor car to Oxford to receive the degree of ed Does not the action of the Soviet Doctor of Civil Law. In the evening he will attend dinner at the French Embarry constitute a direct, breach of the code of On Thursday morning, the President will the agreement and will the Foreign visit the French Hospital in Shaftesbury Secretary not use his influence to termi- Avenue and will hold a reception of the nate. this agreement 1 "

Palsco Corps Diplomatique at Buckingham Afterwards he will leave Buckingham Palacs for the Guildhall where he will be present ed with an Address from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of Loodon and will be entertained to luncheon. In the evening he will attend a dinner at the Foreign Office.

President Doumergas leaves London oa Friday, June 25th.

LORD. OXFORD ILL."

MILD ATTACK OF ANGINA PECTORIS

Mr. Locker Lampson (Conservative) aakedThat being so, has not thá time come when we ought to do some thing more than protest 7.

LATER Perssen knocked out Phil Scott in the oleventh round.

HOOKS AND SWINGH.

the glamour of the personality of the to afford two servants in the old country; most amazing woman in history," the out here we have five. We occasionally old Buddha" the once alluring, the dine at Government House and that Boott began at a fast pace and made good always fascinating, Ychonols, and you always plenses a lady, use of his left, whilst occasionally he got in an effective blow with his right. Pere are reminded of Kublai Khan, the con relied chiefly on hooks and swings and queror of hia nge, the designer of a model frequently tried uppercuts in the clinches, city. You can so easily imagine his mostly without success.

At the end of the first ten rounds Scott curved tents and his thousands of horse was leading on points, but when the gọng Sir Austen Chamberlain said he pre- ferred-not to be pressed further and sounded for the eleventh Perssen rushed men out in those plains Pictures of asked that other questions should be dead sent in a sharp left, following up with young Staunton, aged about nine, stand 'n sorashing right to the jaw which sent the forred until Thursday. ka

NOTED SURGEON'S DEATH.

SIR HENRY MORRIS,

2x

to

Englishman down for a count of sevening before the learned Chinese Emperor again for the full count.

On rising he was introdiately floored and forming the only language link be tween him and the first British Embassy of more than a hundred years ago, cheso out the visions of Yobonoln's wild extravagance and her amazing love

ARISTOCK [DEUTER'S AMERICAN SKEVICE.)

Rcoor, June 14th, isken AMERICAN DISASTER. The death is announced of Sir Henry

There are drawbacks-climatic and domestic. The biggest "suag" is separa- tion from the children during their school years. That also means, at times, **Good-bye" for months at a time, to their mother. The breadwinner stays on in the Far East while those that are nearest and dearest to him are ten thou- sand miles away.

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There is also the separation from art, music, the drama and England. What is this magnetio pull of the land of our

Morris, the well-known surgeon and one. MANY KILLED IN COKE OVEN affairs. The reative cavalry of Kublai fathers? It exists, but it is hard, to

of the founders of the Imperial Cancéry v. Research Fund.

Bo great was his reputation 08 8. BUT- geon, especially for operations on the kidneys, that in 1904 he was summoned on a professional visit to Bombay and was at that time the only European. Eur. con who had ever been called to India to operate

EXPLOSION.

GARY (Indiana), June 1sth

Khan disappear from our thoughts as wa.. read on the walls of the British Legation

define,

If you have sufficient money life is

hurt in an explosion at the coke oven

Fourteen were killed and 60 seriously, lest we forget." That sentence was put very pleasant in England. There are

of the steel plant here. The victims were there after the terrible days of the Boxer hurled against the walls, breaking arms rebellion. Tragedy, comedy, the beauti- and legs. Bascus work was most dif ficult owing to the collapse of the ful, the squalid Peking has had its share building, burying the dead, and injured of all those things and you see traces of in debris.

them still.

Rucny, June 14th. Lord Oxford and Asquith, the Liberal Leader, is ill at his country house in Berkshire

bulletin issued this afternoon states that Lord Oxford's condition, though not serious, necessitates absolute rest in conse

[Bir Henry Morris was President of the quence of a thild attack of angina pectoris, Royal Bociety of Medicine, 1910-12; Pro sident of the Royal College of Surgeons, following influèriza.

(Lord Oxford la 73 years

of age. Angina 1000-9; Consulting Burgson and Emeritus Pectoris is otherwise known sa neuralgia of Lecturer on: Burgery, Middlesex HoND the heart, a sudden pain seizing the patient pital; Past-Representative of Royal

in the region of the heart, the attack lasting lege of Burgione on and Treasurer of the fryma a fow seconds to several minutes The General Medical Council, 1905-17; Foun ostise is not definitely known, but a hardon

BLIND EVANGELIST. NOTED SCOTTISH PREACHER STRANDED AT ELLIS ISLAND.

Soviet frontier guard fired on him, pre-ing of the arteries which supply the heart der and Vice President of Imperial Can Hor sumably mistaking it for a Polish aeroplane. with blood is no doubt one cause. It may cer Research Fund Vice-President and

NEW YORK, June 14th.

THE HOLIDAYS.

universal means of relaxation. Whole-

some intellectual pleasures may be found

in the public gardens, the museums, and the libraries, free, gratis, The theatres

and concerts are not expensive and are always available. You can enjoy, to the atmost, in England. Faint Bouve The great compensation for life in the

calls: the sincere love of letters and the Far East is the opportunity to see this innocent charm of the Muses." world before you see the next" "A

Youth seeks adventure. The lure of

"No damage was done and, Doisy rapidly be due to neuralgin of the heart muscle, but Hon. Treasurer of Epsom Coll. Trust know what to do with the well-known during the trans-Siberian journey home, the East still attracts-especially does it.

LATER

ascended out of range.j

Capt. Pelletier D'Olay has arrived at Krasnoyarek.

SOVIET'S REGRET.

PARIS, June 18th.

is reported from Warsaw that the representatives of the local Soviets have expressed to D'Oisy regret for the incident at the frontier, when

a guard fired on hia aeroplano,

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. SPAIN NOT SEEKING SEAT ON

COUNCIL

MADRID, June 14th.

in udally associated with organio beart disosso. It is most common in men over fifty years of age.]

DIPLOMATIC CORPS. NEW MINISTER APPOINTED,

RUGBY, June 14th, His Majesty the King hat approved of the following appointments:

Bir Milne Cheetham Minister at Athens, to be Minister at Copenhagen.

Sir Percy Loraine, Minister at Teheran, to 16 Minister at Athena ta

Mr. Clive, Consul-Geners! at Tangier to be Minister at Tob

at Teheran.

MOTORCYCLING. "VELOCETTE” WINS JUNIOR T. T. IN REMARKABLE TIME.

Blue Ruant, Jans fáth.

The Junior Tourist Trophy (motor role The Cabinet has decided not to Prance) ran at Douglas, Isle of Man, war to-day Spain's candidature for non-permanent won by Alex Bennett on 448 hp seat on the League Council, and has also Velocette, in the remarkable time of a hours. 67 minutes, 37 seconds for 204 miles, giving empowered the Foreign Minister to act as him an average spood for the distance of circumstances dictate at Geneva.

over 64 miles per hour.

Ellis Island officials are pazzled to month touring Japan, a week in Moscow

Beottish blind evangelist, Neil McIntyre

of the Hunterian Museum, London: Foreign Corresponding Member Sociate who has arrived from Glasgow to con- the joyous leisure of "a long leave with attract those who spent years of child- de Charurgie; Hón. Mom. Med. Soc., State of New York and Hon. Fellow of duct a revivalist campaign in the its holidays in England, France and hood in the Far East. All of the big the Royal College of Surgeons in Ire southern States. He in detained in land; Born in 1844, he was educated at quarantine because nobody came to meet Italy are all things that count. They arms seem to treat their employees well. There are provident funds and in good Epsom College, University College, and him. A. Special Board has enquired into cost money, but, speaking of the pre- Guy's Hospital. He delivered Cavendish case and decided that McIntyre must boycott days, we had more money than times bonuses Bome men gather wealth Lecture, 1893; Hunterian Lectures, 1808 tay on the Island until a guarantee is

we should have had it we had stayed in more rapidly than others. It seems to be Bradshaw Lecturer, Royal College of forthcoming, that he will not become a

a fact, however, that an industrious Ergland. Rociety of London, 1905. on the Financial Burgeons, 1903; Annual Oration, Medical charge on the public.

In the old days it was dangerous to sober and not too extravagant young man Relations between the Londeo Hospital

o retire in comfort after about and their Medical Schools; and the Hun-

health to come out to Hongkong The can hope to records of mortality and slakness of twenty-five years in the Far East. Tho tarian Oration on John Hunter as a philosopher, February, 1000, H&NVörði before their R., the Prince and Pringen

those early days are appalling. That is old country attracts us in our declining.

went we have had our stirring ad can and years after we of Wales. He was formerly Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery.......

The death leannounced of Lord Dunraven.all changed. Our women folk c

ventures and hace acquired memories of Lord Dunraven, who was 6h years of age, do live out here now. Our children keep the great cities of the world Youth Middlesex Hoenital Medical College; following his earlier years at Christ Church, healthy Examiner in Surgery, Univérkit, Oxford, adopted the military profession.

the age of about ten, however, craves for adventure and new

experiences. We will lat Tommy have his? Lontion, and in Anatomy, University of Hewan War Correspondent to the Daily

we can mausgé, now and stance in China. - Ho will, at any rate, Durham, Chairman of the Court of

see the world.- Ferhaps he may even Examiners R.0.8. For six years, Hrad.

make a fortand In any case we fruk shaw Lecture on Cancer and its Origin:

him not to let down the prestige of his and delivered the Sir Mitchell Bark

The climate in trying at times, but we race. It is no idle boast, but merely stat Memorial Lecture, University of Liver

ing & fact, to say that the educated youth pool, 1900. He was the author of many

get used to it

of Asia is modelling its conduct on that surgical text booka. Job

of the youth of England. (Continuta et foot of heat Column.),

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] DRATH OF LORE DUNRAVIK.

Lowboy, June 16th.

Abyssinis in 1887, and also in

Pelegraph in

Franco-Prussian War and the Beige of again to send them away for a summer Paris. He became H.M.Ideutenant of holiday. County Limerick in 1894. He served in the Art South Africa War with the Imperial Yeomanry Sharpshooters. He was a kot (ywohtaman, and had twice built-rangli for competition with the United States]

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