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The mobilization loan will be farmed out to the various capital exporting countries of the world, and the directors will naturally make the most advantageous deals, with the big bond houses of each country for the marketing, the com- missions following closely the ac cepted standards of each country. The bonds will accordingly be quot- ed in the currency of each country, though United States, England and France will be expected to absorb the largest shares.

Four Departments..

SENATE'S REJECTION DAMAGED CARGO.

OF JUDGE PARKER.

·THE NEW NOMINEE.

(UNITED PRESS.)

Was

Washington, May 9.—It learned authoritively to-day that" President Hoover intends to no- minate Mr. Owen Josephus Roberts,

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN LONDON.

CLAIM FOR INSURANCE FAILS.

CONTROL OF DOCTORS.

REGULATIONS PASSED BY LEGISLATIVE YUAN,

The Legislative Yuan has passed a lengthy series of regulations

In the King's Beneh Division last governing Western-trained medical month, Mr. Justice Wright gave practitioners, it being the aim of judgment in the action by Messrs. the National Government to re- a member of Philadelphia law T. Bowring nad Co., merchants,gulate such practitioners so that the

firm, to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Senate "fagtions which "turped down" Mr. Hoover's nomination of Judge John J. Parker a few days ago are understood to ba agreeablo to the nomination of Mr. Roberta.

Mr. Roberts won chief public It is probable that, the work of notice when President Coolidge ap- the bank will be divided into four pointed him as one of two attor departments. It is regarded as certain, however, that, one departneys to prosecute the Government's ment will be organized as the Bank- famous "oil casce" in 1924. ing Department, charged with the

He was born in Philadelphia in 1978 and began practice of the law

receipt and distribution of funds, there in 1898 after graduation from

while another department will be

the Linison Department with the Centrál Banks of Issue. It is also

probable that two Vice-Chairmen will be elected.

the University of Pennsylvania, He became instructor and later asistant professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and was in turn first assistant district attorney for Philadelphia county and later special deputy Attorney General to represent the U.S. Gov.

of Liverpool, and Messrs. Osugi and Co., of Tsingtao, against the Am. sterdam and London Insurance Co., of Amsterdam. The plainffs claim- ed under a number of policies of marine insurance in respect of daru age by heating and sweating to cargoes of ground-nuts shipped from China to Europe in 1926 and 1927 The goods were carried in eight steamers, and it was alleged by the plaintiffs that the damage was caused through the vessels getting into bad weather and the holds not being properly or sufficiently ven

tilated, which, they said, was

a

peril they were insured against hy the defendants.

The defendants denied liability and relied on a clause in the policies which provided that they should pay only for heating and sweating damage due to external cause

medical profession may be kept on as high a plane as possible.

According to these regulations, we read that only persons who are more than 23 years of age, who have successfully passed the neces sary examinations, and who are in possession of medical diplomas from recognized government or private medical colleges in China or foreign countries shall be permitted to practise medicine. Those who do not possess these shall be excluded from practice.

qualifications

tonding to practise in Chian shali

As to foreign doctors, those in-

possess medical certificates issued by colleges recognized by their re- spactive Governments and certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

"An interesting article in the re gulations says that physicians may

not prescribe excessive opium, mor-

As the bank gels to work, it is believed that the reparations trans- fers will form only a small part of the business. The directors are pre-ernment in prosecution of cases His Lordship said the damagephine and or other narcotic drugs arising under the Espionage Act was due to external causes and was unleas the quantity so prescribed is in the Eastern District of Pennsyl-recoverable under the policies. The found absolutely necessary,

Mr. Roberts is a director in sweat damage would have to be

pared to deal in all kinds of short term and early maturing issues, which have the approval of the

vania during the World War.

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various countries. A considerable nomerous large companies and is a assessed," and there would be judg shipment. The position was further.

member of the firm of Roberta Montgomery. A

traffic is expected in discounting notes and big commercial bills.

· Central Banks will use the facili- ties and the credits at the disposal. of the International Bank so that millions in various currencies will castantly be passing back and forth to the profit of the share- holders.

Opposition Expected.

mert for the plaintiffs for the

amount 'so ascertained. Plaintiffs failed in the rest of the case, and President Hoover to-day cent to judgment, zaust be for the delen- the Senate the nomination of Owendants. Roberts to be Associate Justice of the US. Supreme Court.

It was indicated that there may be some opposition in "dry" quar.

What Happens in the Hold?

Summarising the facts, so far

complicated by the fact that there

as a state of civil war in China. the certificates given as to the con- The plaiatis naturally relied on

dition of the nuts on loading, but, however experienced the surveyor he gave the certificates might be, Oredits for Raw Materials,

ters as a result of newspaper re as known," his Lordship said, it his conclusion could only be rough, ports that the drys" have found was inevitable that from the, timeall to accept the accuracy of his and His Lordship saw no reason at The credits for raw materials, a speech in the Congressional Re which feature the Young Plan for cord outlining an address in Newthe goods were loaded until they conclusions or the fact that his only the first ten years, will be York by Mr. Roberts in 1923, at- were discharged they were lost to samples necessarily indicated "the true character of the bulk. His the human eye or ken. They were Bardship accepted the view of one lumped in with the Annuity Trusttacking prohibition. Funds, so that the bank, "in, liqui Many Senators who opposed the placed in the lower holds, and what of the expert witnesses that any dating the vast movemcats of de- nomination of Judge J. J. Parker liveries in kind, will merely credit Germany with payments asin-

Wasik. Too much importance mist bot be attached to the samples dicated by the countries receiving

or certificates. The voyages of the raw materials. The bank leaves it up to the countries receiving raw

ships in this case involve Bductsa- materials to make their own deals

tions of temperature and the conc finement of the goods in the ships with Germany, though a check is

holds. But the evidence was that placed on credità so that payments for raw materials will not exceed the

in previous years nuts had been carried without damage. quotas specified in the Young Plan

The directors will meet ten times annually, four times in Basle, the other meetings to be held in the various capitals. The first pay- ments from Germany to the bank were due May 15, and thereafter on the 13th of each month for fifty- eight years.

to be associate justice of the U.S.happened with regard to tempera-thing over $ per cent, of moisture

Supreme Court expressed delight to-day at word that Owen Roberts of Philadelphia twould be the next nominee.

An informal poll of the Senate indicated that confirmation of Mr. Roberts-would not be difficult.

HISTORIC RELICS IN MANCHURIA.

DEFENCES AGAINST INVASION. DY JAPANESE.

The vast enterprise of the Inter national Bank will be carried on The Pitzuwo railway authorities, in the varied accepted forms of reports the Manchuria Daily News, transferring credits, subscribing to

have applied to the Educational bond issues, marketing issues, and Office of Ruangtung Government in the general purchase of gold,te include three spots in the list bills of exchange and ear marking of places amenable to the regula of bullion.

tions concerning preservation of historic sitesi “

The reserve of 40 per cent. will be maintained, "not in the bank at The Government are arranging Dasle, but will be found ear-marked to make a technical investigation by in most of the central banks. of some competent specialists to make issue. About the only actual funds aure of whether the spots mention- which the bank will handle willed are really worth including in be the contingent cash supply for the list as proposed.

the bank's running expenses The These three spots are Yungantai- nature of the present bank build ing, with its lack of adequate safety vaults would entail undus risks if the bank's gold supply. were kept under its own roof.

A Notable Feature.

in Tsantacho, Haichengtzu in Sung chistun, and Chengtzutang at the. terminus of the Chinchou-Pitzawo line.

Rocket Signalling Tower At the first mentioned spot stands rocket signalling tower, 12 feet. high. The natives think it a few hundred over one thousand years old, assigning it to the early. Tang Dynasty. In old times, there were barracks near the tower. The castle at Haichengtzu, of which only its ruins remain, used to stand in the Kooli (the Kooli race once ruled over Korea and part of South Man churia) days as a defence against the Japanese invaders.

In big transfers of gold wherein the International Bank is involved, it will be a simple operation to order one of its depositary central banks to ship hullion against the credits held in that central bank.

A notable feature of the bank's operation under the Young Plan, is that the bank will not deliver the shares of reparations credits to the various countries. It will simply notify each country that such and such an amount has been deposited At Chengtzutung, the ruins of to ita credit, and the receiving the castle have been reduced to only country can allow the credits to faint vestiges, although still trace- accumulate, order them to be invest able. This castle was also to pro- ed, or paid out to other creditors, vide against possible Japanese in- according to each country's treasury

vasion. or budgetary obligations..

GIRL WHO WOULD NOT EAT.

DELUSION THAT. LED TO STARVATION,

A girl's delusion that it was wicked to eat led to her death from

'starvation.

said the girl was admitted after not having eaten anything for four weeks,

She told hire that there was "something" behind her which told her it was wicked to eat.

Taken Away.

After treatment she began to eat, In consequence her parents took until a patient accused her of theft. her away.

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The patient, jubaequenti SZTÁN Ânquest, was habi- nacent)-andes mailabay

the girl, Violet Emily Moon, aged 18, of Chadworth-buildings, Lever street, Flisbury

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Dr. Stanley James, house physis cian at the West-end Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Regents Park. (Continued at foot of next column),

Dr. James said he believed that if the girl had remained she might have been cured,

A verdict that the girl died from syncope duo, to starvation, due to her not taking sufficient food, was recorded.

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ture and conditions in those holds could only he matters of inference, So far as he had been able to con- sider the evidence of the log books and that of Captain Richards, called a marine expert, he had been unable to discover in the voyages any special characteristics or inci.They were dealing in this case. with large modern steamers all dents which would prevent him owned by first-rate shipping com- from saying they were not normal panies, including the British Blue voyages such as would be antici-Yusen Kaisha Co., and the German Funnel Line, the Japanese Nippon pated in an adventure of this sort. Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg- The 18 season was extraordinarily Amerika lines. There was no rea

son to think that every care was wet, and the result was that not

not taken with regard to ventila- only were the nuts of that season tion and attention to the batches much wetter than usual, but it was during the voyages, and there was more difficult to dry them before no reason to think these ships were not equipped with all modern con- (Continued on sext Oclumn.) veniences as regards ventilation.

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