1923-03-26 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

MONDAY, MARCH 26; 1923.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

GOVERNMENT SERVANT

SUED.

Quibble Over Fifteen Dollars.

BRITAIN'S NAVAL DEFENCE.

Malta, March 24.

Naval opinion here is that there can be no doubt that the Mediterranean fleet will be shortly restored to the position it held until the balance of navul power was shifted to the North Sea, and because the premier fleet in commission.

London, March 24.

The United Motor Company, Ltd., of Des Voeux Road Central, brought an action against, Mr. It is asserted that only a comparatively small fleet will be main- V. E. Hollands, land bailiff of the tained in home waters, most of the warships in commission there being District Land Office, in the Sun-transferred to the Mediterranean. mary Court, before Mr. Justice Gompertz this morning, claimingi $31.90,being as to $16.90 balance of the price for hire of motorcars be- tween January and May, 1922, and to the sum of $15 agreed casts to be paid by defendant in connection with an arrangement to enable him to pay the claim by instal ments, part of which arrangement defendant had failed to perform.

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Mr. Amery, in a speech at Birmingham, dealing with the drastic naval reductions, said the British feet was still larger than the Japanese, but until we had oil storage all the way to the Far East, and bases in the Far East, we would be quite incapable of conveying a fleet. to Eastern waters which would be a match for the Japanese. Britain relied upon the friendship of her old Allies.

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Sydney, March 21.

A Melbourne paper says that the Defence Council has decided that the construction of Australian naval bases in accordance with the Henderson scheme should not be carried out, owing to the Admiralty's Mr. Bennett represented plain- tiffs and the defence was con-plans for a big base at Singapore. ducted by Mr. C. H. Lyson.

"Mr. Bennett said the claim of $16.90 had been paid by defendant.

The amount remaining in dispute

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GERMAN MONARCHIST PLOTS.

The story of a planned reactionary rising is partially confirmed was the $15 costs defendant by a speech by the Prussian Minister for the Interior. Herr Severing. bad agreed to pay, plaintiffs in the Landtag, according to which the recently arrested Monarchist agreeing not to лице

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if defendant would pay $10; would occur on 31st. March, the day fixed for the dissolution of all self- instalments. On June 15th, defence organisations.

plaintiffs' solicitors sen: the Herr Severing referred to the dangerous character of Marshal usual demand to defendant Ludendorff. amongst others, and said that if the so-called self- defence organisations maintained their present activities, and were opposed by the workmen's battalions, the inevitable result would be civil war. He had the impression that the moment was not far distant.

for $53.40 which was the balance outstanding. Defendant replied that he would pay if plaintiff could produce the chits. To this

It is rumoured that a reactionary coup d'etat in Bavaria is im- plaintiffs' solicitors repled that

minent. The Prussian Government has instructed all provincial gov- they would sbow defendant the cbits and would hand them ernors to keep the police in readiness for inmediate cetion.

over against payment. On June 24th., defendant apparently ap proached Mr. Carreem, a clerk

and Sheaton.

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THE RUHR OCCUPATION.

Duesseldorf. March 24.

in the employ of Messrs. Deacon., Thirteen hundred tons of industrial tools wat mucainety, valued Harston

Mr. at 5,000,000 francs, have been seized m accordance with the decree Curreem went to-plaintiffs' solici-or the Inter-Milied High Commission, whereby alt machinery and other tors office and asked how much pojects in the occupied territory belonging to the German Govermeat was owing and whether plaintiffs may we seized and earmarked for restitution in conformity with the would consent to the account Treaty of Versailles. It is stated test further similar seizures are being paid by instalments. Plaintiffs agreed to accept $10 a

contemplated.

month and solicitors' costs. De- fendant paid four instalments, on July 11th, Augus: 10:h., Septem-

ber 26th, and the last on October 2let. After that date the instal „ments cessed. On Feb. 15th., 1923, plaintiffs' solicitors wrote to defendant calling upon him to pay the balance and the $15 cost.

The defence was that defendant bad never agreed to pay $15 costs. Mr. Lyson submitted that they were party-party coats and not solicitor and clien: costs. Mr. Curréem acted as a volunteer. and defendant had never asked him to instruct anybody.

Kia Honour-Have you paid

Brussels, March 24.

The 10 per cent, ad valorem duty levied on German imports from the erupted territory into Germany has been cancelled and the German

tariff restored.

THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

Geneva, March 21.

The Conunission un the repression of the White Slave Trathic has appointed a sub-committee, including representatives of the United States, Italy, Japan and Uruguay, to collaborate with the International Latiur Office t. ensure the protection of women emigrants. speakers' emphasised the importance of developing world-wide work by voluntary associations.

CEYLON RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Colombo, March 24.

The

Following recent train disasters cwing to foods and washaways,

Messrs. Deacon. Harston and there has been another serious smash. A Ceylon Government Railway Sheyton's costs?

light engine collided "with a nail train in a tunnel. - Four were killed

Mr. Lyson replied that no de- and 40 injured. mand had ever been made.

Defendant, in the box, said he

paid

the instalments to Mr. Correem, sometimes in the street

the

King

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.

Rome, March 24.

and sometimes in

The Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce has Edward Hotel. M. Curreem was unanimously passed the proposal urging an economic conference to acting for him not as an agent but discuss reparations, inter-Allied debts, exchange, etc. as a friend.

If a man had a debt and hel showed the letter of demand to a friend who was a solicitors' clerk and he said that he would fix it up. the Puisne Judge could not help thinking that he was acting as agent. He was of the opinion that a man would be bound by what his partner did. However, his Honour wished to look into

JAPAN AND CANADA.

Ottawa, March 24. Premier King has informed Parliament that negotiations, have been begun with a view to amending the Canadian immigration Treaty with Japan."

THE SOVIETS AND THE CHURCH.

London, March 4.

The trial of Archbishop Uzepliak, two Bishops and other Catholic the point and he intimsted that priests has opened at Moscow. The charge is resisting the Soviets hawould give judgment to-morrow decrees discstablishing the Church and confiscating the funds. mornice.

JAPANESE STEAMER

"THE GRAND SARAH” SERIOUSLY ILL.

Paris. March 23. Sarah Bernhardt, the great actress, is gravely ill and six doctors are held in consultation.

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STRANDED.

Keigi Maru in Danger of Sinking.

The Manile Didy Baitetin of irst Saturday, March 24th, re- ports-

The Japanese steame: Keigi Maru, aground on Black Point in the Sulu sea, off the island of Palawan, since Wednesday. (March 21st) ia in imminent danger of sinking and the crew bave decided to abandon heri unless help is forthcoming soon,

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SEQUEL.

Captured Man Succumbs, The sensational attempt made by a gang of armed robbers toį hold-up a Californian Chinese merchant in his room at a board. ing house on the Central Praya during Race Week is recalled by the news that the man who was wounded and arrested after the! long chase that followed the attempt, died on Saturday night at the Government Civil Hospital, under the command of Captain i In an "open shop." 18 men where he had been lying for Yamacaka. She arrived in were employed. Half of them Dearly a month. His identity is Manila on March 6

belonged to the union. It was said to have been established in from Japan with a cargo of coal necessary to lay off half the force. the report that he was a native for Madrigal and Company. She The foreman, who belonged to the of Hoiping, and had alternately been brigand and soldier in was cleared on March 20 en route union, lined the men in a circle, to Fremantle.

as shown in the diagram, and Kwangtung. When secured after began counting around the circle the purauit be bad a revolver from A. Every time he counted in his hand, the cartridges of to five, the man was discharged, which had all been expended on and told to leave the circle. How his pursuere, sad he himself did he arrange the circle so that sustained no fewer than six every fifth man was a non-union wounds. man?

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TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was Saturday's anSWOT": received by the American If a trunk weighs 10 pounds, Consulate-General, Hongkong, and half its own weight, its from the Manila Observatory at weight must be 20 pounds, 10 1 p.m. to-day-Typhoon in about pounds being half its weight. 144 deg. Long. E., 13 deg. Lat. E., Therefore, a trunk and a half will moving N.N.W.

weigh 30 pounds,

Another man arrested in the same case is now under examina- | tion.

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