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FRIDAY

APRIL

1924.

日燮初月三

EFFECTS OF STRIKE AT WEMBLEY.

MORE THAN A MERE DELAY.

(Reuter's Service.).

Landon, April 3. Colonel Liddell, the Deputy Administrator of the Empire, Ex- hibition, estimates that seventy por cent of the men have resumed work. Many have loft. for good, but a certain number of them, Londonors, will probably return to morrow,

The effect of the strike is far greater than the three days delay involved, but until the extent of the delay be ascertained it is im possible to tell what the effect will ho on the opaning date. Sir James Stevenson, Chairman of the Exhibition, speaking at an Australian luncheon.aid he was convinced the Exhibition would open on April 23.

AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN.

A QUEENSLAND OPINION, -

London, April 3.

The Queensland Premier, Mr. Theodore, cutértained at luncheon in London, said he was convinced Australia respected the Japanesḥ (mation, Same said Japan was a menace to Austrália, but he did not think so.

Australia could live, in neighbourly amity with Japan, which had a great destiny and was undoubtedly entitled and bound to texerciso a great influence, even in the Pacific, where Australia had Sa vital interast. He was of opinion that there was no danger of a Aclash between Australia and dapan over any Australian domestic

ipalics.

LADY STUBBS,

LEAVES SHANGHAI TO- MORROW.

The nusperous friends of Laudy Stubbs, who, since her return to

PIRATES CAUGHT.

TWO SHOT: OTHERS FOR.

“THE FRONT."

Che enquiries this quorning it was learned that fivo myn bojizvod

Shanghai fram Peking, has beer;to have beek connected with the Aufforing from influenza, will be ad to learn that her ladyship sufficiently recovered

"ffydratgan “and other piracios were recently captured in opera- 1tions in the Rast River districts. able to feave for. fhongkong The fate of these prisoners ap diprrow.

pears to have been definitely On enquiry Lt Government, decided. Two-have been shol. House, the Telegraph was in- whilst the remainder. With other: formed that a cable dind been suspects raptured during opera

successfully, carried received this morning from His tions Excellency's Private Secretary, through within the last few days, "front" who is also in Shanghai,,dhat, have been sent to the Lady Stubbshopës to sail from where doubtless the best is ex

hanghal to-morrow by the spected of them Haruna-Max, the doctor having materiai.

signified his approval of the trip | being made.

"THE WEEK-END PAPER."

TO-MORROW'S

TELEGRAPH" FEATURES,

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MS

fighting

All the Trâuble if identificațion land extradition proceedings bus thus been spared the Hongkong

| Polier, none of whom have gone up in connection with themensa it was learned this morning.

JAPAN AND RUMANIA..

·

Bucharest, April.3.

You should make a point of Crown Prince's Visit Returned. ecuring to-morrow's issue of the Talegruth which, will comprise wonty pages, including many

atures of general interest. The Feature Section, in dition to the page of "funnies" for the children, fashion featuras

ANOTHER BIG HOTEL.

Seven-Storeyed Building on the Praya:

DETAILS OF PROPOSED "EMPRESS 'HOTEL."

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THE POISON TRIAL.

EVIDENCE FOR DEFENCE.

.

PRISONER, BURSTS INTO TEARS.

Tho defonco in the Lantno poison trial was opened by Mr. Campbell Prosser at the Criminal" Bossions this morning.

The first witness war Mr. Daniel Wilson, of Messern A. S.

PLAGUE IN INDIA.

LAHORE HAS 40 DEATHS A DAY.

Colleges Have to Be Closed..

Lahore, April 3. Plague is racing virulently here and in Moolton, Thoro are thirty deaths daily hero.

Four colloges have already Watson and Co., who was called closed, and the Punjab University. examinations will probably be on subpoena as an expert witness.postponed. The Commissioner of He said he know very little about Mooltan has forbidden the hold- the wu-nian-tung but toxt

books stated that it was a deadly g of the usual largo annual religious fair at the adjacent nervo poison...

village. Renler. Mr.Prosser:-What is the

Lahore is the capital of the exact meaning of the decom- Lahore division of the Punjab,, position of an alkaloid 7.

WitnessIt would dissolve with a city population of about 150,000. The nonrby town of into simplor elements and would would not have the eatha pro-Mooltan has a population of portfos.

What is the test for toxicity 7-- The usual tost in to try it on an animal.

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If two alkaloid solutions give the same chemical reactions, ono is toxic and the other not, would. you say they wore the same alkaloids 7-No.

If you take 2 substance from the stomach of Ak man which provos to have no toxic properties would you say, that it had ever been Toxic ? -No, I don't think it could ever have been-toxic.

If a grain of impuro alkaloid were taken from the stomach and

about 80,000.]

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 2s. 4. 3/10. Baromater 2 p.m. 29.97 Temperature 2 p.m. 60 Humidity

2 p.m.

77 Lighting Up-Time 6.39 p.m..

pure alkaloid were extracted suparately. Hor mother-in-law

to be an alkaloid.

from the plant, would you expectlid not like her because she said

not them to give the same chemical witness was really her reactions? Yes,

daughter-in-law and docoased And if you went further and was not really her son. On tested them on animals and the January 26th, she went out in results were different?--I should the morning and did not return say they were of different sub-unti 6 p.m. She did not prepare stance. The poisonous principle har husband's 'tiffin that day. in alkaloids under the same con- Sametimes he would prepare bis ditions is always the same. Once Town tiffin and sometimes the an alkaloid is broken up it ceuses would prepare it before she went

out in the morning. She rarely His Lordship-Supposing you returned home before five o'clock have two preparations. One you after leaving in the morning. -It know to be apuro alkaloid and was-not-true that she retumed you are testing the other for the home at 3.15. Sho came home In presence of the same alkaloid.the company of her sister-in-law If the alkaloid contained in this at G o'clock. She found her huse preparation had been broken up band dead and sat down and cried by decomposition would you until the police arrested her. expect it to give the same colour There was no one in the house rouctions? --No, because it would, when she arrived homo. The hava cuased to be an alkaloid. Loaves the polico found in her Mr. Prosser-If it gave the purse she used for stopping colour reactions would you expect bleeding from the nose. They it to retain the toxic properties ? were a well-known remedy. Her Yes; provided equal doses were mother-in-law did not search her, given.

nor did she find any leaves in hor Mr. PollockSupposing the purse. Witness did not wish administration of an impure her husband to die: she liked vogṇṭablo -alkaloid resulted in him just as wall just before he toxic symptoms, would you say died as when she harried him. it would contain some poisonous

Mr. Pollock-Do you know the woman who supplied the principlo —Yes.

The final test for identity of an alkaloid is the colour reaction?

goat's blood? Usually.

Prisoner: No, I don't know whore they got her.

Above we reproduce the sketchments, Modern Kitchens and bedrooms, etc., these being o of a large modern hotel which it pantries will be situated on typical modern American design Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni propored to prect on the Praya, mezzanino floors at the rear, of Modern sanitary arrangements was welcomed on his arrival by

His Lordship:-This man died.

Do you know Lo Shiu-mun?- the King, and Crown Prince, the corner of Morrison Street tlie building, Thorplan has been will be fitted throughout the Ministers, diplomais, and the au establishment which is in so arranged that the dining room building. Regarding the Roaf on January 26th. The body was Yos.

Has he any grudge, against for ladies and radio matter will chief of the State dignitaries. Atended to cater for tourists and and ball room will have dirset Garden, an effort is being made oxhumed on February 19th and

the ceiling light through artistic to provide a very attractive addi-analyst. Ho could find no trace him nor him with me, but he is organs taken out and sent to the you? I have no quarrel with ontain some beautiful pictures gutami, of honour was drawn up authors passing through

the Holy Land, which aro the station. The Mayor of

for level.

Centon Season..

overy

Articularly appropriate for the Bucharest presuntod the custom. Colony and visiting Canton and leaded glass domes at the socondtion to the hotel's amonition. On of vegetable, alkaloids and said raid to giva ovidonco against me, bedroom floor will be that in lis opinion the reason was Did you work; in the rain on jury broad and salt, and the King Macao! This dew hotel, to be

that they had decomposed: Do January 26th? Yes; it' is gastor The Picture Page will contain and Prine" Higashi-Kuni then known as "Empress Hotel" and

It is the interior decorations situated service pantries and

you assent to that?-No.

to work when the soil is soft, many illustrations of local inter-drove together to the Royal which will be one of the most that will make the lounge, dining offices, the upper floors of the Later, witness questioned on

t, inoluding, & group taken at | Palaeo,

elaborately fitted and equipped room and ball room distinctive building being garved by three this, said that ho knew nothing off What do you suggest, was the enueo of your husband's death? he Chinese dinner given to Sir The whole route was gaily, botels in the Far East, has been and noteworthy. The decorations main passenger lifts, a wide stair- this particular alkaloid and did -1 did not know, but when I sao William Roos Davies: two decorated.

not know if it would disappear the Wu-man-tung" leaves L rurposely located adjacent to the ictures taken at the launching

of the lounge will be carried way and firo escapas.

within 25 days, but some, vexet think he was poisoned by, my Canton and f the Indo-China 2. Lion

The Prince lunched with thwhurves of tho

The windows, will be motal able alkaloids are very persistent mother-in-law and sho acpusod out in fibrous. pláster in Noo- Shing: photographs taken at the Royal family; and later he place Macao Steamboats and, as will Extra Rugs Mooting, two snap a wreath on the tomb of the I be found detailed below, will be rok style, with electric stan- casoment throughout. Regarding and certainly would not appour: mothe

dards and chandeliers to har-the exterior finish of the building, His Lordship:-Two solutions

I suggest you put the leaves hots of the Lo brothers and the known Soldier. Next he visited replete with evory comfort and monise. The floor of the lounge this will be of granite facing from give the same colour reactions to your husband's noodles on Two Rumjahne in action in their | th military museume

to hotel will, bo of Italian marble, as the ground level to the second tained in oach 7-Yes.

must the samo alkaloid be. con- necessity attractive tecent tennis match: a group of

January 26? In an interview he declared he patrons. Standing : on 4. sito will also be the grand staircase floor window sill level, tho

Prisoner (pursting into tears); the wo and Taikoo cricket

Mr. Prosser Would it be It is not true; it is not true. I teams: and photographs taken at had been instructud by the Prinen

8,000 square feat, and from the ground floor to the remainder of the building, with possible for a careful chemist to and not prepare his tifin. the Inter-School sports.

Regent of Japan-tu express to the

exception of the hain make a mistake in saying that! Mr. Pollock:-Do you suggest Thoro will beather local

having frontages on Des Voeux dining and ball rooms. The din-tha

two alkaloids were identical that all these witnesses, who on Morrison Strou, the new build. English Renaissance stylo with matt-surfaced tiles of a pleasing of an impurity sometimes Inter-pm are all lying? My hus- Carloartoon" will this wook hit

ing will be soven stories high, and wall parols of tapestry-rapro- greon shade. The structural part fores with it and it would be easy band's parents had ill-feelings of George Bernard Shaw,

will be a prodominating land ductions of famous English mas of tho building will be of to make a mistako.. mark on the waterfront.

King of Rumania the gratitudo

features in the issue, whilst the for the visitól the Crown Prince Road and the Praya, ne woll using room will be in modern columns, bolng faced with special when they wore not ?-The nature havo said you returned at 3.15

of Rumania to Japan. --Renter

BRITISH ARMY BEATEN. ANOTHER FIRE, AT

Belgians Win "Soccer" Championship.

SEA.

terplocos. The whole scheme of The height of the building willwalls and coiling will be carried out in fibrotin plaster. The ball bo 105. foot to the lovel of tho

reinforced concrete throughout.

Contracts have boon signed and the work has already been put

against him; they killed him and PRISONER IN THE BOX. spent money to got people to give

rovidenco against me. Prisoner, in the box, said sho His Lordship--Do I understand. as the second wife of deconsed you returned at six o'clock,

in character, with Chinese mural Co. being the contractors. It is They were on good torms with fat there and cried without 140 bedrooms and 60 bathroom scrolls taking the place of the hoped to have the hotel ready for each other and wore so right up tallion anybody until the police Kalmar, April 3. On the ground floor will bo

to the time of his death. Bho came? : The Swedish steamer Formosa, situated the public lounge, shops tapestries in the dining room. The cooupation by October, 1925.

had been floors of both rooms will bo of London, April 3.

torms Prisoner: Yes, bound for Hamburg from

We are indebted to Messrs with hor mother in law If the police had not come, how In the occor" Intornational

parquetioak wood and black wood,

Palmor and Turner, the architects, over-alpon the year before she long-would you have stayed Vladivostock, with Hoya beans, and a garago, whilst the first triangular

the tournament,

mont being of outstanding Army by three ghais to one at damaged portion was reloaded a spacious dining room (with and trans-shipped, and has arriv-table and seating accommodation

tion of the building, which was law refused to give witneve and natural causes. . I should have: BMWoolwich.

har husband food and she said oried till next morning and then character. ed,at Kalmar.Renter. Having also boatón the French

for over 200 diners) and Ball

designed by Mr. A. G. W. Ogilyle, that she would not look after told the neighbours and arranged The five top fodie are given under whose supervision the work, witness when the child was bern, for Unntak A Army, the Belgians win the K Imar is on the Baltic coast Room, togetherwith the necessary.

mpionship-Renfer,

ape-roome and service, aryan rossoner entirely to single and double into boomtid.

Soya Bean Cargo: Damaged. Roof Garden and “It will contain room will be somewhat similar in hand, Messrs. Lath, Dore and and he was her second husband, found your husband dòad and

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Belgiah Army beat the Brigh caught fire in the cargo. The floor will be' totally occupied by the furnishings and lighüng équip" for the abovo sketch and dosorip-was pregnant. Her mother-in»|orying?—I thought he had died of