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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1925.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

SOVIET EDITOR REMOVED.

Moscow, June 17. The greatest surprise has been created by the removal of M. Steckloff from the Editorship of Isrestia, allegedly owing to failure to observe party discipline as regards the standard of his living

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ADMINISTRATION OF MACAO,

Lisbon, June 17.

The Chamber has concluded the debate on the administration of Macao and rejected the motion of ex-Governor Rodrigues in favour of sixty per cent of the capital of the port of Macao being Portuguese and the remainder equally British and Chinese-Reuter,

· FRENCH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

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Paris, June 16, French imports in the first five months of 1925 totalled, 15,845,000 francs and 18,000,000 tons and the exports to 18,117,000 franes and 12,000,000 tons.-Haves.

SIR EDWARD SASSOON'S ESTATE. Sir Edward Ellis Sassoon left £488,000.-Reuter,

KIDNAPPERS STILL ACTIVE,

YOUNG BABY ABDUCTED.

Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, four Chinese, two men and two women were respectively charged with kidnapping and bar bouring a young Chinese baby on the 11th inst.

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London, June 17,

MOTOR FATALITY.'

DRIVER DISAPPEARS:

ENQUIRY HELD,

of the

BIGGEST DAM.

Masonry Finished for Sudan Project.

With tho completion two. months before time, announced last month, of the masonry work. for the Blue Nilo (Sennar) Dam. which is being carried out by Messrs S. Poarson and Son, Lim- ited, a vast irrigation schems for the Sudan is practically finished.

This is the great undertaking of which Mr. Georgo Ronwick, who visited the Sudan in January last, wrote:

It is a work which utterly dwarfs the building of the Pyra- mids."

The dam is the biggest in the world.

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In figures, some of its ohiof features are ——

Cost, £12,500,000.

Reservoir formed 50 milos along the Nile.

Ares to be irrigated," 300,000

aorea,

Excavation of earth, 17 million subic yards.

The dam is situated 170 milos south of Khartum, and the object is to form a reservoir and to raise the level of the waters of the river to irrigate, land for the cultivation of cotton.

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The Gezica Plain, the area to be irrigated, lies in the fork form- ed by the White and Blue Niles, which meet at Khartum.

"The canalisod area for the first instalment of the plan is

During the flood season the It will be recalled that at a river above the dam will be turned previous bearing Pun Pui-eang, into a great lake stretching back the unlicensed driver was charged for 50 miles, and holding onough with manslaughter and failed to for two years.

water to supply Greater London appear, his bail of $5,000, being Irrigation and field canals of a estreated, and his brother was fined total length of 9,300 miles have $100 for allowing an unlicensed bean cut, and the dam will be The complainant was said to be driver to take charge of the car. A ready to supply water for the

1925-6 cotton crop." married woman and the principal tenant of No. 24 Wai Ching Street, warrant for the arrest Youmati. The first defendant had absconded man was issued but he also lived on the premises and be.has not yet been arrested. tweep

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The evidence of two passengers, three or four, visits to the house. On the latter day he went with who were in the car besides the soine men and asited the complain.brothers, was to the effect that the equal in size to Bedfordebire," ant if he could take the child out party had gone to Shekko to swim wrote Mr. Renwick, while the The woman consented and at 6 and were on their way home when actual portion of that under cat- p.m. wher the men failed to return the accident occurred. Pun Pui- ton will extend to a ragion half with the baby she reported the incident to the police. The child wie driving and on reaching the size of the county of London had been bought by the woinon at the junction of the Pokfulam Road Gradually the area will be ox- And Queen's Road West & number tended until the Gezira makes its Konginoon about three months ago of Chinese approached the car, full and great contribution to the for $30..

which swerved to the right side of Empire's cotton supplies." The following day when the the road and ran on to the pave husband returned from his dutiesment. There were some coolies 13 & ship's coolie, he was sleeping on the footpaths and these informed 1 the boy's dis were run over. The car continued 'Later the mother its journey and returned to the went to To Kwa Wan, and outside roadway again. Pulico whistles an unnumbered bouse, saw the were blown, "the car was stopped second defondant, whom she roby police constables, and the party cognised as one of the men who tuken to the station. visited the house with the first defendant the previous day. After some argument she had him arrest. ed, by a constable. On entering the house she found the first defendant in bed. He was likewise given inso custody. The child was not in the house.

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The enquiry was adjourned,

THE CANTON SITUATION.

Kowloon City Road took the child NO MORE ILLEGAL TAXES.

to the police station and reported that she had bought him frem, the

Cantor, June 17.-The Kuomin- third defendant... The baby had up- peared to be very delicate and pale tung headquarters are reported to und on the advice of her husband have decided to abolish the Civil this woman went in search of the Governorship and place the govern. third defendant, who was told to ment in the hands of a commission call and take the child back; but of seven; also to to forbid. Tuchun. when she failed to call, the child was taken to the police." While atto levy taxes.- Reuter.

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the third defendant's house the Canton, June 17.-The Kuomintang fourth accused was pointed out as a Bolshevik organisation to which the child's aunt and was stated to the Christian General Fang Yu- have been aware of the kidnappinghsiang belongs. It has ordered the

After part of the evidence had been heard the second and third suppression of gaming houses- defendants were discharged while Reuter. the other two were remanded.

The fatal motor accident which occurred at West Point on the June 1, when a motor car driven by Pun Puisang ran "onto the pave. ment and killed a coolie, had its second sequel at the Central Magistracy before Mr. F. A. D. Forrest yesterday afternoon when an enquiry was conducted into the death of the deceased coolie.

ADULTERATED

RACING.

THE ROYAL HUNT CUP.'

London, June 17.The follow- ing is the result of the Royal Hunt Cup-1. Cockpit (100/6); 2. Poly- phontes (10/1); 3. Priory Park (50/1); time three and half min- Thirty ran-oriter

MILK.utes.

FINE REDUCED.. Wong Chee-kee, who was con- victed by Mr. E. W. Hamiltom on a charge of selling to Inspector Savage adulterated milk on May 4, and fined $50, reappeared before the Magistrato at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when, the sentence was reviewed...

Mr. J. A. Lensk represented the defendant and pointed out to his Worship that the authorities bud closed the cowshed on account of the defendant's water supply baidg insanitary.

His Worship in reducing the fine

SOCCER.

ENGLAND v. IPSWICH.

Ipswich, Queensland, June 17.- The English soccer team beat Ipswich by 3 goals to 0.-Reuter.

TRAIN ACCIDENT.

Rockport, June 17.-The death

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PICTURE SOLD FOR £50,000. Raphael's famous picture of Giuliano di Medici, belonging to the Borlin art collector Hulds- chinsky, has been sold for £50,000- to an American purchaser whose | name has been kept secret.

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