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LIFE OF WASHINGTON. SAFETY IN FLYING.

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 22, 1927.

UNEMPLOYMENT.

PRISON FAVOURS,

INSURANCE BOARD'S, NEW SCHEME.

MR. X" HAS CONVICT AS,

A BATMAN.

BLUNT BOOK DEPICTS HIM AS A RAKE.

London, Nov. 21.

of

Paris, Nov. 21.

New York, Nov. 20. The traditional view of George The Unemployment Insurance "Mr. X" appeared in what is Board has based, on the recon-called the Hungarian Bonds Case Washington is rudely assailed in mendation the committee, which concerns an attempt to sell the second volume of Rupert which, under Lord Blanesborough, £10,000,000 worth of Hungarian Hughes "Life of Washington," recently Investigated the whole forged securities. There have problem with particular reference already been eleven arrests, in- to finance, a new scheme cm- cluding a French Consular The first volume depicted Waah

n Czecho-Slovakian bracing some 12,000,000 work official and

It is even people which will be considered banker and his son.

It is believed that "Mr. X" con- ceals the identity of an ex-Profect who was formerly Chief Secretary to the Minister of Finance.

which is now published

Ington as an habitual gambler and

for feminine beauty.

The second volume given.a vivid glimpse of Washington's house-

Six Chinese are being held in custody as a result of the recent larceny of over six hundred ddl lars' worth of antimony regulus ore from the China Provident, Loan and Mortgago. Company's xodown at No. 440 Des Voeux Road West. Of these, four have been remanded on a charge of, theft, while the fifth and sixth men, Lf Pong and Au Shiu, were yes in the House of Commons. To- rumoured that French parliamen- bon viveur with a practicni eye terday charged for the first time day and to-morrow and Wednes- tarians may be involved.

with day have been set aside for dis- before Major C. Willson aiding, abetting or procuring the cussing the measure. others to commit the crime, Li The scheme is on a contributory basis to which the employer. Pong is represented by Mr. C.A.3. workers and the State are all con-

He was treated with the utmost Russ and Au Shiu by Mr. Horacetributors. New rates of contribu

consideration and taken in a Lo, both returning a plan of not then and benefit are proposed private motor car to Sante Prison Mr. L. D. Turner prosecuted on has now been advanced by the where another prisquer was allot behalf of the China Provident, government whereby further alted to him as batman. This is In a long opening, he reconstructerations to benefit are put for- unprecedented. ed the modus operandi of the gung ward. of thieves, implicating in the first Under the existing scheme there place, Kwok Ho, the first defen- is a dividing line at the age of dant in the larceny charge, who eighteen between adults and boys I was at one time employed at the and girls. An adult anemployed godown, and in the second place, mas receives eighteen shillinge Li Pong, constructional carpenter weekly and an adult women fifteen who was employed on an adjoin-shillings whlie a boy between 16 ing restaurant building through and 18 gets seven shillings and six which access to the interior of the pence and girl between 16 and 18 godown is believed to have been years gets six shillings.

In the present Bill it is proposed gained.

guilty.

A trail of antimony ore filings helped the poffee to trace the movements of the metal in its pas sage from the godown into the empty restaurant building. This trail led through a trapdoor in the roof of the godown,, then (through a window, into the res

taurant building to finally come to an end in an empty room. After storage overnight in this room, the metal was, the following morning, loaded into a truck and dispose to dealers, the proceeds being divided in certain proportions amongst those concerned," ́ ̧

the Bill and a further amendment

that a man shall receive Serenteen shillings and woman fifteen shill- ings, a young man from 18 to 21 years ten shillings and a young woman from 18 and 21 years eight shillings, and a boy from 18 to 18 years six shillings and a girl from 16 to 18 years five shillings.

The Government amendment is a concession to the demand that there should be a graduated scale for persons over 18 and under 21 and it provides that. benefits to man should unemployed young advance to ten shillings at 18 years, to twelve shillings at 19 years and to fourteen shillings at 20 years. Women's benefits advance pro-

Apart from the amount of bone-. fits and contributions it is prob able that much interest during de bate on the Bill will be centred in an unofficial Conservative amend ment for providing better arrange ments for the vocational training of young unemployed persons.- British Wireless,

Of the six men implicated. Mr.portionally. Turner stated that Kwek He and· L Tong assumed; important pos- Hons in the cast The first, o account of his position as an em- ployee who was reasonably expect- ed to have inside knowledge of the contents of the rodown; and the scent on account of his position as foreman carpenter employed m the adjoining new restaurant building, who was reasonably suspected of being the mad who planned the passage" of the ore from the godown, through an in-

14,000 BALES INVOLVED. tricate maze of passages. An Shiu, associated with Li Pong'in

Cairo, Nov, 21. the instigation charge, was the

Fourteen thousand bales of hiz go-between in arranging an intro-quality cotton are reported to be duction between the foreman carinvolved in the Egypto-Soviet penter and the godown employes.

agreement,

EGYPTIAN COTTON.

The three remaining men were The Egyptian Government has merely coulies employed in, the rc-declined to accept the guarantee moval of the heavy metal.

of the Russian bank, hence a draft

After evidence of a format na-of the agreement has been sub- ture was given, the case was admitted to a London bank whose journed. It was indicated that reply is awaited-Reuter. one of the coolies figuring in the Lloyds Bank "Approached. larceny charge, who had pleaded"} It is ascertained that the agree-, guilty" would be utilised by the ment relates to the purchase of prosecution as a witness against | 110,000, kantars 01 cotton from the two alleged principals.

U.S. PRESIDENCY.

TRAFFIC JAM” OF CANDI- DATES LIKELY.

Government stocks, subject to a guarantee of £200,000, The So- viets naked Lloyds Bank of Lon- don to give a guarantee that the price fixed for good sakellaridis hould be $4 above the futures market price, working out at about $40.50 per kantar.-Reuter

It will be recalled that Soviet delegates have been in Egypt some New York, Nov. 21.

weeks, negotiating, for the purchase Mr. Chauncey Depew predicts of large amounts of the Egyptian "that although there will be a "traffic cotton crop, "Some cargoes of cot- jam" of Presidential candidates the tan have already been shipped to Republicans will nominate Presi- Russia from Egypt.] _dent Coolidge. The nominating. convention will go into recess until President Coolidge should have considered fully what amount of unanimous call for him to restand there la.

According to the National Re- public Magazine which has canvas-,,,

sed editora and politicians through-

STEAMER ASHORE.

MISHAP ON TRIP FROM CHINGWANGTAO.

"Shanghai, Nov. 21, The Gurman steamer Ditmarktoel,

out the country, Mr. Hoover and, 0,100 tons, chartered by the Kailan Mr. Al. Smith, Governor of New Mining Adminstration with coal from York, will lead the Republicans and Chingwangtao, has gone ashore on Democrats respectively in the Amherst Rock. No. 1, 2 and 3 holds Presidential campaign-Reuters are leaking. Tugs are standing by. American Service.

-Reuter,

He was also permitted to sample the costly menu from a neighbous, ing restaurant instead of the usual prison fare.-Reuter.

hold at Mount Vernon before the Revolution with crowded card tables, daneing revela, drinking feasts, oyster parties, excursions

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN BY AIR MINISTRY,

London, Nov. 21. The British Air Ministry, are to devoting special attention methods of ensuring, safety in fly- Handley Page automatie ziralots ng. Satisfactory tests made with

are likely to lead to the speedy

typos of British, aircraft......The Air Ministry have also acquired the " plans of a hovering air machine, known as the helicogyre, invented by an Italian engineer. Sig. Kitorio [Isncco-British Wireless.

adaptation of this device to mast

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to horse races, balls and play- FOR AND AGAINST BOYCOTT.

houses just: auch. & home ng is now denounced as the origin of all vice."

According to Mr. Hughes the discipline of the. Revolutionary Army was far from perfect. Letters from Washington bitterly complained of the quality of the

troops.

Paris, Nov. 21. Although the name of mysterious personage arrested in connexion with the forged Hung- arian bends is undivulged, it is

Mr. Hughes, however," conecdes authoritatively stated that he is not the person it was originally that Washington was unusually thought, Moreover he is not a truthful-Reuter's American Ser high official--Reuter.

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November 30th

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New Delhi, Nov. 21.

The Punjab Khilafat Committee is unanimously in favour of the boycott of the Statutory Commis sión, demanding a plenary round table

Punjab conference. The. Congress Committee also resolved to favour the boycott

On the contrary a meeting of the depressed classes at Poona re- solved to express its appreciation at the appointment of all Europeans: on the Commission.-Reuter.'

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