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August 10, 1928, Temperatura 83, Barometer 29.40
Rainfall 0,01′ inch:
Humidity 96. August 11 (9x2 Tamperature 81.
No. 18.952.
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MARION, August 10, Throughout the night preceding the funeral thousands of people filed past Mr. Harding's bier, The queue at midnight seemed unending, and Mrs. Harding ordered the house to be kept open, if necessary till sunrise, to enable all friends to bid her husband farewell. The floral tributes were so numerous that tfiey overflowed from the house into the lawn and adjacent gardens.
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, August.ro.
It is understood that the British note to the, Allies inter alia stresses the necessity of obtaining either from reparation or from Britain's Continental debtors a cum sufficient to meet the British debt to the United States.
"MINES TO BE SEIZED,
COBLENCE, August 10,
The Inter-Allied High Commission has ofdered the seizure of mines in the occupied territory, empowering the Inter-Allied Mission to take possession and exploit them where the producers refuse to deliver fuel under the treaty.
MARION, August 10, Amid hushed silence and in the presence of
The decree provides a maximum penalty of five vast multitudes of mourning countrymen, Warren years' imprisonment for refusal to obey orders or Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth President of the interference with the working of properties. Acts- United States, was laid to rest in the cemetery of } of sabotage shall be punished by twenty years' im- his native town this afternoon.
prisonment or even death where they result in The normal activities of thousands of cities and | fatalities. towns throughout the country ceased simultaneously as the casket was placed in the vault. Trams stopped. Telegraphs and telephones were stilled. Millions stood for a few moments in reverent respect. Shops and business concerns everywhere suspended work for the entire day.
-LAST SIMPLE RITES.
COUNTY CRICKET,
YORKSHIRE STILL WINNING.
WOOLLEY'S EXPLOIT.
LONDON, August · 10. Yorkshire, at Leicester, defeated Leicestershire
The cortège with the widow and other members of the family, Mr. Coolidge (the new President), Cabinet Ministers and other notables, passed by an innings and 74 runs, Rhodes'taking 4 wickets through the avenue lined by ten thousands of towns- people and visitors.
There was no military display and ao bands, while the funeral services were impressively simple.
for 46 runs and 4 for 30 and Sutcliffe compiling 90.
Kent, at Canterbury, lost to Middlesex bý sevep
wickets, Kent batted first and made 445, of which Woolley (FE) contributed 270, this being the highest individual score of the season. Kent's
Only relatives and intimate friends participated in the last simple rites at the graveside. The Pre-second innings amounted to 159. Middlesex replied sidential salute of twenty-one guns was fired as the with 457 (Murrell 86 and F.T.Mann 79) and second- hearse entered the cemetery. The hymn "Lead Y, 148 for 3 wickets, Mann contributing 53 Kindly Light" was sung by the focal church 'cholr A short scripture reading, prayer and hymn followed, the ceremony concluding with the bene diction.
LATER.
Throughout the day the people poured into the city in continuous streams. Hundreds fainted owing to the great heat. These were treated at emergency hospitals.
Mr. Coolidge, Mr. Taft, the Cabinet Ministers, the Speaker and the temporary President of the Senate acted as pallbearers.
BRITAIN'S SORROW.
not out.
At Leyton Essex beat Hampshire by three!. wickets. Connor (Essex) compiled III not out in the second innings. Hampshire's second Innings closed at 204. J.W.H.T. Douglas securing 7 wickets for 72.
Lancashire defeated Notts by ten wickets at Manchester. The first Notts innings closed at 251, Gunn (G.) compiling 115. In their second venture the Nottsmen were all out for 61, two men being absent hurt. Tyldesley (R.) took 3 wickets for 5 runs and Hickmott 3 for 15, both for Lancashire, Lancashire's totals were 203 and TIT for no wickets, Makepeace scoring 62 not out.
At Birmingham, Warwickshire led Northamp-
LONDON, August 10,- Flags were flown at half mast all over Britain to-day on the occasion of the burial of Mr. Hardingtonshire on the first innings. For Warwickshire, B. Quaife scored 99 not out in the first innings and Memorial services were held in Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's. The former was remark- Captain Parsons 131 in the second
Gloucestershire defeated Worcestershire àt able for its cosmopolitan character. Growds of Americans assembled outside the Abbey door which Bristol by five wickets. Dipper compiled 171 in the was closed early owing to the throng. Many people first innings; Parker secured 7 wickets for 72 and were unable to gain admission and remained out-16 for 78, both for Gloucestershire. M.K. Foster side. Fifteen hundred Americans were among the made 121 in the second Worcestershire innings. congregation which was representative of all classes of British society."
KING'S RESPECT.
At Weston-super-Mare, Somerset lost to the West Indies team by 198 runs. Challoner, in the first innings, made 79 for the West Indians, The King was represented by the Duke-of Glamorganshire, at Cardiff, lost to Sussex by York wearing Air Force uniform. There were also 175 runa. Tate took 5 wickets for 62 and 7 for $6 present Cabinet Ministers, Privy Councillors, repre-for Sussex. sentatives of the Services and diplomats in resplen- dent uniforms.
The service was fully choral. The congregation joined in the very fervent singing of Mr. Harding's favourite hymns, “Lead Kindly Light,” and “ Abide. With Me."
The King did not race at Cowes, remaining on the Royal yacht whose flag, like those of the other yachts, was flown at half-mast.
~The Baltic Exchange suspended business for an hour.
AGAINST THE SOVIET.
PEASANT OUTBREAKS.
RIGA, August 10.
There have been numerous anti-Soviet peasant outbreaks in the Odessa, Ekateringslav, and Don districts, also in North Caucasus.
The outbreaks are repo.ied to be the result of vigorous measures by Soviet collectors who are LONDON, August 10...employing militla to assi;t them requisitioning in The Harding service at St. Margaret's was an | corn as a tax. overflow from the Abbey. The congregation In- cluded a party of Americans jilst arrived from Rotterdam specially to attend the Westminster service. They were very disappointed when they found there was'no accommodation.
PARIS, August. 10.
POURING OUT MONEY.
BERLIN, August 10.
After a few hours, the strike in the State prin- The Ministers of War and Marine represented tiny works his been settled, enabling the resump the Government at a Harding memorial service held tion of printing of billions of paper marks. in the American pro-Cathedral. Drum taps were: sounded in the Place Concorde.
BRITISH INTERESTS.
MISSION TO RUSSIA.
PREMIER'S COUSIN.
LONDON, August 10,"
A party of business mén headed by Mr. F. L. Baldwin, cousin of the Premier, and Chairman of Boos Traders Ltd., which is an association of eighty British engineering concerns formed ten years ago. to-prosecute British Interests in Russia, has left on a mission to Russia where they hope to conclude definite business with the Soviet.
The banks have decided to issue emergency cheques of 1,000,000 and 5,000,000 marks to meet the currency sturtage.
BERLIN STRIKE.
BERLIN, August 10.
The traffic on the underground railways has come to a standstill owing to a strike following the dismissal of three workmen.
ANNECESSARY?:
BERLIN. August 10.
A Government decree prohibith/Germans from selling marks abroad on the ground that sales have a detrimental effect on 'exchange.
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