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NOT TO STAND.
Coolidge "Chooses" As Before.
SUPPORTER REPRIMANDED..
BIG OIL STRIKE. /
Unstoppable Flow At Kirkuk.
DANGEROUS GASES.
Now Fairly Certain He Will Not Be Two Americans Aud Arab Coolie
Renominated.
Lose Lives.
Bagdad, Yesterday.
The oil strike at Kirkuk is flow-
RUBBER EXPORTS.
No Change in Present Regulations,
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CEYLON AND MALAYA.
Machinery Of Scheme To Be Overhauled.
The
London, Yesterday. Colonial Office announces no change will be on November 1 in
from
sidency next year, have received ed into the surrounding gulleys the export of rubber
the regulations governing
a setback.
Washington, Yesterday. The hopes of the Republicans that President. Coolidge despite ing with undiminished pressure that his recent statement, would ac-and up to now has proved unstop- cept nomination for the Pre-pable. Fifty thousand tons flow
made
and depressions, filling the air Ceylon and Malaya. The Govern The Republican, Senator Fess, with dangerous gas which forced ments of the territories concerned who has repeatedly asserted that most of the employees to leave will be asked, to overhaul the ma President Coolidge would be re- the workings. nominated next year, admitted This was responsible for the to increasing its efficient working. chinery of the scheme with a view that President Coolidge severely death of two American drillers They are being consulted, as to reprimanded him, and he received who in attempting to reach their what alterations are required to the impression that Coolidge was bungalow from Kirkuk entered a the present regulations and full determined not to change his depression and were overcome by right is reserved to make any mind. Reuter's American Ser-the gas. They succumbed after changes considered necessary as being pluckily extricated by three from February 1 next. The long- Arab coolies, one of whom also est practicable notice of any lost his life.-Reuter.
changes will be given.-Reuter.
TIN MERGER.
vice.
CHILD MARRIAGE.
PREVALENCE CAUSES STIR IN INDIA.
STARTLING FIGURES.
FROM THE SWORD.
THE WORLD'S GREAT DELIVERANCE,
A NOTABLE STATUE.
PRODUCERS' BOARD FORMED.
MARKET CONDITIONS.
Bombay, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday. Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal Supporting the bill he is intro-
London, Yesterday. A tin producers' control board. ducing into the Bombay Legislative Leader, unveiled at Finchley, a Council preventing early marriages Deliverance" presented by
suburb of London a statue La has been formed as the result of of Hindus, in Jadhav states there count Rothermere, chief proprietor London by tin producing interests Vis- a series of private meetings in are now in the Bombay Presidency of the "Daily Mail." 74,000 married children under the which is the work of the French
The statue, of Mulaya.
Mr. E. J. Byrne, a prominent tîn
age of five years, of which 3,500 are sculptor, Emile Guillaume, is that company director, told Reuter widows, and nearly 350,000 married of a female figure holding in the that the objects primarily will be children between the ages of five right hand an uplifted sword and to establish a closer, and & more and ten. The bill aims at stopping manifesting expressively feelings
all marriages of girls under twelve of relief at a great deliverance, equitable relationship between and boys under sixteen.
Lord Rothermere, in presenting the the producers, smelters and The figures created a sensation lief experienced when the allied present
He reviewed the statue, said it symbollaed the re-consumers.
market In view of the controversy aroused armies of France and Britain drove and said the board in nowise conditions by the recent publication of a book back the invading Germans from would advocate a combination for by an American, Miss Mayo, deal-Marne.
collective selling and concentrated ing with child marriage and other Hindu social customs.Router.
BUSH MURDERS.
EXPEDITION IN THE SOLOMONS.
NAVAL ESCORT.
Suva (Fiji), Yesterday.
His mind had instantly turned to up to the present its operations to Mr. Lloyd George when he thought uniting the companies of Malaya, who abould unveil that memorial.
He added: "History alone can
Burma, Siam and Nigeria. But present those war years in the steps were being taken to ascer true perspective, but whatever tain the views of the Dutch East political and other difference may Indies and Bolivian producers. have arisen since 1918 the people: A memorandum would shortly of England can never forget what be circulated inviting each-com- they owe to the unfalling courage pany in the former countries to and. enthusiasm of Mr. Lloyd send a delegate to the proposed George."
conference.Reuter.
Mr. Lloyd George apoke in vivid
The cruiser "Adelaide" has an- terms of the deliverance which the TO JOSEPH CONRAD. chored at Sinarango, near the scene allied
victory had meant to
of the murders and has establish-humanity-deliverance by sword ed 1. base camp for operations from military despotism. The next against the murderers.
great task, he said, was not deliver- ance by the sword but from the word. British Wireless Service.
The crime is reported to have been carried out by 300 members of two bush tribes.
Meanwhile, 800 natives have been collected at Governmnet headquar- ters at Auki, Malalta Island, and others are coming in daily to offer to help arreat the murderers.
The Resident Commissioner han
THE LEAGUE.
HOW IT HAS MADE GOOD.
MEMORIAL PANEL IN VILLAGE HALL
London, Yesterday. A memorial panel in the porch of the Village Hall at Blahop bourne, Canterbury, where he died, a year ago, has been erected by friends and admirers throughout the world to Joseph Conrad, It was unveiled yesterday by the London, Yesterday. well-known writer Cunningham- instructed the majority of them fo Sir Austen Chamberlain replied Grahame, who said he had known return to their homes and await to the toast of the League of Na-him throughout his career from ordera, Every effort is being made tions proposed by Mr. Garvin, the the days when he was unknown to arrest the murderers by the civil well-known journalist, at a lun- and poor, until he became a celo- 8.45 pan forces, but 30 ratings from the cheon in connection with the Colbrated and successful novelist with
worldwide fame. "Adelalde" will accompany the ex-chester oyster festival. pedition to the Interior for protee when one thought of the place that Conrad never ceased to be or Sir A. Chamberlain said that who assisted in the ceremony, sald The Polish Minister, Skirmunt, tion.
which the League held in the esti-divested himself of his Polish PREMIER'S BIG PIPE. was not what it had not accom-vice.
mation of the world the wonder traditions. British Wireless Ber- plished, but that it had so far made good, It had made war more difficult and it was widely corrective content to do the 10.30 am. Mr. Baldwin oponed the new blo-using the strength which it had daily task that came to hand
4 p.m.
www.
ENTERTAINED' BY 'VARSITY STUDENTS.
London, Yesterday,
logical building of Birmingham
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D'Artognan. Pres. McKinley, Chak Bang
of Russia
"L
MERRY" WIDOWS.
58 HUSBANDS KILLED DURING FESTIVAL
The Russian authorities have
Paris, October 1..
of Laws. He had an enthusiastic fluence and power, and as it grew been surprised to discover the reception. At the conclusion or less and less would it be possible village of Novola inhabited only proceedings the Premier, who is for any country to go into war by widows...
8.30 a.m.noted for his devotion to the pipe on any terms that would secure After investigations they dis- as a medium for smoking, was pre- the approbation of the Council of covered that all the husbands in sented by a deputation of. under the League. graduates with a huge cherry wood
The League was the village, numbering 58, had
pipe which he promptly shouldered justifying itself and with the been murdered.
2.80 p.m. as though it were an axe, He was goodwill of the nations it would The women confessed to poi- 5. p.m. afterwards driven off In triumph in preserve the peace of nations
a chariot drawn by students BriBritish Wireless Service. tish Wireless Service.
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THE HOLY SEE.
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4 POWERA ARMEN
soning them when they were in toxicated during a village festival, after the War, when the men re- turned and disturbed their wives untroubled Ivest
Thering-leader Sophie Safarine, stated that she commit ted thirty murders i Rome, Yesterday. She says she developed andro Writing on the Roman question phobla owing to the brutality of Foglla D'Ordini," the official or her first husband, whom she kill- gan of the Fascist party, declares ed in addition to the second and that any discussion of the restora: third husbands
tion of temporal power to the Holy
Bee, even on a reduced scale, is ont
of the question in Fascist Italy
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