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INDIAN COTTON.
Bombay Mill Owners' Complaints.
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SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES.
Depression Due To Economic
Causes Beyond Control.
Bombay, Yesterday.
BLİSHED
1846
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.
UNRULY STUDENTS. DOMINION'S RIGHT.
Police Attacked In Cairo.
• STONE THROWING.
Rioting Also At Assist And Tartak.
To Keep Out of a British War.
HERTZOG'S BOMBSHELL.
"Each State Now Master Of Iti Own Destiny."
Cairo, Yesterday. :
Capetown, Yesterday. Speaking Rt a dinner to the
Fifteen hundred students of ly- The right of a British dominion Governor Sir Leslie Wilson given dustrial schools, who were on to remain neutral in the event of by the Bombay Millowners' Associa strike, came sharply into collision Britain being involved in war was tion, Mr. Mody, chairman of the with the police, whom they stoned dealt with by General J. B. M. Association, said the cotton Indus-outside the Wafd Headquarters. Hertzog in a speech in the Assem- try was again faced with serious The police, wearing steel helmets bly in moving the ratification of difficulties and had lost all hope of and carrying shields and heavy the Imperial Conference resolu- attaining normal trading conditions sticks, charged and scattered the tion.
Stocks in mills were continually
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until it was protected in the Home rioters, three of whom were He declared that each State of markets against unfair competition severely and 25 slightly injured. the Empire was now master of and the export trade assisted Eight policemen were injured. its own destiny and was the sole similarly to industries of a national Wafd servants used the hose judge of the extent of its co-opera- character in other countries.
against the demonstrators. tion within the Empire. Conse-
Striking Spectacle.
quently both by law and equity accummulating, more spindles and The Wafd Headquarters present the Dominion's right to neutral- looms were stopping and the ed a very striking spectacle with ity could not be rejected nor was prices obtained by the mand students packed like sardines there any higher central author- facturers Were becoming within its gates. The police out-ity.-Reuter. ercusingly unremunerative. The side were without authority to en- situation was one for dismay on the ter while the boys hurled stones part of the stoutest optimist. He from the verandah. hoped the Government of India would see its way to do something
in-
General Smuts' Reply. General Smuts, in reply; grave- ly urged that it was very import- The wounded were carried into ant to avoid all occasions where Madame Zaglul's house and the possibly be raised. He wanted the, Wafd Headquarters which is the question of neutrality could more than watch developments.·
Sir L. WHson. replied and deplor-to attend them.
ambulance corps was summoned their relations with the Govern- ment of Great Britain to be so ed the depression which
The Wafd leader, Nahas Pasha, close and friendly that they to economic causes beyond the con-arrived and urged the demonstra- rever even raise a question which trol of the Government or Associators to return to their homes. should be regarded as purely tion.-Reuter.
By 1.30 p.m. only 100 remained. į academic in the future.--Reuter. Brushes with the police also oc- curred in the streets, the police in) motor-cars chasing the runaways,
was due
AIR ESTIMATES.“
SUBSIDIES FOR CIVIL AVIATION.
The students of the Sheikh School at Assiut struck yesterday and endeavouring to bring out the students at the American College London, Yesterday. which they attacked, smasked the Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for gates, tore up trees and smashed Air, in a memorandum accompany- |windows with stones.
ing the Air Estimates, gives the The principal and staff defend- present strength of the Royal Alred the building, and the efforts to Force as equivalent to 69 squadrons terrorise the students into strik to which four new aquadrons willing failed. The principa! was
slightly injured.
be added in 1928.
At Tantah.
The developments will be prin- cipally overseas. Two new. squad- ; Schoolboys at Tantah held a rons will go to India, making a demonstration and burned three total there of eight, the cost of motor-cars including the car of which will fall on the Indian ex-the Egyptian Commandant, who chequer.
was severely handled.
Provision is made for two new The casualties in the rioting at fights of flying boats, which have Cairo, Assiut and Tantah have so
protecting far been confined to students. great potentialities in Imperial communications. One flight, Reuter. will be stationed Overseas, parachute is now supplied to every
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Holiday in Egypt.
London, yesterday.
NO HOLY WAR.
DENIAL FROM PALESTINE GOVERNMENT.
Jerusalem, Yesterday. The Secretariat of the Palestine Government announces that all rumours from Basra and Jerusalem of the declaration of a Holy War by Ibneaud against the Moslems of Iraq and trans-Jordania lack confirmation.-Reuter,
H.M. MUSICALE.
SUCCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE
LAST NIGHT.
Another of the popular, Helena May Institute musicale took place
aircraft capable of carrying it, and Princess Mary and Viscount last night, when it was attended by the percentage carrying parachutes Lascelles, accompanied by Lord a large and enthusiastic gathering will be 86 in 1928. The remainder and Lady Boyn, have left London of music-lovers, will be mostly sea-going aircraft for Egypt on holiday.--Reuter.
and as the present form of attach- ment Involves risk of drowning the | difficulty is expected shortly to be solved.
The increase of £19,000 in sub-) sidies in civil aviation is intended for further development in 1928 of existing air services with the ultimate object of establishing an Imperial Air Mail Route to India: und the East.--Reuter.
Sarwal's Desire.
Mias E. Dunbar, who possesses
an excellent voice, was oustanding
. Cairo, Yesterday. in an altogether fine programme. The Secretary-General of the She sang in Italian, choosing Items Council of Ministers has issued in by Schindler in the arst half of French and Arabic the text of the the programme, and selections from Anglo-Egyptian treaty the docu-other composers In the second half. ment contained in the British Mr. John Braga's violin solos White Paper, together with a very were up to his usual high standard important letter from Sarwat to both in technique and interpreta- Sir A. Chamberlain dated March tion, and was well received. He 5 in which Sarwat after regret also accompanied songs by Mrs. R. ting the failure of negotiations, Sanger and. Mrs. G. E. Aubrey with TARIFF AUTONOMY. efforts should be employed by greatly contributed
expresses the conviction that excellent violin obligatos, which to the enjoy- both sides, at least to prepare the ment of the clever singers' con- way for the conclusion of an en-tributions. Mrs. Sanger's offerings tente which was the dearest wish were five selections from Brahms, of the two countries.
whilst Mrs. Aubrey sang pieces by Osaka, Yesterday. The morning's demonstrations Spohr and Handel. Representatives of leading trade were mainly directed against the Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith, who is a associations in Osaka, Kobe and police. The crowd severely be gifted pianist, was unusually good other cities have adopted a resolu- laboured & plain clothes officer last night when he played some fine tion opposing Chinese Tariff near the Wafd headquarters. pieces by Chapin. He and Miss Autonomy or the proposed interim Several ringleaders were arrest- Caroline Braga were the accom- measures to increase the Customs ed,
panists throughout the programme, Revenue, upon the ground that!
American Protest?
and did excellent work. such will merely help Chinese war- Except for a few students' par- The next musicale will be held at lords to continue civil wars,
ading the streets in motorcars the Institute on March 22. The resolution contends that the shouting "Long live Liberty" the Government's of North and South afternoon and evening were with- China must units to ask the powers (out' incident.
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Government ships, supported by public funds.
Ostensibly the Shipping Board is still, willing to dispose of the Government ships to private owners, although the officials of the United States Steel Corporation to- New York-Washington des- day allege that they have been
to re-open the Tariff Conference." It is understood the United The resolution declares that the States Charge d'Affaires is mak-
A Chinese woman living at No.patches, confidently predict that unable to buy the vessels of the Peking Government's procedure is ing a representation to the EgyF-9, Ship-street, Wanchai, was yes- the United States Senate will Roosevelt Line operating between
tian Government in regard to the tarday afternoon made the victim approve the bill offered by the United States and Indla. The "Asahi," taking up the mat-students' demonstration against of the old banknote trick. She Senator Jones committing the
ter editorially, urges the closest the American College. vigilance of Peking'a activities in
looking to tariff autonomy, and
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NANKING, CHIEFS.
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U. S. A. Changes. Washington, Yesterday,
The rate war now being waged was accoated by two men in Ar-Government to heavy financial ex-by the Roosevelt Line, with the sanal-street who represented that penditure in an attempt to build up consent of the Shipping Board,
the paper recommends that Japan Mr. Franklin Mott Gunther, they were strangers who wished to a great American merchant marine against its British competitors in should take proper steps before it chief of the division of Mexican have a roll of foreign banknotes under the control of the United the jute trade with India has made
it unprofitable for the Steel Cor-" is too late.--Router.
affairs in the State Department changed into local currency. When Shipping Board.
Senator Jones is sald to have won poration to continue the ships of has been appointed United States the woman agreed to change the Minister to Egypt vice Mr. Morton notes for them, the men induced majority support by modifying the the Isthmian Line which it owns, her to part with a pair of 'gold clauses dealing with mall contracts and the company must sither with Howells resigned.
The State Department officials bangles worth $48 as security for and permanent Government owner- draw them or obtain a court order said the view taken of the Anglo- the money. When she eventually ship. Even as modified, however, to prohibit the Government con- Egyptian crisis should not affect discovered at the money changers the bill is directly opposed to the tinuing the rate war..
that she had been given a bundle wish of President Coolidge that the According to the statement of Americo-Egyptian relations in Shanghai, Yesterday. any way and explained that the of waste paper, she returned to the Government shall divorce itself the Steel Corporation, it in willing. The Nanking Central Political American Government recognised spot where the men had promis- from the shipping industry as soon to buy the Roosevelt Line ships Council yesterday passed a resolu- the Government of Egypt.--Reu-ed to wait for her, but they had as possible. Congress evidently and operate them at rates which tion appointing Gen. Chiang Kai- ter's American Service.
already disappeared,
POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS
shek chairman of the C.P.C., and also appointed Li Chai-sum chair man of the Kwangtung division of
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
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The clearing rate of the dollar, expected in Singapore on demand; to-day was 2/08/16. Japanese mill steamer
favours, the argument of the Ship will permit a proft to all concern- ping Board that the country's only ed, but the Shipping Board will not hope for a real merchant marine is sell the vessels.
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