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WAHABIS WITHDRAW.
THE "BREMEN.”
TO 'WORK FOR FORD.'
FLASHING
Machine Still At Greenly, Big Rush From Upper
Island.
NEW YORK'S WELCOME.
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Basra, To-day.
Story.
Ottawa, Yesterday.
Amazon.
PLANTATIONS OVER-RUN.
Higher Wages Hoped From "Henry."
Rio de Janeiro, To-day. One immediate result of the de- According to a message from Believing that Ford's new rub- cision to hold a conférence at Quebec, received by the Canadian ber plantation, in the State of Jeddah between Sir Gilbert Clay- Government, the "Bremen" will Para, will offer better working ton and Ibnasud, the Wahabi continue the flight to New York in conditions and higher wages, rub- King, has been an easing of the the afternoon when repairs have ber-gatherers from the Upper: situation at Koweit.
been completed.
Amazon are trekking down-river
The cruiser "Emerald" is stated i A message from Mitchellfields to "work for Ford.” to be about leave while the Aerodrome, Long Island, states So pronounced has the exodus Wahabi force, which had been that the proposed flight of become that all the rubber planta- threatening a raid upon Iraq, has 'Junker aeroplanes to Greenly tions in the State are.overrun ¦been recalled and has returned to Island has been abandoned owing with labourers and planters from
its own territory. Reuter, to unfavourable reports regard- the Upper Amazon.
ing the weather and landing con- ditions there.
SIR J. SIMON.
COMMISSION ONCE AGAIN IN ENGLAND.
BOYCOTT WEAKENED.
London. Yesterday.
Petrol Supplies.
Quebec, Yesterday. The petrol available at Point Amour is unsuitable for the ""Bremen." Two relief
aero- planes, fitted with skis for landing on the ice, left here for Greenly Island conveying petrol, report-
The "Bremen's” crow have sent,
The Government has been ask- ed to interfere.-Reuter's Ameri- can Service..
MOSLEM RIOT.
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.
Jerusalem, Saturday. Moslems at Gaza, who were
re-
Sir John Simon and other ers and cinema men. members of the India Statutory | Commission arrived at Folke-
a wireless message that they land-fused permission to hold a demon-) stone yesterday. In an interview,led on an ice covered lake. They stration against the recent Mission- Sir John said: "We are
now are in first-class condition despite ary Conference, sent a deputation assured of the goodwill and co-the fact they spent four hours to the District Officer about this. oneration of the main section of groping in fog in search of help. An erroneous report was circulated the Indian public. We have strong, The aviators were enveloped in that the deputation had been hopes that the feeling will im-fog for some time before their rested and thereupon 400 Moslema prove. We believe this first visit, descent and lost their bearings. stormed the police station, as it during which commission has tra- They were forced to land at the contained arms and ammunition. velled some 6.000 miles in India first available place. has done a great deal of good.
It would have been quite imprac
New York's Welcome.
New York, Yesterday,
ar.
The police fired and slightly wounded two Moslems, and later reinforcements from Jafta restored
Iticable without some such pre- The newspapers and the public order.
liminary survey to have begun are more excited over the feat of
The Missionary Conference coin-
to handle the mass of material the "Bremen" than over anything cided with an acute wave of rell- which is awaiting analysis and since the arrival in Paris of Col.gious animosity. The Moslems were now we are in a much better posi-Lindbergh, Mammoth prepara- irritated by the conferences and tion to undertake our main task. Whatever may be said about the strength of the boycott there can be no doubt that much of the op- nosition has been weakened or broken down-British Wireless.
OPIUM TRAFFIC.
MALAYA'S "INCREASE OF CONSUMPTION,"
CHARGE REFUTED..
FAIR WEATHER.
N.E. winds, moderate, fair, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
The anticyclone is central over
alleged secrecy and "lack of con- tact with the people of Palestine." -Reuter.
New York, Saturday.
In consequence of reported dam-
S. E. Manchuria. The depres-age to the "Bremen's" propeller
N.
sion has inoved to the Bonins, Another has formed China.
over
Geneva, Saturday. tions are being made by the city At the meeting of the Opium authorities, assisted by numerous Advisory Committee, Mr. L. A. German and Irish societies, to Lyall, the Assessor, drew atten-welcome the fliers.
tion to the increase of consumption)
when landing, the North German Lloyd is sending a Junkers nero- plane to enable the fliers to .con- tinue their. flight`here.
To Rescue Crew.
Ottawa, Saturday. The Government atcomer "Mont- calm" has been diverted from patrol duties and ordered to pro- ceed to Greenly Island to rescue the "Bremen's" crew. The des- patch of an aeroplane from Otta- Malay States in 1925 and 1926. He charged the Governments with "de-i
Six aeroplanes are preparing to wa is also being considered-Rev berately increasing the amount of fly as near as possible to Greenly ter's American Service. legal opium in order to
Island carrying newspaper report- decrease
ers to obtain the "Bremen":
in the Federated and Unfederated
not in accordance with the British Government undertaking at the Hague Conference.
will be further discussion later,
Morphia In Formosa.
Enterprising Newspapers.
Curtisfield, New York,
To-day.
Dublin Excited.
news.
London, Saturday. the amount smuggled, which was crews' story of their flight.
Excitement reached fever pitch One newspaper 'plane, bound in Dublin when the papers an- on the same mission from Phil-nounced that the "Bremen" had over Nova Scotia. Sir Malcolm Delevingne refuted adelphia, has already passed over been seen
Crowds gathered New York.
outside the the charge. He declared that the
Louisburg, Saturday. newspaper offices in the hope of Malay States Government was do-
The "Bremen" landed at Green-hearing
Then wild ing everything possible to reducely Island and was slightly dam- rumours floated about regarding the consumption of opium. There aged. The crew are safe.
a landing in New York. Tele- Greenly Island is nearly four phones rang in great confusion hundred miles North-West of the all over the city. The manager The feature of the seaston was a "Bremen's" intended course and of one of the principal cinemas duel between Sir Malcolm Dele-consists of two hillocks joined by announced from the stage that |vingne and Count Sato, the Japan-a barren plateau. If the "Bremen" the "Bremen" had landed in New ese delegate, regarding the pro- is so damaged that it cannot riae York. A packed house rose to
crude morphine in the fliers can only reach civilisa- ita feet and cheered, the orches Formoen. Sir Malcolm complain- tion by travelling along the Cana- tra played the national anthem ed that figures were not given and dian seaboard to Quebec which and joy was unbounded. When the information was lacking regard the would take a week's time at the landing was confirmed in a mees- actual disposal of the drug. The present season unless a steamer age from Berlin, special editions Japanese delegate said that all pos-is specially sent to take them to appeared and were eagerly bought sible information would be given in St. John's. The wireless opera-up-Reuter. the next report.-Router.
'duction of
tor at Amour, Point, whose suc- [The excitement in Dublin, is cinct message was at first doubt-due to the fact that Commandant ed, is maintained by the New-Fitzmaurice, Chief of the Irish
BULGARIA 'QUAKE.foundland Government for the Free State Air Force, accom-
FELT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
MANY CASUALTIES.
protection of fisheries.
1
Why He Landed.
New York, Saturday. Von Huenefeld wirelessed that the landing at Greenly Island. was necessitated by lack of fuel and] strong headwinds encountered en felt route
Sofia, Saturday.
A severe earthquake,
throughout Bulgaria, is believed
to have done disastrous damage at
A Dreary Island.
St. John's, Saturday.
Chirpan, South Bulgaria. Com-! Greenly Island is about half-a-
panies Capt. Kochl, the pilot as second pilot. Baron von Huene- feld, the owner of the machine is n passenger.]
The Hoax.
Berlin, Saturday, The landing hoax was telephon- ed from New York to the Mana- ger of the Aldon Hotel-Reuter. British Congratulations.
Landon, To-day. High tributes to the skill and
off but it is feared that there are the boundary of Canada and New-Irish airmen, who on Friday com la Blancsablon Bay, which markedaring of the two German and one many victims. The shocks are continuing in the Chirpan district,foundland, In Labrador Island.pleted the first east to west mono- It. Is Icebound at this time of plane flight of the Atlantic, are Loss of life and damage is report the year and very inaccessible. Its paid by the Press and public here. ed in South-East Bulgaria.
only inhabitants in winter time are
munications with Chirpan are cut mile long at its narrowest and lies
Thirty Killed.
Later, Thirty were killed and many In- jured In the earthquake at. Chir-
Immediately the news
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14 keepers of the Fishing Station.ceived that the airmen had landed]
Airmen Isolated.
on the small icegirt island off Ottawa, Saturday. Labrador, telegrams of congratu The only means of communien-lation were despatched by the Air pan, where all public buildings tion between the airmen and the Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, to Pre- were either damaged or completely Wireless Station, which is over 20sident Cosgrave, head of the Gov destroyed. Deaths and destruc-miles distant, is over ice by dog ernment of the Irish Free State,, tion are reported from other town- team.
and to the German Ambassador In ships-Reuter.
(Continued on, next col.) London-British Wireless Service.
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