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WHOLESALE HAUL.
250 ARRESTS FOLLOW DEMONSTRATION.
NEAR PARIS.
Paris Yesterday.........
250 persons were arrested in the) course of rioting and as a sequel to
a communist demonstration before the Town Hall in the working-class suburb of Ivry. Deputy-Mayor a "Leading Rister."
Later.
AFTER 15 YEARS' LITIGATION.
A COMPROMISE.
END OF MAHARAJA PRASAD SINGH'S LONG APPEAL.
THE TERMS.
London, July 23, The protracted litigation in con- nection with Maharaja Prasad Singh'a appeal has been torminated,
compromise have been reached] between the parties.
The terms of the compromise have not been fully disclosed.
The Communists assembled at
It was announced in Court to-day Ivry despite the Governmental ban. that the compromise would be in- The arrested include the Deputy-corporated in an Order-in-Council. Mayor of Ivry, who was one of the The compromise provides for the leading rioters.-Reuter.
dismissal of the appeal, without costs.
CAUSE OF CANCER.
"FERMENT PRODUCED IN THE BODY."
NOT DUE TO A VIRUS?
London, July 18.
Lord Shaw, addressing the Bar, congratulated the parties on their wise action in arriving at a com- promise.
His Lordship said that their Lord- ships had been impressed by all the lower Courts judgments in the case. The lower Courts' pronouncements were most illuminating and most carefully phrased.
Costs Total £25,000
A startling new theory of the cause of cancer was explained by Dr. James Murphy of New York
It is stated that the terms on nt the International Cancer Can-: ference, which is being held in which Maharaja Prasad, Singh has London under the auspices of the withdrawn his appeal are:- British Empire Cancer Campaign. (1) The parties are to pay their
After 16 years' research, Dr.jown costs.
Murphy is convinced that cancer The respondent, Rai Bahadur is not caused by a virus, but by a Hariher. Prased Singh, will re- ferment produced within the body-tain his Burma properties and will This theory counters that of convey to the Maharaja the Mokur- Dr. Gye and Mr. Barnard, who rari properties, which he or his three years ago announced the dis- father may have derived from the covery of a living virus.
Dumraon Raj.
The case has inated 16 years and the costs amount to £25,000.
[Note: The researches of Dr. Guy and Mr. Barnard, which are still in progress, have already led them to the conviction that cancer, using the term Twenty counsel were engaged for in its widest sense, is a specific dis-four weeks in the hearing of the ease caused by a virus group of
viruses. Under experimental condi-case by the Privy Council.
THE POLISH PLANE ATTEMPT.
FORCED DOWN.
RESCUE BY GERMAN STEAMER.
MACHINE DESTROYED.
Warsaw, Yesterday.
A telegram from Hamburg states that Major Kubala and
Major forced down In Idzikowski were Mid-Atlantic on the 4th inst.
The biplane was destroyed. The airmen were rescued by the German steamer "Samos."
Later,
Further Details. From further details now avail- able it appears that the plane came down 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, not in Mid-Atlantic.
Lisbon, Yesterday.
Reports state that the airmen were forced down owing to a fault in the petrol feedpipe.
The plane struck the Bea with considerable force, smashing the wings..
The "Samos" took the plane in tow to Lexices near Oporto.
One of the airmen Injured his arm by fall while abroad the "Samos," and is in hospital; but both aviators expect to go to Paris on the 6th inst.Reuter.
POLICE COMEDY.
PASSENGER MISTAKEN FOR PRISONER.
ONE-ARMED MAN'S ESCAPE.
While &
Madras, July 18. taken from the Trichinopoly gaol prisoner was being
to Kodaikanal, as a 'witness. in a case, he managed to escape during the train journey, the police being lulled into a false sense of secur-
tions, they claim, the virua alone is One of the leaders had his briefity by mistaking a private passen- ineffective; a second specific factor ob-endorsed for 3,000 guineas with a ger for the prisoner. tained from tumour extracts ruptures!
the self defences and enables the virus refresher of 100 guineas a day.
to infect. Under natural conditions
the continued irritation of tissues sets U.S.'s HEAT WAVE. up a state under which infection can
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COURTNEY'S RESCUE
'PLANE DRIFTING ON A GENTLE SWELL."
341 MILES OFF TRACK.
"BLISTERING" FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO.
New York, Saturday.
The comedy
was not detected til they reached Kodaikanal-road station, where, after finding that the passenger had two arms, whereas the prisoner had only one, they released the former and be- gan searching for the latter.
The country from New York west- NATIVE LANGUAGES. ward to Chicago is suffering from
a blistering heat wave.
Several deaths have happened in New York, Saturday. New York while reports of people The captain of the collapsing in the streets have been "Minnewaská" has wireless-received at police headquarters on jed
laconic account of an average' of, one
five the rescue of Courtney.
He minutes. raced to the spot in response to
every
The heat has apparently affected
an S.O.S. and searched fruitlessly the temper of dogs as nine persons for hours.
He calculated the in the city have been dog bitten, plane drifted eastward owing while one was bitten by a monkey. to the Gulf Stream west wind
Two children and a man were and eventually found the plane drowned on jumping into water to riding easily on a gentle swell in ideal weather.
The engine room was burnt out and wireless battery exhaust- ed.
He shipped the tired but cheer- ful survivors and Courtney con- sented to the abandonment of his flyingboat.
The "Minnewaska" diverted 341 miles from her track for the rescue.-Reuter's American Ser-
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THE "NUMANCIA.”
FLIGHT PROBABLY POSTPONED INDEFINITELY.
MONTH'S REPAIRS.
Madrid, Saturday.
seek relief from the heat.-Reuter's American Service.
SHARP 'QUAKES.
TWO EXPERIENCED AT MANILA.
NO DAMAGE,
Manila, To-day. Two sharp quakes occurred yes- terday evening. No damage is re- ported in Manila but apprehension la felt on account of a possible connection with the eruption at Mayon, 200 miles south-east of Manila.-Reuter.
EDUCATION FOR THE COLONIES.
MR. ORMSBY-GORE'S VIEW.
London, July 18. Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore,
of Empire's Franco-British Educa- Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, speaking at the League tional Congress in London, dwelt on the danger of forcing English education down the throats of na-] tives in the Colonies.
A French delegate said that the question of giving lessons in na- tive languages instead of French| in the French schools in West Africa was being considered.
AMUR FLOOD,
MIDDLE RIVER STILL RISING.
Moscow, Saturday. The level of the middle Amur con- tinues to rise. The flood situation elsewhere is Improving-Reuter.
A number of tin mines in the Straits Settlements, mostly owned New Zealand's four university by Chinese, are being closed down] colleges intend to make a joint ap-owing to the impossibility of mak- Repairs to the "Numancia" will plication to, the Carnegie Endow- ing a profit at the present price of take a month.
ment Fund for £22,000 for library the metal. This does not apply to The flight will probably be post-purposes.
dredging propositions, · · poned indefinitely.-Renter.
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London, July 18. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.'s profits for 1927 totalled 5480,471, compared with £108,949 in 1924.
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