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Tampa, Fla., Yesterday. The Florida Bank failures are Hargely due to inroads of the Mediter- ranean fruit fly on the State's citrus
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FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929.
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London, Yesterday..
It is officially announced that the British delegation to the conference of. the Institute for Pacific Relations at Kyoto in October will be headed by Lord Hailsham, the ex-Lord Chancel- Vienna, Yesterday. er, and will also include Mr. Lionel An attempt by a man to fire a Curtis, the founder of the Royal In- revolver as Chancellor Streeruwitz stitute of International Affairs, Damo was entering his cffice this morning Edith Lyttelton, one of the British of Nation's was frustrated by a sentry knock-delegates to the League ising the revolver from his hand and Assembly, Professor Arnold (Toynbee members of the British delegation to arresting him.
Directors of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Tampa with bran- Jefus in the citrus regions, state that the trouble is due to "unwise KOS- sip in continued adverse conditions. fol- lowing the appearance of the Medi- terranean fruit fy, which responsible for a feeling of unrest and fear."
The State Comptroller agrees that the ravages of the fly have accentuated the financial depression,
Florida Prohibitionists attribute the introduction of the fly to rum-runners from the Bahamas.
President Hoover has allotted 4900,- 000 to combat the fly, and a general quarantine has been declared against Florida fruit.-Reuter.
CAR COLLISION
FILM MAGNATE BADLY INJURED
CHAUFFEUR KILLED
New York, Yesterday.
A small car containing three women collided on Long Island with a Rolls Royce containing William Fox, the film magnate, and his friend, Mr. J. L.
Robenstein.
The women were not hurt but Fox (and Rubenstein were seriously hurt
Fex's chauffeur was killed.
Mr. Fox was sent to hospital, and operated upon for blood tramfusion, Mr. Carroll Naish, a New York actor, supplying the blood.
The girl driver of the colliding car was found not to have a licence, and ehe was arrested. Reuter.
Fox Improves
Later.
The condition of Fox has markedly improved.-Reuter's American Service.
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Bangkok, July 10.
The man, who is named. Anton the Versailles Peace Conference), the Leitner, an unemployed tailor, had on. Hugh Wyndham (acting Secre- tary of the Royal Institute), and been in a mental home at Duessel- several others, including Mr William dorf. He apparently mistook the Turner, Reuter's chief representative Chancellor for the President, to in the Far East, Mr. Archibald Rose, whom he has conceived is respon- formerly in the British Consular ser- Conse- vice in China, Mr. Hardy Jowett, of sible for unemployment. quently he had decided to remove Peping, and Professor Hudson, of the Imperial. University at Tokyo.--Reuter. him.-Reuter.
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FREE TRADE
LORD BEAVERBROOK'S NEW. CAMPAIGN
London, July 8 A campaign to abolish trade barriers between the Mother Country and the rest of the Empire has been initiated in Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, and considerable interest. jis attracting
The keynote of the campaign is: "Wherever the British flag flies, Bri-
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The "Daily Express" states that a new political movement has been born, and Empire crusaders will carry the cause into the constituencies
Bangkok, July 10. HR.H. Prince Mahidol, the heir to the Throne of Siam, has made
Mr. Amery, the former Dominions such satisfactory progress from Secretary, stated in an interview that his illness that it was announced he was wholeheartedly in favour of to-day no further bulletins would the general idea, but he does not think be issued. Straits Times.
Free Trade within the Empire is prae- tical.
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London, July 11.
It is significant that Lord Beaver- brook, who was recently suggested as a sucessor to Mr. Baldwin, is now launching 2 "Minority Party."
Straits Times."
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Signor Mussolini, the Italian Dictator, ing opened. The route will be
hopes to pay an informal visit to Lon- PETTY OFFICER'S MIRACUL used by the Telegraph Adminis-don at the end of July to the Inter- tration for all telegrame for Great national Aero Exhibition at Olympia. Britain unless otherwise specified by the sender.
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COLLIERY DISASTER
GALLANT EFFORTS AT RESCUE FAIL
Rugby, July 10. Eight lives were lost to-day in an explosion at Milfruen Colliery, Blaenavon. South Wales. About 30 men were working in the pit at the time. Four were killed outright and four others trapped below. Hope of rescue was aban- doned only after the gallant efforts of rescue parties had been frus trated by poisonous gases and falls of roof.-British Wireless Service.
Unrest is reported in the ranks of employees of the Pootung branch of the Japan-China Cotton Mill, the workers demanding the disrolasal of two Japanese foremen, Au ap- peal to their union öfficials and to the Social Affairs Bureau and the Kuomintang has been made by the workers...
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OUS ESCAPE
Rugby, July 10. Diver Bell, a very experienced deep sea diver, has been taken off the battle-cruiser Renown by the destroyer Torrid, but the sea is rongh and unsuitable for diving operations. In any case the depth of 300 feet at which H47 lies makes In a lengthy petition to the it doubtful if a diver could reach Nationalist ministry of finance, it. merchants of Shanghai to-day asked
Shangbai, July 13.
Petty Officer Hicks, who was the repeal of the cosmetics consump-saved from H47, was shot off by the force of the collision, and as tion tax.
The petition contained scores of he sank grasped a stay wire of Although carried down sev- arguments, but was summed up in L12. one merchant's pithy phrase that eral fathoms he was still hanging on when L12 returned to the sur- ladies must make up.”
face.
The merchants made. their pro-)
The King has sent an expression tests so vociferous that the finance)
of his deep grief at the disaster to ministry to-day ordered the suspen the Admiralty, and
conveys his sion of the collection of the cos-heartfelt sympathy to the relatives metics tax pending final action by of the 24 dead.-British Wireless the Nationalist government.-Asso- Service ciated Press.
Thieves broke into the Film House, Sydney, Australia, and stole £2,300, the night's takings of five cinemas.
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Air-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker conveyed the congratulations of the Air Minister, and declared that the fight would encourage support of a passenger air service to Australia Squadron-Leader Smith said he considered such a service quite feasible.
Great interest was shown in the Southern Cross, in which Smith and Ulm made the first trans Pacific fight and have since made other remarkable trips. One of the objects of the visit to England is to superintend the erection of a fleet of British triple-screw Avro Lynx monoplanes fitted with three Armstrong Siddeley engines, which Squadron-Leader Smith has ordered for operating an air 88r- vice along the east coast of Aus- tralia British Wireless Service:
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