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FOR INDIA.
Policy To Be Made. Known To-morrow.
VITALLY IMPORTANT.
London, To-day.
An announcement of the greatest "Importance to the future of India, namely, the Governments provisical scheme for settlement of the com- munal problem, is to be issued for publication in to-morrow's' papers.
BASEBALL
SHAUKIWAN
PIRATES BEATEN BY SANITARY SCHEME.
DODGERS.
Eleven Runs Scored In Opening Innings.
1924 CHAMPIONS LOSE.
Proposed Barges And
Pier Erection,
COST OF $16,000.
A sum of $16,000 for two refuse barges and the erection of a jetty
New York, To-day. appear on the supplementary ex- the Brooklyn Dodgers beat Pitts-penditure sheet" issued by burgh Pirates by 11 to 6 in "a Colonial Secretary at the command thrilling struggle yesterday. Suhr of His Excellency the Officer Ad- hit a home run for the Pirates, who ministering the Government. were clinging to their slender, lead The memoranda explaining the jover Brooklyn in the National items state:
There
League Table, but the Dodgers Experimental incinerators for The Government regretfully came back splendidly to hit all disposing of Shaukiwan refuse, undertook to provide a settlement eleven runs in the first and second have, despite alterations, not prov- ed a success and there have been innings. in view of the failure of the com-!
were no other Major frequent complaints about the munities, both at the Round Table League games down for decision. smoke emited from them. It would Conference in London and in India," In an exhibition game the Wash-be possible to revert to the system to reach agreement. The Govern-ington Senators beat the World previously in use, namely to trans- ment undertook the task at the re- Champion Senators of 1924 by 6 port the refuse by motor lorry all Walter Johnson, the the way to Whitfield dust chute quest of the Indians themselves and runs to 2
famous pitcher of former days was and thence by barges to be dump- it is hoped that the provisional again seen in action.
led at sea. The only other feasible scheme,now to be issued will effec- The following was the result of method is to load the refuse on tively remové all obstacles which are at present, impeding the work of reform. British constitutional Wireless Service.
HALF-HOLIDAY AND EXTRA RUM.
sailing barges at Shaukiwan and E. thence to dump it at a reclama
2tion area on the mainland. The 2 capital and 'running costs of this method are "only Blightly greater than in "the case of trans- porting the material to Whitfield. It involves the construction of two sailing barges at an estimated cost Perc.jor $4,000 each and the erection of a
545 timber jetty with dust chute and ap 535 proach at Shaukiwan at an estimat- 529 ed cost of $8,000,
the National League game:
R. H. Pittsburgh Pirates 6 11 Brooklyn Dodgers....11 17
-Reuter's American Service.
TABLE TO DATE.
National League.
P. W. L 110 60 50 112 60 52 .117 62 55
Chicago Pittsburgh (Continued from Page E.):
Brooklyn Afterwards Commander-in-Chief, Philadelphia
Boston Admiral Sir Ernle. Chatfield signall-
St. Louis ed to all units, that by the Prince
New York
of Wales orders, ship's companies Cincinnati were "To make and mend" this
.116 69 57,509 Yotes for these two sums, viz.
.116 68 68 .600 $8,000 and $3,000 are requested.
.112 55 57 .491.
.111
61 GO 460
.116 60 66,491
afternoon and "Splice the main FRENCH LANGUAGE.
brace this evening, which in landa-" men's language means a half-day' holiday for 30,000 officers and men' in the fleet, followed by a double issue of rum to-night;"
TRIUMPHS.
Brussels, August 1..
MOLLISON TO FLY
TO-DAY.
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Because of the adverse winds which prevail at this season, the pog- The embittered strife between the sibility of encountering fog and the
It is said that this was the first partisans of the French and Flemish generally difficult conditions, Molli- occasion since the Armistice that languages has been at least tem-
age will require about 28 hours. the order "Splice the main brace" porarily brought to a standstill, the son expects that the westward pass- has been given in the Mediterranean Belgian Senate having adopted, by But the return journey, he hopes, Fleet.
The fleet leaves Corfu to 82 votes to 25, with abstentions, at will take no more than 19, hours. bill recently passed by the Chamber The test of the filler's skill and morrow, and will undergo exercises | on the way to Malta where it is in-regulating the question of the lan-stamina will be most severe, even tended that the Princes' brief stay guage in which teaching is hence-though he encounters no unusually shall be informal and quiet. Bri-forth to be imparted in the elemen bad weather. tish Wireless Service.
MOON SWELLING!
London. Whether with pride or vanity, Prof. V. S. Forbes, of Cam- bridge University, doesn't know; But he does know that the moon is expanding, contrary to some As- tronomers who claẩm that it is con- tracting. He explains that radio- active substances within it cause a
high internal temperature and the resulting expansion.
APRONS FOR MEN.
tary as well as the secondary
Wife Hops to London. schools.
Mrs. Mellison, the former Miss According to the new
measure, Amy Johnson, herself a famous flier, all lessons must be given in French has been with her husband at in the Walloon districts and in the Baldonnel since his arrival there. Flemish regions, and
WOMEN PLAY CARDS AWAITING DEATH.
But: she left yesterday for London, flying her own machine. It is possible that she may be returning to Ireland to watch her husband's) departure.
Ossining, New York.
Mrs. Mollison has several plans "The quietest card game ever play for adventures of her own, it is said, ed goes on in the Sing Sing death but is keeping them a complete Among other things, it is house. A white woman and & Degro serrat. woman, with the aid of their keep-suggested that she may, in the near ers are the players,
future attempt to set a new speed record for the Atlantic crossing............. British Wireless Service.
COLONISTS ARRIVE.
1
Mrs. Mary Simpson and Ruth Brown of New York city are housed In adjoining cells and are shut off from each other's view by a solid wall of masonry. They toss the One of the results of the pncer-cards through the bars of their cell
Moscow, August 8. tain business conditions has blan doors and on to a small table in the exchanging of roles by husband the corridor Amatron gathers. A report received here states: and wife according to Frank Mor-them up, and passes them back at that a new party of 117 emigrants ris, manager of a Community-Em- the end of each game.
from Germany, France and the Ar- ployment Service in America. He Mrs. Simpson was condemned to gentine has arrived in Birobidjan, says unemployed men are donning death for the slaying of her 14-a territory in Eastern Siberia net the apron while their wives are month-old-child and the negro, wo- aside by the Soviet Government for getting odd jobs.
man for killing a man,
Bettlement by Jewish colonists.
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