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DISCUSSIONS ON WAGE DISPUTE IN MARRIAGE CAN END
GREEK DEBT,
Payments Are
Suspended..
London, To-day.
LANCASHIRE,
BOY'S TROUBLE,
Official Intervention Is Sheltered Other Man's
Predicted.
London, To-day.)
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Young Fiancee.
Li Tak-fan, aged 19, clerk, ap The Prime Minister, while at peared before Mr. E. 1..Wynne- The Greek Minister of Finance la in London to discuss with the Coun-Lossiemouth, has been. following the Jones to-day on a charge of unlaw cil of Foreign Bond Holders the development in the wage dispute fully receiving and harbouring Li position created by the suspen-affecting the Manufacturing Sect Sau-ying, an unmarried girl, aged sion of payments on the Greek on the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 17, without the consent of her debt to Britain-British Wireless and is in touch with the Ministry mother at 47, Elgin Street. Service
of Labour regarding it.
It was stated that the girl Newspapers anticipate that of was engaged to be married, cial intervention to avoid a stoppage but not liking will be threatened on August 27-ive husband, she had sloped her prospec-
PLANE FAILED TO WARN CARRIER.
Collision Resulted In Fog.
PASSENGERS LOST.
British Wireless Service."
MAN OVERBOARD.
Rescued By Chinese
Seaman."
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with the prisoner ‹ who had been a former schoolfellow. They had been living together for 10 days prior to the arrest.
The police requested 'a week's re- mand "on $200 bail, auggesting that it was possible to settle the affair jout of court by arranging a mar- riage between the accused and the girl.
CAR HITS RIKISHAW AND COOLIE.
The hearing of the claim against "Shouts of "Man Overboard" the Admiralty arising out of a caused a great deal of excitement collision between H.M. Aircraft on the 1.05 p.m. Star Ferry from Carrier Glorious and the. French Hong Kong to-day, The man, a liner Florida, in the Mediterranean, Chinese who was travelling in the jon April 1, 1931, when twenty-two third class-section of the ferry was
passengers and members of the crew rescued by a Chinese seaman whoi of the French vessel lost their lives, dived from the ferry and carried a A slight accident occurred near was continued in the Admiralty life-belt to the drowning man. the Des Voeux Road entrance to the Court.
The struggling pair were picked Gloucester Building when a Flat Capt. C. E. Kennedy-Purvis, com-up by a sampan and transferred to car. No. 3652, crashed into a manding officer of Glorious, giving another ferry which was proceed-rikishaw, No. 685. The shafts of evidence, said his ship was engaged ing to Hong Kong.
the rikishaw were badly damaged
in carrying out aircraft exercises. The man who fell overboard was and the coolie received slight| Twenty-seven aeroplanes were sent about 25 years of age.
up, and when fog came on, five were ready to land. They were landed before the ship entered the fog.
Later there was a signal from vessel, presumably the Florida. His obvious duty was to keep on and get out of the fog for the safety of his flying personnel. A short time afterwards he heard. another signall from the Florida, which was then much nearer.
FLYING THE ATLANTIC.
(Continued from Page 1.)
London, Yesterday.
bruises to his legs was done to the car.
No damage
PICCARD RISES TO TEN-MILE HEIGHT.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Mr. J. A. Mollison, who already. Late in the afternoon' he landed
He immediately gave orders for has several long distance flights near Desenzano, Lake Garda.
The mammoth balloon to which the engines to be stopped, and half to his credit, began his most am-
a minute later he had them put full bitious plan to date, when he hop-is attached the air tight gondola astern, though he realised that that ped off from Dublin. at 11.85.a.m. containing Professor Piccard and might be sacrificing the men in the to-day-Reuter.
his assistant Dr. Cosyns, ascended He is bound for America, but at 5.5 am. to-day. air. About one minute, afterwards
the Florida loomed up at a distance not content with making one cross- The inflation of the balloon con- of one and a half cables. He esti-Ing of the Atlantic, plans to re-tinued all night long and was watch- mated that the speed of the Glorious turn after a few hours' rest in the led by a vast crowd of sightseers who had assembled to watch Pro- at that time had been reduced to United States. eight knots. In the meantime the Mr. Mollison, who first came into fessor Piccard's departure. aeroplanes still in the air had been prominence when he flew from Finding meteorological observa- ordered to return to Malagar, and Australia to England, followed up tions favourable last night the with the exception of four, which that feat by making a record hop Professor immediately began the landed on the sea and were 'smashed, to the Cape. Last month he was anal inspection of the gondola and they all arrived there.
married to Miss Amy Johnson. [its delicate instruments which in-
Mollison's plane fa christened clude a wireless transmitter. Mr. Raeburn, K.C. (for plain-| tiffs): Is it your case that having "Heart's Content," because that is The professor's object is to ob aircraft in the air you can go as the name of the place on the New-tain photographs and data about fast as you please, regardless of foundland coast that he expects to the cosmic rays. other ships-The circumstances be his Arst glimpse of land if he justified me going as I did.
steers on the "Great Circle Course"
16,500 Metres Up.
Witness added that one of the which is the shortest route be- Professor Piccard's achievement aeroplanes, tried to inform him of tween Ireland and Newfoundland. in breaking his own record, ascend-
the approaching danger. The man in the 'plane used a signalling lamp, but it burnt out.
The hearing was adjourned.
the
The de Havilland Company made ng over 10 miles, was indicated
message from the machine, and in doing so es in a wireless tablished a record in construction, balloon, reporting that" "he had finishing the job in less than five crossed Engadine, to the east of weeks. Although it is of the Samaden, at an altitude of 16,500 "Puss Moth" type, nothing like it metres."
Mr. and Mrs Willard Warren, has ever been designed before. It "All is well, but it is very cold," Jr., who are making a round trip on can almost be described as a "Fly he declared..
the President Taft, arrived in the ing Petrol Tank" as everything Professor Piccard added that soon Colony aboard that ship-this morn-has been sacrificed to give petrol he would start to descend in order ing. Mr. Warren is a student of space sheet,
to avoid coming down in the foreign trade at the University of Mollison will have the largest Adriatic-Reuter Washington and he has been in tank, containing 75 gallons in
on and he ha vestigating commercial conditions front of his feet, another contain in the Orlent in regard to business ing 45 gallons will be behind bím relations with the Fischer Flour and each wing has a tank contain-imposed against arrivals from Mills of Seattle.
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