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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
DESPERATE RESISTANCE BY
GRAVE COMMUNAL RIOTS
THE BASQUES
CONTINUOUS AIR BOMBING
FIRE ON SIGHT BY ITALIAN PLANES
ORDER
AMRITSAR, TO-DAY. HITHERTO ONE MOSLEM HAS BEEN KILLED AND 48 WOUNDED, WHILE TWO SIKHS WERE WOUNDED AS THE RESULT OF SERIOUS COMMUNAL RIOTING HERE YESTERDAY.
OF DEFENCE POSITIONS
London, To-day.
A number of Italian planes are almost con- stantly over the Basque positions and are bombing
THE WOUNDED ARE IN CRI-fantry defending Bilbao.
TICAL CONDITION.
Sir James Barrie Bulletin
London, To-day.
A bulletin on Sir James Bar. rie issued last evening states that he has gained a little more strength during the day and his condition is rather less critical.
-British Wireless.
SOVIET FLIER
TWELVE OF unceasingly, states the Basque commander of in- OVER NORTH
The communique adds that the Basques in POLE ON TRIP of a Sikh who was killed at. Alaha-hand-to-hand combat and using hand grenades,
forced back the insurgents several times, perform-TO AMERICA
The rioting followed the funeral
bad by Moslems.
The Moslems are alleged to have attacked the funeral pro- cession and British troops were called out to control the situa- tion.
The authorities promulgated the criminal code in which they declare that anyone fighting" or indulging in incendiarism is liable to be shot on sight-Reuter.· ́
Amelia Finds Foul Weather
Akyab, To-day.
After two hours of battling with monsoon weather and un- able to get in wireless contact with the direction finding sta- tions either at Rangoon or Ak- yab, Amelia Earhart was for- ced to return here yesterday. The aviatrix, however, plans resume her round-the-world flight to-day.
to
ing with valour in spite of fatigue.
PROTECTING SECRETS OF STONECUTTERS
The insurgents claim that in
Edmonton, Alberta, T the course of their advance on Three Soviet airmen the west bank of the Nervion from Moscow at 2 o'clock River on Thursday, they released day afternoon (G.M.T.) in an 2,200 captives and regained con- tempt to fly non-stop over trol of 600 head of cattle held by Polar regions to San Francisco. the Basques.
This is according to information of the Royal Canadian Signal Carpa They also captured 75 pri- station here: soners and much ammunition.
A later. message from San Fran- The insurgents claim that they cisco says that the plane crosse now occupy the important the North Pole at 4.30 yesterday heights dominating Bilbao.afternoon (Eastern Standard Time)
A tightening-up of regulations designed to guard the military Reuter.
secrets contained in Stonecutters Island is contemplated by a new Bill, the draft of which is contain-| ed in the Government Gazette.
It is pointed out that Section 4 of the Stonecutters' Island Ordi- nance, 1889, as enacted by the amend- ing Ordinance of 1936 gave guards and the Royal Naval Yard Police powers to arrest persons who were on the island without authority con- trary to section 3 of the Ordinance but did not enable them to arrest offenders against section 5.
or
one but
2. Moreover section 5 (1) forbade the unauthorised She had to contend with: thun-
anchoring making fast of vessels within derstorms, depse clouds and bad visibility over the desolate stretch did not forbid the approach of ves-
hundreds yards of the shore, of coast, which is one of the most sels within that distance if they did treacherous in long-distance flying not anchor or make fast.
routes Reuter.
CHANGSHA MILL
STRIKE: THREATS OF EXTENSION
3. The object of this Bill is to repair both these defects in the Or-. dinance.
SWATOW INCIDENT
Canton, To-day.
It is officially reported that Mr. T. Nakamura, the Japanese Consul- general in Shameen, has requested Changsha, To-day- 1 The dispute between the mill Mr. Philip Tyau, the Foreign Com- workers and the First Provincialmissioner, to improve the removal Cotton Mill of Hunan has not yet registration regulations before set- been settled. It is feared that the tlement of the Swatow Incident. workers of
mills in the pro- Our Own Correspondent,
The
vince will them
Ministry of Industry at Nanking sha to mediate.-Our Own Corre- has sent representatives to Changepondent.
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