300 MOUNT ORDINETT DISCUSSES I AUGUSTA, SHELL CASUALTIES Admiral Yarnell Expected To Lodge Strong Protest NEUTRALITY ACT NOT LIKELY TO BE INVOKED
Washington, To-day.
Officials of the Navy Department state they expect the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet to make a sharp protest to both China and Japan concerning the explosion of an
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Washington, To-day.
Japan will never
anti-aircraft shell on board the flagship Augusta, BRITAIN'S le enter comments" "the
when one was killed and 18 wounded.
News of the incident spread quickly through ENTRANT the capital and caused several members of Con-
gress to comment that the time had come for Pre-AIR RACE
sident Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act
President Roosevelt himself later said that whether action was deem- ed advisable în connection with the incident would be determined by the authorities on the spot.
Asked whether retaliation was contemplated, the Chief Executive replied that such incidents were almost bound to happen in such a situation.
would zwait" official sever-
CHOLERA CONFERENCE IN HONG KONG
Hity
Often in history great nations have risked moral condemnation and have jeopardised, their future in order to satisfy the lust for con- quest but never has such action been taken in more blatant fashion and with less regard for the sequences to civilisation as a whole than in the case of the pre The machine used by the late Japanese attack on Shanghai Campbell Black in the Mildenhall- "All the power of her efficient Australia air race is the only Bri-military machine will not be strong tish entry in the air race from enough to offset the enduring hos- Marseilles to Demascus and back to tility which Japan is now creating Paris.
by this display of naked and undis guised brutality" Beuter
London, To-day.
The machine, a D. H. Comet, was specially built for the Australian race which was won in record time
Geneva, To-day- by Campbell Black and his co-pilot, I.C.S. OFFICIAL'S
DEATH
London, To-day
The Singapore office of the League Scott.
Italy is making a strong bid with The President again indicated Organisation of Hygiene has tele- that invocation of the Neutrality graphed to the Secretariat that Dreight entries of powerful machines.
Park, Director of the Office, is leav Reuter of diplomatic relations being for Hong Kong to confer with
the authorities in regard to mea (Continued from Previous Col.) The death is announced at the age sures to avoid the spread of the 1893. After much valuable legal of 64 of Mr. Justice Sidney Reginald cholera epidemic in the Colony. work in India, he retired in 1928 Daniels, late of the Indian Civil
Dr. Park will be accompanied by and, returning to England, thrice Service. "An "unfortunate incident" was Dr. Brocic, League sanitary expert unsuccessfully contested Bath at a the term applied to the incident by for China. Reuter. the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, at a press conference.
China and Japan.
“UNFORTUNATE
Mr. Hull added that the United States was continuing the attitude! that Americans in Shanghai. must be protected while they remain there but they are being urged to evacuate the city to the "fullest possible. extent.”
The view that the Neutrality Act should be invoked is not shared by
Mr. McReynolds, Chairman of the
MAURITIUS STRIKES
London, To-day,
On three of the four estates în
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by-election and General Election. Reuter
The late Mr. Justice Daniels tered the Indian Civil Service in
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He said that the Augusta incident was unfortunate but he believed the President was right in not yet having invoked the Act. A4
“BOUND TO HAPPEN”"
Mr. McReynolds said the matter
There has been a cessation of work on two other estates in the same area but no further serious disorder has occurred. irodalo
A commission has been appoint- ed to inquire into the unrest, and to make recommendations.
-Reu- ter
would be taken up with the upper WASHINGTON
authorities but he did not Hor
that it would be found that Eksek
bardment was unintention
that it was “just one of those cidents which are bound to happe
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