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TORNADO HAVOC IN
AMERICA.
GROWING DEATH ROLL.
** ORCOMA IN DANGER.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
NOT AMERICA'S BUSINESS.
HINELAND DISCUSSIONS.
{RAUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13th. President Coolidge believes the Caited States Should not partici New York, Sept. 13th.
pate in the Allied discussion on Forty-three persons are reported the evacuation of the Rhineland, killed and scores injured by the and he feels, likewise, that the pro- tornado in Nebraeka, Illinois, Southposals aiming at more clearly de- Dakota and Wisconsin. The dam tining, the German reparations are age la estimated at $2,000,000. | cutie the United States' interest. Thousands are homeless at Puerto If the United States is invited to Rico and 80 per cent of the houses | participate, acceptance will depend at San Juan have been unroofed. en the form of the conditions, under which-the invitations are extended. Support For Briend. XOUGE BRUTER'S AGENCY.}
PARIS, Sept. 14th.
Sir Austin Chamberlain, It is believed, that the liner Orcoma en route from Bermuda to Havana with Sir Austen Chaur berlain's party is in the direct path of the tornado, which is sweeping over the Caribbean Sea.
The storm struck Porto Riest yesterday with, it is feared, many fatalities.
San Juan is desolated, the univer. sity of Porto Rico badly damaged and there has been much loss is shipping
The death roli in north-east. Nebraska and south-east Dakota is at lease twelve, while scores have been injured..
Damage is estimated at £950,000. A little girl was killed and her teacher seriously injured in the wiping out of a school,
"Factory Destroyed,
ROCKFORD, Illinois. Hitherto thirty bodies have been recovered from the débris of a chair factory which was wrecked by a tornado and in which a hun dred workers were buried.
Leeward Klands.
Lospox, Sept. 15th. - The Colonial Office has received a cable from the Governor of the Leoward Islands stating that the hurricane swept the islands and that much damage was dode to Gor: ernment buildings, the telephone system and private property at Antigua, but there were no fatali- tice Communication with other islands is interrupted.
The administrator of Dominica reports heavy damage there.
AUSTRALIAN STRIKE OVER.
UNEXPECTED" COLLAPSE.
[THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.]
Manocane, Sept. 15th. Twenty-six
overseas and
39 coastal vessels, aggregating 300,000
crews of eight inter-state vessels have been paid off.
TURNS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY TOWARDS tons, are at present idle, and the
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The Prime Minister, Mr. S. M. Bruce, has refused the request of the Waterside Workers to arrange conference for the settlement of the strike." He says the request is equivalent to asking the Govern ment to be a party to an unlawful
LATER
act.
The shipping strike has collapsed dramatically, A conference of the Waterside Workers Federation de cided by 47 votes to to order the resumption of work everywhere under a new award of two *pick- Work upa" daily instead of one. will be resumed on Monday..
AMERICA'S NAVAL PLAN.
ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT
APPROVED.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}"
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PT understood that the French Gerament unanimously. approves
position taken up by M. Briand) Geneva, and has agreed to the main lines of the policy to be pur- sued in the course of the Rhine- land conversations.
STANDING COMMITTEE.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Sept...15th.
It is reported from Nanking that the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee of: the Kuomintang will shortly ap- point a Standing Committee of the Central Political Council which will be responsible for the adminis. tration of all ordinary political affairs of the country.
It is reported that this Com mittee will comprise:-
Aarahal Chiang Kai Shek, Mar- shal Feng Yu Hslang, General Yen General Li Tsung Jen, General Hai Shan, Marshal Li Tea Hsin,
Tan Yen Kai, M. Ha Han Min, Ching Kiang, Mr. Tsai Yuan Pei, Mr. Li Shib Tseng, Mr. Chang and Mr. Wu Taz Hui.
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1. AMERICAN COTTON
SPINNERS.
PRODUCTION CURTAILED.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Sept. 13th.
The State of Trade Committee of the Master Spinners' Association, at a special meeting held in Man- cucer, passed a resolution strong. recommending the spinners. of American cotton to make a curtail- ment of production equivalent to fortnight's stoppage, between "now and the end of October:
No ballot will be taken, but the Federation is circularising mem bers emphasising the seriousness of the position and urging them to support the Committee's decision.
It is expected, therefore, that the majority of the American spinners will close down for a fortnight.
STEVE DONOGHUE IN TROUBLE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S „ADEKOY.]
LONDON, Sept. 14th. The London Gazette announces that receiving order in bank- ruptes has been made against the jockey, Steve Donoghue...
TELEGRAPHIC RATES.
A UNIFORM TARIFE?~
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15th. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] -President Coolidge has intimated that although Anglo-French
BRUSSELS, Sept. 18th.. The international telegraphic con- naval agreement would be of great satisfaction to the United States gross discussed a proposal of a
uniform tariff at lower rates for: Government, it would in no msaner affect America's naval pinos. He clear and code, the charge pro- indicated that any agreement could posed being 65 per cent of full only be reached with a full know. rates for zones other than the ledge of America's position as European and 90 per cent. in the regards auxiliary craft.
European zone.
The United States oppose any change and Britain and Canada PORT OF LONDON RECORD. oppose increased charges.
YEAR'S TONNAGE FIGURES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE
Ruaвy, Sept. 14th. The nineteenth annual report of the Port of London Authority states that the total net register tonnage of vessels that entered and left the Port of London, with car- goes and in' ballast from and to foreign countries, and British pos sessions and coastwise, during the. year ended December 31st, 1927, with 52,670,755, compared 49,276,173 in 1920:
was
The figures for 1927 are the largest recorded.
CHINA'S WAR ON-OPIUM.
TABOOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, Sept. 14th, Addressing the League Commit- tee on Opium, the Chinese delegate declared that one of the first acts of the Nationalist Government had been to declare war against nar- cotics
said
Japanese delegate The Japan's small production of opium was exclusively for medicinal pur
The delegatce of the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce with- drew as an undertaking not to in crease charges was not given.
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12.10
Milan Berlin Stockholm
92.75
20.33
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18.13 18.19 18.30
Vienna
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183)
1924
29.451
107
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