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RUSSIAN ATTAČK MANCHULI.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929.
THE AMERICA CUP CHALLENGE.
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now at Haflar, has been ordered defenders are) must be construct- to Manchull immediately, where
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DR. STRESEMANN'S HINTS.
CAUTIOUS APPROVAL : EXPRESSED IN GERMANY.
Berlin, July 11.
the Chinese military commandera ed in accordance with Lloyd's rules
The announcement of M. Briand's are urgently requesting artillery for the construction and classifica-
intention shortly to raise the ques- and cavalry,
tion of yachts. This decision is of tion of a United States of Europe A Harbin message BAYA the Chinese are still Interning the great importance and wide effect. in a concrete form has caused sur- Soviet officials who resigned from It means that no freak yacht or prise here and is meeting with a lively echo. Political circles cau- the service of the
Chinese racing machine" can ever again tiously prefer to regard the on- Eastern Railway.--Router.
be built for an important event.nouncement as a ballon d'essai, upon A Japanese, Ban. British racing yachts, and, indeed, which they must await further de tajla before committing themselves. those of all countries which sub-They point out that Dr. Stresemann Mukden, Aug, 21. Chinese troop trains are not scribe to the International tule, are made unmistakable hints in the being allowed to cross the Japan-built to Lloyd's rules. Now that same direction in his speech in the Reichstag a fortnight ago, and add ese station at Changchun. Chinese are now building a track the New York Yacht Club has fall that it is not impossible that the connecting the Kirin-Changchun en into step it will ensure that all subject came up in his conversa- railway with the C. E. R.
two previously. (The Vossische yacht racing between the two coun- tions at the Quai d'Orsay a day or 80 far to make tries shall be conducted on terms Zeitung goes much nearer equality. And if, as a categorical assertion in this
sense.) all Great Britain and ireland most
It is declared that Germany would fervently hope, Sir Thomna Lipton's fifth attempt succeeds, it might undoubtedly welcome a closer in- quite easily be that we should de-ternational understanding in the fend the America Cun 1931 with sphere of tariffs and economic co- Tokyo, Aug. 21. one of the vessels which regularly operation generally, provided this was not directed against America The Nichi Nichi and Asahi Man-race in the British 24-metre class.
or England. ehuli correspondents report that
No Humdrum Vessel, Soviet armoured trains yesterday:
The Japanese garrison at Chang. chun has now been increased to ten thousand, and a further in crease in expected as temporary barracks were erected recently.
Reuter.
A Russian Attnek.
Appeared within five hundred Lloyd's rules prohibit any con- yards of the Chinese position at struction that is not sensible, sound, Manchuli and discntrained 400 in-strong, and, seaworthy; so that fantry men, who deployed and onen aluminium decks
and similar
They are, however, inclined to be sceptical as to the progress likely to be achieved along M. Briand's lines in the measurable future. That, the fden should further develop into the political realm in present
od fire under cover of artillery fire. metallurgic refinements are not now conditions is regarded as quite The Chinese troops replied with of much use to the designer of an Utopian. howitzers. The Soviet troops 12America Cup challenger. This does
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tired after an hour's engagement not mean that when Mr. C. E. political solidarity in Europe sho during which the Chinese suffered Nicholson starts to draw the lines should begin in the more modest and 30 casualties, but captured a num-of Shamrock V. it will be any hum-practical sphere of her palley to- ber of Soviet guns and ammunition,drum vessel that takes shape on the warde Germany here and now be paper. Mr. Nicholson has a re-fore proceeding to such grandiose putation for courageous originality;flights of the imagination.
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Allemeine quite new and lovely thing of wood, Zeitung thinks that M. Briand's steel, lend, and a little bronze that dove has a sting in the tall, and will leave the guarded shed ut suggests that the real object in to Gosport in eight or nine months' form Continental bloc not only time.
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From the outside there is little Rome, July 14. evidence of the feverish activity At the foot of Monte Mario, going on within. Inside a great) which flank the North-Western space, which will be known as the boundary of Rome, there is up Forum Mussolini, stretching from Branching completion in, amphi-the Villa, Farnesina down, to the Theatre to seat 130,000 spectators, Tiber's eilge, a three-storey building SWEDEN BEATS GERMANY which, together with stadiums and with gymnasin atid class-rooms isj
AND UNITED STATES. gymnasia, all faced with marble, nearly completed. Other parts of will be the greatest construction of the premises will include a covered
New York, Aug. 21. the kind since the days of the drill ground, an open parade ground, Roman Empire.
stadium (with arena) capable of} The Swedish rucht "Bacchante" seating 14,000 spectators, and a which won the first of the series swimming pool. The main piazza of, three-pornered races between will be dominated by the Mussolini Sweden, Germany and the, United monolith, which is now being States at Marblehead, won again! brought up the Tiber.
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