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WASHINGTON FIGHTING: OVER FIFTY WOUNDED
IRELAND'S CRISIS
A BLACK WINTER FORESEEN
DE VALERA'S TOUR OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Dublin, July 28.
The growing uneasiness in Ireland at recent develop- ments and of the possible re- percussions, are indicated by the fact that property to the value of over £1,000,000 has been insured in the last few days against the risk of riot and civil commotion in the coming winter.
It is also significent that the premiums in many instances have been doubled.
A deputation of thirty-nine re- presentatives of the gas industry called upon the Free State Govern- ment to-day and appealed to be coal allowed to import British duty free, or there would be no alternative to an increase in the price of gas.
DUTIES REMITTED.
Thi Government spokesman promised consideration of the. appeal and in the meantime, the!
BONUS ARMY IN WASHINGTON:
PAY
BONUS MARCH ON TO WASHINGTON
Photo on left shows a group of of the bonus marches "parked" on the steps of the Capitul, round which most of the trouble has occurred. Right shows the Bonus Army marching in force through the streets during one of their demonstrations.
SHANGHAI
SENSATION
AMERICAN EDITOR
THREATENED
BONUS BATTLE IN WASHINGTON
LOSS OF EXTRALITY POLICE LOSE CONTROL
PRIVILEGES
Shanghai, July 29,
the the
Government has remitted all the A. drastic threat by duties upon British coal Imported ¡ American Foreign Ollice. up to midnight yesterday.
State Department, affecting the
OF SITUATION:
editor of a well-known weekly TROOPS CALLED OUT
A
publication, who has been strong critie of Chinese polítics. has caused a sensation in Shang- hai.
An audience of ten thousand an College Green, Dublin, gave an exceedingly warm welcome to Mr. de Valera at the opening of his proposed country-wide campaign to accure a solid backing for his The facts are published in the policies and to advise the people China Press this morning, the how to behave during the "crisis," | journal announcing that extrąlity
DE VALERA'S APPEAL.
privileges will be withdrawn by the American authorities from Mr. de Valera said, for example, Mr. Harold R. Isanes, the Ameri- that the Irish people must not can editor and publisher of the a local radical. give way to panic or alarm what-Ching Forum,
changes his ever happens. They must spend weekly. unless he their money wisely, eschew policy. luxuries and amusements. and meet their financial obligations promptly.
He warned the farmers. that failure to pay the land annuities to the State would be followed by a host of evils that would hit the farmers more heavily than anyone
lke.
CRISIS TO END CRISES.
ATTACKS ON KUOMINTANG.
The ruling has come from the State Department, following the Washington by transmission to Mr. Andrew Cunningham, the!
Consul-General American
protests | Shanghai, Chinese against the China Forum, which has been bitterly denouncing the Kuomintang.
If the threatened action against
"Our attitude," he declared, sques is faken, it will be the "is less retaliation against Bri- first ease of its kind involving an tair than a constructive effort | Amerienu
to effect an economic
change Renter,
that will remove all fear of
future crises,"
The aim and object of
the present Free State Government is to secure new markets for Irish products and so render economic
pressure upon the Country through her dependence upon Britain, impossible in the future. -Reuter.
LATE NEWS.
AUSTRIA'S LOAN. DEFAULT.
INTEREST PAYMENT
NOT MADE
london. July 29.- Austria has defaulted on the ser- vien of the Six Per Cent. Loan 1923/43, of 660 million kromen, Į which was the first loan issued un- der the auspices of the League of Nations.
The Trustees of the loan 411-
|
DOPE RING WRECKED
LEADERS OF CAIRO GANG GAOLED
YEARS OF WAITING BY POLICE
One of
Plain Facts LATE NEWS.
About ANOTHER Preferences GRIM FIGHT
British Statement at Ottawa
STRIKING ANALYSIS
MAIN BONUS CAMP DESTROYED
FIFTY WOUNDED
GRAVE EVENTS IN WASHINGTON Washington, July 29.
operations
In further
London, July 28. The United Kingdom delega- tion at Ottawa has presented to Mr. R. B. Bennett, as President of the Imperial Economic Con-carried out by Government ference, a supplementary state- forces against the Bonus ment containing trade figures
between Britain and the Do Army, dozens have been minions and India, with observa- wounded on both sides, an tions thereon which it is hoped official statement admitting will assist the work of the Con- ference.
that the casualty list exceeds
Stubborn to the last, the Bonus Marchers struggled hopelessly
The statement contains a sta- fifty, tistical table which shows how preference for Empire products has been increased by the recent tariff legislation and points out against the display of military that the proportion of Dominion force, and finally witnessed the exports still enjoying free entry destruction of their great im- in some cases exceeds 90 per cent, provised camp, which the soldiers and only falls appreciably below burned to the ground.
in the case of British India. The
fuct that 87 per cent. of the im- After the troops had driven the ports from India are dutiable is last member of the Bonus accounted for by the duty on ten, Army out of the city of Washing- on which India enjoys 2 veryton, orders were issued that the valuable preference.
main camp at Anacostin, some five miles distant, was to be cleared and destroyed,
A CONTRAST.
By way of contrast, since Bri-| tain's change of fiscal policy only
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
(Hauter's Special Service).
30 per cent, of her foreign im-
The camp was occupied by ap- Cairo, July 28. porta are admitted free. In the proximately 7,000. War Veterans, case of imports from the United Who bad with them some 488 child- the biggest hashish Kingdom into the four principal ren and 380 women. smuggling gangs has been broken Dominions, there is to-day prac Warning reached the camp of the up as a result of the trial and contically no free entry, and duty intended attack by the military and viction of sixteen persons, includ-or tax is charged on almost all the women and ing the notorious Mohamed Abdul goods. The preference accorded hurriedly taken
children wore to a place of
The War Veterans, to the num- ber of even thousands, stood stub- bornly to their shacks" and defled the authorities to do their worst.
ment and fined £1,000.-
sonic
Washington, July 28. TANKS, CAVALRYMEN AND INFANTRY EQUIP-Sunset, to th of whom has been by the United Kingdom is in the safety.
PED WITH MACHINE-GUNS AND TEAR-GAS sentenced to five years' imprison- form of total remission of duties
payable by foreign goods. BOMBS WERE, SAYS REUTER, ORDERED_OUT Two others received
lesser THIS AFTERNOON TO DEAL WITH AN UGLY punishment, while
A further table in the statement were shows that the visible trade SITUATION ARISING FROM A SERIOUS CLASH | acquitted.
balance in favour of the Do- BETWEEN THE “BONUS ARMY” AND THEİ The hashish in' respect of which minions is nearly £100,000,000,
the accused were charged was and that during 1930 imports into during which both sides suffered A number of skirmishes occurred POLICE.
brought over the desert from the Dominions from foreign coun-casualties, but the troops, who were Syria, sent through Palestine and tries were nearly £350,000,000. directed by the Chief of Staff Sinai to Suez, and thence to Mo- gattam Mills, where it was divided into small parcels.
The Bonus veterans got out of control when, for some reason, the police opened fire. Immediately, men who were in favour of pacific measures became incensed and a fierce battle developed.
Squadrons of cavalry were rushed across the Po- tomac River in the direction of the White House and found the police engaged in a desperate struggle to res- train the rioters. At the moment, the situation is !critical.
Later.
Two hundred cavalrymen, machine-gunners, live ! citizen in China. tanks and a battalion of infantry are at present con- centrated near the White House. They have been the clear the affected area, where ordered to disturbances are continuing, without delay,
HUGE RANSOM ASKED
RAILWAY WORKERS
SEIZED
("Telegraph" Special).
Harbin, July 29.
It has been disclosed that bandita kidnapped three employees of the South Manchuria Railway and two of the Hu-Hai Railway at Sungno, opposite Harbin, on Monday Inst.
Later. After using tear-gas bombs, the regular troops have succeeded in clearing the area occupied by the Bonus Marchers...
FOREWARNINGS OF TROUBLE
Washington, July 29.
It was then hidden in tombs in cemeteries round Cairo.
MANY CASUALTIES.
em-.
General MacArthur, again ployed tear-gas bombs and the BC-Veterano were obliged to take
REASONABLE CHANCE.
Regarding preferences' corded by the Dominions, the flight. statement urges htat if pre-
The camp was cleared and then ference to be of material set on fire, blazing furiously for The ringleaders of the gang had assistance, the rate of duty some time. for many years defied the efforts charged should be so graduated as
The situation is ugly: passions pro-have been aroused; the majority of of the police to catch them, owing to give to United Kingdom to the efficiency of their own secret ducts a reasonable chance of com- the Veterans are destitute.-Render. service.
peting on even terms, and that]
POLICE DUTY HOURS
the duties against United King-
dom products should be axed for THE QUEEN'S NEW
protective purposes to higher) than is necessary to give reason- ably efficient industry in the Do-f minions a fair chance.
GRAND-NIECE
Attention is called Lo the DAUGHTER BORN TO favourable tariff treatment which LADY MAY ABEL SMITH Britain had hitherto accorded to Dominions imports
competing with goods which she her-i self produces.
London, July 29. Latly May Abel Smith, the daugh- ter of the Earl and Countess of Athlone, has given birth to & daughter at her parents residence,
SOME ADVANTAGES STRESSED
Regarding, the changes in the hours of police patrol duty, some of the disadvantages of were mentioned yesterday, we
That over half of Britain's ex- Kensington Palace. learn from prominent official ports go to foreign countries, that Lady May was married to Cap- at Headquarters that there are she is highly industrialised, and tain Abel Smith in October last compensations offsetting these. that she has 234 millions un-year-Reuter.
which
DAMAGE TO MARKETS.
The advantages under the new employed are facts used to em- scheme wore stated by this official phasise the point that anything to be:
tending to check Britain's foreign Immediately the troopa had
The men will get three days off exports must lessen the purchas-
power Fierce fighting occurred during taken up their position near the
of her people, and so damage the market The five men are still in captivi- which a barrage of the gna bomba White House, infantry, wearing duty in the month, instead of two ing and saving ty, the bandits demanding ransom had to be used before the stub-tin-helmets and with fixed bay as heretofore. totalling one, and a half million born Bonus Marchers were finally drove back the band of Bonus what is termed a "stand-off" of 28
Once in a month, they will get on which the Dominions so large-
ly depend.
dollars-Renter,
Marchers to the accompaniment of hours in the interval between
EMPIRE INVESTMENTS. catcalls from the rioters.
change of duties.
The statement expresses satis eight-hour faction that proferential access
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TYPHOON ENTERS
COAST
MERGING IN BIG DEPRESSION
nounce that following difculties in According to the Royal. Obser
regard to the transfer of
funda
vatory morning report, the typhoon Alowly yesterday,
held in Australia for the service of moved very
of the
the loan into foreign countries, the mainly on a N.W. track, and has monthly Instalment due on July now entered the const to the South
Father James Cox, ons was not provided and similarly the of Amoy. Instalment due on August 1 is not It will probably merge with the leaders, addressing a group of the
depression over Tongking, forming Bonus Army in the camp
expected to be met.
■
onets, advanced at the double and
One of the groups was driven in While doing
men
a compact mass and refused te stretch of patrol duty, the move further. The infantry then will enjoy, a respite of three quar- donned gas masks and hurled tear-tors of an hour for lunch, gas bomba into the midst of the snarling and shouting mass,
PRECIPITAte flight.
It is further emphasised by the official that short of conceding the six-hour duty potitioned for, the eight-hour duties coming Into
A blue haze of gas rose from force on Monday are the best that the stronghold of tho veterans can be arranged after careful con- causing their precipitate light sideration of the men's needs, from the gas zone.
GERMAN NAVAL-
KING
DISASTER
GEORGE SENDS SYMPATHY
London, July 28.
EARL OF LYTTON
ON THE HIGH ROAD TO RECOVERY
Poking, July 29. The Earl of Lytton, who is now convalescing, has resumed his Inbours on certain amount of work daily at the Report, doing a
the German Hospital.
Alt
It is hoped that he will be enough to leave hospital in a fow daya.-Reuter,.
OLYMPIC GAMES
PAAVO NURMI IS DEBARRED
The H.M, the King has sent to Presi-
Los Angeles, July 29. International Athletic
An oxtended line of Infantry Convicted at Kowloon on a charge| followed by tanka thon moved of theft of 04 gunny bags, a coolle through the buildings and Inox-was sentenced to 14 day's hard labour. orably drove the veterana from It was stated that a Chinese detective dont Hindenburg a message of Federation, meeting prior to the It is belloved, however, that suffi- ian extensivo depression over South
the last corners.
saw defendant tying up the gunny condolence on the loss of life in Olympic Meeting, decided to dobar.. elent funds will be available to pay,China,
The fire brigade had to be calf-baga yesterday morning in Tai Nam the disaster to the German train-Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn, the Interest dus on December 1- The local forecast is-B. W. gardens and buildings where they ed out to deal with flames shoot- atrast, and questioned him, but not ing naval ship Niobo-British from participating in the Games.
getting aantiafactory answer, Bad! Wireless..
Anucoatla. driven from the Government)