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TYRE
A feature of distinction and a factor of safety
DUNLOP
FORT
THE COLONY'S NEW CHIEF AMERICAN NAVAL PETTY OFFICER
MOSCOW PLANE CRASH
Eight Killed-in Big
Disaster
Moscow, Sept. 5. Five prominent Soviot officials connected with aviation, together with the wife of one of them, and a pilot and a' mechanic, were, killed to-day in an aeroplane crash near Moscow. Router.
JUSTICE
MR. MACGREGOR APPOINTED
ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF KENYA
SUCCEEDS SIR JOSEPH KEMP
Mr. Alasdair Duncan Artholl MacGregor, Attorney General
NEW YORK of Kenya Colony, has been ap-
RAILWAY DISASTER
OVER HUNDRED KILLED AND INJURED
BINGHAMTON
TRAGEDY
pointed Chief Justice of Hong-
| kong in succession to Sir Joseph
Kemp.
the Governor
Ha Excellency has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the, Colonies
intimating that His Majesty has
approved of the appointment,
Mr. MacGregor, who was born in 1883, was educated at George Watson's College, und graduated from Edinburgh University Master of Arts with 'classical honours. He also took hia B.A. at Oxford with honoura
He was called to the Lincoln's Inn Bar in 1909, and entered the
THE HIGH COST OF DIPLOMACY
Chile Withdrawing Consulates
Santiago de Chile,
Sept. 5.
It is reported that the Chiloan Government is shortly issuing Instructions for the abolition of all Con- sulates in the Far East, with the exception of the head- quarters at Shanghai and
· Yokohama.
It is presumed that the decision has been taken on the score of economy.- Reuter..
·RECOVERY BATTLE
MR. FORD TO BE GIVEN 24 HOURS
EXTEND CREDIT
The Binghamton railway Colonial service, as District Com-BANKS URGED TO disaster (reported in the missioner for South Nigeria. He first editions of the Tele-was appointed to the political de- partment in 1913. Subsequently graph) was much more seri-he held the following appoint- ous than was.first believed..ments In Nigeria: Station Early Reuter messages Indicate Magistrate 1914, Police Magistrate that the casualties totalled about 1917, Crown Counsel 1912, Sollei thirty-two, twelve of them killed. tor-General 1923,
Latest information from Reti-] Ho, was made Attorney-General Ler's New York correspondent of Trinidad In 1920, and after shows that over a hundred were wards of Kenya. killed or injured.
N
The estimates at present,are?
23 killed.
100 injured.
The trains involved were the Chicago Flier express from Now York and a freight train. The express was travelling at high "apted and a terrific crash occurred;;
were
CUBA COUP SUCCEEDS
N.C.O. NOW COMMANDER IN CHIEF
SENOR CESPIDES RESIGNS
Havana, Sept. 5.
The Cespides Government has been swept away in a wave of popular approval of the revolutionary uprising by the lower ranks of the Army and Navy.
The wellagganised coup finds an N.G.Okhrge of the country's
ffairs, Sergeant Batista, having
UNDER ARREST
been appointed commander-in-chief: MEAN
A revolutionary committeo "of The housing problem in Berlin
LORD GREY
WIFE STABBED IN GRADUALLY LOSING
SHANGHAI
SURPRISE VISIT FROM TSINGTAO
VICTIM IN GRAVE CONDITION
Shanghai, Sept. 6.
Chief Petty Officer George
*: STRENGTH
London; Sept. 5. Lord Crey of Falloden has hot regained consciousness. throughout to-day and he is gradually losing strength.- British Wireless.
VAST TOLL
OF
Danko, of the United States HURRICANE
Navy, has been taken into
custody following a domes-
tic quarrel which resulted in the stabbing of his wife,
Mrs. Danko, a pretty 26-year-old Russian woman, is lying gravely
expected to live.
DEVASTATION IN TEXAS
nineteen which was formed, np. being met by the renting out of old wounded in hospital. She is not CALL SENT FOR pointed a deputation of five-men-railway carringes bungalows. bere, who called upon Pr. Cespides Photo shows a typical residence, 3. Ortis at the Presidential Palace
and demanded his resignation.
President Cospides accepted the position and resigned after three short weeks in office.
OFFICERS ARRESTED,
Almost complote absonce of bloodshed was the feature of the revolutionary," although Sergeant Batista drdered the arrest of all officers in the police, the army and the navy immediately the success of the coup was assured.
JUNIOR T.T. RESULT
FAST TIMES BY AMATEUR
A COMPETITOR'S EXTREMES
Washington, Sept. 5. difficulties confronting the re- Growing appreciation of the
The only serialis disorder is covery campaign is felt through reported from Santiago de Cuba out circles in closest touch with where the evolution appears to business conditions and it is the. have teen tied for ́RN."EXCUBE .to wrook further vengeance upon pro- general opinion that a big exminent official connected with the
The pansion of credit is necessary to hated Machado secret police. Four, Tourist
forward.
London, Sept. 5.- Junior Motor. Cycle. Trophy Race open to
Danko himself took his wife to hospital after stabbing her during a bitter quarrel.
He was stationed in Tsingtao for the summer, but he apparently.
TROOPS
New York, Sept. 5.
Reports are pouring in detail- heard something which caused himing the vast toll of the hurricane to desert his ship and to leave at which ravaged the Bahamas, once for Shanghai,
Travelling by railway, via Cuba and the coast of Texas, Tsinanfu and Pukow, he arrived. The town of Brownsville was In Shanghai yesterday morning and went at once to the house where his wife is alleged to have been staying with Russiam
ARRESTED IN HOSPITAL. After an altercation, it is alleg ed that Danko stabbed his wife in
practically wrecked and thousands of casualties occurred as a result of were rendered homeless., Hundred»
falling debris.
The town now stands in the floods, centre of Afty 'square miles of
JUDGE BRADLEY keep the prosperity push moving members of the politch Tooted the the famous difficult mountain frantically took steps for her con-ut Harlingen, from where has come
PASSES AWAY.
-FORMER-RESEARCH- CHEMIST
Nearly all the casualties occarre ed in two coathes which felescoped, harrowing spectacles greeting rescue parties who worked frantically in efforts release injured
and imprisoned(By passengers.
to
The disaster is one of the worst occurring in the United States for some considerable time.
WATERLOO BRIDGE GETS SHAKING.
BARGE COLLIDES WITH PIER
President Roosevelt is now en- barked on a credit expansion policy and he is urging the banks to co- -operate to the limit.
A letter from President Roosevelt was read to-day at the convention of the Bankers' Association which (Our Own Correspondent).
is being held in Chiengo, in the course of which the President made Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphis a specific appeal for the granting Messages Ordinanca, 1881, ficceived September of credits for industrial purposes. 4, 2.10 p.m.
The Ford battle with General London, Sept. :D.
Hugh Johnson an the code. Issue The death is announced of His witnessed another development to- Honour Judge Francis Ernest day, according to a report from Bradley.
Detroit stating that it is under- He was a judge of the Countystood that Mr. Jenry Ford has in- Courts, North West Lancnalire cir- creased the minimum daily wage cult from 1921. He joined the of four dollars by eighty cents.- Northern Circuit after studying Reuter. law in the newly opened School of Law. He was Dauntesey
Law Scholar of Owen's College in 1886; and an Associate in 1888. He was
FORD GIVEN 24 HOURS.
Washington, Sept. 5.
also the Arden Scholar of Gray's President Roosevelt to-day met Inn and became a barrister in 1889, the Recovery Council and dis-
He first practised
in the Lan-cussed with them the domestic London, Sep. 5
cashire Palatine Chancery Court situation.. Waterloo Bridge, which for and was Lecturer In Equity at Mr. Ford, who is still standing long time past has beon Liverpool University from 1892-93, out against the motor code is ex- Among his numerous other appoint-pected to be given at least another "splints" while the authorities. have dercely debated no to whe Law at the Owen's College, Man- the movement.--Reuter.
ients were: Tutor in English twenty-four hours in which to join ther to replace or strengthen it chester University, a member of was shaken. talay by a barge the Board of Examiners of the loaded with bricka which swung Council of Legal Education, Coun- downstream and crashed into one set for the prosecutions of the Col- BOMB-THROWING
of the central piera.
Fearing the worst, the authori-i tion stopped traffle 'over the bridge for eight hours, but it was at
ton Control Board,
STUDIED SCIENCE.
lie became a Freeman of the
length ascertained that the City of London in the Worshipful -foundations were not affected, Company of Glaziers in 1906, had and traffic was then permitted to been a member of the Court since resume with the restriction of 1819 and was Master in 1923-4. maximum speed of 3 miles an He was appointed a member of the our-Router.
Court of the University of Man- me hoster as representative of the Convocation from 1921-30 and was
CATHEDRAL FUND
Further List of Donations
The following additional donations to the St. John's. Cathedral Restoration Fund- have been received:
Mr. & Mrs. E. ..Cock
50
Mr. & Mrs. ]-
Bentley
25
Major & Mrs. H.
VB. L. Dowbig-
C/Calo Previo
988
INCIDENT
armoury
the
Sergeant Batista's avowed ob- jective is the establishment of a Iruly revolutionary-government. -Renter.
ROOSEVELT TAKES ACTION
FOUR WARSHIPS SENT TO CUBA
course in the Isle of Man which is 226 miles in length.
The race was won by A. Munks. an a Velocette, machine at 74.14 miles per hour, F. Frith. on. Norton being second at an average speed of 72.13 miles per hour, and Mr. Pirie on a Norton was third nt 72.03 miles per hour.
Pirie bumped along at a terrific speed for some miles with a flat. tyre.
The Competitors number 48 and Included undergraduates, pro Washington, Sept. 5. President Roosevelt has return-nies and one man whose daily oc- fessional men, tradesmen, meehu- ed from his week-end holiday and cupation is to drive steam roller immediately discussed the Cuban at situation with the State Departs British Wireless.
three miles per hour.--
ment.
Two United States destroyers, the Sturtevant and the McFarland, have reached Cuba and it is bo lieved that President Roosevelt, is prepared to send other warships if it becomes necessary, in addition to the four already despatched.- Reuter,
PLANES SENT TO BORDER
AUSTRO-GERMAN TENSION
Maria, Sept. G.
Soren
aeroplanes have left
Cordon Thrown Round venue for Insbruck to reinforce
Ford Works
New York, Sept. 6, A cordon of special guards has
Chairman of the Convocation in been thrown round the Ford 1928-29. He had been, Vice-Pre-Works at Edgewater, New Jersey, sident of the Old Mancunians According to the Daily News, In sociation since 1912,
Before studying law, Judge Brad-consequence of two attempts at Joy, who was the son of
the troops guarding the Austro- | Gurman frontièr, ***
The machines are privately- owned as the peace treaties pro- hibit Austria from employing military aeroplanes.
They are, however, manned by polico pilotaReuter.
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AIR-MINDED EUROPE
NEW CROSS-CHANNEL TRAFFIC RECORD
London, Sept. 5. For the second time this year all records for cross channel nir Firaffic have been broken.
During August 12,035 passen- gers passed through the Croydon Airport, an increase of nearly. 1,000 over the number for July, when a previous record was es tablished.--British Wireless,
NEW DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT
BRITISH MINISTER AT SOFIA
London, Sept. 5, 1 The King has Aracibusy beds pleased to approve"- "the appòlut--
Man-bomb throwing by radicals ENGLAND'S FINANCES ment of Mr. Charles Henry Ben-
chester manufacturing and research Router. chemist, studied aclence and did research work in his father's laboratory from 1882-85, during which time he invested and patent- ed Improvements in various chemical processes.
THREE CLEAR- GOALS
London, Sep,
STOCK MARKETS IMPROVE
the abdomen with a knife, Ho Only three buildings are stand- acems to have been overcome kvithing at Haymondsville, remorse at the outcome and Many wore killed and Injured. veyance to hospital.
la request for troops to preserve:
San Benito is also reported. have been wrecked-Reuter.
He was arrested there by the order. police.
Later in the day the police handed Petty Officer Danko over to the American authorities, but no
formal charge has yet been laid- Beuter.
ARCHBISHOP OF BRISBANE
BAHAMAS. REPORT,
London, Sept. 5. Reporting further on the effect of the hurricane of September 4th,
the Offer Administering the
Government of the Bahamas kys that the hurricane passed west- wards through the North Woet Channel about 35 miles north of Nassau, devastating the settle-
DEATH OF GERALDments at northern end of Eleuthera,
SHARP
'(Our Own Correspondent),
which he visited by air.
Property at Harbour Island suffered considerable damage and people have sustained Injuries at Bogue, "whither I have sont
(By Talegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Doctor but I was relieved to find Manages Ordinance. Er Received September 80 little damage considering the violence of gale."--British Wire- Brisbane, Sept. 5. ices.
8. 1.10 p.m.j.
་
The death has taken place of
the Most Rev. Gerald Sharp. HURRICANE HAVOC. Archbishop of Brisbane, at the age of 68,
Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (Somerset Exhibition- er, B.A.(Classicn! Tripos) 1886, and M.AZ In. 1910, Archbishop Sharp was ordained in 1889 and.
THREE HUNDRED PEAD IN CUBA
New York, Sept. 5. Tho Cuban Army at Santa Clara was sucċessively curate of St. reports that three hundred per Andrew's, Taunton from 1889 to sons were killed in the vicinity of 1893 and of Holy Innocents, Ham Cristo Bay during the hurricane. mersmith from 1899. to', 1808. -Reuter:
From this date until 1910 ho was Vicar of Whitkirk, Yorke, and
in 1909 was Procter in Convoca- MR. NORMAN DAVIS IN
tion for the Archbishop of Ripon. fo was Blahop of New Guinea |from 1910 to 1921 and was then
appointed to be Archbishop Brisbane.
MEMONT GOES
"DRY"
of
·ENGLAND
Spending Ten Days on Disarmament Talks
London Sept. 5.
Mr. Norman Davis, America's. roving Ambassador, landed at Fly- mouth to-day. N
tinck, His Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipos tentinry, at Lima to be Envoy REPEAL VOTE SWEEPS Extraordinary Sofla British. and Minister
COUNTRY Plenipotentiary.
It is learned that he will be stay- ing in England for ten, days prior New York, Sept. 4. to proceeding to Geneva via Paris. It is reported from Montpeller In an interview with Reuter, Mr. that Vermont, for a long time a Davis said there was no change in Ataunch stronghold of prohibition, the altitude of the United States. has gone Wot" by two votes to towards disarmament, except that vatory reports one, not
they falt reven over China This is the twenty-fifth State to great impo
oenly the ghulp in ' ini voto Wot." None has voted the D theclyph h
ARCOOLER WEATHER SAVO PORECAST
LATEST TREASURY
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In the Northern Section of the in place. British Tanda-
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