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TYRE ECONOMY
TROOPS EXPECTED TO TAKE CONTROL OF FRISCO
M. Dovgslevsky, the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, whose death has occurred following an operation.
STRATOSPHERE ASCENT
BELGIAN ATTEMPT:
*TO-DAY
Brussels, July 15, Professor Max Cosyns the Belgian stratosphere expert, is expected to makej a ten-mile ascent in the early hours of to-morrow morning.
The giant balloon in which Pro- fessor Cosyna will make his attempt to reach the stratosphere was to
diny taken by military aeronautical exparta to Hourhavonnic, in the Ardennes, from where the. Fascent
will
be made,
Professor Cosyns, "who, it win bo Professor recalled, accompanied Piccant in the first stratosphere light which caused such sensation two years ago, la taking with him a 28-year-old student of Professor Plecard.
They are now only waiting favourable meteorological condi tions for the start. The ascent will begin at about 4. am and will continue for from ten to fifteen hours.
No attempt will be made to beat the nititude record, standing at about 11.5 miles, the abject of the scientific light being purely atudy of the cosmic rays and the stratosphere.-Reuter.
Minor Riots Herald
Herald the Storm; City Virtually At AMERICA'S Standstill Before General Strike Becomes Effective
ROUGHS LOOTING
IN OAKLAND
MILITIA ATTACKED ON WATERFRONT
TRAGIC OUTLOOK
SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 15. PRELIMINARY RUMBLINGS ARE HERALD- ING THE STORM WHICH THREATENS
toursgau barrağa being'employed against str (kurs in the United States. Scenes of this type have baod fairly frequent at San-Francisco during the past thres, weski. 'Even worse is feared in connection
with tha ganiral strike whigh begins to-day.
TO BREAK OVER THE CITY TO-MORROW Russia's
WITH THE GENERAL
STRIKE
OF
OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND UNION Entry Into
WORKERS,
Already sharp clashes bave occurred on the waterfront. The National Guard has been involved in brushes with strike sympathisers.
Across the bay in Oakland, roughs have been on the war. path, smashing the windows of shops carrying food stocks and indulging in looting and wrecking. Police have been active all day both in San Francisco and in Oakland, where owing to the threat of pillage many of the shops in the danger area have closed and barred their doors and windows. The entire area is apprehensive and the atmosphere sembles that of a city threatened with siege.
MAYOR TALKS OF “REVOLUTION”
League
NEGOTIATIONS NEARLY COMPLETED
Geneva, July 15. #last-minute hitch De curs and there is hardly a chance of that, an application for mem- bership of the League of Nations re-will shortly be made by Soviet
Russia, with an assurance of Bri- tish and French support.
The negotiations for the entry of Russia Into the League ore, in
INDIAN TEMPLE FIRE TRAGEDY
Thirty Killed And 40 Seriously Hurt
· Calcutta, July 15. Thirty persons were burn- ed to death and forty were seriously Injured in a fire ot a temple near Tinnevelly..
Flaming torches carried by devotees set fire to the thatched roof of the temple which had only one narrow exit.
Many wore hurt in frantic rush to escape.- Reuter,
fact, belleved to be nearly finished HITLER'S
and Rusala's application is likely
ing of the Assembly, which meets in September, according to cus tom.
After comparative peace-for Another result of the blockade,-to-be mad before the next meet- nearly twenty-four hours, a sort which is remarkably effective de of full before the storm, disorder spite the most strenuous efforts of the authorities, is that many of broke out along the waterfront.
Strikers appear to have started the city's restaurants have been the trouble, by taking cover behind forced to close down for lack of goods-wagons and stoning the supplies. National Guardsmen from the cover thus furnished.
The militia fired into the mob
MARTIAL LAW?
The negotiations throughout have been conducted through Go- vernment channels. and not through Lengue offices.
The Secretarist is therefore not
application.-enter.·
M
G. O. Allen Given Another Chance
ENGLAND'S TEAM.
CUP
SENSATION
SOPWITH'S CREW DESERTS
DEMAND HIGHER
WAGES
ENDEAVOUR SAILS WITH AMATEURS London, July 15.
An incident scarcely paral· lelled in the history of yacht- ing may have an important influence on the America's Cup races soon to take plac off the United States coast.
* A strike occurred on Satura day of the paid members of the crew of Mr. T. 0. ̈ ̈M. Sopwith's yacht, the Enden- vour,
with which he is challenging
Mr. Sopwith refused to give way and sailed with a crew con sisting almost entirely of amatours,
It is stated that he will use
IN FOURTH TEST his amateur volunteer crew in the
“America's Cup races, and opinions
The names of fourteen are mixed as to whether this will be an advantage or a disadvantage. players from which Eng- land's team for the Fourth
PAY DEMANDS,' Test will be chosen were an-
It appears that the crow doli- nounced by the Selection vered an ultimatum to Mr. Sop Committee last night.
with on Saturday, demanding. practically double their average Elght unbudgables" are there, wages during the period of the of course, and of the three others Atlantic crossing and the Ameri that played in the Third Test ca's Cup races.
only G. 0. Allen is offered an- Mr. Sopwith considered the other chance, Hopwood and Clark demands exorbitant and doclined being dropped.
to accept them. Consequently
APOLOGIA tended to James Langridge, dis-two left the yacht.
U.S. OPINIONS ON
FRIDAY SPEECH...
HAGEN INVOLVED and one man was bayonetted when requisitioned five hundred special aware of the probuble date of the EFFORT TO JUSTIFY
IN TRAGEDY
CAR KNOCKS DOWN A BOY
on
in an excess of daring, he tried to anatch a rifle from a soldier.
Meanwhile police cars are constant patrol, cruising through the streets, ready to concentrate apon any district where violence may break out.
They have been answering riot calls throughout the day, but no Ton strikers have been arrested.
The Chief of Police has now constables, all of whom have been armed, and mounted police,
A
detachment of
There is fear of the fiercest TRIP ABROAD FOR
HU HAN-MIN! battles between the authorities
and the strikers.
Federal troops are expected to take control of the city as soon as
automoblie disturbance has lasted for long-the general strike becomes effec-
Minnesota, July 15. Walter Hagen's accidentally knocked down and killed boy when the famous Kolfer WAS driving through Minnesota to-day,
Hagen was very affected by the tragedy and openly wept.
After he had been questioned by the police, Hagen was released pending the Inquest-Reuter.
THREE TYPHOONS
ZOO MEAT "RAID."
One rather amusing heldent, which might have had serious con- sequences occurred as the result of the failure of the Zoo to obtain food. supplies for the animals.
After threatening to march a hord of elephants through the City streels to the meat market untena
the strikers permitted daily rations to pass for the lions and tigers, the Director of the Zoo, Mr. Herbert Fleishacker, obtained a WARNING ISSUED BY police escort and ran the gauntlet
MANILA
of the strikers' blocknde.
He raced back to the zoo in the municipal truck supplied to him Obser- at Idgh speed and managed to get! through safely with eight hundred i pounds of horseficah,
Warnings have been issued this morning by the Manila vatory of three typhoons.
One is situnia In about 130 Long, 26 Lat, recurving north eastwards.
SUPPLIES FOR HOSPITALS.
The general strike is timed to begin at eight o'clook-to-morrow of (Monday) morning.
Another is developing east of the Balintang Cannel.
The third is situate
wost the Ladrone or Mariana Islands, and is moving W.N.W. or N.W.
WANG WING-WEI'S ILLNESS
Shanghai, July 16.
Mr. Wang, Ching-wei arrived here this morning. He alighted from the train at Nanhsinng and is connulting Dr. Noll regarding his alckness, Reuter.
All transport will be suspended. The city will bo completely paralysed
tive, Imposing a virtual state of martial law.
Mr. Rossi, the Mayor of San
(Continued on Page 7)
SHOOTING ON A
SHIP
THREE NEGROES KILLED
LONGSHOREMEN'S DISPUTE
New York, July 15. Three negro independent longshoremen
were shot dead at Houston, Texas, to- commended that bread, ment and day, in the course of a re- the pickets for delivery to the volver fight. local hospitals.
The Strike Committee has re-
milk be allowed to pass through
The fight occurred aboard a ship As a result of the public rush in the river channel,
મ
SUN FO'S REPORTED MISSION
HIMSELF
(Special to "Telegraph")
(By Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphis Mer wagen Ordinance,
Another invitation has been ex-fourteen of the crew-of-twenty- placing Hopwood, and Bowes and The captain, mate and officera Nichols, have been invited in the remained loyal to the owner-
Reuter. places of Clark and Macaulay, while Mitchell, the Derbyshire bowler, is again, doubtless on the
strength of his 7 for 106 against
the Australians last week.,
attend at Leede on Friday arez,
The fourteen players who will
E. S. Wyatt, captain.
C. F. Walters,
G. O. Allen,"
Sutcliffe,
Hammond,
Received-July |
Hendren; Leyland.
Ames,
Verity,
Mitchell,
Βόννας,
New York, July 15. Nearly every important news- *** - - | paper in the United States agrees
in interpreting the remarkable|·· Hitler speech as a running away from mailed-fist dictatorship, an apologia.
Shanghai, July, 16. Chinese reports state that Mr. Sun Fo has received instructions It is viewed generally as 431 from Chiang Kai-shek to procced appeal to the public not to mis to Hongkong on his return from judge his good intentions. Honolulu to work out further de---The New York Times says that tails for the future cooperation he spoke as one who was conscious of Nanking and Canton.
that he had to justify himself tó Sun Fo's infusion to the south his own
will be to persuade Hu Han-min "Herald-Tribune characteri to leave Hongkong and take rases the speech as a terrifying trip abroad!
document, confirming the feeling
It is also reported that after that Hitlerlam is a mennee. to. Sun Fo's trip. Mr. H. H. Kung is also planning a trip to China-Renter.
NORTH-WEST
· CHINA
South
BIG DEVELOPMENT PLANS
Nanking, July 16. According to Chinese reports,
Keeton, Nichols, Langridge, Jas
LUANHO RIVER
RISING
P.M.R. BRIDGE NOW THREATENED
Tientsin, July 16. Thousands of villagers
Are
JAPANESE CONSULAR CONFERENCE
Meeting in Formosa in Next Few Days
Nanking, July 18.. According to Chinese informa. tion, the much heralded Japanese Conference, which is being conven- ed by the Governor-General of Formosa, will be held within the next few days.
it is stated that it will be attended by: Japanese Consular officials from Amoy, Foochow, Swatow, Shameen and Hongkong..
Mr. Ariyoshi, the Japanese. Minister to China, will be repre- sented by Mr. Yamada, Counsellor of the Japanese Legation.
Great significance 18 boing attached to the decisions of the Conference-Reuter.
civilisation.
Our Shameen correspondent reports The Boston Herald says that the working day and night on streng a large tree in front of the British that during a heavy squali on Friday. speech confirmed General Hugh thoning the dykes along the Consulate was blown down, doing con Johnson's outspoken expression of Luanho River, which has further siderable damage to the steel fagstaff opinion.
rison in the past. twenty-four Fortunately, no-o̟no was injured, an Other papers say that the speech hours and is in some sectione convicts Herr Hitler, that fiory overflowing. The water is almost words settle nothing and that the level with the P. M. R. Luanho march of events will decide Bridge, which is in danger of Hitler's fate,Unile Press.
LADS BITTEN BY -DOGS
General Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. JAPANESE & CHINESE Wang Ching-wel will proceed to the North-West this autumn, in order to inspeot conditions in that region."
VICTIMS
collapse.--Central News,
NULLAH OUTRAGE
ACCUSED · MAN. AGAIN REMANDED
At the Contral Magistracy thin Akiro Noma, a Japanese boy morning, Ng Loi-yuen again ap to secure food supplies, for hoard- It seems to have developed from ing, scores of shops have sold out n conflict between Union and non-The provinces to be inspected aged 6 was bitten yesterday by a peared on a charge of wilful dogs belonging to M. Kojima, of 19 murder of Bichael Pine, one of their entire stocks and have clos-Union workers.
will be Shenei. Kanau, Ninghalu, Hennessy Road. He was sent to the Ove British children recently A fourth nogro longshoreman, Chinghai and Sinking.
the Governement Civil Hospital for thrown into a nullah near the M. Eynard, the French Consut-ed down tili fresh supplies can bo
non-Union worker, was critically The visit will be the preliminary, treatment.
lower Peak Tram station. General at Shameon, held a reception obtained.
tho National
wounded while two others were atop towards a large-scalo do A 6-year-old fad, Wong Chan, Inspector O'Donovan, who ap on Saturday to mark Day. The French community invited
loan seriously wounded as 'was a velopment of the natural ro-was bitton at Kowloon yesterday. peñred for the police, asked for all members of the Canton Club to an
Other shops are
now strictly white member of the International sources of the North-West region. by a dog, and went to the Kowloon a further week's. remand, and Informal cocktail party in the Club,
Association.-- —Router. rationing all their customers and Longshoreman's
Hospital for treatment.
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