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KAN SETJARUF FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934.
日八月七
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PETROL FROM SEA WATER! FRENCH INVENTION
Sir Stanley Jackson.
"TRUE SPIRIT OF CRICKET"
SIR STANLEY JACKSON ISSUES APPEAL
ILL-FEELING OVER
LEG THEORY.
London, Aug. 16.
An appeal for more of the true spirit of cricket and less of cricket warfare has been made by Sir Stanley Jackson, chairman of the England Test Selection Com- mittee, and Mr. Harold Bushby, the manager of the
MR. R.G. SHEWAN'S Australian team.
ESTATE
THREE QUARTERS OF MILLION DOLLARS
BEQUESTS TO
RELATIVE
The appeal is the result of the sudden revival of the leg-theory controversy following the sensational events at Nottingham where Voce took 8 wickets for 66 by leg theory bowling in the first innings and did not play in the second.
Wide Area
In Scotland
Local estate sworn at Shaken
under $768,300 was left by
the late Mr. Robert Gordon By Tremor
Shewan, of Shewan, Tomes and Co., who died
February 14 last.
on
The will consists largely of be-
quests to relatives.
A petition by Ian Winchester
Shewan, of Shewan Tomes & Co
ger of China Underwriters Lid,
Sir Stanley's appeal reflects the general discouragement at the recent developments, which have threatened to destroy, on the ave of the Fifth and Final Test, the: spirit of cordiality in which the
A remarkable scene during the Seattle dock strike is pictured above. It shows a barrage of taxr- gas being rained down on pickets from a bridge which police used as a base of action. The attack ended in the roul of 2,000 pickets, but the police as well as the pickets were affected by the breeze. blown gas.
AUSTRIAN LEGION DISBANDED
Australians have been met and HITLER'S CHANGED
have
met their opponents this
AUSTRALIANS ACCUSED, AN The leg-theory dispute has un- fortunately been stirred up again by-statements that Mr. Bull, the FROM DORNOCH TO Australian Treasurer, protested against Voce's bowling for Notts and a further suggestion that W. M, Woodfull, the Australian captain, is alleged to have said that he would call his men from An earth tremor was felt the field if Voce bowled leg-theory
PITLOCHRY
London, Aug. 16.
very delicate
:
BORDER MENACE
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Resaived August
and Herbert Rothony Sturt, mana- over an extensive area in the if selected for the Fifth Testitsing Austrian feelings is pro- for probate of the will and codicils northern districts of Scot-ot improved
situation. -of-the-deceased-has-been-granted-land-to-day, but early re-
In his will, deceased appointed
Mr. I. W. Shewan as trustee and ports show that the damage made bequests, free of death duties was negligible.
to the following:
The daughter of William Thont-
CATEGORICAL DENIAL.
a
CROP FAILURE IN U.S.
ACREAGE CUTS TO REMAIN
LONDON TALKS
London, Aug. 16. The American Ambassador, 'Mr. Robert Bingham, presided at to day's meeting.
at the Board of Trade, of the Wheat Advisory Committee.
A communique issued later
170 DIE IN FERRY DISASTER
PANIC IN INDIA RIVER BOAT
BULLOCKS LEAD TO TRAGEDY
Patna, Aug. 16.
States that the United States de- In a tragedy caused by a legation reported that the failure panic, at least a hundred and of this year's crops, following as
son Shewan, known as Edie She. Dornoch, in the south of Suther-alleged protests. wore ever madeal between Afteen, and twenty | ing above the level, to which it by.survivors of the mishap, the bast
wan, England;
-Reuter..
ENGINEER
MAKES EXTRAORDINARY
CLAIM
THE SECRET FOR £25,000,000
GOVERNMENT. GIVEN AN OPTION
TRIVIAL COST
Paris, Aug. 17.
A sensational claim to the ability to manufacture synthetic petrol from salt water is made by a Rouen motor engineer, named Saheurs.
The Paris Journal, Le Matin, makes the revelation, but suggests that the claim should be treated with reserve.
Saleurs claims that he can manufacture petrol at a cost of a fraction of a penny a quart 'and says that a ship. on the high seas could install his apparatus and make its own petrol while pro ceeding on ita voyage.
Sahouts is quite willing
for anyone to examine ha apparatus: declaring that it protects th secret of the process
WANTS $25,000,000.
He adds that he will not reveal the necret for leas than £25,000,000, Sahours has given the French
Rouen-Reuter-
T. V. SOONG AND SILVER
TO CONSULT WITH EXPERTS
Government the first option on the Munich, Aug. 16.
United States Administration to It did on a poor crop In the pre-seventy men and women are Invention and representatives gr Hitler's policy of appeas- the reasons which had led the drowned near Darihara. recently visited his workshops "In 'vious year, had greatly modified reported to have been the French War Office and the Air Ministry are said. to have ceeding rapidly, the last and adopt-nerenge-reduction-in-order-The-disaster was due to the most important step being to improve the position of the capsizing of a ferry-bont. The the dissolution of the Aus
American wheat farmer.
ferry set out астояв the river Mr. Bushby, the Australian jmanager, has
The United States Government conveying about two hundred pas now Issued
trian Legionnaires.
was, however, prepared to take sengers and a number of bullock. The area affected extended from categorieni denial that these
This force, variously estimated the area sown to wheat from ria- the necessary steps to prevent
It overturned in mid-stream. According to the stories related and stated definitely that neither thousand men. had been trained land. to Pitlochry in Perthshire. Mr. Bull nor Woodfull had com- and equipped on the Bavarian alde had been reduced this year, pro- began to rock fairly violently as a Mrs. George Eckley, of San near the famous capital of the muniented in any way with Lord's of the Austro-German border and to continue a general effort to Traxedy loomed when the bullocks vided other countries were ready result of the strong current. offered a constant menace of in-adjust wheat production to de- alarmed and jumped into the vasion to Austria by a Nazi forcomand of Austrian nationality...
river, causing a quantity of water
Nanking, Aug. 16. to enter the bont.
Mr. T, V. Soong returned to the Instead of keeping their beads, capital to-day and after a visit to the passengers grew panic-stricken Mr. Wang Ching-wei, proceeded completes a programme of satisfy- added that the reduction
The United States delegation and crowded to one side of the boat, to Shanghai.
in which capsized, carrying many ing Austrian complaints of inter-acreage. brought about in the aboard down with it.
He told pressmen that be had been ference, in Austrian affairs.
favourably Impressed in Shantung. United States of America had About thirty out of two hundred where material construction was It is understood that the Aus-been of suficient magnitude to passengers were rescued. Reuter making headway under a long trian Storm Troopers in Germany represent at average yields over
reign of pance are to be incorporated in Herr the past;ton years, some hundred Hitler's Brown Shirt Army, and million bushels of wheat. that most of the members of the Austrian Legion, now being dle solved, will be sent to various Labour Camps,
Francisco,
Miss Annie deen;
county, a distance of about a Shewan, of Aber-hundred miles.
The shock occurred in the curly TRAGIC CRASH ON "My late nurse, Mrs. Chu Mei-hours of the morning and was kce, of Shanghal;"
auffelently severe to wake most
Miss Carston Best, of London. sleeps.
Of the residue of the estate, No serious damage is, however, one-third is placed in trust for the reported although one woman is child or children of his late brother said to have suffered a collapse Andrew, one-third for the child or from. shock at Dingwall, on children of his brother. Alexander, Cromarty Firth, where the tremor and one-third for the child or was severely felt, children of his sister, Marion Hogg.
A similar occurrence was ex- perienced in the Bame district |· about two years ago. These
gicni fault, the existence of which has been established for many years-British. Wireless.
BIG PORTUGUESE tremors are attributed to a geolo
ESTATE
MR. J. M. DE. C. BASTO LEAVES $148,000-
Jose Marla de Castro Basto. former printer, of 17. Tai Po Road, Kowloon, who died at the Canossa Hospital on February 21, left local estate of $148,000,
Probate has been granted to Carlos Augusto Lopes, of King's Building, mercantile assistant, a friend of the deceased.
REICH EXCHANGE
· RESTRICTIONS
-
MATTERHORN
ITALIAN ALPINISTS
KILLED
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Herr Hitler's orders for the
dissolution of the organisation.
**PRODUCTION FIGURE.
Statements, were made by the various delegations as to the Tolicles of their Government in regard, to the control of wheat production.
THE OLYMPIA RADIO EXHIBITION
It may be recalled that there Turin, Aug. 10.
Late this afternoon the Com- £300,000 Business were recently rumours of a clash, mittee turned to consideration of Four well-known, Italian between the Reichswehr and the re-allocation of quotas for the Alpinista porished to-day, érash- Legion when the military were 1934-35 period. The Committee
in First Hour ing down 'n preekpice to death, sent to disarm the Legionnaires will
Rentor Special
FOOCHOW MYTHS during an attempt to climb the
EXPLODED
STATEMENT BY CITY AUTHORITIES
It is officially announced by the (naval 'authorities that special on- quiries were yesterday made of
Matterhorn by the way of the Cervine Slope, on the Italian, sido of the mountain-Router Special,
PARIS TO SEE THE ́PASSION PLAY
NEW US. OFFICIAL
JOURNALIST TO BE GIVEN APPOINTMENT
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meet again to-morrow, British Wireless..
He cited the cotton_industry in Tainan, where a number of mills equipped with the most up-to-date plant are being run profitably, des- pite the general depression, thus comparing favourably with in Shanghai.
those
Done""Mr."
London, Aug. 16. The Radio Exhibition which opened at Olympia to-day is sald bo the largest of its kind ever held
to
GREEK CONSULATE AT SHANGHAI
ESTABLISHED FOR FIRST TIME.
4 Shanghai, Aug. 17.
More than 150 firms are exhibit- ing the latest developments in wire- less receiving sets and their ac cessories, and about a quarter of a million people are expected to visit the show.
Thle is 14th of these annual ex- hibitions, and each year they at tract a larger number of Home and
i. Washington, Aug 16 The establishment of a Greek Overseas visitors. Every part of
the government authorities in Foo Ober-Ammergau To Go The United Press learns that consulate at Shanghai yesterday the British Empire and twenty
chow as a result of the alarmist
romours published since August 14. The Foochow authorities stated definitely that no fighting of any
FIVE PER CENT. OF kind had occurred in the vicinity
: NORMAL
(Special to "Talegraph”)
|of Foochow since August 10, thus confirming previous nava), mes- Bages.
To Sports Palace
(Special to "Telegraph")
TEKKEN ( mzewangi (By. Telegraph, Gopyright. Talapraphie Moo Mm. Ondinenca, 1995, Received August 17, 2188.M.)
Parle, Aug. 18.
on. Presing refused to comment Roosevelt's order for the nationalleation of silver, stating that he had not exhaustively studied this problem. He intended to consult with silvor experts in Shanghal-Central News.
STOP PRESS
Toronto, Aug. 16,
Mr. Ernest H., Gruening, Journalist marked the inauguration of foreign countries were represented and authority on South American formal relations between China among the buyers present today. affairs, will be appointed Chlef of and Gronce. The first Greek The radio industry in Britain It is learned that the Labatti the Interiors, Division of Territor consulate in China is accom- has developed with remarkable family gave the police and nowa fea abel Insular Affairs,modated at No. 120, Jenkee Road, rapidity in the past few years and Papers falso information about United Press,
and its functioning will facilitate it is now reported to have a turn their dealings with the kidnappers negotiations with the Chinese over of £80,000,000 a year neatly of Mr. John Labatt; apparently IN WIRELESS TOUCH
Booking, accretly to deliver tha Government for the improvement four times as much as in 1931, It was also eniphatically stated|-
{of trade between the two nationa. The following ships are expected Central News.
During the first hour after the ransom and recover the victim.- that at no time. have the forts of
United Press. opening of the Exhibition to-day The famous Palais des Sports to be in wireless communication
It was stated that $800,000 worth 2004s, Ordinance, 11the Roseland, August Foochow or the Chinese warships Boxing Stadium in Paris is to with Hongkong to-day: Limb or their crews been engaged in any houss the famous Passion Play Maru; Talthybius, President Polk,
of business had been done. Among Berlin, Aug, 10. Oghting.
from Ober-Ammergau.
VICEROY IN INDIA*
the orders booked was onò for 800 The foreign currency allotment
Sinklang, Hongpong, Sandviken, Jeff Dickson, the well-known Kongning, Prosper, Atauta Maru,
radio sets for South America. for imports in the month of Sep- Mrs. Draper, wife of Mr. T. J promoter, is transporting the com-Yochow, Canton, Halyang, Mulnam,
“.... London," Aug. 10,- British, Wireless,
London tomber romains unchanged at five Draper, of the Gocony-Vacuum Cor plate cast of 225 performers from Joypore Illinois, Honsan Maru, India, who left Croydon by air on Col and Mrs. Nowworthy and Mr.
Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of por cont. of the average require poration, returned to the Colony by Ober-Ammergau and the proceeds City of Pittsburgh, Yuan On, Wing Saturday, arrived at Karachi this and Mrs. R. Y. Frost were amongst monte in 1980 and 1981 Renter the Empress of Canada to-day, being of the Innovation performance will Lee, Delagon, Mari, Benwyyls, afternoon on he return journey to the passengers who arrived to-day by Special.
xccompanied by her three children. go to charity,Reuter Special Tokushima® Martiz
|Delhi.—Brilish Wireless, Was the Empress of Canada, ***
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