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COAL CRISIS.
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JUNE 23.
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Canton, July 21.
CHAPEL LOOTED
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STUDENTS INCITE MOB.
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Canton. June 21.
Three minutes' silence will be From Lungehow comes word of observed at noon on Weinesday, another outrage against an Amer June 23, in Canton an.. all over lean mission there belonging to the Kwangtung province as a token of Christian Alliance, but operated by Some young mourning for the Chinese killed; a Chinese ataif Fin the Shakee clash of last year, " | Prudents urged on, a mob by anti-
All business will be at a stand-Christian speeches, and the chapel, still in Canton all day, even the was then looted and wrecked. ricshn.coolies being urged to stop Restaurants, theatres, work.
The Prime Minister. Mr. Stanley, Baldwin, stated in the House of Commons Lo-day that the recom mendations of the Coal Commission with regard to the purchase by the State of mineral royalties, unlike other recopiaendations which the Cavernment has accepted. tuiset I questions which necessarily re-net. ed on national Bnance.
The losses which the country had suffered and was suffering at the present time., together with the conversion of the public debt con- and other places of amusement templated in the near future, creat will be closed all day and evening, a saination which the Govern- and the holiday, aside from the ment was bound to examine care-parades and memorial services. fally before committing the coun- will be carefully observed as a day try to a financial transaction of the of mourning. magnitude which was involved in
the recommendations of the Com mission with regard to minernl royalties.
He would pain: out, however, that
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Banditry around Lungehow had spread to "hich an extent that the ungehow-Langsan motor road te No one now practically useless. ventures on it even in a fast car unless a mounted patrol of soldiers has been sent ahead.
The monument being erected by the Chinese at the Canton end of SALVAGE SURPRISE.. the British bridge on Shameen is. in position, close to the steps... In large Chinese characters is the in-
WINDMILL PLANE.
the adoption of the recommenda-seription "don't forget this day." tions was a matser which could be of no immediate relief to the coal problem.. 11
the any event, Government proposed to deal with is in another way in the Re-orgaal- Hation Bill which had been intro- duced.British Wireless Service.
STERN LECTURE
Miners Leaders Taken Te Task.
Londor. June 22
In the course of a stern-lecture to the miners' leaders, and notably Mr. A. J. Cook, who "hare not
moved an inch in the past months and who defy economic laws, she advice of the Government, the in- bereats of the trade, and the life of the nation," Lord Birkenhead, in In speech to the Newspaper Society.
declared:-
We who have broken down every despot in Europe will not be broken down by men in the domestic held who take their biddings from a dia. credited revolutionary junta in the most miserable poverty-stricken country in Europe."Renter
IDLE LIST.
"BIG" INCREASE OVER LAST JUNE.
COAL CRISIS EFFECTS.
Rugby, June 22. The number of persons unem- ployed. aecordiniz to the latest official return, is 1,629,000.
This figure, which is exclusive of the persons who have ceased work in the coal mining industry. is 249,530 more than a year ago. British Wireless Service.
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Geneva, June" 21. Mr. A. G. W. Thomas, Direc tor of the International Labour -OMea-is-contemplating drastic netion ta check the inter- disturbances which F- staff cently have become frequent owing, to anti-Fascist sentiment, the latest of which involves Italian
FIRST TEST IN BRITAIN 4 SUCCESS.
NEW FLYING, ERA?
Rugby, June 22 The first Autogiro, or windmill plane, to be built in this country was tested at Hamble, near South ampton, to-day by Captain Frank
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New York, June 22, Whilst the Salvage Corps were pumping air into pontoons, on Block Island preparatory to at- tempting to raise Submarine S.51 they were surprised by a sunken craft suddenly poking its nose above the surface damaging two of the pontoons, and thereafter sliding back and resuming its pre- vious place on the ocean. bed.- Taking off with a run of less Reuter's American Service. than 200 yards he circled about [On September 25 last year the aerodrome. A piece of paper the US. Submarine 3.51 sank was spread on the ground and, east of Block Island after col- stopping his engine 100 feet above lision with a steamer, and 37 of the spot, Captain Courtney drop the crew were lost.] ped slowly but almost vertically down upon it.
Courtney.
The "Autogiro," declared Courtney. "ought to have à re- markable effect on flying. I do not see why a light aeroplane could not be produced with the Autogiro principle on it. On this machine anybody could fy whe at present rides a motor-bicycle. Previous flying experience is not necessary."British Wireless Ser-
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A FINANCE MINISTER BADLY. WANTED.
CAILLAUX'S CONDITION.
Paris, June. 22.
In the Lobbies of the Chamber of Deputies thero is anxious questioning of M. Briand's ability (On October 17 last Captain to form a Ministry, following an Courtney made a successful verti-unspccessful quest all day long for cal ascent and descent at Farn- turoupli-is-a-Spanish “windmil!”
aeroplane.).
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Successive eandidates love "con- fidence after a heart to heart talk with M. Peret, or the Manager of
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compelled to Skelly, who recently arrived from approach an expert who is not a Ireland, is charged with attempt-Parliamentarian. Meantime he is Ing to dynamite a Roman Catholic canvassing the Party leader regard-
June 10.
Church at Barrie, Ontario, on ing the possibility of a stable. majority, without which the Pre- mier declares that he will not take office-Reuter.
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