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BRITISH EFFORT.

Plans For Schneider Cup Race.

THREE GIANT PLANES.

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RUSSIAN ISSUE INVOLVED.

In London.

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DORCHESTER HOUSE.

Training To Fly At 6 Miles A. World-Wide Protest Against Sacco Plan To Acquire Mansion For The

Minute.

Decision.

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Rugby, yesterday.

Rugby, yesterday,

Paris, yesterday.

A movement is afoot to acquire A big British effort is to be Russian issue has indirectly made this year

to win the caused the resignation of. M. Dorchester House-a well-known Schneider Cup race which will Oudegeest, the Secretary-General mansion in the west end of Lon- take place at the end of next of the International Federation of don-with the object of establish- month.

Trade Unions, following an acing Shakespeare Memorial Three types of high speed sea-cusation but M. Oudegeest wrote Theatre. planes have been built to the to M. Jouhaux suggesting that as order of the Air Ministry and the Russians were anxious to join have recently been undergoing the International Trade Union fying tests at Royal Air Force movement it was time to counter stations at Calshot and attack. Felixstowe, They are Napier S. super-marine

Gloster Napier IV short Bristol. Crusader.

The scheme was started some months ago by the Shakespeare Memorial Committee, which has already received guarantees for over £200,000. A further £100,000 is required.

a M. Oudegeest denied the allega- V. tion, but resigned because he felt It is proposed that Dorchester and he no longer enjoyed the unani-House should not only provide a The mous confidence of the delegates. theatre where the plays of Shake- first two are equipped with The conference has approved speare and great British drama- Napier Lion water-cooled engines, the suggestion by M. Jouhaux tista would be given but also that while the Crusader is fitted with a that towns throughout the world it should become a literary and British Mercury air-cooled engine. [be asked to demonstrate on artistic centre for the Empire. Air Vice-Marshal Scarlett, August 7 as a protest against the With its beautiful Italian renais- commanding the coastal area, will decision to execute Sacco and sance architecture the mansion have command of the

would, it is suggested, be eminent- British Vanzetti.-Reuter.

ly suitable as an art exhibition.- British Wireless Service.

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pilots, who will be officers of the Royal Air Force. The team has undergone searching training in "high speed flying as a speed of something like six miles a minute may be required to win the race.

Opposition will be provided by SEAMAN SAVES DROWNING the United States, who claim to have evolved a.seaplane capable of

WOMAN.

the speed of over 300 miles an A Chinese woman who attempt- hour and by Italy.

ed to commit suicide by jumping The race was won last year by into the harbour off Connaught Italy at a speed of 246 miles Road Central yesterday was res an hour. There will be neither cued by Li Po, & seaman, who French nor German entries.-Bri- jumped from the launch "Man tish Wireless Service.

Ying" which was lying off the Praya at the time, "

The woman was taken to the Government Civil Hospital where LOVE IN POVERTY.she is apparently recovering from

the effects of the immersion.

WOMAN WHO WOULD NOT MARRY “COUNSEL.”

Salisbury, June 19. There were many amusing pas- sages during the trials of those who claimed to he the happiest married couple at the Amesbury Carnival yesterday.

MARINE COURT.

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Chan Kwai-wong, master of the The claims were investigated by 8.8. "Mitsu" pleaded guilty at the the "Stonehenge High Court," and Marine Court this morning to the jury was composed of spinsters failing to produce his licence when and bachelors, who awarded, after approached by the Police on the a lengthy hearing, the Stonehenge 30th uit. and with using his whistle Flitch to Mr. and Mrs. Mills, oil-for purpose other than navigation. eials at the Amesbury poor law He was fined $5 on each count. institution,

The master of a trading junk was Mr. Mills, examined by his count fined $10 for anchoring his junk in sel, said that he was born at Stoke the cable reserve at Taikokteul Newington, and met his wife in a

yesterday. workhouse, where they were both employ. He did no courting in the institution, for fear of "getting the sack."

He swore by Stonehenge that he had never had a word with his wife during their ten

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years of married life. "I kiss my SECOND. READING PASSED BY wife every morning-and-night,” he Baid.

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Mrs Hills was emphatic that her

London, June 27. husband was the iden! mạn, and The House of Lords passed to- when asked whether she would day the second reading of the rather be married to Mr. E. Workmen's Compensation Transfer Metcalf (counsel for the Flitch) Funds Bill under which compensa than to her husband, she replied tion awarded to beneficiaries in one indignantly, "I married my husband part of the Empire can be trans- because I loved him."

ferrod to the country in which the "We have seen him," retorted beneficiaries realde. 12.30 p. 12.30 am. Mr. Motcalf,

The Bill arose from the Imperial "But you have not seen so much Conference resolation last year. of him as I have," repiled Mrs. | 4.80 p.m. Mills. ...

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She strenuously denied that she had ever met her husband with, a poker, and, asked if she expected the jury to believe her story, she

replied: "When they are married; they will. If they are not married, I advise them to get married.”

MR. SASTRI.

TRIBUTE TO UNION, MINISTERS,

Pretoria, June, 28.

Mr. Sastri was welcomed by large gathering of Indians and Europeans in the Town Hall to-day. Mr. Andrews, in the course of a speech appealed to the Indian com munity to follow the lead Mr. Sastri would give them shk

Replying to the addresses and speeches, Mr. Sastri, who was warmly received, emphasised that if the Indians wished to-accomplish anything they must be united. Speaking of the conduct of the Union Government during the Capetown negotiations Mr Bastri anid that nothing finer in contem- porary politics, could be met with than the conduct of the Union Ministes towards the Indian dele. gates at the conference,

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NEW PLANT TO INCREASE OUTPUT.

The ice, plant of the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Com- pany will, next season, be in a position to produce daily 80 tone additional ice than it does at present, the Jardine Engineering tendered for the installation of a Corporation having successfully York-Shipley plant. This con- siderable increase in output will ensure all demands being met fully and promptly.

INDIAN REFORMS.

"STATESMAN'S" ADVICE TO

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"The

Calcutta, June 29. misslon la the subject of much The forthcoming Statutory Com- speculation in the press, Statesman" trongly condemns the Idea advocated in certain European circles of a Commission composed entirely of persons unconnected certainly have to register an ad- with India. The Commission will

vance and if the Commission is on- tirely British the advance recom- mended will have to be very clearly marked otherwise it is impossible to justify in Indian eyes any anti- cipation by two years of the date | originally fixed for the Commission and Britain would be charged de liberately of taking advantage of the situation when India' is at her worst to alter the Raj Act.

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The master of cargo boat 1890 reports that while his boat was beig towed from Kowloon to. Wan- chau, his son, Leang Chung, fell overboard and was drowned. The body has not been recovered.

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