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100 PERISH.

IMPORT SURTAXES.

Collapse Of A Shanghai Chihli Authorities Start

Market.

SHRIEKS OF THE DOOMED.

At Least 300 lojured By Fall.

Shanghai, Aug. 10.

At Tientsin.

FIVE PER CENT. DUTY.

Levy Imposed On All "Luxurious Goods."

Tientsin, Aug. 4.

BIG SHIPS.

More Money For U.S. Armaments.

PRESIDENT'S APPROVAL.

Start On Six New Battle Cruisers.

Rapid City, Yesterday. At the conclusion of an all- With a roar and rumble like an

Action is being taken by the earthquake, the Dong Ka Wri Chihli Provincial authorities to day conference with President market building, a structure near-levy a five per cent. surtax on all Coolidge, General Herbert Lord, ly a block long naar West Gate so-called "Luxurious Goods" im- director of the Budget, stated collapsed yesterday morning ported into the port of Tientsin that the President approved of a material increase in next year's about 8 o'clock, instantly killing with effect from August 15. upwards of a hundred marketmen Yesterday morning the follow-expenditure for national defence and their customers, while prob- ing notice was posted up in the both in the Army and Navy be- ably twice as many were terribly entrance hall of the Bank of Com-ing amply provided.

The five-years' aviation pro- Jinjured, some dying on the way munications (Customs Branch)

to hospital. The scene was appall-and it is understood that the gramme of the Army and Navy ing with shrieks for aid filling the surtax collectors have already and also of the Commerce De nir as the dust of the disaster established their office in the awept slowly down hundreds of Bank building. dwellers in houses nearby come Tientsin Maritime Customs Import rushing to the pile of roof tiles

Surtax Bureau Notification. and beams beneath which were buried the victims adding their wails to those of the sufferers.

partments of the aviation pro gramme would be pushed and, in addition, a beginning would be made to six new cruisers and other naval craft. The battle- ships "Nevada" and "Oklahoma" would be remodelled-Reuter's American Service..

sur-THE LISBON REVOLT.

ARMY LOYAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.

-No. 8/27. Collection of 5 Per Cent. Import Surtaxes on Luxurious Goods. This market building was per-

By Notification No. 2/27 the haps 200 feet long by sixty wide. Public have already been notified It fell like a house of cards, first that the Bureau, acting on in- one pillar and then another giving structions. received from The way but so rapidly that even those Civil Governor, collects a under the eaves did not have a tax on all imported commodities chance to escape to the clear road- at the rate of 21⁄2 per cent. of the on Or- a foot or two away. Customs assessed values way, only The structure was erected six dinary Goods and "5 per cent."

Lisbon, Yesterday. years ago and seemed capable of of the Customs assessed values on

After an all-night aitting the many more years' service so that "Luxurious Goods." They have the authorities are at a loss to also notified that as the kinds of Cabinet drew up a decree for the account for its sudden collapse. Luxurious Goods are so numer-carrying out of all measures against Too heavy a roof, is the unofficial ous, it is not easy to make out a the insurgents.

The Government has received verdict, for the roof was of tiles detailed list at once, so a 21% per messages from all garrisons supported by beams, in some cases cent, surtax is to be collected on throughout the country, assuring as large as a foot by a foot and a all imported commodities for the it of the Army's loyalty. half, and when these huge tim-time being. As soon as a detail-continues to prevall-Reuter. bers, carrying the burden of hun-ed list of Luxurious Goods is dreds of roof tiles, fell it, was to prepared, the public will again be crush the life out of whatever was notified of the enforcement on beneath,

same.

"BOOTLEGGING.”

Calm

PURCHASER ALSO TO BE PUNISHED.

Washington, Yesterday. Further trouble for the "Wetz"

And they did crush the life out! Now everything is ready so the of many-how many perhaps will collection of 6 per cent. Import never be known since the dead] Surtax On Luxurious Goods will were taken to improvised mor- be Commenced on 15th August. tuaries where relatives claimed Names for Luxurious Goods will the bodies, sometimes crushed out be published in a special List. All of all semblance of humanity, and importers, whether Chinese or is Indicated by the announcement carried them home without hav- foreign, are hereby notified that of the Prohibition Commissioner henceforth be deemed equally guilty ing a record made. Estimates as they, in addition to the Customs that purchasers of illegal liquor will to the total loss of life vary wide- Import Duty, should pay a 5 per with the acilers and suffer the same ly since some police officers early cent. Surtax on all imported penalties. Heretofore, only the on the scene say that a hundred Luxurious Goods from day of bootlegger has been punished. were killed and at least three effecting to the collection office hundred were wounded, many of established by this Bureau in}------ whom since have died, while order to obtain for the tax payers others put the casualty list lower. a separate Surtax Sheet, other- As the crash came at the hour wise it shall be considered null when the market was busiest, it and võid. may be that the higher estimates fall short of the true death toll.

American First Aid.

At the time of the disaster, an American employed by the Klangnan Dock was passing in a motor car. Realising the appall- jing nature of the disaster and the urgent need of medical aid, with the shrieks of the injured still ringfag in his ears, he hurried to the dock and appealed to the com- manders of the "Palos," "Mono- cacy" and "Willalobos," three American gunboats. Orders were

By, Order,

(Sg.) K. N. TCHI,

Director.

J. C. SUN, C. K. CHANG,

A BOMB ATTACK.

NEWSPAPER PRINTER INJURED.

Tientsin, Aug. 1.

About midnight on Thursday night, during the height of the

я storm,

bomb was thrown Vice-Director. through the window of the office of the "Hua Pei Hsin Wen" in Tientsin Maritime Customs

Import Surtax Bureau. the French Concession, near the August 1, this 16th Year of old Telegraph Administration.

the Republic of China.

The bomb caused considerable damage to the room in which it! fell, and also injured the No. 1 printer.. The man who threw the

at once given to surgeons and THE DUBLIN MURDER bomb evidently fled immediately.

pharmacists mates to get their kits for first aid work together. Sixteen men were told off to help

3.30 p.m. in rescue work. 4.30 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

POLICE RELEASE TWO SUSPECTS.

Dublin, Yesterday.

The French Police were inform- ed, and are investigating the out-

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rage. A police guard was Bookbinders, placed on the premises,

The paper is stated to be a When the party reached the

supporter of the Kuominchun, The police have asked that in- and the outrage is assumed to be scene of the catastrophe, the place 8.30 am. was surrounded by thousands of formation be refused in the case the work of its political oppon-

people, some seeking friends of Owen Donelly and Thomas enta.

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binders.

No. 5, Wyndham Street.

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

whom they feared were caught in Merrigan, who were charged on It is also reported that the the building's collapse and others, remand with conspiring with "Tai Wa Shih Pho, which is Dentist. it is said, seeking opportunity to others to murder the late Mr. K. markedly Kuomintang. in sym- 2.30 p.m. loot, for the morning was well ad- O'Higgins." The accused were pathies, has been placed under

vanced and the marketmen vic- thereupon released. Reuter. tims had money.

p.m.

8.80 a.m.

10.30 a.m. It was the presence of these

...

ghouls hanging on the outskirts MR. ELBERT GARY. 8.30 am. of the crowd that led the com- 9.80 alm. mander of the police detachment

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10.80 am

to ask that Admiral Li of the Kiangnan dock send every avail- able guard at once to help con- trol the situation.

SACCO-VANZETTI,

FACTS OF THE CASE BEING DISTRIBUTED.

Buenos Aires, Yesterday..

The United States Embassy here has sent to all the news

U.S. STEEL MAGNATE PASSES.

New York, Yesterday. Mr. Elbert Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corpora tion, is dead-Reuter's American Service,

BRISBANE EXPLOSION.

POLICE THEORY OF

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Brisbane

papers a complete account of the The police are con Sacco-Vanzetti case in order to the explosion mentio "enlighten publit opinion on the was intended

Renter's American relating subject:

rece Service

Reuter.

an official ban, and 'was closed yesterday.

NOTED NOVELIST DEAD.

London, Yesterday. The death is announced of the well-known povelist, Mr. James Oliver Curwood-Reuter.

ACCIDENT AT ABATTOIRS.

Melbourne, June 29. John Sergeant. (25) lost his right) eyo this afternoon as the result of an accident at the Melbourne City Abattoirs. Sergeant was driving a motor lorry through the killing pens at the abattoirs when a carcase of mutton which was being moved on An overheadwire struck the front of the lorry and shattered the wind- screen. Bergeant was severely lace- rated about the face by pieces of broken glass, and was taken to the Fye and Ear Hospital, East Mel- bourne, where it was found reces- sary to remove his right eyeko

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