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BANDIT ASSASSIN.
Wild Beast of the
Mountain."
A REBEL'S WAYS.
Nicaraguan Chief Founds A Republic.
Managua, Yesterday.
The "rebel" chief, Sandino, against whom American Marines
WAR OUTLAWED.
Instructions to French Ambassador.
PRESS COMMENTS.
Hint To America To Join The League.
Paris, Yesterday. Instructions have been sent to the French Ambassador in Wash-
are proceeding, was one of the ington to enable him to reply to leaders of the Liberal Army until Mr. F. B. Kellogg's letter in re-
Britain Informed.
“DARKEST” NO MORE.
Railway Development in Africa.
IMPORTANT EXTENSION.
Uganda's, Large Cotton Areas To Benefit.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Colonial Office announces that the Tororo-Mbuiamuti-Jinja extension of the Kenya and Uganda Railway will be opened to
the large cotton producing areas of Uganda will thus be provided with direct railway outlet to the coast.
the latter laid down their arms in gard to the ban against war traffic on Wednesday next, and accordance with the agreement | Reuter. reached with President Coolidge's envoy, Mr. Henry Stimson.
London, Yesterday. Sandino, however, refused to The United States Government surrender and gathered his stand-has informed Great Britain of the
Hitherto communications from ard around all dissatisfied with contents of Mr. Kellogg's Note to ganda to the sea have been by the settlement. He founded the France in regard to the proposal way of steamer from one of the little Republic of Nueva, in the to renounce war, but Great Bri-Lake Victoria ports and Kisumu, Segovia district, on the border of tain has not been asked for an the former terminus of the Honduras, seized American expression of opinion-Reuter.
Uganda Railway.. mines, levied taxes, and coined money in the name of the Re- public.
was shot.
4
a
He established the most rigid prohibition regime, under which man caught selling intoxicants Even members of his own party call him a bandit assassin, while Sandino styles himself the "Wild Beast of the Mountain."-Reu-
ter's American Service.
Proposals Analysed.
London, Yesterday,
The new line, which has been constructed from the loan of £3,500,000 voted by Parliament in British commentators display 1924, runs from Mbulamuti--on a little beyond an academic interest short line running from Jinja, on in the present stage of Mr. Lake Victoria, to Namasagali, on Kellogg's multi-lateral treaty pro-Lake Kirga-through one of the posals, though the event provokes main cotton-producing areas to Tororo, near the Kenya border. extensive analysis.
"The "Daily Telegraph" asks in The line then passes across the what way the proposals may be north of the Javironda district of regarded as an improvement upon Kenya and, joining the Uasin- the unanimous declaration of the Gishu Railway, connects with the last League Assembly prohibiting old main line at Nakuru. New York, Yesterday, wars of aggression and ordaining Three Infantry companies, to every pacific means to be employ- gether with machina gun anded to settle disputes.
The "Daily News" says that Howitzer detachments, totalling al- together five hundred men, have the United States will increase been ordered for service in Nicara- gua and are sailing not later than the 9th Inst.-Reuter's American Service.
Five Hundred Infantry For Service.
TRADE UNIONS HIT.
HEAVIEST OUTLAY IN DISPUTE
PAY
GENERAL STRIKE EFFECTS.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The report of the Registrar of
Mbulamuti is on the bank of Victoria, Nile, and is 106 miles from the Kenya-Uganda border.
British Wireless Service.
FLOODS AT HOME.
SITUATION IN MANY PARTS SERIOUS.
HARDSHIPS OF RESIDENTS.
the force of the pacific urge by joining the League instead of re- maining outside and calling on the League members to repeat a creed to which only perfunctory lip service has been demanded..
The Morning Post" applauds the intention but does not hope for a practical result because "we all have our little reservations and our Nicaraguas, our Monroe' doc
Rugby, Yesterday trines disturbing the complete ness of the symmetry of all flowed their banks are now subsid
Many rivers which have universal schemes to make war impossible."
ing and yesterday there was n
over-
Friendly Societies of Trade The "Daily Express" says that marked fall in the levels of the Unions for the year 1926 shows unlike the sardonic impishness of rivers with cases of hardships of in further decrease of £300,000 in membership and, owing to the the Russians the disarmament residents In towns along their general strike, the heaviest ex-gesture of Mr. Kellogg is noble banks.
The situation in many parts- is, penditure in dispute pay ever ex-and the objective of which admite
*****however, still serious. of discussion. perienced.
In the valley of the Thames the The funds were reduced from The "Dally Chronicle" says £12,750,000 to £8,750,000.
that Mr. Kellogg's treaties offer a crest of the floods have not yet In only one other year have the plan whereby the United States reached the lower areas and the Trade Unions suffered such great might co-operate closer in the wide expanse under water was fur- inroads on their funds, and that League's efforts.
ther extended last night. At: the was in 1921, when they disbursed
The "Westminster Gazette" nearer sources of the river, how- £7,000,000 in unemployment pay,—
says the new fact means no more ever, the levels have fallen and un- British Wireless Service.
than America's endorsement ofleas, there is a further heavy thaw the resolution of the last Assem- in the Cotswolds or heavy rains bly, but that it is welcome to are experienced a continued im- have the endorsement formally provement may now be looked for. attested-Reuter.
AIR FEDERATION.
DECISION ON SCHNEIDER TROPHY.
NO RACE THIS YEAR.
Paris, Yesterday,
French Comment,
Paris, Yesterday. Generally, the opinion is ex- pressed that a prolonged and care- ful examination must precede The International Aeronautic, French assent of Mr. Kellogg's Federation, on British Initiative, suggestion of an international has decided that the Schneider anti-war treaty.. Trophy race will be held every two
"Le Journal!! considers that the years instead of every year. There;
adoption thereof, will indirectly will be no race in 1928.
The, Federation awarded Captain result in torpedoing the League. Lindbergh the gold medal for avinLe Matin" does not see how under such a treaty the United
tion for 1027,
It also decided that the Gordon-States could refuse her good Bennett balloon race will be held in offices for the maintenance of Detroit on June 30-Router.
peace if war broke out involving one of the signatories..
MEXICAN PLOT.
ÅRREST OF SIX ALLEGED RINGLEADERS
EXILES BLAMED,”
Mexico City, Yesterday.
Six men have been arrested as the
alleged ringleaders of a plot to create a revolution during the pre- sent month in co-operation with groups in the State of Jalisco,
According to the Government the conspiracy was directed by Mexi- can exiles. In the United States, whence arma" for the revolts: wers smuggled into Mexico, Reuter's American Service, a
WAR DEBTS:
AMERICA NOT TO CONVENE
DE CONFERENCE.
A REPORT DENIED.
Washington, Yesterday: Treasury describes
and without
theJournal the American Gov platen calling
erence to
sion of
Between Reading and Maidenhead the width of the Thames varies from a few hundred yards to...a width of two miles in some of the lower roaches--British: Wireless Service.
BERLIN EXPLOSION.
SEVEN DEAD AND NUMBER MISSING.
FOURTEEN IN HOSPITAL.
Berlin, Yesterday, Threa corpses and 17 injured. ever anxious M. Briand is to pro-persons have been extricated from claim Franco-American friend the wreckage Reuter.
Berlin, Later. ship he should not allow the Geneva clartér to be prejudiced. pital, while a number are missing. Seven are dead and 14 in hos
"L'Oeuvre" declares that, how-
Reuter.LATES
TO
GREAT AIRSHIP.
CROSS THE ATLANTIC IN
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DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT.
"Rugby," Yesterday. After undergoing koz
test the new airship will demonstration
Tanticon MP. Will
whic
maanti
"The house is bellaved to have been destroyed owing to a defective gaspiperak
The explosion created a panic, hundreds rushing into streets in their sleeping attire.. Reuter
A Berlin cable published yester- day stated: terrific explosion in North Berlin wrecked a house, the Inmates of which were in bed; at the time, Half the building col lapsed and a fire, which is still rag- ing, broke out. Ten badly-injured inmates have so far been recos ed, but it is feared that there many dead.
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