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INDIA TARIFF BOARD NO TRADE RELATIONS "MYSTERY OF LIFE”

AND OIL.

A REPORT.

INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND SAFEGUARDING.

THE PRICE-CUTTING WAR.

London, Yesterday.

The India Office issues a state- ment regarding the report of the Indian Tariff Board on the oil

WITH RUSSIA.

CANADA'S ACTION. LABOUR BODIES REJECT À RESOLUTION.

• SNUE TO SOVIET.

Toronto, Yesterday,

DISCUSSED.

BRITISH ASSOCN.

PROFESSOR HILL'S MOMENTOUS

DISCOVERY.

THE LIVING CELL.

London, Yesterday. Professor, Donnan, of Univer- trades and the Labour Congress sity College, London, addressing have rejected a resolution urging the British Association, on "The

The convention of Canadian

Adustry. The statement says: the Canadian Government to re Mystery Life," said. that his col-

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The Tariff Board was directed to new trade relations with Russia, investigate the question of safe.Reuter.

league Professor Hill was on the eve of discovering, if he had not already diacovered, what is meant!

guarding the oil industry in India AUSTRALIA'S BLACK by cellular death, pointing to the

from injury inflicted by the sale of Imported kerosene at prices below world parity.

ABORIGINES GET OUT OF

fact that the life machine was totally different from the ordin- ary mechanical machines.,

Life in the living cell was ap- parently kept going by oxygen| and the oxidisation of the latter's structure in preserving netlon alone seemed to ward off death.

Life and Death. Professor Donnan declared

· HAND IN THE 'SOUTH," The majority of the Board finds

DEEDS OF VIOLENCE. that the sale at prices below world parity has been established but

Adelaide, Yesterday. The the president dissents.

The unusual truculence of the Government of India recognise that the determination of world aborigines in the north-west corner parity presents difficulties and of South Australia is impelling the various views may be taken. But, owners of stations to take the law that for the first time in the after careful examination of the into their own hands. Seventeen history of science we are begin- evidence taken by the Board, they natives were killed following the ning to understand, perhaps at consider that the following facts murder of a gold prospector, present a little dimly, the differ- have been established.

William Brookes, who was batter-ence between life, death and the

meaning of life Itself. A. Firstly, the average price at ed to death. which the Standard Oil Company Another outrage, was inflicted A motor car, if deprived of sold superior kerosene between [upon cattle farmer, William petrol, stopped but did not die, September 1927, and March, 1928, Morton, who was giving native but the living cell, deprived of was above world parity whatever beggars food when others attack-oxygen and food, died immediate- criterion be adopted of determin-jed him from behind. Morton,ly. Professor Hill had discover- ing that level. Secondly, the who is - a very powerful man, ed that the organisation of the

himself Standard Oil Company did not extricated

drew living cell was always tending to take initiative anywhere in cut-his

im-break down and required constant oxidation to keep it charged ting prices. Thirdly, unless mediately surrounded by world parity price is based on low howling mob of blacks' showering Once, the supply of oxygen and price, said to have been paid for boomerangs, striking his revolver sugar ceased, it immediately went Russian kerosene by, the Stand-from his grasp and leaving him to pieces. ard Oil Company, the Royal Dutch for dead.

a

revolver.

and

Не Was

Interviewed by Reuter, Pro-

Shell group has consistently sold. Morton, however, recovered and fessor Donnan expressed the superior kerosene at uneconomic reached a homestead twenty-seven opinion that the continuous fine prices. Fourthly, it follows that miles away, in a serious condition, analysis of the phenomena of the dumping has been established-Reuter.

not by companies against which complaint was made but by

groups working in close alliance with the principal Indian produc-

er.

To Make Good.

Both majority and minority re- ports comment on the important fact that the Royal Dutch Shell group had recognised the claim of the companies who were members of the pool to compensation for losses suffered as a result of the price war, which was material to] the issue whether there was prima facie case for inquiry.

SHOWERS?

E. or variable winds, light, fair to shewery, is the official weather forecast until noon to morrow.

Pressure is high to the north of Japan and relatively low over Tongking.

The typhoon is about 150 miles S.E. of Nahs, moving westward.

living cell must lead to such an understanding of the organisation of life "that there is no reason why creation in the laboratory of the living cell of the physical 'plane should not be effected.--! Reuter,

OPIUM SMUGGLING.

40 CENTS A DAY "WHILE

·· IN PRISON.”"

PAY OF CARRIERS."

An interesting disclosure of how the oplum carriers of this Colony were supported by smugglers, was

It was disclosed also at the en- NORTH CHINA WAR. revealed at the Central Magistracy

quiry that the Burma Oil Com pany had undertaken to make! good to other Indian members of the pool the remainder of their losses, as measured by the differ: ence between Indian and Chinese prices.

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this morning. It was alleged that should

An oplum carrier ba{ caught, convicted and sent to pri- son, he would be paid at the rate of 40 cents per day by the smuggl- ers during the term of his impri- sonment. The money, it was also

MOVEMENTS AFTER · FALL · OF TONGSHAN.

NATIONĀLISTS PUSH ON.-

In face of these agreements, it

Peking, Yesterday. would have been impossible for Following the capture of Tong-stated, was paid to the carrier, in the Government of India to con-shan by the Nationalists, General a lump sum, after he was set free. sider a grant of public assistance Pei Chung-hal arrived there, him- An opfum carrier who was found to companies which are members self on the evening of Sept. 19. carrying 15 taels of opium in his of a pool. As the price war has The whereabouts of the North-waist band, when landing from the now ended, it is unnecessary to ern commander-in-chief, General 6.8. “Anjou,” a Wuchow boat, was arrive at a conclusion on the qeus- Chang Tsung-chang, are uncertain. fined $1,000 or 4 months' hard tien whether other companies According to some reports he has hard labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell. should be safeguarded, but the retired to Kalping or Luanchow. Senior Revenue Officer Clark in-] Government of India see no rea

General Pel Chung-hai intends to formed the Court that he was told son for rejecting the considered follow up the retreating Northern by a compradore of one of those opinion of the Board that no case troops personally, leaving the Wuchow boats that the watchmen has been made out for safeguard-Shansi General in charge of the on board the vessel dared not stop ing any company.

the smugglers putting opium on board when the vessel was at Wu- chow. A watchman on board tried The Nationalist authorities an to stop them with the result that nounce that General Pei Chung-hai he was assaulted by the smugglers captured Tongahan on the morning and had to be taken to hospital. of Sept. 10 and that General Chang Another carrier was fined $900 Tsung-chang has retreated from the er four months hard labour for Peking-Mukden railway,

being in possession of 12 trels of opfum,"

Manchuria to Back Up.

The Government of India ac- Tientsin and Lutal areas. cept the finding of the Board that petrol is not likely to be imported Into India on a considerable scale for the next two years and no action is called for. British Wireless Service.

THREE CHARGES.

CHINESE MAN AND WOMAN BEFORE MAGISTRATE,

CASE ADJOURNED..-

The Nationalists assert that General Chang Haueh-llang of Manchuria is refusing to allow the Northern forces to pass Luanho and Also stata that General Yang Yu- ting (chief-of-staff in Manchuria) is expected within the Great Wall

TWO “SZE FOO.”

NO DIRECT EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM.

With his cost torn across his as Chang Hsueh-liang's delegate. Two "aze foo" (skilled workers). back, and in a very dlahevelled Reuter.» condition, Chinese and a Chin

of the Tai Tung native distillery,

who were charged with conspiracy

ese woman made their appearance Four bell ringers of St. Mary's to defraud the Revenue Department, before Mr. Walter Schofield, at church, Torquay, Devon, have been were discharged by Mr. E E Kowloon Magistracy this morning ringers in the same tower for 50 Lindsell this morning. It was stated in connection with an assault in yearn or more.

Yaumati on a man named Leung

that legally, there, was no direct evidence against the defendants.

Mr. H. A. Taylor, Aselsant Super- intendent of Imports --and ~ Ex- Investigations had previously ports, prosecuted; and Mr. M. K. Mr. H. A. Taylor, Assistant Super-

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