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THE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS

LONG INTERVIEW

PREMIER AND STRIKERS CONFER FOR HOURS

MR. BRUCE'S ATTITUDE

Melbourne, Yesterday,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928.

ANOTHER AIR TRAGEDY

FRENCH. DISASTER

MAIL 'PLANE STRIKES A MOUNTAIN PEAK

THREE FATALITIES

'Madrid, Yesterday.

BOGUS COUNTESS' EXPLOITS

LIVING ON WITS

WOMAN WHO IS WELL KNOWN TO POLICE

MARIE THE MARVEL..

Berlin. "The countess

of

The Trade Union leaders held a│A French air mail 'plane from | KỈlnckewstrom,” whose name' re- long conference with Mr. S. V. Casablanca en route to Toulouse cently added distinction to the

Bruce, at which the auggestion was crashed on a peak at San Pedro de made that the unions should re- Rosas Mountains in the Gerone visitors' list glater their own members under Province.

the Transport Workers Act, thus It fell down a precipice and burst avolding individual registrations into flames. The adoption of this proposal is likely to overcome the objection that registrations are designed to destroy union control.

The Trade Union Conference has drawn up a comprehensive plan of campaign against the Act, but the plan will not operate pending nego- tions.

ed.

The pilot and two passengers were incinerated.-Reuter.

GERMAN FLIER

ANXIETY OVER BARON VON HUENEFELD

Singapore, Yesterday.

at Bad-Elster, WAB walking down the Unter-den-Linden in a most distinguished way when a member of the criminal police came up to her and said, "Hullo, Marle! Here you are again!"

He told her she must accompany him to the police station.

She protested with dignity that he had evidently mistaken her for somebody else, but she was taken to Alesander Place, Berlin's Scot-

The shipowners in a statement

No news has been received of land Yard, where she was given & declare that there is nothing to con- von Hueneteld since he left Cal-warm welcome as an old friend of fer about, and the law must be obey-cutta on the morning of October 1, the police-the daughter of a

Meanwhile overseas consign-with the intention of flying non- Stettin tailor. ments are being handled without a stop to Canton. hitch, though two brothers have been sent to prison for a month for assaulting volunteers.

At Adelaide

Adelaide, Yesterday.

Held Up By Heavy Rain

Berlin, Yesterday. Huenefeld telegraphed to the "Lokalanzeiger" from Mandalay on

Since

Instances of her wonderful talent for living on nothing a year were recalled.

There is the tale of the Into

the 3rd inst. that he is held up by Prince Joachim of Prussia's cellar A mass meeting of the strikers heavy rain which turned the land- of choice wines which she could easily secure for a widow in the has decided to resume work immedi-ing ground. into a swamp. ately under the two pick-up system. then, there has been no direct newa, wine trade by a word to her dear friend the Princess. The widow but an unconfirmed message from London reports his arrival at gave her a sum of money to carry out the deal, but never again did Hanot-Reuter.

she hear of that distinguished countess and the royal wines.

-Reuter.

New Act Discussed

Later.

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BARONESS ORCZY'S THRILLING ROMANCE

RONALD

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COLMAN BANKY IN TWO LOVERS

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UNITED ARTISTS

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QUEEN'S

There is also a budget of taies A

of exploits among the fashionable guests at Bad-Elater and more re- cent tales of an elegant life In Berlin at other people's expense.

Duped in a Cemetery One of these other people, a

The interview with Mr. Bruce lasted for several hours, Mr. Bruce definitely declined to interfere with the operation of the. Transport Workers' Act or remove the neces sity for registration of the water

London, Yesterday, siders. He stated that uncond}-

With the object of effecting clos- tional observance of the law and er. co-operation between the Bur-woman engineer who met Marie in the award of the Arbitration Court mah, Anglo-Persian and Shell Royal a were essential; but he undertook Dutch pil Froups, the former are pathetic that she lent her £25 to cemetery, found her, so aym- that when the new Parliament met, acquiring 883,358 ordinary shares tide over the time before she got a the existing regulations under the in the Shell Company at 6.1/16, the big sum which a relative in Eng- Act would be embodied in a new purchase price to be provided by the land had left her. bill to enable Parliament to modify issue to Burmah shareholders of More excusable perhaps, says the the regulations if they desired to £4,000,000 of new 5% per cent: de "Daily Mail's" Berlin dose. Mr. Bruce added that if the bentures at par. The Burmah Com-dent, was Marle's effort to borrow correspon- strikera returned to work it might pany will eventually bring up their £8 from the porter of a Berlin hotel be possible to arrange a conference Shell holding to a million-Reuter. before disappearing without paying with the shipowners to discuss the)

her bill, for she doubtless know that form of the regulations and any

was no more to borrow from a amendments proposed by both

porter at a smart hotel than 8d. parties could be included in the new

would be to most people. Bill.

SHAI TRAGEDY.

MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING OF TWO EUROPEANS

ENGLISH NURSE DEAD

Shanghai, Yesterday.

YUGO-SLAV TRADE

SALONIKA FACILITIES

GRANTED

Paris, Yesterday.

Although she listened to the police recital with disdain, and re- fused to renounce the title, Marie's

M. Venizelos made a further walks in the Unter-den-Linden will step towards Balkan understanding not be resumed for some time. when he reached an agreement with

SUFFERING IN NORTHERN PROVINCES

the Yugoslav Foreign Minister over FAMINE IN CHINA the question of Yugoslavia's rights of transitat Salonika, which has long been a bone of contention, The Foreign Settlement has been Greece no grants Yugoslavia horrified by a double tragedy on facilities for a trade 'sovereignty Keswick-road, which runs parallel over Salonika. Both have agreed to the branch line connecting the to sign ́s pact of neutrality and ar- Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai- bitration-Reuter." Hangchow Railways, outside the Settlement Inst evening after sun-} set.

The Police discovered two well- known and popular members of the English community, Mr. Dudley Law, director of Messrs. Henry Frank & Lauder of Manchester, the piece-goods firm, and Miss Dorothy Thomson, aged 86, an Both had been English nurse. shot by someorie unknown.

Miss Thomson was killed by a

ZEPPELIN'S TRIP

PROTEST FROM ALLIED COMMISSION

Berlin, Yesterday,

600,000 PEOPLE STARVING

Peking, Yesterday.. According to reports reaching the China International Famine Re- lief Committee, early and severe frosts are aggravating the effects of the famine in Shantung and Ohihll provinces..

..Benares

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Burma Maru President Madison

OCTOBER

FRIDAY,

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.Cremer OCTOBER 12.

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.President Plerce 15. Empress of Russia

diately. He is still unconscious.

were responsible for the short flight over Wiesbaden-Reuter.

etc."

It is possible that robbery was the motive, as Mr. Law's pocket

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The Committee's representative reports from Tientsin that the The inter-Allied Rhineland Comcrops have been harvested but the lasion has made representations grain is sufficient for only a few to the German Government in re-weeks. The people have no win gard to the flight of "Graf Zepter clothes or bedding, which they pelin' over occupied territory near sold earlier to buy food. "One shot in the right breast, while Mr. Wiesbaden as Sontrary to the meal. a day or none is the rule, the Law was shot in the side and back bineland Convention. Herr E common diet being a mixture of of his head. He was still breath kener, constructor of the Zeppelin, earth and chaft, bark, tree leaves, ing and was operated, upon Imme-explained that weather conditions,

It is reported from Lintsing, in Shantung, that the famine is still

book was found 200 yards from the RECEIVING CHARGE extreme. The crops are a com

scene-Reuter.

FRENCH BUDGET

GOVERNMENT THREATEN TO

RESIGN

Paris, Yesterday.

MARINE STORE 'DEALER IN

TROUBLEA VAM ANA

plete failure, due to the drought, the grasshoppers and worms.AN -Pathelle Figures People are eating chaff and the leaves of trees in six districts. Halt a million people are actually starving.AESANAN UNAK A marine store dealer, of No. 82 From Tungchangfu it is report Portland-street, Taumati, was this ed that the early, crops have blast

ACCUSED REMANDED.

M. Poincare, addressing the morning at the Kowloon Magistracy ed the hopes of harvesting late Finance Committee of the Chamber charged with receiving four pieces beans, peanuts, buckwheat, potatoes and referring to additional expen- of iron knowing the same to have and corn, while, carrots, cotton and diture proposed by the Committee, been stolen also with falling to

said that this would transform the enter in his book a statement of the sweet potatoes are badly damaged. -- Hundreds are evacuating the dis- estimated surplus of Fes.55,000,000 purchase

trict, seeking food and employment.

on the 1929 budget into a deficit of Mr. C. F. Thomas, manager of the while thousands are clamouring for Fos 20,000,000 The Government Wing Sang Co., Nathan Road, ap- would resign if the budget. were peared as complainant.

not passed with a surplus by De A formal remand for one week cember 31. He rejected the idea was granted by the magistrate, Mr.

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