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U. S. ATTORNEY - GENERAL'S IMPORTANT RULING
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Washington, Yesterday. The Secretary of the Interior has informed the Petroleum Institute that the Attorney General has ruled that the Federal Oil Conservation Board has no power to approve of the curtailment of oil production.
The announcement has caused a slump in the leading of shares.
The president of the Petroloum Institute expresses the opinion that the ruling will not stop the curtail- ment of production though it might retard the complete success of that movement-Reater's American Ser-
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[A New York telegrara, dated March 27, stated, inter alia:- The directors of the American Petroleum Institute have un- animously approved of the Ameri- can oil industry's plan to curtail the production of crude oil to the 1928 average. This means a eut of 170,000 barrels daily in the United States and a reduction of output in the Mexican, South American and Western Hemisphere fields con- trolled by the Royal Dutch Group. The plan includes a recommenda- tion--for the formation of a per- maren!
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London, Yesterday.
Mr. Van Lear Black, the Ameri- can millionaire, is due at Croydon. The police also searched several to-morrow, after an eventless of the most prominent when in journey from Broken Hi.. He custody, and documents were setzed. will remain in London for A Arrests were made after the ar- fortnight to enable his 'plane rival of an emissary from exiled to be overhauled. Then be Lithuanians with letters and news- will fly to Tokyo via Karachi, Ran-. papers. Reuter.
goon and Shanghai, returning via Vladivostok and Moscow.
"BLOODY BATTLE"
WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IN MEXICO
TWO DAYS' FIGHTING
In
Mexico City, Yesterday. A Federal communique states that a bloody battle was fought during the last two days Jimenez with the main body of the northern rebels. It resulted in the most brilliant and the most definite victory that the National Armies has obtained in the present campaign.
Jimenez is on the railway from Torrcon to the United States border. to study-Reuter's American Service. serious over-production throughout the world. Simultaneously a meet-
Permission to fly over Soviet ter- ritery was obtained only yesterday, after prolonged negotiation, due to the international character of the Aight's personnel.
On the return journey Mr. Black will follow the Trans-Siberian Rail- way from Vladivostok.
Arrangements are being made for stops at Harbin, Chita, Bárabinsk, Omsk, Moscow and Berlin. Reuter.
LABOUR PARTY
CONFERENCE VOTES AGAINST
WAR CREDITS
THE OFFICIAL POLICY
London, Yesterday.
A resolution was passed at the Independent Labour Party Confer-
ing of oil-owners in California de- THE “DRY” INCIDENT ence, under the chairmanship of Mr.
cided to curtail the average produc- tion by at least 138,000 barrels.-- Another cable also appears on page 2.]
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Sydney, Yesterday. Nothing has been heard of the Southern Cross fliers, piloted by Captain Kingsford Smith and Mr. Ulm, since their forced landing near Wyndham.
The aeroplane searching for them left Carnarvon. fur Derby and flew over the Prince Regent river area. Two other aeroplanes from Can- berra, detailed to join the search, were held up through torrential rains in New South Wales, Queens- ..Hakusan Maru
land, and the Northern Territory, .Burma Maru
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The telegraph between Derby and ..President Monroe Wyndham is interrupted, and native
.Shantung
runners are searching the sparsely populated country in the neighbour- .Empress of France, bood of Wyndham.-Reuter.
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Washington, Yesterday: Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, whose new yacht Restless" was entering the harbour here for the frst time, complained to Washington that he was unaware, on account of driving rain, that the coastguards were trying to signal, him to stop until he heard pistol shots. He then hove to.-Reuter's American Servicee.
COTTON INDUSTRY
ACE MILL JOINS THE NEW CORPORATION
Maxton, M.P., at Carlisle yester day, in the teeth of considerable opposition, instructing the Labour members of the House of Commons to vote against War Credits.
This has created new difficulties in a party already troubled with dissensions. In its ranks.
The resolution means that if
Labour forms a government after the election it cannot submit to the Commons any estimates for the Army, Navy or Air Force...
the
The great majority of the Labour refuse to members will certainly obey the Carlisle instruction.
There has been much dissatisfac tion for many months over official policy of the IL.P., and the activities, of its Chairman, Mr. Maxton, but a truce had patched up the differences last December and averted wholesale resignations of members from the Party.
Yesterday's resolution raises doubts as to whether the Decem By the decision of its share-ber truce can be maintained till holders to-day the Ace Mill, Limited, after the General Election.-Reuter.
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NAVAL MOVEMENTS -
H.M.S. "Dartmouth," "Cleopatra," and "Carysfort" Left Singapore for Hong Kong yesterday and are due to arrive here on Monday morning.
At Chappellen, near Antwerp, the wife and four children of a af the Eerie Railway, has been trader were found overcome as the appointed consulting manager of result of an escape of gas, the Chinese railways.-Reuter.
children have since died.
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