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EXCITING SOCCER IN
·MADRID-
ENGLAND BEATEN
CIVIC GUARDS REPEL FRANTIC CROWD
DRAWN SWORDS DISPLAYED
Madrid, Yesterday. An International Association football match was played here be fore a mast enthusiastic crowd. The ground could have been filled twice over. As it was there was a queue a mile long, 40,000 per- sons being present.
Spain beat England by four goals to three.
At half-time England, which was represented by a strong interna- tional side, led by two goals to
ail.
These was intense excitement when Spain levelled up the scores five minutes from the finish.
The crowd surged on to the pitch and endeavoured to embrace the scorer, but they were chased off by Civie Guarda with drawn Bwords.
The crowd repeated the scene when Spain scored the winning goal just before the finish, but the Police drew a cordon round the pitch and the Civic Guards escort- ed the Spanish players from the field to the dressing room which they guarded. Reuter.
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
"GRAF ZEPPELIN" & FRENCH GOVERNMENT
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Berlin, Yesterday.
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.
THEIR MAJESTIES FLYING AS MEANS OF
THE KING SUSTAINS THE JOURNEY TO WINDSOR
CHEERED LUSTILY
TRAVEL & SPORT
"THE DAY WILL COME'
COBHAM TO MAKE A TOUR THROUGHOUT BRITAIN
SIR C. WAKEFIELD'S INTEREST
London. Yesterday,
Londos. Yesterday. Their Majesties 60-mile jour-
to ney
Windsor WEA .acconi- plished in 2 hours, 20 minutes.
The King, looking bronzed and well, briefly replied to the civic
In a large De Havilland aero- addresses at Bognor and Windsor,
tour of and showed no signs of fatigue plane, Sir Ale:. Cobham starts to- on his arrival at the Castle.
day on a three months' Fluttering of handkerchiefs and Great Britain with the object of bursts of cheering greeted Their arousing municipal interest in fly- Majesties throughout the journey.ing in a hundred towns. The car went "dead slow" through In addition to flights, which local authorities, every village and hamlet, the will be given to
King raising his hat in response Cobham will be able, through the to the greetings. Showers of rose generosity of an anonymous donor, petals fluttered from windows of to give 100,000 free Bights to Windsor and quickly envered the school children and these will top of the car which stopped at range from 50 to 300 per town ac- cording to the basis of school population.
Degrees
Temperature, 10'am., to-
day
73
Temperature, 2.30 p.m.,
yesterday
į
73
Humidity, 10a.m., lo-
day
96
Humidity, 2.30 p.m., yes.
terday
94
Sir. Charles Wakefield yesterday air liner christened Cobham's "Youth of Britain" and, in doing so. said that while the immediate object of the tour was to inves- tigate landing ground possibilities! and to demonstrate flying pros- pects to all the larger towns in Great Britain, the direct appeal which would be made to boys and girls would. in the long run, do even more to assist imperial avia- tion. The day would come when flying as a means of travel and 2 spert would be accepted as a of life. Youth
the top of Castle Hill, where the Municipality had assembled. Two commonplace thousand school children, lining would herald that day and this the castle wall, waved Union tour would help enormously by Jacks and 1,000 Eton College arousing the keenness and energy youths inside the Castle gateway, of youth upon flying-British
Wireless Service, cheered lustily as Their Majesties drove in.-Reuter.
Popular Demonstration The King was obviously much moved by the popular demonstra- tion of interest in his welfare and
No Signs of Fatigue
The French Government has the delight at his recovery, which
given permission for the he witnessed. "Graf Zeppelin" to cross the fron- tier between 7 and 9 &.. The airship, which bad weather has prevented taking the Holland and Britain route, may however take the latter course if the weather improves.
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BOMBAY RIOTING
STRIKERS STILL CAUSING TROUBLE
POLICE AND TROOPS ACTIVE
Bombay, Yesterday.
It was officially stated at Wind- Castle that the King had borne the journey well and had
signs of fatigue. showed
The King and Queen will spend the next few weeks quietly at the The French attitude is attribut- Castle. Usually when the Court ed to the fact that on the last oc- is held at Windsor there is much fired in the air. casion the pilot, Dr. Eckener, de- visiting, but during the King's viated from the specified route | present atay visiting will
A recrudescence of mob violence in the mill area. has occurred Police made a bayonet charge on an unruly crowd of strikers in De Lisle-road, and two strikers were Troops also severaly wounded.
Strikers at Moon mills staned bean Indian police officer, and re-
were the advice of His inforcements
hurried up. and flew over the fortress of Be- modified on
The crowd refused to diaperse, sancon and the engineering works Majesty's doctors.
and three shots were fired in the at Creusot, because
Not To Attend Ascot diplomatic protest
Nobody was wounded, but was lodged. It is definitely stated that the air. Dr. Eckener explained that the King will not attend Ascot Race one policeman and two strikers meteorological conditions had com- Meeting, which is the chief social were injured in the scuffle.
and takes pelled the deviation.
the season
Strikers also broke into It mills, and refused to leave. Sex- place in the middle of June.
of which a
From
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The Zeppelin's freight includes one grand piano-Reuter.
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Manila
Saigen
Hoihow
PLANTER MURDERED
SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN DUTCH EAST INDIES.
A BRITISH SUBJECT
event of
four
is expected that His Majesty will eral mills which had resumed have removed to Sandringham work have been compelled to close then. British Wireless down owing to passive resistance. Not a single mill has paid its
before
Service.
An enthusiastic farewell was April wages on account of the dis- extended to Their Majesties upon turbed situation. their departure from Bognor for Windsor-Reuter.
The Girnikamgar Union, in spite of an order forbidding assemblies of more than five persons, which James King, butler to Colonel is still in force, has advised strik- N. F. Tytler, of Aldowria Castle,jers to gather at the mill gates to Inverness, has been sentenced to 60 demand their wages, or to prac days' imprisonment for fraud and tice passive resistance until paid.
Singapore, Yesterday. Mr. James William Futcher, the British manager of a Chinese-owned rubber and pineapple estate on the island of Rhio, in the Dutch East theft. Indies, has been brutally murdered by a crowd of Chinese armed with Malay sheath-knives.
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Eight arrests have been made.- Reuter.
The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/11 5/16.
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ROOKIES"
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More joy than a:
elretis!
CHINESE MAGICIANS
WONG WON SANG IN A SERIES OF
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 2.30, 5.20, 7.16 and 9.15 p.m.
This is likely to lead to further dispersals, and police and mili- tary have been posted at strategic points. Reuter,
SUN YAT-SEN
STAMPS TO COMMEMORATE STATE BURIAL
ON SALE ON MAY 29
Shanghai, Yesterday.
A report from Nanking says that state stamps to commemorate the burial of Dr. Sun Yat-sen have been printed and will shortly be distri buted to the Post offices all over the country. Their saleswill begin on May 29. In the centre of the stamp is a picture of the Sun Yat-sen mausoleum, Reuter.
SIR MILES LAMPSON
TO ATTEND SUN YAT-SEN'S BURIAL
Peking, Yesterday,
Sir Miles Lampeon has left for Shanghai by sea in order to be pre- sent at the interment of Dr. San Yat-sen-Reuter.
It is estimated that a new plant at Karnap, Ruhr, for cleansing the River Emscher, will retrieve from the water over 100,000 tons of oil and coal mud yearly for fuelling electricity works,
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