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BURST DAM
TRAGIC OCCURRENCE IN MONTANA
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED
Wibaux, Montana, Saturday. A dam here burst after a heavy rain storm and resulted in a fifteen foot wall of water sweeping down on the town. Four people were drowned, including the Re verend Seiffert, pastor of the Methodist Church, and his wife.
Mr. Seiffert opened the church 23 a refuge for the distressed people.
returned to fetch his wife to safety both were caught by a huge wave and drown-
When he
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VIA GREENLAND
STOCKHOLM TO NEW YORK BY AIR
Oslo, Yesterday.
A seaplane piloted by the Swedish. airman, Captain Ahrendberg, has arrived at Bergen on the first stage of a fight from Stockholm to New York via Greenland-Reuter.
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COLONIAL CITY
SEIZED
GOVERNOR TAKEN COMMANDER OF TROOPS AND SOLDIERS CARRIED OFF
REMARKABLE AFFAIR
TROTSKY IN EXILE
NOW WANTS TO SETTLE IN ENGLAND
REQUESTS A VISA
Constantinople, Saturday.
M. Trotsky has requested the British Consul here to give him a visa to England, on the ground that he needs medical treatment, Willemstad (Curacao), Yesterday. and must personally supervise the A band of alleged Venezuelan publication of his autobiography in Nationalists have, it is reported, English. seized the water front of the Dutch Colonial city of Willemstad.
M. Trotsky has telegraphed to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald advising They killed several of the Police him of his action.Reuter. and carried off the Governor, Dr.
N. J. L. Brantjes, and commander JUDGE AND BIGAMY of troops, also several soldiers, and put out to sea-Reuter.
Degrees
Temperature, 10 am.. to-
day
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day...
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Humidity, 4 p.m., yes-
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in continuing its flight from Ber-
Forced Landing
Reykjavik, Yesterday. Ahrendberg's seaplane Sverige,
LESSER CRIME FOR WOMEN
THAN MEN
"Nowadays there is supposed to be no difference in criminality be-j tween man and woman in bigamy cases," said Mr. Justice Shearman, at Liverpool Assizes recently, in sentencing Ethel Taylor, aged 31, a waitress, to 21 days' imprisonment for bigamy.
"It always seems to me as an old-fashioned person," he said, "that if a man meets a woman who is well behaved and of proper charac ter and represents himself to be a
gen, had a forced landing owing to POLITICAL AFFAIRS bachelor, bigamy is a species of
engine trouble and water at Skap- taros, on the south coast of Ice- land. Reuter.
MOIR AND OWEN
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION IN
· SYDNEY
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"I do not think there is the same grievance when a woman represents widow and goes The Cabinet members arrived at herself
8 the through Windsor at eleven o'clock in
bigamous marriage. morning. They took carriages simi- There is not the same loss of char-
man as there is to. lar to the out-going Ministers yes-acter to a terday with poslilions and footusen. a woman."
The people who were gathered at the foot of Castle H cheered the party, who returned to London an hour later.
Sydney, June 2. Capt. Brain, piloting the Atalan- brought Flight-Lieut. Moir and Flying Officer Owen from Port Darwin to Sydney, where they reviewed by Reuter, said: ceived an enthusiastic welcome.
It was Capt. Brain who discover- ed Moir and Owen at Cape Don after they had been missing for a week following their flight from Bima. "Straits Times."
PRAYING FOR RAIN
PROPITIATION SERVICE IN THE R. C. CATHEDRAL:
There was a large congregation at the Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday when a special propitia- tion service was held for the al- leviation of the water shortage.
The service was conducted by Bishop Valtorta, who was assisted by all the Catholic clergy.
During the past week services with the same object have been held at the various Convents.
MALAYAN PRINTERS
FORMATION OF CO-OPERATIVE- SOCIETY
A meeting called to form a Pria- tera Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society was held in the Town Hall, Penang.
Mr. Gammons addressed the meet- ing on co-operation explaining the objects and advantages of having such a society, It was decided to form a society and a committee was appointed provisionally to carry out the preliminary work.
Mr. Gammons stated that it was the first meeting of the kind among printers in Malaya and he was glad that Penang was leading the way.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, inter-
"My colleagues and myself were most delighted to find the King looking so well and to see how magnificently he was able to go without through the ceremony any suggestion of a strain." It is understood that Mr. Stanley Baldwin is submitting a short re signation Honours List to the King ir. a few days.
Press ViewS
EMPEROR OF JAPAN
Tokyo, Yesterday. The Emperor of Japan has return- ed from a tour of Western Japan- Reuter.
KING'S HEALTH
London, Saturday. It was officially stated at Windsor Castle this morning that the King; had passed a good night.-Reuter.
for peace in industry, home affairs and abroad. Mr. J. H. Thomas A benevolent tone to the new had been placed at the head of an would tackle Cabinet is reflected almost un-organisation which animously by the morning papers, energetically the practical means of the comment dwelling with particu- dealing with unemployment, and no expenditure lar satisfaction on the exclusion of they would spare the Left Wing of the Labourities. of time or energy.
"The Times" says:-
"The Cabinet is the best that could be designed to carry out the which ap unprovocative policy parently marks the beginning of a new regime." "Daily Chronicle":
He had been sceptical of reduc- ing unemployment figures to nor-1 mality within a year, but everything that could be done would be done! as speedily as possible.
The Premier said that Mr. Arthur Henderson had been placed "It is a most interesting and in charge of Foreign Affairs, but carefully balanced Cabinet." ia view of the overshadowing Im- "Daily Telegraph:----
portance of Disarmament and the "This Government of moderates need of a friendly discussion and and gradualists need not inspire agreement between Britain and the United States and other Powers, any alarm."
pay a "Daily Mail":
Mr. MacDonald hoped to "The Government will last short visit to Geneva at the open- much longer than some of the ing of the next meeting of the prophets imagine."
assembly of the League of Nations.
In "Daily Herald":
conclusion, be urged the
"It is a fine body of capable nation quietly to carry on its task legislators and is a conclusive of industrial recovery and expan answer to the question: "Ission. Labour fit to govern?"-Reuter.
First Official Utterance
London, Saturday.
World Peace
A "conference of three" on the Naval question to be held at Washi
The first official utterance since ington between President Hoover, he assumed the Premiership was Mr. MacDonald, and Mr. Mackenzie made by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald King, Prime Minister of Canada, b in an unexpected broadcast speech recommended by the "Observer" s M. Veniselos, who is touring | from 2LO to-night,
the surest way to world peace. Macedonia in order to expound
The newspaper says that the! He said that the Government was Greek there the
Government's losing no time in grappling with national life of Canada within the policy, spoke at Yannitss recently. their duties. They had to work Empire is irrevocably staked on an
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There could never be more fi- now vourable circumstances then for such a Conference, says the "Observer," which is of opinies that if President Hoover issued an invitation Mr. MacDonald would be Ready to go to Washington at 24 hours' notice.Reuter.
It is denied in Athens that a meeting will shortly take place be tween M. Veniselas, the Greek Prime Minister, and Tewik Rush! Bey, the Turkish Foreign Minister
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