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ESTABLISHED

HONG KONG,

RELIGIOUS FEUD AT JERUSALEM

A VIOLENT CLASH

NINE JEWS AND SIX ARABS KILLED: 107 WOUNDED

GENERAL TURMOIL

Jerusalem, Yesterday.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929.

HAGUE MUDDLE

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BRITISH CHANCELLOR STILL FIRM

AT SKOPLIE

DEADLOCK CONTINUES

The Bague, Yesterday..

Mr. Snowden has informed M. Jasper RIVER VARDAR OVERFLOWS that the four Powers' latest proposals AFTER TORRENTIAL RAINS are quite unsatisfactory as they do

not contain anything definite regard POLICE REVOLVER WARNINGS. ing annuities or deliveries in kind.

The deadlock continues, The four

Belgrade, Yesterday.

Strained relations between the Powers and the German representa-i Fifty persons, mostly aged and Arabs and Jews, arising from re-tives may meet to-night for a final children, were drowned at Skoplie plan accept-lowing te torrential rain causing cent incidents at the so-called effort to bring forward

able to Mr. Snowden. wailing wall, where the Jews wor- ship, resulted in two hours' fight ing in the streets, in which nine Jews and six Araba were killed and 107 wounded,

All the shops have been closed. The whole Police force have been called out, also armoured cars. Reuter.

PRIME MINISTER

"MOST NOTED OF MORAY- SHIRE MAN"

HONOURED BY ELGIN

London, yesterday. Accompanied by his two sons and three daughters, the Prime Minister re- ceived the freedom of Eigin, in the words of the Lord Provost, "as the most noted Morayshire man in the world."

Disarmament

The meeting of the six Powers, which the tributaries of the River Vardar was to be held this afternoon, will be to flow over and flood in the work-

ing class quarter. held to-morrow-Reuter.

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The Police gave an alarm by

Mr. Snowden's Suggestion Following Mr. Snowden's rejection firing their revolvers and thus en- ! of the four Powers' proposals yester. abled others to escape.--Reuter. day, the latter told the German dele. gates that if Germany would renounce her claim to a share of the 300,000,000 Marks left by the overlapping of the Young and Dawes plans and agree to

N.Y. "BULLS"

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an increase of the unconditional an- NEW HIGH RECORDS REPORT nuities in return for a corresponding decrease, in conditional annuities, the conference will be saved.

ALL ISSUES PARTICIPATE

Herr Helferding and Herr Curtius thereafter visited Mr. Snowden and ex-

New York, Yesterday. plained their position. They said they saw no reason why Germany should A plentiful supply of call money make further sacrifices beyond the at seven per cent, and also optimistic Young Plan, for the benefit of the four industrial credit reports were ro- Powers, but that the Germans were sponsible for a bullish outburst on willing to make concessions which the Stock Exchange. would not inercase Germany's financial

Many new high records were concessions for example, or definite pro- established and the gains ranged mise from France of speedy evacuation from a fraction to over 15 points. of the Rhineland.

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Reuter's

General Dawes participated in the

Mr. Suowden's reply is not known! All issues participated in the ad- ceremony, and in a speech alluded to

but British circles believe that he will vance and a feature of the day was the naval conversations with Mr. Mac Donald. He explained they must take insist that the concessions must come the rise in United States Steel from time to reduce the problemas involved to from the four Powers and net from 10 points to a new record of 260.

Germany-Reuter.

Tremendous blocks of Standard their simplest terms, which the average Delegates Meet Queen Wilhelmina Oil of New York changed hands, one man would understand. Gen. Dawes

The Conference delegates were the totalling 50,000 shares. mentioned Mr. MacDonald's reference to a "distinct advance" on August 20, guests of the Queen of Holland at a American Service, and drew attention to Press comment banquet in the Palace last night, when, that this indicated there was no pro- all the delegates were presented to the gress to report. Gen. Dawes emphasis-Queen and Prince Henry at a recep- ed that "the raval negotiations may be tion, prior to the banquet, at which! favourably advanced though they may! Dr. Van Blokland, the Dutch Foreign not necessarily have reached the pro- Minister was present. Reuter. per stage for useful discussion by the Press;" and declared that

technical

naval differences must be reduced to the smallest compass.

"FAIR GENERALLY "

The forecast for the 24 hours end-

"We must realise that the one un-ing at noon to-morrow, for Hong forgiveable thing now would be inade: quate preparation for the proposed naval conference."--Reuter.

SOVIET FLIGHT

MAKING A NEW ATTEMPT TO REACH NEW YORK

Moscow, Yesterday. Mr. Shestakov, the pilot of the "Land of the Soviets," who had to abandon his recent attempt, again took off on a second attempt to fly to New York, fol-

lowing the same route as originally

planned.

His new plane, which is also named the "Land of the Soviets," is fitted with two 1,200 horsepower engines, similar to ¦ the first plane.---Reuter.

[The flight is planted sia Siberia and Alaska, and is being undertaken with a view to exploring the possibilities of a regular service along this route.}

BANK MERGER

CORPORATION'S RESOURCES. OF $341,000,000

Minneapolis, Testerday. The formation of a quarter billion dollar banking corporation, known as the First Bark Stock Corporation, is announced by the First National Banks of Minneapolis and St. Paul,

The holding company will weld to gether 34 banks in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana with total resources of $341,000,000 into a centralized systems. Reuter's American Service,

FLYING DUCHESS

THE DIARY OF RECORD FLIGHT

AN ABLE PILOT

Kong, the-adjacent-coast-and-For-

London, August 10, mosa Channel is:-"Easterly or vari-

In flying to lodia and back in able winds; moderate; fair general- of Bedford and Capt. Barnard, her seven and a half daye, the Duchess

ly."

pilot, have surpassed the previous At 11.08 am, to-day the Obser.

record for

return journey vatory reported:"A weak anti-

by ΠΟ less than

and cyclone is to the north of Hokkaido

a half days, the previous best being

seven

| and pressure is relatively low over the fifteen days voyage of Air China generally and in the Pacific Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan, a to the east of Luzon."

JAPAN'S INTENTIONS

Tokyo Yesterday.

director of Imperial Airways, laat year. On the return journey they established a new record for a flight from India to England, which was accomplished in three and a It is learned that the Japanese Gov half days as compared with four ernment is considering the question of and a half days taken by Captain moving the base of diplomatic opera- tions in China from Peling to Shang-Barnard and Flying Officer Alliott hai, where it is probable both naval and in the same machine last year, military attaches will be stationed in The record for the England to future, while expansion of the Con. India journey still stands to the salute-General is likewise contemplated, credit of the two Royal Air Force The proposed transfer is expected to be pilots who flew from Carnwell, a preliminary to the formal removal of Lincolnshire, to Karachi this year the Japanese Legation and raising the non-stop in 50 hours. status to that of an Embassy,—Renter.

FENG YU-HSIANG

Peking, Yesterday.

Machine Five Years Old The Fokker monoplane, the Spider, in which the Duchess, and Capt. Barnard have accomplished

An expected increase in the Feng Yu. their remarkable performance is hsiang family, which was reported to now nearly five years old. It was have been the main reason for Feng originally acquired for an abortive postponing his trip abroad, has new trans-Atlantic crossing attempt by matérialised.

Capt. McIntosh and Col. Fitz-

A Taiyuan message says a daughter Maurice. For this last flight its was born to Mrs Feng yesterday, at speed has been considerably in- Chintse, and both are well-Reuter.

THE "ZEPP"

Tokyo, Yesterday. The "Graf Zeppelin" has radio ed that her position at 4 p.m. (Greenwich Mean Time) was 36 N. and 151 E-Reuter,

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creased by fitting a new type of 500 horse-power geared and, air- cooled engine, the Bristol-Jupiter.

The actual flying time of the journey of 10,000 miles was 88% hours. The stages of the flight were: Friday, August 2, Lympne to Sofia, 1,850 miles; Saturday, Sofia to Aleppo, Syria, 850 miles: Sun- day, Aleppo to Bushire, Persia, 1,090 miles; Monday, Bushire to Karachi, 1,060 miles; Tuesday, Karachi to Bushire; Wednesday, Bushire to Aleppo; Thursday, Aleppo to Sofia; Friday, August 9, Sofia to Croydon.

A start was made at dawn each day from the respective stopping places, and flying occupied some times as much as 15 hours before the aviators landed for a brief night's rest.

1 Echess Takes Control

| Capt. Barnard, in his log, re- marks that the Duchess frequent. I took complete control of the machine while he and the mechanic slept. He says: "I usually put her on a compass course and then go back into the cabin with per- fect confidence. I know of many good pilots who are quite incapable of steering a good course by com- Pass, but the Duchess has so far (not made a single mistake. In fact, instead of being a passenger, whe has been a tremendous help to me on the night

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