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DUTCH FLIGHTS TO CHINA TO "BUILD A
INDIA
QUESTION OF FACILITIES RAISED IN PARLIAMENT
UNDER CONSIDERATION
London, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons to-day,
yet been reached.
Commander Kenworthy suggest- ed that Dutch landing grounds would be most valuable to Britain in connection with flight to Aus tralia, and urged Captain Bean to impress on the Government of India the desirability of giving the Dutch every facility. Captain Benn re- plied that the matter was being considered. He had nothing to { add.-Router.
NEW HARBOUR
BRITAIN AND THE CHARGING
OF NEW LOAN
VIOLATION OF AGREEMENT
London, Yesterday.
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WHEAT CRISIS IN CANADA
PRICES DROP TO LOWEST LEVELS OF THE YEAR
SITUATION UNEASY
Winnipeg, Yesterday,
Export wheat prices at the local ex- change crashed to the lowest level of the year as a result of weak Liverpool quotations and the low export orders, which are under 400,000 bushels for tho whole continent during the past 24
hours.
In the House of Commons to-day the question of Dutch flights apropos the reported contract be across India, Captain Wedgwood Benn
Informed Com-tween the Netherlands Harbour (Labour)
Works at the Peking Mukden Rail- mander Kenworthy that the re- quest
facilities was way for the construction of for further being considered. No decision had barbour at Hulutao, the cost of which would be paid from the
A statement issued during the week-į Railway's earnings, Mr. Henderson,
the prairie provinces are end that at question time, stated that the British Minister in China had been standing behind the wheat pool to en- instructed to protest that the sure adequate Anancing for the mar
keting balance of exportable surplus of new loan on the charging of a
| last year's crop, apparently has had no security of the railway, except effect in maintaining prices in face of through the British Chinese Cor- the low export orders. The general poration, violates the Railway Loan situation, Agreement, and also to urge China bushels still to be marketed, is caus to allocate the whole of the surplus ing considerable uneasiness-Reuter. earnings to the payment of out- standing debts of the railway, and to request that the contract should not be enforced until the debts are fully met and the consent of the Corporation obtained-Reuter.
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Production to Cease in May
INDIAN AFFAIRS College Raided by Police
STUDENT'S DEATH
Amritsar, Yesterday. Pratap Singh, the Indian student injured by a bomb yester- day, has died.
Half a
London, Yesterday.
with about 200,000,000
TIRED OF LIFE?
Two Chinese women were alleged to have attempted to commit suicide yes- terday.
In the frat instance, Lau Tsat (80), ja married woman living at 30, Lee Yuan Street, East, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from the effects of opium poisoning, Įstated to have been self-administered.
Her conditior is serious.
The other alleged would-be suicide was Keung Yau-mui (19), spinster, liv- A meeting of the council of the Rubing at 86, Main Street, Shaukiwan. dozen students have ber Growers' Association in London She was said to have drank some lysol been arrested. The police are decided to recommend the adoption of following a quarrel with her father. vainly searching their college for mittee's proposal to complete the cessa- ment Civil Hospital but was not detsin. something incriminating.-Reuter.tion of tapping in May-Reuter.
[A message of February 28 stated that a bomb filled with scrap-iron and glass exploded dur Ing the celebration of an anni- versary in the Khalsa College and a student, Pratap Singh, who was presiding, was seriously injured and his leg bad to be amputated. Ten other persons received slight Injuries.]
FOR AUSTRALIA
New Zealand Aces, at Calcutta
Calcutta, Yesterday.
The two New Zealand airmen, Piper and Kay, have arrived here. There is now no question of their beating Hinkler's record of 15% days to Australia, ae this is already the sixteenth day of their flight.— Reuter.
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