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EASTERN FLIGHT.

Fatherly Advice by. Soviet Air Experts.

COURTEOUS ASSISTANCE.

Moscow, Yesterday.

GERMANY.

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INCREASED PRODUCTION.

Stuttgart, Yesterday.

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DESTRUCTION.

Entire Island Swept Clean by Typhoon,

NOT A DWELLING LEFT,

Manila, Yesterday. A special conference of experts

Late reports of the Visayan of the Air Department which met employment was outlined by the lalands typhoon reveal that the to-day to discuss Miss Amy Finance Minister in the Reich, death toll is at least 150, and the Johnson's proposed flight to Herr Dietrich, who said that it damage to property at least Peking, expressed the opinion would be monstrous to spend 2,500,000 pesos The greatest des that a continuation of the flight three milliard marks annually for truction was on Camotes Island, from Moscow to Peking was pos-relief purposes without getting near Cebu, where the entire island sible, provided the aeroplane was value in return. He argued that was swept clean, not a single dwell- sufficiently heated.

the money should be used to ing being left standing. The

The Department accordingly cheaper and increase production casualties there are not known. ordered the preparation of land-by paying industry part of the Many towns in Leyte Province re- ing places and depots along the wages and salaries of the unem- port 95 per cent. destruction. route suggested, namely, Omsk, ployed who found employment Cebu reports that 50,000 of her Irkutsk, Chita, Hallar, Tsitsikar, under the new system.

people are homeless.. Red Cross officials left for Cabu last night to render relief in the stricken areas-Reuter,

Harbin, and Mukden.-Reuter.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

ITALIAN SEAPLANE COMES TO GRIEF.

SINKS OFF AFRICA.

Rio de Janeiro, Yesterday. The Brazilian Naval wireless! station is in wireless communica- tion with the Italian scaplanes flying the Atlantic which are 350| miles east-north-east of Natal.

Arrival at Natal. Colonel Balbo's squadron ar- rived at Natal at 7 p.m., G.M.T., (minus one 'plane, which was forced down near St. Paul's Rocks, 350 miles north-east of Fernando Noronha. She is being towed by an Italian cruiser.

'Plane Sinks,

Later.

Berlin, Yesterday. The National League of Ger- man industrialists opposes Herr Dietrich's plan of Government subsidies as likely deeply to shake the confidence of Germany's fin- ancial policy-Reuter.

GENERAL LOCK-OUT.

SERIOUS POSITION IN MILL

INDUSTRY.

OWNERS FIRM.

London. Yesterday.

A BAD CHARACTER.

PRISON FOR 15 YEARS OLD CHINESE GIRL.

STOLE FROM CHILD.

Leung Chi-chu, a Chinese girl, 15 years old was to-day charged be fore Mr. Butters at Kowloon Magis- tracy with the larceny of a pair of gold ear-rings from a child Fung Yun-kwai.

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Detective Sergeant Fitches said that defendant accosted the child in Waterloo Road, saying she had been A general lock-out in the Lan-requested by the child's mother to cashire cotton mills, involving take her to seek out a woman in 500,000 workers, is possible in charge of a money club, who was consequence of the strike at nine alleged to have absconded. mills in Burnley, where, employ-way she told complainant that the ers threaten a lock-out if the place to which they were going was The towed seaplane sank, the strikers do not resume on Mon- notorious for bad characters and it crew being rescued. — Reuter's day. The Central Committee of would be safer if she handed over

the Cottom Spinners' and Manu- her ear-rings Second 'Plane Down. facturers' Association has endors This the child did, and defendant for safe-keeping. Rome, Yesterday.ed the latter warning and inform wrapped them in a plece of paper. It is now reported that two of ed all members to be ready to when in Pitt Street. defendant Col. Balbo's seaplanes were close all their mills-Reuter. forced down. The crew of the second are safe, but details are lacking. Reuter.

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Series Of Mishaps. Gen. Balbo's seaplane, squadron has departed from Bolama, in Por- tuguese Gulnes, for Natal, (Brazil), thus continuing the flight embark-. ed upon some time ago but consider- ably delayed by a series of mishaps.

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FATAL TORNADO,

FIVE NEGROES KILLED IN

NORTH CAROLINA.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE,

New York, Yesterday..

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Previous Convictions. The child then boarded and a European, who cannot be traced, noticed her crying, and later handed the defendant over to the Police..

Defendant admitted, two pre- having been

It is officially announced that Seven. fatalities, five of which vions convictions, Gen. Balbo's air squadron of twelve were among negroes, are reported bound over on both occasions, and machines, which left Bolama on a following a violent tornado which was sentenced to four months" 1,990 mile trans-Atlantic crossing swept Rovikingham County, Imprisonment.

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6fth of the distance to Natal by 5 extensive damage to crops and RUHR COAL STRIKE, | a.m.,' G.M.T., and all was woll.—property.-Reuter. -

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DUMPING OF WHEAT

FIRM MEASURES TAKEN BY U.S. SENATE.

MARKET ACTIVITIES.

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