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Chinese Navy up to the present a main road bridge. They then

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All foreign loan and indemnity conversation with the Consul on soldiers

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gold units 12,773,000, and in silver north bank of the Yangtsze near! The Constabulary casualties are Shanghai taels 78,232,000. Or, if Temple Hill and the 44th Division 35 men and two officers killed. calculated on the silver basis alone, to the south bank in the same

Troops with bombs and ma-Shanghai taels 91,474,000 compar-vicinity-Reuter. chine-guns have been rushed toed with 65,336,000 in 1929..

the scene from Manila.-Router.

GENERAL STRIKE?

SYMPATHY WITH SOUTH WALES

WALES MINERS.

NOT TO FIGHT ALONE.

London, Yesterday.

A resolution suggesting a gen cral strike of miners, who should be called in to support the South, Wales minera, was passed at A meeting of the Executive Commit-

The service of both interest and redemption of all domestic loans and Treasury notes secured upon the Cuctoms revenue has been mot or provided for in full.

Position At Ports. Thrte ports show decreases in 1930. Dairen is down half million taels, Tientsin more than two million, and Hankow three quarters of a million.

A.P.C. SUMMONED, EXTRALITY ISSUE RAISED

IN PEKING.

"ORDER" TO APPEAR,

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The Asiatic Petroleum Com-

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creased 1,300,000, at Klaochow two case and ordered to appear before taels. At Newchwang revenue in- been summoned as defendant in a

and a half millions, at Amoy onethe Chinese Court,

tee of the Lancashire and Cheshire almost two millions and at Canton thus raised, the Company has and a quarter millions, at Swatuw As the question of extrality is Miners' Federation. The Execu- tive decided that it was not fair more than three and a half millions. Ensked for instructions from the to allow the South Wales miners

to fight alone, unless a settlement was quickly reached. An applica- tion should be made for the call-

-Reuter,

FATAL LANDSLIDE.

ing of a national conférence to OVER 170 PEOPLE KILLED IN consider the position.-Reuter.

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TROUBLE IN RUHR.

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ceed four per cent. Rugby, Yesterday.

The Guayaquil, Yesterday.

mine-owners The Royal Family to-day at-

immediately Of those buried, 20 have been rejected the award, and the tended the funeral service of the rescued. It has transpired that will decide to-morrow. More than' Princess Royal at St. George's the victims are not train passen- 300,000 are affected-Reuter. Chapel, Windsor Castle. Simul-gers, but track workers who

Berlin, Yesterday. taneously memorial services were were endeavouring to clear * The Socialist Miners' Union de- held at Chapel Royal, St. James stretch of line that had been ab-cided to recommend the rejection Palace and Braemar, Scotland.structed by an earlier landslide of the Government Arbitrator's British Wireless Service.

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