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CHATER ROAD,

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$1.00 SWEEPS INSTEAD OF $5.00 AT HONG KONG JOCKEY (LUB

DILLINGER'S MISTRESS

MISTRESS GAOLED

PHILIP MEAD

139 AGAINST

AUSTRALIANS

143rd Century Of

Carcer.

BIG STAND WITH LOWNDES

London. To-day....

Philip lead. Hampshire's 47- year-old No. 4 batsman, recorded

PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC

ENEMY'S CRIMES

DOCTOR WHO TREATED GUN SHOT

WOUNDS SIMILARLY TREATED

AMERICA'S FIGHT AGAINST CRIME.

ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS, TO-DAY. SENTENCE OF TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT IN A

RE-

OF

the 143rd century of his career FORMATORY, AND A FINE OF US.$1.000 HAS BEEN PASSED when he rattled up 139 against ON EVELYN FRECHETTE, BEAUTIFUL GIRL FRIEND the Australian at Southampton AMERICA'S PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1, JOHN DILLINGER. yesterday.

She participated in his crimes after he broke from gaol, and His sixth wicket partnership with Lowndes (150) was mainly was charged with conspiring to harbour the bandit. responsible for the county total- Dr. Clayton May, who treated Dillinger for a gunshot wound Bng 401 for 8 before the close of without reporting cases of gunshot wounds to the authorities, re- play.

ceived a similar sentence on a similar charge. — Reuter,

The stand produced a distinct; Miss Frechette was with the ruthless American desperado when contrast in styles, Lowndes bat he shot his way out of a police ambush in a wood near Mercer. Michi- ting very enterprisingly, hitting; three sixes and twenty boun- gan, on April 23.

WERE MET WITH

A

daries, and Mead playing dogged į ON THAT OCCASION, A POSSE OF 23 FEDERAL-AGENTS - SUR-

{ROUNDED DILLINGER'S HIDE-OUT BUT cricket to reach the rails ON WITHERING FIRE, WHICH KILLED THREE OF THEIR NUMBER.

fifteen occasions. Reater.

DILLINGER AND BIS GIRL COMPANION ESCAPED IN A MOTOR- Mead, who scored 179 against(CAR UNDER A HAIL OF POLICE BULLETS. Middlesex in his previous inninga,

is now third in the list of playera who have scored over a hundred centuries

first-class cricket. BOMBAY STRIKE

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HARE BEATEN BY MERLIN.

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French Hard Courts

Tennis Tourney.

ALL STARS TRIUMPH

BATTLE

SIX MILL HANDS WOUNDED.

POLICE CONTROL SITUATION

Bombay, To-day.

Six mill strikers were wounded;

Dinllinger's haunts are beinx curefully watched and a speciali squad of police, all picked marks men, are out to "get" him dead Jor alive.

This is the record of John Dil- linger's exploits since his, escape from Crawn Point prison, where

WUCHOW FIRE

DESTROYS 14.

BUILDINGS

Outbreak Occurs Near Baptist Mission.

SCHOOLGIRLS SAFE UNDER. POLICE PROTECTION

Devil-Worshippers Are Alleged Responsible.

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Wuchow, May 22. Fire broke out in the Chinese residential section of Wuchow vary near the Baptist Mission Compound (at 2.30 a.m. to-day.

The Wuchow fire department rushed to the scene of the con- fighting equipment, but before flagration with their new fire-

the fire could be brought under control about 14 buildings went up in flames. Some of these were new brick buildings situated. near. wooden buildings which

urned very rapidly.

For some time the Waang To Girls' school and the dor- mitory of the Baptist Mission were in danger as the building was only some 200 feet from the burning buildings.

longings were quickly moved out The schoolgirls and their be-

police gave ample protection from

into safety. The them

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thieves. he held up the staff with a dummy will run into several thousands of The total losses from the fre

dollara.

revolver made of wood,

Exploit No. 1-Four men with

The origin of the fire is, machine guns held up Security not quite certain, but some state

that it started from the careless) escaped

use of fire by some of the residents in their devil-worship.

Bank, Sioux Falls, and with £5000.

Exploit No. 2.-Evidence obtain-

SPILLS

(PILLS, and thrills at the Belvoir, Cottesmore and Quora Hua- ier Trials at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire on April 3. Miss P. Harrison is seen taking a nasty fall from her mount and landing on her head-(8. & G.).

$9 THOUGH TICIET

CHANCE N

BIG STEEP

ICLUDED

EXPERIENTAL INNOVATION.

Result Of Demand For Reuction.

A tradition of many years stand- ing will be broke at the Sixth Ex- tra Race Meeting of the Hong Kong Jockey Cl at Happy Val- ley on June 2, when, following an announcement bythe Stewards, all Cash Sweeps will be of the dene-

NO CHANGE IN U.S.mination of $1.0), as against the

SILVER STATUS

customary figure of $5.00.

At this meeting "Through Tic- kets" numbered from 1 to 400, will be issued at $9.00 each, and will include a chance in the mam-

JUST ANOTHER ALL-DAY moth $1.00 Sweep on the Juling

SUCKER TO PLAY WITH

ULTIMATE EFFECTS DOUBTFUL

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

Stakes.

All future Cash Sweeps are to be run on the $1.00 ticket basis, and it is expected that there will Įbe no more $10.00 sweeps.

The alteration of the price of Cash Sweep tickets from $5.00 to

"(By "Telegrapli," Copyright, Telegraphic Messager Ordincipes, 1891, 31.00. in an effort on the part of

Received May 24, 8:04 a.m.)

Washington, To-day.

|the Atowords", "or""the" Jockey Clað to meet the demand of the gen- Jeral public for a less expensive

sweep.

Senator Thomas, of Oklahoma, yesterday It is not anticipated that the said that the Silver Bill would not change the reduction in the ticket prices will

Paris. To-day. Yesterday when the police fired oned that Dillinger was planning to go this same section of Wucho present status of silver.

a little more than a year!

C. E. Hare, promising 19-year-ja riotous mob.

kidnap Governor of Ohio. Governor was destroyed by fire which piso old British lawn tennis player The trouble began when 2.000 given special guard.

Istaried from who is practising with the Daviststrikers, returning to the mill Exploit No. 3-Dillinger's gang worship altar.

4 fire

on a devil- Cup team, was beaten by Andretaver after celebrating the com-held up a bank at Mason City on Merlin. French Davis Cup player.jpletion of a month's strike, in-March 13 and made a big baul, in the Second Round of thesisted an following a prohibited. French Hardcourts Champion-route. ships yesterday.

The scores were 6-1. 6-2, 5-7.Í. 6-1.

Exploit No. 4.-Herbert Young- blood, a negro, who escaped from

A police cordon barred their Crown Point with Dillinger, shot

progress, whereupon the strikers by police after a street battle at STOP

squatted in the roadway and re Port Huron on March 16. Young-

All the leading players won fused a move. their games, — Reuter.

for f

Clubers who

This is the second setback

The police, armed with lathie, Britain in the course of three days, charged and injured dozen of strik- counter-attacked with Fred Perry having lost his match against Boussus in Paris on bricks, stones and flower-pols.

The police then fired 50 rounda, Monday.

dispersing the mob.

Here, a Birmingham "find". beat Perry in the Inter-County Cham- pionship.

EMPIRE AIR DAY CELEBRATIONS.

Diana To Make 1,000 Miles Tour.

PILOTED BY CAPT. JONES

London, To-day,

The situation is now under con- trol,--Reuter.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR JEAN BATTEN.

Lord Londonderry's

Tribute.

"TRY-IT-AGAIN GIRL"

· London, To-day. Among the many messages of The new Imperial Airways liner Diana, the fastest air-liner in the congratulations sent to the New world, which is to-day making a Zealand airwoman, Miss Jean Bat 1,000 miles tour of the aerodromesen, on her successful solo flight in Great Britain as part of the from England to Australia, Empire Air Day celebrations, will one from the British Air Minister, be piloted by Captain O. P. Jones, Lord Londondolery-British Wire-

Iosa Service. who has flown over 1,000,000 miles.

WAS

As an air line pilot Captain Jones Known as the "try-it-again girl" has flown across the channel 4,500 owing to two previous attempts times, and has carried 85,000 paa-having ended in mishaps in which she luckily suffered no serious in- jury, Miss Batten experienced In all he has spent 10,000 hours, or more than one year, at the con-many thrille on her third attempt.

Roligers.

·

trols of flying machines.

blood's last words were that Dil- linger would be revenged.

Exploit No. 5.-Bank held up at St. Louis (Florida) and £200 taken by men of Dillinger's gang.

PRESS

Mob Riots Occur In Ohio.

greatly reduce the value of the prizes, as the sales stimulation will

Senator Long stated that it was "just another largely compensate for the lower all-day sucker for us to play with."

Observers do not expect the programme to affect the average man's pocket-book, silver-ware or the economic status. Even the ultimate effects are doubtful.

Wall Street speculators are not willing to bank on the pros- pects.

Treasury officials doubt if a placed in circulation.

new silver dollar will be

The Treasury Counsel, Mr. Herman Oliphant, said that the programme makes no change in the United States monetary sys- tem, and in no way is it bimetallle or nymetallle.

LESS GOLD IN CUBAN PESO

Exploit No. 6.—Dillinger tracked by police to apartment house in St. Paul (Minnesota). Dillinger!

Toledo, Ohio, To-day. opened the door, swept the stair-! Serious riots, accompanied by case with bullets from a portable shooting and stone throwing, looke machine gun, jumped into a car in out here yesterday, when strikers

Cabinet Issues Decree. which was a red-haired girl, and beselged the Electric Autolite fac- escaped.

[tory and Imprisoned the staff, until

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. Exploit No. 7.--Dillinger raided dispersed by police and troops,

The police hurled tear-gas bomba⠀⠀ (By_Telegrajih, Copyrighi, Telepra the police station at Warsaw (In- [diana) and stole bullet proof from the windows of the building, phic Messages Ordinance, 1804, Re-

waistcoats and revolvora,

white machine-guns were mined coived May 8, 8.30 p.m.) One of the most determined on the entrance to revent a mob of rushing the building, among Dillinger's trackers is Mrs. 3,000 from Holley. Indiana's woman sheriff, the steel gates of which were torn

off. whose car he used in his escape from Crown Point,

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OIL CODE ABUSES IN AMERICA.

Roosevelt Strikes A

Warning Note.

INDUSTRY THREATENED

SPECIAL TO CHINA' MAIL.

Washington, To-day,

Eight difle and three machine- gun companies with a medical unit of the National guard, were mobil. ised to mainiain order-Renter...

Tientsin Executions.

Tientsin, To-day. Five men and one woman were' jexecuted by a Bring squad in the Chinese city here, yesterday, by forder, of General - Yu Hauch-||

chung.

Havana, To-day. The Cuban Cabinet has is. 'sued a decree, to purchase all the gold circulating in Cuba. at 35 silver dollars per ounce, for the purpose of reduclag the gold content of the peso. United Press, per 8. C. Gold Bar Co..

U.S. TREASURY AS

SILVER BUYER.

Confirmation Seen In Roosevelt's Message.

cost of tickets.

DIRECT LOANS TO U.S. INDUSTRY.

R.F.C. And Federal Reserve Empowered.

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra- phic Messages Ordinance, 1804, Re- ceived May 24, 0.01 a.m.)

The final analysis merely pro- vides for increased silver reservej

Washington, To-day. The House of Representatives, by behind the nation's currency. a vote of 178 to 6, yesterday passed Answering, whether the aliver a Bill authoriting the Recenstrac- inflationary, tion Finance Corporation and the Programme Treasury officials called attention Federal Reserve to make direct loans to industry.—United Press, per S.C. to the fact that the 1932 Democra- Gold Bar Co. tic platform declared for sound

hazards.

was

currency to be preserved at all PRESIDENT'S TALKS

WITH NEIGHBOURS.

Problem Discussed,

It is not believed that the pro- gramme contains any direct mone- tary potentialities, although it is admitted that it furnishes the posi afbility of credit inflation through further building up of bank re-By Telegraph, Copyright, Telogra- |serves.—United Preas, per S.C.phic Messages Ordinance, 1894, Ea-

¡Gold Bar Co.

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INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT DOUBTED BY AMBERGE

SPECIÁL TO CHINA MAIL.

ceived May 28, 5.01 pm.)

Washington, To-day. Congressional Administrators have intimated that President Roose- velt Is talking with Canada, Mexico and ́sad-America on allver, and · is. also intermittently discussing the problem; with European nations.— United Press, por S.C. Gold Bar Co.

MPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL ¡By_Telegraph, Copyright, T'alegra phie Messages Ordinance, 1884, Be cetved May 24, 9:01 am) She had hoped to break the re (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telaga

New York, To-day.

New York, To-day..

·U.S.$96,000 FOR STOCK Three were Implicated in the Its record is very nearly equalled cord held by Air Commodore Sirnate Messages Ordinance, 1894. Res

EXCHANGE SEAT who ceived May 24, 0,01 am)

murder of Mr. Chu, Shion-fu, a

Mr. J, L... Amberge, the well-known. Charles Kingsford-Smith,

Wall Street traders sea in Presi- by seven other veteran pilots of the accomplished the England-Australia

correspondent for Shanghal dent Roosevelt's silver message con-economist and a member of the big

SPECIAL TO CHINA HAIL.. Imperia} Airways.--British Wireless

|dash' in 7 days, 4 hours and 47 min- President Roosevelt has sent a newspapers, and the attempted firmation that the Treasury has re-silver brokers, Harriman and Com- Forvice.

(By Felegraph, Copyright, Teleora- lutes:

letter to Senator Logan and Repre-assassination of General Mecently been buying silver through pany, doubts if other nations will phic Messages Ordinance, 1891, Re-

Are the stabilisation fund. -

follow the United States lead in osived May 16, Kal Km.) · Miss Batten beat Amy Mollison's sentative Rayburn, requesting legia Chan-ahan: record by three days and by a lation to tighten oil production re- The remainder were sentenced They are of the opfalan that the adopting silver as part of the metal-

|| New York, To-day. strange coincidence she landed at gulations, warning that unless the for fomenting disorders during purchases amounted to between 30-lc, backing for currency-man

A stock exchange next was sold Fair weather generally, with local Port Darwin on May 28, wheress Code abuses are eliminated the in the recent Kailan Minee strik

000,000, and 40,000,000 ounces, and "Ha náid that as a matter of fact here" yesterday"-for: U,8,896,000, a- showers, and moderate east winds, Mrs. Amy Mollison completed her dustry will return to wretched con- at Tongshan Reuter,

therefore not over. U.8,820,000,000 there was no need to increase the decline of U,B.$9,000 on the previous was the weather forecast Issued by fight at Port Darwin on May 28;ditions-United Fress, per 8.C. Gold

has been engaged in the market. - silver reserve at the present time-sale-Dpited Press," per 8.0." Gold the Boyal Observatory, this morning, last year,

Bar Co

Boutef

- United Presa, per 8.C. Gold Bar Coễ Bar. Co,

WEATHER FORECAST