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CAREFULLY PLANNED NAZI COUP NIPPED IN
Believed to be the world's first woman aeronautical engineer. Mins Tabel C. Ebel, of Brooklyn, X.-Y., will shortly be gradunt. ed from New York University after years of intensive study of aviation. Alrendy she has design. ed a plane thal houses pasach- zers, engines and baggage in wings and has no fuselage.
100 REBELS DISGUISED 700 NAZIS
AS HEIMWEHR CAPTURED
POLICE SPIES FRUSTRATE
SECOND PLOT
UPRISING QUELLED
STARHEMBERG'S
ATTITUDE
THRONE CLAIMANT'S
POLICY..
Vienna, To-day.
The fighting in Styria ended last night with an encounter at AFTER TWO DAYS OF FIERCE FIGHT- Eibeswald, where 700 Nazis were ING IN THE PROVINCES, THE NAZI UPRIS-rounded up and surrendered. ING IN AUSTRIA HAS BEEN QUELLED. Nazis on the mountainous bor- Only isolated bands of fleeing ONLY A FEW ISOLATED GROUPS OF FLEE- ders of Styria and Carinthia re- ING INSURGENTS REMAIN TO BE SUP-main to be suppressed.
.Prince Starhemberg, broad- PRESSED.
casting, spoke almost in the tone Considerable uneasiness, however, was re- of one who is a "claimant to the throne." He extolled the loyalty vived in Vienna yesterday when it became known of himself, Dr. Kurt Schusch that a band of 100 Nazis, disguised as Heimwehr nigg, and Major Emil Fey, to the troops, had gained access to the inner district of name of the dead Chancellor that Government and declared in the SUSSEX ARE the capital with the intention of effecting a se-there will be not the slightest
cond coup at the Chancellery.
compromise with the Nazis. AGAIN HELD IN
Police spies gained knowledge of the plot and reinforcements ready to forget the past and live Otherwise, however, Austria is TITLE RACE were rushed to guard the Chancellery. The tension relaxed later on good terms with her neigh-
in the day when it was reported that many arrests had been bours, he said. made. LANGRIDGE BROS. CENTURIES.
WYATT AND WALTERS DEFY PLAYERS
Reuter.
The funeral of the dead Chancellor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss NAZI CONTROL OF
will take place amid great ceremony this afternoon.
MEANWHILE, BEHIND THE SCENES, A NUMBER OF AUSTRIAN LEADERS, NOTABLY PRINCE STARHEMBERG, WHO IS SEEKING A FASCIST REGIME IN AUSTRIA, ARE STRUGGLING FOR THE REINS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
“PUTSCH” FRUSTRATED
London, To-day.NAZI Sussex received another check in their race for the County Cricket Championship, losing first innings
points to Kent in their mid-week Another Desperate Bid fixture, which concluded at Hove To Control Government. yesterday.
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COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
Bournemouth, Hampshire
secured first innings points from
Somerset.
DRESSED IN HEIMWEHR UNIFORM
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ceived July 28, 8.42
Jack Lee 7 for 141). Samerset: 170 and 280 for 5 (J. €;
White 94).
Al Ilkestone,, Derbyshire secured first innings points from Surrey. Surrey: 275 and 176.
Derby: 203 (Smith 125) and 76 for 1.
At Clacton, Northamptonshire secured first innings point from Essex,
Northamptonshire: 451 (Timms 181,
Matthews, 100, Read 7 for 114). Essex: 233 and 289 for 6 (Cutmoro-135
not out).
At Maidstone, Kent secured first innings point from Sussex. Sussex: 217 and 452 for 7 dec. (John) Langridge 159, James Langridge) 130).
Kent: 374 and 98 for Z.
At Manchester, Lancashire beati Gloucestershire by 103 runs. Lancashire: 324 for 3 dec. and 65 for
◊ dec. Gloucester: 184 and 102 (Pollard 6)
for 21).
Al Worcester. Yorkshire beat Worcestershire by 10 wickets. Worcester: 180 and 322 (Gibbons 119.)
Bowes for 85), Yorkshire: 416 (Hutton 196) and 88
for 0.
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DEMPSTER SHOWS OLD FORM..
London, To-day
At Edinburgh, the Aus tralians hold a definite ad vantage over the Scottish: XI, with 7 wickets in hand, lead ing Scotland by 37 runs on the first innings.
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Vienna, To-day. Heimwehr circles report that the Vienna police yester- terday nipped in the bud an- other projected Nazi "putsch" at the Chancellery Police spies reported that 100 Nazis, dressed in Heimwehr, uni- forms, entered the inner dis- trict of Vienna and intended, either yesterday afternoon or last night, to seize the Chan- cellery and Cabinet in an- other desperate effort to se cure control of the Govern- ment.
It is reported that many arrests were made. The guards at the Chancellery were strengthened through out the day-United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.
BACK OF REVOLT BROKEN
Vienna, To-day.
The fighting in Carinthia is growing more serfong, according to unofficial: reports St. Veitan: derglan, Feldkirchen and Blei
COTTON MILLS
New Decree Governs Raw Materials. -
MONTHLY" ALLOWANCE
Berlin, To-day. The Cotton Control Board has
burg remains in the hands of the rebels who are entrenched at decreed that German spinning Moellbruecken where they have mills must not, in fature, consume lestablished-headquarters. The monthly average of raw mater- rebels also hold a great part of ials greater than 70 per cent, of the Taurern railway.
the monthly average for the first The industrial town of Villach three months of 1934.
The Government is levying
all available non-active
members of the various pa- JAPAN'S FOREIGN triotle organisations to strengthen the Government forces. Many have volun-- tarily joined the Heimwehr, supplying their own uni- forms.
TRADE UP
STEADY INCREASE SINCE NEW YEAR.
U.S. STRIKE
BUD IN VIENNA
SITUATION TENSE
Becret service men are investigating the crash of the New York- Chicago pamenger plane at Livin gaton Manor, N. Y., because Mr. William B. Bader, Buffalo, chemist, one of the seven victims, car- ried secret Navy munition formulas and plans. Dr. Victor Bourke, Coroner, is shown checking the secret papers recovered from the wreck. Deadly war chemicals-we re carried in the bottle pletured.
DEADLOCK REACHED
ANIMALS
STARVING IN CHICAGO YARDS
MARTIAL LAW IN MINNEAPOLIS.
TRUCK DRIVERS REMAIN ADAMANT
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New York, To-day. The strike situation at Minneapolis and Chicago remains tense, and in both cities a deadlock has been reached. Ter- rible scenes are being witnessed at the Chicago
BRITAIN ON RIGHT PATH stock yards, where hun-
BRITAIN'S DAVIS BIG INCREASE
CUP CHANGES
PERRY AND AUSTIN FAVOURED.
AMERICA SHOULD WIN DOUBLES MATCH
London, To-day.
W. Austin v. F. X. Shields,
F. J. Perry v. S. B. Wood.
IN EXPORTS
IS REPORTED WOOLLEN TRADE
IMPROVES.
13 COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY RUNCIMAN
London, To-day.
..
dreds of animals are dying for want of food. The livestock market has been closed,
The truck drivers remain ad-
amant at Minneapolis, where the Governor of Minnesota, Mr. Floyd B. Olson, has declared martial law. The military dictatorship existing in the city, was tighten- ed further yesterday by the in- position of a modified press cen- sorship, aimed principally at radical publications,
is occupied by the regular army. Producers, distributora and Great Britain, who won the Davis
The South Carinthian Railway consumers of flax, jute and hemp Cup from France last year, will In reviewing the British trade More reassuring reports, how is only running as far as Annen- must advise the authorities of defend it against the American situation in the House of Commons ever, come from San Francisco, heim, the other part being in the the amount of their stocks by challengers at Wimbledon this yesterday, the President of the where the waterfront is humming hands of the Nazis.
August 8. Reuter.
week-end.
Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Run- with activity following the recent To-day two singles will be ciman, said that in the first six general strike which was declar
months of this year exports ed in sympathy with the longshore- played, as follows:-
totalled £190,000,000, which was men and maritime workers. an increase of £15,000,000 over the "EMERGENCY OVER" In the doubles on Monday first six months of last year. President Roosevelt's mediation Fred Perry and G. P. Hughes will The most notable increases Inboard in the longshoremen's dis represent Great Britain against exports referred to the woollen and pute has announced that the hiring George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Worsted trades, which showed a hall question has been settled in a
On Tuesday Perry will meet 3,000,000 rise on the half year, satisfactory
manner. Detalle, Frank Shields and Austin will and in the machinery and Iron and however, are not given. encounter Sidney Wood. Bri-steel Industries, each of which
Meanwhile, the seamen have tish Wireless Service.
showed a rise of £2,000,000.
begun balloting to see who will re- Following their victory Over These figures, he said, although present them in the collective-bar- Despite obstructive measures
Australia in the Inter-Zone Final not sensational, showed a tendency gaining. abroad, Japan's foreign trade, as the Americans will enter tha
which concluded on Wednesday, in the right direction. revealed in the latest statistics Challenge Round with confidence,
COTTON SITUATION The funeral of the Austrian is showing a steady development although they will be up against the cotton trade, which remained Chancellor. Dr. Engelbert Doll-since the new year. fuss, takes place to-day. The
a sterner proposition than in their one of the most unfortunate of Bri- This is due largely to the ceremony begins at 2.30 p.m. be change in the policy of catering last encounter..
tain's great industries. He was,
the
schemes now being discussed in 'Lancashire |
All the frontiers are open and the railway services are POLICY CHANGE RESPONSIBLE functioning almost normally. Reuter.
Dollfuss' Funeral This Afternoon.
Tokyo, To-day.
(Continued on Page 14) - No improvement had occurred in FURTHER INCREASE IN U. S.
CAR-LOADINGS
fore the City Hall. The speeches to the principal markets to one No. 1 ranking player should be
To-day, Fred Perry, world's however, hopeful that
and the procession will last until of developing markets every-
Egypt.
en-
New York, To-day.
A further increase in car-load- inge in the United States is re ported for the week ended yester
5 p.m., when Archbishop Innitzer where, notably in Central and able to defeat Sydney Wood with- might produce better results. The will conduct the service at St. South America,
out difficulty, while Bunny Austin unemployment figures in the Africa and Stephen's Cathedral.
has a good chance of taking the gineering trade had decreased other singles match from Frank
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TREASURY BILLS
ISSUE
A flerce fight for power is re- It is noteworthy that the ex- ported to be proceding behind the port of cotton and textiles has scenes for the vacant Chancellor-created a new record. Jehip.
London, To-day. The candidates are the Heim- Although the Austrian Gov-wehr leader, Prince Starhemberg, ernment forces encountered re-the Minister of Education end sistance yesterday from banda Justice, Dr. Kurt Schuschalgg, the of Nazis in Styria and Carinthia, leader of the peasants, General] the authorities declare that this Karl Vaugoin, former · "Strong merely represents the cleaning Man," and ex-Minister of war, up process and that the back of land Herr Richard Schmitz, Burgo- the revolt has been broken master of Vienna.
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Autumn Business Upturn May Be
Delayed Due To Drought & Strikes
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL
New York, To-day.
Maximum Allotted.
London, Te day.
by day, the total being 614,864 tons, as compared with 602,778 tons last week and 519,807 tons for the week before-United Press, per 8. E Levy and Company.
NEW HIGH RECORD RESERVE
New York, To-day.
From June 13 to July 18, the
A total of £79,430,000 was preserves of the member banks mer and that the hull, should be plled for yesterday in tenders for reached U.3.$4,000,000,000, which conductive to encouragement.. £35,000,000, worth of Treasury a new high record and US.$1,
Retail sales at present, are 25 bills."
850,000,000 above the legal re- quirementsUnited Press, per. S.
Levy, and Company...
LOCAL RAINFALL==={
Although many rumours are Prince Starhemberg is an ardent The Auturon business upturn to L. O. Fleetwood-Smith, in dead-emanating from Vienna and admirer of the Italian dictator, the United States may, possibly per cent higher than during the The amount allotted was 465, ly form, took 6. fdr 45, the only other news centres, conditions Signor Benito Mussolini, and la appear later than indicated at the same period of 1833,000,000, the average rate per cent. Scottish batsman to withstand the through practically all of Aus demanding that Austria be made close of the second quarter, due The Federal Reserve monthly being 18/9.82d., as compared with bowling being C. 8. Dempster, the tria are, apparently, again not into a full-blooded Fascist state to the drought crippling the farm survey shows that industrial pro-f15/0.14d. last week-British Wire- New Zealand Test bateman now mal. British Wireless Service on Italian lines Beuterers purchasing power and to the duction factory employment and less Service, her vi playing in the Lancashire League.
SAKING'A REPRESENTATIVE As strikes curtailing the money avail- pay-rolls declined slightly in June
London, To-da
Investment in Industrial after a steady gain for six months, declare Messrs. Dun and partly due to seasonal klumpa, es-
Vrepo
a sharp reduction in the Fair to showery, with moderate inch bringing the total since Janu- of cotton and textile mills, east winds, was the weather foreary 1 to 52:50 inches, as compared Press, per S, Levy and cast lasued by the Royal Observa- with A normal average of 51.28
tory this morning.
triches.
He scored 69.2
Stan McCabe, at the close of
play had scored 67 not out
BAND CONCERT POSTPONED
Sir Walfor Selby The Band Concert at the Kow-Minister, at Beatland: 107 (C. S. Dempster 69. Lloon Cricket Club, advertised for sent His
to-night, has been postponed until the next Saturday,
Fleetwood-Smith for 45)
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