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APPEAL

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WILD CRICKET RUMOURS DENIED: OFFICIAL

GASOLINE FROM SEA WATER LEG THEORY

Found guilty on charges of caus- ing the death of his mechanic when their machine overturned doring a on the Isle of Man night race trial run, Kaye Don, above, well-known British auto and motorboat speed king, has been given a four-month prison term. The trial was unique in that it was the Arat time in court records that a driver has been tried for causing the death of his mechanic in an accident.

EARTH TREMOR

FELT OVER AREA

IN SCOTLAND

Woman Suffering From Shock At Dingwall GEOLOGICAL FAULT

London, To-day.

A slight earth tremor was felt in Scotland over an area, extend- ing from Dornoch to Pitlochry, a distance of about 100 miles, early yesterday morning..

STARTLING

CLAIM BY

FRENCHMAN

£25,000,000 FOR SECRET.

FRACTION OF PENNY PER QUART

Paris, To-day.

A sensational claim that he is able to manufacture synthetic pe trol from salt water has been made by a Rouen motor-engineer nam- led Sahours states the Paris journ-

al, "La Matin," with reserve.

Sahears claims that he can manufacture petrol at a cost of a fraction of a penny a quart, and adds that a ship could instal his

WAR

RAINS ARRIVE TOO LATE TO W. M. WOODFUEL

SAVE AMERICAN CROPS

Heavy Falls In Middle-West

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

New York, To-day. Messrs. Dun and. Bradstreet's food index alows 228, the highest since May 81.

They state that the recent rains ranged from one to three inches and extended, from Idaho to the Atlantle coast! Only a fraction of the crops, however, can be saved--United Press, per S. E Levy and Company.

MIGHT CALL SIDE

OFF THE FIELD Treasurer's Protest To Lord's.

NO IMPROVEMENT. SEEN IN DELICATE SITUATION

London, To-day.

An appeal for a more true spirit in cricket, and less cricket warfare was

CIE

Nathan Road

Kowloon

PEACE

NATIONWIDE STRIKE

ULTIMATUM

DELIVERED TO

TEXTILE HEADS

SEPTEMBER 1 TO BE ZERO HOUR.

12-HOURS NOTICE

SPECIAL 10 CHINA'MA25¬ (Hy, Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra. phic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Re ceived August 17, 8.56 m)

Now York, To-day.

The union members of the Us- ited States textile industry, repre-

TRAGEDY ade yesterday by Sir Waiting for the fumes to clear before entering the Mount Parker senting 300,000 workers, have

ON RIVER

apparatus and make its own pe-170 DROWNED BY

trol en voyage.

:

Anyone can examine his apparatus, but he will not re- veal his secret for less than £25,000,000 he declares.

Saheurs has given the French Government the first option on the Invention. Representatives {of the Frencli War Office and Air

ed his workshop-Reuter.

Ministry, he said, recently visit-

FIFTH NATIONAL

CONGRESS

No Further Delay In Convening. Meeting.

DECISION AT KULING

¡From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, To-day, The Fifth National Congress No serious damage is reported, will be convened in November at although one woman is said to

Nanking without further post- have suffered from shock at Ding-ponement, according to a circular wall where the tremor was severely felt. A similar occur telegram received here from the

Central Party Headquarters.

rence

ago.

was experienced in the At the Kuling conference held

same district about two years in the early part of this week, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and his These tremors are attributed to the Geological fault, existence of colleagues decided that the Con- which has been established for gress will be held in that month although the exact date will be British Wireless

fannounced later.

many years. →→→ Service..

BIG ADVANCE IN RADIO INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN Olympia Exhibition Opened.

£300,000 BUSINESS DONE IN FIRST HOUR

London, To-day! The radio exhibition, which opened at Olympia yesterday. is gaid to be the largest of its kind ever held. More than 150 firms are exhibiting the latest develop- ments in wheless receiving sta and their accessories, and about| 250,000 people are expected to visit the show, k

This is the 14th of these annus)

Being the supreme organ of the Kuomintang, the Fifth National Congress will decide on a date to hold a national representative as-

BULLOCKS

Stanley Jackson, one of

Tunnel after the blast penetrating the last few feet of face separating the northern and southern heads had been Bred by Mra Corver. yenter-, the members of the Eng-day morning. Those in the picture Include Mrs. J. Corver, Messrs. W. Woodward, A G. W. Tickel, C. W. E. Bishop, C. L. Shenk, T. B. Wilson, H. H. Rose and J. Corver.

land Test Match Selec- tion Committee, and Mr. Harold Bushby, manager

of the Australian team,

BOAT ROCKS THEN as the result of the leg

CAPSIZES.

Palina, To-day.

One hundred and seventy men and women are reported to have been drowned near

Dari Hara when a ferry-boat. conveying 200 persons and number of bullocks, over hirned in mid-stream.

When the boat began to rock in a strong current, the bullocks jumped into the river, causing a quantity of

water to enter the boat, whereupon the passengers. panic-stricken, crowded to one side of the boat, which capsized. About 30

passen- gers were rescued.-Reuter.

TRAIN WRECK SEQUEL

Soviet Citizen Under Arrest.

theory c

controversy,

which has unfortunately been stirred up again.

Statements have been made that Mr. Bull, the Australian treasurer,

protested against

adepted a resolution ordering the executives to call a nation-wide strike for higher wages and better conditions before September 1. The resolution provides 12-hours

NEW DEAL ELECTION WIN notice to owners, prior to the

Laurentic Treasure

Removed

last Saturday and that W. M Voce's bowling at Trent Bridge Lost £1,000,000 Woodfull, Australia's captain, la alleged to have said that he would call his men off the field if Voce was selected for England and bowled leg-theory.

There is no improvement in the situation, which is considered to be most delicate.

Mr. Bushby, the Australian manager, yesterday, issued categorical denial of all these alleged protests, and stated de- finitely that neither Bull nor Woodfull had communicated in any with Lord's. Reuber. (Continued on Page 6)

SOVIET EXODUS CONTINUES

War Scare Sequel At Imienpo.

Harbin, To-day. Harbin, To-day. More than 1,500 Soviet residents The assistant station master at Imianpo, Muling, Pogranitchnaya,

JAPANESE ACTION

sembly, to approve the constituat the Harbin Central Station, Teitsihar, Pokotu and Manchuli left Yuan, and in general "to devise

SOUTH-WEST POSITION..

SECRET TRANSIT TO LINER.

London, To-day. The last £1,000,000 in treasure left by the Admiral- ty divers when they abau

doned work a decade ago on the White Star liner Lauren- tic which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine near Lough Swilly, in 1917, has been recovered,· states the Daily Mail," by divers from a salvage ship after three months work with new apparatus, including tion pump to remove thou sands of tons of sand from the wreck.

The bullion was secretly transferred at midnight to an Atlantic liner and conveyed under armed escort to the Bank of England-Reuter,

tion drafted by the Legislative M. Sholom, a Soviet citizen and recently for the U.S.S.R., according

a Chinese Eastern Railway em-to press reports here.-Reuter. means to pacify the country with-ployee, have been arrested in A report from Sulfenho, yesterday in and to strengthen it without." connection with the recent stated that the war scare which broke

out on Saturday following the cap Although nothing is mentioned wrecking and fusillading of a ture, by a marauding Mongol U.9.9.2 Japanese military supply freigh cavalry detachment, of three Japan about the South-west by the crter by bandits in the vicinity of ese, four Chinese, and Russian, in the cular telegram from Nanking, the Fifth National Congrèse is likely Imlenpo, in which two so-called vicinity of Lake Daliapor, was evFOOCHOW FRONT Manchukuo officers. and four dently rolling westward, as at Imienpo, soldiers were killed and two sol-Soviet citizens are selling their houses and belongings at one-third of their diers wounded. Reuter.

{value.

(Continued on Page 12).

EXPORT DUTY ON NATIVE RUBBER.

Rise On September 1.

WEATHER FORECAST

1.54 INCHES RAINFALL

Cloudy, with rain, probably im

The rainfall for the 24 hours proving later, and moderate east ended 10.30 am to-day was 1.54 winds, was the weather forecast bringing the total for the year, to for to-day as issued by the Royal 70.21 inches, as against an average The Amsterdam correspondent of Observatory this morning.

of 6138 inches. the Financial Times" states, that it

London, To-day.

le announced that the export duty Jon natlye rubber will be raised to

exhibitions, and each year they at 20 forins per 100 kilogrammes se Nanking Grant Increased For

tract a larger number of Home and from September 1-Beuter.

Overseas visitors. Every part of the British Empire and 20 foreign countries were represented among

the buyers present yesterday. (Continued on Page 12).

FOOD PRICE INCREASE

Washington; -To

The United States; labour yesterday stated that

food price index is:11 1983 while the-farm is 15 per cent, above Press, per 8. EX LE

VICEROY ARRIVES AT KARACHI,

Homeward Journey. After Vacation.

Lord Willing

who: urday, arri

ceroy

Cantonese Attack On Communist

ent) klang and Shanghai have arriv

[From Our Own Corres

To-day With the rival of General

Foochow and other.

The Red forces are

and so

QUIET

No Fighting Near City Since August 10.

OFFICIAL NAVAL MESSAGE

Wild rumours which have been

in circulation regarding fighting in and around Foochow were de finitely and oficially denied the local Naval

morning, [been rece has been

Stories

walk-ont.

The Union members have au thorised the executive council to decide whether to call a nation- wide strike.

SMASHING

VICTORY AT

NEBRASKA The Vice-President of the

EDWARD BURKE'S SUCCESS.

SENSATIONAL NOMINATION

victory

gratified with the imad which the "New Deale the Democratic elections at Ne« braska

The latest returns show that Governor Charles W. Bryan, who has been a vigorous, critic of the National Recovery Administra

Unfon, Mr. Francis Gorman, said that September was the best. time to strike because the indus- try was busiest in that month. He criticised the failure of the NRA. to secure higher wages and better conditions.

It is also learned that the tex- tile workers have adopted a re- solution baking the localstor strike call, despite contracts with the mills-United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.

Elections To Be Conducted.

—

Washington, To-day. tion, was defeated by more than The National Labour Relations 221 votes in the contest for Sena-Board has announced that it will torial nomination by Edward R conduct elections at Minneapolis Buker, a whole-hearted support to determine representatives of er of the "New Deal."

the workers in the collective bar- The more radical wing of the gaining United Press, por S. E Democratic Party was generally Levy and Company, victorious in the primary elec tions which have been already held in the West and the Middle- West States,

Collective Bargaining Representative.

MEDIATOR URGES ELECTION

There were several cases where a sitting member, though staunch supporter of President Roosevelt, has been defeated by

VESPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL a candidate protesting similar

Minneapolis, To-day. allegiance, but who at the same The strike mediator, Fr Haan, time was strongly advocating has forwarded to Washington a re- free silver coinage be

commendation that elections be held There is every indication that among the employees to determine the silver bloc in the next Con-who will represent them in the gress will be even stronger and collective bargaining United Press, more vociferous than in the last er S. B. Levy and CompanyTM Congress. Beuter

U.S. ADMINISTRATION "RATTLE BRAINED"

"New Deal" Causing Uncertainty,

REPUBLICAN'S OUTBURST

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By Telegraph. Copyright, Tele phia Messages, Oveliance,

August. 17, 11:39. 0.m ston, Maine

NRA HEAD LOSES RIGHT HAND MAN.

Col Lea Returning

Private Life.

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

Washington, To-day. The National Recovery Atminis- General Hugh Johnson, has announced that Colonel Robert W. Leo has resigned his post as assis tant N. R. A. Administrator for Indi fective from August 21, return to private life. Prosa, per S. E. Levy and

CH.M.S. GRIMSBY LEAVES FOR CHINA STATION

London, To-day. sloop, HM9 Grims

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from