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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

TURNED INTO RIVER

OF ROARING FLAMES

DIVINE WIND OFF FOR TOKYO

Tokyo, To-day.

The Asahi Shimbun plane Divine Wind is now speeding on the last lap of the return flight from London and an enthusias- tic welcome awaits the two air- when they bring

men

speedy monoplane to rest on the Tokyo airport this afternoon.

SCORES DIE IN GREAT POLISH FIRE DISASTER

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Warsaw, To-day..

M. Van Zeeland's Trade

Mission

Brussels, To-day.

The Belgian Premier, M. Paul van Zeeland, will probably leave. for the United States on June 12.

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Accompanied by his wife and private secretary, he will be re- ceived by President Roosevelt, after which he will immediately. initiate conversations with lead- ing American business men and economists on the possibility of the obstacles to

Trans-Ocean:

world trade

The worst conflagration within living memory abolishing" their

ravaged the town of Posen (Poznan) yesterday. Scores perished and at one time it appeared as if the whole of the northern suburbs would be razed to the ground.

at

The airmen spent the night Taihoku (Formosa), where they ar- rived from Hanoi yesterday, and this morning hopped off at 6.07. on the last homeward stretch.

They are expected to arrive

in

Starting in a distillery, where 10,000 litres of strong liquid took fire after a huge container had Tokyo at 1 o'clock this afternoon been struck by lightning, the fire spread with shower them with congratulations. amazing rapidity and within the space of a few

minutes a large area was in flames.

and a large crowd will gather

--Reuter.

Osaka, Later.

to

The Divine Wind arrived here at 12.25 this afternoon and the two fliers received a terrific welcome from a crowd of 50,000 enthusiastic people. Reuter.

ITALIAN

INTERVENTION CHARGES

Valencia, To-day.

Senor del Valo, head of the Spanish Government delegation to the League of Nations, left for Paris yesterday..

Senor del Vayo carried with him

a sea

The liquid which flowed down the streets in

of roaring flames provided a menacing sight, and the population panicked. Many are believed to have been trapped in their homes by the rapidity with which the blaze spread and burned to death.

In next to no time a large paper factory and a timber yard went up in smoke, and house after house in the working class district where the outbreak occurred was devoured.

The garrison turned out to aid the fire brigades and police in fighting the flames, but it was not a White Book to present to the until after many hours that the con- League on May 24, which Govern-flagration showed any signs

contains ment circles claim

irre- burning itself out. Trans-Ocean. futable evidence of large-scale Italian military intervention in Spain.

to

a

Meanwhile, according radio agency message from Mad- rid, the capital yesterday witness- ed a resumption of street de monstrations, this time · against the new Government.

Slogans were chalked on walls calling for larger representation of Leftists in the Cabinet

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The demonstrations passed off peacefully-Reuter and

Ocean.

Trans-

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DEATH OF BISHOP

OF NAGPUR

During Holiday Visit

of

To Shanghai der Shanghai, To-day. The death occurred this morning. of a prominent visitor to Shanghai.

He was the Rt. Rev. Alex Wood, Bishop of Nagpur since 1926, who had come to Shanghai on a visit to his brother-in-law, Dr. E. I. Marsh. The Bishop, who was 66 years of Thunder Showers

age, was ordained in 1895 and, The Royal Observatory-reports after early work in Scotland, went that pressure continues highest over to India, where he had been ever Pacific to the east of the Bonins, but since, with the exception of Great

service

and in France a weak anti-cyclone area persists War over North Ching. The northern Palestine. depression has increased consider. He was with the Scottish Epis- ably in intensity and is moving east-copalian Mission at Chandā, Cen- ward across Japan; a shallow de-tral Provinces, from 1898 to 1919, pression remains over Tongking. when he was appointed Bishop of

Forecast? winds, moderate; Chota Nagpur.

of In 1926 he was made Bishop cloudy with thundershowers, improv-

pur-Reuter ing later.

ON OTHER PAGES

Tramwaymen Not To. Strike French Danube Policy.

Dr. Kung's Talk with British

Foreign Secretary What Mr. Eden Told Empire

Statesmen

China Merchants Ship

On

Rocks Off Capsuimun German Air Disaster. Bilbao Truce. Offer Denied British Ships Bombed and Dam-

aged

King Reviews His Fleet Italian Budget Deficit

CON

VON RIBBENTROP TAKEN ILL

Dr. Woermann In Charge Of Embassy

London, To-day.

Owing to the sudden indiaposi- tion of the German Ambassador, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Embassy has been temporarily taken over by Dr. Woermam,*

Deputising for Herr von Ribben- trop, Dr. Woermann on Wednesday paid a visit to the battleship Graf von Spee, which represented Ger- many at the naval revi Spithead Trans-Ocean.

Istanbul-To-day.

off

The eighteenth anniversary Kemal Ataturk's accession to power was celebrated throughout Turkey yesterday. Trans-Ocean

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