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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

CHICAGO POLICE

POLICE FIRE ON

MOB RIOTERS

IRON LUNG' SAVAGE MELEE IN

MAN TO

GO HOME ·

Hole Must Be Cut In

Liner's Side

Shanghai, To-day. Frederick Snite, Junior, who

for the last fourteen months has

been kept alive by the "iron lung" method of producing arti-

ficial breathing, is expected to leave Peiping to-day for the United States.

He will leave for Shanghai by a aboard a Dollar liner in Shanghai. The side of the vessel will have to be cut to enable the "iron lung" breathing, apparatus to be installed. in the cabin.

special train and will then embark

The patient is only 26 years of age and is the son of an American millionaire.-Reuter.

PARIS-TOKYO FLIGHT RECORD

Further Attempts Now Forbidden

Paris, To-day.

STREETS

STRIKE OR STARVE SIEGE OF FACTORY

Chicago, To-day.

Grim details of the Chicago fighting show

Missionary's Death After Capture By "Reds"

Shanghai, To-day. Following a lengthy illness, the Norwegian missionary, the Rev. K. I. Samset, who was cap-

·~tured by Communists on June 5, 1936, has died in the Lishan district of Hupeh, about 70 miles from Hankow, according to a reliable report.—Reuter:

that after the battle had involved police and steel FAMOUS strikers and pickets, in which eighteen strikers and one policeman were left injured in the street, two RESORT of them fatally, a crowd of about one thousand

marched towards the factory of the Republic Steel Company and clashed with one hundred police.

THE POLICE FIRST USED RIOT CLUBS AGAINST THE STRIKERS, AND WHEN THEY FOUND THEMSELVES BEING OVERWHELMED FIRED THEIR PISTOLS INTO THE AIR AS A WARNING AND THEN INTO THE MOB.

AT LEAST 200 SHOTS WERE FIRED.

FIVE PRISON VANS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE MOB IN AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE THE DEMONSTRATORS BACK AND MANY WERE RUN DOWN AND SEVERELY INJURED.

Huge pieces of broken paving-thorities, in the latter refusing, as stones are also stated to have irregular mails, food which

BURNT OUT

Amsterdam, To-day.

The Sschinkelbad, the biggest and most famous of the open-air baths of Amsterdam, was completely de- stroyed by fire. The outbreak oc- curred early yesterday morning and swept through the premises under the fanning of a stead breeze

Owing to the prolonged period of hot weather, all the woodwork and the thatched oofs of the baths and outbuildings

were so dry that the along at racehorse flames swept speed.

The fire brigade arrived 8000 The strikes have caused a 17 per The police declare that they

was given, but are unable to estimate the num- cent. drop in the national weekly after the alarm ber of demonstrators shot, club-production, causing losses to the were too late to do more than save I workers estimated but a fragment of the famous estab- ed or ...

otherwise injured in the management and

lishment. Trans-Ocean. hectic melee. — Reuter.

at $3,000,000 a week. Reuter.

been thrown by the police before addressed to non-strikers în s

the

the crowd dispersed in confu- hope that the Post Office would sion.

pierce the picket lines.

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A

PITCHED BATTLE

Chicago, Earlier.

pitched battle between 1935

Following the failure of the lat-strikers, non-strikers and police est attempt to cover the distance at the Republic Steel Company's from Paris to Tokyo in 100 hours, the French Air Ministry has for- bidden, for the time being, any fur- ther bid for the 400,000 francs prize. Trans-Ocean.

non-

South Chicago factory yester- day, resulted in four deaths from injuries, while 63 strikers and 23 policemen were injured.

Before the battle ensued, striking workers in the Republic Steel Company's South Chicago fac- tory, although closely besieged by pickets, played baseball and at- tended religious services conduct-

MORE PRISONERS ed by clergymen who were brought

EXCHANGED

Press Representative Released

St. Jean de Luz, To-day.

- A further exchange of prisoners ́took place at 9.30 p.m. to-night.

Franco's prisoners released in- cluded two Russian and one Span- ish airmen and the Havas News Agency representative, M. Mallet, who was arrested a month ago.

The Basques freed three German aviators and one Swiss, volunteer.

Trans-Ocean.

to the factory.

The Union's policy of strike or starve received indirect assistance from the Government Postal au-

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