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TIENTSIN
Tientsin, To-day. Tientsin City and the foreign Concessions are menaced with imminent inundation owing to a rise in the river system converg- ing on Tientsin imposing severe strain on the Grand Canal flood protection dyke.
Breaches in the banks of the
PRESS CENSORSHIP
IN PALESTINE
Jerusalem, To-day. Incoming newspapers of all lan- guages, except those from Egypt and Syria, will henceforth be sub- ject to press control under the
censor.
If undesirable material is found in the newspapers, their sale may be prohibited-Renter
Grand Canal and the Tzuya River MR. SAITO'S
thave flooded an area between these two waterways from Tientsin south to Techow, and the waters are flow- ing into the Hai Ho, Tientsin's river.
The situation has been aggravat- ed by a breach in the Grand Canal south of Tuliuchen, whence a large volume of water is flooding the countryside south of Tientsi
CALL ON STATE
DEPARTMENT
Washington, Today.
The Japanese Ambassador, Mr.
It is feared the waters will-over- Saito, yesterday called on the top the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull,
branch line, forming part of
flood protection dyke,
the
for the purpose of what is describ
..
In 1917, similar conditions led to ed as an "exchange of informa flooding of Tientsin.
JAPANESE KEPT BUSY
The water is lapping the banks
tion."
Mr. Saito subsequently stated
of the Chinese city in the vicinity that he had not made any protest of the Governor's Yamen, where against the State Department's the Japanese military authorities condemnation of Japan's action in are hastily transporting munitions China, but visited Mr. Hall on his and war stores in junks and barges
wn initiative to "clear up certain to the Grand Canal..
points of information.”
An accumulation of Japanese military stores on the Bund of the former Russian Concession has also been removed by hosts of lor- ries. Reuter.
CENTRAL CAR PARKING
He added that he did not re- gard the State Department's pronouncement as likely to strain relations between the United States and Japan. On the contrary, recent develop- ments in the Far Eastern conflict had been calculated to bring about a better understanding between the
Mrs. V E. Duclos, of No. 4 two countries by clarifying the Aigburth Hall, and Mrs.
W. B. atmosphere-Reuter.
Blake, of Bowen Road Hospital, were
this morning cautioned by Mr. W
Schofield at the Central Magistracy PEASANT SIRES
for parking over the time limit permitted in the central car
Mr. W. Woodward, who was chars THIRTY-EIGHTH
ed with the same offence, was fined
$3.
Mrs. B. M. Steele-Perkins, of No. 41, Morrison Road, was cautioned pleading by Mr. W. Schofield on
CHILD
guilty to causing an obstruction by parking her car on the side of the, to a Road; near the Hong Kong Hotel, lon September 23.
THROWN OFF A LORRY
Berlin, To-day.
His thirty-eighth child was born 64-year-old peasant, August Thiele, in the village of Rethem, on Lueneburg Heath, near.. Hanover,
yesterday.
Thiele, who is now married for the third time, thus earns the dis-.. tinction of being the father of the most numerous family in Germany. Thirty-four of his children are still alive, and he has 60 grand- Losing his balance as the vehicle children.-Trans-Ocean. swerved round the curve at the junction of Queen's Road
2
Central
and Ice House Street this forenoon, 34-year-old Chinese labourer toppled off motor-lorry No. 1432 and crashed in front of the traffic-con- stable on duty there. He received 2 nasty cut on the forehead.
he was Partly unconscious. despatched by ambulance to the Queen Mary Hospital for treatment.
HOLIDAYS WITH
PAY FOR
SHIPS' CREWS
London, To-day.
CANADIAN LABOUR The National Seamen's Union de
WANTS TO GO A
clares that seafarers should be grant ed holidays with pay, in order attract recruits.
The Union states that within the have
LITTLE FARTHER last few years, 50,000 men
Victoria B.C
left the sea, causing a shortage of Sour seamen Council yesterday passed a resolu
The Victoria Trac
It suggests that those attached
Robert Donat în GHOST GOES WEST"tion in favour of a boycott of Ja- the Royal Naval Reserve be granted
nesë, Italian and German-goods. [1 week's holiday each year with pay
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