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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1939.
JAPANESE
SHIPS PAINT ON FLAGS
Öne result of the outbreak of war in Europe was the arrival in port to-day of a Japanese freight-- or with a Japanese flag painted- large on both sides.
She is the first to appear here so distinguished.
RADIO AIDS CONQUEST OF VAST DESERT
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ITALIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS HITLER WOULD NOT TAKE AN ULTIMATUM
MUSSOLINI
COMMUNIQUE ON
PEACE EFFORT
Rome, To-day.
OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN
Last night's torrential downpours produced 2.37
A COMMUNIQUE was issued here last night regard- inches of rain at the Royal ing Mussolini's last-minute efforts for peace. Observatory, this morning's The communique says that II Duce suggested on report reveals.
Thursday that a five-Power conference be held. recently France and Britain replied favourably on Friday but by then the Nazis had started the invasion of Poland.
Adelaide, South Australia.
A unique radiocast was
made by Dr. Cecil Madigan, leader of a small party attempting a crossing of
: Simpson Desert in Central Australia.
It was made as the radiocaster perch-
ed between two sand ridges out on the Early on Saturday, Mussolini told Hitler there was
desert which is at the boundaries of Queensland and South Australia. The desert, which is 60,000 square miles in extent, is hardly known to white man. Some ingenuity had to be used for the radiocast. Dr. Madigan used a pedal transceiver and the Postmaster General's Department assisted in the provision of telephone lines to ensure that the faint sounds emitted should: be heard all over the Commonwealth." The small pedal. transmitting, and re- -ceiving set is operated either by bat- teries or by a generator driven as a bicycle is propelled.
J
The temperature, in
the
mialst
warmth of the day, reached a maxi-
mum of 91 degrees,
This morning at 10 a.m., the tem- perature was 84 degrees and the humidity 80 per cent.
The Observatory reports that a weak ́anti-cyclone, covers Manchuria
still a possibility of conferring, after an armistice and the Sea of Japan and a ridge of
was declared.
SCHOOL
HEAD SHOT IN SHANGHAI
CHUNGKING, TO-DAY,
The radiocast was first picked up
MR. WU TSE-CHIEN," PRINCIPAL at a far northern centre on the Ade- laide-Broken Hill line where there is OF THE SHANGHAI GIRLS' COL- the headquarters for a number of pe- LEGE, WAS MURDERED YESTER- dal-operated transceivers
com-DAY, ACCORDING TO A DESPATCH munication between the outlying posts FROM SHANGHAI.
for
of Central Australia. An amplifier He was leaving the teachers' rest an assassin fired four was used, and the radiocast was then room when connected with a telephone line. At shorts at him. He was rushed to hos- places nearer Adelaide other ampli-pital but succumbed to his wounds.
Altogether three assailants visited fiers were installed and so the radio- cast was taken to the headquarters of the college. Two kept watch at the the Australian Broadcasting Commis-gate while the third carried out the sion where the distributing was under-murder..
Deceased, who had been engaged in taken by a special equipment. Several tests had been made over this planned educational work in Shanghai for radio itinerary and had been success-many years, was recently alleged to ful.
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ADVERSE CONDITIONS Desert conditions, however are respecters of radiocasts and when Dr. Madigan began his talk rain was fall- ing-a most unusual happening in this ...country-the wind was blowing the
papers out of his hands.
have been affiliated with Wang Ching- wei and supported his peace move- ment,
He published a denial in the Shanghai newspapers.
He was 36 years old and a native of Nantungchow. A graduate of the Great China University, Shanghai, he was a returned student from Italy, The leader of the expedition stuck He is survived by his parents and a to his post and, on the whole, was son, his wife being
News. heard very well, although sentences were broken, and static played some mischievous pranks.
"The tiny mouthpiece I am shield-
dead.-Central
ing from the wind," said Dr. Madigan, NO ROYAL
"seems so absurd, so infinitesimal out here. But it is conveying, I hope, my message to Australia from a part about. which nothing was previously known." When the wind permitted Dr. Madi- gan to refer to his notes he found it difficult to read them with the fitful rays of the light he was using.
UNCONQUERED DESERT ·
TRAIN IN
AUSTRALIA
be
No Royal train will be available to To you sitting at your firesides," he the Duke and Duchess of Kent be- resumed, "it is hard to imagine us out cause of variable railway gauges. here, hundreds of miles from any-Queenslands and Tasmania have 3ft. where, in the heart of a desert uncon- 6ins., New South Wales 4ft. 8 ins., quered by man.. I never cease to and Victoria 5ft. 6ins, Western Aus- marvel
a few yards from 'me is tralia has two of these widths and afire, built from little bits of wood | South Australia has all three. we have covered miles to collect. The Therefore special trains will cook is just browning a damper over made up in each State and overy- the embers,””
where they go they will be preceded There were further interruptions by pilot trains. Precautions not usual and then-"We have been delayed by when Governors-General travel will rains but, we are now on the march be taken, such as special guards on again. We have two meals a day-crossings and bridges, and the sus- Zone at sunrise and one at dusk-copension of shunting,
anxious are we to keep moving and It will not be possible to add spe- complete our conquest. Even in these cial conches to Victoria's stream-lined, wastes the
dingo has beaten man to air-conditioned "" Ayerz-de-luxe which the conquest. We have seen only a handle the inter-capital traffic, but if few of these animals but their howling it is desired to use them, sections -at night is a regular feature."
will be reserved and on the Duke The radiocast closed with: "Good will be conferred the Freedom of the night. It is time to get out our sleep | Footplate if he desires the thrill of ing bags."
some, really fast driving.
Hitler did fot reject the appeal out of hand but wanted to know if the British and French Notes to Berlin were an ultimatum. If they were, he could not accept. H Duce's appeal.
On Saturday afternoon, France and Britain confirmed that the Notes from. London and Paris were ลท ultimátum, and said there could be no conference un- less the Naz! forces were' with- drawn from Poland.
Mussolini told Hitler of this, saying at the same time that unless he heard to the contrary, he assumed that Hitler could not withdraw the Nazi forces.
Reuter.
FLAMES SHOOT FROM SEA SURFACE
The lighthouse steamer Satellite has warned shipping to avoid a mile- wide cauldron, off the Cornish coast, where flames from the sunken. French tanker Sunik (5,009 tons) are still shooting 60 feet from the surface of the sea..
The Sunik, which was carrying 5,000 tons of benzine, was rammed by, the Swedish steamer Grangesberg, in a fog off the Devonshire coast and caught fire.
high pressure extends to the Eastern Sea..
Pressure is high over N. China. The depression to the south-east of Tokyo is moving north-eastward.
A shallow depression remains 'over the south-east coast of China.
WARDERS WANT SLIPPERS
Because prisoners at the Brisbane Goal have complained that the noise of warders, walking about at night, disturbs their sleep, the warders want to be supplied with slippers.
This was revealed at the State Ser- vice Union conference when the re- presentative of, the warders moved that uniforms and other equipment, including not only boots, helmets, and greatcoats, but also slippers and goloshes, if required, "should be sup- plied to members at the Minister's. discretion.
...The conference agreed motion.
Although the Sunik sank 60 hours, w
to
WEAR A BRASSIERE? NOT ME," SAID SHE
the
and walked out of her job, did
ago in 42 fathoms, a stream of oil is Della Carroll, dancing showgirl at New still coming to the surface, and is being ignited.
· A dense fog still envelopes the area, and urgent warnings have been broad- cast to shipping to avoid the vast inferno.
York's World Fair.
The management had met in solemn conclave and decided she'd got to have a brassiere..
P.S-Rosita Royce, who also danced at the World's Fair with seven doves as her only adornment, had to pack up. The doves got heart trouble from
The Satellite's boats, while investi- gating, ran into boiling water, and were forced back by the flames."'. overwork.
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