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INDIA STILL

UNSETTLED.

EUROPEANS LEAVE

SHOLAPUR.

POLICEMEN BURNT *ALIVE.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}

BOMBAY, May 8,

The Council of the All-India Mus

LONDON NAVAL

TREATY.

CRITICISED IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

INADEQUATE DEFENCE OF BRITISH INTERESTS.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]

LONDON, May 8.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1930.

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS:

| RELIEF THAT NO TREATY RESULTED.

FRIENDLY FEELING STILL PREVAILS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

LONDON, May 8:

Mr. Arthur Henderson- left Lon-

The naval treaty was hotly criti- Jim Federation has passed a resolu-rised in the House of Lords. Vis.don at four o'clock this afternoon

tion disapproving of civil disobedi-count Bridgeman asserted that the ence as injurious to the interests of Muslims and advising them to keep

aloof from the movement.

The resolution also advocates counter-propaganda by the Mas. lims by means of leaflets which will

acquaint the villagers of the true situation.

for Geneva. With reference to the Government and missed the oppor. Anglo-Egyptian negotiations which unity of reducing the size of battle-had just proviously broken down, ships, and accused the Government of disregarding the advice of the Sea Lord in "consenting to the dangerous reduction of British

cruiser strength.

The resolution also urges the

Lord Jellicce said that the con- Government to announce imme ferener had reduced the British diately the date and personnel of Navy, but had not effected the re the Round Table Conference induction of any other nations, and order to allay public nervousness cited wartime experiences in and restore confidence among the effort to show that 50 cruisers were puderates.

maritim interests.

an

he said. There was a tremendous feeling of friendship and I am sure this will continue. A Settlement was reached as regards Egypt, but the Egyptiana threw away the sub-

stance because they insisted on dis- eussing the Sudan. The Conference was not called to discuss the Sudan but to discuss Egypt."

Bairam Festival which lasts for

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AMMONIA TANKS EXPLODE.

EIGHT KILLED: TWENTY-

FIVE MISSING.

WRECKAGE THREE STOREYS HIGH.

(THROUGH EKUTERʼE - AGENCY.]

ST. JOSEPH, Missouri, May 9. Twenty-two persons are missing and four are known to be dead as the result of the explosion of huge ammonia tanks at the Armour Pack ing Company Building which seem ed to be lifted and fung down again. Wreckage is piled three storeys high and rescuers red on it will take two days to extricate the victims.

gas.

Eight Bodies Recovered..

LATER

CHINA'S CIVIL WAR.

HEAVY GOVERNMENT

CASUALTIES..

REBEL GENERAL SUES

FOR PEACE. .

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, May 9.

Marshal

ተል .

HOSTILITIES SAID TO BE BREWING.

GENERAL OFFENSIVE IN THE OFFING..

CHIANG WONDERING HOW FOE CAN GET MONEY.

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No serious fighting on a large

According to reports reaching scale has broken out in the North Shanghai,

Chiang Kai as yet, according to Chinese cable Shek, who left Pukow yesterday for advices from Shanghai. A general Hauchowiu to direct the offensive offensive is likely to start in a day against the enemy troops, could not proceed further than Pengpu, owing to severe fighting..

Very heavy fighting is going on along the Lunghai Railway to the west of Hsuchowfu, and although the Government troops are report

ed to have recaptured two towns from the enemy, their casualties total 7.000, of whom 2,000 arrived, at Nanking to-day.

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Eight bodies have now been re covered from the ruins of the Egypt Disappointed. Armour Building, the twelve still CAIRO, May 8. missing are believed to have perish-

The wounded Government troops here at the breakdown of the Anglo- expected to recover:

There is general disappointmented, of the twelve injured one is not

are too numerous to be given ade- totally inadequate to defend British Egyptian negotiations but the pos

The survivors believe the exploquate attention,

The Government's position is con- Muslim Anxiety.

Lord Parmoor, replying, describ-sibility of an ebullition of feeling son was due to a watchman who sidered serious The Council also passed a reled the reduction of the navy as a

ia discounted owing to the fact that lighted a lantern and entered the solution expressing the anxiety of debt of honour undertaken in the the news arrived on the eve of the building which was full of escaped Muslims throughout India on ac League Covenant. He thought that count of the recent, Ering and loss the other nations were in the same of lives at Peshawar, declaring that position, but it was wrong to argue the Government communique in this that because another nation did not connection fails to carry conviction. do what it should we should not do. This resolution also urges. that so. They had attained two great with a view to allaying muspicion results, namely, the safety and the All India Muslim Federation security of their country and a should be allowed to send a deputa splendid friendliness between our- tion to Peshawar to ascertain the selves and America and Japan, The conference as regards Italy and France, was not closed.

facts.

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Europeans Leave Sholapur.

SHOLAPUR, May 8. Eight European women and five European children have been with- drawn from Sholapur and have been sent in a special train, to Poona,

Policemen Burnt Alive.

POONA, May 9. Thirteen women and children re- ugfees have arrived from Sholapur where it is stated that the mob yesterday "caught three policemen soaked thein in kerosine and burat

them alive.

A Communal Turn,

FOONA, May 9. Evidently the rioting at Sholapur took a communal turn as the three palicemen whom the mob burned alive were Moslems.

The refugees who numbered 130 and not 13 declare that ricting at Sholapur ceased at 6 p.m. yester day.

Ambiguous Position, [DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,]

RUGBY, May 8: Viscount Bridgeman, the First Lord of the Admiralty in the late Conservative Government, opened the debate in the House of Lords upon the Naval Treaty, resulting. from, the London Naval Conference He said that so far as the smaller portion of the treaty, which was signed by all the five Powers, was concerned, the important thing was the prolongation of the life of capital ships.He did not quarrel- with this, though it was true that we were giving up stronger and newer battleships than America was going to.

four or five days. Also, widespread feeling has been engendered by the friendly atmosphere in London that complete agreement is now only a matter of time.

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Press Comment.

LONDON, May 8. Apart from the Daily Herald and the Daily News, "which deeply, re- gret the failure of the Anglo- Egptian negotiations, the news- papers, in editional comment, do not conceal their relief that no Treaty has resulted.

JAPANESE LOANS

ISSUED IN LONDON AND

NEW YORK. .'

(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY'}

OSAKA, May 8.

Air Raid on Changchow.

PEPING, May 9, A special message from Cheng chow, headquarters of the Knomin- chun, to the Peking Leader, states that the Nanking Air Force made a raid on the city lasting for forty

eight hours.

The damage was confited to the destruction of some small houses. There were some civilian casualties, the army being outside the city.

A large number of anti-aircraft guns have arrived at Chengehow and have been sent forward for

It is reported that the Finance Department has been informed from London of the terms of the conversion of the twenty-five mil-distribution. lion sterling 2905 four per cent. All, however, are pleased to stress loan. Twelve and a half million the friendly atmosphere in which are being issued in London at aiac- the Conference broke up, and ema-tv-five and a half per cent., redeem- able in thirty-five years. The phasise the utter impossibility to

underwriters being the Hong Kong the Egptian claims to the Sudan..

& Shanghai Bank..the Westminster Bank and the Yokohama Specic Bank.

White Paper to be Issued. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

*4* RUGBY, May 8. Egyptian treaty negotiations was the, British announced in the House of Com- mong this afternoon.

The failure of

In brief statement the Foreign Secretary, Mr. 4. Henderson, said: --

I shall very

"I regret to inform the House With regard to the reservation in friendly efforts.

that in spite of most sincere and the three-Power

on both sides, agreement powering us to increase our naval Majesty's Government not having

em- the negotiations have failed, Hi strength if any Power oot a signa seen their way to meet the demands: tory of the treaty was building to of the Egyptian delegation in re- Situation Under Control.

an extent which was threatening to (THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY,] us, that seemed to him to place ussard to the Soudani.

in a very ambiguous position. We Loynus, May 0. At question time in the House of had to consider not only the Atlan- tic and the Pacific but also the Commons Captain Wedgwood Bena read a summary of a despatch from Mediterranean and our position in India stating that the situation was Europe, whereas neither of the generally well under control despite her two signatories was concerned riots in various places following the in that way.

arrest of Gandhi for which the

Only Britain, Reduces Strength. Government was well prepared and

Viscount Bridgeman submitted that the spirit of the Police is ex- cellent. There has been no import- that the Government had "made a ant change in the North-West Fron- great serifice in, giving up twenty "tier Province since the communique cruiser, when venty had been of May . The city of Peshawar is agreed to be our requirements and tranquil and the civil power is still essential for the protection of our heing supported in the city by the Imperial trade. It was said that this treaty was a step toward dis presence of troops.

Criptain Wedgwood Benn

What country besides also armainent.

step toward stated he had received a telegram our own has made

more with regard to the disturbances at disarmament? Some have Sholapur which added very little to ships than before, some liave ainut the same. We alone had a great what had appeared in the Press.

diminution of naval strength, and

Replying to Mr. Brockway, Capt.

Wedgwood Benn said that the con-

ciliatory policy of the Government

stood as it always did stand. (Cheers.)

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we had already since the War done more than any country to reduce our ships. Where was this great step toward disarmament except by ourselves?

Security of Country and.

Friendliness.

shortly lay before the House a White Paper dealing with the negotiations."

He was asked whether the status quo was meanwhile maintained of the four reserved points. Mr. Hen derson replied that that must be the inevitable result of the failure of the negotiations.

The Four Points; The four points referred to were reserved by Great Britain in the declaration of 1922 for future settle- ment. They were, firstly, the pro- tection of Egypt from foreign aggression; secondly, the protection of British Imperiat communica- tions; thirdly, the protection of foreign residents and properties in Egypt and fourthly, the Soudan.

The recent negotiations arose out

of proposals for a British-Egyptian treaty settling these outstanding points which were made by the Foreign Secretary Mr. Henderson, last August after a conversation in London with Mahmoud Pasha, then Prime Minister of Egypt. "Mr. Henderson's covering note described the proposals as representing the extreme limit which he could re- commend the British Government to accept

The present Egyptian Premier, Nahas Pasha, with his delegation came to London at the end of March to conduct negotiations on the basis of these proposals, and discussions have continued ever since, except for a long interval while the Egyptian delegates consolied, their colleagues in Cairo.

After sitting almost continuously yesterday and to-day, with only short intervals for rest and refresh- ment, the delegations finally parted shortly after midday to-day.

Heavy Casualty List. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

BOMBAY, May 9. The latest reports from Sholapur Lord Parmoor, replying for the state that the situation is now well Government, said that they could in hand, Police in motor lorries are no longer depend upon one source patrolling the city and Military alone to secure our safety. pickets are posted at strategic

Replying to the scientific points points.

raised during the debate in the The District Magistrate is of the House, the Admiralty were prepar opinion that order has now beened to agree to fifty cruisers as the definitely restored. It is generally margin of requirements of the Navy believed that the dead, including up to the next conference in 1938. the policemen, total twenty, and at The justification for a reduction Jeast 100 were injured.

from seventy to fifty was the change Sobering Effect of 'Planes.

in the general League outlook of SILA, May 9 the world: The Government had Forty aeroplanes participated acted upon the advice of its experts, yesterday in an aerial demonstra- and was satisfied that the security

After his brief announcement in tion over the country, of Fazli of the Empire was amply safe Wahid, of Turangzai, which it is guarded. As regards our future the House of Commons the Foreign understood had considerable construction he could not state de Secretary, who had, postponed his sobering effect on hostile tribesmen finitely the opinion of the Governintended departure this morning for in the Mohmand country who, since meat. So long as the present Gov. Paris and Geneva, caugh; the after- the Peshawar, riots, bave been crament was in power it would noon boat train to the Continent.

The Egyptian delegation are ex- restive and were awaiting any pos- work out a programme so that re- sible weakening of authority of placement might be substantially pected to leave London to-morrow. which they might take advantage provided for within good time if for the purposes of loot and depre- lieved that it had achieved two necessary. The, Government, be-

great resulta security of country and splendid friendliness between ourselves, America, and Japan, while as regards France and Italy the negotiations were not closed.

dation.

KABUL LEGATION RE-OPENED. STARLE REGIME FOR

AFGHANISTAN”””

(THROUGH-PETER'S AGENØY.]

PESHAWAR, May 9. The Indian staff for the British Legation in Kabul which is to be re- opened with a view to the restora (Continued at foot of next column),

The other seventy-one million gold dollars is being issued in New York on the same terms and is ander

the First written by Morgans, National Bank, the National City Bank, Kuhn Loch and the Yoke hama Specie Bank,

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UNEMPLOYMENT IN

AMERICA...

STEADILY INCREASING.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN EERVICE.}

SALMAS 'QUAKE.

TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE PERISH.

THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

TEHRAN, May 9.

Newspapers estimate, that 2000 people perished in the earthquake, at Salmas near Lako Urumia,

The first shocks drove most of the inhabitants from the town but during the night a

second shock

or two and the Lunghai Railway which was more severe rocked down line will be the arena of the im- most of the buildinga burying the

On. this sector, occupants. mediate fighting.

the Shansi troops, supported by a section of the Kuominchun under Sun Liang Chers,, will form the COMPANY'S DISPUTE WITH

SOVIET.

middle ronte ar main body, with the Honanese troops under Wan Hazan Tsai and Shih Yu San as the HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED, right wing and those under Sun Tien Ying and Kwan Fu Cho "as

the left wing.

The Nanking troops in Northern Anbui have recaptured Tohchow after routing. San Tien Ying's troops on the sth. Sun's remnants now number about 1,000 and have offered to surrender.

BY MOSCOW,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Moscow, May S.

The Supreme Court has sentenced to ten years' imprisonment Koliani- kov, chief metallurgist of the Lena

ern Shantung is quiet.

The military situation in North- Goldfields Company, and Murom- trey, the legal adviser of the con- Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is recessionaires, on charges of destruc- ported to have arrived at Peagpu, tive activities and of espionage. where he will hold a military con- The Court, however, reduced the ference with Generals. Liu Chih, sentences to six years. Koo Chu Tung, Chen Ting, Yuan and other military commanders en Chiang will proceed to Hsuchow to direct military operations.

the front. After the conference,

Bashkirtzer, who is alleged to

have burned a Soviet zine factory, "was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to ten years imprisonment.

The dispute between the Leza Goldfields and the Soviet concern-

Many mobile trucks. adapted for

A prominent official of the Nan- use on rough and roadless countrking Government said that when together with sixty Whippet tanks, have also arrived at Chengchow.fighting breaks out. Yen will have ing the company concessions in to raise monthly about $10,000,000 West Siberia has been referred to for military expenses of his troops a Court of Arbitration which will and allies, as it is estimated that open in Berlin, they will require over $300,000 - daily. He added that he wonder-

Many more are expected in the near future.

Mutiny of Nanking Troops.

PEPING, May 9. In Chinese and foreign circles here there is no confirmation of the reports of heavy fighting westward of suchowfu. "They state that there has only been skirmishes hitherto between the Northerners and the Nanking troops, but Chi- nese authorities have received un- confirmed reports of a Berious mutiny south of Esuchow and sug- gest that the large numbers of wounded brought to Nanking was due to the fighting between the mutineers and loyal Nanking troops.

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SHANGHAI, as 9.

The Kuo Min's Pengpu correspon dent wires that following the cap- ture of "Haiagih, near the Honan- firstKiangsu border, by Government troops Sun Tien. Ying. one of the leading generals of the Northern coalition sued for surrender pledg ing to effect a peaceful evacuation of Kweiteh if operations against him were suspended. The offer is being considered.

WASHINGTON, May 0. Senator Robinson in his speech commating on the political situation, since he returned from the London Conference severely cri ticised Mr. Hoover's "optimistic and misleading statements regard ing business conditions and unem ployinent." Senator Robinson aver red that conditions have steadily been getting worse.

becn

AMERICAN PENAL SYSTEM

CRITICISED.

(REUIERS AMERICAN. SERVICE.) ·

WASHINGTON, May 9.

Ir. G. Wickersham, chairman of Mr. Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, in a speech criticised reititted system of the United States which he declared was founded on a fallacy, and de clared that experience had shewn that increasing penalties had not

served to diminish crime.

Mr. Wickersham's statement may be significant.in view of the fact that one of the subjects that the ment of prohibition under the Commission is studying is enforce- Jones Law which makes any in- fraction of the Volstead Law felony.

Egyptian delegation made claims which, in the view of the British Government, were completely in advisable and contrary to the interests of the Soudan and the Soudanese.

The promised White Paper deal ing with the course of negotiations will be published, it is expected; within the next few days

Démonstration at Victoria Station. (THROUGH REKUTER'S AGENCY.]

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POCKET DREADNOUGHT NOT WANTED.

GERMAN BUDGET VOTE REJECTED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, May 8. Reichstag, by 19 votes to 13, reject

The Budget Committee of the ed the proposal of the Minister of Defence to insert in the Badget a nominal sum for the construction of cruiser B.

MISS JOHNSON REACHES BAGHDAD.

morrow,

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ed how the rebels could raise such| EXTRATERRITORIALITY IN a large sum in the poverty-stricken Northern provinces and "barren

under Yen's away, and that the rebels have to solve their financial dificulties-before-talking about an offensive against the Government troops.

Chang Hsuch Liang's attitude i still obscure. He is watching deve lopments with keen interest. His attitude will remain dubious until serious fighting breaks out.

CONSERVATIVE'S NEW POLICY.

MR. BALDWIN LAUNCHES..

HOME AND EMPIRE CAMPAIGN.

(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 8

WASHINGTON.

DR C C WILTO CONTINUE. NEGOTIATIONE.

[UNITED PRESS.]

Washington, May 3-Wu Chao Chu, Chinese Minister to the Unit- ed States, returned to Washington to-day after a period at The Hague. He announced that he plans to résame immediately the discussions relative to the American relinquish- ment of extraterritorial privileges in, China.

Commenting on his experiencess · at The Hague, Dr. Wu said that he, was not disappointed with what occurred there, although he

not able to record concrete accom plishment. He hoped, however, that valuable ground work had Leen laid.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin launched at

Dr. Du was not willing to predict Sheffield the Home and Empire. campaign of the

developments on the extraterritori Conservative Party. He expiated on the policy to continue along the lines already ality discussions, but said he hopes he bas laid on down in speeches inlaid down. Special attention will London recently and promised the be paid to the possible method of restoring of all the safeguarding

duties which Mr. Snowden might operation in proceeding to the aboli-"

tion of extraterritoriality. remove because safeguarding was essential for the protection of our

that The possibility

foreiga standard life and for negotiating courts in China will adopt Chincee law looms greater because of the with foreign countries.

leading international He said that immediately the advocacy, will sammon an Imperial Confer State Department has been follow Conservatives return to power they lawyers have given this idea. The ence, and take any steps to Confere any agreement as regards preference closely. not involving taxation on foreign foods.

PRESIDENT'S VIEWS ON

PROHIBITION...

STRICT ENFORCEMENT.

[UNITED PRESS,]

ing

utterances. 'in this respect

VIOLENT ATTACK ON PRES. HOOVER "DRY FOR-POLITICAL REASONS.".

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA

(UNITED PREJE.]

· PROGRESSINO,

Washington, May 2-A violent (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

denunciation of President. Hoover Washington, May 3-Responsible was read to-day before the Senate BAGHDAD, May 8. authorities who are acquainted with lobbyist committee from & let- Miss Amy Johnson, the young President Hoover's views declared ter written by Arthur W. Machen, English girl who is at empting a to-day that the Administration at-resighing from his membership int flight from Croydon to Australia titude toward prohibition would the Association Against Prohibition. in a tiny Moth aeroplane, was not be further clarified until the Mr. Machen vehemently express- forced down byn sandstorm in Wickersham Law Enforcemented his antipathy to the President, the desert between Aleppo and Commission submitted its final re-declaring that Mr. Hoover was Baghdad. į

port, probably in December. "dry for political reasons." She restarted on her flight two Friends asserted that Mr. Ho.. Meanwhile Senator John J. Blaine, hours inter and reached Baghdad. over was not wedded to any po of Wisconsin, an independent Re- She will continue her fight to-licy on prohibition, and that he publican, questioned W. H. Slay would feel quite free to recommendton, founder of the Association the modification or even the repeal Against Prohibition, as to whether LONDON, May 9,

of the national prohibition law in liquor purchases shown in the files When the Egyptian delegates left

the event that the commission of the organization were not for a for Egypt there was a great demon-

selected either such course as the dianer held for a Presidential A Friendly Spirit,

stration at Victoria Station. A

desirable one.

candidate " prior to June 20, 1929. failed to produce an agreement they others surrounded Nahas Pasha and Although the discussions have crowd of Egyptian students and

Meanwhile, however, the Presid-

Although the party of the candi- ent would insist upon a policy of date was not mentioned, it was clear that the Republican candidate extremely amiable spirit and eno- were conducted throughout in an his colleagues waving Egyptian flage

strictest possible enforcement of the and displaying placards inscribed

prohibition law in common with all was meant because the Democratic aluded with statements by Mr."Long Live the Independence of Henderson and Nahas Pasha ex- Egypt and the Sudan."

other laws of the country, striving namination was not made until Ruon, May & to impress upon the people of the after the date in question.. pressing regret at the negative re- The Secretary of War, representa- Owing to the success of the Trans- United States that it was their duty Mc Slayton's reply was

commital sults and their appreciation of the tives of the Foreign Office and of Atlantic Wireless Telephone Ser- to adhere to laws as long as they friendly spirit shown by who had Mr Ramsay MacDonald were vice, the Post Office antomees that were in-force, and to adopt the p zable regime in Afghani takom part in the negothilanit among those who saw the delegates from Sunday next to charge fly rapeling obtienshlo RealJonssof the white Souther tan left for Katul to-day. The new is understood that so far as quee off. The Egyptian delegates spent a call to the firet zone of the United laws rather than striving to die Australian village of Chicago decid-

half an hour with Mr. MacDonald States and Canada will be reduced regard them.

ed by vote to change its name to: Minister, Mr. R. R. McConachie, tions relating to Egypt were con- and other British Legation officials.cerned an agreement had actually in' a 'talk and. bidding farewell at from £9 for three minutes to 28. The President has just asked an Booth, in honour of the Inte Salva will leave for Kabul on May 10 been reached or was well within | No. 10, Downing Street. The The charge for any additional additional appropriation to enable tion Army leader. They considered There has been no British Minister sight upon all points at issue. Egyptians left in the best of spirits minutes will be reduced from £3 to the Wickersham Commission to that Chicago was an unsavoury in Kabul since Sir Francis Hum- The breakdown occurred over the and when interviewed by Reuter. The charge to other zones of Enish the extensive research work name, and that they wanted some it has undertaken and to submit a thing more in keeping with obedi phreys and his staff were taken by Soudan, in regard to which the stated that they hoped to return the United States, and Canada will

(Continued on next Oolumn.) BOOD.

be reduced proportionately.

final report.

ence to the law. air to Peshawar in February 1029...

THE TRANS-ATLANTIC WIRELESS 'PHONE..

REDUCTION IN CHARGES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

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