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EMPIRE WIRELESS.

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The New Scheme, Criticised..

(Reiter's Service.)

London, August 4.

A REAA★#❤ SATURDAY, AUGUST

U.S. COAL STRIKE.

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Men and Troops Clash When Mining Attempini

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SWATOW TYPHOON.

TOWN COMPLETELY WRECKED.

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5,000 CASUALTIES.

› Indianapolis, August The first hostilities arising out of an attempt to mine coal," The position of Empire wireless has greatly improved, but is still far from satisfactory, and meanwhile other countries are gat-the protection of troops occurred at Staunton, where the merits ting ahead of us, said Mr. Robert Donald, presiding at the annual bushed the National Guardsmen who returned their fire. The l meeting of the Empire Press Colon He said the Postmaster lado was afterwards taken up throughout the area and continued for General's recent announcement of a new Empire wireless policy was over an hour, the troops nsing automatio rifles..

a surprising confession that the policy of the Post Office in the past was wrong. The new plan did not undo the early blunders; it meant an entire change in equipment and methods of transmission. were threatened with two or three different systems of wireless in the Empire, none of which would be a complete chain in itself, and unless they were co-ordinated there would certainly be delay and confusion. All high-powered stations should work in harmony and the whole Empire system or systems be under unified control.

NEUTRAL ZONE ON GRAECO-TURKISH FRONTIER.

Allied Effort to Avoid Collisions.

London, August 4. A message from Athens in regard to the reported incursions of of Thrace frontier the Turkish Greek patrol BCros states that weise Greek soldiers, some unarmed, who were search- ing for firewood, erased the frontier mistakenly, fell into an ambush. were fired on, and were compelled to withdraw. Three were killed.] A Greek patrol which occupied, a farm has bean withdrawn.

Geters: Momwell the Italian Commander-in-Chief at Con. stantape with British and French officers, has gone to Chataja to conter with the tireek Commander-in-Chief in order to define the fropter an errance & neutral zone on either side so as to prevent the crossing of patrols and aircraft.

COUNTY CRICKET.

Some Interesting Results

London, August 4.

At Leyton, Middlesex led Essex on the first innings. MIDD scored 100 in the Middlesex first innings, and Claude Ashton scored 110 not out in the Essex first innings.

At Portsmouth, Surrey led Hants on the first innings, Sandham (Surrey) scaring 123 not out.

At Weston-super-Mare, Somerset led Worcester on the first in- ninge. For Somerast. White captured fourteen wickets for 84.

At Nottingham, the home county defeated Lancashire by 117

runs, Carr scoring 103-for-the-viston.

TRIBUTE TO TELEPHONE INVENTOR.

Service Suspended in US, and Canada,

MACAO BOMB OUTRAGES

An Organised Affair.

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WEST RIVER PIRACY.

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The Kwang No was pirated

HOTEL, CINEMA AND CLUB Berlass sergi ke daneben de

INVOLVED.

A report of the received on the venues" The bomb outrages at Macao, Hongkong here to the effect thak Sampans & Mile Inland.

which we briefly reported_yester-the pirates met her off Tung-Ha Yesterday's news of the temble day, prove to be much more Lings which she was towing iss typhoon which truck Swatow serious than was at first indica lighter The Ming, with 200. Soon this ed, though, happily, there appearm of cont aloaza sad mommended to beso ang-ovated

in to have been no actual lose of morning by farther formation which

shows life. Quite a number of bombs foot the tow vessels, Snally miż- ing of the total value of $200. that there has been extremely were thrown, damage being dong away with monoy and cloth- heavy loss of life, the ongunities to a cinema, a hotel, a cafe, a There is reason to believe that the being put at no fower than five military club & Chinese store. pirates had expected to find This latter fank was labour association's headquarters rics aboard. They broke open the hatches and on discovering The fact that all the ex-that only coal was carried they wirslassed by the as, Kwaùengjand a residence. to the Cape D'Aguilar Station..

thousand New York, August 1 The whole telephone service in Canada and the United Bates was suspended for a minute this evening as a tribute to the isis Dr. Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. His body will reqźle a Lomb to be blasted on Cape Breton Rock, at the summit of Blinnbreagh.

ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE

A Year's Figures.

London, August

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consoled themselves by relieving It is still difficult to obtain any-plosions incurred during one

indicater the crew of their proparty. The organised sels, were then allowed to thing like full details of the dis evening (Thursday) aster, owing to the cootinned that, it

End there is little interruption in the telegraphic affair, service, only scrape of infor- cause to doubt the belief that it proceed on their journey. Ar-

made to the Castoma.- mation coming through by wite-was the work of Chinese labour riving at Samahni, a report was less from the ** Kwaisang 4gators. This idea is strength-The Kwong Mo is a large-sized" Thesa, however, suffice to indicated by the fact that the labour launch and the Tin Mine, a that the calamity is of association whose premises were former French guoboat which

for bombed was a combination of

was converted into a lighter. As charactat serious

been Guids whose members recently both are under British registry, a only haa there

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The official report made to the

somrazumicated to H.B. M.S-Con In the House of Commons, Sir Lloyd Greame stated that Gera heavy death-rall, but much returned to work against the report of, the locident is bring The worst incident was at themt at Canton by the owners the perty. including godowns and

Nam Hing Coinske provision Kwong-li 5.8. Co. residences. £21,000,000, whilst British imports to Germany were`£25,000,000.

atore, on the Rua da Palba. In an imports for the year ended June 30th. to Beltxin totalled damage has been done to pro-orders of the strive lenders

"Like Ypres.**

. Later. appears that a Chinese came into

made their appearance in two Further details come to hand this place on the pretext of police states that the pirates from the sx Kwiecbow, which making a small porebase and left junks, there being ten to each. strived in part shortly before a basket of potatoes behind. After They were armed with blansare

ware he bad gone, the shopkeeper and apparently

solely mid-day.

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NORMAL CONDITIONS IN ITALY.

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Except for Local Disturbances.

A European passenger, who observed smoke issuing from Rome, August £ Normal conditions have been practically restored throughout walked through the town after the basket and be was about to They expressed disbelief when.

jonty cost, and proceeded to sa Italy, though disturbances occurred at Ancona and Genna, in which the typhoon, said the impression remove the basket when a bomb told that the lighter contained

the sight that met his eyes gave which it contained exploded. The him was of Ypres during the war. man was badly injured, especially certain themselces by break- is the abdomen, and was removed ing the seals that were placed Sampans Carried a Mile

to hospital in a very soribus con- dition.

four Communists were killed and several wounded.

BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE.

Three Appointments Gazetted.

London, August The appointment of three British Consols-Geberit for

Henry Sly.

Inland.

His wife and all hisor batches. The leader of the gang, on discovering that rice amongst the cargo, WRE. DOS af Practically every building in children savone jeho was asleep

the town is damaged, roofs blown on the floor above) were in the shouted to bis men aboard the off and the walls fallen in. The shop at the time, and they were steam fanoch to allow the vessels to proceed, but the order was di- water-ras so quickly and the iso badly wounded.

that The cinema affected was the GLÖTOLE="TRE o avere

about looting the vessels, Be rimpadao wake, -lobes Vietri Cinema, one of the regarded and the marauders not

day tango and mod regular gear um stated to have-

stracts rainment places **MEČIUT

At Northampton, the home county defeated Glamorgan by 24 Kazettad, namely Mr. Berthhold Tours. Mr. Bartram Giles and Mr.after the blow lying

EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR SEAMEN.

French Union's Demand.

Paris, August 4.

BRITISH STEAMER. DELAYED.

"Ajax" Puts in at Aden.

Aden. August 4.

The British steamer Ajax, from New York to Penang. has pot Following the rejection by the International Seamen's Confer ence of the French proposal for & 48-hour week and a fixed minimpa in here with a broken Weir pump and rods. The repairs will require wage, the National Council of the French Seamen's Union has about two days. decided to macede from the Seamen's International and to try to con- voke a new International Conference of Sexmen to submit the ques tion of an eight-bour day in the merchant services of the whole

world.

WAR MATÈRIAL DISCOVERY IN GERMANY.

Military Opposed Allied Mission's Inspection.

Berlin. August 4. The Inter-Allied Control Mission discovered thousand of tons of war material, ammunition, rifles, and 1.300 #hells, during a visit to the fortress of Neisse, Silesia. Members of the German military tried to prevent the visit. A German officer stood in front of the door of the magazine declaring that the was place mined. Locksmiths had to be employed to open the doors of other parts of fortress.

. L. o N. ASSEMBLY MEETING.

NEW BAVARIAN GOVERNMENT.

Berlin, Auzast 5. A new Government coalition has been formed in Bavaria. It is noteworthy that whereas all the other German State governments contain a proportion of socialists. Bavaria is the first State to have purely bourgeois Cabinet.

PARLIAMENT PROROGUED.

London, August 4. The House of Commons has adjourned until November 14th.

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News in To-day's New Advertisements,

Almost every tree was uprooted or three boobs were thrown inst sun-helmets, valued at $10, gwan. From the above reports it in and the selerpu poles severely after the conclusion of the first taken away by the robbers. damaged. One pole was lifted performanes. No-one seems t

Apparent that the rabbers' ware i hurt, though the right out of the ground and thrown have been

man kwan troops about whose considerable up on to the wires overhead, building suffered

iswless conduct there have been distance of some fifteen feet damage.

many complaints along the West Godown Wrecked.

At the Tai Tong Hotel, two River lately. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire 's Chinese appeared early in the along the Bund is a mass of after having a smoke of opium, time they went out and some godowns were wrecked and all evenice and, booked wreckage four or five feet high.

The water rose about seven of later a borcbexploded underneath -ight feet and a lady told one of a bed in the room they had the Kaiechow's officers that she vacated. A deal of damage was

"The Greatest Question" is a saw it rise in bar dining room six caused.

A bomb was also thrown into Grith special production show. feet in fifteen minutes.

The Club roof has been blown the headquarters of the Kunging at the Coronet on Monday.—

walls have tion, a union of ten Guilds, whose The I. B. C. extend a welcome, off and now only the walls are Chan Of General Labour Associs Page 7. standing. Garden

A: Home" even members failed to obey recent to their friends to the been dashed down and

concrete walls have been strike orders, bot very little being held to-day.-Page 4.

There is a proposal to change smashed by the force of the damage appears to bave been done

the name of the s.s. Tuogus to Terrific Squalls.

Olber places damaged were the. Haifoong-Page 4.

Creditors of the Anglo Chinese The typhoon sprang up about In Ching Cafe and a residence

Wednesday which was evidently mistaken for Education Truet Co. Ltd., must half-past ten

terrific the residence of the Police Cumprove their claims by Sept. 15th. There night squalls up to about half past | missioner, Mr.Cabacao, but which twelve, when the wind subsided was next door thereto.

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THE WATER SUPPLY.

CANTON SITUATION. Sun Yat-sen Takes Precautions.

A little. For an hour there was

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a comparative lall and then the wind sprang up again with in) rreased violence and continued

was also forced. aahnre, where until four o'clock.

The ground floors of practi-she now lies with three serious Reservoirs Filling Up

cally all the house are untegant holes in the bottom.

water being 'some The L W Ming, & Chinese The Datch Delegates Appointed.

There has been a considerable

Our Canton correspondent ble, the

high. ship, was driven although she foot addition to the Colony's water The following will represent the Netherlands Government at the supplies during the past month, states that Sun Yat-sen has the people are in terrible was anchored in the town. The

Sicures ordered the officers of his set to to the third meeting of the Assembly of toe League of Nations, which is to according open at Geneva on September 4-Dr. Loudon, Dutch Minister to contained in the report of the sake extraordinary precautions plight, having to live opstairs was got off later. Paris; Professor Struycken, of the Hague Arbitration Court; and Water Authority just issued. Steam must be kept up day and Exen then they have to put 3

The Hague, August 4.

Professor Vaneysings, of the University of Leyden.

FOR FAR EASTERN TRAVELLERS.

Marseilles to London in Ten Hours.

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Paris, August 4.

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Ships Ashore.

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Wm. Powell, Ltd., advertise naw men's goods-Page 7.

The week-end programme at the Kowloon Theatre is advertised on page 12.

LISTEN!

The best salesmen in te world can't sell to customers who don't You must advertise for

come.

The sa Prometheus was also them. The driven ashore on the northern alde be with much discomfort. no visitors are to

All insurance offices in the This shows that there were stored night

on per pitted aboard the cruisers houses are soaking wet and the of the fairway, but she was got

Colony will be closed on Monday. to roofs have either been blown off later. tio Hongkong raservoirs

At the present time the Page 4. 10 boats *IC

away or else bave become so August Jaz, 811,590.00 gallons. Jad

nexter than

Yingchow is anchored outside

School at St. Stephen's College as compared with 472,790,000 on approach

The roots of the Cape of Good Bill Island unable to move, owing begins on Sept. Lith-Page 4. July 1st. On August 1st. fast specified distance. In the event porous as to let in the elements.

Hope and the Sugar Loaf light to a broken quadrant

Cafe Wiseman's soda fountain total storage was of any emergen y occurring, all year, the

Swalow was pat under water the cruisers must co-operate.

is now open. Fize 6. 2,031,140,000 gallons.

"Blackbirds" is showing Aw official report states that bouses have been lifted off, and

the Band.

the World Theatre As, to Kowloon, the reservoir Chi Hing was captured by shipping came in for a terrible to a depth of five or six feet on

time.

The above comprises the list-of

Page A regular London-to-Marseilles passenger air service is to open on august 1st contained 165 Gisneral Chao's troops on the

The master of the Kweichow big xbipa which were seriously on August 11th. Machines will leave London on Mondays and 140,000 gallons, which compares 3rd, instant, the enemy retreats

has made a report of the oc affected. There were, of course. of sampans and Fridays, and Marseilles on Tuesdays and Saturdays, specially with 62,150,000 gallons on Jaying in disorderly fashion to Nan catering to travellers to and from the East. The trip will occupy lat, and contrasts with 352,505, Hung

000 on August 1st. last year.

As Chao Wing-son has shown curence to Mesars. Butterfield hundred ten boure, including a change et Paris.

Regarding consumption, on the much ability in suppressing the sad Swire and in the course jucks overturned and, wreck- Hongkongside the total consump bandits in various parts of the of his fatemant it appearsed, and bodies are to be seen Swatow, seems to have been tion for July.was 196,510,000 gal-province, General Tip Kue has that the 8.5. Shantung was floating almost everywhere. [lons, as against. 284,320,000 East ordered him to take his forces, anchored in the fairway, north of year, the respective figures per with fifteen armed launches, to Kizaldi Island. She was blowo rigüt in the centre of the head per day being 17,5 ad 26 the West River and clear out the for a distance of about two miles trouble. The Kweichow carries registers down-to suffering serious only gallons. In Kowloon, the month's outlaws in the region between and was put high and dry on the an Aneroid barometer, which twenty-eight. So low was the Nome (Alaska), August 4.7

consumption as 31.400,000 8amshul and Fang Chuen, near peginpals,

damage Amundsen's.ship Mand wirelesses that she has reached the ide gallons, as, against 57,300,000 last Wachaw,

to the west of the Shantung mad close to Wrangel Island. Amundsen is going to Point Barrow and year, whilst the consumption per Ordinary traffic on the Canton The Tongshing was, an-depression that the needle dropped intends to attempt the Pole this year, weather permitting, otherwise head per day was 74 gallons, Bankow Railway has been thisted about quarter of a mile to 28 and then swung round, u86-

cougared with 141 last years, Treamed. next year.

AMUNDSEN AT WRANGEL ISLAND.

Attempting the Pole.

Anderson's advertise new dance records Page 3.3

Douglas Fairbanks is to be seTA the Star Theatre to-night-