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SATURDAY'S PEAK CHURCH WEDDING.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928.

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COSTLY PROHIBITION,

MARINE WIRELESS.

DISPUTE.

BRITAIN'S POLICY OUTLINED.

Rugby, Feb. 3.

The Rt. Hon. Mr, L. $. Amery,

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Washington, Feb. 3.--The Trea-

Colonial Secretary, spoke at Leeds (sury Department has sponsored a

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request te congress for an ap thepropriation suflicient to purchase

Britain's position in Middle East. He said that Britain .could. not get out of Egypt. Sir Austen Chamber-} lain, the Foreign Secretary, had found it necessary to make it clear that while Great Britain desired to encourage Egyptian national

1.

A DEADLOCK IN NEGOTIATIONS.

Rugby, Feb. 8. Mr. H. B. Betterton, the Under live huge hydroplanes for the Secretary for Labour, said that his war against liquor smugglers, Ap Department had been in constant effort is being made to obtain the communication with both parties use of many more airplanes, and in the marine wireless dispute with seaplanes for scout work againata view to arranging a settlement. The position to-day was that the smugglets both in the Atlantis

Wireless Operators' Association and the Pacific.

and informed the Department that the proposals of the employers were partics in- unacceptable. Both

and as to the terms on which work was to be resumed. A communica- tion had been sent to the employers to-day and it was hoped that might be possible to arrange joint meeting, when their reply has been received-British Wireless,

The five special hydroplanes pe- quested to-day will be put into life she wished Egypt to under-service on the Atlantic coast for stand that she must pay regard to the purpose of running down and eluded a reference to arbitration in Britain's Imperial rights and res-capturing the small speed mats their proposals but differences ex- which are used to bring liquoristed as to the basis of arbitration ponsibilities. Both in gard to

ashore, the safety of British communica

TOLL OF FOISONOUS LIQUOR. tions through Egypt and the Bri

New York, Feb. 8-Drelaring tish position in the Sudan,

With regard to Irak. Mr. Amery that the real rum row is no longer said that whereas we had costly afloat but is hidden in the garrels, abandoned", garages and private armies there a few years ago we now kept it secure by a mere hand-nuses of New York City, District ful of troope and a small but Attorney Buckner, fighting son of efficient air force. Recent deve an Iowa preacher, who was rat lopment had been carried out not by a high hand imposed on an unwilling people, but by the people of the country themselves with The the aid of British officials country was now in a position 1-

here from the middle west to drive RUSSIAN OPERA Co.

the bootleggers from New York. states that at the hydroplanes in the United States cannot help the appalling situation in the metro- patis.

pay its own way and nothing stood He declared in an interview that

SPLENDID SHOW LAST

NIGHT/

The Russian Imperial Light

"Count of sentation of the Luxembourg" attracted a good' audience to the Star Theatre last evening.

in the way of greater development deaths from poisonous liquor in Opera Company's colourful pre- except a certain want of security the city alone had risen from 87 He said as to the future. The people of in 1918 to 511 in 1926, Irak had asked what we were that 99 per cent. of the liquo going to do at the end of 1928, seized during the past year by his Were we going to quit the country department was impure and poi

He declared that there without any future form of co-sonous. peration or were we to renew the was no means of estimating the present Treaty in same form and true number of deaths due to

The principals were all in good voice, the dot of the Count and

is unseen bride being most de- lightfully rendered.

A great asset to the show is

chorus, and the Cossack dance

eive Irák a considerable security. drinking bad whiskey ar The the excellent dancing, by the They were also anxious to know havoc to general health.

whether they were, to retain péri- "I believe that if prohibition is by a male member of the chorus ever to be enforced." declared

sent frontiers or whether Britain

aron Moul to the clamour of

would hand over certain portions Buckner, the United States go The Turks. These two questions.ernment must take a new grip

itself. If it is not to be enforced.

had now been cleared up. The

on

was vociferously applauded long before the artiste, hud concluded.

was probably the first time many present had seen the dance! properly performed, but repeated requests for more.

Council of the League of Nations om in favour of its inmediate redancer failed to respond to the by a unanimous decision, hat holi peal or modification."

case.

Buckner echoed the recent state

that est curse, new war,

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They added that Britainment of General Lincoln Andrews, should not clear out of Irak at head of the prohibition enforce- the end of 1928 bul should con-ment work, that the diversion of tinue her re-operation with tha: industrial alcohol into bootley

A Poona message of Jan. 14 to; country Ite believed that so far channels was prohibition's great-the Daily Mail states that early The district attorney this morning the A.F.I. armoury from creating, a settlement, was providing the basis said to-day that sufficient permits was broken into by some Pathans 'for a future friendly understand-for the withdrawal of alochel for who, after overpowering tho perfumes, had guard, made a hole in a stone ing with Turkey, against whom wo manufacturing bore no grudge and with whom we been issued in the last twelve wall about 23 feet square and on: wished to continue to live on months "to keep all of the women tering inside stole six army re- terms of complete friendship. In the world supplied with a few volvers. The guard consisted of! chowkidars, Linggo and Referring to Palestine, Mr. quarts of perfume, the rest of their two

Ignatius, Lingoo, who was gag- Amery, sald that Great Britain lives." had undertaken to provide the Buckner scoffed at the attempted and bound hand and foot, Jews with a national home only on to enforce prohibition "by drama was found dead at the back of the armoury having been dragged, condition that they inflicted no tie naval Battles along rum row." from his post to the rear. No harshness or injustice on the Arab He intimated that the trouble lay marks of violence were, found on population.

That was Britain's in Washington, where the distribu-his body and a 'post mortem ex. policy and i would be continued.tion of industrial. afochol is re-amination revealed that death! -British Wireless.

|gulated.-United Press,

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