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OIL PRICE WAR IN
INDIA.
ENQUIRY'S STRIKING
DISCLOSURES.
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END WITAL
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 12, 1928. †atat
SIMON COMMISSION MYSTERY OF LIFE LEAGUE OF NATIONS “ASIATIC PRINCE"
PROTEST.
AND DEATH.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ON.
ITS DIGNITY.
THE VICEROY WARNED.
Simila, Sept. 11.
Sir John Simon has telegraphed to the Viceroy of India announcing that the first sitting of the Statu- tory Commission will be held, at
SOCONY EXONERATED. Poona on October 12th, with the
London, Sept. 11. A statement by the Government of India following the receipt of the report of the Tarift which
Provincial Committee clecled by the Bombay Legislaturo..
He also sintes that six out of
PROFESSOR DONNAN'S STRIKING PAPER.
SCIENTIFIC CREATION OF A LIVING CELL?
FUTURE ENVISIONED.
Professor Doman said that his
EXPENSES.
BRITISH DELEGATE CRITICISES
RISING TENDENCY.
NEEDLESS PARLEYS.
Genova, Sept. 11. During a discussion of the Sec. retary-General's Budget statement at a meeting of, the Fourth Cori- mittee of the League, Mr. G Locker-Lampson declared that the British Government was concerned over the very large and unpreçc- dented increase in the Budget for 1928.
eliminated.
MYSTERY.
LOSS MAY BE DUE
TO MUTINY.
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AMERICAN TENNIS
SURPRISE.
·SPLENDID VICTORY BY H. W. AUSTIN,
FRANCE TRIUMPHANT.
New York, Sept. 11. In the American tennis cham- plonships at Forest Hills, H. W. Austin (Britain) to-day defeated) Jack Wright (Canada) by threef
Happy Vality
GENEVA TENSION EASES.
RHINE EVACUATION
DISCUSSED.
HERR MULLER'S COMMENT ON BRIAND SPEECH. ·
sets to two after a thrilling duel. CUSHENDUN'S APPEAL.
The match was played in the second round of the open singles,
Geneva, Sept. 11..
OFFICIAL THEORIES.
A mutiny theory with piratien and the victory of the youthful Much better feeling prevailed at members of the Chinese crew and Englishman was not expected by Geneva to-day folowing a warmly a million dollars in bullion as focal the huge crowd of spectators, who cheered speech on disarmament by pointa, is being worked upon by thought that Wright's experience Lord Cushendun, the British re officials of the Prince Line at Lon-In international contests as a mem-presentative, and in the evening, don and New York to explain the ber of the Canadian Davis Cup M. Briand, Herr Mueller, Baton Von Schubert (the Permament mysterious disappearance of the team would decide the issue. Asiatic Prince, the British steamer Wright is one of the most popu-Under-Secretary of the German which was swallowed up in the lar of the Canadian players. He Foreign Ofice), M. Hymans, of Pacific Ocean between Honolulu won the first set at 6-3, but Austin Belgium, Signor Scialojn, of Italy, and Japan without leaving a single set up a furious attack and won and Baron Adatchi, of Japan, who trace, according to officers of the the next two sets at 6-3. Tho was present as one of the Powers Royal Prince, a sister ship, which fourth provided a great struggle, responsible for the execution of the has arrived in the Far East to Wright winning after fourteen Versaillea Treaty, attended a tea- replace her
games had been played. The party In Lord Cushendun's rooms, strain left him fatigued and} It was one of the most important Įgatherings since the Assembly
London, Sept..11.. The eagerly awaited paper by the eight remaining Provincial Professor Donian of University Board Council have already decided to College, London, on the mystery of enquired into the recent co-operate, and meanwhile he re-life and death, wens read te-night at kerosene price war in India bequests the Viceory to invite the the meeting of the British Associn- tween the Standard Oil Company of Council of State to elect its pro- tion in Glasgow, and as anticipated New York and the Royal Dutch portion of members to the Central it dealt largely with the recent re- Shell group, has been published by Committee, asking the Viceroy to searches of Professor Hill. the India Oflice.
complete the composition of the
colleague,, Professor Hill, was on the eve of discovering, if he had not already discovered, what is meant has for some time been devoting by cellular death. Professor Hill rehimself to the study of the muscles and nerve cells and it is understood he that his researches have led him direct benefit from the League's last but has never been heard of CARIRIQUES (TAR NAGSASALAR BORDER CASE fopened. The party lengthily dis-
It exonerates the Standard Of Company from blame. The Tariff Board failed to agree, there being a Majorly and a Minority Report.
The statement is published sub- ] sequent to a settlement of the price war, the Socmy gramp having agreed with the Shell and Barma groups to take steps to compensate
Committee in such manner as he thinks most appropriate.
Later,
Forty-four members of the Legi- lative Assembly have issued u underta Sir John Simon's cable expressing surprise that
the former owners of the Russian S properties in future contracts with the Soviet.
President Dissents.
The Tariff Board was directed to investigate the question of safe- guarding the oil industry in India from injury Inflicted by the sale of imported kerosene at prices be- low the world parity.
The Majority Roport finds that the sale of kerosene at prices below the world parity is established, but the President dissents.
The Government of India re- cognise that the determination of world purity presents difficultios and that various views may be taken. But after careful examina- Won of the evidence taken by the Board they consider that the following facts have been 09- Lablished:
Socony Exonerated.
In the first place, the average price at which the Standard Oil Company sold superlor kerosene
BIG BLAZE AT KOBE.
12,000 Hales of Colton Destroyed,
'Shanghai, Sept.12. Reuter's Kobe correspon- dent, wiring last night, reports a disastrous fire at the Toshin Warehouse.
As a result of the bluze, the No. 1 shed was burnt down, and 12,000 bales of raw ention were destroyed.-Ren- ter,
NUSIACTRESİBUENASIUMINICANN BERLİNCANCUNDICII
to important conclusions.
Warding Of Death.
He urged an energetle effort in the direction of economy, without prejudicing the League's work, and suggested that a number of un- necessary conferences could be Other speakers sympathised with Mr. Locker-Lampson's critic
sms, but stressed the difficulty of cutting down exponses,
Mr. Palanpur joined in the criticism, and
remarked, that though India was one of the coun- tries which received the least
activities, she was contributing more to the League's expenses than any country which did not occupy It was stated by Professor Don-a permanent seat on the Council, nan last night that Professor Hill 'The debate was adjourned was basing his ideas largely on the Reuter, fact that the life machine was totally different from ordinary me chanical machines.
Life is a living cell apparently kept going by, oxygen and oxidisa tion, the latter's structure-preser. ving action alone aceming tỏ wurd off death.
HARBOUR DANGER.
·SHELLS LOST FROM H.M.S.
HAWKINS,
Harbour craft have been warn- Beginning of Understanding.
ed of a possible source of danger Professor Donnan declared that in the waters of the Colony in the for the first time in the history of form of a number of rounds of Selence, we were beinning to under-vo" high-explosive shells which stand, perhaps at present a little dimly, the difference between life were lost overboard from II.M.3. and death, and the meaning of life Hawkins before that cruiser left itself.
A motor-car if deprived of petrol stopped, but did not die, but if a should persist in evading the re-living cell is deprived of oxygen and presentative opinion of the As- food it dies immediately. Any sembly, despite the clear majority stoppage of the human mechanism
was faint. of the Assembly,
for Home.
The Asiatic Prince left Sun one forokohama of March 10
since.
Rumours and little dis- coveries, however, are now, trick- ling into the world's big ports where seamen foregather and tell of dramas of the seas, and officials of the line have now built up a theory to explain, the disappear- ance of the vessel.
Sailed On A Friday.
INTERPORT BOWLS.
Interesting Picture of the Play.
On Page 8 of this issue will be found an interesting photo- graph of play in progress in the Interport Lawn Bowls match between Shanghai and Hongkong last Thursday.
With $1,000,000 in gold under the hatches, 34 Chinese in the fore- castle and a handful of white officers the Asiatic Prince steamed out of San Pedro' on Friday, March 16, Old seamen will, tell you tales of ships that sailed on Friday never to return and what could be more tempting to the gods of fortune than a ship that salla on Friday with a forecastle fullCOME of Chinese and hatches full of
In a report which has been made to the police by Payminster Com-guld?
under H. Rodgers, Secretary to
mooring-buoy.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of the Commodore, it is stated that March 22 the City of Eastburne's three rounds of four-Inch H.A. radio operator picked up an 8.0.5. ammunition, plugged with high call. It was repeated half a explosive shells, were lost over-dozen times. He waited anxious- Always Tending to Collapse. board from the Hawkins on the ly for the name of the ship and The munifesto hopes that the
Professor Hill his discovered morning of the 3rd instant, in a its position but it never came. between September, 1927, and Viceroy will not agree to perpet that a living cell was always tend-position 70 yards south-east of No. Murch, 1928, was above world. parity whatever criterion be adeptnie on the Assembly a grave un-ing to break down and that it
Diving operations were carried ed of determining that level. · constitutional impropriety amount required constant oxidation to
keep it charged. Once the supply out by naval divers for the re- Secondly, the Standard Oiling to alights on its dignity and of oxygen and sugar ceased It im covery of the shells, but without Company did not take the initia representative character. It de mediately went to pieces. success, and the Harbour Office tive anywhere in cutting prices.
After the meeting, Professor and local launch are now not Thirdly, that unless the world' mands, if the Viceroy dogs so, that' Donnan gave an interview to fied of the loss. parity price is based on the low there should be a dissolution and a | Reuter's representative. The price said to have been paid for
eminent scientist expressed the election of the Central the Russian kerosene by the
opinion that a continuous and fine THE COTTON-GROWING | Prince. Standard Oil Company, the Royal Legislature on the issue of the As-analysts of the phenomena of a liv
ASSOCIATION. Dutch Shell group has consistent-sembly's boycott of the resolution. ing cell must eventually lead to such ly sold superior, kerosene at unt
an understanding of the organisa- economie prices.
tion of life that there is no reason why the creation in the laboratory of a living cell of the physical plane should not be effected.
Reuter.
Fourthly, it follows that dump- ing has been established not by companies against which the com- plaint was made but by groups working in close alliance with the principal Indian producer.
Interport Fact.
fresh
-Reuter.
NO BOLSHEVISTS FOR GIBRALTAR.
SOVIET CADETS NOT ALLOWED TO LAND,
Controversy Opened..
This match, which was the most thrilling ever played in Interport contests, was won by Hongkong by the narrow margin of one shot..
ONETARATZ
cussed the procedure to be adopt- ed in dealing with the question of the évacuation of the Rhineland, and the conversations went on for. over two and a half hours,
Exchange of Views.
The discussion embraced a com- plete oxchange of views ae- regards- the juridical, political and other sides of the question.
,
An arrangement was made for a second meeting of the various re- presentatives to be held on Thurs- day.
This meeting is the nearest ap- proach yet made to formal discus- sion of German's demand for the freeing of the Rhino zone, which has yet been held since the evacua-' tion of Cologne and other. bridge- heads following Germany's accept- ance of the Dawes Plan. Austin captured the deciding set it followed other conversations on easily.
the subject which Herr Mueller has The final scores in Austin's had with M. Briand and Lord favour were 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, 6-8. Cushendun during the present sea-
Brugnon (France) beat Gilpin sion. (U.S.) 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Herr Mueller on Briand, Bousaus (France) beat Hyde (U.S.) 7-5, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.
Subsequently, Herr Mueller, the Cochet (France) beat Coen German Chancellor, granted an in- (U.S.) 7-5, 6-3, 6-3,
tervaw, in which he ventured a re- Borotra (France) beat Arnold ply to M. Briand's comments in the League of Nations meeting yester- Jones (U.S.) 6-2, 6-3 6-4.
Doeg. (U.S.) beat Onda (Japan) day," 3-4, 6-4, I-6, 6-4.
A Second Message. Ten minutes later a aingla 8.0.5. came in, then three letters, the ship's call letters. He looked through his code book but it was
Herr Mueller, at the outset, sald the name of a ship in another part At West Newton in the golf that the German delegates had of the world. Had the last letter tourney, Voight did the second come to Geneva to assist the League been "P" instead of "R" it would eighteen in 72, and thus leads the in regard to disarmament. have been the call of the Asiatic field with an aggregate of 143. Germany shared in M. Briand's Bobby Jones did 78, thus aggre- view with regard to the gradual But there is only a difference gating 151.
reduction of armaments that war of dot or a dash between the two Only three British players of to-day was out of the question. latters and a nervous
Germany, he said, has disarmed operator eight entries qualified for the final, might have made the mistake. stages, namely T. Perkins (155), although there are still some small He listened with a strained in J. B. Beck (165) and E. F. Storey tentness for the position of the (156). London, Sept. 11.
ahip but it never came. The Colton-Growing Associa- Then he frantically began send- tion, at an extraordinary meetinging out calls for the ship but in Manchester, passed a resolution they were never answered. May- reducing its capital from £500,000 be it was the Asiatic Prince and to £262,000 by returning 10s. per maybe not. If it was, she met share and reducing the nominal her fate about 700 miles north- value of the shares from £1 to west of Hawali.
CAPITAL REDUCTION IS
·AGREED UPON.
The Chairman anid the Council, considered that the capital could thus be distributed without im pairing the resources of the As sociation or endangering its future work-Reuter:
A British Wireless message yes- terday stated that it is hinted that the results of Professor Hill's work Both the Majorily and the
are sufficienly important to justify Minority Reports comment on the
the assumption that what has been Important fact that the Royal
Gibraltar, Sept. 11. achloved will express itself even 10. Dutch Shell group had recognised
Sixty-five cadets aboard the So-in regard to the origin of life. the claim of companies who were vint Government training ship It is even predicted that the dis- members of the pool to compensa Vega which arrived at Gibraltar closure of them may lead to a con- tion for losses suffered as a ro- from Hayre to-day, bound for Ros- flict of opinion as great as that sult of the price war, which the loff, desired to land when the ves- which has raged over the Darwin material to the issue whether sei berthed.
theories. there was prima' facie case for
On the other hand, in his Presi- Inquiry.
The cadets were, however turn-dential address to the Physiological It was disclosed also at the ed back by order of the author Section of the Association, Pro- RUMOURED PLOT IN
Oil ties and only the captain of the fessor Lovatt Evans declared that enquiry that the Burma Company had undertaken to make vessel was permitted to land there should be no illusion about good to the other Indian members Reuter. of the pool the remainder of their losses ItB measured iby the difference between the Indian and the Chinese prices.
No Compensation.
con-
In the face of these agreements It would have been impossible for the Government of India to sider the grant of public assis- tance to companies which are members of the pool,
CANADIAN LABOUR AND RUSSIA.
PRO-SOVIET RESOLUTION
REJECTED,
Toronto, Sept. 112' The Convention of Canadian
finding the final explanations of what life is.
Mystery Remains. ' ·
Enorthously rapid developments had been made in physics of recent
SPAIN.
-Reuter's American Service.
"SOUTHERN CROSS” FLIGHT.
NEW ZEALAND MAKES GRANT TO AIRMEN.
things to be done. True, Germany could utilise her industries for war purposes, but, he asked, how could any country go to war if it did not possess a stock of armS,,
Will Make No Difference,
Reuter's Berlin correspondent says that the Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts, which expresses the view of the Chancellor, Herr Mueller Officer's Body Found.
jand the majority of his colleagues, Now come the rumours of the
repudiates the Nationalfat outery decomposed body of a white man,
against M. Brland and declares that Wellington, Sept, 11. ship's officer, being
a controversial point at Geneva will evidently
The New Zealand Government not make the Socialist Party deviate found on an one of the smaller is- has decided to grant Captain a single hair's-breath from its
on a wild and desolate strip lunds. Although the body had Kingsford-Smith, Flight-Lieut. foreign policy, which aims at been fed upon by fish and insects Ulm (his co-pilot) and Mr. Litch-friendly Franco-German co-opera- till it was beyond all recognition, field (navigator) £2,000 for their tion-Router.
Christ- there was a dagger buried deep in flight from Sydney to his chest, its point lodged tightly church on the "Southern Cross."- between two bones. The dagger Reuter.
| MANY ARRESTS SAID TO HAVE was of the short ugly kind carried!
by Chinese, seamen," BEEN MADE-
Then came another report of a Paria, Sept. 11. few broken timbers evidently from a Chinesa coman's A message from Hendaye states a life boat, years, he anid, but since that the Spanish police have dis- cap and empty strongbox such as philosophy cannot arrive at an ex-covered a plot, the nature of which is used in carrying gold bullion, planation of the nature of human is not specified.
being found half buried in the understanding; the great mystery
Many arrests have been made in sands of another beach. of the origin, nature and purpose Madrid and Spanish provincial of life would, he thinks, always re-towns, according to the message, main.
Reuter messages from Madrid, Professor Frederick George Don aan, whose paper is expected to lend however, made no mention of the to considerable controversy, Is Pro- plot-Reuter, fosgor of Inorganic and Physical
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UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME.
LATEST RETURNS DISCLOSE INCREASE.
Lord Cushendan's Appeal,
Lord Cushendun's important speech in the League Assembly is given in detail by a British Wire. Jess message. received this morn ing, which states that he said that of all subjects which had come up. for consideration in the Assembly the great predominating "question was that of dearmament.
He could woll appreciate the dia. appointment which Herr Mueller the German Chancellor, and others. felt at the slow progress being
London, Sept. 11. Unemployment in Great Britain made. continues to increase.
Ship Scuttled for Bullion. What happened to the Asiatic Prince? Did a mob of Chinese aca- men creep out of their forecastle
On other hand, he thought Herr just before dawn with clubs and
On September 3rd, the total Mueller did not appreciate in turn daggers, murder their captain and number of workless was 1,364,700, the difficulties which faced officers, the bullion into life-
As the price war has now onded Trades and Labour Congress has it de unnecessary to arrive at a rejected a resolution urging the conclusion on the question of Canadian Government to renew whether other companies should be trade relations with Russia Chemistry at the University of NEW YORK RAW SILK radile the ship? Did being 4,673 more than the week Preparatory Committee of Dis- safeguarded, but the Government Reuter.
Board that no case has been made
of India see no reason for reject-
ing the considered opinion of the
out for the safeguarding of any company.
ŘEMARKABLE SALE,
London, which post he has held since 1913.
.
Amongst the passengers who left to-day by the Empress of Asin were
The Government of India accept N, Y. STOCK EXCHANGE SEAT | Mra, Annett, Mra, D. J. Lewis, Mr.
the finding of the Board that
pétrol is not likely to be imported Into India on any considerable scale for the next two years and that no action is called for British Wireless.
FOR $410,000.
New York, Sopt: 11.
EXCHANGE.
HUGE ANNUAL BUSINESS. IS ANTICIPATED. -
The new
the
they reach shore with their plunder before and 250,000 more than a armament. All that could be done was to set up machinery which And turn it over to accomplices in year ago-British Wireless,
would enable article eight of the the Telands or did they, too, perfsh
Icovenant to have full force, and to
in their perilous struggle toward
land?. No one knows. Perhaps Prince Line in New York and obtain a reduction of armaments New York, Sept. 11. some day some survivor will come London are working on. The dif-compatible with the security of
national Raw Silk out of the wilds of an uninhabited forent clues and rumours which each State.
The Assembly could only state and Mrs. L. Dunbar, Miss Dunbar, Exchange has opened here. The Island or the haunts of the beach have been gathered are soon to be Mr. and Mrs. U. Spalinger, Mrs. C. day's transactions amounted to combers and tell the story, made puble in the London papers its desire to see the work of dis- M. Manners, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Mr. 1,600 bales, but it is expected that This, according to Captain Hall but are now shrouded in the secrecy armament pushed on and express member of the Stock S. 3. Hicks, Mr. T. A. Martin, Mr. the Exchange, will do an annual of the Royal Prince, the ship that of official investigation. It is its disappointment that disarma Exchange to-day sold his seat for R. A. Nicholson and Paymaster business or at least G81,000,000,- is replacing the Asiatic Prince, is fantastic tale but stranger things tion had not been achieved sooner. G$410,000, a record price-Reuter. Commander H. Rogers,
000-Router à American Service. the theory that the officials of the have happened, Shanghai Times.
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