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ST. PETER'S Y.M.C. DIS- APPROVE OF MOTION,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928.

THE MADRID FIRE. AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE.

LATER DETAILS.

WATERSIDE. WORKENS REFUSE TO WORK.

Madrid, Sept. 24.

Melbourne, Sept. 24. The motion "That international The fire was got under control at

The Interstate Conference of legislation should be instituted four o'clock in the morning after forthwith to provent the marriage the theatre had been reduced to a Maritime and Transport Uniona meeting to-day- to of physically or mentally unfit per heap of mouldering ashes. The is holding a sons" was defeated after a debate total death-roll is not at present discuss the "back to work" motion. at the St. Peter's Young Men's known but it is now believed that The chief obstacle is the difficulty Club last night by a vote of 21 to it is not so heavy as was originally of inducing the waterside workers feared. The number of injured is to work with the non-unionist estimated at from 200 to 300.

cight.

Mr. P. Sanda, who put forward

A gruesome heap of twenty-five volunteers, who are assured of the subject matter of the debato, charred bodies was found piled in continuity of work under the new dealt with it under four headings, one of the landings. Eye-witnesses federal act just passed.. namely, mutual companionship tell appalling stories of the scenes On the application of the ship. with which be associated the quee in the auditorium, which quickly owners Justice Detheridge in the tion of compatibility; potential parenthood, with that of ougenics became a blazing furnace. Thirty Arbitration Court has ordered the and economics; co-operation of people with their clothing ablaze auspension at Fremantle, Adejaido labour by the married couple in were seen among the panic-stricken and some other ports concefned, their respective spheres to main-audience, frantically rushing to of the clauses of the waterside tain the home; and lastly, the bene-wards the exits. A man who had workers' award granting prefer fit to the State resulting from such been badly trampled on, frantic ence to trade unionists. The do- with pain, ran wildly about outside cision means that the owners_Bru- union. He expounded the well the theatre beseeching news of his legally entitled to employ volun- known views which students of eugenics and economics hold on wife and five children with whom tears under the award to replace he was celebrating his birthday. the regular dock workers, who, in these matters, and argued that as

Many other heartrending sconce doßance of their Union are stand- a whole, the montally and physi- were witnessed at the ambulance ing out against the award provid- cally unfit are a burden on the stations where relatives were Ing for two engagements of labour nation and a parasitical menace searching for missing kindred. daily instead of one." ito society at large.

There were weird scenes around Dr. B. W. Phoon, who headed the the theatre. The fire put out of opposition, strenuously resisted action the street lights, greatly the suggestion that the mass of hampering the work of the firemen the undit should be "snuffed out" until a party of army engineers ar- of this world. He quoted practi-rived with huge flares. cal cases that had come within The legal authorities, who are his observation to show how er-rived to opon an enquiry, had to be roneous was the conception that escorted by men bearing torches, only the unfit are born of the unfit, by the flickering light of which they Amongst other things, he commenced their work.-Router: Later. dubbed the proposal as cruel, un-

Forty-five bodies have up to the just and unjustifiable.

present been recovered from the ruina and Reuter,

Mr. A. E. Lea, Mr. West, Dr. G. H. Thomas and a few others also participated in the debate, which resulted in the defent of the motion, as stated above.

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The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Rev. Mr. N. V. Halvard.

AIR DEFENCES.

ORGANISATION IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

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Wellington, N.Z., Sept. 24. Sir John Salmond hus ar- rived at Auckland en route to Wellington to confer with the Government on the question of air defence.-Router.

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Already 670 volunteers have been enrolled here and the load- ing of overacas vessels is proceed- ing without a hitch. There have been no disturbances so far, police car. following each molor to the wharf from coach

which is the labour bureau,

mounted police. protected by Two trade unionists have been sentenced respectively to 我 fortnight imprisonment and a flue of £10 or one month imprisonment over 360 injured for assaulting volunteers.

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Eighty-five bodies have now been recovered from the ruins of the theatre and many persons who were injured seriously-Reuter.

Cause of Fire.

Declaring that the executive of the Waterside Workers Federa- tion are unable to control their members, the shipowners have withdrawn their promise to con- sider a conference with the Fed- eration if the men resumed work. The shipowners are determined The fusing of an electric wire that the trade unionists shall not and the failure of the safety cur-replace the non-unionist volun- tain, and the fact that the theatro

teers.-Reuter, was wholly constructed of wood, caused the destruction of the Teatro Novedades.. The fire was first noticed in the plt when flames shot out of the electric lamps and aprend with extraordinary rapidity. The spectators in the third and fourth galleries swarmed down the pillars and some jumped into the pit.

The scene as the roof fell in on

A LEPER RIOT.

OBJECTION TO TREATMENT CREATES DISTURBANCE.

[A message dated the 29th

Batayle, Sept. 24. When Assistant Commissioner August stated that Sir John Sal-

Sumatra mond, who was making a flight to the screaming, struggling and

visited the leper colony in an en- round Australia in the course of burning humans was a realistic re- Gajecies of northera his duties as Advieer to the Aus-plica of Dante's inferno.

The actors, orchestra and stage deavour to persuade the jepers tralian Government on the ro- organisation of the Air Force, de-hands nearly all escaped at the to undergo the treatment which livered a

speech at a reception back of the stage. When the they objected, 29 lepera, including given on his arrival at Darwin, in Minister of Justice and the Prest- a number of women attacked the which he said that it was quite dent of the Supreme Court arrived inspector and his military escort. possible that the construction of at two in the morning the spectacle The latter were forced to fire in the Singapore Naval Baso would was appalling. Corpses heaped self-defence, and killed ten and throw a considerable responsibility near the door of the amphitheatre wounded four lepers, including on Darwin and that it was quite barred the way. It was also fear-four women killed and two wound- possible that an Air Force braced that the roof of the lounge ed. There were no casualties

among the military-Reuter. might collapse at any moment, would be created there.].

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TO SHAREHOLDERS. The Hongkong Telephone Com- pany has circularised shareholders offering the present unissued eapital of 150,960 shares of $10 each at par. The basis of the offer is one share for every two held by shareholders and the first payment of $2.50 must be made. by those who accept on or before December 14.

On the shares originally allotted $3.50 was paid. ($1 premium) and their value on the local share market at present is given as $6.70.

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CAPTURED LADY.

NO NEWS YET OF MISS TOBIN'S FATE.

Polping, Sept. 24. There is no further news of Miss Tobin, who belongs to the Church of England Zenana. Missionary Society. Reuter.

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ly unhurt who had become wedged ESPIONAGE CHARGE. into a corner behind a broken door. Hundreds of panic-stricken people must have passed over it. WHITE RUSSIANS ARRESTED Seven policemen were among the in-

IN EAST POLAND. cinerated-Reuter:

NEW CHINA MINT..

WILL WORK ON THE “FREE COINAGE" BASIS.

Shanghal, Sept. 24. Reuter learns that the new Shang- hai mint, situated on Ferry Road, is making steady progress and is expected to reach completion in six months. It will cost $6,000,000 and will have a capacity for the coining of two million Sun Yat-sen dollars daily, in addition to a large output of subsidiary coins,

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The mint will be under the con- trol of the Nationalist Government assfsted by a committee of Chinese bankers and will work on the "free coinage" bazle...It is plan- ned to make the allver dollar the basic currency, abolishing the tael on July 1, 1929. When the mint is in full swing it is proposed to close up the Nanking and Hang- chow mints,-Reuter.

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Warsaw, Sept. 24. It is reported from the eastern border of Poland that the military have arrosted several members of a supposed espionage organisation, composed mainly of White Russ an school teachers and university students. One member of the or- ganisation, an army non-commis- stoned officer, was caught stealing mobilisation plans at Baranowicze and court martialled. He was shot. Other alleged spics were imprison- ed. Reuter.

RUBBER ESTATES.

AMALGAMATION OF ST. IVES' AND 'AMHERST REPORTED.

Singapore, Sept. 24.

The amalgamation of the St. Ivea and Amherst estates (Sclan- gor) rubber companies is announc- cd.--Reuter.

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