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WORLD'S LARGEST EMPIRE WIRELESS

BRIDGE.

NEARING COMPLETION AT SYDNEY.

ENGINEER THE FIRST MAN

TO GO ACROSS. ·

READY NEXT YEAR

Sydney, Aug. 7. To-day a man crossed the largest bridge in the world when the chief engineer of Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co. Ltd.. the company building the bridge to span the beautiful harbour here, stepped across the gap of forty-two inches from one

STATION.

SHORT WAVE TRANSMITTER TO REACH WORLD.

SCHEME DEVELOPS.

London, Aug. 8. Britain is to have a permament short wave Empire broadcasting station with a world-wide range, according to Newa-Chronicle, ...

WƑ±F FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930.

MARTIAL LAW IN HANKOW.

POLICE AND TROOPS QUARREL.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST "RED"

UPRISING.

DUNLOP

BOTAXINGLT POP! 10 OESTE

PER ANNUM

LOCAL BRANCH,

CHINA EXTRALITY SHANGHAI "REDS"

QUESTION.

PERTINENT COMMENT BY THE LONDON "TIMES."

LACK OF SECURITY.

London, Aug. 8. The Times, in the course of a leading article, says the news that the British Minister in China has

DEMONSTRATE.

PROMPT ACTION BY POLICE.

600 STUDENTS CELEBRATE AN INTERNATIONAL DAY.

SIXTEEN ARRESTS.

Shanghai, Aug 2.

Peddar Bidr.

NEW PREMIER OF TROOPS TO MEET

CANADA.

MR. R. B. BENNETT FORMS A CABINET.

TAKES THREE JOBS.

Ottawa, Aug. 7. The Hon, Mr. R. B. Bennett has formed a Cabinet with himself as Premier, Minister of Finance and Secretary of State for External Affairs.-Reuter's American Ser

vice.

TRIBESMEN.

FRONTIER ACTION IN

INDIA.

AFRIDIS FIFTEEN MILES FROM PESHAWAR.

WARNINGS IGNORED.

Peshawar, Aug. 7.

moved out

SUSPECTS EXECUTED. prepared proposals with regard to the modification of extraterritorial This is a result of negotiations

Hankow, Aug. 7.

[rights would be more interesting if which have been carried out by the The sudden announcement of foreign missionaries could live in The precautions taken by the The Hon. Mr. Bennett has been Troops have British Broadcasting Corporation, martial law last evening and the Chinese towns without fear of be- police of the International Settle- the leader of the Conservative against the Afridis who are five the Colonial Office and various over-military activity shown by the ing kidnapped and held bo ransom,ment, and raids conducted on Party in Canuda since 1927. Last thousand strong and who are

Chinese Commanders in dis- seas authorities,

patching contingents of troops exposed to risk, having to escape the early part of the week, pre- the Liberals, who were previously Khajuri plain in the

and if foreign merchants were not several Communist bases during week in the general election the

Conservatives heavily defeated concentrating to the west of to the suburbs caused great in gunboats and leave their pro-vented any serious disturbances in power, and secured a majority Valley. They are within fifteen Bara excitement to the foreign and perty in the hands of looters, in the city yesterday.

over all the other parties. Chinese residents here, owing to There is, says the journal, a cer- Nevertheless about 600 student; Mr. Bennett has been the mem- miles of Peshawar.-Reuter. fears that the Communists intain unreality about the negotia- Communists attempted to demon- ber for Calgary West in the House tended a serious uprising in ortions, which postalate

strate in celebration of Internation- of Commons since 1925. He was existence of a tolerable measure al Red Day, but their plans mis- admitted to the Bar of New

Warning Unheeded: Throughout the evening, the of public security in a country carried. Sixteen were arrested Brunswick in 1903 and later com

London, Aug. 7. which is daily growing less secure. during the morning, 14 of whom menced practice at Chatham. He After repeated warnings had The reinforcement of British were charged. The remainder later became a member of the been given them not to approach naval strength in the Middle Yang-rapidly disappeared after the first Town and Municipal Councils of within a certain distance of Pesha- taze is a necessary precaution after charge by the police,

Northumberland but moved to war, a hostile body of Afridi tribes- what has happened in Changsha..

Calgary, He was a member of

The Broadcasting Corporation has purchased land adjoining the Daventry broadcasting station on which will be erected a short wave

section of the main arch to the transmitter capable of being heard other.

in the most remote parts of the

The two sections will actually meet on August 25 and the arch

will be completed on September 1G at a cost of six-million sterling.

The bridge stretches between the abutment towers

near Hankow.

Empire. The cost of the installa-Nanking troops had a busy time tion will be met by the Colonial in making house-to-house search- es and placing sentries at all the Office assisted by the Colonies.

important positions in the city.

The Dominions will also be ask- over theed at the Imperial Conference to

assist financially in the project.

channel, a distance of 1,675 feet, the total length of the bridge from Dawes Point. south. to Milson's Point, north, heing 3,770 feet.

Even at high tide there will be headway of 170 feet for vessels passing underneath.

The Treasury has provisionally agreed to find £22,000 for original

outlay while the British Broadcast ing Corporation will provide pro-

Police and Troops Quarrel. While the consensus of opinion is that local bandits must have creat ed some form of disturbance which caused the military vigilance, it is also learned that the troops and the

pute, both threatening a mutiny. police were involved in a hot dis-

The bridge will carry a road-grammes free. The work will pro- The Nationalist leaders took the way fifty-seven feet wide, four bably be begun on the new trans-precaution of placing troops in the railway lines, and two footways mitter within three or four months. each ten feet wide. The bridge will be ready for traffic in 1931. The Empire broadcast at first will Reuter..

only operate for a limited period éach day. Reuter.

Impressive Sight.

Sydney is laid out somewhat like Hongkong although this new bridge only spans a harbour which Could not be crossed up to now except by ferry or vehicular punt. unless detour of several miles was, made 10 miles up where the harbour narrowя.

For more than three years now thousands of ferry passengers

have watched daily the progress

of the bridge interrupted frequent-

RESULT OF EUROPE

AIR RACE.

GERMAN AVIATORS TAKE FIRST THREE PLACES,

Berlin, Aug. 7. The final results of the receni

2.

ly by strikes and other stoppages. | round-Europe flight have now been

Ita massive steel girders, in parts, announced. The German aviator,

suburbs fearing that the bandits would seize the opportunity of marching into the city. The quar- rel between the troops and police was settled at the last minute.

the

Such a preraation clearly would not be needed if the Nanking Gov- ernment were able to protect Bri- tish lives and interests, but they will manifestly be unable to do so as long as they are at war with

the North-Reuter.

AMERICA CUP TRIAL RACE.

Huge Crowds.

after 10 a.m. on one of the old The trouble commenced shortly stamping grounds at the corner of Thibet and Nanking Roads, where a number of students collected. Despite police observations, a con- siderable crowd managed to gather at this point and, in a short space of time, the gathering had assum- ed alarming proportions.

of the

the Legislative Assembly of North men has been bombed by Royal Air 1905 and West Territories from 1898 to Force machines stationed on the Assembly, Alberta in 1909. He men were stirred

Legislative north-west frontier. The tribes- resigned in 1911 and became M.P. Mullahs and Young Bloods, and s > by unfriendly for Calgary in the House of Coma lashkar was formed estimated at mons of Canada in the same year: Give thousand strong.

He was Director-General of

The Desired Effect.

Warning notices posted along their route were ignored and recon- thenoitring aeroplanes were fired at.

National Service until the passing The tribesmen descended in small of the Military Service Act in partics, generally at night, by un 1917. He then became Minister frequented ways into Bara Valley, From every conceivable point of Justi e and Attorney General north-west of Peshawar and hed students proceeded to the intersic but resigned with the defeated arranged to concentrate on Khajuri tion of the above roads and adopt- Meighen Administration. He was Plain on Wednesday. ENTERPRISE BEATEN BY

ing the usual methods, commenced later Minister of Finance and THE WEETAMOE. Startling revelations concerning

to shout slogans and distribute accompanied the Prime Minister the establishment in Hankow of a

handbills. Many of those in the to England and the Continent in Chinese Communist Military

Newport, Aug. 2.

crowd consisted of

women and 1916, Bureau aiming to create distur The yacht Weetamoc defeated young girls, but whether they were He is Vice-President of bances in Hunan, Kupeh and the three other candidates to-day actually a part of the original col- Canadian Bar Association, Kiangai, with Hankow as the cen-

race for defenders of lection or merely onlookers was a Governor of Dalhousie University tre of activities, have been made America's Cup in the forthcoming difficult matter which the police had and a Fellow of the Royal Empire

Society. Ey the Hankow police, with the re-international race with Sir Thomas to decide. sult that the greatest vigilance is Lipton's Shamrock V. The victor being maintained in raiding Com-crossed the line three minutes munist haunts. Many Communist ahead of the Enterprise. suspects who have been arrested were executed after a brief trial.

in the

Crowd Increases.

Police from Louza Station im- The Weetamee was designed by mediately proceded to the spot. Clinton H. Crane and is owned by but upon their appearance there was Changsha Situation.

a syndicate headed by J. S. Mor- an immediate scatter. The crowd gan, son of J. F. Morgan, and was increased by the extraordin- The Chinese troops are return-George Nichols, Crane has de-ary number of Chinese who crowd- 15 feet square, are an impressive Morzik. last year's winner, gaining in large numbers to Changsha signed many fast smail yachts and ed from shops and adjacent alleys sight and the unfinished frame-rame first with a mial of 423 points, and the city seems to be once again some notables large ones such as to witness the promised demonstra- work jutting out over the water Another German, Poss, came secsettling down after the Communist the Aloha. has given an incongruous touch and with the same number of ravages.

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the quiet beauty of Sydney's points and Notz also a German, General Ho Chien was interview-

harbour

From Both Sides, The bridge is claimed to be the longest single Soun structure,

ip

the

world

same type and

www third with 419.

ed ot the Chinese Y.M.C.A. this from morning by representatives the British, American and Jap- anese Consulates who requested the Hunan Governor to do his best to ensure tranquillity in Chang- sha, to which foreign residents are returning.

General Ho Chien; in giving an

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UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

tion.

PEKING POLITICAL

CONFERENCE.

OPPOSITION TO THE NANKING REGIME.

As a precaution the British out- posts were strengthened, but be fore the meditated attack mater lalised six squadrons, numbering approximately fifty machines, drop- ped bombs with the object of diše, peraing and discouraging the tribes- men. It is believed that the opera- tion had the effect intended.--Bri- isl, Wireless,

R.A.F. Planes in Action.

Poshawar, Aug. 7. Six squadrona of Royal Air Force machines aro actively bombing hostile Afridia who are moving

Peking, Aug. 8. The scattering of a number of A formal meeting of the pamphlets by unknown persons enlarged Plenary Conference was down the Bara Valley towards among the crowd kept the police held yesterday afternoon, attend- Peshawar.--Reuter, busy tracing their source, but no

A

arrests were made until à furthered by twenty-two members. demonstration was made at the Standing Committee vas appoint- corner of Chekiang and Nankinged and also committees to discuss Roads.

Hundreds Attracted.

The succeeding positions were taken by Miss Spooner (Britain)

Refuse to Pay Fines. 116, Polte (Germani 406, Lord,

Bombay," Aug 7. Carberry (Britain) 405, Captain

Gandhi's latest successor to head Broad (Britain) 395.

the formation of the Government, the civil disobedience movement, and

M. BRIAND PREPARING A the

Miss Spooner was built by Was

easily the

propaganda, and the instruction Maulana Abdul Kalamazadm whom FRESH NOTE. the same contractors as the new highest scorer in the starting and

of the public in Kuomintang Vallabhai Patel nominated Presl- bridge that spans the Tyne atanding tests over 30 feet obstacles,

Paris, Aug. 7. Here the crowd had increased to principles.

dent of Congress bfore Patel him- Newcastle. The method of its con.otherwise the British competitors assurance of the protection of

According to the newspapers, M. alarming proportions, mainly due

Members who recently arrived self was sent sent to gaol, and all earlier advantages.foreign life and property, intimate Briand is preparing a fresh Note to the fact that hundreds of Chi from the South were welcomed. the women members of Congress

that the Hunan Government

on his scheme for a European nese had been attracted to the spot Ma Hsiao-chin was annointed arrested at the week-end, refused, will act according to public de- federation. The replies received to by reports that trouble was expect chief secretary of the Standing to pay fines imposed by the Magi mand by organising an anti-Com-his original suggestion show that ed. A conservative estimate of the Committee. munist campaign.

strate, saying that they preferred General Ho Chien is temporarily matters

European nations differ on such number congregated in the part-

It was decided to wire through- prison. the cular section between Chekiang and out the country ordering the relations accommodated with the military Soviets,

with

Vallabhai Patel was

also sen- command of the 4th Route on ac- vision

the maintenance or re- Shansi Roads was 2,000, most of release of all those imprisoned on tenced to three months' imprison- of

treaties and whom were peacé count of the destruction, by Com-economic rivalries etc.

merely spectators. a charge of opposing Chiang Kai- ment Reuter. From

the amongst

crowd. munist incendiarism, of the Pro-

were the police The opinion is expressed that a

again set vincial Government Ofce.

difficult discussion at the League Assembly the

task of sort-

truction was the latest in bridge building, being built simultaneou ly from both sides without pon- toona, the unfinished ends stand- ing out over the water seemingly unsupported, but actually prevent-

lost their Reater,

Revised Placings.

Berlin, later. The revised figures for the plae "ed from collapsing by countlessings in the round Europe flight give steel cable buried in concrde. Morzik 427 points. The revised placings put Captain Broad eighth-Reuter.

First Underground.

The bridge is part of the scheme for the greater development of Sydney which includes tubes and underground stations. The bridge will carry electric trains that dive into the earth on either side. -the only underground railway in Australia.

The completion of the arch does not mean the finish of the bridge for a horrizontal platform carry- ing the roadway has to be built below the arch. The highest point of the arch is 400 feet above the

water.

CAR DESTROYED BY FIRE.

AUSTIN SEVEN BURNT AT

SEVICE STATION,

Popular Demand.

as

.

is unavoidable since Britain de- ing the demonstrators from the mands it and there is a general merely curious. Pamphlets were A delegation representing the desire to consider the susceptibil-distributed and slogans were shout thousands of Hunan refugees inities of the League.-Reuter. ed, but by whom it was a puzzle to Hankow had an audience in Nan-

ascertain. king this morning with General Tan Yen-kai, Chairman of the

LEAGUES.

Nanking Executive Yean, request- AMERICAN BASEBALL ing Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to spare some of the Nationalist, troops in North China for Hunan How an Austin Seven motor-car and Hupeh in view of the critical caught fire and was completely de-situation on the Yangisze. stroyed whilst taking on supplies.

The delegation expressed the

RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S. at a petrol service station is re- opinion that General Ho Chlen's

MATCHES. It is the largest in the world police by Mr. Choi Wing-hing, of troops are insufficient to meet the vealed in a report made to the ten regiments of about 10,000

New York, Aug. 7. in the sense that it has the biggest No, 5, Broadwood Road.

The following are the results of single span. As regards length,

overwhelming number of 20,000 to Baseball League matches played the Forth Bridge easily surpasses ing his tank filled at the City Hall Hunan alone.

Mr. Choi states that he was hav. 30,000 Communist bandits in yesterday:.. it with a length of 8,295 feet. service station at 10 o'clock last The total length of

General Tan said the Govern- the Menai

night when the petrol overflowed ment had elected General Ho Ying- Pittsburg and by some means became ignited; ching of Hankow to be Superinten- St. Louis As a consequence, the car was com-dent of an anti-Communist war în pletely destroyed..

China, and the Government is co- operating with him in the organi- sation of village gendarmes Hunan and Hupeh districts by supplying the populace with arms and ammunition for protection in the absence of Government forces..

suspension bridge is 7,710 feet. Brooklyn Bridge is 7,580 feet, Manhattan 6,855 and Williams burgh Bridge 7,308.

AUSTRALIANS REST AT BIRMINGHAM.

NO PLAY IN THE MATCH WITH WARWICK,

The remains of the car, a mass of twisted iron-work, were still to be seen in the City Hall Square this morning. It is understood that the car was insured.

REDISCOUNT RATE.

LORD. BIRKENHEAD,

in

National,

4 Brooklyn

5 Chicago

American.

6 Boston

New York

4 Washington Philadelphia

-Reuter's American Service,

"FINE WEATHER.

Many Arrests.

shek-Reuter.

GENDARMES CHARGES

STRIKERS.

MORE VIOLENCE IN THE ROUBAIX DISTRICT,

Calcutta's Mayor,

Calcutta, Aug. '7. Calcutta is still without a Mayor. The meeting on August & which was abandoned owing to rival fac- tion creating a disturbance, was re- sumed to-day, when a mob, again invaded the Council Chamber. The meeting had to be abandoned again. Following the scatter, prompted

It was announced that Sen Gupta by the police action, another section

Paris, Aug. 7 had agreed to retire from the con- of the demonstrators attempted a

More violent disturbances in text if n Moslem candidate was put disturbance at the corner of Shansi and Nanking Roads where three of Roubaix and Tourcoing district forward.--Reuter,

were brought to a climax by a their number were arrested by cavalry charge made by the

Pandit Sentenced. operatives from Central Station. Belgian Gendarmerie. The

Not satisfied with the day's ae strikers had held a mass meeting Pandit Malaviya has been fined a

Bombay, Aug. 7. tivities, many of the demonstrators at Menin and they greeted the hundred rupees, with the alternative moved across into the Hongkew arrival of the police with volleys of Efteen days imprisonment. District, where a further demon- of, stones and bricks.

Reuter. stration was attempted. Here the The gendarmes then charged police arrested three of the most and some of the strikers crossed from Bombay that six members of [On August 9 it was reported prominent of the students,

the border for more "ammun- the Congress executive, including The arrests for the day totalled | tion." French gendarmes were 16, but after investigations the waiting on, the other side, how Vallabhai Patel and the Farnlit police charged only 14.

ever, and they drove back the strikers with a number of injured. The strikera ther dispersed Reuter.

Police Succeed.

Malaviya, were arrested when the police refused to permit a large pro- as a police cordon and enter the cession of Congress members to

European business quarter.]

The curious part of the pro- ceedings yesterday was the fact that there were very few pamphlets about the street. In, similar dis- included the, smashing of windows turbances Nanking Road has been and other deliberate acts of destruchas just been issued by the Harbour The following Notica to Marinors literally smothered with multition. T coloured handbills. There were al-

Master, the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Detectives operating in the dis Hole, R.N., with regard to firing The Royal Observatory reports so no attacks on tram cars or protricts frequented by students were practice by H.M. Ships In the Can- San Francisco, Aug. 7...

that the anticyclone has weakened.perty. The combination of the able to locate a considerable quantton River Delta There was no play to-day in the The Federal Reserve Bank has

London, August. 7. It is now central to the east of above two facts indicates clearly ity of communist literature and "Firing practice will be carried match between the Australians reduced the re-discount rate to ed to-day in the condition of Lord are shallow over the China Sea. active for the demonstrators, who, boxes and other spots by the stu- of Sau Chau se a target, commeg A slight improvement, is report Vladivostock. Pressure gradients that the police were altogether too pamphlets secreted in garbage out by HM. Ships using the island and Warwickshire at Birmingham-thres and a half per cent. Reuter's Birkenhead, who is ill with bron- The local forecast is:SE. or apparently, had little opportunity dents. These were al confiscated ring at 11:00 hours and 20.00 hours

American ServicE.

chial pneumonia-British Wireless, variable winds, light; fine, for carrying out their plans, which by the police

on Wednesday, August 18, 1980 #

London, Aug. 7.

Warwickshire's score is 102 for three wickets-Reuter.