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POLICE OFFICER SHOT DOWN,

SEQUEL TO AMBUSH IN SINGAPORE.

ROBBER CAUGHT.

Singapore Sept, 4.

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930.

A police ambush for a gang of Chinese robbers, in the Katong dis trict, Singapore, last night resulted in the shooting down of Mr. B. F. Oakeshott, A.S.P., in charge of the Rochore Division. Fortunately the wound is not considered serious, but Mr. Oakeshott, who is now in the General Hospital, will have to undergo an operation for the ex- tration of the bullet, which is lodged in his neck.

Was

COAL DELEGATION | YACHTS TAKE TO

FROM BRITAIN. THE WATER.

REPRESENTATIVE BODY FOR SPORTING SPIRIT BETWEEN

SCANDINAVIA.

TO STUDY MARKET.

London Sept. 11-

THE RIVALS.

RACE ON SATURDAY.

Newport (Rhode 18.) Sept. 11. The Parliamentary Secretary to Glistening with new paint and the Mines Department. Mr. Shin- the under-body polished to a fine well, and a delegation representive sheen, Shamrock the Fifth, Sir of the British coal industry general- Thomas Lipton's lastest challenger ly, will leave London this week-end for the America Cup, re-entered on a fortnight's tour in Sweden, the water to-day for the final Norway, and Denmark, They will stage of preparation prior to reach Stockholm or Monday and will Saturday's race. also visit Oslo, Bergen, Gothenburg A similar scene was enacted at and Copenhagen in turn.

Bristol where the tuned-up Enter- prise, the American defender, was relaunched.

defender.

All the exporting coalfields, as well as coal exporters, will be re-

Mr. Nicholson, who designed 4 represented in the delegation, whose Inquiries made by presentative of the Straits purpose will be to study the Shamrock the Fifth, visited the Times show that the scene

Scandinavian market with a view yards and inspected the Enter- the encounter between the police to improving the demand for Bri- prise yesterday. Never bfore in party and the gangsters

tish coal. This will be the first the history of the Cup has a mem- a fairly large Chinese sundry goods occasion on which a delegation of ber of the opposing crew been per- shop, standing by itself, at the junc-inquiry has been fully representa-mitted to inspect the tion of Meyer Road and Crescent tive of all the interests involved,. The incident is typical of the sporting spirit in Road in the vicinity of the Sea

The new Coal Mines Act, by thoroughly View Hotel.

Acting on information received, providing for organisation of the which everything is being conduct- mining industry both nationally ed Reuter's American Service. Mr. Oakeshott and Inspector Chai and by districts, has made it possi-

Newport, Sept. 11. Their "toilets" having been' com- headed a party of police to the shop.ble for the industry to develop a pleted, the Shamrock and Enter- where the robbers were expected to make an entry at 9 o'clock. The national policy in regard to foreign prise will be launched this morning police divided themselves into two Mr. parties, and one, headed by Oakeshott, was concealed inside the shop, which was closed. The other party, under Inspector Chai, took up positions out side the shop and awaited the arrival of the robbers

Two. Shots Fired.

At about 10 o'clock four, Chinese were seen to approach the shop which was still lighted inside, and in answer to their knocks the door! was opened to them. The robbers, to be armed, who were known wasted no time in bursting in, and im Inspector Chai and his men mediately closed in on them from outside. It is said that the moment the door was closed two shots were heard inside the shop..

There was a stampede, and burst, ing the door open, the four robbers gained the outside. Inspector Chai tackled one of them and succeeeded in holding on to him until other detectives came up to give him a hand. The remaining three man- aged to evade arrest and are still

at large.

Hearing the noise of revolver fire, some Europeans who lived near by came on the scene and at- tended to Mr. Oakeshott while awaiting the arrival of the ambu- lance which had been telephoned

for.

Detective Branch was communi- cated with, and Mr. E. Tongue, A.S.P., and other officers 'arrived later.

At the General Hospital it was discovered that the bullet had hit Mr. Oakeshott in the upper arm and travelled up and lodged in the region of the windpipe.

The robber who was captured by Inspector Chai was found to be in possession of a dagger. He was produced in the Police Court this morning and remanded on a charge of attempted armed robbery.

AMERICAN TENNIS

CHAMPIONSHIP.

TILDEN CONTINUES TO TRIUMPH.

Forest Hills, Sept. 11. The quarter finals of the Ameri can Lawn Tennis Singles Cham- pionships were played to-day, re- sulting as follows:

Doeg beat Hunter 11/13, 6/4, 6/3.

Tilden beat van Ryn 4/6, 6/2, 6/4, 6/4.

Shields beat Mangin 3/6, 6/8, 6/2, 6/1, 6/1.

Wood beat Sutter 6/4, 6/3, 2/6, 7/5.

Mangin wrenched his leg during his match, but. he played out the contest-Reuter's American Ser-

vice.

END OF TEXTILE STRIKE.

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE AT TOURCOING.

Roubaix, Sept. 11. The owners of the Tourcoing textile mills have accepted new proposals made by the Minister of Labour for a settlement of the textile strike which has now listed six weeks. Work is to be resumed on Monday.-Reuter.

LEAGUE HONOUR SIAM PRINCE.

markets. British Wireless.

SALT. INDUSTRY IN

INDIA.

SWEEPING PROPOSALS OF TARIFF BOARD,

Simla, Sept. 11. The report of the Tariff Board on the salt industry in India ro- commends that the Government develop the sources of supply and introduce stability prices by as- suming control of the import of salt to Bengal, which is now in private hands.

The report also suggests the establishment of a public utility company, with a limited rate of profits, which would be constituted as a marketing board and would have charge of the import and sale in North India.

There would be permanent Government representation on the Board, as a safeguard against the

profiteering or Board's ciency-Renter.

ineffi-

AMERICAN BASEBALL

RESULTS:

NEW YORK DEFEATED BY ST. LOUIS.

New York, Sept. 11. The following are the results of the baseball matches played in the National and American Leagues to- day:

New York Brooklyn Boston

National,

4 St. Louis

2 Chicago

2 Pittsburgh

Philadelphia 15 Cincinnati

Cleveland.

Chicago

St. Louis

American.

9 New York

4 Boston

7 Washington -Reuter's American Service.,

STROMBOLI BURSTS INTO ACTIVITY.

LIPARI ISLAND ROCKED BY EARTHQUAKE,

Rome, Sept. 11, With a thunderous explosion, Stromobol! suddenly erupted to- day, the whole cone of the vol- cano shooting up into the air The lava caused a number fires in surrounding hamlets,

of

Lipari, the island. home of political spspect was simul- taneously rocked by an earth- quake. Stromboli is now surmount-

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and kept on the move more or less until Friday,

Mr. Nicholson, the Shamrock's de signer, who is a guest of Mr. Starling Burgess, the designer of the Enter prise, had his first view of the de- fender out of the water; and this is further evidence of the cordiality characterising the relations of the personnel of the competing yachts.

It is learned authoritatively, that the four yachts built for the defence of the Cup cost not over half a million dollars each, fully equipped. The Enterprise, which cost $630,000, was the most expensive to build.--Reuter's American Service.

REVENUE OFFICER

CONVICTED.

THE HARBOUR OPIUM CASE CONCLUDES.

In connexion with the case of the Chinese Revenue Officer and two others, charged with pos- Bession of over 800 taels př illicit opium which Was found on a motor boat in the harbour. Mr. Lindsell, after expressing the wish to carry out an experiment to see whether a parcel of opium wrapped up in paper would float or sink, later' accepted the evidence before him and registered convictiba against the defendants:

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The first was given twelve months' hard, labour and the other two nine months' each.

ALLEGED "REDS" IN CAIRO.

· IMPORTANCE ATTACHED TO FOUR ARRESTS,

'Cairo, Sept. 11.

Importance is attached to the ar- Fest of two men and two. women Communists who are alleged to be agents of the Soviet International, Paul Dietrich is a German who has has just arrived from Berlin, while the other man, Wolfblau," is a Russian Jew and a member of the Palestinian Communists.

The two women, Enrlich and Nomburg, are Russian Jewesses and secretaries of Dietrich, who was found in possession of violent- ly anti-British documents.-Reu- ter.

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THE AWARD TO LENA GOLDFIELDS..

PRAVDA ON THE CHANCES

OF PAYMENT.. :

Riga, Sept. 11. “Just as much chance of obtain-

ed by a dense halo of smoke. Onctaining the money as raising it on death is reported..-Reuter,

n used tram-ticket" says the Mos cow Pravda commenting on the. award of $13,000,000 to the Lena

WOUNDED HEROES OF Goldfields against the Soviet Gov-

THE WAR.

ernment. The journal adds that two grown-ups (Dr. Otto Stutzer and Sir Leslie Scott) played a childish game, but the trained pigs ENTERTAINED BY THE KING of the Moscow circus played it bet-

AND QUEEN.

ter."

r."--Reuter.

London, Sept. 11. About 150 wounded ex-Service men, who are still under treatment in various London hospitals under the aegis of the Ministry of Pen- FORsions, were entertained by invita

tion of the King and Queen at -Buckingham Palace this after- noon. It was the third party of CHAIRMAN OF THE AGENDA its kind held recently Brilish

Wireless.

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Eren sparkis in the darkna a; Invisible fist stalk the athira; a pair of hands, ssomingly defachad from any budy, clutch in the darkness. Test imagise: Tokarming Father is ston trapped in aden of ghosts - she and her swastheart

Geneva, Sept. 11. the sliyibings of the goblist—and then the curtain goes up and laughs

Prince Varnvaidya, head of the

The Fourth Annual General Siamese delegation to the NATHAN ROAD, * KOWLOON, VEN League Assembly, has been elect Meeting of the Reel Club is adver- ed chairman of the Agenda Com- tised to take place on 17th Septem- mittee and a member of the ber, at 5.16 p.m. at Lane, Craw

Committeb

the

ford's Restaurant (Small Dining General

Room). Assembly Reuter,

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SENIOR GRAND PRIX RACE.

CLOSE FINISH IN MOTOR. CYCLE EVENT.

London, Sept. 11. L. R. Morrill, of Southport, Lancashire, riding a Rudge ma chine, won the 226 miles race for the Manx Motor Cycling Club Senior Grand Prix to-day by only 19 seconds, his average speed be. ing 69.49 miles per hour:

G. W. Wood, also on a Budge, was second. There were 47 star- ters.-British Wireless.

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