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YO WAŒZWF THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1931. BATINGLY PURY ANN

CENTH

LOCAL BRANCH,

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"LUCIA" INCIDENT MOB STORM ARSENAL SWAMP GRIM FIGHT

SENSATION.

ADMIRALTY DISMISSING SENIOR OFFICERS.

THE FIELD.

CHINESE STAGE A SOCCER RIOT.

MANILA AFFRAY.

GRIMSBY.

NINE GOALS TO ONE IN LEAGUE GAME.

BOLTON AND BRADFORD CITY OUT OF THE CUP.

Manila, Jan. 29. Serious rioting occurred here WEDNESDAY GO DOWN. yesterday during a soccer match

MEN UPSET BY WANT OF TACT AND between the All-Filipino XI and

CONSIDERATION.

PLACED ON HALF-PAY.

with local sides.

team

NEAR LUXOR.

EXCITING BATTLE WITH BANDITS.

POLICE STRATEGY.

Cairo, Jan. 28. Thrilling reports are to hand concerning an exciting encounter between a large force of police and bandits

the Luxor an attack Tombs, following

near

DROUGHT RELIEF

FARCE.

SENATE AND PRESIDENT IN OPEN WAR.

POLITICAL COMEDY,

Washington, Jan. 28. Political circles have joined in a tragi-comic battle involving the Senator on the one hand and Pre- Rident Hoover and the Red Cross Society on the other.

The question at issue is whe shall be responsible for relief of the half-million sufferers from the i terrible drought of last summer in the agricultural States,

London, Jan. 28. the Chinan University

Bolton Wanderers, thrice win- from Shanghai which has beenners of the F.A. Cup since the engaged in a scries of games war, were eliminated from the upon an American car carrying

competition for this senson a large amount of money. at Sunderland to-day. Sunder- It appears that the car land were favourites after draw-speeding along the road ing at Bolton on Saturday and Deirbahari carrying wages for the he will refuse to accept the pro- staff of the Metropolitan Museum,posed relief fund of €$25,000,000 New York, Expedition, which is passed by the Senate. engaged in excavation work in the vicinity.

As a result, three people were badly injured, including a Filipino Police Sergeant who Intervened in the disturbance.

The riot caused the match to be they made no mistake in the SENSATIONAL development of the recent incident terminated in the second half replay. A

aboard the submarine depot-ship, H.M.S. Lucia at when the China team was lead-

Wolverhampton Wanderers dia- Devonport, was disclosed by the First Lord of the ing by two pouls to one.

trouble arose out of a disposed of Bradford City and meet Admiralty in the House of Commons last night.pute between the thinst coar Barnsley in the Fifth Round, the Commander Oswald E. Hallifax, D.S.O., the captain, nad nesman and a Filipino apce completed draw for which is Lieut. Commander J.W. Hoskyns, the Executive Officer,tator, which caused more than and the Divisional Officer concerned are to be relieved of five hundred Chinear spectators to their appointments and placed on half pay.

The Board of the Admiralty found that the lack of contentment aboard the tender was due to some extent to the want of tact and consideration by the captain and executive officer and to the incapacity of the Divisional Officer.

The Admiralty points out that there can be no excuse for disobeying orders, but has decided to reduce the sentences passed upon the four able-seamen ringleaders of the "mutiny" though the order of dismissal from His Majesty's Service made against two of them will stand, The Lucia is to be recommis- sioned with entirely new officers and men.

TRIAL SENTENCES MODIFIED.

London Jan

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Steps to take

temeture that

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Mr. A. V. Alexander, tim Fit officer, and men are Lord of the Adtuiculty, caused a formed at regard to the proper sensation in the House of Pur-prontare for tons today, when, repigiar to a plaindia, number of questions concerning

the cent ineideni

alord th

submarine clopot-skip, TEALS!

pretortite

Dismissals to Stand.

The two sentences of

migrat

rush on to the field.

A Police Sergeant and night patrolmen. In attempting to hold the crowd back, were beaten with

follows:

Birmingham Chelsea Barnsley Portsmouth Everton

Exeter City

chairs, whilst the police, who were

salated by Filipine spectators. Southport retaliated by using their clubs.

Mtogether. nine Chinese and an Filipino were arrested and best in aul for several hours.

None of the players was involved

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Sunderland

V.

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Watford. Blackburn R.

5.

Wolverhampton.

V.

West Brom. A.

Grimsby.

V.

Leeds United.

V.

Bradford.

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Sheffield Un.

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Matches are to be played on February 14th.

Eleven postponed lengue matches produced some played to-day unexpected results. The Arsenal trounced Grimsby to the tune of the ning goals to one, while LARGE BEQUESTS TO Wednesday fell badly before the

wooden-spoonista,

Pompey suffered Birmingham,, and lost at Bournemouth.

The full results are appended:

F.A. Cup Re-Plays.

Bolton W. Wolverhampton 4 Bradford C

CHARITY.

LATE SIR OFTO BEITS WILL SWORN.

London, Jan. 28, To Be Sir Die Reit, the South Alrican millionaire murdate, seloste

date has lots

at over $3,781,010, fenteather 1290,000 16

knharities, t unrion

mators

Sunderland

defent at Notts County

First Division.

2

Manchester UI. 4 S. Wednestly Manchester C. Blackpool

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Shethald U.

the weds

Birminghamı

Portsmouth

9 Grimsby

Third Division (Sruth).

National Gallery,

Dunphants include a hundred { Araunal Luck, he announced that the the from the Service in A. B. T. rat-thensand pounds to London hest. senior officers of the vessels were ton azul A. B. Edward Towl wouldpitals, £500n to King Edward's

be relieved of their appoint-stand. Kenter and British Wire-Hopital Fund, and $25,000 to the Brighton

Gillingham Imperial College of Science. ments and placed upon halt-prey fews, forthwith.

ILMS. Lugit in a versel of 5,805 The portrait of "A Dutch Lady" Exeter Lens displacement with a comple- by Terborch goes to the National Bristol Rov. ment of 202 fleers and men, Gallery, a piece from his art coller Bournemouth Originally the Hamburg-Amerika tion valued at £5.006 to the Vic-Luton The Board of the Admirally-liner Spreedwald, silt in 1907, toria and Albert Museum, and said Mr. Alexander, after studying she was captured in September, other pictures including a Graing the minutes of the special court 1914, by the cruiser Berwick and borough and a Reynolds to the Na- of inquiry ordered by Admiral Sir converted into a submarino depot tional Gallery on the death of Lady Hubert Brand, commander-in-chief

Beil.

Board's Finding.

that this was due to some extent to

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The revised follow:

First Division.

WAR

Mr. Payne, the head of the Red near Cross Society, has announced that

The chuutfour was wounded in

The Red Cross and President Hoover maintain that the ten mil- lion dollar fund now being raised

the fusillade of bullets, but he by publle subscription will be quito drove on pluckily and carried his sufficient for relief purposes in the car to safety. The police were affected areas, and they obfert to Informed of the incident and a the principle of Government ap large force was sent out to round propriations for charitable

pur up the gang.

The Senators are reported to be Three hundred police or more came into contact with the gnag furlous over the rebuff and threa-

tion

surrounded

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poses.

Paddar Blaş.

GOVERNMENT

WELL OUT OF

VITAL DIVISION.

CLEAR MAJORITY OF TWENTY-SEVEN.

TRADE DISPUTES ACT GIVEN SECOND READING.

COMMITTEE STAGE.

London, Jan. 28. The Government had rea son to feel well pleased to. night at the conclusion of the debate on the controversial Trade Disputes and Trades Unions (Amendment) Act, the division resulting in a majority of 27, much bigger than was generally antici- pated.

Later in the evening, the Liberals rallied to the support of the Government on another important vote connected with the future destinies of the Bill, and on this occasion the Govern- ment obtained a majority of 62. reading towards the end resolved between the leading lawyers of the three partion.

The discussion on the second

at a sugar plantation, in which the ten to appoint their own relief (tself more or less into a debate bandits took refuge. The plantagencies to administer the appro-

priation if the House of Repre pertatives passed it -Reuter's pollee kept up a furious exchange American Servier. of fire with the bandits until night fell.

WILA

WOR

Plantation Flooded.

1

Drawing a Line.

Str Boyd Merriman's criticism of the Mensure from the Cont MR. J. F. DARLING'S |servative henches was followed by

SILVER PLAN.

It was then decided to force the bandits front cover by flooding the plantation. The entire planta.

envered with

Water GOLD INTERESTS FAH FROM which rose to a height of eighteen

ENTHUSIASTIC. Inches. The bandits, fearing that the water would rise further and

Johannesburg, Jan. 28. That they might be drowned,

Mr. J. F. Darling's proposal for Iroko cover. Two of them were the rehabilitation of silver. which killed outright and a third was invites governments to neree, to seriously wounded. The others in their currency notes against broke through the cordou but the both vold and cilver at a given ratío

a. speech of over an hour on behalf of the Government by Mr. Craigie Altchison, K.C., who explained the difficulty of drawing a line be- tween an economle object of 1 | strike and a political object,

He contended that the phrase

in used

the Tory Act of 1927. declaring illegal coercive trikes having "any object other than a trade dispute in the industry was too narrow,

Sir John Simoh followed with a

pureuil is being continued.in order to restore the equilibrium, long attack on the l which was

he naturally interested the Rand.generally regarded as being de-.

Bruter.

BOXER INDEMNITY AGREEMENT.

MR. GEORGE LAMBERT STILL UNSATISFIED.

London, Jan. 28. In the House of Commons to-day, league tables Mr. George Lambert (Liberal) asked the Foreign Secretary what were the views of the signatories of the Washington Treaty of 1922 P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts.in regard to the "preferential treat- 24 16 5 3 78 36 37

ment uecorded to Grent Britain in the purchase of railway and other material by China."

Goals

27 16 5 6 71 45 37

27 13 #6 76 50 34

Arsenal Sir Otto Beit was a munificiunt | Wednesday .. benefactor to hospitals and science Aston Villa

25 13 7 5.69 40-33 Derby during his lifetime. Reuter.

20 11 9 8 GG 43 31 Portsmouth West Ham

20 12 6 8 60 55 30 Middlesbro' 27 12 4 11 58 55 28 Huddersfield

20 10 7 9 68 48 27 Manchester C. 27 11 5 11 46 48 27 Blackburn .. 26 10 0 10 55 50 26 Sheffield U. 26

50 26 Chelsca Liverpool Leiceater Newcastle Sunderland 25 7

INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.

NEWS AGENCY WINS CASE AT LAHORE.

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26 0 7 10

25 11 3

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Devonport, subsequent to the incident, concluded that comlitions; Son of Rear-Admiral, of contentment in the ship's com-

Commander Oswald E. Halifax, pany and the sympathy between) officers and men, which unques D.N.O. is the captain of the Lucia tionably existed in His Majesty's and is also in command of the ships generally, were very far from rond submarine flotilla of which the Lucin was the parent-ship. being realised in IL.M.S. Lucia, and He is the third son of the late want of tact and consideration on Rear-Admiral John S. Halifax the part of the Captain and the and has two brothers in the Navy. Executive Officer and incapacity Captain G. W. Halifax. daval attache at Paris, and Captain R. on the part of the Division Off-C. I. Ballifax, who commands the cer concerned.

Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the

Bolton Lahore, Jan. 28. But, he added, whatever the sup Atlantic Fleet. posed provocation, the refusal of

The question of copyright in Leeds... Commander Halifax, who is to

Birmingham Blackpool ... duty could only be treated gravely be placed on half-pas served news was raised in an action by

Grimsby in a Service whose whole existence throughout the war in submarines the Associated Press of India

+ 4 19 35 84 and purpose depended upoa obedi-nnd was awarded the D.S.O. for against the Daily Siyannt, Lahore, Manchester U. E ence to orders.

his abilities in under-sca warfare. for copying Associated Press news

from the Tribune, Lahore, thus in- !

Third Division (South). The Petty Officers aboard the

Executive Officer's Denial. fringing the copyright existing in

Goals Lucin had failed to keep theiri

this particular news, superiors informed of the exist- The Executive Officer of the The Magistrate decided that Ina-Notts County 20 16 6 4 62 30 38 ing spirit and certain indivi-Lacin is Lieut. Commander J. Wyat Shah, the editor, printer and Brighton 2 11 10 4 43 28 32 duals had fomented ill-will Hookyns, who gave evidence in the publisher of the

24 15 20 51 42 32 was Southend journal, trials of the four ringlenders by guilty and sentenced him to a finc Crystal Pal.: 25 13 57.00 49 31 among their mess-mutes.

court-martial and denisi, in cross-of one rupee.

Northampton 26-12 77 46 30 31 20 12 & GL 48.29 Brentford examination that he had been

This is the first ense of its kind Fulhara 20 120 62 50 20 aggravating the men. He admit- Nevertheless, the Boarit had deted that the Latein had not been a

in the Punjab and the second in Coventry

26 12 69. cided to reduce the sentences on happy ship in the last few mentis, Indin. In the previous case, Reu- Bournemouth the thirty men concerned in the bat denied that the change had ter's successfully sued the Deeran Exeter disobedience of the order to parade, anything to do with him

|Herald at Poona for a similar Torquay

Reduced Sentences, "

3

by substituting detention in the The Divisional Olrer concerned two cases where imprisonment cannot be identified: There is with hard labour had been award-more than one. Probably he wan od by the court-martial, and by an officer from one of the L. Class ducing the period of detention by submarines attached to the Luefa. one-third in all four court-martial cases, with a corresponding reduc tion of the punishments Indicted

on the remainder summarily.

The officers mentioned would

The Affected Sentences. The four men sentenced. by court-martial wero:

A. B. T. Gratton, three months'

A. B. Edward Towl, six months' hard labour and dismissni,

have their appointments ter-hard labour and dismissal. minated forthwith and they would be placed upon half-pay with an expression of the serl.) ous displeasure of the Board of the Admiralty.

H.M.8. Lucia would be Immedi- ately paid off and re-commissioned with now officërs and met.

olence.-Reuter.

ARBITRATION ACT PROPOSAL

PRIME MINISTER TO BRING ISSUE FORWARD.

P. W. D. L. P. A. PU.

20 10

20 27

Luton Swindon Queen's P. R. 10 11

GBlingham

Watford

Bristol R.

Clapton O.

Walsall Newport Norwich Thames

20

26 0

27 8

24 0

25 0

20 7 3 16 50 47

Mr. Henderson replied that the text of the settlement of the Bri- tish Boxer Indemnity question was sent to each of the signatories in November and no communication had been received from them.

Mr. Lambert attacked the agree. ment during the recent debate qa the Government's Bill, when

he contended that it would mirch Beltain's fair name.”—Reuter,

BRITISH AIRCRAFT

FEATURE.

NEW FORM OF FLOTATION GEAR.

London, Jan. 28. The Air Under-Secretary, Mr. F. Montague. replying in the House of Commons to a question, said. experiments on giving buoyancy to all-metal aircraft had been 29uccessful, and an order had been given that all such craft be fitted with the new form of emergency Dotation gear. In the case of the latest type, buoyancy was Included In the design-British Wireless.

26 6 4 16 28.47 10 21

6.3 17 28 60 IG

PRINCES AT BERMUDA.

ROYAL PATIENT'S CONDITION.

BULLETIN SHOWS STRENGTH MAINTAINED.

Winston's, Attack.

fr. Sanuel Eveus, a distinguich-signed to influence his fellow ed economist, and the chairman of | Liberuds to oppose the Bill on the

flext

the second reading rather thun to seek the Crown Minos, suges

It means, amendments in Committee, as was saeme Impracticakl as far as the Unica of South Afrida agreed by meeting of the Parlia is concerned that the people of nietary Party." South Africa must be sacrificed so that a esperiment may be made to overcome the world economic

This evening, Mr. Winston ertsis, and more particularly, to Churchill rose to the attack and beneft the people of India and launched a vigorous criticism of the measure. Ho defended tho The gain from such a proposal Act of 1927, passed by the Con- would accrue mainly to the pro-servative Government, which he ducers of silver in North and Southcontended still had the overwhel America.--Renter

ming approval of the mass of the nation.

Chinu

FORMER TEACHER.

IN CHINA.

HONOURED' BY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

London, Jan. 20. The University of London has conferred the degree of Doctor of Literature in Oriental Languages (Chinese) on Miss Evangeline D. Edwards, a teacher in the School of Oriental Studies in London, and formerly a teacher in China.

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This is the first occasion on which English University has con- ferred such a degree on a woman.- Reuters

AMERICAN MINE DISASTER.

TWENTY MEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION.

New York, Jan. 28: A message from Linton (In- diana) states that a score of miners were killed as the result of an ex- plosion in a mine there.Reuter's American Service.

"IMPROVING LATER."

:

The proposed measure, he de- scribed as bad for the country, bad for industry, and not really in the best interests

Trades of the Unions.

The Solicitor-General, Sir Staf- ford Cripps, said that the 1927 Act did much more than was песол sary or wise in placing restrictions on the activities of the Trades Unions.

Ample Safeguards.

The present Bill, he said, would. provide ample safeguards against any usurpation of power by the Unions. It would remove a sense of injustice felt by the Unions and

would maintain a proper

and it adequate safeguard against the usurpation of power by

any class.

eleven' The House divided at o'clock p.m., on the Conservativa motion for the rejection of the Bill, and the reault WAS AS follows:

For the Motion Against

250 277

Government maj. ':27. A number of Labour and Con- servative members were paired, and the bulk of the Liberals ab stained.

The House then passed the sec÷ ond reading of the Bill.

Small Committee.

The House subsequently rejects. od by 306 votes to 244, a motion by Mr. Baldwin that the Bill should ba considered in committeo of the whole House."

The Bill, therefore, goes to as small Standing Committee... The anticyclone has weakened The Liberals, the great majority further and is now central to the of whom abstained on the first divi-. London, Jan, 28. north of the Bonins. Another may sion supported the Government in A bulletin issued at Kensing, be forming over China. Moderate the second division. The Govern ton Palace to-night states that monsoon along the S.E. coast of ment's majority on the first -WAL Princess Beatrice, who is suffer Chins and over the China sed, larger than expected and the res A.B. Joseph Luck, six months accession to the General Act of George have arrived at Bermuda fractured forearm, has maintained morrow In North-east winds terial, shears, and the waxing o The Prince of Wales and Princeing from acute bronchitis and a Tho forecast till noon to suit was received with loud Mining All there sentences are reduced Judicial Settlement-British Wire- on their way to South America her strength during the day-moderate cloudy at first, in handkerchiefs-British -- Fis

Reuter. by one-third.“

British Wirolastic-

Fard and Reuteriida

A.B. W. J. A. Wilson, six months' detention.

detention.

London, Jan, 28. The Prime Minister to-day stated in the House of Commons that he hoped to find ilme before Easter for a motion in favour of

Arbitration Conciliation and

Bermuda, Jan. 28.

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