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BRITAIN TO IMPOSE DUTIES ON IRISH GOODS

DE VALERA

BLUFF

CALLED

COLLECTING LAND ANNUITIES

London, June 30. Mr. Stanley Baldwin

is expected to announce in the House of Commons to. day, the Government's in- tention to introduce a Bill next week empowering the: Government to collect the sum of £1,500,00 repre- senting land annuities debt, being withheld by the Irish Free State, by a duty on Irish goods imported into Britain.

It is anticipated that the Bi will provide general powers to deal with the situation as it de velops and will be passed in all its stages without delay as an emergency measure-Reuter

THE SHARPE SUICIDE

BRITISH ENQUIRY

IN AMERICA-

POLICE HELD TO BE BLAMELESS

(Reuter's Special Service).

London, June 29. The American police have been exculpated on the charge of brutal third-degree methods in connexion with the death of Miss Violet nursemaid Sharpe, the British

who committed suicide after a polico examination in regard to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping outrage.

The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Captain Anthony Eden, told the House of Commons to-day that the British Consul-i General in New York, after a care- ful examination, was convinced that Miss Sharpe was not inter- rogated under conditions of severe physical strain,

There was, therefore, no ground for official British representations; to Washington.

SUNDAY CINEMAS

BILL PASSES THIRD READING

London, Jane 29. The third reading of the Suu- day Entertainments Bill, permit- ting local authorities to reach their own decisions regarding the opening of cluemas and so on, was passed In the House of Commons by 146 votes to 55 to-night.

WUCHOW BECOMES A VENICE. The remarkable photo above shows the main street of Wuchow flooded to a depth of four feet, with boate plying for hire in the place of rickshas. The pictura was taken five days ago, since when the river has risen much higher, being now about six feet below the record.

PEACE IN LAUSANNE AFTER A STORM

PRIME MINISTER AGAIN INTERVENES

AIR OF CHEERFULNESS

Two European establishments in Wuchow marooned by the floods. On the left in the Maryknoll Convent. -

The Gladkih

Mystery New Story By Companions

Shanghai, June 30.

The Gladkin mystery is be- coming more confused than ever. French officials emphatically state that the evidence adduced so far does not prove that the missing Russian proof-reader died of violence or that he is dend at all..

· The oficiale vi, the

Chinese

Bureau of Public Safety at pre- sent are depying that Gladkih

Another strange picture taken in the heart of Wuchow's businese district, showing a large junk on ́t he extreme right among the craft

-making use of newly formed waterways.

HELEN

was ever donned, declaring INDISPOSED

tej chut his shume Uves not appear on any list in the court records throughout the month of June.

LAUSANNE, JUNE 29. IS AUSANNE

BUBBLING OVER WITH RUMOURS of all kinds, although the atmosphere

LA

The Chinese police suggest that Gladkih has been confused with another Russian, who died! in gaol of illness on June 19,

UNABLE TO PLAY YESTERDAY

M. Prémet, the inwyer who is MEN'S DOUBLES

interesting himself prominently |

in the case, yesterdy wrote

to

HARBIN RUSSIAN SCANDAL

CHAUFFEUR SHOT BY CONSULAR

OFFICIAL

DRUNKEN ORGY

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Harbin, June, 30. The veil of secrecy which has surrounded the circum- stances in which a Chinese chauffeur, who died from a bullet wound, received his injury, has been lifted.

The chauffeur, it is now alleged, was shot by the Secretary of the Soviet Consulate, M. Yakovleft, when the latter was drunk. Tho shooting took place on May 22 and the man died on May 28. The facts or the allegations have only just been revealed.

M. Yakovled, who had been nicknamed "Uncle Misha" in Harbin, is a well-known cabaret habitué, and it is declared that he was accustomed to threaten the cabaret girls with his revolver, which he always carried.

AN ACCIDENT.

THE NAPIER another Russias on the morning

WILL

MISTRESS TO MAKE ALLOWANCE TO WIDOW

the French Consular Court de- HUGHES AND PERRY claring that Gladkih was sentenced. to seven days imprisonmont June 17 and should have been set free on June 21,

The O IN SEMI-FINAL

SICK ON ARRIVAL According to the three Rus- sians who gave evidence of oc- Gludkilt currences in the gnol,

was sick on his arrival in guol and while the Chinese authorities?

is much less tense after a Franco-German thunderstormties necessary for his release, he last night, caused by German allegations of misrepre- sentations in the French newspapers.

He was on his way home with

of May 22, when he presumably fired the revolver in a spirit of drunken abandon and accidentally wounded the chauffeur, who was | driving_a_hired car.

It is said that M. Yakovleff was accompanied by M. Vladimiroff, the secretary to the manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, M. Vladimiroff. who is suspected of being implicated in the affair, left Harbin for Moscow on June 2.

(Router's Special Service).

It is said that the authorities

London. June 29.

are now applying for the extradi. tion of M. Yakovleft und M. enormous legal expenses Virdimiroff. which would certainly have been incurred in the Napier Will dis pute action In the Probate Court,

had it been fought to the bitter PHILLIES BLANKED BY

end, have been considerably cur- tailed by an unexpected announce-| ment that the case has been settled by agreement.

£1,250,000, left by the automobile.

THE DODGERS

The amount at stake was over Yankees Take Another expert, the late Mr. M. S. Napier Win From Washington

London, June 29. Britain, America and France to-day qualified for the semi-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, while Miss Helen Jacobs sensa- tionally defeated Madame were going through the formali-

Mathieu to establish the ex- treme probability of an all- [died of dysentery and was buried i American women's final.

to Mrs. Fryer under a will dated at Pootung.

Miss Mary Heeley

1923. The widew, Mrs. Napier, hau done The Russians assert that no doce-extremely well, but is not

claimed on behalf of herself and

New York; Juno 29. con- for was called to attend to him.sidored good enough to extend four children, that the 1923 will Hack Wilson scored his fifteenth To-day it was reported widely that in response to the burial-place of the body Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody. Another was obtained by undue influence home run of the season to-day when urgent appeals by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Herr Von is found, it will be exhumed by factor has, however, entered into and asked for the 1916 will to be Brooklyn ahut-out Philadelphia Papon had accepted the principle of making a final pay-the French authorities in an effort the question. The semi-final be granted prolmate.

Phillies in a vital game. Averill, the It was stated that Mr. Napier big-hitter of the Cleveland Indians, to establish the cause of death-tween Mrs. Moody and ment in lieu of reparations, but only when normal con- Rester.

Heeley should have been played 1916 to his death. She was thetroit, but his hitting did not inter- had lived with Mrs. Fryer from obtained a four-bagger against De- ditions are restored in Germany.

yesterday. Mrs. Moody was insole beneficiary ander the 1923 rupt the Tigers' success sequence. disposed and permission

was will. given for a postponement. Such

To-day it was announced that postponement cannot, of course, Mrs. Fryer had agreed to allow

National League. go on indefinitely. Mrs. Moody is Mrs. Napier's wife the sum of £20,- Philadelphia 0 Brooklyn not seriously unwell, however, 000 and £3,000 per annum. Mrs. Cincinnati and it is expected that she will Napier agreeing to withdraw the be fit to play, perhaps to-morrow reflections

Within a few minutes of information that the re- Democratic

port was in circulation, official German quarters totally

denied that Herr Von had agreed to any such proposal. Party

Mr. MacDonald is cheerful and declares that every-

thing is going all right. M. Herriot is also cheerful. Sensation

He said he had always been an optimist. Asked whether the Conference would continue, another French dele- gate declared: "It will continue more than ever."

VON PAPEN AND FRENCH REPORTS

During the debate, a new clause was moved on behalf of the Gov- ernment providing that five

per cent, of the sum car-marked for

Loudge. June 29, MacDonald would to-day report on charity out of the profits of Sun- Important developments oethe position arising from the day performances should be trans-curred to-day in the Reparations Franco-German conversations to ferred to a Cinematograph Fund Conference at Lausanne when the the six inviting Powers.

JAPAN'S AIR FORCE IN MANCHURIA

between the dele.

GERMAN ATTITUDE.

CLEAN BREAK WITH PROHIBITION

Chicago, June 29. A sensation has been created by an unexpected turn of events at the Demo- cratic Convention at Chi- cago, which has been com- mitted to a policy of Prohi- bition Repeal.

favourite for

tho

Miga

HUGHES AND PERRY. Britain's representatives in the Men's Doubles semi-Anal are

G. P. Hughes and F. J. "Perry,

our Davis Cup pair of last season, They have been playing splendid- ly together and are conceded more than an outside chance for

upan ber testamentary capacity.

Results:

7

9 Яt. Lauls

10.

husband's

American League,

New York Cleveland St. Louis

6 Washington

5

4 Detroit

6 Chicago

13 1

HONGKONG DOLLAR UP SLIGHTLY

the title, although Allison and BUT MARKET RATHER Van Ryn, the holders, will take a lot of benting.

Hughes and Perry to-day

de-

# foated Sidnoy Wood and Gregory

EASY

The Hongkong dellar rose 1/8th

The American League matches played on June 23 which were muti. lated, resulted as follows: Boston

3. Detroit Philadelphin

4 Chicago

J

-Router.

COMMUNAL RIOTS RECUR

In

Bombay, June 20, J rise of Two persona were killed and steady ninety Injured in grave rioting be-

Lween Hindus and Moslems North Bombay to-day,"

The police were compelled to open fire on the maddened crowda on four occasions.-Reuter,

this morning to 18. 3.1/8d., but The decision was reached to-day Mnagin (U.S.A.), in straight sets, there is a slightly easier under- to be established under the direc-critical phase in its proceedings The cloud was.cust over the con-by the Platform Committee of after some strenuous battling in tone to the market, very little tion of the Privy Council for the was turned, largely owing to the ference, however, when this morn- the Convention, the voting being 35 the first two.

businode passing.

In London, silver lg up i/16th. purpose of encouraging the use intervention of the British Prime ing Von Papen's outline of Tues-In favour of adopting a straight HOLDERS IN KEEN FIGHT. and development of cinematograph Minister, Mr. Bamsay MacDonald day's conversations was publish- Repent plank and eightcon against.

China bought and there was small|TWO KILLED AND 90 Allison and Van Ryn eliminated business on a quiet market. After as a means of entertainment and

The decision was most Unex- The publication by the Gormuned to correct what it was stated Instruction. Reuter and. British

INJURED Menzel and Oll by three sets the oilleial fixing, the market ruled it was generally suppos- Wireless.

Chancellor, Herr Von Papen of a were misleading reporta in the pectod.

to оле. This od that the Committee, which is

provided

aquietly stendy, with amall buyers statement ranging over the long French press..

thrilling contest. Monzel and at the quoted rates. practically controlled by Mr. conversations which took place

Oliff wore a sot-all at the end of New York repòrta Franklin Roosevelt, the Governor yesterday gates of France, Germany and In the course of the Von Papen of New York State and the the second and acomad likely to 1/16th in silver, on

win the third, Thoy faltered, market. Presidential Britain suggested that the con announcement, it was stated that nomination, was planning to avoid the American to break through howover, and 6-6 was called, for ference was on the verge of break- Mr. MacDonald asked the Gor: definitely committing the Party to and capture the next two games down.

Mr. J. W. Franks, according to These fears were allayod man Chancellor whether he could repeal.

report issued from Polles Head- after a further meating hold this bring about a final solution.

The second plank adopted by for the decisivo sot.

quarters, lost an umbrolia valued at evening, at which the six inviting The Gorman Chancellor. It in

the Committeo is a declaration Boussus and forlin are other $16 either on a Kowloon bus or at the Powers proceeded to make stated, replied as follows: "The

against the cancellation of war contenders which are certainly Star Ferry last week. arrangements for the completion confitence of the world can only

debte.

not to be despised. The French of the work of the conference. be restored if the victorious

This decision was, of course, pair to-day defeated Mikl and Powers could decide to romove very much expected as any other Jiro Sato by three sets to CLOUD CAST.

the discriminations. contained in polley would undoubtedly injure Scorea: Many of them are tri-motored | At the conclusion of yesterday's the Treaty of Versailles. If, in the Party's prospects among the

MEN'S DOUBLES. bombing planes,--Heuter's Special meeting, a communique was issued this manner, German equality and farming fratornicles of the Middle to "Telegraph."

that the President, Mr. Ramsay (Continued on Page 7.) West-Reuter.

RIGHTY PLANES IN THE REGION OF HARBIN,

Harbin, June 30. The strength of the Japaneso Air Force in this region is now sad to be eighty neroplanos as the minimum.

ono.

A Chinese who was found wander. ing about Queen's Road West, near Injuries sustained in a fall into the Water Street, in the nude, caurod mucli axeltepient yesterday, 'It' was nullah at Hill Road, West Point, deemed that the man must be insane. necessitated the removal to the and he was taken to the Government Government Civil Hospital yesterday G. P. Hughes and F. J. Perry (Dri- of Yuen Bing-hi, aged 28, of-09, Firat Civil Hospital for examination. There he was certified as being Insano and (Continued on Page 7

was removed to the Mental Hospital

Street.