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-No. 14004

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1933, 日十初月六

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MONDAY

KOWLOON COAL DUMP SCANDAL GANDHI ARRESTED WITH

SPECIAL

· COMMITTEE

FORMED

PRIVATE MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT

A DEPUTATION LIKELY

The Telegraph was reliably in- formed this morning that it is

Another view of the coal dump at Blackhead Point, extending into the

not now the intention of proper U.S. PROSPERITY

ty owners and principal tenants

in the vicinity of the coal dumpt at Blackhead Point to petition the Governor-in-Council imme- "diately regarding the nuisance,

The matter, no understand, wha given careful consideration at a amall, preliminary meeting. last evening, and it was the general opinion of those present that it would be inndvisable to petition the Government until it was as eertained what steps if any, were proposed to dispose of the cause of complaint.

COMMITTEE APPOINTED.

DRIVE

NEW FIGURES ON

THE BOARD

LABOUR GAINS A "POINT

distance.

Washington, July 31. The National Recovery Ad- ministration has been strengthen- ed by the appoinment to the In-

GALE IN CHANNEL

KING'S YACHT

NACED

STEALE OUT-OF CONTROL

London, July 31, High wilds and heavy seas swept thenglish coasts to-day,' causing some considerable inter® ference with shipping services.

ENGLAND'S TEST TEAM

THREE CHANGES IN THE SIDE

SUTCLIFFE ASKS TO STAND DOWN

London, July 31.

The changes have been made in England's team to meet the West Indies in the Third Test match at the Oval starting on Saturday week.

R. W. V.. Robins, Herbert

DAVIS CUP Channel and crowds of holiday Sutcliffe and C. G. Macauley are

TEAM LIONISED

GREAT WELCOME.

AT-VICTORIA

PERRY CARRIED SHOULDER-HIGH

It was particularly rough in the makers at the seaside resorts turn ed out to sco great waves dashing over the piers and seawalls.

Several craft got into difculties, but no serius mishap occurred.

COWES INCIDENT.

The Royal Yacht, Victória and Albert, which is the headquarters of Their Majesties the King and Queen durbig their stay at Cowes, was compelled to send out a pinnace to the assistance of a Portsmouth Isle of Wight paddle steamer which carried by the gale and strong tides fouled some yachts in the roads.

At one time, with tho steamer London, July 31.

sweeping down more or less out Scenes of wild enthusiasm of control, the King's yacht "Bri- Last night's meeting was con-

tannia" was seriously endanger- vened by Mr. J. A. Tarrant, a re-dustrial Advisory Board of Mr. were witnessed at Victoria Sta-ed, but when, a collision seemed sident, and after some discussion James Moffett, who resigned his tion to-day when the triumphant likely, the paddle steamer dropped

small committee was appointed, comprising Messrs. A. S. Sykes, directorship of the Standard Oil British Davis Cup team was wel- both her anchors and they held

her clear N representing Messrs. David and Company of New Jersey to sup-comed home with the Cup. Co., who are interested in numer; port the campaign.

The platform Itsolf was lined ous properties in the.. "afflicted area," as chairman, R. J. Shrigley, Other prominent figures in com with a crowd from five to six deep representing Mesars. Reles, Maa-mercial and industrial life whe and nutsfile there was another sey and Ca, leasees for the Span; have joined the Board are Mr. huge crowd.

TOWED CLEAR,

Ther was later., towed clear, when the galt had modernt somewhat.

Owing to the gale, the Regatta

ish Procaration; C. E. Terry, Harry Harriman, the President of A great roar went up as the of the Royal Yacht Club was post- President of the Kowloon Rethe United States Chamber of players, H.-W. Austin, F. J. Perry, poned for the first time in ita

H. Commerce, and Mr. R. L. Lund, the 6. P. Hughes and H. G. N. Loe history-Reuter. sidents' Association, F. Leseby_and_Dr. J. Durran, which President of the Manufacturers stepped-off the train accompanied

re-Association, was, empowered to draft R solution, to be submitted to a general meeting which will be hold at the Peninsula Hotel this even- ing, condemning the coal dump, ns a public rulaanco.

FINDING OUT.

One member of the committee informed our representative this morning that they had no know- ledge yet us' to what the Govern-

ment's intentions were.

by Mr. Roper Barrett, the non-| !playing captain, who was carry, [ing the cup.

The crowd surged to and fro

`LONDON SWELTERS.

IN HEAT..

LABOUR WINS,

London, July 26. Washington, July 31. Organised labour won the Arst

To-day was the hottest day of round of the struggle to thresh out and finally broke through the the year in London, the shudo tem- a National Recovery Code for the cordon, rushing Perry, the hero of perature for sixteen hours being ateel industry at this morning's the occasion thanks to hla gront 88 degrees. hearing before the Administrator, victory over Cochet, and after a The intense heat caused several Brigadier-General Hugh Johnson. struggle, he was lifted shoulder-cases of collapse among gromen at The employers, who are tradi-high and carried out of the station Goodwood, where the 183rd race

meeting is being held.---Renter. › tionally opposed to the independ-in triumph.

ent organisation of labour by out-! His Majesty telgraphed his con- sido bodies such as the United 'gratulations from Cowen-Reuter, Instead of rushing through a States Federation of Labour, sub-. petition and getting signatures, it mitted a Code.specifically provid-1 was considered more advisable to Ing for a "Company Unlona" sys

Bind out exactly where they stood. tem, under which the workers of JUNK UNDER WAY

Their resolution, if adopted this each Company will be organised.

de-under Company officials. evering, would result in putation to be, appointed at the meating, interviewing the Colonial

OWN METHODS."-

Secretary for the purpose of ob- An attack on the "Company Un- taining a definite Governmentions" system by a spokesman of the Federation of Labour was sup-

statement.

as the residents are concerned the clause. will be dropped.

WITHOUT CREW

Found With Sails Set Near Cheungchau

ON THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER

London Watching Events Closely

London, July 31.- if the Government had already ported by General Johnson and

Developments in the altuation decided to take action which met Mr. Thomas Lamont, President of

When in charge of a Preventive on the North-west Frontier of with approval, the matter as far the Iron and Steel Institute, and

it was finally agreed to withdraw patrol launch off Lamma Island India are being closely watched

Hore. last night, Revenue Officer Ward

Troops are advancing from The workers are thus technical-saw a fishing junk drifting out of

Pashawar to the support of tho If, on the other hand, the stately free to choose their own mb Cheungchau. The sails were fully loyal Halemgai tribe, which is ment was hot satisfactory or in-thods of labour organisation, formation was refused, it is prob though Mr. Lamont added that act, but the craft was without a threatened by the neighbouring

tribe of Mohmands. able that a petition will be drafted owners will still endeavour to con- erow. and sent to H.E. the Governor-in-tinue to deal with employees. The Revenue launch towed the India's demand for the surrender Meanwhile, the Government of

Council.

"Wo"want to know exactly where wo stand at the present time," the member concluded,

COMMUNIST PLOT FRUSTRATED

ATTEMPT TO STIR UP PORTUGUESE NAVY

through the "Company Unfons."

..

out, Sutcliffe being excused on the grounds of not being quite fit and Macauley presumably I losing his place owing to his injury

The selectors have adopted u very bold attitude in facing this position.

THE TEAM,

WHOLE PARTY

September.

The maits for the new Z.B.W Tiation at Hunghom, which it exi Bakewell, prolife Northants l-pected to begin transmissions in scorer, has been brought in forj Sutellife; Nichols, who has been bowling exceptionally well for Esax. displaces incnuley, and C. S. Matriotti – schoolmaster and Kent county cricketer, occupies Robins's position. The team will therefore be

D. R. Jardine (Surrey) Capt. RES. Wyntt (Warwick)

C. F. Walters (Worcester) C. S. Marriott (Kent)

Hammond (Gloucester)

Ames (Kent)

'Langridge, Jas (Sussex)

· Verity (Yorkshire) Nichole (Essex):

Clark (Northants): Bakewell (Northants) Townsend (Derbyshire) 12th

Man.

AWAKENED AT 1.40 A.M.

DISOBEDIENCE MARCH NIPPED IN BUD

Ahmedabad, Aug. 1

The Mahatma Gandhi and Mrs. Gandhi were ar- rested at 1,40 a‚m. to-day,

The Congress leader was stay- ing in a bungalow belonging to a wealthy mill-owner, Mra Ranchood Das and had retired.

He was sleeping soundly when hawas wakened up by a crowd rush- Ingsanstonha District Magie- trate and the District Superinter-- dent were scen to arrive in our cars, accompanied by a aquad of police officers,

Gandhi' called the inmates to gether, prayed and then surrenders ed. Plan

WHOLE PARTY GAOLED

All the other, niombers of the

Mahedav Desal, Gandhi'a secre tary, and thirty-two Aphranitça;

LONDON TUBE party were arrested, including

EXTENSION

TWENTY-FIVE MILES ON THE UNDERGROUND

NEW SECTION OPENED

London, July 81.

All of them have been placed in the gool at Sabarmati.

Warning that this would be tha probable outcome of Gandhi's dem

clored intention of beginning a

..:

naw civil disobedienco march was given by officials at Simtu some hours before, it being l dicated that the authorities woul probably arrest Gandhi to-day, ani soon as the march began,

NOT ALLOWED TO START........

In fact, they did not wait for The selectors have apparently

the march to begin. The authori The last section of the ties apparently decided upon -been-lüfluenced by the constant

Failure of the West Indies to face Tube railway extension from arrest before the atart was made. The march, in which Mrsz confidently spin bowling.

South Harrow to. Cock-Gandhi and fifteen other women MARRIOTT'S PECULIARITIES. fosters was opened to the were to have participated, was

planned to start from Ahmedabad." Thus C. S. Marriott, one of the public to-day,

The marchers were to go to a cleverest slow bowlers in the coun- The Tube railway which

is village in the Ras Kalra district try has been given his chance. twenty-five milles fong In the and there launch a new civil dis- Unfortunately Marriott is at the longest underground in the world obedience movement with an disadvantage of being unable to and the new addition just com- appeal to the villagers. take part in first class cricket pleted has cost about £6,000,000. Civil disobedience has been until late in the season when the schools broak up. But already attained. Is three miles in Ave and in announcing his march, was On some sections, the speed now rapidly dying out in India latterly this summer he has met with minutes.

In conflict with the bulk of opinion marked success for Kont and Cockfosters wha formerly with Freeman, forms very rural country spol, but housing

in the Congress Party-Reuters: dangerous attack. His delivery estates have rapidly increased in is most peculiar. He takes his numbers during recent years and run of some half a dozen paces it is estimated that the population from directly behind the umpire of the, neighbourhood will increase and thereby conceals his finger and by 60,000 within the next. wrist action until the very last years. British Wireless

A

minute. In actually delivering the ball Marriott takes his right arm right back with the hand touching the left shoulder blade, In Kent he is, popularly called the "anake-charmer" owing to the ex- aggerated movement of his arma and shoulders whilst bowling,

few.

AN OLD THEORY CHALLENGED

MEERUT CASE ON APPEAL

DEFENCE COUNSEL'S

CONTENTION

Allahabad, July 25, Expected to last two months, the appeal in the Medrut con. piracy case has been taken my by the High Court

ASIA NOT BIRTHPLACE BATTING STRENGTH.

• OF HUMAN RACE Nichola has earned a place on

The appellants are three Eng his consistent form. His latest

Washington, July 24 shmon and 24 others who, werd success was 7 for 52 against Glou The theory of Dr. Henry Fair sontenced on January 16 to conter last week, and this laid the field Osborn and Dr. Roy Chap various terms, ranging from foundation for the big Easex win. man Andrews that the birthplace transportation for life' to 'amall-

Bakewell's Introductions will be of the human race was in Asia terms of Imprisonment, on a | junk to · Aberdeen, where It Is by the Bajauri tribesmen of cor- | generally accepted with pleasure, has been disproved by discoverice charge of conspiring to deprive : The owners' Code provides a

whose conduct His batting form has been vary in Africa, Professor. A. S.-Wood- the King of his sovereignty, 40-hour week and a minimum hoped to clear up the mystery by tain agitators

threatens peace and the fulfilment good this year and recognition was word, the British geologist, sald⠀⠀ The trial lasted over three weekly wnge of fifteen dollars its number 3311.

of International obligations', bna. | overdue.

to-day,

years. Philip Spratt and B. F. Reuter

not been compiled with.

Once again England has a Dr. Woodward. In addrossing Bradley, the Englishmen, who are Royal Air Force neroplanes ac- powerful batting side, and if a the Geological Congress, described alleged to have financed the plot..

little weak in fast bowlers. Clark in detail some of the work that were sentenced to ten years Im and Nichols being the only two, has been carried on In Africa.. prisonment each, while thero le quito an array of sound, Human remains and further Hutchinson received four y change. bowlers including Mar- evidences of the origin of the Figorous imprisonment. riott, James Langridge, Hammond human rece have been found in The main contantion" of and Wyatt-Reuter,

PROSPERITY.

Lasting prosperity cannot be at CEMENT COMPANY

talnod in a nation that is half] booming and half penniless is the attitude adopted by President Roosevelt.

The President made it plain that

it was the Administration's opt- Infon that, if industry co-operated with the Government as fully as

RUMOURS

PLANT SALE STORY

- QUITE UNTRUE

Rumour to the effect that the

Lisbon, July 20. The vigilance of the Potruguese did agriculture in reducing the Green Island Cement Company

acreage, unemployment polleo has resulted in folling a cotton large-scale Communist plot in would coase and none would suffer have disposed of their plant which the conspirators aimed at because of economic conditions.to the value of over $1,000,000 creating disaffection in the army By shortening the hours of dawore gunshed this morning and navy by the circulation of in-bour, over-production will be pro- by Mr. Allan Keith, the secre flammatory pamphilots,

vented, the President declared,

Company, who Soveral of the leading plotters and by a reasonable Increase Intary of the have been arrested and, in a rald wages, which industry can afford, informed the Telegraph that the conducted. to-day, the police the country's Buying power will be rumours were entirely untrue," seized a large quantity of subvor increased in a short time to a point wiye literature intended. for dis- where economic suffering and un tribution, Neuter, honorka employment will conse,

ANSWER TO CRITICS.

didderporn feft. Singapore

the benefit of critics watcho

་་;

cordingly have flown over Bajaur and to-day dropped notices warn ing the villages of their intention to bomb certain officially fixed ob Joctives. Tho. aeroplanes were rel at when over the village of Klar.-British Wireless,›

FAIRBANKS' RELATIONS

Rumours of Impending",

Divorce

UNEMPLOYMENT

goological formatione In Africa Kabju, counsel for the appellants, older than those found anywhore la that a man cannot be prosecut- In Asia; Dr. Woodward said. These ed for holding views. Although formations are considerably older tho accused, believed in the geologically than those “sur- ultimate Ingvitability of a rayolus rounding the Peking Man. There tion, the contingency was so |le ample evidence that the human remote that their activities could. race had its beginnings in Africa, not be considered a conspiracy. ha nddød, MN

against the King, he asserted to ve day --Reuter.

Rumours of an impending was committed by Mr. Wyne-Jones FOREIGN LIQUORS more of a certainty day by s

Reno, Nevada, July 25. divorce between Miss Mary Picks ford and her husband, Mr. Dou- glas Fairbanks, are rifo here but hitirerto ho direct confirmation is

gramme was breaking down under obtainable,

its own weight, the President Miss Pickford, who admitted point to the things that the d: home? Ime ago that she was ministration has done, andrisays "romanbod from her husband, said

IN COLONY

SKIPPER GOES TO

· DETENTION HOUSE George Harold Horn, aged 48, and unemployed master mariner," this morning to the House of De tention under the Vagrancy Act,

It was stated by Detective-Sor- goaht Mottram that defendant had fallen out of a job. He had been in the House of Detention ped viously, just for one day, but YCA: terday:ho had to give himselʻun

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