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DUBLIN MOB THREATENS O'DUFFY BLUE-SHIRTS

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AMATEUR STATUS OF VINES

Subject of Enquiry in United States

New York, Aug. 8. Mr. Louis Carruthers. chairman of the amateur rules committco of the U.S.L.T.A. states that the amateur status of Ellsworth Vines is now under investi- gation as the result of wide- spread reports linking his name with professional offers.

It was recently reported that an offer of $100,000

made to. Vines induce him to turn pro- fessional-Reuter,

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to

MONEYLENDER'S CLAIM

A SPECIAL JURY EMPANELLED

IMPORTANT CASE OPENS

A claim for over $25,000 against former colleague for alleged malicious prosecution and false imprisonment was commenced by an Indian registered moneylender at the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice Mr. J. R. Wood, this morning.

The parties are Hazara Singh, a registered money lender, of 8, Morrison Hill Road, and Sawan, also a registered money lender, of 9, Morrison Hill Road.

Singh

Acute Political Tension: Clash Feared on Sunday

BATON CHARGE ON

CROWDS

LIVELY STREET SCENES LAST NIGHT

DE VALERA ANXIOUS

DUBLIN, AUGUST 9. STONES, BOOING AND HISSING FROM A CROWD OF OVER FIVE THOUSAND GREETED THE APPEARANCE OF A BAND OF "BLUE- SHIRTS" IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN THIS EVENING, GIVING A FORETASTE OF THE GROWING HOSTILITY BETWEEN RIVAL POLI- TICAL FACTIONS.

An ominous spirit is abroad and the crisis is expected to be reached on the big Republican anniversary on Sunday.

Mr. de Valera has prohibited the appearance of General O'Duffy's new National Guard, which appears to be a Fascist organisation, distinguished by the wearing of blue shirts. General O'Duffy expresses determination to carry on and threatens to challenge Mr. de Valera's right of veto in the courts.

Apprehension is growing! throughout the city, therefore, in PENNY A MILE ON View of the fact that the Irish Re-

RAILWAYS

BACK TO PRE-WAR LEVEL

publican army are also intending to carade on Sunday and there is the grava possibility of guinary clash when the Blue Shirts parade.

a

san-

The Blue Shirts were making-i their first real appearance in public to-day when they arrived at the Metrople ball-room for the first annual dance of the Army

Association.

'London. Aug. B. The main line British rallway claims $20,000 special damages, $5,810 money owing to companies announce the continu-rades him which he was unable to collectance until the end of 1933 of the owing to his arrest, $600 solicitors Special summer costs, $138 travelling expenses, and costs of the present proceedings.

PARTICULARS OF CLAIM.

The facts alleged in the parti- culars of claim of the plaintiff are

that on November 12 last year he left the Colony for Shanghai and Amoy for the purpose of collecting sums of money dus to him there on promissory notes.

rates.

Com-i

to

passenger fare

CROWDS CHARGED. The police were compelled Return fares will thus be at the charge the jeering crowds with Pre-war rate of one penny per tatons when they ventured further, mlle.-British Wireless.

and began to hurl stones at glass panels and the doors,

is reputation and suffered pain body and mind. He had been prevented from attending to his business and had incurred expense to no purpose in going to Amoy Be therefore defendant and Shanghai,

DEFENCE DENIAL,

Mr Cosgrave and other

the

Ministers attended the dance, but ex they were merely paying a formal visit and left soon afterwards.

Mr. Cosgrave urged the police to remain inside the Metropole until the conclusion of the dance, owing to the threatening attitude

of the crowd.

Mr.

General Balbo, leader of the mass Italian fight, passing through

enthusiastic crowds.

MILLION FRANCS

REWARD

French Prize for Rossi and Codos

Paris, Aug. 8.

It is understood that Codos and Rossi will fly their plane back from Rayak to Le Bourget and that on their return to France they will be presented with the - prize of a million francs offered by the government for the long-distance record-Reuter.

AAAVANAMAYANAN

AUSTRO-GERMAN

TENSION

EASIER ATMOSPHERE DEVELOPS

HITLER ASSURANCES

LONDON, AUG. 8.

THERE IS NOW EVERY HOPE THAT THE AUSTRO-GERMAN TENSION WILL SHORTLY BE `LIQUIDATED.

It is learned that the German Government has as sured Italy that efforts will be made to prevent a re- currence of the incidents which have given rise to protests...

AIR ARMADA Franco-British demarche, the British view is that the

IN AZORES

In spite of the nature of the German Reply to the reply does not affect the assurances given to Italy, The Austrian Charge D'Affaires ; In London, Herr Wimmer, called at the Foreign Office this after.! noon and was informed that His Majesty's Government had been

FIRST LEG OF OCEAN acquainted by the Italian Govern-

FLIGHT

WITHOUT MISHAP

London, Aug. 8. General Balbo's air armáda, has completed the first leg of the second ocean crossing in its | triumphant homeward journey and may be expected in Rome on

IRAQ REBEL Thursday.

CARNAGE

SERIOUS BATTLE ON FRONTIER

MANY KILLED AND

WOUNDED.

2.

For the time being, the armada has split into two groups.

NAZI NIGHT RAID

BROADCASTERS ARRESTED

ment on Sunday, August 6th, that the German Government had given assurances to the Italian Govern- Iment that they would do their best to prevent the incursion of neroplanes from Germany over Herr Alfred Baum, the German Austrian Territory, and to check ex-broadunst announcer, and four propaganda against the Austrian

TERRORISM.

Berlin, Aug. 8.-

Government from German broad-other ex-broadcast chiefs, have cust stations by tightening censor-been arrested and removed to the ship.

Oreninbarg concentration camp.

The men were arrested in their The German Government had beds during the night by pollee alão expressed disapproval of the acts of terrorism against the Austrian Government The arrest is stated to be due although they submitted that they to revelations of the "excessive could not be held responsible for them.

salaries" they had been drawing.

committed and Nazis.

All twenty-four machines have Janded safely in the Azores from Shoal Harbour, Newfoundland, In these circumstances the object under the Marxist system-Reuter.", but nine of them have landed at Immediately desired by His Horta, while the remainder pro- Majesty's Government had been ceeded to Punta Delgada.

uttained and the British Charge

The first batch landed at Horta D'Affaires in Berlin, Mr. Basil

...

these incidents.--British Wirelcas.

LOAN TO AUSTRIA

British Prospectus Issued

HOTEL WRECKED

BY WOMAN.

SIX DEAD AND OVER 50 INJURED.

at 7.25 p.m. British Summer Time. | Newton, so informed the German The other fifteen planes aniled Government yesterday at the same gracefully down into the waters of time recording the representations Punta Delgada, on San Miguel which he would otherwise have Island, some thirty-five minutes made. Inter. Bagdad, Aug. 8.

Herr Wimmer was told that in On November 16

EVENTLESS TRIP.

view of the assurances given by Serious fighting occurred!

the falsely and maliciously laid in claimed special damages as, set

German Government the formation before Mr. G. S. Kennedy out above.

to-day between Iraqian fron-of the machine which made the there, would be no repetition of General Balbo was on board one British Government hoped that Skipton, police magistrate, and

tier guards and Assyrian

longer journey. procured a warrant for plaintiff's

FASCIST LEADER.

The crossing from Newfound- arrest upon charge that on The particulars of the dèfênee

tribesmen near the border. land was completed without un- November 4 and 10, 1932 he ob- deny that plaintiff went to Amoy General O'Duffy, the organiser

toward event. To-morrow, the tained from defendant by false and Shanghui for the purpose of the Blue Shirts, was A heavy toll of-life was taken nirmen will take off for their next pretences two

of money, stated; deny that defendant false- Cosgrave's chief Aums

ta the Civicla a sanguinary encounter, heavy hop, heading for the Portuguese $1,350 and $3,800, with Intent to ly and maliciously laid the in-Guard. He was dismissed from losses being inflicted on the Assy-

coast.-Reuter. defraud.

formation which procured the war-¡the post by Mr. de Valera without rant of arrest; deny that he or being given a reason,

lans by the better-armed Iraqian ARRESTED ON WARRANT. his solicitor falsely and malicious- He has since been engaged in troops.

further charge establishing the Fascist organian- Plaintiff was arrested on this y preferred the

Twenty. Iraqian guarda were warrant at Shanghal on December and deny that he procured plain-tion.

killed and forty-five wounded 3 and was imprisoned there untiliff's committal for trial; and deny Mr. de Valern is very apprehen-in the course of the encounter, December 14 when he was brought that the prosecution referred to sive about Sunday's possibilities. while the Assyrian losses to Hongkong. Three days later he was terminated by reason of the le has made attempts to prevent more than four times a heavy. GREAT SAVING THIS price of lasuo being £96 por cent. the hotel was situated was com was formally charged before Mr, refusal of the Attorney General to either the Blue Shirts or the Ninety-five of their number were Wynne Jones. He was remanded prosecute plaintiff.

Irish Republican Army and again imprisoned until

Mr. Duncan McNeill, instructed De-

has

were

cember 24 when he was released on by Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedias/Parnding, and, at the same time,mown' down by machine-guns, i

bail.

from killed outright, many of them. surrounded himself with a while hundreds more were wound- is appearing for plaintiff: Mr. F. picked bodyguard of fifty men. ed. The hearing of the case, continu-C. Jenkin, instructed by Messrs who are staying at the Govern- ed the particulars, occupied JanuaryLo and Lo represents defendant.

ment Building--Reuter.

The fighting in attributed to the dinantisfaction of the Assyrians with the new regime in Iraq- Reuter

10, 11, and 13, and defendant by false and malicious representations," procured plaintiff's committal to the February Criminal Sessions.

FURTHER STATEMENT. '

SPECIAL JURY.

AMATEUR PHOTO COMPETITION

A special jury has been convenedikt. consisting of Messrs. L. J. Black- burn, foreman, W. C. Ogloy, V. Benjamin, A. M. Parker, S. A. On January 24, through his Lopes, D. L. Propbot, and W. T. solicitor, falsely and mallelously preferred before the magistrate a further charge against plaintiff of Cnse, Mr. MacNeill remarked that

Leo.

were

Closing at the End of

This Month

MURDER" AT DEEP WATER BAY

· 1

|TRAGEDY_ON FISHING

CRAFT

A fishing boat lying off Deep Water Bay was the scene' of n- murder oarly this morning.

NATIONAL DEBT CHARGES

Prague, Aug. 1. The suicide of a Czech womuni by the explosion of a bomb was apparently the cause of the “ex- traordinary disaster at Bruenn, the capital of Moravia, when the. four-storey Hotel de l'Europe KVAв wrecked, Threo guests are known to be dead and 37 Injured. The prospectus for the Austrian Further details are now avail- Government International guaran-able of the terrible explosion at teed loan 1933/53 has now been the Hotel de l'Europe, as a result published. The lasue amounting of which there are at least six I to £4,614,200, is in three per cent. dead and over 50 injured. One guarantee aterling bonds, the section of the buliding in which guaranteed as to principal and in-pletely destroyed by the oxplosion, terest by His Majesty's Government while the other section was ner London, Aug. 8.

under the provisions of the Aus-lously damaged. The building has trian loan guarantee act 1933. revenue for the

boon split into two parts. current financial year up to last yearly on January 1 and July 1. Interest will be payable half Saturday, including self-balancing The first coupon will be for £1.1 revenue, amounted to £221,515,729.

For the corresponding period of por cent, and will be payable on last year the total was £214,179,- January 1, 1934.

The list of applications will be opened and closed on Thursday Ordinary and self-balancing ex-British Wireless. penditure for the same period

The total

734.

YEAR

wna £273,040,333 against £305,- 922,644 Inst year.

Expenditure during the current year on the management of the

National Debt has been £96,647,- 220 as compared with $128,207.- 202 for the corresponding period of last year. British Wireless,

CANADIAN LOAN AT PREMIUM ·

PREFERENCE TO SMALL INVESTORS

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VIOLENT EXPLOSION. Three passers-by were buried, under falling stones and a worker who happened to pass the scene. was extricated from the debris in

critical condition and died on the way to hospital. Seven others) who Woro soriously injured have been sont to hospital and After outlining the facta of the

only a few are likely to survive. Thirty-two persons and 11. firemen baving, with intent to defraud his people were wicked or raah enough jauch actiona were rare As few

were slightly injured. creditora, made a transfer of to take the risk defendant had

The expicalon was promissory notes to Garga Singh taken. The consequences

so violont that a number of the opposite. "between October 10 and November sometimes very serious indeed.

dwellings were damaged and ros 13.

There were cases in which a por

cuo pariles - discovered in them This further charge was heard son's reputation could be injured

human bonos and tracos of blood) on January 30 and 31 and defen by a paragraph in a nowspaper or dant, by false and malicious periodical but thore

London, Aug. 8. The entire trame, has been sus Dealings in Canadian 4 per cent.ponded. In one of the main representations procured lia.com strong difference in such casos and

loan opened at a premium of 1% thoroughfares, and it now threstens mittal to the Sessions.

the present. A paragraph was not

per cent. on the London Stock Ex to collapse completely, Happily Plaintiff was released from ball engily remembered but in an action

change and at the close, the stack there were only a few guests pre on or about February 9 and from such-as-the..one they wore dealing.

stood at 1.18/10 per cent. pramlum. sont when the explosion occurrer #further custody, the Attorney with, someone would say for your

"As alrondy raported – tha #loan Nothin” is knowa yat of thattanut General having signified his re- and years afterwards, "Was he not

was heavily, oversubscribers and of the dlanatok24) fusal to prosecute the platnitff on summoned some time ago?. People that than I could see him."../

The King and Queen loft London allotments, waro ourtailed, but fit onbeguest ander lên n jeither of the said charges, would not lay auch serious charges Te submitted that the severest the weapon used being a knife or for Sandringham this afternoon is understood that tealarende har

[07/ration of these, oiroumstans against him without some courdan penalties, "hauja, Be Inaleted In・ choppers..

Jagdoll (where they will remaină (otheroff&ATERS

was a very

Amateur photographers are re- minded that the Telegraph's" competition terminates at the end of the present month. Cash -prizes to a total value of $250 and valuable and useful cameran as offered.

The fudges will be Mr. won Kobza-Nagy and Mr. J.11. Hunt, O.B.E.

KING AND QUEEN LEAVE LONDON :

Details are not available at the moment, aa although the crime is Bald to have been committed at 12.30 a.m. a report was not receiv ed by the Aberdeen Police until the morning had been well-advanc: FOR SANDRINGHAM. |However, it;lk" known that a Hoklo daherman was tho vletim,

cored.

London, Aug 8.