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AUSTRALIA STAGGERED BY NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE

OMISSION OF VOCE

AIRFIELD IN

THE SKY

OVER CITY OF

LONDON

TENTATIVE PLAN.

DRAWN UP

London, Aug. 14.

A great aerodrome in the

W. Voce.

A. W. CARR AND THE M.C.C.

THE NEW TEST CONTROVERSY

VIVA VOCE!

London, Aug. 13. Controversy focussed on the failure of the English Test selectors to include

IN

TRADE MISSION

H.M.S. Dragee, which struck and sánk a steamer in Montraal Harbour

yesterday,

BRITISH CRUISER RAMS AND SINKS STEAMER

heart of the City of London JUMP FROM Voce in the team for the COLLISION OCCURS IN MONTREAL

have reached the stage of

the drafting of a tentative plan, says the Morning Post-

The scheme la advanced by the City Lands Committee in its forthcoming Report to the Cor- poration.

It is proposed to erect an enormous reinforced Concrete platform over the River Thamesi along the foreshore or above the

SEVENTH FLOOR

CHINA BUILDING TRAGEDY

OWN LIFE

existing riverside warehouses, at WATCHMAN TAKES a height of at least two hundred foot, so as to avoid the danger of aircraft colliding with St. Paul's Oathedral or other tall buildings.

The cost is estimated AN least £5,000,000 Reuter,

at

CONTROL OF AIR, SERVICES

CENTRALISATION PROPOSAL

BRITISH PLAN

London, Aug. 13. The London Chamber of Com- merce has submitted to the Air Ministry a scheme for develop ing in Britain a regular systein

Oval on Saturday seems un- likely to die down until the Final Test is actually in pro- grees.

The conflicting statements con- cerning Australia's attitude to Vece's bowling published this morning have merely added fuel to the flames,

It is contended in some quarters that the Daily Mail's comment about the Selectors being stampeded on one performance is

since his

Throwing himself from the return from Australia to play portunity Voce has had alates Beventh floor of China Building, against the Australians and he shortly after nine o'clock this already shown his matte

against them in both countries. morning, Ng Wah-yin, aged 44, a watchman employed at China

CARR'S COMMENTIERUN Barang, Waszy, 15, W. CBIT, the captam or when his body crashed down a the Noils county eleven, (says Router) is particularly disap

from the England team.

HARBOUR.

ALL ABOARD RESCUED

(Special) to Telegraph"), ": chy Telegraph. Capricht. Telegraphie ampen Ordinamor, 1191. Received Amount 13, 1930 0.36)

F.B.I. OFFICIAL ASSURANCE

PROPOSED VISIT. TO MANCHURIA

MERELY QUEST FOR ORDERS

(Special to "Telegraph”)

(De Telegraph. Caperight, Telepreghian. At som asure. Ordinance, 17FL. Received August

London, Aug. 13. Following evidences of uneasi- ness in reports from Peking and Moscow regarding the proposal

A LANDMARK IN ENGINEERING

Shropshire Bridge To Be Preserved

London, Aug 13, The first iron bridge ever bullt, which spans

the Severn in Shropshire, is to be preserved as an ancient monument...

It was opened: in 1779, and was considered sore- markable that engineers came from many countries to examine it and, to meet. its constructor. Mr. Abraham Darby British

Wireless

of the Federation of British In U.S. SILVER

Maplebranch by the cruiser, dustries to send a Trade Mission which escaped with comparatively to Manchuria, a denial that it has little damage.

[any political significance has

of

POLICY

MARKETS

H.M.S. Dragon is a light-cruiser Montreal, Aug. 13.

of about 5,000 tons and, after tak-again been issued. H.M.S. Dragon to-day col-Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, had revealed a feeling in those places

Ing Mr. Ramany MacDonald from Moscow and Peking reports BUYING IN FOREIGN lided with and sank the steamed up the St. Lawrence to that the Mission to Manchuria branch in Montreal Har-Jacques Cartier. Canadian steamer Maple-Montreal in connection with the might be preparatory to British the landing of recognition of the existing regime. bour.

The steamer was cut nearly la of 1,780 tons, owned by the that emphatically the obiects of

The official spokesman of the WORLD INFLATION The Maplebranth was a steamer F.B.I. told the United Press to-night two and sanita dukwusongent, we pre trawyawy was no lorarescuing every Lakes Rester Special body hooard

Details of the mishap are brief, but the collision impact appears to

hole being cut in the side of the

height of 80 feet into the bottom Bointed by the omission of Voce have been violent, a grent gaping ARMED ROBBERY

of an airshaft.

The tragedy was witnessed by He says that without the Notts number of occupants, one of whom bowler, the England team is not said he saw the unhappy man fairly representative. The MC.C. Slum poised for some seconds in a have now proved that they side window before taking a head-long with the Australians over the leg dive into the shaft.

TERRIBLE INJURIES.

The spot where the man fell was

a concrete yard between the first

theory controversy.

AUSTRALIA NOW LIKELY TO WIN",

"The England attack can only be GA incomplete with

Clearance In Shanghai

and ground floors of the building, described just at the rear of the main Voce" states Ryder, the former CAMPAIGN BEGUN of commercial air Transport.

entrance. Terrible skull injuries Australian captain, in a cable The Chamber suggests that the were suffered, whilst one of the from Sydney, while Victor ground equipment and traffic arms was also badly lacerated. Richardson, formerly vice-captain control of the British air routes After examination by the police, of the Australians, says that removed to the Voce'a omission is a staggering

Inspector surprise to Australia. Detective

He added, Router says, that the

the Final Test.

should be vested in a statutory

the body

WOR

AT AU TAU

enter.

MAIN INTERESTS.

ramugun, aug. 18,

In some quarters here the feeling prevails that the na

headed by Lord Barnby is mainly largely due to a belief in the It is learned that the delegation tionalisation. of silver was interested in expanding the export imminence of an economic of equipment for railways, road

and port building, mines and breakdown in Europe. Con- agriculture, factory plants, etc. tinuous American purchases WOMAN STABBED BY the Bission does not intend to dia- vancing prices appear to be Reliable informants state that of foreign silver at ad-

inevitable.

RAIDERS

WATER-CAN AS “SILENCER”.

The opinion la expressed bero

cuss Anglo-Japanese trade ́com- [petition, nor fong-term loans.

These considerations will 'not, however, rule out discussion of that the United Stated by this joint Anglo-Japanoso Enterprise in silver policy, now moves from the Manchuria, nor the facilitation of area of domestic inflation into short-term credits for financing World Inflation. The allver policy the delivery of goods to Man the next Congress of a Central Bank is felt to assure the adoption by BY MAYOR

The unusual method of jam-jehurla.

of Issue which would have a com- Shanghai, Aug. 14. ming a water-can over a man's

SAILING IN FORTNIGHT. plete monopoly of credit expansion: A campaign to rid Shanghal of head to keep him quiet was re-

The issue of the ravison of the its slum districts and to provide | sorted to by armed robbers who'

One of the members of the N.R.A. is expected to prosipitate a the poorer classes with better invaded a brick-maker's hut in Mission is connected with the Ex-major aght in Congress. shelter has been initiated by Mr. the Au Tau district of the New port Crodite Department of the It seems that the chief concern Wu Tich-cher, the Mayor of Territories last night.

Board of Trade,

of the Administration is to keep Greater Shanghai, according to

It is understood that the Mission jprices within moderate bounds be- the Ching Press.

.It Is stated that a Committee of aged 61 years, was lying down in will sail on August 25 for the cause of the protest against rising for equipping and maintaining air (Ltd., as watchman for the whole how Voce was kept out of the perts have been invited to

foreign and Chinese housing

To many hero. exhis shed at Lim Fa Ti village at United States, proceeding across living costs. to have coho

of when a gang of five armed rob- map about seven o'clock last night the Pacific to Yokohama, Tokyo seems clear that the Administra

and Dairen or Seoul,

tion intends to finance recovery: meteorological and traille control duty at about six o'clock this services, and should, in consulta-morning, and it was three hours lians last visited England in 1980,

bers entered. One of the la- They will call again Japan out of profita from changes In tion with the appropriate authori-later that he leapt from one of the Wisden says: "The Australians

truders seized the old man by, the after three weeks in Manchuria. the metallic content of the dollar.

--Stoan, Culbertson and Fritz, tles, plan the principal air routes windows on the seventh floor. themselves were apprehensive of

nock and another held him down.United Press. and aerodromes In the country, Depression caused by domestic having regard to presont and worries is said to have been the -future needs........

cause of the suicide.

body, on which the Air Ministrs, Mortuary. the General Post Office, aircraft Cunningham and Detective Ser- operators, insurance and commer- cial interests should be represent-ount Fowlle were in churge of Australians are now likely to win

the investigations. ed.

This body, it is proposed, should. The man, who is said to have administer the finances necessary been employed by Chinese Estates,

LOCAL LOANS.

The Chamber hopes the plau TRAFFIC SIGNALLING

will encourage local authorities to provide aerodromes, and it is hinted that the Government might provide certain financial guarantees for the raising of loans by local authorities for this purpose.

The memorandum further 'sug- gests that the duties of the pro- posed statutory body should include consideration of mattors affecting the Imperial air routes.

-British Wireless.

LADY HOUSTON AND THE GARTER

PREPARED TO ACCEPT A PAIR

DEVICE

.

Watched by Large Crowds This Morning

1930- EXPERIENCE. The story is being related of

houses in the suburban districts.

The plan will require well over a million dollara.-Reuter.

1 Yuk-kel, the brick-maker,

The occupant refused to tell the robbers where the keys of his

boxes were, and the Intruders MURDERERS OF DR. STOP PRESS

his Inclusion. So, when they met Notts at Trent Bridge just before

SHOWERY WEATHER · · the Third Test match they de cided, whatever the cost, to try

The Royal Observatový reports then struck him on the head and and prove, by devoting their that pressure le highest over the forced a water-can over his head. would be unsuccessful against is relatively low over the northern guard over him whilst the others energies to hitting him, that Voce Pacific to the east of Japan, and Two of the robbera then stood them: McCabe and Richardson carried out the task with con- part of the China Sen and in the proceeded to ransack the place. spicuous success and in the second vicinity. of Guam Local forecast: innings, Voce only took one wicket. E. winds, moderate; cloudy,

showdry. for 112 runs. In this way, the

Australians effected their purpose.

At any rate, our selection com mittee, no doubt influenced by his Ineffectiveness on thly occasion, of Interested did not consider him for any of

the Tests that bongon

IN AUSTRALIA.

Large crowds spectators gathered or the pave ments at the junction of Pedder Strrpt and Des Voeux Road this In Australia, when Larwood morning to watch the operation and Allen bore the brunt of the Voct's Tost

Hongkong's now automatic England attack,

Match average was:

trafie signalling device which was O. M. R. W. Aver. brought into use for the first

130 21 407 10 27.13 time last night.

On the whole, the drivers of

motor vehicles took to the new London, Aug, 13.

scheme quite well, although it Lady Houston, who owns and was obvious that dimculties are edits The Saturday Review, doesn't likely to be experienced in taking mind being porky occasionally. right-hand. turna. This point! She writes:

will doubtless receive the stton- The deaths of the Dukes oftion of the authorities, Wellington and Marborough have One noticeable point, was that created an unexpected problem, the system results in a definite that of filling the two vacancies slowing-up of traffic at the June that have arlaen. In the Order of tion. the Garter:

"As one would be of no use to

me, I modestly suggest that I called that she guaranteed the cost be given both of them!"

of the succesful defence of the Lady Houston is famous for big. Schnolder Traphy in 1932. United financial gestures. It will be re- Priss.

EUROPEAN GIRL BITTEN

BY NEIGHBOUR'S

· DOG

Dorothy Young, aged 12 years,

Dr. William. Baeba, the worlde famous, maride biologist, who - dans cended 2,500 feet under the són in

WIFE STABBED.

INGRAM

TO BE EXECUTED TO-MORROW

....

Tionein, Aug. 13.

Washington, Aug. 1374 Construction up to 2,100 - Navy:

The five robbers who were aeroplanes,, authorised “by Con-

for

the

murder gress, is contemplated, in, the new?

The old man's wife, his coneu- bing, one of his children, a girl, and a fok were seized by the responsible robbers, and all were gagged and of Dr. Ingram, the well-known five-year naval air expansion pro bound. *****

American missionary, at his home gramme now being drafted by Mr. When the wife declined to say sentenced to death.

in the Western Hills, have been Vinson, Chairman of the Navy Committee of the House of Re where the keys were, she was

The execution will take placo to presentatives, with the co-opar: atabbed twice in the back, not morrow morning at Halawang-ation, of the Navy Department. seriously, whereupon she gavo chuang, where the murder was Reuter them the information they sought committed-Reuter.

Eventually, the robbers' left after taking away articles, and money to the total value of $80,

MR. ARIYOSHI'S POLICY

JAPAN'S FORCES IN MANCHURIA

BORDER TROOPS TO BE

STRENGTHENED..

London, Aug. 14.

As a result of the prohibitive tariffs imposed by Australia on yarns and piece-goods from Lat cashire, there are signe that n unofficial boycott" may be imposed by some sections of the community In Lancashire,'on "Australian dáley A report from Changchun statos produce, that following a General Staff con- The cotton trade organisation Shanghai, Aug. 18, quarters, the

|ference at Kwangtung Army Head- disclaim any "connection following proposals movement Rumour is again alleging that have boon doclded upon

ously Sin Bol (1): an ingrosso in the oland Bir

air other small "dott

REVIVAL OF RUMOUR OF RESIGNATION

Peking, Aug. 14.

of 14 Stanley Terrace, was yester the queer-looking spherical hall, the Mr. Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister defence fortes at Manchall (2) which now threaten day bitten by a brown terrier bo-|| inspiration for; which, camu · from longing to Mr. W. Weir, of 18 Prof. Plétard's stratosphere gondola. to China, Intends to tender his additions to the troops stationed Mancheste Stanley Terrace.

It was reported this moralar, that resignation, owing, it is said, to at Sulfone: (3), the strengthening Dr. Beebe discovered hundreds of

of-tha "Japaneso-Manchuktio-de-| unknowa fah opstina ad arent depths opposition to Mr. Hirota's China tendon on the Johol Pind, Chathar

licies Central News

[bordari:= Contral Naisso

The dog was sent to the Kennedy Town Depot, while the girl re- celved treatment for her injuries.