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DUN LOP

50 YEARS OF GROWTH

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyre with 2,000 Teet!

HULL GIVES NATIONS OMINOUS WARNING

WORLD MUST Chinese Gains Reported on Many Fronts

CHOOSE ARMS

OR REASON

"All Will Have To Go In Same Direction"

ENUNCIATES AMERICA'S CREED OF PEACE

Washington, Aug, 16.

Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, dealt extensively with the foreign situation in a nation-wide broadcast hook-up to-night.

A clear issue was facing the world to-day as recent menacing developments: a result of namely, said the Secretary of State, that the future of the world is either to be determined by universal reliance on armed force and frequent aggression and international anarchy, or peace, morality and justice based on economie well-being, security and progress.

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Referring to developments of science, Mr. Hull said it would be soon impossible for some nations to choose the way of force and others the way of reason.

"All will have to go in the same, direction," he declared ominously.

between Either

barriers trade must br removed, or the nations pressure of nations to gain access to heeded raw materials by conquest of additional territory and the mailed Ast would become intensited.

"Disintegration of the structure of world order la proceeding with stag- threatens the Hering rapidity and very foundation declared Mr. Hull

of civilisation,"

"When destruction and impoverish- ! ment oflict other areas we cannot escape the impairment of our own economic well-being.

in

destroyed "When freedom is Increasing arcus elsewhere, our Ideals of individual liberty are jeopardised

"ilence. It is necessary for the United States to become increasingly

SHANGHAI

SOLDIER FALLS TO DEATH

A

Dies Soon After

Removal To Hospital

tragedy occurred

: THIS SHIP IS CROSSING A MOUNTAIN RANGE! One of the most astonishing engineering feats of the world's history is that encompassed by the Columbia River dam sealock, which allows stedmers to cross a spur range of the Rocky. Mountains from Here the arrow Vancouver, Washington, to Dalles, Oregon. indicates the ship Charles L. Wheeler, first to navigate the waterway.

this!

LEPER GANG SOUGHT FOR MURDER BY

morning at the Military Qua OSAKA AUTHORITIES

ters,

when

of

Kennedy Road. |Lance-Corporal G. Lindsey. "D" Company, the Royal Scots.) fell from one of the houses and was fatally hurt.

He was taken to the Bowen!

CHOLERA Road Hospital where he died.

WARNING

Marked Decrease In Widespread Pestilence

Shanghai, Aug 17. There was a marked decrease in the number of cases of cholera re- ported in the International Settlement during the course of the past week compared with previous weekts.

Officials of the Public Health De- partment state, however, that this

The funeral will take place to-morrow at 3.30 p.m.

The hospital authorities could disclose no details regarding the

accident.

BRITAIN PROTECTS

ITS GOLD

cannot be taken as a definite indica- £816,000,000 To Leave tion that the epidemie has begun to

a temporary slackening off of the progress of the disease.

resolute in taking effective measures to co-operate with other peoples break, and it is thought to be merely within the range of our tradisional policies of non-entanglement and programme which support only tho will turn the tide of lawlessness and place the world firmly on the only (Continued on Page 4.)

FRENCH STRIKES RECUR

Dock-Workers Mây Cause Trouble:

During the past week 890 cases were notified, compared with 1,239 in the previous week.

well

London Vaults

London, Aug. 17.

The Bank of England's gold reserve, which has been stored

It is noteworthy that cholera lasted for centuries in the vaults be- into August last year and low the "Old Lady of Thread- if this happens again it will mean needle Street," is to be distri- that Shanghai has been suffering throughout the entire summer, with buted to various parts of the ambulances constantly summoned to United Kingdom.

offices and homes to convey fresh This step has been decided upon; cases, mostly in a collapsed condl- by the authorities as a safety mea-

to hospitals..

zure against possible air attacks on'

tion

The Chinese have been the London..

areas.-Reuter.

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Osaka, Aug. 17.

POWERFUL FORCES

OPERATE AGAINST HWANGMEI POSITION

Strong Column Pushing On Japanese at Hangchow

Kishui, Hupeh, Aug. 17.

The Chinese continue to press on Hwangmei. Two Chinese columns engaged in fierce fighting with the Japanese on the outskirts of the city yesterday, capturing many men.

The Japanese are reported to have called in 4,000 reinforcements from Susung on the Anhwei-Hupeh border-Central News.

CHINESE ADVANCING ON HANGCHOW

Singteng, Cheklang, Aug. 17. Swinging to the east, a strong Chinese column is now rapidly advancing on Hangehow from Liḥsiachen, west of its objective.

BUBONIC PLAGUE THREAT

Raging Unchecked In Fukien

Canton, Aug. 17. Bubonic plague has broken It is learned that the police are detaining in a out in Chengkou City, north special small prison 43 Korean lepers convicted of Fukion, and is now raging there robbery, and are seeking eight others suspected of murder, according to a Domei message.

| heaviest sufferers, despite widespread Gold to the value of £250,000 has Inoculations throughout the foreign, already been sent to Hertsford, and

valued a further consignment, £150,000, has been despatched to CHOLERA ON BOARD

Malvern. Shanghai, Aug. 17. The total quantity of gold involved The Indo-China Stenin Navigation in the removal is valued at £810,-).

000,000. Paris, Aug. 10. Company's steamer Tung Wo, which

It includes £537,000,000 gold re-

This self-styled "Leper Gang" was rounded up in February during a raid on Umedorichi, known as "Leper Avenue."

The police, wearing rubber gloves and ragged, old uniforms, drenched with germicidal fluid, burst into the lepers' homes.

The lepers were convicted in June at a secret trial. The clothes of the judge, police witnesses and the prisoners themselves were saturated with distinfectant.

However, it is intended to release

the lepers from prison when a special

detention-place is erected.

The leper gang adopted terrorist tactics. They not only broke into but waylaid houses and atores, pedestrians, threatening them with contamination..

The leader of the gang is described as only slightly infected, and as a well-educated and forceful man.

The prisoners are at present under- going treatment-United Press.

INSURGENT REPLY RECEIVED.

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Insurgents Claim Huge War Booty Captured

Vast Supplies From Foreign Countries

unchecked.

According to Chinese reports

On the Fuyang-Yubung sector, the war situation remains unchanged. Only a few skirmishes occurred in the vicinity of Chuentang, north-east of Fuyang, yesterday.

rein-

Large numbers of Japanese forcements are rushing to Hangchow from the Shanghai-Hängehow Ruil- way and Nanking-Hanychow highway areas-Central News.

Chinese Retake Pootung Town

Hankow, Aug, 17. Following two Alerce nitacks, Chinese guerillas recently re-occupied Chowpuchen, in Nanwel, Pootung, a Shanghai message, (Continued on 'Page 4.) according to

the terror created by the appear STOP PRESS ance of this plague has been Intensified by an outbreak of cholera.

The cholera is very acute in one section of the city, where several patients have died with- in a day or two of contracting the illness.-Reuter Special.

COOK-BOY MURDERER EXECUTED

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£20,000 HOLD UP IN PALESTINE

Jerusalem, Aug, 10. A mail sack containing, among other valuables, bank hotes to value of £20,000 was stolen in a new outrage in Palestine to-day, when the postman en route from Nablus to Lam Chun, 30-year-old former Jerusalem was held up and robbed. The money was consigned by Bar- cook-boy, who was convicted at a y's Bank from Beir Nablus special Criminal Sessions in July clay's

Formalities Complete Gruesome Case

Challinor,

for the murder of Mrs. Sybil Ruby branch which, it will be recalled, was Challinor. wife of Mr. R. H. robbed of £6,000 in a daring rald

Imperial Chemical last week,

Other incidents reported to-day Industries, at their residence on the Peak on May 5, was executed at 5.02 included the shooting of an Arab in a Nablus coffee house and the murder this morning at Stanley Prison. The Insurgent authorities clolm

Later in the day, a formal enquiry of a member of an Arab aristocratic that the following

war booty of into his death was held by Mr. R. family in Tulkarem-Trans-Ocean, foreign origin has been captured from Edwards, sitting as Coroner, at the the Loyalists since the outbreak of Central Magistracy.

Burgos, Aug. 10,

Chief Warder II, Barrett said that the Civil War:

Soviet Russian material: 84 tanks, Lam had been sentenced to death on

machine-

Burgos, Aug. 16. 71 rlifiery pieces, 275 mine July 19, and was executed at Stanley The Insurgent reply The possibility of a recrudescence was involved in yesterday's collision

In the presence of Dr. G. I. French material: 24 tanks, 85 artil-tuary of labour unrest in France Is Indicated with the Hansa, was quarantined on serves of the Bank of England and British Note regarding the with throwers, 577 heavy machine-guns. Prison this morning. He later Iden- by the decision of the Marseilles arrival in Shanghai' to-day owing to £279,000,000 set aside for the Ex-drawal of volunteers from Spain has 601 light machine-guns, 35,000 rifles: tifled the body at the Prison mor- change Equalisation Fund.-Trans-t been handed to the British Agent in

Burgos, Sir Robert Hodgson.-Reuter,lery pieces, 89 Mausers, 47 heavy Show.

iquchine-guns, 405 light

Dr. Show sald he was present at dockers to ignore the recent awards cholera aboard.

Ocean.

guns, 29,380 rifles:

the hanging. of arbitrators regarding Sunday work

British material: artillery pieces, The Jury, comprising Messrs. J. I. und night work overtime.

47 heavy machine-guns; 410 light M. Drewin (foreman), Chan Io and maclilne-guns, 3,530 rides;

Cheung Pong-tat, returned a verdict United States material: 17 tanks; of death due to judicial hanging.

039 heavy artillery pieces, machine-guns, 3,100 rifles.

Mexican material: 21 light machine--

Apparently the radio operator suddenly developed the disease while The secretary of the dock-workers wirelessing news of the accident. He at his radio key until union has declared that if the special carried on committee of employers and dockers everything possible could be done to which is meeting in Farla on Wednes-bring assistance, and then collapsed. -day does not give the dockers satis- faction the union will take measures to bring about a solidarity move by all dockers in France.

The workers of the Marsellies rail- way rolling stock and repair depot have already struck and occupied their company's bulldings.

A strike of textile workers in North France is. reparted. Reuter Speelal,

--Reuter.

DIES OF OPIUM POISONING!

DEPRIVED OF GITIZENSHIP

Berlin, Aug. 10. Another thirty-seven more mans have been deprived of clilzen-

Ger-

CORRIGAN TO MAKE FILM

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IN POSSESSION OF OPIUM Charged

New York, Aug. 10.

with possession of pre- 3,100

rifies. The RKO-Radio Film Corporation Buns, addition, the Insurgents claim pared oplum and keeping an opium has signed Douglas Corrigan, the ship.

"Their names were published in the Trish-American who flew the Atlantic that from the beginning of hostilities divan at un address in Wing Lok total of 947 Street, Chul Hol, unemployed, was A woman, Yuen Sin-hui, 36, of

bombers have fined $300 or, In default, three 139 months imprisonment, by Mr. R. Canton Road, was taken to the Kow-German Oficial Gazette this morning. earlier this month in a D-year-old until June 30 last, a

persons of International pro-"erate", to appear in a movie which pursuit, planes and loon Hospital yesterday, suffering No

Included in this Hat will be called "My Flight to Ireland." been brought down. Of these from an overdose of opium, believed minence are

Corrigan has been signed up for were of French arigin and 308 came Edwards at Central Magistracy this

morning. an undisclosed salary-United Press, from Soviet Russla.--Trans-Ocean. to have been self-administered, and which consists almost entirely of

Jews.-Trans-Ocean. died at 11 p.m.