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Deafmen are quick-eyed and dis-

trustful.

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Annunl Subscriptions uallversd $5.00 By Umll Cnllldr. und U. D. A. l|.§0

ave een Forced Down At Sea

the evening the Canadian

than there were on the with bated breath, while the aerial day last WU- acrobats, the Ca-sting Campbells DCKHH ln the main build~ were as popular as ever. The herd

ille show rings. and in the ing of a flock of Island sheep by Horse racing and vaudeville the famous Stoddart dogs from

ltr-moon, and the vaude- Australia was watched with inter-

in the evening drew largel est. The Hollywood Horse was a lo the giand stand, while source of much amusement.

r at all times attracted The parade of a. company of

Highlanders headed by the pine;

nd and the orchestral (continued on Page al

NEW YORK. AUS. 38+-The New York Times' wireless station

received a message from Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen it 6 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time) saying they intended to elfelg

around until the fog lifted.

Ninety minutes previously theiflyers who left New York to-

il! f°\' "U5" GRM. Nflll., enroute to Norway reported their position as approximately I0 miles from their goa.L

*Fighting 40-mile hlsdwilld since leaving Nova Scotia," the

message said, “and still fighting lt. Very rough. All well.”

The 6 o'olock message said: “We have storm and fog now.

We enn't go down. We have gas for seven or eight hours, so will circle a.round‘till it gets better. Plpase try to find out if Harbor

Graee has any light beacons."

Report Tough Battle 80 Miles From Coal

il EAN FLYER

'nuns-ausaae mama ire

busy today, but their followers were anxious tonight because only one of the three planes which took the air had made a safe landing at its refueling point.

The Hutchinson p

George Hutchinson and his

crew of seven including lt wife and two small daughters came down st Saint John, N B., from New York. The “flying funny" islheaded for Scotland by easy stages over tile northern route.

Solberg Ami Petersen

Thor Solberg and Carl Peter-

sen, who left New York for Oslo and Clyde lee with John Bouchken, bound for the same point- from Barre, Vermont, were hours overdue at Harbor Graco, Nfld., their refueling point. where fog and darkness made the chances of a safe landing remote. '

Free Markets

Possible Of

MONTREAL, Aug. 23-(By the

infomation.

Of Europe Will

Be Opened On Sept. 1st - Canadian Business Men After As Large A Portion As

'This _Market

Canadian Press)-Adoption by Den-

mark on September 1 of s. sweeping free trade policy was announced today by the Montreal Board nf Trade on the basis of "authoritative"

The Consul General for Denmark in Montreal was unable to con-

firm the announcement although it had been unofflcislly reported in

him officials of the Foreign Exchange Department of the Danish Na.- tlonal Bank in Copenhagen had issued a. statement to this effect.

All cattle, fodder, coffee, rice, raw

tabcaco, seeds and fruits for oli-

pressing purposes, pig-iron and raw'

metals would be admitted free to Denmark under the new policy, thus creating one of the most lm- portent free markets in Europe. Canadian business men it was stat-

led bynfficials of the Montreal

board, are musterlng forces to ob- tain as large a portion ae possible of this market.

The items in the proposed Dan-

ish free list include articles par- ticularly adaptable bo Empire trade. Canada would conceivably find a new market for cattle, fodder, raw tobacw, pig-iron and various other raw materials. The United King- dom would be particularly interest- ed in increased export of pig-iron while several southern British pos-

sessions are exporters of rice, seeds

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Bank Hold - Up

VANCOUVE

other Plague Weeps China

Ki1liTlE'chi..ese off

One Hundred A Day - Dis- ease Continues Unabated;

”°ffl= J- Hu-rla. .sueeleue Press Correspondent)

Aul. 23-Cholera il

virulent throughout. ohms?

summer than at any time in

WHS and even foreigners where sanitary conditions

¥°°d and clean food .ls obtain- have been stricken. l

dsease continues unabatsd

The disease is sweeping towns, vill- ages and the countryside alike. In Sian in Bhensl Province, which Marco Polo visited centuries ago, an average of 100 persons die each day. The eitY's streets are blanketed with powdered lime which has been

, spread about in an effort to check

the disease.

The cholera. has made eat in

i Ur 1

the Ylmst-ze Valley reeds le Menehurle, following

usually ¢lUi°i¢1Y Puts an end' ualtles. The exact number of

d°5P1¢° °°°l1l\¢ weather. floods which also caused heavy css

deaths never will be known as no - ___

Amhwgfeliiyini daily in H0' _ REGINA, Aug. 23-(ny The oan- mvm ' “P° "ld 5*\°"‘» asian rreasl-mnelng that seven-

cos which °"`° h““'d”t mth (C°“W"“°d W Pm 3) teen persons unqualified to vote

r had done so in Estevan constituency ‘

B' A" 23"G°"' during the provincial by election of

'"""°‘°- 'lt l°e¢1n¢ bv: AIIOHIBT Empire loco, clue: Justice slr' rreaerlell C d A d d 7 ...... t‘.'...‘l‘..‘.‘:.°“':.'....‘;i Trade Product :.;‘;‘,°y‘.‘;:°‘;::;2.:1,°':;:.°..;f°’~°°‘* ana a n "

if "f3“*==‘5°l“"*~`»¢t -M- "»-»’--at -A ' I Reach A eem ent

yum. » canadian Press)-another empire Expefld gr i WW* trade product is making its way, --'

tn(1J;nmads ighlpiraeased quantity Five T0 Trade Pact Between The TWo‘

COMING EVENTS. ..’Z.....f. ......... ’°"°” . "` Help U"e'"Pl°>’¢d Dominions Will Be Built Up.'

MEETINGS, ETC 'ras Dominion numu of stellar-

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at League

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l cessful westward crossing in s

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Moilison

Captain J. A. Mollison, a auc-

moth plane behind him, waited

at New York for weather favor- able to s return flight.

Ulrlsh, Diaculli and Newcomer

William Ulrish. Dr. Leon

Dlsculii and Edna Newcomer planed to hop for Home from from New York tomorrow if conditions were right.

(Canadian Press)

HALIFAX, Aug. 23.-One bandit

was killed, another was seriously wounded and a. third was arrested this afternoon when police thwart- ed an attempt to rob the Shuben- acadie branch of the Royal Bank of Canada.

'Tipped od that the hold-up had

been planned, the police hid in the bank and engaged in a gun fight when the bandits herded the bank starr into the been or the bullalug.

The fight was brief. Seeing the

police, the bandits immediately opened fire, but their aim was poor and their bullets went wild.

Tha police returned the fire and

two men dropped on the floor. The third was handcuffed.

Early tonight the men had not

Von Gronau

Captain Wolfgang Von Gron-

su, German flyer on a prefect- ed rolmd-the-world trip, was unreported tonight seven hours after he took off with three companions for Cordovm 425 miles away.

NUT PRUPERLY

Frustrated At Shubentacadie

One Bandit Killed And Another

_ Seriously Wounded When

Police Receive Tip - Off That Bank Was To Be Robbed.

been identified.

Superintendent C. D. Lanauze, of

the Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice. issued the following statement: "On information received by

Chief of Police W. E. Palmer, of Halifax and ourselves, Inspector J. P. Blakeney, Detective Constable A. Bauld. Stal! Sergeant R.. Waggion, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Detective Thomas Ken- nedy and Constable Baker, of the city police, went to Shubenacadie, where they had heard a hold-up was to take place.

The hold-up took place aa antic- ipated, about 3 p. m. Two masked men appeared, held up the bank and started to herd the bank staff

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T* ics in s iepcrt'today shows moral

Dance at Welcome Inn United Kingdom axlthraclte coal has

5am's`“`“' been imported into the Dominion

in Fortune Hall, ' Aug. l since the opening of navigation on

25 gglltrsls Orchestra. Ad- .the Bt. lmrrenca than has come ' '“ - 5193-1-23-at from the Unites sow. ,

tp From April to July, the United ° '°°°"° Kinases. anumelle imported fe- Weak. tailed 883.321 fans and from the

hmnko H I Uhlted' ltltes 402,012 MM, comparr ll. elim ii¢i;if°§,’§1'f,'}fgJ,‘,,“,{‘; ms with usaso ues me so-mas.

5913.g.g3.gg fsplpeetivaly for the same period a

-1- year ago. 'l‘he United Kingdom coal

, ----~- ----.. - brought in at a value of $3.904.- Dance FH 'U vye..i§‘§,‘§‘%f,§§-B If ".°\“\¢ lm- soo while the cams states ore-

yi Allll-lib mth.

5aa4_',_z‘_“_ did lllld I V\ll.lQ Cf “.132-29l~

P, 1- imports of German coal have

““" “nd it Paula. st. in-ences on curing the four morale

"14 ' - .. v _ la gf°°§1°“§. °”‘s°“"§“ ‘°“°' period, cough ly., f_..,s_ me li The was nn-. Taylor. mal oem- r1c.'---'ana considerable prefer

Q, qw gn -w.g°,"°°m“¢”' lower than the United Kingdom ment on the steel outlook in muy' eco- .n vsuvdian markets on her

NEW YORK. Aug. 8-(lA.P.)- UITAWA, Aug 23-(By The Can-

The Finance committee ef the adian Press)-Canada and New- Unlted Stats Steel corporation it ; folmdland have reached a tentative was announced today, has author- l understanding on which a trade ized an expenditure of 85,000,000 | agreement between the two Domin- for improvements in au effort to' ions will be built up, it was learned help the unemplcymllt situation. here tonight. The Department of Myron C. Taylor. chairman of the Trade and Commerce will begin at Board of Directors in announcing, once to draft the pact. the plans said "th, -stoppage of For some years Canada made production due to the depression, contribution to the ferry connect- eomumotlon of mobiles. the wsu- ins Newfoundland with cape Bret- and tear on equipment. and the on.1’nla-ter years this contribution

ensuing natural obsolescence, are was discontinued. It is new propos-

creating a vacuum which in due ed that this assistance be resumed. course, will have to bs filled." A and Canada, it is understood. will buying movement, he added would Probably sive 080.000 annually f°\‘ not lang be delayed. this purpose. She will also Ri"

Newfoundland did very well in her negotiations here with the United Kingdom delegation. The, United Kingdom agrees to take! 500,000 tons of iron ore annuallyg from Newfoundland. Canada was' actively behind the ancient colony` in securing this. Other substantial concessions have also been accord- ed to the Island Dominion..

Already Newfoundland is a aub-

stantiai purchaser of Canadian]

farm products, and it is probable that in new agreement with this

Avlator Who Is A1- leged To Have Stolen Plane In

Which He Hoped To Fly To Dublin.

WINNIPEG, Aug. 23-(By The

Canadian Press)-Plans for a trans Atlantic flight were Dipped in the bud today when polce arrested :Peter Ordlnal, young Winnipeg avl- latcr who is alleged to have stolen

a hydroplane in which he hoped to fly to Ireland and Win fume and fortune. He w'1l appear in police court tomorrow.

The plane, said to have been

‘stolen from its moorings in the Red

River, Aug. 18, was recovered a few days later abandoned and damaged

‘flares for the guidance of fly-

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BIE EXHIBITION Sweeping Free i]CEAN»HOP`

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tion For Large Crowd. One Of The Most Important Police A`,`T`e`S`t Young

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first dev of the D1'<W|-‘tolli played selections in the Main

W favored by fine summer ‘Building The vaudeville as in;

and by 9- Bfitifilllz at- forum- years created much inter-l C S .ft is estimated that there est and amusement. Jack Gerard's` thousand more admissions dare devil stunts were watched

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Fear Felt For Safety Of Trans Atlantic Flyers

Two Planes Reported Overdue, While The “Flying Hutchin- sons” Landed At St. John,N. B.- Planes Slghted Yesterday Even- ing Over Maritime Provinces.

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HARBOR GRACE’ Nfid-. AUS. 23 these planes were the same, war

-(By the Chlllldlhll Pr€S5)-NeW- 3, matter of ¢0nje¢f,uye_ f°“"d1a“d`S Summer midnight- Both planes had been sighted 9.30 Eastern Strladard Time-found today, on just about their ached. this airport on the western shore uled time, over Maritime Province °f CUYICBDUOH Bay blazing with points, and Thclberg and Petersen

had used their wireless up to 4.40

ers who did not- come. Black pfm., when they said they were 286

darkness shot with a tain sur-, miles from Harbor Grace. rounded Harbor Grace as little . Guide lights still were kept bum. knots of people at the field listen- ling under difficulties caused by a ed for the drone of motors, waiting heavy rain, and everything possibll for Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen I was being dong tg guide the ew; who left New York this morning.plp,n@5 should they appeu-_ Tw ln their big red and yellow sesqui- I and a. half hours had elapsed since plane, and for Clyde Lee and John ' the latest report had placed a plana

to the exgent or about $500_ ,ldocl-lkon, out of Barre, Vermont,iover Belleoram, 120 miie away

It 15 not known what happened

1” their red "Green M°1U1l»9-in B03" iliad the craft come here directly il

.to delay the night Ponce say or_‘b Both were to have made Har- should have landed within an hour

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dmn intended how ng on the or race, their refuelllng point on,

ni ht after the than for Harborhops to Norway. And both werel

Three Planes Hop Eastward

8 .overdue Solberg and Peterson left` .

Grace, Nfld., and flying from there’ '

to Dublin. A letter to Mayor Ralph gloyd Bennet Field at 4.41 E. S. T.

b wld ol the night plans is morning, even lf they had

H. We b h d d and a mend 0! the accused is “mil a ma e no better than their

` HARBOR. GRACE, Nrla., Aug. 2 -Three aerial expeditions winged eastward today on the first leg o:

to have arranged for pubncim or i cruising speed of 90 miles an hour., projected trans-Atlantic crossings

.lin l, ll ls slated, took the l>l=~“@`

aloft circled the my and than between 6 and '1 E. s. T. tonight. came down leaving the machmef Lee and Bouchkon got away

H is believed

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adn" °n the rv” e .expected to reach Harbor Grace in

so have llved at Fort Pellv. S2-Sk-

nine hou , t lm 3,1 `

md to have attended an avmmonlms tonlglgxsth or a approx a l'

school in the United states. ~

.SIGHTE AT

EAST PUINT

At 5 o'clock yesterday evening a

red ane was seen flying high

pl .

over East Point in the direction of | Newfoundland. according to a re-

port recelved by Dr. J. S. Jenkins from Dr. A. A. MacDonald, Sourls. at a. late hour last night. lt 15 thou ht that the machine sighted

may have been the Green Mount-

ain Boy with Pilots Lee and Boch- kon on their first lap of a proposed 'I'rai'ls Atlantic flight.

At 10 o‘clock last evening t.he|

following wire was received by Dui

Jenkins from Bar-re, Vt.

"Mgr. Airport Charlottetown,

P. E. I. Has Trans Atlantic plane, Green Mountain Boy been seen in

that vicinity, destined Harbor Gruce, wire immediately I-Izanilllgj to ..

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LONDON, Aug. 24-(Wednesday)

-<A.P.)-Amy Johnson, wife of the trans-Atlantic flyer, Captain .lam- es A. Molllson, ls planning to dupli- cate her" h\lsband's example by fly- ing the Atlantic alone from east to ,west next. month. the London Ex- press said today.

The Brit!/lh avlatrix was said to

be practicing blind flying and pilot- ing hcavy planes at an alrdrome near Southampton with the aspir- ation of being the first woman to ggomplcte a solo flight westward

country she will extend the samefgcreee the Atlantic.

preferences as have been extended

here look forward to a considerable expansion cf trade between the two

She told the newspaper she had

by the United Kingdom. Officialsfdlscussed the subject with Captain

`Molllson but "not very seriously." J‘m will be against it. I know", she added, "but I hope to be able to

' iam \ , mmm; 1 mqlaamx (Continued di Pele U' persuade him in let me 8°-"

they should have reached this field. Two were bound for Harbor Grace,

Nfid.. and the third landed ai Saint John, N. B., for the first

from Barre at 9.15 E. S. T. They stop. _

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At 9.30 the most recent reports

had been from Hermitage, 120 miles or so from Harbor Cvrcae, where a plane- was sighted at 526 E. S. T., and from Bay L‘Argent, 40 miles nearer the field, where an unidentified flyer going east, wa.;

reported at 6.20 E. B. T. Whether'

Oslo, Norway, and London, Eng-

land, were the points of destina- tion which the venturesame flyers hoped to reach after their flights over the hazardous uncharted sky trails. All three planes plan to take' off tomorrow in continuation of the trips.

George Hutchinson and his "fly-

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France Will Open Negotiations For New Trade Treaty

(Canadian Press Cable)

PARIS, Aug. 23.-Negotiations

contemplating a. new Franco- Canadlan commercial treaty will be opened in Paris at an early date, according to Havas, thc French news agency.

After reviewing the history of

past commercial relations be- tween the two countries, iiavas says that with the regulation of Ccnulia’s problems and com-

mercial relations with Britain and her sister Dominion; st the Ottawa, Economic Conference, negotiations envisaged - with France can be undertaken use- fully.

"It is to be hoped," liavaa

adds, "the forthcoming conclu- sions will produce an accord en- suring sn end to the present situation which had proved pre- judicial to the interests of both countries."

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