AMERICAN TARIFF.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 138, 13 June 1929, Page 9

AMERICAN TARIFF.

State Department Receives Protest From France.

OTHER COUNTRIES JOIN IN.

(Australian Press Assn. —'United Service.)

(Received 0.00 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, June 12

A formal Note from France, protesting against the proposal to increase the tariff on certain French products imported into the United States, has been delivered to the State Department.

Formal protests against the tariff have also been filed by Spain, Italy, and Persia, while more than a dozen nations have forwarded material through the State Department for consideration in the House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Financu Committee.

DAMAGED 'PLANE.

Moir And Owen's Machine To

Be Dismantled.

NO ATTEMPT AT REPAIRS

(Received 10 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, this clay.

Sir Keith Smith states that Moil' and Owen's Vickers-Vellore aeroplane, which was damaged in the recent forced landing at Cape Don, will be dismantled there and shipped back to the makers. No attempt will be made to reconstruct it.

BOMB OUTRAGE.

Transportation For Life For

Perpetrators.

MISSILES IN ASSEMBLY.

(Australian and X.Z. Tress Association.) DELHI, June. 12.

The two men Bhagat Singh and Dutt. who were accused of the bomb outrage in the Delhi Assembly in April, were to-day sentenced to transportation for life. * The charges were attempted murder and being in possession of explosives. When the men were sentenced they cried: "Long live the revolution. Long live the proletariat."

"When the Legislative Assembly met on April 8 two bombs were thrown down from a gallery. One fell near Sir G. E. Schuster, Finance Member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India, who was slightly injured. A panic prevailed. Two men with bombs and pistols in their possession were arrested. Four Indian members of the House were slightly injured. The Government benches were entirely wrecked. A Bed pamphlet headed: "Hindustan Socialist Army Notice," and signed "Balraj, honorary chief," was thrown with the bombs. This contained the words, "Long live the revolution." The two men who were arrested surrendered easily, one of them first firing two shots from a pistol.

TONS OF FOOD.

WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. Sir Baden Powell lunched with a representative gathering at the Hyde Park Hotel as an introduction to the forthcoming Scout jamboree. Thirty thousand Scouts from 42 nations, including Australia and New Zealand, will be present at the jamboree and will help to cat:—■ Eighty thousand eggs. Ten tons of bacon. Three tons of sugar. Ten tons of cheese. Three tons of tea. Five tons of suet. Eight tons of rice. Two hundred tons of bread. Fifteen thousand packets of cereal foods.

PERSONAL NUMBERS.

IDENTIFYING ARMY OFFICERS

(United Service.) LONDON, June 12. It is officially stated that Armj officers will be allotted personal numbers for rapid identification in any further national emergency.

These will be applied to all officers commissioned after the mobilisation of the regular forces, the reserves and territorials, and will be inserted after their names in all official documents.