The Archive · 1938

British Aircraft Order Placed in Canada

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Ottawa, June 30.

An order for the manufacture China Asks America For Wheat Loan New York, July 3.

The administration is understood to be informally discussing a Chinese request for a Joan f wheat. The amount specified is reported to be 100,000,000..bushels.. Well informed circles here, however, believe that the application will be rejected. owing to strenuous objections on the part of the State Department.

Reuter.

Serious Rioting Breaks Out in Memel Kaunas, June 29.

Serious rioting broke out at Memel last night, when. the crew of 9 Lithuanian' steamer turned fire-hoses on 7,000 Germans who bad assembled to greet the arrival of a German steamer.

The Germans were singing Nazi songs for two hours while awaiting the. steamer's. arrival.

Street fighting ensued, the combat fants "employing sticks, stones and 'A German youth was killed, and Atty persons, including several women, were injured.

The Nazis smashed the windows of synagogue, and of Lithuanian builds ings, while the Memel police looked jon. inactive, Tie Lithuanian police eventually fired warning shots dispersing the lerowds. They" then ordered the felosure of the streets—Reuter.

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