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August 4, 1930

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FOREIGNERS IN FLIGHT BEFORE CHINESE REDS; Kuling Evacuation Proceeds With Haste as Communists Close on Resort City. NANCHANG BEING DESERTED Captors of Changsha Said to Have Used Peasants as Shield Against Soldiers' Bullets. Some Missionaries Remain. FOREIGNERS FLEE FROM CHINESE REDS Says Reds Used Farmers as Shield. Farmers Turning to Communism. Moscow Started Movement. Reds Gain Quickly.

By the Associated Press

Foreigners flee from int summer resort; Red excesses continue; history of Communist movement

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EUROPEAN AUTO MEN FAIL TO FIX QUOTAS; Efforts to Restrict American Imports Break Down After Conference in Paris. ITALY BLOCKS AGREEMENT Competitors of Other Nations Also Must Face Tariff, Delegates Assert. Italian Tariff Chief Trouble. EUROPEAN AUTO MEN FAIL TO FIX QUOTAS

By Carlisle MacDonald. Special Cable To the New York Times

Meeting of Eur mfrs held in Paris to arrange quota system to restrict future import trade; efforts fail mainly because of new Ital tariff

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SWANSON DEMANDS REVISION OF TARIFF TO SAVE MARKETS; Warning of Foreign Reprisals, Begun and in Preparation, He Cites Big Drop in Our Exports. SEES A WORLD BLOCKADE Senator Says Our "Vicious" Act Is Forcing Up Counter-Walls on Two Continents. FEARS LOSS OF TREATIES And He Calls Industrial Depression Indicative of the "Folly of the Grundy-Smoot Bill." Trade Drop and Reprisals Abroad. Retaliatory Moves In France. SWANSON DEMANDS REVISION OF TARIFF Prospective Canadian Tariff Wall. Danger of Losing Favored Status.

By Special to The New York Times

Sen C A Swanson demands a thorough overhauling of the Hawley-Smoot law

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CRASH AT TAKE-OFF ON OCEAN HOP ENDS MEARS WORLD FLIGHT; Both Fliers Escape Injury When Plane Hits Hummocks at Harbor Grace. MADE ATTEMPT IN DARK Used Flares and Auto Lights on Runway Despite Warning to Await Daylight. SWITCH CUT AVERTS FIRE Mears Says He Will Try Again-- Dog Mascot Escapes Injury, but Disappears. Cuts Engine on Failing to Rise. Pilot's Action Averts Fire. Mears Planning New Attempt. CRASH AT TAKE-OFF ENDS MEARS FLIGHT Crash Laid to Tire Puncture.

By Special to The New York Times

Mears and Brown crash at take-off at Harbor Grace; fliers escape injury; plane wrecked; Mears plans new attempt

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FAVOR ABANDONING LARGE SUBMARINES; Navy General Board Considers New Policy Under Treaty's Limitations. PLANE PROBLEM TACKLED Many Officers Urge Landing Equipment on All Cruisers Permissible. Lessons of the Manoeuvres. The Arkansas May Go on Reserve. FAVOR ABANDONING LARGE SUBMARINES

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.--Advisability of abandoning the construction of any more large fleet submarines of the so-called V-type for the United States Navy and the building instead of the larger number of smaller underseas craft that could be laid down ...

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Ali al-Sistani

1930Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar[†]

Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani is an Islamic scholar and the dean of the Hawza in Najaf, Iraq. A Grand Ayatollah, Sistani is considered one of the leading religious leaders of Twelver Shia Muslims. After the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent overthrow of the authoritarian Baathist regime, Sistani advocated for democratization instead of the system of Wilayat al-Faqih. He has likewise endorsed rule of law, Iraqi nationalism, non-sectarianism and popular sovereignty. He has been a vocal critic of foreign interference in Iraqi affairs and has warned foreign actors against imposing their will on the Iraqi people.