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PUBLIC INSECURITY IN AMERICA
HOOVER'S VIEWS
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New York, Yesterday.
BIG HURRICANE
WIDESPREAD TOLL THROUGH- OUT JAPAN
HEAVY CASUALTIES FEARED
Tokyo, Yesterday.
A violent hurricane which awept | over almost the whole of Japan yesterday left a widespread toll of death and damage in its wake.
Reports from various parts of the A scathing Indictment with re-country indicate that numberless ference to public insecurity in the houses were wholly or partially United States was made by Pres. destroyed. A number of fishing and Hoover in a speech at a luncheon other small craft were sunk, or are of the Associated Press.
missing.
The latter landed nearly 200 miles north of its direct course from Alice Springs to Wyndham. Brain pags ed over the spot solely because he happened to be on his course to. Wave Hill, where he was going to join the search party, when amokety in the United States were less from a recent fire drew his atten-
safe than in any other country in tion.
the world..
Brain noticed a short runway was cleared near the Kookaburra, indicating that the airmen had tried
to resume their flight.
Six aeroplanes are now intensive ly searching for the missing air- men in the vicinity of the Kooka- burra.
Brain's Views
Sydney, Yesterday. The air pilot, Brain, again flew
low above Kookaburra, and saya that he saw what appeared to be a mound near. an exposed hady under the wing of a machine. He suggests that the other airman was roughly buried-Reuter.
REPARATIONS
HOW GERMANY REGARDS THE QUESTION
A MEMORANDUM
Paria, Yesterday, The German Memorandum atates that if Germany is to assume the. payments enumerated in the plan submitted by Dr. Schacht, without foreign further increasing her debt, she should be permitted to "recreate overseas sources of raw materials. exclusively to herself."
The Memorandum also refers to
Germany's loss of territory on her
eastern frontier. It adds that the
separation of a whole province from the rest of the Reich has so serious ly affected the prosperity of this province, that the Reich is obliged regularly to subsidise it; "Conse- quently it will be necessary to agree to measures with a view to dealing with these unfavourable conditions, which are reducing Germany's capacity to pay."
The Havas diplomatic correspon- dent comments that evidently the! Germans wish to demand full sover- eignty of the Reich over cx-German colonies, and also the Danzig cor- ridor and Upper Silesia.--Reuter.
CAPT. LANCASTER
WELL-KNOWN FLIER IN
HOSPITAL
CONDITION SERIOUS
New York, Yesterday. Captain Lancaster, who crashed three weeks ago at Port of Spain In a flight across the Caribbean, and suffered Internal injuries, has arrived on a liner in which he was operated upon the day after he left
Barbados.
He has gone to hospital here, and his condition is serious.
Captain Lancaster's most specta- cular flight was to Australia, ac- companied by Mrs. Keith Miller- Reuters American Service.
He declared that life and proper-
There were 9,000 murders yearly in the Union and arrests made were only in half of the cases and less than one sixth of the cases of the slayers were convicted compared with Great Britain.
The casualties include several drowned at sea and several killed ur injured on land.
Naval Ratings Missing
Later.
The toll of lives lost in the de- struction wrought by yesterday's hurricane continues to mount.
Two Naval 'planes, carrying a Taking account of the difference crew of four belonging to the air- in population there were 20 times craft-carrier Akagi are officially as many murders in the United reported missing in a storm during Korean coast. States and at least 50 times as many practice off the robberies.
Three bluejackets have been wash. Pres. Hoover admitted that Pro-ed overboard from destroyers, andį hibition had increased the volume are feared drowned.
of crime but that out of the total The north-western coast of Japan number of felonies last year under appears to have suffered worst, 8 per cent. involved the 18th especially Niigata. Belated reporta amendment
from that point indicate that several hundred houses have been completely demolished, and about three hundred seriously damaged.' There are eight known dead and
'Two immediate problems of the Government were to investigate the existing agencies and the enforce ment of the law and to reorganise
a system of enforcement-Reu-70 injured. The property loss is ter's American Service,
estimated to exceed Y.1,000,000.
In addition to other factors, the U.S. AGRICULTURE winds fanned disastrous conflagra-
PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO A
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Lions, in two northern towns, result- ing in four deaths, and destruction of 60 buildings.
where
The loss of life at sea, many fishing boats are still missing
is not yet certain, but it is feared it may be hoavy.
DISARMAMENT
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Washington, Yesterday. President Hoover has written to Mr. McNary, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Export Deben- declaring that the
carry further the ture plan to assist farmers is bad willingness to
it principle of reduction of which the and unworkable. He believes would create profiteering, with re- foundation had tentatively been laid sultant disaster to the farmer him- and were anxious to promote it to
its fullest possible extent. Mr. A. Mellon, Secretary to the
Equivalent Values A very important matter laid Treasury, has also written to the
was that of Committee declaring that the pre-down by Mr. Gibson posed debenture is indistinguishable arriving at some system of equiva
exports. lent values, based upon other fac- from a cash bounty on "It is hardly to be assumed that tors besides mere tonnage, such as foreign countries with important speed. He (Lord Cushenden) did to protect not like to say very much upon that agricultural interests will permit their producers to be point until he had further informa- subjected to a price war subsidised tion, but he entirely agreed that it; from the United States Treasury, was along those linas, the problem He without adopting. protective mea-ought to be investigated. tures."-Reuter's American Service. thought the British Government had
TORNADO IN USA.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
TWENTY-SIX DEATHS
Little Rock, Ark., Yesterday,
also, to some extent, been investi- kating the possibility of arriving at equivalent values, taking into se- count other factors besides tonnage; but obviously this was a matter which was extremely technical and which the British Government would only examine in conjunction with expert advice. He was, however, quite certain that any suggestion of
Thirteen people were killed and this sort by the United States and four injured in a tornado here. any information as to their study Most of the dead are negroes, but of this subject would be most cafe- one white child had its back broken, fully and, in the
and died.
Later. Altogether there are 26 deaths as a result of the storms in Arkansas this week-end.--Reuter.
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The American Proposals
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U.S.A. Tremendously Stirred
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The attitude of other big naval Powers, especially Great Britain to- wards the American proposals at Geneva, is eagerly awaited, Mr. Gibson's speech having tremend- ously stirred the country-Reuter's American Service.
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