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SEVERAL VILLAGES OBLITERATED
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TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF TURKESTAN EARTHQUAKE
DISTURBANCE CONTINUES
Teheran, Yesterday.
It is now stated that the series of earthquakes has resulted in 2,000 deaths at Khorassan.
Several villages have been obliterated and the disturbance continues.--Reuter.
A telegram from Moscow dat- ed May 3, stated: It is reported from Askhabat that 1,000 persons have been killed in villages in North-East Persia as the result of a violent earthquake, whose centre was in the trans-Caspian territory of Turkestan.]
BERLIN'S RIOTS
NEW ZEALAND JOURNALISTS TRAGIC DEATH
CONFLICTING REPORTS
Berlin, Yesterday.
Mr. Charles Mackay, a correspon- dent for a New Zealand newspaper, was killed in last night's rioting. He disregarded the warring of the police, and unconcernedly strolled in the streets of Neu Koelln.
He was found dead in the Hermannstrasse, where the firing continued till 2 a.m.
Many Arrests
Munich, Yesterday. Forty arrests have been made in- cluding several women, as a sequel to the Communist demonstration culminating in a baton charge by the police through a barrage of stones and others missiles.
Berlin, Later.
All is quiet in the Neu Koelln dis- trict. The police believe that fur- ther disorders are unlikely.
The total casualties are 25 dead and 36 severely wounded, and over 2,000 slightly hurt.
The streets were cleared at 5 am.
Inquiry Demanded
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929.
PREMIER'S MESSAGE SPEN VALLEY “REDS”
NOT PROMISING MORE THAN HE CAN PERFORM
"MESSAGE TO BRITAIN"
London, Yesterday.
In a "message to Britain." Mr. Baldwin summarises the principal legislative measures carried out hy the present Government.
CHOICE
AN INDIAN
AT PRESENT AWAITING TRIAL ON SEDITION CHARGE
TO OPPOSE SIR J. SIMON
London, Yesterday.. The Communists of the West Riding of Yorkshire have chosen S. Asmani, President of the Indian Trades Union Congress who is at present awaiting trial at Meerut, India on a charge of sedition to oppose Sir John Simon in the Spen Valley constituency at the Geneva Election.
He declares that the Conserva tives have carried through the jobs they then undertook, and claims that trade is in а люге prosperous condition than at any time since the war. He asks if this is the moment to gamble with rash, costly Socialist schemes for
Another Indian Communist. U. P. State. control, cr trust the Liberals, who are seeking the Adych, will represent Asmani at Valley throughout the ex-Spen an electorate's support by ployment scheme which many campaign. Reuter. Liberals have declared is imprac
ticable.
"We Conservatives are not go-
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ing out and completing the work we have so successfully begun."
He concludes. "We shall keep faith, and shall not promise more than we can perform.”
Intense Activity
APPROVED IN PRINCIPLE
London, Yesterday.
The sun appears to be break- ing through the clouds of the Re- parations Conference.
Owen
The Chairman, Mr. Young (America), has drawn up ja compromise scheme which, this afternoon, he informed the dele- gates Dr. Schacht has accepted, with certain reservations,
Although the Allied delegations did not immediately go so far as Dr. Schacht no one raised a voice reject the proposals, which they all agreed to consider.
A decision, however, cannot be reached before Tuesday, as the French delegate M. Moreau, is at present absent in the provinces.
Mr. Young has so far only out-] Party headquarters are display-lined to the meeting of delegates ing intense activity in view of the the main heads of his proposals, dissolution of Parliament next which included the all-important Friday. Proof of the busy de question of the amount and num- liberations within the four corners ber of annuities. of political associations and com-
The British Colony is very dis-mittee roems is afforded by the fact satisfied with the circumstances that arrangements have already of Mr. Mackay's death, and it is been made to nominate 1,685 can- felt that a searching and impar- didates for 615 seats. tial inquiry is essential.
Conflicting Reports According to a Police report, Mackay was warned not to visit the scene of the rioting but was seen in the danger zone through- out the afternoon of May 3. His body was found in Hermannstrasse at 9 p.m.
On the contrary, Reuter's cor- respondent points out that Mackay was with friends all the afternoon and evening and was last seen alive at 11.30 p.m., when he took a taxicab in the Neukeln District. His body was found at 12.10 a.m., fatally wounded in the stomach.-Reater.
This is a new record. Of the 1,685 aspirants 682 are Conserva tives, 559 Labourites, 493 Liberals, 24 Commmunists and 27 others.
A few additional additions
The detalls of the proposal will. be submitted to the delegates in writing on Sunday.
Approval
British and Japanese delegates unquestionably approved of the principles of Mr. Young's pro- posals; the Italians are believed to have also approved. Private the proposals conversations on withdrawals may be expected by will continue over the week-end. nomination day but there is only
In the event of a non-agreement likely to be eight unopposed returns there will be majority and minor- including Speaker Fitzroy and twoity reports. The minority report solidly Conservative seats in a city will not be German but a report of London constituency.
of those not accepting Young's Majority of Women Voters plan. Details are not at present Women continue to increase the being considered, and Mr. Young's lead over men in the latest returns 6gures are not announced, but it lodged of voters on the new regis-is surmised they are about mid- ter, the figures now being:
way between the German and Women 8,185,710.
Allied proposals. Men 7,283,928,--Reuter,
Broadcasting
Brigadier-General R. B. Colvin, Wireless broadcasting is playing, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, has been and will continue to play an import- elected president of the Essex ant part in the contest. Conserva- Federal Council of the League of tiva, Labour and Liberal spokesmen Nations Union, in succession to the late Lord Lambourne,
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Paris, Yesterday. French circles state that Mr. Young's scheme provides for the German payment of an annuity of | 2,060 million gold marks (compared with the creditor Powars proposal of 2,200 million) for 37 yearS.
War debts would, moreover, be covered while necessary by Reich payments out of parts of profit of the projected International Bank.
It is understood that the German reservations are of a political-char- actor and aim at safeguarding Ger many's future engagements rela- tive to the carrying out of the scheme.-Router.
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