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SOVIET COMMANDER'S RAILWAY BRIDGE
WARLIKE SPEECH
RUSSIA PREPARED TO DEFEND HER BORDERS
FIGHTING MAY DAY ADDRESS. BY GENERAL BLUCHER
Moscow, Yesterday.
BLOWN UP.
Situation Acute în
Manchuria.
TOWNS SEIZED BY REBELS.
Tokyo, Yesterday. Fresh outbreaks entailing fur- ther operations are reported in North Manchuria and the Tung- hua districts. Harbin messages state that marauders operating along the Hulan-Hailun Railway blew up the railway "bridge in the vicinity of Hulan on Monday. "We are ready to defy a single foreign foot to The situation is acute.
A detachment of the Himeji i trample the collective fields of the Soviet," declared regiment which returned from General Blucher, Commander-in-Chief of the So-Hailin yesterday morning began a drive northward against the viet Far Eastern Army in the course of a fighting marauders. Along the Eastern branch of C.E.R, the main body May Day speech at Habarovsk.
Jets from the flame of a real war were begin-of the Yoda brigade has relieved Murai's at Hailin. and begun an ning to jump not far from Russia's Eastern bor-advance koward Mutankiang. ders, said Blucher, but the fighters of their Eastern They clashed with the insurgents Army were ready to rise at any moment in defence estimated at 4,000 strong.
A large body of bandits at of Soviet territory.
tacked Hsiachiutai, 52 kilo- east on the Kirin line,
General Blucher declared that although the metres
murdered two railway guards
Capitalist world hated and wanted to strangle the and destroyed the office. -- Soviet, their only desire was to be left in peace in or-ter. Troops Mutiny, “ der to construct the plan of Socialist Economy.'· Reuter.
NATIONS ARGUE FOR SEA POWER.
Debate Over Limitation
of Submarines.
ANGLO-JAPANESE DEBATE.
Geneva, Yesterday.
A great fight over the limita-
TOLL ON BRITISH ROADS.
The
Death Roll Still Rising.
NEW PENALTY URGED.
Rugby, To-day. National Safety Congress
Reu-
Mukden, Yesterday. Troops at Chinchuan, south- east of Hailung, have mutinied and a number of towns including Sinpin, Sanwenpu, Chinchuan, Liuho and Tunghus are now in the hands of rebels. Reuter.
Mr. and Mrs. Noulens.
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Charges of Communism.
Nanking, To-day.
Mr. Wang Ching-wel has receiv-
tion of submarines began at the met in London to-day, and considered a telegram from Mr. Tsai Yuan- disarmament conference to-day. ed the gravest problem of modern pei, appealing for a public trial Sir Eyres Monsell, Firat Lord transport confronting all countries, of Mr. and Mrs. Noulene on charges of the Admiralty, restated Bri-that of road accidents, and the of communism and for permission tain's case in favour of the total Minister of Transport, Mr. P. G. for lawyers to properly defend abolition on humanitarian Pybus, declared that the incredible them.
grounds, declaring that the es-toll of British roads could not be Mr. Wang Ching-wel replied that the Minister of Justice in- sential objection to submarines allowed to continue.
RAIN?
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory. states:-
Pressure remains highest over the Pacific to the East of. Japan, and has increased con- siderably over N. China.
was the liability of abuse, regard- Statistics went to show that in forms him that the Court taking jess of the ultimate conse-1931 the numbers killed and injured up the case is conducting the same quences. He advocated that all daily on British roads were 18 and in accordance with the Criminal states adhere to the rules of the 550 respectively. In 1980, the Law, without any discrimination London Naval Treaty.
year in which the Road Traffic Act against the defendants.-Reuter. Submarines,
killed or alternatively was passed, 20 people were the size of submarines, might be daily. reduced to 250 tons, surface dis- Sir Henry Piggott the Deputy | placement, which was adequate Secretary for the Ministry of for defensive purposes, with a Transfort said a reduction of the corresponding reduction in total total killed for one year by 614 tonnages.
might indicate that the fatal curve Sharp Anglo-Japanese differ- had stopped rising. ences developed on the subject of
Recent Figuren the "aggressiveness” of aircraft But more recent figures for carriers, of which Japan favour Greater London showed that 314 led the abolition. Sir Eyres Mon- people ware killed in the first quar- sell argued that. a fleet without ter of 1982, against 289 in the cor- carriers and reconnaissance ma-responding period of 1981. If the chines would go into battle blind- Metropolitan position was aymp- folded. He was prepared, how-tomatic, Sir Henry Piggott said that] ever, to agree to a reduction in he feared the ground, painfully size, Reuter.
gained last year, might be lost this year unless a determined effort Geneva, Yesterday, was made. Although motorists The Russian memorandum to were not solely to blame, he urged] the Disarmament Conference ob-jat least the temporary disqualifica- serves that neighbouring States tion of reckless drivers rather than which have violated their inter-increased the penalties.-British national obligations, designed to Wireless Service. safeguard peace, and are engag-
Earlier Message.
ed in hostilities without declar-the proposed convention for the ing war, do not afford sufficient reduction of armamenta.
Reut- guarantees of the observance of
ofter.
A depression is situated in the Yellow Sca.
Forecast.
S. or variable winds, light to moderate, freshening later from N.E.; fine at first, cloudy later, probably some rain.
Temperature.
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