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Fort DUNLOP
SCHMELING BATTERS WALKER TO SUBMISSION IN EIGHT ROUNDS
EXPLOSION
ON FRENCH
SUBMARINE
One Dead, 32 Injured
Aboard "Persee
AN ILL-FATED CLASS.
Cherbourg. To-day, Disaster has overtaken another of the huge, French submarines. One man is 'dead and 32 are injured, nine of them seriously, aboard the submarine Persee, as a result of an explosion dur- ing manoeuvres in the Eng- lish Channel Fire broke out after the explosion but was quickly quenched.
FRENCH "HYPOCRISY" PANIC SPREADS
IS RIDICULED
HITLER FORBIDS MOVE
TO COMPROMISE
BRITAIN SEEKS PEACE
AS EARTHQUAKE
ROCKS EUROPE
Shocks Felt In E
American Station
ENGLAND IS SHAKEN,
Sondon. To-day.
A violent" earthquake was record- eď in England to-day. Needles on INFURIATED BY THE FRENCH ATTITUDE TOWARDS the seismographs at West Brom
wich and London van off the charts: GERMANY'S ARMAMENTS, HERR ADOLF HITLER, MILITANT
Seismologists believe the centre NAZI LEADER, HAS FLUNG CHARGES OF "HYPOCRISY of the shock was dear the Asores. AND "INSOLENCE" INTO THE FACE OF THE PRIME MINIS University at Seattle, which also re- ~ Seismologists At Washington
TER OF FRANCE AND HAS DEMANDED THAT THE GERMAN corded an earthepake, placed the GOVERNMENT REFUSE TO CONSIDER ANY COMPROMISE centre in Mexic or Central
OR A RETURN TO THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE. THE The Persee, of the same class SITUATION HAS GROWN MORE TENSE AND THE ONE HOPE as the vanished Promethee, FUL ASPECT COMES FROM THE MEETING OF BRITISH EM which sank with more than 60 PIRE DELEGATES TO GENEVA, WHERE SIR JOHN SIMON souls aboard off the coast of ANNOUNCED THAT HE AND ME. ARTHUR, HENDERSON France on July 7, met misfortune under very similar circumstances WERE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO EASE THE TENSION. as those in which her slater 'ship
Munich, To-day. "Insolence Carried Too Far" is the heading of was lost. The mystery of the
leader article Promethee's sudeda plunge to by Herr Adolf Hitler in his paper, "The National Observer." The the ocean floor, however, is a article speaks of Premier Herriot's "Insolence and hypocrisy" and riddle which still puzzles the French navy experts.
secused him of wilfully misrepresenting the facts in the Franco- The Persee was on trial runs, German armament impasse. coasting along in the lee of thel
Channel Islands when the explo The article further ridicules sion jarred her dangerously and Premier Herriot's statement that threw men stunned and batter-France is animated solely by the ed against the steel walls of com- partments Fortunately, she was den, of securing lasting peace travelling on the surface at the and concludes by maintaining time.
that in view of the attitude" of Premier: Herriot and his Govern Fire followed the explosion, ment it would be a mistake for performed as men dragged or take the disarmament question the Von Papen Government to carried injured comrades" "to safety.
with Paris at this time,
*Menace Of Fire.
and there were feats of heroism
(Continued on Page 7.) ' BRITISH NAVY SHIP RUNS ASHORE.
While Charting Coast Of Labrador."
London, To-day.
The Admiralty announce the
whilst surveying in uncharted waters off the Labrador coast
(Continued on Paga 7.).
TERRORISTS
INCUR WIDE CONDEMNATION
One Dead And Sixteen Hurt At Chittagong.
WARNING TO ORGANISERS.
Chittagong, To-day.
America.
Beuter, learns to Belgrade and So reports that were shocks con- alderably damaged several parts of Yugo-Slaria. The population was in panie
A violent earthquake, was throughout Bulgaria.
VON GRONAU
FLIES INTO
RAIN STORM
World Fliers Leave For Philippines.
HOP IN EARLY LIGHT.
Confident the he will reach Manila in about 6 hours, Captain Wolfgang von "Gronau, and his
three compatriots, took off from
Kowloon Bay shortly after 8 a.m. storm. They left amid the cheers this morning, in a driving, rain-
of a large gathering of the Ger man Community, including the Consul, Dr. Hahn, who were pre- sent at the aerodrome to wish the world-fillers good luck.
THE TRIUMPH OF MODERN architecture as shown by the facade of the old established Bank of England, known the world over as 2 centre from whence decisions affecting many nations are continually to be expected.-(8. & G.)
FRENCH AIR MAIL PILOT
SIGHTS WRECKAGE.
Believed Plane Belonging To
Britishers.
Rangoon, To-day. The wreckage of an aero- plane, believed to be that of the missing airm Salt and Taylor, two British plant- ers, which was last seen on August 12-hen attempting
flight from the Malay States to England, wES sighted by the French air mail pilot in the Gulf of Martaban yesterday.
All hope of the two fliers' safety has been abandoned and several searches have proved fruitless. — Reuter.
"Good weather ahead," was the NOULENS
lást message the fliers received be- Casualties of the Terrorist fore stepping into their Dornier-
Wahl amphibian.
CHINESE VESSEL TO BE LAUNCHED
TECHNICAL KNOCK-OUT
$150,000 Purse Held Up By Courts.
40,000 FANS SEE FIGHT.
merican Falled In First Re
Shows Courage
New York, To-day Max Schmeling, former wor eavy-weight champion, won his Way to a new opportunity the title, when he defeated the rugged Mick
mert can contender in an elimination battle in the Long Island Bowl to-day. Schmeling beat his op ponent a technical Enock-out in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round engagement.
Schmeling's purse of G$150,000
has been withheld from the nighter
by order of the
AT NEWCASTLE hearing of the suit fled by Garner
Mme. Quo Tai-chi To Christen Vessel.
the.
FOR NANKING SERVICE.
London, To-day, China's first train ferry, built for the Chinese Government on
of the Chinese Fur
asioufin, London at
will be launch
ber 12 by
chasi
a cost of
king Finde
mence ser
later when the brid
are ready
The Purchasing
and named the
at has £2,500,000 demnity available for. in Great Britain but it
Box
JUDGMENT that work is hampered by
the giant Italian Aghter, char Schmeling broke his agre ment to
fight him for the heavy
There was
Long Isla Bowl
the
political complications with Man righ
FORGED churia For iple, the con- Lin
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Shanghai
templated large purchases for
the Peiping-Mukden Railway had
to be cancelled Reuter:
The outburst in the Nazi off cial organ comes as a reply to Premier Herriot's declaration yesterday in which be is report- ed to have accused Germany of fensive army but one which be one killed and 16 wounded. It Captain von Gronau and his planning not only a powerful de outrage here are now known to Wa could carry on an offensive war is stated the raiders were attir-Tack Aerodrome at 7.15 this morn
|companions arrived at the Kai in Europe.
ed in Mahomedan costumes.ing and devoted some time to give The Legislative Assembly has ng their machine a last examina-
horror and condemnation clock Captain von Gronau left for Noulens Defence Committee; at approved a resolution express- tion Farewells were; brief but
good wishes, sincera, and at 8 A statement issued by the CRITICAL of the outrage, whilst a leaflet his machine, the two 700 h.p, en-tacks the alleged forgeries and has been printed in Bengali and gines of which were ticking over discrepancies between the recent diaplayed by the State Council as the big ship rode lightly on the written judgment and the oral de calm water of the bay,The moor tor was not ordered. wherein it is declared the slaughing was cast and after a last wave
of the Court when the
sente
life im of the pilots hand, the engines
pur European oficials have warm- burst into a sta
grounding of H.M.S. "Challenger" BLOODY GROUP'S FINAL WARNING
TO MERCHANTS
The vessel struck a rock on Sep tember 28, six miles north of Fords Harbour light in Latitude 56.28% N., Longitude: 61:10: W The weather was calm and she was later refloated. Damage to her for ward oil tank and several other compartments was sustained. After calling at Fords Harbour (to | re-embark game parties and as far as possible ascertain the full- ax- tent of the damage, she will pro ceed to St. John's, Newfoundland.
HM.3. Heliotrope has ordered to proceed to the place and stand-by The
vey on
been
which the Challenger": was engag
ed in in connection with
ing of the Hudson Bay the area, in which the working is quite unexplo
tish Wireless Service.
BRITISH SUCCESS AT
COPENHAGEN-
Drastic Action Coming
After To-day.
"ENEMY GOODS MUST GO
[From Our Own Corresponden
Shanghai, To-day.
A letter signed by Bloody Group"
rized among me the Nanking Rosi
Union
until
esterday giv ay to cle
kem
enemy
ed the organisers of the move- ment that if they thought they could frighten the British by this means into conceding some
thing, they were much mistaken STOP PRESS
The attack occurred during dance in a hall here where ma
Eur
hurt, somet
tern
Gandhi Decides To Break
CABINET
MEETING
for
Liberals Ma Not Oppose Governme
SMINIST
fác
ing
the
ker came out ttempted to out-
walked
In-
RIES
More S.W.B
Danish Order For
Coal
Six-Day Political Fast
THEIR MAT
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