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RETURN OF
CONFIDENCE
IN BRITAIN
Flight To The Pound Sterling.
GOVERNMENT DEFEATS CENSURE MOTION
London, To-day. The House of Commons, by 414 votes to 49, rejected the motion of Mr. George Lansbury, the Labour lead- er, to censure the Govern ment for their "failure" to deal with the unemployment problem.
Moving the Labour Party's censure motion on the Govern- ment for their handling of the employment problem, Mr. George] Lansbury in the House of Com- mone last night criticised, the
U.S. SEETHING WITH
INDIGNATION
800 NEW YORK POLICE TO GUARD ROOSEVELT
ZINGARA CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER OF PRESIDENT – ELECT ·
NEW YORK, TO-DAY,
THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS SEETHING WITH INDIGNA- TION AT THE DASTARDLY ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF PRE- SIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT. THE AUTHORITIES ARE TAK- ING THE MOST ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS FOR THE FU- TURE. EIGHT HUNDRED POLICE AND DETECTIVES WILL BE ASSIGNED TO GUARD MR. ROOSEVELT IN NEW YORK.
Zingara will be formally charged with the attempted murder of President-Elect Roosevelt and three others. Each charge carries. the maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment. No charge has yet been made in respect of Mayor Antony Cermak and Mrs. Gill, wife of the President of the Florida Power and Light Company. The authorities are waiting at present, as in the event of a death, the prisoner will be charged with murder of the first degree, involv- ing the death penalty.
Mrs. Roosevelt Refuses
Guards.
Special precautions are being tak- to guard other prominent people in New York during the next few days
Mayor Cermak Recovering.
Miami, To-day. Mayor Cermak condition is most satisfactory. The pain of his wound is less severe and he is rest. ing quietly, sleeping at intervals.—
Mrs. Roosevelt, however, em- Reuter. phatically declared that she would
not ask for secret-service guards for Selling Rush On
herself and her family.
¡can.
"If they want to get you they
The only thing to do is just: go along and not think about such things more than is necessary," she said.--Reuter
Dramatic Story of Shooting.
MR. ROOSEVELT HEARD "FIRECRACKERS."
Miami, Florida, To-day. A dramatic story of the at- tempted assassination was told by President-Elect Roosevelt to pressmen aboard the train from Miami to New York.
He said that just after speaking tariff policy of the Government to Mayor Cermak he heard what he and their refusal to embark on thought were firecrackers. He looked wide utility schemes for absorb-round and saw that Mayor Cermak ing the unemployed.
jand Mra, Gill had collapsed.
He
Wall St.
Nervousness Causes Decline.
Mr. George Bernard Ehaw, caught in an unconventional powe during his recent visit to “Idlewilde," the residence of Sir Robert Ho Tung. Sir Robert is standing beside the famous author, who broke one of his resolutions and left his autograph in the visitors' book.
US. PROHIBITION
REPEAL
Senate Supports “Wet” Resolution.
PROTECTION FOR "DRY" STATES
Washington, To-day,
France And Soviet
Non-Aggression Pact Now In Force.
Moscow, To-day.
SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED Forthcoming Discussions With Industry Leaders
London, To-day. Indication of a Government campaign to solve the unemploy- ment problem was given yester day when the Minister of Labour, Sir. H. Betterton, sald in the Hoube of Comnions, that he in- tended to discuss with the employ- era' organizations And Trades Union General Council, methods whereby more workers could be absorbed by industry.— British Wireless Service.
the
“STARK TRAGEDY”
WARNING
Air Development Must Be Regulated.
BRITISH DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS
London, To-day.
DUNLOP
is the
SAFEST TYRE
LEAGUE
GENEVA ENVOYS
SEND SURPRISE
CABLE TO TOKIO
Japanese Troops Retire From Frontiers.
JEHOL COMMISSION RECOMMENDED
Genera, To-day. After a private meeting, the whole of the Japanese delegation, as a re- sult of the deliberations, telegraph- ed to Tokio.
It is learnt that the delegation de- finitely counselled in favom of Ja-' |pan's withdrawal from the League.
-Reuter,
:
Fact-Finding In Jehol.
London, To-day.
The British Government should When the General Commission of strongly recommend to the League, the Disarmament Conference yester- the establishment of a fact-finding day considered the British proposals commission în Jehol, declares the re- for the abolition of military avia-solution adopted by the Executive Committee of the National Peace tion and the control of civil avia Council, which has been dispatched tion Captain Anthony Eden, Under to the Government and the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, main- delegation at Geneva-Reuter, tained that unless' air: developa was regulated, it would "Bring stark tragedy in its train.".
International control' of civil aviation was necessary to make pos sible the abolition of aerial arme The Franco-Soviet pact of non-ments and the removal of the air aggresalon which was concluded last bombing menace. November, comés into force im- The American delegate, Mr. Hugh The Senate have adopted the remediately, a the Instruments of Gibson, said that its peculiar geo- solution in favour of the repeal of ratification were exchanged by the graphical position made the appli- Commissar and cation of the proposal for control prohibition, which now goes before Assistant Foreign New York, To-day.
of Representatives. the French Ambassador at the For-nelther feasible nor desirable for The attempt to assassinate Pre- the House
Commissariat, yesterday, the United States. aldent-Elect Roosevelt and the per-, After that if the resolution is adopt-an
A Committee of 18 members has been appointed to draw up questions vousness resulting from the Michi-ed, it will need ratification by a gan banking situation, led to a fur- special convention of the 48 States.
of the principle contained in the ry of selling on Wall Street yester. day, Many losses of one to four
J
Reuter.
The resolution provides protec- EUROPEANS FINED original proposal and the subse
points were recorded but the panic tion for the "Dry" States against was reduced in the closing rally. importation of liquor from "Wet"
A turn over of more than 1,000,- neighbours.-Reuter.
000 shares, was registered.-Reuter.
WAR NEWS SLUMPS
LONDON MARKET
In reply, Mr. Neville Chamber-stopped the car and lifted Mayor, Chinese And Japanese
lain, Chancellor of the Exchequer Cermak in.
sterling.
Zingara In Court.
Miami, Later..
The return of confidence was due "I do not want anybody to help
Stocks Decline.
GLASS VANS FOR BEER. America Prepares For Lifting Of Ban
IN TRAFFIC CT:
Mr. C. E. Holmes Drove In Wyndham Street.
· DANGEROUS DRIVING IN CAINE RD.
quent amendments.-British Wire- less Service.
CUNARD LINER CONSTRUCTION
Government Willing - To Assist.
CONDITIONS SPECIFIED
• Hope
China's
Peking, To-day. Mr. T. V. Soong," interviewed by Reuter to-day, declared that he had raised all the money ne- - cessary to cover Government finances for the next few months.
Reuter.
Japanese Troops
~Withdraw.
AVOIDING FRONTIER CLASHES WITH SOVIET.
Harbin, Yesterday. The Japanese troops have the withdrawn from all frontier towns, ́in order to eliminate the possibility of frontier clashes with the So-
Reuter, viet forces.
KING'S MESSAGE TO TEST TÉAM
"Ups & Downs Watched With Closest Interest.”
:
London, To-day.
Chicago, Illinois,
A fine of $30 was imposed by Beer may travel in glass bottles as large as goods vans when and if Mr. Schofield in the Central Police Court this morning on argued that while much of the so- As he put his arm around him, he
It is legalised. called utility expenditure was excould not feel his pulse and at first!
London, To-day, London, To-day.
Cars carrying two 6,000-gallon Mr. O. C. Bergheen, of 14, Felix travagant, developments were be believed that his heart had stopped
The Stock Markets closed with insulated tanks, constructed of steel Villas, on a summons for danger-
During the unemployment do-
in the House of Com-AUSTRALian congratulaTION Ing sanctioned where enreful con-beating. He then felt his pulse some irregularity yesterday, but and lined with glass, are ready to/ous driving in Caine Road.
Inst... night, the Chan sideration warranted them. He constantly improving and he held British funds left of firmer, with carry beer over the country at low Traffic-Sub-Inspector Saunders, bete recalled the coprse of events since the Mayor in farms and talked Was Los 3 per cent. at 99-6/16. temperatures, under uniform pres-giving the facts, said that he was a 1081 when confidence In Britain to him all the way to the hospital,
The unsettled foreign situation sure, and much cheaper than in the driving along Caine Road in a car cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. to east, and when Neville Chamberlain, referred to
His Majesty, the King sent the was badly shaken. That confidence telling him that lie would not be continued to affect the market, kegs and cases, the tank car makers from west had been largely restored, so much hurt if he did not move, so that they were to-day embarrass-
Chinese and Japanese slocks being say. Each car would hold 48,000 | nearing Shing Wong, Street in the the question of Government assist-\following congratulatory telegram controlled area, he heard the de-ance for the great Cunard liner to Lord Lewishamn, President of the flat with further general losses of pints. ed by a sort of light of the pound
A tank car which transporta beer fendant sounding his horn from the building of which was sus Marylebone Cricket Clubs between one and four points.
"As Patron of the Marylebone The Japanese 5 per cent. Con-taken between Ontario brewery and behind. The Inspector kept as pended some months ago. to the cessation of barrowing to me, You are my Judge, do what you verslon Loan stood at 66-British) Montreal, makes the 1,000-mile close to his left aa¿was possible, He said that the Government had Cricket Club I wish you to convey round trip every five days-Beuter. In view of the danger of the pre- not shut the door to assistance to the Test team in Austraile my Wireless Service.
sence of school children. **
some form or another which would warmset congratulations on their balance the Budget and to the ac-like," defiantly shouted Zingara,
Between Shing Wong Street enable the completion of that ves- victory, I have followed with closest Live steps taken to protect the trade when arraigned before the Criminal
and Aberdeen Street, the defen- sel
Interest their ups and downs in the Balance and to stimulate industry. Court on a charge of attempting to
Assistance would have to be de-i dant overtook the Inspector and)
last match." The Ottawa Conference had restor-murder President-Elect Roosevelt.
Prime had to pull up sharply to avoid pendent upon the fullment of
Telegramą - from the ed confidence and the War Loan Zingara was remanded will, to-
certain conditions, which would some children, y
Minister and the Dominions Secrs conversion operation had cheapen morrow in order to be givenza
preduzetoda Inspector Saunders added-seem essential to the Government Avery, ed money.
London, To-day yo at the time was aboutfit the objects, the willch the vetary were among the hundreds of *** They must, if possible, raise gold him. vt q
Cage from Britain. Warm congratula prices and in any case they must]- Zingara has evinced no interesi
national trade, to- 17 miles per hour. Perhaps theel was originally laid down wetu kausages sent to the English team ohibition of quotas, defendant did not think it was to be attained.. raise sterling prices. The success in Communism and is not acquaint The United Kingdom Chamber of strictions on int
poed was. Those conditions would include, tions were also received from the of the voluntary meat regulation ared with the anarchist theory, ac Shipping yesterday passed a resolo- cluding the
amang other things, the consolida Australian Cricket Board of Con- rangements made at Ottawa had en cording to Professor Moley, Pre-tion expressing itself in full scord and exchange restrictions, all forms fast enough, but my
Freight Defendant
to his tion of existing British Interests: trol, from other friends and cri:ket couraged them to think that they rident-Elect Roosevelt's economic with the policy of the Government of ag" discrimination, including adequate for that
British Wireless Service, might be extended to other commo- adviser, who questioned Zingara, in using the forthcoming World subsidies in the ori
British Shipping Interests
Want Restrictions Removed best barrister available to defend
dities. Cheap money, and interná-
Beonomic Conference to promote market and the removal-or
Hon br the re-establishment of world
tional co-operation would help...
He thought that eady crediti and low preferential rates were au an waztial preondent to trade rochyery. Reuter and British Wifelova Ber-
Mr. Roosvelt does not con template any change in his re- gular habits, and he is surpris od at the suggestion of curs talling the inaugural" delobra- "Mon and other public func
opponents in Australia, and from All parts of the Empire.
Harmor which At the and of yesterday's match Send of last the Australian team, drank tha rudak, is:*k: health of their victors and chest to Hong Kong the them heartily-Beuter and Bri-
the Destroy.
tish Wireless Bervice.