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MEN'S QUALITY,
PULLOVERS CARDIGANS &
SLIPOVERS
HUGE RANGES:
TO CHOOSE FROM.
BERNARDS of HARWICH
Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong.
PLEA FOR 50 MORE U.S. AIRSHIPS TO COUNTER JAPANESE MENACE
ENDEAVOUR CREW
WERE ALL READY TO
JUMP FOR LIVES
Startling Disclosures
Of Yacht Series
SEQUEL TO BEING BADLY
FOULED AT START
New York, To-day.
It is considered aboard Mr. T.; O. M. Sopwith's Endeavour that sht was
10 badly fouled during one of the starts in the America's Cup series, in which she lost to the Vanderbilt syndicate's Rainbow by 4 wins to 2, that the amateur crew were thereafter instructed to regard their places aboard in or der that they might jump for their lives with the minimum of delay] should the emergency arise.
Benjamin F. Varn, pensioned cx sailor, is under arrest in New York, charged with sending Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt a letter threatening the kidnapping of the President's grandchildren unless demands for $168,000 were met, Ila home is in Charleston. S.C.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S
PESSIMISM
"TRADE DIFFICULTIES ARE INCREASING
STERLING INDEPENDENCE POLICY
REITERATED
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IN A SPEECH TO CITY OF LONDON BANKERS AND MER- CHANTS, LAST NIGHT, THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, | MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, SAID THAT NOTWITHSTANDING THAT BRITISH EXPORTS FOR THE FIRST MONTHS OF 1934 WERE £20,000,000 ABOVE THOSE OF THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD OF LAST YEAR, THE DIFFICULTIES OF INTERNA- |TIONAL TRADE SEEM TO BE INCREASING RATHER THAN
DECREASING,
Sterling had recently showed a certain seasonal weakness ac-
AMERICA'S SPORTS centuated by financial and political events abroad, he said.
EXTRAVAGANZA
"I do not anticipate that it is more than a passing phase,” he added.
IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TO MAINTAIN THE INDE PENDENCE OF STERLING AND IRON OUT THE EXCESSIVE FLUC- World Baseball Series TUATIONS, HE CONTINUED. THEY HAD NEVER ATTEMPTED TO FIX THE EXCHANGE AT A GIVEN POINT OR MAINTAIN IT EVEN WITHIN A FIXED LIMIT IN OPPOSITION TO SEASONAL OR OTHER POWERFUL INFLUENCES.
Opens To-day
CARDINALS FAVOURED
According to a member of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, who was one of the Endeavour's ama- teur crew, though he positiviely refused to allow his name to be revealed, all the Endeavour's crew felt that much bitterness would
New York, To-day. have been saved if the New York The World Baseball Series. Yacht Club had overlooked the America's greatest sports extra- vaganza. beside which the Ameri-
protest flag technicality and at ca's Cup, golf, tennis, and even least listened to Tom Sopwith's football pale, opens at Detroit to- protest even if they had over-ru-day. ed it. Reuter,
Fair, cool weather, is the wea- ther forecast with possibly a light
Seawanaka Challenge frost last night to chill to the mar-
Cup Series Starts
Oyster Bay, To-day.
row the 100 baseball diehards who are waiting in queries throughout the night for the cheap uncovered seats,
Following the contest for the The odds are 15 to 1 and 8 to 1, British-American cup, which was respectively, against Detroit Tigers won by America in a clean sweep. and St. Louis Cardinals winning the Seawanaka Challenge Cup series the title in four straight games. is now being contested by one yacht Tom Kearney, veteran betting com- from each country.
missioner of St. Louis, last night|
The first race was called off installed the Cardinals at 7 to 10 when the American representa-as favourites to win the series. tive. Bobkat, was second to the British yacht Kyla, which took hours of the four-hour limit
3
to complete half of the 12-mile Bobkat was leading in
course.
the earlier stages of the race.
Judge Kenes A. W. Mountain
and J E. Landis, Baseball
KINGSFORD SMITH WITHDRAWS
Not Competing In Air Race To Melbourne
ENGINE MISHAP ‹
Sydney, To-day, In consequence of a mis- map to his machine and the impossibility of effecting re- pairs in time to reach Lon- don for the start of the race. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has withdrawn from the London-Melbourne air race, bul intends, immediately the race is finished, to endea- vour to better the winner's time. — Reuter.
Commissioner predict that itU.S. BOMBING PLANE
will be a bitterly fought series full of colour."
Over 60,000,000 ardent fans are
CRASHES IN FLAMES
The link with sterling, estal lished by countries within and without the Empire had been maintained unimpaired, and was now becoming a recognised fea ture of the international mone
tery system.
Mr. Chamberlain ⚫ referred appreciatively to the -past year's steps to establish 'cen- tral banks within the Empire, tending to promote common Imperial objects of monetary policy.
The noted financier, and former) Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Robert Horne, held the opinion that sterling, recently, had been considerably over-valued. "It would be good for British bank- ers if we got back to another level," he declared. - Reuter.
;
Weary Of International Conferences
TIN
Suggestion of medical authorities that her sons, John, left, and ́Glenn, right, should undergo operations in an effort to save them from death from a strange hereditary paralysis which has left their, bodies twisted and deformed, has been refused by Mrs. - Alice Dietrich, of Belmont, O., pictured with her husband, Adolph
Dietrich.
JAPAN'S ARMY PAMPHLET
CHINESE MOTOR SHIP BLAZE
NEAR AMOY ON SUNDAY:
Passengers And Crew Rescued
From Striken Vessel
Shanghai. Today, Twenty-eight of the Chinese passengers and the crew of the Chinese motor-ship, Sui Hwa, which caught fire near Amoy on. Sunday afternoon, were, saved by: Tainan and the Java-China Japan the China Navigation Company's Line's Tjibadak.
Both noted the signal of distres on the Sui Hwa's port bow and launched life bosts which effected the rescue of all the passengers and crew-Reuter.
BANDITS KIDNAP 220 PUPILS
The yacht to win three races expected to listen in to the ball by One Of Four Survivors that the Bankers Banquet at Completely Surrounded
will be declared the winner. Reuter.
WANDA MORGAN
SOLE BRITISH
GOLF SURVIVOR
ball wireless description to be re- layed to all parts of the world.
Detroit, famous automobile city,
is jammed with visitors, the hotels
By Parachute Leap
Bishop, California, To-day. An Army bombing plane crash-
and centres being almost incoherent ed in flames in the mountains with debates on the outcome of the near here, yesterday. Three of sell-out expected at Navin Field-the four members of the crew Reuter.
were killed. The survivor escap ed in a parachute--Reuter.
Diana Fishwick Beaten WINNIPEG WHEAT
By 16-Year-Old
UPSETS IN U.S. WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Philadelphia. To-day,
Wanda Morgan is the lone Bri-
tish survivor in the American National Women's "Golf" Cham-
FRENZY
Bedlam Reigns In Grain Pit
INVESTIGATION SCARE
Winnipeg, To-day. Frenzied dealings in wheat oc
HOSPITAL OUTRAGE IN SHANGHAI
10 Persons Arrested On Suspicion
ARMS HAUL AS POLICE COMB DISTRICTS
Shanghai, To-day.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in a
the Mansion House, last night, reiterated the Government policy "to maintain the independence of sterling."
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STERLING PROTECTION WEAKENED?
New York, To-day-Foreiga. ex- change specialista belleve that the
British Equalisation Fund is in such a weakened condition that it is unable to halt the decline in aterling-United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.
NEW TYPHOON FORMS OFF PHILIPPINES
Well Over 1,000 Miles From Colony
By Troops
Dairen, To-day. Forty bandils to-day stormed and kidnappped four instructors and 220 pupils at the Manchu Primary School at Kaoifmen, on the Mukden Antung Railway line. The bandits retreated into a
Kailang field and are now completely surrounded by troops which are hesitating to attack. The recovery of the captives, however, is expected. Reuter.
SHANGHAI WITHOUT MEAT TO-DAY
Animal Festival Day
Shanghai, To-day?
The Mayor of Sha
pionship at the White Marsh cured on the grain exchange Valley Country Club. Yesterday here yesterday, following the she entered the Third Round decision to call a meeting of Ten persons suspected of being while her colleagues, Diana Fish-members to debate the sugges involved in the killing of a Chinese wick, Miss Gourlay, Miss Cham tion of Mr. McFarland, General patient in the Lester Hospital and A typhoon has formed in about bers, and Diana Plumpton fell by manager of the wheat pool, that the killing of two Chinese con- 130 Longitude east and 16 latitude
he wayalde.
dealings in wheat futures should stables when the murderers made north, and is_moving-north-west Teh- be investigated. “
their excape, on September 26, were according to a report this morning be sold Mr. McFarland alleged that handed over to the Bureau of [from, the Manila Observatory,- Festival Results, as cabled by Reiter, speculators were trying to under- Public Safety, yesterday afternoon. sued from the American Consul
mine the whole price structure. The suspecta, including FIRST BOUND Miss Gourlay (Britain) beat Mrs.
were:
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Reid (U.S.) 4 and 3.
Mias Fishwick (Beltain) beat Mins Chambers (Britain) 2 and 0:
Wanda Morgan (Britain) beat Mrs. Hackney (U.8) 6 and
Miss Jameson (U.B) beat Mias Plumpton (Britain) 3. and 250
Miss Quier (UB) beat Misu Robin- son (U.B.) 3 and Light of red
SECOND ROUND
© Turplelake (0.5)) | beat: Mian
Gourlay 3 and 2
Mas Denge (U.8), beat Miss Fish
Wanda Horgan beat Mies Rich
((US) 5. and K
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Government Not Taking Over Machinery
woman, ware
aerios of raids made by police All Continued on Page 13);
CONSTABLE, BURIED WITH FULL POLICE HONOURS.
cour
the
typhicon-is
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pasa, very, close
NATIONAL DEFENCE INTENSIFICATION IS NOW ADVOCATED
Soviet And America
Cause Anxiety
MESSAGE ABSTRACTEDLY : AGAINST CAPITALIST
A tremendous sensation and
WAR OVER IN TWO DAYS
PLANES SHOULD
BE DESIGNED FOR
JAPAN ATTACK
ARMY OFFICIAL'S WARNING
AVIATION" COMMISSION REVIEW SITUATION
AKRON LOSS ONE OF US. DISGRACES
Washington, To-day. "Our most dangerous enemy is Japan," declar- ed Brig.-General William Mitchell, former Assist- ant Chief of Military Aviation, speaking yes terday at a meeting of
President Roosevelt's
Aviation Commission,
American planes should be designed for an attack on Japan, he said. With 50 more airships, the United States could destroy Japan within two days if war broke out.
Describing the loss of the airship Akron
08 dis-
a rising tide of criticism has numer nemmerera lat
been caused by the Army Press Bureau's pamphlet ad- vocating an intensification of National defence in view of the 1935/36 crisis.
The pamphlet, which is ab- stractedly against the capital
ist, advocates State Socialiam and inferentially asserts that Japan is threatened by sever- al foreign countries, notably the U. S. S. R. and the Unit- ed States,
The criticism is strengthen ed by the fact, that the War Office chiefs approved the pam- phlet prior to publication, Reuter.
HUGE OPIUM HAUL IN SHANGHAI
38,000 Pills Seized In Red Plants
Shanghai, To-day.
The Concession police yes
to
United States airships
were due either to gross stupidity on the part of those who send out the ships, or the inability of the crews to handle the ships.
Reuter,
JAPAN'S NEW PLAN
FOR WORLD PEACE
NOW FORMULATED
Reduction Of Offensive
Armaments
YAMAMOTO EXPLAINS WHY WASHINGTON TREATT IS
The
new
terday afternoon, raided two on a red oplum pill plai Two Chinese were sted”- and equipment and: 38,000 seized Reuter,
FAR EASTERN TROPICAL DISEASE CONFERENCE
Shangkal,
FOUNDERS & I
ANGLO-LATVI
the
NOT SUITABLE
Admiral:
ory naval disa don, informed reporters. terday.
He said that, when England and America understood the real reason for abrogation, any, ruffles that might arise from Japan's re lations those Fowers, would