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GOERING AND GOEBBELS SAID CONNECTED WITH REICHSTAG FIRE
STORM TROOPER'S REVELATION
Ernst Torgler, former Com- munist fender in the German Reichstag Fire. Trial, but Marinus Von Der Lubbe, a Dutch painter was found fuilty and guillotined.
DOCUMENT OPENED AFTER
VIOLENT DEATH
ALTERNATIVE TO PRETENDED ATTEMPT ON HITLER
VAN DER LUBBE AS BLIND
PARIS, TO-DAY.
THE REICHSTAG WAS FIRED ON FEB- RUARY 27, 1933, WITH THE CONNIVANCE OF GENERAL GOERING AND DR. JOSEPH GOERBELS, ACCORDING TO A DOCUMENT PUBLISHED IN “LE JOURNAL” WITH AUTO- GRAPH SIGNATURE OF THE STORMTROOP-, ER, KARL ERNST, WHO WAS SHOT D. AD AT
BRITISH AND
U.S. DELEGATES
IN CONFERENCE
NAVAL PROCEDURE DISCUSSED.
JAPAN SETS POSER
London, To-day.
The procedure to be followed when Japan denounces the Wash- ington Treaty was discussed yes- terday at a full meeting of the Bri tish and American naval delega tions.
The British opine that the de- nunciations will not necessarily mean the end of the present ne
On the left; firemen are seen in thegotiations, while the Americans The ruins of the Berlin Relchstag Chamber after the disastrous' Are. Mecting Chamber, where the most damage occurred, while on the right is a view of the Chamber a few hours feel that denunciation will mean
after the outbreak had been subdued.
at least an adjournment of the talks.
HAMBURG IN REICHSFUEHER H.TLER'S AIRMEN MISSING FOR FOUR HOURS No concrete decision has been
CLEAN-UP.
S.P.C.A. INSPECTOR MISSING
Left Airlie Hotel On Monday
And Not Seen Since
The document, which was counter-signed by LEO DIEGEL SETS two confederates, was smuggled to Dr. Brant-
WORLD GOLF RECORD ing, of Sweden, Ernst forbidding publication
IN ADELAIDE SERIES unless he met a violent death.
AGGREGATE FOR| Society for the Prevention of
72 HOLES
ין
A
The Document absolves Herr Hitler from all knowledge of the plot and alleges that Stormtroopers first discussed with Gen- 282 eral Goering and Dr. Goebbels à pretended attempt on Herr Hit- ler's life in order to discredit the Communists and strengthen Nazi power. This, however, was abandoned in favour of the fire.
WINS JOHN MARTIN PURSE ERNST DECLARES THAT GENERAL GOERING SUPI LI- LED THE PHOSPHORESCENT MATERIAL WHICH HER-
Adelaide, Today RIED FROM THE CELLARS OF GENERAL GOERA 'S HOUSE TO THE MAIN HALL OF THE REICHSTAG IT _G- Leo Diegel, American Ryder APPROVAL OF NITED AUTOMATICALLY HALF AN HOUR AFTER APPLICup player,, established a world
INDIA POLICY
'Opportunity Must Be Given "
MR. BALDWIN'S
MR. CHURCHILL'S OPPOSITION
London, To-day.
CATION.
NOT COLDEST THIS YEAR!
No Signs Of Break
In Weather
ICY BLASTS COMING FROM
SIBERIA AND NORTH CHINA.
45.2 Degrees To-day
:
golfing record yesterday when he The weak-minded Vander aggregated 282 for 72 holes to Lubbe was used as a blind, al-win the John Martin Purse over though he believed that he was the Seaton Kooyonga course. acting alone.
It was arranged His rounds were 68, 69, 71, 74. that he should start a fire in the
The previous best championship! gallery half an hour after the Stormtroopers retired from the building-Reuter.
BRIGHT HOPE OF
CANTON - NANKING
aggregate was 283, accomplished by
the following:
Gene Sorazen 1982 American Open. Henry Cotton 1934 British Open. Willia Bolger. 1934 Australian Open.-Reuter,
Diegel has had a most successful
RAPPROCHMENT Australian.. visit, having won the
FOREIGN POLICY CHANGE SEEN
DECISION SHORTLY,
The Government's policy on India yesterday received appro- val, cxpressed by an overwhelm- ing majority of the central Coun. cil of the Conservative party. The amendment, moved by Lord Hong Kong is just beginning! Salisbury, was defeated by 1,102 to realise the meaning of a mean votes to 390, a majority of 712 temperature, for, according to The meeting was held in the the concensus of opinion during fulfilment of the pledge given by the past few days, the present Mr. Baldwin, as a leader of the cold snap is about the meanest party, to consult the Conservative thing in the matter of weather Council prior to the introduction we have experienced for a good From Our Own Correspondent) of the Government's bill on India, many years..
Canton, To-day. which is to be based-on-the-re-Apparently, according to the pro-
While there appears every chants commendations of the Joint Sel-phets on Observatory Hill, one of of a Canton-Nanking rapprochment, ect Committee.
those icy blasts, usually reserved the final decision will be made upon Mr. Baldwin, in a powerful and for the two Poles and certain parts the arrival of Dr. Wang Chung-hu earnest address, urged that the re- of Siberia, has found its way down and Dr. Sun Fo from Hong Kong port should be supported. Their's to the Colony owing to the anti-this afternoon, or to-night.
Why, was an immense responsibility, for cyclone over North China.
The presence of Dr. Sun Fo in- the considered opinion of the re-we cannot say, but the following dicates that there is some change presentatives of the Conservative figures indicate that the Observa- in the foreign policy of the Na- party must carry weight in Bri-tory sages are in all probability tional Government. Dr. Sun is In their diagnosis-they said to have disapproved the pre- tain and would be regarded with correct immense interest not only at add that there are no signs of a
sent foreign policy of the Nanking home, but in the Indian Empire and change in the local weather,
Government. throughout world, he said,
EVOLUTIONARY POLICY After tracing the events leading up to, and since the setting up of the Simon Commission, Mr. Bald- win insisted that the policy re-
commended by the Joint Select
(Continued on Page 7),
STOP PRESS
INTER VARSITY CRICKET
The local annual inter "Varsity, cricket match, was' commenced this afternoon, the score at 8.p.m. being:
Oxford: 80 for, 3), (H.-W. Balneg 22; L. T Ride 37).
The lowest temperature yester- day 49.3 degrees, at 7 am.
The lowest temperature to- day (so far) was 45.2 degrees at 7 n.m..
(Continued on Page 7) New Shelter For Street Sleepers This Month
Melbourne Centenary Professional Championship by beating Densmore
Mr. Cockle, Secretary of the
Cruelty to Animals, reported to the Police at 9 pm. yesterday that Inspector Webb, of the Son ciety, residing at the Airlie Hotel, Nathan Road, left the hotel at 3pm on Monday and has not since been se
Inspector Webb is 34 years
GRAVE FEARS
FELT FOR SAFETY
OF ULM'S MACHINE
BELIEVED ADRIFT
NEAR OAHU
· ARMY AND NAVY PLANES MAKE FRUITLESS 'SEARCH
San Francisco, To-day. Grave fears are now felt for the safety of the noted Austral old, stands 8 ft. 10 insasian airman, Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, fresh complexion, is clean shaven, and has brown wavy hair. He was wearing a blue uniform and a peak cap with S.P.C.A. on it.
CONTROLLED
ECONOMY MOVE
AT CANTON
Intended Check On Over-Production
and his two companions, of whom there has been no news for four hours. It is believed that they, are adrift within 200 miles of Oahu, but United States Army and Navy planes have, combed every mile of the area in vain. Reuter.
Ulm hoped off from Oakland,
taken, as neither the British nor the American thought has yet crystalised.
The Americans, however, feel that the Japanese have veered in the last three days, despite the
fact that it was made clear, both by the Americans. and the Bri- tish, that parity for Japan was out of the question. Reuter.
TRAMP
SHIPPING SUBSIDY CARRIED
IN THE COMMONS
£2,000,000 BILL FAVOURED
RUNCIMAN'S REMINDER OF -NATIONAL DEFENCE
London, To-day,
The House of Commons by 231 votes to 50: yesterday carried the 2,000,000 bill for a subsidy for tramp shipping. ---- Reuter.**
California on a survey flight to Aus- tralia, accompanied by his co-pilot, G. M. Littlejohn and a navigator, J.
The House of Commons yeater- L. Skilling, 2.45 p.m. (Pacific Tire) day debated the British. Shipping Jon Monday.
Assistance Bill, which authorises the Board of Trade to pay subsidies He had intended to fly from Van- respect of tramp voyages in
Shute, an ex-British Open champion, MERCHANTS SEE RECOVERY IN couver, B.C., and make the flight a 1935, up to £2,000,000, and to make
in the Final. Diegel was also run- ner-up to Jimmy Thompson in the! Centenary Open Championship.
(Continued on Page 12):
TAXATION DECREASE
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day. A high official of the Provincial Department of Finance has
CAMBRIDGE WINnounced that the system of plan-
AT RUGBY
Greenwood's Team.
Swamped
ned or controlled economy will be put into effect early next year as
London, To-day.... Cambridge University
con- tinued in winning vein yes terday when they overwhelm- ed J. E. Greenwood's rugby fifteen by 40 points to 9- Reuter...
In an interview, Mr. Haino Fu-
This is the second largest score chen, spokesman of the South-west that the Light Blues have amas- Political Council, stated that if the sed this season, their previous Nanking authorities are sincere in best being over Guy's Hospital wanting an understanding with the from they beat by 40 points to 9.
(Continued on Page
WEATHER FORECAST
U.S. BASEBALLERS IN
SHANGHAI:
Exhibition Game Before Coming To Colony
Shanghai, To-day.
Canada-Australia" connection, but
advances for two years, not excead- found it inadvisable to add the exing £10,000,000, for scrapping the tra miles to the first hop. His first building or modernising of British stop was to have been Hawali.
cargo vessels..
The President of the Board of
AIR FORCE BOMBER Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, said.
CRASHES
a means to assist trade recovery, PILOT OVERCOME BY
Mr. Chu Fang-pu, Provincial Commissioner of
Finance, has
submitted the plan for the consi
PETROL FUMES
deration of the Canton Chamber SAFE LANDING BY PARACHUTE
of Commerce, which is in favour|
of the scheme. The system of planned economy wasdrafted by
that one of the Government's objects. was to enable British ship-owners 'to compete on approximately equal terms with foreign tramp shipping, which was receiving subsidy assist- ance from their respective Govern- {ments.
RESTRICTED SUPPORT The Government's support was London, To-day restricted to tramp vessels because One of the four Air Force Bom- of the peculiar position in which
the Economic Planning Commis bers of the India Wing Squadron they had developed the benefits
(Continued on Page 12)
U.S. SENATORS IN SHANGHAI
Passing Through En Route To Manila
on a flight to Singapore from Kohat, which they brought to the trade of North-West Frontier, crashed after (Continued on Page 7)
leaving Alor Star yesterday.
Pilot Flight Lieutenant Paish,
being faint through potrol fumes. attempted to return to Alor Star,
but, feeling himself to be losing
consciousness, shouted to his Air-
craftsman passenger to fump. Both took to parachutes, the pilot land- Shanghai, To-day. Ing in s tree and his passenger in Five members of the United
A mangrove, swamp. Neither were day from Japan, en route to Manila, States Legislature arrived here to-hurt-British Wireless Service
aboard the Empress of Canadafa
They are Senators William G. N.L.R.A. REPLACEMENT: McAdoo, of California, Millard E.
Washington,
The anticyclone is now of ab- With the coming of the cold normal intensity and covers the de whole of China and neighbouring snap, the street sleepers are serting their habitual stamping seas. Pressure is highest over grounds on the pavements and are the lower Yangtse valley and is now flocking to the Street Sleep relatively low over the Visayas The American “Big League base-Tydings, of Maryland, Kenneth D. ers Shelter, which was opened on and the Pacific. to the eastward, ball team, headed by Babe Ruth, McKeller, of Tennessee, Ernest W. dustrial Emergency Council Saturday night. The shelter is, depressions being indicated near most glamorous of all baseball per-Gibson, of Vermont, and Repre- considering the permanent nightly, filled to capacity.. Ifollo and to the north of Yap, sonalities, were met aboard the sentative Charles b. Millard, of ment of the NIRA.
deral incor ration. An additional shelter will be The typhoon is passing to the Empress of Canade by represents New York. opened opposite the Tung Wah north of the Bonins on a north- tives of the Shanghai Amateur The visitors were Hospital, off Po Yan Street, on easterly track. The local fores Athletic Association December 15, ARA
cant, as issued by the Royal Obatic fant Over 80 volunteer officials have servatory last night, was north Manila at 7 pm. been registered for night duty.t winds, fresh yifina
game this afternoo
xhibition and Eulogio Ber
by mem-dustry and trade Legislature, der charters embr
sen Coden
Kin
MILITARY SERVICE
COMPULSORY
China Determined To Crush Communism
SINO-GERMAN TRADE PROGRESS,
Berlin, To-day.
The Chinese Minister to Germany,, Mr. Liu Chung-chich, yesterday told, newspapermen that China will shortly intro duce compulsory mil
vice and that Communismi
म
tely crushed
the