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SECOND NAZI PURGE INDICATED BY MASS ARRESTS IN BERLIN
BRITAIN'S JUDICIAL
FIGHT ENDS
SCATHING ATTACK BY
LABOUR PEERS
LORD HEWART MOLLIFIED
London, To-day.
Rarely has a debate in the House of Lords been attended with such interest as when the House reassembled yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the Supreme Court Judica- ture Bill.
The galleries were packed with members of the public, the legal profession, House of Commons members, and a large mus- ter of legal Peers.
Lord Reading, opening the debate, said that Lord Hewart's allegations were most disturbing, and, if unexplained would lead to the conclusion that the Lord Chief Justice had been treated with lack of respect and courtesy through not being consulted as the permanent head of the Justiciary.
Labour Party gains in the Bri- tish municipal elections point to a Labour control of Parliament with a possible attempt to form a La- bour Government, in which event Mr. Herbert Morrison, former Min- ister of Transport is the likely choice for Premier.
Lord Reading declared that he could not fully appreciate why the Government had introduced the new method appointment of NEGRO FLYERS the Vice-President of the Court of Appeal from the existing Lords of Justice without regard to senlority, instead of relying on the former.custom...
LORD HEWART'S ALLEGATION THAT THE INTENTION WAS TO PREVENT LORD JUSTICE SLESSER, FORMER LA- BOUR SOLICITOR-GENERAL FROM PRESIDING OVER THE SECOND COURT ON ACCOUNT OF HIS POLITICAL VIEWS, WAS AS GRAVE ÄN ALLEGATION AS HE HAD EVER HEARD IN RELATION TO JUDGES: HE REFUSED TO BE- LIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS ACUATED BY ANY SUCH POLITICAL CONSIDERATION.".
SOMALILAND-ABYSSINIA' TENSION
Report To League Follows Clash With Italians
Geneva, to-day. Following the recent clash with the Italians at Ualual, Abyssinia has drawn the League Council's attention to the pravity of the situation on the Somaliland-Abyssinian border.
-Reuter.
CRASH DURING...
GOODWILL TRIP
Flight Abandoned At
Port Of Spain
REMARKABLE ESCAPE
RUSSIAN COUNTESS' PARTY RAIDED
DRIVE LAUNCHED ON WEST
END NIGHT CLUBS
HIGH OFFICIALS ARRESTED
BERLIN, TO-DAY,
ANOTHER NAZI CLEAN UP, INVOLVING- HIGH NAZI PARTY AND STORM TROOP OF- FICIALS, IS BELIEVED TO LIE BEHIND A NUMBER OF ARRESTS CARRIED OUT BY THE SECRET POLICE IN THE LAST FEW DAYS.
The most recent photograph of Isobel Lillian Steele, Hollywood,
HITLER IN SMASH
PRESS TRAIN
CRASHES INTO
LORRY IN FOG
13 ACTORS KILLED, 4 SERIOUSLY HURT
Tragedy Follows Launch Of N.D.L. Steamer
Berlin, To-day,
The express train in which Reichsfucher Hitler was returning from the launching at Bremen of the North German Lloyd steam- er for Far Eastern service, Scharn- horst, yesterday, was involved in an accident at a level crossing wear
Following the recent raids on the night clubs in the west end of Berlin, in which all present were arrested and questioned, but all, except, a few of the Nazi Party and Storm Troop officials, calf, the music teacher whom the Verdeen, Hanover. were released, Nazi Black Guards yesterday raid- ed a tea-party given by a Russian Countess, and arrested everybody present.
TRAMP SHIPPING SUBSIDY
Dr. Burgen Explains Objects Of Bill
DR. ADDISON POINTS OUT FAILINGS
London, To-day,
When the second reading off.
Nazi government held on explon- age charges. It was taken shortly before she left for Germany,
Twenty-three persons, includ- ARMS PROBE ng high Storm Troop and Black
IN U.S.
Guard leaders, and two well-} known German journalists are]
now being examined at the secret INVESTIGATORS police headquarters.ted,
WRANGLE WITH
DU PONT PARTNERS
There appears to be ground for the belief that the Nazi Ru-
thorities are re-attempting to Purge the Party of malcontents.
Reuter
Port of Spain, To-day. He had never heard that Lord The goodwill fight of two "Justice Slesser actuated his work American Negroes. Dr. Albert (by his political opinions. He Forsythe and Mr. Alfred Ander- declared that the suggestion of son, from the United States to indignity towards Lord Justice, the West Indies came to grief Slesser contained in the clause, here yesterday when the fliers the British Shipping Assistance must be dealt with satisfactorily, crashed in the back yard of a Bill was moved in the House of and suggested that the clause house as they were taking off for Commons yesterday Dr. Burgen,
Parliamentary Secretary for the 3 should only apply to future British Gulana.
The planes was wrecked, but the Board of Trade, described the judges.
Lord Ponsonby drew attention to allers had a miraculous escape conditions under which the political and constitutional as-Anderson was slightly cut about the grants from the proposed £2,000,-- 000 subsidy would be made to pects of the Bill, and declared that face.
tramp shipping. the Master of the Rolls had asked Lord Justice Slesser to allow himself to be superseded. Lord Justice Slesser refused, but found that he would be coerced by legislation. Lord Ponsonby said that a political |
PRINCE HENRY IN motive was not inconceivable.
NEW ZEALAND
(Continued on Page 9.)
MILLION HOURS OF FLYING
Captain Youell's Achievement
AMERICAN DRIVE ON SMUGGLERS
WELL-KNOWN MEN
CONVICTED
the
- RAILWAY CAR RUSE
Montreal, to-day
The objects of the bill, he said.j
+
“OLD HICKORY”
PROFITS $43,500,000 MADE WITHOUT
INVESTING A PENNYI ·
Washington, To-day,
"A motor-lorry conveying 20 members of a theatrical company crashed through the railway gate in the darkness, and fog and was caught fairly and squarely by the express. The lorry was hurled into the air, descending with a tremendous crash which totally wrecked the vehicle.
Thirteen actors were killed, four seriously injured, and three slightly hart.
܂
Herr Hitler headed the re-
cuers and was most active In helping to remove the from the line in attendi the injure Reuter.
GERMAN - SEAMAN INJURED:
Enrich Meurs, a German seGMAN- of the as. Oklenburg was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital last night
suffering from a fractured jaw mus tained when unloading cargo at 8
A bitter wrangle between the United States Senate arms enquiry p.J... investigators and the Pu Pont partners, over the war time pro-
WEST INDIES
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA ROCKED
were firstly to assist such vessels. A fury of the Court of the King's fits of Messrs. Du Pont de Nem- EARTHQUAKE IN to meet the competition of foreign Bench yesterday convicted Mr. ours, was the main feature of the subsidised craft, Secondly to help William Frazer, President of the enquiry yesterday,
Eastern Equipment Company, British ship-owners, on special]
One of the investigators 28- Amedee terms, to modernise and improve Rodolphe Pharand, and
serted that Messrs. Du Pont's their mercantile feet under con-Brabant, on charges of defrauding profits on the "Old Hickory" ditions which would at the same the Government of $1,700,000 by powder factory in Tennessee, the time help to reduce the surplus of smuggling alcohol from the United largest in the world, amounted London, to-day.
States. world tonnage, and thirdly to give!
to the stupendous figure of 89,281 Captain Youell, the well-known some relief to the shipping in-
The Crown alleged that 100,000 per cent. on the Company's in- Imperial Airways pilot, yesterday dustry in respect of fees chargeable gallons were shipped in railway cars vestment of $5,000, as the Gov- completed his millionth mile of fly for services rendered by the Board divided in such a way as to contain ernment paid all the costs and
Captain Youell is one of the Lord Ponsonby_added: "I re arrived here this morning from cognise, however hotly it be denied, youngest air-liner commanders, hav Brisbane and was welcomed by that Lord Justice Slesser is suffering learned to fly at the age of 17 large crowds, including numbers ing owing to his political views. on a pre-war contraption of wires
Christmas To Be Spent In Auckland
Wellington, N.Z., To-day, HRH the Duke of Gloucester
"If anyone supposes that holding Labour views does not bring social and professional ostracism, he is making a great mistake," he declared amid the cheers of the Labour faction.
who arrived from the Provinces by There can be no other reason." special trains and excursion Lord Ponsonby demanded the steamers.
withdrawal of the Bill,
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HOLIDAY IN NEW ZEALAND
-
POLITICS DENIED
ing.
{and struts.
He has completed 10,000 hours: In the air, which is equalled to nearly 11⁄2 years continuous day and Lord Hailsham, Minister of War, night dying.—British' Wireless Ser- averred that there was no sinister vice. or impropor design to undermine
Не most strenuously
'and
AIR RACE HEROES
"... "HOME AGAIN
Great Reception
London, to-day.
of Trade.
[Continued on Page 12)
SHIPPING DRAMA IN ATLANTIC
British Crew In State
Of Exhaustion
USWORTH BATTERED BY HEAVY SEAS
London, To-day. Gallant efforts are being made
a small quantity of oil-Reuter.
the Du Ponts received a percent- jage on all powder manufactured.
3-DAY HOLIDAY FOR PREMISES TRANSFER
Antigua, West Indies,
To-day,
The British island-of-Mois-
WAR DEBT DEFAULT. Previously, Mr. Pierre Du Pontserrat was rocked by sharp
COMPLETED
Washington to-day-The default of the major debtor nations on the December 15 war debt installment
was completed yesterday, with the
receipt of regret notes from France, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary United Press per S. E. Levy and Company.
had said that the profits were "lees than one quarter, of a per cent. of the total expenditures"
(Continued on page 9.)
NAVY FUEL OIL AND
AVIATION PETROL
FROM COAL
New Industry Lays. Solid Foundation
earthquakes yesterday.
A number of buildings were slightly damaged, but the Royal Bank of Canada building was so severely shaken that the Govern bank holiday to facilitate the ment has proclaimed a three-day
transference of the Bank to other premises Reuter.
TYPHOON WARNING
Stationary To North
West Of Cebu:
London, to-day.-H.R.H. the Duke or destroy, the position of Lord of Gloucester will arrive at Welling- Justice Sesser or any other Lord ton, New Zealand, this morning in Justice. the cruiser "Australia". He is to
MR. WARNER KNIGHTED receive Government and Civic wel-strongly protested against the
In mid-Atlantic to rescue the
London, to-day-His Majesty the comes, and a general holiday has suggestion that the clause was de-
crew, numbering 30, of the Bri- been declared throughout the Do-signed In some way to have some
fish ss. "Usworth," a vessel of King yesterday received Mr. G. R. minion-British Wireless Service political repercussions against
The two airmen C. W. A. Scott 3,585 tops, was seriously dam-Warner on his appointment sa His somebody who belonged to the and T. Campbell Black, who won the aged in a violent gale. Her steer Majesty's Minister at Berne. Mr. same party as the Prime Minister England to Melbourne air race, ing gear is broken, she has a Warner was knighted and invested
Lord Hallsham regretted the were given a great and popular recondition of great exhaustion. mander Victoria Order British pony was successfully producing and Lat: 11 north, and was almost debate which did not redound ception when they returned to Eng-
(Continued on Page (12)
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
Silver Prices Unchanged
The local dollar is steady,
and the Lord Chancellor..
the dignity of the Bench or
public estimation of the ad- ministration of justice, ...?"?!
There were, he said, no allly or
London, To-day,
It was stated at to-day's general meeting of Literature Car
A message from the Manila Observatory, Issued at 8.20 am. to day, states that the typhoon was
completing the course in three days, heavy list, and the crew are in a with the insignia of Knight Com- bonisation Limited that the co situated in about Long: 123 SAA
land last night.
They were also greeted by repre- sentatives of the Royal Aero Club
Wireless Servica,
and of Mesars, de Havilland, makers Government Appointments
opening on demand this morning improper Ententions behind the of their Comet plane.-British Wire-
*at 1/872.
Bill which was a most innocent less Service.
He urged piece of mild reform..
Spot and forward silver prices have remained unchanged, closing the House to pass the second read- yesterday at 24-7/16 and. 24-9/18, respectively.
ing.
The London on New York cross-
rate was quoted at 5-US,$4,94%,
PROVISO CONCESSION Lord Sankey, the Lord Chai
as-compared-with-£ U.2.$4.94.–– spoke-vigorously, fànd.
| The New York on London rate that the provisions of
was quoted at 8—U.8.84.9414-- lating to the appointment, compared with £—US$4.041⁄4VA
(Continued on page 9.)
ATLANTIC CONQUERED BY DUTCH AIR LINER
Under instructions from the Secretary of Blate for the Colonies, His Excellency the Governor hisa been pleased to appoint Mr. Roger Edward ndsell to be Pulsze
Court of Hor
duties as Land Officer,
Mr. Thomas Stodart Wh
been appointed
Bet
aviation petrol and naval fuel of from coal
stationary This report frmed
It was mentioned that the defence the earlier message, sent at 3,40 squadrons of the Royal Air Force Pm yesterday.
In its present, position tha
have been running on coal petrol,
which was also used at the last Air typhoon is just under 100 miles to Force Pagent by 80 participating the north
Cebu,
machines.Not only
fuef: oll Patlippine
been supplied in larg
tities
used
WEATHER FORECAST
put to the Navy, but it had
by railways and other industrial undertakings.
Lik. It was claimed that the founda
of the new industry had bee
laid British Wireless Ser
“been]
longy the