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LADIES' AUTUMN FOOTWEAR
NOW ON
SALE
NOW ON
KOWLOON SHOP ONLY:
PAUL RENNET et CIE
Corner of Austin Nathan Roads, Kowloon
SEVEN SHIPS RUSH TO AID OF
The dictator, of the state of Tabasco, Garrido Cannabial, who has a private army of 30,000, in ex- pected to be named Mexican minis ler of interior and given charge of the enforcement of the dominant party's anti-Catholic church cam- paign.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBBED
LAVAL SEES
PEACE KEY
FRANCO-GERMAN
REUNION WITHIN
EASTERN PACT
NEXT MOVE RESTS WITH GERMANY
VITAL NEED OF ITALIAN CO-OPERATION
Paris, To-day.
A Franco-German rap- prochement within an international framework (the Eastern Paci) is an effective guarantee of peace, declared M. Laval in a speech in the Senate yesterday. If Germany acted, in consequence a great step would have
STRICKEN NORWEGIAN VESSEL
ROOSEVELT WARNED
DEATH THREATS
CONTAINED IN
NEW LETTERS
FOULKES' SUPPORT
CONDEMNED
MYSTERIOUS END IF CONTINUED
Washington, To-day. Four letters threatening Pre- sident Roosevelt and a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Foulkes, with death are stat- Harry Whitney (above) is being ed to have been received by Mr.
termed the "mystery man" of the Hauptmann case because of the
Foulkes, who declares the let! ters contained he is playing in
a warning that promatrangements for the legal defence of the German carpenter and Lindbergh kidnapping suspect
in New Jersey,,
POLICE OFFER $250 been made towards the THE INDIA
REWARD
A reward of $250, has been offered
necessary reconciliation
of the two peoples, he
by the Pulice for information lead-continued. Germany
DEBATE
something mysterious would hap
pen to him if he did not cease supporting the President.
Reu-
ter.
:
Addressing more than 600 men and women sheriffs, district at torneys, school teachers and busi- ness men assembled for Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' national crime conference, Presi
ing to the arrest of the person or would shortly be again EXTRAORDINARY forcement agencies, federal and heim, son of the travel skeney executly. The Police, who hid in the house
persons who stole a quantity of invited to participate in valuable jewellery, the property of
the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. the Eastern Pact, when
Macgregor, and Mrs. Macgregor, at her reply would be a test RECORD ATTENDANCE
No. 372 The Peak on Sunday. of her sentiment of soli-
A further less of personal posscS-
sions belonging to His Lordship is darity.
reported. These include a Masonic M. Laval dwelt on the
past-Muster jewel of the Royal! need for Franco-Italian
Connaught Lodge,
Trinidad, 1
INTEREST
OF PEERS
London, To-day.
silver Stewards' badge of the Hong Co-operation in the cause In the House of Lords the India Kong Jockey Club, which was pre-of peace and read the debate yesterday excited extraor sented to Mr. Macgregor.
the Franco-dinary interest, many Peers in the The total value of the stolen text of jewellery is estimated exceed $3,000. Russian protocol, which last few days having taken the was signed at Geneva on oath and their seats for the first $23,845 THEFT December 5, wherein time in the present parliament.
VISITOR TO FIRM ABSCONDS
ATLANTIC
DRAMA
BRITISH TANKER
PUMPING OIL INTO ·
MOUNTAINOUS SEAS
..
U.S. LINER FORCED TO HEAVE TO
10-Knots Just Secured In Teeth Of Gale
CREW STRANDED ON RUDDERLESS BOAT
New York, To-day. Seven vessels belong- ing to three different na- the tions answered S.O.S. calls from a small Norwegian lumber ves- sel, the 8.8. Sisto, which is rudderless, listing bad- ly, and being swept by heavy seas in mid-Atlan-
The British tanker,
dent Roosevelt recently asked This dramatie pleture tells at a fance how Darien, Conn., police trapped tie. the co-ordination of all law en-three of the four men accused of tryinto, abduct 12-year-old Robert West-
three days and nights after the receipt of threats, are guarding the captives Mobiloil is a present state, and the aid of every indivi- members of a Providence gang. dug in the war on crime.
(Continued on Poje 7)
WEST AUSTRALIA PETITION
Secession From The Commonwealth
.....
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED London, To-day. The Public Petitions Committee in the House of Commons has re- both parties undertook With the exception of three commended the appointment of a benches, normally reserved for special select committee to consi not to embark on any ne- the labour opposition, which are der the petition of Western Aus gotiations leading to the never filled, every seat was OC-tralia for secession from the
cupied and all available stand-Commonwealth.-Reuter. A sum of $23,846 is reported to conclusion of bilateral or ing-room lined with Peers. It A Petition on behalf of the have been stolen from the Yuen multilateral agreements was the biggest house for seven Government, Parliament, and Hing Fong Kee Imports and Ex- which might compromise years. West, between 5 p.m. yesterday and the conclusion of the The Labourites did not vote, Australia, for leave to withdraw and the Conservatives, who were from the Australian Federation opponents of the Bill and sup-and for the restoration of their porters of Lord Salisbury, soon
ports firm, of No. 8 Des Voeux Road
10 a.m. to-day.
The theft was discovered this
morning, when it was reported that
a key to the safe had been taken. One person. Lau Yip cho, a vị sitor to the firm, is under suspi- cion, as he has since absconded.
ARMED ROBBERY IN NEW TERRITORIES
Shots Fired: No One Hurt And $20 Stolen
Eastern Pact-Reuter.
GERMAN AND U.S. passed through the lobby, but it
BARTER PLAN
Now Threatened With Collapse
Washington, To-day. The proposed barter transac tion with Germany of $30,000,000 worth of cotton, which, it is re- ported, was approved of by the' State and Treasury Departments, ia reliably stated to be threaten- An armed robbery took place at ed with collapse as it conflicts Shing Yuk Village, Tai Chung dia- with President Roosevelt's gen- trict, New Territories, last night, eral world trade plans. Reuter. when money and jewellery, valued at
$20, were stolen from Cheung Tal,
a married woman residing at an un-
numbered houBE.
It was reported by the woman, whose husband was away at the time working at the Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank site, that five men broke into her house by the door.
(Continued on page 9.)
WEATHER FORECAST
The anticyclone is unchanged, pressure remaining highest to the north-west of Shantung. The depression is now situated to the north-east of Hokkaido, and has increased considerably in Inten sity. The local forecast, as issued by the Royal Observatory this morning, was north-east winds, fresh, cloudy.
COMMUNISTS ATTACK
6,000 Swoop Down At Kinghsien
WUHU THREATENED
Shanghat; To-day, Foreigners arriving at Wuhu from the Interior re- port that about 6,000 armed Communista, are attacking Kinghsien, a town sifuted 45 miles to the south of Wuhu, and are moving in a north erly direction, says the "North China Daily News," which adds that H.M.S. Lady Bird and a Japanese gunboat are at Wuhu Reuter
took 20 minutes for the Govern- ment's supporters to vote. →→ Reuter.
SVEN HEDIN'S NEW TASK
MOTOR ROAD FROM YELLOW SEA TO TURKESTAN
Blazing Trail For Chinese Govt.
Stockholm, To-day.
Dr. Sven Hedin, the famous
people of the State of Western
(Continued from Page 9.)
NAVAL DELEGATES AT PALACE King Receives Japanese Officials
SAAR INCIDENT SEQUEL
International Police Chief Resigns Post
Saarbruecken, today. "Major Hemsley, the British head of the International Police Force in the Saar; has resigned.
Reuter.
This is sequel to the incident on Saturday night when a mem- ber of the police force was mob. bed after he had injured a pedestrian when his car mount- ed the pavement.
VANDERBILT CASE
APPEAL COURT'S NEW RULING
CHILD MAY SPEND XMAS WITH MOTHER IF AUNT GIVES CONSENT
Reuter
New York, To-day. The Court of Appeal has dented Mrs. Vanderbilt's motion for a London, To-day, stay of execution of the ruling re- The Japanese delegates to the garding the custody of her daugh preliminary Naval conversations, ter but has ruled that the child the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. may spend Christmas Day with her Matsudaira, and Admiral Yama-mother if her aunt consents- moto, were received by His Majesty'
(Continued on Page 7) the King at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon.-British Wire-
UTILITIES RAMP IN less Service.
NEW YORK
President To Confer
With City's
For
Swedish traveller and explorer who WASHINGTON NAVAL
[has made discoveries in Central [Asia and who has · ·written exten- sively thereon, is now accomplish- ing the great task of surveying a
TREATY
motor road through the heart of Japanese Abrogation
Asia, at the request of the Chinese Government,
He is blazing a trial along, which the Government may build a modern motor-road from the Yellow Sea to Chinese Turkestan, to replace the age-old caravan routes.
He has concluded his exploration of the depression of the Lob Nor area, in Onter Mongolis, consisting of desolate salt marshes, and, ac- cording to his cables received here, he has discovered regions hitherto absolutely unknown to the outside world.
Unanimous
Tokyo, To-day.
In the presence of the Em peror, the Privy Council
unant Plenary Session mously approved Japan's de cision to abrogate
the The
Was
preser notificatio
Treaty: of the ormal State
pos
until after mas,
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIS- Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt yesterday revealed that he was interested in New York's
fight for lower utilities rates. He said that Mayor La Guardia was scheduled to confer with him shortly on the subject.
New York is angered at the high gea, electricity and steam rates submitted for municipal buildings
officials of a [are
United |munic
Press
FRANCE TO
MODERNISE
ARMAMENTS
800,000,000 - FRANCS GRANTED
STATE MANUFACTURE AND CONTROL PROPOSAL DEFEATED
Paris, To-day.
The Chamber, by 460 votes to 130 yesterday adopted a Bill providing a supplementary credit of 800,000,000 francs for the modernisation France's war material.
of
A Socialist amendment, which the Premier made a
question of confidence, pro-
posing State manufacture of arms and control of the arms trade from January 1 was de- feated by 388 votes to 199, but the Government accepted Radical-Socialist request for
a debate on the subject in Jan-
DAYY
-Reuter
GIGANTIC ITALIAN RECLAMATION
standing by to render assistance at daylight.
24-HOUR NIGHTMAKE ENDS `·.
AS CREW ARE. RESCUED
New York, Later, The crew of 16 on board "the" Norwegian steamer Biste have! been successfully, tekoved to the steamer New York,
The Sisto has been left sinking with one feeble light barning. ''She ́ ́ had been in distress for the past: -24 hours, her cudder, bridge, and
bonte having gone.
Searchlights from the Europa and Aurania were trained on the scene of the rescue, while all the vessels "standing by were pumping oll on to the waters to lessen the violence of the waves-Renter.
The Mobiloil is pumping oil on the wild seas and reports that the Sisto's rudder is twisted, her bridge has disappeared, and se veral of her lifeboats have been smashed by the heavy seas.→ Reuter,
Seven Ships Answer S.O.S. Call
London, To-day, Seven ships, of three different
nations, four of them great liners, yesterday raced through a violent Atlantic gale to the help of the Norwegian steamer Sisto, a ves- sel of 1,120 tons, which had sent out distress calls.
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The Sisto was on a voyage from' Quebec to Europe and the message from her stated, "Yeed urgent assis- tance. Rudder apparently broken.
| Hurricane, and tremendous ́ ́868.
Il Duce Inaugurates Ship drifting broadside to wind..
New Province
Rome, To-day. Signor Mussolini in a broad- cast last night inaugurated the new^^^^,, Italian province of Littorio, which is composed mainly of land reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes.
Signór Mussolini said that it ; would take another 10 years tour complete the work of reclama- tion and added that in order that the rantie, task; should not be
ted the Italiani
nation
E Lery and Constr
Lifeboats - washed away Bridge partly smashed and sea rolling on deck."
Europa, and three United States lines' vessels, the Washington, Han-
The Norddeutscher Lloydline, e
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British Coast Lashed By Gales
London, to-day Rough weather was also experienced round the British coasts yesterday.
The Iffeboata coasting
Wireless-
Imer Deat and Lowestoft, answered calls from
In distresa.—British vice,