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JAPANESE TROOPS ATTACK CHINESE LINE ALONG GREAT WALL
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Lieut. James Finn, of the New York police department, captor of Hauptmann, is making K study of the Lindbergh ransom notes for fingerprint and other clues.
THE INDIA BILL
MOMENTOUS
MEASURE TO BE
ISSUED TO-DAY
Sir Samuel Hoare's Optimism
SPEECH AT OXFORD
AMERICA FACES NEW CATASTROPHE
70 FATALITIES FROM COLD
AND FLOODS
CANADA LIES FROST-BOUND
NEW YORK, TO-DAY.
THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES IS SHROUDED IN DEEP SNOW. THERE HAVE BEEN 70 FA- TALITIES FROM THE COLD AND FLOODS
Twenty-two thousand relief workers, at $4 a head per day, are assisting the city's regular 10,000 men to free New York City from six inches of snow.
A STORM IS SWEEPING THE EASTERN SEABOÅRD AND THE COASTGUARDS ARE WORKING CEASELESSLY TO RESCUE PEOPLE WHO ARE MAROONED BY THE FLOODS IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS, DUE TO A SUDDEN. THAW AFTER THE RECENT BHARP FROSTÉ,--
REUTER.
1888 BLIZZARD
MAY BE RIVALLED
BY PRESENT STORM
Tremendous Areas Flooded
VANCOUVER CUT OFF FROM REST OF WORLD
Ottawa, To-day.
Almost the whole of Canada is frost-bound. A new low tem- perature of 78 degrées below zero has been registered at Iroquois
Falls in Ontario. ́.
Heavy snowfalls in the Rockies
A pardon is the reward Mike Schmidt, life prisoner at Colorado State Penitentiary, receives for acting as a “human gaines plg" in a test of anti-tuberculosin serum. He is shown (ad left) being examined by a prison doctor. Millions of tuberculosis bacilli were infected inte Schmidt without ili effect after he had been treated with the sorum,
URGE FORU.S. AERODROME:
IN PACIFIC
have disrupted railway communi- WAKE ISLAND SUGGESTION NOW
BEFORE NAVY DEPARTMENT
cation between the interior and the Pacific Coast. — Reuter.
Five Perish In West Washington Floods
Seattle To-day.
New York, Later, The snowstorm reported in an carker message to be raging Fire deaths, and damage esti throughout the eastern portion of of dollars have been caused by mated at hundreds of thousands the United States is the worst since floods in West Washington, due 1920. If it continues it may rival to the big thaw. the great blizzard of 1888, Ships are being hard hit by
London, To-day. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for India, in a speech at Oxford,
Hundreds of thousands of New gales and traffic communications yesterday said that the Govern Yorkers are fighting their way are being seriously hampered. ment of India Bill, which will be homewards and the hotels The coastguards are working issued to-day, was the biggest filled with suburbandites unable ceaselessly rescuing marooned and perhaps the most complex to reach their homes.
people. Reuter. bill ever introduced into Parlla- ment.
are
Tremendous areas throughout
the country are flooded, the Mis- Nine Reported Dead In It would deal with every phase sissippi and other rivers rising of the future Government of In-rapidly.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, To-day.
dia, he continued, and would con-) Speedboats have rescued a tain proposals for the setting up number of people who had taken of all-India federation constitu refuge in the tree-tops and on Nipe are dead here as the re- tional schemes for the eleven roofs in Tennessee. and Missis-sult of the worst snowstorm in 20 great provinces, several of them sippi, many crying piteously for years. more populous than some of the help.
Washington, To-day.
Application has been made to the Navy De partment for the construction of an aerodrome at Wake Island, in the Pacific, situated 170 degrees West and 20 degrees North.
PACIFIC AVIATION
SERVICE
Canton As Terminal
Port In China *
AIRWAYS REPRESENTATIVE FLIES SOUTH-
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day,
Senator Claude H. Swanson,
Secretary for the Navy, revealed that Pan American Airways had asked the Navy Department to construct landing facilities on the island, which the Airways want to use as a stopping point in the proposed passenger service from California to Canton
He said that several other com- panies had suggested the project, which the Navy Department was studying. He added that the es
NO REASON GIVEN FOR SUDDEN ONSLAUGHT ARMOURED CAR STRENGTH
DOUBLED
PEIPING CONSULTS NANKING
Peiping, To-day.
A member of the Chahar Government now in Peiping stated late last evening that fighting in Chahar ceased at 7 o'clock last night, but added that the Japanese troops at Kuyuan had increas ed by about 500, while at Tushikow armoured cars had increased from 20 to 40.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE PEIPING AUTHORITIES HAVE TELEGRAPHED TO NANKING FOR INSTRUCTIONS REUTER
NAVAL VESSELS STAND BY FIRE-STRICKEN VALVERDA
Two Attempts To Take Her In Tow Failed By Heavy Seas
London, to-day.
The Admiralty announces, that "HM. Ships Frobishire and Guardian are in company oil tanker Valverds, and two ch
with the fire-stricken British
tempts have been made to take her in tow. Both failed on ac- count of the heavy weather, and of the fact that the steering gear of the Valverda is out of action. H.M. Ships are still standing by, and are waiting for the wea moderate.—British
ther
to
Wireless Service.
LORD ALLEN'S VISIT TO BERLIN
Speculation Aroused
Berlin, To-day,
Peiping, Later. Shortly after noon the Japan- ese infantry launched an attack on the Chinese line along the Great Wall at Tushikow. Ku- yuan and Tushikow, which were main points of the Japanese at- tack yesterday, form the ends of the line at which the Japan- Jese ultimatum demanded the
the disputed area, an ¡Chinese troops to withdraw from
Japanese official sources here have not received any informa tion about the fighting-----
The reason for this sudden at- tack is at present unknown here.
Reuter
Bitter Resentment By Well-Informed Chinese
CHAHAR FRONT QUIET DURING NIGHT
The city is full of the wildest
Peiping, To-day, As far as is known, the Chahar front continued quiet through the night. rumours as to the ultimate west ward destination of the big Japan- ese armoured car fleet, but con- The city is blanketed Mr. Dai En-ki, managing direc, tablishment of landing, facilities
Speculation has been arousedservative opinion is that the situa with 15 inches of snow and huge tor of the China National Aviation at Midway Island was also under chief states of the world, and a A message from Seattle reports driits have piled up, folating Corporation, arrived here yester. consideration, while he saw no by the visit to Berlin of Lord tion will not be aggravated as there are no Chinese troops in the new constitution for Burma, that Victoria and Vancouver, Delaware. Schools throughout day afternoon aboard the Douglas cbjection to permitting commer- Allen of Hurtwood, one-time which is henceforth to be separat British Columbia, are cut off from the State have been closed in Delphin monoplane from Shanghai, cial facilities at Guam. Reuter. Chairman of the Independent La disputed area and the Chinese have
the rest of the world by wind and definitely. — Reuter. To form a sound judgment on the sleetstorms,, causing floods and bl, he urged that the long history landslides. In many places a enquiry that lay behind it and the boat is the only means of travel. fact that it was not written on a-Reuter. clean sheet of paper, but on the history of the past, should be re- membered. It should be thought of as a big, bold, and comprehensive attempt to deal with the most in-
ed from India.
volved and intractable problem that
had ever faced British Parliament.
(Continued on Page 12)
RUMANIAN DEBTS
.
PRIMATE'S HOPE OF DISARMAMENT
Good Presage In French
Ministers Visit
London, To-day.
In the upper House of Convoca- tion of Canterbury yesterday, the Archbishop, who presided, referred to the improved international poli-}
TO BRITAIN Finance Minister To tical situation.
Revisit London
He said that a hope was per missible that in their batter at London, To-day. mosphere of general security the The Rumanian Finance Minis-forthcoming visit of the French ter, Monsieur Strunga, is shortly Ministers to London might prepare returning to London to resume the way for a resumption of the discussions with the Treasury general disarmament conference regarding Rumanian commercial British Wireless Service. debts to British merchants, ap- proximating £2,000,000.
During his visit in December M. Strunga was unable to make acceptable proposals and return ed to consult his Government. It is now hoped he will bring pro posals offering a suitable basis for discussion. British Wire- less Service
WEATHER FORECAST.
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SCOTTISH CUP
Raith And Hibernian Triumph
London,
Two matches in the Round of the Scottish Cop brought forward from Sati and played yesterda ling losing their h Raith Rov
tion.
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It is understood that Mr. Dai's trip to Canton is in connection with the coming test dight of the
bour Party, who is understood to no intention of counter-attacking, He was accompanied by two
The Chinese press is not allow- American pilots of the Corpora HOT GOSPELLER" ON be in close touch with the Pre-
mier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.ed to comment, but well-informed WAY TO COLONY
He had interviews with Reichs-Chinese bitterly comment that what : fuehrer Hitler, General Goering is described as such as unpro and others, and doubtless divoked attack should
follow so cussed Germany's attitude to rapidly on Mr. Hirota's pacific armaments and the European speech and General Minami's situation."
Dairen statement that the Japanese Reuter
army would not be used to interfere in North China affairs.--Reuter..
MATTER TAKEN UP
Nanking, Later. The Peiping authorities are're. ported to have taken up the matter
Trans-Pacific service from San Francisco to Canton; via Hawail, Midway Island, Guam, and Manila. Canton is the terminal of the long
Commences World Tour On Hiye Maru
Seattle, to-day. Mrs. Aime Macpherson, the "Hot
air line. The test flight will take Gospeller sailed today by the place some time next month, four liner Hiye Maru" on a world tour. days being required for the trip. She is visiting Japan, China, the According to the plan, the giant Phillipines, India, Greece and Ger- Sikorsky seaplanes will not pro-many,
DR. HU SHIH VISITS KWANGSI
• cead northward, and passengers, as it was biicially announced on Passing Through Canton
well as malls for North China, December 16 that Aimee Semple On Return Journey will be forwarded by the planes Macpherson was retiring from active
of the China National Aviation pastorship of the Angelus Four NOT POPULAR WITH MILITARY Corporation to Shanghai and Peip- Square Templeadas
ing Passengers and mails from She will be succeeded in the pul the United States to Hankow will pit by Mrs. Crawford Spilvalo – probably make the connection here, former Salvation Army leader, whe
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day.. Dr. Hu Shh, Dean of the Col-
via the Eurasia Aviation Corporais popularly known as the Angel of lege of Letters of the Pelping
Broadway."
tion.
(Continued on page 9.).
BRITISH SPEED ACE LEAVES FOR US.
Malcolm Campbell Bound For Daytona
PRINCE OF WALES NEW HONOUR
Government University, is due arrive here this afternoon by Stinson monoplane of the
west Aviat Wüchow {ed by
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with the Japanese with a view effecting a peaceful settlement.
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