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ARABIA DECLINES TO PARTICIPA IN ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
Grand Duchess Kyra.
Prince Ferdinand
Grand Duchess Kyra, top, sen cond daughter of the Russian pretender, and Prince, Louis Fer- dinand, second son of the former German Crown Prince, have been linked by romantic rumours which report an attempt to restore the fortunes of European royalty through this strategic alliance.
US. SILVER
POLICY. Large Purchases From China
MORGENTHAU ISSUES
STATEMENT
Washington, To-day.
EXPERT'S EVIDENCE
IN PEPPER CASE
GOOD PROFITS SECURED ON CONVERSION
MYSTERIOUS SHAREHOLDER
MENTIONED
London, To-day.
The fact that black pepper could be convert- ed into white pepper played an important part in the pepper case, according to an expert witness at the resumeed hearing at the Old Bailey.
Mr. Duncan McKellar, the accountant who examined the books and documents in the case, testified that he was unable to obtain definite information regarding the existence of a pepper poel, but he discovered references to a mysterious gentleman
The newly elected President of Cuba, Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, is shown here with his wife xt their Havana "home as the returns assured his elevation to the highest office in the land.
The President-elect was formerly mayor of Ezrana.
called Galie who had a 10 per cent. interest in Pool No. 1 and 20 WOMAN HAS
per cent. in Pool No. 2
Mr. Ernest Figgis, à produce merchant, gave evidence that black pepper at the material time was 6d. a lb., compared with 184. for white pepper. The difference gave a good profit on con- version, and he added that that was another disturbing element in the market.
SOVIET-MANCHUKUO TENSION Japanese Detachment Ordered To Stand By
Shanghai, To-day-
from A
report Japanese Tsitsiker states that the Japan- ere detachment there has been ordered to stand by, as a result of the Olohotka eshBeater.
DEFENCE OF SWATOW
City Strategically Important
HIGH MILITARY OFFICERS INSTRUCTED
(From Our Own Correspondent) Canton, To-day. Several high military officers! on garrison duty in the Swatow districts were in Canton yester-} Mr. Henry A Morgenthau, Se day to take instructions on the cretary of the Treasury, revealed military defence of that region, yesterday that the total of Trea-which is of strategic import- jance. A systematic plan to sury silver purchases from China that effect has been formed, it negotiated in November amounted to 50,000,000 ounces. The Treasury is understood. paid the then prevailing world
500,000.
FANTASTIC
NIGHTMARE
REPORTS AT POLICE STATION
COVERED WITH BLOOD
* CHINÄ MAIL" SPECIAL “
Kovno, To-day-
RESPONSIBILITY TOO GREAT
WILL REMAIN STRICTLY
NEUTRAL
BRITISH PROTEST TO ROME
CHINA "MAIL" SPECIAL
Geneva, To-day. The Government of Saudi Arabia has declar- ed its intention of not participating in the sanc tions. The latter states that, in joining the eco- nomic sanctions, Arabia would enter upon a con- siderable responsibility without enjoying the ad- vantages and privileges enjoyed by the League member States Despite its sincere desire to shorten the war in Abyssinia, the only thing for the country to do at the moment is to remain strictly neutral.
The British Ambassador, Sir Eric Drummond: paid a visit yesterday to the Under Secretary of State in the Foreign Minis- erw, Signor Suvich, handing him the British Government's an- swer to the memorial set forth by Italy as to the Franco-British military arrangements, and the note is expected to be published to-day. Trans-Ocean Service. F. L. Fisher, of the firm of
London: A protest has been Jauditors, said that he saw 10-
lodged by the British Ambas- thing in the books of Williams
sador at Bome with the Italian Henry and Co. of pepper-com- mitments. He did not think it
Covered with blood and clad only in a nightdress, a woman Foreign Under Secretary with the Italian reparts necessary in the certificate in entered the police station in the middle of Wednesday night in a regard to connection with James Shakes-state of fearful agitation, and told, only with great difficulty that Colonel Holt, the British $1,500,000 Voted In The Budget peare's prospectus to mention how she had been attacked in her flat by a man of gigantic stailitary Attache to Abyssinia, the forward positions in tin and tore. She then fell into a deep swoon. A doctor had to be call is seting as chief military-al- shellac, because such a firm was, and meanwhile police officers hurried off to the flat, in the viser to the Emperor. The bound to have open positions in hope of finding the intruder commodities in which it dealt."
The hearing was adjourned. -Beuter.
AIR LINER CRASHES INTO SEA
30 Passengers In Lost Machine
MYSTERY SURROUNDS REPORT
Madrid, To-day. According to a message from Madiera an air liner car- kas passengers rying 30
the Sez of crashed into Teneriffe. The British air- has Furious craft-carrier been ordered to make a 'search for the lost machine.
SURROUNDED BY MYSTERY
POLITICS IN- BRITAIN
and
To their surprise they found the door securely locked, failed to diserver any indica tions of the brutal assault des- cribed by the tenant In the bedroom, however, one window | was broken and the pieces of Ministers Received In glass lay not in the room, but in the courtyard below, where also traces of fresh blood were found.
Audience
SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
that the
The puzzling circumstances were revealed when the woman recover ed and realised that all this had been but a nightmare 3 s
TROOPING OF COLOUR
Ambassador pointed out that there were not the slightest grounds for such an absurd al- legation. Reuter-
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NATIONALISM IN FRANCE
Important Decision Taken
ORGANISATIONS TO BE DISSOLVED
CHINA MAIL * SPECIAL Faris, To-day. The dissolution of the extreme Nationalist organisa» tions, the "Action Francaise”. and the "Camelots de Roi,” which had been under con- sideration for some time, has now been precipitated by the assault on the Socialist leader M. Leon Blum, : which some members of the "Action Fran- chise" committed Wednes
day. On mit ctraordinary Cabinet meeting yesterday morning the Cabinet took the final "decision--Trans-Ocena Service
EXPANSION OF ITALY'S AIR FORCE
Rome, To-day. The budget for 1936-37 pro- ,000 ́ more” · Lar Air
For
This sum is sent Air Force For the Air
Reuter
POLITICS IN FRANCE
Change In Electoral -Methods
MOTION DEFEATED IN CHAMBER
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CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day. The motion that the House en- ter into discussions on the pro- posed electoral reform, which en- visages the introduction of pro- portional representation instead of the present system, was defext- led in the Chamber by 219 votes to
140
During the discussion o
one of the Deputies said that it was largely due to the proportional electoral system that the Republic never took out in Germany, be- cause the voter hardly ever knew the the Deputy for whom he was sup- headquarters of the Action posed to vote-Trans-Ocean Ser- Francaise last evening,
service.
London, To-day.. His Majesty the King receiv. ed the Prime Minister, Mr. Parysm of fear, she had-with- jout clearly remembering doing so Stanley Baldwin, yesterday at jumped through the closed win-) Buckingham Palace, where they dow of the second storey into the conversed for half an hour. Oncourtyard, and remained as by. Tuesday the King received in miracle injured except for cuts audience Mr. Ramsay Mac in the face. She then ran in her Donald Lord President of the nightdress through the streets, Council, and Mr. Neville Cham-although the temperature was 12 Later: Mystery surrounds the berlain, Chancellor of the Ex-degrees Centigrade below zero, and instinctively found her way to Among the commanding off-reported crash of an air lither off chequer.
Questions of education were de the bearest police station-Trans- price of 65 cents an ounce, the cers back here from Eastern: Teneriffel. A message from Ponta
Kwangtung are Lieut General de Gada, in the Azores, says that bated in the House of Commons Ocean Service- amount paid thus totalling $ Huang Jen-huan, commanding the Lufthansa seaplane Saraum, yesterday, where the bill raising the first independent division, which was carrying out a trial the school-leaving age from 14 to He said that China kept a ba-Lient-General Teng Lung-
Government: lance in New York and recently kwang, commanding the ninth fight along a section of the pro- 15 was read. A Labour member's requested the conversion of 10, division, Lieut General Huang posed trans-Atlantic route to the motion
terday morning. A Lisbon mes-parents during their children's 000,000 ounces into gold on Mon-Yin-ching, executive officer of Azores, landed there safely yes- should give financial assistance to day. Mr. Morgenthau said that the Third Army, and Brig sage 223s that apart from the last year of schooling was defeat- China could have the remainder General Li Tu-ru, Chief-of- in gold at any time, and expressed Staff of the Eastern Pacifica Sanum, no news of any other ed, but a motion that not too much
aircraft is obtainable, either from homework be given was passed. admiration for the success of the tion Office.
NEW ZEALAND MEAT new Chinese currency, co
There are no natural barriers the Azores or Madeira.
A Berin message says that the Denying a special price arrange-in, Eastern Kwangtung which ment with Mexico, Mr. Morgen-may be used as a means of zili- air liner reported to have been An agreement on the mest ex-
London, To-day- than said that Mexican silver was tary defence. Fortifications lost is definitely not German, as port from New Zealand has been bought daily at the New York and a garrison are therefore ne-riginally stated. The belief pre-reached between the New Zealand
The ceremony of the Trooping cessary for the safety of that ails that the report concerns the Government and Britain, whereby price.
French fying-boat Ville de Buenos New Zealand will be able to ship Aires, which disappeared on Wed-392,000 cut of meat in the first of the Colour will take place on nesday whale flying from Natal, half of this year. Of this 120.000 King Edward's birthday, June 23. feadiness at the police stations The ceremony will take place as and the Republican" Guard and usual on the Horse Guards Parade Garde Mobile, are available if and the King will then, for the needed, but everything fat time since his accession, ride quiet and no trouble is anticipat at the head of his troops back to ed Buckingham Palace
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MARSEILLES MURDER
Death Sentences For Absent Defendants
Paris, To day- In-connection with the sentence, on three Croats. complicity in the assassina of King Alexander of
slavia and M. Luís three others who we were given death Two of these people are prisoned.
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FINE GALLOP Pony Appears To Be Quite Sound
crew of six-Better.
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