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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936
"HINDENBURGS”
COMMUNIST
FLIGHT
Coming Trip To New York
BROADCAST ARRANGEMENTS
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day.
The start of the new airship "Field Marshal von Hindenburg" on its first experimental fight, to North America has now been de- finitely fixed for the evening of May 6. Dr. Hugo Eckener andi
will be in Captain Lehmann charge of the dirigible, which, be of 50 sides its full complement
лиз- passengers, will earry an ually large quantity of mail, of which the greater part is being sent by stamp collectors.
The German Broadcasting Com- pany and the National Broadcast- ing Company of New York will moreover jointly broadcast a num ber of reports from the airship during its trans-Atlantic flight. including a dialogue between the airship and the crack liner Bre- men on the evening of May 7, Trans-Ocean Service.
AMY MOLLISON'S
FLIGHT
FLIER'S NEED FOR SLEEP
Niamey, To-day.
Mr. R. W. Bingham, U.S. Am- bassador in London, above, ex- pressed profound gratification and gratitude on behalf of Pre- sident Roosevelt, his country and to His Majesty his countrymen
presenting his the King, while credentials' yesterday, when re- ferring to the rescue of refugees in Addis at the U.S. Legation Ababa by the good offices of the Sir Sidney British Minister. Barton
DEMANDS
French Party Reveals Programme
CAPITAL LEVY PROPOSED
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day.
A Cabinet Council here discu38- ed yesterday afternoon the situa tion which has arisen out of the election results. It is believed that M. Sarraut has urged his col- leagues to remain in office until the beginning of the new legisla- tive period on June 1.
An official communique states that the Foreign Minister, M
thel Flandin. made a report on
and foreign political situation, the Finance Minister, M. Regaier. financial si- en the international tuation.
The Cabinet decided that M. Flandin should travel to Geneva 4for the meeting of the League of
Nations Council on May 11.
COMMUNIST LEAFLET
2
The Communist Party distribut- led a leaflet yesterday, voicing !number of considerably more far-i reaching demands than those voic-! led in the programme of the Popu
lar Front. The leadet asserts that as soon as the new Chamber
JELLICOE AND assembles the Communist Party
BEATTY
Tributes Paid In Commons
fl
Mrs. Amy Mollison left at 9 MONUMENTS TO BE ERECTED a.m. yesterday
will
demand ar extraordinary levy on large fortunes for the threefold purpose of balancing the budget, defending the franc and
measures for: carrying through employment. The Party will fur- her, according to the leaflet, de
mand the appointment of a special for Pointe
committee of enquiry charged . London, To-day.
with investigation into the origin; Noire, in the French Congo.-
Tributes were paid to the late of the fortunes of some rich Reuter's Bulletin Service.
London, Later: A telegram has Admiral of the Fleet Ear! Beatty
people-Trans-Ocean Service. been received from Mrs. Amy Mol- by the Prime Minister and the lison from Cotonu, between Nia leaders of the Labour and Liberal
Pointe Noire, and
in-Oppositions in the House of Com- BUDGET SECRETS !mer
dicating
IN ENGLAND that finding
mons yesterday when a resolution the whole was unanimously approved in ¡unable distance to the Cape without sleep favour of an address to the King,
Tribunal of Enquiry as she intended, she has landed asking for the erection of a mem- the public there for a short sleep. She still orial monument at hopes to break the record.-Reu-charge
ter.
to
cover
POLITICS IN FRANCE
herself
Socialist Cabinet To Be Formed?
Paris, To-day.
under- The Government is stood to have decided to remain in office until June 1. M Lean! Blum, leader of the Socialist Party, has intimated his readi- iness to form a Government. It
is rumoured that M. Paul- Boncour,, will be the next For- eign Minister instead of M Bulletin Flandin. Reuter's Service.
PROPOSED NAVAL
TALKS
To Be Formed
London, To-day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
Speaking of the similar resolu- tion passed a few months ago in memory of Lord Jellicoe, Mr. yesterday moved a resolution in of Commons for the Baldwin said that to-day they the House
of a tribunal of ea•¦ sought not to compare or to mea-setting up sure, but merely to express their quiry to investigate "whether, and thankfulness that at the time of if so in what circumstances and the country's need two such men by what persons, any unauthoris- as Jellicoe and Beatty were there'ed disclosure was made of inform to respond to the call-British ation relating to the Budget for Wireless Service.
the present year, or any use made
SOUTH-WEST AFRICA WILL NOT BE TRANSFERRED
1
Capetown, to-day-It is thoritatively
the learned that
has inform-
-Union Government
ed the British Government that it will never consider the ques- tion of the transfer of South- West Africa.--Reuter.
of any such information for puri poses of private gain."
that any tri- He said that it did not appear to the Government bunal could be found more thor joughly impartial in character and more fully clothed in power to obtain all the information avail able than the tribunal of the kindi proposed.
There was sumè criticism from the Opposition benches of the Government's decision to appoint
GERMAN DIESEL a judicial tribunal rather than a
TRAIN
select committee of the House to investigate the matter, which was held by these speakers to concern
*35 agreed
to the resolution without a division-British Wire- ¡less Service
British Suggestions To "Flying Municher" On the honour of the Commons; but
Russia
Moscow, To-day.
Trial Trip
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day.
It is learned here that the Bri- The Flying Municher, the lat
KING'S CIVIL
LIST
FIXED AT $410,000
A YEAR
tish proposals for Anglo-Russian est Diesel-electric express service! German State Rail- naval talks also suggest the mutual train of the
made its trial trip from jexchange of information concern-ways.
There Munich to, Berlin, covering the ing building programmes,
certain should be
qualitative distance of 674 kilometers in 64
London, To-day. limitations of future warships, and hours, with an average speed of!
House of Commons, i these should be classified by a sys-110 kilometers, attaining a maxi-
mum speed of 160 kilometres.
a La-1 tem-Reuter.
The new express train will be-after heavily rejecting gin its service on May 15, and bur motion for reduction by will reduce the time of the jour-£1,000, adopted by 284 votes to ney from Munich to Berlin almost 17 a resolution fixing the King's two hours from the fastest that Civil List at £110.000 a year- had hitherto been achieved. Reuter. Trans-Ocean Service.
TRAINING 1,400 WORKERS
Poison Gas Drill At Brighton
Fourteen
Brighton.
FORTIFICATION
OF STRAITS
hundred Brighton BALKAN ENTENTE'S
Corporation employees are to re-
ceive special training in air-raid precautions as a means guarding local residents.
of safe
The Chief Constable (Capt. W..
J. Hutchinson) has been authoris ed to forbid outdoor lighting, in- cluding all advertising eigns, in an emergency.
Training in air raid and poison to 650 drill will be given police officers and special cop-
gas
ATTITUDE
Belgrade, To-day.
A conference of the Bal- (Turkey, Entente kan
Greece and Yugoslavia, Ramania) has agreed to the Turkish proposals for the re-fortification of the Dardanelles provided that, in the event of a member ļotables, 250 health department em- of the Entente being attack- ployees, 285 electricity departmented by a non-member, a con- waterworks em-ference of Entente mem- employees. 120
bers shall be held to de cide the action to be taken regarding the Dardanelles. Reuter's Bulletin Service.
ployees, and 100 firemen,
The cost of all necessary special equipment will be borne by the Government.
The
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BROADWAY MELODY 1936
Jack BENNY Elvaner POWELL Roblet TAYLOR UNA MERKEL
FRANCEE LANGFORDS: JIB SILVERS,
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CAR FOUND IN HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
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Moor Search For Motorist
Glossop: Large parties of ram- blers recently searched the Moors in the neighbourhood of the Snake Pass, on the main road from Glos- sop-to Sheffield. for Mr. Walter Taylor, of Walmersley-road, Bury, Lance., whose car was found at the foot of a 100ft deep ravine the day before. Members of the Lowes Park Golf Club, of which the miss-i ing man is a member, also joined in the search.
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