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BRITISH TROOPS AND PLANES IN FIERCE SKIRMISH WITH ARABS
When the Democrats assemble
at Philadelphia for the national convention, they will be made
welcome by & corps of 100
hostesses
dressed in Quaker
costumes. Edith Cacchione, above,
1936 model."
NO IMPERIALISTIC | Most
AMBITIONS
GERMAN SITUATION
REVIEWED
NEW METHODS EMPLOYED IN SEARCH FOR PEACE
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day.
"We have no imperialistic ambitions and need no experiments and adventures in foreign politics to strengthen our position at home," de-
is one of the "Quaker maids-clared the Minister for Propaganda, Dr. Goeb- bels, at a rally of all formations of the National- Socialist Party in the Kurmark region at Pots dam.
STRIKE ENDED
IN FRANCE Department Stores To
Re-Open
ARBITRATION ACCEPTED
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
"The German nation, like its Government, desires peace be- eause we are in bitter need of it, but we want peace that leaves us
our honour and our life. Since we are convinced that this peace cannot be guaranteed by the old League of Nations methods, Tre have employed new methods. The League of Nations was not able to put an end to the Abyssinian war, but more or less march- ed behind with mufled drums. The Abyssinian war itself, how- ever, was decided by means of bomber squadrons.
*Since we have no desire that any future war provoked Paris, To-day.
jagainst Germany be settled in the same manner we too have pro- After a strike lasting 17 days, vided ourselves with bomber squadrons. In so doing the German the employees and proprietors of nation harbours no aggressive intention but is merely determined the department and fixed-price to pursue its work in peace."
Dealing with the critics of the National-Socialist Govern- | stores have accepted the arbitra tion of the Minister of Interior, M.ment, Dr. Goebbels stated that there were some who contemptu-
ously said: "Hitler-good!But the Little Hitler!”
Salegro, and the strikers, number- ing about 26,000, will return to work to-day.
An agreement regulating the work and pay in a new manner was also reached without strike in the city's transporta- and the undertakings, tion terms of that agreement are termed a model, for the motor- bus and tram companies.
POSITION IN BELGIUM Brussels: Favourable results have been obtained by the com- mittees engaged in the settlementį of the strike situation, as was re- ported to the Cabinet yesterday. A Cabinet Committee was formed in order to prepare the new social measures which have been nounced-Trans-Ocean Service.
GERMANY AND
FRANCE F
A Warm Plea For Friendship
an-
WITHOUT VIOLENCE TO THEIR NATIONAL TRADITIONS
- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
París, To-day.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, Marshal Petain made
"Here," the speaker said, "the Little Hitlers' of Kurmark have assembled, and now let anybody dare cast the first stone at them! The Fuehrer will never forget that it was the Little Hitlers' who helped him build the steps upon which we ascended
Lo power."
JAPANESE SHIP FIRED ON
REPORT FROM TIENTSIN
..
"Many know-alls," Dr. Goeb- bels went on, "say that since everything is now in the best of order, the National-Socialist
Party could dissolve itself. But
nation has been trained to
Serious Clash Since Riots Began
Prof. William Efiery Leonard, the 60-year-old poet and member of the University of Wisconsin faculty, and his third wife, both of The bride, whom are seen above, are at the parting of the wxYL. who was one of his students and is 30 years his junior, could not cape with Dr. Leonard's fear of distance, which has kept him a prisoner within five blocks of his home for years.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
THREE PLANES HIT
BY BULLETS
BUT ALL LAND SAFELY TO PICK UP WOUNDED EMERGENCY REGULATIONS TIGHTENED UP.
Jerusalem, To-day. Tightened-up emergency regulations pro- vide for life imprisonment for persons found in possession of firearms, bombs, explosives and in- cendiary articles.
British troops were active over the week-end. A party of Seaforth Highlanders rounded up a gang of armed Arabs at Mount Ebal, near Na- blus, who had been sniping every night at the One Arab was seriously army camp nearby. wounded and four were captured. There were no British casualties.
The Arab Supreme Committee has telegraphed the Colonial Secretary and the British Parliament protesting against the exile ` of the Arab leaders and the demolition of Arab houses at Jañía, and emphatically denying that the strike has been financed with foreign money.
Villagers in the district where the Jerusalem water-supply
DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S pipe was blow up were compelled to repair the damage after police
BROADSIDE
BIG BUSINESS GROUP LINES UP AGAINST ROOSEVELT
Philadelphia, To-day.
dogs had trailed the marauders to a house in the village; ·
Jerusalem:
Troops, aero-L
planes and police fought a large
Treasury Bedared To Be. Almost Dry
body of armed Arabs for sever--FRANCE'S LARGE DEFICIT kal hours near. Talakarem yester
day. As far as is known the troops last one man killed and three wounded. The Arabs last two dead, and the number not of Arabs wounded is known.
Details Of Tulakarem Engagement
ARRIVAL OF PLANES IS DECISIVE FACTOR Jerusalem, later: The Tulak- larem engagement was the most
The first broadside of the forthcoming De- just as one does not pull the mocratic Party Convention to-morrow has been barracks down when the whole provided by Mr. Alfred Smith, now leader of the think in a soldierly manner, Party's old guard. His long-threatened dissen- but keeps them to teach the sion with the party has now become a virtual cer- nation to act in a soldierly man-tainty, with the issue yesterday of a joint state- ner, so the National-Socialist party is not content with the ment signed by the leading members of the right nation being National-Socialis-wing, Mr. Alfred Smith, Mr. Joseph Healy (for-serious clash since the riots be mer Governor of Massachusetts), Mr. Reed (for-gan The consoy, en route to Tel Dr. Goebbels mer Senator for Missouri), Mr. Bainbridge (for-terday by some 70 Arabs, who sel equipped with machine awaiting them in the near future, mer Secretary of State), and Mr. Daniel Cohalan were immediately engaged by the
Tientsin, To-day,
A Japanese paper last night stated that a Japanese ship with a crew of seven Japanese and two Chinese was fired on by a Customs preventive ves
gues several miles from Chí- kou. Two members of the the crew were injured and ship was disabled. It is being towed to Tangki, where the Japanese police will conduct an enquiry-
The Japanese paper de scribes the firing as illegal and predicts complications. Beuter.
an appeal for Franco-German STOP PRESS
reconciliation in a
broadcast
France's
speech yesterday.
"One problem in foreign policy," declared Marshal Petain, "overshadows all others, and that is France's relations. with her neighbour in the East. Although war memories with re- gard to this neighbour are too! fresh to be able to give way to unconditionst reconciliation, it is! fevertheless -difficult to under- stand why two nations with such great civilisations could not comej to understand each other-with- out thereby doing violence, to their national traditions.
"Could one not shake hands even over a bolted gate?" asked the But never mind what Marshal, policy, was pursued, France had the duty to maintain her army, navy and air force at the highest possible standard, since a strong
Tientsin, To-day.
Following a conference
with General Sun Cheb- yuan, General Han. Fu-cha has telegraphed Nanking and Canton, appealing for a cessation of the military movements and urging a peaceful settlement, de- claring that internal strife will diminish the national energy and make China the laughing-stock of the world.
Ax the Generals are guarding the border pro- vines they are most an- xious text an outbreak of army attracted new friendships - war should rumm the coun-
try. Reuter.
and maintained the old ones. Tiana-Ocean Service.
tic, but is there to ensure that it remains so." In conclusion summarised the principal tasks
**** (a former judge).
CM-
these being:
1. An employment-creation
paign;
equality of rights for the German nation;
•
2. The fight for the complete OBITUARY
Aviv, was ambushed at noon yes
soon reinforced rushed from
escort of Royal Scots Fusiliers The latter were 1. The declaration demands the
jby Highlanders "putting aside of President Talakarem, from where four mili- Roosevelt and the substitutionary planes also took off, co-
af some genuine Democrat, fall-
3. Revision of the internal form of Herr Bernhard Wilhelming which the patriotic voters operating most successfully with
the State, and its assimilation?
with the National-Socialist Party must be continued; and further
4. A systematic education of the German people for the coming generations, this being described as the most important work of all-Trans-Ocean Service.
LADY CALDECOTT
INDISPOSED
Von Buelow
GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIAL
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day,
of all the parties will know un- hesitatingly to what standard they must rally in order to pre- serve the America of the great leaders of the past.”
two sections and. Arabs into causing them to fee to the Hills
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day. "
In an interview published in the Press yesterday the Finance Minister, M. Vincent Auriol, declared that the bud- get showed a large deficit, the Treasury was almost dry, and the money required for the rê-. mainder of this year's budget amounted to at least 15,000,- 000,000 francs-- Trans-Ocean Service.
THE "GIRL PATS” ESCAPADE
Curious Legal Position Arises
London, To-day,
The curious legal position of the Girl Pat was referred to in an the ground forces.
Their arrival proved to be the interview by a director of the com-
the decisive factor, splitting pany owning the vessel. He said that the company had decided to and caves to the north and south ake no action against the crew The defection of big business respectively. Three planes were nor legal steps with regard to the One of the most prominent interests represented by the hit by bullets but were able to return of the vessel
If they claimed the vessel they figures of the German Foreign above group is not regarded as land safely and pick up the more Office, the Secretary of State, Herr a serious blow to the Party; on serious British casualties and rush might be called upon to meet the
a them to hospital. (Bernhard Wilhelm von Buelow, the contrary it may rally
It is now ascertained that 19 cost of stores taken aboard during the voyage and also the expense died here yesterday from paen-number of Liberals to the monia just two days after his 51st Roosevelt standard. Reuter. Arabs were killed-Beuter. birthday.
Herr VOR Buelow began his Lady Caldecott has been indis- posed for three days with urticaria career as Attache to the German and an accompanying fever. She Embassy in Washington in 1912, is now, however, convalescent and being called to the Foreign Office After 15 months of waI hapes. to attend all the functions in 1913, arranged in connection with His service he was sent first to Con- Majesty the King's Birthday. stantinople and then to Athens as At the evening Reception at Secretary of the Legation, after- Government House it will not be warda returning to the Foreign possible for her to stand during Office, which he left in 1919.
But Will Attend Functions
NEW U.S. TAX
of bringing the trawler home. The company has received $2,400 out'
BILLfe $3,000 for which the Garl
Par was insured-Reuter
GRADUATED LEVY ON JAPANESE LADY THROWN TO
BUSINESSES
Washington, To-day.
GROUND BY BAG-SNATCHER
Mrs. A. Tchi-Kawa aged 48, a Ja panese widow, reports that while
she was walking along the East- Hospital Road at 1.30 pm, on
the reception of more than a few In 1923, however, after having The new tax bill, in its final form, retains the features origine of the guests, but it is hoped made a thorough study of League ally suggested by President Roosevelt and embodies the principle Sunday and when near the Ja- that she will be well enough to of Nations affairs, be returned to of a graduated tax on undistributed corporation earnings. It in-panese Crematoriums Chinese greet them all individually from diplomatic service and took dudes a tax of 8 to 15 per cent. on all corporation income, with a male came from behind her and
her chara
✅MES. ALABASTER, M.B.E.
charge of the department for super-tax of 7 to 27 per cent. on undistributed income: matched her purse, in the strag- League of Nations affairs in the Special provision is made for small corporations by allowing the she was thrown to the ground. Foreign Office. In 1924 be was the 7 per cent. undistributed tax to apply an the first 10 per cent. The man ran away towards the IN HOSPITAL
given the rank of Legation Comm-or the first $5,000, whichever is greater. Corporate dividends in trans terminus. The many friends of Mrz. caller and in 1938 he became the hands of stockholders will be subject to the normal 4 per cent. Alabaster, M.B.E., will be sorry Secretary of State in the Foreign income-tax to hear that she has had to go into Office, a post which he retained The bill retains the existing excess profits and capital stock ath taxes, but the rate of the latter is reduced from $1.49 to $1 or
Reuter. the Victoria Hospital for a few up to the very time of his
$1,000 worth of stock. days suffering from laryngitis,A
Tranz-Ocean Service.
HMS Folkestone left for the North yesterday. - HM; Parthiar also left pan. Submert yesterday, after which she wil
ceed to Shanghai.