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PRE-WAR TRIPLE ALLIANCE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN REVIEWED
LONDON COMMENT
ON AGREEMENT
UNWISE TO BE TOO OPTIMISTIC
WHAT WILL DUCE DO NEXT?
London, To-day.
A cautious view of the Austro-German rap- prochement is taken by diplomatic circles in Lon- don. The opinion is expressed that while it re- moves, at least temporarily, a danger spot, it would be unwise to be too optimistic.
It is felt that the agreement does not necessarily imply that German pressure on Austria will cease entirely. It is thought that Herr Hitler may change his method and exercise pressure. from internal rather than external sources.
Despite the Austrian declaration that Nazi propaganda will not be permitted the opinion is expressed that as freedom will be given to many Nazi propagandists they are not likely to re- main silent.
It is considered obvious that the rappochement was known and agreed to in advance by Signor Mussolini, and there is spe.. culation as to whether the Duce may propound a modernised ver- sion of the Four-Power Pact of 1933, which will recognise the increased influence of the Soviet in European affairs-
REBELS EXECUTED Sequel To Army Insurrection
In Japan
Tokyo, To-day. Sentence of death-by shoot- ing was carried out yesterday morning on 15 rebels sen- tenced in connection with the military insurrection of Feb- ruary 26. The executions be- gan at dawn and continued at intervals of an hour, as the faced the firing prisoners squad in batches.--Reuter.
FIRST AND
SECOND ARMY
IN CONFLICT GENERAL YU SEEKS POST NOW HELD BY GENERAL CHEN REPORTED CONTEMPLATING CAPTURE OF CANTON [From Our Own Correspondent? Canton, To-day.
·Press opinion is divided. The Morning Post says that there is obviously more than meets the and it eye in the agreement would not be surprising if there
Smiling with Parser P. F. Armour, Ann Harding, the famous movie star, is here showa just before disembarking at Liverpool last moath with her daughter, Jane, after ber successful fight from the warrants of her ex-husband. Harry Bannister, charging Am with the abduction of Jane. Her many British admirers nearly webbed her when she landed.
hould be a tendency to look SUB-COMMITTEES MEET
his gift horse most thoroughly in the mouth.
The Daily Mail says that the
sanctionist front has had the in-
AT NANKING
evitable result of throwing Italy SUBSTANTIAL, IMPORTANT, AND
into the arms of Germany. There
I must be no more suicidal meddling!
in affairs remote from our inter- ests. The paper urges a closer Anglo-German understanding.
The Daily Express welcomes the
PRACTICAL PROPOSALS
Nanking, To-day.
The various sub-committees met yesterday agreement as a movement in the morning and examined the proposals of the sub- committee on educational affairs and completed the work of the sub-committee on political affairs. They are meeting again to-day.
direction of the pacification of Europe, relieving Britain of many of her obligations in Europe.
JUDGMENT RESERVED The Daily Herald says that on the surface it is a good thing, but judgment must be reserved until we can see more clearly what is below the surface.
If the dozen or so proposals submitted pass the second gen- eral meeting to-day the plenary conference is expected to ad- journ to-morrow, following the third general meeting. Two of he most important tasks are the selection of a successor to Mr. Hu Han-min as chairman of the standing committee of the Cen- ral Executive Council, and the verdict of the fate of the South- west.executive committee of the South-west Political Council.
The Neics Chronicle takes a similar view, and says that Europe
One feature of the conference is the scarcity of the proposais. may accept this gift horse but look it squarely in the mouthall, however, are described as substantial, important and prae-
'ical Reuter. One of these days it may bite.
The Daily Telegraph says: "We must wait and be sure that what}
MORE TROOPS FOR the extinction of a is hailed as volcano does not mean the opening
A new crater elsewhere."-
OTHER COMMENTS
of
agreement,
Minor clashes occurred on
Later: The Times welcomes the on which, it says, Saturday night between the Se- cond Army and the First Army Herr Hitler is certainly to be which has deserted to Nanking congratulated, whatever its imme at Hung Mui Pa on the Kwang diate motive or ultimate intention
The borders.
The agreement cannot but help to tung-Kiangsi losses on both sides are report-stabilise and pacify Central Europe ed to have been very slight, and improve its economic condi- It is stated that General Yutions and pave the way for a per- Hon-mon, Commander of the manent settlement between the First Army, will shortly return two main branches of the German from Nanking to lead his army race. from Ta Yu, Southern Kiangsi, to capture Canton. He will re-
main in the capital until he
has struck a bargain with Gen-
(Continued on Page 9),
PALESTINE
Borderers And Lincolns Leaving To-morrow
Malta, To-day.
Three more British batia- lions, the South Wales Bor- derers, the Scottish Borderers and the Lincolns, are due to sail to Palestine on Tuesday. It is understood that the Rifle Brigade has been ordered to be prepared to sail at shert police. Reuter. 집
eral Chiang Kai-shek, President PRESIDENTIAL STRAW
of the Executive Yuan.
It is learned here that Gen- eral Yu is running for the post of Pacification Commissioner of Canton, thus replacing General Chen Chi-tang as the chief mili- tary figure of this province.
Nanking official reparts fore shadowing the imminent re
VOTE IN AMERICA
GOVERNOR LANDON FAVOURED
BY ELECTORAL COLLEGE
HU HAN-MIN'S BURIAL
AT HALF-MAST ALL FLAGS FLYING
TWO MINOR HANKING OFFICIALS PRESENT
(From Our Own Correspondent! Canton, To-day. The remains of the late Mr. Hu Han-min were laid to rest to-day in a cemetery on the north-eastern outskirts of the city. Though a State burial was ordered, only two minor Nan- king officials arrived to take part in the ceremony.
All high officials here were present at the grave when the. coffin was lowered into its final resting place, and all flags were flying at half-mast to-day in re- verence to the deceased Kuo- mintang leader.
Several important Nanking New York, To-day. - Governor Alfred Landon would have leaders were designed to come tirement of General Chen Chi- been elected President by a majority of 13 Electoral College votes South to be present at the tang are not borne out by facts. over President Roosevelt if the elections had been held yester State burial, but they are now The local military chief has no day, according to the results of a nation-wide straw vote conduct busy in the capital thinking out intention of giving up, his post, ed by the Institute of Public Opinion and published in the Herald plans to dissolve the South-west despite the defection of the Tribune. The poll, conducted between June 18 and July 6, shows independent regime. Frat Army and nine aeroplanes that Mr. Landon gained 272 Electoral College votes and Pre- The late Mr. Bu was widely respected in local officialdom, to Nanking. He counts on the sident Roosevelt 259.
support of his remaining units: Mr. Landon would have had an actual minority of the popu-25 his presence here lent pres- and Kwangsi reinforcements for lar vote and would have carried only 21, of the 48 States, but tige and security to the South a final struggle against his arch- those credited to him include New York, Pennsylvania and west administration. His pass-
the South-west edifice. enemy, Generalissimo Chiang Illinois, the three States with the largest Electoral College represing removed the main pillar of
sentations. Reuter. Kai-shek.
MOTOR-RACING ITALY NO LONGER
TRAGEDY
Five Killed And 37 Injured
San Paulo, To-day.
Five people were killed, five seriously hurt and 32 injured in the course of a round-the-houses motor race here yesterday.
A French woman driver, Mile. Helle Nice, was travelling at 100 miles an hour when a spectator tried to cross the road. Mile. Nice
JUNIOR PARTNER
ITALO-GERMAN PACT
ANTICIPATED
AUSTRO-GERMAN AGREEMENT TRIUMPH FOR MUSSOLINI
Berlin, To-day.
Replying to a telegram of greeting from braked hard and the car mounted Chancellor von Schuschnigg on the occasion of the pavement, somersaulted three the conclusion of the Austro-German agreement, times and crashed into the crowd. Herr Hitler hopes that the agreement will restore Mlle. Nice was thrown 20 yards the traditional relations which have grown from into a stand and seriously injured social unity and century-old history in order to
Reuter.
FLEET MOVEMENTS
HMS. Sandwich leaves for! arriving there! Amoy to-morrow,
pave the way for further joint activity for the benefit of the two German nations and the strengthening of the peace of Europe.
The papers comment on the good relations with Italy, Rome: The agreement is considered a triumph for Signor Jon the 18th. She will leave the same day for Woosung and Wei- Mussolini's diplomacy. The question is asked in some quarters, Thai-wei, arriving at the latter port whether it is a forerummer of an Italo-German agreement. It is taken for granted that no more will be heard of the Stresa front, on the 23rd.
H.M.S. Grimsby is due in portland the expression is heard that the pre-war Triple Alliance has
teen revived, with Italy no longer the junior partner-Reater.
Berlin: The Fuehrer has re- from Shanghai to-morrow.
ceived the following telegram from the Austrian Federal Dr. Kurt von Chancellor, Schnschnigg:
Under the new Philippines National Defence Act, the conscription of the youth of the Commonwealth for compulsory military training will be the first step in the new Government's move to guard against azression. The blindfolded girl is bere xbows drawing out the nuKIN- bers of the 40,000 young men who will be called to the colours in the class of 1937.
U.S. DROUGHT ENDING
STOP PRESS WELCOME RETURN
Shanghai, To-day. -- An increased number of armed patrols has been sent out by a special Japanese naval. landing party to tour the the districts of the Settle- ment thickly populated by the
Japanese, put into effect yesterday following the Kayau murder. It is also announced that a land- ing party plans to establish new branch patrol offices in the eastern and western cotton-mill districts of the Settlement and also the the Hongkew district.
The Chinese Settlement authorities, the Japanese military forces and diplo matic oficials are sparing no effort to solve the muT- der. A love triangle is the latest theory delved into by the police, as the search for the motive of the slay- ing continues.
It is suggested that Kayan was interested in a Korean dancing-girl whose sweetheart plotted the at- tack owing to jelaousy.
guarding the scene of the The Japanese marines murder have been with drawn -- Reuter.
OF RAIN
New York, To-day. Bain in the Middle West and thunder and showers in": the East have marked the be ginning of the end of the
The conclusion of the Agree ment, whose aim it is to restore the friendly and neighbourly re lations between the two German States, offers me the welcome opportunity to greet your Excel- lency as Fuehrer and Chancellor of the German Reich and at the some time to give expression to the conviction, that the operation of this agreement will promote the wellbeing of Austria and the Ger- man Reich and consequently be a blessing to the whole German peo- ple. I believe that Your Ex- cellency will share my opinion that this agreement is also a valuable contribution towards general
peace."
FUEHRER'S REPLY The Fuehrer and Reichschancel lor thereupon replied:
"The greetings which Your Ex-
cellency extends to me on the oc-
casion of to-day's conclusion of are Austro-German Treaty the heartily. reciprocated .I add the
wish that by this agreement the
jold traditional relations rooted in racial unity and century-old similarity of history will be re- stored in order that the two Ger- man States might work together in (Continued on 'Page 12)
drought and heatwave, which NEW RECORD FOR
was responsible for 84 deaths in New York City and 740 throughout the nation since The the beginning of July. highest temperature in New the York City was 91 in shade Beater.
DUTCH TENNIS TITLE
Kho Sin-kie Beaten In Final
Noordwyk, Holland, To-day,
EYSTON
Averages 1511⁄2 M.P.H Over 1,000 Miles
Bonneville Flats, Utah,
To-day.
Capt. George Eyston, the world. famous British racing motor- driver, yesterday broke the 1,000- mile motor record with an average speed of approximately 151.5 miles per hour, as compared with the previous best of 144.93 miles Kho Sin-kie, the Chinese Na-per bour, beld by another British tional lawn tennis champion and racing-driver, John Cobb.-Ren Davis Cup player, who reached the ter
The latter's mark was chalked Final of the Dutch Lawn Tennis Singles Championship, was beaten up last year on the same salt yesterday, by G. de Stefani, the flats in a Napier Railton Italian Davis Cup player, by 6-1, specially designed for the task. 636 Router.
DR. PARKES CADMAN PASSES
car
FORTHCOMING WEDDING The forthcoming wedding Plattsburg, N. Y, To-day-The announced of Mr. William Alfred death has occurred of Dr. Parkes Stewart, of Na, 179 Prince Edward Cadman, the well-known radio Road, and Miss Srivia Hay preacher Beuter.
Browning, of No. 26, Kent Road.