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MENACE OF COMPLETE ARMY SPLIT IN JAPAN General Ugaki Resisting Military Attempt To Establish Control Of Government
Gravest Consequences Predicted If Clash Occurs
SHENSI COMEDY
CHANG'S TROOPS
REVOLT
AGAINST YANG
PEACE EFFORTS
PERSIST
Shanghai To-day.
PREMIER-ELECT PAYS VISIT
TO THE PALACE
POSSIBILITY OF A COMPLETE SPLIT IN THE BANKS
A sensational development OF THE ARMY LOOMS, AS A RESULT OF THE PRESENT has arisen in the strife be-
tween
the Nanking Govern- POLITICAL DEADLOCK IN JAPAN, WHICH MIGHT LEAD
ment and the Shensi rebels TO EXTREMELY GRAVE CONSEQUENCES.
with receipt of a report from
Loyang that the former troops of Chang Hsueh-liang may shortly pledge allegiance to the
Government.
Meanwhile the negotiations at Tungkwan between representa-) Stives of Nanking and the rebels
are proceeding cordially.
This latest development in situation which threatened
to
Some quarters envisage the possibility of a re- petition of the Army revolt of last February, which resulted in temporary military control of the capital
The crisis is of vital concern to China, as it centres round the question of whether Army or civilian influence is to control the observers hint at a resumption of Japanese military action in Japanese Government. Should the Army gain control, political
North China.
General Kazushige Ugaki ist
plunge "China once more into the continuing his efforts to form a SEVEN throes of civil war has raised the Cabinet but is meeting with
prospect of possible postponement Stubborn opposition from the JAPANESE
of military action by the Central Army leaders, and the political
Government, whose drive against situation remains in a state of ARRESTED IN the rebels was scheduled to begin the greatest uncertainty.
to-morrow.
Nanking is making every effort General Ugaki, as a wise elder MANCHUKUO
statesinan, is disliked by the milli-
to settle the situation by peaceful tary leaders owing to his ants- means and a further postpone say, made so unser
ment of strong measures will enthe Kwantung Army and his avow- able, General Yang Hu-cheng, the led determination to discipline the recalcitrant Pacification Commis-military forces of the nation. sioner of Shensi, to reconsider his
to i The only hope of a retur position.-Reuter.
normal is his success in forming
JOURNALIST
SABRE DUEL
IN PARIS
Prominent Figures In Dispute
Paris, To-day. A sabre duel fought by two prominent French journalists. in a park near Saint Cyr, is the latest sensation of the boulevards.
The duel was a sequel to al- legedly insulting remarks made by the director of the paper "Ami du Peuple," M Michelson, about a colleague, M Serge Veber.
When M. Michelson refused to
"RED" CONSPIRACY ALLEGATIONS
Changchun, To-day. Seven Japanese, alleged by a Cabinet, which would wear that the Kwantung Army to be the more extreme elements in the communist agents operating Army would be restrained by under orders from third inter- some measure of civilian control national branch headquarters
General Ugaki visited the Pal-in Shanghai, are awaiting trial・・ ace at 11 o'clock this morning for on charges of violating the an interview with the Lord Privy Peace Preservation Law, an Seal, with whom he remained official communique revealed closeted until 12.12 p.m.
here to-day-
He is believed to have asked Mr. Yuasa's assistance ir solving leader of the group, which the impasse over the allotment of allegedly engaged in
án
The Papal Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, who has figured prominently in the news since the illness of the Pope is seen bestowing a blessing on a visitor.
Soviet Steamer Mined
Salamanca, To-dag.
The sinking of a Soviet stea- mer by collision with a mine was reported in a broadcast by the rebel radio station at San Sebastian last night.
According to the report the ship was making for Sentan- der at the time. Practically all the crew are believed to have been drowned Trans-Ocean.
Charged with being the ring- DRAMATIC
obtaining MOSCOW
is
Tatsuki ARREST
the portfolio of Minister of War. military and political information -Reuter.
Manchukuo, Soejima, a native prefecture, who Changchun on January 9 year.
ASSASSINATION
RUMOUR
Manchukuo Cabinet
Minister
Canton, To-day.
last
FOREIGN LEGION RUSHED TO ORAN
SERIOUS RIOTING IN ALGERIA
Paris, To-day. Troops of the French Foreign Legion were rush- ed to Oran yesterday fol lowing the outbreak of riot- ing during which demon- strators fired on a police patrol
SHOP WINDOW SMASHING
GROWING APPREHENSION IN U.S. FLOOD DEVASTATION
The chronic shortage of drinking water and the appalling sanitary conditions in the devas- tated valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers are arousing grave fears that serious and wide- spread epidemics may break out and add to the horror of the floods.
At least 132 have been drowned while the an- thorities are watching with apprehension the ap- proach of the disastrous crest of the Mississippi River, which threatens to demolish all anti-flood bulwarks along the river.
VOLUNTEER WORKERS ARE SLAVING WITH FEVER- ISH ENERGY TO ERECT SANDBAG BULKHEADS ON THE LEVEES IN SOUTH-EAST MISSOURI, SPURKED ON BY THE THOUGHT OF THE APPROACHING WAVE OF WATER- WHICH THREATENS TO TEST TO THE LIMIT. THE $1,000,000,000 LEVEE SYSTEM IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ERECTED AFTER THE TRAGIC-FLOODS IN 1927.
Shipments of serum and anti-toxins are being rushed by plane from Washington, Boston and Philadelphia to the flood areas, where doctors are working taqnty-fourshoma-z-day-ata tending to casualties; and trying to prevent the outbreak epidemics.
The situation on the Ohio! River is no less unpleasant, a Reuter despatch from Cincin- nati reporting that the raging river threatens to drive 200,000 | more into refugee camps
At least 700,000 people will then have been rendered home- less, says Beuter.
E TERRASTAJ CONTRARIANT Belgian Air Liner Disaster
Brussels, To-day. A Belgian: air liner, return-. ing from Belgian Congo to Brussels, crashed near Orx
· yesterday." All the ocepents, eight passengers and four crew, were killed Renter
CAIRO EVACUATION. Messages from Cairo, Ohio, state that the peak of the food is mTORTETESI ZA SAMSTARFLAKESZIT: expected there at the week-end. All the women, children and in- - firm have been evacuated as it i
feared that the city will be com- pletely submerged if the Missis- sippi overflows the sea wall.
A state of tension had existed of Nagasaki was arrested in A.D.C. TO MINISTER in the Algerian port for some days following the declaration of a gén- OF WAR
eral strike by local trade unions, According to the communique,
Copenhagen, To-day. and on Monday, the trouble came Soejima gave the names of 12 Another sensational arrest (to a head when ten policemen and "accomplices," who were arrested in connection with the Moscow twenty demonstrators were injur in Manchuria, Japan and North | trial is reported from Warsawed and forty arrested in street China Six were later released in a despatch to the Danish clashes. because of lack of evidence.
paper "Politiken ” Among those being detained is The arrested man was Captain About twenty revolver shots withdraw his words he promptly į An unconfirmed report states Hirotoshi Tejima, 31 described Eenuty, aide-de-camp and close were fired at the police by the rio received a challenge to a sabre that a murder occurred in Mukden as a newspaperman who formerly friend of the Assistant Ministerters, who smashed shop windows on Monday, and that the victim worked on one of the Japanesejof War, who was taken into cas and manhandled workers who had Early yesterday morning the was Mr. Chang King-wei, a mem- dailies im Shanghai. Ee was tody in dramatic circumstances ir refused to obey the Union order to two principals, accompanied by ber of the cabinet. As all cables taken into custody in Peiping. the General Staff building by a de-strike, four seconds, among whom was ajare sensored by officials, it is ima-
Reinforcement of the police by member of the Chamber of Depu- possible to confirm the report. ed by the Kwantung Army au- Following the arrest the Comtroops was ordered by the Prefect ties. M. Scapini, who was blind- Our Own Correspondent.
thorities to be another important missar for War, M. Voroshiloff, and a detachment of the Foreign ed curing the Great War, met in
figure in the alleged plot, was talked for over three hours with Legion was rushed by truck from
Marshal Tachatskevski arrested in Tokyo.-Union News.
and the Sidi bel Abbes to Oran. chief of the G. P. U, M. Jeshoff.
Trans-Ocean.
duel from M. Veber.
the park.
· MAY FIGHT AGAIN
In the subsequent brief fight M RIGHTIST
Michelson was compelled to re-
tire, having been wounded in the CHIEF KILLED
left arm.
The two adversaries, according to press reports, refused to shake hands after the duel, which may therefore be fought again when M. Michelson has recovered from his mjuries Trans-Ocean;
IN RIOT
Serious Clash In Switzerland
Sadakichi Kawai, 37, represent-tachment of G. P. U. officials.
PROMOTION FOR SANGURSKI
Brilliant Young Soviet General
SOVIET FACTORY DEVELOPMENT
Big Programme For Far East
Moscow To-day.
Foreign ships requiring coaling facilities at Oran were affected by the strike and were forced to pro- ceed to Gibraltar and Algiers to replenish their bunkers. --Trans- Ocean:
RAW MATERIALS COMMITTEE
Appointment Approved By League
Geneva, To-day,
Council, at its
Geneva, To-day.
Moscow, To-day. The leader of the Jeunesse Na-
General Sangurski, at present LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST tionale, the rightist party in Swit-second-in-command of the Soviet Extension of Soviet industrial zerland, was killed yesterday in forces in the Far East, and reput activity to the Far East is an- The Royal Observatory reports rioting between extremists in theed to be one of the most gifted of nounced in Moscow where it is that the anti-cyclone has moved town of Cranx de Fonds,
the younger Russian military learned that the sum of 200,000,- north-eastward "and now covers The trouble started when Com leaders, will be given a high mili. 000
just been Manchuria and S. W. Japan,” Amanists endeavoured to break up tary post in European Russia, pro- earmarked by the Government for public session yesterday, approved tongue of high pressure zema la meeting of the Jeunesse Na-bably as deputy military governor the erection of factories in Siberia the creation of a raw materials over S. China. A somewhat deep tionale, at which a former Deputy, of the Ukraine.
garded and the „depression in
General Sangatt will be It is pois transferred to the Furopeza zone
over the Central
Forecast E
moderate; cloudy, some
mist later
Masy was the chief spent
police were forced sto
bek
Fing
Trans
roubles-hes
•The
committee.
theThe committee, formation / faber-which was proposed by the
League Assembly, wil erzminé self-the whole question of world sup
{plies of raw materials — Reuter
from many communities which have been completely isolated by the swirling waters.
A barge loaded with refugees capsized' in the High Street of Panducah, Kentucky, fourteen be- Estimates of the damage done ing drowned. Eenter. give $200,000,000 as the price
Washington, To-day eracted by the turbulent rivers The House of Representatives while, though 132 are known to yesterday passed the $790,000,000 be dead, it is feared that the Deficiency Relier BI, “misking death-roll is possibly greater, available Federal funds for relier owing to lack of information of flood victims-Beuter.
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