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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
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LIFE OF TROTSKY
IN DANGER
M. LEON TROTSKY
NARROW SQUEAK FOR GOVT.
Stalin Agents Said Plotting In Mexico DOUBLE GUARDS ON RESIDENCE
Mexico City, To-day.
The menace of death at an assassin's hand is hang- ing over M. Trotsky, according to sensational rumours here.
SERIOUS HEED TO THE PERIL IS BEING PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GUARDS ON TROTSKY'S RESI- DEFENCE IN THE SUBURBS OF COYOACAN HAVE BEEN DOUBLED.
No-one is now being allowed to enter the house of the famed Bol-
shevik exile without the strictest
It is alleged that Stalin, the So-1 viet Dictator, has sent agents to Mexico with the mission of carry- London, To-day.ing out the murder of M. Trotsky." With the electors showing their usual apathy in a bye-election, the Government candidate just manag-scrutiny of his or her credentials. ed to retain St. Pancras (North) yesterday by the narrow margin of 269 votes. The final figures were: Mr. Grant Ferris (C) 11,744, Mr. H. M. Tibbles (Lab.) 11,476.
At the General Election the Con- servative candidate was returned with a majority of 3,601, while over 30,000 electors voted compared with only about 24,000 yesterday.
The election was made necessary by the retirement of Captain Sir Ian Fraser, the blind MP, who has been appointed Governor of the "B. B. C.-Peuter.
MRS. TROTSKY TO APPEAL FOR SON
JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY
ANXIETY IN NANKING
Nanking, To-day. Although Mr. Saito, who is to till the post of Foreign Minister in the Hayashi Cabinet is still in Washington, it is understood, according to a despatch from Tokyo, that the foreign policy of the Government is now being formulated.
No statement will be made until February 10 when the Diet re- assembles after its compulsory sus- pension, but there is anxious speculation here in view of the in- ference that the Army is dictating #5##1X1X1J1X3}+�X52⠀⠀⠀⠀the programme in foreign relations of Japan-Our Own Correspondent- US. MARITIME STRIKE SETTLED
CANTON MOTOR FACTORY
San Francisco, To-day. After causing millions of dollars worth of losses the maritime strike was officially called off last night.
The men, most of them ̈u- willing strikers, will resume work to-morrow Renter.
In the meantime, Mrs. Trotsky is reported to be ill, but she is prepar⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ing to broadcast a world appeal as a protest against the threat to the life of her son, who has been ar-
rested in Russia by the Ogpu- Reuter.
The Royal Observatory reports that the anti-cyclone has moved into the Pacific to the South-East of Japan, and another is developing over Manchuria.
Local forecast:-E Winds, mo derate; fine to cloudy.
DIRECT ACTION AT.
MALAGA
SENSATIONAL CHARGES AGAINST
GERMAN WARSHIPS
ENSATIONAL REPORTS HAVE
LONDON "DAILY HERA
ERMAN WARSEPS
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It is learned that Mr. Tseng Yang- fu, the Mayor of Canton, is - pro- posing to establish a motor vehicle factory in Canton with an authoris- ed capital of $6,000,000 which will be subscribed by the Government and the public equally,
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