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Viceroy To Meet Congress Leaders
"London, To-day.
Reports from New Delhi state that the Viceroy, the Marquis Linlithgow, will personally dis- cuss the Constitutional situation with leaders of the Congress PartyTrans-Ocean.
CORDELL HULL POINTS THE ALTERNATIVES
New York, To-day.
An urgent appeal to the countries of the world to give up the armaments race was made by the
To London United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull,
In Three Days
in an address yesterday evening on receiving the Woodrow Wilson Medal for his efforts to effect the lowering of international economic barriers.
MR. HULL DECLARED THAT THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, CAUSED BY THE ARMAMENTS RACE WAS FUNDAMENTAL- LY UNHEALTHY AND SOWED THE SEED OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF A MILITARY EXPLOSION OR AN ECONOMIC Shanghai, To-day. COLLAPSE. London in three days is the objective of the "Kamikaze" or "Divine Wind," the Asahi Shim bun plane which is making a goodwill flight to the British capital for the Coronation King George.
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[za The only way to avert this impending doom Was for the nations now preparing for war to align themselves with the nations intent upon a policy of peace in a determined and concerted effort to re- build international political and economic relation- Hitherto the plane has made ex ships upon a basis of friendliness and co-operation. Presenting Mr. Hull with the Medal, Mr. Hamilton Fish Arm- ON OTHER PAGES strong, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, declared that the totalitarian States could not afford to let trade find its natural
cellent progress. It arrived at: Tai- hoku, the capital of Formosa, at 9.14 this morning, having covered the 1,400 miles from Tokyo at an average speed of about 200 miles an hour.
At 10.19 this morning the plane hopped off för Hanoi, 1,110 miles dis- tant.
Rangoon, Baghdad,
Stops will be made at Calcutta, Karachi, Basra, Athens, Rome and Paris,
The "Divine Wind" is equipped with a 550-horse power air cooled motor and is claimed to be capable of a cruising speed of 250 miles an hour.
Famine Stalks In Szechwan Family Trust Dispute Settled North-West Frontier Trouble World Conference Rumours Discoun-
Divine Wind's Flight.
channels, for their object was not ced In London prosperity. through trade but na- | Wu Te-chen Again Delayed tional power.
Loss to Ideal of Christian Unity. France's Bid To Win Back Little
Entente
Britain, however, was not thus constrained and without very many modifications in her present. sys- tem of Imperial preferences, could probably accept a treaty similar to the others. Mr. Cordell Hull had negotiated.
THIRD RECIPIENT
The pilot, Masaki Unuma, is the 25-year-old ace pilot of the Asahi Mr. Cordell Hull is only the third chain of newspapers. His compan-recipient of the Woodrow Wilson ion, Kenji Tsukagoshi, has the tri- Medal since institution of
the pie role of mechanic, relief pilot Foundation after the War. and wireless operator-Reuter.
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Weather Expected
To Improved
The Royal Observatory reports that the anti-cyclone has weakened and extended eastward to the Loochoos. The depression has moved into the Pacific to the east of Hokkaido, and another is de veloping over Manchuria.
Forecast:-E. winds, moderate; cloudy, improving later.
The others were Mr. Elihu Root in his efforts for creation of the Hague Court and President Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia--Reuter.:
TOBACCO FIRMS
ON STRIKE
Shanghai's Protest Against New Tax
Shanghai, To
To-day. Twenty-one out of some odd' small Chinese-owned.
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Forthcoming Marriage ette factories in Shanghai sus- The forthcoming wedding of Mr. pended operations this morning Allan William McGrann, of No. 35, as a protest against the new Hau Wong Road, and Miss Maria taxes imposed by the Ministry of Conceicao Barretto, of No 2, Gran-Finance upon rolled tobacco. ville Road, has been announced. Reuter.
Mr. Cordell Hull.
GENEVA EXPLOSION
FIVE KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED
Geneva, To-day. Five were killed outright and seven severely injured in a myster- ious explosion which completely 2 demolished a five-storeyed house in Baux Viyes, a suburb of Geneva, yesterday.
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