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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1937.
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AMERICAN STEEL STRIKES
Serious Situation Developing
Detroit, To-day.
About 16,500 employees of General Motors have been ren- dered idle owing to sporadic strikes in Cleveland, Saginaw (Michigan) and Jamesville (Wis- consin).
Of these, nearly 7,000 are invol- ved in a sit-down strike in the Cleveland plant.
Merrill's Return Flight
To New York
London, To-day.
The American trans-Atlantic fliers, Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie, took off from South- port, Lancashire, at 9.20 last night on their return flight to the United States.
carrying
The airmen were with them the first picture of the Coronation ˆceremonies. Reuter. MURILLUMULATIUF
ITALY TO declare the LEAVE LEAGUE
Officials of the United Automo-
bile Workers Union
strike
called as was
a protest
against needless lay-off and unfair speed-up of production.
PARIS, TO-DAY. -ITALY WILL ANNOUNCE HER WITHDRAWAL
LIBEL SUIT
North-West ROYAL TRAINER'S Frontier Operations
Wazirs Suffer Heavy Casualties
SIMLA TO-DAY.
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K. C. ANNOUNCES “A SETTLEMENT.
"MAN OF HIGHEST REPUTATION”
an-
Settlement of 4 libel action brought by Mr. Harry Atherton ONE INDIAN OFFICER AND Brown, formerly a famous amateur TWO INDIAN OTHER RANKS rider, who trained jumping horses WERE KILLED, AND ONE for King Edward VIII., was BRITISH SOLDIER, THREE nounced before Mr. Justice Mac- the King's Bench INDIAN OFFICERS AND FIVE naghten in ༣་;" INDIAN OTHER RANKS Division.
Croft Mr. Brown, who lives at WOUNDED IN FIGHTING ON THE NORTH-WESTERN FRON House, Grendon, Atherstone, War- Ex- TIER ON TUESDAY AND wickshire, had sued London WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK. press Newspaper Ltd., complaining
The First Infantry Brigade, sup-
of an article in the "Daily Express”. ported by scouts, left camp by of Dec. 1, 1986, under the heading
· TEAR-GAS USED IN PITTSBURGH THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS different routes and converged in a "£6,000 Netted as Outsider Wins at
the plain 8 to 1.” AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. pincer movement on
where the disaffected tribesmen Mr. Roland Oliver, K. C., for Mr. This report appears in "Intran-
Brown, explained that it mentioned Police in Pittsburgh used tear-
The Wazirs were caught un-what was described as a sensation- gas bombs against a rioting crowd sigeant," which says the opinion is were concentrated.
awares and offered little resistance. al starting price coup, brought off of pickets of the Jones and Laugh-strongly held in Geneva circles.
Italy's action, the journal adds, lin Steel Corporation strikers, who
will be in the way of protest against They afforded excellent targets for on a horse trained by Mr. Brown
aircraft which co-operated with the and owned by a woman. number 27,000 in all:
the League's refusal to recognise Italian sovereignty over Abyssinia.
Mr. Oliver described how a start- infantry.
The enemy casualties are believing price coup or "job" was oper- -Trans-Ocean.
ed to have been considerable. ated on the course to keep the odds Reuter.
long on a horse, and added that no honest trainer or
er or owner would be
RIOTS
FROM
Meanwhile Mr. Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers Organisation Committee of the Committee of Industrial Organi-|| sation, has called a meeting of MYSTERY PREACHER the executive committee for Saturday to consider extension of the strike to two other indepen- dent concerns, the Republic Steel Corporation and the Sheet and Tube Company.
IN PULPIT The Church Condemned
A preacher who would not reveal The latter have refused to sign his identity delivered the sermon at collective bargaining agreements Balham Congregation Church with the Union.-Renter.
LOVER FOUND
DEAD
Second Tragic Sequel To Ship Incident
-re-
[cently. He attacked the attitude of Churchpeople towards modern pro- blems, and said that the majority were no better than the Pharisees.
His sermon had not been pre- viously advertised, and the congre
when the gation were surprised minister, the Rev. John Bevan, who | had conducted the first part of the service, announced that he was in- There has been a sequel in
troducing to the pulpit "a very bad- lived Copenhagen to the sentence on Herrly disabled soldier, who has David Kaestelbaum for "violating deeply with sorrow, suffering and the modesty" of Mrs. Marjorie adversity." Florence Howells in a Harwich- Esbjerg steamer.
IRELAND'S NEW CONSTITUTION
Recognition Of King
Dublin, To-day.
The Dail yesterday passed the second reading of the new Constitution Bill by 69 votes to
43..
The President of the Free State, Mr. Eamonn de Valera, said that the new President's powers at present would be used for the purpose of inter- nal affairs but later could be used for external affairs if and when the people decided to abolish the Act of last Decem- ber, which recognises the King for external affairs."
He added that. the people would be asked to decide that matter apart from the Con- stitution. Reuter.
The preacher, who wore a black gown and had three Service medals M. Lorry Feilberg, a former:
pinned on his breast, began his ser- fiance of Mrs. Howells, was found
mon with the words: "I am not or- dead in an hotel bed-room He thodox as you would understand or- had taken an overdose of veronal. thodoxy. I cannot claim to be
The chain of events is as follows. Churchman in these days. Never- Mrs. Howells, the 22-year-old wifetheless, I love the Church with all of Mr. C. J. Howells, club proprie my heart." tor, of Golders Green, London, was travelling to Denmark in February and met Kaestelbaum in the steamer, An incident occurred in her cabin which led to Kaestelbaum people and understand their attitude. Meeting Rumours Given
being sentenced to prison.
....
Recall To Religion Referring to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Recall to Religion, he said that the Church must go to the
He complained that Church organi-
DER FUEHRER AND IL DUCE
New Impetus
a party to such a thing.
It was considered to be a thor- oughly disreputable thing to do.
The people most likely to have information for effecting such would be the trainer and a coup the owner, continued Mr.. Oliver, and the article went out of its way to say that the owner knew nothing about it.
“Great Deal Of Injury"
The result of the publication was that, in some cases, horses Mr. Brown had been training- were withdrawn, and people wrote to him on the matter. A great deal of injury and distress had been in- flicted on him.....
The defendants had agreed to pay a substantial sum as damages, and to indemnify Mr. Brown as to his costs.
-Mr. G. O. Slade, for the defen- dants, said that his clients had hoped that in the article they had [made it quite clear that the last person they desired to make any imputation against was Mr. Brown, who had the highest possible repu
tation among trainers.
As the King's trainer he had to be, like Caesar's wife, entirely
above suspicion. The defendants that there never could be the desired to make it abundantly clear
slightest suggestion against him.
The record in the case was with- drawn on the terms agreed.
Keep Up-To-Date.
by Keep up-to-date there's an air of
A week after the cabin incidentsations, such as the Church Army, Mrs. Howells died after an over- the Salvation Army, and the Prison-
Berlin, To-day. dose of sleeping draught. Two days lers' Aid Society had no effect on later Mr. Feilberg was found un-people.
Rumours that Signor Mussolini conscious from a drug, but recover- “A man comes out exactly as he and Herr Hitler are going to meet ed later.
went in, he declared." "I know. Iover Whitsuntide have been in- Mr. Feilberg was greatly upset have never yet had a conviction, creased by the announcement that a by the judge's summming-up before thank God, but I have lived with special railway coach is to be at sentencing Kaestelbaum. The judge these people and I know their atti-tached to the express passing said that Mrs. Howells was partly tude to the Church. They condemn through Austria on the way to Italy to blame for Kaestelbaum's be-it. If the Church were doing its job on Saturday. haviour. A few hours later Mr. there would be no slums and no dis- An official announcement,
ever, says that the coach is for Feilberg took the sleeping draught tressed areas. which ended his life.
The preacher said afterwards that the use of General Hermann Goer He was the general manager of he would prefer not to disclose his ing, who is spending the Whitsuned pilules, are the choice of many up-
holidays in Venice, where his wife a big-motor firm in Copenhagen.
The Rev. John Bevan, whose ser-18 now staying Trans Océan, The Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop mons have been broadcast, stated
Mr. Chan Ki-yau, representative to him
name..
4
was
how
distinction" about clothes of the latest style; be up-to-date, too, in your choice of a laxative if you would enjoy. that cheery sense of all-roundefficiency which belongs to perfect health. *Pinkettes, the tiny, pink, sugar-coat- to-date men and women to-day, when they feel in need of a laxative. Non- griping and non-purging, Pinkettes tone up the liver, aid digestion, dispel con-
of Victoria, is to meet the mem-that the preach, but there was not of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek henation, banlah billionsmens and sick bers of
Pinkettes, the modern laxative for Group in the West Lounge on Sun- his name. He was a man of educa-jin Hong Kong, left for Shanghai the breath, and relieve piles. day evening at 9 p.m, and will talk tion and had been gassed in the yesterday in the Corfu to interview men and women, are obtainable front.
the Generalissimo on the Recall to Religion.
war.
all chemists.