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Severely Tested By Storms
Friedrichshafen, Apr. 10. The giant zeppelin, "Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg, after bat tling through severe storms, with two of her engines out of commis- alon, arrived safely here at 5.50 p.m. G.M.T.
Five thousand people cheered with relief when the big dirigible| came in sight and slowly nosed down towards her mooring mAST. They sang Deutschland Uber Albes while the crew waved from the gondelas ports,
!
Only three of the four engines were working at the end of the
trip, li
One section of the crowd" est - cially cheered Dr. Hugo Eckener. who could be scen peering from behind a row of cheering passed
gers leaning from the windows of the saloon, his face pale and, an- xious.
Commander Lehmann, oficer, in command in the Hindenburg, stat- ed on landing that both the dam- aged motors had been repaired but that one was only usable in emer gencies. The damage was not a result of faulty construction, but was the sort of thing which was almost bound to happen when the motors were being tested to their capacity,
Working of the new crude oil Diesel motors fulfilled expecta- tlons. Fuel consumption was sur- prisingly favourable. All other parts of the airship stood the se- vere test of the storm excellently, he said.-
Reuter
ECKENER'S STATEMENT
Friederichshafen, Apr. "10. Dr. Hugo Eckener. famous zep pelin designer and commander, who was aboard the von Hinden burg on her adventurous maiden voyage, just completed, told Reu- Just before ter's correspondent landing that he intended to go to Berlin immediately to finally dis- pose of the move to discredit him
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936.
OBITUARY
German Ambassador
To Britain
London, Apr. 10. "has occurred from The death heart failure of Dr. Leopold von | Hoesch, German Ambassador to Britain, who has latterly figured prominently in the conversations with Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, on the situation arising from the German reoccupation of the Rhineland. Reuter.
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KING'S SYMPATHY "Hong Kong Uni y Press" Specia Berlin, Apr. 11.
Through the British Ambassador "here, King Edward has conveyed to the German Chancellor his per- sonal sympathy at the death of the German" Ambassador in Lon-
don, Dr. von Hoesch.
Chancellor Hitler expressed his sincere thanks to His Majesty for the sympathy shown at the severe
loss for Germany.-- Transocean Yews Service.
TREMENDOUS SHOCK
London, Apr. 11. Prince von Bismarck, Counsellor of the German Embassy, told Reu- ter that Dr. von Hoesch had re- cently suffered from heart trouble but refused to regard it seriously He insisted on working as hard as ever. Dr. von Hoesch's death, however," was quite unexpected and a tremendous shock to the Embassy start- Reuter.
was
TRIPOLI STRUCK BY HEAT WAVE
winds
Tripoli, Apr. 9. Parching desert
have caused the worst drought and heat-wave in Tripolitanla for fifty ve years. A temperature of 110 degrees has been registered,
Owing to the drying pastures, the Governor Balbo has ordered the transfer of cattle and sheep to the adjacent colony of Cyrenaica. He was naturally most reluctant to and for this purpose every avail- able ship, Including vessels on the emphasise the dissersions among Germans. They were bound to ex-regular service to Italy, has been Ist; but if his position were really jeopardised by what was describ- ed as his luke-warmness to Nazi- ism then obviously he could not be expected to run the risk of worsen- ing it. Reuter
EARLIER MESSAGE Aboard von Hindenburg, Apr. 10.
The dirigible. von Hindenburg. is now passing over Lyons.
We expect to reach Friederich- shafen about 7 p.m. to-night.
Permission has been given to fly over France. but our course is delimited and must not deviate ten kilometres on either side of the Rhone River.
The forward port engine was dismantled Wednesday evening owing to persistent trouble."
Where we were nearing the French coast we were met by a French flying boat which repeated- ly circled the big airship,
The trouble with the port en- gine was found to be authentic, for the propellor was still stuck at this time. The flying noat made oft
A little later a seaplane investi- gated us, flying close. And finally a plane from Nimes kept us com- pany for some miles. Kruter.
BATTLE WITH WIND
Paris, Apr. 10. A message from the zeppelin. von Hindenburg, picked up at 8 a.m. to-day, gave her position as seventy miles south-east of Barce- lona. Her commander then re- ported two of her four engines out of action...
Her commander stated the ship was fighting a strong head "wind and was experiencing difficulty in reaching an altitude of over 9,000 feet.
It. was therefore intended to fol- low the valley of the Rhone instead" of flying directly, across the Alps.
hired.
POISON GAS IN HOME FOOTBALL HOME RUGGER
WARFARE
Appeal Sent To Belligerents
Leaders Suffer
Defeats
League
'London, April 11.. The outstanding performance in Geneva, Apr. 9.
football to-day's holiday
pro eign Secretary, speaking before the Hamilton Academicals ever Glas-
Mr. Anthony Eden, British For-
gramme Was the home win of
Committee of Thirteen to-day, gow Rangers, Scottish suggested that a solemn appeal bechampions, by a lone goal, made to the Italian and Ethiopian Detalled scores of to-day's Governments to give a pledge to games, as cabled by. Reuter, were refrain from the use of poison as follow:-- Kas io the future. He said the matter did not lie with the High Command or with the aviatura, but thorise the use of gus. only the Governments could au-
"We know," said Mr. Eden, "from the declarations of Italian shippers at the Suez Canal that oyer two hundred tons of gas have been sent to the front in Ethiopia. It is most important that we should make it clear that there is ab-
solutely no justification for it. The argument that it does not matter what happens so long as it is only in East Africa is not the view of the British Government.
COMMITTEE ADJOURNS
The Committee "of Thirteen na-
journed until it a.m. to-morrow,
after adopting the draft of a tele- gram to the Italian and Ethioplan Governments appealing to them to pledge themselves against the use of gas and dum-dum bullets, and stating that otherwise they would violate the rules of humane "warfare,
M. Madariaga, "Chairman of the Committee, and M. Joseph Avenol. Secretary-General of the League of Nations, are seeing Baron "Aloisi. the chief Italian delegate, evening, and will report on their conversations to-morrow.. Beuter.
ALLEGED ETHIOPIAN
ATROCITIES
this
Rome, Apr. 9.
A signed deposition by the Chan- cellor of the Greek Consulate at Diredawa on the torture and kill-
A hundred thousand cattle haveing of Italian prisoners of war, already been shipped and another and on the slave traffic, has been. awaiting presented to the League of Na-
tions.
nundred thousand are ships.
Dust storms are making visibility as bad as in a London fog, causing suspension of the air lines. Even ships at sea are finding navigation difficult.-
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
AMERICAN LEAGUE OF. NATIONS
Washington, Apr.10.
A plan has been received here for an American League of Na- clons from the President of Guate- mala, Senor Ubicu, for submission to President Roosevelt, with 3 view to discussion at the coming Pan- American Conference at Buenos Aires.
The plan envisages a cancert-of American nations pledged to sup- port mutual assistance; against. foreign aggression, in substantia- tion of the Monroe Doctrine, and an American Court of Internation- al Justice mudelled on the Hague Court to arbitrate on disputes be- tween American nations.
The plan is set forth in the tom of a Convenant on which an American League of Nations might ue based. Reuter
ITALIAN ADVANCE ON DESSIYE
Asmara, Apr. 9. Indulging in his favourite tactic of encircling his "objective with
At this time the von Hindenburg & pincer-like movement, Marshal had covered about 600 miles since Pietro Badogilo is rapidly ad- she passed over Malaga, making vancing on Dessiye, which la ex- an average speed of 65 miles per pected to fall without resistance. hour.-
According to unofficial but re- Reuter
Hlable reports, the Eritrean Army Corps, which is moving along the Imperial road in the direction of Dessiye, has occupied, without en- countering resistance, the town of Kobbo, twenty-five miles south of Quoram, and is now heading for Waldia; about twenty-five miles south of Kobbo.
ART TREASURES LEAVE FOR CHINA
The First Army Corps is also re-
Included in the documents are similar depositions by three mem- bers of the Egyptian sanitary mis- alon, and a further Italian mem- orandum atrocities.
on alleged Ethiopian
A well-informed spokesman de- clared that these documented re- cords of atrocities would prevent the Ethiopians from complaining about the Italians.
The Italian use of poison-gas is neither confirmed
denied nor hero- Reuter.
PLAIN SPEAKING IN THE COMMONS
FIRST DIVISION
Aston Villa Bolton Brentford Derby Everton H'dersfield
Saturday Match
Results
London, April 13. The outstanding victory in the Rugby Union matches to-day was Weish by 32-13. that of Gloucester over London
Full results were as follows:- Bridgwater 3, Blackheath 11. Bristol 13, Le.cester 6. Cardiff, Barbarians 3. Gloucester 32, London Welsh 13. Llanelly 6, Northampton 6. Neath 13, Devonport Services 8. North of Treland 7. Birkenhead
Park 14.
2 M'chester C
2
Sunderland
1
3 Grimsby
0
Plymouth Albion 17, 0.M.T. 14.
a Leeds
1
Sale 8, Rosslyn Park 3.
5 West Brom.
3
Bath 18, Old Cranleighans &
1 Birmingham
0
Cheltenham 3, Headingley 5.
2
Swansea 0, Harlequins 3.
2 Chelsea
0
Waterloo 8, Coventry 3,
3 Liverpool
1
Newport 3. Cross Keys .'
0 Blackburni
0
Torquay Athletic 14, Universities
1 Stoke
1
Ath. Union 19.
Reuter.
Middlesboro' 2 Arsenal Portsmouth Preston Wednesday Wolves
SECOND DIVISION
Barnsley Bradford C, Burnley Charlton
Fulham
Hvil
Newcastle
2 Doneaster
1
3 West Ham
1
RED CROSS REFUSE.
1 Norwich
1
4 Notts T.
0
TO ASSIST
0. Southampton
2
0 Blackpool
3
M'chester U. & Bradford
D
Swansea
0
Port, Vale Tottenham
1 Sheffield U. Leicester
1
1
3 Bury
0
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THIRD DIVISION (South)
Bournemouth 3 Bristol C. Bristol R. Cardin Clapton
0
z Aldershot
2
3 Queen's PR.
2
1 Swindon,
2
mented on this
Crystal P.
2 Exeter
2
Gillingham
0 Watford
川
Millwall
Plymouth
Luton
Northampton. 3 Newport
Notts C Reading." Southend
1 Torquay
3 Brighton
0 Coventry
THIRD DIVISION (North)
Accrington
Barrow
Chester
0
Geneva, Apr, Tv.
The International Red Cross Committee declined to-day an the grounds of its neutrality to hand material. for over documentary
which the League of Nations ask- ed in connection with the charges against Italy of violating the laws of war.
Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Minister,
sharply
com-
matter at the
meeting of the Committee of Thir-" teen. He said he could not see what was this neutrality of which the Red Cross organisation spoke.
-Reuter.
TURKEY ASKING FOR
TREATY REVISION
Paris, Apr. 10. Government has
1 Oldham
1 Carlisle
1
4 Darlington,
1
Chesterfield
2 Mansfield
1
Crewe
3 Wrexham
2
The Turkish
Lincoln
5 Gateshead
1
New Brighton 0 Hartlepools Rochdale
decided to take steps to obtain re-
0
vision of the clauses of the Dar-
0 Tranmere
0
danelles Convention, in conformity
Southport
2 Halifax
0
with claims already formulated at
Stockport York
1 Rotherham
·2
Geneva, according to message
from
✪ Walsall
0
Ankara.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
T
3 Albion
1 Motherwell
0 Celtic
1 Dunfermline
1 Hearts
" 1 Rangers
1
Dundee
Aberdeen Airdrie Arbroath Ayr Clyde
Hamilton
Partick Hibernlari Queen O'S Queen's Pk.
3 Third Lanark
com.
The Prime Minister has municated the decision to the Par- 1liamentary group of the People 1 Party, which has approved of it.
The decision will be handed in
2
2 the form of a Note to representa- Otives of the Governments which are signatories of the Treaty of 1 Lausanne.-
Heuter.
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1 St. Johnstone
1
Q
1 Kilmarnock
GOOD FRIDAY'S
RESULTS
KING-DISTRIBUTES
MAUNDY PENCE
London, Apr. 9. ⠀.
"
His Majesty the King was pre- London, Apr. 9.
sent at the ceremony of the distri- Fulham was the only one of the button of Maundy peace at West- big London football teams to suffer minster Abbey to-day. defeat in to-day's Good Friday This is the first time for 250 league soccer. Arsenal, Batford years that a reigning King has dis- and West Ham won, while Chelsea tributed money in person on Maun~.. drew with Darby and Tottenhamry Thursday. and Chariton shared the honours.
Sunderland made pos tive of the championship by beating Birming- ham. In the third'div's on, Luton, the leaders were held to a draw, The French attitude, particularly but Reading, close rivals, fated at with regard to sanctions, was eri-Selhurst Park and lost to Crystal ticised, as also were. the Italian Palace.
London, Apr. 9. The House of Commons adjourn ed for the Easter recess, until April 21, Budget, Day, after the usual adjournment of the debate on foreign affairs, in, the course of which there was a good deal of plain speaking regarding the war in Ethiopia
methods of warfare.
FIRST DIVISION
4 W. Bromwich: 0 4 Wolves
Detalled results as cabled by Lora Cranborne, Under-Secre- Reuter follow. tary for Foreign Affairs, speaking for the Government, confirmed the brief that the Italians had used Arsenal polson-gas. He said the Goverb-Aston Villa ment considered, if this grave Packburn charge was established, that an Bolton issue of the very first importance Chelsea issue Everton will have been raised-an
which not merely affects Ethio-Grimsby pla; but all of us, and practically Mchester C. 1 Leeds the whole future of civilisation." Portsmouth He added that other charges Wednesday against the Italians and Ethiopians sunderland must also be investigated. Reuter.
INDIA'S NEW VICEROY IN CAIRO
Cairo, Apr. 9.
The Marquis of Linlithgow ar-
London, Apr. 10 The P. and O. liner Ranpura, With Chinese art treasures aboard, ported to have rapidly progressed rived here to-day on his way to jeft Tilbury thia morning for along the caravan trail to Magdala, India to take up the post of Vice- Shanghai, Thẻ cargo is one of the All the advance columns are re-ray.
SECOND DIVISION..
Forty-two mem and forty-two women--the number of years of. the King's age-received their money." enclosed in an envelope, from the hands of the King-- Kouter's Bulletin Service.
MALTESE CONSTITUTION
AMENDMENT
London, Apr. 8.
Preliminary steps have been
taken to enable His Majesty the King to revoke or amend the Malta Constitution, which has been sus- pended for some years, owing to the Internal situation. An em- 'powering Bili was read for the first
time in the House of Lords day-
Reuter'è Bulletin Service
to-
2
2 Liverpool
2
1 Preston
1
1 Derby
1
1 Brentford 3 Stoke
2
0
3
0 Huddersfield
0
* Middlesbro
*
2 Birmingham 1
2. Southampton
1
2 Mchester U.
2
1. Bradford
Millwall
" `0. Brighton
Queen's P.R.
4 Hull
Watford
2 Norwich
2
1 Swansea
21 Fulham.
0
1 'Chariton
1
Carlin'€1
THIRD
3 Leicester DIVISION (South)
1 Newport 2 Luton 0 N'thampton
2
Chester Crewe
0
1. Bournemouth
2 Reading
2 Bouthend
1
York
Blackpool Burn ey Bury Doncaster Newcastle Notts F. Plymouth Port Vale Tottenham West Ham
richest ever carried and comprises ceiving supplies from aeroplanes, On arrival, Lord Linlithgow was Aldershot those priceless exhibits which re- indicating that the troops are mak- met at the station by a deputation Bristol R cently drew connoisseurs and cri- ing such exceptional progress that of Indians residing in Egypt and Cardin tics from all the world to Burling-suppiles can only be maintained *ton House, London:
from the air Reuter.
Router.
presented with an address of wel- Clapton O. come to which he suitably replied, Crystal P.
Glingham Reuter's Bulletin Service.
◊ Sheffield U,
4 Bristol O.-
1 Notts C.
THIRD DIVISION (North)
5 Wrexham
2 Stockport 4 Bouthport Hartlepools 5 Rotherham- Lincoln 20 Chesterfield Mansfield 3. Accrington New Brighton 2 Rochdale Tranmere: 0 Halifax Walsal
1 Oldham
1 Barrow
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