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New York, April 4. It is feared that the 4000 ton for- German frieghter, Borkum, merly the Ingram, from Newport, Monmouth, and bound for Hous- ton, Texas, with 34 members of the crew
and "three passengers. which sent out an 8.0.9. from mid-Atlantic yesterday, may have foundered as nothing has been scen of her by the British steamer Zealandic and other vessels which are searching for her.
Bremen, which left The 3.5. New York on Friday morning. wirelessed that she changed her course "to assist in the search. The United States freighter, Exeter, also reports that "she is rushing to the aid of the Borkum. The freighter later reported
that she located the Borkum In 39.50 deg North, 34.21 deg West. and that she is now abeam the distressed vessel,
The Borkum is in no immediate danger. The steamer Pontypridd is standing by pending the arrival of the Bremen The Exeter is continuing her voyage- Reuter.
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YAGODA UNDER ARREST?
Another Big Trial Pending
•Moscow, Apr. 4. M. O. G. Yagoda, Commissar for Posts and Electrical Communica- tions, has been relieved of his posts for dereliction of duty.
The former chief of the Ogpu was prominent" at the trial of the Metro-Vickers engineers and at that of Zinovieft and his alleged pro-Trotsky comrades.
Although the official announce- ment of the dismissal of Yagoda did not mention that he had been arrested, reports
from Moscow suggest that he is actually under arrest and that a further big trial is pending. Reuter,
MOTOR STRIKE EASES OFF
Factory Re-Opens
CABLE NEWS
IN BRIEF
London April 4-Insurgent aerial activity is the chief feature of the war news at present. It is report- ed from Bilbao that Durango, on which General Mola's troops are advancing, was bombed from the air for 3-1/2 hours yesterday after-
noon. Many buildings, the rail- way station and trains were des- troyed and the incendiary bombs started fres.
The evacuation of the civil population has begun, a number of special trains proceeding to Bilbao. Many families, whose homes have been destroyed, are arriving in Madrid, where shelters have been arranged for them.
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Free Church Help For Dr. Lang's Appeal
LEADERS ON NEED
OF COURAGE ! Leaders of the Free Churches, who at a meeting at the Athen- aeum Club in January, promised full co-operation with the Arch- bishop of Canterbury in the Re- call to Religion, have issued state- in which they appeal to ment ministers of their churches to co-
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The statement is signed by the Rev. M. E. Aubrey,Moderator "of the Federal Council of the Evangc-
Churches of England;"
celona and other points in the Catalan Coast was carried out by two insurgent planes which are re- from the ported to have come north-east.
They were chased lical Free from Barcelona by Government the Rev. J. E. Rättenbury, Presl- planes, but the number of casual-dent of the National Free Church
Council; the Rev. Dr. H.
Town- tics is not yet known.- Reuter.
send. President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ire-,
Grieve.
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London, April 4-Members a land; the Rev. Dr. A. J. the Glasgow District Amalgamated Chairman of the Congregational Engineering Union have decised to Union of England and Wales; the fully and unqualifiedly support the Rev. C. Ensor Walters, President striking engineers of the Beard-of the Methodist Conference; and inore Forge, despite the advice of the Rev. T. Mackay, Moderator of the National Executive "of the the Presbyterian Church of Eng- AEU. to the strikers to return to work. .Reuter."
New York. April 4. The labour troubles besetting the United States motor Industry was considerably eased over the week-end with the settlement of the Ford strike and the announce- ment that the four-weeks-ald
Detroit, Apr 4-According to Chrysler dispute was also virtually an official source.. the Chrysler settled.
dispute, involving sixty thousand
The Chrysler settlement hinged workers. hay been *virtually on the conference between John settled."-- Henry Lewis and the Chrysler Reuters officials, after which it was "atated
Valencia, April 4. The fall of the important
that the substance of an agree- Parls, Apri 4-Pissavy and Junction at Penarroya,
two French airmen ment had been reached and that Cornet, the Cordoba Province, to the Govern settlement was now only "a ques-arrived at Le Bourget at 4.27 p.m. ment troops is expected momention of phraseology."
G.M.T.--- tarily. The Governments troops cut
The Ford factory is re-opening | Reuter. the railway o Cordoba and cap-on Monday and the Company has tured thirty prisoners and Q quantity of war material
An official communique reports that Government planes bombed the aerodrome of Naval Moral and Delta Mata Rallyway stations at Telavera. Avalla and Baldea. Intense aerial activity is also re- ported on the Southern front- Reuter,
THE CORONATION SERVICE
Shortest In History
London, Apr. 5. King George's Coronation service will be the shortest ever used in a British Coronation ceremony. The form of the service, which is now published, reveals a number Of changes from the previous custom. The sermon will be omitted and time will also be saved by singing the Litany as the Dean and choir walk from the Altar to the west door.
Another change will be that the Archbishop and bishops will make an act of homage together. Peers In each order will also take the oath together.— ' Reuter,
GERMAN MISSION TO NANKING
Closer Relatione Sought
London, Apr. 5.
A German mission is leaving for
Nanking in May with the object of securing better relations between the Chinese and Japanese, accord- ing to the "Daily Telegraph" diplomatic correspondent who says that the mission is half diplomatic and half military in compostion,
agreed to hold wage discussions in Detroit during the week.-- Reuter.
"HEIL OTTO!”
Big Demonstration In Vienna
Vienna, April 4 The biggest pro-monarchy" de- monstration in Austria since the war was held here to-day on the occasion of the memorial Mass for the Emperor at St. Charles Cathedral which
land.
"The day needs certitude and courage," declares the statement, "and we trust Free Churchmen will go side by side with their Anglican brothers In seeking the goal which we believe God Him- self has set before na",
Cordial support is given to the suggestion that the Sunday preced- ing the Coronation should be a day of national rededication.
RENEWAL OF DEVOTION
"No less than our Anglican brethren," the statement says, "we desire to declare God's world to this generation, and to full our task of bringing the treasure of our Christian faith to the people of this country and of the whole
"We, too, long for a general re- turn to Christian belief and prac- tice, and for the fearless applica- tion of Christian standards to the conduct of both private e and public affairs.
Moscow, April 4-It is officially .announced that M. Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France, has been relieved of ha diplomatic world. duties and has been appointed first assistant Commissar Foreign Affairs.- Reuter.
of
Madrid, Apr. 4. The Republican forces state that
"We, who sign this message and though fighting around Madrid may be allowed to speak in the desperate, they continue not only name of the Free Churches, would to hold their own, but to make ad- therefore join with the Archbishop vances. Reports from Bilbao state in urging our fellow countrymen that Duranyo, threatened by the to consider again the place that Nationalists, must be evacuated, religion should have in our lives. and that evacuation is in pro-and to seek to make this year, in gress.—"
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was filled by Transocean News Service. 8,000 legitimists while thousands of others lined the square outside, the Hapsburg carrying flags of colours of black and yellow.
Archduke
Eugene, when he ing 255 appeared at the Cathedral en
the Mass, was re- trance after ceived with tremendous shouts of "Hell Otto!" and "We want Otto back immediately."
The legitimnista then formed a procession blocking traffic, but finally dispersed.
Reuter.
“Our Awakening"
SIR ROGER KEYES ON REARMAMENT
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, speaking at the dinner of the Institute of Brewing in London recently, expressed his pleasure at the Government's rearmament policy.
which our King and Queen are to dedicate themselves to their high duties, one in which the whole na- tion also may renew its faith in. and devotion to, God."-
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Paris, Apr. 4; .The French steamer "Limerthie" arrived in Marseilles to-day bring- The statement reminds the peo- TWO MEN WHO
refugees from Spain.ple in the Free Churches that a Among them were 53 Frenchmen, renewal of vigorous Christian life
as volunteers to the and faith must begin in the OVERCAME who served Republican forces.- Transocean News Service.
Moscow, April 4.
Churches.
"We cannot convince others un-
til we ourselves are sure of our possession. Our best preparation,
BLINDNESS
The Soviet Russian Ambassador or a part of it, will be in regular Rector And Botanist
and real prayer in private and in the family, and in the diligent study of the New Testament, the. The
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remarkable accomplish-
triumphed over their disability are recorded.
to Parts M. Potemkin. has been recalled and appointed first deputy Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, states an official announce- ultimate source of our knowledgements of two blind men who
made ment
M. of Christ." here to-day. Potemkin, who has a long and successful diplomatic career be- hind him. Has represented Russia in Paris since 1934-
Trapioccan News Service.
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TITHE "WAR" LEADER DEAD
The Rev. R. M. Kedward
and is the result of the recent vigft Government has awakened and Lipski, is mentioned as probable \ went "tithe war," died recently' at
to the Far East of General von Reichenau, General von Blomberg's former Chief of Staff, who is be- lieved to favour close German co- operation with Russia, China and Japal
Reuter,
"Thank God," he said. that the realised that it is time to rearm. The Naval Estimates give a very full measure of hope that our arm-. ed forces and our British sea power will be restored before it is too late"
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Colonel John Gretton, MF., who proposed the toast of the "Navy, Army and Air Force"--to which Sir Roger responded-described "most reprehensible" the Invariable custom of our people to disarm at the end of every great war, and neglect those forces which had led them to safety and victory.de
EPIDEMIC OF
TRAIN ACCIDENTS
London, April 4 The death roll in the Batterses train smash is now ten as the re- sult of the death of a passenger, Mr. W. P. Spens, M.P., gave the Capt. Maxwell Lawford, after am- toast of "Agriculture," and Mr. putation of the leg, and another George Gibbard, Vice-Chairman of male passenger. Mrs. Maxwell Lawford died of her injuries ear-
lier.
SUCCESSOF.—
The Rey. G. 6. R. Adkins, curate of St. John's, Worksop, who has been appointed Rector of Belleau- has been w-Aby, Lincolnshire. blind since he was 15, as the result of an accident while at play. He has taken the degrees of BA and M.A. in addition to a diploma in theology.
He married about two years ago
Paris, Apr. 4. The Polish Foreign Minister Beck who, owing to bad health has just
The Rev. Roderick Morris Ked- Anished a long vacation on the French Riviera, intends to resign, ward, who succeeded Dr. Scott according to reports by "Le Jour." Lidgett in 1918 as Superintendent and his wife frequently helps him of the South London Mission, and The Polish Ambassador to Berlin,
who was a leading fighter in then getting about the parish.
The other man was Mr. John Grimshaw Wilkinson, who died at the Great Central Hall, Bert Leeds home at the age of 81.
We was a botanist, and though He was President of the National he had been blind for 60 years, Belgrade; Apr. 4.
Prime Minister, Tithe-payers Association, and dur- Ismet Incent and the Turkish Foring the controversy several distress there was not a leaf, fruit or fio- he could not distinguish by touch. eign Minister, Rushd! Aras, are dua orders were levied on his property wer grown in the British Isles that here on April 11, on an official visit, It is stated by the press. Transocean News Service.
Transocean News Service
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near Ashford, Kent.
He was Liberal MP. for Ber-smell or taste. He could locate more than 1,000 specimens grow- mondsey (1923) and for Ashfording within 20 miles of his home Kent (1929-31). He served in Egypt It was his boast that nine times and France in the war.
out of ten he could tell by a hand- The Rev. Walter Spencer, who shate from which part of stre succeeds Mr. Kedward, stated that
country a man camé, Once on a "Two thousand Bermondsey mo- visit to Leeds prison he was able to thers met Mr. Kedward every week
SIR IAN HAMILTON
General Sir Ian Hamilton, who
In his will, Prince Serge Mdivani,in the hall in which he died. He of 301, Park-avenue, New York, never spared himself in the service the National Farmers' Union, who directed that any person disputing of the people." responded, said that the farmers his will should forfelt interest were anxious to play their part in thereunder, and receive one dollar Two more railway accidents. any emergency as the country's only.
Prince Serge, who died the making a total of six within six fpurth line of defence. But the days, occurred in the Southern nature of their business made long result of an accident while playing Railway early to-day when an and careful preparation necessary, polo at Delray Polo Field, Palm empty electric train collided with and if the country wanted increas-Beach, Florida, on March 15, 1936, Ls 84, foreshadowed his death a shunting engine near Victoria ed production in the near future left estate in England of the gross before 1939 in a speech, which he Station. The driver of the electric delay was indeed dangerous. If the value of 218,369. train died of his injuries. T Government had a plan, now was
Two ballast trains collided at the time to declare it! the entrance of the tunnel near. Beven Oaks, but nobody was seri
ously hurt.
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made in Manchester recently.
indicate habitual criminals in the same way.
Leeds University gave him the honorary degree of Master of Bcience more than 20 years ago.
"I must beg "for then, D.V., I shall be supping in Paradise.";
Later, Sir Ian told a "Morning... Post representative that his re-
In 1939 was no slip of the tongue. ference to "supping in Paradise"
He left his property as to half "If the present polley of arming "After all," he said, "though I' to his wife, and half between his in favour of Russia, and France may not be a Methuselah yet, I. Lord Blanesburgh proposed "The sisters, Mrs. Nina Mdivani Hube against our blood relations, the cannot go on living for ever. At Institute of Brewing," to which the rich and Mrs. Roussadana Mor Germans, is pursued." he said, any rate, I would prefer to sup in President (Mr. Cecil EW. charvani Bert and his brother David Britain will be supping In gas Paradise than to remain here in
Mdivani,
masks by 1939.
a gas mask." ringinn) responded.