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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938.
FAR EAST WAR'S DISASTROUS AEROPLANES OLD
Attempt To Kidnap Lord Nuffield
SAVED BY FRIEND'S TIMELY CALL
TO POLICE
London, May 25.
An attempt is alleged to have been made last night to kidnap Lord Nuffield, chairman of Marris Motors and well-known philan- thropist.
LORD NUFFIELD
Lord Nuffield was working late
at his office at Cowley Works, Ox- car ford, when a large saloon halted in front of the office and two men entered, and allegedly ordered Lord Nuffield to their car.
enter
Mr. Kennerly Rumford, husband of the late Dame Clara Butt famous contralto, and a friend of Lord Nuffield, who was in an ad- joining room, heard voices and dashed to the telephone to sum- mon' the police.
The latter surrounded the bulld.
EFFECTS ON TRADE
Economic Conditions Reviewed By President Of Board Of Trade In
House Of Commons
London, May 25.
"Referring to the Sino-Japanese war, in the flouse of Commons yesterday, Mr. Oliver Stanley. President of the Board of Trade, inid that I had a greater effect on commodity prices and world trade than was fully realised by people in Great Britain.
AND NEW
DISPLAY AT GÅRDEN PARTY
A Sailplane Success
The ratden party of the Royal Aeronautical Society, which some 14,000 people attended recently at the Fairey aerodrome near the Great West Road, was an affair of aeronautical samples and tit-bita says. The Times.
A big bomber and a small bom- ber and a squadron of medium bambers represented the greater part of the military side.
An Empire nying-boat, which "China for a period of twe or three years" said Mr. Stanley.
came
unexpectedly out of the "provided an increasing market for British export goods. Many of
mists. was the high light on the us were irapressed by the new life and organisation in Chins, by the
civil side. A fight of ancient greater security and prospects and by the rising standard of living.
aircraft of various vintages re- and were looking to this immense market as a possible solution to
presented the historical aspect the many export difficulties confronting Britain and other countries.
And some surprising work by a "The effects of the war upon such hopes has been both Im-
pair of sailplanes helped to bring medlate and d ́astrous," emphasised Mr. Stanley-(Reater).
the tying review full cycle, but an analysis of the cause show- The success of the sailplanes ed it was not due to a decline in was perhaps the most gratifying. British exports but entirely due to though the persistence of the rise in price of imported commodi- aged Heriot monoplance, which was sometimes on the ground and
YANGTSE TRADE
London, May 25, It is understood that the ques- tion of trading conditions on the Yangtse has recently been occupy- ing the attention of the British authorities.
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ties.
never high It they were to revalue exports sometimes off and and imports of 1937 from the point enough to make a banked turn.
The sailplanes had the advan- tage of doing their sparing, per- formance for the first time before
Str Perey Noble. Commander-in-of view of a price level, the in-won nearly as much approval. Chief of the China Station, has creased excess would only be £8
|000,000. Just completed a tour of Yangtse waters with a view to examining The ngures for the first four a tig audience, and the crowd the position, and his report and months of this year, however, was duly impressed.
recommendations are now awaited were not so encouraging. In London.
Mr. Dudley Hiscox in his new
Despite the beginning of the fall Sungsby Guli was the first to show It is understood that some frre- of commodity prices, the adverse that thermal urt might be found sularities crept into the agreement balance had increased, due partly at a height of 400ft. He used concluded with Japan last Septo the increase of imports, but the currents to make contact with tember. Consequently, an In-even more to the decrease of "ex-a lump of cloud and soon he was vestiration by the C.-in-C. was in ports. stituted.
joined by Mr. Philip Wills in hi Binimou
HOW SOARING 18 DONE The one had, been launched by
- TRADE NEGOTIATIONS Buggestions that British navali ships may in future escort mer- A striking fact was that the chant vessels on the Yangtse ap-whole of the increased adverse the motor-winch; the other had pear, however, to be inaccurate, balance of trade in the first four been towed up to 600ft. by an (Reuter).
months of the year was covered by jaeroplane. Both showed how jan increased adverse balance with soaring done by circling over one country, the United States the aerodrome for 40 minutes, (said Mr. Stanley,
gaining height all the time. Such figures were disquieting When last they were seen their
BRITISH TRADE REVIEWED London, May 25. Mr. Oliver Stanley reviewed
birds.
ing and took the two men into economic conditions in the past and would have to be taken into height was not less than 3,000ft. custody.(Reuter).
year in the House of Commons consideration in the negotiations By that time they were merely yesterday
now proceeding with the United faint shapes in the evening haze, Mr. Stanley sald that apart from states, to which the Minister then as remate as a couple of soaring weaknesses which developed to-
referred. wards the close of the year, it had
Presently the Gull vanished. been 14 extremely prosperous year for British trade. There had emphasised on several occasions away presumably on one of the cross-country flights so casually. been hardly any section of British the great importance attached to
undertaken by Mr. Hiscox. Then industry which had not been able the successful outcome of these the Minimoa was lost, doubtless to increase its production and its negotiations. profits.
CURFEW AGAIN IN JERUSALEM
Jerusalem. May 25. A curfew has been imposed throughout Jerusalem from 7 D.m. yesterday, following a sud- den flare-up of terrorism.
One Jew was killed and 18 wounded in eight shooting affairs, bombings and atoning incidents which occurred yes- · terday.
The Counell of the Jerusalem Jewish community has issued a strong appeal to Jews to keep calm and not to surrender to provocative agitation. They are asked to assist, the authorities- to the almost to keep law and order (Reuter).
WEDDING
SURPRISE FOR WASHINGTON
Washington. May 25.
He said that he had already
:
"What I mean by successful out-having been down back to fis
home at Heston by Mr. Wills. In the first four months of 1938, come," said Mr. Stanley.
MILITARY AIRCRAFT however, there had been a cer-genuine trade agreement which
Among the military aircraft, the tain stackening in the increase of does provide for a fair expansion production. The main reason for of trade on the part of both coun-impressive weight and power of
tries." this was the fall in commodity prices due, in the first instance, to the war in the Far East and,
secondly, to the influence of the depression in the United States,
FAIR TREATMENT
The single Bristol
the Vickers Wellington were to be noted in contrast to the alim lines and 'high speed of the little Mr. Stanley concluded by sound-Fairey P.4, which harnesses 1,000 ing a warning to foreign countries h.p. to a bomber frame of quite that as much as the British Gov-small proportions. U.S. BUYING POWER.
|ernment might 'desire to give them
Blenheim access to the great United Kingshowed ita remarkable speed just With a population of 120,000,000 dom consuming market, they could above the heads of the crowd, and people and with a standard 01 not any longer afford to make the Westland. Lysander exhibited ving higher than anywhere else unilateral gestures of goodwill in its wide speed range, and especi- in the world. the loss of buying trade matters.
ally its slow flying, with an power in the United States had a
They believed in the policy of assurance which made people ask most decisive effect upon com- bilaterial trade negotiations and questions about performance that modity prices,
in any agreement with other coun-I may not yet be answered. " American recovery, when it cames tries they must be sure of equal Best of all "in this section was would be the greatest contribution treatment and fair play for British the formation fying of six which could be made to recovery (goods
of commodity prices and indus- trial improvement in the United Kingdom, said Mr. Stanley..
Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of The question of the adverse State for the Interlor. was married balance of trade was taken up by yesterday In Dublin, Ireland, to the Minister in the course of his Miss Jane Dahlman, a 25-year-old speech, American girl from Milwaukee, He said that the adverse balance Wisconsin.
(British Wireless).
HIGH CHURCH DIGNITARIES
IN BUDAPEST
last year amounted to £52,000.000..
with The news of the wedding caused compared
£18,000,000 the greatest surprise in Washing-year before. ton,
closest as only Mr. Ickes' friends had known that he had gone abroad to be married.
the
Hi
High
ADVERSE BALANCE
Blenheims of No. 81 Squadron, „. Not only were the familiar forma, tions admirably kept but forma-. tions were changed in sight of the crowd with a steadiness and surenews which served as a reply to some of the criticisms advanced against this bomber the fastest of its kind in the world.
In the classes of" civil aircraft there was nearly everything from the small single-seater. to the besides
Budapest, May 25.
who church dignitarles will take part in the Eucharistic twin-engined six-seater
two examples of the rotating- He thought the adverse balance Congress beginning here today, ar- After the ceremony, the bride in itself not very frightening. It rived in the Hungarian capital in wing type of seroplane. and bridegroom cabled the news to was true that excess of imports of the course of yesterday afternoon.
friends in Washington.-merchandise rose from £346,000, 000 in 1938 to £432,000,000 in 1937,
their
(Reuter).
BRITAIN'S RELIANCE ON
A BIGGER NAVY
London, May 25.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, stated in a speech at Liverpool yesterday that present · British naval rearmament had assumed dimensions not previously known in time of peace.
Britain is now building over half | a million tons of warships, namely,' 17 cruisers, 19 submarines, 31 des- troyers and a number of smaller craft,
CIANO-PERTH PARLEY
Rome, May 25,
The Italian Foreiga" Minister,
The comfort and performance of such private aeroplanes were The Archbishop of Philadelphia, Monsignor Daugherty, the Syrian the more impressive in the pre- |sence of the flimsy · Deperdussin Patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Tappauni, and the Archbishop of with its misfiring engine and the more Mimsy Bleriot with, its quite St. Louis, Monsignor Glennon, were
inadequate power, ple ceremoniously received at the station by Primate Seredy.
There were many types which, for lack of time and space, could The three were then accom- not be flown.
Altogether, there panied by the Primate to the Oren were 50 different aircraft on the Palace, where they will stay durines for visitors to see and besides ing the Congress.
there WAS 'an exhibition of
Cardinal Becretary of State Pacel}} was welcomed by Foreign Minister equipment and accessories. von Kanya and the Lord Mayor yesterday.-(Transocean).
JAPANESE PROTEST
RECEIVED
London May 25.
The latest events had convinced the military experts, continued Mr. Shakespeare, that aéroplanes alone could not assure a victory but that
It is learned that a copy of the the main task fell to the navy Count Clano, had a conversation Japanese: protest regarding, the Mr. Shakespeare explained that with the British Ambassador, Lord statement made by Mr. R. A.
The sunny afternoon - was too short for many of the visitors. and some nobly shunned the queues at the tea tents so that |they might sacrifice:"none" of the entertainment to the desire for well-earned refreshment,
FRANCO'S PLANES
ACTIVE
Paris, May: 25.
a plan has already been drawn up Ferth, yesterday, when they dis- Butler, Under-Secretary for For- Spanish Nationalist" planes for convoys for cargo-boats on the cussed the Czechoslovakian ques-eign Affairs, in the House of Combombed the Republican frontier
principal trade routes, the conver-
Bion of old cruisers into special Both statesmen are reported to Eaips for defence against air at have agreed that tension was
et and for increasing the size easing and that no serious develop and strength of destroyers ments are to be feared,(Trans (Transocean),
ocean).
mons, on the shooting of Chinese town of Portbon, as well as Barce soldiers taken prisoner by Japan-lona and Valendis, yesterday, ac- ese, on the Amoy Bund. has now cording to the Paris press which been received from Tokyo and is states that considerable material
present being considered damag has been reported. (Reuter).
(Transocean)
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