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FIVE TOURISTS
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London, August 25. Five English tourists, of whom three were women, were drowned at Killarney yesterday, when a boat carrying a party of 27 and a crew of four capsized.
The boat was shooting the rapids at the junction of the three lakes when it struck the old weir bridge and cap- sized.
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Most of the passengers were elderly people. There remarkable many escapes in view of the swift- ress of the current. A young 17-year-old boatmen dived
into the torrent fully cloth- ed and succeeded in dragging two
the of the tourists to bank.(Reuter).
RESPECT FOR SOCIAL LAWS APPEAL
French Radical Socialist Party
Makes Statement
»After
over
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Paris, August 25.
SIGNIFICANT DOWNING STREET CONFERENCE
Germany Feared Planning Lightning Campaign Against Czechoslovakia
London, August "23.
A momentous pronouncement regarding Britain's attitude towards events' in Europe is foreshadowed today by some diplomatic corres- pondents, interpreting the significance of yesterday's meeting between Mr. Neville Chamberlain (Primé Minister), Lord Halifax (Foreign Sec- retary), Sir John Simon (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Sir Robert Vansittart (Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Government),
The Times declares that thes thorough scale. of the German Srmy manoeuvres continues to be watched with the closest attention In London, and that it is difficult to ignore the prominence unfail Ingly given in the German press to any
incident serving to em- | phasise the disturbed conditions in the Sudeten area and the griev ances of its inhabitants." GERMAN PLAN The News-Chronicle says that an argument which is be- lieved to win the support of many prominent Germans is
British Official
Shot In
meeting presided Palestine
by the Prime Minister.
M. Edouard Daladler, the Executive of the Radical So-
yesterday
Walter
District
shot statement which is -
when
expected to go far in clarify-
cialist
Party
issued a
ing the political situation.
The statement urges that national effort aiming at univer-
#
sa respect for social laws should
Haifa, August 25.. Moffatt, Assistant was Commissioner, and seriously wounded 1 terrorist entered his office at Jenin yesterday and fired several revolver shots at point blank range. The District Commissioner was to hospital, where six to
Moffatt
has sti bullet wounds
be made by the Republican ma-removed jority in Parliament, and declares British constables are waiting that the adaptation of the 40-give blood transtustons if neces- hour week to the necessitles of sary... - national life and International conditions cannot be considered in his neck, leg and stomach. à act of social recession nor an in- dication of a political change of Gov- front on the part of the ernment:
The
and his condition last night was described as dangerous.
that
·
3 lightning campaign against Czechoslovakia could be successfully accomplished while the British are trying to make up their mind as to what to do and the French are un- certain of British support and dare not go beyond mobilisa- ilon and concentration of troops opposite the new Ger- man fortifications.
The Daily Mail says that the de- claration, which will be made in a few days, will take the form of a clear assurance to France that Bri tain will support her if she is in- volved in a conflict resulting from her efforts to ful! her treaty obligations towards Czechoslova kia(Reuteri..
MISSION FROM PRAGUE
London. Aug, 25. Mr. F. T. A, Ashton-Gwatkin. Counsellor in the British
Uffice and a member of Lord Runciman's staff arrived from Prague yesterday and visiteð The Foreign Secretary. Lord Hallfax.
»
While semi-official circles again emphasised the entirely private character of Lord Runciman's mission in Prague, political circles nevertheless were of the view that Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin's trip to Lon- don was for the purpose of inform- ing the Foreign Secretary of the situation in Czechoslovakia. {Transocean),
AIR OFFICIAL'S TOUR
was
Mr.
London. August 25. Witham Balfour. Under
of State for Air. IS
This is the second attempt on Moffatt's life in two months. statement concludes, by Some weeks ago while he calling for the collaboration and motoring near Jenin his body- Secretary support at full strength of all guard was killed by two brigands leaving Hendon Airport by plane parties, whose aim is to safe who unsuccessfully attempted to on September 5 to visit Royal
Air Force units
in Egypt, the guard the liberties and peace of shoot the Commissioner.
Sudan, Kenya, Palestine, Trans- France. (Reuter).
jordan, Iraq and Malta
NOTED LABOUR
M.P. DIES
London, August 25.
The assailant has been rested. (Reuter).
JAPAN AIR CRASH DEATHS NOW 24
Tokyo, August 25.
Mr. Alfred Short, Labour MP,
The death roll in the disaster for Doncaster, dled yesterday at at Omari, near Tokyo, yesterday. the age of 55.
when two planes plunged into a Parliamentary Secretary to the factory building after a collision, Home Office in the last Labour is now given as 24. and those Government. Mr. Short wes a injured number 150 bollermaker in his youth and It is feared that the death rate later became an official of the may be higher by the time the Transport and General Workers' debris has been cleared. (Trans- Union. (Reuter).
ocean).
Bribes To Influence
Election Alleged In
Tammany Boss' Trial
New York, August 25.
George Weinberg, former "business manager" of the late "Dutch" Schultz, New York, gangster who was killed two years ago, continued bis evidence yesterday in the amazing trial of James J. Bines, former Tammany Hall leader, who is charged with bribery and illegal gam bling operations.
Weinberg told the Court that In October, 1933, "Dutch" Schultz ordered him to help Hines with money to elect Mr. W. C. Dodge as as District Attorney in Manhattan.
Dodge was the predecessor in
this office of Mr. Toomas E. Dewey;
prosecutor in the present case who BENGAL FREES
named Rodge as one of the pub-
He officials "Influenced" by Hinea POLITICAL
Weinberg stated that the gang
Kave Hines altogether about B PRISONERS
$30,000 before Dodge's election, and between $2,000 and $3,000 after the
election."
Calcutta, August 25
Hines, who up to then had given The last of Bengal's political quiet attention to Weinberg's evi- prisoners, numbering 193. have dence, Jumped up in a rage and now been freed. called the witness a lar
The Hobie Minister. announ- When Counsel tugged his elbow cing this in the Bengal Assembly Hines roared: "Don't do that!" yesterday said that the releases and pounded the table,
had been made possible by the The Judge stopped that proceed-Improvement in the situation with ings and wamed the defendahṛregard to terrorism.7 that such an outburst must not be We have done our part, but repeated(Renter);
will remain vigilant." he added,
Не will return to England about October, 7.—~{Reuter).
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