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GALE HAVOC: DRAMATIC MID-ATLANTIC RESCUE
APOSTLE OF STORM RAGES ON
KREUGER
BROTHER'S WORK IN HOEGBROFERS
PROSECUTION DEMANDED
Stockholm, Oct.. 17. Bankruptcy administrators have presented their report regarding the affairs of Hoegbrolera, of which Tersten Kreuger, brother! of the late Ivar Kreuger, managing director from 1921 to 1930.
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The report alleged an amazing į almillarity between the methods į of the brothers.
The balance sheets issued by Hoegbrofera showod consistent profits between. 1921 and 1930 whereas in actual fact losses were: being sustained and the figures' were juggled, false assets shown In order to keep up the pretence. The report demands the pro- secution of Tersten Kruuger as "the creditors of the company have clearly been awindled."
Tersten Kreuger is at the pre- sent time in "preventive custody."
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Britain's New Duties
THREE RESOLUTIONS
IN COMMONS
London, Oct. 17. Both Houses of Parliament re-i assemble to-morrow.
•
THE COAST
FOUR DROWN IN MISHAPE
AT LOWESTOFT
WEEK-END THRILLS
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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
LONDON, OCT. 17. VIOLENT GALE WHICH SWEPT IN FROM THE ATLANTIC CREATED HAVOC IN THE CHAN- NEL DURING THE WEEK-END.
Numerous shipping disasters occurred and four lives were lost. The timely arrival of a British steamer saved the crew of a sailing ship from almost certain death off the Irish coast.
Coast ports both on the British and French sides of the Channel received the full torce of the gale and. crowds turned out along the promenades to witness awe-inspiring sights as terrific seas crashed against breakwaters and sent huge spouts of spray fifty and sixty feet into the air.
Torrific waves brakking over the sea wall at Dover.
PREMIER
REBUKES
DE VALERA'S LITTLE BILL
FANTASTIC CLAIM ADVANCED
TARIFF WAR TO CONTINUE
London, Oct. 17.
A statement on the Anglo- Irish negotiations, on which it! was found impossible to reach jan agreement, will be given by the Dominions Secretary, Mr.
GERMANY H. Thomas, in the House of
DISAPPOINTED BY ATTITUDE
FOUR-POWER PARLEY OPPORTUNITY
London, Oct. 17. The keynote of British policy is not rearmament but disarma-
¡Commons when it meets to-1
morrow.
The fact that the conversations lasted so long was due to the nature of the Irish Free-State claim, the presentation of which,Į
it is stated, occupied many hours.
The actual amount in disputej
is about $5,000,000 annually, but,
according to Dublin newspapers, the Irish courter-claim amounted to some hundreds of millions of pounds, which oven the Irish newspapers describe as fantastic. PAST CENTURIES.
It is stated that this sum in-
ment, declared the Prime Minis- cluded claims representing alleged ter to-day.
last July.
Frau Clara Zetkin.
REICHSTAG SPEAKER
AGED RIVALS FOR THE POST
(Our Own Correspondent).
London, Oct. 17.
over-taxation and extortionate Mr. Ramany MacDonald
was payments in past centuries. speaking at a luncheon In his So far as the British Govern- honour given by the Nationalment is concerned, the position It is learned from Berlin that An Italian steamer of five thousand tons was aban-hour Committee in London, at remains where it was at the end there will be two aged competi- doned off the Norfolk coast, though the North Sea re- which practically every Cabinet of the Downing Street conference tors for the Speaker's Chair
Minister was present ceived only the tail-end of the great storm.
when the Reichstag reassembles. It declared the British National The duties on Irlah imports into They will be General Litzman, Government stood by the League this country will remain, in orderaged eighty-two, who owes his of Nations and by its Covenant. to make good the deficiency caused!!
wanted disarmament to solve by the non-payment of the Land allegiance to the Nazi Party, and
Fran Clara Zetkin, the problem of establishing world Annuities by the Free-State Gov-seventy-five and who is popularly Face and not merely to add to the ernment.-British Wireless.
.ormal moral coinage of the world.
The British steamer Braedale went down off the Needles, but the crew succeeded in making port after a ten hours' battle with angry seas in an open boat.
FOUR DROWNED AT LOWESTOFT
TWO STEAM-DRIFTERS COLLIDE.
The House of Commons will at ance begin cm:ideration of thei legislation arising ou! Gi thes Ottawa Agreements, on which an! important silitement by Mr. The only tragedy of the storm Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor, yet reported occurred at Lowestoft of the Exchequer, will bo made where a steam-drifter, practically
early in the alternoon.
out of control in
MID-ATLANTIC RESCUE
TIMELY ARRIVAL OF STEAMER.
vcasci named
the
Lessor;
"I am not sure," he said, "that we have not perhaps played the part of the peace. maker a little too long, but I would rather be blamed for that than for precipitating a situation which would make agreement impossible,
BRITISH BOXING
"HOPE"
The first disaster of the gale og
-KNOCKS OUT JACK curred approximately seven hund
· PETTIFER "The keynote of our policy in red miles off the Irish coast, in the Atlantic.
ot rearmament but disarmament.
London, Oct. 17 the rough The ship involved was a sailing terraany knows perfectly well and At the Crystal Palace to-night. It is understood that three weather, crashed into another
ajas known for some time that Jack Doyle, the British heavy- financial resolutions will bedrifter of the fleet.
The second vessel was badly schooner of about 900 tons, carry-reat Britain docs not oppose her waight "hope" knocked out Jack necessary before the Ottawn Con- ference Bill can be produced. holed and sank almost immediate-ing olleers and crew to the number claim to be regarded as an equal Pettifer in.the second round of a
These resolutions will deal, ly with a loss of four lives. Six of forty-two. She appears to have at the Disarmament Conference. ten rounds contest.
GAINS DEFEATED. THE GERMAN CASE. firstly, with the specific duties other members of the crew who been overtaken by the gale on Fri-
In Paris, a shock for experts which the Government have were on the deck of the ill-fated day, received a terrifle buffeting.
"She also knows that we are was provided when the German agreed to invite Parliament to im-craft managed to keep afloat until sprang a lenk and began to sink. pose; secondly, the extension to a rescued by the heroic efforts, assisted in keeping her afinat until opportunity to bring her and her defeated Larry Gains, the British All hands working at the pumps very anxious to make use of this boxer, Walter Neusel, surprisingly wider range of imported foreign under extreme difficulties, of the
when yesterday
the British neighbours articles of the ten per cent. ad crew of the vessel which collided
Everything points, over ten rounds.-Renter. valorem duly imposed under the with her,
British waters found the schooner points to the necessity for socur already waterlogged and sinking. ing a general agreement on German cage and therefore must know the whole of it.
Import Duties Act; and thirdly, There was no chance for the the imposition of certain ad-men who were drowned. They ditional duties in conexion with were in the engine-room at the the entisfaction of the Ottawa | time and were unable to get up undertaking.
before the drifter unnk.
The debate on these resolutions
ITALIAN DISASTER.
the
steamer, Red Sea, coming into the greater confidence.
into relations of Empire heavyweight champion, on
DRIFTED FOR MILES.
the tve
said his own Influenco and advlee would be on the side of maintain-
and sound.
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the
wha
is
known as "The Red Mother of the Reichstag." She is a member of
extreme most
Communist group In Germany, being the successor of Rosa Luxemburg.
General Litzman fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and during the Great War commanded
TRIPLE POISONING
AMAZING SOUTH AFRICA MURDER TRIAL
TWO HUSBANDS AND SON
Johannesburg, Oct. 17. One of the most sensational 'murder trials of
recent years opened to-day at Johannesburg, when Mrs. Daisy Louise Demel- ker appeared in the dock accused of three separate poisoning mur- ders.
Mrs. Demelker, who was former- ly a nurse, is now the wife of the Rugby football player, Demelker, who was a member of the Spring- bok team which visited England in 1906.
She is charged with murdering ker two previous husbands and her twenty-year-old son.
Her Arst husband, William Alfred Cowie, died suddenly, an did Robert Sproat, her second husband, and Rhodes Ceell Sproat her son.
PROSECUTION CHARGES.. The prosecution alleges that the erlmes were carried out through an insane craving for money. It in alleged that she poisoned her husbands with strychnine after they had made wills in her favour, and her son with arsenic for the sake of £100 which she was able to claim from an insurance com- pany
The case is expected to last for sunto-days-Beater.
INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS
the Third Infantry Division under BRITISH SUCCESS IN
Field Marshal Hindenburg. He took a prominent part in breaking through the Russian lines early in 1914 in East Prussia..
BARCLAY'S GOAL
ENGLAND DEFEATS
IRELAND
UNINSPIRING GAME AT BLACKPOOL
In the
SHANGHAI
DECISION ON FINAL EVENT
Shanghal, Oct. 17. Britain won the International athletic aports held in Shanghai during the week-end, the
national placings being as lows:
Great Britain
China
U.S.A.
Russia
final
fol-
83 points
81
31
23
13
ה
Japan
As anticipated after the result of the heats on Saturday, the British tonm did extremely well tho in the track events.. With exception of the 400 metres hurd- trants, all the track events were less, in which they had no won by Britain.
The honours were divided be tween the athletes of H.BL.S. Hermes and the team from the East Lancashire Regiment.
who
en-
She was then approximately the preparation of that agreementing an All-Party national effort even hundred miles off the weat Germany ought to see that she until the country was able to bear a return to the old scrambling coast of Ireland having drifted has to be present and exchange conditions of politics. is likely to last for three days, in
helpless a distance of two or three views with us all."
London, Oct. 17. which the Prime Minister, Sir Twenty-nine members of
hundred miles, the crow of the
He justified the Government's Herbert Samuel. Mr. Stanley crew of the Monte Nevoso were doomed ship having practically "Italy and
international soccer we ourselves
economies policy and the un- Baldwin, Mr. J. H. Thomas, and brought into Gorleston after the abandoned hope of rescue when the
soon agreed on how the dead. Avoidable hardships that had been match at Blackpool, before 2 Mr. Walter Runciman will take lifeboat crew had been out. for
lock could be ended
And
incurred on Red Sea appeared.
grounds that the crowd of twenty thousand peo- sixty hours battling with the part-British Wireless.
economic foundation of the coun- plc, England to-day. defeated Her crew
France agreed, in the end, wero rescued, the elements. The master and three operation being carried out in small
try had thereby been kept intact Ireland by the only goal scored. to meet Germany, Italy' and fofficers refused to leave, but they bonta despite the still disturbed na-
ourselves.
Fine weather prevailed for the got away in a ship's boat as the ture of the waters, after which the
CHALLENGE OFFER. ocension, but the match was un- WHAT REASONS? | vessel was breaking up.
Lessor was set on fire to make cer-
Referring to the recent conver-inspiring with the exception of a An aeroplane sent out ari 5.0.8.tain that the derelict, a wooden "profoundly regret that Gersion operations, he said they har period of half-an-hour. signal from the Channel and ship, would not remain afloat drift many, while declaring her read-succeeded beyond the expectations
In the first thirty minutes of II.M.S. Broke went out in searching and thus become a danger to ness to attend such a conference, of the Chancellor of Exchequer's the game there were plenty of as a team combined splendidly. of hor, without discovering any navigation.
refuses to go to Geneva for rea- predecessora in omce. Parlia thrills at both ends, the spectators The closeness of tho result trace of a distressed machine. No
sons the substance of which it is ment would reassemble to-morrow being kept at high pitch of
may, however, be gunged from the aeroplane had, however, been re-
dimeult for me to detect. I hope specially for the business arising excitement by spirited forward fact that before the last event, ported missing.
her latest word is not her Inst. out of Ottawn, and afterwards the play on the part of both teama China was leading by 76 points The British Government is con-earliest opportunity would be and the excellent work of the to Britain's 73. This ovent was tinuing to pursue its purpose and given to political opponents if they rival half-back lines hopes to make a further announce wished to challenge any aspect of During th's period, England the 800 metres relay and the Bri- ment in a few days. Referring the Government policy-British were hard pressed, Ireland show tleh team easily by about 20 yards. to domestic affairs, the Premier Wireless,
ing up prominently in fast ex- Ichanges.
ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE
TO FOLLOW USUAL LINES
London, Oct. 17.
All Channel shipping was de H.M. the King has decided that layed. Many small craft got into and much minor the celebration of Armistice Day difficulties on November 11th shall follow the damage was caused along the sea- 1lnes adopted in previous years, coast. The bungalows at Win and the Home Secretary, on be chelsea received another visitation half of the Cabinet, la making the and more damage was done, necessary arrangements.
Several ships were in distress at Shortly before 11 a.m., wreaths one time but managed to get into will be deposited on the Cenotaph port unaided when the gals had by or on behalf of the King and subsided.
other members of the Royal Family. After the Two Minutes' Silence, a short survica will be con- ducted by the Bishop of London. British Wireless.
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NEW SECRETARY OF L.O.N.
CARGO JUNK FOUNDERS
ALL ON BOARD SAVED
A brief report of the foundering of a cargo junk loaded with sand has been received by the local authorities trom Acting Sub- inspector Stowart, officer in charge of the No. 2 Police Launch.
VILLAGE ELDERS AND NUDISTS
*
SWIFT CHANGE.
of
In the thirty-first minute the game, England broke through and Barclay (Sheffield United) crashed the ball, Into the net. From this point, the English for- wards dominated play and Ire
and were never again strikingly impressive.
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SHATIN PROTEST AGAINST PRACTICE OF CULT IN DISTRICT It was atated that the junk, No. T6772H, which was carrying a Opposition to the activities of them from indulging in other cargo of sand, ran on the rocks he Hongkong Nudist Society is exorcisos near Shatin.
England led 1-0 at half-time and and sank in a position to the south-reported from the gast of Chung Hue island. The tories, where responsible Chinese Society's activities have attracted lacked their first half sting, and
New Torr- The
the second half passed with the olders stato that the Score unchanged. The Irishmen meraent, it was stated, occurred are moving in an effort to sup- the attention of the villagers England, while showing delight some Limo last nigst,
prese the Society's activities. who make a practice of assembling ful footwork, appeared to ease-up.
Village elders in the Shatin during the week-ends, near the District are, it is reported. prepar- Nudist camp for the purpose of Restor ing a petition which they intend to watching the proceedings. Aubmit to the District Officer at
A thirteen-year-old boy, Wong It is further argued that the Chi-cheung, was yesterday bitten by Deputy Talpo requesting that the Govern- Society's activities are detridor belonging to Mr. F. Shuster, at 1982mont should prohibit members of mental to the morais
the Society
of the 58, Canton Road. The dog has since taking sun-baths, villagers, and, on this ground, been removed to Matauker for obser whilst undled, and also prevent should be suppressed.
vation.
All the occupants' of the craft are reported to have been saved.
June.
M. JOSEPH AVENOL Seen stealing tools from a motor car which was parked in Pottinger
APPOINTED Street outside the Motor Drivers' Association's premises yesterday,...a
London. Oct. 17. Chinese who appeared before Mr. At Genova to-day, the Tonema Wynne-Jones at the Contral Police Council appointed M. Joseph Court this morning was sentenced to Avenal as zuccessor to Sir Er'c one month's hard labour. The defon- Drummond, whoso arianation M. Avonol has been dant was seen to take the tools from from the Secretary Generalshin Secretary General since under the driver's seat.
of the League will take effect next British Wireless.
-Naval Wireless.
SIR JOHN SIMON'S
· SECRETARY
DIPLOMAT GETS APPOINTMENT
London, Oct. 17. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John
the Foreign Ofee, as his principal Simon, has appointed Mr. H. J. Seymour. C. M. G., Counsellor in Privato Secretary, in succession to Sir Walford Selby.
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Mr. Seymour, who was ɑdnested Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, has been in the Foreign Omice and diplomatic service_since 1908. He became Counsellor in 1929-British Werns