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LONDON RIOT STREET FIGHTING TECHNIQUE
Home Secretary Alleges Work of Communist International
SHANGHAI AIR BATTLE
RADIO STATION
CHAOS
STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY
(Special to "Telegraph".)
Shanghai, Oct. 20. The French authorities have taken the first step in an attempt to straighten out the radio tangle in Shanghai.
It is revealed that there are now Forty distinct wireless stations In Shanghal broadcasting daily, lead- ing to a state of "chaos in the air," round Shanghai.
The authorities of the French Concession have now issue rules and regulations governing broad- casting in the French Concession, but this will make very little dif- ference unless the Shanghai Muni- cipal Council is prepared to follow
uit.
DELIBERATE INTERFERENCE.
The majority of the forty stu tions functioning in Shanghai exist in the International Settle- mezt, where, at the present time, anyone can orect a brondcasting station.
Unrest among the unemployed, particularly over the Moans, Test. line again given rise to serious disturbances, this Ume in the heart of London. Our photos show (right) a crowd of unemployed collecting and (left) a woman agitatar taken into custody.
HONGKONG
AIR MAIL
LONDON SERVICE
POSSIBLE
LINK WITH ROUTE
TO AUSTRALIA
London, Oct. 19. Hongkong may have its direct air link with thei Shanghai Imperial Airways Croydon- Timea not only do these stations
porate during the same hours. India service in the course but they use the same wave-length of next year.
According
the tu
in many cases, leading to chaus
in the programmes and constant
The Hongkong service will be an
interruptions, while rival stations offshoot of an England-Australia'
1 servico. have frequently heen known to tune-in on another's wave-length |
Colonel Shelmerdine, the Director
re-
in order to cause embarrassment. of Civil Aviation, made these --Router.
velations to-day, In the course of a statement regarding the proposed Pair route' between London und Aus-
EUSTON MAILBAG tralia via Karachi and Singapore,
ROBBERY
DARING COUP BY
CAR-BANDITS
VIA RANGOON.
He stated that it was hoped to inaugurate the service in 1938, and added that negotiations were al rendy in hand for extending the Indian route from Karachi to Singapore.
· London, Oct. 20. It was hoped that the section Motor bandits accomplished one from Singapore to Australia would of the most daring mall-bag robbe undertaken by Australian berics of recent years at Eustan Station last night.
in- terests. He then mentioned the possibility of linking Hongkong and The outrage was committed in Rangoon via French Indo-China full view of the station throng. with the main route from England
The bandita, who were awaiting to Australia.--Reuter, the mall's arrival, felled the post-
man and solzed the registered
mail bag intended for despatch by DEMELKER TRIAL
the Irish mail train.
One bandit tripped up the post-i man by dropping a suitcase al his feet. Another then threw a black cloth over his head, while
knocked a third
him senseless will a blunt weapon.
All escaped in a wailing moter- van within a few minutes.
DRAMA
WOMAN'S STORY OF BEDSIDE SCENE
Johannesburg. Oct. 19.
Dramatic evidence was given to-
Flying Squad cars patrolling the area were given a wireless de- scription of the van, for which day during the trial of Mrs. Daisy they are accuring the district Louise Demelker for murder.
Reuter.
IDEAL MARRIAGE nine, and her twenty-year-old son,
'GONE PHUT -
ADOLPHE MENJOU
SEPARATED
(Our Own Correspondent).
London, Oct. 20.
It is announced that the famous
nim star. Adolphe Monjou, has
amicably separated from his wife,
Kathryn Carver.
DEEZNUANDONEDORAANILINSKA ENESTE FRANARE SAHARIES AN
WORLD ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE
Oitawa, Del. El.. The date of the world economic renference in London will be decited in November, according to Canadian Government advices, The opinion is expressed that It is likely to he early in January. but this depends on the result of the British Government'a negotia. tions with other governments.
Correspondener indicates that une cause of uncertainty regard. ing the date is the question of United States representation, but it is believed that if there le any cbonge of government in the United States, an arrangement Can be minde Between The President and the President-Elect in regard to the composition of the United Statesi delegation.— Reuter.
London, Oct. 19, The world economic conferente will open early in the new year. The organising committee meets. at Geneva mi November 14-- British Wirelene,
BIZKAITARIMOV NATAKA KATRACCIALE:JOŠIRER AYYAT (14344, 35, SELATANG
RELEASE IN TWO DAYS
PAWLEY.CORKRAN- OUTLOOK Shanghai, Oct. 20.
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It is learned to-day that there are prospects of the release within two days of Mr. Charles Corkran and Mrs. Muriel Pawley, who have been in the hands of
bandits since September 7th,
WILD SCENES DISORDER
OF
THIRTY-SEVEN POLICE OFFICERS INJURED
ATTEMPT TO FORCE
A CORDON
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
LONDON, OCT. 19.
WILD SCENES OF DISORDER OCCURRED IN
WESTMINSTER LAST NIGHT WHEN POWERFUL BODIES OF UNEMPLOYED CLASH ED WITH POLICE AFTER ATEMPTING TO FORCE A CORDON.
Lights were extinguished, tramcars attacked and The police ́the police subjected to a hail of missles.
charged with batons and as they ran were met with a fusillade of stones, bottles and pieces of iron, and a general melee ensued. Police found themselves for some time involved in a sort of guerilla warfare, and numbers of thermeceived severe injuries.
Meanwhile à call had been sent for further rein- forcements and numbers of the rioters were taken into custody. They appeared in various London police- courts this morning. Thirty of them charged with various offences connected with the rioting and window smashing, escaped with fines and a warning, Several others were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.
It is stated in evidence that from the moment of the original outbreak, the rioters set up war cries of "Up the Reds! Use your heavy weapons and missiles." The unemployed demonstration was staged as a protest against the Means Test and the object of the
Trebiste Lincoln, otherwise Chao Kung, who has been expelled from Delgium.
BRITAIN IN ROLE OF SHYLOCK
MR. DE VALERA'S STORY TO THE DAIL
SIMPLE JUSTICE
IRISH CLAIM ADVANCEI QUITE SERIOUSLY!··
Dublin, Oct. 19.
"I have come to the conclusio that the present British Govori mont, pressed forward by certai anti-Irish feeling in Britain an supported by the attitude of
TREBITSCH minority in the Free State, is no
LINCOLN
prepared to examine the positio on its merits or yield to claim of simple justice,"
Thus Mr. Eamonn de Valer President of the Froo Sta
EXPELLED FROM Council, in the course of a stat
BELGIUM
(Our Own Correspondent).
London, Oct. 20. The Belgian police have served an expulsion order upon the "notorious" Trobitach Lincoln, who after being in China, recently returned to Germany in the garb of a Buddhist monk.
He is known as Chao Kung In
Chinese Buddhist circles.
He reached Belgium from Ger
many on Tuesday and was placed under arrest in Brussels yesterday. Lincoln intended to go to France It is understood that Trebitsch
later.
Being expelled from Belgium and learning that he would not be
ment on the abortive Lond nogotiations before a crowd Dall this evening,
"It is possible," he said, "thi had we gone to them in the ro jof beggars, hate in hand, aski there might have been a dispo for considedation and charli tion to make minor modificatio and some mitigation of our clai but simple justice they were prepared to concede."
SECRET DOCUMENTS:
Ho said that as the negotiotle were entered upon to 800 1 was possible to arrive at a co
bors of the Irish Free States logation submitted claims should be submitted when "oy there was a question of wh might be called an ultimate fini clal settloment between the t
Mr. de Valera stated that S British Government, howev took their stand on
the violability of the "secret" do ments of 1923 and 1926 and 27 fused to budge from that positii
prehensive settlement, the
allowed to stay in France, ho has countries. airendy left for Germany.--Reuter,
march was the County Hall, Westminster, the head- ATTACK ON
quarters of the L.C.C. A spirit of destructiveness ran through the crowd after the first clash with the police and numerous shops had their windows smashed and at- tempts were made to loot shop premises. In most cases, police charges cleared the streets before the would-be looters got seriously to work.
and for whose safety much THOUSANDS CONVERGING ON LONDON
concern has been felt,
London, Oct. 19.
HOOVER FINANCING
"WILD ESTIMATES" BY TREASURY
ANOTHER COLOSSAL
DEFICIT
Pittsburgh, Oct. 20.
The North China Daily News
† restraint, despite great provoca- į saya the captives may be expected i
Sir Jolu Glimour, the newly- tion. to be freed within forty-eight
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, after? hours, upon the following terms: appointed Home Secretary, reply-1
A further colossal deficit on 1 Payment of a ransom of Yening to Mr. George Lansbury, in-Sir John Gilmour's statement,
formed the House of Commons to acceded to Mr. Lansbury's request the Budget amounting to 130,000; 2 Supply of 150 cattles of night that the grave unemployed for a debate on the adjournment least G$1,600,000,000 was fore-
disturbances in London last night of the House. oplum;
3 Supply of winter uniforms were organised by the National for the bandits, who are Unemployed Workers movement,
a well-known Communist organisa-| suffering from the cold;
at
shadowed by Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic can- didate for the Presidency, in a
MR. LANSBURY'S PLEA. When the discussion was resuni-speech here to-day. ed later in the evening, Mr.
Mr. Roosevelt launched a fierce
It is alleged by the proaccution that she poisoned her two previous phusbands, William Alfred Cowle
and Robert Spront, with, strych- 4 Guarantee of full security for tion.
the bandits from punlah- The demonstrators number over George Lansbury made an im-attack on the financial policy of Rhodes Cecil Sproat with argente.
ment and their Incorporation ten thousand. The polica succeed-passtoned speech dealing with the the Hoover Administration and Mrs. Stricker, giving evidence,
Into the Manchukuo Police ed in diverting the processions circumstances of the unemployed the "wild estimates" of the United said that while Mrs. Demelker's
before they reached the County in Britain. The North China Daily Neos Hall, Westminster, but one second husband was dying, the accused drew up a will in her own understands it was the the unemployed contingents tried favour and insisted upon her hus- fourth demand which "has been to force a police cordon. band signing it while she support- sticking in the throats of the off- ed him in bed.-Reuter,
icial negotiators."-Reuter.
Force.
that
STERLING SLUMP MYSTERY
They were married in 1928 when NO SUPPORT BY BANK OF ENGLAND: Adolphe declared that he made an Ideal marriage and that he would take pains to see that they lived happy ever after.
WEST INDIES UNION
DEMANDS ON TREASURY
Paris, Oct. 19.
"CONSIDERABLE DISORDER."
of
From this stage, there was con- sidorable disorder.
The situation was completely out of hand temporarily. Stones,
"Thousands of “unemploy- ed," he said, "are converging upon London. Welcome them with the promise that the damable Means Test will be revoked and that every man will be given a chance of a decent existence"
States Treasury.
He declared that if the present rate of Governmental receipts and expenditure were maintained to the ond of the present fiscal year, the defielt must be upwards of $1,600,000,000,
*
GOVERNMENT BORROWING. Governmertal borrowing had,
Mr. Lansbury urged that all he declared been necessitated by bricks, iron railings were thrown the recent unemployed distur-the heavy deficits on the budget at the police who were compelled bancos in the British Isles ware in the last two years and this to make numerous arrests.
grievance.
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BRITISH "FACES".
While the British Govern, ment was playing the part of Shylock to the Irish Free State und that of Lady Bountiful to the Continent, they were petitioning the United States for release from debts morally and legally due The whole world recognis that if there was to be a restor tion of the economic life of t world, the huge inter-governme debts must conse.
"We are not prepared to bi our people to a burden Impor upon them in the past.
"We believe that the Briti demande are neither legally r morally due and we are prepar Įto defend our rights.”
TARIFF WAR TO GO ON. The tariff war, which is bou to go on will impose considoral hardships upon residents of Irish Free State, he admitted, he belloved that as a result.int long run they would be relley from the position of dangerd Brit dopendence upon, the markets.
Replying to questions, Mr. Valera said that the claims of Irish Free State dolegates advanced just as soriously- those of Britain that the State should boar a portion of debt.
BOUND BY PLEDGES. He said he did not raing question of a United Irish public as a revelant Issue In negotiations.”
The Free Stato Govern one of Staten of the British ComOM wealth and was bound by plet precluding secession without express mandate from the elec ate, he declared.
Sir John Gilmour added that due to dissatisfaction with pro- borrowing had been absorbing visions for livelihood. The Means credit which rightly belonged to the disorder was clearly pre Test was the source of grent industry. meditated na many of the ΠΟΥ
"Our banks," he added, "are arrested were found to have
financing these stupendous de- tion of intervention by the Bank stones and pieces of iron in their STREET WAR TECHNIQUE.
fcits, which is a burden absorbing of England, but it is thought that pockets. The continued slump in the extent of the fall and its
Roplying, Sir John Gilmour at their resources, Over forty of the men arrested
Mr. Roosevelt attributed the sterling is exercising minds rapidity has exceeded the Bank's were to be charged with wilful tributed the riots mainly to Com
anticipations. in financial circles.
It is impossible to prophecy the damage and larceny (arising from munist organisere, who them industrial slump in the United assumed office as
mistaken tarif the brunt of the economic battle, Government's
policios.--Reuter, The impossibility of controlling futuro movements of sterling, but the looting) and with asaaulting elves, he said, woro not bearing States to the U.S. Republican
He then showed how the ILLNESS OF ONE OF currency which is off the gold there is confidence that it will the polleo..
POLICE RESTRAINT.
technique of street Bghting, THE COMMISSIONERS standard over a long period is again strengthen after the double
hanging nottlement
over the the moral drawn by Le Temps Treasury in December, namely,
demonstrators and Several
reports The Royal Observatory Com- London, Oct. 19.
that the anticyclone remains over the from the declino, which has,
Lower Yangtso Valley. Moderato Owing to illness, Sir Sydney nevertheless, mystified financial the repayment of the foreign many police were Injured, the holders of the War Loan, on De numbers being uncertain for the
monsoon will prevail along the China Armitage Smith will be unable to circles in Paris.
I comber 1 and the war debt pay-moment.
Coast and over the Northern China Ball with the Commission on closer
He was, however, convinced that The downward trand is general- ment of G$95,500,000 to America
Ses. Local forecast:-N.E. winds, union on the West Indies, which
the police behaved with admirable
fresh, fair. Teaves England on 9th November. ly believed to be due to a cessa on Decomber 18 Router.
:.
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as advocated by the munist International, balne considerably developed In England.
THE wirea were
being
(Continued on Page 7)
The debate then closed,
The quarantine restelations ed by Hongkong against arrival. Tiantain' on 'weezunt of skolen been removed.
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