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No. 1
W# SAFAZÆKT. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933. §#яE
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DUNLOP Fort
In a class by itself
DUNLOP
FORT
ENGLAND WIN FOURTH TEST BY SIX WICKETS
MANCHURIA PERIL
SIR JOHN SIMON ON
BRITISH POLICY
WORLD OPINION
EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE CONCILIATION
London, Feb. 15.
LEG-THEORY BOWLING ISSUE AGAIN
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESOLUTION.
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Adelaide, Feb, 15. The South Australian. Cricket Association to-day passed solution, disapproving of bodyline bowling and appealing to club captains to prevent its use on the 'grounds that it threatens an un- necessary risk of injury and robs the game of the most Interesting stroke in play.
The resolution declared that nuch bowling would probably be classed in Australia as unfair play--Reuter, -
The concern which the grave sunmainRARIOUS PIONEER
situation in the Far East is caus-
ing..to every member of the
League of Nations was stressed by Sir John Simon, in a speech at Southampton to-night.
"Not only is this because of the seriousness and the extent of the conflict between two members of the League, but because the future be vitally of the League may effected by the outcome."
Here again, he said, British policy has been perfectly consist- ent throughout. We seek to act as good mem-
bers of the
BRUSSELS CRISIS
KING REFUSES RESIGNATION
CONSIDERS ISSUE
TRIVIAL
Brussels, Feb. 15.
MATCH AND
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'ASHES"
BOUNDARY HIT ENDS GAME
DREARY FINISH
Brisbane, Feb. 16.
In a dreary finish, Eng- land won the Fourth Test! and the "ashes” this morning by a margin of six wickets, the winning hit, a boundary, being scored shortly before lunch.
Although they required only fifty-three runs to win with eight wickets in hand. England adopted a policy of "Safety First" fusing to take any chances and enhancing the match's record for slowness. In 27 hours of cricket only 1,034 runs were scored.
Hammond and Leyland were the opening pair and, big hitters both, It was thought that the
Our picturs shows Japanese cavalry moring up in preparation for the attack on Jehol, which will begin at the latest on February 27.
TEST CRICKETER DEAD
match might be over quickly JACKSON SUFFERS
The wicket- was playing tricks, however, and the batsmen resort. The Cabinet have tendered theired to rather extensive caution. League and as Orm friends resignations to the King, follow-
The scores were: of both sides.ing the Government's defeat by 82 We have co-
votes to 72 on a Socialist motion
operated to censuring the Minister of the In-j
terior for cancelling the com- the utmost of our power to munat elections at Hastiere. bring about a
The King has, however, refused reconciliation, to accept the Cabinet's resigna- for that is the tion. first duty of
His Majesty declares that the the League in nation would be unable to com- such a case, prebend that the fate of the Gay- and the pro-ernment, whose self-imposed duty motion of was the improvement of the finan peace is not cial and economic situation, could only the greatest of British later depend upon the validity or other- ests, but is the very reason why wise of a village election. The League was formed.
Simon.
LEAGUE'S DUTY.
The Prime Minister, Count De Brocqueville, has asked for twenty-four kours in which to consider the posi tion,
The League, he emphasised, is not a super-State exercising over- riding physical compulsion over, its members, it is an international organisation which seeks to sub stitute co-operation for force and Reuter, conciliation for conflict.
And if conciliation for the mo-
URGENT TASK.
voted against the Government, are Meanwhile, the Liberais, who again prepared to co-operate.--
Įspect.
Australia:-340 and 175. England:-356 and 163 for
4.'
--Reuter.
RELAPSE
ENGAGED ONLY ON TUESDAY
Brisbane, Feb. 15. Archie Jackson, the Aus tralian Test cricketer, died! to-day following a long ill-
JEHOL WAR ness, the announcement com-
LOAN
ling as a great shock.
He had been seriously ill for some considerable time but n fow days ago it was indicated that
MR. SOONG'S MISSION he had made a decided turn for
TO PEKING
$10,000,000 ISSUE TO BE MADE
Peking, Feb. 16.
the batter and was expected to
recover.
Yesterday, marking a poignant romance, Jackson's engagement to Phyllis Jean Thomas was announ- | cer, Miss Thomas had been a constant companion at the sick-i
The youthful cricketer pussed
STRONG BATSMAN.
BRITISH MUNITIONS FOR FAR EAST
EXPORTS IN LAST TWO MONTHS
London, Feb. 15. The supply of arms and am- munition to China and Japan was the subject of questions by Air. Mander in the House of Commons to-day.
Replying
Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. said that during December.68,000. 18-millimetre ahells, 8,500 MA- chine-gun cartridges and forly machine-guns were exported to Japan, while twenty machine-guas were exported to China.
In January, four milllon rifte cartridges, were exported to China-Reitter.
STRESSERALITER SOME MATEIKJENTIKAVALINAUTONESTUSTINIAN CORALISERTTIPLE
MICHIGAN BANK CRISIS
FORD-COUZENS DISCORD
THAT G$7,000,000 DEPOSIT
Detroit, Feb. 15.
JUSTICE IN SHANGHAI
COURT AGREEMENT EXTENDED
CHINESE OFFICIAL
ASSURANCES
CONQUEST OF EVEREST
AIRMEN TO FLY TO INDIA
ATTEMPT AT END OF MARCH
(Special to "Talograp$";
(0, Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 129). Received, Fibruary 10. A. a.m.)
London, Feb. 16.
The attempt of the Marquis of Clydesdale to fly over Mount Everest will probably be made at
the end of March.
His Majesty the King hun sent
his best wishes for the success
of the Everest Aerial Expedition. stating that he will closely follow the progress of the enterprise.
Mr. Etherton, the organising secretary, who left London yester- day to complete the final arrange- the that ments, told Reuter Maharajah of Neyal had granted permission to fly over his territory and the attempt would be made about the end of March,
FLYING OUT.
(Special to "Telegraph")
fly Telegraph, Gezurisht, Telegraphia The machines to be. used for Steamges Ordinence, 1814, Riocrived, February the purpose have already been
10, 1.00 am)
London, Feb. 15. shipped to Karachi where they and teated.. An agreement regarding the will be assembled Shanghai District Court, provid will be carried in three smaller The remainder of the equipment ing for an extension of the exist-planes, in which Fellowes, ing arrangements for a period Marquis of Clydesdalo und of three years, has been reach- McIntyre are leaving England for led.
Indin to-morrow.
the
This announcement was made The fourth member of the Ex- in the House of Commons to-day pedition, Mr. Blacker, la proceed. by Sir John Simon, who explaining to Karachi to-morrow aboard ed that an exchange of notes oc-on Imperial Airways machine.— curred in Nanking on February | Reuter
8 (during Sir Miles Lampson's visit) providing for a renewal of the District Court Agreement."
CHINESE PROMISE.
The Chinese Government, he added, subsequently gave an surance that they contemplate measures for checking the undue
NAVAL DISCIPLINE FOR BERLIN!
delay in civil proceedings, with NEW POLICE. CHIEF'S special reference to such matters
18 appeal and the execution of judgments
nese
Government
HOPES
Berlin, Feb. 16.
Von Velaum is the new Governor succeeding the "Red
ment fails, the League has the tions and which at once brought | Mr. T. V. Soong's conferences bed. duty of making a report and re- about a marked improvement in with Marshal Chang Hauch-liang commendations with firmness and the prospects of more peaceful co- and other North China military away after a sudden relapse. He fairness in order that the influence operation.
leaders regarding defence of was only twenty-three years of Efforts to find a solution of
The agreement is extended for Michigan's financial crisis have three years and will continue Nationalist successors have been of world opinion may make its It is most important that we Jehol have produced satisfactory [age.
three Provincial appointed to full contribution to a -solution (should not now disturb that pro-results.
met with no success.
thereafter until denounced by Governorships, while Afteen Police and settlement.
either party at six months' notice. Presidents have been similarly re- A disagreement between Mr. The Lausanne agreement still The military officers' chief con-)
He had four years' experience
The British Government will placed. Their predecessors are Henry Ford and Senator James awalts final ratification and we cern was the provision of the neces-
and of Test cricket. In 1928-29 at Couzens, of Detroit, who was once continue as far as is necessary, Sir John was making a general simply cannot afford to do any sary funds and ammunition, survey of international affairs thing which would render. ratifi- Mr. Soong suggests that the need Adelaide he hit up 164 against the a member of the Ford free, figure to bring to the notice of the Chitove placed on the retired lat
defects of Hanover, any English team and in 1930 at the ed in the breakdown of negotia- and referring to Disarmament, leation impossible. If the repara-be met by an issue of war bonds. he regretted that the Geneva Con-tions question were to be reopen- The amount of bonds to be issued Oval he shared with Don Brad- tions for a Reconstruction Finance showing themselves in the admini-Bloodhound," Dr. Noske. ference had been unable to make led, confidence throughout the will be about $10,000,000 which will more rapid progress in its most world would be further under- be distributed among the Peking man the honour of setting up the Corporation loan sufficient to tide stration of justice in Shanghai,
Company's emergency. cult, but most essential and mined and the fall in prices and and Tientsin native banks and pro- Australian fourth wicket record over the Union Guardian. Trust therefor. Reutending remedies comes Police President of Berlin,
of 243. He was a strong, candi- Sedator Couzens is the chairman urgent task.
the economic distress of the worldminent merchants.
The Peking and Tientsin Garri-date for the present series, but of the Finance Reconstruction Britain, which had already accentuated." made great reductions before the
son Commander, General Yu Haleh-automatically disqualified himself Committee investigating the leans zung, and General Soong Chih- Conference began, Was doing
Sir John Simon made only a pass-yuan, leading commander, Shansi, by announcing his intention of made by the Finance Reconstruc everything in its power to pro-ing allusion to the Anglo-American were among person who writing on the matches for the tion Corporation. He insisted up- Ford's C$7,000,000 deposit moto an effective international debt, remarking that Sir Ronald ferred with Mr. T. V. Soong on Press-Reuter.
being Hated as collateral in the be application for the loan and
frozen" as security for the loan.
Ford, it is understood, agreed
agreement.
POLITICAL PROBLEM.
DEBT QUESTION.
Lindsay was in full possession of the Jehol nituation.
The marriage recently took place!
SINGAPORE BASE EXPENDITURE
ADMIRALTY'S SHARE
SMALL
↓ London, Feb. 15.
the views of the British Govern- The Finance Minister's statement ment and would soon have an op-advocating severance of diplomatic After mentioning the British portunity of again seeing the Pre-relations with Japan. If the latter programme of work now bofore aldent-elect. Mr. Roosevelt, embarkod on the invasion of Jehol the Conference he proceeded:-
Britain deeply appreciated Mr.has produced a profound impres- Complicated as the details of any Roosevelt's invitation for an early sion. This proposal has met with goneral Disarmament Convention exchange of views with him, not strong support from the Chinese are bound to be, the fundamental only on this subject, but on the newspapers in Peking
and Tien- dimculties are not technical but wider range of economic problems, tain.-Special, political. As long as neighbour-which in due course, would come ing States live in fear of one an-before the World Economie Con- other they will hesitate to disarm, ference and in the solution of in London of Mr. Edwin Sewell, for and excessive armaments are too which all on both sides of the merly of Lane, Crawford's and lies day, the First Lord of the Ad- often the measure of that fear.
The British, policy, therefore, British Wireless.
ocean were so vitally interested.— Gladys Heard, well-known locally as
|a tennis player. aims not only at giving the lend for the international adoption of practical methods of disarmament but seeks, by every monna in ita power, to establish a sense of con- ildonce and of mutual understand- ing between nations, upon which an affective measure of agreed. International disarmament must rost.
This is the real relation be- tween our work at Lausanne and
our work at Gonova.
LITTLE EUROPE FEDERATION
THREE NATIONS SIGN PACT OF COMPLETE UNISON
Geneva, Feb. 16.
¡vides that the three countries Ever since the peace trenties, A new European community johall act in unison on all political the question of reparations has federation, embracing a popula-questions.
The past niso prohibits the con-
In the buse of Commons to-
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THE GRAN CHACO CONFLICT
ARMS EMBARGO MOVEMENT
London, Feb. 15.
only provided other large deposi- Answering д Parliamentary
tore joined with him in that course.
question to-day Sir John Simon
Roar Admiral von Lovetzow be-
which he hopes to "govern as formerly governed the crew of a battleship."Reuter.
THE ARGENTINE MISSION
COMMITTEES NOW APPOINTED
London, Feb. 15.
The President of the Board of
It is learned that despite the said that on the initiative of the fact that the city has nine million British Government an exchange dollars in a local bank, Detroit is of views had taken place between Trade to-day received Dr. Julle Roca and other members of the technically unable to meet the the Governments of the United interest upon its obligations Kingdom and the United States, Argentine Mission who are re amounting to G$611,000-Reuter. France and Italy, with a view to maining in this country on the con
agreement between them to proclusion of their official visit in hibit, the export of arms and connexion with the trade negotin- munitions of war to Bolivia and tions between the two countries.
Statements of the Årgentine and prohibition of a more general
view character that might be arranged United Kingdom. points of
waro oxchanged, and committees through the League of Nations.
Efforts to bring about early ac-were set up for the purpose of tion by International agreement examining further various aspects were being cont aued, but had hot of the situation.-British Wireless, yet succeeded.
miralty, Sh' Bolton Evres-Monsel! STOP PRESS Paraguay, in anticipation of any
announced that the total expendi ture to date on the Singapore Base, excluding the floating dock, was £3,488,000,
To this sum, Malaya, Now Zea iland and Hongkong had contri-
buted £2,122,000, leaving a net ex-) penditure on the Navy Vote of $1,316,000-Reuter.
HOME FOOTBALL
been a monaco to European stab? Ition of some forty-alght millions, clusion of treaties by any member BARROW SUCCEED AT
lity and even to European peace.
The achievement at Lausanne comes into existence at Geneva-to-of the alliance with any other consists in this, that an agreeday when the Foreign Ministers States without the consent of all. The participants have discussed ment was reached between Ger of Rumania, Yugo-Slavin and re- many and her European creditors cho-Slovakia sign the past con- their common attitude towards which showed how they must ar-secrating their new alliance.
DARLINGTON
London, Feb. 15.
Miami, Feb. 16. President-Elect Roosevelt
question, he expressed the belief Replying to a supplementary
cstabllabed in regard to Bolivia
was fired on to-day, five that if an arrangement could be shots being fired. He escap
[ed unharmed.--Reuter.
Lator.
and Paraguay, it would extend.
British Wireless.
DELEGATE TO GENEVA.
Landon, Feb. 15,
LORD RUNCIMAN
NEW PEER TAKES HIS SEAT
London, Feb. 15. Lord Runciman, whose Poorago Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Se-was announced in the New Year A Honours List, took his seat in the Tha assallant fired into a party erotary for Air, to-day left Lon House of Lords to-day
father of the Mri Walesal
At Darlington, In the Northern at reception. Mr. Cermak, don for Geneva to attend the disarmament and have also resol Section of Kin Arbred letion: to- Mayor of Chicago, and a woman Disarmament Conference as thee to 80 years old sad is the
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