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NA MITAARE, MONDAY, JUNE 12,、 1933.
日十二月五
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All that is known about tyre making is embodied in
DUNLOP TYRES
SILVER STABILISATION ACCORD REVELATION
AIR DASH ΤΟ CABINET
MEETING
IMPORTANT WAR DEBT
DEVELOPMENT
SIR JOHN SIMON
RECALLED
London, June 11.
Sir John Simon, the Foreign Minister, who was taking a week- 'end holiday at Le Touquet and who was not due to return to England until to-morrow, Was urgently summoned this after- noon and travelled immediately by special plane.
Sir John was needed in London for a suddenly called meeting of the war debts committee of the Cabinet, at which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Neville Chamber- lain and Mr. Walter Runciman were prosent. -
The meeting lasted for well over an hour, and although, no inkling has been given of the reason for cir- the audden conference, the cumstances are held to denote de- velopments in the war debt dis- cussions with Washington,
Tentative Agreement Reached at Washington
H.M.S. Eagle, one of Britain's biggest aircraft-carriera, shown in the Harbour, with H.M.S. Hermes, which she is relieving on the China Station. The Hermes sailed for England this morning.
TO LOOM LARGE IN LONDON
DELEGATES POUR IN FOR
THE CONFERENCE
The World Economic Conference, most important international gathering since the Versailles Peace Con ference, will be opened in London, to-day by his Majesty the King.
Delegates from sixty-six nations have been pouring: into London during the week-end and the stage is now
CIVIL WAR PERIL Practically set.
IN IRELAND
FORMATION
OF
RED ARMY
GUN-RUNNING ON CORK COAST
SPLIT IN I.R.A.
London, June 12.
WASHINGTON CONFIRMS. A message from Washington seems to confirm the week-end re- ports that the British Cabinet has tentatively offered the United
A grave threat of civil war | States a token payment of £2,000,- | 000 on account of the June instal-in the Irish Free State is ment of the_war_debt._.
envisaged _by_the___Dublin
The Washington message says that President Roosevelt's assist correspondent of the London
ants and advisers are now study-Morning Post. ing the legality' of any part pay-
ment of war debts and, whether
It is stated that as a sequel to
the acceptance of a part payment the Roman Catholic hierarchy's would constitute tacit approval of denunciations the non-payment of the balance.
LAUSANNE INFLUENCE.
of Commun lam, there has been a split at the head- quarters of the Irish Republican The issue is also the subject of Army, some of the most prominent Comment in the American news-loaders of which have broken away
papers. The Baltimore Sun, for in the hope of being able to form instance, believed that any ten porn Red Army. cont. offer might create political
The Red Army will, it is stated, complications since it would seem act under the inspiration of the to be based upon the Lausanne newly-formed Irish Communist
Pact.
Party.
The London Morning Post de-
The situation has been greatly clared on Saturday that if the Bel- tish offer was refused, the Bri- complicated by extensive gun. tah Government would probably running on the South Const of make use of the right accorded by Congress to make the June pay- ment in silver, which would mean that the full instalment would be met at a cost of only £12,000,000 in- stand of $10,000,000.
Ireland.
MILITARY ACTIVITY,
It In reported that large goes of orms and ammunition
The Government would probably were landed along the 'coniat make use of the Indian Govern-
car-
of
WORLD FAIR AIR
TRAGEDY
TEN KILLED IN A CRASH
Chicago, June 12. Eight passengers,
all visitors to the World Fair at Chicago and two-pilots were killed yesterday when an amphibian plane crashed in flames in a high wind.-- Reuter...
:
T. V. SOONG AT. CHEQUERS
CORDIAL TALK WITH MR. MACDONALD
(Special to "Telegraph")
(By Talegraph, Copyright, Telegraphie Most Ordinance, 1495. Resrived June 18, 4.30 am).
London, June 11.
During his visit to Chequers to-day, Mr. T. V. Soong. China's Finance Minister, had a long and cordial conversation with Mr Ramsay MacDonald concerning Anglo-Chinese relations and conditions in the Far East.
Mr. Soong to-night dined with Lord Astor,-Reuter.'
AIR CRASH AT LISBON
The main tasks before the gathering, as fore- shadowed by the preliminary Washington conversa- tions, are a removal of trade barriers, exchange restric- tions, quota systems, and tariffs, agreements for a com- mon monetary policy, including more liberal credit and lower rates of interest on long-term investment, and CLOSE SHAVE the creation of a demand for credit by increased public expenditure.
EUROPEAN STATESMEN ARRIVE
PRESIDENT HAS A
• PLANE WRECKED TEN. YARDS AWAY
Lisbon, June 11. President Carmona had a
BROWN TERROR IN MUNICH
SMASH CATHOLIC
CONGRESS
POLICE FUTILE
STREET ATTACKS ON DELEGATES
Munich, June 11. Shocking scenes of vio lence were witnessed in Munich to-day when the Brown Terror swept down upon the Catholic Congress of Apprentices and Journey-
men.
The Congress was completely broken up by the violence of the
Nazis, and thousands of the de-
logates, including the Vice-Chan cellor of the Reich, Captain von
Papen, hastily left Munich.
It is alleged that the disorders were the result of the objection of " the Nazis to the wearing of uni- forms by the delegates.
DELEGATE KILLED. The Nazis attacked the delegates.
viciously in the streets and drag-
Londou, June 11.money issued varied. The Federal The officials of six Embassies Reserve Bank was required to keep very narrow escape from god others from their beds. were among the throngs which a gold reserve of forty per cent, of
awaited a single triin arriving at its Federal Reserve notes in actual death to-day when an aero- One delegate died after being Victoria -to-night, bringing, M. circulation. Gold corticates were plane crashed no more than cruelly beaten up outside the Daladier, theyrench Premier, to-backed dollar for dollar la ten yards away from where Cathedral, gother with the French delegation, but National" Bank notes: had in
the delegates from Italy, Czecho Slovakia (with Dr. Benes at its head), Roumania, Portugual and cr Yugo-Slavia..
•
The train's arrival wound up a
BRILLIANT day of almost continual arrival
FLIGHT
SEVILLE TO CUBA IN 36 HOURS
DISTANCE RECORD NOT BROKEN
of foreign delegates.
Turkey's chief delegate_is_ the Foreign Minister, Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Reuter.
SILVER RESERVES. American delegates to the World Economic Conference have revealed that President Roosevelt reached an informal accord with some of the foreign statesmen who recently Mr. Navilla Chamberlain and visited the White House with rea- Mr. Walter Runciman, upon pect to the use of silver in central whom the brunt of the work of bank reserves.
the British delegation will fall Havana, June 11. tain Barbaran and Lieutenant for discussion at the World Econo- Anal redemption. The redemption The two Spanish airmen, Cap-binding accord will be presented lawful money behind them for This informal and as yet un- the Treasury only fivo per cent. of Collar, who left Seville at 4.55 mic Conference and Senator Key a.m, yesterday in an attempt to Pittman said he hoped that one of fund, however, was maintained beat the British long-distance the results of the understanding, if constantly at the required level. flight record, failed in their ob- officially adopted, would be a world United States notes, of which ratio of silver to gold. The pre- about $265,000,000 were in cir |jective.
They were, however, responsible to fix a ratio..
sent understanding does not attempt culation, were backed by reserves
of $156,000,000. for a wonderful cast to west fight across the Atlantic.
They landed at Camogucy, in under its provisions, the United The delegates id not go into de- Cuba, four thousand miles from States would back its money issues tails of the effect of the proposed Seville after flying that huge ex-with 25 per cent. of gold and five plan on the monetary system of panse of the Atlantic in less than per cent. silver. Other nations the United States but it was in- thirty-six hours.
would adopt similar provisions with dicated that there would be fewer whatever slight variations would be kinds of money. [required,
ment's surplus silver for the pur-Cork County last week. The wore obilgod to battle against stiff
.poso.
STOP PRESS
Vionua, June 12.
is
They were flying a biplane, and were carrying petrol sufficient to inst them for 48 hours, but they behendwinds for the great part of the journey and in the circumstan- ces, their Atlantic flight was a brilliant performance.-Router.
origin of these supplies. loved to be Soviet Russia.
There is great. military activity at Cork and at Waterford.
Irish Free State'aeroplanes are patrolling the coast watching for gun-running vessels,—Reuter,
U.S. JOURNALIST KILLED
(
An attempt was made at mid-
CAR SKIDS: OVER EMBANKMENT
night to assassinato Dr. Rintelen,
the local governor of Styria, · an
Graz
Vienna, June 7,
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SWITZERLAND
Seven Electrocuted and; Two. Injured
Reuter.
The object of the understanding is to economise the use of gold, and, į:
BANKS AND MARKETS.
NOT ADOPTED.
he was standing.
Attempts by the police to Inter-
The Portuguese leader, together veno were futile against the or- with members of the Government Hanised Brown Shirts' onslaughts, and of the Diplomatic Corps, wore which were even directed against watching a stunt flying competi-Catholic priests, M tion at the time of the mishap.
The Nazis prevented the Arch-
One of the machines, carrying bishop of Munich from holding a out a series of daring loops close Mass for the delegates-Router to the ground, got out of control owing to the strength of the wind, which was blowing in heavy guste.
JEWISH COMPLAINT
UPHELD.
The machine suddenly nose-
Genova, June 6. dived and crashed ten days from
The complaint lodged by the President Carmona,
German Jew, Herr Bernheim, There was
a gonoral panic against the validity of the anti- Among the spectators, but Presti-Silesia has finally been settled, the Jewish edicts in German Upper dent Carmonn was quite calm and Council of the League of Nations only remarked: "Please God he is adopting the report of Mr. Lester
safel"
The pilot was severely injured. Italian representatives, abstained,
(Ireland). The German and
-Reuter,
Missionaries Die From Typhoid
STORY OF FINE HEROISM
from voting. The report points out that some of the edicts are in- compatible with the statutes re- gulating the international status of minorities and can, therefore, not be applied. The German Goy». ernment has voluntarlly admitted its responsibility for any damages In the case of injured persons and all resulting claims will be settled through local proceedings.
U.S. AND GERMAN JEWS.
Washington, June G. Although it has not lodged an official protest, the United Stator Governmout has informed the Gor-
The delegates did not go into de- President Roosevelt with the visit-
Shanghai, June 12. Mission circles in Shanghai, ing statesmen did not mean that have received news of two herolman Government of the "unrent" nations would under the plan that it was considered an accept P. C. Mather and Doctor E. Fisch- the anti-Jewish tactics of the The central banks of the various the plan had been adopted but British missionaries, the Rev. occasioned in the United States by mentioned above, be able to able basis for the discussions. stabilise the price of sliver.
bacher, of the China Inland 'Mix-
Nazis. Reuter.
There would still be a. varying)
MODIFIED GOLD BASIS.
alon, who died at Tihwa, in Sin- kiang province, from typhold. - market price for: silver but it would be kept within definite If the World Economic Confer 24 and Dr. Flachbacher died three Bale, June 6. Mr. Mather passed away on May limits by the oporations of the ence at London requests the opin days later after they had been en- allver banks. When silver prices fon of the Bank of International gaged in organising a hospital to are low, the banks will buy to keep Settlements regarding currency night the discano. the silver reserves at an actual stabilisation, the
....
five per cent, of their gold value in will recommend a system based on successfully passed through the Bank's Council The two missionarien had just relation to the nation's money a modified gold standard but not siege of Tihwa.-Reuter. Issues. When silver prices are too on the same standard that provali. high, the contral banks will selled until several leading nations
All operations will tend to prevent were forced to abandon it, authorlard unless its defects are re- A wide variation,
tative circles belleve,
.... This`arrangement would provide
mediod.
SHORT-SIGHTED
́ INDIVIDUALISM,
STATUE TO GERMAN SLAIN BY FRENCH
KAISER'S SON AT MEMORIAL
PTO SCHLAGETER
-Berlin, June 6.
An, address bratha Nazi, prince August Wilhelm was the feature {to-day of, - the latest memorial. celebrations in honour of Schlagen |ter, whom the Franch:
Borne, June 0. Seven persons wore electrocuted to-day in the Levantina valley, In the cantonment of. Ticino, while a great use of silver and would The Council last week doolded two others were seriously injured. result in a bottor prico, Senator not to submit a plan for currency They were lowering logs down Pittman said that it would stabilisation at the Conference but,
Mr. McGarragh upon his retire.sabotage during the ot the side of a hill by means of a probably bring about a silver price if the Conference leaders make the ment last month, said that the cup ex-Minister of Education, who was An American Journalist, Mr. cable when the latter came into that would make silver mining request, the Bank will send repro-short-sighted Individualism, which motoring from Bruckandermur to Hooper Trank, was instantly killed contact with a high tension line proatable. He was not sure, how. sentatives to London to discuss was applled to the star
Lover, that n ratio would be adopted, the matter. and his wife gravely injured when
amounted to "unregulated" har- A FAIR LEVEL.
It is asserted that the heads of chy my a car in which they wore touring the Dolomites, akidded on a moun-
the Bank of International Settle it was understood that the The plan is first to stabilise monts are convinced that thd fal- Bank's Caunell prepared a plait, or One person was killed and 47 silver and bring the price up to a lure of gold to meet the demands submission to the London, mesting A terrific explosing followed, but plunged down a fifty-foot em- Injured, some seriously, when a fair level," Senator Pittman sald: made upon rosulted from lack but later decided that ince many o the speed of the car carried it out bankment, Mr. Hooper Trask was motor-bus conveying the members I can one, the possiblity of an of regulation. Theyyar oldsto of Kenture would be offered in won of danger.-Router.
Berlin representaties of the Co- of a Nationalist youth organica agreement on a world ratio but agroe ondfely with the at Tement other programmes, the plan would lumbin Broadcasting Corporation tion fell into a ravine while cross-that is not assured veteran BIME OR TANGENTE N. Who has not be offered on a rounded, plan, impr as well as of various-American ing a bridge near Ohlau, Silesia. Bofors the United States, want just arst fromstkem prísidency 1o÷Bank's zoicials,"" therefore; Stőrm- theatrical periodicals. Trans The cause of the bodident is not of the gold standard, the backing “the B*
d'ond call come will:78 to London is invited; and before Océan Kyo Mín..
yot known on
of the various kinds309
“sland- discuss the monetary proposala)), 65,
The
o car ran over a plank covering tube filled with dynamite.
tain road near Vigo de Fassa and
Berlin, Jube 7-
king at Schlagster's native abejantiefm-Winsdatal, the
digiJust as the spot.
ter gasped out his me monument to the
Ted his home town. place of pilgrimage onally-minded men and
omonlas closed with an (va parade of |about|10,000)
pers und Bisel: Halmeter