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INTENSE ARCTIC COLD GRIPS UNITED STATES
INDIAN'S ATTACK ON
CAPE RECORD
Final Trials of Croydon
London, Dec. 27. An Indian airman, Mr. Man. Mohan Singh, who is chlof pilot to the Maharaja of Patiala, is awaiting favourable weather to start on an attempt to beat Mrs. Mollison's record in a flight to Cape Town,
His machine which has a range of about 1,200 miles and a cruising speed of 125 miles hourly Is at Croydon undergoing final adjust- ments-British Wireless.
ASIA PEACE AND HARMONY ARMY
CHARHAR REVOLT
INSPIRED?
MASSACRES AT CHIHCHENG
Poking, Dec. 28. An official communique states: that Liu Kwei-tang, the former bandit lender, who figured in the troubles in Charhar earlier in the year on the side of
Thirty-Eight Degrees Below Zero in Minnesota
CARS FROZEN TO
GROUND
BLIZZARD RAGES IN NEW YORK DISTRICT
COLDEST WEATHER FOR TWENTY YEARS
New York, Dec. 28.
With practically the whole of the United States shivering in the coldest weather experi- enced generally for twenty years, remarkable scones witnessing to the intensity of the cold. are providing thrills and spills.
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Where the roads are not feet deep in snow they are frozen oyer and like glass, being prac- tically unnegotiable.
Many motorists who attempted to defy the wintry conditions and thought to battle their way through a blizzard which struck the New York district last night were compelled to abandon their cars. after sliding about the roads, a danger to themselves and other traffic.
This morning, when they visited their. deserted cars to make a fresh venture, they found them at the kerbsides immovably frozen to the ground!
When it's cold in the United States, it is 'cold. Photo shows two
vehicles froxen solidly to the ground.
LAGNY DISASTER AGITATION
END OF WOODEN COACHES
לן
GOVERNMENT'S ASSURANCE
Paris, Dec. 27. Public opinzug has been profoundly stirred by the magnitude of the Lagny ex- press disaster, the death-roll in which has now mounted to 203.
Heavy falls of snow have,ing recorded there.
It is nine degrees below
A demand is now being made for} General Feng Yu-hsiang, has occurred all over the country been given a post by "a certain and intensely cold conditions zero in the heart of Chicago. immediate steps to prevent a re- Over thirty thousand New petition of such a catastrophe, power, as commander of the prevail everywhere. The
Eastern Asia Peace and Har-thermometer in Minnesota, Yorkers were engaged_to-among the measures_of_safety mony Army,"
for instance, is registered day in the task of snow-urged being the substitution of The communique nuds that Liu thirty-eight degrees below shovelling in the city streets. steel coaches for wooden carriages, massacred many people during the
zero, and Wisconsin is In the country, roads are There is not the slightest doubtį footing of Chihcheng.
any better off, practically impassable owing that the terrible toll of life was At present it is not certain Scarcely whether his forces are moving thirty-one degrees below be-to the snowdrifts.--Reuter largely due to the fact that the
south-west with the intention of entering the domilitarized zone, with the object of reaching the Luantung area, or whether they are breaking in a westerly diree- tion for the purpose of gaining a footing on the border of Hopei.
SUCCESSOR TO COL. WATSON
COL. J. H. MORRIS DUE SOON
MOVING SWIFTY.
Unofficial reports slate that Liu: Kwei-tung has already crossed the
Col. J. H. Morris, D.S.O., O.B.E.. railway at Hunilai which, if true, indicates that he is moving swift-who has been appointed Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport ly. Further news of his move. ments is being awalted with deep to the Chinn Command in place of the late Col. A. . Kinaird interest, In view of the present Watson, is expected to arrive here situation in Charhar.--Reuter
on January 11th aboard the s.. Ranpura,
Col. Morris joined the regulara
EXCHANGE SURTAX TO from the Militia and from 1903 an
·BE SUPPRESSED
AIR SERVICE TO EAST
the
ANGLO-CHINESE PARLEY
express tore its way through six wooden coaches. Steel conches would have resisted the shock and minimised the disaster,
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION.
THE SILVER PUZZLE
LEIPZIG TRIAL
VERDICT
GENERAL GERMAN
APPROVAL
CANADA TO RATIFY
INCREASED PRODUCTION FEARED IN LONDON
BERNARD SHAW WITH PRICE RISE
on
MOCKS
London's favourable comment
HOPE SCOUTED
the Reichstag fire trial
Ottawa, Dec. 27. verdict echoes the feeling in; President Roosevelt's silver Germany where general ap-policy and the expectation that: proval has been given, apart the Canadian Parliament, in the from the Nazi organ Korres- coming session, will also ratify pondens, which says that if the the London Silver Agreement, verdict had been pronounced in is likely to lead to renewed acti accordance with the modern na-vity in the Canadian silver mines. itsmannational sense of justice, It would There has been a considerable have been very different from Blackening off in the last your or FOR this plain miscarriage of justice, two, as shown by the fact that the An official rebuff was adminis-output has dropped from twenty- six million ounces in 1930 to tered to a party of three British and one Czecho-Slovák, who
eighteen million ounces last year. The fall has been dus entirely to rived in Leipzig to secure лn armed guard and to accompany
the low price prevailing and any the three nequitted Bulgarians to suggestion of a rise is likely to t followed by a speeding-up of the frontier.
production.
GOETHE MEDAL
BRITON
President Hindenburg's
Award
London, Dec. 27,
A Berlin report states that President Von Hinden- burg has Dwarded the Goethe Medal to Mr. Camp- bell Dodgson, for twenty years Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the, British Museum, in recognition of his research in connexion. with the engravings of Albrecht Durer. - British Wireless,
The
ar-
party included Ivor | Montague, the brother of Lord
Swaything.
An Important new silver-mining camp is now rising on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake.
LONDON, FEARS.
The Leipzig police told the party that the matter was in the hand of the Minister of the Interior and that their presence London financiera fear that was unnecessary. They were also assured that the Bulgarians would be safe.
SERENE IMPARTIALITY,
President Roosevelt's policy will lend to over-production of silver unless other action is taken, possibly bimetallism, for which the American silver States are
The Leipzig Judgment is form- pressing, or the restoration of ing the topic of lengthy editorial silver coinage by European coun comments in the German preReuter.
tries to its pre-war finenast.--- Enviuçatın | which appear to be unanimous
EUROPEAN MYSTERY
fon one point, namely, that the (The logic of comments on the verdict affords irrefutable proof effects of the Roosevelt policy is of the German Supreme Court's difficult to follow. On the jono serene impartiality.
hand, it is considered unlikely According to. London dis- that a rise in world price will patches, George Bernard Shaw result; yet there is a fear of over-
marize the reaction of the British nation with the declaration, "No
DIPLOMACYzed the opportunity to sum production).
BALKAN VISITS TO PARIS
London, Dec. 27. Sir John Simon, who Jarrived in Capri on Sunday,
Signor Mussolini.
TOUR POSTPONED.
one could have awaited ajuster CHASE BANK ACCEPTS
R.F.C. OFFER
decision" and took the occasion to pour out his famous wit on the
certain "participants of
mock trials who now find themselves in turu amusingly mocked."
CASE OF VAN DER LUBBE.
The death sentence pronounced
cannot be changed or commuted
Scheme Similar to the National City Bank
..
New York, Dec. 27,
$1
It has, in fact, been announced will arrive in Rome on against Marius Van der Lubbe that the Government will shortly January 1 to, confer with by any other court.. Nevertheless Introduce emergency legislation.
The Directors of the Chase the sentence, will not be carried There were moving scenes at the
out before an appeal for merey National Bank have approved the memorial service for the victimst The problems of disarmament has been submitted to the Presi-issue of fifty million dollars worth at the Gare de l'Est. Many among will fornt an important feature of dent Ilindenburg, who alone has of five per cent. preferred stock the mourning victins were unable their talks, but considerable at the constitutional power of any and at the same time, to reduce Imperial Airways officially an- to restrain their feelings when the tention is likely to be paid to the ing Van der Lubbe from the the common stock from $148,000,- nounce that passengers can now funeral oration was delivered. Itallan demand for the reform supreme penalty.
000 to $100,027,000. be accepted from London to
M. Paganon, the Minister of of the League of Nations, regard-
allpula- Conforming with the
The new preferred stock will Singapore or vice-versa as re-
common ports covering the flight between Public Works, promised an imparing which no definite proposals tions of the Emergency Law for first be offered to the Karachi and Singapore indicate tial inquiry and said it was the have been submitted.
protection of state and nation, stockholders on a pro, rata basis, criminals convicted Tor high after which the Reconstruction that all ground arrangements desire of France that all the re- are ready.
sources of science should be placed
be hanged. It is Finance Corporation has agreed to treason must Meanwhile, following the Paris further stated that the preventive purchase the stock not taken up til 1905 was 2nd Lieut. in the Army.
This means that, contrary to at the service of safety. earlier expectations, the first
conversations, it is learned that arrest of Torgler and the three by the common stockholders, Service Corps, being promoted to
THE KING'S MESSAGE. the official trip planned by M.Bulgarians was ordered by the After the changes have been the rank of Lieut. in March of the
plane to reach Singapore on the
Faul Boncour to Warsaw and Supreme Court
to protect them effected, the Bank will have latter year. He received the ap-
commencement of the service,
The following telegram has been Prague will not take place before from acts of violence.
surplus of fifty million dollars pointment of Captain in Novem
Astraca, which Innded at
is announced In
and undivided profits of approxi Seletar on December 19th, may addressed by the King to the Pre- February. It
mately nine million dollars.. was transferred to the R.A.S.C. take passengers back with her sident of the French Republic:-"Paris that M. Paul Boncour will!
Jam very distressed and shocked, attend
Chamber opening
Reuter. with the rank of Major.
on the first homeward flight. January, 1919,
to hear session on January 9, after the ANOTHER The Astruen leaves Singapore Monsieur Le President, brevet of Lieut. Colonel, the ap for London at 12.30 p.m. on Dec. that the railway accident which holiday recess, and will, no doubt, paintment being substantiated in 31 and will be piloted by Captain occurred near Lagny on the eve of address the Chamber in the course
Christmas, resulted in such The French and United Kingdom 1929.
Prendergast.
so much policy. Governments have agreed that Col. Morris has hold many posia At the outset the fare from Sin-heavy loss of life and
On January 15, the Foreign SHARE TWO GOALS AT conversations shall be initiated as with the Army, being Deputy gapore to London will be the same grievous suffering. I would ask Roon as possible with the object Assistant Director of Supplies and as that by the Dutch air mail, ie, you, Monsieur Le President, to ac-Minister will attend the meeting
WEST BROMWICH of adjusting the commercial Transport of the Mediterranean $180. A return ticket costs £334. cept on behalf of the French Na- of the League Council in Geneva, tion an expression of my heartfelt and on January 21, he is expect- relations between the two coun-Expeditionary Force, Egypt, and
sympathy at the terrible disastored to participate in the meeting tries.
the Egyptian Expeditionary Force,;
which has cast its shadow over of the Disarmament Conference day, These conversations have been being appointed Assistant Direc Commenting on a recent discus-the Christmas Season."Britfal Steering Committee. rendered possible by the decision tor in 1916. This post he held until sion in London for the extension Wireless and Reuter, of the French Government to sup. 1919 when he returned to England. (of the Imperial Airways service to preas, as. from January 1st, the From 1923 until February, 1927, China, Capt. A. C. Bernard, organis.. exchange surtax of 16 per cent. ho was Deputy Assistant Directoring superintendent for LA. in Sin- ad valorem hitherto levied on of Supplies to the War Office. British goods on their importation For Borvice In the South African into France.
War he was awarded' the Queen's
Anglo-French Commercial ber, 1911, and three years later
Negotiations
London, Dec. 2t.-
In the he received
the
A B authorising the reduc: South African Medal with tion of the turnover tax to two Cape Colony, Transvaal, South per cont. has already been lald Africa (1801) and South Africa before the French Parliament (1902) Clasps.
saw service In
and the French Government have Col. Morris assured His Majesty's Government France and Belgium during the that they will press on with the Great War from October, 1914, to maasure-British Wärelcan.
October, 1916, in the latter your going to Brypt with the Egyptian
ROUTE TO CHINA.
gapore states:
"Negotiations between the au
thorities nt home and in China with this ip view have been go- Ing on for some time and there
KEEN TUSSLES IN HOME RUGGER
are indications that the outlook NEWPORT JUST BEAT
promising.
A Dm carly certain that any
such extension will be in the form of a trunk line from Bang kol"
ABERAVON
, London, Dec. 27.
tof
the
the discussion
on foreign
POINT FOR WEDNESDAY
AIR MINISTER'S TOUR
TO COVER 16,000 MILES
London, Dee, 27. Playing at West Bromwich to- the Throstles had to roat
London, Dec. 27. content with one point from their
match with Lord Londonderry, Secretary for second holiday ROYAL VISITST
Shefeld Wednesday. Each side Air, who is spending the Parlia
mentary Recess in a 10,000-mile Moreover, the visit in expected, netted once.
of M. The Wednesday who took five air tour of units of the Royal Air at the end of January, Titulescu, Rumanian Foreign points during Christmas jump to Force overacon, has completed Minister, who has officially a twelfth place in the table. West the inspection of a number of Air capted the French Government's Bromwich's position is practically Force stations in Egypt.
aro running He continued, his journey” from Invitation to proceed to Paris unchanged. They from St. Moritz, where he is now closely behind Manchester City resting. It is rumoured
that and Tottenham with 24 points King Carol of tumanin might from 22 gamea-Reuter. also arrive in Paris simultaneous. ly with M. Titulescu. Mr. Jevitch,'
received
Some keen ruggor was witness-Yugo-Slavian Foreign Minister, A fatal accident occurred at Talpo yesterday. when a married woman, Capt. Bernard has not been asked in England to-day, the results will, very likely be asked to meet Wong Kuun, aged 30 years, in alight
hia French colleagues in Paris, ing from a moving train He was led to survey the route yet but he being: The wedding is announced to take Expeditionary Force. place in the near future of Mr. David mentioned in despatches on three belleves the connection is already inter McLellan, schoolmastor of King's occasions and holds the British possible. The French line, at pre-Car College, and Miss Winifred Henderson, War Medal, the Victory Medal and faent operating as far as Salgon, In Newport
'anxious to extend to Hongkong. of 7, Waverly Terrace, Kowloon. -
the D.S.O.
7 London Welsh 4 The possibility is not excluded severe head Injuries from which sho 21 Barbarians
Cairo this morning, flying in servico aeroplane, proceeding via Assult and Wadi Haifa for Khar toum, where the No. 47 Bomber Squadron is stationed. Later, he will visit Trans-Jordan and many contres in India-British Wäreless.
The annual Christmas tree party
will be held at the Palics Recreation
10
17. Watsoniana
Я
8 Aberavon
-Reuter.
that King Alexander of Yugo died on her way to the hospital. The Slavia will arrive in Paris at woman formerly lived at Sui
Street, Taipo Market. that time-Havas,
Day, commencing at 2 p.m.
On Club, Happy Valley, on New Year's