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LINER BADLY BATTERED IN ATLANTIC STORM
CHURCH REBELLION
NAZI PROGRAMME RESENTED
OPEN DEFIANCE OF PRIMATE
Berlin, Jan. 9.
The attempt of the Nazis! to establish control of the Church in Germany has now inspired open rebellion in all parts of the country.
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Is Feeling in the Church strong that thousands of in- dividuals in the congregations have written 10 the Nazi-appointed Primate, Bishop Mueller, threnten- ing to leave the Church if the Nazi ecclesiastical programme is carried out.
The rebellion is not limited to At the congregatlons, however.
least. fifteen hundred of the clergy in different parts of Germany have joined Pastor Niemooller in openly defying Bishop Mueller,
The Primate has not yet taken action in the crisis, although it! is learned that he was to-day in conference with the chief of the secret police.-Renter
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BERLIN INTERESTED IN FRENCH DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS
Further Information Sought
London, Jan. 9. Barlin messages state that the asked German Government have the French Government for fur- ther information upon the various points dealt with in the recent French aide memoire on the ques tion of disarmament.
This step is described by the Berlin press 48 Indicating the German Government's desire to
of
HUGE INCREASE IN JAPAN'S TRADE
Thousand Million Yen Better Than 1932
Tokyo, Jan. 10.. The exports of the Japa- nese Empire in the course of Yen last year totalled 1,932,000,000 in value. while imports were valued at Y.2,018,000,000.
com-
The figures reveal a huge total increase in the volume of trade of nearly a thou- sand million yen as pared with 1932.
Imports exceeded exports by 86,000,000 yen. Reuter
BIG NAVY
GROUP
ON THE JOB
SWEPT BY HUGE SEAS
PIANO SMASHED TO MATCHWOOD
CALIFORNIA'S EXPERIENCE
London, Jan. 9.
Days behind schedule, the seventeen-thousand ton An- chor liner California reach- ed Glasgow to-day after experiencing an extremely severe Atlantic crossing, the worst since she was floated in 1923.
Tho liner ran into heavy weather soon after leaving New York and she, showed every sign of it when she steamed up the Clyde.
Huge seas struck her broadside seeming to on threatening or
and оп threaten to capsize her
TREATY STRENGTH Beveral occasions the weather got
BILL
was considered so bad that it dangerous to attempt to fight a way through and the master gave order
AMERICAN TALK OF to heave to.
DISPARITY
For some days, the passenvers were confined to their cabins and the saloon furniture had to be lashed down.
Before this was done, considar- able damage had been done in
the saloon. The
furniture was
Washington, Jan. 9. The Big Navy group in Congress is striving hard to force an even greater build-
hurled about by the violent ing programme than has larchings of the ship and one smashed to already been authorised grand piano was upon the President.
A Bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to-day which authorises the President to construct new ships and to under- take the replacement of old vessels with the object of bringing the United States Navy up to full
able.
matchwood-British Wireless.
LATEST TREASURY · RETURNS
Trenty strength as rapidly as pos- £66,000,000 Better Off
Than Last Year
In introducing the Bill, Mr. Vinson, the chairman of the House
reach a clear understanding and of Representatives Naval Com- to prevent later differences opinion as to interpretation which mittee, said that Japan had already
provided herself with full permissi-i might necessitate further negotiable naval strength, according to tion. British Wirelcan.
Treaty limits, and that Britain was practically certain to follow suit.
The United States, however, was, he said, shockingly and dangerous ly deficient in the matter af ships and will remain so even after all
BETTER CLYDE OUTLOOK
NOTABLE UPWARD
TURN
London, Jan. 9. At to-day's meeting of the Clyde Navigation Trust, it wan stated that the revenue of Glas- gow Harbour, which for the last. three or four years had steadily fallen, had taken a notable upward turn within the last seven months.
The Chairman expressed the viow that the tide had definitely turned-British Wireless.
CROYDON'S RECORD
YEAR
OVER 87,000 AIR PASSENGERS
London, Jan. 9. The highest number of air pas- sengers ever recorded passed through Croydon during 1983.
London, Jan. 9. The Latest Treasury returns show that the ordinary revenue for the current financial year up to January 6, amounted to £437- 119,370. At the corresponding date of last year the amount stood at £425,468,114,
Ordinary expenditure to date the ships now being built are comfor the current year totalled pleted.-Reuter.
£633,995,700, as compared with £588,910,951 at the corresponding date of last year,
FRANCO-RUSSIAN TRADE PACT
PURCHASING ARRANGEMENTS
Paris, Jan. 9.
A Franco-Soviet trade agro- ment is being initialled to-morrow for signature on Thursday.
BINGER COPT 19 GEDETE $6.00 PER ANNUM
DUNLOP
provides the greatest possible
TYRE
ECONOMY
LIVELY PARIS SCENES IN STAWISKY RIOTS
DEFENSE D'AFFICHER
Royalinta clash with police near the Pantheon in Parle riots.
CURIOUS
LONDON FOG
PATCHWORK OVER
CITY
London,
London had a very curious fog experience today.
WASHINGTON PAY CUT SURPRISE
Fifteen Per Cent. To Continue
Washington, Jan. 9. President Roosevelt-caused a surprise to-day by ordering the continuance of the fifteen por cent. reduction in the salaries of Federal employees.
While much of the City and]
Roller to the extent of one-third most of the outskirts were enjoy of the cut was generally expected. ing a glorious sunshine and ex-Reuter ceptionally good visibility, other parts, in patenos were enveloped amm in a dense peasouper fog, which
caused many
traffic ac- minor
enced-transport.-
cidents and seriously inconveni.... MYSTERY OF
Conditions cleared in the after-
noon,
ex-
The English Channel also perienced a thick fog during part of the day and steamer traffic was much delayed.B
less.
YOUNG WOMAN
ASSAULTED
UNEMPLOYED MAN FINED
A SKULL
ENGLISHMAN'S FATE IN KENYA
SUSPECTED CASE
OF MURDER.
SURPRISE FOR PLOTTERS
MET BY POSSE OF
POLICE
Plot and counterplot marked the successivo stages by which the Hongkong Police have been able to cut short the carcer of a budding gang of would-be rob-
bera.
ROYALISTS
ACTIVE
OVER 250 ARRESTS BY POLICE
NEW GOVERNMENT BILL
Paris, Jan. 9. Having dropped M. Dalimier, the Minister for the Colonics, whose resignation was called for on account of the part he played in the Stawisky scandal-his letter of recommendation' being used to advertise the fraudulent bonda the Government is now striving to spike the guns of the opposition.
The first step was taken to-day in the preparation of pians for the introduction of a Bill prohibiting persons convicted of dishonesty from dealing in any way in stocks and shares under penalty up to two years' imprisonment.
The Bill will be. Introduced in the Chamber on Thursday when the Opposition will launch its on- slaught on the Government in con- nexion with the Stahvlaky affair.
LIVELY SCENES.
..
There wora lively scenes in Paris all day, chiefly arising from Stawlaky anti-Government de monstrations by the Gamelota du Roi, the Royalists.
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This organisation paraded the streets carrying banners demand- ing the resignation of the Chau- temps Government.
There were frequent scufles be- the demonstrators tween
and gandarmes and on several occasions mounted guards wore (called into
In no case exceeding 21 years of action. age, five Chinese youths met at the
Public Gardens yesterday afternoon
!
MANY ARRESTS, !”
--Despite-numorous--arrests—and
to.hatch a schemo against a well-to- do emigrant returned from America broken heads in the clashes with who has lately taken up residence the police, the Royalisis continued in Wyndham Strest.
their boisterous activities well. In- to the night.
Detonators placed on the tram- way lines increased the confusion
By some means the Police au thorities got wind of the plot, and as the Kang, moved down the Gar- dens, they were followed by
Over two hundred and fifty nr. earth carrier, in reality a detective after nightfall, who had solccted this disguise to resta, mostly of Royalists, were ret within reach of the plotters.made in the course of the day.
At the bottom of Glenealy, the Reuter. would-be robbers were intercepted
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by a Police posse, led by Detective Sub-Inspector M. Murphy and De tective Sergeant Goodwin, and all The finding of a white man's five were taken into custody. ovidence Incriminating skull, which is believed to have been for some time in possession of forthcoming in the finding on the suspects of scissors blades, a packet A fine of $50, or two months' im warriors of the Samburu tribe, of pepper and small oranges such as prisonment, was imposed by Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magis whose territory borders on the have been effectively employed as tracy this morning, on Chan Ng. Bottled district of Laikipu, Kenya, Rugs in previous robberies. unemployed, charged with having
assaulted Kwok Sze, a young may lead to a solution of the woman, at Luard Road on January mysterious death two years ago In the first few weeks of the 8.
of the young Englishman, Theodore Detective Sergeant Fitches said year, special interest attaches to
Powys. the amounts collected in respect complainant was walking in Luard
Mr. Powys, whose home was at of Income tax and surtax. Last Rord at night, when defendant ap- week's figures of £8,682,000 income proached her, having a European Dorchester, was employed as farm tax and £3,270,000 surtax show sallor with him. Complainant ro-manager by Lady Eleanor Cole. that a satisfactory response is fused to comply with a suggestion He disappeared on October 19, being made by the taxpayers, made, whereupon defendant struck 1991, after setting out one morning British Wireless.
her on the eye. Complainant was on horseback in search of pastur formerly a prostitute, but was now age.. being kept by someone.
GENERAL ARAKI'S
ILLNESS
It comprises the Soviet's under- taking to purchase over 250,000,000 france worth of French goods in 1984. The credits for the pur- INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC chases will be controlled by Franco-Soviet Trade Bureau.
The Soviots will export oil, timber and manganese to France.
-Reuter.
KOWLOON SHOP BURGLED
П
IN TOKYO
The illness of General Araki, Japanese War Minister has been definitely diagnosed as pneumonia, but the powerful government figuro is said to be in no imme llato danger,
Gen. Araki was strickon in the midst of an epidemic of influenza in Tokyo which authorities ca- timated has taken a daily toll of don. Of these, approximately THIEVES ENTER THE 40 for the last six weeks,'
There were 87,539 passengers' on the European and Empire routes either leaving or arriving at Croy-
60,000 were passengers by Imperial
AirwaysBritish Wireless,
LANCS PRIVATE CHARGED
ALLEGED USE OF COLONEL'S CAR
Private Tubal Lonring, of the
CORONATION OF
PU YI
EXTENSION OF HIS
EMPIRE
Changchun, Jan. 9.; Work on the new palace which is to cost a million dollars is being hurried, in the hope of com- pletion before the Coronation of Henry Pu Yins Emperor of Manchukuo.
There appears to be a difference of opinion among the Manchukuo and Japanese leaders on whether it would be wise to try to extend the new monarch's rulo to North China or to confine his authority.
His pony later returned to the East Lancashire Regiment, np.
to Manchukuo with the hope later Tanu Lam, unemployed, received farm riderless, and a search, in peared before a District Court four months' hard labour for which scores of settlers took part, Martial this morning at Sun Wai-of securing adherence of the Man- obstructing Sub-Inspector Baker in
was at once begun.
Camp on a charge of taking and chu princes of Mongolia and ovon. the performance of his duty. The
Portions of Mr. Powys' body defendant gave a warning to in-
the Commanding Officer, Lieut.
It seems probable that the latter mates of a sly brothel which the were discovered, but the fact that driving away the motor car of tually at least a portion of North the head remained missing cast Col. A. C. Marsh, on the evening
course will be followed, police raided.
doubt upon the accepted theory that of December 30.
WHISKY-PORK 'PROPOSAL
BRITAIN STILL CONSIDERING
ho had been killed by a lion and mauled.
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The President of the Court is Major II. M. J. McIntyre, of the Later in the year a native em-H. K. S. Brigade. The hearing is played in the district stated that proceeding.
Mr. Powys had been killed by
Samburu warriors in the course of the "blooding of spears" ribes with
Discharged from prison three days!
China,
CAMELS TO COST MORE
CIGARETTE PRICES which the warriors test their man-age-a young Chinese, who was caught with a bottle of wine concealed under! hood.
the back of his jacket, was fined $81
UP IN US. Six months ago a number of or eight days by Mr. Balfour in the
Naw York, Jan. 9: London, Jan.-9. murders by the Samburu were in- Central Magistracy this morning... The United States' proposal to vestigated by the police, who learnt
A sharp riso in tobacco, stocks double the British whisky quola, that it was a common belief among
When being searched in Wellington occurred to-day as the result of
Increase in
of the priva In return for an increase from 6.3 the natives that Mr. Powys had Streat for the possession of 44 coun- an ARCADIA
terfelt coins, Lo Be, unemployed, cigarettes. The lead was given by Two natives were oventually threw the colas do bolag charged of the big manufacturers,
He Camel's and was followed by most. romarked Dotective can pork products admitted to the The Arcadia, & haberdasher's than indoctures are more offensive per cent, to 7.0 per cent. in Ameri-beon murdered. The French sloop Algol arrived shop at Hankow Road, Kowloon, Inspector Cary when he prosecuted British markets, has been received arrested, and a further search was arrested and on being
of the in London and is being considered having been made, the skull was before Mr. Balfour in the Central Legislation controlling the pro- here today from Formona. Towns the scene of a robbery last Chan Chak-lam, manngor.
Shanghal
certain. The Supreme Court de morrow, IL.M.S. Whitshod calls for night, when money and goods to Rangel Book iste of lures of a 2014 by the appropriate Government found. It is suggested, however, tenced to four months hard labour.duction of cattle and milk appears Swatow and Shanghal and on Man the value of over $250 were stolen. decent nature. The pictures ware
pictures of an in- lopartments-British Wirsires that it may have been originally Det-Sergt. MacRobbie, prosecuting, cision to uphold mortgage, morate-
(A Washington mesenge yester-round and taken to the Samburu said defendant stated the coins were day next H.M.S. Bridgewater will
A report was received by the exhibited In the shop window. A fine day stated that the US, proposal country as a proof of the warriors given him by a friend who could not rium will be sustained.Per Swan return to the Colony from Bhanghai. The Sandwich is due back from her police this morning, and in-of-$25 was imposed and the
has been accopted);
courage.Reuter's Special.
be traced, Bouthern cruise on January 17. vestigations are proceeding, confication order was appiled.
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usual
Culbertson and Fritz.