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No. 14110
FUN MAPAEX#F FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934.
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SOVIET UNIMPRESSED BY TOKYO PEACE TALK
THE CURRENCY WAR
NO CONFIDENCE IN MR.
MORGENTHAU
LIKELY TO LOSE
HIS SHIRT!
Washington, Jan. 25. The qualifications of Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the Secretary of the Treasury Department, for handling the huge sum to be used as an Exchange Stabilisation Fund, were the subject of further uncomplimentary comments in the Senate to. day.
The debate on President Roose- velt's monetary bill again waxed florco.
It was bitterly attacked by Senator Hastings (Rop.) who de clared that the Bill legalised robbery and that it ponalised self- denial and thrift.
He asserted that it Con- gress ever received, n report on the operations of the Stabilisation Fund, it would that the probably show "British had taken the whole of the two thousand million dollars-and Mr.****Morgen- that's shirt with Itt
(Laughter).
SILVER PLAN DOOMED. Senator Borah has admitted
STEADY UPWARD
TRADE
British Railways Give Recovery Pointer
London, Jan. 25.
In addition to a substan- tial increase in retail sales recorded by the Board of Trade this week, further evidence of the steady re- covery in British trade and industry is provided by the continued rise in railway receipts.
For the first three weeks of the year these totalled £7,709,000 £525,000
more than in the corros- ponding period of last year. Goods traffic receipts alone than increased by more
cont.-British eight por Wireless.
FLOOD DISASTER
YELLOW RIVER TRAGEDIES
HUNDREDS PERISH OF COLD
Peking, Jan. 26. The sudden rise of the Yellow River has jeopardised huge areas and many lives have been lost, some of them by drowning and others by exposure.
The dykes have given way in the Changyuan district in Southern Hopei, where thirty-eight villages have been inundated already and more are threatened.
NO SIGN OF CHANGE IN EXPANSION® POLICY
MR. HIROTA'S SPEECH
SOVIET PROOFS of SINCERITY
Moscow, Jan. 26. A sharp denial of Japanese complaints that the Soviet has been endeavouring to create unpleasant relations is contained in an article in Izvestia, which comments on Mr. Koki Hirota's speech.
The Soviet's pacifle policy has been sufficiently proved over and over again, says the writer,
ganeral view at the scene of the Lagny train disaster, showing thể shattered conches and res Luers at work. Over two hundred people were killed when ari axpress crashed into the rear of a sta- tionary train, tauring its way through at least six crowded coaches.
EUROPEAN IN
PROF. SPRAGUE'S NEW POST
By offering a non-aggression CAR SMASH Appointed Exchange
pact to Japan, by agreeing to the formation of a Soviet-Japanese-
Manchukuo Frontier Commission MR. P. YOUNGHUSBAND
and by agreeing to the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Soviet Union has amply proved its readiness to secure the solid main-
BADLY INJURED
tenance of peace in the Far East. SUDDEN SWERVE
NO SIGN OF CHANGE.
Adviser
New York, Jan, 25. Professor Sprague, ex-` Roosevelt economic adviser. has been appointed adviser on foreign economic, and exchange matters to the General Motors Corporation. --Reuter.
PRESTON
WATER
FAMINE PERIL
INDIA EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH
SURVEY OF THE DISASTER
London, Jan. 25.
With the information now: available it is possible, to form a closer appreciation than has hitherto been pos sible of the magnitude of the Indian earthquake of 15th January..
one
It now appears that the loss of Ilfo, although grave, has bUOD much smaller than was at time feared, the death roll being apparently not greatly in excess of 7,500,
"the widespread damage to house property and to crops this figure is remarkably. amall. This may have been due the fact that the earthquake occurred when the majority of the population was out of doors.
MUDDOCK DIES Considering
NONAGENARIAN` WRITER OF THRILLERS
ADVENTURES IN CHINA
London, Jan. 25.
to
The towns suffering the most material damage were those of north Bihar, fhere at least halt the brickbuilding houses were and the town' of ruined; Monghyr, where the hospital was destroyed and hundreds of lives
were lost In the collapse of the
BELGRADE One of the most popular bazany, now a heap of ruins.
CRISIS
PREMIER RESIGNS
DISAGREEMENT ON
In Muzaffarpur, the houses of writers of thrillers of the by-the judges and civil servants were. gone generation, J. E. Pres destroyed, the jail and bank were ton Muddock, died to-day at damaged and some 300 lives lost. In Darbhanga, another 800 lives the age of ninety years.
Ho wrote over seventy books were lost and all brick buildings including about fifty detective wro destroyed. stories under the name of Dick Donovan.
GREAT DAMAGE. Motihari was completely isolat- ed and largely dostroyed. As re gards other towns in Bhagalpur, buildings were extensively damag- ed.
Izvestia stresses that the Sovlat
Mr. P. Younghand living at peaceful policy will not be changed unless the Japanese Government (264, Prince Edward Road, was carries on its aggressive plans.
rather severely injured as the re-1 sult of a motor smash at Kow- It adda that unfortunately loon at 10.30 last night.
He was driving his car, No. neither Mr. Hirota's spesch, nor 3899, into the junction of Nathan the appointment. of General and Waterloo Roads when for some Some of the villages are under Hayashi to succeed General Araki reason it swerved, and mounted the that the strength of the Indepen-ten feet of water.
pillars of the President Apart
His life was one long series of dent wing of the Sonate (com-
Hundreds of villagers rendered as War Minister can be taken tojado walk between the verandah
adventures, Originally intended posed of both Republicans and homeless by the devouring waters indicate that the Japanese Governments-
for military engineering, he went Mr. Younghusband was injured Democrats) was insufficient
ment is resolved to end the stralu-) have parished from cold
out to India when very young, compel the adoption of the pro- hunger.
Belgrade, Jan. 25. where his father
then wha
At Jamalpur, there was very posed amendments. for the
vehicle collided, it is thought, with
Gay- The present flood is declared to ed relations with the Soviet creat in the head and hands when the
The financial difficulties of stationed, and entered the monetisation of allver, or compul-be worse than that of last year, ed by the policy of Japanese mili-the wall of the building.
caused aernment Gun Foundry at Coss-roat material damage and a losa Bory currency Inflation.
in which Changyuan also sattered
tary circles.-Reulor..
He was taken by a passing Yugo-Slavia have
It was during the exciting of some 200 lives,
In Pusa, the famous Agricul motorist, Cpl, Ponsford, R.M., of Cabinet crisis and King Alexan-pore. H.M.S. Tamar, to the Kowloon der has accepted the resignation times of the Indian Mutiny, and tural Institute was badly damaged. In Chopra, residences and public (Premier), Dr. Milan Srskitch, many thrilling scenes. At the buildings were wrecked and the
close of the Mutiny he returned hospital rendered useless. Hospital where his injuries were of the President of the Council it fell to his lot to go through
from the Cabinet.
to England. In a troopship, his The Premier was unable to agree Intention being to return to India, with his colleagues regarding the but the sudden death of his father financial programme.
to
re-
In the course of a spirited argu--| very severely,--Router. ment, the conservative Republi cans, including Senator Austin and Senator Reed, disputed whether it was constitutional to give the President authority to regulate the gold value of the dollar.
VOTE ON SATURDAY. Souator Robinson, the Democra- tlo leader, who is steering the Bill through the Senate, claimed that It was quite legal.
and
NAVAL CONFERENCE AT CHILD SLAVERY
SINGAPORE
VITAL TO ALL OF
FAR EAST
Washington, Jan. 23.
REVELATION
VICTIM CHANGES HANDS MANY TIMES
attended to..
The car was badly damaged,
CLEARING UP THE MESS IN FUKIEN
FINANCE
1
Dr. Uzunovitch, the President of altered all his glans, and he be the National Party, has been ask-came a wanderer on the face of
the earth.
ed to form a now government.
He has frequently been Primo Minister in the past, his record
American observers to-day fore. PARENTS FINED Chiang Kai-shek To Go being established in 1928 when ho
Senator Borah, who moved his Inflation amendment, later aban-cast that the British Empire naval. conference, which opened
doned it.
Owing to speeches still to be delivered, the final vote on the Bill is not likely baforo Saturday.--Reuter,
SUN TIEN-YING CHECKED
How a three-year-old Chinese
To Foochow
Lormed no fower than six gover- ments within a period of months. Reutor.
REBEL IN CHINA..
In Patna, 50 lives were lost, hundreds injured and over 4,000 buildings either damaged.or destroyed. Outside the towns, the destruction of house property has been on a much smaller scale.
GENERAL COLLAPSE. Ho next directed his steps to The more obvious signs of the China at the time of the great earthquake are broken and obli- three Taiping rebellion of 1860, and, terated roads, widespread floods sympathising greatly with the and great cracks in the ground rebels, he tried on two or three from which mud, sand and water the number of at Singapore on Tuesday is likely girl had been bought and sold "like
occasions to join them, when he have been spreading a devastating to have a vital effect on Britain's a pound of meat" was described by Detective-Inspector Elston before
Shanghai, Jan. 26.
CAPTAIN HAWKS would have found himself in opaliny deposit over the fields and future Far Eastern policy.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in to
position to Reports from London Indicate Mr. Balfour in the Central Police
his distinguished crops. that despite the
In addition there has been agen- Kovernmont's Court this morning when Liu Hi-proceed to Foochow to personally
FOR CHINA
fellow-countryman, General Gor- decision not to proceed on ton yeo, married woman, Pun Sam, alias direct the rehabilitation work.
don, who led the Imperial troops. leral collapse of road and railway struction at the Singapore Base, Pun Yau-taun, her husband, and Several staff officers of Marshal;
After many narrow escapes in bridges, making ordinary.com. woman, So Luk, were Chiang Kai-shek's hendquarters on the score of the need for eco-another
TO DEMONSTRATÈ
China, he became financially in-jmunications impracticable over a nomy, that the Base nevertheless charged in connexion with the have proceeded to Foochow to
NEW BOMBER .. terested in a beche-de-mer fishing large part of the affected area.
The gravest menaco to the rural will be completed in 1938 or 1939. transaction..
vessel, in which he went down to The third defendant sald
which reached in This indicates anxiety in Lon-
New York, Jan, 24. the South Seas, and had a glorious population don, Australia and New Zealand, it paid $40 for the child. The rat
Communications along the river
Captain Frank Hawks, the time among the coral reefs, the places an unusual density of over is believed, over Japanese ambi- and second defendunts pleaded and on motor roads between Amoy,
the denizens 900 to the square mile, is the guilty.
Changchow and Chuanchow have famous speed pilot, announces they cannibale, and British naval leaders want to Inspector Elston produced the
now regions, new Guinea and the the destruction of the sugar mills. task of rounding up the Nine-ary 17, to demonstrate a strengthen British friendship with Attorney General's consent to the been restored to normal. The he is leaving for Chinn on Febru- generally of those little-known damage to agriculture, including Peking, Jan, 20. Japan. belloving that only thus prosecution. He said the first and teenth Route Army remnants is to Curtiss-Wright Condor bombing Solomon group of islanda. Telegraphic communication be may the peace of the Pacific be second defendants were husband be undertaken by General Chiang plane to the Chinese government.
and wife, and on January 10, they Ting-wan. twoon Peking and Ningahn has not ensured. been interrupted as was earlier re- They also apparently hold the sold their daughter to the third ported.
opinion that the Japanese Navy is defendant, who was a kent woman The latest telegraphic advices superior to the United States in West Point. He produced the from Ningalia indicate that though Navy in fighting strength.
went to see the The couple CHANG HSUEH-LIANG It can carry, 3,500 pounds of ex-youthful and Quixotic Iden of water both in the towns and vill- Sun Tion-ying's forces Aro A majority of the British Cab-went to see the purchaser a few threatening. the city of Ningaha, inot, however, are inclined to days ago and asked back for their the. Gaverament defenders have swing towards the United States, child. She refused and they threa ropulsed every onslaught hitherto, although they do not want to im-toned hor with prosecution and Likangpo, aome distance to the pair Britain's friendship with Ja- now they were "in the coup" them. north of Ningsha, which was for pan. some timo occupied by Sun-Tien-
NINGSHA PROVINCE
FIGHTING
tions.
ORDER
ying's troops has been recaptured FURNESS CO. by the Ningeha Government forces. The arrival of a large number of troops from. Chinghal to reinforce General Ma Hung-kwel is respon- sible for the turn of the tide- Central Now8.
SAFETY FIRST !
Common-sense will give
traffic-senso.
make the necessary preparations
he for the Generalissimo's arrival.
RUMOURS
solves. The child was not found, Defence Commission For
proper
North-West Frontier
having been either sold or given away by the third defendant. Tho GETS child had changed hands Beveral
times since leaving her parents.
Tho Nanking Government main- Ho added: To use the S.C.A.'s words, The child has been stains reticence In regard to the and bought like a pound of mont." " decision, which fa ometally admit
TANKER FOR U.S.
London, Jan. 25.
Nanking, Jan. 20.
The plane is driven by two 7:5 horsepower engines, and is capable of a speed of 170 miles an hour,. plosives and mounts four machine-
guns,
SHENSI-CANTON AIR LINE. COMMENCEMENT NEXT
MONTH
Shanghai, Jan. 20,
MELBOURNE NEWSPAPER. He returned to China with the
(Continued on Page 11-)
SIR P. CUNLIFFE LISTER
RECOVERING FROM
ILLNESS
London, Jan, 20,
WATER CRISIS. Moreover, many wolls have been ruined and the problem of secur- Ing a supply of healthy drinking lages is most acute. The disaster. has affected all classes. The townsfolk lost their houses and possoasions and the agriculturists their crops and markets,
In Bihar alone, damage estimat- ed at many crores of rupees was Iarge
rollet funds caused.
I will ho s p
In Britain the High Commission receiving contribu
or for India
tions towards the fund started by the Viceroy, and the Lord Mayor The Colonial Secretary, Bir of London. at the request of the Socretary for India, is to cooperate,
British Wirelons.
It le announced that an air mail Philip Cunliffe Lister, who was
A fine of $100, or two months' ted to have been taken, concerning line running from Shenel to Can- taken with a soptle throat at The Furness Shipbuilding Com- hard shour, was imposed on each the future in the Government of ton will be inaugurated in mid- Nairobi, when engaged on an Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. February by the Eurasian Avia African air tour, is, making natis- pany, of Middlesborough, booked defondant. ⠀⠀
A crop of rumours are in cir- tion Corporation. This air line factory progress, although it is un- to-day an order for a five-thousand ton tanker for the Standard Ship-
Shangyang, Hankow, Changsha, ther engagements.
H.M. the King has sent him a The "Old Settlers' " dinner at the culation, one of them to the effect will have stopping stations at certain when he will resume. fur ping Company of New York, Volunteer Defence Corns Sergeants that he has been offered the post and Canton, but will not carry tine rivers and const Britishvate function and was not, a stated, Northwest Frontier -- Central News. | Wiralese.
held under the auspices of the Me: o Naudi (-)
The vessel is for work on Argen-Hess on Wednesday night was a ni. of Defence Commissioner on the passengers at the outset, Central message of
Wireless
2 FINE WEATHER The anticyclone remains station- Bry over China and pressure Changes are everywhere slight sympathy-British Local forecast: N. winds, fresh
fine.