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3D BAƑ=XBF TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,
1934.
日三廿月二十
China, Building.
BINOLE OORY 19′ CENTE $36.00 PER ANNUM
HITEAWAY
DOLLAR SALE
ALL THIS
WEEK
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS CITED AS CO-RESPONDENT
Douglas Fairbanks at St. Moritz
recently.
FRANCE REJECTS ARMS
PROPOSALS
SEEKING DISCUSSION AT GENEVA
(Special to "Telegraph")
(hy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie lies- sages Ordinance, 1894. fisceived, Fabriaru 4, 11.15 m.)
Geneva, Feb. 6.
LORD ASHLEY'S
PETITION
AGAINST WIFE, FORMERLY MISS SYLVIA HAWKES
EARLY HEARING OF SUIT
(B
EXPECTED
(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)
Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, February 8, 10.57 am)
LONDON, FEB. 6.
A' FAMOUS FIRM OF LONDON SOLICITORS, MESSRS. GORDON DADDS AND COMPANY, HAVE FILED A PETITION FOR DIVORCE ON BEHALF OF LORD ASHLEY WHO IS CHARGING HIS WIFE WITH ADULTERY.
is
Sealed copies of the petition will be served to-day on Douglas Fairbanks Senior, who cited as co-respondent.
who
Copies will also be served upon Lady Ashley, was formerly one of the most popular figures on the London stage, as Miss Sylvia Hawkes.
HEIR OF EARL OF SHAFTESBURY
banks.
The Douglas 14. Hal Ning, lying aground undar" the pilot-house at Namsos Island, just outside Swałow
harbour. We understand that afforts to reflost her yesterday were unsuccessful.
BRITAIN AND MANCHURIA
NEED FOR TRADE COMMISSIONER
London, Feb. 5.
A suggestion that a British
Trade Commissioner should be
appointed in Manchuria was made in the House of Commons
to-night by Mr. A. V. G. Dower (Con. Stockport).
Colonel Colville, the Secretary of the Department of Oversons Trade, in reply, called attention to the fact that a Commercial Secretary was appointed in August, 1930, to reside in Harbin,
France has virtually re jected the proposals for a
He was later transferred to solution of the disarmament The United Press learns that banks telling her that, if she Peking because it was found that Lord Ashley, who was married) wanted to keep Pickfair on, the his services would be more valuable problems which have been about six years ago, is not claim- would have to do so at her own and were more urgently needed submitted by Britain, Italy ing damages against Douglas Fair-expense. The place costs £20,000 clsewhere.
a year to maintain. She added and Germany.
British trade interests in Man- It is also learned that the case at that time that she did not in-churia were, he said, adequately. is likely to come up for hearing tend to take legal action for a represented by His Majesty's Con- Considerable activity 1s
very early. According to pre- separation. Secre- developing in the League
sular officers, but he fully ap sent plans, the case will be tried
Despite the serious nature of preciated the importance of the tarint.
in early April.
the estrangement, she was repoint raised by Mr. Dower and Preparations are being made It is not known whether or not.
~luctant-to-divorce her husband assured him that the position would-
and refused to comment on be carefully watched.-Reutor. · for a possible appeal by Austria the petition will be defended.
atories that there was another woman in the case,
GENEVA READINESS.
now
EARL'S HEIR.
BALKANS PACT
against alleged interference in her Internal affaire by Germany, Lord Ashley, who is the eldest
There is a prospect of an early son and heir of the 9th Ear! of added, was as strong as ever, if
Her affection for Douglas, she BULGARIA AND meeting of the Disarmament Con-Shaftesbury and a lieutenant
there was a divorce, the ground ference.
the Royal Wiltshire Regiment, would be incompatibility of tem- married Miss Sylvia Hawkes.
perament. famous as an actress, in 1927,
OBJECTIONS MADE It is loarned that the Arms when he was twenty-six years of Conference might meet again im-lagc.
KNOWN It was reported that, while Mary mediately following the League; They spent some years in India,
was A.D.C. wlahed to continue her film career.
Sofin, Feb. 5. Council's special session on the where Lord Ashley
wanted to make his Bulgaria's attitude to the Balkan Austrian question, which will first to the Governor of Bombay Fairbanks
semi- possibly be held on February 16 and later to the Commander-in-home in London and to travel. Pact has been made known if Austria lodges an appeal to the Chief in India...
Leading figures in the film world officially,
League this week.
The French
are known to be campaigning for an early ment-
There are no children.
SHATTERED ROMANCE.
DOUGLAS AND LONDON,
ELECTRIC TENSION IN PARIS
WILD ALARMIST RUMOURS OF REVOLUTION
CLASHES
EXPECTED
CITY TO-DAY
(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)
SOVIET BILL TO THE JAPANESE ARMY
FURTHER TENSION IN MANCHURIA
FEELINGS RUN, HUGH
*(Special to "TelegraphTM)
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphia Mate angsa Ordinanas, · 1294. Resrived, February 6. 10.47 d.m.).......
Moscow, Feb. 6. Feeling against Japan is again |running bigh as the result of the | latest developments in Man- churia, which are expected to {cause a further sharp increase in the tension between Soviet Russia and Tokyo.
Two reports have been received. from the Russian Consulate at
IN Kharbarovak, which have *been
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, Feb. 0, 0.59)
PARIS, FEB. 5.
published by the Foreign Oflice, alleging further "pin-pricking" by the Japanese on the one hand and showing a stronger attitude · by Russia on the other.
FREIGHT STOPPED.
The first report concerns inter- ference by Japanese officials with |freight morvices on the railways. It alleges that Japanese officiúla
· THE SMALLEST SPARK MAY CAUSE A at Pograaltchunya are bringing to
between the DEVASTATING EXPLOSION IN PARIS SO IN-1 halt,
Chinese TENSE IS PUBLIC EXCITEMENT FOLLOWING freight destined for Pacific ports Eastern and Ussurian Railways all
THE STAVISKY SCANDALS AND THE DISMISSAL belonging to German”, and-"other" foreign firms exporting via the OF THE POLICE CHIEF, M. CHIAPPE
Trans-Siberian route.
SOVIET'S DEMAND.
The populace is quite clearly in a very dangerous They are also arresting Soviet mood. Rumours of revolutionary plots are openly rallway workers wholesale, spread and the pregnant situation is given added seriousness by signs of an undercurrent of unrest in Meanwhile, the Soviet Manager the police force, as the result of the dismissal of M. of the Chinese Enstern Railway in Chiappe.
Harbin has demanded that the
He was rousingly cheered to-day as he left the Pre-Japanese military pay to the rail- fecture of Police "in disgrace."
way the arrears of 20,729,000
The treatment of Paris's idol is the principal bone of conten-roubles, which is alleged to be dug. tion. Paris is asking the question very pointedly: "If M. for the transportation of Japanese Chiappe is involved in the Stavisky affair why promote him Re-troops.-United, Press. sident General of Morocco. If he is not, why is he sacrificed?"
·HEATED CHAMBER DEBATE.
ALARMIST RUMOURS.
mado strenuous efforts to prevent! It is stated that she would prefer
Tempers are badly frayed and how serious riots will be avoided. a divorce which was regarded as to have a Pact of Non-Aggression
A commentator says that Paris a blow to the industry. The Fair with the League of Nations and in agitators are active in the streets..
on the Ing of the Disarmament Confer-
Douglas Fairbanks is already banks Pickford marriage was conformity with the Kellogg Pact The Royalists are particularly pro- certainly appears to be
sco verge of a sharp upheaval, though ence in order that they might facing one divorce action, that all successful cinema stars and the chase of peace in the Balkans.
always regarded as a model for as the best means of atrengthening minent and it is difficult to
it must not be forgotten that discuss the various
France is endowed with unbound- memoranda taken out in the United States by had been used to offact the effect-Router.
ed resilience.-Reuter, circulated, which they say reveal Mary Pickford. tho necessity for returning to There were reports in 1931 of a on the public of the acandals in which other stars were involved.— the principles of the Conference. rift between the couple. Fairbanks, United Press.
on his return to England from a shooting trip in India and the Far This manner of the French
East, angrily denied the truth of these rumours, declaring that he approach is considered equivalent had been in constant wireless to saying that France has re- jected the British, Italian and communication with his wife, who German, proposals and wishes the joined him in London. But Conference to proceed on the basis continued to spend long periods of the previous declaration that way from Mary, travelling and there shall be no re-armament of hunting in various parts of the
EQUIVALENT TO REJECTION.
any nation.-United Presa,
INSULL HELD FIT TO TRAVEL
TRYING TO REACH DENMARK
(Special to "Telegraph")
(De Telegraph. Cecyright. Teligraphi magar Ordinance, 1713. Received, February
10. ..
Athens, Feb. 5. Mr. Samuel Insult was again! examined by medical officers of the Grock Government to-day and was pronounced it to travel.
world.
ho
In February last year, while Fairbanks was at St. Moritz, Mary salled to Italy. Ho motored to meet the liner at Villefranche. but his car broke down and he reached the port as the vessel) was putting out to saa. Chartering a fast motorboat, he boarded the linor. But, when Mary left Italy month later, ho remained behind.
A
LAST STRAW.
PROHIBITION REPEAL
DECISION
Virtual Amnesty For 13,000. People
(Special to "Telegraph")
[lly Telegraph. copyright. Telegraphie
Ordinance, 1895,
6. 11.88 am,
Received, February
Washington, Feb. 5. The Supreme Court to-day hand- ed down a decision ruling that prohibition violatore indicted be Tore Repeal cannot now be pro-
an
In July, Mary admitted that she accuted that Pickfair was for sale. and her husband were to part and This is tantamount to
The amnesty for thirteen thousand last straw was a letter from Fair-neopic.
FINE WEATHER,
CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT
SUPPORT IN POTATO POLL
London, Feb. 6. The Minister for Agiculture, Mr. Walter Elliot, announced in the Commons to-day that the result of poll on the potato: marketing scheme which was declared to- day, was overwhelmingly in favour of the scheme remaining in force.
THE POST OFFICE SURPLUS
(Special to "Telegraph”) (by Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphia Mer sagie Ordinance, 1384. Riceived, February 4., 10.37-8006).
Paris, Feb. 6. The city was quiet last night, but the atmosphere is electric and disorders are feared to-day when M. Daladier
presents his shuffled Cabinet to the Chamber.
The trouble is expected to emanate from clashes between the Royalists and Socialists,
Paris is full of the
Lator.
wildest
AMERICAN AID· FOR CUBA
ATTEMPT TO SOLVE ECONOMIC PROBLEM
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Dy Telegraph. Copyrights Telegraphic Mes- soger Ordinance, 1884. Rrceived, February. 0,- 30.1¥\a.m.)
Washington, Feb, 0.
Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary alarmilat rumours to-night.
of State, has announced that the The words "Coup D'Etat" and the United States that it is ready Cuban Government has notied "Revolution" are being freely to negotiate a new commercial bandied about.
Thirty thousand police gend-
treaty.
According to officials, a plan for
armes and troopa are available to stabilising the sugar situation
Another perit lies in the de- quoll any violence which may which is considered to be a pre- termination of some 72,000 ex-occur, though it le considered im-requisite of such negotiations, has Service men to demonstrate probable that the troops will be boon virtually agreed.
conspicuous unless the police are It is understood that the plan against the government.
overwhelmed.
provides for a sugar quota among the producing nations and perhaps also a roduction in the tariff on imports from Cuba-Router.
The Royalists are also planning
MACHINE-GUNS READY.
and
Of votes submitted, 90.44 por great demonstrations and the out- cent, were in favour of the scheme look is ugly. remaining in force and 9.55 per
Two divisions have been brought The meeting of the Chamber, sent, were against-British Wire- where no fewer than eighteen up ready for emergencies, equip- [less,
interpeliations are provided for, Pad with armoured care
NINGHSIA WAR la expected to be very lengthy and machine-guns. very heated, but it is indicated According to the Action Frat-i [that the Daladier Government is caise, machine-guns are actually
assured of between 380 and 850 mounted in the Chamber of Do-j.
PINGLO: TAKEN BY ✨ votes which is more than auf puties itself, In the belief that if SUN TIEN-YING ficient for a majority-United the public excitement develops Preas.
into a mob demonstration an at- (Special to. "Telegraph") tack on the Chamber is certain. Since all traille for half a
Peking, Feb. 6. mile around the Chamber has Severo fighting botweon Sun been stopped, the machine-guns Tien-ying'a troops and tho there are not likely to be called Ninghsia Provincial Government into service! De forcos is still in progress. The "If there is a single demonstra-old capital is now being enveloped tion, you will be dimissed," in the by, 16,000 Sun Tien-ying's troops
COMMONS TO DEBATE DISARMAMENT
London, Feb. 5.
£11,000,000 PROFIT The decision does not, how-
REVEALED over, affect persons who were aen- tenced prior to the repeal of thei
London, Feb. 5. Eighteenth Amendment, although) The Post Office commercial! The Royal Observatory reports there have been reports recently of accounts for the year 1982/83 have Ha is expected to depart in
that the anticyclone remains un-action which might be taken to been presented to Parliament by few days.
changed over the Lower Yangtse deal with them. United Press. tho Postmaster-General NE The Cabidot Committed on Dis- It la roportod that he
is Valley, -negotiating for the charter of d
For the year ended 31st March armament stud of single, which was besloged for Local forecast:- N.E. wiņda, small steamer which would take moderate, fine.
Losing him balance while on heard last, the Post Office business phases of the situation to-day, been given by the Minister of the him to Denmark. He is
the ferry launch Man Pak, In Ling, resulted in a net surplus, after and to-morrow Sir John Simon Interior to M. Chlapor's successor, almost two wooks has at Ineb datar- mined to avoid returning to the
minde, fell into the harbour. He was charging interest on the capital, of will participate in the Commonia at the Prefecturo of Lolico.fallen to the bonds of Sun. Alhes Quarantine restrictions have been rescued by a seaman of the ferry Man £11.056.717 as compared with debata on the recont British The warning has been passed on wore exploded which took a heavy United States if it can possibly bo imposed against arrivals from Shang- Cheung and sent to the Government $10,031,704 in 1981/82-British morandum on disarmament to the various police chiefs Ret toll of the defendere. Central managad-United Press.
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