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二拜禮 號六月三英港香
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1934.
日一廿月正
RINGLE COPT 38 CENTE BIL.00 PER ANNUK
China Building,
WHITEAWAYS
JUST UNPACKED
Large Assortment
FLAPJACKS
Now Designs
$4.95 to $7.50.
CALL AND INSPECT.
£25,000 DAMAGES IN RASPUTIN FILM LIBEL SUIT
U. S. AIR MAIL SCANDALS.
INFORMATION LEAKAGE
SUSPECTED.
Washington, Mar. 5. Evidence that a block of 4,500 United Aircraft shares were sold on behalf of the 1. P. Morgan Company a fortnight before the cancel lation of the air mail con- tracts, was presented before the Senate Banking Com mittee to-day in a list of sellers submitted by the New York Stock Exchange.
The Committee ordered a thorough investigation to determine whether there was a leakage of informa tion concerning the Govern- ment's decision to cancel the air mail contracts.-- Reuter.
SAVED FROM
AN
ICY GRAVE
PRINCESS WINS ACTION
SHAKESPEARE QUOTED]
BY JUDGE
(Special to "Telegraph”)
1
(By Tejarah Opyright. Telegraphie šĺka- pes
Ordinance, 1974. Received March
To.m.)
London, Mar. 5.
Damages amounting to no less a sum than £25,000 word to-day awarded to Princess Irina Youssoupoff against the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cor- poration at the conclusion of the. five-day trial, in the King's Bench Division.
The Princess brought a libel action against the Corporation,
alleging that in. the Alm. "Rasputin, the Mad Monk," the character Natasha, who is
Rasputin's mistress in the Alm,
refers to her.
Objection was taken on the
DARING RESCUE ground that the Princess was
BY AIRMEN
OF CHELIUSKIN VICTIMS
(Special to "Telegraph")
De Telegraph, Copyright, Teizprephie
Cangia
Ordinance.
1294. Received
Marck
Moscow, Mar. 6. Ten women and two children have been rescued from an icy
libelled inasmuch as she was depicted as having been seduced and ravished by Rasputin.- Enited Press.
SHAKESPEARE QUOTED.
(ly Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphis iss
2814. Received sage Ordinesos,
4. $301.m.)
Marek London, Mar. 6.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, naw British Minister to Chlon, is sun above, third from left, as he completed his inspection of the guard of Equóur on his arrival in Shanghai
ACTIVITY
OUTSIDE
GT. WALL
STRICT MEASURES
BEING TAKEN
THREAT TO UPSET CORONATION:
(Special to "Telegraph") -
Tientsin, March 6.. Strict precautionary measures are being simultaneously taken by the Chinese and Japanese author- In the Rasputin film libel suit,ities within and outside the Great the Jury took over two hours to Wall. consider their verdict.
Mr. Justice Avery gave a brilliant summing-up, in the course of which he quoted-a-verso- from Shakes
a dearer
grave by two Russian fliers, penre's "Rape of Lucrece," begin who made a successful flight to ning "But she has lost the ice-floes camp of the thing than Hfa." Cheliuskin passengers.
A VILE LIBEL..
While the Chinese authorities in the Luantung district are keeping! sharp look-out for traitors who are reported to be accking oppor- tunities to create disturbances in connexion
RESCUE OF MAROONED FISHERMEN.
FINE WORK BY STEAMERS AND AEROPLANES.
Moscow, Mar. 5.
All but 84 of the 400 marooned fishermen, vic- tims adrift on an ice-block which broke away from the ice-field in the Caspian Sea, have now been rescued.
Steamers and aeroplanes
NEW STAVISKY SENSATION
Official Attempts Suicide
PRINCE MURDER
DISCLOSURES
Paris, Mar. 5.. Investigations are still proceed ing with a view to determining have been used for this pur-whether M. Price, the Chief of pose, and it is hoped that the rescue of the remaining men, who are still maroon- ed on the ice floes, will be shortly accomplished. Reuter.
Munition
with the coronation Makers garrison forces in the Chinchow Condemned
of Pu Yi, the Manchukuo-Japuneso
VOLUNTEER RISING,
AT+
districts are fully occupied with According to a radio report from
the task to suppressing so-called: His Lordship said it was difficult bandit activities, which are Soviet fliers, Cape Wellen, two
the villages SENATOR BORAH'S Linpidevsky and Petrov, sot off to imagine a worse libel upon a ticularly rife in from Cape Wellen in a ten-passen-happily-married woman, a woman around Suichung and Chinchow.
dared
WAR PICTURE gor aeroplane and flew to the upon whose virtue nobody
slur, than to say she was marooned passengers of the sunken cast
or ravished by such ice-breaker Cholluskin, and effected seduced the rescue of ten women and two villain as Rasputin. children.
That, said Mr. Justice Avory, was the vliest libel imogluable Renter's Special Service,
They landed them safely at Cape Wellen despite being faced with the dimculties of landing on frost- bound ground in 40 degrees of froet,
TERUFYING PLIGHT.
of the sunken ice- The victims breaker have been in a terrifying plight since February 13. The Cheliuskin Bunk 159 miles from Cape Severny, but with the excop- tion of two members of the crow, the 72 people on board were saved from drowning.
WORLD COTTON.
STATISTICS
GREATER ACTIVITY OF MILLS
No detailed reports are available) regard to the actual extent of the Chinese Volunteer Relivity
outside the Great Wall, but it is
significant that
Washington, March 5. If war should come between circular tole the United States and Japan, gran issued in the name of the American soldiers, "would be | Chines: Volunteer Army in Man-
churia appeared in the, Chinese torn limb from limb and dis- press yesterday. The telegram atated, inter alia, that the Volun embowelled by munitions sold:
by our own compatriats," de- “ general mobilisation against the Japanese clared Senator Borah in opposing regime in Manchar and "Chinese the $500,000,000 Naval Con- trattore." Big awards are being struction Bill on which the offered for the heads of 200 Senate will vote to-morrow, notorious "trailors," including
teers
storted had
Chen Shino-su and other Ministers Senator Borah asserted that London, Mar. 6. of the Manchukuo Cabinet.
American munition manufacturers Meanwhile, the situation in were selling their products to the The world's cotton mill consump Tientain Is quiet. No incident Orient. They encamped on drifting ice-tion for the half-year ended Janu-attended the Japanese manoeuvres flea awaiting the arrival of rescue jury 81at was 12,510,000 bales, this which
concluded yesterday.-- partica.
being an increase of 637,000 bales, Central News. Foars that the passengers might according to statistics compiled by
die from exposure hastened efforts the International Federation of to send out rescuers and bonta Master Cotton Spinners and the
were sent ruehing from
Cape Manufacturers' Association.
BRITISH POSTAL
In
CHANGES
Soverny and Cape Wellen.
The Cheliuskin,
The largest increase was Soviet loc- breaker, was cracked like a nut-East Indian cotton, the consump shell by the terrife force of ico- tion of which was 2,362,000 balce, packs, and sank within a short an increase of 291,000 bales.
timo.-United Press.
JAPANESE NAVAL
TOUR
“IDZUMA” COMING
SOUTH
The world's mill stocks were 5,216,000, against 4,642,000 January, 1938.
THE CHANGSHA CONSULATE
NEW ALLOCATION
OF REVENUE
London, March 5,
the Public Prosecutions Depart- ment, who was prominently con- nected with the Stavisky case, was murdered or committed sui cide
An analysis of the viscera of M. Prince has revealed the presence of poisons such as cocaine and chloro form.
THE
FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY
ROOSEVELT EXPOSES PAST WEAKNESS
MALDISTRIBUTION
OF WEALTH
DECLARING THAT THE MACHINERY OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED STATES HAD FAILED TO FUNCTION THROUGH INERTIA, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT YESTERDAY MADE AN ELOQUENT APPEAL TO INDUSTRY TO REDUCE WORKING HOURS STILL FURTHER AS A MEANS OF EFFECTING RE-EMPLOY- MENT.
Mr. Roosevelt defended his recovery measures, and declared that never again could they permit social con- ditions allowing vast sections of the population to exist in a way which permitted maldistribution of wealth and power.
The
The President did not oppose reasonable profits, but when it came to a question of humanity, people in actual distress must first be considered,
CALL FOR REDUCED WORKING HOURS
Washington, Mar. 5. A clarion call to Industry to immediately further reduce work-
Meanwhile, M. Hurlaux, Assisting Hours, as a means to spreading employment and re-employment of ant Public Prosecutor of the Court
of Appeal, has been dismissed. Ile more people at living wages, was sounded by President Roosevelt was one of the magistrates who when addressing an assembly of dealt with the Stavisky-swindling N.R.A. Code officials to-day.
case, the hearing of which wAR nineteen times postponed.
"Only by this means can we continue on the road to recovery
Inspector, Bony, who · WAS BUS- pended and rehabilitated three days and restero the balance we seek,
the President declared. ago, has now been placed. In full
President Roosevelt stressed the chargo of the enquiry into M-point that people of the United Prince's denik.
NEW SENSATION.
States whose incomes were less than $2,000 per annum bought over two thirds of all the goods A further sensation was provided sold in the country. Therefore, when M, Hurlaux attempted to com- he said, It was logical that if the mit suicide by poisoning In the total amount paid in wages to this group were steadily increased, He was, however, prevented from merchants, employers and inves onding. His life and has been taken tors in the long run. would get to a nursing home.---Reuter.
more income from an increased volume of sales.
Pablic Prosecutor's office.
NEW DYESTUFFS LEGISLATION.
COMMONS: AGREES TO BILL
London, March 5. The House of Commons, by 193 It was not believed that arms votes to 38, passed the third read- manufacturers could cause ing of the Dyestuffs Import Regú-| Japanese-American war, added Intion: DIIi, under which the pro- Senator Borah, but if it should hibition of dyestuff imports can be come, "even the approaching hour made complete, partial, or be of the conflict would not stay the
abolished. insatiable greed of the munitions manufacturers."-Renter.-
Mr.. Burgin.explained that the Board of Trade was empowered to deal with complaints from con- sumers, and the Board, if it
INFRINGEMENT OF thought necessary, owing to ox-
TRADE MARKS
JAPAN
horbitant prices or other reasona, could reduce the prohibition and lot in dyestuffs from Japan or the United States.-Reuter.
NANKING MILITARY MISSION
Soviet Officials
"NEVER AGAIN."
A year ago, when collapse was imminent, they undertook, 'by law- ful constitutional processes, reorganise a disintegrating systemi
with Ganaral Johnson)“
to
The willingness of all elements to enter into the spirit of “the New Deal" was more evident as the "Deal" continued, ho went on.
BANK SYSTEM SOUND.
The President said he had just received atologram-from the Pre- sident of the American Bankera" Association, expressing full con fidence and a sincere desire to co-operate. The telegram siated "The banking structure of the United States is sound and liquid and the banks have never been in a stronger position to function offectively."
President Roosevelt recalled the position of the banks a year ago and added that the telogram was alving Illustration of the pro- greas made by the Administration. He appealed to the oficials to con- solidate their gains and resolve that the consolidation should lend to continued progress, and especially to the greater happiness and well-being of the American people.
The situation in March, 1939,- WAR so serious, he said, that remedies had to be applied to every phase of the illness.. Thoir objective had been and was to apply remedies in the American (Continued on Page 7).
TO MAKE ECONOMIC
SURVEY
Mr. Child's Mission For President Roosevelt
New York, March
Mr. Richard Washburn Child, who was adviser to Mr. Cordell Hull, U. S. Secretary of State, at the World Economic Conference, is leaving for London on the 14th instant for a three months economic survey of Europe.
The world's spindleage was 167,- Sir Ernest Bennett, Assistant 631,000, compared with 167,765,000 Postmaster General, in a specch Inst July, the British being 49,-at Rugby referring to the changes FURTHER PROTEST TO 001,000 and the Japanese 8,209,000 taking place in the administrative last August, compared with 57,138,- management of the Post Office, 000 and 6,272,000 respectively in said that at the end of the month
London, Mar. 65. 1928-Router,
It would
enter on a new stage ofj Its financial development,
in
Mr. Sommerville, Conservative accordance with the recommendn-M.P. this evening drew the atton- tions of the Bridgeman Committee. tion of the House of Commons to Received in Moscow by Prodent Roosevelt in conference commitments on behalf of the
Hitherto the revenue carned by the number of lawsuits pending in. the Post Office had been handed Britain against Japanese ropre over to the Exchequer. In future, sentatives for the infringement of a definite sum of £10,750,000 | trade marks and the representation would bo. contributed to the na- of Japaneso goods as British.
Riga, March 6. of production and exchange. This tional revenue, and any surplus
The Nanking Military mission reorganisation, he declared, must would be, retained by the Post Dr. E. Leslie Burgin, replying arrived in Moscow on March 8, be permanent for the rest of their Office and expended for the bone on behalf of Mr. Walter Runciman,
'Never again: could they per London, March 5.nt of the public generally in the President of the Board of Trade, and called on M. Tukhachevsky,
mit social conditions allowing", He is expected to pay a visit to In the House of Commons to development of services or rolucanid the British Ambassador to the Deputy Chairman of Defence, Tokyo was recently Instructed to and M. Yogoroff, the Chief of
vast sections of the population Hongkong after completing his night, Sir John Simon said he ton of charges.
to exist in an un-American way, tour of inspection at Amoy, expected that the Consulto at but it had every prospect of pro-lore Government with a view to the The Mission has already visited
The scheme was experimental, make representations to the Japan Staff.
and which permitted moldistri^ Swatow and South China porta-Chungaha would be re-opened next win an outstanding succosa suppression of these acts of unfair Italy, and Turkey, and will be pro-
bution of wealth and power. June-Router. Kat
British Wireless.
competition Reuter
coeding to Poland Reuter
(Special to "Telegraph")
Shanghal, March 6. Admiral Imamura, Commander of the Japancao Third Fleet on the Chima Station Is sailing for the South aboard his flagship, the Idzuma, necompanied by two do stroyers.
Central News
TO BE RE-OPENED NEXT JUNE
lvos,
It is stated that Mr. China win not be empowered to make any
United States in regard to stabili antion of currency, war debts," or, any other outstanding questionė, but he will not be restricted with regard to the, questions ho may discuss with European statesmen. Mr. Child when questioned - garding his tour, sald be under stood that Prosidënt. Roosevolt wanted to know what the other fellows" are doing to aid the economic · rehabilitation of the #world.--Reuter, and