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THURSDAY,
APRIL
5, 1934.
日二廿月二
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HAVE YOU SEEN
THE
BLUE PENCIL
BARGAINS
AT
WHITEAWAYS?
AMERICA JIBBING AT ROOSEVELT POLICIES
Growing Reaction Against Government by Amateurs
GERMANY'S SHARP
NAVAL COMMENT DEMANDS
SEEKING PARTIAL
RE-ARMAMENT.
TO ATTEND 1935 CONFERENCE
Berlin, April 5. France's recent warning to Britain that the Hitler Government would soon be turning its attention to naval re-armament has been quick. ly justified.
Many rumours have been published abroad regarding the nature and extent of Germany's likely demands but no official indication is forthcoming.
BY
FAMOUS JOURNAL
CALL FOR STRONG OPPOSITION
WIRT CHARGES CAUSE THOUGHT
(Special to
"Tutograph")
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Ordinamer. JK03. Received Apri
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Philadelphia, April 4. Professor Wirt's remarka- ble accusations of an attempt Germany expects to participate by members of Brains Trust in next year's naval conference j
to introduce a new social with a view to procuring kome
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revision of the Treaty of Versailles system akin to Communism
naval and obtain grenter security, according to to-day's in the United States have Berlin newspapers, which however, caused some earnest think- publish denials
of the reporting.
Germany published abroad that has drawn up a Big Navy building programme.
A LUXURY.
The newspapers emphasise that
Few believe in the existence of a "plot," but the conviction to be growing that appears political theorists, with no prae-
Mr. Vincent Astor's yacht "Nourmahal," one of the fastest and finest in the world, on which Presi dent Roosevelt is holiday-making while, the Saturday Evening Post Article might suggest "Rome is
U.S. TREADS WARILY
EXTRADITION OF INSULL
FEARING LAST MINUTE SLIP
(Special to "Telegraph”)
(1) Tetepraph. Copyright, TheOrophis Mem
Ordinaner,
Nroeived Apri 4.0.10.17.
burn ing".
MR. WOODIN ON DANGER-LIST
Seriously III in New York Hospital
(Special to "Telegraph")
thy Telegraph. Copyright. Talagraphis Mer
Ordinaner, 1894. Raerived April . . .m.)
New York. Apr. 4. It is authoritatively learn- ed that Mr. W. H. Woodin is on the danger list at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital- United Press.,
CHURCH SCHISM IN GERMANY
BISHOP MUELLER
ATTACKED
"SECOND POPE"
Munich, April 4. Church dissension throughout Germany is still scothing, despite the apparent victory of Reichs- bishop Mueller in the recent struggles.
SINGAPORE DYNAMITE RAID
ENOUGH TO BLOW UP WHOLE TOWN
TWO CHINESE ARRESTED
MOTIVE STAYS A MYSTERY
(Special to "Telegraph">
(Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Mess Received April 3. 4.07 .m.)
mpra
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Singapore, April 5.
Mystery surrounds a high-
explosive seizure casc, brief
CIVIL SERVANTS TO BE RETIRED
68,000 Expecting Dismissal
'(Special to "Telegraph")
(By Talspreph. Copyright, Telegraphia Mon, அரங் Ordinance. 1236. Besired
April
. . .
Paris, Apr. 5.. Sixty-eight thousand members of the civil service are expecting to be compul- sorily retired on pension by the Doumorgue economy plan.-United Press. .
TRADE REPRISALS
details of which have been GERMANY'S THREAT TO disclosed by the Singapore police.
One thousand sticks of gelignite
FRANCE
(a species of gelatin-dynamite) QUOTA DISPUTE
which is estimated to be sufficient to blow up the whole of Singapore, was discovered during a police raid on a house occupied by two Chinese.
Washington, Apr. 4. The State Department is tical experience, are being given still proceeding cautiously in
suppression the and that too free a hand and are likely to the Samuel Insull affair, lest TOKYO'S PEACE The Cure of by the Ger-sisted of a hundred detonators,
it would take several years to build up a large fleet Germany has not the money for such luxuries.
lead the country to disaster. the former utilities magnate If the feeling gains widely should slip out of their grasp pressing any claim for equality in strength, the whole of the at the last minute.
It is atressed that the German Government has no intention of
with the big naval Powers-Ren-
ter.
for
The United States authorities structure so carefully built)
hope to be able to arrange up by President Roosevelt Insull to start back to America jaboard an American vessel which SHIP SCRAPPING and his principal assistants is due to leave Istanbul on April
and advisers may come 10. VISUALISE
ADMIRAL STANDLEY AND BATTLESHIPS
(Special to "Tefagraph")
(By Tapaph. Copyright. Telegraphí
Ordinance,
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9.51 0.
Received
Aprif
Washington, April 4. The scrupping of a number of old battleships as the result of the negotiations at the 1935 naval conference is visualised by the Navy Department.
Alternatively, another American
QUEST
GENERAL RECALL OF AMBASSADORS
tumbling to the ground. ship leaving on April 24 may be AN
The Saturday Evening Post, the used. magazine with the largest circula-
Offcials state that diplomatic ratifications require tion in the United States, contains and legal
a leading article to-day demanding them to move with the utmost cau- to prevent an the establishment of a strong and ton in order intelligent opposition Party to eleventh-hour technical loophole lead the country away from any which would permit Insult to Escape.--Renter's Special Service. Soviet collectivism.
GOVERNMENT BY AMATEURS
"It is impossible to escape from the conclusion," says the Journal, that the United States is having government by amateurs!"
"We cannot solve our problems with discredited European idealogy The modernisation of all battle-for Marxian philosophy.". ships should stand in abeyance
Meanwhile, the House of until the naval treaties are dis-
declared Presentatives is preparing for an синяе next
your,"
investigation of Professor Wirt's
Admiral William H. Standiey charges. Chief of Naval Operations, when giving bis views to the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives in connection with
Re-
CONGRESS ENQUIRY Reiterating that the accusatious
INTERESTING
REPORT
(Special to "Telegraph">
Tokyo, April 5. It is learned in official quarters that Mr. Koki Hirota, the Japan- ese Foreign Minister, has de- recall the Japanese
CUBAN MINISTER cided to
FOUND SHOT
SUICIDE TRAGEDY IN HAVANA
man Christions has evoked fur- ther condemnation Mueller.
find con- further important
The Chinese occupants of the
of Bishop house were arrested.
The explosives are believed to At a protest meeting held last have been stolen from quarry con-
of night, Dr. Beckmann. Duc- tractors.
Berlin, April 5.
On the eve of arrangements for the resumption of negotiations for the conclusion of a Franco- German commercial treaty, the imminence of a'trade war has be- come apparent.
The German Government an-
sseldorf, described Bishop Mueller Investigations are proceeding innounced to-night the preparation as "The Second Pope," adding an effort to establish whether any of a scheme for commercial re- that there was no alternative to sinister motive lay behind the prisals against France. body and soul resistance to the possession of such a large quantity The Germans contand that the new. Germo-Christian. policy. of high explosive, though it is, of imports into France of German the quantities allowed The secret police of Dortmund course, possible that, the dynamite goods in reveal that two Presbyterian was stolen merely for re-sale pur-under the quota system are still bodies have been expelled from the poses.-Reuter's Special Service, German Church for refusing to
obey the Protestant Muenster-Reuter,
Bishop of
FATAL MOTOR
MISHAP
EUROPEAN'S CAR
THOMAS SILVER AMENDMENT
ANOTHER BOOSTING
ATTEMPT
New York, Apr. 4.1
in Washington, ambassadors London and Paris and the OLD MAN RUNS INTO Japanese Minister in China next month in order to consult
Interest is being taken in the thom on latest diplomatic trends. Mr. C. R. Easterbrook was the Thomas Amendment to the Silver Mr. Hirota desires to obtain 4 driver of a car concerned in a Bill, which authorises Government thorough knowledge of the attitude fatal mishap in Nathan Road yes-purchases of silver until it reached
U.S.$1.29 an ounce, of various nations towards Japan, terday. before he begins work on what An aged Chinese got into the Likely action by Congress on the (Special to "Telegraph")
he calls "dispelling the emergency way of the car, and was knocked amendment is problematical.
Mesara, E. A, Pierce and Com- (Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Matmosphere" in the Far East ns down, receiving Injuries from
"conciliatory which he died after admission to pany report that futures were April provided in his
diplomatic polles."
hospital. The victim, Mok Chung- easier but banks brought near-bya decline. Añia Lands, On the return of Mr. Salto, wah, was 65 years of age. He on the Ambassador to Washington, Mr. was a native of the New Terri-through Reuter, Hirota will discuss with him out-tories,
sopra Ordinance,
2. 11.30 mm.)
Harrived
NANKING
Havana, April 5. a proposal to spend a sum of are silly, the Speaker of the House,
A sensation has been provided U.S.$20,000,000 this year for the Mr. Henry Rainey, said that Pro- modernisation of two battleships, fessor Wirt had not been able to by the suicide of the Secretary of
a single member of the the Department of Justice. Senor standing problems concerning the In Hennessey Road, Wanchai, the U.S.S. California and the U.S.S.name
government who was "fomenting Roberto Mendez Penate.
United States and Japan such as another accident occurred, the MARYSE HILTZ Tonno acc
He was found shot dead in the neutrality of Philippinos, the victim being She Tak, aged 45, Admiral Standley said that the revolution."
Mr. Rainey predicted that the in-circumstances leaving little doubt American attitude toward Blan-who was injured and conveyed to
the Recurity of old ships may be scrapped under
the hospital after being knocked down future Treaty
the tragedy is not Western Pacifle and the American by a car. arrangement.vestigations would last only a few that he died by his own hand. The chukuo,
motive for United Press,
known.
Government'e maximum concess- Only one theory has been ad-ons in regard to the naval ratio. vanced, that Senor Penate was Mr. Hirota hopes that his new possibly disappointed
his policy will result in the conclusion fallure to securo
nomination as of a Ten Year Security Pact with President of the State Council, the United States.
L.4 IN BREAKERS' HANDS
"IRENE" PIRACY
RECALLED
London, April 5. Famous for her work in out-
witling Chinese pirates in 1927, the submarine L4 is now being! broken up in a Thames shipyard.
hours.
He expects to name the members who will form the investigating to-morrow. United committee Preza.
MR. ROOSEVELT
UNFOUNDED ILLNESS
RUMOUR
(Special to "Telegraph”)
A member of the gang working (by Telegraph. Depyrighi, Tsiegraphic Mess
on the craft served in the L4 201 durng the war.
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24. 10.20 m.)
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New York, April 4.
at
REVISED INCOME TAX IN U.S.
T
an appointment which last night In regard to relations betweon : was awarded to Senor Carlos Japan and European Powers, the Manuel de la Cruz-United Press. problems are regarded as mainly HIGH RATES FOR THE
commercial.Central Newz.
HIGHER INCOMES
Washington, April 4. The Senate has tentatively ap proved the income tax and surtax schedule, to which the House of Representativen have already ngrood.
WORLD CHESS
TIBET: INVASION
ALEKHINE WINS
ATTEMPTS TO CROSS SECOND GAME
RIVER
Nanking, April 5. (Special to "Tolexraph”)
A message from Kang-Ting, It abolinhos the present income (De Teleprapos. Ooperions, Integraphie Ken-
etaten that tax of four per cont, on the first Ordinanes,
Apr capital of Skinng, saper
205. Frosted m.)
Tibetan troops have again made four thousand dollars of income. Baden-Baden, Apr. 4. Barious attempts at crossing the and eight por cont, on the exceRY. was entering Blas Bay in pirate Roosevelt's illness secina to persist,
a fat four per hands. The vessel did not stop a message from Miami states that Alekhine to-day won the second Chin-Sha-Klang River. They ap-and substitutes when called upon and she was the Nourmahal, with the President game in the world's cheau cham-pear to be concentrating on taking cont, as normal income tax. sunk by gunfire by the 14 which aboard, in remaining in the plonship contost here after thirty-Pa An whore the situation is re- It also provides surtaxes vary afterwards did wonderful rescue vicinity of Elbow Key, Florida.seven movca.-Neuter's, Special ported be critical-Centraling from, four to 69 per cent, on
Nows. work-Renter?
All aboard aro well.-United Press. Service.
Thigher incomon.-Router.
It will be rocalled that the L4, intercepted the as. Irene which While the rumour of President
to
i
further seriously hampered by be
ing subject to the decisions of "inter-professional committees," namely, persons interested in the goods concerned.
The German Government ie. therefore, creating similar or- ganisations to deal with French importa, although they are pre- pared to dissolve them immediate- Himilar ly that France takes action-Reuler.
CONVERSION TO HITLERISM
STOUTLY DENIED BY DR. SEVERING
Berlin, Apr. 5. His conversion to Hitlerism is stoutly denied by the former Socialist Minister, Dr. Karl Sover. ing, who repudiates the alleged INsages from his forthcoming
FLYING TO CANTON TO-DAY
pecin! to "Telegrapk"}
Nanking, April 4, Mile, Maryse Hiltz was accorded
book which are quoted as the basis of his change of belief,
Dr. Savoring is very distressed nt the false impression which has been created, and which originated in the Viennese news- paper, Reichspost, which carried an article which was subsequently circulated in Germany by the of- ficial Germany nows agency.- Reuter.
FOG OR MIST
an effusive reception by Chineso Government officials this after-
The anticyclone has Increased noon. A dinner party was held slightly in Intensity and now In her honour this evening at the covers North China and part of French Consulate, and Mr. Wang South Manchuria. The northern Ching-wet and other Chinese depression has passed into the Patifle to the north-east of Hok- leaders attended.
kaido. The Tongking depression
filling up. Local forecast:- East winds, moderate; fair at first with fog or mist, some rain later.
It is understood that Mile. Hiltz will continue her flight South to morrow morning-Central News.
FOR HONGKONG TO-MORROW.
Lator.
1. M. S. Bridgewater leaves' to- Owing to bad weather, Milo.
for morrow
Weihelwei, And the Hiltz did not depart to-day, post-Folkestone salis for Woosung anic! poning the light till to-morrow. Hankow, H. M. 9. Cumberland has It is learned that she proposes arrived at Amoy and salla on. Batur- to fly direct to Hongkong, not day for Shanghai, whore she is ex- stopping at Hangchow-Rotiter, pected on April 10.