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FOUNDED 1381 · No. 14247.
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 六拜禮 號七月四英港香
1934.
日四廿月二
'SINGLE COPY 19 CENTE
- BILI PER ANNUM
WHITEAWAYS
BLUE PENCIL SALE
EXTENDED TO
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 11TH.
PROF. WIRT NOT INSULL LAYS CLAIM TO FRENCH DEMAND BRITISH NATIONALITY
BACKING OUT
- JEISENACIMIERAZI KAREFOOTSTOLICIES A
CHARGES
MARYSE HILTZ LEAVES
AGAINST
BRAINS
Off For Hanoi This Morning
Mlle. Maryse Hiltz, the French airwoman, took off from Kai Tack for Hanoi, at 10.35 a.m. this morning.
The trip is expected to take from four to five hours.
w
SECRET STETTIN TRIAL
CONCENTRATION CAMP
ILL-TREATMENT
TRUST
AGREES TO GIVE EVIDENCE
IN WASHINGTON ON TUESDAY
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Telomp. Copyright,
Agre Ordinance. ZAVA.
7. 4.8499.)
Integraphie BEAU
Received April
New York, Apr. 6. Professor William A. Wirt, orginator of the accusation that members of the Roosevelt Brains Trust are "fomenting revolution"
POLICE CHIEFS the United States, is not seek-
SENTENCED
(Special to "Telegraph”)
iky Teleorak. Depeche. Teiscraphis Me
Ordinance,
#)
7. R. a.m.)
2301.
Received April
Berlin, April 6. That all the grim stories
ng to back out of his statements.
Mr. Bulwinkle, the chairman of the Committee appointed by Mr.
Princess Marla of Italy, whose name rumour is connecting with Archduke Otto of Hungary. It is suggested that their marriage may be arranged to further coment Italy's relations, with Austria and Hungary.
Rainey, Speaker of the House of HOUSING IN
Representatives, to
investigate
the charges, has received a tele- gram from Professor Wirt, from his home at Gary, Indiana, an- nouncing that he will appear
of brutality in Nazi concen-cfore the Committee on Tuesday tration camps in different at Washington.
Hitherto, Professor Wirt has parts of Germany have not
to reveal the been invented seems to be firmly declined
accuses, although he declared that he had indicated by a trial at Stet-names of the men he tin which concluded to-day. been personally informed of the revolutionary scheme by them- None of the facts of the case United Press. have received the light of publicity, however, the trial being held in camera.
Draconic sentences were imposed by the Stettin Court on three police with charged officials who were maltreating persons in the concen- trating camp at Bradow,
PRIME MINISTER'S PROPHECY
ENGLAND
SOME STRIKING FIGURES
HUNDREDS BUYING OWN HOMES
London, Apr. 0.
LAST BID FOR FREEDOM
LONDON LAWYER
ASSISTING
INTERVENTION SOUGHT
Istanbul, April 6. Broken in health, but still fighting to preserve his liber- ty, Mr. Samuel Insull is now seeking to substantiate a claim to British nationality in order to avoid extradition to the United States.
LE BOURGET AIR TRAGEDY
French Officar Burned To Death
สม
(Special to "Talegraph")
ry Jelsprath. Copyright. Telagraschio Demo
Ordinance. #1 Racired April 7. Kåt mo.}
Le Bourget, April 6, Captain Gaubouss, of the French Air Force, was burned to death this even- ing when his plane suddenly crashed and burst into flames. There was no hope of rescue. The wreck was few a blazing mass in ¿ seconds-Reuter's ́ Special-
Service,
החשדותיכם
As his last bid for freedom: CONGRESS SNUBS
Inkull is now exchanging tele- grams with n well-known London lawyer in the hope of establishing his claim to British nationality and thus securing the intervention of the British Government.
'The news of the effort has aroused some speculation con- cerning
the of his
claim. Insu was born in Lon- don in Novem- ber. 1866-he is now in his 75th year--and
ceived his entire education in Eng- land, at private schools in Lon- don, Rending and Oxford-
WALL STREET
STOCK EXCHANGE
CONTROL
GOING
A.
AHEAD
WITH BILL
Washington, April 6.
Congress machinery continues
to work on the proposals for the
SANCTIONS
NEW NOTE
TO BRITAIN
MR. NORMAN DAVIS COMES IN
DISARMAMENT ACTIVITY ·
(Special to "Telegraph")
(De Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphio Ma enves Ordinance. 13A. Received April 7, 8.54 0.19.)
Paris, April 6. Negotiations between Bri- tain and France on the question of guarantees of
execution of the Disarma ment Convention are expect.
ed to take place shortly..
A disarmament Note was handed to the British Ambassador, Lord
Mr. Norman Davis, whoso talk with Sir John Símon yesterday in view of the negotiations now proceeding regarding guarantees of execution of any Dhiarmament Convention that may be agreed.
AIR FORCE ECONOMY
Tyrrell, to-day, accepting the sug! SLASHING ATTACK gestion that further discussions take place.
However, it was indicated that a further Note is being drafted for
presentation to the British Govern
ment during the week-end, which I will definitely outline, it is expected,
guarantees.United Presz.
FRENCH PROPOSALS.
Paris, Apr. 6.
IN U.S.
"SECRET MURDER'
OF-PILOTS
(Special to "Telegraph”i
Tulegraph. Copyright, Fatigraphie Mer dan Ordinance, 1881. Received April F.N.SH Q.M.)
[ages]
Another armaments memorar- control of transactions on the duin to Britain is expected within a stock exchanges, despite the at-week proposing that the semi-mil
New York, April 6. tempts to torpedo the measure tary organisation of Europe should
Congress activities seeking and predictions that no legislation be rendered harmless, that French will be forthcoming this session. armaments should remain at their economies in the cost of air He went to the
The Banking Committee of the present level, that the observance of force equipment, following re- the Convention should be subjected velations of excessive profits by United States in February 1881 Senate to-day unanimously accept to strict control, and that sanctions, manufacturers during the Black when he was twenty-one, becoming ed an amendment to
should be primarily economic, immediately applied to violators of Enquiry, were strongly criticised
to-day. the Convention.
home until
Samuel Iosull
the
Also
In the past fifteen years, no few-secretary to the late Thomas Edi drafted Stock Exchange Control er than 2,175,000 new houses have on and had made America his Bill, excluding the small exchanges
his flight from the from regulation. been-erected in England and of Chicago police, after the collapse The spokesmen of both the this number nearly 1,900,000 have of his great utility combine which House Sub-Committee and the heen built in the last ten years is said to have involved a los Senate Banking Committee sixty per cent, of them by private
of £400,000,000.
made it clear that further quick enterprise.
action in contemplated, making it Though the population of Bri-
virtually certain that the Bill which reach both Houses next week.
MARGINAL TRADING.
Stettin, which has since been closed Day of Helicopter Notain has increased by only 2,000,000
down.
Herr Hoffman, the chief detective
Far Distant
London, April 6. years Although the weather was
of the district, was sentenced to thirteen years hard labour, another detective was given five
bard labour and a third five years' favourable for flying and snow ordinary imprisonment.
Various civilians charged with storms were reported in the mid- Prime Minister the same offence received sentences and areas, the prisonment.Reuter'a Special Ser-
since the
HOUSE IN BERKSHIRE, Be always retained a close in war, the new housing accommodation provided is sul-rest in the land of his birth and cient for three times that number. he constructed a memorial to his in 1931 when he con-
new WIBK of the
new homes
parents
.
that the question of fixed marginal requirements, which comes up on Monday, will be left in the hands of the Federal Reserve Board, which will presumably adjust res
new conditions. quirements to market ̈ and
Grentest activity has taken place tributed £27,000 towards the There are strong indications in the suburbs of London where building of a un-early 500,000
have London Temperance Hospital. been built in a derade,
He has a house in Berkshire even This development is reflected in to-day. the outcial returns of Bunding So-]
An American journalist writing cieties which show that since 1922, of him only two years ago, before the uniount advanced on mortgages the crash, said that despite his inns substantiany Increased exch
in the seven years, the anor years in America, "he is a your. He was accompanied by the Air un total nas nearly doubled and English as roast beef and
pronounces all his "h's."-Reuter.} Minister, Lurd Londonderry, and it is predicted that the 1983 figure both Ministers were the guests of will reach £100,000,000 nearly the Lord Mayor at a civle 1-£10,000,000 above the record total
for 1931-British Wireless.
varying from ten to two years' im-new to-day to Liverpool to open
rice.
KAILAN STRIKE
·MENACE
the new nerodrome near that city.
cheon.
The visit marked the inaugura- tion of the new Liverpool-Glasgow-
Belfast-Liverpool-Birmingham Air PRINCE GEORGE'S TOUR
VIOLENT THREATS BY Line Service.
WORKERS
(Special to "Teisgraph")
Nanking, Apr. 6
A projected extension or the OF SOUTH AFRICA
scheme will ink Liverpool through
Heybridge, the new airport in
Essex, with the Continent.
The Prime Minister, in opening Sailing for Home on
aerodrome sald
the
air-ways were to be in the future the path- The Nanking Ministry of Indus-way to prosperity and he believed try is deeply concerned over the the day was not far distant when strike crisis at Tongahan.
people would be able to rise into
The Ministry has requested the the air from a space thirty feet Hopel Provincial Government to square and land equally easily. send additional armed police to pro- British Wireless,
tect the Kailan mining districts. The altuation is rendered serious by
the menacing attitude
of the
strikers, who threaten to take steps to cut off the electric and water supplies in the Tongshan mining aren-Central News.
KING'S MUSIC MASTER
PRICE OF TIN SOARS
HIGHEST FOR SIX' YEARS
London, Apr. 7 The price of tin on the London
to-day exchange advanced 92/6d to £243/17/6d por SIR HENRY WALFORD being the highest recorded since DAVIS APPOINTED January 1928,-British Wireless.
London, April 6.
$4048
Windsor Castle
(Spodia) to "Telegraph")
7. A. a.m.)
stili
1
WAR EXPLOSION
CASE ECHO
UNITED STATES TO SEEK RE-HEARING
(Special to "Telegraph")
7. 8.58 0.26.)
COTTON EXCHANGE
busi-
CONTROL. Stricter control of apeculation on the cotton exchange market is
are
FRIENDLY BATTLE.
Addressing a meeting at Now Landon,... Connecticut, _cx-Senator. Hirman Bingham said that Con- A friendly battle is expected to
"secret murder by lowering the Army take place in regard to the last two Kress was trying to get votes by
specifcallons of the new items on the French programme.
France does not want any loop-plunes in order to help the little holes while Britain is averse to any aeroplane builders.
"We have made it easter for au rigid obligations.-Router.
enemy to kill our military pilots," the declared.
He said that competitive bid- The Lord Privy Seal, Mr.ding should not be insisted upon Anthony Eden, will leave for in the letting of contracts for planes.... Geneva on Monday to take part in the provision of army the meeting of the Bureau of the United Press. Disarmament Conference.
MR. EDEN'S PLANS.
London. Apr. 6.
Questions regarding guarantees
of the execution of any disarma-NO
SPECTACULAR
FLIGHT
ment convention that may be agreed upon is still the subject of exchanges between the British and! French Governments. The Freneh broadly views on security were stated in the Note recently re- U.S. NAVY RUMOURS ceived in reply to the
British
also in prospect, voluntarily.
Increased margin requirements for transactions in cotton futures memorandum, and, subsequently, contemplated in the revised further inquiries arising out of ¡Code for Colton Exchanges which that note were addressed to the
the committee of the New York Quai D'Orsay. Cotton Exchange in discussing.
The requirements will be ten per cent. on ten thousand bales or less, fifty per cent. on trans- actions between ten thousand and Afty thousand bales; and twenty per cent, on larger holdings.
(Dy Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie
Ordinance. 124. Recaived April
CODE AUTHORITY. New York, April 6. The proposed creation of a Codo It is understood that the United Authority le meeting with etrong ille Telegraph. Coperchi. Tornio M States proposes to ask the Mixed opposition on the ground that It New Orleans and Ordinanes, 1735 Revised Apr Claims Commission to re-open the would give
US $10,000,000 suit against Ger- Chicago an equat voice in control, Capetown, Apr. 4. many in the Black Tom explosion and that therefore, New Orleans and Chicago in combination could After a brief but crowded visit to case.
The new application is based outvoto New York-Router. Elizabethville, whore he stayed for
Prince upon, an afdavit attributed to only twenty-four hours,
Labour George to-day left for Lobito Bay James Larkin, the Irish where he will embark abourd the agitator, in which Larkin referred WANG CHING WEI liner Windsor Castle for England. to a man employed by the present -Reuters Special Service,
Hitler regime as agent, who he says knows all about the Tom plot.United Pr
His Excelloney the Officer Adminis by Lering the Government has appointed ton, Mr. E. P. H. Lang to not as Regis
trar, Supreme Court, Registrar of Companies, Official Administrator and Omcial Trustee.
Black
ap-
TREASURY BILLS
London, April 6. A total of £80,390,000 was plied for in today's tondera £40,000,000 of Treasury bills.
The amount allotted in bills His Excellency the Governor ban
to be three months was £38,000,000. appointed Mr. J. J. Hayden Oficial Itocolver in Bankruptcy and The average rato per cent, was Registrar of Trade Marks and Lot17/0.010, compared to 17/9.90d a
week ago.-British Wireicas,
The wedding is announced to take Sir Henry Walford Davis has place shortly of Mr. Dotmot Francis been appointed. Master of Music Joseph MacDermot, of the British to His Majesty in the room of the Embassy, Tokyo, to Miss Betty Caro Jate Sir Edward Elgar.-British lino Prigle Steele, of 100, Prince terz Patent.
Edward Road, Kowloon... Wirelcon.
at
PROTEST
PU YI CORONATION
SPEECH
Geneva, April 7.
morrow.
REPLY APPROVED.
sades
DENIED
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Telegraph, Copyright. Teleormule Ser
Ordinance. 2821. Received April m}
New York, April 6 The US. Navy Department, to-
A Reply to these inquiries has now been approved by the French Cabinet Council and it is under- stood that it will be in the hands day issued a formal denial of re- of the British Government to-ports that the naval air armis contemplating a mase light to Ita torms will be carefully Italy in 1936 to repay the Bulbo studied by the Ministers before visit.
The Bureau of Aeronantles Mr. Eden's departure for Geneva. Recent developments in the dia-pointed out that the organisation armament altuation were discuss-of auch a flight would be a highly ed this morning at a meeting at expensive luxury. It would be far
planes, the Foreign Office between the better to spend the money on the
John construction of Sceretury (Sir Foreign Simon) and Mr. Norman Davis, United Prenn. United States representative at the Disarmament Conference.—
British Wireless.
SIR ROBERT PEEL PASSES AWAY
new
His Excellency the Governor Juan made the following appointments in the Naval Volunteer Defence Corps: James Petrie, to be Probationary Lieutenant, Robert Stock, to be Probationary
Edward Lieutenant, Grongman, to be Probationary Pay. master Sub-Lieutenant.
band of Beatrice Lillie, the famous
The text of the apeech of Mr Grandson of Founder of actress
for Wang Ching-wei, protesting against the coronation of Mr. Pu Yi an Emperor in Manchurin, which was communicated to the League on March 10 was issued to-day, hav ing been communicated members-Renter.
to all
London Police
Sir Robert was a grandson of the famous Primo Minister who found- ed the Metropolitan Police Force and was the original "Bobby" and London, Apr. 6. also provided the underworld with The death has occurred of Sir their description of a policeman as Robert Peel, the fifth baronot, husa "peoler."Ieuter.