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11, 1934.
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GLY RUMOURS IN KURAMOTO DISAPPEARANCE
HITLER-MUSSOLINI MEETING
Fixed Definitely For
Wook-End
Rome, June 11.
between
The meeting Herr Hitler and Signor Mussalini will be held on Friday and Saturday at the Villa Stra, belonging to the Government, between Padua and Venice.
Hitler and von Neurath will arrive at Venice by air and join Mussolini at the Villa-Reuter.
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MURDERED BY POLICE!
TAIPO ROAD SMASH
TWO HUNDRED FOOT DROP MISSED BY INCHES
GOOD SAMARITAN
THANKED
Mr. C., L. Rocha, of 231 Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, had a narrow escape from serious injury as the result of a motor mishap which occurred on the Taipo Road on Saturday afternoon.
INDIGNANT · DENIAL BY NANKING
NOT A TRACE YET FOUND
FABRICATIONS:
SINISTER MOTIVE
Nanking, June 11.
The whereabouts of Mr. Kura- moto, Japanese vice-Consul at Nanking, still remains a mystery, despite the efforts of the local
gendarmerie, and the detective branch, who have scoured the
whole city without securing the
slightest clue.
It is conjectured in one quarter
Prince Fumimaro Konoys, President of the Japanese Hours of Poers, who is now in the United States an unofficial envoy for the purpose of im- proving ralations between the two nations. He was enter. tained to luncheon by Pre- sident Roosevelt on Saturday,
that he may have left the capita! ROOSEVELT
on a private tour of the surround- ing districts.
It is reported from Shanghai that some person or persons claim- ed to have sighted Mr. Kuramoto pass along a Street at Hongkew In a motor car. The yesterday observer said that "Mr. Kuramoto" seemed to be making a hasty trip towards the Bund, where he might
caught
Dalren-bound have
As he was approaching the 6-milepost, a dog ran across steamer. the road at a point where ropairs
C
Commenting on this report. are in progress, the rond being Japanese spokesman stated that very slippery. Mr. Rocha swerved it was merely a tumour. to avoid the dog, and in doing so his car badly skidded.
For a moment, it seemed that the car might dash over the em bankment of a point where there was a sheer drop of some 200 feet, but showing great presence-of mind, Mr. Rocha managed to keep it on the road and steer it straight into the wall of a cutting.
The front part, of the car was.) badly damaged, whilst Mr. Rochal
Luckily, an
unknown motorist
VISIT TO HONOLULU,
JAPANESE HOPES
FOR TALK
PRINCE CHICHIBU MAY .GO (Special to "Tolograph") By Triegraph, Copyright. Trierathle Me
The Nanking authorities say that any suggestion that Mr. Kuramoto might be the victim of ia almost kidnapping gang unbelievable, as
kidnapping | 71, 7,62 0,m.) 717 ense had ever occurred in the capital:-Contrai-News.--
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Ordinance,
1391. Reentred
und
ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF US. STEEL STRIKE
JOSE RIVERA
SPAIN'S SUBTERRANEAN WAR BETWEEN THE SOCIALISTS AND GOVERNMENT
THOUSANDS ARRESTED IN PEASANT STRIKE
Madrid, June 10.
A grim underground struggle between the Socialists and the Government is being relentlessly pursued. Politi- cal tension is acute and observers prophecy a desperate flare-up unless the situation undergoes a dramatic change.
Ruthless methods are being employed by the Government in efforts to stamp out the wave of popular reaction and thousands of political prisoners have been incarcerated in the last week or two.
The great strike of agricultural workers in
Badajoz Province,
of
affecting thousands farm GAS EXPLOSION
labourers, continues without a sign of a settlement.
The strikers proclaim that they see the Anest are prepared to harvest for half a century rot in the fields rather than yield to the demands of their employers.
FIERCE FIGHTING.
They say that they have starved! for two years and can starve for a bit longer. At least a hundred and Afty thousand men are affected.
the Fierce fighting between agricultural workers and the civili guards continues Intermittently.
SUFFERERS
AID OF PERMANENT VALUE FOR SOME
VICTIMS' CASES UNDER REVIEW
THREAT
Decision Postponed
Till Thursday Washington, June 10.
A decision regarding the threatened steel strike has been postponed until June 14, when a special conven- tion summoned at Pitts- burgh of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to decide the question. General Johnson, NRA Administra- tor, has been invited to attend-Reuter.
SUVERNEURON
PROF. TUGWELL
THE BLIND COMPOSER DEAD
PASSING OF FREDERICK DELIUS:
ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST EMINENT
(Special to "Telegraph")
By Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic Aler -June Ordinance, ZED Reçelerd 11 8.35 del
anpes
London, June 10. Frederick Delius, the famous British composer, died to-day at his home near Paris, Grez-sur-Loing, be-
TO FACE MUSIC ing the third of England's
TO APPEAR BEFORE SENATE
PROMOTION IN OFFICE
(Special to "Telegraph")
most eminent musicians to pass away within a few. weeks.
Virtually an invalid in the clos- ing years of his life, he had since 1924 Buffered from the additional handicap of blindness, and was generally referred to na the Blind Composer.
His mind remained clear, and active In spite of his blindness and of his partial paralysis caused by: multiple sclerosis. Whenever it was fine, he was taken down to alt By Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic Me In his garden, and thanks to wire- less he was able to listen to con- certs. Including performances of his own works.
atpa
(rdinance, ANPA. ~~Racaived
15. 7.63 d.m...
Washington, June 10.
k.
In 1929, Eric Fenby. a young Great interest has been Yorkshireman, went to Grez and a aroused in politico-economic system of musten! dictation war worked out by them which enabled. Contributors to the Fund circles by the announcement Dells to composu more casily and instituted by the Telegraph for the relief of sufferers in the that
021
his creative faculty with the result that he completed a of Dowson's 10am "Cynara".
Washington, June 10. Growing hostility to the existing cash grants made. further sums appointment as Under-Secretary of of life by the remarkable tribute
Prezi-
STONED TO DEATH.
(L
Rexford stimulated Professor THOUSANDS IN PRISON.
of gasworks disaster will be in. Tugwell is to appear before fine setting The prisons in hundreds small townships in the South of terested to learn that the ad- the Senate.
with ministration of the monies sub-
COMPANION OF HONOUR. Spain
overflowing are
Mr. Tugwell has been asked to thousands of peasants, who have scribed is still being proceeded
appear before the Agricultural
Much gratified by being made the Senate Leen arrested for "coerelon" dur-with.
Committee of
with his Companion of Honour in January. ing the peasants' strike.
In addition to the emergency Monday in connection
1929, Delius was given a new lease Japanese official circles, strenu-regime is Blustrated by two fur liave now been distributed in cases the Department-of-Agriculture.--
puid him by his native land in ously NANKING ANXIETY.
engaged for some time
He has hitherto occupied the November which took the form of past in efforts to improve relather events during the week-end, which have undergone review. Nanking. June 11.
tions between Japan and the revealing the Faselst organisation The process of reviewing the worst position of Assistant Secretary of musical festival in London lust-
as the elief point of attack. cases is still continuing.
Agriculture and he has been much ing several days at which Sir his are considering
An attempt was made on the life Excellent use has also been made distrusted by men of conserva Thomas Beechara conducted Government leaders are growingUnited States, suffered injuries when the driving anxious about the disappearance of Pacific meeting between
the possiblitics of a dramatic mid-
of Jose Primo de Rivera, son of the of the funds by setting up in tive views, who claim that his principal work. The composer at one of the business some of the sufferers who writlags and polietes have shown tended all the performances and forced against his! wheel was
dent Roosevelt and highly-placed at Dictator. and thest. His face was also badly! Mr. Kuramoto.!
principal figures in the Fuscist lost all their belongings in the him to be a man resolved on re- declared that the festival had been
the time of his life. urukul.
High Chinese officials, interview-Japanese emissaries.
making the social order. Party. The front of his car was disaster.
Sir Thomas who had done no The President is expected to riddled with bullets, but Jose
In one case, in which nine mem-
ONE OF BRAINS TRUST.
much to rescue Delius's works Lers of a family were burned to who was proceeding in the op-ed this morning, expressed in-
PY reports to the sail for Honolulu as soon as pos- escaped unhurt,
closure of the posite direction turned back und dignation
sible after the
death, including the father
He was one of the five Pro-from neglect, claimed that Delius rendered assistance to Mr. Rocha, effect that "Mr. Kuramoto was present session of Congress and
shoemaker), the widow and other fessora appointed by President had written more beautiful musle have readily
been who was later taken to hospital
Chinese Special Japanese lenders
In the full view of hundreds of survivors have
supplied Roosevelt as his advisera who were than any other living composer. for treatment. He has since been kidnapped by
Police outside the Japanese Con-seized upon the suggestion that
for bathers at the fashionable Madrid with leather, tools, machine, etc. dubbed the "Brains Trust" by the The musician returned to Franco discharged.
the the opportunity be taken
this bathing bosch, Playa, on In another case, in which aAmerican Press. Like Professor determined to compose more works. Mr. Rocha
wishes to express nulate and murdered later."
friendly conversations
Manzanares River, sixteen-year- father and son were burned to Moley and Professor Berle he having been greatly inspired by the reception accorded to him in thanks to his helper, who not
A Chinese official expressed the half-way house.
leath and the mother and baby came from Columbia University.
England. only rendered him personal aid
Observers paint out that Prince) uld youth. beileved to be a Fuscist,
eminently was stoned to death by Com-severely burned, the widow has
Prof. Tugwel! I meeting the but also arranged for the damaged hope that the public abroad would Chichibu would be ear to be towed back to kow-not be misted by false reports on suited for the mission on account munists in bathing-sults.-Reuter been supplied with a hawker's Senate Committee in response to
licence and money with which to
His music is for the most part the Kuramote case which were of his popularity in the United
buy baskets and dowors. She has an Invitation by the chairman. [fabricated and spread for certain States, his high rank and his
he will be closely questioned re- wistful retrospection even in its to report again to the distributing Senator Smith, and it is likely that dreamy and contemplative, full of relationship with the Emperor.
centre later.
garding the trend of his policies.ayer moments, the embodiment of Such ↑ meeting of Prince
Applications have also been "sinister motives.”—Beuter.
Chichibu and President Roosevelt
The Committer has been in-emotion recollected in tranquil- made for hawkera'. licences for
In an Interview he said he would be highly significant from
other women who
their structed by the Senate to report ity". Jost Japanese viewpoint as the
Tugwell as Under-Secretary of heard while in Florida. It was Department favourably or un-much more harmonious than the favourably on Tuesday.
negro "spirituals" and was quite an invention of Professor Tugwell says he haujuslike jazz, no reason to believe that the Com-Americans who had taken ragtime mittee is in any way hostile to and pretended that it was negro musle. Dellus was very aovere on" him.-United Press.
some of the modernista, describing their compositions as "wrong note musle" and declaring that they were merely sensationalists.
Deliuk was born at Bradford,
(Continued on Page 7)
loon.
BILLION DOLLAR BILL FOR ROADS
Rushed Through Congress
In Two Days
Washington, June 10,
The Rond Construction Bill,
nt
NEW BATTLESHIPS
FOR ITALY
WISTFUL MUSIC.
Prince has just concluded a good 35,000 TONNERS TO BE possessions in the fire, and the on the nomination of Professor owes much to the negro music he
WATCHMAN
JUDGMENT
GETS
the
will visit to Manchukuo-United' Presa.
PROMISSORY NOTE CLAIM Kwong Tat Shing Toag, alias providing for the expenditure of a Kwong Wo, No, night watchman thousand million dollars on now of the South China Morning Post. higliways in the United States as was the successful plaintiff in a claim before the Chief Justice, Mr. an unemployment relief measure, has been quickly passed through A. D. A. MacGregor, this morning the House of Representatives and for $4,480 odd, the amount of two: the Senate and has been sent to promissory notes and interent.
the The White House for sident's signature.--Reuter.
Defendant was Chan How-chuen. Free/o Tai Ping Theatre, Des Voeux Road West, and he did not appear In Court.
ARMOURED TANKS
+
AMERICAN OFFER TO AUSTRALIAN POLICE The Australian police force are not allowed to carry firearms ex cept under unusual conditions of danger. A American armament
Mr. H. C. Mucnamara, instructed by Mr. F. G. Nigel, of Johnson, Stokes, and Masters, appeared for clatiount and gained Judgment for the whole amount claimed and costs.
JAPAN INVADES CARIBBEAN
AMERICAN TRADE REPORT
agre
JAPAN'S BOOST IN HAITI (Spacles to "Telegraph")
LAID DOWN
-
Rome, June 10, Following Signor Mussolini's decision to build
police have been most considerate and helpful in these cases.
up the Italian STUDENT FEUD AT Navy to the limits of the Washing- ton Treaty, announced at the end
of lust month, two great battle-
ships are to be constructed.
UNIVERSITY
An official announcement states SIXTEEN INJURED AT
that the vessels will each be of 85,000 tons and will be laid down before the end of the present year, one at Trieste and, the other at Genoa-Reuter..
the first sevòn Hallian Писа
(ly Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphie Mes- | Dlace. Kwong Tat, brother of the plain-
Ordinance,
Hoceford TAPS.
June tiff, said he lent the money out for a Kwong Wo.
Plaintiff and that about five
yenr.
CHAOYANG
Peking, June 11.
The compound of the Chaoyang University threatened to become
CHANGTE STILL AGROUND
PASSENGERS
BEING
com-
TRANSFERRED battle arena yesterday when months of the hostile groups of students attempted
Salvage operations on the 8.9. which to settle a dispute by a free fight, Changte, which ran aground in started in October last year, The timely arrival of a contingent
way to Hongkong, have Japan had furnished more than of armed police stopped it before Manila Bay last work while on her fourleen per cent, on Haitian imit developed seriously. ports, taking a leap into secon
The trouble arose out of a dia menced, and there la every possi- bility of her being re-ilonted with- pute on Saturday over the allot in a day or so, "The only country supplying ment of seats in the dining hall
On, enquiry at the agents, more in naturally, the United of the university to students from Mesara. Butterfleld and Swire, this Washington, June 10.States, which provided no less Honan Kwangtung which!
morning we were informed that of thinn fty-three per cent, of the developed into a provincial foud. they had received very little in- The recent offer of an years ago he became entitled to
grent expansion Amply a muret tank to the about $8,000 from his father's Japanese trade that has follow-ower than thus percentage is Sixteen students were injured formation of the mishap, but able Victorias police department has estate and gave it to his brother ed her mercantile invasion of than the U.S.A. has been Central News Agency.
Importa from Japan have gain considerable to invest. When he tried to call the Caribbean is further re-accustomed to expect. therefore caused
In Bomo of the money on vealed by Department of Com- od steadily in the last two years, The P. and 0; liner Rajputana is with the amusement, anys Austral News.
The tank offered is understood promissory notes a year ago,
tonth per cent. of the total Haitian English mails, at 10 am. on Wednes to carry a 87 m.m, gun, a machine fondant asked for time. Not aerce reports on Haltion foreign although Japan is taking only one due here from Singapore
cent of the loan had been repald.
The report shows that during exports-United Press. gun, and toxic gas equipment.
3
de-
trade.
day,
and
to state that the vessel had not been holed.
of
The passengers are proceeding' to Hongkong aboard the Empress Asia, arriving here on Wednesday.
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