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No. 1400
-#1 VEA MONDAY, DECEMBER
3, 1934.
日七廿月十
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DUNLOP
TYRES
REDS UTTERLY ROUTED IN WEEK-END BATTLE
BLACK WEEK-END
OF SPORT
THREE KILLED IN]
TENSION EASES
IN EUROPE
HOME SOCCER FEARS DISPELLED BY
ASTONISHING
COINCIDENCE
(Special to "Telegraph”)
the Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphis Mes- sages Ordmance, 1284. Ruselund, Dormbet
2, 4st a.m.)
London Dec. 2. This was England's darkest week-end in sport- ing history. No less than three players in different football matches were fatal-} ly injured during the course of the games.
The first fatality was Raleigh, Gillingham centre forward, who was injured in the first five minutes of the game with Brigh-
ton.
He and another player collided,
GERMAN STAND
REACTION TO BRITISH DEFENCE DEBATE
London, Dec. 2.
Following the British statement of policy in the House of Commons debate on Imperial Defences, and the broad hint that Germany should give the Powers some reassuring word, there have been rapid develop ments of disarmament and peace problems in European capitals. The new factors in' the situation appear to he of a more hopeful character,
The most notable of these developments is Baron von Neurath's declaration that Germany is ready to consider sympathetically any proposals for Europe's pacification.
Germany's attitude is at prosent
their heads coming together with defined as one of "passive rests- great force, when they both jumped tance." She is determined to take in an attempt to head the ball.
no steps towards return to the
Raleigh was stunned, but he re-! turned to played and went through League of Nations without being almost the whole of the second given a formal lavdiation. But she halt. Thon, towards the end of in equally anxious to avoid the match, he headed the ball polemies likely to handicap her cleanly, and fell unconscious-future prospects. He died in hospital,
SIMILAR ACCIDENT
The same sort of thing bap pened to W. T. Marshall, playing centre forward for the Marion Reserve team in the Forest Dean League. Marshall, unlike Raleigh, was an amateur.
The suggestion that Germany may raise the question of the re- turn of her Colonica or the matter of the Polish Corridor, is regarded as premature. These are likely to arise until her arms- ments equality claim is settled.
not
Herr von Ribbentrop's visit to Paria has aroused much specula- He, too, collided with an oppon- tion; "but it is believed unlikely ent when heading the ball and then that it will lead to any now direct collapsed unconscious.
in the Club's headquarters,
THIRD DEATH
11e dled Franco-German talks, 15 the French atlitude is: "Let Germany first return to the League." France not likely to alter her stand in
Another amateur, Ronald this connection, " Griffiths, playing for Croydon,
SURPRISE FOR
PARIS
FRANCO-GERMAN CONVERSATION
Paris, Dec. 2. At the request of the Ger man Ambassador, M. Laval, the French Foreign Minister, this evening received Herr Von Ribbentrop, special en- voy of President Hitler.
The news of the Franco. German-conversations-came- as a complete surprise to Paris, as it was widely be- Heved that Herr Von Ribben. trop had already left lor Berlin-Reuter,
Meanwhile, it is reparted from ECHIGOMMI
was struck in the body by a hard-Rome that the League Committee kicked ball.
He was knocked unconscious and died in hospital.—Rauter Special.
Railways Bid For Silk Trade
SNATCHED
JAPANESE
BY
MILLIONS LOST
TO AMERICA
(Special to "Telegraph")
an the Saur plebiscite is nearing this highly important expression agreement on arrangements for
of feeling-Reuter
AID FOR VETERANS
U.S. RELIEF FOR EX-SOLDIERS
COMPROMISE LIKELY
RECOVERY'S UPWARD TREND
HUGE EMERGENCY
EXPENDITURE'
The serve at the funeral of King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia. At left, King Carol of Rumania is seen in company with Fresident Lebrun of Francs, whilst on extreme right Prines George of England is walking beside King Boris of Bulgaria.
RUSSIA MOURNS FAMED LEADER
President Lebrun, who is to preside at the French Colonial Conference being opened in Paris to-day.
SHANGHAI'S VISITORS
BABE RUTH LEADS INVASION
SLAIN BY ASSASSIN
WORKING MEN PAY TRIBUTE
IMPRESSIVE SCENES
(Special to "Telugraph")
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CASUALTIES AT HIGH FIGURE
NAVAL TREATY
ABROGATION
Japan Takes Hor Initial Stop
Tokyo; Dec.. 3, The process of serving notice of Japan's desire to terminate the Washington Naval Treaty at the end of 1936 was. started at to-day's Cabinet meeting, which, it is expected, will refer the matter immediately to the Privy Council for approval.
The Privy Council will formally approve the noti fication of the abrogation of the
Washington Naval Treaty at a plenary session in, the presence of the Emperor on December 20, It is reported.-Central News.
TERRIBLE TOLL IN
+
WUCHOW OUT OF
DANGER
LARGE INVADING FORCE TRAPPED
KWANESE-HUNAN JOINT, ACTION.
Changsha, Dec. 3. One of the most decisive and hard-fought battles ever waged between the Govern- ment forces and the Reds, since the commencement of the anti-Red campaign on the Hunan-Kwangsi border, is reported to have taken place in the vicinity of Chuenchow, within Kwang- Jai territory, over the week-
end.
The utter defeat of the Reds in this battle was quickly followed by their
AUSTRALIA general withdrawal from the Kwangsi. border dis-
FOURTEEN KNOWN
KILLED
MANY MISSING IN GALE
Melbourne, Dec. 3.– Fourteen persons have been killed and 6,000 rendered home-
He Trienranke Cameright. Integraphis Mapless by floods in the Gippsland des Ordinence, 111, Reesired, Decembar area, which followed a severe
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storm
tricts.
According to General Liu Chien- sui, Commander of the Hutcheso- Forces in pursuit ni the Itoda, nearly 10,000 casualties were in- ficted on the enemy during, tho engagement.
Five battalions of the Red survivors are being surrounded by the joint Kwangsi-Hunuz forces at a point to the south of Chuen- ehow.Central News,
EXAGGERATED REPORTS
That the reports received locally regarding the Red menace to Wuchow have been grossly ex-
Leningrad, Dec. 2. Seventeen are missing, and are aggerated, the Telegraph is able M. Sergei Kirov, murder-feared lost, from the steamship to authoritatively state to-day ed by a political enemy, lies
following an interview with local official who returned from Wuchow yesterday.
Coramba.
The township of Kooweerup, in state to-day in a red-where elx are dead and 2,000
"Wuchow has Hover bcon draped catafalque in the homeless, Is being evacuated. Re-
lief trains are carrying out the menaced, except in a general way" former Palace of Prince people, many of whom are suffering a Telegraph representative whe Potemkin,
Informed in the course of an favourite of from shock and exposure.
interview this morning. "Prac- Catherine the Great...
Gippsland is desolated and cut tically all the rumours origlaste From dusk to midnight columns of off by rail and telephone from any from the report, authentic in relief or detalled report of the itsef, of an Incursion of between working men, bearing flowers and disaster. Planes have been drop- 7,000 and 10,000 Reda Inta banners, filed past the Palace, under the glare of brilliant calcium lights, while an orchestra played Chopin's "Funeral March."
POLITICIANS AND BALL PLAYERS
Shanghai, Dec. 3.
The body will probably be sent Shanghai baseball", circies are to Moscow on Wednesday and will eagerly awaiting the arrival to lie in state for one day, after which morrow of the seventeen American cremation will take place, followed Big League baseball stars, in by burial in the wall of the ancient
Kremlin.. cluding the far-famed Babe Ruth, who left Kobe yesterday by the Empress of Canada after winning
ping food to many marooned people, northern Kwangsi about nine daya Bridges in all parts of the "As far as I was able to ascor district have been completely tain," said the informant, "that washed away.-Reuter,
PHILIPPINES' TYPHOON LOSS
AMERICAN FORECAST Washington, Dec. 1. The course of business over the next few months, it is expected here, will be generally upward, with all eighteen exhibition games played attempting to discover whether the LATEST REPORTS OF rate of recovery retarded in
nssassin, who is in custody, had DEATH AND DAMAGE The team, managed by Connte any confederates. Washington, Dec. 2.. January and February by Mack, will play one gams in Shang-
(Special to "Telegraph")
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SEEK ACCOMPLICES Meanwhile the political police are
It is stated, officially, that the
hai during this castern tour, and murderer is "Leonid Micolley," Legislative leaders are making Congressional outbursts.
active.
matters.
will be made next year.
Manila, Dec. 3.
Canada to Manila, via Hongkong. will continue on by the Empress of but his motive is not known. The have been killed and 70 are Eighteen are now, known to man is thought to be Leonid missing, while 15,000 are home- Meanwhile, American
and Vasilievich Nicolayev,30,; д
Meanwhile, a typhoon is threnton-
incursion was made with the primary object of obtaining am- muņition and food as the Com- munists were running very short of both. The Reds are very poorly
equipped and the Kwangai Generals
are quite confident that they are able to keep the Reds out of the Province.
The band of Reds which attack- ed to the north-east in the direc
(Continued on Page 5.)..
COTTON SALES ADVANCE
OCTOBERS SHOWS FINE FIGURES
(Special to “Talugraph”)~
Washington, Dec. Z. American railways are reported an effort to make the coming Probably four to five billions of to be socking modification of rates and other arrangements, in session of Congress both short and dollars in emergency expenditure an effort to recover at least a part of the trans-continental ailk It is apparent that the Adminis, Not much increase in commodity Chinese officials are preparing a former employee of the dissolved less, as a result of the recently Traffic, worth something over tration has virtually decided upon price averages is expected. The warm welcome for other American Leningrad branch of the Commis-reported typhoon which swept U.S.$6,000,000 annually to the threa outstanding controversial Federal Reserve Industrial Pro- visitors aboard the Empress. The zarlat for Workers' and Peasants Visayan Island on November 29. lines formerly.
The Governor-General of the around party has nothing to do. with the Inspection. duction, Indox in now
It is assumed that Micoliev, or | Philippines has signed a million Previously,
First, it is increasingly likely to seventy-five, but is expected to baseball players, but includes a Hilk
number of men noted in political Nicolayev, whatever his name may peso relief blit which was passed business from West to Enst const compromise on the veterans' hands reach eighty-five by April,
fields. They are: Senators Tybe, shot Kirov with a revolver, at the last session of the Legisla- Currency Inflation wil be a con- dings. McKellar, Gibson and Me- Inasmuch as the official notice of ture. The American Red Cross points was handled by the rall question by making payments to roads, special trains rushing from War veterans who are actually in tinual threat while Congress is in Adoo, and Representative Millard, the crime mentions "the trea- has donated U.S.$50,000 to relief. Ban Francisco and Seattle to the distress.
session. Dollar stabilization will all of whom will stop off in Shang- cherous bullet of a class enemy Eastern markets. But at present Secondly, the Administration is be an acuto issue due to the exhal-Reuter.}"
which killed the beloved leader of most of the rich cargo is trans anxious to escape any widespread pocted orisis in the European Gold
[the Leningrad- Bolshevists."ing northern Luzon-Reuter. ported by fast Japanese allk ex increase of taxation and is hoping Bloc,
United Press. {that press ships vla Panaroa.
Improved business
The housing programme, which The Japanese ahlp mastora furnish increased federal revenuo is the biggest single recovery ingua,
SECOND VICTIM caught the American railways And, thirdly, it is anticipated fe retarded by the conflicting
Moscow, Dec. 2. The anticyclone remains asleep at the switch and captured that liquor tariffs will be reduced policies of various Government
un-. The whole of Russia is mom this trade from them almost over in an effort to halt the flood of agencies.
changed over the Lower Yangtseing the death of Sergei Kirov, one night-United Press.
illegally imported alcohol.
The American Government, as Valley and the typhoon of the of the leading members of M. On Monday, the Ways and evidenced by the Belgium credit, China Son appears to have Allod Stalin's regime, who was shot The late M. Kirova the first with 1,874,000 In September. This A patient admitted to the Kowloon Washington to study tax structure to avoid
Means Sub-Committee meets in a assisting the European Gold Bloc up. The typhoon of the Pacific dead on Saturday afternoon at national leader on whose life a la the largest total reached in Hospital, during the week-end, Tam
erials which might-ad- is situated about 200 miles E.N.. the Smolny Palace, which is now successful attempt has been made any month since March, 1988, and Wingskal, aged 22, is said to have in an effort to plug loop-holes and versely affect our domestic price of Maulia, moving northwest. gard Soviet, whilst busy at work. M. Lenin, inflicting a wound from 1923. It is attributed to Increased headquarters of the Lenin- since Dorakpian in 1918 shot at the largest for any October since been injured through being unseated clarify administrative provisions level and force further dollar When attempting to ride a push blerele rather than increase tax rates devaluation. Swan, Culbertson and Local forecast: N. E. winds, wi the Ousilo Pank Road,
United Press,
| fresh; fair.
will
Frits.
FAIR WEATHER
the
(Dy Telegraph. Censright. Telegraphia · Maa- kages Ordinance, 22741 Stacators, Dezember 8, 2.40 ¤,mc.) ** Nicolayev, 80-year-old former em-
New York, Dec. 2. ployee of the Workers' and Pea-
The Cotton Exchangé has VAN-- sants' Inspection Bureau, who dies nounced that the October world. closed his identity after an amination lasting all day.
consumption of all kinds of cotton | was 2,194,000 balen, as compared
The murderer, who was im- which the latter never recovered.mil activities following the textile. mediately arrested, was 'Leonid | -Reuter,
strike.--United Press, “.