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FOUNDED 1881 No. 14850
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1,
1936.
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MOTORISTS:
WHOSE MOTTO IS:
Safety
"First
ALWAYS FIT
DUNLOP TYRES
GERMAN REPLY TO PEACE PLAN
ENVOY ARRIVES Hauptmann's Execution Postponed 48 Hours
IN LONDON
CONTENTS OF NOTE
KEPT SECRET
EUROPE'S FUTURE MAY
-DEPEND ON MESSAGE
Berlin, March 31.
It is officially announced that Herr von Ribbentrop, the German envoy, will hand the German Government's reply to the Locarno Powers' peace proposals this even- ing. The diplomat bears Herr Adolf Hitler's answer to the message contained in the White Paper recently issued in London and which contained a suggested formula for the preservation of security in Europe.
Upon the German reply, observers believe, the future peace of the world may depend.
Herr von Ribbentrop, accompanied by Dr. Diekholl and other Foreign Office officials, is flying to London.
It is understood that the German note, while not of excessive length, fully outlines the German standpoint and contains definite proposals for bridging the present impasse, Reuter Bulletin Service...
Bewildering Moves -
Berlin, Mar. 31.
The decision to send fierr von Ribbentrop to London this afternoon by aeroplane, was reached after n series of bewildering moves.
A meeting of the Cabinet called for this morning was postponed to this afternoon and it was then un- derstood that Herr Adolf Hitler's reply to the London memorandum was nol-ready, It-is-now-believed-Horr von Ribbentrop will carry the Chancel lor's reply, however.
The delay in preparing the reply was due to the dimculty of devising suggestions which would be acceptable to both Great Britain and France. Iso to the fact that Herr Hitler has! boon tuch influenced by the Gernian election reults and the Government wish
Consider the
Ger
Foreign Minister recent speech, in which he asked for answers from
with
respect to her territor and future
elh
proposnia
tal
respect
also
to treaties. The wante
to consider the
for General Stall conversations be- tween the Locarno Pnet signatories. Britain,
France and Belgium, with a
view to preparing for a possible at- tack from Germany
elther upon
to
France or Belgium, in which event Great Britain is
pledged defend the threatened territory.
Reutar.
Envoy Arrives
London, Mar. 31,
ŠUMADIUNIMOGULINNASERICIISUBMINILJONGERENACTION DIREZ,
AUSTRIA INTENDS
TO RE-ARM
Foars Forced Union With Germany
Vienna, Mar. 31.
It is understood__that_ Austria intends to re-arm up to the utmost limits per. mitted by the Treaty of St. “Germain. Reuter,
PARLEY'S RESULT
Vienna. Apr. 1. Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, the Chancellor, is expected to announce Austria's inten- tion of re-arming in the Federal Diet to-day when he outlines the new military system which will call on every able-bodied man to assist the country in the case of an emergency.
confer-
It is understood this de- velopment is an immediate conséquence of the Italo- Austro-Hungarian ences in Rome last week.---- Reuter, 2222
Han Fu-chu Reported Murdered?
Herr von Ribbentrop, the German envoy, believed to be bearing the Government's reply to the Locarno Powers' proposals for peace negotia- tions, arrived at Croydon at 8.16 p.m. and was driven at once to a London hotel, where he alighted at 9.15 p.m.
He declined to state whether ho. carried Herr Adolf Hitler's final proposals. He said he hail como with a reply to the White Paper, and would; submit it in the ordinary course of SHOT BY UNKNOWN
diplomatic discussion.
The Gorman envoy will meet the British Foreign Becretary, Mir, Anthony Eden, to-morrow morning.
-Router.
Refuse Passage To Zeppelin
HINDENBURG CAN'T CROSS FRANCE
1
ASSAILANTS
REPORT FROM TSINAN
- (Special To "Telegraph”)
Shanghai, Apr. 1. General Han Fu-cha, Governor of Shantung, is to-day, reported to have been fatally wounded by unidentified
in the provincial capital, }
This report reached here through Japanese sources toxiny,
General Han was one of Feng Yu- islang's most prominent and table London, Mar. 31.
subordinates and in 1928 was chair- The giant Zeppelin, Hindenburg, man of the Houan Provincial Govern- now on her maiden voyage to South mont. In 1020 hoe sided with Nan America, was unable to obtain'per-
to crush Christian Gencial
In the
ITALY'S
何%
VANISHING GOLD
RESERVES DWINDLE
STEADILY
MAY BE GONE
t
IN 6 MONTHS
London, Mar. 31.
The Bank of Italy's annual statement affords a glimpse of Italy's financial position which has been shrouded in obscurity
Lord Eustace Percy, Minister with-since October 1935. out portfolio, who has vraigned from the Cabinet. Rumours of a Govern- went split are officially denied.
CABINET SPLIT DENIED
RUMOURED CLASH ON
FOREIGN POLICY
LORD EUSTACE PERCY QUITS
Gold holdings on last December 31 totalled £48,700,000 as compared with £63,400,000 when the Bank ceased publishing its weekly returns. More over of this December total, £2,000,- 000 was exported to Switzerland in January, a further £2,000,000 in February and at least £4,000,000 in March.
Thus the Bank of Italy's gold hold-| ings cannot exceed £40,700,000 and are probably substantially less, as it is believed that fair quantities of gold wore also shipped to France recently, both as commercial payments and to
port the lira.
Thus, if the drain ontluues at the same rate as during the last two months of 1935 and early 1936 the Bank of Italy's gold stocks will be entirely exhausted in five or six monthis.
The position appears to be particu larly grave, since Italian nationals' holdings abroad are rapidly deter London, Mar. 31,ferating to vanishing point.-Reuter, Lord Eustace Perey, Minister with out portfolio, has resigned from the Government, He states that he is completely in pecord with the Goy- ernment's foreign policy.
The retiring Minister was formerly President of the Board of Education, -Router.
SPLIT DENIED
London, Mar. 31. Rumours of a Cabinet split on thei question of the General Staff talks between Britain, France and Belgiumi
QUAKE SHAKES HONGKONG
nre discounted in well-informed EPICENTRE ABOUT
quarters.
It is pointed out that the Opposition Press 18 constantly suggesting the existence of dissensions between the Conservatives
and the Simonlte Liberals, while the anti-Baldwin section of the Conservative Press aug-1 gest that the Conservatives are split Meanwhile, it should be remember ed that less than a fortnight ago the whole Cabinet approved the White Staff Paper, including the General
talks.
Rumours of the prospective rt- signation of members of the Cabinet, owing to differences of opinion with
regard to the White Paper, It is learned on good nuthority, are +1- tirely unfounded.
It is emphasised that the White Paper is a Cabinet document for which ali sections of the Cabinet take responsibility, and there is no split on policy.
MINOR DIFFERENCES Ministers are all agreed that Bri- tain has certain commitments under (Continued on Page 12.)
•
310 MILES AWAY
STILL MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE
"They're Taking My Life
On Faked Evidence"
LAST-MINUTE STAY OF
DEATH
SENTENCE
TRENTON, MAR. 31. WITHIN A FEW HOURS. OF THE TIME FOR HIS EXECUTION, BRUNO HAUPT- MANN HAS, AGAIN WON A STAY OF SENTENCE, THIS TIME FOR ONLY FORTY- EIGHT HOURS.
FILIPINO
TROOPS FIRE ON
CROWDS
Three Killed and Many Wounded
ARMY SERVICE
OPPOSITION
Manila, April 1.
There are indications that a large proportion of the popula- tion of the Philippines will forcibly resist the regulation concerning compulsory military service. Three were killed and opened fire on a mob of demon- wounded, when troops strators yesterday in Lanno Province.
many
The postponement of the execution was due to the intervention of Mr. Alleyne Freeman, foreman of the Grand Jury considering the charge of murder against Paul Wendel, a former Trenton lawyer, who last week was alleged by detectives to have confessed to the kill-machine-guns and hand grenades in ing of the Lindbergh baby-a crime for which Haupt- mann is to die in the electric chair.
Wendel subsequently denied that he had made any confession and the State Attorney General, Mr. W. Wilentz, announced that Wendel claimed he had been tortured to force a confession.
..
The soldiers, numbering 80, used
dispersing the crowd.
It appears that resentment has been caused
sed among the non-Christian natives with the order for "registra-
This is the first
ton of Filipino youth for compulsory military training time in the islands' history that.com- pulsory training has been attemptest.
Registration commenced to-day und must be completed during the Arst week of April. -
There is hot opposition in various the arena-Reuter.
The Grand Jury sat all day to Haupunann spent last night writ- day considering whether it shoulding his mother and talking to indlet Wendel on a charge of murder warders. He asked if it were pos. and finally instructed Chief Warden sible for him to make a. wireless Kimberling to hold of Ilauptmann's appeal to the public to ask anyone execution as it wished to investigate knowing anything about the cane to interesting new angles of the cuse. come forward and speak.
He said he was No Announcement
convicted of a child because he had murdering Kimberling declared he could make Colonel Charles Lindbergh to people certain money paid as a ransom by no announcement at present. He who represented themselves as the could not say whether the execution
kidnappers of would be fixed for April 2 But but that he did not know what kind the Lindbergh baby,
OBSERVATORY is entitled to carry out the sentence
RECORDS
any
day this week without a court Forder
The respite came to Hauptmann with dramatic suddenness and when
The
of money it was.
Gangster Is Calm Unlike the gangster, Charles Zied, chair for the murder of a policeman.
EXPECT PARIS TO DEVALUE
SHIPMENT OF GOLD TO US. TO END?
An earthquake shock was distinctly hope had been abandoned by the who will precede him to the electric felt in Hongkong and Canton this condemned man.
office buildings, morning. Local
witnesses had already Hauptmann refused breakfast to WAR RUMOURS' thirty particularly along the waterfront, assembled in the main corridor of day. Zied breakfasted heartily.
[the prison and were waiting for the were jarred.
Hauptmann told the warders he execution when the Clerk of tho had saved three people from drown- Front 10.26 a.. onwards numbers Court of Pardons entered nod solemning once of persons telephoned the Telegraph ly read the decision of the Grand offices asking for confirmation of the Jury
shock.
"And now they're taking my life on faked evidence," he protested. The news found Hauptmann in the Reuter. that the compressional waves arrived broken down several times.ducing Royal Observatory records show last stages of desperation. He had
10 hours, 14 minutes, 20 seconds, the the day-Reuter. transversal waves at 19 hours, 15)
minutes, 11 seconda and the main To Die Thursday?
shock at 10 hours, 15 minutes, 40 seconds.
..
Nerve Fails
that
EFFECTS
nn
New York, March 31. Officials of the Federal Reserve. take the view that the recent Inter- national money market developments nre likely to case the problem of the Trenton, Mar. 31.
huge imports of gold into the United States. Bruno Hauptmann's iron nerve collapsed today as his long and Trenton, Mar. 31.
Monetary experts forecast, firstly, Brano Hauptmann'e execution was fantastic case sped him towards donth
France
will shortly place The interval of time between the postponed twenty minutes before he at 8.20 p.m. to-night.
embargo on gold exports, arrival of
the two first forms of was scheduled to go to the chair watched him every moment, hoping be devalued within a week.
Ho wept in his coll, while officials Secondly that the French franc will been most strict, recently waves shows that the disturbance The witnesses were ready to enter he would talk before his end in an | always
suppressed the revolt of the autono- took place abou! 310 miles from the deat
death chamber;
Fiscal authorities any that such mists in the castern section of the Hongkong.
Asked if the prisoner will be effort to delay execution.
eventualities will probably nut province.
Chief Warden
It is recalled that the authorities end to the heavy imports of French It is said that he has been ap-ment imposed on the ground by the Kimberling proached on more than one occasion compressional waves indicates that but I will make an official announce if he would confess the crime and are rapidly raising the value of by the pro-Japanese group in the the centre was south-east of Hong-ment Wednesday,"
name his confederates.
American securities. North, but that he has steadfastly re-kong, probably from the bed of the
The prison warden sald when hol Hauptmann's lawyer, Mr, Walter fused to listen to overtures
Economists of the Federal Reserve which China Sea to the north-west of Luzon, Fisher, rushed to the death house visited Hauptmann tho condemned have expressed the belief that a ̧ were in any way Injurious to the The amplitude of the waves of the and told the condemned man who was nian protested his utter innocence, change in the French Nanking Government or the unity of maximum shock was 60 millimetres, "delighted and very happy."
monetary It took him several minutes to com- structure is "almost inevitable," if the China.
Indicating that it was a severe one. Meanwhile, the Grand Jury heard poso himself to talk, but when he had Bank of France's emergency men» the festimony of Ellis Parker and mastered the sobbing, he said that, sures, including the raising of the Paul Wendel's relatives. They are
(Continued on Page 12) discount rate fall to alleviate the ready to question Tito Salamandru,
threatened gold drainage. --United a former neighbour of Wandel's,
Press,... whom repudiated confesalon la bo loved to have contained the stato- mont that Salamandra's car was ured in the kidnapping-United Prens.
The direction of the first move-oxycuted Thur: "Probably promised to help him' escape death gold, due to the fact that war rumours
"THROW HIM OUT," YELLS
CONGRESS
COMMITTEE
Washington, Mar, 31,
Weeps In His Cell'
Bruno
fate
Trenton, Hauptmann, ” whoạc the nation anxiously awaits, spent what he believed to be the last day of life weeping in his cell and re- viling his fate.
mission from the French authorities Fong's Towing your he was op-¡corporation proflis, saying the textile The Clerk of the Committee roselhe
JAPAN'S NEW BUDGET
INCREASED VOTES
NO NEWS OF PEI AN
~It was when Mayor William McNair of Pittsburgh came
TO ADJUST LOANS
SHIP REPORTED before the Ways and Means Committee's taxation hearing to day that trouble started.
STANDING BY Tokyo, Apr. KORKA Mayor McNair vehemently opposed i make a statement, and you can't Asked what he wished for his The Finance Ministry has fixed the Local Naval authorities
es learned last to fly over Franco, and consequently
the proposed tax on undistributed prevent me, roared Mayor McNair, last meal, he bitterly retorted that 1988-87 working budget at 2,307,000 night that a vessel, supposedly, u took the route from Friedrichshafen pointed commander of the 1st Army industry had used its reserves in and advanced towards the May him the New York political "boss" upon November, which was never prosented wrecked in the Gulf of Tonking and. would like his fast meal 000 yen, an increase of 29,000,000 yen French gunbont, was standing by the down the English Channel, and in 1980 was mole chairman of the materially alleviating the suffering the
as be ́sent- to Jataje Condon, compared with the budget prepared in Japanese-cliartered steamer Pel Au members abouted Throw Evincial Governight in the recent flood disaster. Immen
whose evidence the prosecution large to the Diet owing to its dissolution. reportedly in danger of foundering. Mr. Robert Doughton, chairman, But there was no light. Mayor ly based its case"
The Increase largely goes to the clashed with the Mayor. He threaten McNair withered the Committee The prison warden told newspaper Home Ministry which will receive in the Chinese Maritime
No word has been received from Les call a policeman, with a glance and marched out men that Hauptmann still vowed his creased approximating 22,000,000 yen rulser, Hat Pins which was due al Customs Tim, the mayor of a great Indus muttering against his "unfal and innocence, declaring he had told the for readjustment, of local loans the scene of the "wrock last nicht,
have the right to ridiculous" reception. United Press truth, from start to finish.
Reuter g
i having left Hangi before Boonie H
The leship barned over Folkestone
Eastbourne morning. United Press,
plo flocked to the nonfronts to son her SUPPRESSED REVOLT.
FS1500 fout above the Water
fodasing her way aloost at a height of
General Han
elpling as: Goverhot
out.”