NOTICE
MR. J. E. SWAN announces his withdrawal from the firm of SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ as of September 1, 1936, for the purpose of forming the New York Stock Exchange firm of J. E. SWAN & COMPANY, 25 Broad Street, New York.
NOTICE.
JE. SWAN.
MESSRS, SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ announce the with- drawal of MR. J. E. SWAN as a partner in the firm as of September, 1, 1936. The partnership will otherwise remain unchanged and will continue its business under the firm name and style of SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ as heretofore with no change in the amount of the firm's capital.
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ELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,
Extension Of Chickenpox
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For Stealing BETWEEN SHANGHAI
ALLEGEDLY MADE OFF WITH HIS SHIP
the
London, Sept. 2. The former skipper of the Girl Pat, Grimsby trawler which eniled without Instructions from her owners on n secret treasure-hunting expedi tion to the South Seas, landed at Grave's End to-day,
George Osborne, this reckless aen farer, was immediately conveyed to London in police van, to be charged at Bow Street with stealing a vessel from British waters,
bail-Reuter Bulletin Service.
AND CANTON
Canton, Sep..3,
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1936.
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London, Sept. 2.
Mr. Anthony Eden is suffering a slight attack of chickenpox, which necessitates la absence from the Foreign Ofce for a short time,
A plane will leave Shanghai for the south on Tuesday. Thursday and Monday, Wednesday and Friday-pects to be fully revovered in time to However, he will remain in tele- Saturday, and another flies north on phonie contact with his staff and ex- Reuter.
Cupt. Osborne was remanded on REBELS CAPTURE "KEY
POINTS IN IRUN ATTACK
TERRIBLE COST OF WARFARE
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at about 6 p.m., this completing the capture of the Turlute Ridge, enabling the insurgents to bring San Murela under direct artillery Nee,
the anti-Fascists, providing the In- vaders with two tanks and two Later, the insurgents launched machine-guns of German manufae-violent attack on San Marcin), the ture.-United Press.
attackers being met by occasional rille fire, but from a vantage point on the French frontier It did not'ng pear that the Government troops offered much resistance.
CONTENDING WITH BARBARISM
participate in the League of Nations Assembly meeting-Reuter Dulletin Service.
Regent's Park House Afire
FORMER HOME FOR BLIND SOLDIERS
London, Sept. 2.
A residence in Regent's Park, which was formerly used as St. Dunstan's Home for the Blind, became involved in a fire to-day. The blaze sprend to being extinguished. the root and one of the wings before
The building was recently pur-
London, Sept. 2. Newspaper reports reaching London
Meanwhite, Foreign Legionalres from Hendaye, on the Franco- Spanish frontier, suggest that the advanced on Behobia, the defenders initiative of diplomatic representa- slowly retreating and contesting chased by Countess Reventlow, tives necredited to the Spanish Gov-every yard of the ground, A Gov- United Press,
ernment armoured train ernment, on behalf of humanitarian mitigation of the sufferings imposed
continued
to fire as fast as the guns could be loaded. The insurgent advance
on the Spanish people by the civil guards reached the gates of Behobia TRADE QUEST IN
success.
war, is meeting with some promise of
Lost
week, telegram from the Foreign Secretary to Sir Henry Chilton was published in which it was stated to be the desire of the British Government to play its full part in any organised international effort to bring the contending forcen to agree to n discontinuation of cruelties, reports of which, all too mony of them substantiated, havo appalled the outside world.
at 5.13 p.m., when fighting in thei streets
Government Began. The troops, taking advantage of every scrap of cover, were prepared to fight to the bitter end. It is estimated
that thousands of refugees the frontier during the day.
crossed
Preparations for a stern fight have been made at Irun, where the defen- ders have barricaded the main streets and manned strategle positions. The The Spanish Government is now battle will apparently continue, and said to have agreed to the establish- the bloodshed is likely to be terrible, ment of coninct through the Diplo- matic Corps with the insurgent are now looting the frontier town of It is reported that Maroccan troops lenders with a view to discussion of Behobin, where street fighting is in methods of warfare, Press Krams speak hopefully of a mutual Progress, Many Government troops agreement to abstain from the execu-und are being disarmed by the guards. are lying over the French frontier, tton of hostages and
to exchange-Reuter Special. prisoners.
NON-INTERVENTION
tele-
The British Government has re- celved, through the British Ambassa- dor in Lisbon, notification from the Portuguese Government of the latter's acceptance in principle of
of the pro- posal for an advisory committee in London, composed of representatives | of Powers pledged to non-interven- tion in the Spanish civil war, and with the function of neting as a clearing house for facts and ideas in connection with the aplication of various non-intervention declara- tions.
The
BISHOP HALL BEREAVED
MOTHER PASSES
AWAY
The cable states that the deceased
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Berlin, Sept. 2.
A permanent German Trade Com- mission to Manchukuo is being ap- pointed very shortly.
Manchukuo's Trade Commissioner In Germany, Mr. Kato, who has just where for the first time in its short returned here from Koenigsberg. history Manchukue participated in a foreign fair, told Reuter that the Ger- big-Reuter. man demand for soya beans was very
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ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED Whiteaway,
MOVIE ACTRESS
Los Angeles, Sept. 2. The British actress, Ruby Lorraine, to-day identified Louis O'Brien, aged 25 years, as the man' who attacked; her on August 20.
O'Brien has been urrested on sus- picion of the theft of two pictures of
in Miss Lorraine, found
his
BRITISH ROAD
Cabled intimation of the death of Bishop R. O. Hall's mother in Eng
and has been received by the Rev, Portuguese neceptance 4. W. Baines. accompanied by a number of sug- gestions and requests for explane-
ons which will receive considera lady passed away peacefully on Tues-pockets. United Press. tion in London and Paris.
day, after having been taken ill on Meantime, it is understood that the August 25, the 08th anniversary of British
d'Alaires Berlin her birth. Bishop Hull is at present Was
In touch
with the German Go on leave in England, and his many erminent to-day On this matter, and friends in the Colony will deeply there is growing hopefulness in Bri-sympathise with him in the heavy
omcial quarters that an early
arly bereavement which he has suffered. reply may be expected from Berlin and that it will be favourable to the scheme for a committee, which is in- creasingly regarded here as an essen- tial suteguard of the non-interven tionist. position-British Wireless.
tish
ITALIAN LIVING COSTS RISE
KING EDWARD IN GREECE
WARM WELCOME AT LITTLE TOWN
TRAFFIC
RESULT OF RECENT CENSUS
London, Sept. 2. The results of the traffic census on second-class roads in the raiddle of August, issued to-night show that in comparison with 1931, when a similar census was last taken, there has been on increase in the number of pedal cycles on the road of about 95
per cent., of goods motor vehicles of about 45 per cent., and of passenger vehicles An Athens message reports that of about 33 per o
the nurh- while the yacht Nahlin, in which the King ber of horse-drawn vehicles has de is cruising, arrived at the Island of clined by about 27 per cent. During
the Skiathos this morning, and the King
week of the census, movements Rome, Sept. 2. Increases in wages, ranging from visited the monument to the Greek were recorded of about 100 million seven to ten per cent, affecting 80,000 as Majesty was recorded a warm ver
novelist and poet. Papadiamandl, vehicles or persons by an army of
enumerators.-British workers, have been announced by a
10,000 number of industries.
welcome, the little market town Wireless. being gaily beflagged.
WORKERS GET MORE
WAGES
The Increases are the outcome of the rise in the cost of living since the beginning of the war in Ethiopia. Reuter Special
London, Sept. 2.
Later the Naklin left for Skyros, where Hupert in burled, And the Dardanelles-British Wireless.
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Three cases of Diphtheria and two cases of Typhoid were reported to the local Health authorities on Tuesday.
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