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League Offering Advice To Great Britain
TUESDAY,
CARNAGE
IN BIG STORE (Continued from Page 1.) Zimmerman, a Russian-Jew, whose condition is not criticut.
Hallett Abend, New York Times correspondent has denied he was wounded. So has Charlie Sharp, who said he is enjoying a hearty break- fast before leaving for Manila.
Hans Berents, of Dergen, Norway, hud a narrow escape. He was in an automobile opposite Sindere's at the Geneva, Aug. 23.
tine of the blast and found four holes The Mandates Commission of in his hat later. The car's wind- the League of Nations in a shield, roof and rear-end were ripped The to pieces by flying fragments. summary report on the Palestine back seat flew up and landed on top problem recognises the difficulty of Berents, probably saving his life, in preventing outbreaks between He asisted many of the injured. Arabs and Jews, but is not con-
There are 150 Anterican evacuating i Vinced that it would not live by the President Fierce today, leavi
more ins about 500 wonen and children been possible to adopt
decisive measures earlier with a still to be evacuated.--United Press. view to suppressing resistance.
armed
500-Pound Bombs
Shanghai. Aug. 24. Police believe that 500-pound
AUGUST 24, 1937.
BOMBERS CONTINUE ACTIVITY
Hospital Staff Safe Outside
Shanghai
Paoting, Aug. 23. A Japanese army plane appeared over Lianghsiang, an important town on the Pelping-Hankow Railway 15 miles southwest of Pelping early this morning, and dropped several bombs. The extent of the damage is not known-Central News.
STAFF IS SAFE
The report says that the distur- bances at 1036 reveal a great pofition) tension and the inevitable antagonism bombs are responsible for the Nan-week, are safe, according to a report of two peoples. further accentuated king: Road tragedy, United Press,
by the increasing anti-Semitism and
ol
growing Arab national feeling.
Certain fluctuations in policy on the of the part the
mandatory power. report goes on, tended to encourage the Arabs
in their belief that violence could stop the Jewish immigration.
the Moreover,
mandate become almost unworkable when it was de- clared so by the Royal Commission
the
mandatory Government. Great Britain.
The Mandates Commision, there- fore, considers worth while the con- of tinuation of the examination advantages and drawbacks of a new territorial solution and favours with drawal of holy places from domina flon by Arabs and Jews. It would place them under a special regime.
PARTITION SCHEME
NARROWLY ESCAPED
DISASTER
(Continued from Page 1)
United States Asiatie Fleet has reported to the Navy Department that a special board of investigation rehas found no delinité evidence with of the opposing regard to which forces in Shanghat is responsible for the firing of the shell which struck the cruiser Augusta, killing one sea- man and injuring many.
Evidence so far as the location of the gun is concerned has been contradictory,
He added that the opposing forces WITC immediately warned, after the
of direction
Shanghai, Aug, 24. Al the Amerlenti doctors and nurses of the American mission hospital in Nantungchow, 70 miles northwest bf Shanghai, which was last bombed by Japanese planes received by the American Consulate- General here.
has 11- The Comalate-General structed the superintendent of the hospital to make a detailed report of the bombing and the damage done to the hospital-Central News,
FAILS TO SET SPEED MARK
London, Aug. 23. News has Just been received that
Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous speed driver on land and water, failed to establish a new record with his speed- boat. Bluebird, on Lake Magitiore, Italy.
His boat was going so fast that the water cooling system failed to tune-]
If the British partitioning scheme | accident, to exerelse more care in in and the engines froze.
Mandates should b applied, the Commission thinks its success would depend more on its effect upon rela tions between Arabs and Jews than [t on the territorial solution adopted. should be remembered, the Commis sion feels, that the sufferings of Arabs and Jews are not comparable, for the world is being: closed increasing- ly to settlement by the latter. considers The Commission
pro- longation of the period of political apprenticeship, constituted under the mandate, would be absolutely essen- lial in both the new Arab and Jewish states. This apprenticeship might be carried on in various ways. It might
provisional
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SPOILED BY RAIN
New York, Aug. 23. The only two games scheduled for
New to-day, between
York and and Philadelphia, Brooklyn, were spoiled Renter.
Boston by
A change in the cooling system is now contemplated, for Sir Malcolm wants to be the man who has travelled fastest on water as well as on land- Reater.
AMBASSADOR RESIGNS
Berlin, Aug. 23. General Faupel Gartist, Ambassa and rain-dor from General Francisco Franco's Government in Berlin. has resigned for reasons of health.-Renter.
might be a separate mandate for each state untit each had proved its ability be by
cantonisation, to govern itself. whereby the two states, while enjoy- ing wide measures of internal economy and full powers to regulate Immigration, might be united under the mandatory power in matters of defence and foreign affairs. Or there
DR. KUNG IN GERMANY
Berlin, Aug. 23. The Commission concludes with an
Dr. 11. H. Kung. Chinese Finance appeal to Jews and Arabs, pointing!
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