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SOUTH ORKNEYS’
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ARGENTINIANS INDIGNANT AT BRITISH ATTITUDE
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GERMANY AND REPARATIONS
A COMMUNIQUE
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THE EXPERT COMMITTEE
Berlin, Yesterday,
WOMAN EVANGELIST ATTACKED
IN ENGLAND
SURPRISED FOLLOWERS OF MRS.
AIMEE MCPHERSON
SECRETARY'S VIEW
London, Sept. 28.
New York, Yesterday. According to the Buenos Aires! correspondent of the "New York Times" Argentinians are very in- dignant at the British attitude with regard to the South Drkneya.
The newspaper "La Prensa," in a leader, declares that the British at-
Reuter learns that Germany at- visit next month of the Los Angeles titude is based entirely on naval force which certainly is not the taches particular importance to the evangelist, Mrs. Aimee McPherson. committeemen, being independent A sensational denunciation of fountain of rights and saya the "entire peopic of this country experts and not. Government offi- Mrs. McPherson was made last
clala-Router.
night by the Rev. W. E. Pietsch at resent this usurpation on the part
the Undenominational Church, of England."-Reuter's American
Hounslow. Mr. Pietsch, who is a Service.
clergyman from California, des- cribed Mrs. McPherson as "danger- ous," and said: "If she is coming ito London to chase out the Devil, let her pack her bag and go first."
He made an appeal against Mre. McPherson being allowed to preach in English churches. He added: "Don't let that woman in."
A communique states that the "I am surprised that such an Cabinet have decided to co-operate attack should be made on woman with other Governments concerned in England," · was the statement to facilitate the, appointment of a made to-day by the London Committee of Experts to complete secretary of the Four,, Square the settlement of the reparations Gospel Alliance, the organisation ¡question.
which is preparing England for the
A telegram from New York, dated October 18, stated:----
ARAB OUTRAGE
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION' -
REPORTS SUCCESS'
RANSOM DEMANDED
[The disputed ownership of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Orkneys, which formed the subject of correspon- dence exchanged last year between
Casablanca, Yesterday. the British and Argentine Govern-
The troops requisitioned to ments, is dealt with in a message punish the tribesmen involved in
Not Large Enough - from the Buenos Aires correspon- the hold up which occurred at Wad-
The secretary of the Four Square! dent of the "New York Times." zem in the hinterland report that!
According to the correspondent, the job has been successfully ac- Gospel Alliance, when asked whe- ther it was likely that arrangements British protested against the erec-complished.
!
tion of an Argentinian wireless Zubitaga, however, is still appar- would be made for Mrs. McPherson meteorological station in South ently in the hands of the bandits, to co-operate with any of the big! Georgia, to which the Argentine as ho has been able to communi- Free Church organisations in Eng-| Government replied asserting owner- cate to the French authorities that land during her mission replied:- ship of the islands and explaining a ransom is required.
"No, I do not think so. She is its inability to take active control
The French Press is showing simply a visiting evangelist whose of the Falklands on account of the agitation at the increasing number, doctrines are the same as we hold.
"This branch of her work was British occupation.
of fatal affrays in their protector- The correspondent declares that date.-Reuter.
founded in England by Principal the publication of the correspon- [ [It was reported on October 22 Jefferies, who is now conducting a It is dence has an immediate bearing on that while crossing dangerous, big campaign in Exeter.
doubtful if he will finish in time to be back in London to welcome Mrs. McPherson."
Argentine's attitude towards the Kellogg Pact, which tacitly recog- nises the British right to protect her possessions.]
RAILWAY DISASTER
TWO EXPRESSES IN COLLISION
HEAVY CASUALTIES
Bukharest, Yesterday.
It is believed that 31 passen- gers have been killed, and 47 in- jured in a collision between the Simplon express from Bukharest and an express from Siniu. near Slatina.
A sleeping car, two first class coaches, a luggage van and a mail; van on the Simplon express were wrecked and twenty-five persons have been admitted to hospital' at i Slatina,
2 TYPHOONS, BUT “FINE”
"N.E. winds, moderate; fresh," is the forecast till noon to-mor¡ row for Hong Kong and the south coast. For Formosa Channel it is "N. E. winds, fresh."
The
At 10.45 am. the Observatory reported: The anti-cyclone is central to the N. of Japan. The typhoon appears to be about 400 miles E. of Manila, either fill ing up or moving N.E. other typhoon is about 300 miles N.W. of Guam, moving N.W.- Moderate to fresh monsoon will continue along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea.
"I should say there are not more than one or two churches in Eng- and that could accommodate the vast 'audiences she la. likely to com- mand.
"In London she will have the Albert Hall. In the big provincial centres she will have the largent halls available,"
"GRAF ZEPPELIN"
PREPARING FOR THE HOME-
WARD FLIGHT :
PASSENGERS AT £600 EAGH
Lakehurst, Yesterday. One woman and five men have been accepted as: passengers an "Graf Zeppelin's" homeward flight nt a cost of £600 each. The passen.
Among those killed are four ground which necessitated a slow foreigners, an Italian engineer, his speed, a lorry containing a driver sers include Mrs. Clara Adams (wife of the tannerý magnate and wife and daughter and a Greek. and two Spanish merchants by
personal friend of President The accident was due to faulty name Pomaros
and
Zubitage, Hindenburg), Richard Burke (bro- working of the points. Reuter.
found their way blocked by two ther-in-law of Cornelius Vander- donkey. A couple of Arah horse-bilt), Colonel Grant Miller (a LEAGUE OF NATIONS men suddenly appeared and open-London business man, late of the ed fire, and Pomares was wounded. Royal Air Force) and the banker, GRATIFYING REPORTS OF The driver immediately accelerat Mr. Paul Marko.--Reuter's Ameri-
MANDATES COMMISSION ed, but the lorry was soon brought can Service.
CORDIAL INVITATION
Geneva, Yesterday.
to a standstill as the petrol tank was holed.
The Arabs prevented the three travellera from escaping and shot) The Marquis Theodoll, presiding the driver dead despite his appeal at the opening of the fourteenth "I am the father of four children." sesalon of the League of Nations They carried off the others after Mandates Commission, expressed taking their money, but Pomares, pleasure at the growth of interest seeing the police in the distance, In the League's work in connection managed to fall from his horse but with mandates. The Director of was again wounded by the two ban- the Secretariat of the Mandates dits, who then escaped carrying section was gratified with most of Zubitaga with them.]
the reports of the mandatory, Powers received before Sept. 1.
The British, French and Japan- ese representatives declared that
TRUCK ACCIDENT
TERMINUS YESTERDAY
any members of the Commission NEAR SHAUKIWAN TRAMWAY visiting their respective mandated] teritories would be welcome and given every facility. Reuter.
INDIAN REFORM
FINANCIAL ADVISER FOR SIMON COMMISSION
Poons,, Yesterday.
FİNED' $100
ILLEGAL ARMS
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CHINESE FROM AMERICA BEFORE MAGISTRATE
ONE MAN KILLED
Stated to have just returned from America, a well dressed Chin- so was brought before Major C. Willson, O.B.E., at the Central {Magistracy this morning and charged with the possession of arms without a permit.
The prosecution stated that 'de- fendant was yesterday about to em- bark sa a. passenger.on the s.9. "On Lee" and that during a search two rounds of revolver magazines: were discovered in a sack contain-
When a motor truck, belonging ing shovels. On the latter being to the Nanking Motor Transporta claimed by defendant as his pro tion Company orashed into a stone, perty, the rest of his baggage was wall about 100 yards from the tram searched. It was then revealed terminus at Shaukiwan yester that, in a torch, a "strike" was day, one person was killed by found. The implements, the officer being thrown heavily into a ditch. In charge of the case said, were In order to have expert advice while another was seriously Injured very well concealed: from a British financial authority and four women sustained slight Defendant pleaded that he was not connected with Indian central injuries.
anew-comer, and was not aware or provincial finance, it is under- The truck, after colliding with of the rule governing ammunition stood that the Simon Commission the wall, pitched into a ditch in the Colony Asked why he had has Invited Mr. W. Layton, the Police and an ambulance were concealed them so carefully, defen- editor of the "Economist to join soon on the scene. The dead body, dant gava an unsatisfactory reply, the Commalsalon in India in Decem-, was removed to the public mortuary, He had, he said, arrived by the s.8. ber-Reuter.
while the Injured were taken to "President Pierce" from America the Govern Ivil, Hospital and intended to go into the coun-
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The His Worship Imposed, a fine of way back from $100, and ordered the confiscation
“district. of the magazines and striker.
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