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PLAGUE
A STATEMENT
EVACUATION
HER POLICY
£6,500 SANCTIONED FOR A STATEMENT BY STRESEMANN
CAMPAIGN
FURTHER STEPS PROBABLE
London, Yesterday.
Mr. Ormsby Gore, Dominions' Under-Secretary, made a statement
THE
IN REICHSTAG
"COMPROMISE"
Berlin, Yesterday.
RUSSIA'S DOMESTIC
CRISIS
FOOD QUEUES
CONFERENCE 'BEING HELD TO
COPE WITH PROBLEM
NOVEL PROPOSAL
Riga, Yesterday.
Dr. Stresemann, on his first ap- The present food crisis-the pro- pearance in the Reichstag since blem of supplies and the evil aris- regarding the recent locust plague last June (owing to illness) refer-
in Kenya Colony. He said that red to the laat Geneva Conference ing from quenes of people trying steps were being taken by the au- and said that Germany unswerv- to obtain necessities--is the sub- thorities to deal with the plague ingly maintained her claim to the ject of a conference called by the and that expenditure amounting to Immediate evacuation of the entire Soviet officials in Moscow and at- £6,500 was sanctioned for an anti-occupled region. Germany .could!
FINE
of co-
It was proposed to diminish queues by opening shops on Sun- days and holidays-Reuter.
locust campaign which was being not assume any political burdens, tended by representatives vigorously prosecuted by the De- the effect of which would last be operative organisations,, state de partment of Agriculture. The Gov-yond the terms of the pledged re-partments and trade unions. ernment of Kenya had agreed with Doctor Fuller, who had had many years' experience of locust work, that some permanent organisation was desirable for dealing with the movement of locust swarms, and this would be considered in connec- tion with next year's estimate,- British Wireless Service.
BRITISH 'PLANES
ORDERS FOR MACHINES VALUED AT £250,000
LIGHT AND HEAVY
London, Yesterday.
North-cast winds, moderate, fine, is the forecast until noon to-morrow.
The depression has passed into the Pacific. The anti-i cyclone is central between Shanghai and Nagasaki. A typhoon about 150 miles east north east of Yap is moving Moderate to weet-north-west. fresh monsoon will continue over the China Sea.
THE GALE
MORE SHIPPING CASUALTIES RECORDED
CREWS WASHED AWAY.
London, Yesterday. The havoc done by the gale is eloquently illustrated by the pro- digious casualty reports from Lloyds,
It was learned yesterday that paration and she would not enter five of the crew of a small schooner Orders for British aircraft to the any finapsis engagements as the were lost when the vessel, in en-
ce of military evacuation.
deavouring to return to port on value of over £250,000, embracing all
He added that the Anglo-French the north coast of Anglesey, was senter Avm Avian light aeroplanes Naval Compromise naturally caus dashed on the rocks and wrocked. types of machines from small two ed much anxiety in Germany not The only survivor was a boy who to huge two engined Supermarine only in connection with the pro-was found yesterday in a weak Napier flying boats have been re-blem of general disarmament but state and taken aboard a pilot ceived in Britain during the past also. with regard to the possibility boat, where he collapsed. His con- few weeks. The bulk of the orders of a new grouping of powers to dition is grave. have been placed by Australia and Canada, but a considerable number i are also being placed by Chile and Japan.--British Wireless Service. PRESIDENT-ELECT
MR. HOOVER GETS FINE SEND-OFF
COMMUNISTS ARRESTED
Paloalto, Cal., Yesterday. Dense crowds gathered to bid fare- well to Mr. Hoover when he left for! San Pedro to embark on the battle-
ship "Maryland" on his "goodwill" tour of South America.
Three Communists among the crowds who were carrying banners inscribed "Down with Imperialism" were arrested-Reuter's American Service.
CREDIT TO RUSSIA
London, Yesterday. Mr. G. Locker Lampson. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that no representations had been made to the German Government at
the detriment of Germany.
Germany's standpoint had been exhaustively laid down by Herr Mueller and Court Bernstorff at Geneva and Germany would stand: by it-Reuter.
$40,000,000
NEEDED FOR FAMINE RELIEF
CHINA'S PROBLEM
There is still no Information regarding the crew of the steamer "Eltham" which was in two on the found broken Cornish Coast.
and nto
Members of the crews of five vessels were washed over board and drowned in the heavy seas and the vessels limped back to port in a damaged condition. The German tug "Seefork" in response to wire- less calls picked up the steamer "Lenara" off Land's End lowed the damaged vessel Falmouth after u perilous journey during which the hawser snapped. The Italian steamer "Folgere" aiso According to the latest states arrived in Falmouth with the decks ment issued by the International swept almost clean and three boats Famine Committee 12,000,000 have for Trieste put into Dover to land already reached the famine point the body of a boatman killed in and central China. the heavy seas. British Wireless 'n northern The minimum sum needed is $40,- Service. 000,000.-Reuter.
Peking, Yesterday.
BARON TANAKA BETTER London. Yesterday.-On the oc- casion of the tenth anniversary
Kyoto, Yesterday. of Latvian Independence, Lord The Japanese Premier Baron Cushendun, Acting Foreign Secre- Tanaka, is slightly indisposed. He tary, has telegraphed to M. Balodes is not accompanying H.IJ.M. the of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Emperor to Ise to-day. A bulletin at Riga, the sincere congratulations says that the Premier has a pain in of the British Government on the the chest and therefore, physiciana
» time by or on behalf of the progress achieved by Latvia, with have ordered him to rest to-day. British Government on the subject best wishes for its increasing pros- The diagnosis is angina pectoris.
Kyoto, To-day-Baron Tanaka of Germeny's rant of credits to nerity and peaceful development.-
is better. Reuter. Russia.-British Wireless Service. British Wireless Service.
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