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MUSLIM SITUATION THE SNIPING INCIDENT TROTSKY'S NARROW FATE OF LOTTERIES

IN DELHI.

Number of Convictions |

Decreased.

SATISFACTORY REPORTS.

Rugby, Yesterday. Answering Parliamentary! question, regarding the political situation in India during the past week, the Secretary for Indin, Sir Samuel Hoare, said that the broad effect of reports from the provinces indicated " marked improvement in several direc-i tions.

...The Muslim situation in Delhi, which was the cause of anxiety last week, had settled down bet- ter than was expected. There had been little trouble during the present week and the number of convictions in some provinces ap- peared to be now definitely on

the downward grade.

NEAR KIANGWAN.

JUST BEFORE COMMIS- SION'S ARRIVAL

FIRST FORMAL PEACE PARLEY FIXED FOR TO-MORROW.

BRIGHT PEACE PROSPECTS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, To-day.

Chinese snipers fired on a party of Japanese soldiers and wounded an officer half an hour be- fore the League Commission, escorted by a Japan ese guard, reached the spot where the incident had

The tribal situation was clear- occurred. ing up better than was appre hended.

Reactions of trans- A sniper was killed when the Japanese frontier activities had been only turned rifle fire near Kiangwanchen.

local in the North West Frontier Province and had been set off by improvement in other directions,, -British Wireless Service.

DANUBIAN STATES QUESTION.

Closer Economic Relations.

Rugby, Yesterday.

The Foreign Secretary, Sir John! Siman, replying to a question, sald

DEVASTATED AREAS VISITED.

ESCAPE.

Marooned on Lone Island.

HOLIDAY CANCELLED.

Constantinople. Yesterday. L.com Trotsky. the exiled Russian leader. has been ship- wrecked on a lone island called "the Dog" in the sea of Mar-

mora,

He was a member of a fishing! party when a sudden gust of fey wind known as "the Black Breath" drove the motor boat on to the rocks.

Trotsky and his two com panions just managed to seram ble ashore where they were

marooned throughout the night| exposed to the bitter cold in their

by a fishing smack,

Further Misfortune.

BILL AWAITED TO BE INTRODUCED TO-MORROW

IRISH SWEEPS THREATENED BY PASSAGE OF BILL.

GOVERNMENT AID REQUIRED

(Reuter's Special Service.)

London, To-day.

ANGLO - DUTCH RUBBER COMPETITION

Practical Difficulties Reviewed.

BRITISH PRODUCTION.

London, Yesterday,

In the House of Commons Sir | Philip Cunlife Lister read the rubber communique and remark- ed during the discussion that the whole position had been careful ¡ly reviewed in order to test the practicability of any scheme of restriction, but that a conclusion has been reached that the prac tical difficulties were such as to preclude the adoption of a com- prehensive scheme with any rea-

Promoters of the Irish Hospitals Sweep are an-sonable prospect of success,

He considered this conclusion inevitable in the circumstances

xiously awaiting the fate of the Lotteries Bill in. which the whole country is interested. Sir William and it had been reluctantly ac- Davison is to ask leave to-morrow to introduce the cepted by both Governments con- Bill in the House of Commons.

cerned, and he was deeply in- debted to the representatives of

The promoters fear that the passage of the Bill the rubber industry for their help will be a serious blow to the Irish Sweeps, which during the negotiations. re-shelterless haven. In the morn-

[A Reuter's cable from The ing, however, they were rescued get most of their money from Britain. It is u Hague on March 19 stated that a derstood that if the Bill is passed efforts may be Government communique states made by the Irish promoters to come to an agree that the English and Dutch Gov- ernments have come to the 'con- ment with those responsible for the promotion of clusion that it is impossible un- British Sweeps whereby the two syndicates might der present conditions to frame and operate lan international scheme to guarantee the effective run alternate sweeps.

regulation of the production and export of rubber.

The most striking comparison that could be drawn with the devastated areas of Chapei, Kiang- wan, and Woosung was the Western Front during the Great war, after the first visit of the war-torn areas by the Commission including the inspection of the Chenju University.

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Prague, Yesterday, Trotsky's luck appears to be out for the moment, for after a

Even should leave be given to-morrow the Bill narrow escape from drowning, his long-hoped for holiday to a will be unable to advance further unless given faci- Czecho-Slovakian health resort lities by the Government. has been cancelled at the last The rejection of the Bill will be moved by Mr. moment owing to the Turkish Hopkin Morris, Liberal.

Government refusing to guar-

Members of the Commission asked many ques- tions during the course of their investigations.

PEACE PROSPECTS BRIGHTER. Definite steps have been taken to write finis antee not to place any obstacle that the subject of closer economic to Japan's Shanghai Campaign with Monday's dis-in the way of his return to relations between Danubian States cussions resulting in the announcement of a first! The Czecho-Slovakian Govern- with a view to assisting their finan- formal peace parley set for Wednesday. Where- ment has consequently with- consideration of the Powers prin- as the previous negotiations had reached no con- drawn its permission to enter cipally interested, including our crete solution. Monday's Conference paved the way Czecho-Slovakia-Reuter.

for a basis of common understanding. Peace

rial recovery was under the activei

selves.

He could make no announcement

at the moment but gave assurance prospects are now brighter than at any time be-

that the work of the Ottawa Con fore. ference would not be prejudiced. -British Wireless Service.

BUSINESS MEN TO GO

TO OTTAWA?

The Matter Now Under Consideration.

PLAIN-CLOTHES SOLDIERS.

(Reuter's Pacific Service,)

Shanghai, To-day.

Turkey.

FINER LATER..

The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory to-day states:The anti-cyclone has weakened and is central near

ward.

Another is forming over S.E. Mongolia.

It is learned to-day that activities on the part Nagasaki and moving East- of snipers caused a last-minute change in the tour made by the members of the Lytton Commission of the war zone yesterday, but in spite of this pre- caution a Japanese officer was hit by a sniper at The Prime Minister was asked in Kiangwan, not far from the spot where the party was proposed that selected business was sightseeing. The officer was wounded in the nien should accompany the Minia- leg.

Rugby, Yesterday.

the House of Commons whether it

Conference. He said that the mat-

ters to Ottawa for the Imperial Soldiers conducted a search and located three ter was at present under considera- snipers, one of whom they shot dead, but the others

tion-British Wireless Service.

SOLDIER'S LEAVE CANCELLED.

Obtained Credit by Fraud.

AT LOCAL RESTAURANT.

Arrested by virtue of a warrant,

Stanley Charles Beresford (28), a private in the Royal Army Service Corps, made his appearance before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court, this morning, on a charge of obtaining credit by fraud, other than by means of false pre- tences, at Lane, Crawford's Restau- rant on Sunday Iset.

esc, ped.

The snipers are believed to be plain-clothes soldiers and the Japanese allege that many of them are active.

JAPANESE ARMY AND RUSSIA.

Repressing Activities Against the Soviet.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT.

The Portsmouth Treaty.

Moscow, Yesterday.

Forecast: N. E. winde, strong, moderating; overcast at arst, finer later.

MOTOR CYCLIST FINED. Driving in Wyndham Street.

PROHIBITED THOROUGHFARE:

Before Mr. Schofield, in the

M. Karukhan's suggestion that Central Police Court, this morning, the Japanese troop movements Mr. H. H. Mueller, of Siemens have violated the Portsmouth China Ltd., was summoned for treaty is denied by Mr. Hirota,

THE ROAD V. RAIL COMMITTEE.

Comprehensive Terms of Reference.

REPORT BY END OF JULY.

MINIATURE HOUSE DESTROYED.

Princess Elizabeth's Disappointment.

WELSH CRAFTSMANSHIP.

Rugby, Yesterday.

The British Colonial Office has issued a communique identical with that from The Hague.] Mr. Campbell's Optimism.

London, Yesterday. "British rubber companies, which are still able to exist, must continue to recognise, and. I am quite certain that they will have no difficulty in producing at a considerably lower price than the Dutch."

years

This was the opinion expressed to-day by the Commoner, Mr. E. T. Campbell, who for many was identified with the Dutch East rubber industry. Rugby, Yesterday.

He added that the steady low Committee comprising of

The miniature house which was price was always preferable and four representatives of railways designed and built in Wales and in the long run was more profit- and four of firms engaged in presented to the Duke and Duchess able than a continuously fluctuat goods transport by road has been of York

daughter, ing and nervous market which set up with comprehensive terms Princess Elizabeth, was destroyed had now prevalled for over a year of reference as follows:- by fire to-day when being trans- owing to restriction negotiations.

A

for their

"To investirate facts relat-ported by road to London for ex-Reuter. ing to the total costs of the hibition.

Lowest on Record.

Rugby, Yesterday.

A sharp break in the price of

the highways system in-{ The Duke of York in a telegram! cluding the regulation of trade to the Lord Mayor of London ex- -the incidence of those costs presses deep regret at the destruc- and contributions of different tion of this wonderful specimen rubber followed the announce- ment that the proposals for the classes of users of mechanical- of Welsh craftsmanship.

rebuilt. British

The spot price was quoted at 1%d., the lowest on record, but it recovered later to 1.15/16. - Rubber shares were nominal.— British Wireless Service,

ly propelled vehicles. To con- The furniture, which is in keep-regulation of production or the sider and report on the naturejing with a model house, was in a export of rubber had been reject- and extent of regulations, separate vehicle and is safe. The ed which in the view of modern house will be economic development should Wireless Service. be applied to goods transport by road and by rail, and in the light of any conclusions reached under these heads to make such further recommen- dations as they are able to frame, designed to assist the

QUICKSAND RESCUE. Three Embogged On River.

Aliwal North (S. Africa): But:

two sides of industry to carry for the presence of mind and out their functions under courage of Mr. G. Feldenbloom, an equitable conditions

which employee in a local mill, the death

would adequately safeguard

IN HOSPITAL.

who declared that the transporta driving his motor cycle in Wyndham tior of concentration troops on Street on March, a thoroughfare the Chinese Eastern Railway was which is prohibited to motors. De-Attempt to Emulate Famous Swami, Orange River with some only for the protection of life and fendant pleaded guilty and was find property and had no strategical object.

THE SERGEANT - MAJOR

·“JUMPS TO IT.”

Infantry's New Exercises.

Even sergeant-majors will have the interests of trade, and in-of a four-year-old European girl in to "jump to it" under new physical dustry and to report by the particularly tragic circumstances training orders issued for infantry

units of the British Army. B end of July." British Wireless might have been the sequel to

Officers, too--and cooks, and bat- Service.

plenic on the bank of the Orange men, and all other supernumeraries. River.

To secure a higher standard of YOUTHFUL GLASS-EATERS

The child was crossing a little physical efficiency, every man under tributary to the main stream of the 30 will be expected to

Clear a high jump of 4 feet, com Spring a long jump of 14 feet," panions when she suddenly walked Rua 100 yard in 18 seconds and

·Calcutta, Feb. 15.

into a patch of quicksand and be- A mile in 6 minutes, Moscow, Yesterday.

Two Anglo-Indian boys, aged 12)

"Those suggested minimum stan- and 18, respectively, were taken to gan to sink. Her companions call-

dards are subject to slight altera- Further queries by M. Kara- khan elicited the assurance of that Japan would observe the A fine of $10 was imposed on the the Medical College Hospital yester-ed for help, and her father, seeing tion," a War Office official told the Mr. O. E. C. Marton appeared on Hirota that the Japanese Army Portsmouth Treaty, and said that Chinese driver of a lorry, belonging dominal pains as the result of

day, complaining of severe ab her plight, rushed towards her and News-Chronicle, "Tests have al- "The Japanese Government has

was also caught in the quicksand, ready started with a number of behalf of the complainant firm.)

* battalions, and the views of unit on the Kwantung peninsular is

no intention whatsoever of leave to the Gas Company, on summons swallowing pieces of glass. Defendant pleaded not guilty to closely watching the activities of ing troops on the Chinese Eastern for carrying

excessive persons,

It is reported that they were in- Her mother also frantically dashed commanders are being obtained." the charge,

which he admitted, It is stated spired by the recent demonstrations in, and sho in turn became embog His Worship fixed the hearing of the Russian White Guards and Railway.

in the city by Nara Bingha Swami, ged. Mr. Hirota, counter-questioned that he carried 28 persons in ad- of Madras, who, besides swallowing Foldenbloom, taking in the situa- ground again; and, save for shock,

centration of Soviet troops on

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the case for March 29 at 11 amis prepared, if necessary, to re- granting ball in the sum of $250.

$7.

Mr. Hirota gave his assurance

Gas: Co's Lorry Driver.

In the event of Beresford being press political and Insurgent, Karakhan regarding the condition to several gas stoves, when pleces of glass and iron nails, also tion, ran some distance up the the trio were zone the worse for unable to raise ball money, he is activity against Soviet Russia. the Russo-Korean border and the driving along Stubba Road.

to remain in Military, custody.

Regarding the New Govern construction of an aerodrome It is understood that defendant mentin Manchuria Japan re there, but received the andwerg was to have sailed for Home affirmed the adherence to the that all these reports were base yesterday,

principle of the open door policy, less-Reuter.

claims that he ran abedrb carbolic Orange River, entered the water their terrifying experience.

nd was firm, and he was able acid-and-other deadly polsona over-hard-round-and-swan-down Replying to the Magistrate, The boys succeeded Ines

stream. Under the water at to pull her out the spot where the child had by With some assistance both ber Traffic-Sergt. Clark agreed that the pieces of glass, but immediately vehicle, at the time, was safe...“ pain and were taken to the hosp

sunk up to her armpits parents were able to reach hard