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PRESIDENT OPPOSES
CHILE REBELS
MEXICO'S DEAD--400
'QUAKE HAVOC.
MONTERO DENIES RESIGN INCREASES D'AILY. ATION BUT KEEPS HIDDEN TIDAL WAVES AND ERUPTIONS
NEW REGIME IS VIOLENTLY ANTI - FOREIGN.
commenced his trans- DRASTIC SOCIALIST PROGRAMME
who Atlantic flight from Linden, New Jersey, on June 3. It is believed that the airman's petrol supply must be exhausted by now.
on May 28 in a Bellanca 220 h.p. machine but returned after six hours owing to instrument trou-| ble.
He was hoping to reach War- saw without a stop.-Reuter.
Valparaiso, Yesterday.
ADD TO TERROR.
Dormant Volcanoes Now Active THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
Mexico City, Yesterday. Tidal waves and artions of dormant volcanoes have increased
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of dead fish thrown up on the
ivice.
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The effect of the earthquake in
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HITLER'S ADVANCE TO POWER
NAZIS TRIUMPH AT PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS
4.
VOTING IS SIGNIFICANT
RE-APPEARANCE OF “BROWN ARMY
FORECAST,
PLOT TO MURDER- MUSSOLINI.
Would Be Assassin Frustrated.
HAD TWO BOMBS AND PISTOL
Arrested Man's Confession.
About to Make Attempt on Il Duce's Life.
A plot to murder Signor Benito Mussolini A denial has been issued to the report that the casualties to over 400 filled and
The phenomenal progress of the Nazi leader, is believed to have been Hausner, who started his flight President Montero had resigned; and this is taken injured, and thousandsre home- Adolf Hitler, continues and to-day at the first poll-frustrated by the arrest on June 3, had made a previous to indicate that he intends to oppose the new re-
ing since the downfall of his strongest opponent, The coastal towns of Tonatlan, attempt to cross the Atlantic. On that occasion he left Linden gime, but his whereabouts is unknown.
San Blas and Manzanillo are report Dr. Bruening, the Nazis registered a sensational near Palazzo, Venezia, Meanwhile, Senor Davila has formed a Cabinet ed to be deluged with thousands success at the polls gaining just slightly under 50 the principle seat of the including three non-Socialists and five Socialists peaches, Reuter's American Ser per cent. of the votes at the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Fascist Government of a and Communists.
elections in North Germany. With the Social De- man named Bardellotto, The new regime's programme includes the dis- Worst in Last Devade."
mocrats they are in an overwhelming majority. who had two bombs, a solution or nationalisation of the Cosach Nitrate Mexico is steadily assuming more
The voting caused great jubilation among the Combine, the exclusion of foreign capital from serious property, more Nazis, and the "Storm Troops" celebrated with pistol and a false pass- vital industries such as oil and tobacco, and public tions received here ear indie triumphant parades. Hitler's opponents are great-ort in his possession.
ly perturbed as the voting is regarded as signi- The police allege
that utilities to become compulsory work for all.
On June 8 Reuter reported that ficant in view of the general elections which take he confessed he was the most violent earthquake: shocks There is to be such taxation Tht revolutionary Junta aims for many years were experienced place next month. of the rich as to amount to vir- to establish a Socialist Republic in Mexico.. The shocks were felt
about to make an at- tual confiscation.
vigorously nationalist in charac-over a wide area and considerable
Berlin, To-day: a-modified form, is foreshadowed tempt on Signor Musso- "Foreign legions" which have ter and antipathetic to foreign damage of a minor natu as done Another overwhelming Nazi in an interview here with the been formed at Valparaiso and financial penetration. Reuter. In Mexico City, where persons success is shown in the Mecklen- Rome Minister, Baron Von Gayl, lini's life. Santiago for the protection of!
were killed.
burg-Schwerin elections. To- who declared: “Every injustice foreigners have been dissolved.
By Saturday the death roll was gether with the Social Democrats perpetrated against the different The Immediate. Cause. Three persons have been killed placed at over 60 with 10 injured, the sled over 284,000 votes, forms of the Nationalist Move AGENT AND SOLDIER Santiago de Chile, Yesterday, and sixty wounded in a riot near and the garthquake ribed compares with the Opposition's ment will be abolished. The immediate cause of the re-the Presidential Palace.
|as the worst In the last care. 78,000 votes. volution was the removal of Col. I Colonel Grove, the rebel air force
Wide-Spread DamageN The Nazis polled 175,884 votes Marmaduke Grove from the com-leader, has forty aeroplanes and The damage was wide-spread and the Social Democrats 107,669 mand of the Air Force. The Air three thousand men,
and several townships were wiped votes. Force revolted and was joined by
Colonel Vergara who has been out. The worst affected town was to the troops.
appointed to supersede Colonel Guadalajara, where the death roll Grove went to the Aviation School was 80.
FRENCH LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
(Renter's Special Service). Auteuil, Yesterday.
Men's Singles--Semi Final. H. Cochet (France) beat, Marcel Bernard (France) 6-1,* 6-0, 6-4.
De Stefani (Italy) beat R. Menzel (Czécho-Slovakia) 43, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4,
Women Singles-Final. Mrs. Wills-Moody (U.S.A.) beat Mme. Mathieu (France). 7-5, 6-1.
COCHET & DE STEFANI
IN FRENCH FINAL
Santiago de Chile,
Yesterday.
ed.
and fired a revolver. He wounded (Continued on Page 12.)
a major but was disarmed.
Palace Captured.
President Montero has resigned. Revolutionary troops poured into the city and captured the Presl- dent's Palace.
The New Government. The romantic fact of a Cornish-
HELEN WILLS WINS TITLE man's son becoming one of the
FROM
FRENCH CHAMPION
rulers of a South American Re- public emerged out of the swift rabel coup,
President Montero has banded over control to a military junta
PRELIMINARY ENCOUNTER BEFORE THE composed of Colonel Grove, two
WIMBLEDON TOURNAMENT.
COCHET SHOULD WIN TO-DAY
Auteuil, Yesterday.
"Henri Cochet, the French Champion, and De Stefani, the Italian player, to-day won their way to the Final Round of the Men's Singles in the French Lawn Tennis Championships when they eliminated Martel Bernard (France) and, R. Menzel (Czecho-Slovakia) respec- tively. Though De Stefani has shown great improvement this sea- son, he is not expected to extend Cochet in to-morrow's Final.
generala and Sr. Davila, former Chilean ambassador to the United States-Reuter
BANDITY INCREASES NEAR HARBIN.
Train Fired At and Held Up.
96 PASSENGERS HELD FOR RANSOM.
“Brown Army" Alarm
Berlin, Earlier. The speedy re-aearance of Herr Hitler's "Brown Army," in
U.S.A. POLICE FIGHT 3,000 UNEMPLOYED
HUNGER ON CAPITAL
MARCH" CON-
OWEN D. YOUNG'S WARNING ON ECONOMIC POSITION.
SERIOUS CLASHES REPORTED
Washington is faced with a serious menace if the "Hungar March" canhot be diverted. Serious clashes between the marches and the police occur- red at Cleveland, Blacksburg and Newark. At the latter place 200 police were called out armed with shotguns, and tear-gas bombs had to be used to disperse the crowd.
Mrs. Wills-Moody won the Women's Singles title when she de-
Harbin, Yesterday fented Mme. Mathieu, the French champion in straight sets. This Banditry is becoming increas- was in the nature of a preliminary encounter before Wimbledon, asingly serious near Harbin, Yes-
The Washington police are doing their utmost terday a train at Izvestkovaya, the Frenchwoman is expected to prove the most formidable conten- thirty-five miles east of Harbin, to prevent the bands of unemployed war veterans, der for the Wimbledon crown though Benorita D'Alvarez, the was furiously fired on and was who are to petition for soldiers bonuses, from con- then held up." The passenger Spanish champion who is again competing, and Betty Nuthall may on board, totalling 178, were verging on the capital, but 3,000 are already in the cause upeeta. Critics were impressed with her play in the first set, taken off and searched. The city, but when Helen Wills placed all her reserves into the second set train and all haggg was search- ed and everything of value was Mme. Mathieu was completely outclassed.
taken. Ninety-six people we taken off to be held for rango
-Reuter
Youth Completely Outplayed.
Bernard, who is perhaps the best "find" France has discover-
Grim determination marked tht play of Henri Cochet agairist Marcel Bernard, one of France's ed in recent years, was clearly most promising youthful play outplayed in all departments. ers. He is this year taking the His speed was of no avail against Wimbledon tournament with AT the relentless Cochet -
“seriousness, and the s
that he made
taking no chatican.
again the great
POSSESSION OF ARMS!
t
stern warning that it may be necessary to invest President Hoover with pow
viste the economic crisis, was uttered by Mr- en D Young, probable Presidential candidate, in New York to day
In the course of the week the Government is expletus to ex- amine all of Dr. Bruening's emergency measures.
Lausanne Policy.
The Lausanne programme will be discussed fter the return of the Foreign Minister, Herr Von Neurath from London, Reuter,
2 RATINGS OF HMS WESSEX PROMOTED.
Sequel to Explosion
January 6.
IN COURT
llefed Theft from Ship's Passenger.
$7,000 INVOLVED,
Harry Alexander Chapelle (37) # native of Glasgow, described as an
living
agent, Heing at Bavarin House, and were charged before Mr. Fraser at
the Kowloon Police Court this morn- ing, with the theft of a jacket con- ontaining a wallet, which in turn con-
tained money, documents, bank drafts, and other valuables, to the total value of nearly 17,000, the
The Admiralty has approved property of Mr. George Coonay.
The complainant, who was on his of the following special advance-way to Nagasaki, missed his ship, ments to date from June 8, for the Ben Levis, here, and is awaiting devotion to duty when an explo another ship.
aíon occurred in H.M.S. Wessex The defendants were alternatively on Januray 6, 1982
charged with receiving the pro
J. G. Swann, Leading Stoker, party. [advanced to Stoker Petty Officer; After hearing evidence, hia
W. F. Cook, E.R.A. 1st Class, ad Worship adjourned the vanced to Chlef E.R.A. 2nd Class., Thursday afternoon.
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