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FOUR BRITISH MARINE OFFICERS CARRIED OFF BY PIRATES

CHELSEA

TRIUMPH

LONDON FINANCIERS 1,000,000 DIE

AT DERBY ON FRAUD CHARGE

Belated Effort To

.:

Avoid Relegation. £130,669 FOR BOLSTERED

MOTHERWELL TROUNCE

HEARTS

London, To-day. Chelsea are making a belated) effort to avoid relegation from the First Division of the soccer league. Yesterday they visited Derby and defeated the County by the only goal scored.

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SHARES

KING OF LUNDY ISLAND" CHARGED

WITH 3 FELLOW DIRECTORS

LONDON, TO-DAY,

AFTER A THREE WEEKS INTERVAL, THE CASE AGAINST MR. M. C. HARMAN, THE PROMINENT CITY FIN- ANCIER, AND THREE OTHER DIRECTORS, CHARGED WITH. This win provided them with BETWEEN NOVEMBER 10, 1930, AND AUGUST 31, 1932, UN. their fifth point in their last three LAWFULLY CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD SHAREHOLDERS games, two of which have been OF THE CHOSEN CORPORATION, LTD., WAS CONTINUED IN

The THE NEW COURT AT GUILDHALL YESTERDAY. played away from home. Pensioners are now on level terms

The prosecution alleged that money belonging to the Chosen with Middlesborough third from Corporation, was used by Mr. Harman, in concurrence with the foot of the table.

the other defendants to "bolster up" his other companies and to Motherwell, Scottish League get them out of grave difficulties. champions, regained their winning Mr. Harman is stated to be a director of 14 companies, the chief form when they accounted for the one being the Chosen Corporation with a capital of $500,000 of Hearts on their own ground by a which Mr. Harman owned three-fifths, and the public the rest. The comfortable margin. The cham-co-defendants are also directors of the Chosen Corporation as well as pions are now five points in arrears some of Mr. Harman's other companies, of the Rangers with a game in hand,

Kilmarnock suffered

•

Spectacular Career-

FROM JUNIOR CLERK TO CONTROL OF MILLIONĖ,

OF HUNGER

IN RUSSIA

Soviet In Grip Of Famine.

BRITISHER'S ACCOUNT OF STARVATION: SCENES

Berlin, To-day.

The appalling conditions existing in Russin to-day, were vividly de- scribed by Mr. Garth Jones, former political secretary to Mr. Lloyd George, who arrived in Berlin yes- terday, en routs to London after completing a walking tour through Russia,

"Russia is to-day gripped by a famine as disastrous as the catas trophe, of 1921, when millions of people died," he said. The univer sal cry was, "There is no bread, we are dying."

.

Conditions, he said, were

During the floods that followed in the wake of Britain's bliz

zard last month, vast areas were under water especially in the Thames Valley and, the Valley of the River Wey between Guil. ford, and Godalming, Surrey-The morning milk is delivered with difficulty at Farncombe,-(S. & G.)

"

B. & S. SHIP PIRATED

OFFICERS SURPRISED IN SALOON

Sensational Affair At Newchwang..

S. S. NANCHANG BOARDED BY 14. RAIDERS

Newchwang, To-day. The Butterfield & Swire

steamer "Nanchang" was pirated this morn- ing while proceeding to anchor at New- chwang Bar and awaiting the pilot.

Pirates from three

WRECKAGE OF AIR LINER junks opened a

BEING REMOVED

particularly bad af Karaksta, DISASTER CAUSED BY MACHINE

CATCHNG FIRE IN THE AIR

STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

where more than 1,000,000 people were reported to have died of hunger; but this state of affairs was existent in many. other centres, in a lesser de

their The prosecution alleged that he fourth successive defeat when defendants, between January, they visited Dundee and were 1931, and August, 1932, spent beaten by three clear goals. Dun- dee are now on level terms with 130,669 in purchasing either for

the Corporation of its three subsiMr. Harman has had one at the The reason for the high figure of Kilmarnock.

Cheater took the lead Indiary companies registered in Japan most remarkable and spectacular the northern section of the 173,029 Chosen shares at an aver careers in the history of the City deaths at Kazaksta was the insuf- Third Division as the result

Age cost of 15/- per share, when of London. Starting as a junior ficient supply of seed and the fact on the majority of the dates of pur- clerk, at one time it was estimated that many of the peasants were chase, the share were procurable that the companies affiliated to the

group he controled had a total ca-too weak to work the land.

This position was brought about pital of £14,000,000.

by the peasants resistance to the Government's policy in following out Stalin's five-year plan for the

of a big home win over York City, a lowly placed team. Results as cabled by Reuter were as follow:-

First Division,

0 Chelsea Derby

Third Division (South). Aldershot 1 Brighton Bristol R. 1 Bristol C.

Third Division (North). Chester 5 York

Scottish League, Motherwell 5 Hearts Dundee

at between 2/- and 3/—.

All these shares were sold to 1 the aforementioned Japanese re- gistered companies, while the in- dependent sharehouders of the Corporation had not an oppor-] Lunity of selling their shares on such favourable terms.

0 3 Kilmarnock (Tables on Page 9.)

CAMBRIDGE WIN VARSITY GOLF

LOSE SINGLES BY 7 TO 1

London, To-day.

Cambridge stopped Oxford's run of three sucessive victories in the

Thus, it is alleged by the prosecution, Mr. Harman had no regard for the inter- ests of the general share- holders, which were sacri- ficed to Mr. Harman and his co-dependants.

Sensation In City.

CROWDS RUSH COURTʼAT INITIAL HEARING.

Mr. Martin Coles Harman,

the

annual golf match when they won prominent City financier, and three at Princes. Sandwich, yesterday by other directors who were arrested 10 matches to 3, the other two mat- on February 25, made their first appearance before the magistrate at ches being halved.

the Guildhall Police Court on March!

The Light Blues won 3 out of the 6 foursomes and 7 of the ten singles matches, two of which were halved.

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He is a director of some fourteen companies, of the ma- jority of which he is chairman.

(Continued on Page 7.)

BISHOPS ACCEPT NAZIS' PROMISE

Catholic Church Reconciled.

Berlin, To-day.

At a conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Fulda issued a manifesto withdrawing the Church's previous prohibi- tion and warnings against the Nazi movement, in view of the Chancellor Hitler's promise that the rights of the Catholic Church in Ger- many will be respected. Reuter.

[FORD MOTOR WORKS All four were remanded until PAY CUT PROTEST. March 29. Mr. Harman was allow

Last year Oxford, showing the ed bait in two surelles of £2,500 same all-round superiority, won by each; the other three defendants Strikers Return To Work 9 matches to 6. to record their third were granted bail each in two

sureties of £1,000 each. successive win.

collectivisation of farms, the lack of skilled labour, and the collapse

of transport and finance,

LONDON, TO-DAY V THE EXAMINATION AND REMOVAL OF THE WRECK- AGE OF THE AIR LINER, CITY OF LIVERPOOL WHICH MET WITH DISASTER NEAR DIXMUDE ON TUESDAY, BE- GAN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON; IN THE PRESENCE OF THE BRITISH AIR MINISTRY INSPECTOR AND THE BEL- GIAN AIR AUTHORITIES.

H. M: the King, in a meesage t the Imperial Airways Chairman, Sir Eric Geddes, expressed a deep sympathy with the relatives of the pas sengers and crew who lost their lies, and also with the Company

The air disaster yesterday was the subject of a question in the House of Commons, where the Under-Secretary for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, said that the air raft appears to have caught fire in the air. Until receipt of the preliminary report from the Inspector of Accidents it is not possible to make any further statement. Meantime, he continued, reports such as that are started in one of the engines, should be treated with greatest re- serve...

The arrest of the British engin- cers of Metropolitan Vickers Elec trical Engineering Company, Ltd. Mesirs. Alan Mankhouse, Nordwall Cushay. Thornton, Gregory and

Sir Philip Sassoon recalled. that MacDonald on charges of sabotage since the last accident attended by of electrical machinery, and the re loss of life, nearly 21 years ago, cent shooting of 35 prominent Imperial Airways had flown over agriculturalists, were attempts to 14,000,000 miles, and carried over! appease popular wrath aroused by 99,000 passengers a record of the famine. Mr. Jones declared safety in which any country might Reuter.

take legitimate pride.

The type of machine involved] had been in constant use for six] years and this was the first acci-

dent in the course of over 2,000,-|

000 miles flown by this type on

regular services, he said.

FEDERAL INDIA PROPOSALS Referred To Joint

Committee..

DOMINION STATUS | URGED BY LABOURITES

heavy fire on the vessel, after which about fourteen pir- ates boarded the steamer and threat- ened the Chinese crew.

The foreign off- cers were surprised whilst in the saloon and four British offi- cers were carried off. -Reuter.

Officers' Names. The following are the officers captured when the Butterfield and Swire steamer "NanchangTM pirated:

Was

A. D. Blue, Second Engineer

(Glasgow).

F. L. Fears, Third Engineer (Newcastle).

Clifford Johnson, Junior Officer (Berlan Cliff, Colwyn Bay, North Wales).

W. E. Hargrave, Junior Officer,

Reuter.

(Ripon, Yorks).

Captain And Chief

Engineer Safe.

The officers on board the Nam- chang number six and are: Captain, J. Bobinson, who has been in the service of the China Navigation Co. since 1922: Chief Officer, C. Johnson 2nd. Officer, W. E. Hargrave, Chief. Engineer, A. Jeffery, 2nd Engineer, A. D. Blue, 3rd Engineer, F. L. Pears.

London, To-day. The House of Commons, by 449 Under approved international

The Chief Officer has been em procedure, the responsibility for votes to 43, yesterday agreed upon investigation rested with the he Government's motion to appoint played by the Company for four years, the 2nd Officer for three country in which the accident oc- curred, though it was customary a jomt Select Committee of Peers years, the 2nd Officer for three to associated with the enquiry and members of the House of Com-years, the Chief Egineer for eight years, the 2nd. Engineer for five technical representatives of the

proposals for constitutional reform year.

BRITISH METHODS

ARE "CRUDE Soviet Commissar's Defiant Reply.

TRIAL WILL PROCEED

Moscow, To-day.. A victory yesterday would have A remarkable story was told of]

· London, To-day!

During an interview with the Bri-country to which the aircraft be-mons lo examine the Government's years and the Brd. Enginger for four equalled the Cambridge record of the arrest at the offices of the

The strike which began at the

longed. four successive wins, from 1926 to Chosen Corporation, Ltd, in Angel 1929.

Court, E,C. A detective officer told Ford Motor Works at Dagenham, ish Ambassador, Sir Esmond Ovey, Percy Alliss, the famous British how he went there, and told Mr.sex, on Monday last, was settled yesterday, in connection with the..

yesterday afternoon, komma arrested Metropolitan, Vickers Elec- Ryder Cup player coached the Ox- Harman he had come to arrest him The dispute arose from wage trical Cosi, employees, M. Litvia" ford players at Beaconsfeld. and three of his colleagues. Di

cuts, and the walk-out involved the

U.S. DELEGATE IN LONDON.

Early Talk With Premier

On Disarmament.

London, To-day.

At British Plant.

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Telephone calls were then sant majority of the night shift work off, Foreign Commissar, said:

round the office, telling the other ers-British Wireless Service. three men to go to Mr. Harman's room-to be arrested.

The news of the arrest caused a JAPANESE DELEGATES LIFE sensation in the City. Long before

the heavy double-doors of the court opened, a quene began to form, In

THREATENED

King Street and round the corner in Attempt To Wreck Mr. Mat Train Near Boston

Mr. Norman Davis, principal Church-passage." United States delegate to the Dis- The full names, and addresses of armament Conference, arrived at the four men were: Plymouth yesterday. Addi Martin Coles Harman, Before proceeding to Geneva widower, of Park-lane, W.

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he will spend a few days in Lon- Berkeley Fairfax Conigrave, 61, don, where he will have an op-widower, born in Australia, of Lan Lportunity of discussing Disarma caster Gule Wa

ment and the World Economic Herbert Healey Pounds, 64, Conference with the Prime Min- single, of Russell Road Kensing Inter Mr. Ramsay MacDonaldton, W. British Wireless Service.

(Continued on Pars

Boston, To-day. apparent attempt to wreck the express trained in which Mr. Matanoka, former Chief Japanese delegate to the League of Nations, was travelling to Boston, ported by railroad police, yester

Pored and yellow

track. Just before the

"Britain's methods are crude Outside pressure may sometimes be effective in Mexico, but in Russia

they are fated to fall":

“

No doubt, in the present case, responsible Belgian nu«' thorities would work in closest and most cordial co operation with the British experis, Bir Philip said, He conveyed to the relatives of those killed, the profound sym- pathy of the Secretary of State

and himself, at a loss so tragical- According to a hemi-official state-ly sustained. British Wireless

Service. ment, the Ambassador went to in- form the Commissar as to what steps the British Government pro- posed to take if the trial was not cancelled,AN

The British Ambasander, howe aver, refrained from specifying the

Litvinof! clared

was decl

that

Public's Confidence,

PASSENGERS UNDETERRED BY DISASTER.

London Gedder! Always, and

former

riblle

to those who for Imperial Afr on Page 12.)

in the Government of India.

The Labour. Opposition amend- ment, demanding, inter alia, Do

Description Of Ship.

The 1.8. Nanchang is a steel-

mimon status for Indis, was defeat-screw vessel of 2,488 tons gross and.

d by 475 votes to 42

Winston Churchill Assails Proposals.

The chief feature of last night's session of the Indian "debate in the House of Com- was the vigorous speech in which Mr. Winston Church assailed the Govern- ment's reform proposals.

Lord Winterton followed with a severe criticism of Mr Churchill's attitude. Beuter and British Wireless Servic

1,506. tons net

Built in 1922 at Greenock, by Messrs. Scott's for the China Navigation Company, Ltd., she is employed on the Newching Swatow run, generally carrying bean cake |from the northern port,

She has a draught of 19.6 feet, length of 295.8 feet and a breadth of 442 feet. ALE

Warship May Be Sent,

The Commander-in-Chief kas ad vived HLM. Legation, Peking, that if necessary, H.MS. Bridgewater, which de dad¦¦in: Wek-hai-wel on April 22 will be divaried from her couse and sent to the scene of the