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BERNARDS OF HARWICH.

FOR

CONSULATE SHIRTS & PYJAMAS : LILLEY & SKINNER FOOTWEAR : ROLLS RAZORS: WOLSEYS KNITWEAR: MACCLESFIELD SILK. NECKTIES: MOORES FELT HATS.

CHATER ROAD, HONG KONG.

VICEROY, BACKED BY HOME GOVERNMENT, AGAIN REBUFFS GANDHI

Barbara Hutton, the world's richest heiress, who recently married Prince Mdivani.

MOTOR SPIRIT FROM COAL

New Industry Planned In Britain.

EMPLOYMENT FOR 14,000 Government Preference For

Home Petrol

London, To-day. The Prime Minister yesterday an- bounced in the House of Commons that a resolution would be introduc- ed in the autumn to give effect to'

NO STOWAWAY

INVOLVED IN

PLANE CRASH

Only Two Pilots In Wrecked Machine.

TRAGIC END TO BRILLIANT ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Berlin. To-day.

In spite of persistent reports that

the trans-Atlantic plane "Lithuani

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was carrying a stowaway when

it crashed yesterday hear Soldin,

NO BARGAINING WITH CONGRESS

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MUST BE STOPPED

CONGRESS DIVIDED AS SENTIMENT GROWS FOR LAW AND ORDER

POONA, TO-DAY.-. MAHATMA GANDHI IS NOT DISCOURAGED BY THE Pomerania, causing the death of the VICEROY'S REPLY AND HAS RENEWED HIS REQUEST.- two Lithuanian ainmen, Captain HE STATES THAT HE THINKS HE CAN SHOW THAT THE Darius and M. Girenas, the police RECENT CONGRESS CONFERENCE WAS CALCULATED TO are now satisfied that there were! only two men in the wrecked plane.

The error is thought to be duel to the fact that the two bodies were terribly mutilated.

It was stated earlier that a third body had been identi- -fied as that of Victor Yes- claitas, who was thought to be a stowaway, but a mes- sage from New York, from where the two pilots took off on Saturday last, states that Yesclaitas, who was a mechanic employed by the two airmen, is alive and well there.

Capt. Darius and M. Girenas

A proposal which the Government were attempting to make a non- believed would ensure immediate stop flight from New York to Kevng, the capital of Lithuania,

preference in the manufacture of and were near their destination home produced motor spirit, when the plane came down. The

The proposal would take the form reason for the crash is still un- of a guaranteed preference of 4d known. Reuter. per gallon in respect of light hydro- carbon oila manufactured in this

country from indigenous coal.

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The guarantee would be for 10 years, dating from April 1 next, and would subject to arrangement, the effect of which would

the to vary

period of the guarantee according to the actual preference difference between the Customs Duty__and] Excise Duty that should be im- posed.

If the preference remained at it's present level of 8d. per gallon the period of the guarantee would If it were reduced be 41⁄2 years.

to 4d. per gallon the period would be 9 years and the intermediate rate of preferance would vary with the period of guarantee pro-) portionately.

POST LANDS AT

NOVOSIBIRSK

Round The World Flight.

GOOD PROGRESS MADE

BRING ABOUT AN HONOURABLE PEACE.

Poona, two hours later,

The Viceroy of India, replying to Mahatma Gandhi's second re- quest for an interview, states that there can be no question of the Government holding conversation with a representative of an Associa- tion which has not abandoned the Civil Disobedience movement, which is intended to coerce the Government by means of unlawful activities.

It is possible that Mr. Aney, President of the Congress, will resign, as he is opposed to the resumption of the Civil Disobedience campaign,

REVOLT AGAINST CONGRESS 7-

Rank And File Tired Of Disorder.

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Reuter.

A BETTER INDIA

Minister's Cheerful Review Of Progress.

LACK OF INTEREST IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

London, To-day,

London, Today. Mahatma Gandhi's request for an interview was yesterday refused in a telegraphed reply

On the India Office speech in the the Private Secretary to from Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of House of Commons, yesterday, Sir India. In referring to the sub-Samuel Hoare. Secretary for India ject in the House of Commons,

General support of law and order in India was, he said, daily being increased, and summaries of the Indian pres indicated a strong feel- ing among the rank and file

Feisal Ibn Hussein, King of Iraq, after being oficially welcom- ed at Victoria Station, London, on June 20, drove in State, accom- pauled by H. M. King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, to Buckingham Palace where for two days he was the guest of H. M the King (S. & G.).

RUTHLESS JUSTICE FOR

NAZI TRAITOR

Body Found Riddled With Bullets Near Railway

Berlin, To-day. The body of a Nazi, "traitor" riddled with bullets, has found on the railway line at The victim Frankfort-on-Main.

been

is an ex-Nazi, who, in 1932, pro- duced documents purporting to reveal what the Nazis would do to their opponents when they ob- tained power.

He was imprisoned recently for his own protection, but released.

Reuter.

PU-YI TO HEAD

MONARCHY IN

MANCHUKUO?

System On Japanese Constitution.

EX-BOY EMPEROR MAY BE GIVEN THRONE

yesterday, the the Secretary for took a cheerful view of the general India, Sir Samuel Hoare, said outlook. He said that the questions that the reply had the full con-interesting the administrators în In- currence of Government.

dia to-day, were not so much ques- tions connected with the Civil Dis- obedience movement and law and

Changchun, July 1. order, but with the general field of

The enthronement of Mr. Henry administration particularly questions Pu-yi as King of Manchukuo is of importance in the social and considered very probable, following economic rather than the political reports that a Majority Commission field. That was a very significant had been appointed to draft a Con- change for the better.

"stitution for a new state in favour Thanks to the efforts of the of the establishment of a constitu- same plane as used by him and be no question of making a bar- Harold Gatty when they established gain with the Congress as a con- great body of officials in India, tional monarchy.

This, it is pointed out, would au- the record of 8 days, 15 hours, 51dition to their accepting the or- British and Indian, and backed

Moscow, To-day. Wiley Post, the American airman, who is attempting to establish a new round- the-world flight record, land- ed at Novosibirsk, at 6.27 a.m. Lo-day, three days after

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of Congress against the con-

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gramme. There was only one course open There could Post, who is flying solo in the to the Government.

[LEAGUE AID FOR

CHINA

Technical Assistance By Powers,

LIAISON OFFICER BETWEEN GENEVA AND NANKING

Paris, To-day.

Britain, Eight countries, France, Italy, Germany, Nor- way, Czecho-Slovakia. Spain and China are to be represent-

ed on the committee recently appointed by the League of "Nations to co-ordinate techni

cal co-operation between the League and Chima.

The committee holds first meeting here to-day, and will be presided over by Senor Najera, of Mexico, acting President of the League Coun--

cil.

The meeting, at which the Chinese Finance Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong will be present. will review the work of the League experts now in China and will receive suggestions from China and appoint

chief liaison officer between League representative to act as Geneva and Nanking-Reu-

ber.

SIR J. ELLERMAN PASSES.

London, To-day.

DIVORCE IN

ROOSEVELT

FAMILY

Eldest Son's Wife Granted Decree.

{"EXTREME CRUELTY" CHARGED

Mindens, Nevada, To-day.

Elliott Roosevelt, the son of President Roosevelt, and his wife have been divorced. The decree was awarded Mrs. Roosevelt on a cross petition charging Fier husband with “extreme cruelty."

The Court sat in "camera" and Mrs. Roosevelt was not present, her testimony being read from a deposition which arrived by air mail from Phila- delphia in the maming.

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It is understood that Mrs.

·Roosevelt's plea was based on differences of temperament which "made it impossible to, continue living together. Reuter. Mr. Elliott Roosevelt, who is 21 years of age, was married last year to Miss Elizabeth Brown Donner, daughter of a steel manufacturer of Villanova, Pa. ¿

When he was 20, he entered a New York advertising "frm and is now- vice-President in the same concern. He is the only sänkt member of the Roosevelt family who did not go to

ACTION FAILS FOR $220,000,000

Mellon And U.S. Officials Sued.

New York, To-day,

A suit for US$220,000,000 against Mr. Andrew Wellon and other former United. States Treasury officials has been dismissed by the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court,

The euit was brought by Mr. David Olson, former investigator for the Senate Stock Market In- quiry Committee, who alleged connivance with certain foreign Steamship Companies whose identities were not disclosed. Reuter.

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It is estimated that about 7,000 men would be directly employed and a slightly less

minutes, in 1931, is malding ex-dinary obligations of law-abiding body of public opinion express tomatically lead to the elevation of Wealthiest Englishman. Mr. Andrew Mellon, reputed to number indirectly,

'cellent time in spite of having been citizens, he said. Under the plan in view about forced down on Sunday evening at

Lord Willingdon's reply to Mr. ing itself in provincial councils, Mr. Pu-yi as King. 100,000 tons or 30,000,000 gallons of petrol would be produced annu-Koenisberg, owing to bad weather. Gandhi stated: "If circumstances the Civil Disobedience campaign It is believed that the ceremony His Excellency had now become a matter alto will take place immediately the ably, consuming 350,000 tons of Leaving New York on Saturday were different, coal and giving employment to over morning, Post made a last Atlantic would gladly have seen you, but it sether of secondary importance work of the drafting of the Consti- 1,000 minera, In addition there crossing and reached Berlin, his would seem that you are opposed Referring to the very fine re-tution is completed. was employment is connection at landing place, at 11.55 am, to the withdrawing of the Civil cord in regard to health adminis- It appears certain that the new After a two-hour stay he left for Disobedience movement except on tration, Sir Samuel Hoare men- Novosibirsk, but was forced down at conditions, and that the interview fioned that a new drug had been system, when and if it materialises, The cost to the Treasury, would Koenisberg five hours later. He you seek would be for the purpose discovered which, as far as his will be based on Japanese lines. be very small-British Wireless left for Novosibirsk, but was forced Service.

with the plant.

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Putting Coal Industry On. Its Feet.

Z.C. L. EXPERIMENTS WITH

COAL-PETROL -

London, To-day. The Government's offer of a guaranteed preference of four pence per gallon for 10 years on petrol manufactured from coal, shale and peat will con-" tribute greatly to placing the coal Industry on its feet.

The announcement of the offer followed the discussions between the Government. and the Imperial Chemical Industries, which for years has bean experimenting with hydrogenation, whereby a ton of coal yields half its weight in petrol.

idown at Koenisberg five hours later.

He left again at 6.45 am. for Mos

jcow, landing there at 2.20 p.m. Leas than three hours later he was again in the air, speeding for Novosibirsk.

MONEY LUST DEM

AMERICA.

Roosevelt Advices Honest Work.

New York, To-day. President Roosevelt, in a striking broadcast address last night,declared that too many Americans were seeking to gain money with the least pos sible work.

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U.S. FINANCIER DISAPPEARS.

Escapes From Nursing Lome.

medical advisors could judge, Reuter. would be most effective in pre-

venting relapses that for years SISTER

had been the worst feature of the malaria epidermie.

Still further advances had been

made in irrigation, and work was being continued on various pro jects, four of which at present in hand, covered areas of more than New York, To-day, 1,000,000 acres. By the time they It is reported that the United were completed the total area ir- States financier, Mr. Joseph rigated would be 40,000,000 acres, Harriman, has again disappear Crops last season were satisfactory ed from the Nursing Home where were prospected by landlords and he was undergoing treatment for tenants. heart and nervous troubles, - Reuter.

TABLET FOR GERMAN ASSASSINS

He urged all to cast away self- Two German

Berlin, To-day!

Ex-ombers who

A plant is expected to be erected destroying and national-destroy- murdered Herr Bathenau, German near Middlesbrough at a cost of ing efforts to get something for Foreign Minister in 1922, and then £7,000,000 Its computed output nothing, and to appreciate the committed suicide to evol will be 20,000,000 gallons yearly truth, that gatisfying and safe re- have had a tablet erected to their Which amounts to only 6 per cent, ward comes only through honest emory on the spot were they died. of Britain consumption. Reuter work Benter.

Regarding prices, trade.re ports were becoming

the couraging and several commodities in which India risen. was interested had Trade in India was increasing- ly resuming its normal couEME despite the political agitation, and was not held up by the Intervention of political boy-

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AIMEE'S

NEW PUBLICITY

"What A Man” Sues

For Divorce.

HOAX REGARDING BIRTH..

OF BABY

Los Angeles, To-day.

A suit for divorce against Sister Aimee MacPherson, lender of the Evangeliste, has been filed by her hus band, David (What A Man Hutton, former or- chestra and choir leader

Mental cruelty is advanc ed by, Hutton in the suit, which alleges that Sister Almee made bis married life ridiculous by perpetrating a hoax regarding the birth of their bab

one of the richest man in the world, held office as United States. The death occurred, on Sunday Treasury Secretary during the John Ellerman aged 71. His later United States Ambassador to night at Dieppe, France, of Sir Hoover Administration, and was

pont after Presidential election this last night. body was taken to London by ship, London. He relinquished the latter

Sir John Ellerman was head of year. the great Ellerman shipping inter- ests and was Chairman of numer ous industrial companies. He was reputed to be the wealthiest man in England.-British Wireless

Service

MR. A. B. LOWSON'S DEATH

Former Bank Official In Shanghai.

STOCKS ADVANCE ON WALL ST. Public Buys Silver.

New York, To-day,

The silver market here con tinues to receive public sup ort, with commission houses the principal buyers of offera from profit-takers on forelyn accounts,

The death occurred at Home, Stock again advanced on Wall yesterday, of Mr. A. B. Lowson, Street, and it 18 anticipated that former manager of the Shanghai rails will gather further strength. offics of the Hong Kong and Shang Industrials soared 2.17 to 108.27, bai Banking Corporation.

yesterday, while rails, utilities and bonds improved 41, 87 and 16 to 55.30, 87.56 and 88.84 respectively. W Ensiness reached a high figure,

6,350,000 shares being traded. Renter,

PORTUGAL SEEK TRADE TREATY WITH URS Washington, To-day, Portugal has agreed to "en; ter into negotiations Unit

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States with

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The total rainfall in the Colony for the 24 hours ending went 10 a.m. this

wince JanuaryAA *2:10 Inches,,against, an÷TYCAgE