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CHINA PROVISIONS MUST BE GUARDED IN NAVAL NEGOTIATIONS

NANKING TROOPS

RUSHED TOWARDS

CHENCHOW CITY STRATEGIC POINT ON RAILWAY

CANTONESE-CLAIM VICTORIES

[From Our Own Correspondent) Canton, To-day.

The vanguard of the Nanking troops reached Chenchow, in Southern Hunan, last night. Four divisions are rushing down overland from Chuchow, the northern terminus of the Canton. Hankow Rallway, according to reports reaching here.

Big battles are expected in the next few days between the Nan- king. troops, and. Communists, who are hiding in Kweitung and Jucheng in southern Hunan. It appears that the Central Au-j thorities count on their own troops rather than the provincial forces in suppressing the Reds in southern Hunan before they can' escape westward.

If necessary, more Nanking troops will be sent to Hunan.

Miss Cecil M. Bärr declares that the piercing eyes of Bruno Haupt- mana are unforgettable and helped As the man her to identify him who spent a $5 Lindbergh ransom bill at the movie theatre where she sells tickets. Inst November.

Hauptmann told the role he was given ransom money by Inadore Fisch last April.

On the last occasion, the Hunan FRENCH CRISIS

provincial soldiers were not in a position to intercept the passing

LOOMS ANEW WITH

of the Communists under Hsiao THREAT TO BUDGET

Keh and Li Chung-pao.

The Kwangtung-Hunan sector

is quiet, although the Reds are MIRACLE NEEDED TOĮ

in still occupation of Chengkow,

Can-

in northern Kwangtung. tonese troops are arriving in large numbers at Jenhua with the object of pushing the Reds clear from Chengkow.

Official reports continue to claim Cantonese .victories over the Reds, but the time and place are stated very vaguely.

EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF ARMS SALE

British Contracts Must Be Approved

London, To-day.. Answering a Parliamentary question regarding the measures taken to prevent the sale of armaments indiscriminately to foreign countries in the interests of money-making, the Prime!

SAVE CABINET

DOUMERGUE FIRM

Paris, To-day. Despite the postponement of the French Cabinet crisis through the Radicals' sugges tion for a compromise with a. view to continuing the party truce, well-informed quarters forecast that the Premier, Mr. Gaston Doumergue, will not agree to voting on the Budget rather than demand credits.

Nothing but a miracle can avert a crisis to-morrow, ob- servers assert.-Reuter.

Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, PRINCE AT BRISTOL

said that the machinery of ex-

port licensing ensured an effec-Warm Welcome Given tive control over the supply to foreign countries of arms from By Unemployed

the United Kingdom.

No sale could be made by an armaments firm except to the ap- proved destinations and on the

Board of Trade, he added. British Wireless Service.

London, To-day.

Unemployed men in Bristol gave

a warm welcome to H.R.H. the

SWEEPING VICTORY

FOR ROOSEVELT REPUBLICANS CONCEDE PRESIDENT'S TRIUMPH

7 DEAD IN ELECTION BATTLES

New York, To-day.

President Roosevelt has won a clear "right of way" for the "New Deal" for two years or more as the result of the elections. This is conceded even by the Republicans who are watching the early returns roll in from the eastern and middle-west States along pro-Democrat lines, as predicted ear- lier.

The nation went to poll amid a welter of charges and couni-. ter-charges, by both sides, of intimidation, violence, illegal regis». Accusations of trations, and other breaches of electoral law. high-handedness were hurled against the police, deputy - United States marshalls, and sheriffs.

Many arreats were made, not-

REPUBLICAN STATES ably in Pennsylvania, the main

GO DEMOCRATIC

Negroes Battle For

Chicago Seat

TWO-THIRD MAJORITY SEEN

Washington, To-day.

A "New Deal" Congress seems to be an accomplished fact. The re turns indicate record poll for a year in which there is no Pre sidential election:

Mr. Herbert H Lehman, Gov- ernor of New York State, is, ap- West parently, romping home. Virginia, Maryland and New York State soon reported leads for Democratic Senatorial candidates, while all the Democrats were elect. ed as usual from Georgia, Missis- sippi and the southern states.

In the electorial contest at Chicago, between two ne groes, the Republican- repre- sentative is losing ground against the Democrats.

The Democrats will undoubted- ly increase the strength to two- thirda as the latest returns from the hitherto predominantly Repu blican States of Maryland, West Virginia, Connectcut and Ohio show the Republican vote in ar-

rena-Reuter.

EUROPEAN'S CAR KNOCKS DOWN CHINESE CHILD

"

An 11-year-old child, Lam Cheuk-

grant of export licences by the Prince of Wales yesterday when he (yuen, of No. 19, Star Road, was last | visited the city's welfare centres, night knocked down by private car many of which have been organised No. 3066, which was being driven as the result of the Prince's own in Hennessey Road by Mr. Patgeet.

ernment Civil Hospital, at 10 p.m..

BRITAIN STEPS appeal on behalf of the unemployed. The child was admitted to the Gov- INTO BREACH

-British Wireless Service.

SIR JOHN SIMON'S Spanish President Orders

FORMULA

London, To-day.

Own Son To Be Punished

A formula for continuing the

Madrid, Nov. 2. dial attitude towards every citizen. naval talks was suggested by the There was a dramatic scene at It appears that the only offence Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, the Cabinet meeting last night when of the 21-year-old son of President at an interview with the special President Alcala Zamora, amid a Zamora was that he favoured So- breathless suspense, motioned that clalist tendencies and that he had United States envoy, Mr. Norman his own son, who is now serving as sympathised with the insurrec Davis, yesterday afternoon.

corporal at the Jaca garrison, tionists. Young Zamora, now in Sir John Simon emphasised should be court-martialled for the barracks of Jaca Garrison, is that the British Government de alleged, insubordination The Pre- considered by his superior officers as

an exemplary soldier. sired to see an understanding aldent, emphasised that his son de- which would enable the 1985 con- served just as little maroy as any Jaca, it will be recalled, was the ference to be called with some other accused, and ordered his im- place where the revolutionary move ment dethroning King Alfonso, was

hope of success:

mediate arrest." Mr. Davis informed Sir John

The Cabinet Ministers were deep Simon that the American dele gation was prepared to continuely moved by the President's not and the talks on the new basis which the Fremier, Don Alejandro ··Ler- Sir John Simon has in mind. roux, only reluctantly promised After this assurance of Ameri- that he would act in accordance can support, the naval talks will with these directions.

re-open with the full delegation Senor Lerroux, who was visibly In conferences this week.Removed; spoke, in fitting terms, of the ter

President's patriotiam and his cor

battlefield for the "New Deal," where feeling is most bitter after an affray at Kelayres, near Hazel- ton, where a Democratic proces- sion was ambushed. Four people died of wounds from machine-gun fire.

A sexagenarian at West Union, Ohio, was shot in an election quarrel, making a total of seven deaths throughout the country. during the elections. Reuter

MARYLANIE UPSET

PREDICTED

Governor Ritchie Losing Support

SIXTH TERM DOUBTFUL Y

New York. To-day.

The Republican candidate, Mr. Moses, concedes the re-elce tion of Mr. H. H. Lehman to the Governorship of New York State.

Democratic Senatorial candl dates were easily elected in Virginia, Florida, Mississippi,. and Texas, while the democrats lead the early returns in Ar- zona; New York State, Nevada, and Tennessee.

The republicans narrowly hold the advantage in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Indiana.

A major upset is apparent in Maryland, where the Governor, Mr. Albert L. Ritchie, who is seeking his fifth term of office,

is lagging behind the Republican nominee, Mr. Rice, in the Democratic stronghold at Balti- more-Reuter.

114 Democrats And 12 Rivals

New York, To-day. One hundred and fourteen': Democrats and 12 Republicans have so far been elected to the House of Representatives. Reuter.

IIN

Shown together for the first time in the Chicago federal court, Samuel Inauli, Sr., left; and kiss on," Samuel, Jr., watch the selec tion of the jury which will deter mine whether the aged former ulliitles magnate is guilty of using the mails to defraud, as charg- | ed by the Federal Government.

CHINESE AIR MISSION IN LONDON

Official Visit To Ministry

London, To-day.

The Chinese mission, headed by Colonel Mow, which is studying aviation, in Great Britain, “visited.

the Alf Minister yesterday after noon necompanied by the Chinese

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WARNING BY "TIMES"

DELICATE

PROBLEM TO

TINKER WITH

RESPONSIBILITY TREMENDOUS

No Common Front Against Japan

LONDON, TO-DAY: THE FACT THAT THERE IS LITTLE HOPE OF THE WASH- INGTON NAVAL TREATY ES CAPING JAPANESE DENUN- CIATION BEFORE DECEMBER 81,. STATES THE TIMES, MAKES THE PRESENT CON- VERSATIONS ALL THE MORE [DESIRABLE IN VIEW OF DRAFTING A NEW STATUTE OF LIMITATION TO REPLACE IT NEXT YEAR

The dominating British con- sideration, the journal continues, is that even if the negotiations end. in a breakdown Great Bri tain would not be at all disturbed

RECORD FLIGHT IN by the resultant large increase in

SLOW TIME

Cathcart Jones' View Of Recent Air Trip

When

London, To-day. Captain Cathcart Jones and Mr. Kenneth Wal

Minister to London, Mr. Que Tailer, who flew to Australls and back to England in 15 days, chi, and were received by Lord Londonderry, Air Minister-Reu- were entertained at the City

*ter.

the American building pro gramme, for an Anglo-American war is unthinkable.

This does not mean that the British Empire and America desire a commion front against Japan What matters, is that the three ma

for Power should eliminate all competition, in: al ships quid "gnem.

Whatever new arrangements

Club yesterday, Catheart ex-fare hegotiated, The Times, finds it pressed the view that 13 days

LABOUR GAINS IN was slow time.

SCOTLAND

"We should be able to do it in four days there and four days back without the slight

Council Majorities At est strain on the machine or Glasgow Motherwell

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

London, To-day. Labour has secured sweeping victory in most dis tricts in Scotland in the man- elpal elections The state of the parties now..... is: Labont and Independent Labour Par tỷ, 65.

Moderates, 46.

Protestant League, 5, In Glasgow, Labour, with six gains, now has a clear town council majority of 14, while Labour has four gains at Motherwell, giving the lat ter lown its first Labour coun- cll-Reuter..

BRITISH REVENUE DECLINES

Expenditure £8,000,000 Greater

London, To-day.

personnel," he wald.

He added, that their flight would have been much easier with wireless equipment. British Wireless Service

AIR RACE FILM TO BE

SHOWN HERE Paramount Special At Queen's

impossible to see how they can diverge from the principles of the security and integrity of China on which the Washington Treaty provisions dealing with Pacific.. fortifications aud the policy In China are based."

To tinker with the China provisions before thing is ready to take their place. is to assume tremendous respon- · Bibility, The Times asserts-Reuter.

..

delicate some-

CANTON FEARS

REDUCTION OF HER

POLITICAL POWER

CHIANG'S POSITION .

CONSOLIDATED

UNIFICATION IN SIGHT

By special arrangement with their Australian lend Office the incal branch of the Paramount Films of China, Inc., are re-i ceiving, on November 15, by the a Special 8.6. "Tatsuta Maru," Paramount News Reel covering the end of the great Air Race at Melbourne in which C. D. A Scott and T. Campbell Black, the cll and the Kuomintang South-west Executive Committee here have British pilots won both the given advance notice to the Central speed and handicap events.

From Our Own Correspondent!' Canton, To-day. The South-west Political Coun-

This special service of sending Authorities that any attempt to the News Reel direct to Hong create Chinese Customs in Hong Kong has been arranged at extra Kong er Howloon will be opposed expense to Paramount, and it will as indicated by their separate tele be shown immediately at the grams dispatched yesterday.

So far Nanking has not made Queen's Theatre on November 18,

The Exchequer returns for the together with "Death Takes A any announcement concerning the

Holiday." past week show that during the current financial year the total

establishment of Customs in Hong Kong. It is generally understood,

ordinary revenue, exclusive of KING RECEIVES NEW however, that they are anxious to

MINISTERS:

Buckingham Palace Function

stop smuggling in South China:"

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ANGLO-ROUMANIAN TRADE

PIRATED VESSEL

self-balancing. revenue, amounted, LEAVES AMOY

at November 8, to £388,046,489, which is £3,977,060 less than the

corres Departs For Unknown amount collected at the

ponding date of last year. Destination

Expenditure. for the same, per The as Kalo, which was pirated 10do, exclusive, ofz, wulf-balancing

His Majesty the King at Bucking-The President of the Board of 60 miles north of Hong Kong at Items, was 5414,558,659, which ex- Hong Hai Bay on Saturday night, ceeds the amount, expended at the ham Palace yesterday received the Trade, Mr. Walter Runchman, said was reported to have arrived at corresponding date of last year now Pollah Ambassador Count yesterday that representations” had Amoy yesterday at noon, and to by £8,087,287 British Wireless Kaczynski, who presented his letters been made to the Roumanian Gov- have left for an unknown destina- Lion, which was probably Shang- hal

started.

Service:

Far

WEATHER FORECAST.

The destroyer Wishart, which is with freshening patrollin the Hong

ing mo

to the Can ind.

FRENCH NAVAL LOSS

the Funti

don, Today!

A London, To-day N SCALES

of credence. The new Ministers in ernment regarding the delay in London for. Persia, Nicaragua, and providing foreign exchange to meet Haiti were also received by His the commercial debts due to British Majesty

eporters, and that, restrictions had. ur For the first time since his and be placed on the trade with Hou- These matters were now pointment as General Sir Sidney mania. Clive, the new Marshal of the Diplo inmatio Corpa, was in attendance

British Wireless Service.

receiving the earnest consideration

of the British Government, he said.

British Wireless Service: