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HAUPTMANN STAGGERED BY EVIDENCE OF STATE WITNESSES

HAMMOND RESCUES SIDE

"WALLY" HAMMOND

NEW ATTACK

LAUNCHED ON

44

ENGLAND IN

DOUR STRUGGLE

FOR RUNS IN TEST

81 FOR 5 REPLY TO W. INDIES 102

HEADLEY'S BRILLIANCE

Wyatt Wins Toss And Sends Rivals In

Barbados, To-day.

An army of police guarded Joseph V. Staliu, Dictator of the U.8.S.R., when he made one of hin rare trips away from Moscow to

England, with five wickets in band, are 21 runs behind the West conduct an investigation into the

the result of NEW DEAL"ladies total as

the first day's play in the Railroad Bond Suit In first official Test match on West

.Supreme Court

GOVERNMENT ANXIETY

Indien' soil.

(Continued on Page 12) Detailed scores as called by Reuter

were:-

WEST INDIES Roach, e Paine, 6 Farnes Washington, To-day. Carew, e Holmes, b Farnes Two of the important features in G. Headley, not out ............. the "New Deal," namely the inva-Jones, e Leyland, b Faroes Hidation of the gold-clause in June.. Grant, & Hendren, b Hollies

JB. Sealey, c Paine, b Farnes 1933 and the devaluation of the . Grant, Hammond, bi Hollies dollar in January 1934, were the Hylton, at. Ames, b Paine subject of an attack to-day when Cristian, run out

the Supreme Court began its con- sideration of a suit brought by Mr. Norman, the holder of a Bálti- more, Ohio, railroad bond, which was contained in the gold elsuje.

E. Achong, st. Amea, b Palne

E. A. Martindale, c Leyland, b

0

assassination In Leningrad of Sergel Kiroff, an side often men-' tioned as his possible successor.

Stalin was pallbearer at Kiro's

state funeral in Moscow.

23 PERISH IN

SOVIET TRAIN

COLLISION

56 REPORTED BADLY INJURED

STATION-MASTER ARRESTED

CHALLENGE TO JAPAN

SUGGESTED

VIOLATION OF

KELLOGG PACT

Investigation Urged In America

ALLEGED FORTIFICATION OF. MANDATED ISLANDS IN PACIFIC

Vashington, To-day, Senator William H. Kmy yester day moved a rezolution proposing an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to de- termine whether. Japan had violat- ed the Kellogg Pact or the Nime Power Treaty guaranteeing the in- tegrity of Chin

The Senator also asked for an investigation into the charges that "Japan was fortifying or had fortified" her mandated Islands In the Pacific Reuter

The matter of Japan's activities in the mandated islands in the Pacific was brought up at Geneva when the report of the Mandates Commission on its October and November session was lid before the Council of the Lepent of Na- di(Continubi on Wago

tiona Jannery 4. 2

Moscow, To-day, The carafes in the express saster are now given as · 23 dead 。 and 56 badly injured. ⠀⠀

Paine

Extrax

Total:

102

· BOWLING

MR

4

40

4

16

36

ENGLAND

Mr. Norman contended that the Invalidation of the gold clause was Farnes unconstitutional and claimed that Smith the interest on his coupon, amount-Hollies ing to U.S.$22, must, be paid in a

Pilne

gold equivalent to that amount of R E 8. Wyatt, R. Grant, b the present legal tender.

Martindale

Hammond, not out

The Government is considering Leyland, Martindale

the case, which involves the nation's Hendren, e R. Grant, b Martindal Anancial stability, and has sent the Ames, 1.b.w... b R. Grant Attorney-General, Mr. Homer S. Smith, e Jones, b Hylton Cummings, to defend the leglatation Iddon, not out

fn question-Beuter.

Extras

Total (for 5 wkts.)

It is stated that the smash was due to the inefficiency and care- lessness of certain railway 8 workers.

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14

81

CANTON IRON AND In 1980 the M.C.C. tourists play-

STEEL WORKS

Awaiting Nanking's Formal Approval ·

AMERICAN FIRM'S DESIGNS PROVISIONALLY ACCEPTED

[From Our Own Correspondent} Canton, To-ay.

The station-master at the sta- tion where the accident occurred has been arrested for leaving his post after the accident-Router. (Continued on Page 12)

..

RAILWAY TARIFFS IN BRITAIN

Discussions Resumed

ed four representative games against the West Indies, but these were not Itermed Test matches. Two of the matches were drawn and the other two resulted in a share of the spoils. Headley scored 21 and 176; 8 and Discussions on the machinery of

London, to-day.

COUNCIL MEETING TO-MORROW

Gasworks Disaster Questions

ADVERTISING HONG KONG

At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council the Hon. Dr. R. H Kotewell C.M.G, LL.D., pursuant to notice, will ask the following questions:

J-With reference to the dis- astrous explosion at West Point in

May, 1954, will the Government

atate:

39; 114 and 112 in the same match; the negotiation for railway tariffs (a) Whether the gasoristers are and 10 and 223 in that series for were resumed yesterday between considered to be suitably placed in an average of 87.87.

representatives of the four main their present locations, in view of their proximity to tenement houses;

In 1982 Headley scored 844 not railways and of the Railwaymen's

FRENCH SLOOPS LEAVE

Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of the Lindbergh kidnapping sus pect, with her 10-month-old son, Manfried, in an exclusive picture made after Hauptmann's arrest.

DRAMATIC SCENE

THAT IS THE ~MAN," STATES

TAXI DRIVER

DELIVERED NOTE TO CONDON

SEEN WITH LADDER NEAR

· LINDBERGH HOME ON

NIGHT OF CRIME

I TOLD PERONNE HE

WAS A LIAR? SAYS PRISONER

Fleming, To-day. After 87-year-old Amandus Hockmuth had declared that he saw Bruno Hauptmann in a motor-car with a ladder near the Lindbergh house

THE FRANCO-ITALIAN PACT on the night of the kid-

HITLER SALUTE CAUSES: DISQUALIFICATION

Causso Protest

From German From:

Saarbruecken, to-day, Five men who gave the Hit- ler salute, on entering the polling station, during the first stage of the Saar plebiscite-voting by prison warders, hospital atten dants and others who have to be on duty on Sunday were im mediately disqualified from vot- *ing.

napping crime, there was a further shock for the accused. A Bronx taxi- driver named John identifled

OBLIGATIONS

REGARDING

ARMAMENTS Peronne

Unilateral Treaties. Inadmissible

AFRICAN CONCESSIONS AND AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENCE

Rome, To-day

The Italo-French agreement con-

The German Front hos protains the following reference to ar- tested Reuter

maments:

SZECHUEN

MENACED

Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to deliver a note to Dr. James Condon, who ob tained U.S.$50,000 28 ransom money, to be paid over to the kidnappers, from Colonel Lindbergh in March, 1932.

Amid ahush in the

The Italian and French Govern Court Peronne went over ments, referring to the declara- and laid his hand on

tion of equality of rights made on Hauptmann's shoulder

December 11, 1981, have come to

an agreement that no country and said: “That is the should modify by & unilateral pact man." Mr. their obligations. in regard to

jarmaments; and in the case of Reilly's edward

cross-

such an eventuality they should examination for the de-

out for All Jamaica against Lord, Unions. The meetings are intended (b) What steps have been, or wilWAY STILL Tennyson's eleven at Kingston. to evolve and form a new tribunal be, taken to ensure the proper LIES OPEN TO consult each other. Router.

maintenance and the Ito deal with any future disputes

the regular

RED HORDES that may arise.-British Wireless examination of the gasometers; and Service.

(c) What other steps has the Government decided to take with a TROOPS UNABLE TO ters in the future. view to preventing similar disas

EFFECT JUNCTION (Continued on Page 7)

"ADVANCE" UNCHECKED.

From Our Own Correspondent

Canton, To-day."

In connection with the $30,00,000 loan from British and American firms for the establishment of an iron and steel plant in Canton, &

The French sloops Savoronan de representative of one of the Bri. Brazza and Ricault de Genouilly,

The forthcoming marriage is an tish firms at Shanghai in due to which arrived in the Colony on nounced between Edward Minor Sean- arrive here to-day by air.

Monday from Shanghai, left Hong land, Mine Foreman of Baguio, Philip

pine Islands, and Stella Maude Walker, This representative will call on Kong this morning for Saigon and teacher of Sandy, Utah, USA, who is Mr. Lin Yun-kai, Chairman of the Foochow, respectively. · ·

now en route to the Colony,

Kwangtung Provincial Government,

and Mr. Ho Kai-lai, Provincial De-]

partment of Reconstruction, in DISARMAMENT IN 2 YEARS

connection with this huge project

Some secrecy is maintained with

regard to the names of these foreign NORMAN DAVIS' PROPHECY TO

*firma.' Perrin's (China) Ltd. 18 believed to be one the firms con cerned.

(Continued on Page 18)

CONSTITUTION BILL FOR INDIA

Second Reading For Commons Next Month

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Washington, To-day.

Mr. Norman Davis, American delegate to the recent naval talks in London, has predicted to Fresident Roosevelt that imitation of arma ments by land and sea will be effected within two years if a spirit of international co-operation can be fostered.

He added that the most plausi don discussions had greatly clari blo baals of naval limitation

ere and laid the tween Britain, the Unite

eventual com-

London, To-day and Japan would be

The Secretary for India, Sir lines of the compromise

Samuel Hoare, had an interview made by the British,

with the Prime Minister

in regard to the new Indiang stitution Bill

understood would

naval com Pas

FORECAST

PREMIER'S MESSAGE TO UNIVERSITIES

CONFERENCE OPENS IN SCOTLAND

London, To-day. At the Conference of the Feder stion of the University tive Associations whi Edinburgh yesterday, Buchan, Member of Parli the Scottish

message

fence only produced re- peated assertions from Peronne.

COLONIAL CONCESSIONS

Rome, Later. The official statement giving details of the Franco-Italian pact During the recess confirms the reports already Hauptmann, cabled with regard to the African territories.

was

quite unexcited, inform-

It also guarantees Austrian ined the reporters: dependence and includes a gen- told Peronne he was a eral agreement to co-operate, in

Kwelchow troops in Chun Yi the work of reconstruction.. and Tung Che In the northern re- Reuter gions are preparing for the de

fence of these places against a RAID ON TSINGHUA

possible Communist onslaught, the Red forces having crossed the Wa River after mowing

posing: troops with field. guns and machine guts

Led by Lin Piso a notorious Communist officer,

$8,000 Communists are push ward in the hope of ing Sze

month.

chuen before the end.

UNIVERSITY

Alleged Communist Students

TEN BROUGHT TO PEIPING FOR TRIAL

Pelping

rald on

liar. I do not know why

he gave that testimony.

I had never seen him till he came to the police sta- tion with a lot of police and tried to say he had seen me before

Dr. Condon will be the witness at to-day's

Renter.

BRITISH DELEGATES LEAVE FOR GENEVA TO-MORROW

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