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GERMAN ARMY WILL SOON TOTAL 720,000

FEELING OF

DESPAIR CAUSED

BY GERMANY

Restrained Debate

In Commons

FORTHCOMING MINISTERIAL CONVERSATIONS DISCUSSED

London, To-day.

The forthcoming ministerial con- versations in Berlin and elsewhere were the subject of a brief and re- strained debate in the House of Commons yesterday.........

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. George Lansbury, in open- ing the debate, said that events in Germany during the week-end had caused a shock and a feeling akin to despair, which was al- inosi

what comparable with happened in 1914. The nations.

to of Europe should be made understand that the British Gov- ernment's policy was one of peace, based not on rearmament! but on disarmament.

The Liberal leader, Mr. Her bert Samuel, said that in des- cribing the effect on the sides of

Their Abyssinian mafesties, Em- peror Haile Sealssie, and his Em press, Mannin Mikail Assfau, both of whom trace their ancestries back to the tribes ruled by the Queen of Sheba, of Biblical fame. The Emperor is head of the Christian Coptic Church, one of oldest branches of Christianity.

the British people by the German THE CANTON

declaration Mr. Lansbury had in

no degree used the language of SAN FRANCISCO

exaggeration.

COMPLETE FRANKNESS DESIRED

The Foreign Secretary, Sir

AIR SERVICE

John Simon, said that he hoped JAPAN SEES MENACE

to have frank discussions with the German Chancellor, for the visit called for complete frank- ness and a discussion of a sortį that could not be preceded by a public rehearsal The series of visits, he explained, would be exploratory in character.

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NANKING IMPOSES INCOME TAX

Legislative Yuan Drafts New Law

Nanking.

or the

In view of the decision. Government to institute an income

BEHIND MOVE

WAKE ISLAND TO BE USED FOR MILITARY PURPOSES?

[From Our Own Corresponden!]

Canton, To-day.

GENERAL MAURIN READY FOR EMERGENCY

KELLOGG DENOUNCES GERMANY'S VIOLATION OF PEACE TREATY

U.S. CERTAIN NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN WAR

Paris, To-day.

After telling the Army Commission of the Chamber that the German army would shortly number 720,000, General Maurin, the War Minis- ter, according to a member of the Commission, stated that French contingents had been brought| up to occupy the principal stragetic points of the frontier defence scheme.

These contingents were drawn partly from garrisons in the interior and partly from "other frontiers where a watch is no longer as necessary as formerly, owing to the International situa tion and agreements with neighbouring Powers."

GENERAL MAURIN ALSO TOLD THE ARMY COMMIS- SION THAT 70 PER CENT, OF THE GERMAN FACTORIES

Royally attends the horse races, at Miami, Florida, in the person of the former Infanta Beatriz (left), daughter of ex- King Alfonso of Spain. She is accompanied by her husband, Prince Allesandre Torlonis, and his mother, Mrs. Elsie Moore, of New York. The Prince and his royal bride are spending their honeymoon in Florida.

WERE MANUFACTURING WAR MATERIAL AND IN THREE NAVAL

MONTHS GERMANY - COULD HAVE 1,500 NEW AERO. PLANES. REUTER.

BRITISH RAILWAY LOAN TO CHINA

Early Payment On Account Of Principal And Interest Sought

Nanking, To-day.

Pasadena, California, To-day. "There is no excuse for Ger- man's violation of the Peace Treaty, declared Mr. Frank Kellogg, the well-known Ameri-]

cant jurist but added that there

COURTS MARTIAL

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL

AGAIN DISAPPOINTED

Bluebird Packed For Return

To England

some ruth in Reichsfuehrer Daytona Beach, Lo-day, Hitler's claim that other nations Bitterly disappointed at faul that had agreed to afrarm, had ing to reach 300 miles an hour,

not done so.

Mr. Kellogg asserted that there Sir Alexander: Cadogan, Bri-was not going to be war, adding: tish Ministor to China, has com "Certainly, we are not going to municated with the Chinese For-be in any that may appear Inter eign Office asking for an early in Europe. Reuter. payment on account of principal |

and interest of the British loan LEAGUE COUNCIL'S for the construction of the Japan belleves that the Canton-Shanghai to Fengching section

NEXT MEETING San Francisco air service, though of the Shanghai-Hangchow- undertaken by the Pan-American Ningpo Railway. - Reuter. Airways, is a menace to Japan, according to a Tokyo dispatch published yesterday morning by

a local English journal.

"This project is no justifica-

tion for an American trans-Paci-

EUROPEAN CAR DRIVER' CAUGHT ON WRONG SIDE

Sir Malcolm Campbell has finished his 1985, trials." After inspecting the beach yesterday he decided not to make a run and ordered "Bluebird' to be packed in the afternoon........

Sir Malcolm leaves on Sunday He has not yet decided, on his plans for next year.---Reuter.

European Security To Be REAR-ADMIRAL

Fully Discussed KIANG STATED

NOT ARRESTED RUMOURS DENIED

London, To-day. The meating of the League Coun

A fine of $10 was imposed on Mr.ell at which the French Government's

fic airway, which is closed to the 5. Manson, of the Ngai Tung Sex-communication bearing on the ro mandated Islands of Japan," said vice Station, Nathan Road, by Mr. cent German decision will be con "We must give. W. G. H. Grantham at the Kow sidered will probably take place the dispatch. tax, the Legislative. Yuan is draft- the project serious consideration: Joon Magistracy this morning when early in April.

sum. ig- he appeared in answer to a The fact that permits were

In view of the broad basis upon ing a new law to govern the ensued by the United States Navy mons for failing to keep to the left- which the French appeal to the forcement of the projected tax. The drafting committee is under- Department strongly suggests hand side of the road while turning League is made it is assumed that stood to have collected a consider that the future use of the air from Shantung Street into Nathan occasion will be taken for an ine ports (Wake, Midway and Guam Road at 4.30 p.m. on March 6. Insportant discussion of the whole able amount of material relating Islands) for military purpose is pector Nicolls stated that the defen- question of European security.

dant turned immediately in front of British Wireless Service. contemplated."

bus No. 781.

to the laws of the various coun- tries of Europe and America for purpose of reference. ~se (Chekia! Agency).

CHOPPER ATTACK

Serious View Taken By Magistrate

Stating that he was taking a very Berious view of the chopper cases, Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham sen- tenced Kwok Kwal-wing, a 17-year- old unemployed, to six months' Im- prisonment when he appeared at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning

on a charge of wounding and caus- ing grievous bodily harm to Tam Wal, a 28-year-old' shop foki.

The defendant pleaded that the complainant threw a stone at him before he struck him,

FULL SETTLEMENT OF LENA GOLDFIELDS CASE

Moscow, to-day, "The Commiss sars Council has ratided the agree ment initialled last October, between the Soviet Concessions Committen and the Lens Goldfields for a full settlement of the case

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LORD PRIVY SEAL TO VISIT PRAGUE Government Invitation Extended

London, to-day

IN CANTON

ALLEGED SURRENDER OF THREE CRUISERS

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day,

QUESTIONS

ON REVERSAL

OF VERDICT

First Lord Of Admiralty Explains

HOOD-RENOWN COLLISION SEQUEL

POINTS

SINGAPORE BASE OUGHT TO BE

READY BY 1939

Admiralty Statement

In Commons

EVERYTHING PROCEEDING ACCORDING TO PLAN

London, To-day. The Singapore Base ought to be ready by 1939 at the present_rate of progress, stated Captain Euan Wallace, Civil Lord of the Admir- alty, in the House of Commons yesterday. Everything is said to be proceeding according to plan.

A smaller sum had been put down on the new estimates than in last year's, he said, largely because all the money voted lust year had not been spent.

The works vote in the supple- mentary estimates for the Navy was agreed. -Reuter. |PLAGUE OF BUGS IN BARRACKS

Questions In House Of Commons REBUILDING SCHEMES FOR EGYPT AND CHINA

London, To-day. Lient: Colonel Sfr Arnold, Wi- son, Conservative MF. for Hit. [chin, drew the attention of the House of Commons yesterday to the infestation of the barracks in Egypt, Gibraltar, Malta and China by bugs and inquired what steps were contemplated.

London, To-day."" The First Lord of the Admir ally, Bir Bolton Eyers Monsell, in answer to a Parliamentary que cial Secretary to the War Office, Mr. Douglas Hacking, Finan tion yesterday, said that there admitted that the problem was were many precedents for the re- very difficult and that varying cent course taken by the Board success attended experiments to

get rid of the bugs of the Adrairalty in reversing

The only satisfactory solu the verdict of the Naval Courts tion, he said, lay in the replace- Martial in relation to the colllment of structures and the sion between H.M.S. Renown and modernisation of old-fashioned buildings, which was being done In particular, he referred to aive schemes were contemplated as, funds were available. Exten the Admiralty's dissent from the for China and Egypt, Reuter. findings of the Courts Martial which acquitted the Captains of H.M.S. Conquerer and HMS. Howe in 1862 and 1898.

H.M.S. Hood.

REDS DEFEATED

Canton Forces Come Into Action

"On both occasions the courne which the Admiralty had taken was considered the House of Commons and approved," he continued. "On A sensation was created here the first Lord Palmerston and on on Wednesday by the Te the second Mayor Asquith vindicat

Canton, To-day. port in the Tauned. with great force, the right and A report received here on Wed- Yet Po and other Hong Kous duty of the Admiralty, as the au- nesday from General Mok She Chinese papers stating that Rear: thority supremely responsible for tek, Commander of the First Admiral YC King (Keung the safety and discipline of the Division of the Kwangtung First Sal-yuen), commandant of the Whampoa Cruiser, Sanadron, ha Navy, to pronounce their opinion in Army Corps in south Kiangali a matter touching on the safety of states that the First Regiment been arrested by order of the His Majesty's ships, quite apart which was sent to New-ling to higher military authorities here from any decision which, the Courts clean up bandit remnants, de The alleged charge according to Martial may have reached these papers, le

- Mr. Anthony Eden, the Lord tempting to take the three crui: Privy Beal, who will accompany. Bir sers back to the North

BOARD'S ACTION: JUSTIFIED

"In reviewing the proceeding

miralty," he said, "took fully account the whole of

feated and dispersed on the way the Second Branch Corps, num bering about 200 men. In the battle more than 20 were killed?

John Strmon, the Foreign Secretary A denial of this report was the recent Courts Martial, the Ad- including a secretary of the on his visit to Berlin' on Sunday, made last night proceeding at its conclusion to Mos officer of the First Group Army cow and later visiting Warsaw, has and a secretary accepted the invitation of the Cze=(Continued to [choslovakian Government to spend

the morning at April 4 at Prague,

He expects to leave for London by aeroplane that afternoon-British Wireless Servics.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER ON VISIT TO LONDON,

Fage

Official Denials--

Of Arrest

South

In which both the fact the case (Continued on, Page 16).

BRITISH NATIONAL ACCOUNTS

last Surplus L Below

bogus: Central Political Depart ment, while over 10 were made prisoners, and many weapons taken. The remnants scattered in different directions towards the mountains, where. the Communist, remnants now in hiding Central Press

CONVERSATIONS AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE

To-day Further

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