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PAUL RENNETS

SALE of

"CB" Corsetry

NOW ON

COMMUNIST FORCES I LOOT ALL TOWNS IN WESTERN KWEICHOW

Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, In Sweden' for festivltios necom. panying the engagement of Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Ingrid, was hurried to a. Stock. holm hospital for an appendicitis operation.

KEROSENE AS

MOTOR FUEL

NO NEW OBLIGATIONS

FOR BRITAIN

PREMIER'S REVIEW OF STRESA TALKS

AIR PACT FOR WESTERN EUROPE TO BE ACTIVELY CONSIDERED

London, To-day.

Before a crowded House of Commons Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, made his long-awaited statement on the Stresa con- versations.

In the course of his statement, which closely followed the lines of the joint communique, he recalled that, both in regard to the Eastern Pact and the independence of Austria, the Bri- tish attitude had always been one of close and friendly Interest, but that Britain had incurred no new obligations, except one of consultation in the event of the integrity and independence of Austria. being threatened.

OBJECTED TO The three Powers had further agreed to continue actively to

Canton Finds Fumes

Too. Trying

BUSES USING IT. WILL- BE PROSCRIBED

(From Our Own Correspondent?

Canton To-day..

Buses which have been con- verted to using kerosene as fuel

for the sake of economy, are likely to be proscribed by the

study the proposed air pact for western Europe.

He also recalled that Italy and j

Britain re-affirm their Locarno

obligation, and added that we did GIANT “CLIPPER'S”

not condone Germany's action in restoring conscription, but, the contrary, we made it plain that we regarded it as a grave 'cause of unsettlement andd a blow to the international oi- ganisation of peace..

RECORD FLIGHT

California To Honolulu In 18 Hrs, 39 Mins.

Honolulu, To-day. We kept the door open, he said.

The giant flying-boat "Clipper" for Germany to join as an active arrived here at 6.80 p.m. (Green- partner in the movement planned wich Mean Time), making her to create a system of collective night from Alameda, California; European security, Our policy in record time. She left Ala- would continue to be based on meda on the pioneer commercial the League Covenant.

California-China fight at 11.51 The three States represented pim. (Greenwich Mean Time) ted by a kerosene-burning bus separate units, but as

at the conference decided, not as the previous day, thus taking 18 when it makes a brief stop on bination of States pledged to act-Reuter.....

a com- hours 39 minutes on the journey.

Municipal Bureau of Public Works,, on the ground that the fumes are a nuisance both to passengers and pedestrians,

. Considerable fumes are omit

Andre Spada, lärt of the handit chiefs of Corsica and modern "Robin Hood, smiles,at he is sentenced to death by the guillotine for murders Spada surrendered after the authorities had sought.

him in the hilla för

YUNNAN BURMESE FRONTIER

· DISCUSSION REVIVED

Boundary Commission To Delimit Southern Portion

London, to-day. Notes were exchanged yester day on behalf of the United "Kingdom Government and the Government of India, on the one side, and the; Chiness. Govern- ment on the other, under which (the parties agree to set up a ̈ boundary commason, ia delimit the southern portion of the Yunnan-Burmese. frontier re- ferred to in the Anglo-Chinesa agreement of 1897.—British Wireless Service.

the way or when it first starts together and try to find peace- The "Clipper" carried a crew COAL MINERS? out. Often passengers are in ful solution for the present day-of six and was loaded with 3,000 constant discomfort while riding |

gers in a co-operation in which gallons of petrol and 10,000 every state was willing to asso-pieces of mail matter for the

in these vehicles.

:

The Municipal Bureau of Pub-ciate itself with the work. lic Works has referred to the Reuter. Provincial Department of Recon- struction consideration of the question whether these fumes are injurious to public health.

Meanwhile the Provincial De- partment of Reconstruction is turning out charcoal gas pro- ducers, to give power to motor vehicles instead of petrol. Char- coal is economical, but the gas producer attached at the back of

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Three-Power Resolution Carried At Geneva

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

·ANNOUNCED ·

London, to-day.

a vehicle gives out considerable The resolution submitted by heat especially during the sum-France, Britain, and Italy was car- mer months.

B.B.C. COMMITTEE APPOINTED

Charter Expires At End Of Year

London, To-day.

The British Broadcasting Cor- poration charter expires at the end.

of the year,

2,400-mile hop to Honolulu, the longest section of the proposed future route when the regular service to China is inaugurated.

CANTON STUDYING AIR DEFENCE

Committee Drafting Schemes

Canton, to-day.

ried unanimously at a meeting yes- The Kwangtung Air Defence Com- terday of the League Covenant at mittee since its inauguration has Geneva, which was called to consider been very busy drafting schemes for the French appeal against the Ger. the protection of the city againat man rearmament decree of March serial attacks, 16. The Danish representative ab-, stained. A

(Continued on Page 15.).

According to a spokesman of the Committee, in the first stage, three, steps will be taken. The first step is to investigate the general condi- tions which have relation to air de-)

FRANCO-SOVIET fence; the second, to launch a pro-

AGREEMENT

Mutual Assistance

and a Committee under the Chairmanship of Lord Ullswater has been appointed to conaider_the_constitution, -con-

Genova, „to-day. trol and finance of the M. M. Laval and Litvinoff, For broadcasting services in Bri-eign Ministers of France and the tain, and advise generally on the Soviet, respectively, last night reach-

paganda.campaign and to plead for co-operation between the people and the government in strengthening air) defence; and the third, to practise.

-Central Press.

SAMPAN SUNK

conditions under which the sered a complete agreement in regard 3 Chinese Passengers

vices, Including - broadcasting to to the general line of the Franco- the Empire television broadcasting Soviet past of mutual assistance on and the system of wireless ex-which an agreement in principle was changes, should be conducted reached in Parla last week thereafter-British Wireless Ser- Their understanding will now bel

vice,

approvel-Reuter.

Reported Missing

FIERCE FIGHT

WITH POLICE

Result Of Strike In British Columbia

16 POLICEMEN INJURED

Corbin, B. C., To-day. The strike of coal-miners which began in January after the refusal of the 'management to re-instate certain miners, culminated in a fierce battle yesterday when 250 miners, aided by women wielding dubs, hammers and stones, at- tacked the police, who made a baton charge on the rioters,

Sixteen policemen and 25 miners were injured before quiet was finally restored. Reater.

WEATHER FORECAST The anticyclone is moving eastward it is now

centred

over the Yellow Sea and Korea;

a ridge of moderately high pres-

REDS RETREATING TOWARDS YUNNAN

70,000 MEN STILL IN

THE FIELD

ABLE-BODIED MEN FORCED TO

FILL GAPS IN RANKS

[From Our Own Correspondent]?

Canton, To-day.

With 60,000 rifles and about 70,000

men, the Communists are retreat ing in the direction of Yunnan from Western Kweichow. All the towns West of Kweiyang have been systematically looted by the Communists...

Able-bodied men are being forced to join the Communist ranks to make up for the loss of those who have died on the bat tléfleld or perished from other causes. Sick Reds, according to Nanking reports, are killed by their chieftains, so that they can not betray secrets if caught by the Government forces

JOURNALIST'S

APPEAL NOT

RECOGNISED VALIDITY DISPUTED IN MANCHURIA

LENNOX SIMPSON CASE

in Kwelyang, will most likely be Chairman of the appointed London," To-day.

Kweichow Provincial: Government In the House of Commons in place of General Wang Chia- yesterday, replying to tion by Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Wang has lost altogether five or lieh, who has resigned. General Liberal M.P. for East Wolver- hampton, asking the present six regiments position in regard to Mr. Lennox against the Communists. Simpson's claim, Mr. Stanley Yunnan is garrisoned by 12 Baldwin read a written reply regiments, while eight other are in Kweichow: regiments from Sir John Simon, delivered by air, which said that the Man- They are said to be better churian authorities refused to fighters than the Kweichow pro-

vincial forces. recognise the validity of the claim for compensation lodged

A Kweiyang press dispatch states that Marshal, Chiang Kai- shek flew to Kunming, capital of, Yunnan, in the early part of the week to instruct the provincial authorities there as to precau ilons, to be taken against a second Communist invasion.

Mr. Li Chung-kung, who was CONTROL OVER asked by Marshal Chiang to stay

a ques

by the British Consul-General at

Harbin.

The possibility of further steps on Mr. Simpson's behalf were being examined, he said, in [consultation with him-Reuter.

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BRITISH TRADE WITH PALESTINE

Delegation To Visit Egypt

in operations

TRAIN DISASTER IN

NOVA SCOTIA

Express Falls Over Embankment

5 KILLED AND SEVERAL REPORTED INJURED

Antigonish, N.S., To-day. Five persons were killed and several injured when the Sydney to Halifax Canadian National express fell over an embankment yesterday,"

A relief train is being rushed to the scene of the disaster. Reuler.

EUROPEAN IN CAR

MISHAP

KWEICHOW NOW

ACCOMPLISHED

Fears Of Communist. Raid On Kwangsi

TROOPS SENT TO DEFEND FRONTIER

[From Our Own Correspondent)

* Canton, To-day, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek'e'

control over Kwelchow has been campleled by the appointment of Mr. Wu Chung-heln as Chair man of the Kwelchow Provins cial Government in place of Gen- eral Wang Chia-lieh, who has been given the post of General Officer Commanding the Second Route Anti-Communist Army.

The new chairman is the sworn brother of Marshal Chiang, who stays in Mr. Wu's Shanghai home whenever the. marshal in town. Mr. Wu was once Chairman of the Anhwef Frovincial Government and Chief of Police of the Müniel- pality of Greater Shanghai..

General Chang Fa-kuel, for mer G.O.C. of the Fourth Army, who recently returned to Shang- hal after studying aviation in England, was once mentioned as a candidate for the Kweichow chairmanship, but. Nanking con- siders that Mr. Wu is the better choice.

London, To-day, The Colonial Secretary, Bir Philip Cunliffe Lister, said in an- swer to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, that during the discussions with the Egyptian trade delegation in London; the possibility of-promoting trade be- tween Palestine as well as other parts of the Colonial Empire and Egypt was being kept in mind.

He also recently approved a proposal, he said, from the Paris Mr. A. W. Stewart, of No. 197 the Reds may attack from Kwel High Commissioner that a

Prince Edward Road, reports that chow, and many troops are being trade delegation from Palestine should at 1 am, while driving his car, sent to defend the frontier bor- vielt. Egypt. He hoped that direct No. 2018, from Pelho Street to-dering on Kweichow. The fifth negotiations would be undertaken wards the sea front, his ear and are joining in the defence of and sixth Kwangtung divisions

"Ducking” In Harbour

in the near future British Wire denly plunged into the harbour. Jess Service.

He was assisted out of the water by P. C, 46, and, suffering from Injuries to the legs, hands, Wand MEAT TRADE PROBE shins, was sent to the Kowloon

Hospital.

Argentina Conditions Investigated

London, To-day.

SHING MUN TRAGEDY

Meanwhile Kwangsi fears that

Kwangel:

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IRELAND BEATS SCOTLAND IN AMATEUR SOCCER

sure extends along the Yangtze

London, to-day. In their Valley. A depression is moving

Amateur International soCEDT, EZ- eastward to the north of Hok-

Two Chinese earth coolles suffer-counter at Hampden Park yester COLLISION IN HARBOUR Z kaido. A shallow depression re The Joint Committee of Ined a terrible death at the Shing day, Scotland lost to Ireland by the msins over Indo-China The vestigation into the ment trade at Mun Valley Scheme yesterday when odd goal in five, the latter record- submitted to both Governments for Captain Harvey, Master of the local forecast for to-day, as is yesterday's meeting approved a they were suddenly caught in aning their third victory in six s.s. Wing Lee, reports that while sued by the Royal Observatory resolution setting up Sub-com- avalanche of about 100 tons of rock, encounters, Scotland having won proceeding through the West Lam- this morning, was cast and south-mittes to act in Argentina to col during blasting operations,

the remaining three-Router, ma Channel at. 8.15 pm yesterday, eat winds, moderate, cloudy: lect evidence as to the costs of ARCHAEOLOGIST HONOURED hit vessel came into collision with some drizzle or mist, coastal fog frigorificas before shipping mest, INDIAN LOYALTY TO KING CELTIC BEAT FALKIRK

|n Fassenger sampán carrying six London, to-day. Sir Aurel Stein, passengers,

the position of cattle producers, Capt. A. W. Muir, of the Ra Tong and other facts relevant to the New Delhi, To-day. A motion

London, to-day- Celtic sent to Mataukok for observation K.C.I.E., the noted antiquarian, as Three of the Chinese passen On, reports by letter that while under scope of the investigation.

conveying its deep devotion and at enhanced their position the yesterday, after having bitten Pte. been awarded the gold medal of the gers were rescued, but three others way through the Central Fairway inst The Joint Committee is proseed-most loyalty to the H, M. King has Scottish League rester Parking at Shamshulpo Barracks. Society of antiquaries for distin- are reported missing. The total

lay evening an unknown Chinese ing actively with its own inquiries unanimously. sed by the Conn- they severely trounced The latter was sent to the Military guished services to archaeology

adressed in Europaan olother value of the sampan and cargo le cumped overboard. All search was in the British jurisdiction —British cil of State before its adjournment homes by 7 goals to 8. Reuter hospital for treatment.

Reuter

LINCOLNS PRIVATE BITTEN

A puppy owned by Cpl. Wheat

of the Lincolnshire Regiment was

vivalued at $110.

made,

provad: unsuccessful: 265 “Wireless Service:

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