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US. NAVAL

PROGRAMME

UNDECIDED

Additional Warships May Be Built

SUBSTITUTE FOR PHILIPPINES TO BE SOUGHT?

Washington. To-day. Mi Claud A. Swanson. Secre- tary of the Navy, at a press con- ference vesterday indicated that the United States might buildi new battleships and cruisers if Britain and Japan do so after the expiration of the Washing- ton Treaty,

He said: "With regard to bat- theships and cruisers we shall be! guided by what the other signa- tories of the London Nayal Treaty do, but in other respects the United States will adhere to the pro- gramme authorised by the Vinson ActTM

This was confirmed at a press

An American

Henry Swarts, of Philadelphia. representative of motion picture company. WES among the -14 victims of the collision betwee two passenger plane at Medellin, Colombia.

conference by President Roosevelt, ABOLITION OF

who stated that the United States!

was considering the construction

of additional warships to meat the increases of foreign. Powera

JAPANESE NAVAL ESTIMATES

Hage Increase Predicted

Tokyo, To-day."

An increase of about 180,000,- 000 yen is involved, in the draft naval estimates for next yea which total 12,000,000 yen.”

The expenditure will include:

Modernising vessels, 75,000,000: improving decks. 72,000,000; ad. ditional cost of constructing vessels, 52,000,000; minitions, 45,000,000; additional air corps equipment. 25,000,000-Reuter..

PETTY TAXES

BY FLO000

TENSE EXPECTATION

AT GENEVA

MOMENTOUS LEAGUE

COUNCIL MEETING

MR. EDEN DISAPPOINTED AT LACK OF SUPPORT

“CHINA: MAIL " SPECIAL

Geneva, To-day.

The meeting of the League Council which is to deal with the Italo- Abyssinian conflict, which may prove to be one of the severest tests. of the League's power, opened puncipally at 5 p.m. yesterday in an atmosphere of tense ex- pectation

The first sitting, which took place in the armex of the League of Nations building, the former meeting place of the de- funct Disarmament Conference, was held behind closed doors. and lasted barely an hour, and resulted in giving the delegatės breathing space for further negotiations behind the scenes.

A statement given out after the conclusion of the sitting announces that the Council will re-assemble this afternoon. and that in the meantime the interested Powers that is the

IN KWÄNGTUNG great Powers and Abyssinia--will endeavour to arrive at an at-

MEMORABLE DAY CELEBRATED

ceptable formula for the continuation of the arbitration and conciliation procedure.

BANDITS ACTIVE IN HOPEI

300 Captives Taken

AMERICAN STATION ATTACKED

Shanghai, To-day.

GOVERNMENT PRAISES ITS 'OWN GOOD WORKS

[From Our Own Correspondent?

Canton, To-day. With a loud blaring of trum- pets. Canton officials to-day cele-1 brated the cancellation of over 80 miscellaneous, and oppres- sive taxes, which were burden-! Isome on the people. A com-

memoration service was held Chinese reports from Tientsin this morning at the Chungshan state that, 1,500 bandits looted Memorial Hall with the object of Taipingha Hopei, ast Saturday The President admitted that the heralding to the general public and carried off 300 captives. The question of the fortication of is the good work of the local au-Government forces, are pursuing lands in the Pacife after the ex thorities piry of the Washington Treaty Most of the miscellaneous

A Chinese report from Peiping "If we taxes were on all forms ofrgam-states that the bandits carried out lose the Philippines we might want bling. Together with the aboli-

attack yesterday to go elsewhere."

tion of the levies, gambling was He emphasised, however, that also proscribed. The Provincial Academy, an American institution. the Jefferson the matter was purely conjectural Department of Finance considers describing the reports in thai con- that this is a great moral

| near. Feiping-Reuter nection as simply if and when achievement, and this event was stories-Reuter.

to-day featured by the three DR. Government newspapers.

was under consideration.

BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAMME

First Lord Answers. Questions In House

AWAITING INTENTIONS OF

OTHER POWERSTM

London, To-day.

them.

abortive 27 morning

on

when he

Iron Trotsky, who wa Les Brownstein waiter and movie extra in New York City, in here seen landing with Mrs. Trotaky at Oslo, Norway, his latest haven from the Reds, who accuse him of attempting to foster a counter-revolt in the USSR. Both Soviet and Norwegiasi, atents- are watching him to forestall any political activity.

FENGTIEN TRAGEDY

SEVERE BLOW

TO TIMBER

INDUSTRY

£1,000,000. DAMAGE

REPORTED

200 ISLANDERS PERISH·

Antung, To-day.

A tremendous flood has in- undated the cities of Antung and Shingisha. It is estim ated that 1,000 people are dead and that nearly £1 000,000 worth of damage has been done to the timber industry.

Some 200 inhabitants the densely populated island of Makanoshima, situated in mid-stream in the River Yala,

SPECIAL CONSTITUENCY were found drowned, while

FOR SPEAKER

The debate at yesterday's PROPOSED PLAN ABANDONED

meeting was opened by the re presentative of Abyssinia. the French jurist Professor Jeze, who was followed by. Baron! Aloisi (Italy) and Anthony Eden (Great Britain), all threet speakers dealing with the pre liminary conditions to the arbi- tration procedure.

SOVIET SUBMARINE SUNK DURING MANOEUVRES

Baltic Fleet Exercises Marred By Tragedy

Moscow, To-day.

A Soviet submarine with a crew of 55 sazal school stør

AS IMPRACTICABLE

London, To-day.

The plan to create a special constituency for the Speaker has been abandoned as imprac ticable.

Captain FitzRoy has sent a letter to his constituents declar

ing that he has no intention of GIRL MARINERS

descending into the arena of party politics in order to defend

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FOUR YEARS' VOYAGE IN SAILING BOAT

4,100 houses were, submerg- ed at Shingisha and 15,000 houses at Anting were water. logged. Some 3,000 people spent the night on rooftops.

Beuter.

DEVASTATING FIRE

THIRD OF TOWN OF BIGAI DESTROYED

·HUGE DEATH ROLL LIKELY

CHINA NAIL ~ SPECIAL

Vienna. To-day- Fire destroyed one-third of the town of Bigai with 8,000. inhabitants, situated on the Asiatic side of the Sea of Mar- (mora, according to the news- papers in Istanbul The work of extinguishing the flames was extremely difficult owing to a Paris, To-day shortage of water and the lack voyage lasting four years, the ment. No figures about the After making a round-the-world of proper fire brigade equip French

his seat, and in the event of the ROUND-THE-WORLD Labour Party persisting in the TRIP COMPLETED proposal to oppose. Captain FitzRoy, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay. MacDonald and other prominent leaders, includ dents was rammed and sunking Mr. Lloyd George, are plan- during the Baltic Fleet ezer- cises in the Gulf of Finland ning to visit the Daventry divi- All the lives were lost.-Bew

sion and speak on Captain Fitz- Boy's behalf in support of the ter.....

principle that the Speakership should be above party politics

MUELLER ON After

PAROLE

Released By Bandits For 10 Days

KALGAN OUTRAGE

A manifesto was issued in explanation of this memorable levent in the taxation record of Kwangtung, while slogans were inscribed with patriotic senti iments calling upon the people to support the Canton Govern- ment, suppress the Communists and turn out the foreign in- vaders. Government offices A message from. Kalgan

Peiping, To-day-

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the President, M LEenter. vinoff (Russia), had taken the occasion to stress rather pointed-| ly that the. deliberations of the

League Council weze

Limited SHANGHAI BREWERY

AN ARMED CAMP

merely by the provisions of the League

Coverant, M Laval (France) proposed an adjourn ment.

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Employees Strike In Face Of Dismissal

may suspend work to-day as a states that Dr. Mueller states CHEAP FARES TO 40,000 EMPTY BOTTLES fitting observance of this occa-he is on parole from the ban- sion.

dits for 10 days-Reuter:

The First Lord of the Ad In abolishing these petty miralty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Montaxes, the Frovincial Depart An earlier message stated that sell, was questioned in the

ment of Finance sustains a loss it had been disclosed that Mr. House of Commons yesterday of revenue amounting to about Gareth Jones and Dr. Herbert

Government's regarding the

$6,000,000 a year. This amount Mueller, in the hands of bandits. naval programme.

Asked whether in view of the is to be made good by increas- left Dolonor on Friday last and ing taxation in other directions were captured on the following danger of the publication of un- official statements, he would make without undue hardships on the day, when a group of demobilised

people.

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an oficiál pronouncement, he re-

plied in the negative.

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WAR MINISTER FOUND UNCONSCIOUS

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One Killed, 19 Missing

CANTON

First Special Traîn This Morning

921 PASSENGERS CARRIED FROM KOWLOON

ex-

HEAVILY GUARDED

Shanghai, To-day.

- CHINA "MAIL" SPECIAL

sailing boat Femme, number of dead are yet avail- manned entirely by women from able-Trans-Ocean Service. the captain to the cabin-girl, has Possibly Karabigha on the now put into the port of Vigo, on Gulf of Artaki is the place re- the northern coast of Spain, ac-ferred to, as we are unable to cording to a report in the French trace Bigai.

press.

Before finally setting sail to France the ship will carry out off the "Coast of Death," as this inhospitable section of the Spanish seaboard is

manoeuvres

called

SOUTH AFRICAN DISASTER

77 Entombed After Explosion

Johannesburg,-To-day.

The Ferme is a training-ship for girls and young women who wish to take up sailing and qualify for a Master's certificate All hope has been abandoned The United Brewery brewery The Captain is the wife of a of saving the manager of the plant in the Settlement was trans-French naval officer, and the crew Marsfield Colliery, the two white formed into an armed camp yes of young Amazons all belong to miners, and the 74 natives en terday, when heavily armed police the best French society-Trans- tembed near Breyton as the re- guarded the plant's 40,000 empty Ocean Service.

bottles, the seizure of which would

probably have caused bloodshed.

The special cheap fare. press, train service of the Kow- loon-Canten- Railway was augurated this morning, when during the next three months struck to enforce their deminds jlthat they be retained. -

Negotiations for an amicable settlement were progressing this morning-Renter

The trouble started when 170. jexployees notified to be dismissed]

When House Collapses 921 passengers took advantage

WEATHER REPORT

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE

Soldier Discharged

sult of an explosion. The res- cne-parties have located several bodies Renter..

HEAT WAVE DEATH ROLL EXCEEDS 100

New York, To-day. The heat wave death roll in the Private George Chapman, who Middle West exceeds 100 - There together with Frivate Cyril - are no signs of relief so fa- liam Crompton, of "C Company, Reuter Lincolnshire Regiment charged a July 20 with the man-

of the 50-cent fare and boarded | Warsaw, To-day. — A grave minutes later and set to work the new 7.30 am. express to catastrophe overtook the inhabi- feverishly attempting to rescue Canton Buenos Aires, To-day tants of a four storeyed house si- the unfortunates. Eighteen were Shortly after 6 am to-day the General Rodriquez, Minister of tuated in the arcient part of the recovered more or less seriously first of the intending passengers War, has been found unconscious city when on Tuesday night, to injured, one was killed, and the appeared on the platform and in his bathroom.. His conditionwards midnight when all the in- remaining 19 are still missing within half an hour the whole

TYPHOON WARNING is serions-Beuter

mates had gone to bed; the top While the rescue work was go- station was crowded with people! Weak anticyclones are situat- slanghter of Haida Khan, m ex- floor collapsed, burying beneath ing on the lower floors began waiting for the ticket office to ed over. North-west China, and police guard of No. 7, Požics Sta According to a message received POPE AT SUMMER HOME the debris several famifés. Cracking and suddenly collapsed open. The eight carriages of the South-west. Japan. A depression tion, was discharged by Mr. E.-L. through the American Consul

The shock of the falling brick-entirely, victims and rescuers train were packed almost to cap-remains over Kwangai; it is de- Wynne-Jmes at the Kowloon Po- General this morning from the Bone, To-day His Holiness the work was so great that a worm-alike being precipitated Into the acity.

creasing in intensity. There are Hice Court this morning - Manila Observatory, the typhoon Pope, accompanied by many high eaten wooden foor zave way, abyss. The fire brigade manage The usual 8.30

er indications of a depression-form-||- Detective-Inspector Dorling stai-at-925 am to-day was situated in dignitaries of the Church, left by bringing disaster also to all those ed to extricate themselves and press left with onl

ing in the Pacific to the east of ed that he had been lastracted by about Longitude 152 degrees Ey motor-car last evening for his on this floor. Altogether, most at once resumed the rescue work, gers on board, za

N. Luzon. South-west winds me the Inspector-General of Police to and Latitude 20 degrees N., moving summer residence, Cestel Gan of the 34 persons occupying the which is still going on

[age of over 200

iderate; cloudy, showery, was the apply for the change of manslaugh- west-north-west. This position, is dolfo, where he is expected to stay two foors were covered with falz-

casualties in all press from Canton

forecast for to-day as issued by ter to be withdrawn as there was well out to men, almost dis east of until the end of Septembering bricks and mortar.C there were is not yet, mown.

Tau at 8:30 paz.

Win the Royal Observatory this mom- no evidence against the first ac- Santo Domingo, about 600 miles Trans-Ocean Service.

1 The for brigade arrived a few Trans-Oce Service,

arrive in Kowloon at about

cused.

from" that island.