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BERNARDS of HARWICH

BRITAIN TO STAND BY COVENANT IN ITALO-ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE

LEAGUE PRESTIGE

ON THIN ICE INSIGNIFICANT ACTION OF SMALLER STATES

THREE-PARTY CONFERENCE -

MAY BE CALLED ·

***CHINA MAR.“ SPECIAL

Geneva, To-day.

The arbitration process compromise work- ed out on Wednesday night by Mr. Eden, M. Laval and M. Litvinoff was the subject of fur- ther negotiations yesterday, the object being to meet the wishes of the British Government for. certain "minor alterations," defining more ex-” actly the obligations of the two contending par- ties to refrain from resorting to force. In the first text this undertaking only bound the two parties until September 3.

Moreover, in the stipulations about the task of the conci- liation and arbitration committee the Italian wishes had been given chief consideration, that is to say, the incident at Ual Ual was to be treated with reference to frontier questions or a decision as to whom Ual Ual really belongs. This limitation was imposed so as to facilitate acceptance of the compromise by Italy, but it is thought here to be highly improbable that Abyssinia will agree. Until now no notification has been re- ceived about the Italian Government's views.

The Abyssinian delegate was only oficially informed of the contents of the compromise yesterday morning when the daily newspapers simultaneously published a full account. The Abyssinian delegate complains that on former occasions be bas been obliged to inform himself from the daily press abort the diplomatic begotiations of the "great Powers

NEW PURITY-

states that in

(right).

The American aviator. Wiley Post from San Francisco on a flight over the top of the a -Moscow. It was previously announced that the flight wa 'hunting trip with Fay Gillis Wells (left), a writer, and "but it is now stated that Post is accompanied only. The possibilities of a short cut route from Amer

are to be surveyed on the trip.......

SIX KILLED AS HOUSE COLLAPSES

NARROW ESCAPE AFTER 24 HOURS BENEATH RUINS

"CHINA, MAIL" SPECIAL

Warsaw, To-day. The appalling dwelling house catastrophe A later message from Geneva reported on Wednesday has resulted until now accordance with in six deaths, 14 people being seriously injured general expectations the compro What the final count will be it is impossible to mise formula evolved by M. Laval, guess, as the neighbourhood is densely populat- IN CANTONMr. Eden and M. Litvinoff is meeted by poorer classes constantly on the move, so ing with considerable opposition that probably many lodgers were sleeping in from the parties to the dispute, the doomed house for one night, unregistered

by the police.

CAMPAIGN

IMMODEST DRESS PROHIBITED

FAIR SEX SHOCKED, BY REFORMERS BAN

[From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, To-day-

and in order to gain time for the efforts to reconcile the opposing views it had been decided to post- One of those concerned pone the League Council sitting rescued safe and sound at 11 scheduled for yesterday to this pm on Wednesday after 24 hours

| afternoon..

The postponement is chiefy due Fashionable women at cinemato Italy's refusal to accept the pro- theatres last night received aposals insofar as they provide for big surprise when three female

**

WES

beneath the ruins. Seven of the)

permanent residents are still missing.

Investigations by the building. police revealed that 50 houses in

DRUG SMUGGLING

IN SHANGHAI

BOLD ATTEMPT FRUSTRATED

Shanghai, To-day-

STRINGENT POLICY OF PEACE

FEAR OF UNSETTLEMENT AMONG COLOURED RACES

SIR SAMUEL HOARE CHEERED AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEBATE ·

London, To-day.

"One of the most difficult world problems of to-day is that raised by the existence of States that have empires and States that have not." declared Sir Samuel Hoare, Foreign Secretary. in the foreign affairs debate initiated by cen- sorious opposition speeches in Parliament yes- terday.

Mr. George Lansbury, leader of the opposition, demanded two world conferences: firstly, a disarmament conference for the purpose of abolishing aerial warfare; and secondly, the re- suming of the World Economic Conference.

with regard to Abyssinia Mr. Lansbury promised the sup- port of the Labour Party for the Government so long as it up held the League Covenant and obligations, though they did not ask Britain to act alone. Sir Samuel thought it would not be a

derogations of the League if Italy, France and Britain, under

the 1906 treaty got together on the Abyssinian question.

He asked the Government to contradict the report that Italian co-operation in Central European matters was so eager- ly desired that Britain and France had tied their hands by an assurance given to Italy.

Sir Samuel Hoare, above, Bri- tish Foreign Minister, made welcomed statement, in the House of Commons yesterday on Bri“ `tain's policy in the Italo-Aby»-

sinian diapate.

WILEY POST

SETS OUT ON

NEW FLIGHT

Frisco To Moscow And Then To New York

AERIAL SURVEY OF THE GREAT CIRCLE

San Francisco, To-day. The famous airman Wiley *Post, accompanied by his wife, yesterday took off on a fight across the top of the world to

Sir Samuel Hoare, replying, tions; and certainly intended to spoke of his great satisfaction maintain them that the United States had con After referring to imperial Moscow, flying non-stop to Seat demned any recourse to war versus non-imperial countries the where the machine will be Britain was fully conscious of Sir Samuel Hoare said that the sited with pontoons for the her treaty and Covenant oblige-way to settle these things was flight across the Behring Ses

(not by a recourse to force, but by conciliation, settlement and Mow to Iceland and Greenland, The flies will proceed tram,

agreement.

prepared

AMERICA OFFERS

and from there to New York He was nervous of world “con- MORAL SUPPORT reces nless they were well. The object of the flight, under- taken on behalf of a commercial "The Economic Consfrways company, is an aerisi sur- TO THE LEAGUEérence still exists and maybe in

the future we shall again have re Alaska and Siberia, with a view to.

vey of the Great Circle between Amicable Settlement

course to it”

the possibility of a short cut air UAERIAL WARFARE Britain already in March 1993 route linking Europe and América. took the initiative in favour of the Wiley Post is using a new Lock- abolition of aerial warfare. It bead Orion low-wing single e was impossible to discuss such gined machine Beuter matters without German co-opera-

Hoped For

·ROOSEVELT'S STATEMENT

Washington, To-day-

tion, and at present there was a NEW AVIATION

A weighty pronouncement on the Abyssinian dispute, believed great gulf on disarmament between to be designed to put the moral France and Germany.

{Continued on Page 10) support of the United States be- kind the League, was made by

President Roosevelt yesterday. CHEAP RAILWAY

He said: "At the moment when the Council of the League)

lecturers from the Bureau of Abyssinia's participation in the the same neighbourhood are un- Public Safety announced during negotiations to be conducted be safe and must be strengthened. the intermission that modern (tween Britain, France and Italy on The steeple of a nearby church feminine styles of dress are to the general aspects of the Abys-has also had to be dismantled. The bold attempt of a Chin-bas, assembled to consider the be strictly prohibited.

Where Įsinian problem and on the basis of

the disaster occurred lese interpreter and, a Chinese ways of composing by pacife has been closed to all traffic servant on the French gunboat means the differences between Political Research Institute the treaty of 1906.

while the debris is being cleared Balny to smuggle a quantity of voice the hope of the people and Italy and Ethiopia, I wish to away. Trans-Ocean Service.

opium and morphine was frus Government of the United States,

This

is the decision of the

which has instructed the police (Continued on Page 101 authorities to enforce the ruling. Briefly, the order is that feminine

dress which shows the curves of PRINCE MDIVANI

the body and bare limbs is deem-

ed objectionable and place under a ban

The female announcers stated that while women's clothes should, be clear and able to protect the body from cold and heat, they should not be made of imported materials, which are expensive. These reformists point out that some women want to dress up, and zchieve their end by any means.. whatsoever.

KILLED

Motoring Tragedy

In Spain

..

Barcelona, To-day-

OUTER MONGOLIAN

rated by the commander, who that an amicable solution will be

had them searched as they were found and peace maintained.” disembarking with bags in their hands. The men were arrested

BANDITS ACTIVE NEAR GREAT WALL

REPLY

EXPLANATION SAID and handed over to the Chinese

UNSATISFACTORY

authorities

The police are attempting to Changchun, To-day. trace the accomplice ashore. The reply of Outer Mongolia to Beuter Prince Alexis Mdivani.. ea second protest from the Kwan-

famous heiress, has been killed in taking prisoner of a Japanese husband of Barbara Hutton, the tung army in connection with the SMUGGLER GAOLED a motor smash near the village of army surveyor on Thursday last Albona, in the province of Gerona was received yesterday. Young ladies are asked to use The lady who was accompany-The contents have at present not | they must wear long trousers in ing him at the time was seriously been divulged, but it is authorita stead of short pants as underwear injured and admitted to hospital, (tively learned that the "reply is} Their dresses should not be so where she is in a very critical considered highly unsatisfactory close fitting as to show off their condition Beuter

native materials for clothes and

form

In the case. of long (Continued on Page 14).

WEATHER REPORT

SPANISH WAR ON COMLIONISM west China and South-west Japan Weak anticyclones cover North-

The depression over Tongking and Madrid, To-day, The Com Kwangsis deepened slightly, manist Separatist Noticiero de The typhoon is situated about 400 Hora and also the orgen of the miles to the east of the Bashi Catholic Left, La Rambla, ap Channel, moving west-nort pearing at Barcelona, have been South or south-west wis

ordered by the military authori ties there to cease publicat Trans-Ocean' Service

ate; cloudy, showery

the fore

cast for today, as Royal Observatory this

Sequel To Arrest On President Hoover

Villagers Terrorised By Large Bands

FARE

877 PASSENGERS TO CANTON

THOUSAND MARK EXPECTED

AND MARK

TO-MORROW

RECORD

470 KPH BY FRENCH ACE

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day. A new world record was en tablished on Wednesday by the aviator Maurice Arnoux, who flew 100 kilometres in 12 minutes 45:

seconds, corresponding to a speed of 470 kilometres an hour, thos lowering the world record created Including the 521 passengers, by himself on May 19 last who took advantage of the spe-Trans-Ocean Service

al 50 cent fare, the four es press trains which left Kowloon

Bailway Station yesterday for

¡Canton exrried 2,609

Passengers

against the average for the three "Fer expresses of a little,

Tover 1,400

At Canton the special cheap Shanghai, Today. fare express train service also Chinese reports from Peiping asems to have "caught on, for state that more than 3,000 a7-as many as 871 people arrived at ed bandits are creating a reign the Kowloon Station last of terror in the towns and vil by the special train. lages in the vicinity of the trains from Canton carrie Great Wall, between Haifeng-tal of 1,784 passengers kow and Panchakow.na

This morning - 874

Word has been received in One group, numbering 1,000, tickets were sold at the by both the Kwantung army and Hong Kong that one of the Japan-operating near Kupeikow, pos- Station, but the am the+Manchukuo Foreign Office ese crew members of the ss. Presesses 100 horses, two cammons pected to exceed 1000 Beuter.

sident Hoover, who was arrested and eight machine guns. morning, as “gány,

San Francisco about two Reuter.

leave for Canton Lor months ago for smuggling cocaine,

Sister was recently – senteno

UNEMPLOYMENT POSITION IN BRITAIN

London, to-day

expectation that

figures for

entiary

The:

125 PERISH IN HEAT WAVE

NEW YORK CITY SWELTERS

New York, To-day.

The beat wave in the Central has claimed 125 lives.

death roll £ 20 in Ne the second

STYPHOON WARNING

five the

NEARLY 1.000.000 PEOPLE LIVING IN MADRID

ved

KING SAILS BRITANNIA

tory by

Madrid.

ding