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ITALY'S CABINET DECISION CAUSES CONSTERNATION IN EUROPE

KING LEOPOLD TELLS

OF TRAGEDY

FATAL GLANCE AT MAP

ON NARROW ROAD

POIGNANT SCENE AT ROADSIDE DESCRIBED BY EYE-WITNESS

1

QUEEN DIES IN ARMS OF HUSBAND

Lucerne, To-day.

According to the first statement King Leo- pold has been able to make after the accident in which Queen Astrid of Belgium was killed and King Leopold, who was driving, was injur ed, the Queen wanted to look at the map to see the route they were going. The King himself glanced at the map, but although his inattention to the steering wheel was only momentary, it was sufficient to let the wheels deviate, causing a violent swerve, after which the car struck two trees.

While Italy and Abyssinia' make prepari, Jou for an impending war, the scenes years to 1925 at the time the Italians were making si campaign in Eritress The graph shows an Italian army encampment on the desert in 1926. Scenes similar to exacted if the Italian forces invade Emperor Haile Selassie's kingdom. The similar

The King had just taken the wheel from the chauffeur. LITTLE ENTENTE The Queen was seated on his right and both were in high spirits

Where the accident occurred the road is only 24 feet wide! with a drop of 20 feet to the lake. Apparently the car, tra-| velling at high speed, struck the kerb. then travelled to the. other side of the road, struck two trees and plunged into the

lake.

The Queen's body was found under the first tree, the right side of her head being smashed. No one saw the accident. Those who reached the scene a few minutes later found the dis- tracted King kneeling over the body of his dying wife-Reu-

ter.

Queen / Astrid of Belgium, formerly Princess Astrid of Sweden, whe was killed in a motoring accident at Lucerne, when a car driven by her hus- band, King Leopold, crashed into s tree and plunged into Lake Lucerne.

RUMOURS OF SALE OF KMA TO JAPAN

A message from Berne stated that the poignant scene at the! iroadside following the accident Iwas described to Reater by an

eye-witness.

MINISTERS IN

CONFERENCE

RUSSO-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS

HAPSBURG RESTORATION

* OPPOSED

~CHINÄ MAILTM SPECIAL

Bled, To-day

A conference among the Little Entente foreign minis- On recovering, the King asked ters, which began here yester- continued all for the Queen and was assisted day morning,

to where she lay. Kneeling at day, but so far no official the Queen's side he took her hand communique on the course, of and called her by name, but she the deliberations has been did not answer. Then, overcome issued.

DIRECTOR OF PERSONAL SERVICES

Rear Admiral Layton's New Appointment

London, To-day." Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Layton, D.S.O., has been appointed Direc tor of Personal Services, effective from November &-Reuter N

Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Layton, D.S.O., has been Commodore of the Royal Naval Barracks, Parts- mouth, since last year. Educated at Winchester and on HMS Britannia, he was, gazetted Sub- Lieutenant in 1905, Commander in 1916 and Captain in 1922. He

COMING SIXTH

PLENARY SESSION

OF KUOMINTANG

LEAGUE & BRITAIN

TO BE IGNORED?

UNEMPLOYED CALLED UP AT ADDIS ABABA

BANK OF ABYSSINIA DEMANDS THE LOAN PAYMENTS BY TO NIGHT ETHIOPIA'S MILITARY

STRENGTH REVIEWED

London, To-day.

The gravity of the Italo- Abyssinian situa- tion, following the decision of the Italian Cab- inet, is emphasised by the French and German newspapers.

The French official view is reflected in "Te Temps," which states that the Italian Govern- ment's determination to forge ahead, whatever the League Council's decision, could not be more clearly affirmed, while the German newspapers opine that the Bolzano decisions show Italy's determination to attain her object without the consent of the League or Great Britam, or even against both.

The Rome "Tribuna" declares that the Ha

not threaten, directly or indirectly, Bet

A Trans Ocean Service message decisions taken by the Italian Minist

Interest Minimised In have aroused no particular response in

South-West

ALL JAPANESE QUESTIONS TO BE SHELVED

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

predominating opinion is that France,

treme delicacy of her position between Ba

not take up any cleady defined attitude toward

The Abys

sinian dispute until Britain has revealed the line she intends to pursue at Geneva

"L'Oeuvre" claims authority

for believing that immediately his arrival at Geneva Mr.

The great importance which Anthony Eden wir Work PRINCE TO

was attached to the Sixth Flen- the scenes in order to persuade

served on HALS Renown inary Session of the Kuomintang as large a number of member Central Committees has been States as possible to support the minimised in consequence

of application for "financial

1933 and 1934

with grief, he took her in his Well informed circles affirm that TRIAL FLIGHTS FROM

arms and kissed her; a few sethe discussions were principally conds later the Queen died, still lin his arms.

PRINCE OF WALES TO

· REPRESENT BRITAIN

ין

Cannes, To-day.

that

tlus

It is understood Prince of Wales, who is holiday- ing on the Riviera, is going to Brussels to represent HM the King at the funeral of Queen Astrid Reater;

HONG KONG

Imperial Airways Venture

WED

and DUKE OF -

the continuation of the present economic sanctions, but will Nanking policy towards Japan. abandon any idea of enforcing It was even suggested previous-military measures such as a Ty, that the session should de-blockade

cide whether China should gol The French Premier writes in

GLOUCESTER

ENGAGED

Of Buccleuch

WELL KNOWN - SPORTSWOR

concerned with the necessity of Yugoslavia recognising the Soviet Union, and with this in view the

to war with Japan, but such an Le Jour that it was plainly stated To Daughter Of Duke. issue is now not to be discussed at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting Yugoslavian Premier, M Stoya-

The Wang Ching-wei Cabinet that France will not participate in dinovitch, will take the opportunity

is taking steps to cement more any kind of sanctions - whatever|| at the forthcoming League meet- Cable information received to-friendly relations with Japan. against Italy.--Trans-Ocean Ser-1 ing to enter into negotiations with day by the Asiatic Petroleum Therefore the Sixth Plenary vice. M. Litvinod

Company (S. China) Ltd. states Session will discuss merely (Continued on Page 10) The proposed Danubian Pact that Imperial Airways are sending routine questions. was also discussed and in this a machine to do six trial flights connection it was decided that the between Penang and Hong Kong- Little Entente States should op These trial fights are expected to pose any attempt to restore the be made early in October. Hapsburg monarchy in Austria.

The three Foreign Ministers

The King, dazed and unable to were the guests of Prince Regent

speak, indicated that their pass Paul at luncheon-Trans-Ocean ports were in the car, where their Service.

names were found.

Comte der Hyt is the incognito COMMUNISM IN

under which the King" usually travels, and some time elapsed tity of the Royal party. before the crowd learned the iden-

(Continued on Pajje 15.)

BRITISH FINANCIER

KILLED

Tributes To The Late Sir Basil Blackett

SHENSI

Foreigners Prohibited

To Travel

Shanghai, To-day.

ARGENTINE AIR

FORCES

Naval And Military Increases

Buenos Aires, To-day.

(Continued on Page 1)

17 KILLED IN TYPHOON

CROPS DAMAGED IN WEST JAPAN

Lood

A Court DUTCH SHIP CONVERTED INTO ITALIAN. TROOPSHIP:

the engagement of HRH the Duke of Gloucester to Lady Alice Amsterdam, To-day-The Dutch Montagu-Donglas-Scott, daughter steamer, Golria, which has been of the Duke of Buccleuch sold to Italy, sailed yesterday for Trieste with a Dutch crew, under the Italian flag. Immediately upon her arrival the ship will be re-months and had often danced to- christened and put into service as gether in the West End when a troop transport-Trans-Ocean the Duke was on leave from his Service

regiment

The Duke Balmoral wit

The Duke and Lady Alice have been close friends for some

Kyushu on Wednesday after BRITISH DELEGATES The Dems of

Tokyo, To-day. The typhoon, which struck

noon, the Kobe and Osaka ares The Government has intro yesterday morning and Tokyo duced a bill in Parliament to partially in the afternoon, has raise 20,000,000*** pesos to done heavy crop damage in strengthen the naval aviation western Japan-

The Shensi Government an-arm in addition to 22,000,000 Seventeen persons have been nounces that foreigners are propesos for military aviation kuled nine are missing" and [hibited from travelling in the The amount will be raised by many injured Beuter interior of the province owing an internal 5 per cent loan. Ito the tense Communist situa Beuter.

tion

London Interviewed by a representative of the Dady Telegraph in regard to rumours of the sale of the. Kailan Mining Administration to Japan the famous financial expert who far as Hsienyang. Reuter

London, To-day.

Permission to travel is limit“ FOREIEN PILOTS FOR ROYAL- Tributes to Sir. Basil Blackett, fed by the Lunghai Bailway as

COUTER

director of the Chinese En-was killed in a motoring accident gineering, and Mining Company in Germany on August 15, were which is largely interested in paid at the opening session of the the Administration, said that

as far as his Company was at present informed the rumours could be denied Reuter

HM aubmarine Orpheus ETT the Colony, this mocning HarWe.

ALL OF CREW SAYED

Tokyo,

All the

ncial committee of the League Nations, of which Sir Basil had of the

been a member, by

Dayras of France, and

members, Sir Otto Nie

and Sir Henry

Itish Wireless Service.

WEATHER REPORT

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