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PAUL RENNET CIE

NEW ARRIVALS

OF

AUTUMN HATS

Chater Ed, Hong

Ed Kowloon

LLOYD GEORGE DUBS ITALY'S INTENTIONS "SHAMELESS RAPINE"

VIOLENT

ATTACK

ITALIAN PRESS

AGAIN DISPLAYS

VINDICTIVENESS

Britain's Incorrigible Pride And Jealousy

LEAGUE USED FOR OWN PURPOSES

Rome, To-day.

An attack almost unprecedent-

ed in violence against Britain is made in the "Popolo di Roma."

It says that the squabbles at Gen- eva were concluded by the demo- gogic speech by Sir Samuel Hoare.

The British make the League work for their own in- terests and business. They make it, serve their home and

The most powerful four men in Japan drink with Hsieh Chich-Shih, new Manchukue Ambassador to Tokyo (centre). The other four, rarely photographed together, but declared to be the quartette, dominating the Orient to-day, are (left to right) General Hay- ashi, War Minister: Mr. Koki Hirota. Foreign Minister; Admiral Keisuke Okada, Premier, Admiral Mimeo Osumi, Naval Minister:

Abyssinia Impressed By Sir S. Hoare's Speech

foreign policy, their insatiable EXPLOSION IN hunger for land water and monopolies, and their incorrigi-

ble pride and jealousy.

“The idealism of Sir Samuel Hoare has a different attitudej for every contingency. Let!

COAL-PIT NEAR

BARNSLEY

Sir Samuel Hoare tell the in 15 KILLED AND 7

habitants of Mars and the moon about Britain's fidelity to the Covenant. The much-vaunted British idealism towards the League is only the screen-be-| hind which Albion-does West!" she pleases and serves her own purpose." Eeuter.

WIRELESS

OPERATORS

ON STRIKE

Eleven Ships Held Up

In New York

UNION NOT RECOGNISED

New York, To-day-

•

INJURED

-:

FIRE CUTS OFF RESCUERS

London, To-day.

NEW MOTOR FUEL TESTED

Wood-Gas Substitute For Petrol Succeeds

Eome, To-day.

An Italian motor-car has just retired here after completing a 6,000-kilometre tour, through 10 European countries, using wood-

the motive power.

Fifteer miners have been killed and seven injured in and have been extremely dis

factory, and have aroused great explosion in a coal-pit near interest, in view of the recent

Goverment decree that anotori. Barnsley.

buses throughout Baby must gradually substitute wood-gas for 'petrol as the power generator. †Trans-Ocean' Service,

The explosion occurred at North

Gawber mine at Mapplewell, 45o

feet below the ground, and was followed by a fire. Son. 160 men were working in the pit at the time. were missing.

A rolicall showed that 38 POLITICAL

The rescuers, struggling against stone and dust, brought to the sur-

The wireless operators on 11 face 25 men alive and five bodies. ships, including the American They found that a fierce fire cut trans-Atlantic liner Scanyork,off the remainder of the missing. due to sail to Europe, struck a who are believed to have been few hours before sailing. All killed by the flames. the ships except one are pas

The injured men have been ad- senger ships and cannot legally mitted to hospital, and all are

sail without wireless operators seriously hurt-Reuter

The strike leaders are trying to

hold up all American vessels re-

fusing to sign an agreement with CRIMINAL LAW

the American Radio Telegra- phers' Association.

The strike followed the failure of the operators to obtain recog“ nition of their union, higher wages and better conditions by negotiations with the American Steamship Owners' Association. Reuter...

AMENDMENT

BILL REJECTED

NARROW DEFEAT

AT SIMLA⠀

CONSTITUTION

EMPRESS'S APPEAL INTERFERED WITH

FOREIGNERS MAY SERVE WITH

ABYSSINIAN ARMY

SCHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Addis Ababa, Tö day.

LEAGUE MUST SHOW

FIRMNESS

WARM TRIBUTE PAID TO SIR S. HOARE

LAVAL MAY SPRING SURPRISE

AT TO-DAYS MEETING

London, To-day.

Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Plymouth, said: "It is quite clear that Signor Mussolini is not open to any argument or any appeal. He

is not even open to offers of reasonable econo- mic concessions which might meet the legiti mate requirements of his country.”

He regretted to say that he had never doubted what Signor Mussolini meant. The League must be determined in its attitude and action in the face of this act of shameless rapine.

::

He was confident that the country as a whole; without any distinction of party, would support the Government in any decision that might be reached to implement the League Cover- ant, provided that the action was effective

He praised Sir Samuel Hoare's speech as outspoken, lucid and straightforward. He said that Sir Samuel rose to the height of a very great occaSICIL

Geneva: "Whatever may ha AMERICAN

pen in the end, nobody shall say that the British Government and its representatives have not, made. fevery possible effort to mend

what we believe would be a

calamity, declared Sir Samuel Hoare British Foreign Sec

ATTITUDE

OUTLINED

Important Statement By Cordell Hull

APPEAL TO ITALY AND ETHIOPIA

Washington, To-day,

A deep impression has been made here by Sir Samuel Hoare's speech, which has been translated into Amharish and is being distributed as a leaflet throughout the country, speech; it is stated, has greatly encouraged the Govern who declare that Abyminiz will stand frem and oder no fue the most vivid impressions of the ther concessions to Italy than those already made. The Em-last few days.

Sir Samuel said he was deeply peror himself still hopes that England will be able to avert war, and his radio speech for to-day is being awaited with struck by the respect with which eager interest.

"our country and indeed.. - they whole of the British Empire is The radio talk in French and held by the world." He felt over Ethiopia not to go to war was A new append to Italy and. English delivered to the women and over again the weight of the made by Mr. Cordell Hull in a of the world by the Empress on responsibility of representing statement, which emphasised Tuesday was unintelligible Government to which so many the peaceful ideals of the Unit everywhere, except in Abys-countries seem to be looking for ed States and called on all the sinia, on account of deliberate guidance and advice.

signatories of the Kellogy Pact interference by some other "I tried to put to them the to observe their pledge to

FRED PERRY WEDS

MARRIED TO FILM STAR

Harrison, New York.

transmitter, it is now learned.

In this appeal, which' was ina/pical British viewpoint, and 10 tain world peace

STALEMATE

ACHIEVED

particular to express to them our Mr. Huff said that he viewed tended as a reply to the daily universal desire, firstly, to live with deep concern the recent deve- Kuomintang Session

Italian propaganda in xir lang- Fred Perry was married to the ages transmitted by the short- and let live in peace; secondly, to jopments, which appeared to con- Postponed films star Helen Vinson just be wave station in Rome, the Emkeep our word, solemnly given, in stitate a threat to world peace. the Covenant of the League," he The Government and people of the fore midnight, the ceremony be press called on heaven to pro declared

United States believe that interna- NANKING WANTS MORE TIME ing performed by a Justice of the tect Abyssinis from the "civilis-

Peace Miss Vinson is aged 27 ers, who only bring sorrow and Sir Samuel Hoare expressed the tional controversies can and should and the marriage statement re-havoc in their train, we WI

(hope that “in striving for those be settled by peaceful means.” [From Our Own Correspondent]

vealed that she was divorced from “Mighty armies,” said the Em-two objectives and doing justice Pointing out that 62 nations Canton, To-day.

press, "are preparing to invade in Abyssinia we shall still be signed the Kellogg Pact, Mr. Hull our land under the false pretence able to remain friends with our said: "Under the conditions pre- Political stalemate has set in

of bringing civilisation to our Italian ally in the Great Warvailing in the world to-day the here following the announce

peaceful agricultural population, More than most people I hate the threat of hostilities anywhere can- which lives in communion with idea of a difference between Bri-not but be a threat to the in- ment that the Sixth Plenary

God and nature. Italian mothers (Continued on Page 14) Session of the Kuomintang Cen-

suffer as much as Abyssinia's at! tral Executive Committee has

Harry Vickerman, of Los Angeles,

in 1934

Harrison has recently celebrat ed a number of runaway matches

-Reuter

been postponed from Septem- STOP PRESS ATTEMPT TO WRECK COMINGber 20 to November 1. Some political ripples were stirred by 2 rumour that Mr. Liu Lu-yin, member of the South-west Poli- to The Government of India's tical Council, would go Criminal Law Amendment Bill Shanghai on a certain mission, 100,000 Line Streets Of designed to deal with terrorist but this story was promptly, de-

Baton Rouge outrages, has been rejected by nied.

HUEY LONG LAID TO REST

Simla, To-day.

the Assembly by 71 votes to The postponement is to en- Baton Rouge, Today. 51. It is understood that the able the Kuomintang members Dressed in a dinner-jacket, Government will certify the attending the Session to take which he seldom wore during his BEL

part in the Fifth Kuomintang life time, Senator Huey Long Was

Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar, the Congress on November 12. This buried under a simple, marble Law Member, replying to criticisms postponement is to save the slab in the grounds of the State of the Bill, said that if the ob busy Kuomintang leaders and Capitol. Five of his closest po- jective of the Opposition was to representative the trouble litical friends were the pall-wreck the coming constitution they of travelling back and forth in bearers.

certainly could not expect

*Party veterans were about to draft resolutions to be submit- cated to the Session on September.

* The cortege threaded its way tade for this measure, but rather through 100,000 spectators, ac thunder and fury at measuZZ companied by the band of his culated to embarrass the ""Poor State University

and help the working of the Eney's last words —— ying stitutionë

“Every-Man, a King"" com

Mr. Bhulabha Desai, the leadč

Opposition's desi

by Huey and now transposed into of the Opposition, declared that:

(aminorę

20, but since the gatheri been put off to Novembe

rafting work is suspende

Nanking Go more time

relations

The many personal friends. and colleagues of His Excel- ́lency the Officer Administer

ing the Government. Str Thomas Southern, KRE CMG will⠀⠀⠀⠀ learn with anclety that His Excellency has been found to be suffer ing from an attack of appen- dicitis, which necessitated his removal to the Victoria Hos pital last night." An opera- tion:

used." this?

have been

terests, political, economie, legal and social, of all the nations..

the thought of the irreparable ITALY MAY MODIFY NOT INVOKING KELLOGG PACT

losses which war causes. Abys zinia's conscience is clear," and she extends a brotherly welcome to all who come here in order to work honourably ***

FOREIGNERS TO SERVE

The decree prohibiting foreign- ers from serving with the Abys-|| sinian army has now been TCS- cinded by the Negus Those members of the Swiss and Bel- gian military missions, now of (Continued on Page 103

WEATHER REPORT

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ATTITUDE

PRESS ATTACKS ON BRITAIN CEASE

FRENCH TROOPS SAIL -FOR DJIBOUTI

“Every, nation has the right to ask that no nation shall subject it and other nations to the hazards and certainties that inevitably

accrue to all from a tresort to arms by any two”.

- Officials of the State Department hastened to" emphasise – that: Mr. Hull was not invoking the Kellogg Pact, but merelys calling on all the Geneva, To-day parties concerned to make a fur- A change in the intractable ther effort to avert bloodshed. attitude of Italy is believed in

PACT OF PARTS some quarters to be possible. Mz Hall concluded: “In goodwill They express the opinion that to all nations, the American Gov- “Aloisi may now be prepared skomen those coumbzies which discuss the tex

inspear to be templating armed

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TYPHOON WARNING.