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Britain's Demands

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London, To-day. While official information is not available, there is reason to believe that the rumours to the effect that Britain is weakening? in her demand-for a 26,000-for) battleship at the forthcoming Naval Conference have a sound basis in fact. It is understood

that the British case for a smaller. battleship has hitherto rested on two main grounds: firstly, the desire for economy, and secondly, the desire to meet the Japanese demand for dras- tic limitation in the size capital ships.

of

It is understood, however, that a third considerïtion how weigha largely in the calculations of the Admiralty, although official cir- cles maintain complete reticence, namely, that 26,000-ton ships can-

A Beker Zelandskip culminat-

the marriage at Chantan- New York, of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, widow of Thomas Edison, and Edward R. Hughes, the 73-year-old retired attorney The bride is 69.

GEN HO AT PAOTINGFU

SITUATION REVIEWED

EXPECTED RETURN

TO-NIGHT

Informal Protest Made To Laval

Paotingfu. To-day- General Ho Ying-chin has ar rived. He was greeted by Gen- eral Shang Chen and the civil

and military authorities at the Farrar, second only to the capital, Addis

Importance to station, outside which had ge- the Italian invaders, has now been demilitarized by order of the Negus in thered a vast concourse of order to save the civilian population from air maklu people.

After an exchange of greetings 2-

"LINDBERGH CASE" General Ho Ying-chin left with

IN FRANCE

Crowds Delirions At

"Happy Ending

LIMPING, WOMAN CLUE LEADS TO DISCOVERY OF BABY

Marseilles, To-day.

General Shang Chen for the lat ter's residence, where the two are: conferring on the North China; situation.

The Minister is not expected to make a long stay, as his Body- guard and staff are- aboard the train, which has steam up. probable that General Ho leave for Peiping to-night.

PROTEST IN FRANCE

It s

will

Jon M. Laval yesterday to protest

LAVAL SEEKS EARLY SETTLEMENT

GLOWING TRIBUTES

TO MR. SUNG DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH IN

DELICATE SITUATION

GEN. DOIHARA FIGHTING ONE OF GREATEST BATTLES IN CAREER

Peiping, To-day.

It is reported that Mr. Sung Chéh-yuan secretly left for Paatingfu yesterday to see Gen- eral Ho Ying-chin. He did not meet him at the station but waited for him at Mr. Shang-Chen's residence.

Last night there was an air almost amounting to optimism among the mportant cfficials, which has been lacking for many days, this despite the thinly veiled hostility to General Ho Ying-chin's impending arrival, among the Japanese military officers.

There is a distinct feeling that General Ho Ying-chin, who in many previous contacts with the Japanese has proved himself an"-

BRITISH CABINET DECISION ON accomplished diplomat, may yet be able to bring a reasonably

OIL EMBARGO NOT SURPRISING

London, To-day.

gen-

COLONIES UNDER MANDATES

satisfactory conclusion to the long and trying situation. questionably his auriwal and the new suggestion for a council similar to the Mongol.council has postponed the declaration of autonomy in Hopei and Chahar, which had been expected yester day or to-day. The British policy in favour of a collective in this connection it is g

informed people that great cre The sudden happy ending to! Paris: Mr. Exiso Chi-yung, the oil embargo was reviewed by the Cabinet and ob erally agreed among well- not be made secure against aer- the "French Lindbergh Case Chinese Charge d'Affaires, called tained full approval. It is understood that M. dit is due to Mr. Sung Che

yesterday whipped the populat the "foreign activities Laval's peace efforts were also discussed and that for the manner tions rea to the movement for the the Government is perfectly prepared to consider resisted the Japane It is highly probable that the MU change in viewpoint is to some outside the police station, secession of Northern China. No extent due to the present tension minglings shouts of joy with written protest was handed in any proposals Signor Mussolini might advance, Early hast wee

and no suggestion was made that which have any prospect of a settlement through caused Britain to move her ships imprecations against the kid- the Chinese Government would the League. from Malta to Alexandria, where nappers safely locked up with-appeal to the League-Beater they are practically outside the in. range of Italian air attack, as the

ial attack.

in the Mediterranean, which has

nearest Italian air bases are some

· 300 miles away.

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THE P. & 0. Larger Income Shown Last Year

STRONG COMPETITION FROM SUBSIDISED LINES

NO STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

London, to-day-Owing to the " less of the Princess Victoria, his sister, His Majesty the King will not open Parliament in State to-day. No procession will take place. The King's Speech will be read by the Lord Chancellor Reuter.

PRINCESS VICTORIA PASSES

Blood Transfusion Unavailing

SISTER OF THE KING

London. To-day. The Princess Victoria hes died Reuter.

the

MORE RIOTING IN CAIRO Former Premier Object Of Dislike

HOUSE ENTERED AND FURNITURE SMASHED

*** CHIKA MAH.- SPECIAL

Paris, To-day

disperse them.

he quietly and dimicar

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be inevitable

by General

aiztonomy, butÿ Paris: The news that the that there was British Cabinet has agreed in lack of advice and instate

"I could not imagine anything from Nanking, Mr.-Sung stav- principle in favour of aned off the seeming inevitable, more mischievous, after 38 years bargo en petroleum to Italy if until now there is hope that a experience of Malays, and Hong no pacific settlement is in sight solution not wholly unsatisfac Kong, than the suggestions made on December 12 has created no tory to China, may be achieved in some quarters that the Pro- DOIHARA'S GRIM BATTLE tectorates and Colonies should be There is no doubt that Gen-placed under mandates,” declared surprise in: well-informed fr cles.

eral Doihara is fighting one of Sir William Peel, the retiring. the greatest battles of his Governor of Hong Kong, who was career, upon which his whole the principal guest at the China Lfiture depends" Very well. Association dianew Jast night. Ha informed foreign sources de ladded that such a proposal would clare that General Doihara žabe entirely repugnant to the in- dicated the importance the habitants of those places, wher places on the outcome of the ther Orientals or WesteLER. task to which he has set his Referring to the relations be- hand, that of winning actually tween Canton and Hong Kong he or practically a vast slice of said there had been a friendly territory without military feeling but he was distressed that

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EPIDEMIC IN

∙KOSHAN

Situation Very Grave

MYSTERIOUS MALADY CLAIMS LIVES IN FOUR HOURS

Dairen, To-day.

operations.

they had not shown more con- General Chen Yi has arrivedicrete resnits. He was afraid from Tientsin. Benter" Diplomacy To Be Tried

The Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary was the younger sister

Benewed ricting broke out at Claude, the 18-months old 500 of His Majesty the King and was Cairo yesterday, according to a London, To-day.

of a locally respected doctor, Dr. The accounts of the Penin-Maimejac, was stolen under the born on July 6, 1863. Until the telegram from the special cartes- title was conferred on HRE pandens of the Paris Soir. In sula and Oriental Steam Navi-eyes of his nurse by an old Princess Mary a few years ago various parts of the town demon- gation Co., Ltd, for, September man whose limp proved a clue to

strators attacked the police, who A ransom demand she was always known as show that the net voyage in the capture.

were frequently compelled to bring

their Canton friends; while francs immediately Princess Royal for 50,000 come is rather lower at $1,054,-

The Princess nobly carried on fire hose into play in order to

stressing the friendship that had 862 than for the previous year, reached the father, after which

A mysterious epidemic at pre-

undoubtedly existed, had given but the company had a higher the greatest police hunt in the the tradition of her Royal mother, Queen Alexandra, in her devotion

The crowd-succeeded, however.

few real examples of their desire income from investments and history of France began.

to the causes of charity and social

into the sent sweeping Heilungkiang Pre- miscellaneous sources. The Thousands of detectives were service. "She resided for the most in forcing their way

thouse of the former Fremier and fecture around the Kosiran district

has claimed 40 known to be dead Feiping: Accompanied by Gen-to help the Colony, Reuter balance sheet shows a strong drafted in, all shipping was wat part at Coppins, Iver. Bucking position, for not only has the ched, and public feeling was in-hamshire, where she was a fami- Liberal leader, Mahmut Pasha,

actual mortality is higher. It was Fakien Provincial Government, RUBBER QUOTA company

3.316,000 in gilt tense when a radio station broadliaz figure in the social life of the destroying the furniture. The since November 21, though the eral Chen... Chairman of the

reason for Mahmut Fasha being

FOR DEL edged securities Bat the feet cast poignant appeals to the mis-

place.

the object of popular dislike is at first believed to be the white and Mr. Tin Tang, director of the and the fleets of subsidiary creants to treat the child proper-

LAST BULLETIN

Ho. Ying-ching, Minister of Mas, arrived here iste yesterday after. London, Earlier The following understood to be that in conjune plague, but a post mortem dieping-Mukden Railway, Gentral companies are written down by ly, accompanied by detailed in- amounts exceeding the 5 per structions on how to feed him

balletin was issued last night:tion with another former Premier, closed no signs of the plague.

The pestilence is more malig- noon. cent allowance.

The police.combed the town, undi

"Princess Victoria had acute Sidly Pasha, he intended to in-

-(Continued on Page 1-) discovered the baby in a house and severe-haemorrhage from the stitute negotiations for Angio- nant, claiming lives within four The directors comment on the adverse resalts on their steamers occupied by a woman of 63 nam stomach yesterday evening Egyptian co-operation on a broader hours. Women are especially sus-

ed Roland and her 24-year-old Transfusion of blood was per basis than that proposed by the ceptible.

formed, but it has only been of Wald Party,

The troops who had been game the meat trade, and report that they encountered intense competi-

Only on occasions of rare land-temporary benefit The cond

moned from the provincial gaze have of Her Royal Highness is

the recent disorder shion from foreign subsidised lines ings of foreign celebrities

but who were drafted back aga

ied for

of the Government restrictions on

in the Indian and Far Eastern the streets been so packed with cal.".. Dassenger trade.

The shipments to and from

delirious crowds Beuter

Japan were appreciably larger, TRAGIC DEATH OF

with a decrease in exports from "China. The get balance is £156,- *998, which records an improve-

ment of 35,700 – Renter

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stavia To-day. The People's Council has re-

CALIFORNIAN ceived a message from the

SHOOTING

Governor-General announcing an increase in the rubber-quota for the Netherlands Fast Indies:

Mrs. Livermore Faces in 1986 by 57,000. Ibs in 1937

Charge

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by-58,000, and 1938 by 52,000. vidual restriction all round troduced in the course

later message states that +Council is

at