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ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT ON ITALO-ABYSSINIAN PEACE TERMS

THE

The

of. scasational decision Kwok Chun-hang, above, to re- tura to Australia and not to go

Berlin to the

Games hoped will be found on page 4 of This isme.

DS WES

AIR LINER CRASHES

BELGIAN MACHINE

WRECKED

SILVER MARKET

COLLAPSE

U.S. TREASURY STOPS

BUYING ORDERS

OFFICIALS REFUSE TO COMMENT

London, Today.

The events in yesterday's silver market areje explained to Reuter by silver circles as follows:

The offerings were more or less considerable, following the attitude adopted by the United States Treasury on Monday. After meeting at the usual time the brokers decided to suspend the session, hoping that America would send buying orders for all the offerings..

On resumption they found that the Treasury, despite re- peated appeals, was not prepared to absorb the offerings but only to buy a limited amount, estimated at one-seventh of the total, at a rate lower than Monday's. The brokers had no alternative bet not to fix prices owing to the rule that all offerings must be absorbed for the fixing of prices.

The American Army and Marine Corps are learning lemons in war from the Italian campaign in Ethiopia, with these men acting as their observers: Ɑ. tační). Maj: Norman Fiske, Army; Col. Pedro de Vallee Marine Corpa: Capt: John Meade, Army. Meanwhile, the General Staff in Washington is reported to be fighting the war on paper to benefit from the Italian and Ethiopian mistakes.

Well-informed outside quarters intimated that the greater POLITICAL MANOEUVRE

part of the offerings were for forward silver. It was understood that America was willing to buy 2,000,00) ounces spot at 283⁄41⁄2 whereas the brokers received selling orders for 5.000,000 ounces. (The forward offerings were estimated to be in the region of

32.000.000 ounces.

Washington: In the tempor

ALL ELEVEN PERSONS ON Jary absence of Mr. Henry Mor-

BOARD-KILLED

GRAPHIC TALE BY EYE-WITNESS

London. To-day.

A passenger airliner on the Brussels to London run crashed at Tastfield, Kent, last night,. the machine being completely wrecked. All eleven passengers, including a crew of three, were killed The dead include two Englishmen, one of them Sir) John Carden" --

The airliner belonged to the Belgian Sabina Air Line

genthau. Treasury officials-yes-. terday refused to comment on the collapse of the London sil- ver market owing to the lack of bayers, but it is learned that Mr. Morgenthan was fully in- formed of the situation, which brokers attribute to the absence of offers from the United States. [Continued on Page &)

New York Circles

.

In Dark

NO OPINIONS VENTURED

New York, Later: Local silver

It is circles are completely in the dark

understood that the Belgian State anent the silver situation and de-

is the chief shareholder in the cline to venture any opinion pend- Sabina company.

The pilot and

ing further developments.. three members of the crew were all Belgians. In addition to two It is understood that yester- British passengers, it is under-day's Treasury bids on the London stood that the plane carried Your market were so ridieniously low as Germans, two of them women, to preclude the fixing of the price, and one Belgian passenger.

WING HITS TREETOPS

are

of the metal in London.

Meanwhile, unless buyers Later: The crash occurred at found on the New York market, the summit of Pitsie Hill, near there will be no price fixed for Bigginhill air station beacon. The foreign silver in New York. machine was flying low, appar ently because of an ice formation. on the wings.

The people of the neighbour hood saw one wing crash into the treetops on a small hill. The wing

the

LOCAL INTEREST New York, Later: With show its hand, local observers are Treasury apparently unwilling to

inclined to the view that the pre-

In the temporary absence of Mr. Henry Morgenthan, above, U.S. Treasury officials yesterday refused to comment on the col- lapse of the London river market.

FIGHTING ENDS AT KUYUAN

Manchukuo Troops Still In Vicinity

Beiping, To-day.

BY POWERS?

ROME AWAITS DEVELOPMENTS

Paris, To-day.

ONLY FIRST STEP ON DIFFICULT PATH

EDEN OUTLINES THREE

MAIN PRINCIPLES

SUBMISSION TO LEAGUE BEFORE

PUBLICATION

London, To-day. In the House of Commons the Labour mem- bers insisted on a division against the Address, as a protest against the reported Paris peace pro- posals, but the motion was defeated by 281 votes to 139. Mr. Anthony Eden previously described the press reports as most inaccurate

The principle that any proposals must be acceptable to the League, Italy and Abyssinis remains the policy of the British Government, declared Mr. Anthony Eden in the House of Comez mons, replying to Labourite criticism on the reported París pro- posals

Mr. Lees-Smith, the spokesman of Labour, had declared first if only half of what had been reported was correct it was a COD- tradiction of the League Covenant and the abandonment of the foundation on which the Government had fought the election.

Mr. Eden, replying, again affirmed

the aforementioned GIFT OF GOLD FROM statement of policy and em-| phasised that the Paris propo

AIR MINISTRY sals were only the first step in a

Kilogrammes Taken At Fete In Rome

The optimism prevailing here since the announcement of the long and complicated enter-60 Franco-British agreement about the basis of the plan for the prise. He said that the three settlement" of the Abyssinian conflict declined considerably yes main principles on which the terday. For though the press reports frome Rome agree that proposals were hissed were Signor Mussolini is inclined to accept the Franco-British proposals

(1) An exchange of “territory

PORE SACRIFICES ALI

BECORA

as a basis for negotiations, at which he would try to get still definitely advantageou to beth; further concessions, the news from London seems to confirm the

(2) Lengue, assistance tuvas fear of far-reaching differences inside the British Cabinet itself. Ethiopia for the purpose of so

The fact that after a talk with

įcial, economic and administrative] Mr. Eden, Mr. Stanley Baldwin yes-

developments; 20

Some 60 kilögr (3). Special facilities for Italian help the cause of the fatherland in

caf gold day evening suddenly rate for settlers and companies in connee the Abyssinian confiet was col- Cabinet meeting to deliberate furtion with economic developmentalected yesterday in all parts of ther on the Paris plan caused great Mr. Eden described many press Italy, during the celebration of the

NEW COMMUNIST SLOGAN

"Going North To Fight The Japanese"

NOW NATIONAL HEROES

[From: Our Own Correspondent)

astonishment here. One serious

+

not only requires the approval of

difficulty seems to be that Mz reports as most inaccurate and fete of the Madonna of Lorette, Eden insists that the Paris plan He said it was impossible at pre- The Under-Secretary for Aviation others as mutually contradictory-the Patron Saint of airmanship: the League of Nations but also of sent to publish the proposals. It handed the gold contribution from the Negus before it will have the Would be imprecedeted to publish is of the Ministry and the

them before they were commun aviators of Haly to the capital. endorsement of the British Cabinet

cated to the principals or the League.

SETBACK TO SETTLEMENT Canton, To-day: This, according to French We're going North to fight opinion, considerably reduces the chances of success because it is the Japanese; so give us your not believed that the Negus will support. This was the slogan consent to such great territoria! of the Communists in Western secessions The expectation here Huzna when they broke was that the British Governmen

would exert increasing pressure through the cordon of Govern on the Emperor to enforce mis ment troop and escaped into assent, whereupon the Franco- Kweichow.

British solidarity in Geneva would They have made sugar-coated have sufficed to overcome all op- promises to the villagers along position that might arise from the the Hanan-Kweichow borders that smaller States.

The Italian post- EFÄnnunzio, whom the Itakan people regard as the conqueror of Fiume, has sacri-

DEVONPORT SABOTAGE CASES feed all his gold medals and orders

CONFIRMED

London, to-day--An Admiraly statement confirms that zwo cases of sabotage occurred on the sub- marine Oberon and the battleship. Royal Oak at Devonport. I adds that enquiries are proceed- ing, and it is not in the public interest to make a statement at present-Reuter.

Eto the cause of his country Amang the collection sent to Signor Mussolini is the Grand Cross of a British Order: conferred on kim during the war.

CLASH NEAR ADDI ENCATO The 67th Italian war bulletin states that on the Eritrean front the Italian sections at the Talazze River and the neighbourhood south jok Addi Pacato emme into collision

with ENO QUESTION OF FORCE

2. grimp, of armed “ Abys- “We have never said that either sinians, whom they dispera'd with party must accept the proposals," bayonet charge, leaving 15 dead, he continued. "We are not seek-while the Italian konser were two

they are going to Hopei to dzive That the League of Nations out the invaders and kill the would endorse the Paris plan if A message from Kalgan bogus autozomists." Such publ it were rejected by the Negus appeared to fall and the machine sent impasse is a result of the states that fighting has ceased city overnight turns the once considered here out of the ques we were charged to find by com and five Askaris killed. Trans-

staggered. The pilot apparently

tried to gain height, but crashed and the machine was completely wrecked Parts littered the woods: for about 100 yards around

into national

tion.

ing to impose them on anyone. native non-commissioned officers

Chinese attempts to acquire for-at Kuyuan. but Manchukuo fiendish Reds

munications with the parties con- Ocean Service. in exchange by heavy silver troops are still facing Pabant heroes, and gullible but patriotic M. Laval leaves for Geneva - offerings in London

The Paoantui casualties are tex clothes to the outlaws.

Peasants are giving rice and win day, and Mr. Eden also. If both cerned whether it was possible to

Ministers travel by the same train find a basis on which the peace declaration from France that the It is felt that the problem stated to be 13 wounded, all of

they will have the opportunity for negotiations should be possible proposals must be acceptable to volved is whether or not the Trea-

Nanking troops in Kweichow an exchange of opinions again the principles of the League Co as to Italy. The ageement reach- If the proposals are contrary to the League and the Negus as well whom have An eye-witness related that he sury shall "Hold the Bag" at-a

been taken to claim that the Communists have before the resumption of the provenant it is for the League to sayed gave satisfaction to the British heard the noise of the crash and level convenient to Nanking and Changpei for treatment, retreated to Western Human, buz rushed out of the house. He saw to the Hong Kong Government- Reuter,

in view of the consorship the a mass of crumpled fabrics and Reuter

whereabouts of the marauders is not exactly known Press reports state that their total strength is about 20,000 men, with 15,000 Įrifles, some machine guns and big

swords.

steel and assisted in getting some

of the bodies out

We were able to get five-out,"

he said. "One woman was, decs- pitated and the other occupants were badly crushed by portions

No Quotations Fixed Yesterday

London: The Silver, Market was

of the machine" The well-known agam disorganised yesterday. At

engineer-designer-of-Carden-aero-)

the opening there was a slump in the cash quotation of fine silver to

engines also participated in the 29 per ounce, s fall of 25/16d

design of many tanks.--Eenter.

FINLAND TO PAY DEST

·HISTALMENT TO USA

S.W. LEADERS RETURN

Leaving Shanghai To-day

A semi-official report says that the Reds have returned to Hung Kiang in South-western Hunan. They have considerable rice, as they have just harvested the

Shanghai, Today. from the previous day's price,

The South-west members crops. whilst the three months forward who attended the Knomintang price of fine silver was a nominal

Congress are leaving for Ca pension of dealings for this afternoon by

President Kinley

WEATHER REPORT

The anticycl -intensity-and-co.

(Continued on Page 9)

FLOODS IN TEXAS

HOUSTON STREETS UNDER WATER

so. If it does we shall not com Government. Iplain,

According to one French source "We are ready to accept its the modifications fmally agreed judgment, just as we have been upon & comprise involving a con- ready to take our part in this siderable diminution of unwelcomed task. I go to Geneva

ritory in Tire to be to-morrow because the policy of Italy and a modific of the the British Governmen

Log Italian rights in the territories based on member

rwa open for but fostering, under

Negua

League. I shall

colleagues from

Houston, Texas, To-day. Seven people are drowned and to determine the

AGREEMENT

20 missing as a result of the worst fablish peace and foods in the history of the city authority of the Swollen by heavy raina, the Buffalo Bayou Biyer overflowed its banks and rushed a whirling tor, trent" through "the

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