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BRITAIN'S DEFENCE

PROPOSALS

QUESTION OF FINANCE

TO BE SHELVED

POSTPONED TO BUDGET STATEMENT

London, To-day.

In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Neville Chamberlain, replying to Opposition questions concerning the financing of the Govern- ment's defence programmes, said that it would be more appropriate to consider the method of meeting the cost during the budget statement.”

He had not yet decided how the money was to be raised, and Parliament would not have this information during the m- pending defence debate. Owing to the flexible nature and vari- able rate of the execution it was impracticable to state even ap proximately the total cost or the additional cost of upkeep.-

After Major Attlee and Mr. Herbert Morrison had strongly urged that Parliament and the country should not be asked to prove the programme before knowing the cost. Mr. Stanley Bald- win promised to consider the matter.

JAPANESE CABINET

Seven Posts Reported

Accepted

INVESTITURE OF PREMIER THIS AFTERNOON

Tokyo. To-day. Count Kurunei Yuasa for me Minister of the Imperial Household. has accepted the

Seal,

position of Lord Privy and Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira. former Ambassador to London.) the Ministry of the Imperial į Household. The following other posts in the Cabinet have been! accepted:-

Premier: Mr. Koki Hirota:

DEADLOCK REACHED

of the Tokyo: The formation

to-a Hireta Cabinet has come deadlock, owing to the failure to obtain military cc-operation.-- Reuter.

Lt.-Com. R. T. Bower (C.. Cleveland) enquired whether. in view of the Government's programme for imperial defence. Mr. Baldwin would call a con- ference of Dominions and In-

dian representatives, including

Father Neptune has been kicking up of late as this picture, made dur- ing the last Atlantic crossing of the . Ebropa, vividly illustrates.

ESPIONAGE TRIAL AT OLD BAILEY

GERMAN DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE

London, To-day.

Dr. Goertz the German national being tried at the Old the Indian Princes, with a viewBailey on charges of espionage, entered the witness box yester- to the Dominions" and India's day afternoon to give an account of the actions which led to the contributing more materially to charges. Describing his career he said that he received the Iron! the defence of common inter-Cross during the war. ests.

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H.M. VISITS THE "QUEEN MARY

Considerable Interest

Displayed

TOUCHING INCIDENT AT GLASGOW TENEMENT

Glasgow, To-day.

A GUARDSMAN'S MOUSTACHE

The House Has A Day Off

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OFFENSIVE AGAINST RAS NASIBU

DECISIVE VICTORY

EXPECTED

SUCCESS WILL CUT OFF ETHIOPIAN SUPPLY COLUMNS

CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Mogadishu, To-day.

This town, the capital of Somaliland, pre- sents a picture of feverish activity, as the pre- parations are made for what may be the decisive engagement in the campaign.

General Graziani, above. Italian Commander-in-Chief aa the Southern

General Graziani is preparing his great of- fensive against Ras Nasibu, and is expecting a Front, is feverishy preparing for a definite victory.

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Ras Nasibu has not only got the task of prolecting the Dji bouti-Addis Ababa Railway, but also the caravan route from Harrar to Jijiga and to British Somaliland, where all the Abys- sinian provisions come from, so that in the event of his army being defeated the Abyssinians would be cut off from supplies in provisions and war material-

Rome : "The troops of the DEADLOCK IN

AIR MAIL Flights. From Canton Abandoned

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AUTHORITIES UPHOLD OBJECTIONS

"From Our Own Correspondenti.

Canton, To-day.

mana-

large-scale offensive against Ras Nasibu.

HOOLIGANISM

BY STUDENTS

second army corps. pursuing Professor Jeze Again

the fleeing enemy,

reached

Takazze yesterday morning at 15 o'clock," states official War Bulletin No. 147.-Trans-Ocean Service.

(Earlier cables on Abyssinia will be found on Page 10.)

LETTER FROM NEGUS

Proudest Schoolboy In Schweidnitz

- CHINA MAIL " SPECIAL

Breslau, To-day.

Molested

POLICE CALLED OUT

- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day.

The sorely tried Professor Jeze was again the object of

hostile demonstrations yester day, when, on entering the lec- ture room, he was greeted with cries of a deafening din and "Resign." A free fight was then the anti-Jezers staged, and were getting the worst when the door was broken open and reinforcements of the demon- strators came to the assistance

His reputation as a dangerous intelligence officer, mentioned oni Wednesday by the counsel forj the prosecution, was due to his success in obtaining information Owing to the objections of authorities the owing to his hospitable treat-the Canton

to Hanoi to ment of prisoners.

scheduled flight He had always been interested make connection with the in flying, although he was refused Hanoi-Marseilles air service will admission in 1932 to the air force not take place this morning, and on the ground that he was over future flights are definitely off.

The proudest schoolboy in of the losing party. Police had age. He had never applied for! It is not likely that the Minis-

Schweidnitz is one who has again to be called in to restore KING'S REGULATIONS

secret service employment, a try of Communications in Nan-

Professor Jeze was escorted QUESTIONED

though he desired to enter the in-king will grant the franchise to just received a letter from the law and order.

Seto Negus of Abyssinia, and a copy from the building by several po- telligence service (which a Crown the South-west Aviation

of the newspaper Der. Morgentern London. To-day. witness explained did not mean poration, although its

of abuse and jeers from his -His Majesty the King was ac- Guardsman Bursell's mousta- spying).

ger. Mr. Lau Pui-chuen, denied or Morning Star, published in Adlicemen, to the accompaniment

dis Ababa.

enemies, who are mostly Right- companied by Sir Godfrey jche has cost him 28 days' deten-;

that he would soon go to Nan- The

king in this connection.

Some weeks ago the youth, wingers or belong to the "Ac- Collins, Mr. Walter Runciman. tion by Court Martial.

vernacular reports who happens to be a passionate tion Francaise." Trans-Ocean Lord Weir. officials of the sentence was not for refusing to!

"Those builders. John Brown and Co.,shave his moustache. as "Sir-

are groundless," Mr. Lau said. stamp collector, hit on the idea Service Ltd.. and the Cunard-White Victor Warrender, Financial!

"I will go only when I am ap-of writing to the Negus to ask for a copy of some Abyssinian Star Company in his visit yes- Secretary to the War Office. in-

that he terday to the liner

Queen formed a curious House of Com- Berkeley, California To-day-proached by the Ministry."

The local agents of the China newspaper, in order Mary.

mons yesterday afternoon, but The death has occurred of Dr. W. During the inspection His Ma- for refusing to fall in when or- F. Bade, the archaeologist and dis-National Aviation Corporation, might be able to know the exact whose planes undertook the state of affairs in East Africa. Yoshida;

jesty asked repeated questions dered to do so by his command-coverer of the lost city of Mizpah fights in the past, have given The Negus answered promptly, Finance: Dr. Elichi Baba, Pre- about the construction of the ves-ing officer after the latter had in Palestine-Reuter.

hope of continuing complying with the request, the sident of the Hypothee Bank;

whe paper printed in Amharish be sel, the comfort of the passengers sentenced him to 10 days' con- and other particulars, and at the finement to barracks for deslin- COMMUNISTS RETREATING ther it is possible that the ing now on view in the street jend of a visit lasting 24 hours,ing to remove the appendage.

planes may fly from Shanghai window of the local Schweidnitz RUSSO-JAPANESE expressed pleasure at what he had The members of the House Peiping, Today-From Tau-to Hanoi without touching Can-ewspaper. Trans-Ocean Ser-

War-yuanfu an official communique ton, they declared that no such vice. seen, remarking that it was a ship chuckled when Sir Victor RELATIONS

built for utility. It was revealed render added that it was obviously states that the victory over the plan is under contemplation. to His Majesty that the service within the discretion of the com-Reds west of Fenchow is being Owned by the Kwangtung and | Governments, the speed of the liner will be 23 knots.manding officer to order. the re-followed up. The Shansi troops Kwangsi

moval of the moustache because of are carrying all before them and South-west Aviation Corpora its unsoldierly appearance. Ee are meeting with scanty resist-tion has a fleet of six Stinson had been previously ordered to jance. - Reuter.

monoplanes. remove it or to grow it properly.

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Foreign Affairs: Ambassador.

The former Mr. Shigeru

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Unchanged By Tokyo Revolt

Moscow, To-day. The Japanese Ambassador as- sured M. Litvinoff yesterday that the recent events in Tokyo will not affect Japan's foreign policy,) particularly as regards her rela- tions with the Soviet

M. Litvinoff, in his reply, ex-

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N.Y. LIFTMEN'S STRIKE

Further Extension Pending

pressed satisfaction and announc-{ VIOLENCE HAS DIMINISHED

ed the Soviet's readiness to settle

all outstanding questions amic-)

New York, To-day.

ably but he added that the tran- The strike is still unsettled, quility of the Soviet Manchukuo but the violence has diminished.

success Reuter.

PORTO RICO TROUBLE

Seven Nationalists

Arrested

San Juan, Porto Rico, To-day.

DEATH OF FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGIST

up the

service.

Asked

COLD SPELL TO CONTINUE

PREVIOUS LOW RECORD PASSED

FUMORFOPOULOS

COLLECTION

To Be On View At Museum

London, To-day.

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POLÍTICS IN GREECE

War Minister Resigns

- CHINA MAIL"SPECIAL

Athens, To-day. After a lengthy conference of the leading military person- ages, a delegation went to the War Minister, who consequent- ly called on the King and was granted an audience immediate. [ly.

It was subsequently announc- ed that the War Minister, Gen- eral Papagos, and his Under-

In view of the great demand Secretary, General Platis, had

for a prolongation of the Chin- resigned, and that the Party, ese exhibition the Eumorfopon-leader, M. Mextaxas, had been

The cold spell continues to make local history. The minimum los collection of Chinese art will appointed in General Papagos' temperature recorded to-day was at 2'a.m., when the thermometer be on view in its entirety at the place. It is expected that until registered 44.3 degrees Fahrenheit. This is more than a degree Victoria and Albert Museum the election of the President of below the previous low record for March, recorded in 1921.

ter.

within a few weeks, it is an- the Chamber, the situation will calm. Trans-Ocean nounced in a letter to The Times remain signed by Messrs. George Hill Service. and Eric Maclagan.

and Mongolian-Manchukuo fron-New Yorkers have not been seri-] The American authorities have The cold weather is likely to distribution again at nightime.

TIGER SHRINKS

The Times, in a leader, says LORD BEATTY'S tiers was a prerequisite for the ously inconvenienced owing to arrested Pedro Albizu Campos, the continue for a time, we under-

The Kowloon tiger appears to that the exhibition at Burling of any negotiations the presence of substitute lift-President, and six other members stand, the wind continuing to

ILLNESS have abrunk from the coldton House has done so much men The police so far have of the Nationalist Party on a remain in the north-east quar made 90 arrests for assault and charge of recruiting soldiers in a

Quietly behind the scenes the since it was last seen on Sunday (both to awaken and deepen in- FRANCO-SOVIET PACT other offences.

conspiracy to overthrow the Amer- Mr. Bambrick, leader of the ican Government on the island by Tag Wah Hospital authorities morning. An examination of the terest in Chinese art that the Condition Causes Some

at have been sending men out dur-spoors left by the animal reveals Eumorfopoulos collection will Paris, To-day. A favour-union of building employees, force. Bail has been

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ing the past two cold nights dis that it is probably a panther or now be more enjoyed and better able report on the Franco-Rus has ordered preparations for a £2,000 each.

London, To-day, sian Pact was tabled in the further extension of the strike The arrests are a sequel to the tributing Chinese quilts among cheetah, as they are not large understood than it could have Senate by Senator le Trocquer to the midtown Grand Central murder of the American Chief of those street sleepers who have enough to be those of a tiger. been before. All the more rea-}·

containing Police on February 23. The Na-been unable to gain admittance to What the animal will eventually son therefore for showing ap- A bulletin states that Admiral at yesterday's session, so that terminus district,

the balance of the purchase-loadition causes some anxiety- the Senate is now in a position numerous skyscrapers, and also tional Guard units in San Juan the various shelters in the Colony, turn out to be still remains to be preciation by helping to provide Lord Beatty is not so well, and his

Reuter.

Beater. money. (Continues on Page 24) to debate the Pact. -Trans to the boroughs of Queen's have been mobilised in case of The quilts are taken back in the 'seen.

jemergency Benter.

early morning, preparatory · Kor Ocean Service.

Brooklyn Reater.

fixed

Anxiety