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TROOP REINFORCEMENTS FOR REVOLT-STRICKEN PALESTINE

The situation in Palestine con- tinues to be serious and the high Commissioner. Sir Arthur Wau- chepe, above, has requested that troop reinforcements there from Egypt.

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"QUEEN MARY AT CHERBOURG King's Message Of Good Wishes

AMERICA DEEPLY INTERESTED

Cherbourg, To-day.

The liner Queen Mary, on her maiden voyage across the At lantic, has arrived. The King sent a message to the Captain, Sir Edgar Britten, with all good; wishes for a successful maiden

voyage. Sir Edgar replied that he was greatly honoured, and His Majesty's kind message of good wishes was highly appre- ciated.

Later: The Queen Mary sail- ed at 12.35 p.m. yesterday.

AMERICA INTERESTED New York: America is very deeply interested in the Queen Mary. The sailing was featur- ed in every newspaper and broadcast throughout the coun- dry. The broadcasting panies made unprecedented ar rangements to give hour by hour accounts from every con- ceivable angle through micro-

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DRUG TRAFFIC IN NORTH CHINA

DRACONIAN METHODS

BY AUTHORITIES

JAPANESE CO-OPERATION SOUGHT AT GENEVA

Geneva, To-day.

Altogether 970 persons. were sentenced to death-and shot in China in 1935 for violation of the laws prohibiting trading in and consumption of manufactured drugs, stated Mr. Victor Hoo at la meeting of the League Opium Committee yes- terday afternoon, during the discussion on the Inarcotic situation in China.

Mr. Hoo outlined the measures enforced by the Central Poli- tical Committee of the Kuomintang, and added: "The life of the nation depends on the struggle against drugs, which we must| fight to the bitter end."

He was informed that draconian methods had been adopted to restrict the activities of clandestine factories and traffickers in manufactured goods wherever the problem was not complicated by factors outside the control of the Chinese authorities. The biggest difficulty, which was at present insoluble without the collaboration of other countries, was the action of certain for-

TENSION INCREASED IN LAST 24 HOURS ALL TELEPHONE LINES DESTROYED

BOMB OUTRAGES IN JAFFA

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Jerusalem, To-day. The situation in Palestine has become still more serious in the last 24 hours, British troops coming frequently into armed conflict with small groups of rebellious Arabs in all parts of the coun- try. The British High Commissioner has re- quested reinforcements from Egypt, as the pre-. sent British troops in Palestine are too weak to cope with the situation. News received here states that one section of the mixed formations with small armoured-cars left Cairo for Haifa yesterday.

The Arabs have destroyed the telephone lines everywhere. Troop transports from Jerusalem to Haifa are continuously be ing shot at from the rear. The situation in Nablus is so grave that British women and children are leaving the town for Jeru- Led to Jerusalem. The chief aim of the Arabs for the time being seems to be to bring the freight transports to a standstill. The road between Jerusalem and Haifa is the continual scene of sur- prise attacks.

President Roosevelt is shown above as be addressed 2,000 Democratic salem. Numerous Jewish colonists have left their farms and eigners in taking advantage of their privileged position to instalwarts at the National Democratic Club's Jefferson Day dinner in New dulge in the trade in drugs on a vast seale, paralysing by the York last month. Be pledged the New Deal to fight for higher wages for manufactured drugs concerned the effects of the Chinese mea- the workers and more income for farmers. sures. The situation was still very grave in certain parts of China, especially North China.

JAPANESE TROOPS IN

NORTH CHINA

Explanation Of Increase Rejected

By Nanking Government

Nanking, To-day.

The Chinese Government has rejected the Japanese explaria- tion of the recent increase of Japanese troops in North China, as due to the "unstable condi

It has instructed tions" there. the Chinese Ambassador Tokyo to make further repre- sentations on the master-Reu-

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SABOTAGE AT NAVAL YARDS

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Mr. Lyall, the British assessor on the committee, stated that the Changli district in the de- militarised Zone had opium shops. The Governor at- tempted to deal with the situa Lion, but as the majority of the

shops were run by Japanese, he | was removed for being anti-' Japanese.

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QUEER COINCIDENCE Cherbourg, later: The Queen Mary took or £2,500,000 worth of gold bullion the amount as the Mauretania car- ried on her maiden voyage in 1907, when she won the Blue Beu- Riband of the Atlantic. - ter.

HUGE CROWDS London: Crowds estimated at 3) quarter of a million thronged the Southampton dock, the shores of Southampton Water and the heights of the Isle of Wight and packed the decks of every avail-

Contemplated

London, To-day

The formal investigation of the alleged acts of sabotage in the Admiralty dockyards did not reveal who was directly responsible, states Lord Stan- Jey. Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, in a written reply to Mr. W. Gallacher (Com. W. Fife). Therefore no disciplinary action will be taken against anyone in con- nection

matter.-- with the Reuter.

able steamer and motor boat, and FILIPINO PLANE

The

aeroplanes flew overbead as the; liner Queen Mary cast off and moved slowly from her berth at 3.32 pm GMT. yesterday. manoeuvre was carried out per-i fectly and in less than quarter of- an hour. Then the great vessel, dwarfing all the craft she passed. gathered way and moved rapidly towards the sea.

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FLIGHT

DEPARTURE AGAIN POSTPONED

Manila, To-day.

The departure of the Filipino plane Laoag has been further (postponed to to-morrow morning.i

-Reuter.

He said that most of the 323 opium dens in Amoy and 3191 by Foochow were Japanese subjects, nearly all Formosans. "If the Chinese people become convinced that Japan is chiefly blameworthy for lives wrecked by heroin the hatred engendered may last for generations.”

He recalled that the Opium War

According to the official communication of the High Coin- missioner, a number of bombs were thrown in Jaffa on Tuesday

TROOP TRANSPORTATION and sterday morning.

TO ADDIS ABABA

ITALIAN PLAN FRUSTRATED BY

RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Djibouti, To-day.

Cairo: "A Committee for the

aid of Palestine" was formed¦ TRAIN ATTACKED BY BANDITS yesterday. Three resolutions were "adopted

Thirteen People Killed And

(1) To lodge a protest against the measures of the British Mandatory Govern- ment;

(2) To support the Arabs in their struggle;

(3) To send a commission to

The Italian plan to transport a large number of soldiers from Palestine to study the situation Diredawa to Addis Ababa by rail had to be abandoned because on

the

of the resistance offered by the railway administration. Despite Service. this the railway administration has its hands full in coping with the immense quantities of material, particularly benzine, which the Italian anthorities want carried with all possible speed.

Rome: Describing In the first week after the occa-j

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CASUALTY LIST

Thirteen

Ten Wounded

Earbin, To-day.

killed people were and 10 wounded when 100 ban- dits attacked and derailed & train on the Muling line, which is a branch of the Harbin- *he Pogranitchnaya railway. dead include two Japanese army captains-Reuter

Jerusalem: The casualties in MORE STRIKES IN

the plan the disturbances since April 19

au-are reported to show that pation of Addis Ababa the Italian worked out by the Italian of 1839 had embittered the Anglo-authorities paid railway thorities for the systematic oc- European has been killed and 17 charges for freight 500,000 cupation of Abyssinia, the news-injured, including seven British Chinese relations for nearly century, and appealed to Japan French francs, and in the current papers here state that the Libyan police officers, two soldiers and not to make the same mistake. week the freight charges have al-and Somali troops are marching eight civilians. Twenty-four Jews 100,000 French to Lake Stephani, which is cut by and 22 Moslems have been killed, The Japanese d'elegate, Mr. ready

which must be paid in the Kenya frontier. For the con- and two Christians. The injured Hotta, stated that the Japanese francs, authorities were not well inform-cash before. the goods will be rail-struction of a network of roads, include 182 Moslems, 105 Jews and ed on the subject. The Japanese ed to the destination. Government would make every ef-¦ == fort to clear up the matter.-Reu- ¡ter.

JAPANESE CONSULAR CHANGES

Shanghai, To-day. It is understood that Mr. Kawai, Consul-General at Can- Lon, will shortly be transferred to Shanghai, to succeed Mr. Ishii, who will be appointed Jap-

Siam. anese Minister to Reuter.

NEW ORDER IN INDIA

Provincial Autonomy From Next Year

London, To-day. The date April 1, 1937, has

of provincial autonomy in In-l dia under the new constitution [

INTERCHANGE OF Pilipino aviators, Antonio, rain been fixed for the introduction

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WHERE THE MONEY GOES

Huge Finance Programme

In America

Washington, To-day. Mr. Henry A Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, an- nounces that he is asking for $1,000,000,000 28 additional money in the middle of June to finance the programme which will be

on June 1. This amount, together with $1,050,000,000 in refunding offer- ings, will bring the total amount of the financing, to $2,050,000,000, one of the largest ever Soated is peace time--Renter.

announced

BUDGET SECRETS

LEAKAGE Sequel To Recent Enquiry

FRANCE Staying-In Tactics Adopted

AUTHORITIES CONCERNED

Paris, To-day. "Government circles are most (which, roughly speaking, will fol-44 Christians. Some 969 Arabs and

Low the old Abyssinian highways, 275 Jews have been arrested, the concerned at the extension of 30,000 Italians and 70,000 native majority of whom are accused of the strike in engineering works

It is breaking the curfew order. workers will be employed.

MORE TROOPS planned to construct the roads so that even during the rainy season they will be passable.

around Paris and other parts of France, especially the evolution London: It is learned that the of a staying-in strike, which is despatch of another battalion a new phenomenon in France. from Egypt to Palestine, has been A spectacle symptomatic of it authorised-Beuter.

is the stream of workmen's wives and daughters stagger- RUMOURS DENIED

the factories under London: An official communique ring to

MEDICAL PRECAUTIONS It is reported that Marshal Graziani, to accelerate the deve lopment and in order to safeguard the population of Abyssinia issued in Jerusalem denies that bundles of clothing, bedding The staying-in tactics are de- against epidemics, has issued twojany British soldier has been kill and provisions.

course of the distur decrees, one appointing an eco-jed in the nomic advisory Committee which bances. Denial is also given to signed to prevent the former employers engaging blackleg will deal with all applications for the report in circulation to the ef- labour. The strikers are permits to start new companies, fect that a police patrol had beencouraged to resist by the fact and secondly, a decree which surrounded by a mob at Gaza and that 2,000 workers in the The communi-Hotchkiss works at La Vallois allows for measures for the pro-[severely beaten.

The que records sporadie outbreaks of obtained satisfaction of their motion of general health. whole native population is to re-lawlessness in the preceding 24 demands. The larger works at ceive free medical treatment, and hours, but the only casualty has present, involved include the hospitals are to be put up and be been the accidental killing of an Nieuport aeroplane works, the available to Abyssinians without Arab watchman by an Arab con- Salmson aviation factory at Boulogne-sur-Seine, the Renault payment. Veterinary institutes, stable in the village of Lydda.

The administration of the Pale-works and the Hispano-Suiza tine Mandate is on the agenda of factory. Reuter. the League Mandates commission, the half-yearly session of which the opened at Geneva yesterday. A

The ridge of high pressure re-elected as President has partially dispersed, leaving

chemical and bactereological laboratories are also to be in- stalled-Trans-Ocean Service.

EMPEROR'S VISIT London: Questioned

WEATHER REPORT

Earlier messages said that two

and Juan Calvo, who were plan-

London, To-day. ning to take off from Laoag, North: land for the separation of Mr. Leslie Thomas, son of Luzon, for Hong Kong yesterday Barma. Draft Orders in Coun- the former Colonial Secretary, on the first leg of their fight to cil will be considered by Parlia- has resigned his partnership in House of Commons yesterday re-press message says that the com- Madrid, would establish the record mert after Whitsun. They also Belisha and Co, in connection garding the arrangements for the mission of being the first Filipinos in his-provide for the distribution of with the alleged leakage of reception of the Emperor of the Italian member, Marches a weak anti-cyclone to the east Meeting Mr. Ethiopia, who is on his way to Theodoli, who is attending despite of Japan. The depression re- own certain revenues between the budget secrets.

Centre and the Provinces, for J. H Thomas, the election com-the United Kingdom, the Foreign Italy's abstension from League mains over Manchuria and 20- Their plane was named the grants-in-aid for certain pro-mittee of Derby manimously Secretary replied that the Em-work, since all the members of the other covers the Southern Phi- each other's tickets on sea and air "Philippines Commonwealth," and vinces, as recommended in the reaffirmed their complete con-peror was coming at his own recommission are appointed in their lippines. The local forecast for lines has been reached at the they hoped to reach Hong Kong recent Niemayer Report, and fidence in and loyalty to him, quest and incognito and no ques-personal capacity and not as re-to-day, as issued by the Royal

for plenary conference between the within five hours:

a transitional period be- hoping that he would continuetion of ceremonial reception there presentatives of their respective Observatory this morning, is-

winds, moderate; British and Dutch air and sea They would carry mails as far tween the present and the new to represent the constituency.fore arose British Wireless Ser-Governments. British Wireless north-east

cloudy, occasional rain. las Hong Kong. lines-Renter.

regimes.

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The Hague, To-day.

tory to fly begond

An agreement for a new inter-shores. change arrangement to honour

their

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