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NATIONAL DEFENCE WILL COME BEFORE

Winifred Bayer, aged 15, re- ceived an approving kiss from her mother before her parachute jump at Mineola, Long Island.

BALANCED BUDGET

KWANGSI FLIERS Supplementary Estimates Being Issued To-morrow

DESERT

FURTHER DEFECTIONS TO

NANKING

CONFIRMATION OF REPORT UNOBTAINABLE IN CANTON

(From A Special Correspondent)

Canton, To-day.

According to Japanese reports current in Shanghai, 12 fighting planes of the Kwangsi Air Force have also deserted and joined the Central Air Force at Changsha. Confirmation of this story from Canton is unavailable owing to the

last month, but the law stepped rigid press censorship there.

in to ensure her safety and arrest her father on a charge of endan- gering the safety of a minor.

ITALIAN FLIERS AMBUSHED Eight Or Nine Officers Killed

Colonel Lam Wai-shing, Superintendent of the Kwangsi Aviation School in Liuchow, is re- ported missing and is believed to have left Liu- chow for an unknown destination. He was for- merly commanding officer of the Kwangsi Air Force with the rank of Brigadier-General, but this post has now been abolished.

Canton planes are now back from all the bor- der towns. Each machine carries sufficient pe- Rome, Today.trol for only half an hour's flight, so that it may nine Italian officers not fly to Changsha to join the Nanking air force. were killed when three acroplanes Large sums of money were given to the 20 de- which left Addis Ababa for Jama serting Canton airmen by the Central Authori

Eight or

province were ambushed on land- mig. The news lacks official con- firmation, but the victims are said to include the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force in East Africa and also Colonel Antonio Locatelli, who made the first flight over the Andes in 1919 and also many flights over Greenland and the Antarctic. Reuter.

BANDITS IN HUPEH

Missionary Being Searched For

ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE

CONTACT

Hankow, To-day.

Mr. G. Tonner, of the Swedish

ties.

KWANGTUNG AIRMEN'S

GESTURE"

Great Moral Victory For Central Government

Nanking. To-day. The nine seroplanes deserting from the Kwangtung ́ air force landed yesterday at Nanking. The airmen called on the authori- ties and pledged their loyalty to Government. The the Central restare is regarded as a great moral victory for the Govern ment-Reuter.

DISAPPOINTED PETITIONERS

RETURNING TO CANTON

Mission, and Mr. A. E. Carlsson, PRESENCE IN NANKING WOULD

of the Norwegian

Mission, are

leaving Hankow this morning en route to Macheng in East Eupeh,

to endeavour to make contact with Mr. K. L. Samset.

are

BE EMBARRASSING

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

As the shipping companies in Hong Kong are informed that the

It is alleged that 200 bandits 300-Canton representatives for

stationed

the to

east of Shanghai cannot land there and

Macheng near the border-Beuter. that therefore they may not sell An earlier, message said that tickets to them, these petitioners the Norwegian missionary, Mr. Kwill be back in Canton this after- L Samset, Superintendent of the noon from Kowloon by train. Norwegian Mission at Laohoukow

The representatives, whe in- in Northern Hupeh, who was cap-tended to go to Nanking to urge tured by bandits on June 5, had the Central Authorities to fight been located by a local magistrate Japan, were told that whatever 20 miles from Macheng, in north-proposals they have may be sub- mitted through the five South- east Hupel

west C. E. C. members, who ar The magistrate was endeavour-rived at Shanghai this morning. ing to establish contact with the Mr. Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese missionary, who, presumably, was Ambassador to China, is now dis

Nanking's plan is not so much to secure more machines at the expense of Kwangtung and Kwangsi as to discredit the two' provinces on the eve of the se cond plenary session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee. Shanghai reports indicate that General Chiang Kai-shek, head of the National Government, is making every effort to secure control of the South-west.

The plenary session will open on Friday, July 10. Officially the object of the session is to devise ways and means to fight Japan, but Nanking sources are frank enough General Chiang wants to assert to admit that his control over Kwangtung and Kwangsi

STRIKE IRONY IN FRANCE SA

Directors Detained In Their Own Works

“CHINA MAIL", SPECIAL Paris, To-day. Another incident in the strike situation, not entirely. without irony, occurred at the Citroen, works, when two of the directors, who came there expressly to try and reach a settlement, were taken prison- er by the workmen and are being kept in their own

works-Trans-Ocean Service.

who has donated some

OVER SIX MILLIONS

FOR ARMY

NAVAL REQUIREMENTS

NOT DISCLOSED

TEN MILLIONS FOR THE RAF.

London, To-day.

Heavy supplementary estimates for the Navy, Army and Air Force are being issued to- morrow, bespeaking the Governmental anxiety at the European situation and the need of speed- ing up the national defences.

The supplementary amount for the Army That for will be between six and seven millions. the Royal Air Force is expected to be in the neighbourhood of £10,000,000, while the naval re- quirements are not disclosed.

The developments in the European situa- tion, it is learned, have convinced the Ministers of the urgency of national defence, which must take precedence over all other considerations;

Reuter. including a balanced budget.

Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the man £100,000,000 to charitabic institutions, is 97 to-day. Our picture. It seems that it was not all) was taken on the 96th birthday.

"MRANTHONY EDEN INDISPOSED

Lord Halifax In Charge Of Foreign Affairs

London, To-day. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, on medical ad- vice, is taking a week's rest in the country. Lord Halifax (Lord Privy Seal) in the meantime takes over the direc- tion of foreign affairs. — Reuter.

TRAGIC DEATH

Fractured Skull After 50-Ft. Fall

Mr. T. B. Oei, a Javanese Chin- jese, aged 34, was found dead with

terday..

ROYAL ROMANCE AT AN END: Count Covadonga Sues -For Annulment

CROSS-SUIT BY COUNTESS

together irony, when the Ita-

lian papers stated that the CONFERENCE AT indifferent. As the newspa

raising of sanctions left Italy

explain the imposing of sanc- stione compelled Taly bodd

up emirely closed

economic system, -a which is now irreversible, even if Italy desired it. For in- stance, vast sums were" cast into the building of new plants to produce synthetic raw mat

*)

MONTREUX

Italy Rus

* CHINA, HAIT," SPECIAL"

Montreux, To-day.

Since Italy has now definitely decided not to take part in the deliberations, the other Powers are speeding up the business with --

New York, To-day. · Proceedings for the annulmenterials. Italy cannot afford to of his marriage are being filed to annihilate such capital day in the Supreme Court of New The fact that Italy's reserves of York County by Count Covadonga, gold and foreign currency are very a view to bringing it to an end as the former Prince of the Asturias, substantially reduced means that soon as possible.

It had been assumed that on on the ground that the Countess, Italy will only import when the: the 27-year old daughter of & country concerned is prepared to wealthy Spanish sugar-planter, take goods for payment. If for receiving the news that sanctions has violated her pre-marriage|eign business thus assumes some would be lifted on July 15, Italy of barter, it is essential would immediately send a repre- agreement to live in America and form care for the Count's delicate that other countries must not try

health, in return for his renuncia- to force Italy to accept the goods sentative. Instead, however, Italy tion of his rights to the Spanish she can do without, or can produce raised a new issue, namely, the

throne.

The Countess is alse petitioning |

herself.

for a divorce, on the ground of — incompatibility of temperament.

The reports of a romance be a fractured skull on the concrets tween the Count and the 22-year- tennis-court at the Home for the old as Marta Rocafort, daugh- Sind, Pokfulam, at 11 p.m. yester of a Cuban dentist and former The artists' model, are denied. Count has declared that he does The deceased was in a party coming from Aberdeen in car No. not intend to marry agaîn— 767. The car stopped near the Reuter. Home for the Blind and he got out).

and wandered along the road over the en- Apparently he fell bankment, striking his head on the tennis court 50 feet below.

The deceased was the son of the Imanaging director of the Chima and South Seas Bank, des Voeux Road.

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Moves Into Its New Premises

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London, To-day. The Imperial War Museum yes- terday removed into its new home

BOW TO PUBLIC OPINION

It is learned that the proposed banning of bathing

tents from certain parts of the Repulse Bay Beach will be dropped, at the second reading of the bill exact- ing this legislation before the Legislative Commeil.

The semi-official Giornale d'Italia writes: “Every country that wants Ito sell to Italy must buy from Italy, and not insist on selling Italy a thing she does not need, or she can do without, or can produce herself."

BRITAIN'S ANXIETY

right of Great Britain fo-maintain the so-called Mediteranean agree- ments, providing for mutual help in the event of Italy attacking cer- tain islands in the Mediterranean. The conference continued its de- liberations yesterday without, however, coming to

any conclu- sions.—Trans-Ocean Service.

SENATE VOTES CONFIDENCE French Home Policy Approved

Paris, To-day. The Senate, by 230 votes to 1, passed a vote of confidence in the As for the political situation. Government, yesterday, after hear

formerly used for the Bethlehemtion to the increasing aiziety of ment's home policy: The Minister Hospital Originally the war tro-the British people about the safety of Interior declared that the phies were stored in the Crystal of the Empire. Palace.

BALANCE OF POWER IN in the building on Lambeth Road the Lavoro Fascista draws atten- ing an exposition of the Gover

DARDANELLES

still in the hands of the handita. {cussing matters pertaining to GERMANY DISPLAYS SOME CONCERN

Cancerning the attack on the Sino-Japanese co-operation. In motor-bus

on

which Rev. Mr. spite of Japanese pressure for

HRH the Take of York, who fin chairman of the executive.com- mittee of the Museum, visited the London, To-day. -- Germany's concern over the Dardanelles new premises in the afternoon and Samset and Chinese passengers, ciag General Sing Chek-yuan, discussion was voiced recently by Baron von Neurath, Foreign inspected the exhibits, in order to were travelling, a Chinese report Chairman of the Hopel-Chahar Po-Minister, in an interview with Sir Erie Phipps, British Ambassa give his approval before they are said that the bus was on its way litical Council, to become inde dor. He stated that if Soviet warships were given unrestricted shown to the public. Reuter's from Fancheng to Hankow. The pendent, high Manking officials are access to the Mediterranean the balance of power might be mat-Bulletin Service bandits killed five passengers and on cordial terms with Ambassador erially altered, as some French forces could be transferred from

Kwagoc.

the Mediterranean to the North Sex In these circumstances the E number of the latter were also

For this reason, the presence of Anglo-German naval treaty might be compromised injured." The fandits burned the bas after robbing all the passen- 300 representatives in Nanking The contrary view is taken in London, where it is pointed Soldiers arrived on the urging Genera! Chiang Kai-abek out that the Soviet naval building programme is at present only scene and exchanged shots with to fight Japan would be most em- one of replacement, and only abnormal construction by the other the bandits, killing a number of harrassing to the Central Author Powers would give Germany the right to call for a revision

the Anglo-German tresty, — Renter.

pers.

them

The rate at which Britain is rearming has increased to - an astonishing degree, but the ariety in mumistakable that a conflict might yet kuzak out before the British rearmament

is completed, says the paper.

Government would no longer tol erate stay-in strikes Renter.

TYPHOON WARNING

A message received at the American Consulate General· The conclusion to which the from the Manila Observatory Italian press comes is that zone this morning states that at 8.35 of the questions in Europe can beam, to-day a typhoon was sit DEATH OF FORMER SOVIET solved without the co-operation ofnated in about Longitude 180

Loscow, Today The death

red of M CH

for

| Italy Trans-Ocean: Service,

Sport cables will be found on

E Latitude 15, N., moving north-west_

This position is about 500 miles east of Lazon Island, wel out in the open sea.