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COMMODORE

PROMOTED

REAR-ADMIRAL SEDGWICK

Information has been re-

ceived that Commodore C. G. Sedgwick, above, is promoted to Rear-Admiral, to date from July 19, 1936, and is placed on the retired list, dated July 20. 1936.

It is probable that he will

APPREHENSION IN SOUTH-WEST

But France Alone

PLENARY SESSION OPENS TO-DAY

RESOLUTIONS UNFAVOURABLE TO KWANGTUNG? `

"From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, Today. Apprehension is felt here that the second plenary session of the Kuomintang C.E.C, to be held in Nanking to-day, may pass resolutions unfavourable to the South-west.

It is possible that General Chiang Kai-shek's supporters will introduce resolutions. ordering the dissolution of the South-west

Political Council and the Kuomintang South-west Executive Com- mittee, and reorganisation of the Kwangtung and Kwangsi armies by placing them under the direct control of General Chiang.

The plenary session is to rally national resources against Japan, and if it is utilised to bring pressure to bear on the South- west, suitable measures will be taken here to cope with the situa tion, it is learned.

Meanwhile, a Wuchow report states that families of high

continue to carry out his pre- REORGANISATION Kwangsi officials are moving to

sent duties until he is relieved in the normal course of time, namely in about March, 1937.

TYPHOON SIGNAL LOWERED FILLING UP NEAR AMOY

When the No. 1 Typhoon signal was hoisted yesterday,

IN CANTON?

OFFICIALS WIVES IN COLONY

CHANGES EXPECTED

A baby son has been born to me parents of the Dionne quintu- plets. Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, above. at Callender. Ontario.

DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR C.E.C. SESSION

DEMONSTRATIONS FORBIDDEN

ALL PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING

Nanking, To-day.

Hong Kong to avoid the possi- ble danger of a, Nanking inva- sion of that province.

This The five South-west delegates to terids to show that Generall the Central Executive Council Chiang will use military force session to-day arrived here in the to back up any action against early morning and were greeted Kwangsi

by a large gathering of high Business between Kwangsi officials. Mr. Huang Lin-shu. ports and Hong Kong is so dulljone of the members of the delega-| that several steamers running tion, who went to Soochow yester between these ports are conten-day afternoon to visit friends, MACanton, To-day-plating curtailing or suspend-joined the train there and arrived Mrs. Chen Chi-tang (nee Mok ing their services,

By A Special Correspondent].

with the others.

Dr. Dafoe, above, brought the Dionne quintuplets safely into the world.

grave doubts were expressed as Shau-ying), wife of the Canton MORAL BLOW TO To-day's arrivals include Mr. GENERAL LI'S

V

KWANGTUNG

DEFECTION OF AIR OFFICERS

Yang Yung-tai and Generals Ho Ching, Hsiung Shih-hui and Shang Chen, the Governors of Hupeh, Hunan. Kiangsi and Horan re- spectively.

On the eve of the session the authorities issued an order for- bidding public demonstrations or

to

RESIGNATION

EXPLAINED

INFLUENCED BY

SECRET PACT

[From A Special Correspondent]

Supports Britain

NEW DEADLOCK AT MONTREUX

URGE FOR REPLACEMENT

BY

CAR BODY

XVI SHELVED

Montreux, To-day. Following Wednesday's deliberations the Dardanelles Commission decided to hold over the thorny question of the rights of battleships to en- ter or leave the Straits in wartime.

A new deadlock, however, developed yester- day on the British proposal to retain the Straits Commission of Control, Turkey objecting on the ground that it was against her national pres- tige. All the Balkan States supported her; Rus- sia was silent, and France alone supported Bri- tain.

Turkey suggests some arrangement where- by a Consular body could replace the Commission.

Reuter.

CRUCIAL POINT

Montreux: The Anglo-Russian

divergencies at the Dardanelles HEATWAVE IN

Conference again dominated the proceedings, and no progress · WES made on the agreement on the Bri- tish draft agreement throughout yesterday.

AMERICA

SPREADS TO EAST COAST

It was finally decided to lezve Clause XVI, which is the stum-TWO SWING BRIDGES BUCKLED bling-block, out of the discussion

for the time being

New York, To-day.

The crucial point of the day was the question whether Turkey. The deathrall is mounting in the should it feel itself threatened, heatwave, which has now spread Ishould be required to obtain the to the East coast.... The tempera- consent of the League of Nations! ture in New York yesterday was first before closing the Dardan-

to whether we would be favour-military chief, has arrived in ed with another dry week-end Hong Kong with heavy baggage. but with the lowering of the It appears that she will remain in signal at 6.10 am. this morning, the Colony for some time owing to prospects have become brighter uncertain political conditions in again.

Canton, Enquiries at the Royal Ob

Another arrival there is Mrs. Paij SWEEPING CHANGES LIKELY servatory this morning elicited! the news that the typhoon, a Haung-hsi, wife of the Kwangsi

[From A Special Correspondent]

the sending of large delegations UNABLE TO MAKE HEADWAY small one, has probably entered military chief

Shanghai, To-day.

the conference LL-General Huang Kwang-jui,

to submit

elles, and also, as proposed by Bri-101, one degree below the record. the coast near Amoy and is fill-

Sweeping political changes in

IN SWATOW CRISIS petitions. All proposals should)

tain, whether the Dardanelles The heat backled two swing ing up to the north of that chief of the Canton Air Force, has

also sent his wife to Hong Kong. Kwangtung and Kwangsi are like be made in writing through the

Commission should be retained. bridges over the Harlem River, port.

The presence of the wives ofly through the resolutions of the secretariat, but if a delegation is

The question of the League of necessitating the diversion of The threatened blow to the

the second plenary session of

The large number of rumours Nations functions was postponed traffic. (high officials in Canton and

sent instead it must not exceed} Executive Colony was not without its hu-Kwangsi indicates that the Can-Kuomintang Central

10 persons. Violators are liable which have followed the reat the Japanese delegate's requesti morous side. A boat' woman,

meets this

to punishment.-Renter.

signation of General Li Hon because he had not yet received. There has been some rain in who was brought before Mr. C. ton regime under General Chen Committee, which

PERSONAL APPEAL wan, the second in command of definite instructions from Tokyo. some parts of the country, but the Burgess at the Central Police Chi-tang, after an unusually long morning in Nanking.

General Ya Han-mou, G.O.C. Nanking, later: It is learned the 2nd regiment of the 1st what the Commission should be Weather Bureau predicts a con- Court this morning, on a charge period of seven years, may short-

of the First Kwangtung Army that on the eve of the Kuomintang Group Army, have crystallised retained was supported only by tinuance of the ligh temperatures. the Nacking Press into the following information. Britain, while most of the other It is estimated that one-third of of smuggling opium, told they pass into other hands..

It is reported that Mr. Yang stationed in Southern Kiangxi, is Conference story that because of the ty-

(Yeung Yung-tai

Wing-tai), reported to have issued a circular Association and other bodies have given by a close subordinate of phoon yesterday, she had to

view that the Commission should the arable land in the United hire three men to help her to Chairman of the Hupeh Provin- telegram at Nanking urging his appealed by telegraph to Generals the General who arrived here delegates favoured the Turkish row her boat across the har-cial Government, and right-hand brother-officers and subordinates Chen Chi-tang. Li Tsung-jer and from Swatow yesterday.

drought.--Renter. bour!

Man of General Chiang Kai-shek, in Kwangtung to support the Pai Chung-hsi personally to at resignation, according to this be abolished. Trans-Ocean Ser-States has been affected by the

statement, was influenced by a the weather, will be, the next chairman of the Central Authorities and present a tend the session. Reuter.

secret Returning to

pact between the Provincial Govern- united front against Japan.

Kwangtung. authorities and however, the forecast for to-day Kwangtung is: South-west winds, moder-ment upon the reorganisation of

Japan regarding the recent Jap- case at ate, fair to showery.

anese assassination Swatow.

the present regime.

There is no indication that Gen eral Yu has definitely severed his connection with his military superior, General Chen Chi-tang.

HIGH COMMISSIONER OF Yn is in command of three picked

PHILIPPINES

CONTEST GOVERNORSHIP OF MICHIGAN AS DEMOCRAT

Washington, To-day.

¡divisions, and his open support

Brief Ceremony At Opening PRESIDIUM ELECTED Nanking, later: A

The

The clauses of the pact are brief said to have included the fol-

of Nanking has materially alter-ceremony marked the opening 'owing:- led the South-west situation.

Civil war between the South-west and the Central Authorities is practically rul- as the Kwangtang ed out, Generals will not make such -sacrifice

of the CEC. session. No meet-

That the Kwangtung armies

!vice

FASCIST HEAD ARRESTED

POLICE ACTION IN MADRID

HEAVY RAIN IN ENGLAND

Outdoor Fixtures Affected

RECORD TRAFFIC JAM IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Rain

i

Madrid, To-day. ing will be held this afternoon, must employ Japanese advi-

The police have arrested Gen- while no official announcement sers;

The first re That Kwangtung must pro-eral Mola, believed to be the has been made.

London, To-day. gular session will be held to-hibit any propaganda regarding head of the Spanish Fascists a boycott of Japanese goods; He was Police Chief of Madrid

was general through morrow morning.

That Japan will The entire 'delegations visit-

supply under the dictatorship of Gen-England yesterday and in the Mr. Frank Murphy, High Commissioner of the Philippines, The defection of Lieut-General ed the Sun Yat-sen mausoleum Kwangtung with armas and am- eral Primo de Rivera, but was London area there were torren- has resigned in order to contest the Governorship of Michigan in":

came into being in 1931 the Democratic interests. President Roosevelt has granted Mr. Li Hon-wan and officers of the at 6 am. to pay their respects munition for action against dismissed when the Republic tial downpours which interfer- Murphy two months' holiday without pay so that he can return Canton Air Force is a great moral to the late founder of the Kno-the Central Government.

The preparatory session of to his post if he is defeated. This political manoeuvre by the blow to Kwangiang. General Li mintang. Democrats is likely to arouse the wrath of the Republicans on the pointed out that if the South-west the conference began at 8 an ground that it is improper for high officials to enter the party were sincere in resisting Japan-

ese aggression, the Swatow Japan ters under the chairmanship of arena while still in office,

President Roosevelt accepted ese pressure as a

Mr. Ting Wei-feng. A Pre- THE QUINS HAVE A BROTHER the task of arbitrating in the Tsunoda incident should be resist sidium, consisting of nine pro- long-standing frontier dispute ed General Li pointed out that minent members who are also

and between Peru

Ecuador while there was anti-Japanese

(Continued on Page 21) no efforts were made after the Peruvian Ambassa-talk,

Callender, Ontario, to-dayĄ brother has been born to the famous Dionnë quintuplets. Reater.

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result of the

to

Reuter. (Continued on Page 14)

at the Kuomintang headquar SNIPING CONTINUES

IN PALESTINE

dor and the Ecuadoran Minis- strengthen the coastal defences of FIRST COINS OF NEW REIGN NEW APPEAL TO ARABS headed in the rain.

ter went to the White House Kwangtung. and submitted the controversy

London, To-day-The Chan-

Jerusalem, To-day..

$263,100 LOCAL ESTATE to him. President Roosevelt, in

SIR ERIC PHIPPS RECEIVED cellor of the Exchequer, Mr.) Sniping continues, and the military and police are parading Mr. Charles Edward Lawrence a statement, said that arbitra- Grist, formerly of Measts, Wilkin- tion of the dispute would do AT THE PALACE Neville Chamberlain, announce all the streets, searching pedestrians for concealed arms. Aero ed yesterday in the House of planes are flying over the villages and dropping pamphlets con- London, To-day, and Grist, solicitors, who much to ensure the success of

Sir Eric Commons that, in accordance taining the text at a broadcast appeal by the High Commissioner, passed away at the War Memorial the deliberations of the 21 Phipps, British Ambassador in with custom, specimen sets, of in which he asks the Arabs to discontine their violence and re- at the Berlin, who is on leave in England, the first issue of the coins of Herates the British Government's intention to enforce peace and estate valued at $263,100 Letters forthcoming Pan-American Con was received in audience by HEM HM King Edward VII, in-order at all costs. Hospital on March 16, left local American Republics

the King at Buckingham Palace cluding gold coins, will be is. Sir quarrymen returning in Jerusalem on the Jaza-Jeren of administration have been grant-

afternoon; The arbitration starts here yesterday

British sued in due course. British|lem road were ambushed by snipers.. One was kibed and the rest Wireless Service, Reuter.

Wireless Service.

wounded, one seriously, Reuter's Bulletin Service. on September, 20:

ference.

ed to Mr. D. H Blake of Messrs. Willcinson and Grist.

ed with al outdoor fixtures. The rain was so heavy, that it became necessary to cancel the full programme for the inspec tion of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards by HM, the King. After the battalion had marched past the men were dismissed. The King inspected a party of Old Comrades of the Battalion, who stood bare-

Flooding occurred in several parts of London, including a portion of the basements of the House of Commons. Owing to the flooded condition of the neighbouring streets there was an exceptionally sente traffic jam in Trafalgar Square In five County cricket matches in various parts of the country not a ball could be bowled. tish Wireless Service.

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