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"PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CAN BE A DICTATOR IF HE WANTS TO"

Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. the recently appointed German Ambassador to the Court of St. James, above, has created a pre- cedent by lodging a protest with the British Government against a speech made in the House of Commons by the Communist Member for West Fife, Mr. W. Gallacher.

NEW AIR LINE INAUGURATED

C.N.A.C. PLANE AT KAI TAK

TALKING FILM CARRIED BY AIR

A new era in aviation in the

FURTHER SUCCESS

BY INSURGENTS

MADRID TO BE TAKEN THIS WEEK?

GETAFE LEFT A MASS OF SMOULDERING RUINS

Lisbon, To-day.

Getafe was captured yesterday afternoon, according to the insurgent headquarters. General Varela personally led the troops into the town and afterwards told pressmen: "You can tell the whole world that Madrid will be captured this week.” General Varela declared that insurgent aeroplanes had reported that the Madrid-Valencia road was blocked by thousands of people fleeing from the "doomed” capital

The capture of Getafe, which is a mass of smouldering ruins, followed a terrific five-hour battle, in which tanks and aeroplanes participated on both sides. With a fierce bayonet charge the Moors finally routed the Government Militia. who abandoned six tanks: The insurgents declared that a Russian and two Spanish Generals vainly tried to stem the rout.

London: The Soviet reply tol the German charges occupied NO CONNECTION WHATEVER yesterday's meeting of the non-:

Lisbon. To-day. — “We 'Na- tionalists have THO connection whatever with the German, Italian or Portuguese Gorex- ments," declared General Gueipo de Llano in a broadcast speech from Seville yesterday.-Trans-

Ocean Service.

con-

intervention committee. The German and Italian representa- tires tenaciously contested the Rusaian explanations on each charge, especially that cerning the alleged presence of four, Russian Gorki bombers! lat Getafe aerodrome, Madrid, on September 18. M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador in London, declared that no Russian bomb-

Colony was opened this after GIRL STUDENT rs or aeroplane factory of that

noon when the first China Na-

tional

Airways Corporation

Douglas Transport passenger-

KILLED

Tank In Peiping

STRONG PROTEST TO BE LODGED

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carrying plane, opening the new Run Over By Japanese service between Hong Kong and Shanghai and practically the rest of China, arrived and was met by a large and distinguish- ed gathering including His Ex- cellency the Governor, Sir A¤- drew Caldecott. accompanied

(From A Special Correspondent) by his A.D.C., Captain W. J. R. Cragg. His Excellency General

Canton, To-day. Huang Mu-sang, and His Hon- The educational community of our the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Peiping is very excited at learn- Tseng Yang-fu HE. the ing that a girl student, 11 years Chairman "of the Provincial old, has been killed by a Japanese Government was unable to be tank. It is reported that at 8 .present.

a. on Tuesday, while the Ja- Long before the machine ar-panese troops wete passing rived, vast crowds gathered in through the Chao Yang Gate to】 and near the aerodrome to wit-parade in Peiping City, the vic-| ness the arrival of the first tim was knocked down by a Ja- Chinese seaplane off Kai Tak. panese tank and died instantly.

name existed.

Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, above, has been overwhelmingly re-elected President of the United States of Ameries, with a sweep- ing mandate from the people of the country. The new President is shown above in an excellent portrait made by Mr. J. O. Jordan on the eye of the President's 53rd birthday, on January 39 Inst."

BITTER ATTACK MADE ON SIGNOR GRANDI “INDIFFERENT TO SUFFERING

AND ANGUISH”

FATHER COUGHLIN'S

COMMENT

PREVIOUS PROGRAMME

TO BE CONTINUED

STRICT NEUTRALITY IN WARTIME

Detroit, To-day.

"Future historians will devote less time to Caesar and Na poleon and more to Franklin Roosevelt. He can be a dictator if he wants to," said Father Coughlin, the Radio Priest, who sup- ported Mr. Lemke in the election. Father Coughlin added: "Pre- sident Roosevelt has more power than any man ever had in the history of the world. The minority is now purely theoretical”

According to a New York message Mr. Alfred Smith, com→ menting on the result, said: "The American people have spoken. The cardinal principle of democracy is the will of the majority. Every citizen, every real American, must put his shoulder to the wheel and stand behind the President.”

The popuar vote for the President at 2 pm. yesterday was: Roosevelt, 21,768,254; Landon, 13,575,602,

The elections to State Gov-|=====

ernorships are likely to result

in the election of 27 Democrats BLANK CHEQUE

and six Republicans. The De-

mocrat Walter Housman has

succeeded Mr. Alfred Landon jas Governor of Kansas, and Mr. Frank Murphy, High Commis- sioner of the Philippines, who is at present on leave, has been elected Governor of Michigan.

New York, later: The figures of the popular vote at 5.30 - p.m.) were: Roosevelt. 23,160,365; Landen. 14,423,777, Lemke. 601,331.

GIVEN TO NEW

US. PRESIDENT

Greatest Mandate In History

ROOSEVELT COMMITTED: TO NOTHING

It is understood that some

Washington, To-day points in the German allegation

Washington: The Secretary of

The American people have were not proved, while in con-

State, Mr. Cordell Hall, in

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given President Roosevelt the nection with others, M. Maisky

Įstatement, said that the results of

greatest mandate in their history was invited to obtain further

the election represented an over- in the form of a completely blank linformation from the Sovieti

[whelming enforcement of the Hot words between Italy and Russia marked the meeting of American efforts for the promo given such sweeping power, han

cheque. Never was any President:" Government and to submit it to the non-intervention committee yesterday, M. Maisky bitterly at- tion of peace and the preservation

the committee. - Reuter.

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FRENCH C.-IN-C. FOR HONG KONG

Vice-Admiral Esteva Due To-morrow

PROMINENT CHINESE TO BE DECORATED

الله

Vice-Admiral Esteva, Comman-

After the officials of the An appeal by the various coder-in-Chief of the French Navy China National Airways Cor-munities in Peiping has been sentj

(in the Far East, is expected to ar-Į poration had dealt with all for-to the Hopei-Chahar Political rive in the Colony to-morrow malities. the Chief Pilot and Council askdag General Sung Chi afternoon on board his flagship, passengers were introduced to yaan, the Chairman, to lodge" the Lamotte Picquet, and will ex- Their Excellencies the Govern-strong protest with the Japanese change calls. with His Excellency or of Hong Kong, the Chairman authorities concerning this mat the Governor, Sir Andrew Calde- of the Kwangtung Provincial ter.

cott, and His Excellency the Gen-| Government and the Mayor of

It is alleged that on the same eral Officer Commanding thei Canton, and Comdr. F. G. Hole, RN (retd) Harbour Master day the farmers in Fengtai and Troops, Major General A. W. and Director of Air Communica- the neighbourhood were compelj Bartholomew; tions.

[ed by the Japanese troops to har- Az Vice-Admiral Estera and Among the very interesting vest their ummatured crops. It is Vice-Admiral Sir Charles J. C.!

London, To-day.

tacking Signor Grandi, when he declared: "Signor Grandi even ridiculed the bombing of women and children in Madrid. He made of strict neutrality in wartime me think he was a bitter enemy of the female sex and children, He pledged that this programme and indifferent to suffering and anguish. I am not surprised at would be pursued as hitherto.

Reactions In Europe

thai because the creed he represents means war of the most brutal naked and abhorrent kind. It is not the first time that we have witnessed from his country a complete and utter disregard of human suffering.” — Beuter.

PATHETIC "FORTICATIONS"

́. IN MADRID

Barricades. Formed From City's Paving Stones

Madrid, To-day.

the

The fortification of the city continues apace. All the paving- stones from the Toads in city are

being pulled up and barricades are being built by eli men and women, assisted by boys who fill baskets with earth and then hand them to their elders. who use the earth to cement the paying-stones-Renter

freight carried was the com-stated that these farmers have Little, Commander-in-Chief of the PUBLIC ORDER

BILL

plete taikis picture of "Picca-also complained to the Hopeï- Royal Navy, have already ex dilly Jim," the P. G. Wodehouse Chahar Political Council, asking changed official calls, they will film, which is being shown next for compensation for their loss, Inot call upon each other on this Sunday at the King's Theatre

occasion. The large-scale Japanese ma- and is the first film to be car-

Vice Admiral. Esteva's visit to ried by air from Shanghai to nerves in North China are over the Colony is not purely a routine the Colony, marking a new de Yesterday morning all the call, as he will decorate three parture in the cinema business. Panese troops taking part in the prominent Chinese residents of STRENGTHENING POWERS

CHAHAR PROVINCE ENTERED

Farmers Wagons

manoeuvres assembled at Pakpoa- the Colony next Monday evening learned that the Japanese troops le residence, for services to shan for an inspection. It is at 5.30 pm at the French Con- will go back to their former sta-Indo-China. tions to-day.

Tashiro,

General

Commander-in-chief of the Ja- Mr. Chan Sui-ky

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To Be Rushed Through Parliament

dicapped by fewer pledges.

President Roosevelt has com- mitted himself to nothing; his liberal programme, expressed in zeneral terms, has made no pro

mises whatever regarding the London: President Roosevelt's National Recovery Administra> London: The international overwhelming victory surprised tion, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration the Supreme committee for the application Germany and pleased Italy and of the agreement regarding non-France. The German press com- Court and the Constitution, and intervention in Spain met at ment notes that the world's de he remains free to propose what- the Foreign Office for two hours (mocracies

"concentrating courses he sees fit regarding yesterday morning. The session their votes" and expects that this these questions. was resumed at 4 o'clock. The will "change the face of the committee made a short ad-world" journment after two and a half

are

The President has not even pledged himself to avoid member- The Italians recall that Pre-ship of the World Court or the hours, but was still sitting at sident Roosevelt did not join the League of Nations, although ad- 7.30 pm. The committee was sanctionist front, and hail him as hesion to either is naturally most expected to have before it at the most Fascist of American improbable, and while it is too yesterday's meeting the Eus- sian reply to allegations by the Germans and Italians breaches of the agreement.

of

statesmen."

early to obtain any official îndî- cation regarding the administra- ML Delbos saya that the pre-tion's plans, well-informed circles ¦cendented · spccess of President)

are agreed that the foundation of DISCUSSION "INDECISIVE"

Roosevelt is a triumph for de President Roosevelt's domestic Later: The non-intervention mocratic tendencies and is wel-

"policy will be laid in the first Committee rose after 6 hours.comed in France with great plea-term, while the second term will A full communique will be issu-sure. Mr. Roosevelt's triumphant be devoted to the consolidation of ed to day. The Chairman's sub-re-election will enable him to that policy, making it part and committee is meeting on Man-play an even greater role as the parcel of American tradition.

day afternoon to give further advance-guard of civilisation | M. consideration to the scheme for Delbos is certain that during. Mr. ensuring the execution of the Boosevelt's › second «term) of - ofice

SERIES OF CHARGES -

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US. SHIPPING STRIKE

Extension To New Zealand Tried

agreement by supervision at the United States and France will Spanish points of entry by land be able to bring to a successful and by sea. The main commit-realisation the ideals animating| tee will hold its next meeting on both.- OF Thursday, November 12. It is.

“TIMES' " COMMENT- THE POLICE

understood that yesterday's discussion was indecisive-Bri- London: The Times says that! London, To-day fish Wireless Service. Mr. Boosevelt, has done the impos- "The Cabinet has approved

leine of bettering his victory -- in

San Francisco, To-day, a prominent the terms of the Public Order London, Later: The non-inter- 1990. The President has been

to extend the Ameri- strike to Australia panese troops in North China, in- Hong Kong Chinese rice-mer-Bill It is understood that the ention committee published 20 chosen for a second term by a Seized

Zealand was made yes vited the Chinese officials to Inn-chant, who has also written a objects of the Bill are to 18-page communique early this overwhelming preponderance of cheon immediately after inspect-

book for Chinese in Indo-Chins strengthen the powers of the morning with three long anexes votes and is unquestionably the

when the Maritime Federa (Continued on Page 1).

most powerful individual ruler for Canton, To-day, ing, his troops.. In a speech he for trade purposes, is to be de police to prohibit or divert poli

the world That Me Roosevelt tion of the Pacific Coast Long- It is reported that 1,500 bal-thanked the Chinese authorities corated with the Order of the tical processions likely to lead to

means to use his new strength for shoremen's Association sent a joint lock wagons belonging to farm-for their assistance during the Cheraller du Dragon of Annam, a breach of the peace, and to mas.

These decisions followed a the good, not merely of his own cable to the Waterside. Workers": ers in the north of Chahar Pro-manoeuvres, and Mr. Tse Si-yuan while Mr. Kwok Chan, who will forbid the wearing of political vince were seized by the Man-replied on behalf of General Sung also receive this honour, is the uniforms while not attempting series of conferences between country but for the world, is the Union at Auckland, which has aff- chukue troops of Li Shou-suen Chi-yuan, the Chairman of the present compradore of the Ban to define specifically the nature members of the Government conviction of everyone who has liations in Sydney and Melbourne, to transport troops and am- Hopei-Chahar Political Council, que de Indo-Chine. Mr. Lam of such uniforms: It is under and leaders of the opposition, followed

Chi-fing, who will also be stood that the Bill will be given and it is gathered that as far as It

dipan of priority over other Government the principles of the bill are

business after the debate on the concerned if will be presented to lish-spes

Parliament as an agreed mesing more Address, and it is hoped

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