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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1937.

CONCESSION

Congress Leaders To Meet To Discuss Situation

A flashlight picture of the "Night Star" shown as she was sink- ing at the wharf with her lifebuoys floating on the water. (“China Mail”

photo).

THE FERRY | Britain

COLLISION

SALVAGE WORK COMMENCED

SURVEY NECESSARY

Bound By Locarno

London, To-day.

as

Mahatma's Message

To "The Times

New Delhi, To-day.

It is understood that Mahatma Gandhi is meet- ing all the parliamentary members of the All India Congress Party in the Bombay Presidency to dis- cuss the constitutional situation.

THE WORKING COMMITTEE OF THE CONGRESS PARTY, AT A MEETING ON APRIL 26, WILL DISCUSS A DEFINITE LINE OF ACTION IN THE PRESENT IMPASSE.

London, To-day.

The series of important efforts by Britain recently to placate the Indian Congress opposition, have failed to shake Mahatma Gandhi in the advice he had given to the Congress Party not to accept office in provinces where the. Party has secured a majority.

clear This appears to be quite from a message from Gandhi from Wardha to the "Times."

NOT PERSUADED

constitutional im-

REUTER.

Dr. Schuschnigg Visiting Il Duce

Vienna, To-day.

It was officially announced to- Dr. day that the Chancellor, Kurt Schuschnigg, and the For eign Minister, Dr. Guido Schmidt, will visit Italy on April 22 and will meet Signor Mus- solini in Venice.--Reuter.

MEETING ON APRIL 26

Bombay, To-day.

The central executive of the In-

voked for April 26 to deal with the constitutional situation.

oring converted under moral pressure The message refers directly inferentially to the gestures con-as of being coerced under physical "His Majesty's Government are tained in the speech by the, Mar-pressure."—Reuter. Istill bound by the first paragraph ques of Zetland, Secretary for In- Salvage work on the "Night of section three of the text of the dia, in the House of Lords, an edi- Star," the ferry that sank by the proposals of March 19, 1936, by torial in the "Times" and a letter Hong Kong wharf yesterday which they declared regards from Lord Lothian to the Times,” after being in collision with the their obligations to France and all elucidating "Meridian Star," was started Belgium that nothing that had hap-plications and endeavouring to re-dian Congress Party has been con- this morning.

pened before or since the breach move Indian misapprehensions.

Before the conference, Mahatma Until a through survey is made, of the Treaty of Locarno could be

Lord Zetland, in his speech on

Gandhi will consult with Party it is impossible to say how long it considered 38 having freed the

leaders at Hudri, near Bombay, will take. Operations are in the signatories of that Treaty from any April 8, ruled out as impossible the that the governors hands of the Hong Kong and of their obligations or guarantees suggestion

that they probably during the course of this Whampoa Dock Company who have and that the latter subsisted in their would give assurances

would not use their special powers,

Apparently Gandhi is endeavour- already started repairs to the "Meri- entirety."

that the Viceroy dian Star" which is now

ing to discover a way out of the This statement was made by the but indicated

impasse but finds himself up slipway at the docks.

Foreign Secretary in the Commons would willingly expain the provin-

against Pandit Nehru and other The mishap occurred at-5.45 yes-last night in answer to a member cial positions further if approach-

who enquired if Britain were stilled by Gandhi or any other repre-radical elements in the Party, who had just left the Hong Kong side bound by the Locarno Treaty insentative of the Congress Party.

are firmly opposed to any compro- and apparently owing to a sudden view of Germany's denunciation defect în the steering gear of the

and Belgium's approaching release

on

the

terday afternoon. The "Night Star"

less Service.

"Meridian Star" which was ap-from its obligations.-British Wire- proaching the wharf, the two ves- sels collided, with the result that the Night Star" sustained damage below the water-line and after re- turning to the wharf and disem- barking her passengers, settled down and sank.

This morning, the only signs of the vessel, were her funnel and foremast just protruding from the water.

NEW A.A. AND Q.M.G. FOR

HONG KONG

Buffs

London, To-day.

CONTROL PLAN FOR SPAIN

To Come Into Force Next Week

London, To-day.

week.

Ocean.

HAD LUMBAGO FOR

Gandhi's message, received in mise with the Government-Trans- London last night, rejects Lord Zetland's interpretation and says that refusal to submit his inter- pretation to examination by a le- gal tribunal will raise a strong presumption that the British Government does not intend to deal fairly by the majority. whose advanced programme they dislike.

SIX YEARS

Spent a Small Fortune Seeking a Cure

"HONOURABLE DEADLOCK” "I prefer an honourable deadlock

For six years this man suffered with The Chairman's subcommittee of the international committee for the to dishonourable daily scenes be-lumbago. After spending a small for- application of the agreement re-tween Congressmen and the Gov-tune on various treatments, he tried garding non-intervention in Spain vernors, for in the sense the Bri-Kruschen Salts. Within three weeks

gratitude in the following letter:- will meet at the Foreign Office to-tish Government mean, working of he felt a new man. He expresses his the Act by Congress seems impos- sible.

morrow morning.

It is understood that the com- mittee will have before it a com-

Lt.-Col. Thomson Of The munication from the non-Interven- tion board regarding the date for the coming into force of the con- trol scheme and it is believed that is early recommended the date Lieut.-Col. A. B. Thomson, The next week. Buffs, has been appointed Assistant

The question of the withdrawal Adjutant and Quartermaster-Gener- of volunteers from Spain will also al in charge of the administration be on the sub-committee's agenda. of British troops in China, with British Wireless. effect from October 2..

"For six years I have been a martyr to lumbago and rheumatism. I have spent a small fortune on treatments "It is therefore for the British and specifics, without avail. I was ad- several times to try Kruschen Government to show Congress by vised

Now. open within their Salts, but only recently did so.

after three weeks' treatment, I feel a every means Constitution, that Congress can new man, and walk with pleasure in- advance towards their goal even by stead of pain. I sleep as I haven't slept for years, and am filled with a deep sense of gratitude to the chemists: who have evolved such a boon to man- kind.R.T.

taking office.”

GANDHI'S FUNCTION Having affirmed that he was not

Lumbago, like gout and rheumatism, actuated by any question of false is caused by an excess of uric acid in prestige, Gandhi says that "my the · blood. If you could see how of mediator be-Kruschen dulls the sharp edges... of Colonel M. A. Studd has been ap- Mr. E. M. Watts has assumed the function is that

them away altogether, you would agree pointed to the corresponding post in position of Traffic Officer of Im-tween Congress and the Govern. those uric acid crystals, then dissolves. treatment muist Malaya with effect from September perial Airways (Far East) Limited, ment, which unlike many Congress that this scientific 14.-Reuter.

in succession to Mr. M. H. Curtis. Imen, I believe to be capable of be- bring relief from lumbago,