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CHINA MALL, NOVEMBER 30, 1937.

EUROPEAN PEACE FOR A

ALHAMBRE GENERATION: AIM OF

•TO-DAY AND TO MORROW

MILLIONS HAVE SEEN WESTERN FRONT HERES.

THURSDAY New Universal Picture

QUIET

ROAD BACK

TROUBLE AT MID-NIGHT"

Noah Beery, Jr. Larry Blake Catherine Hughes

NAHAS PASHA'S ESCAPE FROM MURDER PLOT

London, To-day-

The British Government has con- gratulated the Egyptian Government by telegraph on the escape of the Egyptian Prime Minister yesterday from the attack of an assassin

Mr. Neville Chamberlain has also sent his personal congratulations to Mustafa Pasha Nahas British Wireless...

GREEN SHIRT ROUND-UP

Cairo, To-day.

Following the attempt to

assas-

sinate the Premier, Nahas Pasha,

ITALY'S SWAP WITH JAPAN

Washington, To-day.

The State Department declines to comment on Italy's recognition of Manchukuo, but authoritative quarters describe the development as part of a “horse trade? by which Japan is expected fully and formally to recognise Italy's con- quest of Ethiopia-Beuter.

NEW SCHEME CREDITS IN

CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY

-Paris, To-day.

The special London correspondent of the semi- official news agency "Radio," says that he learns on good authority that no decisions will be taken in

London.

Mr. Chamberlain and his cabinet are seeking to get France into line in an effort to reach an un- derstanding with Germany of a kind that would guarantee maintenance of peace in Europe for at least one generation.

Italy and Germany for their part would be first of all asked to re- frain from taking any unilateral decisions of an international char- acter.

AMERICAN JEW

SUES NEGUS

At the end of the present talks, FOR OLD LOAN

Britain would contact Italy and ex-

amine all reasonable conditions" The British high court must de that might lead to return to Ger- cide if Haile Selassie is still Em- and Italy to a reformed peror of Ethiopia, according to the many League of Nations, and to support Sunday Dispatch.

a general move for disarmament The Negus, the paper states, is and all round co-operation.

being pursued by a Jewish-Ameri- can banker, Mr. Leo Chertok, who The new European system of security would be based on a pact 000 two years ago following nego- advanced the King of Kings £25,- between Germany, France, Britain į and Italy-Trans-Ocean.

FOR FROZEN

GERMANY

London, To-day.

the police are conducting a round- Negotiations for a new standstill agreement up of the Green Shirt organisation, with Germany for 1938 will begin in London to- to which the would-be assassin be-morrow, December 1.

longed.

arms caches uncovered.

Trans-

Berlin financial quarters affirm credits to the German banks. Up to last evening, 150 Green that the total amount of private) Should this be finally approved, all Shirts had been arrested, and many short-term credits which have be frozen debts in Germany would be come frozen in Germany since 1931 come concentrated in the hands of

German banks. The would-be assassin is reported has been reduced in consequence of the big to have admitted his plan to kill the repayments to barely 1,000,000,000 Ocean. Premier, but refused to reveal the names of the instigators of plot-Trans-Ocean.

the

SHOOTING AFFRAY YESTERDAY

Cairo, Later,

Excitement over the attempt on

increase.

reichsmarks.

Great Britain claims about half of this amount and still remains Ger-

many's principal creditor.

According to the American bank-

ENLISTING AND

ars, Mesars, Gibson and Rovensky,TRAINING NEW

who have arrived in London from New York, American claims are now less than 120,000,000 reichsmarks, while Swiss claims are less than 160,000,000 marks.

regularly since 1931 will not take

TROOPS

Hankow, To-day.

the life of the Premier is on the For the first time, the negotia- China's unbreakable will be re- tions which have been carried on sist Japanese aggression to the Demonstrations took place in all place in Berlin and their date has last, was reaffirmed here yesterday parts of the city yesterday, organis- been altered from the end of Febru-by a spokesman of the Chinese ed by the adherents of the Wafdist ary to the beginning of December. Foreign Office. Party against the opposition and especially against the paramilitary. "Green Shirts. ***

The Shirt

courtyard

NEW PLAN

Enlisting and troops, he stated, German delegation, headed by all over the country,

tiations between a group of fin- anciers and the Ethiopian Govern- ment for the exploitation of the mineral resources of Abyssinia

In 1935 Chertok bought all th rights

square miles of land for £1,000,000 and then abandoned the project to avoid international complications.

With regard to the case that is now being brought against the

Negus, he ought to either refuse to

|appear, and thus lose by default, or

else to declare himself the defendant and then British law would provide judical immunity for sovereigns.

But, the paper declares, the court should first decide if Haile Selassie is still a sovereign

NEW R.A.F. SQUADRONS AT SINGAPORE

The two squadrons of warplanes made possible by the gift of £300,- 000 to the Imperial Government by the Federated Malay States Gov- ernment are likely to be stationed at Singapore or Penang off the West Coast of Malaya

Suggestions that they might be Unfederated State of Kelantan, on the northeast coast of the penin- sula, are discounted officially.in.

Although an airdrome being made training of new at Kota Bahru as a gift to the Im- as continuing perial Government by the Sultan of and they had Kelantan is the nearest landing

to hold up ground in Malays to Hong Kong and places further east Singapore were taking and Penang have the advantage of xes being on the dir Bea route from England by which Royal Air Force supplies are brought

stationed at Kota Bahru, in the

almost

Wafdist Blue the di

ctor of the United Steel sufficient war speaking in the works, Dr. Sempell, and Dr. Puhl, a the Japanese Ministry of the director of the Reichsbank, has The Gover Interior to a crowd of several thou already left for London. It is ex-measures sands, demanded the heads of the pected that negotiations will last collected were used opposition leadera, Mahmond Pasha about a week As far as can be sively for the purpose of defence and Sidky Pasha

ascertained, the British and Ameri- Sweeping curtailment of admin- In addition Singapore and can creditors have already reached istrative duties was to be erected nang "have all-the-year-round land- The indignation of the populace an agreement, in principle, - with In the Foreign Ministry alone, ing facilities

in the first instance German debtors, by which they will two-thirds of the staff had been whereas the east coast against Malmont Pasha, between repay their foreign short term debts given leave of absence. rans lashed during whose bodyguard and the adherents by the grant of new acceptance Ocean.

the northeast

marine

craft storm- part