THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1938.
STARS
FAMOUS FILM MAROONED IN FLOODS Madeleine Carroll Rescued By Coastguard Cutter
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COOPERATIVE- South California
BOYCOTT OF JAPAN
London, To-day.
The National Co-operative Au- thority meeting in Manchester yesterday recommended to all Co-. operative Societies' members to cease purchase of Japanese goods during the period of the conflict in China.
The Authority represents every section of the co-operative Move- ment and includes the Co-oper- ative Union-Reuter.
AUSTRIAN CABINET SURPRISES ZEISS-INQUART
Vienna, To-day.
Completely Out Off By Storm
Los Angeles, To-day..
AUSTRALIA
SUPPORTS CHAMBERLAIN
Canberra, To-day. Sixteen are dead and seven missing as the result of The Australian Federal Govern- raging floods following a four-day downpour ment has rejected the demand of which virtually isolated Hollywood and the the opposition to debate the situa- whole film district. The damage at present is tion which has arisen through the estimated at £500,000.
resignation of Mr. Anthony Eden.
The Premier, Mr. J. A. Lyons, Norma Shearer, Ginger Rogers and Richard Dix justifying this step, issued a state- are among many film stars marooned, while ment to the effect that he had been Madeleine Carroll was rescued from her home berlain who informed him on the beach by a coastguard cutter. Robert Taylor's house is under several feet of principles of British foreign policy
water, while Clark Gable was forced to aban-ference, don his car in a flooded road.
ished and scores
in touch with
Mr. Neville Cham- that there had been no change in the
las laid down at the Imperial Con-
Mr. Eden's resignation was the outcome of a difference of opinion and not over policy but over method.
Over 50 are feared to have per- across a tottering bridge
of others are through a mile of water. missing in Southern California. Theatres and churches through. The floods are described as the out the stricken area are serving worst disaster to strike the West to house refugees. Reuter. Coast since the earthquake in Los Angeles in 1933. It is thought possible that the bodies of some of
It is officially announced that Herr Stephan, the anti-Nazi Gover nor of Styria, has resigned, and will be replaced by Dr. Rudolf Trummer, a militant Catholic and strong supporter of Chancellor there Schuschnigg
the missing have been washed out
or buried under landslides. to sea
RADIO ONLY LINK
Further rainfall is expected and is no immediate hope of Southern California re-establishing normal contact with the outside The Cabinet, by a large ma-orld, with which radio is now the jority, yesterday refused to ra-only surviving link,
tify Herr Zeiss-Inquart's agree- Härdest hit town is Riverside, ment with the Austrian Nazis California, where 15 people were permitting private individuals to trapped in motorcars and drowned wear Nazi badges and give the when the Santa Anna River pour- Nazi salute.
ed like a defuge over its banks in- to its old channel which had not been used since 1882.
The situation is tense. There is reason to believe that the German charge d'affaires is keeping close touch with events. --Reuter.
NAZI PAMPHLETS
Vienna, To-day.
The town's power was complete- ly cut off, while flood victims were obliged to cling to tree tops until rescued.
BRIDGE COLLAPSE
The tension in the Austrian pro- Forty-five people are now. estim- vinces, which necessitated additional ated to have been on the Los An troops being sent to Graz, has now geles River bridge when it col- spread to Linz.
lapsed. Ships at sea were asked to Nazis have been.distributing pam-search for survivors. phlets at Linz, and interest is cen- Thirty persons were rescued in tred on the activities there of the the nick of time from an island in new Minister of the Interior, Herr Los Angeles River by a heroic band Zeiss-Inquart.-Trans-Ocean,
of four men who fought their way
Mr. Tong Shao-Yi Denies Acceptance Of Japanese Puppet Leadership
Shanghai, To-day.
Mr. Tong Shao-yi, veteran Kuomintang leader and in pre- Revolution days a member of the Chinese Government in Peiping, whom the Japanese had announced as "President of the Central Chinese Government," yesterday issued a statement declaring that he has not accepted the offer. He added that he has withdrawn from all political activity.
Another prospective member of the new "Central Government” which the Japanese are trying to set up, Mr. Li Kuo-chieh, has left Shanghai for Hong Kong after having declined to have anything to do with the new puppet regime-Trans-Ocean.
124 DEAD
San Francisco, To-day. The death roll in the South- ern California floods is now 124, according to a radio mes- sage from Los Angeles.
Fifty-seven bodies have been recovered, while 67 are mias- ing. Reuter,
In view of this information from
London, the Australian Govern- men't was resolved to support the British Government's attempt to reach an understanding with Italy, Mr. Lyons declared-Trans-Ocean.
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