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Further proof of active German POLICE, IN THE COURSE OF HIS financial difficulties is seen in the DUTIES LAST NIGHT IN THE CEN- | decision which has been taken by TRAL DISTRICT NEAR SINCERE'S the "Gerling Konzern," the second DEPARTMENT STORE, WAS AS- biggest German insurance firm, to SAULTED AND BEATEN UP BY change to Reichsmarks all policies of SEVERAL JAPANESE.
Far Eastern policy holders, which had been contracted in foreign cur- rencies.
Sergeant King is now in hospital. Though his condition is not serious it is believed he sustained severe bruises and a broken thumb.
Four Japanese were apprehended, and three of them have been detained on a charge of assault. It is stated they will be handed to the Japanese authorities upon request.-Reuter.
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Madrid, To-day. Indalecio Prieto, leader of the Right Wing Socialist Party, has been sen- tenced in absentia by the political tribunal to a fine of 100,000,000 pesetas and a term of imprisonment.
Prieto is at present in exile in Me- xico. Havas.
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The decision amounts to a plete repudiation of many insurance policies for Reichsmarks cannot sent out of Germany.--Havas.
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The Premier yesterday announced the launching of a 300,000,000 florins domestic loan, to be issued at par with and re- interest at four per cent. deemable in 40 years,
The Premier explained that the loan was intended for consolidation of the Floating Debt which had increased by 1,700,000 florins owing to the re- cent mobilisation measures.-Havas.
who where vacationing in France and Switzerland at the outbreak of war left war-torn and were stranded, Madrid, To-day. South Americans, Europe on board the Spanish liner Argentinians and Brazilians, Marques Comillas yesterday.-Havas.
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It is authoritatively learned that the first detachment of the Polish air force, which is already in training in England, will form the first of several squadrons that will become part of the R.A.F.
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The Polish squadron will distinguished only by the differ- ent cap badges and the Polish eagle on the tunic.
The Polish squadrons will be entirely self-supporting.--Reuter.
London, To-day. The Admiralty an- nounces that the same submarine which sight- ed the Bremen has sunk a U-boat and torpedoed a German cruiser in the North Sea.
The Admiralty also states that the British steamer Deptford was torpedoed by a U-boat in Norwegian territorial waters.
It was the third case in a few days of the viola- tion of Norwegian neu- trality by Germany. Reuter.
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CRUISERS FIGHT ADMIRAL SCHEER
(Continued from Page 1.) yesterday morning in the estuary of the River Plate between British cruisers and a German pocket-battle- ship."
"No ships were sunk," stated the Attache, "but some damage was suf- fered by both sides."
LEANDERS V. SCHEER
Both Ajax and Achilles are ships of about 7,000 tons, armed with eight six-inch guns. Their speed of over 32 knots is infinitely faster than the Ad- miral Scheer which is limited to about 27 knots. The Admiral Scheer, how- ever, carries 11-inch guns. She is chal- lengable by lighter ships because she is only lightly-armoured.
TANKER TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING
London, To-day. The crew of a British tanker torpe- doed in the Atlantic arrived yesterday at a South Coast port.
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Buenos Aires, To-day.
It is reported that the Admiral Scheer has put in to Montevideo in a badly damaged condi- tion.
Thirty of the crew were killed and 60 wounded in the action. - Reuter.
*** This, presumably, means the end of the Ad- miral Scheer's career, as, under international law, she is not allowed to stay in a neutral port longer than 24 hours, and Ajax and Achilles, it is pre- sumed, are keeping pa- trol outside the harbour.
Rome, To-day.
M. Gorelkin's departure to Moscow, it is revealed, was for the purpose of acquainting the So- viet Government with Italy's view concerning the attack Finland. Reuter.
Shanghai, To-day.
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It was this morning disclosed that Chang Chi-kwel, close fol- lower of Wang Ching-wei was shot and critically wounded yes- terday after leaving his residence. He was hit by three of five bul- lets fired, and is not expected to livě. The attacker escaped-Our Our Correspondent.
London, To-day. The Air Ministry announces that two aircraft of the Coastal Command on Wednesday en- countered and attacked two Dor- nier flyingboats in the North Sea.
Both the enemy rear gunners were hit and both enemy air- craft damaged by machinegun fire before disappearing into the clouds.-Reuter.
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London, To-day. It is understood that security patrol against German minelaying aircraft is being car- ried out by long-range and power- fully armed bombers which, it is understood, easily repulsed Ger- man machines which attempted to beat off the raid on Heligoland.- Reuter.
An area of two square miles of out grass and shrubs was burnt this afternoon on the hillsides at Mount Cameron.
The fire started shortly after mid-day and it took two fire ap- pliances from the Central Fire Station almost three hours to ex- tinguish the outbreak.
The profix "Special" to tologramò lo dado by the "Sunday Herald" and "China. Mail??: to Indioate nowa which lo atriatly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunion- tions Ordinance, 1930, and may not be ra-'
any circumstances, olther wholly or in part, without prior arrango. mant.
They stated that if the U-boat had given only three minutes' warning all aboard could have been saved. Nine men went down with the ship, how-printed under ever.-Reuter:· --
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