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FRENCH ART. FOR

LONDON

INSURED FOR TWO AND A HALF MILLION POUNDS

WATER SPEED

SUPREMACY

LORD WAKEFIELD TO BUILD NEW BOAT

ONG DAILY PRESS.

DAY

BURMA ROUND IDEA OF NEUTRAL TABLE CONFERENCE

ZONE DROPPED

UPPER CHAMBER TO CHECK RASH LEGISLATION

PREVENTION OF

HOSTILITIES NOW LIES

WITH COMMANDERS

(PRITIAH WIRELESS KAHVIƠN, }

[CRITINH WIRKAKEM SERVICH, )

(THROUGH REGTER'S AGENOT.]

tined for the International. Exhibi-

tion of French Art which opens at

RUGBY, Dec. 82 Lord Wakenold, the sponsor OF

Britain's speed supromacy Qu

RUGBY, Dec. 7. During the discussion, t-day in

PARIS, Doo. :

the Reynd Aendemy, London, on

January 4 left the Louvre Museum,

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Ruery, Dec. 8.

Four hundrad äft treasures" "des--

1931

BANDITS HOLD UP LONDONERS FEEL THE QUESTION,

The

TRAIN

CHINESE AND FOREIGN PASSENGERS ROBBED

(THROUGH' REUTER 'R., AGENIX.).

AT HOME

DENSE FOG ENVELOPES SHANGHAI

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SIMON AWARE

SHANGHAI, Dec. 8!

LONDON, Deor Shanghai, this morning, wae Joan Simon announced that no

In the House of Commons, Birk

previous efforts to maintain Great the egmmittee of the Burma Round Negotiations are approaching a between Heinmin and Liuhokowhaped with a fog which is unusual agreement concerning Extrality water, has decided to recondition Table Conference, the Sawbwo of close and a public sitting is exshots grazing the bond of the doners. awoke with a comfortable Lampson, though a draft. tresty= Paris, yesterday under a guard, England II and invitò tendors for sipaw, on behalf of the rulers of pected to take piate to-morrow, engine driver subsequently robbed "back at Home" feeling as it was Governtnents were considering,

The value of the treasures is in Gatimable but they are insured for

no less than £2,500,000.

BELGIAN" AND BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET

"

[BZITISH WINELESS BÉRVICE)

Ruast. Dec. 8.

hig slivcossful,, "speed-bout Miaa

the now boaÒ.

Miss England 117 to be built within the Shan States, advocated a their four months. Kaye Don will pilot maintenance as a separate entity, and; after discussion, it was de cided to postpone decision and to Proceed for the present on the assumption that the Shan Staton

Lord Wakefield has been assured that the new Boas could be con- structed to travel at least twenty. five miles in her faster than the prosent record of 110 miles. The

power units will be Rolls Royce engines similar to those used in the winning Schneider Trophy sea- plane.

The new boat will be taken in April to Lake Garda, northern

The Belgian Foreign Minister M.Ttaly, for trials. Paul Hymans, met the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, yesterday at the House of Commons and last night Sir John Simon, was a guest at the Bolgian Embassy, dinner given in honour of distinguished statesman.

Sir J., Simon, will entertain M. Hymane at luncheon to-day and before he leaves for Brussels, to- norrow M. Fyrnas will have con versation with the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runci- man.

FINISH OF FINE FLIGHT

INTER-VARSITY RUGBY

OXFORD WINS 56TH

MATCH

[THROWOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Dog B

At Twickenham, Oxford won the Beth inter-Varsity Rugby match by besting Cambridge 10 points to 3.

BERT HINKLER WELCOMED N. S. WALES SCORE

AT HANWORTH

"

[BRITISH WIRELENK SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Dee. 7.

Bert Hinklar; who on October 27 made a great polo flight of 1,850 milos across the South Atlantic on. a British standard. Pusk Moth machine of only one hundred and twenty horse-power, this afternoon reached, Hanworth Aerodrome at

500

S. AFRICA 185 FOR ONE

WICKET

(THROUGH" BRUTER'S AGRÍECT.]

SYDNEY, Dec. 8.

did not wast representatives in the new Legislaturol

The Committee considered the question of a Second Chamber in favour of which opinion was un- animous.

Thursday

the Chinese and foreign passengers,

TINTAIN, Doc S A pasanuger train from Mukden to Tientsin was held up by bandits

bandits who firod soveral for this time of the year, but Lon. | bad been initialled by: Bir Milan

had been completed which botn «M. Briand's letter to Mr. Yoshit is understood na passengers as a real sample of London winter the draft troaty is signed, Bir John

the only injury suffered by a first were taken away for ransom and weather. glass passenger is believed to be a Chinese who was roughly handled. of transportation on the P.M... Mr. W. H. Steele, superintendent who was on his way to Tientsin altor three riontha' work at Mukden was relieved of money and his winter coat

zawa is not publishable being reply to a confidential document. LATER.

It is understood that M. Brland's letter express top at He Japanese will not advance Be youd their present Hees and that both sides will refrain from provo cative incidents, thus the question The hold-up occurred on a section of a neutral zone has been dropped, of the line which is not guarded. local commanders having the resby either Chinesa soldiers for rail ponsibility of preventing hostilities. way guards. While a

Japanese Dr. Sza met the drafting com- armoured train is patrolling it seeing the committee at 4 pm. disclaim any responsibility for its mittee this morning, while Mr. Ito twice daily the Japanese, however,

safety.

The majority was against squal power with the Lover Chamber ints financial matters, but agreed that the Upper Chamber should be able to check rash legislation..

To-morrow, the Committee will consider the method of election to

SOME. HOPE OF SETTLEMENT

PARIS, Dec. 7.

Mr. Yoshizawa called upon M

TWO FRENCH SAILORS ASPHYXIATED.

the Second Chamber and the quali-Briand this afternoon and remain-OVERCOME BY CARBON MONO-

Acation of voters and candidates.

General Improvement. In the House of Commons at question time, Sir Samuel Hoare," Secretary for India, stated, that the general improvement in the situation in Burina continued.

WAR ON CHRISTMAS LIQUOR.

RUNNER AFTER CHASE,

"

Hundreds of ships, from ocean liners to junts, being tied up dis there were numerous collisions be salating shipping schedules, while voin river craft. Sirene and tog home beated a dip on the water front, nrel ashoro progressed gingerly:

motorists

· CANTON.” DELEGATES LEAVE FOR SHANGHAI

TO ATTEND, PEACE PARLEY

(Wah Tare Fat Pac.)

said Parliament would be given an opportunity discussion «before ratification.

Mr. Wardlaw Milne baked it the

to dissatisfaction among British had comniittad itself. He referred British Government, in any way,

interests in Chine owing to the way

in which these matters, had been left.

Sir John Simon replied that b was fully aware of the great im- portance of this matter.

ROMANTIC LIFE OF

A BIBBY

LINER.

THE SEANG BEE,

DESTINED FOR THE SCRAP HEAP.

ed with him for over half an hour. It is believed that the conversationsi

XIDE IN COAL ROOM FIRE.

Although the Japanese interests CANTON, Dec. 8. dealt almost entirely with the situa

Mosers. Eugene Chen, Sun Fo steamer Seang Beo had her officin

which purchased the Rangoon Hankow, Dec. 2.-Two quarter and Dr. C. C. Wu left Canton for ly re-registered under the nazas f tion west of Mukden and that Mr. masters of the French warship the North wie Hongkong this morn Soang Bee Haru, it is reported Yoshizawa, presented a formal pro Balny, at present stationed at Han- poral regarding the suggested net-kow, were, asphyxiated by carboning by a special train on their that she is destined for the scrap tral zone at Chinchow.

mission of trying to make prelimin-pers, and that the famous old ship ary arrangements with the Nanking has made her last paisage, unification government. authorities for the formation of a

It is hoped that the Japanese proposal will assist in a settlement. It is learned that Mr. Yoshizawa explained to M. Briand that Japan had fulfiled her share of the Chinese proposal by withdrawing troops from the Chinchow region, whereas the Chinese forces were still there.

ber

be

He urged that pressure U.S. ODASTGUARDS SINK RUM brought upon the Chinese to avoid clash and advocated direct nego tiations between the Chinese and Japanese authorities on the spot for the demarkation. of the neutral Zone.

The Council met. at 5.16 p.m., and discussed, it ia understood, the and Japanese representatives werd not present at the meeting..

the end of a fight from Now York Africans, N. 8. Wales made a total agents, tacking the Christmas spirit Chinchow question, The Chinese.

by, way of the West Indies, South Americh and West Africa.

He had a great recaption from a large crowd, which included the Under Secretary for Air Sir Philip Samoon, who welcomed him official ly on behalf of the Government, Sir Arthur Brown, who with Sir John Alecek was the Arrt to fly the At lantic, Flight-Licut, Stainforth, the holder of the world speed record. Misa Peggy Salaman, who with Gordon Store recently beat the London Cape record on a British mashine of the same type as that used by Hinkler, Miss Winifred Spooner, and other leading British airmen and women, The first to greet Hinkler was his wife.

Woods Holo, Mass., Dec. 2. In their match against the S.American prohibition enforcement entirely, to-day began their annual drive against the lunding of Christ mas spirits in the prohibited atutes

of 600. Bradenan 219, Hird 101. McMillan taking six wickets for 189 rana,

At the close of play the 8.of America, Africans bad scored 185 for one wicket. Curnow 31 not out, nad Morkel 70 not out..

DONCASTER AN BARROW DRAW FOR THIRD TIME-

[THBOUGH REUTER'S' AGENOT.]

•

LONDON, Dec. 7..

cutter of the United States. Coast Guards Service, operating off the. Puritan coast, chased and open- ed fre upon the moborship Star, a ship accused of being a rum runner. The Star, struck by shells from the Coast Guard Cutter, exploded and foundered.

Seven members of the crew of the alleged and sunk rum runner, were rescued. Two others were painfully burned..

The cargo of Christmas liquor In their second replay in the first which, the Coast Guard Service

He received a telegram of con- round of the Association Cup, Don charges, the Star was attempting gratulation from the Prime Minie-caster again drew with Barrow to land went to the bottom of the ter, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who after extra time. The match was deep blue ac said the fight would rank as one played

of the most remarkable achieve ments in the history of aviation and as magnificent demonstration

of the sterling qualities of British aircraft engines."

ROYAL FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS

TO BE SPENT · AT- SANDRINGHAM

BKITIAH WIRELESS SERVICE, Į

RUGBY, Dec. 7.

The King and Queen returned to Bukan gull yemain in London for a Buckingham Palace to-day, and the fortnight. The Queen has recover ed from her recent chill. The Royal Family will spend Christmas at Sandringham,

DUTCH 'AIR MAIL

AIR COUNCIL SEND'S SYMPATHY

(BRITISH WIRELESĄ SERVICE)

City's

on Manchester ground and produced two goals,»

37 SPIES EXECUTED IN A

~ MONTH...

POLAND'S STERN MEASURES TO PREVENT LEAKAGE.

11]

PRINCE WEDS IN SECRET.

RUMANIAN ROYAL FAMILY

TANGLE.

KING CAROL FILLED WITH:

WRATH.

Warsaw, Dee. 2-That the spy braza is becoming epidemić Poland, was shown by the announce- ment, published to-day that during the month of November 37 persons were found guilty of espionage and Vionna, Dec. 3.--The matrimonia) were sentenced to death by cour experiment into martial, the sentences being execnt-Nicholas of Rumania hoa ventured which Prince cieski invariably refused to com quarrels in the Hunnian royal ed in every case, as President Mosis likely to lead to very serious mute them.

Of the 27 alleged spies, 36 were ing here from Bucharest today.

Tamily, netording to reports reach convicted of espionage on behalf

The Rumanian papers do of Soviet Russia. One,

not German make the slightest reference to the bora non-commissioned officer, nam-subject, but nevertheless it con- ed Klemke, was executed at Poser Linues to be a popular topic of con on a charge of having revealed versation, and it is now stated that military secrets to Gormany.

King Carol has declared his inter tion of taking drastic measures us. less his brother agrees immediately to divorce the lady whom he has made his wife,

SPEED RECORD NOT ALLOWED

Rugby, Deo. 7. ¦ AMERICAN FLIER'S ATTEMPT The Air Minister, Lord London.

IN LAND PLANE.. derry, on behalf of the Air Council, has sent a message of sympathy to the Netherland authorities on the

Detroit, Dec -The Internation- regrettable loss of life in an un-al Aoro Federation to-day declared fortunate accident to the homeward bound Dutch air mail at Bangkok.

AUSTRALIA'S XMAS MAILS.

as void Mr. Lowell Baylee attempt to beat the world speed record for land planes.

Some time ago the attachment. which Prinsa Nicholas formed for Mmo, Saveanu, the divorced wife of a Bucharest lawyer, led to his being given "extended leave from his military duties as Inspec tor-Ceneral of the Army,

It was not known then, however, that marriage was contemplatad, Subsequently it. was reported that Prince Nicholas, profiting by the time for reflection and contempla tion which absence from official duties had given him, had quietly married Mme, Savenu in a little village church. The marriage, it

WEATHER REPORT.

The weather report, foreenst and remarka issued by the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, at 6.25-p.m. yesterday state:

The typhoon has filled up to. the east of Cape St. James. The aita-eyclone is central to the enst of Vladivostock,

Local forecast-N.E. winds, moderate, drizzle and mist,

QUIET GUY FAWKES NIGHT.

RESTRICTED EXUBERANCE AT HOME.

monoxide on board their abip on Thursday, November 20.

A fire started, unobserved by anyone, in the coal store-room and the gas produced by combustion slowly filtered through the partition into their cabin

The two men were found in an unconscious condition and for two hours every effort was made to

availing

the President Coolidge which is They are expected to leave by scheduled to sail this afternoon."

Famous she is, for when Mesr

and with her sister, Cheshiro, w Harland and Wolff built her in 1801 she was the Bibby liner Shropshire,

regarded as the last word on the "Rangoon service. The Bibby. Com- pany gained great ponowne with these two ships, for they were the

revive them but these proved un- PROMOTION FOR C. C. WU. frstwinsorow passenger steamara

with full naval honours,

The men were buried next day

TO BE CHAIRMAN OF KWANGTUNG GOVERNMENT,

(Wah T Tat Pno.)

on the Eastern zun, and as their Fadvent coincided with an: opidemie- of braken shafts, the enterprise of the company obtained good adver tisement, Like all the Bibby ships of that day, and most of those that have follow they were four-must- ed schooners with a single tail. funnel," the moss tonnage of the Shropshire bérbe 3,060, and her triple-expansionngines giving her a steady 14 kilobits almost any dir- Jumstance, She was specially de-

NEW TREATMENT FOR BLOOD PRESSURE. EMPLOYMENT OF RADIUM.

CANTON, Dec. 8, High blood pressure is becoming

An important resolution was pass increasingly common as a disordered by the Canton National Govern-signed for the service from London ment Council yesterday to the effect and Liverpool to Rangoon by way that Dr.. U. C. Wu be appointed to of Marseilles, and in addition to succeed Mr. Len Yun Kad as Chair-Her big passenger accommodation man of the Provincial Government she had a very fair cargo stowage. of Kwangtung.

of middle-age and a new suggestion for its treatment is contained in the currant issue of The Lancet, where Dr. Nathan Mutch, of Guy's Hos pital, records his experience with the use of radium.

A Essignation.

The dose employed is almost in- finitesimal; usually Dr. Mutch has given. I or microgrammes, inject- Mr. Hau Sang Ching's resignation ed overy day or every other day from the Chancellorship of the until the necessary effect has been Chung Shan University has been obtained. (A microgramme is a accepted and Mr. Lin Yum Kai ap millionth part of a gramme, and pointed to fill the position. there are about thirty granames to the ounce.)

The fall in blood pressure obtain-: éd continues for many days; in cer- tain cases the full advantage. per- siste indefinitely, while in others it. was possible to keep the patients at the lower figure by giving an ex- caedingly small amount of radium every week. The fall in blood-pres-. sure did not cause any feeling of disocafort on the contrary the patient experienced sense of greater well-being and showed an all round improvement in general condition

THIEVES ALL-NIGHT

VIGIL.

WOMAN FORCED TO OPEN

SAFE CONTAINING-

f

4

JEWELS..

War-Time Transport."

Under the Bibby flag her career was most satisfactorily uneventful, and she proved herself a great and a remarkably consistent par favourite with Eastern travellers,. former, until the steady improv

in ment that they were making the standard of their feet caused the company to sell her after 18 years service. A Rangoon owner brought her for the Far Eastern, service in October, 1909, and reg named her Sonng Bee at the same time that he bought the Cheshire and renamed her Seang Choon. She carried a large number of pil grims in addition to her ordinary Eastern passengers, and was just as successful as she had been under Bibby management; when war broke out she was taken, up in Octobery! 1014, as a transport for the Indian Expeditionary Force.

Now York, Nov. 8-Two daring thieves entered the home of Mrs. The action of radiom in this con- Winthrope Schrzitt on the outskirts Pirated. Wear Bias Bay, dition is not altogether clear. Guy Fawkes Day at Home was Match was careful to exclude any hope of finding her alone downstairs Cheshire was torpedoed and sunic

Dr. of West Orange, New Jersey, in the

While on transport duties tha, old celebrated very quietly this year. Firework displays were restricted, pepchological element as a source so as to force her to open her jewel off the Fastnot, but the Shropshire and although bonfires were numer sulte, and he emphasises that theatre and that only the cook was carrying Australian and British of confusion in interpreting his re-safe. They found that she was at ous they were not elaborate.

enzried on, and was employed There was

absence of exuber general treatment, such 48 the in the house, Hampstead Health-where it is ance, although on Parliament Hill, elimination of any source of poison They decided to attempt the rob-

troops as well as Indian. It was in the body, must be used in addi- bery the next morning and stayed cial service that she was sold to after she had returned to commer-

pirators waited to see the Houses drug, Dr. Mutch has also treated about football, while the cook two years, and then sold her in recorded Gay Fawkes fellow-constion to the radium.

for hours in the dimly-lighted cellar, the China and Southern Trading In addition to injection of the smoking cigarettes and talking Co., of Rangoon, who kept her for was a pitched battle between thuu-taining the emanation given off by glared at them, of Parliament blown up-there

some cases by doses of water con- gagged and bound to a water pipe; 1999 to other Rangoon interests. sands of revallars, who used re- works as weapons.

radium. but this substance does not

After this second transfer, whild: When a gardener arrived in the 'an a voyage from Singapore to Daniel Monk, aged about 60, an maintain its strength for long and morning to tend the furnace he was Hong Kong in January, 1927, she while sitting in an outhouse of a assistant lodging-house

the results are not so trustworthy. deputy,

quickly overpowered and tied be was seized by Chinesa pirates, near side the cook, and the gardener'a ly 100 of whom had taken tickets as lodging-house at Ropeyard Rails,

wife, who served as housekeeper, paschgers, and her people were Woolwich, was scricusly injured

was captured in the kitchen and compelled at the muzzle of the from splinters believed to be part

taken to join the others in the revolver, to navigate her to Bias of a home-made frework, which had.

cellar been thrown into the yard.

When Mrs. Scarritt descended for tooted, the pirates going through

Bay There she was thoroughly. breakfast she was confronted by the res odd passengers and securing pistols in the hands of the marked over £8,000 in, money and jewellery? London, Dec. 4-According to Bir pair, who ordered her to open the in addition to what they got from Almroth Wright, the well-known safe, which contained bonds and the ship, their total loot running bacteriologist, the Ministry

of jewellery,

into five figures. Tive wealthy Ch Health excert. Colonel Jomes, is At her plea the thieves left nese passengers were taken inland on the threshold of an important cherished family heirlooms, but for ransom, hur Captain Cotton, discovery which may mean a great took 18,000 dollars (23,000 at par) after being taken ashore as a hos step forward in the prevention of in jewellery and securities, and 150 tage, was allowed to return to the malaria

dollars in onsh

Despite the special warning of the Vice-Chancellor and proctors that any breach of public order by undergraduates would be regard ad as a qtious offence, 100 Oxford undergraduates paraded, the streets at night. There was perhaps not such rowdiness as in previous years, but innumerable fireworks were let off, and about 40 undergraduates held up the traffle while they dane. ed a solemn "ring a ring of resos round the policeman, on point duty. Others in upper windows squirted syphons of soda water on the crowds below, A.

MALARIA CURE IN SIGHT?| BRITISH EXPERT ON THRES HOLD OF IMPORTANT

DISCOVERY.

تے

It is understood that Colonel James and his colleagues at the Health Ministry's malaria labora tory in Surrey have been experi- menting with a new drug

Ten of them allowed themselves to be bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes and were then treated

malaria develop.

Before leaving they cut the tele phone, and ransacked the house, The outrage occurred at a time

Laid Up at Rangoon finding two pistols, of which one of when commercial interests were the men remarked, "these are the furious, at the indifference of the prize of the lot." and, tying Mrs Chinese authorities to piracy, an Scarritt with the servants, they she was by far the biggest ship that walked away

had ever been attacked. Soon after The gardener finally freed himself wards the was again transferred to

Yesterday Mr. Bayles averaged 234.72 miles an hour over a three kilometre course, and it was an nounced that he had broken the record previously held by France with a spead cf 278.48 mites an hour, BRITISH WIRELESS, SAVICK The official re-check of his figures, this morganatic union and has or Liverpool, to see a huge bonfire with the new drug. In no case did and called the police from the police other Chinese interests in Rangoon

Rocay, Dec. 7. Commander Kingsford Smith, carrying the Christmas mails from Australia to England, reached Cal- cutta to day,

9 December 13.

He expects to arrive in London

however, to-day gave his spood as only 281.00 miles an hour. Accord ing to the rules laid down by the International Aero Federation, the old record must be accorded by five miles an hour before a new record can be claimed,

is said, took ones early last month, About 35,000 people assembled in King Carol refuses to recognise and about Wavertree Playground, dered the destruction of the marri and Arework display arranged by age record,

the British Legion with the oo Apparently the drag prevents the operation of the civis authorities infection of healthy people, and The celebrations at Cambridge experiments are being made to were uneventful, although two estimate the minimum daily smount undergraduates and two ether-hich will act as a safeguard in men were arrested.

malarial areas.

Now instructions, have been sent to Prince Nicholas to start divorce procendingar. As a refusal is con Bdently expected speculation is rife regarding the King's next step:""

station only a block away from Mrs. remaining under the British fing all Behrritt's home. the time, and ran on the Eastern Detectives are of opinion that a service until the summer of lant butler, recently dismissed for enter your. She was then laid unnt taining undesirable persons in Mrs. Pangoon in the hope of better times, Searritt's absence, was an accom- and only recently and to the plise of the criminals.

Japanese,