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the festivities continue. The King STRATOSPHERE

of

gave Dollfuss and Gomboes lunch on Thursday. The Crown Prince, high Italian officials, staffs Visiting Premiers and the Austrian and Hungarian Ministers in Rome attending.

Mussolini, Dollfuss, and Gom- boes had a conference in the after- taking place among the technical noon while other discussions are

experts of the three Countries.-

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FLIGHT

Observations In Russia

(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press*} (ByTelegraph, Copyright, graphic Hager Ordinance, Received, March 16, 7.30 p.m.)

Leningrad, March 16.

Tele. 180$-

LONGEST TUNNEL IN EUROPË

Munich, Mar, 15. Bayrische Staatzeitung comment- The Geodetin Observatory Ing on the forthcoming opening of Leningrad has just published a the great Appenine tunnel on the final report of the scientific results. Florence-Bolgna. direct rallway of their first stratosphere. flight.

Further sensational revelations. line, stresses that the now com-Interesting derivations about the made by the police when ques- pleted undertaking surpasses In compositions of the stratosphere tioned in the course of investiga-length all other European tunnels. showed that at 57,000 feet altitude, the atmosphere contains 20.95 per seemed to prove that the police tons into the Stavisky scandal-Transocean Kuo Min,

cent oxygen. were frequently prevented by high Government officials from taking

actions. up pursuit of serious criminal

For instance, the investigation

because loaded re- were kept on the table

volvers

NON-AGGRESSION PACT

This discovery is considered: especially remarkable because- Buenos Ayres, Mar, 15. hitherto it had been assumed that "The Italian Ambassador" signed | air-in the stratosphere would have a treaty of non-agression between | been of, quite a different composi- South American countries-Trans- don from that of the earth's sur-

face. A study of cosmic radiation. proved that the intensity increases. with the distance from the earth, The maximum temperature at an altitude of from 12 to 16 kilometres, that is 7 to 10 miles, was 57 de-

stopped if possible, France and July, Prince and Princess Kat had begun in a gambling house, oceán Kuo Min.

will sail for South America, with in Corsica the Japanese colonies in Brazil as during play. but a telegram bear- their objective. After a compre-ing the signature "Andre Tardien" hensive tour of the South Ameri-

A criminal attempt at was received recalling the officers can countries, they will travel via to Paris where they were chastised wrecking narrowly falled to succeed igrees centrigrade below zero, that

is

Italy may legitimately show their reasons against the Anschluss, and express their determination to pre- vent it. But that is no proof that 3.n Austro-German alliance morally wrong. On the contrary, according to the Ideology of "self- determination of peoples, Austria should be allowed to join Germany if it so wishes. and it is the denial. of this "self-determination" in the treatles of Versailles "and of St Germain which is "Immoral."

But it has to be proved that Apstria does wish to join Germany. Certainly it did so wish for years after the peace-making. Ninety per cent of the people, at least; would have accepted the solution. It is, however, alleged that Austrian opinion has now changed, and is opposed to the Anschluss, largely on account of the Hitler dictator-

the Panama Canal to New York. cross the United States to San Francisco and sail for Yokohama in the Asama Maru on October 4, due in Japan on October 18.

Members of Party.

for "interfering in politics.”

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ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN

Paris, Mar. 15.

train

The Geodetin Observatory is now

on Wednesday night when two iron is about 70 degrees below zero F.

were torn In another case the croupier of sleepers

up out The results of the Russian the gambling casino. Juan le of the track near Fontainbleau stratosphere fight for the most The part confirm observations taken by Pins, admitted stealing ten mil-and laid across the rails. lion francs from the banker. But Paris-Marseilles express approach- M. Piccard.

deputies intervened where-ed the spot at top speed and pulled two The imperial party includes, in upon the matter was dropped up in time so that the train tore beginning preparations of a scien- addition to. the Prince and Prin- Transocean Kuo Min

up a considerable length of track' tific nature for the next

Aide-de-Camp to the Prince: Ma- cess Lt.-Col. Senicht Kushibuchi,

while the locomotive was seriously tsratosphere flight which is to take damaged. The passengers suffered place this year-Transocean Kuo dame Kikue Matsumura, Mald-of-

LANGY RAILWAY DISASTER no injury.-Transocean Kuo Min. √ Min.. Honour to the Princess; Mr.

Paris, March 15. Kichizo Kotsuka, Commissioner of Questions about the causes of the Ministry of the Department of the terrible railway accident at the Imperial Household; Ma Lagny just before Christmas occu- dame Yoshiko Yamagishi, Maid-pled the Chamber on Thursday. in-Attendance to Princess Kaya,

siclan of the party. and Major Mamoru Kambel, phy

IN MEMORIAM

Flandin the minister for public works refuted the suggestion that the catastrophe was due to the obsolete technical equipment of the

French railways and attributed the collision rather to the coincidence of several separate causes. Heck- led by the opposition, Flandin

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

There will be a Tea Dance at

Repulse Bay Hotel on Sunday, 18th March at 4.30 p.m.

Mr. Denys Reiss of Messrs. Reiks Massey and Co., Ltd., was also an arrival for the Colony by the Pre-

"AUSTRIA-THE POWDER ship. To some extent this allega- The Hon. Treasurer of the Soultimately admitted that numerous. tion is true, but precisely to what clety of St. Vincent de Paul ac-technical improvements were long knowledges with grateful appre- overdue, for instance that only extent is doubtful. The real strug-clation and thanks the receipt of three thousand out of eight thou-sident Coolidge yesterday. between the Heimwehr and the are gle in Austria appears to be the following donation to the sand railway carriages at present

To-day

the world's eyes

Society's Funds:

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Carrion Marquis de Merlin, was among those passengers who ar- rived in the Colony yesterday by the 8.8 President McKinley.

In our issue of yesterday, it was erroneously reported that the death had occurred of Mr. Ben- Jamin Bassoon, The name should have read Mr. Sassoon Benjamin.

Attention is drawn to the fact that the University Ladies Club has been formed, not by the lady graduates, but by the lady under- graduates.

Among the well-known passen- gers travelling on the Empress of Britain is Dean T. W. Graham, of Oberlin College, USA, who will preach in the Union Church, Ken- nedy Road, on Sunday, March 18, at 10.30 a.m.

Among the passengers dizem- barking from the 8.8. President Coolidge yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Pote-Hunt of Shanghai, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Carr and Mr. N. B., Karanjia, the prominent Parsee merchant.

The Second General Meeting of

the Arts Association will be held on Thursday, 22nd of March at 8,30 p.m. in the Union Assembly Room,when Mr, W. Kay, MA, wili. deliver a lecture on "Light Verse." All interested are welcome. will be served after the meeting.

Tea

turned upon Austria. For weeks

running on the French railways Vienna has been the powder keg Nazis, and both of them represent leum Co. (S.C.). Ltd: $55 in me-

The Staff of the Astatic Petro- were made of steel but excused this 'on' the grounds of the Gov- of Europe. The flare that has now very much the same thing, and mory of Mr. G. 8. Castro.

crnment's financial embarrass- been touched off by the Socialist both of them seem eventually to

ments. general strike is not exactly the aim

Fiandin then announced that at some kind of Austro-

735,000,000 Francs would he spent spark which observers have feared German unity. The fact is that it poorly and inadequately, by the on improvements of the signalling might start a continental con-

is futile to continue to say that allies, or permitted to foln with system and safety appliances. The fegration. For the friction at

at the

Minister closed by saying that ab- Austria shall not join Germany, Germany; or-and here is the solute safety is impossible and that moment is between the Socialists unless some positive alternative is practical-step which should satisfy the number of "accidents in 1933 and the Dollfuss Government, offered, Austria cannot live alone. both Austria and the allies given really very small compared with supported by the Fascist Heim- The League of Nations can decide facilities of entering a Danublani Transocean Kuo Min.

the 780,000,000 persons carried wehr; the Nazis are apparently that the treaties forbid union; it confederation without tarin walls watching from the side Hines, cannot decide that Austria can or hostile frontiers.

ARMY JOHNSON SPONSORED hoping that the contestants will be

manage by itself. The League may Hitherto France and Italy' and |

FOR COMMONS mutually weakened and their own

even assert that there is inter- the Little Entente have failed to

The Un Long School will hold London, March 15: path to power prepared." The fèrence by Germany in Austrian construct a Danubian confedera-

Its Prize Giving Day on Tuesday, famous British airwoman 27th March, at 11a.m., in the destruction of Socialism as a party affairs; but it will have to admit tion. They are jealous and Amy Johnson now Mrs. Mollison school hall. Mrs. A. O. Brawn has which now seems the most likely that there must be in present suspicious of one another.

and renowned for her solo fight kindly consented to distribute the result of this flare-up, will not free circumstances, interference

Irom Britain to Australia will prizes by Austria will, at an earlier or later probably become a member of the some nation. The plain truth is date, either effect the Anschluss or House of Commons shortly. that Austria was so whittled down enter a Danubian confederation

The forthcoming marriages' are- A bye-election is about to take announced: Charles Shuttlesworth, by the peace treaties that no If France and Italy would prevent Miss Johnson has been offered by Shanghal, and Miss Edith Mary of the Alice Memorial and Affiliat

place in North Hammersmith and salesman, Cathay Mansioni, We are informed by the Matron, power on earth can assure it inde-construct a great central Europent pendence; and if it is not to fall, political and economic association

the Conservative party to stand Whittaker, who is en route to the ed Hospitals that the as candidate. As the offer is Colony on the sis. Aenas.. Eric Pound Day had resulted in alto the of the nations of the Little Entente likely to be accepted and North Noel Clibbron, assistant at the Im-gether five hundred dollars' worth and of Austria and Hungary. In Hammersmith is one of the perial Chemical Industries (China) of gifts in kind and over 8500 int to the Anschings is a revival, in hitherto represented by a woman, Chittenden, also of the Imperial tal. The Hospital authorities wish other words, the only alternative strougholds of conservatism and Ltd. and Miss Gladys Beatrice cash being received by the hospi-

a better form, of the combination Miss Johnson's election is looked Chemical Industries, (China) Ltd., | to extend their best thanks to the broken with a diplomatic sledge upon as a foregone conclusion, Shanghai, who la en route to Hong large number of friends who gave hammer in 1919.

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Kong by the s.s. Naldera,

such generous support.

Chancellor Dollfuss from the prés-

sure of the Nazis, supported according to a protest he has pre- pared to the League of Nations by Germany. In fact, in Berlin

the whole adair is regarded as another step toward some form of

of sheer necessity, under domination of Germany, then it must be accorded a real chance of shaping its destiny otherwise.

“That is to say, Austria, It is now of the world to examine lis obvious, must continue to be aided,

the Anschluss or union of Austria and Germany. Certainly it does not lessen the need for the rest

Yet

the Anschluss they must help to

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Military embarkations per Troop=" ship Somersetshire on her return voyage to the United Kingdom shortly include. Major G. E. Mire- house (H.Q China Command), Major R. A. Bagnold (Royal Corps of Signals) who is being invalided Kome, Captain Bouch,(Postal Services), and Lieut. Harrington (1st Queen's Regiment).

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