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HERR HITLER HURRIES

HURRIES BACK TO BERLIN FOR CONFERENCES

LONDON DEPLORES

FEATURES OF GERMAN ARMY MANOEUVRES

'Berlin, August 16.

Herr Hitler, who was not expected to return to Berlin before the Arrival of the Hungarian Regent. Admiral Horthy. In a fortnight's time. hurried back to the capital yesterday.

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It is believed he held a series of conferences, though these are not admitted officially.

Among those who entered the Chancellery last night were Field Marshal Goering, Chief of the Air Force, and Generals Braushitsch and Keltel, Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff respectively of the German Army-(Reuter),

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SPECIAL FEATURES

London, August 16: The German manoeuvres are be- ing closely watched in London as well as in Paris. but no alarm exists here any more than in the French capital.

While

to Germany's right hald such manoeuvres is un- questioned. It is pointed out in London that the present exer- cises are characterised by spe- "clal features which are bound to create a state of tension in neighbouring countries,

This is deprecated in the inter- cets of European appeasement, which is the keynote of the British Government's policy.

Certain

estimates published in

e press regarding the number of men called up for service in Ger- many appear to be highly aggerated. According to reliable British reports, the total nuniber

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DODGE. MOTORS HEIR DROWNED

New York. August 16. Danay Dodge, 20-year-old heir to the $10,000,000 Dodge motor car, fortune, was drown- ed yesterday at a holiday camp near Little Current, Ontario.

Dodge fell overboard from, a boat which was conveying him to hospital after an accidental dynamite explosion in which he and his wife and three others were injured...

He married only on August 2.-(Reuter).

ut regulars and reservists combined R.A.F. VOLUNTEER

is well below a million men, and these forces are scattered over a variety of areas.-(Reuter).

"FRENCH AIR CHIEF TO VISIT GERMANY

Paris, August 16. While big army manoeuvres are progressing in Germany, General Vuillemin. Chief of the French Air Staff, is flying to Berlin today to return the visit paid last year to the French Air Force, by General Milch, German. Air Minister.

General Vuilemin will be accom- panied by French air officials and will stay in Germany until August

21-(Reuter).

BUMPER RICE CROP

Chenglu, August 16.

A bumper rice crop is expected}

RESERVE

NEW DIRECTORATE

APPOINTED

London, August 16. The Air Ministry yesterday announced the formation of a new Directorate to supervise expansion of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

Sensational New York Trial

TAMMANY HALL LEADER FACING GRAVE CHARGES

New York, August 16. James J. Hines, leader of the powerful Tammany Hall poli- tical organisation which at onc time controlled the New York electorate and wielded enormous influence, was charg- ed yesterday in what promises to be the most sensational trials in the history of this city. Hines is charged with bribery and operating lotteries. His trial is expected to lead to disclosures with regard to the influence of| gangsters on city Judges magistrates, long since suspected but hitherto never proved in open court.

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Hines, for 20 years a leading figure in New York polities. enter- ed the court with a confident air and asserted that he would be ac- quitted."..

But he is opposed by an equal confident District Attorney - Thomas E. Dewey, the lawyer who broke the power of racketeer ter- rorism in New York,

NUMBERS GAME Dewey, whose special ap- pointment as Prosecutor for Racket and Vice Investigation led to the undoing of racke- teers in New York, alleges that Hines has been involved in a betting on numbers, racket which is said to have pro- duced some £20,000,000 per annum for the murdered gangster "Dutch" 'Schaltz and. others.

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S'HAI TERRORIST ACTS TRACED TO HONGKEW PRO-JAPANESE GANG

Shanghai. August 16.

That a pro-Japanese secret terrorist organisation known as the "Society of the, Yellow Path" exists in this city and has been respon- sible for the majority of the bombing incidents and assaults in the French Concession and the International Settlement during the past few days, became known yesterday in court proceedings against an alleged terrorist arrested during the week-end.

LONDON PROTEST MARCH INCIDENT

Japanese Embassy Official Involved

London, August 16.

Major Takahashi; assistant Japanese Military Attacho, and Miss Sheridan-Jones, assistant organiser of the China Cam- paign Committee, were invol ved in an incident outside the Japanese Embassy yesterday in the course of a demonstration beld under the auspices of the Committee.

The defendant admitted that he had placed a bomb in front of the the Chinese travel office on July 12 upon the instruc-

building of

tions of his chief and that he was

also ordered to bomb the Aurora University in the French Conces- sion on June 29 but did not suc- *ceed.

The secret organisation, he de- clared, is directed by two notorious Chinese, gangsters who have their headquarters in the New Asia Hotel. In the Japanese-controlled Hongkew district.

ACTED AS SPY

The indictment against Hines

The defendant also admitted that he had acted as a spy for alleges that fellow-members of

the organisation for a con- Under the control of Air Com-Schultz's gang will declare in court

siderable time" in the Inter- modore, C. W. H. Pulford, the that they are able to determine the

national Settlement.. Directorate will be responsible for winning numbers in the lotteries. the co-ordination of all matters

About 50 persons, carrying ben- The bombing of the Chinese relating to the establishment of can

The maximum sentence. that ners urging a boycott of Japanese travel office was, rewarded with a

be faicted on Hines is 25 goods, were marching past the gift of $50, he stated.. Volunteer Reserve centres, or-years' imprisonment.

Embassy on their way from Soho The existence of this secret Kanisation and recruitment.-(Reu-

The New York Sun declares that Square to a protest meeting in group has been known to the po- teri.

upon the result of the trial largely Hyde Park when a Japanese, later Hee of the International Settle- depends whether Tammany" Hall identified as Major Takahashi, ment for some time and for this will survive as a potent political tore up a book which Miss Sheri- reason they have instituted "strict factor-Reuter

dan-Jones was distributing and examination of all persons wishing snatched another from her.

to enter the Settlement from Jap- REPORTED TO POLICE

anese controlled territory.-Trans- ocean), booklet Was

NEW AMBASSADOR TO MOSCOW

London, August 16.

Sir William Seeds, former British

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entitled.

in Tungklang, Nanklang, Pachung and other halen in northern Sze-j

The Ambassador-Elect is 56 years "China's Struggle for Freedom.” chuen during the autumn harvest. Ambassador to Brazil, has been ap-old and has had a distinguished and contained speeches and incident to the police. The China It is estimated that the harvest pointed Ambassador to Moscow in diplomatic career, having served at message from will be sufficient for feeding an succession to Viscount Chilston, Washington, Pelping. Athens, Lis- Chiang Kai-shek, army of 500.000 men for three who is retiring at the end of the bon, Berlin, and Munich. (Reuter). Miss Sheridan-Jones said that it would take regarding the as years.(Central News).

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Generalissimo Campaign Committee, she said,

would consider today what steps:

she had made a statement or the sault-(Reuter).

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