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LANDSLIDE IN WEST INDIAN ISLAND

Enormous Death Roll Feared

New York, Nov, 23.

It is estimated thai hundreds of people were baried fàìà mountain laadslide on the le land of St. Lucia. They were the inhabitants of two hamlets : which were overwhelmed by an... avalanche eight miles long. Rescuers had hardly started to recover the bodies of 45 dead and 69 injured in one landslide, when another burled all the dead again as well as some of the injured, and several of the rescuers.

Fifty labourers wete sheltering

CABLES

Polish Press | JAPAN'S REPLY

TO US. NOTE UNSATISFACTORY

Muzzled

WIDE POWERS GIVEN TO OFFICIALS

Warsaw, Nov. 23. A new decree dealing with the press. isaned yesterday, stiffens the penalties for "en- dangering public order" and; empowers the authorities to suppress completely all of- fending newspapers.

Washington, Nov. 23. Mr. Cordell Hull declared yesterday that Japan's reply to his note of October 6 was not Satisfactory.

The Japanese Government was [not responsive to the position of the United States as set forth, in the mote, nor to the general post- [tion which the United States had {adopted throughout its history re- The decree, also abolishes the garding Ame, Iman rights and in- Institution of "responsible editor."terests in their relations, not only who hitherto took the respons-with China, bility for any offence and in some countates. countries is known as the "prison

editor," and makes

but with All other

Mr. Hull added that he preferred the chief withhold further comment until of departments the State Department had had ar-more time to study the substance and Implications of the Japanese reply.Reuter.

editor or heads personally responsible for ticles.

in a house which was swept into The decree also makes compui- sory the printing of cfficial com-

and muniques

Increases the penalties for libel--Reuter.

tae

a river and few escaped.

The disaster. occurred on main road connecting the two sides of the island, and is believed to be due to a volcanic action, as the steep mountain-sides, which are among the most beautiful In the West Indies did not slip, but crack- ed with a loud roar each time the landslides started.

COMMONS QUESTIONS

London Nov. 23.

In the House of Commons yes-

NOTED PILOT:

KILLED

terday. Mr. G. Le M Mander Flew Prime Minister

(Liberal) asked the Prime Minis- ter if he would state to what extent recently had advice been officially tendered by Members of the Government to Owners 21 newspapers on the attitude that they should take on.foreign policy. Mr. Chamberlain replied: "No It is now believed that 150 have such advice has been tendered."

Hundreds of relatives waited in pouring rain all night to identify bodies laid out in a row on the | roadside.--Reuter.

P

150 BELIEVED DEAD

been killed as a result of the St. Lucia landslides.

Rescuers are working waist-deep in mud, and water.--Reuter.

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IMPORTS INTO

SHANGHAI

Japan Ahead Of British Empire

Shanghai, Nov. 23 Five countries to-day con. trol almost 90 per cent., of Shanghai's foreign imports, while all other countries share Ittle more than ten per cent. of this trade, a detailed analy- sis of the Chinese Maritime" Customs trade returas for October reveals.

.

The five countries are Japan, the British Empire, the United States. Germany and the Netherlands East Indles.

The Japanese easily lead their share of local imports in October being slightly more than 25 per cent,, as compared with 'pre-war days when Japanese imports held third place at 17 per cent.

The British Empire with

13

second

To Germany

London, Nov. 23 Commander G. Robinson. the pilot who flew Mr. Neville Chamberlain to.. Germany recently, was killed when the two-engined machine in which he was making a test flight crashed In the neighbour- hood of Brits yesterday after-

noon.

Mr. Mander-"Is it not the case that very recently representations had been made by Members of the Inner Cabinet to owners and

Another pilot who accompanied him on the "test fight lost his editors of newspapers as to the way they should treat foreign fe. affairs, and

done was not

Commander Robinson had flown officially was it done unofficially?" į upwards of 5.000 hours on regu- Mr. Chamberlain Neither of lar service Lights including neially nor unofficially."-British 1,000 hours on the night service Wireless..

between London and Berlin.

BRITAIN'S INCOME

A few days before he flew the Prime Minister. to Godesberg. Commander Robinsen covered the Lendon-Stockholm "route in the 1 half

AND EXPENDITURE record time of four and

hours-Transocean.

3 'IRAQ RECOGNISES

ITALIAN REIGN

Rome, Nov. 23. Iraq has recognised the Italian of ...... Abyssinia.—Trans-

~London, Nov. 23: Exchequer returns show that total ordinary revenue amount to

£426,300,251.

with. comparedTM 415,637,003 year ago. Total expenditure, less self-balancing conquest items. is £622,127,005, compared occan with" £537.700:249 at the corres- ponding date of 1937. British wireless.

"CHURCH LIVING

"

IN PAST

The opinion that the Church of England was living in a forgotten past, and while the very founda- tions of Christianity were sharing was pursuing its way placid and 22 percent., compared with unalarmed, was expressed by the first place prior to the war, while Bishop of Bristol, Dr. C. Salisbury America is third with 19 per cent, woodward. in his presidential compared with second place before address: the war when she was far ahead of Japan, -Reiter.

WALLACE HARPER CASE RAISED IN COMMONS

London, Nov. 23

The Church was called to be [active, militant, a dynamic force, converting individual men and women and recaling them to Giá.

influencing also and guiding

the life of the whole community and directing it to spiritual ends,"

"How grievously the Church, as it is, falls short, of high ideal is patent to us all,” he continued. "It In the House of Commons yester is absorbed in things that are of day, Mr. & C. Crossley (Cons.) small. Importance when set along- asked whether the Prime Minister side of its high calling. had caused a protest to be made While God is openly denied, to the Japanese Government at the while the very foundations of illegal entry of Japanese soldiers | Christianity are shaking, while fer- into the premises of Messrs. Wal-ces hostile to man's spiritual kite. lace Harper and Company Ltd. at are everywhere appearing the Canton and the selame of moter Church pursues its way placiu-and cars and accessories in the pre- unalarmed. mises in spite of British Consular seals having been placed on the building.

"The rank and file of Church- people have little sense of purpose. Their Churchmanship consists in Mr. R. A. Butler. Under-Secre- going to church on Sunday, taking tary fo Foreign' Affairs, replied some part in the organisations of 'that the Foreign Secretary had the parish, and leading respectable

called for a report on the case.- land, blameless Livca. Reuter

PURCHASES "BY FORCE"

Tientsin November 12.

The Mitaul Bussan Kaisha. Lid..

"Meanwhile the world outside pursues its stormy course," regard- ing the activities and the pre- occupations of the Church with a ¡kindly if a somewhat contemptuous

tolerance.

COLONIES

the Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd.. JAPAN'S HINTON etc. in Pelping are reported by the Takungpao. Tentsin corres- pondent to have sent one hundred Citing the American Declara- and Afty men to the interior of tíon of Independence on the China, in territory under their equality of mankind, the Japanese occupation, to buy off all kinds Foreign Office spokesman on No- of old metals, by compulsion. Ifvember 2 stated that, in his per- Lecessary.

belfered sonal opinion; Asiatics

With the aid of the puppet that the holding of colonics and authorities they order the local privileges by the Western nations puppet magistrate or Chamber of in the Aslatie zone was wrongful, Commerce of the district concern- and should be eliminated.

ed to hand in, within a fixed Although the spokesman déclin- period, a certain amount of old ed to commit himself further, this metals. In this way. they hope statement is considered as en to make up for the lack of raw unofficial Indication of measures materials for their ammunition leading up to the abrogation of plants—“Takungpas"

the Nine-Power Treaty

Mr. Howard Hording.

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