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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932.

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BLACK CLOUDS GATHER ON PEACE HORIZON.

JAPAN'S

SMILING

EVASIONS.

REFUSE A TIME LIMIT.

"IT MAY BE TEN

YEARS."

("Telegraph" Special).

Shanghai, Apr. 6. The words of a popular song "It may be for years, and it may be for

KREUGER PHAR LAP

SENSATION.

AUDITORS'

DEAD.

REVELATIONS, WORLD'S WONDER

FALSE ENTRIES

IN BOOKS.

Stockholm, Apr. 6. A tremendous sensation has been caused by the pub- lication of the preliminary report of the famous English firm of auditors, Mesars. Price, Waterhouse and Com- pany, into the affairs of the Kreuger and Toll organisa- tion.

HORSE.

ENORMOUS STAKE

WINNER.

New York Apr. 5.

race-

The most famous horse in the world, Phar Lap, the "Red Terrar" of the Aus- tralian Turf, has died of colic in California,

Phar Lap, a five-your-old geld- ing, was only once defeated in a

beaten by White Nose. Phar Lap's (Cup in November fast, being

jockey explained that he had been badly bumped.

The careful investigations earri-wonderful career, when he necupi- ever"—are recalled in con-ed out since the Sensational suicide second place in the Melbourne nexion with a Japanese of Mr. Ivar Kreuger, the "Match declaration regarding the King." continue to reveal irroga- length of the occupation of Chinese territory by Japanese forces.

Jarities.

assets.

The auditors issued a statemen to-day to the affect had

Phar Lap died in California, which in reality were non-existent, whither he was shipped in March have been appearing in the Com-in order to compete in the Agun The Japanese spokesman, after pany's books since 1930, yesterday's fruitless peace parley,

Messra. Price, Waterhouse wheCaliente Handicap, a $60,000 race, stated that Japan's willingness de-alan investigated the Hairy crash which he won by seven lengths. Anitely to withdraw her troops had in London) state that the balance een made clear, but she cannot sheet issued on December 31, 1980, and will not specify the date by grossly misrepresented the true which the withdrawal will be financial position. completed,

Kreuger's Orders, MAY BE TEN YEARS.

Under Kreuger's personal dirre-| Questioned on the point by ation, it is stated, entries were made;

Romantic History.

Owned by Mr. J. J Davis, Phar Lap had rather a romantic history.

ile was offered for auction in New

Zealand ás

a two-year-old, Mr. Davis hidding up to £160 for him China Press reporter, the spokes-eliminating substantial balances and then finding that he had not man smilingly replied:

"I may be one mouth or more; It may be three months;

Towing to the parent company by

him and the diaries.

Company's subși-

Other entries entirely eliminat-

suffleient money.

He borrowed the difier- ence, wor a ruce in New Zealand providing him with funds enough

commence his career as the mostį remarkable horse ever seen 012

It may even be ten years.” ted linbilities or established book ship the horse to Australia to Peace hopes from the Japanese slus substantial assets, side are growing darker. Instruc

There are instances, the auditors tions have been received from state, where the book assets were Tokyo that the Japanese negotia-entirely fictitious or were duplica-any track. tors are to make no further con- tins of assets appearing in the

books and Recounts of associated!!

companies. any

cessions The Chinese show no disposition to give way on point and there is grave reason to fear that the armistice, negotine Lions, will fail.

tol

What will be the next step in this event, it is impossible foresee.Router,

Fictitious Profits,

Fortunes for Owner.

A remarkable action picture of Phar Lap, whose tragic death will come as a great shock to Australian racing

circles,

LONDON

LEAGUE MISSION

PREDICAMENT. FLAT DRAMA

THE STATUS OF DR. W. KOƏ

LEGAL OFFICIAL'S

SUICIDE.

“MANCHUKUO'S" | AMAZING AFFAIR.

ATTITUDE.

(Special to "Telegraph")

Shanghai, Apr. 6.

It is reported from Mukden that the reason the Manchukuo Govern

(Router's Special Service).

London, Apr. 6. The distraught condition to which

the late Mr. Henry Hughes-Onslow, C.B.E., Chief Taxing Master of the Law

IRISH CHALLENGE.

DE VALERA SENDS REPLY TO NOTE.

(Reuter's Special Service). London, Apr. 5. Firm opposition to any policy which would endanger the Anglo-Irish Treaty was declared to-day at a meet- ing in Dublin of Mr. Cos grave's Party.

The gathering passed a resolu-. Lion recording vigorous opposition to any policy which, by depriving the Irish Free State of the ad- vantages of membership of the British Commonwealth of Nations, would not only endanger it econo- mically, but would destroy the last hopes of national re-union.

Meanwhile. the do Valera Cabinet which has been finding Rome difficulty in settling upon the final draft of the Reply to the British Note, has at last agreed upon the text.

Mr. do Valera has been

very

JAPANESE CAFES careful to leave the door open for

WRECKED.

www.www.

COMMUNISTIC INVASION.

a conference between the British and Irish Governments, according to well-informed opinion.

Oath Issue

His reply to the British Noto was pally sealed and despatched to-

it day, and is, understood that his attitude may bu sum- roarised as a refusal to consider any question of negotiating over

BERLIN AFFAIR. the removal of the Oath of Alle

London, Apr. 5.

Two Japanese. restaurants in the west end of Berlin were completely wrecked by a gang of Communist row. dies to-day, as a "protest against Japan's aggression in the Far East."

up,

Exact figures are not availablement refuses to allow Dr. Welling Courts, was reduced through at the moment, but there is reason/lon Koo, the Chinese Assessor on ill-health, insomnia and over-the premises shouting "Down with The raiders swooped down upon the League Commission, to enter work, was described to believe that he wou more mones Manchuria, is "the non-existence of The manipulations extended to in stakes than any other horse in diplomatic relations between Man-inquest at Paddington, when a war agitators."

at the the Japanese pence-breakers and the Profit and Loss Accounts and the world. He was only £20,990 chukuo and China." through fetitious items, the profits short of the record in 1930; in It is stated that the Manchukuo sound mind was returned.

verdict of suicide whilst of un- The windows were shattered

and the interior sinshed for 1930 were considerably in-1931 he won more prize-money Government is informing the Nan-

than before in his career, and this king Foreign Office to this effect.-

The Coroner, in reconstructing chairs and tables being broken up, : The Investigation

the enuse of death, suid ME the whole of both places being Committee year he added another £15,000 by enter and the Board of Kreuger and Tolltaking

Hughes-Onslow was seized with a rapidly converted into a shambles, Agua Callente

The violent heart attack when he went!

raiders Reva, Apr. 6. are trying to find a means of Handicap.

escaped leaving Dr. WW. Yen, communicating liquidation which will safeguard |

to bed. He got up at two o'clock behind a quantity of pamphlets. with the Secretary-General of the the creditos und - also enable the There was talk only a few days

in the morning, and dropped Renter. of 25 feet from preda

TAZANG SKIRMISH.

creused.

the

League, denies, on the basis of a Kreuger companies to continue age of the prospect of his being JAPAN SHOCKED.

report from General Chiang their business enter. Kwang-ni, the Japanese state-} --Renter, a ments regarding the origins of at lively fusillade between Chinese] and Japanese soldiers on the forth-west edge of Tazang.

Dr. Yun, on the contrary, states that the firing near Tazang was due to the fact that Japanese plain-clothes forces, attacknit the Chinese positions.-Reuter.

Five

further enses

of cerebrn-

despatched to England to compete in some of the big handicap event.

PREMIER MAROONED BY HOWLING MOB.

spinal meningitis were notified yes PARLIAMENT HOUSE STORMED: PRIESTS

terday, four being Tipm Kowloon.

Struck by n drying pole falling from! the third floor verandal at Staunton Street, a pedestrian, named Yung Chit, was taken to the Government Civli Hospital yesterday with a severe gush in his hend.

Dr. W. W. Yen, the principal Chinese delegate at Geneva, read. Ing the fator dispatch on the Far" Kastern situation." With him is Dr. Hoo Tasi.

1.

SMUGGLE "FUGITIVE” AWAY.

London, Apr. 5, Amazing scenes were wit- nessed at St. John's, New- foundland to-day, a sequel to a grave political scandal.

Sir Richard Squires, the Prime Minister of New- foundland, was marooned in in the House of Assembly for some hours with a bowl- ing mob waiting outside for him to appear.

Sorious rioting, had occurred

windows of Parliament Hotao being smashed."

Inquiry Rerused,

manipulate public funds; secondly, that Dr. A. Campbell, Minister' without portfolio, had. persistent-i ly refused to fle income tax re- turns; and thirdly, that

Mr. Walter Skanes, Liberal member for Saintbarbe, had converted to his own use a cortain amount of) the Marine Fisheries Department grant to his own constituency.-- Reuter.

PREMIERS' ESCAPE.

While an

entrance.

Later.

mob of ten

The mob demonstrations areso from their demand for an inquiry into the serious charges mado

The demonstration was followed against Sir Richard Squires by by a public meeting, presided over Mr. Cassin, who recently resigned by

BAD REVERSE IN MANCHURIA.

to the ground.

giance, but rondiness to state a legat case for the retention of the land annuities.

It is expected that the Reply will provoke a further Note from the British Government. The texts may not be revealed until the ques- tion is closed, when it will probably be released in London and Dublin simultaneously.

CHINESE SILK INDUSTRY.

NANKING PROPOSES

ASSISTANCE.

Nanking, Apr. 6. The Ministry of Industry is considering plans for assisting the Chinese silk industry, which

He lay unconscious for many TWO VACANCIES IN has been badly hit, firstly by

hours, then regained his senses and struggled upstairs, leaving| behind him u trail of blood.

Then he got a razor,

COMMONS.

Japanese competition, then by the world depression, and lastly by the fighting in the Shanghai

CONSERVATIVE M. P.'S area. Jocked

RETIRING.

Harbin. Apr. 6. There are strong rumours here, that the Japanese troops operat- himself in his bathroom, and eat ing along the eastern section of his body in various parts, though the Chinese Eastern Railway have not inflicting any fatal injury. suffered a bad reverse.

The Japanese are attacking at Fangcheng, which is situate a

Found Alive.

It is stated that 10,000,000 people engaged in the silk in- dustry are affected in Cheklang alonc.

London, Apr. 5. Two further. Parliamentary vanennies are in prospect by tho

The Government proposen to purchase large quantities

of He was discovered still alive retirement of Sir Newton Moore,

who represents Richmond, and cocoons, to exempt silk from the hundred miles north-east of Hat- at eight o'clock in the regning. Sir Renell Rodd, the member for export tax, and to increase the hin. This city is strongly held but died shortly afterwards. St. Marylebone, who has

duty on imported foreign silk- been Reuter- by Kirin troops who refuse

Mr. Hughes-Onslow, who was a raised to the Peerage. Both are reengnise the "Manchukuo regime, bachelor, born in 1871, Was Conservatives. -Reuter.

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FUSHUN MINES THREATENED.

BIG OFFENSIVE PLANNED.

to:

Mukden, Apr. 6. Japanese forces, cooperating with aeroplanos, are launching an

SILVER STILL WEAK.

HONGKONG DOLLAR UNCHANGED.

educated at Eton and was one of the founders of the Amateur Sir Newton Moore was twice Football Association, of which he rime Miniator of Western Aus- was the first Hon. Secretary, and tralia before settling in England was its President at the time off and entering the Imperial Parlia

ment in 1918. He has represented his death.

Richmond since 1924, and at the During the war, he assisted the last General Election had a ma- Government by procuring and of jority of 28,873 in a straight fight ganising voluntary workers rewith Mr. J. L, Thomson, the La

The Hongkong dollar remains' quired by various Government hour nominee.

unchanged at 18, 2.7/83., although offices and Committees. He was

Sir Ronnell Rodd has represent-silver is easy and the local mar- appointed Master of the Supreme ed St. Marylebone Court of Judicature in 1908, and prior to which he had a lengthy and 1/16th forward, the fall being

since 1928,

Įket relatively idio.

In London, eilver fall 1/8th spot carech in the diplomatie service.

Chief Taxing Master In 1930,

COMMUNISTS.

LEADER SENTENCED FOR 20 YEARS.

carlier in the day, the doors and thousand were shouting "Throw offensive against a band of fifteen ITALIAN TRIAL OF Squires into the harbour." Sirhundred Chinese, who have been Richard, helped by three clergy-natively aggressive to to north of men, roached a house near Parlin- the Japanese mincs at Fushun.. ment and escaped through the rear Mines on Monday, after which they The Chinese attacked the Yentl withdrew to the mountains, neari Fushun.

The Japanese forces in that area I clergyman, represent are being hastily mobilised and his position as Minister of Fin-ing business and

profen-have been ordered to eliminate the anco, at the same time accusing slonal interests. The meeting raiders-Router. the Promier of manipulating demanded an investigation of the public funds,

charges that Ministers had falsi- The Governmont Party has fled the minutes of the Executive rofused to assent to the investiga- Council. tion, but to-day tendered its resignation.

www

His majority at the last election chiefly due to absence of support, with Dr. E. A. Whitfold (Labour). kat ruled idle, America not work- was 38,829, in a straight fight Speculators bought at the decline.

After the official fixing, the mar -British Wireless.

ing.

New York reports a fall of 1/8th, with the markot dull.

Futures

MR. STIMSON'S [aro ngain easy....

MISSION..

THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.

CHILE INVESTORS IN A PANIC.

Valparaiso, Apr. 8.

Rome, Apr. 5. The trial by apecial tribunal of twenty-two Italians from Emilia,

The abandonment of the gold charged with plotting the recon-

standard by Chile has been assured London, Apr. 6.

atruction of the Communist Party

Washing, Apr. 6. by a special law which bas pasBDU The re-election of Mr. Montagu loader, Carlo Alpi, being sentenced economic burdens and the menace and the Chamber and le now await-

in Italy, rosulted to day in tho

Declaring that the world's through all stages in the Senate Norman as Governor of the Bank to imprisonment for twenty years. to world peace have been increasing the signature of the President. BUILDING STORMED. of England during the coming

year, and of Sir Ernest Musgrave. Two other accused received sen- ing during the last few months, Frenzied trading, in, peso sosuri."" Grave Charges.

Later, the mob, incensed by the Harvey as Deputy Governor was reapoctively, the remainder of the that Mr. H. L. Stimson was going various markets to-day in the up

tences of 14 years and 12 year President Hoover to-day stated ties occurred delay, attacked the Parliament announced to-day,

on the counter Mr. Casain made three definite building, and, obtaining an entry, This is the thirteenth successive sentences ranging from charges-firstly, that Sir Richard destroyed the furniture, and files year in which Mr. Norman has years to twelve months.

Seven to Geneva in the hope of facilitat pectation of a heavy depreciation had faisided the minutes of the and documents in the basement at has been elected. British Wire- Five of the accused were acquit the Disarmament Conferines wh

ing positive achievements at of the currency exobange ra Executive Council in order to the House of Assembly-Reuter. “

ted/Rautor.