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PEACE CONFERENCE SAVED FROM DISASTER.

CHAOS IN CHILE.

RUN ON CENTRAL BANK.

MILITARY PLOT.

London. Apr. 7.

Messages from Santiago de Thile indicate that the political situation there is grave following the abandonment of the gold

standard.

Martial Jaw Was ordered throughout the country Inst night following a serious run on the Central Bank.

A military plot to capture Lite Presidential Palace has been dis- covered and Congress is sitting in secret sension to kaùsåler situation. Reuter.

the

LECTURE ROOM TRAGEDY.

ABSENTMINDED ACT CAUSES DEATH.

/Reuter's Special Service).

London. Apr. 7

pro-

The ghastly result of fessorial absent-mindeness Was described at the inquest ati Liverpool to-diny Into the death'off a science-master, Mr. James Foote, Mr. Foote was lecturing a class at the Walton Junior Technical School in the laboratory.

The

Apparently he felt thirsty, and THE

picked up a glass and drank itsj contents. He swallowed a beaker- ful of acid in mistake for water; and fell down writhing in agony. dying within seconds.

The

quest was adjourned.

OLDEST ENGLISH

PEER.

LORD NORTH PASSES

AT 95 YEARS.

London Apr,

THE

Prince driving.

PRINCE

ON

BRITISH

MINISTER

STEPS IN.

PROPOSALS TO

GAIN TIME.

(Our Own Correspondent). Shanghai, Apr. 8, 1.45 p.m.

RED MENACE RUSSIANS LEAVING

IN

SHANGHAI.

MANCHURIA.

MARTIAL LAW IN CONFLICT WITH JAPAN

NANTAO.

UPRISING FEAR.

(Special to "Telegraph")

Shanghai, Apr. 8.

Once again, Sir Miles Lampson has exerciseding in the native quarter, is the A Communist coup. an upris- his mediating influence to menace now facing the Chinese prevent a collapse of the authorities in Shanghai.

Shanghai armistice nego. The danger is obviously en-

tiations.

hanced by the presence of thou- sands at unemployed, who are The problem of fixing a time likely to succumb easily to the limit for the complete

with-blandishments of the Red agita drawal of the Japanese forces or into the International Settle-arded by the authorities is in- That the n. ter is seriously re- ment had brought both Chinese diented by the extraordinary men- and Japanese delegates to the sures being taken to prevent an end of their tether yesterday outbreak. Nunta and the native afternoon, and the complete city are virtually under martial, wreckage of the conference ap-law. peared to be inevitable.

WAR RUMOUR.

The British Minister saw at once The China Press made dis- that the only means of preventing closures regarding the special steps an irreparable breach was to on-which are being taken by the able the negotiating parties to Public Safety Bureau in Nontao) avoid committing themselves to the as a result of reports that upris- mujor issue and he, therefore, augings are being prepared. xester the issuance of statements All suspicious-looking persons by each party, or a joint statement, are being searched and closely guaranteeing complete withdrawal questioned. on the part of Japan and clarifying her stand on the part of China.

CAPITALS TO DECIDE.

It took some time to persuade the

Nantno is in a further state of uneasiness because it is feared that the armistice negotiations will break down and It is rumoured that in that event, the Japanese military will invade Nantao and

delegates to consider the proposal, the Chinese City-ofer.

but finally they agreed that the nature of these neutral measures should be sent to the Nanking and

LINKS.Tukyo Governments

BEATEN IN FOURTH ROUND OF R.N. HANDICAP.

for approval.

respectively SQUARING BRITISH

Meanwhile, the conference has [adjourned until Saturday afternoon Wien, It is expected, instructions

ACCOUNTS.

regarding Sir Miles Lampson's ONLY FIXED DATE suggestion will have been received by both parties,

The British

rested:

Minister contem-

LOAN OUTSTANDING.

plates that the issuance of either of

London, Apr. 7. Loudon, Apr. 7.

Questioned in the House of After winning his first three would operate as a substitute for which it would be found possible three statements, if so designed, Commons ay to the dute by matches, the Prince of Wales was the solution of the stubborn time-to repay the remaining balances defeated in the fourth round of limit problem. the Junior Handleap knockoutį

of the credita obtained last! The death has occurred of Lord competition in the annual meeting SUGGESTED STEPS.

Autumn by the Treasury from North, at the age of 96 years.

of the Royal Navy and

.France and the United Royal

States, He was England's oldest Peer, Marines Golfing Society at Sun- The folowing are the steps sug-Major Elliot, Financial Secretary and his godmother was Queeningdale to-day.

to the Treasury, said that since: Adelaide, wife of William IV.

The eleventh holder of the title, great struggle with Surgeon the Japanese delegates expressing of the American credit,

One, that a statement be issued by of last month, the remaining part the repayments made at the end

the Inst green by one Commander Cameron, who won on the hupe that British Wireless.

they

namely would twenty million dollars, had been hole.be

position to com repaid. The right to re-borrow plete the withdrawal of their forces within a period of six months, if not sooner, when condi- tions have improved to such an ex-. tent that they feel safe to with- draw.

which was created in 1564. Lord North succeded thereto in 1884. He owned about six thousand aers of tand.

The heir is Lieut.-Col. the Hon. W. F. J. North, who was born in 1860. He joined the Norfolk Regiment at the outbreak of the Great War, serving with them in France, where he later command- the 26th Royal Fusiliers- Renter.

INDIAN

CONGRESS

The Prince was eliminated after

AMERICA'S 22,000 BANKS.

SUGGESTED UNIFIED

CONTROL.

4

in

FEARED.

THOUSANDS APPLY FOR VISAS.

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH”)

HARBIN, Apr. 8.

FOLLOWING THE ORDERS FOR

THE

Captain Frank Hawki, who was critically injured in an air crash yesterday.

HUMAN BULLET INJURED.

MOBILISATION OF SOVIET FORCES IN CAPTAIN HAWKS

THE TRANS-BAIKAL AREA, RUSSIAN RESIDENTS OF MANCHURIA LEAVING THE COUNTRY IN THOUSANDS.

As

ARE

CRASHES.

(Reuter's Special Service). S far as the western line of the Chinese Eastern

Railway is concerned, it is learned that all Soviet tain Frank Hawks. is popularly

New York, Apr. 7. "The Human Bullet," as Cap citizens and their families have been ordered to evacuate known on account of his extraor as soon as possible.

dinarily consistent speed flights, The situation is regarded as critical, for the actions Worcester, Massachusetts, as the is lying in a critical condition at of the Soviet Goverment can only be interpreted as the result of a serious smash, result of a fear of conflict with Japan. Although the plots in the world, he has been One of the most famous speed Soviet's relations with Japan are at present, apparently, dent, but to-day his record-break- friendly, the mobilisation order and the subsequent ing machine failed him and crash- remarkably Immune from accl- developments all point to a belief in Soviet official circles ed. that friendly relations with Japan cannot last.

Hawks was dragged unconscious The Soviet Society of Aviation and Chemical De-been badly crushed and his skull from the wreckage. His face had fence is reported to be organising a more serious mili- tarisation of its 12,000,000 members.

is injured.

IN

Captain Hawks holds the Ameri- can trans-Continental air record while he fitted between European

IN Harbin, more than two thousand applications for capitais last year at speeds which visas have been filed with the Soviet Consul by made the ordinary air maila scom Soviet citizens who are desirous of leaving Manchuria,

like post-chaises. "while the going is good.'

The situation is being watched by foreigners with the greatest anxiety.-Reuter.

FOREIGN AID IN CHINA.

POLICE FORCE IDEA, AGAIN MOOTED.

CARGO THEFTS MYSTERY.

HEAVY LOSS TO SHIPPERS.

niversary of the original credit, BRITISH ATTITUDE. involving had been retained until the an

August 28th.

ing only the loan of 2,500 million There now remained outstand-

franes from the French public

ANTIQUITIES OF BETTING LAW.

ANOTHER ROYAL COMMISSION.

London, Apr. 7. The probable appointment of a Royal Commission to make a com- prehensive survey of the laws re- Antwerp, Ap. 7.

Inting to sweepstakes and lot- A series of mysterious thefts, teries, was announced in the loasca running into Home Secretary. Sir

House of Commons to-day by the thousands of pounds, and occurr

Horbort London, Apr. 7.

ing at a variety of places, hava

Samuel. which was not repayable before for the chief of China's ills is to that an International gang is at low regarding sweepstakes and The suggestion that a solution ing to world ports in the belief the way of enforcing the present.. caused the police to issue a warn that serious difficulties existed in He said it was generally agreed the date of maturity in September, be found in the appointment of work.

British Wireless.

foreigners as the directors of a

lotteries. Events in the last two new policing organisation has is the pillaging of the cargoes of notice of the authorities and the The particular bent of the gung years had brought this to the again been made by a foreigner.steamers bound for Australia. public. There were difficulties in On this occasion, an attempt America and Japan. Enormous connexion with the enforcement of was made to place the proposal on 10880s have been suffered in re-the law relating to street belting, an official basis by a question In cent months. the House of Commons,

and the totaliator, and from time: At Antwerp, eight arrests have to time new developments arose, The policing of China by the been effected, two of the culprits such as betting on motorcycle and League of Nations in order to being women. It is alleged by the greyhound racing. stamp out bandita was urged by police that the prisonera Mr. E. Macquieten, a Conservativo discovered emptying M.P. In the House of Commons cases of their contents and Alling cd and atops should be taken for to-day.

them up with ashes to allay ausmission with wide terms of re He proposed that small policej pleion of tampering-Reuter.

the appointment on a Royal Com- ferenco British Wireless.

TRADE ADVISERS FOR OTTAWA.

Tivo, that a joint statement be issed on the authority of the heads of both delegations, stating that while the Japanese delegates ex- press the hope of a complete with- drawal, the Chinese delegates ex- New York, Apr. 7. A scheme to bring all of Ameri-! Lengue Assembly's resolutions is! press the view that the spirit of the ca's 22,000 banks under control is being formulated by Mr.drawal is carried out.

Federal not fulfilled until complete with- Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, as a result issued by the Chinese dologates

Three, that a statement of a recent agreement between Mr to the effect that China rogards Meyer and Senator Glass, Chair- man of the Senate Banking Com-Assembly's resolutions

the

spirit

League Allahabad, Apr. 7.

48 not

London, Apr. 7. Despite the Government's decision Mr. Meyer recently expressed complete withdrawal of the Japan Thomas, to-day informed a doputa- forces

having been fulfilled until the The Dominions Secretary, J. H. prohibiting the annual session of the view that many fallures the Indian National Congress, Pun- small banks would have been avoid- naval and milltary forces lato tion of the British Committee on members of the League should be recruited from various dit Malaviva, the veteran National-able if there had been a unified sys-Ronds Area in the Hongkow Dia- had decided to appoint trade advi-select cack to operate in

the Settlement and ex-Settlement Empire Trade that the Government ist leader, in a statement to the tem of control-Reuter's Ameri-trict, has been effected.

DEFIANT.

PREPARATIONS FOR CONFERENCE.

mittee.

press, said it was hoped that the can Service.

Conference would be held at Delhi

on the 24th instant.

He added that the preparations for the Conference would proceed. -Reuter,

AMERICA AND THE RUBBER CRISIS.

A DICTATORSHIP. FAVOURED..

New York, Apr. 8, "A one-man dictatorship" as a means of revitalising the rubber Industry of the United States has boen virtually agreed to by leaders

of the rubber and allied Industries,

Router's American Service.

WHEAT QUOTA BILL.

PASSES HOUSE OF COMMONS.

of

London, Apr. 7. Tho essential part of the Government's scheme to rollove the depression in the agricultural Industry was carried through to- night when the House of Commona passed, by. 308, votes to 58, the third reading of the Wheat Bill.

of the

OBSTINATE POINT.

be

T. U. C. INVITED TO CO-OPERATE.

It is hoped that this manner of getting round an obstinate point: will satisfy botineldes.

#

were

packing

TEN ROUNDS WITH CARNERA.

MCCORKINDALE IN THRILLING FIGHT.

London, Apr. 7.

The Government had decided that revision of the law was nood-

us soon

as possible,

SILVER LOWEST

FOR SIX MONTHS.

ONLY SLIGHT DROP IN DOLLAR.

sers to the United Kingdom delega-prescribed arca. tion attending the Ottawa, Con

China's Initiative Needed. ference. The deputation expressod

Captain Anthony Edon, the its gratification and promised. Its

Under-Seerotary of State for usalstance and co-operation.

Foreign Affairs, replied that Sir Mr. Thomas later invited a da. John Simon was not propared to The Military Sub-Committee of Congress to honinate two representive in a matter of this kind putation from the Trade Union propose the scheme. The initia the Conference which mot again tatives to accompany the United obviously rested with the Chinese this morning. spent a good deal Kingdom delegation.--British Wire- of time yesterday inspecting the

Government.

At the Albert Hall to-night, in has brought the price of silver to A docline of 8/16ths in London lega. Woosung Area over which there

Mr. Macquiston's

suggestion a ten rounds contost, the South a lower level than for six months in the greatest dispute in the

that many potential police loadors African champion, McCorkindalo, past. Tho genarni belief is that negotiations regarding the locall-

for China were willing to serve went the full distance with Primo oven lower rates may be soon, ties for basing the Japanese.

without pay brought a reiteration Carnora, the Italian giant. troops.

of Captain Eden's reply-Reuter. It was a fight full of thrills and while China bought at the declina In London, speculators sold: the Italian gained the decision on After the official fixing, the market points..

They observed Japanese build- Ing barracks for billetting the withdrawn troops at Woosung.

FURTHER MEDIATION.

STICKING IT OUT.

SIR RICHARD, SQUIRES WON'T RESIGN.

London, Apr. 7.

The following team has been chosen to represent the let XI of the Hongkong Football Club The Bill establishes a quota for]

against the South Wales Borderers foreign whoat and gives a guaran-neutral observers of the situation, Squires has announced that he Foley; Railton, Segalen & Bald Again through the mediation of Newfoundland, that Bir Richard 4.46 p.m.-Rodger; Strange & It is reported from St. Johns, on the Club Ground to-morrow at teed price for British growers-the Chiness delegates have agreed has no intention of resigning-win; Reuter.

Alexander Reuter

Hyes.

(Continued on:Page 7.)

Champion In Trouble.

ruled steadler, chlady dow, to absence of sellers,

It was learned to-night that Al 8/8ths.

New York reporta a decline... of

comply with certain regulations aver, not being in ratio to the lightweight title for refusing to 1/8th to 1. 2.8/8d the fall, how Foreman has been deprived of his

The local dollar has dropped Reserve of the Boxing Board of Control.-- cline in silver pricus.

Reuter.

Pia inclined to be ca