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EMPIRE DAY

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FTC MATALAN TUESDAY, MAY

24, 1932.

日九十月四

"FORT" DUNLOP

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ANNUM SINGLE OOFK 10 CENTS

AS BRITISH AS THE FLAG

Empire Day Fair-Stand No. 14 & 15

MAN WHO KILLED KITCHENER BATTLE OF WORLD CURRENCIES

Mystery Adventurer Under Arrest

AMAZING WORLD WAR SHANGHAI STRIKE

DIARY

FOUND

HOW HAMPSHIRE

WAS SUNK

New York, May 23. The true solution to the mystery of the death of the Earl of Kitchener when H. M. S. Hampshire was

sunk off the Orkneys in 1916, is believed to be within sight, with the arrest in New York to-day of a mysterious figure, notorious for his anti-British activities.

On Monday, June 6, 1916, Lord Kitchener and his staff embarked

Hump- on the armoured cruiser

shire for the purpose of procced- Ing on a secret mission to Russin, planning a great simultaneous offensive in the East and West.

THE OLD THEORY.

"By an unhappy error of judg-

ment," writes his blographer,

"an unswept channel was chosen.

WARNING

CHINESE LEADER'S

QUEER MESSAGE

TO LEAGUE

Geneva, May 23.

· The Chinese delegation at ! Geneva has addressed to Sir!

Government's Offer

Some of Demands Granted

Nanking, May 24.

Whilst all the demands of the Eric Drummond, the Secretary-Shanghai postal strikers have General of the League, a tele not been conceded, the Ministry grum from the chairman of the of Communications has in- National Crisis Salvation Asso-indicated ita willingness to make ciation of China, dated May 20, some concessions. declaring that unless Japan is

The Ministry has agreed

tal

rice!

warned by the League Assembly accept the demands of the strikers to desist from further hostile for the restoration of the and aggressvie acts, there is allowance and for the postpone every probability and possibility ment of the execution of its re of the situation in the Far East trenchment policy, but it is unable developing into a world war-te amalgamate the Postal Savings

Bank and the Postal Administra- ! Reuter.

tion or to cancel the contracts with the aviation companies, as demanded by the workers,

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HARBIN OFFENSIVE

ANOTHER BATTLE

This statement was made by General Yu Fei-peng, the Vice- Minister of Communications, who said alt employeea reviving less than $80 per month would have their rice allowance restored,

for the passage of the ruler and ON "DOORSTEP" tion that the expenditure on Le

Kitchener-the secret of whose! journey had been betrayed-wan to die swiftly at the hands of England's enemies,"

The general supposition iv. in fact, that the Hampshire struck

mine.

The true cause of the disaster, there is now reason to believe, was an internal explosion, an in- fernal machine planted aboard by

an agent of the enemy.

Harbin, May 24. The tide of battle is again raging in dangerous proximi- ty Harbin. The anti-Man- chukuo forces have launched another fierce assault and the sound of gunfire was clearly heard in Harbin all day yes- terday.

The battle began

ALLEGATION DENIED. General Yu denied the allega-

Postal Savings Bank is $1.02 million per annum, declaring that the total was only half a¡

added million. He

that separation of the Postal Savingsį Bank from the Postal Administra- tion had resulted in the deposits being doubled.

the

Dr. John F. Condon, the mysterious "Jafsis, who has gone to Great Barrington la hunt for the gang who received $50,000 from him, in'æbninuxion with the Lindbergh kidnapping.

TURN IN LINDBERGH

AFFAIR

The Vice-Minister concluded by SCENE SHIFTS

saying that

oficials

the of

Ministry who had been encourag. TO NEW" CENTRE

ing the strikers had already been

Sunday ON

night. the insurgents, making dismissed.-Reuter.

their drive in the vicinity of thej CANNOT BE TOLERATED. Kit-u-Hai Railway and the fighting

THJ in is going on with

abatement.

DIARY INSCRIPTION. Killed The Man Who chener," is, in fact, the title scribed on the front page of n diary found in the possession of

York! the man arrested in New to-day. It may be sheer bravado. but his dossier suggests other- wise.

The man is understand to be an ex-journalist, who fought againal England in the Boer War and s enmity always displayed hitter towards Britain.

He is an internationally known adventurer of great resource and laring.

to

ESCAPE IN AEROPLANE. Once before he was in the hands of the United States authorities. He was arrested in 1919, but escaped and got clear away Mexico in 213 aeroplane. It la said that he was wanted in 1919 by the British authorities in can nexion with the burning of

British ship.

#1

The diary contains a map of the <1088, Orkneys marked with a

written against which are

the words: "Killed Kitchener flere." approx- The spot marked is imately where the craiser Hamp- shire actually sunk.

signs !!

I

upon

sensational

A CRISIS TO END CRISES

JOSIAH STAMP ON GOLD VALUES

INTER-IMPERIAL

ECONOMICS

London, May 23. Sir Josiah Stamp, the famous British economist. apparently

does not subscribe to the view of Professor Cassel that Britain's successful employment of

since a paper, currency September last has proved that the world can dispense with a gold standard..

In a speech to-night, at a dinner given in London by the Canada Club, Sir Josiah Stamp, who is a director of the Bank of England.

as well as chairman of the L.M.S., Railway, said that no lessons in regard to the relative values of

Sir Josiah Stamp, the famous

British economist and baakoṛ-

different monetary systems could FAMOUS FLIER

be drawn from their behaviour in the last three years.

OUR ONLY HOPE.

Uniess that is, be added, wel

PROFESSOR

TARRED AND. FEATHERED

PRETORIA MEN'S OUTRAGE

(Reuter's Special 'Service).

Pretoria, May 23. Tarred and feathered and clad only in a pair of bathing slipe, Professor H. P. Lamont, of Pre- toria University, was to-day push- ed out of a motor-car into the main' square of the city and com- pelled to run for shelter.

On his back was slung a large placard inscribed:

WAR

WINE

AND WOMEN

Four men were responsible for the outrage. They have been ar rested and have made a statomont declaring that they tarred and feathered the professor because they believe him to be the author of a book which offends the Afrikanders,

Professor Lamont says that he was walking in his garden when he was seized by four men, forced

FEARED DEAD into a motor-car and taken out of

were to confeas that changes of NO TRACE FOUND the present magnitude in the

value of gold were to be a regular BY DESTROYER fenture of the world economie system.

"Our only hope is that this is al world depression which is to end world depressions, for we ought| at all costs to safeguard selves against the possibility of its repetition."

our-

A TIMOR VICTIM

Batavia, May 23.

is feured

the city where the outrage was committed.

His assaltants are being charged with assault.

THE JAPANESE WITHDRAWAL

LEAVING WOOSUNG

TO-MORROW

18

now

The Dutch destroyer which! has been searching for the miss- OTTAWA AND AFTER.

ing German airman, Captain Hans Bertram and his three) Referring to the Imperial New York, May 23. Economic Conference at Ottawa, companions, has sent a wireless

(Telegraph Special.) Sir Josiah declared that one of message announcing that noi The scene of the develop-

the greatest problems before it trace whatever has been found

Shanghal, May 24. Nanking, May 24.

ments in the Lindbergh kid-

would be that of finding a means of the airmen or of the machine.

The evacuation of Japanese General Chan Ming-shu, Minis-

napping outrage. have sud-

of arresting the continued appre- There is little hope that they troops has not proceeded Heavy losses have been suf-ter of Communications, declares

denly shifted.

ciation of gold in terms of other have survived. They set out on swiftly an expected this week, but the 16th instant in their all-metal Sutselin and Yanghang are being fered by both sides in the most that the Government is fully pre-

commodities. Interest is now centred bitter engagement of the cam-¡ pared to` meet the Shanghai

The task of finding the equili- Junkers flyingboat from Kupang evacuated to-day and Proshan and the possibility of paign, Neither side has beenj postal strike situation. able to secure

He said he expected a settle.appenings in the town of Great (brium of tariff polletes at Ottawa with Port-Darwin, Austraila, us Woosung to-morrow. decisive any

The Chinese police are Barrington, Massachusetts, where or elsewhere was inescapeably their destination. It success and the issue is still ment in a few days and added that Dr. John F. Condon, "Jafsie," nc-bound up in comparative internal that they ran into a storm, were standing by ready to take In doubt, The insurgents are the strikers were not striking inj well equipped and appear to be their personal interests, but were companied by a one-armed nau costs, which were changing rela-forced down in the Timer Sea, the and they will move in directly the

Thus after to-morrow in terms of monetary expression, ing of rough seas. directed by the expert military attempting to interfere with the and as Alsatian wolf-hound have tively daily, not in real value, but craft failing to survive the batter Japanese forces depart.

arrived.

was the only thing of Captain Bertram was accom Japanese troops in the Shanghai It was Dr. Condon, an elderly which lecturer of Fordham University, which tariff systems could take pasted on his last fight by Count aren will be confined to a narrow Lagoria, the well-known film strip of territory to the east of second the Shanghai-Woosung Railway, who negotiated for the return of heed. the Lindbergh baby at the corner

He declared that discrimina-operator. Herr Thom as of woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx,: tion expressed in money values pilat and Herr Klaussmann as his where they will remain until they tombark, which they are expected might be very scientifically

They had flown from Germany to do very shortly-Router. based upon differences in costs to the Far East in an effort to this year and be hopelessly demonstrate the qualities of their wrong next-Reuter.

Junkers plane and to map out long-distance air routes.-Reuter.D-OX CROSSES THE

ATLANTIC

brain.

-Kenter.

Government's administrative sys-) REFUGEES POURING IN. item, which could not be tolerated. Fighting is also going on about sixty miles to the west of Harbin and numbers of refugees from the

tre pouring battle areas Harbin.

$30,000 to the alleged kidnappers.

into IMPEACHMENT OF New York, and later paid over The Manchukuo authorities in WANG CHING-WEI

Hellunkiang have declared General Ma Chan-shan to be an outlaw and have offered a reward: of $100,000 for his capture alive and half that sum for his dend body, according to Japanese, re- purts.--Reuter.

BRITISH GOLF TITLE

Shanghai Truce Sequel

Nanking, May 24.

newspapera

S'HAL-NANKING RAILWAY

SERVICE RESUMED

TO-DAY

mechanic.

LADY PLAYWRIGHT

PASSES

DEATH OF LADY GREGORY

SAFE ARRIVAL AT CALSHOT

the

HUNTING FOR TRICKSTERS Dr. Condon said 'the other day that his full story had not been told, and it is alatod that he is now at Great Barrington hunting for the leader of the gang to whom he paid the G250,000 bolley- ing that they had the baby.

ia understood that Mr. John

London, May 23. The Central Political Council Hughes Curtis, the "millionaire"

The giant boat D-OX has auc- has been discussing. the recent bontballdor of Norfolk, will short-

ceeded in crossing the Atlantic. Impeachment of Mr. Wang Ching-ly be released. The

Shanghal, May 24.

Leaving Hollywood, Newfound- wei, President of the Executive suggest the Colonel Lindbergh

After a suspension lasting four]

land at 8 a.m. on Saturday for London, May 23. Yuan, for authorising the signing does not wish to give evidence of the Shanghai armistice agree against him in connexion with the months, traffic on the Shanghai-

Nanking Railway was restored} Lady Gregory, the well-known Germany, via the Azores, the big TENNYSON DISASTER.

without mont

consulting the cruel hoax-Reuter,

to-day, the first train lonving at playwright and Director of the machine arrived at Southampton When arrested in America in

Legislative Yuan.

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, has died Water to-night, and flow over the port before alighting on 1919, the man was charged with

The Control Yuan, making the Mears. Mustard and Co. are markten o'clock this morning.

Another train will depart this at Galway at the age of 80 years.

water the

off Calshot.~~- Lady impeachment, charges that the ing Empire Day by sending out to

the widow shipping a number of mysterious

Gregory was London, May 23.

British Wireless. boxes suspected of containing ex-

of the lute Sir William Grogory.

Later, plosives aboard the

playing cards, manufactured by Thos, here from Nanking to-day. The British Amateur Golf Chani.greement is damaging to China's customers samples of "Federation" afternoon, while two will arrive

aovereign rigths.

The full service is expected to a former Governor of Ceylon.-

The D-Ox, which made good. Tennyson, which while at sea was pionship, for which there is a very The Central Political Council De La Rue and Co, London, and Chan,

be resumed on June 1st.-Reuter. British Wireless. sunk by an explosion with several large entry, including a number of found nothing in the agreement Goodall and Son, Ltd., London.

ime from Vigo, will now fly to American and Colonial challengers, damaging .to

Lake Constance-Reuter's Special Service. opened to-day at Muirfield.

fatalities-Reuter,

at en mer

GAINS CARNERA CONTEST

SHARKEY TO MEET WINNER

(Reuter's Special Service).

Paris, May 23..

AMATEUR HOLDER

DEFEATED

A mild sen-

kation was pro vided early in the day when,

in

the first [round of the lcontest (decid- od On the knock-out gym. tom), E. Mar- tin-Smith, the Cambridge un- dergraduate, who won the

The well-known boxing pro- the title Isat moter, Jeff Dickson, has cabled to year, was de-

Martin-Smith,

the country's sovereign rights and ordered the Impeachment to be ropealed.——

Renter.

SUNDAY CINEMA

SHOWS

LOCAL OPTION BILL PUBLISHED

London, May 23. The text of the Sunday Enter tainmonts Bill was innuert to- night.

It is supported by the Acting Mr. Baldwin, and Premier.

the Attorney General, and

pro-

Jack Sharkey's manager at Boston, feated by Leonard Smith (U.S.A.) Mass, offering Sharkey £10,000 to It was a keen contest throughout, fight the winner of the Larry Martin-Smith losing by one hole in

contest which is the last green, Gains-Carnera

Or interest to the Far East is vides that local authorities shall due to take place at the White City

the failure of Gibb of Selangor, have power to grant licences for on May 80.

Sharkey has replied that he is who was defented by 3 and 2 in cinematograph ontertainmont on willing to fight the winner over ten the first round. Ha conqueror Sundays, subject to such condi-

think rounds at the White City on July was H. Howell, the Welsh champion. tions as they may 25.

--Reuter.

British Wireless...

At.....

The sight little girls who took part in the tableau at the opening of the Empire: Each represented 'a unit of the Empire. Miss. Edith Hoare was Britanniaklas Walker (Canada), Miss Molly Wynne-Jones (Australia), Miss Margaret; Lauder (South Africa), Miss Vera Ruttonjos Desal (Britisk:India),

Fung Yue-to (Now Tintin

AMELIA EARHEART IN LONDON

GREAT RECEPTION AT LUNCHEON

London, May 28. Miss Amelia Earhart, (Mrs. Putnam), the Atlantic airwoman, to-day received an enthusiatic re- coption when she attended a lunchoon which the Instituto at Journalists had arranged in honour of the American Ambas sador, Mr. Andrew Mellon,

The airwoman sat between the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, and Mr. Mallon- and talked with animation of her ex- #periences on her great fight.-

British Wireless:))