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SWEDISH SUBMARINE SUNK: ESCAPE DRAMA

DIPLOMAT

IN A BRAWL

FIGHTS CHANNEL SWIMMER

BEACH INCIDENT IN

ALEXANDRIA

Alexandria, July 27,

Insisting on swimming when The beach inspector, a famous, swimmer. had decides that it

The Swedian submarine, Brevern, which escaped dianator by a miracle after being sunk yesterday.

BANK CRASH GOUGULOFF

SENSATION

was too dangerous, the Austrian COMMUNIST PLOT

Minister to Egypt. Baron Ver- shinch

Hadamiar.

breame in- IN AMERICA

volved in a brawl at an Alexan- drian bathing resort to-day.

REVELATIONS

fist-fight WHISPERING CAMPAIGN His opponent in the was the Egyptian swimmer, H aug Bey, who crossed the English Channel successfully some, years now employed at ago, who is

*} Alexandria in the expacity beach inspretor,

the,

In discharge of his office, in ordered Baron Versbach indu- mar to cease bathing in rough sea, as against the culations.

DRAGGED OUT.

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whereupon

The Baron refused, he was forcibly removed from the water by ilmey Bey.

Blows followed, and the Baron was taken to the police station in his bathing costume,

Later the Minister protested la the acting Premier who apologis- ed for the incident-Reuter

New York. July 27. Sensational revelations arc made to-day in connexion with the steadily growing list of bank failures, suggest- ing that the collapses have

been duc to a carefully- planned plot for undermining public confidence.

TO DIE

INSANITY DEFENCE REJECTED

VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER

Paris, July 27. Paul Gouguloff, the Rus- sian assassin of M. Paul Doumer. President of France, was to-lay found guilty at the Paris Assizes, and sentenced to death by the guillotine.

Gouguloff was found guilty of The police at Poutine, Michigan, murder with premeditation, the to-day raided a hotel bedrooni jury taking barely half an hour where they found evidence of a to agree upon their verdict of well-organised Communist plot to wilful murder while of sound destroy the credit of the banks by mind. fanonymously passing alarmist mes. sages over the telephone to de- positors.

The question of the prisoner's sanity was really the anly issue in the ease, the facts of the assas sination being accepted by the

The "telephone whispering" campaign has been going on for defence. some considerable time and it is

The effort of Maitre Geraud, the

WORK FOR LIFE 250 FT. DOWN

TRAPPED CREW TEAR

OFF LEAD KEEL

ALL SAVED

JUST SUFFICIENT BUOYANCY

(Reuter's Special Servico).

Stockholm, July 27, A naval drama enacted

off the Swedish coast to- day had a sensational ter- mination, one of the most miraculous escapes from death and disaster in the history of the sea.

It began with a colli sion between the Swedish cruiser, Fylgia, and the submarine, Baevern. The Baevern was damaged and sunk immediately, carry- ing her entire crew to the bottom.

The cruiser, Fylgin, which sank the Bagvern and witnessed her dramatic reappearance when all seemed lost.

JAPANESE LYTTON REPORT FEARS

ANXIETY CONFESSED IN

LONDON SPEECH

CENTENARY OF B.M.A.

VERY INTERESTING

PROGRAMME.

LONDON GATHERING

London, July 27. Over two thousand doctors, including many from overseas, have assembled in London for the centenary celebrations of the British Medical Association."

Papers totalling over a million words are being read and discussed In the twenty-four sections, presid- ed over by specialists in each section. As a check on the clo- quence of the speakers, the old prerogative of limiting speeches to ten minutes is being employed.

The programme is of exceptional interest both to laymen and mem- ¦bers of the medical profession,

MENACE OF QUACKERY.

The whole question of un- qualified manipulative, surgeons

CRITICAL HOUR IN HER will be raised in a discussion on

HISTORY

London, July 27.

"The Menace of Quackery in Physical Medicine," which will be opened by Dr. C. B. Ileald, an expert on injuries from sport.

Sharp differences of opinion are expected in a discussion on the

Japan's anxiety regarding the findings of the basis of inoculation, which will be Lytton Commission as a result of the inquiry into the ted by Sir Almroth Wright, a world the subject. The Manchuria invasion, were confessed in London to-night,nuthority on

bacteriological section will also A plea for understanding, and she had to face the gross mimun-I deal with the case of milk-borne operation Tram Europe with Ju-derstanding and antagonism of Infections, a subject which is well to the fore at the moment, since pan in her hour of crisis was made the world at large. by Colonel Homma, the Japanein

the accepted methods of estimating Lilitary Attache, speaking

"But the most critical period the number of bacteria in milk in our history regarding the have recently been shown to be the Japan Society tinner or

Manchurian question has yet wholly unreliable. to come. We are ardently hop- ing for hearty co-operation and understanding from Europe in our national crisis,”--Reuter,

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Assistance was rushed to the scene from severe oigts and surface craft were usily engaged in efforts to get into contact with the apparently doomed submarine, hour of himself, his wife, and

her hulk was seen 1e break the surface of the water.

GEORGE BRONSON of the panie runs on Furious prinical lawyer for the defence, to when chose to where she gone the veteran Japanese

REA,

ADVISER

GIVEN MANCHUKUO

APPOINTMENT

(Special to "Tolograph")

Shanghai, July 28,

It is earned from Mukilen that

Mr. Georite Bransom Rea, who is

hanks all over the country ori-¦ ginated as a result,

CO-ORDINATED SCHEME. ·

Federal

thul

officials declare they have been watching a number of similar anipaigns in different paris of the country, but there seems to be little deal-hat they are part of a co-ordinated scheme for destroying confidence.

It is, however. nimitted that while the vast majority of these

a well-known Shanghai American whispering campaigns have been and the editor of the Par Eastern deliberate attempts to wreck the Reem, has been appointed an Ad-banks, son have been the work viser to the Manchukuo authori-of unbalanced cranks. ties.

He is the first Westerner 50 88 pointed although his Inpanée sympathies are very well known

Mr. G. H. Rea is expected to pro- ceed to Changelinn From Makden. Serdig. Bruter,

BROKER FOUND POISONED

UNCONSCIOUS, IN GLOUCESTER BLDG. According to reports in circula-

tion this morning, Mr. C. Ben-

Eight hundred and eight banks have suspended payment in the first half-year, of which 275 have been in Chicago--Router.

MR. HENDERSON'S OPTIMISM

NOT DONE WITH THE

HOOVER PLAN

VERSAILLES TREATY

London, July 27. Mr. Arthur Henderson, who has

jamin, a well-known local broker, just returned to London after six

Gouguloff, the assassin of M. Paul Doumer, sentenced to death ysster- day, shown in au ante-room of the

court.

establish his case that Gougulof was and is insane, was emphasised the accused's demeanour throughout the trial.

by

HYSTERICAL OUTBURSTA. He made hysterical admissions

with

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

The story

statesman,

Mr. Yukio Ozaki.

ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. Colonel Hamma declared Out! of the wonderfal; escape of the crew was then the spirit of the old Anglo-Ja- was still alive. panese Alliance

Te thought it was stronger to-day!

lated.

TYPHOON

The most critical hour in WELL CLEAR

The submarine, affer the than ever. collision, which occurred when

panese history was, he said, ap Swedish maval erafi was return-"proachingg with the presentation of

ing to harbour after manoeuvres, the Lytton Report. Japan was!

her THREAT TO FUKIEN convinced of the justice of sank to a depth of 250 feel.

Leme. England would be Ine:

COAST Several of her compartments had first to realise how vital the Mani been flooded by The collision

hurian question was to Japan and There is little, if any, prospect to recognise the legitimacy of the of the typhoon seriously affecting damage and the crew were faced action in self-defence at the datengkong, according to the latest with the thought that they wandpanese Army in China.

intimation issued by the Royal Ob-1 jdoamed. The atmosphere of

į servatory, dranu in the submarine, the crew's

than described.

BRITISH SYMPATHY. Britain's sympathetic medite thoughts, are more easily imaginedition in the rouncil of Europe in

the last few months had tremen dously helped and encouraged da- LEAD KEEL BROKEN AWAY. pan, through difficult time when Her officers worked with magni,1, ficent coolness and resource, how-

ever. When it was discovered that | OTTAWA the craft would not respond

to

any of the normal methods of

This morning's report, issted at

Professor J. C. G. Ledingham," the leading authority on virus dis cases, will go straight to the core of an important problem when he speaks on "Tissue Changes in Virus Diseasca."

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FORENSIC MEDICINE, The section of Forensic Modi- eine will hear papers from such well-known experts as Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Professor' Sydney Smith, of Edinburgh. Dr. Godfrey, Carter will discuss freak suicides, and Dr. C. Killick Millard, Medical, Officer of Health for Leicestor, will broach a favourite subject in "The Medico-Legal Aspects of Voluntary Euthanasia.**

Finally, doctors will be given an opportunity to express their views on the vexed out-patient problem,

10 am.. gave the position of the which is at present being consider- typhoon as about 100 miles east ared in relation to the London hos- Swatow, moving on a north-wester pointed by the Prince of Wales as pitals by a special committes ap-

President of King Edward's Hos-. course

pital Fund for London. It is ex- pectedl that further possible.

The cost between Swatow and Amoy is threatened.

It is noteworthy that the Royal economies in hospital administra Observatory has consistently given tion will be advocated by Captain the direction of the typhoon J. E. Stone, of Birmingham, who

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bringing her to the surface, orders New Dominion NW, whereas the Manila warn has made a special stady of

were given for the breaking off

of the heavy lead keel. \ Proposals

the i

The methods employed by the crew to detach the keel below the surface have not yet been disclos

ed, but somehow in this hour of was found unconscious in his room months in Geneva where he pre-of his guilt, demanding to die.

emergency they managed it, and The final scenes were punctuat- in Gloucester Building last night, sided over the Disarmament Con- under circumstances which sug-ference, interviewed by the Loned by his renewed outbursts, the vessel regained just sufficient

buoyancy to rise slowly in incoherent gest that he was suffering from don Star to-day said that though interspersed

he was not completely satisfied with lamentations. He was continual- poisoning.

Mr. Benjamin was later removed the conference's results to date holy interrupting his counsel's pleas to the French Hospital, where he thought that pessimism about its for murcy. is stated to have recovered consei-final achievementa were unjusti- ousness and to be well on the way filed. to restoration of his usual health.

MORE CHOLERA CASES

NINE NOTIFIED YESTERDAY

The latest health return shows a jump in the number of cholera casen notified Incally. Nine were reported yesterday, of which four were imported.

Thero

was also one case typhold notified.

Gouguloff towards the end was on the verge of collapse. He Yhat people are able to for-writhed in his sent: his neckwear get," he said, "is that 64 nations became undone; he was breathing are represented at Genova, all with painfully: different armament problems, and

MYSTIC RANTING.

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it is not easy, though not impos. sible, to adjust no many viewpointa, When the verdict of the Court "We have not yet done with the was announced, however, Gougu- Hoover proposals, the Simon re- loff received, it in perfect quiet solution to abolish aggressive wen-and with martyr-like smile. pons or the clause in the Versail-The scene was followed by more fea Treaty which says that Cer-mystic ranting when he was led to many agreed to disarm as a pre- the cells below.

The Paris police have never Himinary to a general disarmament on part of the victor nations in been able to satisfy themselves the Great War. Those three whether the murder was instigat- points, coupled with the desire of ed by a political faction, no other the peoples of the world for dis- member of the "Russian Fascist armament. are my main reasons Party" has ever been found and the Communists disclaim any con- for optimism.-British Wirelena.

nexion with ‚hịm-Nentor.

surface,

Britain Keeping

Open Mind

ings have varied considerably, those hospital "costing."

issued yesterday giving the diree- tion as W. N. W. Had that course

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been followed, the typhoon would POSTAL BOYCOTT

have come fairly straight for Hongkong. In point of fact, the Hongkong olitirations have bean. borne out.

The local forecast i-s. W. winds, moderate, freshening: clou- dy: rain later,

Ottawa, July 27

MODERN CRAFT.

Further progress is recorded at: the Imperial Economic Conference, The Buevern is one of the most notwithstanding official reticence modern of Swedish submarines, which precludes a definite appraise SHANGHAI TO USE having a speed of 15 knots on the ment of the length of the forward

FRENCH AIR LINE surface and 9 knots below. Her strides. displacement 500 tons on the The special Ment Committee of surface and 650 tong submerged.the Dominions has, it is reported, She has four torpedo-tubes, but agreed to recommend preferences no heavy gun on her deck, which on butter ranging from 16 to 20 is equipped with an anti-craft per cent.

There are only three more modern submitted to the United Kingdom 6-pounder and a machine-gun. { The proposals in all cases will be vessels in the service, all three delegation for final decision being based upon the Bacvern madel.

NO EXTRAVAGANT DEMANDS.

MAIL SERVICE TO EUROPE

IN CHINA

AGAINST COMMUNIST

DISTRICTS

Shanghai, July 28.

It is learned from Nanking that the Ministry of Communications has decided to cut off all areas in

China under the control of either

bandits or communists from the rest of the country, at least as far as postal facilities are concerned.

In futuro, a boycott, similar to that against Manchukuo, will be conducted against all Communist and bandit districts.-Reuter.

BRAZILIAN

PIONEER

AIR

BRITISH COUNCIL'S

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Shanghai, July 28. Arrangements are being made The Fylgin which sank the It is understood to-night that whereby the despatch of mail to Bevern is a light-cruiser of 6,000 the Dominions Meat Committee's and from Europe will not be tons, equipped with 8 6-inch guns. report avoids extravagant demands affected by the postal boycott She is an old ship, having been and does not nek for preferences against Manchukuo,

SYMPATHY launched in 1905.

but for quantitative restrictions.

Mails to Europe will be carried

London, July 27. Any reports purporting to Indi- by steamer and train to Saigon The British Air Council have" of the United and then rushed by the Salgon-sont through the British Air The Acting Manager of the local cate the attitude Branch of the Ho Hong Bank, Ltd., Kingdom delegation to any of the Marsellles air mail line.

Attache in South America, who fa has recolved cabled advice from the proposals of the Dominions may be The first batch of Japanese now in Rio de Janeiro, a messago) A young Chinewo¡ girl, who fell Head Office in Singapore to the effect taken as unfounded as the British mails handled by the temporary of condolence on the death of Ma The body of enrol Jacket and racks, has reported to the police the overboard from a junk near Jardine's that the Directors of the Ho Hong delegation is keeping an open mind post officce established by Jap Santos Dumont, to the Brasilian

an unknown Chiness. the Royal Engineers, Whitfield Bar- a black wrap, was found on Chanual theft of a damaged gold wrist watch Wharf was taken to the Government Bank, Ltd., the Chinese Commercial

carried to Government, and the family, of the Rocks, in Kowloon Bay yesterday which was stolen from his room some Civil Hospital by her relatives yester. Bank, Ltd., and the OverBOR-Chinese until tho pleturo has been completanese residents was

of Bank, Lid, have decided to amal-ed with the receipt of all the pro-Dairen at nine o'clock this mor distinguished Brazilian Thai bodegang omkruly been there line between 8 p.. and 8 p.m. yesterday suffering from the affacts

gamate

posals of the Dominions,➡Kenter, (ning by the Daison Maru. Rester, plonour.—British Wireless, Bang Immersion.

of

Quartermaster Sergeant Bartin, of

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