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JAPANESE ONSLAUGHTS STILL UNAVAILING

PEAK HOUSE AMERICA SUPPORTS BATTLE FOR

IN PERIL

BIG GRASS FIRE

THREAT

STOPPED ON THE

THRESHOLD

Momentary danger threatened Mr. H. E. Stone's residence, 532; The Peak, when "fire which had broken out amongst the scrub within close proximity swept in its direction under pressure of a rather strong breeze, shortly after 11 o'clock this morning.

Frompt service and watchfal attention by members, of the Fire! Brigade averted disaster although the situation at one time looked serious enough because of the al- most entire absence of water.

The house la situated on an ele vated 8 10 on Stubbs Road be tween Wanchal Gap and Magazine Gap. Thither three engines de- parted from Brigade Headquarters one after the other on receipt! of a call, only to discover on ar rival that they could not be put into useful operation, on account| of the absence of water.

HANDPUMP ONLY.

LEAGUE

WILL SIT ON ADVISORY. COMMITTEE

Washington, Mar. 13:

It is officially announced by the State Department that the Roo- sevelt Administration has accept- ed the invitation of the League

PASSES

CHINESE HOLD THEIR GROUND

and will continue to co-operate HEAVY FIGHTING

with the League Advisory Cum- mittee dealing with the Sino- Japanese controversy-Reuter..

AT KUPEIKOW

Tokyo, March 14. General Araki, the War Minia- ter, this morning declared that he

FREE HAND did not think it would be neces

FOR U.S.

REPLY TO LEAGUE

INVITATION

ACCEPTED WITH RESERVATIONS

(Special to "Telegraph")

By Terra, Caswright. Telephi

Mengopen Ordinamon, 1804.

Received, March

Washington, Mar. 13.

The only use that could be made jri, 2038 km) of any apollince was a small hand- pump carried by the fire patrol

It is learned that the text of motor-cycle from the Peak Station, and this being then connected up American Reply to the League's with a small private lank enabled the only jet available to come in-invitation to join the Advisory

to play, where required.

Committee on the Manchurian

lication to-day.

sary for the Japanese forces to extend their operations to the south of the Great Wall.

He added that if such operations were undertaken, they would not be for the extension of the terri- tory of Manchukuo and the troops would be withdrawn as soon as was possible.-Reuter.

INVASION HELD CÈRTAIN.

Peking, March 14. Japanese invasion of North China, via Shanhalkwan, is con- sidered almost inevitable as a esult of their failure to wreat Kupelkow and Haifengkow from he Chinese defenders, who have een reinforced by over 30,000 of Chiang Kai-shok's crack troops...

There is also a story in circula. ion, said to be vouched for by a igh Nanking official, that the Chinese Government have come ato possession of a copy of a Iraft treaty between Japan and military plans for the conquest of the whole of China.

Every other means exhausted, dispute, will be issued for pub-Manchukuo, containing details of the vent sectabien une the charge of European offisera

ons remdinally way, numery by beating it out with staves.

FORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCE.

63

TREATY AUTHENTIC?

Chinese circles assert

Picture shows one of the passes through the Great Wall. Situated at Kupeikow, it commands the chief entry into Jehol from the soutix. (Photo: Serge Vargnasoff).

POLISH-DANZIG

INCIDENT·

“AGREEMENT REACHED AT GENEVA

(By

(Special to "Telegraph") .

Telegraph, Copyright, Talapraakia

Mordinance, 1834. Escrived, Marsh 4, it m

Geneva, March 14. An agreement has been reached for a settlement of the Polish- Danzig dispute...

Poland agrees to withdraw her troops which were sent to the. Westerplatte

Council's

The agreenient awaits Live approval. to-day, of which there is little.. doubt.--. Router.

MOSCOW SENSATION

ALLEGED THREAT TO

KILL HITLER "

of

COUNT ARRESTED IN MUNICH

Munich, Mar. 14. Coen vou Areovatiey, me kuder Kurt Lisaer, the Bavarian Communist Premier in 1919, has been arrested. It is alleged that he has threatened to kid. Herr Inler-Reater.

AMERICAN DIPLOMATS

ائم

SHANGHAI FLAT TRAGEDY

MARRIED MAN 'AND'

DANCER

DISCOVERED

SHOT DEAD

(Special to "Telegraph"}

(By Telepraph, Convright. Taleorphic Hoangre Ordinance, 189j. Received, March

11.00)

Shanghai, Mar. 14.

"It is confirmed that Mr. L. W. Luyt, a South African wine and spirits merchant, was one of the NEW AMBASSADOR victims of yesterday's shooting

IN LONDON

TWO MORE ENGLISHMEN bert Worth Bingham as Ameri-t

ARRESTED

sounds of shots

tragedy in the French Concession. The other was Miss Anna Mal- MR. STRAUSS TO GO dancer, with whom Luyt was in- kina, formerly a Russian cabaret TO PARIS

fatuated.

The tragic double shooting took Washington, Mar. 13. place in buss Malking's juxurious, The appointment of Mr. Ro-apartment in the French Conces- Her Chinese cook was at- can Ambassador in London, suc-and found both man and woman

tracted by the cceding Mr. Andrew Mellon, was already dead, lying in pools of officially announced to-day. blood..

Rumour had had it that Mr.

STILL CLUTCHING PISTOL a Kentucky newspaper magnate, would go to Paris.

He summoned the police, whose Educated for the legal profes that Luyt first ahat the girl dead investigations are said to indicate sicn, Mr. Bingham became a880- and then committed suicide. He

ciated with the newspaperi

ON CHARGES OF Bingham, who is

SABOTAGE

the

Moscow, Mar. 14. The sensational maid on Moscow offices of Metropolitan Vickers Limited has been follow- ed by the arrest of two more Englishmen.

Two of those previously taken in custody, Mesars, Monkhouse and

that BAULKED AT Nordwall, have been set free, but

As already officially indicated. the United States is prepared to co-operate with the Committee, but makes certain reservations.

The Reply, it is understood. the copy is authentic, claiming | leaves America's hands free for hat it was obtained from a Chin- se who was a former Manchukuo independent action.

official.

יי

A fortunate circumstance was That my quite recently the scrub had been cienred for sʊthe distance around the building: Un the hill side, in the roar, it still retained a Certain degree of luxuriant growth, sures and up as patch the tre erept might decide to adopt, such as the

News from the front is scanty, with alarm.ng rapidity towards the declaration of an economic boy but it is claimed that the Chinese house until stopped snort by a pro-leott of one of the parties or there still holding the two important.. Locking Wall. This side of the imposition of an arms embargo.asses through the Great Wall, houas gave some cause for anxiety, Reuter, but by dint of strenuous Lastup dyz juOJJUDIIN ENTRETINA pur was averted.

Acceptance of the invitation in not regarded as committing the

The capture of Peking is the United States to any forceful mea-next step after the aubjugation o

the Advisory

Committee Jehol,

efforts

By the time the fire was put out, an area consisting of grass, scrub and variety of under- growth, and measuring 800 by 600 Jeet, was laid waste. The firemeri returned to tawn after two hours of atrendets work.

NIETSCHKE GETS 60 BEFORE LUNCH

IJ

THE LENA GOLD FIELDS

SETTEMENT NOT IN

SIGHT

Landon, Mar. 13.

Mr. Baldwin, replying in the

Jespite enormous losses in killed and wounded.' Heavy casualties have also been inflicted upon the Japanese-Special.

CHINA'S PREMIER

RETURNS

FAVOURS STRONGEST

noon.

FINISH

VICTOR SMITH'S BAD LUCK

FORCED" DOWN IN SIGHT OF GOAL

have been informed that they must remain in Russia.

The secret police have been carrying out a series of arrests since their first sign of activity and twenty-five Russians, mostly' important engineers, have been taken into custody,

It is now learned that the charge against those arrested, including the Englishmen, is one of sabotage.

Robert W.

Binglara

!|

still had a small automatic pistol world in Louis clutched in his right hand when

the bodies were found. Both c

ville

thirty

years

Mr. Luyt who had only been in ago and has Shanghai for about four months, in devoted his at-survived by a wife who is teeld- tention to pub

Ing

In Shanghai-Reuter.

lishing since

that time. He

was Mayor of LANCASHIRE AND

Louisville In

1907.

Mr. Jesse Isa-

dore Strauss.

the New York)

JAPAN

dry goods mer-MALAYA PREFERENCE

chunt and ban-

ker,

who has

hmantioned

NOT ENOUGH

London, March 13.

It is alleged that they have been as probable" Minister to China, has The directors of the Manchester guilty of sabotage with the object been appointed Ambassador in Chamber of Commerce to-day ap of destroying electrical stations | París

proved a resolution declaring that throughout Russia, undermining the electrical industry.-Reuter.

SOVIET ACCUSATION,

DOLLAR DOWN A FARTHING

DIPLOMACY AT GENEVA

Capetown, Mar. 13. Bad luck has refused to

He is president of one of New the preferential duties of ten per York's largest retail stores and is cent. in favour of British cotton desert Mr. Victor Smith, the

also on the boards of many banka, and artificial silk textiles now South African airman, who

as well as the New York Life In-operating in the Federated Malay has yet to realise his ambi-

Later.

[surance-Reuter.

States are proving without effect London, Mar. 12. Charles Nordwall and Gregory

in chocking Japanese competition. tion of, breaking the Eng-

The retiring United States Am- The Chamber is proposing to are the names of the two addi-bassador in London, Mr. Andrew make urgent representations to land-Capetown fight record. tional Englishmen arrested by, the Mellon, anils for home by the ss. the Government with a view to RESISTANCE

To-day he was within sight of Depu

Leviathan on Friday.

securing further efforts to safe- | his goal when he failed,

An announcement issued by the President Roosevelt to-day sent guard British trade.--Reuter. FAST SCORING AT Commons for the Foreign Secre-Ching wei, the Kuomintang Leftist theoried at the nerodrome to expected and consecutive accidents sador to

The finish provided a thrill for Ogpu states: China's Premier. Mr. Wang thousands of spectators who had

to the Senate the nomination of "Investigation of a series of un-Mr. Josephus Daniels as Ambas- ADELAIDE

tary, in a written answer, gave Icader, arrived in Hongkong this greet the flier.

Mexico.--British Wire- details of the negotiations by morning aboard the M.M. liner

which have occurred recently in less. which the Government have en-Arumis from Europe en route for successive attempt to break the at Moscow, Cheliabinsk, Zuvesk, It was Mr. Victor Smith's third the big electrical power stations

the Soviet Government of the ar- deavoured to secure payment from Shanghai and is leaving this after-record. He left Lympne at 2 a.m. and Zlatpust, have revealed that bitral award of approximately

on March 9 and made excellent they were due to sabotaging acti- £13,000,000 in favour of the Lena It is understood that Mr. Waur time down the coast.

vities among the employees of the! Gold Fields. The negotiations Ching-wei will proceed straight Last night, the 12th, he was Commissariat of Heavy Industry. failed to lead to an offer of settle from Shanghai to Nanking to re-sighted within a few hundred "The investigation disclosed ment by the Soviets, and the situa-sume his duties with the Govern- miler of Capetown, going strong, that certain employees of Metro- tion has necessarily reverted tament.

with every prospect of beating politan Vickers, who were work- BUT

In Geneva, there has been a day Adelaide, Mar. 14. that prior to direct conversations The return of Wang Ching-wel Amy Johnson's record by a good ing in the Soviet Union on the

of "diplomatic conversations, on into bat between the Company and the which comes almost simultaneous-

margin.

basis of an agreement for tech-

the outcome of which the achieve- this morning requiring over 475 Chief Concessions Committee andy with the resignation of Marshal

nical aid in enterprises in the The Hongkong dollar dropped a ment of positive results by the runs in the last match of the M.C.C. the subsequent negotiations for Chang Hauch-liang, is considered

DAYLONG SEARCH.

electrical Industry in the Soviet farthing this morning to 1s. 3%d. Disarmament Conference is close- in Australia,

settlement without reference to significant politically because of Huge crowds waited to welcome activilles."-Reuter,

Smith mysteriously disappeared, Union, engaged in these sabotage The local market is quite steady. ly concerned, It transpires that Leyland, acting the award-British Wireless.

In London, silver declined a half- the strong disagreement between him at the nerodrome all night

Particular importance was at- penny, due to heavy China selling. tached to a long conversation in these two leader's in 1932.

long in vain. At dawn, aeroplanes

Indian speculators bought at the the afternoon between Mr. Ram- “ sentative of the Telegraph. Mr. after spending the better part of of the Moscow offices of Metropoli- the market ruled steady, with Ame-

In an interview with a repre- went out in search of him and

London, Mar, 13.

decline, and the market closed say MacDonald Questioned regarding the raiding steady. After the official fixing, Boneour.

and M. Paul Wang Ching-wei said that the the day in the hunt, found the tan Vickers Limited, and the arrest rica inclined to buy.

Sir John Simon also had a long ritical developments in North airman to-night at Vanrhysdorp, there, of zome

Interview with Colonel Beck, the China compelled his return from Cape Province, where he had made officials, Mr. Baldwin stated in the point from 29% to 20%. The pally with reference, it is under-

of the Company's

New York raports silver up half Polish Foreign Minister, princi-. Europe, despite the fact that his a forced landing. He was unhurt. House to-day that the Foreign cross-rate le 3.50, but is expected stood, to the situation at Danzig. medical advisers urged him to re- He, was unable to effect repairs in Secretary was adready in com- main for another month in a sana- time to complete the trip in record munication on the subject with the to go higher.

M.C.C. DECLARE

South Australia went

on Jardines Instruction, declared the M.C.C. innings closed a few

seconds before closing time at 371) DOLLAR DEALINGS

for 8 wickets,

"I

This fact was not known amongi the Pressmen, nor generally until Heveral hours afterwards.

Some very bright batting was witnessed in glorious weather. The wicket was wearing well and Njetschke, once in his. strido, scored freely off all the bowlers.

At the lunch interval he had ob-

tained sixty not out. The score-board

RESUMED

RATE IN LONDON NOT HIGH

London, Mar. 13. On the London exchange, deal- inga restarted in dollars this after.

tortum.

LOSS OF JEHOL

meReuter.

160 MILES OFF. Concerning Chang Hauch-liang. The Vanrhyadorp District is at this stage noon, and the New York cable rate Mr. Wang, Ching-wei commented only 100 miles from Capolown. He thowed 109 for 1 wicket. Excel was quoted at 8 44, which compares that his conferences with the left. Walvis Bay, 200 miles from Tent rate of scoring as it was, aith 8.4434 at the close on Friday Young Marshal at Peking in 1932 Capetown, yesterday evening with still faster pace will have to be March 3rd, the last occasion or failed to achieve results, and he fair chance of lowering Amy attained if South Australia hope which dealings took place. to force a victory-Reuter.

hen demanded the resignation of Johnson's record of four days, Business began at the same time Chang Hauch-lang. He expressed seven hours.. in other centres. the hour corre complete surprise at the loss of

He encountered fog, however, sponding with the opening of fifty. Kanhaiwan within one day and d ran short of petrol being for two United States banks authoris. Jeho Province within a week ced to land in the dark-British ed to begin business to-day, despite Chang The anticyclone is centred oven

Hauch-liang'

Wireless. the Yellow and Eastern Seas.rally closed on the dull side. In fespite the overwhelming strength The London stock marketa gen-pledge to defend these places and Fresh monsoon will prevail over tional" were the Northern China Sea, Local Kaffir shares improved. War Loan Mr. Wang Ching-wel elted the

weaker, but of his troops. forecast:-N. E. winds, fresh:14% was quoted at 39-British defence of Shengha by the Nine

Wireless.

(Continued on Page 12.)

fine.

FINE WEATHER

British Ambassador. He could say nothing further at present- British Wireless. „,"

AMERICAN BANK. ORDERS

LOCAL MARKET

STEADY

WORLD PARLEY

PREPARATION

FRENCH MINISTER TO VISIT LONDON

EFFORTS TO SAVE DISARMAMENT

London, Mar. 13.

-British Wireless.

CUP ASPIRANTS AGAIN LOSE

WEST HAM BEATEN AT OLDHAM FOREIGN BUSINESS

London, Mar. 18. Arrangements have been made West Ham United, who are to

London, Mar. 18. Washington, Murch 13, for the French Minister of Fin-meet Everton in the F.A. Cup semi- -The Treasury has authorised allance, M. Georges Bonnet, to visit final on Saturday, were defeated in banks permitted to do foreigh London next Friday to have an a League match at Oldham to-day, The wedding will shortly take place their el functions,

business to open and perform exchange of views with the Chan-the Athletic winning by thres goals Road, Kowloon, and Miss Carmen also authorised to release gold Ministers on questions raised on Luton Town and Bristol Rovers between, Mr. Victor Meria Nunes,

cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. to two. Maria Socorro Vaz, St. Joseph's that is to be, need for manufac- the agenda of the World Economic shared points et Luton, each side The Federal Reserve Banks are Neville Chamberlain, and other mercant assistant, of 558, Nathan

In the Third Division (South),

Buldings, Hongkong.

turing purposes.—Reuter; /* "Conference Refik_3977712