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NUNS ATTACKED IN SPANISH ELECTION SCENES

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IMPORTANCE OF ROME TALKS

Rome, Dec. 3.

Relations between Russia and Germany and between Germany and France formed the main topic of discussion between Signor Mussolini and M. Litvinoff in the inter- national field.

Important

developments

are possible as a result of the conversations which aim ut Ja common policy.

An official communique issued this evening after their second! meeting indicates that all ques- tions likely to disturb world penen were discussed.

IDENTITY OF VIEW.

It has been ascertained that there was complete identity of views between Signor Mussolini and M. Litvinoff on these inter-

national questions, which will doubtless result in close diplo matic cooperation.

Mr.

Charles Ulm, who kno just flown the Tasmian Sen with his wife and secretary.

WOMEN'S RECORD

FIRST TO CROSS TASMAN SEA BY

AIR

Wellington, N. Z. Dec. 3. Charles Ulm, the well-known Australian airman, who recent-

ly set up a new record for a flight from England to Aus tralia, Tasman Sea.

to-day

crossed the

Uim was accompanied by his wife and secretary, who thus be came the first women to cross the Tasman Sen by alr

Ulni took off from Sydney and Concillation was the main landed at New Plymouth, New theme. It is learned that a dotor-Zealand, sixteen hours from the mined offort is likely to be made time of departure.

Rumours of Possible Restoration, With

YOUNG MAN

Republicans Plotting Dictatorship Coup SLAIN

COUNTRY IN TWO

CAMPS

CRISIS LIKELY TO BE PROVOKED

STICK AT NOTHING ATMOSPHERE

Madrid, Dec. 3.

Soveral nuns were stoned and beaten by extremists in some districts of the city when they voted in the second election ballot to-day, some of them having their veils torn off.

The nuns had been advised by the authori- ties to vote late, in order to avoid the crowds, But few of the electors got up early to vote and the nuns arrived at the polls during the busiest period of the day.

LEFT WING ANGRY WITH CHURCH

Strong antagonism to the putles will be avowed Monarchists

boon Church has

aroused In seeking, a Restoration of King

Alfonso.

to improve the strained relations He used the same planc as that between Russia and Germany, in in which he flew from England, which matter Signor Masaolini a large three-engined plane.extremist quarters by the will use his influence with Herr Reiter.

--litlor..

RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

un-

settling results of the first ballot in the general election, owing to the feeling that the influence of

It is pointed out the Soviet CHINESE POLICE priests and nuns upon the women

Russia-is-anxious to be on good terms with Germany, who, with big interests in Russia. is likely to respond promptly, and it is hoped that the opening of dis- cussions will eventually culminate In a Russo-German Pact of Non- Aggression, similar to the pacts betwen Russia and her other neighbours,

The way would then be clear for Russia to resume her former place in the con- cert of Europe and for a further attempt to bring France and Germany together,

INTERMEDIARIES.

It la thought probable, in this latter connexion, that France and Russin, both of which are on good terms with France,-would act as intermediaries.

The next logical step would be the extension of the Four-Power Pact to a Five-Power Pact, but speculation on this possibility is, of course, premature.

It is believed that the strained relations between Russia and Japan were also discussed, but there has been no indication of any decision in this matter, nor of what the trend of discussion was.

WELL SATISFIED.

It is pointed out that the phras- ing of the Russo-Italian Non- Aggression Pact contains a clause

ORGANISATION

GERMAN EXPERTS

APPOINTED

Berlin, Dec. 3. The reorganisation of the Chinese police by well-known German experts is believed

to have been arranged.

voters caused tho swing-against the Left Wing parties,

of "prevention" was

The Republicans are already proclaiming the need for new elections controlled by the United Republican Front

RIGHT PROGRAMME.

Their victory at the first ballot has placed the Right in a very strong position and they would probably stick at nothing to undo the anti-Church legislation passed by the Republicans, especially laical schooling.

In spite of the fact that a state proclaimed throughout the entire country to enable the government to meet any foutbreak or development likely to provoke outbreaks, there were dis- ordera here and there, although prevented them from developing publicans are preparing on their the strong police precautions seriously;

RISING PLOTTED?

It is certain, too, that they would restore the confiscated estates.

In this situation, the Re-

side for the employment of force Completo chaos reigns and demo- cracy seems to be doomed, whether No indication of the result of it is the Right or the Left which It is sinted here that the two the second ballot is yet forth-emerges successfully from the most prominent police chiefs inlcoming, but there are strong struggle for power now going on. Berlin, prior to the rise of the rumours that the result will be|--Reuter. Nazis, have arrived in China, hay- ing been summoned to Shanghal] for the purpose.

They are Herr Welas and Herr Grzesinski, both of whom were; deprived of their Berlin posts! owing to their Socialist affiliations.

It is understood that before leaving Parls for the. Far East, Weiss" wrote to a number of his former collaborators in the Berlin police and some of them are be ieved to have agreed to join him In his work in China.-Renter.

VIOLENT BLACK SEA STORM

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prohibiting either party from BOATS WRECKED AND

entering into commercial agree- ments which might prejudice the interests of the other. Hence It ià indicated that the agreement be-i

tween Russia and the United States contains no threat to Italian Interests,

MANY KILLED

VARIU

Demonstrators take to flight in Madrid aftar a minor disturbance.

Ankara, Des. 1, made meaningloss in any ovent by [: Reports received in Ankara from the action of the Loft Wing

the Black Sea port of Samsoun re- extremists, who taken by surprise ROOSEVELT BACK veal that all boats in the harbour by the country's swing to the there have been washed ashore by Right, are rumoured to be plotting a violent storm which ravaged the to provoke a rising and to provent coast. Many wore drowned and the Cortes from meating on Friday. injured. Powerful waves ruined

Whatever the effect of the second

It is understood that M. Litvinoff has been keeping in close touch with M. Stalin during the conver sations in Rome and M. Litvinol thirty dwellings on the const,

is balloved to be well satisfied with which, fortunately, had previously ballot.upon seatage in the Cortes,

the results-Reuter.

GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

conver

been evacuated by their inhabit-

ants as a precautionary measure. the situation is very obscure as All airway communications with there is a feeling that the Left Wing would not be content with Later reports show that the an improvement in their relative

Later.

A Warsaw journal reports that Samsoun were interrupted, the Itailan Premior, Signor Musso- Bil, intends, during his sations with M. Litvinoff, to me-storm was more aurious than at strength. diate for an entonto between Gor-first thought. Sixty ships of vary many and Soviet Rusala. Ho plans, ing tonnage are a complete loss.

RESTORATION PLAN.

AT WHITE HOUSE

“HOLIDAY". OVER'

Washington, Doc. 3. President Roosevelt "holiday" at Warm Springs is over. He has roturned to the White House Reuter.

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Troops guarding a public building in Madrid.

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DISASTROUS FIRE IN STAMBOUL

Fears of Extension › By Strong Wind

Stamboul, Dec. 3.

A great fire has burned down the old Stamboul law courts alongside... Santa Sophia, It is feared that the very strong wind may cause the fire to extend.- Router.

FUKIEN -BLOCKADE

CRUISER SEIZES ARMS CARGO®

SHIP STOPPED OFF MIN RIVER

(Our Own Correspondent).

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SHIPPING

BY ABDUCTORS

SHOCKING HARBIN

OUTRAGE

SIMEON KASPE CONFESSION

Harbin, Dec. 4. Simeon Kaspe, the twenty- four-year old son of the wealthy owner of the Hotel Moderne, Harbin, was mur dered by his kidnappers about ten days ago, after....... being kept in captivity for over three months.

This shocking news came to

PETITION light yesterday with the arrest of

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soven of his nine kidnappers after a persistent police hunt,

Shota were exchanged before the gang surrendered. In the shooting one of the kidnappers was shot dead and another was wounded. The wounded man was the only one of the gang who

ON PARLIAMENT succeeded in eluding arrest.

London, Dec. 1

KIDNAPPERS' CONFESSION."

Under close questioning, the leaders of the gang confessed that on August 25th; and for whom a Simoon Kapac, who was abducted

ransom of Y300,000 was domanded, was shot through the head on merchant November 24.

Dressed in rainbow fashion with flags and bearing on her Bides a 40-ft. sign announcing, "Twelve thousand

تی ہیں

navy officers petition Parlin- The body was burled, they ment," the tug Britannia steam- stated, at Erhtiontantze, a small ed up the Thames from the to the west of Harbin, Police C.E.R. settlement some forty miles

Tower pier to the Houses of have gone to the spot indicated to Parliament yesterday afternoon. test the truth of the report and

to bring back the corpse. The petition, which asked for an

EX-DETECTIVE ARRESTED. Inquiry into the condition and ser- |vice of mercantile officers, bore

Among the men arrested is the signatures of 11,000 members former of the general public, as well as named Martinok.

delective-superintendent of the officers themselves."

Meanwhile, the police are with- The tug was given's warm wel-holding information concerning come as it made its way up the the arrest of five members of the river, merchant ships in harbour White Russian Refugee Organisa sounding their sirens in salute.

tion, on a charge of complicity in In their petition, the officera of the kidnapping of Kapso. Foochow, Dec. 2. During the last few days the the merchant navy draw the atten- now Government has been getting tion of Parliament to the adverse organised, and the process is now effect on British shipping of the aaid to be almost complete.

"suffocating restrictions" on inter- Thore is danger of some con-national trade. They call particu fusion between the functions of lar attention to the subsidies pald

the

News of the young man's death has horrified the foreign community of Harbin,

He was a well-known pianist,

most of the ports in the pass. Ho

naturalised Frenchman-Router.

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the "National Provisional Govornby foreign countries to their own who had played at concerts in ment" which theoretically deala shipping, saying that, in with the whole of China, and the United States, France and Italy was Russian by birth, but Provincial Government.

alone, this aggregates no`less than As far as one can judge, the £30,000,000 annually. populace, in whose name and for whose 'good the "revolution" has taken place, aro strangely cool! about it all.

ONLY VISIBLE REMEDY.

It is stated that, during the first ten months of the current year,

It would not require very over one million more tons of for- much leadership to change their elgn shipping entered United King-

FRANCE AGAIN TO DEFAULT

coolness into quite hot action dom ports as compared with the Czechoslovakia Asked to against the new regime; but no total for the corresponding perfod doubt steps are being taken to in 1932.

prevent any such leadership from emerging.

Among the suggestions being mado with a view to improving the For the past few days the cur-situation from the point of view of

As is the common

Pay More

Paris, Dec. 2.

few has been enforced from 10 the British merchant navy is one. France will again default on the p.m. but I hear that' it is now to for the imposition of special axes G:$19,000,000 war debt instalment be relaxed.

on subsidised ships

which is due to the United States and bad

Speaking at a meeting to-day of on December 15, it was definitely practice in this topsy-turvy coun- the directors of the Prince Line, learned yesterday. try. young students, are being the shipping magnate, Lord Esser- Tho Premior, M. Camillo Chau- forced to go out and do propaganda don, said that the idea of restrict temps, has included no 'provisions for the authorities, though they ing Empire trade to British ships for payment of the war debt instal- know practically nothing about had become more alluring, but it ment in his financial proposal to

the Principios (f any) that He be- must not be forgotten that this ro- the Upper House and the Chamber

hind the movement, and are not presented only fifteen per cent, of of Deputies. very pleased with what they do the world's trade. know.

CRUISER STOPS SHIP

The Esthonian Government hás notided tho United States of its Inability, to pay the debt Instal

SUBSIDIES IN BRITAINT The question, he added, was ons mont duo, on December 15,

The United States demands U.S. to, Foochow from Chuanchow was bristling with many difficulties,

day or two ago, a ship coming stopped by n Chinese cruiser at but, at the present time, subsidies slovakian tokon payment on Do

$180,000 in respect of the Czecho- the mouth of the Min, and 700 or appeared to be the only visible re-cember 15, k 800 rifles taken off her. This is

Dr. Vorverka, Czechoslovakian the first netion which I have heard medy for British shipping. A fight between two coulies, Yin of on the part of the Navy, The opinion is growing that the ed $160,000 has cabled to Prague Minister in Washington, who offer.. Ping and Wong Sang, resulted in the former striking the latter over the The authorities are not allow. Government will eventually be for instructions. It la said, to turn German expan- So far as is known, the toll of There is a movement afoot to head with a bamboo pole. Hospital ing people to take their possas forced to retaliate against' sub- sion from Austria and direct it to victims is 27 drowned and 150 por provoke an immedia crisis in the treatment was necessary and a stitch slons away: otherwise I imagine wards Soviet territory, but the sons are roported missing A journal concorned expresses doubt large number of houses have althor Cabinet, and the immediate din put in. Yip Ping was charged there would be quite an oxodus aldised shipping as it has already

before Mr. Ballour at the Central as to whether the Bovlet would be boon flooded or demolished, while solution of the new Cortes is con- Police Court this morning, when he to Shanghai and elsewhere, for no done against high tariffs against prepared to cade any land to Ger the lower parts of the Samsoun sidered possible in view of the was ordered to pay $1 amends and was one knows how the wholo adven- British importsReuter

ture will end. man colonists.

Rallway, at Sivas, are also Booded, fact that the majority of the Do-also-bound over,

The 3.4 Andro Lebon will sail for Marseillesyla ports of call on Tuosday," the 5th; instant, at noon. Instand of. 4 p.m. an advertised.;