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O attactan WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1933. ||-+Я-t

No. 14186

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CHRISTMASTIDE'S LONG RECORD OF TRAGEDY

Thirty Killed in Philippines Church Stampede

HEAVY SENTENCE MANY LIVES LOST

ON N.C.O.

|IMPRISONMENT AND

DISCHARGE

WITH IGNOMINY

Found guilty by District Court Martial of the mis- appropriation of mess funds, Sergeant William John Thomas, 2nd. Battery R.H.K.S.R.A. has been sentenced to be reduced to M. Troyanovsky, the new Soviet the ranks, to imprisonment with Russian envoy In Tokyo for five hard, labour for one year, and yeare, left Moscow for the United to be discharged with ignominy States yesterday, according to Reuter. from His Majesty's service.

Amassador to Russia, who served as

SOVIET

The sentence has been con- firmed by the General Officer Commanding, who, however, has remitted six months of the Im- prisonment sentence.

Accused was charged with mis-

DIPLOMACY appropriation of monies handed

"CHANGCHUN'S”

FEARS

MOSCOW REPLY

were

Kums

Ito him by his Battery Commander, Captain E. J. C. Barry, for the for of paying bills purpose articles for messing. In all, there five charges, the Involved being $69.10, $47.30. $62.11, $55.50, and $60.82, all pay- able to Messrs. Abbas Khan, con- tractors. He was found guilty on alt counts.

At the trial, Thomas made a Moscow, Dec. 26.

complete dental of all the charges, Commenting on reports from alleging that the accusations Changchun indicating that the were a "conspiracy." opinion held by the Manchurian administration that Russia is kely to strengthen her anti- Japanese policy. Pravda saya that this may be ascribed to those who are trying by all means to violate the pence of the Far East.

The Changchun suggestion is that the Soviet, by strengthening

U.S. NAVY PLANS

CHANGED

an anti-Japanese attitude would RETURNING TO

thereby achieve more friendly

relations with the United States

nord with China,

PACIFIC

Pravda observes that only the A change in the plans for the

IN ERUPTIONS

SCORES DEAD IN MOTOR SMASHES IN AMERICA

T

LONDON, DEC. 26.

CHRISTMASTIDE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WAS MARKED BY AN INORDINATE NUMBER OF DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES. OUTSTANDING, OF COURSE, WAS THE LAGNY EXPRESS SMASH, BUT THERE WERE HOSTS OF TRAGEDIES OF LESSER MAGNITUDE BRINGING GRIEF TO HUN- DREDS OF HOME.

Thirty people were trampled to death during a panic in a little church at the village of Tunauan in the Philippines.

A Christmas Eve ceremony was pro- ceeding and a fireworks sparkler was used to illuminate the altar.. Members of, the congregation thought that the church was on fire and raised an alarm which spread panic through the congregation. A general stampede for the doors was made, scores being knocked down and trampled upon. Thirty died of their injuries.

The Philippines was also the scene of a volcano were killed and many rendered tragedy. Seventeen homeless when the Bulusan volcano erupted a flood of sulphurous water, which rushed down the hillside and swept away scores of houses, killing and injuring many of the occupants who were without warning.

most reactionary Japanese milli- return of the American fleet to FIRE TRAGEDY AT BATTLE

tary circles may fear a possible the Atlantic from the Pacific rapprochemeni between the Soviet, the United States and on a visit next year has been China on questions of Far East announced by Admiral David F. Sellers the commander. policy.

on

Another eruption occurred

as the result of which four werd favestio commenting on a Chang-upon his return from Washing the island of Kuchingeraba, Japan, chun report published in the Asahi ton.

thirty injured. Many He said the fleet would sail to killed, alleging that the Soviet has agreed to rent Sakhallen to the the North Atlantic by way of the houses were buried in ashes. United States

period of Panama Canal on April 0. While

The death roll in the thirty years, ridicules the cred-the itinerary has not been approved

for

21

United

+

A taste of the Christmas pudding mixture for the troops at Aldershot, where hundreds were made by the N.A.A.F.J..

MALAYA RACIAL PROBLEMS

CLEMENTI REPLIES

TO CRITICS

KUALA LUMPUR

SPEECH

The use of Malay as the lingua franca of the country, the place of this language in educational policy, and the "Malayanisation" process in the population of the Peninsula were

discussed by Sir Cecil Clementi in a remarkable speech at a Rotary Convention In Kuala Lumpur last week. -

FOOCHOW AIR RAID CASUALTIES

CHELSEA FIND NET AT LAST

HOME TEAMS HAVE GOOD DAY

NEWCASTLE TURNS TABLES

The usually

London, Dec. 26. topsy-turvy · form. associated with league football at Christ mastide has been almost completely, absent, the sur- prise being provided by the scarcity of surprises.

The Arsenal carried off six field captured five and Middle- points from three games, Hudders brough a like number. Wodnes- day took four points from two games.

To-day, the First División matches proved a gift for the home teams. The only upset oc- curred where it seemed least like- ly. Everton, having-won at New- castle on Christmas, found three

castle at Everton. The visitors netted seven times!.

Eight Killed and Eleven goale insufficient to defeat Now.

Wounded:

Foochow: Dec. 26. Seven Nanking planes took part in the air rald on Foochow yesterday and fifteen bombs were dropped, Eight, including civilians, were killed, and

eleven wounded. ·

Was

seven

The Confucian Temple

partially destroyed. All the damage occurred near military headquarters.

Twenty were killed and wounded at Kutien by air bombardment.

WOLVES ON TARGET.

The Wolves defeated the Villa, by four goals to three. Their forwards netted fourteen goals in three games, the highest aggregate of any team.

In the Second Division, no side wall obtained five points, four from obtained maximum paints. Mill-

Notts County (who went entirely pointless through Christmas) and aro atill only second from the bottom. All the lowly-placed clubs did fairly well.

Grimsby stretched out their lead to six points by a. 7-3 win against Manchester United, while Blackpool and Brentford wore.

-His-Excellency-laid-great-strose- ZICLEĮMATOREMKEN ILALBANIE ZE VARIETYSTIETEN PLATETSKIM ITZ INZJETEROLLESZ losing in away matches.

CREEK on the need for racial harmony

"CHARLTON”ACHIEVEMENT.

and good fellowship and asked TWO HOUSES Charlton Athletic alone obtained

Rotarians to set their faces like flint "against any effort to stir up Bolivian side which vehemently animosity, between race and race Congresa against the occupation of i In the course of his speech, four Bolivian forte by protested at the Pan-American anty between ra

theSir Cecil said:"Few things have Paraguayans immediately prior to grioved me more than the augges- the hour fixed for the censation oftions recently made in certain fighting.

local newspapers-without A memorial service is being held truth and sometimes, I fear, in

any

GUTTED

BIG BLAZE THIS MORNING

maximum points in Third Division (South) though Watford gave them a clase call to-day. Charlton needed every one of their four goals to take both points.

Norwich repeated against Cry- stal Palace, but Queen's Park Rangers and Coventry both drop- ped points and shared with Rond- ing the credit of earning five: of six possible points during the six clubs at the, foot of the table lost to-day..

enge alleged to have been given it was unofficially reported in naval States was vory heaty. Those re-at the Gare de l'Est in connexion malice-that my own direction of SCENE OF PREVIOUS holiday season. Not one of the

return to the Pacific about Nov, 15, 1ported already exceed one hundred with the Lagny railway disaster. Malayan policy has caused racialį

in the story in Japan.-Reuter,

SOVIET COTTON

CROP

INCREASE REPORTED THIS YEAR

Moscow, Dec. 26. The Soviet cotton stock on De- vember 20 amounted to 1,250,000

group, the

STOP PRESS

eireles tnl the

squadrons

will

President Lebrun will personally attend the service and will be accompanied by members of the Chautemps Cabinet and railway A blind woman and her in-and other oficiais. Otherwise, the fant daughter were both burned attendance will be restricted to re- to death at Battle Creek, latives of the victims.-Reuter.,

Admiral ellers has also recom-and elglity, most of them as the mended to the Navy department result of motor accidents. that six seaplanes of a patrol squadron leave San Francisco in the middle of January on a non- stop light to Honolulu, a distance' of about 2,000 miles. The fight will be similar to two long-distance Alghts made this year by naval squadrons between the United States and the Panama canal,

TAMAR TRAGEDY

IMPRESSIVE SCENE AT

FUNERAL

Michigan, when straws spread

on the floor of her house caught on fire.

HUSBAND'S SACRIFICE.

The woman's husband, who was attending another party in the

vain effort to rescue his family.

LAGNÝ DEATH-ROLL.

Later.

PARIS ESPIONAGE ARRESTS

discord in this peninsula, .

OUTBREAK

Everton

2 Leeds

4

Sheffield U.

Sunderland

Newcastle

Tottenham

Stoke

2. Derby

3 Blackburn

GIVEN THE LIE.

CHESTERFIELD lapse. For 30 minutes, a fire raged in "Such insinuations deliberately

Chesterfield.conceded, another morning, destroying, two houses point to Darlighton in the North- misrepresent the course of events Chung Sau Lane West early this during the past three years; and (and acverely damaging several orn Section, where Barnsley de- the possibility of my permitting others, and bringing out no fewer feated Hartlepools by 5-4 to give such a policy is given the He by than oight Fire Brigade appliances them six points for the Christmas my whole life.

to the spot.

festival, and raise them to fourth "I was born and lived as A The Lagay disaster death-roll child in India, where my father Chung Sau Lane is a narrow place. Walsall, with five Xmas Tottenham and Derby weat The combined Atlantic and Paci-

estimates fluctuate hourly, owing and one of my brothers spent their alloy connecting with Queen's points, now lie third

whole official careers. In my Road West, and spanning the 10 ft. to deaths of the injured. fic fleets have been in the Pacific

school days I began the study of gap intervening, the fire which crashing in the First División, to tons, exceeding the 1912 tonnage Roosevelt's recent announcement of

for the last two years.. President]

The revised total is now 201, Sanskrit, which I continued at originally broke out in No. 24.offset which Chelsea discovered by a hundred thousand tons.

In order to increase the 1934 the return of the main body to the neighbourhood rushed to the scene ten of those injured having died Oxford, at a time when I had spread across to the other side of where the net was, netting four

Atlantic, was hailed with satisfac- and was also burned to death in a at Lagny, while the bodies of 191 Civil service, and ever since I have was also soon involved, and the reply.

thoughts of entering the Indian the lane. No. 23, directly opposite, times against Sunderland without cotton districts in

FIRST DIVISION. middle Asia and Trans-Caucasus tion in Japan.

Five persons at least died of cold, victims are already resting in the been keenly and sympathetically situation assumed a dire aspect in

interested in India and its peoples, this extremely congested area. have been supplied with a greatly

in the Middle Weat which is Gare de l'Est-Reuter..

"For three years I served

The Brigade acted with great Arsenal 08 increased amount of chemical fer-

snowbound, the roads being prac

Chelsea Colonial Secretary of Ceylon-and dispatch. Earlier this month, the Birmingham tloers.-Renter

There are tically impassable.

became well acquainted with the same lane had been the scene of a

disastrous outbreak, and with Huddersfield great drifts, while the ordinary

Jaftan Tamils and the Ceylonce full knowledge of the danger, all Leicester many of whom are personal friends fire appliances were rushed to the Manchester C snow blanket is feet deep,

of mine. I retain from those

for scene immediately on an alarm be- Middlesbrough years an abiding affection

Ing sent through from Hollys ood Portsmouth Ceylon and its Inhabitants,

Wednesday Rond. LOVES THE CHINESE.

The lane was inaccessible to the Wolves larger appliances, but lines were ACCUSATIONS

"China I have known since 1899. laid from Queen's Road West and Robert Switz, the American The best years of my life were Koshing Stroot, and these got to arrested in Paris on charges of spent in Hongkong, and it is not work early on. Despite this, heavy,

damage was exacted by the Games, Huddersfield two three-storey buildings upon Tottenitam ¡the

22 11 4 7 08 and the Chinese. The wildest weather for years capionnge, has denied all accusa- too much to say that I love China

"In Malnya I have lived only which they had secured a firm hold Manchester C. 20 10.30 The coflin draped with the wna experienced in the Aleutian tion. Union Jack, was conveyed from Islands, which suffered very heavy French police declare, in con- since 1980; but from my early boy being in the end destroyed, the West Bromwich atzi

Portsmouth. 387 the Royal Naval Hospital on a damage in severo gales. which noction with the case that they hood, in the days when my uncle, roofs collapsing.

Wolves 200 6.8 No casualtics are reported. all however, Island

LL world Sir Cecil Clementi Smith was at smashed

The fire

shop Midlesbro. 1 111 0 originated in gun carriage drawn by a gun's swept through tho

wide spying organization, which fret Colonial Secretary and after- crew from H.M.S. Berwick, the through the Christmas.

VR 0 4 0 42 Nanking, Dec. 27.

fncluding Commodoro Dwellings were swept away by included the United States and wards Governor of the Straits occupied by a purveyor of aen-Sunderland cortego Chinese newspapera give prom Frank Elliott, Cdr.. C.H. Heath- the storms, the violence of which Japan, and covered Industrial and Settlements, I grew familiar with food. A medicine shop was also lackburn....

well as the story of this moninsula and involved. inence to a report that Government!

Caldwell, D.S.O., H.M.S. Tamar, may be gunged from the fact that economic espionage as

learned to admire the Malays. forces are advancing on Yenping Lieut. Cdr. R.G. Chichester, II.M.S. telegraph poles were found to have military matters. frum Klenow, and optimistically Tamar, Surg, Lieut. 3. Corbett, boon bodily uprooted.

The silk industry was among LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS. harmony and good fellowship bo. Newenste forecast the capture of Foochow 19. Tamar, and Lieut. W.E.C.

those on which the organisation

tween them and to fashion them 43 22 18.

||Bémingham within a week.-Reuter.

Lowndes, IL.M.S. Cornflower,

was gathering information, policu "Such having been my life into true and trusty eftisons of Liverpool, 7411

I and myself In full sympathy | Malaya. (Applause), menamates from H.M.S. Tamar A Christmas armistico was ar-assorted.

|Яtoke "Generations may perhaps be falcenter a firing party from H.MS. Berrangad in the Gran Chaco where Switz, 20, of East Orange, NJ, with the chief racial elements in wick, Royal Marines, a band from Paraguay and Bolivia are at war. and Marjorie Tilley, 22, of New the population of this country, and needed for this task; but my aim hameld U... 11.M.S. Berwick, and a large num The armistice plans have only York, were among the pornon my whole heart and mind aro sat is to son that the foundations are Chelsea, ber of Petty Officers and ratings made feelings more bitter on the arrested.

upon the endeavour to maintain | woll, and truly inid." -(Continued on Page 7).

GIRL'S 'SUICIDE. Another tragedy, the facts of Full naval, honours were ac-which have not yet been elucidated corded the late Signalman J.A. occurred at a party at Kenosha in Sullivan, of H.MS. Tamar, who Wisconsin, where a nineteen-year- met his death under tragic circum-fold girl shot herself dead. in the stances on Christmas Day, when midst of the Christmas jollifica- his remains were interred at tions. Happy Valley this morning.

GRAN CHACO WAR.

AMERICAN DENIES

J

Arsoni}

Derby

1 Liverpool

West Brom. Aston Villa

Goals

League Tables

P. W.DAL. P. A. P. 21 14 B9 41 20 98

22 11

21 11 04

Everton Aston Villa VYEON 11 Wadnominy...219.11

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