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NEW CRISIS REPORTED THREATENING AMOY

Foochow Situation

BLACK SEA

ARRESTS SENSATION

SECOND METRO-VICKERS AFFAIR?

SIX FOREIGNERS IN CUSTODY

DIPLOMATS REFUSED ACCESS

Moscow, Jan. 14:

The elements of a second Metro-Vickers case appear to be contained in the sen. sational arrests of a number

Obscure

Still

FIGHTING

Bound for Moicow. Mr. William C. Bullitt, the Amurican Ambassador, with his young daughter.

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ON MAINLAND IN SOUTH

BERWICK · ARRIVES IN FOOCHOW

Obscurity veils the mili tary situation in the Foo chow area, although the oc- cupation of the city by the Chinese Navy seems to be confirmed circumstantially,

The Berwick has arrived and the situation may soon be clarified,

of foreigners in Black Sea HAVANA POWER Route Army are making a drive

ports.

are all

No charges have yet been laid, as far as can be ascertained.

The persons arrested employees of the Swiss Control Company, and all connected with the firm in the Black Sen porta have been detained for examina- tion.

They include

Two Germans

J

Two Austrians

One Belgian

One Danc

ACCESS DENIED.

Although no charges have been laid, the authorities have refused access to the prisoners by their diplomatic representatives,

STRIKE

SWIFT ACTION BY GOVERNMENT

MEN ORDERED TO RETURN

Meanwhile, it is reported that a new crisis, na far as it affects foreign interests, is threatening in the Amoy area. The report sug. gests that deprived of an outlet to the sen at Foochow, the XIXth with the view to securing control of Amoy....

between the rebel Fighting forces and the culposts of the force landed by Nanking at Amoy is reported to have broken out on the mainland near the southern Fuklen port. Further detalls are lacking.

FOOCHOW CHANGE-OVER.

Foochow, Jan. 16, The Kuomintang regime has been restored in Foochow, and the flag, of "white sun on blue sky" is again flying over the Government and public buildings.

Captain Roshm, Chancellor Hitler, Herr Sóldt, and General von Blomberg, who took leading parts in Nasi 'demonstrations in Germany yesterday. Photo was taken at Hanover recently,

BIG FIRE AT

LOTS

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

FLAMING BEACONS IN SKY

TOKYO INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

Many Deaths Occur

-Daily

Rengo reports that the entire city of Tokyo is in the grip of influenza and thirty per. cent. of the daily death' toll is attributed. to this disease,

Physicians and drug-stores are being kept busy day and ́night, Among the more prominent victims are Gen. S. Araki, War Minister; Mr. К. Takahashi, Finance Minister; Baron Yamamoto, Home Minister; and Admiral Suetsugu,

Havana, Jan. 14. Drastic action has been

The inhabitants of the city, who

Leipzig, Jan. 14. taken by the Cuban Govern-

The upper part of two ment to meet the crisis held themselves in breathless readi ness for the fighting to sprend to caused by the lightning Foochow from Shulkow, discovered great transmitting towers at strike of the electric power a change of regime almost over the radio station ten miles outside the city are burning] workers, plunging the city night without knowing the cause. into darkness.

Admiral Chen Shao-kuen, the fiercely. Nanking Minister of Navy, entered Colonel Batista, the commander-Toochow List evening and immedi-Every-resource-of-the-Leipzig in-chief of the Army, is virtually ately summoned a conference of his Fire Brigade is being employed to in control of the situation. subordinates regarding the men get the conflagration under con

Troops with machine-guns have sures to be taken to maintain order.trol. been placed round the power sta In the process of the change of The cause of the outbreak is at

incident involving present unknown, but the suspicion WAR FEARS tions and are supervising the em-control,* ployees as they resume their nor-foreign life and property occurred. is entertained that Incendiarista mal working.

The main body of the rebel force have been at work. It is alleged that the employees arrested have undertaken trans- This action followed a warning is withdrawing toward southern by Batista that the operation of the Fukien. They will probably re- actions not connected with their Company's business. The Swiss power plant was essential to the move the so-called "People's Gov.

Company

maintenance controle all Control

of the peace and crnment" to Changchow, which will in the order and that freightage and cargoes

the Government be their last stronghold.-Central Black Sea ports.-Router.

would act strongly if the workers Newca. did not return to work this after- noon.

There is a close resemblance between the affair and the Motro- Vickers case, and it is bellevert possible that events will, more or less, repeat themselves.

FUNERAL OF VAN DER LUBBE

Private Ceremony in Leipzig To-day

Leipzig, Jan. 14.

Following the arrival here of

They are complying.

no

The fire started at a height ofl.

PACIFIC

GALE SWEEPS ENGLAND

NEARLY 70 M.P.H. AT CROYDON

BRANCH MISSES KING'S CAR

London, Jan. 14... The southern half of. Britain was to-day swept by the most severe gale of the winter, causing con- siderable damage on land and sea.

Of the Scilly Isles the galo' ronchod a force of 82 miles an hour, while Croydon reported velocity of 68 miles an hour,

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The full force of the storm: was experienced in the Channel, where vessels were swept by gigantic waves, some shipe

THE SECOND being forced to seek refuge in

BISMARCK

EULOGIES FOR HERR HITLER

NAZI GATHERINGS IN GERMANY

various Channel ports,

The Imperial Airways carly morning service to and from the Continent was cancelled,

H.M.S. Nelson, which ran aground off Portsmouth on Friday while setting forth for the West Indies, was unable to leave" har- bour to join the rest of the Home

Fleet.

› KING'S CAR'S ESCAPE: As the Royal cat, containing Berlin, Jan. 14...the King, the Duke and Duchess. Nazi demonstrations were of York, Princess Elizabeth and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, approached held over the country to-day, Sandringham Church for the which marked the termina-morning service, the branch of a tion of the truce to politics tree, measuring six feet was blown maintained during the few yards behind the Royal car.-- down by the wind and fell only n Christmas and New Year.. Reuter

Herr Hitler met some of his oldest followers in ceremoules at Detmold:

Captain Franz von Papen went to Glelwetz, where he joined In a spate of speech-making.

Herr Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, participated in

of the Imperial Palace at mase meeting in the square in

Berlin,

two hundred feet from the ground,HOLLAND'S NAVAL tons at the Sports Palace. and blazed fiercely in the fanning provided by a strong wind.

The towers are blazing Like beacons, the flames mounting rapidly up the towers which are four hundred feet high.. They were erested in 1082.

FIRE PUT OUT.

the

la

REDUCTIONS

ALARM AMONG

EXPERTS

The most important gathering was, however, that of the Veterans which was attended. by President and

von Hindenburg, Baron von Neurath, General Blomberg Captain Roehm,

HITLER EULOGISED.

U.S. MONETARY EXPERIMENTS

President's Next Steps Forecast

New York, Jan, 14.

In order to forestall a probable attempt by the House of Represen- tatives and the Senate to check the Administration's, monetary pro- gramme, President Roosevelt is likely to soon announce plans for. the more extensive purchase of A Reichswehr company, goose gold or control of the gold market, stopping, escorted the twenty-one temporary de facto stabilization of battie-torn flags of the Old Army of the dollar in foreign exchange into the building, amidst the and expanded use of silver se a cheers of thousands of spectators, partial monetary base, accompanied Hitler as a Second Bismarck, who ratio to gold nor by bimetallism.

Captain Roehm eulogised Herr neither by free coinage at a fixed

BLOCKADE CALLED OFF.

Amoy, Jan. 10. Shipping traffic in Amoy has The Government simultaneously

been fully resumed following a

The Hague, Jan. 14. has issued a decree announcing Nanking order for the calling off of

Later. The possibility of a naval war that it is provisionally taking over the naval blockade of Fukien ports. all the Cuban Electric Company's

The Leipzig, radio station fire in the Pacific is the cause of A report from up-country states has now been extinguished. First anxiety in Dutch naval circles, work and will operate themselves according to the workers' de tint traffic in the Interior is disbelief of a sabotage outrage

by numerous irregular now discounted. The blaze is following Cabinet instructions de- has returned from the War an mands, the Company paying all the located expenses involved until the work-soldiers who have seized motor cars attributed to

spontaneous manding the reorganisation of unknown soldier and had succeed ers and

ed in planting a feeling of comrade- officials agree to have and lorries for military transporta- combustion of a large condenser.the, Navy.

number of bridges | Reuter.

ship in the hearts of the entire power restored.-Reuter.

tion while have been destroyed apparently for

The task of roorganisation has nation-Reuter, the purpose of delaying the advance

been entrusted to a Royal Cóm-| of the Central Government forces.

mission which has been ordered to discover means of effécting economies to the extent of £2,500,- 000 on the army, and the navy in view of the budget deficit of some | £30,000,000,

the relatives of Van der Lubbe, VINES TURNS THE Central News, the funeral will take place private.

ly to-morrow In the Southern Čemotery.

It la rumoured that the three Bulgarians, who were acquitted of complicity in the Reichstag fire, will be expelled to-morrow, leaving Leipzig for an unknown destina- tion. Router.

INSP. ROYLANCE INJURED

TABLES

CONVINCING VICTORY Central Government leaders will

OVER TILDEN

GODOWN BLAZE AT HUNGHOM

BRIGADE STILL ON SCENE

KIDNAPPERS FOILED

FATHER SUFFERS

MUTILATION

C.E.C. MEETING..

Shanghai, Jan. 15. With the fall of Foochow, the

The exports are greatly dis- hereafter concentrate their atton-

appointed, by the announcement} tion toward drawing up plans to bo

which is expected to mean a cur- submitted to the Fourth, Plenary

An unsuccessful attempt by a Since 2.30 o'clock this morning, tallment of naval strength and New York, Jan. 14.

Session of the Kuomintang Central a fire has been raging in the Chan they express some alarm declaring gang of kidnappers to abduct the Ellsworth Vilnes turned the Executive Committee, which is tables on Tilden in their third scheduled for the 20th inst, for the ing Godown at Winslowe Street, that a strong Dutch Navy is roost young child of a Chinese living

Hunghom.

important in view of the possibility at Kowloon Tani on Saturday after- professional exhibition match, rehabilitation of the country in

noon, was followed by the arrest which was played at Philadelphin general and the famine and war-not known, but it appears to have

The origin of the outbreak la of a conflict in the Paolfe,

It is pointed out that the of two alleged members the to-day'..

strickon zones in particular. Vines was in wonderful

Before the men were chased and form. Regarding the national defence broken out very suddenly, and personnel in recent years has gang. He shrept Tilden off the court in problem, it is learned that cortain the greater part of the building already been reduced from elevon

was already in flames when the thousand to eight thousand. seized by the police, they are said MOTOR MISHAP the first sat, which he won without C.E.C. members will suggest the rire Brigade received a call, and They regret particularly the dis- to have committed a dreadful act

came establishment of a National Do conceding a game. Tilden YESTERDAY -

with back to win the second set, but fence Committee in the Contral brought all its resources to bear appearance of the crack Marine of mutilation on the child's father

the Government with the object of co- on the promises. At 11 o'clock Corps founded in the seventh Vines afterwards dominated Inspector G. E. Roylanco was play.

ordinating all national defence this morning, the engines had not century by do Ruyter-Router. injured yesterday in a motor car

In his matches in New York, plane. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek returned to the Kowloon Station. The building and goods, which accident at Ngay Shl Wan, Kow- Vines lost the first in straight sets is recommended as chairman of the

belong to a private Chinese firm, nro insured. and the second after capturing the committee.-Central News. toon City..

second set; and taking Tilden to sixtcon games in the third.

He was driving his car along the road when, at a point near Field Cottage, a woman unexpect- odly got into us way; To avoid running into her, he had to awervo sharply, and the car overturned.

The injuries Inspector Roylance received were not of a very serious mature. They were trent- ed in hospital, but he has since been discharged.

BERWICK DUE TO DAY.

left

Government seizure of gold In

the Federal Reserve Banks is also expected to take place.

The impending governmental financing which it is expected will | reach $10,000,000,000 is causing no great concern. The now farm mortgage and home mortgage schemes which are considered highly inflationary are likely to be legislated by February,—Pen Swan, Culbertson and Fritz.

ITALIAN TREASURY'S BOND ISSUE

Outstanding Success Announced

Rome, Jan. 14 plece of granito The offer of the Bank of Italy of mutilation on the child's father of four per cent Treasury Bonds, The injured victim Foo Shing, aged and to convert four thousand- 58, is now at the Kowloon hospital million liro of five per cont, nine- whare it is stated he te progress-year bonds expiring in 1934, prov- CLOUDY WEATHER ¦

ing favourably.

ed. an outstanding success.

Over 9,025,000,000 lire was sub- The gangsters. and Foa Shing The anticyclone remains contred to the north of Sirantung and has are all natives of Swatow, they scribed, including 6,760,000,000 I.M.S. Berwick, which

decreased in intensity. The do having come here only recently, lire of now money.

The surplus will be used for the Hongkong early yesterday mor cruiser Kuma, and the Japanese pression remains to the north-onat The suggestion is that Foo, Shing nine for Foochow was expected to Destroyer Hokaze. arrive this morning but no, nowe

Other vessels there are the of Hokkaido. Local forecast was known to the gangsters, and amortisation of part of the Budget

that they followed him here for deficit. vet been received of her ar Chinese cruisers. Ning. Hai and N.E. winds, moderate; cloudy.

the express purpose of kidnappingIt is rumoured that the Govern Hai Chou and the gunboats Chiang

| lifa' child with a view to ransom, ment is contemplating the early, Sze To-chat, aged 18, was rescued

conversion of all five per cent Foreign warships standing by Yuan and Chu Tank. Ing which is to take place at the

Fooghow, Jan. 15.

from the harbour yesterday, half- The Bon Line 6.5. Bendoran is due bonds, which now stand at par as South China Morning Post Board at Foochow in addition to the

11.M.8. Borwick has arrived at frowned, after he had leaped from the hore from Home, via Singapore, on compared with 80 at this time last Room at 6.45pm. to-morrow Barwick are H.M.S. Wild Swan

| Praya,at-Waneliai.

the-19th-instant

year.---Reuter, (Tuesday)..

(British Destroyer), the Japaneso Pagoda Anchorage:

To-day, Vines bent Tilden, 6-0, 0-7, 6-2, 6-2--Router.

Those interested in the suggested formation of a Cornish Society in rival. Hongkong aro reminded of the meat

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