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REVALUATION OF AMERICAN DOLLAR CERTAIN

President Gives Hint of Policy

ROTHERMERE'S LATEST

HURRAH FOR THE

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BLACK SHIRTS

DAILY MAIL FOR FASCISM

London, Jan. 15. "Hurrah for the Black Shirts," says a three-column article in the Daily Mail by Lord Rothermere:

For some time past the Press) Baron has beon half-helling Kitler..

He now urges British youth to

NAVAL CONFERENCE

ON FAR EAST

Admiral Dreyer in Singapore

Singapore, Jan. 15.

Frederic Admiral, Sir. Dreyer has arrived here for the Far Eastern Naval Con: ference which is to be held on January 23.

It is understood that no communiques will be issued to the Press-Reuter.

FOUR IMPORTANT STEPS

ANOTHER PARLEY AT WHITE HOUSE'

IMPOUNDING ALL GOLD

Washington, Jan. 14. Another important con- ference on monetary mat- wwwmatters has been held at the

seek out the nearest branch of the BLACK SEA

English Fascist organisation and to join-because,, he says, at the next election Britain's survival as

a great Power will depend upon the existence of a well-organised party of the Right.

movement

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Lord Rothermere describes the Black Shirt organized offort by the younger: generation to break the strangle-

ARRESTS SENSATION

SECOND METRO-VICKERS AFFAIR?

White House.

It was attended by lead- ing members of Congress who surveyed under the guidance <of President Roosevelt the monetary and financial situation...

The Democratic leader, Senator Robinson, and Mosure. Steagall and Fletcher, representatives of the Finance Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively, Senator Glass and

-present

hold of sterile politicians. Kenter. SIX FOREIGNERS Senator McAdoo were among those

DRAMATIC E

RESCUES

KIDNAPPING GANGS BROKEN UP

IN CUSTODY

DIPLOMATS REFUSED ACCESS

Moscow, Jan. 14. The clements of a second Metro-Vickers case appear to be contained in the sen- number sational arrests of

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of foreigners-in--Black-Sea ports.

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No statement has yet been issued. regarding the discussions and President Roosevelt's programme in as heavily shrouded as ever.

DÚCKSHOOTING DELAY.

The closing of the duck-shoot-

Captało Rosho, Chancellor Hitler, Herr' Soldt, and General van Blomberg, who took leading parts in

||Nazi damonstrations. In Germany yesterday. Photo was taken at Hanover recently,

FAMOUS SCOTSMAN DEAD

SIR DONALD MacALISTER

London, Jan. 15.

The death has occurred at the age of 79 of Sir Donald MacAlister, the former

ing season brought the news Principal of Glasgow Uni- moratorium," which was mo versity and .a famous mentarily misconstrued. Pre-linguist.

sident Roosevelt has since ex- plained that his secretary who communicates with the Press desired week-end leave for the shooting.

He had a remarkable career. Born at Perth in May, 1854, he j

and went to school, at Aberdeen

The cor

consensus of oplulan in bridge, where he was Herschel

SMART WORK IN SHANGHAI-

Washington is that a monetary de- Shanghai, Jan. 15. As a result of brilliant

No charges have yet been laid, cision must be imminent, in order to satisfy the requirements of the as far as can be ascertained. work by the Settlement

The persons arrested are all Treasury Department, as explained police, two powerful kidnap- employees of the Swiss Control in Roosevelt's budget speech.

Company, and all connected with

ping gangs were broken up the arm in the Black Sea ports in two raids on Saturday have been detained for examina- evening and Sunday morn-tion.

ing.

Two abducted Chinese, the son

of a wealthy iron-master and the compradore of a

German

firm, were released and thirty-two kid-| nappers were arrested.

Booty acized by the police during the raids included four loaded automatica and an automobile.

In both cases the bandits were Taken completely by surprise.

CHAINED AND PADLOCKED.

They include

Two Germans

Two Austrians

One Belgian

One Dane.

ACCESS DENIED.

| Liverpool, and secured a scholar- ship at St John's College, Cam

Prizeman in 1870 and Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prize- man in 1877, -h

Later he took the M.D. degree at Cambridge. The need for borrowing $10,-

After acting as mathematical 000,000,000 before June 30 raises master at Harrow and studying at the question of the capacity of Leipzig he became lecturer in the major banks safely to carry natural philosophy at St. more Government bonds thantholomew's Hospital, London and they already hold, which is np. took his B.Sc. at London Univer- proximately one-third of their elty. deposits.

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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 discase.

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

PACIFIC WAR FEARS

Bar-HOLLAND'S NAVAL

# REDUCTIONS

of

ALARM AMONG EXPERTS

The Hague, Jani. 14. The possibility of a naval war n the Pacific is the cause of anxiety in Dutch naval circles, allowing Cabinet instructions de- nunding the reorganisation of

In 1888, the Royal College Physicians, made him its first EXPERT - FORECAST.

Croonian professor. He was alected president of the General Experts are of the opinion that Medical Council in 1904 and also the Federal Reserve Board's gold 3 years later Principal of Glasgow Although no charges have been will be impounded, with or with- University, being the first medical laid, the authorities have refused out. the sanction of Congress, al-man to hold the position. Thanks access to the prisoners by their though President Roosevelt beto his two posta in Glasgow and diplomatic representatives. lieves that he is already so em- London, he spent two nights of

There is a close resemblancs į powered.

most weeks in the train between The compradore Туда found between the affair and the Metro- It is also thought that the dollar the two cities.. chained and padlocked, with his Vickers case, and it is believed will be devalued, poscibly to fifty Knighted in 1908, he was made oyes covered by glasses on which possible that events will, more or cents, though it is doubted whe-a baronet in 1924. The recipient ho Navy. black paper had been pasted, lons, repent themselves.

ther Britain (with whom ngrce of a number of honorary degreen, while cotton had been stuffed com- It is alloged that the employees ment la regarded as essential) he was a member of many learned been entrusted to a Royal Com The task of reorganisation has pletely round the edges of the arrested have undertakon trans-will agree to a settled relationship bodies and did valuable work on mission which has been orderet glasses to prevent him from sce-actions not connected with their between sterling and the dollar Government commissions. His

Ho had been Company's business. The Swiss at that rate. . ing any light. beaton daily and was suffering Control Company controls all from infections around the eyes, freightage and cargoes in the caused by the treatment meted out Black Sea porte-Reuter. to him.

The iron-manter's son was more

EXCHANGE EQUALISATION.

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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

Off the Settly. Islos the gale reached a forço of 82 miles an nour, while Croydon reported n velocity, of 08-miles an hour.

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

THE SECOND being forced to seek refuge in

BISMARCK

EULOGIES FOR HERR HITLER

NAZI GATHERINGS

IN GERMANY.

various Channel ports, tenka The Imperial Airways early morning service to and from the Continent was cancelled.

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H.M.S. Nelson, which aground off Portsmouth on Friday while, setting forth for the Weat Indios, was unable to leave har bpur to join the rest of the Home Fleet.

KING'S CAR'S ESCAPE:

As the Royal car, containing the King, the Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Elizabeth and Berlin, Jan. 14.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, approached Nazi demonstrations were Sandringham Church for the

treo, measuring six feet was blown -

held over the country to-day, morning service, the branch of a which marked the termina-down by the wind and fell only a tion; of the truce, to polities few yards behind the Royal car. maintained during the Center.

Christmas and New Year.

Herr Hitler mot some of his BIG FIRE AT

oldest 'followers fu ceremonies. nt Detmold,

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

Herr Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, participated in a masa meeting in the square front of the Imperial Palace at Berlin.

in

The most important gathering was, however, that of the Veterans

Associations at the Sports Palace, which was attended by President von Hindenburg, Baron

von Nourath, General Blomberg and Captain Roehm,

HITLER EULOGISED.

RADIO STATION

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

Leipzig, Jan, 14. The upper part of two great transmitting towers at the radio station ten miles outside the city are burning

A Rolchewehr company, goose-fiercely. stopping, escorted the twenty-one Every resource of the Leipzig battle-torn flags of the Old Army Fire Brigade is being employed to into the building, amidst the get the conflagration under con- cheers of thousands of spectators, trol,

Captain Koehm eulogised Horr The cause of the outbreak is at Hitler as a Second Bismarck, who present unknown, but the suspicion has returned from the Was an is entertained that incendiarists unknown soldier and had succoed- have been at work. od in planting a feeling of comrade. The fire started at a height of ahip in the hearts of the entire two-hundred feet from the ground, and blazed fiercely in the fanning nation-Reuter.

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KIDNAPPERS FOILED

· FATHER SUFFERS

...

MUTILATION

The towers are blazing Niko beacons, tho James mounting discover · means of effecting recreation was the fearning of to

rapidly up: the towers which are languages, 14 of which he could economies to the extent of 32,600.-

four hundred foot high.

They speak fluently. It was said that 000 on the army and the navy in

were orected in 1932,-

Lator. A third likely step is that the no distinguished foreigner visited view of the budget deficit of some Government will seek the sanction Glasgow University without being 480,000,000,

The Leipzig radio station fire The experts are grantly dia- of Congress. to impound the greeted in his native tongue by the

has now been extinguished. First announcemont

belief of a sabotage outrage is perfect health, with found to be in FUNERAL OF VAN DER Federal Reserve Board's stock, and Principal. At one dinner he made appointed by the

although worn

there is also a likelihood of the speech in soven languages. In- which is expected to moan a. cur-

now discounted. The blazo la croation of an Exchange Equalisa- cluding Chinese and Japanese, tailment of naval strength and An unsuccessful attempt by a tion Fund.

He was loading authority on they express some alarm declaring gang of kidnappers to abduct the attributed to the spontaneous When all these measures have translated Scots poema ute that important in view of the possibility at Kowloon Teal on Saturday after. Router.

Romany, the Gipsy speech, and that a strong Dutch Navy is most young child of a Chinese living combustion of a large condenser. been put through, the President difficult modium. In fact his book of a conflict in the Paclite. noon, was followed by the arrest will seek a stabilisation of world "Echoes" contains some remark. It is pointed out that the of two alleged members of the currencies,

abla tours de force of this kind. personnel in recent years has gang. WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT.

Before the men were chased and Thus he rendered poems from already been reduced from oloven Greek, Gorman and Scots into thousand to eight thousand.

seized by the police, they are said Lator. Russian and from English into

to have committed a drondful act They regret particularly the dis of mutilation on the child's father

by seventeen days of captivity,-~| Router.

INSP. ROYLANCÉ

· INJURED

MOTOR MISHAP

LUBBE

Private Ceremony in Leipzig To-day

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-Lolpzig, Jan: 14.

ITALIAN TREASURY'S

BOND ISSUE

Rome, Jan. 14-.

Following the arrival hero of A White House statement says German, Welsh Romany, Norse and appearance of the crack Marine with a plece of granite. The offer of the Bank of Italy YESTERDAY the relatives of Van der Lubbe, that President Roosevelt and the Russian, to say nothing of trans-Corps founded in the pavonth The injured victim Foo Shing, aged of four per cent. Treasury Bonds,

the funeral will take place private Secretary of the Treasury De-lating verse luto English from century by de Ruyter-Router. I

53, is now at the Kowloon hospital and to convert four thousand Inspector G. E. Roylance was ly to-morrow in the Southern partment conferred with the Greek, Irish, French, German, |****

where it is stated he is progress-million lire of five per cent, nine- Injured yesterday In a motor car Cemetery.

Democratic and Republican mem Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian,

your bonds oxpiring in 1934, prov ing favourably, accident at Ngau Shl Wan, Kow- It is rumoured that the three bors of the Banking and Cur- Czech Gaelic, Catalan and

The gangsters and Foo Shing to an outstanding success, Joon Olty.

Bulgarians, who were acquitted of roney Committees of the House Romantsch. Moreover his Engifeh it had been struck off because he He was driving his car along complicity in the Reichstag Bre, and Sonate, and discussed methods renderings are admirable, had acted as anaesthetist to Sir are all natives of Swatow, they Over 9,025,000,000 lire was sub- scribed, including 6,760,000,000 the road when, at a point near will be expelled to-morrow, leaving for taking into the Treasury, the In 1929, he resigned the Prin Herbert Barker, the unregistored having come horo only recently.

The suggestion is that Foo Shing Hire of new money, Flold Cottage, a woman unexpect. Leipzig for an unknown destina- title to and ownership of all gold cipalshilp of Glasgow University manipulative surgeon. edly got into his way. To avoid tion-Router.

In the United States, together with whore he was very popular and Sir Donald MacAlister wrote was known to the gangsters, and The surplus will be used for the running into her, he had to swervo

the question of the revaluation of was made Ite Chancellor, while in many booke on medioni subjects that they followed him here for amortisation of part of the Budget sharply, and the car overturned.

the gold content of the dollar. of the General Medical Cousell. Study and Research at Cam- his child with a view to ransom..

1981, he gave up the presidency and also works on Advanced the express purpose of kidnapping President Roosevelt is sending a He had been the chief figure in bridge The General Medical serious nature. They were treat neeldent, arrived in the Colony from Message to Congress to-morrow, the same in which Dr. Axham tried Counch" and "Religion and the The Béa Lino sis. Bendoran le due bonds, which now stand at par n ed in hospital, but he has since Manila by the .. President Wilson transferring all gold to the Train vain to got his name restored in Mind. Router and bare from Home, via Singapore, on compared with 80 at this time last

Shop on the way to sury in connexion with dollar de to the medical register from which Special..

T... Thỏ înjuries Inspector Roylance The Countess of Carlisle, who was

rocolyed · wern - not of n

seriously injured in a recent seroplano vory

̈been discharged,

today.

Shanghai.

| valuation—Reuter,

the 19th instant.

deficit

It is rumoured that the Govern→ mant is contemplating the early conversion of all five per cont

yourReuter,