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A

FIRST

BRITISH NAVAL STRATEGY IN THE FAR EAST

DESTROYER TRAGEDY

NAVAL OFFICER FOUND SHOT

INDICATIONS OF SUICIDE

Strict secrecy is being preserved by the

nava!

authorities for the present, concerning a tragedy aboard the destroyer, H.M.S. Verity, which occurred last night.

It is understood that investiga- tat tions made on board alter

firing of a shot had been heard revealed the dead body of Sub- Lieutenant D. E. Gillespie, the most junior officer on the ship.

Report has it thi the death was due to suicide, tit no informa-

available tion is

yot Authoritative quartera.

Definita fears of another war are entertained in Vienna. Preparations are being made by the provision of bomb proof shelters and civilians have been compelled to practice. Photo shows a bored looking party waiting

for the "enemy aileckers" to draw off. ·

iram I UN PLANS TO ENLŲ AKMIČAROZENIA,

that IM.S. It is understood Verity was returning to Hongkong when the shooting occurred. She is now lying alongside the wall t the Dockyard,

INVESTIGATION PROCEEDING.

An official inquiry is believed to he proceeding into the affair.

Sub-Lieutenant Gillespie, who was promoted to his rank in 1932, joined the Verity on the "China Station. In February last year.

The funeral 18 taking place to- morrow morning, leaving the Naval Hospital at Wanchaf at ten o'clock,

SHOT IN HEAD..

Later.

It is learned that Lieutenant Gillespie was round with a gunshot wound in the head, the shooting occurring while H.M.S. Verity was engaged in a piracy patrol at Bins Bay.

'The destroyer came into port with the body and to report on.tne Incident.

NEW MOTOR PEER'S

HANDSOME GIFT

Now Block of Wards at Guy's

London, Jan. 23. Lord Nuffield, better known as Sir William Morris, the motor-car manufacturer, has given £45,000 for the erection of

a

new block of private - wards at Guy's Hospital, London-British Wirelena.

A TWO-DAY MANHUNT

Anaval inquiry is being held on hoard H.M.S, Keppel this after-GERMAN-GUNMEN- noon, the residing officer being

BROUGHT TO BAY Captain C.H.G. Benson, D.S.O., or H.M.S. Cumberland.

The naval authorities decline to disclose further information.

RUSSIAN OIL FOR R.A.F.

CHEAPNESS THE DECIDING FACTOR

London, Jan. 23. Tho Air Ministry is increasing the porcentage of the Russian basin to the lubricating all used in

the Royal Air Force:

Big contracts have bean placed for supplies for home and overscas stutions.

BOTH COMMIT SUICIDE

Basle, Jan. 22. Committing suicide in a publle park here this morning, the two German ganmen wanted for the slaying of two bank officials and

AUSTRIA TO

THE SINGAPORE PARLEY

GROWING IMPORTANCE

ATTACHED

TIME COME FOR CLOSE STUDY

The

London, Jan. 24.

attention which the 3.ngapore Naval Conference has attracted shows the growing mportance attached to the pro- lems of Empire policy in the jens of the Far East and the .states the Daily Pacific,

elegraph in a leading article his morning.

The journal adds that the con- litions created by the forward bolicies of the United States and apan need not necessarily be in-- urlous to the interests of the

the time has come for the careful reconsideration of what is es- sontial at Slugapore to Imperial defence.

FIGHT TERRORISM, British Empire, but it is clear that

p

VIGOROUS SPEECH BY 'DOLLFUSS

VIENNA AUDIENCE STIRRED

Vienna, Jan, 23. Another fighting speech was delivered to-night by the Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss, expressing the Government's Leic.mination to fight the Nazis with every weapon at

patience

Admiral Sir Frederic Droyer,

commander-in-chief of the Caina Squadron, Is presiding at the Singapore con crence, where the chief of the naval forces of the New Zealand and Australia and the East Indian Squadron are at- tending.

AJ STRATEGY: OVERHAUL

The Admiralty declares the Con- ference to be a mere routine mat- ter, but it is reported that Imperial naval strategy in Eastern and Pacife waters is likely to undergo

a thorough overhaul,

Meanwhile

+ report from their command.

Washington says that steel shares of have risen sharply on news He declared that Austria's favourable legislative action on and forbearance had the Vinson Bill, which provides reached the break.ng-point; hau, for the building of 120 new was intact, ended. They were no ships for the United States Navy going to put up with terrorism-Reuter. any longer.

own

Austria, as a united nation was determ.ned to assert itself and to

rush terrorism within its borders, while regarung terroi

rom abroad, the Caancellor con- firmed that he is considering lodging an appeal to the League o Nations if Germany does not give the assurances demanded to pre- vent the flood of propaganda, weapons and money from crossing the Austrian border.

Dr. Dollfuss has addressed enormous crowd consisting

WAR IN PACIFIC

M. Herriot on Highly Dangerous Outlook

JAPANESE TRADE PENETRATION IN MACAO

Signor Mussallal shown with Dr.

Gos, e lungarian leader. The italian Premier is credited with an important scheme-for the 'te union of

„Austela and Hungary, -

APARTMENT HOUSE

TRAGEDY

MONOPOLY SENSATION

STRONG CHINESE

PROTESTS

PETITION TO BE SENT TO LISBON

Japanese trade penetration in a form viewed as "amaz- ing by persons who profess to have checked the facts, has been brought home to the people or itação by a sensational, and apparently authentic report, that cer- tain Japanese interests have securea from the Portuguesa Government a virtual mon- opoly of the wine trade.

NEPAL VALLEY DEVASTATION

London, Jan. 23.

The India Office has been informed; by the Govern- ment of India that a jele- gram has been received from Coloncl Smith, Acting British Envoy In Nepal, stating

that the Nepal Valley suffered very severe. ly from the earthquake, He mentions no casualties among Europeans"and it is therefore, presumed that they are / safe.--British Wireless.

NEW NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

An agreement Implementing provisions for the importation of PREMIER CHEERED AND molasses and alcohola as part of this monopoly is said to have been signed last month.

BOOED AT LEEDS

The Chinese wine Industry "of Mácuo is one that may be regarded

London, Jan. 23. --- 35 its most important. Industry, The Prime Master, Mr. apart from the fishing, industry, Rainsay MacDonald, had a most nd if the facts are as have been uncomfortable meeting at Leeds disclosed to the Telegraph, im- to-night when inaugurating the wortant developments of à political official National Government and international character may compaign to restore confidence in be expected on the lines of the present Ministry.. pared by the local Chinese wine

Judge Purdy Awaiting spirited protest that is being pe

Report of Affair

trade.

A FOOTING.

ment's response to the shocks The campaign is the Govern-

provided in recent by-elections, disclosing everywhere a sharp Shanghal, Jan. 23.

They see in the move the suc-alump in National Government Though it is probable that no cessful culmination of years of stock. It meets the.compaint that to secure, a nothing has been done to meet the coting for their raw materials in steady campaigning of the apposi inquest will be held. Judge Mil Japanese "efforts

tion in the country. ion D. Purdy is waiting for the South China. full report of Dr. George Sellett,It all started, it is bald; In-The--Premier U. S., District Attorney, on the report featured by a Hongkong was not, howover circumstances nurrounding the apanese new caper, the long well received ragic death of Mrs. Will'em kong Japanese Daily Press. In its Cheers went up On his appear Grooch and her two eons, which.osue of December 22, an an- shocked Shanghai last Friday, nouncement was made to the effect ancé, but they The bodies of the mother and hat a Mr. Wada, a Japanese wore accon her childran were found on the dentist at Macne, had succeeded panied by boo-in; concrete below the Washington a "obtaining various franchises and catcalls, and Apartments late Friday evening, from the Treasury of Mazao, Mr. MacDonal was repeatedl nitor they had hurted througn te amongst these the right of im-

ferments interrupted, air from the eight storey roof-porting alcohol and

or making Chinese wines," the In the cours otal amount of these alcoholic of his address,

Premie pirits to be roughly between the 60,000 and 100,000 cases yearly. ranged.

Paris, Jab. 22. Existing Soviet-Japanese garden. and American-Japanese ten- Both French and U.S. Consular ansion threaten to provide the authorit.es have been at work on

albasis for a

terrific three- the case since Friday. A private

funeral

was held on Saturday cornered conflict in the Far afternoon.. East, writes the ex-Premier, M. Edouard Herriot, in an article released to-day by the Economic and Financial Agency.

two policemen ended a two-day thousands of members of the new search in which 400 armed Patriotic Front, who were whipped police, frontier guards, police-o a fever of enthusiasm by the degs and airmen had combed the speech of the Chancellor. Reuter. rugged country between River Berse and the horder. -

the

French

It is explained that the only al-

the It appears that, at about ternative to Russian is a Perslan

Lime they killed the bank officials, or American basis, and cheapness has been the deciding factor.the mizereanis met two girls, who

Reuter.

ANOTHER KNIGHT

PASSES

·DEATH OF SIR F. AGAR

ing the mud flats at the mouth of

1.

After to murder, the paste

raphs came into the possession the police, who, on making in- persuaded them to be photograph- Loarding-house.

INDUSTRIALISING IRELAND

M. Herriot regards the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railwa; as the immediate pivot upo

GOVERNMENT PLANS which the question of war d

ANNOUNCED

Dublin, Jan. 24.

over

Ho

A certain sum is also named wide field. in the newspaper report as having referred to the boen fixed as payment for these Anglo-French tariff negotiations franchises.

and expressed the opinion that The most of the article continues France's latest proposal was very

JAPAN'S DESIGNS ON in an optimistic strain to envisage unjust to British industry. He be-

THE MAINLAND

General Araki Still A.

Big Factor

a Wilen it will have been loved that the French would also possible for Japanese business to come to think so. be further developed with the Assistance of other franchise.

FORMER ATTEMPT,

TRADE BARRIERS.

The Government, he added, was rendy to step in and take up the work of getting government to

to

remove 'ome to agreements

nuocesenry trade barriors as as circumstances made: a atisfactory conclusion likoly...

Ho rearmed that the Govern-

Joon

An alarming view was then taken of the possibilities by Chin- peaca in the Pacife revolves.

ese wino manufacturers and re Tokyo, Jan. 24, tailers who see in the monopoly Entitled "The Triptyque," the

real an insidious attempt to fiich away the art.cle refera to the trio of groat It is believed that As detectives were entering the The Industrialisation of the powers whoso interests

and motive that caused General Araki their business. They recall tha house, the two Germans opened Irish Free State was the subject, policies are tangled in a dangerous

tender his resignation from the ome years ago the same Mr. Wada ont was loyal to the League of established a competitive Nations and hoped in co-cration ire, killing one of them and in- of an important speech by Mr. fashion in the Far East at the War Ofles when the establishment had Heting injuries upon another from Lemass, the Minister of Industry present tima.

It opens with of a monarchical regime in Man concorn to which he gave the with other nations, like. Italy, and to devise a means to make tha which he subsequently died.

and Commerce, at Dublin lust fengihy citations from the recent hurla la uproaching, is to pre-name of Nam Wah at Macao, bui France, and the smaller Powers,

(Continued on Page 11.)

vent international attention from was eventually forced to retire League more secure than ever to. strong Chinese op face the problema confronting The desperatioca thon managed night, to make their escape. Stealing a He said that the Government couple of bicycles, they pedalled hoped, within twelve months, that the Tears. Conwright. Telegraphis Manto the woods thirty miles away, the fall requirements of cotton wegre Ordinamos, JAPA. Rapelord. January where they were chased by the piece goods in Ireland would be]

London, Jan. 24. police. They managed to elude woven in the Free State from yarn The City of London to-day their pursuers and made their way spun in the Free State,

Other plans by the Government; mourns the loss of Sir Francis to a public park, where they were' Agar, who has died at the age of finally surrounded., Facing ar-for the coming year provided for the re-establishment of a number 74. He was prominently connect rest, they shot themselves.

(Our Own Correspondent).

JE, 4.14 3.0L

ed with the L.C.C. and was a mem During their career of crime, of industries, including glassware, ber of the Board of the Port of the miscreants had killed six cutlery, rubber goods, tyres, boots London Authority. He was policemen and had indirectly, and shoes, and poltory--Rest ar. Shariff of the city of London In caused a Basla policeman to kill 1025-26.

DR F, L. KITCHIN DEAD

(Our Own Correspondent),

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sapte Ordinanes,, 1734. ZZavařved, January

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an innocent civilinn.-Reuter,

HUGE AMERICAN DEFICIT

OVER £35,000,000 IN PRESENT YEAR

.. What the Chinese them.-Router.

then able to

claim, with

being focussed on his designs on owing to ho Asiatic Continent and, in deal-position.

they Ing with domestic politics, to 4orthants were rada attacks from the Opposition achieve, n. the Diet, particularly with re- the sympathetic support, of the

Macae Government, is not now GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF yard to military expenditures.

CANADA HURT

Observers are of the opinion possible, since that sympathetic that the youthful new War Minis-urport has been taken away, and ter, Goneral Senjuro-Hayashi, who in its place has been Introduced an can be regarded as General Araki's "active assistance" for the Japan- retainer, will not deviate from his es..

GOVERNMENT ACTION. predecessor's positive policies. General Araki, though in rotire- The Tronaury Dartment on-mant will probably not be leas nourices that the Federal deficit retive behind the scenes.-Central

the present Asent year to New. date totals $1,728,000,000-Rout in.

for

Washington, Jan. 28.

BOMB EXPLOSION IN BERLIN EXPRESS,

INDIA STILL ROCKED] BY TREMBLORS

Bombay, Jan. 28. Now seismic shocks rocked the Five passengers of the Farlin- | whole region of Benares early

·FAIR WEATHER

-The antleyclone remains contred

Vienna, Jan. 23.

Count de Clauzel Also Involved It is regarded by the Chinese merchants as highly significant

London, Jan. 22. that on December 80, a week after

Count de Clauzel, secretary of publicity had been given to the the French Embassy in London, raported Government deal, there was involved in a motorcar acci should come into effect: low by

dent last night near Hungtington which the Government transfora where he was spending the wook- to itself the whole of the wing trade as a monopoly: that is the end. He had to be taken to hos pital, but, it is anid, his condition right of buying the raw materials wives no rizoto apprehensions. from whom and in what quantity One of his companions was killed factories and operating them with the car, the Enel of Rashorough, off Gasta. what norronnel it desires, and Glavarnor-General of Canada, was

(Continued on Page 7.)

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EXPLOSION ON ITALIAN WARSHIP

Rome, Jan. 22. One man was killed and two

London, Jan. 24. Munich-Vionna express were killed yesterday morning. The tremors to the north of the Yangtze valloy, The death has occurred of Dr. and ons seriously injured, when an were so violent that the Ganges and pressure is considerably over were injured when a boiler ex- It wishon; establishing its own on the spot. Another perunast of Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, Palacon-normal machine placed in one of River flooded the region, leaving normal at the majority of report-ploded yesterday on board the Ita- tologiat to the Geological Survey the frat class coaches exploded its bed completely dry for a few the stations. Local forecastian warship Zono

Imoments,

N.E. winds, frosh; fair, yesterday morning. at Great Britain.

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