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四拜禮 號五月四英港香 THURSDAY, APRIL 5,

1934.

日二十月二

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SINGAPORE

DYNAMITE RAID

ENOUGH TO BLOW UP WHOLE TOWN

TWO CHINESE ARRESTED

MOTIVE STAYS A MYSTERY

(Special to "Telegraph"}

(Telegraph, Copyright,

andra

Ordinance, 113.

3. 2,079)

Telegrankio Mew Stacvived April

Singapore, April 5.

Mystery surrounds a high-

explosive seizure case, brief

MR. WOODIN ON DANGER-LIST

Seriously Ill in New York Hospital

(Spatial to "Telegraph")

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie Mes migra Ordinance. 主摆职导。 Received April

..)

5. .

New York, Apr. 4.

It is authoritatively learn- ed that Mr. W. H. Woodin is on the danger list at the Manhattan Eye. Ear and Throat Hospital.— United Press,

THE

BLUE PENCIL

BARGAINS

AT

WHITEAWAYS?

NAVY RE-ARMAMENT NOW FRANCE ON EDGE

DEMANDED BY HITLER

NOT SEEKING EQUALITY

BUT WANTS MORE WARSHIPS

TO ATTEND 1935 CONFERENCE

Berlin, April 5.

France's recent warning

to Britain that the Hitler

MAJANGAOmasasminmy | Government would soon be

TRADE REPRISALS

details of which have been GERMANY'S THREAT TO

disclosed by the Singapore

police.

One thousand sticks of gelignite

FRANCE

turning its attention to naval re-armament has been quick-

ly justified.

Many rumours have been

Published abroad regarding the

nature and extent of Germany's likely demands but no official indication is forthcoming.

Germany expects to participate |

M. Daumerque retaine his cheerfulness no matter what situation arises. Our photo shows him discussing Franco's

Internal problems, with international journalists.

ta species of relatin-dynamite). QUOTA DISPUTE in next your's naval conference U.S. TREADS

which is estimated to be sufficient

to blow up the whole of Singapore,

was discovered during a police

Chinese.

Berlin, April 5.

with a view to procuring some rovision of the Treaty of Versailles On the eve of arrangements for and obtain

30

greater naval

raid on a house necupled by two the resumption of negotiations security, according to today's for the conclusion of a Franco-Berlin newspapers, which however, German commercial treaty, the

denials of the report! publish imminence of a trade war has be-

Germany published abroad that come apparent.

has drawn up a Big Navy building

A further important find con- sisted of a hundred detonators.

The Chinese occupants of the house were arrestel.

programme.

The German Government an- The explosives are believed tofnounced to-night the preparation

A LUXURY.. have been stolen from quarry cenn-jof a scheme for commercial re-

prisals against France.

The newspapers emphasise that The Germans contend that the it would take several years to Investigations are proceeding in'

France of German build up a large fleet and that an effort to establish whether any jimports into sinister motive lay behind the goods in the quantities allowed Germany has not the money for possession of such a large quantity under the quota system are still

tractors,

of high explosive, though it is, of further seriously hampered by besuch luxuries... course, possible that the dynamite ing subject was stolen merely for re-sale pur-Inter-professional nuses, Routers Special Service.

THOMAS SILVER AMENDMENT

ANOTHER BOOSTING.

ATTEMPT

New York, Apr, 4. Interest is being taken in the: Thomas Amendment to the Silver Bill, which authorises Government purchases of silver until it reached US$1.29 an ounce,

were

Likely action by Congress on the amendment la problematical.

Mesare, E. A. Pierce and Com-

that futures pany report easier but banks brought near-bys DI the decline-Asiq through Reuter,

Lands,

FUNDING LOAN POPULAR

HEAVY APPLICATIONS

EXPECTED

London, April 4. The announcement of the new £150,000,000 three per cent. Fund- ing Loan was well received in the that City and It is expected applications will be exceptionally heavy when the lists open to-

morrow.

to the decisions of It is stressed that the German committees," | Government has no intention of namely, porong interested in the pressing any claim for equality goods concerned,

with the big naval Powers-Rew

The German Government in, fer. therefore, creating similar or ganisations to deal with French

imports, although they are pre- PORT OF LONDON

similar

pared to dissolve them immediate- ly that France takes action-Reuter,

MARYSE HILTZ

NANKING

AUTHORITY

25th

IN

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED

FLYING TO CANTON TO-DAY

London, Apr. 4.

WARILY

EXTRADITION OF INSULL

FEARING LAST MINUTE SLIP

(Special to "Telegraph"}

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Teleprophie Ném Ordinanor, 1204. Received Apri

dprs

Washington, Apr. 4. The State Department is still proceeding cautiously in the Samuel Insull affair, lest the former utilities magnate should slip out of their grasp at the last minute.

The United States authorities hope to be able to arrange for Insult to start back to America jaboard an American vessel which is due to lenvé lætanbul on April 10.

Alternatively, another American The 25th anniversary is being ship leaving on April 24 may be celebrated of the establishment of used. the Port of London Authority. Officials state that diplomatic which superseded the Various and legal ratifications require docks and other companies which them to move with the utmost cau- formerly exercised powers over tion in order the tidal waters of the Thames.

In the Interval, immense im- Nanking, April 4.

provements to the waterway, by Mile. Maryse Hiltz was necorded dredging and A comprehensive an effusive reception by Chinese programme of development of Government officials this after dock systems and warehouse ac

(Special to "Telegraph")

noon. A dinner party was hold commodation, have been effected. in her honour this evening at the to acilitate the handling of the French Consulate, and Mr.. Wang, increased passenger and goods Ching-wel and other Chinese traffte. lenders attended.

In 1909 the total net registered It is understood that Mile. Hiltz tonnage of vessols arriving and will continue her flight South to-doparting ht and from the port morrow morning.-Central News amounted to 38,510,989. In 1938, the tonnage had increased to 66,- 480,004.-Britiah Wirelore.

KIRIN GARRISON IN REVOLT

The effect on the stock market MANCHURIAN TROOPS

Was

to strengthen further the

on for British Government

and War Loan three and

half per cent. touched a new high

record of 104.7/16. ·

in other sections prices also nd-

MUTINY

(Special to “Talegranh")

Peking, April 5.

TWO FACTORY ACCIDENTS

WORKMEN BADLY

BURNED ::

edges

CIVIL SERVANTS TO BE RETIRED'

•

68,000 Expecting

Dismissal

(Special to "Telegraph")

Ordinance. 1986.

5. 9.5,.)

Retrived

Ard

OF RUIN

PLAIN SPEAKING BY M. DOUMERGUE

DETERMINED TO STAND OR FALL BY ECONOMY PLAN

CIVIL SERVICE UNREST

Paris, Apr. 5. France to-day faces the biggest political crisis since the war. On the brink of financial ruin, govern mentally, the country is seething with discontent not- ably among the well-organised. Interests' most vitally affected by the drastic cuts in expenditure planned by the Doumergue Cabinet. It is plain, however, that the. Premier is determined to

stand or fall by his economy

scheme, which he regards as JOBS FOR

the only alternative to na- tional bankruptcy.

PLAIN SPEAKING.

MILLIONS

Exceptionally plain speaking AMERICA'S SUMMER

marke a letter which M. Dou-

mergue forwarded to President Lobrun Inst night in connection with the Governmont's economy: programme, which was adopted by

PROGRAMME

the Council of Ministers during MODERN HOUSING

their meeting earlier on.

Requesting the President's signature to the decrees, thol. Premier says that if the Govern- ment hesitated to use the excep tional powers "granted to it by Parliament, it would have meant,

SCHEME

(Special to "Telegraph")

(By Teterank. Copyright, Telegraphie Maa- Ordinance. 42 Received Apri

wadow

Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphio M within a very short time, either

closing down the Treasury, in-, 144 Kamu) volving a suspension of payments. and a default on all Government liabilities, or inflation with its attendant troubles.

Paris, Apr. 5. Sixty

⚫ eight

thousand members of the civil service are expecting to be compul- sorily retired on pension by the Doumergue economy.- United Press.

CHURCH SCHISM IN GERMANY

BISHOP MUELLER ATTACKED

NO INFLATION.

Washington, April 4.. The problem of reducing un- employment in the United States, still standing at a de- plorably high figure, is seriously For, says M. Doumergue, in-engaging the attention of Ad- flation does not solve any financial|ministration officials. problems but by deferring and aggravating them, also leads to bankruptcy.

At a press conference to-day. General Hugh Johnson, National

men during

M. Doamergue points out that Recovery Administrator, sald he to be as rich as before the war, hopes to secure the re-employment the with the frane devalued by four of two million fifths, French capital and business Spring and Summer through the turnover ought to have increased processes of shortening working five-fold. This had not happened, hours in adustry and stimulating. Moreover, expenditure had in-uilding enterprise.

He said that plans are being creased not fivefold but tenfold,

prepared for

natlonwide The cuts provided in the $1,000,000,000 home modernisation economy decrec Inwa

are programme, including the removal estimated to save Fr.2,500,000,-fof Aluma. 000.

There will be no weakening in They involve cuts in the pay of the drive to cut hours of employ elvil servants, reductions in pen-ment by a further ten per cent. "SECOND POPE" sions to ex-service men, and it and to increase wages for the

from these interests that the shorter period by ten per cent.- Munich, April 4,

Governmont is certain to discover United Pre Church dissension throughout the unpopularity of the proposals. Eight hundred thousand civil Germany is still seething, despite servants and hundreds of thou- to prevent an the apparent victory of Reichs-sands of ex-service men are direct- eleventh-hour technical loophole bishop Mueller in the recent ly concerned. which would permit Insul to

struggles.

"WAR DECLARED". escape.-Reute's Spreial Service,

The suppression of the Rhenishi Evangelical Churches by the Gor- The Federation of Postal Em- man Christians has evoked fur-ployees met to-night at an

CONVERSION

HITLERISM

TOther condemnation of Bishop emergency meeting, and declared

STOUTLY DENIED BY DR. SEVERING

Mueller.

.wor

against the Government At a protest meeting held last economy measures, a resolution Light, Dr. Beckmann, of Due-

being passed empowering the saeldorf, described Bishop Mueller leaders of the Federation to pre- as "The Second Pope,' that there was no alternative to riposte to the unsocial plans con- adding pare "an energetic and decisive body and soul resistanco to the tained in the Decree Laws."-- now Germo-Christian policy. Reuter. Berlin, Apr. b. The secret police of Dortmund His conversion to Hitlarism is reveal that two Presbyterian atoutly denied by the formerbodies have been expelled from thei Socialist Miniator, Dr. Karl Sever-German Church for refusing to ing, who repudiater, the alleged obey the Protestant Bishop of

from his forthcoming Muenster.-Router. book which are quoted as the basis of his change of belief.

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WORLD CHESS TITLE

ALEKHINE WINS SECOND GAME

FATAL MOTOR

MISHAP

WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL

VACATING SITE SHORTLY

RESPONSE TO APPEAL

London, Apr. 4. Westminster Hospital, one of the oldest and owing to its posi tion opposite Westminster Abbey, perhaps the best known in Lon- don, is shortly to be vacated.

OLD MAN RUNS INTO £100,000 for the purchase of a site In response to an appeal for Dr. Severing is very distressed at the false Impression which

EUROPEAN'S CAR for a new building, a sum of $100,- has been created, and which

731 has been raised in five months, Mr. C. B. Easterbrook was the 6,000 donora contributing. originated. In the Viennese news-

driver of a car concorned in a paper, Reichspost, which carried

fatal mishap in Nathan Road yes-

An appent on behalf of the fund an article which was subsequently

terday.

was broadcast recently by the When a joint in an exhaust pipe) circulated in Germany by the of-

An aged Chinese got into the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankey, and connected with an oil engine at the ficial Germany news agency,

way of the car, and was knocked as a result £8,127 was received. vanced, the employment returns A message from Kirin states Fung Keong Rubbery Factory at Reuter,

down, receiving injuries from A loan of 4220,000 will be raised stimulating industrials. There was a

which he died after admisalon to for the new building which will slight reaction later, but a firm that a serious revolt, etarted by a Shaukiwan blew out yesterday, two

Mrs. E. C. Carter in to speak from (Special to "Talagraph") Manchukuo garrison force in the oporatives, Choong See and Lo

hospital, The victim, Mok Chung-incorporate the latest develop undertone WAB .maintained.~-

Z. B. W. at 6.30 p.m. to-day on the vicinity of Ilan, is developing norl Ping, were badly burnt about the British Wireless,

wah, was 65 years of ago. He monta in hospital design and ny- ously as they are acting in con- face and legs. They were ad-subject of "Co-operation Between, the Telegraph. Copyright, Tetegrazhts Resavas a native of the New Torri paratus after a repart has been re- Nations of the Pacific." Mr. Carter spes Ordinane, IĮ. Ranaived APTH Junction with Chinese volunteers mitted to the French Hospital.

torics.

ceived from a mission which will 11. M. S. Bridgewater leaves to- and disaffected farmers in the At the Ah Mol Canning Factory is the Secretary General of the In- 0.10 am) |

Baden-Baden, Apr. 4. In. Hennessey Road, Wanchai, inapect most modern Firepenn morrow for Weiheiwėl, And the surrounding districts.

at Shamshulpo yesterday, a work-stitute of Pacific Rolations, while Mrs.

Alekhine to-day won the second another accident occurred, the hospitals. Garter has been very active in the Folkestone nails for Woosung and Japanese troops commenced a man, Cheng Sze-kong, laadvertont- League of Women Votorn of the Un-game in the world's chess cham victim being Sho Tak, aged 46, Particular attention will be Hankow. H. M. S. Cumberland has arrived at Amoy and anila on Satur campaign against them at the end ly put his hand. Inte machinery.ited States of America and has also pionship contest hero after thirty- who was injured and conveyed to given to minimising the delay in

for several years on she is ex-of March and fighting is still in and crushed it. The man was served day for Shanghai, where

moves-Router's Special hospital after being knocked down dealing with out-patients-British

Wireless |progress.--Central News.

taken to the Kowloon Hospital, World's Committee of the Y.W.C.A. |Service.

|by near.. pected on April:10.

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