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No. 14911

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1934.. WHARF TUESDAY, MAY 29,

一日七十月四

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AMERICA'S WAR DEBT "ACCOUNT RENDERED"

The nose of the new crack French commercial plane, Arc in Ciol. The man standing near. by gives an ides of har site.

ARC-EN-CIEL ACROSS

AIR SERVICE TO BRAZIL

FROM. SENEGAL IN

14 HOURS

St. Louis, May 28. The flight

the across South Atlantic of the French air "ace", M. Jean Marmoz, flying the crack plane, Arc- en-Ciel, was successfully completed to-day.

The Arc-en-Clel took off from Senegal at 3 a.m. G.M.T., and or- rived at Port Natal, Brazil, at 7 .m. G.M.T., having covered the distance of approximately 1,800 miles in 14 hours.

This is the first attempt by the French, with official hacking, to make a commercial air link between France and South America,

-The conditions insisted upon by the French Government are that the Arc-en-Ciel must make three double journeys before the service will be recognised by Air France.

The Arc-en-Ciel in one of the biggest and most modern of French commercial aeroplanes, being one of the fastest constructed in France. Sho was to-day endeavouring to beat the Graf Zeppelin Into Brazil. --Reuter.

KOWLOON LADY IN HOSPITAL

AN OVERDOSE OF ADALIN

JAPANESE TROOP NEAR THING FOR

TRAIN WRECKED

SCORES KILLED AND WOUNDED

AMBUSHED BY BANDITS

FLIERS

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Codos and Rossi Just

Mako Land

New York, May 28.

NOTE PRESENTED TO BRITAIN

Codes and Rossi failed in EXPECTS $239,000,000 ON

their attempt to establish

a

new long-distance non- stop record,

in

They were compelled to land at North Truro, Massachusetts, on the edge of Cape Cod, having barely made land-leuter.

Harbin, May. 29. Scores of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded when they fell into an ambush on, the railway yesterday, as the result NANOSTRUCT

of a daring coup by a strong force of anti-Manchukuo bandits.

The bandits pulled up the track on the Muling branch line near Pamyatun, and a Japanese troop train, speeding towards Muling was derailed and wrecked.

Before the troops aboard her had had an opportunity to collect themselves, the bandits, lying in ambush, were pouring a fusillado of bullets into the soldier passen- gers na they staggered out of the

i wreck.

The full extent of the casualties | is not yet known, but about thirty- five Japanese were killed outright and the number of wounded Is greatly in excess.-Reuter.

PARLIAMENT TO MEET TO-DAY

PROSPECTS OF BUSY SESSION

GENEVA DECISION

GENERAL DEBATE ON ARMAMENTS

CONFERENCE MUST GO ON

(Special to "felugraph")

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphis dise esgra Ordinance, ZARI. Hooked May 39. 8.44 0.90-2

Geneva, May 28. The Bureau of the Disar- mament Conference met to-day under the chairmanship of Mr. Arthur Henderson, to discuss the procedure to be followed at | to-morrow's 'meeting of the

General Commission.

London, May 28.

The business of the Bureau was Parliament will reassemble to-completed within half an hour. morrow.

It was decided that the General Among

important Commission should meet to-morrow the most measures for discussion by the (Tuesday) afternoon to decide the Commons before the session con- fate of the Disarmament Con- cludes, at the end of July or the be. ference. ginning of August, are the Betting The meeting will be thrown open and Lotteries Bill, the Petroleum to a general debate on the problemṛ Protection Bill and the Tithe Bill, to be met. which have been initiated In the House of Lords, and the Road

"MUST GO ON."

JUNE 15

BRITISH OFFICIAL

SILENCE

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, May 29, 855 mm.)

London, May 28. With due formality, the United States has presented the British Government with an "Account Rendered” Note, dealing with the payment of war debts.

The Note requests the payment on June 15, of $239,- |000,000 on account of war debts instalments falling due

and overdue, comprised as follows:

June 15, 1933, instalment balance December 15, 1933, instalment balance June 15, 1934, instalment .. Half-yearly instalment in repayment of amounts suspended by the Hoover moratorium, 1931/32

Total

GERMAN TRADE THREAT

"NEW INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY

Traffic Bill, which is designed to Mr. Henderson, at to-day meet- lessen the risk of road accidents ing of the Burent, read a short and includes a proposal to limit statement summarising the recent SYNTHETIC RAW speed in built-up areas to thirty exchange of Notes between the milles hourly.

Powers principally concerned, after

---

The remaining stages of the which M. Barthou, the French Finance Bill and several other Foreign Minister, supported the measures also await considera chairman's proposals to open tion-British Wireless.

general debate.

The conference must continue," declared M. Barthou, in the course of his speech-United Press.

GRAVE SITUATION.

PUBLIC SCHOOL

MATERIALS

Sir Ronald Lindany, the British Ambasador in Washington.

JAPAN'S

$66,000,000 NAVAL TALK

$88,000,000 $75,390,000

$9,721,000

$239,111,000

British offelst quarters decline Britain's proposals

to make any statement regarding, to meet thei isituation, but it is taken for

granted that the Bill will not be, met..

The Cabinet is likely to meet

POLICY

·|·CABINET TO MEET

TO-MORROW

ous

POLITICAL ISSUES TABOO

Tokyo, May 29,

TRADE RECOVERY SIGNS

FURTHER REDUCTION IN UNEMPLOYMENT

HALF A MILLION IN A YEAR

(Special to "Telegraph")

fly Telegraph. Copyroke, Telegraphic Mra angsa Ordinance,

Kerived Any 09. 4. a.m.)

London, May 28, Most of Britain's principal industries shared in the im- provement reflected in the past month's fall in unemployment by fifty-eight thousand.

The total of unemployed is now just over two millions, which is nearly half a million less than at this time Inst year-Renter Special

A further decline in the number of persons unemployed and an increase in the number in employ- ment are diacloned In the latest Miniatry of Labour return,

It states that at May 14, there were approximately 10,187,000 In- sured persons aged 16-04 la am- ployment in Great Britain. This was 47,000 more than at the 23rd April.

The Improvement during the month affected most of the prin elpal Industries except the coal mining industry, where the de cline was due mainly to temporary stoppages at a number of collieries in Yorkshire and the wool textile industry.

The numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of the Employment Exchange Is Britain

Japan is giving very serion May 14, were 1,868,677 wholly consideration to the stopped and 90,676 normally in unemployed, 341,028 temporarily

shortly to consider the policy re- policy-to-be-pursued-in-the casual employment, making it commended by the Chancellor of preliminary naval discus-total of 2,000,381. This was 67,-

(Continued on Page 7) the Exchequer in the matter of the ions, to which Britain has

Juno war debt instalments-Reu- ter Special.

SEVERAL REMINDERS.

RESTRICTED ISSUE,

the

It is also believed that the

STOP PRESS

extended on invitation.

Draft instructions to Mr. Mat- A British Wireless message re in London, who will be entrusted sudaira, the Japanese Ambassador veals that the Note was handed to with the task, will be submitted to the British Ambassador in Wa-the Cabinet by Mr. Hirota, the Berlin, May 29.

shington, Sir Ronald Lindsay, on Foreign Minister, to-morrow, for The threat that Germany may Friday of Inst week. be compelled to make a complete

their approval. reversal

The Note contains a statement of It industrial all the amounts

is understood that of her

due by economy was made last night by Majesty's Government in respect pleasure the prospect of bilateral His Japanese Government accepts with Dr. Schmitt, the Minister of Na- of war debts due not only on June talks, and is not opposed to general

San Francisco, May 28. EXPEDITION

tional Economy,

16 next, but also of those due on meetings of all the partics to the

Wild rioting occurred on the Addressing a meeting at Frank December. 1ỡ and June 15, 1935. naval treaty whenever it is con-waterfront to-day after the pan- London, May 28. furt-on-Main, Dr. Schmitt com-!

nouncement that the compromise The future of the Disarmament plained that the nations of the AND WHERE IT MAY BE PAID.sidered desirablo.

plan for the settlement of the INTO INTERIOR OF Conference will be determined at world were excluding German ex- The British Ambassador la ad-

longshoremen's strike had been NEWFOUNDLAND

the meeting of the General Commie- ports, with the consequent result vised in the Note that payment

rejected by the men, sion of the Conference which opens that Germany could buy less and may be made either at the Trea-

Fifteen hundred strikers clash- at Geneva to-morrow. At to-day's less of raw materialu.

sury Department in Washington or Japanese Government will stressed with five hundred police, who London, May 28.

meeting of the Bureau, Mr. Arthur This, he said, was the reason at the Federal Reserve Bank of the Japanese belief that there is used their truncheons and tear known parts of the world organis the Bureau would unanimously re continued.

The third expedition into little lienderson expressed the hope that why the debts service could not be New York.

no need for the naval conference to gas bombs and fired shot-guns ed by the Public Schools Ex-commend the General Commission

go into any further discussion of into the air.

Far ploring Society.

If this situation was not soon the step, it would react with the Nine-Power Treaty,

world Eastern problems or political ques-jured were sent to hospital, but of which the that the gravity of the situation changed, Germany would be forced tremendous Mrs. Buick, a guest at the Airile Prince of Wales is Patron, will commands more than ever an un- to rely upon her chemists and markets-Reuter,

Eight of the moat seriously in- force on

tians, "which have already been there Hotol, Kowloon, was removed to all for Newfoundland under the flagging determination to pursue engineers to produce substantial

thoroughly

scores the Kowloon Hospital yesterday. leadership of Surgeon Commander efforts towards securing a conven- raw materials from her own re-

discussed by the casualties.

of minor Longue." She was found to have been some-Murray Levick on August 3. For tion in accordance with the mandate sources.

A number of police. The Women's Auxiliary of the what seriously affected by an over-over four weeks they will journey given to the Conference.

The Japanese Government thare-ter

men were badly beaten up-Rou dose of

Society for the Protection of Children fore understands that the next Adalin.

This would not be a temporary acknowledges with grateful thanks naval conference will only discusA in unmapped country. At the Hospital it was stated

Monsieur Barthou, the only other palliative but a permanent trans-the following donationsMr. L. W defences and naval strengths. this morning that Mrs. Buick has theodolite survey of about 25 by cult the developments had heen,

One party will make a detailed speaker, urged that however dim. formation,

Amps, $25; Anonymous, recovered and it is expected that 30 miles of country, while another tho Conference should

If Germany were compelled to Anonymous, $10. she will be able to leave in a day will march straight through the elder

finished. The Mlas Alice Chan, Bving in Hong-route survey by priamatic compass will be broadenst--British Wire kong, was also a victim from an and sextant, Scientifle observa-ics. overdose of the sleeping draught, tions will include meteorology. She is receiving treatment at the Reology and notes on flora and; Government Civil Hospital.

fauna.

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interior of the island, making a speeches at to-morrow's meeting CLOSURE OF LOCAL GOLD BAR

It is understood that Miss. Chan Some 50 boys representing most was admitted to hospital at 8.30 of the lending public schools will p.m. yesterday in an unconscious take part in the expedition- condition frum Gloucester Building, | British Wireless.

where she had been in the com pany of young men and Women friends,

SOVIET ENVOY IN

BERLIN

JEW'S APPOINTMENT ACCEPTED

CASTLE PEAK

TRAGEDY

MENTAL HOSPITAL

AN ACCOUNTANT

"WANTED"

BIG SUM ALLEGED EMBEZZLED

ployed as an necountant thoj

EXCHANGES

GOVERNMENT INDICATION OF POLICY HAS DESIRED EFFECT

Following the.

recent munique from the Government. the axchanges intimated their

Dhen

It has been indicatell in Washington that in Anglo-Ameri- can circles, Pacific politien) issues |ara` inextricably interwoven with

the naval problem.—Router.

PREMIER FLIES TO LONDON.

ACCOMPANIED BY SON

& · DAUGHTER

London, May 28,

A warrant has been issued for warning issued by the Goy-willingness to close down by May the arrest of Pun Kin-yuo, ont-ernment, speculation in 15. The Gold Bar Exchange duly The Prime Minister, who has MISS DELIA HO LEAVES Sheung Tung arm at 21 Bonham gold bars locally is being closed its doors on that date, but been spending the Parliamentary the S. C. Gold Bar Company, owing recess at Lansiemouth, travelled to Strand Wost, on a charge of em brought to an end, the ex- to a number of outstanding namon London by air liner to-day accom bezzling nearly $20,000,

on their books, lo- remaining

panied by his son, Malcolm, and Its learned that Miss Delia Pun was missing from his cost changes having agreed to until the 31st inst, to clear up out his daughter, Ishbel. Ho, who was sent to the Mental after the week-end, and an Involuntarily close down. standing accounts. They have The journey was broken at Ron- Hospital following the recent vestigation of the books is sald

done Jo further business sincofrew Aerodrome for Inspection of tragedy nt Cratlo Peak, where to have revonled the amount Moara Swan, Culbertson and notifying the Governmont of their the new promises of the Scottish M. Jacob Saritz, who until ro-she was found in an hysterical named as a deficit on March 6. Frite have already closed the intention to close,

| Flying Club-British Wireleas. cently was Soviet Ambasador to condition beside the body of a Tali and of medium height, doors of their, Gold Bar Exchange When a Telegraph repressentative Ema in Ice House Street and the South went to the offices in Ice House quently. Bunlara Cour Bar Spray AS THE TRA dro a milk gown, proval of the German Government, the home of her parents in Happyland a closed by the end of the month. wore being taken away and the struck by a hire car at Queen's Road

Valley.

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