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KIERUJE KATUNGSTENUERTIGESINATAKA SI KRANTS DENIM CRIUMTREN

AUSTRALIAN TAIL'

COLLAPSES

But Leveson-Gower's

Team Also Fail Australia's last five wic- kets fell for only 47 addi- tional runs at Scarborough yesterday, McCabe adding one and Chipperfield two. At the close. however. Leveson-Cower's XI were all out in their first innings. 266 runs in arrears. Details will be tound in the sports pages.

INTONCINERAzagledaagseventsNEMAALIS

ARMS AND SQUEEZE GO TOGETHER

CHINA DEALINGS

LETTERS

SENATE INQUIRY

HEARING

(Special to "Tolagraph"}

City Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphio Mes | ge, Ordikanos, 1993, Retsletă September 14. KUAN, NM)

Washington, Sept. 10. Remarkable correspon- ! dence exposing vividly the tactics and methods of in- ternational armaments firms were read at to-day's session of the Nye Committee's in- vestigation.

Vivid Stories at Enquiry

REFUSALS TO LEAVE

CABINS

DRINKING PARTIES SUGGESTED AS CAUSE OF SEVERAL DEATHS

INCENDIARISM BY A COMMUNIST?

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)

(By Telegraph. Copyright Telographic Messager Ordinance, 1894 Received, Sept. 11, 12.08 p.m.)

NEW YORK, SEPT. 10.

VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SCENES ON BOARD THE BLAZING LINER, MORRO CASTLE, AFTER THE DISASTROUS OUTBREAK OF FIRE HAD BEEN DISCOVERED, WERE GIVEN BY WIT- NESSES DURING THE LATER STAGES OF TO- DAY'S SITTING OF THE FEDERAL INVESTIGA- TION BOARD.

Stories were told of hysterical passengers who were so terrified that they refused to leave their cabins.

Many deaths were also attributed to a series of heavy drinking parties aboard the ship on Friday night, a short while before the fire alarm was terminating only given.

Chief Officer Warms, who was acting captain, told the Inquiry Board that during the numerous drinking partics, at least six girls were carried to their beds drunk and "passed out." They were probably burned to death.

death of

KIRBY BEATS F. X..

SHIELDS

To Meet Perry In U.S.

Semi-Final.

New York, Sept. 10.

V. G. Kirby, the South African tennis star, furnished the prinel- pal surprise of the U.S. singles championship tourney fo-day when he defeated Frank ShieldTM, Amerien's No. 1, and qualified to meet F. J. Perry in the semi- final.

Perry conceded only five games to Clifford Sutter and took the second set to love.

Allbon and Sydney Wond qualified for the other semi-final Detalls and description will be found in the sports pages.

JZUBIAIRIESTYJR:1935/TTURANNSAtay

SOVIET ENTRY INTO LEAGUE

COUNCIL GIVES

APPROVAL

AVOIDING A DEBATE

(Special to "Talograph")

(Dy Telegraph. Cepyright. Telegraphia Me migre Ordinance, 1). Received September 14. 4.32 0.m.)

Geneva, Sept. 10,

The Council of the Lengue to-

day agreed if principle to wel-- League and to grant Russia a permanent seat on the Council.

come Russia as a member of the

Medical examination of rickshaw coolies is now being enforced in Shanghai. The above photograph shows a coolle receiving an Injection, one of the features of a seven point inspection. It le estimated that some 12,000 men will be examined before September 15

DRASTIC REDUCTION IN COST OF GOVERNMENT.

BUDGETTING FOR SEVEN MILLION

LESS THAN IN 1934

PETERSEN WINS EASILY

GAINS BATTERED INTO HELPLESSNESS

RETIRES IN 13TH ROUND

London, Sept. 10. Near to defeat on one occasion, when staggered by a terrific blow, Jack Peter- sen won the British Empire heavyweight championship' at the White City to-night, having fully established his superiority over · Larry Gains.

The Canadian boxer was com- pelled to relire is the thirteenth round of the contest, which was scheduled

to go teen rounds, Petersen thus winning by technical knock-out,

Gains was all Ju when he aur rendered.

After battling with wonderful pluck under a terrific battering.. Gains literally fell into the arms seconds at the end of the thirteenth round, and the towel was thrown in immediately, in response to the appeal of Ġalus' wife, who was watching the bout. WHIRLWIND. OPENING.

:

Over G4,000 apectators were present for the opening and they

SAVING ON EXCHANGE

The Argentine and Portuguese

for 1935 has saw Petersen begin in his usual Making provision for a rate decided upon representatives abatained from

not mo far been disclosed.

whirlwind fashion. He took the voting on the proposal to grant decrease in expenditure of In view, however, of the heavy first round by a wide margin of over seven million dollars, drop in expenditure budgettet for, points by sheer aggression, felt- It is to be presumed that the ing back Gains head with stiff There appears to have been a compared with the original "economy axe" is niso to be ap-lefts. wide divergence of opinion ex- pressed regarding the manner of Estimates for 1934, the plied in an effort to keep expendi- the entry of the Soviets and it was Colony's Budget is to be in-

ture down-ana.far as possible.. decided to hold another Beerct meeting to-morray (Tuesday). troduced in the Legislative

The object of Russin's sponsors Council on Thursday. is to get two-thirds of the States to:

The first reading. of the Bill, sign an invitation, thereby avoiding which will apply sum of $26.- a preliminary discussion in the 324.219 to the public service for Assembly which might possibly 1935, will be moved by the Hon. prove embarrassing to the Soviets. Colonial Secretary. This total

United Press.

compares with an original Esti- Reuter says that a private meet-mate on ordinary expenditure for ing of the Council unanimously de- 1934 of $33,342,697, cided to offer the Soviets a'per- maneat seat on the Council.

Second Officer Freeman, and bendiary origin, lending belief to Third Oleer Hackney, giving the theory that Saturday's out-permanent sent.

expressed the same break might have been incendiary. evidence. belief as Chief Officer Warms, He saw lttle justification for that the fire was due to the lightning dnsh origin. activities of an incendiarism Acting Captain Warms was the They confirmed the story of first witness called by the Federal The correspondence. was pro Warms, who testified that the Board investigating the Morro #uend in the course na close watchman first reported that the Castle disaster and he broke down questioning of Mr. A. Mirands.exiling in the writing room was as he described the President of the American Armar ablaze, Hoses were brought to Captain Willmott on the eve ot ments Corporation, and must of play and the outbreak there was the disaster from Indigestion and it had to do with the supply off.

Textinguished, after which the heart failure, and aeroplanes to locker burst into flames,

The watchman, he said, first The locker had apparently heen informed him of the outbreak of

fire ut 2.45 ani. on Saturday. Members of the Committee sub-led with gasoline.

WARNING AT 3 A.M.

Fifteen minutes later. Warms ordered all the crew and passeN- ta be gers to be awakened and told to

prepare for immediate abantonment of the ship.

He definitely alleged that the

anes UNTURNAKAN

munitions China.

tracts.

HANKOW LETTERS,

GENERAL ALARM.

mitted letters showing that Ameri-! ean manufacturers, endeavouring

He also stated that he sounded to sell aeroplanes to the Chinese;

a.m. o Government, were abliged to pay the general alarm at 3 "aqueeze" in order to obtain con-Saterday and that the crew was playing water on the flames within six minutes.

Despite their efforts, the fire: The details of the correspond-showed no signs of a check but ence were not disclosed, although rather increased its hold-and at 11 $.0.S. one letter was read from 1. B.3.15 a., he ordered Gale's Hankow agent, addressed message to be sent out.

Mr. Miranda, in which hel Chief Ofleer Warms asserted mentioned that the Hunan Gov- that the crow behaved with per- ernment had asked the price of feet discipline and in orderly cight Lockheed plands, and add-manner throughout. But there were many hysterical passengers,

to

ed:

"I doubt if they have enough who lose control of themselves. money to buy eight machinesi

HAVANA SENSATION.

We should be able to sell

two or three......It appears that Meanwhile, a sensational report In order to meet competition and has come from Havana stating to pay the necessary squeeze, we that Port Captain Qacar lernen- will have to bay the Lockheeds dez at U.S.$14,000 each."-

he

information has rovented alleging Communist responsibility for the fro. MILITARY AID FOR CHINA.

Captain Hernandez 813 Members of the committee also learned that the Caribbean sector. produced a letter from the Soley of the Third Intornational, with Armament Company Ltd., of their headquarters in Havana, had| London, to Mr. Miranda, suggest-learned that a Communist agent Ing that he should visit the U. S. boarded the Morro Castle carrying State Department and War De- chemicals,

The Pan-American Airways, bel partment to urge the United States to purchase & quantity of gays, have been threatened with arms from the Soley. Company bombings. ando supply them to China for

United States agents are in- the story.United

INCENDIARISM ALLEGED.

against Japan, because (said vostigating the letter) Japan is going to take Press. a.still larger slice of China, which will seriously affect the interests

of the United States.

"We think the United States,

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(Spacial to "Telegraph”)

LINER CAPTAIN'S DEATH

Relative Demanding Investigation

New York, Sept. 10. According to the New York Evening Post, the relatives of Captain Robert Willmott will demand a rigorous Investiga- tion of his death.

They declare that the re- port that Captain Willmoit died

heart of

failure in ridiculous. He had never had heart. trouble.

A cousin of the deceased captain suggested that the whole affair was possibly the result of a Cuban plot. He declared that a certain group of Cubans would slick at nothing to have the United Stales Intervene there. Router.

The anticipated drop in ex- penditure therefore amounts to $7,018,476.

PRESIDENT OF MISSOURI UN.

DR. W. WILLIAMS RESIGNS

(Special to "Talograph").

The fight continued to produce brisk exchanges, with Petersen always appearing the most con- vincing, although it was not until the tenth round that he established the superiority that permitted him to butter Gaina into a stato. of helplessnees,

7TH, ROUND ESCAPE.

It was only a question of time from the tenth round, although Petersen himself. had had a very narrow escape in the seventh, when Gains staggered him visibly with a smashing left to the jaw. (ily Telegraph. Opryright, Telegraphie &lass angea · Ordinance. 179. ecdved September The Welshman acrded all his No details of the allocation of m FAIR TO SHOWERY

resources to the end of the round, the total are yet available, but na

Columbia, Mo., Sopt. 10. for the current. Pressure is highest over North the Estimates

Dr. Walter Williams, the Pre-although it was probably only tho

the University

inability of Gains to follow up China and in the vicinity of the ear were framed on the basis of sident of

that saved him. Ronins. It Is, relatively low overings will no

ja 18, 3d, dollar, considerable say-¦ Missouri, has tendered his Te-

No-one would challenge Peter- doubt result from signation, to take offect on De- the Northern China Sea. The Manchurian depression is moving higher exchange, although the cember. 31, for reasons of health. sen's claim to the victory, how- Hit retains, however, the post ever Gains fought magnificently, of Dean of the School of Journ- brafnily and with full courage, but generally Petersen was faster

into the northern part of the Sea of Japan. Local forecast-East)

winds, moderate; fair to shower. CHINESE CUSTOMS IN

told the Board, were then on the deck trying to fasten lifebelts over their night attire.

FOREIGNER PRAYS.

Some of the women were cry- ing, while a foreign passenger; was kneeling on the deck and began to pray.

collar

HONGKONG

Plans For Resuming Negotiations

Canton, Sept. 11.

"I grabbed him by the

It ly stated in official circles that and paid: 'Come along. Do your the Central Government authorl- praying afterwards!"""

allam.

of

Dr. Williams is 60 years of age and the harder puncher-Router. and has been connected with the University for 20 years. He is one of Missouri's leading publish-

ers and has had a long connee- tion with world journallam United Press.

SANTA

RITA FIRE EXTINGUISHED

TEXTILE STRIKE OFFER

EXTENSION OF TIME

FOR MEDIATION · Washington, Sept. 10, The Textile Strike Committee have extended their offer to sub-

ties are.resuming negotiations with None of them could reach the the Hongkong Government for the VESSEL ARRIVES AT mit the diaputo to arbitration for

etaublishment of a Chinese customa boats because the fire had already house in Hongkong. It is said that devoured the ladders leading up Sir Frederick Maze, the Inspector

to them..

There was only one thing to do and that was to jump for it and take a chance. "

BALBOA

Balboa, Sapt, 10,

Unor,

another twenty-four hours in view of to-day's meeting of the Medin tion Board's representatives with

Generni who is returning from The 4.500-ton Graco England, will consult with the Santa Rita, which caught fire the manufacturers, at which the Hongkong authorities on this about two hundred miles out of Board thinks that settlement matter when passing Hongkong.- Balboa, has arrived here, the out-may prove possible. Reuter, Central News,

break being extinguished soon

United Press.

MILLION DOLLARS AN OUNCE

OVER THE RAILS: "As we made for the rails, two girls camo up and asked politely, If a little excitedly, If they could join us.

"I replied: Sure. Help your solf, and we all went overboard-

We struck out for the shore Rare

fire was due to incendiarism basing the accusation op, the st (y Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphie Meetompt made to fire the ship on a would, under the above circumages Ordinance, 1176. Received: September previous voyage and to a blaze in stances, support the Chinese and 10.40' q.m.)

one of the boats lowered at the together. New York, Sept. 10, “ supply them with -arme."

A arm conviction that the Morro start of the fire. Castle fire disaster was the result

SAILOR'S STORY..

Metal Isolated For

First Time

Cleveland, O., Sept. 10.

after she had reached port-CANTON-HANKOW:

RUMANIAN TRAIN

SMASH

HEAVY CASUALTY

LIST

RAILWAY

RESTORATION WORK AUTHORISED

Hankow, Bept.- 113;

Mr. Miranda, questioned on

and were eventually picked up by

All; sections of the Hankow-Can- the steps he took on receipt of incendiariam, possibly at soveral

a lifeboat, but one of the girls

ton: Railway represented fat this letter, said that he ignored points of the ship at one time, is: A graphic story was told by a disappeared."

1."--Router Special and

joint conferences according the suggestion.-United Press.

ed by survivors.

sailor, Jorry Edgerton, who with United Press.

Chinese souroos: agreed, that work William. Warms, the Chief three other sailors, attempted to

New York, Sept. 10.

Bucharest, Sept. 10. should be started immediately The disaster to the abeamship The rainfall registered at the Royal Offeer, who was acting captain of reach their fire stations when the

The American Chemical Society Ten passengers were killed and for the pair of such uno and, for Observatory during the 24 hours the liner, testifying before the alarm was given,

Morro Castle caused the shares of learns that actinium, the rarest at least a hundred injured to-day the construction of an Iron bridge onded at 10 a.m. to-day totalled 1.57 Federal investigation Board, said The fire bad by then assumed the owning company, the Atlantic known metal on earth, worth about 28, the result of a collision between to span, the Yankaxe and to link Inches. This makes the year's total ho discovered n fire aboard the such proportions that it was im- Gulf, and West Indies Steamsius a willon dollars. Ounce, has a Patronger and gooder Wachang with the actual terminus Thalapár mh AA pro TOA the railway at Hankow ---- |which in his opinion was_of_{n+1 A lot of the passengers, he [Culbertson and Fritz.

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