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v. 16401 C# WW+** TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934.

HULL SHY OF

ROUND-UP OF PLOTTERS

TERRORIST HUNT IN RUSSIA

NUMEROUS ARRESTS

WILD SCENES IN

TWO CITIES

(Spacial to "Telegraph"}

(By Tolaproph. Gepyright. Telegraphis Min vage Ordinanas, 1131, Bocsival. Pecember

Moscow, Dec. 3.

Already 39 persons have been arrested in Lenagrad region and 32 in Moscow, sccused of organi sation of terrorists and planning crimes against the state. The arrests are a sequel to the murder of the popular sitic.al, M. Kırov,

Eight highly placed. Soviet officials, including F. D. Hedved, Chief of the Administration of the Commissarint of Home Affairs, are| in custody, charged with failure to proporly guard the safely of thej atate.

MINERS KILLED AS LIFT FALLS

Plunge Down Shaft In Coal Pit

Tientsin, Dec. 4. According to 2 report from Tongshan, a 'tragic ac- cident occurred in a coal pit at Linshi, a Kailan Mining Administrations property, on Sunday night when 24 min. ers fell to their deaths when a lift fell.

The lift was nearing the top of the shaft when the cable

Central parted: — News.

Audacious Shanghai Swindle

MILLION DOLLAR

"CONCESSION"

PRICES DOWN

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAWA

MINOLE DOPĽ zaƐ CURES 日八廿月十

CO.LTD.

WE ARE GIVING OUR CUSTOŇ

THE BENEFIT OF THE HIGH EXCHANGE

PRICES_DOWN.

IN EVERY DEPARTMENT IN

THE STORE MAN

ANGLO-AMERICAN COALITION

Mr. Cordell Hull.

AGREEMENT UPON SAAR PLEBISCITE

FRANCE TO GET COMPENSATION

LOSS OF COAL FIELDS

Shanghai, Dec. 4. Hedved's assistant, Fomin, has

The most audacious swindle in

London, Dec. 3. been removed from his post and the history of Shanghai, involving sent for trial before the Com- a sum of one million dollars, was Scal, who wil be rae principal Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy missariat of Home Affairs on a exposed this morning by the British delegate at the spec.al charge of "negligence on his duties French police.

|neeling or to League of Nations

of safeguarding the atate's Based on the purported posàlbi)- |Councă mecang to cons.der mac Recurity."

|ity of obtaining permission from ters n connection with the Saar Reuter reports that 39 "White the French authorities, by the Plebiscite, lett Croydon by sur to Guards" have been arrested recent impending departure on furlough even.ng for Park, where he will ly in Leningrad and 32 in Moscow. of M. Meyrier, the French Consul-jo.n the night express tor Geneva. They are charged with organising General, for gambling hoitses In The Piebiscite will be held next

MIGHT OFFEND JAPANESE

POLITICAL ACCORD POLICY POPULAR

BUT WASHINGTON MOST CAUTIOUS

BINGHAM SUPPORTED

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, Dec. 4, 10.07 m.)

Washington, Dec. 3.. ́..

Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, cautiously supported, the movement in London for closer Anglo- American co-operation in the diplomatic, and economic field, a policy which is gaining increasing favour on both sides of the Atlantic,

In the Observer this week, Mr. Robert Bingham, American Ambassador to London, gave the suggestion his approval, saying there were no problems or a politi cal nature which, together, Britain and America could not dispose of peacefully, providing they were agreed to act together.

Mr. Hull, however, avoided any expression which would in- dicate a solidifying of an Anglo-American coaltion against Japan on either naval matters or in the question of the proposed od monopoly in Manchukuo.

Instead of an Anglo-American

TRADE OBSTRUCTION

acts of terrorism against officials the French Concession, the plot month in accordance with the political coalition, he urged closer of the Soviet. They are being was revealed by a ruse on the part Versailles Treaty,, under examined by the Military Collegium, of the French police in joining the its uate was uxed at the term.na-

which economic co-operation between all the Supreme Court of the Nation. xang as interested parties willing tion of a period of 16 years from countries to regenerate world trado.

Among the crowds which pald to find the huge sum necessary the--coming into force of the United Press. their list respects to BI, Kirov 08, for the undertaking. he lay in state in Moscow to-day, i

Treaty. All persons of both sexes When everything was ready, over 20 years old were 30,000 school children, all of raid

who were re- was staged at the meeting sident in the Saar territory at the whom were beside the dead leader's pace, and this resulted in the date of signature of the Treaty bier, to grow up exemplary apprehension of eight swindlers, will have the right to vote on followers of Lenin.--United Press one of whom declared that M. three questions to be suggested

Meyrler's auccessor would be au- by the Plebiscite, namely thorised by the French Govern. moat to open five gambling houses

(1) maintenance of the existing in the Concession on condition

regime, that they turned in $15,000 month- ly to cover expenses.

This statement has officially denied.--Router.

and Router.

CHEAPER RAILWAY TRAVEL

NEW RATES IN BRITAIN

ONE PENNY PER MILLE

(Special de "Telegraph”)

been

U.S. SILVER HOLDINGS

ENORMOUS PURCHASES

(2) union with France, or (8) union with Germany.

Washington, Dec. 3.- Mr. William Cordell - Hull, The Secretary of State,

declared to-day that the United States was seeking whole-hearted and practical

It will be for the League of co-operation with many na- Nations to decide on the aovereign-

ty under which the territory is to be tions in order to sweep aside placed after taking into account obstructions. in the path of

the wishes of the inhabitants as

expressed by the voting.

AGREEMENT REACHED

A committee appointed by the

international finance and trade. Others

might be

League Council, under the chair expected to act concurrently manship of Baron Aloisi, of Italy, with the United States but

has been examining various ques in their own independent NEA

tions that arise in referance to

Mr.

SPADE WORK-

Hary Goäbbels, Minister of Pro-

much speculation

MAY BE SURPRISED

GOEBBELS! HINT AT STETTIN

(Special to "Telegraph")

FRANCE FIGHTS

DEFLATIONISTS

SERIOUS DRAIN

OF SILVER

Coin Shortage. In Port Of Chefoo

Chefoo, Dec. 4. A panic has been created in local financial circles through the extreme short. age of silver coins, which is a consequence of increas ing smuggling activities,

The supply of silver coins In Chefoo, and to some ex- tent throughout all Shon- tung, has been drained seriously by smugglers. These men are enabled to make a good profit in ship- ping silver from Chefoo to Dairen, in contravention of the Chinese restrictions on exports. Emergency mea- sures are being sought by the authorities to cope with the situation-Central News,

REDUCING COST OF LIVING

FLANDIN URGES RESTRAINT.

SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS®

Paris, Dec. 3. France can make no worse mała. lake at present than to sak Grest: Britain and the United States to negotiate for the stabiliation of cairency, declared · M. Martin, Master of Fasance, in the course of a beated debate in the Chamber of Deputies to-day on the FinaNCE

مقلمة

The former Minister of Finance, M. Reynaud, supporting the Social- Ists in their contention, and ad- wwwvocated deflation. He made a com

parison of prices In Britain with Įthore of France.

American Tragedy Climax

MAN WHO SLEW SWEETHEART

M. Flandin, the Prime Minister, jengeavoured to convince the Cham? bor that. Franca.would gain-nothing [by devaluing the franc and asserted that the burden of adjusted prices would fall upon salaried men.

International monetary agree"

mont did not depend upon France, jorgued M. Flandia, and domestic

prices must be reduced to the level. [of_world prices by normal means.

only.

Wilkesbarre, Penn., Dec. 3 M. Martin explained how the

Nearly two

Government proposed to act. The months ago policy would be one of budgetary Robert Edwards, 23, was equilibrium, he said, by compressing convicted on a charge of expenditure and diminishing coats jor production and discat burdens, murdering his sweetheart, but without any accompanying, re dainty little Freda Meduction of wages.-Reutor. Kechnie, who was going to have a child. He is said to nave taken her out in a row-|

Shanghai-

boat and drowned her in a London

take.

He appealed against

the sentence and steadfastly Mail Delay

maintained that the conies- sion ne made when arrested was talse and secured trom him under threat of torture.

To-day his appeal failed. The sentence of deată by electrocṇt.on stands.

COMPROMISE WITH CHINA URGED

London, Des. 3.

Mr. William Nunn, Union memi Thus, what is known as the "American Tragedy" case, because attention of the House of Commons ber of Parliament, to-day drew, the of its amazing similarity with plot to the fact that mills from Bhang of the Theodore Dreiser book of hai for London were not despatch- that name, ends as he wrote it a dozen years ago.

er via Siberla. They therefore Edwards, like the youth in London than they would do if sent itook over a wael longer to reach Dreiser's novel, killed his sweet. heart by drowning her in a lake, the Siberian route. so that he might marry another. He suggested that negotiations He, too, was convicted and died in be taken up with the Chinese the electric chair.

Government with a view to soeur- Theodore Dreiser was sent to'ing a compromiso arrangement roport Edwards' trial by a promin, similar to that reached in sending Fent American newspaper syndicate, Peking matis via Mukden and thus- though there were some who across Siberin,

argued that the fact that the

accused should be constantly look. Sir Kingsley Wood, Peatmaster- as "Dreiser's villain" General, undertook to consider the could not fail to prejudice the jury mattor.-keuter.

ed upon

against him.-Reuter.

SHANGHAI'S ANTI- AIRCRAFT DRILL

the Plebiscite, and it was an way, he added. nounced la kome to-day that .com- plete agreement on all political, remarks of the United States Ampaganda, whose reference to a most

He was referring to the recent Washington, Dec. 3.

administrative. and It is reported here that the total points submitted to them had been Mr. Robert W. Bingham, who said many has in mind. hes aroused economic bassador to the Court of St. James, audacious experiment which Ger (By Telegraph. Gepyright. Telegraphia Mon- silver holdings of the anges Ordinancs, 1891. Resized. Deber Government, exclusive

US reached by the French and Ger- of un man Governments. These ques- that there was not a problem of London, Dec. 3. important amounts in the hands tions included the determination diplomacy which Britain and the Cheaper travel is to be intro- of agents, is 885,000,000 ounces. of the amount to be paid by Ger- United States together could not duced on Brit's rullwavs an from

many to France in respect of the solve. The Ambassador urged that January 1, 1935, according to no since the nationalisation order decision being given in favour of with President Roosevelt.

The total Government purchases Saar coal mines in the event of Britain secare an, understanding WORLD official announcement made to-day were only 74,000,000 ounces the Saar's union with Gormany.

Summer holiday tickets experi- from abroad, 12,000,000 ounces mentally issued last year, by from domestic mines and 109,000,- to France under the Treaty in The Sanr,mines were conceded

Mr. Hull interpreted which third class monthly return 000 ounces from Nationalisation. compensation for the destruction Bingham's words as "verbal spade tickets were obtainable at a penny The United States in accepting during the war of her northern work to uproot the spirit of ex- a mile, will henceforth be issued ailver in settlement of favourable coalfields, Press reports stats treme Isolation and nationalism throughout the year. The only trade balances.. stipulation is that the holder of

that in the agreement reached which has wrecked the world's such tickets will complete their Sliver is likely to be brought to-day the compensation Ogura economic affairs in the last few outward journey within three Into the metallic reserves of all was fixed at nine hundred millious years." days of the abolition of the issue. major countries, gradually, at a francs,

First class monthly

Mr. Hull's remarks are con ratio of one to three, and this fa return

The League Council Committee tickets will be issued on a basis already permissive with the Bank will meet at Genova to-morrow to strued here as being a cautious of England. The price of silver aratt its report, of which this Aupport of Mr. Bingham's ut- in the United States is expected Franco-German agreement will torances, without any emphasis EXCHANGE POSSIBLE to gradually approach the $1.29 form part, and the report will being laid upon Anglo-American Borived, December

level,

come before the Special Council co-operation, which might bo London, Dec. 3.

in decided, Berlin, Dec.. 8. meeting on Wednesday.

misunderstood by Japan, or other

Shanghai, Dec. 4. British Main Linó Railway Cotton negotiation with the

The Ministry of - Propaganda, As a preliminary to large scale. On the news of the Rome agree-

sations-Router.

There have been numerous when approached by Router to anti-aircraft defence manoeuvres to Companies announce further con- German Government are unsutia- ment, Gorman bonds on the Lon cosalons to railway passengers to factory and it is unlikely at most don Stock Exchange closed strong.

inquiries made following the day, replied, that Herr Goebbels be staged along the Shanghal take effect from January 1. Third to be more tha "a 100,000-bale|—British, Wirelons.

nothing to add to his Stettin Nanking and Shanghai-Hangkow HUANG FU RECOVERING mysterious reference of statement. His remarks were con class fares at a rate of 1d. per deal. Trade negotiations with mile, with provision for return Belgium are nearing completion.

Herr Goebbels, German cerned with home policy only, i. Railways, exercises are to be held around the South Station, Bhang- within one month, now in force

"That early marriage handicaps a

Faking, Dec. 4 Switzerland and Holland are man in his career in the motion

Minister of Propaganda, to explained, and probably in- hal, early this morning, when a provisionally, are to be made por-progressing toward a gold safety which will be debated at the Euro- the Faking Political Council, bas

dloated that the German Govern- number of "onemy planes make General Huang Fu, Chairman of the forthcoming "most auda- ment was contemplating a work- series of raids on that vicinity. manent. A break of the journey clause which indicates a possible pean Y.MI.C.A., Kowloon, on Wednes- virtually, recovered from his recent clous" experiment which men's insurance does not The whole police force and the is to be permitted and the new exchange stabillent on agreement, day night at 9 o'clock The motion illness as a result of a successful Germany is contemplating satisfy all quarters, where it is fire brigadea of Shanghai City

This explanation does дос arrangements provide for inter- Private reports indicate there is a will be prononed by Mr. F. F. FOR availability of tickets on a return greater pressure on the Goid Bloc, and soconded by Mr. M. E. Tavin, Operation on his left arm, which was journey where two or more rail-1. The immediate business outlook whilst the opposition will be led by paralysed for some time. He is ex- ways operats in same section continues favourableSwan, CM Dr. H. D. Matthews, seconded by Mr. pected monta resume his duties. Britisk. Wirsiena,

19,'F.- Bernard, by the

of thrro and a half pence por mile-Reuter Special,

!bertson and Fritz,

(Bs Telegraph, Coppriski. Telegraphic Ma.

41:40 som.}

make world history; that. It was! the daring act of a'daring people. Observers are prone to link the Minister's blat of excitement-to- come with the often heard rumours of a "foreign • adventure" to be undertaken by the German Govern ment as soon as the Saar plebiscito

CITY PREPARES TO MEET INVADERS?

The Minister was speaking at still being asked: "What is this particiuste in the defence, activi Stettin when be remarked that many la contemplating?Reuter and fire-fighting practice Control

'foreign-adventure" which Ger- tes, which will include light controli the experiment would certainly Special