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五拜禮 號五十月五英 ·

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936.

SWEEPING JAPANESE

DEMANDS PREDICTED

Struck Rock Off WOULD MEAN

MEAN HER VIRTUAL

Ketchikan

MASTER STAYS ON BOARD

(Special To "Talograph")

Seattle, May 14.

The steamship North Sea, 3,133 tons, is reported leaking badly after hitting a rock in a heavy fog off Ketchikan, Alaska,

She

put

of 140 passengers and forty members of the crew in lifeboats due to the imminent danger of foundering.

The United States cutter Alert has

CONTROL OF CHINA

MAY INSIST THAT YEN BECOME CHINESE CURRENCY BASE

London, May 15.

Japan is preparing to present new, sweeping and peremptory demands to China, declares the Daily Herald diplomatic correspondent, to-day.

The precise terms have not yet been settled, but indications are that the de- mands will include China's recognition of Manchukuo,

It is also predicted that Japan will insist upon a promise of "co-operation" with rescued all the lifebost lends and is Japan in all dealings with foreign countries, in the reconstruction of the Chinese Ad-

ministration and in economic and financial matters.

for Ketchikan,

Capt. A. W. Nickerson and a crew

of 37 remain aboard the distressed vessel.

The master said he would be able to make port under his own power as soon as the cutter brings him additional pumping equipment.

The passengers included Mr. F. A. Thompson, President, and twenty-two seniors of the Montana School of Mines, en route to Alaska for their} annual "experlenco tour."United Prest.

Steamer Sinking

Bremerton, May 14 The Naval Authorities here have received a radio message from the American steamer North Sea stating the vessel is sinking.

It was previously reported that the North Sea was carrying 140 pas. sengers, and that she had been re- floated after running aground on the south-west coast of Prince of Wales Island, off the Alaskan shore.

In response to an S.0.S. call, the American cutter Alert proceeded to the North Sen,-Reuter Special.

Rescuing Passengers

Japan will insist upon the establishment of the Japanese yen as the basis of China's currency.

Tokyo will also demand of China an invitation to Japanese troops to co-operate in the suppression of Communism, especially in Shansi-Router:

Saito's Reassurance

New Haven, May 14, Mr. Hirosi Salto, the Japanese Ambassador to Washington, in a speech to Yale students here, discount- ed America's fears of a militaristle Japan.

"He said Japan's standing army was approximately one-quarter the size of Russia's, one-half of France's, and less than the British Empire's.

He noted, too, that the three great- jest navles of the world were widely separated. "And none of the vital interest of their nations conflicts," he anid. "Therefore it is unlikely that any two of these navies will ever clash."

He said that with the

He re-emphasised Japan's policy of drastic naval expenditure reduc- tion on the part of all powers "on the principle of non-menace and non- aggression." Seattle, May 14. It is reported that the U. S. cutter Albert has started rescuing the passengers of the North Sen-Reater Special.

League Still

Best Weapon For Peace

BUT INSTRUMENT MAY NEED REPAIRS

BALDWIN LOOKS

AHEAD

London, May 14. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, devoted to foreign sitnirs the principal parts of the speech he delivered this afternoon to gather ing of Conservative women in the Albert Hall. In a characteristic In- traduction, to reminded audience" am not a dictator; I have to rely on reason."

And he went on to coniment:

"One thing will strike the historian of the future, namely, that wherever you found in the world to-day the greatest

measure of constitutional stability, there you found the most complete freedom of criticism of the Govern-

ment

for

Indignant Denial

for

AMERICA

HELPING NANKING

PLANS LAID FOR SILVER SALES

WASHINGTON

PARLEYS

new

Washington, Muy 14.

HEIMWEHR WILL BE DISARMED

VON STARHEMBERG LOSES POWER

ROME'S COLD SHOULDER

(Special Telegraph")

:

̇日五廿月三

MAY WITHDRAW FROM CABINET `

Afr. J. II. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who may withdraw from the Cabinet, following the investigation into the leakage of Budget secrets,

CHARGES AGAINST MINISTER

BROKER TESTIFIES AT INQUIRY

BUDGET SECRETS

DISCLOSED?

London, May 14. Threatening to force Mr. J. II. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to withdraw from tho broker, testified at to-day's sitting of Cabinet, Mr. R.H. Marrisit, a the Tribunal which is investigating the leakage of Budget secrets,

Mr. Marriott sail a man named Waterton, on April 20, the day before the Budget was introduced, "but into my office with information regarding

This the Budget

in formation was allegedly received by a friend who was alleged to have re- ceived it from "my good friend, J. II. Thomas."

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UNANIMOUS APPROVAL ANNEXATION

OF

ITALIAN DEPUTIES APPROVE DECREES

GERMAN AND JAPANESE AMBASSADORS ATTEND

Rome, May 14.

The Chamber of Deputies to-day unanimously passed the decrees for the annexation of Ethiopia. The decision was taken by ballot.

The Prime Minister,.Signor Benito Mussolini, made no speech when presenting the decrees,

The Ambassadors of Germany and Japan, and the Ministers of Austria and Hungary were present when the Chamber voted, watching proceedings from the diplomatic gallery.

The decrees include a declaration of Italy's full sovereignty in Ethiopia, the assumption of the title of Emperor of Ethiopia by King Victor Emmanuel, and the appointment of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, conqueror of the country, as Viceroy.

Signor Carlo Delcroix, rapporteur of the Chamber, stated that Marshal | Badoglio would be invested with full powers for governing Ethlepin until regulations ware ready for the future reorganisation of the new dominion.

Ethiopian conflict into a world ques

It was folly, he said, to raise the tion and nothing was more absurd than to try to resurrect a state which had censed to exist.

The old world, the rapporteur went on, was too agitated by the real pro- blems to allow itself the luxury of evaking phantoms.

Three hundred and eight-deputies. voted for the decrees, and попе

freedom gained with selected types It is learned in reliable quarters ships suitable to defence, the that Mr. K. P. Chen of the Bank of apanese navy was planning to care Chinn and Mr. Henry Morgenthau of

Earlier in the hearing, Mr. Thomas the national defence without the U. 5. Treasury, in their resent

testified that as soon as he was in Busing anxiety to

Vienna, May 14. · the workdiscussions, have laid the foundations United Press.

volvod in the investigation he went Amorienn purchases of

The former Minister of Fin- to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Chinese silver. However, thus farnce, Herr Josef Kollman, leader finister, and told him: "My name they have not concluded any purchas-of the Left Wing of the Chris- through

coupled with this affair

against, London, May 14.

ing agreement, it is believed."

tian Socialists, told the United whatever happens, my son's trans- my son. I insist that, Attention is drawn to the fact that Press to-day that the Heimwehr actions Replying to the British and Ameri

It was decided that a bronze plaque cun protests; Japan to-day disclaimed Mr. Chen and his group lack plenary would be disarmed within a low United Press.

must be investigated."—be erected in the Chamber bearing the any responsibility for the operations power to consummate any such agree-

Inscription "On the ninth day of May of smugglers in North China..

therefore any arrangement weeks.

of the fourteenth year of the Fascist The reply indicated the resentment would be made through banking and

era, Benito Mussolini founded the Anglo-American suggestion that

diplomatic agencies.

empire."--Reuter. the Japanese authorities should coun- tenance smuggling

at

in

order

to

menu

iness, the exchange of in-

and discussions of policy contributed to a situation in new sales of Chinese silver

undermine China's economic positionit be more rendily achieved. It

simultaneously destroying the markets

for other foreign goods-United is understood that this situation is

the basis fo

Press.

for yesterday's Chinese. in- MORE REINFORCEMENTS sertion that at least some measure of

United States "co-operation was as Tientsin, May 15. sured to Chinese, as a result of the The first batch of Japanese rein-Washington conversations, forcements, numbering 1.700 men, The report from Shanghai that arrived here via Chinwanglao this $2,500,000 (U.S. currency) of Chinese morning,

silyer had been sold to America is Tientsin, but a smull detachment will necurate.-United Press.

The majority will be stationed in described here, semi-officially, as in be sent to Pelping-Reuter.

***

"We do not expect active opposi- tion," he said.

However, soldiers and police are taking exceptional measures throughout the nation.

precautionary United Press.

LOSES HIS ALLY

Vienna, May 14. The only offee which Prince von Starhemberg retains in Austria is that of Supreme Sports Leader. He was formerly the Vice-Chancellor and leader of the Heimwehr, until Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, the Chancellor, by a bloodless coup, made himself virtual dictator of the country.

POSSE ON TRACK OF

M.

Mussolini Presides

GUERILLA WARFARE THREATS

ETHIOPIANS NOT YET SUBDUED

ITALY'S NEW CAMPAIGN

Addis Ababa, May 14. Small columns of well-armed. Italian troops are being des patched from the base of opera- tions here, where Marshal Pietro of Haly's new "dominion," to Batoglio is directing the affairs

FUGITIVES Ethiopia, making King Victor Em- which still remain unconquered.

STOPPING PLACE

DISCOVERED

FLEE

as Sports Leader, EIGHT FLEE IN

In his capatatemberg is leaving Prince von to-night for Rome, to attend Sunday's

Seven Months BUYING ENORMOUS international football match between SMALL SEDAN

In Antarctic

RESEARCH VESSEL'S 30,000-MILE TRIP

London, May 14, The research ship William Scoresby has arrived here after a 30,000-mile crulso in the Antarctic, which took it seven months to complete,

SILVER STORE

London, May 15.

The Financial News New York correspondent to-day publishes the rumour of a new Bino- American monetary agreement providing for the purchase by the __U_S.—Treasury of 70,000,000...

ounces of silver from China.

The price is said to be 50 cents per ounce-Reuter,

READY TO SHIP

Austria and Italy.

for

It is stated in well-informed

Blanco, Okla., May 14, quarters that Prince von Starhemberg planned to love early in the morning the state prison invaded

Eight of the fugitive convicts from farm home purpose of seeking a special to-day and forced the lady of the audience with Signor Benito Musso-house to cook them their supper.. inl, Kalian Prime Minister, in order to obtain once more a promise of his kitchen, debating the methods of out:

They held

council of war in her assistance in the future.

witting a posse of over 200 men. →However, it is reported that Signor Mussolini han refused

farmer from They had kidnapped him sudience, which is taken to indicate to exchange clothes with

an adjacent property and forced him that Il Duce, has dropped the Prince their number.

of a political partner. Renter

They are holding two prison guarda" as hostages. The woman who was forced to feed the fugitives sald both Cope and Conn, the guards, were wounded. They are all travelling in a Ford Sedan.

да

.

Turning to the anxieties of recent months and the discussions in Parlia ment and in the country generally on foreign affairs and the League of Nations, Mr. Baldwin said for the The ship marked 700 whales during Brst time there had been a clear ap the voyage, and refueled five times preciation of what League membership from whaling vessels in the open worth of silver is being shipped to meant and involved. That in itself ocean.

good thing. Reading the pre- Ita work was mainly confined to America from Shanghal in the near

WAS A

Shanghal, May 15.

It

is reported that $75,000,000

amble

ble of the League Covenant, the studying the habits and conditions of future as well as a quantity of gold Premier said: Those objects are whales in the Antarctic, for there has bars. still the aim of our foreign policy, been reason to believe that the con- Although this is unconfirmed it is and if Europe is to be preserved they centration of whaling fleets there will regarded as inevitable that Chinn must be the aim of the foreign policy ultimately destroy the industry. The must resume the sale of silver in of all nations". But a difficult ques whales, some authorities believe, are order to adjust her balance of trade

extermination. Reuter and support her currency.

Bulletin Service.

tion was to determine what were the | close to best and måst practical mentis of achieving those alma,

MUI-TSAI INQUIRY.

COMMISSIONERS TO START WORK

It is believed the Sino-American agreement negotiated in Washintgon will stimulate the movement of the white metal even if specific terms of purchase are not. laid down,--Router.

RECOMMISSIONING AIRSHIP

AMENDMENT NEEDED "What I have always said before this crisis I report now. If you and that an instrument will not do what you want, it does not mean that your desire in Impossible of achievement, What it does mean is that you, and

The Mul-Thai Commission, which all those who have used that fnatru

Washington, May 14. ment

without success, must sit down arrived in the Colony yesterday, Is The House Naval Committee has examine the instrument, modify commencing the hearing of evidence unanimously supported the resolution it, strengthen it, alter it, and embody on Monday,

authorising the Navy to put the The meetings will be held in the dirigible Los Angeles back into flying in it if you can' such changes as will mako it effective for your purpose. Legislative Counell Chamber, and condition immediately, following the would say here that probably at the the Commisalonera hope to be able to Committeo's Bunday Inspection of the Ausombly in the autumn, Lengur conclude their work in Hongkong by big afrship with Dr. Hugo Eckener.

(Continued on Pags 6.)

the end of the month.

United Prise.

And

Special,

Six Weeks

For Stealing

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These eight are some of the twenty- one men who won free from the prison yesterday-United Press.

Three Cents STOP PRESS

UNEMPLOYED MAN

PLEADS GUILTY

London, May 16, Chan Tung, fnemployed, plended

Important changes in the Cabinet are foreshadowed by the newspapers. guilty before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistry this morning to

It is reported that Viscount Monsell the theft of three cents from the

has expressed wish to be relieved person of Las Fook, unemployed.

of his duties at the Admiralty at Inspector B. Shannon stated that mentioned as hair possible successor.

Whitsuntide, Sir Samuel Hoare defendant took the money from com- plainant while the Jatter was asleep may be made, which would provide but it is suggested Uist other changes in the street.

Sir Samuel with the choice of another Sonicco.of six weeks!-hari Jabour office. Beuter. was imposed.

The Chamber of Deputics unani

Rome, May 15.

mously approved the deerees of May

proclaiming Italian sovereignty in subdue the parts of the country manuel the Emperor, and appointing The Italian High Command refuses Marshal Pietra Badoglio Viceroy.to take seriously the plans apparently. Signor Benito Mussolini presided over being made by Ethiopian leaders for the meeting but mado no address.-further resistance. United Press.

British Attitude

Lonin, May 14. The Prime Minister was asked in

the House of Commons-to-day if the

Rus Imru, one of the most tenacious of the Ethiopian chieftains, is still holding his positions in the mountains. of Gojjam Province.

Meanwhile, It is learned that the Government regarded Ethiopia as Ethiopian Government lins been

possesing full independenet, and if established at Gore, in West Ethiopin.

not in whom the The British there reports sovereignty of Ethiopian territory as a quiet, but the authorities are mus tering their resources owing to trouble vested.

with armed refugees threatening.

The Home Secretary, replying for Mfr. Baldwin, said the only change which His Majesty's Government had Ethiopia was that a largo part of so far recognised in the status of the Kingdom was under Italian-mili tary occupation-British Wireless.

SEEK TO END DISSENSION

SIR A. WAUCHOPE MEETS ARABS

Jorusalom, May 14. The High Commissioner, General Sir Arthur Wauchope, to-day ferred with Arab leaders in connec. tion with the serious situation in Palestine.

Many chiefs and Government ser- yanta are reported to have arrived at Government. Reuter Bulletin Service. Gore from Addis Ababa, to rejoin the

CHURCH SURRENDERS

Addis Ababa, May 14. A promise of full co-operation with the Italian Government has been given by the Venerable Abuna Kyrillof, Egyptian head of the Egyptian Church in Ethiopia, who ealed on Marshal Budoglio to-day.

Marshal Badoglio replied that Italy would, as always, scrupulously respect religions, and especially the Coptic Church.

He promised to investigata the Egyptian churchman's statement that many churches had been damaged during the campaign and to con-reparation where it was necessary. make -Bouler Special.

The result of the conversations is not yet known.

:'. AIRWOMAN'S REWARD

The Arab population is protesting

London, May 14. ngainst the influx of Jewish immi-

The Britannia Trophy, awarded an grants and is striking throughout nually by the Royal Acro Club for Palestine in an effort to obtain atho most meritorious British por- Government hearing.

formance in the air, was awarded for Emissaries from the Arab populace 1935 to Miss Jean Batten, the young. aro going. far and wide to stir up aviatrix from the Antipodes, in re- support for their cause, Reutor cognition of her South Atlantic flight. Bulletin Service.

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