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WEDNESDAY, JULY

8,

1936.

日十二月五

ITALIAN BRITAIN TO

PLANES AMBUSHE

ETHIOPIANS SLAY HIGH OFFICERS

EIGHT OR

NINE DEAD

Rome, July 7.

Eight or nine Italian officers

were killed

when three aero- froni planes, which had flown

Jimma Pro-

Addis Ababa to vince, were landing.

The news lacks official confrmation, but the victims of the ambush are al to have inchaled the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Air Force In Enst Africa.

Colonel Antonio, Locatell

said to be among the dend,

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ພດ.

It was Colonel Locatelli who made

the first night ncross the. Andes in many 1919. He had ako made flights over Greenland and the An- inrette-Reuter,

PRINCE SUES FOR DIVORCE

COUNT

COVADONGA'S

BROKEN ROMANCE

WON'T

MARRY

AGAIN

Now York, July 7.

HURRY HER RE-ARMING

Defence Measures Take Precedence

LONDON ANXIOUS OVER EUROPEAN SITUATION

LONDON, JULY 7.

HEAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES FOR THE NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE ARE TO BE ISSUED ON THURSDAY, INDICATING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ANXIETY OVER THE EUROPEAN SITUATION, AND THE APPRECIA- TION OF THE NEED TO BUILD UP NATIONAL DEFENCES.

THE

The supplementary Army estimates will amount to between £6,000,000 and £7,000,000.

are

The Air Force supplementary estimates expected to be in the neighbourhood of £12,000,000.

The Royal Navy's requirements in supplementary expenditure are not disclosed,

Developments in the European situation, it is learned, have convinced the Ministers of the urgency of take national defence matters, and these must precedence above all other considerations, including a balanced Budget.-Reuter.

Relations Severed

Danzig, July 7.

Proceeding for the annulment of bis marriage are being filed thelay New York in the Supreme Court, Founty, by Count Corndanga, son

is leially announced that the The former King of Spain on the grounds that his Countess, the 27- Free City of Dundig, where n-Nazif year-old daughter of a wealthy majority rules, has severed relations Spanish ougar planter, violated their with the League of Nations.

to live in Therefore the Senate premarriage agrTEMENT Ameriva and care for the Count's Danzig olleial bodies or persons will delicate health. In return re-hereafter ignore the Leagueappointed nounced his claim of succession to the High Commissioner, Mr. Sean Leater, thus emphasising the movement for! Throne of Spain.

retion with Preas,

The Counters, however, is also filing a pilion for divorce on the grounds of incompatibility of temperament.

Reports of a remance between the L'aunt and Miss Marta Rocafort, 22- year-old daughter of a Caban dentist and former artist's model, are denied, The Count declares he does not intend to starry again.-Rester,

Coronation

Committee

In. Session

PRELIMINARIES

DISCUSSED

other

Fool-Proof

Neutrality

An Illusion

Germany, United! "FREEDOM OF

German Concern

COURAGEOUS YOUTH REWARDED

17

Japanese appreciation of courage was demonstrated when, on behalf of the Shanghai Japanese community, a latter of commenda tion and a cash gift was given to James Conrad Filman, youthful Briton, wha yed a Japanese girl from drowning in the Whangpos on the night of June 4. Photo shows the Japanese Chief of Police, At right is Mr. M. Fukuyama, handing the gifts to the rescuee.

Mi Kazuko Kanega, the rescued girl.

IN U.S. WAVE

23 DIE IN

HEAT

MIDDLE WEST SUFFERS ACUTE DROUGHT

Chicago, July 7.

The Middle Western states have entered their fifth consecutive day of record-breaking temperatures, which have risen as high as 119 degrees. And there is still no sign of respite,

Already twenty-three deaths from prostration or drowning have occurred. Every beach within reach of the public in the crowded cities is packed with eager humanity.

The searing drought is playing havoc with crops over a large area. The spring wheat belt is particular- estimated up to the ly badly hit. Crop losses are present-at-$300,000,000.—Reuter,

Vast Relief Plan

Washington, Joly 7. President Freklin D. Roosevelt hus ved swiftly to relieve the drought- SEAS"irken Middle West.

DANGER POINT

U.S. WARNED BY BRITON

The wells are dry and some towns are threatened with a water shortage,

The menace has spread to some of the green pastures of the Winconsin dairyland where se farmers are zelling their animals,

The Chief Executive announced in. day plans for a vast relief programme

million per-a tarist nearly n sts in the drought arca.

Fifty thousand men will be given re- lief work, it is revealed in Washington, and 31,000 families will be transferred from the firms which have failed

them.

London, July 7. Germany's concern over the Dat danellos re-urmament discussion was voiced recently by Baron van Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, in ani

Charlotteville, July 7. interview with Sir Erie Phipps, the

Speaking at the University of Vir

120,000 Affairs.

Mr. Roosevelt stated that British Ambassador in Berlin.

families were already being assisted He stated that if Soviet warships Kinia's Institute of Public were given unrestricted access to the Mr. P.W.: Almy, the British banker. Mediterranean, the balance of power warned his audience that the Ameri-by Federal agencies with towns and

can "freedom of the seas" policy was grants-Renter might be materially altered, as some the one danger point they must con- Frenchs forces could then be transsider in the event of another general ferred from the Mediterranean to the

European war. North Sea.

He contended that not until the rinking of the Lusitania did America's takes in into the war.

Nurts

Canada Affected

London, July 7. The drought is causing considerable Stutes and Canada,

There has been some local rain and

barrage of hailstones in Indiana, but theris is intense apprehension for the corn crap. Illinois is also fearful that the continued heat will prove disastrous to the corn. Half of Iowa's oats crop has been destroyed. Kansas bas reported terrific damage by in- reets, while Nebraska's alfalfa fields are bare.

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FRANCE

TO QUELL

STAY-IN STRIKES

STRONG POLICY

ADOPTED

ROUND-UP OF AGITATORS

Fit

DUNLOP

Paris, July 7. With only one dissenting vote. the French Senate to-day pass- ed a vote of confidence in the Government, after hearing an exposition of the Government's home policy. The Minister of the Interior, M. Salengro, de- clared the Government could no longer tolerate the continuance of stay-in strikes-Reuter.

SALENGRO'S REVIEW

Paris, July 7.

The Senate, by a vote of 230 to 1. to-day passed a vote of con- fidence in the Government's inter ant policies after M. Salengro, the Minister of the Interior. had de- fended them.

The Minister assented that energetic measures were being taken against foreign agitators and the fontentars of

1

90 WORLDS MASTER T

FOREIGN MINISTER

INDISPOSED

Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Sceretary, who, owing to indisposition, in taking a week's holiday. He is here aren leaving the Ethiopian Lega-. tion in London to attend the House of Commons debate on the lifting of.

nelinux.

PLUNGES

TO DEATH:

the recent strikes, He reported 1,303 MR. T. B. OEI FALLS arrests, of which 818 were in Paris, in OVER EMBANKMENT addition to the expulsion of 1,106.

The Government, narrowly escaped defeat when the majority fender, M.

Bienvenue Martin, distnatided that the Government promise not to allow the occupation of factories by strikers in future. M. Salengro unwillingly plo.

mixed.

A fatal accident to a

Javanese

Chinese. Mr. T. D. Oel, of independent means, Hon of the managing director of the China South Sea Line, occurred last night, when he fell over an em

concrete bankment on to a

(ennis court at Pokfulum Road. The man Meanwhile, the Cabinet has an- fractured his skali and died almost nounced that the Finance Ministry is lastantly. inking special measures against the Paris banks which have been the of a purty which was motoring in car

It appears that the deceased was one the Government's bonds during past few days. It also announced that No. 747 from Aberden, including an- subscription to large Treasury loans other Chinese gentleman, and a Euro penn, together with the driver, and will be opened Friday,

when near the Blind Hente on Pokfu- The During its session the Cabinet con-lum Road the car

and apparently sidered the pressing European prob- deceased then got was stopped. lems, including the Danzig danger, the wandered about the road for some abolition of League sanctions and me time. He was seen walking near the thods of restoring Italian co-operation cubankment, when suddenly he fell in European affälisc

ver, a distance of nome-fifty-feet, to. the concrete tennis court below. M. Salengro reported on the strike situation.United Press.

FINANCIAL EMISSARY RETURNING

MR. K. P. CHEN PAYS MANILA CALL.

Manila, July 7.

Fort Knox has limited its. soldiers to two baths weekly on account of the water shortage. Forest fires have

Mr. K. Chen, one of the prominent rage in the Timberlake forests of South Dakala, Wyoming and Black-Chinese lunkers who negotiated the with the United States, in Washing- and Michigan.

ton, arrived in Manila this morning aboard the liner Potsdam, en route to Shanghai,

Neurath warned, the Anglo-German "immediate interest", justify her entry damage to spring wheat in the United hills, also in Northern Winconsin recent silver agreement for Chinni

In these circumstances, Baron ven Naval Treaty might be compromised. į

The contrary view

Mr. Almy charged that "freedom of London, where it is pointed out that the seas" and not democracy had in the Soviet navn building programme is at present only one of replacement,volved the United States and only abnormal construction by Europene maelstrom.

in the

New

Mr. Frederick R. Coudert, other powers would give Germany the York Admiralty inwyer, declared at Landing, July 7 The Privy Council Committee ap right to eat! for the revision of the the same meeting, that it was un-, pointed by His Majesty the King Inst Anglo-German Naval Treaty.-Reuter, thinkable" that the United States

week to make arrangements for his Coronation next year, met for the first time in St. James' Palace to-day, under the presidency of Mr. Rumey MacDonald.

Among those present were the Duke of York, the Archblahop of Canter, bury,

Sir John Simon, Mr. David Lloyd George, Lord Halifax and Mr. Winston Churchill.

The meeting discussed prelimin- aries for forty-five minutes, and thon

MORAL VICTORY CLAIMED

appointed an executive committee NANKING WELCOME

FOR DESERTERS

consisting of between twenty and thirty members, the majority of whom were chosen from outside the ranks of the Coronation Committee.--Rou-.

Bulletin Servier.

2e

EDEN ADVISED TO REST

COUNTRY HOLIDAY

PRESCRIBED

London, July 7..

Nanking, July 8. Nine aeroplanes, which have de- serted from the Kwangtung Air Force, have landed at Nanking.

on the

To Americs the states of Wyoming Monuna and the Linkotas are the chief sufferers, while in Canada the vast prairie wheat belt, throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, has been hit.

Junchcom

Other members of the parly rushed to his aid and did what they could for him, following which an Indian constable appeared on the scene. By this time Mr. Oci, was dead.

The deceased was 34 yours of age,

NATIONAL LEAGUE VICTORY

PICK OF PITCHERS.

PERFORM

AND

GEHRIG GALAN HOMER

Meanwhile, 100,000 distressed farm families have looked to Washington for relief as the Administration pre-

He was welcomed by local bankers pares to pump millions of dollars into

and enlled on the Philippines' first

Boston, July 7. the stricken regions.

President, Senior Manuel Quezon, at

Stars of the National League, led President Roosevelt to-dny sum-Malacanang Palace.

by the dazzling Dizzy Dean, won a decision against the selected American manet A.A.A. lllcins to

Mr. Chen is accompanied by Mr. League team in an exhibition baseball In consequence the price of wheat and conference, while the A.A.A. as

conservation pro-P. W Kuo, a director of the Shanghai game to-day by four runs to three. should abandon her commerer wille is soaring Renter Bulletin Service modified the soil

On the mound opposed to Dear was gramme to restrict the designated Trust Company, also on his way home Black Acres

aress of North Dakota, Montana and from America by way of Europe, but the veteran Lefty Grove. These two the both declined to discuss the Sino- fought a thrilling duel, assisted by Wyoming in order to assist

American silver understanding, de Hubbell, Davis and Warneke, and Washington, July 7.

farmers whose crops are ruined.

claring that Nanking must have the

Harder, It. Ferrel and Dickey For the Afth consecutive day wear-

respectively Itig heat has spread over an ever. Meanwhile, Iners arriving at New details Arst-Renter. widening area in the mid-West, with York have reported torrential rains thousands of ceres in Dakota, Mon- in mid-Atlantic-United Press, tana, Wyoming and Minnesota al- rendy blackened.

belligerents were operating

The idea of a fool-proof neutrality is the merest illusion," he said. "The only real question is: low far can we insist upon the rights of American

ships to asil the seas-United Press.

Acid Thrown On Waitress

ASSAILANT NOT IDENTIFIED

The North-west appears doomed to an unsurpassed failure,

to be

Roosevelt Confident

Washington, July 7. crop President Roosevelt to-day announc- cd that he was visiting the dust bowl The Weather Bureau has forecast in August next, to observe the resulta "no relief."

from the projected, drought relief Jamestown, North Dakota, has reprogramme. ported a

a temperature of 118, Blx-

Tho President emphasised that marck and Moosehead 114, Devillo Lake 112, Huron, South Dakota 108, there was no reason to fear & food while from the Great Plains it is shortage in 1937 generally reported that to-day was Aa neld-throwing incident occurred the hottest day on record."

The worst area is in Dakota, where The airmen called on the Contral authorities and pledged their loyalty in the early hours of this morning, the wheat was burned a fortnight ago

resulting in grave injuries-to to the Government.

This gesture is regarded as a great waitress named Wong Pik, 24 years and farmers saw the com shrivel, moral victory for the Government of age, belonging to the Tai Ting However, it is hoped that the corn

crops elsewhere will be saved. Chung Restaurant.

The young lady was on the stair- case of No. 13 Chui Lung. Street at 2.10 this morning, when an unknown Chinese-rushed: at her and threw

Reuter.

EXPEDITION RECALLED

Canton, July 8,

Wido Destruction

Further he drew attention to the estimated wheat yield of 600,000,000 bushels and a carryover of 125,000,- 000, as compared with the normal 025,000,000 bushels-United Press. annual United States consumption of

Desert Storm

Bonneville, Utah, July 7. A crop failure is also threatened

A flerco desert storm swept over in the rich whoat Belds of Canada's

forced On "the advice of medital opinion, Political organisations meet here corrosive acid, severely burning her prairie provinces where wide tracts this countryside to-day and

driver, to postpone another record at Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign to-day to celebrate the anniversaryface and arms. On being discovered, have already been destroyed in many Capt. George Eyston, the British speed

National Revolutionary the victim was rushed to the Govern-sections. Minister, is taking, a week's rest in of the

a serious In many quarters of all drought tempt on the salt beds. Forces oath-taking ceremony, whichment Civil Hospital, in the count in the meantime, marked the ging of the condition:

areas, Insects have completed the The gate flattened Capt. Eyaton's Lord Halifak,

1927- The assallant has so far not been havoc wrought by the sun. Gaunt, camp and scattered in balonging takes over the direction of the Northorn Expedition

famished cattis are calling dry stubble. - United Press. United Press. Foreign Offloc-Router.

Arrested,

War Museum Moves

PRINCE INSPECTS EXHIBITS

London, July 7.

The Imperial War Museum to-day moved into its new home on Lambeth pitel. Road, formerly the Bethlehen Hog

Originally the war trophies sero stored at the Crystal Palace.

TOWE

Against the tricky Dean and Com- stars pany the American League could

timies seven only trit

The pitching had no horrors only for the Yankees' Gehrig, who leaned into one of the fast deliveries and drove it out of the park. The American League team committed one error.

Galan hit a home run for the Na- tional Leaguers and his team-mates hit the American Leaguers eight times more. They fielded without an error. No games were scheduled in elther League to-day.-Router.

U.S. SUBMARINE LAUNCHED

New London, Conn., July 7. The Duke of York, who is chairman

The submarine Pickerel was Inungh- of the executive committee of the ed and christened to-day by Miss Eve afternoon and inspected the exhibits, Standley, Acting Secretary of the museum, visited the new premises this lyn Standley, daughter of Admiral in order that his approval might be Navy, and two more of the same type, obtained before the place is thrown the Perch and Plann, are building. open to the public. Reuter Bulletin Pickerel's keol was init in March, 20 Survler.

Tant year-United Press.

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