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TROOPS RUSH TO MICHIGAN FIGHT CENTRE Strikers Reinforcing Flint City Pickets

CRISIS RAPIDLY GROWS WORSE, SAYS GOVERNOR

Flint, Mich., Jan. 12,

Governor Frank Murphy, just elected to office, has ordered a regiment of the National Guard of Michigan State to proceed immediately to this tense industrial centre to prevent a repetition of last night's fighting between police and strike-pickets, in which 23 were injured.

Sit-down strikers, in possession of the Fisher Motor Body factory still, started the trouble when they rushed the company guards in order to prevent them interfering with relatives and friends who were bringing them food. Police threw tear gas bombs, pickets jumped into the fight and presently police were firing into the crowd.

The pickets are now being reinforced by strikers from other towns and work in the Pontiae motor factory, where workers refused to strike, has also been suspended. There are now no General Motors assembly lines which are not affected by the strikes.

It is estimated that 170,000 aro Idle throughout the nailon owing to the motor and maritime walk-outs.— Routed.

Situation Worse

Lansing, Mich., Jan. 12, Governor Frank Murphy considers the position in Flint as very grave, "Hourly telephone reports indicate the Flint altuation is rapidly growing worse," he says.

He has ordered 1,500 men of the 120th Infantry Regiment to proceed to Fint from the Armouries of nine other.cities

Bitter Cold

Sweeps West

Of America

the

Denver, Jan. 12.

A bitter cold wave is sweepling west and south-west of America to-day.

Temperatures range between 15 and 20 degrees below zero in some parts, causing at least 20

Damage to the California citrus crop from frost is estimated af 510,000,000-Reuter,

deaths, where they have been mobilised "for strike duty." Only a few hours ago they were called to their depots for emergency operations. when Toledo, Ohio, reported 1,800 C.I.O. members converging on Flint support the strikers--United

to

Press.

BRITAIN'S NEW TIES IN EGYPT

SIR MILES. LAMPSON AS AMBASSADOR

ARMY OFFICERS WILL LEAVE

FINNISH VESSEL WRECKED

MANY FEARED - LOST IN LIFEBOATS EIGHT SWIM ASHORE

Glasgow, Jan. 12. The new Finnish motor-ship, Joanna Thorden, went ashore in Pentland Firth, between Cairo, Jan. 12. Scotland and the Orkney Egypt's new status was Islands, to-day. The crew took marked to-day by the cere-to their boats, one of which monious presentation of his landed, empty, on the Orkneys. credentials, as the first British Another boat, with over twenty Ambassador, by Sir Miles persons aboard, including some Lampson, formerly High Com-women, is missing and feared. missioner,

lost with all on board..

Sir Miles was driven to the Abdin Palace in the State coach used by the

by the Court Chamberlain

and

The vessel, after striking a reef, King on State occasions, accompanied broke in two. The Captain Brst sent off twenty-two men, two women escorted by the royal bodyguard and d two children in one of the other members of the Embassy staff. remainder of the crew left later in ship's life-bonts, whilst he and the Under the new regime, fifteen Bri-a smaller boat, as the ship was tish officers are retiring from the Air

sinking. Force, but others may be engaged on different contracts,

The latter boat was washed ashore All the British Army officers will succeeded in swimming ashore. The

empty

but eight of the men aboard resign, thus severing sixty-five years remainder, as well as the entire of British connection with Egypt. A company in the other life-boat, are now British Military Mission, how-missing. ever, Is arriving shortly. Reuter Four bodies hove Special.

washed ashore.

50 far been

JANUARY

13.

1937.日一初月二十

EDEN PLEADS FOR

RECONCILIATION

"PREFER BUTTER TO GUNS"

BRITAIN OFFERS EVERY HELP

TO SETTLE EUROPE

London, Jan. 12.

A plea for international co- operation was made by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, when speaking at a dinner of the Foreign Press Association here to-night.

He said the British Government warmly reciprocated the sentiments expressed by Herr Adolf Hitler, Ger. man Chancellor, in his statement to the diplomatie corps the day previous urging real understanding and re- conciliation among nations.

That is the task, said Mr. Eden, to which we must devote ourselves during the coming year. And so far as the people of Britain are concern- ed, he assured his hearers, it was a task to which they would bend their! most carnest and most united en- deavours.

ON MYSTERIOUS PARIS MISSION

DR. HJALMAR SCHACHT

768 DEAD OF INFLUENZA

IN LARGE TOWNS OF BRITAIN

Referring to re-urmament, Mr. Eden said that Britain, if necessary. would show as stubborn a determina- tion as any other nation in re-equip-i ment which they regarded as vital to the national safety. But that was

London, Jan. 12. not the read they wished to travel, he declared.

The influenza epidemie has account- There was 2 bettered for 768 deaths throughout the large towns in Great Britain during the

way.

"We definitely prefer butter to week ended January 9. This figure guns, and are prepared to do our compares with 320 the previous best by economic co-operation and week.

working for the appeasement of There lanve been 558 deaths report- Europe to secure that others may ed in the south-eastern area, in- have butter in a world which does cluding London, not need guns."~~Reuter.

MALAGA HEAVILY

BOMBED

CRUISERS JOIN IN REBEL ATTACK.

SOVIET SHIP SEIZED

Malaga was

Gibraltar, Jan. 12. subjected yesterday

An inquiry by the Minister of Health shows that the epidemic ex- tends from the south to the north. The outbreak is widespread and high- ly infectious, but the cases reported are mostly of a mild character, most of the deaths being among elderly people.Reuter Special

ARREST IN PEIPING MYSTERY

DEVELOPMENT

WERNER CASE

IN

afternoon to the heaviest Combard BLOOD-STAINED

ment of its experience.

SHOES, KNIFE

According to reports of Danish and Norwegian steamers which were lying alongside the quays at the

Peiping. Jan. 13. time, six insurgent aeroplanes ap- The Arst arrest in connection with peared over the elty and dropped the brutal murder of Miss Pamela 100 Incendiary bombs.

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Werner, the 19-year-old adopted Simultaneously, two

daughter of Mr. E.-T. C. Werner, insurgent former British Consul at Foochow, cruisers crept up on the port and whos rained 200 shells into the centre of covered not far from her home on rnutilated body was clia- the town.

January 10, has been made.

300

Casualties are estimated at and a hospital and other buildings were damaged and set aflre-Reuter Bulletin Service.

SOVIET SHIP SEIZED

Santander, Jan. 12. Insurgents have seized a Soviet, foodship off the Santandar coast.

Reuter.

Arabs Urge

End Of Jews'

Immigration

PLACE OF MANDATE OFFER TREATY IN

Jerusalem, Jan. 12. Giving evidence before the Royal Commission in Palestine, the Muft

The arrest was made lost ught by Captain Bollam, who recently joined the British Polled Force in Tientsin, and who has arrived here to conduct an Investigation Into the murder.

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talned is not stated, but it

The nationality of the man de- alleged that blood-stained shoes, a dagger ond

21 handkerchief were found in his house-Reuter.

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AIRCRAFT AGENT FOR H. K...

AMERICAN FIRM'S APPOINTEE

New York, Ján, 12. The Lockheed Aircraft Company

At the time of the disaster, the Joanna Thorden was completing her return maiden voyage from Now of Jerusalem to-day demanded the announces the appointment of Mr. York to Helsingfors. Reuter Special. abandonment of the country as the James W. Fisher, of Hongkong, as Jewish National Home experiment, the Company's exclusive China re- and immediate and complete stoppage | presentative. of Jewish immigration.

M. P. RESIGNING

London, Jan. 12. Sir William Ray, Conservative member of Parlament for Richmond, Surrey, since 1932, has resigned on account of ill-health. A bye-election will follow within a few weeks: At the last election, Sir William's the dinner of the Foreign Press Asso-be abolished and replaced by a treaty majority was 19,480,--British Wire- clation in London to-night-British between Great Britain and the

Arabs.Reuter Bulletin Service.

; LONDON PRESS DINNER'

London, Jan. 12. The Foreign Secretary is attending

Wirgicas.

It is stated that Mr. Fisher anti- Land purchases by the Jews must cipates a marked expansion in the also be stopped, he urged.

Oriental commercial aircraft market The Mufti asked that the mandate during the next two or three years.

It Is.. noteworthy that Mr. Fisher has been na aircraft dealor in Chine Bince 1930-United Press.

FRANCO- GERMAN AMITY

RECENT TENSION

FORGOTTEN SCHACHT TO VISIT PARIS

Berlin, Jan. 12.

There is further evidence of the ending of Franco-German tension in the report that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of National Economy, intends to visit Paris shortly, and ostensib- ly to inspect the German section of the forthcoming Paris Ex- hibition..

However, business circles expect he will discuss Franco-German financial And economic problems while in Paris, and there are even rumours of French Inan Germany, for the purpose of assisting her purchases of raw materials.-Reuter.

FRANCE GRATIFIED

Paris, Jan. 12. The French Military Attache at Tangier, Capt. Luiset, has been grant- ed a "safe conduct" to travel freely in Spanish Morocco, including Melilla und Ceuta, by Colonel Beigbeder, acting High Commissioner of the territory,

This decision of the Spanish rebel authorities has given great satisfac- tion to France-Reuter.

WIDE REFORM SOUGHT

ROOSEVELT WANTS FULL POWERS WOULD EFFECT

ECONOMIES ·

Washington, Jan, 12. President F. D. Roosevelt has re- commended to Congress the thorough

reorganisation of the Government's

administrative machinery, including the creation of two new Cabinet posts, namely, a Secretary of Social

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BATTALION'S TRIBUTE

Before the 2nd. Baltallon of the East Lancashire Regiment left Hong- kong yesterday, wreaths were laid alt the base of the monument in Hoppy Valley Cemetery which was erected in memory of 848 officers, N.C.O's, men, women and children of the old 59th Foot (now the 2nd. East Lanca- shires) who died in Hongkong between 1349 and 1858, the last preulons occasion

the Battalion was stationed here. (Photo: Mee

Cheung).

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No Rest

Until Slayers

Boy's

Are in

Prison

Washington, Jan. 12.

The Federal Government's full resources are to be flung into the hunt for the slayer of 10-year-old Charles Mattson, by

order of President F. D. Roosevelt.

In a statement, the Presid ent showed his personal emotion as a consequence of the most brutal act in America's long bistory of savage crime.

"Every means at our command must be enlisted to capture and "This murder has shocked the nation," he exclaimed. punish the perpetrators of this ghastly crime.

"The federal agents, engaged in the search, will pursue Welfare and a Secretary of Public it relentlessly. It will not be terminated until the murderer is Works.

He has also asited for six executive caught.

assistants to the President,

whose duties will be to relieve the President

recom-

of a great volume of detailed work.

President Roosevelt also mends the grouping together of 195 independent federal agencies under appropriate departments, and the extension of the civil -service to Include 250,000 Government vants.

ser-

It is estimated that the reorganiza- tion will effect economies amounting Lo $30,000,000 annually-Reuter.

UNLIMITED POWER

Washington, Jon. 12. President Roosevelt, in a special message to Congress to-day, asks for almost unlimited power to effect the most complete reorganisation of the federal executivo branches in the history of the nation.

He asks the right to combine over 100 different agencies in twelve departments, directly controll- hed from the White House.

major

AIRLINER CRASHES

IN STORM

HOPE ALL TEN ON SHIP MAY LIVE

SURVIVOR'S STORY

Los Angeles, Jan. 12. The wreckage of an airliner from Salt Lake City, in which His message, consisting of five Mr. Martin Johnson and his chiet polats, provides for on unwife, famous big game hunters, precedented degree of presidential executive management. United were passengers, is reported to have been found in the hilla five miles from San Fernando, Cal.

Rescuers are racing to the spot, and it is still unknown whether there are any survivors.

There were ten passengers and three members of the crew aboard the plane-Reuter.

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IL DUCE NOW ARMY PILOT

PASSES ALL TESTS FOR COMMISSION

Rome, Jan. 12. Signor Benito Mussolini, the Italian Dictator, has gained his milltary air pilot's licence.

He flew for an hour and a half in his own three-engined acroplane to- day, and passed all tests, including the altitude qualification, taking his machine to 4,000 motres.

Hitherto he has had only a civilian pilot's licence.—Reuter,

EVERYONE INJURED:

Los Angeles, Jan. 12. The Western Air Express Trans port plane from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, crashed on a mountala top all 13 occupants. It went down In 22 miles north of here to-day, Injuring rainstorm, Apparently

A

heavy

blinded.

"A crime of this kind is renewed evidence of the need of sustained effort in dealing with the criminal element."

The Attorney General, Mr. Homer S. Cummings, immediately announe- ed a reward of $20,000 for the appre- hension of the slayer of. Charles Mattson, Then declared: "All the Department of Justice's facilities will be turned loose in this case. am desperately sorry for the stricken family."

Earlier Mr. Cummings described the President as being "profoundly moved." The President was stunned when he first read the news, sold Mr. Cummings. He was allent for several moments and then exclaimed: "It's unbelievable. It's ghastly," United Press.

Subsequently, the line operators announced no-one was fatally hurt.

JOHNSONS UNCONSCIOUS", The passengers include Mr. and

Mrs. Martin Johnson, just returned from exploration in Borneo.

Mr. Robinson says both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were unconscious when he staggered away from the plane, but he could not tell how seriously they were hurt.

Chief Pilot W. W. Lewis, Co-pilot C. The crew of the plane consists of T. Owens and Stewardess. Miss Edith E. Conner.

Passengers included Mr. E. E

Spencer. President of the Stromber Electric Company of Chicago; Mr. Tulinglast, executive of the Prait and Whitney Aeroplane Motor Com pany, Hartford, Coan-United Pres

BANK DIVIDEND · The Directors of the Hongkong Mr. Arthie Robinson, the fireland Shanghat Banking Corporation passenger rescuers brought to the have decided, subject to audit, to Olive Vlow Sanitarium, four miles declare a dividend of £3 per share. only from the scene of the crash, sald for the half-year ended December that all on board were injured. Į 31, 1930,

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