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二拜歳 骁六廿月正英港香 TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1937.

二日四十月二十

No. 1611

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ANGLO-U.S. TRADE PACT NEAR Murdered Man

Runciman's Revelation

BREAKS GROUND FOR FORMAL PARLEYS

More Signs of Economic Co-Operation in Europe

Washington, January 25,

Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade, revealed at a press conference at the British Embassy here that he and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were in close agreement in principle on the basis for negotiating a reciprocal Anglo-American trade agreement. He declared they had made great progress in their con- versations.›

Only the broadest generalitics had been diffussed, however, and details were being left to more formal con- versations between the representatives of both Govern- ments, Mr. Runciman declared.—Reuter.

STABILISATION IN THE WIND

Washington, Jan. 25.

Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of the Treasury, disclosed to-day that British and American spokesman had agreed in principle upon negotiations for a reciprocal trade treaty.

Simultaneously, Treasury officials had secretly conferred with Professor O. M. W. Sprague concerning monotary stabilisa- tion, which Mr. Walter Runciman's conversations with the Presi- dent have brought to the fore..

Mr. Hull said there would be fur- ther discussions to determine the re- quirements for detailed negotiations of a treaty.

Talked Of Disarmament

It is believed, too, that President Roosevelt and Mr. Runcimmun τη plored the possibilities of A dis- armament agreement, providing o}^ European peace accord was reached,

They are thought to have discussed-- the possibility of American neutrality | legislation severing British sources of supply in the event of war. “

Responsible quarters bellevo Britain may be threatening to depose the United States from the top position in the British market if she continues in her policy of prohibiting exports to warring nations. United Press.

Franco-British Talks

London, Jan. 26. Rellable quarters state that French and British Treasury, oftelais are at present discussing terina in connection with London credits for the French Government'

Discussions are believed to be centred around the question, of the time limit of the credit, whether it shall be for nine months or a year, the amount and the guarantee.

Estimates of the total of the credit vary from £40,000,000 to £50,000,- 000. In-the-event-that-a-lower- amount is granted by Britain, it is thought likely that Holland and advance the re-

Switzerland will mainder.—Routez..

Offer To Germany.

Lyons, Jan, 25%~

M. Leon Blum, who is on vacation

here, has 6ffered financial and

Five-Millions Permanently

Idle in U.S.

Washington, Jan. 25.

A total permanent anemploy-

· meni Agure of 5,000,000, even when prosperity is completely, restored, was to-day predicted by

• Mr. Harry Hopkins, head of the Works Progress Administration

FRANCO ALTERS STRATEGY BUT LOYALISTS COUNTER

(Special to "Telegraph”).

London, Jan. 25.

There are increasingly clear indications that General Francisco Franco's next major attack will embrace an effort to sever Madrid's communications with the coast, through a concentrated attack in the Aranjuez sector, about 30 miles south of the capital.

Meanwhile, fighting continues on Queen's Hill, near Aranjuez, where a Government attack proves that the Government leaders are aware of the trend of the Rightist strategy.

Meanwhile, important developments are continuing on the southern coast. The Leftists have checked the Rightist advance a few miles beyond Marbella. But the Rightists have commenced a new driva in the opposite direction. The latest reports are that they had passed Alsama de Granada, 30 miles north-east of Marbella.

The Leftists have despatched 4,000 men of the International Brigade' to

support the troops in the Marbella

sector.

tingent of Italiana arrived in Cadiz

It is reported on additional con-

Į Saturday.-United Press.

ARTILLERY ACTIVE

Madrid, Jun. 25.' The chief activity of the civil war over the week-end, it is reported be-i latedly, consisted of aerial and artil-} Jery bombardments of the capital,

Insurgent planes have been busy, also, raiding ensterni coust towna."

The Government claims that a raid by insurgent planes over Madrid on Sunday was repulsed by anti-aircraft guns and that Government planes, pursuing the enemy, brought down one of the raiders-Reuter Bulletin Service."

WILL RUSH MALAGA

Hendaye, Jan. 25. It is reported in uncensored des». patches that 10,000 workers have been mobilised in Malaga in order to rush the fortification of the city in pre- paration for a last stand against Gen- cral Del Lano's rebels.United Prest.

OMNIBUSES NEEDED

AFTER MADRID AERIAL RAID

One of the numerous, foreign war correspondents at the front in Spain interviewing a National war plot after an aerial rald over Madrid,

London Jan. 25. Attention was called in the House of Commons to a report of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations that 208 motor omnibuses i”, pare needed by the Spanish Gevere

when before the House of Representatives propriations sub-Committee.

"The year 1937 holds premise of a figure of 6,500,000 to 7,000,- 000 unemployed,” uld Mr.. Hop-` kins.

Acting Budget. Director Mr. Daniel Bell, fold the same com mittee that reilet and recovery. putlays from 1934 to 1937 had amounted to... $12,011,000,000.--- Reuter.

-DISEASE

IN WAKE OF FLOOD

500,000 THREATENED WITH EPIDEMICS

economic assistance to Germany with NO ABATEMENT

the provision that such help will not

be used to increase the strength of

the German military machine. But,

he said, an econòmic agreement could not be approached without a poll- tical settlement.

IN CRISIS

Iment to assist in, the evacuation, of

the civil population in Madrid.

Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, said he under“. stood the request of the 'Spanish Government was on the agenda of the present Council session. No dificul- Ly would be placed in the way of purchase here of, omnibuses for this purposeBritish Wireless.

Republic Or Dominion?

IRISH· FREE STATE IN-ODD POSITION.

DE VALERA ALL FOR UNITY

London, Jan. 25.

The question of the effect of the recent Irish Free State legislation on Its relations with the British. Com- Washington, Jun. 26. monwealth nations is now under Disease threatens to super-examination, said Mr. Stanley Bald-

win, Prime Minister, when asked

as " godt omen for Ve future." { throughout the twelve atates Ross whether the Free State Go

In Berlin, officials viewed the offer Bede the flood and fire menace the House of Commons by Sir

-United Press.

Foreign Investments

until the examination, was complete, The Prime Minister added that

no statement could be made..

STOP PRESS

ACCORD ON VOLUNTEER PROBLEM

May be Victim

Of Red

Killer

MIGHT HAVE HAD SECRETS

TO QUASH MOSCOW TRIAL

Paris, Jan. 25.

The body of Dmitri Navachine, a Soviet economist, was found in the Bois de Boulogne to-day with a gunshot wound in the heart. The French police are most concerned over the case, due to the suspicion that the murder may have been connected with the trial of the alleged anti-Soviet plotters now proceeding in Moscow.

'Attention is drawn to the fact that Navachine was a friend of some of the defendants. A police theory is that he possessed documents establishing the innocence of one or more of the accused.

It was revealed to-day that he had recently severed his relations with the Soviet Embassy and that he had. been threatened with the loss of his Russian civil rights.

-United Press,

SEVERE

NON-INTERVENTION FLOODS

NEAR__ ACHIEVEMENT

Demand Death

Moscow, Jan. 25. Newspapers are to-day publishing violently worded resolutions demand- ing the death penalty for the men accused of leading a pro-Trotsky revolt plof, and who are at present on trial here. They include Gregory Sokolnikoff, former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and Kurt Radek, noted writer.

Berlin, Jin, 25 Thames Valley is Today's evidence was marked by

In terms almost identical with those Lemployed by Italy, the German Goy

ernment has replied to the British. note on non-intervention in Spain.. Germany, agrees to forbid the des patch of volunteers to Spain simul- Janeously with other

and powers suggests an agreement to withdraw all foreign participants in the war in Spain, including politicul agitators.-- Reuter.

an Inland Sea

further admitasions of gullt on the part, of several of the prisoners. There was a tense and dramatic scene when the aged M. Muraloff, former Commissar for War and chief houten- ant of the fugitive Trotsky, interrupt London, Jan. 25.ed the testimony of another prisoner, Rains in many districts. in England Shestoff, who was relating aze already double the total normal officials.

successful attempts to murder Soviet Indignantly the veteran January fall, causing, widespread shouted at Shestaff when the latter was discussing one case of attempted. Goods.

murder: "It's a lie." He claimed he himself had given the order for the assassination of the man in question.. In reply to the Public Prosecutor's question as to why, after denying. charges, he had decided to plead guilty, Boguslavalty dented that his confession was due to the condition of his imprisonment or any pressure or promise of alleviation of his fate.. He said he had, confessed because his conscience Was pricked by "the criminal activities and rottenness, of the Trotsky organisation."

CONTROL. NOW POSSIBLE

Paris, Jan. 25, From Reading: to Richmond, huge The Italo-German replies on non-tracts of the Thanics Valley resemble Intervention are regarded in authori-an inland sca.. Swans are swimining tative quarters as generally satis-around houses, looking in at the factory. It is held now that there is windows. no. reason why steps should not be token comparatively quickly to six a date for application of control and the details of such application. Reuter."

LONDON IS SATISFIED.

Eton playing-felds and the grounds of Windsor Castle are inundated.

In Kent Sussex, Bedfordshire and the neighbourhood of Birraingham, many of the main roads are 'impass able,

rocks Rear

Innocent Child Victima

plan to wreck the Novosibirsk coat... At another stage Shestoff takt. of o mines with the help of a German engineer. The plot had failed; he sald, became children had found, the dynamite, had played with it, and were killed by Its explosion..

London, Jan. 25. The German and Italian replies to

The Dartmouth lifeboat effected a the British note concerning voluntega thrilling rescue of fifty-two for Spain are considered satisfactory when, the ss. English Trader-struck- men in British official quarters, as they the appear to accept in principle the ban-rescue was carried out in pitch dark Dartmouth. The ning of recruiting for service in Spain amidst raging seas Reuter's Bulletin and the despatch of volunteers. Service.

All

on the Non- powers represented Intervention Committee have thus reached agreement on this point. The next step will be for the Com- mittee to consider the The Prime Minister, is bringing to British nole.

It is though the the London breu, but the Thames is still was murdered on his lastrus dos te the House of Commons. to-day a mitteo should have no. difficulty. In rising and flood waters are spreading cause, be had discovered the plot and message from the King asking for agreeing on a control-plan-along the in the Thames Valley whore large had attempted to report it to the- legislation to be passed establishing lines of that already worked out by low-lying areas are under water.

London, Jan: 25.

to

NO RAIN IN LONDON:

London, Jan 25, was rain_to-day.

Ho that a Russian

a Regency providing for the ministration of the Government in

ad the technical sub-committee Router. The flow of the river at Eddington, or Secret Polke.

fainguunat another LOYALISTS' CHARGES

was at the rate of 8;700 million

tim, he and his the event of the King being out of

gallons in 24 hours, being an increase colleagues broke into a bank and stole the country or ill, or, in the chae of

Valencia. Jan 25, of 1,200 ntlition gallons on yesterday's

IM.Giroubles to finance their cam- demise of the Crown, before the

Heir

The Marine and Air Ministry issued figure..

The

average for January

Bugrypaign of sabotage--Router. to the Throne reaches the age of an official communique to-day in 2,407 million, but in January. Taste eighteen.. Apart from any question which it was charged that a German year the flow reached 0,000 million). relating to Princess Elizabeth, who haval scoplane participated in the That figure, however, was well belas at present is Heir to the Throne, it is Rightist attack on Roquetas aviation totais of great foods in the past pointed out that the Bill will clear comp recently.

British Wirelesą, ¡ the ground for any Empire visit It says & German cruiter "of the whereupon the King, may wish the same type as the Admiral Graft von embarkReuter...

Spee lifted the seaplane aboard following the bombardment.

It also charges a cruiser with hav Ing acted as observation ship for n pale of insurgent bombers-United Press.

STILL UNABLE TO SAVE

CREW OF STORM-RIDDEN

WRECK IN NORTH SEA

Oslo, Jan, 25,

Tokyo Crisis Continues

ARMY'S DECISION NOT YET MADE KNOWN

Friction in U.S. Naval Circles

Washington, Jan. 25; Fricton between Bureau chiefs and the, General Board has produced a reported ngitation for radical ro organisation of top naval executive offices

It is understood that President Roosevelt a dissatisfied at the. operations under which the Secretary of the Navy does not control the De partment directly, depending on the executives making the Secretary: “a rubber stamp."

It is believed that the Prealdent

Tokyo, Jan., 25, General Kozushige Ugaki's efforts to form new Cabinet are at a favours the creation of a co-ordinat standstill peoding the Army's replying agency directly responsible to the

the question of wilether or not Secretary,

which have suffered from the ment's claim to be a Republic with devastating rise in river cresta regard to internal affairs and 4 during the past few days. Dominion with regard to external London, Jan. 25,

affairs. was recognised by His It was stated in reply to a Parlin Epidemics are menacing the Majesty's Government. mentary question that estimates re- 500,000 refugees in the flood cently compiled by the United States areas, the Ohio and Mississipi Department of Commerce showed valleys. that on December 31, 1935, invest ments in the United States by Briinin In Louisville, Ky. 200,000 are Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Secret- steamer, Veni, pounded by a fierce North Ben gale, is now The plight of the crew of 27, aboard the Norwegian

It will nominated War Minister. slood at 1,374 million dollars, by homeless. The clogged sewers "mayary for the Dominions, also replying

The Navy is awaiting the Army's Differenced over proposed changes France 20 million dollars and by result in the wide spread of typhoid to Sir Ronald Ross, told in the course desperate. So badly damaged that her crew are helpless to decision before making its own post of promotion and selection of policy

1,000 million. Company There are an increasing number of of their recent conversations Mr. de control her, the freighter is constantly swept by great sens.

tion-known

have contributed to the reorganiss= Investments by Italy and Germany cases of chicken pox, monales and Valega, urged strongly that steps

tion agitation. The Beard" bus" "long No definite action is probable complained of the practice of were not known separated. Be scarlet fever.

the date mentioned and total number of dead in the should be taken towards the establish- The crew is assembled on the Trym a few hours before she unwered

[ment-of: a united Ireland.

bridge, as der as possible from the the Vent's calls for assistance, maning General. Ugaki hunnat indicated Board's unalonry and Zuthority,

until after noon to-morrow.

Bureau chiefs) käsizning most of the September 30, 1936, Italy and dood innds is 40. The Red Cross is spokenANTEN GRANNY

Mr. MacDonald added thigt naThe mall shin Verus. another

baltering Wavon, outpa

to leave the scene. She is running his choice of personnel and well which is the reverse of the proce "-"Germany had on balance sold asking for $4,000,000 for immediate

ahort of fuel. A durides to the value of 1,400,000 rellet work scheme towards this and was put

--The Jupiter, a vessel of the mme | inforsed –tuartarán believe – unusual when the Board was first satuDILA asd 1,810,000 dollars respectively in There in no plan" of the "foods forward, and the matter was not Norwegian, vessel, which had effected mail line, is standing" by the Vent, caution will charnaferlenghin= select SeUnited: Prear-vis Mining Intler period British Wireless abating United Fraue

discussed", further-Reuler,"

A gallant rescue, of the crew of the however, Reuter,

thon United. Prise,