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BUSTER GRABBE PRISCILLA LAWSON In

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Inventor Says

PREVENT WARS

DEMOCRAT Sets

NEWSPAPERS

BANNED Planes

As Italian Press

Continues Attacks

On Fire

will end war for all time. addition to potentialities, the ray, he claims, can

In

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Jurors Weep

At Air Liner Crash

Inquiry

Also to be seen oere a fragment of a woman's bangle, a spectacle case, and a book.

MIGHTY FLEET -

A Scene of pathos met the eyes of the twelve jurors recently when they stepped from the motor-coach in the ROME, Dec. 5. Behind barbed wire fences aue where the air liner crashed at

Jerse SIGNOR GAYDA, writ-on a secluded estate at

A child's toy bricks and some other the ing in

"Giornale White Waltham (Berks.) pathetic little playthings lay on the rampled prass among the strips of d'Italia" declares that the Government experts will meat and halfburnt wood. preordained and organised shortly see a demonstration events in Corsica and Tunis of a death ray.

must be

When the jurora returned to view The inventor, seventy-years-old, against Italy

self-taught sciential, Mr. Arthur the victims some broke down and stressed as a fateful sign of Coxhend, who has worked for more went as they pazed at the bodies. the responsibility of France, han eight years perfecting his ap- paratus in part of a disused mansion but they cannot make on the estate, believes that his ray Italy abandon a policy of

its destructive inflexibly safeguarding her interests and aspirations.

produce rain at will hundreds miles away Signor Gayda points out that Mr. Coxhead claims that by using Germany is not only the the ray over a part of Berkshire re- frontiers of Italy, but the cently he was able to cause a violent frontiers of France near ter- Mr. Coxhead's apparatus concen- ritory under French sovereignty trates the sun's heat, directing on the

London, Dec. 4. which is populated by 3,500,000| target thermal ray of Intense

An enormous addition to the naval Germans, and which is rich in power.

to Con- shadowed for submission It is claimed that it would make strength of the United States is forc- Iron and potash.

the iron bulwark of a battleship sogress early next year, reports. Further press attacks on France hot that nobody could survive on Hector Bywater, the Daily Telegraph spread to-day, meanwhile the board. Its terride heat would bell naval

plan. correspondent. The admission into Italy of British and the sea around it, and any ammuni- which, Mr. Bywater is reliably In- French newspapers is banned.tion aboard would explode.

formed from Washington, is likely to If an acroplane Bew Into the range, be adopted unless there is a spredy DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON it would burn up like a fly in a can-fond marked improvement in the

die flame.

world situation, provides, he says, for London, Dec. 5. "I do not intend it to be used to creation of an entirely new battle Making a statement in the House destroy the human race." Mr. Cox-feet to be stationed permanently in of Commons to-day, the Premier, head said. "I believe there need be the Atlantic. Consisting wholly of Mr. Neville Chamberlain cald there to more war,

ships built specially for this service, "I can make ralu whenever I was nothing in the Anglo-Italian

It would comprise 12 battleships st agreement effecting British obliga- please with the ray, and in that way between 33,000 and 45,000 tshs, six tions to France, and while Tunis, I could prevent war. By operating | sircraft.

aircraft carriers, 17 heavy and 18 light

Zeuter.

APPEASEMENT

on

storm over Dover.

Enormous Addition By America

Corsica and Nice were not specifically my apparatus in this Geld I could set cruisera, 77 destroyers and 36 sub- mentioned in the negotiations prior up a lerrifle storm, which would in-

marines. Attached to the fleet would to the agreement, they were covered undate a whole country overseas." 36 auxiliary vessels such as fost

be by an annexe, which dealt with the maintenance of the status quo in the love the arsurances of the Italian tankers, destruyer

depot ships and floating Government, and of course we acceptus. Estimated cost of the i Mediterranean,

them.

subinertne

new fleet is £640,000,000.

and

In the view of the demonstration

Mr. Chamberlain replied "No" to In the Italian Chamber, the British the Opposition suggestion that

The first steps have already been the Ambassador to Rome, Lord Perth Premier's visit to Rome was made this Altuntie armada. Dockyards on taken to prepare for the building of had been instructed to represent to the occasion for Inventing and fer both coasts are being enlarged and Count Ciano that incidents of this

menting "spurious grievances in order modernised at an Initial cust of kind--unicas

steps were taken

that redress might be denunded £7,000,000 to equip them for the correct the impression-must have a the namu of appeasement."--construction of anost delerimental effect on the pro-Reuter,

battleships. Should the new Atlantic Beet be built its spects of collaboration between the

United completion will make the Rome, Dec. 5. States by far the mightiest naval From Count Ciano's reply it was Monday has brought a further in-power in the world. ricar that the Italian Government erease in the Franco-Itallas tension, did not associate itself with the de-judging by the information gathered stands that the British navy estimates monstration and it had no intention from political circles in Rome.

four Munich Powers.

of departing from the undertakings ziven Britain.

for his visit to Home.

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It is said to have been largely ment in February provide for con- brought about by attempts in "cer-siderably lurger additions to the fleet Mr. Chomberlain could see no rea-tain French quarters" to include the than have been expected. son to alter the present arrangements visit of the German Foreign Mini- The defensive requirements

ter to Paris in the mustl-Itailan press European, Eastern and Far Eastern Mr. Arthur Henderson (Lab) asked campain, and to try and construe waters have been duly weighed and whether Mr. Chamberlain would this visit us an invitation on the part certain items are likely to cause sur- make it clear to Rome that Brilain of Germany to depart from the policyprise. It will be found that the Bri- has no intention of verifieing her of the Rome-Berlin axis.

ish Commonwealth will no longer friendship with France in order to

The semi-oficial Giornale d'Italia be disposed to entrust the security of purchase friendship with Italy, and emphatically denounces these at-pital trade routes and lines of com- Me. Clement Attlee (Lab) asked tempts, obrerving that these French nunication to the goodwill of whether Mr. Chamberlain believed newspapers have apparently falled "oreign Power There is evidence that it was a spontaneous demonstra- allogether to understand that Rome that the standard relative naval tion taking place in Italy under the and Berlin abound in a spirit which drength has been revised to conform present conditions.

being directed by the lenders of with changes In the international replied: "We Italy and Germany-Trans-Ocean, situation.-Reuter.

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Berlin, Dec. 5.

KOWLOON

DANGER" WHITNEY BOURNE

Omeints say this a purely a matter of convenience, but some men in the consider it is to facilitate the streek

| avoidance of incidents.

All that can be gathered in official eireles is thot a joint No-War de- eluration will fratly recognise as un- alterable the frontiers of France, and Germany, secondly to affirm good- will, and thirdly to include an un-

each other in the event of

The Foreign Minister, Herr Joaretanding by the two nations to

chim von Ribbentrop, who leaves diferences, but subject to the condi- Berlin this evening for Paris, will, tion that third parties may also be it is announced, be accompanied by consulted.

The fact that Herr Ribbentrop's on inter- a Foreign Office expert national law, Dr. Guuss, as well as slat includes Dr. Gauss of the legal by the Director of the Economic Descetion of the Wilhelmstrasse leads partment of the Foreign Ofee, Dr. to the belief that the talks will cover Wichi, and head of the Press De- much larger ground that a mutual "No War" declaration. The sugges-

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Dr. Aschmann.

SECRET TIME-TABLE

Parts, Dec. 5. Utmost efforts are being made to keep sceret the time-lable of Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, which will be observed here to-morrow with the object of avoiding hostile demonstra- tiona.

partment,

Other members of the suite will tion that Herr von Ribbentrop will be Herr Abetz, who is a specialist on be asked as a condition for France's French affairs at the Foreign Office, signature, for the diaavowal by Ger- und who is well-known in Frenchmany of support for the clalma of political circles for his work on the the Italian irredentiam on the Con- Franco-German Committee-Trans-tinent, in the Mediterranean and in

Afrlea, can be discounted-Reuter;

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Paris, Dec. 5. An important council of Ministers will be held to-morrow

morning when questions arising from Herr Ribbentrop's visit will be discussed.

The Government will also be in- formed of the

Italian

reply to the Herr Ribbentrop, accompanied by French protests regarding the Corsica Frau Ribbentrop, is dun to arrive at and Tunis incidents.

Another meeting of the Cabinet 10 o'clock at the Gare des Invalides, instead of the Gare du Nord, and will be necessary to discuss the par their route to the hotel three minutes lementary agenda and

to place away will be through broad avenues, electoral roform on it.-Reuter,

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