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JANET GAYNOR TO WED

JANET GAYNOR, the film star, who made her name in ingenue roles, but is now playing more sophisticated, parts. is to marry again.

Her flance is Mr. Gilbert Adrian, who has designed the costumes for many big films. They first met seven years ago when Mr. Adrian did the gowns for Miss Gaynor's film, “Daddy Longlegs."

The date of the wedding hi not been fixed,

Miss Gaynor was granted a divorce from her lawyer hus- band, Lydell Peck, in 193-1 Here she is as she appears in her Intest film, “The Young In Heart."

Diplomats Express

PALESTINE TALKS

CLAIM FOR

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VATICAN CITY, Feb. 16.

THE diplomatic corps accre-

dited to the Holy See was re- ceived to-day by the College of Cardinals to which, through its doyen, the German Ambassa- dor Herr von Bergen,

NATION

ENDED

Britain

No Longer Bound

LONDON, Feb. 16.

WHITE PAPER an- nounces that the British Government has informed the League of Nations that it cannot, in future, undertake to bo bound in war-time by the general Act for the pacific settlement of international disputes, drawn up at Geneva on September 26, 1938, but will continue to sub- scribe fully to it in peace-time.

"The changes which have occurred with regard to the League of Nations and the position of its members in

Autonomy Requested relation to their obligations

By The Arabs

LONDON, Feb. 16. presented its condolences on the A CLAIM for the establishment of an independent Arab State

death of Pope Pius XI.

The German Ambasador, in 4

was formally submitted when speech delivered in Italian, described the Arab delegation met the the Lateran Treaty concluded be- British authorities this after- tween the Vatican and the Quirinal noon. As the outclauding event of the late Pope's reign,

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UNEMPLOYMENT

COMMONS CENSURE MOTION

REICH MOBILISATION

AWAKENS NEW

Army Will Be Ready March 6

LONDON, Feb. 16.

FEARS

WHAT HAPPENED with bamboo bomb racks when Canton caught fire.

BAMBOO BOMB RACKS IN.

THE MOBILISATION RAIDS: COMMONS QUERY

of Germany's army and man-power, which will be 95 per cent. completed on March 6, is still occupying con- siderable attention London.

in

LONDON, Feb. 16.

MR, S. F. MARKHAM to-day drew attention in the House of Commons to the methods used in China against high-explosive above the existing reofs, and asked whether Sir John Anderson bombs, particularly those involving light, additional roofs built proposed to develop, or to introduce any such methods in Eug- land.

Sir John Anderson replied the underslood that in China the erection of a series of bamboo roos over the roofs of bulldings was

The significance of the found to be of same value in latercepting and detonating moderato sized

Standing Army Of move is not yet apparent bombe, but their use had been subsequently prohibitent by the Chinese

Two Million

LONDON, Fåb, 16. THE LABOUR PARTY'S an employment motion of censure was debated in the House of Commons to-day,

The motion, moved by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, deputy leader of the Labour opposition, express- ed regret "at the continued failure of the Government to produce a definite policy which recognises that the problem can only be solved by the application of principles."

Socialist

under the Covenant" are mentioned as one of the principal reasons for the decision. Government is ready to consi- not keeping pace with recession of der any proposals which might seem likely to secure general acceptance for a revision of the Act so as to bring it in

Mr. Greenwood so that Britain was getting into the position now where she would always have in good times a standing army of 2,000,000 It is added that the British unemployed. Even re-armament was

con-

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald opened the discussion by enunciating general

anestions of alternatives to an in-formity with present conditions. independent Arub State.

He proceeded to pay tribute to the services is Holiness had rendered encouraging science and art.

A SIHINING EXAMPLE The Ambassador expressed the hope that the problems which con-

fronted the world to-day would find a peaceful solution, and that the new Sovereign Ponilii would be a shining example to humanity on the road to peace and progress,

The venerable doyen of the Sacred College,

Cardinal Grunito di Belmonti, alter thanking the Arn- bassador for his words, expressed-to the representatives of the various governments, the gratitude of the Holy See for the sentiments express. ed-Trans-Ocean.

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NO IMMEDIATE WAR Jamal Husseint, replying for the Arabs, gave rearons why such a State need not be considered incompatible undue significance to the decision.

Well-informed quarters attach no #1 Jewish with the existence

it is emphasised that war la not minority in Palestine.

envisaged as an immediate possibi- autonoinousity, but the British Government machinery followed, and embraced merely does not wish to be bound by past autonomous institutions In Pales- an undertaking which it might find fine within the meaning of Article Impossible to keep under the changed Two of the Mandate-Reater.

eircumstances now obtaining in

Discussion

on

the

DEATH SENTENCE

Europe.

In

trade.

The Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest

Brown, replying to the Labour attacks, said that the next returns would show that unemployed was not 2,000,000. Some 289,000, or 15 per cant, had been unemployed for 12 months or longer; 70 per cent.

outside Germany.

Some

quarters believe that Herr Hitler's next move will be against the re- mainder of Czecho-Slovakia. It is pointed out that the Czechs have increasingly resis- ted Germany since the Septem- ber crisis, and Hitler's original. plans for economic domination! of the small republic appear to have met with little success.

authorities owing to the added risk of fire-Reuter,

Strike-Ridden

Colony Faces Crisis

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 16. THE GOVERNOR

JAMAICA has

of

On the clwr hand, it is pointed announced that there could be no settlement of . out that Hiller niready has sumelent troops on the Baltic and Austrian the Jamaica labour dispute until orders for a franiters to assert whatever pressure he desires.

general strike were unconditionally withdrawn.

Jamaica is facing the tensest situation in its history as British colony because of a steadily deepening economie

risis.

AZANA TO RESIGN? Hopelessness Of

had been unemployed for less than Cause In Civil War

six weeks..

That showed that the vast majority of the unemployed were not a stand- ine army, and it also showed int 2,000.000 people were not decaying in idlenes.

3.000000 MEN PLACED Last year, nearly 3,000,000

pined Through the

were

exchanges,

Mr. Ernest Brown declared

PARIS, Feb. 16. IT IS RELIEVED that the President of Loyalist Spain. Senhor Azana, will announce his resignation this week.

The President was visited in Paris intour yesterday by the Foreign Minister,

Senhor. Del Vayo, who

Bew from Madrid..

men

that

#t

There are 15,000 unemployed |

WARPLANES

FOR FRANCE

in Kingston alone, yet, despite Storm In Teacup At people from the country are Government warnings, workless Committee Meeting

marching into the city daily, swelling the street mobs and

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. overcrowding the slums.

MR.

HENRY MORGEN- THAU, Secretary to the Fren- Statistics are not available on the sury, to-day told the Senate huge numbers of throughout the island, but the total aid was given to the French air unemployed Military Affairs Committee that is added to see howledge mission "at the request of the from Cuba, who have a of revolutionary gospels,

LEADING CITIZENS' ADVICE No sooner

President."

this assistance on two grounds, but that a “higher up" over- ruled him.

It is noteworthy that the Act has Jerusalem, Feb. 16.

never actually been appealed to.

Meanwhile the relief works pro-j The Foreign Minister is understood A Geneva niessage says that com- was.

the gravest section of the problem Four Arabs, captured south of

the international to have urged the President to refunds, and men are being discharged objected to

It was revealed that Chlef of the Bethlehem a week ago by detach-munications similar to the above have situation, and connected with the

rooted in

gramme is petering out for lack of General Staff, General Malin Craig turn ments of the Worcestershire Regi- been received by the League from three great exporting industries of

to his post in Spain. M. Georges Bonnet and the New cont, cotton, and shipping.

This, it ment, were sentenced to death by the

is stated, Senhor. Azana re- Zealand Jerusalem military court to-day.

fused to do. High Commissioner

There were fewer long-term unem- He is

is stated

to have This makes seven death sentences | London-Reuter.

told the

Is one strike settled i Mr. Robert Reynolds, a member of ployed thun had been registered for Foreign Minister that central Spain than another begins, and the fallure the epamite questioned Mr. Mor- by this court in two days.—Reuter.

years, the number declining from and Madrid were hopelessly out to find an impartial tribunal to settle genthau regarding the French pur 483,000 in May 1933 to 289,000 now. classed with the fall of Catalana and disputes is adding to the troubles, chases, and Mr. Morgenthau replied. Over 100,000 unskilled unemployed could not possibly win the war with Leading cliizens are openly advocat" thought I made it plain that we hnd been trained for various trades, out foreign intervention. Under the force and bloodshed 35 thedid it at the request of the President." of which 80 per cent. had found circumstances, he felt that fie could inevitable solution.

Mr. Harry Woodring also testified work at the instructional centres, not countenance further bloodshed

The banana combines are fighting to-day before the committer where men were prepared for for a lost cause.

back at the strikers by loading ships PUBLISHING TESTIMONY labouring work, 30 per cent. hod

outside Kingston and by organising a The chairman, found employment. The lower per- centage was due to the fact that many

Senator Morris, Inbour force under military proter- Sheppard said that the appearance of Senator Berard, Fronce's cuissary They are also refusing to pay plan- practically concluded the inquiry. He

tlon

to rush to new strike areas. Mr. Morgenthau and Mr. Woodring men had to be brought back to pay-to Insurgent Spain is leaving orters until bananas are safely aboard; added that a transcript of the test-

Terror Feared German Views

On Sunday

Assassins May Be Active In New Year

SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.

Britain's Great Rearmament

Hainan Island And Batavia Dutch See Menace In Occupation

AZANA RETURNS

Paris, Feb. 16.

sical fitness.

Burgos to-morrow morning with two Owing to the political tension, the members of the Diplomatic Corps

ship, and many drop in prices of primary products with the rank of Secretary of the on the wharves, cargoes are rotting mony, with the exception of military had a great effect on stopping the Embassy.

Eecrets, would be made public es marvellous recovery, from 1033 to

The sugar manufacturers have met soon as possible, President Manuel Del Vayo visited to discuss increased demands from 1937--Neuter.

Parts in an endeavour to persuade which sugar farmers are asking for labourers Lind the higher prices) President Azana to return.

Social Items

The Women's Auxiliary of

the

esteemed

İSLAND-WIDE STRIKE

Berlin, Feb. 18. Considered semi-official comments

THE HAGUE, Feb. 16. the British A JAPANESE SPOKESMAN

re-atmament THE IMPORTANCE of Hainan said to-day that the Japanese the "Diplomatische Korrespondenz"

White Paper appear to-night in Island as a possible base for Consul had written to the chair which says that the main point in Japanese attack on the East man of the Shanghai Municipal whether this new strength will in- Judies was raised in the Second

Meanwhile, a Madrid message says their cane in consequence of higher Council, Mr. Cornell Franklin. Bluence Britain to feel that she can Chamber of the Dutch Indies by

thal Madrid was steadily bombarded wage costs. by the Insurgents to-day at the rate asking for greater co-operation now afford to return Germany's the Communist leader, M.

colonies, or whether it will be used Effendi.

of one high-calibre shell every half- between the police and the to back up a downright reicetion of

Hongkong Society for the Protection hour. Japanese authorities, due to the the colonial claims.

The bombardment began last night He said that the Duch Indies were of Children will hold their annual and has continued ever since, belief that terrorists would run Germany has never adopted any now within easy reach of the Japan- patronage of His Excellency the

charity ball under the wild during the China lunar other standpoint than it is the right ese, and he urged the natives to co-Governor and Lady Norlice, attack is nerve-racting to the inhabit- The methodical nature of the at- year holidays.

of every country to safeguard its own eperate in the defence system of the the Peninsula Hotel on Friday, April ants who are kept in a constant state security. A The Japanese authorities will take of its strong Britain, conscious colony, and also asked for measures 14, at 0.30 p.m. Interesting cabaret of tension-Reuter.

strength. cannot longer to counteract Japanese asplonage items have been arranged extra precautions and will double the eject Germany's well-founded claims there. sentries on

entertainment of dancers. all bridges lending to for recognition of her rights and vital

General Baletto, the military ex- North Creek towards the Japanese needs, without laying herself open to controlled area.

the reproach that her

pert on the Dutch Indles sald, how- A Mahjong and Progressive Bridge unassailable

ever, that while he did not under Bridge) will be held in St. John's All Chinese are being carefully military position maises actilement of

(Auction and Contract searched by Japanese naval parties, such differences by peaceful means Hainan to Japan in the event of a

estimate the strategical importance of Cathedral Hall on Tuesday, Febril- while all trucks and goods are beingabenr superfluous. examined, colalng huge traffic blocks

The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" Japan had sufficient worries on her nid of Cathedral Funds,

conflict in the Parife, he thought that a 21, at 8.80 p.m. Tickets are $1, throughout to-day,

resignation. Including refreshments. Proceeds in on writes that the new programme has hands in connection with the China especially Garden Bridge, which is an active aroused enthusinom in Paris, while hostilities, and he did not fear for district owing in the fact that goods the British taxpayer must eat dour the Dutch colonies-Reuter. are being rushed across the bridge trupes. Doubling the armaments bill on account of the fact that Chinese in country with 2,000,000 un

will have several days employed is a measure which every holiday, starting on Sunday-United private household will feel keenly,

Reuter.

workers

Press.

BOW STREET TRIALS POSTPONED

NEW HUNGARIAN CABINET

Budapest, Feb. 10.

London, Feb. 18. VA new Hungarian Cübinet has been

Owing to the illness of one of the formed under the former Minister of defendants, all the defendants in the Education. With the exception of eventosions coneniracy case at Bow the Premie ship, it is stated to be the trees were further remanded to-day same as the outgoing Cabinet without new evidence being produced, Reuter

Reuter

Drive

for the

Burma Government Resigns

work..

now

LATEST

Parachutes Save Crews Of Planes

Mr. Bustamante, the Labour leader, threatens an islund-wide sugar strike unless the labourers' demands are turers have received the dismal news met. Meanwhile the sugar manufac that their international Council dues not recommend increased quotas.

London, Feb. 10, The Governor,

Two training machines of the civil Sir Arthur air

arm collided in mid-air over Richards, has announced himself as Nottingham acrodrome a man of deeds not words, but little crashed in flames.

to-day and has been done to meet the dangerous) Bituation except the temporary rellef ather tanded safely by parachute.

One pliot was killed, while the R.A.F. machines and lifeboats have Rangoon, Feb. 16.

The Government Is

toying abandoned the search for a bomber The Government has tendered its with the iden of establishing labour which is believed to have crashed camps near the swamps and reclaim- over the Chonnel, cast of Folkestone The Governor, is proceeding in- ing lands. mediately with the formation of n-

nt noon to-day.—Trana-Ocean, The £500,000 land settlement Mrs. S. K. Wong, M..., who is the other Cabinet.

scheme promised after the riots of The Government's, realgnation is last summer is not progressing and it secretary-treasurer of the Chinese K.GC. NEW YEAR DANCE of Singapore, has arrived in Hong day, the opposition accused the Gov-

Ladies Sewing Closs Relief Fund, the aftermath of long and continued is rumoured

that the committee and secretary of the Poh Leung Kukots and disturbances.

¡members are at loggerheads wita In the House of Representatives to the chairman sent out from England. kong for a short visit for reasons of Just as they greeted the Christian health. She is staying with Mra.ernment of failing to maintain law manding extortionate recompense for Furthermore landowners are de- Now Year, K.C.C. members and their Peter S. Wong, her sister, in Kow-and order, friends will greet the Chinese New loon Tong.

the lands needed for the settlement Malin Craig had not favoured bo-

Sanator. Austin' said- that.” General...... A recent report of a committee on-scheme. Year at a dance in the clubhouse to-

quiring into the riot, attributed the morrow night. The dance will be-

The arrival hero of the West Indies operation with the French mission gin at 9.30 p.m. and music will be the distinction of being the only one indios immigration, lage of poured out, but their departure to the rely deprive the United States of To King Zog of Albanie belongedition of land tenure, the effect of temporarily, while grievances were and secondly, because it might en

ressons is tho umalisiactory con- Royal Commission ensed the situation because it might interfere with the provided by the Royal Scols Band,

United States deiones programme, The clubhouse will be festively in Euroso who is not descended from Burmese

of the twelve monarchs now reigning decorated for the occasion and spot Elizabeth of Bohemia daughter of particularly Indians, and the stitude many month must elapse before the the type of bomber which the French

woman with foreligion, other islands and the realisation that dances will be included in the evene James the First of England and the of the peses and other political in report is labijed in Bribin are fourth optativos han agreed to pur

ing's novelijos.

Bixth of Bootland

fluences-Reuter,

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