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Hard Labour For Three

Royal Scots Privates

HEAVY sentences were meted out to three privates in the Royal Scots when they appeared before Mr. T. J.. Houston at the Central Magistracy charged in connection with driving and damaging a car, the property of Mr. 8. J. Afklon of Cable and Wireless, Ltd.

Pie. Matthew Andrews was charged with driving Hcence. and without the owner's permission, and carmaging the

car.

car without a

with maliciously

Pies. George Angus and Malcolm Irving were charged on the last two counts only.

They pleaded guilty, telling the magistrate that they were drunk at the time. However, Traffle-Sergeant Appleton said that when he saw them immediately after their arrest, they were not drunk,

The men were seen driving the car In Garden Road and were stopped by a corporal, when it was discovered that the three men were absenters from their barracks.

First defendant was fined $20 or 14 days on the first charge. $30 or 14 days on the second charge, and three months' hard labour on the third charge.

Second defendant was sentenced to six months' hard labour, and third accused to three months.

SURVEY REVEALS

PREPAREDNESS FOR WAR

LONDON, ・ Aug. 14 (Reuter).-The fact that in this time of nominal peace Europe has eight and a half million men under arms without counting navies and air forces, is the striking conclusion of "Reuter's" military expert on the basis of reliable available estimates collected to-day.

Britain Warned Of FAIRLY EVEN BALANCE

Burkhardt's Visit To Berchtesgaden

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Aug. 14' (UP).—IT HAS been disclosed here that the High Commissioner of Danzig, Herr Carl Burkhardt, officially and confidentially notified Britain before his departure when he went to Berchtesgaden on Friday in compliance with an invitation from the German Government.

CHEFOO

CONSULATE ATTACKED

Mob With Clubs

A fairly even balance would appear to be struck be- tween the Democratic and Axis groups as far as the align- ment is at present established.

The Democratic group muster 2,875,000 comprising France 1,000,000, Britain 600,000, Poland 500,000, Turkey 300,000, Rumania 275,000 and Greece 200,000.

In the Axis group there are 2,700,000 distributed as follows; Germany 1,750,000, Italy 950,000 or 1,150.000 if Hungary's 200.000 are included. DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE

Given a success in diplomacy in Spain, the Axis could

It is believed here that the count on another 150,000. The activity of similar diplo- High Commissioner conferred with Hitler and has now re-macy in Yugo-Slavia is understandable when it is realised turned to Danzig.

It is understood that immediately

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20 Dead, 111 Injured In Nevada Train Wreck

EARLESS MAN

IS ARRESTED

H.K. Pilot's Thrilling Escape

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

UNSCATHED AFTER MACHINE

TURNS TURTLE

that critical anxieties about her future have compelled Forced Down By Last Night's

upon his retum to the Free City he comparatively small Yugo-Slavia to keep 300,000 troops

will confer with the Polish Ministerin readiness.

and the Leader of the Danzig Senate,

The British Foreign Offled has not yet received any report on Herr Burkhardt's conversations with Hitler.

Germany's Latest Demands

However, it is reported that the

Commissioner

given

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And Swords SHANGHAI, Aug. 15, (Reuter).-A mob of Chin- ese among whom several Japanese were noticed, at- Earlier, a competent Polish spokes- tacked the British Consulaten had said that before the Solz- burg and Berchtesgaden talks Poland.

Germany's latest demands regarding Danzig which were formulated with Italian support.

delivered "an official memorandum to

DANZIG ACTIVITY

Political

•

Other "neutrals" who might

Thunderstorm

under such conditions.

RENO, Aug. 14 (UP).— The Southern Pacific Rail- road's special agent, Mr. William Sked, has arrested man with his cars missing, aged about 28, aboard a

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freight train and brought him to police headquarters here for questioning in con- nection with the wrecking of the "City of San Francisco" train.

The man insisted he came from the northwest and has not jbeen in eastern Nevada.

However, the Chief of Police said The found in the suspect's pocket a book, a paper and some matches from Fernley, Nevada which is located be tween Reno and the scene of the wreck at Well River.

He said the man is "very bitter against the railroad."

The suspect is an undersized man sparse bul

build, with blonde hair and deformed knots instead of cors. He

lof

is also without n left foot.

The S.P.R. spreial agent quoted the man as saying "My left foot was cut joff on the railroad two years ago at Montana. They cheated me out of Jany money-

He lo claltrid that his cars were mutilated in a railroad seeldent.

All Accounted For

AUT THE SCENE OF THE WRECK, passen- gers and crew of the "wift "City of San Francisco" had train accounted for.

It is officially confirmed that 20 ore dead and 111 injured.

Ofelals of the Southern Pacific Railway

are convinced that saboteurs were responsible for the tragedy.

They have drawn the, conclusion that someone with an expert know- ledge of railroading was involved in the crime due to the cunning with

a

The police are seeking a man with

missing ear and also a disgruntled railroad worker.

Revenge The Motive

The theory is that revenge was the

tempt at robbery.

live since there is no evident al-

come in the line of fire in any A YOUNG pupil of the Hongkong Flying School general conflagration and who experienced a narrow escape from death as a result of which the rail track was removed, are known to have little sym-last night's tempestuous wind and thunderstorm, when pathy with Totalitarian aims, together contribute over 400,000 he was forced to land during the height of the storm and comprising Bulgaria 160,000, his machine was overturned on the Kai Tak landing field.

the Baltic Belgium 100,000, Mercury

States 60,000 and

The flier, Mr. P. T. Ray- any other pilot could have expected Holland

Two tourists from Michigan, the It is worth recalling that this is names of whom have been withheld Portugal and Switzerland 30,000 mond, miraculously escaped each.

even injury, although the the first serious mishap which has by the police, fold the authorities at occurred to Flying School machines Sun Francisco that they heard

It is not yet known is estimated at machine was badly damag-since 1937.

Southern Pacific Railroad workers 10,000 but this includes a number of ed, the forward cockpit whether the plane is dinge ved cursing the Company and that they yond repair, although it is believed heard a companion say "Keep your being telescoped, and the that it win be successfully put into shut." propellor broken.

Rising WARSAW, Aug. 14, (Reu- in Cheefoo on August 12 ac-sponding to an Italian request, had ter).-Much diplomatic acti- cording to a trustworthy Italy defining the Pollch attitude on vity in the last few days in- foreign dispatch received the Danzig problem and reafirming dicates a rising temperature that they would resist a one-sided here to-day.

in the Danzig situation. German solution, The demonstrators, who were armed wit clubs and swords,

The British Ambassador, entered the compound of the Con- says: "No object could be worthler Howard Kennard, conferred for sulate and smashed eighteen win- of statesmanship than a peace settle- dow panes and Seven mosquito ment fully and freely accepted by all same time to-day with Colonel J. powers comerined. If that should be also had a talk with the French Am- Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, who a the genuine object and policy of the

Iwo Axis countries, they will un-bassador, M. Noel.

screens.

The British authorities lodged strong protest with the Japanese.

In an editorial to-day the "Times"

Sir

the Mr.

doubtedly find a general readiness to The discussions followed a meeting Jesuit Mission Raided confer among all interested Stutes." between Colonel Beck and

This is interpreted as a velled re- United States Ambassador The Canadian Jesuit Mission

ference to the intention of the Axis to Biddle yesterday, Hsuchowiu at the junction of the Tientsin-Pukow and Lunghal Rail-negotiate.

ways, was raided by Japanese gendar Meanwhile reports from

Information concerning the talks is

Danzig's army

Poles.

The biggest counterweight, numeri- cally, is the Soviet Union whose 2,000,000 men will give a marked

to any group predominance which she makes common cause.

with

Greenland Expedition Returns Home

By curious coincidence, this was the same plane, VRHCN, belonging to the Hongkong Flying School which suffered a very slight accident on the ground earlier in the day.

Blind Flying

Pilot Raymond who holds on "A" Licence, ascended from Kai Tak last night just before the storm swooped down on the Colony in order to make hls first attempt at blind flying, a not available but it is presumed that OSLO. Aug. 14 (Trans-Ocean), qualification necessary to secure a "C" Licence which entitles the mes on August 6, according to be said the High Commissioner is ex-the latest stage of the Danzig dis- The Franco-Norwegian Greenland lated foreign reports reaching Shang-pected to return to Danzig to-day. pule was examined. Frequent con-expedition under Count Micard had holder to participate in commercial hal to-day.

His office would make no comment

twelve | dying. Two priests the Reverend Courchesne

Reverend on his visit to Berchtesgaden.

headquarters.

the and

commission again.

Slovakia Wants Her Lands Back Campaign Opens With Speeches BRATISLAVA, Aug. 14, pected during the period of European months' sojourn on the west coast of As he circled around, the storm (Reuter).-A campaign for Count blew up with startling rapidity and the return to Slovakia of It will be recalled Micard recently fell

was before pilot Raymond could escape,

ceded to League circles deny any knowledge Colonel Deck also received the brought back from the island by an he was in the midst of it, with his the territories

Rumania and Poland last aeroplane sent by the Norwegian machine gravely imperiiled, Government. More Arrosts

Two courses lay open: either he autumn and the towns occu- Despite the unfavourable weather To-day's developments include the conditions encountered, the expedi could take the machine above the pied by Hungary in March, arrest of two Polish Customs officials tion is said to have accomplished the storm, or he could attempt a land-is in progress in towns in who were apprenherded on a charge tasks assigned it and besides the

Eastern Slovakia. of conniving at introducing anti-principal station on the coast, which Nazi leaflets into Danzig.

has been named Micardbu, five sup- ply depots were set up. Meteorologi-

Renaud were taken to the gendarme The League Uninformed

What happened to them is not yet known.

"Puppet" Parley Postponed

Geneva, Aug. 14 (Trans-Ocean).

versations of the same order are ex-arrived at Tramsqe after tension now generally anticipated Pregland. here.

of the visit said to have been made Papal Nunelo to-day. to Germany by High Commissioner Burkhardt

Mr. Avenol, the Secretory of the League of Nations Secretariat, sald that Mr. Burkhardt reports regularly

· SHANGHAI, Aug. 14 (Trans-to the League on Danzig affairs,

Berchtesgaden Talks

SPECIAL TO THE, "TELEGRAPH"

that

ill and

Occan) The conference of repre- sentatives of the pro-Japanese Non-

The Polish High Commissioner has cal observationc were reported four intervened but so far without result. times daily and Information was king and Peiping Governments scheduled to take place in the middle

BERLIN, Aug. 14 (UP), At the Two Germans were arrested on a gathered on the nature of cosmie rays of August in Tsingtao, has been ad- Berchtesgaden consultations, Nazi train crossing the Polish frontier at which is expected to be most useful. journed for an indefinite period quarters suggested that the Danzig Tezew in the Pollah Corridor, and will according to an announcement by

problem may be settled by inter- be charged with insulting Polish nutional negotiations.

Customs officials and the Polish However, the "Diplomatic Political nation.

Nanking Government.

the

It Lạ learned that the adjournment

is due to the fact that the position of

the two local Governments within the Correspondence" warned regarding planned pro-Japanese Central Gov-the potential danger of the situation ernment, has not yet been clarified.

Aeroplanes For Yugo-Slavia

as "critical, attributable mainly to the fact that the future of Danzig becoming

a menacing problem. Danzig is no longer a local question whose

led. mmmediate solution is demond-

refusal to permit a reason- able and natural solution reveals a general misunderstanding and ill will which the Democracies hold against the axis powers."

Yugo-Slav Promise To Italy

Railway Dispute Deadlock

Ing.

01 the Haymond decided latter course, but had the bad luck, just as it seemed he had made a

Slovak Ministers and other high perfect landing, to hit a trough of omcials addressed large crowds at a water lying on the landing field.

Skids, Turns Over

series of meetings. M. Sano Moch, Propaganda Minister and Comman- ter-in-Chief of the linka, Guned, The force of the Impact was suf-declared: "We are not making unti- Ecient to make the machine skid and we shall never forget our brothers Polish and anti-Rumanian policy, but

then to turn over.

beyond the frontier, and if necessary, Heppily Raymond was sitting in we are ready to fight for their re- the rear cockpit, or he would as- turn."

"Once And For All" suredly have been seriously injured,

LONDON, Aug. 14 (Router), if not killed. The forward cockpit. M. Taka, Deputy Prime Minister, deadlock has arisen in the railway was shattered by the impact with the ridiculed attempts made abroad

ground, but Raymond was able to restore Crecho-Slovakin. wages dispute.

once for all," he

to

"The

Slovak

Lroops

The National Union of Rallwaymen step from the damaged machine suf-Slovaks have broken from the Czechs to-day asked the Companies for affering from nothing worse than ROME, Aug. 14 (Trans-Ocean) minimum weekly wage of 50s. The shaking. On leaving Italy after his visit to Companies informed the Union that Trieste, the Yugo-Slav Fremler, M. the present anancial position did not further increase in the Tsetkovitch sent a telegram to Signor justify a Mussolini emphasising that Yugo- minimum

"Vory Bad Luck”

he declared. Representatives of the Army emphasised that the were in readiness to serve the coun- Mr. G. P. Lingfield, the flying in try. "We are not sleeping but wo Belgrade, Aug. 14 (Trans-Ocean) - The dist contingent of planes ordered

School, In talking about the accident the country's interest, affirmed one by Yugo-Slavia only four weeks ago

A special delegates conference of to the Telegraph" said that Ray-speaker. arrived at Belgrade on Monday, guarded, but they emphasized that relations with Italy and he would de-

The crowds cheered all references They are Messer-Schmitt scouting the Salzburg and Berchtesgaden talks vote all his efforts also to further the workers has been called for some mond had very bad luck indeed. He and bombing machines of the latest have been completely satisfactory, cause of bringing Poland into inter-time next week to consider the posi-was a good pilot, but in running into to Herr Hitler

such a storm, he experienced what Army. types--ME 109 and Talfun.

PLEASE Tum To Pago 4.

tion, and possible further action. national co-operation.

Omcial pronouncements have been Slavin would strengthen her friendly recently 9 158., which was 'structor at the Hongkong Flying are preparing the army to stand for.

and the German

mouth

This is believed to be the man who Mr. W. K. Froed of Altaluma, California, told the police he saw near Hazen, Nevada, who also had a grudge against the railroad.

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