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Japanese Hold British Subjects

SHANGHAI, Aug. 16 (Reu ter); IT is learned that Fathers Courchesne and Re- naud of the Canadian Jesuit Mission at Msuchowfu, who have been held incommunicado at the Japanese Cendarmerie headquarters since their arrest some days

ogo. arc both British subjects.

On the occasion of the raid on the mission in which the two priests were seized, the japanese confiscated some spare radio parts and a few booklets. They also removed documents and some Chinese money from the room of the Father Superior, Father Cote, the American head of the Mission.

accused

The Japanese Fathers Courchesne and Re- naud of being respectively President and Secretary of an anti Japanese Association which holds meetings in the premises of the Mission.

The Mission emphasises that there is no basis what- ever for the charge.

Soviet

Wants Extension

Of Pact

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BRITISH M.P. KILLED PEACE OR WAR

IN AEROPLANE

Machine Falls In Flames At Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 15

(Reuter). FOUR

passengers and a member of the crew were drowned when a British Airways Lockheed-Electra liner fell into the sea in flames near Storstroem Bridge.

The machine left Heston, England, this morning for Hamburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm.

There had been a severe thunderstorm in the district and it is believed that the machine was struck by light- ning. Fishing boats, life boats and pilot cutters rush- el to the scene and one of the boats picked up the injured pilot just as the

machine sank.

SWISS-

SOVIET RELATIONS

To Be Restored On Diplomatic Basis

4211 American, A German and a BERNE, Aug. 15, (Trans-)

The four passengers were a Briton,

Mexican.

Tory M.P. Among Dead

Later,

on

'Ocean).—THE Swiss Fede-j ral Council declined Tuesday to enter into diplo-[ The Briton killed was Mr. A.matic relations with the C. Crossley, Conservative Mem-Soviet Union by approving ber of Parliament for Lancaster, the report of the Political Stretford, and a Director of the Department in which it was famous oil engine manufacturers.

The rescued pilot, Commander recommended that Switzer- Wright, stated that after noticing tire land continue in her present us extremely doubtful in the wireless room he brought the status as regards Russia.

ar liner to the water and had

LONDON, Aug. 15 (Trans-Ocean), --Press reports that the Soviet Union desires to extend her pact with the

Western. Democracies to include the Far East, are confirmed by well In-

regarded

formed political circles here, but it

that Britain is willing to comply with these wishes,

Aside from the fact that numerous influential personages believe that such an extension of the pact would be committing England unduly, it is pointed out that such extension would eliminate any possibility of London

:

and Tokyo coming to an agreement.

Demands Raised

to

crew

Ready For War

The report will now come before sinashi

a window in order to get out. Wright is the sole survivor of the the Committee for Foreign Affairs."

The member of the crash. killed was the radio officer,

Storstroem Bridge where the crash occurred, is the longest in Europe and loks the Danish islands of Masnedo

and Falster.

Imperial Airways To Extend Mail Service

BERNE, Aug. 15 (Trans-Ocean). That Switzerland has decided to e- pare for war is Indicated by the

CRASH RESTS WITH

DEMOCRACIES

Threat To

Britain's "Rock

#

German "Attack”

On Gibraltare

Standing Threat To Spain

Cannot Permanently

Be Tolerated BERLIN, Aug. 15 (Reu

measures taken by the Federal Coun-i eil on Tuesday for securing adequate ter). -"GIBRALTAR in supplies of necessary provisions and materials,

English hands is a standing! The Department National

of

ful threat which Spain cannot Economy has been accorded powers to deal with details in various branches of econmie organisation of permanently tolerate," de-

country.

the

LONDON Auf

15 (Trans-Ocean). The "Daily Telegraph" states that LONDON, Aug. 15 (Reuter).-The extension of the Imperial air mit it is fearned from reports to the Foreign Ofee that the Soviet Union service to 17,000 miles, which would has already raised her demands in be the longest route in the world, is the military talks proceeding in Mos- foreshadowed by the departure to cow and hos expressed a desire tomorrow of the Imperiat Airways deal in essential provisions are urged enter into agreements which would ying-boat Aotearoa for New Zen- to make arrangements to enable them mouthpiece, the "National become operative in the event of a land, Russo-Japanese conflct.

She is the first of three giant flying-face of a blockade and emphasis is Zeitung" of Essen. boats specially designed to operate placed on the storing of grain and the link between Sydney and Auck- fodder.

That difficulties have already arisen

is borne out out by the great latitude given the Anglo-French military de- legations in Moscow and

also

land across the Tasman Sea.

The Aotearoa will carry a crew of

the reason why M. Roger Cambon, nine all of whom will remain in New Charge d'Affaires

for

France in Zealand,

London, has been asked to see Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent

Publisher And Poet

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Mr. A. C. Crossley had been a

It is presumed that fresh instruc-

tions will be sent to the military delegations.

Salvation Army Future At Stake

LONDON, Aug. 15 (Reuter).—The High Council of the Salvation Army which is in session at Clapton to elect

Conservative Member of Parliament

since 1931, when he won an Oldham seat from Labour,

Subsequently, he became candidate for the Stretford (Lancaster) divi- sion, and at the last election secured a handsome majority of 15,500 in a straight fight with Labour.

Educated at Eton and Oxford, Mr. Crossley was a publisher, and he also wrote several books of poems.

Names Of Victims

I.R.A. Revenge: Explosions In Lancashire

LONDON, Aug. 15 (Reu- ter).-FOLLOWING explo- sions in hotels in the Lan- cashire seaside towns of Fleetwood and Southport during the night, Police are seeking two young women and a inan, all speaking with an Irish accent.

Nobody was injured in the outrages both of which were apparently Irish Republican Army replies to Home Office Expulsion orders.

Proprietors of establishments which clares Marshal Goering's Spear Is Well,

to continue production even in the

Polish Ship Ablaze

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

GYDNIA Aug. 15, (UP).| THE new steamer Sobies-

The newspaper adds: "Italy also has an interest in seeing that Gibral- tar is a Spanish possession not only because of Gibraltar's signiflèance in English encirclement plans but also since Italy's trade with Spanish America and the United States must pass through the Biralts,

Cannot Bo Tolerated

But Strained

Captive British Officer Visited

ROME, Aug. 15 (Reuter).—THE newspapers to-day unitedly declare that the issue of peace or war over Danzig rests with the Democracies, and the newspapers appeal for a pacific solution of the problem.

Signor Ansaldo writing in the "Telegrafo," says the situation is as grave as it was last September. "The German Government will sooner or later feel morally bound to accept the unanimous vote of the Danzig popu- lation manifested in a solemn form. If, when faced with German annexation, Polish militarists brandish Mr. Chamberlain's blank chéque, we shall arrive at a general

war."

The "Popolo d'Italia" writes: All The problems of Danzig are already solved de facto in a proportion of ninety to ninety-five per cent. and there only remining the symbolical question of a national coat of arms. it should not be difficult to reach) a solution, even if it were only as temporary motius vivendi, to lessen tension.

Burkhardt's Talks

MANILA SHIP AGROUND

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

DANZIG, Aug. 15 (Reuter) →→The j

bardt's conversation with Herr Hitler

MANILA, Aug 16, (UP). irst offchi statement on Dr. Burk-Globe Wireless this morn-

at Berchtesgaden was issued to-nighting intercepted an S.0.S. by the League of Nations Com-from the inter - Island

missioner himself.

The statement declares that Dr. Steamer Negros which is Burkhardt had short conversations aground off Tambisan Point

about interimal Danzig questions,

denies that the Cornmissioner intend-at the western extremity of ed going to London and adds: "I have Siquisjor Island.

not been to Geneva anal I have not.

The message said the vessel is In had meeting with the General need of immediate assistance as, the Secretary of the League."

No. 1 hold is making water.

Poland Glorifics Army

;

The Negros makes weekly trips from Manila to various

WARSAW, Aug. 15 (Router)ports in the Islands and was en

route to Manila when

Poland's annual public holiday for glorifying the army, fell to-day and was given special significance this grounded. year by the international situation. President Mascicki attended

an

she

imposing review of troops at Vilna NEW SINGAPORE

and military displays were held throughout the

Varsaw, While Polish radio stations MILITARY TALKS relayed military songs and marches,

All the newspapers pubilsh articles

SINGAPORE, Aug. 15 (Trans- emphasising that Poland must now be Ocean)-New Anglo-French military regarded as a nation of soliders pre-discussions have been. Axed for next pared to sacrifice their lives for their week. country. their live

to

The Governor-General of Indo-- the China, M. Jules Brevic, will arrive in The newspaper's attitude

J.Singapore on Wednesday next week visit to the Reich of Dr. Karl Burkhardt, League of Nations Com-aboard the cruiser Suffren and at the missioner In Danzig, is highly conclusion of talks he will return by critical and they specially stress the the liner President Doumer. fact that the Pollshi Government had

no knowledge of his visit to Ger- many which was undertaken purely on his own initiative.

Referring to the Italo-German taiks at Salzburg, the Conservative news- final paper "Czas" asserts that no decision was reached and adds that Berlin would like to take immediate action in Danzig but has so far beenj restrained by Rome which first de- sires to secure the support of Spain,

. Japan, Hungary and Bulgaria.

The Government newspaper PEIPING, Aug. 15 (Reuter). gestion for the partition of Danzig "Gazeta Poliska" describes the sug- Mr. Gerald Parker and Major made in some quarters as nonsenstent. Hennessey, R.A.M.C., Language Officer of the British Embassy

in Tokyo, and Medical Officer of Royal Warning the Pelping Embassy Guard

The future will show whether respectively, returned from Kal-

ki, which recently returned England can hald, Gibraltar gan by air to-day, from her first round trip against the natural claim of

They were allowed to see Colonel

to Buenos Aires, suffered Spain which is again strong, but c. R. Spear, the imprisoned British heavy damage to-day as a it is clear that Spain will not Millary Attache in the presence of

tolerute result of a fire caused by a permanently

British Japanese officers. LONDON, Aug. 15 (British Wire-short eircuit. less) Mr. A. C. Crossley, Conserva

They found that Colonel Spear was Gibraltar, any more than she can hours tolerate an international Tangler. the Colonel told them that ho did not accommodated in a small plain room; was tive M.P. for the Stretford Division, The fire raged for three

and three other passengera. Herr before it was extinguished by the

German;

crew and the harbour fire brigade. Mr. Simonson, Beuss,

The 14,000 ton steamer has now American, and Mr. Castello, Mexican, lost their lives together with the radio

which was scheduled for August. 18, operator in the crash.

a successor to the head of Army: General Evangeline Booth, opened by Commissioner Lamb who is due to retire in October. Commissioner Lamb is

a champion the school who, for the past ten years have advocated more demoer tle control of the Army as against the exercise of autocratle powers by the General.

,of

These considerations may influence the election of the new General..

Quest To Unite Near East States

·Jerusalem, Aug. 15 (Reuter),—A delegation of the Moderate Arab National Delenco Party led by Nasha

:. Shibi has arrived at Beirut,

wards

The death of Mr. Crossley, who was going to Sweden on a fishing hollday, will", necessitate n by-election at! Stretford where with 34,879 votes ho had a majority of 16,500 Labour opponent at the last election.

over

his

Pres. Carmona

In S. Africa

been forced to cancel her next trip

Man Kills Two, Then Himself

"Don't Touch Our Frontiers"

LATEST

SHUMCHUN BOMBED Japanese Troops Said Nearby

ACCORDING TO RELIABLE REPORTS: FOUR JAPANESE' PLANES BOMBED SHUM- CHUN AT 10 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.

·

BIG CONCENTRATIONS OF JAPANESE TROOPS ARE ALSO REPORTED IN THE

THAT THEY ARE NOW AD-

TOWARDS. THE

Governor's Decrea

go out much.

BUCHAREST, Aug. 15 VICINITY, AND IT IS STATED

A warning VANCING (Reuter), SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Major Hennessey examined the

prisoner and found him well but against any attempt to SHUMCHUN MARKET. GIBRALTÁR, Aug. 15 (Reuter).showing signs of strain. The Governor of Gibraltar has issued have been in captivity twelve weeks

He will change Rumania's frontiers RESIDENTS AT FANLING an order forbidding members of the

THE TELE Forces or dockyard officials and their

was given by King Carol INFORMED

{GRAPH". THAT THREE OR Camilies to visit Spain

when speaking at Constanza FOUR JAPANESE PLANES after a review of the Ru- WERE SEEN ABOUT 10 [O'CLOCK FLYING ALONG manian fleet.

"Whatever is Rumanian cannot be THE BORDER AND HEADING given away," the King sald."And IN THE DIRECTION - OF what is Rumanian will be defended. SHUMCHUN.

sald, was

on Thursday,

Release Likely

A

LONDON; Aug. 15 (Trans-Ocean),

The Governor's order made re- ference to the detention on August 13 ZURICH, Aug. 15 (Trans-Ocean). of Mrs. Malley, wife of Major Malley. Spear, who has been held by the The impending release of Colonel Medical Officer The Communist, Karl Roemer, who Embarkation

Japanese for alleged espionage, Is 16 Iz had escaped from a German concen- Gibrallar, who,

this tration camp and fled to Switzerland, "detained under the most degrading intimated in informed circles

evening, shot and killed two men who at conditions." tempted to assist the police in ar Mrs. Malley, while attending

husband, was arrested for failing to

suicide.

resting him. Roemer then committed bull-fight at Algeciras with her Mongol-Japanese PRETORIA, Aug. 16 (Trans- Since his Bight from Germany, give the Fascist salute and was only Monopoly Formed

More British Troops For Egypt

More than that, if anyone loves peace, he must realise that the frontiers as now marked out cannot be changed without the danger of a world-wide disaster.

China Appeal To Hague Court

They propose to tour Syria to Ocena)-It is reliably reported that Roemer had held up cars and com-released after a fins of £23 had been ascertain the feeling of the Arabs to- a military mission headed by General mitted burglories.

¡pald. After stating that the wife of the British White

*SHANGHAI, Paper Amilkar e Mota will remain for some

an officer of the garrison was com-

Aug. IS (Trans- policy for Palestine, and also to en- time in the Union of South Africa to

mitted to a common guel in Algeciras, Ocean)-According to reports from quire whether there is any support inspect defence works and confer

the statement adds that he Governor Khigan, A Mongolian mineral mano- of the scheme to offer the crown of with the

has decided that until he is satisfied poly will be established through the

LONDON, Aug. 18 (UP)—It has Syria to Emir Abdullah of Trans- the

departure authorities after of the Portuguese

that there is no

likelihood of a

Japanese-Mongolian been learned that China is consider- [repetition of such treatment by the y-formed Jordan, thereby making Syela and President, General Carmona, who is

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CAIRO, Aug. 15 (Router)-About Spanish authorities, no officer or with a capital of 100,000,000 yen, over the decision of the British to The delegates report that they were A parade of troops took place at 6,000 troops from India arrived at other ranks of the Royal Navy or The Company will have the mono- surrender the four Chinese at Tientsin: welcomed enthusiastically in villages Pretoria to-day on the occasion of Suez this afternoon to strengthen officials of the dockyard may cross poly of the Important Tatung coal on the grounds that the decision is a en route to:Belrut,

President Carmopa's visit.

British forces in Egypt.

the frontler into Spain.

mines and the Lungyuen iron mines. violation of the Treaty of Tientsin..

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