Sherbrooke daily record, 1 novembre 1937, lundi 1 novembre 1937

[" Il ?THE WEATHER Compnratively mild wilh «orne nhower».No, i>hprbrnnkf lailg Hwnrb casicp_________.Tablette, TEMPERATURES Ye»terd«yi Maximum, 38) minimum, 32.Same day ln»t year! Max.34; min.29.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937.Forty-First Year.MAY REINFORCE ANTI-PIRACY FLEET Britain Lodges Strong Protest Over Defiance Of Anti-Piracy Accord As the Hood, Largest Battle Cruiser Afloat, Sped to Barcelona to Investigate Sinking of British Merchantman Jean Weems, Foreign Secretary Eden indicated that Britain and France Are Considering Mediterranean Reinforcements-Spanish Insurgents Have Promised to Make a Searching Inquiry.Japan's \u201cBig Push*\u2019 On Shanghai London, November I.\u2014Foreign Secretary Eden told the House of Commons today the Government had lodged a strong protest with the Spanish insurgent authorities over the sinking of the British merchantman Jean Weems.As the battle cruiser Hood sped to Barcelona to investigate the defiance of the Nyon anti-pirate accord, Mr.Eden indicated Anglo-French .Mediterranean reinforcements might be made as a result of the Jean Weems bombing.The insurgents, he said, \u201chave undertaken at once to make a most -earching inquiry\u201d to fix the responsibility lor the incident.The battle cruiser steamed toward tiie Catalan coast from Mallorca where she was ordered only last week.Her officers were instructed to interview the crew of the Jean Weems, all saved before the bomb-wrecked vessel went down Saturday morning.The officers also were told to get the stories of the two nonintervention observers on board.Reports reaching London indicated the crew of the Jean Weems had only five minutese warning before the vessel was bombed.They immediately took to a life-boat.Foreign Secretary Eden, just be-$- fore his departure for Brussels to attend the Nine-Power Conference on the Far Eastern situation, was expected to deal fully with the foreign situation in the House of Commons today.tvAsviF'i:'.\u2022xÿp ¦- \\\ts\\\\ k 1IÜ sisiiifc silill :\u2022\t\u2022:* *\t>:\u2022 * 4* ?* ?* ¦* ?* J M\u2019AN CONTEMPLATING PACT WITH ITALY TO COMBAT COMMUMSM \u20185* Tokyo, Nov.1.\u2014A Japanese *\tForeign Office spokesman dis-closed today that Japan \u201cis *\tcontemplating some form of *\tagreement with Italy to co-\u2022> operate against Communism.\u201d *\tThe statement was the first *i* official confirmation of long-*1* rumored agreement between *\tJapan and Italy.Previously it *\thad been insisted their nego-Nations were confined to a new' *\ttrade treaty.4* Reliable sources indicated *\tItaly might join the German-*i* Japanese anti - Communism *1* agreement rather than con- *\telude a two-party pact with Japan.IM Their infantry held lack by the determined Chi ness resistance, the Japanese let their big guns blast out a road to Shanghai, The flames and smoke of village after village marked the advance of the Nipponese artillery.Japan Informed British Troops Will Remain At Shanghai Defence Posts British Flag Hoisted Above Duponts and Sandbag Barriers and Notice Served the British Will Hold Their Lines in Shanghai\u2019s Western Outskirts Regardless of Eventualities \u2014Feeling Between Japanese and British Forces Becomes More Acute.Eden Replies To Reich-Italy Call For Return Of Colonies WILL COST MORE TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE NEXT YEAR.New York, Nov.1.\u2014 That trip abroad will cost you more next year.Steamship lines belonging to the ; Trans-Atlantic Passenger Confer-j ence today put into effect a five dol-| lar increase in all classes in present trans-Atlantic passenger fares and r-\t-\t.\t.*\u2022, Tii,i\t«\tj.11 indicated summer rates in 1338 would Foreign Secretary Today Told House of Commons that ; be higher than in 1337.Britain Does Not Recognize Right ot Any Country to Demand that Other Countries Turn Colonies Over Until that Country Itself Is Willing to Do Its Part.The increases were decided upon at a recent meeting; in Paris.Higher operating costs was given as the reason.Will Not Jeopardize Brussels Conference.Feared Lost Battalion Might Revolt At Order To Retreat L In view of the tangled situation on withdrawal of foreign troops from Spain and the discord in the Non-Intervention Committee, Mr.Eden was expected to express Great Britain\u2019s growing irritation at the lack of concrete progress.Some quarters predicted he would hanghai, Nov.1.\u2014General Hsieh Chin-Yuan, commander of the Chinese \u201cLost Battalion\u201d that | attack Japan for repeated incidents .\tt\t\u201c\u201cT11\t,\t1 involving British troops.\t! dcficd thc JaPanese lor four day !a Chapel warehouse-citadel, declar- PREPARING FOR Although Britain was indignant | ecj today his men withdrew sorrow-1 EARLY OPENING OF PARLIAMENT ondon, Nov.1.\u2014Foreign Secre- C*; v v v v v v '* v v v v v v v *** v * tary Eden told the House of | * Commons today that Great i ALBERTA LAWS RULED OUT \u2018 Britain does not recognize the right j '** BY SUPREME COURT of any country to demand that other ! *\u201d*\t^\t- countries turn colonies over until1 Edmonton, Nov.1.\u2014-An act \u2018 that country itself is willing to do ; *\u2022* reducing by fifty per cent, the \u2018 its part.\tI*-\tinterest of provincial guaran- * (Premier Mussolini, of Italy, in a ! f teed_ securities and another speech last week backed Germany\u2019s i f vequiring consent of tag Lieu-clailms for the return of the colonies Jcuant-Governor-In-Council to Blushed When informed of taken from her after the Great ; Frmg court action to coliect the full amount of interest m so * r, .o ,\t, i ¦ far as it affected the question f The Foreign Secretary did not| .j.befm.e the Cou 1 wei.e mention Italy by name m declaring:l.j.dec)ared u!tra vires of the , \u201cI must declare plainly that we do *:?Alberta Legislature in a judg-not admit the right of any Govern- j * ,nert handed down today by i \u2022*'* Mr.Justice A.F, Ewing.Commander States His Men Withdrew from Their Ware house Citadel Sorrowfully His Promotion\u2014Claims Japanese Are Poor Marksmen Wab and Fire Wildly When They Become Excited.French Press Attitude Toward ; Italy Arouses Ire Of Germans Berliner Zeitung Severe in Criticism of Stand Taken by French Newspapers \u2014 Declares \u201cParis Will Have to Realize that a Great Country Like Ltaly Today Decides Itself What Form its Political Actions Shall Take.\u201d -Sf at the killing and injuring of her solders in Shanghai, she was not expected to take any steps that might anger Japan and jeopardize the success of the Brussels discussions seeking peace in the Orient.Informed sources, nevertheless, did not rule out the possibility of a new formal protest to Japan after news that three more British soldiers were injured Sunday by Japanese shells at Shanghai.Japs Deny Their Shells Caused ! Casualties.The Japanese embassy issued a statement which asserted investigation at Shanghai disclosed no Japanese batteries were firing at thc time three other British soldiers were killed by a projectile, on Friday.(British officials in China blamed Japanese for ten casualties in Shanghai, including five deaths, suffered by the British forces.Major-General A.P.Dr Telfer-Smollett, the British Commander, refused to withdraw his guards from defence posts close to Chinese positions that Japanese intended to attack.) fully.Their two greatest griefs, he told the Associated Press in his first interview since the battalion evacuated, were that they were forced to withdraw before sealing the struggle with their lives and that they could not return to the conflict.Hsieh\u2014promoted from colonel to general in recognition of the feat that raised all his men one rank\u2014-declared his force of farmer-boy soldiers lost only ten dead, not one hundred as the Japanese have asserted.Hsieh, who was the last to leave the burning warehouse Saturday to run the gauntlet of Japanese machine-gun fire, blushed like a child when the Associated Press told ment to call upon us for contribu tions when there is no evidence to show that that Government are pre- S -I pared to make any contribution on 1 their part.\u201d\tj >;¦ U.S.INITIATED NINE-POWER CONFERENCE - London, Nov.1.\u2014Foreign Secre-\u2019 May\tAssemble on January\t13\ttary\tEden told the House of Com- .___\tIrrmnrtant\tnopkirms\ttr>\tMons\ttocla.v he wanted to \u201cmake it; n\tbn,1\tUuClSIOnS\t10\tquite\tplain\u201d that the United States be\tMade at\tthis Week's\ttook\tthe initiative in convoking the .Cabinet Council Sessions.lNintPower Conf™c '\u2019i' PhinT w\t| esc-Japanese conflict and that any ; nn.,,r,n v.,~ï\trT .i - i I action in the Far Eastern dispute i .\" ;\t\\ 'i ' Either d-evelop- uesseilit,-an depended on co-opera-j ments m deliberations over Alberta\u2019s , \u2022\t» f1\u2018 TT\u201e-fn i bank, credit and newspaper legisla-!tl0n cf tll