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Date d'édition : 1937-12-13
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PARIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937
THE NEW YORK HERALD
(ESTABLISHED IN EUROPE 1887)
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fyyi Battle
m to Push
axReform
ator Harrison Opens
to Force Passage
(mediately Following
ujonon Farm Measure
esage
Forecast
(ore February 1
in Struggle Expected
[the Wages and Hours
[in House This Week
By Special Wireless
tlNGTON, Dec. 12— Business-
cement measures showed further
^ taking precedence over Presi-
;evelt’s program in the Senate
Pat Harrison (D., Miss.),
, of the Senate Finance Com-
i predicted today that Congress
I enact legislation overhauling the
tax structure by February 1,
istration leaders in the Upper
t are eager to pass the necessary
ition for the President’s privately-
housing program before the
mas recess if the Senate is able
the House's example in get-
rhe farm bill out of the way within
at few days.
itor Harrison said the House
i and Means Committee, whose
itaoeommittee has been working
’ schedule for the last month,
1 outline the tax program during
Ifct week of the regular session
mary,
Luld Ease Tax on Surplus
declined to say whether outright
of the undivided profits tax
I lie a bone of contention.
oi-.cation of the undistributed
r ‘ :e surplus tax giving relief to
ra'ions earning less than $25,000
II is provided in the present pro-
r ' tile House subcommittee. Ac-
to Representative Robert L.
jkoniD., N.C.), chairman of the
"■M Means Committee, and Re-
WtcVkUM. Vinson m., Ky.),
r n of the tax subcommittee,
pangement has the Administra-
iblessing.
tentative Emanuel Celler (D„
. ecIared tbe subcommittee’s
measure’ would relieve only
10ns earnin g io or 15 per cent
income, “if the principle is
5 SOme business, it is wrong
1 he said.
I Vs and Hours Bill Fight
’ a bitter struggle over the
- •hours bill is expected in the
;^eek. The failure of the
■ s between the American
r Tn^ babor and the Commit-
Organization has
™ prospect of the bill’s pass
es pressure f °r its passage
in !.^u exerted by the Ad-
> bich is said to fear cri-
t fact fh!wii Ve dlctation ’’ based
revlsed bil1 would
ed by the Department of
Octavians Plan to Aid Windsor
With Meetings in His Honor
Organization Proposes to Combat Slights and Assure
Recognition of Former Monarch for Service to
Empire, G. F. Whish, Founder, Explains
By Special Dispatch i
LONDON, Dec. 12.—The Octavians, j
a society sworn to uphold the honor
of the Duke of Windsor on all occa
sions, today revealed plans for meetings
and social functions shortly to be held j
throughout Britain in support of the
“Our purpose is to combat all un
generous treatment of the Duke of
Windsor, formerly King Edward the
Eighth, hence our name Octavians,”
he said.
“We want to assure fit recognition
of his long and able service to the
former King.
It also was revealed that existing
with the Octavians is another similar
organization called “The Henchmen of
Honour,” headed by Robert Elton, of
Haymarket, London. Mr. Elton wrote
to the duke just before his proposed
American visit and suggested the uni
fication of international forces under
the command of the duke as a method
of ending international warfare.
The duke replied to Mr. Elton shortly
after his trip was postponed, pleading
that there was no time at his disposal
to deal with the suggestion contained
in a leaflet which Mr. Elton sent him.
The Octavians, however, is still the
bigger movement. Branches are estab
lished throughout Scotland and there
are heavy concentrations of members
in London. The movement was founded
by G. F. Whish, who today revealed
the objectives of his organization.
! British people, and we wish to make
| contacts throughout the country with
all who hold similar views.
| “We shall arrange meetings and so-
i cial events throughout the country,
since we wish to create a friendly
atmosphere for him when he returns
home. And return he should, whenever
he so desires.
“Last night, officers of the Brighton.
Bognor Regis and Worthing branches
of the Octavians met at a dinner, at
which they toasted the King and Queen
and then the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor.
“We can show,” a bulletin issued by
the organization says, “that neither
time, nor the fickleness of the mob,
nor the frown of the powerful, nor the
disapproval of the Pharisee can hold
us back from expressing in some slight
form the love and admiration which
we cherish for Edward of Windsor.”
Rges-and h h h 1>&SSed lts ver sion
It SeSnn ' u UrS M1 at the Cnd
f Pa-,;..’ shows no immediate
|0f p' | ri On , to the other two
,7t ldent Roosevelt’s pro-
Vt eo J a i voted on the farm
l 8 W] v " thlS measurc has pro-
came belatedly
J© Kvwi Senator Alben w -
r-a?e w 111 ^°° r lead€r - predicts
Fe o£l tbe f nd of the week,
1 ta’SS&T® dras
Guard
[ “'^Carolina Revolt
Dw 12 (U . P .,. _
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“‘Plain o , 0Qa y and mur-
Partis \Sl rs ’ tbe head of
«mpt 1 ^ mle m akmg a bold
an d held h,m aPtain Sanders in
hSfS m / pns °ner before
■VsoiT 0 f ?! alh Gov-
f side the (vind C Penitentiary
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Flood Toll Rises
In Three States
As Storms Rage
35 Deaths in N.Y., Penn, and
Calif. Bring 4-Day Total
TolOO; National GuardOut
By Special Wireless
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. — Thirty-five
more deaths in three states today rais
ed the toll of a four-day seige of freez
ing weather, blizzards and floods
throughout the nation to more than 100
and caused damage estimated' at mil
lions of dollars.
Ten died and hundreds were impri
soned in their homes in upper New
York State and the National Guard
was ordered to help dig them ■ out
from under a "three-day show rail. All
state highway department roads plows
were on twenty-four duty breaking the
way through drifts, that reached fif
teen feet in some places, for National
Guard trucks taking food and medicine
to stranded householders.
Floods added to the misery as the
heavy snowfall swelled rivers and
streams in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
Fifteen victims of the combined bliz
zard and floods were counted in Penn
sylvania. The majority of these froze
to death and several were drowned.
Hundreds are homeless.
In California the worst storm in
thirty years left ten dead, thousands
homeless and damage estimated at at
least $1,000,000. Rain and snow sent the
Sacramento Rier on the rampage
and drove thousands of dwellers in
the fertile valley to refuge on higher
land.
Uncounted acres of orange groves and
vineyards are under water between
Sacramento and Red Bluff. Unstable
dwellings along the river banks were
picked up and whisked downstream
by the muddy torrent. Residents of
Colusa, Vina, Tehama and Redding
were warned to be ready to evacuate
as flood waters sluiced down the streets
and threatened building foundations.
The flood is expected to reach its
crest late tonight.
Industry Output
In November Hit
20 - Month Low
Speculative
Adjusted
Seen by
Buying,
Costs,
Reserve
Badly
Prices
Board
By Special Wireless
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Industrial I
production in the United States during
the month of November fell to the
lowest point in the last twenty months,
according to the monthly bulletin of
the Federal Reserve Board, which was
published today.
November production was 95 per cent
of the 1923-25 average, as compared
with 103 per cent in October, ill per
cent in September and an average of
116 per cent for the first six months
of the year.
The decline was attributed by the
Federal Reserve Board to the mal
adjustment of costs and prices and
speculative buying.
Early in the year, the report said,
business men expected the continua
tion of rising prices and stocked up
beyond their immediate reeds. By
April, speculative buying stopped, pro
duction leveled off and purchases were
delayed, aggravating price declines.
Then, throughout the summer, the
future of business depended on a race
to dispose of surplus inventories before
the factories were exhausted. The un
filled Orders the factories lost forced
them to curtail production in Sep
tember.
At the same time, the Federal Re
serve report pointed out, the stock
market started slumping, calling atten
tion to the situation.
The report asserted that the supply
of bank credits was ample to finance
a new recovery. Time deposits gained
$530,000,000 in a year, showing that
real savings had increased, although
demand deposits declined $750,000,000.
LeagueExit
Is Forever,
Says Hitler
GenevaF ailure,Pernicious,
Opportunists’Tool, Says
Communique Upholding
The Withdrawal of Italy
By Ralph Barnes
From the Herald Tribune Bureau
BERLIN, Dec. 12.—Chancellor Adolf
Hitler tonight delivered a final blow
demolishing what remained of the
League of Nations as a potential in
strument for collective security. Fol
lowing the move yesterday of Italy in
withdrawing from the Geneva body,
the Nazi government tonight issued an
official communique stating that the
return of Germany to the League will
“never again come under considera
tion.”
In official quarters this declaration
was said to mean the the Reich would
not consider re-entry whether or not
the League were reorganized and se
parated from the Versailles peace
treaty proper,
Patrick Hehry Note
The final paragraph of the commu
nique begins with a sentence which
has something of the ring of Patrick
Henry’s “I know not what the course
of others may be.” The paragraph
reads: “Whether the great powers re
maining at Geneva will still have the
wish to regard the League as a serious
factor in their policy is a matter for
them to decide. They no longer enjoy
| the right, however, to present the
League as composed of the appointed
representatives of the states of the
world, and as the highest organ of
international co-operation.
“In any case, the Reich government
in full agreement with the Italian gov
ernment will not permit itself to be
swayed by anything from its conviction
that the political system of Geneva is
not only a failure but also is pernicious.
The return of Germany to the League
will, therefore, never again come under
consideration.”
It is interesting to note, incidentally,
that the three powers which are now
joined in the so-called anti-Comintern
triangle—Japan-Germany and Italy—
are the three powers which have been
directly instrumental in turn in wreck
ing the League structure.
Reich Ui 19S3
Germany, late comer to Ucuovo.
bolted both the League and the dis
armament conference on October 14,
1933, because, as Herr Hitler explained,
it was refused “equal rights” in arma
ments. Periodically after that date
the Fiihrer held out bait of the pos
sible return of his country to the
League conference table as a means of
gaining political concessions, or to
soften the anger which he had
fomented abroad by his dramatic
moves on the European chessboard.
An example is to be seen in the
events of March 7, 1936, when German
troops goose-stepped into the demili
tarized Rhineland in violation of both
the Versailles and Locarno treaties.
Speaking in the Reichstag on that day,
Herr Hitler said he now considered
that the Reich had secured “equality
of rights.” In consequence, he pro
posed the peace and security plan
which was drawn up in the form of a
memorandum submitted to the so-
called Locarno powers.
Among other points it was indicated
that Germany is therefore prepared to
re-enter the League of Nations. At the
same time Germany expresses her ex
pectations that in the course of a rea-
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3.)
Bitter Hand-to-Hand Fighting
Rages in Nanking as Japanese
Troops Batter Way Into City
Sailor Killed as Nippon Shell
Hits British Destroyer Ladybird
Other Members of Crew Wounded, Including Flag
Captain; Flagship Bee of Rear Admiral Crabbe
Raked by Machine-Gun Bullets in Yangtse River
Special to Herald Tribune
NANKING, Dec. 12.—As the battle
for Nanking grew in intensity today
with the Japanese navy participating
from the Yangtse and planes and ar
tillery covering the crossing of the ri
ver by Japanese troops, new interna
tional incidents involving American
and British warships and British mer
chant vessels occurred.
Near Wuho, Japanese heavy guns
scored a direct hit on the British des
troyer Ladybird, killing a sailor and
injuring other members of the crew,
including Flag Captain George E. M.
O’Donnell, while the Bee, flagship of
Rear Admiral L. G. E. Crabbe, senior
naval officer on the Yangtse river, was
peppered with machine gun bullets.
The American gunboat Panan ran a
gauntlet of heavy shells, but escaped
unscathed up the river late this after
noon, with crowds of refugees from
Nanking aboard.
In the bombardment, shells also fell
near the British-owned tugs Tsingtawo
and Sui-wo. H. I. Prideaux-Brune, First
Secretary of the British Embassy at
Nanking, and Lieutenant Colonel W.
A. Lovat-Fraser, Briitsh Military At
tache, were believed to have been
aboard the latter vessel.
Air bombing attempts were also
made on the British gunboats Scarab
and Cricket, stationed off Nanking and
assisting in the evacuation of British
refugees, but apparently neither was
hit.
Immediately after these incidents Mr.
Prideaux-Brune and Colonel Lovat-
Fraser went ashore and protested to
the Japanese commander. The Jap
anese officer who received them, Co
lonel Hashimoto, explained that he had
received orders to fire on all ships in
the Yangtse, but admitted that the
shelling of the gunboats was an error.
The Ladybird was hit in four places
and in addition to the sailor killed
and the officer wounded other sailors
received slight wounds.
T'h
« W,
Hull Decries Reversion
To Political Tyranny
Asks Rebirth of Golden Rule in
International Affairs
By Special Wireless
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Secretary
of State Cordell Hull decried the pre
sent “reversion to a system of tyranny”
in many parts of the world and pleaded
for a rebirth of the Golden Rule as a
guiding force in the conduct of in
ternational affairs during a radio
speech in observance of Universal Bible
Sunday today.
Civilization is threatened with a
“moral and spiritual decadence,” Mr.
Hull said. Rampant in the world to
day, he hold his listeners, is a “rever
sion to the system of tyranny of man
over man, the abridgement and de
struction of human liberty, the shack
ling of speech and action and even in
dividual thought and conscience.”
Pressmen’s Agreement Renewed
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 (Wireless).—
The agreement between the National
Pressmen’s Union and the American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association was
renewed today for five years. The
agreement, which has established
arbitration machinery, was originated
in 1907.
Sultan of Morocco Ill
RABAT, Dec. 12 (Havas). — The
Sultan of Morocco was taken this
afternoon to a local clinic, where he
will undergo a slight operation to
morrow morning. It is pointed out
that the operation was already envisag
ed two months ago, but was put off
because of the Ramadan.
10 Million Fund
Put Up to Teach
Economic Truth
Is Designed to Disseminate
Information on Subject,
Says Alfred P. Sloan jr.
By United Press
NEW vorK, Dec. 12—Th<- fnunda-
uuii of a $10,000,000 endowment fund
for the purpose, among other things,
of providing “a wider knowledge of
basic economic truths” was announced
here tonight by Alfred P. Sloan jr.,
chairman of the board of the Gen
eral Motors Corporation and arch
enemy of the New Deal.
Mr. Sloan announced, “I am in the
process of donating an endowment to
the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. . . with
securities estimated to be worth $10,-
000 , 000 .”
He stressed that his action had no
connection whatever with General
Motors, but was an “entirely personal
matter. However, the securities in
volved include 100,000 shares of General
Motors common stock.”
The objectives of the foundation, he
explained, include “a wider knowledge
of basic economic truths. . . and a
better understanding of economic prob
lems.”
It is recalled that a little over a week
ago Mr. Sloan issued a warning at the
convention of life insurance presidents
here that many New Deal policies must
be abandoned or modified if another
“real crisis” is to he staved off.
He called the present situation
dangerous, and insisted that steps must
be taken immediately to halt the “con
ditions of paralysis.” He asserted that
the greatest obstacle to recovery lay
in the undermining of confidence in
the American economic system. Until
“the spirit of industrial enterprise
which has contributed so much to past
progress” is re-established, he said, men
will not invest their savings.
Japan Building
3 Capital Ships
Of 46,000 Tons
News Is Thought Confirmed
By ‘Giornale d’ltalia’;
U.S. Officials Concerned
Communists Retain Seat
Of Vaillant-Couturier
father
^ icU( >ns for
c Periods ' s °ne
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V( *iher 1 Communist party retained the
^ Pa hs will v,r> Seat held by the late Eteputy Vaillant-
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u *'••* be b* 1 *- In the mn,~m e 1 party ’ in the by-election held at Ville-
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Communist candidate, was elected on
the first ballot by 11,261 votes to 4,810
for Jules Mallarte, his Socialist oppo-
tdent, and 2,238 for Jean Louis Moine,
French Social Party.
While the outcome was not unex
pected, due to the fact that Villejuif
ias long been an extremist stronghold,
^ e campaign was particularly vigorous.
• yaillant-Couturier was elected only
the second ballot in the last election.
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Slayer of Jean de Koven Suspected of Killing
6th Person, Strasbourg Woman Missing 2 Months
Photograph, Trunk Found
In Death Villa Those of
Mrs. Keller, Friend Says
A sixth victim of Eugen Weidmann,
confessed killer of four men and a
woman—Miss Jean de Koven, Amer
ican dancer—appears to be on the
point of being discovered as a pass
port, photograph, trunk and clothing,
found in the death-villa at Celle-Saint-
Cloud, were identified yesterday as
belonging to Mme. Eugene Keller, 30,
of Strasbourg, of whom no word has
been heard since she left that city for
Paris on October 2.
Mme. Albert Wickers, of Strasbourg, a
friend of the missing woman, certified
that the photograph found in Weid-
mann’s cellar was that of Mme. Keller
(bom Janine Berst) and her two young
children. She also said the trunk was
the one which the woman took with
her on leaving Strasbourg and that the
passport was that of her former hus
band.
M. Keller, who has been estranged
from his wife for three years, said he
did not know how she came in posses
sion of his passport, but that she had
removed many papers from the house
when they were separated. Weidmann
appears to have used the passport on
several occasions himself, since one of
his pseudonyms was Keller. The cloth
ing found in the villa was also tem
porarily identified as belonging to the
missing woman.
Although the police at Versailles
took a day off to study more carefully
papers and documents, this latest
dramatic discovery convinced many
that the last grim chapter in Weid-
mann’s career of crime has not yet
been written.
The missing woman, Mme. Wickers
divulged, had corresponded in German
and English for a short period of time
with a man in Paris, in an effort to
find employment there. One day last
fall, she announced to the family, with
which she was living at the time, that
she had found employment as govern
ess with a South American family,
named Devender, living near Paris. Her
correspondent, their intermediary, had
located it for her, she said.
She left Strasbourg on October 2.
From that day, no word of her was re
ceived. "The silence of my wife,” said
M. Keller yesterday, “in view of her
friends, the Wickers, and the children,
whom she adores, strikes me as ex
tremely alarming.”
Further testimony was given here yes
terday by a M. Metier as to the activities
of Weidmann. A former appraiser at
the Hotel Drouot, M. Metier said he
was examining a small art exhibit in
a Boulevard Haussmann hotel ten days
ago, when a young man, speaking with
a strong German accent, approached
him.
Striking up a conversation with M.
Metier, the man said he had several
fine paintings at his villa and invited
M. Metier to come to see them. He
refused to do so. When he opened the
papers three days ago and saw Weid-
Wiedmann Is Recognized as
Man Who Tried to Lure
Art Expert to Saint-Cloud
mann’s face, M. Metier said that he
instantly recognized him as the “art
lover” he met in the hotel.
While the confessed killer of five
spent a busy day in his Versailles cell,
laboriously scratching out his memoirs,
police arraigned his three alleged ac
complices.
Roger Million, twenty-five-year-old
Parisian, who lured Roger Leblond to
the villa to his death, was charged with
complicity in deliberate manslaughter
and theft. Colette Tricot, his thirty-
year-old friend, was put under the
same charge. Weidmann’s third friend,
twenty-five-year-old Jean Blanc, also
an intimate of Colette Tricot, was ar
raigned on the charge of harboring
criminals.
An examination of the napkin with
which Weidmann completed his strang
ulation of Jean de Koven showed that
it belonged to Million. Though he has
confessed to being present when Roger
Leblond was killed, his exact conection
with the De Koven crime has not yet
been ascertained.
Starting tomorrow, Versailles work
men, acting under instructions of M.
Jean-Georges Berry, examining magis
trate, will have the garden around the
villa thoroughly excavated in the belief
that further articles, or perhaps
bodies, will come to light.
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 3.)
By Special Wireless
WARKTNGTON' nor 12. __ XJphed
States Navy officials Arc showing k6en
interest and Concern over an article in
the Italian newspaper, the “Giornale
d’ltalia,” which, they believe, confirms
repeated reports reaching Washington
to the effect that Japan now has under
construction What would be the largest
battleships in the world, three 46,000-
ton craft, mounted with 16-inch guns.
The article appeared on the day fol
lowing Italy’s adherence as a charter
member of the anti-Communist pact to
which Japan and Germany were al
ready parties. In addition to the first-
line ships, the article states that five
airplane carriers, seven light cruisers,
forty-three destroyers and eight sub
marines are also under construction in
Japanese naval yards or are planned
for the near future.
1,109,130 Tons Held Goal
It is predicted in the Italian news
paper that by 1941 the total tonnage of
the Japanese naval arm will reach 1,-
109,130 tons, including twelve battle
ships with sixteen-inch guns. At this
time, the United States fleet will be
just reaching the limitations of the
expired Washington Naval Treaty.
The total tonnage of the United
States Navy in 1936 was 1,062,875 tons
with an additional 288,215 tons under
construction. At present, the Navy has
fifteen first-line ships, seven of which
are past the twenty-year age limit for
warships.
In July, the Navy high command
decided to mount nine sixteen-inch
guns on the two capital ships now
under construction, the Washington
and the North Carolina. This arma
ment will be capable of hurling 2,100-
pound armor-piercing projectiles 35,000
yards (seventeen and one-half nautical
miles).
U. S. Has 16-Inch Guns
The decision to use the higher-caliber
guns followed an unsuccessful diploma
tic effort to obtain adherence from
Japan to a limitation of naval arma
ment to fourteen-inch guns. Three of
the United States battleships are al
ready mounted with rifles of the six
teen-caliber dimension.
Navy officials have drafted a plan
calling for naval construction in 1939
costing $236,000,000 and an authoriza
tion bill permitting construction to
exceed the old Washington Treaty and
the London Treaty of 1936, which set
the present limit for naval appropria
tions. Two more battleships, two light
cruisers, six submarines, between four
and six destroyers and four auxiliaries
will be asked for next year by the
department.
Nipponese Reported Pour
ing Through All Gates
After Big Bombardment
By Artillery and Planes
2 Tokio Destroyers
Damaged by Mines
Honan Trains Million Men,
Pact, Allegedly Sigqed
With Russia, in Effect
Special to Herald Tribune
SHANGHAI, Dec. 12. — Japanese
troops poured into Nanking today by
all of the city’s eighteen gates to
meet barricaded Chinese troops in the
fiercest hand-to-hand fighting of the
present battle, according to the Jap
anese Domei news agency. This news,
however, has not been confirmed from
other sources.
All dispatches agree, however, that
heavy fighting continues in and around
the capital, which is being scourged by
heavy artillery set up on hills outside
the city, constant air raids and naval
guns of Japanese warships in the
Yangtse, which have made their way
up the river after smashing through
the boom. Much of the city is in
flames. ‘
Nanking’s walled defense crumbled
under heavy aerial and artillery bom
bardment and Japanese soldiers, ac
cording to Domei, rushed through the
gates in the wake of tanks under a
pall of smoke that extended from the
city to Purple Mountain.
Both Sides Start Fires
Some of these fires were started by
incendiary bombs and shells. Others
were started Kv the j apanese to drive
0 „f crnmese snipers and still others by
the Chinese themselves to nrot«=^
retreat.
Thousands of Chinese troops have
remained in the city resolved to hold
it or die in the attempt.
Japanese troops who were flung
across the Yangtse yesterday, half-way
to Wuhu, are rapidly driviftg toward
Pukow, the suburb across the river.
If this city is captured all hopes of
retreat of the Chinese will be cut off.
Mines Damage 2 Destroyers
Six Japanese destroyers forced their
way through the boom to the east of
Nanking today and are now partici
pating in the shelling of the capital
from the river. Two other destroyers
are reported to have hit mines and
been badly damaged.
Japanese planes today concentrated
their attack on Nunchang, where
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek re
portedly established headquarters fol
lowing his escape from the doomed
capital.
Dispatches from Peiping today an
nounced that an autonomous govern
ment will be set up in North China
under Japanese guidance without delay.
Hunan to Train 1,000,000
The Chinese press announces that
the authorities of the province of
Hunan have begun military training
of the masses on a big scale and ex
pect to have a million trained soldiers
in six months.
According to reports from Hankow
persistent rumors circulating there
state that a military pact was signed
between the Chinese government and
Soviet Russia on Friday. Chinese
official circles are very reticent about
the matter, refusing either to confirm
or deny the reports. According to
rumors the treaty was to enter into
effect today.
Martial law has been proclaimed at
Hankow and throughout the adjoining
territory and military defense prepara
tions are being rushed feverishly, as
it is expected that the Japanese Army,
aided by units of the fleet in the
Yangtse. will attempt to push rapidly
up the river if Nanking falls.
Budapest Lawyer Denies
Plotting Against Delbos
LILLE, Dec. 12. — Koloman Budai,
Budapest lawyer who recently was
arrested here for alleged terrorist ac
tivities and who later allegedly was
implicated in a plot to take the life
of Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Min
ister, during his forthcoming visit to
Prague, has protested his innocence
through his counsel.
Budai says the code letters seized by
the police, which revealed the alleged
Nanking ‘Victory’ Celebrated
TOKIO, Dec. 12 (Havas'.—A monster
parade preceded by a thousand musi
cians and accompanied by scores of
airplanes took place here today in a
premature celebration of the “victory
at Nanking.” The demonstration was
held despite official recommendations
of moderation, which added that the
“official demonstration has been ad
journed.”
The correspondent at the front of
the newspaper “Asahi” wires that “the
vigor of the defense makes the battle
for Nanking an unprecedented event
of history.” He adds that hand-to-
hand fighting has been proceeding at
the “Gate of Glory” for more than
twenty-four hours without decisive
results.
Davies May Be Shifted
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 (U.P.).-
United States Ambassador to the
Soviet Union Joseph E. Davies will be
transferred to another post in the near
future, it was learned from an author
itative source today. His new post is
not known, but it is understood he will
not replace William E. Dodd, who has
plot, were really written by his political j resigned as Ambassador to Germany,
enemies to compromise him. He has
announced his intention of filing cri
minal proceedings against the writers.
Budai denies membership in any ter
rorist group.
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fyyi Battle
m to Push
axReform
ator Harrison Opens
to Force Passage
(mediately Following
ujonon Farm Measure
esage
Forecast
(ore February 1
in Struggle Expected
[the Wages and Hours
[in House This Week
By Special Wireless
tlNGTON, Dec. 12— Business-
cement measures showed further
^ taking precedence over Presi-
;evelt’s program in the Senate
Pat Harrison (D., Miss.),
, of the Senate Finance Com-
i predicted today that Congress
I enact legislation overhauling the
tax structure by February 1,
istration leaders in the Upper
t are eager to pass the necessary
ition for the President’s privately-
housing program before the
mas recess if the Senate is able
the House's example in get-
rhe farm bill out of the way within
at few days.
itor Harrison said the House
i and Means Committee, whose
itaoeommittee has been working
’ schedule for the last month,
1 outline the tax program during
Ifct week of the regular session
mary,
Luld Ease Tax on Surplus
declined to say whether outright
of the undivided profits tax
I lie a bone of contention.
oi-.cation of the undistributed
r ‘ :e surplus tax giving relief to
ra'ions earning less than $25,000
II is provided in the present pro-
r ' tile House subcommittee. Ac-
to Representative Robert L.
jkoniD., N.C.), chairman of the
"■M Means Committee, and Re-
WtcVkUM. Vinson m., Ky.),
r n of the tax subcommittee,
pangement has the Administra-
iblessing.
tentative Emanuel Celler (D„
. ecIared tbe subcommittee’s
measure’ would relieve only
10ns earnin g io or 15 per cent
income, “if the principle is
5 SOme business, it is wrong
1 he said.
I Vs and Hours Bill Fight
’ a bitter struggle over the
- •hours bill is expected in the
;^eek. The failure of the
■ s between the American
r Tn^ babor and the Commit-
Organization has
™ prospect of the bill’s pass
es pressure f °r its passage
in !.^u exerted by the Ad-
> bich is said to fear cri-
t fact fh!wii Ve dlctation ’’ based
revlsed bil1 would
ed by the Department of
Octavians Plan to Aid Windsor
With Meetings in His Honor
Organization Proposes to Combat Slights and Assure
Recognition of Former Monarch for Service to
Empire, G. F. Whish, Founder, Explains
By Special Dispatch i
LONDON, Dec. 12.—The Octavians, j
a society sworn to uphold the honor
of the Duke of Windsor on all occa
sions, today revealed plans for meetings
and social functions shortly to be held j
throughout Britain in support of the
“Our purpose is to combat all un
generous treatment of the Duke of
Windsor, formerly King Edward the
Eighth, hence our name Octavians,”
he said.
“We want to assure fit recognition
of his long and able service to the
former King.
It also was revealed that existing
with the Octavians is another similar
organization called “The Henchmen of
Honour,” headed by Robert Elton, of
Haymarket, London. Mr. Elton wrote
to the duke just before his proposed
American visit and suggested the uni
fication of international forces under
the command of the duke as a method
of ending international warfare.
The duke replied to Mr. Elton shortly
after his trip was postponed, pleading
that there was no time at his disposal
to deal with the suggestion contained
in a leaflet which Mr. Elton sent him.
The Octavians, however, is still the
bigger movement. Branches are estab
lished throughout Scotland and there
are heavy concentrations of members
in London. The movement was founded
by G. F. Whish, who today revealed
the objectives of his organization.
! British people, and we wish to make
| contacts throughout the country with
all who hold similar views.
| “We shall arrange meetings and so-
i cial events throughout the country,
since we wish to create a friendly
atmosphere for him when he returns
home. And return he should, whenever
he so desires.
“Last night, officers of the Brighton.
Bognor Regis and Worthing branches
of the Octavians met at a dinner, at
which they toasted the King and Queen
and then the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor.
“We can show,” a bulletin issued by
the organization says, “that neither
time, nor the fickleness of the mob,
nor the frown of the powerful, nor the
disapproval of the Pharisee can hold
us back from expressing in some slight
form the love and admiration which
we cherish for Edward of Windsor.”
Rges-and h h h 1>&SSed lts ver sion
It SeSnn ' u UrS M1 at the Cnd
f Pa-,;..’ shows no immediate
|0f p' | ri On , to the other two
,7t ldent Roosevelt’s pro-
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came belatedly
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hSfS m / pns °ner before
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Flood Toll Rises
In Three States
As Storms Rage
35 Deaths in N.Y., Penn, and
Calif. Bring 4-Day Total
TolOO; National GuardOut
By Special Wireless
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. — Thirty-five
more deaths in three states today rais
ed the toll of a four-day seige of freez
ing weather, blizzards and floods
throughout the nation to more than 100
and caused damage estimated' at mil
lions of dollars.
Ten died and hundreds were impri
soned in their homes in upper New
York State and the National Guard
was ordered to help dig them ■ out
from under a "three-day show rail. All
state highway department roads plows
were on twenty-four duty breaking the
way through drifts, that reached fif
teen feet in some places, for National
Guard trucks taking food and medicine
to stranded householders.
Floods added to the misery as the
heavy snowfall swelled rivers and
streams in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
Fifteen victims of the combined bliz
zard and floods were counted in Penn
sylvania. The majority of these froze
to death and several were drowned.
Hundreds are homeless.
In California the worst storm in
thirty years left ten dead, thousands
homeless and damage estimated at at
least $1,000,000. Rain and snow sent the
Sacramento Rier on the rampage
and drove thousands of dwellers in
the fertile valley to refuge on higher
land.
Uncounted acres of orange groves and
vineyards are under water between
Sacramento and Red Bluff. Unstable
dwellings along the river banks were
picked up and whisked downstream
by the muddy torrent. Residents of
Colusa, Vina, Tehama and Redding
were warned to be ready to evacuate
as flood waters sluiced down the streets
and threatened building foundations.
The flood is expected to reach its
crest late tonight.
Industry Output
In November Hit
20 - Month Low
Speculative
Adjusted
Seen by
Buying,
Costs,
Reserve
Badly
Prices
Board
By Special Wireless
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Industrial I
production in the United States during
the month of November fell to the
lowest point in the last twenty months,
according to the monthly bulletin of
the Federal Reserve Board, which was
published today.
November production was 95 per cent
of the 1923-25 average, as compared
with 103 per cent in October, ill per
cent in September and an average of
116 per cent for the first six months
of the year.
The decline was attributed by the
Federal Reserve Board to the mal
adjustment of costs and prices and
speculative buying.
Early in the year, the report said,
business men expected the continua
tion of rising prices and stocked up
beyond their immediate reeds. By
April, speculative buying stopped, pro
duction leveled off and purchases were
delayed, aggravating price declines.
Then, throughout the summer, the
future of business depended on a race
to dispose of surplus inventories before
the factories were exhausted. The un
filled Orders the factories lost forced
them to curtail production in Sep
tember.
At the same time, the Federal Re
serve report pointed out, the stock
market started slumping, calling atten
tion to the situation.
The report asserted that the supply
of bank credits was ample to finance
a new recovery. Time deposits gained
$530,000,000 in a year, showing that
real savings had increased, although
demand deposits declined $750,000,000.
LeagueExit
Is Forever,
Says Hitler
GenevaF ailure,Pernicious,
Opportunists’Tool, Says
Communique Upholding
The Withdrawal of Italy
By Ralph Barnes
From the Herald Tribune Bureau
BERLIN, Dec. 12.—Chancellor Adolf
Hitler tonight delivered a final blow
demolishing what remained of the
League of Nations as a potential in
strument for collective security. Fol
lowing the move yesterday of Italy in
withdrawing from the Geneva body,
the Nazi government tonight issued an
official communique stating that the
return of Germany to the League will
“never again come under considera
tion.”
In official quarters this declaration
was said to mean the the Reich would
not consider re-entry whether or not
the League were reorganized and se
parated from the Versailles peace
treaty proper,
Patrick Hehry Note
The final paragraph of the commu
nique begins with a sentence which
has something of the ring of Patrick
Henry’s “I know not what the course
of others may be.” The paragraph
reads: “Whether the great powers re
maining at Geneva will still have the
wish to regard the League as a serious
factor in their policy is a matter for
them to decide. They no longer enjoy
| the right, however, to present the
League as composed of the appointed
representatives of the states of the
world, and as the highest organ of
international co-operation.
“In any case, the Reich government
in full agreement with the Italian gov
ernment will not permit itself to be
swayed by anything from its conviction
that the political system of Geneva is
not only a failure but also is pernicious.
The return of Germany to the League
will, therefore, never again come under
consideration.”
It is interesting to note, incidentally,
that the three powers which are now
joined in the so-called anti-Comintern
triangle—Japan-Germany and Italy—
are the three powers which have been
directly instrumental in turn in wreck
ing the League structure.
Reich Ui 19S3
Germany, late comer to Ucuovo.
bolted both the League and the dis
armament conference on October 14,
1933, because, as Herr Hitler explained,
it was refused “equal rights” in arma
ments. Periodically after that date
the Fiihrer held out bait of the pos
sible return of his country to the
League conference table as a means of
gaining political concessions, or to
soften the anger which he had
fomented abroad by his dramatic
moves on the European chessboard.
An example is to be seen in the
events of March 7, 1936, when German
troops goose-stepped into the demili
tarized Rhineland in violation of both
the Versailles and Locarno treaties.
Speaking in the Reichstag on that day,
Herr Hitler said he now considered
that the Reich had secured “equality
of rights.” In consequence, he pro
posed the peace and security plan
which was drawn up in the form of a
memorandum submitted to the so-
called Locarno powers.
Among other points it was indicated
that Germany is therefore prepared to
re-enter the League of Nations. At the
same time Germany expresses her ex
pectations that in the course of a rea-
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3.)
Bitter Hand-to-Hand Fighting
Rages in Nanking as Japanese
Troops Batter Way Into City
Sailor Killed as Nippon Shell
Hits British Destroyer Ladybird
Other Members of Crew Wounded, Including Flag
Captain; Flagship Bee of Rear Admiral Crabbe
Raked by Machine-Gun Bullets in Yangtse River
Special to Herald Tribune
NANKING, Dec. 12.—As the battle
for Nanking grew in intensity today
with the Japanese navy participating
from the Yangtse and planes and ar
tillery covering the crossing of the ri
ver by Japanese troops, new interna
tional incidents involving American
and British warships and British mer
chant vessels occurred.
Near Wuho, Japanese heavy guns
scored a direct hit on the British des
troyer Ladybird, killing a sailor and
injuring other members of the crew,
including Flag Captain George E. M.
O’Donnell, while the Bee, flagship of
Rear Admiral L. G. E. Crabbe, senior
naval officer on the Yangtse river, was
peppered with machine gun bullets.
The American gunboat Panan ran a
gauntlet of heavy shells, but escaped
unscathed up the river late this after
noon, with crowds of refugees from
Nanking aboard.
In the bombardment, shells also fell
near the British-owned tugs Tsingtawo
and Sui-wo. H. I. Prideaux-Brune, First
Secretary of the British Embassy at
Nanking, and Lieutenant Colonel W.
A. Lovat-Fraser, Briitsh Military At
tache, were believed to have been
aboard the latter vessel.
Air bombing attempts were also
made on the British gunboats Scarab
and Cricket, stationed off Nanking and
assisting in the evacuation of British
refugees, but apparently neither was
hit.
Immediately after these incidents Mr.
Prideaux-Brune and Colonel Lovat-
Fraser went ashore and protested to
the Japanese commander. The Jap
anese officer who received them, Co
lonel Hashimoto, explained that he had
received orders to fire on all ships in
the Yangtse, but admitted that the
shelling of the gunboats was an error.
The Ladybird was hit in four places
and in addition to the sailor killed
and the officer wounded other sailors
received slight wounds.
T'h
« W,
Hull Decries Reversion
To Political Tyranny
Asks Rebirth of Golden Rule in
International Affairs
By Special Wireless
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Secretary
of State Cordell Hull decried the pre
sent “reversion to a system of tyranny”
in many parts of the world and pleaded
for a rebirth of the Golden Rule as a
guiding force in the conduct of in
ternational affairs during a radio
speech in observance of Universal Bible
Sunday today.
Civilization is threatened with a
“moral and spiritual decadence,” Mr.
Hull said. Rampant in the world to
day, he hold his listeners, is a “rever
sion to the system of tyranny of man
over man, the abridgement and de
struction of human liberty, the shack
ling of speech and action and even in
dividual thought and conscience.”
Pressmen’s Agreement Renewed
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 (Wireless).—
The agreement between the National
Pressmen’s Union and the American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association was
renewed today for five years. The
agreement, which has established
arbitration machinery, was originated
in 1907.
Sultan of Morocco Ill
RABAT, Dec. 12 (Havas). — The
Sultan of Morocco was taken this
afternoon to a local clinic, where he
will undergo a slight operation to
morrow morning. It is pointed out
that the operation was already envisag
ed two months ago, but was put off
because of the Ramadan.
10 Million Fund
Put Up to Teach
Economic Truth
Is Designed to Disseminate
Information on Subject,
Says Alfred P. Sloan jr.
By United Press
NEW vorK, Dec. 12—Th<- fnunda-
uuii of a $10,000,000 endowment fund
for the purpose, among other things,
of providing “a wider knowledge of
basic economic truths” was announced
here tonight by Alfred P. Sloan jr.,
chairman of the board of the Gen
eral Motors Corporation and arch
enemy of the New Deal.
Mr. Sloan announced, “I am in the
process of donating an endowment to
the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. . . with
securities estimated to be worth $10,-
000 , 000 .”
He stressed that his action had no
connection whatever with General
Motors, but was an “entirely personal
matter. However, the securities in
volved include 100,000 shares of General
Motors common stock.”
The objectives of the foundation, he
explained, include “a wider knowledge
of basic economic truths. . . and a
better understanding of economic prob
lems.”
It is recalled that a little over a week
ago Mr. Sloan issued a warning at the
convention of life insurance presidents
here that many New Deal policies must
be abandoned or modified if another
“real crisis” is to he staved off.
He called the present situation
dangerous, and insisted that steps must
be taken immediately to halt the “con
ditions of paralysis.” He asserted that
the greatest obstacle to recovery lay
in the undermining of confidence in
the American economic system. Until
“the spirit of industrial enterprise
which has contributed so much to past
progress” is re-established, he said, men
will not invest their savings.
Japan Building
3 Capital Ships
Of 46,000 Tons
News Is Thought Confirmed
By ‘Giornale d’ltalia’;
U.S. Officials Concerned
Communists Retain Seat
Of Vaillant-Couturier
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Communist candidate, was elected on
the first ballot by 11,261 votes to 4,810
for Jules Mallarte, his Socialist oppo-
tdent, and 2,238 for Jean Louis Moine,
French Social Party.
While the outcome was not unex
pected, due to the fact that Villejuif
ias long been an extremist stronghold,
^ e campaign was particularly vigorous.
• yaillant-Couturier was elected only
the second ballot in the last election.
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Slayer of Jean de Koven Suspected of Killing
6th Person, Strasbourg Woman Missing 2 Months
Photograph, Trunk Found
In Death Villa Those of
Mrs. Keller, Friend Says
A sixth victim of Eugen Weidmann,
confessed killer of four men and a
woman—Miss Jean de Koven, Amer
ican dancer—appears to be on the
point of being discovered as a pass
port, photograph, trunk and clothing,
found in the death-villa at Celle-Saint-
Cloud, were identified yesterday as
belonging to Mme. Eugene Keller, 30,
of Strasbourg, of whom no word has
been heard since she left that city for
Paris on October 2.
Mme. Albert Wickers, of Strasbourg, a
friend of the missing woman, certified
that the photograph found in Weid-
mann’s cellar was that of Mme. Keller
(bom Janine Berst) and her two young
children. She also said the trunk was
the one which the woman took with
her on leaving Strasbourg and that the
passport was that of her former hus
band.
M. Keller, who has been estranged
from his wife for three years, said he
did not know how she came in posses
sion of his passport, but that she had
removed many papers from the house
when they were separated. Weidmann
appears to have used the passport on
several occasions himself, since one of
his pseudonyms was Keller. The cloth
ing found in the villa was also tem
porarily identified as belonging to the
missing woman.
Although the police at Versailles
took a day off to study more carefully
papers and documents, this latest
dramatic discovery convinced many
that the last grim chapter in Weid-
mann’s career of crime has not yet
been written.
The missing woman, Mme. Wickers
divulged, had corresponded in German
and English for a short period of time
with a man in Paris, in an effort to
find employment there. One day last
fall, she announced to the family, with
which she was living at the time, that
she had found employment as govern
ess with a South American family,
named Devender, living near Paris. Her
correspondent, their intermediary, had
located it for her, she said.
She left Strasbourg on October 2.
From that day, no word of her was re
ceived. "The silence of my wife,” said
M. Keller yesterday, “in view of her
friends, the Wickers, and the children,
whom she adores, strikes me as ex
tremely alarming.”
Further testimony was given here yes
terday by a M. Metier as to the activities
of Weidmann. A former appraiser at
the Hotel Drouot, M. Metier said he
was examining a small art exhibit in
a Boulevard Haussmann hotel ten days
ago, when a young man, speaking with
a strong German accent, approached
him.
Striking up a conversation with M.
Metier, the man said he had several
fine paintings at his villa and invited
M. Metier to come to see them. He
refused to do so. When he opened the
papers three days ago and saw Weid-
Wiedmann Is Recognized as
Man Who Tried to Lure
Art Expert to Saint-Cloud
mann’s face, M. Metier said that he
instantly recognized him as the “art
lover” he met in the hotel.
While the confessed killer of five
spent a busy day in his Versailles cell,
laboriously scratching out his memoirs,
police arraigned his three alleged ac
complices.
Roger Million, twenty-five-year-old
Parisian, who lured Roger Leblond to
the villa to his death, was charged with
complicity in deliberate manslaughter
and theft. Colette Tricot, his thirty-
year-old friend, was put under the
same charge. Weidmann’s third friend,
twenty-five-year-old Jean Blanc, also
an intimate of Colette Tricot, was ar
raigned on the charge of harboring
criminals.
An examination of the napkin with
which Weidmann completed his strang
ulation of Jean de Koven showed that
it belonged to Million. Though he has
confessed to being present when Roger
Leblond was killed, his exact conection
with the De Koven crime has not yet
been ascertained.
Starting tomorrow, Versailles work
men, acting under instructions of M.
Jean-Georges Berry, examining magis
trate, will have the garden around the
villa thoroughly excavated in the belief
that further articles, or perhaps
bodies, will come to light.
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 3.)
By Special Wireless
WARKTNGTON' nor 12. __ XJphed
States Navy officials Arc showing k6en
interest and Concern over an article in
the Italian newspaper, the “Giornale
d’ltalia,” which, they believe, confirms
repeated reports reaching Washington
to the effect that Japan now has under
construction What would be the largest
battleships in the world, three 46,000-
ton craft, mounted with 16-inch guns.
The article appeared on the day fol
lowing Italy’s adherence as a charter
member of the anti-Communist pact to
which Japan and Germany were al
ready parties. In addition to the first-
line ships, the article states that five
airplane carriers, seven light cruisers,
forty-three destroyers and eight sub
marines are also under construction in
Japanese naval yards or are planned
for the near future.
1,109,130 Tons Held Goal
It is predicted in the Italian news
paper that by 1941 the total tonnage of
the Japanese naval arm will reach 1,-
109,130 tons, including twelve battle
ships with sixteen-inch guns. At this
time, the United States fleet will be
just reaching the limitations of the
expired Washington Naval Treaty.
The total tonnage of the United
States Navy in 1936 was 1,062,875 tons
with an additional 288,215 tons under
construction. At present, the Navy has
fifteen first-line ships, seven of which
are past the twenty-year age limit for
warships.
In July, the Navy high command
decided to mount nine sixteen-inch
guns on the two capital ships now
under construction, the Washington
and the North Carolina. This arma
ment will be capable of hurling 2,100-
pound armor-piercing projectiles 35,000
yards (seventeen and one-half nautical
miles).
U. S. Has 16-Inch Guns
The decision to use the higher-caliber
guns followed an unsuccessful diploma
tic effort to obtain adherence from
Japan to a limitation of naval arma
ment to fourteen-inch guns. Three of
the United States battleships are al
ready mounted with rifles of the six
teen-caliber dimension.
Navy officials have drafted a plan
calling for naval construction in 1939
costing $236,000,000 and an authoriza
tion bill permitting construction to
exceed the old Washington Treaty and
the London Treaty of 1936, which set
the present limit for naval appropria
tions. Two more battleships, two light
cruisers, six submarines, between four
and six destroyers and four auxiliaries
will be asked for next year by the
department.
Nipponese Reported Pour
ing Through All Gates
After Big Bombardment
By Artillery and Planes
2 Tokio Destroyers
Damaged by Mines
Honan Trains Million Men,
Pact, Allegedly Sigqed
With Russia, in Effect
Special to Herald Tribune
SHANGHAI, Dec. 12. — Japanese
troops poured into Nanking today by
all of the city’s eighteen gates to
meet barricaded Chinese troops in the
fiercest hand-to-hand fighting of the
present battle, according to the Jap
anese Domei news agency. This news,
however, has not been confirmed from
other sources.
All dispatches agree, however, that
heavy fighting continues in and around
the capital, which is being scourged by
heavy artillery set up on hills outside
the city, constant air raids and naval
guns of Japanese warships in the
Yangtse, which have made their way
up the river after smashing through
the boom. Much of the city is in
flames. ‘
Nanking’s walled defense crumbled
under heavy aerial and artillery bom
bardment and Japanese soldiers, ac
cording to Domei, rushed through the
gates in the wake of tanks under a
pall of smoke that extended from the
city to Purple Mountain.
Both Sides Start Fires
Some of these fires were started by
incendiary bombs and shells. Others
were started Kv the j apanese to drive
0 „f crnmese snipers and still others by
the Chinese themselves to nrot«=^
retreat.
Thousands of Chinese troops have
remained in the city resolved to hold
it or die in the attempt.
Japanese troops who were flung
across the Yangtse yesterday, half-way
to Wuhu, are rapidly driviftg toward
Pukow, the suburb across the river.
If this city is captured all hopes of
retreat of the Chinese will be cut off.
Mines Damage 2 Destroyers
Six Japanese destroyers forced their
way through the boom to the east of
Nanking today and are now partici
pating in the shelling of the capital
from the river. Two other destroyers
are reported to have hit mines and
been badly damaged.
Japanese planes today concentrated
their attack on Nunchang, where
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek re
portedly established headquarters fol
lowing his escape from the doomed
capital.
Dispatches from Peiping today an
nounced that an autonomous govern
ment will be set up in North China
under Japanese guidance without delay.
Hunan to Train 1,000,000
The Chinese press announces that
the authorities of the province of
Hunan have begun military training
of the masses on a big scale and ex
pect to have a million trained soldiers
in six months.
According to reports from Hankow
persistent rumors circulating there
state that a military pact was signed
between the Chinese government and
Soviet Russia on Friday. Chinese
official circles are very reticent about
the matter, refusing either to confirm
or deny the reports. According to
rumors the treaty was to enter into
effect today.
Martial law has been proclaimed at
Hankow and throughout the adjoining
territory and military defense prepara
tions are being rushed feverishly, as
it is expected that the Japanese Army,
aided by units of the fleet in the
Yangtse. will attempt to push rapidly
up the river if Nanking falls.
Budapest Lawyer Denies
Plotting Against Delbos
LILLE, Dec. 12. — Koloman Budai,
Budapest lawyer who recently was
arrested here for alleged terrorist ac
tivities and who later allegedly was
implicated in a plot to take the life
of Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Min
ister, during his forthcoming visit to
Prague, has protested his innocence
through his counsel.
Budai says the code letters seized by
the police, which revealed the alleged
Nanking ‘Victory’ Celebrated
TOKIO, Dec. 12 (Havas'.—A monster
parade preceded by a thousand musi
cians and accompanied by scores of
airplanes took place here today in a
premature celebration of the “victory
at Nanking.” The demonstration was
held despite official recommendations
of moderation, which added that the
“official demonstration has been ad
journed.”
The correspondent at the front of
the newspaper “Asahi” wires that “the
vigor of the defense makes the battle
for Nanking an unprecedented event
of history.” He adds that hand-to-
hand fighting has been proceeding at
the “Gate of Glory” for more than
twenty-four hours without decisive
results.
Davies May Be Shifted
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 (U.P.).-
United States Ambassador to the
Soviet Union Joseph E. Davies will be
transferred to another post in the near
future, it was learned from an author
itative source today. His new post is
not known, but it is understood he will
not replace William E. Dodd, who has
plot, were really written by his political j resigned as Ambassador to Germany,
enemies to compromise him. He has
announced his intention of filing cri
minal proceedings against the writers.
Budai denies membership in any ter
rorist group.
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