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WHY TAKE CHANCES SCOTCH ERS SALE PIANOS RADIO PACE 6 SEE PAGE FIVE WIRELESS: PAGE 17 SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 1937 TWOPENCE Non-Intervention Britain Agrees to Stamp Out Soviet from SEEING GOERING AGREES TO NEW PLAN GOLD MISSING FROM LINER Gold bars worth £2800 were found to have disappeared from strong room cf French liner Paris on arrival at New York yesterday after stormy and foggy BUP CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN DONE 5000 MORE ITALIANS LAND ITALY and Germany have decided their price for non-intervention in Spain They are ready to compromise if Britain and France will eliminate Russia from European affairs According to a reliable diplomatic source in Rome last night this is the outcome of five conferences between Signor Mussolini and General Goering envoy over the week-end It is believed that the British Government reaction to the latest proposal will be tested to-morrow Italian volunteers are still streaming to Spain The landing of another 5000 troops at Cadiz was reported from Gibraltar yesterday The Cushenden of Belfast aground in Bridlington Bay immediately beneath the houses on the north side MANOR shot and ipressed the trigger of the flashlight pistol which I was holding After the flash the figure was no longer to be Mr Harry Price honorary secretary of the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation has stated The negative is entirely innocent of any faking If the case is accepted Mr Shira will have the distinction of being the first person to secure an authentic spirit Dr Nandor Fodor Research Officer of the International Institute of Psychic Research has been to Raynham to investigate the matter further I agree with Mr -he said yesterday and I am extremely The Brown Lady Raynham Hall is reputed to be haunted by several The spirit of the Duke of Monmouth son of Charles II and that of the unhappy second Lady Townshend The Brown Lady are the two most famous Mr Shira asserts that he saw the ghost ol the Duke of Monmouth' when he was photographing the Monmouth room There is considerable controversy regarding the authenticity of the picture and also the identity of the figure It is generally held to be The Brown but some people among them the Marchioness herself believe that It Is a vision of the Blessed Mary The picture appears on the back page FIRE IN WARSHIP REPLY TO NOTE THIS WEEK OIL FUEL BLAZE AS VESSEL PREPARES TO LEAVE PORT FIRE broke out in the British aircraft-carrier Furious at Devonport yesterday She was about to leave the dockyard for Plymouth Sound for the spring cruise to the Mediterranean When oil fuel in the boiler-room was found to be on fire The fire -was quickly extinguished but the of the Vessel was deferred till to-morrow No one was injured A full inquiry into the cause of the outbreak is being made to-day JT was reported in Home last night that Italy and Germany are ready to compromise on Fascism in Spain but not Communism provided Britain and France will listen with favour to a revival of a modified version of the Four-Power Pact eliminating Russia from Europe It was declared that Sir Eric Drummond the British Ambassador in Rome will travel to London to-morrow to sound out Mr Anthony Eden regarding the British attitude Sir Eric yesterday visited Count Ciano the Italian Foreign Minister to learn when the Italian reply will be made to non-intervention proposals British quarters say that Sir Eric was satisfied with Count answer If Britain showed a readiness to discuss the Pact it was stated Italy Germany would not insist upon the establishment of a Fascist regime in Spain although of course they would not agree to the establishment of a Communist government THREAT In other words if some way can he found to solve the Spanish pioblern that is neither Fascist nor Communist Italy and Germany will support it It is reported that Signor Mussolini had considerable difficulty in convincing General Goering in support a compromise on Fascism in Spain General support is said to have boon only forthcoming when Signor Mussolini said that the alternative might be refusal IN OLD A GHOST is alleged to have been photographed at Raynham Hall the 400-year-old Norfolk home of the Marchioness Townshend and one of the most famous manors in England Indre Shira London court photographer told the story to the Sunday Mercury yesterday My art director Captain Provand and 1 were photographing the interior and exterior of Raynham Hall for the Marchioness Townshend When we got to the main staircase Captain Provand took one picture Disappeared After Flash He had focused for the second time when suddenly I saw an ethereal figure descending the stairs 1 called to Provand to get ready to take the SURPRISES US THE CUP Birmingham Villa Fail IRTY- 808D21 'jwdple yesterday who paid on the aggregate £53019 The largest crowd of the day was at Villa Park where Aston Villa were beaten by Burnley Forty-five thousand people paid £28-47 to see the maldh The largest gate receipt was taken at Molineux Grounds Wolverhampton Here 38495 people made up a sum ut £2852 Both attendance and receipts records were broken at The Dell Southampton where there was a crowd of 30380 and takings of £2741 third round FA-' 5 were watcTred by Ins and Outs One of the biggest surprises of the round was the defeat of Portsmouth at home by Tottenham Hotspur who won by five clear goals Midland interest in the competition dwindled with the defeats of Aston Villa Birmingham Nottingham Forest and Port Vale For the third successive year Aston Villa failed to surmount the first hurdle in the competition Birmingham fell at Stoke whose international centre-forward Steele obtained a hat trick in the first half West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers Derby County Coventry City Leicester City and Walsall were successful Albion had the biggest win of the day beating spennymoor United Wolves too had a good victory they defeated Middlesbrough 6 1 A crowd of G5000 saw England defeat Wales in the Rugby international at Twickenham The margin was only one point Gup-tie reports and pictures on Pages to 21 and 22 MISSING GIRL MASS SEARCH TO BE MADE TO-DAY THE search for Mona Tinsley the tcn-yeur-old Newark schoolgirl who has been missing from her home since 5 January is still unsuccessful A mass Search of Ihe isolated urea which stretches on either side of Huy-ton Smeath will be made to-day and a big crowd is expected to meet in the Market Place Retford In response lo an appeal by Superintendent Burkitt of the Retford police' a woman passenger dressed in black on the 645 bus to Workspp on 6 January has come forward TOY CINEMA FIRE SECOND DEATH Alan Johnson aged five oue of the three Coalville (Leicestershire) school-boys burned in a toy cinematograph lire at Coalville on Wednesday died in Leicester Royal Infirmary last night His brother Raymond aged 11 died on Thursday MAN DIES IN STREET Joseph Baker aged f3 of 7 Chanders-road Highgate Birmlog- ham collapsed in Moseley-roud Bir- minghaw yesterday and was dead on DELAYS LINER JNFLUEIZA has delayed the sailing of the Queen Mary It was announced by the Cunaru White Star Line last night that resumption of service of the giant liner has been postponed from 3 February to 17 February because the work of overhaul at Southampton has been hampered by a severe outbreak of influenza among the workmen Mr Norman Birkett KC and Mr John Flowers KC who had been briefed to appear for Arthur Jefferson Peake in his -appeal against his conviction and death sentence for the murder of Arthur George Noyce at Hove are victims of influenza Cherry one of the six Old Blues in the Oxford University Boat Race crew has fallen a victim of the epidemic and was unable to take his seat in the boat yesterday PIT SOL WHICH it PINKING US CONSULATE WRECKED BY BOMBS BRITISH MORE RAIN COMING MIDNIGHT weather forecast: Wintry showers in Scotland and occasional rain in the South-west Elsewhere conditions will be mainly fair Morning fog probable in the Midlands Wales and North England Temperature about average Further outlook: Renewed rain spreading from the West Lighting-up time for all vehicles this evening: 454 COAL STRIKE WARNING JF by the end of July the demanded 2s a day increase was not forthcoming there would be nothing short of a stoppage throughout the British mining industry That was the view expressed by Mr John McQuirk at Bolton yesterday at the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Federation Conference At the end of July the 12-monthly trial period of the centralised selling schemes ends Unless he said the schemes fructified and brought more wages lo the mine workers the schemes and the owners would stand condemned 1 RAIL STRIKE HINT A suggestion that it might be necessary for the National Union of Railwayman to call a 14-day strike to gain their demands for ihe restoration of all cuts imposed in 1934 and a minimum wage of 50s per week for every railway-worker was made hy the president of the union Mr Walter Griffiths In a speech at Eastleigh (Hants) last night The proposals for increases are to be put forward within the next few weeks THE POPE Troubled by Return of Asthma Vatican City Saturday After passing a fairly satisfactory day the Pope was a little troubled to-night by a return of asthma but the pain in his tegs officially stated to be decreasing I)r Milani Irftf physician is keeping a careful watch on his heart which ij weak and in view of the agl and the condition of arterio sceieriosii undue optimism is considered unwise His Holiness got up again to-day am wus wheeled In an armchair covered in win to damask into the adjpjgjagf to join Germany it Germany pushed Spanish affairs to the point of war Italy and Germany however intend to continue assisting General Franco until the result of their is known They hope that Madrid will have fallen to the insurgents before the new non-intervention negotiations have been concluded The Four-Power Pact was signed in Rome on 15 July 1935 between Britain France -Italy and Germany It contained an undertaking by the four Powers to consult together on all questions which appertain to them and to pursue a policy of peace in the framework of the League) Mussolini and Goering ane merrtng again to work out the final details of their joint policy on Spain to-day SMASHING RUSSIA Last night they metr-for the fourth time since the Nazi arrival in at a midnight supper This lime there was no conference Soviet Russia and the so-called Red menace lo Spain and Europe figured largely in their two conferences yesterday They had alreatfy decided that Soviet inihionce must be smashed Yesterday they met to decide how to carry out the plan without the danger of plunging Europe into war It was decided to play safe with England The reply to the British Note on non-intervention will be received this week But it will not contain a definite It will make the cessation of Italian and German intervention dependent upon a guarantee that Russian influence will be effectively slopped miles from Malaga yesterday according to reports reaching Gibraltar No town of any size now lies between the insurgents and Malaga The insurgents also occupied the important position of San Alcantara in Malaga province Aircraft took part in the attack A battle was raging yesterday in the vicinity of Estepona near Malaga Rebel and warships took part The loyalist troops were also assisted by 'planes Franco renewed his pressure on Madrid as soon as daylight came yesterday The insurgents according to the Madrid defence junta communique were again repulsed Strong attacks at Carabanchel and In the University City where they tried to capture the new positions occupied by the Government during the recent lighting were ve ry he re re Ised Violently Repulsed The insurgents are reported to have suffered serious losses on the entire Madrid front (BUP states) and numerous tanks are reported to have been destroyed The attack followed an attempt by (lie insurgents on the University City front an attack which the War Office communique declared was repulsed by our troops" Another rebel attack spent Itself against the defence lines KIEL CANAL CLOSED The Kiel Canal Is henceforward closed to foreign warships except by diplomatic permission it was officially announced in Berlin yesterday A communique stated Warships and' war vessels ol foreign Powers may pass the Kiel Canal only after a permit hat been obtained beforehand which must be applied for in lime through dtplo: viatic The Spanish steamer Cabo StRetro which has been at Plymouth for nearly a month with a cargo worth £7ouoo for tho Spanish Government HON MRS DROGO MONTAGU WEDS FILM CHIEF DOLLAR RING El Paso (Texas) Saturday T'HE Hon Mrs Drogo Montagu formerly Miss a i Guinness daughter of Mr Benjamin Guinness the British banker) was married to-day at Juarez Mexico to Mr Howard Dietz of New York -an executive of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film concern Mr Dietz interrupted the marriage ceremony to go to Old Juarez market where he bought a dollar turquoise ring which he placed on his finger He said that he had another ring but decided not to use it sentimental reasons Mrs Montagu was formerly married to the Hon Drogo Montagu son of the Earl of Sandwich Some two months ago she was to have been married to the Earl of Carnarvon at British Consulate in Baltimore but Mrs Montagu decided not to go through with the wedding Mr Dietz's marriage with his wife formerly Miss Elizabeih Hall of Virginia was dissolved on Thursday British United Press MINERS ENTOMBED Seven men were entombed by a heavy fall of roof at Grimethorpe Colliery South Elmsall South Yorkshire yesterday After spending twelve and a half hours in a space of four square yards behind a wall of coal they were released unscathed MURDERED GIRL BURIED Pekin Saturday Miss Pamela Werner the English girl whose mutilated body was found in a ditch at Pekin last week was buried to-day at the British cemetery here A man who was detained for questioning earlier in the week was released this BUP DEATH AT MATCH A 78-year-old Swindon man collapsed and died yesterday at a footbull match at the County Ground Swindon between the Swindon boys and Rilstnn boys in the first round proper of the English Schoolboys Shield Competition He was William George Liles oi fTHE US Consulate at Malaga has been wrecked by bombs presumably during aerial combats over the city it was reported to the State Department in Washington yesterday by the US Consul at Gibraltar The Consul and staff evacuated the building last September and it is not believed that any lives were lost Tho majority of a number of aerial torpodoeo dropped by Government planes on tho Insurgent base at Algeoiras yesterday fell between the British Consulate and the Maria Grietina Hotel spreading panic throughout the town Insurgent troops entered Marbella 3) WHY SHOUI WE LAUGH? 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