•ww " LIGHTING-UF TIME WEATHER FORECAST 7-53 RM. Light Variable Wind. Fine ®lp» JHtnjal (SSaz?tfc attu (Eolmtiat HMg INCORPORATING THE ROYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 23—No. 171 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937 3D PER COPY — 40/- PER ANNUM BRITAIN TO PRESS DECISION ON NON-INTERVENTION? Wants Powers' Views on Its SIR GEORGE SOMER'S SEA I "EXAGGERATED ALARM" CHINESE FEAR MAJOR CHEST AND LODE STONE I ABOUT THE CEDARS DRIVE BY JAPAN DOUBLE TRAGEDY NEAR PEMBROKE MARSH YESTERDAY MORNING Compromise Proposal Valuable Antiques Being Sold Department of Agriculture's Tokio Regards Crisis as One to the Historical Society Statement on Position of the Past, it is said FRANCE PROTESTS TO GERMANY Screaming leads to the discovery of a APPEAL FOR FUNDS IS MADE "OUSTING NATIVE FLORA" NEW CONFUSION ENSUES ABOUT CONTINUING "LIES" woman in water-tank; man living The Bermuda Historical Society "In view of the exaggerated alarm PEIPING, July 23 (CP)—The North with her found shot dead has been offered the sea chest and as to the future of Bermuda cedars China situation was thrown into new BY PRESS lode stone of Admiral Sir George which seems to have been roused, it confusion today, just as the tension Somers, the founder of the Colony may be of interest briefly to survey was thought to have been ended. A double tragedy at a small cottage near Pembroke Marsh of Bermuda, and an appeal is being their condition and possible fate," a Tokio, hearing of the Chinese troops made for funds with which the pur­ early yesterday morning was discovered when a nine-year-old Madrid Falls Again into Grim Siege as statement from the Department of withdrawals from Peiping, was dis­ girl, awakened by the screaming of one of two persons subsequent­ chase may be consummated, it was Agriculture says. It adds: posed to consider the immediate learned yesterday. "While it is true in a sense to say danger past, and Japan was said to ly found dead, ran to neighbours and gave the alarm. Charles Though there is no documentary Insurgents Hammer it with Artillery that the cedar is faced with extinction be ready for a settlement of the Saltus, 44-year-old employee of Harold and William Frith, Ltd., evidence to show that the sea chest this has been the case since 1830, the primary differences. In Peiping Chi­ and Irene Cann, the woman with whom he lived, were both dead; and lode stone were aboard Sir year given for the introduction of the nese reports say that "observed mili­ George's vessel the "Sea Venture" Saltus with a bullet wound in his head and another just above LONDON, July 23. (Havas-CP)—Well informed sources fiddlewood. The spread of fiddle- tary activity suggests that the Ja­ when she was wrecked on the reefs his heart, and Cann drowned in a tank behind the house. woods since then has been remark­ panese are about to inaugurate a reported today that the Foreign Office has advised the Government of Bermuda in July, 1609, the con­ able and in parts of the countryside major drive to consolidate the en­ A Coroner's jury under the Wor to ask members of the 27-nation "hands off Spain" committee jecture is that the lode stone prob­ we see the cedar giving up the unequal hanced influence gained out of re­ H. Villiers Smith viewed the bodies for their written replies within three days, accepting or rejecting ably was. No Issue of Royal Gazette struggle with this rival. There seems cent events." yesterday morning and afterwards h point in Mr. Eden's compromise proposal for ending the non­ The offer of the sea chest and the every indication that, without active Japanese Army officers stated today on Wednesday, adjourned for the inquest proper, intervention deadlick. lode stone has been made by Major intervention, another hundred years that the withdrawal of the Chinese which will be held this morning at 9.30 J. F. Bellamy, from whom the So­ The decision whether to send out this invitation-questionnaire will see Bermuda covered with fid- 37th Division southward from the Somer's Day in the jury rooms at the Supreme ciety purchased the portraits of Sir dlewoods and not with cedars. Peiping area was completed, and this Court-house. expected later tonight, after the views of the French Government George and Lady Somers five years "In a large area in Warwick, ce­ complied with the Japanese demand News of the tragedy spread quickly been ascertained. The object of this procedure will be to ago. Next Wednesday is Somers' dars have been completely destroyed most vital to the immediate restora­ Day, which is now a legal holi­ and by 10 o'clock a crowd of people the interested powers to make unequivocal statements on the The portraits and chest were heir­ by competition from the spice-tree tion of peace in North China. gathered in the dusty road outside looms in the Bellamy family for gen­ day, and there will consequent­ roblems of non-intervention, particularly whether foreign or pimento, and our impression is There is a growing fear here, how­ the house. After the jury had taken erations and were seen by Sir J. H. ly be no issue of The Royal Ga­ s should be withdrawn from Spain before belligerent rights that this area has spread extensively ever, that a major Japanese drive is zette and Colonist on that day. the oath they and the Coroner were Lefroy at the time he was writing his since it first came to our notice five or pending. According to advices re­ led by Supt. McBeath into the small are granted the combatants. Memorials of Bermuda, Dr. Henry Advertisers are asked to have six years ago. Both the fiddlewood ceived in foreign circles from Tient­ advertisements for Thursday's room to the left of the front door, Mr. Duff Cooper, Minister for War, expressed the determina- Wilkinson informs The Royal Ga­ and the spice-tree express the truth sin, the Japanese Army is making edition handed in at The Ga­ where the body of Saltus lay on the no British sailors would lose their lives in protecting Brit- zette. Now that Major Bellamy is of the adage that you cannot eat elaborate preparations for a large- bed. There were blood stains on the breaking up his house in Exeter he zette offices by noon on Tues­ l in Spanish territorial waters. Attacked in the House your cake and have it. scale troop movement. Hundreds of day. sheet from the wound in his chest, has offered to sell the chest and stone carts, mules, horses and equipment but no signs of a struggle. >ns by Mr. Wedgewood Benn for the "Admiralty's shame- for £100. Thursday's issue will con­ OUSTING NATIVE FLORA for a protracted campaign in the tain reports cf the Somers' Day Saltus lay with his head at the protection in the evacuation of refugees from San- At the request of the Historical interior have arrived at Tientsin from foot of the bed, dressed in his under­ Society, Mr. Thorpe, the Assistant celebrations at St. George's, the First Lord of Admiralty replied: "If we are going to beautify these Manchoukuo. The Japanese Army wear. The jury silently filed into Keeper of Woodwork in the Victoria scheduled for Wednesday af­ ng as I am at the Admiralty I hope not another British islands with plant introductions from at Tientsin has placed orders for the courtyard at the back of the and Albert Museum, has inspected ternoon and evening. other parts of the world we must 600,000 gallons of gasoline and all the house, where the body of Cann lay, I in a cause which is not worth fighting for." the chest. realise that the native flora is bound available aviation gasoline in China. near the tank from which she had heated debate Mr. ] ; to go by the board. A grievous in­ TOKIO, July 23 (CP)—Japan was been taken. isked Mr. Cooper, if lie had| AUTHENTIC PIECE stance of this is to be seen at Wal- returning to normal today as the gen­ NEW ENGLISH DIVORCE No evidence was given at the in­ tbe Chicago stockyards, singham and Abbott's Cliff, formerly eral belief grew that war had been quest proceedings yesterday, but would have seen men New Defence Plan Em­ He reports that it is of cypress, LAW IN SIGHT the home of various species of plants averted and the long-standing dif­ from the Police it was learned that dreadful task it was to see I 3' by 1' 4" by 1' 5" and plain, except braces British Merchant found only in Bermuda, where the ferences had been settled. A Foreign the last person to see Cann alive was le of the terrified creatures for the Hd which is carved with a wild jasmine, introduced from Aus­ Office spokesman declared that Japan 25-Year Fight Ended the nine-year-old daughter of Saltus, the shambles." Mr. Cooper Navy series of symbolic figures on both tralia in 1840, has over-grown every­ was ready to consider a proposal LONDON, July 23 (CP)—The who lived with'the couple. At about TO the slaughter simile, and sides. In his opinion it is an authen­ thing and has completely ousted and from the Chinese Government to twenty-five-year-old fight to liberalize 6.30 a.m. she was awakened by the s difficult to draw a line be- S OTJTHAMP TON, July 23 (CP) tic piece of the mid-sixteen century, destroyed the native flora.