DUKE MAY VISIT HAWAII SOON

Southland Times, Issue 23347, 3 November 1937, Page 5

DUKE MAY VISIT HAWAII SOON

PLANS REPORTED IN NEW YORK PRESS FLIGHT IN PAN-AMERICAN CLIPPER (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 2, 10.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 2. The newspapers reproduce a copyrighted story from The Honolulu Advertiser stating that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have arranged a visit of six weeks to Hawaii. They will arrive by the Pan-American Clipper flying-boat on December 16. The Duke and Duchess will be accompanied by Mr William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, and by Mr and Mrs James Cromwefl. A message from New Jersey says that Mr Cromwell admitted that he and his wife were flying to Honolulu early in December, but he denied that he will be accompanied by the Duke and Duchess, whom he has never met. rlt is announced from Washington that the President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) is planning a luncheon for the Duke and Duchess. There are no plans at present for a dinner or a reception .at the White House. Mr Charles E. Bedaux, who was the Duke’s host at the Chateau de Cande, arrived at New York today. He brusquely told journalists that he had seen no indications that the Duke and Duchess possessed fascist sympathies. Mr Bedaux added that the Duke was managing his own trip, and he did not know his plans. There was a coincidence when Mr Ernest Simpson, whom the Duchess divorced, landed a few hours earlier. His visit is reported to be over a shipping deal. Mr Simpson’s affability disarmed interviewers; he refused to discuss the Duchess.

REVOLT IN MOROCCO THWARTED PROMPT FRENCH ACTION (Received November 2, 9.50 p.m.) PARIS, November 1. The French Resident-General (General Nogues) states that the authorities in Morocco thwarted plans to throw the French out of the protectorate by an armed rebellion. Prompt action defeated the conspiracy, and force was regretfully used. Serious rioting, believed to be part of a foreign plot to overthrow French rule, occurred in Northern Africa last week. At Port Lyautey a Moslem of Italian nationality collected several hundred Moors who were leaving a mosque and attacked the police with daggers, wounding seven. The police fired at the rioters, killing three and wounding four. Troops occupied Port Lyautey, Fez and Rabat, and many nationalist agitators were arrested. Rioting at Casablanca, Rabat and Fez after the arrest of four native agitators—one from Palestine, with a British passport—was believed to be associated with Pan-Arab .agitation throughout Morocco, later extending to Algeria and Tunis, encouraged by certain foreign Powers. Important documents were seized. A fortnight ago the French President (M. Albert Lebrun) signed a decree empowering the Minister for the Colonies (M. Albert Sarraut) to take whatever measures he considered necessary for the control of France's possessions and protectorates in North Africa, about which the Government has lately been much concerned. The population of the French possessions is about 9,000,000, and their area is about 896,000 square miles. The European population is over 1,000,000.