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35,000 STRIKE IN FRANCE: POSITION DECLARED ACUTE IN PARIS
TENSE SITUATION
IN JERUSALEM
TERRORISM CONTINUES
DESPITE TROOPS
TWO BRIDGES BLOWN UP AND TELEPHONE WIRES WRECKED
Jerusalem, To-day.
The terrorism is continuing, despite the pre- sence of five battalions of British troops and the introduction of new emergency regulations. Two bridges were blown up on the Hebron road early yesterday morning, and the road is now only pass- able by very light traffic. A mile of telephone wires were wrecked on the same road.
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A British police patrol was fired on here dur- ing the night in a narrow street in the Old City. Nobody was hurt. Emergency regulations em- power the District Commissioners to order shops and businesses to reopen, and to inflict penalties for default. Reuter.
BRITAIN'S AIRCRAFT
INDUSTRY ·
LARGE INCREASES IN EXPORTS
London. To-day.
The total value of British aircraft exports for 1935 was £2.721,441, which is the highest on record and exceeded the figure for 1934 by no less than £800.339. In 1935 the total also exceed-
ed the previous record set up in 1929 by £562,774.
Despite the demands this year upon the aircraft industry of the Government's programme of expansion for the Royal Air Force, manufacturers are contriving to fulfil many large orders for export. Three of the leading companies announce orders ag-! gregating hundreds of thousands of pounds în value and coming from nearly a dozen different countries.
AIR OFFICIAL KILLED
Loss To German Air Force
Berlin, To-day. Lieutenant-General
Wever, Chief of the General Staff of the German Air Force, was killed yesterday when an army plane he was piloting crashed at Dresden airport, A mechanic was also killed-Reuter.
aero-
CAPE TO LONDON FLIGHT
HILTON MAY HAVE
BEATEN RECORD
The Avro company is supply-
ing aircraft to Greece, Austria. Australia, Finland and Egypt the
most considerable indivi-
dual contract being for 381 Anson twin-engined monoplanes;
land company, which last year
sold aircraft to 25 countries,
has received orders recently
PUTT-PUTT draws fuel from air
The outboard hydroplane operated by Andy Gantner, holder of a number of amateur racing records, is here shown refueling from a plane on Lake Michigan, with Chicago's imposing sky- line in the background. Gantner expects to refuel in this manner in his attempt to lower the Chicago-Milwaukee record. The plane and boat are here seen speeding at 50 m.ph.
Miraculous Escape From Sharks
PROBLEM IN ETIQUETTE
·FOR DIPLOMATS `
Erbio-
corps
Lerdon, to-day-The pian Minister, X. Martin, bas provided the diplomatic with a problem in etiquette by inviting all the members except the Italian Ambassador, Signor Grandi, to a reception in London on Saturday to meet the Em- peror.-Router.
181 PASSENGERS
FOR H.K.
TO ZBW TRANSMISSION
The R.M.S. Empress of from Uruguay, New Zealand. Russia, from Vancouver and
10 HOURS IN WATER IN GULF OF ADEN
HARROWING EXPERIENCE
OF YOUNG GERMAN
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
SUBURBS WITHOUT
GAS
ICE AND MILK DELIVERY SUSPENDED
MOVEMENT SPREADING RAPIDLY IN PROVINCES
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day.
The strike still grows in France, and the num- ber of those who have laid down their tools is now already estimated at 35,000. These figures do not include those striking in the provinces, where, however, the situation is not so acute as in Paris and the neighbourhood.
The Government regards the situation as very serious, as the strike movement is beginning to spread to industries immediately affecting the public. The delivery, for instance, of ice for the milk depots in Paris ceased yesterday, while the employees of the gas-works of Nanterre have also joined the strikers. Since these gas-works supply 30 other suburbs also these have all had to go without gas since the contents of the gas-meters were ex- hausted, which happened last night.
The news of further strikes in the provinces, particularly in Lyon, Nantes, Marseilles, Lille, and Rouen, is continually arriv ing in Paris.
The probable future Minis- ter of Interior, M. Salengro, de- clared yesterday that even though the workers' demands are justified, they must keep within their limits, sinec a Gov- ernment of the Popular. Front does not mean anarchy. The representatives of all the trade
ions, met yesterday to dis
cover measures by which the strike movement can be better controlled. Trans-Ocean Ser-
vice
STRIKES SPREADING
spread to the steelworks at
tricity, railway, bus and Metro
through the Gulf the young man. day.-Peuter. who had been sitting on the rail-
HENGCHOW KEY CITY
OBJECTIVE OF TWO FORCES
YUNGCHOWFU OCCUPIED Shanghai, To-day.
Lille, later: The strike has now A Domei report from Hamburg, To-day. The story of the mira- Denain and Anzis, where 47,000 Canton stats that an culous escape of a young German who, after fall-workers threaten to let the blast official Kwangsi com-
furnaces go out unless they receive] munique announces the- Berthing Of Empressing in the shark-infested Gulf of Aden spent 10 satisfaction
hours in the water amidst a school of sharks be- Paris: Agricultural workers on Delayed
Joccupation of the wall- fore being rescued by a Dutch ship, was told when farms in the neighbourhood of ed town of Yungchowfu for Australia, The De Havil MR. RICHARDS PAYS TRIBUTE the Wangoni of the German-Africa Line arrived Paris are striking, and gas, elec in Hunan without oppo-
here yesterday.
While the vessel was passing workers threaten to come out to- sition, the Hunanese troops having previous- ly withdrawn.
Meanwhile the- Kwangtung military: headquarters have is sued a- communique stating that the Iching, Hunan, side of the Kwangtung-Hunan bor- der has been occupied. Hengchow appears to Canton, To-day.
be the present objective Panic prevailed in business and banking circles this morning ow-of the two forces. ing to the further rise of the pre-Reuter. mium on Hong Kong currency to
orders.
balance and fell overboard. His absence was not noticed until some time later, when the steamer.
IN ANTWERP Unauthorised Demands immediately turned and began a
For Increases
Turkey and Iraq. The Hawker Shanghai, arrived this morn- DOCKERS' STRIKE ins of the upper deck, lost his company also has large exporting at 9.30 am. carrying 181 passengers for Hong Kong, but Much interest was shown, it is had some difficulty in berthing, reported. at the recent Internation- a strong wind and
Aero Exhibition at
current Stock- hampering the work of the tugs, hoba in the
Air which, however, eventually had General craft company's monospar
twin the liner alongside No. 1 Pier engined ambulance monoplane after half an hour. London, To-day. on the British stand. The fit. Among the passengers on board Squadron-Leader Hilton, whatings include specially designed was Mr. W. J. Richards, the China: left Cape Town on Saturday last stretchers, containers for medical representative of the Marconi on a flight to England to "test his instruments and stores, oxygen
and blooding Director of the Chinese Wire-
machine," will, with luck, beat the cylinders and a tent
transfusion apparatus.
record recently achieved by Mrs. Amy Mollison. Mr. Hilton left; The plane is equipped with elec- trical starters, radio transmitter Cairo in good time on Tuesday and receiver, direction finder and night on the last stage, and if he instruments for blind flying. had arrived in England before 11 British Wireless Service. o'clock last night, he would have broken the record-Reuter's Bul- letin Service.
AIR CRASH IN HOLLAND
Austrian Financier
Killed
HALT AT ATHENS London: Squadron-leader Hil- ton, who is flying from the Cape in an aeroplane fitted with a Wol-1 seley engine which is being test- ed, and who was reported to beļ attempting to break Mrs. Amy Mol- lison's record for the fight England of 4 days 16 hours 17 The prominent financier van minutes, left Athens at 130 p.m.Hengel, Director-General of G.M.T. yesterday after a halt
to
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Amsterdam, To-day.
Wireless Telegraph Co. and Manag-
less Telegraph Co., with head- quarters in Shanghai,
Interviewed on board, Mr. Rich- lards stated that his visit had no! connection with the erection of a new short-wave experimental trans- mitter by the H. K. Government or, for that matter, with the erec- tion of any new wireless station either in Hong Kong or Canton.
He said there were several pro- jects in Canton, but he had no- thing to do with them, although he was contemplating a visit there shortly.
Antwerp, To-day. Work has ceased on al- most all vessels, following the unauthorised demand by the dockers, which the unions did not endorse, for a 2s. in- Several wages. groups of metal-workers have also struck-Reuter's Bul- letin Service.
crease
in
search, but abandoned this as hopeless since it was not consi-: dered possible that anyone could
Ten sarvive in these hours later the Dutch steamer Sembilan discovered the missing man and took him on board.
waters.
FURTHER RISE IN PREMIUM
Business At A Standstill
H.K. NOTES IN CANTON
[From Our Own Carrespondent]
In telling of the harrowing experience, the young man said that only through keep- ing perfectly still did he es cape being attacked by the sharks, dozens of which swam all around him.
76 cents to the dollar. This rate Three ships passed him without is the highest since Canton went
MORE STRIKES noticing him, and he had given up off the silver standard on Novem-
IN SPAIN
Hairdressers, Dustmen And Street Cleaners
Barcelona, To-day. Women's hairdressers have pre- sented their employers with strike. notices, and dustmen have called a lightning strike in sympathy with street cleaners, who have already.
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SIAMESE TENNIS ACES ARRIVE IN COLONY Sanoh, Muangreong and Bra-ceased work-Reater. of the Austrian Credit Anstalt, juab, the three Siamese tennis several hours-British Wireless and the well-known Austrian players who are making an un- Service.
"CHARLIE" BACK HOME
airman, Captain Brumowski, official tour of the China coast were killed here on Tuesday at the invitation of Mr. Vilas San Francisco, To-day-Charlie MR. A. A. NOYES PASSES when a sports plane piloted by Osatananda, Siam Trade Com-Chaplin and his party, including Brumowski crashed in landing missioner in Hong Kong, arriv. his leading lady in “Moders Pasadena, To-day The death on the Amsterdam aerodrome.jed here this morning by the s.8. Times," Miss Paulette Goddard. has occurred of Arthur Amos Hengel was in his way to Am-Helios. They will play exhibi- and her mother, have arrived, at -Noyes, the international research sterdam from Basle. Trans- tion matches in Hong Kong, the conclusion of their Far Eas]
chemist.-Peuter.
Ocean Service.
Canton and Macau.
tern tour-Renter.
vice.
TWO BOYS MISSING Not Seen Since 1 p.m.
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to
NO DECLARATION
OF WAR
Telegram To Nanking Not Ultimatum
[From Our Own Correspondent) Canton, To-day, Nanking divisions
Two
in
all hope when the Dutch steamer ber 7. finally Sshed him out. He subse. Foreign trade is practically [quently caught up with his ship a standstill, as nobody cares
in Port Said.Trans-Ocean Ser-do business on a big scale during
the present political uncertainty.
Officials of the Kwangtung Pro-| |vincial Bank and the Provincial Department of Finance are map- ping out plans to restore the con-Hapeh have been transferred to fidence in the Government actes. Kweichow
to reinforce the 13 They are handicapped by the divisions there in preparation for Two Portuguese boys, fact that a sense of nervousness the coming clash with Kwangs, Francis Rew, aged 15, and His prevailing here..
land
16 heavy bombers have John Rew, aged 12, are re- Imported goods as well as na arrived at Kweiyang, the pro- ported to be missing from tive products are becoming more vincial capital, according the St. Lorris Industrial expensive owing to the deprecia-Japanese reports received here School, Third Street. They tion of the Government notes. No last night. left the school at 1 pkt. On tangible remedy is possible at Monday last and have not represent, in view of the political that Kwangsi troops have crossed Another Japanese report stated
Immed
On Monday
There was no further newa
of the missing boys up to the time of going to press.
to
situation.
the Bunan border with the object Bankers are of opinion that the of capturing Hengchow in Hong Kong premium will rise to Southern Hunan. There are few 480 cents in the next few dayz
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