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INSURGENT GENERAL REFUSES TO AUTONOMY BLUE RIBAND OF ATLANTIC WITHIN
GRASP OF R.M.S. QUEEN MARY
MOVE?
KWANGSTS
DEFIANCE
OF NANKING
Sustained Challenge
Possible
NORTHERN FORCES READY TO MOVE INSTANTLY
From Our Own Correspondent! Canton, To-day.
Declining to accept membership of the Military Affairs Commission and the chairmanship of the Che- kiang Provincial Government res- pectively, Generals Li Chung-jen and Pei Hsung-hsi are reported to have defied the Central Authori- ties in order to maintain their hold in Kwangsi.
The
Three lines of defences are set up in Kwangsi, bordering on Hunan and Kweichor vanguard of the Kwangsi penetrated near troops have
Ning Ling, Southern Hunan, as they are supposed to be carry- ing out an anti-Japanese expe- dition.
New York, To-day-The record apparently within her grasp, the Queen Mary passed Nantucket at 5 p.m. yesterday and should have reached Ambrose Light at 11.25 pm, over It is rumoured that an auto-two hours inside the Normandie's record time.
A steamer from Ermont picked up nine passengers of a seaplane which crashed at sea nomous Government will be es- eablished in Kwangsi with the near Nantucket, going to meet the Queen Mary. One man was dead and another is dying.
Later: The seaplane was occupied by journalists and press photographers from Boston. help of a certain foreign coun-
Physicians aboard the Queen Mary are advising by wireless the crew of the Ermont about the try, along lines similar to: those of the so-called East treatment of a serious case among the survivors-Reater. Hope Autonomous Regime Another report states that the Kwangsi militarists have allied with tertain reactionary Kwangtung troops along the West River.
to
have and
Kwangsi claims 150,000 regular troops militia, and may put up a sus- tained challenge to the Central Authorities.
CAR ACCIDENT IN GERMANY
20 Killed When Driver Loses Control
Berlin, To-day. One of the most serious road- accidents in Germany for years
HIS MAJESTY RETURNS TO LONDON
London, To-day- His Majesty the King returned from France by air and landed at Hendon at 8.40 p.m. yesterday. He then motored to Buckingham Palace Reuter.
Nanking troops in Hunan and occurred yesterday at Freudens- IMPRESSIVE
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Storm
Kweichow have been ordered to march into Kwangsi at a mo- Troopers were making an ex- ment's notice, while the loyal cursion in the Black Forest in a Kwangtung forces have been huge motor-lorry with a trailer. instructed to guard the western The driver lost control on a borders against a Kwangsi in- steep hill and the vehicles crashed over a steep embank- ment, somersaulting twice.!
were killed and Twenty men
Reuter. many injured..
vasion.
FIRE DISASTER AT MASSAWA
Whole Town Said To
Ablaze
Rame, To-day.
Official circles admit the blaze!
at Massawa, but state that the ex- tent of the disaster is exaggerated. -Reuter.
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CEREMONY AT
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Great Ovation For King Edward
CANADIAN WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED
Vimy Ridge, To-day.
POLICEMAN SHOT
CENTRAL STATION INCIDENT
SIKH CONSTABLES INVOLVED
Excitement reigned at
the Central Police Station yesterday afternoon when an Indian constable, Sahib
Singh, was fatally shot by another constable, Bhag Singh, on the verandah of the Indian quarters at the station.
According to the Police report, about 5 p.m. yesterday Bhag Singh returned to barracks. He was! dressed in mufti and had been out! lin the afternoon. When he re- were a number of turned there
to his room, returned
FOGEL came
SURRENDER
SARAGOSSA
HOMERIC ONSLAUGHT BY GOVT. FORCES BACKED BY PLANES FUGITIVES FROM BADAJOS TELL OF FRIGHTFUL ATROCITIES
TRAGIC BURSTING OF TYRE CAUSES SHOOTING
OF BRITON IN HOLD-UP IN BARCELONA
Madrid, To-day.
A Government broadcast yesterday announced that seaplanes from Barcelona bombed Palma, Majorca. Several rebel chiefs attempting to escape by boat were taken prisoner. A Gibraltar message states. that H.M. battleship Repulse has gone to Palma to take off a party of Britons.
Barcelona: It is officially stated that over 300 people were killed in the fighting last week. The city is now calm and the tram and bus
services have started again.
Genoa: An Italian steamer brought 1,500 refugees from Barce- lona yesterday, 1,000 of whom are Italians and the remainder of other nationalities.
BESIEGED MADRID
Berlin: The German battleship Deutschland has arrived at San Sebastian for the protection of the German colony. The hat- tleship Admiral von Scheer is expected to proceed to Barcelona. Genoa: The death of an unknown British bustness man is reported by refugees from Barcelona. They state that the Bri- ton, accompanied by a Swiss friend, was escaping from the city in a motor-car when a picket of Red guards held them up and covered the occupants with revolvers. The sudden application of Given Six Days Before the brakes caused a tyre to burst and the guards, thinking that the occupants were firing, thereupon fired a volley and killed both the Briton and the Swiss.
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Surrender
WATER SUPPLY CUT OFF
Hendaye, To-cy.
Lisbon: How groups of arm-Marseilles from Barcelona. ed: Communists stormed the Most foreigners express sur- houses of over 100 landowners prise at the extremists' courtesy and, after assaulting their wives to foreigners. So far the only di- In the course of Saturday and and daughters, cut off an ear plomatic incident relates to zili-
from each householder before tia firing Polish Legation yesterday General Mola's troops leaving, is told by fugitives motor-car in Madrid. The Polish occupied all the passes in the from Badajos, who are crossing Government has formally protest-mountains within a rachas, of 50. the frontier in ever-increasing ed. numbers.
The International Red Cross 2: km. from Madrid in the Guada from Berne offered assistance to the rama and Sterra Somo. The van- Portuguese refugees Vigo are straggling to Oporto Spanish Red Cross, which was de
on foot, penniless, after being clined with thanks, the latter de guard of General Franco's army robbed by Spanish Communists claring that help was unnecessary. has reached Aranjuez from the at the frontier.
Washington: The U. S. Amba-South via Alcazar de St. Joan.
One party said they saw the body of a priest hang- ing outside a tavern with his head battered in.
All the rich people's homes. have been sacked, causing wide- spread panic.
Surrender Of City Ordered & Refused
HOMERIC ONSLAUGHT ON SARAGOSSA
London, To-day.
sador and his staff have evacuated
the summer residence at San Se-Both of the only two water-ways to the capital were cut by the mi- litary party.
bastian.
War Material Issue In France
Paris:
As the Madrid reservoirs have only a supply for three
A Spanish aeroplane days, ever the strictest ration- brought $140,000 in gold to paying will bring Madrid to the end for war material, but it is learned of its resources within six days.
LEGATION UNDER FIRE that the Government has declined
in
to countenance purchases France France is ablaze with
Warsaw: According to a mee-
the war material controversy. The sage from Madrid the Polish Le gation was under fire, for some Rightists vehemently oppose thej time." The Commercial Attache sale of war materials to Spain, and his wife had just returned to
"I order you to surrender the the ground that such action will the Legation when a group of the
FLOODS IN NEW TERRITORIES
Fish From Breeding Pond Escape
tion, about 30 shots in all being. fred. By nothing less than a miracle nobody was hurt.
This news was received after the Polish Foreign Minister had at last succeeded in getting into
H. M. the King set foot in Indian constables squatting and city""I refuse" were messages invite Italy and Germany to reta People's Front Militia, led by an France for the first time as mon talking on the verandah. He went exchanged between the loyalist late and assist the rebels, and aviation captain, entered the few min- General Perez Farras and the will create a dangerous situation grounds and fired on the Lega- arch when he landed at Calais yes jutes later armed with a service rebel General Cabanellas respec-Reuter. terday morning and proceeded to rifle, and fired several shots. The tively yesterday. They precluded Vimy Ridge, where he unveiled other Indians thereupon scattered a Homeric onslaught on Sara- the Canadian war memorial: His but one, P.C. B.625. Sahib Singh, gossa.
was shot and collapsed on the
The Government forces have An earlier message said that One of the great attractions of
Majesty was wearing a dark grey
verandah. During the shooting travellers from Massawa stated the Deutschland Exhibitio that the town was aflame, with Berlin will be a relief maps of the morning suit and his medais, and P.C. B.255, who was in bed in an established an air base at Lerida, eight miles from Saragossa, from
telephonic contacf with his Lega- tion in Madrid. Strong protests petrol tanks ablaze. The flames Reich, which will give a plastic was tremendously cheered when adjoining barrack
have been lodged with the Span- were spreading to the magazine impression of the whole German he appeared on the terrace of the from behind and seized the con- which they conducts continuous
badly shattered the fine old town. The heavy rains which fell yes fish authorities, in Madrid as well were said to have been destroyed conception of the new motor roads, people, while planes droned over- and the aeroplanes, of which 50 countryside, and especially a clear monument by a crowd of 200,000 stable and held him till assistance bombardment, which has already
arrived when he was disarmed.
Three other critical areas out terday morning flooded several jas, in Warsaw. The victim was removed to the head
Government Civil Hospital imme- side Madrid are Seville, on their parts of the New Territories in-
A great part of the Polish co- The King made his opening distely, but died before aftival way to which the loyalists haz cinding the Castle Peak and Un speech in French and then con- The motive for the shooting is at reached the city of Cordova: A Long areas, where villagers had to lony in Madrid and many Polish stable will be formally charged at which facilitates the re-victual- of water at times to reach the Legation, but food supplies will that the monument was not on the Central Magistracy to-morrow ling of the capital; and San homes. alien soil, for a French law bad morning. decreed that the hill would be for! ever part of Canada. President Le-! brun and others spoke, and a mes sage from Mr. Mackenzie King
Hundreds were dead.
-Trans-Ocean Service.
R.A.F. PLANES IN ACTION AGAINST ARABS
90-MINUTE ENGAGEMENT IN JUDEAN HILLS
Jerusalem, To-day.
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inued in English. He emphasised present unknown, and the con- bacete, captured from the rebels, wade through three or four feet tourists have sought refuge in the
ALLEGED USE OF FORGED DOCUMENT.
Wong Kan-gun, an unemployed Prime Minister of Canada, trans-shrott, was this morning charged mitted by trans-Atlantic telephone before Mr. C. R. Burgess at the!
the
around which Sebastian, loyalists are gaining ground- Beuter.
Only One Diplomatic Incident
junly last for a few-days.--Trans- Rising over the banks, the Lood Ocean Service, caused the escape of fish from the' breeding pond at Un Long.
A part of local fishermen who had travelled to Un Long by mo
WEATHER REPORT
Pressure is highest over the
or car, and then set off for Deep Pacife to the stath-east of Japan, Bay, on foot, returned to find their and relatively low over Manchuria, car in several feet of water and Indo-China and the Pacific be
At least 10 Arabs have been killed in an engagement with
A fleet of British and American the road to Castle Peak flooded in tween the Philippines and the British troops in the Judean hills, arising from the ambushing and amplified, was heard as clear Central Magistracy with obtaining by Arabs of an omnibus convoy proceeding to Tel Aviv. ly as if the speaker were present. 57,000 from the Wing Hing Hong warships is making what sie vir several places. The waters sub- Caroline Islands, South-east winds, Two more Arabs were killed by bombs dropped by Royal Air Briliant sunshine prevailed Firm by means of a forged docu- tually ferry services, removing sided later in the events, but not fresh; clouds, occasionat zzin, was ment. Detective Sergeant C. Byron foreign refugees, regardless of before considerable damage had the forecast for to-day, as Isrned Force planes, which flew to the scene of the engagement, lasting 90 minutes. Troops thereafter cordoned the hits and began throughout the impressive cemed for remand of 48 hours, nationality. For example, HMS been done to crops in some of the by the Royal Observato
which was granted.
Garland brought 260 people to outlying districts. rounding up the remainder of the Arab gang. - Reater.
Imony-Reuter.