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POWERFUL, CATHOLIC SPAIN DECLARED AIM OF GENERAL MOLA
FRENCH POLITICAL CLASHES
Shots Fired Following Meeting
Of New Social Party
Lyons. To-day.
Several shots were fired and a number of people wounded in clashes between supporters of the Rightists and Leftists after
א
# meeting of the Social Party, which
a new organisation composed mainly of followers of the recently dissolved. Croix de Feu.-Reuter.
NEW LOCARNO
MEETING
Eventual Date Still Undecided
PRELIMINARY DIPLOMATIC
NEGOTIATIONS
UNIFICATION OF
CHINA
KWANGSI OFFICIALS IN NEW POSTS
PAKHOI SITUATION EASED
From A Special Correspondent]
Canton, To-day.
To-day is the day for the general unification of the Republic, of China. At 8 o'clock this morning Generals Li Chung-jen änd Pei Chung-hsi and Mr. Huang Ko-chai assumed their newly ap-
pointed positions at Nanning as Pacification Commissioner afl
Kwangsi, Member of the Standing Committee of the Military Affairs Commission, and Chairman of the Kwangsi Provincial Government respectively. The former 4th Group Army of Kwang- si and the 19th Route Army are "joining forces, to be known as: the 5th Route Army, of which General Li Chang-jeni is concur- rently Commander-in-Chief. As Kwangsi is a poor mountainous province. it will be supported by the Central Government with a grant of $3,000,000 (National currency) per month as from to-day. General Li Chung-jen has instructed General Yung Chao- The preliminary diplomatic pre-woon, now at Pakhoi, to evacuate the place, and the evacuation parations for the proposed meeting will be concluded before next Sunday. General Yu Hon-mow has of the Locarno Powers to which instructed Divisional Commander Tam Sui to garrison the place the Foreign Secretary, despite his 10 succeed General Yung, so that the Japanese and Chinese repre- recent enforced absence from his sentatives can investigate the circumstances of the death of the department, has been giving con-Japanese druggist there. General Tsai Ting-kai went to Kwang- chouwan by air yesterday, and he will come to Hong Kong from from his holiday, are now making there. Hence the Pakhoi sitnation has eased appreciably.
London. To-day.
stant attention since his
progress.
retum
A communique of July
23 envisaged the early opening of
negotiations for a new agreement
to take the place of the Rhine Pact of Locarne, as the first busi ness in the programme for the consolidation of peace by means of a general settlement achieved by the free co-operation of all the Powers concerned. The communi- que declared that steps should bel
Besides the censorship of military news in Canton, it is
NETHERLANDS learned that the Canton Gov-
PARLIAMENT
State Opening By The Queen
General Emilio Mola, above, commander of the Northern Army of the insurgents in the Spanish civil war, has declared in a speech that "after the con- quest" the new Spain will be run by the military, to form awaited, Catholic country, with the re steration of its old place in the world
HUGE EMPIRE
MILITARY RULE IS FORESHADOWED
FORMER PLACE IN SUN TO BE RESTORED
ANOTHER BRITISH VESSEL STOPPED
Burgos, To-day.
CONSPIRACY AGAINST LIFE
OF PRESIDENT AZANA Seven Plotters In Madrid Summarily Shot
Lisbon, To-day.
A conspiracy against the life of President Azana has been dis- covered at Madrid, according to the correspondent of the Diario de Lisboa. who adds that seven persons implicated. have been shot-Reuter.
A speech delivered in confident tones by General Mola vester PRESS ATTACKS
day promised a new future for Spain. He asserted that the gen- eration which helped to lose the colonial empire passed its time in fruitless lamentations, justifying its errors by sophistry.
The present enthusiasm of the youthful volunteers was to make a united, strong, Catholic Spain and give her the place in the world which she ovenpied at the time of the Catholic con- quest. General Mola warned the country that after the con- quest the work of reconstruction must be done by the military, on account of its character and knowledge of the problems to be faced. — Reuter.
to return to
EXHIBITION AT
JOHANNESBURG unboats appeared and
3,000,000 VISITORS
EXPECTED
Gibraltar A British steam-1 er was stopped yesterday by a Government cruiser in Spanish waters and made its port of sailing. While the Tessel was being escorted by the Spanish cruiser two British the Spanish vessel immediately made off, leaving the British boat to go on its way.
Another British vessel was bombed by
unidentified
SIX PRIME MINISTERS BROADCAST
plane,
Jage.
vice.-
an
but suffered no dam- Reuter's Bulletin Ser-
LILLE STRIKE POSITION
Situation Becomes
Easier
ARETTRATION AWARD BY GOVT. POSSIBLE
ON GERMANY
Echo Of Herr Hitler's Speech
CHANCES OF SETTLEMENT MORE REMOTE
Moscow, To-day.
Herr Adolf Hitler's denuncia- tion of Bolshevism has led to bitter press
attacks on many.
Ger-
The acestia describes the Nuremberg Congress as an at- tempt to intimidate and black- mail foreign States, and ridi- cules Herr Hitler's covetous re- ference to the Ukraine, the Ural Mountains and Siberia. The paper accuses the Nazis of aiming at disrupting the sys- tem of the collective security of
BRITISH OPINION
taken to arrange a five-Power meet-] CAREFUL FINANCIAL POLICY noon, and from 7 p.m. to 2 amwide broadcast hook-up yesterday on Friday to join the insurgents, to have been dispelled by the re-European settlement are regard
ing as soon as it could convenient-
ly be held. and there was specula- tion at the time whether it would assemble before the opening of the League Assembly.
NECESSARY
“CHINA MAIL", SPECIAL
The Hague, To-day.
· Commons Mr. Eden emphasised the traditional Speech from the
Paris, To-day. ernment has announced that:
The situation in the textile Europe. proofs of the news.copy of all
strike at Lille is easier and al news agencies and newspapers
London, To-day. ABORTIVE RED. MUTINY-meeting of delegates from a London British circles are not Six Empire Prime Ministers, those į must be sent to the Censorship of Britain, South Africa, Canada of some 800 men of the Marxist to accept the offer of the
Hendaye: An abortive matiny number of factories have agreed unduly perturbed by Herr Hitler's Bureau before publication.
em-deniciation of Balshevism, The time for censoring is from New Zealand, Australia and South forces in Bilbao occurred last week, ployers and decided to return to which is felt to be designed prin- one to five o'clock in the after-hodesia, from their respective
as reported here yesterday. The work immediately, while the cipally for home consumption. capitals participated in a world-
matineers intended to leave Bilbao fears of a general strike appear Nevertheless, the chances of a at night. Some of the Hong Kong vernacular papers have afternoon, at the opening of the but, owing to some leakage, the fusal of the Textile Union dyed as more remote, though it is been banned.
gigantic Empire Exhibition at plan became known and the would-Nord to consider the extension pointed out
that Herr Hitler's The Generalissimo has decid-attract 3,000,000 visitors. The Ocean Service.
Johannesburg, which is expected to be traitors were arrested. Trans- of the strike to other industries declaration of inability to make a
in the north. ed to go back to Nanking on scope of the exhibition includes the
pact with Bolshevism, while it M. Leon Blum, the Premier, įseems to exclude any Russo-Ger- Sunday next.
As soon as he world's largest open-air theatre,
M. Salengro, the Minister of man bilateral agreement, does not
Minister of Labour, will receive cipation in multilateral agree delegations of the employers ments to which Eussia is also and employees of the Lille dis-party-Reater. trict successively to-day, when
arrives at the capital he will equipped with the largest stretch CENTRAL EUROPE Interior, and M. Chautemps, necessarily exclude German parti-
Queen Wilhelmina opened Subsequently in the House. of Parliament yesterday with the
call the first meeting of the of scenery ever painted. view of His Majesty's Government, Throne. After thanking the |National Defence Committee, that a great amount of prepara-Dutch people for the sympathe
The Governor-General of the tory work must be done through tic interest they had taken in so as to solidify the country's Union of South Africa, the Earl defence to face any foreign of Clarendon, during the opening the the engagement of Princess
diplomatic channels before
meeting could usefully take place, Juliana, the Queen declared menace that may be encounter-ceremony read a message from His
and the German and other Govern- that the Government would ments, in accepting the invitations continue its strenuous efforts to
ed
to the meeting, slso stressed the overcome the unemployment; 4,000 Apply For Ten
LOCARNO TALKS
Italy Wants Proper Preparations
crnment's proposal that Locarno Conference
Vacancies
Majesty the King, expressing his best wishes for the success of the great andertaking, which would help to promote the trade and. commerce of the Empire, Ren- ter's Bulletin Service.
-
OLD PIONEERS PRESENT London: The opening ceremony
POLITICS
LITTLE ENTENTE SOLIDARITY
The conference
ANOTHER VERSION
it is hoped that the Government Berlin: The speeches delivered will be able to make an arbi-by Dr. Goebbels and Herr Alfred tration award. — Reuter.
Rosenberg at the Nuremberg party rally have not yet been published in Soviet Russia, even in condens- ed form, a semi-oficial news agency | [reports. A
FIRST DEATH
SENTENCES
4
OD
two
at
No attempt has been made to refute any of the arguments
brought forward by the two speak-
ers, nor to deny their statements that all Soviet leaders are Jews.- Trans-Ocean Service.
BRITISH FOOD PURER
COMPLETE HARMONY IN importance of careful diplomatic crisis and would try to elimin
FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Continued on Page 10) ate the difficulties which were
now hampering industrial pro- Canton, Later: A
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL tremen- durtion
dous number of civil servants
Prague, To-day. The Queen went on to point out have been thrown out of work that the state of the public finan-since the Nanking Government of
of the Per- Imposed By Court At the Empire Exhibition at manent Advisory Committee of ces still gave rise to some anxiety, has taken over the mai age-Johannesburg was broadcast the little Entente at Bratislava
Jerusalem and that an extremely careful finment of Kwangtung, and it is listeners in England by the Bri- Jancial policy was recessary. The interesting to learn that Mr. tish Broadcasting
showed a harmony prevailing be-j
Jerusalem, To-day. Corporation. conditions in the Dutch Colonies, Huang Mow-chung has
Itween the three States in matters Rome, To-day.
The first death sentences under been The High Commissioner for South of policy so complete that even the emergency regulations were In reply to the British Gov-except in Curacao, were still far generous enough to allow 10 Africa in London, Mr. C. T. te the special relations prevailing imposed yesterday by the Crimin
the from satisfactory from the econo vacancies for the lowest grade Water, and the Dominions Secre between the members and outside al Asizes at Jerusalem should be mic and financial points of view. of junior clerk in his office of tary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Powers were fully approved by Arabs found guilty of firing
The opening of Parliament was the Provincial Government to be were among those who listened to the other members of the little His Majesty's forces escorting a Nutritive Value Being ber, the Italian Government attended by the customary splendid decided by public examination. the opening speeches. Lord says that it considers it neces-pageantry, the Queen and Princess The number of applicants for Clarendon, Governor-General Entente, the paper Ceske Stovo convoy on the Nablus road on
that the conversations Juliana driving in a golden State these 10 vacancies is nearly the Union, read a message of says.
August 7, when a British soldier should be preceded by ade-carriage from the Palace to Parlia-four thousand!
good wishes from the King to the cularly applied to
The paper says that this parti-was wounded-Beuter's
the relations Service quate diplomatic preparations. ment through densely crowded
(Continued on Page 101
Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of --Reuter.
of Czechoslovakia with Soviet
Jerusalem: The Government has Health, speaking yesterday at Ruasiz. "The dynamic character forbidden the meeting of the Arab Plymouth on the problem of • nu- of the Little Entente is signified strike committee, which was call-tration, said that the consumption by the very fact that a certained for to-morrow, to decide whe of food of all kinds in the United elasticity prevails in the ether or not to call of the strike Kingdom had grown considerably. - lationship of the individual mem The local committees may confer To-day it was probably over 25,- bers of the Little Entente with individually and submit their de 000,000 tons yearly. The consump outside Powers. Thus it becomes cisions to the high committee.tion of dairy products and of eggs,
Czechoslovakia Reuter.
held in the second half of Octo-
sary
5-POWER MEETING
London Naval Treaty Discussed
London, To-day.
A meeting took place at the
streetsTrans-Ocean Service.
MCMAHON TO APPEAL
Alleged Misdirection Of Jury By Judge
London, To-day.
The development of Wham- poa port is the result of the consultation of Mr. Chang Ka- ngan with the Generalissimo. Mr. Tseng Yang-pu, the Mayor of Canton, has been appointed to draft out the detailed pro grammes of this work, in ac- cordance with the outline... al- ready fixed at the consultation. The first stage will be to buy all Decessary private-owned
Foreign Office yesterday, between McMahon's solicitor states the
and Sweden.
to:
VISITOR TO MUNICH
Chinese Ambassador Feted
of
that
. ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN
LEAGUE COUNCIL
Bulletín
BRITISH PLANE
CRASHES
Studied
London, To-day.
possible
fruit and vegetables, so important ¡draws Soviet Russia closer to the
to good nutrition, had greatly in- "CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Little Entente, while Rumanis
creased. There had undoubtedly Munich, To-day. and Yugoslavia do the same with
been at the same time a consider- representatives of the United King- that an appeal will be lodged lands, the second stage will be The Chinese Ambassador to Italy and Germany respectively." dom, Denmark, Finland, Norway to-day against his conviction to widen and deepen the river, Germany, HE Dr. Chen Tien-Trans-Ocean Service.
able improvement in the food | standard,-which-had-hsen achiev- on a charge of producing near as well as to build business and fang, who arrived here for a visit, As in the case of the similar the person of His Majesty the residence houses and wharves, was received yesterday by the
Three Members Of | ed· Largely by The healths authori- and the third stage will be to Mayor of Manich, Herr. Fiehler,
ties and discussions which have recently King a pistol with intent
their professional · ad- Crew Killed taken place with Russia, Germany alarm His Majesty, on the develop the different industries. who, in welcoming the Ambassa-
visers. and Poland, the meeting consider ground that the judge mis-
-Our Own Correspondent.
dor, said, that he hoped, the pre-
London, To-day. Sixty years ago.'some 15,000 ed the terms of the London Naval directed the jury when be said
ment close friendship between Rome, To-day-The question of A British airliner struck a tree samples only were subanitted an- Treaty of 1936 and the applicabi-that McMahon's story had been
Germany and Chins might be Italy's participation in the forth- and crashed in flames after taking nually to public analysis, and over lity of the treaty to the navies told at the Old Bailey for the
maintained and extended in the coming session of the League off at Gatwick serodrome, Surrey, 19 per cent, were found to be adul of the four countries.
first time, whereas McMahon An anti-cyclone covers
Council is not yet decided, accord-last night.
four terated or not up to standard. The discussion centred chiefly claims that he told the same and a depression is situated to the The Ambassador will stay in ing to well-informed quarters members of the crew were killed. Last year over 143,000 samples on technical questions, and ・ good story to the War Office months north of Hokkaido. The forecast Munich for two days and then here, which state that the deci- The plane was carrying the night were submitted - the highest on progress was made. The next ago..
for to-day, as issued by the Royal proceed to the Upper Bavarian sion will largely depend upon whe-mail to Hamburg and there were record and the percentage of meeting will take place to-mOTFOW McMahon was sentenced to Observatory this morning was Mountains for à visit lasting ther Abyssinia will again be re-no passengers aboard-Reuter adulterated or not up to standard morning.—British Wireless Ser-12 months' hard labour. North and north-east winds, mo- several days.--Trans-Ocean Ser-presented" "by'・a · delegation. — Later: The airliner belonged to was only a little over five per
Reuter.
derate; fine to cloudy.
1vice
Trans-Ocean - Service:
British Airways Limited-Reater.cent British Wireless Service.
vice.
WEATHER REPORT
China,future.
Three of the