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INSURGENT FORCES GATHERING FOR SWIFT ASSAULT ON MADRID JAPANESE OFFICIALS DR. COLLIN'S BROADCAST TO "FARCICAL PLANS
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, above, is expected to reters to Canton before the Double Tenth to attend the opening of a branch of the Military Academy.
IN CONFERENCE
MORE WARSHIPS SENT TO CHINESE PORTS. STRONG MEASURES CONTEMPLATED
(From A Special Correspondent)
Canton, To-day.
THE NATION
Extent Of Devaluation Of Guilder Not Revealed
Amsterdam, To-day. The extent by which the guild- er will be devalued was not in- dicated by the Prime Minister. Dr. Colijn, in his broadcast last evening to the Butch people on the monetary situation. It will depend on the eventual progress of commodity prices. The cone of the speech made a favourable impression on financial circles.
The Stock Exchange was clos- ed yesterday, and the other mar- kets were open, but they were only doing restricted business. and only nominal quotations were available.-Reuter.".
NEW MONETARY PROPOSALS
Hostility Shown In France
19
OF RESISTANCE
GENERAL FRANCO SHOWS COMPLETE CONFIDENCE
WHATEVER RIDICULOUS RESISTANCE IS ATTEMPTED TO BE CRUSHED
Lisbon, To-day. Following the capture of Toledo General Franco, the insur- gent leader, is gathering his forces for a swift assault on Madrid. Interviewed,, General Franco said: "There is
now no time to waste. Madrid's plans of resistance make me smile. We shall get there as fast as we can march, crushing whatever ridiculous resistance is attempted."
According to a military authority the campaign against Madrid is expected to be as follows:-
M.Maxim Litvinoli" (Soviet Russia), above, delivered a pun- reat reply to Herr Hitler's Nur- -emberg speech at yesterday's meeting of the League of Na tions Assembly at Genera.
The Government forces are expected to establish their main DR. GOEBBELS RETURNS TO defences at Naval Carnero, on the Madrid-Talavera road, and Mescas, covering the vital Madrid-Valencia railway. The insur-
At 10 am yesterday. Mr. Hirota, the Japanese Premier. and the Japanese Foreign and Naval Ministers held a conference, and later at 11 am, the Japanese naval officials held a meeting to discuss Sino-Japanese relations. The particular resolutions of these meetings are not known, but it is learned that the Japanese Naval Ministry is preparing to support the coming Smo-Japanese negotiations with strong measures. Besides those Japanese warships already at Shanghai, two more vessels have arrived there, one has arrived at Nanking and three at the Woosing Fort It is stated that the Japanese Government is ready to send more warships to China.
As the Japanese Government in- Isists negotiating on Sino- Japanese relations with the Gen- eralissimo direct and as it is report- ed that the Japanese Government will demand a Japanese concession in Chapel, the Generalissimo few to Nanchang en route to Nanking as to direct Mr. Chang Chun, the Chinese Foreign Sixty Senators belonging to Alcazar, numbering 1.200, have been recovered alive, though Minister. how to meet the present the Union Republicaine group difficult foreign situation. Hearing unanimously declared their hos 500 are wounded - Reuter. this. Mr. S. Kawagoe, has cabled (tility towards the Govern- to the Japanese Foreign Office for ment's monetary bille vester-news of the capture of Toledo further instructions.
day.
CHIANG RETURNS TO
NANKING
LEAVES CANTON BY AIR yesterday
FOR NANCHANG
ONLY HIGH STAFF OFFICERS WITNESS! GENERALISSIMO'S DEPARTURE
(From A Special Correspondent)
Canton, To-day.
OS
FURTHER ADHERENTS TO STERLING
Paris, To-day.
BERLIN
gents will concentrate near Olias del Rey, 40 miles from the capi Berlin. To-day-Reichsminister tal, and will launch an attack on the Government positions with Dr. Goebbels and Frau Goebbels, in a few days. The commentator believes that the insurgent with their entourage, returned thrust at this point will be irresistible, as it will be composed of here yesterday by plane, landing veteran troops, highly-trained Staff officers and the latest equip-lat the Berlin airport at 7.30 p.m.
-Trans-Ocean Service.
ment.
Talavera: It is officially an nounced that all except 80 of
the original population of the PUNGENT RETORT TO
HERR HITLER
Berlin: On receiving the
and the relief of the Alcazar by M. LITVINOFF SPEAKS AT
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
Before the Generalissimo left A delegation of the Left the insurgents Herr Hitler's Canton, he instructed Mr. Tseng parties, after meeting 3 Leon Deputy, Herr Hess, telegraphed Yang-pu. Mayor of Canton. to Blur, the Premier, agreed the Alcazar defenders: The draft a plan to convert the pre- that the proposed Articles in German National Socialist Party sent Canton Municipality inte a the bill referring to a sliding sends its best wishes to the ATTITUDE OF AGGRESSOR NATIONS
Portugal Attends Committee
At 7.30 am. yesterday the Generalissimo arrived at the Sun Greater Canton Municipality an-scale of wages should be with-heroes of the Alcazar and their Yat-sen Memorial Hall from Whampoa, where he rested for half der the direct control of the Cen-drawn and replaced by a new liberators. Reuter's Bulletin
un- text, giving the Government Service. an hour to await the party of political and military officials attend-tral Government instead of
Provincial Government. full powers to prevent a rise of ing the weekly memorial service. At 8 o'clock the service started, der the
Mr. Tseng is now drawing up a prices. The new text will bel but a number of the officials did not arrive in time.
Addressing the audience, the Generalissimo, after a reference scheme to reorganise the munici- submitted to the General Con- to the New Life movement, went on to say that he wanted to make pality on the same lines as those federation of Labour. Kwangtung a model province, run on the fundamental three prin- of the Greater Shanghai Munici ciples of the late Dr Sun Yat-sen. He instructed them to be dis- pality, for the approval of the ciplined, self-controlled and quick in decisions. The service Executive Yuan. lasted 45 minutės.
AIR VISIT TO
MANILA
Commodore Smith Leaves For South
a
After Manila the
After the service the Gen China by Sir Frederick Leith- | eralissimo went to the Tin Ho Ross, arrived in the Colony from aerodrome and at 9.30 am. be Canton last night in company flew back to the north with with Mr. T. L. Soong. Finance General Chien Tai-kwan, Mr. Commissioner of Kwangtung, and Chen Pu-lei and a number of took up residence at the Glouces- his Staff Officers. Only those ter Hotel.
Paris, To-day: The official Journal will publish to-day a de- cree placing an embargo on gold. -Reuter.
London: Portugal, which
ROUNDLY DENOUNCED
ал
Geneva, To-day.
PALESTINE Announcement In Certain Districts
PROCLAMATION PENDING
London, To-day.
The new measures to be taken
An outstanding feature of yesterday's meeting of the Assem- bly was a speech by M. Litvinoff (Soviet Russia), pungently re- torting to Herr Hitler's Nuremberg pronouncement. M. Litvinoff declared that State leaders who enumerate vast foreign territories has which they intend to seize cannot sincerely accept Article X of FRENCH EMBARGO ON GOLD hitherto not attended the meetings the League Covenant, and a State which preaches the legality of
of the committee on non-interven-so-called localised war cannot make peace with Article XVL
An aggressor who bases his policy on the superiority of brute. tion in Spain, was represented atļ
force is only amenable to the cold calculation of the relative yesterday's meeting by the Charge d'Affaires in London. It was ori- strengths of forces. The aggregate power of the peace-loving ginally intended that only the sub-countries considerably surpasses the strength of any possible committee would meet yesterday. combination of countries which an aggressor might muster. A but in view of the Portuguese at joint union of these forces would avert the peril of war and com- It is thought that a general tendance steps were taken to cen-pel an aggressor sooner or later to ask to be admitted to the com- jagreement may be reached vene the full committee. The Por-mon system of collective security. high officers went to witness the In a press interview, Mr. Rogers among the groups comprising tuguese Government, in agreeing "We are far from objecting MARTIAL LAW IN Generalissimo's departure and said that it was his opinion that the Government.
to join the committee, emphasised, to the attempts to reach the public did not know any-the devaluation of the franc was ! Riga: The latest, adherent of the that their previous reserves were thing about it. It is learned going to have a beneficial effect sterling group is Latvia.
The maintained in their entirety.eu-agreement with even the most Manila. To-day that the Generalissimo arrived on China..
Government has decided to align ter.
aggressive countries," he con- to at Nanchang at 1.30 p.m. He
BATTLE FOR BILBAO tinued, "but we are against al- visit four day
Asked what he thought of the with sterling on the basis that ex-
in conditions. fying-boat will proceed to Nanking from existing
Southisted before Britain left gold. The Hendaye: The battle for Bilbaollowing them, to dictate the R.A.F.
with unabated China, Mr. Rogers stated that as new rate for the Latvian currency raged.
violence terms of the negotiations or from the Singapore Base, com-there by air. manded by Air Commodore Syd- General Ho Ying-ching, the affairs were now being handled will be 25.22 lat to the pound.-- yesterday. The city was again paying them a bonus for con-
Director in so well, he could not but feel op-Reuter..
bombed by insurgent. planes, descending to negotiate." ner Smith, Flying Officer Com-laewly appointed
the Generalissimo'stimistic regarding the future.
Istanbul: The Government has whereby 25 houses were demolish-Reuter. manding. Far East, took off at Charge of
Field Headquarters. Mr. Rogers will stay here till decided to link the Turkish curled and 30 other buildings hadly
in Palestine, to be announced to- 7.10 am. to-day for Singapore via Whampoa
has been instructed to wait for Friday, when he leaves for Shang-rency to sterling, and have fixed damaged. Fifty persons are re-
TYPHOON OFF AMOY: Kudat and Sarawak.
day, it is understood, will involve He will the buying rate at 635 piastres to ported, killed and 100 wounded. Air Commodore Smith and his the Generalissime at the capital hai by the s. Corfu.
the proclamation of martial law in fellow officers had luncheon with before he comes to Canton to as-then stay in the Northern port in the pound and the selling rate at As reprisal for the aerial bom According to a message received certain districts.
his capacity as financial adviser. 633-Reuter's Bulletin Service
bardment, 35 hostages imprisoned) by President Quezon yesterday. The some office.
the American. Consulate- The troopship Rumania arrived AKANO CASE
MAY VISIT KULING
CHINA YARN SOARS jon ships in the harbour were shot General from the Manila Obser-at Haifa yesterday with further Commodore expressed his deep-
Shanghai, later: General Chiang Owing to the phenominal rise The Government forces attempted vatory this morning, at 9.15 am detachments of the expeditionary est appreciation of the hospitality It is reliably learned that Mr.
at Nan-jin gold bars during the past few
a sortie, but were driven_back to-day a cyclone or typhoon was force, which consisted of the 2nd extended to the visitors here.-Philip K. C. Tyau, Special Dele- Kai-shek, who arrived.
dewith heavy losses-Trans-Ocean situated west of the Balintang battalion of the Wiltshire Regi- gate for Foreign Affairs for the chang from Canton by air yesterdays, and also to the great
Channel and was filling up. [ment and the 2nd battalion of the rwe Kwangs, and Mr. T. Naka-day. is expected to leave for Nan-mand for "spot" by Japanese Service. mura, the Japanese Consul-Gen-king shortly but may stay in Kul-bayers, the price for China yarn
A second typhoon, however, is King's Royal Regiment Renter's Jeral at Shameen, will meet to-mor-/ing, the popular mountain resort, increased overnight by $3.50. The though Stock Exchanges in
ARAB PRINCES INTERVENE for a short time, where Madame closing rate yesterday was $207. Holland closed yesterday, pri situated in about Longitude 171 Bulletin Service
The price steadily rose during vate trading to a limited degree E Latitude 25 N, moving west
Jerusalem; A. proclamation. by The Generalissimo will probab-the morning to close at $211.30. took place, the pound Being The position is about 125 miles the Arab Princes calling off the ly return to Canton before the There were very few buyers for traded at between 10 to 12 east of Amoy, which appears to
strike is expected to be made” Double Tenth to attend the open-"forward.”
guilders, which constitutes a debe directly threatened.
soon, according to well-informed ing there of a branch of the Mili-
valuation of about:30 per cent.
circles. This is due to the new WEATHER REPORT- tary Academy-Reuter.
negotiations in London taking a DEMOBILISATION
fiament have called special ses
favourable turn. Their complete Peping The culprit went into a Shanghai, later: General Trai¦
sions.
The anti-cyclone over China is success, however, depends on the Japanese cafe for protection, and Ting Kai, commander of the 19th
Eiga: The Latvian Government increasing in intensity. The nor strike first. coming to a rest, so when the police went to the shop, Route Army during the Shanghai the culprit had run away. It is trouble, has returned to Hong
More Alignments To has decided to adjust its monetary thera depression has passed into that a proposal to this effect by unit, the lat, to the pound on the the Pacific to the east of Japan the Arab Princes is regarded as learned that the French soldier Kong after a visit to Kwangsi,
exchange basis of 1931, before the The depression of the China Sea probable. Trans-Ocean Service was only slightly injured.
devaluation of the pound. The is probably filling up, and another pound is thus worth 25.22 lats. has developed to the south-east of
WAR VETERAN PASSES Latvis broke away from the pound Naha. The forecast for to-day, as No official announcendent has in 1931 when it was devaluated, issued by the Royal Observatory New York To-day. been made regarding the extent so that the present decision to this morning, was: North-east death occurred here to day of On arrival at Hong Kong he of the intended devaluation of realign the lat with the pound will winds, moderate to fresh; cloudy, Rear Admiral William Sims for Hong Kong: The amount is be-Treasury official who recently stated that he had handed over the Dutch guider, but it is mean a devaluation of-around; 40
who commanded the American lieved to be about 35 pounds and flew from England to Hong Kong his troops to General Li Chung-ien stated that it will be determin per cent.
HMS. Defender arrived in port Naval Forces in Europe during has apparently been lost.
to continue the work done in for demobilisation-Beater. led by wholesale prices. AL (Continued on Page 5) from the North last evenings - the Great War. Reuter
Reuter.
AIR MAIL LOST.
The local postal authorities row to exchange views with re- have received a telegram from gard to the Nakano case at Pak-Chiang is resting. London announcing that one bag hoi. It is quite likely that the of air mail for Hong Kong was on cate will be localised. board the aeroplane Boadicea. News has reached here that a which has been missing since last French soldier was stabbed by a Friday. presumably lost in the Japanese after a street quarrel in English Channel.
· HONG KONG MAIL LOST- The local office of the Imperial Airways stated this morning that word had been received to the ef- fest that aboard the Bodicea, which has been missing over the English Channel since last Fri-
Bright Future. Ahead?
day, was a small quantity of mail Mr. Charles Rogers, the British
where his activities: in reorganis- ing the old 19th" Boate Army at one time seriously embarrassed the progress of the Nanking Kwangsi negotiations.
OTHERS FOLLOW SUIT
Both Houses of the Dutch Par-
The Pound
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Amsterdam, To-day.
The