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COMPLETE AUTONOMY PROMISED TO SPANISH
MORE UNEASINESS
IN SHANGHAI
FURTHER MANOEUVRES BY FOREIGN MARINES MANIFESTO ISSUED BY NORTHERN EDUCATIONISTS
(From A Special Correspondent)
Canton, To-day.
The arrivals of Japanese and Koreans as well as the increas- ing numbers of Japanese marines in Shanghai have caused some excitement there. Yesterday morning 150 Japanese marines and 11 tanks manoeuvred in North Szechuen Road. A traitors' den was raided by the Chinese police in the poor quarter of Chapei on Tuesday evening. Three persons were arrested and a large bundle of documents was seized.
SITUATION IN SUIYUAN
29TH ARMY TO AID DEFENCE
PROVINCE IN CRITICAL POSITION
Seventy-seven famous Chin- in North jese educationalists
China have sent out a manifesto ito urge the Chinese Governmentj
cancel the Tangku and Shanghai truce agreements, to abolish the semi-independent pro-Japanese Hopei-Chahar Po-!
litical Council, and to recover
the lost territories of the four! North-eastern provinces and East Hopei As they are noted iprofessors and teachers of the northern universities and The situation in Saiyuan Pro-schools, this manifesto is be vince has become critical. The lieved to be supported by all the
[From A Special Correspondent) Canton, To-day.
Central Government has in-j structed General Sung Chi- yuan, Commander of the 29th Army, to dispatch his troopNG FOĮ Suiyuan so as to help the mi- tary authorities there against
the invaders, Li Sau-suen and | Wang Ying, and the Manchukuo troops. General Sung has sent cable to Prince Teh urging
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him not to be a traitor,
educational bodies in China.
BRITAIN AND CHINA
Tulsa, Oklahan, Todzy-General Harry H. Woodring. The United States Secretary for War, seen above with; his wife, and children, narrowly escaped injury yesterday when an aeroplane in which he was travelling caught fire while taking off. The m chine landed and the passengers kurriedly got out. was burnt out-Reater.
R. C. PURGE” IN
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GERMANY
SISTERS TO BE REMOVED
REPLACEMENT BY RELIABLE
NAZIS DECRE
Munich, To-day. The Bavarian Cabinet has 22-1 nomced a purge of 1,676 Roman: cloister schools, and their replacement by reliable Nazis. The Roman Cat- London, To-day. holic Church has vigorously pro- Reports reaching London tested, alleging another violation!
No Loan Negotiations Catholic Sisters 边
Have Taken Place
to be effective, as
It is reported that the Chin-from the Far East regarding of the Concordat, but the protest ese Foreign Office has sent an the British loan to the Chinese is unlikely
have caused sur-Herr Hitler's Minister of Educa- official to investigate the salt Government banks at Tangku. It is learned prise. It is stated in official tion has approved of the edict.
This Nazification of 400 schools that the Japanese troops in quarters there have been no në- North China will probably hold gotiations proceeding with the will throw 600 teachers out of ers- the place to establish their Chinese Government in connec-ployment on January 1 next, and tion either with a loan or with the remaining 1,000 will go on the camps.
The The Ministry of Railways has the question of export credits. relief roll throughout 1937.
ancial reason for this action is: summoned the directors of all--British Wireless Service.
that the schools have paid insuf- railway lines in China to
to the racial science and biology of the Nazi State-Rester.
а
meeting to day." It is officially 135 MINUTES TO Scient attention
stated that the meeting will last three days and the purpose !
is to discuss the efficiency of transportation and the scheme of building new lines in country.
thei
Under the Provincial Govern- ment of Kwangtung. the pro- vince has been newly divided into nine different administra-
CANTON
"Taipo Belle" Sets New Record
- FASTEST TIME IN CHINA
History was made by the "Tal-}
Canton,
FRENCH CABINET COUNCIL
VARIOUS MATTERS
DISCUSSED
~KSHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day.
The plane
PORTUGUESE- MUTINEERS
SENTENCED
Court Martial Held At Lisbon
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Loeden. To-day. The crews of the two Porta- Zaese warships which mutinied on September 8 and wanted to go to the assistance of the Spanish" Government were sentenced by Court Martial - yesterday. The sailors received terms of large sonment ranging from 16 -22. years, while about 100 were ac quitted. further 53 mutineers trial-Trans-Ocean still wait Service.
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RUSSIA DEMANDS CONTROL OF
PORTUGUESE PORTS
Tangier, To-day:
Self-government for Spanish Morocco was foreshadowed by General de Llano, the insurgent leader at Seville, speaking from the Radio Seville station yesterday. He said that a plan was be ing studied for giving complete autonomy to the Spanish zone in
POLITICAL UNIFORMS.
· EN ENGLAND.
British Cabinet Committee To Report
London, To-day.
The recent political disorders in London ware camidered at the weekly Cabinet meeting rester- day, at which Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, reported on political uniforms; but it is un- derstood that no decision TL taken. It is probable that sub-committee will be establish- ed to examine and report on the matter-Renter's Bulletin Ser
vice.
Morocco, Spain reserving the right of military intervention for THE NEUTRALITY the defence of the country.-Renter's Bulletin Service.
Moscow: The Soviets latest note to the Landen committee for non-intervention in Spain calls for the fmmediate establish- ment of control of the Portuguese parts as the least and most ur-
OF BELGIUM
Policy
gent measure. The Note suggests that the British or French Reversion To Pre-War Navy, or both together, should be entrusted with the carrying out of control. Russia asks that her proposals be discussed at the next session of the committee, which should be convened without delay.
Perpignan: Eighty persons, including à woman and her! three-year old son, have been
executed by anarchists at BITTER CLASH
AT OVIEDO
Seo de Urgel, according to re- ports by refugees who have ar- rived from Spain.
Barcelona: M. Emile Cottin.) the French anarchist who at-j. tempted to assassinate M. Cle menceau, is reported to have been killed in the fighting on the Aragon front. - Beuter.
Serious Disturbances In Madrid
Further Conflicting Claims
INSURGENTS RENEW ADVANCE ON MADRID
**Madrid, To-day.
KING LEOPOLD'S IMPORTANT
PRONOUNCEMENT
Brussels, To-day.
The reversion to Belgium's pre war policy of neatrality has urged King Leopold to address the first full meeting of the |Cabinet over which he has pre- {sided since his accessior Be Majesty said: “This policy must aim remiately at placing as outside the conflicts of our neighbours.”
King Leopold declared that The desperate struggle at their policy must be strong en- Oviedo continues. The Govem ough to preserve Belgium from ment declare that the insured.
Paris: Madrid is now the scene relief column from Galicia hased to the proud example of Miners dynamit Holland and Switzerland," and of daily disorders and demonstrabeen checked.
the Government ed the way to the Town Hall, and emphasised that it was solely tions against
measures for the rationing of the insurgents lost 1,000 casual- food and water and preparing for ties in the recent fighting. the defence of the city, according
to preserve Belgium from war. from wherever, it might come,
A Seville message states that that the Belgian military sys- to reports received here.
the insurgent radio asserts that tem must be organised Serious disturbances broke out the Galician column marching on muitary
REACTION IN FRANCE
“Our His
organisation,” in the "Quatro Caminos," when a Oviedo has established a liaison Majesty said. "no longer meets. great number of women assembled with the insurgent forces holding new possibilities of rapid inva- before the Ministry of Interior to out against the attacks of the sion. We must remedy this dr [protest against the inadequate Asturish rainers, and adds that fect”. water supply and finally had to the Government forces were. be dispersed by a detachment of routed, abandoning nearly 2,000
Paris: KingLeopold's pro- militia That Government officials dead.
nouncement has not come 15: 1. are dissatisfied with the general
According to = Lisbon mess-complete surprise to French of- attitude and spirit of the popula "I admire and believe in Got-on is indicated by a speech by age the insurgents of the south-ficial circles. M. Delbos had s ernor Alfred Landon, and I hope the Foreign Minister, Senor del western army operating from long talk yesterday with the Bel he is elected, declared: Mr.
a Socialist-Communist Talavera have resumed their ad-gien Ambassador, who very like- Henry Ford after Mr. Landon!Vayo, at
disappointment at the lack of in-four days.-Reater. Landon was a business man who ate out of a dinner bucket terest and enthusiasm shown, es- for years, and still thinks with pecially by youth, in preparing to RAW MATERIAL
defend the capital men who carry dinner-buckets,
has visited him yesterday. Mr. meeting, at which he expressed vance on Madrid after a rest of
Mr. Ford added.
SPAIN AND' KUSSLA ...
They had had enough of the Moscow: The new Spanish Am- tive spheres, to supervise the po Belle, the latest acquisition to
New Deal and about all the coun-bassador to Moscow, Senor Mar- civil affairs of the different dis-the Kowloon-Canton Railway's
itry could stand. He had been its celina Pasena, who arrived yes- ⚫tricts. It is learned that the feet of locomotives, yesterday,
In a Cabinet Council held under special target for three years, but terday, was received by the Com nine Directors of these admin- when she covered the distance be the Chairmanship of President did not hold that against it. But missar for Foreign Trade, M. istrative spheres will be in tween Hong Kong“ ́ and
Lebrun, the Foreign Minister, from the beginning the New Deal Rosenholz, with whom he had á augurated into their offices to 178.26 kilometres,
the Delbos, reported on the step taken had been assisted by the worst long conversation regarding the day.
splendid time of 21⁄4 hours. It was, incidentally, the first time in by the German Charge d'Affaires form of capitalism in an effort to possibilities of increasing trade history that a
with regard to M. Therez' speech destroy competition in the Unit-between Spain and Russia. run was · made,
on Sunday.
jed States- Beater.
Trans-Ocean Service. Įnon-stop, between these two polits
The Cabinet Connell thereupont and the time taken for the dis studied the police report of the tance represents not only a record speech, in order to ascertain whe in China, but also one of the
ther it justified the institution of fastest · times for. single · track|
an învestigation. No mention of i
MR. HU HAN-MIN'S FUNERAL
State Ceremony On October 25
Canton, To-day, The State funeral of the late)
runs ever to have been recorded.. this, however, is made in the The "Taipo Belle" left. Kowloon official statement issued, which as a special train at 7.45 am, and
merely states that the Foreign Harrived in - Ganton ́at 10 am, the
proceedings and the general inter-
Mr. Eu Fan-min will take place time being 40 minutes better the Minister reported on the Geneva in Canton on October 25. Mr. Ku that recorded by the Expressnational situation, and the Minis Cheng, President of the Judicial mains. Travelling was clean and ter of Inferior. Salengro, or Ynan, Mr. Sun Fo, President of comfortable and the party, of 15 the strike situation. Trans the Legislative Yuan, General H who travelled on it were loud in
Ocean Service. Chung-chi, Vice-President of the their praise for the "Belle's Control Yuan, and a number of splendid performance. On the TR A. ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL the Central Government officials, tom trip she was attached to the are coming down to the South to zar of the "Flying Dragon” as an attend the ceremony.–The Chair-jobservation car, Messrs. G." Zen- man of the Nationalist Govern, treath and K. S. Morrison joining ment, Mr. Lin Sen, and the Gen- the part eralissimo will not be
themomelves, but Mr.
has been asked to oficiate ceremony on behalf of the
ma A Special Coni
pres
· DINNER
"The Annual Dinner of the B-A. Association, Hong Kong Brinch will take place at the Hotel En at 8 pm, on Friday, mber
Particulars may be ob dinia,Master Gunther G. Be
eves, Mr. CTelephone,
-DISTRIBUTION
PROBLEM MUST BE SOLVED
ly communicated the Belgian de
cision; but it is felt that the de- cision and its wide implications,
including the bearing on any new
Locarno Treaty, must be studied. most carefully before the voicing of any opinion.
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Sensation Arnong General Public
EFFECT ON SYSTEM-OF- COLLECTIVE SECURITY
GERMANY'S DEMANDS
Berlin, To-day. "We can never renounce the demand that the problem of the
Paris: just distribution of raw mater-
King Leopold's speech ials should be dealt with and has caused a sensation among the Isolved, declared Count general public, which was com
Schwerin von Krosigk Minister pletely unaware that preliminary of Finance, in a speech at Halle discussions had been going on. yesterday. He said that there in lay the key to the handling of the colonial question.
The settlement blem and that debt entanglen cessary, preli storation of stat nomy Reuter
Diplomatic circles' are maintain- Ling strict reserve, as the impor- tance of the matter makes can- this pro-tion essential. It is pointed out fum's return to complete
have
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