SURRENDER TO BLOCKADE Flood Of Critical Questions In House Of Commons
Major Attlee To Set Budget Day Precedent
London, To-day.
The Foreign Secretary, the President of the Board of Trade and the First Lord of the Admiralty were all questioned in the House of Commons yes- terday afternoon on the situation arising from the insurgent effort to blockade the Basque Ports.
Officer's Death Riddle
Jerusalem, To-day.
The body of General Karpim- sky, a former officer in the Im- perial Russian Army, was found in the sea by fishermen yesterday.
General Karpimaky disap- peared from Beirut two months ago and foul play is suspected, though the body was so decom-' posed that it is impossible to tell whether it was a case of -murder ози suicide. Trans-
Ocean.
MR. PAUL McNUTT
SEVERAL QUESTIONS ON THE ORDER PAPER ADDRESS- ED TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY WHICH INVOLVED NAVALDU DETAILS, WERE ANSWERED BY THE FIRST LORD AND AT THE END OF SIR SAMUEL HOARE'S REPLIES TO THE SUB- SEQUENT SUPPLEMENTARIES, THE OPPOSITION LEADER EXPRESSED DISSATISFACTION AND GAVE NOTICE THAT HE WOULD RAISE THE SUBJECT ON THE ADJOURNMENT TO-MORROW.
THE MOVING OF THE ADJOURNMENT ON ANY OTHER QUESTION ON THE DAY OF THE BUDGET IS MOST UNUSUAL PROCEDURE.
Arriving In Shanghai -To-morrow
Shanghai, To-day.
Arriving here to-morrow morning
NAZI FLYING
CORPS
Old Organisation In New Form
Berlin, To-day, Germany's civil flying organisa- tion, the Air Sport Organisation, has been dissolved.
It will reappear in the guise of the Nazi Flying Corps, and will be under the direct control of the Ger- ¡man Air Ministry.
The new
aviation body will · be commanded by General-Major Chris- tiansen, the well-known wartime fly- ing "ace."-Trans-Oceán.
CHURCH IN SOVIET
Youth Leader Calls For Campaign
Moscow, To-day.
A strong proclamation calling on
on the "President Hoover" en route the youth of Russia to fight against Ito Manila is Mr. Paul Vories]the growing influence of the Church
Asked in a private notice for a suppose that on broad lines of po- McNutt, the new American High in the Soviet was made in a statement of the circumstances licy the French Government dis-Commissioner in the Philippines. proclamation by the Soviet youth in which the captain of the Bri-agreed.
Mr. McNutt, who is accompanied leader yesterday.
EFFECTIVE BLOCKADE
by his wife and daughter, Louise, The proclamation draws attention, will be met by a host of American to the gradual re-opening
of
tish steamship, Marie Llewellyn, was desired by the Commander of the destroyer, Brazen, to re- The most important of the state-officials, headed by the Ambassa-churches which have been closed turn to the port of Saint Jean ments made in the First Lord's re- dor, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson.since the Revolution. de Luz on the night of April 15, plies, was that the reports received Reuter. Sir Samuel Hoare replied that he from the Vice-Admiral commanding was not yet in a position to fur-the battle cruiser squadron in nish the required information H. M. S. Hood, read together with but enquiries were being made.
NOTHING TO ADD
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
"We "must deprive the clergy of the last remaining sheep in their flock," he declared.-Trans-Ocean.
reports received from other authori- ties concerned had confirmed the.
Shanghai, To-day. SHANGHAI STRIKE UNSETTLED view that the Spanish Insurgent The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Authorities had established an ef- Kawagoe, who is leaving for Tokyo
Shanghai, To-day, When in answer to a question, the fective de facto blockade,
on May 2 to discuss Sino-Japanëse The strike of tramway employees, Foreign Secretary said he had
To a member who enquired how relations, took farewell of the which started on Sunday, entered nothing to add to the statement
the blockade was being made ef- Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Chung-on its third day to-day without any made in the debate last Wednesday fective, he reported "by insurgent hui, yesterday-Reuter.
signs-of settlement.—Reuter.
ships and by mines:"
on the situation at Bilbao and the Government's policy, one member
Sir Samuel Hoare also said that asked if he was aware that ship-
up to about a month ago, the re- owners and insurance companies
ports showed that the Spanish au- were left in a difficult situation by thorities had attempted to main- the Government's attitude, and an bain a channel through the mine- other member countered this ques-fields into Bilbao but he was unable tion by asking if it was not a fact to say whether they had, in fact, that in the view of the shipping in-found it possible to continue this dustry, the Government were deal-operation in the face of the super- ing very successfully with a dif- for Insurgent forces.
ficult situation.
FRANCO WARNING
FLEET INSTRUCTIONS
In another reply Sir Samuel In another reply, Mr. Eden said Hoare recalled that instructions to that the Military Governor of Irun, His Majesty's ships have, since the acting on instructions from Gen-beginning of the civil war in Spain, eral Franco, had
informed Sir been to the effect that if it came to Henry Chilton on the evening of the knowledge of a British man- April 9, that the entrance intoof-war that a British merchant ship Bilbao of four British ships known was being interfered with on the to be lying in Saint Jean de Luz high seas by a Spanish warship, would be resisted by insurgent war- British ships were to be afforded ships.
protection, but no new instructions had been issued since it was not proposed that British merchant ships should be convoyed up to the limits of Spanish territorial waters.
This information was reteived in
London on the morning of April 10, but, Mr. Eden added, in reply to a supplementary question that Franco's blockade warning had nothing to do with the decision
CLEARANCE PERMITTED The President of the Board of taken by the Government and he Trade in a reply, said that four chided the Liberal leader, Sir. Ar British vessels had deft Bilbao in chibald Sinclair, for imagining that the past week and the First Lord the Government's action was taken of the Admiralty who confirmed the on Franco's note.
FRENCH VIEWS
clearing of two British ships from that port on the 13th and 14th, added that 80 far as he was aware He also informed the House that no attempt was being made by the the French Government had been insurgents to prevent the departure kept fully informed of the British of ships from Bilbao.- -British Wire- attitude and he had no reason to less.
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