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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1937.
FIRST LORD'S
ALHAMBRA REPLY TO LABOUR
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The Government has failed to provide ade- quate naval protection for British shipping and by accepting the insurgent blockade, has acquiesced in an imposition allowing the starvation of women and children.
THIS WAS THE CONTENTION OF MR. A. V. ALEXANDER, LABOUR MEMBER FOR HILLSBOROUGH, WHO RAISED THE SUBJECT OF THE SITUATION IN BILBAO, AT THE CONCLU- SION OF THE BUDGET PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY, 44.
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MR. ALEXANDER REFUSED TO ACCEPT.. WITHOUT A GOOD DEAL MORE INFORMATION THAT THERE WAS AN EFFECTIVE INSURGENT BLOCKADE OF BILBAO-
Replying, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, stated that according to the Government's information, the insurgent blockade of Bilbao was effective.
There was a minefield outside the port while insurgent ships fre quently ventured within the three- mile limit and fired on the forts without reply.
Final Blow::
To The Old Locarno
He emphasised that the Goy-
London, To-day. ernment had told General Franco
"Very little of the old Locarno that they would stand no inter-Pact will remain after publica ference with British shipping on tion of the British and French the high seas, and that he would Notes releasing Belgium from be held responsible for any dam her obligations under age in territorial waters.
treaty."
that
NAVAL POLICY
So declares the diplomatic_cor- The Government would follow
respondent of the "Daily Tele- the situation from day to day, and graph," in a review of the declara- if they came to the view that the tions from London and Paris which so-called blockade was not effec- are expected to be made some time tive, they would be the first to ac- this week. cept the new situation.
British naval policy was protec- tion of all British ships on the high seas
Above all, he states, Berlin will be relieved of her obligation to come to the assistance of any signa- tory State which is the victim of unprovoked attack.
They were not prepared to send British warships into territorial
Britain and France will presum- waters, not so much on account of ably repeat the statements made the danger great though it some time ago by their respective might be as because they believ- Foreign Ministers that Belgium-can ed it would endanger the non-in-rely on their active support in rẻ- tervention agreement.
sisting any attempt to violate her integrity.—Trans-Ocean.
MAIN PRINCIPLE.
Sir Samuel concluded that the Government believed a new chap- ter in the policy. of non-interven- tion was beginning and it was therefore vitally
INK BATHS important to throw no inflammable material into FOR elements already sufficiently in-1 PARIS RIOTERS
spirit
flammable, and that in the and the letter we should maintain non-intervention. Reuter.
AIR MINISTRY AND DAIMLERS
French Police Plan
Indelible ink may be used by the French police to spray on demons- trators. That is one of the sug- gestions which is being considered The complete block of administra-result of the recent Clichy riots.
by a commission appointed as the tive offices, stores and service sta
On that occasion. several persons tions of the Daimler Company at
were killed and injured by the police Sandy-lane, Coventry, has, it was as they tried to separate Fascists announced, been leased to the Ministry.
Air
of
and Communists. A commission is now seeking substitutes for fire- arms to deal with hostile crowds. The indelible ink would mark demonstrator for several days. tear-gas,
These works occupy an area approximately 500,000 square feet, and include extensive covered fac- tory space, which may be used for Other suggestions are the accommodation of R.A.F. mech portable barbed wire barricades and ment anical transport, and other equip-celluloid shot.
An important reform will be the New blocks of offices and a ser increase of police officers. It is con- vice station for the Daimler Considered that, with the present pro- pany are being erected adjoining portion of 29 police commissioners the company's main works at Rad- to 15,000 constables, the individual ford, Coventry.
policeman has to rely too much on The Sandy-lane works taken over his own initiative. by the Air Ministry will be close│· to the Government shadow factory, now nearing completion, and which Daimler aero engine parts will be made under the
at
A postcard from a civilian prisoner of war in Germany, posted to a Ply- mouth resident in May, 1917, and just
try's co-dinated scher Minia delivered, apologised for "the post be-
ing very bad.”