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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1937.
STRIKE AGREEMENT
GUERILLA
TACTICS BY
THE BASQUES
MOLA OFFENSIVE
CONTINUES
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
Paris, To-day. While the insurgent troops under General Mola continue to batter away at the outer defences of Bilbao, where the Basques are putting up a stub- born resistance, the Republicans yesterday launch attacks on the Guadalajara sector.
This is revealed in a radio agency report from Valencia, which says that the insurgents on this front gave away and the loyalists captured several positions.
The retreating insurgents were bombed from the air, suffering considerable losses, and were forc- ed to abandon large quantities of munitions and supplies.
The fighting on the Mungia tants of a district in the battle zone and the heights of the also passed through the insurgent sector Jata Mountains continued spora-lines-Trans-Ocean. dically, with both. sides claiming
small local successes.
WITHDRAWAL PLAN The question of the withdrawal
MEN TO RETURN TO WORK ON FRIDAY: PATCHED-UP PEACE
London, To-day.
The chaos which seemed to be on the horizon following the London bus strike, which it was thought might spread to other transport branches, and to the probability of a nationwide coal stop- page, has been averted.
The London bus strikers are to return to work on Friday this week, while the two rival mining unions in Nottinghamshire have reached a provisional agreement.
Indication that all was well on
the bus strike front was contain- ed in a Ministry of Labour an- nouncement last night, stating that all bus strikers should re- port for duty on Friday when they would be reinstated in the former employ and the period of
the strike would not be deemed a
break in their service.
COAL PEACE
ALSO
Provisional Agreement To Amalgamate Unions
in
London, To-day. There is now every likelihood that the national coal stoppage, due to The announcement followed a begin on Friday this week, will be. meeting held in the Ministry ear averted, the two rival unions lier in the evening attended by Nottinghamshire having reached a Mr. Ernest Bevin, the men's provisional agreement to amalga- leader, Lord Ashfield, Chairman mate. of the London Passenger Trans- port Board, and Mr. F. W. Leg gett, the Ministry's conciliation
officer.
The result of the meeting is be- The loyalists are said to have fof foreign nationals from the Spanish ing reported to the transport work- evacuated several villages in the civil war was again before the in-ers' executive and the Transport
în London Board. country surrounding Mungia, while ternational committee
scheme the accurate rebel artillery is ma- and the preparation of a king the Basque lines of commun-was carried a stage further by the ication unsafe for transport.
GUERILLA TACTICS
for their comments.
.
RETROSPECTIVE AGREEMENT
:
the
The delegate conference of Mineworkers Federation will meet in London to-day and will probably withdraw the national strike notices.
-Reuter.
COMMONS' STATEMENT
London, To-day. The Mines: Secretary as a result of the further meeting of the part-
reference of the experts' report to According to the Ministry's state-ies yesterday was able to inform the non-intervention governments ment, pending conclusion of a new the Commons of the provisional agreement, the men shall operate agreement on amalgamation of the new rival. Nottinghamshire Miners' Un- on the present basis, but a agreement shall be made retrospec- ions which is expected to be a means tive to resumption of work.
of averting the threatened national The Transport Board and the strike in the British coalfields. The Union accept the interim report of
new effort to reach a settlement fol- the court of inquiry set up by the lowed on the appeal for industrial Ministry of Labour-Reuter.
conciliation. made in the last Com- mons' speech of the Prime Minis- ter.
The committee received a report On the Yurre sector, the insu
on the operation of the observation gents continue to hold the upper
scheme in the period since the last hand, and are advancing on Lemona
plenary session and took note that and Galdacano. The advance, how the scheme was operating smoothly ever, has been slowed down owing and on the full scale contemplated, to the guerilla methods of warfare both by land and by sea. adopted by the Basques.
The draft of an appeal to the two Around Bilbao, the insurgents parties in Spain regarding the con- are reported to have shortened their (duct of the present conflict was con- lines and are consolidating newly-sidered and amended and will come won positions..
up again for adoption at a further meeting of the plenary on Friday.
It is claimed that 70 Basque mili- tiamen deserted to the insurgent lines yesterday, while 500 inhabi-
HIS LUMBAGO HAS GONE FOR GOOD
A Sailor Finds That Kruschen Keeps Him Free
committee
JOINT MACHINERY
London, To-day. Immediately the London busmen the resume work, the parties to dispute
will meet and negotiate
Terms of amalgamation agreed are to be submitted to the delegate
of the conferences
Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain, which will meet in London, to-day and of In submitting to the gov settlement, of a new agreement on the Nottinghamshire Miners In- ernments, the report of the the basis of the report of the court Government Technical Advisory of inquiry, and the statements Captain Crookshank told the Com- Sub-Committee containing the plan the report by the London Passen-mons that as soon as the terms of for the withdrawal from Spain-of
on
dustrial Union.
CONSCRIPTION IN KWANGTUNG
Governor's Order
the amalgamation had been ratified non-Spanish nationals engaged either ger Transport Board.
Joint machinery will be es effect would be given to the agree- pre- directly or indirectly in the
tablished for examining the ques-ment also reached between the part- sent conflict, representatives on the
tion arising from duty schedules ies regarding re-employment of the non-intervention committee will re-
and investigating conditions of men at Harworth Colliery, where quest them to inform the committee
employment in relation to health. victimization had been alleged fol- as soon as possible whether the plan
Upon the results of the investi-lowing a local strike last November, commends itself to them and whe- ther they would be
immediate appropriate out of which originated the national prepared to gations, Four years ago this sailor had an take the certain courses of action steps will be taken either by re-dispute now brought near to settle-
hours, or other mea- ment. British Wireless. attack of lumbago. Kruschen put him indicated in the report in the event, duction in right again—and has kept him right firstly, of a general agreement be sures may be agreed to meet the ever since:--
ing reached by the international position. committee as to the nature of the Total cost of the strike to the "Four-Years ago," he writes, “I was troubled with lumbago intermittently, withdrawal plan and, secondly, of men in wages and the Transport and tried several remedies, without get the acceptance of that plan by the and General Workers Union in ting any relief. I started taking two parties in Spain.
strike pay was $500,000.--Reuter. Kruschen Salts, following the directions The replies of a number of gov- for lumbago, and I can assure you that
Mr. Wu Te-chen, the Governor, after a few weeks, I felt the benefit. ernments to the committee's questionnaire regarding legal and other
has issued a mandate that all Gov- For four years now I have never felt
ernment-servants in Canton under any recurrence of lumbago, although I still continue with Kruschen... I would
the age of forty must receive mili- not leave off if they were double the
tary training as from June 1, and price. I am bixty, and work on sailing that lumbago craft, and apart from
that those in the rest of the pro- specialising have hardly ever had a day's Illness." stealing trousers, especially wo-
vince must start military training E.O.
men's, was accused at the Central It is understood that in the ab-not later than June 14. Qur Own Kruschen is a combination of six Magistracy this morning of "steal-sence of Lord Plymouth in the Bal- Correspondent. natural salts which stimulate your ing five pairs of trousers from the tic States, Captain Euan Wallace, liver, kidneys and digestive tract to
Mr. John H. Finley, formerly asso- healthy, regular activity. They ensure verandahs of Nos. 2 and 4, Centre Secretary of the Department of Internal cleanliness, and keep the Street, during the night. He was Overseas Trade, will act as chair-ciate editor of the "New York Times,” com has been appointed editor-in-chief in blood-stream- pure. ^ Then lumbago, remanded until to-morrow morn-man of the non-intervention
succession to Mr. Rollo Ogden, who rheumation, headaches and Indigestion
mittee. British Wireless.
died in February.
BURGLAR SPECIALISES IN TROUSERS
A cat burglar,
in
problems raised by acts of inter- ference by the two parties in Spain with the shipping of European coun- tries, have not yet been received. British Wireless.
NEW CHAIRMAN ·
Canton, To-day.