EFFORT TO HALT SPANISH WAR
FOREIGN VOLUNTEER
QUESTION
No Replies Yet To Joint Proposals To Powers
London, December 29.
No. replies have yet been received to the representations made on behalf of the British and French Governments in Berlin, Rome. Moscow and Lisbon that the Governments in these four capitals should take appropriate legislative or other steps to end the flow of foreign volunteers to the contending forces in Spału.
The communications made to the fuur Governments are re- ported to be receiving considération. but it is suggested that wome days may elapse before all repiles are delivered and that in some cases they will not come to hand until New Year-British Wireless.
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GERMAN VIEWPOINT
Berlin, Dec. 28.
In connection with repeated at- tempts, especially those of the English and French governments, to bring the attention of the Euro- pean powers to the extreme impor- tance of the volunteer question as
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SPANISH WAR PROGRESS
Madrid, Dec. 28 The Spanish Government claims considerable successes in yester- a vital issue in the non-interven- | day's fighting, which lasted until tion polley in respect to the Spa- nightfall. It is stated that militia nish civil war, it is emphasized in
men completely cleared the Co- German political circles that there
runna roads and that communica- can be no question of gaining Ger- tions with the Goverment post- man adherence to a policy of non-
tions in Aravaca have been re- interference since Germany her-
established. The lines of com- self made the first and most com-
munication with Pozuelo have also prehensive proposals, for such a
been cleared, it is said, policy.
Her efforts. however. were ren-
dered fruitless from the beginning through the attitude of the Soviet
Union and also authoritative cir cles in France. The damage which thus resulted can scarcely be recti- fed through belated diplomatic activity especially when the for- the Soviet Union mer actions of and France which are contrary to the non-intervention policy" are now ignored. Such activity beinz directed, as it le principally to- wards Germany, not only alms in the false direction but serves to conceal the actual state of events and to obscure the question of gullt about which no doubt" has been left, due to the attitude long prevalent in infuential Marxist circles.
It is declared that if all powers actually have the intention of establishing a general and effec-
tive non-interference there would be no interest in attempting an ob- acure Issue.
Transocnan News Service.
"WRONG ADDRESS"
Berlin, Dec. 28. Franco-British representations regarding the maintenance of the non-intervention agreement in Spain were to-day characterised in an official commentary as diplo- matic notes "delivered to the wrong address."
The German suthorities main- tain that they made the first far- reaching proposals regarding the prevention of foreign volunteers taking service in Spain, but the success
their. efforts were sabotaged from the beginning by the attitude of the Soviet Union and leaders in France.
The damage caused by this at- titude can scarcely be repaired by belated diplomatic activity. the commentary adds.
It seems unlikely that an in- mediate reply will be given to the Anglo-French questions, put for ward with a view to obtaining the German attitude and clarifying the situation. The spokesman-descri~ bed these questions as "not entire- ly simple."- Reuter.
FRENCH LABOUR
CONFLICT
Threat To Naval Programme"
Paris, Dec. 28. Another Bot-back threatens France's naval programme, in the shape of a serious labour conflict In shipyards involving over 12,000
men.
A meeting has been called for to- night and it is expected the men will denounce the recently achieved labour contract with employers, owing to an alleged rise in the cost of living. They will probably de- mand a 15, per cent. increase in Wages.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936.
REMOVAL FROM MADRID
British Government Decision
Landou. Dec. 28.
His Majesty's Government has decided to instruct Mr. Ogilvie Forbes, British Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid, to close the Embassy and to withdraw his staff and re- maining British subjects to Valencia, prezent seat of the Spanish Government.
As regards humanitarian and relief work, the Spanish Govern- ment has now made, through the League of Nations, efforts to ob- tain the services of such experts as they consider necessary and
examine the reports these experts before taking any further decision.
of
Unless the Spanish Government has received reports of these ex- perts the
question of organised international rellef measures does not arise.
I
Further, in regard to voluntary organisation already at work in Spain, and which are allowed to continue their individual activities
it will no doubt be possible for Mr. Forbes to visit Madrid from time to time, should occasion arise, to give such advice or render such assistance as may be possible. As regards the maintenance of the Embassy itself at Madrid, measures for keeping both the start and British subjects who are still there supplied with necessary provisions must necessarily have become in-
ONE MILLION |FRIENDSHIP
FLORINS
Oil Magnate's Gift To Germany
Berlin, Dec. 28. Sir Henry Deterding, prominent oil magnate, has donated ten million florins to Germany.
WITH FRANCE
United For Peace
MR. CHURCHILL ON COMMON. IDEALS
· The relations between the 'Bri- Mish and French democracies and the rest of Europe were discussed by Mr. Winston Churchill and M. Paul-Reynaud at a, luncheon of the Anglo-French Luncheon Club, held recently at the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue,
REGAINING NAVAL PRESTIGE
GERMANY BUILDING AT TOP SPEED
Enormous Increase In Officers
London, December. 29. ·
Mr. Churchill, who presided, said that these were great days for the triendship between England and France. Never did he remember a period when the two great Western democracies were more closely united in Ideals, in sympathies, in interests, and also, alas! in the dangers with which they were confronted. Never had there been a period when the relations be tween the Governments of 'the two Mr. Hector C. Bywater, naval ; countries were more harmonious.expert of the "Daily Telegraph." It was with particular pleasure | draws attention to the enormous that he read in the newspapers of | increase in officers as a most Saturday the declaration made by significant feature of Germany's M. Delbos, the Foreign Minister of determination to regain her past. France, who in terms of impres- sive conviction declared that – if Great Britain were the victim of Sir Henry Deterding has long
unprovoked aggression France been regarded as one of the lead- would immediately come to her aid ing friends of New Germany-with all her forces of the land. the Reuters Bulletin Service.
The German Navy List published for the first time in three years bears sirlking evidence of the speed with which. Germany is building up her fleet and Interesting facts are revealed 'about- ̈ the launching of vessels and the building programme.
Sinca 1934 two"28,000-ton battleships have been launched and one or two 35,000 tonners laid down; two 10,000-ton cruisers have been Isanched and one or two Inid down; 16 large des- troyers have been launched, siz super-destroyers and twelve tor- pedo boats laid down; 26 submarines have been launched and more are in course of construction.
The German newspaper "Angrin describes the gift as a gigantic one of foodstuffs for "winter help" which will be purchased from Holland.
The Government claims to have inflicted heavy losses on the insur-ties will be considerably smaller gents in these areas and to have captured five of the rebels's arm-
creasingly dificult. Such difficul- STOCK
oured car fleet.--
Reuter Bulletin Service.
RUSSIANS EXCLUDED BY PORTUGAL
order
Lisbon, Dec. 28. Soviet Russian nationals will not be allowed to enter Portuguese colonies, according to an issued by the ministry of colonies tere- fransocean News Service.
BASQUE GOODS' 'BAN
Paris Dec. 28.
in Valencia 'where British ships can co-operate in realing with the problems of maintenance and supplies.
Exact details regarding the withdrawal are being left to the discretion of Mr. Forbes, who will bear in mind both the needs of the British interests and British sub- Jects.-
British Firetean.
MANY DIFFICULTIES
EXCHANGE
taval prestige.
The number of midshipmen 'and cadets has increased from 187 to 1,160 in the past three years and this suggests that still greater naval expansion is contemplated.
sea, and the air. This declaration
Mr. Bywater cites no official followed on the equally resolute | figures, but he discloses on reliable statement made by Mr. Antony information that the lower deck Eden, and both were based upon personnel has increased in three the agreement entered into be years from 12,000 to 31,000 and it tween the two countries last March is expected that the figure will rise
These declarations, and the facts to 40,000 in 1997-e resulting from them, gave
the Reuter. greatest hope of the preservation
VALUES of peace. A very dangerous and
Effect Of Trade Of Shares
London, Dec. 29. The effect which active trade and rising commodity prices had upon London, Dec. 28. " The transfer of the British Em-stocks and shares of equity class In thie bassy from Madrid to Valencia is a strikingly illustrated due to the fact that there seems no customary review of Stock Ex- prospect of an early return of a change values published by the Spanish Government to Madrid.
Bankers Magazine. Hence, the British representative, Mr. Ogilvie Forbes, is not in a good position to maintain close contact with important political authorities.
The aggregate value of 365 re- presentative securities on Decem ber 16 exceeded that for the cur
date responding
of 1935 by £370,844,000 or 5.3 per cent., while Moreover, measures the Embassy staff with the neces
to supply the latest valuation of 278. Becuri
ties of variable dividend 'class re- allsary provisions are becoming in-veals an increase of £316,667000
creasingly dimcult.
or 14.6 per cent.
The minister of commerce of the Easque government lo Bilbao has forbidden the exportation of goods including transit shipments. according to reports here Tranioren Bows Service.
PRIMATE OF SPAIN VISITS VATICAN
Avila, Dec. 28 Monseigneur Goma, Primate of Spain, and Archbishop of Toledo. has returned here from Rome where he was twice received by His Holiness Pope Plus.
The Primate is reported to have declared that 10 Bishops and 5000- priests out of a total of 35,000, have been killed since the outbreak of the civil war, --- Reuter.
NEW DISORDERS IN PALESTINE
With regard to the voluntary re- The recovery among shares of llef expeditions and organisations, companies belonging to the de- It is pointed out that Mr. Forbes pressed. Industries provides one of will be able to visit Madrid periodi- the most satisfactory features of cally and give them the necessary | the year's movements as, for exam- assistance. Reuter.
KING OF ALBANIA TO MARRY
Hungarian Countess As Bride
&
ple." "foreign rallway atocks. the | Hist of which shows an appreciation
of 70.5 per cent.
The combined list of nine select- ed rubber shares displays a rise of 57.8 per cent, and five selected shipping companies. Improved by over 18 per cent.- Reuter.
FURTHER DROP IN UNEMPLOYMENT
New Year, Optimism
London, Dec. 29. A further dros in figures of un-
tlons.
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GERMAN ARMY IN MOURNING
Gen. Von Seeckt's Death
Berlin, Dec. 28. Commander-in-Chief of
'The
4.
SHIP
GERMAN
SEIZURE
War Material Allegation
Bayonne, Dec. 281-
A spokesman for the Basque Go- vernment has issued a formal statement to the effect that the seized German steamer Palos, cap- tured by Government patrol ves- sels in the Bay of Biscay on De- cember 24. carried contraband war materials.
The statement adds that the German captain was hailed and refused to disclose the nature of his cargo and that he destroyed compromising documents before the Palos arrived at Bilbao,----- '
Reuter
day,
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.
been
grave year lay ahead, but the first precaution to bring them through that year in peace and in safety was the closest possible accord and co-operation between the British and French Governments, between the great Empire of France and the British Commonwealth of Na- | the German army has ordered
Berlin, Dec. 28. that all officers of the general staff, Evidence that Germany is -hop- WIDER ASSOCIATION is: well as of the infantry regling to settle the Palos affair with- Even here in France and the ment No. 67, wear crepe arm bands out a display of force was forth- British Isles were 85,000,000 people; for a period of 8 days as a token of coming from official circles to- and together the white populations | mourning for Colonel General von of the British Empire and the Beeckt. On the day of the funeral
No fresh warships have French possessions oversea were fags over the buildings of the war despatched to Spain, it is stated. [over 100,000,000. Now, 100,000,000 department will fly at halfmast.
Yesterday it was reported that of people, to say nothing of all the
In a proclamation issued on the ships had been rushed to. Bilbao. other races associated with them, occasion of Colonel General'von where the Palos is held. who had no other desire but to Seeckt's death, the Commander-in-
contrasts To-day's attitude. keep the peace and help other na- Chief of the German army, Gener-strongly with the statements made tions to realize the fullness of their al Fieldmarshal von Blomberg, de Saturday and there is now a | 'aspirations, so long as those as- clared: "In the darkest hour of disposition to minimise the whole
pirations were lawful and right, the history of our fatherland affair.- who had no ill-feeling against any ceneral von Beeckt took over the Renter's Bulletin Service. neighbour, who' nursed no desire same task that Scharnhorst once for revenge or acquisition of ter- was called upon to assume. Fight- ritory-he believed that if those ing simultaneously
against the 100,000,000 of people held to- dictates of Versailles and the in- gether, possessed as they were of ternal enemies, he created the the great resources which France Reichswehr with German soldierly and Britain possessed and could
virtues and was the birthcell of the command, including the command new national army.”— of the seas, then there was every Transocean News Service. probability that they would be left alone, United we staaÄ, divid- ed we fall"
BIRCHING AND FLOGGING
an-
STEAMER RELEASED
Berlin, Dec. 29. A German newsagency reports that the steamer Palos has been released by the Basque government at Bilbao..
The steamer was set free on the demand of the German cruiser Könisberg which is at present at Bilbao.--
Reuter's Bulletin Service..
INDIANS AGAINST
REFORMS.
Falzpur, Dec. 28. The National Congress, 30,000 of whose members are gathered here. to-
But & must not be supposed (Mr. Churchill continued) that this as- sociation for mutual protection
London, Dec. 28. now published and proclaimed to
In conformity with the the whole world stood as a detacnnouncement made by the Home ed and isolated fact. It was only Secretary in the House of Commons one element in the wider associa before the Christmas adjourn- tion of peoples and nations called ment, it is understood that a Com- the League of Nation, which ga-mittee will shortly be appointed to thered to it a great many nations, enquire into birching and dogging The value of punishments as a the objections advanced by penal the new Government of India Act deterrent will be investigated and day passed a resolution rejecting
reformers en psychological grounds.
of 1935. " will be considered.
The resolution reiterates the de- The type of offences for which flogging is a
rand of the Congress for a con- suitable punishment will also be stituent assembly, elected by adult reviewed.
suffrage for the purpose of draft- British Wireles
ing a new Constitution,
Budapest, Dec. 23, King Achmed Zogu I of Albania has become engaged to the Hun- garian Countess Hanna Mikes, ac- cording to rumours circulating here. The Countess who has been
«some "powerful and some small, Bring
at Rome for some time arrived here by plane on Monday, employment in the New Year la basis of the Covenant could gain some strongly armed, who on the but refused to deny or confirm the forecast by leading industrialista for themselves collectively a secur- engagement with and business organisations which ity against the renewal, of war far reports of the the King and merely
declared: anticipate considerable expansion greater than could have been given "I cannot say anything on their trade in the coming months by the most effective alliance be
The subject.
not Optimism is high in the coal, irontween England and France. And disorders are imminent. The sub-ced the afficial stage anyhow. and steel and heary industries he hoped that if fortune instead
You won't hear anything from me generally,
of esatastrophe should attend the world in 1937 they would see their regarding this affair"
German friends join this same great association and share in its broad and unstinted security.
London, Dec. 28. Considerable anxiety regarding the situation in Palestine is felt in informed quarters here in view of reports from Jerusalem that new
terranean tension in the manda-
matter has
The Countess Hanna Mikes, who
was one
The Earl of Dudley Chairman of the British Iron and Steel Federa- tion expresses the opinion that trade prospects have never been
brighter since the war.
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FRENCH POLICY
ture war. The question was of the number of military divisions, of the number of tanks which. could be brought to the fighting line!
the
including Mahatma Gandhi
The question of the acceptance of office by Congressmen will be decided after the provincial elections,
A resolution déclaring that Con- cannot participate m resamen celebrations that might be held in
tory district, la constantly on the Increase, owing to frequent acts of pilferage committed by guerilia Is 18 years old, is the daughter of bands in the vicinity of Jerusalem. the late Count Armin Mikes, and Is regarded as one of the outstand- According to these reports,
The general improvement which express the suspicion that ing beauties of the Hungarian
·M. Reynaud, speaking in French, money stolen by the bands during aristocracy. She is also known for staple trades and resultant in- the raids is "finding its way into
That was the reason why they India in connecton with the coro- her elegance and her charm. Her crease of spending power of the said that their common political the revolutionary fund, It is said father, who died a few years ago, public will, it is believed, affect regime had been held up as a cul- were compelled to seek outside of nation of His Majesty King George prit to the world for its lack of democracies a supplementary force. VI. was also passed, though it was to be already totalling '£25,000.
of Hungary's richest all branches of trade and the re-emciency. Yet democracies had with the help of which they could made clear that the resolution was The fund in question, so the re- landowners although the greater opening of certain overseas mar-
borne better than any other coun, hope porta atate, is to be used for in- Part of his estates was situated in kets for coal and other commodi tries the burden of the economic side of the scales. There lay will or discourtesy to the King's
to outweigh
other in no way intended to express 111- ancing the Arab Nationalists dur-Transylvals which was ceded to ties has made the outlook in crisis. Where exactly lay the com- the explanation of the Franco-person nig new disorders after the ter-
Roumania after the war,
South Wales; and · other COR)- King Achmed Zogn 1, it will be helds more hopeful than for many cles? It was that, even thoughly different from the pre-war
mion weakness of their democra-Soviet pact. This pact was entire| Reuter. mination of the orange harvest. Another factor which is contribut recalled celebrated his 41st birth-years ing to accentuate uneasiness, ac
day on October 8 and is thus more
they had a higher ideal than that Franco-Ruxatan alliance. It would Encouragement is also afforded cording to reports, is the mysterious than twice as old as
dictatorships, they showed apply only within the scope of the Countess by the course of the commodity themselves more reluctant to un-Covenant that was to say, on escape of several Arab leaders Hanna Mikes.
markets.
dertake the necessary sacrifices to such conditions that the pub from concentration camps.
Traminican News Bernice.
British Wireless.
defend that Ideal,
He opinion of their two coun- Transocian News Bervice, a
If the three great democracies tries would be in entire agreement, of the world had at their immedi- To those who feared that this pact ate disposal the necessary strength | was a new danger of war, because to maintain collective security, it would involve them in a Russo-slowly recoverin their common Ideal; against the German confict, he would point which kept her indoors. ideal of dictatorship, the Jungle out that, Germany and Russia had Christmas, The King. law." peace would be ensured. Un- no common boundaries and that day with a shooting fortunately they had not. The war between them lay other countries ing the Duke of "Chorion potential of democracies was unto which Britain and France were the Earl of Athlete. 27 doubtedly great, but they had not bound by the obligations of the and Princesses Elizabert yet the military means for an in Covenant,
garet Rose Joined the mediate reply to a lightning" ag-
The toast of The Chairman" I picnic lunch- gression which would start a fu- was proposed by Lord Askwith, British Wirelcie.
GOVERNOR ON HOLIDAY
A dispute has also arisen in the famous Penboat Yard, where the onetime Queen of the Atlantic, the Normandie, was built. In view of the recent introduction, un labour's
London. Dec. 28. demand, of a. 40-hour week here, Mr. Patrick Duncan, Governor employers declined to give extra General Designate of the Union of Hoildays at Christmas and New South Africa, arrived in London
to-day for a short holiday--
Year... Reister.
"British Wireless,
GIANT AIRLINER CRASHES
Los Angeles, Dec. 28. Twelve are reported to have been killed when a giant airliner crashed in a storm on the menin talade 20 miles from the Bur- bank Airport Reuter
POPE'S HEALTH-
Vatican City, Dec. 28. The condition of His Holiness the Pope is unchanged and he is till suffering from intermittent pains in the leg due to the fact that the varicose ulcers are not responding to treatment --- Beuter's Bulletin Berolce.
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ROYAL FAMILY ON HOLIDAY
London, Dec. 28.
At Sandringham, Queen Mary is
cold