FORTY EIGHT TO-DAY
Hitler Birthday Celebrations
Berlin. April 18.-Chancellor Hitler's 48th birthday, to-morrow will be used to
national arouse ardour from possible torpor in- duced by the recent quietude" of politics,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937.
GOAL OF SPANISH FASCISTS
GENERAL FRANCO'S TALK
TO YOUTH
"To-Day We Command The Sea"
Gibraltar, April 19. "The goal of Spanish Fascists is to attain a strong country In which every trace of war has disappeared, the foundation of a new State of Catholic Faith and a strong army." declared General Franco in a broadcast to the Youth of Spain on Sunday. "Fascism will establish a true democracy in contrast to the so-called democracy of the Reds. The latter is nothing more but terrorisation of an entire nation by a handful of Irresponsible elements. Our movement at the beginning was confined to a few barracks, when we did not possess a single ship. To-day we com- mand the sea."-Transocean News Service.
ALL FRONTS QUIET Salamanca, Apr. 19.—Quiet pre- valled on all fronts on Sunday, ac- cording to a communique issued by the Nationalist Army headquarters, In the South, however; the Repub- licans launched an attack on Villa Haita, but were repulsed.— Nazi achievements will be cele-Tranincean News Service. brated by the whole nation, Dr. Goebbels' broadcasts stimulating the address.
leaders
Ninety thousand Nazi will renew their oath of allegiance to the Fuehrer.
Chancellor Hitler for two hours will distribute flags and standards to the troops and then hold a monster military review.
news-
It la expected that Gr. George Lansbury will be among the spectators. Å German agency to-day emphasizes that Mr. Lansbury comes not as B Labour Commoner but 4.5 $
Christian pacifist- Reuter.
UNUSUAL PRESENT FOR HITLER
་་
Berlin, Apr. 19. On Chancellor Hitler's 48th birth-
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BARCELONA BOMBED
Barcelona, Apr. 19.—A Nationalist aeroplane bombed this city on Sunday, dropping a number of light bombs on the Customs buildings, in the harbour and on surrounding houses. A tramear was also struck by bombs. Fire and several deaths are reported.—
Transocean News Service.
MOROCCAN TROOPS Salamanca Apr. 19.-Abdel Kadir, Grand Vizler of Spanish Morocco
visited General Franco here on Sunday and had a long conver- sation with him. The Vizler, who is at present making - a tour of Spain was accorded an extremely hearty reception, and subsequently a communique was issued in which General Franco praised the Maroc- can troops for their discipline, obedience and courage.
The Grand Vizter also visited
SHIPS SLIP THROUGH
Tramp Vessel Near Santander
one of
London, April, 19. The steamer Potato Jones has been ordered to discharge cargo at Alicante according to the owriers of the Marle Llewellyn and then load a cargo of fruit for Belgium..
The 1,200-ton British tramp steamer Thorpe Hall, although she had no instructions to do so, haa run General Franco's blockade on the north coast and has arrived at Gijon near Santander, state the London owners
It is added by the owners that their instructions to the vessel were to follow the advice of British warships in the zone.- Reuter.
day on Tuesday, an unusual pre- wounded Moroccans in hospital and PREPARATIONS
sent will be given to him by the Association of German Officials. This will consist of 300 gramo- phone records wherein all aspects of the Reich comments upon the new Government have been record- ed in painstaking efforts. It is "thought that this will be a docu-
ment of come.- -Tranioccan News Service.
value in centuries" to
GREAT RUSH TO SECURE SEATS
Coronation Tattoo In Shanghai
Shanghai, Apr. 19.
urged them to persist in the fight to liberate Spain.-. Transocean News Service
HM.S. HOOD'S COMMANDER
London. Apr. 19. Vice Admiral Blake embarked in HMS. Hood at La Rochelle ycater- day on his return from Hendaye where he had been in consultation with the British Ambassador to Spain.- British Wireless
JAPANESE KILLED BY VOLUNTEERS ·
· Changchun, ápr. 19. Mr. Masakichi Iguchi,, 24, and Mr. Takao Nakamura. 18, bokh
SUIYUAN CHIEF
SPEAKS
Outcome Of Last Single Action
Pelping, Apr. 19.
When two Taces engage in a de- cisive war, the final outcome de- pends on the last single action, Gen. Fu T30-yi, Chairman of the Sulyuan Provincial Government, declared to-day after a further meeting with General Sung Che- yusn.
!
"Transient trifling victories count for little compared with the Anal and decisive results," he con- tinued. "We cannot claim a de- cisive victory unless we render the enemy utterly powerless in the last single action."
Referring to the recent Inner Mongolian disturbances, he ex- pressed deep appreciation for the nationwide support and sympathy given the provincial troops in de- fending the frontier. The collec- tion of defence funds, which "was started during the hostilities, will be continued to assure the integrity of local defences.
It is reported here that Suyuan provincial officials are seeking to take advantage of the recent cam- palan to procure funds from all parts of the country.
Union Neus.
DEFENCE CONSOLIDATION
Peiping, Apr. 19. General Fu Tso-yi, Chairman of the Sulyuan Provincial Govern- ment, conferred with General Yen Hal-shan at Taiyuan last week. He also discussed with General Sung Che-yuan on the consolida- tion of defences in the north.
"THE CONNOISSEUR
COMES TO
CALDBECK'S"
NOT MERELY A FAMOUS SLOGAN
A STATEMENT OF FACT FOR OVER 73 YEARS
BUT
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
THE LEADING WINE AND SPIRIT” MERCHANTS
DUCHESS OF ATHOLL
Narrow Escape In Madrid
General Fu and General Yen are
Paris, April 18., believed to have discussed
A shell fell outside the Hotel- the
Granvia in Madrid while the prospects for Inner Mongolia in the light of last winter's fighting. Duchess of Atholl and her party Definite proposals are thought were lunching there, according to likely to be made to General Sung the Spanish News Agency, in a describing yesterday's for the control of Mongolia be- message cause of
bombardment. the political and geo- graphiéni connection between the
One of the cary placed at the
FOR BIG PUSH Hopel-Chahar region, and Inner disposal of the British party was
Planes Busy Over Teruel
Valencia, Apr. 18. The Government air force is very busy smashing a way for a new. big offensive on the Teruel front, north-east of Valencia, where the Insurgents occupy, a peninsula of territory sticking out towards the sca
Government troops are intend-
Mongolla
Nanking is said to have directed local officials to arrange for closer collaboration among the provincial governments for defending the
frontier.- taion New
BRITISH LEGATION IN PEKING
London, Apr. 19. In the House of Commons to-
day, Mr. 1 C. Hannah (Con.. Bilston) asked what use it was
ing to cut the railroad between
proposed to "make of the British Teruel and Saragossa and to block the road between these points.
Legation in Peking. Mr. Eden was unable to state the Legation's It is stated that Government ultimate use and explained that
Although the sale opened only employees of the Manchuria Deve-planes have made about 150 fights they did not intend at present to this morning almost every ticket lopment Company, were killed by to bomb and machine-gun the abandon the building owing to Im- a band of some 100 mounted Insurgent positions at strategic
Thursday.
afternoon points.
portant interests in North China making its retention and accom- madation there desirable.
Mr. Eden added that now bulld-
ing could not be ready for occupa
volantcers near Sulleng, in northeastern
Meanwhile, the Government's Pinkiang Province, reports reach-forces have occupied the towns of Ing the head office of the company Visleds and Lidon and Ardente. stated to-day.
12 miles east of the Saragossation for some considerable time as Ternel railway, and the heights of the Cerrogordo hills nearer the
the purchase of the site has only railway.
Just been completed.——— Krater.
for the Coronation Tattoo on the race course on May 11 and 12, which promises to be most im- pressive, has been already sold. There is every indication that thousands will be turned away.
People of every nationality in The men were travelling in the cosmopolitan Shanghai bought remote district on business. When seats. Apart from. British na- attacked, they put up a desperate tlonals. Chinese especially
fight with pistols before their noticeable among the ticket "buy | death, It Is reported.**
Union Nesse.
ers.—
Reuter.
SPECIAL AREAS
GRANTS
were
London, April 19. The Commissioner for Special Areas has promised further "sub- stantini grants to the local au- thorities in the special areas to- wards the schemes undertaken" by them on grounds of public health. The Commissioner's total commit- ments at the end of March were £10,712.000, including grants to assist industry £3,058,000, for land settlement etc. £3,182.000, scheines necessary on grounds of public health
£3,288,000, and other grants £1,188,000.- British Wirdean,
ITALIAN AIR CHIEF
IN AFRICA:
Rome, Apr. 19. As the new Commander-in-Chief. of the Italian Air Force in Abyssinia and Italian East Africa. General Jedeschini-Lalli has been appointed successor to General "Lott, who, it will be recalled, was seriously wounded in the recent attempt to assassinate the Viceroy, Marshal Graziani. General Jedeschini-Lalli departed from Naples for Addis Ababa on Sunday.---.. Transocean News Bervice.
IRAQ NOT SENDING DELEGATION
The
Cairo, Apr. 19. That the Government of Iraq will not send a delegation to the Coronation in London is revealed in reports from Bagdhad. reason given is the internal tension which persists in the country. Iraq will be represented by Its Minister to London. A delegation, headed by the Minister of Interior had al- ready been appointed, and was ready to Ball when it was called
off..
Transocean' News Service.
LARGEST PRODUCER OF RAYON Japan Beats U.S.
The Insurgents are sald to have lost heavily in street fighting in Caladas. Reuter.
LINER QUEEN MARY A SUCCESS
Landon, Apr. 19.
LENA "GOLDFIELDS SABOTAGE
blown to pieces just outside the hotel,
IN THE FAR EAST.
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
&
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel dax Wagons Lits, Peking.
Five persons were killed in the PARIS ON STRIKE
mediate vicinity of the Granvia Hotel, but none of the British party was injured. «.
ANOTHER-ESCAPE
"Theatres And Cafes Close
Paris, Apr. 18. Five hundred theatres, music
Miss Eilen Wilkinson, M.P... Labour, who is also visiting Mad- rid, had a narrow escape from death when the car in which she was travelling to the University halls and City front was struck by a plece of shell, according to the Spanish News Agency. Two militiamen who injured and taken to hospital. were travelling in her car were
fleuter.
GENERALISSIMO'S SON IN SHANGHAI
St
circuses, as well as night clubs and other amusement centres in Paris, are affected by the stay-in strike ordered by the
NEW STRIKE PROBLEM
U.S. Workers To Help Canadians
Toronto, April 18. A sympathy strike of 100,000 American employees of the Gene- ral Motors Corporation is threa committee of cinema theatre em- tened by United Automobile Work- ployees in protest against the ers Union leaders for Tuesday award of an arbitrator appointed unless the Corporation by thep by the Government who held that has settled the Canadian dispute, the salaries of certain employees by recognising the local branch had not been subject to a 10 per of the United Automobile Workera cent, reduction.
Union.
The majority of the big cinemas were closed this afternoon and all Shanghal, April 19. places of amusement are likely to An interesting visitor to Shang- be closed to-night-
Chia-kuo, the elder son of General- hai, just arrived, is Mr. Chiang | Reuter.
lasimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Chin-kuo has not been his native country for ten years.
He has been for the last ten years in Russia whence he has just re- turned, accompanied by his wife and eight-year-old son.
He is seeing his distinguished father shortly, possibly at Hang- cbow.
Moscow, April 19. A number of leading Böviet | Reuter. Executives have been accused of acts of sabotage at Lena Gold- fields. Damage was caused part!-
The annual report of the Cunard-cularly in the construction of the
DRAMATIC REUNION
Shanghai, Apr. 19. A dramatic reunton of General
REXISTS DEFINE
ATTITUDE
Loyalty Affirmed In Parliament
Brussels, April 18. The Rexist representatives in Parliament disappointed.. but undaunted at their leader's defeat
Preparations for this sympathe- tie walk-out in the United States began when the leaders of the Oshawa motor works plant strike indicated that they would en- deavour to settle their quarrel with the Corporation without the assis-" tance of outsiders as the Ontario Premier, Mr. Mitchell Hepburn, re- commended, unless some support were given them by the American members of the union. Reuter,
U.S. AGREEABLE TO RISE IN INTEREST
Officials of the Federal Reserve
White Star Line records that the power station designed to serve the Chiang Kai-shek, the man who at the bre-election-assembled on woord said that, contrary to some liner Queen Mary has fully justified new mines and exploration work. broke the Kuomintang's connection Bunday, when representatives of all expectations and has proved is also said to have been hindered.
with Communism, and his son, both Chamber and Senate were very popular with the travelling public-
Trotsky supporters are held to Chiang Ching-kuo, whose sym- present, /i be mainly responsible.-
Heuter.
British Wirelen.
Promising International
Experiment
London, April 19, The International Non-Interven- tion
Committee's scheme for supervising and observation of the non-intervention agreement on Tokyo, Apr. 19. Spanish land and sea frontiers Japan has repiced the United organised by the Non-Intervention States as the largest producer of Board will come into operation at rayon according to the Japanese midnight to-night. By that hour Federation of Rayon Manufac- the administrators and observers turers....
will be at their posta on the land Comparative figures show that | frontders of Spain last year, the production and export respectively were, Japan 265 million bs. and $3 million Ibe.; America 276 million lbs. and one million Ibs
Beuter's Bulletin Service.
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W.
Simultaneous'y ... the British, French Italian and German war- ships will begin their duty of watching the Spanish coasts.
Twenty seven European Govern- ments are taking part in the
acheme which is generally regard. ed as one of the most promising international; experiments undertaken,
ever
With reference to the naval control scheme, the Board of Trade has lasued a notice advising ships not bound for Apanlah ports to keep if possible outside ten sea miles from the Spanish coast, and ships proceeding to Spanish terri tory, subject to any reasons of navigation or sireas of weather, to keep outside ten sea miles from the Spanish coast until it is neces sary to approach nearer in order to enter the port of destination. fritish Wirelona.
·TO STAY AT HANGCHOW
the
now
to a mis
Administration is not opposed to opinions in financial quarters, the
an. "orderly" advance in interest pathy with, the Soviet had often The object was to define their rates on been openly expressed, is scheduled | attitude towards
the money market, in the various which the Treasury, will soon seek for to-day.
rumours circulated 2.5 to the new funds. Chiang Ching-kuo is proceeding future plans of the party after The recent general depression of by train this morning to Hankow
leader, Degrelle's. defeat the money market, the officials whither the Generalissimo is also against Van Zeeland on April 11.
said, was largely due bound from Fenghua-
As the Rexist paper "Le Pays understanding of the Adminis Beuter.
Reel" states, R resolution was' tration's "easy money" policy adopted, which states that the which was endorsed by the Chair- Parliamentary Hanchow, April 18.
representatives man of the Federal Reserve Board, General Chiang Kai-shek, Pre-stand,
as heretofore-un- Mr. Marriner 8. Eccl. sident of the Executive Tuan and daunted in loyalty to their leader. Mr. Eccle's action, it was pointed chairman of the Military Affairs Under no circumstances will they out, did not necessarily imply Commission, and Mrs. Chiang will desert to another party. — remain here for some time to spend
that he favoured low interest, Transocean News Nervïta,
rates, nor should it be interpreted CATHOLIC SOCIAL PARTY... to mean that the Secretary of the Mr. Chlang Ching-kuo, eldest son
Brussels, April 18. Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthan, of General Chiang, and his wife
The Catholic Social Party, that was opposed to a general stiffening returned to Shanghai to-day from is the Wallon wing of the newly of interest rates. Moscow, They will go to Hang founded organised Catholic Move- chow to see General Chiang.
ment or Belgium, held an inaugur General Peng Yu-hsiang, vice-al assembly to-day but was not chairman of the Military Affairs attended by the conservative group Commission, is vacationing at within the Catholic Party, whose Fenghua, native home of General chairman only realgoed om Batur Chiang
day..... Union News.
the rest of the two-month leave.”
Transocean News Service,
The officials said they "assumed”, that. Mr. Morgenthau “undoubted- ly appreciates the fact that the Treasury cannot continue to issue Government, obligations indefinite ly at low rates which are not attractive to investors, as compar ed with other obligations,