“Hongkong: Dally. Press "March 28, 1999.
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NEGOTIATIONS FOR
MADRID SURRENDER: FAILURE REPORTED
"MADRID, MAR. 27 (REUTER)-NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE SURRENDER OF MADRID are reported to have broken down and Franco's troops are reported to have advanced 25 miles on the southern front occupy- ing an area of 200 square miles.
It is declared that Franco's troops met with little resistance and that 10,000 Republican troops either deserted or surrendered.
WIDE FRONT ADVANCE
Franco's Forces In
Huge Offensive
BURGOS. Mar. 27 (Beuter)-- Gen. Franco's troops conimen - ced an offensive in the early hours of the morning on the. Cordoba front.
A communique claims that thei Republican lines were, penetrated to a considerable depth and that
a wide front advance is continuing.
A Madrid broadcast blames Gen.) Franco for the change in attitude and Burgos admits that Madrid did not agree to the demand.that the Republican Air Force be hand- ed over by Saturday as a gesture of the surrender of Madrid.,
At present there is no sign of the threatened offensive..
The city is quiet except for the sound of anti- aircraft guns firing at noon when twelve of Franco's bombers were cruising over the city. The planes have so far dropped no bombs.
Police headquarters is crowded
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FLYING SCHOOL PUPIL MISSING ON SOLO FLIGHT:
GRAVE ANXIETY IS FELT FOR
Picture of the Hornet Moth training plane, with Mr. George B. Haang at the control, which has failed to return after taking off from Kai Tak yesterday afternoon.“
Poland Determined Not To Be Taken By Surprise
A message from Madrid states with people applying for passports "Down With
that the Inhabitants in the capital and the road from Madrid to
are still wondering why nó offcial statement concerning the peace negotiations have not yet been in sued.
Valencia is crowded with refugees.
ITALIAN AIR LOSSES ROME. Mar. 27 (T/Ocean)- Italian voluntary formations fight-|
A report from Paris says that it ing in Spain on the side of the is believed that these peace nego-Nationalist forces lost 88 milltary tiations have been delayed by the planes since the beginning of their discussion of certain essential participation in the Spanish civil polnits in the Republican proposals, according to a message from
Madrid:
DUCE DID NOT THROW PETROL ON FIRE
PARIS, Mar. 27 (Reuter)......... Signor Mussolini's speech at the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Fascist Party yesterday, is the chief tople of newspaper comment. ‚"Journal" - says, "It can be said that Mussolini did not throw petrol on the fire."
war up to March 2, according to an official announcement made here to-day. The total Italian plane losses include 57 pursuit planes, 11 bombers and two scouting planes.
SPANISH ART TREASURES GENEVA, Mar. 27 (Reuter)-An inventory taken of the Spanish art treasures, which had been sent to Cleneva for satekeeping show nothing is missing and that the treasures had been kept in a perfect state of preservation.
AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS
Hitler"
FELT FOR CHINESE STUDENT
On Cross-Country Examination Hop
BRITISH SOLDIER
KILLED
JERUSALEM, Mar, 27 (Reu- ter)-A British soldier and six Arab stilway workers were wounded when a lang mins exploded under railway bridge near Jerusalem. “
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IMPORTANT DECREES DECIDED ON IN FRANCE
LONDON, MAR. 27 (REUTER) --- PARIS, Mar. 27 (Reuter) — A REPORTS FROM WARSAW THAT series of important decrees con- GERMANY MADE DEMANDS ONcerning national defence, decided POLAND, LACK ALL CONFIRMA- on at a meeting of the Council of TION, BUT IT IS THOUGHT Ministers, include a decree to ་
THE
With Five Hours' Fuel:
Not Wearing Parachute
WAS EXPECTED BACK AT 4:30: REPORT MADE TO H.K. POLICE
GRAVE FEARS ARE FELT FOR THE SAFETY OF A STUDENT OF THE FAR EAST FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL WHO TOOK TO THE AIR SHORTLY AFTER" 3.30 PM YESTERDAY on an examination flight In a training machine and who was not heard of up a late hour last night.
THE MISSING MAN IS MR. GEORGE H. HUANG, aged about 24. He came to Hongkong about two years ago from Tientsin, where his father was at one time connected with the Chinese rallways, and has been a pupil of the School since that time. Mr. Huang, who has taken his final examinations in the
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made to the police by Mr. A. J. R. Moss, CiVII THAT MILITARY PRECAUTIONS: Increase the navy exectives. ground engineering, course.] Superintendent of the INSPIRED BY A BELIEF OF decree amending the law govern-was due yesterday to make a Airport. PRESSURE FROM THE REICH ing naval recruiting, a
decree 6,000 feet cross-country solo. At the same time, it is under- FOR A REVISION OF STATUS IN Increasing the number of naval flight in order to complete the stood. Flight-Lieutenant J. F. DANZIG MAY BE EX-engineer effectives, and a decree requirements for a "B" pilot's Longfield, chief instructor of the in relation to frontier defence, licence, having secured his Far East Flying Training School, all the details of which are not "A" licence some months ago. went up in another plane to nh- disclosed, and credit for Industrial
dertake a search, but as it was The "A licence only entitles the then getting dark Mr. Longfeld mobilization.
bolder to plat private planes, was not able to locate the mising At the meeting, the Foreign whilst the "B" licence entitles the Minister,
plane. M. Bonnet, made a holder to pilot passenger or mail statement regarding the interna planies.
Mr. Longicid was the first per- tional situation and gave an ac-
son approached by the "Hongkong Amongst requirements for the Dally.Press" for information con- count of his recent diplomatic latter are 100 hours of solo flying, ceming the missing plane and conversation in London.
and it is understood that Mr. student, but over the telephone Huang has almost met these con- denied the truth of the report. ditions...
DEMONSTRATIONS
PECTED... IN BROMBERG WARSAW, Mar. 27 (T/Ocean)ed not to be taken by surprise.
Poland, it is stated, is determin- Serious demonstrations against the Reich and the Fuehrer took it in also stated that Poland place yesterday after a meeting of definitely opposed to any conces Polish Nationalists in Bromberg dons in the Polish corridor threagh which, with a large part of West which it has been suggested the Prussia and Fognan was ceded by Reich might propose building & Germany to Poland according,
German highway.. the Versailles Treaty.
to
The crowd shouted in chorus,
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE Down with Hitler," "Thrash the precautionary measure the frontier BERNE, Mar 27 (Reuter)-As a Germans," "The Polish Army must guards have been strengthened occupy Danzig," "We want Koenigs- and the Federal Council has issued a decree providing for the loading The police had to take special of mines that protect vital points measures to protect the Germans like the border roads and bridges. and German property.
berg."
OFFICIAL DENIAL
ROME, Mar. 27 (Reuter) is Robert Craigie. British Ambassador officially denied that German
TOKYO, Mar. 27 (Reuter)-Sir
SEVERE GUERILLA
ATTACK
CHUNGKING, Mar. 27. (Central) In Japan, and Lady Craigle are troops and planes are permitted to One of the severest attacks "Se Nouvelle" writes, "We combining a ten-day holiday with and in Lybia. A Berin message staged by Chinese guerillas on Jap don't recognize the code consisting a visit to Shanghai to exchange denies that the Bruno Pass beanese troops near Shanghai took of creating needs in order to be views with Sir Archibald Clarke-tween Italy and Germany will be place at 8inchwang, a village on the able to demand 'rights!”
abosed to trafne in order to allow Shanghal-Hangchow Railway, last Sir Robert and Lady Craigle win German troops to pass throughz
Friday, according to a report just leave Japan on the Empress of
to hand. More than 200 Japanese Canada on April 1 and return on
are zald to have been diled and the Terukini Maru.
some 30 wounded during the ferce ighting.
"L'Epoque" says. "To hide the truth from the people he is forced to try and dazzle them by future
successes."
Kerr.
Hitler's "Czech" To
Appeasement
QUEEN MARY “AT THEATRE
POLES CONTINUE PREPARATIONS WARSAW, Mar. 2 (Router) Military preparations in Poland are being continued, but all plans are surrounded by the greatest secrecy
COL. BECK FOR LONDON
LONDON, Mar. 27 (Reuter- Col. Beck, the Minister, is arriving in London Pollah Foreign
this week to begin talks on the international situation.
29 KILLED IN AVALANCHE
NOT WEARING PARACHUTE
RUMOURS DISPELLED
Rumours were in circulation last
The plane which was being used Was a Hornet Moth two-seater night in Chinese circles that the closed cockpit training plane be missing student was none other longing to the School and bearing than Mr. Chang Hsueh-an, younger It is learned that the plane hadlang. former Manchurian war lord the registration letters, VR-HCX brother of Marshal Chang Hsueh- fuel for five hours flying. Mr. and one of the leading figures in Huang was not wearing a
the Bianfu coup on December 1938. chute, nor was the machine equip-however, when M Chang waS These rumours wore dispelled. ped with radio.
para-
The student was ex- pected back at Kal Tak Airport at 4.30 p.m. at the latest. At 6.15 p.m., there being still no signs of Huang,
a report
was
TRADING JUNK PIRACY
The Japanese, numbering about. LONDON, Mar. 27 (Reuter)—2,000, were being rushed by train
A report was received at the Queen Mary attended the Queen's to Hangchow us reinforcements. PARIS, Mar. 27 (Recter) Water Police Station yesterday of Theatre last night in company When they reached Sinchwang, a Twenty-nine persons were killed a piracy on a trading junk · In with the Duke of Athlone. Queen strong unit of Chinese mobile in an avalanche in the Pyrennes, British waters about 730 p.m. on Mary bag attended 17 plays in the ghter suddenly descended upon Other avalanches have done con- Friday.
them. last five weeks.
siderable damage. The guerillas first put the loco- motive out of commission by hand-
YANKEE CLIPPER'S
PROGRESS
LONDON, Mar. 27 (Reuter) The Yankee Clipper which left Baltimore at 7.34 p.m. (G.M.T.) yesterday, carrying 21 men, "the largest number ever to embark 'in a trans-Atlantic heavier-than-air machine, landed in the Azores early this afternoon, on the arst part of her flight."
From the Azores, she will fly to Lisbon and Marseilles, and then to Bouthampton after. which she will fly to Foynes Harbour.
ATHENS 'QUAKE"
ATHENS, "Mar, 27 Reuter)--A severe earthquake rocked Athens thly morning the extent of damage la izknowIL
Mr. Lewis & Brooks, reading at the Cecil Hotel has reported to the poltes the low of a gold watch and chain, valued, at 360, lost or stolen from his res pocket in Queen's Road,
Pottinger Street about 3 "clock" yesterday afternoon.
grenades and then spray the
coaches with machine-gun bullets. The Japanese were forced to re- treat to Shanghai
NANKING HOSPITALS
CROWDED
Lobserved in the city.
Later. It was reported that the. person concerned was Mr. Eugene Wong, son of Gen. Wong So, but these reports proved false as Mr. Wong left the Colony several days ago,
UNSCRUPULOUS MASSACRE
of.
NANCHANG," Mar, 27 (Cen- tral)-Unscrupulous massaLTO of Chinese civilians was dered by Japanese · command- ing officers during their pre- sent drive on the Nanchang- Klakiang front
Yip Yick, the seaman who made A large number of military do- the report, states that while en cuments, seized by the Chinese route to Hongkong, near Lung Ku forces recently, show that particn- Tans his junk was hailed from larly callous orders were made another boat, and when he failed by the Japanese military au- to stop, the crew of the other junk thorities in the treatment of
innocent people.
CHUNGKING, Mar. 27 (Central) opened fire, et Attesting to the heavy casual. He jumped overboard with his One order calls for the indis ties suffered by "the Japanese three fokis, and the last they sawcriminate execution of all Chr-. forces during the present Kiangst of the junk, it was being towed nese people, including women and
GUIDE TO THE NEWS drive a recent arrival in Shands by the other boat. The junk children, who happen to approach
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hal from Nanking stated that the valued at $500, and carried a places where Japanese soldiers former capital is now a bee-hive mixed cargo valued at $32. of military hospitals,
CAR MISSING
Another order declares · that villages near Tanki, an important village on the Wining-Nán» chang highway, should be com-
Such large structures as the Ministry of Communication, build- ing, the Foreign Office building
Miss Wilson, of the Mathilda pletely destroyed by fire, while a and many others have been con Hospital, has reported to the third order states that all mus- verted wholly or partially into police the loss of her car, a Morrispicious looking people should be. Japanese military wardens, acTourer, No. 1484, stolen from masacred on the way, cording to the Informant,
Statue Square some time between
Wounded soldiers were stream-17 and 10 last right. ing by highway or raliway into Nanking, and all hospitals were crowded to capacity.
TRADE TALKS
MOSCOW, Mar. 27 (Reutcz)--- The trade talks between Britain
and Russia are ending? to-day
THE DOLLAR
ET. ON LONDON: 15 2.25/324. TI. ON NEW YORK: 28 13/16 London Silver Market From Our Own Correspondent London, Mar 27. London silver prices to-day were
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MR 8. Hudson, Secretary to down 1/16/as follows the Department for Overseas Trade, is going to Leningrad after which he will leave Soviet Russia
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