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一拜歳 號二月一十英港香
MONDAY, NOVEMBER
1936.
二日九十月九
No. 18018
BINCLE COPY 10 CENTS $36.00 PER ANNUM
The World's
Master Tyre
BRITISH SEAMENS TORTURED
FULL FACTS
OF INCIDENT AT KEELUNG
Japanese Police
How Japanese
Forced "Confession”
NAVAL OFFICER GROSSLY INSULTED BY POLICE
THREE SEAMEN OF THE BRITISH NAVY ARE THE CENTRAL FIGURES IN THE SENSATIONAL KEELUNG INCIDENT, WHICH HAS CAUSED THE COMMANDER- IN-CHIEF OF THE CHINA SQUADRON, ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES LITTLE, TO CANCEL HIS PROJECTED TOUR OF JAPANESE WATERS.
·THE TELEGRAPH IS NOW ABLE TO
PLANES FOR CHIANG KAI-SHEK
Ten Curtiss-Hawk @ghters each costing $100,000 and purchased with subscriptions from the public and pubile organizations of Shanghai, were dediented at Lunghwa Aerodrome in honour of General Chiang Kai- shek. Our pictures show, at top, the trim line of ships which later were taken up by Chinese sees and demonstrated to a juge, delighted audience. Below, one of the planes being christened Ɛy Madame Wu Te-chen.
REVEAL THAT THE THREE MEN ARE MADRID
Stoker J. "Topsy" Turner, of H.M.S. Odin; A.B. H.J. Smith, of H.M.S. Bruce;
A.B. G.R. Harrison, of H.M.S. Rover.
Early this morning a Telegraph representative learnt in dramatic detail the full story of the incident, of how the three men were tortured by "third degree” methods by Japanese plain-clothes officials until they agreed to sign a "confession" admitting non-payment of a six-yen taxi fare, and that they had resisted the Japanese police.
When H.M.S. Medway, the sub- marine Botilla and H.M.S. Bruce visited Keelung on October 7, Smith, Harrison and Turner were among the members of the erew, who were granted shore leve.
They decided to take advantage of the opportunity to visit Talhoku, the capital of Formosa, about twenty -miles distant.
After spending the day sight- seeing they prepared to return to their ships. The last train, had, however, departed at 11,30 p.m.
The three men were
approached by a Japanese taxi driver, who offer- ed to return them to their ships for six yen. They agreed on the price, and the taxi driver drove thein a to the whart alongside which lay 1.M.S. Bruce.
Saw Driver Paid
C.P.O. Stockbridge, of H.M.S. Bruce, who was on duty on the gangway, was approached by Turner for change for 10-yen note. He gave Turner one 5-yen and dive 1-yon notes, and witnessed Turner paying the driver.
10 KILLED
IN AERIAL DISASTER
LUFTHANSA PLANE
CRASHES
Berlin, Nov. 1
three seriously injured when a Ten persons were killed und
Lufthansa airliner, of the famous German flying organisation, crashed in the Thuringian Moun- tains to-day.
WITHIN
GUNS' REACH
Loyalists Evacuating Southern Villages
IL DUCE OFFERING
BRITAIN ACCORD IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA Italy Will Fight The World To Protect Her Rights
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MUSSOLINI'S PRONOUNCEMENTS CAUSE CRY: WHITHER EUROPE?"
London, Nov. 1. "Whither Europe?" is the question anxiously asked in Paris to-day, evoked by Signor Benito Mussolini's speech at Milan, in which he offered Great Britain a Mediterranean agreement--on terms.
A uniformed German deputation was stationed prominently near Il Duce's platform.
Signor Mussolini declared that he had meditated every word of his address. He began by cataloguing "the illusions that had crashed."
"LEAGUE CAN DIE MUSSOLINI
SCRAPS COLLECTIVE SECURITY IDEA
Milan, Nov. 1. The League of Nations is based upon the absurdity of absolute
Benito Mussolini, speaking
to the
London, Nov. 1. Madrid is now within range of the insurgent juriale equality, declared Signor -artillery-according to the insurrectionists-radio-nation, and the world, of communiques, flashed from many points of Spain.must either renew Itself or perish. Italy's aims and objects, to-day. It This claim is made with the announcement of the Reform is unlikely. capture of the villages of Parla and Humanes, with four big guns, machine-guns and provisions.
Reuter's special correspondent at Madrid, Mr. J. R. Allwork, describes his visits to the various fronts in the latest despatches from the capital.
He saw fierce fighting on the Toledo Road. Trying to reach the Aranjuez Road from 'Getafe, he was turned back. But he saw insurgent shells bursting 500 yards away, apparently directed against the railroad, from which an armoured train is operating.
The Government line appears to run from Brunete, on the Naval carnero Road, through Humanes and
The machine was flying from Frankfort to Erfurt-Reuter.
The Lufthansa airliner crashed into Parla, and thence to Pinto, in fog in the mountains. It was con-
pletely destroyed.
Planes have not participated in
the operations in the field, suys this correspondent, in the past few days, though Madrid has been subjected to four daylight raids and one at night.
The three men then went to a cabaret in Keelung. Shortly after 1 A crew of three and seven of the a.m. two Japanese policemen and o
machine's passengers, including one man dressed in "muft" came up to British subject, were killed Three-Reuter. their table and
and demanded that they passengers, the only survivors, were pay six yen to the taxi driver. The dragged from the flaming wreckage three sallors protested that the driver just in thne to save them from death had already been, paid. They were by fire.--Reuter,
asked to go with the officers to the
head office of Die taxi company and
discuss the matter.
To this they agreed and left the cobaret.
Instead of proceeding to the taxf company office, however, they were taken to a police station, where they were selzed each by tour men and violently thrown into chairs,
"Confession" Drawn Up
A confession was drawn up and they were asked to sigri. They refused.
Their arms were then held behind their backs, while the Japanese dressed in "mufti" repeatedly struck them in the faces with his clenched fiste.
MOLLISON DELAYS TAKE-OFF
STARTS FOR
CAPE THIS WEEK
London, Nov. 1.
Jim Mollison, who has just .com- pleted a record flight
across
the from
The proceedings were interrupted | Atlantic, reached Croydon
at 2.30 a.m, with the arrival of First Scotland to-day.. Lieutenant T. A. Pack-Beresford of H.M.S. Bruce, who requested their release.
A large crowd had gathered, In the expectation that the famous alfman
The Japanese Insolently told the would make an immediate start on British officer to leave. "You are not does not expect to start until Tuesday his flight to Capetown, but Mollison a British officer," one said. "You or Wednesday, after studying the
are nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here."
weather reports.
Licut. Pack-Beresford asked upon
Mollison has had a shoal of applica- what evidence the three sallors weretlens from pliets to accompany him, being held and was told the word to Capetown, but he has not yet
(Continued on Page 5.)
selected one.-Reuter Special.
Evacuation Ordered
Bordeaux, Nov. 1 Reports from Hendaye stute the Government of Spain has ordered the immediate evacuation of all villages to the south of Madrid, which are hotly threatened.-Reuter,
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Conscription Of Women In
Turkey Soon
Beyoglu, Nov. 1. Compulsory milláry servirn for Turkish women is again under consideration, according to the newspapers.
It is expected that legislation on the subject will be introduced during the present session of Parliament, which Kemal Ataturk opened to-day.-Reuter Spectat.
WAGE DEMANDS, REJECTED
Pittsburgh. Nov. 1.
The Carnegie Illinois Steel Works has rejected the wago, demands of its 25,000 workers-United Fron
SEAMEN'S STRIKES SPREAD
NEW YORK JOINS WEST WORKERS
CONCILIATION SO FAR FAILS
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"As far as we are concerned the League can die," he said.
a carefully meditated speech, before 250,000 listeners, Il Duce
added: League organised against
"We can never forget that the diabolical ingenuity."
us with
ive security and the theory of perce
Italy rejected the system of collec-
one and indivisible, as illusions, he asserted.-Reuter.
SMASHES ILLUSIONS
Milm, Nov. 1.
Over 200,000 jammed the Cathedral Square here to-day and vociferously applauded the points of Signor Benito Mussolini's speech on foreign relations.
He rejected the Iden of collective security as something that ever existed and never will.
The Wilsonian ideology had been shilpe- wrecked, he said,
Another illusion, he said, was that! of indivisible peace,
Indivisible} pence meant indivisible war.
The League, 1 Duce went on,
was based on the absurdity of absolute; Juridical equality.. i must renew itself or perish. It was unlikely that it would ever, renew liself, and us far as Italy was concerned it could; dle.
First came disarmament. "Nobody will disarm first," he said, "and it is absurd to expect all to disarm together."
After a scathing reference to the futility of the disarmament conferences' procedure, Il Duce jettisoned the idea of collective security. "A virile people," he exclaimed, "realises that collective security is within its own frontiers and refuses to entrust its destinies to any third party." People would rightly refuse to fight for interests which did not concern them, he added.
Then followed a bitter allusion to sanctions, which the Dictator described as an attempt to wreck a work of civilisation in Ethiopia. They were frustrated by "the unity of the Italian people, who were capable of every sacrifice, even fighting against a coalition of 52. states.
Benito Mussolini
LANDON'S HOPES
BRIGHTER
Seventeen years of polemics had terminated in 1935 with n most promising accord with France, Signor Mussolini went on, but the League of Nations' sanctions had adminis tered a douche, and "as long us Fracce remains cool, we must do the sume," he said,
Austro-German Accord
He extolled the Austro-German agreement of July 11, which he dis closed had been approved by film on June 5.
course of o sympathelle reference to Hungary's position, he said:
"Very, very soon, a solemn
In the
opportunity will occur by which Itallan feelings will find a public and striking manifestation." The necessary conditions, moral, political and economie, now exist to put Italo-Yugo-Slav relations on a new basis of concrete friendship, he revealed.
"It is time to cease putting Fasclum and
Democracy in antithesis," Signor Mussolini asserted. If the critics visited Italy they would find it the one country where a real, authenile and, substantial democracy. had been developed.
Mediterranean Problem "If to Britain the Mediterrancon Sca is a route, for us it a life," declared Il Duce. A two-alled clash over this issue would im-
mediately become д European
able.
The League had organised an in- NEW YORK VOTE MAY tragedy, Such a thing was unthink quitous slege of sanctions agulosti New York, Nov. 1. Six vessels have thus far tied children of Italy and break the force
Italy, had sought to starve the PROVE DECISIVE
up here following the decision of the Italian army, of speak es-
the International Seamen's pecially to the English who are Union to follow the lead of the listening on the radio," Signor Mus-
solini challenged. Pacific Coast maritime unions
The only alternative was a clear and rapid understanding, based the recognition of mutual interests.
on
New York, Nov. 1. If anyone contemplates the aufförn- The rivals for the American pretion of Italian life in the Mediter- sidency, worn out by the past few rancan, the Italian people would days' violent campaigning, spent the spring up in unity, determined to
and call a general strike. But "We do not intend to threaten the week-end in their respective homes, fight,
the full force of the strike, if it British Imperial route in the Medi- President F. D. Roosevelt at lyde develops, won't be felt in New terranean, but the Mediterranean is Park and Governor Alfred Landen et our life and our tights must be Topeka, Kansas. Each worked to York for two or three days, respected.
prepare his final radio appeal.
Marching Orders
"Marching orders for the fifteenth year ato: Pesce with all near and far-but armed!" Il Duce concluded.
A storm of "cheurs, rolled around
Mr. Joseph Curren, representing "An Anglo-Italian agreement is a The climax of this last stage "of the rank and file of the striking sea-vital necessity, but the conquest of the two men's campaign was the con-him as he ceased to speak-Reuter. iren, announced to-day that their Ethiopia must be recognised as a centrated drive for votes in New only purpose in striking was to show falt accompli. In the meantime, the York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, their sympathy for the West Coast |Ítalian armaments programme will; which together control, a vital -90 strike, and that as soon as it was continue unchecked," the Dletalor votes in the electoral college, settled they would go back to work asserted.
Germany Impressed
Berlin, Nov. 1, Signor Benito Mussolini's speech in Milan has deeply impressed "the Seamen registering at strike head-in the French altitude since 1935,
Many now hold the opinion that German people. He spoke regretfully of the change
Governor Landon's chances depend Newspaper headlines to-day pro- quarters were told to return 10 their
Loud cheers greeted the allusions upon the trend in New York state, claim that Mussolini has appealed to ships, but not to work,
to the Italo-German understanding, with its 47 votes,
the world. They were also instructed 10
of the nation's the Some 55,000,000
Omelat A permanent settlement, of
comment is withheld, pende organise pickets.
Danubian Basin problem was Im-75,000,000 eligible voters have alreadying a closer study of the lalian In the meantime, the Paclite Coast possible until justice had been done enrolled and it is conservatively declaration, but authoritative sources strike deadlock continues, despite o mutilated Hungary, Il Duce told estimated that only 42,000,000 will describe it as very important and conciliation efforts.--Reutar.
hia henrere.---Router,
bound to produce good. Reuter,.
ballot.-Reuter.