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The
FINAL EDITION
Supreme Court
Hongkong Telegraph.
20, Nathan Rd., Kowloon. Telephone 59101.
No. 15125
FOUNDED 1801 五拜禮 號五月二英港香 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937.
U.S. MARITIME
REBELS STRIKE FOR MALAGA
Heavy Fighting On
Southern Coast
LEFTIST SUCCESSES ON MADRID FRONT CLAIMED
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
Gibraltar, Feb. 4.
A terrific battle is raging for the possession Malaga, important seaport of south-east Spain, still the hands of the Government.
of
in
Trucks bearing hundreds of wounds are streaming into Lalinea.
From Lalinea five Rightist warships can be observed
bombarding Fuengirola and Torremolinos, west of Malaga.
In addition, heavy fighting is apparently progressing by land and air. Seemingly, Rightists are making a desperate effort to crush the Leftists and to secure domination of the whole of the southern coast.
All business in Lalinea is
pended. There is
for the numerous
sympathy there
canunities which
have been suffered, for most of the fighters on the Malaga front.
arc
men of Lalinea, and its vicinity. All vehicles of Lalines and neighbour ing towns have been commandeered for military use,--United Press.
Ojen Captured
Gibraltar, Feb. 4.
A battle is raging between Mar- bolla, in insurgent hands, and Fuen- girola, still held by the Government forces in South Spain.
Lorry-loads of wounded have be- gun to arrive at
insurgent boilers.
where General Del Lano is directing opera- tlons, claims the rebels have already captured Ojen, near Marbella, it is learned that Government troops are resisting vigorously-Reuter.
Communications Shelled
Malaga, Feb. 4.
REBELS
FOUR DEMANDS
STILL LOYAL TO YOUNG MARSHAL
PROTECTION DEMANDED
日四廿月二十
STRIKE
Crews Resuming Duty Along Pacific Coast
THREE-MONTH TIE-UP HAS COST SHIPPING INDUSTRY LOSS OF MANY MILLIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, FEB. 4. (6.40 a.m. H.K. Time). THE STRIKERS' COMMITTEE HAS NOTIFIED THE SHIP- │OWNERS' ASSOCIATION THAT THE MARITIME STRIKE IS OVER AND THAT THE MEN ARE REPORTING BACK TO WORK AT 8 A.M. FRIDAY-UNITED PRESS.
At 8 a.m. to-day a Reuter despatch, relayed from San Francisco through London, was received here.. It stated that the Maritime Strike had been officially called off and that the men would resume work to- morrow.
WON'T LET WORKERS CHOOSE DELEGATES LEWIS WANTS TO
DICTATE
San Francisco, Feb. 4,
The Maritime Unions to-day haited the longest and most costly strike in their history, after 90 days of Idleness.
It is estimated the tie-up Cost nearly $1,000,000,000.
However, this is an armistice rather than a peace. There are still issues to be settled. Firemen are dissatisfied with the agreement. Then there are the tug-bout strikes, the Los Angeles and San Francisco shipyard strlices, the Seattle and Sun Francisco longshoremen's grievances.
These have not been settled,
Honolulu scalers are still dissaus- fied. Dock clerks and checkers all along the Pacific coast declare agreements do not meet with | requirements.
Dollar Ships Coming
EFFECT OF STRIKE
TERMINATION
"The Dollar and American Mail Lincs are swinging Into immediate action," said Mr. T. 13. Wilson, Manager in Hongkong, when inter- viewed this afternoon.
Crews of all American ships are the reporting back to work at 8 o'clock their this
and as soon as morning P.S.T they
can get steam up in the boilers These men are going back to work, Honciulu for the For East. She is President Hayes will sail from the but the position is precarious due here on February 26, would take very litle to break the truce and cause a further tie-up of to-shipping-United Press.
REJECTS G.M.C. PROPOSAL
(Special to "Telegraph")
Bridges Aids Peace
San Francisco, Feb. 4.
Two other liners are leaving to- marrow the President Hoover from San
Francisco and the President Grant from Seattle and both are due in Hongkong on the same day as the President Hayes.
The Pro- a round-
Mr. Harry Bridges, the laboursident Wilson will be on leader, quashed last-minute attempts the-world tour, and will continue to delay the shipping truce, pending from Hongkong to Manila, Singapore the settlement of the shipyard strikes, and Europe. She is sailing direct thereby indicating that the tugboat from Los Angeles to Shanghai. and machinists' strikes do not affect Also on a round-the-world trip, the final approval of the tentative the President Monroe leaves Son agreement now reached.
Francisco on February 13, and is duc in Hongkong on March 13,
The President McKinley leaves
Hongkong on March 5.
Seattle the same day and is due in
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Regent Might Be Governor In Dominion
BRITAIN PROVIDES FOR POSSIBILITY
{SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
London, Feb. 4. The possibility of the heir to the British throne, or the man who would act as Regent, becoming a Governor- General of a British Dominion, was mentioned in the House of Commons for the first time to-day when Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, was discussing the Regency Bill.
There was a possibility, he saith, that it might be found that a Regent was acting as Governor-General somewhere in the Empire. It was necessary to make provision for such an eventuality, he believed.
When the Regency Bill, which provides for the delegation of the powers of the Sovereign to a Regent or to Counsellors of State, was considered in the committee stage, an amendment put forward by Sir John Simon, was agreed upon. The amendment proposed that the number of persons necessary to declare a sovereign incapable of performing the royal functions, thus necessitating appointment of a Regent, should be four instead of three.
HONGKONG CAR PARK PROBLEM
MORE CHATER RD. OBSTRUCTION PRAYA ADVISED
Further prosecutions by the Traffic Department against drivers of cars leaving their vehicles in Chater Road were brought before Mr. W. Schofield the Central Magistracy this
REGULAR SAILINGS
After the departure of the Presi-ut dent McKinley from Seattle, the morning. American Mail Line ships will take
Later on it was decided to revert to three persons, but to limit the num- ber of persons who exercise these powers of declaration to five, there- by excluding the person who would become
me Regent, and next in line of succession to the Crown.
Sir John said he could conceive of the possibility of there being 24 slightly invidious situation If the prospective Regent were entitled to exercise power in these circum- stances.
Sir John's amendment, which was approved, provided for the deletion of
provision that the Regent must be a resident of the United Kingdom. For this n classe was Rubstituted that a Regent must be domiciled in some part of the United Kingdom.
MIGHT BE A GOVERNOR It was at this juncture that Sir John explained that, a Regent might be acting us Governor-General of one of the Dominions, or be In a
temporarily.
added that
New York, Feb. 4. Well-informed quarters day declared, that Mr. John Lewis, the labour leader, bad "flatly rejected" the General Motors Corporation proposal that the workers vote to choose Shanghai, Feb. 5.
their own collective bargaining Yang Hu-cheng and Yu representatives.
Meanwhile, at Detroit, Governor Hauch-chung, the two principal Frank Murphy, Mr. Carl Knudsen, robel leaders in Shengi, have and an array of legal lights for the issued a manifesto demanding: Corporation, are discussing with Mr.
However, the firemen's objections First, the restoration of Gen-Homer Martin and Mr. John Lewis, to the agreement's clauses are more An Insurgent submarine shelled the eral Chang Hsuch-liang's civil arte situation. Le conference ad- serious, since 1,234 opposed settle
and labour lawyers, the delicate south-east Spanish const between rights and his appointment to Journed at dusk but will resume at all favoured returning to work and ment and 837 approved. However, Almeria and Malaga to-day, ap-
10 p.m. parently attempting to destroy the a new high post;
Said Governor Murphy: "Every. arbitration over wages and working bridges and roads and thus Isolating Second, the revision of Nan-thing is agreeable. I am doing my conditions. Shipowners and firemen Malaga before the insurgent land king's assignment of garrison utmost to preserve peace at Funt have unofficially indicated that they
Dominion Mrs. Hodges, driver of private car forces strike at the city. The cube areas and the rescinding of the through the military and civil au- expected a satisfactory, settlement. marine failed to attain its object, the transfer of Chang Hsueh-liang's thorities."
up their regular fortnightly sullinge, No. 2005, was summoned for casion members of the Firemen and cooki and sailors are
the President McKinley being fol- an obstruction with her car on old army to Kansu
were discussing a broad formula for refusing to accent. Copeland dis-lowed by the President Jackson and January 23, The car was stated to the event of the present. King's ab- Spain Concerned
President Jefferson respectively. Third, the postponement of the resumption of work while collec- charge books--United Press.
been left in Chater Road from sence abroad or temporary In- capacity, would be the Queen, the London, Feb. 4. troop movements until Chang, tive bargaining continues.
Strikers Riot
The Orst America-bound sailings 11.30 a.m. to 12.05 p.m.
Mr. Hodges appeared to hswer Duke
of Gloucester, the Duke of The Spanish Government at Hsueh-liang returns;
from Hongkong will be the President Valencia, in a reply to the British
Rending; Po., Feb. 4. Hoover for San Francisco and Pre- the summons. He said Mrs. Hodges Kent, the Princess Royal and Prince Fourthly, the protection of
Connaught. protest regarding the bombing of
At Flint, packed with alt-down Sixteen were injured and three sident Grant for Seattle. Both ships on January 10 had toured all the Arthur of Con
The committee stage being con- the battleship Royal Oak, expresses all the north-west "patriotic" strikers and sympathisers from Toledo arrested in rioting on the WP.A. will depart from Hongkong on parking places in town and had found
none vacant. She sought the advice|cluded, the bill Wis reported deep concern at the incident and organisations must be guaran- and Detroit, with National Guards- project and at the Tipton, Pa. Stove March 0. promises an
as previously agreed, and immediate inquiryteed, as well as the leaders' men and their machine guns in the Works to-day-United Press.
Three of the ships en route to of a Chinese traffle sergeant, and he amended
(Continued on Page 7)
was later given third reading— Reuter Bulletin Service.
streets, and crowds watching the
Hongkong this week have bad their safety.-United Press,
Reuter Special. broken-windowed factories, there is
cargoes loaded since the beginning for the Christmas season la Hong- still danger of clashes. But it is au-
of the strike, which started at mid- kong, and represents a considerable thoritatively stated that the General
night on October 20.
loss to local dealers, since it will not | Motors, fearing eviction of the
The President Hoover was be able to be sold until early spring. strikers would result in violence, are
Echeduled to sail at 1 pm. On Local merchants who had shipments, delaying further legal action pending
October 30. She has approximately in the President Hayes and President the outcome of the Detroit conversa-
2,000 tons of cargo aboard for Hong- Hoover were particularly unfortun tions.
kong.
ate, Inasmuch as the Hayes was held (Continued on Page 7.)
A good deal of the cargo in the up at Honolulu whilst en route to President Hoover, President Hayes the East, and the Hoover missed and President Wilson was ordered clearing port by only a few hours.
report states-Reuter.
The small bombs were dropped near the ship, but without doing any damage.
Rightist Offensive
Madrid, Feb. 4.
It is officially anounced that Rightists have initiated an intensive (Continued on Page 7.)
Yugo-Slavia Possesses
Huge Army
CHIANG STILL AILING
Hangchow, Feb. 5.. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who has been sight-seeing here for several days, with Madame Chiang, under-
(Conthed on Page 7.)
A high union member revealed they
TINDER FOR SPARKS
Previously it was intended
JAPANESE PRINCE DUE
IN HONGKONG SOON ON CORONATION MISSION
Belgrade, Feb. 4.
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, the younger brother of the Em- ""Yugo-Slavin to-morrow will have 1,500,000 of the best soldiers in peror of Japan, is-due in Hongkong next month on his way to Europe
declared Dr. Milan Stoy--London-to attend the Coronation-of-King George-VI-and Queen adinoviten, Prime Minister and For- eign Minister, during the examination Elizabeth. of the Budget by the Finance Com- Prince Chichibu will represent the | The Japanese Princo was educated. mission of the Chamber of Deputies, Japanese Emperor at the Coronation at Magdalen College, Oxford, but left to-day.
and is being accompanied by a large his education to attend the death- England hurriedly before completing It is
Is emphasised that the mission had unanimously passed the delegation of Japanese officials. He bed of his father, the late Emperor War Minister's Budget, showing the will travel with his wife and the Telsho. The Emperor. died, how- Army was beyond politica.
Japanese party' aboard the N.Y.K. ever before his son could reach Dr. Stoyadinovitch declared that liner Yosakuni Maru..ES Tokyo. Yugo-Slavia's policy was pacific, and After the Coronation on May 12, Princess Chichibu is actually "I consisted in safeguarding peace on Frince Chichibh, will probably make | British-born. She was born in Lon-
the frontiers, In the Balkans, and, a. tour of Europe, and, afterwards den while her father, Count Matt if possible, throughout Europe==|return= to Japans via the United data, was Secretary, to the Japanese
Reuler.
States
Embassy.
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Red Agents
Hunt Trotsky
Rumours Say
Mexico City, Feb. 4.
The guards posted at AL León Trotsky's residence in tão suburb of Coyoacan have been doubled, following
sensational rumours
that
- H. Stalin. the Soviet Dictator, has sent agents to "assassinate" - Trotsky,
house
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No-one is allowed to enter the without the strictest scrutiny of his credentials.
Meanwhile, Madame Trotsky - -Is-111,-but she is preparing_to broadcast a world: appeal (pro- tesling against the threat to the life of her son, who was recent- Ty reported to have been placed under arreak---Reuter,
ROYAL VISTT TO IRELAND.
London, Feb. 4. It is announced, in connection with the Coronation celebrations, that the King and Queen will vialt Belfast on Wednesday, July 28-British Wire,
FRANCE SHARPENS HER
FINANCIAL WEAPONS
TO PROTECT CURRENCY
Paris, Feb, 4.
A Bank of France statement, issued to-day, shows the withdrawal of 3,000,000,000 francs from the Gold Reserve.
The Home Secret1 of State, in
TRAINING BRITISH MUSCLES
GOVERNMENT DRIVE FOR HEALTH SCHEME COSTS
£2,000,000/
(Special to "Telegraph") -
London, Feb. 4, Voluntary physical training for all is provided by the Govern [ment's scheme for improving the The Finance Ministry, in a com- fon_the_market more effective.
physical condition of the nation, muniquo, says this has been effected
The Bank of France's balance sheet announced in a White Paper to- by the Stabilisation Fund, which is also shows that the State has bor-day. Measures are already being empowered to buy or sell the gold of rowed a further 400,000,000 francs. taken to improve the physical: the Bank of France. With this
M. Paul Reynaud, member of the condition of school children and withdrawal, the Fund is simply taking Cabingi, speaking in the Chamber of the Government is anxious to the balance of the 7,000,000,000 Deputies to-day, strongly criticised francs deposited last October.
the recently noated railway loan, utilise them to the fullest extent Coming after the £00,000,000 loan which, French, naucior arranged Dut it la pointed out that these from London bankers, this measure with London, and "urged "Intarnal facilities will fail unless they are will strengthen the means at the Instead of external :: Borrowing.— supplemented by provisions for those Fund's disposal and make its action | Reuter
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