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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12,
日二月正 1937.
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DUNLOP 90
WORLD'S
ASTE
$3,000,000 CONTRACT FOR H.K. FIRM
CANTON Loyalists Reported
WORKS SCHEME
MALCOLM & CO. BID ACCEPTED
The Telegraph's Canton correspondent learns that #L final agreement has now been renched between the British firm of Messrs. Malcolm & Co.. Ltd., of Shanghai and Hongkong. and His Excellency Mr. Tseng Yang-fu. Mayor of Canton, for the construction of a water iltration plant to supply the city of Canton, at a cost of nearly three million Hongkong dollars.
Seeking Armistice
REBELS EXPECT
TO STRIKE AT VALENCIA NEXT
Negotiations have been proceeding HEAVY
for some time, and all technical and financial details have now been settled and work will be started in the im- mediate future. The plant will be the most moders in the Far East, and w comprise a battery of 12 fiters, capable of supplying 30,000,000 Im- perial gallons per day of 24 hours of clear siertle water, Ütereby bringing Canton Into line with big moderá vities.
FIGHTING
STILL
RAGING AROUND MADRID
(Special to "Telegraph")
With the Rebels at Malaga, Feb. 11. Due to the increase of population Rumours are current here that Loyalists are seeking and the expansion of the city, limits, the Municipal Authoritles for sound an armistice. General Francisco Franco, the rebel years have been hard pressed
maintain
water,
GRANT TO WINDSOR OPPOSED
LABOUR TAKING STRONG STAND
London, Feb. 11.
10
The Labour Opposition in Payliament to-day decided opose any separate grant to the Duke of Windsor when the Civil Liet comes up for consideration
in the House of Commons.
Ordinarily, this decision would pre- sent no great difeulty, es the King who controls the revenues of the
MOTOR FREER TRADE
STRIKE SUREST GUARD
ENDED
Company Raises
Salaries
EMPLOYEES
SATISFIED
Detroit, Feb. 11.
The strike in 20 factories of motor car manufacturing centres
in the United States is about to be terminated. Representatives of the General Motors Corpora tion and of the Committee of Industrial Organisation have reached an agreement.
The official terms of the settlement
AGAINST WAR
U.S. Urged To Extend Reciprocal Pacts
Washington, Feb. 10.
Urging the extension of reciprocal trade agreements in a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, declared to-day "the most basic interests of our nation will be betrayed unless we are able to continue for some time the same policy of bringing about trade revival as was pursued under the Trade
Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of are reported to include the Corporn-Agreements Act. Neither constructive thought nor
actual experience has suggested an alternative.
Lauenster, could himself transfer part of these revenues to the Duke.
The Opposition, however, has taken up the proposal that the revenues Venues from the Duchies should no longer
tion's recognition of the C.1.0, as a collective bargaining agency for its own members. In return, the workers agree to end the strike, evacuating all plants,
The Corporation promises fó be at the King's disposal, but should resume the operation of all strike be transferred to the Treasury in re-bound or idie plants as soon as turn for a fixed
the grant. Thus, if
make a personal possible, and all employees are to work without discrimination against grant to the Duke of Windsor, he strikers. would have to fake it from such The C.I.O. agrees that pending Jump'
an adequate supply of commander-in-chief, insists upon unconditional surren-King wished to
der, however, as the price of the cessation of hostilities. ami
The widening of streets modernising of the city have meant unavaldable delays in forming, a definite programme of expansion, but plans are now completed, and when the new plant is put into operation, the city will have overcome a long- alanding desire on the part of the authorities to cope with the needs of China's
must important Southern city.
The new unit will be complete in every detall from pumping room with river source of supply, to powerful pumping sets, continuous settling tanks, älters, adequate clear water storage to meet sudden excessive de- manils, and in addition a 211⁄2 million. Imperial gallon storage reservoir will be erected within the city limits.
"There is not the slightest doubt that our abandon- ment of this programme at this juncture would mean the resumption of international economic warfare, which has Renewed been showing marked signs of abatement. economic warfare would inevitably mean an intensifica- tion of the present-day political tension, which is already
Reports from other quarters, under Leftist influence, sum as Parliament decides to negotiations there will be no further pushing many nations in the direction of military
indicate that the Government is determined to fight to a finish.
Meanwhile, Nationalists assert that 4,000 Leftists have been arrested thus far in the Malaga drive alone. It is estimated that eventually between 10,000 and 20,000 will be taken into custody.
allow him.
strikes or interference with produc- It is generally assumed that the top. Labourites'
view regarding N10 The Corporation, in a statement, separate grant to the Duke, which is nnnounces the increase of workers' supported by the Opposition Liberais wages by $25,000,00 annually. This and some adopted, and that there will be no average wage by six per cent.. the
Conservatives,
will bes
be is entailed by the raising of the mention of the Duke when the re- increase to become effective imme commendation for the appointment of diately in plants now open and in a small party committee, which shall others as they open.
Mr. John Lewis, C.1.0. ¿hiel.com-.i consider provision..for the Civil List, comes before the House of Commons, menting on the settlement, sald to- The question of the revenues from day that it established for the first caster is more open. Shot
Should Labour's automobile industry. He estimated suggestion be adopted, it seems prob that the strike hail cost General able that neither the Labour nur the Motor's chiployees $1,000,000 a day in Liberal Opposition will object to a wages-Reuter total grant to the Royal Family, which would be put at a figure which would enable a private grant being made by the King to the. Duke of Wirdror-Reuter Special,
The Rightist warships are said to have bottled up the the Duchies of Cornwall and Lan- time a rational relationship in the Leftist fleet at Cartagena and Valencia.
It is learned that General Del Lano, following military trials, ordered the execution before a firing squad of more than Canton is fortunate in being most 150 Loyalist leaders, including the former President of the favourably situated from a water-
Leftist C.N.T. Party, Senor Santana Calero, and the Mayor of works point-of-view. The city is ballt on comparatively flat land and
Malaga, Senor Entrama Sagaus, as well as many army officers. at the same time possesses hills ad- Jacent to the building centre, on which insurgent troops will be attacking His headquarters predlets that the large storage reservoir will be Valencia within a week. Presumably. constructed. The utmost use has been made of this hill in the scheme the attack would be carried out from adopter by the engineers, so that the sen, possibly with the assistance
aircraft. Valencia is the of a steady pressure and ʼn large volume of water will be nvalluble to reach capital of the Leftist Government.
Is reported here
large-scale offensive
new
General
to the top of the high buildings in Franca's troops are preparing for a
the elty.
Propagandists
Not Wanted In Malta
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for an
on the north
the
In less fortunate cities, where com- sectors of the Madrid front, and that paratively small elevated storage can they are concentrating troops in the
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Cast de Campo aren presumably onslaught there. The Leftist artillery Is bombarding the northern and Casa de Campo sectors in an effort to disperse the concentrations, and meanwhille Is resisting fiercely the insurgent thrusts through University City area--United Press. Gravest Situation
Madrid, Feb. 11. The Government controlled press has warned the people of Madrid that the capture of Malaga by the Rightists con- Tronts the Loyalists with the gravest situation since the incep tion of the elvil war, though earlier the Madrid Defence Com- malice had belittled the rebel Auccess. allegation of conduct prejudicial the immediate solution of the food The press simultaneously demands to British interests, is revealed eriais, masa mobilisation of all able-
CIVIL
SERVANTS DISCHARGED
London, Feb. 10.
The sensational dismissal of two oficials at Malta, on an
H.K. Wins Rugby Interport
OVERWHELMS SHANGHAI BY 14 POINTS TO 3.
Shanghai, February 11. Hongkong's Interport rugger fifteen triumphed over Shang- hai to-day, 14-3, after a brilliant performance.
On an ideal ground, Shanghai opened with a rush and for thei first ten minutes completely dominated play. However, in the Colony's first rush into enemy territory, at the fifteenth minute, Grieve made an opening by cutting through and passing to Chad- wick, who dodged the last defender and slithered across the goal line at the flag. Watson failed to convert, hitting the post.
Shanghai, still full of fight, equalised through D. H. Stewart
in a Colonial Office announce-bodied men. It urges the expedition in the twenty-fifth minute, but Blackwood did not add points.
ment.
of the evacuation of all non-combat-
and drastic discipline, tants
on a
evacuate.
of the old capital.
verted.
conflict.....
"There is only one sure way that the United States can be spared the damage wrought by war; that is for war not to occur.
CONTROL SCHEME BLOCKED
"The years that lie immediately ahead should see an adequate re- This vival of international trade. would be the most powerful single force in casing political tension and averting the danger of wur," he declared.
chick
Supplementing the appeal of his
the Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. F. H. Sayre, declared; The nation must reach toward liberal trade policies" as a means to
only sure foundation of world peace.
United Prest.
NON-INTERVENTION achieve increased profits and the
AT IMPASSE
JOINT LOAN scheme
SETTLEMENT TERMS
New York, Feb. 11. of The terms
the motor strike settlement are understood to be:
I. That the United Automobile Workers (associated with the C.I.O.) evacuate the factories at
three
at present held by sit-down strikers:
That General Motors Corpora- may have to undergo reconsideration to-day asserts that in spite of offelal won't seek the enforcement of refusal at to-day's meeting of the Wall Street that Great Britain and 18 consequence of the Portuguese denials, it is persistently reported in the injunction obtained against the Non-Intervention Committee to agree France have sounded President F. D. officials and sit-down strikers;
Riroir
by
London, Feb. 10. The whole control scheme in Spain
New York, Feb. 10. The well-informed World-Telegrain
3. That in the 20 factories closed to international supervision of the Roosevelt regarding a joint loan to Germany, on the sole condition that strikers the Corporation
Spanish frontiers.
agrees
Both Lord Plymouth, the Chair- Herr Adolf Hitler curtail his arma-. not to bargain with any other group man of the Committee, and M. nient programme-United Press.
until an agreement is reached with
UA.W. on wages, hours and work-Corbin, French delegate, expressed. HOPE STILL LIVES
the opinion that the Portuguese ing conditions;
4. That in the remaining 40 fac- attitude had created a serious situn-
turies the U.AW, shuli represent auly its own members;
other demands
tion,
The Italian Government has urged
London, Feb. 10. The German proposaly for a Euro- pean settlement occupied portion of question-time In the House of Commons to-day.
5. That the wages and hours re- an extension of the powers of inter forms and
national, observers, whose proposed Lord Cranborne, speaking for Mr. of the functions have hitherto been limited Anthony Eden, who is on holiday. U.A.W, shall be negotiated at a sub-to reporting breaches of the agree- sild that, as far as he was aware sequent conference.
Production is to resume immediate-
ment through the London Com-there had been no specife withdrawal mittee.
by Herr Hitler of his proposals made ly and wage increases are expected to
M. Maisky, Russian representative, last year. be granted as soon as factories are warmly opposed the Italian | reopened.Reuter.
Will Relay Coronation Programme
London, Feb. 10. After thirty-three minutes of play, Munro, W. E, Grieve, H. D. Bidwell,
Arrangements are being made by Professor Carlo Mallia, Pro-war-me basis, of all refusing to Watson scored on a reverso pass from G. K. Chadwick (three-quarters), A. fessor of Commercial Law in the
Chadwick.
The try was not con- H. R. Butchar (Vice-captain) (fy the British Broadcasting Corporation University of Malta, and Vincent
half) and J. L. Bonnar (serum-half); whole of Coronation Week.
for special programmes during the The Socialist Youth organicaticos
At half-time the score was 0-3. A. F.
F. Walkden (Captain), W. Bonello, Curator of the Arts have issued manifestoes mobilising
On Coronation Day, May 12, HONGKONG AGGRESSIVE Peers, E. P. Humphreys; (front-row Section and Works of Art in the all their membership in the defence
forwards), With the resumption, Hongkong Holden (second-row forwards); B: the King will broadcast a message to I. H. Bradford and A. W. stations will relay the service from Westminster Abbey. In the evening, WDS even more aggressive than O'M. Deane, K. A. Watson and J. A the Empire at the conclusion of the formerly. Bidwell was outstanding Redman (wing-forwards). making several long runs. However,
programme, entitled "The Empire's Homage, which will be on the lines of the Chrialmas relays from different parts of the Empire.
It is hoped that by means of specini equipment certain parts of the pro- Wireless. cession will be televised.—British
Fine Arts Museum ut Valetta, are the two ometals concerned.
These two oficials have been In-
Offensive Resumed formed that the King has no further
The Rightist forces have resumed it was not before twenty-five minutes Shanghal their intensiva use for their services, because, in lie Jarama River front, south-east of broise through the defence and en- Lt. J. R. Cole, A. M. Kennedy, R. A. E. C. Blackwood, P. Blix, J. Bower offensive on the of fast, hard, open play that Deausman Gordon Brown, J, F. Burford, opinion of the Governor, they have Madrid. neted prejudicially to British In-
nbled Walkden
to score in the corner. O. Moyne, L. M. Macrae, G, S. McGill Despite news of Malaga's fall, Watson did not terests in Malta und in
concert. Improper for officers of the Civil made public for the first time to-day, In the final minute of the game. Roe, D. H. Stewart, R. P. J. Slownet, W. D. Pearson, W. H. T. Pilcher, R. H Service.
the city continues calm, Residents
[unce with a zig-zagging run through
manner
It la understood thal there will be are anxiously awaiting, word of the Bidwell capped a splendid perform and A. G. White.
no public enquiry.-Reuter,
NO SURPRISE
Malta, Feb. 10.
progress
of the battles in the suburbs, a broken field, and scored, between. however.
the posts, Watson converted,
Bidwell, Whitham, Grieve, Chad- The Government announced that rebels bombed Alcalade-Henares," 20 wiek, Butcher and Deano were out- The dismissal of the two oficiais miles north-east of Madrid, hitting a standing for the hard-working long- has caused no surprise here, both hospital and killing two nurses und kong side. men belag noted for their connection five children in the area. In the with an Italian propaganda organisa- same bombardment
four persons
tion which was suppressed in Malta were killed at various other points a year ago Reuters Ro
pada (Continued on Page 4):
MEXICAN AMNESTY'
Mexico City, Feb. 10.
PALACE FUNCTION
pro-
While he disagreed with the sug- posals as being tantamount to gestion that Germany had refused to blockade.
participate in negotiations for a
A special meeting of the Com-settlement, Lord Cranborne admitted considerable mittee has been arranged for Friday that there had been
delay, but the British Government to reconsider the scheme.--Reuter, still hoped that the negotiations.
would take place. Reuter.
SOVIET TO PARTICIPATE
London, Feb. 11.
also participate if the Soviet does, The participation of Soviet war- The scheme provides for a naval ships in the sea control scheme was cordon round Spain, and that the agreed upon, although not without warships engaged therein shall report some opposition, at a meeting of the to the London Committee if ships of Non-Intervention Sub-Committee to- non-Interventionist Powers approach day. The zone system will, however, Spain and are unable to prove that
they have be maintained.
no arms or volunteerS Portugal stipulates that she should aboard for neutral ports,--Reuter.
LONDON'S
PLANS KEPT
AIR
DEFENCE SECRET
London, Feb. 10.
The question of a balloon barrage for the air defence of London was raised to-day by Sir Hugh Seely, Liberal M.P.. who asked, in the House of Commons, whether the Air Ministry intended to adopt the type of balloon ised by the French. Government.
Sir Philip Sassoon, replying, stated Sir Hugh - Secly Interposed that that the Government was going for aerial balloons could rise to a height London, Feb. 10. ward with the barrage schemo ns of 35,000 feet, whereas the Govern The date of the afternoon party quickly as possible. Satisfactory de- ment's type could only rise to 0,000. President Cardenas has declared at Buckingham Palace, which will liveries of balloons were being made Sir Phillip Sassoon repiled that that on amnesty for all soldiers ind elvilians charged with rebellion, be the first social function at the but the Government had not ordered depended on the height one wanted sedition or muliny, asserting Mexico Palace in the new reign, has been any aerial balloons, as the Air Staff to go, but he refused to indicato at Is now enjoying an era of organie changed from March 24 to March 10. was considering the type which would what height the barrage would be
"be most suitable.
placed,-Reuter Specialt J. P. Whitham (full-back); K, A. peace-United Press.
THE TEAMS
The teams were: Hongkong
-British Wireless.