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FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881
No. 14183
二拜禮 號六十月二英港香
TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY
INTERVENTION
IN
BANNED
SPANISH WAR
Powers Agree to Stop Volunteer Enlistment
NEUTRAL CORDON TO WATCH
ON FRONTIERS OF SPAIN
London, Feb. 15.
It is understood that an agreement has been reached by a sub-committee of the Non-Intervention Committee, at present in session
here.
The plan, which aims at the prevention of interference by Governments or their nationals in the Spanish civil war, is not yet. known in detail. However, it is disclosed that it provides:
Firstly, a ban on volunteers from all countries, to come into operation at midnight of February 20;
Secondly, a control scheme, entailing the spreading of a sea and land cordon around Spain, which would report breaches of the agreement to a London Committee of Control.
This scheme, it is suggested, should come into operation at midnight, March 6.
The whole plan is meeting with a' notable co-operation among the powers, Its acceptance at the full meeting of the
Non-Intervention Committee is a foregone conclusion, though it is understood the Portuguese delegate is still without in- structions. Formerly, Portugal flatly refused to allow the Non- Intervention. Committee to patrol the Portuguese-Spanish frontier.
DREADFUL LOSSES IN CIVIL WAR
THOUSANDS DEAD IN OFFENSIVE REBEL ATTACK FRUSTRATED
Madrid, Feb. 15. A heavy insurgent attack was launched at dawn to-day along of the the extended front Jarama sector. The attackers lost over 1,000 killed, ing to a Government communi- que,
accord
Later,
A communique issued by the In- Com- ternational Non-lutervention mittee confirms the agreement of the sub-committee representatives on the scheme to prevent outside interfer- ence in the Spanish civil war,
Portugal.supports the first, provi-. sion of the agreement, namely the ban on volunteers from countries teclinic- ally neutral, but reserves her decision with respect to the "neutral cordon" it is proposed should be drawn around Spain to guard against infraction of the Arst stipulation of the non-inter- vention pael.--Reuter,
last
London, Feb. 15.
CENSURE
LABOUR CHIEF
VOTE TO EXPEL WILLIAM GREEN
"THERE IS NO CAUSE TO FEAR"
BARON VON NEURATH
GERMANS DENOUNCE WARFARE
CULTURE FORBIDS
CONFLICT
NO CAUSE FOR ANY FEAR
Berlin, Feb. 15. War was denounced to-day by both General. Herman. Goering,
STRIKE SPLIT Germany's Minister for Air and
RECALLED
ели
former flying ace, and Baron
von
> Neurath, Minister for Foreign Affairs, the former in
a speech, the latter in an article.
General Goering was
16, 1937.
日六初月正
SOLD HIS
COUNTRY'S
SECRETS
U.S. EX-OFFICER ADMITS CHARGE
TWO JAPANESE INVOLVED
Washington, Fob. 15. Declaring he would offer no defence against the charges of espionage levelled against him, ex Lieutenant Commander Farnsworth to-day threw him- self on the mercy of the court. He appeared on charges of con- spiring to communicate naval secrets to Japan.
In the charge, two Japanese nuvul
spired with Farnsworth. Comman-
oflcers were named as having con- der Itimiya and Lieutenant-Comman- der Yamaki were the alleged con spirators. But neither of dicted because of their diplomatic immunity, Both formerly were stationed at the Japanese Embassy.
but are now believed to be in Japan: Over 50 United States mayal offers have arrived here from various stations to appear as witnesses for the prosecution.—Reuter,
SENTENCE RESEVED
Washington, Feb. 10. Ex-Lieutenant-Commander Farns- worth, charged with selling secret information to Japan, pleaded Roto contendre to-day, declaring he would offer no defence against the accusa- tions.
Mr., Justice James M. Proctor announced he would reserve sentence until he has heard the comments of counsel on both sides.
The plea of the accused does not mean, technically, that he pleads
guilty. It means simply that he will not defend himself, and leaves his fate to the court. The maximum penalty for
espionage be years imprisonment.
A
twenty
the Embassy Spokesman said that
kad ΠΟ comment to make in the case,
It is expected the trist judge will study the case at least a week before passing sentence. Counsel explained that in any event, due to the form of his plen, Farnsworth would not lose his citizenship and other civil rights. -United Press..
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JEALOUS GUARD OVER COLONIES
Parliament Reassured
By Lord Cranborne
Special to "Telegraph"
London, Feb. 15.
Germany's demands for the return of her colonies, lost during the Great War, figured largely at question time in the House of Cominons to-day. Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson addressed a question to the Foreign Secretary, asking if he could not announce the result of negotiations between Lord Halifax, Lord Privy Seal, and Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador.
Further, he requested an understanding from the Government that there would be no agreement to return Germany's colonies or even to offer overseas commercial opportunities to Germany without a debate in the House of Commons.
Replying on behalf of Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Cranborne said the recent conversations between Lord Halifax and Herr von Ribbentrop were in no sense negotiations, but merely an exchange of views on number of topics of interest to the two countries.
SUBSIDY FOR AIR SERVICE
AMERICAN FUNDS FOR ATLANTIC PLANES
WILL PAY $2
PER
MILE
the International Congress O EX FAIR DRAWS Crowdon's request for funds with which
addressing
when he declared: Servicemen, "Those who rattle the sabre mast lou
Only
one.
COSTLY ARMAMENTS
of
2
He referred to the statement of the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, on lost Aprli 27, when ho emphasised tha
that the Government was not considering the question of
return of
German colonies. former Gern
Mr. Vyvyan Adams asked the Foreign Secretary whether, to dispel -founded German expectancy, he would state in unmistakable terms that the Government cannot con- template the cession to Nazi Germany of any territory whatsoever under British political control.
Repeated Denial
Lord Cranborne replied that, as had been previously stated, the Gov-- ernment has not considered and is not considering such a problem.
Mr. Adams asked: "Are not discussions in fact proceeding."
"It is Inherent in my answer that the matter has not been considered," Lord Cranborne re- plied sharply, "and is not being considered.
Another questioner asked if news- paper reports to the effect that nego- tiations concerning the return of Germany's former colonies were unfounded. Lord Cranborne wered simply: "Yes,"
Mr. Duncan Sandys thereupon
Ens-
Washington, Feb, 15. A House of Representatives Coin- mittee has approved the Administra
the trans-Atlantic air to subsidise mail service between New York and London, Feb. 15. Buyers of British goods from all Southampton, which will begin on over the world locked to Olympia November 1 next.
The subsidy will be at the rate of to-day, where the tuain section of the British Industries Fair is being held. two dollars a mile and the postage
Other sections, devoted to textiles rate
will
be between twenty-one and
cents per ounce. opened at the White City, Birming- AL
be carried, but later giant clipper House of Commons notes with satis- have already faction that despite the German The Coronation theme has
been flylog-boats, which
colonial demands the Government is aktifully introduced into many forms been ordered, will carry sixty pas-not considering the cession of Bay of industry. The most expensive sengers each. exhibit of this kind is a pair of shoes The service will be operated twice territory."-Reuter Special, in gold cloth, studded with diamonds weekly, the American company and rubies, priced at six hundred Imperial Airways cach flying one guineas.
machine in cuch direction weekly. Business was brisk from the outset, For six months, the northern route notably in soft goods and furniture via Newfoundland will be used, and the southern route, vin Bermuda and Router Bulletin Service.
A British Wireless message says the Azores, for the remainder of the Eection of the Fair at the White Cily, The transit time will be between
and thirty-hours. and the King and Queen will visit twenty-four
Reuter. the Olympia section to-morrow,
and machinery, were simultaneously twenthe beginning, only malls will table the following resolution: "The
Washington, Feb. 15. The Policy Committee of the United Mine Workers Union has passed a resolution directing officials DESTROYERS BOMBED to expel Mr. William Green from the organisation for "treason and betrayal of labour." Two British destroyers were yes- Mr. Green holds his position as
Joudly never carried terday bombed by a large aircraft, president of the American Federation those who never experienced the apparently a Junkers machine, when of Labour by virtue of his member horrors of war can talk about another from 15 to 20 miles off Cape Tenez, ship in the mine workers union, one, Germany is longing for peace Algerin.
whose president is the chief of the s ardently as other nations.
Baron von Neurath, in an inter- Six bombs were dropped without Committee of Industrial Organisation, view at Hamburg, published in the effect, and the destroyers fred in Mt Mr. Grew is expelled it will be Fremdenblatt, asserted:
John Lewis.
"Statements reply.
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for him lo resign the reatedly murder by most competent hum. necessary Protests have been lodged with the presidency of the American Federa-
In Germany and other coun- authorities at Palma and Salamancation of Labour or have some other tries of our European civilisation General Francisco Franco's troops Reuter Bulletin Service.
'union adopt him.
agree there is not the slightest cnuse advanced under the protection of
or any danger to peace, M. Green, during the strike of the for fear, Committee Mcots tanks and a heavy covering fire, but
within this circle of culture.” —- General Motors Corporation after a brief engagement a dynamite
London, Feb. 15. ployees, stood out against Mr. Lewis Reuter. squad forced the insurgents back to The special sub-commitce set up and the C.1.0., and insisted that the their original positions.
week under the International AFL members should retain their Meanwhile, insurgent bombers were
rights, whereas Mr.
Washington, Feb. 15. bombarding the Government lines, committee for the application of the bargaining
The Foreign Policy Association to nego-
the cost Government pursuit planes inter-agreement regarding non-interven-Lewis sought the sole right vened, and after an aerial fight the tion in the Spanish civil war met late with employers on behalf of the to-day reported that
the Queen paid a visit to the textile year. again late this afternoon at the C.IO. The resulting split in the German re-armament has increased rebel planes retired, according to the Foreign Office to consider difficulties ranks of labour raised a storm of by 580 per cent, halween 1034 and Defence Junta's report-Reuter.
1030. In the same period the world's caused by the inability of the Portu- consure against Mr. Green-Reuter.
arms expenditure was doubled, and guese Government to accept the
JOHN FREY CONDEMNED
the total spent on weapons W03 proposed scheme for establishing International supervision of the land
nearly. US$11,000,000,000. Washington, Feb. 13.
Military frontlers of Spain,
to risc The United Mine Wors's policy
budgets began committee has voted to expel Mr. following Japan's conquest of Man- William Green and In addition luas churia and Increased even more condemned Mr. John P. Frey, pre- sharply when Herr Adolf Hitler sident of the American Federation came to power. The current arma- of Labour's metal, trades department programmes were based almost Suggestion Refuted
ment, for their actions during the universally on the assumption that
war was imminent, said the report. London, Feb. 15.
motor strike.
It is alleged that they "did, every- The following comparative figures Answering a House of Commons
the for 1934 and 1938 are of Interest. The same authority asserts that "an question about Italian military aid to thing in their power to assist
its Russia spent U.S.$1,000,000,000 in ekormous quantity" of French the insurgent forces in Spain, the General Motors Corporation In biplanes arrived recently in the Gov- Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs render impotent the United Automo- the same two years United States effort to divide and destroy and 1934 and $2,903,000,000 in 1930. In ernment bases. He observed ten of declared that, so far as he was aware, bile Workers' strike."-United Press. spent $710,000,000 and $804,000,000; them in an air battle over Vallecas there was nothing to substantiate the
France spent $582,000,000 and $710,- yesterday, he states. Reuter Bulletin suggestion that any attempt was being Service.
made to
000,000; Britain $480,000,000 and allenate the territorial Integrity or political independence of
$846,000,000; Germany $381,000,000 Spain. British Wireless,
and $2,600,000,000; Japan $271.000.000 and $307,000,000, and Italy $203,000,- '000 and $870,000,000.-United Press.
Terrible Lasses
Lisbon, Feb. 15. Since the beginning of the rebel offensive fast week, over 5,000 casual-
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tles have been suffered by the In- ternational Brigades defending Mad- rld, according to an insurgent obser- ver at the front. He describes how he saw great piles of bodies, mostly of French, Belgian, Russian and Bri- tish
militiamen.
Appeal For Help
The Committee was still in session after four and a half hours.-British Wireless,
NOTED ITALIAN SUCCUMBS
FAMOUS MOTOR-CAR
Three Die In Train Wreck PLATE-LAYERS HUT
CRUSHED
and
LANTANA KILLERS OF H. K.
SHIRKED THEIR TASK
'FRISCO LABOUR RIOTING
RIVAL UNIONS IN SEVERE CLASH
(Special to "Telegraph")
San Francisco, Feb. 15, Over 500 man were involved in a. rlot here to-day in which seven
Because colonies of Lantana Seed Flies and Lantana Plume were injured, including a policeman. their job of clearing Hongkong from the squad of 100 policemen mixed in Moths shirked on Noxious Lantana shrub, the Botanical and Forestry Department the fray..
The Oghting started at the IL.A. has had to import further insects from Honolulu.
300
of Holman's strike-breaking The first batch of insects was brought to Hongkong in 1934, hiring hall in California Street when Both varieties are Lantana parasites, the former attacking and longshoremen marched to the am destroying the unripe seed, and the latter destroying the unopen-barcadero seeking work. The union men huried cuspidors, bricks and stones ot. them and ed flower buds,
hand-to-hand The insects were first liberated in various lantana-infected parts of fighting spread to the Howard Street
and
with faced
the headquarters of the Holman or- 1934, but up to the end of last year Hongkong,
task of iterally eating.ganisation, which I.L.A. men seized hundreds of acres of shrub,
nill the police ousted them of the shrub. Towards the end of Lantana, which can be rusily ach- United Press. the year the Botanical and Forestry ined by its pretty yollow and red Department ordered a further supply flower, is opreading rapidly in Hong- of both varieties of insects from kong, and its amazing growth Honolulu.
perturbing the authorities During
DR. DAFOE ILL... In order that they would' all reach the past three or four years large
Toronto, Feb. 15. Ilongkong alive the new colonies arcas, have been cleared of the
Dr. A. R. Rafob is seriously ill with were flown nearly 3,000 miles to-noxious plant by hand-digging, but wards Hongitong by plane. They despite this work it is undoubtedly influenza at the Toronto General wero passengers from Honolulu to gaining a strong hold on the Colony's Hospital and the famous country practitioner who brought the Blanne Manila by Clipper plane, coming on oll to Hongkong from Manlia-by ordin- Now it's up to the diminutive quintuplets Into the world has can- Lantana Seed Fly and the Lantana celled all radio programmes and other
engagementsUnited Press. They have all been released in Plume Moth.
London Feb. 15.. In the House of Commons at ques- tion-time the Under-Secretary for
■Foreign Affolra nungunced_that_an. appeal was received last night from the Spanish Government for the re- lief of refugees at present at Almeria. His Majesty's Government were urgently considering whether the question of any international relict
DESIGNER
London, Feb, 15.
London, Feb. 16. action could be profitably examined.
Three men in a plate-layers' bul Their Majesties, the King and Lord Cranborne recalled that the
Turin, Feb. 16. at Sleaford were killed and the other Queer, took up residence at Buck British proposal last December, that Signor Vincenzo Lancia, Italy's, occupants injured when an expressingham Palace, to-night. assistance for the relief of the Spanish most famous motor-car designer, died train from York to Lowestoft became The royal removal was made with the least possible coremony. Their civilian population should be or- to-day from a stroke at the age of 67 derailed and struck the hut.
Six couches of the express ganised on an international basis, years..
were Majestics will occupy the culte. of was not at that time acceptable to The deceased amassed a consider also derailed and a number of pas-apartments on the first floor formerly the Spanish Government-British able fortune, and he always acted as aengers injured, being later sent to occupied by King George and Queenery steamer. Wireless,
his own test drivor-Router Special. | hospital-Reuter Special.
Mary-Reuter Bulletin Service:
King Moves To they had not prevented the spread herculean
Buckingham