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THE HONGKONG
POPULAR FRONT REJECTED
CHIANG SUPPORTS C. E. C. POLICY
DISCIPLINING ANTAGONISTS
Nanking, Feb. 22.
TELEGRAPH.
Tho Government's manifesto,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23,
1937.
Beaches Attract ALHAMBRA
Local Bathers
WINTER HEAT SPELL WILL
PROBABLY CONTINUE
The amazing spectacle of swimmers flocking to issued yesterday, endorsing a pacific Hongkong's beaches in "mid-winter" has been witnessed polley towards Japan and relterating as a result of the heat wave of the past week. the necessity of exterminating the Communist scourge throughout the- country, has been reinforced by statement by Margin Chiang Kai- shek relecting the idea of a Popular Front. This demand was put for
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ward by the Stanfu mutinter and Communists, as it was necessary to exclude opportunisty and dissch- sionista from the Government,
The Generalissimo, however, de- einres that the Government will con-
tinue to adhere to the policy of in-
A correspondent at Repulse Bay states: "More than the usual number of winter swimmers have been using the beach since Sunday and the Lido, which was quite deserted this time last year, is doing a fairly good
business."
Castle Peak beach and one or two others on the mainland have also had some of their matsheds occupied for the first time since November.
viting non-members of the Kuomin- A Telegraph reporter who resides on Cheung Chow tong Party to participate in the Ad-island states that the beaches there have been quite
ministration.
Marshal Chiang also says the Gov- ernment will seek the advice of ex- perts on all subjects wherever it is found possible.
popular since Sunday.
The heat wave shows no signs of D o'clock this diminishing and at morning the highest temperature of 72.2 degrees was recorded, with The statement promises freedom every prospect of the thermometer of speech and of the Press, within nearing the February record of 70.4 'well-defined limits, and also the before the end of the day.
Humidity is also in the vicinity of cluding Communists, provided they saturation polat. At
At 2 a.m. this sincerely repent, but rejects the pro-morning It reached 98 per cent., two posats for 11 general Amnesty per cent off saturation, while at
Reuter
lam. it had dropped to 89 per cent.
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BRITAIN TOOK NO CHANCES
Until 4 a.m. this morninit, the tem- GAS registered al the Royal Centory was remarkably even, | varying only from 67.4 degrees to 67.0 degrees between midnight and 4 B.m. From 4 to 8 a.m., however, it-rose to 71.2 degrees, exceeding yesterday's maximum temperature by one degree.
MASKS RUSHED TO MALTA
AT TIME OF CRISIS
London, Feb. 22. The fact that the whole civilian
There are
are indications that present conditions are likely to continue.
The Royal Observatory reports: -
anticyclones are situated over Weak Mongolia. LADY M.P. DOESN'T Mong
golia, and in the Paciße to the population of Malta were supplied. south-east of Japan. Shallow de- with anti-gas respirators during the pressions
period when sanctions were in forco cover Manchuria and WANT GOERING
Indo-China. Local
forecast:-East against Italy, in connection with the and S.E. winds, moderate, freshening w. G. Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of Ethioplan war, was disclosed by Mr. later from N.E.; cloudy generally, State for the Colonies, in the House probably some rain later.
of Commons to-day.
London, Feb. 22.. Answering questions hi the House of Commons, Lord Cranborne said Invitations to the Coronation had been sent to the Spanish Government and "the Government of Abyssinia."
Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Labour), referring to the representation of Ger many, asked: "Can we have some guarantee that the country will not be insulted by the presence of General Goering?"
The remark created quite a stir a the House.United Press.
COLONIAL TROOPS
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London, Feb. 22. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the colonial milltary contingent in the Coronation pro- cession would consist of about representative oilcers and N.C.O's from the permanent-forces--in-the Colonies, as well as from the Royal West African Frontier Force, the King's African Rifles, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force, the Malay Regiment and various local Volunteer, Defence Parces.-Router.
RECORD, NUMBER OF VISITORS
London, Feb. 22.
The Government anticipates that visitors to London for the Coronation
far out-number anything previous occasions. Invitations
on
BRITAIN CONVERTS PORTUGAL
NEUTRALS TO WATCH SPANISH BORDERS
FLEETS WILL SCOUR SEAS
The disclosure was made during a debate dealing with additional estimates, including £55,000 expend- ed on improving the elvilian defences of Malta.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore said the respira- tors had to be despatched quickly and an anti-gas school established and hospitals prepared to deal with possible casualties.—Router,
BUILDING BIG AIR TRANSPORTS
Seattle, Feb, 22.
I
Boeing Aircraft #nnounces that, following a year's planning, engineers are prepared to build a fleet of four- ---London, Feb.-22.-----| motored -sub-stratosphere-transports. A complete Anglo-Portuguese build two immediately.
The company is commencing to
The agreement on the supervision of chines will, It is reported, resemble the Portuguese frontier to pre-Army bombers-United Press. vent the entry of foreigners in the Spanish civil war theatre to
mittee which has been drafting the either side, has been reached. Spanish war participate in the fighting on plans for the supervision of the zone. The meeting The announcement was minde at dropped the problem of the Purlu-
Non-Intervention a meeting of the International guese frontier's observation, which Committee's was later decided, to deal with the meeting to-day.
At this stage there was some
Arrangements are being made for acrstofat has
naval guard question.
Says Plan Ineffective
to send representatives have been There will be 130 British obser- difficulty with Portugal, whose dele- sent to all heads of Stutes in dipio- vers, considered adequate by Lord gate was suggesting that 60 obser matic relations with His Majesty and Londonderry, to watch the Portu- vers on the frontier were sufficient. to certain independent States with-muese-Spanish frontier and to report France, however, pointed out that out diplomatic representation but, in on any breach of the international there were to be 100 observers on treaty relations with Britoin.
has just been the far shorter Franco-Spanish by European capitais. border-Reuter. floodlighting between Coronation Day
The question of reducing the num- and May 17 of Buckingham Palace,
ber of international observers on the the Victoria Memorial, St. James 170, is to be reconsidered,
French frontier, at present fixed at
it Houses of Parliament understood. Poluce, the the National Gallery, the Tower of London, Somerset House, Greenwich Hospital, the Round Tower at Wind- sor, Hampton Court Palace and grounds, the Admiralty Arch, West- minster Abbey, St. George's Chapel, Windsor,
dsor, Trafalgar Square and the Wan Minit. Royal
Imperial Airways state that all available accommodation. In aircraft reaching London from India, Africn Australia In the weeks just preceding the Coronailon was book- ed up some time ago. In many cases advance bookings were effected months ago-British Wireless.
and
DOMINIONS' PART IN DEFENCE
NO NEW POLICY- ADUMBRATED
London, Feb. 22. The Prime Minister was question- ed in the House of Commons on Sir
Samuel Hoare's speech at Bradford on February & regarding Dominion .co-operation in Impecial defence.
Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to the Court of St. James, to-day raised the question of the immobilisation of the Valencia Government's foreign gold deposits. M. Maisky, the Russian delegate, jeeted on the grounds that the sug- gestion was irrelevent,
Gibraltar, Feb. 22. General Del Lano, the rebel com- mander in South Spain, broadcasting from Seville to-day, asserted the in- ternational neutrality blockade would be ineffective, since British and British ships, he says, are continu- French were supporting the Loyalists. ally taking food to the Loyalists and the civil war. prolonging
He
argued that it would be humane to permit the people to starve and thus
compel the surrender A naval supervision plan has been
of the Government upon. All agreed
participating
He also announced that Americans nations appear to be satisfied with in Malaga had telegraphed Washing- the roles they are to play with the ton asking that the Consulate at that exception of Russia. The Soviet ob- point be reopened and that trade be jects to the zone allotted to her war resumed.
Naval Guard Set
ships. The British delegates have Meanwhile, insurgent sources have undertaken to consult Moscow in this estimated that 8.113 persons have matter.
been killed at Malaga from the The scheme of control was general- beginning of the war to the date of ly agreed to at to-night's meeting of the Rightist occupation.—United the Non-Interventionists' sub-com- Press.
ROME SITS IN DARKNESS
WHEN RAIDERS LURK
Rome, Feb. 22:
Even the hospitals and the Pope's apartments were plunged into darkness to-night, at one of the busiest hours, when the shricking of emergency sirens announced the danger of attack from enemy bombing planos.
Mr. Baldwin said: The First Lord of the Admiralty made
no new statement of polley. While explain- ing that the chief burden of defence expenditure falls on Great Britain, the First Lord once again declared that it would be a great mistake to impose
some rigid plan, on other
All power was cut of over a For 45 minutes the whole, vast members of the Empire, Similarly, as to economie questions, he mude It
radius of 15 miles around Rome. capital froze into immobility and clear that any agreement that hnd
It was necessary for doctors and held Its breath, listening for the been or might be reached must re-by the light of electric torches. Hotel and the drone of hunting bombers. nurses to continue their operations nerve-shattering crash of explosives sult from a common outlook and a guests dined by candle light. Street But the lights came up again with- spontaneous desire for co-operation traffic was stopped. People shelter-out the raid materialising. It was.
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