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五拜禮 號六廿月二英港香 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937. 日六十月正
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BRITISH LINER STRIKES
STRIKES MINE
U.S. Strikers
Plan to Fight
Armed Deputies
GRAND JURY BRINGS IN
BLANKET
INDICTMENT
Santa Monica, Feb. 25.
An extremely serious situation is threatening in connection with the Douglas aircraft factory strike. There is real danger of a clash between the workmen and police.
The Grand Jury to-day voted 400 indictments for felony and conspiracy.
Immediately 200 police officers were sent to the factory under orders to arrest the strikers and repossess the plant for the owners. They will use guns and tear gas if necessary.
The ugly mood of the strikers is evident. An un- identified speaker has advised them to resist arrest and ejection from the factory with force.
The strike has now spread to the Northrup Corporation plant, where 1,000 men are employed. Reuter.
BLANKET INDICTMENT
Santa Monica, Feb. 25. The Grand Jury has issued a blanket indictment against over 400 Douglas factory workers as a result of the seizure of the aircraft manufacturing plant.
The strikers are reported to have armed themselves with fire extinguishers and acetylene torches_to_fight_the 175 deputies on the way to arrest them--United Press.
Miners Won't Italy Opposes
Surrender
Restoration
THREE KILLED IN Of Hapsburgs
PIT-HEAD RIOTS.
London, Feb. 25.
A message from Pee, in Hungary, states that, with the water steadily rising in the "suleide pit," the stoy-in strikers still refuse to ascend to the surface,
The striking miners are now in u sorry plight, being without food or water.
Three people were killed and seven injured in a clash between the police and demonstrators at the pit-head. The trouble arose when University students began to smash shop win- dows, but they were dispersed after the ringleaders had been arrested.
The Government does not intend to use troops for the purpose ci evacuating the strikers from the raine, as it is feared that such action might lead to a serious conflict-Reuter,
Government Holds Seat In Richmond
Rome, Feb. 25. Italy is a present opposed to the Hapsburg restoration in Austria,
authoritatively stated here.
Signor Gayda, writing in' the Giornale d'Italia, вдув The restoration would be Inoppor- tune, because nobody inside or outside Austria feels the need for any change in the present political regime, and it would be dangerous because it might pro- voke disturbances within Austria itself,
Previously, the Italian Govern- ment
had regarded eventual restoration favourably-Router.
Reciprocal Tariffs Restricted
Washington, Feb. 25.
300 Passengers Aboard REBELS GRIP SHATTERED BY Union Castle Steamer MINE BLASTS Unable to Reach Port Men and Horses Are
WATER GAINING ON SHIP'S PUMPS
AS TUG RACES TO HER HELP
THE BIG BRITISH STEAMER LLANDOVERY CASTLE, OWNED BY THE UNION CASTLE LINE, HAS STRUCK A MINE. SHE IS UNABLE TO MAKE PORT AND IS LYING OFF PORT VENDRES. PORT VENDRES IS A SMALL HARBOUR JUST NORTH OF THE FRANCO - SPANISH BORDER, IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
APPARENTLY THE WATER IS GAINING ON THE VESSEL'S PUMPS AND A TUG IS STEAMING TO HER ASSISTANCE FROM MARSEILLES.
Marseilles, Feb. 25 (8.06 p.m.).
The Union Castle liner, Llandovery Castle, bound from England to Port Natal, and due here en route, has been forced to put into Port Vendres with two of her holds flooded. She has been badly damaged by the explosion of a floating mine.
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The ship struck the mine two miles south-east of Port Creus.
She has 150 passengers aboard.-Reuter.
port.
UNABLE TO ENTER PORT
Port Vendres, Feb. 25. (10.06 p.m.) The Llandovery Castle is unable to enter this
She is standing off awaiting a tug from Marseilles.
Meanwhile, the water appears to be gaining on the pumps, notwithstanding the fact that they are working at top pressure,
It is understood that there are 300 passengers aboard the liner-Reuter.
am. states the CONGRESS PARTY
A United Press message received in 1 Hongkong at D Llandovery Castle struck a mine while off the Spanish const and damaged her extensively. Water was pouring into two holds but she managed to reach Port Vendres safely.
The United Press confirms the re- port that
the ship carries 300 passengers.
STILL GAINS
Madras, Feb. 25.
GERMANY REQUIRES WARNING
LABOUR ADVISES
GOVERNMENT
DEBATE ON DEFENCE
London, Feb. 28.
Opening the debate on the second reading of the Defence Loans Bill in the House of Com- mons, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that even now, although
the prospects might seem dis-
couraging, he did not altogether despair of finding some
new
field in which they might avoid
Blown to Feces
Madrid, February 25.
Loyalist sappers created havoc in the insurgent positions in University City and south of Carabanchel to- day with the explosion of three big mines. The bodies of men and horses were flung into the air in all directions, amid a cascade of stones and soil and the debris of that. tered houses.
The buildings of the Institutes of Hygiene and Cancer in University City have been seriously damaged.
There were three separate explosions. As the blasts went skyward the militiamen leaped from their trenches and before the dazed insurgents could defend themselves were among them in their trenches. They captured some ground-Reuter.
Famed British Explorer Flies With Lindbergh
Bombay, Feb. 25, Bir Francia Younghusband, famous British explorer, Jained Colonel Charles Lindbergh here to-day and flew north, and al. though their destination is not known It is believed probable that--they-are--- heading -- for-
Nagpur.
They are expected to return at nightfall to refoln Mrs. Lind- bergh, who has accompanied her husband thus far on his flight from England, United Press,
NEW ANGLO- CANADIAN
armament fully to the bitte TRADE PACT
the necessity of pursuing re-
end.
In the meantime, zaid Mr. Cham- Madras is the Ath State in which berlain, the country could not afford the Congress Party has secured a clear majority in the Assembly to stay its hand until satisfied that it had provided for the safety of the So far, the Party has won 116 seats people and put itself in a position to out of 100 results declared in the House of 215 seats--Reuter.
clections.
H.K. WILL
HEAR
BROADCAST OF
TEST
STRUGGLE
ZBW, Hongkong, is relaying commentaries on the There was a surprising upset in the fifth test match, which commenced in Melbourne this
Senate to-day, which voted 43 to 30
in favour of an amendment prohibit morning.
ing the setting of any tariff, under reciprocal treaty arrangements, at a
Listeners have the choice of three broadcasting point where foreign production cost, stations for receiving these commentaries. plus the tart, would equal or be less than the cost of domestic production. However, Senalor Pat Harrison has
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full all International obligations. Nothing that human ingenuty could devise to prevent excessive prices in the cost of re-armament had been left undone.
OTTAWA LOWERS
PREFERENCE
TEXTILES AFFECTED
London, Feb. 25, The terms of the Anglo-Canadian trade agreement, widely revised, have Just been published. The pact re- when it will be subject to termination mains in force until August 20, 1940, at six months' notice.
Dealing with the financial position, Mr. Chamberlain said that while the national debt of the. United States had increased during the last six years by over £2,000,000,000, the annual debt charges in Britain had been reduced from £282,500,000 in 1031 to £210,-
But the main features of the treaty 600,000 in the present year while the
are the alterations in Canada's pre- country provided a constanity inferential list. Canada has lowered preferential duty on 150 items, creasing sum for social
AR long as borrowing did not exceed
-affecting about 40 per cent, of United general savings there would be no in- Kingdom Imports into Canada. The reductions are mostly from 2.5 to 5 nation. The sum of £400,000,000 to
per cent, but on some goods range: fraction of the country's savings. be raised by Isan represented only a
from 6 to 20 per cent. These jallër include textiles.
services.
A SHOCK-ABSORBER
Mr. Lees Smith moved a Labour amendment expressing misgiving at the huge competitive national orma-
the
The agreement conventionalisca the free entry of 20 per cent, of the total of United Kingdom goods Imported by Canada.
The United Kingdom, on the other
Renewed Attack
Madrid, Feb. 25. The rebels renewed their attack in the University City sector at dawn to-day and soon afterwards opened Bre in the north-west area, bringing trench mortars and machine-guns into the action,
• Their offensive spread across to West Park, where the loyal troops checked the attack and created stalemate.
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Low clouds and cold winds have terminated the springlike weather of the past fortnight.
from
Despatches
Gijon report Loyalists furiously attacking an arms factory on the outskirts of Oviedo, fully confident of being able to cap- ture this str.¡egle site.—United Press.
Oviedo Battle Rages
London, Feb. 25. Oviedo continues to be the centre of intensive fighting. The insurgent headquarters at Salamanca speaks of the impetuous attacks of the Govern→ ment troops, but says that they have sustained enormous losses.
Government reports, on the other hand, state militiamen, have occupied Zabaleta and buildings in the Buena Vista district, and consolidated them- selves there. They state that the
the arms factory on
outskirts of Oviedo, to which the insurgents still cling, is under fire from machine- guns in surrounding houses and streets, and that the city's bull ring has been occupied.
Desperate night fighting is eceding around Villar-Reuter.
pro-
Woman Spy Executed
Gibraltar, Feb. 25. It is unconfirmedly reported that
Roslin Diaz, whom they had charged Nationalists have executed the Spanish motion picture actress, with espionage.---United Press.
RAS DE TA HUNTED
AND SHOT
Rome, Feb. 25.
Ras Desta, the last of the great Abyminlan 'chlefs to resist the
Ros Desta had been hiding since
They will be broadcast by VK3LR, Melbourne, on ment without any constructive foreign hand, undertakes to maintain the Italians, has been captured and shot switched his voto Raven 31.38 metres (9,580 kc.). In addition, they will be defeed that Sir Thomas Inskip, Minis- ference with regard to dairy products. defest by. Marshal Graziani, and be
policy and opposing the fencing of existing duty free list but reserves by a firing squad, notice that he will move
expenditure by loan. He de- the right to review the basis of pre- consideration of the bili, for re-broadcast through Daventry's Empire Transmissions. ter for Co-ordination of Defences, was
was Margins of preference for Canadian Earlier, the Senate defeated, by 52 VK3LR is giving a ball-by-ball description of the merely a shock-absorber
not solving any problems. He was goods are continued, except on dried was captured in the Inke district with to 30, an amendment prohibiting the
keeping tho
fruits.
a few followers by an Italian flying setting of new
tarife on any play, and is also broadcasting a commentary. This ments, which were getting all the willingness to assist, the British given a week in which to surrender.
ring between the Defence Depart- Canadian meat and cattle continue column, agricultural products which are not!
duty free, but Canada declares her The chlef had previously been by-election at Richmond, caused by Produced in sufficient quantities in station will be heard best in Transmission I and II. which prize money out of unlimited re Government in carrying out a polley but he failed to do so.-Router, Bul-·
CONSERVATIVE HAS BIG MAJORITY
Folling took place to-day in the
London, Feb. 25,
the retirement of Sir William Ray,
the Conservativo member.
The Conservatives easily retained the sout, the voting being as follows: Major Watt (Com).... 20,540. Mr. Rogers (Lab.),..........
Con, majority
7,709,
2,835.
-Router.
At the last General Election, Sir William Ray polled 80,433 votes and Mr L. Gassman (Labour)-10,055.
STOP PRESS
spurces from, borrowing.
of orderly marketing of these items letin Service.
In the United Kingdom-Reuter,
NOTED INDIAN PASSES
the United States to meet the domestic are intended for Far East listeners. demand Unlied Press.
Herr Hitler, said Mr. Lees Smith, Transmission I, is from 9.20 p.m., GSH on 13.97 metres (21,470 k.c.), was always pushing to see where he to. 1.30 am, the programme com- GSG on 16.86 metres (17,700 kc.) could obtain advantages, and other mencing with the test match.com and GSB on 31.53 metres (9,510 nations were giving way. So far, wo mentary. Transmission II is from .c.) SKLA
had always given way. He (Mr.
BANK MEETING. 3.45 to 1.40 p.m., and will be entire The ball-by-ball commentary by Lees Smalth) belloved we were mis- ly occupied with
a ball-by-ball| Vielor Richardson (an old Test) leading everyone in did not believe reminded that the Bank's meeting }|
Shareholders of the Hongkong and description.
player) will comtionco at 9.15 pm. luring Hitler on.
and unconselously Shonghat Banking Corporation are
Calcutta, Feb. 25, H.K.T. nightly, and will be for ten that Britain would give way for ever, Daventry's best programme for minutes.
The death has” occurred 'of. Sir Hongkong lateners will be through Daventry's broadcast will bo danger not to let Hitler know what the Corporation, No. 1 Queen's Road Kingdom from 1931 to 1030-~~ but be thought it was almost criminal
takes place to-morrow (Saturday) Bhupendra Mitra, High Commla- Transmission II, which is utilising layed by Hongkong.
at 11.80 am. at the Head Office of slonosTM for ~ India in the United the nation would not stand.Reuter. Central.
Reuter.}
Melbourne, Feb. 25. Australia won the tors and are batting-Reuter: