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QUEEN MARY VISITS FAIR
FOUNDED 1881 ·
No. 16:47
四拜禮 號四月三英港香
THURSDAY,
MARCH
4, 1937.
日二廿月正
NO
ON
REBELS HARD PRESSED ON MANY FRONTS
Loyalists Smash Way Into Toledo
OVIEDO APPEARS NEAR
END OF RESISTANCE
Madrid, Mar. 3.
According to the newspaper Claridad, Government
AMES
"Do you have to stand in those clothes all day? Queen Mary re- marked to there mannequins after this photograph was taken at the British Industries Fair at the White City. Queen Mary was accompanied by the
troops, after a series of fast marches and furious fighting,Duke of Gloucester for the tour of the exhibition.
have entered Toledo, and occupied the quarter near the Alcazar. If this is true it means that the insurgent relief of the Alcazar and the heroic defence of that fortress was a hollow victory.
It is also reported that after 23 hours of fighting of the bitterest nature, in which the insurgents are said to have lost heavily, a Government force, estimated at 30,000 men, crossed the Tagus between Talavera and Toledo and is threatening the railway by which the rebels have been rushing up reinforcements to Madrid, from Talavera. By this manoeuvre the Government troops appear to threaten the road from Talavera to Toledo, as well-Reuter.
.
HEAVY STREET FIGHTING
Madrid, March 3.
It is reported in the press here that Loyalist troops have entered Toledo under cover of heavy artillery fire. Street fight- ing is said to be under way.
Government guns continue to bombard Talavera de la Reina, which is virtually surrounded.
From Gijon comes the report that Government artillery has subjected Oviedo to a terrific pounding and thai the loyal militia has occupied impert- ant buildings in the vicinity of Puerta Nueva Alta and the suburb of Son Claudio, following a fierce, morning engagement.
•
Short Of Ammunition Despatches from the Government army at Oviedo say the Nationalists
MILITIA
FORCED
TO FIGHT
have abandoned their counter-attacks 400 SURRENDER ON
in order to conserve their dwindling
supply of ammunition. However, they
stubborn continuing a defence.
are
Loyalists are claiming that they have seized the sole remaining high- way which enabled Oviedo to iet reinforcements and supplies, thereby completely surrounding the insurgent defenders. This last message comes Irom Hendaye.
Unofficial estimates in Madrid place
TAGUS FRONT
RECRUITED
VALENCIA
Higher Wages
Cause
Steel
Cost to Rise
New York, Mar, 3. Higher wages and shorter hours have now been adopted by the entire
HERE TO INSPECT DOCKYARD
steel industry. It is reliably estimat- VICE-ADMIRAL C. P. od that the revision will cost the in- 'dustry nearly £30,000,000 a year, duction cost by an average of little
which is expected to increase pro-
less than £1 per ton.
An Increase of prices is expected to be announced Friday.-Reuter,
LONDON SILVER RISING
INDIA BUYING ON
WAR FEAR
MARKET ALL ONE WAY
This
London, Mar. 3. afternoon's sharp rise in
TALBOT ARRIVES
TAKING ADVICE TO ADMIRALTY
Here for a fortnight, during which time he will inspect the Royal Naval Dockyard, Vice- Admiral Cecil Ponsonby Talbot arrived in the Colony this morn-
ing on the P. and O. liner Ranchi.
Admiral Talbot had little to say when interviewed, but expressed pleasure when shown the announce- ment of the new Naval estimates. Asked if he thought naval rearma- ment a good move, Admiral Talbot remarked: "Well, it's more or less forced on us, isn't it? It's better to be sure than sorry, that is what it amounts to!"
with the
Station's
The Admiral's visit is the result of his recent appointment to the post of Director of Dockyards. During his stay. In the Colony he will make a thorough Inspection of the dockyard London silver is attribuled to large here and when he returns to England buying by Indians who interpret the will supply advice and knowledge to recent rises of war risk insurance, the
Lords of the Admiralty in by Lloyds to Mediterranean co-operation applied shipping, as indicating the greater Commander-in-Chief.
of armed conflict possibility IN Europe fenys are
Admiral Talbot has visited Hong- not shared by kong several Umes during his career London brokers, who consider the In the Navy and since 1932 has been advance of war risk Insurance rates Director of Naval Equiptment. lle merely the result of the presence of succeeds Admiral Sir A. Percy floating mines in the Mediterranean, Addison as Director of Dockyards,
Avila, Mar. 3. Waving white flags, 400 militiamen the rebel losses on this front, during from the left bank of the Tugus, ar- the past three days, ut more than frived in the insurgent lines
1,000-United Press.
Rebel Attack Foiled
Madrid, Mar. 3.
at
in
damage to shipping, including the a number of which have catised British liner, Llandovery Castle.
This afternoon'a market was all one hence dealings were only carried out with
greatest They are being brought here im-dimculty. Many buying orders are mediately.
stil unfulfited. >
Brokers point out, however, that
Talavera to-day, and surrendered.
way,
the
Another insurgent attempt to cut It is alleged they were recruited in the rise, if based on the assumption the Madrid-Valencia road failed to Valencia by force and sent to the that the war risk is greater, Is day, according to Government claims. A communique says that front immediately-Reuter. Bulletin unjustified.-Reuter.
after a prellrainary bombardment, Service. followed by four hours of desperate
fighting, the rebels withdrew to
verttered
dead
former positions, leaving the wounded.
FOOD SHORTAGE -
Madrid, Mar. 3. with
and
Due to the stringent food situation, the Madrid Government has ordered adds that the a bread ration of 101⁄2 ounces daily. The Government. road, communications with Oviedo, per person, as from March 11, where heavy fighting continues, have now been severed completely as a result of the capture of positions to the westward of the city-Reuter Special.
MILITARY STRATEGY IN SCHOOLS
Moscow, Mar. 3.
The science of milliary strategy will: henceforth appear as a pro- minent item in the curriculum of all
TYRE PLANT SHUT DOWN.
Akron, March 3. Number Two plant of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company has shut down, throwing into idleness 2,000 workers.
STUDYING MILITARY SYSTEM
CHINA, JAPAN SEND EXPERTS TO TURKS
"Istanbul, Mar, 3. Chinese and Japancas military missions, composed of: General, Chan An insurgent bombardment, from
Chal-tong, Colonel Wen Tal-hua and German batteries of heavy artillery, was directed at the Madrid working
Colonel Chi Kwai-leung for China, The company states that production class quarter, and claimed many vic has been interrupted by some of the and Colonel Takoyu Murakawa, Capt. tims among the civilian population. employees who It did considerable damage. Reuter force others to join their organisa Miyamoto for Japan have arrived are attempting to Selicht Kobayashi and Capt Tadataka Bulletin Service.
|tion-Reuter.
REORGANISING BRITAIN'S POWER DISTRIBUTION
London, Mar. 3.
A national scheme for the distribution of electricity through
out Great Britain was announced by Mr. Hore-Bellsha, Minister
Transport, in the House of Commons to-day.
of
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jhero,
They are visiting various military institutions, including the Any Academy at Ankara, where Kemal Ataturk and his military collabora- tors received their education.
The missions are chiefly interested in the reforms introduced by Kemal Ataturk into the Turidish Army, Navy and Air Force, in the multitude of military schools throughout the country and the flying and giking catablishments-Reuter,
KING'S COMPLIMENTS
schools in Russis, and will be taught to children of eight years and up- wards under a now low just pro- The proposals are based upon the the lowering and levelling of tariffs, mulented.
Millions of miniature bullets, gas recommendations of the, MacGowan the standardlantion of systems and voltages, the extension of fuelli»
London, March 3. masks, guns, parachutes and acro-Committee for the reorganisation of ties including supplies to rural areas, His Majesty the King has cabled planes will be manufactured as the electricity supply, and will be as well as a reduction in costa, congratulations to Don Bradman, models, and teachers will be enjolried contained in a Bill to be presented at The report also revealed that there contain, and the members of the Aur #što vencourage children to playa later session of the House, were 027 separate, authorities operat-tralian Test Team, on their success- stamos Inculcating military lessons. The Committee, which presented ing 643 electricity undertakings ful defence of "The Ashes-Reuter
lia: report:last-Mayć recommended Reuter Speciali
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DIVISION
BRITISH
REARMAMENT
But
Labour Deplores Co-Ordination's Lack
HALIFAX INVITES U.S.
TO COLLABORATE
London, Mar. 3.
After a discussion lasting for more than two hours, the Parliamentary Labour Party to-night decided not to challenge the whole question of rearmament. Labour will not call for a division on the whole of the rearmament vote, but will divide against separate items on the grounds that there is no co-ordination of expenditure, no safeguard against profiteering and no constructive peace policy in the Government's programme.
Meanwhile, in the House of Lords, the Navy's part in the "peace blockade" of Spain was discussed. In reply in the debate on Foreign Affairs, Lord Halifax said the. ships of the navies participating in the supervision scheme would have no powers of arrest or right of search. Their duties would be confined to establishing the identity of all ships proceeding to Spain, in order to verify whether they conformed to the obligations imposed on them-taking supervisors aboard-under the non- intervention agreement. Apart from this, the position remained unaltered.
ECONOMIC LEAGUE MEETING
SEEK TO LIMIT TARIFFS
SMALL NATIONS IN COMPACT
The Hague, March 3. An economic league of small nations has opened a conference here, which will last for several days, and which aims at laying the foundations of economic appeasement,
The British Government, he said, had made itself responsible for the protection of its own shipping.
Asked whether there would be officers of another nation aboard, for
example, German warships parti- cipating in the supervision scheme, Lord Halifax replied that in view the fact that zones had been provi sionally allocated to the four powers concerned it had not been considered necessary to post in the ships of these powers offleets of another nation. Armament Control Referring to
rearmament,
·
Lord
Halifax cald Ue Government hoped
the time would come when it would be possible to negotiate again, more
equili successfully, for reasonable brium of armaments on a lower senio than that at which they were at pre- sent compelled to build. Any course likely to lead to fruitful results and better understanding would always secure the sympathy and goodwill of
the Government.
HEALTH GIRL ADVISER
MISS PRUNELLA STACK, 12- year-old leader of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, who has been. Invited to be a *member of the National Advisory Connell for the Government's physical finess scheme,;, Thạ" League has accepted the invita- Lion for BI Stack,, who `is abroad.
TELLS OF
-FIRE FRAUDS
CONVICT RECALLS PART IN SWINDLE
LARGE SUMS INVOLVED
London, Mar, .3. Leopold Harris, who is undergoing his connection a prison term for with a series of fires in London, was brought from Maidstone Gaol to-day and gave startling evidence in netions
In the King's Bench Division of the it was in this spirit, he said, that High Court arising from fires on the the Government approached the pro- premises of the late Mr. Willie blenus of
of Europe. And in these it Clarkson, theatrical costumiers. would welcome the co-operation of
A number of Lloyds underwriters of the the United States. The conference consists
claimed the return of £25,000 pald signatories of the Oslo Convention-- All the Government's efforts, he in connection with, arcs at Clarkson's Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, declared, would be subordinated to Wardour Street premises in 1031. Finland, Belgium and Luxemburg. the single aim of
endeavouring to | Clarkson's administrators denied the Dr. H. Collin, the Dutch Premier, build for lasting peace upon a founda-nilegations made and counter-claimed" opened the conference and expressed tion of justice.-Reuter. the hope that the Great Powers would support the alms of the conference. barriers-Reuter. had dawned with
said new
the currency agreement between Bri-
tain,
France and the United States.
It is hoped that trade quotas wil
TO TOUR BALTIC
Stockholm, Mar. 3. The Foreign Minister, Dr. Sandler, be replaced by limited tariffs, and it who recently discussed the possibility may be necessary to contemplate a of extending the Oslo Convention to interpretation of the most- Switzerland and the Baltic States, favoured-nation clause, which at pre-proposes shortly to make a tour of sent hinders the removal of trade the three Battle capitala-Reuter.
new
CHINA INSURANCE LAWS INTERESTING BRITAIN
London, March 8.
Replying to Mr. A. C. Moreing, Conservative, who asked questions in the House of Commons to-day on the subject of the proposed amendment on China's insurance laws, Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, said he had been in- formed by the Ambassador that the Chinese Government had promulgated on January 11 certain modifications of the laws, together with regulations for their enforcement,
for £30,000 which the insurers re- fused to pay following a fire in a store in Ramilies Place in 1933,
Harris testided that the Wardour Street fire was due to arson by the so-called "tray and taper method. He added that after the fire, Clark- son and his (Harris') manager took
stuff a quantity of undamaged upstairs to be burned and wetted and thus spoilt.
The whole of the damage in that Are, sald Harnis, was about £5,000, but the insured received £25,000, of which he (Harris) got £750 and his manager £100.-Reuter.
U.S. NEUTRALITY,
BILL PASSES
UNDER FIRE OF BİG NAVY ADVOCATES
Tho
Washington, March 3, Senaté 10-day passed the
One article provided that policies To further questions, Mr. Eden Neutrallly Bill, originally Introduced should be printed in Chinese and if replied he had received no informa-by Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the foreign text were also used, that tion to the effect that the Chinese the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the Chinese should prevail In law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs had and was thereupon sent to the House Another law govereing insurance con directed the Szechuan Government of Representatives. tracks was also published the same that no foreigners or their Chinese A fenture of the debate was Lie day, but it is understood it is not yet representatives should be permitted attacks led by Bennich Borals and to so insurance business eltier in the Senator: Vandenberg, "big cavy" ad- Mr. Eden said he had no further. Interior or in any non-treaty port, but Vocates, who condemned, the United Information, but that a full report he was requesting the Ambasador Stater abandonment of the doctring was coming
to furaleh a report.--Reuter, of the "freedom of the seas. Renk -