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FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED, 1881
No. 18100
四拜禮 城八十月三英港香 THURSDAY, MARCH
18, 1937. 日六月二
SPAIN ASKS Dutch to Treat
BRITAIN TO
GRANT HELP
Offers Concessions To London And Paris
Ship Seizures As Acts of Piracy
FINAL WARNING TO REBELS:
'AS INDUCEMENT TO JOIN WARSHIPS RUSH
RUSH TO
TO SPAIN
IN WAR AGAINST REBELS
ŕ
London, Mar. 17.
A demarche by the Spanish Government at Valencia, with a view to obtaining British and French assistance in the civil war, has been published by the insurgent
authorities at Salamanca.
It appears that the Spanish Foreign Minister. Senor Delvayo, presented a note to Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, and M. Yves Delbos, French Foreign Minister, at Geneva on February 9. In this, the Spanish Government offered to cede certain rights in Spanish Morocco in return for help against the rebels.
Inquiries by Reuter in London to-day reveal- ed that such a note had been received by His Majesty's Government, but that no reply had yet been given.
However, it is pointed out, neither Britain nor France can entertain the proposal for a moment, as it would be contrary to their treaty obligationa A reply in this sense is likely to be despatched. soon.-Reuter.
Aerial Activity
London, Mar. 17. -
Military activity in Spain is at present mainly confined to aerial warfare. On the Guadalajara front, according to
Government Com-
munique, Loyalist aircraft have been very active. Some 25 bombers claim to have wrought terrible destruction when they attacked the insurgent lines while 30 pursuit planes attacked -and-machine-gunned rebel-concen-
irations.
several
It is stated in the same communi- que that the rebels last pursuit planes and one, blg Junker bomber in aerial action, while the Government had only une casualty, a pursuit ship.
On the other hand, General de Liano, the rebel staff oficer, in a broadcast last night, claimed that 19: Government planes had been brought down In the past few hours Aghting.
of
TRIBUTES PAID TO VETERAN
BALDWIN LAUDS.
CHAMBERLAIN.
PRAISE FROM ALL SIDES
(Special to "Telegrapli")
London, Mar, 17. Moving tributes were spoken in hushed volees in the House A Lisbon message reports that a radio broadcast from
of Commons this afternoon in Seville states the American Embassy has moved memory of the late Sir Austen from Madrid to Alicante-Beuter Chamberlain. The former Bulletin Service.
Foreign Minister's usual seat was vacant, and Sir Austen's | half-brother, Mr. Neville Cham- berlain, listened to the tributes unobtrusively from behind the Speaker's chair,
PROBING CLICHY RIOTING
WORKERS DEMAND FASCIST BAN
The Hague, March 17.
Any further seizure of Dutch ships by Spanish insurgent warships will be re- garded as piracy, the Dutch Foreign Minister, Jhr. A. C. D. de Craeff, informed the Senate here to-day. It is piracy because the Dutch Government has not recognised General Francisco Franco's Government, he added.
Dutch warships have been instructed to take necessary action, he announced. His statement followed the receipt of news of the seizure of a Dutch collier at Ceuta this morning-Reu ter.
RUSHING TO SPAIN
Aden, Mar. 17.
The Dutch cruiser, Java, returning to the East Indies, arrived here to-day and left again, at full speed, for Spanish waters-Renter. ̧ ́
Ready To Leave
Lisbon, Mär. 17.
The Dutch submarine, 0-18, which arrived in the Tagus last week, has received instructions from the Dutch Government to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. It is understood she is departing 10-morrow for Malaga to demand the immediate re- lease of two Dutch steamers recently seized by the -Insurgent Nect.— Reuter,
Collier Released
Rotterdam, Mar. 17. According to message received by the owners from Ceuta, the in- surgent authorities have released the "collier, "--"Jonge-Johanna,reported · seized this morning. Her cargo has not been confiscated.-Reuter.
Arms For Rebels
Two German
London, Mar. 17. ships, the August, Cords and the Consul Cords, are at present ut Antwerp having louded arms for Spain at Bremen, necord- ing to a Spanish note delivered to the Foreign Ofce to-day.
They are now loading ordinary cargo in order to disguise their real intentions, but their crews state that; the ships are bound for ports in the insurgents' hands.-Reuter.
Rotarians To Confer
Denounces Italians' Atrocities
London, Mar. 17. The Negus has sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations requesting the appointment of a Coinmission of – Inquiry- to- investigate-the-alleged
Italian atrocities in Ethiopia.
Halle Selassile denounces "the
"execution of Ras Desia and other chiefs taken prisoner on the battle- field and the king of thousands of persons during the three days after the attempt on the We of Marshal Graziani, and the system. ntle massacres of the Ethiopian population."-Router Bulletin ser
vice.
Britain
Draw
DUTCH WARNING TO INSURGENTS
Jr. A. C. D. de Grach, Netherlands. Foreign Minister, who has warned the Spanish insurents that any further selture of Dutch ships will be treated as acts of piracy.
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BOMBS SHAKE JERUSALEM
Continued Violence. Worries Britain
NO WISH TO DECLARE
MARTIAL LAW
Jerusalem, Mar, 17.
A constable and several Jewish passers-by were injured by the explosion of a bomb în a crowded main street of Jerusalem at 7'p.m. to-day. An Arab has been arrested in connection with the outrage,
Sixteen persons, including four children, were injured; and two are in a serious condition, it was disclosed later.
Two further bombs were thrown later to-night into an Arab cafe in a main street. Seven Arabs were injured and taken to hospital.
Late at night, a third bombing took place. A missile was tossed into an Arab cafe on the outskirts of the city and four were injured.-Reuter.
Standard Oil Loses Large Concessions
New York, Mar. 7, The Bolivian Government has issued a decree cancelling the Standard Oil Company's contes- Com- sion and confiscating the Pan's vast holdings in the country. according to the New York Times.
According to a Buenos
Aires correspondent, the decree charges the Company with defrauding the national revenues to the extent of three million Bolivian pesos by exporting oll without payment of laxes
royalties. through A
Agrentine. secret pipe-line to Reuter.
or
AMBULANCE
WORKERS PRAISED
DEPLORES VIOLENCE
1
"London, Mar. 17. Mr. William Ormsby-Gore, Seere- tary of State for Colonies, speaking in the House of Commons to-day, de- plored the assassinalions and acts of violence in Palestine
in recent weeks. He welcomed the statement issued by the Officer Administering the Gov- ernment declaring the Mufti of Jeru- salem and other members of the Arab "Higher Committee had expressed their abhorrence of those acis. But, unfortunately, these etimes had con- tinued, he
out pointed
It was extremely difficult to ensure security in a country where tension
was acute, following the prolonged disturbances and lawlessness of Inst year, Mr. Ormsby-Core explained. He had
discussed with the personally High Commissioner the question of taking further measures
for dealing with the increasing number of acts of violence. The High Commissioner
was due to reach Falestine next Fri- day to take up matters with his ad- visers and to consult with the Com- mander-in-Chief and the Chief of Police'ns to the matter of urgency.
WANTS MARTIAL LAW
Mr. Josiah
Wedgwood, Labour, asked: "How long does the Govern ment intend to tolerate this state of affairs? When will martial law be proclaimed?"
Mr. Ormsby-Gore replied that he did not know that martial law was the best method of dealing with the situation. The British Government would be reluctant to declare martial
COL. J. L. SLEEMAN law, he said, as it would mean the
IN HONGKONG
In Nanking MANILA SEES SIGNIFICANCE RECALLS FINE
HONGKONG PARTY
WILL ATTEND
Hongkong Rotarians will be re- presented at the annual conference of the 81st Rotary District, which will take place in. Nanking from April 11 to 13.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minis- ter, after recalling that Sir Austen Chamberlain had Introduced him to the House when he (the Premier) was elected twenty-nine years ago, said that although there was a brief period when there was a fundamental difference of
So far Mr. David Au, Manager ot opinion between them, that never affected their mutual re- the Bank of Canton, Dr. Arthur Woo gard for each other. As Foreign and Mr. W. N. Thomas Tan have accom- signilled their intention of being be- present on bebalt of Hongkong
CALL STRIKE IN Stretary, Sir Austen had
PROTEST
Paris, Mar. 17. The Cabinet has decided to open an immediate investigation to ascertain the responsibility for the riots in the Clichy quarfer, in which, during clash between Fascists and anti- Fascists, six were killed and 200 In- Jured.
BENG
plished a work for which ho loved history would give him eredit. | Rotary. He was a very great parliamentarian and always a formidable, figure in
debate,
IN FRIENDLINESS
"Political observers in the Philippinta see a new effort at
SERVICE
:
Hongkong ambulance workers received high praise from
end of all civil Government.
The Minister sald he was sutised that the acts of violence wero or-. ganised by local bodies and by small murder gangs. He was sure the Arab outrages had no connection with the Higher Committee. Renter. Special.
Anglo-American rapprochement in current events in the Far Colonel James L. Sleeman, Chief Fen Country
East," says the Manila Bulletin in an editorial article published recently,
"At no time since the American occupation of the Phillip- pines have there been so many expressions of Anglo-American friendship and such a free exchange of official visits.
"Part of the circumstances behind these visits) is purely fortuitous. At the same time, many persons in the Philippines are unable to escape the belief that there is a deliberate and planned attempt on both sides to cultivate this friendship be cause of the deep-seated mutuality of interest of British and Americans in the Far East.
"Tension caused by the Keelung In- eldent in which three British sailors were manhandled by Japanese caused the cancellation of the usual British
Preparations for the forthcoming conference are being made under the direction of Mr. Hon Shu-mo, vice- The Premier added that, great ns Minister of Foreign Affairs in the had been his political career, during Nanking Government, who will pre- the last few years he had exercised a side over the conference. fur greater influence than ever before, dropping the partisanship essential Among the features of the enter-naval visits to Tokyo. This cancella- tainment programme are a reception accounted in part for the fact tion, diiner and ball, to be given by that the Philippines have entertained the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, within the course of slightly more tinner to be given faintly by the than six weeks 23 British ships and Ministries of Industries, Education, three different official delegations Railways and Communications, and a from Hongkong. tiffin-reception to be given by the
to those on either front bench and
wisdom.
displaying his gifts of candour and
A communique issued by the Seine
OTHER TRIBUTES Union of Syndicates states that the half-day general strike which it is: Mr. Clement R. Atlee, speaking calling for to-morrow, 'as a protest for the Labour Party, recalled Sir Mayor of Nanking. against last night's events, not Austen's constant endeavour to make personal contacts with the leading
that by
understanding...dimculties
directed against the Blum Government, tesmen of Europe, so which must remain in power.
In order not to place the Govern- personal ung ment is dimculties, rigid discipline will might be removed. He paid a tribute be exercised by the strike ladders, to his-work-on--the Indian Select and the men will resume work in the Committer, dealing with terribly. afternoon
difficult constitutional questions,
The object of the strike, says the Sir Archibald Sinclair, for the communique, is to emphasise the need Liberals, described Sir Austen aná for dissolving Fascist Leagues great Commoner, tenacious of prin Reuter,
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SEE ALS
Over Pacific
Commissioner, St. John · Am- bulance Brigade, Overscas, when the Colonel arrived here on the Cathay this morning on an Inspectional tour of the British Empire.
The headquarters staff in England Is extremely pleased with the reports of progress made in the Colony, sald Colonel Sleeman, both in the first aid and nursing detachments.
RxTM in-
Floods
SITUATION STILL CAUSES ANXIETY
London, Mar. 17. Anxiety in regard to the flood situa- tion in the low-lying fen country of
are
"In other places, especially South England is still acute and the banks Africa, Australia and New Zealand, of the swollen River Ouse and its being constantly the Brigade is very strong and, mosi tributaries efficient, continued the Commission-watched. er. "In India 1 found over 3,000 - House of Commons this afternoon, The Minister of Agriculture, in the collent ambulance men sufficient nursing divisions. In Bur- said the foods had engaged his closo mah,
attention and in order to be kept in glad to say, the worion close touch with the position from day
while
Ceylon proceeding very won w all the scan to day a Ministry engineer bers of the police force of almost district.
Mr. Marrison added that sccording The emciency of this 3,000 are members speaks for itself.
of this force is beyond the position was sull critical, although to the latest telephoned information
I am
praise and have never witness- ed such good stretcher drill perform-re was a slight fall in the water level. The whole position, he said, ed by 17 teams simultaneously.
Oakland, Mar. 17. Amella Earhart, noted airwoman: hopped off from here to-day on a "The most important of these was projected fight across ¡the. Pacific, the official visit of the Commander-planning eventually to complete a In-Chief of the British Naval Station Alght around the world.
"In Singapore much requires to be being closely watched by the Catch- in China, Vice Admiral Sir Charles
She will fly by the quickest roule | Little's call was in every sense offelal, to Fort Darwin, North Australla, and
done before the ambulance service ment Boards concerned and all neces SIGN UP WITH CLO.
can be said to be satisfactory, but try remedial measures were being and he was accorded the customary follow Imperial Airways routes 10 Pittsburgh, Mar, 17.
steps are now being taken in that taken-British Wireless. Africa. She will By the Sahara and dditional The Presidents of five subsidiary
very re-bean Sea, companies of the United States Sicel vielt from Hongkong by the votis South Atlantic and then the Carib direction
contract cent* statement of Admiral - ILE She is accompanied
by
a compotent Corporation have signed a with the John Lewis Steel Union pro- Yarnell, Commander-in-Chief of the amateur pilot but expects to leave viding for the settlement of all labour | American Asialle Fleet. Aboard the him at Port Darwin after the worst disputes without resort to strikes Bagship Augosla, he had just made part of her fight is accomplished Reuter.
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official hoght is:
"In South Africa the whole of the members of the railway service are. also members of Use Brigade, with the result that they give a definite proof of the financial value of the (Continued on Page 12.)
MADSTYPHOON WARNING.
The Manila Observatory, reporting. at:8.65-am-to-day, states that: the typhoon is situate in about Long. 115, Lat. 11, moving west.