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四拜禮 號二廿月四英港香
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937.
日二十月三
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WELCOME FOR
OCEAN FLIERS
High Officials Prepare To Attend Ceremony Of Inaugural Crossing
HONGKONG CLIPPER DUE ON WEDNESDAY NEXT
Hongkong will tender a magnificent welcome to the giant Pan-American seaplane "Hongkong Clipper" when it arrives at Kai Tack Airport on its inaugural trans- Pacific flight on April 28.
The Clipper left Alameda Airport in California at 3.15 p.m. yesterday. According to present plans it will arrive at Macao at 10 a.m. and at Hongkong at 11.55 a.m. on Wednesday next week.
Captain William Cluthe, veteran Pan-American pilot, is in charge of the Clipper, which has a crew of four.
An elaborate ceremony is being arranged by the Hongkong Government as a welcome to the airmen. They will be greeted on behalf of the Government by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, the General Officer Commanding, Major A. W. Bartholomew and by other prominent officials.
Invitations are being extended by the Government to representatives of public and private ilfe in the Colony and, at the same time, a cordial in-
10 the vitation is being issued general
participate in the welcome. puble to
Accommodation is being provided nt Kai Tack Airport for the thousands of people-both officials and non- officials who are expected to witness the arrival of the Clipper.
-U.S.-Will-Listen.
The entire ceremony will be broad- enst by ZBW on both medium and short wave. The short wave-broad- cast will be picked up in Manila and will be relayed to the United States, where it will be again relayed over a country-wide network of broad- casting
mid-day broadcast from Hongkong will be picked up in the United States at 8 Dm. San Francisco time and il p.m. New York time.
stullons.
The
Omcials and others who desire to the participate in the welcome to Clipper are being asked to arrive at Kal Tack Airport before 11.40 am. His Excellency the Oficer Admini- stering the Government will arrive
11.45 at b.m., ten minutes before the glant machine is scheduled to land in the harbour.
Although details have not yet been finalised, it is expected that the re- ception and welcome will be tender- ed in the civil hangar at Kai Tack.
The Clipper will stay in Hongkong until dawn the next Thursday, when return in-
it will take off on augural flight to the United States. A regular weekly service, with the planes scheduled to arrive in Hong- kong on Wednesdays and depart för Manila on Thursdays, is planned.
Carries Big Mail
Plan To Aid
Fainters At
Great Parade
Preparations are being made
by the St. John Ambulance"Brl-" gade to deal with members of the public who may faint in Hongkong during the Chinese Re- Military processions and views on Coronation Day.
The entire force of voluntary workers connected with the Bri- gade will be on duty, on May 12 and will take up positions along the routes of the proces- sions.
Arrangements are being made for supplies of brandy, sal vola- tile, and other, restoratives to bo available.
Clipper Hops For Hongkong ||
Will Link U.S. With British Airway
San Francisco, Apr. 21. The Pan-American Airways' China Clipper left for Hongkong at 3.15 p.m. to-day to connect up with the Imperial Airways route, which has its Far East terminus at that Colony. The British Consul-General parti- cipated in the ceremony inaugurating
REFUGEES FROM CIVIL WAR
From many beleaguered Spanish cities such refugees as these are thronging into the country. Some are evacuating the Government's eitics, others the towns Insurgents hold, under the menace of Loyalists' guns. But the main e zodus at present is from Bilbao, which port the Insurgents are
besieging.
CHIEF JUSTICE
REBUKES PRESS
FOR "CONTEMPT"
SEVERE PENALTIES
FOR
CHINESE PUBLISHERS
In cutting terms, the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl
MacGregor, sitting with Mr. Justice R.E. Lindsell as a Full Court this morning, disposed of the excuses put forward by the editors and publishers of three Chinese newspapers for contempt of Court in respect of articles on the Kowloon""charcoal murder case."-
Seven persons were called upon to show cause why they should not be committed for trial or otherwise dealt with. The Court decided to deal summarily with them and the following fines were imposed and ordered to be paid, or sureties given before they were allowed to leave the Court.
Young Lou, editor, Hongkong Ching" Wong Fat-chit, Po, fined $50.
publisher, fined $50.
Ling Ching-kok, editor, Shek Shan
WONDER
Po, fined $500, Tang Kwong-ngai, SHOW FOR
publisher, fined $500."
Ling. Fung, joint editor, Han Wa, Ained $250. Tseng Tat-fong, joint editor,, fined $250. Yeung Sul- cheong, publisher, fined $500.
The editors and publisher of the Han Wa were represented by Mr. H. C. Macnamara, Instructed by Mr. O. E. C. Marton, of Messrs. Deacons. were The proceedings, which
con- brought by the Crown were ducted by the Attorney-General, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., lnstructed by the Crown Solicitor, Mr. J. A. Fraser
LAW EXPLAINED
HONGKONG
Chinese Display For
Coronation
Weird Dragons: Royal Floats
the new service and congratulated to-day? You have already appre- put in hand by the Chinese
Post Office already has more the British Government. Reuter.
than 10,000 in hand, a fal Pan-Ame- further 25,000 have been sent to the
rican
Airways office for posting, and some thousands have been sent to the American Consulate and American Express office for posting.
ATLANTIC PROGRESS
them-
the
POLICEMAN
SHOOTS
CHOPPER
WIELDER
Both Men Sent To Hospital
Constable Badly Gashed on Head
Two men-one a Chinese cun-
SMART LINEN and
PIQUE
HATS JUST ARRIVED
› NEW MODELS JUST UNPACKED PER S/S "RANPURA"
PRICES $5.50
and
$5.95
WHITEAWAY'S
MADRID HEAVILY SHELLED AGAIN
AND MANY DEAD
Rebel Attack on Bilbao Stemmed by Basques
HIDDEN GUNS INFLICTED SEVERE CASUALTIES
Madrid, Apr. 22.
The most punishing bombardment since the outbreak of the war commenced its tenth successive day when at daybreak the rebel guns commenced to blast the heart of Madrid. After a brief respite, the shelling started again at noon. The streets are strewn with dead.
The Insurgent batteries are apparently mainly of light calibre and the shells are scattering all over the city, sending pedestrians scurrying for cover.
Unofficially 32 are dead to-day and 60 injured, and the ten-day total is 75 dead and 262 wounded..
Shrapnel, apparently from anti-aircraft batteries, sprays the streets of the most crowded city sections. A correspondent counted 12 dead and unheeded bodies in the downtown area.
MUTINY REPORT RIDICULED
Basques Say German Troops Revolted
to meno Con Hospital as the result of a sensational incident in Peinum Street, Sham-
The Chinese constable, C383, But Berlin Scoffs shuipo, yesterday afternoon. was attacked; allegedly by Chung Yau, with a chopper. in At Such A Tale self-defence, he used his re- volver on his assailant.
London, Apr. 21. The Basque report that German troops, fighting on the side of the Chung Yau is suffering from urgents in Spain, have mutluted from a revolver wound in the in the Vitoria sector and that Gen groin, while the constable seral Francisco Franco is sending three suffering from severe wounds to divisions of men to suppress the
rising, રા ridiculed in Berlin. the head. One of his cars was
A Berlin message alates the report of a mutiny, which was not published almost chopped off.
In Germany, is ridiculed by the Pro- paganda Ministry.
The German standpoint generally is that there are no German troops in
The affiny occurred in Peinan Street, neu: the junction with Petha Street, late yesterday afternoon..
to have The constable is stated stopped Chung Yau in order to search Spain. Many foreign observets be- ileve this is true, in the sense that a parcel he was carrying.
there are no Individual' detachments of the German Army there. But the Germans do not deny that there are a number of volunteers.
While the search was continuing, Chung You is alleged to have sud- denly drawn a concealed chopper and to have attacked the constable. The lotter, entirely unprepared for the attack, was momentarily at the merry of his assailant. He managed, how ever, to draw his revolver, and as the in his attack, man did not desist fired a shot at his legs.
The shot entered the groin and Chung You feil. to the ground.
Other Germans in Spain are pro- bably mostly technicians connected with the" Insurgent air forces and mechanised, units, but it is under- [stood that German experts are be- coming increasingly less interested in the Spanish adventure-Reuter.
Tong Yan, 22, unemployed. was Government Civil
Ambulances conveyed both men admitted to the to the hospital, where neither is in Hospital yesterday suffering from in- serious condition. An operation juries received when he jumped off a may be necessary in order to extract moving tramcar, No. 44, in lennessy
Rood. the bullet from Chung You
a
ILLUMINATING HONGKONG LIKE FAIRYLAND FOR
KING'S CORONATION
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One shell smashed
street car crossing the Gran Via, and there were upproximately 15 casualties.
Meanwhile, despatches from Bil- bao say the new Insurgent offensives of the past 24 hours have been suc- cessfully resisted-United Press.
Attackers Checked
a
Ilendaye, Apr. 21. Terrlie havoc was wrought in the ranks of the Insurgents to-day, according to a Bilbao communique, which explains that on hearing of coming offensive the Basque com- mand ordered the men not to budge
sign of life for artillery spotters, air bombera
or forward observation
from their trenches or to show any
sight. The Basques thus escaped punishment from a bombardment,
posta until the attückers were in
But they had not yet struck them- selves. When the advancing In- surgents were only 40 yards from the front line trenches, all Basque opened machine-guns and artillery
fire simultaneously.
A curtain of shrapnel and high ex- plosive was dropped behind the In- surgents which made retreat difficult,
the field. Now
The result, says the communique, was a regular massacre, the enemy leaving 1,000 dead and wounded on
German guns,
of heavy calibre and secret make, manned by German crews and said to be naval range of 30 miles, are guns with among the Insurgent artillery which Is battering the Basque positions at: the commencement of a new offen- sive against Bilbao.
Heavy Concentration
One hundred guns and the largest assembly of planes yet seen on any front in the civil war, including German three-engined Junkers and Italian light bombers, are co-operat ing with the attackers.
The Infantry units comprise an Italian Brigade of 5,000 men and 5,000 Falangists and Roquetes; who claim to have made an important advance and to have Isolated Basque troops holding Mount Udala, between Mondragon and Elorrio.
The Basques, however, deny they are yielding any ground.-Reuter,
Madrid's Charges
de
Madrid, Apr. 22. The Government's Heraldo Madrid to-day charged that Itullar: and German warships are transport- ing materials of war for the Nationa- lists and
on the Loyalists, spring bombarding and raiding Government concentrations,
One of the most spectacular Chinese Įshows ever seen in the Colony is pro- The Chief Justice said:" Before the mised for the Coronation festivities in The "Hongkong Clipper," now on route to Hongkong, is carrying ap-
argument begins, might I say a word Hongkong on May 12. to the gentlemen of the Press here Elaborate preparations have been proximately 100,000 letters, prac
Ccm- tically all of which have been pasted
cinted that the basis of the whole of mittee in charge of the native. side of on behalf of philatelists. At least the company on its achievement.
is the
allegation the Coronation celebrations, Past 50,000 letters will be posted from He wishes the trans-Pacific passen- those proceedings
ong for the return 1
light. The gers a happy Journey on behalf of made by the Attorney-General, on celebrations of a like nature, they
behalf of the
Crown, that theso jamrm, will be eclipsed, as a supreme Denar articles, written by the respondents; effort is being made to make May 12
remembered. have abused the privilege of the day long to be
Every big Chinese trade guild and Washington, Apr. 21,
Press by publishing matters concern ing a pending murder trial other public organisation, and the leading delivered before the Testimony
than those which transpired in the Chinese businessmen and pubile men
are represent, anxious in House Military Committee to-day
course of preliminary investigations. which they disclosed that All-American Airways. On its flight the "Hongkong Clip Corporation and American Zeppelin
It is probably Inevitable in the one way or other to identify
Floodlighting, and decorative Illuminations on a scale never Is carrying, in addition to mall, Transport Corporallon were prepar
course of the argument to-day that selves with this pubile expression of per" a capacity load of samples of Ameing to build dirigibles for the trans-
passages complained of will be read loyalty to the Belush Crown; and out, but I need not remind you how result, from a combined pooling of vast before attempted will transform Hongkong into a fairyland of rican products, including tomato
very important it is that you should resources, will be seen in a monster light during Coronation week.
Most of the principal buildings in the city will be bathed Juice, radio parts, preserves, candy, Atlantic service. ödvertising displays, etc.
concern Intends to not pubilsh them before the murder display of all that is characteristically
¡Chinese.
in brilliance throughout the night. build an all-metal craft half the trial, though there is no objection Dragon and lion displays, the most eize of the Akron by October and whatsoever to your doing so after the
famous scenes from Chinese history At least 2,000,000 candle-power skilled Chinese workmen, the latter will build two ships the trial le concluded.
In many parts of Hongkong the and The following offciat communique size of the Hindenburg.
mythology, gorgeous tableaux will be released by the two electric The Attorney-General, dealing first and floats on which will ride the best light companies on Corenation night, tenarits of public and private build-
'DELGIUM AND LOCARNO was issued this afternoon!
The Assistant Secretary of Com-with the Hongkong Ching Po, of examples of Chidese female pul-
The number of electric lampa re-ings are combining to promote com- It is notifled for general informa-
Im tion that the Fon American Airways mer, Mr. Johnson, Announces he China, Building, said the offence in chritude, sult-walkers by the dozens; quired will run into hundreds of munity lighting effects. This par
ticularly ranging from the iny tic this case was not so serious as the and, at night, a swarm of illuminated thousands,
London, Apr. 2124 applies to several
The Foreign Secretary told the "Hongkong Clipper" is due to strive, has delivered to Pan-American Air-
have House of Commons that he hoped to on her first regular fight. to Hong-ways the British, Irish and Canadian others. He read a translation of an fish and sill more floats-all these coloured lamps, which will festoon portant buildings in the heart of the
permits enabling the American com- article that appeared in the paper on will figure in the monster processions Statue Square and similar public city, the tenants of which kong, at Kal Tak Aerodrome at
on the postion of Belgium in relation about 31,55 am..on Wednesday, April pany to engage in a trans-Atlantic April 13, purporting to give a com- which will be held regularly on the places, to the mighty 2,000 condic-agreed to co-operate with the owners make a statement at a very early date service. He had simultaneously deplete picture of what took place at three days of the local celebrations. power bulbs used in floodlighting the in order to make the combined dis-
to her provisional. L010. Men livered to the British Embassy per- the scene of the tragedy, though no With "quality" as the slogan for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and play an outstanding one.
when white. tions of March 10, 1036. On arrival at Kal Tak the Captain its for British aircraft to land in direct evidence had been brought Committee, nothing but the best of other buildings.
Unlike the Jublico, and officers of the airplane will be the United States, which would be forward by the Crown. The Magis- its kind will be allowed to appear on
apparatus and ins lights were practically the only tion was under discusion with the received by His Excellency the Of- forwarded to the Imperial Airways. trates spoke to the editor, at the the streets, and many unique features tallation will be immense, and is motif, colour will play a prominent Belgian Government. British Wire
less, cer Administering the Government at United Press.
(Continued on Page 5.) providing work for hundreds of part in Coronation night lighting. (Continued on Page 5.).
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Official Communique
The former
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The cost of
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These reports, it claims, "support. the belief that the international con- trol mission confided to the Italian: and German ficots will servo for: the perpetration of similar or greater; excesses."United Press,