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THURSDAY,
APRIL 29.
1937.
日九十月三
WAR HERO
TANKS IN PRISON
FORCING WAY FOR FRAUD
INTO BILBAO
Flag of Monarchists Now Floats Over 27 Towns Captured in Drive
CASUALTIES HEAVIER THAN
IN GUADALAJARA FRONT
Hendaye. Aur. 29.
General Mola's Insurgents, tasting victory, have commenced mechanised drive down the Nervion Highway towards Bilbao.
Planes are wreaking destruction in every direction. The battle-front has narrowed to one of 25 miles.
In the background, where the Insurgent army has swept over the rugged terrain, are thousands of wounded, The red hundreds of dead and a dozen burning towns. and gold flag of the old monarchy has replaced the red, white and green of the Basque Republic over 27 towns, as General Mola'pushes relentlessly towards his goal, Bilbao.
from
Once Well-Known In
Hongkong
Trafficked in Arms In Many Spheres
AIRWAY PIONEERS MEET IN H.K.
US
WAYS
At one time a well-known figure in Hongkong, suave, de-' bonair James Christle, formerly Lieut.-Colonel James Christie, O.B.E., stood in the dock at London Sessions on April 17 when he was exposed
a trafficker in arms; explonage suspect; deportee from Shanghai.
ភេទ
been
It was revealed he had charged in a Hongkong police court with tracking in arms; that he war once a boxing instruclor in Hong- kong: and also a bookmaker in Singapore.
Brawny and sun-tanned, this 62- year-old former dealer in war wen- months' pons was sentenced to 12 Imprisonment for obtaining credit by fraud.
It was alleged that on two oren.. sions Christic took furnished rooms worthless it London Facel cheques for runt.
JAVC
Christie hus heard the locks of a gaol éllek behind him before. He was sentenced at Shangluai in 1925 to three months imprisonment for alding and abetling in the sale of
The arms were for the use of Ma} shul Chang Tao-ling, then warring against Wu Pel-fo
As
STRIPPED OF HONOURS
conviction, a result of this Christle was stripped of the rank of lieutenant-colonel and of the ouX.,
Demoralised, the Loyalists have fled to Bilbao, hoping pinned to his breast at Buckingham Palace by King George V for gullant war exploits. to make a last stand there.
Deserters
the Nationalist Army, reaching here, report there are complete units of Italians and Germans taking part in the drive on. Bilbao. However, they insisted that the victories were "all Spanish."
of
Surrender Demanded Unconfirmed reports here tell
which Impromptu muss meetings followed the dropping by an-Instie- Kent plane, of leaflets announcing the destruction of Elbar and Guernies. Over 200,000 refugees and citizens demanding that Ircazled!"
are
President Aguirre negotiate for the surrender of the city.
It is increasingly evident that the losses on both sides during the past week have exceeded those of
thal battle, other
even Guadalajara front.-United Press.
Many Captives Taken
any the
MADRID FIGHTING FLAMES
New Enemy WorriesTM Authorities
At the same court in 1033 he was given a six months' sentence
for larceny. He was deported from China that year.
In evidence in the London Court' Detective-Sergeant
O'Sullivan sald that police records revealed that Christie has absconded from Hong- kong after he had pawned a quantity of jewels belonging to a woman.
He first came to Hongkong in 1905, -when-be-set-up-business-at-- the
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Rebel Bombard- For Gallantry
ment
Incessant
(Special to "Telegraph")
Madrid, April 20. After a forinight of incessant shell- ing from Insurgent batteries, cily St. Jean de Luz, Apr. 28. Bremen are very much the worse for forces operating wear, because of lack of sleep, the The Insurgent against the Basques announced to strain of break-neck runs through the day that since the beginning of capital's shell-shattered zuses. They their offensive against Bilbao they have demonstrated a heroism since had captured 7,000 prisoners, 300 the shelling of the old capital began machine-guns, hundreds of pleces of unrivalled even by the ambulance artillery and 9,000 rifics.
They add that 90 per cent of the houses of Eibar have been destroyed, mainly by dynamiters, and that the lown is still burning.
to
units.
For two weeks every fireman has been sleeping in his clothes, snatching minutes' here and there, only slagger up again at the clang of fire signals and rush the trucks through -While the Insurgents do not deny districts still under heavy shell-Ore. the air raids of the past few days Several of the men have been killed on Guernica, "the holy city of the or wounded on these perilous trips,
Madrid
echoes to the To-day, Basques," they declare positively
clatter of bells and sirens of fire that they had no part in it. They have invited foreign journalists at trucks and ambulances, for the fire- not over, when he has Viltoria and San Sebastian to visit man's work
the Viltoria aerodrome and verify extinguished the flames. If the effect this assertion by an examination of of a shell has been great the chances are he will have to remain digging in the books-Reuter Special,
the ruins for dead and Injured.
Scores of volunteers have been re- Germans Deny Participation
cruited the fire-fighting corps since
to the beginning of the heavy shelling, Not one of them in over 45 years of
trucks, heavy vehicles, even taxis, To Reuter the authorities officially have been requisitioned by the fire denied that German or any Ger-brigade.-United Press. man atroplane participated in the
Berlin, Apr. 28. The suggestion of any German connection with the bombing and rejected hero oficially.
On Service
Seaforth Highlander Decorated
landers,
Yesterday was a historic occasion in the aviation annals of the Colony, the Pan-American Airways giant plane, Hongkong Clipper, An- Picture augurating regular services between this Colony and Mazila. shows Captain 2. 4. Finnegan, com mander of Imperial Atrionys' liner Delphinus shaking hands with Captain A. E. La Porte, commander of the
(Photo: Ming Yuen.) Hongkong Clipper.
HUGE MAIL LEAVES ON CLIPPER
Record Consignment For
Pacific Flight
Machine Hops Off
For Manila
Most of the mail matièr carried was in the nature of first-flight Tellers and postcards, commemorating the inauguration. of the service,
At
Backworth
Bilbao With Food
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS $16.00 PER ANNUM
NEW
·Inspection invited
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
AIRLINE
MAKING H.K. IT'S TERMINUS
Eurasia Aviation Planes Start Service Soon
WILL EXTEND CHINA LINES TO EUROPE SHORTLY
(Special to "Telegraph”)
The Telegraph is semi-officially informed that the Eurasia Aviation Corporation will commence a regular weekly service to Hongkong within three weeks.
The intention of the Company to utilise Hongkong as a terminal for their inland services was exclusively. announced in this newspaper last February.
It will. The new service is expected to start on May 18.
and connect Hongkong with Changsha, Hankow, Peiping Chengta, providing a great circle of acrial communiciction that will link this Colony and its existing services with inland China.
Herr J. Walter, General Manager of the Company, is arriving in Hongkong to-morrow morning in order to finalise understood. It is details with the Hongkong Government. that an agreement relating to the carriage of air mail will be signed with Hongkong, providing for the use of this Colony as a transit post office for air mail destined front the interior of China to other parts of the world.
JU-52 Two 20-passenger Junkter planes will be used on the service,
EXTENDING providing a weekly link with Hong-
MOTOR BUS
SERVICES
Blake Pier To Stanley Every Hour
[kong.
One of these machines ia arriving In Hongkong from Germany on May 17. and will probably be used to Inaugurate the service.
the":
PLAN ROUTE TO EUROPE Following inauguration of Hongkong service, the Eurasia Cor- poration will turn its attention to its long-planned service to Europe.
Supply Competition With It was originally. Intended to use
Blibao, Apr. 29.
The British ship Backworth, carrying coal, wool and food- stuffs, contributed by Mr. David Lloyd George and others arrived here to-day, escorted by a Britsh destroyer as far as the three-mille Umit.
.
Four further freighters left SL Jean do Luz to-night in driving rain, bound for Bilbao-Reuter.
CORDIAL
Tramways
the-northern to Europe, but it is understood that the Corporation could not obtain permission of the
territory.
and fares,
A new route extension, introduc-Soviet authorities to fly over their tion of second-class acceleration of certain of the services, The Eurasia Corporation hopes to are amongst the changes announced commence its service from Shanghai by the China Motor Bus Company as and Mongkong to Berlin. sometime
1. elteclive from May
In the latter part of this year, using
The No. 6 Route, between Blake the southern route employed by Im Pier and Repulse Bay, is to be experial Airway. K.L.M., and tended to Stanley, with the following French Orient Line. fares being brought into operation:
tho
...
Between Blake Pler and Repulse
The route will probably be from
Bay: First Class, 25 cents; second- Shanghal to Hongkong and Canton, class, 15 cents. Between Blake Pler to Hanol, and through India. It wil onte: take seven days to reach Berlin from and Stanley: First-class 35 cents;
ween Shanghai. Between cents. second-class, 25
Repulse Bay and Stanley: First-class, RELATIONS
STRESSED
A
Founded in February, 1831, by Chinese and German interests, the 15 cents; second-class, 10 cents.
Corporation Buses on this extended No. 6 Route Eurasia Aviation will give an hourly service. The first capitalised at $9,000,000 (Shanghai).. bus from Blake Pier will start at 0.30 divided between the Chinese Minis
of Communications and the am. and the last at 7.30 p.m. The try first bus from Stanley will start at Deutsche Lufthansa.
COMPETITION FOR TRAMS
When Japanese Consul-7.30 am. and the last at 3.30 p.m.
General Entertains
The Pan-American Airways giant plane, Hongkong Clipper, took off from Kai Tak at 9.30. o'clock this Following an Inspection of the 1st morning, on the first return flight of to Manila, regular service Bn. The. Seaforth Highlanders, at her Mount Austin Barracks this morning carrying a record mail from Hong-
kong. by the General Officer. Commanding.
In all, there were 55 bags and five Major General A. W. Bartholomew packets of mail, weighing 360.920
Military Medal was pinned to the
kilos, easily a record for the Colony. breast of
Lance Corporal Alcxander Millar, "C" Company, The Seaforth High for gallantry on active service in
The Clipper also took to Manila a Palestine.
The Medal was presented by the consignment of margarine rushed here G.O.C., the Battalion forming into from Bangkok by the Imperial Air-
Follow
square to witness the cere-ways' liner Delphinus, this being the first occasion on which commercial mony. forward to receive his decoration, an Stam to the Philippines.
MAIL FOR CHINA extract from the London Gazette, an- nouncing bestowal of the medal, was
Just a few minules before the read by the Omeer Commanding the
A recepilon in honour of the 38th Battalion, Lt. Colonel J. Muirhead, Clipper roared up from the harbour, birthday of the Japanese Emperor was
of Kai Tak, the C.N.A.C. M.C.
plane, he'd at the Japanese Consul-General's far en maintaining full rates on Britain Seeks To Help Whilst on Active Service
Western in carrying the trans-Pacific mall for home at Condult Road this morning.ve been maintaining full rules an
Spanish Civilians. Palestine, Lanec Corporal Millar
took off for Canton and The Japanese Consul-General, Mr. K. was, on June 26, 1936, N.C.O..
Midzusawa, proposed a toast to King run.
No, & Route, between the Vehicular Ferry and Talkoo East Gate, will be reinforced by additional buses to pro-
When the Lance Corporal stepped freight had been carried by air from Emperor Hirohito's vide a quarter-hour instead of a half-
In
Birthday
destruction of Guernica is sharply age. Because of the scarcity of Bre charge of a detachment in action/Sw the Imperial Airways' George VI, while LE. The Offeeri
nid.
"Everyone regrets the fate of the
CLOUDY WEATHER
own. Germany is not concerned in The anticyclone has increased con- his attoir," a spokesman suld-siderably in intensity and has moved teuler.
into the Pacifte to the cust of Japan. Local forecast:-N.E. winds, moderate, cloudy.
Heavy Fighting in Durango
* Bilbao, Apr, 28. There was heavy fighting this orning in the streels of Durango, where the Basques, contrary to in Burgent claims, all maintain a foot- They engaged the Insurgents in Ing. #delaying action and It is believed
STOP PRESS
hey inflicted considerable ensualites MOVE TO CHECK :
The attackers consisted of Carlist militia and two battalions of Moorish
GOLD PRICE
troops stat
It is stated that Basque forces on
Washington, Apr. 28. the coastal sector have withdrawn, without fighting, and in-perfect order, Representative Hamilton Fish, Re- to their second line of defence. The publican of New York, to-day intro- Basque.command denies that a single duced a resolution to prohibit the militiaman has been taken prisoner Treasury from buying foreign gold during the recent fighting, or that at a price above $25 per ounce.
(Continued on Rage 7.).. United Press..
near Yatna. The squad came under Delphinus will take another batch of Administering the Government, lion. fire from an olive grove, Lance Clipper and ordinary mall southward, N. L. Smith, proposed the toast to the Corporal immediately led his section some of it for Europe, some for Japanese Emperor. forward to close with the enemy and Australia and many scattered points.
himself killing two clear, the grove,
Arabs in the encounter.
The N.C.O. showed great boldness and decision on this occasion," said
SWIFT TRIP TO P.L. Brilliant sunshine all the way from
the London Gazette. "He has pre-Hongkong to Manila was encounter- viously proved himself a bold and ed by the Hongkong Clipper as she
(Continued on Page 7) enterprising loader,"
...
SOLDIER'S VOICE MIGHT SAVE MOTHER'S LIFE
New York, Apr. 28.
The United Press has cabled its correspondents in all the war areas of Spain to locate. John Brennan, a 25-year-old recruit to the Loyalist armies, whose mother, Anna, is dying of a broken heart, grieving for her boy's six months' absence and his infre quent letters.
Proposing the toast to King George
Mr. Midzusawa said:
Your Excellency, Ladies and Genile- men:"
I am very happy to have you here
hour service as hitherto. For the Arst time, second-class fares will be introduced on this run, as follows: Firal-class, 10 cents; second-class 6 cents,
This brings the buses into direct
Market-Shaukiwan
Point during the summer, the bus
BOMBING OF TOWNS DEPLORED
It
of
It Is Indicated that, on, sufficient support being forth from to Secures Promises To the Chinese Bathing Clubs at North thousands of people who go down to
Outlaw Poison Gas service will be further accelerated on further division of the this route by a fur
London, Apr, 201 schedule. quarter-hour
SEASON TICKETS
"His Majesty's Government deeply Monthly fares are being issued by deplores the bombardment on this most delightful occasion. This the Bus Company at $8 for adults civilian populations in the Spanish may occur, is the 36th birthday of His Imperial and $4 for schoolchildren. There civil war, whenever
and whoever may be responsible. It Japanese Majesty Hirohito, Emperor monthly tickets pre not applicable has. In the post, taken such, steps as of Japan, who is the 124th Emperor to the No. 0 and No. (Aberdeen to reign over our nation. Our Im-e
service) routes, but "through" perial Dynasty has lasted unbroken ticket is to be introduced with the since our firs! Emperor Jimmu cended the throne 2,507 years ago, and others changes, at the rate of $12 for and to promote agreements to safe-
adults an
and $8 for schoolchildren, guard civilian populations. It wil all routes without continue to examine whether further we Japanese all believe it will last
applicable to exception.
steps are possible to prevent a
of
deplorable School children's monthly tickets recurrence.
such dep are, however, restricted
-events was made scope, their use boing confined to week-
of Commons to-day : by the
for ever.
д-
To share with you. the great joy that now fills the hearts of us Japanese is my purpose in giving this humble reception.
MAINTAINING RELA
In
were open to. It to make ita stútude on this subject clear to both parties
This
days between. d a.m...and 0 pm, in H statément was made in the -
the case of the ordinary routes, and Forelan Secretary, Mr. Anthony to between 7 am and 8 pm. In the Eden, in answer to a question by a private notice of the Opposition By gracing my reception with your case of Nos. 0 and 7 rotites..
Although Sundays are excepted leader, Maj. C. R. Attlee, arising out presence you have shown the friend- A doctor sald that the sound of correspondents to locate Brennan ly feeling you have toward my rover from the scape of these school of reports of the aerial bombardment of Quernica, historia her son's voice would possibly save and endeavour to get him to talk on elgn and my compatriots. deeply children's season tickets, this will not on Monday by Spanish insurgent
(Continued on Page T.) her life.
the trans-Atlantic, telephone with appreciate this testimony of your apply to holidays, when the tickets aeroplanes
(Continued on Page 7). muy be freely used, The United Press has instructed its his mother here. United Press.