THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY
19,
1938,
Franco-Italian Tension Thrives on Rumour Call and See Our New
ITALIANS SUSPECT FRENCH CONTINUE TO AID LOYALISTS
Lord Perth Apparently Trying to Make Peace
Rome, May 18.
Lord Perth, British Ambassador to Rome, had a meeting with Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister to-day, which authoritative quarters describe as a routine affair, but which is believed to be connected with the Italo-French tension.
This strained state between the two powers has FRENCH
arisen, it is stated, owing to the Italian belief that France
is supplying large quantities of arms and munitions to the COLONIAL
Barcelona Government.
It is argued in Italy that if this is the case it will help to prolong the Spanish war, while Italy's hands are tied through the agreement with Great Britain.
No meeting has yet occurred between Count Cianu and
M. Blondel, the French emissary.
Meanwhile, the Italian press pub. lished a strong attack against France and reports that quantities of men and arms and aeroplanes are passing!
into Spalu from over the frontier France, to fight for
Loyalists-Router.
the Spanish
Italian Suspicion
Paris, May 18
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be
JAPANESE
ATTACK JUNKMEN
DEFENCE
BIG RECRUITMENT ENVISAGED
Paris, May 18.
The French Government is seeking a large increase in the number of troops in its Colonies. It I reported that M. Georges Mandel. the new
Minister
for
West
A pontoon bridge hastily constructed by Japanese Army en- gineers across the Hwai River in Anhwei Province enable in- fantry to make a surprise attack on the southern Tientsin-Pukow front, south of Hauchow.-Press Union Photo.
Filipinos In U.S. Charge Intimidation
Los Angeles, May 18. Two hundred Filpino residents, in the Filipino at- petition which torney, Manuel S. Obella, fled with the police were enforcing a drive against the Filipinos.
timkuling them.
The petition demands medinte rossation of bratings."
on
£25,000,000 LAND DEAL IN WALES
Marquis Of Bute Sells Vast Holdings
London, May 18. Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart
Culonies, has naked the Governor of The petition chars that the police French Indo-Chint to seck the en-are arresting Filipinos wholesale, and is en route to the United States, stment of an additional 20,000 men are beating them up, preventing them allegedly for the purpose of The Governors of French from assembling and otherwise in-investing the greater share of a Africa End Equatorial Africa
enlist + further
im-sum, reputed to be somewhere An attack by a Japanese motor | been requested in
the "brutal in the vicinity of £25,000,000, Reports Te understood
The report states that the main current in Italy to the effect that Mawler on a Chinese Junk Just out- 50,000 men
alde of Hongkong waters has been!
realised from a sale of the vast Minister,
The Commission has referred the holdings of his Georges Bonnet, French
father, the gave Senor Del Vayo, the Spanish. reported to the local police by Cheung object is to ask the Colonies for a
Yu-l. 52. master of a Bshing junk, bugger effort towards National De-petition to the police to Geneva, who states that on May 17 he was fence. Government's delegate
the Marquis of Bute. quested 111 investigation of Gorances that the Franco-Spanish ashing with two samparts Vester spread new appointments to the high
of! The French Cabinet has approved charges--United Press. frontier would not be closed to the Sai Thu, when a Japanese Trawler passage of urms into Spain.
came from the direction of Taishan. command of the Colonint forces as the part of the plan to bring the The Japanese boarded one This allegation is denied herr.
sampans on which were three men Colonies into the general scheme ni and a woman. The woman d her- National Defence. self underneath some sails and
SVIEN
It
is described as just another runnur circulated in order to create difficul- ties for the Franco-Italian negotia tions.
Special measures are being taken
undetected, but the three men were to equip the French colonial em- According to well-informed quar- taken off by the Japanese to Lintin,pire with means of defence apart ters the talks have not been broken where, it is alleged, two of them from mere man power, and also for intimate relations between off and the question of the French-Cheung Fuk-tor and Cheung Lai-pni jmore
French West Africa, Morocco and Spanish frontier has never been dis- were killed. cussed in the Rome conversations be-
The third man, Cheung Kai, was Algerin, particularly from the view
of communications-Reuter tween M. Blondel and Count Clano badly wounded, but he was rescue point Reuter,
by relatives and taken into Hongkong Special. waters, where he was handed over This to the No. 3 police launchi
in Kowloon Hospital. man in now Paris, May 19,
sold to b and his condition is The Franco-Italian negotiations
further serious. have been suspended until notice, Trans-Ocean lehrnR.
Negotiations Suspended
NEWS AGENCY APPOINTMENTS
London, May 19,
and has re-
The Marquis of Bute is one of the biggest land-holders In the United Kingdom, his property,
totalling about 117,000 acres.
STATE AID FOR principally in Scotland and Wales,
CIVIL FLYING
London, May 19.
The transaellon involved in the sole this week of the major portion of this property is probably the largest real estate deal in the history or Britain.
On the occasion of Introduction of the bill for financial support of civil aviation, Sir Kingsley Wood made
The property Involved Is in his first speech in the House of Com-
Wales, and includes almost half of mons as new Air Minister
ter yesterday.
the elty of Cardiff, which has a This bill, which was recommended population of 223,589 and a rate- as a result of the Cadman Committee
able value of £1,851,003. Report on the civil aviation, envisages Included in the deal is the vast the Increase of State contributions Castle of Cardiff, and the lands on from 1
£1.500,000 to £3,000,000 yearly which are constructed
the great The appointment of Webb Miller, as a maximum. The Minister, de- Barry Docks. The French Charge d'Affaires, M.versation could be held on Thursday famous diplomatic and war corrres-clured that this increase was
necessary
Twenty thousand homes in and that Italy pondent, as General Manager of the since civil flying in all the other around Cardiff, 1,000 shops, 250 Blondel, was to have been received he received the answer
the italian Foreign would resume the negotiations with United Press Association in Europe countries was now state supported. hotels and several theatres yesterday by
Labour Opposition demanded feinema houses are included in the Minister Count Clanu who, however, France only when the smuggling of has been announeed.
and Immunition over the Mr. Horry Flory hus been ap-nationalisation of civil aviation be-f deals. In addition, the Marquis has sent a notice to M. Blondel that he arms
When French-Spanish frontier ecated.-pointed European News Manager-cause of Its national and_interna- sold large neighbouring agricultural could not grant the interview.
United PresI. M. Blondel inquired whether the con- Trans-Ocean.
FILMO
tional significance.—Trans-Ocean,
ACHIEVES THE ULTIMATE!
S-L-O-W MOTION IN COLOUR
and
areas, a portion of the town of Penarth, and a number of neighbour ing villages.
The famous Cardiff Castle is one of the principal buildings involved. in the transaction. It was built in the 11th century.
Cardiff, which is at the mouth of the rivers ToH, Rummey and Ely, is the port of the South Wales coalfields. It has a municipal area of 223,648 acres.
The Bute estates are chiefly in Scotland and Wales, although exten sive properly is owned in England, Spain, Morocco, and else where. The most important possession is the beautiful Scottish Island of Bute.
The Marquis possesses Spanish art treasures of fabulous wealth, which, before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, were stored in his Castle of Gundecorte, at San Roque, near Gibraltar. Soon after the civil wor commenced the Marquis removed the art treasures to Cardiff Castle.- United Press.
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Mexico To
Close Her
Legation
Loudon, May 19.
"As a result of the breaking off of diplomatic relations between.
·Great Britain, and: Mexico, ́k is {announced that the MexicanR Legation in London will now be cloned.
The Minister has left London for Paris, and the archives of the Legation will remain in chargo of the Mexican Consul-General. -Reuter.
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