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CHAMBERLAIN MAY ABANDON TALENTED Franco Smashes
POLICY OF APPEASEMENT
NO WAR FOR NORWAY
OSLO, Jan. 13.
NORWAY'S INTENTION to
remain neutral in any
international conflict which does not directly concern her
MUSSOLINI
WARNED
HONGKONG CHILD TO
APPEAR
THAT
IN LOCAL DISPLAY
BRITAIN WILL BACK FRANCE
ROME, JAN. 13.
was stressed in King Haakon's UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES STATE THAT BRITAIN TO-DAY TOLD
speech from the throne at the
opening of the new session of Parliament.
The King declared that with
the has
the co-operation of other northern Governments Norwegian Government striven to safeguard the lives and interests of the people against the consequences of such conflicts.—Reuter,
ITALY THAT IN THE EVENT OF FRANCO-ITALIAN TROUBLE, BRITAIN WOULD BE SOLIDLY BEHIND FRANCE.
It is authoritatively stated that Signor Mussolini assured Mr. Cham- borlain that ́he does not envisage hostilities towards France.
а
However, the much-publicised conference was apparently failure-it may result in the abandonment by Mr. Chamberlain of his appeasement policy as a result of Mussolini's Mediterranean demands, and his refusal to withdraw troops from Spain.
The Spanish war seemed to be a point on which Mr. Chamberlain and Signor Mussolini least agreed-
Hongkong Banker Is Mussolini hoping that Britain would recognise the
Divorced By Wife
LONDON, Jan. 13. LADY MINNIE DORIS GRAYBURN, now living at Gerrards Cross, Bucking- hamshire, has been granted
a decrce nisi.
She accused her husband, Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn, General Manager of
the
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, of desertion.
The suit was not contested. Reuter.
was created a
Sir Vandeleur Grayburn,' who Knight in the King's Coronation Honours List in 1937 has been twice married, Hie first wife Was Ruth Danvers Higgs, and the second, from whom he has now been divorced, Minnie Doris Robson.
SIR V. GRAYBURN
84-Passenger Clipper Due Here In Fortnight
ACCORDING TO LATEST information received in Hong. kong, the first of the new 42-ton Boeing Clippers will leave
Insurgents and thus enable them to blockade Loyalist ports, but Mr. Chamberlain repeatedly challenged Il Duce to fulfil his promise of withdrawal. .
The Italians are reported to have told the British statesmen that the war is expected to collapse "within a few weeks," after which Italy would withdraw her troops.-United Press.
Italian Troops Concentrating
DJIBOUTI, Jan. 13.
ACCORDING TO reports received here, there has been large concentrations of Italian troops at places close to the frontiers of French and British Somaliland.
The places mentioned are Mordale, Jalelo and Sardo, near Hadele Gube.
Many natives of the province of Harar are reported to have been called up and enrolled in the native corps.
It is understood that steps have been taken here in con- sequence of these reports-Reuter.
INFORMAL TALK
AT MEETING TO-NIGHT
ROME, Jan. 13.
AN OFFICIAL joint communique on the Rome talks is not now
expected until to-morrow morning.
There is no question of a hitch, but a minor detail of phrasing in one passage has to be considered.
Reports that Mr. Chamberlain and Signor Mussolint met again to-day are incorrect.
Il Duce passed the whole day
San Francisco for Hongkong on Saturday week, arriving at at Rome's winter sport mountain Kai Tack Airport four days later, on February 1.
I
of Terminilio, but the two states-
The first flight will be purely men will have a further con- experimental, and no passengers, versation after to-night's dinner
ALCATRAZ mail or freight will be carried at the British Embassy, at
GAOL BREAK
Daring Escape By
Five Convicts
SAN FRANCISCO,
Jan. 13.
PROFITING FROM one
Immediately after this flight the which
Signor Mussolini and
glant Clipper, which can carry 84 count Cinno will be present, passengers. with be placed in regular service on the 0,000 mile) route between the United States Paris en route to London to-morrow. and this Colony.
The first regular run is expected to commence on February 18.
With the Boeing airliner in regular service, Pan American Airways willi
resume regular weekly trans-Pacific! of
According to present arrangements, Mr. Chamberlain will not call at
--Reuter,
PREMIER'S VISIT TO POPE Happy Relations Are Stressed
MR.
ROME, Jan. 13. CHAMBERLAIN
on
LONDON DISAPPOINTED
London, Jan. 13. leaving the Vatican after half an The results of Mr. Chamberlain's hour's audience with the Pope talks failed to arousel said that His Holiness seemed in
flights next month. The loss of the Rome
the worst fogs in San Francisco Hawaii Clipper last year necessitated enthusiasm in city circles. Although fairly good health. He added Bay for many years, five con- omitting the flight every third werk. faller information was considered that he was very pleased with
victs at
Alcatraz prison
attempted to escape to-day and
to swim to the mainland.
and the guards opened fire,
who has been
LARGEST AIRLINER
necessary before final assessment,{
the immediate reaction was dis- the cordial and, affable recep- appointment which was reflected in tion.
The new clipper is the largest air-the quiet and general drift down in The alarm was raised immediately, liner ever built for regular commer-Stock Exchange prices. clal air transport service.
The British Ministers also had 20 minutes conversation with Cardinal
Crowds gathered in the courtyard
Arthur Barker,
Designed to perform in the air as Gili-edged securities suffered sell-Pacelli. serving a life sentence for kidnap a 4212-ton ocean airliner, the news by bears who believe the recent ping, was critically wounded in the clipper by displacement is two times upward trend in prices difficult to to cheer the departure of Mr. Chom head, and another kidnapper, Daie as large as the Chinn Clipper und maintain in the face of absence of berlain and Lord Halifax. Stamphill was wounded in the legs nearly twice the weight of that concrete evidence of improvement in
The other three men were captured, already famous trans-Pacific flying although two had already started to craft. swim to the mainland,
and,
.
the
After the audience, the Pope went for his customary drive in the Vatican olbergardens.-Reuter.
NEWS OF ROYAL FAMILY
European situation. The decline extended to sections of the market although the Barker was a member
This ship, the first of a fleet of price changes were small without notorious Borker-Karpis gang, and six being constructed at a cost of serious selling pressure.-Reuter,
U.S.$4,000,000, is now running her
of
of the
was sentenced in connection with the final trial tests from the Port of Trade kidnapping Edward
Gremer, wealthy St. Pa
St. Paul banker, in 1034. Winds lagoon at Treasure Island, Al Capone. the "King" of gangsters,
where Pan American is building the was an inmate at Alcatraz
marine until Anest
air
terminal January 7, when he was transferred designed. to the Federal Institution
Son Pedro-Reuter,
at
CAREFULLY PLANNED
San Francisco, Jan. 13.
ever
LOYALISTS JUBILANT
Vatican City, Jan. 13. The "Osservatore flomano" to-day published a statement on the visit of Londen, Jan, 13.
Mr. Chamberlain and Viscount Hall- The abortive Rome talks, which fax to His Holiness the Pope, and anys are generally conceded to hava that the Pope addressed a greeting to become dead-locked over the Spanish the Ministers, and expressed pleasure A number of the most important question, has caused fublation
In their visit. world airplane records for speeds Spanish Loyalist circles here, with load are expected to fall during
Ilis Holiness was particularly in- It is felt this will greatly hearten terested in having news of the British these routine tests, which will be the Barcelona Government's reala Royal Family, and expressed good Lance to the Insurgent drive in wishes for their prosperity, and for
in
The five convicts who attempted to concluded with a ten-hour overnight) Catalonia, since it is apparent that that of the great British Empire, in
escape from the' Alcatraz prison to-non-stop fight. day while San Francisco Bay was en- shrouded in heavy fog, managed to So completely streamlined that it the feeling hitherto prevailing among
the Spanish war, contrusting with which so many Catholics live. obtain a saw with which they cut belles its size, the Boeing Clipper is the Loyalists that the British Govern- several points regarding the relationa In the course of conversation, through their cell bars, according to high-wing monoplane of all-metal ment's, or at least Mr. Chamberlain's between the Holy See and Great Bri- the Prison Bureau Director, Mr. Construction, with wings, we wings sympathics James W. Bonnett.
and tall surfaces all internationally Franco.
were with General tain came up for discussion, and the good and happy relations at the pre- Reliable Wings have two, main truss-type from Rome state that Musolint used and the Holy See were
reports reaching here sent existing between Great Britain (Continued on Page 4.)
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noted with | satisfaction—-Reyter,
He added that there was no braced. evidence that they were aided from
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Through to Sea
HENDAYE, JAN. 13. INSURGENT FORCES ON THE CATALAN FRONT TO-DAY PREPARED TO PUSH TOWARD THE SEA AFTER THE CAPTURE OF FALSET. THE MARCH IS EXPECTED TO BE MADE IN TWO COLUMNS, ONE DIRECTLY TOWARD THE SEA, SOUTH OF TARRAGONA, AND THE OTHER TOWARD REUS.
MISS PAT PASCOE, talented young Hongkong lass. in the costume in which she will appear in The Sleeping Beauty." which has been arranged and produced by Mr. George Goncharoff.—D'Asis.
Reports from Saragossa this morning stated that the Loyalists had lost all their positions in a systematic drive yesterday on all sections of the front.
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South-east of Artesa de Segre, the Insurgents took Agramunt and continued southward to Tood. Puivert de Agramunt, and a system of forts which the Loyalists had built there fell into Insurgent hands after several hours of fighting. 44 MILE ADVANCE
In the Urgel Canal sector the Insur- gents took Breixana, and south of the Canal, making the total advance 44 miles.
In the zone north-east of Mont Blanche, the Insurgents successively occupied Guardía Del Prat and Barbara,
Insurgents reported from, the southern front that all lines had been held, and several counter- attacks launched in which heavy loss was inflicted on the Loyalists.
LOYALIST CLAIMS
According to Loyalist reports from Estra- madura, the advance was continued, the Loyalists taking the entire Sierre Los Santos, south of Pennaroya, 'and south-west of Belmez, capturing many prisoners and a considerable quantity of materials.
In the Monte Ruble sector, the Insurgents attempted several counter-attacks which were repulsed.
Loyalists admitted that the Insurgents had made advances on the Catalan front in the Agramunt zone and the Monte Blanche sector, and they confirmed that bitter fighting had taken place at. Falset, where, it was claimed, Italian divisions lost heavily,
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Mounting Death Toll War Resumed
In Australian Fires
Dry northerly winds, sweeping down from the sun-baked drought areas of New South Wales and Central Australia, have re-kindled the great bush fires in Victoria and South Australia,
Nutrition Committee Announced
Near Canton
KWEILIN, Jan, 14. AFTER A LULL of over ten
days, fighting around Tsunghua and Taipingchong, approximate- ly 35 miles northeast of Canton, has become intense again.
A Japanese Infantry, cavalry and Part of the drama of the artillery combined force of 2,000 fight being waged in Victoria men hus swung into action, attacking against the conflagrations, which the Chinese positions at Takongling are threatening_several
and Lotung, points in the neighbour. towng and have already claimed over lery fire.
hood of Telpingchong to direct ortil- thirty lives, was brought to |Hongkong last night,
During a programme of dance music last night the Australian
The Chinese are firmly holding their ground.
encounter.
Over 100 Japanese troops tried to Broadcasting Commission's short force a landing at the Old Samshul wave alaiton VLR was taken over. Cily on Thursday, but were driven together with Austrállam regional away by Chinese regular troops and stations, to broadcast Information lost many men during the two-hour self-defence corps. The Japanese of fire fighters to thele anxious EVIDENCE OF GOVERN- relatives throughout the Slate. MENTS increasing regard for
Fire-fighters in certain districts Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow poverty in the Colony is the mound Melbourne were called
Rallway was raided by eight Japan- appointment of Nutrition by radio to fight new outbreaks, ese planes early yesterday morning. Radio appeals were broadcast for Forty-two bombs were dropped over Research Committee to inquire volunteers, not only to fight fires, but
the
town almlessly, About 30
out
into nutrition and the applica- to organise canteen and food services civilians were killed and wounded, tion of dietetics to the social for the dre-ßighters and for refugees 00 houses wrecked and alx boots
blown to bits-Central News. problems.
The personnel of the Committee announced this morning In the Government Gazette la:
from the stricken zones.
ERICA SURROUNDED
said that the large township of Erica
A "Reuter" message this morning Admiral Makes Way The Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn- is now entirely surrounded by flames For Younger Man
Clarke, Director of Medical Ser- vices;
His Honour Bir Athoft Gregor, Chief Justice;
Professor La T. Ride;
Dr. K. II. Villey:
All the populace, with the exception of twenty-five men, women and child- Mac-evacuated.
ren who are missing, have been
Mr. F. IL Leechy: Dr. Li Tro0-y{B) Protemor W. L. Gerrard; Dr. Foon-The Catherine Woo;
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London, Jan. 13
Admiral the Hon. Sir Matthew Robert, Bust,K.C.D., C.D., D.5.0.,
Flames are roaring throughout the M.V.O. Commander-in-Chief of the State, and Melbourne, a city, of a¦ America and West Indies slation fron million people, has been obscured in 1934 to 1937, libs retired at his own a fog of smoke.
request in order to facilitate the pro motion of younger officers. The black pall is overhanging mil-Vice-Admirti Sir Reginald Hender Ilons of square miles of sea and land son has bean promoted to Admiral
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