1936-02-20 — Page 1

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FRENCH JOURNAL'S PEACE PROPOSALS ARE RIDICULED IN ROME

Mr.C. Gordon Mackie, above, arrived back in the Colony by the * Coriu yesterday. Interview-

ed by the China Mail, Mr. Mackie said that there had been à definite improvement in trade in Britain. ("Ching Mail” photo).

RESCUE WORK IN YAUMATI Precarious Position Of Retaining Walls SEARCH FOR VICTIMS DELAYED

recover

CRISIS IN

SPAIN

GOVERNMENT RESIGNS

Dramatic Return Of

Rebel Leader

LEFTIST REGIME EXPECTED

Madrid, To-day.

The Portela's Government has

resigned, despite President Zamora'a desire that it should re- main in office until the Cortes is opened. It is almost certain that Don Agana will head a

new Leftist Government, with Senor Barrios as Minister of Interior. Both are former Premiers.

"Continued on Page 12)

Don Azana Forms Cabinet

Madrid, Later: Don Azana has formed a Cabinet consisting of 11 members of his Republican Left Party and two Republican Union members.

雄醐灌

NORTH CHINA

ISSUES

More Optimistic Outlook

The new Premier was greeted The authorities are making

the with delirious enthusiasm when.. every effort to bodies of any other victims of accompanied by the members of the Yaumati house collapse tra- the Cabinet, he appeared at a gedy, which occurred yesterday balcony of the Ministry of Inter- morning. They are attempting for and promised that the first the new Republican to blow the walls down with fire task of hoses, a work which has lasted Government would be an immed- NO FURTHER MOVE LIKELY all the morning, but with in-fate amnesty for political prison- different success. In the last lers and exiles and the reinstate- resort the wreckage will have ment of the officials who lost their

to be blown up with dynamite, posts after the revolt of October

in which case the civil authori-1934-Reuter

ties will approach either the

Navy or the Royal Engineers

for the services of a dynamite party.

The

The demolition work now pro- ceeding is extremely dangerous for the would-be rescuers. retaining walls of the collapsed building are in a precarious cor- dition, so that even the shoring- up process is fraught with con- siderable danger to workmen. For these reasons it has not been con- sidered safe to send any men within the debris at the present moment to search for victims:

but the efforts to make this pos- sible are proceeding as fast as possible.

Woman Believed Buried

In Debris

Later: started playiters The Fire Brigada stavil ing House No. 4 from House No

NATIVE COAL IN CANTON

PROTECTIVE TAX INSTITUTED

SPECIAL LEVY FOR FOREIGN PRODUCT

From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

́BY JAPAN

Nanking. Today, North China-issues will forza prominent subject at the forth coming Sino-Japanese negotia tions, according to well-informed Chinese circles, who expressed the opinion that the opening of nego- tiations with a view to restoring Sino-Japanese relations to normal, is now a greater certainty, in view of the decisions reached at the re- cent conference between the Ja panese Ministries..

Two pictures taken a few minutes after the imement house...col- lapse in Woosung Street, Tammati. yesterday (Top) the first and second houses with shoring up to present the walls from collapsing. (Bottom) s panoramic view, of the disaster. ("China Mail" photo).

The opinion is also held SOVIET RUSSIAN POLICY

Foreign coal.coming into Chinese circles that Japan is not Canton is now liable to a spe-likely to make any further move in cial tax in addition to the usual North China-Reuter Customs duty. The new tax will be collected on February 27, it was learned this morning.

No special tax office will be! created to collect the new im- post, but all payments will be made to the existing Geological Products: Tax Burea, a sub- sidiary office of the Provincial Department of Finance The

6 at 11, o'clock, and 35 minutes collection will not be relegated later they brought another hose into play, and by 12.30 pm, the to-tax "farmers," but directly

Brigade had succeeded in bring ing down the dividing walls of Houses 4 and 6, and 6 and 8.

They will now shore up the remaining partichs of the partly demolished walls of House No. 4, which consists mainly of fronte age, after which they intend de- molishing the walls of Nos. 2 and

4 in the same way-

It is believed that Ho Yee, a 59-year-old woman, is buried in the debris in No. 4, and it is also

levied.

(Continued on Page 123

CHINA'S NEW BONDS

Exchange Regulations

existing

Issued

Shanghai, To-day.

feared that three persons who According to the North China were working on the ground floor Daily News, the regulations of House No. 6-at the time of the governing the exchange of the collapse, are also still buried

Excavation work was rendered Impostable owing to the danger conditions "of the walls

this resson, the work, yed until 150pm, when

ging was commenced.

Mr HT Brooks, tendent of the Fire

Government bonds for the 25-year Consolidated Bonds have been issued by thei Ministry of Finance

According to Article 2 of the regulations band-holde

Shanghai are to go to the

exchange for the new

beginning on March 21:

holders' outsider

have the bonds

the Central Bank Jof Communicati

pective loc

in

ITALY AND AUSTRIA

Complete Agreement On Danubian Policy

MEETING AT FLORENCE

JAPANESE WAR MINISTRY ISSUES PAMPHLET

Tokyo, To-day.

DESCRIBED AS "CONFUSED"

INITIATIVE RESTS WITH EMPEROR

OUTSIDE ADVICE RESENTED

* CHINA NAIL " SPECIAL

Rome, To-day.

In a sensational form the semi-official "Giornale d'Italia" publishes what it claims to be extracts from an original report written by the inter-Ministerial committee appointed by Eng- land in June, 1935, for the Abyssinian question.

According to the "Giornale" the Committee took the view that in the agreement of 1906 England "recognised almost all- Abyssinia as an Italian sphere of influence" and moreover that in Abyssinia and its neighbouring territories there are no British interests so vital that the British Government would be compell- ed to oppose a conquest of Abyssinia by Italy."..

Tuesday's much commented upon leader in the Temps sug- gesting that a favourable moment has now come to seek peace, is resented by the press here in the sharpest terims."

The Tribina calls the Temps proposals "ritficulous" and "con- fused. The paper continnes: {"The victorious Italy has no obligations to take the tritis tive, least of all in the direction suggested. The Laval-Hoare

NEW NAVAL TREATY

plan is dead and buried, as the LONDON DRAFT

leader of British politicsTM has himself said. If the Tengs really thinks advice is neces- care-ter this thould be given. to the Negus, who alone, after This severe defeat, should feel: the necessity of taking the {initiative."

The tone adopted by other lead- ing papers agrees with that of the Tribuna

COMPLETED

Dificulties Still

SIGH

SIZE OF BATTLESHIPS

London, To-day.

A two-hour meeting of the drafting committee of the Naval VIGOROUS DENIAL

Conference took place yester Rome: All rumours that the

day and completed the draft Negus has proposed peace es treaty, but the battleship and tiations are vigorously, denied by

political difficulties threaten to authoritative Italian quarters hold up the conference for

The British Ambassador, Sir some time.

Eric Drummond, had a long con The Ereach, approach to the versation with Signor Mussolini, U. S. State Department, when. M when he pointed out the exact La Boukale, French Ambassador positions of the British Red Cross

(Continued on Page 12): stations, so that these might be

avoided by the Italian air attacks NAVAL RESCUE

Trans-Ocean Service.

OIL EXPERTS REPORT

Italian Position

Outlined

London, To-day

RECALLED

American Awards For British Seamen

Washington, To-day.

".

The War Office has issued a 46-page pamphlet commemorat-

Senator Trammell has intro ing the Russo-Japanese War, pointing out the differences in the

duced a Bill into Congress Russian and Japanese conditions in 1905 and 1936, and stressing

authorising President Roosevelt that Russia is pursuing the same aggressive policy in the Far

to present the Distinguished East, but that the Soviet method is more skilful and thorough The report of the committee of Service Medal to Commander than that under Tsarism.

al experts has been published 25 Todd and the Navy Cross to Furthermore. Britain and

a White Paper. It is stated that Lieutenant Commander Kitcai America. friends in 1905, are now envious and inimical and the Italian sources of the supply of the British destroyer Wis are carrying out Japan's mis oll-are- insignificant, except hart for the rescue of the crew from the United States, that off of the USS. Fulton, which was sion Renter

from the Albanian oil fields, which destroyed by fire while en route BRITISH ENQUIRY AT TOKYO Tokyo: Sir Robert Clive, Bri-are.cwned by Italian interests, is to Hong Kong on March 14, tish Ambassador, in an interview of poor quality, and also that the 1934 Reuter. with the Vice-Minister for For-quantity is small as production

STEAMER IN DISTRESS

Liner Loses Her

Propeller

"New York, To-day

Rome, To-day. Following conversations be tween Signor Suvich and the Austrian Foreign Minister. Baron von Berger-Waldenegg, dealing chiefly with the Danu- bian problem, a communique states that the Ministers were

eign Affairs, is understood to have has just begun Synthetic su enquired about Japanese policy institutes could not be produced in in complete agreement and con- firmed their intention of follow- The 7,000-ton Liverpool liner connection with the border inci-large quantities by Italy, but she might for the sake of economy use ing the policy outlined in the Nova Scotia, voyaging from the dent. Italo-Austro-Hungarian agres Virgin Isles to New York, has Mr. Shigemitsu is reported to subsitutes distilled from oil nuts. İment of 1934 Reuter sent out an S.0.S. for immediate tare declared that the sitiation It is learned from Whitehall assistance, stating that she has would probably be ameliorated if that Mr. Anthony Eden is regre lost her propeller. It is believed the Soviet agrees to Japan's pro-senting Britain on the Committee that she is off the coast of posal for the organisation of a of Eighteen, which will meet Florida Reuter we

commerission ⠀ to "investigate the shortly to discuss the port of Chingehang Iso incident, and ac-the committee of oil experts cepts the Japanese

Renter's Bulletin Service. the establishment

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ELECTIONS IN JAPAN

877 Candidates For

Office

WEATHER REPORT

The ant one has incr

highet

cation

MORE TROUBLE BY STUDENTS

Resignations Cause Clamour

Perning, To-day The students of Tsinghau University are now clamouring for the withdrawal of the re- sigriations of 68 members of the from the total of 74

Zen Bloc on

TRAGIC DEATH - DURING BERLIN LECTURE

who.

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Berlin,

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