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35,000 STRIKE IN FRANCE: POSITION DECLARED ACUTE IN PARIS

TENSE SITUATION

IN JERUSALEM

TERRORISM CONTINUES

DESPITE TROOPS

TWO BRIDGES BLOWN UP AND TELEPHONE WIRES WRECKED

Jerusalem, To-day.

The terrorism is continuing, despite the pre- sence of five battalions of British troops and the introduction of new emergency regulations. Two bridges were blown up on the Hebron road early yesterday morning, and the road is now only pass- able by very light traffic. A mile of telephone wires were wrecked on the same road.

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A British police patrol was fired on here dur- ing the night in a narrow street in the Old City. Nobody was hurt. Emergency regulations em- power the District Commissioners to order shops and businesses to reopen, and to inflict penalties for default. Reuter.

BRITAIN'S AIRCRAFT

INDUSTRY ·

LARGE INCREASES IN EXPORTS

London. To-day.

The total value of British aircraft exports for 1935 was £2.721,441, which is the highest on record and exceeded the figure for 1934 by no less than £800.339. In 1935 the total also exceed-

ed the previous record set up in 1929 by £562,774.

Despite the demands this year upon the aircraft industry of the Government's programme of expansion for the Royal Air Force, manufacturers are contriving to fulfil many large orders for export. Three of the leading companies announce orders ag-! gregating hundreds of thousands of pounds în value and coming from nearly a dozen different countries.

AIR OFFICIAL KILLED

Loss To German Air Force

Berlin, To-day. Lieutenant-General

Wever, Chief of the General Staff of the German Air Force, was killed yesterday when an army plane he was piloting crashed at Dresden airport, A mechanic was also killed-Reuter.

aero-

CAPE TO LONDON FLIGHT

HILTON MAY HAVE

BEATEN RECORD

The Avro company is supply-

ing aircraft to Greece, Austria. Australia, Finland and Egypt the

most considerable indivi-

dual contract being for 381 Anson twin-engined monoplanes;

land company, which last year

sold aircraft to 25 countries,

has received orders recently

PUTT-PUTT draws fuel from air

The outboard hydroplane operated by Andy Gantner, holder of a number of amateur racing records, is here shown refueling from a plane on Lake Michigan, with Chicago's imposing sky- line in the background. Gantner expects to refuel in this manner in his attempt to lower the Chicago-Milwaukee record. The plane and boat are here seen speeding at 50 m.ph.

Miraculous Escape From Sharks

PROBLEM IN ETIQUETTE

·FOR DIPLOMATS `

Erbio-

corps

Lerdon, to-day-The pian Minister, X. Martin, bas provided the diplomatic with a problem in etiquette by inviting all the members except the Italian Ambassador, Signor Grandi, to a reception in London on Saturday to meet the Em- peror.-Router.

181 PASSENGERS

FOR H.K.

TO ZBW TRANSMISSION

The R.M.S. Empress of from Uruguay, New Zealand. Russia, from Vancouver and

10 HOURS IN WATER IN GULF OF ADEN

HARROWING EXPERIENCE

OF YOUNG GERMAN

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

SUBURBS WITHOUT

GAS

ICE AND MILK DELIVERY SUSPENDED

MOVEMENT SPREADING RAPIDLY IN PROVINCES

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day.

The strike still grows in France, and the num- ber of those who have laid down their tools is now already estimated at 35,000. These figures do not include those striking in the provinces, where, however, the situation is not so acute as in Paris and the neighbourhood.

The Government regards the situation as very serious, as the strike movement is beginning to spread to industries immediately affecting the public. The delivery, for instance, of ice for the milk depots in Paris ceased yesterday, while the employees of the gas-works of Nanterre have also joined the strikers. Since these gas-works supply 30 other suburbs also these have all had to go without gas since the contents of the gas-meters were ex- hausted, which happened last night.

The news of further strikes in the provinces, particularly in Lyon, Nantes, Marseilles, Lille, and Rouen, is continually arriv ing in Paris.

The probable future Minis- ter of Interior, M. Salengro, de- clared yesterday that even though the workers' demands are justified, they must keep within their limits, sinec a Gov- ernment of the Popular. Front does not mean anarchy. The representatives of all the trade

ions, met yesterday to dis

cover measures by which the strike movement can be better controlled. Trans-Ocean Ser-

vice

STRIKES SPREADING

spread to the steelworks at

tricity, railway, bus and Metro

through the Gulf the young man. day.-Peuter. who had been sitting on the rail-

HENGCHOW KEY CITY

OBJECTIVE OF TWO FORCES

YUNGCHOWFU OCCUPIED Shanghai, To-day.

Lille, later: The strike has now A Domei report from Hamburg, To-day. The story of the mira- Denain and Anzis, where 47,000 Canton stats that an culous escape of a young German who, after fall-workers threaten to let the blast official Kwangsi com-

furnaces go out unless they receive] munique announces the- Berthing Of Empressing in the shark-infested Gulf of Aden spent 10 satisfaction

hours in the water amidst a school of sharks be- Paris: Agricultural workers on Delayed

Joccupation of the wall- fore being rescued by a Dutch ship, was told when farms in the neighbourhood of ed town of Yungchowfu for Australia, The De Havil MR. RICHARDS PAYS TRIBUTE the Wangoni of the German-Africa Line arrived Paris are striking, and gas, elec in Hunan without oppo-

here yesterday.

While the vessel was passing workers threaten to come out to- sition, the Hunanese troops having previous- ly withdrawn.

Meanwhile the- Kwangtung military: headquarters have is sued a- communique stating that the Iching, Hunan, side of the Kwangtung-Hunan bor- der has been occupied. Hengchow appears to Canton, To-day.

be the present objective Panic prevailed in business and banking circles this morning ow-of the two forces. ing to the further rise of the pre-Reuter. mium on Hong Kong currency to

orders.

balance and fell overboard. His absence was not noticed until some time later, when the steamer.

IN ANTWERP Unauthorised Demands immediately turned and began a

For Increases

Turkey and Iraq. The Hawker Shanghai, arrived this morn- DOCKERS' STRIKE ins of the upper deck, lost his company also has large exporting at 9.30 am. carrying 181 passengers for Hong Kong, but Much interest was shown, it is had some difficulty in berthing, reported. at the recent Internation- a strong wind and

Aero Exhibition at

current Stock- hampering the work of the tugs, hoba in the

Air which, however, eventually had General craft company's monospar

twin the liner alongside No. 1 Pier engined ambulance monoplane after half an hour. London, To-day. on the British stand. The fit. Among the passengers on board Squadron-Leader Hilton, whatings include specially designed was Mr. W. J. Richards, the China: left Cape Town on Saturday last stretchers, containers for medical representative of the Marconi on a flight to England to "test his instruments and stores, oxygen

and blooding Director of the Chinese Wire-

machine," will, with luck, beat the cylinders and a tent

transfusion apparatus.

record recently achieved by Mrs. Amy Mollison. Mr. Hilton left; The plane is equipped with elec- trical starters, radio transmitter Cairo in good time on Tuesday and receiver, direction finder and night on the last stage, and if he instruments for blind flying. had arrived in England before 11 British Wireless Service. o'clock last night, he would have broken the record-Reuter's Bul- letin Service.

AIR CRASH IN HOLLAND

Austrian Financier

Killed

HALT AT ATHENS London: Squadron-leader Hil- ton, who is flying from the Cape in an aeroplane fitted with a Wol-1 seley engine which is being test- ed, and who was reported to beļ attempting to break Mrs. Amy Mol- lison's record for the fight England of 4 days 16 hours 17 The prominent financier van minutes, left Athens at 130 p.m.Hengel, Director-General of G.M.T. yesterday after a halt

to

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Amsterdam, To-day.

Wireless Telegraph Co. and Manag-

less Telegraph Co., with head- quarters in Shanghai,

Interviewed on board, Mr. Rich- lards stated that his visit had no! connection with the erection of a new short-wave experimental trans- mitter by the H. K. Government or, for that matter, with the erec- tion of any new wireless station either in Hong Kong or Canton.

He said there were several pro- jects in Canton, but he had no- thing to do with them, although he was contemplating a visit there shortly.

Antwerp, To-day. Work has ceased on al- most all vessels, following the unauthorised demand by the dockers, which the unions did not endorse, for a 2s. in- Several wages. groups of metal-workers have also struck-Reuter's Bul- letin Service.

crease

in

search, but abandoned this as hopeless since it was not consi-: dered possible that anyone could

Ten sarvive in these hours later the Dutch steamer Sembilan discovered the missing man and took him on board.

waters.

FURTHER RISE IN PREMIUM

Business At A Standstill

H.K. NOTES IN CANTON

[From Our Own Carrespondent]

In telling of the harrowing experience, the young man said that only through keep- ing perfectly still did he es cape being attacked by the sharks, dozens of which swam all around him.

76 cents to the dollar. This rate Three ships passed him without is the highest since Canton went

MORE STRIKES noticing him, and he had given up off the silver standard on Novem-

IN SPAIN

Hairdressers, Dustmen And Street Cleaners

Barcelona, To-day. Women's hairdressers have pre- sented their employers with strike. notices, and dustmen have called a lightning strike in sympathy with street cleaners, who have already.

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SIAMESE TENNIS ACES ARRIVE IN COLONY Sanoh, Muangreong and Bra-ceased work-Reater. of the Austrian Credit Anstalt, juab, the three Siamese tennis several hours-British Wireless and the well-known Austrian players who are making an un- Service.

"CHARLIE" BACK HOME

airman, Captain Brumowski, official tour of the China coast were killed here on Tuesday at the invitation of Mr. Vilas San Francisco, To-day-Charlie MR. A. A. NOYES PASSES when a sports plane piloted by Osatananda, Siam Trade Com-Chaplin and his party, including Brumowski crashed in landing missioner in Hong Kong, arriv. his leading lady in “Moders Pasadena, To-day The death on the Amsterdam aerodrome.jed here this morning by the s.8. Times," Miss Paulette Goddard. has occurred of Arthur Amos Hengel was in his way to Am-Helios. They will play exhibi- and her mother, have arrived, at -Noyes, the international research sterdam from Basle. Trans- tion matches in Hong Kong, the conclusion of their Far Eas]

chemist.-Peuter.

Ocean Service.

Canton and Macau.

tern tour-Renter.

vice.

TWO BOYS MISSING Not Seen Since 1 p.m.

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NO DECLARATION

OF WAR

Telegram To Nanking Not Ultimatum

[From Our Own Correspondent) Canton, To-day, Nanking divisions

Two

in

all hope when the Dutch steamer ber 7. finally Sshed him out. He subse. Foreign trade is practically [quently caught up with his ship a standstill, as nobody cares

in Port Said.Trans-Ocean Ser-do business on a big scale during

the present political uncertainty.

Officials of the Kwangtung Pro-| |vincial Bank and the Provincial Department of Finance are map- ping out plans to restore the con-Hapeh have been transferred to fidence in the Government actes. Kweichow

to reinforce the 13 They are handicapped by the divisions there in preparation for Two Portuguese boys, fact that a sense of nervousness the coming clash with Kwangs, Francis Rew, aged 15, and His prevailing here..

land

16 heavy bombers have John Rew, aged 12, are re- Imported goods as well as na arrived at Kweiyang, the pro- ported to be missing from tive products are becoming more vincial capital, according the St. Lorris Industrial expensive owing to the deprecia-Japanese reports received here School, Third Street. They tion of the Government notes. No last night. left the school at 1 pkt. On tangible remedy is possible at Monday last and have not represent, in view of the political that Kwangsi troops have crossed Another Japanese report stated

Immed

On Monday

There was no further newa

of the missing boys up to the time of going to press.

to

situation.

the Bunan border with the object Bankers are of opinion that the of capturing Hengchow in Hong Kong premium will rise to Southern Hunan. There are few 480 cents in the next few dayz

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