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TWELVE CANTON AIR FORCE PLANES DESERT TO GENERALISSIMO

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Sir Edgar Britten, above, skip- England's super-liner al Queen Mary, is here shown as his ship docked in New York after her maiden trip last month. The Queen Mary, delayed by fogs and heavy weather, came within 42 minutes of the Atlantic record re- cently set up by the French Iaxaty liner Normandie.

MANIFESTO BY AVIATORS

SENSATIONAL CHARGES AGAINST SUPERIORS BITTER RESENTMENT VOICED IN SOUTHERN CAPITAL

[From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, To-day.

The 12 planes belonging to the Canton Air Force which mys- teriously disappeared, as reported exclusively in the China Mail yesterday, are reported to have gone over to Nanking at the in- dacement of the Central Authorities, it was learned this morning.

All the deserting planes are bombers and fighters, recently imported from America. They are 1935 models of Boeing and Curtiss-Hawks, it is learned. The machines hopped off from Shaokwan, Northern Kwangtung, and made their first stop at Changsha, field headquarters of the Nanking air force.

- About twenty air officers here have deserted for Nanking. Some left by plane for Changsha, while others went to Hong Kong and boarded the SS. President Jefferson last night for Shanghai.

JAPANESE RUMOURS

REPUDIATED

Those aviators who are now at Changsha issued a manifesto declaring that they want to! join Nanking in order to avoid la civil war in the air. They also accuse their former-super- numerous sensational charges, of causing foreign com- plications.

SEPARATIST MOVEMENT IN SIAN iors, on

EMPHATICALLY DENIED

Lieut-General Chen Hsing- yun, Commandant of the Nan- Shanghai. To-day. -The rumours circulated by the Japan- king air force in Changsha and former police chief esc press in Shanghai, to the effect that General Chang Hsueh-a liang and other former North-eastern army commanders were in Canton, is credited with se- planning a separatist movement from Nanking, were emphatical curing the defection of the 12 object is to ly denied by a member of the Central Executive Council on ar planes. The

weaken the Canton - air rival at Shanghai from Sian.

The rumours alleged that the so-called malcontents confer-strength, and much resentment red recently at Sian and decided to establish an independent Gov-has consequently been aroused ernment, which would tolerate Chinese Communists and solicit in official circles here. the support of Soviet Russia. — Reuter.

APPEAL ISSUED BY ETHIOPIA $2,000,000 Wanted. For Further Defence Of Western Regions

London, To-day. The Ethiopian Legation in London has issued a public appeal for £2,000,000 to ad minister and defend the west- ern part of the country still unoccupied by Italy--Reuter.

PROBLEM OF STRAITS NEW BRITISH PROPOSAL

SETTLEMENT FOR 50 YEARS SOVIET DELEGATE NOT QUITE SATISFIED

Montreux, To-day. The settlement of the Straits fortification question for 50 years is contemplated by a British mem orandum, which stipulates the ton- nage of warships allowed to pass through the Straits. But in case of a war in which Turkey was new- tral, the belligerent Powers would have the right to send unlimited forces to the Black Sea and if Tur- key considered herself threatened by war, she would have full dis- cretion over the passage of war- ships.

M. Litvinoff (USSR) re served his decision pending in- structions, but made it clear that the Soviets are less satis. fied with the British proposals than with the former Turkish suggestions. The British ton nages would bottle up the 23,000-ton Russian battleship (Continued on Page 12)

NANKING ATTACK CUSTOMS RIOTS

ANTICIPATED ·

Kwangtung Forces Prepared

DEFENCES ALL BEING INSPECTED

of

IN TSINGTAO

QUESTION. ASKED IN COMMONS

London, To-day.

MR. TANG SEES SINISTER MOTIVE BEHIND RECENT SOUTH-WEST MOVEMENT

It took the Zeppelin Hindenburg 15 hours longer to make her second Friedrichshafen-Lake- hurst trip because of adverse winds and weather conditions. The time as the second trip was 76 hours 30 minutes. In one of the squalls the passengers had a bad fright. The huge ship dipped so sharply that plates were thrown off the table at which they, wete dizing. These pic- tures taken of the second- Lakehurst landing show (top) the ship as the approached the mooring A ́cable-re- mast. and (below) the landing crew having a little difficulty with around winds." ceived yesterday stated that the giant dirigible set a new record of 45 hours 39 minutes for the trip from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to Frankfurt.........

MORE UNREST

IN SPAIN Fascist Discovered Murdered

BOMB EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE

→ CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Madrid, To-day.

A corpse with 32 knife wounds was found by the po- lice in a Madrid suburb and investigation, turned out, on

to be that of a Fascist belong- ing to the Spanish army. The assassin is unknown.

-DANZIG SITUATION DISCUSSED

Serious Potentialities Stressed. By Mr. Anthony Eden

London, To-day.

the

It is learned from the eve- ning papers that at a meeting of Cabinet yesterday Ме Anthony Eden. Foreign Secre- tury, stressed the serious potenti- alities of the, Danzig situation, which will be further considered by the Cabinet to-morrow——_ Heuter

STRIKE FEVER IN-EUROPE

Swiss Works Now Affected

Near Madrid, in Cerro Bermelo, The attack by Japanese resi- dents on the Commissioner of eight bombs exploded one after (From Our Own Correspondent? Chinese Customs in Tsingtao was the other at a place where a new Canton, To-day. the subject of a question by Mr. building is being erected. Eighty Communists from Asturia were Anticipating an attack Kwangtung by Nanking forces, R. H. Morgan (C., Stourbridge) in arrested on the Madrid railway the military authorities here the House of Commons yesterday, station yesterday because they to-day made a last round of in- Mr. Anthony Eden. Foreign Se-travelled without tickets-Trans- spection of their defences in

COUP D'ETAT? Northern and Eastern Kwang-retary, said that there had been Ocean Service.

ao special movement of units of

Madrid, Later: A thousand have been. arrested General Yu Han-mou, General the China Squadron in connection Fascists Officer Commanding the first with the recent disturbances. He throughout Spain, following Kwangtung army, called added that the British Government alleged, discovery of plans for military meeting last evening in his field headquarters in Ta had already been in touch with coup d'Etat in Madrid-Reuter.

with the other interested Governments Yu, Southern Kiangsi, respect to plans to meet ajas regards the situation, Reuter CLEANING-UP IN sees sad hands of the Weld

tung.

Northern attack. He has spe-

cial instructions from the mili-from Nanking charging the tary headquarters here for his South-west with insubordination divisional commanders at the in launching an anti-Japanese movement are furnishing the (Continued on Page 12)

front.

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telegrams numerous

Abore, are see some of the 200. goodri, child ambassadors from

Kwangti, whose object is to appeal to the

over the Kwangui fortes and resist

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PALESTINE

the

Aircraft Co-Operation With Military Forces

Jerusalem, To-day, Wireless and aeroplanes are. playing an important part in the cleaning-up operations of the combined forces of Cam- eron and Seaforth Highland-

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"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Berne, To-day. The strike wave which "swept | over France and Belgium some time ago, and now seems to have {quietened down there, appears to

have reached Switzerland.

Yesterday morning the entire employees well-

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

Coming Conference

In Java

London, To-day.-

Replying to a question in the

INTERVIEWED IN NANKING

May Not Attend C.E.C. Meeting On Friday

VISITED BY GENERALISSIMO

Nanking, To-day.

Mr. Tang Shao-yi, interview- ed, declared that while the common aim of the people and the Govern ment was to resist faveren, aggres- {tion, he could not see that the re- cent South-western movement was actuated by patriotic motives.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and General Feng Yuh- siang called ori Mr. Tang on his arrival. Mr. Tang is staying for several days in the capital, but is not sure whe ther he will attend the confer ence of the Central Executive Council on Friday.

Mr. Li Siao-sen, who flew from Canton to Nanking yesterday, left for Shanghai by train fast even- ing. During his brief stay he conferred with Dr. Sun Fo and Mr. Chu Cheng, presumably about the funeral of the late Mr. Hu Han-min. Reuter.

BRIBERY CHARGES

IN JAPAN

Former Officers To Be Court-Martialled

Tokyo, To-day.....-

Confirming the rumours in cir- House of Commons yesterday Mrculation for the last three months. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary the War Office announces that the

announced

that the League of

Nations conference on the traffic

former Lieutenant-General Haru-

in women and children would be hiko Uyemura, former Director held in Java next February. The General of the Military Arsenal, and Army Engineer Famie Mis- French, Chinese, Portuguese, Netherlands, Siamese, Hong Kong hiyama have been sent to Court Martial on charges of accepting and Straits Settlements Gonza-

bribes. Uyemura is alleged to ment had agreed to send repre- sentatives, and the United States have accepted over 20,000 yen from would send an observer. India a merchant connected with, the was considering the question of arsenal sending an observer.-Renter.

....

TRAMWAY STRIKE IN ALEXANDRIA

Services Completely Suspended

The scandal was rumoured in April, when the Vice-Minister of War, General Umezu, was appoint- ed concurrently Director-General of the Arsenal, replacing Uyemura, who was placed on the. retired list-Penter

GERMAN ARMS

FOR CHINA In Exchange For Metals

REPORTED AGREEMENT

- CHINA MAIL " SPECIAL

Cairo, To-day. down their tools and took posses- The whole tramway staff in sion of the works because their de-Alexandria, 1,200 men, went on mand for increased wages had not strike yesterday, the tramway sex- ers announced that they would not Various tentative proposals for As the 600 work-vice being completely suspended. were made by the leave the works, the Berne Canton arbitration Government issued a declaration Labour Office but rejected by the that rigorous - measures will be strike committee.

The strikers attempted to stop derstood from official quartera taken if the negotiations between

been fulfilled.

London, To-day.“ The Berlin correspondent of The Times states that it is un-

the owners and the workers' union the power works, whereupon a that the reported Sino-German

do not result in a very early re- clash with the police occurred, two trade agreement has not been

ers in the hills of Central-sumption of work-Tians-Ocean policemen and 15 strikers being directly negotiated by the Ger

Palestine. Heavily armoured. vehicles equipped with "radio co-cordinate their activities with aircraft-Beuter:

STOP PRESS

Tokyo, Today. statement consisting

an

of 20,000 words issued by the Court Martial nounces that 19 officers, 75 non-commissioned officers, 19 soldiers and 10 civilianE were indicted for compli plicity in the rebellion of #February 26 last Ren

ter

Service

injured Trans-Ocean Service.

OFFICIALLY INSPIRED SPEECH BY GREISER

they calle

BUT ASSURANCES GIVEN

man Government but by the Klein Consortium, a business amalgamation which handles contracts in China.

The agreement provides dat certain Chinese products, in- cluding metals, required by Germany be paid for by Ger- man goods, doubtless including armaments, though it is not assurance that Germany will take no suggested in any overwhelming might disturb the international situation is mader- or alarming proportion

been given by a Foreign Office spokesman, in the impossible to ascertain Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, to the Coun exact quantities of arms. British Legation and the French Ambassador, when volved Beuter. the Foreign Office list evening, it is understood,

the German attitude to Dr. Greiser speech on REGUS RETURNS TO LONDON nich connection It is believed that the reply was given an

was fully supported by Germany.

left for Danzig last evening.

Renter

London, Bretumed to Lo