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GOVERNMENT REPORTED TO BE IN FULL CONTROL

FOO PING-SHEUNG

NEW MAYOR?

Opium And Gambling

Taxes To End

ORDERS ISSUED BY NEW ADMINISTRATION

[From Our Own Correspondent]

The

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Canton. To-day. Nanking Government has requested General Chen to his remain in Hong Kong as services may be needed as moral influence over his former subordinates General Chen, however, plans to visit Europe, together with his brother and confidential adviser.

OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY

RUNNER GREETED AT

CORINTH

CITY EN FETE FOR OCCASION

-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Corinth, To-day.

The Olympic torch-runner Spiliotopulos reached here at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, when he was received by the acclamations of the population, who, despite a temperature of 95 degrees Farenheit. had gathered at the chief square, reinforced by the population of all the neighbouring villages.

The pealing of church-bells announced the arrival of the The new Canton administra- torch. The runner gave the torch to the Mayor, who thereupon tion under the direct auspices kindled the fire on the altar before the city hall and a military of General Chiang Kai-shek band played the Greek National Anthem, which was sung by hun- promises to abolish opium and dreds of school-children in their gayest clothes. The square gambling taxes. This an- was decorated with a vast number of Greek and German Na- nouncement is intended to make tional fags. a good impression on the public. who expect less heavy, taxa- tion and less official oppression in the name of planned economy or rationalisation.

NANKING OFFICIALS FOR CANTON

Shanghai, To-day. Mr. T. L. Soong. Mr. Tsou Lin, Vice-Minister of Finance, and nine other Nanking officials left for Canton in a specially char tered plane at 8.05 am. "to-day. -Beuter.

Mr. Foo Ping-sheung, chair- man of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Legislative

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- A number of girls danced the national dance before the altar, being filmed by Leni Riefenstahl. At 12 sharp the bells pealed again, and it was signalled that the torch-runner was on his way to Athens. At 1.15 p.m. the torch passed the bridge across the Corinth Canal between the mainland and the Peloponnesus, the place over which the legendary King Pelops, to whom the initia- tion of the Olympic Games is attributed, reigned. In olden days. the Olympic Games were in fact part of the funeral service, and are said to have been first staged at the death of King Pelops.

The Torch was scheduled to reach Athens at 7 pm. last

LOCARNO POWERS evening.

TO MEET Consolidating Peace Of Europe COMMUNIQUE ISSUED

London, To-day.

Berchtesgaden: The Fuehrer and Beichschancellor has received the following telegram from the Greek).. Olympic Committee from Olympia: "We' announce that the Torch has been started from country to

J-L

Monsent

While the nations of Europe and the Orient are in many cases making warlike gestures, there is one section of the globe where peace is making rapid strides for permanence. fraught with historic significance between South America's two biggest nations, President Getulio Vargas of Brazil is here shown signing the Brazil-Argentine anti-war pact at Rio de Janeiro. In the background, from left to right, are A. W. Franen, former Secretary of Star of Brazil, Judge Rodrigo Octavio of the Supresse Court, and. Miguel-Carcano.

country to immortalise the Olym FRESH TROUBLE"

IN ABYSSINIA

pian idea. (Signed) For Olym- pic Committee: Nikolaidis.”

The Fuehrer answered: "I thanki and Belgian you for the report on the start of have decided that the Olympic Torch. May it ar

Yuan, is spoken of as the next A communique announces that Mayor of Canton, in place of the British, French Mr. Liu Chi-wen, who is report-Governments ed to have gone to Shanghai to there will be a meeting of their rive happily in Berlin and soon

look for another post.

Mayor Liu Leaves

For North

Mayor Liu Chi-wen of

Ethiopians Marching On Addis Ababa

Cairo, To-day. According to telegraphic advice

representatives to-morrow in Lon-kindle here the Olympic Flame don "to examine the situation and that will illumitate the XIth cansider how best to further the Olympic Games to a successfull desire of the three Powers to con- conclusion. (Signed) Adolf Hit-from the Egyptian Consulate at solidate the peace of Europe by ler."-Trans-Ocean Service. Can-means of a general settlement"

ton, accompanied by Mrs. Liu,

M. Leon Blum, the Premier, and left for the North yesterday, M. Delbos, the Foreign Minister, ea route to Nanking, by theill represent France. Reuter's m.v. Victoria. Mr. Liu came to Bulletin Service. Hong Kong in company with TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE Mr. Lin Yun-kai, Chairman of

A communique issued

London:

the Kwangtung Provincial Gov-from the Foreign Office yesterday ernment, last week.

NO ALLIANCE WITH FOREIGN INVADERS

Declaration Made By Gen. Yu

afternoon states: "As the result views fore- shadowed in the communiqué |

of the exchange of

further the

of the three Powers to

means of a general settlement.

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RECEPTION AT THE PALACE

500 Debutantes Presented

*

Addis Ababa to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the forces pre- viously led by Ras Kassa are ap- proaching Addis Ababa from the

south, while Ras Seyoum is ad- vancing from another direction. Fierce fighting is reported with heavy losses among both Italians! and Ethiopians.Reuter..

AMNESTY IN AUSTRIA

About 5,000 Prisoners

To Benefit

Vienna, To-day.

ly

at

REMILITARISATION OF DARDANELLES

Twa Islands Occupied In Aegean Sea

Chanak, Dardanelles,

To-dzy.

The famous wartime German cruiser Goeben, which is now Turkish Vessel Teramed

steamed the Yavuz,

proud- the out of

Dardanelles the head of you are number of other Turkish units on the way to reoccupy Embros and Tenedos, islands in the Aegean Sea, which are to be refortified, as a result of the signing of the Montreux Convention-Reuter.

AT MADRID MITINOUS TROOPS

SURRENDER

17 OFFICERS COMMIT SUICIDE

5,000 REBELS MARCHING ON

SARAGOSSA

London, To-day.

The Admiralty announces that the first cruiser squadron has been instructed to send one cruiser to Barcelona and another to Palma. The cruiser Amphion, which left England yesterday to join the Africa station, has been ordered to Teneriffe.

A Bayonne message says that news reached the French fron- tier station yesterday afternoon that the Spanish rebels had oc- cupied San Sebastian at 5 pm, following a fierce engagement with loyal Caribineers, who lost 24 killed. Several motor-cars filled with British tourists are evacuating San Sebastian, but it is believed that some British subjects ramain there.

Hendaye: It is reported that the rebels, after capturing San Sebastian, are now advancing on Bilbao. British tourists ar riving here relate that San Sebastian was machine-gunned from the air yesterday morning. Reuter.

Madrid: After fierce fighting

lasting practically the whole of

Monday the Government fully TWO AMERICAN WARSHIPS

controls the situation here. The mutinous troops surren- dered and the leader was im- prisoned, while the bodies of 17 officers who committed suicide when they discovered that the plot had failed were discovered when the barracks were taken.

The Government". has taken- over the five leading Rightist papers and intends to amalga- mate them. The red flag now fies over one.

The Government is reported to control the situation in most provincial centres, but an improvised army of 5,000 re- bels, chiefly peasants and work- men, equipped with rifles, is marching on Saragossa Reuter's Bulletin Service.

IN MEDITERRANEAN

Battleship Oklahoma Ordered To San Sebastian

Washington, To-day. Two United States, warships bare been; ordered to Mediterräder.

She-battleship Oklahoma, st present at Cherbourg, has been ordared to San Sebastian to make contact with the American. Am- bassador there and evacuate American citizens if necessary.

According to a Gibraltar meKK- age the Admiralty tug Energetic rushed to Algeciras and brought visitors and back 120 British several foreigners-Reutéc

REBEL SUCCESSES,

sailors the Commander and one London, Later: As far as the Lieutenant were killed and many latest news from many quarters officers seriously wounded.

can be trusted, the Spanish rebels

A decree in the Gazette appoints are making notable progress. Re-Lieutenant Prado to be Comman- fagees arriving at Hendaye de-der-in-Chief of the Navy, and clare that the provinces of Sara from the latter ship a telegram gossa, Navarre, Jaca, Vittoria has been received declaring loy- Burgos, Valladolid and Pontevreda

jality to the new chief. are in the hands of the rebeli,**** while the frontier guards at Hen- daye, Behobie and Dantcharis Paris: It is definitely annour- have gone over to the rebels. The ced by the Madrid Government rebels control fan Sebastian, that the situation in Galizia in GREAT BRITAIN'S where the wireless station of the north-west Spain is completely

DEFENCES

SPECIAL CORPS TO BE ENROLLED

CONFLICTING REPORT

last Royalist stronghold is being normal, and that the army has re- besieged by the rebels.

A Tangier message says that the rebel headquarters at Centain the provinces of the rebels is

ter.

mained loyal to the Government. The moral and material situation"

ness.

London, To-day. issued in Geneve on July 4 relat- HM the King held an after- Ting to a further meeting of the noon reception in the grounds at Powers whose representatives drew Buckingham Palace yesterday, at up the London arrangement of which 500 debutantes were pre- March 19, the Governments of sented. The full Court mourning

have warned neutral shipping to)"

very seriously weakened. There France, Belgium and Britain have ended on Monday, and this was

leave the harbour, as the rebels is furthermore no truth in the re- [From Our Own Correspondent] now decided that there shall be the first social function to be held

London, To-day plan an air attack on the Govern port that the situation in San Se- meeting in London on July 23 of by the King at Buckingham Pa- Canton, To-day.

The Minister of War, Mr. Aiment warships, which are alleged bastian gives canse for uneasi- the representatives of the three

the death lace since

of King General Yu Hon-zou, the new

of Powers. The object of this meet-

Duff-Cooper, informed the House to be marooned owing to lack of George. Commissioner Pacification

The reception will rank

fact and provisions. Nevertheless. Dr. von Schuschnigg is proof Commons yesterday that the!

In a flat contradiction to this leading ing will be to examine and to con as a Court for those ladies pre-claiming an amnesty Kwangtung. and other

on Friday. sented

and four or five thousand Nazi Royal Defence Corps, whose form.jthe British destroyer Whitehall is report a French news agency in generals who opposed the former sider how best to South-west regime have issued de- desires

Altogether 1,200 people were in-Socialist and Communist prisoners anon was arranged in 1934, will remaining in the harbour--Rex Bayome reports that San Sebas

Įtian has been taken by the rebels. clarations opposing alliance with consolidate the peace of Europe by vited to the reception and large are expected to benefit from it, be replaced by national defence

GOVERNMENT ACTION General Molas, who is advancing foreign invaders.”

Madrid: For the purpose of from Pamplonas, is expected to "As was stated in the House of crowds gathered outside Bucking while pending proceedings against companies attached to the Terri- Lieut-General Huang Kwang-

accused of torial infantry regiments. jui, chief of the Air Force, Commons last night the Govern-ham Palace, to witness the arrival another 100 persoas

British political offences will be dropped Enrolment will start on Sep- putting down the rebellion in Val-arrive at any moment in San Se-

tember 1 and will be open to ex-ladolid, Burgos and Saragossa, bastian. Beater.. charged in his manifesto that for- ment of Germany and Italy have of the King's guests.

servicemen between the ages of the Spanish military forces will

CHURCH AS STRONGHOLD eign airmen almost took control of been and will be kept informed. Wireless Service.

45 and 60. Their duties will be be divided into five main columns,

Madrid: The oficial 'announce- the war planes here prior to their To-day

to protect important" points in consisting of the loyal regular

ment has been made by the Gov- wholesale defection.

Britain when war is threatened or troops, the workers' militia, the

{ernment that loyal troops.......LUP- The local garrison has been the German and Italian Charges

British d'Affaires."

declared, but the members will police, the Civil Guard, and the ported by the People's Front ordered to keep a sharp watch on

not be called up until then nor an Assaults Guard.”

Militia marched into Alcala de Japanese roting. The situation Service:

account of civil disturbances. Everything was quiet in Madrid Nenares and after hard fighting will probably become more stabi

A total of approximately 8,450 yesterday. Trams were again defeated the insurrectionists, who ised, as General Yu Hon-mon will

officers and men will be required ning and a number of shops were made the church of Santa Maria, arrive bere some time this morn-

to be distributed among the var-jope The national flag was the Cathedral and the town, hall ing.

ABIDING BY, DECISIONS Shanghai: A Japanese report from Canton states that Generals Li Taung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi have decided to abide by the decî- sion of the plenary conference. Benter:

PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE DUKE OF YORK

London, To-day Bir Eric Me ville has been appointed private secretary to the Do Reuter,

the Foreign Secretary received at the Foreign Office both;

Wireless

PLANE LANDING ON

NORMANDIE

STOP PRESS DRAMATIC EVIDENCE AT

COURT MARTIAL

The Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Championship game between W. Mair and W. Greig and S. Randle and R Duncan-bas been postponed and will be played to morrow, but the postponed Open Singles game between J. Shepherd and LA Gutierrez will be played this afiemoon at the Kow- loon Dock Recreation Club green.

London, To-day. Dramatic evidence of how he tried to avoid calliding with the Normandie was given by Flying-Oficer Horsey at the resumed Court Martial yesterday,

ious counties. Reuter

ing from all public buildings. The Anarcho-Syndicalists published a proclamation denying the rumours COMMENTARY ON LAUNCH OF that they were joining the Fas

cista, pointing out that conclusive HMS. SHEFFIELD

evidence to the contrary WHA London, to-day. A BBC. com given.

He stated that after dropping a torpedo during exercises he felt himself being moved bodily sideways towards the Normandie.mentary on the launch of HALS

On board the Jaime I which is

He hoped to clear the deck and land in the sea, but he evidently Shafield by the Duchess of Kent the sister shipof hit some wire which tore his wing off and pulled the machine in will be broadcast to-morrow at pana, the Jargest in the the opposite direction. When he landed safely on the deck of the 5.15 pm. Eecordings will be Navy, the sailors retu

fbroadcast at 10.30 p.m. and on the officers" who French liner sailors fook him by the hand, saying he was

British Wire-with, the rebels Peuter's Friday at 4.45 The findings of the Court will promulgated.

Jess Service Ballet Serv

the

their chief strongholds.

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NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF BARBADOS

London, To-day. HM the King has approved the appoint- Spanish ment of Mr. E... A. Collymore, to obey Attorney-General, Barbados, to to side be Chief Justice, Barbados, suc the ceeding Sir F. H Furriess.

and British Wireless Service.

suing Aght". between officers