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TWO TYPHOONS

According to a messaYE

VITAL CONFERENCE

OPPOSING PROPOSALS

OUTLINED

FAILURE WILL LEAD TO CLASH

I From Our Own Correspondent

Canton, To-day.

Owing to the bad weather conditions on the West River, the aeroplane carrying the peace delegates to Kwangsi returned to Canton on Tuesday afternoon, and they went to Kwangsi again by air at 9.35 a.m. yesterday, arriving at Nanning at 12.15]

The Nanking delegation consists of General Chu Pei-teh. Mr. Ku Cheng. General Ching Chien and General Tang Sai-tsang, with, General Chu Pei-teh. as the chief delegate. The Kwangsi delegates are General Li Chung-jen. General Pei Chung-hsi, Mr. re-Li Chai-sum and General Tsai Ting-kai, with General Li Chung-

p.m..

ceived by the American Consulate-i jen as the head. General from the Manila Obser-j

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SAN MARCIAL UNDER DIRECT GUNFIRE GOVERNMENT POSITION DECLARED DESPERATE IRUN DEFENCES CRUMBLING

Biriatou, To-day.

The insurgent red and gold flag is now flying at the crest of Mount Tiriarte, but the Government forces are still desperately resisting, on the hill La Puncha, the withering machine-gun fire from the beights dominating their positions-

Mount Turiarte was lined with trenches in which a large force of militia was concentrated. The defences were protected The by advance posts built of armour-plating and sandbags. whole area was mercilessly swept by shell-fire during the pre- parátory artillery barrage, which was the most violent yet wit- nessed on this front. After that members of the Foreign Legion. regulars, and Fascist and Carlist troops, who had been waiting with their rifes in their hands for a signal, swept over the ground and carried the position. A Government armoured-train from a track running parallel with the frontier replied to the in surgent fire as fast as the guns could be loaded, while the Gov- ernment troops behind sandbags were firing ceaselessly from the mountain in an endeavour to cut off the insurgent advance, but: the speed of the insurgent onrush was irresistible and took the defenders by surprise.

The conference will last for two days, to-day and to-morrow. vatory". si 8.30 a.m. to-day a All political circles in the whole country of China are eager to typhoon was situated in about see the settlement of all misunderstandings between Nanking} Longitude 132 E.. Latitude 28 Nand Kwangsi in this final peace conference, which, if it fails, moving north-west. second will lead the way to an open clash.

It is reported from a reliable source that the Kwangsi side typhoon was situated at 8.50 am. to-day in about Longitude 126 E. proposes that all the Ceutral troops must return to the North; Latitude 19 X.. moving west- the 19th Route Army will be paid by the Nanking Government;

the Peoples' Movement will be allowed; and the Nanking Gor-)

Killed in the fierce street fighting which gripped Barcelona for days last north-west.

It now appears that the insurgents are able to bring San The respective positions are ernment will keep the resolution of the Second Plenary Session month, the body of this staunch supporter of the Leftist Spanish regime is

of that Generals Li Chung-jen and Pei Chung-hsi be the Chief and shown being removed from the streets by the Spanish Red Cross. about 100 miles south-east

only one of the hundreds of victims of the civil war which has gripped Marcial under direct gunfire. The loyalist battery at Fuentara- Wenchow and 250 miles north-Vice-Pacification Commissioners of Kwangsi.

The Nanking side proposes Spain for more than seven weeks and which has claimed thousands of lives hia is frenziedly firing its biggest land guns, but, the volume of east of Aparri, Philippine Islands.

that all Kwangsi forces and the in sanguinary battles between Fascist rebels and loyal supporters of the fire is insufficient to neutralise the insurgent barrage.

Biriaton: After a spell in workers' and soldiers republic. This picture was down from Karcelona to 19th Route Army which pene London, radioed to New York, and then mailed to Hong Kong.

which both sides on the Irun, ALLEGED VIOLATION OF US. trated into Kwangtung and

· NEUTRALITY ACT Hunan Provinces must retreat;;

FRANCO INTERVIEWED

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MARXIST INFLUENCE "UNSPANISH

MUST BE OBLITERATED"

•

He was

front were consolidating their positions and repairing their

the military, civil, and financial TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT defences, heavy, Sighting re- Prominent Shipping Companies To

affairs of the province will be

BROADWAY NIGHT-CLUB OWNER ATTEMPTS ROUND-TRIP

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commenced yesterday after- under the supervision of the

roon. Machine-guns and artil- Nanking Government: General |

lery vigorously bombarded the leave Pei Chung-hsi has to

opposing forces. The situation of the Government troops sud- Berlin, To-day. The special correspondent of the Angriff Kwangs for a foreign tour or

denly changed; for the worse, oragn of the Labour Front, had a special interview yesterday to accept his new appointment with General Franco, commander of the Nationalist troops, at as Chairman of the Chekiang

New York, To-day. ---- Harry Richman, a Broadway night-when the insurgents made his headquarters in Seville, where he is stationed in the palace of Government; and the appoint- a Spanish aristocrat. who put his house at General Franco's ments of military and civil club owner, and Dick Merrill, an aeroplane pilot, left at 3.37 p.m. big advance, occupying nearly affairs must be approved by the Eastern Standard Time on a trans-Atlantic flight to England. the whole of Mount Turiarte. disposal

The airmen plan to make a round trip across the Atlantic, stop-the main bastion of the local

defence before Irun. General Franco said: "I cannot yet call my movement Na-Central Government.

As the proposals of both sides ping at Croydon only long enough to refuel.

Observers are further of the tional-Socialist, since at present the word "Socialist has a very

About 40,000 ping pong balls bitter anarchistic, Marxistic flavour in Spain. First I must obdo not differ very much, peace=

crammed into the wings for opinion that the Government pasi- may be concluded to- SKIPPER OF “GIRL PAT”

emergency buoyancy purposes tion is now desperate, as the cap- "tain complete control of the country and purge it of the un-terms

morrow. But the Kwangsi, war.

CHARGED

are among several safety de-ture of the ridge opens the way Spanish Marxist influence."

to the machine to the command of the main road Turning to the question of Castile, who had "of their own lords want the Generalissimo to agrarian reform the General accord unanimously declared announce a movement to resist the Remanded On Bail At Bow Street vices fitted

piloted by Harry Richman and to Irun and San Sebastian. divide up Japanese; this proposal, however.

Hendaye, Later: The insurgents said

was true that their readiness to

Dick Merrill, which took off that it

is unconfirmed.

from the Floyd Bennett airport have captured the hill. La Pancha. Spain belonged to 50 big land-their possessions."

in the But he was

The next problem to be. happy position of having re- tackled would be the workers' ceived an assurance from these distress, and he believed that quarters that coricessions would they would solve it. "We are be inade in recognition of ne- rousing Spain, carrying a new cessity. He had received the nationalis.n into the ranks of feudal lords of Andalusia and the masses we will gain the

victory!"

owners.

INSURGENTS ADVANCE

ROAD CENSUS IN Lisbon: The forces of the in-

ENGLAND

Enormous Increase Of Bicycles

(surgents have now advanced, and of are closing around the town Escurial in the province of Toledo,

and the capture of this strategical- ly extremely important junction is' only a matter of days, according to an announcement made by General Dellano during his evening broad- cast from: Seville.

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London, To-day. The results of the traffic census the

that on the second-class roads in

The General declared

fought middle of August, issued last

another important battle with night, show, in comparison

yesterday, besides the battle of 1931, when a similar census was run was the unsuccessful attack last taken, that there has been an of the loyalists on Majorca. increase in the number of pedal DELIVERIES OF ARMS cycles on the road of about 95 Rome: In view of the new per cent.; of goods motor vehicles ports of the delivery of arms from of about 45 per cent; and of pas- France to the Madrid Government, senger vehicles of about 33 per it is declared in responsible quar- cent.; while the number of horse-ters here that this constitutes an declined by infringement of the peatrality drawn vehicles bas about 27 per cent.

agreement, and in the event of During the week of the census systematic continuation, the other movements were recorded of about Governments would resume their 100,000,000 vehicles or persons by liberty of action.

"an army of over 10,000 enumera-

tors. British Wireless Service.

SYMPATHY EXPRESSED IN BOCHUM DISASTER

PEACE EFFORTS Paris: The Argentine Ambas- sader, who is known to be making great efforts to humanise the war in Spain, informed the special cor- respondent of l'intransigeant that to-day- telegram he had succeeded in establishing from the French Ministry of "indirect" contact between the Ma- Public Works, conveying profound drid Government and the mili sympathy for the terrible disaster tarists in Burgos.

Berlic,

in Bochum, was received yester- The representative of the Spanish day by the Reich Ministry of Government, Senor Amerigo Cas- Labour, which responded cordial-tro, is coming to St. Jean de Luz ly on behalf of the suffering men soon, where a representative of the and their families. Trans-Ocean Nationalists, is also expected.

Trans-Ocean Service.

Service.

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London, To-day. The skipper of the Girl Pat Mr. George Osborne, has landed at Gravesend and was conveyed to London in a police-van He was charged at Bow Street with

tish waters, and was, remanded on bail-Reuter's Bulletin Ser- vice.

STOP PRESS stealing the vessel from Bri

Shanghai, To-day. The attention of the na- tion is focussed on Na- ning, where the peace con- ference is reported to have begun to-day between Gov- ernment representatives and the Kwangsi authori ties.

The peace mission, com- prised of Mr. Chu Cheng, President of the Judicial Yuan, General Cheng Chien, Chief of the Gen- General eral Staff, and Chu Pei-teh, Director of Military Education, "arrived yesterday morning at Nan- ning and were welcomed by representatives of Generals Li Chung-jen and Pei Chang-hsi. They present autographed letters from Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and Dr. Wang Chung- hui. It is generally ex- pected that an important announcement as an out- come of the conference will be made before the week- end.

Meanwhile a report from Hong Kong stater that the Kwangsi leaders are showing

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more compromising, at- titude. According to the Chinese Press, Generals LI Chung-senand - Pel." Chung“ hai telegraphed the Kwang- tung military headquarters, stating that the Ewangsl troops in south-western Kwangtung were being rapid«. ly withdrawn to their original positions-Beuter.

GEN. GOEMBOES UNWELL

Resigns Ministry

Of War

ARMISTICE HOPES

+

Be Prosecuted

Washington, To-day.

The Attorney-General has sp pointed a commission to investi- gate and "prosecute the Interna- tional Mercantile Marine, Ham-

com burg-Amerika and other

panies for alleged violations of the Neutrality Act and trafic in arms. The time or the countries involved are at present not dis-. closed.-Reuter.

RIVER BOATS RUNNING Passengers Searched At Wuchow

on a round-trip fight to Lon- don. Favourable weather con- ditions were forecast, and the Paris: Contact has been estab-CANTON'S BEGGAR PROBLEM airmen stated that they had re-lished between the Madrid Govern [From a Special Correspondent] = ceived permission to land atment and Burgos, the insurgent}

Canton, To-day. Hendon. The airmen plan to headquarters, according to Senor Though the situation in fiy at a height of 15 to 18 thou-Mancilla, the Argentine Ambas Kwangsi is tense, river boats sand feet at the edge of the sador, quoted by intransigeant. of the Hong Kong and Wuchow sub-stratosphere.

It is stated that Madrid has ap-Line are still running. To en- The machine is a converted pointed Senor Americo Casto Am-quiries, the Heng Lee Shipping eight-passenger aeroplane fitted bassador Extraordinary, and that Co. this morning stated that with a special 1,000-h.p. en- he will be proceeding to St. Jean their steamboat the ss. Wo gine, stripped inside to accom-de Luz, where diplomats are hold-Ping Yee arrived at the Colony modate 1,000 gallons of petrol, ing meetings with a view to de-as usual from Wuchow yester- enough for about 20 hours fly-claring an armistice-Reuter. day, and will leave for Wuchow Budapest, To-day.

ing. Mr. Merrill, interviewed

As soon 28 again to-morrow. RECRUITING OFFICES General Goemboes has resigned by Reuter, said: "We should

the ship arrives at the port, the War Ministry, though he re-be dining in London 15 hours Burgos: The insurgent leaders police will visit the ship to mains Prime Minister. He is after leaving the Floyd Bennett propose to recruit another batta search for any suspicious per- leaving here to-morrow for a rest airport" Beater.

tion of members of the Foreign sons. cure in

sanatorium. a German

1,100 MILES COVERED Legion, which will be for the dura- Passengers from Hong Kong Field Marshal Somkathy, Chief of New York, later: The American tion of the civil war. At disband- and Kwangtong who want to land the Hungarian General Staff, has airmen, Richman and Merill, whement after the hostilities those who at Wuchow must be guaranteed by been appointed in succession, to are attempting to fly to London wish to continue in the service two shops in Wachow, and their and back, with a three-day inter-will be absorbed into other batta-baggage must be searched before It is believed, that the latterjval in England, sent a wireless tions:

they can leave the boat, though will also shortly resign the Pre-message at 3 am. B.S.T. that they

foodstuffs and groceries are wel miership on account of continned were flying over the Atlantic ill-health-Reuter.

ocean at a height of 10,000 feeted calling on the assistance of comed by the Kwangsi authorities. It is estimated that they have foreigners, but recruiting offices Three Nanking cruisers can be not interfere with merchant covered 1,100 miles since they left have now been opened in the in-seen near the port, but they d New York at

chips. yesterday-Renter.

HONG KONG AIR MAIL SALVAGED

Postmaster-General

General Goemboes.

HIS MAJESTY'S CRUISE

Warm Welcome At Greek Port

London, To-day.

The

9.37 p.m.

Hitherto General Mola has oppes-.

The centres. E.S.T. surgent

Govern ment forces have been using the services of men of other nations for some time-Beuter's Bulletin Service..

an-1

Non-Intervention

BEGGAR PROBLEM Mr. Lan Shek-sam, the Director of Social Affairs for the Canton Municipality, has instructed his |staff to investigate the number of beggars in Canton, their re- sidences - and Eving conditions in detail within the months of {September' 'and October. All beggars must be registered from November to December, and then London: In view of the urgency from January to February, 1987, for swift action, Anglo-French all beggars must be compulsorily

COMMITTEE FORMATION BEING ACCELERATED

An Athens message reports that nounces that news has been re- the yacht Nahlin, in which Hceived by telegraph that all the the King is cruising, arrived at Hong Kong air mall was salvagedį the island of Skiathos yesterday on August 25 from the airliner morning and that the King visited Scipio. It is anticipated that] the monument to the Greek novel-only a few items will be finally ist and poet Papadiamandi. Majesty was accorded a warm wel- The Scipio crashed while alight-diplomatic circles are strenously brought into the bourses for the

and poor The come, the little market town beingling in a rough sex in Mirabella engaged in trying to effect the old gaily befagged. Later the Nah-Gulf, Crete, with the lows of two establishment of an international ones will be taught some techni- lin left for Skyros, where Rupert lives. The captain, crew of three, committee to control non-inter-cal and mechanical professions, so Brooke is buried and the Dardan-and five of the seven passengers vention in Spain.

[Continued on Page 12) elles-British Wireless Service: "were rescued.

His undisposable.

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as to cover a portion of the ex-

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