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INSURGENT FORCES COMMENCE BIG-SCALE ADVANCE ON BILBAO

SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT PAYS INFORMAL VISIT TO CANTON

Will Return To Colony On Saturday

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott, accom- panied by Capt. W. J. R. Cragg. A.D.C., left Kooloon this morning by the Flying Arrow express on an informel risit to Canton

The party will be the guests of H. B. M.'s Consul-General, Mr. H Phillips, CM.G, OBE. and will return Hong Kong next Saturday.

to

PAKHOI EVACUATION

COMPLETED

JOINT ENQUIRIES INTO ALLEGED "INCIDENT"

KWANGSI LEADERS INSTALLED IN NEW POSITIONS

[From A Special Correspondent]

Canton, To-day..

It is reliably reported that General Yung Chao-woon evacuat- ed Pakhoi yesterday. following the instructions of General Li Chung-jen. Divisional Commander Kam Li-chai of the Central

STRIKE POSITION Troops, and Divisional Commanders Tam Sai and Mo Kim-hung

IN FRANCE

Company Officials Held As "Hostages"

POLICE COMMISSIONER

INTERVENES

www

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, Today".

of the 4th Route Army are instructed to garrison Pakboi, and all the Kamlim and Ko-lui districts of South-western Kwangtung. Accordingly, Mr. S. Yoshitake, the Acting. Japanese Consul-

General, has requested Mr. Philip K. C. Tyan, the special dele

gate for Foreign Affairs for the two Kwangs, to send a Chinese

Hands raised in token of surrender, a party of loyalist. prisoners are representative to investigate the Pakhoi incident with the Japan-here shown being marched to the rebel prison camp at Pueblo De Utera last ese investigators. The request has been acceded to by Mr. Tyau, month The Governments of Europe are watching the progress of the and Mr. Ling Zse-fan, who returned to Canton on Tuesday with Spanish revolution with anxions eyes as daily occurrences threaten to em- out achieving any success in the first investigations, was asked broil their countries in war.

to go there again on board the Chinese gunboat Fook On.

News also reached here from Nanking last night that Mr.

S. Kawago had urged Mr. Chang Chun to permit the Japanese re-

Recourse has again been made to presentatives to investigate the Pakhoi incident immediately,

in the and to stop all anti-Japanese movements to-morrow. the system of hostages new strike which broke out in the Rhodia- artificial silk

factory

ceta" in Lyons. The workers oc-

cupied the factory premises and HUMILIATION

detained the managing

director.

M. Lombard, and the two manàg-)

ets, VM. Bonnet and

well as one engineer.

Value, asį The "pri-

soners" are each guarded by four

workers armed with truncheons and have been given no oppor

thei capture, tunity, since

DAY

Flags Half-Masted

To-morrow

into to NO

communicate with their relatives..

The Police

Commissioner

of!

ANTI-JAPANESE MEETINGS

TO BE ALLOWED

[From A Special Correspondent]

To-morrow

SHOOTING ON "TAI LEE”. Authorities Issue Statement

ASSURANCE ACADET A REPETITION OBTAINED

TRAGEDY OF

FRENCH POLAR

BOMBING PLANES IN ACTION

ANARCHISTS LOSING INFLUENCE

MORALE OF RED TROOPS REPORTED

SERIOUSLY AFFECTED

»London, To-day.

Following a lull there was brisk fighting on several fronts în Spain yesterday. On the San Sebastian front the insurgents are reported to be pressing towards Bilbao, where 40,000 Govern- ment forces have completed their preparations for defence. Big Government troop movements are reported in the Orio districi, which is held partly by Government forces and partly by the insurgents..

There is heavy hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets on the | Saragossa front, according to Radio Seville, while on the south- ern front, according to an insurgent radio message from Cordoba, the Government troops have been defeated and pursued 25 miles. Gibraltar: The police announce that they will decline to re- new permits for foreigners unless there is good reason to justify their remaining in Gibraltar. They further intend to prosecute anyone harbouring aliens without permits. The announcement has caused consternation among hundreds of Communists, Syndi calists and others unable to return to La Linea, where the anti- Government forces are in control.

Washington: The creation of)-—--

ja temporary European Squa- FRENCH SUBJECT-EXECUTED dron of the United States Navy

IN SPANISH MOROCCO. EXPEDITION is announced by the Navy De

Demand For 3,000,000 Franc Indemnity By France

VESSEL SINKS IN. STORM

partment: The squadron will be commanded by Rear Admiral Fairfield and will con- sist of the light cruiser Raleigh. the destroyers Hatfield, and

GRAPHIC TALE BY LONE and the coastguard ente ter Cayuga. The Raleigh is SURVIVOR

now in the Navy Yard at Nor- folk, Virginia, and will shortly to Gibraltar. Reuter's Bulletin Service.

20

CLASHES AT SANTANDER

The Kwangsi leaders were installed into their new posts yesterday, and General Li Chung-jen and Mr. Huang Ko- chaï are coming to Canton byl plane this morning with Gen erals Ching Chien and Huang Shao-hung. General Pei Chung- thsi will stay in Kwangsi for the

The local Naval Authorities time being so as to reorganise have issued the following com- the Kwangsi army and the 19th munication in connection with

Copenhagen, To-day. Dr. Charcot, the leader of the Route Army the 5th the shooting at the British Route Army..

steamer Tai Lee at Kongmoon French Polar Expedition in the ship Pourquoipas, and the The capital of Kwangsi will on Tuesday night last:--

crew, except one man, were Hendaye: A tense situation pre- the district is conducting negotia-

be removed to Kweilin, which has the most beautiful moun- HMS. Cicala arrived at drowned when the vessel sank vails at Santander, where the An- who are on Lions with the men

Canton, To-day.

tain scenery in the whole of Kongmoon

to investigate the in a storm off the Icelandic archists have assumed power, ac- strike, with the hope of securing)

China will ob-China. The place is situated in Tai Lee shooting on the day coast yesterday, according to cording to a message received here. but

Humiliation Day, the the north-east of the province, after the incident. The com- an official message from Green-It is reported that the Anarchists Thirty bodies are re-are running the police and dis- up to the present apparently with-serve

date on which Manchuria was and it is not far away from the manding officer and a Consular land out success.

lost. As the Generalissimo is frontiers of Hunan and Kwang-oficial interviewed the local ported to have drifted ashore. pensing justice. A Socialist De-

authorities is also concerned with the Chengtu and tung.

yesterday. The

Later: An Icelandic gunboat Puty has been arrested, while an spreading to the Vosges district. Pakhoi questions with the Jap-

The stabilisation of the seriousness of the incident was!

which has arrived near the wreck other has fed. where 67 factories are now idle anese, he has instructed all Kwangsi currency is an urgent pointed out, and an assurance

{military and civil officials

repetition 59 being occupied by workers.

in need, and Mr. Chau Lim, the against

obtained the Pourquoipas reports that shots are being exchanged are oc- In Thaon several thousand em-the whole country to see that no Vice-Minister of Finance, is with a promise that every step the masts are showing above the earring nightly between Anarchists members of the Popular ployees were willing to work, butjanti-Japanese

are coming down south to help in would be taken to arrest the waves, but there is no sign of any

Front-Renter. Survivora. by a detach-held to-morrow, only the Na-this task. were turned back

culprits."

(Continued on Page 12) In the - meantime British ment of Mobile Guards, armed tional flags being allowed to fy

A graphic story of the disaster ships have been warned to pro-was told by Eugene Gezidec, 3 prevent at half-mast. clashes between the strikers andj It is learned that the Gen- those willing to work. The Na-jeralissimo will return to Nan- (Continued on Page 12) king after the arrival of Gen- eral Li Chung-jen and Mr. FRENCH CABINET Huang Ko-chai to day, for he

the release of the hostages,

The strike movement

with truncheons. to

COUNCIL

Geneva Delegation Named

**CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

meetings

has been called back by the Nanking Government

many times to negotiate the Sino- Japanese negotiations.

October 29 is the 50th birth-:

SHOCK TROOPS IN PORTUGAL New "Legion" To Be Formed

"ANTI-COMMUNIST INFLUENCE

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Lisbon, To-day.

day of the Generalissimo, and! The foundation of a "Port- the Kuomintang, military, poli-guese Legion" has now been ap tical, educational and public proved by a decree of the Govers bodies are busy subscribing ment. The Legion is to be givenj at money to buy aeroplanes as pre- the task of acting as anti-Com- A Cabinet Council met Chateau Rambouillet, the country sents for him. A certain, per- seat of the President of the Recentage of the salaries of the unist shock troops, and will be

Paris, To-day.

Clashes in which

ASSEMBLY

slowly where their wash member of the crew and the so- NEXT MEETING OF may cause damage. It should (tazy survivor, who swam through | be remembered that villagers the surf and was dragged from the. have legal methods of redress sea. He states that the vessel was should their property be dam-compelled to return

Cape aged, whereas resort to force (Reykjanes to seek shelter at Reyk- cannot be tolerated.

javik.

STRIKE POSITION IN PALESTINE Feeling Of Profound Pessimism

from

Anomalous Position

Expected

The vessel ran aground early in NEGUS TO SEND A DELEGATE the morning and sprang a leak,

the engines being stopped. Terri-

Paris, To-day.

demand for an apology and an indemnity of 3,000,000 france has been made by the French Consuă, at Tetuan to the insurgent authorities in Spanish Morocco, following the execution by them of a French subject named. Henri Agui lard. The demand includes a time-limit, expiring to-day, envisager the complete closing of the Franco-Spanish frontier of Horoces in the

of its rejection.

asd

event Reuter.

LIBERAL PARTY MEETING

Vigorous Criticism Of British Govt.

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

London, To-day.

A meeting of the council of the Liberal Party in Landon yester- day afternoon passed a resolution calling attention to the gravity Geneva, To-day. of the international situation and. fe seas brake over the ship, pre-

An anomalous position is to the need for venting the launching of lifeboats. likely to arise at the League of movement.

vigorous The crew put on their lifebelts, but Nations Assembly on Monday, tributed the present grave situa- The resolution at- the vessel was continually submerglowing to the fact that the tion to, the disastrous failure of ed by huge waves and the crew, Negus has decided to send a de-the Government to, stand by the one by one, were washed overboard-liegate. JAFFA ORANGE-GROWERS

It is generally be-League of Nations. VILLAGERS HELPLESS Ilieved that the Credentials Regarding Spain, the Council WANT IT BOTH WAYS

Committee will refuse recogni-[agreed that it was right that the Reykjavik, later: The French tion of the Ethiopian delegate. United Kingdom and other cour- Jersalem, To-day. Consulate states that the crew of The status of the Negus is al-tries should remain neutral dar- defence of the country's social

the lost vessel numbered about 40: most certain institutions against all subversive A feeling of profound

to be questioned ing the civil war, but urged a The vessel grounded on the rock and the existence of any form vigorous policy to make non- pessimism prevails, following only about 100 yards from The members of the Portuguese the Government's banning of shore. Owing to the heavy seas

a matter Wireless Service. Youth Organisation "Mocidade the conference of the Arab the villagers had to watch helpless Portuguesa" can, on reaching the strike committees. The com- age of 18, join the Legion, which mittees will meet separately while the men drowned-Beuter. is, apart from the army, the only and then report to the higher. military organisation in Portugal Arab committee, but no con- FORMER GREEK PRESIDENT and will be governed by a com-structive result is considered

likely.

given military training by the members of the above organisa-

The members, who are all}. public, yesterday morning. The

tions will be deducted for this army. was official communique which

volunteers, take an oath that The Generalissimo issued after, the session, which purpose.

they will sacrifice their lives in lasted three hours, states that the will turn over all the aeroplanes he receives as presents to the foreign political situation was ex- haustively discussed by the Coun-Air Force of China.

cíl..

Among other business transact SERIOUS CLASH IN

ed was the appointment of a French delegation to the forthcoming ses sion of the League Council. The delegation will be headed by the Foreign Minister, M. Delbos. The permanent French delegate to the League, M. Paul-Boncour, the Minister of Finance, M. Spinasse, and the Minister of Commerce, M. Bastid, will also be members the delegation.

WARSAW

Radicals In Gun Duel With Police

doctrines and elements.

mittée appointed by the Govern ment. Hitherto 1,000 Portuguese

PASSES

the

Ethiopia considered of independent Government in (intervention effective. - British for speculation. It is expected

FORMER CHANCELLOR OF AUSTRIA PASSES

Vienna,To-day,the death has occurred of the former Chancel-

that the Italian claim to repre- sent Ethiopia will be ignored.

The position of the Argentine Foreign Secretary, Senor-Lam- mas, who is likely to be elected A strong movement to dis- Vienna to-day-The former President of the Assembly, may Warsaw, To-day. capable of carrying arms have continue the strike has appear-President of the Greek Republic, prove difficult, as he has always lor, Dr. Bar! Buresch-Beuter.

the Jaffa orange-M Zainis, who was staying here championed the non-recognition Serious clashes between po- applied for membership.-Britished among

growers, shippers and port during the last few weeks for of the fruits of aggression. of lice and Communists yesterday, Wireless Service.

workers, who do not wish to reasons of health, died here on Reuter. in which six persons were kill- The Council also appointed the ed, occurred at the town of from their revolvers. The po-lose the advantages of the ex-Tuesday aged 81-Trans-Ocean new Eesident-General of Morocco, Zakow in the province of La-lice returned the fire and kill-port season. The export crop is Service. namely, General Nogues, who, on blin, when the police were ed five of the assailants. Three expected to amount to 11,500,- the recommendation of the Mini-searching the flats of Left-wing police officers were seriously 000 oranges, and the continua

wounded, one of them dying in tion of the strike would ruin the funds for assisting terrorists, three members headed by the Imru and Betowed Sadi, the lead- ter of Defence, M. Daladier, was Radicals.

thus, satisfying both the terror-Abyssinian Minister to. London, jeza of the Abyssinian Government also placed in supréme : command Groups of Communists sud-hospital, despife immediate Arab growers:

They propose to continue ists and commercial circles. -Dr. Martin, will attend the forth-fn Gore in West Abyssinia. of the Moroccan.

Trans-denly attacked the police off-medical attendance.-- Trans-

lcoming session of the League of Trans-Ocean Service. their contributions towards the Reuter. Icers, firing a volley of shots Ocean Service.

Ocean Service.

DELEGATION NAMED.

Nations.

It is not yet certain whether Geneva: In well-informed circles the Negus himself will come to it is stated here that an Abys-Geneva He is, however, said to sinian delegation, consisting of be in constant touch with Eas