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TIGHTEN THEIR RING ROUND SPANISH CAPITAL

General Astray Millan (rearest the camera), founder of the Spazínă Foreign Legion, who gave an eye and an arm for his country, is here. shown as he inspected the rebel troops at Saragossa last month. General Millan rushed bome from South America to take part in the civil war.

JAPAN'S FINAL FORMULA

DRAWN UP

NORTH CHINA PROBLEM HELD TO BE MOST IMPORTANT

(From A Special Correspondent)

Canton, To-day.

Yesterday morning the joint conference of the Japanese For- eign, Naval and War Offices disclosed their final formula for Sino- Japanese relations, and Mr. Suma, the Sécretary-General to the Japanese Ambassador to China, left Tokyo at 9 pm. for China to carry with him these final instructions to Mr. Kawagoe, the Japanese Ambassador to China, for further negotiations with the Chinese Government.

It is learned that the Japanese

MANOEUVRES IN Government wants to settle the

N. CHINA

DIRECT WARNING TO JAPANESE

EXERCISES MUST BE CONFINED WITHIN SET LIMITS

the

AIR FORCE IN FRANCE

DETAILED PLANS FOR INCREASE

PRESENTED BY AIR MINISTER

NEW PROGRAMME AT COST. OF $50,000,000

Paris, To-day.

Detailed plans for a big in- crease in the Air Force have been presented to the Cabinet by the Minister for Air, M. Pierre. Cat. It was originally intended to bulki 1,000 planes, but under the new] plan a larger nimber of an ap proved type will be toried out at in faster rate. The number off aerodromes and also the personnel }of the Air Force will be increased, and special attention will be given to fuel reserves..

The plan will cost £50,000,000, for which the credits have already be asked-Reuter's Bulletin [Service-

R.A.F. FLYING-BOATS AT KARACHI

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London. To-day-The five. Short Singapore III Boyal Air Force flying-boats which left Pembroke Dock on October 14 for Singapore. arrived at Karachi at 3.40 p.m local time yesterday. - British Wireless Service.

North China problem and question of the joint suppression an of Communism there first, and the rest of the outstanding questions | can be settled later. Mr. Chang Chun, the Chinese Foreign Min-

tinue

WARSHIPS ON THE WAY

Japanese Visit To Hainan ?

NATURAL RESOURCES OF ISLAND

[From A Special Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

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Through the mtITUR,

1_and_streets_of_Spal's ancient cathe» deal city of Toledo, sestiered layslitz kust, out zebel szípers. This picture shows supporters of the Government tracking down rebel markamen, and war tahou shortly before the mining of the AlcasRE.

KRUPP ENGINES FOR CHINA.

Shipped From Hamburg To Tsingtao

Berlin, To-day. Ten Krupp railway engines, each weighing 115 tons, for the Chinese State Railways, have

been shipped from "Hamburg to Tsingtao in the motor-ship Bel Moira-Reuter."

NEW TRAFFIC SIGNS

MADRID BARRACKS

BOMBED AGAIN BARAJAS AERODROME ̈

DESTROYED

PORTUGAL ALLEGES INFRACTION OF COMMITTEE RULES BY BRITAIN

To-day.

The ring is tightening roud, Madrid, according to the insur- gents" communiytes, which claim that the insurgents have de- cupied Guadalajara, on the main Madrid-Siguenry road, bringing the line to the east of the capital within 35 miles. They also state- that the insurgents again bombed the Madrid barracks" and the" railway station, and destroyed the chil nerodroïne at Extrajás,

a The Madrid short-wave station failed to broadenst, on Mon day night for the first time since the war began. — Reuter's Bal letin Service..

London: Reports that Soviet ships inden with-supplies faz Spain have passed through the Suez Canal are denied by the So. viet Embassy in London, and the denislis confirmed by a Renter message from Port Sald, V

On the other hand Istanbul reports that a 5,800-ton Soviet steamer passed the Dardanelles yesterday with a miscelaneous cargo for Spain. Fifteen other ships have saded past the Straits this month with various cargoes, including war materials, but Spain was not given as their destination, met bedre!

Subscriptions for Spair collected in Soviet Russia nów ceed 47,500,000 roubles. —— Reuter

Malta: Two Spanish vessels, flying the Catalan fing arrived

MADRID

Insurgents Capture Town 16 Miles, South Of Capital

here yesterday, with the crew FURTHER ADVANCE TOWARDS obviously starving. It is under- stood that it had been ordered to make for Bussian ports but fran out of coal and provisions. The crew said that more ships

expected -Reuter's - Bulletin Service."

Government House

Area Control Spanish parts might be

MOTORISTS MUST WAIT FOR "ALL CLEAR"

پاه

The attention of all motor- ists is invited to the recent al

Another Complaint By Portugal

NO STATEMENTS terations in traffic signs out- RULES ALLEGED VIOLATED

LOCALLY

Naval Authorities Reticent

GOVERNMENTS IN DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS

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Descas, To-day-

The insurent cavalry has re- gistered a four-mile advance to- wards "Madrid, capturing "„Torre Jon del-Calzada, 16 miles south of the capital-Renter.

HEAVY GALE IN BRITAIN

Extensive Damage Reported

SCOTLAND SUFFERS MOST

side Government House. In

BY BRITAIN - the past, difficulty has been ex-

London: Portugal reserves the perienced in securing the safety right to withdraw from the non- of cars leaving Government intervention committee, at 207 House, owing to the fact that moment in a Note to the Foreig there was no method of stop-Office; complaining that Britain violated the committee's rules of ping or slowing down traffic procedure by forwarding to the

London, To-day. proceeding along the main road committee without due investiga Reports from all parts of "Dead Slow" signs have now tion the Spanish Government's al-the country indicate how wide- been erected to cover the three|legations against Germany, Italy spread and serious have been approaches to Government and Portugal Portagal denies the effects of Monday night's House, namely WEL the east the accuracy of the allegations gale, which had only slightly covering the approach by Upper and reserves the right to with-abated yesterday morning. Albert Road and the approach draw, but does not indicate whe trail of havoe was left on Mer- from Garden Road, and one on ther the, retirement is imminent.seyside, where the gusts reach- the west covering the approach

fed a velocity of 32... wiles an A Benter message from

from Caine Road. These signs

hour. stated

should ensure that all motorists

A family at Bootle had - an learned in

Government oficial passing

should proceed at a slow pace. in London that dispute

In addition, two traffic con- involving Bri- tish sailors occurred at Keer trol lights have been installed lung an October 7 regarding to control both east, bound, and

We have been informed by the Naval authorities that they can make no statement regarding the incidents at Formosa owing to the fact that the matter is now being dealt with directly by the British and Japanese Govern- ments.A

lister, has been instructed to cont It is reported in the Chinese with the fixed policy of papers here that the Japanese maintaining Chinese sovereignty have 15 warships, from Taiwan, and integrity during the negotia-on their way to Hainan Island, tions, and to reject all Japanese and the Sve Japanese warships demands that violate the Chinese near the island are going near iFrom A Special Correspondent]

national rights. Generalissizo Haihow, North of Hainan.. This, Chiang Kai-shek will probably re-however, is not yet confirmed. Canton, To-day.

turn to Nanking from Sian, the While the Japanese, manoeu-

London It will be remembered that ow- vres, are proceeding in North Capital of Shensi Province, before China, General Sung Chi-yuan, the seventh ineeting of the Sino-ing to the rich but unexploited Chairman of the Hopel-Chaharapanese negotiators, so as to in-natural resources in this island, Political Council, held a military struct Mr. Chang Chun how to General Ya Hon-mow, Pacifica- conference at Peiping at 9 deal with the final Japanese form-tion Commissioner for Kwang- o'clock yesterday morning, and the details of this conference have not been divulged.

It is reliably reported that the young officer's of the 29th Army

ula.

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MR. SUMA INTERVIEWED

ting, has already sent two full divisions of his troops to be sta- tioned in the different districts of the island, and Mr. T. V. Sang, Chairman of the Economic Com

Kobe: All prespects for the mission at Nanking is planning a of which General Sung himself is modification of the Japanese scheme to exploit the natural re- the commander, have notified the titude 36 the Nanking negotiations Japanese trips direct to perform as a result of the Tokyo, confer- their exercises within the continences were finally dispelled by

sources there.

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the payment of a taxicab fare, which there is good evidence to show had been paid.

a result three British sailors

Renters

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House NO TRANSFER OF alarming experience early yes-

west bound traffic. These lights|| will normally be alighted, but when cars are about to emerge from Government House, the

GOVERNMENT

Marxist Assembly's Decision

Rabat To-day.

terday, when the wind stripped a large section of the outer wall from their house and sent

it flying down the street

Three lives have been lost in the West of Scotland, and injur- ed are variously stated from a few dozen to nearly a hundred. [A motor-cyclist was killed by 2

falling tree in Kent

were taken to the police stared light will be switched on by

the Military guard, and all traf- A decision not to transter tion, where they --sustained

fic should then stop, and not the Madrid Government to Bar- injuries," one having his jaw

Frion Lowestoft it is report- proceed past the red lights un-celona was reached by the led that the hearing boats which fractured A British naval

til the "all clear is given by Mist Assembly, presided sailed: yesterday morning have the extinguishing of the lights over by Senor Alverez del Vayo, been driven back to port

{the Foreign Minister, according

The gale has caused consider- to an insurgent broadcast from ble interruption to telephone Cadiz The Assembly also de-and telegraph services Scot marded that the President, Don land appears to have suffered Manuel Azana, should return most, all the mates in the West- immediately to Madrid Renen highlands North of Glasgow ter

sistance was" insulted by the Japanese police.

ed sphere which has been already Mr. Suma, the Secretary-General BORDER-GUARDS officer who came to their 28. been assigned for the purpose; to the Japanese Ambassador, to and if the Japanese troops exer-China, when he was interviewed cise, beyond this confined mit just before his departure for they will be held responsible for|Shanghai this morning. any trouble, that may result.

EXCHANGE OF FOODSTUFF.

He said "my instructions to Mr.

Another Incident” On Soviet Border

It is learned that General Sung Kawagoe, are to the effect that is using all his influence to res-there is no other course than to

At Moscow, To-day. train his subordinates.

(purane e consistently the "object

sought from the beginning Atrol of seven Soviet hope the Chinese will respond to border guards was attacked in the immutable and solid attitude of the region of Turie, 500 yards Japan in such a way as to bring inside the Soviet border, by conclusionReuter the negotiations to an amicable two Japan Manchuknoan de- tachments, according to a mes- sage from Khabarovsk. Re ceiving reinforcements, the So- inge vist guards compelled the

chuknown - detach

Hunan & Kwangtung Co-Operate

(From A Special Correspondent]

Canton, To-day

The economic co-operation Hunan and Kwangtung pravi having been completed, it is ed that, from Nove surplus of rice in

aent to Kwangtung in |for the surplus sait from the late

ter proviner: It

that Kwangtung is |supplies itself, and the

Atman.and STE

Imbassador at

The British Government is in communication with the Japanese Government on the subject of reparation for the

· incident, and – meanwhile it'

has been found impossible for

the Commander-in-Chief of the China Station to proceed on an official visit to Japanese porta, wala Panenkan pa

SINGAPORE ECHO KG Singapore: A naval rating was disembarked from the troopship Lancash which he2WED) bound, and Kong by

INDIAN LADY PASSES

Mrs. Fatima Rumjahn

The local Indian community suffered a serious loss this morning through the death, át her residence in Wong Net Cheong Road, of Mrs. Fatima Bumjahn, wife of Mr. D. Bun |jahn, the well-known local lawn,

bowls player.

| Mrs – Banjahn had been

health for

been confin

indiff

bed

SMALL FIRE AT VILLAGE

Eleven Hats Totally Destroyed

totally des

being interrupted. In the whole of Scotland six trunk

Paes and jume 18 and 655 plines are interrupted; and 10,350 subscriber lines are out of ac- tion, while 208 exchanges are completely isolated. Seventeen telegraph Ines are also affected

and 267-trunk

and 3,075 sub-