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FIGHTING REPORTED TO HAVE BROKEN OUT IN SHENSI PROVINCE

His Majesty King George the Sixth celebrates his fist birthday to-day.

"OH! THE PITY OF IT"

ARCHBISHOP'S BROADCAST

STRANG AND SAD EVENT IN BRITISH HISTORY

Marshal Chang Defending Strategic Point

FOOTBALL CROWDS NEED CONTROL

SPECTATORS STONED

AT SOO KUNPOO!

Better supervision of the crowds watching football matches

at Caroline Hill and Sookunpoo is urgently required and imme diate action by the Police in this respect will be appreciated by the law-abiding community.

Yesterday at Sookunpoo an ugly situation arose when the ball was kicked over the stand into the nullah. When one of the military men on duty attempted to retrieve it a section of the crowd lining the hillside outside the ground began to stone him: Spectators in the stand were soon aware of what was bappening when large stones came hurtling into the stand. Just how long is this going to be tolerated?

At the same

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game 'someone ¦ on the hillside behind the main stand let off a string of crack-

TOUR OF EMPIRE ers when South China scored

BY THE KING

Plans Reported To Be Under Consideration

- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

London, To-day..

The captain of the Spanish prison ship Uruguay, where.

Lew were

their second goal, and the same person reserved a large quan-i tity for the final whistle. Nol one objects to this in the nor mal course of events, but when prisoners of war were held last month, is shown at the left as he had lunch beautifully polished cars are! with his star. Tse military tribunal sat each day meting out justice to transferred into powder-mark- Prisoners of the Spanish war. ed vehicles by crackers thrown of having taken up arms against their Government were condemned to face Numerous prisoners who were found guilty down on them from the hillside, acquitted for lack of evidence.

the firing squad. Some were sentenced to prison terms and a His Majesty King George it is time something was done London, To-day."-

VL. it is stated, is planning to about it. "King Edward VII received make a

tour of the Empire from God a high and sacred trug" during the next year and will declared the Archbishop of Can-j

be accompanied by Her Majes terbury in a broadcast address yes- Queen Elizabeth, and prob- ably also by the 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth.

terday.

"With characteristic frankness, be told us of his motive for suc-i

At Christmas, following the rendering that trust. It was example of his father, the new craving for his private happiness King will broadcast a message It is strange and sad that it must to the Empire from Sandring- be that for such a motive, how ham, the favourite country re- ever strongly it had pressed upon sidence of the late King his heart, he should have disap George V, where the new mon- pointed hopes that were sn high arch will spend Christmas with and abandoned a trust so great with the Queen and Queen

"It is even more strange and Mother. sad that he should have sought his vice.

happiness in a manner inconsistent

Trans-Ocean

with the Christain principles of Coronation Date

marriage, and within a social cir-i

cle whose standards and ways of life are alien to all the best in-

Unchanged

Ser-

With Large Force

CHINA RALLIES TO GENERALISSIMO

FENG OFFERS HIMSELF AS HOSTAGE

YOUNG MARSHAL'S REASSURING MESSAGE TO MME. CHIANG

Nanking, To-day. Government troops are reported to be moving to Shensi to suppress the revolt. A message from Peiping is to the effect that the Sianfa crisis is believed to have been precipitated by the ac tion of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in appointing General Chiang Ting-wen, Commander-in-Chief of the anti-Communist Torces in the north-west, following differences with Marshal Chang Hsneh-liang-

The Generalissimo had been pressing Marshal Chang to take firmer action against the Reds, whereas the young Marshal and his 100,000 troops are reported to have found a common boud of anti-Japanese feeling with a supposed enemy.

Shanghai: Fighting is reported to have broken out be- troops are being rushed to Shensi in order to check the revolt tween the loyalists and rebels in Shensi Province. Government Normal traffic on the Tientsin-Fukow-Langhai railways is dis- command of the operations against the rebels.... located and General Ho Ying-chin has been placed in supreme

Marshal Chang Haneh-liang has massed a powerful force in Tung Kwan, a strategie pass on the Honan-Shensi border.

Shanghai: It is reliably stated that Marshal Chang

The huge crowds that gather GERMAN REPLY TO THE such-liang has sent a further

outside the main grounds are be coming. more daring each week and unless drastic action is taken immediately the situation will get right out of hand.

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'MAGINOT LINE"

FOR SOVIET Total Length Will Be 2,000 Miles

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

London, To-day.

A

ANGLO-FRENCH NOTE -shrek, who is at present in

Berlin, To-day.

assurance to Madame Chiang

Nanking, renewing the assur- The German reply

Dublin: Eight-hundred "Blue-ance that her husband will be to the shirts" followers of ing mediation in Spain has terday morning to enlist in Cren-ent rumours have been circu- Angle-French proposals regard-O'Duffy sailed from Galway yes caused general relief as persist- The news has General safeguarded.

been handed to the Anglo-eral Franco's army. French Ambassadors and

lating that the Generalissimo de This contingent brings the total had been executed. clares that Germany is ready number of members of O'Duffy's

Nanking: General Feng. Yu-

1,000.-Trans-tary Affairs Commission, has sent Chang

to support all measures aim-movement serving under General hsiang, vice-chairman of the Mili- ing at the restoration of Franco to about peaceful conditions in Spain, Ocean Service. and also the prevention of the

spreading of the fames of war If

Ja telegraph to Marshal

Hsueh-liang, offering himself

The Young Marshal has sent, a

Dr. H. H. Kung, promising to as

safety of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, "for, whom I have had an affectionate regard for eight

Generalissimo Chiang China's "Strong Man".

The Soviet Government is plan- the other Governments believe MEET IN SHANGHAImage to the Finance Minister,

to other parts of Europe.

CHINESE BANKERS hostage for Generalissimo Chiang ning to create a Maginot Line that they can make any con- similar to the well-known French crete proposals for mediation, NO NEED FOR PANIC same full responsibility for the western fortifications, according Germ ny will. readily co-oper ti a special report in the Sunday late in the examination of those stincts and traditions of his people. His Majesty the King yesterday paper, The People.

"Let those who belong to this received in audience the Lord Two lines will be built as

proposals. Germany - regrets.

Shanghai, To-day. cirele know to-day that they stand President of the Council. Mr. defence against attack on both the ernments have

however, that the other Gov-

Mr. T. V. Seung, who has just yests".. rebuked, by the judgment of Ramsay Macdonald, and the Homelcastern and western frontiers, her desire.

not supported

returned from Canton, presided at nation which loved King Edward. Secretary, Sir John Simon, and to states the paper, which gives their

a meeting last evening of Chinese Chiang, the Young Marshal wrote and Chahar, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan In his message to Madame General Sung Chi-yuan of Hopei How can we forget the high hopes the Lord President the King sign total length as 2,000 miles,

Volunteers are going to Spain, bankers, who decided that, in view "Before God I swear. I have never of Shansi, General Fu Chai-yee of of promise of Edward's youth, fied his approval that the date al will provide accommodation for no donment of either direct or in-

They and she considers that the aba of the Sianfu crisis, the Govern harmed anybody, therefore you Sufyaan, General Ho Chien hia genuiness and care for the ready set for the Coronation. May liess than 3,000,000 soldiers and direct intervention must be handlrencies freely to-morrow in de Deed not worry."--Reuter.

ment banks will sell gold poor, common and unemployed. 12. 1937, should remain unchang- their construction, it is estimated,ed as, a single proble his eager service both at home ed--British Wireless Service,

will take five years.

fence of the dollar. and across the seas?

engineers who planned the French National Government, has indicated to take a panicky view of the

Germany, by her recognition of the

It is believed that there is no "Maginot Line" will be employed ed that she sees no other factor from our back and invited the waiting pho-as advisers by the Soviet Govern

situation as the banks possess hearts the cry, "The pity of it. On tographers to come along to take ment-Trans-Ocean Service.

"It is the remembrance of these]] things that "wrings

the pity of it."

The French

tive attacks.

decline in

Our

Nine Provinces Pledge Their Loyalty

The Archbishop of Canterbury turned to the platform, where he FLEET MOVEMENTS any understanding with this lat-bonds and commodities is expect Central Political Council held

pictures of the party. He then re-

concluded his address with striking their religion.--Reuter.

call to the nation to

DUKE OF WINDSOR

IN VIENNA

a willingly submitted himself to a

cross fire of flashlights from the

cameras before his departure. Reater.

TWO COMPANIONS

Vienna: The Duke of Windsor,

ter party would appear to be hard ed. Reuter."

H.M.S. Berwick Backly conceivable-Beuter.

From Manila

HMS. Berwick, of the Fifth passed through Salzburg yester Cruiser Squadron, arrived in day afternoon, travelling in special saloon car attached to the morning, following a short cruise Hong Kong from Manila this Įregular Basle-Vienna Salzburg to the Philippine Islands.. Express.

HMS. Capetown, of the Yang He was accompanied by his tze Command, is expected to ar- Vienna, To-day, Private Secretary, a private derive in the Colony to-morrow from His Royal Highness the Duke tective and an official from Scot Amor..

Willingly Poses For

Photographers` ·

of Windsor arrived here at 1.05 and Yard. During the journey HMS. Bruce, former destroyer p.m. yesterday and drove off im-through Switzerland the escort tender in attendance on HMS. mediately in Baron Rothschild's was supplemented by a small Swiss Medway and Submarines, will private ear for Euzesfeld, As the guard.

train drew into the station, the (Continued on Page 10)

police threw a cordon round the

special sleeper, allowing none of

the passengers to go near it

leave for Home vic Singapore to morrow, and is being relieved by the Destroyer Westcott

The Japanese river gunboat Sa ga, is expected to arrive in the

of.

Hanan, General. Ho: Shing-chnen jof Hupei, General Yu Eon-mow of Kwangtung. General Lin-chi-of

Honan and General Han Fi-chu in Spain which can claim help for ple reserves to resist specula Canton: Members of the Cen-

of Shantung, declaring their loyalty to the Central Government. the Spanish people in view of the brutalities of the other side, and Some

Thirty Nanking planes few over tral Executive Committee of the Sian yesterday afternoon and it is Government Kuomintang and members of the reported that red flags were seen

a hoisted in the city. joint, meeting on Saturday night It is stated that besides the and it is reliably learned that the Generalissimo. Generals meeting continued as late as Sheng, the Vice War Minister, Chen am yesterday morning. The re-General Chiang Ting-wen,, Paci-- solutions passed were the ap-fication Commissioner of Fukien Finance Minister, as the Acting central high military officials hate pointment of Dr. H. H. Kung, the Province and a number of the President of the Executive Yaan, Jalso been detained by the mutia adding the names of Admiralous troops. Authoritative reports: Chen Shao-fin, and Generais Ho state that General Ho Ying-ching Ying-ching, Ching Chien, Li Lich-has already gone to Loyang, kan, Chu Pei-tech and Tang Sen-Honan Province, to take over the chi as Standing Members of the whole military affairs of the

PAN-AMERICAN PEACE PACT; NOW AWAITS ONLY RATIFICATION

CONDITIONS OUTLINED Enenos Aires, To-day. The Pan-American Peace Pact signed by the nations represented in the Congress here, now awaits the rafifi- cation by the parliaments of the signatory countries Article I provides that when

JAPANESE REACTION CONFERENCE HELD

IN TOKYO

Tokyo, To-day, The revolt in Shensi has caused a sensation extending from one end of Japan to the other. Officials of the MinisMilitary Affairs Commission, the country in the absence of the Gen-

tries of War, Navy and For- eign Office held a series of conferences yesterday › and fully discussed the situation, and it has been decided to in struct the Japanece authors" ties in China to take im mediate measures to "sale

The British Minister at Vie STOP PRESS Colony tomorrow and will re the peate of the American re-uard Japanese lives and pro-

was on the platform, but no re- presentative of the Austrian Gog ernment was present.

The Duke of Windsor, was dressed in a black winter coat, trimmed with a fur collar and wore a dark red woollen scarf. He was looking very well. After proceeding through the Imperial waiting room, he suddenly turned

London, To-day. It is officially announced that Her Majesty Queen Elimbeth Is suffering from a mild attack of Infinera and will have to

· stay in her home in Piccadilly for a few days —Router.

main here until the 18th instant publics is menaced, all the before residing her patrol. South American- governmenta who are signatories to the Briand Kellogg Pact of the Conciliation Treaty of 1933, London. To-day The death will be bound to consult those of Lady Gilbert, widow of Mr. republics with the object of

LADY, GILBERT PASSES.

W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert and promoting

yesterday. Beuter

Ballivan fame, occ

here

perty

Mr. Kawaskinn, Director of the East Asiatic Department In the Foreign Office, inter- rupted his week-end holiday

rushed to Tokyn, where he on the Izu perfusula " and

conferred for two hours. the Foreign, · Minister, Artia-Beater.

appointment of Marshal Feng Yu-¡eralissimo.

Madame Chiang: ac

German Press Views

On Coup

hsiang as Acting Chairman of the companied him. From Our Own Mitary Affairs Commission, the Correspondent, entrusting of General Ho Ying- ching, the War Minister, with the movements of troops, and the dis- minaal of the revolting marshal from his positions as Acting Commander-in-Chief of Bandit Berlin: Under the heading "AL. Suppression in North-western arming News From North China,” China, member of the Supervisory the Berliner Tageblatt, features Committee of the Enomintang, prominently the report that the and member of the Military AL- Generalissimo had been arrest fairs Comeni

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