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MUNITION SHIP WINS RACE WITH TIME

CAPTAIN GIVEN SHOCK: BROUGHT TO HALT OUTSIDE HARBOUR

ALLOWED TO PROCEED

New York, To-day.

The Spanish steamer Marcanta Brico won its race against time with the U.S. Congress and sailed with aeroplanes for the Spanish Governi- ment at 1.45 a.m.

A sensation was caused when the vessel was held up at Sandy Hook Lighthouse and compelled to return to Brooklyn, but she was later allowed to proceed.

The Marcanita Brico is loaded with aeroplanes and other Mr.

NO CONSCRIPTION munitions, consigned by

IN BRITAIN

Sir Thomas Inskip's Glasgow Speech

Martin Cuse, who enged steve- dores to work all through the! night in order to win the race; to get away before the Arms Ban was passed by Congress.

HASTY DEPARTURE

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 1937

"The Doo Artinellis Danseurs-De-Genne" now at the King's

Theatre.

The ship left the dock so hast- PREREMPTORY STEP

• London To-day.

of the eight sero-j The Minister for Co-ordination that mone

plane crates on deck had becz of Defence, in a speech in Glasgow,

lashed down, while one case of Britain would! prophesied that

spare aeroplane parts was left be- never introduce conscription peace-time and ridiculed, the fan-hind, but the remainder of the tastic notions entertained in some jatament carxo quarters abroad regarding the al-board.

leged failure to solve the recruit-: ing problem.

was safely

心は

It was a coastguard aeroplane co- which operating with a cutter halted the Marcanta Brico off

she was allowed

to

BY BRITAIN

(Continued from Page 1)

EMERGENCY BILL

London, To-day. England's position

the volunteer question is the subject]

OM

"I think," he said, our foreign Sandy Hook Lighthouse and for of discussion in, political circles. « friends do not always understand ced her to retum to Brooklyn, but in view of the fact that increas.

We when later

ing numbers our national characteristics,

of English volun- hold very tenaciously to our tradi-proceed or her journey, it was ex-teers are departing for Spain. tions.

plained that the halting was du "We have our own ideas about a legal matter and was

not

the way we shall govern ourselves connected with the arms embargo:

developments in Washington. — - and defend ourselves.

MODERN HEROIN

"I think we shall be able to show Reuter. other nations that we--perhaps alone among nations of Europe;

system can make the voluntary work and that it will suffice our needs-British Wireless Service.

ARMY RECRUITMENT

London, To-day..

Reports that political events

DIVAN

MAXIMUM PENALTY ON

OCCUPIER

It is expected that the question will be the subject of Ministerial discussions so that as soon as) Parliament convenes on January

Huge Casualties

In Air Raid

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

His Excellency`the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, will open the New Territories Agricultural Show at Shek Wu Hui on Satur- day at 230 pm. The show will be the continued on Sunday, when prizes will be presented by Mr. J. Barrow, District Officer North, 1 lat 2.30 p..

The Craigengower Cricket Club. will hold its Fortnightly Whist Drive and Tombola on Saturday commencing at 9:30 p.m.

The Hong Kong Travel Asso- ciation acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following sub- scriptions: The Hong Kong Land Investment & Agency Co. Ltd. $500: Hong Kong Tramways.. *Ltd.. $250.

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promised in the December number: make themselves evident. One of: the most interesting articles is en-! [titled “On the Guadarrama Front” and is extracted from the diary of a priest, Fr. Juan Martinez IS.J., who died in Spain while act- ing as chaplain to the Nationalist forces. The notes are translated literally, in the telegraphic form jin which they were written and provide an illuminating insight into the patriotism and idealism behind the Nationalist movement.

tele- The following. unclaimed London, Today.

grams are lying at E. E. Telegraph One hundred and fifty prom Co., Ltd. Cave, (Singaporepo). ple were killed and about 300

Allen 5 Aimaî Villas. Kowloon wounded as a result of an in-

(Corowa). Ragsdale. (Desmoine- surgent air raid en Malaga on

Passenger siowa), Mr. Machale, January 2, according to in-

Imperial Airways (Melbournepo). formation received here.

It is also reported that about For possession of 5,000 heroin 150 insurgent prisoners were

pills at No. 69 King's Road Chan shot

this Kam, an unemployed, a reprisal-Reuter's Bulletin Service.

morning sentenced at the Central Magistracy to one year's hard lab- our and fined, in addition, $2500.

CS

20 an emergency Eill can be in- CHIANG'S GRIP ON

!troduced prohibiting British volunteers from engaging in the Spanish conflict under the threat] of heavy penaltyTrans-Ocean.

NATIONALIST CLAIMS

Paris. To-day.

The Nationalist troops have now advanced 1 kilometres be

RAILWAY

was

Lui Wang, a widow, was sex- tenced to one year's imprisonment and fined $2000 when she pleaded guilty this morning to possession FORCES TO GARRISON THE of taeis of prepared opium and

LUNGHAI LINE

Canton, To-day.

Having been appointed Director

33 taels of raw opina at No. 121 Wyndham Street on December 28.

TWO FLAG DAYS INSTEAD OF 77 London Hospitals It is reliably reported that the

To Combine forces of General Yang Fu-cheng, Pacification Commissioner for Seventy-seven hospitals which now 16 kilometres Shensi, will be stationed on the bave, hitherto, held 77 different frontiers of North-western Chine, flag days in London have agreed

The maximum penalty of

one rond the village of LasRojas, and of the Generalissimo's Sian Head- were causing. Ct. Britain to move rear's imprisonment was imposed are progressing steadily in the quarters, General Kuo Chuk-tung towards conscription were given by Mr. K. Keen at the Central Ma-direction of Foire Lodones, the flew to Loyang, yesterday en route

objective being ato Sian to assume office. their quietus in a speech by Sir gistracy

Chan Ying, who immediate Thomas Inskip, when he alluded pleaded guilty to having 900 hero-jbridge over which the main high- to European press assertions that in pills in his possession at No. way between Escorial and Madrid Britain had failed to salve the re18 Bonham Strand East, first floor. crosses the Guadarima river.

They are cruiting problem.

Revenue officer W. Ward said We shall be able to show other that the floor was used as a divan south-west of Madrid.

pondent.

-Our Own Corres-

The Commissioner of Police has fixed May 2 to May 8, the week preceding the Coronation, as bos- pitals week On Tuesday. May 4, there will be one street coller-

nations that we are able to make and was one of the most modern Linder protection: of a heavy while Central Government troops to combine together for appeals our plan (deliberately adopted he had seen. There were in all fog. the Red Militia forces in Es-will 'garrison the line of the Long on two days only this year. alone among the European nations) 25 pipes and eight beds. The furn-corial, have despatched two trains | Hai Railway. one that will suffice for our needs.ture was of the best. There were to Foire Lodones.

Recruiting for the Navy and female waitresses for the conven- the Air Force was though in the case of the Army there was a great hiatus between the necessary complement and the Temas numbers coming forward.

satisfactory, lience of the customers.

were under consideration for mak ing the Service more attractive.

In another speech dealing with

AUSTRALIA WIN

www

(Continued from Page 1)

His

the economic aspect of re-arma- included seven boundaries. ment, Sir Thomas Inskip said the partnership with Leyland added question of skilled labour was 111 runs.

causing some concern and appeal- Verity left at 322. when McCabe skier at mid on off ed to employers of labour to co-accepted a operate to enable the programme O'Reilly, Sims was out lbw under to be completed-Reuter.

the new rule one run later, and Voce did not survive che ball, be- ing caught by Bradman of skier, the innings thus closing for 323, scored in 278 minutes, to give Australia victory by 265 runs.

CAPITAL ISSUES IN BRITAIN

SIGNIFICANT OFFICIAL FIGURES ISSUED

London. To-day. New capital issues in the Unit-]

2

RESULTS OF THREE TESTS The following have been the re- isults of the first three Tests.

At Brisbane-England woz by an innings and 22 runs.

At Sydney-England won by

ed Kingdom totalled $217,221,000 322 runs.

At Melbourne-Australia

are

It is claimed that they transporting troops which would lead to the supposition, that Es- corial is being evacuated,

It is also stated by observers that numerous motor lorries are

DEATH FOR DRUG PEDDLERS

+

departing from Foire Lodones in SHANGHAI TO CARRY OUT the direction of Veigo---Trans- Oceanz

MEDIATION IDEA

REJECTED

FEELINGS OF BITTERNESS MUCH TOO STRONG

DRASTIC STEPS

tion for the whole of the Metro- politan boroughs, and on Satur day, May 8, one for the outlying ropolitan Police district. There areas extending as far as the Me

{will be no other hospital flag days

before these dates.

Shanghai, To-day.

The hospitals hope to collect at The determination of the local authorities to stamp out the drag in one year by all the different least £30,000, the amount realised

evil in Shanghai has been Te-

flag days. affirmed by Mr. Tai Li-chen, Chief

at 36,

of the Narcotic Section of the The central committee, bead-;

quarters of which are Chinese Public Safety Bureau, Kingsway, W.C. 2, is working out who stated to-day that death sen the preliminary details. Lond tences will be imposed upon those Luke is the chairman. It is ex- That mediation in the Spanish found guilty of engaging in, peddl-pected that there will be at least civil war is impossible owing to ing drugs and прод manufac

50,000 street sellers. `. the atrocities committed, is the turers.

This is the biggest step yet

Spanish

Paris, To-day.

of

opinion voiced by the former Addicts will receive at least life taken by Scotland Yard in its Finance, imprisonment sentences, if not scheme for reducing the number Senor Ventosa, in an article pub-the supreme penalty-Beuter. lished in

Le Journal

Minister

the

Rightist paper

$;

STATE-OWNED AIR

FACTORIES

The writer asks how it is con- ceivable that a common national won life could be built up for those last year.

families whose members have been This was close on £19,000,000 by 265 runs.

DEVELOPMENT MAKES less than 1930, the last year be- Thirty Tests between England brutally murdered and tortured. fore the world depression and and Australia have been played at on the one band, and the murder-

PROGRESS IN FRANCE compares with £88,666,000 in 1931, Melbourne, Australia having woners on the other.

There can, under these circum-

Paris, To-day. from which date a consistent an-16, England 12 and two having

England's last stances, the

Minister continues The French Air Ministry has nual recovery has been maintain-been left drawn.

one solution

the win on this ground was in the be only

Spanish question, namely a Na work of a scheme for nationalis- now created, witain the frame

tionalist victory by which the

ing the armaments industry, the fourth of the new regional state-

ed

TEAMS NOW LEVEL

Of last year's issues, the muni-1928-9 tour. cipalities and public boards group in the complete Test series of accounted for £48,000,000, the railway group for £21,250,000, and 137 matches England and Austra

to

(of flag days in London by putting| similar societies into groups for combined appeals as follows:

Societies for the Blind...April Hospitals

Animals.

May .June

Children's Societies...October | There were some years ago over} | 300 flag days, including 17, in one‡

day.

FRENCH HONOUR FOR LORD.

BADEN-POWELL ·

enemy will be exterxcinated.

The minister stresses the con-owned undertakings which are Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, Paris, December 13. Lord!

coal, iron, steel and engineerin, lia have both won 54 times and trast "National" Spain where he being substituted for privately" who arrived here yesterday to st

including motors and aviation, for 29 matches have been drawn.

over $22,250,000, while the invest- ment and finance group approach-

The table is as follows:

Eng, Aust.

ed $22,000,000.-British Wireless Service.

Won Won Dn. Ths.

In Australia....134

2 75

39

LONDON AND NOTES

tend the celebration of the

claims conditions of life are com-owned airplane factories. pletely normal" and "Red" Shain,

It is stated that the new under twenty-fifth anniversary of the where indescribable chaos

pre takings which will be known as Scout movement in France, and Vails-Trans-Ocean.

the National Aeronautical Con- was greeted at the station by a London, To-day, Oficial quar-struction Company of Central contingent of several hundred In England. ..20 15 27 62ters here are remaining silent at France," will like similar under Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, was present, regarding the note retakings, have a share capital of invested with the insignia of the

milliard ceived from the Valencia Govern-e

france. wwwwww. Trans

Grand Cross of the Legion of Three miners who were trapped The Australian total of 564 atment requesting

that the Non-Ocean.

Honour by Prezident Lebrun at by a fall

ef stone at Ryhope Melbourne is not the highest Test Intervention, Committee deal with

the Elysee last night. “ Colliery, near Sunderland, were score on this ground, Australia naval activities in Spanish waters. erntent is awaiting full details of This afternoon he attended rescued after other workmen had having totalled 600 in 1924-5 to

Whis note, it is stated, is at pre- the Spanish: Note, to" "Geneva, worked for nine hours to cut their win by 31 runs and England hav sent under consideration and, in which assumed not to be idea- way through a 20-yard barrier of ing scored 589 in 1911-12 to win well-informed circles, the opinion tical wing the London-Note.

"by an innings and 225-runa. ¡is expressed that the British Göy- Trans-Ocean.

stone.

Totals

.54 54 29 137

*

mass rally of French Scouts at the Parc des Expositions, where he

| was given an enthusiastic

tion.

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