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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1937.

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HAS STALIN MET MATCH? General Voroshiloy Reported Openly Defiant

TEST OF STRENGTH IN NEAR FUTURE PREDICTED

Berlin, To-day.

Suggestions that Stalin has at last met his match in the person of General K. E. Voroshilov, the Commissar for War, are made by the "Berliner Boersen Zeitung."

Reports emanating from Mo.cow during the past week have revealed the existence of a state of tension between the two men, Stalin's threat of a "purge" of the Red Army and even of arrest of General Voroshilov himself, having been met with an uncompromising silence.

New, the paper says, the bat- tle between the two men is the most sensational news out of Moscow for a long time.

In view of the personal danger connected with any criticism of the Stalin rule, the open threat flung at the Dictator by the first man of the Red Army is all the more grave.

STALIN SILENT

Stalin's reaction has not become known but in any case he did not resort to his favourite method of silencing opposition by arrest and imprisonment

"Does Stalin feel that General Voroshilov and the Red Army have slipped out of his hands?” asks the paper.

FRENCH DEFENCE

ESTIMATES

Huge Supplementary

Bill Presented

Paris, To-day.

Mr. Eden Taking A Holiday

London, To-day.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, is leaving on Sunday for a fortnight's holi- day in the South of France.

Viscount Halifax, the Lord Privy Seal, is deputising in the House, during Mr. Eden's ab- sence Reuter.

BRITAIN'S NEW COINAGE

Medallionists At Palace

London, To-day.

FLOOD PERIL LIFTS

New York, To-day. Tension at Cairo, Illinois, has finally relaxed somewhat as all fear of immediate danger to the city from floods has been re- moved.

The crest of the Ohio River, which it was feared would in- undate the town and which swept to within a few inches of the top of its hastily augmented defences, rearing their heads high above the city roofs, has swung into the Mississippi River and started on its long roll to- wards the Gulf of Mexico.

BEGINS TO RECEDE.

The river at Cairo stood at 59.62 Ambassadors and Ministers ac-feet for twelve hours and then, at credited to the Court of St. James 19 o'clock yesterday morning, began attended at Buckingham Palace to recede by the fraction of an inch. yesterday morning to present their new letters of credence to the King walls having hitherto withstood

The King for the first time on a

State occasion wore the uniform of The an Admiral of the Fleet. Foreign Secretary was in atten dance.

It was learned two days after the break between the two men that

In the afternoon the King re- General Voroshilov had advised the secret police that he would disarmceived Sir Robert Johnson, deputy| them if they made any attempt to Master of the Mint, and Mr. B. arrest officers of the Red Army. Metcalfe, one of the mint medal- "Does this mean that General lionists. It is understood that the Voroshilov has now become more King discussed with them matters

Trans-connected with the new coinage. powerful than Stalin?”

British Wireless.

Ocean:

FRANCO'S DRIVE FOR MALAGA

GIBRALTAR, TO-DAY.

The greatly strengthened flood

their terrific ordeal, the imme- diate battleground - of the food workers now shifts to the town of. New Madrid, in Missouri. -Reu- ter.

Brazil Drought

Rio de Janeiro, To-day. While flood are devastating-North America a severe drought is scourg- ing the interior of Brazil.

Yesterday 5,000 starving people, fleeing from the horrors of the drought, arrived in the small town of Itapipoca, in the State of Ceara. The Governor of the State has left for the interior to organise relief measures.--Renter.

EUROPEAN WOMAN ROBBED

Ho Keung, who was charged be fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen- A FIERCE BATTLE IS NOW IN PROGRESS BETWEEN tral Magistracy with snatching the MARBELLA AND FUEN GIROLA, WHERE THE REBEL ear-ring of Mrs. W. Butt at Ken-

| FORCES UNDER GENERAL FRANCO ARE MAKING A STRONG |zědy Road, was this morning sen-

DRIVE AGAINST THE LOYALIST DEFENDERS.

Lorry-loads of wounded have al- ready begun to arrive at Lalinea.

Insurgent headquarters claim to

The French supplementary de have already captured the town of fence estimates, which were pass Ojen, near Marbella, but it is ed by the Senate yesterday, have learned that the Government troops now been approved by the finance are resisting vigorously. committée. Le

From Malaga comes a report that The total credit proposed, how-an insurgent submarine shelled the ever, was reduced from 1,180,000,-south-east Spanish coast between 000 francs to 1,109,000,000 francs, Almeria and Malaga, apparently and the estimates were referred with the aim of destroying bridges back to the Chamber. --- Trans- and roads.. Ocean.

MILLIONS OF GAS

MASKS

Plans For Emergency

Distribution

London, To-day.

This endeavour to isolate Malaga before the insurgent land attack developed failed to attain its ob-

ject-Reuter.

HARBOUR RESCUE

Wong Yuen-ming, aged 18, was by Kwong Kau, a seaman,

Four million gas masks will be when she attempted to commit sui

stored in special buildings in London

and Manchester, declared a

presentative of the Home Office to- Kong.

day

jumping of a steam launch

Shamghuipo

Eleven more storage places, he and rapid distrib added, would be acquired in dif-maske ferent part of the country.

now und

Plans for the most satisfactory Ocean.

and

tenced to six months' hard labour and to 15 strokes,

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