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SHENSI REBELLION HAVOC

FULL STORY JUST

REVEALED

CASUALTIES WHEN BRIDGE BLOWS UP

Shanghai, To-day.

The material loss caused by the recent military revolt in

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GRAVE RIOTING IN BUDAPEST

POLICE FIRE ON TURBULENT MOB:

MANY CASUALTIES

COAL STRIKE VIOLENCE

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)

Budapest, To-day.

Wednesday was a busy day for the Hungarian Shensi and Kansu is much police, for riots broke out in many parts of the

heavier than was hitherto be- lieved.

The stagnation of trade re- sulted in huge quantities of

country.

The worst incidents were reported from Funf- foodstuffs going to waste, while kirchen, where bloody clashes occurred between many houses and other buildings police and demonstrators. were wrecked as the result of the fighting and looting.

The Lunghai Railway suffered very severely.

Railway engineers state that the mutineers tore up bridge after bridge, together with whole sec- tions of the track in their efforts to halt the advance of the ment forces.

BRIDGE EXPLOSION

Govern-

The Fleet

Returning

HMS. Cumberland, flying the Sir Charles Little, Vice-Admiral Repair staffs followed the mu-lag of the C.-in-C. China Fleet, in the Colony on tineers so closely that they often

K.C.B., is due March 15. came under fire.

A large crowd had gathered to demonstrate sympathy with several hundred miners who are carrying on an underground sit- down strike.

POLICE OPEN FIRE Peaceful means having failed to disperse the crowd, the police fired several volleys into the mob.

Two were killed and many wound- ed, several of them seriously.

Funfkirchen also experienced

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London, To-day-

What are believed to be the first oranges ever received in England from China, have been marketed at Covent Garden,

The shipment is reported to represent the effort of Chinese growers to enter the market while the war in Spain affects supplies.

Of two varieties-suet kom and tsiu kom-the oranges were packed by the Swatow Ci- trus Fruit Growers' Associa- tion and arrived in London in good condition.

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Recently an experimental consignment of apples reached Covent Garden from Japan. Reater.

BALANCE

HOW BRITAIN trouble started by students, who STRIKES HER carried out anti-Jewish demonstra- tions. A large body of young men Many of the naval units which forced their way into the Univer- One railwayman was killed and several others were injured when a engaged in the Singapore manoeusity and clashed with Jewish stu-

vres will also arrive next month, dents in the classrooms. bridge was blown up beneath them

For three days the students have The railway, however, has now re-the list of vessels due being, as fol-

been boycotting lectures at the Uni sumed a normal schedule.

lows:-

March 3-HMS. Capetown-versity owing to the fact that thre Jewish students were to be e: Amoy.

amined for a degree..

All senior officers of Chang Hsueh-liang's army have been sum- moned from Shensi and Kansu to Nanking to receive instructions from the Government regarding the future disposition of their troops.

IMPORTANT MEETING Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang is himself expected to leave Fenghua on his way to Nanking today.

HMS. Dainty.-from Pagoda. March 4-8th. Destroyer Flotilla, less Dainty and Diana.

March 8-H.M.S. Medway and Westcott and Submarines Parthian, Proteus, Oswald, Phoenix, Osiris, Regent, Regulus, Pandora, from Singapore.

March 15-HMS. Cumberland and Falmouth.

March 25.-H.M.S. Suffolk, which

on February left Portsmouth after refit.

His impending arrival in the capital, together with that of Gen- eral Eu Chu-tung, new chief in the North-West, suggests that a final attempt is to be made in the next

Most of the fleet after taking few days to liquidate the military situation in the north-west in order part in the local manoeuvres and a to restore normal administration, short stay in Hong Kong will pro- ceed on Northern cruises and -Reuter.

should arrive in Wei-hai-wei some

time during the month of May.

HMS. Eagle, the aircraft car rier, which is replacing the Hermes, is not due from Singapore until

STARVATION MENACE

Shanghai, To-day. Three or four million of Kansu's the 9,000,000 inhabitants are on verge of starvation as a result of the devastations of Communists May 6. last year, according to the “Sin -Wan Pao."

the famine will continue for many The situation, the paper reports, months unless prompt measures are was made worse by the recent re-taken. volt just at a time when Kansu Moreover, the impending transfer to Kansu of Chang Hsueh-liang': hoped to obtain relief.

The journal declares that Com-former army will mean nearly munists took 10,000,000 head of 100,000 more mouths to feed cattle and millions of pounds of foodstuffs.

The paper appeals to the country to rally in aid of Kansu, not only The worst feature of the situa- for reasons of humanity but be tion is the lack of seed for the cause. the province is vital to Spring sowing, which means that China's border defence. Renter.

LIU LU-YING MURDER

PLOT CHARGES

London, To-day. The Board of Trade estimate of the balance of payments of 1936 shows debit balance of £19,000,000, compared with a revised credit bal- lance of £33,000,000 the year before and a debit balance of $7,000,000

1934.

As a result of the agitation, how-lin ever, the three have declined to ar pear before the examining body.- Trans-Ocean.

EGYPTIAN AIR RACE

Cairo, To-day.

The annual estimate represents an attempt to calculate the net hal- ance" on all transactions of a re- venue character between the Unit- ed Kingdom and other countries, including those originated by Gov- ernments.

In 1936, imports exceeded exports by $346,800,000 as compared with The first leg of the international £260,500,000 in 1935 and £293,900,- oasis fight, in which forty-two 000 in 1934.

Against this planes are competing, was complet-

adverse visible

$346,800,000,

1936 ac- estimates,

ed yesterday when thirty-nine ma- trade balance of In were; chines reached Assuan" without mis- there

cording to the Board's hap.han

Among the three fliers who have net shipping earnings of £96,000,- dropped out of the race is Prince 000, an increase of £20,000,000 over the previous year, and a net income Omar Halim of Egypt.

from foreign investment of £195,- 000,000 against $180,000,000 in 1935.

Yesterday's hop was a compara- tively easy one, the real test being to-morrow when the flight over the desert from Luxor to Cairo will call for considerable endurance from the airmen.Trans-Ocean

TRIPLE ALLIANCE (Continued from Page the results of the visit,

Net receipts from commissions etcetera are put at $30,000,000 for both years and the net receipts from other sources are unchanged at £10,000,000, despite a slightly increased debit on tourist traff British Wireless,

THEFT OF UNIFORMS

Fung Kwai, a coolie employed at

Emphasis is placed on the fact that a new basis for development of cultural relations between the two countries has been created.

The true unity of nations, the the Government Civil Hospital, was this morning remanded for 48 paper points out, is always in the hours for further enquiries when he cultural field, and the strength of appeared before Mr. K. Keen at the German nations consists chief-the Central Magistracy charged with ly in their similarity of cultural outlook.

The official publication "Wiener Zeitung goes so far as to say that "all expectations were fulfilled."

ABOLITION OF TERROR The paper asserts that the real significance of the conferences was

Shanghai, To-day of Hupeh, who was shot dead in

ber last year. Formal charges to be prefer Hankow in Nove red by the Nanking Government The indictment charges Mr. Lin against Mr. Liu Lu-ying, one of with having acted on behalf of the the leaders of the South-West disgrunted South-West elements indicated in the words expressed

that the official rebellion in Canton in 1936, It is und

eneral Yang's assassina have been granted by the Special view of

tion is it was due to his re- District Court,

Nanking Mr. Liu will be charged with in-fusal to assist the an

ovement last year. stigation of the assassination of Mr.

by Baron von Neurath when he talked of the removal of hate and the abolition of terror."

The "Neue Freie Presse" declares that there was no intention on either side of negotiating definite pacts, the main object being the establish- and the ment of personal contacts.

Ocean.

Tang Yu-jen, former Vice-Minister As Governor of Hupeh, General for Foreign Affairs, who was shot Yang controlled the in Shanghai in December 1935, and vince between General Yang Yung-tai, Governor South-West Beuter.

the theft of two suits of khaki uni- forms. Defendant said that they had been issued to him but Sergeant Sullivan said that ere had been several thefts of this typ

of the clothing recently and t ticles had been pawned Mr. Anslow was the complainant.

A telegram from Singapore Wertheimer Kremlin, is lyin the offices of the Eastern Exte

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