THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1937.
MR. CHURCHILL SATISFIED
CONTROL PLAN DELAYED
London, To-day.
Introduction of the non-interven- tion scheme is likely to be post- poned for a fortnight from March 6, the originally arranged date.
This is because it is now admitted. in British circles that it is impos- sible for observers to reach their posts either on the high seas frontiers by then.
OF
ex-
Meanwhile the committee's perts have decided to recommend ex- tension of the control system to in- clude ships of non-interventionist Powers bound for Spain from the United States and other non-Euro- pean ports.
It has also been decided to re- commend a special control system. for the Canary Islands in order to prevent foreign ships landing con- traband there which might be car- ried to Spain in Spanish ships, the latter not being liable to control. Reuter.
BRITAIN'S PLANS
London, To-day. A Bill concerning control of mer- chant ships destined for Spain will be tabled in Parliament at the next session, and will be dealt with as one of the first points on the agen- da, according to newspaper reports. -Trans-Ocean.
RECALL PROPOSAL
Paris, To-day. The Spanish Government has agreed to the idea of re- patriation of volunteers from Spain, providing it is recipro cal.
This is according to a Spanish press agency mes- sage from Valencia Reu- ter.
At All Events, More Or Less
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL
HEAVY GUNS WRECK OVIEDO
CITY VIRTUALLY
IN RUINS .
Guns And Aircraft Warning
London, To-day.
A qualified blessing was given to the Govern- ment's rearmament policy by Mr. Winston Churchill when the rearmament debate was resum- ed in the House of Commons yesterday.
MR. CHURCHILL SAID THAT THE FACT THAT THE GOV- ERNMENT WAS PURSUING: A FIVE-YEAR PLAN OF THIS SCALE, EVIDENCE OF OUR GREAT FINANCIAL STRENGTH, AND GENERAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POLICY BY ALL PARTIES, THE WELCOME IT HAD RECEIVED PARTICULAR- LY IN SMALL COUNTRIES, ALL GIVE THE DOMINIONS AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES ADVANTAGES FOR WALKING IN STEP WITH US.
We had now got a foreign po- licy based on the League Coven-
CHANCELLOR WINDS UP The Chancellor of the Exchequer, ant and upon special agreements Mr. Neville Chamberlain, winding with France, which was what up the debate for the Government, what the great mass of the na-said the discussion has shown there was a real general fundamental tion desired.
measure of agreement in the House.. upon the necessity for rearmament.
If we resolutely pursued defence for four or five years, we were like ly to be in a far safer and more! agreeable position than any since German rearmament began in
earnest.
They had not yet got the air estimates, which were the most important of all –
year.
PROGRESS POINTS
The opposition argued that our armaments were excessive because other nations would assist us if we were attacked, but that implied that we would have to assist them, and this would increase our liabili ties instead of decreasing them.
We had no liability under the. League Covenant to give military assistance to victims of aggression.
He believed the measure of rear- mament the Government was advo-
cating was an essential preliminary to the final stage of disarmament. -Reuter.
He hoped that large supplemen- tary estimates were to come and he BURGOS, TO-DAY. would be reassured it, proceeding present lines, more than NOTWITHSTANDING FIERCE on ASSAULTS ON OVIEDO, THE 560,000,000 or $70,000,000 would be required by loan in the coming GOVERNMENT FORCES HAVE SUSPENDED THEIR AT- TEMPTS TO CAPTURE THE He regretted the absence of a or fixed CITY, ACCORDING TO INSUR-quantitative statement
dates as to progress points. GENT REPORTS.
Germany, he said, had 1,500 guns The city has suffered terribly from the Government bombard-apart from guns in position.
"How soon shall we have 1,500 ment, the Cathedral tower having
good modern guns with trained London, To-day-Voluntary con- ben destroyed to the level of the
crews and all necessary equip-tributions to the cost of Imperial ment?"
Defence by Colonial Governments It was the same about the Air amount to £153,000 in the present Force, which at present was in ar-year. British Wireless.
nave.
Not a single building is not mark- The Ministry of Railways has ap-ed by shell bursts and bullet holes, pointed Messrs. Leung Wei and and it is estimated that there hasr Kok Fock-chiu to be directors of been over 1,000 civilian victims of the scheme for construction of the the shelling in the past week. Canton-Muiyuan (East Kwangtung) Railway and the Cheung and Swatow Railway.
Fighting Fit!
Muk-tou
EXCHANGE OF HOSTAGES
An official statement in Bilbao says that an exchange of hostages held by the Basque Government and the rebels will probably take place in the near future.
Agreement over details of the ex- change is expected to be signed
rears.
In no other generation would the House of Commons be willing to continue in complete ignorance of the vital security of the nation, es- pecially in view of the Govern- ment's admission of miscalculation.
IMPERIAL DEFENCE
“GRATUITIES"
HINDENBURG'S NEXT TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA
Berlin, To-day.- NAVAL SUPERIORITY.
Nearly all the cabins on the Zeppelin Could the Government assure the Hindenburg" have already been book- House that the British Air Force a ed for the dirigible's first fight this year hence would be more nearly a year to South America, scheduled for match for the German air force March 16. than to-day, or that the German Success for the Government troops on the Madrid and Jarama army would not then maintain their River fronts is claimed in Valen-present superiority over
French?
within the next few days.
the
All cabins have been booked in ad- vance for the return flight to Euro
Trans-Ocean
cia, where it is stated the loya- Mr. Churchill thought we could INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST
list tanks have destroyed several machine-gun nests. Mining and dynamiting activi ties continue to blow up the rebel
trenches.
rely on the superiority in the fu- ture of the British Navy in Europe, as long as the right feeling of the United States was not withdrawn from the British Empire.
-DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE Anglo-French understanding to
Berlin, To-day,
The congress of the International Radio Association began in Berlin yes terday and will continue till March 13. Fifty broadcasting groups from 29 nations are represented.
The Association meets two or three
CARTAGENA SHELLED Cartagena has been bombarded day undoubtedly amounted a de-times each year to discuss questions and smaller fensive alliance against unprovok-pertaining to wave length distribution, international programmes -and-copy ed aggression.
right problems.
The man who is fighting fit starts by rebel cruisers with a big advantage in these competi- craft.
tive days. To enjoy such physical fit-The insurgents claim, the bom
"Anglo-French friendship is one ness it is essential to be regular in the bardment destroyed the quays and of the greatest guarantees for the daily habit--and Pinkettes are the various warehouses where am- continuance of peace or, at the thing to ensure this. Gently yet surely munition supplies were stored these dainty little laxative pills cleanse
very worst, our joint survival"
A Labour motion for rejection of the Defence Loans Bil ras de feated by 241 votes to 117.
the intestinal tract, stimulate the liver, Trans-Ocean and Reuter.
aid digestion, correct flatulence, banish
biliousness, allay diarrhoea by removing
its cause, clear the skin, make the
Equally good for men and women, Pin- kettes are sold by chemists eye
Mr. J.-A. Strachan was among the
The Bill then passed its third.
breath pure and sweet, relieve piles large number of passengers who alreading and was sent to the House
in the Azama Maru for Los Angeles-
on Wednesda
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Delegates to the Congress will be received by the Reich Minister Propaganda, Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Trans-Oc
London, To-day. The death curred yes of the novelist,
Joseph Bocking-Reuter
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