1937-03-06 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1937.

OVIEDO BEING RAZED BY

LISBON AGA IN RAISES

OBJECTIONS

HITCH IN SPANISH CONTROL PLAN CAUSES ADJOURNMENT

LONDON, TO-DAY.

IT IS LEARNED THAT A HITCH OCCURRED DURING THE FIVE-HOUR MEETING OF THE NON-INTERVENTION SUB- COMMITTEE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, WHICH MET TO DIS- CUSS FINAL DETAILS OF THE SCHEME FOR SUPERVISION OF SPANISH COASTS AND FRONTIERS.

It is understood that Portugal

is not inclined to allow Russian!

merchantmen to enter Lisbon EUROPEAN

and take on observers.

M. Ivan Maisky, the Russian de CIVILISATION

legatë, strongly protested against Portugal's attitude.

The sub-committee will meet again at 10.30 to-morrow, while the full committee meeting arranged for to-morrow has been cancelled.

MENACED

DYNAMITE

TACTICS

PICKS AND SHOVELS AGAINST RIFLES AND MACHINE-GUNS

Madrid, To-day.

Pick and shovel are being pitted against rifle and machine-gun in the desperate battle which is still raging for possession of Oviedo.

This is announced in a message from Gijon, which says that the struggle is still going on in spite of reports yesterday that the Government had sus- pended operations on that front.

In order to remove buildings barring the way into the town, Government troops heavily un- dermine the buildings..

Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, the biologist, in a paper issued in Lon- don raised the question: "Will SCHEME OUTLINED

mankind in North-West Europe die The scheme discussed at yester-out in a comparatively short time?”?

The paper was written day's meeting provides for an in-

As the mine explodes and the walls ternational board consisting of aphasise the need of further atten-crash, the famous Asturian miners chairman nominated by an internation at Oxford University of biolo-rush forward without waiting to get tional committee, and representa-gical problems. Its issue was con- rifles and consolidate their capture. tives nominated by the British, cerned with the University's appeal French, German, Italian and Rus-for funds.

to

em-

sian governments, who will admin- "Compilers of human statistics,” ister the scheme on behalf of the Sir Peter stated, "report that in 27 participating States.

the north-west of Europe, roughly Five hundred and fifty observers from the Baltic to the Pyrenees, in-

Goverment planes assist these operations with bombs from over- head-Reuter.

LULL AT JARAMA

NEXT FOREIGN MINISTER?

Mr. N. Sato Returns Home

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Mr. Naotake Sato, Japanese Am- bassador in Paris, told Domei that he was "Uncertain” whether he Toledo, To-day. would accept the Foreign Affairs There was a lull in the fighting portfolio if it is offered to him by will be required to operate control cluding Scandinavia, Denmark, on the Madrid front yesterday, the the Japanese Premier, Gen. Senjuro of the Spanish coasts. besides 130 Germany, Holland, Belgium, the loyalists having apparently concen-Hayashi. :- British observers on the Hispano-British Islands and France, thetrated their efforts on the Jarama The diplomat, who is regarded as Portuguese frontier and 130 inter-human birth-rate is decreasing at River front. national observers at Gibraltar. a pace which swamps the decreasing Fugitives arriving in Toledo re Gaimusho post, was interviewed Reuter.

at a pace which swamps the de-port a serious shortage of bread and in Shanghai aboard the ss. Yasu- creasing death-rate and the increas other food supplies in loyalist ter-kuni Maru, which is carrying him ing duration of life.

ritory.

to Japan on a furlough.

FURTHER DETAILS

London. To-day.

A lengthy statement issued

by

the most likely nominée for

the

"The higher estimates of the Those applying for rations, they "I have already served in the the non-intervention committee last rate of decrease are almost fantas-state, must possess three certifica-diplomatic service for 31 years and night gives further details of the tie in their vision of swift desolates, which have to be filled out by I feel that time has come to give control plan

tion. Even the lowest estimates the janitor of the house in which place to younger men. I do no in- foreshadow approaching crises of he lives, by the Citizens' Commit- tend to go abroad again. profound importance to humanity. tee and by the political controller of

the district-Trans-Ocean.

The moment when the control plan comes into force, says the state- ment will be determined by the non-intervention committee.

When these officers leave Spanish waters they are to be landed at ports where they embarked.

Biological Question

"Our existing civilisation seems

LONDON LOSING CATS

No Offers Yet

"I have certain opinions regard ing the cur

current developments in Europe as well as Sino-Japanese re-

For the sea control 550 officers

to have had a shorter period of will be required on British. Ger-

youth and a quicker growth than man. Italian and French ships.

many of the extinct civilisations. Captains of vessels belonging to Is it, therefore, more near a swift declining rapidly.

The cat population of London is lations, but I cannot disclose them

until I report to Gen. Hayashi. the Powers taking part in control period of decay? This, in the first

Although it is widely rumoured During a search for the reason that I would become the next For- will be subject to the obligation to place, is a biological question to be reporter was told that cats about call at the control ports and take determined by more intensive bio- town were becoming fewer because

eign Minister, I want to emphasise supervising officers on board.

logical research.

the fact that I have not yet received of the increase of facilities for

any offers from the Government.” "Efforts will have to be made to painless destruction, the frequent adjust the new adaptations, if even bans on cats in flats and tenements, wharf by Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, Jap

The envoy was greeted at the control the rate of change and to and recent epidemics of gastic” in- Ships have to halt when hailed by

anese Consul-General in Shanghai. control ships. They will further-with no other hope than to make fluenza.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, he was the death of our civilisation

More than 300,000 cats are des visited aboard the ship by Mr. enthanasia. And for that the troyed every year. Many are des Shigeru Kawagoe, Ambassador to board and to submit to question-humanities and science will have to troyed painlessly free of charge at China, who later took M. Sato to ing-Trans-Ocean

work together."

the clinics of Our Dumb Friends'

his official residence on Boute Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell is League, the R.S.P.C.A. and kindred

Pichon. one of the few Britons remaining societies. in Malaga, which has been entered

more have to allow control officers

on

MINE PERILS IN GULF OF LYONS

British Companies Instructions

London, To-day,

A Bill to ensure that British mer- chant shipping conforms with-na- val patrol of the Spanish coasts will be passed in a few days.

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"Our

Mr Sato has served outside

by Spanish Nationalist troops. He siderabork has increased con-Japan for the past 20 year

was reported to be safe.

Mr. Keith Robinson, sec- retary of Our Dumb Friends Lea- gue, said.The number of cats we destroy has gone up by 50,000 year.

Canada's Cormation contingent will «Unfortunately no licence is need-

not exceed 300-~

ed to keep a cat, If it were not for Broadstairs will spend £500 on Coro- the work of organisations like ours nation celebrations.

there would be so many stray cats in the streets of London that the The new United States Ambassador authorities would have to do some Meanwhile as a consequence of to Russia, Mr. Joseph P. Davies, was the danger arising from the pre-received in Moscow by M. Rosengolz, thing about it, sence of mines in Spanish waters, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Trade. More than 50,000 shipping companies have notified

their vessels en route betw

braltar and biarsei

versa, to proceed east of

lands

learic

cats are des troyed every year in the 11 clinics Eduardo Farras, the man who tried controlled by the RSPCA. At nte ex-King Alfonso in one of their centred the Animal

night of June 1, 190 Iumatic asylu

Rescue League at the Angel 500 are destroyed every week.

Working Council is considering vision of public baths,

Enfield seeks loan sanction (£65,000 sewage works extension.

The shortage of workers in the agri- cultural settlements, and especially in the citrus regions, has led the Jewish the organised urban workers to fill the Labour Federation to issue a call to

gap.

James Casey, 47, Australian, was arrested in Paris and charged with infringing an expulsion order, is to serve a sentence, imposed in 1932 by default at Ariens, of 18 months' imprisonment for fraud.