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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1937.

ITALIAN TROOPS IN

IN SPAIN

Startling Figures Provided By Officer Prisoner

AMBULANCE -

BRIGADE CHIEF VISITING COLONY

To Be Present At Annual Inspection ·

NOVELIST'S SON A “MORAL COWARD”

Son Of Late Joseph Conrad

The affairs of Mr. Alfred Borys Colonel Sleeman, Chief Commis-Conrad, elder son of the late Mr. sioner of the St. John Ambulance Joseph Conrad, the novelist, came Brigade Overseas, arrives in the before Mr. Registrar Kean, at the Colony by the s.s. Cathay on Thurs-London Bankruptcy Court.

day next, on an inspectional visit An application was made for an of the local Association and Bri-order for his discharge... gade. Colonel Sleeman has just Mr. H. H Gaine, Assistant Of- completed a similar tour of India ficial Receiver, reported that and Malaya.

the

Nearly 80,000 On Madrid Front

Caballero Protests To The League

Madrid, To-day.

An estimate that there are 80,000 Italians and estate had realised £550 and a di- 40,000 Germans in Spain, was given yesterday by and during his stay in India he pence in the pound had been dean Italian, Major Luciano Sylva, who was taken

Prisoner by the loyalists earlier in the week.

He is a well known game hunter vidend of four and five sixteenths

"bagged", several tigers.

clared on liabilities of £16,156. During his visit to Hong Kong, On the death of his father, in Colonel Sleeman will be entertain- | August, 1924, Mr. Conrad became

WHEN QUESTIONED BY THE AUTHORITIES, MAJOR ed by several members of the Euro-life-tenant of one-fifth of the in-SYLVA IS ALLEGED TO HAVE DECLARED THAT OF THIS pean and Chinese community. He come from Mr. Conrad senior's es- FORCE FROM 40,000 TO 60,000 ITALIANS ARE FIGHTING ON will be present, with His Excel- tate, but not, to a greater extent THE GUADALAJARA FRONT. lency the Governor, at the annual than £500 a year. inspection on March 30, and at the Brigade Dinner in the evening.

Colonel Sleeman is departing on the Ranchi on April 3.

He then owed $3,000 through ANOTHER PRISONER, ON THE OTHER HAND, ESTIMAT- betting and gambling losses, and ED THAT THE TOTAL ITÁLIANS IN SPAIN DID NOT EXCEED personal extravagance. He borrow- | 40,000.

ed £2,500 from the trustees under

On Monday next, the Nursing his father's will, and $500 from A private among the prison-ministrator of the combined land Divisions of the Brigade are giv- his mother for payments to his ers stated that he embarked and sea control scheme and chief ing a farewell tea party to Mrs creditors. He had subsequently thinking he was going to Abys-maritime administrator of the Langley, the Corps Secretary and reduced those claims.

sinia, only to be told he was go-scheme, respectively. District Officer, who is leaving for Soon after his father's death he fing to Spain after the ship had Secretary of the international Home on the 8.S. Ranchi. Mrs. was again in financial difficultiesailed.

board for non-intervention will be Langley is retiring from Govern-and borrowed from a moneylender.

statement. of Mr. Francis Hemming (Britain), ment service, having joined the Early in 1926 he lost £600 by bet

while the chief administrator in Education Dept. in 1917.

ting on horses,

France will be Colonel Lunn (Den- mark).

to

"Extremely Bad Case" The failure was attributed personal extravagance, losses by Tenders have been invited for the betting and gambling, loss on the demolition of the Old Market at purchase and sale of second-hand Wanchai

motor-cars, and heavy interest on borrowed money.

When an RA.F. flying-boat caught The Assistant Official Receiver fire in Portland Harbour four of the further reported that Mr. Conra crew jumped into the sea and swam to a mooring buoy. The captain, Fly had fraudulently converted to his ing-Officer Davies, and Pilot Officer own use £1,100, and that he had Johnson, remained in the machine and been guilty of grave misconduct

were unhurt. The crew were rescued in his motor car dealings.

According to th

another private, an Italian pri- vate's pay in Spain is five pesetas a day, of which he has to pay back three pesetas for food.

It has been arranged that Ad-

He added, however, that the miral Vandulm and Colonel Lum Italian Government is paying their will arrive in London on Monday families twenty lire a day. to take up their duties. Reuter and

Trans-Ocean."

Rain And Snow

Complaint To League

Valencia, To-day.

In the meantime bitter cold, rain and snow is hampering activities

The Spanish Cabinet is inform- on the Madrid front, where the loyalists claim that an insurgent ing the League of Nations of the the Guadalajara road was checked vention agreement by the presence attack yesterday morning north of alleged violation of the non-inter-

Insurgent activity is increasing of several Italian divisions in Spain north-west of Madrid, while the

Italians are particularly capital itself was heavily bombard ed, most of the shells falling in

Madrid front,

the centre of the city.

by a naval launch, and Leading-Air- After hearing Mr. A. Marlow in craftman Chivers, of Devonport, was taken to hospital suffering from the support of the application, Mr. Re effects of his immersion. According to gistrar Kean said it was an ex- an official statement, the outbreak was tremely bad case. But for c cer- caused by short-circuiting of leads, and tain features in it he would have the superstructure was seriously dam-felt bound to refuse the discharge aged.

He had come to the conclusion that Mr. Conrad was, at the time, more of a moral coward than fraudulent schemer. He was not strong enough to withstand the From Berlin comes a message evil influence of the war. The dis-stating that the German battle charge would be suspended for a ship Admiral Scheer" will pro- further period of three years.

Check

That

Cold!

CRYSTAL PALACE

FOR ARMS

2

German Warships

ceed to Spanish waters in a day or two to join the battleships “Graf Spee" and "Deutschland" and the cruisers "Koel” and “Leipzig.”

This force will observe that part of the Spanish coast allotted to Germany in the control scheme.

The men-of-war will be assisted At a rough estimate 12,000 and 20,000 tons of scrap will by a flotilla of German fishing ves- sels. These craft will be officially be removed from the 24 acres site incorporated in the German navy of the burned-out Crystal Palace.

on Sunday.

between

on the

The numerous where it is stated here that they

number 25,000.

An Italian taken prisoner stat- ed that he was no volunteer but had been mobilised hurriedly by the Government for service in Spain soon after his return from the Abys sinian campaign-Reuter.

ST. PATRICK'S BALL.

Glittering colours and

Trish dances marked the annual ball of St. Patrick's Society held at the Peninsula Hotel last night, and tended by Lady Caldecott and many other distinguished guests.

One of the big s

functions

Before It Gets A Grip. A sneeze or two, a fit of coughing, Tenders for the work are being From London it is announced of the year, the ball and you feel you are in for a cold, but asked for Respiroids, promptly taken, will check Sir Henry Buckland, general trol office will consist of represen-

that members of the Spanish con- by over 500 it. These pleasant-tasting throat and manager, said that the work of

standing Br chest lozenges, dissolving slowly in the clearing the site would take at least France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Po-

tatives

Britain, Germany, small meas mouth, emit highly beneficient essences

in the Colony and vapours which circulate through six months.

whose pipers the entire respiratory system.

land, Yugo-Slavia and Russia, who "The scrap is very valuable,” he will be

ings and crated just the To ward off a cough, cold or sore said. “Armament firms want the throat which is threatening, there is steel and puddled fron, of wh

tatives these couatri on the

mosphere. nothing more effective than Ees

The hotel was tastefully decorate there are large quantities.

ed throughout with gre

Keep them heady for immediate pse

and you will be provided with

There has been no decision as to

stant safeguard. Respiroids se obwhat the site will be used for. We

tainable at all chemists.

RESPIROIDS

have extensive plans on paper, but there is still the question of finance to be settled. Until we the money

not

we ca

Official Posts

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