1937-03-16 — Page 24

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1937.

WE THOUGHT IT WAS THE

END OF THE WORLD

£77,000,000 Revenue

From Tobacco

London, To-day,

The Chancellor of Exchequer,

answering a Parliamentary

question in

of

Commons

the House said

that

the approximate met amount of revenue derived from im- ported tobacco during 1986 was £77,770,000.--British Wireless.

ALLEGED MASSACRE

ABYSSINIAN AFFAIR IN COMMONS

FOREIGN OFFICE EVASION

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”).

LONDON, TO-DAY. UNEASINESS OVER THE FATE OF THE POPU- LATION IN ABYSSINIA · WAS EXPRESSED AT QUESTION TIME IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. YESTERDAY BY MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON, JR., -LABOUR MEMBER FOR KINGSWINFORD

Survivor's Story In Manila Factory Explosion

Manila, To-day.

"A deafening roar, then darkness. We thought

it was the end of the world.”

IT WAS IN THESE DRAMATIC WORDS THAT A SURVI- VOR OF THE CATASTROPHE IN THE FLASH FIRECRACKER "COMPANY TOLD HIS STORY TO REUTER'S CORRESPONDENT

THIS MORNING.

The explosion in the factory oc- mimimumEEKLYDE curred while the workers were col- lectin gtheir salaries yesterday.

About 100 women and girls were employed in the factory and many were saved through jumping from the windows into a swamp in which the factory is situated.

BLOWN TO PIECES

The exact toll of the disaster is not yet known, owing to the difficulty Most in identifying the corpses.

of the victims were blown to bits and many of those which escaped decomposition are unrecognisable.

King Christian Visits Hitler

Berlin, -To-day.".

King Christian of Denmark visited Herr Hiller yesterday when he passed through Berlin en route for Copenhagen.

King Christian was returning after his winter vacation in the South of France.-Trans-Ocean.

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It is reported, however, that at RIGHT TO FLY

least 25 were killed and thirty in- jured.

BOY SCOUT HERO These include a 17-year-old Boy Scout who dashed into the burning Mr. Henderson asked whether the building in an heroic attempt to League of Nations was not under rescue the shrieking women and girls an obligation to look after the wel-who were trapped in the raging in- fare of nationals of a State that was ferno. still a member of the League.

"Can the League ignore the mas- sacres that have taken place in Addis Ababa?" he asked.

Viscount Cranborne, the Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, re- plied that only the League of Na- tions could answer the question.

He declared that he had nothing to add to the answer he gave March 11, when Mr. Henderson had asked whether the British Govern- ment would change its attitude on the Abyssinian question.-Trans- Ocean.

NAPTHA DEPOSITS IN RUSSIA

Important Discovery Near Novorosisk

Moscow, To-day. Important naphtha deposits have -been discovered and are being ex-

ploited near Novorosisk.

Twenty wells have been bored and, although over a third of these are not yet in operation, a daily production of 150 tons of naphtha is being obtained, with a 40 per cent gasolene content.

It is estimated that production this year will total 100,000 tons. Trans-Ocem.

Mr. Kirkpatrick On Return Trip

Mr. W M Kirkpatrick, British

the Ex

The blast rocked that section of Manila within a radius of two miles, and a number of nearby inhabitants

suffered concussion-Reuter

NEUTRAL FLAG AS A RUSE

'Adda' Incident Detailed In Parliament

London, To-day.

The use of the British flag on a Spanish vessel in the recent “Adda” incident in Spanish waters, was the subject of a question in the Com-

mons.

STOP PRESS

TEL. 20022 or 33993

GAS MASKS

COMPULSORY

New Czecho-Slovakian Decree

Prague, To-day. Publication of a new law making The Under-Secretary for Foreign possession of a gas-mask by every Affairs, Lord Cranborne, in

HUGE FINE ON described the circumstance reply man, woman and child. in Czecho-

BANKER

Imposed In Italy In

His Absence

Bornhauser

Slovakia compulsory, has resulted which destroyers were sent, in re- in the formation of 48 new gas- sponse to distress signals, to the mask factories.

assistance of a vesel using the call- Instruction courses in the use of sign of the British steamship, Adda.the masks, and general rules for Before these arrived, it was defence against air-raids, have learnt that the ship in question been instituted by one large was foreign and it is understood to

factory. Milan, To-day have been the Spanish steamer Mar It is planned to institute similar A fine of 9,000,000 fire has been

Cantabr. D.

courses throughout the country.- imposed upon the head of a Swiss The employment of ruses, such as Trans-Ocean. banking house in Milan, Herr the use of a neutral flag by a

merchant ship in order to escape SHELLS ON RIVIERA The banker had been found capture by an enemy, Lord Cran- guilty of infracting the Italian law borne added. is a right which is for restriction of movements of well established under interna foreign exchange across the Italian tional law and this case would not frontier.

therefore, justify the representa Herr Bornhauser has fled to tions which were suggested by the Switzerland to avoid being taken questioner-British. Wireless. into custody, and the fine was im posed in his absence. Trans- Ocean.

THE OLD WARNING

CRY DECRIED

of

port Credits partment, who has been visiting - Canton, sailed for Shanghai yesterday in the Presi-to dent

accompanied by is Mrs. Kirkpatrick.

To-day.

the

ITALIAN BRIGADES HELD UP

Salamanca, To-day, The insurgent forces are still battering against the loyalists the Guadalajara ector, where the Italian brigades are not making mach progress.

the On the Jarama River front, how the lever, the rebels claim to be steadily She pushing forward

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ISLAND

While the three light divisions of the French Mediterranean Fleet were at target practice 10 5-inch shells landed on an inhabit- ed island known as Porquerelles, one of the Hyeres.group.

A number of children narrowly escaped injury when one of the shells buried itself in the earth few yards away from where they were playing.

There is to be an official inquiry. It has also become known that sailor of the submarine Doris killed during the manoeuvr At the moment when 75mm gun was discharged he was passing gangway in the line

nd the shell struck him full

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