1937-04-15 — Page 1

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Britons Run The Blockade

London, To-day.

"Running the blockade of the Biscay coast is becoming a risky business but there

are

skippers who are prepared to

make the venture.”

露

So declares the St. Jean de Luz correspondent of the. "Daily Tele-

graph," who says that two British

vessels have managed to slip through into Santander.

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AGITATION IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai, To-day.

Given a new impetus by the conference now being held at Montreux to arrange for the aboli- tion of capitulations in Egypt, the Chinese move- ment for the abolition of the system of extraterri-

The correspondent adds that the toriality is being whipped up in Shanghai. British steamer "Leadgate" left

Bayonne yesterday in an attempt to

get into the same port.

The report also reveals that a French yacht, "Le Sarte," is keep- ing up a daring regular service be- tween St. Jean de Luz and Santan- der.-Trans-Ocean.

[A heated Parliamentary debate on British official surrender to the blockade is reported in Page Nine.}{

RESTIVE CREW ON QUEEN MARY

Company Expected To Meet Demands

Degrelle Found In Paris

Paris, To-day.

M. Leon Degrelle, the Bel- gian Rexist leader who was recently defeated in the vital by-election by the Premier, has been staying in Paris in- cognito for the past two the days, having left for French capital immediately after the election. He was not discovered by news- |papermen until yesterday, when he There has been considerable declared his only purpose in com- trouble among the crew and ing to Paris was to bring his daugh- stewards of the giant Cunard liner ter, who is ill, too see a specialist. "Queen Mary," says the "Daily Referring to his election defeat, Herald."

M. Degrelle said he would continue I

London, To-day.

The liner sailed for New York to fight undaunted. "One day yesterday with the men's com-shall win," he declared. plaints, one of which is against the From Brussels, however; comes a curtailment of certain privileges, message stating that differences be- still unsettled.

tween the Flemish Nationalists and

The paper adds that no strike is the Rexists have been developing likely as the Company will probably for some time, and that the alliance grant the men's demands.--Trans- formed between the two parties last Ocean.

year may be dissolved.

VILLAGE RAZED

BY FIRE

Troops Rushed For Relief Measures

Berlin, To-dđáy.

There is hardly a house standing in Kreugebra, a village in Thuringia, which was devastated by fire yesterday-

was

A detachment of troops rushed to the spot to conduct relief measures for the 800 inhabitants whose homes were completely destroyed.

The fire broke out at noon yester- day, when all the men in the village were out in the fields.

Ocean.

Trans-

The official organ of the Flemish Nationalists, revealing that dis- sension between the two parties was partly responsible for M. De- grelle's election defeat, says "Should M. Degrelle stand in the way of attainment of our objectives, we shall turn against him and support another faction more in sympathy with our aims."-Trans-Ocean:

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Belgium Manchester City's Bid -For

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Up Palestine

JERUSALEM, TO-DAY.

THE SUGGESTION, MADE IN A LONDON - NEWSPAPER RECENTLY, THAT PALES- TINE BE DIVIDED INTO POLI-

TICAL PROVINCES, IS FIND- THAN THE PROPOSAL SEPARATE JEWISH AND

ING MORE FAVOUR HERE ΤΟ DIVIDE THE COUNTRY INTO

ARABIAN DISTRICTS.

The latter scheme. has been unanimously rejected by both Arabs and Jews.

There has been talk for some Under the plan now proposed in time of a revival of agitation and London, the Arab and Jew minorities petitions regarding the contro-would remain in areas where the versy have been addressed to the other race predominates, and would Nanking Goverment

175 have an equal share in the adminisTM Chinese civic bodies.

tration. Now it is proposed to form a gen- eral committee composed of pro- minent members of the Chinese community in order to maintain the agitation.

Both races would appoint dele- gates to a National Council, which would be the central governing body, subject to the control of the British Mandate.

Several leaders of the movement Some quarters in Jerusalem think favour unilateral denunciation of that a settlement on the above lines extrality by China if negotiations would be possible, and might include with the Powers fail in their ob- the Trans-Jordan territory.-Trans- jective. Reuter.

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