1937-05-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1937.

LONDON'S TRANSPORT SYSTEM MAY BE FINALLY PARALYSED

Tramwaymen To Hold Sympathy Strike Probable

London, To-day.

Decisive Meeting To-day

Squally, Cloudy And

Showering

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure remains highest over the Pacific to the East of the Bonins. Depressions are situated over S. W. China and to the north-east of Hok- kaido. Forecast:-S. winds, moder-

Aged U. S.

Judge To Retire

Resumption of work by the 1,500 Beardmore en-ate to fresh, squally; cloudy, showery. New Move In Supreme gineers, who have been on strike in Glasgow for

over seven weeks, is expected by the week-end.

Court Battle A mass meeting held in Glasgow yesterday re- Wong Kung-yee and Lam Kam WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. solved acceptance of the terms suggested by the fering from injuries received in TER,

were admitted to the G. C. H.; suf- MR. WILLIS VAN DEVAN- firm as a basis for reopening negotiations, condi- attempting to resist arrest by a JUDGE, HAS INFORMED PRE- tional upon 100 per cent. of the strikers return-military picket while trepassing on SIDENT ROOSEVELT THAT to work.

Devil's Peak fort yesterday.

Important Admiralty contracts have been much delayed by the atrike, which is estimated to have cost the engineers £40,000 in wages. Meanwhile a full delegate confer- ence of every branch of tram, trol- ley bus workers will be held in London to-morrow.

This decision was taken at a meet- ing of the Trams Council of the Transport Workers Union, which received a deputation from the cen- tral bus committee asking for ex- tension of the strike to trams and trolley buses.

Failure of the London Transport

Board to come to an agreement with

the bus strikers now threatens complete stoppage of all forms

a

of

transport for the possibility of the

extension of the strike to the tubes as well as the trams cannot be ruled out.--Reuter.

WARSHIP REPAIR

COSTS

Repulse £1,474,924

the

Sir Gilbert Upcott, Comptroller and Auditor-General, in his report upon the Dockyard Expense and Manufacturing Accounts for year ended March 31, 1936, which was issued with the accounts states that the actual expenditure for the years was £24,648,693 or £474,775 below the revised estimate.

Estimated costs for large repairs

on battleships are:

Malaya, £976,963;

Ramillies, £469,166;

Royal Oak, £998,669;

Warapite, £2,269,263, and

REAL BATTLE FOR BILBAO IMMINENT

THE 88-YEAR-OLD

HE IS RETIRING FROM AC- TIVE SERVICE IN THE SU- PREME COURT.

*

Judge Van Devanter was among the staunchest conservatives in the Supreme Court and his retirement gives President Roosevelt his first opportunity to appoint a judge of his own choosing.

High officials do not expect fur- ther retirements at present but Mr.

HEAVY TASK FACING GEN. MOLA ON Justice Sutherland, who is also a

THE BASQUE FRONT

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St. Jean de Luz, To-day.

conservative, might take advantage of the Retirement Act in a few months.

It is generally considered that Judge Devanter's action has weak-

of the Supreme Court. Reuter.

General Mola's insurgent forces within striking

Seven weeks of heavy fighting have brought ened the President's case for reform

distance of the “iron belt," the last line of defences of Bilbao, and the last phase of the fight for the Basque capital is about to be staged, according to rebel sources.

General Mola, however, is reported to be fully aware that the next few days, and even weeks, are likely to produce much severe fighting, the outcome of which it is impossible to predict.

Although General Mola's forces up to now have enjoyed a superiority in equipment, espe- cially in the air, it is known that several squadrons of Republican the Bilbao front, and will most plans have been despatched to

certainly make their presence felt.

Furthermore the Basque de- fenders have been reinforced

by many battalions from the Asturian and. Santander.

Fronts.

Apart from the question of rein-

Battle cruiser Repulse, £1,474,924.forcements, rebel headquarters real- The cost of new construction for lise that the task of overcoming dockyard-built ships was £1,898,000, the fortified defences of Bilbao will compared with £1,917,000 during present many difficulties. the previous year; and for contract- built ships £9,169,000, compared, with £7,352,000 in the preceding. 12 months.

MOSCOW-PRAGUE AIR LINE

Moscow, To-day. It is officially announced here regular air service between Moscow and Prague will be in-

that a

THE IRON BELT

· The iron belt is a ring of for- tifications lying from five to eight miles from Bilbao itself. The line: begins at Mount Barricabaso, on the coast, and strikes the coast again beyond the bridges of Somorrostro and. Saltacaballo:

augurated within the next few crete redoubts with days.

18 Ocean.

The fortifications consist of con- machine-gun nests and barbed wire. „ entangle- ments,

Nevertheless, General

Moln is

Choy Hung, workman at the Hume Pipe Factory, Tsun Wan, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital hoping to be able to blast his way suffering from injuries received through the fortifications at Bome when a steel plate fell on him point where the defences while working.

weakest. Trans-Ocean.

are

Air Mail Growth

London, To-day. The weight of letter - airmails. carried to an extra-European des.

tination from the United Kingdom in the first quarter of the year ex- ceeded the figure for the period of 1936 by 20 per cent. British Wireless.

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