1938-03-03 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1938

TWO -R.A.F.

NEW Made

IN Provision

AGREEMENT

ON BRITISH

FORMULA

London, To-day.

Russia has accepted in

STATIONS

TERRITORIES

In Air Estimates For 1938. Work At Pat Heung REBEL WAR

Likely To Start ACE'S APPEAL Almost Immediately TO LOYALISTS

London, To-day.

Saragossa, To-day. principle the formula for The British Air Estimates, announced yesterday, Garcia Morato, credited with The famous Insurgent war-ace represent six times the amount expended behaving shot down 32 Government fore air expansion started in 1935.

|planes, read a letter addressed to the Chief of the Republican

withdrawal of volunteers

many, France, Italy and the So- viet are united on the formula, which specifies the time at which limited belligerent rights are to be granted to the Spanish anta- gonists in relation to the with- drawal of foreigners.-Reuter.

has

from Spain.

This means that Britain, Ger-Except for one squadron, all the home defence squa-Air Force, Hidalgo de Cisneras, drons were completed by July last, so efforts over the insurgent Spanish- Radio are now largely concentrated on overseas

last night and and

dropped the same over the Republican lines. expansion of the Empire defence scope.

The letter reads: There are widespread allocations to new works been killed in an airfight on "My friend Captain Haya and buildings, for example, additional accom- Teruel front. I apply, not to my modation on the landing ground at Aden, bar-friends of yesterday and enemies of racks and technical accommodation at Bahrein, a landing ground at Jesselton, North Borneo.

Paris, To-day.

M. Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Minister, received the Republican Spanish Ambassador in Paris, Senor | Osoria Y Gallardo, yesterday after-

noon.

Further sums are provided to

work on the landing.

Problems at present under dis- continue cussion at the London Non-Inter-grounds on the Calcutta-Singapore vention Committee, especially the route, and construction of a station eventual restoration of International at Trincomali, Ceylon, ultimately Control on the Spanish frontiers, costing $500,000: were the topics of the conversation. The French Foreign Minister outlined the French attitude, and is said to have declared that France wishes to re-establish control of the Franco-Spanish borders only if, at the same time, control of the Por- tuguese-Spanish border is resumed. --Trans-Ocean.

CENSORSHIP ASSURANCES DISTRUSTED

Shanghai, To-day.

statement

announce-

A Japanese Embassy which accompanied the the censorship al censorship, says

Other works include improve ments to the aerodrome at Gibraltar, extended accommoda- tion for the Fleet Air Arm at. Hong Kong,

new stations at Hat Sun and Pat Heung, in the New Terri- tories,

and developments in Iraq. In Malaya, apart from further extension of the Singapore air base, provision is made for new stations. at Kulang and Sungei Patani.

EDEN REPORT DISCOUNTED

London, To-day.

That Mr. Anthony Eden, form-. er Foreign, Secretary, might be appointed Ambassador in Wash- ington was the surprising report appearing in a London morning newspaper yesterday.

Trans-Ocean learns on good authority that no credence can be placed in the report, though the newspaper declared its source .to be reliable-Trans-Ocean.:

Firing On

Funds are provided for equip-Imperial

ment of the depot at Malta and station at Luqua.-Reuter.

NEW STATIONS.

Airways

'Apology"

London, To-day.

the

to-day, but to my fighting comrades on behalf of the wife of the dead,

asking y you to return the body.

If we meet again, some day in the air, I will greet you gratefully be- fore starting a fight."

best

Captain Haya, one of the Spanish fliers, was killed a fortnight ago in an airfight near Teruel. Trans-Ocean.

NEW JAPANESE NAVAL THREAT ALLEGED

London, To-day.

The First Lord of the Admir- alty was asked in the Commons if he had any information to give. the House regarding the building by Japan of a new series of small battlecruisers carrying Pat Heung is the site of the

heavy guns, for use as commer- landing field recently constructed

cial raiders, and what steps the between Kam Tin and Taimoshan.

Board of Admiralty proposed to At present, it consists solely of a

The incident arising out of the take to deal with such a develop- surface field. The new Estimates ring by Japanese warcraft on the ment. provide for the

Imperial Airways' liner, Delphinus, Mr. Duff Cooper said the answer construction of

bound from Penang to Hong Kong, to the first part of the question was hangers, workshops, etc. (all the equipment of an R.A.F. station) and on February 21, is considered clos-negative and the second part, the next two or three months. work is likely to be started within ed in official circles in London. therefore, did not really arise, but It is intimated: It was perhaps the House would be aware that the The site of the proposed new staan overstatement to call the ex-question of Japanese naval Foreign quarters are inclined to the Ping Shan peninsula, on

tion at Ha Tsun is believed to be Planation made by the Japanese struction was at present under con-

Consul General in Hong Kong doubt this, and are of opinion that Deep Bay side of Castle Peak

an sideration by His Majesty's Gov- apology, but this interpretation ernment in the United Kingdom in every letter and parcel coming into

was originally placed on it. Shanghai will be opened

Reu- consultation with the other Powers. the

ter: Japanese.--Trans-Ocean,

concerned British Wireless.

is necessitated by military reasons and will be confin- ed "almost exclusively to Chinese mail, and an attempt will be made not to interfere with private and business correspondence of for eigners.

FATHER JACQUINOT COMING TO H.K.

SEAPLANE BASE

the

News of inclusion in the Estim ates of provision for a new station at Ha Tsun has come as a surprise to R.A.F. quarters in Hong Kong, as no steps have hitherto been made to acquire the site selected as potentially useful for a seaplane base from the Government.

The area is the centre of an oy- |ster industry and some difficulty Shanghai, To-day. may be exerienced în securing the Father Jacquinot is sailing for site. In any event, although allo- Hong Kong this morning in the cations have been made, it is most Tjinegara.

unlikely that any preparatory work It is understood that his mission can be started for some consider- is to raise funds to carry on relief able time at Ha Tsun. work among the war victimsin It is also pointed out that al- Shanghai.

though some allowance was made

Father Jacquinot is accompanied in the current Estimates for work by Mr. W. H. Plant, well-known at Pat Heung, none of the money local American business man, who has been spent, although the RAF is also on the Committee of the have taken Over the prepared Nantao Safety Area. -Reuter.

site from the contractor.

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