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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936.

KING WARMLY GREETED IN SOUTH WALES

London, Nov. 17-A plot, to mur- der the Viceroy of India, Lord Lin- lithgow, has been discovered by the Indian police.." According to the "News Chronicle" Lahore corres- pondent, the platters planned to attack the Vice-regal train, and numerous arrests have been made. ---Transocean New Service.

FULLY ARMED BRITAIN

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Air Minister's Statement

London, Nov. 17. In replying to a delate in the House of Lords, the Secretary for Air, Lord Swinton, said it must be 1.he hope of everybody con- nected with the League of Nations to bring back into its orbit as many Powers as possible. It was in that spirit that Britain was pro- sccuting assiduously negotiations for a new Locarno.

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In the appeasement of Europe one thing was necessary.. namely, the influence of Britain for peace. Referring to rearmament, he said it would be a great mistake to Assume that foreign policy alone was the sole justification of the defence programme. Apart from that, there was a plain duty to see to our own security by sea and air and land.

Our defence plan must be such as adequately to discharge domes- tic and imperial responsibility. The Army must be properly armed so that it can be effective, when- ever it has to be used. In the alr, we must have a force, defensive and offensive, which will be ot once the most effective defence and the most effective deterrent. He confidently assured the House that the whole training system of the Air Force was highly satisfac- tory and would bear comparison with that of any other country in the world. With regard to the ex- pansion of aerodromes, the post- tion was quite misfactory.--- British Wireless

AMERICAN PEACE.

CONFERENCE

President Roosevelt To Vigit Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 18. President Roosevelt has accepted the invitation of President Vargas to visit Brazil, He will leave Charlestown in the cruiser In- dianopolis for Buenos Aires to partake In the inter-American peace conference opening on, De- cember 1..

Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, is arriving at Rio to-day and leaving for Buenos Aires on

Friday.-

Reuter

KEELUNG INCIDENT

IN COMMONS

London, Nov. 18.

In the House of Commons to-

Long Tour Through Distressed Areas

Village Folk Turn Out In

Their Sunday Best

"London.. November 18...

Piquancy is added to the King's visit to South Wales at the news that is Majesty commanded Mr Malcolm Steward, who re- rently resigned the commissionership of special areas and whose outspoken report on depressed areas was the focal point of last night's debate in the Commons, to dine with him to-night in South Wales.

A remarkable feature of the visit is the intense enthusiasm of the entire populace of the drab villages towns where often one- third of the men are out of work and many young men have hardly known a day's employment in their lives.

The King saw what the unemployed are doing to remedy their own lot He first visited the Boverton co-operative farm managed by the Land Settlemers Society where the unemployed are constructing a model village of sixty houses, and he also saw a number of social halls, children's playground and football fields laid out by the unemployed.

Motur coaches brought, hundreds of people from the surrounding villages to places the King is visit- Ing. all dressed in their Sunday best.

Many villages were almost cover- ed with tiny Union Jacks mostly made locally.- Reuter,

BRIGHT SUNSHINE

London, Nov. 18. The King left London an hour arter, midnight in a special train for South Wales where, in bright

sunshine, he began this morning his two-day tour of the special areas. He will cover about one hundred miles of the Industrial parts of Glamorgan and Monmouth and will visit about twenty two centres.

The visit will give him an op- portunity of inspecting thoroughly the conditions in one of Britain's two chlef "distressed areas" and the efforts made to alleviate the

DISTRESSED AREAS DEBATE

Conservatives Castigate The Government

London, Nov. 18. The debate on distressed areas occupied the attention of the Commons in an all-night sitting. A feature of the discussion is the pugnacious actitude of forty Con-

Wolmer and Sir R. S. Home casti- servatives teaded

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gating the inefficier.cy OS the Special Areas Act 1934 and insist. ing on "boid and courageous un- orthodox" action." Serveral of

these Conservatives recently visited the distressed areas in Northum berland and Cumberland and ex- haustively investigated and des cribe themselves as appalled at the conditions.

situation by the Government and Despite Mr. Neville Chamber- voluntary measures. ну

lain's statement on additional re- When the King left his trailer measures contemplated. It is this morning at Llantwit Station, understood that the Conservative great crowds gave him an enthusi- critics' pressure will be in nowise astic reception Cheering crowds relaxed. also lined the road as he set off In his car which moved at a walking pace for Boverton the first village to be visited.— British Wirelena.

INFORMAL CHATS

London, Nov. 18. The King began his sixty-mile tour of the depressed areas in South Wales accompanied by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, and the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood.

He travelled by train overnight and was favoured by brilliant sun- shine and blue skies when he left the train at Llantwit Station where members of the British Legion, wearing medals and carry- ing banners, stood at the station approach.

All children in Glamorganshire will given a holiday and they greeted the King most enthusias- tically, whic the villages cheered very heartily. crowds surrounding

The King is motoring through the hardest hit towns and villages in the country chatting informally with men and womeri,

whom have been unemplayed for many years~-~~ Bruter's Bulletin Serpico

Sir Harne said he was almost a depressed area himself at reading the perfunctory passage relating to this matter in the King's Speech.

Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd dwelt on the widespread fear of the ques- tion being allowed to drift and assured the Government the sup- port of the whole House in дру rellet measures, however extreme. Many other Conservatives were equally severe.

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The Government's bill for con- tinuance of the Special Areas Act was read a second time at 6 am..

but further attacks are expected In the committee stage next week.

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CHILDREN OF LONDON

Special Outing During Coronation

London, Nov. 17. In a letter from the King': Pri- many of vate Secretary to the Education Committee of the London County Council, His Majesty has expressed the wish that a special outing for the children of London, be or- ganised in connection with the Coronation.

TEXTILE QUOTAS IN SINGAPORE

Singapore, Nov. 18. The proposed new legislation in connection with textile quotas has been postponed in response to a

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Paris, Nov. 17.-The Governor of the Bank of France, M. Labeyrie Is contemplating to resign from that post according to press reports here, which state that Labeyrie will henceforth exclusively work in the Supreme Audit Office.Transocean News Service.

PROPHECY OF DESPAIR

World War Talk Deplored

London, Nov. 17. Speaking at the Foreign Press Association luncheon in London the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, said to-day. "One 01 the resounding pro- phecies that some people making to-day is that world war is inevitable.

M. SALENGRO DEAD

French Minister's Suicide

London, Nov, 18.

The death has occurred of the Minister of Interior, M. Sälengro,

who was recently vindicated by a Government commission following press allegations of cowardice dur- ing the Great War.

There was a violent scene in the French Chamber last Friday when the question of " M. Salengro's military record was debated and about fifty deputies were involved in a scule which necessitated the sitting having to be suspended. Reuter.

GAS TAPS ON

Paris Nov. 18 M. Salengro committed suicide. The gas taps in his room were found to be turned full on.- Restitu

SOVIET ARREST OF GERMANS

Alleged Terrorist Activities

Moscow, Nov. 17. The majority of the Germans arrested by the Russian police on charges of espionage and sabotage have already confessed to military and economic explonage and the distribution of Fascist literature among the Russians. They are

also have confessed to plotting terrorist acts, according to a statement made to-day by M. Maxim Litvin - of the Foreign Commissar, to the German Ambassador.

"I am here to say to you as the representatives of mast of the newspapers of the world, that this is not the view of the British Gov- ernment. We refuse to accept this prophecy of despair, this dangerous and pathological prophecy.

"The British Government is de- termined to take every action in its power to make a prophecy of that kind Impossible of fruition. We are determined to throw into the scales of peace all the in- fluences at our disposal."

Proceeding, he said Britain did not attempt to impose her views upon other countries she would be perfectly ready in the future, as in the past, to make friends with Governments whose systems she might think totally inap- plicable to Britain and indeed al- together objectionable to British public opinion.

Referring to rearmament he sald Britain had been lagging in the field of military defence and there had been gaps in the national equipment to close which every effort was now being made. It was

In reply the Nazi Ambassador is sald to have admitted that there were Nazi groups in other coun- tries but to have declared there were none in the Soviet.--- Heuter.

BUILDING FIRED

Berlin, Nov, 17. The Soviet secret police have

made a number of fresh arrests following the destruction, by fire,

of the Bureau 'for the Armaments

Berlin, November" 17.-Princess Juliana's flance, Prince Bernard von Lippe-Blesterfeld, is being ceremoniously released from German nationality before his departure for Holland. The ceremony in the Reich Chancellery, before Herr Adolf Hitler, it is bellaved, will be the first instance of the Fuehrer releasing a German citizen from nationality in a fail state function-Reuter's Bulletin Service.

RAIN OF SHELLS IN SPANISH WAR

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Telephone Office Building As Main Objective

SURPRISE FOR NEWSPAPERMEN

Madrid. November 18. There is no respite in the af-day and all-night inferno of bombardment with powerful serial torpedoes, high explosives and incendiary artilery she's.

The seventeen-torey telephone offices, the highest buliding in Madrid," is at present, the object of a violent artillery attack. Shells are falling in the immediate neighbourhood. One crashed in a room adjoining the chamber in which a number of foreign newspapermen were awalting cafle for abroad. The buildings In the main thoroughfares are ablaze-Reuter.

Madrid, Nov. Ir.

Bombs and snells were hurled Incessantly Against the capital to- day. The total of the casualties is unknown though it is established that at least 200 are dead and 500 injured in the bombardment of

the past three days."

The North Station, which has been heavily bombed. was evacuat- ed by the militiamen 48 hours be-

Industry, occupying two floors of the administrative building for heavy industries in Moscow.

Another floor was partially des-fore the attack which virtually troyed.

demolished it, but nine we killed

in the simultaneous des ruction

Russian political circles believe the building was fired in order to conceal cases of embezzlement in- of adjoining houses. the Administration of heavy in- dustries-

Rester's "Bulletin Service,

TWO TO BE RELEASED

Moscow, Nov. 18.

The telephone offices, one of the highest buildings in Europe ap- peared to be one of the main ob-

Jectives of the bombardment and

necessary the Government should bassador that as no serious evi-

It was subsequently learned that bombs have fallen in the neigh M. Litvinoff told the German Am-bourhood of the River Police, the have all possible power of military dence was available against two defence and the country should

Italian Embassy and the head-

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re-equip itself to take its full part likely

of the arrested Germans, they are quarters of the military and the

be released and de- in the world. Britain threatened ported.-

The extent of the damage is dif- no-one is her preparations.

Reuter

ficult to ascertain owing to the British Wireless...

dense cloud of dust and smoke hanging over the scene in most of the bombed districts.

RIVERA FAMILY

ON TRIAL

Acensed Of Participating In Spanish Revolt

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GREECE PAYS HOMAGE

Bodies Of Royalty Taken To Capital

Athens, Nov. 17. Paris, Nov. 18.

The flags in the Greek capdcal, The trial of the Spanish Fascist us Well 28 in Fort Piraeus have leader, Jose Antonio

Primo de been dying at halfmast, awaiting Rivera, his brother Miguel and the

the return of the mortal remains latter's wife, all of whom are in of King Constantinë. Queen, Olga the hands of the Madrid Governand Queen Sophie Meanwhile the ment, has begun before the Peo- entire press is devoting lang articles ple's Tribunal at Alicante, all to the services rendered by the three being accused of having deceased sovel Ágns, and ex- participated in the Spanish up- pressing the earnest hope that rising.

their return will finally unite all From the court proceedings it Greeks under of them, of a space.

has been learned that

the leadership, ci Antonio King Constantine's son, George, Primo de Rivera denied that the

and the National Government. party founded by him

has Im- Hearty thanks are tendered to-

The letter added that the King thought the outing should take the form of a reservation for the sole use of the children and those In charge along the route of the Coronation procession, in order that they might be among the first to greet

British Wirclem.

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day, Mr. Anthony Eden, replying | request from the Colonial Office him after he has been crowned.- perialistle aims, and declared that; ward Italy for the hospitality

to Sir Cahries Cayzer, said that

that the present system of quòtas'

he to-day received a communica-continue for the Arst quarter of

1937.

tion from the Japanese Ambas- sador stating that

Under a bill tabled yesterday, it the Tokyo Foreign Office

was proposed to include made-up Zurther wers examining the Keelung incident textiles as plece-gonds and impose-

in consultation with the authort-import quotas. ties concerned and asking that any

it

early next week.

Mr. Eden therefore requested the questioner to repeat the question

on Monday when he would make

a full statement-

Router.

The Government is also con-

of licences under the textile or dinances for nine months from April 1, 1937.- Reuter.

ITALIAN CALL FOR PEACE

Milan, Nov, 18.

his trip to Germany possessed no political significance.

His brother Miguel Primo de Rivera said that he knew nothing of his brother's political activities, and he denied the accusation of the Public Prosecutor that the re-

The woman defendant dealed having played the role of inter- mediary between the imprisozied men and the Nationalists. "Tronronedu Jus Service.

A vigorous challenge to peacevolvers found "In the cell of the statement should be postponed till sidering inviting tenders for issue loving countries to prevent Soviet brothers were smuggled in by bis

Russia from

wife sending' arma and ammunition to Spain la publish- ed in the "Gazeta del Popolo.".

The paper writes: "How much longer are Europe and the whole civilized world going to hear the complaint against Russia with folded arms? The result of this will be unavoidable war in Cata- Tonta and the formation of a Bolshevist source of conflagration. If Europe really is interested in preventing a butchery in Spain, that Father Joseph Clarence Burns, ture, Mr. Tugwell, one of the other measures than Non-Inter- American misionary, who escaped original "Brain Trusters" has revention Pacts must be taken. The from bandit hands, has arrived at signed according to the "New York routes to Spain must be closed for Tunghua under escort of Japanese | Times"-

Soviet ships."- gendarmes--Reuter.

Reuter

Transocean News Rervice

BANDIT CAPTIVE

AT TUNGHUA

Pelping, Nov. 18.

A message from · Mukden states

MR. TUGWELL RESIGNS

New York, Nov. 18." The Under-Secretary for Agricul

CHIANG'S SON IN GERMANY

awarded the exiled.

sovereigns when

The coins containing the mor- Queen Olga and Queen Sophie ar tal remains of King Constantine. rived on Tuesday from Italy on board the cruiser "Averoft"

The huge number of people who lined the quay at Piraeus, were respectfully silent while the cor- fins were brought ashore. "After a salute was fired, the coffins were carried on a special train, and taken to Athens, Transacton News Service.

EDISON RECEIVES NAVY POST

Berlin. Nov. 17,

Washington, Nov. 17.. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's son, Mr. Charles: Edison, son of the Mr. W. K. Chlang, who has arrived famous inventos has been con here, is staying at the home of an Armed by President Roosevelt as army captain, and I shortly begin the Assistant-Becretary of the studying at a military academy Navy Reuter

Renter

The outskirts of the city have been evacuated by the population and these areas are now the war zopes-- Reuter

STUEBORN RESISTANCE

London, Nov. 17. Despite the probable entry of Spanish insurgents Into Madrid over Manzanaras River, informa-" tion reaching. London official cir... cles indicates that "Government troops are still engaged in the will defence of the " capital and continue to show a stubborn re- sistance.

The Government is considering. dissolving the defence committee and restoring the command of the troops to the army officers.— Reuter's Bulletin Servies.

ADVANCE CONTINUED

Paris. Nov. 17. The Spanish Nationalists ad- vance towards the centre of Mad- rld continued. according to reports received here on Tuesday after- noon. The reports stress that the surprise attack made by. Colonel Yague in the northwest of Mad- rid had considerable bearing or the general situation." since the Colonel's troops succeeded ir. entering the city at the very spot where the Reds were offering most serious resistance.

It is believed that the Nations.

·lat forces will now advance from the university quarter in an eastern direction in order se cut off the rtensely populated suburb of Qua-. tro Caninos, mostly inhabited by people of the working class,~~ Transocean News Service.

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