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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1937.

VALENCIA GOVERNMENT GIVEN FLYING OFFICER MOTOR FACTORY

FULL POWERS

Premier Talks Of

Ultimate Victory

Supervision For Territories Held By Insurgents

Valencia, February-2.

The Valencia Government convened the Spanish Parliament on Monday to a session which was attended by about a hundred. deputies, naturally all left-wing adherents. The chief feature of the session was a speech by Premier. Largo Caballero, who spoke on the question of non-intervention and supervision.

He declared that the Valencia Government accepted in prin- ciple the supervision, “which of course has to be confined to territories held by the insurgents” The Government, the Premier mid, bad the undisputable right to buy arms, this being the pre- rogative of every legally estäblished Government.

The Premier said he was certain that nobody in the outer countries any more seriously doubled the ultimate victory of the Valencia Government and demanded that this confidence should not remain platonic. The speech however clearly evidences the lack of unity in Government circles, as the Premier earnestly ex. horted the trade unions and parties to stop their quarrels, be cause at this functure the sole aim of one and all must be to win the war.

Spain, said Caballero, is not going through a civil war, but an invasion, which means that the Valencia Government is fghting for the freedom of Spain.

At the close of the session, the deputies present valced confidence

in the Government.---

Transuran News Service.

DICTATORIAL POWERS

Valencia, Feb. 2.

The remnant of the Government unanimously passed a resolution granting the Caballero Cabinet dictatorial powers to prosecute the war, and suspending the sitting of the Cortes indefinitely.

Premier Caballero declared that

the purpose of securing supreme powers was to centralise command and put the brake on extremists. Heuter

ADVANCE ON GRANADA.

Paris, Feb. 2.

It is reported from Madrid that the militia under the Valencia Government are contining their advance on Granada and have" captured the small township of Cuatas. This represents an ad- vance to about 4 miles. Francean News Service

MORE VOLUNTEERS

ITALIAN ENVOY TO FRANCO REGIME

Signor Roberto Cantalupo. Nominated

Rome, Feb. 1. Italy has nominated Signor Roberto Cantalupo, at present Am- bassador in Rio de Janeiro, as first Ambassador to General Francisco Franco's Government in Spain.

KILLED

Manoeuvres Marred In Singapore

Singapore, Feb. 2.

bere

The MANOEUVRES

were

marred by a fatal accident to Fly- ing Officer R. W. Blair who crashed In the darkness this morning when taking off from the Straits of Johore. The other six members in the machine were not injured.— Reuter's Bulletin Service,

OCCUPIED

Desperate Methods "By "Sitdowners"

Flint, Feb. 2

Three thousand stay-in strikers gained possession of the Chevrolet No. 4 factory after an earlier at- tempt to capture another factory" which twelve were injured, two had ended in serious rioting in

critically.

the

Governor Murphy ordered 1,200 National Guardsmen with rides, Singapore. Feb. 2. The elaborate manoeuvres which machine guns and tear gas to oc- are testing Singapore's £10,000,000 | CUPY

area where rioting fortress. continued throughout occurred. putting it in a state of yesterday and last night, and go

virtual military blockade, though it, on to-day. The land turces are

is emphasised that there is no de- Prender Large Caballero, during defending the great base against claration of martial law, his declaration

Cortes & combined attack from air and at the session, stated that the Valencia sea. Government will ultimately, be The manoeuvres commenced victorious in the present conflict. yesterday morning, when aircraft patrols roared away to seek ap- proaching enemy warships and transports carrying an invading

MORE MODERATE army

POLICY

The troops have been ordered not to disturb the" "alt-downers", and not enter the factorles unless requested by the civil authorities.— Reuter

SLOAN SURROUNDED

New York. Feb. 2. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, A hooting mob of Unton pickets Commander-in-Chief of the China | surrounded Mr. Sloan, President of Station, aboard » HMS." Camber- the General Motors Corporation, as land, commands the attacking he left the ofaces. The mob kept on shouting "we want collective bargaining." Reuter

London Hopes About fore Major-General Dobble.

Japan

G.O.C. Malaya, commands the de- fenders.

The total of personnel involved is approximately 8,000, comprising naval ratings and detachments of the Army and Air Force, and troops from Johore.

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London, Feb. 2. The Japanese Cabinet on the whole is favourably received and recent events inspire the hope it

The attacking force had to be must pursue a more moderate.pobeginning of the exercises, so it 250 miles from Singapore at the licy. Japanese loans yesterday were firmer and to-day they are steady.

#STRIKERS GIVE IN

Akron, Feb. 2. The General Tyre and Rubber Company strikers have voted to re-. summe work- Reziser

EARLIER MESSAGE

was assumed that the first blow at the fortress will be from the

Flint, Feb. 1. The rumour that the Japanese air. Planes from EMS. Hermes At the conclusion of a four- Navy presses for revision of China Will probably strike at Singapore hour hearing of the General Motor polley attracts the interests of some time during the night.

Corporation petition for an in- Far Eastern observers. Mr. F. E.

In addition to testing the vul- junction to eject the sit-down Dean, recently from China, in a nerability of the fortress to sur-strikers from two factories here, feature article in the "Dally Tele- prise attacks, the mobility of its the Court announced it would de- graph" stresses

defence that Japanese

wili also be examined. fer its decision until Tuesday Landing parties will attempt to next. break through the posts which guard the beaches. They will face barbed wire and machine-guns,

Defenders believe that the for- tress is impregnable.--- Reuter's Bulletin Service,

Signor Vicenza Lojacono, Ambas- ¦ sador to China, who is stationed in anxieties are due to China's new Snarghal, will replace Signor Can-challenging temper. He writes: talupo, while Signor Juliano, for-This New China is coalescing at mer Ambassador to Chile, will go last in common distrust of an ag-

Shanghai-

Heuter.

WEATHER HOLDS UP SPANISH WAR

Paris, Feb. 2 All reporta from the belligerent parties in Spain state that it is Impossible to fight at the moment because of "the terrible weather, even in places where the opposing forces are only 50 metres apart.

Paris, Feb. 2. as in the University quarters at

The Echo de Paris publishes | Madrid.--.

the Information that representa | Reuter

tives of the Valencia Government

are continuing to enlist volunteers NAVY "COMMISSIONS

for Spain, and some sources say that 802 volunteers

crossed the

Franco-Spanish border on January

24. and 110 and 150 on the follow- ing two days.— Truuance Newa Service.

FOREIGN FIGHTERS

Brussels, Feb. 2 Camille Hyams, Socialist Presi- dent of the Belgian Chamber, whe returned. here after visiting the part of Spain under Valencia juris- diction, reports that according to his estimation there are at present 1.500. Belgians and 10.000 French- men fighting in the ranks of the Red Militia.-- Travureau News Service

FOR MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS

London, Feb. 2,

An appeal, offering British mer- chant marine officers commissions as first or second Lieutenants in the Royal Navy, has been issued by the Admiralty and the Air Force, owing to shortage in officers.

-Transoccaz News Service.

DUTCH ROYALTY ON TOUR Warsaw, Feb. 2.

The Dutch Crown Princess Jullana and her consort, France Bernhardt, after visiting all

sights of Cracow on Sunday re- turned to Krynica, where they will stay another ten days. It is

CHARTERED SHIP AFIRE

Paris, Feb. 2. Fire broke out on the steamer Navarre, which, lying in the har reported kero i

tour of Marsellles, had been char- tered by the Valencia Government some time ago. The reason for the fire is not yet known- T'enarkan News Sernei.

LINDBERGH FLYING TO EGYPT

London, Feb..1. Col. Charles Lindbergh, who now Hves quietly in Kent, left Lympne this morning on a flight to Egypt. piloting his own machine.--- Reuter

Paris, Feb. 1. Colonel Lindbergh in accom- panied by his wife on his flight from Lymphe to Egypt, it is re- ported here.

The famous airman has not been eighted since his machine passed over Calals this morning. It is assumed that he proceeded by the most direct route towards his de- stination and that he intends to make no stop' on French terri tory

Kouter

LANDS IN ITALY

Pisa, Feb. 2. Colonel Lindbergh and his wife janded at Ban Gusto near here and they are dying to Rome.---- Reuters Bulletin Service,

gressive neighbour becoming steel- ed to resistance is a product of Japanese militant policy, The Japanese Army's. problem is not

merely how to maintain the terri- tories gained but how to hold them against China which daily grows more self-assured.”...

Reuter

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Naval

Appointments

Surg. Comdr. Finnigan For "Tamar"

The following appointments have been made by the Admiralty: Surgn. Comdr-J. C. Brown, MRCB LRCP., to Drake for RN.B. (Jan. 23).

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The petition. Was filed last Thursday but the Court gave the union, until to-day to show cause why the Injunction should not be

granted,

The Corporation alleges that the strikers are no longer employed by it, but that they are malicious and wilful trespassers

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Fighting broke out. among 300. members of the Automobile Work- ers' Union at the Chevrolet- fac- [tory here to-day after a meeting at which it was announced that a union member had been throwi out. Several shots were fired. Men ontalde the factory broke the windows with clubs-u Reuter.

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U.S. Floods

Floods Continue To Give Anxiety

HAND-MADE BARRICADES

Cairo. Ilinois, Feb. 1. Forty-five hundred men, holding

The Ohio River is pouring into virtually the last ditch of this the Mississippi at this, their point city's defences against the Missis of connuence, at a rate of nearly second. sippi's spate, are

awiting their 3,000,000 cubic feet" a

Cairo stands at the very point of zero hour, which will came with their juncture, and its levees bear the crest of the flood. It is ap- the full weight of the Missisipi, After 17 Years Abroad

proaching rapidly as wind-lashed i freshened by the Ohio's tumbling waters, swiftly eddying in the bulk

drum river's bend,

However, forecasts cheered the The 2nd Battalion The Royal bigher and higher against theed belief that the hand-made bar-

ominously

flood-fightera, for it is the express- Sussex Regiment returned

ricade of sandbags on the top of the floodwall will save the city of Calro and the lives of those who,

to

The battalion landed at South-

Surga Cd. ().-C. J. Fin- Shanghai, Feb. 2.

nigan, to Tamar for RN. Hospi, No definite date has yet been set Plymouth (Jan. 18); A. T. Dally. for the inauguration of the Pan-

to Ganges (Jan. 25); and A. Mac-

RNB American Airways Kink from Mani-Pherson, to Victory for la to Hong Kong as far as the local (Jan. 30).

Surgn. Lt-Cdr.-D. F. Walsh. office knows, Mr. H. M. Bixby, Vice-President for China of Pa- MB, to Ganges (Jan. 19). American Airways. sald yesterday.

Lieuits-E. D. Norman, to 127 England from Khartoum last levers' frall superstructure, upon An American United Fress dls-

and J. Wilkinson, to Titania (Jan. | month after a 17 years' absence on which the community's life de- 15); patch from Hong Kong had de

the Hon. D. Edwardes, to foreign service.

pends. clared that the link will be in-

Emerald Jan. 26); and augurated on March 1. Mr. Bixby Crawford, appt to Emerald can-ampton from the troopship Dil-

This is the greatest danger spot have not already evacuated the in man's' 1,200-mile river battle-threatened area, wara and was welcomed by the

front. The mounting waters warn Act. Payr. Sub-Lieut.-M. K. Colonel of the regiment, Brigadier- of an early crisis Grim levee Overend, do President (Feb. 22).

Osborne, DB.D. sentinels patrolled

At Portsmouth, Ohla, mean- General W. L Cd. Cook-H. C. Robertson, to Brigadier-General A, E. Glasgow, seawalls

the flood-llt while, the flood waters are reced- Pembroke a 28).

D.S.O., who commanded the bat- throughout last night and to-day. clearing up

freezing weathering and hundreds of workers are Wt. Cooks-J. Treagust, to Victallon when

the it was stalloned in watching for any sign of a break] through deep deposits of slippery. city, a wading tory (Jan. 27); and C. Truscott. to the Dardanellea, was at the quay- St. Angel (Jan. 29). ·

which might turn the city into a mud which coats everything. zieć.

vast graveyard, under 25-feet of water and mud, and all within" a few minuten.

said he did not know the source of this story, but said that his office has not been notified that any de- nnite date has yet been set- inion News.

celled.

Retirement Lit-Car-G. M. Crockett, at own

NO INFORMATION Enquiries at the local offices of that Princess the Pan-American Airways reveal- Juliana has announced the co-ed that no communication has ple's intention to visit Budapest been received regarding the com-request, with rank of Cdr. (Jan. and after that proceed stil fær. Í mencement of the trans-Pacific al: | 22). ther south- Transocean News Service.

KING GUSTAV IN BELGIUM

Brussels, Feb. 2 The King of Sweden is paying a visit to Belgium and drove through the streets of Brussels to-day with King Leopold.

The Swedish Foreign Minister will discuss trade relations with accompanied King Gustav, who

the Belgian ruler during the visit.— Reuter's Bulletin Service.

VATICAN DECORATION

Rome, Feb. 1. Pope Plus will confer upon the Queen of Italy the Golden Rose, which is the highest posible de- coration that the Pope can bestow upon Royalty- Transcesan News Service.

PERRX-VINES DUELA

Palm Beach, Feb. 2 Fred Perry defeated Ellsworth Vines in to-day's tennis encounter by scores of 2-6, 6-3, 9-7 Router

service.

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Royal Marines

Only two officera and 17 other ranks have been in the battalion since it started its period of foreign service in 1919, and Colonel V. E.

The local agent, Mr. P. H. Tye. Major H 8. Teek, to Nor-j. Dashwood, the officer command-

stated that any announcement of folk (data of embarcation). the first flight of the new through sirmall service from the United States to China would be received first by the Pan-American Airways in Shanghat. Certain delays would be involved in any case before- Hong Kong would be notified.

Proby. Lieut.-J. R. Garrett, to Devonshire (date of embarcation),

WANG CHING WEI'S ASSAILANTS

SHIPS TO BECOMMISSION HMS. Loudon will recommission

ing and Regimental Sergeant Major Dawson are the only serving survivors of the battalion which went to France in 1914.

'PARIS BREAD PRICE UP

Paris, Feb. 2. The price of bread will be in creased here on February 14 by 20 centimes to 2.30 francs per kilo, in consequence of the recent devalua- tion of the franc.- Transcean mor Service.

at Portsmouth for further service as flagship of the First Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean. Captain. F. H. W. Goolden, ADC. will be succeeded in command by Captain Herbert Pott, MV.O. late Naval Attache at Rome, and Com- mander M. H. A. Kelsey, D.SC. (who was promoted to captain in the New Year list), as executive omicer by Commander E M. C. | Abel-Smith, from the Naval Air The Judicial Yuan"is divided Division. Commander T. KW. over Mr. Wang Ching-wer's appeal Atkinson, from the star course, for clemency on behalf of the men who were recently sentenced to to Commander C. 1. Horton.

will join as navigator in succession

long prison terms as a result of HM.S. Eagle will commission at

London, Feb. 2 the attempt to assassinate him in Devonport to relieve the Hermes Orders placed in colnection with Nanking in 1935,

on the China Station. "She has the British rearmament

Appeal For Clemency

Shanghal, Feb 2..

BRITISH REARMAMENT

in

One small

"RUSHING MONSTER" Few people outside these cities of the "flood zone" have any conception of the speed with which disaster can Come. break in the levees, and the mor mons weight of water clutches and tears its way through a trickle growing to a cataract, a cataract to a deluge in a matter of seconds, Nothing can resist it, once the yellow-maned flood is free `Man and alt his works go."down" before this rushing monster

400 DEAD

"Evacuation profiteers" are ac tive in the food-stricken farming districts, buying up cheaply the Inundated properties and aban- doned livestock

The Federal Food Commission. under Mr. Harry Hopkins, Works Progress Adminstration chief, has begin a week-long survey of the arrived at Mephis, Tennessee, to

devastated areas.

The Red Cross reports that con- tributions to its fund already amount to $8,300,000 and they ask- ed only last week for $10,000,000. In New York it is estimat d that the death roll in the foods now totals 400, not counting those evacuation of the flood-fighters; disease. There are over 1.000.000

stand ready for the who have since perished through, but if the levees break, their hopes homeless of life are small,

Reuter.

Boats

ROME-BERLIN MOTOR STUDENT ACTIVITIES

ROAD PROJECT

Vienna, Feb. 2.

CURBED

The Austrian Chancellor, Dr

Soda, Feb. 2. All student associations and stu- great Italian engineer and motor of Bona have, with one solitary ex pro- Kurt Schuschnigs, received the dent federations at the University,

road builder Purcell, to hear a report on the project of a direction, been dissolved by order of motor road from Rome to Berin..

the Minister of Interior. The stu Dr. Schuschnigg showed greated no less than 70 federations ana dents of this University had form- interest in the plan, especially as the road concerned would pass

associations through Austrian territory Transocean News Seraton Hing

Bome members held that the been brought forward from the gramme between April 1 and De- sentenced men should be pardon- Reserve Fleet Devonport with cember 31 last year totalled over ed because they sincerely beleved Captain Clement Moody in com- £137,000,000, of which thereof that Mr. Wang, was unpatriotic. mand and Commander R. Oliver- 232,000,000 was placed in the Others contend that the accused Bellasis as executive officer. The special distressed areas according men were merely professional Eagle will proceed to Portsmouth to a written reply by Sir Thomas killens to whom political con on February 9, and will leave for Inskip minister for Co-ordination aiderationis she (Id not apply--

the Far East later in the month of defexce5. Transorean Neko Service.

after embarking ber aircraft, el Router's Bulletin, Service.

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