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ARTILLERY DUELS

AND AIR COMBATS

Improved Weather

Helps Fighting

Insurgents Bomb Valencia

LONDON, MARCH 1. FIGHTING IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR IS MORE SEVERE WITH THE RETURN OF MILDER WEATHER. THE GOVERN- MENT CLAIMED TO HAVE BLOWN UP A BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER LEADING INTO UNIVERSITY CITY.

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In Southeast Madrid, artillery duels and air combate con- tinue, while on the Oviedo front the Government forces assert that they are penetrating further into the city.

The Government, of Valencia has ordered all young men to be signed up for military service within forty eight hours. Those falling to enlist will be regarded as deserters

Valencia was bombed by Insur-

gent planes yesterday.—-

Reuter's Bulletin Serinen.

FOOD SHORTAGE

Paris, March 8.

No bread whatever has been on sale in Barcelona since Saturday. is the news received here through the broadcasting service, The available bread supplies have been sent to Madrid where the scarcity of food is growing acute every day -Tranxocran News Service.

REARMAMENT IN BRITAIN

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Labour Party Decline Support

London, Mar. 7. Speaking in Cambridge to-day, the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Major Attlee, de clared that the Labour Party had no intention whatsoever of sup- porting the Government in re- mament. He said that he wished to make this clear, since it had been frequently said that the La- bour Party was behind the Gov- ernment. Major Attlee went so

far as to declare that the Labour

victory in the county of London Was a severe blow to Mr. Stanley

that the der,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937.

BELLIGERENT

SHIPS CLASH

Merchant Vessel Captured

Paris, Mar. 7.

In a sea battle of the coast of Gascony, in the South of France. the Spanish Nationalist cruiser, "Canarias," and the torpedo boat "Velasco" engaged three red" war- ships. "Jose Luis Diez." "Tremon- Lana and "Navarra," when two of the latter were completely des- troyed.

The torpedo boat "Jose Luis Djez" was seriously damaged and obliged to seek refuge in French waters. The nationalist cruiser "Canarias" was later able to seize the red mercantile steamer "Gal- danes" off Bilbao and compel her to enter the Nationalist harbour, Pasajes. Among the passengers were several marxat City Council- lors of Irun who had fled to Bilbao when the Nationalists took Irun, was well as Deputy Carrasco

RAW MATERIALS CONFERENCE

Germany And Italy Keep Away

Geneva, March 8. Experts of sixteen nations are meeting here to-day to discuss the questiari of raw materials in the world.

Led by Britain subsequent to Sir Samuel Hoare's speech in 1935 regarding the disposition of raw materials. the conference will dis- cuss the question from all angles, both political and economic.

Germany and Italy have boy- cotted the conference but Japan has sent a representative.- Keuter's Bulletin Service.

LETTH-ROSS ATTENDS

Geneva, March 8. The well-known Swiss economist Stuck has been elected President of the Raw Materials Committee.

Sir Frederick Leith-Ross presents the British case this afternoon.

SPANISH COAST Formiguera who is representative after which the representatives of

CONTROL

Date For Operation

Of Scheme

London, Mar, T.

of the Barcelona Reds among the the countries with needs Uke

Basque separatists.— Transoreas News Service.

ANOTHER REPORT

Hendaye, Mar. 7. The Galdanes was escorted by a Government destroyer, armed trawlers and merchantmen when she was attacked and taken by The decision to recommend two insurgent cruisers, it is re- March 13 as the day, for the com-vealed to-day. mencement of the operation of The Government destroyer was the international control scheme to prevent arms and volunteers reaching Spain, was made at a 10-hour meeting of the Non Intervention sub-Committee yes- terday and will come before the full Non-Intervention Committee at 11 am to-morrow for final adoption.

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The Committee will then con- sider the detailed report of the sub-committee

the control

The adopted yesterday.

chie: point, which is still not Anally settled, is the payment by Ger- many of her 18 per cent, share of the total cost of administering the blockade amounting to £143.000. Up to the present Germany has insisted that she will pay only

$2,000 in foreign currency and the remainder in Reichsmarks.

severely damaged and made her' way, Imping to Bordeaux. One of the trawlers was sunk and an- other arrived at Arcachon, near. Bordeaux badly hit.

The prisoners taken by the in- surgent warships include Senor

Minister Formiguera,

the Catalan Government- Reuter.

FULLER DETAILS

Bayonne, Mar. 7. Detalis of the seizure of the Spanish Government steamer "Galdanes, with a number of

at least | militiamen,

pro- minent offcial and valuable war supplies aboard,

one

show that two insurgent cruisers were involved

Japan and Poland will follow.

The present session will probably only last a few days. Certain de- legates will then study the various aspects and submit reports to the second session about three months hence. Reuter

FRENCH DEFENCE

LOAN

Paris, March 7. The French Government decid- ed to accelerate the passage through the Chamber of the Laws, authorising the Defence Loan. It is expected that the bill will pass the Chamber on Tuesday and go to the Senate the same day. If without hitch the passed there loan issue would begin on Wed- nesday. Transocean News Service.

LEBRUN'S APPEAL

BRITISH MALT, BRITISH HOPS,

THERE'S NO FAULT

IN

ALLSOPP'S

BRITISH TO THE CORE, IT NEVER LOSES

ITS

"HEAD"

SOLE AGENTS:

X.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

PLANNING

A "FITTER"

LONDON

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M.R. Charter Of Health

AIM IF ELECTED NEXT MONTH

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A new charter of health for London is promised if the Muni- "Paris, Mar. 7.

elpal Reform Party is returned at M. Paul Lebrun, the French Pre- the LC.C. elections next month. sident, to-day appealed to the The comprehensive programme country, over a nation-wide radio which has been drafted will re-

in a sharp action which terminat-network, to support the proposed Defence Loan, whose issue has been postponed until early next week.

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ed, with the merchantman's sur- One of the ships of her Was sunk and the rest

were dispersed, damaged.

The cruisers Almirante Cervera and Caparias engaged the arm- oured vessels on the Galdanes convoy, all of which belonged to the Basque Government. Bilbao. When the convoy scattered, a prize crew took over the somewhat battered Galdanes,

Baldwin, Mr. Winston Churchill Lord Plymouth yesterday de- render. and the "Press Lords," Beaver-clared that Germany's refusal to convoy brook and Rothermere.

conform with the Committee's Major Attlee even declared plana endangered the whole London Labour Lea- scheme, as Britain and the other Mr. Morrison would one great Powers concerned were not -day lead the British L-prepared to pay unless all the bour Party in Parliament, nations concerned, pay "la usable saying that a man who showed currency." himself so emminently capable of yielding to the destinies of the greatest city in the world, was equal, when the necessity arose,

Portugal has now withdrawn her objection to Russian merchant- men entering Lisbon harbour to

take on observers. At one stage of also ruling the destinies of ait seemed that this obstacle would great country----

Transveran News Sermo

GREAT PHYSICIAN

HONOURED

wreck the control scheme.— Reuter.

ALL DETAILS SETTLED

London, March 7, March 13, is the date: when supervision will come lata force, this decision having been reached late on Saturday night by Vienna, March 7.

Non-Intervention Committee. The 80th birthday of the great physician and Nobel Prize winner, All details of the plan were also Prof. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jouregg finally settled. All that is now re- was celebrated here with great quired 19 the formal endorsement cordiality by the University.

to

off

was

a 3,000-ton ship, carrying 140 pas- sengers and troops, including a number of women and children.

The cruisers conducted

the

waldanes to port at Pasajes, where the dead and wounded aboard the ship were landed. The casualties include two women and three chil- dren.

Meanwhile, it was discovered that as well as a large cargo of the war supplies, the ship carried four tons of nickel coins for the Basque Government- Reuter.

of the Plenary session to be held on Monday.

BRITISH SIP STOPPED

Gibraltar Mar. 8. Colleagues and admirers came

The British steamer Spring On March 13, the vessels of the Wear, from all parts of Europe to pay

on her way to Spanish bomage

this great pioneer nations concerned, will take

upports. was stopped in the Straits whose achievements in medical their positions in the sectors of Gibraltar yesterday by an in- science have made his name ring signed to them. the world over.

agreed session also President Mikina of Austria sent officials being entrusted with the a letter of congratulation to-day execution of the whole plan.-

Transocean News Service. in the Austrian people's, name.

Wagner Jouregg's greatest

triumph was the discovery of a

吐 zeana

heating progressive

paralysis

by inoculating the patient with malaria germs.----

Transocean News Service.

EGYPTIAN ORDER TO GERMANY

Cairo, March 8. The Egyptian Government has placed an order with the German firm of Krupp and Julus Berger to construct a bridge over the Nile at Samaoud. The value of the order is 150,000 Egyptian pounds Transocean New Service.

CHEVROLET PLANT

CLOSED.

Flint, Mich., Mar. 8.

The Saturday surgent trawler and ordered to

ол three proceed to Ceuta. ม

DISTURBANCES IN

PALESTINE “

Situation Now Becoming

Normal..

was

Her master, however, refused to comply with the order and steam- ed at full speed for Gibraltar. Me is sheltering here now.

It is reported that scarcely a day passes without insurgent war- ships detaining a foreign vessel. The majority of these are Danish and Norwegian. They are taken to Ceuta where they are compelled discharge their cargoes and

VETERAN SOLDIER

PASSES

present the first attempt to put into operation the Government's "Make You Fi" campaign.

It will give a lead to the whole country.

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DECREE NISI AGAINST

BIGAMIST -

Woman From Spain As Co-Respondent

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SCOTTISH AIR« DISASTER

Hillside Memorial Unveiled

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The M.R. Party's policy was out- lined by Mr. W. H. Webbe, Leader of the Party on the Council, whose A decree mist with costs was

at name appears among the

Assizes new granted

Leicester Knights in the Honours List, at af against Johri AinsworthTM Christien, meeting of the London Municipal who was sentenced at the Old Society.

Bailey last week to 20 months" A memorial service was held re-' Paris, March 7. "I believe," he said, "that the hard labour for bigamy.

cently on Darnaw Fell, near New- A veteran soldier, believed to primary duty of a local authority The petitioner Was

Majorleton Stewart, Wigtownshire, for the have been the last of those Papal is to keep people fit, so that they Yvonne Elliott, and Christien's four men who lost their lives when troops that defended Rome do not need to be cured in hos- name was given as John Barry the "Daily Express" Dragonfly 1870 against the march of the valiantly but unsuccessfully in bitals or anywhere else.

Elliott. Italian Nationalist troops, Colonel blem of health from

"I want to approach this pro- The wife's case was that they different were married at Horniaea Parish Count Loals de Coutene, died at angle from that which is usually Church on October 1, 1932, and | Nancy to-day aged 102.

taken, and I desire not only to after a week at a London hotel keep Londoners fit, but to make went to Barcelona. There they them" fitter.”

met the co-respondent, Señorita ADEQUATE HOSPITALS Rosita Rivero. The marriage was Mr. Webbe said that the MF. unhappy and there were frequent programme would include pro- quarrels.

Nancy.

Transocean News Service.

Coutene was in 1870 commander of the Swiss Guard at the Vatican which after a short slege, surren- dered. Coutene then took refuge France and spent the greater part of the remaining 67 years inposals for developing the hospital Subsequently she found that her services so as to make good the husband had brought Señorita shortage of beds which the Socia-Rivero from Spain to Leicester. lists had allowed to accumulate, DIVORCE FOR THE HON. and to provide for the increasing

MRS. E. WARD demand made by the public for The Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Ward. the LC.C. hospitals when they got nee Balfour, of Walton-place. to know what excellent institu- Chelsea, was granted a decree nisi, tions they were,

with costs, by the President, Br They would have to begin at the Boyd Merriman. in the Divorce beginning in making Londoners Court on the ground of the adul- Bitter. The gap between

tery of the Hon. E H H Ward maternal and child welfare cen- with a Miss Maisie Middleton. The tres and the time wheh the child-suit was not defended. ren went to school would have to be filled.

CHINESE RENT DECISIONS

Commons Question

London, March 8

the

In the House of Commons. Mr.

The marriage took place in A. C. Moreing raised the matter of Chinese rent decisions and asked

April, 1933. Mrs. Ward's case was If the marvellous school medical that her married life was happy what action was proposed to pre-services could be made better that for about six months, and then vent the serious damage to British would be done. commercial interests in Shanghai owing to the absence of effective means of recovering rents from defaulting Chinese tenants.

then released. ...Moorish reinforcements for Ge- neral Francisco Franco's 'armles Lord Cranborne replied that the Jerusalem, Mar. 7,

continue to arrive at Algeciras Ambassador has been requested to The tension which followed yes from Ceuta twice daily..

report,~~~ terday's widespread and fatal dis-

It is believed the troops are des- Reuter, turbances Blackened to-day. The tined for the Malaga, front, where.

which curfew,

proclaimed according to well-informed In- last night when British troops surgent quarters, General Franco were called out to reinforce police has not yet concentrated sufficient and patrol the streets, has been forces for an attack on Almeria, repealed.

which is reported to have been It is officially stated that the heavily reinforced by the Govern- situation. is now becoming more ment.--- normel

In yesterday's zisting one Arab was shot dead and a Jew and an Arab seriously wounded. It was feared that the disturbances Three divisions of the Chevrolet | would precipitate, another Arab- plant here were closed by strikers Jew. crisis arid might be the begin- this morning.

ning of further serious bloodshed.

The workers left peacefully pending settlement of their dif- ferences between the Company and the United Automobile Workers Union. Reuter,

However, it is now announced

Reuter.

RETIRED OFFICER'S

DEATH

London, Mar. 7.

that the incidents of violence were Major-General Bir Ronald Ber- isolated and all sections of the tram Lane, K.C.B., KC.VO. CB, population are indignant that of Lachfield, retired on pension in

1909, died to-day

they should have occurred.---- Reuter.

Reuter.

Duke Of Windsor's Message

To "Old Comrades”.

she and her husband, went to Physical training in

schools China. would be brought up to date and

She had a breakdown in health made to conform with medical and came to England, and when opinion if the Municipal Reform she rejoined her Farty were returned.

husband in China, in October, 1935. he told her he was in love with Miss Mid- dleton.

men

There should be adequate facili- ties for playing, games,

Regarding young men and wo- after they left school, he thought that some form of help should be given to the athletic clubs throughout London. Sug- gestions would be made as to how running tracks and grounds could be used more effectively."

AN IMPROVING PHYSIQUE

EGYPTIAN

REARMAMENT

Cairo, "Mar, 8. The Cabinet bas authorised the expenditure of £1,100,000 for war materials including aeroplanes Reuters Bulletin Service.

The Duke of Windsor has sent à personal message "to all my old "comrades" of the British Legion.

The electorate would have be Writing from Schloss Erzesteld fore it definite proposals for im- to Sir Frederick Maurice, President proving the physique of London- of the British Legion, the. Duke era. If they could do that the day{ expressed his deep appreciation of might come when they would have their devotion and support in the too many hospital beds. Vajin past and "their kind thoughts of The supply of trained games me just now." He assured the inspectors and leaders, particular- Legion members that any servicely men," was not adequate, and if he might have rendered them as his party were returned to power ali essential services, coupled with their Patron had been his privilege. they would urge on the BoaC of a financial control which would To be of some service" to them. Education and the Government not impose unreasonable burdens again was his sincere hope.

the desirability of establishing ach the ratepayers.

aeroplane crashed on February 2, states the "Times"

Several hundred people from all parts of the country made the as- cent of the hill, 1.600ft.high, climbing over bogland and snow- covered heather to the spot where- the aeroplane fell and where the memorial has been erected. The large gathering included represen... tatives of nearly all the leading newspapers and many public men, The memorial, which takes the form of a cairn, is of boulders hewa from the hillside, and has on it a tablet of silver-grey Creetown" granite bearing the inscription; “In memory. Here fell four brave Wesley, Leslie Jackson, and Ar- men-Harold Pemberton, Reginald chibald Phopott. 2 Feby. 1937"

Workmen from Newton Stewart. have faced severe weather in the erection of the memorial. 'Twice' they were driven from the hillside by snowstorms in the teeth of a gale, and in bitter winds and haft showers they have stood knee- deep in snow to quarry stones be- side the burn-out hulk of the sero- plans. The memorial stands on the rock which the machine struck. The simple service or remem- brance was conducted, by the Rev. D. R. Mitchell, minister of Perming- hame Parish Church, Newton Ste wart, assisted by Canon Branford, rector of All Saints, Newton Ste- wart. In his address Mr. Mitchell four intrepid and venturesome paid tribute to the memory of spirits, eager to contribute some thing to further the cause of civilization.

The service closed with the La- ment "The Flowers of the Forest," new training college for physical played by Pipe-major Marr, Ás training inspectors and leaders, the last notes died away in sur He promised London that there rounding hills an aeroplane from would be a steady development in the Carlisle Flying Club swooped

down over the memorial in saluteles The memorial was imvelled by Lord Galloway, Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbrightshire.