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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937.

KING LEOPOLD ON PRIVATE VISIT TO

TO LONDON |

TO STAY AT BELGIAN EMBASSY

Dinner At Buckingham Palace On Wednesday

London, March 22.

King Leopold of the Belgians left Brussels this morning and is travelling via Ostend to London where he will arrive early this evening to spend a private visit lasting three days during which he will stay at the Belgian Embassy. Ambassador Barob de Cartier de Marchienne is to-night giving a dinner party in his honour at which representatives of the British political Hterary and scientific elreles » as well as colonial and industrial representatives will be present.

According to announced arrangements, King Leopold will play rolf to-morrow and will dine informally with. the King and Queen at.. Buckingham Palace on Wednesday night.

He is unaccompanied on the visit. by either the Prime Minister or Foreign Minister, but it is con- sidered highly probable that while in London he will have private and informal talks with the British

Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony,

Eden and possibly other British Ministers.

The Times" in a leader toys although the visit is private it is

doubly welcome and opportune at

the

present time because it

BRITAIN'S NEW SHIPS

Quick Placing Of Orders

London, Mar. 22.

KING LEOPOLD

CABLE NEWS IN

BRIEF

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London, Mar. 22-The Duke and Duchess of Kent reached Croydon yesterday by air from Paris, after a month's holiday on the соп- unent. In the evening they dined with Queen Mary at Marlborough House.-

British Wireless.

Jerusalem, Mar 23-A Jewish lorry driver was wounded to-day by an Arab ambush.

Police in Jerusalem report that

SPANISH WAR REPORTS

Civilians Evacuate Oviedo

Santander, Mar. 22.

The civil population at Oviedo has been completely evacuated ärrived on foot at Grado," fifteen malles west of Oviedo. Except for artillery duels, uttle activity is re- ported on the Oviedo front.

A number of deserters arrived in the Government lines from the provinces of Asturias.

From Salamanca the insurgents claim the capture of a Dutch steamer which they escorted to Ceuta. The report asserts that the steamer was carrying arms" for the Government.

Reuter's Bulletin Service.

"WE ARE FOLLOWING ROAD TO. VICTORY"

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Madrid, Mar. 22. General Miaja, commanding the Madrid defenders, has sent message, of congratulation to the forces which have triumphed at Brihuega, He says that two power- ful divisions have been totally dis- organised.

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"We are following the road to victory," he says. "but fearlessness is not enough. Discipline is in- dispensable."

The reports of the Government troops' success have greatly hear- tened the population of Madrid, where, also, political differences have been lessened in face of the

and, a quantity of arms and am has improved. munition. Reuters Bulletin Serene.

affords a chance for explanations The Admiralty has quickly put they captured two Arabs brigands common danger. Food distribution and frank discussions of recent ships of the new programme in changes in Belgian foreign policy. 'King Leopold, says the "Times," is sure to speak the mind of his countrymen this week during his informal contacts with the British statesmen. On the British side there is much sympathy for Bel. glum in her position as one of the traditional cockpits of Europe and the British response to any act of aggression against her territory has never been in doubt,"

But the plain statement of the Belgian wish to be given unțiaterai guarantees has inevitably raised several questions of importance and nothing but goud can come of this week's informal exchange of views.

British Wireless.

NAZIS REPLY TO POPE'S ATTACK

Berlin, Mar. 22 The government has lost little time in replying to attacks in the Pope's encyclical

hand. Parliament passed the 'es- timates on Thursday night and on Saturday morning the contracts för some of the ships had been signed. This is a departure from normal procedure as the contract is not usually placed until Ave or six months after the House had accepted the programme. Orders for some of the ships authorised last summer were also placed this week-end.

Meanwhile, the Government is claiming further advances and the capture of more villages on the New Delhi, Mar. 22-Further heights of the Guadalajara front. trouble is reported at the North-Defending troops continue to col

frontier where west

lect enormous quantilles' of war tribesmen

materials, made a number of raids in the Ten Hindus Waziristan district. were taken captive... ¡tenter's Bulletin Service.

Paris,

A Do-

Mar. 22:-In a rugby match played yesterday, zu-

minions thirteen, including players from Austraila, New Zealand and South Africa defeated France by 6 points to three-

The orders placed include 'three cruisers of the Dido class thorised last year and two others of the same class in the 1937 pro- gramme. Three of them will be built on the Clyde, one Mersey and one on the Tyne.

Moreover, orders for machinery for two more to be built at Ports-

on the

Reuter's Bulletin Service.

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Gibraltar, Mar. 22.--The Austra-

mouth and Chatham have been lan military contingent en mute

placed with private Arms on the Tyne and the Clyde.

A 23,000-ton aircraft carrier ap- "proved on Thursday was ordered from Belfast on Friday afternoon and an escort vessel was ordered from Southampton at the same time.- British Wireless.

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FEN. AREA FLOOD ANXIETY

A leading article in the. "Voel- klacher Beobachter," which must be regarded as oficially inspired declares that treaties even if in- tended as a "lasting settlement" become invalid as soon as they endanger the existence of a State.

The paper adds that since the Although the general situation conclusion of the concordat in. the flooded Fen area is slightly millions of Catholic Germans un more favourable, it is still being reservedly placed themselves at the watched anxiously. The water service of the state, but many level in the Welney washes is two high and low priests have not done inches above the maximum in 1928, so. They believe their tasks to be but waters have receded by an to disturb the internal peace of the appreciable amount from the peak nation and agitate against the of the present critical period. An State, against the Party, and all-night watch was kept on the damage. the State at home and

embankments of the old Bedford abroad."

River and at Welches dam where Reuter,

there is danger of the banks crum- bling with the receding of waters. In their fight against floods the Fenlanders have been greatly as sisted by troops brought into the

(Earlier references on Page 6)

ITALIAN NAVAL

MANOEUVRES-

Rome, Mar. 22. The Italian naval manoeuvres, to be witressed by Signor Musso- Hal will according to official an- nouncements, consist of evolutions in which one part of the vessels

area.

of

A message from the King and Queen expresses admiration their efforts and sympathy for them in their ordeal- British Wireless.

participating will represent the RIBBENTROP MEETS

"enemy feet while the other vessels MANCHESTER

will have to ward of the enemy. It is expressly emphasised that

"MEN"

these manoeuvres are nothing un- Herr von Ribbentrop, the German usual, but constitute a routine Ambassador, visited Manchester practice of the ficet which merely | recently: ns the guest. of Lord

to London, to attend the Corona-

Mon arrived in Gibraltar to-day The steamer carrying the con- ingent had anchor at Algeciras Bay yesterday owing to. Tough weather and the route march by the contingent in Gibraltar had to be abandoned.--

Reuter's Bulletin Service.

Bucharest, Mar. 22-A village near the capital has been practi- cally

destroyed by fire. The casualties are not known, but the damage to property and livestock is considerable.- Reuter's Bulletin Service.

Atlantic crossing.

The dead" found on the battle- field allegedly include an Italian major of the general staff.- Reuter.

FASCIST IRREGULARS

BRITISH MALT, BRITISH HOPS,

NO FAULT IN

THERE'S

ALLSOPP'S

BRITISH TO THE

ITS

CORE, IT NEVER LOSES

"HEAD".

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

BRITISH DEAD IN

WAR FIELDS *

The work of discovering and identifying the bodies of soldiers killed in the war still goes on. "18 years after the cessation of hostili- ties.

In the annual report of the 1m- perial War, Graves Commission, year 621 British bodies were dis- issued recently, it is shown that last

covered in France,

Of these 721 were found on the Somme battlefields. Sixty-three 1 bodies were found in Belgium. Identification was possible" in 90 cases, and relatives were

notifted accordingly.

Algecir, Mar. 22. A thousand Falangists (Fascist Irregulars) from Algeciras are en route to Ceuta. They will replace French offcial search partles Moorish troops there.

found in one Department alone-- the Pas-de-Calais-the bodies of 795 French And 810 German soldiers.

It. is understood the falangists declared they had had insuficient training and did not wish to go to the front. They desired to remain

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The report states that, following: SHARING OF COLONIES PLAN WELCOMED BY satisfactory arrangements for the General Francisco Franco's troops alble greatly to improve the con- An Insurgent official says that provision of water, it has been pos-

"FATAL TO PEACE" are now 90 per cent, foreigners-dition of British war cemeteries in Reuter.

Irak. Trees and grass have been made to flourish.

the

INSURGENT RETREAT

Madrid, March 21. Newspapers here are comparing insurgent retreat on the Guadalajara front to the rout at Caporetto. Reuter's special cox- respondent, after a visit to the Guadalajara battle-ground, thinks the comparison... there is certainly some cause for

water

FREAK FOAL OF

DERBY WINNER

A treak foal has been born at Newmarket a filly by the 1925 Derby winner, Manna, "out of the mare Silver Mist. With the ex- ception of a missing rear hind hoot and bone she is perfect.

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A representative of Mrs. Maher, her owner, crossed from Ireland to inspect the filly, and after a con sultation it is believed that foal will have to be destroyed.

He says that at Torija he saw some of the war material captured from the insurgents, including field guns, motor cars and lorries; London, Mar. 22-There is every and as he drove along the Sara indication that the Normandie is gossa Road past Trijuneque, he now racing to New York and Southampton to wrest the Queen uttered with knapsacks,

found the sides of the highway Mary's record in the west to east bottles, hand grenades, shells, am- munition, food, barrels of gasoline. Four days out from New York, A Government omcer, who fa-

Thoreux Captain

radioed

anterrogated Italian prisoners. de- Average speed for the trip so far clared that most of them are civi- of 30.9 knots. This is 38 better llans, not used to the intense cold than the Queen Mary's August which prevails on the Guadala average. The Normandie hopes to

jara front at this time of the arrive in Southampton to-morrow'

year. The Government's troops, morning-

on the other hand, are hardier of the wagons are being put on "Echo de Paris." The contents Reuter,

and better equipped.

This officer added that their board the steamer Kaĵaire......... London, Mar. 22-The Combined tanks played a great part in the

Transocean News Service. Universities by-election result was Government forces' victory, while announced to-day as follows:

their air force repelled the insur

T. E. Harvey (Independent Pro- gent planes and decimated the gressive) 6,596; Sir Francis Lindley rebel infantry ranks with machine- (National Conservative) 4,952; Sir gun fire- Henry Brackenbury (Independent) Reuter. 2,473. Independent Progressive

| majority 1.844. Independent Pro-

gressive gain British Wireless.

attracts attention because of the Derby.. Lord Lieutnant of the Mr. Wu Teh Chen For

Duce's presence.. Transocean News Service,

PUERTO RICO CLASH

Fonce, Puerto Rico, Mar. 20.

at

Kwangtung Governorship?

· ARMS-SURRENDER

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Position Of Germany

A warning of the consequences which would attend the redistribu- tion of Colonies is given by Dr. Al-. fred Plummer, Vice-Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, in "Ray" Materials or War Materials?" (Vic- tor Gollancz, Limited. 38. 8d.) cently published.

One

passage may auffice to filustrate the conclusion to which Dr Plummer is drawu after

thorough investigation of

whole situation.

re-

$

the

"There is not the slightest doubt that the redistribution of colonial territories while the Dictators are in thei

MOTORISTS

Importance Of Patrols' Knowledge

Motorists welcome the new plan for increasing the safety of the roads, and regard it as an exteir ["slon of the policy already antions— ced for the Metropolitan police, whereby the mobile patrols will be used for educative as much as for

and preventive

ordinary police purposes.

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It is recognised however, that more emphasis than ever will be placed upon the individual police officer, and that the success of the scheme depends almost entirely upon him;

One of the first qualities to be de- manded from the reinforced police patrols will be that of being able to state briefly in what way a dri- ver, has erred against the rules or customs of the road.

.. Three years ago there was a racehorse not only without a tail but minus the stump from which ceeding with their present pro- present mood and pro- normally the tail grows. He wore grammes, would be the worst po

special facket to hide the de-sible policy, and formity. This was Coron, the son fatal to world peace for years to certainly quite of a Derby winner, Coronach.

come...They would inevitably look round for new worlds to conquer.

That it is possible for a police- ruthlessly "reasoning that if by

man to reprimand a motor vehi mere threate of war so much can

cle driver and for the driver to be gained, still more profit might

accept the reprimand and make be snatched from the war itself."

some sort of apology is evidenced by incidents which nearly all Dr. Plummer's policy is "No drivers have seen from time to redistribution without disarmame, when traffic crossings police ment."

point-duty men stop a vehicle for signals. having neglected to observe their

populated.

In the

Incidents of this kind occur at most of the important erossings in London and other cities from time the best kind of relationship be to time, and they usually illustrate

tween police and public. He reminds his readers that only vast majority of cases the motor- a negligible proportion of Ger 1st apologises and the, policeman man citizens emigrated to German lets him proceed with a warning. possssions before the War that "not to do it again." Italian shown a marked preference for the emigrants have always

United States over any of the"Ita- lan possessions, He makes tat turther significant point that there was much talk of "colonial exclu sion" in pre-War Imperiai Ger- many.

PURE INVENTION

Salamanca, Mar. 21. The Nationalist Headquarters declare that the victories reported German colonies, he points out, The restitution of the former by the Madrid Government are would not make it in the least pure inventions. Not a single vil-cheaper for Germany to age of all those along the Quadata-

obtain raw materials, nor would the po Jara Front recently captured by the palation problem be solved. In Madrid, Mar. 21. All weapons in the possession of the Reds

Nationalists have been retaken by any case Germany is not over the population of Madrid must be surrendered to the Government

Transocean News Service. within 48 hours, according to a

FRONTIER SUPERVISORS command of Generál Minjo. Fai-

Llabon, March 21. lure to comply with this order will The first large group of British be punishable with the severest officers consisting 26 in number penalties. The remarkable thing to exercise supervision along the about this order, is that it is effec- Spanish-Portugese frontier, Ar- The Ta Kung Pao" from Nan- tive equally for Marxist and Anarrived here to-day. A smaller group king states that Mr." Wit Teh-

had already gone ahead some time Joseph chen, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, A similar order was issued re-ago to prepare quarters is likely to succeed the late Gen-cently by the Valencia Government Fransocean Neus Berna eral Huang Mu-sung as Governor applying to all territories under its. authority, In that case it was break of the civil war, many per- sons in Red Spain bed joined the Trade Unions whom the Govern- ment could not trust- Transocean News Service.

County, and was entertained dinner at the Midland Hotci The guests, numbering about 20, represented the civic and com- mercial life of the county, and included Manchester's' Labour Lord Mayor, Alderman Toole,

The visit, the first made

to

Shanghai March 22.

Nanking. Mar. 22. Mr. Wu Teh-chen arrived here from

chist adherents,"

At least seven were killed and 50 Manchester by the German Am of Kwangtung. General Huang pointed out that since the out- wounded in a clash between the bassador since the War, had no died on Saturday, following an police and the Nationalists when political significance. It was the attack of pneumonia-Reuter the Mayor prohibited a Nationalist outcome of à remark made by him. parade. Twenty-two nien, and 46 to Lord Derby recently that the women were arrested. The Pollee only persons he had met in this declare that a Nationalist fred on country were diplomats, and, that the Police during the Parade, he wanted to get to know other Shanghal to-day in response to a wounding one: The Police return- people and learn what they summons from the Central Gov- ed fire with riot guns, tear gas and thought about things. Lord ernment presumably in connection machine guns. The dead Include Derby at once invited him to Man- with his impending appointment one policemen-

chester ta meet Lancashire as Governor of Kwangtur t people.

Reuter

Beater.

MUNITION WAGONB

VALENCIA ARRESTS

-London, March 21. g.

LIFEBOAT STATION

TO CLOSE

It is clear, he says, that if the station, where for many years Brook (Isle of Wight) Hreboat hotels and boarding houses have present roles as Principal Exeles until he retired recently, on reach- Nearly 4000 persons living in dictators refuse to abandon their Lord Mottistone was coxswain been arrested on suspicion of of the Peace of Europe, there sing the age limit, is to be closed espionage at the order of the nothing to be said in favour of while the Royal National Life... Valencia Government of Cabal sharing out colonial territories and

pach,"

lero's, reports the Sunday Dis- a great deal to be said against. It: Boat Institution considers placing."

Native races should not be handed motor lifeboat there. The "Paris, March, 21. Caballero proceeded to extreme over to the tender mercies of Fas- station was opened 76 years ago. glum, loaded with munitions, de-age might lead to an overthrow of treated their own countrymen with

Four rallway wagong from Bel-measures as he feared that explon-clat and Nazi governors who have and was the first on the island."

The Hon. Patrick Beely, son tined for the Spanish Reds, have the regime

a cunning and brutal barbarity Lord Mottistone, a arrived in Marseilles, reports the Transocean News Bervice.

unparalleled in modern history, the lifeboat crew,

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