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FULL EFFECT OF THE
LONDON BUS STRIKE
Trams And
And Underground
Packed
London, May 1.
Londoners felt the full effect of the bus strike when they ceased work to-day. Between noon and I p.m. there were amazing scenes at the Akigate tram terminus when the home-bound rush began. The street was a solid mass of struggling people, trying to board the trams and police had to be stationed on the tram platforms to en sure order,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1937.
BIG OFFENSIVE
PLANNED
Republicans To Rush Madrid
Paris, May 1 A major offensive against the insurgent troops on the Madrid front will be assumed in a Lew days, according to reports recely- ed in Paris.
It is hoped, says a Madrid mess age, that in this way pressure will be relieved on the Basque frant and, the fall of Bilbao will
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In the Underground railways the carriages were packed to capa- city and some people were overcome by the heat.
averted. At the Plecadilly Circus underground station there were unprecedented scenes during the rush hour as the cup final visitors swelled the crowds of home- ward-bound, Londoners,
In the provinces, Oxford busmen are the latest to join the un- official strike. Mr. Bevin, secretary of the Workers Union, and the leader of the London strikers wrote to the. Oxfurd" branch of the Union and stated that the branch, tri taking a strike action without the support of the Unton, was observing principles not made by Unionism but by anarchy, and added that the men were playing right into the hands of the employers. Such action was sheer mad ness, he wrote. The Union should do nothing until the men returned to work. He maintained that the men themselves were holding up the negotiations for a national agreement.-Reuter.
KHO WINS AGAIN
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But China Is Out Of
Davis Cup
Brighton, May 1.
In the first round of the Davis Cup, New Zealand beat China by three matches to two.
Kho Sin Kle beat A. C. Stedman
6-4, 6-4, 1-8. 6-4.
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C. E. Malfroy beat W. C. Choy 8-1, 6-3, 6-1.
Kho Sin Kle beat C. E. Malfroy 6-0 6-3, 4-6, 6-2,
W. C. Choy lost to A. C. Stedman 4-6, 0-6, 2-5,
Kho Sin Kie and Tsul Wal Pul lost to A. C. Stedman and C. E Malfroy 3-8, 8-8. 3-6, 2-6.
KHO IMPRESSES
Kho Sin Kle, playing a fast and hardhitting game. outlasted his dogged apponent: "The game con- sisted largely of baseline duels but Kho cleverly "advanced to the net on occasions and outmanoeuvered Stedman who was frequently out of position, and he lobbed uselessly against Kho.
Chinese led 2-0 in the first set but Stedman levelled at 3-3 and 4-4 Kho trailed his opponent 0-2 in the second and then asserted his superior courtcraft and led 5-3.
The Chinese was subdued in the third. In the fourth Stedman won the fifth game after five "van- tages,"
ALWAYS INTERESTING Choy This always interesting, particularly with his backhand driving in the second set when he trailed 4-0 and then in a spirited effort took the sixth, seventh and eighth games to love with his ser- vice. Choy held his service in the first game of the third set but, thereafter was unable to cope with Malfroy's chop shots and back- hand volleys.
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Amsterdam: South Africa elimin-
ated Holland by 3 matches to nil
DAVIS CUP
Japan And Mexico Eliminated
San Francisco, May 1.
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Large supplies of munitions and provisions have been transported to the loyalist around Madrid during the last week.
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The Republicans: adds the port. display a very high morale and are probably in better cond)- tion than at any time during the
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INSURGENT THREAT From London It is stated that General Queipo de Llano, the re- bel leader, has stated that be would never allow evacuation of the civil population from Bilbao.
It is added that the declaration
has not been received in official quarters, and that the British Government still intends to accede to the request of the Basque Go ernment for ald in evacuating old men, women and children from the besieged city.
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The United States eliminated boat lying in the harbour Japan
the North-American has been Zone of the Davis Cup when Donald Bugge and Gene Mako beat Yamagishi and Nakano 6-0, 6-1.
A report from St. Jean de Luz states that French despatch there ordered to Bilbao and take off the members proceed to of the French Consulate and all the Consulate records. Transocean News Service.
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EARLY LEAD
San Francisco. April 30.-The United States took the lead in the North American Zone first round 0: the Davis Cup competition against Japan to-day when Donald Budge, wily youngster from Call- fornia, beat Japan's Number Two ace. Fumiteru Nakano.
The
American ripped through the Japanese star's service and lost only two games in three sets. victories seen in Davis Cup com- It was one of the most impressive petidon in America.
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Budge won 6-1, 6-1, 6-0, Frank Parker, the United States" second-best, is playing Jiro Yama- gishi, Japan's undisputed chum- pion, in the second match of the singles series.
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MORE GERMANS YUNNAN-BURMA
IN SPAIN?
Basque Allegation
Londoa, May 1.
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The sensational allegation that tresh German. troops are being landed in Spain was made in an official statement by the Basque authorities at Bilbao today.
It was officially announced: "It has been officially confirmed that fifteen hundred German soldiers disembarked at San Sebastian on Monday."
The statement adds that an air. rald stren was sounded in
San Sebastian immediately prior to the landing of the German reinforce ments and the whole population" was forced into cellars in order that they should not witness the arrival of the German troops.
Madrid: "The Guadalajara will be repeated and triumph of
we will roll back the invaders from the Basque province,"
This claim was made in an of- ficial broadcast trom the Biscay radio station.
GUADALAJARA RECALLED
The announcer stated that the present retirement was similar to that of the Republicans on the Guadalajara front, when the loya- lists, after allowing the insurgents to advance too rapidly, launched an unexpected counter-attack and inflicted crushing defeat on the Italian divisions.
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This is what will happen on the Basque front, declares the broad- cast, though "discretion imposed on the army command forbids us to say any more,"
STRONG OPPOSITION "The Basque forces, however, will launch a strong counter-offensive In the near future."
WAR MATERIAL report from
TO SPAIN
U.S. Prohibition
Proclaimed
Washington. May 2: The State Department has made public two proclamations signed by President Roosevelt.
The first proclaims the existence and listing articles of war which of a state of civil war in Spaln
may not be shipped to the bel- His task will much harder than Budge's.
Ilgerents. The second relates to, registration of manufacturers and Gene Mako joins Budge in the shippers of arms and war doubles, and they will play Yama-terials. gishi and Hideo Nishimura Reuter.
AUSTRALIA THROUGH Mexico City. In the first round of the Davis Cup Australia beat Mexico by 3 matches to nil Reuter.
HARDCOURT TENNIS
In the first round of the Davis Cup. Senorita Lizana And
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GERMAN AIRMEN
KILLED
Austin Win
Bournemouth, May 1.
In the Womens Anal of the
ma-
Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, announced that United States vessels engaged in" com- merce with Spain may carry small arms and ammunition for preser- vation of discipline aboard... Reiter.
NEUTRALITY BILL SIGNED
FRONTIER
Joint Commission's Award
Nanking, May 2
It is learned that the report "of the joint commission which has been investigating, the Yurinan- Burma frontier dispute awards three-fifths of the area to China and the rest to Burma,
The ratification of the Chinese and British Governments is no necessary before the award can be made absolute.--- Reuter
ELECTIONS IN JAPAN
Social Mass Party's Big Gain
Tokyo, May 1.
Parties
The an-Government
scored an overwhelming victory in the Japanese Elections which were held to-day. "
Most significant feature of the polling was the large gain obtain- ed by the Social Mass Party, who, by 9.15 to-night, had more than doubled their seats.
The following are the state of the Parties at 9.15 to-night.
Minselto
132
Selyukai
.121
Social Mass
32
Showakai
14
National League
6
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Tobokai
8
Other factions
4
Independents
18
From Berlin comes a newspaper
a correspondent Spain stating that the Basques are preparing for desperate resistance in their last line of defence.
Everything. the correspondent states. points to further heavy Gghting in the near future.— Transocean News Service.
Official Bilbao Statement
Bilbao, May 2.
"officially confirmed that fifteen It is officially announced and
hundred Germans dismarked at San Sebastian on Monday."
The statement adds that the air raid siren was sounded and the whole population was forced to go Into the cellars in rder that they should nt witness the landing.
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STRONG DENIAL
Berlin May 1. Official sources emphatically deny the Bilbao official assertion that afteen hundred Germans re- cently arrived in San Sebastian. An official agency declares that the report, from beginning to end, is another lying Incitement,
It is pointed out in will-informed Washington, May 2.
quarters in London that 'Germany's President Roosevelt signed the good faith in keeping her pledge Neutrality BI aboard the destroy~ | regarrling the ban on despatch of er Moffett off Port Aransas, Texas, volunteers to Spain has not been
The Bill reached him by aeroplane, questioned by any responsible automobile and boat which had to quarter outside of Spain. -
be taken for two hundred miles, Reuter.
as the rough seas prevented the use of a seaplane for this part of the journey.-- Reuter
BOMBS FALL NEAR DESTROYER
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Sequel To Waziristan Murder
Bimla, May 2.
In connection with the murder
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Heuter.
SOLO FLIGHT BY PRINCE
A
England-Cape Record Attempt
London, May 2. Something new in long distance Alghts began at Hatfield to-night when the Rumanian Prince Canta Cuzene started in an attempt to break the England-Cape record in three hops.
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NEW SWIMMING
RECORD
"DUTY OF RED
ARMY"
Women's 500 Metres Labour Day Appeal
Breaststroke
Copenhagen, May 2
Moscow, May, 1 The duty of the red army is to guard the Soviet from Fascist Jac-
The day was celebrated "by a huge military display in Red Square.
Miss Inge Sorensen created a kals," declared Marshal Voroshilov, new world record for women's 500| Commissar for. War, in a vigorous metres breaststroke in 8 minutes speech made on the occasion of
Labour Day. The Prince is flying solo in his 1-9/10 seconds. own two-engined racing mono- The previous record was estab- plane with a cruising radius of lished by Miss Mayehata with a 3,700 miles, and top speed of 237
time of 8 minutes 3-8/10 seconds miles per hour. He will sleep in in Tokyo on October 1, 1933,-- the air in brief snatches, leaving
-Reuter, the control to the automatic pilot, and he expects to make his first descent in mid-Sahara.— Reuter.
Forced Landing Owing To Mechanical Trouble
He left at
Algiers, May 2. Canta Cuzene made a forced landing here at 258 am, owing to mechanical trouble. 7.38 am. for Alouet
Cairo, May 2-It is understood that Canta Cuzene who is pro
of Lieutenant Beatty on Februaryceeding to the Cape by the West
Kiel. May 1. hard courts tennis championships, Four German air force officers Senorita Lizana beat Peggy Scriven were Eilled when two military sea-7-5, 6-3. In the men's 'final H. W. planes.collided in mid-air during Austin beat F. H. D. Wilde 8-2, 6-2,.. manoeuvres off the Baltic coast
6-0. In the Anals of the men's yesterday,
double, C. E Hare and Wilde beat C. R. D. Tuckey and G. P. Hughes,
Bilbao, May 1. Britain's probable Davis Cup pair,
Five bombs fell into the water 6-2, 6-4, 7-9, 6-4. In the women's
around a British destroyer doubles Miss Dearman and Miss chored in the outer harbour this an- Joan Ingram beat Mias Scott and evening. It was the conclusion of Miss Whitmarsh, 6-0, 6-0, and in the air raid on Bilbao by three the Mixed Doubles F. H. D. Wilde powerful insurgent planes, which posit fifty rifles as and Miss Whitmarsh beat Shayes nying very high, remained over- and Miss Jean Saunders, 6-4, 7-5-head for half an hour- Heuter.
One of the machines crashed, "the four occupants being killed outright but the pilot of the second plane managed to make a landing.
Transocean News Service.
R.A.F. PLANES IN CRASH
Three
London, May 1, British R.A.F. planes came to grief during formation manoeuvres over Sussex One of the airmen was killed. another offcer and a non-com- missioned officer escaped parachute.-
Transocean News Service.
New Golf Champion.
but
FAMOUS MOTORIST
CRASHES
Brooklands, May 1.
The famous British motorist,
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8, the Wazir Council headman, in- terviewed at Miranshah, swore that the murderers had been ex- pelled from the tribal area, but the tribe was ordered to pay a fine of twenty-five thousand rupees within six months, and also to de- guarantee. while fifty hostages will be retain- ed,
Heuler.
Anglo-Japanese Relations
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London, May 2.4 the promotion of Bino-Japanese understand by Real Howe, on his fifty-third making serious efforts to restore cultural associations.
that Japan 1 | friendship by the development and birthday to-day, crashed and was co-operation with Britain in the The correspondent declares that seriously. Injured. He was leading Far East," in the Campbell trophy, a
says the "Sunday | Britain will be bestitant unless she Times" diplomatic correspondent, feels that Japanese militarista miles race, displaying his cus- who adds that the initiative must have given up their forward policy tomary daring on the bends when come from Japan.
in China, and Britain, anyhow, his British Era car, taking a bend The plan, it is believed, includes will not move without the support London, May 1 at high speed, charged the sand- Pennink, the former Oxford cap-bank and somersaulted. Earl Howe territorial
a Japanese pledge regarding the of the United States, tain, beat Leonard Crawley, the was pinned under the machine British
integrity of: China, The settlement of the Keelung recognition former amateur champion by 6 and was sent to hospital. His in special economic and strategic in-sible and also for Anglo-Japanese of Japan's incident made this approach pos- and 5 in the final of the English Juries include a broken shoulder tercsts in North China though the economic relations to be improved Amateur Golf Championship over and rib. Earl Howe, at the time of recognition of Manchukuo is not and also the prospects for the thirty-six holes. Fennink led by 1 the accident, was leading Prince an essential condition, a loan to Japanese Economic Mission, to vist up at the end of the first round. "Bira" in his vivid blue Maserati, China, by. Britain, Japan, the London in August.
Reuter.
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United States and France, and Reuter,
African route flying at a Yery great attitude and carrying oxygen. is returning to East Africa. Heuter.
AMY JOHNSON'S PLANS
MAY DAY IN
SHANGHAI
Over 1,000 aeroplanes new over the Square in formation, while de- tachments from all the units of the Red Army passed in review be- fore Stalin, M. Molotov, M. Kan ilnin, and other high state of- cials, who stood on the steps of the Lenin Mausoleum,
GUARD AGAINST JAČKALS The Cossack divisions in their colourful uniforms stood out in the parade, in which they were participating for the first time.
Shanghai, May 1. Thousands of Chinese workers in Shanghat are celebrating Inter national Labour Day as a holiday.
Among them are printers, so here will be no Chinese news papers to-morrow (Sunday) unless news of supreme importance breaks action.... 'out.- Reuter.
May Day Celebrations,
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*London, May 1 The celebrations throughout the world on May Day have generally been most quiet for many years. In London a four-mile procession was marked by the addition of a section from the striking busmen, but in France the celebrations Annapolis, May 1, brought all work to a standstill Miss Amy Johnson announced though without incident. May that she would fly from Paris to Day is a new idea for New York New York in Joly in order to "get but 150 thousand people formed a her plane here" for the New York-procession which passed off quietly. Paris air face. She added that The usual mammoth review mark- the plane, at present being con-
ed the scenes in Moscow where, a structed in Paris. would be fent her by a friend.- Keuter.
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BROADBENT BOUND FOR ATHENS
two-hour, milltary parade indicated the progress of the army's` me- chaplantion, while 800 planes flew overhead. Heuter.
U.S. ARMY VOTE
Washington, April 30. Broadbent, who is attempting to to-day approved the appropria-
Bagdad, May 2. The Australian airman, HF. The House of Representatives
for Australia to England fight, in the next. fiscal year. break the record of H L Brook tion of $416,413,382 for the Army passed over Bagdad at 6 a..
The Bill has been sent to the B.S.T. bound for Athens
Berate Heuter.
truters
Marshal Voroshilov. in his speech to the Red Army, urged them to be constantly prepared for
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"Your duty is to stand guard against the Fascist jackals," he shouted, "in order to crush, them should they attack the Soviet "
He concluded his speech by pledging allegiance to Stalin and the Communist Party.
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Following the parade, a general festival" was started all over-the city, which is expected to last well into the night.- Transocean News Service.
VAIN NEGOTIATIONS
London, May 1, Representatives of the London Transport Board and the Trans- port Union were in conference to- gether and separately for many hours with officials of the Minis- try of Labour to-day.
Despite these effort, the strike of 26,000 Central London omnibus-- men continued, involving the in- terruption on about 200 routes.
The men's" delegated, met and heard a detailed report of the negotiations on their claim for a seven and a half hours day.) view of the recent speeding up of
maintain that the claim not time schedules,
The London Transport Board substantiated and while ready to that the finances of the Board ar accept a public enquiry declare unable to meet it British Wireles
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