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BILBAO'S "IRON RINGTM”

PENETRATED

But Insurgents Still Hold Captured Salient

London, June 13,

After two days of some of the flercent fighting in the present civil war, the Insurgents penetrated Bilbao's “Iron Ring." This consists of the fortification's running in a rough circle seven miles from Bilbao, along the last line of the hills with three lines of trenches protected in some places by six belts of barbed wire, all linked with the communication trenches.

The Insurgents concentrated the attack on a narrow front, three miles wide, and succeeded in driving a wedge into the "Iron ring" at this point, capturing the frontline trenches. The Bas- ques have withdrawn to the second line. Fighting continued all day long at this sector but indications are that, the Insur- gents are still holding the captured salient.-Reuter.

FORTY EIGHT PLANES IN ACTION

Paris, June 13.

The Nationalist troops smashed through the “iron ring" of Bilbao's defences. according to the Havas correspondent with the Nationalists

on the Bilbao front, who states that the troops "have no further obstacles before them in their ad- vance to the city, the houses of which were expected to dominate late last night.

The breach was made by the first Navarre Brigade commanded by the thirty-eight-year-old Col. Valino who advanced on a two-mile front in the wake of bombing activities by forty-eight planes which effect- ed breaches in the Basque ring of fortifications at Mounts Castelu- mendi and Santa Maria late in the evening. Thereafter there was little resistance forthcoming which is ex- traordinary in view of the Basques previous stole five-hour resistance to the terrific artillery and aerial bombardment. Reuter.

NEW SINGAPORE AIRPORT

Inaugurated By Sir Shenton Thomas

"Singapore, June 12. Singapore's new £1,000,000 elvil aerodrome was inaugurated to-day by the Governor, Bir Shenton Thomas, who made an official landing at the airport from an im- Derial airways' flyingboat

Filty aircraft gave a demonstra- tion, including Imperial Airways machines, machines from the Royal Dutch Ine and the Netherlands India Airways, the Royal Air Force and the flying clubs of Malaya.

The aerodrome is situated two miles from the centre.cf the city an reclaimed marshes and is the result of a difficult engineering feat.

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From the centre of the field

there is a 1,000-yard runway for

land planes, whilst there are also landing facilities in the water for acaplanes and flyingboats.

The aerodrome is provided with a post office and restaurant of the most up-to-date types.-- Reuter.

ROUND.THE.WORLD FLIGHT

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Elfashers, June 13.

arrived here this afternoon from

Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 14: 1937:

PLOT TO KILL

M. STALIN

Announcement From Moscow.

London, June 11. That the Red Army officers sen- tenced to death for high treason had definitely plotted to kill Stalin, is the sensaional announcement appearing in the "Daily Express" this morning from its Moscow cor- respondent

FOUR POWERS REACH AGREEMENT

Note To Be Despatched

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To Parties In Spain

London, June 13. toned, but there must be no resort Full agreement has been reached to retallation before consultation on the text of the note to be sent with other powers. It is assumed by the British, French, German and that consultation would take place Italian Governments to the Spanish in London, thus excluding a con- Government and Insurgents un

The correspondent also alleges that the sentence has aroused 'a serious internal split, the nationuarantees for protection of war- being divided into two camps over ships engaged on patrol work. Mr. Eden had a third meeting with the the trial, and suggests that the af-

French, German and Itallan Am- fair may have "most serious con-

bassadors this afternoon when fur- sequences,"

ther "lengthy consideration was The agreement closely adheres to given to the text of the note,

the lines already discussed. The parties Spain are asked to

veritable

"It has aroused a panie in Moscow," the correspon- dent asserts, "and the air of ten- sion which has been noticeable ever since the Stalinist purge started a few months ago, has in- creased visibly."

MASS MEETINGS

"TEN THOUSAND SHELLS

Bilbao, June 13.9.

While the trial of the officers The centre of the city to-day was was in progress, mass meetings of heavily bombed and machine-gun-workers held in factories all over "ned for an hour by Nationalist the country demanded the death planes of German make evidently sentence for the accused men as in pursuance of the policy of "traitors." terrifying the Basque rearguard while the attack was continued on the "Iron ring."

The offensive reached a most in- tense character, assuming all the

characteristics of a major modern war. It is calculated that ten thousand shells fell during the day along the

three-mile ridge of mountains on which the Basque defences are ranged, exploding at an average of thirty per minute.

Prisoners report that the bulk of the artillery were of Germani'or Italian make and manned by men of those, nationalities.

Heavy fighting was still progress- ing late last evening.- | Reuter.

NORTH CHAHAR UPRISING

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The correspondent gives the other side of the plcture, however, and says that many hostile de- monstrations were held in the streets of the capital yesterday.

In revealing, that the aim of the accused was to kill Stalin, the cor- respondent says that the Public

the trial..

Prosecutor alleged at which was held in camera. that General Gamarnik, who committed suicide, was to have shot Sta.in.

"BOURGEOIS REPUBLIC". This was to have been followed. he alleged, by the proclamation of General Michail" Tukashevsky as President of a new *bourgeois Soviet Republic" with the help of the garrisons of Moscow. Kley Minsk and Leningrad.

The revolt was stated to have been originally planned for last autumn, but was postponed several

times.

"Pravda" to-day publishes a re- port that another revolt, in the Black Sea region, has been dis- covered and nipped in the bud-

Villages Captured By Transocean News Service.

Armed Rebels

Peiping, June 13. Chinesc reports from Ping tichuan state that the popular re- yolt against the Manchukuo con- trol in North Chahar is spreading.

Four thousand armed "Rebels commanded by Li Ying captured a number of villages southward of the Kuyuan border of Chabar and Jehol on June 10 and threaten to penetrate westward with the object of rallying the inhabitants.

Apparently the revolt originated In an attempt to organise a con- certed uprising, but owing to be- trayal of plans the affair developed along sporadic lines.

In order to check disaffection, Manchukuo levies have been reor ganised as the "Mongolian Au- tonomous Army" consisting of ten divisions of which Prince Teh, prominent Mongol leader. acts as Commander-in-Chief and

Li Shou-hain as deputy commander.

Reuter.

GRANTS FOR

DEPRESSED AREAS

London, June 12.

EXECTTION CARRIED OUT?

Moscow, June 11. Sentence of death on the Red Army leaders convicted of high

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extend the provision of safety to ports for the use of patrolling warships and they are also asked to alve assurances to do their utmost to avoid future in- cidents. In the event of an in-

ident the four powers will consult regarding the action necessary.

The right of self-defence if a warship is attacked is never ques-

ference of Admirals and be of a diplomatic character.

The Non-Intervention Committee members will see the text during the week-end. All four powers agreed to circulate the agreement to the Committee as an act of

not expected to return to the Com- courtesy. Germany and Italy are.

mittee until replies are received from both sides in Spain..

A communique at the conclusion of the meeting annourices that agreement has been reached and says that the text has been for- warded to the Chairman of the Non-Intervention. Committee with a request that the contents be communicated to other members of the Committee.- Reuter.

“OPIUM WAR” STRONG PROTEST

Indignant Japanese Statement

Pelping. June 12. Another "cplum war" opened to-

day with a very indignant Japan-" ese statement refuting the charges "made before the meetings" of the Optum Advisory Committee "at Geneva.

LODGED

Japan And Opium Conference

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Geneva, June 13, The Opium Consultative Com- mittee concluded their session when Mr. Yokohama made the de- claration stating that during the { discussion on the Far East ""I The statement, which was made deliberately refrained from going by Mr. Kato. First Secretary of the into details of the information sup- Japanese Legation, was a reply to plled which seemed to me to be charges against the Japanese, par-much exaggerated. My silence has Mcularly by Russell Pasna, that been used as political propaganda Japanese soldiers were becoming, by certain Far Eastern newspapers, drug addicts.

for example the sentence of Russell

line.

"I am sure," said Mr. Kato to-Pasha's statement ancerning the day, "that nobody can hear such Japanese officers and soldiers has abusive remarks without doubting been taken to form a large head- Russell Pasha's sanity,

"The Japanese nation cannot "In view of these highly regret- overlook this wilful: and malicious table occurrences, I must make a statement."

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Mr. Kato, warned, the Opium Ad- sion cast on the Japanese army in

which no case of drug addiction And Over The Pole!

visory Committee in the interests

of national peace, to beware of had ever been reported."— arguments founded on unreliable Reuter. Information, and especially those calumniating the Japanese Army.

treason is believed to have been carried out this morning, although announcement has actually been made.

There can be no appeal from the verdict of the court and no-Reuter. possibility of executive clemency-

Reuter.

ROSELLI BROTHERS

FOUND MURDERED

STATESMEN AND THE PRESS

the Mr. Lyons's Plea For

More Co-operation

Paris, June 12." Professor Carlo Roselll, famous Italian anti-Fascist ecopl- mist, who escaped from political imprisonment in the Isle of Lipari in 1929, and his brother. Saba- tini Rosell, the historian, found murdered yesterday on the grounds of the Chateau Couterne, Normandy, the watering place of Bagnolés Delorne.

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The police conside that the crime was undoubtedly prompted by political reasons, the fact that the sum of £250 being found on the victims ruling out the question

of robbery,

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BRITAIN AND JAPAN

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Ottawa, June 11.

An early Soviet attempt at a non-stop flight from Russia to the American Continent via the North Pole is foreseen in a request from the Soviet Government for permis sion for a Soviet airman to fly over" Canadian territory. Prince Chichibu On Government has granted the re

It is reported that the Canadian

Common Ideals

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Prince Chichibu of Japan, as Knight Vice-Patron, attended a dinner held by the Knights of the Mr. J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister Round Table Club at the May Fair of Austraila, emphasized the need Hotel in honour of the Netherland for fuller co-operation and trust Minister (Mr. R. de Marees van between Statesmen and the Press, Swinderen), states the "Times." speaking at the Coronation year

Lord Queenborough, Deputy dinner of the Newspaper Society at Knight-President, was in the seat Grosvenor House recently.

of King Arthur, and was support | There was a -need he said. fored by Senior Knights Vice-presi- mutual confidence between the dent, the Japanese « Ambassador, Press and the Governments of the the Norwegian Minister, and Lord. countries of the Empire.

Askwith. On account of indisposi- tion the Netherland Minister was unable to be present..

In Washington it is revealed that a similar request has been received from the Soviet Embassy, and the State Department yesterday' an- nounced that it has grunted' the request for a Soviet airman to fly over American territory.

An attempt by a Soviet airman to By to the United States via the North Pole failed in 1935 owing to mechanical trouble- Reuter,

ALL IN FAVOUR

The victims were discovered fol- lowing the anding of an abandon- Mr. Samuel Storey, M.P., said he ed car in which was a blood-stain-had yet to learn what harm had Fort Lamys where she departed at During May the Commissioner ed glove and an empty revolver of meeting inquiries of Fressmen proposed by the Knight Vice-Pre-

ever come when Statesmen, Instead

The toast King Arthur" was 11.00 G.M.T., having been delayed by for the Special Areas" of England cartridge case, and a large con- minor trouble to the shock absorb- and Wales has promised further dened milk tin filled with gunpow demands to confirm with

with half-truths and

meetingsident, Mr. Albert C. R. Carter, who

blank said that their ancient club had Hudson, secretary of the Overseas Since his escape Carlo has been denials, placed their cards openly become a true brotherhood of Trade Department for raising the

ers. She leaves Elfashers, for Khar-substanial grants to local authori- der and atted with a fuse. toum at 5.30 a.m. to-day.----

ties in the depressed areas towards Reuter.

the cost

of schemes urgently carrying on anti-Fasciat activities on the table."

ed, from Spain, where he orgánis- ed the

Italian Anti-Fasciat Legion-

BOUND FOR ADEN

Khartoum, June 13... Mrs. Amelia Earthart Putnam arrived here at 9.15 a.m. local time and resumed here fight at 8.42 a.m.. G.M.T. for Aden... Reuter

OFFICER KILLED IN FALL

- London, June 12.. -Lieut.-Cominander · P. C. "Ran- some, commanding officer of the destroyer HMS." Gipsy, was killed as a result of a fall from "the bridge, while the warship was pro- ceeding to Gibraltar trom - Eng- land, og

This was revealed in an official Admiralty announcement to-day, which adds that Gipsy was on her way to Gibraltar in company with other vessels of the Mediterranean Fleet Raiter

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Lodon, June 11, Commons agreed without division on the resolution moved by Mr.

necessary on the grounds of pub- and he recently returned, wound-sident, urging, the need to safe had followed the example of Jak from twenty-six to afty million

Hic health.

The "Commissioner's total com- mitments at the end of May were about £11,134,000, made up of' grants to assist Industry £3,180,- 000, grants for land settlement etc., £3,207,000, and grants to wards the cost of schemes neces- cessary to Fablic Health, £1,28,- 000...

British Wireless,

STEEL STRIKE SPREADS

Johnstown. (Pa), June 12. The strike of American steel workers spread further to-day when 15,000 workmen in the hem Steel Corporation's Cambria Mills here came out on

Beuter

Reuter,

ITALIAN RELEASED. Bagnole, June 18: The Italian who has been detained in connet- tion with the murder of the Ros sells has been released as the Allbl he gave has been found to be correct. The police have little hope of finding a key to the mystery locally Reuter

STATE ENTRY

INTO WINDSOR

King And Queen

Cheered By Crowds

London, June 12. The King and Queen made a. state entry into Windsor this afternoon. They drove. from Buckingham Palace to Eton where Their Majesties were received by the Provost, Lord Hugh Cecil and fellows. After the presentations the King and Queen, who were accompanied by the little Prin cesses, entered the State landau drawn by the famous Windsor. Greys and proceeded to the Queen Victoria Statue in Windsor where they were received by the Duke of Gloucester as High Steward of the Borough.

All along the route from London Their Majesties were cheered", by large crowds which had gathered and the streets of Blough, Eton and Windsor itself were densely packed by citizens and visitors who began to assemble early this morning. The school children of Berkshire were given a special place to view the Royal procession near the Frogmore entrance to the great park- British Wireless

Coronation Art-Gallery Crowde

nations. They welcomed again Mr. James Henderson, the Fre-Prince Chichibu, who long ago

limit of export credit guarantees

An increase in the number of pounds (sterling) and allowing the guard the liberty of the Fress, said pan's national hero, Admiral Togo, he

Ilke

guarantees to remain in force until. Visitors at the National :: Gallery would

to impress by becoming a brother Knight, March 1950. Mr. Hadson emphas and the National Portrait Gallery particularly upon members of the Lord Queenborough, in proposised that traders were taking in on Whit-Monday compared with House of Commons that if theying the toast "Our Vice-Patron," the Press, they should be careful to pressed to him his impressions of and occasion to complain about said that Prince Chichibu had ex-creasing advantage of the scheme last year does not indicate that

which the Opposition also wel-

the public is growing more aware specify whom they are attacking that amazing success which had

comed

of its artistic treasures. The overwhelming majority of attended the Coronation cere newspapers in the British Isles montea, and was as well aware saa were conducted and produced with any of what the unity of the Br~ ̈ decency, dignity, and good taste

tish Empire meant to the peace of A reply from the King and Queen the world to a telegram of loyal greetings

WAS ILG.

LENIN'S SISTER DEAD

EXPULSION OF

MISSIONARIES

-London, June 12 The Foreign Secretary will be

Moscow, June 18. questioned in the House of Com- The death occurred here to-day mons on Monday regarding the ex-of the late M. Lenin's alster, Marie pulsion of British missionaries Ulianors, one of the earllent com- from Abyssinia

munists at the age of 59 years Bleuter

British Wireless

Heuter.

as for example, their tradition

This in spite of the fact that the figures 10,139 for the National Gallery as, against 6,574 in 1936 and for the National Portrait Gallery the whole story. Since Whit-Mon- 5.024 as against 2,322 do not tell

Prince Chichibu, in reply said evidenced in this country only day last year, was cold and rainy his thoughts turned to the days short time ago in the grandeur of fewer rather than more people of King Arthur. This time-hon- the ancient Coronation ceremony should normally have visited these oured chivalry of England had its He was confident that their two Galleries this Whit-Monday counterpart in the code of the nations, resembling each other as pill over from the Coronation Knights of Japan, known better they did in so many aspects of crowds, which were specially conse perhaps as Bushido Ever since it their national character, would be had been a constant inspiration to brought closer together and might a nobler way of living with its thereby contribute further to the and courtesy of the youth of the call to the courage, honour, loyalty, welfare and happiness of man-

kind: nation.

Sullivan K.C., submitted the toast key

Knight Vice-President, Serjeant The

"Our other Guests, to which Bir attendance Charles Sanders replied.

The British and Japanese, had many other characteristics in com mon besides their ideal of chivalry,

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planation with which Mr. Kenneth in Trafalgar-square, is the ex- Clark the National Gallery direc agree, writes a Home cor

tion also affords the other Increased

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