1937-06-28 — Page 9

OUTRAGE AT

AT BILBAO

Whole Family Killed By Government Troops

BRITISH WOMAN GOVERNESS

REPORTED AMONG SLAIN

London, June 27.

A British woman, named Berbie Boland Lyons, aged 57, born at Yawl, Ireland, was "killed by Government troops at Bilbao on June 16, according to Insurgent sources in London.

It was stated that she was governess to the family of Count Zubiria all of whom were slated to have been arrested and killed.

From Santander comes a report that the town is absolutely culet and the only fighting reported is slight activity "on the northern fronts. "

A number of British ships have arrived with general cargo which they are unloading in preparation for evacuating the non- combatant refugees-Reuter."

THE BACK IS BROKEN

"RUSSIAN CHURCH

CLOSED

Moscow, June. 27.

The Russian Orthodox church of

Steel Works Re-open tok has just been closed according St. Peter and St. Paul at vedios

Youngstown, June 26...

The Republic and Youngstown Steel Companies re-opened their works to-day, under protection of National guards and troops. They claim that the back of the strike is broken and sixty per cent. of the workmen have returned.

Local C.IO. Unions, however, de- clare that the strikers are holding -out to a man, and sent a protest to President Rochevelt, against the alleged use of "troops "as "strike breakers. Heuter.

to reports received here.-- Transocean News Service

ITALIAN FLYER

KILLED

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1937.

FIRE AT SEA MR. EDEN'S ASSURANCE

GIVES SATISFACTION

President Pierce Picks Up Crew

SANDGATE CASTLE Nanking Opinion On

BURNED OUT

New York, June 27. While en route to New York, the American Mail liner President Pierce picked up the crew of 40 of the cargo steamer Sandgate Castle which was completely burn- ed out.

The Sandgate Castle, which car- ried no

passengers, sent out`an 5.0.5. message that she was afre 'tween decks when 800 miles south-east of New York bound for Capetown.

The Sandgate Castle is of 7,634 tons and was built in 1922 by Messrs Short Brothers, Sunder- land, Reuter.

OBITUARY

SIR HAMNET SHARE

Served Many Years In Royal Navy

London, June 27.

The death occurred to-day-of Sir Hamnet Holditch Share, K.B.E, C.B.. retired Paymaster-Rear-Ad- miral, Royal Navy, and Gentleman Usher in Ordinary to HM. the King since 1922. He was 73 years of age.

Rome, June 26, Major Scarpa, an Italian air force officer, was killed when a seaplane he was piloting crashed

Born at Penryn on May 19, after a night fight from Pontisella | 1884. the late Sir Hamnet Share while alighting on the water.-entered the Royal Navy in 1880. transocean News Service.

He served in H.M.S. Tourmaline im detached squadron, 1880-82 (South America, South Africa, Australia. Pacific Japan, China, Mediterranean) and during the Egyptian War. 1882, and the oc cupation of the Suez Canal. He served in the Royal Yacht Vic-

Attacks On Spanish

Nationalist Troops

Valencia, June 27.

A Republican Spanish Army re-

Anglo-Japanese Talks

Nanking, June 27. Mr. Anthony Eden's reassurance In the House of Commons yesterday that Anglo-Japanese understanding will not be effect- ed at China's expense produced a very favourable impression in the capital.

Satisfaction was also expressed in Chinese official circles over the remarks of influential persons 'outskle the' British Govern- ment to the effect that an Anglo-Japanese arrangement could noš involve repudiation of the League resolution relating to Man- chukuo,

Angio - Japanese conversations, firstly any understanding 'relating to China must respect China's sovereign

Such remarks are held te in- dicate that the British Government 13, supported by opinion in the United Kingdom in its efforts to

rights and territorial Improve the Far Eastern situation integrity. and secondly, Chiria” in the spirit of League principles. should be consulted in all questions The Chinese people emphasise touching her interests and welfare. two points at the forthcoming | -Beuter,

ANCIENT

HISTORY

UNRAVELLED

Annual Report Of Raffles Museum

ALLEGED SPIES ARRESTED

SERIOUS CHARGES

Moscow, June 27 Another large group "of spies alleged to be "emissaries of a neighbouring country dreaming of seizing the Soviet in the Far East" are reported to have been discover- ed at Khabarovsk.

How the prehistory of Ma- laya is slowly being built up from ancient remains in the upcountry states is told in part A number of the alleged splea In the report of the Director have been arrested and accused of, of Raffles Museum för 1836.

espionage and of organising explo- The main features of the second sons and collisions on supply. year's programme of prehistoric re-

trains bound from Central "Russia search under the auspices of the

to Siberia Carnegie Corporation of New York Renter (says Mr. Chasen) were three ex- cavations, one in Perlis and two la Perak.

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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita, Peking.

Sisters:-Miss M. K Thomson DOYLE SATISFIES CONTROL BOARD O'Connell (May 1) (April 21); Miss M. R. Ikin, Miss A.

The folly. provi. Staff Nurses are confirmed in their appt.:--Miss N. Kirkpatrick, Miss J. A. Ellis.

The Assistant Curator (Mr. HLONDON GAZETTE Collings), excavated four slab-gra- ves, three on Government land at toria and Albert from 1892 to 1895 gum River and one on Sungai Kruit / QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL and then in the Royal Yacht Estate, Sungkai. The graves, which In an engagement on the Guada-Osborne from 1895 to 1899.

probably belong to the Early (Ma- lajara front Nationalist cavalry

Bubsequently he became Becre- layan) Iron age of the early cen- port issued on Saturday states that squadrons were almost completely tary to the Commander-in-Chief, turles A. D. and may have been

cut to pieces. Regarding opera- Pacifc tians in north Spain Red troops Chief, Australia Station; then he yielded a large amount of pottery Station: Commander-in-made by a people of Indian origin, occupied positions at Casa Miores became Private Secretary to Ad-beads and iron tools. and La Crestade Rosaperos. the miral Sir Harry 'Rawson, Governor Nationalists losing 40 killed and a

The specimens from Sungkal of New number of prisoners.

South Wales, 1003-04; were kindly given" to the Museum to Lord Northcote, Governor- by the Manager of the Sungai General of the Commonwealth Kruit Estate, Mr. B. K. Malleson. of Australia; among other posts.

STONE AGE REMAINS He served in the European War' in the Battle of "Jutland." In 1917, Bir Hamnet was Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord; Secretary to the Admiral of the Fleet, the late Viscount Jellicoe on the Naval Mission to India and the Domi- nions, 1919-20. He was placed on the retired Hat in 1921,

attacks had been made on Nation- alist Spanish troops in Madrid

the suburbs of Coraban chel and Usera while skirmishes had occurred at the "bridge of Frenchmen." Red troops claim to have inflicted great losses on the. enemy through rifle and machine- gun fire.

GOLDEN BELLS

Golden Wedding Presents

At · Santander only rifle and artillery fire was exchanged.--

Transocean Hers Service

MR. R. MacDONALD ON HIS RECORD

"I Have Done What

Queen Mary attended an after- noon party at the home of the Duke and Duchesss of Portland in Grosvenor-square, W., recently, held in celebration of the golden i umerates weddings of three peers and their wives:"

The Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury;

The Earl and Countess of Ken- mare; and..

Lord and Lady Desborough. All have ranked among Queen Mary's friends for many years. The first to be married were Lord and Lady Desborough, then Mr. William Grediféll and Miss: Ethel"; Fane, in the February of Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.

I Promised"

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview published in the Paris newspaper "Intransigeant on the occasion of his retirement, en-

points 10 Socialist party programme achie ved by the National Government. states the Paris correspondent of the "Dally Telegraph."

the

the

"I have never renounced my ideas, my principles, or my pro gramme," he states. "With the National" Government I have done what. I said I would do when I was at the head of the Labour party.

"Unemployment has declined

all the Labour Government could do was to borrow, borrow, borrow.

has

been

In the April Viscount Castle---the London Passenger Tran- rosse, now the Earl of Kenmare, sport Board has been crested; the and the Hon. Elizabeth Baring mines will be nationalised. In were married, and in May the the sphere of foreign politics, the Marquess of Salisbury; then Vis- Labour programme count Cranborne, M.P., married applied. We have granted auto- Lady Cicely Alice Gore. King nomy, to Egypt, Legislation Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, | liberating India has been voted." then Prince and Princess of Wales, were present at Lord Salisbury's wedding.

FAMILIES' REUNION

The Duke and Duchess of Fort land, host and hostess at the party, will themselves be cele brating their golden wedding in two years' time.

Referring to his motives in farming the National Government, Mr. MacDonald said:" "Karl Marx was never a source of inspiration for me.

Bocialism in my eyes is not an economic doctine, but the next stage of civilisation

.

Sir Hamnet Share was created a

ESTABLISHMENTS

Mech. Board Col. N. Hudson, D.S.O., MIMech.E., M.LE.E.; re- The Assistant Curator then went flinquishes the appt. of President

glon of the State Government, ex- on to Perlis and with the permis- ICL T) (June 12). cavated a cave in a limestone hill

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MEMORANDA

Jack Doyle was completely exonerated by the British Boxing Board of Control on all points except one with regard to the complaints lodged by Mr. John Harding, manager of the Nation- al Sporting Club, against Doyle upon his withdrawal from his match with Gunnar Baerlund at. Earl's Court on June 28, writes a correspondent in the "Daily Telegraph". Doyle duly appeared at the offices of the Board, as requested.

"Everything is now straightened out," Doyle said after the meeting.

The folly. officers are granted He showed the injured right hand "The members of the Board were at Chuping. The collections ob- the local rank of Lt. Col. whilst which was his reason for refusing very fair to me, and for my part tained included a series of tools empld. as Mil. Attachés (graded as

to fulfil his contract, and produced I have promised Mr. Harding that made of bone and antler: such 08.04- 2nd Grade) (May 1): medical certificate which stated my first opponent when I am able artifacts have not hitherto been Capt. (local Maj.) A. Ross, H.LL, that the hand was affected by to box again will be Baerlund." recorded from the Malay Peninsula Maj. H. C. T. Strange, D.8.0., M.C. be impossible for him to box for

chronic synovitis and that it would ". although they are known from

Indo-China and Java.

The age of this culture is at pre- sent not determinable but there seem to be indications that it oc- curred fairly late in the Malayan Stone Age

The Buffs. Bt. Maj. D. K. Paris, M.C., RA., Ma, K. V. B. Benfeld. D.S.O., M.C., R.A., Maj. C. 8. Vale. M.C., RAS.C.

Knight in 1920. He held several foreign orders and decorations among them being Croix D'Omicier Legion d'Honneur and Order of the Rising Sun, Japan. 3rd class. His publications were Under Great Bar and Southern Cross; Fifty Years Afloat and Ashore, publish-Kerbau, Perak (1928-7) and G. Ke-24); Capt. (Qr.-Mr.) J. Hart, ERE ed in 1932..

After the excavations of

Qua

Capt. H. A. Hallam, late Y. and L.R., relinquishes the rank of Capt. on enlistment into the T.A. (Feb.

alx or eight weeks.

Having satisfied the Board Doyle then jumped into a waiting car and hurried off to catch a boat to New York.

It was stated afterwards by the Southern Council of the Board. We are satisfied that Doyle is not fit to train and box, and that Doyle did act to the best of his ability to full his contract,

SOUTHERN COUNCIL'S

STATEMENT "Doyle's explanation was that migra- his hand went on Saturday night

when punching the bag.

Meanwhile, Len Harvey, who was approached to substitute for Doyle, yesterday declined to do so. He explained that he was offered only £1,000, whereas Doyle was to have received £2,000 plus £250 for training expenses. Harvey asked for £2,000.

The tournament will definitely. take place, whether a suitable op- ponent for Baerlund is found or not. On the same programme Peter Kane fights Petit Biquet, and i Maurice Strickland meets Frank Hough

In 1918, Sir Hamnet married pan, Province Wellesley (1934) 1tList. from Qr.-Mr. Equitation Sch., to be Qr.-Mr. and Adit., Duke of Amelia, daughter of the late Rear- the south in order to provide a was necessary to excavate more to

York's R. Mil. Sch. (April 25). Admiral Walter B. Bridges, of Vic-Link 'In the proposed chain of ex- toria, Australia.—

cavations, from north to south, an Heuter.

the west of the main mountain ples with the custom of burial on range

torming the backbone of the aide preceded the the Malay Peninsula.

Lions of those whose habit was se- MOST IMPORTANT EXCAVATION Condary barial. Certain differences Mr. H. D. Noone of the Perak in the materials used for tool and Museum, Taiping, therefore dus weapon making and in the shape trial trenches in several caves and of the instruments used by these

east of Sungai Siput was selected... eventually the Qua Bait south races are also coming to

light. for systematic excavation. Work was started at the end of April and lasted until the middle of Septem. The Installation of furniture was ing last week as to the state of for sometime has been approved

FRENCH ARMY

MANOEUVRES

Paris, June 26,

large scale manoeuvres which will The French Army are holding take place on the Riviera, on the Franco-Italian frontier.--

Reuter

WOMAN COLLEGE

DEAN

University Lecturer's New. Post

ber

Further progress was made in the "Hall of Asiatic Prehistory,"

completed and now the exhibitions

For the first two months Mr. Hare beginning to take shape. Large D. Noone and Dr. P. V. Van Stein

and complete type collections were

Callenfels, C.B.E., worked together, but for the remaining period the former collaborator carried on alone in the absence of the latter in Europe. When th |_ Although the collections obtain-

"Regarding the action of Doyle. and his manager, Mr. Dan Sulli- van following his injury, the Council will hold a further inquiry on Doyle's return from America.

This last point is the one which remains" to be cleared up. Doyle claims that he informed Mr. Hard his hand.

ARTIST'S MARRIAGE

FRANCO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.

Paris, June 26. The text of the trade agres- ment between France and Ger- many which had been negotiated

by both Governments and will be signed next week when the French Minister of Commerce assumes his post

Beuter.

received from the Director of the Musee Louis Finot Hanoi, and the Director of the Australian Museum,

Mr. Stanley Spencer, the ARA Sydney, while a type series of Ja- who resigned from the Royal Aca vanese pleistocene fossils was cb-demy two years ago when two of tained from Jara

SPECTACULAR DISPLAY his pictures were rejected by the Dr. Margaret 1 Bain, MA, hased have not yet been worked cut GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM Academy Committee was married London: A succession of thrus been appointed Dean of Women "The Labour victory of 1824 at the Moray House Training this excavation is one of the most series were given by the University Miss Patricia Ruby Preece, who is nearly a quarter of a million in detail it' is already certain that Other very welcome typological et Maidenhead Register Ofce to and humorous incidents entertain- was not an economic victory. College," Edinburgh, by the Each of the three couples were thinking only of political advan- ing of Teachers, states the "Bulle-

people assembled at Hendon for When in 1831 the Labour party. National Committee for the Train-important ever made in British Museum of Archaeology and also a painter

Malaya

Ethnology, Cambridge; the British Mr. Spencer is forty-nve; and the most spectacular annual dis- presented with a golden bell by a tages, refused to follow its own tin."

The top most recent layers Museum, London: the late Rey, his bride, the daughter of Lieut.- play yet given by the R.Ast Their committee of their friends, head- convictions by collaborating in I. Bain, who is at present yielded evidence of a human ac- Father Finn, 6.3. and Mr. W. Col Duncan Freecels thirty-Majesties, The Duke of Glouces ed by Counters Grey The 10 the work of national union, it lost Lecturer in Education at Cardin cupation by men not improbably Schofield of Hong Kong, while ex-seven. She has had a number of ter the Duke and Duchess of surviving children and 17 grand- its soul. It merely interested itself University College, was educated the immediate ancestors of the examples of Japanese and Man her works exhibited at galleries in Kent were among those who with children of the three couples were in the things which dictators at Aberdeen High School for Girts Fenrisula. In the middle layers by exchange from the Onyama In- Mr. Spencer has held private British aeroplanes and high.stan-

tant Jungle tribes of the Malay churian prehistoric were obtained London f

nessed the technical perfection of present at the party, which was tried to establish in Europe and graduated MA. with First an older race with the custom of itute, Tokio, and the University shows of his works since the sca-dard of skill of British alimen. limited to the families and close Force, numbers, constraint and Class Honours in French and secondary burial was represented, of Kyoto, Japan, friends, several of whom had been boycott. It has become a power German at Aberdeen University.

demy decided in 1935 that sc and the numerous foreign visitors while the lowest layers show some Bertes of casts of the "Key" fos cording to the rejection letter, two were no less impressed. present at all three weddingful movement." V

She spent some years at Univer- amnity with the Melanesold cul-sis on the various lines of human of his paintings which he had Queen Mary, dressed in a pearl-Referring to his decision not to sities of Paris and Besancon and tures revealed in previous excaya evolution are on view and especial submitted for the summer show sweep past of 280 latest type air-

One of the chief events was grey gown. grey turban, and grey accept a title. Mr. MacDonald obtained the degree of Doctor tions at Qua Kerbau in Perak and ly interesting are caste of the re- were not to advantage" to his re-craft in ma and silver brocade coat, with grey said: "How could I hear the from the University of Paris at Sampung in East Java,mains of ancient man and man- putation or the Influence of the hel fox, arrived with Mabel Countess people in my homeland, who Most of her teaching experience From the cultural stratification like creatures of Malaysian origin academy. A previous picture. Fil of Airlie Her Majesty stayed have called me "James since I was in Whalley Range High of this excavation it would, appear such as Pithecanthropus and Homo The Resurrection had caused by rad

was a lad, call me "Lord"?

School for Girls, Manchester that the Melanesold wave of peo-soloensis from Java

nearly an hour,

considerable controversy,

movements were