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FINAL EDITION SPRING

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1001

No. 1485X

二拜禮 號四廿月三英港香

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936,

BY COPY IS CENTE

586.00 PER ANNUMEA

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WHITEAWAY'S

FRANCE THREATENS GERMANY

LOCARNO TERMS

PARE FINAL

COUNTER-PROPOSAL UNACCEPTABLE

VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM SERVED ON BERLIN

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(Du Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Meanagon Ordinance, 1894. Received, Mar. 24, 18.00 p/m)

Paris, Mar. 24.

France is prepared to act against Germany if Herr Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor of the Reich, rejects the Locarno Powers' joint proposals for the protection of Western European frontiers and replacement of the repudiated Locarno Treaty.

INAUGURAL

AIRMIAL FLIGHT

DORADO ARRIVES FROM PENANG.

ON SCHEDULE TO MINUTE

Another milestone in the his- tory of aviation in Hongkong was marked this morning when the Imperial Airways liner Dorado, under the command of Capt. J. H. Lock, arrived at Kai Tak from Penang with 16 hags of mail and a passenger, thus: inauguraling a direct service from London to Hongkong.

A large crowd gathered at the acro drame to witness the landing of the Dorado, chief amongst them being Ha Excellency the Governor Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Hon. Commdr. .F. Hole (Harbour Master and

Mr.

Director of Air Servicek), the Hon. Dr. A. R.

General), Mr. H

Butters

H R. E.

futters S Kai Taki

Airdrome), Wing-Commodore Bishop and Mrs. Bishop, Dr. G. W. Pong, Lieut. Col. H. L. Murrow, Mr. C. W.

Jeffries and Capt. W. J. R. Crage

(A.D.C. to the Governor).

Many of those present had arrived on the landing ground just after 13 a.m. notwithstanding the fact that the Dorado was not scheduled to arrive until 11.30. The plane

Officials of the Government said to-day that in the event of Great Britain, Belgium and Italy refusing to support France, the French Government will in- dependently apply severe financial sanctions against Germany, 'including the termination of the Franco- German clearing agreement which provided Germany116 she made a graceful landing! with much-needed foreign currencies.—United Press. SURPRISE IN LONDON

London, March 24.

sighted almost to the mimite an

and Laxled into the shod.

FIRST PASSENGER

Wins

at

A surprise greeted the onlookers when they found that the Dorado, which was to carry only mail on this trip, had a passenger. This was Mr. Ong Ee-lim, of Kuala Lumpur, an enthusiastic amateur flyer, who came up to Hongkong to meet his brother. 11 therefore holds the

Considerable surprise has been created among the delegations to the London peace conferences by the re- port from Paris that the French Government does not intend in any circumstances to recede from the agree-distinction of being the first passen- ment reached by the Locarno Powers and communicated to Germany last week.

The proposals called for a new formula of security in Western Europe and the policing of the Rhineland demilitarised zone by British and Italian troops, among other things.

ger to land in the Colony from an Imperial Airways plane.

"Capt. "Lock and his crew were wet- by His Excellency, who comed

con- gratulated them on the success. of their inaugural flight. Others also showered their congratulations Capl. Lock and his men

on

AN HISTORIC OCCASION

Photograph, taken at Kai Tak this morning, shows Captain J. H. Lock hauling over the first through air mail from London to Hong- kang to Cmdr, G. F. Hole, Director of Air Services, upon the arrival.

of R.M.A. Dorado.

Japanese

Officers On

--Staf Photographer.

“VICTORY KISSING

British Ship OUR FLAG"

PRACTICE WITHIN

-SHIPPING-ACT-

CLEARANCE

A group photograph was then taken MUST BE GIVEN

of His Excellency together with the

Hon. Commdr. Ioic, Capt. Lock and

GERMANY, SAY THE FRENCH, MUST EITHER ACCEPT OR REJECT THE TERMS OF THE LO.of the Dorudo. CARNO POWERS.

M. Pierre Flandin, the Foreign Minister, is credited with the state- ment that he will not return to Lon- don to discuss any German counter. proposals.

It is felt among the international delegates here that this attitude has complicated the whole situation and made agreement with Germany practi- cally impossible.

No oficial pronouncement has yet been made, but it is pointed out that both M. Flandin and M. Paul, you Zeeland, the Belgian Prime Minister, have decided not to return to London and that any negotiations on German

counter-proposals could not be carried

on usual diplomatic

nels-Reutor.

Germany Shocked

BRITISH POINT

OF VIEW

IL DUCE'S MESSAGE _TO_NATION.

SEES END OF SANCTIONS

(Special To "Telegraph")

A case which is probably unique (Uy Telegraph, Copyright Telegraphis Mr. A. C. Thomas, the Second Pilot in the history of shipping in Hong-feamer Ordinance, 1984. Brezived. March

kong was brought befôro Ilon. Comdr. ti, tami

Rome, Mar. 23. Interviewed by a representatlys of G. Hale, Harbour Master, this

Signor Benito Mussolini, Italian the Telegraph, Capt Lock said theng, when an appeal was made

Captain F. A. Kjolgaurd, master Dictator, spoke to a crowd in front; trip was without incident except for of the freighter Bright Vega, whose of his official residence to-day, de has been detained in Hongkong claring that the dark clouds which the fact that, though under the British soon disappear. a.m. yesterday, arrived at Saigon Ang, the

vessel carries only two

In short delay at Salgon. The young to exception being taken to had been hanging over Italy would!

ther encountered had been, exception- ally good. They left Penang at

ru left

•

at 6.30 this morning.

WEEKLY FLIGHTS

This is taken as an intimation that

ETHIOPIANS

URGE ARMED LEAGUE AID

FRESH APPEAL TO POWERS

PROTEST AGAINST USE

OF POISON GAS

London, Mar. 23.

The Ethiopian Government has sent a second note to the League of Nations protesting against the use of poison gas by the Italian troops invading Ethiopian territory, and appeals to the League for immediate assistance.

The note states that for fifteen months Ethiopia has been appealing to the League for intervention in one way or another, but no answer has been given.

Now Ethiopia is again appealing, it goes on, under Article XVI of the League Covenant, which calls, first, for effective forms of sanctions, and second, for a combined League of Nations Army to come to the assistance of the beleaguered state, suffering at the hands of a nation which the League has declared to be an aggressor.—Reuter Bulletin Service.

AGREE TO REFUSE SANCTIONS

THREE-CORNERED AGREEMENT

An

SIGNED AT ROME

Rome, Mar. 23.

not to apply

the

BOMBERS ACTIVE

(Special to "Telegraph") fly Telegraph, Copyright. Talspraphia Mirages Ordinance. 1891. Receives. Barch 21. A a.m.)

Rome, Mar. 23. Marshal Pietro Badoglio's

com. nunique, received from his feld headquarters in Ethiopia to-day, does not mention the reported Ethiopian counter-attack on the northern front, which according to Addis Ababa re- ports, has met with pronounced suc-. ecas and is personally directed by the Emperor Haile Salasaie,

The Italian communique claims that four Ethiopian aircraft have been destroyed in the last four days.

It asserts that the bombing attack on Jiga, reported yesterday, result- ed in the destruction of supplies, magazines and dopots,

The organisation of the

Italian

Capt. Lock Baid a weekly schedulo) of Trade, it is understood, and have to quering is already consecrated creeing, thent, is believed to be one far as the most advanced linca A

leave here on Fridays,

nang on Saturdays. Thin schedule, crew... ne Raid, would connect with the service

the

at 11.30 a.m.; at 2.16 p.m. and British officers, the Captain and the Dictator expects an end of the arrived at Tourane at 6.30 p.m. They Chief Engineer, the others being League of Nations' sanctions and of stayed at Tourane overnight and left Japanese..

hostilities in Ethiopia.

Victory is kissing our dag in Enst sanctions against Germany in

agreement Both the Marine Office and Captain Africa. The territory our soldiers event of the League of Nations de- Army's supply system continues Kjelgaard have wired to the Board tre

Our nation,'

Signor Mussoni of the terms embodied in the past bridge 110 metres. long over HOPES FOR HELP would be maintained, and until such received replies that there is nothing asserted,

between Raly, Austria and Hungary, Takazza River has been completed. time as Imperial Airways decided to to prevent the ship sailing from FROM HITLER

He was evidently referring to the which was signed to-day by the repre- use another machine, the Dorado

her present crew, League of Nations Covenant, under sentatives of the three Governments would be in use. Sho

leave Hongkong with will

It is officially denied that Italian PROPOSALS NOT at Hongkong or age, and return to United Kingdom to carry a foreign pesa has never been halted by the expresses the deform of Austria and

Penang on Monday mornings, arrive to a clause in the Merchant which sanctions were applied, when meeting in Rome.

neroplanes bombed a Beltish ambu- Shipping Act which allows British he said: mornings, ships which habitually outside the The vital progress of the Italian It is also understood that the Pact lance at Jijiga-Reuter Special, FINAL

Penang

le distle pact which, instead of pro-tuin the Independence

JIJIGA CASUALTIES neslag peace, threatens humanity invites the adhesion of other powers London, March 23.

between London and Australia via Following his docision, It is under-with" oven vaster wark."-Uniled to the agreement, apparently with the

Harrar, Mar. 23. Borlin, Mar. 24. The proposals sent to Ger-

Penang.

stood that the case was referred to Press

intention of enabling Austria to col- It in omcially stated that fifteen German official quarters are shock-many by the Locarno Powers, "Altogether, 10 bags of mail were the Attorney General this morning.

LEAGUE MEETING

laborate more closely with her neigh-persons were killed during the Italian ed by the reports that M. Pierre designed to surmount the crisis 14 being from London, and one each carried by the Dorado on, this trip,

London, Mar. 23. bour, Czecho-Slovakia.

bombing attack on. Jijiga. Four Flandin, the French Foreign Minister,

RISKY STEP

League's Committed of refused to

The conomic side of the protocols the 83 wounded have since died. which consider counter-

has arisen by the from Singapors and Penang. The proposals to the

The Attorney General has decided, thirteen mot in London to-day to express the determination of threo Locarno Powersunilateral denunciation of the mall weighed 47 kilos.

it is learned, that the stopping of the consider the Ethiopian and Italian countries concerned to increase trade who are British subjects Reuter The wounded include several Arabe suggestions for the protection of Locarno and Versailles Pacts by Mr. Ong, the passenger, is Western European frontiers,

an ship in Hongkong and the refusal of replies to the Committee's appeal for to the mutual advantage of each. This altitude is regarded as a con- Chancellor Adolf Hitler, were enthusiastic fiver, being a member a clearance certificate would be "too negotiations on March 8.

The full terms of the pact will be Special The of the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, risky," as there is no legislation in

Committed decided -to en- publlahed to-morrow/Router. tradiction of the British policy, stated not intended as an ultimatum, and has a total of approximately 200 the Colony to provide for such deavour to bring the parties together by Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreim declared Lord Halifax, Lord flying hours to his credit. He flow caso as this.

in order to obtain, within the frame-

(Continued on Pape 6.) Secretary, In the House of Conimons. Privy Seal, speaking at Bristol from Kuala Lumpur to Penang in

work

and in the spirit of the his own machine to join the Dorado.

Covenant, a' prompt cessation of hos tilities and a definite re-establishment Government against the "We want no encirclement of Ger

use by of peace,

Italians of poison gas for observations marry and no exclusive alliances, bet

The Committee also decided to of the Italian Government-British in which

submit the pretest of the Ethiopian | Wireless.

haa

-Reuter,

Leaving To-day

Berlin, Mar, 23. Herrn Ribbentrop, the German chief delegato to the League of Na.

plane on Tuesday.

to-day.

a European partnership Germany will freely join.

"We have asked Germany a hard thing but German had created

tions Council conferences in London, conditions by which the stability of is returning to the British capital by Europe was shaken and it was net This announcement indicates that too much to ask that Germany make Chancellor Adolf Hitler's consultations contribution of admitted difficulty,” with his advisers are onding and that The Bald

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The Shipping Act provides that the officers of whatever nationality should have a ́eortificate, but it does not describe the martiflente, and action taken in the Colony to force the sub stitution of British officers for the Japanese officers might, not be justi- fied according to law

The "Bright Vega will accordingly be given a clearance certificate to sail for Shanghai and Japan. She intends leaving to-day or to-morrow,

Captain · Kickguard:states that he.

The

LINCOLNSHIRE ENTRIES

GO TO POST TO-MORROW

London, Mar. 28.

The Lincoln flat racing season opened to-day in dull but mild weather on the perfect Carholme track, where the Lin- colnshire Handicap will be run on Wednesday e

of

Vital Shanghai Election

LARGE TURN-OUT AT POLLS

Shanghal, Mar. 24. The most vital municipal election in years at which the Japanese com munity is attempting to wrest a seat In the Council at the International Settlement either from the British er American cump, brought approximat

the Gorman

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