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ITALY'S MESSAGE TO BRITAIN

FRIENDSHIP ORDERED

London, May 28. Definite assurance that Italy. has no aggressive designs upon British interests in the Near East or elsewhere has been con- veyed to

Anthony Eden, Mr.

British Foreign Secretary, by Signor Dino Grandi, the Italian Ambassador at the Court of St. James, il in understood.

Siguor Gramli als expressed the strong desire ei 11aly for better rel- tions with Great Britain.

Howes it is billes d that the An bassador emphased that if thi Langue of Notions Fretions are con- tinued Italy cannot take any political initiative why regard to a Meliter- rangan mureeient,

Moreover, if nations

shell

almoned, Italy would have to ean- der urgently the question af romain- ing in the Seague of Nations, Signor Grandi diclared,—Renter

ST. LOUIS AGAIN IN LEAD

GIANTS BEATEN TWICE

YANKEES GO AHEAD

New York, May 28. The Now York Giants lost a double- header to Boston to-day and dropped out of the tls with St. Louis at the Lengue. However, St. top of the Louis also lost, so the margin of difference is not great.

Boston's Braves nored the Giants -out of both decisions by one run. In the first they scored four to three, oh-twolve hits. The Gants hit nine times and each team had an error."

In the second Boston hit fourteen, one of them a homer by Berger, but the Giants held them to five tallies. Moreover, Boston had four errors, But New York was only able to hi seven and scored four runs out of it, including Ripple's homer.

The

Cubs

Cincinnati tranced eleven to four. Chicago only had ten hits, but Hack and homeres. The Reds hit six.

Hartaril

Brooklyn Dodgers hit twenty and scored thirteen runs, two of them homers by Bordagaray and Bucher, when they played the Phillies. The from idle. Phillies, too, wore far They smacked out sixteen hits and gained ten runs. J. Moore and Grase hit circulit cleuts. There were five errors, the Phillies taking the honours with three.

The St. Louis Cardinals, who un- deservedly go into first place again, lost to Pittsburgh, seven to two. The Piintes drove them to the tune of Afteen hits. Each bad an error.

YANKEES WIN

The Yankees drew further ahead of their nearest League rivals, the Boston Red Sox, by beating them soundly, ten to six. The Yunkees scored in eight hits. Boston hit thirteen but could not profit by then. They hut two errors.

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FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

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No, 14000

五拜禮 號九廿月五英港香

29, FRIDAY, MAY

1936.

日光初月四

CHIEF OF BRITISH

STAFF

General Sir Cyril Dovurell is shown arriving at the War Offlee in London to take up his new duties as now Chief of the I- perial General Staff. He szereeds Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Masslagbord.

FRENCH STRIKE SPREADS

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT?

GOVERNMENT CONCERN

in the engineering works of France.

A number of large firms are affect- ed, notably the Renault factory largest motor car and war material plant in France, where 3,000 workers are participating in the movement,

ARAB STRIKE Successor

WEAKENING

BUT MOB VIOLENCE

CONTINUES

FURTHER TROOPS SENT

FROM ALEXANDRIA

Jerusalem, May 28.

While an increasing number of Arab hawkers are

To Thomas

Appointed

ORMSBY-CORE FOR

:

CABINET

COLONIAL EXPERT

London, May 28.

Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gure has been

appointed Secre-

tary of State for the Colonies, in " stucrarion to Mr. J. Thomps, who recently re- signed from the post following the Inquiry into alleged Tenkage of Budget secrets.

Renter.

William Arthur Ormy-Gore,

in the streets and the half-open Arab shops indicate a politician and decline in the strike, out of which such grave dis- turbances have arisen, other Arabs are trying to intensify the stoppage of work.

A manifesto, signed by the members of the Arab Students' Committee, has been published at Nablus, calling upon Arab civil servants to strike.

Up to now forty agitators and strike-leaders have been banished to other towns or placed under police surveillance.

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FORMER RESIDENT PASSES AWAY

The luta Div 1 Al Dper, Cul' Eme Chief B.Sc., MAN.A., jermer Manager of the Hongkong und Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., whose death occurred at Home yester- tiny. He was

Colonial exper WAY born In April 1885, the eldest Lord Harlech, and educated at Elon and New College, Oxford. then elected as Conservative for. Denbigh in 1910 and later sat for As a left wing Conserva- tive he joined the Social Reform Com- mittee, but a visit to Canda turne his attention to the Dominions and colonies. In 1911 and 1912, he went te S. and E. Africa and Egypt In

Stafford.

1913 he married Lady Beatrice Cecil,

Lord Salisbury's eldest daughter.

During the war he served in the

FORMER RESIDENT PASSES

army and had considerable experience in the Near East us an officer in Egypt and intelligence officer in the Arah Bureau in Palestine and Arabla. MR.

In 1917-8 he WIS parliamentary private secretary to Lord Milner and

tho 10

Wor nstant secretary

returning Cabinet, afterwards

Arab journalists have decided to suspend publica- tion of all Arab newspapers, starting to-morrow.

The Seaforth Highlanders were again in action to-day, They were fired on by Arab bands near Jinin. They returned the fire, killing at least two Arabs Palestine as assistant political officer. and wounding four. The regiment suffered casualties.

There were many disturbances here! last night. Palice and snipers ex- changed numerous shots. There were no casualties as far as is known.-- Renter.

Constable Killed

Jerusalem. May 28. Roting Arabs fatally wounded a British constable, a man named Bird, of. London, to-daylle was on patrol! in the Old City, near the Austrian Hospice.

Meanwhile, British artillery is re- ported en route from Egypt, as the declaration of martial law in eipated at ang moment.

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The battleship, Barham, arrived at Ifaifa to-day. This is the centre of the coastal trouble.

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R. M. DYER DIES

AT HOME

SERVICES TO COLONY

"THERE IS

NO JUSTICE ·

IN SPAIN"

PRIMO DE RIVERA IMPRISONED

STARTS RIOT IN COURT.

Madrid, May 28, Senor Primo de Rivera, son of the late Dictator of Spain and Jender of the Fascist party, hus been sentenced to five months' imprisonment for attending an unlawful assembly and for pos- session of atms.

When sentence was passed, Senor de Rivera, who conducted his own case, tore off his layer's hat and gown, and shouted:

"There in no Justice in Spala!" Fascist sympathisers created uproar and police arrested---37, Reuter Special.

"UP SPAIN!"

♫

Madrid, May £8. Senor Primo de Rivero, son of the late Loyalist Dictator, was- sontenced to five months' imprisonment to-day for the illegal possession of arms.

He plunged the courtroom of the new model prison here into an uproar when he shouted the Fascist war try, "Up Spaln

Members of his family and several women joined the shout

The President of the Court ordered the place cleared, whereupon Senor de Divern leaped on the dais, shouted insults at his judges, hurled his bar+, at the President," rister's bonnet removed his gown and tore it up and trampled on it, all the while shouting Spain" He inid the magistracy was rotten and that the judges were dogs.

He stamped along the presidential dale, kicking the magistrates' bench, and swept a pile of papers from the bench to the floor. He threx statuette across the room.

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In 1919 lie was attached to the British delegation to Paris Peace Conference as an expert on the Near

Police finally restored order, ar- Deep regret will be felt throughout East. On returning to the Commons [ he became a member of an independ- the Colony at the news of the death resting several of the Fascist lecader's ent group of Conservatives and sup- of Mr. R. M. Dyer. C.B.E., B.Sc. friends and followers. The news of ported Irish Home Rule: In 1922 he M.IN.A.. who for a period of 24the riot spread to the cells nu

years

Chlef

merous Fascist inmates began demon-, Manager

of resumed his colonial studies, accom

sympathy. United panying his friend Wond (later Lord the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock stations

Perr Irwin) to the West Indies and assist Co., Ltd. Intimation of his passing was received in a Reuter cable from inst him to write his report. When Bonar Law formed his Govt. Ormsby- Lendon, received this morning.

Tre late Mr. Dyer, whose wife pre Core was made Under-Secretary for the Coloni.At-the-Imperial Con-drevased him some little time ago,

Was

of

QUEEN MARY BEHINDference, o 1923 he represented the was a native of Glasgow being a

colonies, protectorates and mandated

NORMANDIE'S TIME rorles

BREAKFAST IS A BANQUET

on

son of the late Professor Dyer who, many years ago, came out Enst an a While Labour held office, H

mission to Japan. One of the most Thomas selected him as chairman of popular members of the local Scot-

fish community. Mr. Dyer was the commnission to visit and report on the East African colonies. He and two occasions President of Hongkong his colleagues produced in 1925 a St. Andrew's Society. He particu most interesting report urging the larly interested himself in the Seat- nced for co-ordination. Meanwhile tish Company of the Volunteer De Ormsby-Gore had in 1923 resumed fence Corps, which he was largely A battalion of Bedfordshires and

London, May 28, his post as Under-Secretary in the instrumental in raising and equip another of Hertfordshires, which were

Reuter's special correspondent Baldwin Govt. In 1920 he made a ning, and was a member of the A- stationed in Shanghai in 1927, Jeft

to aboard the great Dritish liner, Queen valuable report on the West African visury Committee of the Corps. He also took a prominent part in the Alexandria last night en mute

19 problematical colonies. Jerusalem. Their arrival will raise Mary, says

movement for the creation of kilted Boy Scouts locally.

Battalions Move

no ensualties.

it

ISOLATION THREAT TO HONGKONG

HIT BY NEW AIR AGREEMENT?

Hongkong, as a result of latest development in the "war" for the supremacy in aviation in Pacific, may find itself totally isolated in the near future.

It is quite possible that, lenpite enormous developments that taking place in aviation in the Far East, Hongkong may be served by only Imperial Airways.

Are

Paris, May 28.

He visited Malaya and Ceylon in The "stay in" strike movement, in the total of troops, here to six bat- whether the Atlantic crossing record 1020. In his report he said the prog- talions of infantry and a company of will be broken unless the average |

speed of the ship is increased appre-perity of the rubber industry depend-

KEEN SPORTSMAN ed on research rather than restriction, which hundreds of workers stay in

light tanks and armoured ears.

The Cameron Highlanders and Bri-ciably.

In the National Govt, of 1931 he was Mr. Dyer was identified with many the factories, with bedding and food

bust in Nov, brought by their wives and dildren,tish and antive police skirmished with

Metsures of local development, and in By noon to-day, nearly twelve Posimuster-General, but refuse to work, is spreading fast Arab snipers, hidden in the bills over-

Nablus curs after leaving Cherbourg, the became First Commissioner of Works, addition to his extensive business con- looking Jerusalem and the Read, to-day. However, there were Queen Mary had covered 320 miles 4 trustee of the National Gallery, he noctions, he served in a number of from the breakwater of that port. resigned that past in May 1932, as a local Committees, Including that on The Wailing Wall has never been Actually the Queen Mary passed the protest against Govt. interference the Economic Resources of the Colony.

with the experts which had led to Interested also in educational work. The Special Representative of the so deserted day or night living breakwater at 1.30 am.

e was a member of the Court of the Telegraph, in an exclusive articla on though

Page 7, believes that negotiations at At this rate the Queen Mary will three resignations, but resumed it in memory,

important An

present proceeding in Hongkong be Jewish festival is in progress. From have travelled about 600 miles in the Feb. 1933, in view of the change in University of Hongkong,

twenty-four hours.

The policy. In April-1933, he had sharp

On the sporting side, Mr. Dyer

tween Mr. 11. M. Bixby, Far Eastern a near-by temple. n weird light fell first

was the President of the Hongkong Representative of Pan-American Air- upon the forsaken place of holiness. Normandie, which holds the Atlantle passages of arms with Churchill and Only three venerable Jews bowel blue riband, covered a distance of Lloyd George over their attacks on singly in prayer because they lacked 744 miles in that time, on her record- Baldwin. Lloyd George accused him Rifle League, Steward of the Jockey ways, and a representative of Chinese keen supporter of boxing, National Aviations Corporation will of secking to avoid milliary service Club,

agreement between A quorum of ten necessary for Jointbreaking voyage,tresh east-north- during the war-a charge which having been Chairman of the Box- culminato in an

The log reports a The oldest warshipper, departing, east breeze, moderate sea, and the Ormsby-Gore was easily able to dising Association, and was President the two Companies which will have of the Hongkong Football Associa- the effect of excluding Hongkong said he had been praying at the Wall-weather Sue, glear and sometimes prove.

tion. He was also Chairman of a from consideration as an airport. ne- the Hongkong Harbour Advisory cessary to their services. Board. He was made a Justice of the Pesce in 1913. Mr. Dyer wont Home on leave in June, 1032, and retired in September of the same year.

M. Albert Sarraut,, the Prime Minister, is most concerned with the ronferenzea were situation. Many hold today at the Ministry of the Interior and at the Presidency. Hale's homer turned the tables on

While some deputis regard the the unfortunato St. Louis Browns, strike us an attempt of Communists to who were beaten by Cleveland, six embarrass the Socialist Government, to Ave. St. Louis bit nine to the InSocialist circles deny the movement dians eight, and Cleveland had three is in any way revolutionary, and de- clare it is intended to prevent a lock- The Detroit Tigers, Inst year's out, pending a settlement of the men's champions, were also routed. Chicago claims to increased wages and better. beat them six to five, Hayes hitting working conditions.-Hester Special. a-homer. Goslin homered for the

errora.

to

Tigers. The Sox hnd thirteen hits. Washington scored, a five nothing win over the Athletics, hit- ling soven and allowing only Ove to the Philadelphians-Reuter.

Italian Bid For Trade

REORGANISING HER MERCHANT FLEET

Rome, May 28,

Complete reorganisation of Italian

FILIPINO FLIERS DEPART

MAY ARRIVE HERE THIS AFTERNOON

Manila, May 25.

prayer.

ing Wall for 65 years. "I cannot halt cloudy-Reuter. because of temporary worldly dis

turbances." he added. I know the truc wor Arabs will not harm a shipper."

Numerous Bombings

one

One correspondent aboard states that the breakfast on the ship is like banquet. On the menu there is a choler of ten varieties of fruit, four-

BUDGET PROBE REPORT

PROMISED COMMONS ON JUNE 3

London, May 28.

BREAKFAST 'BANQUET

London, May 20. The Queen Mury has been averaging 28.73 knots per hour up, to the present.

The passengers are settling down to There were numerous bombings all enjoy the amenities of the luxury

liner. Halfo, Jato and Safed to-day. Two Arabs were killed and wounded at the village of Qubata and three were wounded at 'Silat el Dabr, in clashes with pollec. Railway dispersed Arabs attempting to dynamite the tracks with a volley. A stowaway has been found aboard, Budget secrets, will be published on hidden in a lifeboat. It is a sparrow: June 8, it was announced in the House This episode was near Safed.

Groves fringing the Jewish nettle and is now in the care of the ship's of Commons by Sir John Simon to-

day.Reuter. by butcher-Reuter Bulletin Service. mont at Achuza were set afire. Arab mobs, Others fired on the Nazariah police station, but there were no casualties.-United Press,

The report of the tribunal whit

FRIEND OF SERVICES Mr. Dyer received the c... decora- tion in

Birthday Honours 1030,

at his

investi- His Excellency Sir William

paid

tributo A glowing

in

Luro

Pepl

the

and

to his work in the Colony, saying he

The writer understands that, under the terms of the agreement, C.N.A.C. will provide feeder services from Ma- cao to China and Hanol. The latter service would allow passengers to travel from America to Europe, vie the Pacific, without coming any near.. er to Hongkong than Macao, Franco's Air Orient Company already main tains a regular service between Hanoi and Marcilles.

Troops patrolling the Southern teen cereals and innumerable other investigated the alleged leakage of had always been ready to give his applied for permission to land at Kal

ÖFFICERS DÉTAINED

London, May 28.

courses.

GRIMSBY TRAWLER ON

TREASURE HUNT

Dakar, May 28.

Tho Filipino aviatora, Antonio It is officially confirmed that two shipping is contemplated, in which shipping will be put into four grades Arnaiz and Juan de Calvo took off officers of the British Red Cross unit

The mystery of the voyage of the have been detained at on the first log of their flight to Spain in Ethiopia to connect with world markets.

North and South America, will boat & o'clock this morning, trening Diredawa by the Italian authorities, Grimsby trawler, Girl Pat, Into the machine towards Laoag, and although they are not in prison south Atlantic ocean, has been solved: served by one grade from Genoa, their

The while another will serve Africa and Northern Fazon, where they will they cannot have the town because the Far East from Triesto

The other two groups will be for the European trado.

make their first stop.-United Press. I their papers, allegedly, are not in hu 20-ton ship is on a treasure there. He is not.

The fiorn will stay at Lasig Just long enough to 'rofuel, it da thought, Shipping lines will be reorganised and will then take off for Hongkong. under Government supervision, in order to eliminate competition. The They should be hory about 2 pan. Government will also increase the aubsidies to certain lines-Routor Special

The flight was at first time) for Wednesday but was delayed in order to allow further taste.

ordor-Router Bulletin Service.

LORD BEATTY'S ESTATE

London, May 28, The late Earl Beatty left an estate valued at £175,000 it was disclosed to- day-Reuter Bulletin Service

It is stated that in 1934 C.N.AG. Tack airport, but wore informed that advice and assistance in public pairs, such permission could not be granted but it was largely for his services in until reciprocal arrangements were other directions that the honour had made whereby British planos could been conferred upon in. His icing land in China. ness to the soldiers and sailors who Pan-American Airways have a_mi-

though Hongkong was pro-nority financial interest in C.N.A.C.

Full Story on Page 7.

Pat and it would be quite true

to say that there were hundreds and thousands of Servicemen scattered throughout the Empire who looked back with feelings of gratitude and thankfulness to the kindness they had received from the hands of both Mr. and Mrs. Dyer. Their Excellencles the General Omeer Commanding and the Admiral were also full of appre- cintlon for the services rendered by Mr. Dyer on behalf of the Services,

ABOLISHING SENATE

IRISH FREE STATE REFORMS

sca and left his mate behind.

Stone said the Girl Pat first tried to reach the Salvage Islands and the master Intended to hunt treasure Award of the master's destination, and all that is

Dublin, May 28. Mr. Eamon De Valera'a motion to ...This fact was disclosed by the mate, known at the moment is that Girl Pat

abolish the Irish Free State Senate a man named Stone, who was put is somewhere in the south Atlante,

74 to The owners of the vessel are as

was carried in the Dail to-day," ashore ill and who is still in hospital. The ship was visited by the British much in the dark as anyone else.

The Manila Observatory, reporting De Valera said he hoped to in- Consul al Dakar and the master, This is Captain Osborne's expedition: Captain George Osborne, was invited He was supposed to go for fish in the ai 8 a.m. to-day, states that typhoon

constitution in the autumn-Router. Luzon, moving N.N.W. to take the ship's papers to the Con-North Sea when he left Grimsby on is situate near or over South-Eastern i troduce a measure outlining the new sulate. The slipper hastily put to April 2-Reuter Special.

TYPHOON WARNING