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FINAL EDITION

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Hongkong Telegraph.

SCHEVROLET

FOUNDED 1881

No. 14975

五拜歳,號四十月八英港香

FRIDAY,

AUGUST 14,

1936.

日八廿月六

BINGLE COPY 10 CENTS $30.00 PER ANNUM

Portugal Border

Violated

REDS MURDER REFUGEE

Threatened Violence In Face of Protests

BOMBS

REBEL PLANE BATTLESHIP JAIME

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Lisbon, Aug. 14. :

Violation of the Portuguese frontier by Spanish Government troops is alleged in an an- nouncement from Lisbon.

The Radio Club has made public a report that 30 armed Communists crossed the frontier at Campomaior and seized a Spanish officer who had taken refuge on a Portuguese estate. The Communists shot the officer to death.

The Spaniards allegedly pointed guns at the Portuguese farm labourers who ordered them back across the border and continued to brandish their pistols as they returned to Spain, carrying the murdered officer's body.-Reuter.

AERIAL ATTACK

Madrid, Aug. 13.

The loyalist forces have commenced their long anticipated aerial attack on Segivia and Avila.

They

bombed and destroyed a rebel battery near Siguenza

and downed a rebel plane in the Sommo Sierra "sector of the Guadarramas.

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At the same time, loyalist infantry stormed and captured an important strategic point near Granada,

Leaders in Catalonia report by wireless that loyalist columns have arrived in the vicinity of Saragossa

and are preparing to attack.

It is announced that the situation in the Guadarramas Is relatively

quiet.

A War Ministry communique says the rebels at some points on the

western front are attempting to dee across the frontier into Portuguese

FRANCO

BEGINS

ATTACK

territory. It in asserted that they MOVING ON MADRID

are unable to assist the. belenguered insurgents in the Balearic Islands! owing to the fact that their planes have not sufficient flying radius.

AND MALAGA

Manwhile, in the Malnga area, 300 FOREIGNERS IN

lives were lost in the fight for a river ford between the two rival | 'armies.--United Preun. .

Rebel Claim

Paris, Aug. 13.

Insurgents to-day claimed the capture of the village of Ventas, three kilometres from Itun, accord

AIR FLEET

(Special. To "Telegraph")"

MILLIONS FOR NEW STEAMERS

C.P.R. MAY BUILD FOUR LINERS FOR PACIFIC TRADE

Vancouver, Aug. 13.

The expenditure of about $60,000.000 (Canadian currency} on the construction of four new ocean liners, to meet foreign competition on the Pacific, is now contemplated, according to unconfirmed reports in shipping circles here, says Router.

is not known whether the Canadian Puelle Railway and Cana“ dion Pacific Steamships are con- templating this expenditure without Government assistance, but it was

suggested some months ago that generous subsidy might be necessary, оп the Canadian-Aus- especially tralia service heretofore maintained

the Niagara and Aorangi The four new ships, it is stated

by

here, would replace the Niagara, ane

of the oldest liners plying the Paclite. and the Aorangi, a comparatively new ship which first commenced ser vice between Canadian and Ails-

tralian ports about ten years ago, and ships, Empress of Russia and Empress

the Canadian Pacific trans-Pacific

of Asia.

These two latter, once the pride of the Canadian Pacific' feet, cannot be the newer Emprenses, classed with of Japan and Canada, but their record of service is distinguished.

DROUGHT RAVAGING. SOUTH U.S.

28 ALREADY DEAD THROUGH HEAT

FOREST FIRES

v

RAGING

Kansas City, Aug. 13. Farmers in the heat-blasted South- west scunned a cloudless sky to-day and fought despair.

MOTORISTS

WHOSE MOTTO IS

Safety

First

ALWAYS FIT

DUNLOP TYRES

MAY MARRY THE KING NO SIGNS OF

Latest rumours concerning the choice of a bride by H.M. King Edward VII mention the names of Princess Katherine of Greece (scan above) and her sister, Princess Irene. Both are sisteys of King George of Greece.

Nazi Still

Neutrality in Doubt

HITLER NOT EXPOSING

HAND AT

PRESENT

Berlin, Aug. 13. Herr Adolf Hitler, the German Chancellor, and Nazi Dicto- tor, is seriously concerned regarding the course of events in Spain and is reluctant to take any hasty steps on the question of neutrali-

ty.

This impression prevails in diplomatic circles. Several times daily reports of the latest news from Spain are sent to Herr Hitler and it is generally believed that the Reich- fuehrer is alarmed by the trend of events and has decided to hold his hand for the moment.

According to well-informed German circles, the German Government is extremely anxious to declare itself neutral, but de- lays doing so owing to the increasing doubts whether a proper Government still exists in Spain. Moreover, it appears that Ger- many does not consider that she has obtained satisfaction for the deaths of several Germans in the Spanish civil war.-Rentor.

Planes For Spain

London, Aug. 13. Six multi-engined airliners left Lundon airports to-day · for France and Portugal, en route to Spain, Walter is very scanty and as relief according to the Evening Standard, is in eight.

which understands that four of the There are twenty-eight dead from | machines were purchased for the prostration or other causes, directly | Spanish" Inspirgents and two for the resulting from the heat. Tempera-Government.

tures are

having ring, that at Wichita |

104; rit Калбак

Four of the

pinnes flew from

City 100, at Oklahoma City 110, Heston and two from Croydon, the

COMPROMISE

PEI CHUNG-HSI AT WUCHOW PARLEY

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")

Wuchow, Aug, 14.

General Pei Chung-hai, the Kwangsi warlord. arrived here yesterday to confer with local leaders in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and it is believed their discussion concerned the defence of the province against the threatened invasion by Nanking.

In a final effort to avert war, a peace envoy, General Tsui King-tong, has flown from Canton to Nanking, via this border river-port. Meanwhile, both sides are drawn up in full battle array.

cruiser and a

Central Government warships, a gunboat, are twenty-five miles from here and a log barrier has been prepared to block the West. River. Military preparations continue at a frantic pace and conscription is widespread.

NO DECISION

AS TO AIR TERMINUS

HONGKONG OFFERS ADVANTAGES

BIXBY CANNOT GIVE ANSWERS.

the

Some indication of rapidity with which passengers may now cross the Pacific is given by the fact that among those who arrived here to-day' on the President Wilson from Manila was Mr. Harold Bixby, of Pan-American Airways, who travelled to the Philippines in a clipper.ship. Mr. Bixby spent whole week in Manila before pro- ceeding to Hougkong but arrived here on the same day, as the Empress of Japan, which the- plane passed on the way to Honolulu..

Telegraph representative, said that he EDWARD VIII

MAY WED PRINCESS

OF GREECE

Observers estimate that the Kwangs army numbers about 40,000 regulars, 300,000 militia and an air force of sixty, planes, but the rolla- bility of the militia is doubtful as there is a growing feeling that mer- chants and populace are against General Pel Chung-hsi's stand. 1 is admitted, freely that General Pet would sooner dle fighting than capi- tulate to his bitterest personal enemy, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek,

ten

A junk load of gasoline, valued at $15,000, burned yesterday and Chinese are missing as a result. It is feared they perished. The gaso- line was part of the mliliary supply.

United Press.

OIL CARGO AFIRE AT WUCHOW

VALUABLE STORES

DESTROYED

EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT

NO DECISION YET Mr. Bixby, interviewed by

Á big blaze, accompanied by an was sorry that he was unable to en-explosion, occurred at Wuchow on lighten the public on any of the ques- Wednesday night, according to n tons repeatedly asked him. When report made by the s.s. Tai Hing on the extension of the Pan-American her arrival here from that port this Airways would be made to China, morning. when passengers would be carried, It was at about 10,45 p.m. Wednes- what the fare would be and whether day that those aboard the Tai Hing the planes would land at Hongkong heard a big explosion, accompanied by or Macus, he could not yet sny. a fire near the A.P.C. wharf. A big with Asked to substantiate the rumour lighter, said to be laden that Macao had definitely been given peroplane oil and mator-car tyres, over in favour of

of Hongkong as a belonging to the Kwangi. Govern-

at Topeka 108, al Dodge City. 108, latter being Fokker monoplanes, with at Omaha 106, at Fort Smith 104 Dutch registration letters which left NEW RUMOURS OF mainland base Mr. Bixby said that he was then seen to be abluze, and at Dallas, St. Louis and Spring-Amsterdam for Croydon last night. feld, Mo., 100.—United Priss.

an-

FOREST FIRE RAGING A.

Minneapolis, Aug. 13. Fives raged in the foreals of Minnesota to-day, 50,000 men are Seville, Aug. 14.

engaged in fighting the flames in this General Franco, commanding t

alone. In Wisconsin other 16,000 men

battling the insurgent armies in the the tornado of flame which is des southern sectors of Spain, began troying millions of feet of valuable The same message, adds that the his. offensive' in earnest to-day. timber and watershed country situation of the Government support-Three columns are approaching Untad Press, ers at Bilbao is desperate, Kenter Malaga and others are swinging Drive On San Sebastian northward and eastward pre-

ing to a message from Burgos.

Tolosa, Aug. 13.

paring to attack Madrid.

United

YATSHING AGROUND

10 HOURS

The paper adds that agerits of the ROYAL ROMANCE

rival Spanish forces are offering high- prices for aeroplanes, while. £125 is the reward. for the pilot flying the inschines to Spain.

The departure of the planes cannot be confirmed in official quarters, but it is stated that civilian planes are not obliged to reveal their destina licence for export of arms does not tions before leaving England and the apply to-civil aircraft. The French non-intervention pact draft, in which civil planes are included, is not yet In force-Reuter.

ELEVATED TRAINS COLLIDE

(Special To "Telegraph"}

Athens, Aug. 13.

It Is rumoured that King Ed- ward VIII may marry either the Princess Irene, 32, or Princess Catherine, 24, sisters of King George of Greece.

The Princesses are due at Cor- Iu this week to visit their father, and King Edward, on a yachting cruise in the same vicinity, is expected to call at Corfu and on the King of Greece Inter. United Press.

ENJOYING HOLIDAY..

Belgrade, Aug. 13. King Edward VIII of Britain is spending his Meditarranean holiday in cruising and enthusiastically shar ing in the activities of the Dalmatian peasants. He anchored, last night far out to sea, among group of small latands and rose early to-day to

for ceis.

Upon arriving höre the Rebel columns have commenced a Press correspondent was able to cori- desperate drive on San Sebastian, arm that a modern - air fleet. of hoping to cut the loyalist communica-Italian and German planes manned tions before the subjection of Oviedo | by Italian and German officers, is at is necomplished..

General Franco's disposal. The dif- The column which captured Tolosa culty of approaching the aerodrome

prevented the obtaining of condema has consolidated its forces and has tion of the numbers of planes and Tho. Jardine steamer Yatshing, advanced again to Villa, Bona, only pilots. However, it is rumoured that which arrived here this morning from. eleven miles south of San Sebastion, the rebels have more than 100 Canton, was aground for ten hours on and is pressing on beside the Leigaran Capronis, Savolas, Junkers, and her way down to Hongkong. River. A second column has con Henkel scout craft and bombors. At 10 pan. on Wednesday night the verged on Oyarzun, only seven miles south-east of Son Sebastian, leading and the Italian officers the uniform soft mud. Umble to get off the bar

NEW YORK MAYOR The Germans wear white uniforms ship struck the Taimel Bar and was

He explored the beautiful beaches to the bellet in the rebel camp that of the Sponleh Foreign Legion, and immediately.

Lound to be firmly embedded in the

of the islands and favoured by bril AIDS RESCUERS the loyalist stronghold can be cap they are cheered whenever they

lant sunshine later Intded at Navi- the ship had to

to wait for

rad and strolled through the quaint tured this week-end,-United: 'Press, are acon in the streels

the next tide and was not, reflontext: *

New York. Aug. 12 streets to the delight of the peasant There is abundant indication in until 8 nm yesterday, At least oneswar killed anden populace. He watched the local South Spain that the Insurgent

The Yatshing was not damaged dozen seriously jured when two variety of bowl which so impressed Gibraltar, Aug. 13. movement is inspired by Fascism: Knowing that the vessel would be able

ew York elevated raj him that he bought a set of woods.

PORIS NEVER Later the holidaying monarch went The rebel wireless at Seville has For ex

example, the Fascist salutes to got off the lay early in the morn

myLock Swim and followed it will, a broadcast a message that General common and young Fascists are non-g those aboard were not, alarmed at

to the long suit bath on viideserted beach, blimbed a where a press photographer, disguised Mola commanding the northern Instantly paradlag for the proximity of the typhoon

The rebels: have, announced; that

Syhigh, magnetsherman,” aucceeded in taking Avenue, by camber of photographe was mused

Confer

Turgents who are driving against on Friday they are instelling the wir

Madrid, he arrived here to confer

with Cloneral Franco, commanding the monarchist 40% N

ment,

state-

was the

t3

was not in position make ment. The whole

the Bredent immediately rushed to question of the spot; whilst warships in port extension of the route of China was directed their searchlights on the still under consideration, NE

scene. question of what type of plane would Eventually, the lighter was cast off be used for this extension.

and allowed to drift down stream, Referring to his recent voyage with the fire-float following. There from America to Manila by plane, was a five-lanet currant running at Mr. Bixby said that he found the the time. Eventually, the lighter planes the peme

of comfort. The went aground some eight milles below Clipper was absolutely steady Wuchow, In Kwangtung province, and and did not bump at all; there the firefloat returned at six o'clock was plenty at room to walk about and stretch and there was no need to heal ing passed the grounded lighter at 2,30 pm: yesterday, when The scenery is a bit monotonjus," the lighter was still burning, fiercely. worry about bumping your head. said Mr. Bixby, "for it doesn't change It is further, reported that on for days, but if you have plenty of Thursday morning three aeroplanes reading matter or letters to write flew over Wuchow at a great height, that does hot worry you" There these being supposed to have flown. was a marked absence of noise, in from Canton. When the Tal Hing the plane and on one occasion Mr. left, there was, considerable military Bixby was surprised to find one of activity, ipenches - being, dug, guns his fellow passengers complaining of being mounted and pill-boxes on the someone else snoring.

heights at Wuchow being manned." That was something we didn't These latter are situated at about 03 have to worry about on smaller feet high, and are equipped with planes," he said. "There was far too small anti-aircraft guns. Some ot much noise to be able to distinguish the trenches on the waterfront are anyone snoring."

submirged, owing to the high level of the river.

VETERANS GATHER

PREPARING HOTELS

Conditions generally are fairly The hotels along the route which qulet in Wuchow, although quite a anti-number of people are leaving the port. the company is preparing in cipation of the passenger service by the Clipper, ships are not all ready yot, and several things provented him from, giving difinite informatio

last. trip west the Clin On had

brought two representatives of

San Francisco, Aug.13N Over 6,000 persone,Beanaly the Department of Commerce who will have to make. a

a thorough American wars roterania and Stair spection before the company la familles,aro attending the ansUni granted a passenger letice So far Battle of Man BAY they have not received tale permis at the Veteram. Homer