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REBELS CAPTURE KEY POINTS AMERICA LEADS

IN IRUN ATTACK CLOSELY BELEAGUERED

LOYALISTS'

SITUATION

DESPERATE

Carlist

On

SOUTH

CHINA

PEACE

PARLEY

Flag Flying Eyes of Nation Highest Ridges

Hendaye, Sept. 2.

It was learned late to-night that the rebel forces attacking Irun and San Sebastian had captured the strongly defended positions Puncha Hill-Reyter.

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on

FORTRESS FALLS

Biriatou, Sept. 2.

On Nanning

COMPRISE INDICATED

Shanghai, Sept. 3.

The attention of the nation is focussed upon Nanning, where a

pence conference between Nan-

king and Kwangsi delegatos is. reported to have been in pro- gress since yesterday,

The peace mission, comprising Mr. Chu Cheng, President of the Judicial Yuan. General Cheng Chilen. Chief;

Chu Pei-teh, Director of Military

The rebels have captured Fort San Martial,of the General Staff, and General key-point in the Irun defences, hoisting the

Carlist flag at 2.19 p.m., culminating a day of bloody hand-to-hand fighting-United Press.

STORY OF ASSAULT

Biriatou, Sept. 2.

The rebel troops, commanded by General Mola, having gained half a mile of ground in a ferocious assault on the outer defences of Irun, stormed the border village of Behobie to-day and routed the loyalist defenders from the shattered advance fortifications of Puncha Hill,

Education, arrived at Nonning st

noop yesterday.

They were welcomed by repre-

sentatives of General Li Jung-yen

and General Pei Chung-hisi.

They presented autographed let- ters from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and Dr. Wang Chun-hul,"

An

It is generally expected, that important announcement as to the outcome of the conference will be

made before the week-end. kong says the Kwangsi leaders are

towing a more compromising

Meanwhile, a report from Hong-

litate.

According to the Chinese

A1-

press.!

Cenerals Li and Pei have telegraphed

to the Kwangtung: Military Heads quarters stating-that- the Hwangai troops in South-western Kwangtung are rapidly withdrawing from their:

A barrage of machine-gun, rifle and artillery fire, original positions--Rester. punctuated by aerial bombings, blasted the way to the

cutskirts of Behobie. With its capture, the Carlist flag was raised on the Customs House'flagpole.

Unable to withstand the withering Are, the loyalists broke and fed into Behobie, pausing temporarily to cet Are to two deserted automobiles. Armoured cars, spitting bullets and electing hand grenades. reinforced the insurgent Infantry as the Cus- toms House was stormed. Here three French militiamen were killed by grenades, eir 15 Spanish Com- ponions Recing earlier.

Fire Across Border The rebels, convinced Dat sples on the French side of the border were directing the loyalist artillery, flred at any moving object on the French side of the frontier.

Eventually the insurgents occupied the ridge overlooking Behobic, while the defenders fired from the shelter of houses.

The smashing offensive against the town

commenced at 2.14 p.m., follow- ing a morning luli owing to fox. Thereafter the fighting recommenced under a broiling sun, but it was only a matter of minutes before Behobie. fel.--United Press.

Desperate Situation

Birlatou, Sept. 2.

Attempting Armistice

In Spain

Paris, Sept. 2, Contact has been established between the Madrid Government and the insurgent headquarters at Burgos, according to Senor Mancilla, the Argentine Ambas sador, as quoted by the news. paner L'Intransigeant.

It is stated that Madrid has appointed Senor Americo Castro an Extraordinary Ambassador and that he is proceeding to St. Jean de Luz where diplomats are holding meetings with a view to arranging an armistice.

ACTION IS URGENT

London, Sept. 3.

In view of the urgency of swift action, British and French diplomacy.

Pact in

PROBING CHENGTU INCIDENT

JAPAN AWAITING FULL REPORT

REASSURANCES FROM CHINA

Nonking, Sept. 3.

MALAGA-the ancient city from which the British destruyer Shamrock evacuated British residents and visitors, is now closely besieged by rebels

and its fall in expected.

FRANCE ANSWERS GERMANY

WILL INCREASE WAR

SUPPLIES

SEEKING NEW ALLIANCES

HONGKONG AIRMAIL SALVAGED

BAGS FROM SCIPIO RECOVERED

The Postmaster-General of Hang- from kong was informed by cable. London this morning timt "all Hong- kong air muil was sidvaged from the Scipio...

The London Post Office auticipates. the message adds, that the fate of

disclosable.

Paris, Sept. 2. France's reply to Germany's only a few items will be finally un- increase in the period of military

The Scipio crasbed while alighting service is likely to consist of af

Gulf, quantitative and qualitative in-n a rough sea in Mirabella

Crete, with the loss of two lives. [crease in gung and War The captain, crew of three, and tive materials, according to well- of the seven puissengers were rescued. informed diplomatic correspon-

The plane was flying from dents.

Alexandria to Brindisi when she L'intransigeant's diplomatic corres-came down near the Imperiul Air- which pondent belleves that the extension Ways motor yacht, Iperia, of French military service will be took part in the rescue work, rejected on economic grounds.

Simultaneously, however, France

will likely forge ahead with

the

organisation of collective security REFUGEES FROM

pacts, in connection with which ru aflirmation of the Franco-Polish: Alfiance of 1022 is regarded as an Important factor.

aportun

Reuter,

According to this correspondent. M. Edouard Daladier, the War Minister. estimates that in October The Chengtu Incident, involving 000 men, of whom 280,000 will be the German army will number 050,- the murder of two Japanese by professional soktlers, compared to the Chinese mob and the injury of French milltary strength of 400,000, several others, la still simmering, of whom only 80,000 are professionals, with the Foreigi -Office representa- tives continuing to investigate the elreurastances at the sent of trouble. Meanwhile, it is understood Japan will not open negotiations to

settle the affair until slic receives a detail- ed report from Mr. M. Matsumura, third Secretary of the Japanese Em-|

separate bassy, who is pursuing n

Szc- Investigation in Chengtu, the chuan capital.

A spokesman of the Embassy here

'TWO TYPHOONS

ONE TO EAST OF BALINTANG

The Menila Observatory, reporting

of two typhoons.

KWANGSI

BRING MUI-TSAIS TO COLONY

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GIRLS' STORIES

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IN WALKER CUP COMPETITION

WINS

IN

TWO MATCHES

FOURSOMES

Pine Valley, Sept. 1. United States were two matches to the good at the end of the Walker Cup foursomes which were played over the Pine Valley course to-day. Britain succeeded in halving two of the games, but were badly beaten in the other two. The results in brief were:

R. Smith and Ed. White (U.S.) beat J. McLean and John Langley 8 and 7;

J. Goodman and A. Campbell (U.S.) beat H. Thompson and H. Bentley 7 and 5;

C. Yeates and W. Emery (U.S.) halved with M. Dykes and G. Peters;

H. Givan and G. Voigt (U.S.) halved with A. Hill and C. Ewing.

Investigating

Breach Of Neutrality Act

Tic

Washington, Sept. 2. Attorney-General,

has

Mr.

ap-

Homer S. Cummings, pointed a commission to fuvest). gate and prosecute if necessary Alercantile the International Marine, the Hamburg-America Line and other companies for alleged violations of the Ameri- can Neutrality ACL

It is suspected that certain companies have been trafficking in arms, but the occasion or the countries involved are not at present disclosed.--Renter.

FLIERS CROSSING ATLANTIC

U.S. FORCES Ahead

Goodman and Campbell were five up at the end of the morning round. though they were all square at the inth. Reynolds' Smith and White were une up, having been square al the ninth hole.

Peters and Dykes. Great Britain. were one up at the ninth and at the end of tile round, but Givan and Voigt were three up at the ninth and improved in four up at the round's Anish.

The weather was cool and overcast. The only time Thompson and Bentley led was at the tenth, when Thompson's ball struck Goodman's caddle. Campbell sank n twelve- funt putt on the eleventh and fourteenth for birdies. The Ameri- cans were still five up at the twenty- seventh, the British pair having won only the twenty-fourth hole on the second round.

CRACKED UP

Melean and Langley cracked up in the afternoon, winning only one hole. Playing against Glyan and Voigt, Hill- and -Ewing-mundo-a magnificent recovery. They were twice seven down during the afternoon. The might easily have snatched a sensi Donal victory hart not Hill-over- clubbed at the thirty-second green, his ball triciding off the green and into a lake. Tweddell, the British captain, expressed the opinion that the Britons, would have won if a different club had been used in this case.

AMERICANS TRAVEL AT HIGH SPEED ENTERTAINER ENTERTAINING the thirty-third hole."

New York, Sept. 2, The American airmen, Richman !· and Merrill, attempting to fly to Lon-{ don and buck with a three-day stop in England, wirelessed New York at

a.m. British Standard Time that. they were over the ocean at 10,000 feet and that they estimated they had covered 1,000 miles since leaving New York at 21.38 B.S.T. yesterday.i -Reuter.

FAST TIME

New York, Sept. 2. Harry Richman and Dick Merrill Isoared over Newfoundland at 10,- 000 feet, above heavy clouds, aver- aging 216 miles per hour. They esti- dout 1,300 mate their position na miles out.United Press.

FLIERS' PLANS

New York,

Dykes and Peters were perfect on their homeward play during the morning, having all par figures. The lead alternated all afternoon until the Briton squared with £ birdie

Thereafter they halved the remainder,

SINGLES DRAW

on

The singles draw has been Bn nounced as follows:

Thompson vs Goodman; McLean vs Campbell; Ewing

Johnny Fischer, Cincinnati

ቲን.

Hill vs Smjuz Peters vs Emery:

Dykes va Teates; Bentley vs G.. T. Dunlop,

New York:

Langley va White-Reuter.

Jr.

Trotsky Under

Harry Richman, noted Broadway Close Watch

night club owner, and Dick Merrill, veteran air line pilot, left Floyd

Bennell airport at 3.37 p.m. (E.S.T.), POLICE ESCORT: TO: on a trans-Atlantic flight to England. They plan to make the round trip across the Atlantic, stopping at Cray- don only long enough refuel.

NEW RESIDENCE

11 new re-

Three women from Kwangsi, who had taken up residence in the Colony. owing to the unsettled conditions in their native province, appeared before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy is morning, on charges of keeping unregistered nui-tsals.

The defendants were Lo Pul-tse, After a spell in which both sides is strenuously engaged in trying to emphatically dented to-day that

married woman, residing at No. 21 on the Trun front were busy con effect the establishment of an Inter- Japan had already filed dermands at 8.30 am, to-day, gives the positions charged with keeping an unregistered Fung Tal Torrace, ground floor, lidating their positions and repairing national Committee of Control to ad- with the Nanking Government. their defences, heavy fighting, recom- minister the Non-Aggression

Топд

Sal-yuen, alias San Ins The Governor of Szechuẩn menced this afternoon. Machine- connection with the Spanish crisis.

One la situated in about Long, 123, Mul, aged 15; Liu Yuct-klu, 34, guns and artillery vigorously bom-

informed Mr. T. Nagano, the Japan-Lat. 28, moving north-west. The merries, charged in respect of a gir)

residing at the same Forty. thousand ping-pong balls,

Oslo, Sept. 2. barded opposing lines.

to the present, Berlin has not ese Consul at Chungking, that opposition is south-east of Ningpo. Up 10

address,

crammed into the wings of the plane

Accompanied by six police cars, M. The situation for the Government replied to the proposal for an Inter-propriate measures will be adopted

for buoyancy purposes, were among Trotsky and his wife to-day left the The other is located in about Long. Tru! Lau, aged 11; and Wong Sau- the early settlement of the the national Committee, though Portugal for troops suddenly changed for

king. 20, married woman,

the severni safety devices fitted into house which they have occupied for lins responded favourably to the sug- incident. He expressed the deepest 120, Lat. 10, moving W.N.W. This

first residing worse when the insurgents made a gestion, with the stipulation that the regret for the affair, and the hope to the cast of the Balintang Channel. No. 137 Jaffe Road, first floor, charged the machine. Favourable weather big advance, occupying nearly the

conditions are forecast for the night. a year. The Royal Observatory reports in respect of a girl named Tung Ling- more that the case would not affect the bo

alias

to They were taken Hi Hing, aged 11

The airmen stated that they had whole of Mount Turiarte, the main scope of the Committee

An anticyclone of moderate intensity chau, **friendly relations between China and

Defendants

to land bastion of the loyal defences before clearly defined.

la centred over

pleaded guilty to the received permission

at sidence at Sundby, twenty miles Japan, and a trough į▶

Hendon. They plan to fly ot a south of Oslo, 'where, in accordance Japan-United Press.

of relatively low pressure remains charges, saying that they had come over China Sea, and the Pacific to the know the law.

to Hongkong recently, and did not height of from 15,000 to 10,000 feet, with the Government's decision, they at the edge of the sub-stratosphere will live under the strictest police east of North Luzon. A small depres

The machine being used is a con- supervision.. sion or typhoon has moved rapidly Sub-Inspector H. W. Fraser, of the

verted 8-passenger aeroplane fitted - Trotsky's lawyer. stated that northwestward from the Loochoos S. C. A., sald defendants and the girls

iwith a special 1,000 h.p. engine. It Trotsky Intended to and will probably enter the coast to were all natives of Kwangsi, and had

has been stripped inside to accom- against the Norwegian Communists the north of Wenchow this morning. come to Hongkong quite recently

modate a thousand gallons of petrol and the Fascist National Union Party, Local forecast-East and N.E. winds, owing to the trouble in that province.

enough for about twenty, hours with a view to clearing himself from moderate to fresh; fuir to showery. On September. 1. he received

flying. message from the Wanchal Police Station that three suspected un- registered mut-trais had been brought CHEN IN FRANCE..

| to: the station. The girl, Taul Lau, I slated "that, she had been with her Conton, Sept 3.mployer for three months, having Shanghai, Sept. 3, 7 Contrary to the constant Chinese been sold to defendant's husband for

$70 (Shanghai money). In a closh at Ocotlan, 25 miles south. A typhoon, I expected to strike roporte that Mr. Eugane Chen is in

The giri ment troops They clung to their of here, federal soldiers fought with Shanghai at 0p.B positions under a withering hall of 200 rebels looting a village.

unles Kivangal, Reuter learns to-day that further stated that she had first been the ex-Foreign Minister for China is sold to an old woman for $30, and on machine-gun and rifle fire pr Six of the bandits were slain and

sult in France, and has no intention the death of that woman wch sold to: La Puncha wat: Anally stormed the soldiers lost two of their captain's United

| oz coming to China at present, defendant's husband. Since being (Continued on Page 4): and a sergeant.---United. Preži, 30N EIN

(Continued on Page 4.)

Irun.

It is an undeniable fact that the in Observers on the frontier, believe surgents in Spain are receiving more the Government position is now help than Government forces and ul- desperate, as the capture of the ridge so that Portugal is a corridor for the opens the way to the command of the passage of supplies to the rebel army. .main road from

San-Reuter. Irun to Sebastian.—Reuter. -.

· Fierce Resistance

Hendaye, Sept. 2. Irun is now in a desperate plight. with the insurgents almost on the outskirts of the town and the defen ders driven back from key positions. The defenders at La Puncha offered desperate resistance to the Govern-

STOP PRESS

TROOPS MEET Typhoon Nears

BANDITS

Ouxaca, Sept. 2.0

Shanghai

the coats-alte

Merrill, interviewed by Reuter, accusations-Reuter.

said: "We should be dining in Lon-|

don fifteen hours after leaving Floyd Bennett airport.Reuter.

the

begin a

sult

H. O. TONG RETURNING

A United Press messuge states that sky was overcast when the fliers took off, but favourable weather

Canton, Sept. 3 conditions are expected along the Mr. H. O. Tong, the Bait Adminiy New England const en route to New-tration Commissioner who went to foundland, with tail winds across the North China last week, is bolag, tu Atlantic. The machine, wich is in Canton on September after listļu all-metal monopiane, is called "Lady consulted with Mr. If, KUNG, LIG Ponce."

Finance Minister, Heuters