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FOUNDED 1981 三拜雞號四十月十英港香 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

14, 1936.

No. 15027

REBELS DELAY ATTACK

Seek to

Cut Last

Madrid Railway

HEAVY FIGHTING AT

OVIEDO CONTINUES

London, Oct. 13.

Another day has passed without the opening of the insurgent attack on Madrid, and reports of fresh skirmishes around the Spanish capital indicate that General Francisco Franco, the rebel commander-in- chief, is not ready to order a general advance.

The insurgents now occupy five of the principal sectors running clock-wise around Madrid from the south to the north-east, but it is believed the Madrid- Valencia Railway is still working.

The insurgents claim to have made a further air raid upon Aranjuez Station, a vital junction of the railway.

It appears that the Rightists are hoping to cut this communication before beginning the advance Madrid itself.-Reuter.

Furious Fighting

Rabal, Oct. 13.

An insurgent radio communique asseria that 2,000 Government fight- ing men have been killed in the furl- ous conflet for Oviedo, which the rebels are desperately defending against the attacker of un numy of miners, whose etief weupon dynamite.-Router.

Relief Cut Off

Mudritt, Oct. 13. Violent street fighting continues in Oviedo,

Miners armed with dynamite bomba| -are-fiercely--attacking--the---quarters where the insurgents ure holding out,

A column ut uniners is reported to have checked and inflicted benvy

losses on Moorish reinforcements be- ing sent to the relief of the Oviedo

insurgents---Heuter.

Oviedo Relieved?

MADRID PREPARES TO FACE SIEGE

Courts MARTIAL STILL FUNCTION

Madrit, Oct. 13.

on

HAIMA

DAYS OF TENSION IN SHANGHAI

Fear of hostilities has gripped Shanghai recently since Japanese marines commenced to patrol Chapel and Hongkew. The illustrations show the influx of frightened Chinese to the International Settlement, which the authorities have tried to discourage. Below, Japanese mariner stand with fixed bayonets at key-points of Hongkew, where barbed wire en tanglements have been erected.

HITLER

MAY DROP Rothermere May

Wager Fortune

COLONIES CAMPAIGN.

LEADERS MEET IN

CONCLAVE

Berlin, Oct. 13.

It is believed that Herr Adolf Hitler, Germany's Chancellor, has decided to curtail severely the activities of the German Colonial Association, which has been agitating for the return of the "lost colonies," principally in Africa and now under British

Food rationing, whereby it is hoped to abolish finally the un-mandate. wieldy queues which daily have

The rumour is that he will dissolve waited outside provision stores, the association altogether, but this begins in the capital to-morrow.

is not confirmed.

It is believed that even if dissolya- tion is not announced, the publicity

association will be put virtual cold storage, at least tem-

Durgos, Oct. 13. A new order has been issued under Insurgent circles unofficially

which no house-holder is allowed

of the column has more than one mattress and two claim that a rebri entered Oviedo and established

blankets for ench member of his contact with the defenders of the family, and any excess bedding must porarily.-kenter. elty, hard-pressed by the miners for the use of the militia.

be handed over to the Government

army sent by the Government la blast the rebels from the town will dynamite-Router.

CREDITS TO CHINA RESENTED

JAPAN OPPOSES BRITISH MOVE

Tokyo, Oct. 14. Sharp and critical reaction to the report of Britain export credits for China la noticeable here.

It is declared that no ofetal re- parts have reached the Foreign Office. Nevertheless, I is pointed out that while Japan lung no occasion lo object to a constructive loan "sho has taken objection to the granting of credit of a political nature which will disturb the stabilisation of East Asia anit thereby constitute a menace to the existence of Manchukuo,"

Mr. Yuturo Tomita, director of the Finance Bureau," stated that tho credit to China would probably be used to replenish the China exchange: stabilization fund, though a portion might be used for the importation of British goods,—Reuter,

The burning topic now is the de- tence of the city, which every edition of every newspaper is urging

Courts martial, sitting in every prison in Madrid, continue to func ilon, while another court is to be established to deal with cases of high treason among persons other than military officers.

Twenty-seven persons were sen- tenced death in the People's Court at Albacete for firing at a troop train en route to suppress an Insurgent rising in Hellin..

to

The evacuation of children, mostly orphans of militia-men or the children

of refugees from the surrounding country, continues from Madrid to the coast. Some 600 left Jesterday for Murcia.-Reuter.

Battleships Preferred

To Bombers

London, Oct. 13.

Sir Samuel Hoare, the First > 'Lord of the Admiralty, in a sponch at Edinburgh to-night, revealed that the sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defense, which recently investi- gated the "bomber versus battle-

· ship" controversy, unanimously recommended the retention of capital ships as against the sub- sillution of bomblog planes.

Reuter.

KING LETS FARMS

London, Oct. 13, His Majesty the King is not farm- ing as much as the late King George, and the three farma on the Sandring- trayed men and women, Workers, ham Estate have been lot to tenants, he asserted, should beware the but he is still farming extensively his temptations of Illusory promises offer-

CLOSEST SECRECY

2

In

Berlin, Oct. 13. The closest secrecy, arousing the keenest interest, surrounds the con- ference which Herr Adolf Hitler has called ut Berchtesgaden with his Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Joset Goebbels, and the Ministers of the three fighting services and oiler key men of the Government.

tween Herr. Hitler and his chief

On British-Backed

Race Around Globe

Manila, Oct. 14.

"Bud" Ekins, leading the round-the-world air race, just before he went aboard the Hawaiian Clipper for the trans-Pacific leg of his long flight, sent a message to his paper, the New York World-Telegram, to the effect that Lord Rothermere, who has just left Manila for Hongkong, is interested in the race.

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The World's

Master Tyre

RIVER RAVAGES PHILIPPINES

Scores Are Dead And Hundreds Missing

DYKES BURST UNDER HUGE WEIGHT OF TYPHOON RAIN

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

Manila, Oct. 14, The Arnedo and Agno dykes have collapsed, and the raging Pampanga River is flooding thousands of acres of fertile Central Luzon, adding new deaths to the toll the typhoon has taken and multiplying the enormous property loss. This is the climax of one of the greatest typhoon sieges in recent Philippines history.

Newspapers, through their provincial correspon- dents, have reported that 363 bodies have already been recovered in 16 provinces.

Hundreds of persons are

missing and are feared to have perished.

The numbers of missing cannot be estimated, for

the total is growing hourly as reports from isolated parts of the country reach the capital.

GERMANY HURRIES BUILDING

POWERFUL SHIPS OF WAR

WORKS NIGHT AND DAY

Berlin, Oct. 13. ** German naval re-armament is

proceeding rapidly. The ship yards at Kiel are working night and day.

Ships under construction at Kiel include a 20,000-ton battleship, afster ship to the Scharnhorst, which was launched at Bremes on August 3, and

land type.

He said it was rumoured that the Britisha 10,000-ton battleship of the Deutsch magnate was willing to wager £200,000 that "his newspapers can better any record Eking sets."-United Press..

Leo Kiernan, who arrived in Hongkong 'yesterday on his way! around the world, told the Hongkong) Telegraph that he was not racing against Ekins; and explained why.

"Ekins is not travelling by re-j eugnised passenger route,” he said.

EKINS ON HAWAIIAN

The only hint of the subjects to be "I discussed is contained in the recent planes all the way across Europe, suggestion of a re-building plan for and to Manila. I have travelled on a Berlin, but as the last meeding beleket everywhere along the route." MAKES GOOD TIME advisers preceded the institution of He paid a tribute to the Imperial the two-year military service law Airways. there is now considerable speculation about the possibility of a new campaign for colonies--Reuter But letin Service.

CLIPPER am.. Ekins, chartered ́ Douglas

DISCUSPING POLICY

"The Dutch machines are faster," he said, "but the Imperial Airways carries more freight The, Briüsh pilots are splendid. I particularly admired the navigation of the crow which manned the Dorado; and as a Berlin, Oct. 13..

former commercial pilot myself 1 think I know good flying when i see It is understood that Germany's

it." colonial polley will be discussed at the conference at Berchtesgaden.

It is believed that the conservative

Believes In Caution

IN AIR RACE

WELL

AHEAD

OF RIVALS --

Manila, Oct. 14.

The Hawaiian Clipper departed for Alameda, Cal., and Pacile way On the subject of the safety factor points, at 5.20 am. to-day, with the flying, Kiernan holds strong views. He is opposed to long hours for fly-round-the-world racer "Bud" Eldins ing pilots and a believer in the aboard, while his rivals in this American and British systems, by modern marathon were riding a pro which Bier does abart flights ovCT

group, which favours friendship within Great Britain, has won the day, end, It has been decided not to force the colonial issue too much at present Reuter.

KING'S GIFT TO CHARITY

ANSWERS APPEAL OF VICAR

a familiar route. Iltimately he be-sale steamer from Hongkong to this lleves the world will follow this port in an effort to overtake him. example.

Ife believes that lighter-than-air craft are definitely superior to |heavler-than-air for ocean crossings.

Lost His Bet

It is expected that the 20,000-ton

the end of November, and will likely be christened the Gneisenau.-Kleuter.

vessel will be ready for launching

Surmounting Its crumbling banks, the Pampanga River la engulfing scores of tiny villages. There is no checking the fearful spate; and no escape once a human being is gripped

the swift waters.

in-

The Secretary of the Interior, Scoor Elpidio Quirino, has released funds to aid the stricken regions. -

The damage to agriculture

con- tinues to mount

Several northern provitices are. nlready facing, starvation.

Thousands are reported homeless. At least one steainer has been sunk, but cannot be identified at the moment. Fifteen were saved from the wreck.-United Press..

BRITISH CABINET SHUFFLE FORESEEN

MINISTER'S DEATH RESPONSIBLE

London, Oct. 13. The death of Sir Godfrey

Germans Sent Collins, Secretary of State for

To Prison

SEQUEL OF RIOTS IN LITHUANIA

a

Scotland, creates 2 Cabinet vacancy, and may be the occa- sion of a minor Cabinet re-shuffle, according to political circles.'

It is believed that Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, may be promoted Secretory for Scotland, but It is pointed out that Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister for Juanase, Oct. 13.

Agriculture,

who has had previous experience of the The trial of fourteen Germans, on Offlec, has strong claims for the post. charge of Nazi activities and rioting, Ita Cabinet Minister is appointed has ended.

Secretary for Scotland, It is believed Six of the accused were sentenced that Mr. W. S. Morrison, Financial to eighteen months hard labour, four Secretary to the Treasury, may be. to one year's imprisonment, and the given a Cabinet post. Reuter. others were nequitted.

The trial was the sequel to dis- the House of Commons in 1923, was Mr. Ernest Brown, who entered turbances in the small town of formerly Secretary for Mines, after Jugnaten during the elections to the being Parliamentary Secretary to the Memel Chamber in September, when Ministry of Health. He served in the Germans, protesting that the voting Sportsmen's Battalion in the Great system was unfair so German candi- dates, attacked and injured many

War,

awarded the M.C. ar, and was awa Lithuaniana Reuter Special.

Mr. Walter Elliot, prior to being appointed to his present post, was Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Under-Secretary for Scotland. He served throughout the Great War, and is a member of the Privy Counell, Mr. W. S. Morrison is regarded as one of the.coming men in the Con- servative Party.

CIVIL SERVICE CLERKS

SUBSTANTIAL WAGE

INCREASE

NEW NAVAL PROTOCOL

Miss Dorothy Kilgallen and Leo "A tired man is apt to make Kiernan are Ekins' rivals. They can little slip, and it may be that his not possibly, catch a Clipper out of (reactions) sro, slowed down in a

crisis. That is dangerous," he said. Manila before Friday, when the next

London, Oct. 13. trans-Paclile plane is scheduled to

A wages Incrense for the clerical depart. As a matter of fact the China grades of the Civil Service will result of the Industrini Clipper is not yet bere, having been from the award held up at Wake Island by the same claim of the Civil Service Clerical DEALS WITH UNDER- Court, ahhounced to-day, on the storms which kept London, Oct. 13,

the Hawallan Association for higher maximum wage His Majesty the King has donated Ekins proposed to take the Hawallan Bud Ekins to steal a march on his

Kiernan was a little upset that CHpper in harbour here and allowed rates, trou five hundred shillings towards the sp-Clipper RCTOSS

The new award is estimated to be. the Pacife. He peal issued by the Vicar of St. Mar- understood, he said, that the China competitors.

| |équivalent to an increase "bf. 25 per cent, for the majority of those, affected tin's-in-the-Field, of which he is a Cupper was the Brit plane for the Ekins is due in Alameda on the and ulüiniately. It is understood the parishioner.

regular commercial crossing.

morning of October 20 and therefore increase will apply to about 20,000 The appeal is for a million shilling,

may reach New York the same night maximum to the now will be effected clerks. The change from the old towards continuation of relief for

Special.

...

"I don't think they'll let Eklus oboard, because the Hawaiian Clip-

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SEA WARFARE

London, Oct. 13, A protocol supplementing Part IV of the 1930 London Naval Treaty, and be signed shortly in London by the dealing with submarine warfare, will

and Italian Governments. Rewer,

· 1,200-acre turm in Norfolk, where heel by any Government enticing down-and-out_parishioners-Reuter. per. Is not on the passenger-tarrsin R he makes the fastest possiblo cón” ↑ by aantal Increments ---British Wize British, American & Japanese, French.

no matter

is also raising prize cattle-Reuter how glittering and Special

Reuter

nection.—United Press,