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Hongkong Telegraph

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No. 15017

一拜雞號六廿月十英港香

MONDAY,

OCTOBER

26, 1936.

日二十月九

BINGLE COPY 18 CENTA 130.00 PER ANNUM

CLIPPER DUE ON FRIDAY

Second Trans-Ocean Plane For H.K.

It is authoritatively understood that another of the big Martin Clipper planes-the Hawaiian Clipper- will arrive in Hongkong on Friday this week.

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It will depart for the United States again on Saturday, taking aboard Mr. Juan Trippe, President of Pan-American Airways, and Mrs. Trippe, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Whitney and Senator and Mrs. McAdoo. Mr. and Mrs. Trippe and Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are at present in Shanghai. They are expected to return to Hongkong by C.N.A.C. plane on Thursday evening. Mr. H. Bixby. Far Eastern Manager of Pan-American Air-

ways, will also probably return to WANCHAI

Hongkong by the same C.N.A.C.

*plane.

C.N.A.C. will, it is understood, i inaugurate a regular air mail and

passenger service, connecting Hong-

DEATH

MYSTERY

kong with North China, on Novem- PROBED

ber 5.

The Telegraph learns that it

is unlikely that the Pan-American Police Question

the

Alfaya Cippers will carry air mall from ongkong across Pacific until the beginning of 1937. Air gu can, however, be posted from Hongkong to Manila, and car- ried from there to the United States by Clipper 'plane.

INSURGENT COLUMN CHECKED

FAILS TO CAPTURE EL ESCORIAL

GEN. MANGADA UNBEATEN

Lisbon, Oct. 25.

Soldier

NO CHARGE MADE

A British soldier is still in police custody while investiga- tions into the death of Wong To, a 17-year-old Chinese girl, are proceeding.

SEAFORTHS SPOTTING SNIPERS

This picture, taken before the Palestine crisis was cased by the calling off of the strike, shows a Lewis gunner of the 1st. Battalion of the Scaforth Highlanders, supported by riflemen and a "spotter," rak- ing the hillside for wipers overlooking the: Nablus road, Jerusalem. The Seaforths are due in Hongkong, early in January.

REFUSAL TO FREE HOSTAGES

MADRID REJECTS BRITISH SCHEME

Madrid, Oct. 25,

The British Government's appent] to both skles in the Spanish "civil wor to release all political hostages, who

ure naturally exposed to reprisals, has met with a disappointing recep-

Lion.

BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION

ONE KILLED DURING SHARP SKIRMISH WITH STRONG ARAB FORCE

Jeruzalem, Oct. 25,

BALKAN ENTENTE DEFENCE

CHIEFS OF STAFF PLAN PARLEY

DUNLOP FORT 90'

This the conditions pre duced by increat

car efficiency.

FRENCHMEN

AIR

THREE

ON

MARATHON

PLANES LEAVE

PARIS FOR SAIGON

Paris, Oct. 25. The three planes participating in the longest aerial marathon ever attempted, manned by some of the greatest fliers in France, took off on their long grind from Paris tó Saigon, and back, at dawn to-day.

The planes took the air from Le Bourget, Challe and Bril were first up, racing down the run- way and climbing steeply to be clocked away at & p.m. Two minutes later Arnoux and Japy were following,

At 6.94 a.m. Michel Detroyat and Darmont took off. Detroyat is the man who recently set a new speed record at the great Cleveland air meet and carried off the principal trophy of the competition.

BELGIAN DISORDER AVOIDED

MINISTER TELLS OF ARMY'S NEED

DANGER FROM FASCISM

Brussels, Oct. 25. Casualties in to-day's political

Bucharest, Oct. 25. The Chiefs of Staff of the Balkan. Entente, which comprises the Governments of Rumania, . Yugó- One British soldier was killed and Slavin, Greece and Turkey, will meet demonstrations, which it was two were wounded in a sharp skir- well-informed quarters.

here on November 3, according to mish with a strong band of well-

feured at one stage might be armed Arabs, last night,

Each of the four will be accom- serious, were very few. A The fight occurred at Wadi Sherar,panied by assistants and technicians Socialist was shot in the leg by The Spanish Government, through | north-east of Nablus, according to a It is reported from military its Foreign Minister, has delivered a report which has not yet been con-source that the object of the meeting a Rexist, and two policemen were note to His Majesty's Embassy say- nemed.

Is to lay, the foundation of a defen- The girl was found in a nude in that liberation of polliical A number of Arabs were taken sive bloc in which the parties will taken to hospital with slight condition plnost dead, on the pave-prisoners in the present circumstances prisoner, but there were also a num agree that if any one of them is

would amount to helping the insux- ber of Arab casualties. These are attacked the others will come to its injuries. ment outside No. 79 Jaffe Road: al

gents.—Reuter. Special.

not yet known-Reuter.

aid immediately.-Reuter.

8,30

Saturday cin

night.

Hvod

Boor of on the second house, from a window of which she had obviously fallen or been thrown.

She this

A soldier in uniform was in the vicinity arul, a huge crowd gathered round him while police whistles i were blown.

The soldier was taken by a police- An insurgent column led by man to the Central Poller Station General Vallez, which advanced where he was questioned.

from Pegnerinds six miles from In the meantime, the girl was El Escorial yesterday, intending rushed to the Government Civil

to capture El Escorial, has been Hospital, where she died.

beaten back, according to a report A post martem examination from the insurgent rebel strong the body was ordered by the police. hold of Avila, having encountered

a strongly entrenched Government force commanded by General Mangada.

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It is revented that the man detain- ed is # private a regiment here. No charge has been made against him, but he is still in police custody. It is possible' be may be

General Mangada is reputed to handed over to the military authorit- be the ablest of, the Government's ¦ jes. commanders, and his troop, num- bering 6,000, have not yet been dr. feated.-Reuter.

PLANES DESTROYED

·Lisbon, Opl. 25.

An amah who was on the same door as the dead girl, has made a rather disjointed statement, which does not clarify the ease, She states that at the time of the affair. there were two Europeans on the floor, one uniform. The amah was in kitchen when she saw the girl going towards the verandah.

NO EYE-WITNESSES

the

Two airships, moored in the aero- civilian_clothes and the other in drome at Madrid and ready to take the Spanish Government to safely as soon as the final attack on the capital was bogun, have been destroyed- by insurgent planes, according to a des- patch reaching the Dlarlo de Lisboa. The amnh could only say that one The insurgent pinnes also claim to of the men wore a uniform but could have brought down in flames a giant not say what kind of a uniform it bomber_sighted flying in the direc- was.. tion of Burgos, to-day.

It was presumed that this machine Intended to attack the insurgent headquarters-Reuter Special.

MALICIOUS INVENTION

SOVIET DENIES ARMS SENT TO SPAIN

EUROPEAN KILLED IN HEAD-ON.

A

COLLISION ON MT. DAVIS ROAD

-Photo by Ming Yuen.

П The Vauxhall car presented

tragic collision between a and struck Mr. Bruusgaard in the, The soldier held by the police was private motor-car and a motor-lorry, cheat and abdomen, causing serious completely smashed appearance. seen outside the house but at the resulting in the European driver of internal injuries.

The whole of the right side Was moment there are no eye-witnesses the car being killed, occurred on the to say who left the house or how the Mount Davis Road about 1.15 p.m. Mr. Druusgaard was found gravely damaged for three-quarters of its girl fell from the verandah. From on Saturday. The car was com-Injured in the car by Commander The disturbed nature of thepletely smashed, while the lorry was Customs, who was driving some way was badly bent, and the front wheels Finesen, of the Chinese Maritime length. The right front mudguard Nower pots on the verandal, also, extensively damaged. conjecture has been formed that the girl was trying to get from her vérandali to the verandah of the next house and in so doing lost her hold and fell

behind Mr. Bruusgaard, and who re- and axle were pushed almost under- The driver of the car, a Vauxhall -mained with him whlist two Ger- neath the engine. Strange though it saloon, No. 746 was Mr. Odd Bruus- mans, who alighted from an oncom- may seem, the radiator and front but the guard, Manager of Messrs. Thoresen Ing bus, telephoned to the police, the lights remained intact, and Company, A well-known ambulance and Mrs. Bruusgaard, bonnet was lifted clean off the body,

Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Bruus- and its left side was missing. Norwegian firm.

gaard was rushed to the Government

He was returning to his home in Civil Hospital, but he succumbed to The running board and right front Felix Villas via Mount Davis Road. his injuries before reaching the in-door of the car was a twisted mass which forks from the Island Road stitution.- at Pokfulam. Details are not

very

"There were 200 arrests, mostly of persons refusing to "move on."-Reuter.

DAY PASSES QUIETLY

Brussels, Oct. 25, The day passed off quietly. Up to to-night there has only been one shot Bred, outside the Sociallst Party headquarters, which wounded a boy In the leg.

M. Van der Velde, the Minister of Health and leader of the Belgian Labour Party, In a speech at the Belgian Labour Congress to-day, ré- ferred to the necessity of strengthen- ing Belgium's army.

Nothing, said the Minister, was ever, clearer than the need for rein- forcing the Belgian army. Since Hitler's troops were at their frontier everyone was convinced that the nation muşt be armed against Fascism from the outside.

Belgium's foreign policy was un- changed, M. dan der Velde continued. Neutrality, was impossible for a state that adhered to the League of Nations.

With regard to the Nexists, the Minister reiterated that the workers would not tolerate that the Govern- ment should be subjected to Fascism pressure.-Reuter Special.

Joining Italo- German Circle

YUGO-SLAVIA TAKES DECISION

of

Belgrade, Oct. 25.

Well-informed circles here state that Yugo-Slavin's Government with shortly announce recognition | Italy's occupation of Ethiopia, which would signify Yugo-Slavia's entry Into the Italo-German sphere of in- Bluence-Reuter,

Challe and Bril were compelled to return with slight engine trouble, but they left again at 8.33 a.m-Reuter. Make Fast Time

Athens, Oct. 25. Arnoux and Jopy, after a brief halt here, took off again at 6,50 p.m2. heading for Baghdad.

Detroynt and Darmont are reported down in a forced landing at Corinth, due to a shortage of fuel. The plané ' was not damaged, however. They are due to reach Tatol to-morrow Reuter,

Out Of Contest

Paris, Oct. 25.

The three competing planes in the Paris-Saigon air race roared into the and a few minutes past 0 o'clock all dawn sky from Le Bourget to-day were lost to view,

An hour later Challe and Bril re- their turned for adjustments to motors and left again at 8.33 a.m.

Bad luck followed Challe und Bril. They landed at Lyons at 4.29 p.m. and took off ogain after making fur- ther adjustments to their engine, eventually reaching Turin. Here they decided to abandon their fight owing to continued-trouble with their lubrication system.-Reuter,

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NEW GERMAN AMBASSADOR

VON RIBBENTROP FOR LONDON

Berlin, Oct. 25. Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop left for London to-day to take up his appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

He is one of Germany's most dis- tinguished diplomatists and enjoys a world-wide reputation Buch- Reuter

P. & O. LINERS SCHEDULE CHANGES

NOTIFIED

The Agents of the P. & OSN. Co, announce the following altera- tions in their programme of sullings: The ss. Carthage la now pro- grammed to leave Hongkong for Europe on Saturday, November 14, and s,s. Ranchi is intended to leave Hongkong for Europe, via Bombay, on Saturday, November 20.

Passers-by were horrified to hear aud and find the body of the girl at their feet. They went up to

of steel work, and the rear door was render ald but the girl was obviously In a dying condition and her head

in shreds. The seat next to the |had been badly smashed.

clear, but it appears that at the A coolle, Lam On, who was slt- driver in front was forced back Moscow, Oct. 24.

Junction, the lorry, No. 3287, belong- ting/baldo the driver on the lorry, about a foot, while the back seats Police whistles were sounded ing to the Shing Mun Store, and was also admitted to the Hospital, knocked right up into Tass news agency is authorised to continuously and a large erowd driven by Ho Tin met Mr suffering from injuries to his right

position. Most of the enlegorically deny as a "malicious gathered round the scene. Their Bruusgaard's cor and the latter was side and head. Ho Tin himself struments on the dash-board

· DESTROYERS ON EXERCISES Invention" the report circulated that attention was directed to the soldier involved in a head-on collision.

esenped with

The Carthago is expected to arrive very slight Injuries, wrecked, and the windscreen the Norwegian; ship Bjoernocy, with who

Been in the vicinity

Tho

lony was stated to have been shattered, as was most of the glass "Three destroyers left harbour this here from Singapore about noon on a cargo of arms and ammunition, and they followed him, demanding of The force of the impact was so proceeding towards the new Queen in. the car, except in the rear part morning at 9 a.m., on exercises and Wednesday, November 28, and will salled from a Soviet Bülle port for a polleman who came up that he be severe that the steering wheel of the Mary Hospital in Pokfulam from The hood was ripped and twisted, H.M. Kent yesterday flew the probably leave for Shanghai and

private car was forced right back, Kennedy Town.

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