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FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18,

FOUNDED RE 五拜 號八十月二十英港香·

No. 16884

BRITAIN WILL NOT SCRAP OLD CRUISERS United States and Japan Officially Informed

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION

REASON FOR DECISION

London, Dec. 17.

Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Commons to-night that Great Britain would officially intimate to the United States and Japan her. intention of retaining five over-age cruisers, under Article 21 of the London Naval, Treaty.

In view of the deterioration of the general inter- national situation, said Sir Samuel, this was obviously not the moment at which any power could wish to scrap serviceable vessels and His Majesty's Government, therefore, was exchanging views in this matter with the United States and Japan.

The United States had intimated that if Great Britain decided to retain these vessels on the grounds that the nation's security necessitated such action, no objection would be raised by Washington.

There was reason to belleve, Sir; Samuel added, that Japon's reply would also be lavourable. The First Lord expressed appreciation the sympathetic and helpful titude adupted by the United Stules and Japan.

of

at-

the

Reuter learns that the over-age éruisers to be retained are Cardin and Cores, completed in 1917,

CORONATION DATE FIXED ; UNCHANCED

the Caledon, Calyso and Cardoc. PROCLAMATION TO

Reuter,

Morale Unshaken

Madrid, Dee, 17,

The morale of the citizens of Mad- rld remains unshaken and they are preparing to bury an estimated total, of 50 dead and treat 300 injured, vic- tims of yesterday's air raids..

A dense fog is hompering efforts of¦ searchers in the wreckage of two apartment houses where 50 persons were trapped and are believed to be

dead.

BE MADE SATURDAY

EDEN VISITS-

MONARCH

London, Dec. 17.

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1936.

BKMA-+ SINGLE CORY 10 CENTS

$36.00 PER ANNUM

EXPLODED CHIANG'S

DUNLOP

TYRES

make every road

a SAFER road

TALE OF MURDER

PRIVATE SOURCES DISCLOSE NEWS OF LEADER'S SAFETY

Rumours abroad yesterday that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek had been executed by his captors in Sianfu were definitely exploded last night and this morning when private, but entirely reliable sources, revealed the fact that Nanking had conclusive proof that the Generalis- simo still lived, and in fact was in splendid health.

Another well-informed quarter here has been informed that Mr. T. V. Soong, former Finance Minister, President of the Bank of China and brother-in-law of Marshal Chiang, has already flown to Sianfu for conferences with Chang Hsueh-liang, chief of the northern rebels.

It was stated yesterday, by Reuter, that Mr. Soong expected to fly to Loyang at once, to interview Mr. W. H.

CANADIANS Donald, Marshal Chiang's adviser, and possibly to proceed

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WANT EDWARD AS KING

Their homes destroyed, their parents often separated from them, food and friendliness. Here, infantrymen of General Franco's army these pathetic little people of Med rid come to the rebel invaders foVANCOUVER ISLAND are sharing their rations with the children. To-morrow they may be trading akota or bayonet thrusts to ith the fathers of these four.

MADRID ON ALL

BESET SIDES

SECESSION MOVE OLD QUARREL OF ISLANDERS

Victoria, B.C., Dec. 17. Residents of Victoria, capital

of British Columbin, and famed

as the "most English city outside

·England,” have formed the Van- couver Island Provincial Asso-

RESCUE GANGS SEARCH FOR eintion, with the avowed object

BURIED RAID VICTIMS

Madrid, Dec. 17.

Strong pressure by insurgent forces-has been exerted in all sectors of the Madrid front for the past 24 hours, according to a Defence Committee communique..

The date of the Coronation of king George VI-May 12 next

The loyalist headquarters believes this big offensive year-will be proclaimed on has been launched in order to occupy Saturday afternoon with heral- Government troops

as many The Defence Committee has order die pageantry at St. James attacks continue around Boadilla del Monte.

as possible while the insurgent ed searchlights manned at every post and sentries are doubled against a Palace, Charing Cross, Temple surprise rebel attack.

Meanwhile,

Bar and the Royal Exchange.

Although the rebels, in an official announcement, told rescue squads all last night and continued to-day to To-day. His Majesty work in the wreckage of the deaudience to the Secretary of State for Government lines beyond it yesterday, the Government of the capture of Boadilla and the penetration of the solated suburbs of Tetum de lur Foreign Affairs, Mr. Anthony Eden, still maintains that its army presents an impenetrable

Vitoring, where whole blocks

dug

apartments were wiped out in the war's fiercest air ruid. The Govern- ment, however, claims to have shot down four rebel pursuit planes and one big bomber,

Kave 137

since the King's Accession and re front. who was received for the first time

the Palace for about

mained at half-an-hour.

The Proclamation of King George's It is reported that Bondillo del Coronation at St. James Palace will Monte and Majadahonda are in com- be broadcast to the Empire by plate suin.-United Press.

Pilots Training

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Valencia, Dec. 17. It is reliably stated that hundreds of young Spaniards are at the moment training as aviators in European cen- fres and that they will shortly return to form the nucleus of a loyal air force with which the Government hopes to overcome the attacking ing units.-United Press.

Britain's Warning

London, Dec. 17.

Daventry,

The broadcast, which will be re- layed by ZBW, will be heard in Time on Saturday, and will be carried Hongkong at 10.25 p.m. Hongkong out in Transmission 111.

It will be heard through the following Daventry transmitters:

GSH 13.07 metres; 21,470 k.e. 21.4

Dial Setting

GSF 19.82 metres; 15,140 kc. 15.1 GSB 31.55 metres; 9,510 k.c

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, to-day Informed the House of Commons that five Bri- tish cruisers, scheduled for scrapping under the naval treatles, will be re- tained in service because "this is no " time to scrap serviceable, vessels."

The announcement

is regarded as a further warning that Britain intends to build defence forces adequate to cope with

any attack.

NEUTRALITY PRECAUTION

9.5

Moreover, says the Defence Com- mittee, five of the ralding rebel but not a single Government machine planes were brought down yesterday,

was lost-Reuter,

Pickets Beat Workers

BLUM STILL FACES STRIKE PROBLEM

Paris, Dec. 10.

a

AIRLINER

CRASHED IN STORM

APPARENTLY DOWN IN DEEP FOREST.

of seceding from the Dominion of Canada.

The sponsors of this scheme admit-they-are-considering i establishing a monarchy, to be ruled by the Duke of Windsor, with Mrs. Ernest Simpson as his

Queen.-United Press.

in

Victoria, although the capitul British Columbia, is situated on the southermost extremity of Vancouver Island, large, fertile but sparacly and boasting scenery, populated, sports and climate among the finest the world. Originally known as Fort Camosun, the city was establish- ed in the Hudson's Bay Company's Empire-building Queen. continental railways and the develop early days in the West, and named Before the coming of the trans- Victoria was the most prosperous ment of the mainland Industrially.

and progressive city in the North- west.

to Sianfu. He has apparently conformed to this schedule, and has even accelerated it.

Meanwhile, from Nanking, comes the report that General Chiang Ting-wen, Pacification Commissioner of Fukien, who was a captive with Marshal Chiang but has now been released, has telephoned to assure the Central Government of the Marshal's safety. He called from Loyang, where he has been delayed by bad weather. He hopes to reach Nanking to-day and make a full report.

Peace Talks

To

Turn Trade Pacts

Buenos Aires. Dec. 17. The Pan-American Peace Con- ference took on a new aspect to-day, when moves towards a clarification and unification of the direction of economic policy _on_the_two American cantinenta were unexpectedly discussed. --Reuter.

END OF STRIKE SIGHTED

SEAMEN'S LEADERS-

SATISFIED

PUTTING VOTE TO UNIONS

San Francisco, Dec, 17.

With Vancouver's mushroom growth, however, the Island city has had to be content with income from tourists and the revenue of stunted Mr. Harry Landeberg, Secretary of industries, and the Islanders have the Satlors' Union on, the Pacific long felt that they bear too heavy

a

share of provincial taxation, largely Coast, to-day intimated that agree- needed for the development of Van-ments had been reached on couver's hinterland. For this reason

all

and

the idea of secession has long been major points, including wages popular in certain sections.

working hours, in discussions for the settlement of the shipping strike.

all of Was

Previously the talk making the Island a separate pro- The agreements, however, concern vince, Dominion or Crown Colony, only sailors and marine fremen, he It is self-supporting. This is the explained. first time that the proposal of а Mr. Lundeberg is prepared to pre-

Ed.

NO HOPE FOR monarchy has been put forward.sent a tentative agreement to the

7 OCCUPANTS

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Salt Lake City, Dec. 17.

ANGLO-SPANISH

The Executive Committee of the Radical Socialist Party passed resolution of approval of the Prime Minister's foreign and home policies,

The Western Air Express liner, nt a meeting last night,

But Premier Leon Blum's troubles bound from Los Angeles to Chicago

FRANCE TO PREVENT are all with him at home. The with four passengers and a crew of

MARCH TO SPAIN

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Traces of broken trees and wheels,

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TRADE HURT

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Mfr. Donald, who has been acting as mediator between the Young Mar ghal. Chang, and the Narking Gov- ernment,, is remaining in Sianfu, says a Reuter message from Nunking, "to keep Marshel Chiang company","

But Reuter messages from North China this morning were held up by censors, and all news out of the trouble aren is being delayed. Al- though it was thought that by to-day The Central Government's army might have struck a decisive bloty against the rebels, there is no word of any such development. Private sources, usually well-informed, are without Inforination of any sort. They com- plan of the strict censorship.

TROOP MOVEMENTS

Nanking, Dec. 18. Scouting planes report large move- ments of Chang Hsuch-lang's troops In Lochuan, Sanyuan and Kuyuan- Brcas.

Despite the hope that mediation may be successful, the Government is speeding its plans for an offensive, following General Ho Ying-ching's assumption of the supreme command of the army last night.-United Press.

'EMPIRE FLYING FLEET

NO LIMIT TO SIZE OF CRAFT

London, Dec. 17. Two of the flying bouts of the Empire ileet being built by the Short intended for long-range flights. Company for Imperial Airways are

The Arst of these crafts, now at Southampton, is being prepared for long-distance trials. It is equipped with a fuel capacity, and at cruising speed of tanis of 2,320 gallons 100 miles an

bour its attainable. range in still air is 3,300 miles. The crew number three and the commer- cial load consists of 1,000 pounds. There is no passenger accommoda-" tion in this craft.

union members to-morrow,

The Chiel Designer of the Short For some days past, Mr. Lunde- Company, in a recent public lecture, berg and unton representatives have maintained that no limit to the size been in close conference with em- of civil flying boats is yet Insight, ployers, under the eye of Mr. F. W. and predicted the early appearance McGrady, of the Department of of craft of twice or four times the Labour. Mr. McGrady has been weight of those of the Empire fleet., predicting a settlement of this sort-British Wireless.: for a week, but has warned against

too much optimism.-Reuter,

GOVERNORS OF

B.B.C. NAMED

atrike situation, Is stiil menacing, three aboard, has crashed in a snow- CLEARING PROCEDURE Three employees of a metal works, bound forest, it is now believed: who attempted to go back to their There is no hope held for lis'occu-

NOW SUSPENDED jobs, Before Sir Samuel spoke, reliable

were badly beaten by 300 Eources revealed

Parts, Dec. 17: that Britain hud

strikers, who picketed the factory, pants.

London, Dec. 17. developed a new fourteen-fnch gun

All metal works, in Faris are guarded The French Government has taken by these more efficient than any other navy's measures to check the enrolment of

New arrangements, in consequence pickets.

have been found in the snow of the financial disturbances caused sixicen-inch weapons. These guns miners as volunteers in the Spanish evacuate the buildings themselves on the fringe of the deep forest near by the Spanish civil war, have had to

however, have agreed to Strikers, will be used in the two new 35,000-Government army and also to pre-pending a settlement of their dispute Milford, Utah, where the plane was

be made in Anglo-Spanish trade ton battleships, the King George the vent the mass organisation of de- with Fifth and the Prince Edward, con partures'

employers-Reuter Bulletin last seen in the early morning of spheres, explained Dr. Edward Eur- SIR IAN FRASER, M.P. struction on which starts in January.

gin. Parliamentury Under-Secretary December 15, fighting through a

of the Board of Trade, spooking at

AND J.J. MALLON storm and a low altitude.

question time in the House of Com- mons to-night.

Details Kept Secret

It is reported that the now.gun will Bro a shell weighing 2,010. pounds, at a rate of one overy, 40 seconds.

of volunteers, announced. Renter

It

Is Service.

FACTORIES BILL

London, Dec. 17. also 25 tons lighter The Home Secretary

informed the than the present fourteen-inch gun, House of Commons that lie hoped to permitting the utilisation of 200 tons Introduce the Factories Bill shortly

(Continued on Page 12.)

after Christmas-British Wireless,,

The ploea.

U.S. VETERAN DIES.

Everything points to the fact that the plane plunged among the trees.

Washington, Dec. 17. Brigadier Patrick W. Guinney, 50, A search has been instituted, but assistant Army Quartermaster without hope of finding the plane's General and veteran of the Boxer rebellion, the Philippines Insurrec killed in the crash they would have occupants alive, as if they were not tion and the World War, died to- died of exposure-Reuter Bulletin day,United Press.

Service.

London, Dec. 17.

Broad

MEDITERRANEAN AGREEMENT.

ANGLO-ITALIAN TALKS PROCEEDING

London, Dec. 17.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony He said, both

Sir Ian Fraser, M.F., and Mr. James Fen; asked in the House of Com- the British nad Spanish Governments had agreed Joseph Mallon, have been appointed us about a Mediterranean under- standing, replied that an exchange Governors of the British upon a suspension of clearing pro

of views is proceeding between lis cedure, under the Anglo-Spanish

casting Corporation,

Majesty'a Government and the Sir Ion, one of the most popular Italian Government, but he would Payments Agreement:

members of the House, is blind, and not be in a position to make any cise caution in arranging for exports sufferers in wireless experimentas Friday for Christmas recess Britials Dr. Burgin warned traders to exer- has done brilliant work for fellow-statement before the House rose on to Spain Reuter

- tion.-Reuter,

Wireless