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FINAL EDITION

Supreme Cóny

Hongkong Telegraph.

No. 15101

FOUNDED 183!

五拜禮 號八月正英港香 FRIDAY, JANUARY

1937.

日六廿月一十

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS

$16.00 PER ANNUM

H. K. TRACING MYSTERY

BRITISH SHIP THE SEAFORTHS IN HONGKONG

FEARED IN GRAVE PERIL Distress Signal Heard By Press Operator

CALL SUDDENLY INTERRUPT- ED: PIRACY SUSPECTED SOMEWHERE in the Pacific Ocean, possibly in

the vicinity of Hongkong, a British ship is believed to be in urgent need of assistance.

Radio traffic has ceased on the 600 metre band while coastal stations from Shanghai to Singapore are endeavouring to trace the source- of a mystery S.O.S., broadcast at 10.28 a.m.

The S.O.S. was heard by Mr. G. E. Baxter, veteran Marconi operator in charge of the United Press Association receiving station in Kowloon. "I was preparing to copy press traffic from the United Press transmitting station in San Francisco when I heard the distress call," said Mr. Baxter.

"The call was quite distinct. The operator said: 'S.O.S., S.O.S., ¡S.O.S., 'de GLAM. In Distress. Please

Men of the 1st Battalion of The Seaforth Highlanders are here seen just after coming ashore on their arrival on Tuesday. The Battalion came direct from active service in Palestine, where a number of casualties were

suffered. (Photo: Kwong Lam Studio):

NEW

ATTACK

ON MADRID

Send Assistance, Lat. "The signals then abruptly Germans and Moors In

ended."

Mr. Baxter added that the ship ap- peared to be broadcasting on its emergency uppdralues. Its note was ragged and signals

quite were -wobbly

The letters "GLAM" are identifica- tion letters,, allotted to ships by the International Burenu and are for the same purpose. s ure the letters "ZBW" for the local broadensting station.

The initial letter "G" signifies that the ship British, with its part of registry in the British Isles.

H. K. Telegraph enquiries indicate that no British ship has been listed as possessing the

call-sign "GLAM"

for

Noval

its wireless station. Neither

nor local

raulo authorities

heard the mystery SOS at 10,28 .m. The Telegraph infomed the Redio

authorities that

an SOS message

INDIAN YOUTHS VANISH

PARENTS FEAR KIDNAPPING

POLICE HUNT FRUITLESS

been heard, and immediately after THREE Indian schoolboys

wards the local Coast Station at Cape

nged about 14-have the en-

success.

Determined Offensive

Madrid, Jan. 7.

The suggestion that the fight for the capital is entering a critical stage is contained in a communique issued by the Madrid Defence Council.

It states that the battle which began yesterday in the sector of Pozuelo de Alarcon, El Plantio and Las Rozas, continued throughout the night. German and Moroccan troops, supported by a large number of tanks strongly pressed the Government lines, it is admitted.

Government troops, however, were strongly entrenched and fiercely resisted. The defence

was

QUAKE SHAKES ENTIRE WORLD

Hongkong Places Centre-in Tibet

An earthquake which shook

the entire world occurred last night, less than 1,300 miles |from Hongkong.

violent tremors that lasted for two Berkeley, in California, reported hours.

DUNLOP FORT This new remonts 90

66 SOS"?

GERMANY AND

ITALY OPPOSE

INTERVENTION But Will Not Tolerate One-Sided Restriction

DIRECT OR INDIRECT AID TO SPAIN MUST BE BANNED

London, January 7.

The German and Italian replies to the Anglo-French proposals concerning restriction of intervention in the Spanish civil war, have been received. Both Italy and Germany agree to co-operate, provided that other participating nations adopt the same attitude, that the question of indirect intervention is tackled immediately, and that all participating Governments agree to un- conditional, effective control on the spot of all prohibitions agreed to.-Reuter.

THREE

CONDITIONS

Berlin, Jan. 7. The German reply to the Anglo-French proposals for the preservation of neutrality in Spain, makes three conditions to co-operation in further non-intervention efforts. The first condition is that other participating nations should adopt the same attitude; the second, that the question of indirect intervention shall immediately be tackled; and the third, that all participating Govern-

ments shall agree to unconditional, effective control of prohibitions to be agreed upon, such control to be carried out-on-the-spot.

The German reply also urges the advisability of removing from Spain all non-Spanish participants in the civil war, including "political agitators and propa- gandists."

ed seismographic observations that showed the earthquake to be one of

Denver City, in Colorado, report- DEAD MAN

MAY BE

the most destructive since the Tokyo horror.

Severe shocks were also recorded MURDERER

D'Aguitar broadcast a general call tire police force of Hongkong effective, it is claimed, and the insurgent losses very Observatory in Hongkong to all ships, requesting information. searching for them, but without heavy, especially in the neighbourhood of Las Rozas.

A constant watch being main- tained on 600 metres, both at D'Aguilar and the Naval Station at Living in widely separated Stonecutters Island, but complete parts of the Colony, they left silence has reigned since 10.28 a.m.

Cupe

Piracy Suspected inquiries at the Naval Yard

elicited the Informollon that the theory of piracy is being explored by the authorities. The fact that the mysterious message waIS cut short Just when the position of the ship was to be given, favours this, sus- picion.

Moreover, weather conditions In the vicinity of this Colony make it. unlikely that any ship should be in serious difficulties through ordinary couses,

An appeal to speed up the evacuation of the civil which recorded a maxi population of Madrid has been launched through all their homes shortly before 8 Government newspapers. a.m..yesterday for their various

they schools. Since then

vanished.

The three boys are

have

Major Carlos, Political Commissar of the Fifth Battalion, urges that a single command is now necessary to meet the situation and emphasises the importance of Sham Singh, a Queen's Collece evacuating the women and children and all who are

unable to serve directly or indirectly in the struggle

schoolboy;

Hari Singh, un Ellis Kadoorie

schoolboy; and

Kartar Singh, an Ellis Kadoorie schoolboy.

Keuter.

Franco's Communique

The boys are unrelated. One lives The following official communique

at the Douglass Sleanship Wharf, from General Francisco Franco, in-

Had the vessel been in danger another at the Sikh Temple in Gap surgent leader, was received in from fire, a message would almost Road and the third at the Taiwan Hongkong to-dur, broadcast from certainly have been despatched Bank.

carlier.

MOVE TO

PROTECT

THE YEN

JAPANESE TAKING

PRECAUTIONS

RHAM SINGH

abouts.

Tenerife:

When they left) "On the Huesca front the Nallon their homes. yes-alists have repulsed a heavy attack terday

morning, by the Reds. Lic three boya

"A great attack is proceeding on wore turbans. the Madrid front and the rebels have Although un-occupied Las Rozas, el Portilla and related, they are other positions. Heavy casualties said to be firm have been suffered, though the exact friends, and it is number in not known."

possible that they

lave made Д Steamer Stopped youthful pact to

"travel."

Their fear,

SHENSI TROUBLE RECURS

REBELS RESENT DISCIPLINE

POLICE ON TRACK OF BRUTAL CRIME CLUE OF A £5 NOTE

London, Jan, 8. A "fiver" passed across the

Germany exprezrys ustunishment that Britalo and France are 'appeal-- ing directly to the Governments re- presented on the Non-Intervention Committee, which is at present dis-

the cussing prohibition of foreign Volunteers entering

Germany says that if it loved that Commitce method is inadequate then it would be better to refrain from continuance of that system.

and

Italy

the

Germany, from the beginning, demanded the probibition

[ of values for Spain, but Britain

and

declined to act, the Ger- man reply recalls. It is suggested,

that

prohibition of: volunteers might result in one-sided support

by

London. in seismographs Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The amplitude of the first wave, which was received at the Royal at 9.25 p.m., was so severe that it was be- yond the scope of the seismogriph, a maximum ampli- tude of 100 millimetres.

against General Francisco Franco Observations place the epicentre of

and the Nationalist elements, which the earthquake somewhere in Tibet,

would benent only the Bolshevik 1,275 miles north-west of Hongkong...

party in Spain, which has obviously The intensity was approximately Furce

11, as

compared with the counter of a Glasgow store dur- been sufficiently strengthened by But Germany is maximum Intensity of Force 12 Ing Christmas week has led to foreign volunts.

willing.

it is sessed, to support all the solution of a crime which measures to prevent the stream of recorded in the Tokyo earthquake,

Tibet, fortunately, in not thickly baffled police for more than five volunteers entering Spain in the ex- populated. The total population is

pectation that all possibilities of only 3,722,011, giving a density of 8 years. to the square mile.

On August 12, 1931, Mr. Robert direct and indirect intervention in A large number, of the people live Donald, in sole charge of the Clyde the Spanish war will be finally ex-

cluded. in the capital, Lhasa, near where the bank, was found shot dead, his body

*Alternative carthquake must have occurred, and brutally battered. He had been It is feared that there may be heavyalain at point-blank range. A total loss of live here.

of £1,525 had disappeared. Tibet.is about twice the size of Police suspected that the mur- France. It is a quasi-independent derer was an emigrant returned' part of the Chinese Republic.

(Continued on Page 4.)

PRINCESS JULIANA OMITS

PROMISE TO "OBEY” ·

The Hague, Jan. 7.

After laying down the conditions mentioned above, the German reply adds that if no agreement is possible on the matter of prevention of other forms of indirect intervention, then Germany reserves the right to re- examine her attitude with regard to volunteers.

The German News Agency states that the German reply was drafted in agreement with the Italian Gove ernment, which is simultaneously giving a corresponding answer to the British and. French request for an ex- planation of attitude with respect to the Spanish war-Router.

Reply Forecast

Berlin, Jan. 7. The terms of the German reply to the Anglo-French appeal for a non- intervention pact, which are to be handed over to-night to the Am- bassadors

concerned, are predicted well-informed quarters. They will express Germany's readiness to pre

It is noteworthy. that the pledge by the bride to be SWIFT MOVE

"obedient" was omitted from the marriage service at the wedding Gibraltar, Jan. 7.- The Norwegian steamer Ibis was

BY NANKING of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld. parents

Straits of Gibraltar however, I stopped in the

On their return to the Palace in the resort near

Innsbruck, travelling that they may this afternoon by a Spanish Insur

Nanking, Jan. 8... afternoon, the couple appeared for a thither in a special car attached to have been kid- Kent gunboat and was compelled to

Tho

few minutes on the balcony and an express train.-Reuter Special. proceed to the Insurgent port of

Central Government nopped, and 3

acknowledged the wild cheering of STORY-BOOK ATMOSPHERE Tokyo, Jan. 8. small reward has been offered for Algeciras where her papers and cargo troops which have been with the huge crowd, which refused to be

were inspected by the authorities.

The Hague, Jan. 7, Arising from the recent weakness information regarding their where-

from drawing The Ibis came from the insurgent Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's

Shonst since dispersed until the mounted police

Princess Juliana, made radiant of the yen, the Finance Ministry, at

were called. port of Huelva and was bound for Janse last month, have been i Familles attended a banquet at the velvet, with a glittering tlará and a Spain, but will raise the question' of ", pubished an ordinance,

Members midnight

of both the Royal bride. She wore à gown of white [vent, further volunteers going to Medicrranean points.-Reuter, effective at once, enforcer May, and the new ordinance, which

ordered to return to the troubled Palace in the evening, while the bracelet containing 2,700 diamonds, those already there, it import control by the offelal

French Steamer Stopped province immediately. is sald to be a temporary one, is

belleved. whole ceremony had a story Duke of Kent, the Earl and Countess book aimosphere, with golden and sideration of the question of gold. Germany will also ask for con- ing of

of foreign exchange transactions.

scheduled for withdrawal on July 31. The Ministry is aiming at the pre-

This development is a result of Mrs. Abel-Smith were present at a and brightly uniformed cavalry Government for war

of Athlone and Captain and the Hon. crystal State coaches, prancing steeds placed vention of forward speculation on the Among other things-the ordinance ville do. Bastia reports that an in- adopted by General Chang Heucli-

The master of the French freighter, the deflant and unruly attitude banquet at the British Legation.****

placed at the disposal of the Spanish yen, and also speculative Imports. prohibits inter-bank payments ex-

escorts, and thousands of sturdy Russian: financial sexistance,

operations and * Conalderable larift, increases, are ceeding 10,000 yen oxcept under a Burgent fishing smack fired a shot | liang's and General Yong Hu-chen's

citizens. ANG orpected to be imposed in April or licence,-Reuter,

The outstanding points of the Ger (Continued on Page 4.)

(Continued on Page 4).

[man"rebly

probably ba córi❤ - Continued on PK1)

|

Marseilles, Jan. 7.

re-

It is understood that the royal couple are to spend their honeymoon at igli, Tyrolean winter sports

Princess Juliana

(Continued on Page 4.)

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