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一拜禮 號一十月正英港香 MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937.

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DUNLOP TYRES

FRANCO-GERMAN TENSION GAINS

BRITAIN HAS PARIS

REMEDY

SETS EXAMPLE BY BAN

IN VOLUNTEERING

London, Jan. 10.

Extension of the Non-Intervention Committee's scheme for supervision of the ports and land frontiers of Spain, to cover the arrival in Spain by sea and land of volunteers and military personnel, is suggested by the fact that identical instructions have been sent to His Majesty's representatives in Paris, Rome, Berlin, Lisbon and Moscow by the British Government.

The instructions say that the British Government is ready to consider most urgently any suggestions for the establishment of a system of rigid control of supplies to Spain and that it will also be glad to consider any detailed proposals for the control of other forms of indirect intervention.

Meanwhile, Great Britain suggests that each Government adopt, within its own territories, measures to prohibit the departure of volunteers and military personnel for Spain..

Britain Stopping Volunteers | =

The Instructions to the diplomats announce that the British Govern- ment, forthwith, is issuing a public notice that it is an offence under the Foreign Enlistment Act for British subjects to necept any commission or engagement in the forces on either side of the Spanish civil strife, or for anyone to recruit volunteers in the United Kingdom for service in Spain. --Reuter,

Suggestions Welcomed In

Berlin

Berlin, Jan, 0. The slew British suggestion with regard to prevention. of Intervention in Spain, according to well-informed sources, will be welcomed here as good example.

If other countries take really effec- tive action, Germany is prepared formally to prohibit the departure of any volunteers to Spain, but it is declared that in order to make non- intervention effective the French frontier must be closed completely.

Reuter..

END OF SHIPPING STRIKE

NEARS

OWNER-LEADER'S PREDICTION

San Francisco, Jan. 10. Mr. T. G. Plant, President of the Shipowners' Association, has telegraphed to President Roosevelt saying: "I am happy to predict the almost immediate end of the strike. I believe that it may end in a very few days." anys: "My prediction is founded on In his message, Mr. Plant further the rapid progress of the recent negotiations between the unions and the shipowners, which have apparent- ly produced a mutually satisfactory solution of practically all the fun- damental Issuer on which the unions based the strike, Tentative agree- ments have been actually concluded with two of the seven unions.”

Federal conelllators concur with Mr. Plant's optimism, while public Portugal States Her Case new appeals to President Roosevelt

officials

have temporarily delayed

Paris Also In Agreement

Purls, Jan. 10.

It is understood that the French Government is prepared to draft any laws necessary to prevent volunteers going to Spain on condition that con- trol in really enforced all-round Reuter.

Lisbon, Jan. 10.

to intervene.

The Portuguese reply to cariler However, the union spokesman, Anglo-French proposals for preven- Mr. Henry Melnikow, says: "The tion of Intervention, says the question negotiations may break at of volunteers for the Spanish war con- minute. Only ten of the necessary not be considered alone, as differing twenty-one agreements have thus far from other forms of intervention been negotiated. If any fall, the practised.

completion of the entire structure

I declares the Non-intervention will collapse." Committee was formed to avoid direct

INSISTS "BOY" SLAYS

GERMANS LEAVE MOROCCO SOIL

Berlin Press Flatly Charges:

"France Wants War"

SIGNIFICANT REPORTS COMING FROM INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

PARIS, JAN. 10.

FRANCE IS DETERMINED THAT GERMAN TROOPS SHALL NOT REMAIN IN SPANISH MOROCCO, STATES A SPOKESMAN OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE TO-DAY.

IT IS TOO EARLY TO SAY WHAT ACTION FRANCE WILL TAKE IF AN UNSATISFACTORY REPLY IS RECEIVED TO THE FRENCH NOTE OF PROTEST WHICH HAS BEEN DELIVERED TO THE SPANISH INSURGENT AUTHORITIES AT TETUAN TO-DAY.

ACCORDING TO THE FRENCH PRESS, 1,200 GERMANS DIS- EMBARKED AT CEUTA ON DECEMBER 27 AND ANOTHER 1,500 AT MELILLA LAST FRIDAY.

It is alleged that the Germans are preparing a submarine base at Sidifni, Morocco, and a seaplane base further south.-Reuter.

WON'T PERMIT FOOTHOLD

Paris, Jan. 10.

France has warned Germany that she will not permit that nation a foothold in North Africa.

The Under-Secretary of State, M. Francois Tessan, in a speech at Belfort, declared: "It must be understood abroad, that France will not tolerate any pressure, any manoeuvres of force. any imprudent attempt to violate existing conventions, or any direct blow at the established rights of France. Such would forestall any conciliatory solution.'

He quoted the statement of the Meanwhile, the Governor of Malta Prime Minister. M. Leon Blum, that is understood to have arrived in France did not consider war inevit- Gibraltar aboard the Mediterranean able and that the country was will-Fleet flugship, H.M.S. Queen Eliza- Ing to do her utmost to avoid war. beth. Four Admirals are at present However, there were some things at the fortress: Sir Dudley Pound, France would not allow.

Sir Geoffrey Blake, Jomes Murray Pipon and C. E. Kennedy-Purvis.

Meanwhile, the full extent of the German penetration of Morocco is not known. It is reported, however, that German mercenaries have been landed at Melilla, Tetuan and Ceuta,

s for wisich reason the Foreign Office drafted a protest to Genera! Francisco Franco, the Spanish in- surgent commander-in-chief, in the event that he admits the

presence

of Germans in Spanish Morocco, any A spokesman declared: "It is not really a protest, but a warning, pointing out that according to in- formation France, pos

possesses certain things miny occur shortly which France will not tolerate without re- acting.

Mr. Harry Bridges, radical union diplomatic negotiations and that the leader, says the shipowners are try- Anglo-Italian demarche breaks down ing to push the unions towards a the prestige and

authority, and settlement, perhaps even the existence, of the Committee.

It adds that any demarche outside the Committee may hide other poll- tical intentions, thus increasing the world unrest.

r

Nevertheless, Portugal will Co- operate, while maintaining the servations she made on August 21, The Portuguese. Government is con- vinced, it is stated, that only a few volunteers are aghting in Spain, and

Meanwhile, Monday's meelings in- clude those of the ship-owners, cooks, stewards and schoonermen of the I.L.A.United Press.

INTELLIGENCE REPORTS

The extraordinary report thot 5,000 Japanese volunteers are pected at Jerez and Cadiz was brought here by a traveller from the latter city, but has not been confined-Renter,

on

INSURGENTS CLAIM LEFTISTS BOMBED BRITISH EMBASSY

Seville, Jan. 11. A startling assertion that Spaulsli Government aircraft were themselves responsible for bombing the British Embassy at Madrid on January 8, which re- sulted in the death of a military altache and the wounding of two others, was made in a broadcast message by · General Del Land to-day.

He Bald the object was to in- duce Britain to take sides against the insurgenis.-Reuter.

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INSURGENT

CAPTAIN AND

WOUNDS MATE Runs Amok on Chinese

Customs Vessel

CREEPS UPON VICTIMS: LATER SHOOTS SELF

A cabin boy who apparently ran amok on the Chinese Customs cruiser Cheong Keng this morning, killed Captain Douglas Lorne Campbell, wounded Chief Officer Chiu Chang-keoh, and then turned the weapon on himself in an attempt to commit suicide.

The Chief Officer and the cabin boy are both in Kow- loon Hospital in a critical condition.

Capt. Campbell leaves a widow resident in this Colony. Aged 27, he was a native of Bognor, England, and had been with the Chinese Customs only four years.

PEIPING FIEND'S CRIME PROBED

First intimation to the public of the tragedy was a signal by the coxswain who took over the veasti. When between Nine Pine Island and Putumun Pass, he sighted and sign- alled to a police Launch and the off- cer came aboard

and brought the ship in.

So

CREPT TO BRIDGE

far,

only the scantfest details of the affair are known, but it appears that the cruiser was returning from a normal Ave-day cruise this morn-

BRITISH GIRL'S when, at about 7.30 o'clock, the

BODY FOUND MUTILATED

Peiping, Jan. 11.

cabin-boy is said to have crept up to the bridge with a revolver in his hand, approached the Chief Officer, who was at the wheel, and then fired two shots at him from close range..

Then going to a spare cabin and

The "boy" is then said to have pro- It is reliably stated that when ceeded to the Captain's cabin und the autopsy in the tragic death fired three shots in all at Captain shot him dead. It is belleved that he of Miss Pamela Werner is com- Campbell." pleted, and the findings are placed before the continued locking himself fn, the "boy" is stat- inquest, it will be shown thated to have turned the revolver on the mutilations the girl suffered | himself, using the last shot in the were not entirely due to the ravages of dogs. It is possible that none of them were caused by dogs.

chamber.

In answer to the signals, No. 4 police lunch went out to meet the crulser, later escorting the ship to Youmati. Here the Injured Chief Omeer and "boy" were taken off and rushed to Kowloon Hospital, Both

Miss Werner, 19-year-old adopted daughter of Mr. E. T. C. Werner, former British Consul at Foochow, is EXC believed to have been murdered on the night of January 8.

Her body was discovered by coolles the following morning, half naked, terribly mutilated. She had op. parently died from a blow on the

hend.

ATTACKS BITTER GERMAN

ATTACKS

Berlin, Jan. 11. Herr Adolf Hitler holds a recep- for foreign diplomats to-day with Franco-German relations the worst they have been since the Nazis gained power.

SUCCEED

RUSSIAN TANKS

CAPTURED COUNTER-BLOW REPULSED

It is believed the mutilations were carried out at some house to which girl was taken on her way home, after an evening of skating with a girl school chum. The body is bellaved to have been disposed of later.

in a grave condition, and the "boy" is not expected to survive.

No motive for the affair has yet been disclosed,

An operation was performed upon the Chief Omeer shortly before noon extracted. He was still under this morning and the bullets were anaesthetic as this edition went to the

press.

It has not been possible to operate upon the "boy," who is stated to be

It is now freely predicted that the still in a very critical condition. evidence will show that the crime was one of the most flendish Imaginable.- Reuter.

STOP PRESS

FRESH BERLIN

A slashing press campaign against the French has developed swiftly, and an example is the assertion of the Volkischier Bcobatchter that "France wants war in Morocco." The French Intelligence Service in

Germany, declares this

in paper, Morocco has reported, firstly,

The Official Communique from the last hour, utters a warning the on 'MOTOR STRIKE

increased enrolment of Germans in she is determined to prevent a game General Francisco Franco's wire- the Spanish Foreign Legion: second- being played at her expense, less station at Teneriffe, received") ly, the arrival of German submarines paper adds that London will have 'n Hongkong at 7.a.m. to-day, Detriol, Jan. 10. Governor Ftank Murphy has an at Melilla; thirdly, the arrival of to consider seriously

ALLEGATIONS nounced that he is procceding to German forces at Tetuan, where ten land's interests lie.

where Eng has been translated for the Lansing on Monday, after which the German officers

Berlin, Jan. 11. are assisting the Federal conciliator, Mr. James Spanish ligh Commissioner; fourth-

Diplomats are speculating as to | Hongkong Telegraph. It reads:

The German press declares that Dewey, has promised to remain ondly, the arrival of

the nignificance of this new

On the Madrid front our troops the French complaints about German German Forti-paign-Reuter, seek a basis of negotiation with the

took the important position of Cuesta activity in Morocco are actually a fications Mission at Ceuta; Aftly,

de los Perdices and construction of German barracks ei

another key- | smoke-screen to hide active French point at Cerro del Aguila. The intervention, preparatory to chemy fled to Fuencarral, leaving in seizing by France of Spanish Morocco.

(Continued on Page 12.). --United Press.

that they are for the most part Com- strikerators are apparently pre- Tetuan, Melilla and Ceuta; sixthly,

munists on the side of the Spanish Government. Reuter Special.

Initiative Praised

The paring for a long siege, while the installation of German engineers at neutrals have increased their pressure the Rift mines; seventhly, the ship-

in an attempt to obtain Presidentment of Moroccan minerals to Ger- Roosevelt's Intervention.

many; eighthly, Spunish zone native. show increasing discontent; ninthly, foreign provocateurs are attempting to arouse discontent in the tribes in the French zone.

The

Paris, Jan. 11. France is ready to establish the

The Petriot News states that on machinery necessary to prevent the the basis of the order made by the outflow of volunteers to Spain, says American Federation of Labour trade the Foreign Ministry,

department President, the Federa- Other European nations are like will not support the Committee of tion members will return to work and wise praising Britain,,, for initiative in placing a ban on volun-

her Industrial Organisation strike. teering for Spain.-United Press.

paper says the war between the rival fabour organisations has brought the No Comment In Russia Labour Department's realms, adding, strike out of Michigan's and the

Moscow, Jan. 11.

"President Roosevelt should consent Omcials did not comment to-day

to settle." regarding the British note urging the

..

WIDE RAMIFICATIONS

cam-

BRITAIN WILL INVESTIGATE

London, Jan. 11. Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, has instructed the Tetuan Consul-General to report tully on the activities of foreigners in Spanish zone in: Morocco.

the

It is understood that: Mr. Eden has particularly requested the Consul- A spokesman says: "The Loyalists General to investigate the reports seizure of documents in raids on that German engineers are at present German buildings at Barcelona and in Tetuan, with a view to discover- Madrid early in the civil war re- ing whether they are military ex- vealed the nitration in Morocco.perts.-United Press. United Press.

DALADIER POSTPONES

JAPANESE VOLUN- TEERS · COMING

Gibraltar, Jan. 10.

restriction of intervention in Spain; Ramifcalios of the strike have but it is recalled that the press has spread Urroughout the country.. The been cynical, regarding the effective Memphis (Tennessee) Fisher Lumber preparations are being made at Jerez An informant at Cadiz states that ness of any attempts to guarantee Corporation, subsidiary of the G.M.G., and Cadiz for the arrival of this non-intervention-United Press.

week of 5,000 Japanese volunteers.

(Continued on Page 4.)

the

HINT OF FRANCO-GERMAN

ACCORD IN BERLIN

Berlin, Jan. 10.

The French Ambassador, M. Francois Poncet is leaving for Paris to-morrow.

There is the customary reticence; It is known here that certain French VISIT

with regard to the object of his visit, circles favour assisting Germany but diplomats here speak of a new economically, and even posalbly sup Paris, Jan. 10.

move towards, Franco-German porting her colohini aspirations to Owing to the gravity of the Eur-economic rapprochement. Daladier, Minuler for War, has opean situation generally, M. Edouard postponed his visit to Morocco, scheduled for this week.---Reuter,

mate some extent, “in return for com-

SEEKING

FLIGHT RECORD

K. L. BROOK HOPS FOR CAPE

PLANS RETURN RAGE ALSO

(Special To "Telegraph")

London, Jan, 10. Mr. K. L. Brook, the Harrogato nirman, left Gravesend early this morning for the Cape,

He is attempting to beat Mrs. Amy Mollison's record for the flight to Capetown and back.

Brook in flying the East Coast route, -Reuter Special.

Mr. Brook distinguished himself, by creating a new solo fight record from his machine at Lympne on March Australia" to England when he landed 31, 1935, in seven days 19 hours 50 minutes after leaving Port Durwias

pensating action by Germany. It is It is suggested that Dr. Hjalmar posible these compensations may On the present trip he hopes Schacht, Minister of

National take the nature of armament restric accomplish the double journey, li lem Economy, is to visit Paris shortly. tions.-Router.

than eight days.