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Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED 1881

'No. 15188

一拜禮 二廿月二英港香

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22,.

1937. 日二十月正

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS $20.00 PER ANNUM

MOTORISTS

WHOSE MOTTO IS

Safety

First

ALWAYS FIT

DUNLOP TYRES

Hongkong May ITALY MOBILISES IN Rebels Capture

Become Strong ANSWER TO BRITISH Aragon Village

Gibraltar RE-ARMAMENT PLANS

As

GENERAL SIR A. J.. GODLEY TALKS ON PREPAREDNESS

Believes No

Now Wants

Nation War

Impressed by what he has seen of fortifications in the East and Far East, General Sir Alexander John Godley told a Telegraph representative before he left to spend the week-end at Canton, that the military activity he had seen pleased him very much.

"It is splendid, the way things are going ahead," he added. "Hongkong is already a great fortress of the Empire. I hope that one day it will be as impregnable as Gibraltar."

Asked which country be considered the greatest threat to peace at the moment, the General tactfully refrained from names. "I don't think anybody, wants to go to war now. Britain is re-arming simply to hold her own and she is going about it thoroughly."

"No, I could not say which #ghting service is most important to the safety of a country in these days. As you will have noticed, the Govern- ment' lius` appointed a committee 10 co-ordinate all our facilities and that' is doing very Important work. Of one thing, however, I am perfectly eerlain: the-next-war will be decided

by the infantryman with his rifle." "You don't say what he will be firing from his rifle," the General was reminded

́ ́"No, I don't,” he replied, "but I do say, and I am quite convinced of it, that the infantryman will be eventual deciding factor,"

Jems,

the

+

Professor

Killed By

Motor Car

PROLIFIC AUTHOR ON CLASSICAL SUBJECTS

London, Feb. 21.

Rome, February 21.

Italy's first response to Great Britain's enormous re-armament plan has taken the form of an order for the mobilisation of five classes of conscripts, totalling 1,000,000 men, born between 1900 and 1904. They are instructed to report at dépots on dates to be announced later.

The object of the Italian Government is to test the speed and efficiency of its mobilisation plans.

If there is no reason for keeping this army of conscripts mobilised, the men will be sent back to their homes after they have reported.

The Fascist Grand Council will meet on March 1 to consider the military situa. It is understood it will decide on further all-round re-armament, especially of the Air Force.-Reuter.

tion.

U. S. Striving To Get Steel For New Navy

Washington, Feb. 21. After an announcement that the Carnegie Illinols Steet Cor- poraison had agreed to furnish steel to the Tennessee Valley Au, thority under the terms of the Walsh-Healy Act, the Depart ment of Labour asked the

Corporation,

United Steel

of

which thủ Carnegie concern is a subsidiary, to set aside two plants to furnish the Navy with steel under the same terms.

Labour

Department ofielais hope that the deadlock between The Navy and steel

turers may

Renter.

thus be

manufsc- broken.c

MEXICO TO DRIVE OUT FOREIGNER

OIL INDUSTRY

Professor Wallace M. Lindsay. NATIONALISING HER M.A., Professor of Humanity at St. Andrew's University, has died from injuries received in a motor mishap. lle was knocked down by a motor- car driven by a studost-Reuter.

of

Jesus

was

NEW LAWS ARE

DRAFTED

Sir Alexander has not been to

The late Professur Lindsay Hongkong prior to this visit and, in born in 1858 and was educated at any case, would make no statement on Edinburgh Academy, Glasgow Uni- the Colony's peculiar defence prob-versity, Balliol College, Oxford, and Leipzig University. He was Fellow

New York, Feb. 21. College, Oxford, from 1880 Lack Of Enthusiasm to 1800, was appointed Hon. Fellow

The New York Times' Mexleo City On the question of enlistment Proctor in 1890, Latin

of the same College in 1927, Senior correspondent stale that he learns officially that a law has been drafted Lecturer to which has been occupying the Gov-

nt Harvard in

in lending towards the gradual elimina- ernment's attention at Home he graduate students agreed that there had been a dis- 1888, and Sandars, Reader in Palaro- tiun of foreign oil companies from

Mexico It is proposed to

to create un couraging lack of enthusiasm

igraphy at Cambridge in 1910.

entirely Government-owned

company enlistments to the Army.

to handle all the Government oll business, Including the collection of royalties and rentals from foreign

He had been Professor of Humanity at St. Andrew's since 1899, lie was a most prolife author on classical

"I attribute this to several reasons,” fic said. "Firstly, there is the dole; subjects. secondly, there is a disinclination of

the

young

go

man of the present day to

abroad, and thirdly, the pay and

Army conditions need improving, WAIT IN VAIN

though this is already being taken in hand. I should not like to express an opinion us to whether conscrip- tion should be introduced."

Satisfied With Volunteers

Speaking of more general matters, the General said he was satistied with what he had heard of the Volunteer Forces in the Far East. He had also learned that a very smart body of men had recently been formed into a new Malay Regiment.

tar as Governor and Commander-

FOR A MIRACLE

Native Hindu Mysticism Falls to "Revive" Dead Man for Some Months Durban, Feb. 10.

A police sergeant, a police surgeon and 400 Indians gather-

was

As he was for five years at Gibral-ed at Stanger, Natal, to wait for in-Chiet, the General sald he was a miracle that did not happen. A. twenty-one-year-old Indian following the Spanish civil war with great interest, especially in its rela-named Rampersad dled and tion to Gibraltar's future. Whatever burled in the Stanger district last the outcome of the, struggle, the October. The other day his widow, British fort's strategic value to the a girl of nineteen, said she had been Empire would be greatly enhanced. visited by his spirit,

"I am not dead," she quoted the In reply to questions, he added ghost as saying. "I have been be- that he had not heard so much of witched."

companies.

TO-DAY'S RACING TIPS

Havoc Eve To

Win Derby

HAVOO EVE

winning the Trial Plate last Saturday. The pony is. "Captain Foster's" selec- flon to win the Hongkong Derby to- day.

(By "Captain Foster")

Hongkong Derby, the eighth I expect Havoc Eve to win the

race on to-day's card at Happy

This new company, moreover, will be granted leases on all new olldelds, and the Jeases now held by foreign Valley. My selections for the companies will be transferred to the various events follow. Goverment combine on thels, ex- piration.

The draft law also provides for the acquisition of pipe lines, tanks, ter- minals, refineries and ships at pre- tot operated in the Mexican oil trade by foreign concerns.---Reuter.

SUZANNE LENGLEN

AWARDED £75 COMMISSION ON RACQUET

Paris, Feb. 10, Sales of the "Suzanne Lenglen" tennis racquet were the subject of dispute in the Paris courts to-day. The finding was in favour of the former amateur champion,

When Mile Lenglen became Italy's enthusiasm for Ceuta as that The vision Insisted that though professional player, it la stated, her Germany had an eye on that position Rampersad's body had been buried manager signed a contract, both in commanding the Strait, General for some time it had not decomposed. la and her name, with a company, Franco had said that he would cede The widow was urged to release her Ceuta to neither of these Powers. In husband from the spell and was given "any case, Cauta could never be made detalled Instructions.

such stronghold -os- Gibraltar, Permission was given for the-body-was to-bear her name.

which, concluded General Sir to be exhumed. The surgeon imme- She took gellon against the com- Alexander Godley, "Is impregnable," diately declared that it was in an pony for refusing to submit to her advanced stage of decomposition. a statement of accounts. The com-

Nevertheless the widow.

pany pleaded that the contract was brought from her home to the tent signed with her manager, who had where the body had been place not applied for a statement of ac-

cound and, assisted by Hindu holy men, she carried out her Instructions

NORWEGIAN PRINCE BÖRN

''Oslo, Feb. 21; Princess Martin, wife of Crown Prince" Olay of Norway, has given *birth to her first son, and mother and

baby are well-Reuter,

was

Buf nothing happened. Ramperand was really dead, and at last, on the instructions of the poller, his body was reburied.

by which lennis racquet correspond- ing exactly to Mile. Leaglen's design

was to be marked.

On the handle ame.

**The court decided that the accounts were to be submitted to Mile, Long- len, and awarded her 9,000 francs-an about £75-an provisional commis alon on the sale of the "racquot,

THE TOWER STAKES

Coronation Day

Helephant

Chun Teen

THE PERTH PLATE (FIRST SECTION)

Courting Eve Discovery Bay

Such Fun

-THE CURRAGH HANDICAP-

Тупе

New Star

Soldier of China

THE VICTORIA. STAKES

King's Warden Diana. Bay Gladiator

THE GARRISON CUP

Bistro Wild Cat Rose Evelyn

THE MONGOLIÄN STAKES

Gordo

Mariposa

Tempest

THE MELBOURNE CUP

Strathroy

ElectronTM

Langer.

"THE HONGKONG DERBY

HAVOC EVO

Rosemary

·Expansión Time

China Demands Surrender Of Her Red Enemy

Nanking. Feb. 22.

The General Executive Counell of the Kuomintang last night passed a resolution to contlaue the anti-Communist campaign. but agreeing to reconciliation on terms tantamount to complete surrender of the Communist armles, the dissolution of the so- called Sino-Soviet Republic and the cessation of Communist pro- paganda.

Karlier, the C.E.C. had rejected. the demands of the Stanfu mutineers, after hearing a report from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. --Reuter.

CABINET SHUFFLE . DENIED

BLUM EXPLAINS HIS ASPIRATIONS

MAY REDUCE DUTIES

St. Nazaire, Feb. 21.

LOYALISTS ADVANCING

ON JARAMA SECTOR

Salamanca, Feb: 21.

The insurgents' offensive on the Aragon front has resulted in the capture of the main objective of the attack, the village of Vivel del Rio, according to an official communique! Government troops were forced to withdraw, and left 100 dead behind them.

It is also claimed that the Government attack on the Valencia-Madrid highway positions now occupied by the rebels, were repulsed with heavy losses.--Reuter.

GOVERNMENT GAINS

Almeria, Feb. 21,

Following action around Cadiar, in which the insurgents are said to have suffered many casualties, Government troops claim to have taken positions dominating Sierra de las Alpujarras, 20 miles along the coast north-west from Motril, thus enabling them to control communications between the coast and the

mountains.-Reuter,

2,000 Held

For Attack

On Graziani

ITALIANS CLEAN UP ADDIS ABABA

LIOTTA LOSES INJURED LEG

All

BIC SCALE FIGHTING

Madrid, Feb. 21. Fighting was resumed on a large scale on the Jarama front this morn?- ing. To the south-east of the city, Government troops advanced ngainst intense insurgent machine-gun fire, and consolidated new positions in the face of counter-attacks, supported by heavy artillery fire.-Reuter Special.

VOLUNTEERS BANNED

Moscow, Feb, 21. The Soviet Government has passed a resolution banning the departure of volunteers to Spain.-Reuter.

STRICT CERMAN BAN

Berlin, Feb. 21.

An order banning the enlistment of volunteers for Spain forbids Germans to travel in the war-torn country or Rome, Feb. 21.

in Morocco, and also forbids non- official communique to-day Germans to travel through Germany states that the condition of Marshal to reach the theatre of the civil war. Persons suspected of wanting to parti- Grazjani, Italy's viceroy of Ethiopia, cipate in the Spanish trouble will be continues satisfactory. General held up at the frontier-Reuter, Liotta is said to be improving. Both

MORE MOORISH TROOPS were injured yesterday when bombs

Algeciras, Feb. 21. were thrown into a crowd to which

A Spanish steamer from Ceuta has the Italian Marshal was distributing landed 2,500 Moorish troops here.

largesse.

is learned that another Spanish vessel has arrived at Malaga with

Police have arrested 2,000 persons 3,500 Moorish troops aboard. Reuter and the military Advocate-General) will identify the guilty, who will be tried withou: delay.

Squads of Fascist Blackshirts have been cleaning up, those quarters of the elty where suspects were thought to lurk. The great bulk of the popu-

M. Leon Blum, the Prime Minister of France, to-day denied there was any change in Government policy and also the rumours of a re-shuffle lation is quiet and 30,000 troops are of the Cabinet to include more re-guarding the capital. presentatives of the Right.

With regard to devaluation rum- ours, he said the Government was determined to surmount its dimcult- les and not to avoid them. He estimated that capital hoarded and exported amounted to three what the state required.

The economic revival in

times

France

was a f

fait accompli, M. Blum asserted. The real financial problem was not 80 much to reduce expenditure as to Therense receipts. He foresaw action | against speculators to combat ex-

cessive prices.

The Prime Minister also referred to the insufficiency of production in relation to demand. This was inter- prêtod in some quarters as a hint at the reduction of customs duties.→→ Reuter,

THE CHATER CUP King's Lead

Rose-Queen

Pontiac Bay

THE CHALLENGE CUF

Bear Claw

Honeymoon Eve

Herod

THE BLACK ROCK STAKES.

Red Feather

Polentato

Vira

THE PERTH PLATE (SECOND SECTION)

Gypsy Love. Asteo

Boronia Bello

DAILY DOUBLE EVENT

Strathroy/King's Lead

Later

It is learned that General Llotia has had his leg, amputated---Rruler,

KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR

STOP PRESS

Madrid, Feb. 22. Government troops on the Jaroma River front have captured positions "dominating the enemy's most lin portant communications and outlets," Fan Wal-pun, of 12 Stone Nullah says an official communique.

Loyalists have also forced their way Lone, was admitted to the Govern into the outskirts of Oviedo stter ment Civit Hospital yesterday, weeks of bilter slege-Reuter, suffering from injuries received in a traffic accident in Queen's Road East, A police report of the occurrence states that the car was driven by Mr. R. Grindley, of the Prison Depart- ment.

BRITISH PLANE TESTED

ON 1,200-MILE FLIGHT

:

(Special to "Telegraph")

London, Feb. 21.

A 1,200-mile flight around the British Isless has just been auccessfully accomplished by the Cambria, Imperial Airways lon rungo Ilying boat.

The Cambria left Southampton at 81 hour. To-day the carried a crew of a.m., pursed over London a half an five, but no passengers. hour luto all they handed up the She is a sister ship to the Cold- enxt court to Berwick, and so to donin, which recently flaw non-stop to Alexandria. Southampton Edinburgh, Glnagow, across to Dub-from in-and back to Swansea, returning Both these ships are to be used for to Southampton at 4.87 pm.

experimental long-range fights to The Cambria weighs 21 tons, fully obtain data for the trans-Atlantic loaded. She is a four-engined craft service, woon to be inauguratel with a top speed of 200 miles per tenter Spretal..