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From " Warrington" by Clube de

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"THE DEVIL IS A SISSY with Freddie Bartholomew - Jackie Cooper Mickey Rooney - lan Hunter

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.

POPULAR FRONT REJECTED

CHIANG SUPPORTS C. E. C. POLICY

DISCIPLINING ANTAGONISTS

Nanking, Feb. 22. The Government's manifesto,

Kal

issued yesterday, endorsing a pacifc polley towards Japan and reiterating the necessity of exterminating the Communist scourge throughout the country, has been reluforced by statement by Mas

Marshal Chlong shek rejecting the idea of a Popular Front.

This

demand was put for

Communists, as it was necessary to and dissen- exclude opportunists slonists fruin the Government,

ward by the Sianfu mutineers and

The Generalissimo, however, de- clares that the Government will con- tinue to adhere to the policy of in- viting non-members of the Kuomin-

Beaches Attract Local Bathers

WINTER HEAT SPELL WILL

PROBABLY CONTINUE

The amazing spectacle of swimmers flocking to Hongkong's beaches in "mid-winter" has been witnessed

a result of the heat wave of the past week.

as

-

A correspondent at Repulse Bay states: "More than the usual number of winter swimmers have been using the beach since Sunday and the Lido, which was quite deserted this time last year, is doing a fairly good

business."

Castle Peak beach and one or two others on the mainland have also had some of their matsheds occupied for the first time since November.

A Telegraph reporter who resides on Cheung Chow tang Party to participate in the Ad- island states that the beaches there have been quite

ministration.

Marshal Chiang also says the Gov- ernment will seek the advice of ex- perts on all subjects wherever it is found possible.

The statement promises freedom of speech and of the Press, within well-defined limits, and also the liberation of political prisoners, in- cluding Communists, provided they sincerely repent, but rejects the pro- posals for n general amnesty Reuser.

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Invited To

Coronation

LADY M.P. DOESN'T WANT GOERING

London, Feb. 22. Answering questions in the House of Commons, Lord Cranborne suld Invitations to the Coronation had been sent to the Spanish Government and "the Governinent of Abyssinia.”

Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Labour),

referring to the representation of Ger- many, asked: "Can we have some guarantee that the country will not be insulted by the presence of General Goering

The remark created quite a stir in the House-United Press.

COLONIAL TROOPS.

London, Feb. 22. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the colonial military

the Coronation

popular since Sunday.

$

The heat wave shows no signs of o'clock is diminishing and at morning the highest temperature of 72.2 degrees was recorded, with every prospect of the thermometer neuring the February record of 79.4 before the end of the day.

BRITAIN TOOK NO CHANCES

Humidity is also in the vicinity of saturation point. At 2 a.m. this morning it reached 98 per cent., two per cent off saturation, while at 9

It had dropped to 80 per cent. Until 4 a.m.

this morning, the tem- GAS perature registered at the Royal

remarkably Observatory was

even,

a.m.

10

varying only from 07.4 degrees 67.9 degrees between midnight and 4 am. From 4 to 8 am, however. it rose to 71.2 degrees, exceeding yesterday's maximum temperature by one degree.

There are indications that present| conditions are likely to continue.

BRITAIN CONVERTS PORTUGAL

NEUTRALS TO WATCH SPANISH BORDERS

FLEETS WILL SCOUR SEAS

London, Feb. 22.

A complete Anglo-Portuguese agreement on the supervision of the Portuguese frontier to pre- vent the entry of foreigners in

MASKS RUSHED TO MALTA

AT TIME

CRISIS

OF

London, Feb. 22.

The fact that the whole civilian population of Malta were supplied with anti-gas respirators during the period when sanctions were in force against Italy,, in connection with the Ethiopian war, was disclosed by Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the House of Commons to-day.

The disclosure was made during debate dealing with additional estimates, including £55,000 expend- ed on

on improving the civilian defences of Malta.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore said the respira- tors had to be despatched quickly and an anti-gas school established and hospitals prepared to deal with possible casualties-Heuter.

Woman Flier Planning To

cession would consist of about 120 the Spanish civil war theatre to Circle Globe

West

representative officers and N.C.O's participate in the lighting “on from the permanent forces in the either side, has been reached. Colonics, as well as from the Royal The announcement was made at

African Frontier Force, the King's African Rifles, the Northern a meeting of the International Ithodesta Regiment, the Trans-Jordan Non-Intervention Frontier Furce, the Malay Regiment | meeting to-day. ↑ and various local Volunteer Defence Ferces-Renter.

RECORD NUMBER OF VISITORS

London, Feb. 22.

The Government anticipates that

Committee's

There will be 130 British obser- vers, considered adequate by Lord Londonderry, to watch the Portu guese-Spanish frontier and to report brench of the International on any understanding that has

just been by European capitols.

visitors to London for the Coronation nowidson of reducing the num-

will far out-number anything known on previous occasions. Invitations to send representatives have been sent to all heads of States in diplo- mutic relations with His Majesty and to certain independent States with- out diplomatic representation but In treaty relations with Britain,

Arrangements are being made for floodlighting between Coronation Day and May 17 of Buckingham Palace, the Victoria Memorial, St. James' Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the National Gallery, the Tower of Somerset House, Greenwich

London the Round Tower at Wind-

sor, Hampton Court Palace and grounds, the Admiralty Arch, West minster Abbey, St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Trafalgar Square and the Royal-print.

Imperial Airways state that all accommodation in alteraft avallable reaching London from India, Africa and Australia in the weels Just preceding the Coronation was book- ed up some time ago. In many cases. advance bookings were

effected months ago.-British Wireless.

DOMINIONS' PART IN DEFENCE NO NEW POLICY ADUMBRATED

London, Feb. 22. The Prime Minister was question-

ed in the House of Commons on Sir Samuel Hoare's speech at Bradford

મું on February regarding Dominion co-operation in Imperial defenec.

The

it

is

The question ber of international observers on the French frontier, at present fixed at

reconsidered, 170, is to be understood.

Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to the Court of St. James, to-day raised the question, of the immobilisation of the Valencia Government's foreign gold deposits. M. Malsky, the Ruslan delegate, ob- jected on the grounds that the sug- gestion was irrelevent.

Naval Guard Set

Los Angeles, Feb. 22, Mrs. Amelia Earhcart Putnam, noted aviatrix, is planning sever- al text rhts in preparation for a world flight.

She is at present overseeing a new Bendix direction finder. Conversing on the subject, she emphasised the vast need of simplifying piloting, remarking

that there is almost nothing which cannot be done mechanical- ly to help increase the safety factor and leave the pilot free to navigato the ship."-United

Press

gate was suggesting that 00 obser- vers on the frontier were sufficient. France, however, pointed out that there were to be 180 observers on the for shorter Franco-Spanish border-Reuter.

Says Plan Ineffective

Gibraltar, Feb. 22. General Del Lano, the rebel com- mander in South Spain, broadcasting A naval supervision plan has been from Seville to-day, asserted the in- agreed upon. All participating emotional neutrality blockade would nations appear to be satisfied with be Ineffective, since British and the roles they are to play with the French were supporting the Loyalists. exception of Russia. The Soviet ob- Dritish ships, he says, are continu jects to the zone allotted to her wor-ally taking food to the Loyalists and ships. The British delegates have prolonging the civil war.

He argued undertaken to consult Moscow in this that it would be humane to permit matter.

the people to storve and thus compel The scheme of control was general- the surrender of the Government. ly agreed to at lo-night's meeting of He also announced that Americans the Non-Interventionists' sub-com- In Malaga had telegraphed Washing mittee which has been drafting the ton asking that the Consulate at that. plans for the supervision

of the point be reopened and that trade be Spanish war zone. The meeting resumed. dropped the problem of the Portu- Meanwhile, Insurgent sources have guese frontier's observation, which estimated that 8,113 persons have was inter decided, to deal with the been killed at Malaga from the naval guard question,

beginning of the war to the date of

Rightist

occupation, United

At this stage there

some the dimeulty with Portugal, whose dele-Presi.

ROME SITS IN DARKNESS

WHEN RAIDERS LURK

Rome, Feb. 22.

Mr. Baldwin sald: "The First Lord of the Admiralty made no new statement of policy, While explain- Ing that the chief burden of defence expenditure falls on Great Britain, the First Lord. once again declared that it would be a great mistake to impose some rigid plan on other

All power was cut off over a For 45 minutes the whole, vast members of the Empire. Similarly, radius of 10 miles around Rome. as to economic questions, he mude it

capital froze into Immobility And clear, that any agreement that had

It was necessary for doctors and held its breatli, listening for the been or might be reached must re-by the light of electric torches. Hotel and the drone of hunting bombers, nurses to continue their operations nerve-shuttering crash of explosives. ault from a common outlook-and- spontaneous desire for co-operation."

guests dined by candle light, Street But the lights came up again with-" British Wireless,

traffle was stopped. People shelter-out the raid materialising. It was ed in doorways, »

only_a_game.-Reuter Special"

Even the hospitals and the Pope's apartments were plunged into darkness to-night, at one of the busiest hours, when the shrieking of emergency sirens announced the danger of attack from enemy bombing planes,

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