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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

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FEBRUARY · 23, 1937.

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Her glee and her patios were equally catching, she held a golden key at which all the doors of the heart flew open. Her face, too, was as full of goodness ́as intelligence--it was like no other face, the heart bounded to meet it."

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From "no warrington", by Charles Baude

CEDRIC

HARDWICKE

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UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

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Mickey Rooney Ian Hunter

POPULAR FRONT REJECTED

·CHIANG SUPPORTS C. E., C. .POLICY

DISCIPLINING ANTAGONISTS

Nanking. Feb, 22.

The Government's

mantes Issued yesterday, endorsing a pacifie polley towards Jepan and reiterating the necessity of exterminating the Communist scourge throughout the country, has been reinforced by a statement by Marahat Chiang Kai- shek rejecting the idea of a Popular Front. This demand was put fer- ward by the Slanfu mutineers and Communists, as it was necessary to dissen- exclude opportunists and slonists from the Government,

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

Beaches Attract ALHAMBRA

Local Bathers

WINTER HEAT SPELL WILL

PROBABLY CONTINUE

The amazing spectacle of swimmers flocking to Hongkong's beaches in "mid-winter" has been witnessed as a result of the heat wave of the past week.

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- crnment will seek the advice of ex- perts on all subjects wherever it is found possible.

Reuter.

popular since Sunday.

The heat wave shows no signs of diminishing and at 9 o'clock this morning the highest temperature of 72.2 degrees was recorded, with every prospect of the thermometer nearing the February record of 70.4 before the end of the day.

BRITAIN TOOK NO CHANCES

The statement promises freedom of speech and of the Press, within well-defined limits, and also die liberution of politienl prisoners, in- Humidity is also in the vicinity of a.m. this cluding Communists, provided they saturation point. At sincerely repent, but rejects the pro- morning it reached 88 per cent., two posals for #1 general amnesty.per cent off saturation, while at D

n.in. it had dropped to 89 per cent.

Until 4 a.m. this morning, the tem-GAS perature registered at the Royal Observatory was remarkably even, varying

from 07.4 degrees to only 07.0 degrees between midnight and a.m. From 4 to 6 a.m., however, it ros

rose to 71.2 degrees, exceeding yesterday's maximum temperature by onc degree.

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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 said invitations to the Coronation had been sent to the Spanish Government and "the Government of Abyssinia."

Miss Ellen WBkinson (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 pf Commons lo-day that the colonial miltary contingent in the Coronation pro cession would consist of about 120

representative officers and N.C.O'% from the permanent forces in the Colorier, as well as from the Royal West African Frontier Foree, the King's African Rifles, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force, the Malay Regiment and various local Volunteer Defence Ferces-Renter. RECORD NUMBER OF VISITORS

AT

MASKS RUSHED TO MALTA

TIME OF CRISIS

London, Feb. 22. The fact that the whole civilian

There are indications that present conditions are likely to continue.

The Royal Observatory reports:

anticyclones are situated over tongolia, and in the Pacific to the population of Malta were supplied de- with anti-gas respirators during the south-cast of Japan. Shallow

and period when sanctions were in forco pressions cover Manchuria Indo-China.

against Italy, in connection with the Local forecast:-East | US and S.E. winds, moderate, freshening Ethiopian war, was disclosed by Mr.

W. G. Ormsby-Gore,

Secretary of later from N.E.; cloudy generally, State for the Colonies, In the House probably some rain Inter.

of Commons to-day.

BRITAIN CONVERTS PORTUGAL

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NEUTRALS TO WATCH SPANISH BORDERS

FLEETS WILL SCOUR SEAS

London. Feb. 22..

The disclosure was made during

a debate dealing with additional estimates, including £55,000 expend- ed 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.-Reuter.

BUILDING BIG AIR TRANSPORTS

to

год

Scattle, Feb. 22. Boeing Aircraft

announces that, following a year's plonning, engineers are prepared to build a fleet of four- motored sub-stratosphere transports.

commencing The company is A complete Anglo-Portuguese tulid two immediately. The agreement on the supervision of chines will, it is reported, resemble the Portuguese frontier to pre- Army bombers.-United Press. vent the entry of foreigners in the Spanish civil war theatre to participate in the fighting on either side, has been reached. London, Feb. 22. The announcement was made at The Government anticipates that a meeting of the International visitors to London for the Coronation Non-Intervention Committee's will far out-number anything

At this stage there was on previous occasions. Invitations meeting to-day. to send representatives have been There will be 130 British obser- dificulty with Portugal, whose dele- sent to all heads of States in diplo- vers, considered adequate by Lord gate was suggesting that 60 obser- matic relations with His Majesty and Londonderry, to watch the Port vers on the frontier were sumcient. to certain independent States with quese-Spanish frontier and to report France, however, pointed out that out diplomatic representation but in on any breach of the international there were to be 180 observers on treaty relations with Britain.

known

mittee which has been drafting the plans for the supervision of the Spanish war zont. The meeting dropped the problem of the Portu- gues frontier's observation, which navni guard question. was later decided, to deal with the

somc

understanding that has just been the far shorter Franco-Spanish Arrangements are being made for

by European capitals. border-Reuter. acknowledged

The question of reducing the num- Bloodlighting between Coronation Day ber of international observers on the and May 17 of Buckingham Palace French frontier, at present fixed at the Victoria Memorial, St. James

reconsidered, it is

Naval Guard Set

Says Plan Ineffective

and

Gibraltar, Feb. 22, Palace, the Houses of Parliament, 170, is to be

General Del Lano, the rebel com- the National Gallery, the Tower of understood.

Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the mander in South Spain, broadcasting London, Somerset House, Greenwich

Seville

the in- to-day, asserted German Ambassador to the Court of from Hospital, the Round Tower at Wind-

ternational neutrality blockade would sor, Hampton Court Palace and St. James, to-day raised the question grounds, the Admiralty Arch, West-of the immobilisation of the Valencia e effective, since Britleh minster Abbey, St. George's Chapel, M. Maisky, the Russian delegate, ob- ally talting food to the Loyalists and Government's foreign gold deposits. French were supporting the Loyalists, British ships, he says, are continu- Windsor, Trafalgar Square and the

fected on the grounds that the sug-not Royal Mint.

the civil war. He prolonging Imperial Airways state that all gestion was irrelevant.

that it would be war. He argued mane to permit available accommodation in aircraft

the people to starve and thus compet reaching London from India, Africa

A naval supervalon plan has been the surrender of the Government. and Australia_in the weeles just

He also announced that Americans upon. All participating in Malaga had telegraphed Washing- preceding the Coronation was book- agreed

nations appear to be satisfied with ed up some time ago. In many cases ndvance bookings were efected the roles they are to play with the ton asking that the Consulate at t

exception of Russia. The Soviet ob point be reopened and that trade be months ago.-British Wireless.

jects to the zone allotted to her war resumed. ships. The British delegates have Meanwhile, insurgent sources have undertaken to consult Moscow in this estimated that 8,113 persons have matter.

been killed at Malaga from the The scheme of control was general- beginning of the war to the date of ly agreed to at to-night's meeting of the Rightist cccupation...United the Non-Interventionists sub-com- Press.

DOMINIONS PART IN DEFENCE

NO NEW POLICY ADUMBRATED

First

ROME SITS IN DARKNESS

WHEN RAIDERS LURK

Rome, Feb, 22.

London, Feb. 22. The Prime Minister was question. ed in the House of Commons on Sir Samuel Hoare's speech at Bradford on February & regarding Dominion co-operation in Imperial defence,

sald: "The Mr. Baldwin Lord of the Admiralty made no new.

Even the hospitals and the Pope's apartments were plunged statement of polley. While explain

into darkness to-night, at one of the busiest hours, when the ing that the chief burden of defence expenditure falls on Great Britain,

shrieking of emergency sirene announced the danger of attack the First Lord once

declared again

from enemy bombing planes. that it would be a great mistake to some rigid plan on other

For 45 minutes impove

the whole, vast All power was cut off over aj members of the Empire. Similarly, radius of 15 miles around Rome. capital froze Into Immobility

for the It was necessary for doctors and held its breath, listening

as to economic questions, he muda it

and

clear that any agreement that had nurses to continue their operations nerve-shattering crash of explosives by the light of electric torclics. Hotel and the drone of hunting bombers, guests dined by candie light. Street But the lights came up again with- frame was stopped. People shelter-out the raid materialising. It was

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