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No. 16161

FOUNDED 1881

六拜禮 號十二月三英港香 SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1987.

A REDLAND LOOK-OUT POST

Crack Spanish

Troops Rush To

Help Italians

·GOVERNMENT JUBILANT AT GREAT SUCCESSES

(Special to "Telegraph")

Madrid, Mar. 19.

The Madrid defenders to-day jubilantly reported that their victory on the north-eastern front has now become a rout. They said they were convinced that "the entire rebel divisions" were fleeing.

It was proclaimed that additional Italians has been captured on the Brihuega front and believed that the threat to Madrid from that direction has been broken. It is claimed that having captured the secondary rebel

日八月二

The big-scale manoeuvres, being held to test the defencea of the Colony are now drawing to a close. Picture shows one of the many beach look-out pasts occupied by Redland defenders on the alert against a possible land- ing by Bluciand forces. (Photo: Staff Photographer.)

positions, the rebel gun crews joined the flight, leaving 290 Killed By

their loaded guns behind.

Moorish regiments and Civil Guards have been rushed to the support of the broken Italian lines by way of the Aragon Highway, and are waiting for the attack

Poison Gas In

near the village of Hajanejor, where the next major Jo'burg Mine

battle is expected.-United Press.

Planes In Pursuit

Valencia, March 10,

A Beutenant-colonel in the Italiam Ariny and five other Italian officers, it is claimed, have been found among the dead following the capture of Brihucka, atter days of intense light-

The Loyalists claim that 3 most terrible effect upon the fleeing insurg-. ents was produced, by 45 chaser planes, lying low and using their machine-guns on the panic-stricken route.

The large-booty--taken-by-the Government troops includes

lorries. Anti 300 prisoners. allegedly Italians, have been taken. Reuter.

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Advance On Oviedo

Valencia, Mar. 19.

*G

الان

PROBING CAUSE OF DISASTER.

FEAR 620 KILLED IN EAST TEXAS

EXPERTS_TO. TESTIFY

New London, March 19. When bourers-censed work. this afternoon, 425 bodies of children and teachers had been

A new Government advance on recovered from the ruins of the

* Johannesburg Mar 31. One of the worst gassing ac- cidents in the story of Wit- waterarand gold-minbig Judustry accurred to-day when forty Europeans and 250 natives were overcome.

None of the Europeaus. were „endaniezed. bist there have been a number of deaths among the natives. The escape of gas caused a fire to break out. Reuter,

HONGKONG IMPORTS GROWING

the Oviedo front, which Republican New London Consolidated COLONY BECOMING Spain regards a second only in im portance to the Madrid front, is re-School, but it is feared that the

ported by the Gijon wireless station. total of deaths will be nearly MORE WESTERNISED

A promontory known as "Prasmnt's 620. in the slope of the Haraneo

Peak," in

Hills, dominating Övi

Oviedo, was drama-

An investigation board! of six question eye-witnesses and survivors

fically occupied by a surprise attack inchbors is starting immediately to

gung,

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at night, in which a detachment of an endeavour to solve the mystery Mours and Foreign Legionnaires' was surrounding the

the explosion. Four caught sleeping beside its machine field, experts from the Bureau of and scaliered with band Mines have been despatched from grenades and bayonets. A number Washington lo New London to assist of prisoners was taken.

in the investigation.

The Texas House of Representatives result, it is claimed, the Government forces now dominate the has adopted a resolution providing the road along which the slow evacuation for legislative investigation of of the city has been proceeding for disaster.

from some time under cover of darkness. As workmen pulled debris --Reuter Specist,

the ruins, a school blackboard was

llsclosed

written: witich on

Was

of East Texas are the greatest mineral bless- |ings. Without them this school

Ethiopians For Spain? "The oil

oil and natural gas

London, March 19.

The Spanish insurgents are trans- would not be here, and none of us porting Ethiopian warriors to Spanish would be here learning our lessons." Morocco, according to information-Reuter. reaching the Spanish Government, itį

is learned here.

It is

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stated that a vessel, the Domine, left Port Said for Ceuta with

Inquiry Postponed

New London, Mar. 19. The Military Board has post- 400 Elhiopians aboard last Tuesday, having come from Jeddah, where i poned its inquiry into the disastrous explosion in the county school, in took on 117 pilgrims to conceal the which about 620 lives were lost real nature of its trip.

yesterday, to obtain expert testimony ony The same day, the ship Cesare on explosives. Authorlics, how- Battisti, paused through the Canal ever, made light of the rumour of with 2,000 Ethiopians, taken aboard at a dynamite plot to wreck the school. The school superintendent said that dynamite found in a store-house on the school property was intended to blast rock. In mistructing an athlelle feld, It is understood that the British It is generally conceded that the Government has instructed Sir Erle blast was caused by an accumulation Drummond, the Ambassador to Rome, of gas, escaping from pipe leading to make inquiries concerning reports direct from the near-by allfields to the

Massawa-Reuter,

Britain Inquiring

London, March 19.

of the landing of Italian volunteers in school heaters. Spaln since the ban beenme effective

on February 20.-Reuter Bulletin Service,

MEMORIAL SERVICE

London, Mar. 10.

1,000 Hunt Bodies

The Military Board of Inquiry hat agreed that the United Press count of the tone of known dend, 4112 children and 14 teachers, is aproximately correct. The bodies of these have..ll been recovered: At least 125 ure

AND USING UP

MORE LIQUOR

Detailed figures of Hongkong's overseas trade are now available in printed editions of the Government's Trade und Shipping Returns for 1930. Here are some of the mere import unt changes among the imports:

1036 1035 Animals, Live

$7,920,940

$8,042,100 Chemicals &

Foodstuffs &

Drugs... $1,520,005 $5,704,738

Provisions $108,024,000 $123,410,837 Liquor, In-

toxicating $2,021,789 $3,379,272 $32,784,156 $41,030,433

Metals ...

ONE REAL CASUALTY IN "WAR"

SEAMAN WOUNDED BY BLANK EXPLOSION

MORE LANDINGS IN KOWLOON

In a mock war that has claim- ed thousands of imaginary munities, the fuq real envually occurred last night when a Blue- and seaman' was accidentally wounded by the premature ex- plosion of a blank cartridge.

According to the Telegraph correspondent with the Blueland

fleet, however, there have been

several minor casualties, when landing parties cut their feet and hands on sharp, slippery rocks whilst coming ashore.

By the "Telegraph Special .Correspondent

With the Blueland Forces By RADIO

H.K. RAIL LINK WITH SWATOW

MAY BE BACKED _BY_BOXER LOAN

FIRST SURVEY COMPLETED

Work is expected to commence

new soon on the construction of a

wil connect railway line which Flongitong and Canton with Swalow."

Preliminary survey work has al- ready been completed.

The Ine, which will probably be financed by a loan from the Britishy Boxer Indemnity Fund, will connect with the new Canton-Hankow line, separated from the Canton-Kowloon Hie by the city of C Canton,

It Is anticipated that ultimately these two lines will be joined by a through communication from Kew-

around Canton, thus providing

The Canton-Hankow line, which is In service but has not yet been officially opened, connects with the trans-Siberian service to Europe,

The Railway Construction Plan for South China envisages considerable extension of services during the next five years..

11.M.S. Berwick, 0.30 a.m.

In addition to the completed Redland (Hongkong) is now com- Canton-Hankow route, and the pro- mencing to feel the full force of our | jected Canton-Swatow line, plans

offensive.

Inland in the New Territories and along the Castle Peak rond the country is technically a

scene "desolation".

of

Railway communication between Kowloon and Canton has been suc- cessfully interrupted with the com- plète demolition of the railway

funnel.

have been completed for the cul- truction of a line linking Nanning

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Solemn Pledge

To Fight For

India Freedom

CONGRESS PARTY WOULD

END "EXPLOITATION”

New Delhi, Mar. 19.

Under the glare of a myriad of electric lights of the surrounding Congress camp, over 1,000 newly-elected Congress Party members of provincial legislatures stood and solemnly took the oath of allegiance to their organisation and their country.

President, Nehru slowly read the words in the Hindu tongue, and a thousand throats repeated them..

"I, a member of this All-India convention, pledge myself to the service of India, and to work in the legistures outside for independence of India and the ending of the exploitation and the poverty of her people.

Fire Won't

Dislodge Strikers

Deiroli, Mur, 19. Fire broke out hero to-day tu a motor-factory occupied by sit- down strikers.

Fortunately, the outbreak was not serious, being confined to a tunnel under the plant. It was eventually exilyguished by the atrikers, who were not driven out of the factory by the blaze- Reuter Bulletin Service.

ADMIRAL GRACE PASSES

WAS COMMODORE

IN HONGKONG

SAW MUCH WAR

SERVICE

London, Mar. 19. Admiral Henry Edgar Grace Kweilin, When these lines are com- died here today. He was pleted the three southern provinces

ties of steel.

£

Commodore in

training

of Kwangtung, Kwangs and llunan grandson of W. G. Grace, the will be closely interlinked by twin | famous cricketer, and from 1922

to 1935 was Hongkong.-Reuter.

Admiral Grace was born at Down-i end, Gloucestershire, in 1876. Pass- ing Into the navy from the ship Britannia when 14, Grace served afloat in various parls of the world and attained his lieutenancy in 1890. A commander in 1906, he served in the new 10,000-ton cruiser Zealand when on her first voyage she made a tour of the world in 1913 to show the flag.”

We effected this last night.

NEW LABORATORIES Blucland's destroyers Dainty, De-

London, Mar. 10. fender and Decuy landed three

"Queen Mary" this afternoon opened parties from Tolo Harbour at 2 a.m. the Helen Chambers Laboratories The landing partics, under cover for clinical and pathological research of heavy guards,, worked swiftly at the Marie Curie Hospital, Hamp-

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glead. British Wireless.

Conchistes can be drawn from WALKING GLOBE-TROTTER

the above figures.

WAR SERVICE

"I pledge myself to work under the discipline of the Congress Party for the furtherance of the Congress idents and objectives to the end that India may be free and independent, and her millions freed from the heavy burdens they suffer from."This was the oath, There was no question of the elected members taking office in the provincial Governments unless their condition, that Governors did not exert their 'special privileges, were fulfilled, sald' President Nehru. It was no mere puper condition, he de- clared.

Personally,. hc felt that the accept- ance of office would lower the Con- geese Party's standard, but now the resolution accepting office was passed -be-would-like-a-humble soldier, abkio- by It. If conditions proved impos- sible, he would request to be relieved of the responsibility of leadership. This, however, did not mean that ho contemplated raising the. Issuó Im- inediately.

GANDHI'S OPINION

Mahatma Gandhi, interviewed by Reuter, described the Congress Party's resolution, respecting non-co-opera- tion, as downright and honest, with- out the slightest mental reservation. It must be read ais an indivisible whole, he said.

If the Governors of the provinces wanted the Congress members of their legislatures to taike Government office he saw nothing in the party's resolution to make it awkward for

them to give the fullest satisfaction to the party leaders in their respective provinces this, of course within the very limited sphere In which the provincial governors had discretion- and the resolution asked for nothing inore.Reuter.

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CHINESE SHIP IN DANGER

New AGROUND IN MOUTH

OF YANGTSE

Grace had just received his captuin-Chinese steamer Chengteh is hard Desperately in need of assistance the when the wor began. At sea

TEN YEARS FROM H. K.hroughout the conflict, he took part aground 20 miles north of Shaweishan,

The Colony 1 paying more as a whole. Each of the above sets of Agures represents an increase in In some cases, however, the actual dollars for imports into the Colony. quantities Imported are lower.

A Chinese walking globe- trotter who set out from Hong- is becoming more Western minded with stood. More kong in 1929 to see the grave of his father in Peru is on his people are caling meet and bread, and way back home again. Imports in these commodities are in- creasing.

More people are mlso taking western medicinos. Our Imports of chemicals and drugs are the highest in many years.

BUS STRIKERS RESUME WORK

BUT MOVEMENT NOT YET GENERAL

But, although he has reached Malaya on his long trek around the world, he expects that it will take him two years to walk from there to Hongkong. He must make a long detour northwards to avoid the chain of mountains. across French Indo China.

in many of the chief nával operations, near the mouth of the Yangle River. commanding successively the old 7,350-an cruiser Grafton, the 5,250-the vessel at 3.40 o'clock this morning. Distress signals were picked up from lon Yarmouth fresh from the stocks,

the larger cruiser Birkenhead and the A Reuter message from Mahila new Vindictive.

states that the ship is in a very dun- In 1020 he was appointed president gerous position, and required in- of the Inter-Allied Sub-Cominittee on mediate assistance. Tug boals have Naval Control which sat in Berlin for presumably gone out from Shanghai, several months in that year and 1021. but no further reports have been re A year later he went to the, Far East colved. as Commodore at Hongkong, remain- ing there until 1024 when he returned

The ship is not listed in Lloyds Re-

to England and was inade Naval Sister, and is presumed to be a smail

The globe-trotter is Chong Shang-vla the United States, England, A.D.C. to the King. Promotion to coastal vessel. She carries wireless.

rear-admiral followed in 1925 and

yin. He left here in February, 1929, France, Germany, Austrin, the Bal-rear- by steamer to Japan, and after visit- kans and Italy, before embarking for soon afterwards he was awarded the ing afoot several cities in the Land South Africa,

HAS BOLIVIA GOT A NAVY?

CO. Appointed to the command of the of the Rising Sun, he left for Panama, He encountered many difficulties submarine service in 1927, Grace held via

San Fr

Francisco and Honolulu. in South Africa, where he found the that past until the beginning of 1932 Adventures aplenty befell him people less friendly thon in other when he retired from the service with during his longtrek through the parts of the world. He had a much the rank of Vice-Admiral. "SOUTH" "ANKOTISEN""CONTINent." On one better welcome in Australia and New “Seung down at fis-Ponte in Ports- occasion ho was detained. for six Zealand, where he walked for overmouth, he interested himself specially

London, Mar. 10. months by a hostile tribe of Indians, two years. From Australia he went in a local hostel for destitute boys. but eventually managed to ascope. to the Celebes, Borneo, and finally to The institution was well run and was Replying to a question by Mr. A large congregation of former seriously injured. The 1,000 work-

of Spanish Singapore. Chong's knowledge colleagues and friends of the late Sir men on the scene have recovered only

doing excellent work, but was badly Geoffrey Mander (Liberal). In the stood him in good stead. Besides Austen Chamberlain, including many five additional bodies up to dawn to-

Now, homesick for Hongkong, he in need of funds. Grace immediate House of Commons to-day as to the Some of the bus strikers in Scot-speaking Spanish, he has a good is retracing his steps, after a "walk ly tried to get substantial donations number of British subjects serving in representatives in London of foreign day.

land have returned to work, but the knowledge of French, Portuguese, about" that, according to a pedometer and when he failed resolved to raise the Bolivian Navy, Sir Samuel Hoare. Powers, attended the memorial ser- Jerome Crane, a Dallas embalmer, movement is not yet general. vice at St. Margaret's Church, West-sald that a mass cremation and burlai

2 English, and Chinese,

he carries, has necessitated millions £1,000 in small mums by a house-to-First Lord of the Admirally, replied In the south of Septland many of He ulilmately reached Feruin, of steps.«

house tour of Portsmouth and South that Bolivia had no sea coast, and he. minster to-day The King was to may be necessary. The Red Cross the main services have, however, 1931, and managed to locate his Io will compile a book of his sea. The task involved 10,000 visits, had no information that the country presented by the Earl of Munster citimated that the 50,000 burials been resumel-Reuter Bulletin Ser fallier's grave. Subsequently he set travels as soon as he reaches Hong-but by the summer of 1932 Graco was possessed a Navy-Reuter Bulletin British Wireless..

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out on the return journey to China, kong.

I well on hda way to access.

Service.

̈vices.

'London, Mur. 19:.