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The

FINAL EDITION

Court

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

No. 15177

四拜禮 號八月四英港香

THURSDAY, APRIL

8, 1937.

日七廿月二

Did Italians Bomb

British Destroyer?

Europe's Tension Seems Near to Breaking-Point

By HARRY DAY

(Special United Press Correspondent)

London, Apr. 8.

International tension seemed dangerously near the breaking-point to-day.

Developments imperilling the peace of Europe -in-

cluded:

The despatch of a protest by Great Britain over the bombing of H.M.S. Gallant; and the strong, although cautiously expressed, British suspicions that the Gallant

Was

bombed by Italian planes;

The Spanish Loyalists' charges that the German warship

Koenigsberg co-operated with the rebels "colncident with the naval bombardment of Santona Tuesday;" and that the German cruiser Leipzig followed n Loyalist flotilla and informed the Insurgents ashore of its movements;

The Giornale d'Italia's renewed charges that France and 'Russla are daily shipping volunteers into Spain, while French officers are directing the Loyalists' réorganised armies; und the charge of Le Soir of Paris that 300 Germans were captured at Villa Horto.

WARWICK LEADING

Then there is Rome's semi-oMcial MARKSMAN

-Charge that the Spanish-steamer

Marnegro passed Instanbul carrying 23 tanks, 20 aeroplanes, 30 trucks

and olher war materials, from Odessa.

Meanwhile, a rebel trawler has British Bred across the bows of a freighter, the Thorpehall. Later, a Spanish

cruiser, the Almirante

Wins Championship

Aggregate At : Service Meet

The finals in the Championship Cervera, also under General Franco's Aggregate in the Service Meet were flag, warned the Thorpehall not to shot off to-day at Kowloon Rifle [Range, the following being the proceed to Bilbao.

results:

The British destroyers, Beagle and Blanche, however, arrived on the scene in answer to the Thorpehail's distress signals, and the freighter proceeded to its destination, Blibao. United-Press. ------

Death For Chinese Smugglers

Police And Customs Men On Watch

Japanese Making New Overtures

Peiping, April 8.

Local authorities have received a Central Government order decreeing

the death penalty for any Chinese

Winner, Sgt. Warwick, R.M., 91 points:

Runners-Up, L/C. Baillie, RUR, 28 points; und C. 5. M. Fleming, Seaforths, 87 points.

Tho-Individual-Rovalver-Competi-f tion which was also held to-day, I resulted as follows:

Winner, Lt. Rateliffe, R.W.R. 49. points:

MALAGA BOMBARDMENT VICTIMS.

Wounded men and women, injured in the bombardment of Malaga, Spain, just before its cap- ture by Insurgent troops. Here an automobile truck. has been pressed into service as an ambulance and the wounded are being taken to the Miramar Hotel, where a Arst-ald station was established. - Retreating Loyalists burned part of the famous city.

Of

Officers Morro Castle Exonerated

New York, Apr. 7.

The United States Circult Court of Appeals has unanimous. ly reversed the trial court deel. sions which found acting-Caplain William Warms and Chief En- gineer Eben S. Abbott of the Morro Castle Kulliy of negll- gence on the high seas. It.wift He recalled that fire broke out in the ship in September, 1934, revalling in terrible ions-of-life- The Appellate Court set aside both verdicts and sentences, two years imprisonment for Captain Warms and four years' imprison ment for Chlef Engineer Abboti -Reuter..

FRONTIER VALLEY BOMBED

R.A.F. Planes Seek Tribe's Refuges

Runner-Up, C. Q. M. S. Wallace Hindus and Sikhs

R.U.R., 46 points..

ULSTERS WIN

off

Kidnapped

Bannu, Apr. 1 The bombing of the Shakt Valley

has

A recount in the Inter-Unit Cup competition. which was shot yesterday afternoon, has resulted in an alteration in the result. Instend

aren of Waziristan where hostile of the Fusiliers winning the event tribesmen have been sopinees of the with Dn

of aggregate 402, the been commenced. Acroplanes Ulster Rides take top pince with 480. Royal Air Force have been observed

An overnight count showed the flying

and low dropping bombs, the Fusillers scored 453 only.

effects of which are us yet unknown,

inaccessible. dwellers warning that the bombers would raid the territory and urged those who wished to

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WAR RAGING

FOR BILBAO

Basque Counter-Push Causes New Crisis

REBELS CONDEMN MANY

PRISONERS TO DEATH

St. Jean de Luz, April 7. ►

By land, sea and air the battle for Bilbao is continuing with a fury which makes the engagement one of the bitterest of the whole Spanish war.

The insurgents to-day claim to have buried 876 Government dend as a result of the last few days' fight-

men, in addition to 116 wounded, who are in hospital at Vittoria.

ANGRY FARMERS ing. They have captured, they claim, 960 unwounded

OUST STRIKERS

FROM FACTORY

25 Injured in Struggle

For Possession

RIOTERS PARADE CAPTIVES BEFORE BOOING CROWD

Hershey, Penn., Apr. 7.. Farmers have taken a hand in the strike here which deprived them of their milk market.

loyal

A-mob of over 100-men, calling themselves workers," took the law into their own hands to-day and forcibly ejected sit-down strikers who for five days have occupied the Hershey Chocolate Company factory here.

Among the strikers were many women, and they had to run the gauntlet past men armed with clubs and bottles. Fifty men, some of them cut and bleeding from the fight, were paraded as prisoners by the triumphant rioters, through hooting crowds.

Twenty-five were injured in the fighting in which the farmers joined with a will-Reuter. Seaforths are in third place with us the tertiorities gave the valley SIT-DOWN STRIKES, CONDEMNED 452, one point behind the Welshmen.

DANISH PREMIER'S VISIT

The

save their

Washington, Apr. 7. The Senate, by 75 to 5 voles, passed London, Apr. 7. families and their flocks to remove a resolution to-day condemning sit- down strikes as illegal and contrary, The Foreign Secretary to-day them.

Meanwhile, further tribal outrages to publie polley, entertained at luncheon the Prime

netin of Denmark, Bl. Stauning have occurred,

Three Hindus and! The resolution was introduced by The company, included the Lord Fre-one Sikh have been kidnapped from the Senate Democrat leader, Senator

Robinson. moter lorry at Knotkwa Jomohod, Joseph

The resolution also, condemns the making realdent of the

Runciman, the total number of Hindus

workers' right to collective bargain- country.

the Liberal Leader, Sir The Government has forbidden ing and stigmatises the industrial spy Police and other law enforcement son, units, and the Customs officers along Archibald Sinclair, and the former anyone to enter the territory beyond system as tending to cause strikes the Great Wall, have been instructed Labour Home Secretary, Mr. Clynes. Kurrangari, five miles of Bannu, and industrial warfard:

without permission.-Reuter.. to comply with the Nanking instruc-British Wireless.. tions.-United Press.

'caught smuggling or assisting any ident of the Caunell Mr. Ramsay here miles from Ragmand Sikha denial. by · any - employer of the

MacDonald, the

foreigner to smuggle goods into the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Morri-carried off by the tribeanen 14.

READJUSTING RELATIONS

Shanghai, April 8.

The Chinese press to-day states that a formal call paid by the Japan- Mr. Shigeru jose Ambassador,

Kinwagoe, on Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Foreign Minister, at Nanking, yester- day afternoon, is expected to mork the beginning of an attempt to re- open negotiations for the readjus ¡ment of Sino-Japonese relations.

Minister of

RECORD WITHIN GRASP

OF JAPANESE FLIERS

the

The rezolution has not the force of,

signature-Reuter,

MARKET DROPS SHARPLY

Tickers Far Behind Transactions

Inw and does not need the presidential Commodities Down;

;'.

ANOTHER SETTLEMENT

Lansing, Michi, Apr. 7.

Metals Weak

New York, Apr. 7.

The unwounded prisoners are being tried daily by court martial and the sentence of death is passed only upon those who "have intervened directly and with arms in the revolutionary movement against Nationalist Spain." The Insurgent artillery is pounding the Basque positions In the Ochandiano sector, and has been for a day and half.. The. main body of the Insurgent army has now reached a point half- way between Ochandiano and Durango.

BUILDING VESSELS

IN COLONY

Reviving Trade Gives Business To H.K.......

Indo-ChinaS.N. Co.

Profits Increase

from heavy

A Basque counter-attack Ochandiane has resulted in fighting and the delion has not yet „been decided Reuter

THREE TIMES BOMBARDED

Valencia, Apr. 7. Santander, says Government- communique, was three umes bam- barded by enemy planes yesterday.

The working class quarters in the castern part of the city were hit, and, one bomb fell on a tramcar, killing the driver and conductor.--Reuter Bulletin Service.

VICTORY CLAIM.

St. Jean de Luz, Apr. 8. Yesterday's insurgent attack on the Basque front was the strongest yet launched, according to the Basque defenders, who declare that 30′′ Get=" Three new ships for the rained high explosive on their lines.

man bombing planes continually Indo-China Steam Navigation but that the militiamen beld

rimly, meeting the attackers with

Co., Ltd., are now being built fire and grenades.

on

a

.Kowloon Dock, stated the

radio bulletins claim the Chairman, the Hon. Mr. J. J. capture of Urquiola Pass, between Paterson, at the annual meeting Ochandiano and Durango, but an of shareholders of the shipping cial Basque communique denies company this morning. Their

Sener Aguirre, President of the ordering, he said, had become Basque Republic, hoa broadcast advisable in view of the trade dramatic appeal to the Basque people revival and other optimistic to hold out against the invader at this signs following the union of critical juncture, assuring them that though hard-pressed they will win in North and South China, w

the end. He adds that although the Addressing the meeting, Dir. Puter- enemy has superiority. In the die at son said, “Although whipping in the the moment, the Basques will soon East naturaly enough is affected by have enough planes to repel him

of world Reuter the markets, it would be a mistake to

tonnage position

suppose that the tide of prosperity that, has overtakeh

shipping

the

industry in other countries has reach Labour Agrees

ed these shores at anything like full 80 ur flood. For the past two years this market has been over-tonnaged, for the amount of business offering. and even as late as July last ten steamers were lying idle in Hongkong. Les Outside trades Later in the year, China improved and, as vessels left in position the Coast, the tonnage

relation to the volume of trade bagan

Leader Should

Get Salary

London, Apr. 7.

to adjust itself, process that must The Parliamentary Labour Party

of necesally take time. However, has agreed in principle that the the Company is benefitting by the im- Leader of the Opposition should proved trading conditions and I am accept a salary under the Ministers glad to report that the net balance

of the Crown Bill."- Following the Chrysler Corporation

of steamers working accounts this Prices broke from $1 to $17 on the

The constitutional position of the strike settlement, an agreciment has

year shows a profit of £62,530 38. 4d. Opposition Leader in the State la been reached terminating the 21-day New York Stock Exchange to-day,

as against a loss of: £27,346 11s. Od. strike in the Rco Motor Car Com-with the Dow Jones Industrial Aver-

last year. After deducting the debits not committed itself to the amount of recognised, but the Labour Party has usual to Revenue Account and adding remuneration to be paid. Reuter certain credits, all of which are ex-Bulletin Service. plained later, the year closes with "a loss of £12,368 85. 11d. -

ON LEAVING KARACHI any's plant, which throw 2,200 menage declining 4.91, the sharpest drop

Already within sight of an all-time record for a flight from Asia to Europe, Masaki Unuma, 25 year-old aca pilot of the Asahi

The two statesmen will probably Shimbun newspapers and his mechanic, Kenji Tsukahoshi, are ox- to the Lih Poo, Dr. Wang may pected to arrive at Baura this afternoon.

meet again shortly when, according

formulate China's demands for the The two Japanese pilots took off from Karachi in their monó. abolition of the East Hope and plane "Divine Wind" at 5 a.m. to-day, and in a subsequent radio Northern Charbar "autonomous"

report, say they are making excellent, progress. regime..

Meanwhile, it is announced, Mr.ceived at 7 a.m; stated:

A message from the the plane, re-day, landing at Vientiane Airport, on the French Indo-China-Slam border, Hau Shih-ying, Chinese Ambassador "Well will arrive at Athens to at 10.20 am, Four hours later they

right

If all goes well, and will con- were land at daylight to-morrow

is returning to Tokyo, some time after May 20,-Reuter."

LIFE IMPRISONMENT: “

FOR KIDNAPPERS

into idleness.

this year. still unsettled The decline came with heavy soll- The only major strike Js in the Hudson Motor Car Company Ing late in the session when the tickers factory in Detroit, which affects were nine minutes behind. The re- 10,000, men.

action was blamed on the nervous- Mr. Homer Martin, President of the hess over the complicated gold policy United Automobile Workers, sald his rumours. union had not presented any demands

Other unfavourable factors includ-

to the Ford Motor Company, nor had ed the threats of further unionisation It threatened to call sit down strikes of the automotive industry, some un- in the Ford plants: Mr. Martin certainty over steel production, and thereby dispelled the rumours that the weakness of copper. the United Automobile Workers were Favourable factors included the ex- planning an intensive drive against pectations of a resumption of divi

tinue on to London, where we expect Karachi, via the air, flying to the Ford Company, and the company dends in several raliroad companies,

to

The two men have made remark

* able progress on their 11,000 mile

Tokyo to Bight from

London. They

again in They expect to arrive in London In less than 120 hours total elapsed time, for under 60 hours lying time.

The only near approach to this

Goldwyn-Mayer plane "Spirit of

unlon-Reuter.

the settlement of the Chrysler strike and the improved technical position. together with u declino in gasoline storage,la Mr. Henry Ford announcing the Dow-JONES AVERAGES

FORD WON'T GIVE IN "

Way

Apr. 7.

10

| left:Tokyo at 2,20 a.th. on Tuesday record was the flight of the Metro-❘ end of a short-lived: sit-down strike ESR covering the 1,412 miles to Talhoku Fun, which flew from Hongkong to In his assembly plant at St. Louis New York, Apr. 7 Harry Weiss and Martin Schloss in 1 hours 2 minutes. Slaying in Cairo in 60 hours. This plane later clay, stated his company had no in- Industrials man were sentenced to from 20 years. Talhoku long enough to take in fuel, crashed in South Africa

tention of recomiring the United Rails The two Japanese Biers are carry- Automobile Workers Union as the Ulties to life imprisonment in Sing Sing for they departed at 10.15 am, arriving

ing Coronation greetings from Japan sole bargaining agency of his workers. Bonda the Wendel Kidnapping today at Hanol Just before 5 pm.

Reuter United Press. Di

ags They left Hanol at daybreak yester- to His Majesty the King.

182.98 118.07 OF 4.91 60.03 58.20 or 128 31.61 30.98 On-03 101.12 100.94 OF 18 (Continued on Page 5)

ICE DAMAGES STEAMERS The year opened, inauspiciously with North China' in the grip of an abnormal winter. An almost Im- passable barrier of ice lay in the Gulf of Pechill from Tongku across do Chefoo from January until March

and

a number of ships, including some of our own, sustained consider- able damage to rudders and pro- pellers whlist trading in that aren.

BRITISH GENERAL PASSES

Dondon, Apr: B. Lieut-General Sir Thomes Scott,

An inevitable result of the frozen KCB (Indian Army, retired); rivers, and harbours was de passed away, to-dayal Irish Rifles in

sinte

of

tay, and the Shipping Companies He joined the Royal

whose vessels ward caught by ice 1888 and served in all important must be very grateful to the Inspec

including the Europ campaigns. tor-General of Customs for remitting Wark up to the time of his railr

criod of ment in that: perlod

Inaction,

"In the

tonnage dues he:

Fort Authort-UpriITING Aont

forced ontsin were unable

to provide

sufficient ice-bre Continued on Pare:51)

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