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三拜禮四十月四英港香

APRIL WEDNESDAY,

14, 1937. 日四初月三

Hongkong Telegraph.

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REBELS CLAIM UNDISTURBED BY BULLETS' WHINE

GOVERNMENT

DRIVE BROKEN

Madrid Troops Suffer Enormous Losses

BILBAO'S DEFENDERS NEAR END OF RESISTANCE

Salamanca, Apr. 13.

An Insurgent Army official communique to-day states that the Government forces have suffered disastrous losses on the Madrid front, the International Brigades, most reliable units of the defending army, having been badly smashed in recent fighting. The Government has been waging a furious offensive and yesterday claimed that 10,000 rebels in the University City had surrendered.

The Insurgent communiqué relates that the Govern- ment forces attacked strongly after a heavy artillery bombardment, and were supported by Russian tanks. However, the Insurgents' accurate machine-gun fire eventually forced them to retreat in disorder, and six tanks were captured. Two tanks were destroyed by anti-tank guns.

The fleeing Loyalists were machine-gunned, in- explicably, by Government planes, as well as rebel fliers.

A'shortage of food is believed to bej bringing about the collapse of Basque resistante before Elibao.

Rumours of negotiations for the surrender of Bilbao, though denied in that port, have been current for some time. It is considered significant that the Insurgents have ceased their

hammer-blows on the wearied Basque

line-Reuter Bulletin Service.

PIRATES FIRE ON

H.K CRAFT

London, Ap-13-Crew-Locked-Up-As-

Launch Looted

MINEFIELD MENACE

Following an intimation by General .Francisco Franco, the Board of Trade announced to-day that insurgent war- ships were mining intensively the

aren between Sacratif and Cape Falco, Stopped by shots across its in the Mediterranean, and between bow, a Hongkong steam launch Cape Vidiod and Capt Mathichaco in was seized by pirates in the the Bay of Biscay, Reuter.

vicinity of Hole Island yester CORRESPONDENT DETAINED day afternoon.

London, Apr. 13.

The launch was owned by The Foreign Secretary was ques-} tioned in the House of Commons.to- Lam Hung-wah, who told a day about the detention in Malaga by dramatic story of the coup when the Spanish insurgents of Mr. Arthur he returned to harbour in the

·

Koesller, representative there of early hours of this morning. London newspaper.

Mr. Eden explained that Mr. The pirates were in a Hokio junk, Koesller was not a British subject, near which the unsuspecting launch

but as he was a correspondent of an was passing when it was commanded

English newspaper the Insurgent to halt. authorities had been

Informed

unofficially that His Majesty's Goy- When the master of the launch

answer

KOWLOON BARRACKS TRAGEDY

Sergeant Found With Throat Slashed

Worried Over His

Daughter

Tragedy occurred at Whitfeld Barracks in Kowloon yesterday. Sergeant W. P. Brown, of the Corps Military Pollce, is lying in the Public Mortuary.

He was found dead in his room at the barracka carly yesterday morning, with a deep gash across his throat, almost from ear to ear.

Near the body, which was found by fellow-soldiers, was a blood-stained razor: There is every indication that the man took his own life.

Sergeant Brown had lately-ben very depressed and in a poor state of

health, owing partly to the climate and partly to recurrence of old war wounds. He was also worried by the fact that his daughter was recently

invalided home.

Hankow Road, had been in Hong Sergeant Brown, who lived at 32 kong for 18 months and was very popular with those who knew him.

It is thought that an inquest will be unnecessary.. leaving for home by the troopship

The widow and three children are

Dorsetshire on Friday.

YOUNG JAPANESE

LOSES MEMORY

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ernment was concerned for his refused to obey the shouted instruc- tions several shots were fired at his welfare and would be glad of inform- ..ation concerning his

A Japanese, aged about 20, vessel, some of them hitting the position, In another

lying in the Government Civil Mr. Eden stated woodwork.

complete Hospital, suffering from the Foreign Office was in communi- Flve pirates, ali armed with

loss of memory. catlon with both the Spanish Govern- modern revolvere, then boarded the ment and Insurgent authorities In vessel. The coxswain and his crew Efforts by, police and Japanese respect of British subjects serving on were forced into the hold, where they consular oficials to establish either side in the Clyll War and taken were locked in.

identity, so far, have been unavail- prisoner-British Wireless.

ing,

DUTCHMEN

WIN BIG CONTRACT

Canton's $3,000,000 Harbour Project Tenders British and Chinese Firms Disappointed

Conton, April 13.

his

Half an hour later the pirates de- camped, after completely ransacking He was walking down Chater Road the ship and damaging the engine. yesterday afternoon when he sud- When the crew succeeded in forcing denly collapsed outside Messrs, A. S. their way out of the hold the pirate Watson & Co.'s premises. Junk was out of sight.

It is believed that he is a seaman

The junk carriet no distinguish from a Japanese vessel, but a check- ing marks, and efforts to trace it at up of the crows of ships in port this late stage are considered fairly yesterday has so far failed, to bring

to light any clue,.

hopeless.

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JAPAN REGRETS

ILL-TREATMENT OF BRITONS

Old

Keelung Incident Finally Settled

OFFENDING POLICEMEN GET WARNING AND REPRIMAND

London, April 13.

Japan has expressed her regret for the "Keelung incident."

Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary; announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Japanese Govern- concerning the Keelung affair, in which British sailors were tortured by Japanese policemen and a British naval officer grossly insulted.

These mercenaries from Morocco are the coolest, and possibly the bravest, of the troops under the Insurgent banner in Spain. Here,ment had at last responded to the British representations while their gunnere on the left engage an enemy only a few yards away, and the officer in the foreground watches the effect of their fire with his glasses, other members of the little advance past relax: one to ponder, one to sleep and one to roll a cigarette. If their, com- rudes are hit they will man that stuttering gin behind the cactus.

CLYDE

STRIKE

SETTLEMENT

SEEMS NEARER

West Scotland Yards

Threaten

Tie-Up

London, Apr. 13.

A more hopeful atmosphere prevails on the Glydeside, where there are now 12,000 apprentices striking, following intervention by the Industrial Relations Department. of the Ministry of Labour.

At the request of apprentices' representatives, Government officials are considering the situation in all its aspects, and they will place a proposal, the nature of which has not yet been revealed, before the shipbuilding employers and the Engineering Employees' Federation.

The main bone of contention now is not an increase of wages, but the refusal of the employers to recognise the right of the Unions to negotiate on behalf of the apprentices.

Unless the employers agree to a conference with the Unions by Wednesday, there will be a one-day strike in the West Scotland yards on Friday, involving 100,000 workers. Reuter Bulletin Service:

R.A.F. Pilot Killed After Border Flight

British Army Scouts Heavily Fired On

New Delhi, Apr. 18.

Replying to Lieut.-Commander Reginald Fletcher, Mr. Eden said that in accordance with an arrangement reached between the Japanese Government and the British Ambassador at Tokyo, the Director-General of the Formosan Government had addressed a letter to the British Consul at Keelung, regretting that such an unpleasant incident should have occurred and stating that appropriate steps would be taken to prevent a

Director-General invited the recurrence. The operation of the British authorities to that end,

ONTARIO TO FIGHT RADICALS

Hepburn-Challenges. Communist Element.

CO

The letter continued that the Governor of Formosa had reprimand- ed the policemen concerned for im- proper conduct and for laying hands on a sallor under examination, and for using improper language to a Bri tish officer. This breach, it was ex plained, was doubtless duo to the Japanese pelicemen's limited low- ledge of the English language. The man who spoke so insultingly to the British officer had been cautioned to be_more_enreful in future.

INCIDENT CLOSED The latter concluded with the ex- pression of the hope that the incident might be regarded as closed.

Demands Cabinet's The British Consul had acknow-

Solid Support

ledged the letter, and it was agreed that the incident should be regarded- as closed.

The British Consul had assured the Oshawa, Apr. 13. Government of Formosa that it might The strike in the General certainly count upon his co-operation Motors Corporation plants in in preventing a recurrence of similar Canada has forced the company incidents,

The settlement, sald Mr. Eden, was to turn over rush export orders regarded as satisfactory by the Bri- to the United States factories tish Government and he was sure, he Mit Henry Carmotors Corpora- sailsfaction that the case should be

with which it is affiliated.

be

to

has

In the House of Commons, replying

smug.

added, that the House of Commons Mr. Carmichael, vice-pre- would agree that it was a matter for tion in Canada has made public a finally disposed ofReuter..

SMUGGLING DIMINISHING telegram sent to the Corporation's

London, Apr. 13. amees in England, expressing regret that he could give no deunite in- formation as to when the strike would to Mr. W. Roston Duckworth, Con- immediately required would have alon of Manchester, Mr. Anthony be settled. He added that any orders oervative M.P. for the Moss Side Divi-

said Secretary, obtained from the United States in North China had apparently

In gling in plants.

Meanwhile, the belligerent Ontario diminished recently. Premier, Mr. Mitchell F. Hepburn,

Mr. Eden added, however, that in asiced his Cabinet at Toronto to sup view of indications which had reached whether port his policy of opposition to the him, he was considering American-born Committee of In- there were any further steps that dustrial Organisation or resign." could be usefully taken in the matter. The CI.O. It was which caused theReuter, costly strikes in the automobile in- dustry in the United States, have only just been concluded.

Dernonding the united support of his Cabinet, Mr. Hepburn declared the forces of Mr. John Lewis, C.L.O.. chief, and Communism, were max- ching

are going to together. We hold back the spread of Communiam In this

long as I am here." Brussels, Apr. 13.

He added that he had M. Paul Van Zeeland, the Premier, arranged for the

augmentation of

Van Zeeland Bargaining

With Berlin

Belgian Premier On Economic Mission .

be declared.23

Mr.

which

GERMANY

FORTIFIES FRONTIER

Lorraine Watches With Anxiety

A Royal Air force officer and his passenger, who had been fly-has taken the first opportunity to emergency police squads in Toronto, ing in connection with the sound Germany on the economic Communism's "capital" in Conode.

Hepburn said the authorities frontier operations against mission recently entrusted to him by had discovered that "Communists hostile tribesmen, were killed in the British and French Goverments from outside are ready to take an

Metz, Apr. 13. London, April 18,

Across the frontier from Lorraine, increasingly active part in the Oshawa a crashat Miranshah. Aero according to the newspapers,

The press in speculating on what siten the spare parts department of some anxiety the construction of French people are watching with The question of the cost of the new British Embassy in.

drome to-day. They were Pilot

When Nanking was raised in the House of Commons to-day by Mr.

tween M. Van Zeeland and Dr employees reported for work and demilitarised thineland zone.

the Oshawa plant opened to-day, 48 German fortifications in the former |Mr. R. W. Gibb. Two big contracts in connection S. P. Viant, Labour M.P. for West Willesden, on the vote for Officer J. B. Pascoe-Webb and happened at a private meeting be

Hjalmar Schacht, President of the were hooted by 3,600 pickets. But The Germans are doubling the with the Whampoa Port Development public buildings overseas.

Considerable bodies of hostile Reichsbank, to-day.

there was no attempt at molestation Maginot Line with a series of hidden scheme have been secured by the Mr. R. S. Hudson, of the Office of that it was essential that the Am-tribesmen fred heavily on British It is unofficially suggested that M. since detachments of Royal Canadian gun nests and tank traps and are Netherlands Harbour Works, a Dutch Works, replying, said money was bassador should have his residence in Army scouts near the past of Van Zeeland alluded to Germany's Mounted Police word at hand-Reu reported to be mining bridges, in-- concern, with hend offices In Amsterdam.

being asked, apart from the actual the capital.

those on the Saarbruecken. As to whether it was necessary to Espiwam on the Waziristan frontier part in a tariff truce, the possibility ter Full buildings, for the complete purchase

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Line

which covers a number bf rich The contracts, which total three of site, the total cost of which, in spend so large a sum as £100,000, Sunday and Monday, It was learned of eventual devaluation of the marks,

and the prospects of the Bank of New Kensington, Penn., Apr. 13. coal-bearing centres in the region of million dollars, are for the dredging cluding ronda, would be about Mr. Hudson pointed out that the Em- here to-day.

A civilian lorry, bound for Razmak, International Settlements supporting Delegates from the country's ten Saar and which also runs of the river and the building of $215,000.

bassy comprised a comparatively

principal aluminium plants, repre- the Palatinate from Firmas to wharves. They were called for on March 22, and, after consideration,

With regard to Mr. Viant's query large establishment, which, it was was attacked near Shinealgad, but the Reichsbank.

Dr. Schacht also met a number of seating 12,000 workers, have severed Kaiserlautern, ENG desired, should be accommodated in the attackers were ropulsed.

another report their amliations with the American he

The lattar

tar section is being Some peaceful tribesmen return Industrialists, and the tenders submitted by the Nether whether it was necessary to have the side the compound, and to provide

Is being most

· ́`Large" lands Harbour, Works were finally Embassy in Nanking, Mr. Hudson moderate buildings for all of them. ing to Razmak were also fired upon says he is proposing a big barter Federation of Labour and formed a rapidly, completed, while

Belgian colonial new union, affiliated with the Com-| barrecks are: sald to be in course of accepted, being signed by the Mayor thought it was the general opinion in He pointed out that the cost would by a Torikhel gang in the same transaction of of Canton, Mr. Treng Yang-Tod, who the House of Commons and among be spread over a period of five years, neighbourhood, but successfully re- produce for German manufactures, mitior of Industrial Organisation. construction at Netimarchen:Reus

sisted the assault-Reuter. (Continued on Paper) the commercial community in China *The vote was approved.—Reuter,

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