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BOMB SPLINTER KILLS BRITISH SEAMAN

RESCUE CRAFT Great Naval Powers Won't Give Japan Parity

UNDER FIRE OF

LOYAL PLANES

Insurgent Cruiser On

Fire and Sinking After Torpedo Attack

Barcelona. Mar. 6.

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Following a naval battle before dawn between the Loyalist and Insurgent fleets off Cartagena, an Insurgent believed to be the Baleares, is slowly sinking in flames. The British anti-piracy destroyers, H.M.S, Kepenfelt and H.M.S. Boreas rescued many of the Canarias' survivors, but a bomb splinter killed George

SUNK BY LOYALIST TORPEDO

GERMAN

The Spanish Insurgent 10,000-ton cruiser Baleares, sunk by a torpedo, during an engagement with Government warships yesterday morning. She was sighted in the middle of the night by the cruiser, Lepanto which fired the fatal torpedo and sank

plangs

CRUISER IN within a few hours, despite the determined efforts of the ships

G. Long a member of the Boreas' crew, and injured two HURRICANE

others.

General Prieto, Minister of Defence, displayed aerial photographs of the sinking Canarias, and said: "We are prepared to fight the war to a finish on the seas."

However, the British Admiralty insists that the sunken vessel is the Baleares. The British destroyer carrying survivors said: "Certainly we should know the name of their ship."

The chief of the Loyalists' air force, Colonel Ignacio Hidalgo, claimed that¦ the Canarias was hit,

The Insurgent fleet 'comprised at least three cruisers, the Baleares, Canarias and the Almirante Cervera, while the Loyalist fleet, in a surprise attack seeking to break the blockade. .comprised two cruisers and four des-} troyers under the command of Admiral Lufs Deubreta. - United Press,

Second Insurgent Ship Struck

Barcelona, Mar. 6. General Prieto sald that a second Insurgent ship

apparently damaged by a bomb, and was belching

black smoke.

was

Meanwhile air force pilots, re- vealing aerial photographs of the

SCATHING

ATTACK ON RE-ARMING

Senator Borah Warns

Tugs To Rescue Of 6,000-ton Koln

Oslo, Mar. 0.

A wireless S.O.S, has been heard

0,000 tonner with 700 men aboard.

from the German cruiser, Koin, a that she is drifting in a hurrienne off Halten, west of Trondhjem. It is semi-officially stated

that tugs arc assisting the Koln reach Aaselund in Norway.

Another S.OS, was received from an unidentified Dutch steamer which is feared to be helplessly battling the storm.--United Press.

ONLY 20 SMALL POX

World War Possible CASES IN

Washington, Mar. 0. Indicating that a coming

bitter fight Is up in Congress Senator William Borah to-day scathingly at-

are in

WEEK-END

of her squadron to keep her floating. She was bombed by planes while, atire, she wank slowly.

JAPANESE MAKE ADVANCES

Important Shansi Cities Taken

Hankow, Mar. 7. Vernacular newspapers report that Japanese troops in Shansl have reached Yuncheng, 50 miles from Tungkwan.

All locomotives and rolling stock of the Tungpu line have been des-

at Fenglingtu, southern ter troyed minus of the railway.

Chinese troops in Shansi are not retreating from the province, but are remaining in districts beside the rail- way, and have organised mobite units.-United Press.

JAPANESE TAKE HUCHU

IN BLIZZARD

Shanghai, Mar. 7.

Hoover To Talk With Herr Hitler.

Berlin, Mar. G.

It was announced to-day that Mr. Herbert Hoover, former United States President, who is in the course of a tour of Eur- opean capitals, would arrive late Monday or early Tuesday, on a three-day visit to will confer with Herr Adolf Hitler at noon 01 Tuesday. United Press. ''***

Berlin. He

MERCURY SOARS TO

Driving on before a blinding MARCH

RECORD

That cool change is com-

RESPONSIBILITIES OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA LARGER THAN TOKYO'S

United States Apparently Preparing to Abandon Philippines Defences

London, Mar. 7. The Daily Telegraph naval correspondent, referring to Mr. Koki Hirota's statements that it would be gratifying if there were an opportunity for conversations between the powers for naval disarmament, and that Japan would press for the total abolition of capital ships and anti-aircraft carriers, says:

"While it is certain Britain and the United States would welcome any practicable suggestion for checking the naval race, it is felt here that unless Japan is prepared to modify her demand for a common upper limit of naval tonnage, which will mean in effect, Japanese equality as a naval power, no agreement would be possible.

"Japan has only one naval front.to guard. Britain has world-wide naval responsibilities, and the United States has to provide defence both for the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts. The abolition of capital ships and aircraft carriers will merely consolidate Japan's strategic control of areas in the Pacific."--Reuter.

California Death Roll Now At 130

Desolation Spread Over Wide Area

Los Angeles. Mar. 6. The death roll in the southern Call-

tacked the naval building programme epidemic is waning rapidly was have occupied Hushu, an important Indication that the smallpox blizzard, four Japanese detachments as an unjustified step toward "another world war."

contained in official figures of town on the Yellow River in Shansi He denounced the huge expenditure end, released by the local health ports received here. baille, said that two destroyers were "at a time when the people

cases notified during the week-province, according to Japanese re- near the Canarias. They must have sore distress to find menas to carry authorities this morning."

It is stated that immediately after BUT COLD WEATHER been Italian, or perhaps German, oa," and charged

entering the town, the Japanese that "something! vessels, because the Insurgents started more was contemplated" than a

During the 48 hours ending mid-started to ferret out the remaining

IS COMING de-night only 20 cases were reported,! Chinese troops who failed to cross the

war without a single destroyer. fence programme, judged on the basis representing an average of only 10 the frozen river into Shensi. According to Janes Fighting Ships, of the Naval Affairs Committee cases each day on Saturday and the Insurgents have one destroyer, hearings.

The Japanese also claim occupation Sunday. These are the lowest daily of Hotsin on the Fen River in southing, after and five destroyer-type torpedo boats. "To add much more than a billion averages since January 23.

west Shans!, 12 kilometres from the.

a period of fornia floods now amounts to 130. -United PreRS.

dollars to the regular naval appro Twelve of the week-end cases Yellow River, and 80 kilometres west unseasonal weather that Meanwhile the authorities have en- Barcelona, Mar, 0.

priations with the full knowledge that were reported from the residential of Huchu.-Reuter.

forced virtual martial law in order to It is officially announced that the such is but the beginning, when taken areas of Victoria and the remainder

yesterday broke all tem-acilitate the nearch among debris for Insurgent warship, the Baleares was in connection with what the other from Kowloon.

JAPANESE MAY CROSS

perature records for the further victims. Guardsmen, pat- sunk following a torpedo, attack nations are doing, is, a long step to- In addition to smallpox, "notifica

YELLOW RIVER SOON.

rolled Anaheim fearing month of March.

looting by off Cape Palos, in the Miditerranean. ward world bankeruptcy, and postions were received of nine cases of

sightseers who lined the banks at Republican bombers went out at sibly world war added Senator measles-five in Victoria and four in

Shanghai, Mar. 7. The Japanese attempt to cross the

Ly tree The mercury at 2 p.m. reached 84

Creek on the Santa Ana dawn to the scene of the naval Borah.-United Press.

and bombed the burning

the New Territories-three cases of Yellow River is believed to be im- degrees, which is the highest March River, the Mill Creek and other areas Later. dysenteryone each in Vistoria, minent either at Hoku on the north-temperature ever recorded at the in San Bernardino county. but it appears that the! Senator Borah urged abandonment Kowloon and Shaukiwan-and one damage which caued her to sink was of the boycott movement against case of diphtheria in Victoria.

ern edge of Shanal where the river Royal Observatory, The previous The Riverside county authorities inflicted by a torpedo fired from one Japan saying "this

is frozen, or 750 miles south of that record was 83.1 degrees, registered on have closed the roads, while sherlits often suggests Smallpox cases nolified war and gains nothing." He called January i total 1,048,

since point, above Loyang, where the river March 27, 1920.

and their forces hiked along the banks is narrow, but fast-flowing. At both the Naval Affairs. Committee report

points the Japanese claim to have this morning, although warm, damp for about 6,000, and it is reported

Temperature was somewhat lower of the streams seeking victims.

The Red Cross has found shelter the World War, because it is the be- the "most depressing happening since

reached the river, and are now conditions still prevailed. launching violent artillery bombard- ginning of another world war-an ornaments war.

river-Reuter.

a.m., but shortly

Ventura, Orange, Riverside, and the afterwards com- San Bernardino counties are menced to recede, standing at 77 de San "We have checked into the naval

Inhabitable due to demolition and grees at noon. race. It is said this is all for de-

damage caused by the floods. fence.

Are modern wars in defence?

of the Republican warships la an earller engagement.

H.M.S.

and

H.MS,

A message from London says that

Kempenfelt Boreas rescued many survivors from the Insurgent cruiser, Baleares.

A member of the crew of the Boreas was fatally wounded by a

# huge

splinter from a bomb dropped by Japan tells us she is warring in aircraft attacking other insurgent China for national defence. ships to which the Baleares survi

"do not believe such vora were being transferred.

„Three other members of the spending programme is justified by a Bareas crew were slightly wounded. reasonable conception of defence."-

United Press. The bomb exploded in the water close by but the British ships were nol hit.—Reuter,

Sunken Warship May Be Canarias

VALUABLE WATCH LOST

Miss M: Lemmison, of 3 Kimberley Villas, reported to the police yester day that she had lost a wrist watch, valued at $120, from her home, -

Barcelona, Mar. 0. It is now believed that the sunk Insurgent cruiser is the Canarias, 08 originally reported. She is a sister ship of the Baleares. The Ministry identity of the ship is not yet de- of Defence states that the vessel was Anitely confirmed. probably the Conarias, as a

The difficulty is due to the fact

of the

The

"Domei" Claims ments on Chinese positions across the temperature reached 78 degrees at 10 that 5,551 homes in Los Angeles,

Music Lures

Men to Death North China

Tokyo, Mar. 7. According to Domel's correspon-

4

To Have New

dent at Puków, the Japanese are) Train Service

allegedly using gramophone records for the purpose of luring the Chinese Berlin troops to their death.

Shanghal, Mar:4.

Un

U.S. May Be Forced Into Withdrawal

Washington, Mar. 0. It is learned that the race for naval and aerial supremacy, fogether with the possibility of wor in the Pacific, may force the United States to with- draw the Philippines defence line to Hawali in order to protect the Pacific coast.

Is known that the War Depart- ment is

considering the plan in connection with Philippines indepen- dence. However, some strategists feel that the United States should withdraw sooner than that, attention being drawn to the fact that in the ' event of war in the Pacife, the nece sity of holding the Philippines would require such a naval concentration as to leave the mainland vulnerable.

Attention is also drawn to the fact. that the re-armament race embraces super-dreadnoughts, huge bombers (Continued on Page 5.)

STOP PRESS

Important

MATSUI TALKS WITH PREMIER Fair weather experienced during The bright spots of an

. otherwise

Tokyo, Mar, 7. the week-end is expected to be re- drab picture of suffering and despair placed soon by drizzle or light rain, are that most sections have reported Japanese polley in China were 'ad- suggestions regarding with a reversion to colder conditions. that the number of missing people is vanced by General Iwane Matsul in Humidity is still high, and at 10 steadily declining, as most of them an interview with the Premier, Prince a.m. stood at 88 per cent.

have been found in refugee campa. No ruin

Konoye, according to the metropoli I was recorded during the week-end. Apparently the early

fears that tan' press, which also reported that Omelal forecast, Issued at 10 am, there would be 300 deaths are un- the General had informed the Pre- Ja: "Light south-easterly winds, founded, and at present it is doubtful inler about the latest developments freshening from the north-east. For whether the total will reach 200-in Shanghai.-Reuter.

at first, cloudy with drizzle or light United Press,

This correspondent reports that the guerilla fighters, unable to resist the between Koran, Manchuria and North

A through express train service rain later; colder." sweet strains, abandon caution and China will be resumed next month, mus towards to music. They are according to Japanese reports

by volleys of machine-gun fire,

from The Japanese have discovered that Tientsin, Executives of the Korean, YOUNG EGYPTIAN

a few of the latest jazz pleces also make excellent attractions--United Press.

railwayn said they had agreed to run South Manchuria and Peiping-Laong,

an express train between Mukden and Shanhaikwan, and between Shan- haikwan and Pelping, starting April

1.

IN CUSTODY

The

CHINESE PROTEST OVER ARRESTS AT BANGKOK

Hankow, Mar. 7. of the report from the comer that the Canarias and the Baleares!

Wuhan Jih Pao in an editorial the Repubiin fleet that the sunk are sister ships. At Gibraltar, Re-

Georges Phillippos, 19, Eygplan, to-day protests that the Siamese was the second ship in the publican broadcasts state that the

Representatives of the three rail- appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at Government arrested 22 Chinese na Nationailst formation, and it is like Canarlas was torpedoed

the by

ways will hold final discussions the Central Magistracy this morning tionals in Bangkok recently ly that the Baleares, as the singship, destroyer Lepanto, which slipped out The disappearance of his Austin the service at Shanhalkwan on March charged with having no valid pass charges of conducting a financial would have occupied first place,, of the harbour” under cover of Soven motor car, No. 8205, valued at 10 and 11. The new fast service is port and avoiding payment of a taxi drive to relieve Chinese refugees in

Evidence is also based on aerial darkness when the Canarias, Baleares $1,000, from where it had been park-expected to solve the long standing cab fard of $7.19.

China. The paper, says it is absurd photographs shown to the foreign and the Almirante Cervera approached at Statue Square yesterday, was problem of connections between the Dotective-Sergeant Russell, pro-

for the Slamese Government to re- press by the Minister of Defence; ed to bombard Cartagena early in reported to the police by Mr. B. S. South Manchuria and the Pelping secuted and a remand of 24 hour gard the relief drive as Communia- Sen. Priato, Nevertheless, the the morning Reuter.

Carter, of Repulso Bay Hotel.: Linong rallways--Reuter Specia). was granted, for further enquiries.netle activity United Prome

vessel

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MANCHUKUO MINISTER TO ROME IN TOKYO

Tokyo, Mar. 7. Mr. Hsu Chao-ching, Manchukuo's first Minister to Rome, arrived in Tokyo en route to his now post to- day. Following a brief visit lo Tokyo, the official will be leaving Kobe for Italy by the Terukuni Marie on March 18-Router.

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