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No. 13701 WAQ W=#1 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938. LE CORY 10 CENTS

Big Espionage King Unmasked in Spain

SNOW AND SPIES HALT INSURGENT DRIVE Hands Of

Amazing Plot

Against

Franco

HENDAYE, DEC. 21.

HEAVY SNOWS ON ALL SECTORS OF THE CATALAN FRONT HAVE PARALYSED OPERATIONS, A C CORDING TO RE- PORTS FROM SARA- GOSSA.

Roads and railway lines are entirely blocked by snow · and ice, rendering supply! movements extremely diffi- cult.

The Insurgents reported that with regard to the main i supply services, extraor- dinary efforts

were being

made to bring coal to the men in the front lines.

The reports stated that there. had been several cases of motor cyclist's having died from injuries suffered in road accidents,

DENSE CLOUDS OF SMOKE rising from the doomed capital of Kwangsi province, after Japanese air rulls earlier this month, The

city of wellin has suffered immense dange from incendiary humbs.

FIRE RAGING IN THE HEART of tiweilin. capital of Kwangsi province. The whole centre of the city was reduced by flames whicht followed an incendiary bomb raid on December 7.

headquarters The War In China

Insurgent aviation sented to-day that Insurgent planes had collectively bombed military objectives and railway stations at Reus and Torragona, as well as the nerodromes at Heus and Villa Longa. Insurgent pursuit planes engaged in protecting the bombers. fought with Loyalist pursuit planes OVET Reus aerodrome, and one Loyalist | machine is reported to have been brought down.

ESPIONAGE UNEARTHED According to_border reports, Gen- eral Franco's offensive against Darce fona, for which

400,000 troops nearly have been assembled for several

weeks at Arngon and Navarre, hus been indefinitely postponed in conse- quence of the discovery of espionage

by border police.

The emplonage plot has been officially admitted by the British Foreign Office in a Communique. The "package of documents," which

the British Foreign Office communique admits was found by General France's border police in a diplomatic vallsc, being carried personally to Hendaye by the San Sebastian vice-Consul, Mr. Harold H.- Goodman, is learned in reality 10 have contained complete maps and plans of General Franco's offensive,

with detailed disposition of troops,

artillery and planes, and giving such

П

perfect picture of Franco's plans

Snow Halts Fighting On Northern Fronts

CHUNGKING, Dec. 22.

America

LIMA, Dec. 21. THE UNITED STATES delegation to the Pan- American Conference is FC- ported to have compromised with the Argentina, on the quration of opposition to agpression against the American continent.

As a result of the report-

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likely that the declaration will have the unanimous ap- proval of the 21 States at- tending the conference,

The finst draft of the de- claration, it is understood, eliminates the phrase re- ferring to "aggression from without", and clearly pro- rides, however, for consulta- tion and resistance against aggression dirreted against any American republic. Reater,

Crisis In Cabinet: Premier Sees King

LONDON, Dec. 21, THE CRISIS which seems

OLD LANDMARK COES AT ETON: THE ANCIENT PUMP HANDLE

·$30.00 PER ANNUM

Exquisite Evening Flowers

from $150

"A roally dainty gift"

to $750

WHITEAWAY'S

Confiscation of H.K. Firm's Property

LONDON, Dec. 21.

THE ALLEGED VIOLATION of British Consular seals and the breaking into of Wallace Harper's premises in Canton by Japanese troops recently, formed the subject of a further question in the House of Commons to-day.

The enquirer was Mr. A, C. Crossley, Conservative member for Stretford, who is a publisher and a well-known poet.

A "Reuter" message says that Mr. Crossley asked for the result of the enquiries into the case in which Japanese soldiers entered the premises of the Andrew Harpor Company in Canton, and seized motor cars and accessories there, despite British Consular scals being placed

THE FAMOUS OLD PUMP, which has stood for on the building. centuries in the Cloisters at Eton College, was recently Mr. R. A. Butler. Under Secretary for removed to a sture-room, as it was found impracticable Foreign Affairs, said he thought the reference to repair it. An ornamental fountain will replace it. was to Messrs. Wallace Harpers.

New Japanese Terms For Peace Offered, Report

NEW PEACE TERMS have been offered to China by General Doihara, according to the Far Eastern Correspondent of the London “Times."

These peace terms provide for the following basis for ending the Sino-Japanese War:

Recognition by Chinn of thei

| independence of Manchukuo,

Puct;

to be developing in the MacDONALD participation in the anti-Comintern

British Cabinet advanced to a new stage to-day, when the National Liberal group in Parliament passed a protest resolution against the opponents of the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, who have asserted that he is incom- petent and incapable of handling the affairs incumbent on his office.

HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW in the interior have. completely halted the war in Hunan Province, except for conference with him, though no report sporadic skirmishes.

Mr. Hore-Belisha later visited the Prime Minister, and had a lengthy

on its outcome has been made.

This afternoon, Mr. Chamberlain vislied King George at Buckingham Palace in order to report to him on the situation.

HAS FAITH

**2–Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek to take a "brief holiday," and to resume office at a later date;

2.-Withdrawal of Japanese

IN EMPIRE troops from China, and resturation

Bonds Of Common Loyalty To Crown

LONDON, Dec. 21.

to China of industrial and mining areas.

Anglo-Greek Pact

To Be Renewed

Londen. Dec. 21. The commercial treaty between

The company was registered las British, but a substantial block of shares were at present in foreign and non-Chinese hands.

Viscount Halifax had asked for de- talls beyond those already received, with low to deziding whether any~ for her action was required beyond the representations already made by the British Consul-General in Canton.

Renter

LATEST

Seo Back Pago For

Further Late Nows

Friday Mr. Great Britain and Greece will, it is Big Speed-Up

In Aircraft Production

IN AN EMPIRE EXCHANGE talk entitled "The British Indus- tries Fair of 1939”—which is to be repeated on Malcolm MacDonald particularly believed in politient circles, be re-

newed early next year. mentioned the healthy co- operation of members of the In this connection, the "Evening Four or five divisions of Japanese troops who were press-

British Commonwealth of na Standard" to-day called attention to ing on Changsha last month when the Japanese offensive was

the part played in the forthcoming tions, suddenly halted have now been withdrawn to Hankow.

renewal by King George of Greece, According to late reports, a meet- "There is one thing which dis- where recent visit to London greatly ing of the Parliamentary Under- tinguishes the people of the Empire contributed towards the satisfactory This move is believed to be secretary for War, Lord Strathcona, In particular from the peoples of the somewhat significant in view of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary world in general," he said.

negotiations,— reports that large numbers of for the Colonies, Lord Dufferin ond "In the whole span of human

troops Japanese

have been Aba, with the Prime Minister,

«Ο been has history, there has never withdrawn from China to Man-been arranged for Thursday, and it much talk of strife and warfare,

is believed that the friction in the "There have been moments this Kunming. Dec. 22--Mr. Nelson T. Government will be the main topic very year, owing to conflicting In-Jahan, U., Ambassador to China, left The extensive Japanese military for discussion.

terests between one people and Kunming yesterday morning to return movements from China to Man-

Political circles believe that the another, when we all stared calamity to Washington by way of Burma. chukuo have been brought about, question will be decided in the nearin

the face. it la belleved, by increased Russo-future, but Government quarters "We stare that calamity in the Japanese tension consequent upon maintain strict silence regarding the face again unless the peoples of the the refusal of the Soviet to renew entire situation.

world can learn to

DIAMONDS DISAPPEAR chuku

ON SHIP

BRUSSELS, Dec. 21. THE THEFT of diamonds and

that he has ordered the offensive to gold bars, valued at 17,000,000

The

conclusion ùf the Trans-Ocean,

Central Nesca

London, Dec. 21. Sir Kingsley Wood stated in the House of Commons that during 1938 the monthly rate of aircraft produc- tlon had more than doubled, and was showing a marked upward trend.

The Air Minister added that this greatly improved position would be

1038-British further improved in

Wireless.

co-operate NEW YUGO-SLAV CABINET

"That is where the British Empire has so priceless a lesson to teach. Its manifold teeming peoples are as diverse as any on the ace of the earth. Left to themselves, their

100 Fisheries Agreement with King George will leave London on together. Japan. The agreement expires on Thursday for Sandringham in order December 31. ber 31.

to spend the Christmas holiday with An average of six or seven train-the royal family.—Trans-Occan, to reports from francs is reported to have taken Londa of Japanese troops and military Hendaye, the border continues to be place aboard the Belgian steam-supplies, including tanks and artillery, closed to all but ometal travellers.

The Irun discovery led to police er Elisabetville, which arrived are passing through Tientsin

be delayed.

According

raids at San Sebastian where 100 here to-day from the Belgian were arrested in connection with the

Congo.

ship, and the

day

every

en route to Manchukuo. Owing to this military congestion, ordinary passenger and freight ser-

been practically sus

vices

bave

COOLIES CONSCRIPTED

about 75 miles.

Chinese coolies were

Rapid Revenge On Escapee

Interests too would clash as easily and as frequently as those of any other collection of peoples.

Radical Weeding of Ministers ·

BELGRADE, Dec. 21.

A NEW GOVERNMENT was formed by the Premier, M. Stoyadinovitch to-day, after he had announced the resignation of his Cabinet to the Prince Regent.

Prince Paul commissioned the Premier to form a new Government.

Posta, M.

spy plot. дру

COMMON TIES General Franco's police are The valuables had been placed in [pended.

"But they have certain things in reported to have cleared Mr. Good-

BERLIN, Dec. 21.

citizenship common-their

of the man of any charges of trying to the steel sale of the

HAVING BEEN SEN-British Commonwealth of nations, smuggle the offensive plans out of thieves obtained possession of them

Extensive changes have been made, The Mayor of Skoplje, M. the country. It is believed the plans without forcing the sate, which in- The Japanese are reported to have TENCED to death this morning, and their loyalty to the Crown.

"These attributes which they share in the ministerial posts, some of them Jovanovitch kas been appointed were slipped into the valise by adicates that they were familiar with:

resumed railway trame on the Peter Forster, who recently have brought them together, given coming as a surprise.

Minister of Posts. Spanish employee of the Consulatej

Canton-tankow rallway the combination.

between escaped from a German concen- them a sense of comradeship, and Five Ministers have been replaced without the vice-Consul's knowledge.

Wuchang and Puchi, a distance uf tration camp near Weimar, kill- taught them to co-operate together in the new Cabinet, M. Koroshet, the former Minister of

Those leaving the Government are As soon as the vessel docked a de-

unill co-operation amongst them is Minister for the Interior, who ANOTHER PLOT

conscripted ing a guard in order to do so, becoming a habit which would be one of the Premier's closest colla- Education, M. Magarashevitch, and tachment of officials went

Was Tachwrkitch, the former Minister of aboard, According to another border re- and police were placed around the to repair the tracks.

was executed later to-day. hard to break. The British Indus-borators in the Government Party, two Ministers without portfolio, M. port, Franco polion discovered a vessel to prevent anyone from leaving Skirmishes took place in n Burry! Forster had succeeded in escaping tries Fair Is one of their co-operative has been succeeded by the former Novakovitch and M. Hodlers. separato anti-Franco plot at Burgon! the ship or establishing contnet with of River and on the Wuchang-the German authorities to extradite

on the north) bank of the to Czecho-Slovakia, and attempts by efforts."

Chief of Police exfiz in December, chiefly among persons on the quay.—Trans-Ocean,

in Belgrade, M. Sinslang

The Fair, said Mr. MacDonald, pro- Atjimovitch.

In un oficial statement issued this the officers and soldiers of the 11th.

Changsha highway yesterday. Behim met with no response from Dr. vided an opportunity of advertising Artillery Regiment,

The Minister without Portfollo, M. evening It was announced that the hotels, bars and restaurants, and carding to a report from Milo.

Benes Government.

uinongst the traders of the world the

Krek, has been made Minister of general policy of the Government According to reports, Burgos was arrested 400 people, which, with later Some Japanese losses were sur-

However, the new Government whole range of the Empire's indus- Public Works, the former Minister of would remain unchanged. virtually bedeged on December 3 by arrests, brought the total to 705. tained at Matuwkwan, north-east of turned him over to the German au- trial output.

The former Minister of the in- General Franco's" police, reinforced It is reported that the purpose of Hangelow, during the guerilla raid thorities several days ago,

He mentioned that almost half of Warks, M. Stasovitch has been ap- by civil guards who were brought in

and terior, M. Koroshotz, is expected to the plat wE to overthrow the Inst week-end, according to a belated An accomplice, who escaped with the United Kingdom's £622,000,000 pointed Minister

the new from the province of Coregona,

France regime by an uprising of report from Lunghwn.

Forster, was captured several days worth of experts were sold to Empire Forests, while his predecessor, M. be elected. Fresident of All stroots were barred at 9 p.m., the regimenta stationed at Burgos. Practically the only heavy fighting after the affair, and was executed. countries, while of the United King- Kujundshitch has been given the post Yugo-Slav Parliament. - Traz when the police raided the crowded

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Trans-Ocean.

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of Minister of Education.

Ocean.

--United Press.

of Mines