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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1938.

SPAIN'S MAGINOT LINE 120 IN

FALLS TO

Franco

Claims

Heavy Gains

HENDAYE,

Dec. 29. INSURGENT HEAD- QUARTERS have claimed the complete 'capture of the Loyalists' "Little Maginot Line" along the Segre River near Balaguer, while General Franco's crack mercenary forces have smashed four lines of steel and concrete forti-! fications.

is

From Saragossa it announced that Balaguer, the bridge-head of the Segre River, has collapsed, and also that the Loyalist system of sunken forts have been! captured.

The Insurgents are said

BIG SPY

INSURGENTS ROUND-UP

SIAM'S BOY KING, Ananda Mahidol, recently returned from Switzerland, where he has been at school in Lausanne, to pay a visit to his native land, from which he has been

He is now five years absent.

thirteen years old. Fle succeeded King Prajadhipok in 1935, a council of Regency ruling during his minorily. He is shown being welcomed at Bangkok.

to be driving the Loyalists JEWS ALARMED AT

into the Mediterranean.

The Balaguer bridge-head fell after a surprise attack in the centre of the 90-mile Cataloniani front, where only sporadic action took place during the first six days of the offensive.

NEW LEVY RUMOURS

BERLIN, Dec. 29.

IN REICH

*REALLY BERLIN, Dec. 29.

MORE THAN 120

AMAZING' alleged plotters for the FORECAST tried early in the New

BERLIN, Dec. 29,

assassination of high Nazi officials will be

Year in the biggest treason case since Herr "THE FEVERISH HASTE

with which the fountain Hitler came into power. pens of some journalists move The plotters are reported along the map of Europe is to be led by. Herr Franz really amazing," declares the

"Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung." Niraisch, a former writer: referring to an article by Mr. and an ultra-Rightist, and Vernon Bartlett in the "News- it is said that they drew Chronicle" (which was cabled to lots to determine the assas- Hongkong in summarised form). sins.

Aerording to Mr. Bartlett Germany, }

in the course of the coming year,

It is not disclosed whether

will demand colonies from Tolland the purported plot involved the and Brigam, which, in the view of assassination of Herr Hitler. the German Government, would

Niraisch and 20 accomplices

sent rgater advantages for the fre imprisoned in Berlin's

Reich then the colonies formerly owned

by

Germany.

Moabit

Prison. They will be Refusal by the Netherlands and tried secretly. Belgian governments to comply with The authorities are convinced this demand, says Mr. Bartlett, that the trials will result in at

least 17 death sentences.

would have as a consequence Invasion of those countries by Germany.

The German newspaper observes

that such sentiments merely reflect the wish of their author to discover- FRIW that the

main problem in Western Europe have been clarified, and that Eastern Europe does not, perhaps, arouse any lonter such great interest in Paris and London-new regions in which aggressive aims can be attributed to Germany.--Trans- Ocean.

Ice Company's Revenue Drops

Several lawyers have already refused to accopt the defence of the accused,-Ünited Press.

NEW SKI RECORD

Landen. Dec. 20. At Earl's Court to-day, Sverre Kalterud, the Norwegian Olymple medalist, established a world indoor ski Jump record of 2214 metres.- Bruter.

"Political Situation":

Causes Big Slump

in

į bearing in mind the resentiality of the Company to Shameen residents, your Directors approved the purchase of 59 20 hp, o cugine for the purpose of generating an independent power supply. This unit was installed July last and accounts for the addition of $3,055.63 under the head- ing Machinery & Ice Stores in the A PROFIT OF only $690.02 Balance Sheel. I am pleased to say for the year was reported by the that it has given exceptional service Chairman of Directors of the and had it not been installed we Hongkong & Canton Ice Manu-would have had no alternative but

close down when the Conten facturing Co., Ltd., held at their Municipal Electric Power Administra head offices this morning. Blame tion ceased to function in October was attributed to the political last. Power is now being obtained situation.

from the Shamugen Municipal Plant. There

Turning to the account present: Mr. T. E. Pearce (Chairman),

see that the usuni seale tong (Directors), Mr. J. D. Thomson for the sum of $17,220.63. (Manager), Mr. G. (Secretary),

G. W.

were

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JEWS HERE are alarmed by the rumour, said to General Franco sought to straighten out his curving line have come from a reliable source, that the 20 per cent. of advance by driving eastward capital levy on their property is to be increased to 30 from Balaguer to Cervera.

Meanwhile Navarrese and per cent. Galician troops In the northern It is declared that the first to leave Germany for Austria and sector drove close to ilio vital

instalment collected on Decem-sent back from the frontier to Berlin, communication centre at Ariesa de

He then interviewed Gen. Guering, Segre, and Spanish and Italian ber 15 did not produce nearly as who admitted that he was responsible.

the columns In

sector much as expected, southern

Asked whether he knew that hammered at Borjasblancau

Oficials of the Ministry of Finanec Kleiber was an Austrian, he had to General Franco appears to be would neither confirm or deny the confers his moranee and said that . planning to converge his three report, although they revealed that the circumstances he could hardly Murs II W. A Mine (C. you approve the charge. Apart from armies in the vicinity of

the fact that it has been deemed ment would

Booten, advisable In 1935, Kleiber again probably be published

by your Directors to Cervera, biting off a section of in January.

resignation from the

the directorship of Catalonian territory by flanking Jews have already paid up five the State Opera and was granted a...

The Chairman said: As you will create a Reserve for Doubtful Debts to the extent of $500 which sum is operations, after which massed per cent, on their property, and if the year's absence

without pay by Goer-

from the accounts the considered sufficient, and that the forces will advance on Barcelona rumoured increase is true, it would inst As his contract expired in July, prolt on Working Account for the

Directors have again waived their mean that they would still have one 1935, this was equivalent to accepting year under review amounts to only fees, I do not think that the Accounts and the coast.-United Press.

When quarter of their original fortunes to bis resignation. But Goering did SC00.02, the lowest since 1920.

call for further come a loss DI addressing you last year not wish to take that step, lose, Reuter.

mentioned the

net position is that there had been a falling off in $10,889.07 has been incurred during public would have connected it with the Furtwangler case.

ive sales since the closing of the DISLIKED BY NAZIS

books at July 31, 1937, as a result of the year. After deducting the bal- ance of $1,325.77 brought forward the political situation. WIR absolutely persona

You are aware that this unfortunate from last year's Accounts there will state of affairs has continued, with be $15,559.90 at the debit of Front the consequence that our business has und Loss Account.

I now propose that the Report and suffered severely.

Ice sales have dropped from 2,533 Accounts us presented be adopted. figure for the year ending July 31, be pleased to answer to the best of tons to 500 tons as compared to the When this has been seconded I shall

questions 1937, and turnover, inclusive of cold my ability any storage revenue, from $51,051.50 to Shareholders may wish to ask.

Mr. $17,063.08.

Sewell seconded and thic You will be pleased to know that motion was approved., your buildings and plunt are Intact | On the motion of Mr. Alexander and in good condition and, despite sccunded by Mr. Chan, the retiring numerous alterations le meet inter- Directors,

Mr. S. 1. rupted power supply, the latter Dodwell and Mr. D. F. Landate, were functions efficiently. Your engineer re-elected.

Mr. and his staff have had a trying time

Pearce proposed the re- them for election of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth Land we are indebted to

Mr. Ho their good work and loyalty under and Fleming as auditors. diflicult conditions.

Kom-tong seconded and the matlon in view of the turn of events and was approved.

RELENTLESS DRIVE

LONDON, Dec. 29. That General Franco's offen- sive, in which 600,000 men are

FAMOUS AUSTRIAN DEFENDS JEWS

London, Dec. 20.

musician, Erich Kleiber

Austrian

engaged, is proceeding as relent-Kleiber, has sent a letter to the Sent: non grata with the radical Nazis, who lessly as ever after seven days, Theatre, Milan, cancelling his engage-repeatedly tried to secure his prema- is proved by the vivid descrip- ments.

ture dismissal, first claiming that be He refuses to appear because: "I was a non-Aryan and. when, the tions of fighting from "Reuter'a"-

have just learned that the doors of conductor disproved this, accusing correspondents on both sides.

the Scala Theatre will be closed to him of sponsoring modern, that is, A Barcelona message says that your Jewish fellow-citizens. Muste un-German" musle. planes and artillery transformed the is made for everyone, and I cannot Herr Kleiber is married to Miss hill-bound plains Llanos del Urgel collaborate either as a Christian or on Ruth Goodrich, an American. In the southern sector, and the artist." Pyrenian foothills In the northern | It is recalled that Kleiber refrained sector into an Inferno of shells and from renewing his contract us con- bombs.

| ductor of the Berlin State Opera in General Franco alms at driving the 1935 when radical Nazis made Loyalists from a line at the Segre effort to prove he was non-Aryan, River where they have held their

wir and also accused him of sponsoring positions since April, and from the "un-German music!”—United Press, Llanos del Urgel plain. The drive Erich Kielber, was born in Vienna towards Borjablancas, which is an in August 1890. During the crisis in

manufacturing Berlin which began with the dis important munition

Segre, missal af Max von Schillings, Kielber THE INTERNATIONAL RE-

centre from the Lower

Poverty Rules At Nanking

SHANGHAI, Dec. 29.

threatens to

to cut off the Loyalists also acted provisionally as intendant, LIEF COMMITTEE in Nan- positions before Leridh. The capture but soon gave up that post owing to king has issued a report on its

the Hon.

which

of Borjusblancas itself would jeopar- pressure of other work. At the end investigations into the changing BIG FOUR CONFERENCE?

dise the whole of the Loyalist posi-of 1931, when Furtwangler resigned

tions along the Lower Ebro and posts the leadership of the Berlin Phil- economic

delta.

conditions in and

between Tarrangona and the Ebro harmonic Orchestra a protest around Nanking.

against Nazi political interference The report gives a somewhat dis- Four Italian divisions are report- with musicians, Kleiber followed couraging pleture of the situation, ed to be participating in this thrust. sttit, but hin resignation was not stating that this year's crops suffered

Saragossa reporis state that the accepted, Insurgents this evening captured

the Ebro. It was

PROTEST TO GOERING

cesses on the whole of

Ins

made

Berlin Interested in New Reports

BERLIN, Dec. 29.

considerably alike from floods and war, and. are estimated to be greatly THE SUPPOSITION put forward in the British, French and Granadella, 40 miles north-west of Although Kleber, as an Austrian below average. Tarrangona. It is an important posi-lcitizen possessed a passport of that

American press concerning the possibility of a new conference While the grain produced in the ton, commandins the left bank of country, he was refused permission vicinity of Nanking suffices for the

of the four Munich Powers at the end of January, has naturally fortified

in the area, shipments are aroused much interest in Berlin political circles, especially in and stubbornly defertoly

onin population Catalonia's causing anxiety alike among dealers connection with the development of Franco-Italian relations. An earlier Insurgent victory at western borders, while the Loyalists and consumers, Transportation is Balaguer was the fifth point where declare that their main defences on said to be insecure and irregular,

Nothing, however, is known here PREMATURE SPECULATION? General Franco had pierced the the hills remain untouched, though white levies, as well as lack of bank regarding such a plan, and absolute Loyalist defences, The air force and they admit that in the flat terrain, ing facilities

Rome, Dec. 20. the situation reserve is maintained on the subject. artillery opened the attacks, pounding where most of the fighting so far has worse.

Well-informed diplomate quarters Competent quarters, nevertheless, the fortifications at the Ballaguer taken place, has favoured the Insur

give it to be understood that the state that Signor Mussolini intends to The spirity of money, combined bridge-head with tons of explosives, gents' mechanical superiority. which were dropped on stone pill-

with widespread unemployment, holds result of the visit of Mr. Chamber-ask Mr. Chamberlain to call a Four A Barcelona despatch adds that but little prospect of the recovery

lain and Viscount Hallfax to Itome Power Conference similar to the boxes and sandbag parapets which the resistance of

of the Loyalist new of formerly important Nanking in-

must be awalted before realisation Munich conference to discuss Italy' formed the strongest Loyalist forti- model army is believed to be prov-dustries. No less than 44 per cent.

of the plan could be envisaged, all claims to territorial revision under Bentions In this district. Then

of 1915, if the ing

to the insur of Nanking's population is reported most exhausting armoured cars drove through

he more so, since it is certain that the London Treaty in the course of conversations be-British Premier declines on carller la- the rents, and is inspiring the utmost to be in a condition of destitution. breaches and through a four-fold line confidence in the Loyalist rear.

tvitation to act us iween the British and Italian states-

us mediator between On the other hand, special trades of wire enlaaglements, the infantry- On the other hand, France's hend- catering for the needs of soldiers interesting the two countries, but

not only questions directly Italy and France.

Ꭹ men following up and taking the

The report could not be confirmed state that the insurgents entoy prosperity and maintain a con- that problems of a position.-Reuter,

more general in omein Italian quarters, have broken the Loyalist lines at the siderable number of persons,

where elinracter will come up for considera- there is a tendency to describe Segre bridge-head of Balaguer, and

The report goes on to state that on. have crossed the Loyalist fortifica- While observers on both sides in tons.

although Nanking reglen suffered Further

with Mr. Chamberlain's visit north-east,

It is also regarded as inevitable they destly during the past year, and the that Franco-Italian relations will be to Rome. Spain agree about the fierce inten-claim to have surrounded Baimona. tribulations to which it is exposed examined. Hence, in the opinion of aity of fighting on the nearly 180- in the northern acction they report continue,

Nevertheless, foreign diplomile formers, workern mile front, the respective headquar- further progress in the drive towards merchants put up a vallant struggle regarding the advisability of a Four working on this line because, as the

and German political circles, no decision officials believe thni Mussolini ters accounts of the progress of the the senport of Tarragona. Further for a livelihood. The general level Power Conference can battle continue to be widely diver- south-west they are reported

10 of the life of the community, how before the outcome have Mirrounded Granadellaever, is muid to be distressingly low.conversations Franco's headquarters claim suc-Reuter.

|—Trans-Ocean.

Ocean.

Kent,

CONFLICTING REPORTS

London, Dec. 20,

quarters

is

be

"mature speculation" every report

reached allan papers have frequently point- of the Rome ed out, the process of peaceful fer- known, - Trans- |ritorial revision begun at Munich is

not yet completed.-United Press.

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