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MONDAY, MARCH 一拜禮 城六月三英港香

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1939.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

MILITARY COUP IN MADRID: LOYALIST PREMIER FLEES

Wrecked Plane Identified

NICE, Mar. 5.

PLANE

THE WRECKED

found near Nice yester- day has definitely been identi- fied as a German civil machine which was on a service be- tween Berlin and Barcelona, vla Rome and the Balearics.

It was apparently the air liner which disappeared while flying from Majorca to Italy last week-end.

Ten bodies have been found, and all are those of civil air-

craft officers.

It is also stated that no

woman was aboard.---Reuter,

Fleet Leaves Port For Unknown Destination: Army Re-organised

MADRID, Mar. 5. .

DR. JUAN NEGRIN, PREMIER OF REPUBLICAN SPAIN, WHO WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN APPOINTED IN SUPREME COMMAND OF THE DEFENCE OF MADRID, IS STATED TO HAVE FLED FROM THE CAPITAL, FOLLOwing his SUPERSESSION BY THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONÁL DEFENCE, HEADED BY GENERAL CASCADO.—REU- TER.

Cartagena Rising Suppressed

BURGOS, Mar. 5.

A NATIONALIST RISING in Cartagena,

Hongkong both by land and sea forces, is reported.

Generals March Together

Two distinguished soldiers well-known in Hongkong, whose careers have marched side

by side will establish yet another link in common to-day.

In London this morning. Major- General Arthur

Wollaston Bartho-

lomew will suc- need Lieut-Gen- eral Sir Oswald Cuthbert Borrelt as Lieutenant of Tower of the London

Both their cur- names begin with Both were

born

in 1878.

-af-

School, Major-General

Theywere-

Park House Pre-

paratory Reading, at same time,

the Bartholomew,

Bartholomew followed, Borrett is General - Officer - Commanding the

British forces in China,

It is stated that the Republican fleet has left the port.

An official statement issued from Madrid! later claimed that the Cartagena revolt had been crushed.

The communique praises the loyalty and decision of the fleet and armed forces sent to stamp out the attempted rising, and adds that the offenders are being tried by court-martial immediately. SEIZED RADIO STATION

From Gibraltar comes the report that Nationalist sympathisers in Cartagena seized the radio station by surprise and broadcast an announcement this morning that the city had surrendered.

The station was subsequently recaptured, and it was that many broadcast this evening stated in the

Nationalists had been shot.

Denying that the city had surrendered, the announcer

日六十月正

British Air Record

Imperial Airways planes covered à distance of 1,158,- 000. miles in December, last year- new record for over- soas flying.

Scheduled services repre- sented 695,000 miles includ- ing 123,000 miles flown on the Sydney-Singapore section of the Australian route, operated by 'an associate com- pány, Quantas Empire Air-

ways.

A further 463,000 miles were flown on special Christ- mas mail deliveries. Imperial Airways', own aircraft flew 282.000 miles of this total; aircraft made available by the Royal Air Force, 29,000; and chartered aircraft, 152,000,

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GANDHI SPENDS

·RESTLESS NIGHT

RAJKOT, Mar. 5.

A BULLETIN issued to-day stated that Mahatma Gandhi's blood pressure had risen from 168 to 180, and that he had lost two pounds in weight.

He spent a slightly restless night, and is weaker.

Mrs. Gandhi, who has been detained in a camp near here since February 2 when she arrived to parti- cipate in a civil disobe- dience campaign, was to-day

to brought by car her husband's bedside by the State authorities.

As it was not known if she had been released, Gandhi instructed her to return to the detention camp this evening.

VICEROY ENDS TOUR According to a New Delhi message,

Gayda Attacks Britain

ROME, Mar. 5. "EVERYTHING PROVES that the demo- oracies are heading more

the Viceroy of India has decided to rapidly for war," declared curtail his tour of Rajputana, and Signor Gayda writing in the

will arrive here to-morrow morning.

The news has aroused great in-Voc Italia" to-day. terest in political circles here, and it

He adds that their "furious"

is thought that important develop- armament is losing a defensive

ments may occur to-MOTOW.

In New Delhi "Iteater" learns on

character, and assuming' an

very reliable authority that nego-opening offensive one. tlations between Important repre- There was a fast-moving trans- sentatives of Congress and Lord formation from Mr. Neville Cham

for Linlithgow with a view to setillag berlain's formula

peace by the Rajkot dispute, thus ending negotiation to a formula of peace Gandhi's fast, will probably, begin by intimidation. to-morrow,

"We can be certain that in a few It is likely that G. D. Birla, an months time, when the war magazines Intimate

tone will friend of Gandhu, will are filled, the British represent Congress, and it is believed harmonise even less with the pipes he will place delnite proposala before of peace." the Viceroy for a solution of the dis- He added that there remained pute. Biria arsumed the role of nothing for Italy but to provide for mediator in previous disputes armaments, Reuter,

Reuter.

CONGRESS ACCUSED

New Delhi, Mar. 5. The "Statesman," in a leader to-day, "dishonesty" in accuses Congress of

A recent photograph of General Franco, leader of the Nationalists alleging that the paramount power is

said that calm prevailed, and that the "whole of Car- in Spain, tagena is cheering for the Republic:"-

The British destroyer, Boadicea, made a sudden dash. for the eastern Spanish coast early to-day. Naval authorities are reticent regarding its destination, but it is believed that the ship went either to Cartagena or

The buildings Almeria,

by which they will be remem- bered are Bar- tholomew's "pill- boxes,' withi which he fortifed Hongkong be tween 1935 and

Lt. General Sir •1938, and Bor- O. C. Borrett. rett's fort at Razmak, Waziristan, a key point on the North-West Frontier of India.

Major General father, who is 93, is reputed to be the oldest living Oxford Blue.

Bartholomew's

DEATH OF

E.R.C. Gets $50,000

Purchase Of Drugs

For S. China

Fifty thousand dollars has been donated by the British Fund for the Relief of Distress

in China to the Emergency Re-

RECONSTRUCTING ARMY

Northern Offensive

"Biggest Battle" Rages

In Guerilla Territory

Another Madrid message says NEARLY A QUARTER of a million Japanese troops that the decree for the reor- ganisation of the Republican and marines are participating in the biggest Japanese armies under the supreme com- offensive since the capture of Hankow. mand of Dr. Juan Negrin has

been signed by the Defence

Ministry.

The decision is regarded as indicat- ing that the Republicans are de- termined on resistance to the end.

clrcum- The deerce states that stances necessitated the dissolution of

the present organisation of the

armies in the centre and the south.

lief Council for the provision of The corps composing them, and those may be constituted in the future, drugs for various mission hospi-will be under Premier Negrin's direct tals and stations in South China. authority. exercised through

An appeal was made for help in General Staff. Kwangsi Province where thousands

Other decrees provide for

the

the

MR. HOSEGOOD Asst. Harbour Master

of people are moving into the in-demobilisation of men of 44 and 45, terior. Reports of great scarcity of who were recently called to the Passes in England

drugs to deal with malaria and other colours, and announce a number of WORD WAS RECEIVED in simple diseases among the refugees new appointments, notably General Manuel Gomez, to be provisionally Hongkong this morning of the have been pouring in.

For this purpose a refugee drug Chief of Staff, in addition to his post death in England on February council has been formed and the as Commander of the land armies in 26 of the Assistant Harbour whole question of the supply and dis- the central zone.

Premier Negrin is broadcasting to Master, Mr. Thomas William tribution of drugs in South China

is being systematically examined.

The plan is to pul drugs into the the nation to-morrow-Reuter, hands of responsible Europeans in the province,

Harold Hosegood.

He was 53 years of age, and left the Colony on the Canton on Decem ber 10 accompanied by his wife and two

The bishop of Hongkong received sons. His leave had been ad- $50,000 from the fund in Shanghal vanced on account of sickness, but it for this purpose, but the emergency was understood he would return to Reller Council wished to spend $100,- Hongkong later this

000 within the next week in order year. Charles

Bons, we

were at the Central before further military action makes British School, and the former be this impossible.

well-known locally

cricketer.

good, the "Bill") and Peter Hose to get the drugs Into South China:

as a

Mr. Hosegood first came to the readily produced.

Colony In April, 1927, after he had

been Harbour Master and Naval

kong.

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Japanese

It supplies 120,- They are attempting to "mop | centre-normally up guerilla forces in Shantung 000,000 people in seven northern and

central provinces-the and northern Kiangsu whose faunched their drive from five direc total is variously estimated at tons. between 600,000 and 1,250,000. A noval landing was made at the mouth of the Chao tidal river und In the new offensive,

this force drove northwards. An- other landing was made at Fenshul, on the Klangsu-Shantung border, for

At least six major naval fandings have been carried out on the coasts of the two provinces;

a drive southwards, Five Japanese columns have

Simultaneously land forces drove thrown a cordon around Halchow north-castwards from Taoyuan, on "city of the sea" at the terminus and Canal, murit castwards

of the Lunghai Railway and from Ichow and eastwards along the according to JapaneSO claims. Lunghai Railway,

AIR ATTACK

have surrounded 60,000 guerillas; A Japanese fleet has broken through the Chinese defences at

The attack on Halchow, which is River the mouth of the Sheyang

city of 100,000 people, normally a steaming and has succeeded in

was preceded and accompanied by thirly miles, up-river to within aerial and naval bombardments bombarding distance of Fowning.

have been un- where 109,000 Chinese troops are which are stated to

precedented in the present war.

At constant rain of bombs and abells fell on the elly for 72 hours, and when it was occupied by the Japanese nothing but a shell re- mained.

said to be massed. Landings have been effected north nd south of Kalochow Bay, in oficiai Japanese and Shantung, communiques claim that guerillas have been driven back twenty miles from the bay.

The

an obstacle to progress in the States. The leader adds that misrule, where It does exist, is entirely contrary to every-Briton's-fundamental ideus of civil liberty and justice, and em phasises that it does not believe for a moment that the Indian Ministers propose to resign and to tell the world that they are incapable of facing any sort of crisis.-Reuter.

CRITICAL TIME FOR JAPANESE

Democracy Turns To Far East

LATEST

ULTIMATUM

TO MADRID

Must Surrender By To-Day

Paris, Mar. 5, General Franco is asserted to have made a final attempt to persuade Madrid to surrender today, before attacking it with the heaviest forces yet used

persuade

during the war.

on

The city is surrounded three sides, and General Franco, in emphasising this, said he was LONDON, Mar. 6.

anxious to avold bloodshed if THE DIPLOMATIC CORRES-possible-United Press. PONDENT of the "Daily Tele- graph" states that with the war in Spain rapidly approaching a close, British ministerial atten- tion has been turned during the past week to means of hastening an end to the Sino-Japanese con- flict.

B

This undoubtedly is the true light in which to read the news that British loan in support of China's currency is imminent.

It is understood that the sum con- templated is between £3,000,000 and £5,000,000. By a technical arranges ment, which has been worked out, it la calculated that this amount will suffice to fortify the currency against the efforts which Japan is making to undermine it.

The need to husband currency rê- in these

resistance.

Soo Back Pago For Further Late Nows

Manchukuo Protests

Another Affray On Soviet Frontier

Acrves very prudently the main circumstances has been greatly in creasing China's difficulties in obtain-

HSINKING, Mar. 6. operations ing essential supplies and equipment

THE MANCHOUKUO battlefront

It is

is probable that special legisla-GOVERNMENT has lodged a British step can become effective, but Government through the Soviet

Government action is now necessary

Consul at Harbin rogarding a imminent.

This follows the fiant passage of series of alleged penetration of

through which

China

will also troops and their illegal attacks the Exports Credit Bill last week, the eastern border by Soviet obtain benefits, since, she will be enabled to make important purchases on Manchoukuo patrols on Satur

Britain of lorries and other day and Sunday equipment.

Undamaged portions of the city Gunboat Arrives

were fired by the guerillas before they retreated south-westwards to- GUERILLA H..Q. FALL? In Macao

wards Fowning, where they are at Chinese querilla headquarters fifty- five miles from Chefoo have, it is tempting to join up with Macao, Mar, s,

The Japanese naval Paying a courtesy visit to this port, claimed, been captured, and another Berlin forces.

states that the

of coastline, while the H.M.S. Moth under the command of Japanese report The appeal was answered by the Eleut.-Comm W H. White; arrivedi Lunghat Hallway cast of Suchow in over a distance of about 400 mites with which to continue and intensify

in Japanese possession.

around Halchow is over 200 miles. In B.F.R.D.C. and the $50,000 has been here on Saturday at noon from Hong-now lgnificant part about addition, large operations have com-tlon must be passed before this new strong protest with the Soviet

Chefoo, Welhalwel offensive la that the menced around The officers of the British warship this new

It is noteworthy that, in Shantung Agent in St. Lucia. He returned Emigration Of Jews are being entertained infermally by Japanese, for the first time, admit and Tsingtao.

of ten, thousand peninsula, the Chinese are in posses- the British Vice Consul for Macao, that Shantung Peninsula and northern Mr. F. J. Gellion. A soccer team Kinngru, an area from the ship's crew engaged a local square miles, has been recaptured by slon of mil territory excepting Wel-

halwel and Cheloo. the Chinese, eleven this afternoon.

This area was among the first cap- In order to accelerate the emigra- H.M.S. Moth will leave Macho for tured by Japan in the war with CHINESE HURL BACK JAPANESE

Chungslang, Mar. 6.

Five Manchoukuo policemen were HONGKONG MINES REPORTtion of Jews from Danzig, the Senate Hongkong on Tuesday morning China. For the past twelve months, however, it has been in Chinese

A major Japanese amault in two

wounded in Sunday morning's; clasli" hands, and Chinese Covernments columns, with two full regiments

with Soviet-frodifler & guards ? near Nielson & Co., Inc., Managers for of the Free City how put a scheme Our Own Correspondent.

have functioned normally throughout participating, was hurled back with the Hongkong Mines Limited, report Into operation whereby wealthy Jews. 4472.1 short dry tons of ore treated must pay expenses for the poorer

Major General K. Tanaka, Chief the country.

large numbers of casualties on the

Consideration has also been given Sulfenho on the eastern border, while for the month of February; from Jews who have been organised into

RAAN FIVE ATTACKS

Central Hupeh front along the King in recent work both in London about 15 casualties were believed to operations. In which 432.78 dry tons of Lead Con-an association which must refund to of Staff to the General Officer com- comirates woke produced, averaging the Danzig Government expendituremanding Japanese

In the altack on Halchow, which is shan-Chungslang highway Sesterday, and Washington, to direct means of have been sustained by the Bovlet.

(Continued on Page do p (Continued on Page ) sait-producing] principal 68.76 per cent. Lead and 10 oz. Silver incurred for speeding up - Jewish South China, left harbour at 10 am.

to-day to return to Canton. emigration Reuter. per ton

from leave In October 1935. He also acted as Marine Magistrute,

From Danzig

Berlin, Mar. 5.

China's

in

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