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三拜禮號九十月四英港香

No. 10004

Commons To Discuss Issue

Of Compulsory Service

LONDON, Apr. 18.-"The immediate acceptance in principle of the compulsory mobilisation of man, munition and moncy power of the nation" is urged in a motion which Mr. L. S. Amery is putting down on the order paper. to-night.

Ho has nearly 50 Government supporters, including Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, Sir Edward Grigg, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, and Sir Stanley Reed in favour of the motion.—-Reuter,

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SAIL FOR SPAIN

BERLIN, Apr. 18.

COMPACT and powerful German battle float, consisting of forty units, including 28 fighting craft, left Kiel, Wilhelmshaven and Emden carly this morning for a cruise off the

AMERICAN FLEET Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish Moroccan coasts.

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LONDON, Apr. 18.

THE "EVENING STANDARD," referring to the transfer of the United States fleet to the Pacific says:

"That precaution will relieve us of the responsibility of safeguarding our nationals in Singapore and Hong- kong, and cannot fail to augment our naval power in waters nearer home."

President Roosevelt's message, says the paper,

a

has placed Mussolini in SUMMONED FOR DUTY

dilemma.

"Mussolini must doubt the readiness of his people to fight. He must know that the flout- ing of American opinion would have direct economic conse- quences in his country," paper asserts-United Preas.

Discourage Japán

the

Washington, Apr. 18. Major Elliot, of the War Depart- ment, addressing the National De- fence symposium of the American Revolution to-day, disclosed that the United States Beet was concentrating in the Pacific in order to discourage Japan from taking advantage of the European crbis to seize mare, land fr

Asia.

"The United States has become the leading naval power, because of Britain's realisation that the military airplane makes entire dependence on her flect impossible," he sald.- United Press.

Tokyo Reaction

-TOKYO, “Apr,"18.′′ A press message from Washington says that the concentration of American naval forces in the Pacific Ocean is doubly significant in view of the threatening political situation in Europe.

The

message points oul thati American Fleet movements are garded as a "preventive"

measure

COL. LINDBERCH

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18. COLONEL CHAS. A.

against Japan's possible participation Lindbergh has been summoned service from to-

In a

war launched by Germany and for active Italy. Without Japan's co-operation morrow. Italy and Germany probably would not go to

waha

He will be assigned to the

Secondly, American Fleet con-office of the Chief of the Air centration is calculated as a precan- Corps, for special dufles, tionary measure, proteel supply

routes with Netherlands East Indies Reuter.

and British Indin, in the event of the formation of the Italo-German--

Japanese front in war,--Dome!,

Strike Ties Up Tankers

Deadlock On N.Y. Waterfront

New York, Apr. 18. TWENTY-FIVE oil tanker's

U.S. Air Expansion

Washington, Apr. 18.

Mr. Harry Woodring, Secretary for War, to-day announced that Colonel Charles Lindberghi has been ordered to active duty effective as from to- morrow in connection with the vast Air Corps expansion programme.

Assigned to the Chief of the Air

It has been officially denied that there is any strategic significance attached to the cruise.

Meanwhile the Rumanian Foreign Minister has arrived here and has been in conference with the German Foreign Minister.

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H.MS, CARDIFF

It is reported that Herr Ribbenthrop will ask MA LEAF FROM “MEIN KAMPF" Gafencu to say plainly whether Rumania intends to join| the Anglo-French anti-aggression bloc.

It is also reported that Mussolini plans to win Hungary's close support for the Axis- ANGLO-FRENCH

PRECAUTIONS

Reports from Gibraltar state that more than a hundred and fifty British and French warships are now patrolling the approaches to the Mediterranean.

Spain Raises Minority Cry In Gibraltar

PROPAGANDA FOR the

re-incorporation of

Gibraltar is being carried on in Spain by the Falangists,,

Salamanca

Quarters close to the French authorities here have says a "Trans-Ocean” message. reported that prompt action has thwarted a possible coup de force in Tangiers.—United Press. BOUND FOR ITALY?

BERLIN, Apr. 18.

TWENTY-FIVE warships, together with auxiliary vessels, participating in a cruise in the Atlantic which will last a month off the West Spanish peninsula, began assembling to-day off Heligoland.

Battleships and submarines left Kiel naval base during the night, and the remainder of the squadron left Wilhelmshaven this morning.

It is stated that the ultimate destination of the_fleet will be Italian harbours.-Reuter.

GIBRALTAR PREPARES

GIBRALTAR, Apr. 18. OVER A DOZEN French warships here kept up steam all day.

The crews returned to their ships at sunset after being allowed ashore for two hours.

The harbour entrance was closed at dusk and two destroyers have been patrolling the Bay,

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The "Paris Soir" to-day declares that many shop Segovia OMAC windows in Spain are dis-

playing maps with

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the

• Caceres ledo CANTY caption: "What must be ESTREMADURA

changed in the Mediterra- Badajoz

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On these maps, Gibraltar Cordova Joen is shown as a part of Spain. The paper *also reports that Tangiers is being demanded by the Falangists, since, it is claimed, it formed in reality part of Spanish Morocco.

Seville

Jerez Melaga

Trans-Occan" reports it; thus: ZONE "The now Spain can no longer tolerate enslavement on her own soll, since this constituted an insult to her honour."

MOROCCO

SPANISH MOVEMENTS OPPOSITE GIBRALTAR

BATTLE RAGES

Chinese Regain 500 Villages

CHINESE FORCES con- verging on Canton from the south-west, west and north- west have succeeded in |forming a common frontier over ninety miles in - length, stretching from the north bank of the East River at Sheklung semi-circularly around the old Kwangtung capital through Taengshing and the Canton-Hankow Railway town of Tailong.

As a result of the operations of the past week, the Chinese forces claim to have recaptured over 6,000 square miles of territory around Canton. this territory are -over villages, with a normal populu- tion of several millions,

In

500

It is claimed. that the Chinese are now in undisputed possession of the entire Kowloon peninsula south of

the East River, with the exception

of the area on the south bank of the East River around Tungkung. Japanese forces defending Tungkung ships. are being covered by Japanese war- Ten Miles Away

The Chinese front is now

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DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED

Death sentence parsed on four men. In connection with the False Teeth Murder Case has been commoted to penal servitude for ten years.

the Clemency was exercised 'by Governor-In-Council at this mor ning's meeting of the Executive,

The four men are Lam Kam-chuen, Fung Chak, Li Shek-man and Leung TANGIERS, Apr. 18. Independent observers here com-

Tal IT IS REPORTED here that ment that in such an atmosphere,

the They were found Guilty at efforts of statesmen to restore the twenty-six four-pounder guna situation in Europe (and the British der of Leung Hung, who was killed

March Criminal sessions of the mar have been placed along the Government has sought to make its Steel helmeted British troops Spanish coast facing Gibraltar. contribution by close re-definition of when an orange, which was used by are keeping sentry at the

Travellers from Lalinen claim its own position, and from same paint a member of the armed gang of frontier gates which have been they have seen field guns being Roosevelt's initiative need to be lodred his false teeth...

of view has welcomed President which the four accused were parties. closed, while the road to placed in garages and stables. ecconded by self-control, and cool- exercised was conveyed to the four Notification that clemency had been They state that there is no more ness and calmness of judgment, on men at Stanley prison shortly before barricaded.

room available in military barracks the part of peoples. British Wireless. Reports from Spain say that for storage purposes.-United Press.

Mainland Fortifications after leaving Soville contingents Franco Masses Troops

London. Apr. 18. Apr. 18.-Information

Foreign

AMERICA PREPARES Gibraltar from Spain has been

FOR WAR

Corps office, Colonel Lindbergh will To Protect Interests

survey all aviation research facilities

which are available to the army, on the completion of which he will make

In confidential report.

This report would probably in- corporate all the pertinent informa

tion regarding European air fighting

of Spanish troops have returned RADAT,

to the Spanish frontier districts. from Tangier says that picked troops Affairs told the House of Commons These included cavalry of General Franco's armies are being thinl the Government had no informa In Event Of Clash regiments which are now billeted Demet, led to Spanish Morocco.tion about the construction of new

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

strength which Colonel Lindbergh has called a conference regarding during travels the protection of the American

are reported to be tied up in has gathered

the docka as a result of a strike abroad.

The Colonel is thoroughly familiar financial and economic structure

at San Roque and Algereiras. United Press.

aerodromes or fortifications in Spain, eltler near the Pyrenees frontier, or

the neighbourhood of Gibraltar.- British Wireless,

"No Designs On Tangior LONDON, Apr. 18.-The Spanish authorities at Tetuan have given the British Consul-General in Tangier an Italian Volunteers Return Home assurance that there is no truth at all in the reports of un

NAPLES, Ape. 18-Marking the Impending Spanish occupation of Tangler. Arst batch of the Italian volunteers to evacuate Spain, 2,000 Italian troops, together with two Alpine Mountaineer battlions, arrived Castellammare in the Bay of Naples on Monday.--Domel.

Portuguesa Envoy Seos Halifax.

London, Apr. 18. The Portuguese Ambassador, Senor

by the National Maritime Union.with the Fascist air forces, and has against a threat of war in MS. Cardiff, at present servi Reuter Special.

also

The strike followed tho

inspected Russia's air force. Europe. collapse of negotiations between

It in speculated here whether the Union and four large oil Lindbergh's recent survey flights in Europe might have been pre-arranged companies.

duly.-United Press...

The tankers are being stopped as they dock here and at other ports..

Nearly 6,000 members of the crews of some 136 tankers have been called i out.--Reuter.

PARIS, Apr. 18.-M. de Monzic, Minister for Public Works, wi

CARDIFF TO LEAVE FAR EAST LONDON, Apr. 18. The Admiralty announces that ing on the China Station and Amongst those called to conter were Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Which is now in Hongkong, is to

of return to the United Kingdom. Secretary Morgenthau, Henry in anticipation of his return to active Agriculture, Mr. Honry Wallace and The vessel is leaving about

Reserve the end of April, and will be Chairman of the Federal Board, Mr. Marriner Eccles. Commillee hearings to-day, Senator crufser-Reuter, ... Borah told Dr. Charles Fenwick, the| neutrality law expert who was test- the Committee, that fying before sanctions against" aggressors, were nets of war.United Press.

Japanese Secret Organ Raided

Chungking, Apr. 19..

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A Japanese secret organ in the

was

aholy leave for Warsaw to perform British Concession in Tientsin the opening ceremony of a new stretch of Polish railway line, linking rulded by the British authorities, ac the Baltic with Polish Upper Silesia. cording to a report from the norther The opening ceremony will take port city. Five pistols, it is stated, place on Sunday next-Trans-Ocean. were discovered-Central Now,

U.S. TO WIDEN CANAL

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18-A bill authorising the expenditure of $277,000,000' for improving and 'enlarging the Panama Canal, has been approved by the Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Representativen-Reiter,

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BIG SHIP ABLAZE

LE HAVRE-A serious fire bas broken out aboard the .34,000-tan French liner Paris,

The fire is blazing in the interior of the vessel despite efforts of fire- men.

cuter.

The Agence Radio at Le Havre

At the Senate Foreign Relatione Placed in due course, by à lirger | British Consul-General in Tangier Monteiro, called on Viscount Halifax reports that the fire, the origin of

Plans Drawn Up.

London Inquiries

London, Apr. 18. Enquiries on the subject of rum- ours of an Intended Spanish occupa- re-tion of Tangier in offletal quarters in London elicit the statement that the

has been given an.

Assurance by tho Spanish authorities at Tetuan that at the latter's request this afternoon. which is as, yet unknown, broke out France On War Footing

It is understood that Viscount on the 8.8. Paris as she was due to there is no truth in these suggestions, Paris, Apr. 18. which are described by the Spanish Halifax requested the interview for sail for New York. The Couhell of Ministers, prisided authorities as sensational

The first reports stated that tho fire and ab- the purpose of "keepng the Ambas

andor informed as to the latest Bri- was spreading fast, by President Lebrun, to-day cracted solutely false.

Workar Arrested The fire started in the bakery at

tion.

a series of decrees, enforcing the These reports are not the only ones tlah moves in the International situs- Prime Minister's complete programme of an alarmist nature in circulation Viscouni Halifax was no doubt able to put France on an

an emergency war |m$' the present time, and such rumours to give details as to what has hap. WASHINGTON, Apr. 18.-Pres-footing.

are indicative of the highly nervous dent Roosevelt has summoned, bla The decrces operate both ladus- state of mind all over Europe, which pened, particularly in the Medite chief financial and economic advisers trially and economically by creating, has resulted from the repeated shocks ranean, since his last multing with for a discussion of the whole subject government control of all raw to its confidence in the last twelve the Ambassador a fortnight ago

Reuter Special. of world trade us it would be affected materials and ar industries months or more, and particularly from "

the outbreak of hostililles. Place for the conduct of American security and commodity markets in! the event of a European, war, which were among the subjects for discus sion, have already been tentatively drawn up during departmental con versations-Reuter.

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The names 'rabidly spread to the main saloon and the main deck. All fire fighting apparatus in Le livre has been called out, but the entire promenade deck was a lame...” by: midnight,

the

ta! the effects of the recent events

Franco-Spanish Discussions Floet's itinerary

Central and South-Eastern Europe.

A strong wind is whipping RABAT, Apr 18-A mission of They well Illustrate the difficulty Derlin Apr. 18. which been emphasised by both the high Spanish officials arrived from Bamos and it is feared that the on- The German warships which Prime Minister and the Foreign Spanish Morocco to-day to discuss tire ship will be burned out, steamed out to son today, will touch Secretary in recent statements of the with the French authorities relations The cause of the fire is t at the following ports::

rebuilding of confidence, once it hits between Spanish and French Morocco: ja` mystery," but a dock workir — 218. been shattered.

--Reuter,

[been arrested/United Press.

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