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Mane DIETRICH CHARLES BOYER
The Garden of Allah
220-9.30
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At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
Including
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Technicolour
"And" "Mickey's Rival”
Mickey Mouse
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COMMENCING TO-MORROW *.
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"ANTHONY ADVERSE”
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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1937.
HUNGER RIOTS BREAK
OUT
IN MADRID
VIVID STORY IN UNCENSORED
DESPATCH TO LONDON
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
LONDON, TO-DAY, THE GAUNT SPECTRE OF STARVATION WHICH HAS BEEN HANGING OVER THE BELEAGUERED TROOPS AND CIVILIANS IN MADRID IS DRIVING THE POPULATION TO BREAKING POINT.
DESPATCH
THIS IS REVEALED IN AN UNCENSORED FROM THE OLD CAPITAL BY THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.”
HUNGER RIOTS, HE SAYS, ARE BREAKING OUT DAILY AND THE AUTHORITIES HAVE HAD TO WITHDRAW MILITIA FROM THE TRENCHES TO KEEP PEACE ON THE HOME FRONT.
Rolls Royce Factory Strike
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
London, To-day.
Officially, the correspondent says, each person in Madrid is entitled to a daily ration of 300 grammes of bread.
Only a lucky few, however, have ever managed to obtain even this small ration.
Other foodstuffs are also ex- tremely scarce, such as it is obtain- able being sold at prices beyond the reach of all but the most wealthy.
BOMBING THE CAUSE
مره
The correspondent attributes this state of affairs to the efficient bomb- ing of the insurgent planes, who The Air Ministry is seriously have turned the Madrid-Valencia concerned over a large-scale strike road into a death trap. which has broken out in the world- On a tour of a section of the road famous Rolls Royce factory.
yesterday he saw between thirty Out of a force of 5,500 workers and forty lorries which had been roughly 3,500 have laid down tools jettisoned beside the road after be and refuse to return to work... ing hit either by bombs or machine
Great Britain's rearmament pro-gun bullets from the air. gramme is at the back of the strike. The lorries contained various The Rolls Royce Company manu- foodstuffs which have been left to factures, even in normal times, a rot. high proportion of the aeroplane engines used in the Royal Air
Force.
Now with the
speeding up of
British armament, the workers in
The situation, he concludes, has Ched an acutely critical stage..
OVIEDO ATTACK CHECKED Meanwhile reports published in
the factory have had a certain the Paris newspapers state that the amount of extra work forced on loyalist attack on Oviedo has been them.
held up at San Claudio. Not having received extra pay or
Hundreds of prisoners are report- compensation of any sort the men ed to have been taken by the re- have downed tools and state they bels.
will stay out until their grievances Another attack by Government are remedied.
militia on the Jarama River front Some newspapers, however, ex-is also reported to have been re press the hope that the Government pulsed, with heavy losses to the at- will intervene and that a settlement tackers. will be reached before the end of this week Trans-Ocean
ISIS THEATRE INCIDENT
Chinese Protesting
In Rome
Shanghai, To-day Dissatisfied with the reply of the Italian sul-General at Shanghai with regard to the incident at the Theatre Mr Liu Men-tu, Chinese Ambassador to Italy, has been instructed by the Chinese For eign Ministry to lodge a protest with the Italian Foreign Office. Our Own Correspondent..
AUSTRIA BANS GERMAN PAPER AS REPRISAL
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HERBERT MARSHAL
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DUTCH DECISION:
From Amsterdam comes & gram stating that the newspapers expect the Netherlands Government to prohibit the shipping of wa materials to Spain.
This follows the seizure, and sub- sequent release, of Dutch steamer "Rambon" by the rebels, who fiscated its entire cargo of materials.
COST OF ARAB DISORDERS
London, To-day. The total extra rdinary expendi-
ture caused by strengthening of the British rrison in Palestine during the disorders there last year- was £1400,000.
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