THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1937.
QUIET ON MADRID FRONT
Government Forces Consolidating New Front Line
Asfao Wosan, eldest son of Haile Selassie, and Crown Prince, who is reported to be attending the Coronation on behalf of the €x-Emperor of Abyssinia.
MOROCCO DROUGHT
South Approaching Famine
Algiers, To-day. Continuous drought for many weeks in the southern part of French Morocco has brought about a state almost approaching famine, and nomadic tribes in the area are .migrating north.
Barracks are being constructed
BRITISH VESSEL
FIRED ON·
COLLIER BADLY
DAMAGED BY SHELL
Valencia, To-day.
CATALAN CABINET
CRISIS
Barcelona, To-day.
The Catalan Cabinet crisis has not yet been settled:
It is stated that President Com-.. panys desires to form a govern- ment which will be independent of Valencia, and will be organised on such a basis that the friendship and sympathy of the democratic countries can be counted upon. Trans-Ocean.
Barcelona, To-day.
In a last effort to solve the Cata-
Three deserters from the Foreign Legion who lan cabinet crisis, Senor Companys crossed the River Ebro on the Aragan front yester-has entrusted a previous Premier, day, described the damage done at Saragossa by a Senor Taradellas, with formation Republican air raid two days ago.
of a new Government Reuter.
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THE HOUSE OCCUPIED BY THE INSURGENT GENERAL STAFF WAS HIT AND THE ADJOINING BARRACKS PARTIAL-line and ran aground at the mouth LY DESTROYED, WHILE THE SARAGOSSA CHEMICAL FAC- of a river when endeavouring TORY, WHICH HAD BEEN OPERATING DAY AND NIGHT, make port. WAS DEMOLISHED.
The insurgent trawlers THE SARAGOSSA HOSPITALS WERE CROWDED WITH drew alongside and raked the WOUNDED ITALIANS, SPANISH INVALIDS HAVING BEEN stranded ship with machine-gun REMOVED FROM THEIR BEDS TO MAKE ROOM FOR THEM. fire.
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NO CASUALTIES The crew had taken shelter be low decks and none was wounded. Although the collier is still afloat her condition is believed to be pre- carious.
Something like tranquillity with a cargo of minerals, reports has settled down on the Madrid that she was stopped and fired on front, the only ominous sign be-(by insurgent warships twenty ing the insurgent concentration miles off Santander. along the Saragossa road, which After revealing her identity the. were repeatedly bombed by Gov-"Magdalena" was allowed to pro-eral warning to British ships de- ernment aircraft on Sunday and ceed. Reuter, Monday.
Trenches are being dúg and earthworks and fortifications have been thrown up to protect the Government advance to the north.
Otherwise, operations were limit-
in the foothills of the Atlas Moun-ed to air raids by the Government tains to house the refugees.
on the insurgent lines and a de- Exports of rye have been prohi-sultory bombardment of the capi- bited and the existing supplies of tal by the rebel artillery.-Reuter. flour requisitioned by Government.
-Trans-Ocean.
The Chinese gunboat, Tung Chi, which arrived in Hong Kong late yesterday afternoon, fired a salute to the Admiral this morning, to which H.M.S. Berwick replied.
BRITISH SHIP ATTACKED
Bayonne, To-day. The British steamer "Magda- lena" from Lagoulette to Tunisia
General Franco has issued a gen-
manding immediate "obedience when called upon to stop. He as- serts that all ships, including ves- sels running arms and ammuni- tion for the insurgents always run Attacked-Trans-Ocean and Reuter.
up the British flag when challeng-
COLLIER BADLY DAMAGED Armed Trawlers
Vessel
TWO IMPORTANT SUCCESSES
Claimed By Loyalist Government
Paris, To-day. The Spanish Government collier, "Mare Caspio," from Newcastle with 2,000 tons of cargo, was at- tacked by two insurgent armed trawlers in French territorial waters in sight of Cape Breton yes-
London, To-day, terday.
Two big Government successes Fifteen shells were fired at the are recorded in Spanish news ship, which was hit at the water-agency messages from Madrid and
Taken at Brest recently, during the strike in the naval dockyard. There has been a revival of the trouble in the last two or three days,
Valencia.
The message from Madrid states that the Madrid-Valencia road at Arganda has been cleared of fight ing as result of the deliberate flooding of several square miles of land south of Arganda
As a consequence of the flood- ing, the insurgents were forced to retreat and take up positions on higher ground, from whi they are at present unable make any aggressive move.
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The telegram from Valencia re- ports that the insurgent threat to the Almaden mercury mines, lar- gest in the world, has been remov- ed by a rapid Government, advance on the Pozo Blanco front-Renter.
VIENNA AMNESTY
Number Of Nazis Set At Liberty
Vienna, To-day. Under the general Easter politi- cal amnesty, a number of Austrian Nazis arrested before the Austro- German agreement of July, have been set at liberty.Trans-Ocean.
The possibility of using aeroplanes to break up with. bombs an ice-jam nearly eight miles long in the Morawa River, in Yugoslavia, is being consider
ed.