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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1987.
BILBAO NEAR COLLAPSE
Basque Defenders Reported On Verge Of Starvation
MONTREUX Insurgents Claim British
CONFERENCE
British Government
Statement
London, To-day.
A Montreux message states that Captain Euan Wallace, Secretary of the Department for Overseas Trade, was the first speaker at to- day's public session of the Egyp- tran capitulations conference.
In stressing the particular friendship between Egypt and United Kingdom, Captain Wallace declared that the British Govern: ment, in line with other Govern-
Successes At Madrid
Salamanca, To-day.
Disastrous losses were suffered by the Inter- national Brigade defending Madrid yesterday, says a communique issued by insurgent headquar- ters here.
The fleeing
soldiers, it
is
THE COMMUNIQUE CLAIMS THAT THE GOVERNMENT ments, was in full agreement with TROOPS LAUNCHED A STRONG ATTACK AFTER ARTILLERY OPERATIONS. THEY WERE SUPPORTED BY RUSSIAN the suppression of capitulations.
The final aim of conference was
TANKS BUT RETREATED IN DISORDER, SIX TANKS BEING freedom of action for the Egyptian CAPTURED AND TWO DESTROYED. Government concerning foreigners in the legislative and judicial do- maïns. He recalled the engage- ments already entered into by Egypt for equitable treatment of strangers and said it was the duty of the conference to give certain guarantees as to their future to the foreign communities.
The British Government attach- ed great importance to the success of the conference-British Wire- less.
MILITARY POLICE
SERGEANT FOUND DEAD
Apparent Suicide At Barracks
Found dead with his throat cut and an open razor by his side, the body of Sergeant W. P. Brown, c^ the Corps of Military Police, was removed to the Public Mortuary from Whitfield Barracks yester day.
claimed, were raked by machine- gun fire by their own planes as well as by the insurgents.
Shortage of food is believed, in Salamanca, to be bringing about a collapse of Basque resistance at
Bilbao.
BILBAO RUMOURS
Embassy In Nanking
QUESTIONS ABOUT HIGH COST
London, To-day. The question of the cost of the new British Embassy in Nan- Commons yesterday by Mr. S. P. king was raised in the House of Viant, Labour member for West Willesden, on the vote for public buildings overseas.
Mr. R. S. Hudson, representing the Office of Works in the House, said that money was being asked
GERMANY SEEKS for complete purchase of the site,
CONQUEST
OF ATLANTIC
CATAPULT SHIPS
BRITISH BID IN SOUTH
the total cost of which, including roads, was about $15,000.
In regard to Mr. Viant's query whether it was necessary to have the Embassy at Nanking, Mr. Hud- son thought it was the general opinion of the House and the Bri- tish commercial community in China that it was essential that the Ambassador have his residence in the capital.
Rumours of negotiations for sur- render of the town, though denied in Bilbao, have been current, and it is significant that the insurgent Germany's new aeroplane "mother offensive has halted its heavy at- ship," the Friesenland, has been cessary to expend so large a sum In regard to whether it was ne-
tacks.-Reuter.
Launched at Kiel, and is shortly to as $190,000, Mr. Hudson pointed Salamanca, To-day. proceed to Horta, in the Azores, out that the Embassy comprised a Another communique from insur-where she will be stationed for the comparatively large establishment gent headquarters confirms the summer, writes Major C. C. Turner. which, it was desired, should be
Aeroplanes report that the rebel offensive on
will be catapulted accommodated inside a compound,
the Basque front was slacked off from her for the 2,500 miles flight and provide moderate buildings for since Monday.
to New York. where: another all of them, was expensive. The "mother ship," the Schwabenland, cost, he pointed out, was spread will receive them.
over a period of five years.
The vote was agreed. Reuter.
This, however, is due to bad weather conditions and not to negotiations with the besieged for surrender of Bilbao.
COUNTER-ATTACKS
The Schwabenland was in New York Harbour last year for Ger- man trans-Atlantic air mail experi- ments, and the Aeolus, a flying boat, was catapulted from her deck and flew to Horta
in 17 hours 50 minutes last September.
The Republican offensive on the Madrid front, which was beaten It is understood that the victim back with disastrous losses to the of the tragedy, who leaves a widow attackers, saw much bitter hand-to- The flying boats to be used on and four children, had recently hand fighting with grenades and the mail service are the Aeolus and been subject to fits of depression the bayonet...
Zephyr, a Dornier type, weighing and there seems to be little doubt The rebels yesterday launched 10 tons and fitted with two engines that the fatal injuries were self-several counter-attacks on the of 550 h.p. The catapulting appar- inflicted.
on Madrid front in an effort to relieveatus the Schwabenland and by their comrades cut off by the Re-Friesenland is capable of launching
publicans in the University City 'planes weighing 16 tons.
The tragedy was discovered colleagues at the Barracks.
Sergeant Brown, who was about sector.Trans-Ocean. 42 years old, would in the normal course of events have gone Home next year.
HOPEI COUNCIL AND JAPAN
Speculation Aroused By Visits
British Prisoners In Spain
London, To-day. The Foreign Secretary was ques- tioned in the Commons about the detention in Malaga by the Span- ish insurgents of Arthur Koesller, the representative there of a Lon- den newspaper.
OLD LEGEND OF ABYSSINIA
"Relics" Do Not Exist
The truth of various ancient tradi- tions of Abyssinia is denied by a commission of Italian archaeologists now returned from Addis Ababa. Britain's Bid
They went there to find the Ark These "mother ships" also serve of the Covenant and the tables of a valuable secondary purpose as the Law of Moses, so that these meteorological stations.
"relics" could be brought to Rome
I am informed that the Germans and placed beside the statue of the intend to use Teneriffe as a station Lion of Judah from Addis Ababa. on their Atlantic services. The The Italians suggest that the relics small aerodrome there is being do not exist. rapidly enlarged, the work involving. They throw doubt upon the claim much blasting of solid rock and the of the Emperor Haile Selassie that filling up of hollows.
he is descended from King Solomon British experimental flight over and the Queen of Sheba. the North Atlantic will begin în The legend was that the son of
Mr. Eden explained that Koestler May, but there is no intention of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba Peiping, To-day. Mr. Chen Chung-fu, Delegate of was not a British subject but as attempting a regular service this named Menilchek took the Moses Foreign Affairs of the Hopei-Cha- he was the correspondent of an year, and it is extremely doubtful relics from Jerusalem and set them har Political Council, flew to Dairen English newspaper, the insurgent whether it will be possible before up in Axum, holy city of Abyssinia. The Italians spoke with a person from Tientsin yesterday en route to authorities had been informed un- 1939. Tokyo.
officially that His Majesty's Gov- Great Britain. is expected shortly unnamed who said that he had seen The Hopei and Chahar Economic ernment were concerned for his to make a bid for the South Atlan- a table of the Law of Moses în a Axum. This witness Investigation Commission, headed welfare and would be glad of in- tic air service, over which French temple at
are already said the table was of red marble, on by Mr. Chang Chi-chung, will also formation concerning his position. and German air lines leave Tientsin for Japan next week.
In an another answer, Mr. Eden operating, and the granting of a which the Ten Commandments were Our Own Correspondent.
stated that the Foreign Office was contract is expected to be the sub-inscribed in Amharic. in communication with both theject of an announcement in the This cannot be the original table, Spanish Government and the in-course of the next few days. -- the Italians argue, because surgent authorities in respect of In this year's Air Estimates pro- Commandments were written
according to biblical Sixteen miners, trapped by an explo-British subjects serving on either vision is made only for experi- two tables, sion in a coal mine at Logan, West side in the Civil War and taken mental flights on the South Atlan-jevidence. Moreover, they think the Virginia, are feared to be dead.
prisoner. British Wireless.
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