THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL-19, 1937
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BRITISH I.L.P. LEADERS PLAN TO RUN BLOCKADE OF BILBAO
Special Ship To Be Chartered
ETHEL MANNIN CONTRIBUTES A
THOUSAND POUNDS
London, To-day.
Two of the best-known members of the In- dependent Labour Party, Mr. James Maxton and Mr. Fenner Brockway, are planning to purchase a steamer and relieve the food shortage in Bilbao, now being closely blockaded by the Spanish insur- gents.
THIS WAS REVEALED TO NEWSPAPERMEN YESTER- DAY BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE IL.P. WHO SAID THAT THE TWO MEN INTENDED TO GIVE THE CITY A REGULAR SUPPLY OF FOODSTUFFS BY RUNNING THE REBEL BLOCKADE.
TO RAISE THE SUM OF MONEY NEEDED FOR THE VEN- TURE, HE STATED, A SOCIETY WOULD HAVE TO BE FORM- ED HEADED BY A PROMINENT PUBLIC MAN.
The plan was already being supported by a Liberal Member of Parliament, Mr. W. H. W. Roberts.
heights of Cerro Gordo, nearer the railway.
The insurgents are said to have lost heavily in street fighting in Miss Ethel Mannin, the famous | Caladas.---Réuter.
novelist, he added, had contributed the generous sum of £1,000.
woman
Maxton and Messrs. Brockway, Roberts would themselves take part in the first trip to Bilbao.
APPEAL ISSUED
Catalan Cabinet
Barcelona, To-day. The new Catalan Government, as formed by President Companys, is as follows:~-~
Senor Luis Companys, the virtual "Dictator" of the Catalan Province.
THIEVES' “WHO'S
WHO"
Being Prepared For The "Yard"
"Hand- connection
NAZI PARTY MEMBERSHIP
Open To Newcomers On May 1
Karlsruhe, To-day.. After having been closed to now-
comers
for four years, the Naši Party will be open to new members on and after May 1, declared Herr Rudolf Hess, Herr Hitler's deputy, at the regional congress of the Nazi Party here yesterday.
"The tasks the Party has to per- form have increased,” he said in ex- planation of the step.
New members, he added, would not be chosen by their "social stand- ing, financial position or origin, but on their readiness to make sacrifices for the ideals of the Nazi Party Trans-Ocean.
NEW MOLLISON FLIGHT
Bid For New Record To Capetown
Paris, To-day.
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A "Who's Who" of international- ly famous criminals is being spe- Jimmy Mollison will shortly hop cially prepared in Vienna for Scot-off from England on another long- land Yard for use during the Cor-distance flight, this time to the onation. It is entitled:
Cape. book for the police in
He is now in Paris preparing for with the Coronation.”
the flight and hopes to start The details are being gathered April 25, together by the International Police If wind conditions are favourable, Commission in Vienna, presided Jim told newsmen here yesterday, over by Dr. Skubl.
he may reach Capetown within two The book contains photographs, and a half days at an average speed personal details and notes on "pro- of 350 kilometrès àn hour. Trang- fessional methods”. of all well-Ocean.
.
Senor Tarradellas (Premier and Mr. Maxton and Mr. Brockway Finance); Senor Ayguade (Security known adventures, jewel and hotel have issued a joint appeal to the and Interior); Senor Ebert (Cul- thieves, marriage swindlers and the headquarters of the Commission others likely to attempt to reap an în Vienna. A similar work. was public for funds to enable them to ture); General Isgleas (Defence)licit harvest during the Corona undertaken by the Vienna office for
tion.
the Olympic Games in Berlin läst Records of this kind are kept at year.
Senor
(Economics); Capdevila purchase a 4,000-ton steamer.
The ship, they say, will ply be-Senor Fernandez (Health); Seno: tween English ports and Bilbao, and Domenech (Social Affairs); Senor the sum of £40,000 is needed for its Vidella (Labour); Senor Comorora purchase.
(Justice) and Senor Caloat (Agri- culture).-Trans-Ocean.
Mr. Brockway, in an interview yesterday, said he hoped to have the funds by Tuesday so that the vessel could leave for Bilbao on Wednes- day.
It
A CORRECTION
The Basque Government, he add- was inadvertently stated, an- the ed, had guaranteed to protect theder a photograph published in steamer within the Spanish three-Sunday Herald" yesterday in con- mile limit. Beyond the three-mile nection with the SP.C. appeal. day, limit the vessel would automatically be protected by the British fleet. Trans-Ocean,
TERUEL FRONT
Intensive Air Bombing Of Insurgent Lines
Valencia, To-day..! The Government air force is ex- tremely busy smashing the way for a new big Republican offensive on
that the young lady helper illustrat- ed was of Chinese nationality. The picture actually showed the daughter of a well-known local resident and we deeply regret any pain that may have been caused;
the Teruel front, oc-
Valencia, where the
cupy the peninsula territory stick- ing out towards the sea and the Government troops are aiming at cutting the road and railway be- tween Teruel and Saragossa,
Government planes are reported to have made nearly 150 flights bombing and raking the insurgent positions with machine-gun fire..
Republican troops have d cupied the towns of Visiedo, Lidon and Ardente, a dozen miles east of the railway, and the
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