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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1937.
NAZI
WARSHIP'S
ESCAPE
Bombs Fall Close In Air Raid On Mallorca
LITTLE MOVEMENT
IN LAND WAR
OPERATIONS
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
Berlin, To-day.
The German torpedo boat Albatross, now lying in the harbour of Palma de Mallorca, had a narrow escape yesterday when Republican planes bombed the town and docks.
Several bombs fell close to the warship, though no hits were registered.
Considerable indignation is expressed in offi- cial German quarters, where it is alleged that the bombing was a deliberate attack on the German warship.
The Albatross is. one of the
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Reich warships on duty in the PLANE
control scheme.··
In Valencia yesterday, the Coun- INCIDENT
cil of Ministers passed a number of important decrees, most important being the mobilising for military service of all men coming of
in 1931.
age
It was also decided to institute strict control over private radio stations, while anti-aircraft mea
ised.
BASQUE ATTACK
DEFENDED BY THE
REBELS
San Sebastian, To-day. The action of the insurgent planes which forced the civil
defended in insurgent quarters.
Missing Arctic Plane Now Safe
Moscow, To-day.
The missing plane of the So- viet North Pole expedition yes- terday landed safely at the aerodrome on the drifting ice- floe.
The plane was one of three which took off from Prince Rudolf Island to establish com munication with the scientists at the Pole.
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The plane first made a land- ing 20 kilometres west of Dixon Island and later took off for the Pole. Trans-Ocean.
GOLDEN GATE OPENED
NAZI FLAG TORN DOWN
San Francisco, To-day. The Golden Gate Bridge; over
MEXICAN MINE DISASTER
FIVE HUNDRED KILLED
Mexico City, To-day-
Five hundred are reported to have perished in the mining vil- lage of Talpujahua, in Mexico State, yesterday, when flooded sand deposit, used for washing metals, overflowed like lava,
The deposit flowed down the valTM ley, burying the houses below, where the occupants were all asleep just before daybreak. WAN
It is reported that not a single house in the village is intact and that scarcely one villager survived the disaster.
The deposit. belonged to the French-owned Dosestrellas. Mine. Reuter
the entrance to San Francisco har- ST. DENIS CHARGES bour, said to be the largest suspen-
sion bridge in the world, was open-M. Doriot Forces Appeal ed to the public yesterday.
the
Taking five years to build, bridge cost $35,000,000 and has an overwater span of 4,200 feet.
AN APOLOGYM
To Electorate
Paris, To-day. The Rightist leader M. Doriot, tion as Mayor of St. Denis by the who was removed from his posi-
Minister of the Interior, has now resigned his membership of Municipal Council.
This necessitates new Municipal street decorations in celebration of elections and M. Doriot will imme- the Golden Gate diately start campaigning.—-Trans-
Ocean.
sures in Madrid are to be reorgan-plane of the French Air Fyrenees ton yesterday announced that Ma- The German Embassy in Washing line to make a forced landing is yor Rossi of San Francisco has The company, it is claimed, is apologised to the local German con- From San Sebastian it is report-actually owned by the Basque Gox-sul after an official protest follow- ed that the Basques yesterday at-ernment and the French partners ing tearing down of a Nazi flag from tempted to recapture the positions in the firm are only “dummies.” south of Bilbao lost to the insur- The planes, it is further alleged, completion of
Bridge. Reuter. contravened, the non-intervention gents the previous day, but were repulsed.
rules by transporting contraband Bilbao. Trans- The insurgents are consolidating from Bayonne to their positions- on the Orduna-Bil- Ocean. bao road.
Deserters from the Republican lines told rebel officers that they had been informed that 160 planes would shortly arrive on the Biscay front. Trans-Ocean.
LLEWELLYN FAILS
FORCED LANDING OFF COURSE
FRANCO-GERMAN CONVERSATIONS
Paris, To-day.
The German Minister for Econo- mics, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, held an hour's conversation with the French Finance Minister, M. Vincent Au- riol, yesterday.
statement
Dr. Schacht made no afterwards, whereas M. Auriol de- clared that the conversation was a general survey of the situation, in which both Ministers examined pending economic and financial pro- blems. Trans-Ocean..
Chinese Wedding. At Registry
London, To-day. Flight-Lieut. David Llewellyn, who is attempting to break the England-Capetown record flight, has again failed, and the mark set.
The wedding took place this mor- by Amy Johnson still stands.ning, at the Registrar's office, of
Llewellyn yesterday made a for- ced landing near Port Elizabeth,
He was well off his course owing to compass trouble after leaving Johannesburg-Reuter.
MR. TSENG YANG-FU
Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, Mayor of Canton and Acting Commissioner of Finance for Kwangtung, arrived in Hong Kong this morning in the President Coolidge after several weeks in Nanking. Mr. Tseng will return to Canton by the evening express to-day.
Yuen Yat Cho, of 146 Kiu Kiang Street and Misa Pang Hin Hing, of the Po Leung Kok
Be-
Mr John Whyatt, Deputy gistrar, officiated, while Mr. W. Fraser, Inspector of the S. C. A., and Yuen Lai-nam, witnessed the ceremony
Marriage Announced
The forthcoming, wedding is an- nounced. of Mr. Ralph Henry Cole, Solicitor, of G. K. Hall Brutton and Company, resident at the Harbour View Hotel, and Miss Audrey Be- Iverly Shelton, of the same address.
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