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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1937.
Disaster Comes On Reconnoitring Flight
General Mola Killed In Crash
Bilbao, To-day.
··Disaster struck the insurgent forces on the Bis- cay front to-day when their commander-in-chief, General Emilio Mola, was killed in an air crash.
The tragic death of the insurgent leader is con- firmed by the insurgent radio stations at Salaman- ca and Vitoria.
It is understood that General Mola was flying in a large bomber, together with members of his staff.
THEY WERE RECONNOITRING ALONG THE BISCAY FRONT, EXAMINING THE BILBAO “TRON RING" FROM THE AIR WHEN THE CRASH OCCURRED.
IT IS LEARNED THAT TWO PILOTS AND TWO MEMBERS OF GENERAL MOLA'S STAFF WERE KILLED AT THE SAME TIME. REUTER.
Salamanca, To-day.
General Emilio Mola is dead. VON BLOMBERG
He met his death whilst making a
reconnoitring flight over the Bis-INSPECTS AIR
Thick fog prevailed PREPARATIONS
cay front.
along the route. The plane crush- ed to earth. General Mola, his |A.D.C. and two members of his General Staff were killed outright.. Both pilots soon succumbed to their injuries.
Don Emilio Mola Vidal was born in 1891 in a village at the foot of the Pyrenees, and was of Basque stock. His youthful ambitions lay
in the direction of art and it is said of him that he desired to become a second Cervantes.
Visit To Italy
Rome, To-day. During the second day of his visit to Rome, the Chief-Staff of the German defence forces, Field Mar-- shal von Blomberg inspected the Italian Air Force base at Sidonia. and the pilot training school at
Furbara.
Accompanied by several high of- ficers of the Italian Army and Air. However he followed his father's'
Force, the Field, Marshal made an wishes and entered the military col-
(inspection tour through the test tege at Pamplona and was later
shops of the Italian aeroplane given command in one of the remanufacturing concerns, where the gular Guard Regiments. He rose (latest types of planes which are rapidly, and in the days of the
being constructed for the Italian Monarchy was known to have re-
Air Force were shown to him. publican leanings. In January 1931 he was made General Superinten-shal Von Blomberg was received by Yesterday afternoon Field Mar-
dent of the entire Spanish police: Force. It is generally admitted Marshal Bodoglio and the Foreign
Minister, Count Ciano. that the comparative orderliness
Ocean. of the 1931 Revolution was due to steadiness and firm way in
his
Trans-
which he controlled the forces that HUGE PLAN FOR
threatened to disrupt the country.
DEVELOPMENT
2
BREACH WITH GOVERNMENT The breach that had occurred be-
IN U.S. tween General Mola and the Gov- ernment began to widen as the}
Roosevelt's Message Government began to drift towards
To Congress the extreme left. The Government, gave him a post in Morocco, but he
Washington, To-day. was recalled when the more moder-
The establishment of seven re- ate trend gained supremacy.
gional authorities to undertake He was arrested in Madrid on July comprehensive programme of flood, 6th, 1936, on the suspicion of hav-drought and dust-storm prevention ing prepared a revolt against the and soil conservation, has been re- again extremist left Government ¡commended by President Roosevelt formed in June, but was released.in a message to Congress.
Shortly after this General Franco The regional authorities took up the fight against the Populalso administer bydro-electric pro- lar Front Government and General jects undertaken as part of the mul- Mola immediately offered his ser- tiple purpose of watershed develop- vices. Since then he had been in
¡ment. command of the Nationalist Nor-
would
The President issued a warning
thern army. It was his army that that the waterpower resources of occupied Irun and San Sebastian, the nation must be protected by and are at present engaged in blast-private monopoly and used for the ing their way to Bilbao. Trans- benefit of the people.Renter.
Ocean.
FRANCO'S LOSS
Salamanca, To-day,
Flags are flying at half-mast throughout the territory controlled
North Pole Stamps
Moscow, To-day.
special series of North Pole by General Franco, to whom the Postage Stamps are to be issued death of General Mola, commander- shortly in connection with the an- in-chief of the Northern Nation-nexation of the Pole by Soviet Rus alist forces comes as a heavy blow. sia, it is announced here at the
rans-Ocean.
Central Post Office Trans-Ocean.