SURRENDER
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1937.
OF BILBAO
INEVITABLE
BELIEVED TO BE
Iron Ring Broken Through At Six Different Points
President INSURGENTS NOW
Aguirre
Rebukes
Democracy
Bilbao, To-day.
President Aguirre has sent a manifesto to Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet and twenty other governments,
denouncing.
the Fascist Italo-German and Moorish invasion of Luzcadi as an "attempt to destroy the world's oldest democracy.”
The manifesto rebukes the countries calling themselves de-
DOMINATE
DOOMED CITY
Bilbao, To-day.
The Basques admit that the insurgents have succeeded in breaking through the first line of the famous “iron ring" defence system by concentrat- ing all their efforts at one point.
The Basques were forced back from Mount Gastelu on a two-mile front.
This local success renders the situation critical but all is not lost.
mocratic for their complacency in "Magnet" Takes
this intervention.
Bad Flavours
From Food
From St. Jean de Luz it is re- ported that it appears that the insurgents have definitely broken the "iron ring" at two points and have poured through the gaps in the defence into the valley.
They now have the suburbs of Bilbao under direct fire of their
A strong section of the Bas- que Cabinet is reported to consi- der the surrender of Bilbao ine- vitable.
It declares that for seventy-five days, over 100 Italian and German war planes, with groups of Moroc- can mercenaries and regular troops
Bad tastes and flavours and un-field artillery. from Italy and Germany, have de- voted themselves to the destruction wanted odors in food and drink can of Basque towns and villages and now be extracted by a "magnet." the extermination of their inhabi-
Wartime gas masks have resulted tants-an extermination which has been protected by the inexplicable in this discovery, according to Mr. complicity of the international con- John W. Hassler, an official of versations.
pulp and paper company who des- Reuter's special correspondent, cribed the "taste magnet" to the talking with members of the Gov- | American Chemical Society ernment laté last night, found them chapel Hill, North Carolina. unanimous for defending Bilbao to the last ditch.-Reuter.
"You'll have to ease up!”
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ITALIAN CASUALTIES
A message from Rome says that yesterday the fourth, and longest, at list of Italian casualties in Spain
was published.
The "magnet" uses the same kind of carbon as in gas masks.
EMPIRE STATESMAN PASSES
DEATH OF SIR W. LLOYD
PRIME MINISTER IN NEWFOUNDLAND
St. John's, Newfoundland,
To-day.
The death occurred here yes- william Lloyd, a former Prime terday at the age of 73 of Sir
Minister of Newfoundland.
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Born in Stockport, Lancashire, the late Sir William became schoolmaster in England and New- foundland.
He first went to Newfoundland in 1890 and became a journalist and lawyer..
Elected to the House of Assem- bly in 1904, he became Leader of the Opposition in 1916.
He formed a Coalition Ministry with Sir Edward, now Lord Mor- ris, the then Premier, in 1917.
Sir William became Attorney- General and acting Prime Minister in September of that year.
IN WAR CABINET For the next two years he was Premier and in 1918 attended the Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference in that capacity. The list gives the names of 230
He was
a delegate to the Ver- killed, 250 missing and 1,994 sailles Peace Conference in 1919. wounded, of which 123 were of-In 1924 he became Minister of Jus- ficers, between March 8 and 18.tice, his last post in Government.
The carbon is "activated, that is, it is given an unusual power of Reuter. attraction by pulverising it particles so fine that the carbon is In that con- virtually all-surface.
into
dition it acquires electrical forces common to the carbon atoms which
RENEWED ATTACKS
Reuter.
San Sebastian, To-day. German
The insurgent troops on the Bil-
form one of the basic substances bao front took advantage of the fine Himalayan
of all the living world.
weather of Sunday to make a re-
Use of the "magnet" is limited to newed attack on the Republican Expedition
In a brilliant attack, the 1st and
food which can be temporarily re-defences. duced to a liquid or a gas during
Simla, To-day. treatment. It is also limited to 5th Brigades succeeded in breaking After a temporary retreat to the tastes and odors due to im-through the enemy resistance. their base camp at the end of last purities.
By 1.30 in the afternoon, the in-month, owing to heavy falls of < "For example," said Mr. Hassler, surgents had captured positions 10 snow, the German Himalayan Ex- "it is not possible to make quinine kilometres south-east of Bilbao on pedition, following practically the less bitter by treatment of activat-the Bilbao-Durango road, and
same route as ed carbon because bitterness is a Derio, 8 kilometres north of Bilbao. Camp Four on June 6.
of qui- Breaking Point ? physio-chemical property
nine. However, if a liquid hap- pens to contain quinine then activated carbon will remove the Another brigade advancing rapid- bitter taste by actually absorbingly at the same time carried the hills the solution." the quinine and removing it from of Santa Maria, about six kilo-
metres from Galdacano.
Why Go To The
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CITY DOMINATED
in 1934, occupied
This is according to Herr Karl Wien, a member of the Expedition, writing in "The Statesman.”
Herr Wien adds that all the members of the venture are in good When people begin to hesitate in
health, and "if the present favour- speaking, cannot collect their thoughts,
able weather does not fail us, we forget things, are too easily excited or The carbon "magnet" takes un- The heights of Crohanda, five are counting on more rapid pro- worried, become pale and haggard, wanted flavours out of sorghum, kilometres from Deusto, were also gress in the near future." Reuter. lose appetite, weight, and the ability to cane and corn syrups, pineapple carried, and the insurgents now sleep. soundly at night-then, says the juice, vinegar, and various drugs. entirely dominate the doomed city. doctor, "here is a case bordering on It is particularly good for cleaning The infantry are stated to be only
up alcoholic liquors, wines, five kilometres from Bilbao. Most nervous disorders are due glycerine and water, said Mr. The "iron ring," it is claimed primarily to impoverished blood, to Hassler. lack of iron in the blood.. A proven
here, has been broken through in
neurasthenia; if this is allowed to con- tinue collapse will surely follow!”
of gelatin virtually all
SANTANDER FRONT
A further communique says that the insurgents gained successes on the Santander front yesterday.
SUMMONED TO COURT
BY WIRELESS
For the first time in history a Vienna ecclesiastical court made use of the radio service to summon one of the parties, an English- woman by birth, to the trial of a matrimonial suit.
way to get this blood is to take Dr. It has worked well on lard and six places. Williams Pink Pills, the old, reliable sugar and in the case iron tonic with an unbroken record of the carbon removes success extending back over fifty years. traces of animal odors. By rapidly increasing the haemoglobin content of the blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills supply the oxygen and iron necessary to restore the system to a strong healthy condition. They
Clyde shipping was in danger when The Governor of Madrid, General equally good for men and women and a steam lighter, abandoned by the crew Miajas, has issued a degree stating for anaemic ailing children, as well as after a collision with a Dutch motor-that the entire civil population is to Д splendid tonic restorative after vessel off Greenock, zig-zagged down leave the capital immediately.appears before the Court the case malaria, influenza, or other serious ill-stream with its engines. still running Trans-Ocean. nesses. Obtainable from all chemists. before foundering.
are
This method of summoning the woman was used because her ad- dress was not known. Unless she
will be settled in her absence.
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