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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1988.
SPAIN'S MORE --AND BETTER --BABIES
Out of war-torn Spain comes Strange news.
The Spanish birth-rate is rising!
DAILY HERALD HITLER REPORT DENIED
Berlin, To-day.
in the "London Daily Herald" to the has effect that Chancellor Hitler
A report published
And the war babies are heal-completed a new book which is to thier and heavier than those born be issued shortly, is authoritatively
denied here.
before the war.
Spaniards have always married young. But in time of civil war the marriage age has dropped even lower.
It is stressed that the assertion made by the "Daily Herald," that Hitler's aim in writing the alleged book was to formulate a new re- Average age of Spanish brides ligious creed, destined to supplant define Christianity and also to to-day is fifteen and of bridegrooms
-spheres of influence into which twenty-two.
Handsome, black-haired Alfredo Europe will be divided up between Cabello, twenty-seven-year-old law Germany and Italy, suffices to prove | student now
in London as secre-that the whole story is a de- tary of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of liberately mendacious fabrication, Youth in Spain, revealed these prompted by the wish to bolster up anti-German propaganda. — Trans- “WHEN THIEF MEETS THIEF" facts to a reporter last night.
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"Doctors of long experience agree," he said, "that the war babies are heavier and healthier than peace-time babies.
"Although mothers may be get- ting less food than in peace-time, it is a fact that to-day food is more evenly and regularly dis- tributed."
BORN OF HOPÉ
But Spain isn't a pleasant place for babies.
"Even little children of eight or nine months know the sound of the syrens," said Senor !|warning
Cabello. "They cry and panic when they hear that noise,"
Senor Cabello is in London to thank the youth of Britain for the food they have sent to Spain's women and children.
.
To-morrow he goes back to Barcelona to join his wife and nine-month-old baby daughter.
The baby girl's name? Esperanza..
Which means "hope." And that is why the young men and women of Spain are marrying |at such-an-early age.
They are hoping, that out of the present agony may come a greater, better Spain.
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DUD AMMUNITION FALLS INTO JAPANESE HANDS
Shells filled with sawdust and pieces of glass, “instead of gun- the found among powder, were 1,500 rounds of 70 mm. light field.
seized by the Japanese
following their Anking, capital of capture..
military Japanese Anhwei, spokesman announced at a press conference last night.
gunces fo
Seventy thousand rounds of soft- nosed rifle ammunition, commonly known as dum dum bullets, were also among the Japanese war booty, he alleged
The ammunition was manufac- tured "in Europe," the spokesman said, but refused to divulge its country of origin.
The Japanese-spokesman's...al- legation recalled the recent dis covery. of cases, supposed to be filled with ammunition, containing saw dust and other trash at Marseilles, where they were about to be shipped to China.
The U.S. Public Works · Ad-'
Other booty included 17 pieces ministration approved 323 more of artillery, $50,000 rounds of rifle projects costing U.S.$88,396,909. ammunition, 700 trench mortar hand grenades, 700 Approval of the sixth list brought shells, ̈ ̄ ̄
gun shells, 240 120 mm. launched with the past week to shells, and 5,500 - small calibre
howitzer, shells. 1,755.
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