STORM RETURNS REPUBLICANS AND HITS NORTH ABRUPTLY END
OF ENGLAND
London, To-day.
The great storm which moved
east
:
EBRO ATTACK
Saragossa, To-day.
After ten days of savage fight- across Southern England on ing the Republicans have abruptly Thursday but missed London, pass-ceased all fighting along the Ebro ed over the northern holiday re-front. sorts yesterday causing much havoc.
The Insurgents, however, con- tinue to bomb and shell concen- trations of the Republican troops,
In London, the temperature, although the infantry has not after starting several degrees yet received an order to advance. cooler, mounted again after lun- cheon, and in the late afternoon was. several degrees higher intimate, the Republicans have suf- spite of the prevailing overcast conditions.
According to an insurgent es-
fered no less than 20,000 casual- ties since the offensive began and it is claimed that 18 road-bridges have been destroyed.
Fog was experienced in a num- ber of districts and so dense was
Many of the militiamen, pre- it in the Channel that shipping was held up in the Straits of ferring surrender to death, and Dover and between the North are alleged to be entering the in- and South Foreland.
At Deal, people standing on the beach could not even see the water.
surgent lines.
Reuter.
Mr. John Bernard Prentis has been appointed to act as a Deputy Mist and fog delayed the con- Registrar, Supreme Court, and De- tinuation of the Home Defence puty Registrar of Companies, with Air Exercises, but active opera-effect from the 3rd August, 1938. tions were resumed at 2 p.m.
The weather was, however, still bad and the Eastland Plan had to be considerably modified.
aircraft units of the Territorial Army taking part in the air de-
Over the week-end, the Secre- fence operations. tary for War will visit anti-"less.
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In view of the Japanese proposals for the cessation of hostilities, Japanese troops in the Changkufeng area refraining from replying to the Soviet fire, according to dispatches believed to have been officially inspired.
The messages opine: "That the Soviet military is appar- ently bent on the re-capture before a of Changkufeng
is diplomatic settlement reached;" and assert that the Japanese troops are conse- quently maintaining a vigil- ant watch.
A comparatively optimistic. view of the situation is now taken in Tokyo, illustrated by the remark of a Foreign Office spokesman who said: "There is no sign of the trouble spreading to other points along the border."
It is believed that Japan will agree to the demarcation of the frontier in the Chang- kufeng area on the basis of the Chinese-Russian Treaty of 1886. This would provide a good breathing space while the inevitable controversy rages on the interpretation.—— Reuter.
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