THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1939
REPUBLICANS
RETREAT
IN
IN FULL CATALONIA
French Frontier Opened To Give Sanctuary
Troops As Well As Civilians Pouring Over
Paris, To-day. Signor Companys, President of Catalonia, and Signor Aguerre, the Basque President, have ar- rived in France and have asked that diplomatic passports be issued to them to allow them to remain. Meanwhile, President Azana is proceeding. to Paris. Twelve Republican chaser planes landed near Carcassonne and the French authorities imme- diately took charge of them.
All the lorries containing the tres from the French frontier 800 cases of art treasures bound should be effected without difficulty, for Geneva, crossed the frontież un-ficulty. damaged.
LONG COLUMN Hitherto, over 100,000 refugees Militiamen retiring across the have entered France in the past few French frontier will be disarmed. days.
and interned.
The frontier was opened in the A long column of the retreating evening for military refugees, to army is headed by motorized de- whom it had previously be closed.Įtachments and artillery, followed Three thousand immediately cross-by innumerable vehicles of all ed and were sent to the Argeleo kinda with fugitives. Concentration camp.-Reuter.,
MODESTO'S DEFEAT.
Perpignan, To-day. Five hundred carabeneros
General Modesto's army of the Ebro which was defeated and his three army corps are expected to begin pouring into France to- night bringing gun and tanks which will be interned.
Five thousand foreign volunteers are massed three miles from the frontier awaiting arrangements to
YELLOW PET PYTHONS
RIVER
FIGHTING
Chungking, To-day. Chinese despatches report a concentration of Japanese troops at Hanyang near Fen- lingtu who are crossing to the
north of the Yellow River
bend.
Chinese artillery, on the west bank on the Shensi side of the Yellow River, is shell- ing the positions of the Japanese, whose artillery is replying. Reuter.
TRAMP BECAME A MINISTER
Now Offers Advice On Workhouses
STAY IN GIRL'S BEDROOM
Pythons are pets to Miss Gwenda Trinder, of Shardlow, Derbyshire, One of them, Simba, is oft. long. Simba, along with two other pythons and a couple of wicked- looking Australian diamond anakes, share a bed-room with Miss Trinder and her seventy-five-year-old mother.
As she fondled Simba's coils around her neck. Miss Trinder told a reporter that she "loves her pets batter than anyone else: in the world, except her mother."
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But Mrs. Trinder, on the other side of the fireplace, gave shudder. She regrets to confess that she does not share her daughter's enthusiasm for
re- ptiles.
INSOMNIA
She is used to it now, but at first she could not sleep at the thought of Simba and company lying near in their boxes in the darkness.
She still cannot bring herself to give the pythons the hot water bottles they need three times a day. Wherever she is, Gwen has to pop `home ·
to keep the snakes warm. Her father
she decided provide her with an income.
that reptiles would Hence Simba and his colleagues. Before them came a succession of
cobras.
HARD WORK......
The French frontier forces which were composed of regular troops and mobile guards have been great- ly strengthened.
The Rev. Norman Burns, minis- The commander of the sixteenth ter of Tilehurst Methodist Church, hunting field fifteen years ago, and crossed the frontier yesterday French military district, General near Reading, surprised a gather-she had to do something for a liv- was killed on the evening and thousands of others Fagalde and a Lieutenant-Colonel ing of homeless men in London by ing. As a child she had been crazy are expected shortly.
of the Spanish Army, conferred at revealing that he was himself once about lizards and grass snakes, so Le Perthus yesterday to discuss workless and "on the tramp." the technical details of the capitu- "Ten years ago,” he said, “I was lation.
on the Embankment myself. There HOPED FOR TERMS DENIED is hardly a spike (workhouse) in The Spanish authorities yester-all the big cities in England that I day officially requested permission have not been in, and if you want from the French authorities that some information about the best of the militia might enter French them I will give it.
For five years Miss Trinder was territory.
I have tramped round England pool Zoo. Then she began travelling in charge of the reptiles at the Liver- Two hundred and forty, mostly to speak of capitulation.
It is, therefore, no exaggeration twice and been over to Ireland as around with circuses, showing her Portuguese, have already crossed.
well, but do not go there, because snakes, and lecturing. The French authorities there- they rotten spikes." DYNAMITING BRIDGES fore decided to discontinue the Mr. Burns said afterwards: "Ten It is understood that the Per-practice of compelling men capable years ago I was on tramp. Even- pignan authorities have requested of bearing arms, between 18 and tually I came in contact with રી the Nationalists to advance to the 55 years, to recross the frontier to number of business men in New-
"I should be really lonely with- frontier immediately in order to Spain.
out them, although they are hard |castle, who sent me to a Methodist with the urgent refugee pro
The main body of the Catalan college.
work. You see, they are subject I went to Newfoundland army, the vanguard of which reach-to fill an emergency appointment in
to disease, and I often have to The Nationalists replied that ed the frontier at 5 o'clock yester-the ministry. Later I attended Mc-
bathe their mouths three times a they were advancing as quickly as day afternoon, will be disarmed Gill University and fulfilled a tra-
day," she said. possible but they were being ham-and interned.
velling ministry in Canada and La- mistress's neck and
Simba coiled his head around his pered by the Republicans dynamit-
The small French frontier vil-brador. I entered the English min-tongue like a rapier.
shot out his ing bridges.Reuter.
lage of Le Perthus, which is now istry last year." receiving the main stream of fugi- tives, has
cross.
cope blems.
SWEEPING ADVANCE
Burgos, To-day. The Nationalists are ad- vancing in all sectors • iñ Catalonia and command prac- tically all communications through the Pyrenees. They claim to have captured Seodeurgel, the main Re- publican base eight miles from the frontier. Reuter. FIGUERAS BOMBING
Perpignan, To-day.
Hosts 3,000 Miles Away While the homeless men ate
come the snakes to her mother's cot- When winter comes around, back
tage bedroom.
And Mrs. Trinder, from a safe spot, gave another shudder.
"Most extraordinary hobby," she
Mr. R. Lloyd; of Normanby-road, South Bank, near Middlesbrough,
Mr. Burns was speaking at the suddenly been trans-annual Absent Guest dinner at the formed into a great traffic centre. Church Army Hall, Waterloo-road, said. The only road passing through the S. E. village has been rendered almost impassable by thousands of fugi-
a has another strange pet, an alliga- tives, militiamen and officials who Christmas dinner of roast beef, tor. He is aided and abetted in his plum pudding and mince pies, their hobby by his wife, who is an in- hosts, 3,000 miles away in Cairo, valid, and his daughter. sat down to a meal of lentil soup, bread and cheese and water.
cases
Kept in an outhouse in the back yard, the alligator slithers about on the look-out for something to tickle its palate. ·
have arrived in the village, in many with trunks and baggage containing their possessions.
TRAINS HELD UP The camps prepared for "the ci- The meals were served simultan- vilian fugitives in the interior of eously. The "hosts" paid 5s each The French authorities at Le France are already crowded. for their 3d meal and the balance! Perthus were notified yesterday Two railway trains with civilian covered the cost of the London din-
When Miss Lloyd sits in the afternoon that the Spanish Pre-fugitives have been waiting at ner.
back yard or the kitchen--the pet mier, Dr. Negrin, and several other Boulogne station.
is not allowed to go any further since Saturday Air Vice-Marshal H. R. Nicholl Ministers, had left Figueras for evening for a departure signal presided at the Cairo gathering.
than the kitchen door-It will Valencia" during the morning. which could not be given since The Bishop of Fulham, the Rt. Rev.
slide along and rest its long head Nationalist planes were con-all fugitive camps informed.
on her lap waiting for her to stantly cruising over the town
the B. S. Batty, was to have, been chair- of authorities that they are unable to man in London, but he was pre- Mr. Lloyd brought it home from
stroke its scnly back. Figueras and bombing it..
provide quarters.
vented from attending by the sud- Africa, and, feeds it on „fish. A The troops of General Franco President Azana and his staff den death of his brother. day's supply for the elligator would are advancing with great rapidity stayed for five days near the vil- The Absent Guest dinners were feed a family for wook. from Gerona without encountering lage of Augulladas, close to the started by the Anglo-American The presence of the gil resistance. The occupation of Fi-frontier, before they
entered branch of the Y.M.C.A. in Cairo in the house is well-known, gueras which is about 20 kilome-French territory.-Trans-Ocean. 1928.
No thief has ever paid a visit.
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