HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936.
SPANISH CIVIL WAR MARKING TIME
No Important Change
In Situation
INSURGENT CRUISER
IN ACTION
Spasmodic Machine Gun
Fire At Irun
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Paris, August 22. No change of any importance has taken place in the military situation in Spain during the last 24 hours according to the "Paris. Soir." in Irun, and San Sebastian sectors everything was quiet ex- capt for two hours about noon, when the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera suddenly appeared and shelled the fort at Guadeloupe which, however did not return the fire.
From the Franco-Spanish frontier" spasmodic machine gun fire was heard from the vicinity of Irun but lasted only a short time. Both sides appear to be consolidating their positions.
Reports from the other fronts are contradictory. The fall of Cordoba announced hy Madrid and Barcelona, is denied by the mill- tarists, their radio spokesman, General Queipo de Llano, having de- clared before the Seville microphone that the Insurgent garrison wad strong enough to resist any onslaught by the Government, troops,
MALAGA BOMBED
Gibraltar, Aug. 22.
The military authorities at Al- geciras have received a report that Insurgent aircraft droped incen- diary bombs at Ma aga and set fire to a petro: depot said to con tain a million gallons of petrol.
Insurgent troops to the number of 1.500. chiefly foreign legionaries, and 200 cavalry, left Algeciras. Lalinea and San Roque for Este- pena preparatory, to an attack on Malaga. Reuter.
IN DAILY FEAR
OF ATTACK
Grave. Uneasiness In Madrid
·MORGUE PILED HIGH WITH DEAD.
An
ADOLF HITLER
ADMIRAL HORTY
Vienna, August. 23-Admiral Horty, Regent in Austria, crossed the Austro-Bavarian frontier near Salzburg by car and visited
Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden.-Renter.
NOTE SENT BY BURGOS
International Law Violations
("Hong Kong Dally Fress" Spectat
Londen, August 22.
A representative of the provi- sional Nationalist Government at Burgos has addressed a note to the Portuguese Government and for- eign diplomats in Lisbon. which asserts that several planes of the squadron
BRITISH SHIPS IMMUNE
No Search Outside Spanish Waters
{"Bong Kong Daily Press" Speciati
Madrid, Aug. 22, Negotiations carried on by the British Embassy at Madrid between the British Government and the Spanish Government relative to the blockade declared Government
NEUTRALITY IN CIVIL WAR
مخمل
Italian Attitude Welcomed
KAMERUN AFFAIR
DEPLORED
London, August 22.
The news of the note handed yesterday evening by the Italian Government to the French Ambarin sador in Rome, in which Italy undertakes to prohibit the export, re-export or transit to Spain, Spanish possessions and the Spanish zone in Morocco of arms, munitions and war material, in- cluding aircraft assembled or not assembled, a Boon as France, Great Britain, Portugal. Germany und Russia have all done or are ready to do the same, is printed prominently and with favourable comment in this morning's news- papers.
Describing it as a "promising reply" and noting that its main condition is already fulfilled save for the final adhesion of Germany. the "Times" deplores the fact that just when Italy has agreed to come into line, the negotiations in Berlin have been interrupted by the unfortunate incident of the Kamerun But, it adds, "even with this obstacle a sense of per- spective should ensure the speedy settlement and completion of the non-intervention ring"
· FRANCE PRAISED The "Daily Herald," with the news of the "Italian acceptance of by the latter non-intervention, declares that ships entering Blum 18 entitled to Europe's
of 15 plane which Spamsh waters, resulted in the as- thanks. It points out with re- attacked the Nationalist postionssurance by the Spanish Govern-ference to the Kamerun incident on the Guadarrama front bore ment that British ships will not be and the natural German irritation, clearly distinguishing marks at-
subjected to search outside terri- that the Spanish insurgent forces testing that they were planes of
torial waters, da
sheled a British yacht, killing a French origin...
British" subject and bombed a French town, but neither the British nor the French Govern- ments allowed these incidents to affect their attitude to the prin- ciple of on-intervention.- British Wireless.
war
The note also claims that other French planes dropped bombs on the insurgents at Falosa and other places on the San Sebastian front, returning to their base in France CAPTURE OF BARRACKS
after the bombardment. The note Marselles. Aug. 22. moreover declares that the loyalist Bayonne, Aug. 22.
uncensored letter received forces on the San Sebastian front Desperate fighting preceded the from Madrid dated
are August 18 using a "great deal of capture of Simanca barracks at states that the situation at the
material of French origin. Gijon by Government forces after capital is rapidly growing worse.
The Burgos Government adds - a violent aerial artillery bombard-
Citizens live in daily fear of at-
that it is in a position to provide ment.
It is reported that out of tack elther by heavy artillery or the Portuguese and other Govern- 500 Insurgen: defenders only 150 by air and the only railway linements, with other evidence sup- out of the city in working order is
porting the charges. that through to Alicante, while Valencia has been out of com — munication by rall for the last three days.
escaped. Reuter
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SAN SEBASTIAN SHELLED
Hendaye, Aug. 22. San Sebastian was bombarded all day long from the sea by a cruiser.- Reuter.
DEARTH OF NEWS
London, August 22. The only war news to-day comes from the Franco-Spanish frontier where the Government forces are completing positions for defence at
A feeling of apprehension of what is about to happen hangs over Madrid, where food is run- ning short and prices are prohibi- tive.
Shooting aristocrats and known members of various right parties are of daily occurrence. The mor- gue is piled high with dead, some being the bodies of mutilated girls.
San Sebastian and where the in-i There is a fairly brisk trade in surgent cruiser Espana has again the rescue of Spanish aristocrats.
in action. firing on Guadeloupe fort, "
been
The price charged varies between £1,000 and £10,000 according to
Reuter, "
A telegram from Burgos states wealth. that General Mola moved his headquarters to
Valladolid. but
the national defence" junta and nationalist government remain at present at Burgos.--- Reuter.
TRUN FIGHTING
|
The nate concludes by appealing to the "chivalry of the foreign Powers to put an end to this vialation of international law. Tranincean News Service.
MEXICAN ARMS FOR SPAIN
Vera Cruz, Aug. 22. Twenty-Ove railway vans loaded with arms and munitions have ar- rived from Mexico City, and the contents are being shipped to Spain by an American steamer, consigned to the Spanish Govern
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
RESERVATION BY YUGOSLAVIA
ment.-
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.
The conference continued since no decision regarding the right to board and search British ships within territorial waters was ar rived at
Difference of opinion regarding the limits of territorial waters were voiced, Spain claiming a alx-mile limit, whereas according to the Bri- tish maritime law, the mit is three miles.-
Transocean News Service.
FIFTH WEEK OF CIVIL WAR
Rough Survey Of The Position
Madrid, Aug. 22. With the conclusion of the Afth week of the civil war, the outcome is likely to be much more distant
ITALIAN PRESS COMMENT
Rome, Aug. 22. The Italian reply to the French neutrality proposals constitutes, in the opinion of the "Messagero," an important contribution by the Italian Government to the cause of European order in general and the cause of neutrality as regards the events in Spain in particular. The paper hopes that general agreement on the subject will be rapidly reached and strictly ad- hered to.
The paper proceeds to stress that the Italian reply maintains
than can be foreseen at present. Italy's standpoint in the question
The positions of the rival forces In the four principal areas so far
a roughly as follows:
In the nearth both aides are diggging in on a long front round Irun At San Sebastian, pending a big battle, long-range shelling is proceeding. Oviedo has not yet fallen, and additional Moorish troops have arrived at Burgos from "the south.
of indirect interference, and that it further proposes that public subscriptions and the recruiting of volunteers on behalf of either of the warring parties should be pro- hibited.
CONSPIRACY TRIAL CLIMAX
ACCUSED ECHO DEMAND
OF PROSECUTION
Death For Treason To
Working Class
Moscow, August 22,
The conspiracy trial reached a climax to-day when the ac- cussed eclived the demand of the state, prosecutor, M. Vishing- sky, that they should be shot and only begged to be allowed to say goodbye to the workers.
Their attitude was typified by that of Mrachovsky, ex-com- mander of the Red Army, who at the close of his evidence begged death" for treason to the working class," Then he broke down and wept bitterly and had to be carried out by police attendants.
MONSTROUS CRIME
Zinovie azd Kamene, the men who made history as the leaders of the Bolshevist revolu- tion, sat weeping with their fellow- prisoners, also in state of col- lapse. as the prosecutor, M. Vishinsky, demanded their death sentence at to-day's session of the conspiracy trial, "
"This society, of political mur- derers, these beasts, must pay with their heads for their monstrous
elared M. Vishinsky. crime against the fatherland." de-
A
FIERY ARTICLE BY RADEK
Trotsky Accused of "Conspiracy
Moscow, Aug. 21. flerce article, demanding
bloody assassins,
"death on the
which they deserve a hundrea Earlier in the proceedings Frita times," nas been contributed to David, a young German emigre Izvestia" by M. Karl Radek. Sta- and follower of Marx, related howlin's mouthpiece on foreign afgirs. Radek, who, Kamene yesterday he went to Berlin and Copenhagen i to see Trotsky, and said that the alleged. was involved in the con- latter told him of two methods by spiracy, says "the people who raised which the Trotskyites might come
arms against the lives of our be- to power-a Russian defeat in a loved leaders must pay with their war with Japan, or the killing of lives for their crime. The chief or
ganiser of this band is Trotsky, M. Stalin.
who will not escape the sentence of the world proletariat." Reuter.
"
MOSCOW PROBE
MURDER ATTEMPT The second method was con- sidered more practicable, and David was instructed to kill M Stalin at the 13th plenary session
Moscow, Aug. 21. of the Executive Committee of the The Attorney General has an- Comintern, but M. Stalin did notệ nounced thät Investigations will attend the meeting, and the aty, be made into the charges against tempt was postponed until the M. Karl Radek. M. Bakharin, M. seventh congress of the Comintern("Rykoff, M. Tomsky and M, Pyatak- last year. He then got as far as off of complicity with the Trotsky aiming a gun at M. Stalin, but did bloc-- not fire as he was too far away Reuter and was unnerved by the tremen- dous ovation given to the dictator.
After this two messengers visit ed. him from Beden, Trotsky's son in Berlin, rebuking him for his delay and ordering him to assas- sinate M. Stalin immediately.-
Reuter.
who is described as the greatest leader of the workers in the world. He urged youth never to violate the discipline of the Bolsheviks which he said was the cause of his own downfall
He concluded: "I don't fear death, having failed to serve the revolution while living: I am ready to serve it dying."- Beuter.
TRADE CHIEF'S SUICIDE
Moscow, Aug. 22.
A communique announces that the veteran Soviet Trade Union Chief, Mikhail Tomsky, committed suicide "because he was entangled by connections with the counter- revolutionary. Trotsky - Zinovieff
DONT FEAR DEATH
Moscow, Aug. 22. Kamene, in his closing address to the court, warned the Boviet The "Messagero" protests against Union to retain the greatest the co-existence, in"one and the vigilance because as long as Trot- same country, of two different sky was at large and free his policies, namely, of the Govern- emissaries would continue to pene- ment on the one hand and of pri- } trate the country to "perpetrate vate organisations on the other. acts of terror. Buch conditions, says the paper, Kamenen passed on his Anal render all international decisions testament to his three sons, one highly dubious, since they must of whom is an aviator in the Red operate to the disadvantage of Army and through them to the those Governments which assume entire, youth of the country, urging terrorists."- binding obligations.--
them to love and cherish M. Stalin, Reuter Transocean News Service,
ITALIAN ACCEPTANCE
Komu, Aug. 21. Sudden and unexpected diplo- to the relief of Badajoz have cap-matic activity has occurred here, tured Guadaloupe.
In the south the Insurgents claim that
a junction has been established between Seville and Granada. The Government state that their troops are advercing towards Granada, and a decisive battle is expected soon.
London, Aug. 21. Lively Bghting has occurred
Belgrade: Aug. 22. around Irun, where both sides are Yugoslavia agreed to France's leverishly entrenching themselves. neutrality proposal with a reserva According to a message from Hen- tion that no precedent be created daye a Government armoured train
which might later affect the In the west the capture of Al participated in the fighting, while principle whereby a lawful govern- Cantara near Badajoz is claimed rebels tried to force a passagement may obtain the support of by the insurgents. The Govern- along the Irun Road with armoured other states in the event of insurment allege, that troops marching
cara
fell on the French Consul's villa at Four shells from rebel batteries trun, but there were no casualties.
GENERALS EXECUTED ("Hong Kong Daily Press" Speclat
Hendaye, Aug. 22. General Leopoldo Saro," who was a member of the Government during Primo de Rivera's dictator- ship, and General Giraldo Gallego were executed in Madrid, according to reports in the San Sebastian papers. The Madrid press do not tinue to rush troops from the South Meanwhile, the insurgents con- exercise the same frankness, the executions being published under of Moroccan sharp-shooters arrived to the northern front. A battalion the somewhat euphemistic phrase at Burgos from Seville and in- "the following died 17 Madrid
mediately left again for an to-day."
known destination.
BURGOS MESSAGES
General Millan Astray founder Hendaye, Aug. 22. of the Spanish Foreign Legion and The Burgos radio announces that the hero of the Riff war. to-day the insurgents are still holding reviewed 2,000 of his shock troops cut in the historic fortress of of the Spanish Phalanx at Burgos, Alcazar in Toledo which is other before their departure for the wise in the hands of Government front It is estimated there are .forces..
A private message from Burgos states that only the headquarters of the northem insurgent army 18 moving to Valladolid, the "National Defence Committee" remaining in Burgos.
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now 200.000 of this well-disciplined organisation in northern Spain.➡ Reuter.
SANGUINARY BATTLE
Paris, Aug. 21. The battle of Irun is still raging. The attack of the Nationalists was move-troops in a sanguinary hand
beaten back by the Government
General Mola declared that the coming week will "Bring the ment into all the fronts. Transocean News Service,"
INSURGENT DENIAL
to
rection. Reuter
CORDOBA CAPTURE
the purport of which is that Itaty In the Madrid area the Govern-nas accepted the French text of ment announces successes in the the Spanish neutrality agreement. fighting in the Quadarrama bat-
Italy had addressed a question to tle. The insurgents claim that France on the subject, but, with- Barcelona, Aug. 21.
they will shortly have 20,000 ad-out awaiting the reply, Count A Government broadcast claims ditional troops at Sierra ready to Olano, the Italian Foreign Minis the "capture by loyalist troops of march to the capital.
tex, to-night summoned the French the city of Cordoba, an important
The situation in other parts of Ambassador and handed him a point on the line of the Govern the country remains stationary.—
note giving full acceptance to the ment columns" march towards | Reuter
French proposals, and promising to give effect thereto, when the French, British, Portuguese, Ger- man and Soviet Governments had accepted.
Seville-- Router.
REPORT REFUTED
Seville, Aug. 22. Contradicting the Government report that Cordoba had fallen says the Government column was the rebel broadcast from this point
defeated on the outskirts of Cor- doba with a loss of prisoners as well as war material- Reuter.
GOVERNMENT CLAIM
"Madrid, Aug. 22.
MALAGA REVOLT
JOHN MILTON'S COTTAGE
Adjoining Lot To Be Purchased
London, Aug. 23. The trustees of the poet John Milton's Cottage at Chalfönt Stilles in Buckinghamshire recently issued
The Government claims to have an appeal for £1,200 to enable hand aght. The armoured train captured Guadelupe after a bayo-them to purchase the adjoining on the line from Irun to Behovia net charge and says its miilile piece of land threatened by build- on the French frontier played a now advancing on Caceras- Hendaye, Aug. 22. prominent part in the battle, Reuter.. The radio station of Palma de which continued into the after- Majorca denied the Madrid and-noon without pronounced success Barcelona assertion, that the for either side. The losses on both loyalista had gained a victory in aides are heavy. Palma, declaring that not
Shells dew.over the frontier and foot of territory was in the hands exploded on French territory, but
no special damage was done... Transgesan Wews Service,
of the Government troops- Transocean. New Service.
one
Count Clano added a warning that the raising of public subscrip- tions and voluntary enlistments in certain countries were likely to dis- turb international relations, Reuter
NON-INTERVENTION FORMULA
Exchange Of Notes
NATIONALISTS WANT
A REPUBLIC
Dr. Malan's Address
In Pretoria
Pretoria, Aug. 22.
The Nationalists could and must get a Republic, declared Dr. Malan addressing a meeting of ten thousand people. The speaker outlined the necessary steps along constitutional lines as:
1. Abolition of the title British
subject;
2. Complete break with 'Imperial
conferences;
3. Refusal to attend the Corona-
tion of the King:
4. Abolition of imported Gover-
nors-General;
5. Substitution of President for
King:
HAVAS DIRECTOR INJURED
Madrid, Aug, 23. The director of the Havas news service in Madrid was seriously wounded on Saturday while on an 6. The head of the State to be bourhood of Guadalupe, by a shall information tour in the dieigh- elected in accordance with which exploded, nese his motor the new constitution by the car during the bombardment of a people only and not by King
Edward;
fort.
Paris, August 22. It is learned on era. They now announce that Lord
excellent au- Wakefield has expressed his desire thority, that the non-intervention to purchase this land and present agreement is to take the form of
7. Act of substituting "elected Another occupant of the car Corunna, Aug. 22. it to the trustees as a means of an exchange of notes between the Street fighting has broken out in associating it with. Milion's Cot-French
Government and each
President" in all national laws killed outright, and three other Malaga following the rising of tage Ward of Bread Street, City foreign government concerned. Dad
tonne The Havas directes and statute books for "King Journalista injured. the garrison against the Leftist of London, of which he is Alder- Government according to insuran and in which Milton was exchanged between Britain and which is to-day at the door of an Buch notes have already been steps were adopted by Ireland
Britia Wireless.
gent wireless reports. Beuter
born.
France.-
Reuter.
Independent Republiez, Router
transported immediately to the severely injured on the see, was Madrid Chospital- Transocean News Servite,