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Street Fighting In Barcelona
Diary Of An Englishwoman
The following account of conditions and events in Barcelona during the earlier stages of the Civil War is taken from the diary of an Englishwoman who, with her husband, was recently evacuated from Barcelona by a British warship.
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COMMERCIAL BATTLE
Australia And U. S. In Trade War
JAPAN PROBABLY WILL GAIN
The recent action of President Roosevelt in abolishing all advant- ages which Australia received un- der former trade treaties with the United States, has only intensified There are no trams running, but
the trade war between the two masses of private cars, all with countries, according to government | C.N.T. [Confederation of Workers] | sources here.
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NEW
YORK STOCK` EXCHANGE
CERNUJA KURIST'S ASWDKFY
QUOTATIONS
New York: August 3.
New York, London Cross-rate New York Cotton-Oct. New York Rubber-Sep Chicago Whoat --Sep. Chicago Corn Silver-Official
30 Industrial
90 Rails
30 Utilities
-Sep
Saturday (July 18-After din-; and have broken into a lot of ner we went along our own street foodshops. to our usual café in the Plaza at one end, where
sat and had some coffee. A tremendous crowd as usual on a Saturday night, as and FAI. [Federation of An- While Australia's original action there is an orchestra at our café, archists] painted all over them in imposing an importing license
Stocks and filled with youths bristling syetem and reducing the quota of Adams Express and the whole population comes to the Plaza and dances country with guns out of every window.articles that could be imported Amer. Can
the dances all over the one side of the One has to do
Communist from the U. S. was instituted for Amer. Cyanamid 'B' Plaza, over the pavement and traf-salute every second yard to every the purpose of reducing Australia's Am. & For. Power fe routes, everywhere.
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JAPAN TO GAIN
passing car.
unfavourable trade balances with Am. & For. P. $7 pi While we While we were there. there kept
were at lunch an] the United States.
certain Am Light & Trac. arriving to stay at the hotel. In absolute battle started. Apparent amount of bitterness, it is declared, Amer. Lucomotive... which our café is on the ground ly two shots were fired from the has now been infected into the Amer. Radiator ....... foor, dozens and dozens of what root of this house at the garage fight by America's latest step.
Amer. Rolling MA... 83 were described as "international opposite, which has a large petrol athletes" who had arrived to take tank and is incessantly full of
According to official sources. Ja-Am. Sugar Refining 174
Amer. Tel. & Tel part in some Olymple Games to- Communist cars filling up, and pan will probably be the gainer in
Amer. Tobacco 'B' ... Morrow. 3. her husband] kept wounded two men. A mass of peo-the "ight.
Amer. Waterworks... 387 muttering to himself, as each lorry-ple arrived and started shooting
In spite of the fact that under Anaconda Copper ... load arrived, that never had he at this house. The noise was fear the new importing license system,tchison, T. & S. FC. seen such a tough-looking lot and ful,
Our hostesses,dashed out of the he did not believe there was one |
the inside landing, single athlete among them. He! door on to thought it must be some sort of which has lifts and stairs serving B, and I. after about Communist publicity stunt...which all the fats. was a queer forecast, as it hap- ten minutes in which we demon- 'pened.
strated our blue blood by sitting and chatting negligently over the dirty dishes, followed them.
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Sunday,--At two o'clock this morning I heard up the inside well of this block of Bats a radio going and then a long announce- ment of news. It was that all good citizens and Coramunista!
their ap- were to go at once to pointed stations to be prepared to help the Government against the rebellious army: that Seville. Malaga, and Madrid "were obvious-
HANDKERCHIEF SIGNAL
There are eight floors with six flats in each, all opening onto this central stair with two lifts in it. The noise was really greater in- side than the firing outside. There must have been fully 300 excited Latins of both sexes discussing the
ly quite out of control, but noth-j situation all up the stair. On every ing, as usual, was to be feared: step children, dogs, and every- and that the Government would one yelling their views at each radio every half-hour. So natur- other, ally we resigned ourselves to night of it.
HOLIDAY CROWD TURNED BACK
$
Then a mass of Guardias. As- saltos and Communists, armed to the teeth, began to pour in and go up to the roof in lifts to catch the assailant. They were up there At three they announced a gen- for ages, but he or they had gone eral strike, so by 3.30, as it was by then. We have all been told to growing light, we opened our shut-bang white handkerchiefs from ters, as we thought it would be our windows. No one knows why. interesting to see all the trams but we have all obediently done stopped and people being turned; so.
an hour empty.
Atlas Corpn. Auburn
the rates of duty on rayon have been slightly increased. It is assert- ed that the orders will be diverted Baltimore & Ohio... to Japan rather than to the Unit- ed States.
Lost Today's
High Low Close Close Change
3,03-5/32 5.03-1,39 | off
. 8 of
108 109 li up
off
Low Aug 28. High Low Close Change
Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Co. There will be no restrictions of Borden Co. any kind imposed on Japanese Bhlyn Manhattan rayon, as Japan 18 a good customer Trans Corpå. ...... of Australia. It is admitted that Erlyn Manhattan rayon was placed on the license 58 cum. p1.
1031 103" list for the sole purpose of shut Case, J. I.
1501 ting out the American product, as Canadian Pac. Rily. 11) 12 the United States does not pur-Chase Nat. Bk.
471 chase sumciently Australian goods. Chesapeake
Stocks
11.34
11.30 11:38 11,30
10.92b alowed
1101
108 105
108ja 100
2443
unquoted
1938
Aug. 29.
Dow Jones Averager
High 170.15 "143.11 16878
1879 188.34 186.91
.13 up-
58.0% -40.68" 34.10
59:17 19 56.01
.91 up
38.05 38.23°34.62.
34.78° 34.61 3470
28 up
40 Bonds
103.87 98.82.104.01
11 Commodity Ludex 6837 55.50 65.81
104.11
anquoted
.09 up
Business Done: ~630,0)+ shares,
Last Sale Aug. 28 29 ..
Last Sale
Aug. 28 29
13)
131
o Western Sugar ...
381 364
121
Humble Oil............
661
857 *
341
341
Int Harvester Co.
7
71
Int. "Nickel
53*
54
361
371
Int. Tel. & Tel.
124
134
30
31
Kennecott
47+
47)
221
201
Loew's Inc.
58*
59
271
271
Lorillard
22X
831
McKesson & Rob-
| Amer, Smelting ...... 81
631
bins Inc. ...
45
45
1741
Monsanto Chemical 99
.991.
102ł
1024
Montgomery Ward...
454
47
241
242
Nat, City Bk
421
421*
382
Nat, Dairy, Prods....
271
23
811
827
Nat Distillers ........
202
301
27
Nat. Power & Light
121
121
137
132.
New York Central...
427
431
31+
302*
North American .....
321
321
23
23
Northern Pacific...
27
271
68)
677
Pacific Gas & Eec.
381
382
28
29
Paclic Lighting
531
53
29%
30
Packard Moto
11
111
Paramount Picture
511
Incor
81
Bk
Pennsylvania RR.
387
39
Phillips Petroegm 41. 421
159+
Pure Oil Co
481
43)
Pub. Service of NJ. 17
181
471*
Radio Corp.
107
111
Corpn.. 831
82**
Radio Corpa
114
661 1144
$5 of
102.
1021**
Reynolds Tob 'B'.....
50+
217
Schenley
56+ 471 471
1061
Schenley 51% DI.....
301
Sears Roebuck ...... 84+
841
162
161
Bocony-Vacuu
134 131
Sthrn. Cal. Edison 311
311
32
31
Sthrn. Pacific ........
42
43
Stand, Brands
151
151
70
70
Stand. Gas Y Elec
23
71
43
·431
Stand. Oil of N.J....
637
€3}
121 121.
Sterling Prods, `.......
721
72
*****
302
301
Swift Internationa.
307 30%
691
69
Technicolor
271 271
62
61
Texas Gulf Sulphur
38
381
10
187
Transamerica
131
131
451
461
20th Cent. Fox Film.
.
Distillers Corpa, Sea-
Comm
30%
301
Tams
241
257
20th Cent. Fox Furn.
Douglas Aircraft
727
734
pf.
381
39
Du Pont de Nemours 1577
156
Un, Carbide & Car-
RECALL TO MOSCOW
Electric Boat
137
14.
ban
98
95
Elec. Bond & Share
221..
23
Un. Pacific
1414
144
London, Aug. 23. The President of the Soviet Rus-
Elec. Bond & Shar
$5 pt.
Un. - Aircraft | (New)
25]
254
724*
71*
Un. Airline Trans... 171
174
Un. Corpn.
84
83
Un, Corpm. #3 cum.
151
: pf.
47
47
352
363
Un.
Gas "Improve-
54
53
ment
164
47
471
U. 8. Indus Alcohol: 33
331
381
381
US. Rubber ............ 201
301
Gen. Motoru...**
86
603
U. S. Steel
70 701
Gen. Rly. Signal
427
43.
Vanadium
23+ 1231 森
Gold Dust
14
144
Goodrich Tyre Co..
244
241
Warner Bros. Picts 131 131 Westingh se Tiec. 1391 1392
Goodyear Tire & R
244
244
Call Moraes
C. N'thern Rly. p.
407
411
ex. div.
* Bld
15
BITTER AGAINST Ü. S.. Chesapeake & Ohio 66 As regards the importation of Chrysler automobile chasis from the Unit- Columbia Gas & E. 21 ed States and Canada, the number C. G. & E G 'A' p 108 has been limited to 50,000 annually. Commercial Credit 197 of which 25,000 will come from the Comi. Solvents .... United States and 25,000 from Comm. & Southern Canada,
(ord.) ............ Licenses for all other goods on Comm, & Southern the prohibited list will be refused (ord., $6 cum pr. outright except in the case of na- Consolid, cus of NY. tional necessity or where employ-Consolia, Oil ment in Australia is involved,
Continental Our The object of this is not to per- Corn. Products ...... mit any of these goods to come Curtiss Wright 'A'... Into Australia from the United Curtiss Wright (C)) States and other non-buyers of Delaware & Hudson Australian products.
out of them, And, indeed, it was Tuesday. It was so quiet this: the trams hurtling along at 60 morning that I thought we would miles
Then we go to see if the English Consulate saw all the early-bird holiday- could help me to get away. We makers. who always go out on found them as "nervous as cats, Sunday to the country, being turn- but utterly charming. They ad- ed back from going on foot to the vised me to go by car quite hope- sian Trade Delegation to London, Elec. Bond & Share
less, as there are none available Czerski, was suddenly recalled to 38.. pf.
Plaza by civilians.
At ten to four Vie saw the Guardias pouring out of their bar- racks across "the street, and then to our left a mass of soldiers run- ning like hares. Then, if you please, there started a real battle up and down our street, which went on, a real fusillade, for three-quar- ters of an hour, An unfortunate man was killed under our eyes at the tax garage opposite. They killed a captala and two soldiers up in the Plaza, but I did not see that.
The most curious part.of it all is that the assault started from the foreign athletes' hotel, and there is no one staying there ex- cept "themselves.
or by ship-equally hopeless, as there are none.
Moscow, and the President of the E'er Power & Light 157 Fur Monopoly, chowsky. has j Fintkote Co. been appointed hi successor Re-Gen. Cigar ports add that it is not yet known Gen. Electric why Cersky was recalled.- Transocenu News Service.
Arrived back at two. I must say, contrary to my expectations, no one was rude or unpleasant There has so far been no looting except of arms and food. No pri- vate house have been touched nor the banks. but I do not think there can be one church left in Barce-
GOMBOES TO REST lons with more than four bare
Budapest, Aug. 28, walls, and every priest's house and Premier Gomboes has been or- religious college is gone completely, dered to take a cure. He will sel- also the Italian Shipping Line of-ject a German Spa. It is declared fice.
STREET BATTLEFIELD
What a battle there must have been in Plaza Catalina and the After breakfast, for an
hour. Ramblas! Broken glass every- there were just a few odd shots, where and shell-holes and bullet and then it all started again up marks, the branches of trees cut and down the street. So here I through by bullets, four dead am writing in B.'s cubby-hole of a mules lying there blown out like dressing-room at the back. They balloons, and the smell of them! say there has been really bad Quite a lot of barricades down
fighting in the Ramblas, which is a sort of Bond-street, and a lot of people killed.
the Ramblas made of paving stones torn up. It must have been a shambles while it was going on Just before breakfast I took Fina and there must be a lot of wound (her dog out for an airing, as it ed because they have had to take seemed all over. I now know it over a theatre and a movie for was a mad thing to do. There extra room.
де
that his condition is very much improved, but he will have to rest for about two months. Transocena News Service.
Gen. FoodA
SCHACHT LEAVES
PARIS
$21
1% 1%
LENIN'S WIDOW
AND STALIN
Paris, Aug. 28.
-Moscow, Aug. 28. Hish cruiser in there, tied up. He
Reichsbank President Dr. Hjal- It is strongly · rumoured that got caught in a fusillade in the mar Schacht left Paris by the there is a violent quarrel between Ramblas had to spend half-an-hour lying
on the way back, and regular plane at 2 p.m. on Friday. Stalin and the widow of Lenin, In the morning he had taken Krupakaja." It is declared that
Assalto under an empty klosk till flat on his face beside a Guardia leave of the Governor of the Bank Krupakaja. whose Intervention in of France, Labeyrie and of 1835 on behalf of Sinoviev" and After that Kammenef. was the sole reasoni it finished,
Premier Leon Blum.
Thursday. We went down
a reception in his that they were not arrested for that lovely sight in the harbour, honour by the German Chamber "moral responsibility" in the as- the London (9,750 tons), tied up gaus" a newly opened community protesting against the death sen
of Commerce in the "Deutsches sassination of Kirov. is violently ongelde. But oh bitter mo-
to
he attended
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ment, a huge mass of Communists and social centre for the Germans tences against the two men, who
in Paris. The Leader of the were amongst the closest collabora and guns between us and her and
National Socialist Party, Dr. tors of Lenin, guard of Carabineros. who absolutely refused to" allow us on board. I could have wept,
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HAPPY ENDING
Schleler said that Dr. Schacht It is said that the criticism of Was the first National Socialist Krupskaja of the sentences led: to Minister to visit Parts, and it was a violent quarrel between Stalin
that earnestly hoped
he had and Krupskaja, in course, of which
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were a lot of people in the street, Poor souls, and they are all so walking with their hands above young. In a way, though, it was their heads, holding white hand-curiously touching that when Kerchiefs.
ever we gave a Communist salute to a passing car, guns and swagger NINE CHURCHES IN FLAMES
and all, the occupants, all young. However, while we were sitting succeeded in clearing up to some Stalin energetically forbade Krup- Monday. No gas to-day and saluted back and smiled from ear disconsolately on a bollard, dis extent the misunderstandings pre- akaja to criticise his regime. rumours of no water, so we have to ear. They are obviouly so de-cussing what to do, an officerį vailing between the two countries, According to another version, alled the bath as we cannot use lighted with themselves, and there came alongside from the ship, and and bringing about a closer re- Krupskaja was not received", by 1. Last night we went on to the is no question they do aght like I shouted to him. He was quite lationship.
Stalin whereupon she complained charming and said, stuff and non- Among those present roof strictly prohibited-and saw tigers for their ideals.
to the Communist Party Head- nine churches burning. Very beau- But what will happen later wher sense, of course we could come on Bourget upon Dr. Schacht's depar- quarters. It is believed that she tiful in the dark, but curiously there are
no more churches to board; that was what they were tire were Count Welczek. German I will be arrested or expelled from sinister.
burn, and no advancing army to there for, and, of course, we could Ambassador. Minister of Econo- Mosco This morning. às everything was distract them? I do not dare to bring Fina and anything we liked. mies, Paul Bastid and Lebeyrie, Transocean Nowe Service.
So we quiet, all the youths were burn- look ahead. For how can the Gov-
tramped back to our Governor of the Bank of France."---- ing anything clerical they could ernment
I packed what 1 Transocean News Service. ever collect the arms lodgings. and
It is moreover stated that "Dr." lay hands on. We saw them gut-back again. If they are not willing could. We got on board with no ting a priest's house and throwing to give them up? Who ever heard trouble at all, and you can guess
Berlin, Aug. 28. Schacht did not conduct any everything, including the stairs of a youth from 18 to 25, who has the kindness of everyone, We The foreign Press reports that, Dr. negotiations. at all" but merely, and blinds, out of the window injust fought and won a war. being staved on the London till 8 pm, Hjalmar Schacht, President of the after the initiative taken by the to the street, and having enor-ready to give up his arms to
and were then put on the Douglas, Reichsbank and Minister of Econo- Governor of the Bank of France... mous bonfires. Obviously, for the order?
s destroyer (1,530 tons), and sall-mics, has conducted negotiations reestablished contact with the res- moment at least. Communism has Wednesday.-B. went down to ed right away. They were shoot for a loan while in Paris, are de-ponsible quarters of France after won. They have commandeered all the Port again this afternoon, and ing on the far side of the quay as nied in official quartera as being a pause of five years private cars in garazes, all petrol, oh! Joy of Joys there's an Eng- we left.
"entirely without foundation.”. Transocean News Service.
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