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Insurgents Driven From
Positions Between Valencia And Barcelona
Barcelona, April 18 ·
The Loyalists have defeated the Insurgents' attempts to extend the Vinaros wedge southwards, and have forced the Insurgents near Camarasa, 25 miles north-east of Lerica, to withdraw across the river Serre, after suffering great losses...
A Salamanca message says the Insurgent" troops, advancing swiftly northwards from Vinaroz have widened the riit between Catalonia and the rest of Republican Spain" by several miles— (Reuter).
The
RETREAT ADMITTED
Paris. April 17.
Government's
at
COMMUNICATIONS. CUT
Saragossa, April 18.
of Nationalist
The
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instructions from Mr. M. J. B MONTARĢIS
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The 20th and 21st April, 1938.:
commencing each day at 10.30 am.
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arrival Spanish claim to have driven, back the Spanish warships off Vinaros yes- Insurgents from the sea and to terday har enabled General Fran- have forced them out of Benicarlo,eo to ent sea communications be- where. the Insurgents had driven tween Barcelona and Valencia,
As all highway and railroad a wedge between Barcelona and
had been Valencia, appears to be true, ac- communications
when General Arandas' forces cording to impartial, news agen-
howed their way to the sea on a cies."
20-mile front, the sole remaining Fine Upholstered Drawingroom: connection between Catalonia and Suite, Diningroom and Bedroom the rest of Republican Spain is by Suites, Blackwood and Brass Ware,. Clocks, Valuable Old Curios, Pic- A naval patrol has been estab-tures, Curtains, Carpets Carpet: lished between a point on the
Runners, etc., etc. Mediterranean coast near Vinaroz and the Balearic Islands with the object of preventing any Repub- lican ships from slipping through
Seven Government steamers
The Insurgent authorities Saragossa deny that Benicarlo has fallen, but at the same time they admit a strategic retreat at a cer- tain point.
air.
·COASTAL PATROL
Meanwhile, Government sources declare with increasing insistence that the situation is less grave. Paris, April 17.
maintaining that Government It is offcially announced that troops have received suppiles of M. Edouard Daladier, French
war material. the shortage Da Prime Minister, and M. Georges which prevented them from Bonnet, Foreign Minister, are co-sisting the Insurgents push effec-which were engaged in conveying
ing to London on April 28 at the invitation of Mr. Neville Chamber- lain and Lord Halifax.
The proposed visit follows an Invitation delivered yesterday on behalf of Mr. Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax through the Bri- tish Ambassador to Paris.
It is understood that the Anglo- Italian Agreement, Britain's re- quest to the League for recogni tion of Italian claims to Abyssinia, and the impending visit of the King and Queen of England to Paris, will be amongst the subjects to be discussed.~~(Reuter).
tively. (Reater),
Express Goes Off Rails
re
EIGHT KILLED IN
FRENCH DISASTER
Eight
Paris, April 18. persons are reported in have been killed and about :
refugees from Barcelona to Valen- cia were captured by Nationalist patrol boats on Saturday as they were proceeding through the Gulf of San Jorge.
AZANA ESCAPED? -
to
Senor Manuel Azana, presi- dent of the Spanish Republic, is reported to have fled from Barcelona, but it is not known whether he is still in Spanish territory or his escaped, France.(Transocean).
SUBMARINE'S DRAMATIC
* ESCAPB
Paris, April 18. 'Further particulars regarding of the Spanish Republican submarine
dramatic
Escape
The Pacification Commissionerscrlously injured when an express the for Szechuen and Sikang. Generalin proceeding from Algieri Teng Hsi-how, who arrived in Han-Dran left the rails near Orleans-C4" from the port of Verdon, at
ville late on Saturday night. kow from Chungking on April 10. called on the War Minister, Gen- eral Ho Ying-chin, to report on the military situation in Szechuen, ocean). states a wire to the Ein, Wan Pao.
The cause of the disaster has not yet been ascertained.-(Trans-
FRENCH REACTION
ΤΟ
ROME PACT SIGNATURE Government Urged To Accept Spain Plan
༄།་
Paris, April 18.
That France should follow the example of Britain and enter forth- with into negotiations with Italy is the demand made by many Parisian newspapers in their Easter Sunday Issues.
Exceptions are the Socialist and Communist organs which. nevertheless, admit that the signing of the Angio-Italian Agree-
the mouth of the Gironde, have now been -revealed.
The submarine left port on Thursday last under supervision of
also
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a French gunboat for the purpose ceed by Tram, Car, or Taxi to of carrying out manoeuvres in or- Bowen Road after which a three der to test whether it was in div-minytes walk will bring them to
ing trim.
the above house.
ALTERNATIVE. ROUTE by Car
The submarine submerged, ap- peared on the surface and then submerged a second time, where- upon it failed to reappear. The or Taxi via Borrett Road to en- French gunboat walled several
trance of Military Hospital from hours in valu.“
It is known that the submarine that point a walk of two minutes had sufficient fuel on board to WESTWARD will bring them to- enable it to reach Spain. It had No. VA.
also taken aboard all armament which had been dismantled when
it first arrived in the French port for repairs-(Transocean).
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China Appreciates Mexican Oil Embargo
Hankow, April 16.
The Chinese League of Na- tions Union · has· addressed a letter to the Mexican Legation in China expressing deep ap preciation of the decision of the Mexican Governinent mot to sell oil to Japan as reported by Havas a few days ago.
JAPANESE GOODS FLOOD MARKET -
IN SHANGHAI
French political opinion has been aroused by the planned set- tlement of the Spanish issue set forth in the Agreement to urge that the French Government should framediately Intimate its preparedness to associate itself with such a plain of settlement.
Le Petit Journal goes so far as to say that the signing of the Agreement will have the effect of compelling the French Govern- ment, to make known, its inten- tions." (Transocean).
FRUSTRATED IN TIME
Iron Guard Prepared To March On Budapest
CODREANU ARRESTED
Bucharest, April 18.
Corneliu Codreanu, loader of the Rumanian Fascist Iron Guärd, has been arrested with 200 followers following discovery of a plot. to march on Bucharest and the schure of plans for a' coup d'etaf.
An official communique declares that all of the arrested men. who were found to be in possession of arms, are to be tried, pre- sumably before the military courts, as the country is still under martial law.
AFTER MUSSOLINI
AUSTRALIA FLEASED
Sydney, April 18. Bigning of the Anglo-Italian Agreement has been received in Australia with a feeling of satis- faction, according to a statement made yesterday by the · Prime: Only a small group of agitator Minister, Mr. Joseph A. Lyons. were involved, the masses of the The letter also included orders
The importance, as far as Aus- people remaining calm and attend- to Iron Guard legionarles to on--- Shanghai, April 17. tralia was concerned, of the reluing to their work.
tain new mitonas and weapons Shanghai is now flooded with forcement of the Suez Canal It is alleged that Codreanu and await the right moment for a Japanese goods which were ship-Convention was stressed by Mr. planned to establish a Nazi dieta- march on Bucharest, modelled on ped here by transports and war-Lyons-(Transocean).
torship. The police found evidence Mussolini's march on Rome.. ships under the general heading
of the existence of Iron Guard Another circular letter to the
quotes tha
they supplies free from PUPPET POLICE
tariff duty.
Labels and brands were changed here, so that goods look like those from Europe and America.· They are damped into Hangchow, Ningpo and other places for sale at extremely favourable prices.
CHIEF HELD
Echo Of Attempt
On Life Of.
"Mayor"
In an editorial comment, the Shanghai Evening Post and Mer- cury stated that other foreign firms are adversely affected by the
Shanghai, April 18. dumping of the duty-free Jap Buspected of Implication in the anese goods. For this reason the attempt on the life of "May". Bu- Japanese do not wish to reach an Sih-wen of the Great Way Mund.. agreement on the customs issue, cipalty in Footung, "Police Com- opined this American papermissioner Chu Yu-chen is report (International).
ed to be under detention”
cells in various factories, and bold Iron Craned
a circular letter written by Horstwessel song and exhorte fol- Codreanu to local leaders of the lowers to "seite weapons, 3X0S, Iron Guard throughout Rumania scythes and beat the dogs down." fn which he makes bitter attacks against the Government and the Prime Minister, Patriarch Miron Christca
FOR SNAKE ISLAND
The police had been watching Codreanu, for some months. He “Dan you put up any longer with was arrested after letters signed by- these old ghosts: these old men him were discovered among the with their brains dried wp?” he belongings of four monks, writes, “We shall no longer, make. It is believed that the Gorem--- requests. We shall simply take ment is now determined to deal
drastically with the Iron Chuard" what belongs to us”
and may possibly send Codreanu Mr. Ho Chia-yu, "Commissioner to Snake Island, a barren rock in of Finance," has resigned (Inter- the Black Bea where political of- ntalonal:: News);
Tenders are confined(Reuter)?