THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
1936.
SPAIN:
WAR OF
EXTERMINATION
Tales Of
Of Appalling Cruelties By Reds Who Are Out Of Hand
"Times" Tells Of The Butchery
THIS picture of the situation where the Reds have the upper hand in Spain is given in extracts from the account, printed in The Times, of a special correspondent on the Spanish frontier. THE anti-Fascist revolution in Barcelona and Catalonia has become a reign of terror, to judge from information received here from Spain.
and searched three limes for Fascista by "purification" squads. As
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was found, on' the third visit the
family of eight was taken away and that "dend. A notary of Tarrasa named Dadin, the father of nine chil- dren, was similarly taken from his
. Barcelona Itself presents an ap-home and killed.
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pearance of autward calm and of in Don Luls Perez Sámanilla was a approtich the nurmul, but beneath wealthy man and a benefactor of the the surface lles the terrible story of Church, who lived in retirement with the searching of houses by "purife-his family at La Garrign. A com- tion" septances,
the seizure of mitte visited his house on July 20, individuals or of whole families and taking away him and his son their subsequent asanssination in killing them. The person who took fonely spots, and of the murder of the news to Barcelona was trembling nuns and priests.
and while with terror.
At the back of Barcelont rises a mountain called the Tibidabo, famous In Catalan lore. Across Its shoulder and through forests winds the lonely Rubassada road.
Itere every morning for a week. or longer have been found the bodies of a dozen or more per- box who had disappeared from their homes or had been taken from them by search conmmittees.
NUNS BETRAYED
and
A captain of Shock Police at- tempted to impose his authority on some men under him who oh- Jected. The men took him be-- kişid wall and slist him drad. The story is from a witness of the dred, a man an officia! posilien.
PADRE'S FATE
Padre Pares was a priest who at his own expense founded a private school which was attached to the On the morning of July 27 the parish of Sagrada Familla. He and Jocal Revolutionary Committee at his housekeeper had taken refuge in Vallvidrerea, a suburb of Harcelona a friend's house, One day the on the Tibidaboridge, tried unsuc-mortuary received in mysterious eir- cessfully to stop a large motor-car cumstances his body and those of containing three armed men and six his housekeeper and friends. women, which was speeding through. A lay nursing brother reports that 110 of his colleagues were taken from the city's largest hospital and mur- When the eny returned later with-dered. out the women a search was
Padre Nicanor Costes is a Filip- made
nationality for them, and the bodies of four, who ino priest of American had been shut
living in a well-known monastery near Badalona. With 40 other members of his Order he was taken from the monastery by a com- mitter. Two of the priests were killed and three, wounded, and the athers, he, among them, were taken
who
rund dend, were among undergrowth and trees. An other wax loo seriously wounded to be moved. The sixth was still cpa- scious and was taken o the local Red Cross hospital.
The women were nons of the Dominican Convent in Barcelona and had been taken from there on the pretext that they were to be put in a safe place.
Was
Direct ill scored by day bumbers in a low-flying attack on a bridge over the Guadalquivir, in Spain. A photorranh showing attacking 'planes and bombs exploding on the target is rare in the history of alt warfare.
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Alexandria, Aug. 30, Ten thousand gas masks, delivered; here to-day from London, are to be Fold to the public at 59, each. Reuter.
SING SONG
GIRLS AID
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after being questioned, they were released.
RESCUED
Padre Nicanor Costes was rescued į
The dead lay on the ground all with difficulty by a car from the night and were taken to
States Consulate. which
Barcelona United
the next day. Fear, was felt for the travelled under escort, and put in a fate of 30 nuns imprisoned in a lonely
monastery near by.
VICTIMS OF KILLERS The house of a factory owner at Tarrasa named Salvans was visited
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Among the reported victims are the grey-haired and patriotic Don Ramon Abadal, President of Liga Catalana, and Don Pedro Bose, the Aiguin wealthy chult of clothing stores.
A manufacturer named Valdes !! Pujatas, a brother of a former presi-
dent of
the Barcelona Provincini Council, was taken from his home at Matadepera, near Tarrasa, with his faller-in-law, and forced to enter a molor-car and to drive it himself. At a lonely spot both were shot dead.
TEDDY-BEARS
IN DANGER OF DYING. OUT
Sydney, Aug. 31. AUSTRALIA'S koala tree-bear, the prototype of the child's "Teddy-bear," and now almost as much a symbol of the Com- monwealth as the kangaroo, is dying out in the State of New South Wales, - after having already become almost extinct in Victoria.
His estimated by Mr. Noel Burnet, an authority, that only about 100 of them survive in their wild state there.
Mr. Burnet has a reserve near Sydney on which he is trying to pre- serve the specles from extinction in south-eastern Australia,
Queensland is now the unly Aus- tralian State in which extinction is not threatened, as there is belleved to be over half a million of the animals there.
Laws to prevent the trapping of the animale, of which nearly 600,000 skins! were obtained In 1927, have now been passed.-United Press.
Girl's Claim To Be Clan Chief
Edinburgh, Aug. 25. Sitting in a court here which seem- ed to recapture the atmosphere of feudal Scotland, Sir Francis Grant, the whitebearded Lord Lyon King of Arms, heard to-day legal arguments on the relevancy of the petition of a girl of 10 to bear the arms of chieftain of a Highland clan,
a
JEWELLERY
WORTH £6,000
Nanking, Aug. 25. One hundred and seventy dainty sing-song girls, the elite of the capital's slender beautics
Chaplin the Richest whose sweet smiles and soft
Film Star
Hollywood, Aug. 25. WHEN Hollywood's film actors
pay their 1936 taxes on jewellery it is Harold Lloyd who
Record of the county tax collected
|voice drive dull care from states- men and Nanking's other pra minent citizens, are training themselves to assist directly in
the defence of the country against any future invader.
About three months ago, the has to write the biggest cheque.feeling among the charming in- just issued show that the Lloyd habitants-of-the- Chin-Hual collection is valued at £6,000, Just Canal district became so strong 3,640 more than that of Norma that talk of international crisis, Shearer, the leading jewel-owner border disputes and customs among the actresses.
of
Joan Crawford's jewels are valued patrol began to dominate their 'at £2,000, and those of Jon E. Brown daily thoughts and conversation. and Tom Mix at £1,500 and £1.000 Discussions of the relative eficiency respectively.
of American and Italian bombing Mae West, the "Diamond Lll" of planes, and of lurge ill-equipped the screen, bas her collection assessed armies against small, compact units al £700.
and the most modern weapons, dia- FURNITURE WORTH £15,000 rupted the gossip, the singing and the Harold Lloyd also runka as the flirting that customarily occupied the greatest real estate holder among the sing-song girls waking hours. In the- film colony, as well as having the end, the 170 who were most impress- furniture. His funded with China's need in an emergency most
essed at £15,000, ture is
to the National presented themselves Charles Chaplin is listed as the Government's Superintendent wealthiest star and Mary Pickford as Military training to be taught the the wealthiest actress, but a change duties of army nursing. A visit to in the Inw conceals the greater portion the daily classes they are now at- of their wealth.
tending This year their stocks and bonds gave the Impression that they were not reported. They have be- were
only the 170 most come exempt from assessment since patriotic but probably the 170 most State income-tax became operative beautiful sing-song girls In in California.
Last year
Chaplin reported £498,- 982 in stocks and bonds. Mary Pick-! ford reportext £257.882. Norma Under the energetic leadership of Shearer reported £58,460, Richard Miss Ting Mei-yu (Miss "Pretty Barthelmness £61,074 and Constance Jade" Ting to any who do not under- Bennett £20,884. ·
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stand the literal meanings of Chinese names), the belles of Chin Hual are mastering the serious tasks which are John Barrymore has staged the nurse's daily routine. "come-back" on the assessment roils heroes of China's next war, may Last year he was down to his last look forward with pleasure to any yacht with
a total taxable valuation wound which fails to affect their up- of £11,315, of which C11,270 was his preciation of beauty, provided he is boat Difante. This year his total in
£17,292, embracing, real estate and health by one of Miss "Pretty Jade's
enough to be coaxed back to personal property in addition to his lassics.
lassics. If
the coaxing heroes back yacht.
to the trenches proves diflcult after convalescence in a sing-song nursing, Hospital, anyone who has alpped a cup of tea in similarly enchanting surroundings will appreciate the circumstances.
Charles Chaplin
Harold Lloyd
Other asacasment Agures were:
£126,280
£80,945. £47,176 Richard Barthelmess £22,048 Douglas Fairbanks.
Mary Pickford
£21,002
Constance, Bennell
£12,102
£11,806
£6,772.
£ 0,554
£3,372
£5,471
£5,684
Joe E. Brown. Gloria Swanson Joan Crawford
Norma Shearer Ruth Chatterton Ana Harding
The girl, Miss Catriona Maclean, Police Charge 'Dead of Ardgour, daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Alexander
John Hew Maclean, claimed the chieftainship when her father died some time ago, but the executive of the Clan Maclean Association announced that a kins- man, Licut, Commander H. 11. Muc- lean, of Windover, Bursiesdon, Hamp- shire, should be known as "Heredit-
Chieftain Ardgour." of hor
petition is successful Miss Maclean will be the first girl cian chieftain for centuries.
ary,
If
· After several hours of legal discus- ision, the court adjourned.
Man With Forgery
Paris, Aug. 25.
Miss "Pretty Jude" and her fair companions, who include Misses "Lotus", "Plum Blossom", "Amiable" and "Obedient", are studying not only hospital routine but also elementary
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Hunger Strike In Gaol
Dublin, Aug. 8. PROMINENT Irish Republicans on hunger strike in Hill military prison,
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Donald O'Donoghue; a former editor of an I.R.A. paper, has refused all food since his arrest on July 8.
He has become so weak that military tribunal officials here decided that he is unfit to stand hla trial.
He recently served a term of in-f prisonment for I..A membership, having defied the tribunal by non- recognition.
Also hunger striking is a Cork student, Thomas MacCurtain, aged
political science and Western music. 120; arrested last week.
The significance of the music lessons" was a little dimcult to grasp, but the general idea is to make the young Ladies good citizens
of the best modern type.
ROLES IN WAR. The lovely probuttoners, when A Frenchman ofelolly declared questioned regarding their new pur- dead a month ago was discovered suit, displayed pride in schleving alive to-day when police came to new knowledge and increasing their charge him with forging his own usefulness to the country. Their the next, war. will be for roles in "Corpse" was M. Denetle, of different, they promised, from the Vitry-Le-Francois. He left his cafe parts played by their predecessors in there, was reported dead. He wrote the days when Nanking was an im
capital. Three thousand to a friend, who went to the police, perint said some one was forging Denette's their sisters, according to Chinese history, were permanent residents
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name.
of
His father was the Republican Lord Mayor of Cork who was murdered.
of the huner courtyard of the great poet who was the last Emperor of the Chen Dynasty. But far from pre- paring themselves to render genuino service in a crisis, the 3,000 favourites continued singing songs, strumming lutea and pleasing their lord in his indolent east after the Northern In- vaders had already reached the banks of the Yangtse. No modern invader pushing towards the great river can expect to find the history of the Chen Dynasty repeating itself in Nanking of 1930.-United Press.
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