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ITALIAN TROOPS FOR BARCELONA?
ROME THREATENS TO INTERVENE IN SPAIN CIVIL WAR Warship Leaves and More
Preparing to Depart
DIPLOMATIC PROTEST_NOW CONSIDERED UNAVAILING
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
Rome, Sept. 3.
A Government spokesman to-day announced that the Italian naval forces in Spanish waters would be increased, due to the murder of Signor Umberto Fasinella, an Italian subject, at Barcelona. on Wednesday. Official confirmation of his death has been received.
The sole reason for Signor Fasinella's execution was his posses- sion of certain religious pictures, it is believed.
The Italian Consulate-General at Barcelona has been ordered to protest strongly to the Catalan Government.-United Press.
TROOPS FOR BARCELONA
Rome, Sept. 4.
MAY FACE ITALIAN WRATH
COLON
These Civil Guarda at Ba rerfono, where an Italian arb. ject has been executed on an allegedly flimsy pretext, map face Italy's wrath unless the diplomatic protests from Rome tated effect. Italy is threatening to send ships to Buretlona..
BATTLE RAGES AROUND IRUN Loyalists Continue
To Hold Behobie
REBELS NOW DRIVING AGAINST MADRID
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
Hendaye, Sept. 3.
The insurgents, under General Mola, have launched
a new attack on Behobie, 1,500 infantry rising up from their trenches at 4.45 p.m. to-day and advancing in waves from the sides of La Puncha Hill.
BRITISHER BEATEN the first line of the advance, the Legionaires throwi
ON FOUL BLOW?
CROWLEY LED BELLIOSE
UNTIL NINTH
ROUND
(SPÈCIAL TO "TELEGRAPH"}
New York, Sept. 3. Mike Belllose retained his claim to the world's feather- weight boxing title when he scored a knock-out against Dave
fifteen round fight here.
It is reliably stated that the heavy cruiser Pola has started for Bar- celona, carrying a landing of 100 regular infantrymen and 25 Blackshirts, fully Crowley, the little Englishman, in the ninth round of a scheduled equipped for campaigning. Other warships are reported to be starting for the Spanish port soon-United Press,
PROTESTS INSUFFICIENT
Rome, Sept. 3.
Italian warships will probably be sent to Barcelona following the announce- ment that an Italian workman has been executed there, allegedly because he was in possession of religious images.
The Italian Government has lodged a strong protest with the Government of Catalonia.
However, it is stated in political quarters that protests annear
sufficient no longer.
Madrid's Complaint
Faris, Sept. 3.
The French Government has re- ceived a communlestion
Madrid
from the Governmeus, addressed to
all the powers, slating that 24 acro- planes of Italian origin have arrived
at Vigo-Reuter,
Intervention Possible
Rome, Sept. 3. Italy will likely be represented by Signor Dino Grandi, the Ambassador to the Court of St. James, at the London conference with respect to plans for a non-intervention pact covering the Spanish civil war. But it is stated in Tome that the despatch of war materinis to Spain from other countries may oblige Italy to resume her liberty of netion--Reuter,
Ambassador Threatened
Paris, Sept.
PALESTINE
TENSION INCREASES
MARTIAL LAW IS CONTEMPLATED R.A.F. PLANE. DOWNED
London, Sept. 4.
It is reliably learned that Great Britain is considering pro-
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to be
NANNING PARLEY DEADLOCK
PEACE DELEGATES HAVE FAILED
EMISSARIES RETURNING
Crowley finished the fight 'writhing on the canvas holding his groinfinited Press.
DECISION JEERED
New York, Sept. 3. The World's Heavyweight Championship, as recognised by the New York State Athletic Commission, was won by the American Belliose when he knocked out Crowley of Britain in the ninth round to-night.
A crowd of 20,000 saw the light, in which first one and then the other boxer held the advantage.
Crowley took the first round and the second was even. Belliose won the third: The Englishman fought furiously to inke the fourth and fit, and the sixth round. was even, In the seventh Crowley was still on top, forcing the pace, and Belliose WAS slowing up."
Hongkong's
Interporters Confident
But at the end of the eighth, Crow- BOWLERS LEAVE FOR ley was loured by a vicious right hook and took the count of five. He was probably saved by the gong,
In the middle of the ninth round he suddenly doubled up and slumped to the Aoor, after a clinch in which it appeared the Americah had landed a short, hard and questionable right to the stomach,
The crowd booed a thunderous dis- approval of the decision, belleving the Englishnan was fouled.-Renter. AMBERS WINS TITLE
New York, Sept. 3.
SHANGHAI GAMES
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Who will play for Hongkong in the first lawn bowls Inter- port game against Shanghai next week?
Moorish troops and Foreign Legionaires form
hand grenades as they sprang forward.
The attackers were met by terrific bursts o machine-gun fire.
Shortly after 5 p.m. the first waves reached the outskirts of Behobie, but many of the leading troops fell dead on their faces as they came under a deadly fire from the windows of the houses of the town. The attackers had practically no cover as they advanced and relied on their speed and numerical strength to reach their objective.--Reuter Special.
Face Fearful Fire
་
Hendaye, Sept. 3.
As night descended, the fighting around Beloble was redoubled in fierceness. The road flanking' the Didasson Ilver Wus raked by t devastating are, while in French Behobie, the bullets snapped down the main road Into France causing the residents to keep their houses tightly shuttered.
Rebel Troops
Smashing At
Madrid Lines
Madrid, Sept. 3. * The battle for the capital, which has raged with unparalleled fierce- ness for four days, すい血 resumed with the rebel attack at 3 am to
The insurgents Jaunched the
Across the frontier the Spanish Government troops crouched be-day. hind barricades of sandbags, and poured a stream of lead into the ranks of the Foreign Leglonaires, storming towards the river to capture the bridgehead.
The insurgents, reinforced by machine-guns, reached to within 400 yards of the International bridge.
facing
heaviest onslaught of the engage- cut from the west, and Govern- ment reinforcements were rushed to this point
Aircraft are attempting to shatter the lines of communication behind the rebel army,—Reuter.
REBELS IN MALAGA?
Lisbon, Sept. 3.
A Seville correspondent of a local Besides
the Government paper reports General Dellano as were stating that rebels have entered, the machine-gunners, the rebels subjected to a continuous stream of suburbs of Malaga. rifle re from the upper windows of It is said that some of Malaga's the houses of Behoble,' which was | citizens wish to surrender, due to plunged into darkness when a stray the renewal of the rebel air bombard- bullet eut the electric cable serving ment of the city
* near-uy
and
the place & nearby match factory loyalist alr field-United Press
struck by a shell and blazed
furiously.
Artillery Active Meanwhile the roads to Irun and
F. PERRY AN EASY VICTOR
SEEKING ANOTHER
The whole of the Colony's lawn San Marciul resounded with the ex- Lou Ambers outpointed the, wily bowls fraternity has been debating plosions of hand grenades and the Italian, Tony Canzoneri in a 15-round this since Hongkong's team was first insurgent artillery began to shell the Canton, Sept. 1. fight here to-night to win the world's inade public. I passed the question unoccupied districts of Behobic. Two on to M A. Hyde-Lay, Colony's shells tell on the railway tracks at According to Chinese sources, light-weight championship. claiming martial law in Palestine
skipper just before the team salled Hendaye station, but failed to ex- a result of the increasing the Nunning conference has
The fight was ferocious throughout, by the Empress of Asia at noon lo- plode. Three persons have been
wounded in Hendaye. the holder, Canzoneri, using his well-day known spider and fly tactics, waiting Le Matin's correspondent at Hen-disorders among Arabs there, ended in a deadlock,
After dropping bombs on Behoble, It is learned that General Liter Ambers' attack and then loshing negative shake of the head and the a plane proceeded to bomb Irun.-U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP
His response was a sly wink, daye has reported, that Spanish Bor- United Press.
Chung-jen and General Pei out with both hands, Both cut each) observation: "Who can tell?" Chung hai insist on remaining other's eyes.
But a little bird whispered to me in Kwangsi as Pacification Com- Ambers' defence was superb and (and he was prepared to support his Assistant Paci- his foot work and left hooks out- idea in terms of dollars and cental missioner and fication Commissioner respec- outwitted Tony. The victory was that it would be the following:-
narrow but unanimous-Reiter
A.E. Coates (No. 1) JF. McGowan (No. 2) tively.
der Guards threatened to shoot the French Ambassador, M. Jeun Her-
by n
SERIOUS CASUALTIES
Jerusalem, Sept. 3. bette, when he attempted to cross the Flying Officer Hunter and his International line accompanied
Spanish-born Frenchman, M. gunner were both killed when Caballero.
their machine crashed into a It is reported that the Guards hillside during a day-long fight stopped M. Herbette and demanded with Arabs, near Tulkarem. the surrender of M. Caballero. The Another R.A.F. plot officer Ambassador refused to necode,'
Thereupon a Guard threatened: was wounded in the leg, but "Suppose we shoot you, what then?" brought his plane down safely..
In addition, the Kwangsi leaders insist upon the appointment of ex- Provincial Marshal Li Chal-sum as Governor of Kwangsi.
The Nanking army's prace mission M. Herbette replied: "If you dare One officer and two men of the is expected to leave for Canton by lo shoot an Ambassador of France, goland forces engaged, were wounded air to-day.-Reuter, ahead."
in the same fight, one of the most serious since the start of the Palestine disturbances,
PLOT TO KILL ́ ROOSEVELT?
II.A. Alves (No. 3)
A. Hyde-Lay (skip).
for
Reuter.
Ammunition Scarce
Forest Hills, Sept. 3. Forty thousand spectators. Behable, Sept. 3.
gathered at Forest Hills to-dny The 10,000 beleaguered Joyalists in to see Fred Perry start his Irun, possessing barely 70,000 cart- ridges, and with cannon ammunition campaign to regain the United fast diminishing, are taking an effort States singles tennis champion- The Colony captain would neither to hall the rebel advance in hand-to-ship.. confirm nor deny this, so I tried some hand combat on the outskirts of The world's champion défoated || Alfred Jarvis in the first round with thing else. Sald. I: "If you win the Dehable. first Interport game, will you stick
rinkt to the same
the other The rebels believe, the defenders the loss of two games over three sets, gumes?"
are desirous of surrendering, but an- the scores being 6-0, 0-0, 0-2.
Donald Budge chlet American EARLY OPTIMISM,
New York, Sept. 3.
Sherman of on fighting to the end.
New Yoric 6-0, 6-1, 0-0, Shanghai, Sept. 1.. Joseph Kuchnel, 70, on suspicion Fighting commenced in the morn- A further brightening of the pro-lint he was plotting to asanssinate team?" I asked.
Rebel planes bombed Fort Arable, Mako, another prominent American ing, when men of the Lincolns and spects of a peaceful settlement of President Roosevelt
with a bomb,
Jending to the remainder of the competitor overcome Norman Bickel. Scots Fuzillers, co-operathy with the the Kwangsl impasse is seen in the states the New York Daily News.→
FULL OF OPTIMISM
civilian population of Behobie wad-
In the women's singles Miss Helen R.A.F., engaged on Argh bar 50 fact that the military chieftains at Reuters,
Jacobs, the holder, bent Miss
Edwards Burgos, Sept. 3. .
miles.
south of Tulliarem The Arabs Nanning have halted all
of Bridgeport, Conn., without the operationa The International Red Cross Cam-Bred from billsides, but were driven in the field. The Kwangel troops at of Kuchnel, who is alleged to have tain, "And
New York police confirm the arrest "It's a good one," replied the Cap-ng the river into France,
We are all full of A lovellat plane went aloft to ch- of a game in two sels, while Miss, mittee at Geneva has notified the towards Bala Village, where planes Paichel, occupation of watch is now intended to sacrifice his own life in optimism. We expect to and the deavour to drive oft two rebel bomb-Caroline Babcock bent Mrs. Josephine Insurgent Junta here that it is send took up the night and counted to confirmed, and at other, southern making a bomb attack on President Shanghai greens fast, but then don't ors and all irce manoeuvred danger-Gary Beach of Cincinnati 6-3, 6-3. ing missions to Burgos and Madrid pursue them, inilleting a number of Kwangtung cities, are understood to Roosevelt,
forget both McGowan and I have had ously over Hendaye. French Army Miss Margaret Osborne of San` respectively, following the rebels' casualties.
bo' evacuating shortly, after having The Daily News saya that police experience of fast greens in Englers Immediately took the air and Francisco
another winner, protest that the Government forces-During a subsequest action. In purchased or gained control of a found a veritable arsenal in-Kuchnol's land In any case I should way that drove the three over the boundary, beating Miss Dawn Owen 6-3, 0-0,
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United Press,
United Press.
French Border Guards crossed the International bridge at this point and rescued the Ambassador and his com- panion-United Press.
Red Cross Aid
"Most decidedly," replied lyde-archists are in command and innist heilenger, beat George white. Gene Long Island police fo-day arrested L03d what do you think of your
-house-Reuter.:
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