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REBELS NEARING MADRID
INFLICT TERRIBLE LOSSES ON REDS Closing on Capital From North and South
FIERCE FIGHTING DESCRIBED
BY EYE-WITNESSES
Sanata Olalla, Sept. 21.
The re-
Fascists, Spanish Foreign Legionaires and Moors are relentless- ly forcing the defenders of Madrid to retreat five miles a day, in the bloodiest and most decisive series of battle of the civil war. bels are said to be within thirty miles of Madrid in the North, and 35 miles away on the South, while, relief columns marching on Toledo are said to be only 14 miles from that embattled city.
Meanwhile, General Mola, on the North-west front, has sent an ultimatum to Bilbao.
Yesterday this correspondent watched the Moorish troops drink their tea at a.m., pray as the sun rose, and then, under the leadership of Spanish officers, each man carrying 150 rounds of ammunition and four grenades, they crawled towards the loyalist lines.
Suddenly the Moors rose and met the loyalists as they counter-attacked, route to Mad- forcing the Government troops to retreat. The highway en rid was lined with the dead where the Moors had passed.
scenes
This correspondent more ghastly than any in Ethiopia.: He saw twa loyallst tanks spillt open by direct hits from rebel shells; two! loyalist aviators dead near two burned planes; and he counted 100 dead without moving.
Contrary to their feree reputa- tions, the correspondent found the Moors friendly and willing to share their rations.-United Press.
Closing on Madrid
Lisbon. Sept. 21. Rebels On the Talavera Ironi yesterday drove towards Mudrid ini un all-day advance and in the fight-} ing claim to have killed 2,500 toyalists, wounding and capturing many more The rebel casualties: were not announced.
and
HEROIN
TRAFFIC OFFENCES
STIFF SENTENCES AT THE SESSIONS
"ABOMINABLE". BUSINESS
"A month ago, at the last Criminal Sessions of this Court, I tried to state,
FATALLY HURT
It is stated the loyalists are de-as emphatically as I could, that I moralised
disorder, in
and was determined, so far as it is in my live abandoned much wor material, power to do so, to put a stop to this It is noteworthy that if the rebel abominable traffic in this Colony, and claims are true the insurgent army in order that I might so do I
within 35 miles of Madrid, and intimated that that sentences which MR. T. CAMPBELI. BLACK threatening the capital seriously. then passed on the first prisuzers to
Meanwhile, another United Press corne before this Court were lighter who was fatally injured in
aeroplane accident yesterday. `With correspondent with the North armies that the sentences which, in suitable C. W. Scott, he won the thrilling reports the rebels are less than 30 subsequent cuses, would un-England-Australia air marathon for miles outside Madrid in that direc-hesitatingly pass. In spite of that Great Britain in 1934.
warning, you have chosen to continue
tion.
RO I have
"There is every indication that the your evil ways, rebels can drive towards Madrid sympathy whatever for you." whenever they picase," this corres-
the Chief Justice, Sir Thus Spoke
at the Criminat pondent asserts..
Allie MacGrego when Sessions this
passed Loyalists Slaughtered sentence of five years hard labour on Chan Sau, aged 33, who was un-
A radio broadcast from Coruna animously found guilty by the jury) states that the rebels on the Asturias on a charge of possession of an ounce front slew 700 loyalists while en-of crude diacetyl morphine w circling the mountains
bich | 120,140 heroia comprised the jury:)
dominate certain key positions there.
The following
REPORTS PAKHOI CLASH
AT LANDING
an
General Molu Jins sent an Messrs. L.. Jack (foreman), Ng Wai- ultimatum to Bilbao, on the north-yen, Chan Ping-san, Chen Chao-sht, JAPANESE ATTEMPT west coast, to surrender or receive Peter Chung Hing-man, U. Gonetta n bombardment comparable to that und G. F.
F. Walker. which forced the capitulation of Irun The accused, according to Mr. M. J. -And Burgos,
Abbott, who prosecuted, was arrested Rebels claim a gunboat and trawan the top floor of 27 Queen's Road lers have sunk the loyall submarine
B-6 off Bilbao.—United Press.
Madrid Alarmed
Madrid, Sept. 21.
Canton, Sept. 21. Japanese bluejackets and Chinese West on August 6 last, following a rald by a party of Revenue Omeers troops clashed on the night of headed by Mr. H. A. Taylor, Govern- September 14, according to, oficin ment Monopoly Analyst, and Mr. A. reports just received from the south, W. Grimmitt.":
General Yu Han-mow, Marshal ENOUGH FOR 33,000 PILLS The War Ministry has sent out an surgent broadcast for all armed and In the rear cubicle, which was oc- Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand mill- unarmed militiamen to report to cupled by the accused,, were found tary man in Kwangtung, has received barracks Immediately.-United Press. the pills and an ounce of crude herum despatches from General Oong, who sufficient to make 33,000 pills. There commands the 19th Route Army in were also other paraphernalia for the the Pakhoi area, to the effect that before the withdrawal of the Chinesa manufacture of the drug.*:
The accused
subsequently soldiery the Japanese attempted a Wats taken to No. 7 Police Station where, landing, in spite of the fact that they In reply to a charge of possession of had been refused permission by the dangerous drugs, he said: "I myself Chinese authorities. manufactured the heroin pills."
SOVIET FOOD FOR SPAIN
GIFT FROM WOMEN
AND CHILDREN
Moscow, Sept. 20.
The first supply ship left Odessa to day, carrying 2,000 tons of foodstuffs, sent by Soviet women and children to Spain.
The shipment includes 500-tons of "bullor and 300 tons of sugar.—Reuter „Special.
the blue-
The Chinese troops resisted the Mr. Taylor and. Mr. Grimmlit then gave evidence of the raid, aller which landing, opening fire on the accused made the following state-jackets. ment from the dock: "When i return-
ALCAZAR STILL DEFIES ENEMIES
REBELS HOLD TO TOLEDO CITADEL
FIGHTING FOR EVERY INCH
Madrid, Sept. 21. After a day of bitter fighting, Government troops made fur ther advances in the ruins of the Alenza at Toledo, while in insurgent column fought des. perately to reach the defenders and raise the siege..
The peak of the loyalist attack occurred whận, after, two hours of shelling and bombing, dynamite was showered on the defenders, and the Alcazar was covered with a dense pall of smoke and dust.
and
Previously shock 1 militia had attempted to senle the walls of the fortress, hurling gren- ades as they advanced. But the ine, murgents' Jus Hude noelleri the attacks to retire.
Senne 1. Caballero, the Communiad tender, was a witness of this action which ended in the foyalist troops capturing number of positions,- Reuters
ELL SUPPLIED
Toledo, Sept. 21. The Alcazar rebels are apparently well supplied with ammunition and grenades, for they are putting up a Continued, machine-gun resistance.
The loyalists are said to be plan- ning a further artillery bombard- ment throughout the night.---Vuited Prean.
MOORS 'RESTLESS
Madrid, Sept. 20. Government forces are much en-
couraged by reports from Spanish Morocco of a considerable revolt among the Moors against General Francisco...-Franco-and-the-rebel. regime,, which controls the Spanish African territory.
It appears
that A prominent Moorish chief had been arrested on General Franco's orders, whereupon 30,000 of the chlef's followers threatened to rise against the in- Jurgents unless
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MUSSOLINI STATES TERMS to GenevÄ
1) Buen bra told the Langue of Nations that the price. of his country's return to the Geneva Assembly is the refusal of reccunition as a Langue mate to Emperor Haile Selassie's partly conquered but all resisting Ethiopia. Alhough seemed the League would not hesitate to dismiss Ethiopia nud weteome Italy back, no nations, are anxious for the responsibility of such a move in Committee and the meeting of the Assembly is likely to be delayed in consequence, In the above Illustration Signor Benito Musselini is seen examining a new heavy machine gun at recent Army manoeuvres.
ROOSEVELT Revolutionary JAPANESE
ANSWERS
CHARGES
NO ORDERS TAKEN
FROM ABROAD
HEARST MAKES BALD CLAIM
Washington, Sept. 20.
Plot Exposed By Belgians
Brusses. Sept. 20.
An alleged plot to arm Uie! workers of Belgium was unearthed.) during the week-end.
Investigations of branches of Vir
militia and also correspondence with
President F. D. Roosevelt's revolutionary Socialist party led to the discovery of arms and documents attack on their lender, and
iin unnamed news- royeral others, were released by the paper owner who, the President relating to the arming of a workers" Spaniards.
asserts, has linked his name the provinces and from abroad, re- Such
political rising would seriously with
inspirations embarrass the insurgents who are
originating abroad, has caused obligal, to keep a strong already
a considerable sensation. garrison in Morocen to maintain
The attack is interpreted by severalį order.
prominent New York newspapers as
It is learned that, despite the explosion of the inte below the Alcazar of Toledo and the constant bombardment by Government guns. despite the petrol-fed fires which the loyalists have started to burn the rebels out, and the fact that
they have been neur starvation fo
insurgent many days, the gallant garrison in the old Moorish fortress still resists among the ruins..
The bloodiest fighting continues, with the insurgents making occa sional desperate sorties. When the loyalists played a petrol hose uver the the rebel positions and set fire to liquid with bombs, a rebel rushed out, snatched the nozzle of the hose from the loyalists who guided it, and turned it on the attackers. He was killed by a binst of fire from the loyalist Lines, but no further attempt has
been
made to use fire against the the meantime, the Diplomatke Corps in Mudrid is making a last- minute effort to secure a 24-hours annistice in which the women and children, besieged with their men- folk in the Alcazar, could be evacuated. Earlier, efforts to obtain the rebels" consent to such a move were rejected the women refusing to leave their jusbands and sons. Reuter.
besieged.
*
STOP PRESS
SAYS ROOSEVELT BACKED BY REDS
MR. WILLIAM RANDOLPH
· HEARST
lating to an appeal to be issued to
worlier to arm themselven-Reuter,
SENDING
MARINES
NORTH
FOLLOWING=MURDER-
IN HANKOW
BLUEJACKETS WILL LAND
Shanghai, Sept. 21. Travelling aboard two de- Stroyers from Shanghai are an undisclosed number of Japanese marines bound for Hankow.
H.K. Students' It is announced that the
Success
IRENE HO TUNG WINS HIGH DEGREE
This
Japanese authorities have de- cided to maintain a permanent landing party in the Japanese Concession at Hankow-Reater,
development follows the murder of # Japanese consular. policeman, named Teliro Yeshioka, Gratifying successes in England by during the week-end. Yeahloka was graduates of the University of Hong-shot dead while on sentry duty in a kung are noulfed in the following street in the Japanese Concession.. 1st forwarded by the "Registrar' of assailant, WIR hus not been the University:
Rented, made good his escape.
Miss Irene Ho Tung; B.A. (Ilong- kong) has been awarded by the Uni- versity of London, the degree of Doc- Lor of Philosophy; her subject being Education.
STRONG FORCE
Shanghai, Sept. 21.
Two Japanese destroyers, carrying
Mr. Donald Anderson, D.A. (Hong-an unknown number of marines, are kong) has been awarded by the Lon on their way to Hankow. don University the degree of Bache-
For of Laws,
The Japanese Naval Headquarters'
of
Mr. S. B. Ahmed, M. Sc. Eng, (Hong-here issued the following statement: kong) and Mr. Eric Wong Tape, B.Sc. "A comparatively strong force Eng. (Hongkong) have passed all marines in the Japanese concession the examinations qualifying for the at Hankow is necessary in view of Japanese Associate Membership of the Institu- the current menace to tion of Civil Engineers. Mr. Ahmed lives and property,!"-United Press, Awas top of the list of the successful candidates at the Final Examination.
Mr. Gan Kec-poon, B.Sc. En (Hongkong) has secured the Diploma
Who has charged President Roose-of, the Imperial College of Science velt with being the official Comintern and Technology (University of Lon-
|don).
PRESS to for the U.S.- presidency.
HANKOW DISASTER
Hankow, Sept. 21. More than 800 houses It is not known if any casualties
have ed from the market I found a lot of
been destroyed and 2,000 families people on the floor. I thought they resulted. United Press.
rendered homeless by the most were customers and In answer to a
serious fire to occur here for The damage to property were. In fact manufactured by my The Japanese Consul-General is estimated at ten million dof- master, Chang Tou, who, could not denies the truth of the reportedlors. The cause, is unknown.— how be found
clash at Paklol between Japanese United Press.... Without retiring, the jury returned and Chinese on September (16
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stated that the pills were mine. They by one of them I casually
CONSUL'S DENIAL
Canton, Sept. 21.
years.
Mr. H. C. Xu, M.B., B.S. (Hong-
ARGENTINE'S TEAM WINS
INVADERS' HANDS
and has drawn a sharp rejoinder. from the President. Mr. Hearst re-kong) has been elected a Fellow of AMERICA HELPLESS IN plied that he did not suggest Mr. the Royal College of Surgeons (Edin- Roosevelt knew he had the support burgh), of foreign elements.
Mr. W. J. C. Fletcher, B.Sc. Eng. (Hongkong) won the Parsonk Modeadowbevok, Long Island, morial. Prize which is open to Ap
Sept, 20, being directed against perhaps the prentices with Messrs. C. A. Parsons
Before a crowd 40,000, the 'Argen=" most powerful of all America's pub-& Co. Ltd., Newcastlo-on-Tyne,
no defouted the United States,. Randolph lishers, Mr. William
Intimation has also been received represented by the Greentree team, Hearst, owner of the sixing of big that five of last year's graduates in 21 to 0, in the first much of a two- Journals which bear his nume,
President Roosevelt does not want Honours. Class
Engineering have been placed in the in-throw sorted for the America Folo
by the London Cup the votes of those who take orders Assessors-Se. 1st Class Honours, from allen sources, says the White Mr. Feng Tro-pel; B.Sc. 2nd Class House, in reply to the accusation that Honours, Mr. He Shalu-lal, Mr. Na President Roosevelt pasivalyte Shiu-lion, Mr. Henry. Fau, Mr. Wond
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Cho tong.
Playing a spectacular game, ile the Americans and won as they Argentinians completely outclassed wished.-Renter