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The Worlds
Master Tire
TOLEDO FALLS: ALCAZAR RELIEVED
LOYAL TROOPS WHEN REBEL PLANES BOMBED MALAGA U.S. GOLD MAY
IN RETREAT Heavy Fighting For Important Centre
300 RED TROOPS SLAIN IN FURIOUS ATTACK
Valladolid, Sept. 28.
Rebel leaders announced to-day that the Alcazar's defenders had been rescued and the Government troops' siege broken.-United Press.
TOLEDO HAS FALLEN
Madrid, Sept. 28.
At 1 a.m. to-day it was officially confirmed that the rebel army under General Francisco Franco had captured Toledo.--United Press
300 LOYALISTS SLAIN
Lisbon, Sept. 28.
A rebel broadcast from Corunna an- nounces the rescue of the insurgent defenders of the Alcazar, the killing of 300 Government troops in the assault by the rebels on Toledo and the capture of much war material.-United Press.
TWO COLUMNS MEET
With the Rebels at Toledo, Sept. 28. General Franco's columns entered Toledo last night after fighting all day with the loyalist defenders, and the battle still continues.
Thus far, the rebels under the leadership of Moor- ish regulars and Spanish Legionnaires, have captured the barracks, hospital and bull ring and have occupied all the northern suburbs At this stage the loyalists occupied the old city, within walls, including the Alcazar area, where insurgents still garrison the ruins. In storming the Visagra Gate, General Franco's troops were joined by the Guadarrama River and Bargas columns.-United Press.
Earlier Reports
London, Sept. 27. Fierce fighting is still proceeding around Toledo,, but the actual posi- tion is obscure. The Rebel forces claim to have relieved the Alcazar garrison, but precise information is Jacking.
It is learned from Rubat, through
un insurgent wireless broadcast, that
HOSTAGES MURDERED
IN BILBAO
six Government aeroplanes have been 210 MASSACRED BY
shot down in the last few hours.
Two were destroyed on the Avilla front and the other four in the Tru- bla sector of the Asturias front,
At St. Jean de Luz, refugees from Bilbao state the Government has hostages and shot at least 80 threatens to execute the remainder of captives in its hands if the bomb-;
MILITIA WOMEN
FEARFUL ACT
OF REPRISAL
Saint Jean de Luz, Sept. 28.. Following the bombardment of
MALAGAS.
O teaks and petrol dumps blazet furio:ty in Malaya when rebel aircraft bombed the city recently. and enorme-vily valuable stocks were destroyed, as well as large inst ellations and a considerálde sertion of the industrial area of the city.
PERRY ARGUES
LOSES
ANOTHER DISPLAY OF TEMPERAMENT
HARPO MARX
HECKLER
A
Los Angeles, Sept. 27. Frederick J. Perry gave un- other display of "temperament" to-day. This time he
argued with linesmen; argued with famous in star Harpo Marx, whom he alleged barracked him;
mado no effort to return shots In the last three gatnes which he lost to love.
Was
This entertaining spectacle served up by the Englishman in bla match with Donald Budge in the
final of the Pacific South-West
Nine Lost In Big Italian
Seaplane
London, Sept. 23. Lloyd's agent reports fram Benghazi, Tripoll, the loss of a big Italian Reaplane, Whlch burned and sank yesterday with the loss of nine lives.--Braters,
GOLD PRICE MAY RISE EXPERTS EXPECT REACTION
Johannesburg, Sept. 27. Experts here have estimated that rice of gold will rise above 140 shillings per ounce.
They have drawn attention to the singles tennis championship to-day, fact that on the basis of today's which Budge won al 8-2, 4-6, 6-2, London-New York cross rate the 4-3.
price would be approximately 143s. According to the United Press
fid. per cunce-United Press. description of the match Perry be- came disgruntled with line decisions and argued with the linesmen.
Finally he started an argument with Harpo Marx, of Marx Brothers in fame, claiming that the actor heckled him from the gallery.
"ONE OF MY MOODY DAYS"
In the dressing room after thei maich Perry suid, "I was just one of my mooly days.""
The font three games of the match were won by Budge to love, neither player making any effort to return shots.
The Anal of the women's singles, as won by Miss G. Wheeler, who defeated Miss Alice Marble 7-5, 2-6,
was
8-3
Anal,
TYPHOON RECURVING
The Manila Observatory reports at 8.50 am. to-day that the typhoon is situate in about Long, 118, Lat. 19, recurving north-eastwards.
STOP PRESS
RACING AROUND WORLD
H.K. INCLUDED IN ONE SCHEDULE
JOURNALISTS' CONTEST
New York, Sept. 27. Following an announcement by the Scripps-Howard organisation that it is sending "Bud" Ekins round the world, the North American Newspaper Alliance announces that it is sending Leo Kiernan, New Yorkc Times reporter, on a
a similar flight,
Mr. Roy Howard says: "In view of the fact that the Times has an- nounced this as a race between Ekins and Kiernan, it is a good sporting proposition, of vast Import- all interested in the progress of commerciof aviation.
ance to
"I think," says Mr. Howard, "that this is the most important race ever run, because it will not invalve, stunt dying." He added that it was a far cry from Jules Verne's "Nellie Bly's" |round-the-world
"We voyagers, now have the prospect of a race be- tween two men travelling Independ- 'ently
made under arrangements Independently.".
The element of a race enters be-
FLOW AGAIN
•To Balance World's Trade Ledgers
SWITZERLAND JOINS IN DEVALUATION PARADE
Washington, Sept. 27.
The possibility of the United States revising the present stringent restrictions on the export of gold, in order to permit the metal to how more freely between nations participating in the newly-achieved monetary agreement, is being discussed in Government financial quarters. It is felt that some outflow of America's huge gold holdings might be expected as a result of such an agreement.
Gold exports regulations at present provide for. gold shipments only to countries still on a full gold standard, as were France, Holland and Switzerland, although several exceptions were made to this rule. But if the restoration of a lasting monetary equilibrium' between the various economic systems is achieved, it is believed it will be necessary to permit an orderly movement of gold between the countries participating in the stabilisation agreement, in order to facilitate the adjustment of international trade balances.
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the Secretary of the Treasury, to-day conferred with President F. D. Roosevelt, presumably concerning the formation of the Treasury's policy respecting gold exports-Reuter.-
Swiss Devaluation
Berne, Sept. 27. The Federal Council has requested the National Bank of Switzerland to fix the gold value of the frane at be- tween 100 and 215 milligrams per flae ounce, corresponding to a de- valuation of about 30 per eent.
Economy De- deerce forbid-
DROP IN STERLING FEARED
RUSSIA SOLD TO PREVENT LOSS COMPROMISE AGREEMENT
Paris, Sept. 27.
The Federal Public partment hus issued ding, from September 20, the raising of wholesale or retail prices on mer- chandise, the rates in hotels, for gas and electricity and also of ordinary rents and rents of farms, without the authorisation of the Department.
The press and public have taken the decision calmly.-Reuter.
Policy Endorsed
Paris, Sept. 27, The Government's devaluation
use the two men must ingeniously A possible explanation of the arrange their schedules so that they Soviet Government's action in throw-policy received a majority of eight, reach Manila
on October 16 and ing £1,000,000 on the New York einbark on Clipper.
market yesterday, was inade lo-day. Kiernan, from Frankfort, will fly
to Rome and entrain to Brindisi; then Dying to Hongkong and proceeding by steamer 10 Manilá.-United Press.
U.S. Expects
JAPANESE STABS Challenge
Frank FRENCH SOLDIER
A message from Reuter suys that Fred Perry lost his second when,
with company ings continue.
Shields, ex-United States Davis Cup It is is reported that 150 houses have Bilbao by seven' rebel planca, which ployer, he failed in the men's doubles been destroyed, with over 100 vic-
loyalist warships. to Donald Budge and Gene Mako. tims. In yesterday's bombing raids, damaged
Civil Guards and itional doubles champions. A Gibraltar message reports that wiped out 150
damage, in-
Make, and Budge won in straight Government dect from did much property Malaga has reached Bilbao, where furiated militia women, under the sets, the last two being captured at insurgent vessels have been blockad leadership of one who wielded a long 6-3, 0-0
the
Ing
Spanish
two
after a terrific Arst
the port,
ort, but there is no mention kulfe, boarded a hostage ship in the wich went to 14-12.
harbour and yelling like demons of sea fighting.
According 10 despatches from tortured and slaughtered 210 persona Lisbon, the level of the Tagus has and threw their bodies into the bay. risen nine feet, following the open- An Englishman who was an eye- ing of the reservoirs by the Govern- witness, but who naked that he re ment troops near Toledo, and reports main anonymous, told the United from Abrantes states the plantations Press the women stripped
priests and low-lying fields of a wide are and spat upon them before killing are threatened
by the foods.
them. They carved a luummer and
At Genova, the Spanish Foreign alckle on one of the priest's mis Minister has handed the League of before murdering him. Nations' secretariat memorandum, Thereafter, the militia women pre-j detailing alleged breaches of the arms embargo in favour of the In-pared to march on the prison to
The memorandum states, execute 60 women hostages. surgents. that hot only arms and munitions, However, the. Governor rushed but even acroplanes and tanks have Civil Guards to the spot and din been sent to the rebels through persed the mob. Portugal-Reuter.
Reshuffle Of Diplomats
set
Peiping, Sept. 20.
An unidentified Japanese stabbed
To Japanese
a French soldier here in a street OVER RETENTION OF in a Japanese cafe, the proprietor quarrel yesterday and took refuge
UNDERSEA SHIPS of which protected him and aided his escape before French, Chinese and Japanese Investigators arrived on the scene. The French soldier is not seriously wounded. United Press.
The Foreign Policy Association, in
Washington, Sept. 27. its annual report, questions the legality of Japan's retention of 15,000 tons of submarines, and predicts thut one of the other Powers is JAPANESE QUIT
likely to challenge the quota. HANKOW
The challenge will most likely be made "since the treaty limits com- Shanghai, Sept. 28. pensatory increases to categories
In view of the Siglficantly
specified by the Power originally nation-witte tension, the Japanese invoking the escalator clause." press, here reports the intention of all It is added that "the goal of Jupunese residents in Hunkow to Japanese action-submarine superi
even if withdrow Puris, Sept. 27.
to Shanghai or Japan-ority will be achieved
Britain or the United States inter- Diplomatic Corps changes, officially United Press.
pret it as justification for keeping un announced to-day, include the trans-
equivalent tolul of undersen HUNTING ASSASSINS Arsene Henry, fer of M. Charles
nage."-United Press. Minister nt Copenhagen, to Tokyo
M. KAMMERER QUITS FRENCH SERVICE
..
It j
ton-
Shanghai, Sept. 20. It is impossible to learn the names where he becomes Ambassador, ra-
stated the authorities are Franco's Communique
of the victims of the women, How-placing the veteran M. M. Kommerer, hunting the leaders of the notorious ever, many nobles were known to who is retiring.
Sung Chung-shi, 35, a coollo em Loridon. Sept. 28. ilinve been included in the massacres
M. Coulondre, Ansistant Director of Hung Shin Hul, a cocret society, in
sassination of Mr. Wang Ching-wel to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday General Francisco Franco Issued
The arrival of seven loyalist war-1 Cominerce at the Foreign Ofee, best connections. with the attempted na ployed at Shing Mun, was admitted communique from his headquarters thips, reported to be carrying large comes Ambassador to Moscow. and arrests are expected to break up
a nation-wide organization aiming at Buffering with at Burgos to-day, shnouncing the supplies of arms and ammunition for plocing M, Charles Alphand
the main quarry. Insurgents had captured. Toledo and the loyalists. precipitated the rebel becomes Ambasador at Berne
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U.S. TO DEFEND AGREEMENT
Henry Morgenthau, U. S. Secretary of Treasury, who states that the United States will use its two billion dollar Stabilisation Fund to defend the Integrity of the new monciary @greement,
It is reported in a usually well-in- fractured skull formed quarter that a battle has been
(Continued on Paar 4). the aggravation of Sino-Japanese caused when he accidentally fell into going on between the British and
votes when submitted to a meeting of the Finance Commission in the
Chamber of Deputies to-day.
The Socialists and Rudical Socia- lists voted in favour, the Communists abstained, and the Centre and Rightist groups voted against the mensures-Reuter.
Following Britain
The Hogue, Sept. 27.
It is learned in reliable sources that the Dutch Government intends to adopt the British system of a man- aged currency, divorced from gold, with possible depreciation ranging from 15 to 20 per cent.
The establishment of an Equaliso- tion Fund of 150,000,000 guilders for the purpose of smoothing dut ox- change Juctuations not justified by normal trade currents is said to be envisaged.--&cutor.
Berlin Unmoved
Berlin, Sept. 27, Berlin in nol moved by the ex- change agreement talk, und Herr Friedrich Reinhardt, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, declared to- tight that Germany was not thinking of going off the gold standard.-Reu- ter.
Italy Watchful
Rome, Sept. 27. No special meeting of the Italian Cabinet is likely to be called, accord- ing to offelul circles, as a result of the monetary experiments going on in Europe. The next meeting of the Cabinet is at present axed for Octo- ber 10.
Nevertheless, financial experts are closely watching the currency altua- tion in Europe and concern is felt re-. garding the effect of the devaluation
(Continued on. Pane Ză. of the French frane on tourist traffic,