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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936.
日四十月八
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REBELS MASSING
FOR DRIVE ON
CITY OF MADRID
General Franco
Of
Sure
Quick Success
SMILES AT
“RIDICULOUS
RESISTANCE" OF REDS ·
Lisbon, Sept. 28. Following the capture of Toledo, General Francisco Franco's forces are gathering themselves for a swift assault on Madrid.
Interviewed to-day, General Franco said there was no time to waste. "Madrid's plans for resistance make me smile," he added. "We shall get there as fast as we can march," he declared, "crushing whatever ridiculous resistance is attempted."
According to a military authority, the campaign against Madrid is expected to be as follows:
defences at Government forces are likely to establish their main Navalcarnero on the Madrid-Talavera road, and at Illescas, covering the vital Madrid-Valentia railway. The insurgents will concentrate near Olias del Rey, 40 miles from the capital and will launch an attack on the Government positions within a few days.
One commentator believes that an insurgent thrust at this point will be irresistible, as it will be carried out by veteran troops, highly trained staff officers and a fighting force supplied with the very latest equipment.-Reuter.
Fight For Toledo
Tolavern, Sept. 28.
The battle for the complete possca-
AMERICAN
sion of Toledo continued throughout GAOLED IN
to-day, the Rightists forcing the
Leftists back step by step through
the city's winding streets and Indict-
Ing heavy casualties.
A Rightist captain, interviewed by
the United Press, said the Leftists
made a final attempt to dynamite the
GERMANY
FOR COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES
ruins of the Alcazar, but the de- ADMISSION OF
fenders had already evnesated the fortress. He said the Leftists' re- treat had been practically cut off.
Rightist headquarters officially un- nounced that the losses among the de-
fenders of the Alcazar, who resisted the Government troops siege for more than two months, amounted to
GUILT
Berlin, Sept. 20.
The American sailor, James, Simp-
charges
- 30 dead and 500 wounded amongst against the Reich, to-day,
the 1,200 persons who originally manned the Alcazar's defences,
the
FRENCH EMBARGO ON GOLD
GOVERNMENT BILL
OPPOSED
PREVENTING PRICE RISE
Paris, Sept. 28. The official Journal will
$36.00 PER ANNUM
SPANISH DANCE OF WAR
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
Men and women who fight in the Spanish Government's battalions relax in dances behind the lines. The above illustration shows typical militia women on the Guadarrama front. They have bern in action against insurgent troops and bare suffered sum erous casualties, and the Spanish. Government gives them generous praise for their courage and hardihood.
MENACE OF FIRE PASSES
OREGON SUFFERS
HEAVILY
APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT
́ ́ Marshfield (Ore.), Sept. 28. Eight Coos County cllics appeared to be safe after being threatened all day on Sunday with farest fires which obliterated the towns of Bundon and Prosper, with the loss of at least seven lives.
Favourable winds all night battled with flames and kept them in control. although the flames licked the limits of Marshfeld, North Bend, Coquille, Pertorford, Gold Beach, Longinis and Myrtic Point Bridge.
•At present, the only danger is from a recurrence of Sunday's high winds.
Fires are still raging over 'ten thousand acres of forests. Most roads are closed, and Marshfield is cut off on the north by burning bridges. The Oregon coast highway Is also closed, due to falling burning trees.
APPEAL FOR HELP
Two countles have telegraphed to President Roosevelt asking for an allocation of at least three milion
pub-dollars to rehabilitate the damaged
.communities.
Not a single home is alanding at
Bundon, where there are 1.000 home-.
Martial Law
For Parts Of Palestine
London, Sept. 28.
New measures to be taken in Palestine by the British Govern- ment wil be announced to- morrow. They will involve the proclamation of martial law in certain districta,
The troopship Eurania arrived in Haifa to-day with further detachments of the British
ex-
peditionary force. These con- sisted of the 2nd Battalion of the King's Royal Regiment. Reuter.
EXPECTS CHINA TO BENEFIT
FROM DEVALUATION OF FRANC
OPINION OF EXPERT
YANKEES FAVOURED TO WIN
BUT GIANTS MAY TAKE OPENER. U.S. BASEBALL STANDINGS
New York, Sept. 20.
With the pennant races in the Na- tional and American Leaguek over, the New York Yankees and Now York Giants are prepared for the opening of the World's Series on the Glants Polo Grounds Wednesday.
The reserved box seats are sold out for six gamer.'
are
are
RUSSIA ANSWERS GERMANY
LITVINOFF WARNS
AGGRESSORS
PEACE-LOVERS STRONGEST.
Genova, Sept. 28. - The outstanding feature of to-day's meeting of the League of Nations was a speech by M. Maxim Litvinoff, Russia's Com- missar for Foreign Affairs and chief delegate to Geneva, who pungently retorted to Herr Adolf Hitler's Nuremberg pro- nouncements.
M. Litvinoit declared that state leaders who enumerate vast foreign territories which they intend to selze cannot sincerely accept Article X; and a alate which preaches the Icgality of a so-called localised war cannot make
peace with Article
XVI
An aggressor who bases Iis superiority on brute force' is only amenable to the cold calculation of the relative strength of forces, M. Litvinoff asserted.
The
peace-
an
Jaggregate power of
countries considerably sur- passed the strength of any possible combination of countries which aggressor might muster, he went on. The joint union of those forces would avert the peril of war and compel an aggressor sooner or later to uk to be admitted to a common system of collective security.
"We are far from objecting to al- tempts to reach an agreement with even the most aggressive countries, but we are against allowing them to dictate terms of negotiation, or pay- ing them a bonus for condescending to negotiate," M. Litvinoff concluded, ---Reuter.
PORTUGAL AT PARLEY
NON-INTERVENTIONIST RECRUIT
London, Sept. 28, Portugal, which hitherto as not attended the Committee on Non- Intervention In Spain, was repre- sented at to-day's meeting by the Charge d'Agaires in London.
Intended that eight-to-five, was
only the sub-committee would meet
the to-day, but in view of attendance of the Portuguese representative, steps were taken to convene a meet- ing of the full Committee,
The Portuguese Government, in the Committee, ugreeing to join emphasised that its previous reserva- tions were maintained in their en- tirely. Reuter.
The Yankees but favourlies.
the Giants favoured, seven to five, to win the opening game, due to the fact that the management is keeping its Arst pitching cholce a secret. It is ex- pected that either Ruming or the Mexican speedball twirler, Goméz, will go on the mound in the opening engagement.
Rain in Chicago on Sunday halted the scheduled double-header between the St. Louis Browns and Chicago, and the Browns deprived the White Sox of a chance of finishing second In the American League.
The Chicago Cubs victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, in the National
• Devaluation of the franc is League, tled them for second place.
have a beneficial.
The final team stondings are as
American League-New York Yan
on, was sentenced to three years' lish a decree to-morrow placing imprisonment, minus 14 months he spent in gout awaiting triol, on an embargo on gold.-Renter.
less, many with insufficient clothing going to of treasonable activities
Paris, Sept. 28. Relief workers have been rushed effect on China in, the opinion of follows:
to aid in the blackened prea, while the The prosecution dropped
Sixty Senators belonging to
tent cities populated by thousands Mr. Charles Rogers, who ar- charge of espionage uguinst Simpson Union Republicaine Group have
of people have blossomed into being rived here last night from kees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White in view of the fact that evidence unanimously declared hostility to- It is stated that 6,000 three-inch against him was not supported, and wards the Government's Monetary
overnight.
Canton accompanied by Mr. T. land Indians, Boston Red Sox, St. Sox, Washington Senators, Cleve- Huge trucks are lumbering along L. Soong, Finance Commissioner Louis Browns, Philadelphie Athletics. and 4,000 five-point-nine-inch shells concentrated on Simpson's confessed
the debris-choked road carrying re- of Kwangtung. Mr. Rogers, National League-New York Glants, were rained on the Alcazar during responsibility for the smuggling into Bill.
fugees to Marshfeld, where relief who is staying at the Gloucester St. Louis Cardinals the siege. In addition to the utilisa Germany of Communlat stickers and.
headquarters have been established,
and Chicago tion of polson gas, the Government
while survivors are searching the Hotel, is a
Cubs tied, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cin- smoking. ruins for missing relatives, official who recently flew from Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies
British Treasury cinnati Reds. Boston Bees, Brooklyn troops exploded three mines under the defence positions in the course
Seven are known to be dead and England to Hongkong to carry United Press. of the siege.
a score are missing, while twenty-five on the work 'begun in China by injured, including two blinded. Two Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. thousand people are homeless- United Press.
pumphlets.
да
WAGES ISSUE
full
A delegation of the Left parties, Simpson said he saw no harm in these papers, inasmuch Com-after a meeting with M. Leon Blum, munists in the United States meet the Premier, agreed that the proposed Two babies were born during the publicly and have their own pre articles in the Bill referring to tho slege to women who accompanied sidential candidate.
silding scale of wages should bo their husbands to the Alcazar at the outbreak of hostilities, and who re tried Simpson was composed of ave
The Nazi "People's Court" which withdrawn and replaced by a new mained with them, refusing the offers
whom were black- text giving the Government Judges, two, of of the Loyalists to evacuate them, robed civil justices, one a green-powers to prevent a rise in prices. until the long-awaited relief-United
uniformed police officer, and two Press.
brown-uniformed members of the The new text will be submitted to Nazi political organisation.
the General Confederation of Labour. The principal stale witness was It is thought that`a general agree- On receiving news.of the capture Bruno Reitz, a German, and former ment can be reached among the the Communist Youth groups comprising the Government. of Toledo and the relief of the Al-member of
nervously testified-Reuter. chzar by the insurgent forces, Herr Movement, who Adolf Hitler's deputy, Major Rudolf at Simpson had several times Hean, telegraphed the Alcazor's de- brought Communist literature into fenders:
Berlin's Tribute
Berlin, Sept. 28.
op-
the country and also a letter from! the Communist party In, Americo lo "The German National Socialist the Bezirksleitung, which is Party sends its best wishes to the parently the Hamburg, district com- heroes of the Alcazar
their mittee of the underground German and liberators."—Router Bulletin Service. Communist party.
Service.
Soviet's Admission
letter,
vice,
LINKED TO STERLING
Istanbul, Sept. 20.
Viceroy Feasts With People
the
Onancial situation and the new ac- "Most people are inclined to be- cord will also relieve the political Beve that China la one of the very situation, in Mr. Rogers opinion, few countries which will not be Commenting on the situation in effected by the devaluation of the South China, Mr. Rogers stated that franc," said Mr. Rogers when later he was optimistic regarding viewed this morning. "I on the future. At present, he sld, the contrary, consider that the effect offairs were being handled will eventually be quite consider-considerable skill. able and beneficial. The recent
For the first time changes in Europe are likely to In- crease prices in the United States, unity and the possibility of Franco, Britain and the countries certed action, he said, and this following sterling. This anturally should prove of great value to China will ultimately give China a better as a whole, for Hwangtung is one of the richest provinces and could monetary return for her exports.
help a great deal.
with
there is dir con-.
ETHIOPIANS MARK
END OF RAINS:
Addis Ababa, Sept. 28.
HOPEFUL OUTLOOK
"It will told me to convince the The Government has decided to Marshal Graziani, Italy's Viceroy link the Turkish currency to sterling in Ethiopia, attended the annual the
With a working accord between southerners to accept the northern three countries and the new currency but this can be accomplish- and has fixed the buying rate at 635
timo and Anancial unity plastres to the pound and the selling fles the end of the rainy season to a
teast of the Ethiopians which signi- valuation of the currencies L'foresee ed in
considerable improvement in achieved. Simpson denied bringing such a rate at 638-Reuter Bulletin Ser- day..
world affairs within six months or
1 shaine, tontinued ME. great・・ It is no ware," Rogers, that it is so difficult, owing LATVIA'S DECISION
This year's ceremonies were not so, provided there are no Genova, Sept. 28,
stock speculation and DEFENCE PLEA
so picturesque as in the past, owing continued Mr. Rogers. Prices are to political reasons, for a loan to M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Russian
Rigo.. Sopt, 28.
to the absence of the Ethiopian war
and has chorfnous Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in a Defence Attorney Herr Werner!
riors, who used to parade through likely to rise quite rapidly in be arranged for China for she is
*America and more slowly in Britain new country speech to the League Assembly to- Amiitor stressed that Simpson
The latest adherent to the sterling the streets brandishing rifles and fire and Franco, and this will create roem for development and invest- day, admitted that Moscow refrained not the inflator of any attempt to group is Layla, The Government ing in the airgead Bhai Sverig more employment and more moneyment. from openly aiding the Madrid Gov-distributo the Communist literature. has decided to align with sterling The Viceroy reviewed the Addis will be available for investment and ernment in its fight against the rebels One could understand America, on the basis that existed before Ababe garrison as part of the cere development, he believes.
only because it feared the possibility with its laissez faire attitude, afford Britain left gold. The now rate for monies will school children mar of International conflict-United Ing Communists more nourishment for Latvian currency will be 15.21 to the choc pust the King's representative.
(Continued on Page 4.) pound-Rester
Reuter Butterin Service.
„Preat.
Wha
Much of the trouble during the Immediate past has been due to the
Mr. Rogers leaves for Shanghai on the Corfu on Friday and will remain there'ls his capacity as finan clal adviser.
R.A.F. PLANE SOUTHBOUND
LEAVES MANILA FOR SINGAPORE
Manila, Sept. 29. After a four-day visit to Manila, the R.A.F. flying-bont commanded by, Air Commodore Sydney, Smith, took off at 7.10 n.m. for Gingapore vin Kudot and Sarawak,
Air Commodore Smith and his fellow-officers were entertained to lunchcon
. President by
Manuct
hospitality extended to them here.--- Quezon yesterday, and they expressed their
deep appreciation of the
Reuter,
U.S. WAR ON NARCOTICS
2,500 AGENTS ON AMA CAMPAIGN
Washington, Sept. 20. The U.S. Treasury Department has despatched over 2,500 federal agenia upon a nation-wide drive to smash tho narcotics, counterfeiting and bootleg liquor 'trame, in scores of citics. United Press.
STOP PRESS
Shanghai, Sept. 20.1 Three additional Japanese war- ships have arrived here, disembark- ing 000 bluejackets. It is believed that there are now, 3,500 Uluejackets: here,...compared with the ́, normal figure of 2,000-United Press.