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FRANCHOT
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TONE DOUGLAS
JAMES STEWART
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THE BLACKEST ROGUES THAT EVER LIVED BECAME THE WHITEST GUYS THAT EVER DIED ! Pistols barked death
houfs thundered
and three desperadoes
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936.
Flogged Daily By Spain Reds LOVE-SICK
PRISONERS BURNT
ALIVE IN CHURCH
BRITON FREED
BY ROOSEVELT
New York, Oct. 10.
ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT HE London "Dailyter is a splendid specimens daling who always has time to
from the Roman dominion in Spain. T Mail" recently The homb did not explode because listen to a romantic story, has the artillery of the anti-Reds destroy-personally intervened to allow a.
Briton.
in published furthered the electric power station, und so young,
prisoner "evidence from unimpeach-cly chosen by the Red aeroplanes
the current. On୯ spot espe-U.S.A's immigration-camp, Ellia
able sources" of atrocities was the superb Roman Theatre, into Island, to marry an American
which several bombs fell, without, girl. and sacrilege committed by however, causing irreparable damage Nelson Vallis, aged 22, of Ber- to what is a unique specimen of muda, fell desperately in love Reds in Spain.
The evidence is, states the "Daily Mail", fully docu-
Roman art.
A Sober Fact
An Englishman who has
writes:
These afrocities are sober
beca
inct.
They are repeated in every place which has fallen under Red dominion,
with Cecilia Cotter, aged 19, of Bayonne, New Jersey, but the immigration law: forced him to
LES
Love brought him back to U.S.A. stowaway. He entered the
sweetheart when B Jealous suitor of the girl denounced him to the poller,
country illegally and was preparing to marry his
mented. The stories are re-lining in Lisbon for some pears 180 back home. published in this newspaper] in keeping with its policy of giving publicity to both sides of the Spanish crisis. Refused to Blaspheme
Five eye-witnesses signed the following in the presence of the Portuguese Consul in Badajoz un August 25:
As a result of the military revolt, 70 members of the parties of the del Maestre were Right in Fuente arrested.
Vallis was arrested, sent to Ellis
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One of the difficulties encountered in obtaining signed evidence is the feur of revenge which may overtake! Island.
Reds. those
Cecilla fell sick worrying about imprisoned by the Among the people I have interview her sweetheart. Then the story was ed I have frequently met with re-told to the President.
A few days later Nelson Vallis was fusal to sign.
For other reasons also names are set free, and to-day he is again busy wedding pt kept back. In Estoril there is at making plans for his present a girl of about 17. She was Dayonne on Sunday.
lving in Badajoz. Her house was broken into and, in the presence of body was covered with wounds. her mother. she was outraged by
A letter which I have from an off- eleven men. The experience caused her to lose her reason, and scer in the Portuguese Army is par-
ticularly interesting. He They were treated with such in undergoing treatment now. Natural Spain during the greater part of Manuel Casino Morgado, Fatherly enough she, or rather her mother. August, and gives me his word of Lorenzo Cerdon, the superior of the can hardly wish her name to be honour that he witnessed the most
broadcast.
unspeakable outrages. But the evidence is overwhelming.
In most cases he entered towns and been Gomez Jaro, had to receive medical! I assisted at the debarkation of eleven villages after the Reds had treatment..
nuns who arrived in Lisbon by the driven back and was in time to see three Dempo on August 8. They had the results of their occupallon. Shortly afterwards, these
He tells me that he himself sow were made to go out of the prison, escaped from Barcelona.....They hnd and with them Jose Visedo Alvarez, reen one of their sisters shot. beside some forty women and girls driven Felipe Ceballos Solis, Father Victor them, and also a priest who was with completely naked through the streets Siluarren, Father Constantino Gar- them forged so inercilessly that is of one small town. cia, Juran Garcia Fernandez, Fran- cisco Corredera Vaca, Diego Hernun- dez Prieto, and were shot in the pub- He square.
sults and violence that three of them,;
Franciscuns,
And
Manuel Lorma
The three priests und Manuel Cast- miro Morgado were tortured to maks them blaspheme, and when they re- fused they were shot.
Church Set Alight
Five-eye-witnesses of events in) Fuente de Cantos signed the fol- lowing statement in the presence al of the Portuguese Consul Badajoz
On July 19 after the military up: rising, various groups begun to rest thuse persons noted us upholders of low and order. The arrests were made with great violence, without consideration of consider
of swords, axes, revol
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Newport News, Virginia, Oct. 2.
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made their getaway with their biggest haul! Then out of the bilstering great show age or sex, and with knots when completed and some estimates ramas high as 38 knots.
desert they found emselves with a founding infant on their hands!
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Certain it was, that she would be carriers, or all but one of the number with NIŅA MAE MCKINNEY — A UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE. One group of prisoners was placed able to cruise in circles around the she chose to build under her Londott
of any feel in the allotment in the period of the and second in the average body in the prizon, parish church, where all were made world, provided any strategists chose Treaty. The seventh and final ship FRED MacMURRAY to go into the sueriaty. About 3 p.m., to employ so valuable a ship in such planned under the treaty tonnage. JOAN BENNETT
a given signal on the bell, a violent tactics. It is more likely, experts as will be called the Wasp, and is due outburst of shooting, rifles, guns und sorted, that she will use her great to be launched In September 1938. revolvers, wounded and killed some speed to keep up with the fleet after 1 is a smaller vessel, amounting to of the prisoners who were in the pauses to take on aircraft returned about 14,500 tons.
The 20,000 ton design of the carrier saeristy. Almost simultaneously with from scouting or bombing operations. the shooting the doors and windows Tacticians asserted that a major "Enterprise" represents a were soaked with petrol and set on -re, and a quantity of petrol and of handicap of aircraft carriers has been sized vessel which United States ad- the necessity of slowing up for this mirats believe will prove more valu- cation wool saturated with petrol
process of recovering their swarms able than the larger carriers it first were dung into the sacristy,
of aviators. Excessive speed there-used, or the smuller ones favoured
other cou
countries. It Will fore is needed, in which to bring up by some
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In this way twelve prisoners were killed, rine by burning and three by her average travelling time to that curry practically as many planes as and the. shooting.
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A BURNING SAGA OF THE MAD MONK WHO TOPPLED ed, for the bodies were reduced 12tected, behind the battle line.
of being easy targets or being un- manoeuvrable. It will have speed-
THE THRONE OF THE ROMANOFFS! elnders, but a post-mortem was held
The "Enterprise" will be a ship of presumably in excess of theirs, and on the three who were shot, and
when completed and death was found to be caused by 10,000 tons burns and bullet wounds.
probably will shelter 79 active air-design for better sulted planes, according to best informed purposes. 22 Prisoners Shot
estimates. The Navy has declined
to
carrier
Naval architects of other nations known to be watching most
to reveal exact information regard-are Four witneesès of events in Tula-ing her. A so-called sister ship, the closely, the design and features of the "Yorktown" is credited by various "Enterprise" and Yorktown" for vera la Real made the following sources da carrying 79 planes. It is guidance in vessels, which they plin statement in the presence of the believed that the "Enterprise" will to start. The German experts are Portuguese Consul in Badajos:- have slight Improvements in design reputedly most interested because of In Talavera la Real, as in all the aver her sister ship, which was decisions they have to make soon townships of the province of Badajoz, Taunched seven months earlier. many members of the Right were im- prisoned on the outbreak of the re-
regarding size of carriers suitable for their uses in the North Seas, as well Completion of the "Enterprise" will as possible occante uses.-United bellion, but In this township the Reda give the United States six aircraft Press.
distinguished themselves by their
ferocity, and 22 of these prisoners were shot without any Justification.
The prisoners were flogged almost daily with whips of iron and wire by strong men.
On August 13, at 8.30 a.m., when the approach of the army became known, 23 prisoners were taken out of the prison and shol on the road' leading to the town.
Some of the bodies, not all because of the rapid advance of the army, were savagely mulated by the Reds,
Roman Relics Destroyed
Two witnesses of happenings in Merida stated in the presence of the Portuguese Conant at Badajoz: The Rights were imprisoned. Ten of them were taken out into the open and a pretence of execution was gone through. Finally they were shot on August 8, and the bodies hastily buried, were taken up and mutilat- ed in different hamlels around the town.
Those shot included two lawyers and a retired captain of artillery who refused to lead, the Rted militin.
In the church of Santa Maria books, furniture, statues were destroyed, and the church desecrated.
A large dynamuito bomb was placed under the Roman Bridge, which Int
OCTOBER 23, at 9.30 p.m. THIRD SONATA RECITAL by
Violin
Piano
AT THE
PRUE LEWIS
and
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INSTITUTE
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$3.00 & $2.00 (Reserved), $1.00 - (Unres.)
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN,
al
The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated $22,000, against which the Income to date is $20,000 only.
In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of
$2.000
before the close of the financial year on 31st October.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, CA,
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..
P. & O. Bullding.
Mr. KWOK CHAN.
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
September 15, 1030.