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No. 15013
RUSSIA TO BUILD VAST AIR FORCE
Will Exceed Combined Power Of Japan And German Fleets
MEANWHILE STEAMERS TAKING
ASSISTANCE TO SPAIN
London, Oct. 27.
It is learned that Russia is planning to adopt "a two-power air standard." It is stated the Soviet intends to build a fighting air force which will exceed the combined strength of Germany and Japan.
This decision is allegedly taken as a result of recent events weaken- ing Russia's military position.
Firstly, there was the remilitarisation of the Rhineland, which obstructs French aid to Russia in a possible emergency;
Second, there was the strengthened European Fascist Bloc, which is openly hostile to Russia;
Thirdly, Britain has apparently shifted her policy in the direction of German friendship;
Fourthly, Belgium's neutrality declaration weakens France's position. United PresA.
Asking French Aid
L'Echo de Paris has received an unconfirmed despatch from its correspondent in Biarritz, which it publishes to-day, stating that Russin has demanded the use of French ports for Soviet commercial war fleets.
It is stated that M. Yves Delbos, the French Foreign Minis. ter, considers the demand inacceptable due to the fact that the Franco-Russian treaty does not apply to the ense-Guited Press.
Aid For Leftists
Port Said, Oct. 26.
Two Russian steamers passed through the Suez Canal to-day en route to Barcelona, bearing supplies for the Government forces.
It is reported that six other steamers with cargo for Spain are due this week.-United Press.
Istanbul Evidence
Istanbul, Oct. 26.
It is reported by the port authori ties that 15 Soviet freighters, fully loaded, passed through the Sea of Marmora on their way to Spain from October 1 to 26.--United Press.
"Fascist Arrogance"
Moscow, Oct. 28. The
.uf Portuguese severance diplomatic relations with Madrid and also the anti-Russian charges made by the Lisbon Government, are generally termed "Fascist arrogance" in the capital of the Soviet Union.
It is noteworthy that the charges are neither denied nor affirmed,- United Press.
Portugal's
Charges London, Oct. 28.
was noncone of Soviet influence
The contention that the Spain civil
ITALO-
GERMAN
PROTOCOL
FOUNDATION FOR REPORTS
RED MENACE STRESSED
REBELS
ARREST BRITONS
DRIVER IS SHOT TO DEATH
OFFICIALS NOW FREED
Talavera, Oct. 26. A British military attache in Madrid and an American ban-
ker, who were motoring from |Madrid to Aranjuez, are report
ed to have been arrested by insurgents.
They were refused permission to return to Madrid, but were later given provisional liberty under an ofleet' supervision.
Later,
Actually in party of five neutrals was arrested..
The British diplomat, Captain Lance, the American banker, Mr. William Hall, the British jourundist, Mr. Denis Weaver, and two Ameri- can
newspapermen, Mr. James Minifee and Mr. Henry Gorrell are all in the insurgents' hands.
Their capture is due to the un- expectedly swift advance of the rebels.
London, Oct. 26. Reports that an Italo-German Captala Lance and Mr. -Hall were protocol has been signed, con- they were well within Government in one car and the driver thought in Spanish affairs, is contained la the firming the status quo in the territory when they encountered the Portuguese note to the International Western Mediterranean, have insurgents. Non-Intervention
Committee
been received in diplomatic cir- Mr. Gorrell was in a car by him- London, under the presidency of Lond Plymouth, despatched by the Lisbon cles in London. From informa- self and his chauffeur escaped back
obtained from various to Madrid. Government in response to charges by tion
In the third car, in which the. the Soviet of Portuguese infractions sources the protocol report ap-two American newspapermen were
pears well-founded,
riding, the driver was shot dead.
waved their All the passengers
The protocol provides, it is under hundkerchiefs as a sign of surrender stood, that Spanish sovereignty in and all were taken to Talavera de in the Balearic Islands shall be main-Reina, where they are at provisionni talned.
liberty-Reuter Special.
of the non-intervention pact.
Portugal's note claims that thei U.S.S.R. methodically prepared a leftist revolution in Spain, and built up a vast organisation, "supplied with rich means of propaganda and | action.
In support of this contention, the note alleges, the famous Communist, Ribbentrop, the new German Am- M. Bela Kun, arrived in Barcelona in bazandor, has arrived in London. March, with other Soviet ngents. The
Herr Adolf Hitler is convinced,
Meanwhile, Herr Joachim
von
note further alleges that the Soviet the new Ambassador said on arrival, Arabassador, M. Rosenberg, Is "the that the only real danger for Europe hidden spirit" behind the Madrid and the British Empire is the spread- Government and that he has even
ing of the doctrine of Communism. participated in Cabinet meetings.
He added that close collaboration
Gale Whips Channel
The note is regarded in diplomatie between Britain and Germany was a circles as mainly a statement of the vital necessity In their Common QUEEN attitude of the Portuguese Govern struggle to uphold their civilisation. ment--Reuter.
MORE TROUBLE IN BOMBAY
EIGHT STABBING INCIDENTS
Bombay, Oct. 20.
After three days of quietude, dis- orders again.broke out here to-day.
There were eight cases of stabbing, six of which occurred after night- fall-Reuter's Bulletin. Service.
Arms were raised in the Nazi salute by top-hatted leaders of the German community in London as the Ambassador alighted from the train at Victoria Station.-Reuter.
STOP PRESS
MACAO GOVERNORSHIP
A telegram from Macao announces
MARY GETS BUFFETING
London, Oct., 20.
A heavy "south-western gale swept the Channel to-day, forcing all small ships in, the Straits of Dover to take shelter. Passengers on the chunnet steamers had very bad cross- ings.
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A parade of 5,000 bluejackets which was to have taken place at Devonport was cancelled, owing to the violence of the storm.
The Cunard-White Star liner Queen the appointutent of Senhor Tamagniul | Mary had a severe buffeting when she Barbosa as Governor of Macao, this arrived at, Southampton to-day, re- being his third appointment to the porting several minor inturels.-- post Our Own. Correspondent, Reuter Special.....
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936.
WHERE SMUGGlers work
日三十月九
It is reported that Customs officers in the employ of the Chinese Government fired on a party of smugglers near. Shum Chun last night, wounding at least one man, who was found shot through both legs. The illustration shows the Shum Chun River, marking the frontier between the British New Territor- ies and the soil of China, where smugglers are known to operate extensively and ichere a close watch in kept for them by Chinese
Customs officers,
ROOSEVELT SPENDING ATTACKED
"IMPUDENT USE OF
·PUBLIC · MONEY" LANDON FIRES BROADSIDE
AIRMEN RETURN TO RACE
DETROYAT LANDS AT BAGHBAD
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FIERCE FIGHT AT TARDIENTA Rebels Attacking With Greatest Vigour
POWERFUL COUNTER-BLOW BY LOYALISTS TURNED
Hendaye, Oct. 27.
Rebel forces are reported to be using planes, artillery and armoured cars in a terrific drive on Tar-. dienta, 20 miles south of Huesca.
Loyalists claim to have seized German-made arms and ammunition near Tardienta, according to a com- munique from the southern outskirts of Huesca.
Catalan loyalists, repeatedly attacking, say they have killed 200 rebels and that the militia at Alcaniz, after ten days' fighting, has succeeded in linking up with the Teruel forces, which means that a 175-mile line has been established which will form the basis of an attack on Saragossa,
Meanwhile, loyalists from Torrejon report that a rebel bomber has been harassing the Yeles outpost, forcing the population to flee. The loyalists have formed a second line of defence along the Getafe road, however, 15 miles from Madrid. Civilians have also abandoned Pinto, three miles north-west of Torrejon.
JAPANESE
PACIFIC
AIRLINE
HEADING TOWARDS SOUTH SEAS
GOOD USE OF MANDATES
New York, Oct. 26. The charge that President F. D. Roosevelt had made "open of public and impudent use money for political purposes, was made to-day by Governor Alfred Landon, of Kansas, Re- públican nominee for the United States presidency, when he spoke here.
Governor Landon denounced what while leading the enntestants in the Press.
They long marathon, and extra- injured, but their plane is seriously vagance of the Roosevelt administre-damaged.
Geneva, Oct. 27. Two of France's most famous Japan's annual report to the airmen, Michel Detroyat and Geston Mandates Committee, revealed Durmont, arrived safely at Baghdad to-day and at present lead the part-to-day that Tokyo is establishing cipants in the £16,000 round-trip airlines to the South Pacific.
The work on dds project and the race from Paris to Saigon.
preparation of the Islamls to carry 11, Maurice Arnoux and Andre Japy, was first started in 1935. The service two other French long-distance aces, now links Palau and Saipan and crashed their machine t Karachi several others are planned)---United
were not
he called "the waste
tion."
ife accused the President of violat ing the constitutional rights of Con- gress by demanding vast sums of money to spend at his discretion.
"These sums were used to break down the power of the states," Governor Landon asserted, "and to coerce the voters.
"The Administration is so callous as to publie decency that it forces people to sell their votes for bread," he said.
The unemployed had been told that if they did not support President Roosevelt they would be thrown off the reller rolls. When he took office as the chief executive he would abolish the use of relief funds for political purposes, Governor Landon concluded.-iteuter,
FIGHT NEARS CRISIS
Jacques Challe and J. Brille, after Wo false starts, the first of which took them back to Le Bourget, Paris, and the second of which kept them to recom- at Lyons, have decided
mence the race-United Press,
CHANGE MINDS
Paris, Deļ, 26.
A message hus been received from Jacques Challe and J. Brille that, having repaired the trouble with their fubrication system, they have changed their minds and will con- inue the race. They plan to take
off at 7.30 a.m. to-morrow.
They are at present at Lyons, more than a full day behind the leaders, Glaston Dur- Michel Delroyal and mont.-Reuter.
NO LANDING gear
New York, Oct. 20.
Karachi, Oct. 20. President F. D. Roosevelt and his
Anoux and Japy arrived over the aerodrome here at 6.05 pm. (G.M.T.) rival for office, Governor Alfred Landon, Republican, have commetic-to-day, well ahead of the other com- ed the grande finale of their inten-petitors in the Paris-Solgon race, sive contest and are bidding for large But their retractable undercarriage
in blocks of electoral votes the jammed as they were about to come
to a landing. eastern United States,
While the President sat in the White House during the week-end preparing his final speeches, which will deliver in Perinsylvania, New York and near-by states, Governor const-to-coast Landon pursued his route to New York, via Important
chatern centres.
to
The President plans move to- northward from, Washington morrow night in a special train for a speaking tour New York State, New
Pennsylvania Jersey Delaware, which, together, represent 100 electoral votes.
and
His attendance at the fiftieth birth-. day celebrations of New York har- bour's famous Statue of Liberty, will. open his final tour. This culminutes In his major speech to New Yorkers on October 31 at Madison Square Gurden,
"The President proposes to broad-
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They circled the field for 35 minutes and exhausted their petrol before which they making a landing in knew they must crash..
Arnoux, at the controls, made a remarkably skilful landing, but un- fortunately damaged the left wing of be his machine, and repairs, cannot Berted locally. The fight has therefore been abandoned and the occupants of the racing plane are relurning to France by the Royal Dutch mail plane-Reuter Bulletin
Service.
LEAVE DAGHDAD
GERMAN AIRMAIL
A
From Barcelonà it in learned that decree mobiilsing Catalonian military classes of 1032, 1933, 1934, 1935, has been issued.-United Pre58.
Troops Fire On Women...
London, Oct. 27. The Daily Mail's Lisbon corres- pendent to-day writes that the aut- horities opened fre on the demonstration of 30,000 women of Madrid who paraded demanding the of the capital.-United surrender
Press.
Shelter For · Americans
Madrid, Oct. 27, The United States Embassy las advised Americans in Madrid that they are welcome to a refuge in the bulidings "when it becomes evident that conditions endanger the safety of our nationals." The Embassy is not assuming the responsibility for fly of the American people, nevertheless-United Press.
Counter-Attack
Repelled
Talavern, Oct. 27. A strong counter-attack by Government mliitin on Navalcarnero has been repelled after an all-day battle in which, for two hours, the situation looked critical for the In-
Berlin, Oct. 20.. The German Lufthansa Com-surgents.
the
The militiamen attacked at dawn, pany intends to open a scheduled regular North Atlantic air mail supported by heavy artillery fire, two service late in the spring of forces attempting to surround 1937, states Count Schack, one town from the north and south. of the pilots engaged in the trial Licut.-Colonel Asensio, command- flights which have just beening the Nationalists, had his hands completed by two flying boats full holding up a frontal attack with a few trench mortars and machine- now docked at Travemuende.
guns, until aeroplanes, hostlly Count Schach says the trial flights summoned, began bombing and were made irrespective of weather
the machine-gunning
aliackers, conditions, and in the daytime the boats flew at a height of only thirty thereby easing the situation. Icet above the waler, for better Meanwhile, the Government flank- navigation. Two pilots tools charge ing columns had practically succeed ed in effecting a junction on the road alternately.
The scheduled route is from Lis- behind Navalcarnero, and towards, bon via the Azores to New York, and Valmojado, But a strong detach- the flying time should not exceed ment of. Moors and Legionnaires twenty-six hours in calm weather. rushed to the rear and bent off the A second "mother ship" is now encircling troops with the aid of being constructed
which will join aircraft. the Schwabenland In the North Atlantic. next year to entapult the flying boats into the air.-Reuter Special.
Quezon Puts Off Trip
HEAVY PRESSURE OF BUSINESS
Manila, Oct. 20. Preskident Monucl Quezon na Indelinitely postponed his trip to Chini, owing to pressure of business. The President has signed the Assembly's special Bill granting Filipino citizenship to Mr. Franels Babhdad, Oct. 26.
Burton Harrison, former Governor- Detroyat and Durmant, now far General, thus fulfilling Mr. Harrison's alcad of the only other competing promise to President Quezon in 1012 plane in the Paris-Saigon marathon, that he would live permanently in hopped off at 1.28 p.m. after arriving the Philippines if Government House at 12.40 p.m.-Reuter Bulletin Ser- were ever occupied by a Filipino.- vice.
United Press.
It is believed this will likely be counter-attack before the the last Nationallets begin their imminent, final march on Madrid, which some authorities belleve will fall within the week-leuter.
Aranjuez Isolated
Burgos, Oct. 20. An official communique from the Insurgents headquarters here states that the Rightlat ormles have severed the Madrid rall communications_with the east coast, at the Tagus Hiver crossing and have isolated Aranjuez. It adds that Rightist artillery, established on the top of a high bill, now dominates. Aranjuez station, and that aircraft are bombarding the rail- rond, the Tagus bridge and the station-United Press.
Rebel Reverse Reported
Barcelona, Oct. 20.;: The Catalan forces have occupied tho Purgladron, which dominates communications of Tardienta and Alcubierre, in the Saragossa district.
The rebel attack on the Tardlenta
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