THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1936..
VERNON BARTLETT: IMPORTANT SPANISH DISPATCH
FRANCO MAY WIN-BUT NOTHING CAN STOP PEOPLE'S FINAL TRIUMPH
Ann Sothern, the well-known motion picture netress, became Mrs.
Roger Pryor in a midnight church
service in Hollywood. The
couple are shown here folla wing the wedding ceremony.
Woman Exhumed
Year After A
Derby, Nov. 10. Tract attention was thrown routi
WHILE traffic streamed along the cemetery.
the main road close to the Nottingham-road Cemetery here to-night, and as couples passed laughing and chatting, the body
Meanwhile Sir Bernard Spilsbarry and an official from the Hanie Ofee were hurrying here from London They arrived soon after the preli minary works, and Sir Bernard held himself ready to conduct #post- exumination early to-per-
of Mrs. Florence Barker, of mortem Chaddesden, was exhumed in row. the eerie glimmer of lantern! An inquest will be held later in
the day. light.
The exhumation is believed to be Mrs. Barker died on August 7sociated with police inquiries, |
year, and was burled on, tasting more thna' two years, into August 10. The exhumation was certain allegations regarding illegal on Home Office authority, ordered, operations. by Mr. T. II. Bishop, the Derby borough coroner.
last
POLICE CORDON Acting on instructions received) some days ago but kept secret unil!}
last the
moment, gravedlagers, cemetery offlelais, and police officers under the direction of Chief Inspec- tor Grey, with the pollee surgeon, Dr. G. Lether, met at the cemetery
It is understood that the decision was taken after a woman lid written Jetter to Chief Constable Rulings. of Derby.
Statements about the circum- stances of Mrs. Barker's last liness and death were weiler of the letter,
made by the
Darker had red with her husband, Mr. Ronald Barker, n torry-driver, and her two children, Derek, aged 0, and Colin, aged 6, at Tho diggers worked beneath a nhouse in Meadow-lane, Chuddes- specially erected, shelter, and a cor- den, which is on the Quiskirts Of
kates at dusk,
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Non-Intervention:
'Cowardly... Dangerous'
MADRID'S RISK OF MUDDLING INTO DEFEAT
VERNON BARTLETT, the famous correspon
dent, recently completed his investigations in Spain and has recrossed the frontier în order to escape the censorship.
The first of his dispatches, sent from Marseilles after | spending a night on the deck of a destroyer from Alicante,
appears belowo,
Main points in this important message, which summarises the present, military and political situation in Madrid, are:
I am convinced that no combination of aristocrats, or priests and generals are How able to check the revolutionary movement in Spain. Their temporary victory would only make thie ultimate swing to the Left more bloody and more ex- treme,
I believe the policy of non- Intervention to be coward- ly, mistaken and terribly dangerous to progressive movements in every country in Europe.
There is no reason why. -
with the proper system of food! cards, the capital should not be able to with- stand quite a long: siege,
I have reason to know that there has been a seri- ous discussion about remov- ing the Government from Madrid.
A plan is attributed to the British and French Govern- ments of recognising the Burgos Government at the first possible moment.
I believe the Government parties, in Madrid may muddle into defent.
It should be emphasised that this is the first article only and that it will be necessary to read the whole series of four in order to obtain a complete picture,
TRUTH DISTORTED
From VERNON BARTLETT
Marseilles.
Whitehall has been more mis- led over the Spanish Civil War international than over any problem since the Russion Revolution.
I believe that the Government parties in Madrid may muddle into defeat, that General Franco may capture the city, and that the
bloodshed of the past few weeks may be terribly exceeded by the
bloodshed of the next few months.
But I am convinced that no combination of aristocrats, of pricats awi generals are now able to ehrek the revolutionary movement in Spain. Their temporary victory would only make the ultimate swing to the Left more bloody and more extreme,
FUTILE SUCCESSES
OF REBELS
A few nights o 1 motored under a full moon across that Trolling country made famous by the exploits of Don Quixote, Al the entrance of every village I was held up by a barrier of logs i or barrels and had to show my pass to brown-faced men with plaid blankets aroami Their Ishoulders.
Men whose rugged indepên- dence has kept them 300 years behind the other peoples of Western Europe. But men whose face lit up in friendliness and answer 10 the confidence in clenched fist of proletarian solidarity.
The treatment of the Spanish peasants must have been abom- inable to bring about this message of co-operation throughout Spain. It is because I still hate the preaching of hatred that I believe the victory of the Spanish rebels would be a disastrous and futile
event.
HAVE left Spain in order to be able to write frankly
without interference by a censorship which has so I, for one, had supported the distorted the truth that even at this grave moment the non-intervention policy before I immense majority of people in Madrid believe in the im- came to Spain, sincerely-believing
that the Spanish minence of victory.
would thus be most strengthened in its struggle against the rebels.
I now believe that policy to be cowardly, mistaken and terribly
And yet by the time this dispatch appears in print it is quite Possible that the only remaining railroad between Madrid and the don of 40 polleemen-who assembled Derby, within a mile of the ceme-coast will be threatened by enemy artillery in ones and twas so is not to at-tery,
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A few days ago I went along the roads from Toledo to Madrid dangerous to progressive move. and Toledo to Aranjuez, near which is an important railway june-ments in every country tion. From neither of them could I see a single trench or single Europe. strand of barbed wire,
Tragic Lack of Discipline
The Communists and Socialists are at last emphasising the necessity of some organisation of defence,
The Syndicalist and Anarchist organisations, however, do not appear to realise that the lack of discipline is at least as much responsible ns Inck of aeroplanes and artillery for the failure to crush the few thousand rebela whose. lines of communication now stretch from the Portuguese frontier almost to the suburbs of
Madrid.
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One reason for the Government's difficulties is undoubtedly the sabotage which goes on in the army and the higher ranks of the civil service.
The frequency with which orders from Ministers become so dis- torted that reinforcements reach the wrong sector can only be explain ed by the fact that the Spanish Government is having to organise un almost entirely new administration.
Roughly one-fifth of the population of Madrid must be anti- Government, and there are grand opportunities in the ranks of the militia for spreading defeatism and panic.
It is by no means certain that not be able to withstand quite a Madrid will fall even if its rail-long siege,
are cut.
way and part of its water supply I have reason. to know that there has been serious discussion jabout removing the Government
Some of the leaders assured me from Madrid, and such a step that nothing short of disaster of might have a disastrous effect. this kind will put an end to the bickering between parties and convince them that a war is not to be won by allowing excited young militiamen to dash round: the sircets in commandeered) | motor-cars.
A small army of volunteers ready to accept the strictest dis cipline and equipped with every machine-gun which can be spared should not have great dimeulty in driving back the insurgents.
The most proper solution I believe is the transfer of the majority of its members to Gome Southern port from which they would stand a good chance of carrying on nation- al and international business, and the establishment in Madrid of a strong committee of defence. RECOGNITION OF
FRANCO'S JUNTA? This should please the Anarch- So many people know that they ists who hate Governments but would be murdered if General love committers. It is less certain Franco entered Madrid that they whether it would delay the plan have every incentive to organise attributed to the British and themselves.
French Governments of recognis
The patience of the people is ing the Burgo's Government at the not encouraged when arrogant first possible moment. militiamen suddenly commandeer This intention may not exist in food for which others have waited London and Paris, but the fact for hours in queues.
that the British and French Butter and eggs disappeared Embassies to Spain have not the long ago, and sugar, meat, audcourage to leave French soll
milk are scarce, but there is no excuses any suspicions. reason why with a proper system For reasons that will be set of food cards, the enpitul should out in a subsequent despatch,
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