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ANNOUNCEMENT,
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The
Story the Reporters
cannot send
O. D.
by
GALLAGHER
just back from Spain
ET me tell you a story ing against the insurgent_au- thorities, who hold Avila. They about a bogeyman, even brought their own war- You will not find him planes with them. I saw 18 in any of the old books of fighters at the airfield on the
edge of the town, fairy tales because he is a Twentieth Century Bogey-
The marriage of Dr. J. Thomas to man, and-at the moment
toke he only
Miss Nance Petutt will
ND at Talavera de la
A neina in the south were
more foreign pilots. I used to frightens little cat in the same restaurant as place on Saturday, 6th of Decem-children in Spain.
they did it had become a kind bor, at 3 p.m. in the Union Church, Kennedy Road. A re I saw him in Avila, beautiful' of officera' mess. coption will be held at the old city encircled by a wall When they sat down at a Gloucester Hotel at 3.30 p.m. No Invitations are being sent but all that was restored about the time table with Spaniards of the friends will be welcome.
that William the Conqueror won Foreign Legion or with Spanish
Fasciate they the Battle of Hastings,
the
DEATH.
of 63
XAVIER.--Gregorlo Maria, carly in morning, 2nd December, 1936, at his residence No. 70, Morrison Road, (1st floor), at the advanced ngo
years, Leaves a widow and five children, Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.20 p.m. 10-day. (Macao and Shanghal papers please copy).
The
It's the same on both sides
Here is proof of "interven- tion" on the other sida, in a- despatch from H. R. Knicker- booker, a London reporter atill in Spain
"The insurgents have car tured or put out of action 19 Russian tanka, 'I got a metal tag from one, giving its fac- tory serial number in Russian characters. They were dit- abled by anti-aircraft machine. guna firing oversize cartridges,
"At the santo time Russian bombing 'plane 108 brought down, a new type in this war, twin motored, and made in Russia's Factory Thirty-three."
ONE
During the month I was on the southern insurgent front I BAW considerable action by troops commanded by Goneral Francisco Varela, Colonel Fran- cisco Delgado, Colonel Castejon, and Colonel Monasterio,
I do not think I saw more than 300 dead during the whole, period and that includes the relief of the Alcazar. And not all were killed in battle.
I saw several corpses in pools. of fresh blood in villages that had been taken by the insur gents weeks before. It is pos sible that I saw no more. than 300 doad because others had been removed and incinerated.
I do not think that probable. as a Government armoured car. surrounded by eight Govern- ment corpses was left on the main Talavera-Toledo rond for two weeks before the clean-up ganga of civilians arrived.
to
how Bay
IT is impossible for me executions and assassinations of
many
Government supporters there have been, but there is a sinister indication in the remark ́ made' to me by an insurgent captain in Toledo shortly after the Government supporters had fled.
He said, leaning forward and adding emphasis by nodding his hoid: "When we've finished Toledo will be the 'Whitcat' town in all Spain !"
Also a Fascist provincial chief -I do not wish to give his name -has boasted that he himself accounted for 72 Government supporters. That Fascist did not take part in acual front- line actions, but followed the Moors and Foreign Legionnaires with clean-up parties.
Germany and
dominated it. tanks capable of high speeds He was tall and quite hand- They led the conversation, were and of the same type that the some to look at in the spotless served first by the waitresses, Italians used against that For-
"Witaly reap any gain white overalls that he wore. He and always won a laugh with gotten Man, Haile Selassic.
A colleague of mine claims to from their expenditure of money strode proudly, along the pave their jokes. ment without seeing the people But it is only among the have seen 25, the crews of if Franco wins the day?" who glanced up from their wine fighters and Fascists that they which were Italians to a man.
Another question often asked. or coffee to stare after him and are admired. The man in the An American reporter for the murmur to each other: "He is street does not like them. To United Press saved the life of I cannot answer that, but I can an aviator."
him they are "foreign mur- one Italian when a whippet tank tell of an old hate reborn and His passage between the little derers" (that was a phrase used crashed into a ditch about 25 being cultivated against Britain. tables on the pavement where to me-by-a-Spaniard on the miles out of Madrid.
"What's the matter with you The tank was rattling along British? Are you Communists?" the townsfolk dat and drank insurgent side).
Still, I do not think the in- the road at about 30 miles an I have been asked that question. and talked was like a cold
surgents would have advanced hour when for no apparent by an intelligent and highly the road and placed insurgent officer, and he The townsfolk didn't actually so rapidly if it had not been shiver, but they seemed to have for the German and Italian plunged into a ditch. It cap- voiced his complaints against sized, and the reporter, hearing Britain. He even complained forgotten what they had been pilots and rlanes.
cries from within, investigated. about "British interference with talking about before the bogey.. Even the trained Moors and
He managed to pull a man Spanish justice," referring to man passed by: they just sat Foreign Legionnaires feared the out, semi-conscious.
was the case of Captain Kane, for a moment or two and looked death threat from the sky. I the driver, Italian, down at their glasses of wine... have seen Moors, Legionnaires
Nor did he stop there, but The bogeyman was a German and a cavalry-captain scuttle..........
AND other impartial went back to the Duke of Wel- warplane pilot. .
for shelter when two Govern-
was most ment fighters passed over them. seen Italian artillery in action flerce when declaring that Wel THEN I went into a shop
against the Government troops. lington's troops carried out a for cigarettes. There
Thongkong Telegraph. breeze.
WEDNESDAY, Dɛckmon 2, 1030,
SPAIN AND THE LEAGUE
THEN
No, I told him, I'm
then asked was I an aviator. a foreign
reason
it left
He
correspondents with But despite all this "Are
Whether the move will prove of any utility or not, the Spanish Government is certainly well within its rights in invoking was a little girl about five years. ANOTHER matter that The gunners were Italian. premeditated-campaign-against the second paragraph of Article old playing inside. She saw me. Franco's army cannot report is there big casualties apart from Spanish commerce by systemati XI of the League of Nations gave
a cry and
ran into the the activity of Italian tank executions and assassinations ?" cally wrecking all factories. Covenant in connection with the house behind,
corps in the action against a question one often hears
"We've never recovered from alleged support of the insur-
Then an old mari came out, Madrid. They are all whippet. I don't think so.. gents by Italy and Germany his mouth and eyes wide open.
that," he declared:
That paragraph reads 29 follows:It is also declared to Silently he gave me cigarettes, be-the-friendly right of each member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly
Then we began talking. Council any circumstances Whatever affecting international cheered up no end and brought relations which threatens to dig the little girl back and sat her turb International peace or the on the counter. She smiled. The good understanding between old man explained that she was nations upon which peace de- very frightened of aviators. pends." It is true that the There were so many in Avila International Non-Intervention-I knew of 42—and they could Committee has not yet reached do such dreadful things when any definite conclusion regard they sailed up into the sky with ing the allegations made by the their bombs.
journalist.
'!
He
Madrid Government, but "suf- But there was no real cause fcient has been already dis- for the little girl's fears, be- closed, coupled with German and cause the 12 aviators in Avila Italian recognition of the insur-were all German, and not fight- gents, to warrant the situation
being regarded as one which not
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only threatens to disturb good latter country, which has, for understanding between nations, all intents and purposes, already but which has actually done so. severed its connections with The Madrid Government, ap-Geneva, would definitely Icave parently, is not seeking League the League. Frankly, whilst assistance; it merely asks that not doubting, the competence of the League take cognisance-of a the League to take note of the dangerous situation. Accord Spanish complaint; it is dif ingly, the League Council has ficult to see what useful purpose been convened for next week will be served by a Council dis- Inasmuch, however,
the cussion of the issues raised. charge is made that Germany This conclusion may be regretta- and Italy have been guilty of an ble, but it seems warranted by act of aggression by allegedly the League's inefficacy to deal giving armed old to General satisfactorily with past and fair- Franco's army and by recognis-ly recent major questions: ing the rebel junta, it would Since the Manchurian and scem that the Spanish loyalists Ethiopian fiascos, the League look to the League to condemn has been compelled to side-step these two Powers. If. proved, vital problems affecting inter- armed intervention against the national relations, and there Madrid Government could cer-seems no prospect of any other! |tainly be described as aggres-outcome, excepting the acerba- Pair sion, but a nice point of inter- tion of already frayed feelings) national law is involved in the from the coming Council session: question whether the set of re- It is a sad circumstance that this cognition can also be so re-should be the outlook, but garded. These are matters for nothing is to be gained by shut decision by the League would realities. The days of the certainly be resented both by League, in its political aspect, Germany and Italy, with the would appear to be definitely undoubted: consequence that the numbered,
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