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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL
Massacres
1937.
Seamen In
Captured Arms Ship
SURVIVOR'S VIVID STORY OF BOARDING
PARTY'S CHASE
Rescuers Ordered Off by Rebels
From A Special Correspondent
Arcachon, March 25.
TO-DAY I spoke to Juan Boo, the only man to escape from the Spanish arms ship Mar Cantabrico when she was shelled and boarded in the Bay of Biscay yesterday and taken prize by the rebel cruiser Canarias.
Juan Boo's home is at Puebla Del Carabinal, in Corunna. A few hours ago he had seen 49 of his comrades--the Mar Cantabrico's entire crew-shot by the rebels befor his own eyes.
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The sound of the shots was still ringing in his dazed ears, as, clasping and unclasping his hands convulsively and bleeding from a head injury, he told me in staccato phrases of the nightmare scenes through which he had lived.
DISGUISED AS BRITISH SHIP
Disguised as the Nowcastle steamer Adda, the Mar Can- tabrico, a 6,500 tons Spanish motor-vessel which slipped out of American waters one hour before the U.S. arms embargo was enacted, met the rebel warship Canarins about 80 miles off the French coast.
"We were bound for San- tander by an indirect route," he told me, "fying the British merchant flag, We did not stop when we were hailed by the Canarias at 4.45 p.m. yesterday. The Canarias opened fire at almost point blank range."
French trawlers stood by till mid- heard despite the gale. night as shouts for help could be
Men were struggling in the year They were apparently the crew of one of the Canaries's boats which overturned when putting off to board the Mar Cantabrico.
Another boat which put off from
which, mistaking them for ship-
wrecked men, offered to take them
SUBSTITUTE FOR NETWORK
METAL
MADE FROM COAL
OF CABLES
GERMAN INVENTION ABOVE
Munich, Apr. 2.
BRITAIN
London, Mar. 15.
NETS of steel cables pro-
GERMAN GUNS
FORGED FROM
FRENCH STEEL
Reich Imports 7,793,000 Tons In 1936 To Top Rest Of Európe
Germany has begun to "mine": its printing-plants to secure metals. It is announced to-day
Paris, Apr. 4. that the noted printing-house of
Vast rearmament programmes Bielefeld, in the Rhineland, has
tect Britain from enemy throughout Europe gave French, successfully substituted a domes. lie "composition" for half its bombers, to be suspended iron mines a new lease on life leases at once two tons of lead kite balloons; were des-largest single rise was the ex immense lead stock. This re- from hundreds of captive last year, bringing production
л figures to new high. The cribed by Prof. F. A. port to Nazi Germany, whose This composition is Germany's new Lindemann, candidate for new armaments programme is wonder-material, "Kunst Harz" (arti- ficiat resin), from which wireless Parliament in the Oxford causing profound worry through- cabinets, billiard balls, most buttons, and even china disher are now being university by-election and out France, both in government
and popular circles. made. Its raw materials are exclu-an advocate of this means sively domestic-pitconi-waste and of defence. plienol.
for the Four Year Plan,
"The inventor of the newest Kunst
Although Belgium and Luxem- bourg. European steel and armament "It is clear that if one hati a centres, still top the list of consumers Harz process, which makes the com-sufficient number of kite balloons of French iron ore with a total of 10,110,000 tons, the rise in Germany's Heinz raising steel cables from the consumption was the most marked.
position practicable for printing needs, la the engineer,
schmidt, of Bielefeld. The Nazi press already celebrates his achieve-ground to a sufficient height, in 1929 Germany imported 2,060,000 ment as "equal to the discovery of they would provide an effective tons of Iron and fell as low as 712- 000 tons in the depression year of large lead--mines within the bounds defence against air
bombers, 1992. In 1938 there was
a pheno- of the Fatherland."
especially by night," Lindemann menul rise from 5,802,000 tons the Since Germany possesses more wrote in the Evening Standard. 1 year before to 7,703,000 tons. prioting establishments, thun any. The aircraft would be like a
ion in the world, realisation other
nution in
of several hundred thousands of tons blind owl trying to fly through a of lead for armament is awaited from thicket. the new
new Goldschmidt process. Hitler's substitution geniuses have
trays, clothes hooks,
already been "mining the German collide with the cables ant it needs "11s wings would be bound to Rallways for blmost There, systematie replacement of ash would happen to alreraft charging a year little imagination to appreciate what locomotive bells are yielding vast into a cable of any appreciable thick
and even at 200 and even 300 miles an hour quantities not only of lead, but also ness." of zinc and copper-exalted by the Four Year Plan to the position of Germany's other dwn "precious inctals."
AGE OF A LEAF
TOLD BY
ELECTRIC SHOCKS
QUICKEST RESPONSE
IN "ADULT" LIFE
BRITAIN SHORT OF STEEL Another country whose consump- tion has taken a big jump is England. With the new British arimoments pro- fron producer of the world already gramme getting into stride, the former
stock. Production is stil has noted a shocking shortage of below de- to a minimum. The result is that mand, und stocks have been reduced
Imports from France rose from the low figure of 02,000 tons to 230,000 tons in the last year.
French Although production in iron mines rose almost 2,000,000 tons above last year's total, it still was below the peak year of 1920, The tons, and old high was 50,731,000 production last year reached 33,204,000 tons, which, however, was a post-depressior high.
only
"Lindemann said that a "suficient number would be much smaller than one might at first Imagine England's south and southeast coasts, a distance of 400 miles, might be relatively well- stopped by 400 balloons one for each mile he said. Calculated on the busts of a 100-foot wingsprand for a bomber, and remembering that The planes would have to pass the "net" both coming and going, the
Part of the deficiency in the last enemy plane would have one chance
26 of destruction.
year's production was. the result of "Obviously, auch
not social conditions, the strike period sufficient to deter determined eving brought the mines virtually enemy." Lindemann admitted, "but to a stop. It rose swiftly after the if, instead of 400, one had 4,000 close of the successful strikes.
then the chances, would be the last three months of the year. balloon to about one in two and a production was higher than the first half. Such odds would be far too Ave months of the year, before the great for any enemy airfleet to face. June strikes, If it were certain that two machines in five would be destroyed in each raid, air attack would cease to be a paying
in
increased
odds are
40-HOUR WEEK IN EFFECT
In
The successive ages of a leaf have been followed by the Bose Institute at Calcutta, under the direction of Sir J. C. Bose, 19 the Canarias with a boarding party accurately as Shakespeare de passed close to a British ship picted the seven ages of man.
The "reaction time" of leaves to an outside stimulus quickens when they are young as does
Lindemann, that of a child; then they reach sumclent height to stop aerial bomb- and their quickest and best level, ing probably would be 30,000 feet, and that this heigh! could be reached on corresponding with the prime of kite balloons, carrying a sufficiently adult life; and at last they slowi
heavy cable, if a little research down in their reaction towards work and balloon development were the insensitiveness of death. fried. He admitted that the design vinced producers that production will
aboard.
Using the Adda's identifica- tion signal, G.J.P.R., the Mar
The British vessel was considerably Cantabrico flashed SOS calls,
mystified when Two French trawlers, the Henri- men refused help.
the "shipwrecked" Camelyre and the Courlis, rush-PASSENGERS ed to the rescue and reached the Mar Cantabrico at 6.30 pm.
-TAKEN OFF
The Henri-Camelyre Despite peremptory orders from able to take up one man. the Canarias
the who gave the story.. off,
2
to
make
"IH WORRIED ABOUT WINNIE, NURSE. SHE FRETS FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT. WHAT DO YOU ADVISE?"
"Why, the poor little thing is consti- pated. No wonder she's fretful, That is the chief thing a mother has to -guard
ard against, Mrs. Grant.
"Kiddies'don't understand; they're so absorbed in their games, and often neglect Naturo's call: Then they gel billous, lose their appetite and be come irritable.
"Show me your tongue, Winnie. Yes, it is coated a sure sign she's out of sorts. All she needs is 'Culi- fornia Syrup of Figs,' and she'll be as happy as a lark in the morning.
"You'll find It keeps the bowels
purifies the system and saves mach upsets and Billousness. "If children are to thrive and grow strong and keen witted, they must Theres and digest what they eat. no better way than the regu- lar weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. All children love it.
cat
"If I were you, I would send for a bottle now and give Winnie a dose at
Be sure you insist on "Califorata' Syrup.of Figs.' Mrs. Grunt. I rum sur- prised that some mothers are ready to experiment with cheap and drastic. preparations. It's such a pity they: don't realize that "Californin Syrup of Figs is a perfectly safe children's laxative. I know myself how carefully „and scientifically-itvis prepared.”.
"California
Syrup of Fiqs"
'NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE
Wils
only
that
a
At present the 40-hour week is applicable in the mining fields, af- though permission has been granted allowing owners to arrive at the new working day by stages. Until the end of February mines worked 44 hours, after which they dropped to the 40-hours level. The experience of the last months, however, has con-
fail off not
as a result one of the The experiments leading to this and construction of the balloons and
the June striices. Juan Boo, discovery are reported 10-day in the Cable all raise complex engineering greatest fears they expressed when Onduction was highest in the annual "Transactions" of the Insti- problems" but concluded: [tute (Longmans 18s.).
Though J "They were
I believe there may be Briey and Moselle districts, where it "We carried eight planes, 30 made by giving electric shocks to better ways protecting areas against
Longwy and runs and 14,000,000 cartridges for mimosa leaves.
bostile bombers, this, at any rate, is topped 14,000,000 tons. the Government," Boo told me. Other scientists, it is pointed out, a feasible line of advance. It is to Normandie, the next highest produc-
ing areas, were far behind, "Ve had a crew of 60 and three have made records of the breathing be hoped that, even at this late hour, sightly more than 1,500,000 tons each. passengers, of whom two were rate of wheat and barley leaves at every effort will be made to exploit France's iron centres, therefore, re- different stager or growth. The it unless and until some better malis in the north, uncomfortably Americans from New York and one diffe
mimosa leaf offers the great advan- method can be found." n Spanish woman.
tage that it has a conducting tissue Parliament has been discussing the close to the German border.
possible use of such a balloon barrage "The Canarias fired several shells, along which an electric shock
to protect London, If not larger arcos three of which struck us. One transmitted to a "mobile centre."
of Britain.-United Press. started a fire in No. 2 hold. While shock causes the leaf to droop. we were engaged in a desperate fight
OLD IN 13 DAYS
is
tew
to prevent the flumes from spread- The efficiency of the mimosa leat ing to No. 1 hold, which held the improves up to the age of 13 to 18 the breathing rate of plants steadily ammunition, the rebels succeeded in days from the appearance of the bud. Increases. Above this temperature, boarding us. The passengers were It then fails into middle age and which is the same in summer and The same conclusion is winter, the breathing rate falls rapid- taken off.
reached whether the measurements ly. At a temperature only, B "Then things began to happen with are made at different times on a degrees higher, the plant ceases to terrible rapidity. No quarter was single lent, or at the same time on a breathe and dies.
The well-known desire of growing given. The rebels pursued the crew series of leaves of different ages.. into all the corners of the ship und Other tests made at the Bose plants to turn towards the light
Institute shot them down at once.
la a enhanced illumination is intermit- show that there "eritieni temperature," up to which tent rather than continuous..
"Several times men from the Canarias passed by my hiding place. It was a miracle that I was not discovered. I shall never for- get the terrible sharp bark of the revolvers. Each alot meant an other of my comrades hurried into eternity.
"Finally, I and an Italian pal who was hiding with me, decided to take a chance and jump overboard. The rebels fred at us in the water, but I managed to swim away holding on to the Italian, who could not swim. In the end, however; he slipped from my grasp. I never saw him again:
KING'S FORMER HOME
AS PALACE "ANNEXE’
THE former home of the King and Queen, 145, Piccadilly, will be used as an overflow for Buckingham Palace during the Coronation period. Some of the royal visitors and their staffs will be housed there.
Four kings-Christian of Denmark, George of Greece, Haakon of Norway, Boris of Bulgaria-will be among the guests. Three queens will accompany them.
Princess Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard, will "I had given up all hope when 1
From Italy will come Crown was hauled aboard by the French represent Queen Wilhelmina, fishermen."
Prince Umberto, from Sweden Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Other The French trawlere crews are princes will represent Belgium, Rumania, Jugo-Slavia and indignant at the rebels inhuman Monaco. threat to fire on them if they drew near, to try to pick up the men in the water.
"The rebel- cruiser ordered me off with a threat," Captain Borel, of the Henri-Camelyre, told me. "But I know what a sailor's duty is when a ship is distress, and I stayed on,"
Juan Boo was given a great re ception here, and taken off to a "big spread" at the best hotel.
A robel crow has taken the Mar Cantabrico under her own steam, it is believed, to Pasajes. But in the days to come dead bodies are likely to be washed up on the French shores.
•
WATSON'S
with
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