THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, - WEDNESDAY, APRIL
1938.
Loyalists Fight
Fight Desperate
Desperate Losing Battle
ITALIANS MARCHING IN VAN OF ATTACK ON TORTOSA LINES
Vital Railway and Highway Links Severed by Guns.
Hendaye, Apr. 5. Insurgent artillery around Tortosa to-day smashed the Catalonia-Valencia railway, and cut the main motor road between northern and southern Loyalist Spain.
Meanwhile, Italian Black Arrow troops and a column of legionnaires, converged on Tortosa from two sides. In the nearby outskirts of the town, the defenders fought a desperate losing battle.
From Barcelona, a telephone message to London stated that the Insurgents had entered districts commanding northern Spain's great hydraulic plants. Barcelona was paralysed for more than an hour owing to the failure of the electricity.
It is officially confirmed that Dr. Juan Negrin is virtual dictator there.. However, Senor Indalecio Prieto, Minister of Defence, who refused to serve, and Senor Manuel Irujo, whom Senor Gonzalez. Fens, the extremist replaced as Minister of Justice, have decided not to participate in the new Government, Senor Dal Vayo has become Minister for Foreign Affairs, | whulle Senor
Vincente Uribe
and
Senor Jaime Aygunde have been re- tained as Minister of Agelculture and Minister of Labour respectively.
The Uniter States Embassy and Consulate has moved to San Andres and De La Vanerns.-United Press.
Stiff Resistance
9-Reuter Bulletta,
BLUE CREWS TO
COAL BILL
OF HELP
TO MINERS
Labour Supporting Legislation
POLICE HUNTING
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BRUTAL SLAYER
Mother And Daughter
Tortured Before Shot To Death
Van Horn, Texas, Apr. 5. Jack Hammons, wanted as an army deserter from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, was arrested
at
"PRISONERS OF
CZECHO- SLOVAKIA"
To the Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
The following letter is a reply to an article by Viscount Rothermere In
newspaper dealing with this Caecho-Slovak minorities};--
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Progress in the Anglo-Italian conversations will be reviewed when Lord Perth, the British Alamogorbo, New Mexico, to Czecho-Slovakia dates back to the Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Viscount Rothermere's hatred for Ambassador to Rome, meets the last decade. day in connection with slaying of Mrs. Weston G.
Minister, at 6 p.m. to-day. A But states, Frome, and her daughter, Nancy Slovakia, who were being thus at by Italian
espertally Czecho-rigid silence is being maintained Frome.
officials, but it The 10-year-old Mrs. Frome, and sanctity of treatles in higher estect is certain the agreement will her 23-year-old daughter, who were than Viscount Rethermere's
ambi- reaffirm the Gentlemen's Agree- driving from their Berkeley, Call-tions stepped in.
ment of January 1937, whereby formin, home to Paris Island, were
both sides undertook to respect presumably killed on Wednesday afternoon.
the status quo in the Mediter rancan.
in the mesquite brush, six miles from Their bodies were found last night Van Horn.
Both had been tortured before they were shot.
tacked and' sintez" who hold the
In Viscount Ratherinere's, opinion Czecho-Slovakia may cost Europe an- other state should same be attacked, other's rights in the Mediterranean, other war. But why only Czecho- Slovakia? Czecho-Slovaklá, as uny Both nations will also reafirm the will resist. Viccount Rothermere is it is expected.
well aware of pretty
war.
the
Pulice believe the killer was accom- he would
prefer see his Perband
matterly will disclaim my designs against the integrity of Spain, Dic Panied by a woman, who stood by la Austria, but he knows well it will Balearics and the Spanish colonies. and watched while he beat and shot not do and as the likeness of next
The right of passage to all countries, his victims.
invasion will be Czecho-Slovakia he through the Mediterranean will be District Attorney Roy Jackson of puts the blame on this country. affirmed, and also the rights of ships El Paso said he believed the pair met 118 true that Czecho-Slovakia of all nations to use the Suez Canal Mrs. Frome and her daughter whenhouses 3,250,000 of German speaking in time of peace and they had tyre trouble.
people, but if one looks at their names
There is also il A killer of such brutal tendencles one will have no doubt as
general belief that to there
agreement will be reached for the that he stamped on his helpless arigin of these, F. I. Zaj
Zajicek (leader creation of
for victims after beating them almost of German Agrarian Party) is a pure delimitation of boundaries between
machinery unconscious, was sought to-night In Czech name, and at least 75 per cent.
Abyssinia, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the vast, sparsely settled areas of the of these "prisoner's parents, grand- :
und south-west.
parents, etc. were pure Czechs for- und Kenya, Britain undertaking Polize
virtually
across the germanized by the Hapsburgs event gun-running without during the past three centuries of guarantee the unimpeded flow of the
frontiers, and clues as 10 the identity of the
Italy will murderer. They were not even cer domination. As to the "three-quarter
Nile wh
waters, tain whether one or two men robbed of a million of pure-blooded Hun- and killed the women..
garians "I beg to point out as one of these, thut there never were such in southern nor any other part of Czecho-Slovalda. All these "Hun- garians" were and ore the most loyal magyarization in the past and because Slovaks,
but through ruthless
on Budapest they speak the Hungar of their former economic dependence lan language.
Were
BRUTAL MURDER
They believed a woman companion of the killer looked on as the man, ripped the women's clothes to shreds, then, as they lay writhing in the red tore jewelry from their Angers,, and clay and dust, shot them through the head.
The mother and daughter died on. Wednesday afternoon. It was be- Heved. Their bozies last night. In
were
nor
even
INVADE FRANCE Proceedination of properties was The Texas officers will question him, what he was told in Budapest or Ber-
not
9fed
Wast
that
Spheres of influence in the Red: both sides will abstain from Sva and Arabia will be defined, and pagunda. The interests of Ital will pro-
be respected in the fulure settlement
of Palestine.
An attempt will be made to restrict
troops in Libya will be withdrawn. future fortifications in the Mediter-
ranean zone and some Italian white
Signature to the agreement in ex- pected at Easter, after which it is expected Britain will approach the League to
recognition of Italy's conquest of Abyssinia.
secure
Refuse To Aid T.V.A. Inquiry
The F. D. Roosevelt.
London, April 5, The Conl Bill, which is one of the Government's main legislative Saragossa, Apr. 5. for the third reading in the House of measures of the session, was moved General Franco's legionnaires nd-Commons to-day by the Secretary for vancing on Torlosa are encountering Mines, Captain Cruikshank. It is stronger resistance than the troops going to the House of Lords later in who are advancing further south, and the week.
NO TRUTH IN STATEMENT the latter may yel win the race to
Thero Is no truth in Viscount the Mediterraneon.
The measure deals comprehensive
found Rothermere's statement that" Meanwhile
columnsly with the interests of the present elapsed between the commission and fization one third of the population Insurgent
the four days that after 19 years of systema le Czechi-Bulletin. south-cast of Lerida continue to ad-owners of coal, colliery
owners, vance on a wide front.
workers and the community at large. ample
detection of the crime, the killer had can speak neither Czec
Slovak." It is omelally stated that over 18,000 Captain Cruikshank said this was the
time to drive hundreds of How does Viscount Rathermere know Loyalist prisoners have been captured 15th day of the Bill, and no motion mil
miles from
the scene. However, the this since he never-was nar. wanted during three weeks, beginning Maren was down for its rejection. He took police were watching the highways, to come in touch with people living
it that even if the Bill had not got
The first arrest was made at
atin Czech-Slovaltia? If he did, he the goodwill of all the members of
Alamogorbo, New Mexico, Omeers could not va
not deny that detained
except a very the House, it at any rate had their
Mickey J. (Jack) Ham- small percentage (about 8) who benevolent neutrality.
mons, on army deserter from Fort are not always citizens of Czecho- While the Bill was before Parlia-Sills, Oklahoma, who said he was Slovakia all speak one of the two ment,
visiting relatives in
New Mexico.
exico. languages above mentioned. As to
Washington, Apr. 5. Up to the present, Police believe the best chance to in one might gather as well informa- of the United States, has appointed Mr. John N. Garner, Vice-President 17 105 applications had been received.
The Labour member Mr. E. Shin-apprehend the killer will come when tion about China in Tokyo.
Senators Fred Brown, London, April 5.
well said the Opposition would
Victor tries to
to dispose of the stolen pro- In saying that the rame Czecho- Donahey, Harry Schwartz, Chorles The Oxford and Cambridge boat vole against the third reading of the perty or to cash the travellers' Slovakla has no sense shows that McNary and William Borah to part!-
crews are going to France on Bill. They necepted anything con-
cheques which the tourists carried. Viscount has not much knowledge cipate in a joint investigation of the Sunday to compete with French ducive the interests of
The man and his companions loot-about history and the
am afraid aven Tennessee Valley Administration, an crews. They will be using scn-going mine workers, and for that
the Frome's new Packard sedan less about ethnography of the coun-investigation demanded by President boats instead of the type used in the reason they accepted the
of all luggage before they abandoned try he wants to lecture about. DI annual bout race.
with all its defects, and
it near Belmorhea, practical
50 miles from Czechs and the Slovaks have been on Eight French crews are competing
Mr. William Bankhead, Speaker of difficulties,
here, In the hope that the
brotherly terms not less than ten the House, has appointed Representa- between now and Sunday for the Government and Commission, and
A $10,000 reward has been offered centuries. The difference in their Lives Jumes Mend, William J. Driver, honour of meeting the British Uni- coal owners would try and make the for the murderer.
respective languages being so slight Chester Thompson, Thomas A. Jen- versities' eights.-Reuter Bulletin. best of it in the interests of the
they had a common literature and kins and Charles A. Wolverton. later a common religion. The Czechs and the Slovake inhabited the terri- declined to
Senators Borah and McNary have A man's handkerchief, by Miss Frome, a few strands of hair is now Czecho-Solvakia long before tions by a town meeting. I
grasped tory (and a great deal more) which cald: "I do not believe in investiga- serve. Senator Borah and a box of matches were the only the Huns came to Europe. Already never seen any good come from joint have other clues. The strands of hair in the second century A.D. have been sent to the laboratories at
Ptolo-
investigations."United Press. Austin,
naus mentions the Slavs among the Texns, for analysis, Mr. Weston Frome, who flew here tween the Adriatic and Baltic seas many peoples living, in the area be- from Berkeley, where he is assistant
sales manager of the Atlas civilization. Power Company, said the women carried about $150 in cash. They Czecho-Slovaksin a bluff a fraudulent If Viscount- Rothermere colls had travellers' cheques and some and synthetic state, I wonder how valuable jewelry. He said he be
and rabbery to be the only passi the beginning of this decade?
refer to the crea ions since An adventurous journey across Asin der in the State's
ble motive for the mest brutal mur- to England is being made by the Rev. Presa.
The case of Soviet planes on history.-United
Czech territory 1108 R. G. Walker and his wife, of the
been investigated by Britain's trusted men and was found Chinn Inland Milssion, who are set-
ANOTHER MAN ARRESTED
a pure fabrication from the usual ting off on the trip to-day,
quarters, therefore Viscount Rother- Van Horn, Texas, Apr. 3. Journeying up the Suifs, they will go westward to Yun- Yangise to
The authorities reported that
mare's fears that Bolshevist bombers could be over Berlin etc. within an nanfu, capital of Yunnan, rough d
man, Identified
as Jack Ferguson, hour are groundless. undeveloped country, tented by
been arrested at McComey, native tribes who owe little nile-
fexas, while he sought to sell article is the much grinded and re- The rest of Viscount Rothermere's glance to China, and which also is brown big containing expensive grinded stuff which should nerve as
women's clothing.
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Missionary On Journey Of Adventure
Chungking. Apr. 6.
infested with bandits.
From Yunnanfu, the padre and
FEW CLUES
anas being on the highest level of Named Editor Of
They said us was the hottest tip to far received in the murder of Mrs.
his wife are travelling by bus to Tali Frome and her daughter, despite the
Lake, which is the terminus of a new mutot road, and from thence they will his wife's-United Press. go to Myitkinn in Burma. They will travel northwards by railway before taking to the rond heross Burms to Silctuur in Assam, and from thence they will go un to India. The souple will journey by steamer up the Per- sian Gulf to Basra, then over the Syrlun desert, and then across Europe by train.
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Vienna. April 5, It is learned that Dr. Ludwig Drnzler, the Austrian Minister of Finance from 1935 to 1930, has been arrested.
Famous
Pilot
Of Ching Line
Died of Typhus
Mr.
Chungking, Apr. 6. - Harry G. Smith, American from Wisconsin, one of the best known air pilots in China, and former personal pilot of Mr. T. V. Boons, Generalis- ximo Chiang Kai-shek and General Chang Hisuch-liang, died In hospital hero'this afternoon of typhus fover.
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It i emeintly stated that Dr. Kurt van Suschnigg. former Austrian Chancellor, Is stilat Balvadarea
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WAR CLOUDS HANG HEAVY
Yes, to-day the war clouds hang heavy along Czecho-Slovakia's fron tiers, but the same clouds may hang over Britain's very soon, if people like Viscount Rothermere see in the man who made them the ideal arbiter of other people's affairs. There is
ΠΟ need for warfare. "Czecho-Slovakia's Prisoners" are as free, if not more so than the "free citizens" of coun- tries who are anxious to be called "the liberators."
We saw such "liberations" in Asia
N. C. D. News
Shanghai, Apr. 6. Marking his 27th year in Chin Yesterday, Mr. R. T. Peyton-Griffin, 40 year-old Brilon from Marlborough, nz been appointed successor to Mr. Edwin Haward as editor of the North China Daily News.
Mr. Peyton-Griffin has been with the North China Daily News- since 1815, except for three years between .922 and 1925.-Reuter.
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No, Czecho-Slovakia is definitely not a danger spot, but she is the dreaded beam of light in the darkness of those who seek it for, their nefart- ous work and therefore seek means to destroy 1 On the other hand sho symbolical drichbp of hope for 2 the those who believe
that
real demo- cracy will survive
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