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FRANCO'S VANGUARD ENTERS BARCELONA
Twenty Insurgent Divisions Heroic Loyalist Fight for
DOCKS AND PORT AFIRE AS GUNS POUND DEFENCES
(Special to "Telegraph")
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LERIDA, JAN. 24. THE INSURGENTS' VANGUARDS REACHED THE FIRST HOUSES IN BARCELONA PROPER AT 10.20 P.M. TO-NIGHT, THIRTY-TWO DAYS AFTER THE START OF THE CATALONIAN EARLIER OFFENSIVE BY GENERAL FRANCO.
IN THE DAY THE STRATEGIC TOWNS OF MANRESA AND MARTORELL WERE CAPTURED BY THE INSURGENTS, WHICH BROUGHT THEM WITHIN LESS THAN FIVE MILES OF THE CAPITALUNITED PRESS.
PERPIGNAN, JAN. 24. WENTY DIVISIONS OF INSURGENT TROOPS HAVE SMASHED THE LAST LINE OF THE LOYALIST DEFENCES OUT- SIDE BARCELONA.
They captured the key towns of Manresa and Martorell. Swarming across the Llobregat plain, the vanguard is reported to be a scant five miles from Barcelona.
Insurgent headquarters at Burgos an- nounced that seven of the 20 divisions are "now. at the gates of Barcelona, meeting virtually no resistance."
Insurgent planes constantly circled the city and dropped thousands of leaflets, telling the 2,000,000 inhabitants that the capture of the city was imminent, and that "all those who are not criminals have nothing to fear."
Food For Populace
The leaflets assured the people that bread, fish and storey block of flats in Barcelona. Meat would accompany the Insurgent conquerors into the
WHAT ONE BOMB did to a five-
This graphle photograph shows the
effect of modern high-explosive when city. encased in a 5091b, shell,
GOVERNOR'S
WIFE TO LAUNCH NEW STEAMER
THE
and
CHRISTENING launching ceremony of the new Glen Liuo ship, Breconshire, now nearing completion at Taikoo Dockyard, will be performed by Lady Northcote at 6.30 p.m. on February 2.
The Breconshire and the Glenorchy, also being built at Talkoo, are part
The highways leading northward from Barcelona are reported by Insurgent aviators to be clogged with fleeing motor cars, trucks and buses.
A Burgos report says that General Franco's order for a final assault on Barcelona is "expected momentarily," although it is indicated that encirclement of the city would be drawn tighter before the final blow was delivered. |DOCKS SET AFIRE
Crack Navarrese troops will probably be the first to enter the capital's streets,
Barcelona's docks and port area were set on fire in several places in air raids, which lasted all day, and which took more than 100 liven,
It is reported that the Syndicalists and Anarchists have|
Many extremists are believed to have been marked for
been organised for house-to-house resistance.
of a fleet of eight new fast cargo death by Franco's firing squads if they are captured. liners built at a cost £4,000,000 for
DEATH FLIES HIGH IN
Shatter Capital SPAIN
ITALIAN Savola-Marchriil bombing planes have wrought terrific havoc in Barcelona during the past few days. This photograph shows one of the Halian machines above the stricken city. At the bottom of the airview of Barcelona are railway station, gas works and barracks. The railway along the shore leads to the French barder. The ribbon at the top of the photo is the Besos'river.
EXPERTS ON DEATH [rom the sky are these elllzens of Barcelona, in- cluding an Army doctor (left) and Army lorry driver, shown watching a dog-fight above the city.
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FRENCH CRISIS LOOMS AS SPAIN IS DISCUSSED
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PARIS, JAN. 25. LEAVAGE OF OPINION IN FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY CIRCLES MAY CAUSE A CABINET RE-SHUFFLE IN WHICH M. BONNET, THE FOREIGN MINISTER, MAY BY FORCED BY M. DALADIER, THE PREMIER, TO RESIGN,
M. Bonnet is rogarded by the Left Wing as a pro-Franco member of the Daladier Cabinet, and is believed not to be in favour of assistance for the Loyalists.
The Left Wing are bent on securing the withdrawal of the Non-Intervention policy, and it is by no means improbable that,
GERMANS
when the vote on Foreign Affairs SEE NAVAL
is taken, th, Daladier Govern- ment will sustain a defeat unless
it gives way to internal pressure.
It is believed that M. Daladier is
MENACE IN
now in the position where he must MEDITERRANEAN
choose between parliamentary censure by continuing the present polley of Non-Intervention, or retains A "TRANS-OCEAN" message, office by accepting M. Bonnet's received in Hongkong this morn. resignation and, at the same time, ing, claims that naval circles announcing that France will abandon point out that the concentration non-Intervention.
11. Grumbach, Social-Democrat of British and French warships deputty, to-day denounced the recent in the western Mediterranean Franco-Germa declaration of and in the neighbourhood of the December G, and urged the Govern- Straits of ment to resume its former policy of "under certain circumstances, Gibraltar might seeking alliances in castern Europe.
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have considerable political signi- {ficance."
WASHINGTON ANXIETY
Washington, Jan. 24. Government quarters are showing considerable disquiet regarding the situation in Catalonia.
this
President Roosevelt stated afternoon that Government lawyers
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The German rews agency reports that the British North Sea Fleef, led by H.M.S. Nelson, has arrived Gibraltar,
at
Official statements issued by the Admiralty in London point out that the Atlantic fleet has been sent to Gibraltar for
spring manoeuvres which are held in the vicinity of the gateway to the Mediterranean at this period every year.
The Admiralty has emphasised that no special significance is to be at- tached to the appearance of the ficel uf Gibraltar.
EUROPEAN LADY SCARES OFF ARMED INTRUDERS we
Coup D'etat Attacked In West
Attempt Frustrated
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QUITO, Jan. 24. IT IS ANNOUNCED that an attempt to effect military coup d'etat to overthrow the Ecuador Govern- ment was discovered to-day and prevented, many being arrested.
MEMEL IS TOLD WHAT TO DO
Nazi President Gives His Orders"
MEMEL, Jan. 25. Memel will in future be forced RESIDING in
to use the Memel German salute,. the Memel counterpart of the Nazi saluto in Germany.
GERMANS
General Franco's red-capped Navarrese, Italian blackshirts, the service from the United Kingdom and Moors surrounded and captured Manresa and Martorell to Japan.
It is hoped to launch thej after crossing the flood swollen Llobregat Rivor, which served Glenorchy sometime in April.
as a "moat" for protecting Spain's most prosperous city. After the launching ceremony on! February 2, a reception is be held General Franco's artillery bombarded the western outskirts in the Moulding Loft at the dockyard of Barcelona to-day. However, it did not shell the centre of
It is understood that ZBW la the city, although it was within easy range, according to insur-sident of the Memel plarining to broadcast a running commentary oh the launching gent despatches.
ceremony, Lady Northcole's speech and Inter, at the reception, speeches by HE the Governor and ofciuis.
other
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A Barcelona report says that trucks, loaded with wor- kers, are scurrying to erect new fortifications. Men, carry ing rifles, streamed from Barcelona to-night ready to reelst the Insurgents at the gates of the city.
"RESIST TO THE DEATH”
down to-day by the new Nazi Pre- This was one of the edicts laid
Herr W. Bertulelt.
now
Directorate,
Point Home
A DUTCH LADY residing at | Hok Sze Terrace, West Point, had an unenviable experience yester. day when four Chinese robbers gained admission to her home on the pretext of delivering some bottles of wine.
Mrs. Veniersel pluckily attacked
As soon as the men gained admit- tance they produced knives and menaced firs. F. A. Veniersel, the The mutineers planned to attack lady concerned, and her two amabs. the caribineros barracks, and then to The three women were to only send squads of ten to capture Pre-persons in the house when the affair sident Mosquera Narvaez, and his occurred. Ministers, and the chief of the carabineros, Colonel Salgado, all of whom it was planned to imprison. the intruders, whereupon one of the
Those detained include politicians men seized her by the throat,
The Dutch lady screamedt and and Colonel Francisco Bauqero, commander of the carabiners, whom kicked at the Intruders the Government regards as the chief struggled with them. In the affray
Several oficers have also her dress was torn. platter. Seve been detained,
The nolso she created apparentis One sergeant was seized when he had its object, for the Intruders, disguised himself and tried to enter suddenly taking fright, decamped. the barracks-United Press.
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Strong 'Quake Rocks Japan
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As they died they abandoned their knives, which are now in polles pos- session.
Nothing was stolen from the pro- mises.
"Trans-Ocean, however, appears not entirely convinced and quotes naval clretes as claiming that both Britain and France have assembled unusually strong naval forces in the western Mediterranean.
mny
The "considerable political signi- neance" of this concentration arise, the news agency claims, in view of Franco-Italian tension and the fact that the Spanish confllet has up- parently reached a decisive stage.
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Campaign by Chiang Kai-shek's Son
·SHANGHAI, Jan. 24.“ MAJOR-GENERAL CHIANG CHING-KUO, eldest son
of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, is now training the "new army" in Kiangsi province. `
Tokyo, Jan. 25. Fairly strong earthquake shocks were experienced over a wide area in the northeastern and eastern districta As a result of the recent elections of Japan proper at 1.02 o'clock Tues- in tho Leaguo Directorate, is
mandate, the
day afternoon. predominantly
The tremors were strong enough Nazi.
One of ille first acts of
in Fukushima
end Ibaraki Pre- the Pre- sident was to call oficials and em- frightened people out of doors.
fectures to stop clocks and send ployees to receive instructions.
The Directorate, he informed hit The epicentre la decribed as lying at No casualllos to reported yet, would under no Alr:
ony-Nazl pro- a point about 30 kilometres off the among non-German residents eastern coast of Fukushima fecture in the Pacific-Domel. The Ideology of National-Socialiam concerned all officials and employees blood would be foré X... to retraini
It is reported that 10,000 soldiers of Klangd". Thirty-two years of washed,
with National Bocialiam, lis declared thate, training and are ready to University he returned from, Kunsts Omfeldis und, employees of German" <--Traga Open ATTRE
All the soldiers recruited are from Major-General · Chiang Ching-kuo Pre-18, to 33 years of age, and are sald has assumed the title of "Commander to have received a modern military of the People's Self-Defence Force education.
Docks and portions of the port area are on fire, and Insur-listaners, gent guns are hammering the south-western outskirts. Relays a permit Romo, Jan. 24.
of bombing planes raided the city to-day, but there is no sign of Memel, i Primo Carners, former glabt heavyweight puglitat, has been given of surrender. Ants Important roles in the film The newspapers screamed. "Barcelona In Danger. Resist of the Directorate, Herr Bertulelt from taking any stitude inconsistent of this new army have completed are, and a graduate of the MoONÍ #Buliraverseth Nors," in which, after a To The Death.”
Futriss of adventures, he good berverk,
United Prem,
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