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Arrest By Stalin Reported

Spanish Plane Crashes

In France

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RED ARMY SAID ON BRINK OF

Brite le Gellerdee (Central REVOLT

France), To-day.

An aeroplane with two Spanish Government officers made a crash landing in a field. near here yesterday.

Although the machine was fliers seriously damaged the were unhurt-Reuter.

NOW VIRTUALLY OVER

Moscow's drama took a grim twist to-day with reports of the arrest of Marshal Voroshilov. The outbreak of revolution, organised by the Red Army, is said to be expected at any moment.

So assert the Sunday news-| papers in London, whose corres-

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EMBASSY SILENT

MALAGA STILL HOLDS OUT

HEAVY STREET

FIGHTING

London, To-day.

Reports of the fall of Malaga in the last "big push" of the insur- gent army in the South are appar-. ently premature, though final sur- render will not long be delayed.

al- Insurgent shock troops are SHENSI REVOLTpondents at Moscow and War- to obtain trustworthy account of where desperate street fighting

The "Sunday Express" has tried ready in the suburbs of the town saw are sending long despatches the situation by telephoning the proceeding. on the rift between Stalin and British Embassy in Moscow, but

General del Lano (says Beuter's the Commissar for War.

a broad- the official who answered the call Seville correspondent) in The "Sunday Pictorial" reports, said he could neither confirm nor cast, states that two insurgent co- humus are now converging on the that at Stalin's command two cele deny the rumours, current. brated Army commanders, Marshal Asked whether he could name city proper, having occupied the Tyckstchevsky and General Bevo anyone who could give information, houses and a sugar refinery on the neki, have been arrested and de- the Embassy official answered that outskirts. graded.

nobody could possibly give news He adds: "The province of Malaga over the telephone, hinting, the will shortly be entirely in The "Sunday Chronicle" pu- paper says, at tapping of the line hands." blishes a more sensational report by the G. P. U-Trans-Ocean. that Marshal Voroshilov has been arrested, or at any rate, has disap-

NANKING ATTACK ON FU SHIH

TROOPS TAGA

OVER SIAN

Shanghai, To-day.

A big drive to dislodge the Com-peared mysteriously.

munists from Shensi province has been begun by the Government for-

At the same time, reports are

ces which are encircling the Fu current of a new Trotskyist trial, 100 Germans will be Shih headquarters of the Red when over

charged with espionage and sabot- forces.

The main body of the Govern-age. ment forces is, at present, at Ching- chien, to the north-east of Fu Shih. In the meantime, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang's former troops have begun to evacuate Sianfu, which is expected to be entirely in the hands of Government forces in a few days-Renter.

MORE DRIZZLE FORECAST-

GEELONG BATTING BREAKS DOWN

Collapse: All Out In Time For Lunch

Geelong, To-day. Geelong, who put up a promis The Royal Observatory reports ing display on Saturday, replying that the anti-cyclone over China to the M.C.C. total of 282 with continues to increase in intensity: fifty runs for the loss of only one the depression is situated to the north of the Bonins, moving north- eastward

Fored NEwinds, fresh, cloudy, some drizzle or light rain

Engaged in cleaning out

for blasting, at To

stonebreaker eceived injuries

his face when a piece of dynamite exploded He was admitted Kowloon Hospital

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