1937-02-23 — Page 9

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.

VIOLENCE

FLARES-UP ON

ALL CIVIL WAR FRONTS

Generally Interpreted As Beginning Of End

GOVERNMENT'S

LAST BID?

LONDON, TO-DAY.

"THE LAST ACT OF DESPAIR,” IS HOW THE ENGLISH PAPERS DESCRIBE THE SITUATION IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.

BRITISH PATROLS FOR PORTUGUESE

FRONTIER

London, To-day. Complete Anglo-Portuguese agreement on ALL THE NEWSPAPERS ANALYSE THE STRATEGICAL Supervision of the Portuguese frontier was an- SITUATION AND COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE nounced at the conclusion of the non-intervention LOYALIST RESISTANCE ON THE MADRID AND OTHER sub-committee last night.

FRONTS IS ON THE POINT OF CAVING IN.

All traffic, he says, has been com- pletely stopped as a result of the almost complete absence of coal and other fuels.

German Conversion Loan Scheme

per

THE GIBRALTAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE “DAILY There will be 130 British ob- It is reported in well-informed MAIL” DESCRIBES CONDITIONS PREVAILING IN THE RE-servers which, in the opinion of circles that Britain will assume 16 GIONS HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT FORCES AS HOPELRES Lord Londonderry, would be ade- cent of the cost.

quate.

It is furthermore presumed that The question of reducing the two main control officials will be number of international observers appointed, one for the Franco- on the French frontier, at present Spanish border and one for the fixed at 170, would be reconsidered: Spanish-Portuguese frontier.

GOED DEPOSITS

Both these officials, it is assum- Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, ed, as well as the secretary-gener the German Ambassador and Ger-

ar in control headquarters in Lón- man delegate on the committee, don, will be British.-Trans-Ocean. raised the question of immobilisa- tion of the gold deposits of the Va iencia Government.

When the correspondent recent- ly travelled from Barcelona to Va- lencia in the only train which was running between these two cities, a journey of 350 miles took about 15 hours.

Meanwhile both sides in the con- flict are claiming successes and ex- hort their followers to further ef- forts, each claiming that victory is within their grasp.

FATE OF CAPITAL

General de Llano, the rebel lead- er, in a broadcast yesterday, claim

Desperate fighting was witnessed on this front yesterday, the initia ti apparently passing to the Toy- alists, who made many attacks on

Berlin, To-dzy. Germany, is to issue a new loan for the purpose of consolidating its floating short-term debts,

The loan will total 500,000,000 Reichsmarks, of which 100,000,000 have already been, guaranteed.

The remainder of the Toni will be met by public subscription. Trans-Ocean.

many prisoners and large quanti- ties of munitions taken.

An official announcement issued

M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet repre- sentative, objected on the ground that the matter was irrelevant.

NEW GUN FACTORY

Production Begun At Nottingham

The naval supervision plan was agreed to, except that the Soviet delegation objected to the It is officially announced that zone allotted to them and under-production has now begun at the took to consult Moscow.

Government's new factory at Not-

by the Madrid Defence Committee Earlier negotiations on control tingham for the manufacture of ed that the battle on the Madrid warns the populace that in future of the Portuguese frontier yester- big guns. The factory is to be front would decide the fate of the petrol is to be used only for militerday had proved fruitless, Portu- known as the Royal Ordnance Fac- capital.

tary purposes, owing to the scar-gal suggesting that sixty observers tory, Nottingham city of the fuel resulting from the would be sufficient whereas France The key men and skilled ma- dificulty of transportation.

pointed out that on the far shorter chinists who were sent to Wool- The population of the capital is Franco-Spanish border the commit-wich Arsenal several months ago also urged to economise as much tee proposed to place 180.— Reuter. for training have returned to Not- tingham. They will be followed by as possible on food supplies.-

London, To-day.. others as soon as machines are Trans-Ocean and Reuter.

The

question of who is to pay the ready for them. cost of control of the Spanish coast. It will be some time before there in Lynmouth, North Devon, standing the plan slowly approaches realisa-and 4,000 men will then be em- One of the most picturesque hotels is coming more in the limelight as is full production. Between 3.000

the rebel lines.

AT ANY COST

Recapture of the Madrid-Valen- cia road at any cost is believed to be the objective of the loyalists.

A large-scale loyalist offensive has been launched a against Oviedo, which the Government claims to be now completely surrounded Six months ago the town was besieged by the loyalists but was relieved by an insurgent column.

The insurgents declare that 22 Government attack on Seville was repulsed with heavy losses, while Madrid claims successes- on" the Jarama River front.

ASTURIAS- FIGHTING Insurgent planes yesterday flew over Almeria dropping pamphlets asking the population to surrender. A Government communique is- sued at Bilbao claims that the Bas- ques have inflicted a serious re- verse on the rebels on the Asturias front.

The Basques, the communique asserts, penetrated Oviedo ir a brilliant action, occupying a number of streets in the town and cutting on the road between Oviedo and Grado.

They have also penetrated into Pamdo, it is alleged, and have for- tified the town.

MANY PRISONERS

number of other towns and heights have

capt

in the "Fairy Glen," was badly damag- ed by fire.

tion.

COST OF CONTROL ..

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