1937-03-03 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1937.

TIDE OF BATTLE SWINGS AGAINST REBELS IN SPAIN Devastating Drives At Toledo And Oviedo

A street barricade in Oviedo, where the new loyalist drive is reported to be meeting with repeated successes. The Madrid forces everywhere appear to have adopted new tactics and for the moment the tide of battle has de- finitely turned against the rebels on all fronts except in Southern Spain, where the Del Lano advance apparently still continues.

DISTRIBUTION OF RAW

MATERIALS BY INTERNATIONAL BODY REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN GENEVA REPORT ON PROBLEM

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"").

Geneva, To-day.

Revolutionary ideas as a possible cure for the shortage of raw materials experienced by Ger many, Italy and Japan are advanced in a report on the raw materials problem issued yesterday by the League of Nations Secretariat.

The

aarious special measures.

HEAVY GUNS

INFLICT SEVERE

CASUALTIES

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Paris, To-day.

The Alcazar at Toledo, scene of one of the most drawn-out and bitter sieges of the civil war last year, is again being violently attacked by the loyal- ist troops.

UNSUCCESSFUL IN THEIR PREVIOUS EFFORTS TO CAP- TURE THE FORTRESS, THE GOVERNMENT FORCES ARE ONCE AGAIN GOING INTO ACHON OVER SOIL WHICH THE REBEL GOVERNMENT HAD DECLARED SACRED FOLLOW- ING THE SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE OF THE ALCAZAR LAST.

YEAR.

A sudden attack on Monday day took the loyalists' troops! [right into the suburbs of

Here the advance

halted while the loyalist artillery went into action and continued their pounding of the fortress where it was left off last year, when the re- bels raised the siege.

says the "Petit Pa » «oledo, |

--TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT The defenders were forced to withdraw after hundreds had been blasted into nothingness by the rain of shells

Another advance by the militia met with little opposition from the

almost evacuated barricades and trenches, the little handful of sur- vivors surrendering without put ting up a fight, says Trans-Ocean!

HEADQUARTERS UNDER FIRE

Reuter adds that local operations south of the Tagus led to the con-

lery is now firing upon the Barrio de Toledo buildings, used as bar- cracks, and the headquarters of the military governor, which has beer hit several times.

A sharp struggle is continuing.

British Award To Dr. Eckener

Berlin, To-day.

Dr. Hugo Eckener, the fam- ous Zeppelin commander, will visit London in March to receive the Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautic Society.

The decoration was recently conferred on him for his "note- worthy achievements in the field of airship navigation" Trans-Ocean.

captured San Lazaro, a suburb on the outskirts of Oviedo, and that the buildings there will be used as a base for their projected advance. Part of the arms factory in Oviedo is now under. Government

In the Olivares sector, where the insurgents have lost heavily, the Government troops are fortify- ing their positions.-Beuter,

most important raw Junequal distribution of raw materi-quest of a number of strategic posi- materials, the report states, are als, by general stimulation of trade tions and that the Government artil- fire. coal, petroleum, iron, copper, and lead, zinc, tin, aluminium, nic-

proposals enumerated are kel, sulphur, rubber, cotton, the suggestion that all wool, silk, seed-oil, vegetable oils lonies be converted into mandates, and cellulose..

distribution of raw materials The most important producers of throughout the world by interna- these commodities are the British tional control, conclusion of inter- Empire, France and her colonies, national agreements for exchange SAN LAZARO FALLS the Netherlands and her colonies, of goods and services, and control the United States and Russia.

of organisations of international Among the nations suffering syndicates by representatives of from a lack of raw materials the re-consumers. port mentions Germany, Italy and Japan.

GERMAN NEEDS

Madrid, To-day.

German Attitude On Non-Intervention

(SPECIAL TO. “CHINA MAIL”) A Government communique-de- clares that the loyalist troops have

Berlin, To-day. The question of volunteering in PRIVILEGED COMPANIES

foreign colonies, creation of Spain is only a part of the non-in- Other proposals mentioned by an international

bank, and tervention problem and a general Referring to Germany, the report the report are the granting of conformation of an international min-settlement must include not only points out that the only raw ma-cessions, formation of privileged ing and forestry syndicate. terials of which Germany possesses companies considerable supplies are potash, graphite, coal, zinc, lead and iron

ore:

Examining the situation in Italy and Japan, the report states that the former country possesses only quicksilver, sulphur, hemp and raw silk, and Japan raw silk and - soya beans in sufficient quantities

pre-

The report discusses various posals hitherto made for solution of the raw materials pro- blem.

BRITISH PROPOSAL

for exploitation of Trans-Ocean.

German Press Campaign

Against Prague

this matter but the already effect- ed delivery of war materials, the. transfer abroad of Spanish proper- ty and the question of agitation and propaganda.

This statement is part of a semi- official declaration made here fol- lowing foreign press reports that the official German viewpoint that the volunteer problem can only

Prague, To-day He denied the allegations that be solved after the Spanish gold The Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Czecho-Slovakia was spreading the transferred abroad is returned Minister, Dr. Krofta, in an address

before the parliamentary commis Bolshevist virus

hope

"We shall remaîn

democratic

Spain

Only if all these problems are sion yesterday, expressed

included in the general set that Kerr Hitler would stop the and orderly State, he declared, "in says the declaration, It cites the British proposal to German press campaign against which Communist activities will not intervention policy be remedy the situation

Reuter.

effective Trang-Ocean.

find fertile soil