THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1937.
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FRANCO FACES NEW PERIL Army Rebellion In Morocco Spreading To Spain
TENSE MALAGA
SITUATION
(SPECIAL TO THE “CHINA MAIL”)
London, To-day.
A revolt of serious proportions against the Franco administration has broken out at Tetuan Aerodrome, in Spanish Morocco, and has spread to Spain.
THIRTY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS AT THE AERODROME WERE SHOT ON MARCH 24 FOLLOWING DISCOVERY OF THE CONSPIRACY.
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THE REVOLT, NEWS OF WHICH HAS JUST LEAKED OUT, IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF A CONSPIRACY WHICH HAS BEEN DE- VELOPING FOR SOME TIME.
SPREAD OF THE REVOLT TO SPAIN IS REPORTED BY THE "MANCHESTER GUARDIAN," WHICH SAYS THAT THE SITUATION AT MALAGA IS ESPECIALLY CRITICAL.
Many officers and soldiers in mummummaELL BELTTELRIFIUTLET Malaga, says the journal, have been summarily executed for par- ticipation.
It is further reported that seri- ous trouble has developed between the insurgent Spanish 'and' Italian officers, as well as between the ranks of the two groups, as a result of the recent defeat of the Italian divi- sions on the Guadalajara front.
It is now revealed that over 4,000 Italians were killed in the rout.-- Trans-Ocean.
NAZIS ATTACK
BRITISH
REARMAMENT
“DIRECTED AGAINST
US"
Lahore Drowning Tragedy
Lahore, To-day. One of the world's foremost hockey players and a member of the victorious Indian Olym pic hockey X1 at Los Angeles
and Berlin, Mohammed Hafar, was drowned here yesterday.-- Trans-Ocean.
·HITLER AND ROME DIPLOMACY
Congratulation On Pact With Belgrade
Cardinal Faulhaber, of Munich, who is taking a leading part in the campaign among the Catholics in Germany for resistance to the Nazi educational decrees.
ITALIAN PACT WITH TURKEY
Predicted By London Observer
RHODESIANS IN LONDON FOR CORONATION
Contingent Given
Warm Welcome
London, To-day.
con-
Easter Monday holiday crowds în London gave a rousing reception to the Rhodesian Coronation tingent; including 50 members of the British South African police and the Rhodesia Regiment.
Ten-pioneer settlers were also in the contingent, some of whom were intimate friends of Cecil Rhodes and others who participated in the Jame- son Raid.
The contingent was met at Water- loo Station by the band of the Cold- stream Guards, which escorted the men to Wellington Barracks, where they will be, quartered during their visit to London. Reuter.
M. Blum And Nicholas Murray Butler
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Paris, To-day. Premier Leon Blum has sent telegram to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia Uni- versity and the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace, con- London, To-day. gratulating him on his Silver Jubilee The Italo-Yugo-Slav agreement is as President of the University. likely to be followed by a similar: M. Blum referred to Dr. Murray pact between Italy and Turkey in Butler as an "outstanding organi- the near future, declares the "Even-ser of world peace."-Trans-Ocean. ing Standard."
The paper calls attention to the Captain B. Michell was this morn- fact that neither Abyssinia nor the ing fined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield at League of Nations was mentioned the Central Magistracy for allowing
in the Italo-Yugo-Slav agreement, his car to be driven by an unlicenc-
and states the opinion that Yugo-ed driver. K. Gerloff, of Courtlands, Slavia will recognise Italian sover-was fined $5 when he pleaded guilty eignty in Abyssinia and "thus deal to overtaking a vehicle on the left Berlin, To-day..
the League of Nations another side near the Royal Naval Dock- Herr Hitler has instructed the blow."-Trans-Ocean.
yard at 11 p.m. on March 18. German envoys at Belgrade and Rome to congratulate the Yugo
"It is a significant step towards consolidating European peace," the Fuehrer declared-Trans-Ocean.
A bitter attack on Britain's re-Slav and Italian Governments, re- armament and colonial policy is made in the "Deutsche Volkswirts- spectively, on the conclusion of the new agreement between the two chaft," the official Nazi economic
countries. organ.
"If," it is stated. "British policy thinks itself able to prevent by force of arms the national revival of a people and their economic in- dependence, it must be borne mind that a new great war in Europe would do us immense harm and per- haps cost us our existence.
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S. China Defence
Canton, To-day. General Chen Cheng, Vice Minis- "But it will also inevitably meanter of War and Chief of Staff of who the disruption of the British Em- the Whampoa Headquarters, pirë. Germany has never made that arrived in Canton on Sunday, is her aim, and in the interest of the summoning a military conference on white race it would be madness. behalf of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- "We regret, therefore, that Bri-shek for the provinces of Kwang- tain is arming against usa fact tung, Kwangsi, Hunan, Kiangsi and which no phrase can diaguise-in-Fukien. stead of furthering peaceful roví- It is stated that general
Chen sion.""
has brought with him he defence
As to the colonies, it is stated scheme for the five Southern pro- that "roughly speaking, Germany vinces. Our Own Correspondent. will require territory in Africa two
car
or three times the size of the mo- Sergeant McRobbie of the Police ther country in order to satisfy her has reported the loss of his raw material requirements.
No. 8300, from outside East Point "If people think that, on the fri- Terrace some time yesterday night can colonial question, they can re-or early this morning. gard our just claims as of less im- portance than, for instance, Portu- Lee Kwok-pul, aged 15, was ad- guese or Belgian participation in mitted to the G.C.H. suffering from colónial activities it must be said injuries to the head and arms re- that Germany no longer recognises ceived when he was assaulted with the Vervsailles Treaty,
, and in all a knife by another lad, Kwong Chan, such circumstances we insist on during a football match in Holly- colonial revisión.”
wood Road.
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