1937-04-02 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 2, 1937.

Pago

RUTHLESS SLAUGHTER IN

AIR RAIDS

CHURCH BOMBED BY REBELS

SCORES OF NUNS AND PRIESTS AMONG MANY VICTIMS

London, To-day.

STRIKES ARE DUKE OF WINDSOR

QUICKLY OVER

Detroit, To-day.

A fresh outbreak of sit down strikes in General Motors factories developed suddenly yesterday.

Nearly 18,000 men, employed

VISITS

EMIL JANNINGS

Salzburg, To-day.

The Duke of Windsor paid a visit to Emil Jannings, the German actor and old friend of his, yesterday and stayed with him for nearly two hours at the actor's villa on Lake St Wolfgang, near the Duke's new home.

The Duke first met the famous in two body factories in Pontiac, actor when he was still Prince of

Yesterday was the blackest day in the history Michigan, and in a Chevrolet fac Wale of the Spanish civil war from the point of view of non-combatants.

INSURGENT PLANES CARRIED OUT BOMBING RAIDS ON THE TOWNS OF DURANGO (TWENTY MILES SOUTH-EAST OF BILBAO), CLORRIO AND ORCHANDIANO, AND IT IS STAT- ED IN VALENCIA THAT THE RAIDS RESULTED IN THE GREATEST CIVILIAN LOSS OF LIFE SUFFERED IN A SINGLE DAY IN ANY GOVERNMENT HELD TOWN...

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MOST HORRIBLE TRAGEDY OF THE RAIDS "WAS THE BOMBING OF THE SANTA MARIA CHURCH IN DURANGO.

FORTY-FIVE BODIES WERE RECOVERED FROM THE DE- BRIS OF THE CHURCH WHERE A PRIEST WHO WAS HEAR- ING A WOMAN'S CONFESSION WAS KILED

THREE OTHER FRIESTS WERKKUPED AS THEY STOOD AT THE ALTARS AND TRIKELEN NUNS WERE AMONG THE DEAD, WHICH INCLUDED WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE CONGREGATION.

In a neighbouring convent, fifteen out of twenty, nuns, were killed, many of them by bullets when the raiding planes swept the streets with machine-gun fire.

STREETS STREWN The streets were strewn with the bodies of non-combatants after the planes, which numbered nine, had left, while 150 were wounded.

The planes also machine-gunned people fleeing into the fields out side the town to escape the rain of bombs and bullets.

In the meantime, the Govern- ment troops have advanced twelve miles on the Santander front and have captured the town of Sargentes, thirty miles north of Burgos.

Loyalist plants carried an air raid on Ceuta yesterday saya à message from Gibra which adds that explosions could be distinctly heard în Gibraltar itself..

tory in Flint, Michigan, are idle. A conference to deal with the dis- pute has been arranged for to-day between Mr. Homer Martin, pre- sident of the United Automobile Workers' Union, and Mr. William. Knudsen, vice-president of General Motors.

-Trans-Ocean.

PAULETTA DAMIES PASSES AWAY

Famous Spanish Ballet BREACH OF SETTLEMENT.

Expert Dies At 87 Officials are hurrying to the scene of the strikes in an endeavour to persuade the men to leave the fac

Paris, Today, tories and return to work pending let master, Pauletta Damies, died Spain's most famous woman bal- the conference, in accordance with at Barcelona yesterday at the age the terms of the recent strike settle of 87. ment

She had conducted the ballet in Besides the factories affected by the Barcelona Opera House for 62 the strike, some departments in the years, Pontiac car factory have had to Among her pupils were several Observers in the raiding ma-close down owing to lack of bodies of the greatest Spanish dancers, report that they saw dis Later, 6,500 men ceased work at pincluding Argentina and Teresina. the explosion of a large the Yellow Truck Company's Pon- The immortal Pavlova also stud- munition dump after it had tiac factory, which is partially own-lied under her for a time in Barce- been struck by several bombs. ed by General Mote Reuter

Latest reports, says the commu- nique, reveal that the insurgents have continued their advance on the Basque front.

Detroit, Later. The General Motors strikers are evacuating the factories and are resuming work pending today's

The loyalists retired in the di-conference-Reuter. rection of Ochandiano, where they have prepared three parallel lines of entrenchments.

From the Asturias front minor skirmishes are reported. Trans-Ocean.-

only

DR. H. H. KUNG

Leaving Shanghai In Victoria

BEARDMORE STRIKE

Spreading Further Afield

London, To-day.

lona-Trans- Ocean

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Tuesday, the 6th. April, 1937 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon.

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture

The strike in the important arma- comprising:— ment plant of the Beardmore Com- Black Wood Ware, Teak Office. pany at Glasgow is spreading fur-Furniture, Drawing Room-Dining ther afield, and now affects 4,000 Room--and Bed Room Furniture, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, workers in spite of the efforts at Carpets, Rugs, Pictures, Cutlery, accompanied by General Chien Tai- settlement made by the Amalgamat-Ornaments, E. P. & Brass Ware, kwan, his Chief A. D. C., and Mr. ¡ed Trade Union.

Porcelain & Glass Ware, Electric H. S. Donald, his British Adviser, The strikers' demands for higher Table Lamps and Fans, General Quieppo de Llano, in a arrived at Shanghai from Hang-wages are backed by the local trade phones and Records, Clocks, broadcast yesterday, admitted that chow by air yesterday to attend a union organisations.—Trans-Ocean. etc.. the rebel offensive against Bilbao farewell party to the Chinese de- had not as yet been effective. legation attending the Coronation

in London.

REBELLION DENIED.

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A denial of the reports of The Delegation, headed by Dr. H. rebellion among the insurgents in H. Kung, are to leave Shanghai by Tetuan has been made by the High 8.8. Victoria to-day. Commissioner in Spanish Morocco. The ship is due in Hong Kong

The High Commissioner also denied that General Franco had been obliged to go to Morocco.

· REBEL AIR KAID VERSION

Salamanca, To-day. A rebel-communique states that insurgent planes yesterday bombed Durango, where the loyalist.com- mander-in-chief

the Basque front had established his head- quarters.

on

CONTROL OF ROADS

Centralisation Plan Carried Out

on Sunday. Sir Robert Ho Tung is giving a luncheon in honour of Dr. Kung and

his party. after which they will, at the invitation of different Chinese public bodies, attend a tea-party Cecil.

at the Hotel

SIR CYRIL NEWALL PROMOTED

Appointed Air Chief Marshal

London, To-day. Air-Marshal Sir Cyril L. N. New- all, has been appointed Air Chief Marshal. He has been the Mem- London, To-day. ber of the Air Council for Supply Yesterday, under the recent Act, and Organization since 1985. 4,500 miles of trunk road passed Formerly in the Warwickshire from the administration of the di- Regiment, the new Air Chief Mar verse local authorities through shal transferred to the R. A. F. in whose areas they run, to the cen-1919. He commanded the R. A. F., tral control of the Ministry of Middle East from 1981 to 1984. Transport-British Wireless.

Renter.

AMBASSADOR IN AMOY

Attending Mayoral

Banquet To-day:

Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Huges- sen, British Ambassador to China, party, arrived at Amoy on Wednes- and Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen and

day..

Mr. Li Sze-lin, the Mayor of Amoy, will give a banquet in hon- our of Sir Hughe and Lady Knatch bul-Hugessen to-day. -

4 Radio Sets

also

Grama-

etc.,

On View from Monday, the 5th. April, 1937,

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 2nd April, 1937.

HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction

at

On

Friday, the 9th April, 1937 commencing at 10.30 a.m., the Godown of Messrs. Dodwell

& Co., Ltd., Oak Street,

Tai Kok Tsui.

Quantity of Miscellaneous

Goods,

comprising:

Electric Goods, Paints, Packing,

TO VISIT GERMANY

Prince Chichibu's Plans After Coronation

Berlin, To-day. Prince and Princess Chichibu, the official representatives of the Em- peror of Japan at the Coronation of King George, will in all probability 8th. April, 1937. visit Germany after the Coronation ceremonies.

So declares an announcement is- sued by the Japanese Society in Germany-Trans-Ocean.

5. Electric Motors

1 Rotary Pump with Motor- On View, from Thursday,

the

Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 2nd April, 1987.

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