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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1987.

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DURANGO DEVASTATED BY INSURGENT AERIAL BOMBERS

BIG INCENDIARY FIRES STARTED

EVACUATION OF POPULATION NOW COMMENCED

MANY CASUALTIES

London, To-day.

Intense insurgent aerial activity is the chief feature of the Spanish civil war news at present.

IT IS REPORTED FROM BILBAO THAT THE TOWN OF DURANGO, ON WHICH GENERAL MOLA'S TROOPS ARE AD- VANCING, WAS AGAIN BOMBED FROM THE AIR FOR THREE AND A HALF HOURS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

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MANY BUILDINGS, THE RAILWAY STATION AND TRAINS WERE DESTROYED, AND INCENDIARY BOMBS STARTED FIRES. EVACUATION OF THE CIVIL POPULATION HAS BEGUN, A NUMBER OF SPECIAL TRAINS PROCEEDING TO BILBAO.

Many families, whose homes

were destroyed, have arrived in "DULL, DEAD, INERT

Madrid, where shelters have been arranged for them..

MASS"

Mr. James Maxton, M.P., speak ing at a unity campaign meeting at Leeds said:

I left the Labour party because

Flood Menace In Russia

Moscow, To-day.

Over 3,000 persons have been forced to evacuate their homes owing to a sudden rise in the. level of the Moskwa River fol- lowing heavy rains. Trans- Ocean.

SOVIET ARMY'S

STRENGTH

Changchun

Gets Secret

Information

by

HIGH KICKS

FOR NAZI

STAGE CRITICS

Herr Julius

Teader for WNNISZ

figure in the

the Nazi

and chief campaign,

appeared in an unusual role on the music-hall stage during the re- hearsal of a musical comedy In Nuremberg recently.

He had the stage cleared, and ordered a number of German journ- alists, representing various. Ger- man papers in Nuremberg, form the various actors.

per

roles of the

For 15 minutes the journalists, some of them elderly men, had to go through a rigid course of exer- cises in toe-balancing, high-kick- ing, and other stage acrobatics un- der Herr Streicher à direction.

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Confidential reports received

This, Herr - Streicher afterwards Changchun military quarters place

explained, was to teach the Nazi the fighting strength of the Soviet Press to view the stage talent of Army at 1,850,000 men, the Koku Germany in the proper perspective. tsu News Agency reported. The Herr Streicher's unconventional number of tanks was put at 6,000 methods with German journalists and military aeroplanes at 5,000,

have brought him into- conflict

The force stationed in the Far several times with the Nazi Press Air raids on the suburbs of Bar-

East, east of Lake Baikal, includes leader, Herr Dietrich. His friend- celona, and other points on

the

sixteen infantry and four cavalry ship with Herr Hitler has proved Catalan coast were carried out by

divisions. The first line comprised too strong for any real criticism. two insurgent planes, which were

800,000 men. Also in the Far East reported to have come from the I felt it had not done what it might is a force 1,300 aeroplanes, of north-east. They were chased from have done in this direction. I felt which 200 are heavy bombers, while Barcelona by Government planes. that there was on it a dead weight

The number of casualties is not

of Conservatism... yet known.

OREJO CAPTURED The Madrid Defence

Coun- cil announced yesterday that

there are 1,250 tanks, and 75 sub-cording to the report, seventy in- marines, most of which are in Vladi-fantry and 26 cavalry divisions. "But I want to say to-night that vostok..

The entire Red Army, the reports The force stationed west of Lake asserted, comprises 1,300,000 regular we are willing to co-operate and to give to the Labour party all that Baikal includes twenty infantry and troops, 800,000 trained militiamen we can give in order to make it six cavalry divisions, always avail-and 250,000 “special troops.” Divi- on Saturday night Republican live, instead of being, as it is to-able as a reserve for the troops alongsiona total 182 of which 96 are in- troops captured Orejo and Villa-day, a dull, dead, inert mass that the Manchoukuo border, the report fantry and 36 are cavalry. Nearly harta after a fierce struggle.

moves nothing.

said. The actual strength of this 89 per cent. of the Infantry is me- force is, however, below its paper chanized while the cavalry is two strength as the units of the two ar-thirds mechanized. Heavy bombera mies are overlapping.

the reports total at 180 Army and Western Front Strength thirty Navy squadrons while squad- The army stationed along Rus-rons of pursuit planes total 170 in sia's western frontier includes, ac- the Army and ten in the Navy.

There is now a possibility, says "It has been said that I would a communique, of the loyalists cut-not submit to discipline within the ting off from Cordoba the Insur-Labour party. It is not true. Any gents holding the de la Roja see-party that is doing all it can for the working classes will never néed to discipline me. I will discipline myself."

tor.

A report from Paris states that the French steamer "Limerethis” has arrived in Marseilles with 255 refugees from Spanish Mediterran- ean ports. Reuter and Trans- Ocean.

Basque Offensive

Fails

Paris, To-day, The insurgent offensive on the Basque front has been a complete failure, says a communíque, issued by the Basque Government.

The positions held before the offensive developed and partly evacuated during the last few days, have been recaptured and con- solidated by the loyalists.

According to a message received in Paris from Madrid the Basque artillery continuously shelled the city of Oviedo for 36 hours. Trans Ocean.

Fall Of Penarroys Expected

Valencia, To-day.

Dealing with the foreign situa- tion, Mr. Maxton said:

"The British Government would rather see Franco win than the people of Spain should become free to develop their country on de- mocratic lines.

The one hope of peace in Europe is to drive a wedge be tween the workers of Germany and the rulers of Germany”

Dr. Schact Going

To Brussels

Brussels, To-day. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, is shortly com- ing to Brussels for a visit.

The visit will be a return of the trip to Berlin recently of the Pre- sident of the National Bank of Bel- gium, M. Louis Franck-Trans- Ocean.

Mr. Lin Sen Going To Kweilin

Canton, To-day: Mr. Lin Sen, President of the| Fall of the important mining National Government, will leave junction of Penarroys, in Cordoba Canton at 6.00 p.m. to-day for Heng- Province, to the Government forces chow, Hunan, en route to Kweilin, is expected at any moment.

capital of Kwangsi. Our Own Cor- The loyalists have cut the rail-respondent. way to Cordoba and have captured thirty prisoners and a quantity of Mata and the railway stations war material.

Talvera, Availa and Baldes.

An official communique, reports› Intense aerial activity is also re- that Government planes bombed ported on the southern front. the aerodrome at Navalmoral de la Reuter.

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