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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1937.

PRES. BENES TRIUMPHS Little Entente Relationships Fully Restored

Catholics Arrested.

Put On Trial

BERLIN, TO-DAY.

UNDER GLARING HEAD- LINES: THE GERMAN NEWS- PAPERS ANNOUNCE THE BE- GINNING OF THE TRIAL BE- FORE THE SECOND SENATE OF THE PEOPLE'S COURT OF SEVEN ROMAN CATHOLICS, INCLUDING TWO PRIESTS AND TWO PROMINENT MEM- BERS OF CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANISATIONS.

them is

The charge against preparing high treason by al- legedly supporting Communist plans for a united Communist- Catholic front.

The accused include Father Joseph Rossaint, head of the Catho- lic Youth group in Duesseldorf, Fa- ther Karl Kremer, former head of the Peace Society, Franz Steber, Reichsleader of the Catholic Youth

Dr. Eduoard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, and Madame Benes.

Yugo-Slavia Loyal To Her Former Allegiances

Belgrade, To-day.

All current international problems were ex- haustively discussed by President Benes of Czecho- Slovakia with Yugo-Slavian statesmen during the former's visit to Belgrade, says an official com- munique.

THE COMMUNIQUE ADDS THAT THE DECISIÓNS REACH- ED BY THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE LITTLE EN- TENTE AT THE RECENT CONFERENCE IN BELGRADE WERE CONFIRMED BY THE CZECH PRESIDENT AND YUGO- SLAVIAN MINISTERS.

The communique then an- nounces that the Regent, Prince Paul, will shortly reciprocate Pre-

official visit to Prague.

BACK TO THE WALL PLEA sident Benes visit by paying an

ON BASQUE FRONT

MOVE CHECKED

President Benes of Czecho- Slovakia received an enthusiastic

group, and Father Jakob Clemens, DEFENDERS SUFFER HEAVY ATTACKS send-off when he left Belgrade at

secretary-general of the Catholic Young Men's Association.-Reuter.

FERRY SUNK IN COLLISION

Passengers Rescued By Liner

BY GERMAN PLANES

St. Jean de Luz, To-day.

the conclusion of his mission to Yugo-Slavia.

It is considered in informed cir cles that he succeeded in checking

Reuter.

greatly the

Yesterday's insurgent attack on the Basque the Yugo-Slav move towards the front was the strongest yet launched, according to strengthened the position of

Italo-German bloc, and the Basque defenders, who declare that thirty Ger- Little Entente Trans-Ocean and man bombing planes continually rained high ex- collision between a ferry plosive on their lines but that the Basque militia running between Ireland held on grimly, meeting the attackers with ma- and Scotland and a liner inward-chine-gun fire and hand grenades.

A

boat

London, To-day.

bound from New Zealand, occur-

Insurgent radio bulletins claim

red in the Irish Sea yesterday the capture of Urquiola Pass, be- morning in thick fog five miles off the Scottish coast.

The passengers on the ferry boat were rescued by the liner but the captain and a fireman were lost.

of water.-Reuter.

tween Ochandiano and Durando,

YUGO-SLAVIA AND BULGARIA

Belgrade, To-day.

The customs agreement which will shortly be concluded between Yugo-Slavia and Bulgaria will, ac- cording to informed quarters here, not provide for a general customs union between two countries.

but an official Basque communique NEW MOSCOW It is stated that the new agree-

denies this.

Senor Aguirre, President of the Basque Republic, broadcast a dram-

The boat sank in sixty fathoms atic back to the wall appeal to the The lives of the captain and one

Basque people yesterday, urging fireman were lost, and 351 cattle them to hold out against the inva- were drowned when the Lairdsmoor der at this critical juncture and as- of the Burns and Laird Line on a suring them that though hard night voyage from Dublin to Glas-pressed they would win in the end. gow, collided early this morning in He added that though the enemy a fog with the Shaw Savill and Al had at present superiority in the bion motor liner, Taranaki,

and air, the Basques would soon have sank in fourteen minutes. British enough planes to repel them. Wireless,

WARSHIPS SHELL

SANTANDER

Tramcar Receives A

Direct Hit

Valencia, To-day.

Santander was bombarded

on

three separate occasions yesterday by enemy ships and the working class quarters in the eastern part of the city were hit.

Reuter.

Britain's Arms Plan

* PURCHASES IN

GERMANY.

London, To-day. The British War Office has made purchases in Germany

One shell fell on a tram car, kill-amounting to £62,000, in the new

ing both driver and conductor.

Reuter.

Soviet Ambassador

To France

Moscow, To-day.

rearmament programme.

· So declared the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, in the House of Commons yesterday..

TRIAL

ment will merely bear the charac- ter of an economic regional pact, which will be applicable only to

YAGODA TO APPEAR certain products.

IN 3 WEEKS

Moscow, To-day. G. G. Yagoda, recently deposed Cominissar for Communications, will be brought up for trial in about three weeks time.

Fourteen other political prisoners, a high ranking G.P.U. officials, are included in the indictment and the stage seems set for another sensational "Moscow trial.”

The plan of a general customs union between Yugo-Slavia and Bulgaria has been abandoned for the time being.--Trans-Ocean.

SIR O. NIEMEYER IN VIENNA

With Professor Henry Clay

There is an ironic touch to the

Vienna, To-day. coming trial in that one of the pri

Sir Otto Niemeyer, President of soners, named Petersen, was the the Bank of International Settle- former, State Executioner. It was ments, has arrived in Vienna from Petersen who supervised the execu-Budapest accompanied by Profes- tion of the last batch of condemn-sor Henry Clay, Professor at ed men at the recent mass trial. Trans-Ocean.

SPANISH COINS BARRED

Gibraltar Decree

Gibraltar,

What amounts to viro-day.

elimina-

tion of Spanish coinage as legal tender in Gibraltar is decreed by Government.

In addition to this, Sir Thomas revealed, orders to the value of £178,000 had been placed in Ger- M. Jocob Suritz, Soviet Ambag. many în connexion with the erec sador to Germany, has been ap- tion of new armament factories. pointed Ambassador to France in Most of the orders, he added, were The decree states that as from place of M. Potemkin, who has been for specialised machinery or such June 1 this year only British bank- appointed assistant commissar for machines as could not be delivered | notes and coins will constitute Foreign Affairs in- Moscow-Reu-within a prescribed period by Bri- valid currency ter.

tish manufacturers. -Trans-Ocean. Trans-Ocean.

Gibraltar

the

Sorbonne and financial expert.

Another prominent personality in the financial world, the Turkish Minister of Finance, Bay Fuat Agrali, is also in Vienna for a short visit Trans-Ocean.

LADY HOUSTON'S ESTATE

London, To-day. Lady Houston, who died last De- cember, left estate valued at £1,528,- 083. Estate duty amounting to $690,921, has. been paid. Her hus band left her a fortune exceeding £5,000,000-British Wireless.