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Jean Hersholt. and Rochelle Hudson, who appear with the Dionne quintuplets in “Reunion,' which opens at the Alhambra to-

Ray Milland and Heather Angel in "Bulldog Drummond Escapes," the latest of the popular series of Sapper's yarns to be filmed, and now showing at the Queen's Theatre..

In a rebel broadcast, Gen. Queipo de Llano, one of Franco's aids, declared that Ignacio Zuloaga (above) world- famous Spanish painter, was sen- tenced to death in Bilbao, held by the Loyalist forces. The report has not been verified by government

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 10,

DESPERATE INSURGEN

GOVERNMENT

HOLDS ITS OWN IN HEAVY FIGHTING

Madrid, To-day.

Rebel progress on the Basque front is admit- ted in official communiques concerning yesterday's developments in the Spanish civil war, but it is claimed that elsewhere the Government forces have everywhere maintained domination of the situation.

IT WAS A DAY OF INTENSE ACTIVITY, BOTH ON LAND AND IN THE AIR. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING TOOK PLACE ON SEVERAL FRONTS, WHILE THE RIVAL AIR FLEETS DROPPED THEIR DEADLY CARGOES ON MANY TOWNS.

ON THE BASQUE FRONT other raid in the Pardo sector, where The insurgent forces, compos-they captured a military hospital. ed of Moors and Phalangists, Considerable damage was done by continued to batter away at the rebel planes when they bombed the Basque front near Durango and, town of Portbou, in the Franco- according to an insurgent com-Spanish border province of Gerona. munique, captured several vil-

Valencia, To-day. lages.

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The Basque Government has or- Rebel warships shelled the dered the immediate enlistment of coastal road running from Le-all classes belonging to the naval queito to Santander, while planes contingents of 1928, 1929 and 1936, carried out several bombing raids and infantry classes of 1929, 1930 on Orduna, where the Basques and 1937., are concentrating their troops.

́ARAGON VICTORY

Another surprise attack was laun- Meanwhile it is reported that the ched by the insurgents in the Ma- Government forces have advanced Idrid sector, though no appreciable | nearly two miles south of the Ebro Ladvantage was gained.

River, on the Aragon front, where

A Republican counter-attack, car-lit is stated the insurgents retreat- ried out at 5 o'clock yesterday morned without offering resistance, leav- ing near Casa del Campo, resulteding many dead and a huge quantity in the loyalists penetrating the re- of war materials. bel lines to a depth of 400 yards.

SECTOR

In Oslo the Norwegian Govern- ment was asked yesterday in Parlia-

Their licans right through an old ceme-ships to Spanish waters to protect tery, where gravestones were chip-Norwegian commercial vessels, ped by bullets.

which have frequently been molest- Republican forces carried out an-led by Spanish warships.-Reuter.

nice took the Repub-ment for a vote credits to send war-

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Luise Rainer and Paul Muni, shown in a scene from named as the greatest film stars of 1936 by the Aca ture Arts and Sciences meeting in Los Angeles. Miss work in "The Great Ziegfeld" and Muni for his inter

role of "Louis Pasteur,”

It is men like those who are put forces on the Basque front in the Spar formed into a new autonomous Republic

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