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MADRID

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1937.

RAIN OF DEATH

Rebels Open Heavy Artillery Bombardment

THE K.C.R. FIRE

DISASTER

Ministry's Offer Of Compensation

Canton, To-day.

It is learned that the Ministry of Railways has offered to compen- sate the relatives of victims of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, fire dis- aster by paying $100 in the case of fatalities and $30 to relatives of in- jured persons.

Austrian Visitors

To Hungary

Vienna, To-day. *President Miklas is leaving for Budapest on May 3 to re- turn the visit to Austria last year of the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy.

President Miklas will be ac- companied by the Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, and the Foreign Minister, Dr. Guido Schmidt.-Trans-Ocean..

Families of the victims are pro- ....................................175984015348) testing vigorously and appealing to Chinese newspapers to support campaign for adequate compensa- tion.—Our Own Correspondent.

THEFT FROM STANLEY GAOL

Four Months In Place He Helped To Build

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Ho Siu, 28, unemployed, this morning sentenced to months' imprisonment by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy

PRICE CONTROL IN AUSTRIA

Check To Rising Cost Of Living

Vienna, To-day. Prices of foodstuffs in Austria are to be controlled directly by the Government.

HOW OXFORD APPLIES “COMMUNISM”

Indiscriminate Fire On City Streets

Madrid, To-day.

The capital yesterday morning experienced some of the heaviest shelling it has suffered in months, shells falling indiscriminately in the main streets of the city.

A waiter was killed and four customers sitting at a cafe window wounded, while another shell burst two blocks away from the British Embassy.

THE OPINION IS GENERALLY HELD HERE THAT THE SHELLING IS A REPRISAL FOR THE HEAVY GOVERNMENT ATTACK AGAINST THE VARIOUS REBEL POSITIONS.

the valley

leading

The Government artillery re- the head of A "price controller" has been plied to the bombardment and down to Durango and

d Bilbao, and appointed and will take up his du- heavily shelled the insurgent are expected to start a large-scale |ties immediately.-Trans-Ocean. lines on the outskirts of the offensive to-day (Monday).

city, while planes bombed the in- A communique. issued by the claims surgent entrenchments at Casa Madrid Defence Council de Campo.

further Government successes, ad- The Government forces are re-vancing troops being supported by When John Morrice Cairns ported to be consolidating the new aeroplanes which bombed and ma- when he pleaded guilty to the theft James, 20, an undergraduate of positions they have taken west of chine-gunned the enemy. of a quantity of house fitting and Balliol College, Oxford, was charg- the Manzanares River

and have door and window bolts to the value ed at Oxford with stealing a also occupied several new lines of of $680, from the Indian Quarters bicycle, Mr. C. R. Fox, the Chief at the Stanley Prison between Constable, remarked: March 25 and April 5.

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Sergeant Mallet tsaid defendant was arrested on information Saturday but none of the property had been recovered. Defendant was formerly employed on the construc- tion of the new gaol.

Opening Of Queen Mary

Hospital

trenches at Casa de Campo.

A Republican claim to avic- tory by Catalonian troops on the Aragon front is confirmed in an insurgent communique admit- ting the defeat: emas

From Santander it is reported that Government attacks are said to have opened on important ob- A Spanish aeroplane came down jectives on the Basque front but during thick fog in the south of it is too early to say what the re-France yesterday. The two avia sult is.

tors were detained by the police -- Trans-Ocean.

"We are in Oxford used to Communistic ideas regarding poș- session of bicycles by under- graduates. That all things he held in common applies particu- larly to bicycles, but that must

SAGUNTO BOMBED not be taken to extend to property

From Valencia comes news that of other people. The cycle was five civilians were killed and several not taken from a college cycle injured in an air raid on the village stand but from outside a public-of Sagunto, 18 miles from Valencia.

house."

James told the magistrates that he had not intention of keeping the The new Queen Mary Hospital machine. He intended to return it at Pokfulam is to be opened official-{the next night.

ly by H.E. the Governor (Sir An- Mr. A. B. Rodger, Dean of Balliol, drew Caldecott) at 4 p.m. to-mor-said that gowns and bicycles were row. It is intimated that lounge considered by undergraduates suits will be the proper attire for be common property.- the function.

The case was dismissed.

In this almost fantastically beautiful se hurling shells into the streets of Madrid.

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In Salamanca rebel headquarters claim that fresh Government attacks on the Madrid sector have been repulsed with heavy. Government losses.Reuter.

MOLA PLANS NEW DRIVE

Paris, To-day. Insurgent troops under General Mola are concentrating in force at

by an ancient tree,

rebel gun

FILM PRODUCTION DISPUTE

Plaintiffs Fail 1 To Appear In Court

Owing to failure of plaintiffs to put in an appearance, The Unique Film Production Company, repre- sented by Mr. H. C. Macnamara were awarded judgment, with costs, by Sir Atholl MacGregor, this morn- ing in an action brought by Lee Hy-lap, trading as the Tai Tung Company, and Au, Hon-fu, för damages for infringement of copy- right and an injunction from show- ing and delivery up of all copies of a film entitled "Do Mai Kwei."

BAISAKHI DAY CELEBRATION

Sikh Community's Programme

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Thế 239th anniversary of birth of Khalsa (Baisakhi Day) will be celebrated by the local Sikh community to-morrow at the Sikh Temple.

Visitors to the Temple during the day will be served with meals, for which arrangements have been made by the Committee of the In- stitution.

In the afternoon at 5.15 an hibition hockey match will be play- ed between the Radio Sports Club and an all-Indian team from the Army, at Caroline Hill.