1937-04-28 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 28, 1937.

NO SURRENDER AT BILBAO Basque Authorities Give Lie To Rumour Of Panic

ECHO OF SIAN REVOLT

New Appointments By Executive Yuan

"Nanking, To-day.

Following the complete with- drawal of the troops of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang from Shensi and Kansu into Honan and Anhui, the Executive Yuan yesterday ordered the formation for a Military Affairs Readjustment Committee for Honan, Anhui and Kiangsu.

General Liu Chi was appointed Chairman and Generals Chen Cheng, Shen Chen, Yu Hsueh-chung, Wang

Roosevelt Warns Speculators

Washington, To-day. The warning against specula- tion in stocks by Government employees was yesterday extend- ed to include all the general pub- lic by President Roosevelt at a press conference.

The Chief Executive declared. he had been warning the pub- lic against speculation since 1927.-Reuter.

ever

Shu-sheng. Ho Chu-kok and other BROOK GIVES UP

divisional commanders are members

of the Committee.

Yesterday the Executive Yuan-al- so appointed General Yu

Hsueh- Com-

RECORD HOPE.

Tail Wheel Broken In Sudan

London, To-day.

chung as Pacification missioner for Kiangsu, General Ho Chu-kok as the Vice-Director of the Sian Headquarters, General Wang It is learned that the British Shu-sheng as the Vice-Pacification airman, H. L. Brook, has given up Commissioner for Anhui, General hope of beating the London-Cape] Hu Tu-cho as the Acting Governor record and intends to proceed to of Kansu, General Wei Lap-wang as the Cape and make an attempt on Garrison Commander of the Honan, the homeward record.

Hupei and Anhui Frontiers, and Brook was forced down by a General Shen-koon Wen-hsiang aa thunderstorm near Bor, 100 miles the Garrison Commander of the Ho-north of Juba, in the Sudan, and nan, Hupei and Shensi Frontiers. broke a tail wheel in taking off General Yang Hu-cheng, former The accident made him 24 hours Pacification Commissioner of Shen-

behind schedule.-Reuter.

si, will tour Europe and America. -Our Own Correspondent.

"GRAF VON SPEE”

For Coronation Naval Review

Berlin, To-day.

It is announced that the pocket

Forthcoming Wedding

Militia Ordered To

Resist To Last

FORCES RETIRE ON PREPARED DEFENSIVE POSITIONS

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL").

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, TO-DAY.

THE BASQUE GOVERNMENT HAS NO IN- TENTION OF SURRENDERING THE CITY OF | BILBAO TO THE SPANISH INSURGENTS.

This definite official statement has been is- sued to contradict the rumours that owing to the desperate situation of the civilian population, the city would be handed over to the rebels.

AN OFFICIAL BROADCAST FROM BILBAO RADIO STA-

·TION SAYS THAT THE REPUBLICAN MILITIA HAVE RE- CEIVED STRICT ORDERS TO RESIST “TO THE LAST MAN."

ORDER BEFORE THE REBEL OFFENSIVES DURING THE THE MILITIA, AFTER HAVING WITHDRAWN IN GOOD

PAST FEW DAYS, HAVE NOW TAKEN UP NEW PREPARED POSITIONS ON THE HEIGHTS SURROUNDING BILBAO.

:

The Biscay broadcasting sta- the air and one from the sea. tion reports that among steps Shortly before 7 o'clock in the taken in consequence ruthless rebel air raids is con-accompanied

of the morning seven insurgent bombers, by pursuit planes, struction of a large number of broke through the barrage of anti- air-raid shelters in Bilbao. Trans-Ocean.

BASQUE REGULAR ARMY

ESTABLISHED .

aircraft fire.

They circled the city for about half an hour, dropping their bombs, and then left in a southerly direc- tion.

Bilbao, To-day. President Aguirre has issued 器 The planes had hardly disap- The forthcoming marriage be-

regular peared and the population was just tween Miss Alicia Zalazar Fong, of decree creating a Basque No. 3, Nga Tsun Loong Road, Kow-army, in which all existing forma- starting to go about its business in the streets again when rebel loon City, and Mr. Jose Clemente tions will be incorporated. dos Santos, of No. 424, Prince Ed-

The list of military commands will warships suddenly appeared in the ward Road, has been announced. be revised and there will be a new dense fog and shelled the city...

commander-in-chief.

The casualties were greater then Mr. N. Linley and his bride, Another decree militarises all work-would normally have been the case owing to the unexpectedness of the battleship "Graf von Spee" will reformerly Miss Gertrude Mary Sim-ers engaged in fortifications second attack.-Trans-Ocean. present the German Navy at the mons, of Hong Kong, sailed for war industries. Reuter. Coronation naval review at Spithead. Manila in the Tjisadane on their

Reuter.

honeymoon yesterday.

LA

MARQUE MONDIALE

COINTREAU

LIQUEUE

gives a flourish to the plainest

Cocktail

SOLE IMPORTERI

OPTORG

COMPANY

WARSHIPS SHELL

VALENCIA

Cruisers Concealed In A Fog

and

Valencia, To-day. Valencia was shelled for half an hour from the sea yesterday morn- ing, probably by cruisers lying off shore in the dense fog.

The casualties are not known but some damage was done.

Madrid was again severely shelled yesterday morning and at close intervals during the day. The inhabitants are more and more using underground means of transport.

Yesterday's tentative estimates give 25 killed and 60 wounded...

BATTERIES WELL HIDDEN

Government aircraft have been unable to locate the insurgent hat- teries, which frequently alter the

range.

From Bayonne comes a message stating that the Basque Govern- ment Press Bureau claims that the insurgent offensive in the Durango sector has been brilliantly repuls- ed, the Basques holding back the rebels from the Eibar sector to the coast.Reuter.

AIR RAIDS

Valencia, To-day. Valencia suffered two enemy at- tacks yesterday morning, one from

INTERFERENCE WITH SHIPPING

Scandinavian Bloc Protest To France

Oslo, To-day. The

Governments of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have simultaneously protested to General Franco's representative in Lisbon against the stopping of various Scandinavian vessels

by

· · insurgent warships.

The Norwegian Note asks what measures are to be taken to secure cessation of these acts and reserves the right to demand reparations for loss.

The protest recalls that

many

Scandinavian vessels have been fore

ed to proceed to Ceuta and

there discharge their cargoes. Reuter.

Stirring Appeal

Bilbao, To-day. appeal to the Basque people, admits President Aquirre, în a stirring the gravity of the situation and re- fers to the destruction of Guernica by "German

airmen in the service of the Spanish rebels.”

He called on all Basques to "react with violence and to defend their principles and liberties unheard of stubborness and ism-Reuter.