THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1937.
MOORS THROWN INTO WAR
ON BILBAO FRONT
Basque Defenders Holding Out
Bilbao, To-day.
FIRE BURNS MOSLEMA FIRE WALKER
"UNNERVED" BY GROWD
AMATEURS ON
GLOWING ASHES
Ahmed
BLUM APPEALS FOR
DISCIPLINE
Law For Industrial
Arbitration
Paris, To-day.
Replying to critics in the Cham- The insurgents yesterday continued to attack In a Surrey garden, before pro-mier, M. Leon Blum, announced that ber of Deputies yesterday, the Pre- Mount Sollube, with the object of breaking the minent scientists and psychologists, if necessary the Government would Basque ring round Bermeo, while planes con- Moslem fire-walker, walked along a come the difficulties in application Hussain, the 23-year-old ask for further legislation to over- tinually bombed the Republican positions on the trench of glowing wood and char- of industrial arbitration. mountain.
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coal .
and was burnt.
Although his burns were slight, Mr. Blum made a solemn appeal HUNDREDS OF INCENDIARY BOMBS WERE DROPPED, ters on the left foot-his injuries was greeted with cheers ranging one on the right ankle and six blis-to the workers for discipline, which AND THE PINEWOODS WERE SET ON FIRE, BUT THE BAS-were not much less than those of from the Communists to the Centre. QUE RESISTANCE HAS NOT BEEN WEAKENED.
It is generally agreed that M. Blum scored a parliamentary suc-
A FORCE OF MOORS ATTACKED THE BASQUE RIGHT WING. THEY ARE BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST MOORS TO SET FOOT IN ANY BASQUE PROVINCE, EXCEPT SOUTH NA- VARRE, IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF SPAIN.
one of the three English "amateur” fire-walkers.
The however, ran along the trench, while Englishman, Hussain walked deliberately.
cess.
The test was made by the Uni- The debate was adjourned until versity of London Council for Pay-to-day.-Reuter. THE MOORS WERE IMPEDED BY THE GORSE-CLAD of a house at Carshalton.
chical Investigation in the grounds SLOPES, WHICH ENABLED THE BASQUES TO REMAIN UN-on a lawn beside the tennis court, Here, DER COVER AND OPEN FIRE AT POINT-BLANK RANGE.
gardeners had dug a trench 20ft REUTER.
AIR ATTACKS
Salamanca, To-day.
de-
A statement issued from in- surgent headquarters here clares that towns in which mili-
GERMANY AND COLONIES
tary units shelter within ten SIR ROBERT HORNE'S
kilometres of the front are law- ful military objectives, and their civilian inhabitants should be evacuated.
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long, 5ft wide, and more than business man: I did not feel a great foot deep. The pit was filled with deal of heat. But then, I am an the burning ashes of nearly 10 tons asbestos manufacturer, like of oak logs and charcoal.
father, and perhaps asbestos runs in the blood!
Heat Of 740 Degrees
The surface temperature of the pit was 740 degrees centigrade about 71⁄2 times as hot as boiling water.
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Mr. A. J. Bould, a, student: My feet seemed to sink into the glow- ing ashes and some of the red-hot cinders stuck painfully into the side of my feet. It was not too bad. Mr. D. C. Russell, a student of The trench was 71⁄2ft longer than psychology: I made the experiment Commenting on Germany's col-when Hussain onial demands, Sir Robert Horne, walk on Wednesday. He attributed aspect.
made a successful out of interest in the psychological The statement adds: "The Na-M-P., in a speech dismissed the idea his failure to the unnerving in-
I felt no > great pain. tional Government declares that that she might go to war over the fluence of the crowd of onlookers C. Flugel, Professor of Psychology Commenting on the test, Prof. J. non-military open cities have never issue. The possibility would be- and the array of scientific appar- at London University, said. been, and never will be, bombard- come still more remote, he added, atus.
"All that the experiments prove, I think, ed by national planes."-Reuter. "when we résume the strength Here are the experiences of the is that we still have something to
which we ought never to have lost." English "amateurs": BRITISH APPEAL"
learn about the hardiness of the Mr. R. Adcock, 26-year-old human foot.” London, To-day,
A communique issued at the close of the meeting of the sub-commit tee of the non-intervention commit tee states that Lord Plymouth, on behalf of the British Government, has appealed to both parties in Spain to renounce entirely the use of bombing from the air.
All the representatives agreed to submit the proposal to their res- pective governments for immediate instructions-Reuter.
BARCELONA SITUATION
London, To-day. The situation in Barcelona: still lacks clarification.
Reports received via France de- clare that life in the Catalan capi tal is becoming normal and that the workers, answering the summons of the trade unions, have returned to work. The reports add that the un- derground trains and working again.
Sir Robert, who was addressing members of the Constitutional Club in London, declared that South Africa's anti-Nazi measures about which Germany had complained were dictated by trouble fomented from Germany itself.
There was in this country, he said, a number of people greatly influenced by German propaganda, who took the line that Germany was being frustrated in her inability to gain access to raw materials-a plausible view, but a complete fallacy.
The regime at present in vogue în Germany was not appropriate to the development of those young communities over which Germany was said to want control. He hop- ed that South Africa's "firm atti- tude" would be "supported in every way possible,"
buses are Sir. Robert, who was Chancellor
of the Exchequer in 1921-22, gave On the other hand, reports chief credit for Britain's returning from the Franco-Spanish frontier prosperity to Mr. Neville Chamber- state that the anarchists - have
lain. seized two more important towns and have placed machine-guns 'at' strategic points.
He advocated the "piling up" of general work which could be post- poned, as a “shock absorber" They are also reported to have against the falling-off of industry forced the local authorities to hand which might occur at the end of over their functions. Reuter.
Paris police raided 22 cabarete and night clubs in the Bastille and Mont- martre quRT
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The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Dr. Willem Mengelberg, has declined an invitation to tour Germany.
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