1937-05-24 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1937.

SMASHING ATTACK BY GENERAL MOLA ON THE BILBAO FRONT

Famous Jewel BOOK IN POCKET

That Disappeared

SAVES

MAN'S LIFE

which

Literary inclinations, prompted him habitually to carry a book in his pocket, saved the life A former captain of the Aus of Mr. Lester Monath when a ban- trian Imperial army, J. von Kor- dit fired a pistol at him in a hold- win, has been sentenced to a year's up in Washington. imprisonment in Vienna. in con- The bullet penetrated Mr. Monath's nection with the mysterious disap- overcoat and coat, but lodged in the pearance of a famous and historical book in his pocket, failing to do jewel, the so-called Hortense dia-him any harm.

dem.

The trial

was

a sensation in

Two youths held him up as he sat in his car late at night in a

Vienna, not only because the jewel quiet. Washington street, and when itself was of great historical inter-he put up a fight, one of the young est and of great value, but because men fired at him. They then forced

The owner of the jewel was the his car, which they drove to a re-

Break Through At Vital Point Claimed

St. Jean de Luz, To-day.

A new menace to Bilbao is reported in a com- munique issued by insurgent headquarters at Sala- manca which says that General Mola on Saturday resumed the offensive south-west of Durango.

The offensive began with an air attack with 60 the people involved were famous. him to vacate the driving seat of bombers and 36 fighting planes against the Govern- late Archduke Leopold Salvator mote neighbourhood and threw Mr.ment positions overlooking the Vitoria-Bilbao who left Austria after the 1918 Monath into the ditch. Unharm-road formed by the bastion of the mountains. collapse, and settled in Spain. Oneed, Mr. Monath called the police and of the people who tried to buy it soon radio patrol cars were chasing was the once famous banker. Sigis- the bandits who, had driven off in mund Bosel, while the chief wit- the stolen car. They were overhaul ians are holding the positions.

court.

der.

It is estimated that 8,000 Basques and Astur-

Madrid was also again shelled. Trans-Ocean,

ness was the Archduchess Blanca, ed in the middle of a bridge across the widow of the late Archduke the Patómnae River before they The communique claims that Fighting again broke out on the Leopold Salvator, whose diary, could enter the neighbouring state following the most efficient air Madrid front yesterday, says Radio

when written in French, was produced in of Virginia, and forced to surren-attack since the beginning of the Bilbao,

General Franco's Biscaye offensive, the insurgent troops were repulsed with severe PRESENT BY NAPOLEON

Mr. Monath's car was returned to infantry, supported by artillery, losses. From the evidence of the Arch- him unscathed. As for the book drove the defenders from their duchess Blanca, it appeared that with the bullet in

it, Mr. Monath positions. her family never intended to sell proposes to produce it in court as the jewel. The diadem was a pre-evidence against his attackers, and sent of Napoleon I. to his step-thereafter to preserve it his daughter, Hortense Beauharnais shelves.as.a souvenir. (the daughter of Josephine Beau- harnais, Napoleon's first wife) who later on married Louis Bonaparte,

King of the Netherlands. Her third

On

MOUSTACHE UPSET

HIM

REBEL ACCUSATIONS'

Salamanca, To-day.

The insurgents -have again; aecus-

The advance continued to a depth of seven miles and the peaks of Urai and the Bagondia Mountains around Berargoitia and other heights are now in in- surgent hands after heavy fight-fed the Spanish Government of ing and a stiff resistance..

bombing open towns, this time Val- The Vitoria radio claims that | ladolid and Pamplona. son was Napoleon III, Emperor of

the battle yesterday was assuming "The Republican air force," says France: From Queen Hortense's The White Rajah of Sarawak, the character of a disaster for the an official statement, "has commit- possession to jewel pissed into Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who is Government, and states that theted an unspeakable outrage. the hands of the Tuscany branch of now on his way to England, does strategic centres of Dima and Vil- the Habsburgs.

not like Errol Flynn's moustache, laro, on the Vitoria-Bilbao road, The evidence of the witnesses which he thinks looks artificial. were captured. showed that when the Austrian Re-

His Highness is glad Ronald Col- volution broke out, the Archduchess man is to play the title part in the

GRAVE LOSSES Blanca became frightened, because Hollywood film. "The White

The report estimates the Basque she had read a book about the Rajah,'

based on the life of the casualties at 1,600 killed and

REFUGEES ARE French Revolution and had come to first Rajah of Sarawak.

wounded and 1,600 prisoners, while the conclusion that "if there is a "Colman is more

2,000 militiamen were cut off in the NERVE-SHOCKED mature and revolution, we must fly the coun-natural for the role," he told Reu-mountain passes leading to the. try."

Signs Of Nightmarish The family therefore tried

"I saw Errol Flynn in 'Captain southern portion of the famous send the jewel out of the country, if Blood," in which he flashed a look- "iron belt."

Experiences possible, to Spain. In 1920 Capt.at-my-teeth type of smile too often Korwin volunteered to do so, and for my liking.

ter.

to

the Archduke gave him a letter, on "And his moustache upsets the basis of which his trusted man it is so artificial.”

in Vienna, who kept the diadem in

hiding, handed over the jewel. In

his diary the Archduke said that PLANES

he merely asked Korwin to smug

gle the jewel into Spain, while PERMITTED TO

Korwin said that he was told to

dispose of it. He therefore pawned RETURN

it in a shop at Dorotheum. It then disappeared.

CANADIAN WAR

VETERANS IN

GERMANY

Berlin, To-day.

Caustic German Comment

next line of defence, which is the

Meanwhile 12 were killed and over 100 wounded in an air raid on me; the Bilbao suburbs of Sestao and

Portugalete yesterday. Reuter.

Berlin, To-day.

A message received here states that the Spanish aeroplanes which made an "emergency landing" in France last week, took off yester-

LINES BROKEN

Durango, To-day.... The insurgent offensive is being carried out by General Mola's 2nd and 4th brigades.

"Two were killed and 22 wound- ed, mostly women and children, at Valladolid, while at Pamplona 10 were killed and 25 wounded.”. Trans-Ocean.

London, To-day.” The 4,000 Basque children who arrived at Southampton from Bil- bao yesterday gave numerous signs of their nightmarish experiences.

A typene was when news-

reel men the quayside pointed cameras at the ship and terrified the children, who instantly ducked, thinking they would be machine- gunned.

When the Republicans broke and fled, the insurgent artillery created If attempts were made to ques- considerable havoc in their ranks,tion any of the kiddies regarding often firing with sights at zero. airraids, at least twenty within The insurgent planes also, har-hearing would instantly burst into ried the retreat, the Republicans tears. retaliating with machine-gun fire.

CULERA BOMBED

All the children were medically examined, a white ribbon tied to the wrist indicating that the child had to go immediately to the re-

Thirty members of the contin- day for Spain, escorted by five Meanwhile Radio Barcelona yes-fugee camp and a red ribbon de- gent of Canadian ex-Servicemen French air force machines, in which terday announced that in the early noting the child must fist go to who attended the Coronation cere-were two members of the control morning an aeroplane of Italian, the baths Reuter monies in London, arrived here bureau.

type flew in from the sea and drop- yesterday afternoon.

"This caps everything," says the ped several bombs on the Catalan They were given a cordial wel-"Locale Anzeiger," "and Paris has town of Culera, near the French Assuming New Posts come at the station, whère a guard done Republican Spain a real ser- frontier.

Canton, To-day-

of honour was inspected by Major vice. The incident has lopped off Shortly afterwards, three tri- General Ross, while the band played a pretty large piece of the author-motored bombers, also of Italian Mr. Wu Te-chen. and General Hour the British National Anthem. ity of the non-intervention commit- make, dropped incendiary bombs King-tang are to assume their posts.

Yesterday evening the visitors: tee.”~

on the frontier town of Port Bon. as Commissioners of Civil Affairs. were entertained at dinner by the

One of the raiders was hit by and Reconstruction German War Veterans' Association.

anti-aircraft fire but was not this

respectively morning. Trans-Ocean.

Our Own Corres- brought down.

pondent

The journal concludes by asking how the matter was “wangled,” Trans-Ocean.