Scanning New York's famous skyline, Mrs. Beryl Markham, Mayfair Society hostess and one of Britain's ace aviatrixes, arrived in the United States in more prosaic fashion than on her last trip. This time the English airwoman, the first and only woman ever to make an East to West trans-Atlantic solo flight, came by boat.
REMARKABLE GERMAN ART EXHIBITION
Munich, To-day.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUI
GRIM HAND-TO-HAND
Fierce Rebel Drive Brought To A Standstill
London, To-day.
The insurgents' big offensive west of Madrid, culminating in the biggest battle of the civil war on Sunday last, when about 40,000 troops were en
-EUSTON CENTEN
Lond
A hundred years a Euston railway stati ed to the public, with fourteen carriag by two engines, made from the station, atta of 22 miles an hour.
The press at the ed the train as "aw meteor."-Reuter
gaged, has now ceased, according to a message GERMANY
from Madrid.
It is reported that all insurgent efforts to re- take the towns captured by the Government a fort- night ago proved unavailing, and it is estimated that the rebels lost 2,000 men killed alone.
REBELS ADVANCE
On the other hand, reports from Salamanca state that vio- As a result, the town of Teruel lent fighting has proceeded in the is no longer threatened with attack triangle west of Madrid-during from the west, as it has been hi- the last two days.
Prolonged opposition was offered by the famed Interna- tional Brigade, who, however, it is claimed, were finally driven from their positions by
Moors after hand-to-hand fighting. - The insurgents claim to have ad- vanced over four miles and to have inflicted at least 8,000 casualties on the Government. Reuter,
therto.
The nationalist troops, it is said, are now advancing in a southerly direction and Noguera is now within range of their artillery. Trans-
Ocean.
NEW REBEL C.-IN-C.
Salamanca, To-day. General Franco has appointed Colonel Yague to b be commander-in- STILL RAGING
chief of the First Army Corps. Salamanca, To-day."
This is the Corps which is car Nationalist circles here state rying
operations against that the battle on the Madrid front Madrid. Particulars are given of the was still raging yesterday, the na - Colonel Yague, formerly chief of price fetched by each picture, the tionalists attacking in force after the Spanish Foreign Legion, dis- place where the sale took place and several bombing raids had been tinguished himself in the attack on
the loyalist positions.
Toledo and Madrid in the the firm which auctioned it, most måde a
"How the diseased mind sees the natural world."
.
mark: "Paid Dorkers."
of them having the additional re- On the Teruel front, it is claim
the tax contribued, the nationalist forces which tions of German
captured Bronchales during yester- Many names well-known in Euro- day's operations, have now occu- pean art are contained in the ex-pied the mountain ridge of Alba-
raein.
“Degenerate art" is the title hibition. Trans-Ocean, given to the almost terrifying” assortment of paintings brought. Logether in the newly opened House of German Art "for thë purpose of contrasting the output of mere time-servers and dilet- lantes with the creative work of frue artists.”
Most of the paintings and sculp- tures forming the show date from 1918 to 1933, and all are of the type which have been placed under strict ban in Germany.
The exhibits have been arranged under several headings, one being entitled "Revelations of the Jewish Soul."
Another one is "Defamation German Womanhood."
THE
VAUXHALL
OF THE YEAR
LATEST
IN
COMFORT! ECONOMY! STYLE! SAFETY! ROOMINESS!
INSPECTION AND TRIAL INVITED
HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE.
of
Stubbs Road.
"DISEASED MINDS" Written beneath some of the ex- pressionist paintings are the words
Tel. 27778/9.
out
CHINA
AS INEVIT
Be
The critical sit Far East following Note on Monday a reply on Tuesda fully realised by mak press, which China dispute the
news.
The "Boersen that the decision or war is hanging thread, and publis from its Peiping stating that hopes incident by neg practically vanishe The "Berliner cusses China's atti 'initial that General Chian phase of the civil war-Transparently thinks tha
Ocean.
ARAGON OPERATIONS
Salamanca, To-day. The Republicans launched a fierce attack against the nationalist pos- itions near Huesca, on the Aragon front, late yesterday afternoon.
now.come.
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Measures take king Governme declares, reveal- clarify the situa This determinatio due to several caus
The attack was preced by an consciousness of Cl intense artillery bombardment, and strength and know nationalist quarters claim the of internal and extern fensive was decisively checked.- Trans-Ocean.
The attitude add jand the United Stat contributed to stiff
MORALE HIGH
tance. Madrid, To-day. The morale of the capital is high- er than ever, in spite of renewed intense insurgent artillery activity to the west of the city.
NO F "Germania" also determination and European Powers,
(Continued on
A communique issued by the De- fence Ministry admits that the in- surgents have captured a hill east Guadalajara yester of Villanueva and Delacnada after to the asylum and a fierce battle in which the insurtal, from which 30 gents lost many casualties.
many children wer BOMBING RAIDS
The Governmen The communique adds that in-bombing enemy surgent aeroplanes bombed east of Quijorna
QUALITY PRINTING
WITH
PROMPT SERVICE
The
Na
Enterpri
Building.
Bringing Up Father
WELL THAVEN'T A WORRY IN THE WORLD TODAY- 1T MAKES ME HAPPY- BUT AWFULLY LONE
SOME-
LISTEN TO THIS-1 JUST GOT THIS WONDERFUL LETTER-IT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY AND WILL
SURPRISE YOU-
WHAT IS IT?HAS YOUR BROTHER GONE TO WORK?
ITS FROM OUR DARLING SON-HEIS.COMING HOME- HE'S ON HIS WAY, DRIVING IN HIS NEW CAR-HEIS BRINGING HIS RO01- MATE WITH HIM—
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