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AERIAL MASSACRE AT MADRID Nationalists Claim Destruction Of 106 Planes
This picture, made several miles away, shows a dense cloud of steam rising from the white-hot crater formed by a volcanic erup- tion on Vulcan Island, near Rabaul, New Guinea The steam fol- lowed lava and volcanic ash which spread over the surrounding coun- try to a depth of six inches.
Chinese Scouts At U.S. SENATOR'S
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The group of Chinese Boy Scouts who have been staying in Berlin for the past few days, left yester- day for the Netherlands to attend the World Jamboree Amsterdam on- July 31.
couts More than 28,000 over the world are tend the Jambore the largest inte rally ever held.
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New York, To-day. Senator Hamilton Fish yester- strongly attacked the British
to partition Palestine. Senator, said: “ “If Britain to give land to the Jews, give her own lands?”
ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF ARABIAN AMIR
HEAVY FIGHTING STILL PROCEEDING ON SEVERAL FRONTS
2007 010 4 Salamanca, To-day.
It is claimed by nationalist headquarters in Salamanca that 106 Valencia Government planes have been shot down on the Madrid front in the last three weeks.
The announcement of the huge total of planes shot down is claimed to demonstrate the present superiority of the nationalists in the all-important air arm.
The majority of victims were fighter aircraft, of which 31 were shot down in aerial combat.
NATIONALISTS LOSE 23,000 IN MADRID CARNAGE
A high officer of General Franco's. Air Mmistry told Reuter's corres- pondent yesterday that the Boeing aircraft used by the Government
LONDON, TO-DAY. were constructed in Russia after
THE NATIONALIST CA- the American model, but were mSUALHES IN THE RECENT ferior in design.
CONSTRUCTION FAULTS
FIGHTING WEST OF MADRID TOTALLED ABOUT 23,000, AC- CORDING TO THE MADRID THE
They were very fast, being capable CORRESPONDENT OF of cruising at 240 miles an hour, SPANISH PRESS AGENCY IN but were difficult to manoeuvre at LONDON.
Meanwhile a communique issued high speed.
by the nationalists in Salamanca The Curtiss fighters, he said, were claims that the advance of their slower and easier to control, but
troops on the Brunete sector con- their armament was badly placed, times, and, all objectives were at- leaving a wide blind spot.
tained, while desperate Govern The big Government bombers, ment counter-attacks have been the slowest of which carried seven repulsed. machine-guns, seldom now attempt-
Over fifty Government =
ed raids on the nationalist posi-were destroyed in the recent light- tions unless accompanied by an es-ing, it is claimed, and the number of Government dead which bittered cort of fighters-Reuter.
the " battlefield near Brunete amounted to several thousand. Reuter.
SANTANDER BOMBED
Salamanca, To-day. Fierce fighting is still going on or several fronts, according to a nationalist communique issued last night
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After a long bombardment on the Teruel front, the Republicans troops launched a large-scale offen- sive. Several nationalist. trench lines were captured but the attack- ers were driven out in a counter- attack
To
the north and west of Brunete, General Franco's forces are also claimed to have gained further successes, and are now at- facking Villanueva, eight klo- metres north of Brunete.
To day yesterday to the
The hinese Embass representatio Beichs Foreign Office regarding the forthcoming release of the To- bis film "Alarm in Peking.
The film deals with the Boxer.
Chinese rising of 1900 and, in views, does not show China favourable light
It is understood that the aft
On the Santander front yester day was marked by several attacks and counter-attacks. The nation- alist air force carried out several tion of the Propaga
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, will be called An attempt on the life of Amir raids on the defence lines covering to the Chinese vic Abdullah Ibn Hussain, of Trans-
Jerusalem, To-day.
jordan, has been planned accord-ried out a long-range bombard-
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