1937-08-19 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIE AUGUST

FINAL WRECKING O

رة

A phase of the fire at the A.P.C. installation in Shanghai.

SANTANDER

SOVIET BACKING

ARMY ON BRINK KUNG CREDIT IN

OF COLLAPSE

CZECHO-SLOVAKIA

Vienna, To-day.

There was friendly co-operation

Dr.

Paris, To-day. between the Austrian and Chinese All newspaper reports from Governments during my stay ir Spain indicate that the National-Vienna," declared the Chinese Fin ist drive on Santander will short-ance Minister, Dr. E F Kung ly draw to its inevitable conclu-yesterday. sion-complete collapse of a de- Newspapers report that fence which is a shadowy one at Kung also conferred in Vienna best

with the Soviet Foreign Commis Large numbers of the Basque sar, M. Maxim Litvino, who is troops surrendered yesterday after holidaying at a nearby spa. they had been cut off by National ist columns, moving with almost incredible rapidity.

A communique issued in Madrid terday admits that the position

this front is dismal.

The communique claims that most of the Nationalist troops en- gaged in the drive are Italian vo- lanters, for divisions of which bore the brunt of the recent heavy fighting - Trans-Ocean.

ITALY ENTERS

AIR RACE

Marseilles,, To-day. Eight Italian planes landed at an aerodrome near Marseilles yester- day to participate in the air race from Istres-Damascus-Paris.

Subject of the conversations, say the papers, was the Czecho Slovakian credits to China, for which the Soviet is said to have assumed the position of guarantor.

Trans-Ocean.

VIENNA PUBLIC ORDER DECREE

Vienna, To-day.

A new law for the maintenance of public order, replacing the em ergency decrees of the last few

years, comes into force to-morrow.

is

Most important clause in the law

that which declares that the Aus-

trian Naza Party, styled the home defence organisation, and the So- cialist Party, are still forbidden throughout the country.

Public display of the standards or emblems of the two parties, or wearing of their uniforms, is de- theclared a punishable offence.

Trans-Ocean

One of the machines is piloted by Bruno Mussolini, son of Duce-Trans1Ocean.

QUALITY PRINTING

WITH

PROMPT

SERVICE

Bringing Up Father

I'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHIN?'” ·

“MAGGIES MIND OFF

DO NOT FIND DOG I DON'T THINK SHELL EVER STOP CRYIN=

The blaze at the A.P.C. installation in Shanghai at its height, after bombs from a fire going.

AN-MAGGIE DARLIN DON'T TAKE IT SO HARD-WEH

IR KIET

CANT SWAY

(At Left Gladys Ged ring roles Gun,” which King's The

HA

NOW YOU SIT RIGHT EX THERE LIKE A GOOD G AND I'LL GET YOUR FA ITE STATION ON AND CANLISTEN TO SOME

MUSIC

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