GOVERNMENT ATTACK BREAKS DOWN
NUREMBERG NAZI CONGRESS
Berlin, To-day.
Nearly the whole of the Diploma- tic Corps accredited to Germany will, it is stated in informed quar- ters, attend the Nazi Party Con- gress at Nuremberg next week.
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THE CHURCH AND COMMUNISM
London, To-day.
The congress of “modern Churchmen," now going on in Only the Apostolic Nuncio, Mon- Cambridge, was featured yester signor Orsenigo, the Soviet Ambas-day by an address by the Con- was sador, M. Yurenev, and the Norwe-servative M.P. for Hitchin and Dominican writer, Lt. Col. Sir Arnold Wil. Trans-son, who took emphatic excep-
Saragossa, To- day. The Spanish Nationalists claim "that a severe defeat has been in- flicted on the Government forces on the Aragon front.
A Government launched there, on a front of 250 gian. Peruvian and kilometres from Huesca to Teruel, Ministers will be absent.. in order to relieve pressure on the Ocean. Santander front
offensive
The attack failed all along the line and subsequent counter-attacks by the Nationalists, it is claimed, have led to practically the complete ex- haustion of the enemy.
Meanwhile the Nationalist forces operating along the coast have reach- ed a point 30 kilometres west Santander.
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OVIEDO SIEGE LIFTED A column operating from the south has taken 400 Asturian miners prisoners.
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tion to the assertion that Com- munism and Christianity could be reconciled with one another.
Lt. Col. Wilson asked whether Fascism and Nazism were reconcil- able with Christianity, and answer- led his own question in the affirma-
tive.
that
He said he was convinced the driving power behind Herr Hit- er was not hate or fear but patrio tism and faith in the future.
Moscow, To-day. It is announced that a Russian Other detachments have cut off air expedition, left the aerodrom Basque troops at Rozas
at Anderma, on the Barents Sea,
Lt.-Col Wilson concluded by stat- yesterday in the direction of Prince ing that Socialism, Fascism, Nazi- Rudolf Island to take part in the ism, Liberalism, Conservatism, Mon- search for the missing trans-Polar archism and Democratism all could airmen who were on the way from be made to serve the end of estab The operations, says Nationalist Moscow to Fairbanks, Alaska. lishing divine sovereignty through-
Start of the expedition yesterday out the world Trans-Ocean quarters, mean considerable reliev ing on the pressure on Oviedo, which has been delayed by unfavourable has been besieged for over a year weather conditions--Trans-Ocean. by the Government.
A complete blockade now exists of the harbour of Gijon, the next Nationalist objective:
A mail is leaving for Shanghai
Rumours are current on the to-morrow in the D'Artagnan. The French side of the border that mail will close at 230 pm to-mor negotiations are going on for sur-row. D'Artagnan will take ordinary render of the town.-Trans-Ocean letters only.
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sisting of the cruisers Despatch and Delhi, as well as three destroy- ers, arrived here yesterday on a visit scheduled to last six days.
The ships, which are part of the Mediterranean Fleet, will subse quently visit Rumanian and Bul- garian ports-Trans Ocean.
BARON PIERRE DE COUBERTIN DEAD
Lausanne, To-day.
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Death occurred suddenly and expectedly 2 few minutes Baron de Coubertin had collapsed Trans-Ocean.
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Tsingtao, To-day.
The Japanese naval forces. have not withdrawn from Tsing- tao as was their declared in- tention
Vice-Admiral Shimamuro, the commander-in-chief of the Ja- panese Navy in the area, issued an proclamation to-day in which he warned the Chinese authori ties of reports of mob plots to attack and loot Japanese pro- perty in Tsingtao. “
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The Admiral pointed out that the evacuation of Japanese re- sidents was intended to facilitate
peaceful solution of the diff culties that had cropped up in Tsingtao and he hoped that that intention would not be miscon- strued as a policy of flight. Our Own Correspondent.
Further indication that the the cholera epidemic is on wane was provided by the re- turn for the 24 hours ended at midnight, showing 20 new cases, 11 in Victoria, 5 in Kow- loon, one from Shaukiwan and three from the harbour..
The Gertrude Maersk has been refloated and is at pre- sent anchored in Hung Hom Bayy opposite the Kowloon Docks, while, the Lyeemoon was also reported to be has also been refloat-
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