1937-10-20 — Page 24

CHINA MAIL OCTORE

REBELS CLAIM

SWEEPING VICTORY

Paris, To-day.

ATTEMPT TO REOPEN SHAI FACTORIES

Shanghai, To-day.

Messages from Spain reveal In spite of the fact that fight- that the Nationalists claim that ing round Shanghai is growing operations on the Asturias front fiercer, Chinese industrialists, have now reached their final most of whose factories have stage, and that all obstacles to been idle for months past, are at- the advance on Oviedo and Gi-

- tempting to recommence work

jon have been overcome.

Chinese ma

urers yesterday

The Nationalists are closing in discussed measures for reviving with several mechanised columns, business life in Shanghai. one of which is now only 27 kilo- metres from Gijon.

Yesterday the Nationalist air force carried out one of the most extensive day's bombing raids in the civil war.

First step, it was agreed, should be the reopening of factories so as to combat unemployment.

A committee was appointed to examine the situation in the war zone, where the factories have been

rem

The enemy back areas were at closed, and to see whether any pos tacked again and again, the raids,sibility exists of them bein presaging the imminent big push opened-Trans-Ocean.

which the Nationalists hope will quell all remnants of Basque "op-" position-Trans-Ocean

WORLD'S WIDEST ROAD AIR RAID SHELTER

Buenos Aires, October 13. About 40,000 people were present yesterday at the inauguration of a new avenue, the Avenue Nueve Julio, which is the widest in the world.

The RM.S. "Empress of Canada” (from Vancouver via Honolulu and Japan ports) is due here at 230 p.m. to-morrow and will berth at Kowloon Wharf. She will sail for Manila at 6 p.m. on Friday.

to clear the way for the avenue, which was constructed in 105 days.

Underneath the highway there will be room for garages, and in Hundreds of buildings, some case of an air raid, 80,000 people nine stories high, were demolished can find shelter there.

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