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INSURGENTS REACH COAST

Gibraltar, To-day. Broadcasting from Radio Se- ville last night, General Quiepo de Llano, the insurgent comman- der, announced that the insur- gents had captured Tortosa on the Mediterranean coast in Cata- lonia. Renter.

ITALIAN PRAISE OF VOLUNTEERS

Rome, To-day.

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Reflects Strain On Japan STOP PRESS

Tokyo, To-day.

The strained Japanese financial and economic posi- tion, and the concern felt at the continuously increasing costs of the China war, are reflected in the official statement on yesterday's Cabinet meeting.

The Cabinet decided to instruct all official institu- tions to exercise the strictest economy during the financial year beginning on April 1.

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The War Minister, General ket are said to be urgently neces- Sugiyama, ordered the military sary. authorities to use extreme care in HARD HIT AREAS The "heroic deeds of Italian utilising the extraordinary war Moreover, the attention of the volunteers in Spain" between budget of 50,000,000 yen.

military authorities is drawn to March 30 and April 3, are prais- This extraordinary war bud-the fact that it is necessary to ed in a semi-official communique get, which represents the very place orders with small works as issued in Rome yesterday. minimum cost of conducting the well, in order that the provinces,

It is declared that Italian Black-war in China, will, it is said, in-which at present are suffering shirts have defeated ten Spanish fluence not only armaments but particular distress, shall also be Government brigades on the Ar- also Japanese industry, finance nefit from Government and Army

and the standard of living.

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On March 23, the Blackshirts, it is claimed, "utterly destroyed” twoi In the accompanying instruc- Goverment battalions, the Mat-tions, it is stated that when in- teotti and Garibaldi battalions. jcurring expenditure, preference These two battalions were made is to be given to goods required

APPEAL COURT

up of Italian exiles, who, as yester-directly for war and that at the REDUCES

day's communique puts it, “have now same time, measures are to be received their just dues." -Trans-taken to prevent a rise in retail Ocean.

PAPAL NUNCIO'S ROME VISIT

prices.

Promotion of Japanese produc- tion and easing of the credit mar-

SENTENCES

Three deportees, Ko Kau, Chan Chi and Tam Kwai, who were given sentences ranging from six

ciature of Austria, was denied here and a half years' imprisonment to yesterday.

of

Vienna, To-day. It is declared, however, that the That the Papal Nuncio to Berlin Vatican "has taken "cognisance is at present in Vienna for the par- the revised status of Austria.” pose of dissolving the Papal Nun-Trans-Ocean.

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seven years, for breaches of the Deportation Ordinance and bur- glary by Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, at the last Criminal Sessions, suc- cessfully appealed before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, and Mr. Justice J. A Fraser this morn- ing.

Appellants pleaded that the sen- tences imposed were excessive as they pleaded guilty and had only returned once from banishment.

Reducing the sentences to four. years' hard labour in each case, Es Lordship remarked that had appellants stood alone OM the charge of returning from banish- ment the sentences would not have been so severe, but it appeared that additional charges of burglary must have lent colour to the offences committed to make the learned judge to impose sentences running consecutively.

APPEAL REJECTED Cheang Ping, deportee, also 20- pealed against sentence of four years hard labour, but it was dis missed. Mr. John Whyati, Assist- ant Attorney General, stated that zupeliant returned five times from banishment

STRANGE STORY OF STRANGE INCIDENT

Hankow, To-day.

Two Japanese scouting planes flying over Indo-China were sum Įmarily shot down by French fron- tier guards, according to an Asso cited Press message from Hanoi

In one case, the Japanese pilot was alive after the crash, and in the other, the occupants were found dead after their machine was brought down by anti-ziretaft fire. Japanese airmen have not at- tempted any further encroachment upon French ferritory, added the same age

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