THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1938.
TURKEY AND FRANCE SIGN PACT
Ankara, To-day.
The Turco-French Pact of Friendship and a declaration con- cerning the collaboration of Tur- koy, France and Syria regarding - the Banjak of Alexandretta has been signed.-Reuter.
SPECIAL BROADCAST TO-DAY
IMPORTANT POINTS TAKEN
BY INSURGENTS
Paris, To-day.
Reports of French war corres- pondents on the Spanish-southern front stress the strategical import- ance of the town of Aldehuela and Mount Atalaya which were captur-
DAVENTRY ed by insurgent troops on Saturday. Mount Atalaya, the correspon-
The BBC and the Columbia Broad- casting System of America will
dents point out, dominates the vil- lage of Cuelba, 17 kilometres south of Teruel.
cooperate in a programme in, me-of Teruel has been only of second- While hitherto the sector south mory of George Washington, to beary importance, the insurgents now broadcast from Daventry on Inde-control all roads close to Teruel, pendence Day, July 4. In the Eng-except the road to Cuenca. The present attack south of Teruel has lish part of the programme, which apparently been launched to sup- will come from Sulgrave Manor in port the operations of columns Northamptonshire, ancestral home which are advancing in the region of Sarrion on the road to Sagunto. of the Washington family, the re- sident steward, Mr. Frederick Carter, will describe the Manor and its surroundings.
It is expected that further fight- ing will develop for the possession of the Javalambre mountain massif in order to secure the flank of these columns.-Trans-Ocean.
INSURGENT CLAIMS
It
in was
1656 that George Washington's ancester, Colonel John Washington, left England, and emigrated to Virginia. In later years the Manor declined in
Bilbao, To-day. im- portance until it was no more than front state that the column of Reports here from the Teruel a farmhouse. In 1914, in celebra-General Varela successfully con- tion of 100 years' peace between tinued operations in the Puebla de England and the United States, the Valverde sector. South of the Tc- British Peace Centenary Commit-ruel-Sagunto road, insurgent units tee bought the house and the ad-advanced about 12 kilometres on a joining land and presented them to 15 kilometres front in the course the Sulgrave Institution (now the of Saturday and Sunday. Opera- Sulgrave Manor Board). The tions of the infantry are being ef- Manor has since been restored and fectively, supported by the air furnished appropriately.
force which is making the utmost
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The American part of the pro-use of the present favourable wen- gramme will be broadcast from ther conditions. Trans-Ocean.
Mount Vernon in Virginia, where
Washington lived, both before he became President and after his
retirement, as a gentleman planter GOVERNMENT
and generous, but exacting, lord of many slaves.
ADMITS LOSS
SUZANNE LENGLEN OF GROUND
Paris, To-day.
Barcelona, Yesterday.
The Republican War Ministry, in a communique, reports from the eastern-front that the Re- un-publican troops completely re-
The condition of the famous French tennis player, Suzanne Leng- len, who is suffering from perni- cious anemia was practically changed last evening,
The three attending doctors de- clared after a further thorough examination yesterday that M. Lenglen's condition is alightly im proved but that the improvement is not yet sufficient to allow a further blood transfusion. Trans-Ocean,
NEW D.B.S. HEADMASTER
Mr. Gerald Goodban, M.A., been appointed headmaster of the „Diocesan · Boys' School' He is at present Assistant master at Bishop's Stortford, and is graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford. M
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We are Informed by Bowling Alleys that the cost of a book of tickets for ten games is $3.50 per book, and not $8 as inadvertently stated in the Sunday Herald" yes terday. Five alleys are at the dis- posal of patrons,
pulsed an enemy assault on posi- tions in Sierra Albusque on Thursday night. *Heavy fighting is in progress on the Levant front. The Republi- cans recaptured Hill 1821, south of Muela in the section of Puebla de Valverde, while the
-enemy succeeded in capturing Fuente de le Pena in the Ribesalbes sector. In the Bechi sector, the insur- gents, supported by artillery and tanks, captured the village of Bechi despite stubborn Republi- can resistance and occupied the villages of Celache and Correta.
Sixty persons were killed dur- ing an insurgent air raidon Badalona-Trans-Ocean.
INSURGENTS' GAINS
Barcelona, Yesterday.
A communique admits that In- surgents captured three more positions in southwest Castellon and are guarding the highway to Valencia and Sagunta.
Further raids were also made by Insurgent planes on the Coastal towns yesterday-Reuter.
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