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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1989.

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150 Killed, 2,000 Injured In Madrid Magazine

CHANGES IN DALADIER CABINET?

PARIS, TO-DAY.

Explosion

More than 150 people were killed and nearly 2,000 injured in a powder magazine explosion at Penaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca, news of which had been kept secret until sometime after- wards.

R.A.F. TENDERS

ATTACKED

London, To-day..

Five thousand families have been rendered. A Colonial Office report on Pales- homeless, and secret information which reached time states that after two R.A.F. General Franco's headquarters attributes the new tenders had been shot at on the RUMOURS OF POSSIBLE reign of terrorism and sabotage in the country to Beersheba-Hebron road yesterday, CHANGES IN THE FRENCH the Republican Death Brigade formed in 1934. a military detachment went out and

engaged the bandits.

CABINET ARE REPORTED BY THE "POPULAIRE" AND OTHER LEFT WING PAPERS, THE AS- SERTION BEING MADE THAT

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· PARLIAMENTARY AND BUSI-

NESS CIRCLES ARE

ING CHANGES IN THE

EIGN MINISTRY.

While the authorities are reluc-¡the semi-fascist catholic leader, as tant to disclose the nature of their War Minister in the Lerroux discoveries, it is stated that papers cabinet. have been found confirming view.

this

POLICE KNOW MAN RESPONSIBLE DISCUSS-town, which has a population of Practically every house in the

FOR- 5,000, was razed to the ground, and,

a railway station and train com pletely vanished,

Fragments of the train were scattered for miles around,

and where the railway station stood is a huge hole. Houses 50 miles away at Avila, were shaken by the ex- plosion.

"Populaire" states that M. Dala- -dier is undecided as to a successor for M. Georges Bonnet and is con- sidering two candidates, one of whom is a Radical-Socialist while the other belong to the "moderates."

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I was informed that the police It is admitted that the present know the name of the man delegat- Minister of Finance, M. Paul Rey-ed by the Death Brigade who was naud, not being considered, and; responsible for the explosion,

since only two Right Wing politi-months with the family of a soldi- He had been living for several cians belong to the Cabinet, namely M. Reynaud and the Minister

er on guard at the ammunition de- been Colonies, M. Mandel, the paper inti- pot, and through him had able to enter the building.

mates that the choice is likely fall upon M, Mandel.

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The Nationalistic weekly "Aux Ecoutes" also mentions the possibil ity of Cabinet changes declaring the espionage scandal is likely to cause two Ministers to resign. Trans-Ocean.

SPEAR CASE MAY BE SETTLED

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The remaining inhabitants of the town have been evacuated to Sala- manca, and the roads are full of wounded and lorries laden with dying.

Three companies. of infantry are maintaining a strict guard on all approaches to the town and no one is allowed to enter without special orders from the military governor.

Franco authorities have opened a strict investigation into the ex- plosion and a military tribunal has been appointed.

General Franco has given £5,000 to a fund for the relief of the suf- ferers..

SECOND MAGAZINE SAVED

Firemen succeeded in saving an- other powder magazine, and they had the fire under control, although the flames are still rising from the LT-burning buildings.

LONDON, TO-DAY.

NO FORMAL TRIAL OF

1 COL. SPEAR, THE BRITISH

The Death Brigade was formed when the Oviedo miners rose to "MILITARY ATTACHE IN CHINA stop the inclusion of Gil Robles,

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HELD BY THE JAPANESE ON

AN ESPIONAGE CHARGE, HAS MANY MORE STARTED, AND PRELIMINARY COMPLAINTS INVESTIGATIONS ARE STILL AGAINST JAPAN

PROCEEDING.

This information was given ́ in the House of Commons yesterday by the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. R. A. Butler.

News to this effect had been given

London, To-day.

Sir J. S. Wardlaw-Milne (Con- servative M.P. for Kidderminster) and Mr. A. C, Moreing (Conserva-

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to the officer in charge of the tive M.P. for Preston), on behalf British Embassy in Peiping by a Japanese colleague.

of the House of Commons China

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Our Ambassador in Tokyo was Committee, have sent a letter to maintaining the closest touch with Mr. Neville Chamberlain drawing the Japanese Government, and the attention to the many attacks on Foreign Secretary trusted that British interests: the Far East view of the improved atmosphere this question would soon

Mr. Arthur Henderson asked if it had been mad the Japanese Governmen British Government hold „sponsible for Col.. Spear a

Mr. Butler: Yes.---Reuter.-

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Recently, 2,000 took to the hills of Oviedo and caused hundreds of deaths among Franco's troops and] civil guards on duty there.

It is believed that casualties were inflicted on them before. darkness intervened.

During the operations one Bri- tish private was killed and four others wounded.-British Wireless.

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