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ACTIVITY ON

ALL FRONTS

Attack On Madrid

SOLUTION TO VIENNESE MYSTERY?

Deaths Of Crown Prince And Empress Recalled

Vienna, April 10. A 48-year-old mystery, involving two of the most famous figures in European Royalty at the end of the last century, has been revived

Hendaye, Apr. 9. There was intense activity" on all fronts and on the sea through- out Friday. National troops com- posed of Moors and Phalangista continued to advance on Durango and captured the village Arrazola Nationalist artillery took the road connecting Durango with Eibar under fire, thus preventing the in Vienna,

The enemy from bringing up munitions and other supplies. Franco's troops shelled the coastal road running trom Lequelto to Santander whilst his airplanes concentrated their activity on an attack upen Orduna, where Basques attempted to remuster their forces.

Further detalls are now avaliable about

the surprise attack upon Madrid

the which

nationalist launched on Thursday night. The fighting lasted all night and the have won Nationalist claim to ground. A later report from Mad-

of

grip the imagination of Austrians and Hungarians, is believed to lic in a packet of private letters be- longing to the Empress and other documents.

The letters sealed in a lead mystery concerns the casket, have been handed to the deaths, in tragic and mysterious Supreme Court at Bruenn, where circumstances,

the

Crown they will remain unopened till Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro- 1950. Hungarian throne, and the En- press Elizabeth, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.

They were reputed to have been found in a secret drawer in the 'Empress Writing table by the Em- For years an atmosphere of peror Franz Joseph a few days complete and baming mystery has after his wife's death. surrounded the deaths of these, He gave them to Prince Llech- two prominent members of the, tenstein, the German Ambassador. Hapsburg family.

with the request that they should Frince Rudolf was one of the be preserved but not published. most romantic Agures of his day.since they contained sensational

The Prince sealed the letters 'in

tid however states that the re-e was found dead in 1881 at his information relating to the two publicans attacked on Friday at 5 lodge at Meyerling. near Vienna, murders. p.m. and advanced to an extent together with Countess Vecsera, a of 400 yards into the enemy Unes,ember of the Austro-Hungarian the casket and threw the key into

aristocracy famed for her beauty. the Danube. capturing an old cemetery.

Ugly rumours circulated after

In the Pardo sector the. repub- liens raided the enemy lines and penetrated so far as to consider ably improve their positions. In the southwest part of the city they captured the military hospital building.

י

SINKING OF SHIP

with regard to the sinking or "the "Andra" by the Nationalist cruiser "Almirante Cervera" it is now known that the crew consist- ing of 17 Dutchmen and 6 Poles had been taken aboard the "Al- mirante Cervera" The "Andra" |

has Now he

died and the has

the discovery of the bodies, some Supreme Court at Bruenn reports stating that the heads of taken the casket, in safe-keeping the victims had been battered in until 1950, when it will be turned with a silver candlestick. which over to the Vienna Academy of was found covered with blood in Science for opening. the hunting lodge...

married,

Prince Rudolf had eight years earlier, Princess Step- banke, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium. but their married Hfe was not a happy one.

ir

and

The letters are believed to re- facts veal hitherto unpublished

the concerning the crimes, probable reason for withholding of publication is that many of the main actors in the dramas are still

Now, a solution of the two mys-Ulving. teries, which have never ceased to Transocean News Service.

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NOT APPRECIATED

had sailed from "Gyndia" to Hol- FLORAL TRIBUTE land with a cargo of tanks, and had succeeded in reached Bilbao, There were also automobiles and foodstuffs on board. In Bilbao it took aboard iron ore for Cardiff, but was sunk by the Spanish cruiser shortly after leaving port The Basque Government has call- ed up several new classes of con- scripts for immediate service against the Nationalists.

MR. LANSBURY FOR GERMANY

London, April 10. The veteran Labour leader, 'Mr. George Lansbury, is leaving for Germany on April 17.

"Mr. Lansbury told newspapermen yesterday that he has arranged a

Vienna, April 10. The German Ambassader in Aus- tria. Herr Franz von Papen, has been instructed to lodge a protest against the fine imposed on a re-meeting with Herr Hitler for April tired railway amelal for placing a wreath on the grave of Berr Hit- ler's parents.

The Valencia Government has authorised Its London, representa-

Meanwhile, German newspapers tive to call upon all those Span. lards living abroad belonging to containing outbursts against the the 1932 and 1936 classes to re- turn to Spain Immediately for mil-case, have been confiscated in Aus- Itary service.

Transocean Neuwi Service,

tria.

Transocean News Server

Duke of Windsor's Plans For Wedding

London, April 10.

practically his sole companion, he It is understood in quarters goes for long walks, golfs, skis of closely connected with the Duke skates. He la gradually dispensing with the large bodyguard of de- Dr. Windsor that he has definitely decided to marry Mrs. Simpson in tives which always attended him France and not in Austria, as pre-when he was living at Castle En- zesfeld, and now has only two or viously reported.

three attendants.

May 31 is named as the date

when the marriage will take place,

19 and that he expects to be back in London on the following. Wed- aesday.

Mr. Lansbury's object in visiting the Fuehrer is to put forward & plea for peace. His visit follows.

discussions he has had with sever- al other European statesmen ----- Transucian News Service..

.

London Apr. 9. George Lansbury, former lender of the British Labour Party is leaving for Germany on April 17th. He says that a meeting with. Hit- ler has been fixed for April 19, and that he expects to be back in London on the following Wednes- day.- Transocean News Service.

SOVIET PURGE"

Moscow, April 10. The "purge" in the Soviet 'has As at Enzesfeld. he takes no now spread to novelists, two pro-

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KING WHO REIGNED 3,000 YEARS AGO

Letters And Accounts Deciphered

The archives of a long-dead sovereign King · Zimrelia,

who

Queen's Building.

A number of tablets were dis- covered by the famous archaeolo- gist, M. Parrot, at Tell-Hariri, the alte of the ancient city of Mart. The cuneiform script on the tablets said M. Bossin in a report of his discoveries read before the Academy of Inscriptions, proved to be the King's correspondence.

other rulers," court Letters to officials and ambassadors, ancient

part in the night life of the dis- minent Russian story writers hav-reigned In Assyrla more than 1.000 accounts and business" contracts

this having been fixed owing to the Duke's desire that the wedding trict and in the evening aits in his does not interfere with, or distract bedroom typing

from, the Coronation celebrations la London.

Bome reports, however, state that the marriage will be solem- rised only ten days after the ac- tual Coronation, namely, on May

22

It is not yet known when the Duke of Windsor will leave Austria for France but, it is thought he will not do so till the last moment.

At present the Duke is staying in a secluded villa" at Appesbach," a small village between St. Wollang and Strobl, in th Upper Austrian lake district.

He is not expected to leave the villa, where he has as his only companion Bir Godfrey Thomas, until the day previous to the wed- dng, which will take place at De- cande Castle,, near Tours, where Mrs. Simpson is now staying

The Duke has had many offers of castles from friends all over Europe for his honeymoon, but it is understood he has decided to spand it in the Austrian Alps. where he feels most at home.

It is understood that he has leased the castle of Count Paul Munster, which stands in an iso- lated position high up in the mountains on the Austro-Italian frontier in Carinthia,

Here the Duko" will be, able to enjoy to the full his well-known love of skiing and other winter sports, and the remoteness of the castle will enable the honeymoon couple to escape publicity.

In the best of health, the Duke is living a quiet life in his seclud- ed villa...

With Bir Godfrey Thomas as

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era,

ing been arrested, says an letters to his nouncement made at the Congress years "before the Christian

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have been deciphered by a French friends.

scholar, M. Doseizi Transocean News Service.

of Soviet Authors. Transocean News Service.

can now be read by scholars. This new knowledge will enable' a living picture to be drawn of "ute in Assyria over 3,000 years ago,

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